Rebel News Podcast - March 10, 2021


New rules and new normal for protesting in John Tory's Toronto


Episode Stats

Length

23 minutes

Words per Minute

149.54062

Word Count

3,532

Sentence Count

262

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Pro-terror groups are allowed to protest in the city of Toronto, but anti-lockdown protesters are not. What's the difference between the two? And why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey folks, this is the audio version of the Ezra Levent Show. I'm David Menzies, guest hosting for
00:00:05.900 Ezra Tonight. And the monologue of tonight's show is on the double standard when it comes to
00:00:12.620 protesting in the city of Toronto. Now, if you would like the video version of this show
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00:00:46.760 Tonight, anti-lockdown protesters get arrested, but pro-terror groups are allowed to protest.
00:00:54.620 It's March 9th, 2021. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
00:01:02.820 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:06.620 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:10.700 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:16.540 Since January, Mayor John Tory has made it loud and clear what the new rules are in the new normal in the new and not improved Toronto.
00:01:33.180 Namely, if you go to Yonge Dundas Square, as the anti-lockdown protesters used to do,
00:01:39.660 you will be arrested should you commit any of the following five egregious crimes.
00:01:46.260 Speaking into a megaphone, displaying a sign, waving a flag, quoting biblical passages, or merely standing on a corner.
00:01:57.560 We have weeks' worth of video evidence proving this to be true.
00:02:02.600 Here, check out the low-light reel.
00:02:04.940 I'm going to run.
00:02:06.740 Step back.
00:02:07.940 Step back.
00:02:10.940 Step back.
00:02:13.860 Step back.
00:02:14.500 Step back.
00:02:15.840 Step back.
00:02:16.520 Come on, you're right.
00:02:17.100 Step back.
00:02:19.020 President's the old force.
00:02:21.340 Section 2 of the charge.
00:02:24.040 Handcuffed you, ma'am.
00:02:24.820 What did they say to you?
00:02:25.900 Oh, my goodness.
00:02:26.680 I don't understand why I'm being arrested.
00:02:30.040 I don't understand it.
00:02:30.980 All I was trying to do, it's on my heart.
00:02:33.180 Excuse me.
00:02:33.460 Excuse me.
00:02:34.400 I was going to pray about this before I came here.
00:02:37.660 All I wanted to do was let people know about this vaccine.
00:02:41.180 And make no mistake, folks, tyrant Tory got his way.
00:02:45.240 Young Dundas Square, which should exist as the heart of the city, is now a no-man's land.
00:02:51.820 Indeed, after being ticketed and tackled and arrested and hauled off to jail for exercising their constitutional rights.
00:03:00.380 Anti-lockdown protesters now congregate at Queen's Park, where they get ticketed and tackled and arrested and hauled off to jail for exercising their constitutional rights.
00:03:14.040 Rinse and repeat.
00:03:15.040 Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.
00:03:16.260 But last Saturday morning, I ventured into the forbidden zone of Young Dundas Square, and look what I saw.
00:03:25.360 A crew that puts together the Middle East Toronto blog had congregated there.
00:03:31.200 And lo and behold, police weren't cracking heads on this day.
00:03:34.900 Rather, a police officer was being interviewed.
00:03:38.080 Check it out.
00:03:45.400 Is this for a documentary or something?
00:03:48.880 You'll find it on the blog Middle East TO, Middle East Blog Toronto.
00:03:55.060 Oh, okay.
00:03:55.840 It's a blog for Middle Eastern people, and we're talking about building trust between the police and the Middle Eastern community.
00:04:02.860 Oh, fantastic.
00:04:03.620 I was just here, because usually I've been here in the past, and the police are arresting people for congregating on Young Dundas Square.
00:04:11.560 So I just wanted to get a record of that, if any shenanigans happen like that.
00:04:16.480 No, that was for the anti-mask protest.
00:04:20.000 The anti-lockdown people?
00:04:21.760 I think so, yeah.
00:04:22.620 Yeah.
00:04:23.980 I'm just trying to understand, officer, what's the difference between people protesting and these nice people doing a little documentary here?
00:04:31.240 I'm not dealing with the protests.
00:04:32.680 Okay.
00:04:34.080 All right.
00:04:34.640 All right.
00:04:35.300 Good luck with your work.
00:04:36.280 Thank you.
00:04:36.640 Okay.
00:04:37.360 Isn't that special?
00:04:39.360 The Middle East Toronto blog people were completely accommodated, and I'm happy for them, really, folks,
00:04:45.260 because I adore that silly little concept known as freedom of the press.
00:04:50.540 Yet, just look at how Rebel News videographers were treated at Young Dundas Square protests a few weeks ago.
00:04:57.840 That's all.
00:04:59.300 Go ahead.
00:04:59.760 Go ahead.
00:04:59.880 Go ahead.
00:05:00.420 Go, go, go.
00:05:01.560 Go, go.
00:05:02.000 Go, go, go, go.
00:05:02.220 The media is exempt, but it's like CP24 and stuff like that, right?
00:05:17.560 What's the difference between me and CP24?
00:05:20.560 I'm not sure.
00:05:21.560 You just got to keep moving, right?
00:05:22.560 That's all you got to do.
00:05:23.560 What's the difference between me and CP24?
00:05:25.560 I'm not sure what your company is.
00:05:27.560 If you're not sure, then why are you making assumptions then?
00:05:29.560 You just got to move.
00:05:30.560 Everybody's got to move.
00:05:31.560 Go ahead and go tell CP24 to move.
00:05:33.220 You just got to move, sir.
00:05:34.140 We're cautioning you right now, right?
00:05:35.700 We're cautioning you.
00:05:36.200 We're cautioning everybody.
00:05:37.120 You know, I love that line about media not being allowed unless you are the bought and
00:05:42.520 paid for mainstream media like CP24.
00:05:46.880 Amazing and beyond parody.
00:05:50.060 Oh, but it gets worse, folks, because later that same day in the afternoon last Saturday,
00:05:55.420 check out who was occupying the public square, brandishing flags and signs, none other than
00:06:02.960 members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, a.k.a. the LTTE, a.k.a. the Tamil Tigers.
00:06:11.660 Folks, your eyes are not deceiving you.
00:06:14.980 The Tamil Tigers are recognized as a terrorist group in Canada as well as more than 30 other
00:06:20.020 nations.
00:06:21.680 And here they were on Saturday, their supporters in Toronto, Canada, proudly flying a flag that
00:06:29.320 displays a tiger's head next to a couple of automatic weapons and a halo of bullets.
00:06:34.180 So let me get this straight.
00:06:36.960 One can brandish the flag of a terrorist organization in Torrey Town, but if you wave a Canadian flag,
00:06:46.100 well, check out what happened to this poor patriot.
00:06:49.280 Oh, no.
00:07:04.940 Wow, look at that takedown.
00:07:08.840 It is reminiscent of the offensive line of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
00:07:12.500 But where, oh, where was the fuzz when it came to the Tamil Tigers supporters marching
00:07:18.620 upon young Dundas Square?
00:07:21.080 Nowhere, that's where.
00:07:22.940 They sat this one out.
00:07:25.200 But why?
00:07:26.620 Well, I sought answers from Don Pete, Mayor Tory spokesman, and Brad Ross, the City of Toronto
00:07:32.840 spokesman, as well as Connie Osborne, the spokeswoman for the Toronto Police Service.
00:07:37.900 Here's the gist of my email.
00:07:39.480 Well, quote, just curious, last Saturday I dropped by young Dundas Square in the morning
00:07:44.080 and there was a group from the Middle East blog Toronto filming a segment there, far from
00:07:50.160 police clamping down as they do with the anti-lockdown protesters, a police officer was actually
00:07:56.820 being interviewed by the crew.
00:07:58.800 I don't begrudge these bloggers this opportunity to gather, but why the double standard when it
00:08:03.860 comes to the anti-lockdown people who tend to get ticketed and or arrested?
00:08:08.560 But it gets even more curious.
00:08:11.780 In the afternoon at the square, there was a demonstration by those supporting the Liberation
00:08:18.580 Tigers of Tamil Elam LTTE.
00:08:22.100 Canada has designated the LTTE as a terrorist group, yet there they were waving the flag of
00:08:27.780 the Tamil Tigers.
00:08:28.800 But again, why is this tolerated but not anti-lockdown demonstrations?
00:08:34.600 Please let me know at your earliest convenience.
00:08:38.080 Thanks kindly.
00:08:39.140 End quote.
00:08:40.160 I have also followed up with a phone call and you know what, folks?
00:08:44.920 It's radio silence.
00:08:47.600 This is just too much of a political hot potato for Team Tory to handle.
00:08:53.140 And really, how do you justify the unjustifiable in the first place?
00:08:58.800 But this grotesque double standard is appalling.
00:09:04.060 It is egregious.
00:09:05.360 It is downright cowardly and disgusting.
00:09:08.980 And the underlying message seems to be if you are a member of a so-called politically
00:09:15.120 incorrect protest, i.e. the rank and file of Yahoo Nation, you will be ticketed and arrested
00:09:22.440 and incarcerated.
00:09:24.400 But if you are part of a protest that, oh, lauds a terrorist group, oh, well, nothing
00:09:31.960 to see here, folks.
00:09:33.100 Move along.
00:09:33.820 Move along.
00:09:35.080 Oh, and if you are a Black Lives Matter protester, not only do the cops turn a blind eye to elicit
00:09:41.700 gatherings, but the rank and file actually take part in the protest, including the former
00:09:48.260 chief.
00:09:48.760 But then again, we know that John Tory just loves Black Lives Matter.
00:09:53.420 Do you remember the infamous racist rant a few years ago by Usra Kogali, a co-founder
00:10:00.160 of Black Lives Matter Toronto?
00:10:02.460 Check it out.
00:10:03.220 Quote, please, Allah, give me strength not to cuss, kill these men and white folks out
00:10:10.020 here today.
00:10:11.080 Please, please, please.
00:10:12.940 End quote.
00:10:13.420 You know, Usra never apologized for this racist rant.
00:10:18.780 And instead of condemning her, Black Lives Matter shamefully rushed to her defense.
00:10:24.320 And as for Mayor John Tory, well, he presented this lovely lady with a civic award called the
00:10:31.960 Pam McConnell Award for Young Woman in Leadership.
00:10:35.580 Just look at this pathetic man, this phony baloney conservative.
00:10:41.400 He actually rewarded an unapologetic racist.
00:10:46.120 Indeed, imagine if Usra Kogali was a white man and one was to replace Allah with God and
00:10:53.660 the man's plea was for God to give him strength not to cuss, kill these women and Black folks
00:11:00.340 out here today.
00:11:01.460 Please, please, please.
00:11:02.480 Do you think that guy would be getting a leadership award as opposed to a prison cell for committing
00:11:09.240 a hate crime?
00:11:10.840 But that's how we roll in John Tory's Toronto these days.
00:11:15.000 Hogtown is the living land of the double standard.
00:11:18.400 Patriots get arrested while terrorist sympathizers are openly accommodated and racists actually
00:11:26.720 get rewarded.
00:11:27.700 Hey, John Tory, what are you going to do for an encore?
00:11:32.220 Give Omar Khadr the key to the city?
00:11:46.320 Well, folks, in so many jurisdictions the world over, the lockdowns are coming to an end
00:11:52.000 and economies are reopening, but not so much in Canada.
00:11:57.960 And when you are a politician of any political stripe, of any jurisdiction here in our great
00:12:04.360 dominion, it seems that when you argue for more economic liberty, you are dismissed as being
00:12:10.720 unproductive or counterproductive or even being called an outright crank.
00:12:16.200 Why, oh, why is that?
00:12:19.020 Well, joining me now is our friend to the show, Andrew Lawton of True North.
00:12:24.460 And, Andrew, you had a great commentary on True North discussing this very issue.
00:12:29.500 And we have seen that politicians, and I think of people like Randy Hillier, Roman Baber, those
00:12:39.120 who speak out against the Ontario policy regarding the lockdowns, well, suddenly cancel culture
00:12:45.960 comes right up into their windshield, doesn't it?
00:12:49.000 Yeah, and it's actually quite shameful.
00:12:52.640 I mean, we've seen in the last several years a number of issues become political hot potatoes,
00:12:57.640 where if you have the wrong opinion of them, it's a cancelable offence.
00:13:01.660 And we've talked about this, you and I, and I know on our respective platforms we have.
00:13:06.160 But we're talking about something really devastating right now, which is that you cannot even speak
00:13:11.660 out in support of reopening, in support of sending people back to work, of letting people live
00:13:16.880 their lives, without that being characterized as a fringe position, and you being then characterized
00:13:21.960 as fringe as well.
00:13:23.600 And as far as all of the, I say political issues, because that's really what it is, as far as
00:13:28.160 all of the political perspectives that have become cancelable, this is one that I find is
00:13:33.700 the most shameful because of the fact that it's actually a majority position.
00:13:37.580 Most people want to live their lives and go back to it.
00:13:40.160 But in politics, it's a slim, slim minority of politicians prepared to say that.
00:13:44.960 Indeed, and you know, Andrew, I want to give a shout out to our mutual friend, Anthony Fury.
00:13:50.160 He had a great column in today's Toronto Sun.
00:13:53.200 It was about a briefing that happened on Monday by the Ontario Science Table.
00:13:58.840 And to me, it was incredible good news because you look at the stats, and there's so many stats,
00:14:04.940 but I think the most important one was that this science table concluded that a whopping 55%
00:14:13.820 of deaths coming from the virus were from long-term care residents.
00:14:21.180 And the number of deaths, and when you look at that as a segment of the population, that's
00:14:26.140 only 0.5%.
00:14:29.180 So we know now, surely, where the, you know, the most vulnerable demographic is, and it
00:14:37.320 only accounts for 0.5%.
00:14:39.140 So why the heck is the economy in still lockdown mode?
00:14:43.260 There's so many arguments to be made that the so-called cure is worse than the curse.
00:14:48.360 One of the big things that I've noticed in all of this is that whenever we've had predictions
00:14:54.380 from, I'll say Ontario specifically, my and your province, they have been flat-out wrong.
00:14:59.820 And I don't just mean, you know, they might just have a bit of a rounding error, but flat-out
00:15:03.260 wrong, oftentimes a literal fraction of what was predicted.
00:15:08.180 Remember, the first modelling we heard said that we would have 100,000 deaths.
00:15:11.920 We were supposed, and that was within the span of a few months from when that was made
00:15:16.080 in, I think it was April of 2020.
00:15:19.220 We've been told that we could be up to 20,000 cases a day by now, and we're actually at less
00:15:24.520 than, or we're at about 1,000.
00:15:26.020 And this whole thing happens in a way that most sensible people would say what Anthony's
00:15:32.620 been saying, what you've been saying, what I've been saying, which is okay, if those numbers
00:15:36.280 are wrong, let's delve into them a bit deeper and say, and ask, where are the risks?
00:15:41.100 And what can we do safely?
00:15:42.400 And who do we need to really protect and target our measures towards?
00:15:46.140 And for the government that says science needs to be at the forefront of its decisions, this
00:15:50.480 is the process they should be doing.
00:15:52.580 But they're not.
00:15:53.540 It's coming from independent media.
00:15:55.080 It's coming from so-called fringe politicians, and that's how it's so maligned.
00:15:59.880 And, you know, Andrew, what's behind this?
00:16:01.940 Because my take on this, my friend, is that before this pandemic took root, I didn't know
00:16:07.720 who the various chief medical officers were in the city, in the province, federally.
00:16:12.920 I didn't know the name of Eileen Davila and David Williams and Teresa Tam.
00:16:18.700 And now these are almost household names.
00:16:21.180 They're almost like celebrities.
00:16:22.960 And yet these are unelected, non-accountable people that are completely immune to any kind
00:16:29.320 of financial hurt from a lockdown.
00:16:32.080 They haven't suffered a nickel's worth of salary being deducted.
00:16:34.920 They haven't been laid off.
00:16:36.740 And it seems that our elected leaders are beholden to these people and almost using their
00:16:42.580 advice as an excuse of why the economies must remain in lockdown.
00:16:48.340 Well, just look, David.
00:16:49.460 Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, got an Emmy out of his press briefings.
00:16:53.600 In B.C., the chief medical officer of health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, got a book deal out of it.
00:16:58.320 So she's a medical officer who's actually got time to write a book throughout this pandemic.
00:17:03.120 And listen, what we're seeing here is, I think, twofold.
00:17:07.080 Number one, I believe there are genuine risks.
00:17:09.740 There are public safety risks that are inherent in the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:17:13.560 And I think that what government doesn't want people doing is taking it upon themselves to
00:17:18.820 start deciding, well, I think this is safe.
00:17:20.980 I think this isn't.
00:17:21.740 So they end up with this one size fits all position.
00:17:24.380 But the problem with that is that it delegitimizes all of their advice when they're proven to be wrong
00:17:29.960 on their numbers so people don't actually pay attention.
00:17:33.120 People don't listen to them.
00:17:34.280 When the government was saying, well, don't do masks, they make things worse.
00:17:37.960 And then do masks and now double mask and triple mask.
00:17:41.040 And by this time next year, we might be at the hazmat suit phase of it.
00:17:44.380 Who knows?
00:17:45.100 When they do these flip flops, all they do is force sensible people who aren't themselves
00:17:49.980 experts to just say, well, all right, I'm just too confused by it.
00:17:53.620 And that, I think, is a big risk here.
00:17:55.600 So government is trying to use simple, easily understood solutions.
00:17:59.680 But to do that, they have to go to the lowest common denominator, which means the least
00:18:03.720 possible freedom.
00:18:05.140 And I think, too, it's a matter of CYA.
00:18:08.160 Cover your arse, too, Andrew.
00:18:11.200 If there were continued case counts, continued deaths coming in, someone like a Premier Ford
00:18:16.660 could say, well, you know, don't blame me.
00:18:19.440 I did all I could.
00:18:20.440 I shut down the economy, even though I'm a super free market person.
00:18:23.580 So I think there's a little bit of that, too.
00:18:25.560 But going back to your original premise, it's so sad when you see the likes of a Roman
00:18:29.900 Baber, Randy Hillier, Belinda Carajolios get kicked out of caucus when they dare to speak
00:18:38.560 differently than the politically correct mandated strategy when it comes to the lockdowns.
00:18:45.100 And I thought it was very interesting you flagged David Sweet of the Canadian, of the Conservative
00:18:50.820 Party of Canada, rather.
00:18:51.820 He spoke out against it.
00:18:53.540 But this is someone really with no skin in the game in terms of repercussions.
00:18:57.900 As you mentioned, he's not running in the next election.
00:19:00.720 And I thought Aaron O'Toole's response to Mr. Sweet, it was pathetic, Andrew.
00:19:08.060 It was.
00:19:08.880 And I read this in my video.
00:19:10.640 I don't have the exact text handy.
00:19:12.400 So if you do, perhaps you can put it up.
00:19:13.980 But the part of it that stood out was him basically saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, yeah, we're
00:19:19.600 a year into this.
00:19:20.340 I get why people are frustrated.
00:19:21.500 But that's no excuse to lash out in counterproductive ways.
00:19:25.540 So he was basically inferring that by speaking against lockdowns, which is, to be honest, the
00:19:31.320 definition of productivity, of wanting people to get back to work.
00:19:34.160 But by speaking against lockdowns, you're just being counterproductive, basically accusing
00:19:38.520 David Sweet of demagoguery for saying that he wants his constituents to be able to keep
00:19:43.280 their jobs.
00:19:43.920 When, just to put that in context, this week, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce found that
00:19:47.820 51% of Canadian businesses don't know if they'll be able to last to the end of the year.
00:19:52.640 That is a shocking statistic, especially since those are the remaining businesses, Andrew,
00:19:58.260 that they pulled.
00:19:58.980 Yeah, you're right.
00:20:00.360 There's some survivor bias there, because these are the ones that survived lockdown 1.0,
00:20:04.700 and half of them basically are saying, I don't know.
00:20:08.180 And sure, a lot of them will, maybe most will.
00:20:10.360 But the fact that there's that much uncertainty means that this should not be a fringe position
00:20:14.560 we're talking about here.
00:20:15.720 So, Andrew, one last question.
00:20:17.940 It's a crystal ball question.
00:20:19.820 You know, you go to jurisdictions like Florida.
00:20:21.760 It's a different world.
00:20:23.160 I mean, you can sit down.
00:20:24.260 You see people walking around without masks, congregating at beaches, you name it.
00:20:28.080 Heck, in February, 25,000 people in Tampa Bay to take in the Super Bowl.
00:20:33.840 What I'm asking is that regardless of the cowardice level that we have with our elected representatives
00:20:40.800 of every political stripe, of every level here in Canada, when or when do you think we can
00:20:46.540 do things like, I don't know, go to a rock concert, get into a jam-packed restaurant again,
00:20:51.380 go to a sporting event, when is the cherished old normal going to come back?
00:20:57.700 Well, at this point, it doesn't look like there ever will be one.
00:21:00.580 And I know that's a very depressing position to put forward.
00:21:03.260 And I'm sorry about that because I'm bothered by it as well.
00:21:06.660 But we already have Patty Hajdu, the health minister, saying that vaccine passports are
00:21:11.480 on the radar for discussion among G7 countries.
00:21:14.120 And even if Canada were to decide against a vaccine passport, any destination Canadians
00:21:18.980 might want to go to may have a requirement of one.
00:21:22.340 And for us to even imagine that there is going to be any such thing as the old normal, this
00:21:27.320 is a 9-11 caliber event where all of these things that we once took for granted are reshaped
00:21:32.800 and remade in the image of COVID, despite the fact that the threat will have, for the most
00:21:37.540 part, passed.
00:21:39.060 You know, I fear you might be right, Andrew.
00:21:41.500 The Ontario Science Table data should have been cause for celebration with medical health
00:21:48.180 officials.
00:21:48.820 Instead, I see the likes of Dr. David Williams, Eileen Davila.
00:21:52.620 They're not celebrating at all.
00:21:54.460 They seem to be of the mindset that until we have 100% vaccination and until the virus is
00:22:02.160 100% eradicated, we can't go back to the old normal.
00:22:05.780 And those two things are never going to happen, my friend.
00:22:08.640 So maybe what you just said is a prophecy that unfortunately might come true.
00:22:14.540 Yeah, I fear to say it.
00:22:15.860 And like I said, it brings me no joy.
00:22:17.500 I would love to be wrong about this, but the optimism is waning.
00:22:20.740 Okay.
00:22:21.260 Well, Andrew, thank you so much for joining me here on the Ezreal Event Show and keep fighting
00:22:25.780 for freedom, my friend.
00:22:27.120 Anytime, David.
00:22:28.200 Fantastic.
00:22:29.000 And that was Andrew Lawton with True North.
00:22:31.420 Keep it here.
00:22:32.180 More of the Ezreal Event Show to come right after this.
00:22:35.780 Well, folks, that's the show for tonight.
00:22:47.880 Thank you so much for watching.
00:22:49.160 And as Ezra always says, keep fighting for freedom.
00:22:52.980 Thank you.
00:23:07.160 Thank you.