00:03:08.400But Canada, the report says, is a systemically religiously intolerant place.
00:03:15.300Religious intolerance impedes the ability of Canadian society to be democratic, welcoming, open-minded, and accepting, the report says, only by acknowledging how religiously intolerant Canada is can we begin to address it.
00:03:32.720So the fundamental basis of this report is that Canada is an intolerant country.
00:03:41.360Canada, now let's take Quebec out of the mix here.
00:03:43.620I'm not a fan of Quebec's approach on forced secularism in some public spaces.
00:03:49.380Canada is a country in which you are able to have tremendous recourse if you find yourself the victim of discrimination.
00:03:55.880If you are told by an employer, say, or a prospective employer that you are not going to be hired for reasons that a Human Rights Commission might think have to do with your faith, maybe you wear a hijab or a turban, well, you are going to get a tremendous payout.
00:04:09.180That commission is going to throw the book at the employer who did that to you.
00:04:14.200We have, in fact, many policies that work against any criticism or skepticism you might have towards someone of another faith, towards someone of another religion.
00:04:26.660So we've actually enshrined a great deal of forced religious tolerance, forced multiculturalism, forced pluralism.
00:04:33.360If you look at where people face discrimination, I will say that there is a little bit of religious intolerance in Canada, but it works against Christians.
00:04:42.960This is why, for example, the Law Society of Upper Canada, sorry, you have to call it the Law Society of Ontario now, was able to deny accreditation to a law school that Trinity Western University, an explicitly Christian university, was establishing.
00:04:59.660You cannot now be a lawyer who's gone through that and be recognized by many of the bar societies.
00:05:06.120And the Supreme Court said that was okay because they did not believe that Trinity Western had a right to be Christian.
00:05:12.220So that sounds like religious intolerance to me, but that's not what the Canadian Human Rights Commission is referring to.
00:05:19.840They discuss religious intolerance as evidenced by the fact that we have Christmas and Easter as holidays.
00:12:31.060So I couldn't care less about what they condemn or denounce.
00:12:34.560But it is so revealing that they're silent on this explicit hate that we've seen every single day, but find the real culprit to be Christmas.
00:12:43.600You know what? They take a magnifying glass and a microscope to find hate in the goofiest things, like the hand symbol, OK, that every human being does.
00:12:53.880Or I think of the cabinet minister, R.S. Sachs, who said, honk, honk is code for Heil Hitler.
00:13:13.000My point is they would look for any trace, any hint of something they could take offense to that was fake.
00:13:21.680But here we have actual swastikas, people chanting death to the Jews, and in some places they actually use that language, in some places they use it slightly more coded, like that youngster you just showed, Intifada Revolution. Intifada is an Arabic word for a pogrom, really, a riot.
00:13:38.080I have a harder line than you, Andrew. I not only think that the diversity, equity, and inclusion
00:13:46.120people, the anti-hate people, the human rights people, not only are they not looking for hatred
00:13:52.260when it's staring them right in the eye, I think they're a large source of it. Think of this,
00:13:57.580Laith Maroof, the guy who got a half a million dollars from Trudeau to fight racism, he was one
00:14:03.240the worst racists you'll ever find. And the DEI, the equity, the inclusion, the diversity,
00:14:09.060theology is based on hatred. Give me one second on this, Andrew. Critical theory, cultural Marxism,
00:14:17.700whatever, wokeness, whatever you want to say, it's, this is how it works. Someone walks into a room
00:14:22.420where there's harmony, and they think, how can I divide this group into oppressors and the
00:14:27.700oppressed. Can I do it based on class? That's what Marx did. The innovation of the last 50 years was
00:14:35.000doing it based on gender. Men are the oppressors, women are the oppressed. Transgenderism, straight
00:14:40.760people are the oppressors, trans people are the oppressed. Race, Black Lives Matter, I don't know
00:14:46.480more. And so the critical theory, the leftists look at the whole world in terms of oppressed
00:14:53.000and oppressors, and they say anything is, any means necessary to go to war against the oppressors.
00:15:00.460So these DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion officers in every university, in every woke
00:15:05.860corporation, in every bank, in every government agency, their job is actually, A, to foment
00:15:12.900discord and division, and B, to do it on explicitly racist lines. In conclusion, Andrew,
00:15:19.260I put it to you that in the last six weeks, the DEI and human rights industries not only have not been stopping the hatred we've seen in our streets, they have been the participants and the leaders and the volunteers and the organizers of it.
00:15:36.220We have a big problem with people who come here from endemically anti-Semitic places, Syria, Jordan.
00:15:43.540These are places where, according to pollsters, people hate Jews.
00:15:47.260But not just hate. I mean, want to kill in a large way. And that's the point here. I don't like the moral equivalence of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism from these people, for example, because when someone is Islamophobic, oftentimes it's very bigoted. When someone is anti-Semitic, oftentimes it's very violent.
00:16:07.400It's a very good point. And we've seen Molotov cocktail at a Jewish synagogue in Montreal. Twice the same school in Montreal was shot up, Jewish school, big Jewish high school in Toronto. There was threats, three people were charged. And then last week, there was a bomb threat, the whole school evacuated.
00:16:26.700And I think they're doing almost dry runs. They're testing what they can get away with. It's two parts. One is endemically anti-Semitic mass immigration. And the second part, though, is their tag team partner, their maitre d', their concierges, the woke white Canadians who look at it.
00:16:50.180You know, I was in London a couple of weeks ago for the huge, huge anti-Israel rally.
00:16:56.100There was more than 100,000 people on the streets of London.
00:17:01.400And I was very careful, by the way, because the police were far away.
00:17:04.780And I'd say it was about 70 or 80 percent immigrants to the UK.
00:17:13.240But I'd say it was about maybe 5, 10 percent were woke college kids.
00:17:17.340But about 20% were all British Marxists, communists, socialist workers party, hardline trade unions, labor party activists, because they just want to smash the system. That's what I say, the critical theory of a Marxist approach to the world. And so 30 years ago, it might have been, well, like 40 years ago, it would have been disarmament, let's say. 20 years ago, it would have been. And so the thing of the day.
00:17:39.560Well, it's whatever the trendy thing is, right?
00:18:08.420To talk about the Human Rights Commissions here in context, I mean, you've been in this fight since before most people started paying attention to it.
00:18:15.760And it's unfortunate that Section 13 is rearing its ugly head again, you know, a decade after the Conservative government repealed it.
00:18:23.640But the one thing we've seen through the Federal Human Rights Commissions and the Provincial Commissions and Tribunals is that they do exactly what you're talking about.
00:18:32.700They take this very radical approach, and it necessarily and inevitably puts group rights against each other in very confusing ways.
00:18:41.000I mean, the hilarious cases are when a transgender biological male wants to get her penis waxed by a Muslim waxologist.
00:18:51.340And it's like, well, hang on, whose rights matter more here, the trans rights or the Muslim rights?
00:18:55.220When we saw massive protests against gender ideology a few weeks back in Canada, it was, you know, very much this industry said, okay, when Muslim parents who have been the victim under the oppression realm for years are up against trans people, no, no, no, the Muslims are now the oppressors, the trans people are the oppressors.
00:19:13.440And then a few weeks later, Israel comes up, okay, now Muslims are the oppressed and Jews are the oppressors.
00:19:19.740So it's shifting here, which I think shows how inconsistent it is.
00:19:23.160But when human rights commissions and tribunals are given power, they're the ones who adjudicate this.
00:19:29.420They're the ones who have tremendous power and influence in society to really stoke these divisions.
00:19:35.960Yeah, you know, I think it was LaVrenti Beria, the founder of the KGB and the FSB, who said, show me the man, I'll find you the crime.
00:19:44.300And what he meant by that is, I'll get you somehow.
00:19:47.120There's so many laws and the application laws are so vague.
00:19:52.900And frankly, there's other government institutions that work that way. I think the IRS and the SEC in the United States are the similar way. My point is these people, whoever they choose to go after, they will convict because to call these things legal, you know, to compare them to courts, they're kangaroo courts. They're not bound by precedent. They're not bound by the same civil procedure. It's basically who gets to sit in those chairs that can smear their enemies.
00:20:20.140I'll give you the example of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the laughably named anti-hate group that decided to simply go silent for the first world.
00:20:31.440And whose founder, Bernie Farber, explicitly said, no, no, no, we're only interested in hate from the right, so we're not going to cover the anti-Semitic left.
00:20:39.500We don't have the resources to tweet our opposition to it.
00:20:43.500The Human Rights Commissions were on holiday for three years during the worst civil liberties bonfire in our country's history, the pandemic.
00:20:49.340So they have to be absolutely pulled out by the root. And I think I see in some U.S. states, for example, Florida, the government is taking a position against DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, against ESG, environmental, social governance, and basically saying we won't fund these things.
00:21:13.100We won't do business with these things. It must be eradicated. And even in the private sector,
00:21:18.900remember that company, I think it was Coinbase, if I'm not mistaken, that said to its staff a few
00:21:23.620years ago, if you want to be woke, if you want to be an activist, that's not on here. So we're
00:21:29.560going to buy you out. We'll give you a nice severance payment now. And if being political
00:21:33.800is important, you go somewhere else, go work for Google. But here at Coinbase, we're about
00:21:38.380doing Coinbase stuff. And people took the buyout and they saved themselves not only so much woke
00:21:45.060BS, but just someone who thinks that's important, they're going to be an HR problem. We have to
00:21:50.580root these things out of our larger society. These are the troublemakers. Canada is actually a warm
00:21:56.480and welcoming and loving and friendly place. These DEI activists have to whip up hatred to keep
00:22:01.860themselves in business. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people with a lot of hatred right now.
00:22:06.020And the DEI folks are pretty silent about it, or like I say, they're participating in it.
00:22:10.300Just on the COVID era, I would disagree with you ever so slightly on one thing you said.
00:22:15.180You said the Human Rights Commission was on vacation.
00:22:17.380I would say they were not on vacation.
00:22:19.260I think they actively and deliberately picked a side.
00:22:21.820And I had pulled up before I spoke to you the FAQ that the Canadian Human Rights Commission published on vaccine mandates.
00:22:27.980The question, is requiring vaccination for federally regulated employers and employees a discriminatory practice?
00:22:34.440No, requiring that an individual be vaccinated
00:22:37.260to work or travel is not a discriminatory practice
00:23:54.860So the Supreme Court of Canada has yet to weigh in on any lockdown case, any pandemic case, any vaccine mandate case. I guess they've been busy with other things the last three and a half years.
00:24:05.340But what's the point? Because no one less than the Chief Justice himself, based on his own hunches and biases and intuition, decided to implement a mandatory vaccine requirement at the Supreme Court.
00:24:20.140You don't think every lower judge in the country, every prosecutor, every politician in the country got the message, oh, so without a hearing, without the evidence, without a back and forth, the judge has prejudged the key question of our age, which is probably why there hasn't been a single significant constitutional remedy that has overturned any of these outrageous laws.
00:24:43.400Just today, one of our reporters, we just got the judgment today from a Quebec court.
00:24:50.520Our reporter was out on the streets covering the curfew.
00:24:55.880Yeah, I know it was Sidney Fizzard, but Yankee had – so they're literally prosecuting our journalists, who had a journalistic exemption for being on the streets, by the way.
00:25:05.280But those, I mean, it's a great ruling and the judge just tore a strip off the cops and
00:25:11.660the prosecutors, as happened in Yankee's case, too.
00:25:14.980But we forget, like, imagine a curfew for grownups, vaccinated or not, sick or healthy.
00:25:32.480Because the chief judge himself basically said, I'm a full locker downer. Don't even bother coming to court. I'll show you what I stand for before a hearing. And by the way, he showed contempt for the system because he put his thumb on the scale and said to the whole world, hey, everybody, look at me.
00:25:49.180like they literally put out a press release announcing their own vaccine mandate, telling
00:25:54.200every lawyer and judge in the country, don't even bother, don't even pretend because the chief judge
00:26:00.600is the tyrant. And it was, there were a lot, you know what, the anti-hate industry are the haters,
00:26:08.680the diversity industry are the ones who are whipping up division. And frankly, I think the
00:26:15.480courts have a lot to answer for. And when I went to law school, I was told that the Charter of
00:26:21.580Rights was second only to, they wouldn't have even said second only to the Bible in terms of
00:26:26.800holiness. And that Charter of Rights was shown to be worthless during the lockdowns. Go ahead.
00:26:34.120No, I was just going to say on Richard Wagner, the Chief Justice, this was also the man who will
00:26:38.780at some point have to preside over a case about the Emergencies Act, who in an interview,
00:26:43.500which is not really part of his job description said that the convoy held Ottawa residents quote
00:26:49.540hostage and unleashed anarchy on the city so again sending a signal to people before ever
00:26:56.400looking at the law and the facts that uh ripples through the rest of society and the judiciary I
00:27:01.780am glad you brought that up well you know this employee at the supreme court filed a judicial
00:27:06.700complaint against the chief justice for that uh the the complaint was thrown out and she was thrown
00:27:11.360out too well absolutely terrible well i suspect you will continue to hold the human rights
00:27:16.840commission to account ezra levant founder of rebel news and i know it came out what 15 years
00:27:21.600ago but your book shakedown was absolutely phenomenal on this so i think it's still
00:27:25.900available on amazon people should check it out there ezra thank you so much thanks my friend
00:27:30.300bye bye all right it's great when he talks about he's not great i mean it was that it was apt and
00:27:34.720i think accurate when he talked about how these dei people look around and find a peaceful loving
00:27:39.940tolerant society and have to whip up and gin up hate and hatred to make it work. And I, sometimes
00:27:47.100I watch bad movies. In fact, I'd say most movies I watch are bad movies. Like all of the great,
00:27:52.100like fantastic, uh, award-winning movies I've never seen, but like, you know, crappy, you know,
00:27:57.420teen comedies like Euro trip and slasher films like saw and the purge I've all seen, but there,
00:28:03.400I watched, I don't think I'm giving you a spoiler alert here, but it came out a few years ago. So
00:28:07.680sucks to be you if it is. But there was this movie called The First Purge, which was like a prequel
00:28:12.700to The Purge movies. And the premise of The Purge is that every year for 12 hours, all laws are
00:28:18.340suspended and you can do whatever you want. You can kill, you can pillage, you can kidnap, you can
00:28:23.740burgle, you can do whatever you want. And The First Purge went back and showed the genesis.
00:28:28.820Yeah, Sean's complaining that they made The Purge films go woke. They did. The first one was this
00:28:33.060great like slasher flick and then the next ones were all about like the oppression of racialized
00:28:37.980minorities by rich white people but nevertheless when I start a series I have to see it through
00:28:42.160to completion so excuse me see I need like my 19 straws now I didn't bring them today
00:28:48.000the the first purge goes back to the genesis of it and the theory from these like government
00:28:54.100experts was that we can let people just have an outlet for their rage and they'll get it all out
00:28:59.920on this night and then that'll be fine. And what actually happened was they had this purge and no
00:29:08.340one did anything. People just partied in the streets. They just had a grand old time. No one
00:29:11.900actually wanted to go around and kill people. So what they had to do was insert all of these
00:29:17.620basically government agents to go and commit and perpetrate acts of violence because no one was
00:29:23.300doing it. And it was a parallel I sort of drew to the DEI industry, admittedly a less exciting and
00:29:29.320less riveting one, where they go around and people are getting along and people of different
00:29:34.560faiths and races are having fun. And Muslims are saying, oh, Merry Christmas. And Jews are saying,
00:29:39.660oh, happy Ramadan. And Christians are saying, oh, have a blessed Diwali and all of that. And
00:29:45.080then they're like, we have to find oppression here somewhere. You know, my parents love their
00:29:50.980coffee. So there used to be a little tradition where when I'd go over there on Christmas morning,
00:29:55.240I'd stop at one of the only coffee shops that was open and pick them up Starbucks.
00:29:59.240And, you know, there was one time where I went and the Starbucks drive-thru was being
00:30:03.000helmed by a hijab-wearing Muslim who had a Santa hat on top of her hijab and wished me a Merry
00:30:09.400Christmas. And I was not offended by it. I think I instinctively said, you too. And she said,
00:30:13.980thank you. That was the society we live in. That's not to say there aren't people who are hateful.
00:30:19.660It's not to say there aren't people that are going to do terrible things, but these are outliers.
00:30:25.780And when they arise, they are condemned by people in this country.
00:30:29.680So when the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which is the latest example, comes out as an institution and says Canada is a deeply intolerant place, it's simply not accurate.
00:30:39.740when all of these government institutions a few years ago responding to American news which is
00:30:45.880the greatest Canadian pastime start saying that everything in Canada is systemically racist the
00:30:50.620government systemically racist academia systemically racist the RCMP systemically racist
00:30:55.600that Starbucks is probably systemically racist it's just not true and when you have these DEI
00:31:01.720trainers that come into these groups and say if you do not think that is the case it's because
00:31:07.760you have white lenses. You're basically being blinded by your white privilege. This is what
00:31:13.480happened with that Kike Ojo Thompson woman, that Toronto DEI trainer. And my colleague,
00:31:19.460Sue Ann Levy, had a piece. She found all the invoices for Kike Ojo Thompson's work and found
00:31:25.260she had collected like $300,000 telling everyone they're racist. That's basically her business
00:31:30.220model. And when she did this in one session with that Toronto principal, Richard Bilkstow,
00:31:35.900she's trying to tell everyone that canada is this deeply racist country worse than the united
00:31:40.560states he gets up there and says well i've lived and worked in the u.s and i've worked with
00:31:44.900underprivileged racialized children and i dispute that and what does she do she accuses him of
00:31:51.080upholding white supremacy so there's no winning in these situations there's absolutely no winning
00:31:58.020in these environments and all of us all of us are being told that we have to view the very
00:32:05.420worst of our country of our society and of our institutions and the canadian human rights
00:32:11.980commission this is by the way a government appointed body that i mean this is not just
00:32:15.660some woke ngo like the canadian anti-hate network albeit one that gets government funding this is a
00:32:20.940an organ of the government and it was doing this even when the conservatives were in power
00:32:26.060and stephen harper had appointed everyone at the commission including the commissioner who took it
00:32:31.020it upon herself to be this like tremendous race prosecutor of sorts the late Jennifer Lynch so
00:32:37.320this is one thing and I had a few conversations over the weekend with some folks about this this
00:32:41.880is where if there is a change in government and let's be real looking at the polling Pierre
00:32:46.560Polyev looks likely to form the next government it's not enough just to be in power and pass a
00:32:53.100conservative budget and some conservative bills you have to root out all of these hate mongers
00:32:58.520in these institutions and appoint replacements that take a freedom lens to these situations.
00:33:06.340You need to basically do a hostile takeover of the CBC board, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
00:33:12.280board, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and all of this, because otherwise these institutions
00:33:16.560are going to continue to do exactly what we've been talking about. And this report that I
00:33:21.100mentioned is a silly one saying Christmas and Easter are systemically discriminatory,
00:33:26.180But underlying that is a very real and very dangerous, and I would say, to use the left's
00:33:32.480word, problematic view about the function of society.
00:33:36.500And I know there are people listening to the show that, for whatever reason, do not
00:33:54.180So that's my TED Talk on here. As I said, I'm okay with the war on Christmas music, but I am not okay with the war on Christmas. And just in closing on this, let me play this clip. This was Justin Trudeau speaking, I think it was this morning, it might have been yesterday afternoon, making his dramatic defense of freedom of expression. Let's roll that clip.
00:34:15.500The people are forgetting a little bit that we're a country that protects the freedom of expression, that protects liberty of conscience, that respects and supports people even when we disagree with them across various points of view.
00:34:33.540That has been one of the strengths of Canada for our entire existence.
00:34:37.400We're a place that does diversity better than just about anywhere else.
00:34:40.320it's great to say we're a place that does diversity when pro-Hamas protesters are yelling
00:34:47.060about revolution and intifada against the Jews that's like you know you don't mess with the
00:34:51.240Zohan without the redemptive arc at the end of it see like I said bad movies I know front to back
00:34:56.420but the was that a bad movie it was Adam Sandler so it's not you know exactly cinematic excellence
00:35:02.040but I'm a big Adam Sandler fan so uh never that yeah better than the love guru Sean says I haven't
00:35:06.980even seen that one but it sounds oh is that the one with mike myers i don't think i've seen it but
00:35:11.260i i like i recall from the old blockbuster seeing the the really hokey uh probably vhs at the time
00:35:17.120cover of it so uh nevertheless that was i lost my train of thought on that damn it sean the the love
00:35:23.040guru is uh not justin trudeau we're not talking about him anymore but he gets up there and says
00:35:28.340the uh you know this great line that i agree with oh we respect freedom of expression and freedom
00:35:33.780of speech. There's a bit of an asterisk there, except when we're freezing protester bank accounts.
00:35:39.700That's the point that I would raise here, is that, you know, it's all about free speech when it's the
00:35:44.700left that's using their freedom to say heinous and horrible things. But if someone on the right
00:35:48.660wants to get up and say, oh, I don't know, I like JK Rowling, or I think biological sex is real,
00:35:53.960all of a sudden it's, well, your freedom of expression has to be balanced against tolerance