Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ An act of transgendered terrorism

00:00:00.400 Hello, my rebels, a special show today, all about the act, I think you can say, of transgender 1.00

00:00:08.320 terrorism against a Christian school and church yesterday.

00:00:11.960 I'll have some videotape, including incredible video of police body cameras as they stormed

00:00:17.620 the building and shot the terrorists.

00:00:20.080 We'll show you that in another video, including police talking about a transgender ideological

00:00:25.300 manifesto.

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00:00:51.520 Here's today's podcast. 0.97

00:00:56.700 Tonight, an act of transgender terrorism. 1.00

00:01:11.660 It's March 28th. 0.94

00:01:13.000 And this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:14.540 You're fighting for freedom.

00:01:17.800 Shame on you, you censorious bug. 0.65

00:01:20.980 There are mass shootings from time to time in the United States.

00:01:33.360 They happen in Canada occasionally, too.

00:01:36.260 In some cases, they're just a case of mental illness or someone looking to be internet famous.

00:01:42.960 But I think what happened yesterday in Tennessee was those two things, mental illness and someone

00:01:49.720 desiring to make a name for themselves in this internet age.

00:01:53.080 But also, I think it meets the definition of terrorism, which is violence or the threat

00:01:59.220 of violence in pursuit of a political goal.

00:02:02.160 I think it was an act of transgender terrorism. 1.00

00:02:05.680 Let me start off with some of the facts.

00:02:07.440 Here are some tweets by the Nashville Police Department.

00:02:11.260 I'll read them to you.

00:02:13.800 Active shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, drove this Honda Fit to the Covenant Church School

00:02:21.100 campus this morning and parked.

00:02:23.620 MNPD detectives searched it and found additional material written by Hale.

00:02:30.240 They continue in their series of tweets.

00:02:33.340 Hale entered the Covenant building after shooting out the glass of these doors.

00:02:37.480 As officers responded to the Covenant campus, Hale fired on arriving police vehicles from a

00:02:44.300 second-story window.

00:02:46.400 You'll see those broken windows in a minute.

00:02:50.340 Hale fired a number of rounds inside the Covenant Church School building.

00:02:55.460 She was armed with these three guns and significant ammunition.

00:03:00.260 They used the word she, but the murderer herself went by he.

00:03:10.620 It was an unusual case of a female-to-male transition, transgender.

00:03:16.800 Typically, we hear about male-to-female transgenders.

00:03:19.960 And there's questions about just what state of transition she was in.

00:03:26.480 Did she have top surgery, as they describe having her breasts removed? 1.00

00:03:32.880 Was she on testosterone or other hormones and drugs?

00:03:37.880 Police say that not only was she transgender, she wrote an ideological tract, a manifesto,

00:03:45.820 they called it.

00:03:46.420 Here, listen to the police say so.

00:03:49.100 Do you have any criminal history at all?

00:03:51.840 No history at all.

00:03:54.260 And no motive at this point?

00:03:55.900 Anything discovered in the apartment or house?

00:03:59.020 No, we have a manifesto.

00:04:00.920 We have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident.

00:04:07.380 We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.

00:04:11.200 There's right now a theory that we may be able to talk about later, but it's not confirmed.

00:04:18.700 And so we'll put that out as soon as we can.

00:04:21.360 And, Chief, is there any reason to believe that how she identifies a female is white?

00:04:26.060 I'm sorry.

00:04:26.800 I knocked someone from my go.

00:04:27.720 I didn't hear you say that again, sir.

00:04:28.880 Is there any reason to believe that how she identifies has any motive for targeting the school?

00:04:33.760 We can give you that at a later time.

00:04:37.840 There is some theory to that.

00:04:40.540 We're investigating all the leads, and once we know exactly, we'll let you know.

00:04:44.340 So was this a targeted attack?

00:04:47.000 It was.

00:04:48.360 Do we know about a history of transgender man or woman?

00:04:51.420 Don't know any history of mental illness at this time, but we are looking at that as the investigation is ongoing.

00:04:57.720 And I'm sorry.

00:04:58.240 Does she identify as a transgender man or woman?

00:05:01.240 Woman.

00:05:01.680 There have been some school shootings that have made the news, including one in Uvalde in the United States.

00:05:09.120 That was atrocious because, of course, of the shooting in a school, but even more atrocious because the police arrived at the scene but refused to go in.

00:05:19.380 Perhaps they were too scared or they froze in the moment, and a slaughter ensued while the cops were outside.

00:05:25.540 Well, not here.

00:05:26.460 In Nashville, the police went in, and incredibly, the whole thing was filmed.

00:05:31.500 It was filmed on their body cams, which the police quickly released.

00:05:36.480 Let me play for you that video.

00:05:38.220 It's several minutes long.

00:05:40.420 The dead bodies are blurred out.

00:05:42.640 So it is very dramatic.

00:05:45.600 You hear shouting.

00:05:46.760 You know what's going on, but you will not actually see human carnage.

00:05:49.880 I think it's important to watch this.

00:05:52.540 This is what masculine men do.

00:05:55.400 This is what the left calls toxic masculinity. 0.95

00:05:58.300 Not fake men, not female-to-male transitioners or transgenders. 0.73

00:06:02.380 These are real cops rushing towards danger.

00:06:07.920 Real men going to save the vulnerable, the teachers and the children.

00:06:12.240 It's an incredible video, and every cowardly cop in Uvalde should watch it.

00:06:17.300 Here, take a look. 0.88

00:06:18.660 Go, go.

00:06:21.680 There you go, second floor.

00:06:30.620 I don't have radio applause.

00:06:32.140 I'm seeing you now.

00:06:32.640 No, locked door.

00:06:33.720 Where do they go in?

00:06:36.460 First floor, first floor, first floor.

00:06:38.000 Hold there, y'all.

00:06:38.840 Somebody hold there.

00:06:39.380 Hit that door. 0.95

00:06:50.020 Rifle first.

00:06:51.200 Rifle first.

00:06:51.900 Blue, go.

00:06:52.760 Go, go, go, go, go, go.

00:06:54.480 Go.

00:06:58.520 Move.

00:06:59.460 Move.

00:07:01.560 I'm with you.

00:07:02.860 Go left.

00:07:06.020 Straight, straight.

00:07:09.380 Right here, right here, right here, right here.

00:07:14.840 It's locked.

00:07:17.660 Go.

00:07:23.360 Hit that stair.

00:07:25.280 Hit the stairs.

00:07:26.760 Go.

00:07:27.260 Go stairs.

00:07:27.880 Go stairs.

00:07:28.400 Go.

00:07:28.860 Go, go, go, go.

00:07:29.900 Go, go, go.

00:07:30.960 Go.

00:07:31.240 Go.

00:07:31.560 Go.

00:07:33.900 Ready?

00:07:34.900 Keep pushing.

00:07:41.360 Go, go, go, go, go, go.

00:07:46.900 Shots fired.

00:07:47.620 Shots fired.

00:07:48.120 Shots fired.

00:07:48.580 Move.

00:07:50.040 Right, right, right.

00:08:01.360 Push with LPBO.

00:08:02.720 Push with LPBO.

00:08:03.760 Go right.

00:08:04.140 Go right.

00:08:04.180 Go right.

00:08:04.900 Move, move.

00:08:12.740 Watch out, watch out.

00:08:15.220 Stop moving.

00:08:16.720 Stop moving.

00:08:19.640 Get your hands away from the gun.

00:08:21.420 Watch left.

00:08:22.060 Watch left.

00:08:23.180 Suspect down.

00:08:23.960 Suspect down.

00:08:24.700 Hey, hold the air. 0.99

00:08:32.080 They saved lives.

00:08:33.080 They saved lives, but of course, lives were lost before they could.

00:08:37.260 Bizarrely, or actually completely predictably, the media party focused on the transgender nature

00:08:45.820 of the killer, and made that their emphasis, not that there was a transgender manifesto, but that how dare you call the murderer a she instead of a he.

00:08:57.020 Here, take a look at CTV News.

00:08:58.020 Here, take a look at CTV News, which wrote this tweet, female assailants in mass shootings in the U.S., like the one that occurred on Monday in Nashville, are extremely rare, according to the Violence Project, which maintains a national database of mass shootings dating to 1966.

00:09:18.280 And then this second tweet, there was confusion later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the Nashville shooting.

00:09:27.320 Officials had used she and her to refer to the suspect, who, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months.

00:09:37.020 And that's what New York Times thinks is important, and they're offended on behalf of the killer for misgendering her.

00:09:45.400 It was a he, not a she. 1.00

00:09:48.520 Here's that CTV quote I referred to earlier.

00:09:51.500 This was published today.

00:09:53.860 A day after a mass shooting at a Nashville school left six people dead, new video emerged of the shooter.

00:10:00.740 But the motive is unknown.

00:10:05.060 Is the motive unknown?

00:10:07.080 You heard yesterday the cop talk about a political manifesto.

00:10:11.860 You heard it from the cop. 0.93

00:10:13.560 It's a transgender activist and extremist attacking a Christian school.

00:10:17.680 Is the motive actually unknown?

00:10:21.700 Not only is the media party denying the facts and saying that the most important thing is that we don't misgender the murderer,

00:10:28.300 but they actually start to blame Republican lawmakers.

00:10:34.920 That's who really murdered people. 0.96

00:10:37.000 Here, watch this newscaster.

00:10:39.940 All right, that is Police Chief John Drake of Nashville,

00:10:43.180 who is briefing reporters on the deadly grade school shooting in Nashville at the Covenant School there this morning.

00:10:49.220 The police confirming six dead, three children, one eight years old, two nine years old,

00:10:57.000 and three adults, including Catherine Kuntz, who is the head of the Covenant School.

00:11:02.260 The police chief also said that the shooter has been identified as 28-year-old female.

00:11:09.120 Audrey Hale said she's a former student of the school and confirmed that Audrey Hale was a identified herself as a transgender person.

00:11:20.560 The state of Tennessee earlier this month passed and the governor signed a bill that banned transgender medical care for minors,

00:11:28.640 as well as a law that prohibited adult entertainment, including male and female impersonators after a series of drag show controversies in that state.

00:11:37.760 Did you hear that language?

00:11:39.520 They banned transgender medical care.

00:11:43.840 Is that what they call it when young women have their breasts surgically removed? 1.00

00:11:49.840 An irrevocable act in pursuit of a transgender ideology. 0.99

00:11:54.700 Is that what that is?

00:11:56.280 There is a new violent edge to transgenderism. 1.00

00:12:00.540 There have been other mass attacks in recent years.

00:12:03.660 Here's an image that I find terrifying.

00:12:07.800 It's a new, I mean, you have the multicolored flag, but trans rights or else is popping up everywhere.

00:12:16.540 So is the trans day of vengeance. 1.00

00:12:23.080 I mean, there is the pride parade.

00:12:26.640 That's one of the seven deadly sins, they say.

00:12:29.320 Sounds like we're watching the rage parade now.

00:12:34.300 Of course, it doesn't start with transgenderism. 0.96

00:12:37.600 Here, about six years ago, when Trump was ascendant, is some Hollywood lovey at an award show talking about punching people in the face. 0.51

00:12:47.280 He's referring to people who support Trump.

00:12:49.740 Take a look at this.

00:12:50.580 The violence of certain individuals and institutions, we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the meat and the disenfranchised and the marginalized.

00:13:03.860 And we will do it all with soul, with heart, and with joy.

00:13:08.260 Do you remember that? 0.94

00:13:09.740 They were normalizing, punching people in the face as long as they were Nazis. 0.70

00:13:15.780 I don't think there's a lot of Nazis in America.

00:13:18.200 I think for every person who's actually a real Nazi or a neo-Nazi, there's a thousand people who were simply called Nazis by the left as a way of denormalizing them.

00:13:28.960 It happened in Parliament even today.

00:13:30.760 Look at this disgraceful liberal MP accusing Christine Anderson, a German member of the European Parliament, of being a Nazi.

00:13:39.020 We know that that's not true because it is a crime in Germany to be a Nazi, but it doesn't matter.

00:13:45.480 This liberal MP will use that as a smear.

00:13:49.260 And the irony is that she talks about misinformation as she does it.

00:13:53.220 I want to show you Leslie Lewis's response as well.

00:13:56.420 Take a quick look at this.

00:13:57.480 I'm just curious if she thinks there should be consequences or retrimand for members of this House who meet with known Nazis,

00:14:09.360 who spread misinformation, disinformation, glorify the Holocaust, who speak against anti-Muslim rhetoric.

00:14:19.060 I'm just curious if she's talking about online hate and privacy of Canadians and regulation.

00:14:24.700 Does she condemn her actions by meeting with a known Nazi in this country who spout anti-Muslim rhetoric?

00:14:33.620 The Prime Minister has put on blackface so many times. 0.98

00:14:38.440 He has degraded black people. 0.99

00:14:40.240 He literally put a banana in his pants and you have the audacity, you have the audacity to stand and look at me as a black woman 1.00

00:14:49.560 and ask about my meeting with another member of the European Parliament. 0.85

00:14:54.420 That is within my job description.

00:14:56.380 I do not have to, I do not have to approve of everything that another member believes in,

00:15:03.540 in order to have the decency to have meetings with other individuals. 0.97

00:15:08.220 Your Prime Minister, this Prime Minister, denigrated black men by putting a banana in his pants. 0.97

00:15:15.240 Shame on every member over there that does not chastise them. 0.96

00:15:19.480 If this were any other country, he would not be leading and he would not have the moral authority to lead.

00:15:25.780 He would not have that moral authority. 0.91

00:15:31.480 That is so gross.

00:15:33.200 That's Jennifer O'Connell, who will literally say anything written for her by liberal staffers. 1.00

00:15:38.220 But the reason I show you that is because the left calls anyone they don't like a Nazi 0.60

00:15:44.720 and they've normalized punching Nazis in the face.

00:15:48.740 What we saw yesterday appears to have been a female to male transitioning transgender 0.70

00:15:55.120 who was likely on testosterone or other drugs and hormones.

00:16:00.040 There's extreme aggression on the other side too, the male to female transgenderism. 0.96

00:16:06.920 This video went viral several years ago.

00:16:09.240 It's ma'am!

00:16:10.120 You will call me ma'am!

00:16:11.960 Remember this? 1.00

00:16:12.640 Give me my fucking money back. 0.99

00:16:14.440 Excuse me, sir. 0.99

00:16:15.280 There's a young man in here.

00:16:17.140 Excuse me, it's ma'am.

00:16:19.060 It is ma'am.

00:16:20.340 I can call the police if you'd like me to.

00:16:21.940 You need to settle down.

00:16:22.940 You need to settle down and mind your business.

00:16:24.760 Okay?

00:16:25.820 Ma'am, once again, ma'am.

00:16:27.920 I said both of you.

00:16:29.120 No, you said sir.

00:16:30.460 Once again, it's ma'am.

00:16:31.720 I actually said both of you guys.

00:16:33.300 It was a general... 0.99

00:16:33.740 Right beforehand, you fucking said sir. 0.99

00:16:36.140 Sir? 0.99

00:16:36.540 Okay. 1.00

00:16:38.100 Motherfucker, take it outside. 1.00

00:16:39.320 If you want to call me sir again, I will show you a fucking sir. 1.00

00:16:42.440 I apologize. 1.00

00:16:43.240 Motherfucker. 1.00

00:16:43.740 I apologize now. 1.00

00:16:48.700 I need your corporate number.

00:16:50.720 Because I'm going to call them and talk about how I was misgendered several times in this store.

00:16:54.760 I apologize for that.

00:16:55.700 I need your corporate number now.

00:16:58.380 I need your corporate number now.

00:16:59.640 Get it for me now.

00:17:01.700 I'm going to ask you to calm down and stop cussing. 0.69

00:17:04.040 I'm sorry.

00:17:04.740 Get me your corporate number.

00:17:05.780 Well, I'm going to ask you for the fifth time to stop calling me a man.

00:17:09.560 Because quite clearly, I am not.

00:17:11.440 To transition from being a natural-born woman to a man sometimes involves taking drugs and hormones.

00:17:18.660 And this is a support group on the online site Reddit where female to male transgenders talk about their issues.

00:17:28.560 It's like an online support group.

00:17:30.160 T here stands for testosterone.

00:17:32.720 Let me just read a few.

00:17:33.620 Tea has made me an emotional time bomb.

00:17:40.180 I don't want it to get out of hand.

00:17:43.780 Dear God, it's atrocious.

00:17:46.800 I'm totally ready to act threatening.

00:17:50.180 Those are comments purportedly made by female to male transitioning transgenders who are on testosterone and feeling the rage. 0.71

00:17:58.180 We know that happens.

00:17:59.120 We know the phrase roid rage from people, men, who use extra testosterone in weightlifting.

00:18:06.240 They get that roid rage because their aggression is magnified with the addition of artificial hormones.

00:18:13.740 Well, imagine women who have never had that testosterone boost their whole life suddenly handling it. 0.62

00:18:19.980 And I watched an interesting video by Dr. Jordan Peterson the other day.

00:18:23.460 I looked for it again and I couldn't quite find it, but I'll keep looking.

00:18:27.340 Where he talks about how two-year-olds are the most aggressive age of anyone.

00:18:32.620 And you might laugh and say, how can that be true?

00:18:34.420 Surely it's teenagers or young people in their 20s.

00:18:37.660 But his argument was a two-year-old has no internal limits, hasn't learned to govern themselves yet.

00:18:45.140 They would just smash everything in sight if they could.

00:18:48.780 And what I take from that is it takes years to learn, especially for young boys, how to control themselves, control their superpower, I suppose, which is aggression and testosterone.

00:18:59.820 Peterson talks about how playing with adults, including rough play, actually helps boys learn how to manage themselves and what the limits are.

00:19:09.780 You can rough around, but you don't jab an eye or do things.

00:19:13.120 You know what the limits are.

00:19:14.700 And we don't realize that, that by the time a young man is 18 years old, he has 18 years of living with himself, living with his hormones and managing himself.

00:19:24.420 But if you give a young woman, as the murderer in Nashville was, a dose of testosterone, enough to deliberately change their body to grow hair in places and to look like a man, you are giving them also a dose of rage and aggression that they have not had decades of experience managing.

00:19:45.560 You are cooking up a time bomb.

00:19:47.140 You're taking young people who may well have a mental illness, who are deeply anxious about the world, you're ideologically weaponizing them, and then you're pumping them full of drugs and sending them out into the world, perhaps giving them irrevocable surgery, which doesn't make them, in the end, feel any better and they can't undo it.

00:20:11.920 Are you surprised that there's violence?

00:20:14.020 I'm not.

00:20:16.840 I see this violence more all the time.

00:20:20.020 Posey Parker is a nickname of a British activist for women's rights, someone who 10 years ago would just be called a feminist, someone who was against misogyny. 0.87

00:20:31.800 Take a look at some of this footage out of New Zealand, where men, some who were transitioning, some who didn't even, who were phoning it in, some who just identify as women but don't even go to the effort, basically said, we're going to beat the living tar out of you. 0.71

00:20:50.260 Take a look at Posey Parker in New Zealand.

00:20:52.640 Take a look at Posey Parker in New Zealand.

00:21:22.860 Take a look at Posey.

00:21:28.140 Take a look at Posey Parker in New Zealand.

00:21:39.920 Let's, let's, let's.

00:22:09.900 Where are the real feminists these days? Where are people standing up to protect women from men beating them up? Where is the sanity at all? In fact, I'm worried that the act of terrorism in Nashville is the beginning of a wave, a wave of young people who are angry at the world. And once they do terrible things to themselves, cutting off their genitalia or other body parts, cannot go back, cannot detransition.

00:22:39.900 And their only way to, is to go forward. And between being pumped up on drugs and being told that transgenders are facing a genocide, I fear we're only seeing the beginning.

00:22:52.020 Stay with us for more.

00:22:54.020 Stopping a pay raise isn't rocket science, especially when Canadians overwhelmingly oppose it. The Feds stopped MP pay raises between 2010 and 2013 in response to the 08-09 recession.

00:23:03.020 B.C. recently froze pay for MLAs. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Hewson recalled the legislature, froze MLA pay and then cut his own pay by $11,000.

00:23:12.020 Here in Ottawa, backbench MPs currently collect a $189,500 salary. Trudeau collects a $379,000 salary from taxpayers.

00:23:21.020 MPs don't deserve another raise. And MPs don't deserve another raise. And MPs don't need another raise from their constituents who are struggling to fill the fridge.

00:23:30.020 MPs especially don't deserve a raise when they make life unaffordable with tax hikes.

00:23:37.020 Hey, welcome back. Today was Budget Day in Canada. That's the day where Justin Trudeau announces what taxes he's going to take from your pocket and who the lucky winners of the Liberal Lottery are.

00:24:07.020 For his spending spree. There's not a lot of pundits I trust on this issue because so many are compromised. They receive some of that Liberal Lotto money.

00:24:16.260 I'm referring, of course, to every journalist in this country who is on the dole from Trudeau's media bailout. But one person I trust inherently is one of the great leaders of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, because as you know, they do not take a dime from government.

00:24:31.540 So a man who was in the lockup today, that is, he spent hours pouring over the budget before it was formally released, is our friend Franco Teresano, who joins us live from Ottawa today.

00:24:43.280 Franco, great to see you again. You were in the lockup. That means you had a chance to really meticulously go through this large document.

00:24:50.040 Can you sum it up for us? How is the budget? Or rather, how bad is it?

00:24:55.040 Oh, it's bad. You know, I was in the budget lockup from about 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Still didn't find any savings. Couldn't find any savings in there, Ezra.

00:25:04.560 Even though Freeland is running around talking about fiscal prudence this, fiscal prudence that, you'll be quite surprised to know that there isn't any fiscal prudence.

00:25:14.240 In fact, I'll say this on the record. This budget shows that the government doesn't care about fiscal prudence or helping taxpayers.

00:25:23.340 OK, the government's been talking about finding savings. We'll get this. They spent 20 or they spent 18 billion dollars over their own budget in 2022.

00:25:31.520 And now they want to spend an extra 20 billion dollars in 2023. So if they think that's savings, newsflash, you're doing it wrong.

00:25:40.040 Yeah. You know, I'm pretty sure I know the answer before I ask it.

00:25:45.840 Is the total amount of money extracted from Canadians in the form of taxes?

00:25:51.880 Is it, as I think it is, at its record high? I mean, I can't imagine that taxes have fallen.

00:25:57.780 Is the amount of money taken from Canadians a new record?

00:26:01.520 Ezra. Spending was at an all time high before the pandemic.

00:26:06.060 Before the pandemic, the government was spending more money in 2018 than the feds did during any single year during World War II.

00:26:13.740 And now the government is continuing its spending spree.

00:26:16.420 We're seeing deficits as far as the eye can see this year.

00:26:19.140 In 2023, the deficit will be 40 billion dollars, about 10 billion dollars more than the last fiscal update.

00:26:26.380 But, you know, I think that taxpayers have every reason to believe that this government will never balance the budget.

00:26:33.340 Remember, Trudeau said the budget will balance itself. Well, still waiting for that.

00:26:38.240 I don't have a watch on, but you get the point.

00:26:40.500 Back in 2015, Trudeau said that they would run a few modest deficits, balance the books by 2019.

00:26:45.800 They missed that by 20 billion dollars, even before the pandemic.

00:26:51.040 And now the government isn't even pretending that it's going to balance the budget.

00:26:54.540 Well, you know, he says budget, you just fix the economy from the heart out.

00:26:57.700 I think that was another one of his famous quotes.

00:26:59.680 You know, budget is a noun.

00:27:01.740 Can I see your budget? What does the budget say?

00:27:03.640 But budget is also a verb, which is typically used, for example, by households.

00:27:07.940 We have to budget.

00:27:09.660 We have to, you know, we have to budget ourselves more carefully, especially as Canada.

00:27:16.960 I'm not sure if we're technically in a recession right now, but certainly inflation means that we have to all budget a little bit better.

00:27:23.600 The fact that the government isn't budgeting, that is spending the greatest amount ever in history, tells me that they think that their choices are more important than individual Canadian families' choices.

00:27:36.640 That they are a better recipient of money than the taxpayers themselves.

00:27:40.860 If a government won't tighten its own belt, as we head into tough times, that's its way of saying you lowly workers should tighten your belt.

00:27:50.900 Businesses, businesses, entrepreneurs, and the fact that they're giving themselves a raise on April 1st, while jacking up the carbon tax on April 1st.

00:28:01.760 I don't know. I know April 1st is April Fool's Day, but joke's on us, isn't it?

00:28:07.420 Yeah, it sure is. You pay higher taxes, they take higher pay.

00:28:11.460 You know, I was about to cut you off there for a second and be like, hey, we don't all have to tighten our belts.

00:28:16.500 If you're working within the golden gates of government, you don't have to tighten your belt, right?

00:28:20.420 More than 300,000 federal government bureaucrats received at least one raise when their neighbors in the private sector lost a job, took a pay cut, and maybe even lost their business during the pandemic.

00:28:31.420 Now they're all pushing for huge raises again.

00:28:34.700 But remember, our members of parliament, April 1, taking their fourth pay raise since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:28:40.560 An extra 5,100 smackers for a backbencher all the way up to an extra $10,200 for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:28:46.860 So when Freeland says that she's going to be making life more affordable, make life more affordable for who?

00:28:53.140 But the second thing, and to your main point, is look, this government couldn't balance the budget of a lemonade stand,

00:28:59.640 now wants to run around and pretend to be investment banker with taxpayers' money.

00:29:04.860 They have this Canada Growth Fund. It's a corporate slush fund.

00:29:08.460 It's going to be $15 billion of taxpayers' money going into this thing.

00:29:12.700 It just smells like corporate welfare to me, plain and simple, Ezra.

00:29:16.720 Yeah. Well, they do all sorts of weird things.

00:29:18.780 And one of the things they do that has always irked me is the amount of Canadian money that they shower on their foreign friends.

00:29:26.260 And, you know, I remember in the early days when Trudeau was trying to get voted onto the United Nations Security Council,

00:29:33.280 it was so clear it was just constant bribery.

00:29:37.060 He would go on these junkets and just shower cash on every country, especially dictatorships,

00:29:43.320 because really it was one country, one vote in the General Assembly.

00:29:47.040 Well, Canada lost that vote and he's still at it.

00:29:50.140 I mean, in the past it was the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,

00:29:54.180 basically Canadian taxpayers who were supposed to build airports and pipelines in China.

00:30:00.160 A day doesn't go by where I don't see him announcing another grant to Haiti or Ukraine.

00:30:07.560 And whether or not you support those countries emotionally,

00:30:10.880 I'm not sure if it makes sense for us just to wring out maximum dough from Canada and spend it in other places.

00:30:17.340 How's the foreign aid looking? Did you look at that line item?

00:30:20.680 You know, I didn't see that, but let's not forget who they're also showering money on themselves. 0.74

00:30:26.360 Yeah.

00:30:26.520 Right. Every time they go overseas, nearly six figures on a fancy airplane food,

00:30:30.420 beef Wellington, beef Carcaccio, stuffed pork tenderloin.

00:30:33.860 And then they have the audacity to look Canadians in the eye and say,

00:30:37.780 oh, just like normal airline food that you guys have.

00:30:41.020 Well, I don't know about you. I've been on Air Canada. I've been on WestJet.

00:30:43.560 We didn't get no beef Wellington.

00:30:45.260 Yeah.

00:30:45.540 Like, are you serious?

00:30:46.800 Yeah.

00:30:47.020 I mean, some of those, like some of them were over a thousand dollars per person for meals.

00:30:52.560 I don't know how you even do that.

00:30:54.160 Like, do you have a personal chef for everyone there?

00:30:56.880 It's so tone deaf.

00:30:58.720 And, but I think, you know, they say a fish rots from the head down.

00:31:02.140 I remember the Harper years and the man had his flaws,

00:31:04.300 but he led by example in terms of, you know, not having a showy over the top lifestyle.

00:31:11.980 I remember there were some times he would take a foreign trip.

00:31:14.600 He wouldn't even stay over in the country in question.

00:31:17.380 He would come home.

00:31:18.300 So he wouldn't incur hotel fees.

00:31:20.520 Now, Trudeau released on Friday afternoon that he, in fact, was the $6,000 a night hotel guy.

00:31:26.900 Well, we all knew that, but he, for some reason, was avoiding it.

00:31:30.600 It's hard to believe there was a time in Canada when Harper was PM where a cabinet minister

00:31:36.280 having a $16 orange juice was the pretext for her being sacked from cabinet.

00:31:40.840 I think every single liberal looks at how the boss operates and says, oh, that's the role model.

00:31:46.920 I'll, I'll govern myself accordingly.

00:31:49.120 I really think it's examples set by the top guy.

00:31:53.340 And the bureaucracy.

00:31:54.700 Yeah.

00:31:54.960 Right.

00:31:55.120 We have a $40 billion deficit.

00:31:56.600 Why?

00:31:57.280 Well, I mean, when members of parliament stuff themselves with pay raise after pay raise,

00:32:00.980 after pay raise, after pay raise, well, how are they going to sell savings in the department?

00:32:05.940 No, the department bureaucrats are going to want a huge raises. 0.93

00:32:09.080 And that's exactly what's going on right now.

00:32:11.060 And that's why we're seeing costs go through the roof.

00:32:13.560 But look, let's go back to that $6,000 per night hotel room.

00:32:16.820 Yeah.

00:32:17.160 I mean, surprise, surprise.

00:32:18.680 It was Trudeau.

00:32:19.620 He didn't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that one out.

00:32:22.300 But let's not forget, he released and he finally told taxpayer the truth as President Biden was coming to town because he wanted to bury the story.

00:32:31.820 He knew the information was going to get out because the Canadian Taxpayers Federation launched a legal challenge to force the government to come clean.

00:32:39.600 They knew that their legal arguments were bogus.

00:32:42.600 They knew that they were going to lose in court.

00:32:44.420 So Trudeau finally tells the truth to taxpayers.

00:32:47.600 And he tries to bury the story the evening that President Biden comes to town because he hopes that there's too much going on in the news.

00:32:54.500 Oh, yeah.

00:32:54.860 He won't be held accountable.

00:32:56.440 You know, it reminds me, I don't know, you were probably too young to remember this, but on 9-11, one of the darkest days in the modern era, there was some bureaucrat, I think, in the UK, who said,

00:33:07.700 if you have anything embarrassing to get out, get it out today, as in it would be buried in the news.

00:33:15.960 So absolutely, Trudeau chose a Friday afternoon to leak that or to make public the information you referred to in the correct anticipation that it would be ignored.

00:33:29.120 Hey, there's one more thing I saw today, and we're talking about Trudeau a lot, which is appropriate given that he's the PM and he sets the tone.

00:33:36.320 But I couldn't help notice today when Jagmeet Singh made his remarks on the budget that he was wearing a Rolex watch.

00:33:43.920 Now, I want to tell you, I'm not against prosperity.

00:33:46.480 I'm not against people having wealth.

00:33:48.400 That's sort of what we all dream of being wealthy.

00:33:51.060 I don't think I would buy a Rolex watch.

00:33:53.380 It's a little showy.

00:33:55.000 I'm not a watch guy, not a jewelry guy.

00:33:57.880 But there's something tone deaf, I think, about the workers party, the labor union party, the party of the working class, who's propping up Trudeau, by the way, wearing, I don't know, maybe I'm picking on him.

00:34:10.200 Maybe I should ignore that.

00:34:11.340 But once you notice he's wearing a Rolex, you can't unnotice that.

00:34:16.440 And I don't know.

00:34:17.900 I just think it just feels like everything about Jagmeet Singh is fake and contrived.

00:34:23.980 And I think he has absolutely been a trained puppy dog supporting Trudeau.

00:34:30.900 And I can't actually point out how he's actually helped working class Canadians who are paying more taxes than ever.

00:34:36.820 But at least, hey, at least Jagmeet Singh's got his Rolex on.

00:34:39.760 Let me go back to all parties for a second because I want to kind of extend it across all party aisles.

00:34:45.360 Now, the pay raises is more than just symbolism because when you have a political class that has become financially divorced from the people that they're supposed to represent, you get policies like you get today where they spend like crazy, print money like crazy, tax like crazy.

00:35:03.400 And the costs go through the roof.

00:35:05.120 Well, they're not really feeling the total cost of their bad spending and taxing decisions because they continue to give themselves pay raise after pay raise after pay raise.

00:35:15.900 Yeah.

00:35:16.180 So they're fine.

00:35:16.880 Inflation doesn't touch them.

00:35:18.520 Inflation doesn't touch them.

00:35:20.260 Not like it touches your viewers.

00:35:22.380 You know, Franco, I really appreciate you mentioning that because it's true that pay raise we've described doesn't just go to liberals and New Democrats and and the bloc.

00:35:34.740 It goes to the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:35:36.520 And as far as I know, there is no admonition.

00:35:40.660 There's no rule that that the leader of the party has imposed on his caucus not to take it.

00:35:46.100 And I remember a few years ago when we called around and said, are you taking it?

00:35:49.820 Some of them said, oh, I'm going to donate it to charity.

00:35:53.320 Of course, we never saw any proof of that.

00:35:54.660 I'm very skeptical of that.

00:35:56.540 Is it accurate to say that unless otherwise indicated, we should assume that every Conservative Party MP takes the raise, too?

00:36:06.040 Of course we should.

00:36:07.460 Ezra, this isn't rocket science.

00:36:09.140 Not not getting a pay raise isn't rocket science.

00:36:12.300 They stopped it before.

00:36:13.700 And oh, they're given a charity.

00:36:15.020 Well, OK, you make I don't believe it.

00:36:17.500 I don't believe it.

00:36:18.660 OK, OK.

00:36:19.540 You're making one hundred and eighty nine thousand five hundred dollars in salary base.

00:36:24.020 Yeah.

00:36:24.220 You can give to charity without having to take more money out of your constituents.

00:36:28.820 Yeah.

00:36:29.180 And by the way, they get a charitable tax receipt if they do that.

00:36:32.040 Well, one more thing, Ezra, just just really quick.

00:36:34.340 You know what?

00:36:35.360 Let's can we finally get some members of parliament, maybe a political party to break ranks and to speak out against this?

00:36:41.860 Like, think about the type of wedge issue that they can make.

00:36:44.580 Oh, yeah.

00:36:45.020 If they actually held press conferences and actually drummed up media attention on this.

00:36:49.960 Yeah.

00:36:50.460 Wow.

00:36:51.220 You know what?

00:36:51.760 Thank you for that.

00:36:52.520 And I'm glad to be reminded of that.

00:36:54.360 And I think that I think we should obviously.

00:36:58.640 In fact, in some ways, we should grill Conservative MPs even harder because they're the ones who claim to be fiscally responsible.

00:37:05.020 Are they taking that salary hike while the carbon tax goes up?

00:37:08.940 And you're right.

00:37:09.620 We absolutely must assume by default that they are.

00:37:12.440 Why would it be otherwise?

00:37:14.820 You know, and I remember when the old Reform Party said, we're not going to take the MPs' pensions.

00:37:20.080 And they got a lot of mileage out of that.

00:37:21.780 But in the end, so many of those MPs in the Reform Party did, in fact, take the pensions.

00:37:27.980 Because at the end of the day, they're flesh and bone and temptation.

00:37:31.720 And absolutely, they grabbed the, quote, free money.

00:37:34.420 And I think we have to put some pressure on the Conservatives, not just the Liberals.

00:37:37.640 I think we have to ask them to publicly renounce it.

00:37:40.340 And maybe one or two do it.

00:37:41.740 And the rest will feel some peer pressure.

00:37:43.680 Franco, great brainstorming session.

00:37:45.600 Thanks for going into the belly of the beast to cover the budget for us today and for the whole world.

00:37:50.520 I know you've been doing a series of interviews.

00:37:52.380 So thanks for jamming us in your busy day.

00:37:55.520 Hey, thanks for having me on.

00:37:56.760 All right.

00:37:57.080 Our pleasure.

00:37:57.620 That's Franco Teresano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, one of the good guys out there.

00:38:01.720 I encourage you to support them.

00:38:03.240 Stay with us.

00:38:03.780 More ahead.

00:38:12.640 Well, it's good to be back in the studio.

00:38:14.460 I was actually in the United States yesterday.

00:38:17.000 I managed to get a legal exemption to the requirement to be vaccinated, which is quite something that this late, it's almost April 2023 in the United States, actually has a no-fly list of sorts.

00:38:30.400 You are banned from entering the United States if you're not a citizen, if you're unjabbed. 1.00

00:38:36.700 I find that insane.

00:38:37.760 There's no medical basis to it.

00:38:40.160 Various U.S. courts have struck down vaccine mandates.

00:38:43.640 It's just absurd.

00:38:45.460 It's punitive.

00:38:47.000 And it kept me out of the United States for the longest time.

00:38:49.700 But I actually managed to get an exemption and I was allowed into that country.

00:38:53.380 When I was down there, I appeared on Tim Pool's broadcast, which was an enormous show.

00:38:58.940 In fact, we talked about some of these issues last night and I appreciated the opportunity to work with a great internet personality that he was.

00:39:07.440 I really learned a lot from them.

00:39:08.720 Hopefully, here at Rebel News, we can pick up some tips from a pro.

00:39:12.120 Anyways, I really am troubled by this transgender extremism. 1.00

00:39:15.140 I think we are damaging young people of both sexes by allowing them and encouraging them and giving them medical interventions to turn boys into girls and girls into boys. 1.00

00:39:29.840 It's not meant to be.

00:39:30.800 I think it's deeply damaging.

00:39:31.960 It's physically damaging and it's psychologically damaging.

00:39:36.740 I think it's what we could really call a mind virus.

00:39:41.580 I think that some young people, some teenagers have some sexual confusion.

00:39:46.540 I think everyone does for some period of time. 0.60

00:39:48.960 And frankly, some of these people might be gay. 0.99

00:39:50.680 But to instead carve them up and weaponize them and pump them full of drugs and to try and actually change their sex is atrocious. 0.98

00:39:59.840 And I think one day we'll look back and see it as an actual crime.

00:40:03.140 We talked the other day with Barbara Kay about the atrocious decision to kill people instead of help them when they are sick or old or just depressed.

00:40:14.440 And I think this is part of that same culture of death to assist in the self-destruction of young people instead of to help them.

00:40:24.520 I think it's something that we'll look back on in 25 years and realize it was an absolute disaster.

00:40:32.340 That's our show for today.

00:40:33.720 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, goodbye and keep fighting for freedom.

00:40:44.440 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - March 28, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ An act of transgendered terrorism

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