Justin Trudeau and his socialist sidekick Jagmeet Singh designate the Proud Boys as terrorists, and no one objected. Not a single conservative objected. Ezra Levant explains why this is a good thing, and why it's a bad thing.
00:04:53.060Now that was clearly a domestic terrorist attack.
00:04:57.060Didn't you see him politely disagree and turn his back on a radical anti-Canada protester?
00:05:04.060So to be clear, in Canada, if you politely disagree with someone, you're basically ISIS.
00:05:09.060But if you bow to a state sponsor of terrorism, well, you're just a brain-dead prime minister.
00:05:14.060Okay, I got it. I understand the rules, and it's important that everybody understands them.
00:05:19.060I'm unaware of any other thing that the Proud Boys have actually done in Canada, for good or for evil.
00:05:25.060Now, I acknowledge that the Proud Boys have gotten in brawls in the street with Antipa, who I note Justin Trudeau didn't designate as terrorists.
00:05:33.060And in one dramatic case, they were sent to prison for years.
00:05:37.060Now, that's when the founder, Gavin McInnes, disavowed himself from them, and he quit the Proud Boys.
00:05:43.060Now, I'm not familiar with their activity since then, but I haven't seen anything in Canada.
00:05:49.060So, on what basis were they possibly added to a list that includes Al-Qaeda and ISIS?
00:05:55.060Now, something that is truly terrifying, Trudeau is deploying counter-terrorism tactics and laws against groups he considers to be politically offensive.
00:06:19.060There's nobody in Parliament with the stones to do that.
00:06:22.060Aaron O'Toole ran to be leader of the Conservatives on an anti-cancel culture platform.
00:06:27.060Those Proud Boys in Halifax, in that video I just showed you, they were gathering to protest the removal of a statue.
00:06:34.060They were standing up against cancel culture.
00:06:37.060Exactly what Aaron O'Toole supposedly is doing.
00:06:40.060They were actually protesting the knocking down of a statue of Edward Cornwallis, the founder of the city of Halifax.
00:06:47.060They were actually members of the Canadian Armed Forces, true patriots, and much more diverse than their critics, including an indigenous man and a gay soldier.
00:07:01.060But they're all collateral damage for Aaron O'Toole, who couldn't care less that his voters are being labeled terrorists, the ultimate form of cancel culture.
00:07:11.060It won't be long before every member of O'Toole's voter base are labeled as such terrorists.
00:07:17.060Justin Trudeau got away with this once.
00:07:19.060So what's going to stop him from doing it to everyone?
00:07:22.060What's going to stop him from doing it the next time?
00:07:25.060We have Ezra Levant on the line to talk about exactly that.
00:07:55.060He hasn't given the name of the agency.
00:07:57.060Hasn't said he was going to appoint to the agency.
00:08:00.060But it is a new government agency in charge of censorship.
00:08:04.060And I'm not talking about censoring child pornography or censoring criminal offenses, which can happen online.
00:08:13.060He specifically talks about things that are offensive or things that disrupt social cohesion.
00:08:21.060I've seen those words used in the United Kingdom, especially social cohesion.
00:08:26.060That basically means anything politically incorrect.
00:08:29.060And the fact that he needs to have new laws and a new regulator tells us something very interesting.
00:08:37.060That he plans to do censoring beyond that which the law now contemplates.
00:08:43.060The law applies to the internet and social media companies just as much as it applies to talk radio or television or radio, you know, CB radio or smoke signals.
00:08:57.060The law of defamation, for example, the law of fraud, the law of, you know, uttering threats.
00:09:27.060And as you pointed out in your monologue, the only public manifestation I've ever seen in the Proud Boys is those five guys in Halifax who are Canadian Armed Forces patriots who are saying don't take down the statue of Cornwallis.
00:10:58.060I mean, you don't know exactly what terrorists do in Iraq or wherever, so you have to catch people trying to help, trying to go over there.
00:11:06.060Now, all those laws will be applied to what was really a rowdy fraternity.
00:11:14.060I don't think the liberals would have tried to put them on a terrorist list had they not seen that every single conservative MP in the House approved of this in Jagmeet Singh's toothless motion about 10 days ago.
00:11:28.060So Jagmeet Singh broke the ice on this subject, saw that not a single conservative would say, hey, wait a minute.
00:11:34.060I don't know a lot about the Proud Boys, but we need to know more before we call them a terrorist group.
00:11:40.060Aaron O'Toole, all the way down, not a single one of them, objected, even on principled civil liberties grounds.
00:11:46.060Like, I don't think any conservative would say, well, I'm a proud boy, so don't do that to me.
00:11:50.060But you might have expected them to say, I'm worried about the civil liberties trend here.
00:11:56.900Or why don't we put a real terrorist group like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard on there that, frankly, has been accused of assassinating someone in Toronto just in the last few weeks.
00:12:07.020So knowing that the conservatives were not on guard, the liberals, I think, went further than they ever would.
00:12:13.240And now they see, well, the civil liberties associations don't really have much to say either.
00:12:19.340And again, I don't know every group in Canada.
00:12:22.040There's a group in Quebec called Le Mute.
00:12:24.500I don't know anything about them, but they've been right-wing opponents of open borders, for example.
00:12:32.680There's a lot of anti-lockdown activists.
00:12:36.040And in Quebec also, the largest anti-lockdown protest in Canada being in Quebec.
00:12:40.200So again, I don't know the groups there, but absolutely Trudeau would call them terrorist groups if he could.
00:12:45.480I've been very critical of a group in Toronto called The Line, which is an anti-lockdown group because their leader says stupid things occasionally.
00:14:26.920Now, I don't think that they would be able to label the Proud Boys as a terrorist group in the United States simply for First Amendment reasons.
00:14:35.320And I think they probably still have some sort of standards of proof to get on that list.
00:14:39.600I mean, getting on that list is, I mean, it would be the secular American version of getting a fatwa.
00:14:46.280I mean, if you were on that list, you are anathematized, you are beyond the pale, you're an outcast, and criminal law, normal criminal laws, and now terrorist laws apply to you.
00:14:58.080If you're on that list, it is really a death list.
00:15:02.700And I think that Trudeau's partisan RCMP are just crazy enough to try and enforce it.
00:15:13.180I mean, I don't know where those five Halifax lads are now, but it wouldn't surprise me if every one of them is being drummed out of the military.
00:15:20.660And it wouldn't surprise me if every one of them is getting a visit from the RCMP now.
00:15:24.560I mean, there's literally no one else in Canada who has done anything Proud Boys-ish.
00:15:29.000But I think that Trudeau wants to hold up some scalps and say, look at this, I caught myself some real-life Nazis.
00:15:37.680And to basically show it to every conservative, say, Aaron O'Toole, I'm coming for you unless you join my mob.
00:16:21.960Direct contradiction of his campaign promises.
00:16:24.900You know, I asked the other day on Twitter, can you name a single key policy of Justin Trudeau's over the last year that the O'Toole conservatives have vigorously opposed?
00:16:35.500Like, can you name a single key policy?
00:16:38.080The one thing I've heard from them is they disagree with how Trudeau is handling the vaccines.
00:18:03.520Well, look, I don't know how soon the election is coming.
00:18:06.300I would have thought it was coming up really soon.
00:18:07.860But maybe the vaccine bungle is too severe.
00:18:10.980But, I mean, if he just took rational, common-sense, conservative approaches, talk about free speech, talk about cancel culture, talk about bringing back a balance between civil liberties and the lockdowns.
00:18:22.400Talk about getting kids back in schools.