MENZIES： Halton School Board sets new ＂Halloween＂ dress code — but refuses to ban enormous prosthetic breasts in the classroom
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Just when you thought the situation at the Halton District School Board couldn t get any more surreal, just wait till you hear about the Board s Halloween guidelines! Shame on You, You Censorious Bug!
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Tonight, just when you thought it couldn't get any more surreal at the Halton District
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School Board, just wait till you hear about the board's Halloween guidelines.
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Ooh, scary kids. It's Thursday, October 27th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra LeVent Show.
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Well, folks, just when you thought the situation at the uber-woke, uber-joke Halton District School Board
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couldn't get any more perversely humorous and embarrassing and even downright shameful,
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now word comes that the HDSB is finally going to do something about the dress code at its school's
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Oh, by that, I don't mean they're actually going to address the outlandish and over-sexualized attire
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donned by shop teacher Mr. Kerry Luke Lemieux, a.k.a. Miss Kayla Lemieux, a.k.a. Busty Lemieux.
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By the way, for those just returning to the Milky Way Galaxy, Lemieux is that shop teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School
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His chest is routinely festooned with a pair of fake Z-cup breasts
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that are barely contained by the sheer see-through tops which allow the fake oversized nibbles to protrude.
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Indeed, it would seem that Lemieux is actually transitioning into a drag queen as opposed to a fake,
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given he routinely totes around breasts that are easily mistaken for a pair of wayward zeppelins.
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Now, the Busty Lemieux story has received mainstream media coverage around the globe,
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but with a few exceptions, there has been almost zero MSM coverage here in Canada.
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You see, the Justin Trudeau-sponsored stenographers and assorted other trained SEALs
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are typically down with the radical transgender revolution,
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but even they suspect something is a little fishy when it comes to the curious case of Busty Lemieux.
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By the way, I'll offer my theories later on regarding what the real story might be
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But in the here and now, how gutless is it that our state-funded media continue to ignore this story
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I mean, that is kind of what one is supposed to do in the journalism racket.
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But apparently these days to even question the trans narrative is an act of transphobia.
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Speaking of gutlessness, let me circle back to the Halton District School Board
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You see, if a biological female student wore the sort of get-up Busty Lemieux does,
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she'd be suspended based on a dress code violation.
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Teachers at Halton District School Board schools are exempt from the dress code.
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So instead of leading by example, the faculty can show up as if they are participants at a pride parade.
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Folks, does that even begin to make sense to you?
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Now, I sought answers about the double standard
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and to drop off a petition of several thousand signatures to the HDSB earlier this month.
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But even though these educrats are paid by taxpayers and should be accountable,
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Rather, they act like a bunch of entitled cowards.
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We as adults are supposed to protect the children.
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Why is he not restricted to only the shopper while we deal with this situation?
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Why is he subbing in grade 10 math and grade 10 science with 15-year-olds?
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when the children don't even have adults to depend on them to protect them.
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We've got to take our salaries, so we've got to take the kids out of the school.
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Now, folks, that particular video was shot on October 12th.
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Well, you know, I returned to the scene of the grime last week again to deliver my petition
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At the last minute, the Halton District School Board went virtual with their board beating
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so they wouldn't have to go through the humiliation of being queried by mammary menzoid.
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The HDSB educrats apparently think that a display of drag queen-inspired transgenderism is a jolly
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good example of diversity with regard to the LGBTQABC plus XYZ file for the kids attending Lemieux shop class.
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But when a busty Lemieux facsimile shows up at their very headquarters, whoa, that's a little too close for comfort.
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And so it is these trustees scurry away to their safe spaces to curl up in the fetal position
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and wait for the police to remove that big, bad transgender boogeyman from their stomping grounds.
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Or, as was the case last week, they simply stay home and have their meeting virtually.
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Oh, and speaking of boogie persons, as I mentioned at the outset,
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finally the HDSB is doing something concrete when it comes to dress codes.
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They are not implementing a dress code for teachers, including teachers who might be, you know, sexual perverts.
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You see, last week, trustee Dr. Margaret Shuttleworth sent out a release detailing the do's and don'ts of Halloween costumes.
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You see, Dr. Shuttleworth, who apparently likes to dress up as a horse-toothed jackass,
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is mightily concerned about so-called inappropriate costumes that the kids might don on All Hallows' Eve.
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Her moronic memo begins by noting that if students choose to dress up in Halloween costumes,
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they should, quote, ensure that they are contributing to the positive and pro-social climate that our school is cultivating around recognizing Halloween, end quote.
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Wow, can you imagine what the poor retailers who are selling Halloween haberdashery in Halton Region might be experiencing these days?
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Hello, sir, I'd like a costume that invokes a positive and pro-social climate that Halton District schools like to cultivate.
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But wait, Dr. Frankenstein, or I mean, Dr. Shuttleworth's woke insanity continues, quote,
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costumes that are intended to or have the impact of inciting fear and anxiety for others are not acceptable costumes, end quote.
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This is exactly when we celebrate the likes of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees.
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On October 31st, it is fully expected, and it is completely appropriate,
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that people would dress up in frightening costumes.
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That's, you know, kind of the whole point behind Halloween,
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a celebration of things that go bump in the night.
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Indeed, Shuttleworth's woke idiocy reminds me of that hilarious moment
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from Count Floyd's Scary Merry Christmas sketch from the immortal SCTV.
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No, no, I think the kid from Deliverance was right on one point, though,
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and that is when you're negotiating a settlement, it's imperative that the equity...
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Yeah, that's right, Lucille Ball and Doc Shuttleworth.
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It's good to be scared if the context of the event is all about, you know, horror,
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especially horror that is manufactured as opposed to real horror,
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which is to say a rubber Wolfman mask isn't really all that scary,
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but Busty Lemieux teaching minors in a shop class?
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Now, that's scary, except that the Halton District School Board doesn't condemn this horror,
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but rather celebrates it as a measure of diversity.
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Yeah, and whatever you do, kids, don't forget your 3D glasses so that, you know,
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But here comes the really fascinating part regarding Shuttleworth's memo,
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because it goes on to state that costumes cannot mimic traditional attire from racial, gender, or religious groups.
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That would be, quote, inappropriate and unacceptable for Halloween at our school, end quote.
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For me, the phrase that stands out there is the prohibition of a student mimicking the opposite gender.
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That's right, on that one day of the year where it is expected for someone to dress up,
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should a male student at Oakville Trafalgar don the ensemble of a female student or vice versa,
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But when it comes to teachers' cross-dressing in an over-the-top drag queen fashion,
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well, this is considered to be perfectly legit.
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You know, folks, I find it baffling that some of the most idiotic people I have come across in my journalism career
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happen to be those who work at school boards, you know, the people who implement the curriculum for our kids.
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Oh, and they also tend to be fun burglars as well, now that the war on Christmas is over,
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i.e. you are not going to find an evergreen tree at any publicly funded school in this province come December.
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Check out this tweet from the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board earlier this month.
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Hey, everyone, we've made it to the long weekend, and I want to be able to say thank you to everyone
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for the work that you have been doing to get us here.
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It's Thanksgiving weekend, and many people will take, you know, time.
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It's evolved into a tradition where we spend time with people that we love, we care about, we give thanks.
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You know, we just came through the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,
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and so I have to start there to recognize that this day may mean different things to different people,
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especially First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people, and recognizing the roots.
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And, you know, we can't get to reconciliation without truth,
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which means we have to hold the tension of recognizing the roots of it,
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and as we have these moments, be able to think and reflect on how we could be able to show that
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in very real, tangible ways in the relationships we hold with our treaty partners.
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And also recognizing that it's evolved over time as a moment for gratitude,
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you know, recognizing that so many of us are navigating so many challenging issues right now,
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and in particular, you know, as we look at some of the challenges for, you know,
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that's been happening around the various areas of discrimination and racism and hate.
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Others have been stepping up and trying to support.
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For those who have been, you know, wearing it, I'm grateful to all of you.
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For those who have been supporting, I'm grateful to all of you.
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As people show up from a place of fear, let's meet them with hope.
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As people show up, you know, from a place of hate, let's meet them with love.
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And love can be fierce and powerful, but it's constantly calling in that even when we disagree,
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And so as we think about sitting at tables and giving thanks, I'm thankful to all of you.
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And I hope that we can come together and keep coming together as a community
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so that we can really do what's best for our region and for the children that we serve.
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Thank you and happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating.
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Yeah, those jokester wokesters at the HWDSB consider Thanksgiving to be too sensitive a subject.
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But back to Halloween in 2008, I was tipped off about the Halloween policy at the Toronto District School Board.
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Now, the TDSB was truly ahead of the woke curve when they issued a six-point memo outlining why Halloween is not fun.
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Number one, Halloween is a religious day of significance for Wiccans and therefore should be treated respectfully.
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Number two, peer and social slash media consumer pressures target all children and their families as consumers of costumes, makeup, food products, etc.
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Many students and their families can feel this socio-economic marginalization keenly.
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Number three, the images and icons associated with consumer-orientated Halloween can come into conflict with some students and their families' religious beliefs.
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Number four, the food products that are marketed heavily during the Halloween period can come into conflict with students and their families' dietary habits.
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Number five, some students have had first-hand traumatic experiences of violence that make talking about death, ghosts, etc. extremely alienating.
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And number six, many recently arrived students in our schools share no background cultural knowledge of trick-or-treating or the commercialization of death as fun.
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You know, folks, I really love that last point about recently arrived students.
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The fact that they have no background cultural knowledge of Halloween.
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You teach these newly arrived students about Halloween.
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Teaching, as opposed to writing memos, why things might be triggering?
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Oh, by the way, guess where the Halton District School Board Director of Education, Curtis Ennis, he, him, comes from.
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Yep, that would be the Toronto District School Board.
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So embracing wokeism and cancel culture seems to be a career accelerant in the school board racket.
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But riddle me this, given that these folks subscribe to Justin Trudeau's brand of wokeness,
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what does Curtis Ennis, he, him, who I believe is currently identifying as a black man,
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what is he the least bit offended that his prime ministerial hero has this penchant for donning blackface?
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I'm guessing Curtis Ennis, he, him, is now back in the fetal position.
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Speaking of impolite questions, folks, now is the time for the HDSB to ask such queries of Busty Lemieux.
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Absolutely nobody believes he is genuinely transitioning into a woman.
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Those who transition tend to do so in a subtle fashion,
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as opposed to embracing the paraphernalia used by drag queens.
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That leaves us with only two other theories as to what's really going on.
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Number one, this is an elaborate hoax by Mr. Lemieux.
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There's a plethora of social media chatter noting that this individual allegedly had major issues with wokeism,
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such as made-up pronouns and gender-neutral bathrooms.
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Thus, as a measure of revenge, Lemieux, the story goes,
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decided he'd strike back at the school board, fighting fire with fire.
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We have reached out to Lemieux, by the way, even visiting his condo,
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but our attempts to secure an interview have been rejected.
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And number two, that leaves us with the only other theory.
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This individual is suffering from mental illness.
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There is also much speculation on social media that Lemieux could be suffering from autogenophilia.
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According to the National Library of Medicine, autogenophilia is defined as,
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a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female.
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It is the paraphilia that is theorized to underlie transvestism and some forms of male-to-female transsexualism.
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Autogenophilia encompasses sexual arousal with cross-dressing and cross-gender expression.
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Now, folks, if this is indeed the case, Lemieux needs psychiatric treatment,
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and at the very least, he needs to be removed from a classroom full of minors.
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But for the educrats at the Halton District School Board to even ask the question,
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if something more is at play here, something that is far more sinister than simply a man
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genuinely transitioning into a female, well, merely raising the issue is, like I said earlier,
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So their collective strategy is to hope that this story goes away.
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Oh yeah, and release an outrageous Halloween policy which seeks to suck all of the joy
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out of kids donning harmless costumes on a single day.
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These Halton District School Board trustees are despicable, and considering that these woke
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joke hobgoblins are the ones who are crafting policies for our children, wow, to quote the
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immortal Count Floyd himself, now that's really, really scary, kids, with or without 3D glasses.
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Policing was the topic du jour during the last couple of days at the Emergencies Act inquiry
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For starters, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Luckey, she had not only lost confidence in then Ottawa
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Police Chief Peter Sloli regarding his handling of the Freedom Convoy, but she was prepared
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to go directly to Prime Minister Trudeau with her concerns.
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Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who does not want to testify at the inquiry, he said
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police did an incredible job handling the convoy.
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You can think back to February, do you think that the federal government was justified in
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using the Emergencies Act to lift the occupation of downtown Ottawa?
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Well, we have some of the top officials with the OPP testifying, and yes, I stood shoulder
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shoulder to shoulder with the Prime Minister. These folks were, you know, camping out, everything
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from whirlpools, disrupting downtown, disrupting the lives of the people of Ottawa. We've worked
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collaboratively with the Mayor and the Prime Minister over at the borders. They were holding
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up a billion dollars of trade every single day, getting across our borders. We were getting
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phone calls from governors. It's unacceptable. Myself and I know the Prime Minister believe
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in free speech. And if you want to protest, protest. If you want to come down to Queen's
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Park and do cartwheels. But if you disrupt the lives of the people of Ottawa every single day,
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disrupt the lives of the economic flow across our borders, I have zero tolerance for it. Thank you.
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And meanwhile, we've heard from ubersensitive Ottawa residents that horn honking and diesel fumes
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triggered them greatly. Oh, boo-hoo-hoo. But when it comes to a Festivus-like airing of the grievances,
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why isn't my guest testifying at the inquiry? I mean, after all, a cop shot her in the thigh,
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point-blank with some sort of cylinder. What are you doing? What are you doing?
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Hold him. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
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Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
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You all right? I got shot. Take care. Bring her out. Bring her out. Come on.
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Unbelievable. And without further ado, joining me now is our Montreal-based correspondent,
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and that would be Alexa Lavoie. Bonjour, Alexa.
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Now, Alexa, have I got this right? You were actually shot. I was there a few hundred meters
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away on the day that happened when the convoy was being taken down in quite a brutal fashion.
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And yet you were never asked to come and testify at this inquiry. I think what happened to you
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was absolutely serious. I mean, if that cylinder had not hit you in the thigh and it hit you in
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the head, maybe we're talking about you in the past tense, God forbid. Why weren't you invited
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Well, first of all, I don't think they want someone who has a real proof of what has really
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happened in terms of real violence, not the violence that they say that it was, but it
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was not. They say that honking and emanation of gas is a violent, as what they describe
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up. But I was subject of real violence with weapons from the police. And I'm actually really
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curious, like, of if someone will bring that during the commission of what happened to me
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and just see if, because I was in all the news. I was in the news in US, all around the world. And
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so far, nobody has talked about this. So I'm really curious if that will bring up, like,
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I hope so, Alexa. And I remember the following day, it was a Sunday, we went to a press conference
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held by Acting Chief Steve Bell of the Ottawa Police Service. You had literally just finished
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an interview with Russian TV about what happened to you. And when I asked him what his response was
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to you being shot, well, you know what, why don't we just roll the footage? Because it's unbelievable.
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David Menzies with Rebel News. Chief, can you kindly explain how it was that my colleague to my right
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here, Alexa Lavoie, was shot point blank with a tear gas canister, doing some very painful damage to her?
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What was the reason for that, given that she was simply practicing journalism in the public square?
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So I'm unfamiliar with the incident you're speaking of. What I can tell you is that there is complaint
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mechanisms, there is review mechanisms that will be engaged following this for any use of force incident
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that occurred. I'll also say that it's been my observations and experience through the amazing
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extensive journalism coverage that's occurred through this, that the vast majority of our members
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have been extremely professional. They have executed an extremely methodical plan that has been focused
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on the safety of the residents, the safety of our officers, and the safety of the people engaged in the protest.
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Yeah, so Alexa, despite this news going around the world, Steve Bell plays the Sergeant Schultz card,
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I know nothing, I saw nothing. What did you make of that?
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And especially because I don't know if you remember, we did an access to information to have like the
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conversation by email between the RCMP. And we saw that one of the exchange of email was all about
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the scan of media. And I saw that I was appearing of what happened to me in the email. And the email was,
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we received them. And it was from the morning before we went to ask the question to Steve Bell at the police press conference.
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And it was pretty shocking that the chief is not aware of this kind of injury.
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You know, you're absolutely right. And what we didn't capture on camera, Alexa, is when the press conference
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wrapped and the chief was making his way out with his officers, he said off the cafe,
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by the way, I just want to thank all the members of the media. He's speaking of the Trudeau state funded
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stenographers, of course, not independent media. And also, we heard of some nasty things that were said
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their way. And we have launched investigations into what the fact that someone called Evan Solomon,
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a soy boy. Are you kidding me? I mean, this is insane, Alexa, you were the victim of real violence.
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But I don't know if he did that in purpose. I don't know if it was like a kind of action to try to hide or
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to say about anyway, you're not real journalists or something like that. I don't know if it was his action
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towards us. But I find that pretty arrogant to say that just after that, we asked a question about
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what happened to me. And especially it's not a verbal aggression, it's actually a physical aggression.
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And this is come from towards the police and not the protesters. And, and I'm actually, I would say I'm
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pretty, I'm a mix of, I don't know if I should be sad or actually being thanks to not being at the
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commission to testimony. Because the fact that I was there for three weeks, that I noticed that I
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witnessed all what was happening in terms of violence, in terms of disinformation and misinformation,
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in terms of so many other topics, and that I wasn't the victim at the end. I think I would be like a
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pretty good witness for being like, therefore, for being interviewed, no?
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You know, that is a fantastic point. You and of course, Lincoln Jay were there for the whole three
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weeks. I was there for several days myself. But yeah, you had a bird's eye view of all the
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shenanigans from day one. And, you know, to look, look over that and find somebody who said she had
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to curl up on the floor, because the horn honking was so upsetting to her. It is almost surreal.
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Tell me, Alexa, as we're going into the second week of the inquiry, over the last several days,
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what was the one moment you witnessed in the inquiry that made you go, wow, or holy cow,
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I didn't know that? Of all the people that have testified so far, what was the most astonishing thing
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you have heard to date, my friend? But today, I was pretty shocked when I heard Mr. Slowly
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saying that Commander had been changed without his approval. And he was not aware for almost five days
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of this change. And he said that if I didn't create this conference of, like, where we did discuss about,
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like, what was happening, I was probably not never being aware that my commander had changed.
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And I was like, this proved again, that inside of the police unit, there is lack of communication,
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a huge lack of communication. And I think that caused all what we saw in terms of disorganization
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and action that was taken. The issue was for the PLT team to tell the protesters that something is okay,
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but then to turn around and arrest people when they take the fuel away. That's the problem.
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That's leading to mistrust between the PLT and the protesters. Do you agree?
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And I don't want to be obtuse on this. That level of detail, I was never aware of.
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After the fact, why didn't that happen? The morning I'm briefed on it didn't happen. I have no idea
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if it happened or didn't happen. I think one of my complaints is, I actually didn't get a call the
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night before. I don't know what was said by what PLT member to who, what promise was made. I have no
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level of understanding, even to this day, what the PLT log notes say that they told them and versus
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what happened. But like, I was actually shocked, you know, when they were telling that, okay, they
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wanted the trucks to go further in Wellington. And Tom Marazzo was, I did agree that they were moving the
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trucks. And when they arrived to do it, the police say, but no, it was not approved by other like
00:32:08.520
police to move the truck in Wellington. And I was like, why are you agreeing something when it's not
00:32:15.320
even approved? Oh, you're absolutely right, Alexa. The miscommunication, the outright incompetence,
00:32:22.680
not just with the police, but the police services board, the mayor of the city. I mean,
00:32:27.960
the Ottawa police service makes the Keystone cops look like a crack Navy seal unit for goodness sakes.
00:32:34.840
But you know, there's more testimony to come. I have found it absolutely fascinating. Exit question,
00:32:41.960
because it is consuming so much media, especially in Ontario is Doug Ford for what seems to be
00:32:50.680
inexplicable reasons. He is fighting. He'll even go to court to prevent himself from testifying. I mean,
00:32:57.400
I don't know why he stated last week, he stands shoulder to shoulder with his new best friend,
00:33:02.760
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So Alexa, what's your take on why the premier doesn't want to take the
00:33:11.560
stand and state his side of the story? But first of all, Doug Ford declared the state of emergency,
00:33:20.280
that gave already power, like a lot of power to the police and the state to do action against the
00:33:30.520
convoys. So I'm just wondering if it's going in testimony that will probably just show that the
00:33:38.680
emergency act was not needed because with what he actually did as an action to declare the state of
00:33:46.920
emergency, probably did give enough power to the police to do what they already did during the two
00:33:55.000
days of dismantle the convoy. I'm talking about towing the car and doing an exclusion zone and like
00:34:05.080
probably arrest people who are trespassing or doing like interruption on the police job. So I think
00:34:15.160
he's trying to avoid to go and testimony because he is probably, he probably know that he will
00:34:24.360
probably send Mr. Trudeau in a really bad like turn, like to say that Mr. Trudeau will not have any
00:34:35.720
key on his side to say, okay, I did the right thing.
00:34:39.560
Yeah, no, and heaven forbid he does anything nasty to Prime Minister Trudeau. By the way,
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Trudeau would throw Doug Ford under the bus in a heartbeat that meant saving his political skin.
00:34:51.480
Ford doesn't know what he's dealing with there. And also, Alex, I have to say his ostensible policy
00:34:58.760
reason for his excuse for not testifying, he keeps emphasizing the F word, federal. This was a federal
00:35:06.760
jurisdiction event. This was, this is a federal government inquiry. But Alexa, going by that
00:35:13.720
argument, then why was Steve Bell testifying? Why was Peter slowly testifying? The Ottawa police
00:35:24.040
service is a municipal police force. So going by Ford's criteria, nobody from the Ottawa police service
00:35:30.040
should be testifying either. So I think the excuse doesn't wash. Last word goes to you, my friend.
00:35:37.800
I think it's just a coward, my personal opinion, especially when we see that Jim Watson, the mayor,
00:35:46.120
and the Ottawa police and the PPO and everybody involved in this convoy was
00:35:55.560
appealed to testimony. So I'm just thinking like, seriously, it's your province. Otherwise,
00:36:03.320
it's not in Quebec. Ah, you have a bridge there. So yes, it's a part of your state, like state,
00:36:10.280
and you need to testimony. Or you would just look like someone that tried to hide something from
00:36:18.040
the citizen. And he's probably hiding something because if he was really transparent and honest,
00:36:24.360
it will have to say, yes, I'm going to testimony. I have nothing to hide there.
00:36:30.120
Yeah. Well, you know what? More fascination awaits, Alexa. And who knows, as far as Doug Ford is
00:36:35.080
concerned, maybe Ottawa is a place where they, you can't get a good slice of cherry cheesecake.
00:36:41.080
So he doesn't want to miss out on that. Alexa, you have a wonderful weekend, my friend. And we will
00:36:48.840
talk further about this in the days ahead for sure. Take care.
00:36:55.720
There you go, folks. And that was Alexa Lavoie, our Montreal-based correspondent for Rebel News in,
00:37:02.760
well, Montreal. Keep it here. More of the Ezra Levin show to come right after this.
00:37:11.080
Well, folks, lots of feedback regarding Ezra Levin's long-form interview with Joe Pollack about the
00:37:19.080
upcoming midterm elections in the U.S. next month. Perseus09 writes,
00:37:25.160
In all fairness, we can't put 100% blame on Biden alone. How many doctors have stepped up to tell the
00:37:33.080
world that Biden is actually senile? His memory is failing. He walks around without knowing where he is,
00:37:40.840
and half the time while he's speaking, he just drifts into nothingness. This man belongs in a
00:37:47.240
long-term care facility while wearing a helmet during the day. Biden is living in a dream state
00:37:53.960
where nothing seems real to him. Biden is nothing more than a puppet on a string. The real president
00:38:00.680
is hiding in the shadows and using Biden as a proxy. You know what? That's a very good point. Shame on the
00:38:07.240
Democrat Party for using Biden like this and also shame on Jill Biden for allowing her husband
00:38:15.800
to be used this way. This man clearly needs help. I'm not being partisan at all here, folks. I'd say the
00:38:22.840
same thing if this was a Republican in office. This man is in need of help, and he should get it,
00:38:30.280
and he should not be running the greatest nation in the free world into the ground.
00:38:36.440
Canuck One writes, Chaos is correct, assuming that the GOP will take both the House and the Senate.
00:38:43.560
That will set off the left-wing lunatics. I hope I'm wrong, but you will likely see protests like never
00:38:50.200
before. Oh, the protests have already started, my friend. Hillary Clinton has already come out
00:38:55.560
warning about this being an illegitimate election, and the election hasn't even happened. But this is
00:39:01.800
an important election. I don't think I've seen a more important American election in the last several
00:39:08.840
decades. This is not about getting Democrats out of power. This is about saving the nation from Marxists,
00:39:18.120
because that's what today's loony left-wing Democrats really are. They're not progressives.
00:39:24.440
They're not socialists. They're Marxists. They hate their own country, and there has to be an end to
00:39:30.760
this. Hopefully, we will see a major change come November. But it will only happen if Americans come
00:39:38.600
out in droves. Never assume something is in the bag, because when you assume that, folks, guess what?
00:39:45.720
It comes out of the bag. Well, that wraps up this recent edition of the Ezra Levent Show. Thank you so
00:39:53.000
much for tuning in. Greatly appreciate it. Have a wonderful weekend, folks. And hey, never forget,
00:39:59.240
without risk, there can be no glory, and stay sane. It's been three years since notorious child
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sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died in prison. Well, he's dead. So while the relationship between
00:40:11.960
Epstein and high-profile business juggernauts like Bill Gates have been lightly touched on in the media,
00:40:17.240
their relationship has largely been kept under the radar. According to the mainstream media,
00:40:21.160
which has been running cover for the insidious and frightening relationship, the two only met a few
00:40:25.080
times for dinner. And according to Gates, he only met with Epstein because he was under the impression that
00:40:29.720
Epstein could help him with global health projects. He had relationships with people he said,
00:40:36.920
you know, would give to global health, which is an interest I have. More problematic facts on rare
00:40:42.600
occasion have bubbled up to the surface of mainstream media reports. For example, the New York Times was
00:40:47.480
leaked Bill Gates' emails from after a meeting with Epstein. In it, it's revealed that the meeting had
00:40:51.960
little to do with global health, but instead with, quote, very attractive women. In an email to his colleague,
00:40:57.880
while still married to his wife Melinda, Gates wrote that he was at Epstein's mansion, quote,
00:41:01.800
quite late because a, quote, very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by.
00:41:06.920
Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist. She just published a two-volume,
00:41:11.080
900-page series on Epstein that goes back several decades into history. At a seminar where Webb was
00:41:16.680
giving a lecture on the state of journalism, she sat down with me to discuss the Gates-Epstein relationship,
00:41:21.800
which runs much deeper and started years, perhaps even decades before,
00:41:28.360
Okay, well, it definitely goes really deep, I would say. I'll give you an example that was a starting
00:41:32.680
point for me and a lot of the stuff I wrote about, particularly on Epstein and Bill Gates.
00:41:37.240
In 2001, the Evening Standard, mainstream media, UK outlet, reported on Jeffrey Epstein in the context
00:41:43.960
of his relationship with Prince Andrew, and it said, it was explaining who Jeffrey Epstein was, and it said,
00:41:49.880
Jeffrey Epstein made his money, his millions, because of his business links to three people,
00:41:55.400
Leslie Wexner, all know about Epstein and Leslie Wexner, Donald Trump, know about that relationship,
00:42:01.320
but the third one is Bill Gates. So why does this mainstream media article that was never retracted,
00:42:06.040
Bill Gates never sued at the time, or anything like that, say that Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates
00:42:10.360
had business links in 2001? That would imply that they had significant business ties going back to the 1990s.
00:42:15.560
And it turns out that Isabel Maxwell, who's Ghislaine Maxwell's sister, who, as I've written in a lot
00:42:22.920
of my past work and also in the book, is pretty intelligence-linked as well, appears in an interview
00:42:28.760
in The Guardian, another UK media outlet in 2000, talking about Bill Gates in literally the weirdest
00:42:34.520
terms I've probably ever seen. And Isabel Maxwell has done dozens of interviews over the years,
00:42:40.520
but she's quoted, when she talks about Bill Gates specifically in this article,
00:42:44.040
as speaking in a faux Southern accent and purring when she talks about Bill Gates and how she
00:42:50.120
basically convinced him to donate money to certain causes and stuff when the Bill and Melinda Gates
00:42:55.800
Foundation had just sort of begun. And, you know, it's very odd. And then if you look at the company
00:43:01.400
she was running at the time, which was linked up with Israeli intelligence, it was called Comtouch.
00:43:06.840
That company was going to collapse, essentially, was having a lot of problems with its IPL,
00:43:12.280
and the people that come into rescue it are the two Microsoft co-founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
00:43:17.320
And they dumped money into a company that was the only thing it really had going for it were
00:43:21.800
intelligence-links. It was unprofitable. It was losing tons of money, struggling with major debt
00:43:27.080
loads. Its IPO, you know, value was, you know, hemorrhaging, really. And then these guys step in
00:43:33.560
and are propping up this company for some reason. Why are they helping out the Maxwell family?
00:43:38.520
Another example is a lady named Melanie Walker, who Jeffrey Epstein allegedly met in the early 90s,
00:43:46.200
offered her a Victoria's Secret modeling job. It's unclear if she ever took it. But she became
00:43:51.240
his science advisor around 1999 or so. And just a few years later, well before the official date that
00:43:59.080
Epstein and Gates met, which is 2011, per mainstream media, I think around 2003-2004 becomes one of the top
00:44:05.240
science advisors to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So essentially, you know,
00:44:11.320
this lady, her, you know, Melanie Walker, her CV at that point, her resume when she's going to apply
00:44:16.680
for this, you know, very influential job at the Gates Foundation is being Jeffrey Epstein's science
00:44:21.880
advisor. Well, Bill and Melinda Gates would have had to have known who Jeffrey Epstein was and what
00:44:27.000
science he was into, right? So, you know, there's a lot of unanswered questions there. And of course,
00:44:32.520
there's a lot that hasn't been explored with. For example, one of Bill Gates' other top science advisors,
00:44:37.320
Boris Nikolik, he was named an executor of Epstein's estate after his death. And he tried to, you know,
00:44:42.840
step away from that. But obviously, you know, Jeffrey Epstein saw some sort of connection there,
00:44:46.760
and they were actually introduced to each other by Melanie Walker. So there's a lot of unexplored
00:44:52.200
territory there, to say the very least. And, you know, there's, there's numerous indications beyond
00:44:57.720
what we've talked about already about Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein having known each other well
00:45:03.320
before the acknowledged 2011 date. In an era where everyone is being pressured into and told to trust
00:45:09.960
the science, it's always important to highlight where the science is getting its money from. Epstein
00:45:15.080
funded dozens of scientists and elite research institutions, and the relationship was reciprocal.
00:45:20.760
Epstein actually had his own office, key card, and phone line at Harvard University.
00:45:25.720
But what kind of science was Epstein actually interested in?
00:45:28.760
Well, I would basically categorize it as sort of transhumanist. And this is even acknowledged
00:45:33.000
by the New York Times, The Guardian. I mean, major mainstream media outlets refer to him as being
00:45:36.680
interested in eugenics and transhumanism explicitly. And if you look at Melanie Walker again, to use her
00:45:42.600
as an example, you know, she right now is with the Rockefeller Foundation. And, you know,
00:45:46.920
a couple years ago wrote a article for the World Economic Forum about the promise of brain-machine
00:45:52.360
interfaces, which is, you know, pretty obviously a transhumanist technology or combining man and
00:45:57.080
machine at the neurological level. And she's a major proponent of that type of, of that type of
00:46:03.240
technology. And obviously, Epstein was very into that as well. He was a big donor to what was once the
00:46:07.560
World Transhumanist Association, now known as Humanity Plus, and had, you know, courted a lot
00:46:13.320
of scientists at very high-powered institutions, a lot of them geneticists at Harvard or MIT,
00:46:19.320
and had openly talked about trying to get some of them to help him basically create a selective
00:46:25.800
breeding program at his New Mexico property. All sorts of weird science there, to say the very least,
00:46:32.120
but not necessarily weird to people like Bill Gates, right? So, you know, it's definitely a bit,
00:46:38.440
a bit complicated, the whole science aspect. And, you know, especially as it relates to Epstein's
00:46:44.520
New Mexico property, some people have claimed that those types of projects did move forward there,
00:46:51.800
but unfortunately, you know, I couldn't corroborate that. But there was no interest in investigating that
00:46:55.800
by the federal government. Jeffrey Epstein's New York property was raided right away. They waited almost a
00:47:01.480
month to go raid the islands, but they never touched the New Mexico property. Why is that?
00:47:06.440
Webb explained to me that the Epstein network is just as much a financial crimes network as a sex
00:47:11.640
crimes network, and that the network did not begin with Epstein, just as it doesn't end with him.
00:47:16.360
So I would say it still exists, but it obviously has evolved a lot since its origins. You know,
00:47:20.840
where I start off the book is somewhere in the 1940s or so. And, you know, it's basically about how
00:47:26.840
organized crime and intelligence sort of made a, developed a symbiotic relationship over time.
00:47:32.200
But this also, you know, over time also began to include corporate America, and you have a lot of
00:47:36.760
different players mixed together. You have sort of offshoots from U.S. intelligence or Israeli
00:47:42.040
intelligence that are sort of, they sort of function like a private CIA or private intelligence agency
00:47:47.720
that's not necessarily beholden to anyone, and they're working for certain specific oligarchs
00:47:52.280
or for a specific agenda. So over time it evolves and it gets, it gets pretty complicated. But yeah,
00:47:57.640
the narrative that Jeffrey Epstein is, you know, the issues with him, died with him is, you know,
00:48:05.560
completely false in my opinion. I would say that someone like Jeffrey Epstein was really middle
00:48:10.280
management for this particular organization, this group, which, you know, I should point out is
00:48:15.880
probably pretty decentralized. But they have this symbiosis going between them that, you know, makes the
00:48:21.160
money. And in my experience looking at Epstein, you know, he's, he was more, you know, just as much a
00:48:25.480
financial criminal as a sex criminal. And there's people that profited alongside him for those
00:48:29.880
financial crimes, right? So, you know, it wasn't just his sex crimes that were being enabled for so
00:48:35.000
long, it was his financial crimes as well. And you don't do that with a, without a support system.
00:48:39.080
So what I'm trying to show in the books is that support system and show how it existed well before
00:48:43.160
Epstein, and how Epstein's death doesn't change that situation. It continues, you know, operating
00:48:49.320
essentially the same, really, you know, maybe people like Bill Gates or other people known to
00:48:54.200
be connected to him, Leslie Wexner have had some hiccups in their public relations, you know,
00:48:59.240
their public images, but they have, you know, teams and teams of PR people working on managing
00:49:05.080
their image all the time. So it's really irrelevant for them. And they haven't stopped what they're
00:49:08.920
doing, right. So, you know, I think it definitely continues well beyond Epstein, they want us to
00:49:13.960
think it died with him, the narrative is, oh, he's the one naughty billionaire, he's dead,
00:49:17.480
he's gone, everything's fine now. Well, he's dead, so. And obviously, I mean, look around you,
00:49:22.520
it's, you know, there's a lot, there's a lot still going on that's very problematic.