Leftists remove statue of “racist” prime minister — “but won't do anything real about today’s Aboriginal issues”
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The mayor of Victoria joins a mob in calling for the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, who forged the country and built a railroad to make sure it stayed forged, is on our $10 bill.
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Tonight, the mayor of Victoria joins a mob of vandals
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calling for the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald.
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It's August 9th, and you're watching The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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I want to talk about the attack on our history, our national symbols,
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City of Victoria to remove John A. Macdonald's statue from front steps of City Hall.
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John A. Macdonald, as in the founding father of Confederation,
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our first prime minister, the one who forged the country,
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and then who built a railroad to make sure it stayed forged.
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Actually, that's not the case anymore. Did you know that?
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John A. Macdonald has been on our $10 bill for nearly 50 years.
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Before that, it was the queen, and before her, the king.
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But Justin Trudeau has removed him from the $10 bill. Did you know that?
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Last year, Trudeau's government issued a $10 banknote where Macdonald was on there,
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Is that a picture of young Queen Elizabeth or something?
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She went to a theater that didn't allow blacks to sit near the front,
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So she bought a ticket there, and she was prosecuted for that,
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That's great, but it is not proportionate to have someone like that on our national currency.
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Then our founding prime minister, John A. Macdonald, was on our $10 bill.
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And now a community activist who fought a movie theater?
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Trudeau was all about feminism, and he'd be all about Black Lives Matter if he could.
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But luckily, Canada doesn't have a history of black slavery.
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In fact, we were the destination for runaway slaves, for freed slaves from the U.S.
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through what was called the Underground Railroad.
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I mean, Viola Desmond fought a political battle, a legal battle, and good for her.
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She didn't lead the British Empire through a world war.
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The symbols of our country are being shrunk if she's on the $10 bill.
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I like Viola Desmond, sure, but she didn't build Canada.
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But look, it's not about Viola Desmond, nice lady, good woman.
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And in an important way, about shaming Canada and making us feel like we have a racist past,
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as opposed to the truth, which is that we have always been a light unto the nations,
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He says we're unworthy and immoral, and only he is the righteous one.
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That's what knocking out Macdonald and putting in a small local human rights activist
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No one's erasing anything, but we have to understand the complexity of history,
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ISIS tears down statues because they're extremists.
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They are against any graven images that they don't like.
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And just like Justin Trudeau is slowly erasing our history, our culture, our story,
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The city of Victoria is planning to remove the statue of John A. Macdonald,
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Canada's first prime minister, from the front steps of City Hall
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because of what it says is his role as a leader of violence against indigenous peoples.
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No, he was the founder of our great country, but I see what they're doing there.
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Besides blaming and shaming Macdonald, they are attempting to blame and shame
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anyone who loves Macdonald or who loves our history.
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It's not just Macdonald they're calling racist.
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It's anyone who doesn't agree with them about Macdonald.
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It's a fake pill that doctors give patients sometimes to pretend to the patient
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that they're prescribing a real medicine to the patient
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when the problem is really just in the patient's mind.
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The idea being if the patient believes he's now ingesting medicine,
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Well, this is a placebo for doing something real about aboriginal issues.
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I'm talking to you about a law we have on the books called the Indian Act
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that gives rights and takes rights away from aboriginal people based on race,
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that treats them different from other citizens based on race.
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Mainly, it treats aboriginal people like their children,
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as people not able to handle the responsibilities of modern life.
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That's why Indians on a reserve aren't allowed to have property rights to their own homes.
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The theory being, Indians can't take care of their own property,
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or they'd be, I don't know, swindled out of it by some unscrupulous buyer.
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So better not let them have the right to sell any property ever.
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Did you know the Indian Act even bans Indians from making a last will and testament on their own
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An Indian needs to have a white man's government in Ottawa approve of his will.
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You're not allowed to make your own will if you're an Indian.
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For liberal white virtue signaling politicians to do?
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To fix the real racism today in the Indian Act?
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I don't know, to get jobs for actual Indians today who suffer from high unemployment today?
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Or to tear down a statue as if the evil statue is the problem we have.
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Like it's some sort of cursed idol or something that needs to be smashed.
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I have never met a real Indian in my life who has ever, not once, ever brought up John
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Real Indians that I know talk about real things like jobs and taxes and oil and gas and money
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But these leftists in Victoria, most of them white, all of them virtue signaling, would rather
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Now, it is true, though, that John A. MacDonald was a racist.
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By our 2018 standards of progressive feelings, but then again, those standards changed so
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are a bunch of, I don't know, homophobes, too.
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I believe that marriage is not just a bond, but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
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I have said that I am not a supporter of gay marriage.
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I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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So are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton a bunch of racist, sexist, Islamophobic, homophobes
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Not that there are a lot of statues to Clinton and Obama, but you get my point.
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If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude to homosexuality, this is the
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Instead of treating it as a crime and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for
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He just thinks they're mentally ill and they need to see a psychiatrist.
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Should we tear down the hundred Tommy Douglas statues and rename the hundred Tommy Douglas
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Tommy Douglas actually was progressive at that time.
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Yeah, well, we are today, too, unless you work hard to ignore it.
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Justin Trudeau himself has gender quotas for cabinet.
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He pretty clearly has a bias against white males other than himself.
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But seriously, were we bigoted in Canada back in the 1860s?
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Well, we were the world's refuge for runaway slaves.
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We were part of the British Empire whose navy eradicated the slave trade.
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There was slavery on every single continent in the world, by the way.
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In North America, in Canada, the Haida Indians of B.C., they kept slaves.
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If you read the stories of the conquistadors, they encountered murderous slavers in Central America.
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Every traditional religion in the world has been or is hostile to homosexuality.
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Every culture, other than the mythical Amazons, I suppose, has been sexist in a way, or at least believed in gender roles.
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It's like a placebo to distract from our real challenges now.
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But it's really just a way to attack Canada and to pull us down, isn't it?
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It's the same as Trudeau changing our national anthem.
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It's the same as liberals opposing the Lord's Prayer.
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Well, yesterday we had a very interesting talk with one of my favorite guys, Manny Montenegrino,
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who brings a lawyer's eye to Justin Trudeau's foreign affairs.
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He's done great commentary about the NAFTA deal.
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And the Saudi thing, though, I could sense with Manny, and I feel it myself, I'm of two minds.
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On the one hand, I know that Saudi Arabia is one of the worst countries in the world.
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It is an Islamic theocracy that has no civil rights as we know them.
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In fact, the Koran is the basis of their constitution.
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And they literally execute people for moral offenses that we would not even regard as an offense.
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And so the spat between Justin Trudeau and Saudi Arabia, obviously, out of national pride,
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we would stand with our prime minister, even if he's a liberal.
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But by the same token, the operational way, the tactical way, the foolish, childish way in which Canada brought about this diplomatic spat
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How do we criticize the amateurish conduct of our foreign affairs,
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but also stand with Canada against Saudi Arabia's dictatorship?
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And joining us now is someone who I think can help us figure it out.
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And he wrote in the paper, Saudi Arabia, his column's called Saudi Arabia wants to nix all human rights criticism.
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You know, I've been an enemy of Saudi Arabia for a long time, ever since I wrote the book Ethical Oil.
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I don't know if you remember, Anthony, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia actually retained the law firm called Norton Rose
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to threaten me with legal action if I kept insulting their ethical quality of their oil.
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I got a demand letter from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to shut up.
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So I regard myself as an enemy of Saudi Arabia with great pride.
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I'm happy that Justin Trudeau's in that camp now, but I think he sort of mangled this one in a bit, too.
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I mean, I really appreciate what you said in the tee-up.
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And it's important to preface all of these conversations with reminding people the truth about Saudi Arabia
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and what goes on there and the whole basis of them having the vast majority of the 9-11 hijackers
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be part of their nationality and also some of them being connected to individuals in the government.
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They're exporting of Wahhabi extremism such that when you hear about them calling back their medical resident students,
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some of them you go, OK, maybe they were just regular folk.
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And I think the coverage out there, particularly for young people who are perhaps not familiar with the history of Saudi Arabia,
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we need to know that that needs to be the part of the conversation.
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And the way I'm putting it, I have another column coming out shortly on this,
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that these concerns about Justin Trudeau and how he has, shall I put it mildly,
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perhaps a rather skewed perspective of global affairs and perhaps a not very good way of dealing with international relations
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Ezra, I think this time around, that is a sidebar issue.
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I think the front and center issue, and it's gotten worse since I wrote that column you allude to,
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is that what Saudi Arabia is clearly trying to do is make us submit to them.
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They are trying to bring us down to heel and there is absolutely no way that we should tolerate that.
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And I felt that, I mean, I really admire Manny and I look up to him so much.
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And I felt yesterday both of us were trying to square this circle because we both know that Saudi Arabia would be,
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I mean, I don't even think I'd be allowed in there.
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I'm Jewish and they're very restrictive of non-Muslims.
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There are entire cities like Mecca where infidels are simply not permitted to travel.
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I think that by any moral measure, they are a failed state propped up only by oil money.
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And as you say, they want Justin Trudeau to bend the knee.
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I think the reason they chose, what do you think of this?
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This is a theory that I've seen bandied about a lot.
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One of the theories of why Saudi Arabia has gone so mental over a tweet is because they sense Trudeau is weak
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and they can get him to roll over in a way that maybe Theresa May and certainly Donald Trump and maybe Angela Merkel would not.
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They see Chrystia Freeland is sort of shallow and goofy.
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They see all these things and they say, you know what?
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If we're going to pick a fight, let's pick a fight with Trudeau because we know he'll roll over.
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And that will maybe set a precedent for these tougher countries.
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I also think they picked a fight with us because they don't particularly care about our relationship.
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But 80,000 barrels a day, it sounds like a lot.
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But we actually export over 3 million barrels of oil a day to the U.S.
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Your great book, Ethical Oil, talks about how we can supplant all of that, get the Saudis out of the equation.
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Their population is actually a number of million less than something like 27 million people.
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I mean, look, Ezra, if they didn't have oil, no one would be able to find them on a map like how there's a number of central African countries that, you know, high school students have probably never heard of before.
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I think that would be the same case with Saudi Arabia.
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So it's about the oil that we're indulging their entire hissy fit.
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My problem with this, I think they have chosen to go crazy over this.
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And it kind of reminds me a lot of 1989 when they went after Salman Rushdie for the satanic verses.
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I know Iran and the Ayatollah were kind of the headline grabbers for it, but Saudi Arabia did it, too.
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And Ezra, when I finally read it, it's actually an incredibly boring novel.
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And they didn't read the book, but they said, you know what?
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We're going to make an example out of this guy.
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And our goal of this is to change the entire barometer of offense so nobody tries to do this anymore.
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And I think what they're doing here is they're trying to go, well, look what we did to that Trudeau guy.
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So if any of you even try and talk like this to us again, we're going to do the same thing to you.
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And I think the world can even call their bluff on it because they feel like they're calculating the oil money and the student residence and everything.
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Yeah, we don't really care if for some reason Trudeau calls our bluff.
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But they weren't going to try it on another country because that relationship matters.
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So I think it's a test case to see just how ballsy they can get as they are kind of something of a growing power.
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And then to, I don't want to say to their credit, a vaguely developing power.
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Oh, women can drive now if their father says it's okay.
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You're now pretty much, you know, a left-wing liberal.
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Yeah, you know, that's a very interesting observation you make.
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You immediately made me think of the Danish cartoon crisis, kerfuffle, fiasco, I don't know, in late 2005, early 2006.
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Just like the Salman Rushdie book, just like this tweet, no one really read it.
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In the case of Denmark, it was the Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed.
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And Saudi Arabia and the Organization of Islamic Countries, that's a lot of, there's over 50 Muslim countries,
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This is our excuse to play victim, to go on the offensive, and to really scare the hell out of Europe on anything Islamophobic.
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And they really tantamount to declaring war on Denmark because it was a small country they felt they could push around.
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I think we are the Denmark of a dozen years later.
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Is this, as they would say, pour un corrige les autres, to scare and encourage the others to behave better?
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I hadn't thought of that one before, but I always thought the reaction of that is to go,
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well, you guys are clearly trying to lower the barometer of offense.
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There are all these rules out there where people say, I can and can't do this and that.
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You're telling me and my cartoonists, we can't draw this.
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And the answer to that is not to indulge their infantilism, but for us just all to draw the cartoons and go, here you are.
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And I think from that regard, we can talk, we should be talking more about Saudi Arabia's regressive policies.
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Now, I take the note that there's a lot of dreadful countries out there doing repressive things, and we've got to have trade deals.
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We've got to work with them, and we also just can't tell everyone else how to live their lives.
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But this was just a couple tweets, and it was not Trudeau.
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It's not the same as him doing hashtag welcome to Canada, which had really, really boneheaded consequences.
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John Baird did a somewhat similar tweet, and the UN is always saying these things about Saudi Arabia.
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The bottom line is, did she do a little screw-up?
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Yeah, I'm going to say Christy Freeland screwed up 1.5 out of 10.
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They're trying to tell us it's an 11 out of 10, and that's the disconnect.
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You know, I really appreciate your reminding us that we're dealing with a bad faith country on the other side.
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This is a country looking for offense, looking to play the victim, and looking for—this is some move on their part.
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I am worried that Justin Trudeau will bend the knee.
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I see in English Canada, a lot of the headlines are, Trudeau stands firm.
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But I saw in a Quebec newspaper today, the headline translated into English was, Trudeau looks to build bridges.
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I think that Trudeau—I mean, he very rarely apologizes for himself.
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He apologizes for what other Canadians have done.
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It's not—I've never actually seen him make a genuine, heartfelt apology for anything.
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But he might do that here because I think he—I think in some ways he's sort of weak and is pushed around.
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Do you think Justin Trudeau is going to hold the line here, or do you think he's going to—do you think he's going to kowtow and, you know, supplicate himself?
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I watched that press conference yesterday with great interest, and he did reiterate, oh, no, we're going to stand up for human rights.
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But then he did say that line where he said, well, Saudi Arabia has made great strides recently, and we acknowledge that.
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So there's this idea that Mohammed bin Salman is really sensitive to all of that and says we're doing it on our own time, on our own terms.
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So if you acknowledge the progress publicly—so maybe Trudeau did actually give them a little bit of an inch.
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And since it was an unnoticeable one, maybe that's okay.
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But I think if we need to backchannel and we can apologize for the fact that I guess these tweets said you must immediately release them,
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whereas the John Baird tweet I was referring to just said, you know, we do not support the flogging of Raif Badawi or we condemn it or whatnot.
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He was saying he disagreed with what they're doing.
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But we know it's a tweet, and we know they're choosing to get crazy about it, to get us to submit.
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So if they want to do some backchannel thing or they say, yeah, guys, we screwed up with saying the immediate release thing.
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I'm okay if we have that talk or even if Freeland kind of says it pseudo-publicly.
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But Trudeau, to your point, he better not offer any.
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Especially, you know, no NFL anthem games right here on this turf.
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Yeah, you know, Donald Trump can tweet the most dramatic, outrageous, provocative things because he also happens to be the commander-in-chief of the largest military in the world, the most important diplomatic corps in the world, the most important economy in the world.
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I think maybe Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau, they're used to sort of more selfie tweets and domestic consumption sort of soft soap tweets.
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I think if you're going to be tweeting, you know, tough talk to another country, if they don't perceive you as terrifying and mighty like Donald Trump, maybe that kind of trash talking on Twitter only works for the biggest guy around.
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I look forward to your call. You say you've got a new column on this coming out tomorrow. Is that what you said?
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Yeah, because I think they've just ran. I mean, they're trying to get us to do total submission right now.
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Since I wrote the first column, it's gotten worse the past couple of days.
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And I think we've got to get even more cautious on how they're trying to use us as some sort of a pawn here.
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All right. Well, we'll keep an eye peeled for that. That'll be in the Toronto Sun. That'll probably be posted online tonight. Is that correct?
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Okay. Well, we'll keep an eye peeled for it. I very much look forward to reading what you have to say.
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Hey, thanks for taking the time to join us today.
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Right on. There you have it. Anthony Fury. He wrote about this already in the Sun.
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The column you can find online right now is called Saudi Arabia Wants to Nix All Human Rights Criticism,
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And as you just heard, he has another column in tomorrow's paper, which should be online tonight.
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All right. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
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The day you've been waiting for is finally here.
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Well, that is Doug Ford talking about the populist touch.
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He's the new premier of Ontario, and he's promising buck a beer.
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I know all the right people are furious about that.
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Why wouldn't you be furious about a buck a beer?
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But what does it mean? Does it mean government beer?
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Well, here to explain it is our friend David Menzies.
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Now, you have your finger on the pulse of Ford Nation, unlike almost any other journalist in Ontario.
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I think you and Joe Warmington are like the spirit animals of Ford Nation.
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And I'm guessing that you know all about buck a beer.
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And I'd like you to explain it, especially to our viewers from outside of Ontario.
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Well, Ezra, I think what it really is is a small baby step,
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at least when it comes to the beverage alcohol system in Ontario,
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There is what they call the non-discriminatory reference price.
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Yeah, I can't even remember what you just said.
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Why would there be a minimum floor price for beer?
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You know what? I'm going to tell you right now.
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And what happened, there was a great entrepreneur he since passed on,
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Gabe Magnata, was able to acquire off-site licenses.
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And he found a way to make, to have a competing force with wine shops against the LCBO,
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running little wine shops out of industrial parks.
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Wow. You know, that's less than, I mean, in 1992 money, it's a little bit more.
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So they came out with this thing called the non-discriminatory reference price,
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meaning a minimum floor price, which meant that you cannot charge,
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your cheapest bottle cannot be cheaper than the cheapest bottle of the LCBO,
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So Magnata was forced to raise this price up there.
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Now, to show you the hypocrisy and to show you how government doesn't play by the rules, Ezra,
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the LCBO launched a pilot project at its Westin and 401 store,
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in which they were going after the U-Vint people, who they also saw as a threat.
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Yeah, so they came up with their own version of U-Vinting and selling them at a dozen bottles per purchase.
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And Magnata did the math, and he found out that the cheapest bottle that the LCBO was now selling was $4.58.
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So he wrote to them and said, I will now be reducing my cheapest bottle from $5.15 to $4.58.
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It's ridiculous that he even has to talk to the government about this.
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Legal counsel from the LCBO writes back to Gabe Magnata and says,
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we are exempting ourselves from our own policy.
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It's what I think guys like you, lawyers, would call abuse of regulatory authority.
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That we are not, these are rules for you, but not us in this particular case.
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And it's crazy because if they set the floor price, then surely that's the floor price.
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And of course bureaucrats would love that, and of course lawyers would love that.
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So you're talking about wine, but it obviously was applied to beer too.
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Right, and so up until maybe about 10 years ago in Ontario, you could have a buck of beer.
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So it's not going to be the fanciest beer, but you know, that fancy people, it's just, you know,
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some people want a hamburger, some people want a steak.
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Some people want a BMW, some people want a little, you know, little beater.
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Why is it that we lose our minds with beverage alcohol, especially in this province?
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Well, why don't we have that for bottled water?
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Well, you know, and some might even refer to the fact that the liberals, and now I guess
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the province of Ontario, Doug Ford, are legalizing marijuana, legalizing marijuana, get ready
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But oh my God, if we sold 4% beer, 5% alcohol beer for a buck as opposed to like two bucks,
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Now here's what gets me, and it's very interesting history, and I appreciate you telling me that.
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But what grinds my gears is the fancy, and I got nothing against fancy breweries.
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You know, they look down at the cigarette smokers.
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Just, you know, I don't care if that makes you feel good.
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All these craft breweries, these little, you know, fancy pants breweries, and that's fine.
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Weirdly, they have come out furious, blazing against this buck of beer.
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It's just allowing the Mr. Magnatas of the world and his, you know, followers, so to speak.
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Why are these fancy pants breweries so furious at buck of beer?
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But what they're saying is that we use the finest quality malt, hops, barley, etc., etc.
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Yeah, we can't make a go of it at a buck of beer.
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The government is not saying in your portfolio you must have $1 beers.
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Surely they understood that from the get-go because they're in the business.
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And surely if they didn't understand that, they would have found that out in about a minute.
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It would be like if there was a minimum price for a car and Doug Ford said there's no more minimum price anymore.
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And BMW is saying, well, we will not sell our car for $5,000.
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No one was asking you to sell your BMW for $5,000, buddy.
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And Ezra, why, I mean, as much as I applaud the minimum floor price being reduced from $1.25 to $1, well, it's just a quarter of a bottle.
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I can't believe all this hullabaloo over $0.25.
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One is the more you increase the base price, the more taxation revenue you're going to get.
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And also it ties into this murky concept, which liquor boards in Canada justify their very existence, Ezra, which is social responsibility.
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And what that means is that alcohol is a potentially deadly substance if misused.
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We have the government answers to a higher authority.
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And that's why we need a minimum price, because if it's too cheap, people are going to take time off their work.
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They're going to get behind the wheel, yada, yada, yada.
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Completely does not play out in the real world, by the way.
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But it is their way of justifying their monopoly.
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A dollar beer, mayhem, you get that 20, mayhem.
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Listen, I want to tell you why I have this list in my hand.
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That's what the Ontario Brewers, the Fancy, the Ontario Beverage Network.
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So this here, so all these Fancy Pants Brewers, there's one called Bowes All Natural Brewing Company.
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But all these folks are sneering and getting snooty.
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What I have in my hand here is government subsidies to this snob.
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Like, Bowes All Natural Brewing got $354,000 in grants from the government.
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So all these snobby, artisan, fancy pants, man bun, waxed mustache, smoke a pipe types.
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They're looking down their nose at the Bucket Beer types.
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But the thing is, their Fancy Pants is subsidized by those Bucket Beer people.
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So Joe Lunchbucket on the assembly line, he has to pay taxes.
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So Mr. Beauregard, or whatever his name is, can make a fancy, fruity beer.
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That is the final drop of chutzpah on top of all this.
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You know, and probably the worst province this exists in, Ezra, is Alberta, believe it or not.
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Minhas Craft Brewery, which is not a craft brewery.
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I mean, my personal opinion is a mass-produced, cheap plunk.
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I don't know what, at least until a few years ago.
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I'm not sure what the current situation is now with the Notley NDP government.
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But they were getting millions of dollars in subsidies to brew beer, supposed craft beer.
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But the brewing was taking place in Wisconsin and was being shipped by rail into Alberta.
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So in other words, Ezra, what the Alberta government was doing was providing Americans with jobs brewing so-called Alberta craft beer
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at the expense of the real craft beer brewers in Alberta that were getting a pittance.
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I'm so glad that, I mean, this is a tiny, I mean, you really couldn't take a tinier step from 25 of a beer to bucket beer,
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And watching the utter freakout on the left tells me we need a lot more of this plain talk.
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David, it's fun to talk with you about this crazy story.
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Yeah, let's grab a beer tonight, Ezra, and celebrate.
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Now you know, and now you know it's dark roots.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about major media posting their next targets
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to be purged from the internet like Alex Jones and their targets, including two formal rebels.
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I say that by early next year, rebel media will be kicked off all those places,
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probably at the hands of Justin Trudeau preparing for the election.
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They just proved his point and brought it to light.
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well, we won't have let up, but others will have let us up.
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On my interview with Manny Montenegreno about Trudeau's disastrous diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia,
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Justin, unfortunately for Canada, is an easy target.
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I forgot yesterday that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia itself had retained
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one of the world's largest law firms to threaten me with a lawsuit over my book.
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I wouldn't want to be even a Muslim there if I was a woman or if I was liberal in any way.
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So yeah, I like the fact we're holding them to account.
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But perhaps we could be a bit diplomatically smarter and perhaps we could be less bullyable.
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And I think Justin Trudeau has had a disaster in foreign affairs.
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Is there a single country with which we are friendlier and have a more meaningful relationship now
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I'm not talking about Justin Trudeau flying in and dumping billions of dollars in foreign aid on a country.
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The United States is further away than in memory.
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On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,