Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Anti-Trump elites blame U.S. for economic woes

00:00:00.260 Hello, my friends. The trade war with the United States is getting crazier all the time.

00:00:04.200 Doug Ford has gone full Hulkamania. Does that work against Donald Trump? We'll find out when

00:00:09.940 the two men meet on Thursday. I'll give you my thoughts today. But first, let me invite you to

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00:00:38.780 Tonight, Ontario Premier Doug Ford heats up a trade war with the United States. Is it smart

00:00:44.300 or is it crazy? It's March 11th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:51.880 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:58.420 Well, a lot of politicians in Canada have been taking advantage of Donald Trump's tariff threats

00:01:10.060 and even his banter about Canada becoming the cherished 51st state. They've been taking advantage

00:01:16.720 of that for a number of reasons. First of all, as I mentioned with Justin Trudeau, he was despised by

00:01:21.660 Canadians until the very last moments. And this was a chance for him to switch the subject and fight

00:01:27.600 against Trump to defend Canada. Of course, every liberal around the world's dreams of fighting

00:01:32.480 against Trump. They've all had Trump derangement syndrome. Not only do they want to fight Trump

00:01:38.340 against their real competitor, in the case of Canada, Pierre Polyev, who was ahead in the polls,

00:01:42.780 but in the case of the economy, any damage that Trump could do to the Canadian economy

00:01:49.540 through tariffs would be a great way to blame Trump for our economic woes rather than 10 years

00:01:56.980 of economic mismanagement. Tariffs really have nothing to do with the price of housing in Canada

00:02:01.840 or inflation in Canada or the overwhelming immigration in Canada that makes everything from

00:02:07.820 health care to schools more difficult, drives down wages, drives up housing. None of that has to do

00:02:13.600 with these Trump tariffs that are only, in fact, I don't think they've even actually been imposed.

00:02:18.960 But by demonizing Trump, it's a double win. Fight against a preferable bad guy and suddenly

00:02:26.580 whitewash your own economic mismanagement. Well, Trudeau tried that, but his time was up. Mark Carney

00:02:32.260 is picking up the torch and running the same playbook. He knows it would be better to run

00:02:38.560 against Trump than to run against Polyev and it seems like he's going to do that, although we haven't

00:02:42.160 quite seen how he sounds as an actual prime minister. Doug Ford did something very similar.

00:02:49.900 He opportunistically called a provincial election. There was no need to do so. He already had a fairly

00:02:55.440 fresh mandate. He said he was going to fight back for Ontario. He never really explained how,

00:03:00.560 other than his promise, his promise to borrow, tax and spend more money, sort of like COVID emergency

00:03:06.820 spending. It was sort of muddled messaging, but he caught his two opponents off guard and he won.

00:03:13.860 But instead of declaring victory, he went back to the battlefield and he started talking tough

00:03:19.600 towards Trump in a way that I thought was quite odd. He said, for example, that he wasn't just going to

00:03:25.120 put tariffs on U.S.-bound energy. An export tariff is a really weird thing for energy, don't you think?

00:03:33.460 But he was actually threatening to turn off electricity with a smile on his face. Here's him saying that.

00:03:41.760 Let me be clear. I will not hesitate to increase this charge. If necessary, if the United States

00:03:49.240 escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely. Believe me when I say I do not want

00:03:58.000 to do this. I feel terrible for the American people because it's not the American people who started 1.00

00:04:04.400 this trade war. It's one person who's responsible. That's President Trump. I'd rather be working together

00:04:11.460 I want to sell the U.S. more energy, more electricity, more critical minerals. I want to

00:04:17.580 make Canada and the United States the richest, most successful, safest, most secure two countries on

00:04:24.080 the planet. But as Premier, my number one job is to protect the people of Ontario. You know, Israel

00:04:31.900 sometimes turns off electricity to the Gaza Strip. You might be saying, what? Israel supplies Gaza with 0.65

00:04:38.140 food, supplies Gaza with water, with health care, with many other things. It's only in rare occasions

00:04:51.880 do they turn off electricity. They happen to be in a war with Hamas and Gaza. They turn it off and

00:04:57.120 they're denounced roundly. This is a crime against humanity. At least that's what it's called when it's

00:05:04.220 Israel turning off the electricity to Gaza. But Doug Ford thought he would try that on our best friends

00:05:10.920 and customers and neighbors. It's one thing to put a tax or a tariff on things, but to actually turn off

00:05:18.620 the electricity to schools, to hospitals, does that even work in trade? I mean, it's surely illegal under

00:05:28.800 our trade agreements, but that is what Doug Ford said he would do. And he gave a series of interviews

00:05:34.640 with U.S. media where he basically said, I'm going to bring the battle to the United States. Here's an

00:05:40.860 example of one of those interviews. And joining us now is Doug Ford, the Premier of Canada's most populous

00:05:46.440 territory. Ontario and Premier Ford, as we mentioned, President Trump is now saying he is enacting a 50%

00:05:53.600 tariff on steel and aluminum from Canada, which will go into effect tomorrow in response to your

00:06:00.900 actions. What's your reaction? Well, first of all, thank you for having me on. I start every interview

00:06:07.660 with saying we love Americans. I love Americans. Spent 20 years of my life there. And I know Canadians love

00:06:13.500 Americans and vice versa. In saying that, we will not back down. We will be relentless. I apologize

00:06:19.600 to the American people that President Trump decided to have an unprovoked attack on our country,

00:06:26.620 on families, on jobs, and it's unacceptable. Let's work together. Let's get to the table if he has

00:06:32.820 issues and let's sort this out. You see the market tumbling. Consumer confidence is down. And if he

00:06:39.840 continues on with this, assembly plants in Michigan will shut down and around the country, whoever makes

00:06:45.000 autos. And as well as businesses, they're going to hurt. And these pensions, when the market goes

00:06:52.320 down, it's going to affect people's pensions. So I'm not too sure why he continues to attack his closest

00:06:57.980 friends and allies. But we need the American people to speak up. We need those CEOs to actually get a

00:07:05.440 backbone and stand in front of them and tell them this is going to be a disaster. It's mass chaos right

00:07:10.520 now. That's what we need. Now, just to stop for a second, an electricity export tax is crazy. It's

00:07:18.860 illegal. And it would most likely push America off Canadian electricity. And I think that fairly quickly

00:07:26.920 they would find domestic sources of electricity. I could be wrong on that. But shutting off electricity

00:07:34.100 altogether, that really is tantamount to an act of war. By the way, that's similar to what Russia has 0.95

00:07:39.260 done several times historically to Ukraine by turning off the natural gas pipelines. They certainly did

00:07:44.760 that in 2014. And they never tried that during the Cold War, I should tell you. But Russia has done 0.86

00:07:50.420 that to Ukraine several times in the last 20 years. Why? Why was Doug Ford acting as a de facto foreign

00:08:02.620 foreign minister for Canada? Canada's own foreign minister, Melanie Jolie, has not been engaging with

00:08:08.700 the U.S. I don't think they really have a lot of time for her. She prefers to go over to Europe and 0.99

00:08:13.080 hang out with the other middle-aged feminist defense ministers and foreign ministers like Kaya Callas. 1.00

00:08:19.600 They have sort of a girl power club over there where they talk about things that they find

00:08:24.620 interesting, none of which happens to be the Canada-U.S. trade agreement. That involves math and stuff.

00:08:31.180 So while Justin Trudeau has been doing whatever he's doing, and Mark Carney is busy being selected

00:08:41.040 as our new prime minister, I think Doug Ford sort of filled the void. And he filled the void in a

00:08:47.720 very newsworthy way. He was saying things that would obviously attract attention, and they did in fact

00:08:52.620 get the attention of the White House. Here's the White House press secretary talking about them today.

00:08:56.880 Are there conversations between the administration and the Canadians going on over this tariff? Because

00:09:03.300 the Ontario premier says the next step is to cut off electricity to the U.S.

00:09:07.420 And the president put out a statement after seeing those comments and said that it would be,

00:09:13.040 there would be grave consequences imposed on Canada if they think about shutting off electricity for the

00:09:18.700 United States of America and our citizens. And the president is also determined to ensure that we are

00:09:24.960 depending on American electricity, not the electricity production of foreign nations, including our

00:09:31.200 allies in Canada. As for conversations, there is continued correspondence between the president's

00:09:37.300 team, particularly Secretary Lutnik, and the Canadians as well.

00:09:41.240 Well, it's true. If Canada, if Ontario actually did shut the power off to the United States, it would

00:09:48.960 bring grave consequences to Canada. Would Doug Ford actually do that? Could he even do that

00:09:56.720 logistically? Would it even happen? I don't know. And how would it be handled on the U.S. side? What

00:10:02.800 would Trump do in return? I don't know. I think the whole thing is so ludicrous and absurd, but look

00:10:07.600 what it got done. Well, just a little while ago, I had an opportunity to speak to Secretary Lutnik.

00:10:13.440 Secretary Lutnik has sent out an olive branch to us to come down and immediately meet with him, meet with the

00:10:24.800 whole trade administration, and discuss the future. Rather than waiting until April 2nd, threats going back and

00:10:34.240 forth, tit for tat, I've agreed to suspend temporarily, and we always have that tool in our toolkit,

00:10:42.640 uh, until we sit down, you know, over the next day or two. I'll be heading down to Washington, uh, along with

00:10:50.480 Dominic LeBlanc, uh, and, uh, we'll have a good discussion.

00:10:54.640 Howard Lutnik, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, spoke to Doug Ford on the phone, and Ford is going to be down in

00:11:00.880 Washington in two days' time. They put out a tweet to that effect, and both sides have decided to, you know, cool their,

00:11:07.480 hold their fire at least until then. So maybe you could say that Doug Ford's crazy wild man negotiating,

00:11:17.320 maybe it worked. Maybe it was actually Trump-style enough that it worked. I don't know. Uh, we'll find

00:11:25.160 out soon enough. I don't, I don't think that Trump or Lutnik are used to dealing with someone quite like

00:11:31.800 Doug Ford. Uh, when the president of Columbia got a bit stroppy online and refused to accept returning

00:11:39.660 deportees from the United States, Trump immediately put sanctions on the president of Columbia and his

00:11:45.560 family and his party, and the president of Columbia caved in less than one hour. I don't think the same

00:11:51.860 dynamic is at play in Canada, but we'll see. I know one thing about Trump is he prefers to have arguments

00:11:57.680 behind closed doors rather than in public. In fact, that was his main complaint with Wladimir

00:12:03.260 Zelensky. Remember when Zelensky visited the White House and started criticizing J.D. Vance,

00:12:09.040 and Vance's first reaction was, we don't want to litigate this in public. Here's the clip.

00:12:14.900 I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.

00:12:18.500 Yes, but if you are not strong. Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to

00:12:22.760 come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are

00:12:26.900 going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should 0.84

00:12:32.600 be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine that

00:12:36.820 you say what problems we have? That's J.D. Vance's way of saying, let's argue, but let's argue when we're

00:12:43.520 alone, not when every camera is on us, because that makes it impossible to later have a rapprochement.

00:12:49.480 So we'll see. Maybe Doug Ford is coming to Washington. But the thing is, Doug Ford doesn't have the power

00:12:55.360 to give Donald Trump what he wants. If you take Trump at face value, he wants a stronger border,

00:13:01.280 both to deal with migrants and with drugs. Doug Ford is really not in a position to do that,

00:13:06.460 at least beyond his own Ontario border with the U.S., which is sizable, to be sure.

00:13:12.600 But Doug Ford is not in charge of foreign affairs. He's not in charge of borders. He's not in charge of

00:13:17.300 the military. You know, he can do some things, but he is not the one to solve that problem.

00:13:23.500 Trouble is, Parliament is not in session. Trudeau ran away. Here's a goofy picture of him

00:13:29.360 sticking his tongue out, taking his chair out of Parliament. Very odd. He leaves Parliament as

00:13:35.560 bizarrely as he entered it. Melanie Jolie can't get her calls answered, so we really don't have a

00:13:42.220 government and we don't have a foreign policy right now. We'll see. Listen, I hope that this whole trade

00:13:48.080 or fight with the states goes away. But I am, I think, objective enough to acknowledge that Donald

00:13:54.760 Trump's demands are not actually crazy. It's crazy to cut off electricity. It's crazy to choose a trade

00:14:03.580 war instead of fixing the border. Stop the fentanyl. Stop the illegal immigration. Maybe chip in a bit more

00:14:12.320 to NATO. Come up with a real reason why U.S. banks can't open in Canada or let them in. And yeah, U.S.

00:14:20.780 dairy being kept out of Canada is a big irritant. And frankly, it's an irritant for Canadians too. We pay

00:14:26.280 twice the price for eggs, poultry, dairy that Americans do. And we have much less selection in

00:14:35.420 quality. So the things that Trump wants are actually not negatives for Canadians. You simply

00:14:41.840 have the moral hazard of first Justin Trudeau and next Mark Carney preferring to fight than to make

00:14:49.900 a deal. They prefer to fight for their own political fortunes than for the economic fortunes of all

00:14:55.740 Canadians. Those are my opening thoughts. I want to show you an interview I had yesterday with Benny

00:15:03.140 Johnson, who's a pretty prominent Trump-adjacent podcaster. I was talking about my book,

00:15:09.820 Deal of the Century, the America First Plan for the Oil Sun. So it's sort of related. I thought I was

00:15:15.060 sort of high energy and did a good job. So I, at least if I may say so myself, can I show you how

00:15:20.440 that video went? Take a look. Here it is. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us right now, who's up against

00:15:35.840 a very hard out is Ezra Levant from our great brother, sister, future 51st state, I don't know,

00:15:46.120 nation of Canada. Ezra is the founder of Rebel News, and he's a kick-ass dude. And we want to have him

00:15:52.980 on to talk about the new elections in Canada. What's going to happen next? Let's go.

00:16:05.480 Ezra, what's going on, man? How are you?

00:16:08.280 Benny, I'm great. Justin Trudeau is, his last day as prime minister is today. Yesterday,

00:16:15.060 the Liberal Party selected his successor. Got to tell you, his successor is just as bad.

00:16:21.100 A globalist who was on the board of the World Economic Forum. He used to be the central banker

00:16:26.600 in Canada. Then he got promoted to be central banker in the UK, where he hung out with Ghislaine

00:16:32.080 Maxwell. There's photos of it. Then he left to join Brookfield Asset Management, which is like a

00:16:38.340 mini BlackRock. And from within Brookfield, he pushed ESG. He pushed carbon taxes and environmentalism

00:16:47.580 into the companies he invested in. Well, now he's the liberal leader, and he's going to be

00:16:53.900 appointed PM without ever having won an election. He's not a member of parliament,

00:16:58.380 but he's going to be catapulted to the top job. So things are getting wild up here. But I'm a little

00:17:04.140 bit worried, Benny, that Donald Trump is not going to like the cut of this guy's jib. And he's going

00:17:09.820 to be taking pot shots at this guy and hitting the rest of our country. And I say that because the

00:17:16.200 tariffs on Canada, you know, I don't know if you know, Benny, but the number one export Canada sells

00:17:21.460 to the United States, it's not maple syrup, it's not even cars, it's oil. And I call it ethical oil

00:17:28.040 from Canada's oil sands, as opposed to conflict oil from OPEC countries, or Russia. And here's what

00:17:34.460 I would say to my America First friends. When you're shooting at these liberal politicians,

00:17:38.880 when you're yanking their chain by saying, you know, Governor Trudeau or 51st State,

00:17:43.740 I get it. And we all hate these liberal leaders too. But don't push away our oil, because China 0.99

00:17:49.900 is sniffing around at Canada's oil sands. I have a better idea. America shouldn't tear up the oil,

00:17:55.460 because you can't move the oil sands to America. It's not like a factory that you could pack up and

00:18:00.400 move to America. The oil sands is where it is. It's in the most pro US province in Canada called

00:18:06.000 Alberta. Don't push it away, Benny, pull it close. I have an idea, I call it, I call it the deal of

00:18:12.140 the century, because I'm trying to think, how does Donald Trump think? He thinks in terms of real

00:18:15.660 estate, right? Buy Greenland, buy Panama. Don't buy Canada. You don't want it. You don't want

00:18:21.680 the French-English bilingualism. You don't want another California in your electoral college,

00:18:27.220 trust me. But what you want is the oil. I think Trump should sign a 50-year deal to buy all the oil

00:18:37.880 in the oil sands. And with the money, insist that Canada rebuild its military. So instead of pushing

00:18:44.820 away Canada's oil, pull it in close, lock it in, and here's the icing on the cake. If you replace

00:18:52.080 all your OPEC conflict oil imports with Canadian ethical oil, you don't have to spend $50 billion

00:18:59.060 a year patrolling the Persian Gulf sea lanes, because it's not your business anymore. Anyway,

00:19:02.880 that's my case for Canadian oil. But the bad news is we've got a liberal prime minister for at least

00:19:08.620 a little while yet. They're going to agitate each other. The two aren't going to like each other.

00:19:13.160 And so you're saying that some of this could backfire potentially and alienate patriotic

00:19:19.580 Canadians that are generally on our side. And there are a lot of patriots in Canada.

00:19:25.900 I mean, it's a little bit of a leftist-centered country. I acknowledge that. But look, we really

00:19:31.840 are seamless. I mean, there's a little bit of an accent difference we say about and house. And I would

00:19:37.960 say we pronounce a few words a little differently than Americans. And we're a little different in how we

00:19:42.440 spell things. And we use kilometers instead of miles. But I think I've just summed up a lot of

00:19:46.760 the differences. You really, half of your Saturday Night Live comedians are Canadian. Now, I know

00:19:52.480 that's probably not a plus.

00:19:54.180 You saw Mike Myers the other night. Yeah. Okay. So can you educate us? What's Pierre Paulyev,

00:20:01.740 good or not? And when this election actually happens, is it going to be the proverbial bloodbath

00:20:09.440 that we hear about for liberals? Great questions. Pierre Paulyev is the Conservative Party leader.

00:20:16.440 And he's as conservative as you get in Canada. I've known him for more than 20 years. And he's

00:20:20.960 been talking conservative even when it wasn't cool. Now, he's in a bit of a pickle because if

00:20:26.160 you're too conservative, now people say, oh, you're just Trump's poodle up here. You're going to sell out

00:20:31.040 Canada. So actually, some of this 51st state banter, which I think, you know, that's typical Trump

00:20:37.080 trolling. There's a great sense of humor behind it. And it was poking at Trudeau. And it worked.

00:20:42.880 But some other Canadians are saying, oh, Pierre Paulyev is a mini Trump. He's not. He's a

00:20:49.140 conservative guy, but he's a Canadian guy. I'm a little worried, but I think Trudeau has wrecked

00:20:55.040 things so badly in Canada that the country wants to throw out the liberals. And I think that in the

00:21:01.580 election, the conservatives will win. I just hope that we have a chance to properly vet this new

00:21:08.600 liberal named Mark Carney. He's the guy I mentioned about, the former Central Bank or World Economic

00:21:13.420 Forum guy, because he has actually not lived in Canada for years. In fact, his wife still lives

00:21:20.980 and works in New York City. He just moved Brookfield Asset Management to New York City. He's got three

00:21:27.020 passports like any good globalist would. So he's, I don't think 99% of Canadians even recognize his

00:21:33.960 face. He sort of looks like a, you know, a funeral parlor boss. So he, it would be, it's so weird.

00:21:41.680 This, like, he's like some prince who's been living abroad, has decided to come home to the shire

00:21:47.420 to rule over us because it's his turn. So this guy, Mark Carney, is a problem for sure, Benny. But if we

00:21:54.520 can just get through the next few months until the election, I think Pierre Polyev is going to win.

00:21:59.640 And you're going to have someone who's going to work with Trump to strengthen our military, get rid

00:22:05.600 of some of the trade irritants. And the number one thing I think Pierre Polyev is going to do that

00:22:10.860 Americans are going to appreciate, he's going to take the war on fentanyl to new levels. Pierre Polyev

00:22:16.940 is so tough on crime. He's for mandatory minimum sentences. He, I think he's even talked about life in

00:22:23.280 prison for fentanyl. I got to check on that. Like he's tougher than any Canadian has ever been 1.00

00:22:28.180 on crime. And I think Trump's going to look at that and say, all right, you're no Justin Trudeau.

00:22:33.680 So my hope is for my dear American friends, especially the America first ones, when you're

00:22:39.340 shooting at these liberal leaders, remember that not all Canadians are for it. And that actually a lot

00:22:44.760 of Canadians really love America. I mean, I'm a proud Canadian, but my God, did we ever win the lottery

00:22:49.340 of life being born right next to America? I mean, I'm glad we're not in some rougher neighborhoods

00:22:54.740 in the world. We're so lucky, but, but in a way Americans are lucky too, because we got all this

00:22:59.300 oil up here. I don't know if you know, Benny, but the Canadian oil sands have more oil than any other

00:23:04.740 country in the world, other than Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, 170 billion barrels. So a 50 year deal to buy

00:23:13.160 all our oil. You don't even need, it's just a pipeline. You don't even need tanker ships. So

00:23:18.940 forget about the Houthis hijacking tankers. Forget about, you know, terrorism in the Middle East. You

00:23:25.440 can get out of that. America first, pull in the oil sands. We'll be with you and give us a few months

00:23:31.620 to settle this whole peer poly of Mark Carney thing. Don't give up on Canada. We won't give up on you.

00:23:37.880 Okay. Okay. I know Ezra, you, you have a hard out, but very quickly here, we have the photo of

00:23:43.600 Ghislaine Maxwell. Um, what the hell is going on with these unelected people? Like they tried to 0.67

00:23:47.920 pull a Kamala Harris on it. You're, you're getting Kamala Harris here, right? Like we're somebody that

00:23:52.300 nobody elected. Right. And it's someone that was very creepy background. This is Carney, I think in

00:23:56.900 the purple shirt right here. That's right. Yeah. And his wife is on the far right. And that lady in 0.98

00:24:02.240 black, that's Ghislaine Maxwell. And there's a lot of photos. Cause remember he was sort of this,

00:24:06.280 um, princely type in the UK. He moved to the UK. He became the head of the bank of England,

00:24:12.560 the first foreigner to have that position. And he basically used it as a power position to network.

00:24:18.180 He really is the world economic form personified. He's never been elected to anything, but he rules

00:24:24.500 over us. He says he's a Canadian, but he actually has three passports. This guy believes that you

00:24:31.680 should have to turn down your thermostat in the winter. You shouldn't be able to drive or fly.

00:24:37.320 You should live in a 15 minute city, but he's a private jet guy going all over the world. And,

00:24:42.400 and he's, they're looking at Canada as some sort of prize to be bought. It's sort of a George Soros

00:24:47.520 mindset. This guy's slick and the media love him. And you're a hundred percent right when you say he's

00:24:53.540 the Kamala Harris move because Trudeau was so toxic that actually, and it was a Trump tweet that did

00:24:59.620 it. If you look back, it was Trump in November saying, I want that border solved by the time

00:25:05.000 of my, um, inauguration. And that set in motion, a series of things where he demanded that the

00:25:11.500 finance minister, uh, take on the file and she quit and said it just bigger and bigger dominoes. 0.98

00:25:17.540 Donald Trump tipped over the first tiny domino with a tweet that led to Justin Trudeau's ouster.

00:25:25.400 We just got to deal with his successor, Mark Carney here. And that that's his biography,

00:25:29.760 his world economic forum biography. I don't know if you know much about the world economic

00:25:33.260 forum, Benny. Oh, you do. You do my, my brother. You do. They've got this crazy supervillain

00:25:38.740 leader named Klaus Schwab. And he speaks in a, it's too much the German accent. And he said about Canada,

00:25:45.280 we have penetrated the cabinet and you got to say that the German accent, I, and, but it's true. 0.79

00:25:53.340 Trudeau was a world, Trudeau was a world economic forum, young leader, Mark Carney's world economic

00:25:59.220 forum board member. They sort of run Canada as a colleague. Yeah. That's Klaus Schwab right there.

00:26:04.820 Look at that guy. He's like a bond villain. So we, we got to fight these guys off. Pierre

00:26:10.220 Polyev is the conservative hope. And I'm just saying, Hey America, don't give up on us. Okay.

00:26:15.180 Don't judge us all by Justin Trudeau. I want you to know that the last poll I saw in January on the

00:26:21.820 subject, Justin Trudeau was less popular in Canada than Donald Trump was in Canada. Trump would have

00:26:30.040 beat Trudeau in an election in Canada. True story. All right. So don't let them Kamala, your country. 0.99

00:26:37.280 That's right. No elections, oligarchs choosing, little moving people around on the chessboard.

00:26:43.060 I really hope. One more detail. I got, I got to go into about five minutes, but let me tell you one

00:26:48.080 more detail. You mentioned that this guy has never been elected. He was selected by the liberal party,

00:26:52.980 but let me tell you a little bit how their leadership contest went. You did not have to

00:26:57.240 be a Canadian citizen to vote in it. Come on. They allowed foreign nationals to vote as young as 14

00:27:03.120 years old. So a 14 year old child who is a citizen of a foreign country, as long as they're a permanent 0.99

00:27:10.020 resident in Canada, a 14 year old could vote. So they had 400,000 people register to vote,

00:27:16.900 but they wound up disqualifying two thirds of them. And they didn't explain that. So two thirds of the

00:27:22.980 people signed up were either fake or bots, or maybe the people's Republic of China had some internet

00:27:29.860 operation. Like there's so many question marks, but even if it was legit, by the way, this guy has

00:27:36.080 never been elected by any Canadian. He's never even run for dog catcher. We are having our new prime

00:27:41.580 minister installed. He's being selected. So please America, do not think we all love this guy, Mark

00:27:49.780 Carney. I promise you, we don't just stay with us and don't give up on us, Benny. Yes. All right.

00:27:55.660 Just let us know when the next trucker protest is. We'll be there. Honk honk. Ezra, one of the best

00:28:01.700 men follow Ezra right over here. He got 500,000 subs on his ex. He's a fantastic. He runs rebel news

00:28:11.360 and he's one of those guys who not just runs rebel news, but he's literally running through the world

00:28:16.360 economic forum, talking to some of the biggest goblins out there and making huge impact. We love

00:28:22.760 your work Ezra. Um, and, uh, we say Godspeed brother. Thank you, Benny. Keep up the fight down

00:28:28.480 there. All right. See you, man. Well, let's shift gears now and talk about one more last gasp that

00:28:39.480 the Trudeau regime did. We're going to talk next about the plans to ban some unbanned firearms. That's

00:28:47.520 up next. I'm not sure exactly when Mark Carney becomes the prime minister. The whole thing is

00:28:58.320 rather weird given that he's never won any sort of election in Canada whatsoever. Made even weirder.

00:29:04.380 If you saw my math yesterday, you'll, you'll note how weird it is that Mark Carney got almost exactly

00:29:11.500 the same percentage of the vote in every single one of all 338 ridings in Canada. He didn't lose a

00:29:19.200 single one. Even in Chrystia Freeland's home riding, where she's been a very active politician for a

00:29:26.260 decade. In Karina Gould's home riding, Mark Carney still got approximately 85.9%, plus or minus a few

00:29:35.000 points. To be asked to believe that in 10 years as a cabinet minister and the leading liberal on TV

00:29:43.220 every day, the leading liberal patronage giver, that Chrystia Freeland would only have 188 votes 1.00

00:29:50.020 in her hometown. That's votes. That's not that point system. Just only 186 people other than her own,

00:29:56.700 herself and her husband would vote for her. I'm sorry. I just don't believe it. I think there's

00:30:00.540 something fishy there. But no more fishy than dissolving parliament to avoid a non-confidence

00:30:06.160 vote and delaying that until the liberal party sorts out its own affairs, all the while in a trade war

00:30:14.760 with the United States. It's the worst of times, my friend. It makes me wonder about the democratic

00:30:21.020 legitimacy of certain things going on and just little flourishes like Justin Trudeau packing the last

00:30:27.560 five Senate seats with his cronies. Just one final reward before he goes out the door. It's so gross.

00:30:34.540 Other strange things like announcing a multi-billion dollar train project just days before he's gone.

00:30:42.620 It really is showing the liberals in their true essence how they've behaved themselves with no

00:30:49.760 parliamentary oversight and knowing that they have a lame duck leader. But one thing Trudeau certainly did

00:30:54.560 well was get his last frequent flyer points on the private jet that the Canadian prime minister is

00:31:01.560 afforded. Well, one of these undemocratic last gasp desperate moves by the liberals was the announcement

00:31:10.380 by the liberals. And you can't even say it's by the government because the parliament isn't sitting,

00:31:15.540 just the liberals announced that they're going to ban 179 more kinds of guns. I didn't know there

00:31:23.380 were more guns left to ban. They have literally banned hundreds of them, but they can't really

00:31:28.720 explain what the difference between them are. They call them assault style weapons. They're not

00:31:34.200 really. They're little plink, plink, plinkers. I remember last time they said they were going to

00:31:38.440 seize the guns and give them to Ukraine to fight. Well, that would be a death sentence to give these 0.97

00:31:44.160 little plinkers to Ukrainians fighting against modern Russian military equipment. Again, it's not a serious

00:31:50.380 move. It's a desperate move. It's a PR move. Let me show you what that looked like when Rachel Bendayan 0.99

00:31:56.040 tried to look very, very serious. This was as when there was a mass shooting in Scarborough of

00:32:04.560 obviously an unregistered firearm. Here's Rachel Bendayan warming up the gun front for the liberals. 1.00

00:32:11.320 Take a look. In 2022-23, our government passed legislation to freeze the market for handguns in Canada,

00:32:18.220 banning the sale, transfer, and importation of handguns into the country. Just recently, in December

00:32:26.160 2024, we went further, banning some of the additional assault style weapons that remained in the Canadian

00:32:32.000 market. Today, our government is finishing the job, adding a further 179 unique makes and models of

00:32:39.440 assault style weapons to the list of prohibited firearms here in Canada. This prohibition takes

00:32:45.560 effect immediately. It is our hope, our government's intention, that this be the last discrete listing

00:32:53.340 of assault style firearms for prohibition. If we finish the job well, we have all the tools necessary

00:33:00.640 to ensure that new models of assault style weapons will be captured and denied legal entry into the

00:33:06.320 Canadian market. Let's be clear, these are weapons of war. Firearms designed specifically to kill as many

00:33:14.540 people as possible in the least amount of time possible. As with previous prohibitions, the weapons

00:33:22.680 we are banning today are semi-automatic firearms with sustained rapid-fire capability. Experts have told us

00:33:30.360 that they exceed safe civilian use. That's just not true, and I haven't gone through the list myself.

00:33:37.380 I'm going to hazard the guess that Rachel Bendayan doesn't know anything about firearms other than

00:33:43.720 they're yucky. But you did hear her say, mission accomplished. And it's funny how that the timing was

00:33:50.840 just perfect. The last dying days of the Trudeau regime is just when she just had enough time to do this

00:33:57.200 last one, Aaron. Now, the only problem is the actual gun criminals didn't get the memo. Like I

00:34:05.120 say, there was a shootout in Scarborough the other day. There's shootings practically every day in

00:34:10.620 Toronto. There is a sustained crime wave in this city and indeed across the country. But hey, those

00:34:17.340 weapons of war were banned. I say again, I hope that no army goes to war with the little plinkers that 1.00

00:34:24.080 were banned by Trudeau and Bendayan. Joining us now to talk about this is Rod Giltaka. He's the CEO of the

00:34:30.300 Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights. And he joins us now. Great to see you again, Rod.

00:34:35.800 Thank you, Ezra.

00:34:37.060 Now, I have not looked through the 179 makes and models. And to be honest, I don't know much more

00:34:42.120 about firearms than Rachel Bendayan. The difference between us is that I'm not pretending that these

00:34:47.060 are weapons of war. And that by making up another list, we're going to suddenly bring the gun crime rate

00:34:52.760 down because it's extremely rare. And I do know this, that it's extremely rare for a semi-automatic

00:34:59.700 long arm to be used in a crime. It's typically illegal pistols that farmers and ranchers and

00:35:09.420 sportsmen don't have anyways. This whole thing was false from the very beginning. Why don't you tell

00:35:13.280 me the facts?

00:35:15.180 Well, it's, yeah. When you say from the very beginning, we're talking about basically when

00:35:19.340 the Trudeau Liberals took office. It's been just a big exercise in gaslighting and boat farming.

00:35:25.620 But this latest list wasn't exactly what we expected. We expected more firearms to be on them.

00:35:31.520 On this particular list, it was a lot of older firearms, all models of the M1 as well. And then

00:35:39.720 there was a couple of modern firearms. There was a couple of shotguns, modern looking shotguns

00:35:44.340 that were magazine fed. They look aggressive, but they're limited to five rounds. All of the other

00:35:51.220 criteria that you expect from non-restricted firearms, they were all prohibited too.

00:35:56.280 And, you know, interestingly enough, just talking specifically about those shotguns,

00:36:00.900 these are Turkish made shotguns. They are meant for a civilian market. These are not

00:36:05.700 durable military grade firearms to begin with. No clear minding soldier would take them into battle

00:36:13.380 anywhere. So I have to say, I am just really tired of the gaslighting. I'm tired of being a punching

00:36:21.520 bag as a gun owner. To the Liberals, every time they're sinking in the polls or they want a little

00:36:27.000 boost, they attack us and let criminals run wild. It's a status state of affairs. I've never seen

00:36:33.000 anything like it in my lifetime.

00:36:34.760 Now, how about Mark Carney, the new three-passport prime minister? Any moment now, he'll be elevated to

00:36:42.160 that, which is quite a feat. Has he weighed in on firearms? Do we know where he stands? Or is he

00:36:47.860 really the same as Trudeau all the way down?

00:36:50.900 Well, unless we hear something to the contrary, we'll assume that he is the same.

00:36:54.240 And then he started to gather the old Trudeau guard around him, some of the worst politicians,

00:37:01.560 in my opinion, in the history of the country, like Marco Mendocino. Like a man with,

00:37:05.940 in my, without overstating, like he's got some issues. He doesn't understand what his role ever

00:37:12.840 has been very clearly and has done a lot of lying and gaslighting. It's just been an absolutely

00:37:18.220 atrocious politician. He's now in, apparently, as well as David Lamedi, just sort of the old,

00:37:24.760 the old worst suspects that didn't make it in Trudeau's cabinet, which you have to wonder if you

00:37:29.900 can't make it in Trudeau's cabinet. Wow. But Carney is surrounding himself with these people. So

00:37:34.720 I don't see this as encouraging for gun owners or any Canadians in general.

00:37:39.800 You know, it's funny, the two names you mentioned, David Lamedi was the justice minister who was

00:37:44.700 installed after Jody Wilson-Raybould was fired. She was too ethical. Lamedi was appointed for 0.93

00:37:51.100 precisely that reason. He would do anything. And we know that because he invoked martial law

00:37:56.860 illegally and unconstitutionally. That's according to the Federal Court of Canada.

00:38:00.560 So you've got David Lamedi, who doesn't care about civil liberties, violated the civil rights

00:38:06.520 of Canadians, according to the court. And you've got Marco Mendocino, who in that same martial law

00:38:12.980 exercise, it was so dumb. And I'm sorry, I don't mean to say that as an insult, but his own staff

00:38:19.520 didn't brief him on what was good. Like, memos were circulated, updates were circulated.

00:38:25.760 They didn't bother going to Mendocino to reprove things, to read things, because he was such a low

00:38:32.560 energy watt, low watt bulb. He wasn't the decider. He was, I don't know, demographically, they needed a

00:38:40.180 Italian-Canadian person from North Toronto or something. I don't know, maybe that's why they put

00:38:44.720 him in cabinet. But it was astonishing to me to learn that memos involving his department were not

00:38:51.760 set at, were regularly not sent to him. It wasn't that they missed him one time or another.

00:38:57.060 They just didn't bother asking him because he was not the real decider. I think that says quite a lot

00:39:02.580 about Mark Carney, that these are his two picks. You're right. If they were not good enough for Trudeau,

00:39:08.520 but they're good enough for Carney, that tells you a lot.

00:39:10.300 Yeah, absolutely. And when we're talking about Mendocino specifically, I was, you know, I think

00:39:16.700 a minute ago when I was talking about him, my mind was searching for a stronger word than incompetent

00:39:22.780 because he makes incompetence as a word seem like a compliment. But I didn't want to fall down the

00:39:32.060 rabbit hole. But, you know, that's unsurprising that he wouldn't be charged with any actual

00:39:37.160 responsibility or decision-making. He was just put there. I can only speculate, obviously, right?

00:39:43.620 But in my dealings with his department and the entire time that he was there, I would think that

00:39:49.520 they picked Marco. They're like, who's a throwaway member of our caucus? Who's not going to have a

00:39:56.620 career as soon as he opens his mouth? You know, like zero potential. Stick him in the seat because

00:40:02.520 Bill Blair's fleeing that portfolio of public safety and the buyback and all this. Stick Marco

00:40:07.760 Mendocino. Let him get set on fire. You know, jettison him when he's, you know, once he's taken all the

00:40:14.300 heat and then we'll start over. And I think that's what ended up happening. But yeah, it's startling

00:40:20.320 that Carney, who is going to have to face an election sooner or later, would surround himself with these

00:40:27.180 people. I guess it's business as usual over at the Liberal Party of Canada. Yeah. Or maybe he just

00:40:32.600 doesn't have that big a Canadian network of his own. I mean, he spent so much time in New York City,

00:40:37.860 in London. He has an Irish passport too. I think in other possibilities, he simply doesn't know a lot

00:40:43.860 of Canadians. And I guess the quickest way to find some are just to look at Trudeau's discards.

00:40:50.180 That's a theory at least. Well, listen, great to catch up with you, Rod. I'm sorry that it's always

00:40:54.660 bad news. It brings us together. But I'm still optimistic that Carney will not bring the Liberals

00:41:01.700 back from the dead. He'll certainly do better than Trudeau would in the polls. I think a fence

00:41:05.220 post would. But I think you and I will be talking soon about what the Pierre Polyev government might

00:41:11.720 be doing. Now, I don't want to count chickens before they're hatched, but I remain an optimist in

00:41:16.680 that regard. Great to see you again. Thanks so much, Echa.

00:41:19.600 There you have it. Rod Giltaka, the head of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights. Stay with us,

00:41:24.440 more ahead.

00:41:36.420 Hey, welcome back. Your Letters to Me. You know, I chatted with my old friend, Steve Lindrew. I

00:41:39.660 haven't seen him in a long time. He's such a nice man. And you know, that's from an era where the

00:41:44.460 Liberals, you disagreed with them, but you didn't hate them. I mean, oh, believe me, I railed against

00:41:50.960 Jean Chrétien when he was prime minister. But let me give you one example. He didn't kill the oil

00:41:57.400 sands. He didn't kill any pipelines. In fact, he protected the oil sands in its key period. He gave

00:42:05.020 them regulations they could work within. He legalized and nationalized the oil sands. I'm not saying he did

00:42:11.400 the work himself. I'm saying he did the political and legal work that allowed it. He probably could have

00:42:17.000 killed it in its cradle. He didn't. What a difference we have now. Anyways, here's some

00:42:21.980 letters on my interview with LeDrew, who's a liberal of that vintage. Laurel Stewart says,

00:42:28.000 is it not a conflict of interest for Carney's wife to get government contracts for the company 0.74

00:42:33.400 she works for, owned by Butts? You're talking about the Eurasia Group. Oh, you know what? It's

00:42:38.540 Gerald Butts works there. Carney's wife works there. And they're based in New York. They get huge

00:42:46.940 untendered contracts from the government of Canada. And nobody's ever heard of them. They're sort of

00:42:51.780 this boutique office in New York City that runs half of Canada. Stallion Studio says, I like these

00:42:59.280 old school liberals that are more centered and not power hungry. Real liberals. It's funny how now people

00:43:05.160 like this gentleman are closer to the conservatives than the modern day liberals, yet they have not

00:43:09.080 changed their political stance. It really shows how extreme the modern liberal party has become.

00:43:13.400 You're exactly right. And I think they had a good nature to them. And I think the fact that the

00:43:19.760 liberals would win allowed them to have a good nature. But there wasn't a cancel culture. There

00:43:23.900 wasn't a viciousness. They didn't call you a hater. They said you were right wing, maybe.

00:43:29.680 Javier Di Nardo says, the last image of Justin Trudeau stealing a parliamentary chair and sticking his

00:43:34.560 tongue out to Canadians says it all. Yeah, he's got that weird tongue out thing. He does that at all

00:43:40.100 his gay pride events he goes to. He did that whenever he wears blackface. It's a weird move.

00:43:45.760 It's some psychological tell of some sort. I don't get it. Is it childish? Is it some weird tick? Is it

00:43:53.480 some inner demon? I don't know. I'm just sort of glad he's gone. At least I hope he's gone.

00:43:59.820 That's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World

00:44:04.060 Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 11, 2025

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