Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2019


Leftist targets conservative politician's parents over Christmas — and Media Party takes the wrong side (Guest host： Sheila Gunn Reid)


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

152.2903

Word Count

4,485

Sentence Count

264

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

A social justice mob targets a conservative politician s parents on Christmas Eve, and then I ask my guest if the same sort of mob has completely ruined policing. It's January 4, 2019, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, a social justice mob targets a conservative politician's parents, and then I ask my guest
00:00:05.400 if the same sort of social justice mob has completely ruined policing.
00:00:10.920 It's January 4th, 2019. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:21.440 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:25.320 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:28.920 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
00:00:32.380 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:42.500 The story I'm going to talk about tonight really has everything.
00:00:46.880 Atrocious left-wing mob tactics, anti-Christian bigotry, extreme mainstream media bias,
00:00:52.260 a liberal politician instinctively siding with an outrage mob,
00:00:55.600 and the extreme, shameless, liberal bias of Twitter.
00:01:00.120 Sam Oosterhoff is a pro-life Christian conservative,
00:01:03.840 and he's also the progressive conservative member of the provincial parliament for Niagara West.
00:01:09.920 He's bright. He's smart. He's ambitious, clearly.
00:01:13.280 He was elected to public office at just 19 years old,
00:01:16.500 and he did it all without hiding who and what he was,
00:01:19.920 and he did it without compromising his values.
00:01:22.500 But over Christmas, Oosterhoff's parents were targeted by a failed St. Catharines, Ontario municipal candidate
00:01:28.600 and LGBT activist named Rob Gill.
00:01:32.020 Now, I don't mean that Gill was critical of Oosterhoff's parents for raising a pro-life Christian
00:01:38.340 because, you know, we know the left can think that that's a bad thing.
00:01:42.020 When I say targeted, I mean targeted for mob harassment by a left-wing outrage mob.
00:01:49.220 On December 21st, Rob Gill tweeted,
00:01:52.100 This Christmas, let's protest Sam Oosterhoff and his bigoted, misogynistic, and homophobic personality and upbringing.
00:01:59.900 Let's protest at his parents' home, and then Gill published their home address on Twitter.
00:02:05.080 And then Gill wrote,
00:02:06.120 Or give them a call, and then he published their home phone number on Twitter.
00:02:12.060 Gill hashtagged the tweet,
00:02:13.980 Now, I don't think Gill actually knows these people,
00:02:18.740 but he's decided they are hateful simply because they raised a Christian man.
00:02:23.340 And because of that, Oosterhoff's parents are deserving of mob tactics to intimidate them and their son on Christmas, no less.
00:02:31.180 So Oosterhoff did what any loving and attentive son would do.
00:02:35.080 He called the police, saying on Facebook,
00:02:38.200 Fearing for my family's safety, I contacted the police.
00:02:41.400 The police followed their own protocol, and I'm very grateful for their dedication to our community.
00:02:48.160 Now, Gill, he tried to excuse his actions in several ridiculous ways.
00:02:53.840 Gill first said that he was not cautioned by the police in this tweet here.
00:02:58.100 Oh, but then Sam Oosterhoff produced an email from the police indicating otherwise, that Gill had indeed been warned about his behavior.
00:03:12.600 Then Gill tried to say on Twitter that the family deserved the harassment because they were Dutch-reformed Christians,
00:03:31.480 and therefore bigoted, homophobic, and misogynistic.
00:03:36.440 Then Gill tried to say that if Oosterhoff can't handle the criticism online, maybe politics wasn't the right job for him.
00:03:44.100 Gill told CTV News that, and boy is this ever rich,
00:03:47.920 he fears that politicians are attempting to use cops as the henchmen to censor the free speech of citizens.
00:03:55.280 Oh, really?
00:03:56.560 I think we should all just stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that now the social justice warriors are suddenly free speech activists,
00:04:05.740 opposing using the strong arm of the state to shut people up, even though that's absolutely not what happened here.
00:04:13.060 It's really a bold take from the same crowd that happily would prosecute and then persecute a fellow Canadian citizen
00:04:20.740 for the act of misgendering someone or using the wrong pronouns or dead naming,
00:04:26.340 which is the weird phrase activists now use to describe the act of someone using the name of a person before their transgender transition.
00:04:35.520 It's weird.
00:04:35.900 They are all for the coercive nature of the state then, but don't you dare ask them to leave your grandmother alone at Christmas time.
00:04:43.920 Then it's totally free speech to show up on her lawn while she celebrates the birth of our Savior
00:04:50.120 because she's had the audacity to be a devoutly religious Christian lady with a devoutly religious overachieving family, I guess.
00:04:59.540 Now, outside of possibly the National Post, who published a very fair article about what happened,
00:05:06.480 the mainstream media reportage of this incident has been absolutely hideous,
00:05:12.060 even going so far as to paint the wrong person as the victim in all of this.
00:05:17.320 Can you tell me who the CBC thinks is the bad guy here with a headline like this?
00:05:22.320 St. Catherine's Man Says MPP Sam Oosterhoff Used the Police As Muscle After Tweet
00:05:29.100 In that CBC article, it becomes clear that Gil can't even keep his stories straight
00:05:33.880 because despite the fact that he told CTV News that he deleted the offending tweet to be polite,
00:05:41.340 here he says he deleted it because it wasn't getting any traction.
00:05:45.520 Apparently, it's perfectly okay to leave up tweets that harass elderly, innocent people as long as they're popular.
00:05:53.120 The local newspaper, the St. Catherine's Standard headline, says that Oosterhoff called police about a Twitter critic,
00:06:01.860 like Oosterhoff was the one overreacting here.
00:06:05.660 Now, I don't want to focus so much on Rob Gill specifically because he's just some local failure and attention seeker
00:06:13.020 trying to make a name for himself with bad behavior,
00:06:15.940 so I'm really not going to play too much into that for him, and really, he could be any left-wing politician or LGBT agitator.
00:06:24.240 Attacking completely innocent people to the periphery of conservative newsmakers you don't like
00:06:30.140 has actually become the standard operating procedure of many mainstream left-wing and left-of-centre groups.
00:06:37.280 It was just two short months ago that Antifa protesters found out where Fox News host Tucker Carlson lived
00:06:44.880 and then converged upon his house, banging on his door while his fearful wife was at home inside.
00:06:52.320 Good God, these lunatics, they are so gross, but they aren't alone in this.
00:06:57.020 These sorts of protests are also happening across the pond.
00:07:00.360 In September of 2018, one of the leading pro-Brexit conservative members of Parliament in the UK,
00:07:07.600 Jacob Rees-Mogg, had a group called Class War show up outside his family home
00:07:13.880 to heckle his children and his nanny inside.
00:07:17.660 It's revolting behavior, to be sure, but it's absolutely mainstream left-wing behavior.
00:07:22.740 Remember when Democrat Party wackadoodle Maxine Waters advised people to accost Republican politicians
00:07:29.720 wherever they are, just watch.
00:07:32.380 Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.
00:07:36.560 And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station,
00:07:45.320 you get out and you create a crowd.
00:07:47.920 And you push back on them.
00:07:50.640 And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.
00:07:55.460 And while these psychotic protests might seem like something born in the pussyhat SJW cesspit
00:08:01.880 of 2017-2018, oh no.
00:08:04.360 This has been done by the mainstream left with complete acceptability as a tool in their tool
00:08:10.140 belt against conservatives.
00:08:12.060 For at least the last, I don't know, four years, in February of 2015, more than 100 pro-union
00:08:18.420 demonstrators marched toward the home of Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker to protest
00:08:24.840 his state budget cuts to public education.
00:08:27.380 But the protesters, being the way they are, were not very bright because they got the wrong
00:08:32.520 house.
00:08:33.520 They swarmed the home of Scott Walker's elderly parents.
00:08:37.840 Back here in Canada in 2016, Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrated in front of Liberal
00:08:44.900 Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's house.
00:08:47.740 I'm non-partisan on this issue.
00:08:49.820 Your home is your castle.
00:08:51.440 And it's where you deserve to feel safe and unaccosted.
00:08:54.480 It was wrong when it was done to Kathleen Wynne, and it's absolutely wrong when it is done time
00:08:59.660 and time again to conservative newsmakers.
00:09:03.140 But Liberal politicians rarely feel that way.
00:09:06.600 They tend to have a pretty quick change of heart, though, when they're called out for agreeing
00:09:11.540 with the mob.
00:09:13.060 Let's go back to the story that brought us here today in the first place.
00:09:17.480 Liberal MP Adam Vaughn tweeted in support of Rob Gill and against Sam Oosterhof for calling
00:09:23.840 the cops to warn Gill away from harassing Oosterhof's innocent parents.
00:09:29.100 This is what Adam Vaughn tweeted.
00:09:32.320 Sending police to check out a critic may explain why it is so important who is in charge of the
00:09:38.020 Ontario Provincial Police.
00:09:40.600 Terrible behaviour.
00:09:41.600 Look, I think I'm a pretty high-profile critic of Adam Vaughn, but I bet he would be the
00:09:47.100 first person to call the cops on me for posting his parents' address.
00:09:51.820 Not that I would ever do something so disgusting.
00:09:54.220 Now, later on, Vaughn tweeted that he just didn't have all the information before he tweeted,
00:09:59.020 which is actually a pretty believable excuse considering he's a liberal and he's been known
00:10:03.900 to go off sort of half-cocked time and time again.
00:10:07.780 And I think it's pretty telling that Vaughn's first reflex was to, of course, side with the
00:10:11.640 mob over civility.
00:10:13.480 Now, if I did something like Gill did, I would have my blue verified Twitter checkmark stripped
00:10:19.420 from me so fast my head would spin, and that's at the very least.
00:10:22.700 I'd probably be permanently suspended from the platform for inciting harassment against
00:10:27.980 someone and for doxing them or posting private information of an individual on Twitter.
00:10:33.980 Twitter's own rules around abusive behavior are pretty vague and seemingly all-encompassing,
00:10:40.300 but they do prohibit behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another
00:10:45.940 user's voice.
00:10:47.680 Twitter rules have an explicit focus on behavior that is targeted at an individual or group of
00:10:53.560 people and especially if the behavior is newsworthy and in the legitimate public interest.
00:11:00.260 Well, well, well, there have been endless stories of how Rob Gill tried to direct people to
00:11:05.720 harass Oosterhof's parents.
00:11:08.660 There's another Twitter rule regarding abuse, saying that one may not engage in the targeted
00:11:13.900 harassment of someone or incite other people to do so.
00:11:19.060 There's also a Twitter rule that says that one may not publish or post other people's private
00:11:25.500 information without their expressed authorization and permission to do so.
00:11:31.280 But I just checked and despite all the high profile coverage of what Rob Gill tried to
00:11:36.680 do to two innocent people in their golden years, not only is Gill not suspended from Twitter,
00:11:42.280 he still has his blue Twitter verified check mark.
00:11:46.260 Gill's harassment is Twitter verified and Twitter approved.
00:11:50.720 Stay with us.
00:11:51.720 We're joined by a special guest up next after the break.
00:11:57.720 Now, in my monologue, I talked about how social justice mobs can endanger your friends and
00:12:16.960 family for political reasons.
00:12:21.960 But now I want to talk about how a social justice mob can endanger Canada's largest city.
00:12:25.960 Joining me now is Leo Knight.
00:12:27.960 He's a former police officer and he's become my go to guy for all security and policing matters.
00:12:33.960 Leo is on his winter vacation and he's been so generous with his time to come on the show today.
00:12:39.960 Hey, Leo, thanks for joining me.
00:12:41.960 You're very welcome, Sheila.
00:12:43.960 Now, I wanted to talk to you about the terrible year in Toronto policing.
00:12:48.960 Sue Ann Levy had, as usual, a really great article sort of documenting all the terrible things
00:12:55.960 that happened in Toronto policing.
00:12:58.960 As of December 27th, they had 96 homicides.
00:13:04.960 That's nearly two a week.
00:13:07.960 It's the most dangerous year in Toronto really ever.
00:13:13.960 Police morale is at an all time low.
00:13:16.960 Shootings are up and arrests are down.
00:13:18.960 Now, I have some theories about why that is.
00:13:22.960 I think it has something to do with social justice activists like Black Lives Matter.
00:13:27.960 I think it has a lot to do with the ineptitude of another former Toronto police chief, Bill Blair, who's now the gangs and guns minister for Justin Trudeau.
00:13:38.960 And I think it has to do with safe injection sites.
00:13:41.960 But I'm just a lay person.
00:13:43.960 What do you think?
00:13:44.960 Well, you know, again, you talk about social justice warriors and that, but I think you'd have to include the mayor of Toronto in that category.
00:13:56.960 When you look at things like telling Toronto Police Service that they can no longer engage in activities like carding.
00:14:03.960 Carding is all that is.
00:14:05.960 It's just a it's a card.
00:14:06.960 It's a field identification check that police officers fill out in every city anywhere whenever they come in contact with somebody.
00:14:15.960 And it goes into into an Intel database.
00:14:18.960 That's all it is for people to say that black people are being carded more often than white people.
00:14:24.960 Just means that they're being in contact with police more often than white people.
00:14:28.960 That's just a reality of life.
00:14:31.960 So in 2017, they removed carding in the city of Toronto and nearly immediately they saw a spike in gun violence.
00:14:43.960 And, you know, to his credit, police chief Saunders in Toronto said he tacitly admitted that gun bans aren't going to work in Canada to reduce the gun violence in his city because he said the majority of gun related violence in his city is, quote unquote, street related.
00:15:04.960 So I guess that's good.
00:15:07.960 But what are the answers here?
00:15:09.960 Last week, the Toronto police chief Mark Saunders held a press conference, a year end press conference, where he was talking about the record year in 2018, where Toronto recorded the most homicides ever in its history.
00:15:23.960 And as he was talking, he danced around the issue, which is the 800 pound gorilla in the room, which is black gang violence.
00:15:33.960 Just before we started this call, I looked up online the Toronto police most wanted list.
00:15:40.960 And of the 11 people on there, 10 of them are black.
00:15:43.960 You can you can let the social justice warriors or the politically correct say whatever they want, but you can't change reality.
00:15:52.960 That's reality is that the majority of the violence is black gangs on other black gang members.
00:15:59.960 So there needs to be some sort of you can't solve a problem if you don't identify the problem and talk about the problem.
00:16:06.960 Well, and, you know, it really doesn't do any justice to the people who have to live in these really under policed communities because of, you know, the police being scared of being accused of racist or of being racist.
00:16:22.960 It's not fair to them. They deserve to be safe, just like everybody else in Toronto.
00:16:29.960 But because of accusations of racism by social justice warriors who don't have to live in these under police communities, the people who live in them are far less safe.
00:16:40.960 Well, exactly. I mean, it was just the last month of the month before there was a discussion in the media in Vancouver about the Vancouver police checking more indigenous people in the downtown east side than than white folks.
00:16:59.960 Well, the practical reality isn't if you walk around the downtown east side is the prevalence of people down there, especially the prevalence of people committing crimes are indigenous.
00:17:09.700 You can't get around that reality by saying it's racist by Vancouver police to be the to be checking more indigenous people than than than white people.
00:17:19.240 It's just it's ridiculous when reality is reality.
00:17:23.340 Well, it's one of those times when facts don't really care about your feelings now.
00:17:27.400 And I think part of the problem in all of this is, you know, as was pointed out in that press conference, a complete lack of will to do what needs to be done.
00:17:43.280 I think one of the most telling statements by police chief Saunders was I don't think that he said with regard to gun violence, he said, I don't think that this is going to be happening next year.
00:17:54.820 I do think this was a unique year for the loss of life, and I don't think that this is going to be a trend that we're going to have every single year.
00:18:04.740 Well, if none of the conditions are changing to create a better atmosphere for policing and give police the tools they need to do their jobs, of course, the trend is going to continue.
00:18:17.200 It is going to be more violent when they stopped carding is it was pointed out that they've seen over the last four years, a one hundred and fifty two percent increase in shooting victims.
00:18:31.060 They've seen more murder victims.
00:18:33.640 How how are they going to deal with this without giving police those tools back?
00:18:38.540 Well, carding is just a tool, but, you know, it's and it doesn't matter what you call it.
00:18:45.720 Carding in New York, they called it stop and frisk.
00:18:48.900 But what it is, is giving police the ability to be proactive rather than reactive.
00:18:53.940 If they see somebody in a neighborhood, it doesn't look like he belongs in that neighborhood.
00:18:58.660 The police should be able to stop them and say, hey, what are you doing here?
00:19:02.140 Who are you? And that sort of thing.
00:19:03.960 That's being proactive. And if you take that ability away, what you get within policing is the FIDO syndrome.
00:19:12.680 Now, FIDO stands for effort, drive on.
00:19:15.340 In other words, if they see something, it's just ignore it.
00:19:17.900 Put your blinders on. Keep driving. Don't get involved.
00:19:20.920 And that's just anathema for police in any city.
00:19:23.640 Well, and and it's resulted in police going from, they said, 50,000 arrests five years to five years ago, down to 27,000 arrests this year.
00:19:39.540 I mean, the amount of arrests in Toronto has dropped by nearly half.
00:19:44.740 And I think it has a direct correlation to the fact that police don't have those intel gathering tools to be able to put two and two together when they're doing their investigations.
00:19:54.340 Well, a lot of the arrests that that occur from, again, I hate using the term, but the term carding, as it's used in Toronto, is from police being proactive.
00:20:06.480 Who's that guy? What's he doing?
00:20:07.900 You identify the guy, you know, if you see something suspicious, you know, you know.
00:20:14.740 Put the guy against the wall and you say, you know, I'm going to search you and whatever.
00:20:18.520 You find something on him, a gun or whatever, a knife.
00:20:22.020 You know, what's this for?
00:20:23.100 And you start, you know, you're interacting with the individual that way.
00:20:27.380 And oftentimes it will result in arrest because it is a bad guy.
00:20:31.660 And it's a bad guy, you know, because the police understood by seeing that person that they're a bad guy.
00:20:38.440 And they check them.
00:20:40.160 You know, if you take that ability away, then you're going to do exactly what you're talking about, Sheila.
00:20:44.240 You're going to minimize the number of arrests that are made.
00:20:47.360 Well, and I mean, doing that sort of thing makes police more visible in the community.
00:20:53.640 It gives people within the community, I think, more confidence in the police to know that the police are out there being proactive as opposed to reactive, intel gathering,
00:21:02.200 and making people feel like their community is a priority for the police.
00:21:07.420 And I think it has the opposite effect.
00:21:10.860 While everybody is screaming racism at the police for doing these things, it actually shows that these black neighborhoods are actually a priority for the police to keep them safe and get the criminals out of their neighborhood.
00:21:24.160 Totally.
00:21:24.800 I mean, police care about the neighborhoods they protect.
00:21:29.120 That's why they do it.
00:21:30.380 I mean, just by the nature of the job, you could not or would not do it where you're putting your life at risk if you didn't care.
00:21:37.660 Police care.
00:21:38.340 The politically correct nonsense that you're talking about, Sheila, needs to be taken out of the equation when you're talking about how to police a neighborhood.
00:21:50.400 You know, and people like Mark Saunders, you know, at that press conference, like I said, I sat and watched it, and he wouldn't talk about the 800-pound gorilla in the room.
00:22:01.600 I mean, it's obvious to everybody, apparently, but him.
00:22:05.160 Well, and he says things like, and he would like to see an update to the antiquated criminal code to adapt to the changing conditions in Toronto.
00:22:19.580 How about just enforcing the law, all the laws in Toronto and arresting the criminals?
00:22:26.440 Why do they need more laws to deal with this?
00:22:29.220 They need to, first off, enforce the border, because as you rightly pointed out, it is porous.
00:22:36.540 Gangsters are trafficking drugs across the border.
00:22:40.260 They're trafficking people across the border.
00:22:43.400 Known criminals are coming across the border.
00:22:46.520 Child pornography is coming across the border.
00:22:48.980 The first thing Toronto needs to do is call on the federal government to enforce the border and then stop being a sanctuary city.
00:22:56.340 And secondly, just enforce the laws as we know them.
00:23:00.660 Well, exactly.
00:23:01.940 In your checklist of what's coming across the border, you missed one thing, and that's guns.
00:23:07.660 And there's a lot coming across the border.
00:23:10.080 And that, you can't stop that by, you know, having John Tory saying Toronto is a gun-free area.
00:23:17.240 I mean, that's just, it's idiocy.
00:23:19.100 It's ludicrous.
00:23:19.760 You know, your point about the porous border is exactly correct.
00:23:24.620 You cannot have, without strict border controls, you can't control what's coming into the country, whether it's people, you know, sex trafficking, child porn, guns, drugs, whatever.
00:23:39.740 You know, you simply cannot have a porous border and expect to have control of it.
00:23:45.960 Well, and I think there's a secondary issue of Toronto being a sanctuary city.
00:23:50.700 When you're signaling to the world's bad guys.
00:23:55.500 Here's a great big green light.
00:23:57.240 Come here.
00:23:57.700 We'll take care of you.
00:23:59.060 Yeah.
00:23:59.620 And we won't ask any questions.
00:24:02.580 We don't care about your immigration status.
00:24:05.360 That's a big draw.
00:24:07.240 You're sending out a beacon to the bad guys as you virtue signal to all the progressives of the world that Toronto is the place to be.
00:24:17.320 Exactly.
00:24:18.100 You know, and it's at the end of the day, Sheila, you know, I would say this, you know, you cannot allow political correctness to get involved in policing.
00:24:29.420 Policing deals with reality, deal with the reality of the streets.
00:24:32.700 They deal with the reality of the communities, with the reality of the problems.
00:24:36.440 And when you're dealing with reality, there is no place for political correctness.
00:24:41.400 You know, I think that's a great place to leave our interview today.
00:24:45.400 I want to wish you a very happy new year.
00:24:49.440 Leo, thank you for taking the time away from your winter holidays to speak with us today.
00:24:54.980 And from your lips to God's ears, let's keep social justice out of policing.
00:25:01.220 There you go.
00:25:03.340 Happy New York, Sheila.
00:25:04.760 Thank you.
00:25:05.600 Stay with us.
00:25:06.300 More up next after the break.
00:25:07.720 Thanks, everyone, for bearing with Leo Knight and me while we worked through some of our Skype challenges in our interview.
00:25:25.840 Now, I know this is the portion of the show where Ezra and sometimes David read their fan mail and their fan hate.
00:25:33.080 To be honest, I try not to read the hate.
00:25:35.640 It can be a little discouraging.
00:25:37.400 But I'm always open to constructive criticism.
00:25:41.220 You know, over the Christmas break, I was still working hard.
00:25:44.560 I was covering all the pro-pipeline truck convoys being held here in small-town Alberta.
00:25:50.880 And I found this note from William Kaye in one of the comments of my videos.
00:25:55.620 On June 6, 2017, the House of Commons voted on a resolution in support of the Paris Climate Accords.
00:26:03.300 A few conservatives tucked tail and ran out the door.
00:26:07.540 One voted against, but the remaining voted unanimously in favor of implementing the Paris Accords.
00:26:13.560 Have no doubt.
00:26:14.880 This climate accord is a petroleum phase-out agreement.
00:26:18.540 It means blocking pipelines, taxing fuels, and strangling the oil sands.
00:26:23.240 Andrew Scheer supports this.
00:26:25.580 So does Jason Kenney.
00:26:27.240 Funny, Sheila, Sheila, never mentions this.
00:26:31.500 Fake populism, folks.
00:26:33.300 Look, I appreciate the criticism, and I understand that not everyone can see all of my work all of the time.
00:26:38.480 So I get if something has been missed.
00:26:41.900 But I've been a very vocal critic of Andrew Scheer and even Jason Kenney here in Alberta when they deserve it.
00:26:48.600 I've had petitions against both of them.
00:26:51.480 When Andrew Scheer whipped conservatives into supporting the Paris Accord, like William Kaye pointed out, as one of his first acts as conservative party leader,
00:27:02.120 I ran a petition against him calling him a backstabber.
00:27:06.820 I ran a petition this summer before Maxime Bernier left the conservatives to form his own party,
00:27:13.220 calling on Andrew Scheer to reverse his expulsion of Maxime Bernier from cabinet.
00:27:17.980 Now, Maxime Bernier was booted from cabinet in part because he, like me, does not support supply management for dairy and for eggs.
00:27:27.180 And just a couple of weeks ago, I had a petition against Jason Kenney's proposed government-mandated cuts to oil production in Alberta
00:27:35.980 because, again, I think supply management is unconservative, especially for oil.
00:27:40.620 And I knew those cuts would immediately cost jobs, and as it turns out, they did.
00:27:45.100 Drilling rig utilization rates in Alberta are at some of their lowest in four decades.
00:27:50.080 That's what the production cut brought us.
00:27:53.160 And those are just a few of the times that I tried to serve as a gut check for conservative politicians
00:27:58.760 who are constantly being pulled to the left by the mainstream media and by the governing liberal party.
00:28:06.660 All the forces are dragging conservatives left, and I try to be the one thing dragging them back towards conservatism some days.
00:28:14.940 And I don't care if they don't like me for it.
00:28:17.360 I'm trying to do this for the good of the conservative movement, for the good of the country.
00:28:22.160 I don't have a problem being critical of conservative politicians of any stripe, but I try to do it in a non-malicious way.
00:28:30.620 I want Andrew Scheer to be a better conservative.
00:28:33.120 I want Jason Kenney to do all the things he's promised us he will do.
00:28:38.260 I'm a cheerleader for conservatism, but not for conservative politicians.
00:28:42.760 To use Williams' language, I'm a shill.
00:28:45.200 But I'll shill for small government, personal responsibility, low taxes, and minding your own business any day of the week.
00:28:53.520 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
00:28:56.080 Happy New Year to you at home and to everybody in Rebel World Headquarters in Toronto.
00:29:02.060 Thank you again, everybody in the office, for turning the dog's breakfast that I send them into a fully functioning Ezra Levant show for all of you.
00:29:11.020 You guys in the office perform real magic.
00:29:13.300 And thank you, everybody at home, for tuning in and supporting the work we promise to keep doing for you in 2019 to bring you the other side of the story.
00:29:22.340 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.