Tucker Carlson's speech in Edmonton last night was huge, and it was interesting for an outsider to comment on our inside politics. I'll take you through some of the highlights, including the anger at Justin Trudeau's response to the anti-Christian hate crime wave in Canada.
00:00:00.000Hello, my friends. I went to Tucker Carlson's speech in Edmonton last night. It was fun. It was huge, and it was interesting for an outsider to comment on our inside politics. I really enjoyed it. I'll take you through some of the highlights. That's next.
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00:01:01.420Tonight, Tucker Carlson invades Canada. It's January 25th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:22.860U.S. TV star, journalist, and commentator Tucker Carlson is interested in Canada, which is unusual.
00:01:31.580And over the years, especially when he was at Fox News, he would sometimes use clips of artwork, and sometimes he'd even invite our journalists on.
00:01:41.040I think I went on his show three or four times. Here's an example.
00:01:44.640Ezra, thanks so much for doing the show.
00:02:10.480Obviously, we are not that far gone yet.
00:02:14.160But what do you call it when literally dozens of churches are being systematically vandalized, torched?
00:02:21.440There was one fire in the B.C. interior that wiped out a whole village of 250 people, two people dead.
00:02:28.740And it is not yet determined who caused it, but it was in an area where other churches have been torched.
00:02:35.580So it may actually have its first victims.
00:02:38.060The crazy thing is this is so explicitly an anti-church hate crime wave, and yet Justin Trudeau, who is normally the first and the wokest, waited a week before saying anything.
00:02:52.780And he literally said, that's not the way to go.
00:03:12.340And look, as long as you feel empowered, we're for it.
00:03:14.800Tell us, like, how, since you are wearing the costume of the shop teacher in Ontario, I mean, how could you teach shop class wearing those things, I guess, just to core competency first?
00:03:47.180I mean, I didn't go out with him on a personal level, but I think his news organization and our news organization had a meeting of the minds.
00:03:54.480And, in fact, a real disappointment to me was that Tucker's team came to Toronto, and I think they traveled around Canada a little bit, too, to do a whole documentary on the state of Canada.
00:04:06.700And they interviewed me, and they interviewed David Menzies.
00:04:09.600I think they interviewed Alexa Lavoie.
00:04:11.420They put together this glorious documentary that was really half about Rebel News.
00:04:16.320But, unfortunately, they kicked out Tucker Carlson the week before it was scheduled to air.
00:04:24.480It broke my heart that that wasn't aired, but we have a similar outlook on the world.
00:04:35.480Anyways, he was invited to give a couple of speeches in Alberta yesterday, a lunch hour speech in Calgary, and then an evening speech in Edmonton.
00:04:44.320And he announced them in a really cheeky way.
00:04:47.080Here he is phoning the prime minister's office, listening to their voice message in English and then Francais, and announcing he was coming to liberate Canada.
00:06:07.380These are the people who once brewed Molson, who commanded sled dog teams, who played hockey outside in the winter.
00:06:14.060They have it in them to throw off the yoke of totalitarianism.
00:06:17.980They need only to be reminded that they can.
00:06:21.020And they also need to learn, it doesn't have to be like this.
00:06:23.080You don't have to be the country with the fastest declining standard of living in the so-called Western world.
00:06:28.020You can do better. You just need better leadership.
00:06:30.660So we hope to awaken them. Wish us luck.
00:06:32.880And then, right before he landed in Alberta, he did a long-form interview with a fella all about the truckers.
00:06:40.200And he played an excerpt of David Menzies being arrested by Chrystia Freeland's bodyguards.
00:06:46.340It was really on his mind, and I'm glad.
00:06:48.800Here, take a look at that excerpt of that interview.
00:06:51.380So what you have in a country like Canada, where you have an authoritarian government that's taken away civil liberties, a dying middle class, and no media, is you have almost nobody pushing back against the lies.
00:07:04.860There is maybe one news organization left in Canada that does, that asks very simple questions of the people who run the country.
00:07:12.280Why are you doing this? Can you answer the question?
00:07:15.820Watch one of their reporters try to ask Chrystia Freeland, who's the finance minister of Canada, spent many years in Washington, D.C., known to many people who lived in D.C. as a kind of low-IQ functionary.
00:07:29.440She now has power, and she does not want to answer any questions from the one independent media organization remaining in Canada.
00:07:36.240Watch what happens when a reporter tries to get her to answer the question.
00:07:39.260Mr. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group?
00:07:45.680Why is your government supporting Islamo-National media?
00:13:27.960You're not allowed to make funny jokes anymore because funny jokes, you know, they focus on foibles or they, you know, never a truer word spoken than in jest.
00:13:36.220You're not really allowed to be funny.
00:13:38.920And that counts as funny as the Toronto Star.
00:14:38.540It was a live music show and the cool thing was a star named Phil Collins performed in London and then he flew to America and performed there too.
00:14:46.940So he went really, and that was sort of really cool.
00:14:49.220And, and they reached back 40 years for that pop culture reference.
00:15:04.320I really promise I will, but just give me a minute to show how crazy he made the left.
00:15:10.580To plug his trip, Carlson released a video Tuesday in which he leaves a voicemail on the PMO's media line.
00:15:18.320After getting fired from CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, it seems there is time to prank call world leaders in between phishing and kvetching.
00:15:27.920Yes, hi, I couldn't understand the French part, Carlson says after the beep, staring at his phone with the resting face of a man constipated by gummy worms.
00:15:43.960I don't think he's going to recover from that.
00:15:46.320Oh my God, you know, it's very hard to be funny.
00:15:49.300But it's, I think it's impossible to be a funny leftist.
00:15:51.800You're just not allowed to laugh at anything.
00:15:53.500But it's Tucker Carlson calling from the United States, and I'd be grateful if you passed a message on to the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
00:16:29.080Well, there's a lot of tyranny in this country.
00:16:31.580And if you don't believe me, why don't you ask Justice Mosley of the Federal Court of Canada, who outlined the tyranny that Trudeau has brought us.
00:16:40.000And if you watch my show, you know other tyrannies he's bringing in, for example, in censorship.
00:20:27.040Imagine somebody going and taking a criminal offense, going onto the roof of a premier, that they make that person in charge, trying to dictate to us how to pull our resources out of the ground, how to manage our natural resources, how to manage our electricity grid.
00:20:56.920Stephen Gilbeau went to the private personal residential home of former premier Ralph Klein.
00:21:03.400When Ralph Klein wasn't there, Ralph Klein was in Edmonton.
00:21:05.760This was a house in Calgary where his wife was, by herself in the house, and Gilbeau, this creepy weirdo, gets a ladder and goes on their house without permission or notice or warning or legal right and starts to install some solar panel or something.
00:21:23.500Can you imagine how terrifying that would be?
00:22:02.760You know what, boy, was the media mad when they saw that.
00:22:12.100And my friend Dean Skareko says, how many peeps show up in Edmonton for these four?
00:22:15.740Look at those dour, dreary, scowling CBCers compared to the funny, self-deprecating Tucker Carlson and the thoughtful Jordan Peterson and the fresh new premier Danielle Smith.
00:22:29.600But, by the way, do you think Justin Trudeau would risk going to a group of 10,000 people?
00:23:13.680Yeah, I don't think Justin Trudeau is going to go speak before 10,000 random people anytime soon.
00:23:19.840One of my favorite things about the speech when I was in Edmonton last night was that Tucker Carlson, who says he follows Canada closely, and I believe he does,
00:23:28.880he really zeroed in on Chrystia Freeland, who you may know worked in America for a while in media, absolutely destroying a huge operation.
00:23:36.460The rush, who just ran it into the ground.
00:23:38.480Here's Tucker Carlson talking about her.
00:23:40.420And I know a lot about this because I knew Chrystia Freeland when she, you know, was a journalist at the Financial Times,
00:23:48.100whose name shall forever live in infamy for employing her.
00:23:51.500And I remember even then thinking, this woman is not bright at all.
00:23:55.540But, boy, does she have high self-esteem.
00:24:16.940No amount of evidence of her stupidity and wrong decisions and idiotic views could dissuade her from the core belief that she was awesome and you were not.
00:24:26.800So, I guess I shouldn't be totally shocked that she's helping to run and destroy her country.
00:24:35.520But she's doing it in her signature way.
00:24:39.280She's not getting on the CBC, her media outlet, which, like almost all outlets in this wonderful oppressed country, is run by the government.
00:25:35.660And you can just imagine her taking great glee as your fourth-grade self wet his pants in class as Mrs. Freeland refuses to let you go to the bathroom.
00:25:44.560So that's kind of more diabolical than what we've seen in previous generations, and it's much more effective in a committedly polite country like Canada, because you don't know that it's happening.
00:25:59.220And because a demagogue like that, where you're completely bizarre, cross-dressing prime minister, it's true.
00:26:23.080And I want to thank you for your commitment to the facts.
00:26:25.120The prime minister, right, the prime minister, their attack on your rights, which is an attack on you and your children, is cloaked in the language of therapy, self-help, and compassion.
00:26:42.980That's more journalism and more knowledgeable criticism of Christopher Freeland than I've seen from any Canadian pundit.
00:26:49.320Tucker mentioned our friend David Menzies several times.
00:26:52.240He mentioned him once, and then when Conrad Black sort of came to Christopher Freeland's defense, which I didn't particularly love, Tucker Carlson smacked him down, reminding Conrad Black why he was too nice to Christopher Freeland.
00:27:11.800By the fact of it, Christopher Freeland may not have ordered the arrest of David Menzies, but she sat there and smirked while it happened.
00:27:21.200I didn't think that she was as malicious and cold as I now believe she is until I saw the video of David Menzies from Revolve.
00:27:30.200How would I feel if someone approached me and asked a question, even a question I don't like, and my security team threw him against a wall and put him in handcuffs?
00:27:49.660I would say, I would say, you stop that immediately.
00:27:51.520I could not, as a matter of conscience, allow a man to be arrested in my prisons for asking a question.
00:27:57.480And I think that anyone who thinks that's okay is a truly dangerous person who should not have power.
00:28:05.760I agree with you, except I don't think she ordered it.
00:28:21.900I think in a way what happened is even more worrisome than that.
00:28:28.900Some palooka from the RCMP took it upon himself as a demonstration of initiative, precisely the kind of initiative you attributed to the people in goose stepping in tight uniforms.
00:28:40.900I mean, many people, especially in the United States, still think of the RCMP as people in red tunics with a musical bride and, you know, Rosemarie with Nelson Eddy and so on singing in the Rockies here.
00:28:54.900But we saw in the McDonald Commission inquiry after the imposition of the War Measures Act by the elder Trudeau in 1970, what an absolutely incompetent bunch of palookas, the RCMP are.
00:29:38.740Some things about history, and here's my recommendation, spend, you know, like an afternoon reading about the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Spanish Civil War.
00:29:52.200At their heart was a desire not to replace Christianity with reason, as the Jacobins claimed, but to crush and destroy and to humiliate Christians in a way that's very reminiscent of what the Romans did in the first and second centuries.
00:30:09.540It's not just like, oh, that's silly and superstitious.
00:30:12.460We're going to move on to something better.
00:30:14.600It's, no, we're going to crush you, and we're going to ritually humiliate you.
00:30:18.780And that is very much what the trans thing is about.
00:30:31.560I think they are victims of bigger forces.
00:30:35.580But to officially promote that is a humiliation ritual designed to put Christians in an untenable position where they have to either swear allegiance to the new state religion, which is transgenderism, or to their ancestral religion, which is Christianity.
00:30:51.560It is a loyalty test, and it's meant to humiliate and destroy them.
00:30:55.820And let's just be honest about what we're seeing now.
00:30:58.400Obviously, the big topic in 2024, especially in the United States, is Donald Trump.
00:31:03.320And here's what Tucker had to say about him.
00:31:05.380And so that's not a revolutionary agenda, nor is it a counter-revolutionary agenda.
00:31:13.200And the phrase, make America great again, means return it to a period not so long ago, when everyone was enfranchised and everyone had rights,
00:31:21.020that everyone was roughly, not everyone, but most people were sort of united in a sense of common purpose and culture.
00:31:27.040They were Americans, and they knew what that meant.
00:31:50.760And I guess I dissent a little bit from the much more optimistic view that you have, both of you, which I really appreciate hearing, and I want to believe it,
00:31:58.760but that in the end, the will of the people matters.
00:32:01.020The conclusion that I've come to is that it matters less than it should, and that the people in power really do make the bulk of the decisions.
00:32:07.360And they say that after spending 35 years in Washington and watching the agenda of both parties and comparing that agenda to the public opinion polling of what people actually want and finding no union set.
00:32:19.340Like, they're just not the same agendas.
00:32:22.400And we have a democratic system where these people are elected every two years in the Congress, every six years in the Senate, every four years in the White House.
00:32:27.600And their agenda never changes, and the desires of the American public, by and large, are never met or even addressed.
00:32:33.900And you sort of, after a while, conclude, maybe it doesn't matter what people want.
00:32:37.200It only matters what the people in power want.
00:32:38.560I don't want to think that, but I don't know what other conclusion to reach.
00:32:43.160So what you have now is a legit mass movement on behalf of Donald Trump that's 100% real, and you have absolute ironclad resistance to the democratic process working its way to a legitimate conclusion by the people who have all the power.
00:33:01.920Today, it is a race in the foreseeable future between Donald Trump, the former president, now effectively the Republican nominee, and the incumbent president.
00:50:02.460And we're very delusional in the United States because we're so distracted by stuff and electronic devices and the promise of next day delivery from Amazon of brightly colored plastic crap made in China that we tend to be slow to figure out what's going on.
00:50:17.620But Canada has a different restraint, which is a cultural one.
00:50:20.140It's an angle, specific angle of cultural one, which is just like, I don't want to deal with that.
00:51:18.840So if they're limiting your freedom to say what you think, which is a freedom of conscience, the most basic of all freedom, your freedom to defend yourself and your family against bodily harm, which has got to be a twin to the first one.
00:51:31.780If they're taking away your voting power by changing the population of your country, which they are doing, and no one wants to talk about that, Canada has the highest immigration rate in the world per capita.
00:51:47.660I don't care if they're coming from New Zealand.
00:51:48.760I don't care if you're taking the population of Stockholm and moving them to Canada.
00:51:54.140If you change the population of the country, you change the country.
00:51:58.180And you dilute the voting power of the people who are vested in that country, the people who are born there, who have lived there long term, who understand the history and the culture of the country, who are bought in.
00:52:07.540And all of a sudden, their vote means much less.
00:53:47.500The last thing I'll say, which also may be controversial because it sounds like a parochial concern or some sort of, you know, weird religious thing or something.
00:54:52.000So if you're hassling that group, maybe you've got another agenda that we should be concerned about, even if we're not in that group.
00:54:59.960If we burn 90 of their churches to the ground, and the prime minister and his little weird buddies are endorsing that, burning churches?
00:55:11.600If you're on the side of burning churches, let me just say I don't need any other facts of the case, you're on the wrong side.
00:55:16.660If you're throwing preachers in prison for preaching the Christian gospel, not for hurting anyone, not for making pipe bombs, not for trying to castrate other people's children,
00:55:32.120not for importing millions of people into your country who are not going to have work, just for the crime of preaching the Christian gospel, you go to jail.
00:55:42.360At the same time, when they're encouraging your kids to do drugs, and not just fentanyl, but weed, don't raise your hand if you have a 15-year-old son.
00:55:51.660But come up to me after and tell me what you think of legalized weed.
00:55:56.300And if you have a 15-year-old son, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
00:55:59.080They did that to you and to your son on purpose.
00:56:01.640And so, in a country like that, in a world like that, if you think that preaching the gospel is so dangerous that the people who do it need to be in prison in shackles,
00:56:14.160you're serving someone other than the people of Canada, if you know what I mean.
00:57:58.220How do you think that would fly in Serbia?
00:57:59.580We're just going to give little Voldock some fentanyl.
00:58:05.040And we think, you know, he may be, you wouldn't even get to the next sentence before you got shot.
00:58:09.780Because you're trying to kill someone's kids.
00:58:12.260And your average Serb, whatever you think of them, doesn't have generations of therapy talk that acts as a logical intermediary in his brain and prevents him from seeing what's actually going on here.
00:58:34.340The answer, before you take any sort of action or imagine that some election is going to fix things, comma, which it's not, spoiler alert, because this country, like every country, every country, very much, and maybe especially including my country, has a lot of frauds in that business.
00:59:03.900And your timidity needs to be replaced by bravery.
00:59:09.280The muddled thinking that you have about this stuff, the average normal Canadian, just like the average normal American, sees this stuff pop up on his phone or he's on X and he's like, I can't believe it.