Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Are Canadians even a little ungrateful to the United States？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. We like to push back at Donald Trump because he's pesky on Twitter and

00:00:05.160 he hurts our feelings. But do you think ever, once in a while, do you ever let the thought

00:00:10.120 creep into your mind that maybe we're not as grateful to America as maybe we should be? I'll

00:00:15.280 make the case for just a tiny bit more gratitude. I don't know, you can tell me what you think. But

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00:01:21.140 tonight is it possible that canadians are a bit ungrateful to the united states

00:01:28.400 even a teeny tiny bit it's april six and this is the ezra levant show 0.93

00:01:33.820 shame on you you sensorious bug

00:01:40.060 you know i don't like taking the side of any foreign country against canada not that many 0.63

00:01:53.180 countries are against canada by the way to be candid these days very few countries even think

00:01:57.900 about canada i mean ukraine gives us a lot of attention but i think that's mainly because we

00:02:03.240 have sent billions of dollars to them since russia invaded and we seem to make an announcement to

00:02:07.780 that effect every month. The terrorist groups pressing for a state of Palestine, well, they like 0.76

00:02:13.760 us. They put out three different thank you notes to us. The latest was for recognizing that Palestine

00:02:19.960 was a state, when Mark Carney said they're sovereign, rewarding the Hamas terrorist group

00:02:25.980 despite their refusal to renounce terrorism. But, you know, we're just not in the thick of it.

00:02:32.020 We're not consulted by Americans or other allies on really anything of importance. We're not

00:02:37.720 tipped off. Even though we're in the Five Eyes security alliance with the U.S., they just ignore

00:02:44.660 us a lot. You know, we didn't participate in a recent major NATO exercise. You think we would

00:02:51.280 have, but our equipment just isn't interoperable, as they say. We can't keep up. We're a generation

00:02:58.320 outdated. We have old CF-18s that are not up to snuff. And, you know, the leading armies in NATO

00:03:06.360 use F-35s and the like. I saw a rather pitiful announcement by Anita Anand the other day,

00:03:12.280 if you've forgotten, and I don't blame you if you have. She's nominally our foreign minister. Not

00:03:17.140 that it matters who our foreign minister is. I mean, really. And she was saying that she was

00:03:21.980 participating in a very important meeting with other countries, and she wanted you to know that.

00:03:26.420 And those countries included the United Kingdom to talk about the Strait of Hormuz. And if you

00:03:31.200 recall that's this narrow seaway between the Persian Gulf and the ocean. It's a choke point.

00:03:36.700 It's a bottleneck, sort of like the Strait of Gibraltar, where Iran has been threatening oil 0.73

00:03:41.560 tankers. So the U.S. has a large naval presence in the Persian Gulf, but for some reason,

00:03:47.300 it isn't really able to keep those ships going through the Strait of Hormuz. I'm not

00:03:51.340 really sure why I'm not an expert in that. But Donald Trump asked publicly, and I presume privately,

00:03:59.500 for other countries to come and help patrol that ceiling.

00:04:03.740 He asked NATO allies, other allies,

00:04:06.460 and he even said that the customers

00:04:08.280 of all that Persian Gulf oil should come and help too.

00:04:11.740 Even China.

00:04:13.200 I mean, it's sort of weird Donald Trump inviting a rival,

00:04:16.000 some would say enemy, of America to help patrol

00:04:18.020 because after all, they're a big buyer

00:04:20.620 of that Persian Gulf oil.

00:04:21.700 ...other nations whose economies depend on this rate

00:04:25.400 far more than ours.

00:04:26.560 You know, we get less than one percent of our oil from this rate and some countries get much more.

00:04:34.220 Japan gets 95 percent. China gets 90 percent. Many of the Europeans get quite a quite a bit. 0.81

00:04:41.760 South Korea gets 35 percent. So we want them to come and help us with the straight. 0.98

00:04:48.980 We have it in very good shape. The countries I said, we've already taken care of Iran. 1.00

00:04:53.580 But now, because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in the water or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile, and it's fairly close range because it is a tight area, which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon. Iran has always used that as an economic weapon. 0.89

00:05:15.780 Now, I don't think any country is really in a position to make a significant difference in the security scenario there.

00:05:23.480 I mean, maybe Israel would be, but they're going full tilt on bombing Iranian targets in Iran itself.

00:05:29.100 But no other Navy besides the U.S. is helping to do the work.

00:05:32.540 There are no other Navy ships in that area.

00:05:35.660 Now, the U.S. has more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined.

00:05:39.360 The U.K. has two, but they're both under repair right now.

00:05:43.480 Russia's navy has been partially sunk because of the Ukraine war and it's a net oil exporter

00:05:49.880 anyways they don't rely on the Persian Gulf. China hasn't taken up President Trump on its

00:05:56.000 invitation nor has India even though they are huge Persian Gulf oil importers and actually both of

00:06:01.040 them have aircraft carriers. And we say to Europe and all these countries that do you know China

00:06:07.660 It gets 90 percent of its oil from the Strait of Hormuz.

00:06:12.900 And they should be policing their own strait. 0.91

00:06:16.660 We shouldn't be policing it for them.

00:06:17.960 We have been for years.

00:06:19.620 And we're getting ready to get out of there.

00:06:23.680 But they should, you know, all the damages.

00:06:26.020 We have done such a job that they're really a very weak country.

00:06:30.660 They've gone from the bully of the Middle East to essentially a weak country. 0.99

00:06:34.280 And I say, you guys, why should we get the problem with the thing of the strait is they can have one terrorist there with a machine gun someplace.

00:06:43.140 And they'll say, oh, it's not totally clean.

00:06:45.160 You know, so let them do it.

00:06:46.600 Let France do it. 0.99

00:06:47.600 They get a lot of oil from the strait.

00:06:49.920 Let the European countries do it.

00:06:52.780 Let South Korea, who was not helpful to us, by the way, let South Korea, you know, we only have 45,000 soldiers in harm's way over there right next to a nuclear force.

00:07:01.620 Let South Korea do it. 1.00

00:07:02.760 But honestly, I don't think Trump was actually looking for a significant and substantial force militarily.

00:07:11.380 I think he's just there in the Strait of Hormuz and all these tankers are supplying other countries.

00:07:18.840 And he's asking, why is America being the Globocop again?

00:07:23.220 Why is no one else sharing the burden?

00:07:24.780 Why, given that China, India, others are buying Persian Gulf oil, why aren't they protecting the Persian Gulf?

00:07:31.420 I think that's what he's doing.

00:07:34.740 Here's our brave NATO allies in France.

00:07:37.600 France will never take part in operations to unblock Hormuz Street amid hostilities, says Macron.

00:07:43.400 Oh, OK.

00:07:45.220 Here's how Al Jazeera reported it slightly differently.

00:07:48.760 They said, France preparing to escort ships in Strait of Hormuz when war calms, Macron.

00:07:55.660 So that's exactly what Trump accused them of.

00:08:00.380 Trump says that the French will only help when their help is no longer needed.

00:08:05.100 And that's sort of what the Brits said, too.

00:08:07.240 Here's Keir Starmer, the UK Prime Minister.

00:08:10.000 Now, the UK Navy, which, of course, the Royal Navy was once, you know, the British Empire had, they actually had a law.

00:08:16.460 Can you believe this?

00:08:17.180 I just learned this the other day.

00:08:18.260 until recently and past century i mean there was a law that the uk navy the royal navy

00:08:25.900 had to be as large as the next two navies in the world combined that was actually

00:08:33.200 their standard they were so mighty the the british empire ruled the seas around the entire world

00:08:39.640 now it really can't do anything like i say it has only a handful of ships many of them are not

00:08:45.560 operational. So here's Keir Starmer trying to make a necessity into a virtue while also appealing to

00:08:51.140 his massive Muslim voter base and saying, well, I'm not going into Trump's war. Take a listen.

00:08:55.960 Let me say once again, this is not our war. We will not be drawn into the conflict.

00:09:04.680 That is not in our national interest. And the most effective way we can support the cost of

00:09:12.580 living in britain is to push for de-escalation in the middle east yeah he's not joining the war

00:09:18.960 because he has nothing to join it with they have one little frigate that's trying to defend cyprus

00:09:23.840 it can't be both in cyprus and the persian gulf so it's not just that no one will help

00:09:28.860 it's that they won't even allow the u.s to help itself from decades old u.s military bases

00:09:36.820 there's military basically wherever america goes to fight some war they never leave

00:09:41.360 They have military bases all over the world, over 100.

00:09:45.980 And they even have them in the UK.

00:09:47.580 Isn't that interesting?

00:09:48.820 There's about 40 US bases in Germany, for example,

00:09:52.020 in Japan, Korea, even, believe it or not, in Cuba, Guantanamo Bay.

00:09:56.460 But even the Brits denied Trump the right to use US aircraft

00:10:00.920 from US bases in the UK, saying it was international law.

00:10:05.640 Now, he later relented.

00:10:07.480 I don't think international law is really a thing.

00:10:10.260 Certainly not that Iran or Russia follow, but more to the point, why does America have 0.57

00:10:14.700 bases around the world if those countries, I mean, those bases, 99% of the time, they're

00:10:21.260 actually de facto defending the countries they're in.

00:10:25.440 So those countries, in a way, are lucky to have American bases because they get the free

00:10:30.620 defense of having the bases there, and it's an economic boon.

00:10:34.320 But what's the point of that if the U.S. can't use those bases when they need to?

00:10:39.460 And what does NATO mean if it's actually NATO armies like the UK and Spain blocking America

00:10:45.360 from operating?

00:10:46.780 Now, Canada is the same. 0.74

00:10:47.840 Mark Carney is adamant that Canada won't send naval vessels.

00:10:51.120 But as I showed you the other day, we couldn't.

00:10:54.640 Our Navy ships literally do not have the weapon systems to stop the kind of drones and missiles

00:10:58.360 that Iran is using these days.

00:10:59.980 Sending a Canadian Navy ship to the Strait of Hormuz would be a burden, not a help, because

00:11:04.760 we need someone else's Navy to defend our ship.

00:11:07.660 Remember this clip I showed you the other day?

00:11:09.460 Canada is not participating in the offensive operations of Israel in the United States and will not ever.

00:11:19.240 But like I say, Anita and Anne, it was at a very important meeting of a bunch of very important countries

00:11:25.240 to talk about the very important strain of Hormuz, and they'll do everything necessary short of helping.

00:11:31.080 I mean, none of them were actually doing anything, but they sure were having an important meeting.

00:11:35.900 I should have been invited because I personally am not doing any less than the Canadian Navy or the UK's Royal Navy.

00:11:42.300 Why was I left out?

00:11:43.840 By the way, don't believe for a minute that suddenly Canada is spending the requisite 2% of our GDP on the military

00:11:50.020 as opposed to the 1.3% that was in our budget just a couple of years ago, 2024.

00:11:57.040 Do you really think that we have nearly doubled our defense spending in the last year?

00:12:02.520 Have you detected it?

00:12:03.640 Do you really think that happened? Here's a secret that's not really a secret. It's sort

00:12:09.100 of obvious. They simply changed their accounting. So now they're including items like pensions and

00:12:15.800 infrastructure and other non-military costs that they call military so they can pretend that

00:12:22.380 suddenly we've doubled our military spending. And the media has been absolutely stenographic

00:12:27.460 in their unquestioning reporting of that stat. All of which brings me to my point

00:12:31.360 is donald trump or marco rubio the secretary of state are they right

00:12:36.220 to feel like they've been taken advantage of i mean the u.s spends probably a hundred billion

00:12:41.680 dollars every year on foreign bases and on expeditionary forces i mentioned japan korea

00:12:48.260 germany the uk throw in turkey a hundred other places the u.s often acts as a tripwire as in the

00:12:57.680 very first soldiers that would be hit, a deterrent to those countries' enemies.

00:13:01.940 For example, American troops are on the front line between the North Koreans and the South

00:13:07.800 Koreans. 0.64

00:13:08.140 Americans, in a way, are human shields. 0.84

00:13:11.400 America was in Germany throughout the Cold War.

00:13:15.340 They were there to block Russia. 0.90

00:13:17.440 They would have taken the brunt of it.

00:13:18.500 There are still 40,000 Americans in Germany.

00:13:21.100 Just think of the economic boon, let alone the security.

00:13:23.660 And none of them, none of those countries will help America when it asks for even symbolic help in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:13:32.280 Why would they?

00:13:34.160 Did you know that Europe spent more money over the last four years buying Russian oil and gas than they have given to Ukrainian military aid?

00:13:43.660 I say again, Europe, mainly NATO countries, are doing business with Russia every day that they claim to be on Ukraine's side.

00:13:51.580 they are paying more to Russia than they are to Ukraine in aid. And Canada is in some ways the

00:13:59.140 worst. We don't have U.S. bases in our country because we have U.S. bases next to our country,

00:14:05.240 near our border, up in Alaska, way up north. Whenever there's a problem, it is U.S. jets

00:14:12.360 that are the first to scramble. Much more often than Canadian jets are scrambled. It's a joint

00:14:17.420 North American Air Defense Command. It's called NORAD. We're talking tough about maybe we're

00:14:23.540 going to buy some Swedish jets, non-American F-35s, because Carney is mad at Trump. But the

00:14:28.740 joke is American jets will protect Canada anyways, because we will never be able to defend ourselves

00:14:34.740 properly, not in a real way that matters. We'll include pensions and environmental spending and

00:14:40.760 feminist spending to fake our stats. That's how Canada does it. And the Americans are our friends 1.00

00:14:46.140 nonetheless yeah you have to put up with the odd barb from president trump but how does that change

00:14:52.300 the massive benefit we get from being their friends and neighbors marco rubio the secretary

00:14:57.620 of state i think he had something to say about this and i want to show you some of the videos

00:15:01.760 what do you think of this one the united states is constantly being asked to help in a war and

00:15:05.900 we have more than any other country in the world in the world on a war that's happening in another

00:15:10.840 continent than ukraine but uh but when the u.s had a need he didn't get profit positive responses

00:15:17.160 so he right now he's just making the observation that you know i think there was a couple of

00:15:20.760 leaders in europe who said that this was not europe's war well ukraine is not america's war

00:15:25.500 and yet we've contributed more to that fight than any other country in the world so it'll be

00:15:29.680 something to examine uh the president will have to take into account down the road how is that wrong

00:15:34.460 i mean europe and canada have refused to help trump which means they've refused to help america

00:15:39.640 don't they see that? Even if they don't like Trump as the messenger. They say it's Trump's war

00:15:45.300 or America's war. At least it's not their war. Okay. But they've demanded in the most insistent

00:15:51.420 way that America pay the bulk of the cost and provide most of the high-tech weapons for Ukraine.

00:15:56.680 How is that not a fit comparison? Here's another video where Rubio talks about bases in particular.

00:16:04.540 And I've been a big supporter of NATO. And one of the reasons why I've been a supporter of NATO

00:16:08.700 is because I believe that these basing rights give us leverage

00:16:11.940 and give us flexibility and operational capability all over the world.

00:16:16.840 But if NATO is just about us defending Europe of their attack,

00:16:19.980 but them denying us basing rights when we need them,

00:16:22.500 that's not a very good arrangement.

00:16:24.120 That's a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.

00:16:28.300 So all of that is going to have to be reexamined.

00:16:30.520 All of it is going to have to be reexamined.

00:16:32.520 That's insane about the bases.

00:16:34.700 Here's another version.

00:16:36.480 The NATO is simply about us having troops in Europe to defend Europe.

00:16:41.040 But when we need their help, not their help, we're not asking them to conduct airstrikes.

00:16:45.420 When we need them to allow us to use their military bases, their answer is no.

00:16:49.900 Then why are we in NATO?

00:16:51.220 You have to ask that question.

00:16:52.340 Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars over the years,

00:16:57.000 trillions of dollars, and all these American forces stationed in the region?

00:17:00.360 If we can only use, in our time of need, we're not going to be allowed to use those bases.

00:17:05.400 So I think there's no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going

00:17:10.700 to have to reexamine that relationship.

00:17:12.800 Oh, boy, are we ever lucky that we have so far in Canada avoided scrutiny like that?

00:17:18.660 You know, we've got free trade with the U.S.

00:17:20.720 Trump has put some tariffs on here and there, as he has with most of the world, but he has

00:17:24.900 reduced them with most of the world because most of the world prioritized getting a new

00:17:29.680 trade deal with Trump over the political payoff of fighting with Trump to the delight of

00:17:35.200 foreign voters, but not Canada. Fighting with Trump was precisely how Mark Carney won the last

00:17:41.520 election. And it's going to be how he gets the majority government if he calls a snap election

00:17:45.720 this spring. It's why Doug Ford spent tens of millions of dollars antagonizing Trump with TV ads.

00:17:54.320 When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, 0.98

00:17:58.100 it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs.

00:18:05.200 and sometimes for a short while it works but only for a short time but over the long run

00:18:11.360 such trade barriers hurt every american worker and consumer america's jobs and growth are at stake

00:18:23.520 it's why manitobia premier wab canoe called trump a pedophile yeah great diplomacy brother

00:18:29.920 i hope this war in iran ends these gas prices are too high and kids are being killed for no reason

00:18:37.420 even the trump administration cannot explain why they're at war in iran right now

00:18:41.900 and i mean like the epstein file seems to be as good of a reason as anyone else can figure out

00:18:47.320 so stop the war i'm just not sure how you talk to your most important defense protector

00:18:52.940 by far your most important customer i don't know how you talk to him like that that and

00:18:57.440 then claim to be shocked when he pokes back in a tweet or two. Canada has brought in buy Canadian

00:19:04.020 procurement strategies, as in U.S. companies are not allowed to bid. That one was noticed by the

00:19:09.900 U.S. side in my interview in particular. Take a look. You're reliable. You know, there's people

00:19:15.560 talking about harmonizing standards and all of these types of things. And it's like, that's a

00:19:20.480 really, really compelling case as to why we should be doing business. Americans should be doing

00:19:28.320 business with Canada. And what we hear from Canada is, you know, we're at war with the United States.

00:19:36.820 Okay. We don't, you know, we're banning your alcohol. Yeah. Okay. We're banning you from

00:19:44.600 procurement, for provincial projects, you can't bid. I heard that in British Columbia and I hear

00:19:55.320 that in Ottawa. And it's in a lot of provinces around the country. And so you say, okay, well,

00:20:02.560 that's an approach to negotiating with the U.S. Is it smart to antagonize America over trifles

00:20:08.800 like that? What if they did the same to us? You saw the U.S. ambassador. He says Canada really

00:20:14.120 isn't the same class of irritant as Mexico or China.

00:20:18.340 We were talking about cars, and he told me

00:20:19.840 that we shouldn't be that worried.

00:20:21.760 It's other countries that are worse.

00:20:22.880 Here's the clip of that.

00:20:24.700 You need the heavy industry.

00:20:26.100 Yeah, and so they're making cars one day,

00:20:28.780 and the next day they've taken a line,

00:20:30.640 or I'm sure it's not a line,

00:20:32.220 but they've taken a lot of their engineering capability

00:20:34.960 and all that and said, okay,

00:20:36.220 instead of building an escape tomorrow,

00:20:39.260 you're building a ventilator.

00:20:42.080 And they figured it out.

00:20:44.120 That's why you need and why the president is so insistent on having that capability.

00:20:49.240 But to maintain that capability, our biggest threats are from Korea, Japan, Mexico. 0.70

00:21:00.080 So we've got to work on those are the places where you really can move some numbers and getting car production here back into the U.S.

00:21:08.500 And then we've got to figure out what we're going to do with China because that's that's the biggest threat. 1.00

00:21:13.040 But boy, are we ever working on making ourselves a problem.

00:21:17.340 You know, I see new regime media polls showing that Canadians would like to join the European

00:21:22.160 Union.

00:21:22.800 Okay, great.

00:21:23.780 So we're opposed to being the 51st state of America, but we're going to be gung-ho about

00:21:28.220 the 28th country in the European Union.

00:21:31.340 Yeah, that's smart.

00:21:32.120 You know, by the way, we're not in Europe.

00:21:34.160 We have easy travel to the US.

00:21:35.960 We have easy trade with the US.

00:21:37.720 We're protected by them.

00:21:39.060 The reason we can afford bloated health care spending is because they subsidize our military.

00:21:43.960 And when Donald Trump asked for some help, just symbolic help, and he's told no.

00:21:50.740 You know, Argentina's Javier Millet said he would help.

00:21:54.840 Here's a news story about it.

00:21:57.520 Argentina se ofrece a Estados Unidos para enviar apoyo militar al Golfo Presico.

00:22:04.000 I should never try to speak Spanish.

00:22:06.160 I apologize.

00:22:06.620 That means Argentina offers itself to the United States to send military support to the Persian Gulf.

00:22:12.880 If they requested it, yes, any help they consider will be given, said the spokesman for Javier Mille's government.

00:22:18.540 I'm sorry I tried my Spanish on you.

00:22:20.960 Look, why don't you say what Javier Mille said?

00:22:23.380 Why don't you say, hey, if we're asked, we'll do it.

00:22:25.400 Love to do it.

00:22:25.920 Because you know he's not going to ask.

00:22:28.300 Why don't you just give a little bit of love to the guy who's going after the Ayatollahs, 1.00

00:22:31.360 Who, by the way, Iran shot down a commercial airliner, killing nearly 200 people a few years ago, including 55 Canadian citizens and dozens more Canadian permanent residents.

00:22:42.040 The IRGC terrorist group fired the missile, so they murdered almost 100 Canadians.

00:22:48.980 And yet Canada has not deported the 700 IRGC terrorists from Canada.

00:22:53.820 And we haven't done anything about it, actually.

00:22:55.760 But America is.

00:22:57.960 If they get the regime change in Iran, the whole world will be safer. 0.96

00:23:01.060 and freer. The U.S. is saving the world from Venezuela to Iran and is coming to Cuba. And,

00:23:07.840 you know, you can dislike Trump and his style. Sure, fill your boots. But he's having a Berlin

00:23:12.240 Wall moment every month or so. And if you don't realize how successful he is and how terrified

00:23:17.660 he's got the West's mortal enemies from China to Russia to the Islamists, you're too easily 0.89

00:23:23.040 distracted by Trump's personal style. And you probably misunderstand it. And maybe you're

00:23:28.080 misunderstanding it on purpose. You know, yesterday Trump made a tweet that had the F word in it. I

00:23:33.700 think that's probably got to be the first time he's done that. I was surprised by it. Let me

00:23:37.220 read it to you. I'm going to swear here. Trump said, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge

00:23:43.480 day. He's talking about what he's going to attack. All wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be 0.98

00:23:48.120 nothing like it. Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just 1.00

00:23:53.860 watch. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. That is a wild tweet. Now, do you think

00:23:59.860 that was an accident? Do you think Donald Trump was drunk? You know, he never drinks at all. He

00:24:06.520 never takes drugs. So can you come up with another theory? Do you not see that part of Trump's

00:24:12.600 tactics are to confuse and misdirect opponents and that he uses hyperbole for that? Do you not

00:24:18.320 remember when he did the same thing to the little rocket man, Kim Jong-un in North Korea with

00:24:23.780 tweets also remember he talked about i got a bigger button and the bigger missile of mine

00:24:27.440 actually works remember he said that are you so mad at how trump talks and how he negotiates

00:24:32.860 that you're willing to disregard every benefit we have by being next to america don't you remember

00:24:38.040 art of the deal where trump talked about how he uses hyperbole to knock his opponents off balance

00:24:45.000 you know marco rubio was talking about 60 years of a one-way street america rebuilt europe after

00:24:51.820 the Second World War with billions of dollars in the Marshall Plan. Then it protected Europe

00:24:56.280 throughout the Cold War with billions of dollars in soldiers and bases. America subsidizes the

00:25:02.800 whole world. It protects the whole world. And the one time it asked for help, it's mocked and denied

00:25:10.100 their own military bases. You know, the Europeans had better pray that Marco Rubio was just airing

00:25:16.080 his grievances and won't actually act on them. And you know, we here in Canada, we had better

00:25:21.340 pray that Marco Rubio and Donald Trump don't turn their attention to us, perhaps proportionately the

00:25:26.960 biggest ingrates in the world towards the benefits of a trade and military friendship with America.

00:25:32.040 Am I ever glad that Trump seems to admire King Charles? Because that's about all we have going

00:25:38.660 for us, diplomacy-wise, right now. Stay with us for more with an interesting interview with Alexa

00:25:45.220 LeBois. Hey, welcome back. You know, I really found my trip to the United Arab Emirates

00:25:58.880 fascinating. You might recall that a few years ago, Rebel News put on one of our seminar tours.

00:26:05.040 Normally we do it on a cruise ship, but we did what we call the Abraham Accords mission.

00:26:09.960 We went to Israel first, and then we went to the UAE. We went to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. And the purpose was to see if that peace treaty was real, if it was a warm peace, a respectful mutual peace. And to my delight, it was.

00:26:25.740 And I have to say, I was a little bit skeptical.

00:26:27.960 And it was such a delight to land in Dubai, flying on El Al, coming over Saudi Arabia and having an Emirati say, welcome to the UAE.

00:26:38.320 And I thought, oh, my God, just a few years ago, none of that would have been possible.

00:26:42.960 So I was filled with so much hope for peace.

00:26:46.720 Ironically, just a couple of months later, the October 7th terrorist attack happened.

00:26:50.580 and it has been widely acknowledged that that was Iran's move to derail the peace process that I

00:26:57.720 observed. Anyways, one of the fascinating things about visiting the UAE, if you don't mind me

00:27:02.100 giving you a bit of a reflection, was how it felt to see mosques. For the first time in my life,

00:27:09.240 I could look at these mosques, these Muslim places of prayer, as architecturally beautiful,

00:27:14.980 culturally interesting, and without any sense of danger, because Jews and Christians and others

00:27:21.480 in the United Arab Emirates are safe. They really are. And I was skeptical about that

00:27:26.180 before I went there. And here's what I've learned about the UAE at that trip and since then,

00:27:32.040 as I've studied it. They are in some ways more moderate than even Western countries. For example,

00:27:38.760 they ban Muslim extremist groups that are not banned in Canada or the UK. I'm referring in

00:27:44.380 particular, for example, the Muslim Brotherhood. Here's another thing, and this was a story in the

00:27:49.600 Times of England a few months ago, is that the United Arab Emirates, which pays for young 0.93

00:27:54.980 Emiratis to go to prestigious schools in the West, they now no longer pay for their young men

00:28:01.500 to go to schools in the UK that they deem to be too Islamically radical. Just stop and think

00:28:08.700 about that for a second. You're a young man in the UAE and your senior government says you're not

00:28:15.540 going to school in London or Birmingham or Manchester because it'll turn you into a terrorist

00:28:20.600 supporter. The UK will. And finally, which brings us to our topic of the day, mass prayer in the

00:28:28.940 public square is not permitted in those modernizing Gulf countries. There are countless mosques in

00:28:37.140 the United Arab Emirates that if you want to pray as a Muslim, you go to those mosques and pray.

00:28:42.920 You don't block the streets of Dubai. You don't have a mass prayer in front of a hotel or the

00:28:50.180 government offices. But that is a tool, a tactic I've seen all across the West, a mass dominating

00:28:58.900 public prayer, even in cities like Toronto that have 100 mosques deliberately designed to block 1.00

00:29:05.620 off streets, to disrupt, and to say, whose streets? Our streets. Well, as you may know,

00:29:12.820 our friend Alexa Lavoie has been covering the most abusive use of these street-blocking show-off 0.94

00:29:18.900 prayers in Montreal, where incredibly, they have been done right outside the major church,

00:29:25.020 the basilica, as it's called. There is no need for that. There are dozens of mosques in Montreal, 1.00

00:29:30.840 but to have a street-blocking, sidewalk-blocking, domination prayer.

00:29:36.180 And by the way, this wasn't, oh, let's go practice our prayers.

00:29:38.480 This was a flourish on a pro-Hamas, pro-Iran protest.

00:29:44.000 So it was obvious the malign purpose.

00:29:46.600 And Alexa's been covering that so much, and very few other media have,

00:29:51.020 that there was actually a law passed in Quebec to ban those street prayers.

00:29:56.520 Well, guess what?

00:29:57.200 Alexa was out on the street proving that those bans on street blocking prayers are not being enforced by police.

00:30:27.200 We can't!

00:30:36.900 We're not you?

00:30:47.960 Okay.

00:30:57.200 not my war

00:31:03.120 we are

00:31:08.620 we are

00:31:14.560 no

00:31:22.500 No.

00:31:31.340 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:32:01.340 Like you!

00:32:02.560 We will be friends!

00:32:05.840 We will be friends and family together then we will be friends together!

00:32:13.520 We will be friends together and we will be friends together!

00:32:21.600 This is the National Anth仔!

00:32:24.480 This is the National Anthnościol!

00:32:27.300 This is the National Anthocles!

00:32:28.800 joining us now via skype is our friend alexa lovewell alexa great to see you again

00:32:43.860 great to see you too it is a fact that massive dominating blocking public prayers like that are

00:32:51.680 not allowed in moderate muslim countries because that's such an obvious political act not a 1.00

00:32:57.920 religious act. But that is a tool and a tactic used in Quebec every week, isn't it?

00:33:03.580 It is. And as you say, it's not an act of faith. It's an act of showing domination, conquest. And

00:33:13.880 it's a political act. And we are seeing it. And I saw them almost every week doing this after

00:33:24.040 they finish their protest. It's every Sunday and sometimes it's in front of the Notre Dame

00:33:31.540 Basilica, but sometimes they are blocking streets and sometimes it's even in front of

00:33:37.360 really important monuments as the cenotaph. Isn't that interesting? We typically send you

00:33:43.740 with bodyguards for you and your cameraman and unfortunately that's because we cannot trust

00:33:48.620 the Montreal police to protect you. I think they regard you as a nuisance and they hate the fact

00:33:54.020 that you're shining a light of scrutiny on it, let me ask you, and we'll just play in the

00:33:58.020 background some of the footage you've taken when you're there. Are there other mainstream media

00:34:03.620 there? For example, the large English newspaper called the Montreal Gazette or La Presse or Le

00:34:08.160 Devoir or the Journal de Montréal. Those are some of the larger French newspapers. Have they covered

00:34:14.540 this? And if not, do you have a theory of why not? I would have expected that after this new

00:34:24.000 bill have passed, that they will actually show up just to see if the SPVM, the Montreal

00:34:31.460 Police, will enforce that new bill.

00:34:34.440 And I knew it was important for me to be on the ground.

00:34:38.880 And I had some information that they might have go to the Notre Dame Basilica once again.

00:34:47.600 But I think it's because a group of Quebecers have organized to counter protest at the Basilica that they decided to change where they will finish their protest because nothing is, you know, set when they start marching.

00:35:04.400 They just decide to go wherever they go.

00:35:07.720 And the fact that it's a group of Iranian mixed with Quebecers who usually show up in large numbers to counter them, 0.98

00:35:16.380 they probably say, let's go somewhere else then.

00:35:19.600 But no mainstream media showed up.

00:35:22.760 I was with Natasha, another independent that was there for covering what was happening.

00:35:30.380 And I was really surprised of what was happening.

00:35:33.240 And I'm not very surprised in a way because since two years and a half, there were only few papers on the street prayers and they were always favorable.

00:35:48.200 They were always nice with the street prayers.

00:35:52.120 And same, like sometimes I'm watching Radio Canada and all big shows, they are trying to legitimize those street prayers, saying, oh, you know, they are praying for the martyr.

00:36:06.620 But I'm sorry, but this is literally a political act.

00:36:10.840 They are doing this for showing their dominance.

00:36:14.340 And I was there on the ground, but the mainstream media refused to do and refused to cover them.

00:36:21.040 Why? Probably because they don't want to be labeled as racist

00:36:26.080 Or also because we know that some of news, mainstream news

00:36:32.840 They are advocating for multiculturalism

00:36:38.260 So it would go against what they are trying to push on the society

00:36:43.600 So obviously they are being told to not cover it

00:36:47.560 And you know what? I'm not very surprised that they decided to not go and cover it.

00:36:54.640 You know, I remember when you started covering those mass Muslim street prayers outside the Basilica,

00:37:00.080 some of your videos were getting hundreds of thousands of views.

00:37:04.120 And I think it's because you were the only person actually showing what was happening.

00:37:09.080 You know, there's a joke. The mainstream media covered the story, covered the story with a pillow till it stopped breathing.

00:37:15.300 I mean, as in they actually were anti-reporting.

00:37:19.420 In fact, they sort of mocked you and made fun of you, which is interesting because I'm

00:37:23.660 not an expert in Quebec cultural history, but Quebec came from a very Catholic past

00:37:30.400 that's hardwired in our Constitution.

00:37:33.060 For anyone who actually reads the Constitution Act of 1867, there's an enormous number of

00:37:38.300 references to the Catholic nature of Quebec, Catholic schooling, Catholic religion.

00:37:43.520 So it was such an important part of Quebec's past.

00:37:47.940 Over the course of decades, secularism or laicité, if I'm saying right, has become

00:37:55.860 more important in Quebec as they've removed some of the religious nature of the public

00:38:00.720 square.

00:38:01.720 But to replace that with Islam is stunning. 1.00

00:38:05.200 Either you're Catholic, which is your history, or you're secular, which is your modernity.

00:38:10.880 But to throw out both Catholicism and secularism and to welcome into the void Islamism is so, 1.00

00:38:18.480 I can't imagine any actual Quebecers would be pleased with this.

00:38:25.000 And they are not pleased with this.

00:38:27.340 First of all, why Quebecers have decided to remove religion in our life is because, not 0.90

00:38:34.960 me obviously but my grandparent um had to deal with the church and um the christianity uh when

00:38:43.840 you think that the priest was actually knocking at the door because you didn't have a enough

00:38:49.600 children you know a lot of people suffered in quebec because of christianity but this is a thing 1.00

00:39:00.620 when you remove all religions together they will always have one that will impose itself 1.00

00:39:07.260 and we need to protect we need to reaffirm that quebec is christian is built on christianity

00:39:16.740 or if you are not doing this you will have another religion who will take the void they

00:39:24.480 take the place there is like a place to being taken and they will take it and it's something

00:39:32.240 that i've been discussed with um some leader of different political party in quebec and they all

00:39:39.600 agree with this they all agree that uh this is our heritage we are christian we are being built on

00:39:47.440 Christianity. And we need to protect that. We need to reaffirm who we are. And we need to make

00:39:54.800 sure that there is not another religion that take over and imposed itself. You know, Sir Isaac

00:40:03.140 Newton, the famous scientist said, nature abhors a vacuum, which means if you remove, if you create

00:40:09.740 a void, something's going to fill it. Now he meant that in terms of physics, but it applies to other

00:40:15.000 things. If you remove Christianity from the public square, well, something's going to fill it. Maybe 0.99

00:40:19.820 environmentalism. For many young people, that is their kind of cult. Maybe it is full of other

00:40:27.820 third world-isms. In some parts of the world, I can't lie, when I go to Ireland, I see a lot of 1.00

00:40:34.920 young people, their new religion is Gaza, in a way. If you don't give people something positive

00:40:41.840 to believe in, they will find something else. And Islam is confident and it's demographically 0.81

00:40:48.120 growing and it is militant by contrast to meek Christianity, which I see not just in Quebec,

00:40:56.020 but in English Canada too. Now tell me if you're at liberty to give anything away. I know that a

00:41:02.320 few days ago you had a significant interview and I don't want to, I don't, we'll release it in

00:41:07.960 public when we're allowed to are you allowed to say who you sat down with in an interview or is

00:41:12.460 that part of it confidential as well i think i can release it uh first of all why i kept it

00:41:19.380 confidential is because this person have a family and he wanted to have easter weekend without any

00:41:25.380 controversy controversy so um i was pleased to receive an email inviting me inside of the national

00:41:36.200 National Assembly in Quebec

00:41:38.080 to have an interview

00:41:40.860 one-on-one with the

00:41:42.820 leader of the Parti Québécois,

00:41:44.900 the Separatist Party, and people

00:41:46.820 need to understand that

00:41:48.260 Paul St-Pierre Plamondon,

00:41:51.060 who is the leader,

00:41:52.380 might be our next premier.

00:41:55.460 Everything indicates

00:41:56.980 in the poll that he

00:41:58.840 might be the chosen

00:42:00.860 leader.

00:42:02.700 So we are waiting,

00:42:04.420 obviously like it's in six months away but so far la cac is going down the drain and uh but

00:42:15.580 the liberal party of quebec is actually rising uh this is actually concerning when we we know a

00:42:21.820 little bit of the past i just hope that the new leader would be better uh in the position of the

00:42:27.740 Liberal Party because in the past we had like a lot of controversies with this party but so far

00:42:35.100 it's um the separatist party it's uh the Parti Quebecois who seems to be the next premier of

00:42:43.420 Quebec yeah so just in case anyone missed the the name of the politician that's the leader of the

00:42:49.660 Parti Quebecois that is currently leading or tied in the polls could be the next premier and I found

00:42:54.380 it very interesting and actually very encouraging that they reached out to you and you were invited

00:43:01.900 to go to what they call the national assembly that's what we would call in another province

00:43:06.280 the provincial legislature so i think it was a real feather in your cap as the leading rebel

00:43:13.060 journalist in quebec to receive that invitation and of course you're on excellent terms with eric

00:43:18.440 to end the leader of the conservative party of quebec which is rising too yeah i pretty pretty

00:43:25.160 good your journalism is respected by both of those two political parties because you're on the street

00:43:30.540 telling the truth and i and i so we we're going to wait i think a day or two before we publish

00:43:35.700 that interview and we'll have it obviously in french but we'll have a version in english too

00:43:40.540 i think it's going to be very exciting and i think it's a real feather in our cap i mean

00:43:44.220 we interview the Premier of Alberta. Sheila Gunn-Reed is setting up another interview with

00:43:50.360 the Premier of Saskatchewan. For you to interview the man who is quite likely to be the next Premier

00:43:57.140 of Quebec, I think it shows that Rebel News, and of course, last week I sat down with the

00:44:01.060 Ambassador of America. So I think that just because some of our rival journalists don't like us,

00:44:07.900 people realize that we have a viewership and we have a point of view that ought to be heard.

00:44:11.720 So congratulations to you. And I know part of that is your coverage of these territory dominating mass public press.

00:44:19.720 We'll let you go there, Alexa, but we look forward to the debut of your major interview.

00:44:24.080 So congratulations for that. Thank you so much. All right.

00:44:27.360 There she is, Alexa Lavoie, our chief reporter all our Quebec.

00:44:32.860 Stay with us. Your letters to me next. Thanks.

00:44:41.720 hey welcome back your letters to me about sam cooper i really like sam here's what you said

00:44:50.600 annette mort said what in hell was this guy doing in the conservative caucus talking about michael

00:44:55.020 maul our candidates not vetted in any way all of this information was apparently known he shouldn't

00:45:00.720 have gotten anywhere near a canadian political party let alone have a seat in commons i've not

00:45:04.980 seen this aspect addressed at all by anyone yeah i mean in the interview i had to stop him and say

00:45:09.680 hey, can you just say that again? Are you saying that the Chinese Communist Party set up a

00:45:14.360 particular group designed to infiltrate the conservatives? Because that's what I thought

00:45:18.760 he said, and he confirmed it. That was news to me. James Henry says, just enjoy the interview

00:45:25.440 with Sam Cooper. With respect to Carney and liberal lying, has anyone fallen up on Carney's

00:45:29.940 passports? Did he give up his UK and Ireland passports as promised? This would be the kind 1.00

00:45:34.380 of reporting I expect from Rebel. Well, that's one of my favorite questions. You know, I've raised

00:45:38.240 that issue many times. But when are we allowed to come into contact with Mark Carney? We are

00:45:43.460 barred from parliament, barred from press conferences. If we try and attend, the police

00:45:48.120 arrest us even. You know, I did more interviews with Canadian cabinet ministers in 24 hours at

00:45:53.840 Davos than I've done in 10 years at Rebel News. Because in Canada, if you ask prickly questions,

00:45:59.620 the police arrest you. If you don't believe me, ask my friend David Menzies.

00:46:04.140 Paul McCullough says, China seems to own the House of Commons. It is very true. 1.00

00:46:08.240 and Mark Carney won't do anything about it

00:46:10.640 because he is the beneficiary of all that.

00:46:12.800 In fact, he flaunts it.

00:46:15.060 Well, that's our show for the day.

00:46:16.720 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:46:20.280 to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:46:38.240 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - April 06, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Are Canadians even a little ungrateful to the United States？

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