Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ An explosion at the Canada-U.S. border — was it terrorism？ Meanwhile, Geert Wilders wins Dutch election

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Very interesting news. We start with the news about the big explosion

00:00:04.300 at the Canada-U.S. border near Niagara Falls. Then we talk about the new president of Argentina.

00:00:10.680 What a character he is. And holy mackerel, Geert Wilders in Holland,

00:00:16.660 getting more votes than anyone else. He's the anti-immigration party leader.

00:00:21.460 We'll take you through all of those things, but I want to make sure you see the video version of

00:00:26.140 this, because I actually interviewed Geert Wilders at some length a few years ago. I'll play you a

00:00:30.400 clip of that, and I'll also play you clips of this new Argentinian president. I want you to see that

00:00:34.900 with your own eyes. He is a character. Both of them have interesting hair. I'll say that's the

00:00:39.220 commonality between these two men. Cool hair. You got to see it. Sign up at rebelnewsplus.com.

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00:00:48.980 Trudeau or we're demonetized by YouTube. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:56.140 Tonight, an explosion at the Canada-U.S. border. Was it terrorism? And Geert Wilders wins the

00:01:13.680 Dutch election. It's November 22nd, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:18.040 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:33.040 There was some breaking news this afternoon. An explosion at a Canada-U.S. border crossing.

00:01:40.500 You can see it filmed from a variety of angles. It looks shocking, explosive. It looks astonishing.

00:01:48.580 My first reaction, I think most people, was this is obviously terrorism. That wasn't just a car

00:01:53.780 accident. It was high explosives. You can see another version of this incident, the car going

00:02:01.600 at extremely high rates of speed. The FBI quickly put out a statement, and then Canadian authorities put

00:02:09.720 out a statement retweeting the Americans. It was clear that the Americans were way ahead of us in terms 0.64

00:02:16.200 of figuring out what was going on and investigating him. Soon, the Ontario police put out this video

00:02:22.160 announcing that a variety of border closings and highways were completely shut down. Take a look

00:02:28.200 at this. We have major issues happening right now at the U.S. borders in Niagara region. Right now,

00:02:34.100 we currently have the Rainbow Bridge closed in both directions in Niagara Falls. Niagara Regional

00:02:39.220 Police, Barks Police, as well as Canada Border Services, are working on an incident in that area. As a result,

00:02:45.280 we also currently have the Fort Erie Peace Bridge closed at the end of the QW, closed to all crossings

00:02:52.480 coming to or leaving Canada. We're also in the process right now of closing Highway 405. We are in

00:02:59.360 the process as well of shutting the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, and you can expect heavy delays in the

00:03:06.000 Niagara area. If you are planning on crossing the border, please delay travel until we know those

00:03:12.140 highways and closures have reopened. I will update you as I get information, but for now, all border

00:03:18.560 crossings in Niagara region, Fort Erie, Rainbow, and the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge are all closed to

00:03:23.900 traffic, coming and going to and from the United States into Canada. We very quickly sent our own

00:03:29.440 Efron Monsanto, our head of video, to the scene to see what was going on. There wasn't a lot to see

00:03:35.740 when he finally got there. The place was locked down. There were plenty of police cars, but of course,

00:03:40.580 the drama was over. Now, early reports said, I think what was plainly obvious at first impressions,

00:03:47.080 it was terrorism. It sure seemed that way, but as of around 5 p.m. today, that explanation has been

00:03:54.960 walked back, and another theory has been proposed that this was joyriders that were going at a high

00:04:01.120 rate of speed and fishtailing, and the car simply went out of control and exploded. I mean, could be.

00:04:07.620 It certainly seemed like a high explosive event, but that was based on just observations from

00:04:15.500 surveillance cameras. We'll see what the investigations find. But still, we should not

00:04:21.700 ignore the warnings that various intelligence agencies have given. Here's the United Kingdom

00:04:27.820 official advice to travelers going to Canada. Let me quote their advice to their own citizens.

00:04:33.580 Quote, terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Canada, and then they give details.

00:04:41.200 Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners. You should remain 1.00

00:04:48.000 aware of your surroundings, keep up to date with local media reports, and follow the advice of local

00:04:52.120 authorities. That's not particularly helpful advice, is it? Now, Trudeau scoffed. He said,

00:04:58.620 oh, there's nothing much to pay attention to here. It's just those Brits. It's funny, though, because I

00:05:04.300 remember when Justin Trudeau was trying in some ham-fisted way to lash out at Ron DeSantis in Florida,

00:05:10.460 and Trudeau issued his own travel warning. Remember that? Saying that people in Canada

00:05:15.600 should be very careful going to the United States because it was so anti-gay. That's what Trudeau

00:05:22.560 thinks of security advisories. In the meantime, the Brits are saying, be careful of Canada. You'll get

00:05:27.140 blown up. All right, well, if that infrastructure explosion was not a terror attack, well, there have

00:05:35.960 been other attacks on infrastructure. These that happened the other day blocking the railway,

00:05:46.020 invading companies that have anything to do with Israel. The Saskatchewan legislature was shut down for

00:05:54.380 the first time in over a hundred years by pro-Hamas activists shouting. Here in Toronto, the city's

00:06:03.200 busiest railway station, union station, was shut down. Roads are continuously shut down.

00:06:12.040 Events involving the prime minister and cabinet ministers are invaded. Again, it's hard to credit

00:06:18.880 that these are, that happened to succeed, that a hundred people can storm an event with the prime

00:06:24.480 minister or senior cabinet ministers. It's hard to imagine that that actually happened without someone

00:06:29.900 in some way facilitating that. I should tell you that whether or not these grassroots pro-Hamas protests

00:06:36.720 that are paralyzing our economy and our infrastructure, none of which have been denounced,

00:06:41.960 arrested, or had ride horses dispatched against them like the peaceful trucker convoy, I should mention.

00:06:47.520 Whether or not these pro-Hamas protests are formally directed by Hamas is unknown.

00:06:54.960 But we know it is a crime under the criminal code to participate, facilitate, instruct,

00:07:02.920 or harbor terrorism. Who is behind these acts I've just described? Today, I see that hundreds of

00:07:09.900 school children in Ontario were let out of school to go on a Hitler Youth-style parade,

00:07:16.960 an anti-Semitic-style parade. This obviously was permitted by Doug Ford's education minister,

00:07:22.920 permitted by school principals, but was it also instructed, participated, aided by foreign agents

00:07:32.480 from Iran? And I'm not saying that speculatively. As you saw last week, Global News, hardly a right-wing

00:07:38.980 outlet, did a major expose on the close to 1,000 agents in Canada operating on behalf of the

00:07:47.880 dictatorship of Iran, whipping up anti-Semitic marches. Here's a question for you. Were those

00:07:53.700 school children exited from class, and were they marched through the street at the behest of foreign

00:07:59.520 agents? Which of these infrastructure attacks were at the behest of foreign agents? Here's a clip from

00:08:07.060 that Global News story. This B.C. immigration lawyer has spent a lot of time documenting what he says

00:08:13.220 is the huge number of Iranian regime officials and their associates who are in Canada. We have about

00:08:19.120 700 names right now that either have temporary residence, permanent residence, or citizenship

00:08:25.780 that are in Canada and that are somehow regime affiliates. We're still counting, so it's going to

00:08:32.060 be closer to 1,000. So we don't know if the explosions today were terrorism, but we know that a soft burn

00:08:39.000 style of political persuasion is going on. If it rises to the level of terrorism, I'm not sure. I do know

00:08:45.920 that Pastor Arthur Pawlowski in Alberta was convicted and sentenced to a prison term, although it was time

00:08:55.600 served already, for giving a peaceful sermon to the truckers at the Coutts trucker blockade in February

00:09:02.720 2022. My point is, a peaceful pastor giving a sermon, not at the actual border itself, but in a

00:09:11.740 saloon nearby, he was convicted of a crime and given a jail sentence, time already served, and yet you

00:09:17.880 have pro-Hamas extremists doing actual blocking of critical infrastructure and no charges for that.

00:09:25.620 So that's the Canadian way. But I don't know if you saw this. Argentina has a new president,

00:09:33.920 and I can't think of anyone more opposite Trudeau than this guy. His name is Javier

00:09:40.540 Millet, if I'm pronouncing that right. And I frankly hadn't heard of him until recently when Tucker Carlson

00:09:46.360 had an interview with him. Here, I want you to watch this clip. It's only a few minutes long,

00:09:51.260 where he calmly, clearly, but with great precision and great intelligence, outlines the perpetual

00:09:58.440 risk to our free society by the woke left progressive movement. It was just, this is some of the most

00:10:06.740 interesting three minutes of TV I've seen in a long time. Take a look at Javier Millet talking to

00:10:12.080 Tucker Carlson a few weeks before his election went. Socialism has become ascendant, really, in the

00:10:19.940 United States, as you may have noticed, with the attendant symptoms you described. Massive

00:10:26.340 public debt levels, increasing poverty, disorder, crime, filth, and ugliness. Argentina's at the end

00:10:33.580 stage of that. Argentina's now a poor country because of those policies. What advice would you give

00:10:39.540 to Americans having lived it? Que nunca abracen las ideas del socialismo. Que nunca se dejen seducir

00:10:49.980 por el canto de las sirenas de la justicia social. Que no se dejen atrapar por esa frase nefasta

00:10:59.820 que donde hay una ansiedad nace un derecho. Pero que eso no se hace solo. Para eso hay que estar

00:11:10.900 preparado y hay que dar la batalla cultural día a día. Y que hay que tener cuidado porque ellos no tienen

00:11:21.200 problemas en meterse adentro del Estado y aplicar las técnicas de Gramsci seduciendo a artistas, seduciendo

00:11:32.120 o sea la cultura, seduciendo a los medios de comunicación o metiéndose en los contenidos de la

00:11:40.780 educación. Hay que tener mucho cuidado, hay que cortarles el financiamiento y hay que hacerlos

00:11:48.160 competir a la par. Y al mismo tiempo hay que concientizar a los empresarios de que es necesario

00:11:56.280 que más allá. Milton Friedman decía que la función social del empresario era ganar dinero. Bueno, con eso

00:12:05.000 solo no alcanza. Parte de la inversión tiene que ser invertir en los defensores de las ideas de la

00:12:14.980 libertad para que los socialistas no puedan avanzar. Porque si no lo hacen ellos se van a meter en el

00:12:24.580 Estado y desde el Estado van a imponer una agenda que de largo plazo va a terminar destruyendo todo lo que

00:12:33.440 toca. Entonces ahí digamos es necesario un fuerte compromiso de todos los creadores de riqueza para

00:12:42.820 luchar contra el socialismo, contra el estatismo y entender que si eso no se hace

00:12:50.280 los socialistas siempre van a seguir intentando. Porque, ¿cuál es el punto? Como ellos intentan vivir

00:12:59.220 de los demás sin trabajar, ellos son incansables en buscar esto. Porque su leitmotiv en la vida es vivir

00:13:08.980 de los otros. Entonces ellos no ceden nunca en este mecanismo de apropiación de la riqueza y del dinero

00:13:19.660 o de la generación de ingresos de otro. Entonces esa batalla tiene que ser dada de manera permanente.

00:13:26.160 No se puede descansar porque cuando uno descansa el socialismo avanza.

00:13:31.980 Don't be distracted by the big mutton chops and that astonishing head of hair. This guy

00:13:37.580 has strong beliefs and he's willing to say them no matter what. By the way, just a few days before

00:13:42.860 his election, he was waving the Israeli flag. Now, I'm a fan of the Canadian flag because I'm a

00:13:49.560 Canadian. I would wave an Italian flag. I've been to the Columbus Day parade in New York City. I'm

00:13:57.800 delighted to hold an Italian flag for that event. I went to the St. Patrick's Day parade. I was

00:14:03.080 delighted to hold an Irish flag. So I don't think it's necessarily a sign of disloyalty to hold a

00:14:07.900 foreign country's flag. You just want to make it very clear that your heart is with your own

00:14:12.480 nationality. I'm a Canadian through and through. I'm sure that Millet is an Argentinian through and

00:14:16.900 through. But for him to make the statement of holding the Israeli flag was such a bold statement

00:14:23.080 against the woke left pro-Hamas blob and mob. And for him to do that in the final days of his campaign

00:14:31.140 is very bold. But this guy is bold. He reminds me a little bit of Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected

00:14:37.920 president in Brazil before he was run out of there by the deep state. Here's Millet ripping off stickers

00:14:43.580 and denouncing different government agencies. Take a look at this.

00:14:46.780 Tipo y Deporte. Afuera. Ministerio de Cultura. Afuera. Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo

00:14:54.420 Sostenible. Afuera. Ministerio de las Mujeres y Género y Diversidad. Afuera. Ministerio de

00:15:01.200 Obras Públicas. Afuera. Aunque te resistas. Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación.

00:15:07.840 Afuera. Ministerio de Trabajo, Emplea y Seguridad Social. Afuera. Ministerio de Educación.

00:15:11.980 Adopinamiento. Afuera. Ministerio de Transporte. Afuera. Ministerio de Salud. Afuera. Ministerio

00:15:18.500 de Desarrollo Social. Afuera. Se acabó el curro de la política. Viva la libertad, carajo.

00:15:26.060 I get a kick out of that. And you know, some reform-oriented politicians, they use a broom

00:15:31.160 as their symbol. I'm going to sweep out change. This Argentine, he used the chainsaw as a symbol. 0.99

00:15:39.220 Take a look at this guy.

00:15:41.980 What a character. And by the way, he is as audacious as Trump is. He tweets like Trump

00:16:01.680 used to tweet. I mean, you just can't stop this guy from tweeting. He's tweeting Trump 2024.

00:16:06.920 He's tweeting pictures of him in a constellation with other populist conservative leaders.

00:16:10.940 He really is a phenomenon. And I find it fascinating. I think, in a way, he's the pendulum swinging

00:16:19.680 back. For the last three-plus years, we have had Joe Biden. Rishi Sunak is the latest Brit.

00:16:28.380 Justin Trudeau. Until recently, Jacinda Ardern. Until recently, Angela Merkel. All these sludgy

00:16:36.640 left, socialist, globalists, maybe you're starting to see the pendulum swing back in the form of Javier

00:16:43.540 Millet. By the way, Joe Biden, who surely disagrees with every single word that Millet says,

00:16:53.380 because he's a grown-up, or at least he works with grown-ups, he made a courtesy call to congratulate

00:17:00.320 the new Argentine president. Here, this is from the White House website, readout of the call with

00:17:05.600 President-elect Javier Millet of Argentina. So a readout is basically a summary, not a transcript,

00:17:11.460 but a summary of a phone call. I'll read it to you. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke today with

00:17:17.180 President-elect Javier Millet of Argentina to congratulate him on his election. The president

00:17:22.860 applauded the conduct of the election as a testament to the strength of Argentina's democratic

00:17:27.680 institutions. The two leaders discussed the importance of continuing to build on the strong

00:17:32.860 relationship between the United States and Argentina, on economic issues, on regional and

00:17:38.000 multilateral cooperation, and on shared priorities, including advocating for the protection of human

00:17:43.520 rights, addressing food insecurity, and investing in clean energy. You know, I'm not sure how much Javier

00:17:50.820 Millet cares about solar panels, but that's not the point. The point is that Joe Biden was acting

00:17:55.640 like a grown-up, and even though he probably loathes every cell in the body of this Trump lookalike,

00:18:02.820 he knows he's got to be the bigger man, and he's got to call, because it's not just about a personal

00:18:07.240 relationship. It's a country-to-country relationship. Argentina is a serious country, 45 million people,

00:18:12.200 half a trillion dollar a year GDP. It's strategically important, and he's clearly a fan of the Western

00:18:17.740 alliance. He's not a socialist anti-American, as unfortunately there are many in South America.

00:18:23.320 So that's Joe Biden. Now, I spent some time digging around Canadian websites, the Prime Minister's

00:18:28.380 website, the Prime Minister's Twitter feed, Melanie Jolie, the Foreign Minister's Twitter feed,

00:18:32.560 no communication from Trudeau or Melanie Jolie about Javier Millet, just like when Javier

00:18:41.740 Javier Bolsonaro, the conservative one in Brazil, Trudeau was so petty that he refused to even

00:18:50.080 congratulate Bolsonaro. He just wouldn't say the words, because his personal vendetta was stronger

00:18:57.740 than his desire to have a mutually beneficial relationship. Can you imagine that? Trudeau

00:19:03.480 putting his own pettiness ahead of Canada-Brazil relations, and now ahead of Canada-Argentine

00:19:08.800 relations, is there a country in the world that Trudeau has not ticked off? And I'm not saying

00:19:13.540 that Trudeau has to be submissive to other countries. The opposite. Trudeau should carry

00:19:18.040 Canada's national interests with him. We're starting to see a pattern here, whether it's China or India

00:19:24.820 or the United Kingdom or Australia or Joe Biden. Frankly, I ask this question all the time, other than

00:19:31.840 Cuba, is there a country in the world with whom Canada doesn't have a weaker relationship now

00:19:36.580 than when Trudeau took over? So that's very exciting news out of Argentina. But as I am talking,

00:19:45.820 right now they are finalizing the vote count in another country, in the Netherlands. And incredibly,

00:19:54.040 Geert Wilders, it's spelled Geert Wilders, but it's pronounced Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for

00:19:59.600 Freedom, a party absolutely focused like a laser on stopping mass immigration, and particularly Muslim 1.00

00:20:06.680 immigration. He has by far won the Dutch elections tonight. Absolutely incredible. Exceed the polls in

00:20:16.440 recent days gave him a boost, but he exceeded even those polls, winning 35 seats. And you can see the other

00:20:24.040 party seats count. Here's a quick video of, here's a tweet in the video Geert Wilders celebrating when

00:20:30.540 he was astonished, winning 35 seats. Now, I actually know Geert Wilders, if you can believe it. I spoke

00:20:42.660 with him. I went on a bit of a speaking tour with him about 10 years ago or so, maybe a little longer,

00:20:47.980 across Canada. And this was when I had published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. And I was talking 0.57

00:20:54.520 about freedom of speech. And Geert Wilders was in a similar vein. He was very critical of radical

00:20:59.700 Islam and mass immigration. And we toured the country and gave speeches together. And I'm not 1.00

00:21:05.000 going to say we became close friends, but we were friendly, that's for sure. And I tell you, he incurred

00:21:10.360 the wrath of the woke globalist Islamist left. Here's a headline from The Guardian in the United Kingdom

00:21:16.720 in 2009, that they literally banned him from entering the country. Imagine that. He was a

00:21:25.300 member of parliament. And today he's prime minister, or I don't know, he's not prime minister yet. He has

00:21:30.040 to do some negotiating with the other parties. In the end, he might actually not become the prime

00:21:35.360 minister. He might do a deal with another party that is harsh on immigration. Perhaps the other party

00:21:41.380 can be the PM and he might be the immigration minister. I'm just brainstorming. I don't know enough

00:21:45.160 about Dutch politics to know how it's going to go. But can you believe that? The United Kingdom

00:21:51.120 banned him from entering because they didn't like what he had to say about mass immigration. Now,

00:21:55.460 I should tell you, later they relaxed that ban. But the man who was disparaged for decades

00:22:01.300 is now in the fast track to become, if not the prime minister, well, he's certainly the largest

00:22:06.520 political party in the Dutch parliament. I should tell you that the predecessor prime minister,

00:22:12.480 Mark Rutte, is out. He was really a Trudeau mini-me. He was a World Economic Forum globalist.

00:22:20.260 He was for all the global warming stuff. And he was also against the Dutch farmers. He hated carbon,

00:22:25.720 but he also hated nitrogen. Wilders, as I mentioned earlier, is very pro-Israel, just like Miele. And

00:22:33.100 here's a clip of our reporter at the time, Callum Smiles, interviewing here at Wilders about

00:22:40.860 the war on farming. Here, take a look. Mr. Wilders, what do you make of the nitrogen

00:22:46.380 emission reducing policies? What do you think the real story is? Well, I think it's leftish rubbish.

00:22:52.880 The real aim here is to get rid of our farmers for some leftish nitrogen kind of agenda and to make 0.97

00:23:00.620 room for even more non-Western immigrants, asylum seekers, and build houses and centers for them.

00:23:08.200 Something that is totally different than the current elite is telling the people.

00:23:16.200 And when speaking to people back in the United Kingdom about this issue, they ask, why is this important to them?

00:23:21.020 Why is the Dutch farmer issue such an important issue worldwide?

00:23:24.920 Well, you know, there would be no Netherlands without our farmers, without our fishermen.

00:23:29.560 Don't forget also our fishermen who have the same tough deal as the farmers get today.

00:23:34.340 And they are who we are. They are in our genes. They are in our history.

00:23:38.440 And Holland is built on farmers and fishermen. And everybody has a lot of sympathy for them.

00:23:43.140 And now we get some leftish liberal coalition, probably also supported by the more extreme left after the elections,

00:23:51.080 that say, well, we really don't care about our identity, about our culture or about our farmers.

00:23:56.580 We don't care. We find this nitrogen problem more important.

00:23:59.640 Besides the fact that nitrogen is not a real problem, it's an invented kind of problem,

00:24:05.540 it's totally unfair to all those families, to all those farmers that have had farms through generations.

00:24:12.820 So it's not only the sympathy for the farmers and the fishermen,

00:24:16.700 but the Dutch people sense that they are getting to the core of the genes of our identity.

00:24:22.100 And those parties that hate identity, that only want us to go into some kind of European metro identity,

00:24:30.820 but despise the patriotism, the national identity and the nation state, you know,

00:24:36.600 the democracy in the nation state, and they don't care.

00:24:39.480 And you see today here, those are a lot of people for demonstration in the Netherlands,

00:24:44.000 that people are fed up with it.

00:24:45.200 And I hope that they not only will come today to protest here democratically,

00:24:48.960 but also even more important next Wednesday when they can vote for the provinces that in our country select the Senate

00:24:54.400 to make sure that the government will have to step down and we have new elections.

00:25:00.540 So do you think actually that there isn't an issue that the farmers need to compromise on?

00:25:04.800 You actually think that there is no problem which the farmers have to address?

00:25:09.240 Well, I don't believe so, no. I don't think nitrogen is a problem.

00:25:12.460 I don't think the environmental issue is also the real issue.

00:25:15.420 But as long as the majority and the politics that believe it, they probably would have to compromise.

00:25:21.760 But the compromise means that most of them will have to finish their business.

00:25:26.620 So that's not a real compromise.

00:25:28.640 That's signing off for having to leave your business and to do something else,

00:25:33.180 to sell your ground voluntarily.

00:25:35.860 But the government already said, if it's not working voluntarily, we will make sure that you have to make it compulsory

00:25:43.080 that we sell you out your whole business and we buy your ground.

00:25:46.480 And that is not how a democracy should work.

00:25:48.340 You know, we see it with the farmers, but we see it also today with the asylum-seeking problem.

00:25:52.120 We see that the government is asking because they are not willing to close our borders for more non-indigenous people. 1.00

00:25:57.220 95% of them coming from safe countries or neighboring countries that are not unsafe.

00:26:02.740 So they are not asylum-seekers, but they are migrants.

00:26:05.260 So they're telling now to the municipalities, please, give more room, give us houses to provide for them.

00:26:10.260 But then they also say that if you don't do that, later this year, we will come with a law

00:26:14.080 to put aside the local democracy and force you to give housing to those people.

00:26:19.220 So you see on different issues, asylum-seekers, farmers, that they are compulsory, going, setting aside the democracy, 1.00

00:26:27.360 the voice of the people, and getting through what they will not have support on in the government.

00:26:32.540 And that is something that I believe is totalitarian, has nothing to do with democracy.

00:26:36.520 You normally see in totalitarian countries that local democracy are being set aside

00:26:43.000 and governments make laws to force upon the people what they really do not want to do.

00:26:50.240 And finally, do you think these policies come from Mark Rutte or Klaus Schwab?

00:26:54.880 I don't know about Klaus Schwab.

00:26:58.920 I believe that our government is the wrong responsible.

00:27:04.480 They can be influenced by anyone.

00:27:07.340 But I have to deal.

00:27:08.500 I cannot, in Holland, I cannot have a debate with Klaus Schwab.

00:27:11.600 I have a debate with the Dutch prime minister.

00:27:14.460 And I want to get rid of him and his coalition parties.

00:27:19.200 And if that means that Mr. Schwab would have less influence, that's very good.

00:27:23.420 But I have to deal, as a leader of position, with the leader of the government.

00:27:28.260 And that is, fortunately, not Mr. Schwab, but someone who is not that much better than Mr. Rutte, our prime minister.

00:27:35.660 So now that man is on track to become PM or at least a senior cabinet minister, senior power broker in the new coalition.

00:27:42.520 Now, I actually traveled to The Hague, which is the Dutch capital, about six years ago for a half-hour sit-down with Heard Builders.

00:27:50.880 And we covered a lot of subjects.

00:27:52.920 I'm not going to play all half an hour of that for you now because we have other things we want to talk about on the show.

00:27:58.280 But I will embed the full 32-minute video elsewhere on the website if you want to watch it all.

00:28:05.240 But let me show you about 10 minutes of excerpts from my heart-to-heart with Heard Builders when I visited Holland.

00:28:13.040 I think it was six years ago now.

00:28:14.840 Take a look at this and come right back.

00:28:16.480 Do you think that Dutch people are inspired by the Brexit referendum and the Donald Trump election?

00:28:22.120 Does that give people more courage to dissent?

00:28:27.140 Well, you know, it's what I call the patriotic spring.

00:28:30.860 People, as I said, feel misrepresented by the current political parties, by the current elite,

00:28:37.100 who feel that multiculturalism, mass immigration, Islamization,

00:28:42.580 or the fact that we transferred our national sovereignty to this institution called the European Union in Brussels,

00:28:48.460 and we don't even have the key of our own front door and cannot decide who we let enter into our country

00:28:54.960 and when people should leave.

00:28:56.560 People are fed up with that arrogance of the political elite.

00:28:59.340 And indeed, people see that in the United Kingdom,

00:29:03.260 despite all the fear-mongering from the elite from both Brussels and London,

00:29:07.920 that the economy would go down, that the lights would go out,

00:29:11.080 that there probably would be a war in Europe, that it's not happening.

00:29:14.360 The country is happening, a strong economy, a free trade deal with the United States,

00:29:21.360 probably even before the European Union will have it.

00:29:24.560 So it's far better than everybody predicted.

00:29:27.300 And this, of course, is an incentive.

00:29:29.040 It's not about Mr. Trump personally or the United Kingdom personally,

00:29:33.680 but people seeing that despite the fear-mongering from the current political leaders,

00:29:39.760 they can take charge and they are stronger and they can put the faith of their own country in their own hands again.

00:29:47.040 And that, indeed, all over the European Union is very inspiring.

00:29:51.160 But the forces against us are very strong and growing as well.

00:29:56.100 Well, I think that the greatest challenge to both Brexit and Donald Trump were not politicians,

00:30:03.980 was not Hillary Clinton, but rather the media establishment, the political establishment,

00:30:08.640 even the legal establishment.

00:30:10.400 What is it like in the Netherlands?

00:30:13.500 Are there any establishment forces, any media that are supportive of you,

00:30:19.280 or are they all critical or overwhelmingly critical?

00:30:22.080 Well, of course, there are a few exceptions, but 98% is very strong against.

00:30:28.700 And the elite, as I call them, is not, indeed, only the politicians.

00:30:33.540 It's the media.

00:30:35.120 It's also the top, the representatives of the Catholic churches or other churches.

00:30:41.320 It's the intellectuals.

00:30:43.740 It's all the people who are really lost any touch with the common people

00:30:48.580 and fear for their own position are based and driven only by multiculturalism

00:30:55.140 and don't see that if we continue by, for instance, the Islamisation of our society,

00:31:02.040 that they will pay the first price, you know?

00:31:04.520 I mean, this is what is at stake today.

00:31:07.400 It's our mere existence that is at stake.

00:31:10.080 It's not like we are facing an economical crisis that you can beat

00:31:13.380 if you have a good policy like small government or lower taxes.

00:31:17.160 No, it's the existential problem.

00:31:19.100 When I go to America or Canada, I always tell my friends there,

00:31:22.520 listen, you are bordering, at least the United States is bordering Mexico.

00:31:27.280 We are bordering, our continent that is bordering Europe is Africa.

00:31:31.580 It's the Middle East. 0.88

00:31:32.380 And the African inhabitants, the African people will explode in this century. 1.00

00:31:39.740 You know, they have one billion people living in Africa today.

00:31:43.920 According to the United Nations, at the end of the century,

00:31:46.480 it will be quadrupled to four billion people,

00:31:49.500 where at the same time the European amount of people will diminish.

00:31:53.960 So four billion people, one third of them even today is planning to emigrate to Europe,

00:31:59.720 which means that what we saw happening with the asylum crisis,

00:32:04.040 with people from Syria and Libya coming to Europe,

00:32:07.900 that we haven't seen anything yet.

00:32:09.560 One billion people, mostly from Islamic background,

00:32:13.620 will come to Europe in this century,

00:32:16.420 which means that Islam, once again, is not there to assimilate or to integrate. 0.69

00:32:22.020 That is the biggest mistake we made.

00:32:23.620 Open borders and no demands on new immigrants to assimilate and to integrate.

00:32:27.800 We will cease to exist.

00:32:29.720 And the whole elite is not willing or capable,

00:32:32.780 because they invented the concept of multiculturalism and open border policy.

00:32:37.720 So they are fighting it, but they are fighting against our mere existence.

00:32:42.480 And the people are finally waking up,

00:32:44.480 because they saw in the last few years,

00:32:46.140 both with the European Union and with the asylum crisis,

00:32:49.240 that we only import more terrorism, 0.78

00:32:52.060 more intolerance, more violence,

00:32:55.380 and that it should stop.

00:32:58.280 Just coming in today, we landed at the Amsterdam airport.

00:33:01.540 We took the train here to The Hague.

00:33:03.660 You can see visually there are so many Muslim people,

00:33:07.540 women wearing hijabs, things like that. 0.96

00:33:09.740 Is it past the point of no return?

00:33:13.420 Even if you were to win and you were to stop new immigration, 0.99

00:33:18.200 how deep are the roots of Islam and the Islamification?

00:33:22.480 What is the number?

00:33:23.620 Is it even possible to win if there's a voter bloc out there that's against you?

00:33:28.140 Well, in Holland, we have now approximately out of a population of 1717 million people,

00:33:34.720 1 million Muslims, which is something like 6%.

00:33:38.520 And I believe it can be stopped.

00:33:41.380 You know, as Winston Churchill said,

00:33:44.360 never give in, never give out, never, never, never, ever do that.

00:33:48.700 And it is possible.

00:33:49.780 If we should, not only for what is happening today,

00:33:52.720 but what I just told you about,

00:33:54.040 what was happening with the explosion of the demographics in Africa,

00:33:57.880 and the Arab world,

00:33:59.560 if we should finally close our borders,

00:34:03.580 and as a Dutchman, I have to say,

00:34:05.640 we cannot do that inside the European Union

00:34:07.900 because we transferred our sovereign right of immigration

00:34:12.160 and our own border policy to Brussels.

00:34:15.360 So we have to get rid of Brussels,

00:34:16.760 as the United Kingdom did, to control our own borders again. 0.53

00:34:20.240 And if we would do that,

00:34:21.320 if we would finally decide ourselves

00:34:23.860 who to allow inside our country and who not, 1.00

00:34:26.340 and how long people can stay,

00:34:27.880 and if we at the same time,

00:34:29.220 for the people who are already in our country,

00:34:30.880 would say, the good days are over.

00:34:33.280 If you adapt and assimilate to our values, our constitution,

00:34:38.340 you are not only equal as anybody else,

00:34:40.320 but you are welcome to stay.

00:34:41.740 But if you start acting according to Sharia law 0.89

00:34:44.360 and try to use violence or terroristic threats or whatever,

00:34:50.140 we will strip you of the Dutch nationality 1.00

00:34:52.140 and send you outside our country. 0.88

00:34:53.420 If we would at least start those two things,

00:34:57.100 then a lot of things really would change.

00:35:00.260 The problem is more that if we don't do it,

00:35:01.840 if we stay into the European Union,

00:35:03.160 the European Union is not only incapable to close this border,

00:35:07.840 but also unwilling.

00:35:09.720 And I'm not personally blaming all those Muslims coming to Europe.

00:35:14.720 Perhaps if I was a Muslim from Africa,

00:35:16.900 I would do the same,

00:35:18.000 to ask for a better life for myself and my family.

00:35:21.140 But I blame the political leaders who allow them to come.

00:35:24.060 This was the toxic combination of Europe in the last few decades,

00:35:28.300 open border policy,

00:35:29.760 with not one single demand of assimilation and integration.

00:35:33.700 And if you then don't get people from Mexico,

00:35:36.000 but people with an Islamic ideology, 0.96

00:35:38.200 it's not only toxic.

00:35:39.380 Once again, it's a matter of our existence.

00:35:41.800 We cease to exist.

00:35:43.380 Our culture cease to exist at the end of the century

00:35:45.820 if we don't act now.

00:35:47.400 And yes, it can be reversed,

00:35:49.620 but we have to start acting today.

00:35:51.620 Are there Muslim liberals,

00:35:54.440 Muslim reformists who support you?

00:35:57.460 Well, some are,

00:35:59.440 but they are more formal Muslims.

00:36:02.160 So apostates, people who left Islam.

00:36:04.560 And then even there are not too many.

00:36:07.260 Within the Muslim community,

00:36:09.400 there are some people who are a little bit tough,

00:36:12.380 but the majority is not speaking out.

00:36:14.860 You know, I always said after any attack,

00:36:17.420 both in Holland,

00:36:18.560 when Theo van Gogh was murdered,

00:36:21.620 but also in the rest of Europe,

00:36:23.440 where were all those mass demonstrations

00:36:26.140 of Muslims who should say, 0.70

00:36:28.940 this is not our Islam.

00:36:30.760 It's big silence every time again.

00:36:34.280 So there are a few that might be vocal,

00:36:38.220 but you hardly hear them.

00:36:40.540 Well, that man,

00:36:41.560 and by the way,

00:36:42.160 he's tweeting so boldly against Hamas for Israel.

00:36:46.560 He has said before that Israel is the canary in the coal mine,

00:36:49.880 and if they go for Israel today,

00:36:51.700 they'll be in Europe tomorrow.

00:36:52.980 They're actually already in Europe in many ways.

00:36:55.700 Is there a connection between the Netherlands

00:36:59.240 and Argentina and the other countries

00:37:02.700 in that Javier Mille tweet of Georgia Maloney of Italy

00:37:07.800 and other conservative-oriented populist leaders?

00:37:11.380 Is there a pendulum swinging back?

00:37:13.700 Well, I don't know,

00:37:15.020 but it looks like it.

00:37:16.800 Like I say,

00:37:17.760 the whole world is in this mania of globalism

00:37:21.240 and this leftist idea,

00:37:24.800 this woke, critical theory

00:37:27.060 that Hamas are the good guys 1.00

00:37:30.620 and the West are the bad guys

00:37:32.680 and violence is acceptable

00:37:35.620 and hate marches on the streets of the West

00:37:38.420 are something we should listen to.

00:37:40.660 I think, in a way,

00:37:42.460 the fact that proudly pro-Israel,

00:37:46.800 vocally anti-woke,

00:37:49.080 conservative populist nationals,

00:37:51.240 like Javier Mille and Geert Wilders

00:37:53.360 are having such success,

00:37:56.100 well, frankly,

00:37:57.360 I find it a sign of hope

00:37:58.880 that maybe the whole world has not gone mad.

00:38:01.840 Maybe other people, like you and I,

00:38:03.600 are very worried about what we see

00:38:05.380 and we don't want China and Iran 1.00

00:38:08.720 and terrorist groups to be ascendant.

00:38:11.400 We don't want freedom to recede.

00:38:13.220 We don't want the end of Pax Americana.

00:38:16.000 So I'm hopeful for Javier Mille and Geert Wilders

00:38:19.400 and I'm very excited about their victories

00:38:22.060 within such a close time period

00:38:24.160 and the ouster of Jacinda Ardern and Mark Ruta

00:38:27.920 and the other globalists

00:38:29.300 gives me a little bit of hope for Canada, too.

00:38:31.520 What do you think?

00:38:32.500 Hey, stay with us.

00:38:33.560 Next, our friend Chris Sims

00:38:34.900 from the Taxpayers' Federation.

00:38:47.340 Big news of the day in Canada

00:38:49.780 is what appears to be a terrorist attack

00:38:52.380 at the Canada-U.S. border.

00:38:55.920 Roads, border crossings,

00:38:57.580 all shut down.

00:38:58.760 Statements by Ontario police and the FBI.

00:39:02.120 It's an incredible story that will continue to follow.

00:39:05.260 Rebel News' Efron Monsanto

00:39:06.760 was actually the first reporter on the scene.

00:39:09.500 But there are other things, of course,

00:39:11.000 that we're following around the world.

00:39:13.220 An incredible result by Geert Wilders,

00:39:16.780 the head of the Dutch Party for Freedom,

00:39:20.060 who has an astonishing win

00:39:22.340 in the Dutch parliamentary elections

00:39:25.020 on a platform almost entirely on one issue,

00:39:28.760 namely to stop mass immigration.

00:39:30.900 He is in first place there.

00:39:33.720 But we have to talk about other things

00:39:35.600 because we are a full-service news organization.

00:39:38.180 And one of the things the liberals

00:39:39.180 are particularly bad at

00:39:40.680 is anything regarding money.

00:39:43.260 And it's not a surprise.

00:39:44.260 Justin Trudeau himself never had to earn a living.

00:39:47.060 He was a trust fund baby.

00:39:48.940 Never really held down a job.

00:39:50.540 Substitute drama teacher

00:39:51.720 and snowboarding instructor

00:39:53.940 aren't really jobs.

00:39:55.580 They're more hobbies.

00:39:56.340 And so it's no surprise

00:39:58.380 that eight years into Trudeau's administration

00:40:01.460 of our economy,

00:40:02.240 it is a complete disaster.

00:40:04.360 Joining us now is someone

00:40:05.980 who knows more about this than most

00:40:07.900 because her full-time job

00:40:10.100 is to be a taxpayer advocate.

00:40:13.240 I'm talking about our friend,

00:40:15.160 Chris Sims,

00:40:16.240 with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:40:19.460 Chris, great to see you again.

00:40:21.160 Always good to talk to people

00:40:22.840 from the Taxpayers Federation.

00:40:25.200 Tell us about the latest economic update

00:40:28.400 that the liberal government presented.

00:40:31.120 What did they say?

00:40:33.660 So at the federal level, Ezra,

00:40:35.520 Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland

00:40:36.940 usually trots out twice a year

00:40:38.900 and presents a full budget,

00:40:40.920 usually in late February, early March.

00:40:43.440 And right around now

00:40:44.660 is when they do their economic or budget update.

00:40:47.840 So twice a year,

00:40:48.840 they have to actually show their math

00:40:50.680 and show their homework.

00:40:51.900 It looks terrible, as usual.

00:40:54.880 What's interesting, though, this time around

00:40:56.860 is that they're actually kind of

00:40:58.980 sort of noticing

00:41:00.060 that they have a spending problem.

00:41:02.440 So all this time, Ezra,

00:41:03.980 every single time,

00:41:04.780 they'll present the budget in March

00:41:06.020 and then they'll blow it by the update.

00:41:08.160 Present the budget in March,

00:41:09.260 blow it again.

00:41:10.440 This time they are indeed blowing it,

00:41:12.520 but not as badly as they have in the past.

00:41:15.220 So it's kind of like,

00:41:16.520 it's kind of like you're in the drunk tank

00:41:18.540 and you're in there because you're drunk,

00:41:19.780 but you're the most sober one in the drunk tank.

00:41:22.760 Well, you know, I think that's a...

00:41:24.740 You've got to find the silver lining

00:41:28.700 where you can, I guess.

00:41:30.600 You know, there's just some astonishing things there.

00:41:33.560 I want to talk about two particular issues

00:41:35.780 that aren't particularly with the economic update.

00:41:39.200 They're just news around the same time.

00:41:41.600 First is the bailout of Trudeau's

00:41:44.900 absolute favorite interest group.

00:41:47.900 There's a lot of interest groups,

00:41:49.020 but the one that he is most dependent on

00:41:51.300 and the one that is most dependent on him

00:41:54.160 are regime media,

00:41:57.540 the media party,

00:41:58.660 mainstream media, legacy media.

00:42:00.040 There's a lot of ways to describe it.

00:42:01.120 I'm talking about CBC, CTV,

00:42:03.060 and the newspapers,

00:42:04.820 99% of which take subsidies from Trudeau.

00:42:09.500 And that's not an estimate or a guess.

00:42:12.320 Over 1,500 different news media organizations

00:42:16.580 in Canada take the bailout,

00:42:19.180 which is actually like 99.8%,

00:42:23.940 99.7%.

00:42:25.440 It's really astonishing.

00:42:26.720 What do you have for us on Trudeau's latest gift

00:42:30.000 to keep the media praising him?

00:42:33.020 Yeah, actually, this was part of the budget update.

00:42:37.900 It's mentioned right there in the document

00:42:39.840 released by the Finance Department.

00:42:41.580 So, surprise,

00:42:42.820 it's now going to be shoved through with that

00:42:45.100 when this goes through Parliament.

00:42:46.740 So, in a nutshell,

00:42:48.560 it looks like they're doubling the amount of money

00:42:51.840 that journalists who get the bailout are getting.

00:42:54.860 So, beforehand, on average,

00:42:57.240 if a reporter slash journalist,

00:42:59.260 newsroom employee,

00:43:00.100 whatever you want to call them,

00:43:01.060 was on this bailout money,

00:43:03.240 they'd get around $13,000 per year

00:43:06.500 of their paycheck covered by the Trudeau government.

00:43:10.040 But it's way worse now

00:43:11.580 because they're more than doubling it.

00:43:13.840 It's going to be around $29,000

00:43:16.540 per newsroom employee for the next four years.

00:43:21.680 So, this was all supposed to sunset next year.

00:43:24.840 It was all supposed to fade away 2024.

00:43:27.860 Surprise!

00:43:28.660 It's not.

00:43:29.400 It's now going to last them

00:43:31.080 well past the next federal election.

00:43:33.720 So, this means that the journalists

00:43:35.740 that are on the federal government payroll

00:43:37.820 just got a huge bump

00:43:39.920 in how much the government covers of their paycheck.

00:43:43.640 And very clearly,

00:43:44.960 this probably doesn't need to be said to your audience,

00:43:47.780 but this is an enormous conflict of interest.

00:43:51.320 There is no way a journalist

00:43:52.900 should be paid by the government.

00:43:54.740 Pretty hard to hold the government to account

00:43:56.660 when you're counting on them for your paycheck.

00:43:59.060 So, it's a huge accountability problem

00:44:00.980 and it's a huge waste of money.

00:44:02.920 So, that's why the Taxpayers Federation,

00:44:04.780 we're fighting this.

00:44:05.920 Well, that's incredible.

00:44:07.040 I just want to confirm the numbers

00:44:08.300 because they're so astonishing.

00:44:09.540 You're saying that under this new regime,

00:44:12.880 $29,000 a year per reporter

00:44:17.080 is what the grant, the subsidy is.

00:44:20.080 Did I hear you right?

00:44:20.900 $29,000 per reporter per year.

00:44:23.640 Is that right?

00:44:24.620 Yes.

00:44:25.100 So, we follow very closely

00:44:26.320 the work of Dr. Michael Geist on this issue

00:44:28.340 and also our friends over at Black Locks Reporter.

00:44:30.900 I'm sure you've spoken with them many times.

00:44:32.680 They crunched the numbers on this

00:44:34.220 and it's around $29,000 a piece.

00:44:36.840 Now, keep in mind...

00:44:37.140 For four years.

00:44:37.960 That's an incredible subsidy.

00:44:41.000 That's just astonishing.

00:44:42.520 It is so absolutely a bribe, Chris.

00:44:45.340 There's no other way to say it.

00:44:47.620 That is stuffing $100 bills

00:44:50.760 in the pockets of journalists

00:44:52.100 who cover Trudeau.

00:44:53.500 That's incredible.

00:44:55.220 It is.

00:44:56.220 And you and I have worked in this industry

00:44:58.000 for a long time, often together, Ezra.

00:45:00.100 And there was a stat that came out

00:45:01.900 just in the last few months.

00:45:03.600 Well over 60% of Canadians

00:45:05.760 now think that journalists

00:45:07.460 are purposefully trying to mislead them

00:45:10.360 with statements they know to be false.

00:45:12.820 Right.

00:45:13.340 So, not just a mistake,

00:45:14.780 a typo here and there.

00:45:15.740 No, no.

00:45:16.080 The vast majority of Canadians

00:45:17.820 now think that they're being

00:45:18.980 deliberately misled.

00:45:20.420 Right.

00:45:20.780 Well, I mean,

00:45:22.040 if any other sugar daddy

00:45:24.880 were giving reporters $29,000 a year,

00:45:28.140 it would have to be disclosed.

00:45:30.580 And by the way,

00:45:32.120 you can label it as an ad,

00:45:34.520 like when a car company or...

00:45:37.120 I don't...

00:45:37.500 It's illegal to have cigarette ads,

00:45:39.580 but let's say an alcohol...

00:45:40.500 Let's say a beer company.

00:45:41.840 If a beer company was advertising

00:45:43.960 and giving the equivalent

00:45:45.280 of $29,000 per report per year,

00:45:47.580 that wouldn't necessarily be a problem

00:45:49.640 if it was marked ad

00:45:51.640 and if they actually got value for money.

00:45:54.200 By the way,

00:45:55.040 if you had nothing but beer ads

00:45:57.140 and you were doing

00:45:58.640 very pro-beer news reporting,

00:46:01.800 people would naturally say,

00:46:03.160 huh, that seems a little bit,

00:46:04.760 you know,

00:46:05.840 a little bit iffy.

00:46:07.120 That's why when Pfizer

00:46:09.200 and the other drug companies

00:46:10.640 pour billions into media,

00:46:14.000 people raised an eyebrow.

00:46:15.340 But the crazy thing

00:46:16.340 about the $29,000 per year

00:46:18.180 per reporter from Trudeau

00:46:19.520 is the government doesn't get ads.

00:46:23.180 They're buying something else.

00:46:26.020 They're buying the loyalty

00:46:27.080 of these reporters,

00:46:28.180 but at least the beer company

00:46:30.780 shows that they're paying.

00:46:32.820 But there is no disclaimer

00:46:35.540 under a journalist

00:46:36.960 after he or she praises Trudeau

00:46:39.220 saying, disclaimer,

00:46:40.940 this reporter received

00:46:42.480 $29,000 from Trudeau.

00:46:44.080 It is so unethical

00:46:45.560 and we would know that

00:46:46.780 if it was a tobacco company,

00:46:48.680 an alcohol company,

00:46:49.880 a firearms company,

00:46:51.060 an oil company.

00:46:52.300 Any other lobbyist

00:46:53.780 would have to disclose it.

00:46:55.360 Trudeau keeps it a secret.

00:46:57.520 If you didn't watch this program

00:46:59.440 or if you weren't

00:47:01.240 a self-educated critic

00:47:03.360 of the system,

00:47:04.380 you would never know

00:47:05.980 because the reporters themselves

00:47:07.480 are not going to tell you.

00:47:09.480 Yeah, exactly.

00:47:10.600 We've trialed filing FOIs on this

00:47:12.980 to find out exactly

00:47:13.860 who's on the payroll,

00:47:15.000 but most of them

00:47:16.260 look like there are.

00:47:17.720 And keep in mind,

00:47:18.400 there's two things here.

00:47:19.220 One, this doesn't even touch the CBC.

00:47:21.740 We're talking about reporters

00:47:22.960 outside of the CBC here.

00:47:25.080 Also, you're mentioning advertising.

00:47:27.340 This amount of money

00:47:28.180 doesn't even come close

00:47:29.620 to the amount of advertising

00:47:30.900 that the government...

00:47:31.560 The advertising is on top of this.

00:47:33.720 Holy cow. 0.89

00:47:34.900 So it's even worse and more.

00:47:37.040 You know, I saw a press release

00:47:38.880 from the government today

00:47:40.180 that they talked about

00:47:41.100 keeping Canadian journalists 0.70

00:47:42.620 strong and independent.

00:47:44.500 You don't make someone independent

00:47:46.040 by paying them a bribe.

00:47:47.680 That's how you make them dependent.

00:47:50.580 Yeah, so the minister responsible yesterday

00:47:52.920 actually said, Ezra,

00:47:54.620 we value a free press.

00:47:57.400 Like, by paying them.

00:47:59.480 Orwell is rolling in his grave right now.

00:48:01.800 Yeah, 29 grand a year is not free.

00:48:03.120 Hey, I want to talk about one more thing

00:48:04.620 because this media stuff,

00:48:06.100 I think it's important

00:48:07.420 because we see the world through media,

00:48:10.560 so they filter everything

00:48:11.660 and it's a bias.

00:48:13.480 It's a warped lens.

00:48:14.900 That's why social media is so important

00:48:16.660 and that's why the government

00:48:17.880 wants to cancel, suspend, shape, ban social media

00:48:24.720 because it's our way to get around

00:48:26.580 the regime media to the truth.

00:48:27.980 That's why they're obsessed with blocking it

00:48:29.920 and shutting down independent gods like us.

00:48:32.100 But, so it's important to talk about

00:48:34.880 the media bribery.

00:48:36.260 But there is, I think,

00:48:37.820 what's probably the largest corporate welfare

00:48:41.100 in Canadian history.

00:48:42.460 I'd have to check the stats on that.

00:48:44.340 It's a plan to build electric vehicle batteries

00:48:49.320 in Canada.

00:48:51.860 And Trudeau, and one must also acknowledge,

00:48:55.420 Doug Ford, the alleged conservative

00:48:57.400 premier of Ontario,

00:48:58.780 are throwing not just billions,

00:49:01.880 but tens of billions of dollars

00:49:04.400 at these foreign companies

00:49:07.200 to build their battery factories in Canada.

00:49:10.180 Canada, that's terrible,

00:49:12.920 that's an atrocious waste of money.

00:49:15.500 But it just came out, Chris,

00:49:18.920 that these factories will not be built by Canadians.

00:49:22.160 They're importing 1,600 workers

00:49:27.820 from Korea to do the,

00:49:31.720 like, at least the rationale was,

00:49:34.040 oh, we're building jobs,

00:49:35.520 we're building an industry.

00:49:36.620 They're bringing in Koreans to Canada. 1.00

00:49:38.660 I like Koreans, by the way.

00:49:40.080 God, no beef with Koreans.

00:49:41.740 And good for them

00:49:43.100 for getting free money 1.00

00:49:45.200 from our idiot prime minister. 1.00

00:49:46.920 I want to play for you a very short clip. 1.00

00:49:48.960 This is a short clip of Francois Champagne,

00:49:51.420 who is just one of the worst cabinet ministers.

00:49:55.540 It sounds like he didn't bother

00:49:57.560 reading the contract.

00:49:59.260 Like, I mean,

00:49:59.720 when you buy a house

00:50:00.940 for half a million bucks,

00:50:02.040 you read the contract

00:50:02.760 because it's the largest purchase

00:50:04.500 of your life or whatever.

00:50:05.620 this guy signed

00:50:07.300 a multi-billion dollar giveaway

00:50:09.960 and he didn't even read

00:50:12.280 what he was signing.

00:50:13.320 Take a listen to his excuse.

00:50:14.700 Look at this guy.

00:50:15.460 So you knew there were going to be

00:50:16.360 temporary foreign workers?

00:50:17.120 No, not necessarily.

00:50:18.100 But I'm saying,

00:50:18.500 I'm not surprised

00:50:19.320 that you would have

00:50:20.140 transfer of knowledge.

00:50:21.360 No one has done batteries

00:50:22.300 in North America before.

00:50:23.900 He literally didn't,

00:50:25.740 he didn't know

00:50:27.660 that the money would be going

00:50:30.560 to foreign workers,

00:50:31.220 not to Canadian workers.

00:50:32.120 But when asked about this,

00:50:35.240 he said,

00:50:35.920 no, no,

00:50:36.480 that's the transfer of knowledge.

00:50:38.420 We don't know.

00:50:39.340 He was explaining.

00:50:40.300 So his first answer was,

00:50:42.700 he didn't know.

00:50:44.180 Then his second answer was,

00:50:46.100 well,

00:50:46.520 now that you guys told me

00:50:48.320 what's in the contract I signed,

00:50:50.420 I got a new alibi

00:50:52.500 and it's a,

00:50:54.060 no one knows

00:50:55.080 how to make batteries in Canada.

00:50:57.060 So this was a knowledge transfer.

00:50:59.660 So it's still a really good deal.

00:51:01.260 Here, take a look at this clip.

00:51:02.720 Well, let's face,

00:51:03.900 first of all,

00:51:04.520 let's celebrate what we've achieved.

00:51:06.020 This is going to be a lot,

00:51:06.980 one of the largest battery plant

00:51:08.280 in North America.

00:51:10.500 We obviously want to maximize

00:51:12.040 Canadian workers.

00:51:13.160 I mean,

00:51:13.420 this is obvious

00:51:14.300 and I've been in touch

00:51:15.540 with the CEO of Stellantis yesterday

00:51:18.000 to make sure of that.

00:51:19.540 But what is even more important,

00:51:21.960 I would say,

00:51:22.480 is the CEO of the company

00:51:23.680 who confirmed yesterday

00:51:25.340 in the press

00:51:25.880 that their commitment

00:51:27.580 to hire 2,500 workers

00:51:29.500 to work at the plant.

00:51:30.480 And also to have

00:51:31.940 about 2,000 construction jobs.

00:51:33.720 So not only

00:51:34.320 I've been in touch

00:51:34.940 with Stellantis,

00:51:36.520 I've been in touch also

00:51:37.560 to the CEO of Unifor.

00:51:38.940 So we're working hand-in-hand

00:51:40.060 to make sure

00:51:41.100 that we maximize

00:51:41.980 opportunities for Canadians

00:51:43.600 as it should be.

00:51:44.740 Now,

00:51:45.220 we have to understand

00:51:46.120 this is a new technology.

00:51:47.640 We've never done batteries

00:51:48.820 in North America, really.

00:51:50.400 So you'll have

00:51:51.660 a few people,

00:51:53.440 a very few people,

00:51:54.800 selected people,

00:51:55.580 who need to come

00:51:56.580 to transfer technology

00:51:57.640 because this is a new industry.

00:51:59.940 But that being said,

00:52:00.980 after that,

00:52:01.520 it's to maximize

00:52:02.300 the opportunities

00:52:03.160 for Canadians.

00:52:03.820 And that's why

00:52:04.260 they came to Canada

00:52:05.000 in the first place.

00:52:05.800 But what guarantees

00:52:06.400 do you have

00:52:06.880 that they are actually

00:52:07.660 going to maximize

00:52:08.560 the opportunities

00:52:09.300 for Canadians

00:52:09.720 and will not continue

00:52:10.720 to draw from

00:52:11.440 temporary foreign workers?

00:52:12.700 Well, like I said,

00:52:13.640 the CEO said it yesterday.

00:52:14.980 You don't need

00:52:15.360 to take it from me.

00:52:16.140 It was on the record

00:52:16.900 to say they confirmed

00:52:18.260 that they'll be hiring

00:52:19.120 2,500 people.

00:52:20.520 That's the CEO

00:52:21.060 of the company

00:52:21.520 who said that.

00:52:22.100 And then they'll have

00:52:23.160 2,000 construction jobs

00:52:25.460 as we expected.

00:52:27.560 And in the agreements

00:52:28.620 we have with them,

00:52:29.300 we always maximize

00:52:30.200 local content.

00:52:31.220 So for me,

00:52:32.180 let's not lose sight

00:52:33.280 of the opportunity.

00:52:34.380 There will be

00:52:34.680 a transfer of knowledge,

00:52:35.740 but that knowledge

00:52:36.360 will help us

00:52:37.100 to make sure

00:52:37.880 that this plant

00:52:38.460 is one of the most

00:52:39.460 productive

00:52:41.100 in the industry

00:52:42.080 in North America.

00:52:43.040 So let's not lose sight

00:52:44.720 of the big picture.

00:52:45.420 The big picture here

00:52:46.100 is that we landed

00:52:47.020 one of the largest

00:52:48.620 battery plants

00:52:49.100 in North America.

00:52:50.840 We're going to maximize

00:52:52.000 Canadian workers.

00:52:53.320 We're going to have

00:52:53.760 a transfer of knowledge

00:52:54.700 allowing us to be successful

00:52:56.440 for decades to come.

00:52:57.640 So, wow,

00:52:58.480 we're getting all that knowledge

00:52:59.900 for what is it?

00:53:01.220 Is it $50 billion?

00:53:03.520 I've seen $15 billion.

00:53:04.840 I've seen $20 billion.

00:53:05.960 What's the real number

00:53:07.180 that Canadians

00:53:07.820 are going to be

00:53:08.220 on the hook for

00:53:08.940 in a contract

00:53:10.520 that the minister

00:53:11.320 didn't even bother to read?

00:53:12.980 The last numbers

00:53:13.760 we saw was close

00:53:14.760 to $50 billion.

00:53:17.140 So, again,

00:53:17.620 that could jump up

00:53:18.580 and down,

00:53:18.980 but that's about it.

00:53:20.220 And if you work it out,

00:53:21.340 which my friend did,

00:53:22.220 Franco Terrazzano,

00:53:23.260 our federal director,

00:53:24.480 it's millions of dollars

00:53:25.920 per job.

00:53:27.220 Like, it's just

00:53:28.000 draw-dropping amount

00:53:29.700 of corporate welfare.

00:53:31.320 And this is always

00:53:32.960 the clarion cry

00:53:33.920 for corporate welfare

00:53:34.800 of, oh, well,

00:53:35.680 what about Canadian jobs?

00:53:37.040 We're saving Canadian jobs.

00:53:38.660 Oops! 0.78

00:53:39.380 No, they're actually

00:53:40.440 importing foreign

00:53:41.260 temporary workers

00:53:42.260 to do this

00:53:42.920 because they don't know

00:53:43.580 how to actually do this.

00:53:44.940 Be alarmed, folks,

00:53:46.300 when you see

00:53:47.440 these companies

00:53:48.340 shopping their

00:53:49.560 corporate welfare

00:53:50.380 with their hand out

00:53:51.500 like this

00:53:52.060 to all sorts of countries

00:53:53.380 and them getting 0.55

00:53:54.440 turned down,

00:53:55.580 they always come here

00:53:57.020 and Trudeau always

00:53:58.260 says yes,

00:53:58.980 but we are not

00:53:59.760 getting value for money. 1.00

00:54:00.980 Yeah, he's the stupidest 1.00

00:54:02.000 world leader 1.00

00:54:02.560 and the easiest, Mark.

00:54:04.300 You know,

00:54:04.740 $50 billion

00:54:05.440 is such a staggering number.

00:54:07.240 That's 50,000

00:54:08.860 times 1 million.

00:54:12.080 Yeah.

00:54:12.300 So $50 billion,

00:54:13.440 you could buy

00:54:14.280 1 million Canadian households

00:54:17.940 a fancy SUV

00:54:19.920 or you could buy

00:54:21.260 2 million Canadian households

00:54:24.160 a more modest car,

00:54:27.300 a $25,000 car.

00:54:29.280 2 million Canadian households,

00:54:31.120 if there's an average of,

00:54:32.400 I don't know,

00:54:32.780 three people per household,

00:54:33.940 so that would be

00:54:34.520 6 million Canadians.

00:54:36.340 You could buy 15%

00:54:38.180 of Canadian families

00:54:39.980 their own brand new vehicle

00:54:43.680 for this,

00:54:45.580 but Trudeau is just

00:54:47.000 pouring it into

00:54:47.800 making batteries

00:54:48.980 for another country's company

00:54:52.200 built by other

00:54:53.600 countries' workers.

00:54:54.720 I don't think I've heard 1.00

00:54:56.220 a deal this stupid 1.00

00:54:57.480 since, you know, 1.00

00:54:59.020 the old timey trick

00:55:00.820 of selling the Brooklyn Bridge

00:55:02.280 to people.

00:55:03.060 This has got to be 1.00

00:55:04.060 the stupidest thing 1.00

00:55:04.940 in Canadian economic history. 1.00

00:55:07.260 I don't know.

00:55:07.920 I mean,

00:55:08.060 can you think of anything 1.00

00:55:09.380 dumber than this, Chris? 1.00

00:55:11.020 It's a heck of a lot of waste 1.00

00:55:12.500 and every time you hear

00:55:13.860 a government employee

00:55:15.540 or a politician

00:55:17.060 say $1 billion,

00:55:18.420 because that's a really

00:55:19.020 hard number,

00:55:19.980 picture a hospital.

00:55:21.240 Right.

00:55:21.620 Picture a brand new,

00:55:23.180 medium-sized,

00:55:24.700 state-of-the-art hospital,

00:55:26.020 because that costs

00:55:26.780 about a billion dollars

00:55:28.160 to build.

00:55:28.800 Right.

00:55:29.340 Incredible.

00:55:29.920 Chris Sims,

00:55:30.580 Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:55:32.280 Stay on the project

00:55:33.500 because we can't rely

00:55:35.220 on most journalists.

00:55:36.260 They're bought off,

00:55:36.860 so we've got to rely

00:55:37.720 on you guys

00:55:38.520 because you do not

00:55:39.500 take government money,

00:55:40.840 which is why we like you.

00:55:41.640 Keep up the fight, Chris.

00:55:43.200 You too.

00:55:43.660 Thanks.

00:55:44.300 All right.

00:55:44.660 There you have it.

00:55:45.020 Chris Sims

00:55:45.500 from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:55:47.820 Stay with us.

00:55:48.580 More ahead.

00:55:49.100 Well, I'm still blown away

00:56:01.880 by that result

00:56:02.560 for Kurt Wilders

00:56:03.240 because I know

00:56:03.700 in the last election

00:56:04.640 he did very well

00:56:05.520 in the polls,

00:56:06.100 but in the last days

00:56:08.080 he underperformed.

00:56:10.280 This,

00:56:10.780 the opposite happened.

00:56:11.740 He had a surge

00:56:12.660 in the polls

00:56:13.160 in the last few days,

00:56:14.060 but he exceeded

00:56:15.060 even that.

00:56:15.900 That tweet of him

00:56:16.800 cheering 35 seats.

00:56:18.840 He was so astonished,

00:56:20.500 so far ahead.

00:56:22.280 Now, the second party,

00:56:23.260 if I'm not mistaken,

00:56:23.960 are the Greens,

00:56:24.720 so he'll have to make

00:56:25.320 a coalition

00:56:25.820 with another

00:56:26.420 anti-immigration party.

00:56:28.320 And again,

00:56:28.800 I don't want to overstate

00:56:29.660 my confidence

00:56:30.400 in my understanding

00:56:32.200 of Dutch parliamentary politics,

00:56:33.540 but there is another

00:56:34.960 Dutch political leader

00:56:36.100 who is succeeding,

00:56:37.120 Mark Rutte,

00:56:38.140 who is anti-immigration.

00:56:39.860 In fact,

00:56:40.120 she's a Turkish refugee herself

00:56:42.500 who has a hard line

00:56:44.180 against immigration.

00:56:45.180 And that was actually

00:56:45.940 the issue that broke

00:56:47.280 Mark Rutte's government,

00:56:48.420 that and the farmers.

00:56:49.460 So,

00:56:50.160 this could be

00:56:50.900 the perfect storm

00:56:51.660 and maybe Holland

00:56:52.780 will be the first country 0.93

00:56:54.320 to push back

00:56:55.020 against mass immigration.

00:56:57.100 Of course,

00:56:57.640 the question is,

00:56:58.300 is it too late?

00:56:59.340 Well,

00:56:59.880 at the very least,

00:57:00.740 it'll serve as an example

00:57:01.980 for other countries

00:57:03.360 from Sweden

00:57:04.120 and other Scandinavian countries

00:57:05.920 to the United Kingdom

00:57:06.800 itself.

00:57:07.600 Very interesting news.

00:57:09.380 And I'm pleased to say

00:57:10.340 I spent some time with

00:57:11.360 and interviewed the man

00:57:12.160 before he became

00:57:13.800 the leading politician

00:57:15.140 in his country.

00:57:16.160 Well,

00:57:16.260 that's our show for today.

00:57:18.040 Until tomorrow,

00:57:18.900 on behalf of all of us

00:57:19.780 here at Rebel World Headquarters

00:57:20.880 to you at home,

00:57:21.520 good night

00:57:21.860 and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - November 22, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ An explosion at the Canada-U.S. border — was it terrorism？ Meanwhile, Geert Wilders wins Dutch election

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