Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ 100% of Canadians oppose mass immigration, says focus group

00:00:00.240 Hey folks, incredible show today. An enormous focus group paid for by your tax dollars shows

00:00:06.500 that everyone consulted wants less immigration in Canada. Every single person the government

00:00:12.920 asked. It's incredible. I have all the details for you. Then we'll check in on what's cooking

00:00:16.920 in Ireland with our friend Fatima Gunning. But then I did a little bit of investigative

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00:01:07.520 Tonight, 100% of participants in a liberal government focus group tell them immigration

00:01:13.180 is too high. It's July 30th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:17.300 You're fighting for freedom!

00:01:20.460 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:01:25.300 Amazing story in the independent news outlet called Black Locks. Like Rebel News, they don't

00:01:38.100 take any money from the government, by the way. Here's a story they ran today, very interesting.

00:01:43.640 Headline, Feds Take Wrong Direction. 100% of people questioned in Privy Council focus group

00:01:51.520 research say cabinet is headed in the wrong direction on immigration, records show. Researchers

00:01:59.320 acknowledged universal opposition to record high immigration levels, quote,

00:02:04.200 asked whether they felt the government of Canada was on the right or wrong track when it came to

00:02:09.140 managing the immigration system. All believed it was headed in the wrong direction, said a Privy Council

00:02:14.760 report. It was strongly believed the rate of immigration needed to be temporarily stabilized,

00:02:21.020 added researchers. Now, I obviously didn't sit in on the focus groups in question, but I think I know a

00:02:26.220 bit about how they work. A focus group is a kind of deep opinion pool, deep but not wide. What I mean by

00:02:32.300 that is an opinion pool asks hundreds or even thousands of people a few questions. The idea is to get a wide

00:02:40.080 enough, a large enough sample that statistically the group you select is likely to represent a larger

00:02:46.500 population. So when a poll says 43% of people will vote conservative and 23% will vote liberal,

00:02:52.260 they obviously haven't spoken to every Canadian. They probably spoke to one or 2,000 people spread out

00:02:58.500 across the country and then they extrapolated from that statistically. That's a poll. It's called a

00:03:04.700 census when you ask literally every single human a question. It's extremely expensive and hard to get

00:03:10.940 cooperation. That's why the government only does it once every five years or so. But a focus group is

00:03:15.020 sort of the opposite. It's a smaller group of people who usually show up in person in return for money and

00:03:21.880 maybe a meal. And typically, they're not just asked a question one-on-one. The group itself has a group

00:03:29.500 conversation. The group conversation is led by a pollster to make sure it doesn't go too far off

00:03:35.220 track and there's a note taker. But it's interactive amongst the group. Not too big a group, right?

00:03:41.680 Because you want everyone to be involved. No more than, I don't even think there'd be more than 10

00:03:46.520 people. Sometimes they're videotaped for later review. Anyways, you want to recreate the kind of

00:03:53.780 natural banter that normal people would have, say, at the office water cooler or even at a dinner party,

00:04:00.560 for example. Focus groups are often done in a variety of cities to take into account different

00:04:05.980 sensibilities. You're going to have some demographic diversity in there too, mixing up the ages, sex,

00:04:13.360 race, economic level. If it were just, say, college students, you'd get a very different result than

00:04:18.220 coal miners. So there's a bit of a mix, but the idea is to have the people talk amongst themselves.

00:04:23.780 These can be very expensive studies to do, but they can yield some really interesting information

00:04:29.920 about how people really think about subjects because you're not just forcing people to answer

00:04:35.420 a yes-no question that a pollster would write. In a way, the focus group lets the participants write

00:04:41.640 their own questions and then answer them. Anyway, you probably know all that. Oh, by the way,

00:04:46.280 this focus group costs nearly a million dollars in your tax money. Let me quote,

00:04:50.340 findings were based on focus groups nationwide. The research was commissioned under an $814,714

00:04:59.800 contract with the Strategic Council, a Toronto pollster. Oh my God, they're getting rich off

00:05:06.120 this liberal government. So look at that first point again. Asked whether they felt the government

00:05:11.540 of Canada was on the right or wrong track when it came to managing the immigration system,

00:05:15.740 all believed it was headed in the wrong direction. All. They all did. Every man, every woman, every

00:05:22.900 old person, every young person, every old stock Canadian, every new immigrant, everyone, literally

00:05:28.160 everyone said that. So this report says, and frankly, it's not hard to see why. Let me keep reading a

00:05:34.420 little bit. These latest statistics surprised even me. And I think I follow this issue closely.

00:05:41.000 Cabinet's current immigration levels plan sets quotas at 485,000 people this year, another half a million

00:05:48.140 next year, and half a million more in 2026. The quotas do not include an additional 1,040,000 foreign

00:05:56.820 students and 766,000 migrant workers led into Canada last year. A million foreign students.

00:06:06.180 There are not a million Canadian students in Canada. But in a way, there's not a million foreign students

00:06:11.780 either. That's sort of lying to yourself, which you should never do. Most of those foreign students, 0.98

00:06:17.220 they're not at U of T or UBC or Dalhousie or another real university. Most of them have signed up for fake

00:06:24.460 diploma mills, where a fake college is set up, charges enormous tuition. But what they're really

00:06:32.320 selling is a student visa to get in the country. So a million people who could not legally immigrate

00:06:38.360 here come here for a student visa for fake degrees. Some of them no doubt are real students, but not a

00:06:44.720 million of them. That's a million people who paid a fake college 10 or $20,000 in tuition. Just think about

00:06:51.740 that. A million times 20,000. That's $20 billion. They're getting rich out of selling out our country.

00:06:59.240 20 grand for tuition, maybe. Probably paid the same to an immigration consultant. Probably an

00:07:04.340 immigration consultant affiliated with the college. So once they come here, they're not going home.

00:07:10.120 They didn't pay the money for a student diploma. And then there's the so-called temporary workers on top

00:07:17.240 of that. Why are we bringing in 766,000 people to work at every Tim Hortons and McDonald's drive-thru

00:07:23.480 and every 7-Eleven in the country? Why can't young Canadians have those jobs? The obvious answer 1.00

00:07:29.840 is that Tim Hortons and the rest of them want to pay very, very low wages to these foreign workers 0.99

00:07:35.220 beneath what they would pay Canadians. These foreign workers drive down wages and take jobs that Canadian 1.00

00:07:41.920 citizens wouldn't or couldn't take or aren't invited to take at those low wages. But what if companies

00:07:47.840 doing business in Canada had to actually employ Canadian citizens? Well, maybe your Tim Hortons

00:07:53.860 coffee would be 25 cents a cup higher. But we'd have jobs for young people. And of course, with 766,000

00:08:02.360 fewer people in the housing market, young people could probably afford to move out of their parents and get

00:08:08.580 their own house if we had 766,000 fewer foreign workers. Of course, every single person in the focus 0.87

00:08:17.300 group objected to this. Of course, every single one knows that this country is changing in ways we were never

00:08:23.320 asked, we were never consulted, we were never even told about. I mean, did you know the numbers were so

00:08:29.740 staggeringly large? I guarantee you 99% of Canadians do not know the numbers. Here's our Sarah Stock asking some

00:08:36.640 questions of people on the street. Is there a cap you would put on the amount of people who could

00:08:41.140 come in per year? No. Well, I would I would think let it happen naturally or let it evolve naturally.

00:08:49.360 I've been to countries where people are living in absolute misery. And and it's our fault. It's the

00:08:56.740 Western world's fault. It's just if government take them. Maybe. Yeah, but I don't think so. You don't think

00:09:03.660 there? I feel like it's too much. Probably not, to be honest with you. I don't think we have the

00:09:07.260 infrastructure for it. Just need to be able to absorb people as they come, I suppose, you know?

00:09:13.320 I think, you know, we need to have systems in place. And I think, you know, we're Canada and we are a

00:09:20.340 country of immigrants. And so I think we just need to keep those doors open. It's like if you invited

00:09:24.240 someone to your house for dinner, right? And they come to your house for dinner and they look around,

00:09:28.260 they go, hey, you know what? I'm staying and you're paying and I'm forcing you to pay and I'm

00:09:32.940 going to live in your house. Let me read you a little bit more about the focus group. I mean,

00:09:37.080 you paid for it. You should at least learn what it said. Quote, several expressed the view that the

00:09:42.620 rate of immigration had been too high in recent years and that action needed to be taken to 1.00

00:09:46.820 temporarily reduce the number of people coming to Canada, including refugees and those seeking

00:09:51.900 asylum, said the Privy Council report. Continuous qualitative data collection of Canadians views.

00:09:58.260 It was felt that the current capacity of infrastructure and vital services could not

00:10:02.080 accommodate further increases to the population and that a priority needed to be placed on supporting

00:10:06.800 those already living in Canada. People are pretty sick of fake refugees. I think we're all feeling 1.00

00:10:14.960 like suckers now, like we've been duped, like we've been too hospitable for people who are taking 0.80

00:10:19.940 advantage. I think this is a very interesting story. I just keep coming back to that data point. 0.87

00:10:24.740 Every single person felt enough was enough. Every one, 100%.

00:10:30.900 Does that include Pierre Polyev? Will the Conservative Party leader start to speak for this massive,

00:10:38.700 massive group of Canadians for all Canadians? I sure hope so. Stay with us for more.

00:10:47.700 Well, I never thought I would be so interested in Ireland. It's a small country, half a world away,

00:11:01.740 barely five million souls. Of course, there are many Irish people in North America. But I never 1.00

00:11:07.560 thought I would go to Ireland itself. I went to the UK quite a bit to follow the case of Tommy Robinson.

00:11:12.460 He's actually half Irish, but he, of course, is affiliated with all things British. He even started

00:11:18.500 something called the English Defense League. So really, I had no knowledge about anything going on on the

00:11:25.220 Emerald Island until I started paying attention to some of the most extreme immigration policies I've seen

00:11:31.900 anywhere in the world. And I know Canada is out of control, but they do something really weird in Ireland

00:11:37.480 that I've never seen anywhere else. They just announced, without consultation, that they're going to take over

00:11:43.220 a town or a village. And, for example, in the little town, the village of Dundrum, 175 souls, the government

00:11:51.320 just announced they have done a deal with a local hotel to shut it down as a hotel and turn it into a refugee camp.

00:11:57.860 280 refugees in a village of 175 people just announcing it, fait accompli, ta-da, no consultation, no compromise, 1.00

00:12:08.340 no planning or zoning rules, just absolutely astonishing. It's almost as if it's designed to irritate and undermine

00:12:17.740 local sovereignty, local will. I mean, in the case of Dundrum, that tiny village, more than doubling the

00:12:27.340 population, a village with centuries of history, just absolutely incredible to me. So I've been to

00:12:33.480 Ireland twice now, and I hope to go back, but it is a long journey. And, of course, my main duties are here

00:12:40.680 in Canada, which is what we cover mainly. But I'm lucky enough to have made some friends with one of the

00:12:47.400 most important independent media companies in Ireland called Gript, G-R-I-P-T. And you can follow

00:12:55.780 them on their website, gript.ie. And I really like their style. I would say they're a little bit more

00:13:02.020 calm and a little less antagonistic than Rebel News. And I think that's their secret sauce,

00:13:07.860 is they found the sweet spot where they can challenge authority and challenge the establishment,

00:13:12.840 but still be polite enough company that they get into the press gallery, that they get into press

00:13:19.880 conferences and put questions to cabinet ministers. Let me start. We're about to have a great catch-up

00:13:26.240 chat with Fatima Gunning, one of their reporters. But since I've mentioned the village of Dundrum,

00:13:31.680 let me show you a three-minute video in exchange between another Gript reporter called Ben Scallon

00:13:37.440 and a cabinet minister of the Irish government about this little village of Dundrum. And when

00:13:42.960 we come back on the other side, we're going to talk to Fatima about that and all things Irish. Here,

00:13:47.720 take a look. Minister, we've heard that there's the village of Dundrum in County Tipperary, where

00:13:52.860 the population of the town is about 165 people. And there are plans to move more asylum seekers than

00:13:58.740 the local population. Do you understand why some locals would say that's just an absurd situation

00:14:03.660 and that this situation is out of control? Well, first of all, I haven't heard about that

00:14:12.780 particular instance, but I do know that Minister of Government's department does communicate and

00:14:20.640 consult with local communities. And I'm sure that work is ongoing as we speak at the minute.

00:14:27.140 I'm not familiar with that particular case.

00:14:29.760 But in general, would you say that it's sustainable that we do have villages around the country,

00:14:35.580 not just Dundrum, but other places where the government is talking about or has moved more

00:14:41.720 asylum seekers into the local area than there are locals, such as in Lisdu and Varna and other places

00:14:46.340 like that? Well, can I just say that in the majority of cases where people come into an area?

00:14:51.320 CCTV is in operation at this station. Well, CCTV defines a social show.

00:15:00.440 Keep us all on our toes, I suppose.

00:15:04.880 In many cases where people have moved into an area, the locals are there and they welcome them

00:15:10.700 and they integrate in. And I've seen that on many occasions myself.

00:15:14.960 Sure, but I'm sorry, Minister, but that's not really the question. I mean, of course that's true.

00:15:22.540 That's a separate issue to what I'm asking about, which is, again, the volume of asylum seekers that

00:15:28.160 are being moved specifically into some rural areas. Obviously, as the Minister for Rural Development,

00:15:32.940 if there's a large influx of people to a very small town, is that sustainable long term is what

00:15:38.540 I'm asking you. Do you understand why some people would have concerns about that?

00:15:41.080 Yeah, well, I do understand the people of concerns, but I can give you one very good example. And

00:15:44.940 Lisdu and Varna is a very good example. I've been down there a number of times myself. There was a lot

00:15:49.160 of people moved into that area and they have integrated exceptionally well. They're working

00:15:54.200 in the local community. They're working in the local community centre. I've been to visit them myself.

00:15:58.860 And that's a town where it has made a difference. In fact, there were plans to move some Ukrainians

00:16:05.240 out of a particular area into another area. And I actually got calls from local people saying,

00:16:10.700 please don't move them. These people are making a contribution. So I think there's concerns

00:16:15.020 initially, and I understand why people have concerns. But when they get to know the people

00:16:19.100 and they can see that they're making a contribution and they want to make a contribution in this country,

00:16:23.440 I think that's what we need to do. And they can see the difference on the ground. So it's important

00:16:28.180 that we don't have preconceived ideas about who's coming into our country. A lot of these people

00:16:34.340 are very genuine, honest people. They want to be here. They want to contribute. They want to work.

00:16:38.980 Well, that's Gript's Ben Scallon asking Heather Humphries about the little town of Dundrum

00:16:44.200 that's about to have its population more than doubled. She says, basically, look,

00:16:49.020 the Irish way is to be hospitable and welcoming. And she says that it has worked in other cases.

00:16:54.800 She refers to the Ukrainians. Ireland took an incredible 100,000 Ukrainians at the beginning

00:17:01.820 of the war. And just to put that in scale, that would be like 1 million Ukrainians coming to Canada.

00:17:07.700 Just an enormous amount. But there were some cultural and economic compatibilities.

00:17:13.880 Some of them spoke English. They're Christian. They have a certain economic and skills background.

00:17:21.120 And it is true. I found many Irish people were positive about Ukrainians. But what's being planned

00:17:28.900 for Dundrum and Kulak and other places is not for these families brought over from Ukraine who could 1.00

00:17:35.900 genuinely be called refugees, but rather asylum seekers, almost all the military-aged men from

00:17:43.000 places like Somalia or Nigeria or places where there's really very little cultural compatibility,

00:17:50.300 no economic compatibility, very little English skills. And I think that that minister was conflating

00:17:56.080 the two. In the end, I don't think she answered the question at all. How do you feel about putting

00:17:59.980 280 migrants in a town of 175? Very interesting days. But let us now talk to our friend Fatima Gunning, 0.96

00:18:08.440 a colleague of Ben Scallons at GRIP. Fatima, great to see you again. I had the pleasure of bumping into

00:18:14.920 you when I was in Ireland last time. There's so much going on. Why don't you sort of do a scan of the

00:18:20.500 country for us? I just wanted to show that video from Ben because it was about the very village that I

00:18:25.640 myself had visited. Tell me what's cooking in terms of immigration, crime, other issues that are causing

00:18:33.180 Ireland to convulse.

00:18:35.800 Well, I suppose even though, as I said before, the vast majority of Irish people surveyed said that they

00:18:41.680 think that the government has taken in far too many refugees and asylum seekers. The government is going

00:18:46.300 ahead and essentially leaving the situation as it is. I mean, you'll see Minister for Justice Helen McEntee do

00:18:53.240 things like she'll add countries to this safe country list, which is supposed to mean that people

00:18:59.880 coming there seeking asylum have their applications expedited because, you know, if you're coming from

00:19:05.200 somewhere like South Africa where there's no war, you're probably less likely to actually be a victim

00:19:09.720 of some kind of persecution. So she'll do things like that. And, you know, skeptics might say that that

00:19:16.100 is in some way to placate the public, but then you'll see figures coming out. Like, for example,

00:19:20.520 compared to this time last year, there's been a 96% increase in the number of asylum seekers coming

00:19:26.580 to Ireland. So despite these kind of, you know, token moves to make it more difficult or to speed up

00:19:34.020 processing times, implement deportations, the numbers we see coming are getting bigger and they're getting

00:19:40.860 substantially bigger. So you kind of have to ask yourself if what the government is doing is actually

00:19:46.160 making any difference. Um, and I suppose just to, to the point, uh, social protection minister,

00:19:52.400 Heather Humphrey saying she's insisting there that a minister for, um, integration, Roderick O'Gorman,

00:19:58.360 that he does communicate with, uh, locals when setting up these asylum seeker accommodation

00:20:04.640 facilities. I, I have spoken, Ben has spoken, anyone agree with, has spoken to a lot of people in,

00:20:12.300 in Wicklow, in Tipperary, where that is in just county after county, after county who say that

00:20:17.860 they were not in fact consulted. Um, usually in a lot of cases, what happens is, and I think this

00:20:24.380 is also the case in Kulak, um, also in the nearby area of Santry is that contracts will go out for

00:20:31.660 catering, let's say, or for some kind of works that they need to improve the facility. And through

00:20:38.460 those contracts, words will slip out, word will slip out that, oh, there's some movement going

00:20:44.920 on here. Why are they suddenly renovating this derelict building? And that's how people find out

00:20:49.160 that there's an asylum seeker proposed. It's not because the government are being transparent.

00:20:52.860 It's the most astonishing thing I've ever seen. If you want to build a skyscraper,

00:20:56.380 if you want to build a mall, if you want to build a parking lot, um, in every country in the Western

00:21:02.280 world, there's some municipal planning. What will it do for traffic? What will it do for safety? What

00:21:07.880 will it do for congestion? Um, do we have enough, uh, resources? If we're moving a bunch of people

00:21:13.620 here, do we have enough doctors? Like there's so much planning and, and this whole field of municipal

00:21:19.480 law and zoning has grown around how you handle building new things. And the idea that you would

00:21:27.580 just plunk 280 people in a village of 175 with no planning, no notice. When, when I was down in

00:21:34.820 Dundrum, the owner of the hotel that had done the deal with the government sped by in his car.

00:21:41.540 He's never spoken to the public at all. He's never done a media interview at all.

00:21:46.520 The contract he has is a secret. It's never been revealed. He has attended no town hall meetings.

00:21:53.460 Normally when there's a developer of a shopping center or a project, they go to a town hall and

00:21:58.860 basically get pummeled with questions for hours and they make a bunch of promises to get back to

00:22:04.300 the people. None of that has happened here. And it's all a secret and it's being issued from the

00:22:12.220 very top down. I have never seen anything like it in any country in the world where I've been

00:22:17.880 following mass immigration. Ireland is unique in how rough they are with their own people. 1.00

00:22:23.780 I don't understand that, Fatima, because in my mind, Irish are rebellious. They're independent

00:22:30.920 spirited. There's that nickname, the fighting Irish. Like the Irish are a stiff necked people. 1.00

00:22:38.680 And here you have governments basically say, be submissive. Your job is to agree. These

00:22:45.360 they're not consultations. They're one way edicts. I've just never seen anything like that

00:22:51.080 anywhere in the world, Fatima.

00:22:53.320 Right. And then the government is saying continuously that people don't have a right to

00:22:58.040 veto who comes into their neighborhood. So they're saying that, you know, we have a Sinn Féin leader,

00:23:04.060 Mary Lou McDonald, who up until five minutes ago was basically in lockstep with the government.

00:23:08.240 She's the leader of the opposition party, although you probably need to do a bit of reading to figure

00:23:12.960 that out. If you look at their policies, she has said that there needs to be more consultation,

00:23:18.580 but that people don't have a veto. So it's basically like, okay, we'll tell you what we're

00:23:22.760 going to do and you don't have a right to say no. So I don't know. We're going to tell you what

00:23:28.420 we're going to do and you're just going to accept it. So I don't really understand why that's a

00:23:34.140 consultation. You know, if you look at people trying to build housing estates or whatever,

00:23:37.860 like you do have the right to object. And then if the council finds in your favor, if the council

00:23:43.060 accepts your concerns about that planning application, that will be turned down and it

00:23:48.680 can be turned down multiple times, even if the proposed developer appeals it. So this is obviously

00:23:54.500 not the case with these asylum seekers. So I don't really understand how it is a consultation at all. 1.00

00:23:59.080 Yeah. It's just incredible to me. And I think, I mean, it's tough to talk about these things

00:24:05.020 without being called politically incorrect. But when I was in Dundrum, we saw some Ukrainians at

00:24:11.800 that hotel now. But when I spoke to the protesters at the front gate, they actually said that the

00:24:18.520 Ukrainians are assimilating well, they're active in the schools and in the community. I actually didn't

00:24:25.240 hear any objection to them. I think they were scared of the idea of hundreds of single military

00:24:32.060 aged men from countries of violence who are clearly bogus. Like when I saw you at a small town called 1.00

00:24:41.340 Newtown Mount Kennedy, where I encountered some of the men and they had all walked over from Northern

00:24:48.980 Ireland into Ireland proper. So they weren't flying in from Somalia or Gaza or wherever they said they

00:24:56.620 came from. They came through a series of countries, the last one of which was the UK and then into

00:25:02.900 Ireland. So of course, everyone knows they're bogus refugees. You're not in danger if you're coming from 1.00

00:25:09.640 the UK. You're not in danger if you pass through France. Whereas I think everyone knows in their bones

00:25:14.380 something bad is going on in Ukraine. And we can say, well, the young able-bodied men perhaps should 1.00

00:25:19.420 be in Ukraine fighting. But I think people understand in their gut, okay, if you're a family

00:25:25.000 from Ukraine, it's because there's a war. But if you're a single guy from Somalia, for example,

00:25:32.380 you know, Somalia is not a great place, but you did not come from Somalia to Dublin. You went through a

00:25:38.940 lot of safe places first. So everyone knows instinctively it's BS. What do you think of that?

00:25:44.380 Well, yeah, I mean, there's no direct flights between Dublin and Somalia. I don't think

00:25:48.780 Ryanair or Aer Lingus were planning to go there anytime soon. But yeah, like I've spoken to asylum 1.00

00:25:54.280 seekers outside, particularly this place called Crooksling, which is in a rural part of, it's kind

00:25:59.220 of on the borders of South County Dublin, a little bit of County Wicklow, very sparsely populated,

00:26:04.600 not much going on there, but a very beautiful area. And yeah, some of those guys, like African-looking 1.00

00:26:10.260 guys have British accents. So I'm like, where did you get your British accent? You must have been 1.00

00:26:14.300 in the UK for a couple of years before you decided to come to Ireland and claim asylum

00:26:19.180 from, you know, the war-torn region of the United Kingdom, as it were. And funnily enough,

00:26:25.340 I was actually up there yesterday visiting a family of four, an Irish man, his wife, I think

00:26:32.100 that lady is from Eastern Europe and their two kids who are being evicted. They have been evicted

00:26:37.960 actually from a log cabin they put on land that is owned by the family because South Dublin County

00:26:44.300 Council say that they, you know, they didn't apply for planning permission before they erected that

00:26:49.800 structure. Oh my God. So, so Irish nationals, they're being kicked out because they didn't go

00:26:55.880 through the planning rules. But these pop-up refugee camps aren't even subject to the planning rules.

00:27:01.160 That's astonishing. Right. And that particular family's home is a five minute drive from the

00:27:07.240 former nursing home, Crooksling, where hundreds of single male asylum seekers are being occupied now.

00:27:14.500 You know, and obviously planning laws have been, certain aspects of planning laws have been

00:27:18.640 abandoned in order to let that happen. So the government seems very, very, you know, happy enough

00:27:24.160 to evict Irish families into homelessness. Yet they say that housing asylum applicants, many of whom

00:27:32.160 are economic migrants who are taking advantage of the asylum system. We know that. Apparently that's, 0.99

00:27:38.360 that's an emergency, but housing homeless Irish families is not. You know, what I don't get is the Irish 1.00

00:27:45.580 guilt about this, because I know in, in the United States, there's the overhang of slavery

00:27:51.820 and the Jim Crow laws. And, and there is an expiation of that guilt through, you know,

00:28:00.260 certain racial set-asides or quotas or affirmative action, whatever. I mean, Abraham Lincoln himself

00:28:06.200 talked about how sort of cosmic justice required that any money made at the hand of a slave should be,

00:28:16.720 you know, that it was burnt up by the civil war. I mean, if you read his second inaugural address,

00:28:21.540 you can see that the moral guilt of slavery weighed heavily on Abraham Lincoln's mind.

00:28:27.140 Other countries, the United Kingdom had colonies around the world. And I would argue that those

00:28:32.020 colonies benefited immensely from the rule of law and peace and the English language and free market

00:28:38.420 economics. We can have that debate, but none of those things apply to Ireland. Ireland enslaved no

00:28:44.200 one. Ireland colonized no one. Ireland displaced no one. The Irish are the original people there.

00:28:49.820 If they were in Canada, they would be called First Nations. If they were in Australia, they would be 0.98

00:28:54.880 called Aborigines or, or Indigenous people. I don't understand why Indigenous people on the land in 1.00

00:29:00.920 Ireland are being kicked off their land for zoning reasons. While, why obvious fortune seekers who are,

00:29:09.780 like, I just don't think anyone in Ireland actually thinks that these IPAs, as they're called,

00:29:15.560 these asylum seekers, are legit. I just don't, I mean, everyone knows they just walked over from 1.00

00:29:20.600 Northern Ireland. I just don't get why Ireland is being taken as suckers here. That's what I don't 0.98

00:29:26.640 get is where this white guilt comes from in a country that is nothing to be guilty for. I am so

00:29:31.980 puzzled by that, Fatima. Well, I think that, you know, over the past couple of years, these kind of buzzwords

00:29:38.080 like racist and far right have been used to demonize anyone who even asks about this, even like mixed race

00:29:43.440 people like myself or people who are themselves immigrants from Eastern Europe, could be South America,

00:29:49.900 Africa, wherever they're from, people who have come here to work hard and try and like make a better life for

00:29:54.740 themselves and their families. Those kind of people have been dismissed and tired as racists. There are also

00:30:01.360 people like, I'll give you an example of a lady, her name is Dr. Ebon Joseph. She has been appointed as a racism 1.00

00:30:08.660 czar. So she's been given a bunch of taxpayers money to isolate instances where Irish people are 0.70

00:30:14.660 racist and essentially, you know, train Irish people not to be racist like you would train a dog not to 0.62

00:30:20.220 piss in your house. Excuse my language. So you have situations like that. And then also the government 0.98

00:30:26.080 does this thing and you'll have seen Minister Heather Humphreys do it in the clip you played a couple of

00:30:30.900 minutes ago, but they continually conflate, um, these refugees and asylum seekers, uh, people who

00:30:37.780 are economic migrants taking advantage of the asylum system. They continuously conflate those people 0.91

00:30:43.540 with people who have come here seeking work. So people who have actually come and are actually

00:30:48.580 paying their taxes, you know, integrating, doing their best to speak English or whatever. They're,

00:30:54.460 they're continually conflating those people saying like, Oh yeah, but if you capped the number of

00:30:59.500 migrants coming in, suddenly the hospitals wouldn't work anymore because there's so many Indian nurses. 1.00

00:31:03.720 It's like, well, we're not talking about Indian nurses when we talk about asylum seekers. That's

00:31:08.120 a completely different demographic. Yeah. I mean, you, uh, uh, we met up at Newtown Mount Kennedy,

00:31:13.580 which is, um, basically an urban refugee camp. They built a 10 foot steel wall around it,

00:31:18.540 not to protect the migrants, but to stop, uh, the Irish from looking in to see what's going on.

00:31:24.020 My understanding is that as a 100% male, uh, camp that there are no women in there. Is that your

00:31:30.700 understanding as well? Yeah, there's no women in there. They're like, a lot of those camps are 1.00

00:31:35.500 100% male, single male. Um, and, uh, you know, in Dundroma, as you may have mentioned the, uh,

00:31:42.800 originally it was occupied by Ukrainians and like, you know, in fairness to the Ukrainians, 1.00

00:31:46.920 like a lot of them are women and children. I mean, there have been issues raised regarding the

00:31:51.840 amount of Ukrainians taken in. It's at least 107,000. And also I think within the first year

00:31:57.200 of their accommodation, something like 750 million euros was paid for their social welfare.

00:32:02.380 Like they were getting pretty much the same job seekers allowances an Irish person would get. So 0.77

00:32:07.040 that was causing some controversy that you're getting like, you know, 120, 130 euros a week.

00:32:13.320 And you also have your accommodation paid for in a lot of cases. So a lot of people were kind of

00:32:18.240 questioning whether that was fair because, you know, Ukraine is a pretty large country.

00:32:21.720 So it's like, well, why do they need to come from the East Ukraine all the way to Ireland 0.91

00:32:25.400 when they possibly could be settled safely in another part of Ukraine? Um, so yeah, 0.72

00:32:30.280 there are, there are people who are also kind of questioning the, uh, the amount of Ukrainians

00:32:35.000 coming in and also like, you know, whether the ones here are actually from the areas of Ukraine

00:32:39.320 that are affected by the war, but like, um, be that as it may. Yeah. Like some of the centers

00:32:45.560 are initially sold as being for Ukrainians, uh, women and children, maybe families,

00:32:50.440 which is, it's a softer sell. It's a much softer sell to say that these people are families,

00:32:55.960 um, that the kids need to go to school X, Y, and Z than to say, well, we're going to move in

00:33:01.160 like 65 single men. None of them are vetted. We don't know. So a lot of them have come in with no

00:33:05.800 passports. We don't actually know where they are from. We don't know what they have done.

00:33:09.160 And if, you know, if they have criminal records, we just don't know that. So I think in, in some

00:33:13.480 ways the, the Ukrainian card has been played to kind of pull the wall over the people's eyes a

00:33:17.720 little bit. I think so. And, and anyone who shreds their documents upon coming across the

00:33:25.160 border, that's such a sign of bad faith. And in my mind, in my gut, that should be an automatic

00:33:30.200 deportation right there. Cause obviously they're coming to trick in, in law. If you lose a document

00:33:37.400 that you ought to have had, the courts often make an adverse inference. That is, if you lost,

00:33:44.760 if you say though, the dog ate my homework, your honor, quite often the court will say, well,

00:33:49.800 we're not going to give you the benefit of the doubt of this because this is on you.

00:33:53.080 We're going to assume the worst. That's called an adverse inference in law. And I think any migrant 1.00

00:33:59.320 who quote loses their passport that they needed to get to fly into Dublin or, or to cross over from

00:34:07.240 Northern Ireland, I think we can make an adverse inference that they're tricksters, that, that

00:34:12.120 their document does not show what they purported to show. I just, it breaks my heart. And I met so

00:34:18.680 many wonderful people. I hope to go back to Ireland. It's not a quick journey from Canada. And of course,

00:34:24.040 we have our work here, but it's so great to catch up with you. I follow Gripped very closely. I follow

00:34:30.360 you on Twitter. I subscribe. And of course, most of your content is free on the internet. Keep it up,

00:34:35.880 Fatima. I hope you'll stay in touch with about migration. And there's so many other things that you

00:34:40.440 cover. Um, I'm just, and, and by the way, Gripped is beloved on the streets of Ireland. I know that

00:34:47.880 because when I, when I go to these places, people are exasperated with your state broadcaster, which is

00:34:53.960 called RTE, but they always mentioned Gripped as the one sunny spot. So congratulations to you and

00:35:00.440 your team. Thank you. Um, just there's a lot of, uh, videos. If anyone wants to see a particularly

00:35:06.840 the personal story about the family being evicted from the cabin, that's going up. Uh, there's a lot

00:35:11.880 of those kinds of things on, uh, Grips YouTube. If anyone wants more information on those personal

00:35:17.080 stories and they can go and find them there. Excellent. And I did see that story and it's just shocking.

00:35:22.200 Fatima Gunning, great to see you again. Thanks for your time.

00:35:25.320 Thank you.

00:35:25.880 All right. There you have it. Be sure to check out Gripped, G-R-I-P-T dot I-E. Stay with us. More ahead. 0.97

00:35:41.720 That I recorded today, I woke up in the morning and another day, another Jewish institution being 0.94

00:35:47.800 attacked, uh, a Jewish day school, uh, not far away from us here, torched and had windows smashed.

00:35:53.560 And then police lied about it here. Take a look at the video. I'll see you tomorrow, everybody.

00:35:58.120 Toronto police claim that the man who set fire to the Jewish school was just a homeless man

00:36:03.560 sleeping in a shed out back. And it wasn't an anti-Semitic hate crime, but a neighbor gave us

00:36:08.680 surveillance footage showing something very different. It shows a man arriving at the school at 3 0 5 a.m.

00:36:15.480 and carefully checking to see if he was being followed. Then he walks briskly to the school,

00:36:21.080 carrying bags of supplies. Minutes later, the school is on fire. According to the neighbor,

00:36:27.720 that was the first time the man had been there. He had never slept in the shed, not on that night or

00:36:33.400 any other. Ezra Levant here. I am back at the Leo Beck day school, several hours after I broke the news

00:36:43.800 that the school had its windows smashed and was torched in an obvious anti-Semitic hate crime

00:36:50.280 incident. One day after Jewish school buses several miles away for another Jewish school were torched.

00:36:58.040 The commonality between these two incidents is that the media has tried to bury them and police

00:37:04.040 have said next to nothing. Yesterday, both CTV and City News said that the school bus caught fire

00:37:12.200 at 5 a.m. As you know, parked school buses do. Of course, that's not true. I went there and I

00:37:18.040 bumped into the owner of the school bus who said it was obviously arson. A bizarre report by CTV said

00:37:23.880 that the bus had been parked there for 15 years. The owner of the school bus told us it was used

00:37:28.840 every school day. Just a weird cover up. And then this morning I come to this school and let me just

00:37:34.920 show you a little bit of what I filmed when I was first on the scene really. Arson. The window smashed.

00:37:41.400 You can see the charred remains behind me. That's plate glass window. Absolutely shattered. There's a bit

00:37:49.800 of a cleanup crew here. There's a private security guard down there, but no one else is here. Police

00:37:57.160 aren't here. They're busy doing something more important. This is a prominent and large Jewish

00:38:04.520 day school for young kids. Had it been during the school year, God forbid, kids would have been

00:38:10.920 hurt by the attack and they would certainly be startled and stunned to come to school.

00:38:16.680 I wasn't the first human on the scene. There was some cleanup crews and the CEO of the school was

00:38:23.640 sitting by dejectedly. And I walked right up to the smashed window and I did my report and I left

00:38:30.440 and the video went viral. But then I saw the most bizarre tweet by the Toronto police. And let me read

00:38:36.600 it to you now. We understand there is concern about a fire that occurred last night at Leo Beck Day School.

00:38:42.200 At 3 46 AM police responded to a call reporting a fire in an exterior storage shed being used by an

00:38:51.160 under housed individual for shelter. Toronto Fire Services extinguished the fire. The cause of the fire

00:38:56.840 is undetermined with no suspicious circumstances. It just caught fire guys, you know, spontaneous

00:39:03.720 conflagrations. It just happens all the time. The hate crime unit has been consulted and

00:39:10.840 there is no evidence that this incident was motivated by hate. The investigation is ongoing.

00:39:16.760 Well, hang on, hang on. So the investigation is ongoing or there's no evidence. You can't really

00:39:21.720 say both. So you say there was no hate crime, but then you say the hate crimes was investigating.

00:39:27.000 Then you say they found no evidence, but you say they're still investigating. What a bizarre cover

00:39:32.760 up. And even weirder was how quickly the liberal MP who has on so many occasions let down her own

00:39:40.520 community by selling them out to, well, basically Justin Trudeau's agenda. Look at this bizarre

00:39:46.440 tweet by Yaara Sachs. A devastating news cycle of arson and vandalism. Incidents at Jewish schools,

00:39:53.000 property and neighborhoods, including now at Leo Beck day school, reminds us that the community is not

00:39:57.720 and does not feel safe in the face of rising antisemitism. Thank you, Toronto police for your

00:40:02.040 continued work. Hang on. They, which is it? Is it antisemitism or not? Was it a hate crime or arson

00:40:09.400 or not? You guys have to get your alibi straight. You guys should confer with each other before lying to

00:40:16.120 the public. So I saw this bizarre cover up. I saw police announcing it's not antisemitism

00:40:22.680 before their investigation is finished. And I came back because I know a few things,

00:40:27.480 because I know this school fairly well. I know, for example, that it has fairly high security.

00:40:32.840 And I know it's absolutely absurd to say that a homeless person, they won't even use that word,

00:40:39.960 accidentally set the place on fire, which included smashing very high strength plexiglass windows.

00:40:49.320 It is very hard to break a glass window like that. That's tempered glass and to smash three of them

00:40:56.840 in a row, accidentally a homeless person. It, it is obviously a fake example, a fake excuse. Now,

00:41:06.040 here's the amazing thing. I came back here right away when I saw the police cover up and a man walked

00:41:11.320 forward and say, Hey, I saw your report this morning. I said, really? He said, yes. He said to me,

00:41:17.320 I think it might've been a homeless person. I said, well, why, why would that be the case?

00:41:22.040 Why would you say that? He said, because I saw him on my house closed circuit TV, my house security

00:41:28.840 cam. Now this neighbor didn't want to be on camera or use his name, but he allowed me to

00:41:33.960 chat with him recording his voice. Here's a little bit of how that conversation went. So I just looked at

00:41:39.720 your home, uh, security camera footage and it shows a guy. Had you seen him before? Like,

00:41:46.040 so now we know a guy did it, but was he homeless or was he an anti-Semitic hate criminal? Have you

00:41:52.120 seen him before? I know that's the first time 24 hours ago. I just noticed. So, so you had never

00:41:58.120 seen that guy here in weeks or months. I have not know. Okay. So that, so now I'm a little skeptical

00:42:05.960 that he was homeless if he was just there one night only. Yeah. I mean, I don't know the hours

00:42:12.600 he operates are pretty late and I'm not awake to see him. So I can't comment on that. Now it does show

00:42:17.560 a man moving things into position, but is it an anti-Semitic attack or is a homeless person? This may be

00:42:23.720 the storage shed that they're referring to. In fact, looking at this, this looks like it could have

00:42:28.760 been a plastic prefab storage shed, the kind of thing that you might find at a Costco or a Walmart.

00:42:39.240 And this wooden pallet may have been the floor of the storage shed. So there may in fact have been

00:42:45.400 a storage shed here. It certainly wouldn't have been that door. I know from experience that door

00:42:51.400 is well secured and it goes downstairs into the school. So this may be the remains of the storage

00:42:58.280 shed. But what does a fire in a storage shed, which is a plausible explanation, have to do with

00:43:06.120 then standing up and smashing a series of plate glass windows? And how can the police be so quick

00:43:13.880 to rule things out to say it was not a hate incident, but all at the same time say they're

00:43:19.720 still investigating. Well, which is it? You've ruled it out, but you're not done your investigation.

00:43:24.280 And if it was an underhoused man who obviously committed arson and other offenses to property,

00:43:30.600 why has he not been arrested? As far as we know, why has he not been charged? As far as we know,

00:43:35.720 what was his name? Did he really just come this one day? Because remember, we spoke to the neighbor

00:43:41.320 who said he had never seen this person before and he was bringing bags of stuff. So we've seen the

00:43:47.080 closed circuit TV from the neighbor's place. But look, one, two, three, at least three surveillance

00:43:53.880 cameras at the school itself would have been on this shed if indeed this was a shed. I think it

00:44:01.720 behooves the Toronto police and this school to release that footage. Was this just a random act by a

00:44:08.680 hobo or was this an anti-Semitic attack? We've seen the neighbor's footage. I want to see what's in

00:44:15.080 those cameras. And if the Toronto police is ruling out a hate incident before they've even finished

00:44:21.000 their investigation, it shows the whole thing is a cover up. I don't doubt that this could have been

00:44:25.960 a shed. And I don't doubt it was set on fire. And I don't doubt it was set on fire by a man last

00:44:32.040 night caught on tape by the neighbor. The question is, was he indeed a random homeless person lighting it

00:44:38.200 on fire? Or was he an anti-Semitic hate criminal? Because he didn't just light it on fire. He smashed all 0.85

00:44:44.280 those windows. Where is he? Did police arrest him? What's his name? Has he been charged with crimes

00:44:50.040 before? Why do we not know that information? I don't trust the Toronto police. Do you?

00:44:55.400 I think that the police are covering up. I think Yaara Sachs, who was instant to reply to the police,

00:45:01.400 wants this to go away. Canada is in the middle of an anti-Semitic crime wave. They're hitting Jewish

00:45:06.840 schools every week, Jewish synagogues every week, so often that they no longer make news. But it's not

00:45:13.720 because they're not newsworthy. It's because the mainstream media, the police, and the politicians

00:45:19.560 would rather have this inconvenient story go away. The Toronto police are a disgrace for declaring this

00:45:27.160 a non-incident while it's still being investigated. And Yaara Sachs is a double disgrace after her 1.00

00:45:33.640 betrayal of the Jewish community to approve of the Toronto police whitewashing this incident. 0.84

00:45:39.800 This was an attack on a Jewish school. I do not believe that there was no anti-Semitic hate involved.

00:45:47.240 I do not believe that a random homeless person attacked and smashed a high security Jewish

00:45:54.120 school. I just don't believe it. From Rebel News, I'm Ezra LeVant.

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