Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ A tale of two conservative parties — one a winner, one a loser

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today I compare the state of affairs of two conservative parties in North

00:00:05.300 America. The Conservative Party of Canada, which does not hold the Prime Minister's office or the

00:00:11.700 House of Commons or the Senate, and the Republican Party of America, which does not hold the White

00:00:16.580 House or the House of Representatives or the Senate. And yet one party, if the election were

00:00:23.280 held again today, would do just as poorly as last time, if not worse. And the other party,

00:00:28.540 the Americans, is set for the largest midterm victory in 40 years, if polls are accurate. Why?

00:00:37.040 And how can we get some of that up here? Well, I'll give you my thoughts. That's next. First,

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00:01:15.440 Tonight, a tale of two conservative parties. One's a winner, one's a loser. It's November 18th, 0.77

00:01:37.780 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:41.620 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:45.240 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:49.320 The only thing I have to say to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody

00:01:54.180 right to do so.

00:02:00.620 Yesterday, we talked about Senator Denise Banners and her petition to have an early leadership

00:02:06.000 review of Aaron O'Toole, the leader of the conservative party who lost the last election.

00:02:11.480 He lost votes and he lost seats, and what's the most frustrating to me is that he did so

00:02:18.300 while throwing out every conservative policy he had campaigned on in the leadership contest

00:02:23.080 just a few months earlier. He literally signed a written promise not to raise taxes, including

00:02:29.960 the carbon tax. Then he proposed a carbon tax, but thinks that by calling it a

00:02:35.980 levy instead of a tax, we won't notice? Yeah, no. You know, if you literally type the word

00:02:42.100 levy into any online dictionary, they give you the definition of tax. He also said he'd defund

00:02:50.660 the CBC. That was a lie. He abandoned it after he won the leadership. He said he'd fight against

00:02:57.280 canceled culture. That's what he said when he was running for leader. But in fact, he's canceled

00:03:02.100 more people than any other politician in Canada except Justin Trudeau. So my point is, at least

00:03:09.380 if Aaron O'Toole had lost while actually campaigning valiantly as a conservative, at least we'd have

00:03:16.660 some measure of how popular or successful conservative ideas are in Canada. But he didn't do that.

00:03:22.600 In fact, I think he's muddied the waters about what the word conservative even means anymore,

00:03:28.280 and he certainly proved that he'd say anything or do anything for momentary advantage. He's got no

00:03:34.900 policy. I think he burnt his personal character. Not only did he lose, but I don't think he's going

00:03:41.960 to win next time. I think the cake is baked. Look at this. It's a tweet from CP24. O'Toole warns

00:03:50.060 more expulsions in store for any MP who challenges his leadership. The beatings will continue until

00:03:58.060 morale improves. I don't think that usually works. See, the thing is, in our system in Canada,

00:04:03.360 you win the right to be prime minister by having the most MPs. So promising to throw out any MPs from

00:04:09.680 your caucus who aren't 100% obedient to you. Now, I'm sure that is scary for some MPs. I mean,

00:04:17.840 you work for a guy like that, he could end your political career, especially when he says you

00:04:22.860 must absolutely support his policy about faces. You got to support him in the flip and the flop.

00:04:29.400 And if you're not, you'll be fired. I mean, seriously, imagine being a cowardly Alberta 0.96

00:04:33.680 conservative MP and agreeing to simply parrot his pro-carbon tax line and just swallowing it.

00:04:41.540 You've opposed the carbon tax for a generation. You ran and won on that platform under Stephen Harper.

00:04:47.840 Aaron O'Toole himself did as a cabinet member under Harper. But now Aaron O'Toole thinks in some

00:04:54.060 weird 3D chess game that he's gonna win election by being pro-carbon tax. But then he put that

00:05:02.660 question to the party at their policy conference and they voted against it. They voted against the

00:05:07.480 carbon tax and he simply said he didn't care. He didn't care. He was going to ignore them. I mean,

00:05:12.400 imagine calling that man, you're a great leader and being obedient to him and just saying how much

00:05:17.280 you love him in the carbon tax. Look, I am not calling for a civil war in the conservative party,

00:05:22.060 but when a leader loses an election, you have a gut check moment. You check your course.

00:05:28.280 And that's not asking just the terrified members of his own caucus if they will do some compelled,

00:05:38.160 showy act of loyalty to him. By a gut check, I don't mean asking his shadow cabinet if they like

00:05:43.340 him. He just appointed them to that. You ask the owners of the party, namely thousands of party

00:05:48.860 members, which is all Senator Batters is asking for, which is what truly terrifies Aaron O'Toole,

00:05:54.260 because he knows he has betrayed them morally. And even if he hasn't, the party only has one job,

00:06:01.360 win an election, and Aaron O'Toole didn't win the election. So that's Canada's so-called

00:06:07.400 conservative party. Of course, the media party, which is an auxiliary of the liberal party,

00:06:13.680 is feasting on this disarray. And I suppose we are too, a little bit, but that's because we want a

00:06:18.800 leadership check if party members support Aaron O'Toole. I mean, I guess that's fine. I

00:06:24.120 won't support him. But if no one else in the party wants to step up, that's fine. And he has

00:06:30.620 the undisputed heavyweight title in the tiny little conservative party. But if party members

00:06:35.180 know he's a loser who lost and is likely to lose again, maybe they want to pull off the bench quickly 0.97

00:06:42.980 and get someone new in there. I'm not saying there won't be any pain, but I'm saying get the pain 0.97

00:06:48.140 out of the way as early as possible, as long a time in advance of the next election as possible,

00:06:53.640 especially before O'Toole continues to smash and expel every principal conservative left in the

00:06:59.740 place, before he deplatforms Leslie and Lewis even from caucus, before he abandons whatever

00:07:04.500 conservative values remain. I can't even name what remains. And if he's truly the best the party can

00:07:10.560 come up with, then so be it. That's why I want a leadership review, and I want it early. Now,

00:07:16.100 the CBC just loves to see trauma in the conservatives, and they like Aaron O'Toole 0.74

00:07:20.920 because he's a proven loser, and he is one at a time doing their job for them,

00:07:25.280 getting rid of the true conservatives, the Derek Sloans, the Leslie Lewis's. They love 0.98

00:07:31.180 the cannibalism on the right. So that's that. Look, I haven't seen any new opinion polls out yet,

00:07:36.360 but they probably aren't fresh enough to capture the latest battle. But it is a certainty

00:07:42.300 that the conservative party will fall in the polls. I mean, who would support a political

00:07:47.520 party that doesn't support itself, that has to sort out its own business? So that's Canada.

00:07:52.480 What a shame. It's tough up here. You know, the House of Commons is run by liberals. The Senate is

00:07:57.360 run by liberals. The media is not just run by liberals. It's funded by liberals. The culture

00:08:03.080 is liberal. Everything is liberal in Canada. It's tough. But how about the United States of America? I mean,

00:08:10.120 the White House is occupied by Democrats. So are both houses of Congress, the House of Representatives

00:08:16.880 and the Senate. The media is overwhelmingly liberal. All the big newspapers, the New York Times,

00:08:22.660 the Washington Post, the LA Times, etc. All the TV networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, plus the news networks, CNN,

00:08:29.860 MSNBC. There's just Fox News, which is a sliver of the audience of the big networks, and some websites.

00:08:37.940 And then, of course, there's all of Hollywood, from the old studios to the new ones, Amazon Prime Video,

00:08:44.660 Netflix. All of it's so liberal, so left-wing. That's where the Obamas are making their money now.

00:08:48.840 I mean, they're explicitly pro-Democrat. And yet, while Canada's conservatives appear doomed,

00:08:56.160 and if an election were held again today, they surely would do no better than they did

00:09:00.540 in October. Look at this from the United States. Look at this. This is a poll

00:09:06.700 from the Washington Post. That's owned by Amazon. It's owned by Jeff Bezos. It's

00:09:10.980 pro-Democrat. So this is not some right-wing fantasy poll. This is the most establishment

00:09:15.940 liberal newspaper in America commissioning this poll. And take a look at it, would you?

00:09:22.080 It's a very simple headline. Economic discontent, criticisms of Biden lift the GOP, that's the

00:09:29.740 Republicans, to a record early advantage. Record. Republican congressional candidates hold their

00:09:36.880 largest lead in midterm election vote preferences in ABC News, Washington Post polls, dating back

00:09:44.320 40 years, underscoring profound challenges for Democrats hoping to retain their slim majorities

00:09:50.360 in Congress next year. While a year is a lifetime in politics, the Democratic Party's difficulties

00:09:55.940 are deep. They include soaring economic discontent, a president who's fallen 12 percentage points

00:10:01.060 underwater in job approval, and a broad sense that the party is out of touch with the concerns of

00:10:06.720 most Americans. 62% say so. And just look at that graph. Holy cow. 51% for the Republicans.

00:10:17.400 They have never been at that level. Look at the chart. Going back 40 years.

00:10:23.240 Now, I'm talking about what they call the midterm elections there.

00:10:28.620 They haven't been at that level since this chart begins in 1981. This is going to be a once-in-a-generation

00:10:34.980 pendulum swing from the left to the right. That's what this says. Now, I'm not saying nothing could

00:10:40.000 stop it. I mean, vote fraud could stop it, for example. It's not who casts the ballots. It's

00:10:44.500 who counts them. But we just saw a sneak preview of what could really happen in the state of

00:10:49.540 Virginia, where Republicans held the governor's mansion for just four out of the last 20 years.

00:10:56.100 Like, that's a Democrat state. The Democrats were considered a double-digit shoe-in.

00:11:01.820 I think Biden won the state by 10% in 2020. And yet a Republican won, despite media smears,

00:11:09.620 said he was a racist. He won against the former chairman of the Democratic Party and all of his

00:11:15.580 fundraising prowess. I think the swing is coming. Part of that is because of the American system.

00:11:22.540 Like I say, every two years, Congress is up for re-election. Every six years, the Senate is, but

00:11:27.580 they're staggered. So every two years, one-third of the Senate is up for grabs.

00:11:32.360 So while Joe Biden himself is not on the ballot next year, the Congress and one-third of the

00:11:38.240 Senate are. And with them, the ability for Biden to get many things done. Now, the president still

00:11:43.760 has great power as the executive. He can appoint people a cabinet. He can appoint judges. He can

00:11:48.660 launch wars. He can conduct money policy. He can appease China and hand Afghanistan to it. He can let 0.73

00:11:55.680 China devour Taiwan. He can keep the border with Mexico open. Joe Biden, or whoever is really running

00:12:01.320 the show, will have enormous power and the power to do terrible things until his very last minute in

00:12:07.360 office. Just look at how they have weaponized the Department of Justice against PTA moms. But the 1.00

00:12:13.860 ability to pass so many laws and budgets will be limited by the Republican Party if they're able to

00:12:21.460 take back one or both houses of Congress. And the more radical nominees of Biden can be stalled or

00:12:26.740 blocked too. Like this. And I show you this because this is amazing. And because it shows that the

00:12:33.700 Democrats are so truly out of step with Americans. And this is going to be a splash of cold water in

00:12:38.560 their face when people reject this radicalism in a year. But also, listen, watch this woman I'm going 0.87

00:12:44.500 to show you. But realize we have people just as radical as this in Canada. And yet we have no

00:12:50.800 confirmation hearings like the Americans do. So our Stephen Gilboa, for example, currently our 0.87

00:12:58.340 environment minister, he used to be the censorship minister. He's a convicted criminal, you know,

00:13:02.500 right? He's a former Greenpeace radical extremist. He would never be confirmed by the U.S. system, 0.63

00:13:10.960 including by many moderate Democrats. You put a convicted criminal up, it just wouldn't pass. But in our

00:13:16.760 system, Trudeau just names him and it's done. Same with our judges. But look at this woman, 1.00

00:13:23.020 Biden's nominee to run the banking regulator. She's from the former Soviet Union. Yeah, and it shows. 0.89

00:13:28.840 Listen to her talking about abolishing private banks and making it so you can only have a bank account

00:13:36.260 with the government. That is Soviet. Imagine what would it be like if instead of being just a public 0.82

00:13:45.300 option for deposit banking, this would be actually the full transition. In other words,

00:13:52.020 there will be no more private bank deposit accounts and all of the deposit accounts will be held

00:13:56.980 directly at the Fed. And there are very interesting implications from that thought experiment,

00:14:02.720 for example, with the much more direct and proactive tools of monetary policy like helicopter money,

00:14:09.180 which is considered radical, primarily because economists really do not know how to manage the

00:14:16.780 issue of what will happen in the inflationary environment when the central bank needs to contract

00:14:23.140 the supply of money. How is it politically feasible for the central bank to effectively take money away

00:14:29.840 from people's accounts?

00:14:32.480 Holy moly. Now, I don't know if she will actually make it through their system, 1.00

00:14:36.120 but they actually have a system that can stop things like this. And because moderate Democrats

00:14:41.040 are actually a thing. And because Republicans, or at least some of them,

00:14:45.840 will try to block her because she is Coray Zay. But

00:14:49.060 mainly because Republicans, or at least some of them, actually still think of themselves as a

00:14:54.220 party with a conservative identity. Not all Republicans do. Some are rhinos, Republicans in

00:15:00.060 name only, but enough to. I mean, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, the governor, Rand Paul, the senator,

00:15:06.140 Thomas Massey, the congressman. There are enough people like that. And even though their party does

00:15:11.720 have its sellouts, like Aaron O'Toole is a sellout, there is not the same absolute discipline over

00:15:18.280 party members that Aaron O'Toole has. So you can't just kick someone out of the Republican Party,

00:15:22.960 like you can't kick someone out of the conservative party. I suppose you could kick someone

00:15:26.620 out of your caucus just as weak. Republicans, quote, censured one of their own. But

00:15:31.940 it would be madness to drive someone out of your party when every vote counts, when you got a 50-50

00:15:38.020 Senate. I put it to you that one reason the Republicans are doing so well is because Joe

00:15:44.580 Biden and the squads, like the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes, and the bank Caesars, who we just saw,

00:15:50.760 and the radicals and the Democrats, they're turning people off. I mean, the world is getting worse,

00:15:55.180 and Americans can sense it. The pandemic is not over. Foreign affairs are a shambles. Inflation

00:16:00.680 is rampant. Gasoline is skyrocketing in the pumps. Same thing in Canada on all fronts, though.

00:16:07.920 Except down in America, Republicans offer an alternative to it. At least some do.

00:16:13.140 Up here, what alternative has Aaron O'Toole offered? On anything. Okay, I got it. He's offering a

00:16:18.900 carbon levy instead of a carbon tax. Tell me the difference on any important subject between

00:16:24.420 O'Toole and Trudeau. I wish just once a conservative would run as a conservative,

00:16:30.140 not even as a radical, as a sensible, calm Reagan conservative, just to try it.

00:16:36.900 Don't do what the CBC tells you to do. Ron DeSantis doesn't do what CNN tells them to do.

00:16:41.600 Just be yourself. Just be conservative. Just give it a shot. At least if you lose that way,

00:16:49.200 you know you tried. We don't actually know what would have happened if a true conservative

00:16:54.180 had run in the last election, because none did. Stay with us for more.

00:16:59.880 There you go, mate. Good to see you. I'm happy to see someone here that police probably like less

00:17:18.800 than me. Welcome to Melbourne. Yeah, it's good to be here. I got down at the seven o'clock flight

00:17:24.440 out of Sydney. I arrived in Melbourne this morning. The rain was coming down vertical.

00:17:29.060 The pilot said it's about nine degrees outside. Global warming. It's nice and cold here today.

00:17:34.160 I'm glad I bought a warm jacket, they told me. So how do you feel about the crowd today?

00:17:38.400 It's just incredible. I can't, from the stage, I can't see the back of the crowd to the left,

00:17:44.680 to the right or in front of me. There must be tens of thousands of people here. You'll probably

00:17:49.480 hear it on the ABC tonight. If they report it, there was a hundred people and two dogs.

00:17:55.180 Are we the two dogs? That's right. The rest of the world, their eyes are on Melbourne at the

00:18:00.380 moment. What is your message to them? The message has been, people are not going to put up with

00:18:05.060 this bullshit anymore. People, this is the most locked down city in the world. It's the most 1.00

00:18:10.580 depressed city in the world. The science shows there is no cause for this. People are going to 0.99

00:18:16.940 stand up for their rights. Remember, there's places like Florida, places like Texas, that these

00:18:23.200 mandates have been thrown out and made illegal. We've got to end this discrimination. We've got

00:18:27.920 to protect the kids. And really, I think we need a complete change in the political scene.

00:18:33.220 Both the major political parties have showed they can't be trusted. How could you give someone like

00:18:37.960 Daniel Andrews more power after what he's done?

00:18:41.360 Well, that was our own Avi Yamini at an incredible protest outside the state of Victoria's legislature

00:18:49.000 in the city of Melbourne. As you may have heard, even though we're on the opposite side of the world

00:18:54.180 here, the socialist premier of the state of Victoria was passing or trying to pass a bill to give him

00:19:00.940 permanent emergency powers akin to an authoritarian dictator. That may sound shocking to you, but it

00:19:08.040 shouldn't be surprising. This is the same premier who traveled to China and publicly signed a treaty

00:19:14.740 with the Communist Party of China, although he kept the terms of the treaty secret from Australians.

00:19:22.020 It had to be set aside by the prime minister as beyond the power of a state premier, just an absolute

00:19:28.260 incredible, incredible socialist activist premier. Well, these protests outside the legislature got bigger

00:19:37.240 and bigger and they never went away and they stayed overnight and opposition grew. So how did it end?

00:19:44.680 Joining us now via Skype from Melbourne, Australia is our friend and chief Australia correspondent

00:19:50.060 Avi Yamini. Avi, great to see you. You were out there

00:19:53.060 every day amongst the protesters. Is it over? Did it end? What happened?

00:19:58.640 No, it's certainly not over yet. It was supposed to be voted on yesterday. Well, as long as the

00:20:05.940 government, as long as Andrews had the numbers, he was urgently going to push it through. That's what

00:20:10.440 they were saying. They were telling the world, they were telling Victorians that this is such an

00:20:15.040 important piece of legislation and it must pass now. But when one of his former ministers has crossed the

00:20:23.920 floor and shown his vaccination papers, he hasn't voted in a while, when he said, I'm actually going to

00:20:31.220 oppose it, suddenly the Andrews government and what I'm calling their three stooges, the far left wing

00:20:38.080 alliance of the Greens, Animal Justice and Fiona Patton, they all voted to now delay this urgent vote.

00:20:50.560 Obviously, they're trying to scramble and get the numbers. I can't tell you what's going to happen.

00:20:57.600 You know, it's certainly not going to pass the way they expected and wanted it to pass, which is absolute

00:21:04.720 power to the premier. It is some of the scariest legislation I've ever seen. And as a Victorian and

00:21:13.200 as an enemy of the state, I was slightly fearful of it. So it's certainly we're in a much better

00:21:22.040 position. It would have been great for it to be voted on yesterday and to to kill that bill 0.72

00:21:28.320 right there dead in its tracks. But the bill, the vote could happen today. Or there's one more week

00:21:36.040 of Parliament sitting before the end of the year, which makes it so much more interesting, because

00:21:42.280 if he doesn't get that bill passed, there's no way they're going to give him another extension on the

00:21:48.920 state of emergency, which then means on December 16, the government loses the ability, loses all power

00:21:58.960 power to enforce any COVID restrictions or any rules, any mandates. How that to me, that sounds like

00:22:08.180 poetic justice if that happens.

00:22:10.960 Well, I tell you, the stakes couldn't be higher. So what I think I'm gathering from those parliamentary

00:22:15.780 intrigues is that it was set to pass with a coalition of Dan Andrews and these three left wing, I think

00:22:22.900 they're called crossbenchers down there, like sort of independents. But one guy who used to be an ally

00:22:29.200 of Dan Andrews, one politician made the difference and said, I'm not going to support it. So the math

00:22:35.880 was off. And so they didn't force the issue and they backed off. Did I get that right? One man,

00:22:41.340 the most unlikely man.

00:22:44.120 Well, it's the most unlikely, but when you really think about it, it was the most likely, just no one

00:22:51.240 thought about it. I was having this discussion yesterday because what was interesting was the

00:22:55.820 first time I heard this man's name in the conversation were these protesters outside

00:23:03.320 parliament a few days ago. So the only people who thought about it were these protesters that have

00:23:09.120 been defamed and called all sorts of names the last few weeks. But none of the mainstream,

00:23:16.840 none of the politicians, none of the people doing, crunching the numbers, no one making

00:23:21.380 educated guesses or predictions picked up on the fact that Adam Somnurek, who has for a while now

00:23:29.980 been at odds with Daniel Andrews. No one thought that he would come in and cross the floor like that.

00:23:35.720 Well, it's very interesting. And I know that some of these names are not familiar to people outside

00:23:40.360 of Australia, but the point is one man made a difference. It's very historic in its feeling. It's very

00:23:46.500 biblical almost. And as you point out, it's not dead yet. Although your petition,

00:23:54.920 killthebill.com.au, has well over 100,000 signatures. That's large anywhere. But for a

00:24:02.440 country the size of Australia, about 25 million folks, if I'm not mistaken. I think that's got to

00:24:07.340 be one of the largest petitions in recent history. Well, I think even more so that the fact that this

00:24:14.620 is not an Australian issue, this is a Victorian, I think it's a worldwide issue, but it is a Victorian

00:24:21.000 petition. So you're talking about, I don't know, 6 million people. It is huge. And, you know,

00:24:28.400 whether we actually have to go and deliver it to the governor, now I'm so much more confident

00:24:34.740 knowing we have over 100,000 signatures. But even if the bill does die, I think it's important for

00:24:41.760 every single one of those 100,000 people plus who signed it to know that they changed the

00:24:48.440 conversation. Because everywhere I've been, many of the points that we bring up in that petition for

00:24:55.920 the very first time have become now mainstream talking points when arguing about it. So I'm really

00:25:04.420 proud about what we did and each and every person that helped bring that to that level.

00:25:11.620 So it's not just the number of people who signed it, it's the education of the process of the petition

00:25:17.740 spread the news about it. Give our people just one or two points about what is in this bill that was

00:25:25.740 of such biblical proportions that caused this one man to come back and cast his, or and threaten to

00:25:32.940 cast his vote against us. Give us just one or two details. I've said the word like a permanent

00:25:37.440 authoritarian powers. Give us an example.

00:25:41.880 I'll give you an example. Essentially, the premier himself can declare a pandemic

00:25:46.800 at his own will. There doesn't even have to be a disease. Now, with that, he ultimately holds all the

00:25:57.320 power. They tried to pretend that there's oversights by committees that, that he chooses. So obviously,

00:26:04.880 if he doesn't like what the committee says, he just has to bring somebody else in. It also says in

00:26:10.160 there, and this was one of the sweeteners that he was trying to produce as transparency, saying,

00:26:17.580 from now on, we will publish the health advice, because until now, they've refused to do so. And

00:26:26.100 to be, our lawsuit in the Supreme Court was one of the first, was the first and last time that we've

00:26:33.300 actually put up any of their health advisors on the stand to give testimony about what the advice was.

00:26:41.140 But aside from that, they've never published any health advice that justifies the most, the longest,

00:26:47.360 most brutal lockdown in the world. He says, we're going to publish it, but it doesn't say that he

00:26:51.780 has to. It changes and he can say, no problem, I publish it. But I, I, as the man holding all the

00:26:58.760 power that can decide anything, has the final say. And the final say included going, jailing people for

00:27:08.540 up to two years for breaching health orders. So at that, and that it is, it is so broad that

00:27:18.680 really, if, if, if it was to be enacted, he would essentially have the power of targeting. And part of

00:27:28.720 that bill was targeting people on political, on their political view. So the premier of Victoria, who I

00:27:35.720 know for certain doesn't appreciate the work we do at rebel news would be able to target me because of

00:27:43.940 his perceived views of, of what I stand for. And, um, essentially jail without trial or due process.

00:27:54.360 And there was no real, um, right to judicial review. It meant that if you wanted to have that

00:28:01.700 reviewed, it had to be reviewed. Another bureaucrat that he chooses. It was outrageous. And this was

00:28:09.360 the first time in a long time where all sides of politics and you had all the law institutes and

00:28:16.360 the majority of the legal fraternity standing up. And if anyone knows anything about the legal

00:28:22.720 fraternity here in Victoria, they're quite, um, liberal, they're quite, um, um, they're allies of

00:28:31.400 the labor government usually. And they came out pretty strong about this because even they could

00:28:37.360 see that this was nothing to do with health. This was an attack on our civil liberties. He,

00:28:42.280 he claimed it was about future pandemics, but I promise you if that piece of legislation had passed

00:28:48.200 tomorrow, today, Mr. Andrews would have declared that pandemic.

00:28:53.120 Wow. You know, it's, there's so much in there and I'm just chuckling. Um, I don't know why they're

00:28:58.880 not publishing their health advice now. That's supposed to be some sort of gift or something

00:29:03.460 they might do. It just boggles the mind that they're not publishing it now. But then again,

00:29:07.420 I realized that in Canada, we don't have any disclosure of that either. We're all living

00:29:11.980 in authoritarian times. Avi, it's great to see you again and have you on the program.

00:29:16.080 We watch your videos and we're delighted by your reporting. I truly believe that Australia

00:29:20.820 and in particular, the city of Melbourne and the state of Victoria are the center of the bullseye

00:29:25.720 for the globalist authoritarian attack that's using the pandemic opportunistically to seize power.

00:29:33.240 And I really, really believe that your reporting more than anyone else in Australia is shining a

00:29:39.580 light of scrutiny on it. And I think you've really made a difference. I think Australians believe that

00:29:43.860 too, the way they're responding to you. So keep up the great work and thanks for being such a

00:29:48.820 important part of the team. Thanks. Thanks again, Ezra. Thanks for having me on. There you have it.

00:29:54.080 Avi Yamini, Chief Australia correspondent coming to us from Melbourne. Stay with us more ahead.

00:29:59.040 Hey, welcome back. Your viewer feedback. Jerome Hawke says,

00:30:15.140 I suspended my meager monthly donations to the conservative party many months ago.

00:30:19.440 I await the cleanup of the mess they're currently in. The fundraisers are not pleased with me.

00:30:25.160 Tough. Yeah. You know, I think it's a kind of false advertising for the conservative. I get

00:30:30.940 conservative party fundraising emails. I don't understand why I literally have not been a party

00:30:35.760 member in more than 10 years. I have not given them a donation in more than 10 years, but they

00:30:40.100 still try and get money from me. And that's fine. I like to read them. But I think they're false

00:30:44.360 advertising. They're very rebel in their style. They're very action oriented. They're well written

00:30:51.380 and sharp. I wish those email writers, those fundraisers for the conservative party were actually

00:30:56.440 MPs because they pretend to be rock ribbed, red blooded conservatives when they email or phone you.

00:31:03.660 They don't actually keep their promise. They say they're against cancel culture. They say they're

00:31:09.340 against the CBC and the media party. They say they're against high taxes, but they're not against any

00:31:14.880 of those things. I think giving money to the conservative party of Canada, I mean, listen,

00:31:20.680 if it makes you feel better, do it, but I don't think you should do it. I think you're rewarding

00:31:24.780 a wolf in sheep's clothing. I think they are no different than the liberals.

00:31:31.120 Bruce Atchison says, remember the end of Animal Farm. The liberals and conservatives look too much

00:31:37.680 alike. We peer through the window, but we can't tell if Trudeau is O'Toole and O'Toole is Trudeau.

00:31:43.160 Those glorious promises of the 2019 leadership debate are now painful lies. That's exactly,

00:31:48.920 that's a great analogy. I love that book, Animal Farm. And what's incredible is how quickly

00:31:56.020 O'Toole just did 180 degree change on everything. He's a liar. I'm sorry. It's just a liar. I mean, 1.00

00:32:02.140 I know every politician has to lie at least a little bit, but don't lie about everything and

00:32:06.780 don't lie to your base and then expect them to support you. He's terrified of confronting his base.

00:32:12.000 That's all Denny's batters wants is for him to have an accountability moment. He doesn't want that.

00:32:18.260 Kirk Woken says, I told the conservative party this time I wasn't supporting them because I

00:32:23.700 wanted to vote for a conservative. Isn't that the truth? Look, I don't know if there's anyone waiting

00:32:28.980 in the wings. I don't know why Pierre Polyev hasn't thrown his hat in. I thought he would last time.

00:32:33.860 I hope he does. There may be other people in the party. Maybe Leslie Lewis. I don't know.

00:32:38.400 Obviously, O'Toole regards her as a rival, given that he didn't appoint her to shadow cabinet. I

00:32:43.780 really do think he will fire her one day. But listen, if Erin O'Toole is truly the best the

00:32:49.560 Canadian conservative movement has to offer, a country of 38 million people, if he's the best

00:32:54.820 the conservative party has, so be it. But we won't actually know unless we ask the members, will we?

00:33:00.800 Well, that's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World

00:33:06.540 Highquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with

00:33:11.720 a video by Adam Sose of our Calgary team about that city's ridiculous climate emergency, climate

00:33:19.000 emergency, the first order of business declared by the new mayor. Oh, by the way, in the middle of a

00:33:23.700 snowfall. Here's Adam. Take a look. Welcome to Alberta, strong and free. Home of big clear skies

00:33:35.240 with lush forests that cascade through the foothills of rising Rocky Mountains. Nature and wilderness

00:33:44.180 as far as the eye can see. Peppered by glacial lakes and crystal clear water.

00:33:53.700 Culturally rich, vibrant, modern cities with big town amenities and a small town feel.

00:34:07.580 The city of Calgary sits nestled. Calgary City Council has declared a climate emergency.

00:34:13.800 People from around the world come to Alberta and come to Calgary because it is beautiful

00:34:18.760 and it is clean. We are not facing a climate emergency, plain and simple. If you agree,

00:34:25.060 go to NoClimateEmergency.com now, sign our petition and click a link to send G.O.T. Gondek a message.

00:34:34.980 Adam Sose here for Rebel News. And Calgary, as you've heard, is in apparently a state of climate

00:34:41.260 emergency, whatever that may mean. City councillors voted 13 to 2 in favour of declaring a state of

00:34:49.000 emergency in this city. During debates, there was some minor contention over the use of the word

00:34:55.480 emergency and what that means. But City Council wasn't about to let facts and definitions get in

00:35:02.060 the way of jumping on board this climate hysteria. Listen, we have been going through cycles of

00:35:07.800 emergency because of COVID-19 for the past two years. Now they've added yet another element of

00:35:14.520 crises and emergencies for us to be panicked over and to live in fear of. Your new City Council will

00:35:21.760 make a commitment to climate action because we can and we must. Sadly, it isn't as though G.O.T.

00:35:28.220 Gondek is doing this to Calgarians. She campaigned on a platform of one day declaring a climate emergency

00:35:34.700 in the city. Sadly, we are doing this to ourselves, or at least our fellow voters are doing it to us.

00:35:42.300 It's come to the point where they have adopted the climate hysteria so integrally that they are

00:35:47.880 actually comforted by authorities declaring a state of emergency. But the word emergency caused

00:35:54.200 concern for a number of councillors, including Sonia Sharp, who said the word is too charged,

00:35:59.260 but the word was not changed. In our first No Climate Emergency.com video, we talked about how

00:36:05.520 the media in Hollywood are complicit in exasperating fear surrounding climate change. We also talked

00:36:11.740 about how these policies do very little to help the environment, but do a lot to help politicians in

00:36:17.100 patting themselves on the back, and a lot to help them encourage further increased taxes, all in the

00:36:23.420 name of the environment. We have also seen the economic and mental health impacts caused by

00:36:30.320 these types of policies, and the perpetual state of fear that people are living in.

00:36:35.100 Well, Ian, I spoke with the Calgary Construction Association, and they say that they want to be a

00:36:39.180 part of Calgary's climate-conscious future, as construction and buildings are responsible for 60%

00:36:45.600 of the city's carbon footprint. And he also says that Calgary has the potential to be a climate

00:36:50.860 leader in sustainable construction. It says there needs to be a two-pronged approach to build in a

00:36:55.580 way that doesn't contribute to climate change. One, renovate and improve existing and aging buildings to

00:37:01.020 make them more efficient. The other is to make sure that any new construction uses sustainable materials

00:37:06.220 and energy-efficient design. Despite all of these factors, Jyoti and company are so eager to spearhead

00:37:13.980 their new great leap forward, that despite a lack of sufficient technology and resources, they want us

00:37:21.420 transitioning off of fossil fuels. The reality is that we are not ready to do that yet, and the world is going to

00:37:29.820 continue to need oil. Importing oil from overseas OPEC oil is not good for the environment, and it's certainly not good for our economy.

00:37:39.180 So until we are ready to embrace these technologies, and until these technologies are in fact viable

00:37:45.340 and can compete on the open market, they in reality simply will not work.

00:37:51.660 From the initial five founder members, today OPEC has grown to include 13 sovereign nations on three continents.

00:38:00.460 Together, these countries hold 80% of the world's proven oil reserves,

00:38:05.500 and provide around 40% of global crude oil production.

00:38:09.980 You know, in China, Mao Zedong also worked towards a great leap forward. I think we all know how that went,

00:38:17.020 though maybe some of these people don't. When we don't learn from history, it is doomed to repeat itself.

00:38:23.980 Under Mao Zedong, with their great leap forward, they attempted over the course of five years to rapidly

00:38:30.140 industrialize a country that had inadequate technology and whose ways of life were not yet

00:38:35.740 compatible with industrialization. The consequence of that policy was that millions of people died.

00:38:42.780 Listen, I am hopeful that our politicians aren't quite so dramatic as Mao Zedong. I'm hoping they

00:38:48.060 don't shut off the oil and count on sunless solar panels and frozen over wind turbines to get us through

00:38:54.780 the winter. But if history has taught us anything, hoping on politicians is not good policy.

00:39:00.940 We must work together to ensure it is no longer free to pollute anywhere in the world.

00:39:08.380 Simply put, we cannot transition to technology that does not yet exist, or at least doesn't exist,

00:39:15.100 on a level that can keep us going through Canadian winters. Furthermore, unethical oil does nothing to

00:39:22.300 help the environment and nothing to help Canadians. We need politicians who are actually willing to

00:39:28.700 stand up to this climate hysteria, not simply those who go along to make new friends by agreeing to

00:39:35.500 carbon taxes and Paris Accords. We need people who will stand up in principle. And I'm going to take

00:39:41.100 it a step further. We need politicians who, instead of signing up for these meaningless symbolic gestures,

00:39:47.020 get this, do something to actually help the environment. I want to thank you all for tuning in.

00:39:53.660 For Rebel News, I'm Adam Sous.

00:39:59.100 Go to NoClimateEmergency.com. There you will be able to click a button and send an email directly to

00:40:05.580 Gioti Gondek. You'll also be able to sign our petition saying that there is no climate emergency in Calgary.

00:40:17.580 economic emergency!

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Rebel News Podcast - November 19, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ A tale of two conservative parties — one a winner, one a loser

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