The China Virus (Feat. Ezra Levant)
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A new book written by Ezra Levant sheds light on some of the major political narratives surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and how they intersect with the political and economic interests of the current Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. The book is called China Virus: How Justin Trudeau's Pro-Communist Ideology is Putting Canadians in Danger, written with Ezra Levant.
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You know, a lot of the time throughout the coronavirus pandemic,
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that we haven't really had a chance to take a step back
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and some of the major narratives that we've seen here.
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looking at some of the domestic and global political narratives
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that have emerged here and really painting a picture
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because there are certain people, including Amazon,
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that initially didn't want you to be able to buy it.
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written by our friend Rebel Commander Ezra Levant,
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Ezra, thanks for coming on and congrats on the new book.
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because we have published seven books with Amazon before,
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and we do really well with them and we do well for them.
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And the book immediately shot up the bestsellers list.
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It hit number two in the whole country for paperbacks.
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So obviously people want the other side of the story.
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which has so many books and we rely on for so many things,
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was literally running interference for the United Nations.
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your book is defamatory or hate speech or whatever.
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We criticize the UN and the World Health Organization.
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my subtitle is Justin Trudeau's support for pro-communist ideas.
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I'm not saying that Trudeau himself is a communist,
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And I think we're at real risk from China.
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we have tremendous political and economic and diplomatic ties.
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but it has exposed the political and economic and diplomatic and military
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because if this was something that you had initially submitted two months ago,
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Do you think that we were able to see all of the political narratives unfold then
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you can see there's things in the book that are as late as June.
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And I went back and I updated some numbers and some things.
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I wasn't just sitting around in those two months,
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it was a little unclear for everyone in those first weeks,
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which like the Soviet Union and Chernobyl was more interested in covering up
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there has only been a single person under the age of 20 who has died from
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And that person had preexisting conditions where had terminal diseases
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So this is not a disease that affects children.
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The annual death toll from the flu and pneumonia is every year between 7,000
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And so now some of the government overreactions seem even more absurd,
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like closing schools when kids don't get sick from it.
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The places in Canada that had the least virus outbreaks were the ones that were
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And one of the things we document in the book is how Trudeau actually never
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They came every day during the peak of the crisis.
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Over a million Chinese citizens have visas to come to Canada.
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There were special exemptions for anyone who claimed to be a refugee,
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they were specifically by executive order of Trudeau allowed to come in.
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we did learn things over the course of the last four months.
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113 days today since Ontario went into a two week emergency mode.
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it's funny you mentioned that because I remember when,
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George Bush just sitting in the classroom doing nothing as the time passed from
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Justin Trudeau sat on vacation for days and days and days and did nothing.
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And there was very little criticism from the mainstream media in that.
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And you actually had laid this out very early in the book.
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even when Ontario public health officials had sort of alerted themselves and,
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And what I find so interesting is that we've seen almost an inverse reaction
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from the federal government where earlier on when a swift response was
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needed because we didn't know what we were dealing with,
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now that things have become a bit more measured and we have more information,
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the federal government is continuing to ramp up its response on,
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that when I remember that first case in Ontario,
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because it's not often that you have sort of a panicky press conference on a weekend
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There was a manhunt for the other 30 people near him on the plane.
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I added up how many days Trudeau was away from Canada since he became PM.
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What was the last time you had a 17 day vacation?
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where he was going to hand out foreign aid to try and get a UN vote.
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So in the period of time when the virus was arriving in Canada and starting to spread,
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Trudeau waited six more weeks because he was busy flying around.
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more vacations in the period of the virus arriving in Canada than at any other time in his five and a half years as prime minister.
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He was still campaigning for that UN Security Council seat.
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on that campaign trip where he announced he was giving our,
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our personal protective equipment stockpile to China.
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how can I give Chinese made protective gear back to China?
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There's a lot of things I cover in the book and I hope we can talk about his ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Cause that's actually what I mean by China virus.
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the other day announced he's not going to meet Trump and the Mexican president.
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The only time he left is to do the black lives matter,
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he's childish in the middle of this whole thing.
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in an age where we need men and it's not changing.
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do you think if Donald Trump just went back to Trump tower in New York city and
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ordered DoorDash all the time and came out once a day for some blah,
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Do you think the media in America would accept that?
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if Boris Johnson just went to his country home and just hid out for 113 days,
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do you think the fleet street tabloids would be fine with that?
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And it's a combination of a lazy disinterested prime minister who has deep ties to China and
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but an economic and political and diplomatic and security disaster.
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Let's turn to that ideological component there because the government's position on China,
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And I know you've been covering it as we have here at True North along the course of this pandemic.
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It has been very dangerous from Patty Haidu to Francois-Philippe Champagne to Justin Trudeau himself.
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And when it comes to Canada's relationship with China, which has really been,
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one of the most revealing and illuminating things throughout this pandemic,
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Now, you're saying there's an underlying ideological support for China there
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that's not just a weakness or limp-wristed approach to foreign policy,
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And I start by talking about Justin Trudeau's dad, Pierre Trudeau.
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And remember, Pierre Trudeau, there was no tyrant he didn't love.
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He went to the Soviet Union and said Soviet Siberia was the land of the future.
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Pierre Trudeau went to China even before he was prime minister to celebrate Mao's revolution.
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So Pierre Trudeau was very pro-communist, not just pro-China.
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Anyone can love China, the people, the culture, the history, the art, the architecture,
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But remember when he was asked that day at that liberal fundraiser,
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He said China, but he didn't say all the things I just listed that are wonderful about China.
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He said the most odious thing about it, which is, quote, it's basic dictatorship.
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And in the book, I quote his brother, Alexandra, otherwise known as Sasha Trudeau.
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So his brother, Sasha, who was his foreign policy advisor during his leadership campaign,
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He's a policy advisor who, by the way, did propaganda films for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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So again, his brother, there's no one, there's no tyrant his brother didn't love.
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His brother wrote an insane obituary for Fidel Castro and the Toronto Star.
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Well, then there's Trudeau's own, you know, laudatory statement of Fidel Castro.
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But let me tell you one quick thing about Sasha Trudeau.
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So he was writing a little preface to a book or something about China.
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And then he said, and he said this in an interview.
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He said, well, it just grew into a chapter and then it grew into a book.
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And he had this book about China called Barbarians or the New Barbarians.
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He was saying that Westerners are the barbarians.
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Any publisher in the world would publish a book by a Trudeau for vanity reasons, for sales reasons.
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Any Canadian publisher would publish it in a second.
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But he deliberately chose to have his book about China published by the Chinese government, the Chinese dictatorship.
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He loves working with dictatorships like he did with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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The whole book was an apology for communist China.
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And he specifically said he gave this book to his brother, Justin, right before Justin Trudeau went to China on the first visit.
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And obviously, it's solidifying the Trudeau family view that China and its dictatorship is noble.
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So it's pervasive in his family and in his senior staff.
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In my book, I argue that Peter Harder, who was the head of a major China lobby group in Canada, he was put in the Senate by Trudeau.
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But more important than that, he was in charge of the transition from Stephen Harper to the Trudeau government after Trudeau won in 2015.
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Harder was in charge of the transition team, which means he was really the boss for hiring hundreds and hundreds of appointees.
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So you could say it was the most important job, because other than choosing the cabinet, you're choosing every single official, every top official.
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So he put in pro-China activists, salted throughout the entire government.
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And it's just assumed that if you are a Trudeau liberal, of course you're pro-China.
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Like, John McCallum took $73,000 worth of free gifts from the government of China.
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But why would China give $73,000 worth of gifts to someone unless they thought, that guy's an asset?
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Well, yeah, and McCallum's downfall was, I think, being too open about his view of China.
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Yeah, and Huawei, the massive tech company, a rival to Google security threat, wants to build 5G networks in Canada.
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They're not allowed under Canadian law to donate to the Liberal Party.
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So they just back up the Brinks truck and dump money into Canada 2020, which is Trudeau's sort of in-house think tank affiliated with the Liberal Party run by Trudeau's lifelong friend.
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So there's so much cash being dumped on Trudeau by the Chinese communists.
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They're doing that because they have, to use the phrase, a Manchurian candidate.
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They have someone who, like even today, big screaming headlines in the Toronto Star, China is threatening retaliation against us.
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For all of the Canadian mainstream media was, you know, carrying U.S. congressional hearings live and talking about Trump and Russia, Trump and Russia, Trump and Russia.
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There's very little coverage of the mainstream Canadian media when it comes to Trudeau and China.
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So I think it's an important book, China Virus, How Justin Trudeau's Pro-Communist Ideology is Putting Canadians in Danger.
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Author Ezra Levant of The Rebel joining us now.
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You can get it on Amazon or we have a little website called ChinaVirusBook.com with the Amazon links there.
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It's on the bestseller list, I'm pleased to say, which tells me people want to hear the other side of the story.
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And I'm grateful to you for giving me a bit of a platform that Amazon denied me for two months.
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And you've got a five-star rating on Amazon already.
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So let's hope we can keep you on that bestseller list.
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Thanks for listening to The Andrew Lawton Show.
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