Justin Trudeau wants to bring back Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, the provision that was repealed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2013, and is now being revived by the Liberal Party of Canada. It's a victory lap for them.
00:01:28.080It's June 3rd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:32.740Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:36.180There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:40.520The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:52.140Censorship is coming back to Canada. Now, you knew that.
00:01:55.640It's probably our number one topic on this show over the past year, but it's coming back in a very specific, symbolic way today.
00:02:01.560Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Internet Censorship Provision of that law that was abolished when Stephen Harper was Prime Minister back in 2013.
00:02:11.760That specific censorship provision is being studied by Justin Trudeau's government, and I can assure you they will revive it.
00:02:18.900Because not only do they obviously like censorship, and they are moving on censorship in a number of fronts,
00:02:24.620but back in 2013, every single liberal MP and every NDP MP2, except one liberal, an independent-minded liberal MP from Newfoundland named Scott Sims,
00:02:38.040who actually used to be a journalist himself, so maybe he values freedom of speech,
00:02:41.680every single opposition MP except Scott Sims voted to save Section 13 back in 2013 when Harper repealed it.
00:02:50.020So yeah, the liberals are going to bring it back absolutely.
00:02:52.640They're censoring the world in a whole lot of ways.
00:02:56.060They don't actually need Section 13 of the Human Rights Act back.
00:03:00.240Their most effective censorship is outsourcing it through privately pressuring social media companies to censor for them.
00:03:07.800There's no trace of their fingerprints that way, but they want Section 13 back anyways because it comes with its own police force,
00:03:15.340they like the bullying of it, and they like the victory lap of this for undoing something that Harper did.
00:03:21.260Just a reminder of Section 13 in my own experience with it, I'll mention to you too.
00:03:26.560It's been nearly a dozen years since a Danish newspaper published a handful of cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed.
00:03:33.620I won't use the word mocking Mohammed because, as you can see by these 12 actual cartoons,
00:03:39.600this is the actual Yilin's Post and newspaper, most of them didn't mock him at all.
00:03:43.780Some were bland, some were stylized, some mocked the newspaper itself for publishing them.
00:03:47.720I'd say only two of these were anywhere near critical.
00:03:50.980You see the one in the middle, you have that one there, that shows Muslim women in a burqa just with a slit for their eyes while the male jihadist's eyes are blacked out.
00:04:00.240I'd say that's critical of the place of women in Islamic society, of the prevalence of Muslim violence.
00:04:05.920And the most iconic, I think, is this one by Kurt Vestergaard, of a turban in the shape of a bomb.
00:04:13.640I'm not sure if either of those could be called mocking.
00:05:08.480A lot of Muslim pressure groups have been invited by the liberals to argue for this censorship.
00:05:13.000This is a list of all the witnesses invited to make the case.
00:05:17.660Other ethnic lobby groups are on there, too.
00:05:19.500I find this odd, as I personally believe in judging people as individuals.
00:05:24.100The idea that every single person of a particular ethnicity shares the same view on censorship is not only obviously false, but it's bizarre.
00:05:33.600And it's infantilizing as it divides us.
00:05:37.500Obviously, I know plenty of Muslims who believe in free speech.
00:05:39.860Here's one of my favorites, a Muslim man who did dare to mock Islam or whatever.
00:11:35.340The moment of freedom of speech or freedom of expression puts another group, organization, or an individual in any form of danger,
00:11:45.640it can no longer be justified as freedom of speech or expression.
00:11:50.800This is now freedom of hate, which has no place in the Acadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, nor in any pluralistic society that we live in.
00:12:01.160Yeah, brother, if we could just pass the Love Each Other Act of 2019.
00:15:24.660We're going to ask, um, we're just going to ask everyone to, who is not part of the committee to, uh, leave the room for a very brief period of time.
00:15:36.840And we will have you come back in as soon as possible.
00:15:40.320And then we apologize for taking away, uh, your time.
00:15:46.600Uh, it was important for the committee to discuss and, and deal with the issue.
00:15:50.100So I'm going to give the floor back to Mr. Cooper.
00:15:54.700And, um, uh, while I certainly find the comments made by Mr. Suri to, to, to be deeply offensive and objectionable and vehemently disagree with, uh, with them,
00:16:06.140I, I will withdraw saying that he should be ashamed.
00:16:09.960That was not unparliamentary, uh, but I understand it made some other members of the committee uncomfortable.
00:16:15.840So in the spirit of moving forward, I withdraw those specific comments.
00:16:19.800But certainly not the rest of what I said.
00:22:25.840I didn't understand it when I heard it the first time from Justin Trudeau.
00:22:31.400We need societies that recognize diversity as a source of strength, not as a source of weakness.
00:22:38.340You know, we saw in Toronto a massive anti-Semitic protest over the weekend, the Al-Quds rally.
00:22:48.280You know, we have honor murders in Canada, people being killed because they don't wear a hijab or a niqab.
00:22:53.320I'm not sure if diversity without qualification is a strength.
00:22:57.760I'm not sure about it, but I didn't believe it when Trudeau said it, and I don't believe it just because Andrew Scheer says it.
00:23:02.900And I don't think it's going to turn any enemies of his into friends, is it?
00:23:06.720Now, I agree with Scheer's other remarks in the past week that he believes in the inherent worth of every Canadian, regardless of race or religion or sex or whatever.
00:23:15.240That was good stuff, talking about we're all children of God.
00:23:17.680I thought that was actually a nice touch.
00:23:20.200But that's never going to make the liberal stop saying mean things about him.
00:23:23.820But still, it was fine when he said we're all equal in the eyes of God.
00:23:31.540What does it mean to fire an MP because he was defending himself against a lie, a calumny, that the New Zealand terrorists was actually conservative?
00:24:33.240I haven't seen Andrew Scheer or his democracy critic, Stephanie Cousy, say a word against Trudeau's other plans to ban fake news from Facebook.
00:24:41.660I haven't seen Scheer talk about free speech or censorship at all in recent months.
00:24:47.560I think this new censorship rule will be rammed through without any opposition because I think Andrew Scheer believes that if he just stays quiet and doesn't make a fuss, he'll sail into victory this fall.
00:24:59.400He's got a 13-point lead in the polls, after all.
00:25:01.480Well, yeah, Andrew Scheer is about to have his first real campaign of his life, not just as leader, but ever, really.
00:25:09.000He's going to be beaten so brutally by the press and by surrogates, he won't know what hits him.
00:25:14.920The entire Unifor bailout media, the entire CBC propaganda arm, 100 foreign-funded third-party campaign groups, every environmental group, they're going to beat him black and blue.
00:25:24.760And his grassroots allies, well, they will be censored on Facebook as fake news.
00:25:30.060And I think there is a 51% chance that we'll be shut down here at the Rebel Tomb.
00:25:37.080Yeah, if Andrew Scheer thinks that just smiling, that smile and saying diversity is our strength, he's going to win the election, I think he's wrong.
00:25:44.900And I think worse than that, letting his enemies make him fire his own loyal soldiers.
00:25:50.420Well, I think we've just seen a quick glimpse at a dire weakness that I'm sure his enemies have noted and will exploit mercilessly.
00:26:02.680But, you know, I actually gave him some real advice.
00:26:19.480I said that if you actually say it louder, we've learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.
00:26:27.680Well, that drunk tweet video, seriously, she was in a bar in St. John's, that was not leaked to the media by some conservative bar goer who happened to see her.
00:26:39.280That was actually published on purpose by McKenna's communications staff.
00:26:44.920And not one of the 24 people on her communications team thought, yeah, boss, publishing a drunk tweet of you from a bar is probably not the best, especially when you're saying you just shout, shout, shout till people hear you.
00:26:58.760Well, needless to say, after a few days, they took down the drunk tweet, but not before it was preserved for all time.
00:27:39.040This is the new official line of the influential left-wing Guardian newspaper in the UK.
00:27:44.840Now, what the UK does and what a private newspaper does, I suppose, is their own business.
00:27:49.080But now the CBC, Trudeau's state broadcaster, and of course it was the CBC, senior CBC liberal Mark Critch, who was in that drunk bar with Catherine McKenna, Mark Critch.
00:28:00.420The CBC has adopted the same vocabulary.
00:28:03.960They will now use the hyper-political vocabulary of climate crisis and climate breakdown.
00:28:36.900Well, what's interesting about this is the words climate crisis or climate emergency, they were left to the venue of the hardcore climate activists a decade or so ago.
00:28:49.220I mean, I remember Barbra Streisand actually called it a climate emergency.
00:28:53.840When I worked in the United States Senate for Senator Inhofe, he would put up that and laugh that some Hollywood celebrity was calling global warming a climate emergency.
00:29:03.180Al Gore has referred to the climate crisis.
00:29:07.640These were the words of the activists, of the base, of the campaigners, not the words of the media.
00:29:15.040Now, the media, which went from global warming to climate change, and actually under President Obama, his science czar, John Holdren, called it global climate disruption.
00:29:25.640But they have now succeeded in getting the organs of the state, the mainstream media, to follow suit, and this will have an impact.
00:29:35.440Imagine now you're not a climate denier.
00:29:47.440If their parents don't tell them any different about the news and they think that the mainstream media is actual news and not activism, this will have an impact on these poor kids.
00:29:58.520I mean, to call something a crisis or a breakdown or an emergency, I mean, there are some legal definitions of an emergency.
00:30:05.180For example, under some state of emergency legislation, if a governor or a president, and we have similar laws in Canada, declares a state of emergency, it's a technical meaning that allows them to circumvent certain rules or deploy certain firefighters or aid without going through the normal processes.
00:30:54.860It's embarrassing to me that prominent media like Canada's state broadcaster are just so willing to let themselves be used as repeaters of political propaganda.
00:31:09.320I suppose I should say I'm not surprised anymore.
00:31:34.300They're lead anchor to Holocaust deniers.
00:31:36.420So in that vein, this is just the natural progression.
00:31:40.120In the U.S., you know, a governor or a mayor can declare a state of emergency in the aftermath of a big tornado or a hurricane or a flood, a natural disaster.
00:31:50.400A locally affected area, a state, a city, a county that's massively affected, houses destroyed, travel, disruption, electricity, that is a state of emergency.
00:32:00.900But they're now trying to say that the entire state of our climate is an emergency, and they're saying it for the express political reason of carbon taxes and U.N. treaties and other regulations.
00:32:12.000This is pure, absolute, fraudulent propaganda.
00:32:15.760Now, there's propaganda, and then there's fraudulent propaganda.
00:32:19.960I mean, this is from beginning to end.
00:32:21.420Not only is there no climate crisis, and certainly Canada wouldn't be under the impact.
00:32:25.700You know, you guys could probably use a little warming, as many Canadians have told me over the year.
00:32:29.780But this is, this is, it's incredible that it's gotten this far.
00:32:33.640But you also are telling us what's probably coming to the U.S.
00:32:36.200We're probably less than a year away from the New York Times and the Washington Post and the major CNN and everyone else following suit with this kind of language.
00:33:49.420The word emergency ceases to have its meaning if every day of your life you're living in an emergency.
00:33:54.020That's the policies of a dictator declaring a police state where every day everyone's got to be on guard and you can usurp natural day-to-day powers.
00:34:03.380If that's where they're going with this, they're trying to get legislation that wouldn't otherwise stand a chance in hell of passing by declaring it a climate emergency.
00:34:12.560There's one more thing I've noticed and I pay close attention to the language because, I mean, as Catherine McKenna says, she repeats it often enough.
00:34:19.800And if you don't listen to her the first time, she'll repeat it and just shout it, even shouting it drunken from a bar.
00:34:25.440The Toronto Star, which is the largest newspaper in Canada by circulation, they absolutely have absorbed this language and are repeating it.
00:34:34.820I don't know if you know this, Mark, but the Toronto Star has directly taken money from the Tides Foundation to run climate stories.
00:34:41.300So they're not even pretending to be neutral anymore.
00:34:45.900They talk about an intense sense of emergency and the purpose of the emergency, I just want to read you this language and get your response to it, is to shift Canada's entire economy to battle climate change.
00:35:01.360And that's similar language to Catherine McKenna, combat climate change, battle climate change.
00:35:09.840They don't even say slow down climate change, let alone reverse climate change, because even they can't look at the camera with a straight face and say, if you pay my carbon tax, we will change the weather.
00:35:22.660So it's all about the action of battling climate change.
00:35:26.460Keep busy, keep active, keep paying those taxes, keep having these regulations.
00:35:32.120We're never going to change the weather, but it's the struggle that counts.
00:36:38.620The U.N. Paris Agreement was woefully inadequate.
00:36:41.220So their solution to past emergency no longer applies.
00:36:44.640So all this is is to just keep ramping it up, ramping it up, declaring more emergencies, declaring more solutions, patting themselves on the back briefly,
00:36:52.300and then saying that nothing was done and we need to do more.
00:36:56.580And I just can't believe that otherwise intelligent people can't see through it across the country.
00:37:01.360And I'm talking about voters and the politically, the political middle, because they're ultimately going to hold the key, both in Canada and the U.S.
00:37:10.360and in many other countries, to the future of this policy.
00:37:13.140And you just hope that they can see through such absolute crap tactics.
00:37:19.320Listen, I want to shift gears a little bit.
00:37:20.860But I did a story the other day on how the senior official in charge of fossil fuels in America.
00:37:26.980First of all, I love the fact that his title includes the words fossil fuels, because that's anathema in places like Canada that are, you know, global warming, climate change, whatever.
00:37:38.420But it was a it was a great press release that talked about freedom molecules and freedom gas being exported from Texas and Louisiana in LNG.
00:37:50.280I think it was from Texas port Freeport, Texas.
00:37:53.760There's now an LNG tanker that's going to Europe.
00:37:55.940And I read that story and we did a little show on it.
00:38:32.200We don't have more gas, but we have a lot of gas and we have a lot of coal.
00:38:35.620Tell me how great it is down there in terms of the jobs, the economy, the exports, the growth.
00:38:39.820Just to make me and my Canadians very jealous.
00:38:43.040It has literally defied all predictions, expectations, wildest dreams so far.
00:38:48.140Even – not Mario Cuomo, but Cuomo's son on CNN has actually said this is the strongest economy in like 50 years since they've been keeping unemployment statistics in the late 1960s.
00:39:00.360Not only is unemployment the lowest it's ever been, but black, Hispanic unemployment has been the lowest.
00:39:05.960Labor unions that normally have literally endorsed President Obama and Hillary Clinton wished to be president have met with President Trump in the White House supporting these energy initiatives.
00:39:17.000They've come out now – I'm thinking of the Laborers International Union who supported the Canadian pipelines, who supported all sorts of energy extraction because that's what makes America work, especially at the blue-collar level, at the minority level, at the lower-income level.
00:39:36.320This is absolutely the greatest increase we've seen in any president since at least the 1960s.
00:39:44.760And President Trump coming in and just ravaging President Obama's environmental regulations at the EPA and his crippling of coal, oil, gas has just unleashed it in a way that even he couldn't have expected.
00:39:56.960So America is just cruising along at a very – the problem is it could all be undone quickly because the next president, including Joe Biden, they're going to come in with at least what Obama did, but it looks to be much, much worse if they win in 2020.
00:40:11.920And they can do this all through executive order now because the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
00:40:17.480That hasn't changed, and we can get back in the U.N. agreement and start stifling our energy.
00:40:22.680But for right now, this is like the clouds have cleared and the sun is shining on America, energy independence and energy economy.
00:40:42.340But we elected a substitute drama teacher.
00:40:44.300I got one last question for you, and this really goes – I mean, 10 years ago, I wrote a book called Ethical Oil, and I wrote a follow-up about fracking called Groundswell.
00:40:55.120And I made the case that it's great for Canada, great for the United States, but it's also great for countries around the world that would much rather buy their oil and gas from Canada, from the United States,
00:41:08.100instead of from Gazprom, Vladimir Putin's controlled gas company, or any OPEC country.
00:41:16.020And so it's not just great for Americans and great for Canadians, but India, for example.
00:41:21.820They're a huge buyer of oil from Iran, or they have been historically.
00:41:26.520India's going to buy oil no matter what.
00:41:28.140They may as well buy it from us rather than from Iran.
00:41:30.640And even China, even though it's in a trade war and a moral war against Canada and the U.S., I would rather – well, I don't know if they're a reliable customer, but Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, Europe – I'd rather they bought our oil and gas than buy it from Russia and OPEC.
00:41:49.160And I just really think America is helping the world, not just itself.
00:41:54.080Do you see what I'm saying about freeing American allies from Gazprom or OPEC?
00:42:01.700It's actually a great phrase, ethical oil and ethical energy.
00:42:05.340The United States has some of the strictest environmental regulations.
00:42:09.620So any energy we produce here is going to be clean, efficient.
00:42:13.340And actually, there's been research recently on carbon taxes to take an example.
00:42:16.980The more the West, the industrialized West, Europe, Canada, the United States, tax carbon and increases taxes on CO2 and passes widespread carbon taxes, it means one thing, period, according to these new economic analysis.
00:42:31.400The emissions will go up more because all you're doing is sending all that energy extraction and processing to countries that don't have the environmental technology, infrastructure, and regulations that we in the West here do.
00:42:45.800So if you think, oh, well, let's cripple the U.S. economy, let's cripple our energy, let's cripple Canada, let's go after Europe, let's keep shutting down Germany and Europe, all you're doing is harming Mother Earth, to use their phrase.
00:43:00.340And actually, I did a speech recently, actually, a debate at University of Minnesota on this very point, showing all the factual data, showing that the more you regulate our energy in the capitalist West, the more you're going to have emissions as that energy is forced to go to places that are less efficient, less technology and less stringent regulations and less concern, if you will, about the Earth.
00:43:23.620You know, I bet that would have been a great debate.
00:43:26.040And when you have another public debate like that, let us know.
00:44:01.940I just I went through all his arguments, tipping points.
00:44:05.120And the chair of the committee was a Democrat, interrupted my opening statement to admonish me for going after the credibility of the United Nations.
00:44:13.840And I made sure that I went after them by name.
00:44:16.040I didn't want I actually said in my testimony, this is not an argument against the big body.
00:44:21.000And these, you know, they had three representatives of the U.N.
00:47:44.600It takes a lot of cunning to turn the friendly, friendly country that loves Canada into, well, you heard Duterte, threatening war against us and saying, I'll send you the garbage back.
00:48:17.020I'm not saying these aren't tough problems.
00:48:18.960Like handling China is a tough problem.
00:48:20.780But it's funny how Stephen Harper managed to control China even though he was critical of them.
00:48:25.380And it's funny how Stephen Harper, well, on his watch, Barack Obama didn't dare cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:48:31.480It was only after the pushover Trudeau came in that Obama canceled it.
00:48:35.040It's funny how Harper had actually better relations with China, India, Saudi Arabia, even though he was rhetorically and morally stronger with them than that loser, Justin Trudeau, who has, he's got the reverse Midas touch.
00:48:51.120He's got, he's got like the Oscar Mayer touch.
00:48:53.500Everything he touches turns to baloney.