What happens if you drive anti-immigration viewpoints out of the mainstream conversation? I'll give you a hint from the United Kingdom: It's a big problem. And I'll make the case that if we don't allow anti- immigration parties some success in our political system, if we drive them out, don't be surprised if that riot number goes up.
00:01:22.200We've probably been to Roxham Road a dozen times, just as one example.
00:01:26.820I have a special reporting project that I'll tell you about another time, but I believe that looking at how mass immigration is handled and mishandled in other countries gives us a sense of how things could go here.
00:01:40.040They're like laboratory experiments that we could learn from.
00:01:42.500For example, I don't know if you recall, but I was in Hungary about a year ago.
00:01:46.280I visited the great Jewish synagogue in Budapest.
00:04:22.080Well, things popped off a few weeks ago in the UK after a mass stabbing incident killed three girls and a few other provocations and counter provocations.
00:04:34.760It ended in riots, including a hotel that had been turned into a refugee camp being set on fire.
00:08:53.700It's about past attempts to marginalize the Reform Party as some sort of far-right institution.
00:08:59.660What it really is is an attempt to drive people who have contrary views or even just grievances to drive them out of the political establishment and the entire system to make them pariahs, to send them into exile, to keep all the political institutions just for one group and no one else.
00:09:15.880Even though our system and its brilliance contemplates an official role for someone called His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, where we take someone whose job is to be the leading dissident, the leading contrarian, and give him a job and resources and staff and protection.
00:09:33.740We give him something called question period or question time, as it's called in the UK.
00:13:31.320I referenced this the other day and I wasn't as precise as I wanted to be.
00:13:34.940So I'm going to show you some of the actual numbers here.
00:13:37.120On page 5, here's a question they put to Brits.
00:13:41.800Thinking about the recent protests and unrest that have taken place, the riots, how much sympathy, if any, do you have with the views of the following?
00:13:51.380Those taking place in recent protests peacefully.
00:13:56.300And you can see 58% of people support that.
00:13:59.220So despite the hurricane of media attacks on the protests, 58% of Brits tell pollsters that they sympathize with the anti-immigration protests.
00:14:08.440The pollster then asked people if they support those causing unrest, as in rioters.
00:14:15.200Now, 8% say they do, which is pretty small.
00:14:18.360But 25% of people who voted for Reform UK voters said they sympathize.
00:14:24.680I'm going to come back to that and what I think it means.
00:14:26.720But let me show you on the bottom of page 6 and top of page 7, they ask,
00:14:31.160do you think the recent protests and unrest that have taken place are justified or unjustified?
00:14:37.140So it's a little bit different than asking if you personally support it.
00:14:41.640On the top of page 7, 12% of the general population says the riots are justified.
00:14:48.720And again, for supporters of Reform UK, that's Nigel Farage's party, that number goes up to 33%.
00:16:28.460What if in the UK they succeed in driving out anyone concerned about mass immigration, drive them out of politics and the media and the courts, drive them out of polite company?
00:16:42.520What if they manage to do it, to effectively strip actual British citizens of their citizenship in a meaningful sense, to turn them into non-persons in order to continue with their mass immigration schemes?
00:16:55.440What if they take away all the normal customs of being a Brit?
00:17:25.440If you are told you do not belong in the system, if you are told you do not count, if the rules are twisted, if there's two-tiered justice, if you no longer believe you can work within the system, what do you have to lose then?
00:18:47.080All this time, for years, for decades, the left has talked about defunding police and releasing criminals from prisons.
00:18:55.080But it's only because it was the wrong kind of criminal.
00:18:57.080They're emptying the prisons in the U.K. right now of real violent criminals because they can hardly wait to fill the prisons back up with their political opponents.
00:19:14.440I suppose I'm guilty of it myself, talking about a foreign country's politics, when I should focus on my own knitting here in Canada.
00:19:31.520Sometimes we study mass immigration in other countries, but in particular, I'm talking about U.S. politics.
00:19:37.000I think Canadians like to follow U.S. politics because it's exciting.
00:19:41.080It's the big leagues and we're in the minors.
00:19:42.960I should say, to our credit, Rebel News was really the only media outlet in Canada to fairly cover and indeed support Donald Trump's nomination back in 2015 and 2016 and his run for the U.S. presidency.
00:19:57.960Other than Conrad Black, I don't think a single other journalist in Canada supported him.
00:20:04.200And so, yeah, I suppose we cover American politics a lot, too.
00:20:07.580But what is the excuse for the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, that exists specifically, courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Act, specifically to promote Canada, Canadian culture, and Canadian voices?
00:20:25.940Why are they so obsessed not just with bashing Trump but promoting the U.S. Democrat?
00:20:31.080Is it that they themselves think Canadian politics is too boring by comparison?
00:20:38.780Is it they secretly hope that they'll be plucked out of Canadian obscurity and hired by CNN or MSNBC that maybe they'll get the call to write a guest column in the New York Times or appear on some pundits panel?
00:20:51.680Well, I don't know what it is, but I find it sort of pitiful when I see columnists in Canada sort of mimicking and echoing the Democratic warrior columnists in the States.
00:21:01.960But I say again, what is the CBC's excuse, given that the $1.5 billion they liberated from us through our taxes is specifically excused by them doing Canadian content?
00:21:14.060Well, our friends over at True North have looked into this question scientifically and mathematically.
00:21:19.680And Cosman Jirja, a reporter at True North, joins us now via Skype from Victoria, British Columbia.
00:21:25.440Cosman, great to see you again. Thanks for taking the time.
00:21:32.840You actually counted the number of articles that the CBC did about their new hero, Kamala Harris, versus covering the prime minister of our own country.
00:21:49.940So essentially this was all prompted because over the weekend I decided to stroll over to the CBC's homepage and I realized that it was entirely sprawled with Kamala Harris' coverage.
00:22:01.260And so I figured let's just see how much they've covered Kamala Harris in the last month since Joe Biden stepped down as the Democratic candidate for the presidential election.
00:22:13.340And we found that the CBC covered Kamala Harris' campaign solely about 68 times.
00:22:21.480So that averages to over two pieces a day of American election coverage.
00:22:27.720And it was four times more than they actually covered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the same time period.
00:22:35.540And I'd like to stress the importance of this is because CBC is mandated by law under the Broadcasting Act to cover distinctly Canadian content and to cover Canadian regions and Canadian cultural, social issues, political issues solely.
00:22:53.680Yet here they are dedicating a ridiculous amount of time to a foreign election.
00:23:01.100You know, if there was a Canadian angle, if she had policies touching on Canada, if she referred to Canada, if there was some legitimate reason to Canadianize the story, I'd get it.
00:23:13.960Sometimes it's absurd the lengths Canadian journalists go to to try and find a Canadian angle in a foreign story.
00:23:40.440This was pure, she's the Taylor Swift of politics and we want to be there.
00:23:45.040This was nothing but the semi-erotic emotional reaction by socialist journalists in Canada who have become disillusioned with Justin Trudeau, who have resigned themselves to the fact that Pierre Polyev is likely to win.
00:24:10.360And it's funny because a few hours after we went to the CBC with our questions about their inordinate amount of coverage for Kamala Harris's campaign, the editor-in-chief of CBC News, Brody Fenlon, put out an entire blog post trying to justify their coverage of the American election.
00:24:32.100Now, I don't know if that's what he's saying.
00:25:10.620It's like it was written up at the DNC.
00:25:13.240It's like it's propaganda, even worse propaganda than they've done for the liberals in some cases.
00:25:20.200You know, every once in a while, a Canadian journalist does go on to bigger things in the U.S.
00:25:24.240Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star now does that, I think, for CNN.
00:25:27.040So I think some American-obsessed Canadian pundits secretly dream that they'll be picked up by an American TV station.
00:25:35.880It's not just that they're pro-Harris, pro-Democrat.
00:25:38.700The level of anti-Trump extremism is off the charts.
00:25:43.240And by the way, it started way back in Trump's early days.
00:25:48.220I remember they had a crazy show called The Trump Effect.
00:25:53.680And you're not even going to believe me, Cosman, but they hired actors, swear to God, they hired actors to sell racist merch on the street.
00:26:17.780Like, their thesis, their hypothesis was refuted by people's reactions.
00:26:22.220But that's how desperate they were, literally creating fake news with hired actors.
00:26:28.060They have been obsessed with Trump ever since.
00:26:29.880I remember Wendy Mesley, before she was fired for repeatedly saying the N-word.
00:26:34.780She had a show that was basically, every single week, another left-wing conspiracy theory about Trump.
00:26:42.220There's just this weird, weird thing in Toronto where doing anti-Trump or pro-Democrat performances is just like the highest level you can get as a liberal for some reason.
00:26:57.940I don't have to cover what's happening in Pickering.
00:27:00.700I don't have to cover what's happening in Lethbridge.
00:27:17.680I cover the world, and we cover the world because we try and learn from trends like mass immigration.
00:27:22.480They cover Kamala Harris because that's what they want to be.
00:27:27.360Yeah, and I think we have to look at who's in charge of the CBC.
00:27:30.700Their CEO, Catherine Tate, is on the record a Democrat donor for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.
00:27:40.560And she lives in the United States, at least in part, because her husband owns property there.
00:27:46.360And so it raises the question, who is she loyal to?
00:27:50.880It seems like she's totally skewed the coverage of the U.S. election in one direction, and she has a history of financial contributions to the Democrats.
00:28:04.620How can this person speak for Canadian people when they're out there advocating for a foreign party, essentially?
00:28:14.120You know, I think you just answered my question there, in that, like, losers like Andrew Coyne, who just parrot the craziest – like, he's the Keith Olbermann of Canada.
00:29:06.700She would wreck any private broadcaster.
00:29:08.740She's cut – every year after year, she's cut viewership of the CBC, which is an astonishing accomplishment, given that our population is growing by 5% a year.
00:29:18.580But she could get a gig in the States.
00:29:54.800Well, look, I know I can be pretty pessimistic sometimes, but I actually think that I wouldn't do what I'm doing if I didn't have a drop of hope in me.
00:30:05.740Some of my friends moved to the United States during the COVID lockdowns, and a fair number of them said, why don't you move down to Florida?
00:30:22.520I visited there as a tourist, but I did not go.
00:30:25.580And the answer, I said, was because I believe I got to stay and fight, but I believe that there's a reason to stay and fight, is that there's a hope to win.
00:30:39.980On our guest, the Justice Center lawyer, Monique Grenier, Walrus Almond says, now who will be prosecuted for the more serious crime of violating this man's rights?
00:30:50.020Well, that's a question that I am asked all the time.
00:30:52.660Because our criminal justice system, when someone is arrested, jailed, prosecuted, put through the ringer, and finally accused, they get nothing.
00:31:36.280You have to pay for your own prosecution through your taxes.
00:31:41.780I wonder if something should be done about that, because there needs to be a damper.
00:31:45.320There needs to be a negative consequence for the police and prosecutors going after innocent people.
00:31:51.220And right now, that's not a natural, built-in part of the system.
00:31:54.280It is possible, if you can hire a lawyer and go after the government, once in a while there's a case of false imprisonment or malicious prosecution.
00:32:03.180We're doing that for some of our reporters.