Rebel News Podcast - November 22, 2019


Prosecuted for being rudeļ¼š British Columbia's socialist government wants to ticket ā€œhatefulā€ behaviour


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

163.65002

Word Count

4,575

Sentence Count

378

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

A B.C. politician wants police to have the power to give you a ticket if you say something rude or hateful, or he s not even sure what he just knows he wants to ticket you. That s coming up in a moment on The Ezra Levant Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. In today's podcast, I tell you about a B.C. politician who wants police to have
00:00:05.160 the power to give you a ticket if you say something rude or hateful or he's not even sure what. He
00:00:12.160 just knows he wants to ticket you. That's coming up in a moment. But before I give you that podcast,
00:00:17.900 let me invite you to become a premium member of The Rebel. Just go to premium.rebelnews.com
00:00:24.780 and it's eight bucks a month. You get the video version of this podcast. Okay, here's today's
00:00:31.720 podcast. Tonight, it's official. The government is going to prosecute you if you're rude. Can we do
00:00:52.820 the same to them? It's November 21st and this is The Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail
00:01:00.700 when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give
00:01:05.980 them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because
00:01:11.200 it's my bloody right to do so. You know it's not against the law to be rude, right? And it's not
00:01:22.360 against the law to be wrong. I think that's really important even though we all want to be right,
00:01:27.840 not wrong. And we usually don't want to be rude unless there's a really good reason. Because
00:01:32.740 sometimes rudeness is appropriate. And even if it's not, it's still our right to express ourselves and
00:01:37.780 maybe being rude has its uses. Can I give you an example? In 1968, a 19-year-old California hippie
00:01:46.580 named Paul Cohen wore a shirt into a courthouse with the words, I'm going to swear here,
00:01:54.300 fuck the draft written on it. I've told you this story once before at Sun News. So this teenage hippie,
00:02:00.940 I mean 1968 was the peak hippie year of all time. I mean you had revolutions around the world,
00:02:07.440 protests everywhere, Vietnam, etc. So this teenage hippie wants to get in on it in Los Angeles.
00:02:14.660 So he wore this into a court and he was arrested for disturbing the peace, for wearing that shirt.
00:02:23.160 Now the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which finally ruled on the matter in 1971.
00:02:29.800 And the court said that t-shirt was protected speech and specifically the swear word itself.
00:02:39.240 One man's vulgarity is another's lyric, the court ruled.
00:02:46.200 It wasn't just the court's way of saying that everyone has a different standard of what's rude.
00:02:50.680 The court said that being rude actually had value.
00:02:56.600 Because had Cohen just worn a shirt that said something like,
00:03:00.060 excuse me, but I politely object to the draft, it would have had a different meaning.
00:03:06.420 It would have been less urgent, less desperate, less passionate, right?
00:03:10.580 Now you don't have to like it.
00:03:12.800 In fact, I think that's the point. I think you're supposed to be bothered by it.
00:03:18.080 But that's what free speech means.
00:03:19.500 You can have a rude shirt and not go to jail over it.
00:03:24.200 Now that was a long time ago when the left cared about free speech
00:03:29.260 because they were using free speech to bash the right, or what they considered the right.
00:03:35.160 American power, the American military, American wars, whatever.
00:03:38.820 Well, fast forward 50 years and the left has the power now.
00:03:42.560 They got it in part by using free speech so they don't really like free speech anymore.
00:03:47.200 At least they don't really need it anymore and they don't want their critics to use it.
00:03:51.160 Look at this story. Look at this story out of British Columbia.
00:03:53.220 B.C. government looking into fines for people who engage in racist behavior.
00:04:00.100 The B.C. government is looking into whether people who engage in racist behavior can be ticketed.
00:04:05.400 Delta North NDP MLA Ravi Kallon has sent a letter to Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth
00:04:11.040 formally requesting the province look into what powers the province has to crack down on racist and hateful behavior.
00:04:18.500 Can you believe that?
00:04:19.660 The Public Safety Minister, that's someone who's supposed to be in charge of counterterrorism,
00:04:25.680 counter-extremism, border security, that sort of thing.
00:04:29.020 Maybe even organized crime, of which British Columbia has quite a lot.
00:04:32.820 But mean words are what's important to the socialist government out there.
00:04:38.680 That's what the Public Security Minister is going to look into.
00:04:40.580 I understand that some jurisdictions have implemented new, non-criminal sanctions to deter this behavior,
00:04:48.680 such as ticketing, the letter reads.
00:04:51.160 I would be grateful if your ministry could determine what options might be available to better deter perpetrators.
00:04:55.580 What jurisdictions are those? Iran? North Korea? Get this.
00:05:02.220 Kallon has been traveling the province to meet with people about hate and racism in B.C.
00:05:09.020 Really? Is that what he's doing?
00:05:11.520 He's literally going around the province whipping up divisions.
00:05:15.240 Let's talk about hate, everybody.
00:05:16.540 B.C. is one of the most racially diverse provinces.
00:05:20.280 There are entire municipalities that are majority-minority, like the city of Richmond.
00:05:25.420 But he's claiming somehow there's some sort of systemic racism.
00:05:30.940 Kallon himself, that's him there, is proof of that.
00:05:35.240 He was born in B.C.
00:05:37.400 Absolutely no barriers to his meteoric rise.
00:05:40.460 He was a sports hero, you know.
00:05:42.660 He actually went to the Olympics.
00:05:43.760 Now he's an elected politician in high office.
00:05:47.320 Sorry, you can't have that kind of a charmed life in a hateful, racist place.
00:05:53.540 It's just not true.
00:05:55.120 He's proof it's not true.
00:05:56.540 It's super gross to me that he's trying to whip that up where there is none.
00:06:00.880 It's like Hetty Fry, remember 20-odd years ago,
00:06:03.720 claiming there were literally crosses burning as we speak in Prince George,
00:06:07.540 which just was not true.
00:06:09.480 The letter, quotes the story,
00:06:14.760 comes as communities have noticed a rise in groups like the Soldiers of Odin
00:06:18.300 and the Yellow Vest Movement,
00:06:20.440 which drew criticism for attracting some members of the far right.
00:06:24.820 People are afraid in their communities.
00:06:27.040 They know that these hate groups are organizing in communities,
00:06:30.480 Kallon said in an interview.
00:06:31.660 My request to the Solicitor General was to do a scan of what other jurisdictions are doing
00:06:37.720 to address public hate speech.
00:06:39.740 Really?
00:06:41.880 The Yellow Vest Movement is scaring people?
00:06:45.600 The far right?
00:06:47.120 You know what the Yellow Vest Movement is about.
00:06:49.720 It started in France.
00:06:51.080 It's against the carbon tax there.
00:06:53.040 People who are against carbon tax, is that the far right and the hate group?
00:06:56.600 What does that even mean?
00:06:57.600 The Soldiers of Odin, I've heard of them.
00:06:59.540 That's what, 10 guys in leather jackets, half of whom are undercover cops?
00:07:04.680 Out of a province of 5 million people?
00:07:07.100 Yeah, sorry, that's not a thing.
00:07:10.320 They're making an issue here.
00:07:13.040 Several communities also expressed concern to Kallon
00:07:15.160 that new hate groups are establishing themselves in B.C.
00:07:17.720 and are seeking legitimacy by registering as societies under the Societies Act.
00:07:22.340 To address that, Kallon is asking the B.C. government
00:07:25.040 to speak to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
00:07:28.060 about ensuring B.C. is doing everything possible
00:07:30.580 to prevent the growth of these groups.
00:07:34.360 What groups?
00:07:36.980 What is a hate group?
00:07:38.280 And should they be banned from incorporating as a society?
00:07:41.200 I know what a banned group is in Canada.
00:07:44.080 We have a list of them, actually.
00:07:46.360 Here's a list right here.
00:07:47.480 It's basically a list of terrorist groups.
00:07:51.620 Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram.
00:07:57.840 It's a list that the Department of Public Safety publishes.
00:08:00.520 You can see it.
00:08:01.520 Mainly Muslim terrorist groups.
00:08:03.180 It won't surprise you to learn.
00:08:05.080 But they're not hate groups.
00:08:06.600 Hate.
00:08:07.400 Yeah, they're hateful, but hate's not what put them on the list.
00:08:10.080 It's not illegal to hate.
00:08:12.560 Hate's a natural human emotion.
00:08:15.020 What gets you on the list is when you become criminal, violent,
00:08:18.260 terrorist violence, organized crime.
00:08:19.760 That's something different.
00:08:22.120 What on earth does it mean to want to ban people, for example,
00:08:25.320 who wear yellow vests from organizing?
00:08:29.560 That's not even an official thing.
00:08:32.180 It's just a symbol anyone could wear.
00:08:34.240 It's like wearing those pussy hats at a women's march.
00:08:37.500 Is that a hate symbol?
00:08:38.980 What are you going to do?
00:08:39.720 Ban pink hats?
00:08:41.320 I don't even understand what they're really trying to do,
00:08:44.780 but boy, are they trying to do something.
00:08:46.980 Ticketing people for hate, they say?
00:08:49.700 Does that include off-color jokes?
00:08:52.080 Does it include mean words?
00:08:54.620 Like the N word for blacks.
00:08:56.500 I would never say that word.
00:08:57.560 It's a terrible word.
00:08:59.120 But I actually hear that word every day
00:09:01.120 because I listen to the radio,
00:09:03.420 and there's rap music on the radio,
00:09:04.780 and I hear that word a lot.
00:09:06.060 Is there a special exemption for that word in rap songs,
00:09:11.000 or does it depend on who says it?
00:09:12.880 What words are banned, and what words aren't?
00:09:15.820 Are we going to give that power to politicians?
00:09:17.380 If you are of a certain race,
00:09:19.260 can you make fun of that race?
00:09:21.120 If you're of a certain religion,
00:09:22.480 can you criticize your own religion?
00:09:24.400 And is that the only people who can?
00:09:26.340 Why are we even talking about this,
00:09:28.900 other than some authoritarian extremist
00:09:31.580 wants more power over what you can do or say?
00:09:34.280 Look at this insanity.
00:09:36.740 It's not just that one MLA.
00:09:38.660 This is from the same B.C. New Democrat Party.
00:09:41.800 It's another MLA there.
00:09:45.360 Many people in my community are voicing their fear
00:09:48.560 that civilization is once again teetering
00:09:52.940 on the brink of violent upheaval.
00:09:56.180 Really? In B.C.? Is that what's going on?
00:09:59.960 It is unnerving how much of what is happening
00:10:02.760 around the world today resembles
00:10:04.020 what we now know is taking root in Germany and Italy
00:10:06.580 almost 100 years ago.
00:10:07.800 The deliberate spread of misinformation,
00:10:09.960 the systemic degradation of political discourse,
00:10:12.960 rhetoric that portrayed life as a dog-eat-dog struggle
00:10:15.280 in which one could only gain at the expense of another,
00:10:17.720 and the fanning of the flames of regional
00:10:19.480 and national grievance,
00:10:21.340 all creating a sense of crisis
00:10:22.800 that encouraged citizens to voluntarily
00:10:24.740 hand over their freedoms to demagogues
00:10:26.380 in exchange for the promise of predictable order and safety.
00:10:29.060 Wow.
00:10:32.000 Did you know we're on the edge of another world war
00:10:36.120 in British Columbia, a dog-eat-dog struggle?
00:10:39.420 So did you catch that word?
00:10:41.660 She wants to crack down on disinformation.
00:10:44.680 That's what she said, which means censorship,
00:10:46.940 which is funny because she said,
00:10:48.060 oh, they gave up their liberties too easily
00:10:50.120 to some demagogic politicians,
00:10:52.320 but that's what she's doing here.
00:10:56.640 She's spreading disinformation.
00:10:58.240 Oh my God, we're on the brink of a civil war,
00:11:00.020 so let us control the disinformation.
00:11:02.640 I think she has,
00:11:04.560 I think she should look in the mirror.
00:11:06.820 It's so weird, but this is the new narrative.
00:11:08.620 And look at this.
00:11:09.340 Look at this from the state broadcaster.
00:11:12.660 In case you missed it,
00:11:14.220 we're launching a new series called
00:11:15.980 Civil Obedience.
00:11:19.200 We'll be highlighting politicians
00:11:21.680 who champion civility.
00:11:24.140 Does your MP beat back partisanship?
00:11:26.740 Do you have a story about politicians
00:11:28.240 working across the aisle?
00:11:29.720 Let us know who you think we should feature.
00:11:32.320 Love you.
00:11:34.980 Civil Obedience.
00:11:37.660 Now I know what civil disobedience means.
00:11:39.460 It means you're a critic of the government
00:11:41.020 and you make your protest peacefully.
00:11:42.940 Even if you break the rules,
00:11:44.700 you're peaceful, you're nonviolent,
00:11:46.120 you're like Gandhi.
00:11:46.940 Passive resistance is what he called it.
00:11:51.440 But then CBC's state broadcaster,
00:11:54.260 just weeks after Trudeau's re-election,
00:11:56.800 is counseling,
00:11:57.480 hey guys,
00:11:59.360 obedience.
00:12:01.220 Civil obedience.
00:12:02.580 Don't even use mean words
00:12:03.960 towards the government people.
00:12:05.400 We're going to celebrate an opposition
00:12:07.000 that doesn't really oppose.
00:12:08.680 The state broadcaster is telling
00:12:10.520 the people to be obedient.
00:12:13.900 And if you're not,
00:12:16.740 maybe you'll get a ticket for hate.
00:12:19.760 Especially if you're wearing a yellow vest.
00:12:22.080 They'll probably even give a ticket
00:12:23.980 to these guys.
00:12:25.140 This is just a stock photo.
00:12:26.800 But you know who wears yellow vests?
00:12:29.360 People doing something hateful.
00:12:32.900 Like building an oil pipeline.
00:12:36.220 Stay with us for more.
00:12:37.280 Welcome back.
00:12:50.080 Well, I see news from the United States
00:12:52.620 that for the first time ever,
00:12:55.760 the United States accepted zero refugees last month.
00:13:00.620 It's part of Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration.
00:13:03.260 Well, in Canada,
00:13:04.520 the Trudeau government has been re-elected
00:13:06.480 in part on a pledge to increase immigration
00:13:10.340 to 340,000 people per year,
00:13:14.180 most of whom are not economic class immigrants.
00:13:17.660 They're either refugees
00:13:19.140 or grandpas and grandmas
00:13:21.140 coming to join their kids here.
00:13:23.900 What happens when these refugees
00:13:26.160 can't get a toehold in the economy,
00:13:28.580 don't speak English,
00:13:29.600 can't get a job?
00:13:30.920 Well, in Toronto,
00:13:32.880 it seems they're put up
00:13:34.020 in a million-dollar-a-month
00:13:37.500 makeshift refugee center.
00:13:41.080 And joining us now
00:13:41.980 is a reporter who has toured that center,
00:13:44.820 our good friend Sue Ann Levy
00:13:46.380 from the Toronto Sun.
00:13:47.280 Sue Ann Levy.
00:13:47.400 Hi.
00:13:47.580 It's such a great thing to see you again.
00:13:49.320 Welcome.
00:13:49.440 Nice to see you.
00:13:50.580 Well, I follow your stories
00:13:53.040 about homelessness,
00:13:54.980 some of the troubles in Toronto,
00:13:56.340 and refugees.
00:13:57.000 And you write about things
00:14:00.260 that every reporter knows,
00:14:02.860 but many are afraid to say.
00:14:05.200 It's tough covering refugees,
00:14:08.040 homelessness, and things like that
00:14:10.020 without being called names, isn't it?
00:14:11.840 Oh, I've been called every name in the book,
00:14:13.800 racist and bigot,
00:14:14.740 the most recent ones,
00:14:16.280 particularly when I cover refugees.
00:14:18.680 And the other thing that people don't know
00:14:20.720 and your audience should know
00:14:21.860 is that the people at City Hall
00:14:25.880 and the shelter providers
00:14:27.720 have thrown me out,
00:14:29.660 have gone out of their way
00:14:30.920 not to answer my questions,
00:14:32.760 to avoid my questions,
00:14:34.500 and to not give me information.
00:14:36.140 In fact, going so far as to offer
00:14:38.540 tours and selective stories
00:14:43.000 or advanced stories to other media
00:14:45.720 to try and get back at me
00:14:47.880 for covering this sort of stuff.
00:14:49.120 Well, I recently saw
00:14:51.000 that you visited a shelter,
00:14:54.080 and this is just for foreign refugees,
00:14:56.460 am I right?
00:14:56.700 Right.
00:14:56.880 It's not for Canadian homeless.
00:14:58.000 Mostly from Nigeria.
00:14:59.700 And what's so strange
00:15:01.760 is it's in a former office building,
00:15:05.140 and we'll show some images of it here.
00:15:07.140 You brought a cameraman in,
00:15:08.560 and it seemed like
00:15:09.320 they were showing you around.
00:15:10.620 They wanted to show this place off.
00:15:12.200 It looks very much
00:15:14.660 almost like a museum,
00:15:15.820 like everything is so...
00:15:17.120 Tell us a little bit
00:15:19.360 about this former office
00:15:21.860 that is now being used
00:15:23.380 as a million-dollar-a-month refugee center.
00:15:26.860 Tell me a little bit about it.
00:15:27.920 So it's a former
00:15:28.820 North York Hydro Building.
00:15:30.680 It was bought by some condo developers
00:15:32.680 about a year ago
00:15:33.640 for $122 million.
00:15:36.420 The city,
00:15:37.460 I first discovered
00:15:39.320 the potential for it to be used
00:15:41.720 back in February of this year
00:15:44.240 when I saw a small line item
00:15:45.900 in the 2019 budget
00:15:47.480 that said $3 million contingency
00:15:50.040 had been set aside
00:15:51.140 for 5,800 Yonge Street
00:15:53.040 to house refugees.
00:15:55.580 They actually said that in the budget.
00:15:57.300 So my mind flipped,
00:15:58.560 and I went and looked at the address,
00:16:00.020 saw that it was the building.
00:16:01.560 Well, the building sat vacant
00:16:02.920 for the entire year.
00:16:04.600 I did find out
00:16:05.320 that they were looking at it
00:16:06.360 as a contingency space.
00:16:08.040 It sat vacant
00:16:09.080 until I heard rumors
00:16:10.260 a couple weeks ago
00:16:11.100 that they were actually
00:16:11.800 going to activate it
00:16:12.900 and make it into a shelter
00:16:14.500 for 200 people.
00:16:16.160 Well, that's what's so strange
00:16:17.500 is, I mean,
00:16:17.940 we've sent our own
00:16:19.400 David Menzies,
00:16:20.220 and I know you covered it too.
00:16:21.700 There's a Radisson Hotel
00:16:22.840 in eastern Toronto,
00:16:24.340 and the whole hotel
00:16:25.480 is full of refugees,
00:16:27.860 which, I mean,
00:16:28.920 that's not really a good way
00:16:30.080 to keep people
00:16:30.740 on a long-term basis.
00:16:31.880 A hotel,
00:16:32.920 there's no room
00:16:33.600 to stretch your legs.
00:16:34.520 It's not meant for kids.
00:16:35.820 It's meant, you know,
00:16:37.020 you're in town to do business,
00:16:38.320 you're there for a few days.
00:16:39.400 But at least a hotel
00:16:40.780 is meant for people
00:16:42.920 to sleep there.
00:16:43.640 The idea of putting people
00:16:45.200 in an office building
00:16:46.740 is so weird.
00:16:49.020 It's not a sensible use
00:16:51.280 of the place.
00:16:51.880 It's not built for it.
00:16:53.240 It's huge, too.
00:16:54.220 There's a lot of space,
00:16:56.220 and, I mean,
00:16:57.040 there's a lot of light,
00:16:57.900 so that's a good thing.
00:16:59.160 But, you know,
00:16:59.840 the interesting thing is
00:17:00.920 that these are not
00:17:01.940 the refugees
00:17:02.520 that are in the hotels.
00:17:03.660 At first, I thought
00:17:04.400 that they were going
00:17:05.000 to be offloaded
00:17:05.780 from the hotel system.
00:17:07.000 Well, no.
00:17:07.600 Forget about that.
00:17:08.380 These are single refugees,
00:17:11.060 male and female,
00:17:11.920 more female than male,
00:17:13.600 that have been
00:17:14.180 in the shelter system
00:17:15.460 that have occupied
00:17:16.620 40% of the space
00:17:17.980 in the shelter system.
00:17:18.760 So these were people
00:17:19.660 who were in
00:17:20.460 the homeless shelters.
00:17:21.580 Yes.
00:17:21.880 They've been taken
00:17:22.360 out of the homeless shelters
00:17:23.180 and put here.
00:17:24.220 Yes.
00:17:24.500 I didn't know that we,
00:17:25.680 I thought that Trudeau
00:17:26.760 had said we weren't
00:17:27.560 taking single refugees.
00:17:28.980 I guess he was referring
00:17:29.720 to Syria.
00:17:30.400 So these are single guys,
00:17:31.940 and you say they're
00:17:32.500 from Nigeria?
00:17:33.720 Mostly Nigeria.
00:17:34.660 I didn't know
00:17:35.080 there weren't refugees
00:17:35.760 from Nigeria.
00:17:36.640 Well, mostly Nigeria.
00:17:37.700 I think they're
00:17:38.700 asylum seekers,
00:17:39.780 most of them.
00:17:40.760 There's 120 women
00:17:42.120 going into the shelter
00:17:43.060 and 80 men.
00:17:44.420 So...
00:17:44.720 I mean, Nigeria,
00:17:45.800 I mean, I wouldn't
00:17:46.560 choose to live there,
00:17:47.280 but it's one of the world's
00:17:48.280 most populous countries.
00:17:50.420 If we're saying
00:17:51.100 that Nigeria is now
00:17:52.400 a source of refugees,
00:17:53.720 first of all,
00:17:54.120 that's strange to me,
00:17:54.920 and second of all,
00:17:55.640 there's far more people
00:17:57.940 in Nigeria than Canada.
00:17:59.220 This is very unusual,
00:18:00.360 it seems.
00:18:01.100 But the crazy thing
00:18:02.040 about this,
00:18:02.480 and I can't get over it,
00:18:03.900 is, and you can see
00:18:04.740 this in your video,
00:18:06.440 it really is an office.
00:18:07.860 It's not...
00:18:08.740 Like, they've just
00:18:09.760 cleared out some debt.
00:18:11.000 I mean, it seems
00:18:11.680 so inefficient,
00:18:12.880 and what I can't believe
00:18:14.080 is, and you did
00:18:15.680 the reporting here,
00:18:17.600 they're spending,
00:18:18.620 you know,
00:18:20.080 $45,000 a month
00:18:22.060 just for heat
00:18:23.340 and light.
00:18:24.800 Yeah.
00:18:25.020 The total bill,
00:18:26.520 I can't even believe this,
00:18:28.260 a million dollars a month,
00:18:30.500 and I did the math.
00:18:31.520 You see,
00:18:32.020 there's 120 women
00:18:33.320 and 80 men in there,
00:18:34.220 so that's 200 people.
00:18:35.380 Right.
00:18:36.520 A million a month,
00:18:37.820 that's $5,000 a month
00:18:40.260 per person.
00:18:42.040 Yeah.
00:18:42.220 That is a luxury condo.
00:18:44.740 That is a big house,
00:18:46.200 $5,000 rent.
00:18:47.840 Yeah.
00:18:48.180 That is a nice,
00:18:49.640 and Toronto's expensive,
00:18:50.940 but you can get a nice house
00:18:52.260 for $5,000 a month.
00:18:54.060 Well, you know what
00:18:54.640 the expensive thing is,
00:18:55.680 the per diem.
00:18:56.640 So, it costs $140 a night,
00:18:59.260 or the city is paying $140 a night
00:19:01.560 to house these people,
00:19:03.280 over and above the rent
00:19:05.820 and the heat and light.
00:19:08.040 So, $140 would go towards
00:19:10.220 their beds,
00:19:11.520 their three meals a day,
00:19:12.880 which are being catered
00:19:13.960 and brought in,
00:19:15.020 snacks,
00:19:16.320 and the support services
00:19:17.540 and the security services.
00:19:19.140 There's a heck of a lot of staff.
00:19:20.440 So, that's,
00:19:21.400 so you're saying
00:19:22.400 there's the rent.
00:19:23.540 Yes.
00:19:23.820 But then there's
00:19:25.020 all the services.
00:19:26.300 It's like,
00:19:26.860 I mean,
00:19:27.340 you know,
00:19:27.660 I live next to
00:19:29.900 a senior's residence.
00:19:31.420 Right.
00:19:31.840 Where they get the room
00:19:33.540 and they get their food
00:19:34.480 and the snacks.
00:19:35.500 I bet there's a lot
00:19:36.300 of Canadians that,
00:19:37.860 seniors,
00:19:39.480 disabled folks,
00:19:40.820 who would say,
00:19:41.520 hey,
00:19:42.220 excuse me,
00:19:43.220 can I get a bed,
00:19:45.200 three meals a day,
00:19:46.280 snacks,
00:19:46.820 and security?
00:19:47.700 Well,
00:19:47.840 you should see the shelter.
00:19:48.820 They've got computer rooms.
00:19:50.860 They've set aside rooms
00:19:51.940 for prayer
00:19:52.540 if these people need to pray.
00:19:54.500 And they've got
00:19:55.420 a common area
00:19:56.840 with a huge
00:19:58.140 widescreen TV.
00:19:59.660 I mean,
00:20:00.040 it was actually
00:20:01.060 pretty inviting.
00:20:02.480 Well,
00:20:02.720 I mean,
00:20:03.100 considering it was
00:20:03.320 an office building.
00:20:04.500 Well,
00:20:05.080 it's just weird
00:20:05.960 that it's in an office building
00:20:07.160 and a million dollars
00:20:08.340 a month.
00:20:08.860 I mean,
00:20:09.400 Well,
00:20:09.600 this is,
00:20:09.960 the city is so desperate
00:20:10.760 for space.
00:20:11.780 They don't know
00:20:12.180 where to put these people.
00:20:13.740 They've got shelter space
00:20:14.920 that's being occupied
00:20:15.860 by refugees.
00:20:17.380 The flow of refugees
00:20:19.580 has continued unabated.
00:20:21.120 I found that out.
00:20:21.860 Well,
00:20:22.080 I mean,
00:20:22.320 at the border crossing,
00:20:23.560 they just walk right in.
00:20:24.740 I mean,
00:20:24.940 there's a big sign
00:20:25.580 that says the word
00:20:26.220 illegal on it.
00:20:27.660 Like,
00:20:28.000 the sign says illegal.
00:20:29.700 Yeah.
00:20:30.100 But,
00:20:31.260 there's officers
00:20:33.220 that are ready
00:20:33.780 to literally
00:20:34.440 carry the luggage across.
00:20:36.440 Exactly.
00:20:37.020 So it,
00:20:37.640 And their space,
00:20:38.460 they even told me
00:20:39.380 that there's space
00:20:40.080 under the beds
00:20:40.900 for their little suitcases
00:20:42.020 that we see
00:20:42.600 or their big suitcases
00:20:43.540 that we see
00:20:44.060 when they cross the border.
00:20:45.580 So these are people,
00:20:47.100 you know.
00:20:47.480 So is that where
00:20:47.960 these folks are coming from?
00:20:48.880 They weren't brought in
00:20:49.720 officially.
00:20:50.500 A lot of them perhaps
00:20:51.280 came across that border
00:20:52.260 in Quebec?
00:20:52.800 Well,
00:20:52.980 they'll never tell you that.
00:20:53.720 They'll never tell you.
00:20:54.400 They will never tell you that.
00:20:55.880 But the thing is
00:20:56.920 that they're all singles.
00:20:57.860 I do know that.
00:20:58.820 And I know that
00:20:59.480 they have been
00:20:59.900 in the shelter system
00:21:00.780 for however long.
00:21:02.060 Some for three months,
00:21:03.300 some for longer.
00:21:04.720 But,
00:21:05.300 you know,
00:21:05.680 I did find out
00:21:06.440 that a lot of them
00:21:07.060 speak English
00:21:07.620 and they are going to
00:21:08.540 try and find them jobs
00:21:09.620 and rehouse them.
00:21:11.040 But,
00:21:11.360 you know,
00:21:11.600 it's hard to get
00:21:12.300 the actual figures
00:21:13.360 as to the turnaround.
00:21:15.520 Well,
00:21:15.740 I tell you,
00:21:16.200 and it certainly
00:21:17.140 sounds like,
00:21:18.920 I mean,
00:21:19.600 if you hadn't spotted
00:21:20.800 that line item
00:21:21.700 in the budget,
00:21:22.920 we wouldn't even know
00:21:23.840 about this.
00:21:24.480 And maybe that's one
00:21:25.360 of the reasons
00:21:25.740 they have it here
00:21:26.620 is low-key,
00:21:27.980 no one even knows about it.
00:21:28.480 Well,
00:21:28.520 the neighborhood
00:21:28.920 was caught
00:21:29.640 pleating by surprise
00:21:30.700 and I might add
00:21:31.360 that they're having
00:21:33.140 an open house
00:21:34.060 tonight,
00:21:34.580 Thursday night,
00:21:35.300 November 21st.
00:21:37.120 But,
00:21:37.920 it was supposed
00:21:38.880 to be a consultation
00:21:39.740 but it's not a consultation.
00:21:40.980 Because it's done,
00:21:41.620 it's made a complete.
00:21:42.080 So basically people
00:21:43.340 can come and find out
00:21:44.380 how good this place
00:21:46.060 is for the neighborhood.
00:21:47.280 That's what's going
00:21:47.920 to happen.
00:21:48.160 Well,
00:21:48.300 that's the thing.
00:21:48.920 I mean,
00:21:50.480 120 single gals,
00:21:52.900 80 single guys.
00:21:54.160 Yeah.
00:21:54.520 I mean,
00:21:55.020 who knows,
00:21:55.420 maybe they'll have
00:21:55.920 a love match.
00:21:57.340 Dances.
00:21:57.900 Yeah,
00:21:58.040 maybe they'll have
00:21:58.860 like a romance
00:22:00.500 under the sea
00:22:01.360 dance night
00:22:02.080 with them
00:22:02.620 and DJs.
00:22:03.280 I'm joking around.
00:22:04.000 I know,
00:22:04.340 it's like a cruise ship
00:22:05.320 in some ways.
00:22:06.200 It sort of is.
00:22:06.880 Who knows,
00:22:07.260 maybe they'll make
00:22:07.920 I don't mean to make
00:22:09.480 light of it.
00:22:10.220 Maybe people will find love.
00:22:11.560 It's stranger things
00:22:13.540 have happened
00:22:14.000 but obviously
00:22:14.700 they're not going to sit
00:22:15.760 around in this office
00:22:17.040 all day.
00:22:18.200 So,
00:22:18.460 I mean,
00:22:18.680 I don't know
00:22:19.260 off the top of my hand
00:22:20.240 5800 Yonge Street
00:22:21.660 sounds like it's
00:22:22.260 fairly far north.
00:22:23.600 It's north of Finch.
00:22:24.420 So is there anything
00:22:25.080 around there?
00:22:26.400 Well,
00:22:26.680 they said that
00:22:27.240 they've scoped out,
00:22:28.200 they call it
00:22:28.560 the assets
00:22:29.160 of the neighborhood.
00:22:30.240 So they know
00:22:31.240 where the coffee shops
00:22:32.280 are and they know
00:22:33.500 where all the services
00:22:35.020 are,
00:22:35.560 dentists and doctors.
00:22:36.800 But I have to tell you,
00:22:37.780 having gone up there,
00:22:39.340 it's kind of situated
00:22:40.820 in a bit of a wasteland.
00:22:42.140 So they have to walk
00:22:42.940 down to the Finch
00:22:43.580 subway station
00:22:44.260 which is fine
00:22:45.040 but there are no,
00:22:47.260 in the immediate area,
00:22:48.520 there are no coffee shops
00:22:50.120 or restaurants.
00:22:50.900 Everything about it
00:22:51.180 is strange.
00:22:52.380 Everything's about it
00:22:53.060 is strange.
00:22:53.460 But the thing
00:22:53.760 I just can't get over
00:22:55.320 is it is 80,000 square feet
00:22:58.840 of office space.
00:23:00.260 I mean,
00:23:00.800 look,
00:23:01.100 I don't know
00:23:01.400 the real estate scene
00:23:02.200 in Toronto
00:23:02.620 but it seems fairly firm
00:23:03.800 to me.
00:23:04.260 Like,
00:23:04.880 they're building things
00:23:06.020 downtown all the time.
00:23:07.300 80,000 square feet
00:23:08.780 and the best use
00:23:10.220 at a million bucks
00:23:11.160 a month
00:23:11.480 is to put 200
00:23:12.480 foreign migrants
00:23:13.960 in there.
00:23:14.500 I just don't even get it.
00:23:16.440 I tell you one thing,
00:23:17.520 I wish I was getting
00:23:18.400 five grand a month
00:23:19.280 worth of,
00:23:20.020 per person.
00:23:21.040 Yeah.
00:23:21.300 So if there was
00:23:21.920 theoretically a family of four
00:23:23.120 they're getting the equivalent
00:23:23.860 of 20 grand a month.
00:23:25.240 Yeah.
00:23:25.460 Must be nice.
00:23:26.420 It is.
00:23:27.140 Yeah.
00:23:27.420 It is.
00:23:27.900 Only in Canada,
00:23:28.780 you say.
00:23:29.140 Yeah, only in Canada.
00:23:29.300 And in Toronto.
00:23:30.300 Well,
00:23:30.700 excellent reporting
00:23:31.580 and I'm glad
00:23:32.680 you got access to it
00:23:33.760 and...
00:23:34.700 I had to insist
00:23:35.800 but I did get.
00:23:36.800 Well,
00:23:37.020 I'm very pleased
00:23:37.680 and credit to you
00:23:39.060 and I suppose
00:23:41.560 credit to them
00:23:42.200 for letting your camera in
00:23:43.360 because they could have
00:23:44.260 blocked you.
00:23:45.060 I'm glad they didn't
00:23:45.780 so we could take a look
00:23:46.600 at what was in there.
00:23:47.480 So,
00:23:47.620 and keep up the good work.
00:23:48.760 Thank you.
00:23:49.020 I know you get a lot of flack
00:23:50.220 for reporting these things
00:23:51.720 but you know what they say,
00:23:52.880 you don't get flack
00:23:53.700 unless you're over the target
00:23:54.880 so you're doing good work.
00:23:55.920 Well,
00:23:56.100 it's hard to give me flack
00:23:57.140 when I actually go out there
00:23:58.140 and do it.
00:23:58.820 Yeah.
00:23:59.300 Good for you.
00:23:59.960 Thank you,
00:24:00.300 my friend.
00:24:00.360 Thank you.
00:24:00.640 There you have it.
00:24:01.540 One of our favorite people,
00:24:02.600 Sue Ann Levy,
00:24:04.120 telling us about this
00:24:05.460 homemade refugee center
00:24:07.540 in an old office building.
00:24:10.080 Isn't that strange?
00:24:10.840 I recommend to you
00:24:11.740 the story
00:24:12.440 which you can find
00:24:13.260 in the Toronto Sun.
00:24:14.360 The headline is
00:24:15.120 Refugee Shelter
00:24:16.240 to Cost Taxpayers
00:24:17.360 Nearly $1 Million
00:24:19.020 Per Month
00:24:19.780 and you can find that
00:24:20.620 at torontosun.com.
00:24:22.880 Stay with us.
00:24:23.480 More ahead.
00:24:30.640 On my monologue yesterday
00:24:34.320 about Hong Kong
00:24:35.080 and our real refugees petition,
00:24:37.240 Monica writes,
00:24:38.460 I totally agree
00:24:39.360 the Hong Kong people
00:24:40.360 are true refugees.
00:24:42.460 Well,
00:24:42.840 they're not refugees yet.
00:24:45.100 Hong Kong is still
00:24:46.460 a refuge itself
00:24:48.320 from Communist China.
00:24:50.020 But if things
00:24:51.460 go from bad to worse,
00:24:53.660 if it becomes
00:24:54.480 the new Tiananmen Square,
00:24:55.940 I fear there will be
00:24:57.260 genuine refugees
00:24:58.260 but they will have qualities
00:24:59.660 that we like.
00:25:00.840 They speak English,
00:25:01.800 they're entrepreneurial,
00:25:02.760 they're well educated,
00:25:03.760 they love Western values
00:25:05.340 of liberty and democracy
00:25:06.660 and independent courts.
00:25:08.400 I think they would make
00:25:09.620 fine Canadians
00:25:11.700 and I think they would
00:25:13.120 love our values
00:25:14.320 and frankly,
00:25:15.040 they would teach us
00:25:15.700 a thing or two
00:25:16.220 about freedom.
00:25:18.660 Diane writes,
00:25:20.340 having lived in Vancouver,
00:25:21.300 I know many people
00:25:21.900 from Hong Kong.
00:25:22.960 They're often Christian,
00:25:24.320 awesome people.
00:25:25.940 Well,
00:25:26.160 that's a point
00:25:26.640 I made yesterday.
00:25:28.260 I showed you recently
00:25:29.380 that there are
00:25:30.740 mainland Chinese
00:25:33.100 in Canada
00:25:33.760 who are bringing
00:25:34.680 some of that
00:25:35.960 communist culture
00:25:36.820 with them.
00:25:37.560 The People's Liberation
00:25:38.900 Army Legion,
00:25:40.840 Memorial,
00:25:41.280 like that.
00:25:41.980 I'm worried about that.
00:25:43.780 I think bringing in
00:25:44.700 Hong Kong Chinese
00:25:46.160 freedom lovers
00:25:47.380 could be an antidote
00:25:48.880 to the PLA's
00:25:50.420 fingers in our country.
00:25:52.000 I think it would be good.
00:25:54.480 Mark Andre writes,
00:25:55.580 how about they keep
00:25:56.880 fighting for freedom
00:25:57.560 in their own country
00:25:58.600 instead of giving up
00:25:59.580 and coming here?
00:26:00.900 Well,
00:26:01.220 you're right
00:26:01.640 and that's my point
00:26:02.960 is that they're not
00:26:03.720 refugees yet.
00:26:05.140 They're fighting
00:26:06.040 but what I saw
00:26:07.600 at that
00:26:08.240 Polytechnic University,
00:26:10.360 they're fighting
00:26:11.360 literally with
00:26:12.180 bows and arrows.
00:26:13.840 They were using
00:26:14.460 bows and arrows
00:26:15.600 to shoot against
00:26:17.300 heavily armored
00:26:18.420 police,
00:26:20.520 including some
00:26:21.460 mainland
00:26:22.060 Chinese
00:26:23.420 paramilitaries.
00:26:25.720 You're not going
00:26:26.440 to stop a tank
00:26:27.180 with a bow and arrow.
00:26:28.000 It makes me think
00:26:28.600 of that scene
00:26:29.060 from Avatar
00:26:29.720 when the armored
00:26:31.320 helicopters were being
00:26:32.460 plink, plink, plink,
00:26:33.640 plink, plink, plink,
00:26:34.260 all the little
00:26:34.960 bows and arrows
00:26:35.780 from down below.
00:26:36.680 I'm worried
00:26:37.260 there's going to be
00:26:37.780 a massacre.
00:26:38.980 You know,
00:26:39.240 we hear so many calls
00:26:40.400 for Syrian refugees
00:26:42.260 and now the
00:26:42.920 Rohingya refugees.
00:26:44.960 By the way,
00:26:45.780 the Syrian refugees
00:26:46.640 that Justin Trudeau
00:26:47.320 brought over,
00:26:47.760 as you know,
00:26:48.300 they didn't actually
00:26:48.920 come from Syria.
00:26:49.640 They were already safe
00:26:50.640 in a third country
00:26:51.760 whether it was
00:26:52.240 Jordan, Turkey,
00:26:52.900 or Lebanon.
00:26:53.940 They were not
00:26:54.740 in jeopardy.
00:26:55.460 Trudeau just wanted
00:26:56.200 them because he
00:26:56.760 wanted more
00:26:57.700 liberal voters.
00:26:59.700 I think if China
00:27:01.160 goes full Tiananmen
00:27:02.140 Square in Hong Kong,
00:27:03.660 there will be
00:27:04.140 genuine refugees
00:27:05.220 in genuine jeopardy
00:27:07.020 and their bows and arrows
00:27:08.240 won't stop the tanks.
00:27:09.740 I don't know.
00:27:10.600 I just know one thing,
00:27:12.300 that if they were
00:27:13.220 leftist liberal voters
00:27:14.960 who hated freedom,
00:27:16.440 Justin Trudeau
00:27:17.020 would already have them
00:27:17.760 on a plane to Canada.
00:27:19.540 Well, that's our show
00:27:20.460 for today.
00:27:21.060 Until tomorrow,
00:27:21.920 on behalf of all of us
00:27:22.940 here at Rebel World
00:27:23.680 Headquarters to you
00:27:24.420 at home,
00:27:25.160 good night and keep
00:27:26.680 fighting for freedom.
00:27:27.380 We'll be right back.