Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ A major New York Times poll shows most Americans hate the media and worry about stolen elections

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Boy, I found such an interesting poll in the New York Times of all places.

00:00:04.740 I'm going to take you through it. The number of Americans who hate the media,

00:00:09.260 the number of Americans who do not trust the government and say they're only working for

00:00:13.060 elites. And there's just some wonderful questions in there that I'm really surprised the New York

00:00:18.440 Times asked and that they published the answers to. I hope you'll find it interesting. That's

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00:00:59.680 Tonight, a major New York Times poll shows most Americans hate the media and worry about stolen

00:01:11.200 elections. It's October 19th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:14.920 You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you sensorism bug.

00:01:21.460 If a conservative told you that people just don't trust the media, you wouldn't be surprised. But

00:01:35.640 what if a liberal said that? What if the New York Times itself, the flagship liberal newspaper in

00:01:40.840 America said that? That's surprising, and it can't be written off as some conservative spin. Well,

00:01:46.360 that is exactly what the latest New York Times poll showed. I'll put a link to the poll under

00:01:52.680 this video. It's the full cross tabs, as they say. That means very detailed results by different age

00:01:59.360 and gender and race. Here's the poll. You can see it on the New York Times website. There's so many

00:02:06.500 things in it that I think are interesting, and the fact that it comes from the New York Times

00:02:09.740 adds to its impact. I just think that if a liberal newspaper is publishing something that hits this

00:02:15.900 hard, well, it means it's bad out there. Remember, up here in Canada, look, we're focused on our own

00:02:21.860 things right now. We've only been out of the lockdowns for a few months. Unvaxed people have

00:02:26.180 only been allowed to fly for a few months. The mask mandate in airplanes was only lifted three weeks

00:02:31.440 ago. I mean, we're a mess. Our politics are busy. There was just a Quebec election. There was a

00:02:37.260 leadership vote for the Conservative Party of Canada. There was just a leadership vote last week

00:02:41.900 for Alberta's United Conservative Party, both of which leadership races were caused by the truckers,

00:02:48.180 actually. A momentous set of city elections across B.C. last week. A bunch of leftist incumbents

00:02:54.360 thrown out. Of course, the Trucker Commission of Inquiry is underway right now in Ottawa.

00:02:59.380 Inflation is crazy. I think it's pretty clear we're headed into a recession. I'm so sorry to say it.

00:03:05.260 So Canadians are busy. We're focused on our own things as a country. But the United States is just

00:03:10.900 weeks away from their midterm elections, remember? November 8th. It's been two years since Joe Biden

00:03:16.940 was elected, and he's visibly declining right in front of our eyes. I mean, it's embarrassing.

00:03:22.620 Here's a sample.

00:03:23.420 Look at your child. You know, the needs of this is very to live to live and not having the money to

00:03:29.580 pay for it. Not a joke. Think about it. Think about what you'd think about at the time. Think about how

00:03:35.540 you'd feel if you didn't have the insurance and didn't have the money. It's wrong. It's not who

00:03:42.180 we are, and we're going to fix that, too. And will people who have privately held loans,

00:03:47.220 will they at some point become eligible for this forgiveness because they no longer are?

00:03:52.360 We are working on pathways there to support those, but we're moving as quickly as possible

00:03:57.080 to provide relief to as many people as possible. Thank you.

00:04:00.560 The right that I pushed hard and it finally got changed, the married couples and the privacy of 1.00

00:04:06.060 the bedroom. Excuse me. I'm thinking about the Dobbs decision. Imagine. Well, I'll get to that in a

00:04:12.740 second. He does other weird things, too, like touching and groping young girls. He keeps doing

00:04:17.660 that. It's really creepy.

00:04:22.340 Oh, look at him. Look at him. Now, the very important thing I told my daughter and granddaughters,

00:04:29.300 no serious guys are 30. Okay. No what? No serious guys are 30. Don't keep that in line. At least.

00:04:37.800 You know, Biden hasn't done a one-on-one interview with a reporter in about a year. He only appears

00:04:42.760 with his wife with him as a kind of spotter or nanny. That's a fact. You know, Biden's on vacation

00:04:49.180 almost half the time just to rest up his weary bones. I think he's actually the president only

00:04:53.980 in name. I think other people are running the country, and I think what President Dwight D.

00:04:58.620 Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex, I think that's a big part of it. So in three weeks,

00:05:04.540 Americans get to vote, not for or against Biden. He's not on the ballot, but he really is a kind of

00:05:10.140 ballot question by proxy. Do you like where things are going in America right now? Do you like the

00:05:14.980 direction of the country? It's fascinating and telling to see so many local Democratic candidates

00:05:20.100 shying away from Biden. No one is asking for his endorsement, unlike Republicans who seem to get big

00:05:25.480 energy from a Trump endorsement. Every single congressional seat is up for grabs, and a third

00:05:31.840 of the Senate. The Democrats control things right now, but if it tips back to the Republicans,

00:05:36.640 Biden will be as good as done. He'll get very little of his remaining agenda through,

00:05:41.300 at least through the legislature. Remember, he still has massive executive power,

00:05:45.400 ranging from foreign policy and wars to nominating judges. But the era of Biden is quite likely over if

00:05:52.580 it ever started. So let me show you this massive New York Times poll three weeks before election day.

00:06:00.640 Do you think the United States is on the right track, or is it headed in the wrong direction?

00:06:04.760 That really is the key question, isn't it? It's actually all you need to know. All you need to

00:06:10.280 ask people, isn't it? And the result is shocking. I think it's just unbelievable. Unbelievable if you

00:06:15.780 use CNN and the New York Times as your source of information about the world, because the media

00:06:20.500 party, as I call it, well, they're like press agents for the Democrats. They love it. I mean,

00:06:24.520 look at this guy.

00:06:25.940 Are you concerned about, just one more economic one, are you concerned about the strength of the

00:06:29.720 dollar right now?

00:06:34.080 I'm not concerned about the strength of the dollar. I'm concerned about the rest of the world.

00:06:40.320 Does that make sense?

00:06:40.920 Yes. Our economy is going as hell in the internals. Inflation is worldwide. It's worse off

00:06:50.560 everyone else than it is in the United States. So the problem is the lack of economic growth

00:06:57.860 and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours. And that's how it's worldwide inflation.

00:07:05.960 It's consequential.

00:07:06.780 The mainstream media ran that clip without blushing, but here's what the people say.

00:07:13.080 24% say America's on the right track. 64% say it's on the wrong track. Even 35% of Democrats say

00:07:20.160 wrong track. That is shocking. Now, some Democrats would still vote for Biden, even though they say

00:07:25.840 he's on the wrong track. But here's the generic party split today. If this year's elections for

00:07:32.000 Congress were held today, which party's candidate would you be more likely to vote for in your

00:07:36.560 district? And 45% say Democrat and 49% say Republican. And this next question is truly

00:07:44.240 amazing. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?

00:07:50.780 Well, look at the answers. Only 18% strongly approve. Another 21% somewhat approve. 13% somewhat

00:07:59.800 disapproved, but a whopping 45% strongly disapproved. They're mad about it. Despite full-time puff pieces

00:08:08.440 by the media party. Trump was demonized 24-7 for years. I don't think he actually pulled this low

00:08:15.280 when he was president. Now, the New York Times takes a break from the upcoming midterm elections to talk

00:08:21.180 for a minute about the 2024 presidential race. Fair enough. They asked this. Among those who plan to

00:08:28.580 vote in the Republican primary, they only asked Republicans this, if the Republican 2024 presidential

00:08:34.240 primary were held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were? And then they list them.

00:08:40.800 Trump gets 47%. And look at that, 60% of young Republicans. Ron DeSantis of Florida gets 28%.

00:08:47.820 The rest are all single digits. Mike Pence, Ted Cruz, and others. And then they do a hypothetical

00:08:53.260 matchup, Biden or Trump in 2024. And would you look at that? Trump would just beat out Biden,

00:09:00.040 despite all the demonization of Trump. So what's on people's minds as they're going into vote?

00:09:06.780 This is fascinating. Compare this list to what your news feed is likely full of. I mean,

00:09:14.160 depends on what country you're in. If you're in America, you probably hear about black

00:09:17.800 lives matter and transgenderism and non-binary and drag queen story hour things. You probably hear

00:09:24.360 about the war in Ukraine, the need to fight global warming, people listing their pronouns.

00:09:30.560 You hear that word Latinx that no actual Latino has ever said. Now compare those weird distracting 1.00

00:09:37.600 issues that the news serves up for real life. Here's what real Americans say they care about.

00:09:42.640 The economy, jobs and the stock market. 26% of people say that's their issue, even higher among

00:09:48.520 young people. The next is inflation and the cost of living. I'd say that's actually the same sort of

00:09:53.780 subject. That's another 18%. It's all people are thinking about is money issues. Nothing else is

00:10:00.060 above single digits. Abortion and immigration are next, which I believe. But look at that, Russia, 1.00

00:10:05.260 Ukraine. That's 2% of people think that's the big issue. Global warming is 3%. And look at coronavirus.

00:10:12.100 less than 0.5%. Talk about a chasm between what the elites care about and what actual people care

00:10:22.780 about. The media party is still obsessed with the pandemic, talking about mandatory vaccines for kids,

00:10:28.840 new waves. But less than 0.5% of Americans feel the same way. Hey, look at the next one. I think it's

00:10:36.400 going to be the most lopsided number in the whole poll. Seriously. Which comes closest to your views,

00:10:41.700 even if neither is exactly right? The government mainly works to benefit ordinary people,

00:10:47.080 or the government mainly works to benefit powerful elites. Well, only 22% of Americans say it works for

00:10:54.440 ordinary people. 68% say the government is for elites. And for young people, look at the charts. It's crazy.

00:10:59.580 17% say for the little guy. 79% say elites. I can't think of a single other issue that 79% of young people

00:11:08.420 would agree upon. Elites. That means the political class, bureaucrats, the people who invoke the lockdowns,

00:11:16.020 big pharma executives, Hollywood, the military-industrial complex, globalists of the United Nations,

00:11:21.840 World Economic Forum, the deep state, all the people on TV. Let me show you a couple more.

00:11:29.740 The mainstream media, major threat to democracy, minor threat to democracy, or not a threat to

00:11:35.640 democracy? What a great question, by the way. It's amazing the New York Times asked it, and the answers

00:11:40.200 are amazing, too. 59% say major threat. Another 24% say minor threat. Add them together, that's what,

00:11:47.760 83% say it's a threat? I guess that's even larger than the elites question. And again, young people

00:11:53.700 feel it hard. 93% of them. I think that's amazing, though. I mean, come on, that's 93%? Do you think

00:12:01.600 any journalists feel responsible for this, or do you think journalists need to simply shout louder at

00:12:09.040 people, call them racist more, call them sexist, call them Russian disinformation agents more, call them

00:12:15.920 transphobic, whatever the insult of the day is? Do you think any journalists are actually reflecting

00:12:19.680 on that poll result? That's a stunning number. Do you think a single media party journalist cares?

00:12:27.820 Do you think they realize it's why people are leaving mainstream media for alternative media?

00:12:33.500 Even like us, we're alternative. Quick snapper, 49% of Americans say electronic voting machines are a

00:12:40.380 major or minor threat to democracy. I agree. Look, just mark ballots by pen and count them by hand.

00:12:46.680 50% of Americans say voting by mail is a threat, too. I agree also. Only 37% of Americans say they

00:12:53.260 have, quote, a great deal of trust that the upcoming midterm elections will be accurate.

00:12:58.960 In fact, only 63% of people think Joe Biden is the legitimate president from last time.

00:13:04.620 People don't trust the regime. They don't trust the official narrative. I think that's incredible,

00:13:09.540 and it's even more incredible to read it in the Times. One last question that just made me

00:13:14.120 chuckle. You know, I meet a lot of people, especially now that I'm not under, you know,

00:13:18.840 Trudeau's no-fly list anymore. I should tell you, in my entire life, I have met precisely two people

00:13:25.640 who believe in something called QAnon. It's a kind of conspiracy theory or ideology or political worldview

00:13:32.420 that's sort of cryptic, lots of, you know, secret signs and symbols. It suggests that someone named Q is

00:13:39.060 giving secret hints about the world. There are other parts of the worldview, some of which could

00:13:43.960 be called legitimate, conservative, or skeptical viewpoints, but some of it is actually quite

00:13:49.080 conspiratorial. I have literally only met two people in my whole life, and I think I meet a lot

00:13:54.760 of people. But the media party is obsessed with QAnon. You hear about QAnon every week in the liberal

00:14:01.260 media. They project it onto conservatives. They want to write off all conservatives as dupes, as cult

00:14:07.400 members, as foolish conspiracy theorists. But the poll shows that no one even knows about QAnon, other 0.98

00:14:13.120 than the media, I guess. Do you personally find the QAnon theories or movement believable or not

00:14:20.300 believable, or do you not know enough to say? Only 5% say they're believable, 39% don't, and 52% say,

00:14:28.320 what are you talking about? Q what? Isn't that amazing? I think that's amazing.

00:14:35.380 What do you make of this poll? I believe it's largely accurate. I believe a lot of these same

00:14:39.120 questions would get similar results here in Canada. The distrust of a lease, the hatred of the media

00:14:44.620 party, the completely different set of priorities for the people, as opposed to the media political

00:14:49.760 class. I'm glad the New York Times published this, because for them to admit this, you know it must

00:14:55.380 be bad. And in three weeks, we'll see what this yields in the U.S. midterms. If those midterm

00:15:02.640 elections are accurate, a proposition that only 37% of Americans deeply believe. Stay with us.

00:15:11.220 David Menzies has a guest interview. I'll be back in a minute to read your letters.

00:15:14.220 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Richmond Hill, Ontario. And folks, the war on the farmer

00:15:33.020 took a really perverse turn last Saturday here in Richmond Hill. When it came to a demonstration,

00:15:39.200 you are not going to believe what happened. David Menzies for Rebel News here in Richmond Hill,

00:15:45.460 Ontario. And folks, I'm in the midst of dueling protests. On one hand, we have the people that

00:15:52.380 we spoke to earlier across the street there. They're protesting against the 10,000% increase

00:16:00.640 in stormwater management fees for the farmers of Richmond Hill. And on the other hand, we have

00:16:06.900 a group called A Better Richmond Hill. Now, A Better Richmond Hill, they claim to be, quote,

00:16:14.580 a nonpartisan nonprofit organization with a mandate to encourage public engagement and public

00:16:21.420 participation in municipal issues in Richmond Hill. End quote. Nonpartisan. That's kind of odd,

00:16:28.500 isn't it? Because I'm looking at these signs here, which state vote out Pirelli, Barrows,

00:16:34.680 and Munch. They put an advertisement in the Richmond Hill Liberal this week stating the same thing.

00:16:43.320 Why are these individuals aligned? Well, they are right of centre councillors. Pirelli, Burroughs,

00:16:51.660 and Munch sit on the right of centre of council unlike the rest of council. Because if this was all

00:16:57.300 about ethics and morality and malfeasance, wouldn't the first name on that sign be Karen Selowitz? But

00:17:08.100 she's okay, according to A Better Richmond Hill, which claims to be nonpartisan. Well, let's wade into

00:17:15.180 the crowd and find out how they can justify who they approve and who they smear. Hey, ma'am, I see you got

00:17:22.920 a sign there. Vote out Pirelli, Burroughs, and Munch. What about Karen Selowitz? Absolutely. She's got to

00:17:28.600 go too. Oh, okay. That's interesting. Thank you. Why isn't she on your sign? Well, I didn't make the

00:17:34.260 sign. So someone just gave it to you. I believe in this sign. Okay. And I believe there should be

00:17:40.800 another name on that sign. Hey, sir. How you doing there? Good. Are you part of a Better Richmond

00:17:46.000 Hill group? Yes. Okay, then. So why were... This is what I'm using. So you want to talk to him? He's

00:17:53.140 going to trap you. Oh, okay. My goodness. Did that man try to French kiss you, sir? So, just wait a

00:17:59.560 second. Okay, just wait a second. We have a support speaker. He will arrive very soon, okay? Oh, he told

00:18:06.140 you not to speak then, right? No, no, no. Not to speak because I'm busy for this one. So, okay. So why are you

00:18:11.660 a part of a Better Richmond Hill then, sir? Because we want a Better Richmond Hill. That's

00:18:15.920 the reason. So, I see you don't want... Okay. Go ahead. See why we're against him. Yes.

00:18:21.000 This is very detailed. We have very detailed explanation why we're against these candidates.

00:18:26.960 Right. Why are you not against Karen Selowitz, the convicted fraudster? So, we are not involved

00:18:32.360 that. Right now, we have only limited resources. We only focus on these three, I think, seats.

00:18:38.260 How about yourself, ma'am? Why are you part of a Better Richmond Hill?

00:18:41.260 I'm not talking to you, bud. Oh, is that right? Why is that? I have nothing to talk to you

00:18:45.440 about. Why are you a supporter of Karen Selowitz, a convicted fraudster?

00:18:53.260 Hey, sir, what brings you out to this demonstration? No comment, man. I'm just hopping out.

00:18:56.920 No comment, did you say? Okay, then. You can't articulate why you're at a demonstration?

00:19:02.400 Pardon me? From a Better Richmond Hill. John Lee from a Better Richmond Hill.

00:19:08.220 I'm in a public place. I'm in a public place. Don't get aggressive. You do not own the coroner.

00:19:15.520 You do not own the coroner. We don't want... You do not own the coroner.

00:19:20.220 Don't get personal. You do not own the coroner. You do not own the coroner.

00:19:26.400 What can we not say, sir?

00:19:27.660 So, folks, as I said, I'm here at the Donor Farm. This is Paul Donor. He's the head honcho

00:19:33.620 here. And you might recall earlier this month, we reported that the city of Richmond Hill passed

00:19:40.700 a 10,000% increase in the stormwater fee schedule. That means that for the donor farm, the bill

00:19:52.160 is going to go from $150 to almost $15,000. Again, it's like the war on the farm that we

00:20:00.600 see around the world. It has now come to the municipal level here in Richmond Hill. And that

00:20:06.240 caused a protest to happen a week ago Saturday. And here's some... We were there for that.

00:20:13.760 Check it out.

00:20:14.760 Tell me about what's going to happen in the next hour. I see many pickup trucks with trailers

00:20:19.240 on them with signage. You're going to send your message to the mayor and council, at least

00:20:25.540 those councillors that voted for this. Do you think it will change anything, Paul?

00:20:31.240 I have no idea if it'll change anything. I hope that it'll raise some awareness, at least, and let

00:20:36.160 them know that the stormwater management fee issue is not going away, that we are fighting it, and

00:20:42.160 we're going to continue to fight it, whether the council likes it or not. You know, we're not going

00:20:47.520 anywhere. So, we're here for a while yet, and we're going to keep doing what we do.

00:20:52.880 Well, Paul, thank you so much for your time. Good luck with your demonstration. And we're going to keep

00:20:58.400 on this file because this is an injustice. People, like I said, 100% of people on this planet need

00:21:05.300 farmers. And to target farmers, I just cannot explain it. So, good luck with your demonstration.

00:21:11.300 I hope it, you know, gets some results at City Hall here. Okay, so, a peaceful protest, and there was a

00:21:18.420 counter-protest. People with the anti-development organization called A Better Richmond Hill. But, Paul,

00:21:25.440 there was another demonstration I could not attend yesterday. And it was the same deal. It was pickup

00:21:32.500 trucks with trailers, with signage, denouncing this 10,000% stormwater fee increase. You are around

00:21:41.460 Young and 16th in Richmond Hill. And suddenly, it didn't really turn so peaceful. What happened?

00:21:49.700 Well, it remained peaceful, first of all. We were told by the York Region Police that we weren't

00:21:57.880 welcome there, essentially. They said we weren't supposed to be driving our wagons in that area,

00:22:03.520 and that they were there on the direction of the superintendent, apparently, from the day before

00:22:08.960 he'd given them direction to go in and basically stop us. They threatened to pull our trucks and wagons

00:22:15.660 off the road and have them inspected, which would basically delay the whole purpose of it and

00:22:22.860 take any momentum we had out of the demonstration. And what was the reason they gave you for shutting

00:22:29.020 down this peaceful protest? Originally, I think they said it was in the interest of public safety.

00:22:35.900 And they were concerned with us obstructing traffic, which we were not. Traffic could go around us. It

00:22:41.340 wasn't being obstructed. In fact, I was driving one of the wagons on Yonge Street and traffic wasn't

00:22:47.400 moving anyways. A number of times I had to wait for the traffic to clear even to start going again. So

00:22:54.560 it wasn't that we were obstructing traffic. Traffic was bad, period.

00:22:58.060 And you know, folks, just a few weeks in the exact same area and beyond, there was a protest by more

00:23:05.560 than 50,000 people against the Iranian regime. Traffic was snarled, but I didn't see the cops

00:23:12.360 interfering with that demonstration. We were there for that one too. Check it out.

00:23:15.780 The Islamic Republic is not Iran. I think most people here, virtually everybody would agree with

00:23:22.500 that. I guess there's a lot of people experiencing buyer's remorse from the 1979 revolution.

00:23:28.100 Yeah, I agree with that. And that's why we're all here and we're supporting the people and our people

00:23:34.340 and their voice in here.

00:23:37.200 And you know, it's such a shame what happened to Miss Amini. She was arrested by the morality police,

00:23:45.700 died for not allegedly wearing her hijab properly. How can this force be called the morality police? That 0.79

00:23:52.980 seems to be the most immoral thing possible, killing someone for not wearing clothing properly.

00:23:58.340 That is just shameful. And this is not right.

00:24:01.700 Um, there, these protests have spread to all 31 of Iran's provinces. They've spread to major cities

00:24:08.580 around the world. Here we are in Richmond Hill, thousands of people. Um, here's the big question

00:24:13.460 though. In terms of tangible change in Iran, what would you like to see countries like Canada do to

00:24:20.740 help the Iranian people? Sure. The main thing that we want to get across is getting the IRGC as a

00:24:26.500 terrorist organization. They have a lot of family here. There's going to be people here that you

00:24:30.660 don't know they're associated with the regime back home, but they are. They're going to be taking

00:24:34.580 pictures of everyone, trying to catch them back home, putting them in prison. So that's something

00:24:38.420 we want to put a stop to. They own a property in Bridal Path. They own multiple businesses all around the

00:24:43.620 GTA. We want to put a stop to that. Vancouver, all across Canada. We want to put a stop to that.

00:24:47.860 So there you have it, Paul, 50,000 people, uh, plus gathering in about the same area where you were.

00:24:55.300 And, uh, that's okay though. The, the police let that peaceful protest go on. And what I understand

00:25:01.540 and correct me if I'm wrong, the cops said that you either leave now or we're going to measure the

00:25:09.700 air pressure in your tires. And for each tire that's out of compliance, each tire that's not

00:25:16.100 exactly right. Air pressure wise, you're going to get a ticket. You're going to potentially receive

00:25:20.340 thousands of dollars of tickets. Did that actually happen?

00:25:23.460 So what they said is they would pull us over and have our vehicles inspected for as a safety

00:25:27.540 inspection, which, uh, I believe can only be done by an MTO officer anyways, but, uh, that was their

00:25:33.140 threat to us that, that we'd be pulled over. We'd be forced to a roadside inspection. And if they found

00:25:39.460 anything wrong, then that would be an issue. Something like air pressure in your tires could

00:25:42.820 be a potential safety violation. Uh, if you were a couple pounds over the limit on what the tires

00:25:48.500 rated for, for instance, um, there was certainly some concern with, uh, uh, with having them deal

00:25:54.340 with this and we didn't want the hassle. So we went home.

00:25:57.140 Paul, this strikes me as so incredibly petty. And I mean, when it comes to safety, you weren't driving

00:26:03.300 these pickups and wagons like these were NASCAR, uh, racers. I mean, you were just slowly going up

00:26:09.860 young street. I mean, it just seems like I said, petty and, uh, preposterous. Um, were you surprised

00:26:18.100 that they came down on you? Whereas the other protests, the, a better Richmond Hill people,

00:26:23.220 they were back at that corner and they had planted signs in the grass, which I understand is contrary to

00:26:30.180 by law, but it was a matter of nothing to see here. Folks move along. I was disappointed.

00:26:35.780 We were the only ones that were being forced out. Um, you're, you're correct. I was told the same

00:26:40.740 thing as you, that their signs were illegal and erected illegally on the corners that they had,

00:26:45.300 uh, the better Richmond Hill had put up. Um, yeah, I, I was very disappointed in the police that, that we

00:26:51.860 were the ones that were targeted. Um, for the record, our vehicles were all equipped with slow moon

00:26:57.460 vehicle signs, um, as farm machinery when it's operated on the road has to have. And, and we

00:27:03.060 are restricted by that sign to go a certain speed. And, uh, the police completely ignored that fact.

00:27:09.700 You know, Paul, it strikes me as sort of, there's a comparison here with the, the freedom convoy

00:27:16.180 movement that was in Ottawa and at the ambassador bridge and how eventually, at least in the Ottawa

00:27:22.900 situation, the federal government had to invoke the emergencies act and then really brutally, uh,

00:27:29.300 put down, uh, that peaceful protest. And it's kind of like here in Richmond Hill, um, the city has gone

00:27:37.940 weaponized with its war on the farm by sending in, uh, the guys with guns to lay down the law, but lay it

00:27:44.580 down very selectively, I should think. Yeah. I, uh, I'm not quite sure why they chose to target us.

00:27:52.660 Um, the police did say at one point, you know, did you talk to the mayor's office about doing this

00:27:56.660 protest? Uh, I didn't realize I needed authorization from the mayor to drive a wagon down the road.

00:28:01.940 Um, never have in the past, you know, we, we've, I've, I've been operating machinery on the road since I,

00:28:08.180 I was allowed to legally. And, uh, you know, that, that was quite a number of years ago now. And,

00:28:14.260 you know, I've never had to get a permit in the past. So, yeah.

00:28:17.860 Well, it is shameful in my book. I have reached out to Mayor West because there's a rumor that

00:28:23.940 he or one of his allies were, was the person who called in the police in the first place.

00:28:28.900 And I have reached out to the media relations, uh, desk of York regional police service,

00:28:33.700 and I'll see what they have to say. Um, Mayor West never gets back to me, but, uh, I'm hopeful the,

00:28:39.300 the, the cops will, I guess one last question, um, any more protests, or do you think, uh,

00:28:45.380 that's a moot point that the cops are going to be sicked on you and come up with incredibly

00:28:50.580 petty reasons why you can't drive your wagons? Uh, as for more protests, I don't know, maybe we'll see.

00:28:57.860 Um, we're certainly not looking to get in trouble with the police. Uh, you know, we've,

00:29:03.300 we've had a good working relationship over the years with, with, with all emergency services. Uh,

00:29:07.780 you know, the fire departments quite often come here to the farm to, uh, for, for training and

00:29:13.300 whatnot, and, and just to walk around and see, um, you know, about, uh, the grain bins and potential

00:29:19.220 fires on those types of things. You know, the police have been around too. I mean, we, we've,

00:29:23.780 we haven't had any issues with them in the past. We don't want to ruffle any feathers and get,

00:29:27.460 get in trouble with them. Um, but I, I, like I said, I'm disappointed that that's what

00:29:31.460 happened yesterday. They took away our right to protest. And I'm still baffled by that stormwater

00:29:35.940 management fee, especially since you don't even receive the service, Paul. Um, I don't get the

00:29:41.940 idea why Mayor West and four other councillors would have voted for this in the first place.

00:29:49.140 Uh, when it comes to food, 100% of the people on the planet have to eat. What's your take on why

00:29:56.660 there is this growing belligerence towards farmers the world over?

00:30:04.980 I, I honestly don't know. The, the farm or farmers in general have always been looked

00:30:11.300 at as, as, uh, dependable people. I thought I, I've always, you know, thought of, you know,

00:30:16.580 and they've been, uh, shown in a positive light over, over, you know, they do the work,

00:30:21.140 they work the land, they provide our food, that they're good people. Um, there seems to be a

00:30:25.460 growing movement to villainize the farmer. Um, you know, whether it be, uh, uh, genetically modified

00:30:32.420 crops or pesticide use, or, or in this case, we're being taxed, taxed and taxed and taxed. And, and,

00:30:38.820 you know, some of the other areas are having fertilizer issues, uh, which is going to get

00:30:43.380 worse and prices that in the grocery store are going to go up. Yeah. I mean, people think that

00:30:48.580 they've gone up now. No, we're still on last year's prices. Um, you know, the crop we're selling

00:30:53.860 today is last year's crop. Whereas six months from now, it's going to be this year's crop,

00:30:58.420 which was grown on higher expensed inputs. Um, so it's going to, it has to go up.

00:31:03.620 Well, Paul, um, I wish you all the best. You're fighting a good fight. And maybe your problem,

00:31:10.020 your fault is that you are growing corn and you're not raising crickets. Because if you open a cricket

00:31:17.060 farm, like Aspire Foods in London, Ontario, there's no war on the farmer. Indeed, the Trudeau Liberals

00:31:23.220 will cut you checks for tens of millions of dollars. So maybe that's what you have to do

00:31:27.940 is reinvent yourself from a food farmer to an insect breeder. Well, maybe that's the future.

00:31:32.820 Maybe, maybe we have to look at that. It's, uh, uh, it's unfortunate though, that we would have

00:31:36.820 to change. You know, we've been doing this for over 200 years on this farm. And, uh, uh, that's what

00:31:42.260 we do is what we've done well. And, uh, I don't, uh, don't foresee us changing to a cricket farm.

00:31:47.380 Okay. That's good. I prefer a corn with my steak at any event. Uh, thank you again, Paul. And we're

00:31:54.500 gonna, uh, speak to, uh, war two counselor, Tom Munch, who's been an ally on your side. He was

00:31:59.940 someone who voted against the stormwater fee increase. We'll see what he has to say.

00:32:03.780 Good luck, my friend. Thank you very much.

00:32:16.900 Hey, welcome back. Your letters. A lot of these are about our live stream. You know,

00:32:19.700 we're covering the trucker commission of inquiry all day through live tweets. We're streaming the

00:32:25.220 commission during the day. And then we have our own commentary live stream every night. Jaws says,

00:32:30.660 Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson really revealed how unprofessional he is when he resorted to calling

00:32:36.180 names by calling the protesters a bunch of yahoos. Well, that's the same thing that conservative 0.98

00:32:41.460 premier Doug Ford says. Um, to his credit, uh, Jim Watson did not lie. When he was asked if he

00:32:47.380 observed any violence or threats of violence, he admitted he had not. He just heard rumors in the

00:32:53.060 newspapers. Arthur NS says the emergencies act was clear and being annoyed by protesters is not a

00:32:59.700 valid reason. Exactly. There had to be a grave danger to people or the country itself. And in the

00:33:07.300 word and not, or, and it, that problem couldn't be solved by existing laws. The invocation of

00:33:13.860 martial law was a fraud. Someone named got to go says the emphasis has been, why didn't you come down

00:33:20.900 harder? No representation from the truckers, no effort at the time to mediate with the truckers.

00:33:26.340 Instead, every effort has been made to paint the protesters as being in lead with bikers,

00:33:30.500 being terrorists, et cetera. This is a show trial to justify the suspension of Canadians' rights.

00:33:36.020 I think that's the media narrative, but I think, uh, over the last few days you have seen

00:33:41.620 a lot of city officials, including Jim Watson, the mayor, acknowledge that they had substantive and

00:33:47.940 meaningful negotiations and discussions with the truckers and the truckers were acting in goodwill.

00:33:53.300 Uh, I think that's why it's so important that we cover what's going on because the media party

00:33:58.660 lied about the truckers in February and they're lying about the commission now. You just can't

00:34:03.940 believe a word they say. The New York Times would agree. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow,

00:34:09.380 on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:34:14.260 Mr. Watson, why do you keep talking about incidents that you only see on the media and not by yourself?

00:34:23.140 Mr. Watson, why did you vote against a motion to pursue the Emergencies Act,

00:34:27.620 but then welcome it a week later? Why did you vote against that at Council?

00:34:31.060 Mr. Watson, why did you vote against the Emergencies Act?

00:34:35.300 Hey folks, William Diaz here in Ottawa for the fourth day of the Emergencies Act inquiry here

00:34:40.100 that's happening since Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on peaceful protesters during the

00:34:44.740 Freedom Convoy back in February. So today I'm here to ask Keith Wilson, the lawyer for the Convoy

00:34:49.940 organizers, some questions about the testimonies, the bizarre testimony we heard from Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson

00:34:56.420 today. Let's check it out. You know, we saw earlier Jim Watson said that the protesters had,

00:35:01.620 you know, not, were incapable of discussing rationally, of negotiating rationally. What

00:35:06.180 do you have to say to that? Because I saw that you were able to have, you know, courteous text messages

00:35:10.100 with the city of Ottawa during the convoy and even some truckers were willing to move their trunks to

00:35:14.820 Wellington Street. What do you have to say to his claims that the truckers weren't willing to negotiate

00:35:18.980 rationally? Well, it was pretty clear that what the mayor was doing this morning was using every

00:35:24.180 opportunity he could to say bad things about the protesters. And one of the things he said was

00:35:29.220 that they're an irrational group and you couldn't negotiate with them. Where, in fact, we did negotiate

00:35:35.780 with the mayor. And he acknowledged that the agreement was successful. He acknowledged that over 100

00:35:42.740 vehicles left the downtown and several blocks were cleared. And he acknowledged that the truckers had

00:35:50.580 upheld their end of the bargain. So I think it's pretty clear when you look at the repeated derogatory

00:35:59.780 phrases that the mayor used. I think he's trying to help the prime minister out. I don't know what

00:36:04.900 promises the prime minister has made to Mayor Watson as who you know is not seeking re-election and

00:36:11.620 will be on the job market soon. So I don't think the commissioner's buying it. I think the evidence

00:36:20.980 yesterday from the city officials about the goodwill nature, the credibility that the truckers and their

00:36:29.940 representatives had in the negotiations and in the dialogue with the city officials, I think is going

00:36:35.460 to prevail in the end. I think what we're seeing here is just political posturing, the mayor trying

00:36:40.900 to win favor with the prime minister and do his best to slight Canadians who came here to protest for

00:36:50.020 their freedoms. Yeah, you know, talking about political past and political biases, you know,

00:36:53.620 earlier we saw Brandon Miller try to, you know, find out what the political past of Jim Watson was.

00:36:59.140 He talked about federal politics, about provincial politics, about mayoral politics. Can you explain

00:37:03.380 what was the point of this line of questioning? Well, I think it was to emphasize that the mayor

00:37:09.620 is and always has been a political player. You know, he's the former minister of housing and

00:37:16.180 municipally related matters here in the province of Ontario. That's something I didn't know until today.

00:37:21.940 He's been an active member of the Liberal Party. So, you know, he's played politics all his life and

00:37:28.980 he was playing politics in the hearing room again today. And he said that he didn't

00:37:32.740 politicize the protest when Brendan Miller asked him if he agreed that he politicized the protest.

00:37:37.380 Do you agree with Miller's assessment that he did politicize the Freedom Convoy?

00:37:42.020 Well, again, look at what he's doing today. He's completely contradicting the evidence of his city

00:37:47.860 officials, his own chief of staff, the city manager, in terms of how they described their dealings with

00:37:55.220 the freedom protesters and their representatives. And they described them in a very positive way.

00:38:01.540 And they explained how they honored the deal to de-escalate. But for the intervention of the

00:38:08.500 federal government and the police stopping the movement of trucks out of the downtown area,

00:38:14.580 the protest would have been largely consolidated to Wellington by the Wednesday of the same week that

00:38:20.820 the federal government and the prime minister decided to invoke the Emergencies Act.

00:38:24.500 Yeah. And finally, one last thing, you know, you said that the testimonies that happened,

00:38:28.580 you actually don't corroborate with the testimony fully that happened today. I keep receiving a lot

00:38:33.700 of messages about hearsay and, you know, lies that are being told the commission. Why do you think we're

00:38:39.220 seeing so much hearsay and what can council do? How much do you think is going to have an impact on the

00:38:43.620 result of the commission? Well, you know, we have a very seasoned judge who is the commissioner. He's a

00:38:53.220 justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal. He has 20 years of experience of being a judge and adjudicating

00:39:01.940 matters. I think he has a keen eye and a keen ear and he will seek to sift out the real evidence from the

00:39:09.620 political posturing. And because it's a commission inquiry, the formal rules of evidence don't apply.

00:39:17.780 So hearsay evidence is allowed. But what a decision maker does in that circumstance is it goes to

00:39:23.220 weight. How much weight do they give that evidence? And we'll have to see.

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