Rebel News Podcast - June 20, 2019


Liberal MP Majid Jowhari changes tune when confronted on Iranian support


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

158.88509

Word Count

5,345

Sentence Count

334

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

I bumped into Liberal MP Masjid Johari and asked him why he has such an admiration for the Iranian regime. Here's what he had to say: "It's my bloody right to do so. I don't know why."


Transcript

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00:01:29.580 Tonight, I bumped into Liberal MP Masjid Johari and asked him why he has such admiration for
00:01:36.460 the Iranian regime. It's June 19, 2019. I'm David Menzies, and this is The Ezra Levent Show.
00:01:47.100 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:50.700 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:54.760 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody
00:01:59.620 right to do so.
00:02:05.920 Well, I had an enlightening run-in on the weekend with Liberal MP Masjid Johari.
00:02:11.800 Johari was not on Parliament Hill, but in his hometown riding of Richmond Hill, apparently
00:02:18.320 getting a head start on his re-election campaign.
00:02:22.200 So it was that I made a detour from my original destination, that being the oh-so-retro-cool
00:02:27.880 Three Coins restaurant, and tried to engage in some political discourse with this whiz-bang
00:02:34.440 member of parliament, who seems to have an admiration for totalitarianism.
00:02:42.100 Then again, that makes him a kindred spirit with Justin Trudeau, doesn't it?
00:02:47.040 I mean, Trudeau has publicly stated his admiration for China's basic dictatorship, because it allows
00:02:54.460 Beijing to, well, you know, get things done efficiently.
00:02:58.160 What things?
00:02:59.780 Well, let's not get into the nitty-gritty details here, because doing some of those things might
00:03:06.020 have consequences, like, you know, depriving people of their basic human rights, all of
00:03:12.140 which kind of seems downright un-liberal to me.
00:03:16.480 Anyway, speaking of dictatorships and curtailing human rights and whatnot, that brings us back
00:03:21.980 to Mr. Johari.
00:03:23.040 Now, if you need a brief refresher course on this individual, who the locals on the hill
00:03:29.040 refer to by his nickname, the Persian Pinocchio, thanks to his fast-and-loose approach with
00:03:35.420 the facts, such as his engineering status, our rebel commander Ezra Levent weighed in
00:03:41.660 on this honourable member of parliament in January.
00:03:44.920 Ezra's commentary focused on why Trudeau and some of his Iranian MPs seem to have this
00:03:52.000 cosy relationship with the regime in Tehran.
00:03:56.080 Well, folks, it all boils down to this.
00:03:58.840 Three words.
00:04:00.180 Conflict of interest.
00:04:02.360 Check it out.
00:04:03.020 To this day, Justin Trudeau has not said a word about it.
00:04:08.420 Why is that?
00:04:09.860 Is it because Justin Trudeau's brother, Alexandre Trudeau, is an official paid propagandist for
00:04:17.160 the Iranian regime, including producing this propaganda film.
00:04:19.880 It was called The Next Great Game.
00:04:22.180 He produced it in cooperation with Iran's state broadcaster, Press TV.
00:04:27.600 Justin Trudeau's brother does Iranian government propaganda.
00:04:30.800 Is it that Trudeau is an Islamophile?
00:04:33.200 And just plain old likes Iran and likes his basic dictatorship.
00:04:37.120 That's the phrase Trudeau used to commend China.
00:04:40.140 And we know how Trudeau loved the Castros and their dictatorship.
00:04:43.060 Maybe Trudeau just sides with the empire instead of the rebels.
00:04:46.140 I don't know.
00:04:46.520 Maybe it's to court Canadian Muslim voters.
00:04:49.000 Maybe it's Bombardier, as it so often is.
00:04:51.920 You know, they have a $100 million sale of their airplanes to Iran.
00:04:55.600 Look at this.
00:04:56.800 The headline here, Ottawa to finance Iran's Bombardier order.
00:05:01.140 Financed by Canadian taxpayers.
00:05:03.080 Is that why Trudeau is siding with the regime he wants his Bombardier deal to go through?
00:05:07.600 Not a word from Trudeau on this whole thing.
00:05:09.540 And from our foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, just a three-line statement.
00:05:15.360 Canada is encouraged by the Iranian people who are exercising their basic right to protest peacefully.
00:05:20.300 We call on the Iranian authorities to uphold and respect democratic and human rights.
00:05:24.740 Canada will continue to support the fundamental rights of Iranians, including the right to freedom of expression.
00:05:29.920 That's it.
00:05:31.600 Now, of course, Iran has not upheld or respected democratic rights.
00:05:34.980 So, now what?
00:05:36.780 What's Canada going to do about it?
00:05:38.800 It's been three days since that statement.
00:05:41.040 Dozens have been killed.
00:05:42.440 Hundreds arrested.
00:05:43.320 So, nothing more.
00:05:46.380 What does it exactly mean when Chrystia Freeland says that Canada will support Iranians?
00:05:52.480 How?
00:05:53.440 And when's that going to start?
00:05:56.220 You know, there's an Iranian-born MP.
00:05:58.000 There's a couple of them.
00:05:58.620 One liberal named Majid Johari, he continuously presses Canada to become friendlier with the Iranian dictatorship.
00:06:07.460 He took Chrystia Freeland's statement.
00:06:09.000 I just read you her statement in full.
00:06:11.180 And he added a few extra words to it, which was so bizarre.
00:06:15.300 Look at this.
00:06:15.720 Look at this.
00:06:16.120 You see this is his tweet?
00:06:17.260 Look up at the top there.
00:06:18.040 He added,
00:06:20.060 With the support of their elected government in a secure environment and without the fear of persecution.
00:06:24.840 He's saying that Iranians have the support of their elected government.
00:06:32.140 Elected?
00:06:33.260 There are no free elections in Iran.
00:06:35.020 They're rigged.
00:06:36.480 But not to that guy, a liberal MP from Iran, whose statement has gone uncontradicted by the Liberal Party.
00:06:44.840 The liberals are literally choosing to side with the Iranian regime over the Democratic protesters.
00:06:49.460 By the way, regarding Johari's resume, he has this penchant to describe himself as an engineer,
00:06:55.720 even though he currently isn't a practicing engineer,
00:06:59.080 and he certainly wasn't an active engineer during the 2015 election campaign either.
00:07:05.160 In fact, he hasn't been one since 1999,
00:07:09.340 and it was only when he was called out regarding this fibbing did he issue an apology.
00:07:14.920 So, he's careless with the truth, making him even more of a kindred spirit with Justin Trudeau yet again.
00:07:24.220 So, anyway, as I mentioned, I caught up with this learned liberal on Saturday.
00:07:28.600 I just wanted to know why he likes to tweet support to one of the most despicable regimes in the world,
00:07:34.980 an odious administration that happens to be one of the biggest state sponsors of terrorism on the planet.
00:07:41.060 By the way, I should add, Johari's support of the mullahs in Iran has infuriated the vast majority of those in the Canadian Persian community,
00:07:50.900 given that the reason they immigrated to Canada in the first place was due to the fact that living in Iran has become increasingly intolerable.
00:08:01.420 Well, here's what Johari had to say to me.
00:08:04.800 Hi there. How are you doing, sir?
00:08:06.120 David Menzies. How are you doing there?
00:08:07.820 Are you taping something?
00:08:09.740 I am indeed. I want to ask you, why did you support the Iranian regime in a recent tweet?
00:08:14.480 I did not support the Iranian regime. These are fake news.
00:08:16.620 It's fake news?
00:08:17.300 Do you have any proof? Do you have any proof, sir?
00:08:20.000 Yes, your own tweets, sir.
00:08:20.960 Do you have any proof? No, my tweet is...
00:08:22.080 What is your opinion of Iran?
00:08:26.660 That is something that we could discuss later.
00:08:28.700 Oh, why not? Right now.
00:08:29.640 So, you know it's one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism in the world. Would you agree with that, sir?
00:08:35.680 There are terrorism going in there.
00:08:37.760 Yeah. So, do you support the regime, sir?
00:08:40.940 Absolutely not.
00:08:41.920 Oh, then why did you tweet congratulations to it?
00:08:43.960 Because I'm not tweeting congratulations and you're faking your news.
00:08:47.240 No, I'm not faking my news.
00:08:48.080 Yes, you are. You are. You don't have any fact. You haven't had any facts.
00:08:51.420 I haven't had any facts in four years.
00:08:54.360 And you're harassing me and I don't appreciate it.
00:08:55.980 I'm not harassing you, sir.
00:08:56.920 I'm in a public place asking you.
00:08:58.600 You are in a public place and I told you I do not support the regime.
00:09:02.860 I do not support the advocate for them and you're accusing me of that.
00:09:05.800 And if you put that in formal writing, then we can have a discussion later on.
00:09:09.320 Okay, then.
00:09:09.660 Thank you very much. Have a great day.
00:09:10.280 Why is the local Richmond Hill Persian community so upset?
00:09:12.560 That I can't do. Why don't you go ask them?
00:09:14.300 Huh? Why don't you go ask them?
00:09:15.300 Because you've tweeted your support.
00:09:17.160 No, sir.
00:09:17.840 You're faking and that's not true.
00:09:19.580 So, yet again, when it comes to the federal liberals, denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
00:09:25.200 They sure don't like going on the record about the sordid stuff they support.
00:09:30.800 And when cornered, they engage in plenty of talking without, well, actually saying anything.
00:09:37.260 Kind of like that other Trudeau cabinet minister, Maryam Monsef.
00:09:41.940 Remember her remarks to us during an event marking World Press Freedom Day in Toronto?
00:09:47.260 Before we were frog-marched out of the building because, hey, apparently embracing World Press Freedom Day, according to Ms. Monsef,
00:09:56.540 is all about stifling freedom of the press that the journalist isn't one of Trudeau's state-sponsored stenographers.
00:10:05.140 Check it out.
00:10:05.760 Say, Minister Monsef, David Benzies with Rebel Media.
00:10:08.740 Just a quick question.
00:10:10.320 The United Nations told our reporters they were banned from covering their conferences due to a directive from the Canadian government.
00:10:21.860 Do you support that?
00:10:23.320 I hope you support what we're doing here today, which is ensuring freedom of expression and an independent free press for your colleagues around the world.
00:10:31.040 But that's precisely the point. We traveled to Morocco, we traveled to Poland, and we were shut out of UN conferences because of an edict from your government.
00:10:41.160 Does that sound like world press freedom to you, Minister?
00:10:44.260 What we're doing today is supporting an independent and free press in some of the most troubled regions of the world.
00:10:51.280 And I have no doubt that you rejoice in this investment and this initiative.
00:10:55.220 Well, you know, but how do you square the fact that you won't even let Canadian journalists that might have a dissenting opinion about things like immigration and climate change?
00:11:06.340 And again, I ask, whatever happened to Sunny Ways, my friends? Sunny Ways?
00:11:12.660 What happened to that often stated promise of open transparency?
00:11:16.840 I think I know what you're thinking, folks, and I wholeheartedly agree.
00:11:23.440 Namely, October 21st can't possibly come soon enough.
00:11:29.880 Stay with us for more.
00:11:31.220 Well, it's like a cliche from a cheesy horror movie, isn't it?
00:11:49.220 You know, just when you think the monster has been slain and the exhausted protagonists begin to walk away.
00:11:55.640 Well, that's how Mark Stein looks upon the possibility of the anti-free speech provision, Section 13, being restored to the Canadian Human Rights Act.
00:12:15.320 This incredibly flawed provision was rightfully tossed by the Stephen Harper Conservative government in 2013.
00:12:23.380 But now a liberal-dominated justice committee wants to restore it.
00:12:28.420 What's more, it will be supercharged this time around with an additional focus pertaining to social media.
00:12:35.880 So, in essence, folks, Section 13 is the polar opposite of the First Amendment.
00:12:40.660 It is anti-free speech and pro-censorship.
00:12:46.040 No wonder the left loves this thing.
00:12:49.920 Joining me now with the latest on Section 13's potential comeback is Andrew Lawton with TNC.news.
00:12:57.220 Welcome to the Ezra Event Show, my friend.
00:12:59.940 Good to be with you, David. Thanks for having me.
00:13:01.740 It is always a pleasure, Andrew.
00:13:03.320 So, in addition to, oh, I don't know, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers,
00:13:08.000 it would appear that Section 13, it just refuses to stay dead, doesn't it?
00:13:14.260 Yeah, and, you know, usually horror sequels are bad.
00:13:17.920 I mean, in this case, the horror sequel is going to be more terrifying than the original.
00:13:22.460 I mean, this is one of the rare cases where the remake is going to have much more of an impact than the first one did,
00:13:28.140 because now they're out for blood, and one of the biggest problems with this is that, as you noted in your preamble there,
00:13:35.400 the proposal from the Justice Committee empowers or I'll say coerces social media companies
00:13:42.200 into being what I characterize in my writing on this as state enforcers,
00:13:47.040 because you see it in, I believe it's recommendation number nine,
00:13:51.180 this idea on the committee's report that social media companies must have requirements imposed by the government
00:13:58.380 on how they're going to get rid of what the government says is hate speech.
00:14:03.740 Now, the reason this is so relevant is because when Section 13, Part 1 was around,
00:14:09.100 there was this sham of a tribunal you'd go to,
00:14:11.720 and the tribunal would determine if what you posted was hateful, and that was bad enough.
00:14:16.080 Now you don't even get to the tribunal part.
00:14:18.760 The government is forcing social media companies to censor their users.
00:14:23.500 And, you know, Andrew, let's talk about the way in which Section 13 worked back in the battle days pre-2013
00:14:31.840 and why the Stephen Harper Conservatives got rid of it.
00:14:37.040 We know, well, at least those who follow this story know,
00:14:40.680 that essentially Section 13, it was gamed by one individual, if you will,
00:14:45.560 Richard Warman, sometimes he was an employee of the human rights racket,
00:14:49.980 sometimes he was a complainant, and he brought forth well over a dozen cases in which he always won,
00:14:57.360 in which he went trolling for hate speech on the internet, posing as somebody else,
00:15:02.960 and himself using hateful language in order to do his phishing, if you will.
00:15:08.920 And this is what I find disturbing about this.
00:15:12.420 We know how inherently flawed this is, so why bring it back in the first place?
00:15:18.020 What is the agenda of those who want to reinstate it?
00:15:21.940 Well, I think the agenda is very clear here.
00:15:24.600 You're talking about a movement of people that fundamentally believe speech should not be free.
00:15:30.560 And when you look at the witnesses that were testifying as part of this online hate study,
00:15:35.740 there were 59 of them, so nearly five dozen witnesses,
00:15:40.460 and all but about five were taking an anti-free speech stance,
00:15:45.300 or at the very least a stance that was a lot more focused on where the limit to free speech should be,
00:15:51.700 rather than fundamentally putting the protection and preservation of free speech front and center.
00:15:56.720 So that's the agenda.
00:15:57.940 And trust me, you've got a lot of people that have very legitimate grievances,
00:16:01.020 whether you're talking about Muslims or gays or transgender people.
00:16:05.480 I don't doubt them when they say that they see mean, nasty things on the Internet,
00:16:10.300 and they are on the receiving end of perhaps mean and nasty and maybe emotionally hateful bars.
00:16:16.120 But something being emotionally hateful or something that you feel is hateful does not mean it should be illegal.
00:16:23.680 And that's the fundamental divide here, is that we are criminalizing hurting feelings
00:16:28.580 when we already have a mechanism in Canada called the Criminal Code
00:16:32.340 that deals with speech that is sufficiently hateful to cause real harm.
00:16:38.300 And you know, Andrew, I think you nail it there on two fronts.
00:16:41.560 One, you do not have a right to not be offended.
00:16:46.420 You simply do not.
00:16:47.680 And secondly, as you said, there are provisions on the books,
00:16:51.500 libel, slander, defamation, you name it,
00:16:54.600 in which real courts, not kangaroo courts, i.e. human rights tribunals,
00:17:00.040 can be used to implement justice when you really are, you know, criminally maligned.
00:17:07.920 So I'm with you on that.
00:17:10.360 Why can't we let the real courts and the existing laws take care of the really odious stuff?
00:17:16.920 Yes, and that Section 13, in its 32 or 34 years, had a 100% conviction rate.
00:17:24.060 And this is astonishing.
00:17:25.680 And I know Mark Stein mentioned this in his testimony.
00:17:28.740 Even North Korea would be jealous of the 100% conviction rate
00:17:33.160 that the Canadian Human Rights Commission had.
00:17:35.400 I mean, Saddam Hussein would say, no, no, no, that's too much.
00:17:38.380 We don't think, like, this is insane.
00:17:40.080 Nothing has a 100% conviction rate.
00:17:42.120 I mean, government can't do anything right.
00:17:44.100 So if government's convicting people 100% of the time,
00:17:46.900 there's a problem with the law itself.
00:17:48.660 But beyond that, I want to direct your viewers to two relevant people here.
00:17:54.480 Number one, David Arnott.
00:17:56.120 Now, he is the chief commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission,
00:17:59.840 and he testified before the Justice Committee and said,
00:18:04.000 and this is a direct quote,
00:18:05.540 that Canada has no unbridled right to freedom of expression.
00:18:09.720 And Dean Stacey, who was with the Canadian Human Rights Commission
00:18:13.700 back when Section 13 was around the first time, said in a deposition,
00:18:18.380 I think back in 2010 or 2011, I might be wrong about the year,
00:18:22.260 but said in a deposition, when he was asked by a lawyer,
00:18:26.400 how much of an emphasis do you put on freedom of speech?
00:18:29.780 And he said, freedom of speech is an American concept,
00:18:33.160 so I don't pay any mind to it, or something like that.
00:18:35.760 But it was freedom of speech is an American concept.
00:18:38.700 So you have people that are in this human rights bureaucracy
00:18:41.960 that fundamentally believe freedom of speech is not something
00:18:45.760 that Canadians have as a right or should have as a right.
00:18:49.340 And when they're saying that so brazenly,
00:18:51.920 we have to be very mindful of what's going to come
00:18:55.000 from what was supposed to be the ashes of Section 13.
00:18:59.200 And, you know, Andrew, back earlier this month
00:19:02.560 when the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights was sitting,
00:19:06.920 we bumped into each other in Ottawa.
00:19:08.660 You described that session as farcical, and I think that's an excellent word.
00:19:15.880 It began with us at the Rebel being denied press credentials to cover it,
00:19:21.120 so we just went in anyways.
00:19:23.740 Secondly, when you looked at the witnesses testifying,
00:19:28.180 Mark Stein, Lindsay Shepard, John Robson,
00:19:31.620 I think the way they were treated was appalling.
00:19:35.200 And even in the preamble before they got to say what they wanted to
00:19:39.100 and the questioning, Mr. Cooper's remarks were completely expunged from the record.
00:19:46.740 It was like that season of Dallas, you know, where what's-his-name Patrick Duffy didn't die.
00:19:54.760 Oh, it was all a dream, honey.
00:19:56.860 You know, those words were never uttered in this chamber.
00:19:59.900 I mean, Andrew, I've never seen the likes of this in my life.
00:20:03.240 No, by the way, thanks for the spoiler alert.
00:20:06.300 I hadn't gotten around to watching that season yet.
00:20:09.400 But what actually I think is relevant here is that we're beyond parody.
00:20:14.680 We're beyond satire.
00:20:15.960 I mean, if I were to write a parallel universe in which I said,
00:20:19.520 OK, and the committee studying free speech is going to pass a motion to censor someone,
00:20:25.480 someone would look at me and say, oh, no, Andrew, that's not yet—no one would do that.
00:20:28.220 That's not realistic.
00:20:28.960 But that's what happened.
00:20:30.380 A discussion on free speech and the MPs unanimously, because the Conservatives abstained,
00:20:35.940 unanimously voted to censor someone's words from the record.
00:20:39.480 And I've got to tell you, David, it wasn't just that motion,
00:20:42.920 which really bothered me on a visceral level,
00:20:46.120 but it was when I went back and listened to the audio and found that even the audio,
00:20:51.560 which was supposed to be a live, raw feed of the meeting, had been retroactively edited,
00:20:57.060 silence in the place of where Michael Cooper was speaking.
00:21:00.340 And you go back and you listen, and he says, you know, I'm going to read from the manifesto of—
00:21:06.320 and then you think your computer has died.
00:21:08.420 I mean, this is not something that is supposed to happen in a free and freedom-loving country.
00:21:13.460 This is literally censorship.
00:21:15.300 When you're going back and removing something from the record,
00:21:18.260 it's not conjecture or hyperbole or exaggeration.
00:21:21.380 That is the literal definition of censorship.
00:21:24.820 It is appalling, Andrew, and it's unbelievable it's happening in Canada.
00:21:28.800 And what's more, another angle I wanted to pursue with you,
00:21:31.720 it's how the Conservatives—and let's not forget,
00:21:34.240 there are dozens of Conservative MPs that were part of the Stephen Harper regime
00:21:40.940 back when this odious section was lifted from the Canadian Human Rights Act.
00:21:46.840 And I don't know, Andrew, I don't see any strength on this issue.
00:21:52.380 It's either they're sitting on their hands or they're voting for something that was going to be carried anyways,
00:21:57.340 because, as you mentioned, it was a Liberal-dominated committee.
00:22:02.180 I really wonder, where does Andrew Scheer stand on this?
00:22:09.080 Well, you know, it's funny.
00:22:10.720 I try to give criticism where it's due and credit where it's due.
00:22:14.560 And there was a lot of criticism due, in my view anyway,
00:22:18.200 towards Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives over how they handled the Michael Cooper situation,
00:22:23.300 how they handled, really just a week later, the Salim Mansoor nomination.
00:22:27.840 And I know you did an interview on that in London.
00:22:30.720 So I think that there was a string of really bad decisions there by the Conservatives.
00:22:35.620 But I have to say, in the Justice Committee report,
00:22:38.420 the Conservatives issued a dissent that was very positive, I'd say, in free speech.
00:22:44.180 They said, look, the Liberal recommendations are despicable.
00:22:47.720 They don't strike a balance between dealing with online hate and preserving free speech.
00:22:52.120 And bringing back Section 13 in no uncertain terms is a, like, that's just an absolute terrible idea.
00:22:59.060 So I do think that the Conservative response to the report was what I would have hoped it would have been.
00:23:05.060 Again, that doesn't take away my misgivings about the Conservatives in the procedural aspects of this.
00:23:10.980 I do think that Andrew Scheer is, as a person, on side.
00:23:14.520 I mean, this is a guy who, in the leadership race,
00:23:16.920 said he wanted to cut federal funding of universities that don't protect free speech.
00:23:21.400 So I don't know if this has just been a political miscalculation
00:23:25.320 or if this is about different advisers talking on different sides.
00:23:29.700 But I do think that if the Conservatives can do more of what's in this response to the report
00:23:35.660 and less of what they were doing in the mechanics of the committee,
00:23:39.780 they're going to be on the right side of this.
00:23:41.560 But I want to see more of that before I can say,
00:23:44.340 yes, they're allies in this fight definitively.
00:23:46.520 Yeah, well, at the very least, Andrew, I think they've really miscommunicated their position.
00:23:52.980 And I'm saying this, too, in order to give you the benefit of the doubt.
00:23:55.740 When we spoke to Maxime Bernier that day after the committee hearing,
00:23:59.560 he was very clear, crystal clear where he stood on it.
00:24:03.220 He compared this to something out of the pages of 1984.
00:24:06.940 And I think he's bang on.
00:24:08.500 But, you know, we're running out of racetrack here.
00:24:11.160 Andrew, takeaway question.
00:24:14.540 Look into your crystal ball for me right now, if you could.
00:24:18.040 Where does this go from here?
00:24:20.720 Is this going to be, is it an accomplished fate that this is going to be re-implemented
00:24:25.980 while this government is still sitting before the election day of October 21st?
00:24:32.060 Or what's going to happen?
00:24:33.260 Well, listen, we have very little runway left between now and the election
00:24:37.880 when you talk about sitting periods in the House of Commons.
00:24:41.820 And even if the Liberals were to throw together a law and implement it,
00:24:46.340 there's no way that gets through the House and the Senate
00:24:48.660 and gets royal assent before the writ drops.
00:24:51.900 So I don't think we have to worry.
00:24:54.160 I mean, famous last words they may be.
00:24:55.920 But I don't think we have to worry about something before the election.
00:24:59.840 But I do think we need to worry about what a re-elected Liberal government will do with this.
00:25:04.800 Because now that this report is on the record, Michael Cooper's words aren't,
00:25:08.600 this report is, the Liberals have the opportunity to use this as a jumping-off point
00:25:13.220 immediately into a new term to say, yeah, it's time to start tackling this.
00:25:17.760 And, you know, if they win, I mean, nightmare scenario for Canadians,
00:25:21.260 if the Liberals win a majority, that means there's no one to push back against this.
00:25:26.040 So I don't think there's an imminent fear here.
00:25:29.140 But I do think there is a genuine fear, if the Liberals are re-elected,
00:25:33.800 that Section 13 comes back.
00:25:36.300 And it's not speculation or exaggeration to say that free speech suffers a blow.
00:25:42.280 Well, you just mentioned something, another Liberal majority.
00:25:45.560 I think that's the kind of thing that would give Count Floyd white hair.
00:25:50.220 But, Andrew...
00:25:50.940 If you need, we can go and remove it from the record, David.
00:25:53.580 Never said it.
00:25:54.100 Oh, if only that, yeah.
00:25:55.800 If it bothered you, I can say I never mentioned it.
00:25:58.200 Maybe I'll review this interview before it's posted.
00:26:01.120 And if I don't like anything you said, I'll take inspiration from this Justice Committee
00:26:05.740 and just remove it from the record.
00:26:08.260 Oh, my goodness, I can't believe.
00:26:09.680 Well, let's hope that this doesn't come back.
00:26:12.580 And let's hope there's not another horror movie-like cheesy cliché in October,
00:26:17.980 i.e. the return of another majority Liberal government.
00:26:22.140 Who knows? Time will tell.
00:26:23.100 Andrew, thank you so much for weighing in on this very important subject.
00:26:27.240 A pleasure.
00:26:28.040 You got it.
00:26:28.860 And, folks, keep it here.
00:26:29.800 More of the Ezra Levent Show to come right after this.
00:26:32.160 Well, you know, folks, it's estimated that more than a million people clogged the streets
00:26:47.360 of downtown Toronto today to pay homage to their basketball heroes, winners of the 2019 NBA championship.
00:26:55.380 And Toronto was going to show the world, much like Toronto did in 1992 and 1993 with the Blue Jays winning the World Series,
00:27:03.060 how it's done to have a huge street party without any serious crime.
00:27:08.680 Well, my cameraman, Efren, and I were here at the atrium on Bay, and this broke out.
00:27:15.400 Well, that was the aftermath, and I didn't catch it from the beginning,
00:27:32.620 of people that ran into the atrium screaming.
00:27:36.140 I thought it was people just engaged in tomfoolery, but no, those weren't screams of joy.
00:27:42.320 They were screams of terror.
00:27:43.900 And, of course, the reason for those screams of terror was due to a few savages who thought it was perfectly okay
00:27:50.640 to bring handguns to a massive victory parade that saw as many as 2 million people clogging the streets of Toronto's downtown core.
00:28:00.060 As to motivation, was this all about settling a score?
00:28:03.540 Was it gang-related?
00:28:05.320 Or were these just pathetic individuals who decided they would attempt to hijack a victory celebration for their own self-affirmation?
00:28:14.580 Those details will come out in the days ahead.
00:28:16.980 In the meantime, here's what some of you had to say.
00:28:20.640 Long Drives at Night writes,
00:28:22.580 I grew up in Newfoundland and Labrador, plenty of gun ownership, very little amount of gun crime.
00:28:28.240 Now I live in New Brunswick, same thing.
00:28:30.520 It appears some folks in the inner city have bad upbringing and culture,
00:28:36.080 and these folk are the reason libs and lefties want to pick on Canadian law-abiding gun owners,
00:28:43.120 start jailing longer, and in some cases, deport them.
00:28:47.300 Well, Long Drives at Night, you touch upon a couple of good points here.
00:28:52.120 The knee-jerk reaction whenever there is any kind of crime involving guns is, of course,
00:28:56.940 to go after legal gun owners who are not the problem.
00:29:01.080 As for upbringing and cultural issues, well, these are no fly zones for the left.
00:29:06.980 It's just way too culturally sensitive for them.
00:29:10.460 And finally, when are we going to have some real penalties?
00:29:15.280 And how about this?
00:29:16.760 If you're found with an illegal handgun in your possession, bang, that's an automatic 10-year sentence.
00:29:23.040 But in this day and age of restorative justice, it is far easier to go after the legal gun owners
00:29:29.760 because that's an easy way to make it seem like the government is doing something to fix the problem,
00:29:36.560 whereas in reality, they are doing absolutely nothing.
00:29:41.060 Charles Clements writes,
00:29:42.180 Oh, Charles, how dare you?
00:29:53.760 The rebel is not and never will be a Trudeau-approved state stenographer.
00:29:58.760 We embrace the truth and we never shy away from telling it.
00:30:02.320 The reasons why the culprits weren't identified was due to the fact that when we filed our report,
00:30:07.200 this information was not yet available.
00:30:09.500 But thanks to some excellent police work by Toronto's finest,
00:30:14.380 three suspects are now in custody.
00:30:16.700 Shaquille Anthony Miller, 25,
00:30:19.520 Adrakarim Karou, 18,
00:30:22.860 and Thano Toussaint, 20.
00:30:25.980 This threesome faces multiple firearms charges as well as several other charges.
00:30:31.240 The hunt continues for a fourth suspect.
00:30:33.780 In the meantime, let's hope that if found guilty,
00:30:36.900 the judge sends a firm message by throwing the book at these guys.
00:30:41.800 We don't know yet if the shootings were targeted,
00:30:44.020 but given the huge crowds that day,
00:30:46.960 a bullet missing its intended target would have surely have hit an innocent bystander.
00:30:53.720 And there were thousands of kids at this parade.
00:30:56.380 Like I said, let's hope the judge likes the idea of hard time in prison,
00:31:01.500 as opposed to sending human trash to some healing lodge in Saskatchewan.
00:31:07.500 Toby T writes,
00:31:08.740 Nobody cares about the Raptors or whatever they are called.
00:31:12.640 Nobody even knew about it merely two months ago.
00:31:15.580 The dumb millennials are biting into anything with a slight hype.
00:31:20.000 After a month, nobody will remember the news or care.
00:31:22.820 Suddenly, everyone is a basketball fan.
00:31:25.940 Basketball is non-existent in Canada.
00:31:29.320 Oh, gee, where do I even begin?
00:31:31.460 The numbers indicate that people do indeed care, Toby T,
00:31:35.940 when you get about two million people out on the street
00:31:38.660 waiting to catch a glimpse of a procession that was more than three hours late.
00:31:43.980 I'd say that's caring big time.
00:31:46.400 Granted, there were plenty of bandwagon hoppers, myself included,
00:31:51.020 during the Raptors' amazing playoff run.
00:31:53.380 But so what?
00:31:54.820 The owners of the team love bandwagon hoppers.
00:31:57.800 Hey, if you're going to buy all that pricey official merchandise,
00:32:01.820 then the more the merrier.
00:32:03.720 As for your statement that basketball is non-existent in Canada,
00:32:08.280 what do you even base that on?
00:32:10.000 Basketball is huge in Canada,
00:32:11.600 and I would suggest that this nation is now producing
00:32:15.120 world-class basketball talent that is second only to the USA.
00:32:20.380 They say everyone loves a parade, but if you don't,
00:32:23.140 hey, that's fine.
00:32:24.000 Stay home.
00:32:24.740 Do your own thing.
00:32:25.500 I just don't get the idea of dumping on something
00:32:28.600 that was truly a golden moment for Toronto and even Canada.
00:32:33.040 And even though there were a few thugs
00:32:35.820 who tried to hijack this celebration with their gunplay,
00:32:39.820 the fact is they ultimately failed to do so.
00:32:43.480 Unlike so many other victory parades in Europe and North America,
00:32:47.300 for the most part,
00:32:48.660 Hogtown lived up to its nickname of Toronto the Good.
00:32:52.180 There was no rioting.
00:32:53.300 There was no mass vandalism and looting.
00:32:56.020 Police cruisers were not overturned and set ablaze.
00:32:59.380 All of this mindless crap has become a due rigueur occurrence
00:33:03.440 at so many other sporting celebrations.
00:33:06.020 But that did not happen in Toronto on Monday.
00:33:08.840 So take a bow, folks.
00:33:10.620 All of this mindless ن voyage to all different areas.
00:33:12.720 We've already got some instructionalmercialς,
00:33:13.740 but it was actually an ideal casus.
00:33:15.260 We've been in Toronto.
00:33:15.720 There was no leaders.
00:33:16.160 Well, valentine.
00:33:16.940 We've been pursuing this too.
00:33:17.460 We've been thinking about the different ways we've been able to
00:33:18.400 to can definitely
00:33:24.700 ask what the intervene is to do.
00:33:27.040 While we're in Toronto,
00:33:28.760 we've been waiting for altruism to stay here.
00:33:31.600 We're just following up to the tech news.
00:33:33.140 So we've been thinking about nothing but
00:33:33.660 what we're doing about technology it
00:33:34.680 means we've been doing anything next.
00:33:35.420 You're going to be sneezing
00:33:37.800 over Villainville.