Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Are Israeli troops fighting UN peacekeepers in Lebanon？

00:00:00.000 Hey, did you know that there was a United Nations peacekeeper buffer between Israel and Lebanon and it's been there for 46 years?

00:00:09.320 Seriously, in between the Hezbollah terrorists and Israel's army are hundreds and hundreds, I think thousands even, of peacekeepers.

00:00:17.480 Did you know about that?

00:00:18.980 Well, you're not going to believe what they're up to now.

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00:00:56.520 Tonight, can you name me just one thing the United Nations is actually good at doing?

00:01:14.680 It's October 17th.

00:01:15.820 This is the Ezra LeVance Show.

00:01:17.200 You're fighting for freedom.

00:01:20.320 Shame on you, you sensorism bug.

00:01:26.520 Is Israel going to get into a shooting war with the United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon?

00:01:38.660 I guess it's a possibility.

00:01:41.100 There's something absolutely astounding going on I want to talk to you about.

00:01:45.200 Some background first.

00:01:46.720 Do you know how long war has been going on between Israel and its northern neighbor, Lebanon?

00:01:54.000 Well, decades, of course.

00:01:55.040 We all know that.

00:01:56.880 By some ways, you could probably say centuries.

00:01:59.780 I mean, the modern state of Israel was invaded the day it declared independence back in 1948.

00:02:07.100 Seven Arab armies, if I'm not counting wrong, seven Arab countries declared war on it.

00:02:13.600 And miraculously, Israel survived. 0.91

00:02:16.780 The same thing is being repeated a half a dozen times since. 0.86

00:02:20.140 And, of course, Muslims have attacked Jews for centuries. 1.00

00:02:23.660 It's a central story in the Koran, if you don't know.

00:02:28.240 Anyways, back in 1978, there was a horrible massacre committed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist group

00:02:39.080 against Jewish civilians in northern Israel.

00:02:42.460 Muslim terrorists hijacked a bus in Israel and murdered 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children. 0.75

00:02:53.820 76 more people were wounded. 0.98

00:02:56.100 Their plan was actually worse.

00:02:57.720 It was to take over an entire hotel, if you can believe it.

00:03:02.440 Here's a picture of the burnt-out bus.

00:03:04.640 Just shocking, but actually the same as today, isn't it?

00:03:08.300 So Israel invaded Lebanon, but it wasn't really invading to fight the Lebanese.

00:03:14.320 It was invading to fight against this Muslim terrorist group, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the PLO,

00:03:20.540 which had occupied southern Lebanon as a base from which to attack Israel. 0.81

00:03:26.520 It would be like the cartels in Mexico.

00:03:28.800 They're different from the government.

00:03:31.480 The PLO was also fomenting a brutal civil war within Lebanon, by the way.

00:03:35.820 They had just been kicked out of Jordan, where they had been fomenting a civil war, too.

00:03:40.920 I wonder if you can see a pattern here.

00:03:43.240 Anyway, so Israel invaded Lebanon to shut down the PLO base camps, and the world clucked their disapproval.

00:03:51.300 And so the United Nations told Israel to leave.

00:03:54.100 And as a promise of safety, it committed to send peacekeepers as a sort of buffer between the terrorist group and Israel.

00:04:02.820 But, of course, the terrorist group is essentially a violent group.

00:04:06.120 They're not going to negotiate away their nature.

00:04:09.320 Now, the UN resolution that set this up called for, quote,

00:04:13.080 The PLO never followed that for one second.

00:04:26.560 I'll read the rest of the text.

00:04:27.600 The UN calls upon Israel immediately to cease its military action against Lebanese territorial integrity

00:04:35.180 and withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese territory.

00:04:38.960 Even that wording acknowledges that Israel wasn't shooting at the Lebanese government.

00:04:44.220 It was shooting at the terrorists.

00:04:46.320 It would be like America going after the cartels in northern Mexico.

00:04:49.840 Here's the active part of the resolution.

00:04:52.920 The UN decides, in the light of the request of the government of Lebanon,

00:04:57.220 to establish immediately, under its authority, a United Nations interim force for southern Lebanon

00:05:04.260 for the purpose of confirming the withdrawal of Israeli forces,

00:05:08.520 restoring international peace and security,

00:05:11.120 and assisting the government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective authority in the area,

00:05:17.920 the force to be composed of personnel drawn from member states.

00:05:21.640 So peacekeepers were sent in.

00:05:24.140 That is, soldiers from around the world.

00:05:27.220 But what could they do?

00:05:29.960 Were they going to really hunt down terrorists?

00:05:32.280 That wasn't really in their mandate there, was it?

00:05:35.540 So they could be targets, of course.

00:05:38.360 And of course, they were regularly attacked by terrorists in serious or more serious ways.

00:05:44.700 Here's a story from a few years ago of a Hezbollah attack on UN troops in their vehicles.

00:05:50.800 The UN forced their observed things.

00:05:53.880 That was one of their official tasks.

00:05:55.800 But they weren't there to fight.

00:05:58.100 If you read that resolution carefully, they weren't there to fight,

00:06:01.600 even though they had armored vehicles and some light weapons.

00:06:05.560 There were thousands of these UN peacekeepers.

00:06:08.500 And over the years, probably, I'd say probably 100,000 over the course of time.

00:06:12.640 In the early days, a lot of them were Canadian, actually.

00:06:15.660 But they didn't really do things.

00:06:18.140 They didn't attack the terrorists.

00:06:19.680 They didn't try to stop the terrorists.

00:06:22.040 They didn't try to stop Israel from coming in to stop the terrorists either.

00:06:26.180 They were just there.

00:06:28.280 The name of this force, which exists to this day, is UNIFIL, which stands for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

00:06:36.860 Interim? You know what the word interim means?

00:06:39.180 It means temporary, like a stopgap until something permanent happens.

00:06:43.400 Well, it's been 46 years of interim.

00:06:47.320 Some might say, what exactly have they accomplished?

00:06:51.160 Except pump billions of tax dollars from other countries into the economy in Lebanon.

00:06:57.600 Make money for the third world countries that typically staff UNIFIL.

00:07:01.400 Did you know that the UN actually pays countries to send peacekeepers in?

00:07:05.580 It's a good way for poor countries like Sri Lanka to make some cash.

00:07:09.960 And I'm not sure if you know this, but UN peacekeepers are routinely accused with credibility of raping local children.

00:07:18.700 I'm sorry to say it so bluntly, but here's just one of a gazillion stories of a major child prostitution ring set up by UN peacekeepers in Haiti. 0.75

00:07:29.200 It's so atrocious.

00:07:31.400 Anyways, fast forward to 2024.

00:07:33.440 Same as always, a terrorist group operating in southern Lebanon, defying the Lebanese government, which is powerless to stop them.

00:07:41.100 Back in the 70s, it was the PLO.

00:07:43.260 Now it's a terrorist group called Hezbollah, and Iran's support for Hezbollah.

00:07:47.640 That Lebanon-based terrorist group attacks Israel, so Israel hits back.

00:07:52.080 And UNIFIL just stands there and looks on passively.

00:07:57.340 They don't try to stop any of them.

00:07:59.500 They're not a target of Israel and generally not a target of Hezbollah.

00:08:04.600 They're just there like a barnacle on a ship or something.

00:08:08.480 I honestly don't know what the point of a UN peacekeeper is.

00:08:12.800 No disrespect.

00:08:13.500 But they don't make peace.

00:08:16.000 They're not really allowed to.

00:08:17.980 And they don't keep peace.

00:08:19.480 I don't know how they can.

00:08:21.940 Sometimes they act as social workers or emergency humanitarian workers.

00:08:26.320 I guess that's a plus.

00:08:28.360 Sometimes they act as sex predators, as I mentioned in the Haiti case. 0.93

00:08:32.560 I'm not sure what the point of peacekeepers is, especially if there is no peace to keep.

00:08:36.880 But if they've been in Lebanon for 46 years, somebody must be benefiting from them. 1.00

00:08:43.600 So as you know, Israel was attacked in a shocking terrorist invasion last October 7th from Gaza on the south of the country.

00:08:52.000 The terrorist group that did that is called Hamas, and it's also backed by Iran.

00:08:56.100 And then Hezbollah in Lebanon opened up another front against Israel in support of Hamas.

00:09:02.680 So they just started sending rockets in from the north, and 80,000 Israelis have been evacuated from northern Israel for a full year because of this.

00:09:12.340 So Israel has finally moved against Hezbollah, first through their incredible Hollywood-style targeted attack 0.79

00:09:21.900 at more than 2,000 senior terrorists by blowing up their pagers.

00:09:26.960 Just incredible.

00:09:28.940 Then an attack on the boss of Hezbollah, a terrorist named Hassan Nasrallah, that they got in the bunker.

00:09:36.540 But not just him.

00:09:37.340 They wiped out the entire leadership, the whole organizational chart of the Hezbollah terrorist group.

00:09:43.360 Gone.

00:09:44.100 Hezbollah appointed a successor.

00:09:45.860 He was eliminated within hours.

00:09:47.720 And now Israel is going in on the ground to root out the terrorist attack bases and tunnels along the border.

00:09:55.260 Really just what they were doing in the 1970s.

00:09:58.240 It was a preemptive attack as Hezbollah had over 100,000 rockets aimed at Israel and was planning a similar terrorist invasion to the one Hamas had done on October 7th. 0.53

00:10:11.160 Israel just decided to preempt that.

00:10:13.060 And it was brilliant how they did it, all of which is to say the UN did nothing to stop the terrorist attack from Hezbollah against Israel for a solid year.

00:10:23.340 They did nothing.

00:10:24.480 And frankly, it wasn't in their mandate.

00:10:26.200 What are they going to do, go and fight the terrorists?

00:10:28.260 The terrorists would beat them, probably. 0.99

00:10:30.120 Or even if they didn't beat them, they would kill them. 0.96

00:10:31.900 Hezbollah killed hundreds of U.S. Marines and close to 100 French soldiers who stood up to them.

00:10:38.400 So, yeah, the troops from Canada or Ireland were not about to take on Hezbollah. 0.85

00:10:45.480 The UN did nothing to stop the war, either the year of attacks on Israel or, frankly, Israel's recent incursion.

00:10:52.500 But here's what's weird.

00:10:54.900 The United Nations often pulls out its peacekeepers when things go sideways.

00:10:59.640 Sometimes the UN is ordered out of a region by one country or another when war is imminent.

00:11:04.660 And the peacekeepers always do leave.

00:11:07.740 Like I said, they're not there to take bullets.

00:11:10.600 Israel told the Lebanese army to move out of the way before invading.

00:11:15.020 Not that Lebanon controlled its southern region anyhow.

00:11:17.920 Israel just said, we're going in now.

00:11:19.940 Move your guys.

00:11:21.380 But obviously, Lebanon moved out of the way.

00:11:24.360 It wasn't in the battle between Israel and Hezbollah.

00:11:26.740 I'm sure they didn't want Israel crossing over the border.

00:11:29.760 But they also know Hezbollah is a foreign-occupying terrorist army, an agent of Iran.

00:11:36.260 A lot of Lebanese are glad Hezbollah has taken a blow lately. 1.00

00:11:39.320 I don't know if you saw that.

00:11:40.680 Dancing in the streets in parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran when Hezbollah was knocked down a notch.

00:11:46.100 But this time, UNIFIL has refused to move out of the way as Israel comes into southern Lebanon to root out the Hezbollah terrorists.

00:11:56.480 It couldn't be clearer. The UN is deliberately trying to block Israel from defending itself.

00:12:03.140 And worse, I think, in some twisted way, they might actually want Israel to hit a UN peacekeeper just to get bad press for it or to call it a war crime.

00:12:13.340 Like, it's almost like they're volunteering to be human shields for Hezbollah. 0.62

00:12:16.920 Here's Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:12:19.940 The charge that Israel deliberately attacked UNIFIL personnel is completely false.

00:12:25.120 It's exactly the opposite.

00:12:27.780 Israel repeatedly asked UNIFIL to get out of harm's way.

00:12:31.400 It repeatedly asked them to temporarily leave the combat zone, which is right next to Israel's border with Lebanon.

00:12:37.800 In fact, on the day that Israel began its ground operation next to our border with Lebanon,

00:12:43.060 we asked them specifically, please leave this area so you're not harmed.

00:12:48.860 Israel is not fighting UNIFIL.

00:12:50.920 It's not fighting the people of Lebanon.

00:12:52.360 It is fighting Iran's proxy Hezbollah, which uses Lebanese territory to attack Israel.

00:12:58.900 Hezbollah attacked Israel last year without any provocation on October 8th, a day after the Hamas massacre.

00:13:04.640 And it's continued to attack us ever since by launching over 10,000 rockets and missiles in Israel.

00:13:11.140 Hezbollah uses UNIFIL facilities and positions as cover while it attacks Israeli cities and communities.

00:13:17.320 These attacks have claimed the lives of many Israelis, including yesterday.

00:13:22.100 Israel has every right to defend itself against Hezbollah and will continue to do so. 0.99

00:13:27.140 We regret any harm done to UNIFIL personnel, and the IDF is doing its utmost to prevent such incidents.

00:13:32.820 But the best way to ensure the safety of UNIFIL personnel is for UNIFIL to heed Israel's requests and to temporarily get out of harm's way.

00:13:43.340 Get out of the way, he's saying.

00:13:44.760 Well, no, says the best friends the terrorists have, namely the UN.

00:13:50.220 Now, as you know, the decision was made that UNIFIL would currently stay in all its position in spite of the calls that were made by the Israeli Defense Forces to vacate the position that are in the vicinity of the blue line.

00:14:07.940 I want to emphasize that this decision still remains.

00:14:14.100 It was confirmed this morning by the Secretary General.

00:14:16.480 We had an Executive Committee meeting on that specific issue.

00:14:21.200 And I want also to emphasize that this was a decision that was very carefully considered based on a number of elements and criteria.

00:14:28.940 Of course, safety and security of the peacekeepers is a paramount priority.

00:14:32.940 But there are a number of other elements, and one of them is the responsibility that we have and UNIFIL has in regard to the mandate that was given to it by the Security Council.

00:14:45.540 It's a Security Council mandated operation, and we all feel duty-bound to fulfill to the best of our ability the mandate given by the Security Council.

00:14:54.860 We are staying. It's important that there was a decision taken because we are in the south of Lebanon under a Security Council mandate.

00:15:04.660 So it's important to keep an international presence and to keep the UN flag in the area.

00:15:11.920 There have been some deliberate attacks against our troops, and peacekeepers were injured.

00:15:17.280 So this is not only a violation of Resolution 1701, it's also a serious violation of international humanitarian law.

00:15:26.500 And the parties have the obligation to protect peacekeepers and ensure the safety and security of our troops.

00:15:34.060 What is needed now is a political and diplomatic solution to this conflict.

00:15:38.620 It's important for member states, for main stakeholders, to step in and find viable solutions to this conflict.

00:15:47.540 The military solutions that we're seeing right now is not the solution.

00:15:52.420 The only solution is the political and diplomatic.

00:15:55.380 More than 350,000 people left the south of Lebanon, but some people cannot leave because they don't have a place to go.

00:16:03.520 People want to stay in their villages, and what's relevant right now is to ensure that they are provided with the most basic needs.

00:16:12.820 The problem right now is that we have been trying to de-conflict these activities and provide assistance together, of course, in coordination with UN agencies, Red Cross.

00:16:25.760 But most of the times, these activities could not take place because of the heavy shelling, but also because we were not getting reassurances from the parties that we could actually move to all these locations.

00:16:42.100 So very concerning, and it's important for everyone to understand that we need to protect civilians, and we need to provide assistance to the people left in South Lebanon.

00:16:53.140 But like I say, what has the UN done in the past 46 years?

00:16:56.960 Well, here's a BBC reporter on the ground right now giving his reports.

00:17:02.860 Take a look at this report.

00:17:04.480 We are now in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli military is showing to foreign journalists exactly what they've found since they invaded a couple of weeks ago.

00:17:14.680 And it is everything from weapons depots to tunnels, which is what we're seeing right here.

00:17:25.400 This tunnel was used as an observation post, but there are dozens of these just in this area where the IDF is currently operating.

00:17:32.500 And what they're also telling us is that it is probably a hundred meter from the UN compound that you see over here.

00:17:42.640 According to the Israeli military, they have a hard time believing that they had no idea that Hezbollah was digging 20 meter deep tunnels just 100 meter from them.

00:17:53.860 Something that might have taken years.

00:17:57.040 And these tunnels are also used to fire anti-tank missiles at villages just across the border.

00:18:03.460 They hide in these tunnels, use them as infrastructure, and then they attack Israeli sites.

00:18:09.860 Don't tell me that the UN didn't see every single day Hezbollah terrorists. 1.00

00:18:15.440 That's an observation point, and the terrorists were just a few hundred feet away.

00:18:19.460 Here's another video showing the same thing from a different angle.

00:18:23.860 The Israeli army has discovered countless underground tunnels, ammunition depots, bunkers along the border, really like it was in Gaza.

00:18:42.240 It was going to be a staging ground for a massive war, a terrorist war, a ground assault.

00:18:47.140 The only reason it wasn't launched is because Israel moved first in the way I described above.

00:18:51.520 But it all happened under the nose of the UN.

00:18:54.600 Of course it did.

00:18:56.620 But look at what the Irish president, Michael Higgins, said about it.

00:19:00.120 There's about 300 Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon, and they refused to move.

00:19:06.220 And Higgins, he's sort of proud of that.

00:19:09.540 Here's what he said.

00:19:10.500 It is outrageous that the Israeli defense forces have threatened this peacekeeping force

00:19:14.700 and sought to have them evacuate the villages they are defending.

00:19:19.980 Hang on.

00:19:21.780 Hang on a second there.

00:19:23.760 Did you just say that the peacekeepers are defending the Lebanese?

00:19:28.920 Are they?

00:19:29.440 It's not what their mandate said.

00:19:30.800 I read you the resolution.

00:19:33.320 Who does Higgins think they're defending the villages from?

00:19:37.260 From what?

00:19:37.980 From whom?

00:19:38.420 Hezbollah has occupied everything. 0.99

00:19:40.420 As you can see, they turned southern Lebanon into a terrorist base. 0.94

00:19:45.840 The UN didn't, hasn't, isn't defending the Lebanese people from any of that.

00:19:52.080 They didn't defend the Lebanese people from the civil war brought to it by the PLO,

00:19:56.540 and then later brought to it by Hezbollah and Iran.

00:19:59.200 By the way, I read it to you, the UN resolution that created UNIFIL.

00:20:02.420 UNIFIL, it doesn't empower the UN to actually defend anyone or anything.

00:20:06.440 So I'm not blaming the Irish troops, except maybe in some circumstances they're supposed 0.71

00:20:11.100 to defend themselves.

00:20:12.080 But that's a lie to say those troops were defending anyone.

00:20:16.820 The United Nations, in case you didn't realize, it is not neutral.

00:20:21.620 It's not just neutral.

00:20:24.060 It is morally on the side of terrorists.

00:20:27.140 But more than that, it calmly watched for 46 years as terrorists undermined Lebanon and

00:20:36.220 turned it into a terrorist base.

00:20:39.940 And now the UN is actively, deliberately getting in the way of Israel, rooting out those same 0.99

00:20:45.880 terrorists. 0.53

00:20:47.460 Astonishing.

00:20:49.060 Stay with us for more.

00:20:57.140 Who gets the money?

00:20:58.580 That's the type of lack of transparency that is absolutely unacceptable in this country.

00:21:04.660 And, you know, it's interesting.

00:21:06.800 I always wondered when, you know, before I came here to this place three years ago, you

00:21:12.520 know, people would talk about boards and people getting appointed to boards.

00:21:15.680 And you think, wow, they don't get paid much.

00:21:17.920 How do they make money?

00:21:18.780 And now you understand how under this NDP liberal government, how they've done that.

00:21:23.000 And what they have done is to pad the pockets of companies that they control.

00:21:31.340 Recently, our freedom-loving Rebel Live conference went off without a hitch in Calgary.

00:21:37.560 It was a lot of fun and really refreshing to hear from great speakers as they bounced off

00:21:42.480 ideas and perspectives about how to improve our great nation, including how to fix some

00:21:48.140 of the damage that's been caused to it from radical ideologies and agendas at play.

00:21:54.640 One of those speakers was medical doctor Stephen Ellis, who previously served our country well

00:22:00.820 with the Canadian Armed Forces and now serves as a Conservative MP who is also Canada's Shadow

00:22:06.960 Minister of Health.

00:22:08.580 Dr. Ellis gave an important and timely talk about what he calls Canada's safe supply foolishness.

00:22:15.540 47,000 Canadians have died due to drug overdose.

00:22:20.460 47,000.

00:22:23.000 And when you think about all of those souls, you know, one of the things that I often think

00:22:28.360 about is none of those folks were born and as they grew started to say, I wish that I could

00:22:38.920 be a drug addict when I grew up.

00:22:41.120 And none of them ever thought that little Sally or little Johnny always had a dream.

00:22:50.460 And as Alexandre mentioned, you know, I was a family doctor for a very, very long time

00:22:56.360 and had the opportunity to see children, you know, grow from birth all the way into their

00:23:02.580 adulthood.

00:23:02.960 And some of them have done very well, some of them not so well.

00:23:06.040 But I know that none of them ever came into my office and said, I wish I could grow up

00:23:10.440 to be addicted to drugs.

00:23:11.560 You can catch that in full as well as some of the other discussions while we roll them

00:23:15.980 out and support our journalism by subscribing to our exclusive content at rebelnewsplus.com.

00:23:22.860 But for now, I wanted to show you a quick interview I had with Dr. Ellis after his talk about what,

00:23:29.500 if anything, would be different for Canadians under a Conservative government when it comes

00:23:34.420 to transparency in public health, as the people slowly are recovering from years of government

00:23:40.600 overreach fueled by COVID hysteria.

00:23:43.660 You're getting a lot of momentum in your party.

00:23:46.200 I guess the first question is, what can Canadians expect under the Conservative government if you

00:23:51.320 are to form government, what would be the first course of action when it comes to public health?

00:23:57.000 That's interesting.

00:23:57.900 I was going to tell you that we're going to axe the tax, build the houses, fix the budget

00:24:01.520 and stop the crime.

00:24:02.480 Those are certainly the four things that we're absolutely seized with.

00:24:06.040 You know, from a health care perspective, one of the things that we've come to know very

00:24:09.620 easily is there's six and a half million Canadians who don't have access to primary care.

00:24:15.140 And when we begin to understand that, the system in Canada is really predicated on the fact

00:24:20.260 that through a family doctor is how you access everything, whether it be lab services,

00:24:25.880 x-ray services, or if you need them, specialist services.

00:24:29.380 And when Canadians don't have that access, then regardless of what people want to think

00:24:34.400 about a system, if you don't have access to a system, it's an absolutely terrible system.

00:24:38.620 So we have a program called the Blue Seal Program.

00:24:41.200 We know that there are probably at least 20,000 internationally trained physicians here in

00:24:47.560 this country who can't practice because of the difficulties accessing through the regulators.

00:24:53.340 And what we will do, and we've worked very hard on this the last two years, is to allow

00:24:57.720 people to have a practice-ready assessment program so that you're able then to very clearly

00:25:03.740 demonstrate the knowledge and skills that you've gained in your country of origin.

00:25:07.780 And then, of course, be able to work and serve Canadians.

00:25:12.520 So it's a win on both sides in the sense that not only does someone get to practice their

00:25:18.340 profession here, but they get to serve Canadians, which is incredibly important.

00:25:22.960 So you will see that come out as the Blue Seal Program in our platform.

00:25:27.420 Before 2020, it was common for most Canadians to not even know their public health officials' names.

00:25:33.460 And then we saw those names be household names.

00:25:37.280 There were orders given that many Canadians believe were coercive in nature and divisive.

00:25:44.000 So how is your party going to rectify that?

00:25:47.000 What would they do to rebuild trust in public health?

00:25:50.380 I think the main things are looking at what Premier Smith said earlier this morning.

00:25:55.360 That's really inside the purview of what provincial governments will do as a response to public

00:26:00.720 health emergencies.

00:26:01.540 During COVID, I know that there were a lot of private individuals from private companies

00:26:06.260 who also lost their jobs, but it was government who set the stage.

00:26:10.280 It was government who was enforcing that.

00:26:12.320 And so we've then said, government's not going to do that in the future.

00:26:15.900 We're going to respect rights.

00:26:17.200 Anything that we do has to be done through that lens.

00:26:19.820 And I hope that we'll have an impact on how private sector operators enact their policies.

00:26:26.040 And if it doesn't, if we have to do more, then we can do more.

00:26:28.900 But I think it's an important first step and we'll see.

00:26:31.120 What we're hoping to do is send a signal to the court that these things matter, that if

00:26:35.520 we end up in a dispute, that they've got to consider whether or not government was reasonable

00:26:41.040 and whether or not government put a lens on it of protecting individual rights.

00:26:45.880 And we know that part of what we've talked about as Canada's Conservatives is that message of freedom

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00:27:46.860 Well, we did see changes made in the name of health federally, for example, with not being

00:27:52.300 able to fly, mobility rights and things like that.

00:27:54.760 So is there anything that you want to comment about in that area?

00:27:58.240 I think when we begin to reflect on those things, you'll see those come out more fully

00:28:03.900 in the platform in a more general sense of what we believe to be in line with the Charter

00:28:09.860 of Rights and Freedoms in Canada.

00:28:11.680 And, you know, as I said originally, the things that I've been tasked with personally is to

00:28:15.440 look very clearly at the health care system and say, how do we affect change there?

00:28:21.120 I think the questions you're asking, at least from my perspective, are more existential in

00:28:26.260 nature to say, how would a Pierre Polyev government approach this thing?

00:28:30.280 And, you know, I would say those questions are more better directed at Pierre Polyev than

00:28:35.440 they are at someone who's the conservative health critic.

00:28:39.660 Okay.

00:28:40.940 There's other questions that our viewers that would probably want to hear.

00:28:44.580 And one is transparency when it comes to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

00:28:49.680 For example, 85%, roughly around that number of the funding, comes from Big Pharma.

00:28:55.360 And when it comes to the studies that they're putting out for the public, those studies are

00:28:59.920 taken by trust from Big Pharma instead of being done independently.

00:29:03.580 Is there something the federal government will be doing to help there, maybe using more tax

00:29:08.500 funded funds to make that agency more independent?

00:29:12.620 I think when you begin to look at the terrible state of affairs that exists now.

00:29:16.900 So I was able to give a speech on the SDTC scandal that's in front of Parliament right now,

00:29:22.920 in understanding that what has happened in the last nine years is that the Trudeau Liberals,

00:29:30.560 in concert with the NDP, have appointed their friends to give out vast amounts of money in

00:29:37.400 this country.

00:29:38.020 So in this particular scandal, we've now found out that almost $400 million has actually been

00:29:44.580 given to friends and companies that are run by people who make the decision of who gets the

00:29:51.760 money. That's the type of lack of transparency that is absolutely unacceptable in this country.

00:29:58.640 And, you know, it's interesting.

00:30:00.760 I always wondered when, you know, before I came here to this place three years ago, you

00:30:06.480 know, people would talk about boards and people getting appointed to boards and you think,

00:30:10.380 wow, they don't get paid much.

00:30:11.900 How do they make money?

00:30:12.760 And now you understand how under this NDP Liberal government, how they've done that.

00:30:16.980 And what they have done is to pad the pockets of companies that they control, thereby increasing

00:30:23.420 their wealth.

00:30:24.060 For instance, you know, Stephen Guibault was a lobbyist before he came to his current position

00:30:30.220 as a minister of environment.

00:30:32.280 And he lobbied the federal government 25 times in the year before he was elected for a company

00:30:38.260 called Cycle Capital.

00:30:39.920 Cycle Capital, in which he still owns shares, received funding from SDTC.

00:30:45.680 And he refuses to tell how much his shares are worth and how many shares he owns.

00:30:51.340 So when you begin to look at the scandals and the lack of transparency that exists at the

00:30:56.080 current time, that is something that obviously Canadians don't want.

00:30:59.780 It's an intolerable position and something that Canada's Conservatives will not tolerate.

00:31:05.160 Today, you gave a talk about a very important crisis across Canada, especially from where I

00:31:11.060 reported in British Columbia, which is our opioid crisis.

00:31:14.720 And the leader, Pierre Polyev, has called things like safe injecting sites drug dents.

00:31:20.680 He's gotten a lot of support for that type of language and a lot of pushback.

00:31:24.860 What will be the answer to going a different approach from the federal government in that area?

00:31:30.960 Well, what we know is that so-called safe supply is not safe.

00:31:35.020 We know that it's a palliative care approach to the treatment of addictions in the sense

00:31:39.280 that when all we do is give people the drugs that they are seeking out, their cases become

00:31:45.660 worse and worse and worse.

00:31:46.700 They're not being offered any treatment.

00:31:48.700 And, you know, sadly, I spoke to many people here today, in particular one gentleman whose

00:31:53.540 daughter is suffering with an addiction to meth.

00:31:57.620 And when you understand the plight of those parents to say, oh, here's my daughter.

00:32:04.620 And what resonated with this gentleman was the fact that not any Canadian was born or anybody

00:32:11.500 was born to say, I would like to grow up to be a drug addict.

00:32:15.100 His daughter was a straight-A student.

00:32:17.520 And now here she is living on the streets here in Calgary, calling her dad innumerable times

00:32:23.100 that he comes from Edmonton to meet her.

00:32:25.040 And the next thing we know from his own words that she's not answering his calls.

00:32:30.160 It's a terrible affliction.

00:32:32.100 And clearly we know that we need to focus on prevention.

00:32:35.560 We need to focus on disruption in terms of working with law enforcement, making sure that

00:32:40.920 they have the right tools to do their job.

00:32:42.900 And we also need to focus on rehabilitation.

00:32:45.500 Rehabilitation is a very complicated topic in the sense that folks have been separated from

00:32:52.640 their jobs and from their families, from other loved ones.

00:32:55.800 And to aid them in that recovering of the life and the hope and the aspirations that they

00:33:00.740 had that I spoke about originally, that needs to be the focus of what we're doing here in Canada.

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