Rebel News Podcast - May 08, 2023


DAVID MENZIES ｜ Should Fox News be banned in Canada？


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34 minutes

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4,853

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325

Harmful content

Misogyny

11

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23

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EGAL wants Fox News gone in Canada, and they have a good reason. They're concerned that Tucker Carlson's anti-Transphobic rant about the LGBTQ+ community is inciting hatred and violence in the public square, and the police aren't going to do anything about it.

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00:00:00.000 Tonight, should Fox News be banned in Canada?
00:00:18.420 Well, there's at least one activist group that wants this to happen, and you won't believe
00:00:24.140 their rationale.
00:00:25.820 It's Monday, May 8th, 2023.
00:00:28.500 I'm David Menzies, and this is The Ezra Levent Show.
00:00:48.980 Should Fox News be banned in Canada?
00:00:52.360 An organization called EGAL, which stands for Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere.
00:00:58.960 They think so.
00:01:00.120 They want Fox News gone, as in permanently.
00:01:03.820 By the way, just how inclusive is EGAL when they don't even include T for trans in their
00:01:09.860 acronym?
00:01:10.320 Because we know EGAL is down with the radical transgender revolution, by the way. 0.86
00:01:16.920 Check out this photo on EGAL's homepage.
00:01:20.260 Yet again, another drag queen reading a book to elementary school children. 1.00
00:01:25.340 Disgusting.
00:01:25.880 And here's something more disturbing.
00:01:28.860 Instead of the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission telling EGAL
00:01:34.300 to take a long walk off a short pier regarding its frivolous complaint, the bureaucrats at Canada's
00:01:41.940 version of the Ministry of Truth are actually entertaining this complaint.
00:01:46.960 Yes, the CRTC is going forward with hearings to see if an American news channel should be expunged
00:01:55.360 from Canadian airwaves due to certain members in the spirit unicorn community suffering from,
00:02:02.500 well, hurt feelings, really.
00:02:04.940 The crux of the matter pertains to former Fox host Tucker Carlson moosing about the way
00:02:10.520 in which members of the Alphabet Soup community act out violently in the public square,
00:02:16.320 typically with little or no consequences.
00:02:20.160 Oh, we can't say that now, can we?
00:02:23.660 Not even if it's true?
00:02:26.180 Yeah, that six foot four bearded dude currently identifying as Tinkerbell.
00:02:31.040 Yeah, he might look like Herman Munster in a miniskirt, but Tinkerbell has feelings,
00:02:35.980 don't you know, and must be protected from wrong thought, even if he might be mentally ill.
00:02:43.380 In any event, here's an excerpt of EGAL's statement regarding Tucker's oratory, quote,
00:02:49.040 The coverage aimed to provoke hatred and violence against 2SLGBTQI communities,
00:02:58.200 particularly those who are two-spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming,
00:03:06.240 2STNBGN, end quote.
00:03:11.160 EGAL also provided examples ranging from the inflammatory, i.e. that the, quote,
00:03:17.860 trans movement is targeting Christians, end quote,
00:03:20.940 to the factual, quote, that trans people are given preferential treatment, end quote.
00:03:27.400 Yeah, but here's the thing, folks.
00:03:29.780 The ugly, unvarnished truth of the matter is that Tucker is right.
00:03:35.760 Trans people and their allies, typically Antifa wannabes,
00:03:40.140 who now drape themselves in the pink and baby blue colors of the trans flag,
00:03:45.280 well, they often self-identify as violent thugs.
00:03:49.020 And I'm sorry to say they do receive preferential treatment from members of law enforcement
00:03:55.060 because trans folks are not worthy of equal rights, but rather of extra special rights.
00:04:03.040 Case in point, billboard Chris.
00:04:05.000 That would be Chris Elston.
00:04:07.280 And he speaks out against the heinous practice of gender transition for children. 1.00
00:04:13.440 Chris is frequently attacked by the Love Trumps Hate Rainbow Coalition.
00:04:18.660 In fact, several months ago in Montreal, Chris had his arm broken.
00:04:22.000 The police response, well, the Montreal coppers were too busy enforcing masking laws 0.99
00:04:27.760 or shutting down the practice of journalism or something.
00:04:31.060 Yeah, they had no time nor inclination to do something about actual real and violent crime.
00:04:37.460 That might actually take a little more effort than, you know, biting into a chocolate eclair.
00:04:42.680 More recently, billboard Chris was physically assaulted in Vancouver in late March.
00:04:47.940 It was caught on film, and it was eyewitnessed by police.
00:04:51.920 Check it out.
00:04:52.580 Why do you think they're getting that kind of representation?
00:04:55.780 I mean, it clearly was aggressive violent assault.
00:04:59.140 You suck.
00:05:00.260 You suck.
00:05:01.080 Fuck you.
00:05:01.880 Fuck you.
00:05:02.480 You're not wanted.
00:05:03.260 Fuck you.
00:05:03.900 You're a fucking idiot.
00:05:05.440 You're a fucking idiot.
00:05:06.040 I don't know what to say.
00:05:06.860 I guess these police officers are mostly indoctrinated as well.
00:05:09.740 They're afraid of the mob.
00:05:11.980 Because you're a fucking idiot then.
00:05:13.760 I think they're afraid that if they do anything to actually keep law and order,
00:05:18.420 that they'll end up being on the end of this verbal abuse.
00:05:23.560 Fuck you.
00:05:24.200 So it's just cowardice from everybody all around.
00:05:26.580 Fuck you.
00:05:27.460 People probably want to know, how do you keep your composure?
00:05:30.520 Fuck you.
00:05:31.340 What's that?
00:05:31.940 How do you keep your composure?
00:05:33.540 Fuck you.
00:05:34.520 Fuck you.
00:05:35.560 Fuck you.
00:05:36.240 Fuck you.
00:05:37.560 Fuck you.
00:05:38.380 Fuck you.
00:05:39.800 Fuck you.
00:05:40.780 Fuck you.
00:05:41.920 Fuck you.
00:05:43.060 Fuck you.
00:05:44.060 Fuck you.
00:05:44.880 Fuck you.
00:05:46.020 Hey, get the fucking ass, okay? 0.97
00:05:48.140 Get the fucking ass, okay?
00:05:48.160 Get the fucking ass, okay?
00:05:50.060 Get the fucking ass, you son of a bitch. 1.00
00:05:55.280 Okay then, as I said, video evidence and eyewitness accounts.
00:06:00.060 And the end result?
00:06:01.360 Nothing to see here.
00:06:03.160 Please disperse.
00:06:05.940 Nothing to see here.
00:06:07.580 Indeed, check out the outrageous conduct of Vancouver police officer, Frederica Buckman. 0.90
00:06:14.260 Oh my gosh.
00:06:15.700 So, let me get this straight.
00:06:17.320 You doing your job and finding a guy who assaulted me is inciting violence.
00:06:22.880 So you're going to do nothing so that that person can go home and then nothing will come of this, correct?
00:06:27.280 I am right now keeping the peace.
00:06:31.960 Okay.
00:06:32.460 So when are we going to go find this person who assaulted me?
00:06:34.960 Okay.
00:06:35.460 And what would you like me to do with them?
00:06:37.060 Charge them with assault?
00:06:38.560 Arrest them like a police officer is supposed to do?
00:06:43.600 This is incredible.
00:06:44.600 Yeah.
00:06:45.600 This is absolutely incredible.
00:06:46.600 Yeah.
00:06:47.600 This is absolutely incredible.
00:06:48.600 Smirking the whole time too.
00:06:49.600 Just smirking.
00:06:50.600 And then you're going to go home and then you're going to say, well, what am I supposed to do?
00:06:55.440 This is such an embarrassment.
00:06:58.060 You should all be incredibly embarrassed.
00:07:01.840 What did you sign up for to do?
00:07:04.340 Why did you become a police officer?
00:07:07.260 Why did you become a police officer?
00:07:13.420 To allow violent criminals to assault people who don't think that children should be getting sterilized?
00:07:18.800 Then more footage shows Buckman cowering away and smiling with glee while Chris was mobbed and thrown to the ground by more trans activists right in front of her face.
00:07:32.320 Yep, nothing to see here, folks, except that goofy smile from Officer Buckman, yet another diversity hire disaster for the VPD.
00:07:42.360 Someone wholly incapable of performing her duties and upholding her oath due to another oath she has presumably taken vis-a-vis political correctness and wokeism. 0.99
00:07:54.780 But then again, maybe it might be harsh to single-handedly blame Buckman for her actions or, as the case may be, inactions.
00:08:04.620 Last month, a Toronto police officer leaked to us the transgender training Toronto cops are forced to endure these days thanks to an edict from the Ontario Human Rights Commission based on one complaint from a trans-something.
00:08:21.560 Check out this.
00:08:22.960 It's a message from none other than the former interim Toronto police chief, James Reimer.
00:08:28.400 Poor Reimer.
00:08:29.180 He displays all the enthusiasm of a man marching to the gallows as he explains what led to this torturous transgender training, 1.00
00:08:38.520 something that has little to do with law enforcement and everything to do with wokeness and political correctness and virtue signalling.
00:08:47.680 Welcome to the Diversity and Trans Inclusion module, an essential part of the Toronto Police Service's GDTI Inclusion Initiative.
00:08:55.300 The training you are about to undergo reflects our commitment to strengthening our relationship with the trans and gender-diverse communities in Toronto
00:09:03.760 and to making TPS a safe and inclusive workplace for our trans and non-binary employees.
00:09:10.360 In 2015, Boyd Kodak, a trans man, filed a human rights complaint after being discriminated against by both TPS and the Ministry of Community, Safety and Correctional Services.
00:09:22.180 Following his arrest, Mr. Kodak was placed in the woman's sections of both police and correctional facilities.
00:09:29.860 Had his gender-affirming articles confiscated.
00:09:32.700 Oh my God in heaven!
00:09:34.440 She had her gender-affirming articles confiscated?
00:09:37.780 In other words, they took away her dildo?
00:09:40.840 Sorry, but when one is being incarcerated, that standard procedure, when one is placed in a prison cell, you surrender your shoelaces, your necktie, wristwatch, cell phone, you name it.
00:09:53.020 But apparently a dildo is a gender-affirming article?
00:09:57.400 No, it's not.
00:09:58.780 It's most likely a phallic-shaped piece of plastic made in China.
00:10:03.360 And in theory, it's something that could definitely be weaponized.
00:10:08.260 Ah, but because the owner of the dildo is a transgendered humanoid, well, never mind. 0.99
00:10:14.760 The former intern chief continues his pep talk and he, as he no doubt ponders, why he ever chose a career in law enforcement in the first place.
00:10:24.540 In 2016, Mr. Kodak, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and the Toronto Police Services Board reached a settlement requiring TPS to take major steps to address the treatment of trans people in custody.
00:10:38.660 This case, Waterman v. the Toronto Police Services Board and the Missing Persons Report have served as catalysts for change.
00:10:47.180 TPS must do the necessary work to build bridges and restore trust with members of our vulnerable communities.
00:10:55.800 Oh my goodness.
00:10:56.760 Reimer then goes on and on and on, forced to do so by the non-elected and unaccountable Ontario Human Rights Commission.
00:11:05.520 But at the end of the day, the Toronto Police Trans Training and I bet several other police forces in our Great Dominion,
00:11:13.300 well, they're embracing all this rubbish.
00:11:15.100 It all boils down to a three-part lesson going forward.
00:11:20.000 Number one, if it's trans, it's good. 0.83
00:11:22.140 And if it's good, it's trans. 1.00
00:11:24.280 Number two, transgender people should be treated in a special way because, well, these are special people.
00:11:30.940 And number three, if anyone has a problem with the transgender agenda,
00:11:35.840 then you are insensitive at best and a hateful transphobe at worst, 0.53
00:11:40.840 and you need to be re-educated or even punished.
00:11:45.800 In any event, EGAL's position seems to be this.
00:11:49.760 The Toronto Police Service and other law enforcement agencies have gotten with the program,
00:11:55.400 whereas Fox News remains an outlier.
00:11:58.380 So the solution is simple, off with their heads.
00:12:02.900 Fox News must be banished from the Canadian airwaves because this vile news network, it's dangerous, you see.
00:12:10.500 Kind of like a downed hydro wire.
00:12:13.860 Indeed, at the end of the day, censorship being carried out by the blackface regime and its lapdogs, 1.00
00:12:21.000 be it bureaucracy such as the CRTC or the trained SEALs in the mainstream media.
00:12:27.120 Well, such censorship, it's not an act of oppression or suppression, but rather it's an act of kindness.
00:12:35.800 It's all about sanitizing things, you know, for our own protection.
00:12:41.620 But EGAL is dead wrong regarding its journalistic jihad for several reasons.
00:12:47.800 And here are just a couple.
00:12:48.980 Firstly, there are already existing laws in the Criminal Code of Canada when it comes to defamation, libel, and slander.
00:12:57.220 These shysters at EGAL should know this.
00:12:59.720 They claim to be lawyers, after all.
00:13:01.560 Yet they know that nothing Tucker Carlson has ever said on this file meets the benchmark of defamation, libel, or slander.
00:13:10.620 They have on their hands what's known in the legal profession as a shite case,
00:13:16.180 at least in a court of law it is.
00:13:18.980 So their plan B is to circumvent that whole messy legal process.
00:13:24.520 Just go to the broadcast version of Big Brother.
00:13:27.720 Let's get the CRTC to deliver a papal bull-like command to banish filthy Fox News from the airwaves.
00:13:35.320 EGAL is trying to take a shortcut by pleading their case before a bureaucrat as opposed to a judge.
00:13:42.280 Because all they have is a nothing burger with fries.
00:13:47.820 Secondly, here's another reason this mission is an outrage.
00:13:52.220 Fox News is not on one's basic cable package to begin with.
00:13:56.660 A cable subscriber has to actually request Fox News.
00:14:00.480 That, of course, means the consumer desires the content and is willing to pay cash money for it.
00:14:07.520 So if you are of the belief that Fox News is the TV equivalent of Satan's waiting room,
00:14:13.900 well, one need only vote with his or her wallet and not subscribe.
00:14:18.140 Let the free market take care of the issue.
00:14:22.120 Ah, but then again, when it comes to the blackface regime, 1.00
00:14:25.460 as we have seen with the recent passage of the censorious Bill C-11,
00:14:30.680 blackface has no intention to treat adults as adults, 0.99
00:14:35.120 especially those adults with contrarian opinions.
00:14:39.240 So it is that the bailiwick of blackface is to eradicate the airwaves and the internet 1.00
00:14:45.820 of disinformation and misinformation.
00:14:49.980 Blackface, the former part-time drama teacher,
00:14:53.520 well, he knows what's best for all of us, after all.
00:14:57.340 So it is that the presence of Fox News on Canadian airwaves
00:15:01.760 is a problem that does not really exist.
00:15:05.300 No fix is necessary because absolutely nothing is broken.
00:15:10.900 But the X factor is the CRT itself.
00:15:13.700 Suddenly, this irrelevant bureaucracy is becoming far more relevant
00:15:18.240 and far more scary every day thanks to the empowerment given to it
00:15:23.820 by the censorious thugs who comprise the blackface Liberals. 0.93
00:15:28.560 Once upon a time, the ostensible policy reason for the CRTC
00:15:31.960 was to promote Canadian content.
00:15:35.300 The idea was that little Canada shared a border
00:15:38.720 with the mighty cultural leviathan of the USA.
00:15:42.580 How could Canucks in the music and TV and movie industries
00:15:46.360 possibly go up against the likes of Hollywood
00:15:49.300 without a little government assistance vis-a-vis Canadian content rules,
00:15:54.800 especially given that American TV signals seamlessly crossed over
00:15:58.820 the U.S.-Canada border,
00:16:00.360 while virtually 100% of the movies being screened in Canadian theatres
00:16:05.580 were sourced from the U.S.
00:16:08.140 So it was the very rationale for the existence of the CRTC
00:16:13.140 was to lend a helping hand to Canadian musicians and film and TV actors.
00:16:18.600 But make no mistake, like any bureaucracy,
00:16:22.340 the CRTC always had a political bent.
00:16:25.920 And yes, folks, I speak from bitter experience.
00:16:29.540 For example, several staffers here at Rebel News,
00:16:32.160 including the big boss man himself, Ezra Levant,
00:16:34.860 and yours truly,
00:16:36.380 well, we're refugees from the Sun News Network.
00:16:39.280 In February of 2015, the CRTC assassinated Sun News.
00:16:45.780 Sun News was merely seeking the same license
00:16:49.280 that so many other Canadian specialty channels had.
00:16:53.660 Many of those specialty channels dined out
00:16:55.800 on broadcasting decades-old American sitcoms.
00:16:59.660 And really, when it comes to the so-called CanCon rules,
00:17:04.400 what is even remotely Canadian about that?
00:17:07.320 Meanwhile, Sun News was owned by a Quebec-based company, Quebecor.
00:17:12.160 The head office and main studios were based in Toronto.
00:17:15.840 There were Sun News bureaus from coast to coast.
00:17:19.200 More than 200 Canadians were employed at Sun News,
00:17:22.340 telling Canadian stories to a Canadian audience.
00:17:26.460 How much more Canadian can you possibly get?
00:17:30.120 And yet, even though the Sun News presentation
00:17:32.920 to the CRTC was brilliant,
00:17:35.160 The CRTC pubas, like modern-day Caesars at the Roman Coliseum,
00:17:41.380 well, they turned their thumbs down.
00:17:43.600 They killed the Sun News Network.
00:17:46.320 What was the official reason, you ask?
00:17:47.860 Oh, that's the thing, folks.
00:17:49.580 They don't have any reason.
00:17:51.680 They don't have to give a reason.
00:17:54.000 They just did it.
00:17:55.660 But we all know what the unspoken reason was.
00:17:58.760 A right-leaning news media outlet in Canada
00:18:01.800 simply would not be tolerated.
00:18:05.200 That's a little too much diversity, 0.94
00:18:07.940 as in diversity of opinions.
00:18:09.920 So it was, buh-bye, thanks for coming out.
00:18:13.780 And here's why I truly worry about the future of Fox News.
00:18:17.900 Even before the passage of C-11,
00:18:22.120 the CRTC banned Russia Today, a.k.a. RT,
00:18:26.180 without even the pretense of public hearings on the matter.
00:18:30.620 Now, maybe you look upon RT as state-sponsored propaganda
00:18:35.220 from the Kremlin,
00:18:36.680 or maybe you look upon RT as an alternate source of information.
00:18:41.700 That's not the issue.
00:18:43.420 Just like Fox News,
00:18:44.800 RT was a subscriber-based service in Canada.
00:18:48.800 You don't like RT?
00:18:50.020 Don't subscribe.
00:18:51.580 But no, yet again, the black-faced liberals, 0.98
00:18:54.160 they are the self-proclaimed adults in the room.
00:18:58.100 And so it is that they weaponized the CRTC
00:19:01.040 to vaporize RT without so much as a cursory debate.
00:19:06.680 Yes, I know you can still access RT
00:19:09.120 via this whiz-bang thingy called the World Wide Web.
00:19:13.260 But we all know what's coming next, don't we?
00:19:16.320 Thanks to blackface. 1.00
00:19:18.200 You see, at the end of the day,
00:19:20.700 the liberals and their useful idiots
00:19:22.820 are engaged in a war against hatred.
00:19:26.980 And the nuclear bomb in their war chest is censorship.
00:19:31.620 Even when the so-called hatred is not hatred at all,
00:19:36.060 as is the most recent case with EGAL's idiotic claims
00:19:40.580 that Fox News is transphobic, whatever that means.
00:19:44.520 But that's the thing, isn't it, folks?
00:19:47.100 Be it out on the battlefield
00:19:48.560 or within the broadcast biosphere,
00:19:52.360 the first casualty of war, as always, is the truth.
00:19:56.720 See, folks, do you remember way back in 1968
00:20:10.960 when former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
00:20:14.020 had this famous quotation, namely, quote,
00:20:17.680 there is no place for the state
00:20:20.240 in the bedroom of the nation, end quote.
00:20:22.940 Well, folks, that was then and this is now
00:20:25.340 because under Prime Minister Blackface, 0.60
00:20:28.420 the state is very, very interested
00:20:31.220 in what's going on in your bedroom.
00:20:34.040 And yes, we have the evidence.
00:20:37.340 Joining me right now is Franco Teresano
00:20:39.360 of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:20:43.020 And Franco, you've done it again, your organization. 0.58
00:20:47.020 You've gone into the records
00:20:49.720 of the federal bureaucracy
00:20:51.840 and you have discovered that the government
00:20:55.560 is now funding, I think it's called,
00:20:58.840 senior sex story shows.
00:21:01.480 Franco, what in the world do you mean by that?
00:21:04.780 Okay, so we're not only funding
00:21:06.380 senior sex story shows,
00:21:08.200 we're outsourcing seniors sex story shows.
00:21:11.880 Like, we are funding these sex story shows
00:21:14.660 around the world in places like Australia,
00:21:17.520 Austria, and Taiwan.
00:21:19.900 So we found through an access
00:21:21.300 to information request
00:21:22.320 that the government of Canada
00:21:23.320 has spent more than $12,000
00:21:25.920 paying for these live performances
00:21:28.220 where seniors in other countries
00:21:30.420 get on stage and relive their sexual histories
00:21:33.640 to a live audience talking about
00:21:35.800 the first, the last, the best,
00:21:38.180 the worst sexual experiences
00:21:40.200 they've ever had.
00:21:42.140 Now, you know, when parents tell their children
00:21:44.760 to listen to their elders,
00:21:45.980 I don't think this is what they had in mind.
00:21:48.900 Please, I scare easy.
00:21:50.960 But Franco, what in the world
00:21:53.140 is the ostensible policy reason
00:21:55.100 for this in the first place?
00:21:57.640 Yeah, yeah, I'd love, you know what,
00:21:59.040 I'd love to sit down with the bureaucrats
00:22:01.640 when they're in this room deciding,
00:22:03.300 you know, what should we do
00:22:04.160 with all this taxpayer money?
00:22:05.780 I'd love to sit down with those bureaucrats
00:22:07.800 who said, yep, funding senior sex story shows
00:22:11.420 abroad is a good use of taxpayers' money.
00:22:13.860 You know, I kid, of course,
00:22:15.980 this is an awful use of our tax dollars,
00:22:19.600 but this is funded through what's called
00:22:21.940 the Mission Cultural Fund.
00:22:24.240 It's a little-known slush fund
00:22:26.140 that Global Affairs Canada has,
00:22:29.100 and the policy objectives are supposed to be
00:22:32.680 to promote Canada abroad
00:22:34.020 and to push forward Canada's foreign policy.
00:22:37.220 Well, the obvious question is this,
00:22:38.860 how is paying for these sex story shows 0.80
00:22:43.000 in other countries promoting Canada?
00:22:45.160 Wow, the Mission Cultural Fund.
00:22:47.540 I'm sure there's a punchline there
00:22:49.300 involving the term, the missionary position,
00:22:52.840 but I dare not go there.
00:22:55.180 But Franco, this to me is perverse.
00:22:58.720 I mean, look what Canadians are dealing with right now.
00:23:01.940 Inflation, interest rates going through the roof,
00:23:04.900 this continual attack on our freedoms via censorship.
00:23:09.820 And somehow, some way, some bureaucrat
00:23:12.780 with some bureaucracy said,
00:23:14.280 no, we got to get this senior sex story initiative going.
00:23:19.020 Who asked for this in the first place?
00:23:22.600 Well, you know what would be a better use
00:23:24.300 of taxpayers' money?
00:23:25.920 Paying seniors to talk about anything else.
00:23:27.800 Literally anything else.
00:23:29.560 I mean, look, here's a novel idea.
00:23:32.780 Maybe the government gives it a break on the sex shows 1.00
00:23:36.340 until it pays down its $1 trillion debt.
00:23:39.520 And when I say sex shows, I do mean plural
00:23:41.920 because we also discovered
00:23:43.900 that through this Mission Cultural Fund,
00:23:46.280 previously, it spent about 8,800 bucks
00:23:49.340 on a sex toy show in Germany, okay?
00:23:53.380 Now, call me old-fashioned,
00:23:55.100 but if the Germans want to have sex toy shows, 0.91
00:23:57.380 maybe they can fund it with their own money
00:23:59.900 and not rely on Canadian taxpayers.
00:24:03.460 Yeah, no, I guess you're an old-fashioned square then, Franco.
00:24:07.380 But, you know, as you mentioned,
00:24:09.260 trips to Vienna, Austria, Melbourne,
00:24:12.620 Taipei City, Taiwan,
00:24:14.380 as they say, the bottom line is the bottom line.
00:24:18.620 How much went into this nonsense, Franco?
00:24:22.160 About $12,500.
00:24:24.520 Okay, so first of all, I mean,
00:24:26.640 no taxpayer's money should be going
00:24:29.200 to fund live performances of seniors
00:24:31.700 in other countries reliving their sex lives.
00:24:34.880 I can't believe I have to say that out loud with my mouth,
00:24:37.360 but there is no way that Canadian taxpayers
00:24:39.240 should be funding that.
00:24:40.100 I mean, come on, right?
00:24:41.920 But look, this is such a waste of money.
00:24:44.720 This whole Mission Cultural Fund
00:24:46.100 should be scrapped completely.
00:24:47.940 It's always going over budget.
00:24:49.780 Let me just give you some other examples
00:24:51.280 of what has been used through this funding.
00:24:54.820 The government spent like $51,000
00:24:56.940 for a Brian Adams, yes, that Brian Adams,
00:25:00.440 to have a red carpet photo exhibit.
00:25:03.060 The government spent $15,000
00:25:05.080 through the Mission Cultural Fund
00:25:06.660 to promote the famous cartoonist
00:25:09.020 Lynn Johnston's work in Washington.
00:25:11.820 And it also spent nearly $10,000
00:25:13.900 to promote Margaret Atwood,
00:25:16.460 the famous author,
00:25:17.480 to promote her book in Australia.
00:25:19.040 So this Mission Cultural Fund,
00:25:20.920 what it really smells like to me
00:25:22.260 is just you have these bureaucrats 1.00
00:25:24.320 who have way too much of taxpayers' money
00:25:27.180 on their hands
00:25:27.920 and are just looking to spend money, right?
00:25:30.240 Because none of these things
00:25:31.540 that the Mission Cultural Fund
00:25:33.360 is spending money on
00:25:34.920 of the list that I just said,
00:25:36.960 none of this should be a priority
00:25:38.180 for Canadian taxpayers.
00:25:39.860 You know, this is obscene in a way, Franco.
00:25:42.260 I mean, I've never seen homeless
00:25:44.120 worse than it is right now
00:25:45.620 in the streets of Toronto
00:25:46.620 and several other Canadian cities.
00:25:48.160 And you mentioned those names,
00:25:49.860 Lynn Johnson, Brian Adams, Margaret Atwood.
00:25:51.960 These are all millionaires.
00:25:53.660 Why do they need a handout
00:25:55.260 to exhibit their works in the first place?
00:25:59.600 They don't.
00:26:00.460 They don't.
00:26:01.320 They don't.
00:26:02.020 And the government doesn't have money, right?
00:26:03.880 The government doesn't have
00:26:04.920 all these buckets of cash lying around.
00:26:07.040 You know, I made a little bit of a joke earlier,
00:26:08.340 but the government is more
00:26:09.480 than a trillion dollars in debt.
00:26:12.120 The government isn't flush with cash.
00:26:13.940 The government has been raising taxes
00:26:15.700 year after year, this year alone.
00:26:17.280 Payroll tax is up.
00:26:18.640 Carbon tax up.
00:26:19.900 Alcohol tax is up.
00:26:21.460 In July, second carbon tax coming in, right?
00:26:25.220 Let's look about just the debt servicing costs.
00:26:27.400 You know, this year,
00:26:28.640 it'll cost taxpayers about $44 billion
00:26:30.980 just to pay the interest charges
00:26:33.300 on the government credit card.
00:26:34.640 And now we find out about all this spending,
00:26:37.400 like $12,000
00:26:38.800 to fund these live performances
00:26:40.500 of seniors on stage
00:26:41.640 talking about the best and worst sex
00:26:43.280 they've ever had.
00:26:45.240 This is not a priority.
00:26:46.480 It should not be a priority.
00:26:48.320 The government doesn't have money for this.
00:26:50.200 And taxpayers surely don't have money
00:26:52.300 to be funding this.
00:26:53.760 No, and I know I run the risk
00:26:56.260 of being called an attacker of the arts,
00:26:59.640 but the idea of the Mission Cultural Fund
00:27:02.920 existing in the first place,
00:27:05.620 that really grinds my gears, Franco.
00:27:08.020 And I'm looking at
00:27:09.140 some of the previous performances.
00:27:11.140 You mentioned in your report,
00:27:14.100 2019, the Mission Cultural Fund
00:27:16.800 gave almost $9,000
00:27:19.020 to the Canadian artist Peaches.
00:27:22.300 Oh, I can just imagine what Peaches is. 0.99
00:27:25.960 And that was to fund
00:27:27.840 a multimedia art exhibit
00:27:29.360 in Hamburg, Germany
00:27:30.840 with the provocative title,
00:27:33.760 quote,
00:27:34.960 whose jizz is this?
00:27:37.480 End quote.
00:27:37.960 I mean, I think that's borderline
00:27:40.440 pornographic, Franco.
00:27:41.820 I mean, like, again,
00:27:43.520 I know pornography, rather,
00:27:46.000 is legal in Canada,
00:27:47.480 but I don't think
00:27:49.060 it should be taxpayer funded.
00:27:50.660 What say you?
00:27:52.620 Of course it should not
00:27:54.100 be funded by the taxpayer.
00:27:56.920 You know, I can't believe
00:27:58.280 we're having this conversation right now.
00:28:00.680 Right?
00:28:00.960 How outrageous is it
00:28:02.360 that the government finances
00:28:04.040 has deteriorated
00:28:05.200 to such an extent
00:28:06.220 that you and I
00:28:06.820 are even having this conversation.
00:28:08.740 Right?
00:28:09.000 We shouldn't have to say,
00:28:09.980 hey, maybe we don't fund
00:28:11.040 sex toy shows
00:28:12.860 or sex story shows
00:28:15.020 around the world.
00:28:16.200 That should not be controversial.
00:28:18.340 Right?
00:28:18.700 Like, that shouldn't be
00:28:19.420 a controversial thing to say.
00:28:20.800 We shouldn't be having
00:28:21.540 this conversation at all.
00:28:22.840 But yet we are
00:28:23.660 because the government
00:28:24.760 is spending thousands of dollars
00:28:26.660 to stage these live performances
00:28:28.980 where people can go on stage
00:28:30.340 and talk about their sex lives
00:28:31.860 or spending nearly $9,000
00:28:34.120 to have this art show,
00:28:36.140 if we can call it that,
00:28:37.860 that features giant sex toys.
00:28:40.360 And look,
00:28:40.840 if you want to have
00:28:41.960 your own art show
00:28:42.960 that does these things,
00:28:45.580 okay, I guess, right?
00:28:47.600 But you shouldn't rely
00:28:48.780 on other people
00:28:49.540 to fund that art show.
00:28:52.020 And another thing
00:28:52.860 that I just want to address
00:28:53.820 because I hear some people
00:28:54.700 talking about the public art.
00:28:56.820 Well, just because
00:28:57.440 you call something art,
00:28:58.500 it doesn't mean
00:28:59.280 you should get taxpayers' money.
00:29:01.860 No, 100%.
00:29:03.540 And I know art
00:29:04.820 is in the eye of the beholder,
00:29:06.320 but I know when something
00:29:07.800 is gross and obscene
00:29:09.300 and, for that matter,
00:29:10.400 fiscally irresponsible.
00:29:12.080 You know,
00:29:12.460 I go back to that date again,
00:29:13.980 2019.
00:29:14.940 That's one etched
00:29:15.940 in my memory, Franco.
00:29:17.400 That was the year 0.96
00:29:18.220 Mad Magazine
00:29:18.940 went out of business.
00:29:20.140 That periodical used to be
00:29:21.600 a license to print money.
00:29:23.400 One of my theories
00:29:24.760 is that the world
00:29:26.420 just got too mad
00:29:28.080 for mad to parody.
00:29:30.280 And when you dig up
00:29:31.300 stuff like this,
00:29:32.700 this is more proof
00:29:33.680 in the pudding
00:29:34.140 that a satirical magazine
00:29:36.480 like Mad Magazine
00:29:37.460 is obsolete.
00:29:40.220 Last word goes to you,
00:29:41.860 my friend.
00:29:43.220 Yeah, I mean,
00:29:43.800 we were just on the hook
00:29:44.720 for the most expensive game
00:29:46.200 and maybe the most disturbing game
00:29:47.860 of Never Have I Ever.
00:29:51.900 Unbelievable.
00:29:52.880 Well, as the saying goes,
00:29:54.120 sex, sex, sex. 0.51
00:29:55.180 I've had it up to here with sex.
00:29:57.520 Not lately, folks,
00:29:58.600 but then again,
00:29:59.300 maybe I should join
00:30:00.220 a Ottawa federal bureaucracy
00:30:02.020 and it'll like,
00:30:04.020 I don't know,
00:30:04.700 be Las Vegas on steroids. 1.00
00:30:07.260 Franco,
00:30:07.860 thank you so much
00:30:08.840 for your due diligence.
00:30:09.920 Thank you for exposing this.
00:30:11.380 And, you know,
00:30:11.640 it just goes to show
00:30:12.620 the late great mayor
00:30:14.600 of Toronto,
00:30:16.020 Rob Ford,
00:30:16.760 he always said,
00:30:18.060 and he got derided for it,
00:30:19.340 but this is more proof
00:30:20.300 in the pudding
00:30:20.800 that Mayor Ford was right.
00:30:22.980 We don't necessarily
00:30:24.040 have a revenue problem.
00:30:25.860 We have a spending problem,
00:30:27.800 which is to say,
00:30:29.080 bureaucracies,
00:30:30.420 cities,
00:30:30.960 provinces,
00:30:31.520 the federal government,
00:30:32.480 they spend needlessly,
00:30:34.740 in some case,
00:30:35.900 millions,
00:30:37.100 billions of dollars
00:30:38.140 when all that
00:30:39.440 could be hemmed in.
00:30:42.040 And as a result,
00:30:43.080 we have nonsense like this
00:30:44.660 that if you weren't
00:30:45.620 paying attention,
00:30:46.740 we never would have heard
00:30:47.780 about it from the train seals
00:30:49.080 in the mainstream media.
00:30:50.700 So, Franco,
00:30:51.960 thank you so much
00:30:52.820 for this enlightening report.
00:30:55.860 Well, folks,
00:31:06.960 lots of feedback
00:31:07.760 from Ezra's show
00:31:08.900 on Friday
00:31:09.500 in which his monologue
00:31:10.600 was about
00:31:11.280 the Liberal Convention
00:31:12.420 and his interview
00:31:14.060 was with Aaron Gunn
00:31:15.340 regarding that
00:31:16.240 Vancouver dispensary,
00:31:18.660 a dispensary
00:31:19.400 for hard drugs,
00:31:20.860 if you can imagine.
00:31:21.840 Oy, oy, oy.
00:31:23.100 In any event,
00:31:23.880 Three Cracked Cheeks
00:31:25.260 writes,
00:31:26.560 were these policy
00:31:27.520 recommendations
00:31:28.220 written by high school students?
00:31:30.700 Are there any adults
00:31:32.280 in the Liberal Party?
00:31:34.480 You know,
00:31:34.700 I've got to be honest,
00:31:35.560 I think high school students
00:31:37.080 could do a far better job.
00:31:39.380 I've been to several
00:31:40.320 school demonstrations
00:31:41.720 recently,
00:31:42.420 and I've got to tell you,
00:31:43.860 the kids are all right.
00:31:45.300 They're not down
00:31:46.320 with this woke,
00:31:47.800 progressive agenda.
00:31:49.700 So, yeah,
00:31:50.640 let's put the high school kids
00:31:52.460 in charge of the next
00:31:53.600 Liberal Policy Convention.
00:31:54.960 I think they'll do
00:31:56.300 a hell of a lot better
00:31:57.480 than the so-called
00:31:58.660 adult Liberals
00:31:59.800 in the room.
00:32:01.300 Shadow 9449
00:32:03.800 writes,
00:32:04.840 Legal,
00:32:05.700 safe,
00:32:06.400 responsible,
00:32:07.300 firearm ownership,
00:32:08.700 bad.
00:32:09.440 Hard drugs,
00:32:10.340 good.
00:32:11.120 Welcome to
00:32:11.960 Trudeau's Canada.
00:32:13.480 You know,
00:32:13.760 you're absolutely right.
00:32:15.340 The idea
00:32:16.000 that going after,
00:32:17.220 oh,
00:32:17.380 I don't know,
00:32:17.880 Saskatchewan
00:32:18.740 duck hunters
00:32:19.820 is going to solve
00:32:21.440 criminal activity
00:32:23.420 in the inner cities
00:32:25.060 of our nation.
00:32:26.800 It's absolutely
00:32:28.020 nonsensical.
00:32:29.540 Illegal handguns
00:32:30.580 will always be a thing
00:32:31.780 by criminals
00:32:32.980 because here's the thing
00:32:34.340 that Trudeau
00:32:35.560 and Marco Mendicino
00:32:36.840 and Bill Blair
00:32:38.020 fail to understand.
00:32:40.200 Criminals,
00:32:40.880 by definition,
00:32:42.580 break the law,
00:32:43.820 including gun
00:32:45.080 ownership laws.
00:32:46.560 Unbelievable.
00:32:48.020 Bruce Acheson
00:32:48.880 writes,
00:32:49.420 Trudeau and his
00:32:50.320 WEF buddies
00:32:51.580 want the drug 0.90
00:32:52.800 crisis to continue.
00:32:54.860 It gets rid of
00:32:55.740 what they think of
00:32:56.980 as useless eaters
00:32:58.840 and life
00:32:59.880 unworthy
00:33:00.460 of life.
00:33:02.200 A number of
00:33:02.800 academics
00:33:03.300 have claimed
00:33:04.240 that 90%
00:33:05.160 of humanity
00:33:06.020 must die off
00:33:07.260 so the population
00:33:08.520 will be sustainable.
00:33:10.540 Naturally,
00:33:11.180 the elitists
00:33:11.780 won't be in the 90%.
00:33:13.560 They'll still
00:33:14.800 be the 1% 0.99
00:33:15.780 with the other
00:33:16.620 9%
00:33:17.560 as their slaves.
00:33:19.060 You know,
00:33:19.260 well said,
00:33:19.820 Bruce.
00:33:20.220 One law for thee,
00:33:21.520 one law for me.
00:33:22.520 I've always said,
00:33:23.580 you want me to
00:33:24.640 chow down
00:33:25.160 on a cricket sandwich
00:33:26.300 and a mealworm pie?
00:33:28.700 As soon as
00:33:29.580 Claude Schwab,
00:33:30.660 the head honcho
00:33:31.500 at the WEF,
00:33:32.820 puts down
00:33:33.500 his filet mignon
00:33:34.780 and gets out
00:33:35.820 of his limousine,
00:33:37.160 I will follow
00:33:38.140 likewise.
00:33:39.100 Which is to say,
00:33:39.940 folks,
00:33:40.400 never going to happen.
00:33:42.580 Well,
00:33:43.120 ladies and gentlemen,
00:33:43.780 thank you so much
00:33:44.460 for tuning in
00:33:45.160 to tonight's edition
00:33:46.220 of the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:33:47.960 Really appreciate
00:33:48.920 your support.
00:33:50.360 I think the Big Boss Man
00:33:51.760 is back tomorrow.
00:33:53.260 In the meantime,
00:33:54.280 as always,
00:33:55.360 stay safe
00:33:56.160 and stay sane.
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