Rebel News Podcast - August 08, 2019


Canadian media blames Trump for U.S. gun crime — So why don’t they blame Trudeau for Canada’s gun crime？


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Why do the Canadian media always blame Donald Trump for U.S. gun crime? And why don't they blame Justin Trudeau for Canada's own gun crime problems? Ezra takes a look at the stats and tries to figure out why.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels.
00:00:00.920 Hey, I make an observation today, and I show you some charts.
00:00:04.720 We've got some serious gun crime in Canada, not as bad as in the States, I'll grant you 1.00
00:00:08.420 that, but Toronto has exceeded New York City for murder rates.
00:00:12.760 What do you think of that?
00:00:14.240 But here's my observation.
00:00:15.880 Why is it that the media never blame Justin Trudeau for shootings up here, but they blame
00:00:22.800 Donald Trump for shootings down there?
00:00:24.820 I go into it a bit and show you some stats.
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00:01:00.540 Okay, here's today's show.
00:01:02.700 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.
00:01:05.880 Tonight, the Canadian media blames Trump for U.S. gun crime.
00:01:09.520 Why don't they blame Trudeau for Canada's gun crime?
00:01:12.760 It's August 7th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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00:01:29.700 right to do so.
00:01:35.960 Look at this headline from last year in the fancy-schmancy Toronto lifestyle mag called
00:01:41.480 Toronto Life.
00:01:43.260 Toronto's homicide rate is now higher than New York's.
00:01:46.980 You know, Toronto always compares itself to New York City, which will always result
00:01:50.820 in disappointment, but this time Toronto's inferiority complex was finally overcome.
00:01:55.380 You've got a better chance of being murdered in Toronto than in New York.
00:01:59.700 That sentence would have been inconceivable back before New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned
00:02:05.860 up the crime in New York in the 90s by respecting and empowering the police.
00:02:10.900 and siding with citizens against gangs.
00:02:13.620 So New York is getting safer, and at the same time, Toronto's Mayor John Tory has presided
00:02:19.140 over a police force that is becoming demoralized, that is being told to turn a blind eye towards
00:02:25.160 low-level street crime and higher-level crime.
00:02:27.780 Beggars and squatters and drug dealers, for starters.
00:02:30.540 So yeah, congratulations, Toronto.
00:02:34.260 Now, the last full year for which we have statistics was 2018, the year Toronto finally beat New
00:02:40.720 York, but over the weekend in Toronto, whoa, did Toronto ever take a great leap forward,
00:02:46.060 if by forward you mean more gun crimes.
00:02:49.760 17 shootings in Toronto over the long weekend.
00:02:53.780 17, that's incredible.
00:02:55.340 For Toronto, I mean, for Iraq or Afghanistan, that's just sort of normal. 0.67
00:02:58.960 Now, I chose that story in Global News pretty much at random.
00:03:02.860 It had four reporters working together.
00:03:06.200 Now, that's a lot of reporting firepower, especially these days.
00:03:09.000 Yet they managed to report the story without once criticizing Justin Trudeau.
00:03:13.920 And that's probably the right thing.
00:03:15.680 I mean, you know who you can blame for crime?
00:03:19.860 The criminals.
00:03:21.300 Is there a policing problem?
00:03:22.860 Maybe.
00:03:23.500 Maybe the chief of police has some answering to do.
00:03:25.540 Maybe the mayor.
00:03:26.220 But what would you even blame Justin Trudeau for?
00:03:29.660 Perhaps if he let in the criminals through his open borders immigration plan? 0.97
00:03:33.620 Maybe.
00:03:34.240 Or if his weakening of our criminal justice laws had let a repeat offender back on the
00:03:38.900 streets?
00:03:39.240 Maybe.
00:03:39.680 But we don't have those facts yet.
00:03:41.760 But in general, why would you blame Trudeau?
00:03:44.700 Other than, I suppose, in the most general sense, Trudeau was in charge of public safety.
00:03:48.660 He even has a department named that, run by the least incompetent cabinet minister,
00:03:53.360 Ralph Goodale.
00:03:53.900 But something is wrong.
00:03:57.100 I suppose it is wrong.
00:03:58.680 There is someone to blame because Toronto is breaking records for shootings again.
00:04:02.500 244 shootings so far this year.
00:04:05.020 Here's historical records of Toronto shootings, courtesy of the Toronto police.
00:04:09.420 They have very detailed stats, very meticulous.
00:04:11.960 I'm not blaming Trudeau.
00:04:13.300 Really, I'm not.
00:04:14.080 But if I were, I'd point out that while shootings in Toronto declined every year in Stephen Harper's
00:04:21.700 last four years as prime minister, they've increased every year under Trudeau.
00:04:26.800 In fact, they've doubled.
00:04:29.100 Now, I'm actually not blaming Trudeau.
00:04:31.060 The blame is wider spread than that.
00:04:32.920 But I mention that because the Canadian media, which never, not once, blames Trudeau for massive
00:04:37.540 guns sprees in our own country, immediately blames Donald Trump for guns sprees in the United
00:04:41.880 States.
00:04:42.320 Isn't that odd?
00:04:43.840 Every single media outlet in Canada has gone nuts linking gun crime in the United States
00:04:51.200 to Donald Trump.
00:04:51.900 I'm talking about Canadian media now.
00:04:53.640 I'm not even talking about U.S. media.
00:04:55.880 So the exact same Canadian reporters that specifically do not blame gun crime in Canada on Trudeau do
00:05:04.200 blame gun crime in the U.S. on Trump.
00:05:07.020 How do you do that acrobatic trick?
00:05:08.940 Even when the killer is anti-Trump, hates Trump, such as the mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio, who
00:05:18.140 was an Elizabeth Warren Democrat, who proudly retweeted Democrats, who was an Antifa left-wing
00:05:25.400 activist.
00:05:26.740 You could probably call him the first Antifa murderer, but it's all on Trump.
00:05:31.640 Have you even seen a reporter ask Elizabeth Warren about him?
00:05:35.100 Again, I don't blame Elizabeth Warren for the Dayton, Ohio murders. 1.00
00:05:38.940 I blame the murderer.
00:05:40.340 But if you can blame Trump, why can't you blame a Democrat who was a hero to the political
00:05:45.180 murderer?
00:05:45.720 Well, the question answers itself, doesn't it?
00:05:47.560 As you may know, the CBC state broadcaster has set up an election time war room, and they
00:05:53.500 have been using that to attack Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier.
00:05:56.600 Well, they deployed their war room in the wake of the Toronto shootings to defend Ralph
00:06:02.960 Goodale, to defend him.
00:06:04.160 Not to criticize him, and to gently nudge him towards more gun control, as if gang-style
00:06:10.100 shootings, who are already using illegal guns and using them illegally, as if more laws
00:06:17.320 on paper would stop them, more red tape.
00:06:19.440 It's a joke.
00:06:19.880 Goodale and Trudeau have no idea of what to do, any more than most U.S. Democrats have
00:06:25.120 no idea what to do.
00:06:26.600 But the CBC's there to make sure that the Democrats and the liberals are comfy, and to
00:06:31.520 tuck them into bed nicely, they save their rage for Donald Trump.
00:06:35.820 If I had to assign blame, I'd blame the shooters.
00:06:38.420 But perhaps the politician with the closest nexus to the problem is the mayor of Toronto, who
00:06:44.820 also shapes police policy, here's the hapless John Tory.
00:06:49.380 The mayor also emphasized his call for a handgun ban in the city, a message he's been touting
00:06:57.460 since last year.
00:06:58.820 Really, at the root of this is people carrying guns in their pockets and feeling that they're
00:07:04.000 at liberty to use them, even when they're in the most trivial disputes that you have every
00:07:08.440 day in your life, he said.
00:07:10.580 That's really, that's a weird thing to say.
00:07:14.100 But it's already happened, shooting people, it's extremely difficult to get legal handguns
00:07:19.620 in Canada.
00:07:20.180 Almost no one can.
00:07:21.840 There are, I think there's probably fewer than 10 concealed carry permits in all of Toronto,
00:07:27.860 if even that many.
00:07:28.580 All of this misconduct in Toronto on the weekend, it's already, I don't know, illegal in half
00:07:35.780 a dozen ways, let alone the actual shooting.
00:07:38.660 Adding another paperwork crime layer isn't going to stop a gang member from shooting.
00:07:44.200 Let me quote John Tory one more time on the state broadcaster who love him.
00:07:48.260 He has no idea what to do, clearly.
00:07:51.100 And therefore, he can have no plan to do what he doesn't know what to do.
00:07:54.580 He's helpless and pitiful, as he is on most things.
00:07:57.040 He has no knowledge or experience actually solving problems about crime like Rudy Giuliani
00:08:02.340 did.
00:08:03.220 Giuliani was a prosecutor who went after the mob.
00:08:06.340 John Tory has weakened the police.
00:08:07.740 He doesn't know what to do.
00:08:10.620 I've certainly come to realize, and I think most people do as well, there is no magic answer
00:08:14.140 to this.
00:08:14.640 And so when this kind of thing happens in a concentrated way, it's very frustrating, very
00:08:18.640 angering, and very sad, and bottom line, unacceptable.
00:08:22.720 Now imagine if that's all Trump had said.
00:08:24.640 Hey guys, sorry, but it's really unacceptable what happened, and yeah, that's all I got.
00:08:33.180 Oh my God, that would be a ferocious feeding frenzy.
00:08:35.620 But Ralph Goodale and John Tory say those things, and the CB says, come here, you big lug.
00:08:40.180 Let me give you a kiss, you guys.
00:08:43.200 And the Globe and Mail is pretty much the same way too.
00:08:45.020 Here's their editorial.
00:08:45.680 Yes, Canada already has a solid regime of gun control, including prohibitions on certain
00:08:50.740 high-powered and high-rate-of-fire weapons, and the screening all purchasers must pass.
00:08:56.060 The current gun control rules work and contribute to lower violence, but they could work better
00:09:00.760 and do more.
00:09:01.780 That's the best they got.
00:09:03.200 It's pretty clear that the guys at the Globe and Mail know about as much about guns as they
00:09:07.460 do about oil or wheat.
00:09:09.060 They've seen it on TV somewhere, and then there was this great article in the New York
00:09:12.840 Times, I remember.
00:09:13.660 Let me just copy that.
00:09:14.980 In other words, making handguns legally unavailable, I'm quoting them again, will not cause the crime
00:09:21.060 rate to plummet overnight, nor will it lead to an abrupt collapse in the murder rate, they
00:09:25.600 admit.
00:09:28.060 They admit they have no clue.
00:09:30.540 Because they've already done, we've already done in Canada everything they say that we should
00:09:34.480 do, and it's not working, and they have to say something.
00:09:36.660 I think I know what's happening here.
00:09:40.060 What do you think of this theory?
00:09:41.460 In the United States, the left hates guns, and the right, I don't know if they love guns,
00:09:46.160 they love gun ownership, the right to have guns, and it's a culture war between left
00:09:49.160 and right.
00:09:49.420 In Canada, we do have plenty of farmers and ranchers with guns, and some aficionados in
00:09:54.100 the city who like target practice, for example.
00:09:56.380 Some folks do have a gun for home defense, for feeling confident, but not that many.
00:10:01.840 We don't have concealed carry permits in Canada, many, and it's just not that big a part of
00:10:06.780 our political conversation.
00:10:07.980 It's just not in Canada.
00:10:09.060 I'm just making an observation.
00:10:10.100 So railing against gun crimes, especially gun crimes clearly committed by street gangs
00:10:16.420 in Toronto, it's really not going to demonize the Conservative Party.
00:10:21.480 Canadians know that what happened in Toronto, it's not a gun problem, it's a gang problem,
00:10:29.800 it's a policing problem.
00:10:31.360 And I've shown you, none of the liberals in charge have a clue of what to do.
00:10:35.500 No one in the liberal media elite does either.
00:10:37.760 I mean, there's not gang shooting problems on the farm where everyone has a gun.
00:10:42.540 But they do know one thing, if they blame Trump enough, talk about Trump enough, focus on Trump
00:10:50.480 enough, people might forget that Canada is running aground.
00:10:55.640 And the people we count on to fix our problems in Canada, well, they have no bloody clue.
00:11:01.460 Well, stay with us for more.
00:11:04.260 Welcome back.
00:11:19.000 Well, Justin Trudeau was at a pride parade where he often is during the summer, and he
00:11:23.940 was asked about the mass shootings in the United States, and he actually gave a very pleasant
00:11:27.280 and thoughtful answer showing his solidarity with the Americans who had been shot.
00:11:31.840 But then in a bizarre pivot, he moved to blame, I think, his conservative counterparts.
00:11:41.000 He was asked about a mass shooting in the United States, and he ends up by denouncing Canadian
00:11:46.540 conservative politicians as being in league with haters, implying perhaps even in league
00:11:52.100 with mass murderers.
00:11:53.440 Here, judge for yourself, take a look at this incredible clip.
00:11:55.600 Obviously, today, I need to start with a reflection on the terrible attacks in the United States.
00:12:04.780 We are grieving for the families, and of course, we stand with our American neighbors as they
00:12:10.240 work through this difficult time.
00:12:11.460 Well, I think we know that, unfortunately, there's a greater and greater polarization in
00:12:15.820 politics, not just around the world, but in Canada as well.
00:12:19.720 That's why it's so important that we all stand together in moments like this.
00:12:23.040 We're standing up for human rights, standing up for communities who are marginalized, who
00:12:26.760 continue to suffer a greater degree of hate crimes and intolerance than other communities.
00:12:32.820 That's particularly why I'm glad to be here, walking alongside a number of party leaders,
00:12:38.940 including Jip Meek Singh and Elizabeth May.
00:12:41.880 This is important that it shows that we are standing unequivocally in favor of human rights,
00:12:47.000 in defense of Canadians.
00:12:48.460 It's just unfortunate that there are still some party leaders who want to be prime minister,
00:12:53.340 who choose to stand with people who are intolerant instead of standing with the LGBT community.
00:12:57.520 Just incredible there.
00:12:59.440 He talked about, oh, there's some awful people bringing greater polarization.
00:13:03.760 We need to stand together against intolerance, all of us together,
00:13:08.460 except that bastard conservative party who loves hatred.
00:13:13.180 Oh, my God.
00:13:14.420 And I think he got away with it.
00:13:16.440 Joining us now via Skype is our friend, Andrew Lawton from TNC.news.
00:13:21.480 Andrew, good to see you.
00:13:23.280 Did I overstate or misunderstand that?
00:13:26.600 He was asked about a mass shooting in America, and he ends by,
00:13:31.560 I think he was blaming Andrew Scheer or Maxime Bernier, I think.
00:13:35.240 What happened there?
00:13:36.260 Well, I think Justin Trudeau has been watching too much of that old Friends episode
00:13:41.140 where Ross is trying to get a couch into his apartment and has to yell out,
00:13:45.180 pivot, pivot, pivot, every three seconds.
00:13:47.220 I think he has had programmed into his mind, pivot to calling everyone a racist,
00:13:51.520 pivot to calling everyone a bigot, pivot to talking about diversity being our strength.
00:13:55.680 And he does it, even when he's giving a response that ostensibly is,
00:13:59.360 or at least should be, about offering sympathy, thoughts, and prayers to our greatest ally,
00:14:04.780 our neighbor to the South.
00:14:05.800 But this is not new.
00:14:07.800 And I think the juxtaposition of this response from him coming in an answer
00:14:12.500 that was supposed to be about sympathy for the United States is one thing.
00:14:16.820 But it also comes a week after Justin Trudeau proudly proclaimed that his campaign,
00:14:22.420 his re-election campaign, would not be about wedge politics or division,
00:14:26.560 that it would just be on, we're going to put our positive liberal vision forward
00:14:30.160 and Canadians are going to vote for it.
00:14:31.760 And it took a matter of days for him to then switch that to,
00:14:36.220 we're just going to name call the other side.
00:14:38.800 And by virtue of Andrew Scheer not marching in the parade,
00:14:41.840 he is, in our view as liberals, standing with intolerance.
00:14:45.760 Yeah, and that's the best interpretation of what Trudeau said.
00:14:50.960 I think there's also a case to be made, maybe it's not the right case,
00:14:54.420 that he was linking Andrew Scheer to what happened in the United States as well.
00:14:59.260 I mean, I don't know.
00:15:00.420 Either way, it showed the polarization.
00:15:02.320 You recently wrote an article about this on TNC.news.
00:15:05.780 Your headline was, Trudeau says no to wedge politics.
00:15:09.060 Really.
00:15:09.900 All he does is wedge politics, whether it's feminism, calling other people misogynist,
00:15:18.200 homophobia, which he was implying that Andrew Scheer was homophobic,
00:15:22.980 Islamophobia.
00:15:23.820 He calls anyone who criticizes immigration Islamophobic.
00:15:28.880 I think that's his only card.
00:15:30.500 I mean, he's got the marijuana legalization card he can play.
00:15:33.680 But other than that, I really don't know what Justin Trudeau stands for in 2019,
00:15:38.040 other than calling his enemies names.
00:15:40.840 One of the big problems we have in politics now is that
00:15:44.300 the age of the Big Ten Party is going by the wayside.
00:15:47.800 The liberals want everyone in the Liberal Party to think and feel the same way,
00:15:51.460 which has been great for the conservatives,
00:15:53.240 because it means that there's no room for a pro-life liberal anymore.
00:15:56.480 There's no room for a Catholic liberal. 0.61
00:15:58.980 There's no room for a moderate liberal.
00:16:00.740 It's always just Justin Trudeau's liberal brand.
00:16:03.620 Whereas the Conservative Party of Canada has always tried to be,
00:16:07.080 as we often hear at the Big Blue Tent,
00:16:09.100 which means you've got your blue Tories, your red Tories,
00:16:11.420 your libertarians, your social conservatives.
00:16:13.540 That's the theoretical approach that the party goes for anyway.
00:16:17.720 But what it really is saying here is that Justin Trudeau is trying to drive wedges
00:16:22.620 between the conservative factions, basically.
00:16:26.060 So when he tries to make abortion the discussion,
00:16:29.000 he's trying to drive a wedge between the conservatives and the electorate,
00:16:33.060 and also between various sides of the conservatives.
00:16:35.240 When he talks about Islamophobia, he's doing the same thing. 0.87
00:16:38.740 So when you look back at the last almost four years now
00:16:42.240 that Justin Trudeau has been prime minister,
00:16:44.660 the entire agenda of his government has been about these wedge issues
00:16:48.940 that he now says he's avoiding.
00:16:50.860 And when he wants to run on name-calling
00:16:53.700 and really trying to do the whole deplorables routine,
00:16:58.000 which is just call certain people in Canada different names,
00:17:01.280 lump them into different groups, and so on,
00:17:04.020 he is actually embracing the very form of politics that he claims to abhor.
00:17:08.880 And it's not just him, by the way.
00:17:10.600 It's his whole government.
00:17:11.540 Ahmed Hassan, who has called critics of illegal immigration un-Canadian,
00:17:15.780 has now been caught on tape making a couple of bold claims about the conservatives.
00:17:21.360 Number one is saying that they want to restore a nation in which Islamophobia is okay. 0.93
00:17:26.600 That's his word.
00:17:27.580 But also he says that the conservatives dance with white supremacists.
00:17:32.080 Now, I don't know what Andrew Scheer means in Cherokee,
00:17:34.260 but I don't think it translates to dances with white supremacists.
00:17:37.660 And I also think that Justin Trudeau's India trip shows us
00:17:40.480 we shouldn't have our leaders dancing at all.
00:17:42.900 I don't like that, but the idea that Ahmed Hassan can so brazenly say
00:17:46.940 that Andrew Scheer dances with white supremacists
00:17:49.340 and that the conservatives are a party that wants to impose national Islamophobia,
00:17:54.420 how can they say they're running this on a positive vision?
00:17:57.920 They can't.
00:17:58.540 Yeah, here, let's take a quick look at Ahmed Hassan making that insult.
00:18:01.860 Take a look.
00:18:02.720 Just about having rights, but also exercising your responsibility.
00:18:07.240 And in an election year, one of the main responsibilities is what?
00:18:11.920 To vote.
00:18:13.360 All right, vote and vote for the right leaders,
00:18:16.300 the real leaders that will bring you together,
00:18:18.280 not divide you, not dance with white supremacists,
00:18:22.660 but actually bring people together.
00:18:24.240 You know, I find it incredible.
00:18:27.680 Ahmed Hassan is someone whose life, if we were to believe him,
00:18:31.160 was saved by Canada because he came to Canada applying as a refugee,
00:18:36.260 claiming he was in grave danger back home.
00:18:39.020 We saved his life, and not only did we do that,
00:18:41.760 but we opened every door to him, including to be an MP
00:18:44.820 and now a senior cabinet minister.
00:18:47.280 And he says that he, I mean, he says this repeatedly in tweets,
00:18:52.700 in press releases, in statements.
00:18:55.420 I think he's a bit of a racist himself.
00:18:58.100 He calls old stock Canadians racist.
00:19:01.720 He, I can't help but think that he hates something about Canada
00:19:06.840 because he sure calls Canada and Canadians names.
00:19:10.480 And I'm sorry, Andrew Scheer's a lot of things,
00:19:12.340 and I criticize Andrew Scheer a lot myself,
00:19:14.520 but he's not a white supremacist.
00:19:16.280 And to say that, I don't know who would possibly believe that
00:19:21.000 other than other new immigrants, other Somalis, other Muslims
00:19:25.460 who would say, oh, my, the most successful Somali in Canada,
00:19:31.000 the most powerful Somali in Canada is telling me
00:19:33.240 I should hate conservatives, so I guess I should
00:19:37.520 because I should trust the leader of my clan here in Canada.
00:19:41.880 I mean, I don't think any white, old stock Canadian 1.00
00:19:44.780 would believe that Andrew Scheer is a white supremacist.
00:19:47.200 I just don't believe it.
00:19:48.480 But maybe if you're a new immigrant, maybe if you don't know who to believe,
00:19:51.280 maybe you say, oh, geez, I'd better stick with the liberals
00:19:53.960 because the other guys hate me.
00:19:56.360 I think that's what's going on here.
00:19:57.940 They're trying to scare their own grievance groups
00:20:00.880 into sticking with the liberals.
00:20:02.240 One of the longstanding realities is that liberals think they have a monopoly
00:20:07.780 on the so-called immigrant vote.
00:20:10.420 And this is not to say that the immigrants are a homogenous group,
00:20:12.780 but the liberals try to do this all the time.
00:20:15.560 They tried to do it through Harper, and it tended to backfire
00:20:18.360 because most law-abiding immigrants in Canada
00:20:22.080 actually resonated with the conservatives on more things.
00:20:24.860 So I have to think that this will in some way backfire on the liberals
00:20:29.320 and that Canadians, new or lifelong Canadians, will see through this.
00:20:34.340 I mean, as for the claim that Minister Hassan is a racist,
00:20:36.960 I don't know if I'd go that far, but I would say that he's ignorant.
00:20:40.300 I mean, how can someone who literally is the embodiment of a Canadian dream,
00:20:44.660 a Somali refugee who is now a cabinet minister and the immigration minister,
00:20:49.180 how can someone like that claim that there is a deep-seated Islamophobia
00:20:53.800 or systemic racism in Canada when he has had an opportunity afforded to him
00:20:58.360 that many Canadians born in Canada would never have?
00:21:02.360 So it's certainly ignorant and reeks of ingratitude.
00:21:05.820 But beyond that, it's just bad politics, and it's insulting to Canadians
00:21:10.220 that you have this unity among the liberal elites in Canada
00:21:14.800 to just denigrate and demean Canadians that disagree with them on key issues.
00:21:19.820 Yeah. You know, I agree with you.
00:21:22.760 There were many... I mean, Ahmed Hassan, I studied him fairly closely
00:21:26.120 when he first was elected, and I found a very interesting presentation
00:21:32.020 he made when he was a private citizen to Canada's parliament.
00:21:36.040 And he actually said, Andrew, and I should dig this up again,
00:21:39.040 he said it's better to be a Muslim in Canada 0.98
00:21:41.260 than in most parts of the Muslim world.
00:21:43.740 He said, you're freer here, you're safer here.
00:21:47.560 I saw that testimony before... I'll send you the link to it.
00:21:51.060 I'll post it below this video.
00:21:53.880 He basically... It was a love letter to Canada.
00:21:56.580 I thought, boy, this guy, what a model citizen he is.
00:21:59.920 So he was praising Canada as one of the best places in the world to be a Muslim.
00:22:04.900 So a couple years later, what's changed other than he's with the liberals now
00:22:08.940 and his job is to smear Canada as haters?
00:22:11.360 Yeah, and I haven't seen that speech, but assuming it is, as you're relaying there,
00:22:16.360 that Canada is a better place to be a Muslim than most of the Muslim world, 0.99
00:22:20.100 it is completely contradictory to the narrative he's putting forward now
00:22:24.100 that Islamophobia is a clear and present danger
00:22:27.760 and a threat that the Conservatives are putting forward.
00:22:31.280 And I mean, I don't know the timeline on this, but it stands to reason
00:22:34.300 that the Conservatives were probably in office at the time
00:22:38.100 because they were there from 2006 to 2015 when he was elected.
00:22:42.800 So he was saying that a Conservative Canada, conceivably,
00:22:46.000 or at least a Canada that would elect a Conservative government,
00:22:49.200 is somehow safe for Muslims.
00:22:52.060 But now, a few years later, Canada is this bastion of Conservative-driven Islamophobia.
00:22:57.140 Yeah, and that's what irritates me, is that you can, it's like calling America racist.
00:23:03.920 Well, America elected a black president twice.
00:23:07.260 So how racist is it?
00:23:09.380 Because, of course, America, only 12% of Americans are black.
00:23:13.620 Obviously, a lot of non-black Americans voted for Obama, including in the South.
00:23:19.520 So it's a bit much for the most successful Somali you can point to in the country 1.00
00:23:27.480 to say that the country's racist against him when his own existence belies that.
00:23:33.560 And he himself professed a love for Canada until I think he was assigned his role.
00:23:41.180 His role is to scare black and Somali and Muslim Canadians away from Conservatives. 1.00
00:23:47.560 Every different grievance group in Cabinet, their job is to terrify and scare people away from Conservatives
00:23:57.600 by demonizing Canada as a hateful place.
00:24:00.480 I think Justin Trudeau is a divider in a way that the media have covered up.
00:24:06.900 Stephen Harper, ironically, was a uniter.
00:24:09.580 The biggest unifying thing he did, for example, was utterly take away any energy
00:24:14.180 from the Quebec and Western separatist movements.
00:24:17.940 Justin Trudeau inflaming Western separatism, inflaming ethnic separatism.
00:24:22.860 My last question for you, Andrew, is why is the mainstream media letting him get away?
00:24:26.980 Is it because he's so calm about it?
00:24:28.600 Like that pivot at the end there where he said, oh, yeah, we're all here being tolerant together,
00:24:32.820 except for that bastard Andrew Scheer, who's a white supremacist.
00:24:36.020 I mean, paraphrasing, obviously, and exaggerating, but the media just said,
00:24:40.080 yeah, okay, yeah, we absolutely are listening to you, Justin Trudeau, with any pushback whatsoever.
00:24:45.060 You're even seeing articles in the CBC and McLean's and places like that
00:24:49.080 that are credulously repeating Trudeau's pledge to be a positive campaigner,
00:24:54.640 even as he smears his opponents.
00:24:57.180 Where's the media on this?
00:24:58.500 Well, the media was still writing its story about how Andrew Scheer was a big old homophobe
00:25:03.900 for not going to the pride parade in the first place.
00:25:06.600 I mean, the media's narrative was pre-written.
00:25:09.320 It didn't matter what Trudeau said.
00:25:10.960 They had already determined their story was about how Andrew Scheer's absence is evidence of homophobia.
00:25:17.520 Well, I find this infuriating, especially since I know in the case of Amin Hassan, 1.00
00:25:21.960 and I'll have the link below, that I know he used to say, and I assumed he meant,
00:25:29.440 that Canada was a pretty great place.
00:25:31.760 Of course it was.
00:25:32.400 We saved his life.
00:25:33.720 And now that angry, angry tone, calling anyone who disagrees with him a hater or un-Canadian,
00:25:42.080 Trudeau did that to him, or maybe he did that to himself, but I don't accept it.
00:25:45.360 Andrew, it's great to have you on the show.
00:25:46.460 Thank you.
00:25:47.420 As always.
00:25:48.160 All right.
00:25:48.540 There you have it.
00:25:48.960 Andrew Lawton, he is with TNC.news, True North, our friends over there,
00:25:54.620 many great rebel contributors, including Candace Malcolm and Anthony Fury.
00:26:00.040 Stay with us.
00:26:01.000 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:26:12.660 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about crazy Kim Campbell.
00:26:16.380 Betty writes, Trudeau has no new talent to choose from.
00:26:20.020 He has to fall back on Kim Campbell.
00:26:22.460 Yeah, I really don't understand that appointment.
00:26:24.500 I mean, Jean-Claude Chen was already far too kind to her giving her that plum position in L.A.
00:26:28.860 as Consul General, which was basically a four-year party with Hollywood stars.
00:26:32.860 Not the A-list, but the C-list at least.
00:26:35.220 It's why, why is Trudeau doing, is it so that he can say, oh, I'm non-partisan.
00:26:40.320 Look, I appointed a conservative who's hardly conservative.
00:26:43.180 That's my theory, is that he didn't appoint her for her competence.
00:26:47.120 He appointed her because she's as crazy and left-wing as he is, but he can say, oh, no, 0.94
00:26:51.500 no, no, no, no.
00:26:52.060 I appointed the conservative former prime minister.
00:26:54.600 I'm very non-partisan.
00:26:56.660 Paul writes, this crazy woman has set herself up as Canada's number one social justice warrior. 0.98
00:27:00.960 This is insane.
00:27:02.500 She sounds just like one of Trudeau's acolytes.
00:27:05.260 Yeah, but even like some of the kookiest Trudeau zombies out there, Catherine McKenna comes to mind. 1.00
00:27:11.040 Even they have someone around them saying, calm down.
00:27:14.260 Like, remember when Catherine McKenna did that crazy drunk sorority girl video from a pub in Newfoundland? 0.96
00:27:21.740 Oh, my God.
00:27:23.080 I don't know how that got up, but some grown-up took that down.
00:27:26.680 Remember?
00:27:26.980 Remember, there's no grown-up around Kim Campbell saying, easy, easy, sober up, here's some coffee. 0.56
00:27:32.920 There's no one doing that, and so there's no governor on it.
00:27:36.680 There's no limits.
00:27:37.440 That's the difference.
00:27:38.620 Kim Campbell is the pure id of the Trudeau zombie, but there's no brake pedal. 0.60
00:27:44.140 It's only gas.
00:27:46.180 Karen writes, Campbell couldn't make it as an elected official, so she found some other way to pull strings, stay public, and get paid for it. 1.00
00:27:52.760 Yeah, I called her a grifter, and that's exactly what I mean. 1.00
00:27:55.760 I mean, she is a lawyer by profession.
00:27:57.980 How about just go and practice some law and have some dignity?
00:28:01.020 No, it's more fun to party in Hollywood on taxpayers' expense.
00:28:05.620 On my interview with Joel Pollack, John writes,
00:28:08.260 Joel had a good point.
00:28:09.060 With more freedom, you accept a certain amount of risk.
00:28:11.360 The challenge, then, is to reduce that risk as much as possible.
00:28:14.800 That's right.
00:28:15.320 That's the trouble with choice and freedom is the risk that comes with it, as opposed to the certainty of the misery of authoritarian regimes.
00:28:24.300 Well, folks, that's our show for today.
00:28:26.440 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at the Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
00:28:30.180 Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:28:31.980 We'll be right back.
00:28:50.240 We'll be right back.