Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Best of The Ezra Levant Show in 2025

00:00:00.320 Tonight, the best of 2025. You're watching The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:05.180 We're fighting for freedom!

00:00:08.020 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:00:19.780 Mr. Fink, are you going to follow Donald Trump's plan and get rid of DEI and ESG in your companies?

00:00:25.940 BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways.

00:00:33.020 You're authoritarian, you're anti-populist, you're top-down.

00:00:37.320 Are you going to change it all in light of the U.S. presidency?

00:00:42.700 How has Donald Trump, have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected?

00:00:49.180 Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump?

00:00:55.940 Why are you running away from simple questions?

00:00:59.040 Just answer a question. Have you talked to President Trump yet?

00:01:02.380 Why are your bodyguards pushing away journalists, Mr. Fink?

00:01:06.300 They're simple questions. Is it that hard to answer a question that you need bodyguards?

00:01:11.200 Which makes more money for you, war in Ukraine or peace in Ukraine?

00:01:14.860 Ezra LeVant's my name, Mr. Fink.

00:01:17.580 Did you just take a photo of you?

00:01:19.640 Am I supposed to be scared? Is that a threat, Mr. Fink?

00:01:22.080 Are you used to bullying your way through life?

00:01:28.340 Don't push me.

00:01:29.500 When was the last time you answered a question that you didn't know was coming?

00:01:34.740 Why are you so unaccountable?

00:01:37.640 Isn't that what you love about the World Economic Forum?

00:01:40.400 You control everything.

00:01:44.040 Why do you think you deserve so much power?

00:01:46.340 Which of your former directors do you want to run Canada?

00:01:53.400 Mark Carney or Chrystia Freeland?

00:01:57.720 Hey, don't push me, bro.

00:02:01.300 What?

00:02:02.480 What are you getting violent for, man?

00:02:05.360 What's with taking photos of journalists who ask you prickly questions?

00:02:09.800 Who's more powerful, you or President Trump?

00:02:12.340 Why do you think you're so disliked around the world?

00:02:23.980 Why are so many U.S. states divesting from your ESG schemes?

00:02:30.260 Why are you putting your ideology ahead of your investors with ESG, Mr. Fink?

00:02:35.320 Isn't that being disloyal to shareholders?

00:02:40.180 Putting your ideology ahead of rate of return?

00:02:43.760 Why do you think you're above accountability?

00:02:46.440 Is it because you're rich?

00:02:47.600 I just feel like walking with him now because his big scary bodyguards.

00:03:00.140 And I don't know, Ezra, I just want to make it clear I will not kill myself.

00:03:05.600 I have no suicidal thoughts either.

00:03:07.700 Mr. Fink's taking pictures of me and Abiyamini.

00:03:10.860 I think that's meant to intimidate.

00:03:12.200 It's a little weird, though.

00:03:13.460 It feels a little thin-skinned.

00:03:14.940 Do you think you're above questions?

00:03:20.440 Like, why don't you even answer?

00:03:22.020 Surely you have the answers.

00:03:26.960 Why do you think BlackRock has become so hated, one of the world's most reviled brands?

00:03:32.800 Do you take any responsibility for that?

00:03:34.640 I think the epitome of what's going on.

00:03:40.720 And what I mean by that is, if a mum, and I presume your grandma, feels that it's time to take to the streets, which I'm just going to guess.

00:03:49.600 I'm guessing you're not a regular protest-goer.

00:03:53.180 It's just a guess.

00:03:54.200 No, no, no.

00:03:55.080 So the fact that you feel compelled to do this tells me that the UK, that things have gotten serious and things are different now.

00:04:01.900 You know, they're robbing things all out the shops in Epping.

00:04:05.000 You don't feel safe.

00:04:06.200 Like, people have got a lovely market on a Monday.

00:04:08.620 They come down the market.

00:04:10.180 And it's just, it's just not.

00:04:11.780 One of them was charged with sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

00:04:14.560 Do you need more evidence than that?

00:04:15.760 So has the American president.

00:04:18.740 And is he, is he behind bars?

00:04:21.180 I would like to ask the people who are on the other side of the fence why they're here supporting people like this, when predominantly they're women as well.

00:04:29.580 And their culture doesn't belong here.

00:04:31.680 It's not about being racist or far right.

00:04:34.440 I am far from racist.

00:04:35.720 This is about a whole nother level of women feeling safe here to go out during the day, not just the night, and just be able to do that rather than concerned about who is lurking around the next corner.

00:04:56.300 We won't stop until they've gone, literally.

00:04:59.500 There's a mountain of a man back there.

00:05:01.520 He asked me to move.

00:05:02.600 I don't think he gets told the word no too often.

00:05:05.720 There are some residents here who have popped out to see all the excitement.

00:05:12.200 And I've had a bit of a chat with some of them.

00:05:15.960 People even who don't show up at the protests today have expressed their opposition to a migrant hotel right in the heart of their community, right near their schools.

00:05:25.180 As I mentioned, in addition to actual sexual crimes, like the rape of the 14-year-old girl, there have just been creepiness, like migrant men hanging out at playgrounds taking photographs of young children.

00:05:37.100 And in that case, the police said, well, what is there that we can do?

00:05:40.120 Hi, everybody.

00:05:42.500 I'm in the kettling area for the group that has come in from London.

00:05:47.160 And there's hundreds of them.

00:05:49.660 I don't know how many, but it's several hundred.

00:05:52.840 If you told me there were 500 people here, I'd believe you.

00:05:55.620 It rivals, in numbers, the people we've seen outside.

00:05:59.140 But quite soon after I arrived here, the Antifa marshals came to block our camera.

00:06:05.480 You can see this bloke in front of me here.

00:06:07.840 And even right now, he's trying to block the camera shot.

00:06:11.580 It may be easier if you stepped out there to do your thing, because I think...

00:06:15.520 That's what I was trying to do, but then...

00:06:17.580 He might obstruct you, that's all.

00:06:19.080 Yeah.

00:06:19.460 Yeah, so that's all.

00:06:20.320 It's entirely up to you, but I don't think he's going to stop doing what he's doing unless you...

00:06:24.240 That's part of the story in a way, isn't it?

00:06:27.260 Thanks for coming over.

00:06:28.300 I appreciate that.

00:06:29.080 So, what's interesting is that the Antifa side, the pro-Hamas side, the anti-Semitic side,

00:06:36.760 they have what they call marshals.

00:06:39.680 And it just goes to the professional activism of the other side.

00:06:46.420 What we saw earlier today on the Epping side was grassroots.

00:06:51.480 It was ordinary people from Epping.

00:06:54.660 And there was no particular organizer.

00:07:00.380 There was nothing being funded.

00:07:01.940 It was all authentic.

00:07:03.420 Here you have real Antifa activists.

00:07:10.220 If we're going to start implementing rules, the security badge needs to be on display.

00:07:14.440 This is for my safety.

00:07:15.600 This is not your business.

00:07:16.500 It can't be security, then.

00:07:17.120 This is for my safety.

00:07:18.340 Yeah, but it can't be security, then.

00:07:19.020 This is for my safety.

00:07:20.120 It's not your business.

00:07:20.860 It's a galore.

00:07:21.400 He's trying to stop this.

00:07:22.420 So, that guy seems to know you.

00:07:25.100 Who are you?

00:07:25.540 Are you famous?

00:07:28.640 What did the cops say?

00:07:29.760 I don't talk to the Jews.

00:07:31.160 You don't talk to the Jews?

00:07:32.240 Yeah.

00:07:32.860 Well, most of our viewers are non-Jewish.

00:07:35.120 Well, you are.

00:07:36.260 So, I don't talk to Jews.

00:07:37.660 Okay.

00:07:37.940 Well, talk through me to my Christian viewers.

00:07:39.780 No, I'm not talking to Jews.

00:07:42.240 Well, I think that's a very rude thing to say.

00:07:44.720 Well, I'm not concerned as to whether it's a rude thing to say.

00:07:47.800 I think it's unchristian, actually.

00:07:49.440 Well, this is absolutely ridiculous that it's unchristian.

00:07:53.880 Well, I came to you just to ask you.

00:07:55.880 You crucified our Lord Jesus Christ.

00:07:57.720 I wasn't there, brother.

00:07:58.740 And then you're telling me, his blood be upon us and upon our children.

00:08:04.000 Read that.

00:08:04.900 I think you're a discredit to this movement.

00:08:06.700 I think.

00:08:07.380 No, I think you're a Jew, and I think you should go away.

00:08:09.860 I think you.

00:08:10.520 I think you're a Jew, and I think you should go away.

00:08:12.040 I think you're MI6 sent here to undermine the credibility of this.

00:08:15.720 You know what?

00:08:22.060 You're so disreputable that I think that your net effect is to discredit the anti-immigration movement.

00:08:27.260 I think the reason that you should go away is because you're a Jew.

00:08:30.880 Like, that's so extreme.

00:08:32.160 I think you should go away.

00:08:33.160 What's your name?

00:08:33.840 It's not at all extreme.

00:08:35.140 What's your name?

00:08:36.000 Justin Barrett.

00:08:37.240 Well, Justin Barrett, I think you're an embarrassment to Ireland.

00:08:39.800 No, I don't give a damn what Jews think of me.

00:08:44.380 You're shaking.

00:08:45.400 Your face is shaking.

00:08:46.520 You look very stressed right now.

00:08:47.680 No, I know.

00:08:48.500 Well, I don't like being around Jews.

00:08:50.640 I mean, this is a bad feeling.

00:08:52.680 Well, you know, I'm very sorry that you're so hateful, and I'm worried that...

00:08:59.240 I didn't say I hated you.

00:09:00.440 I said I don't like being around you.

00:09:02.140 You're a Jew.

00:09:02.480 Well, that's the same thing.

00:09:03.500 Please go away, Jew.

00:09:04.600 You know, I'm not going to do that.

00:09:05.980 Go be Jewish somewhere else.

00:09:07.420 You know, I'm being a friend of the Irish.

00:09:10.440 Go and be Jewish somewhere.

00:09:11.460 And you're a black mark on the Irish.

00:09:13.360 Jews have never been a friend to anybody except other Jews.

00:09:16.520 I think you've got some short man issues going on here.

00:09:19.460 Jews have never been a friend...

00:09:21.700 I'm more respectable.

00:09:23.300 Okay?

00:09:24.400 That's an Irish man now you're talking to.

00:09:26.540 Don't fucking talk to him that way.

00:09:28.580 In which way?

00:09:30.360 In what offended you?

00:09:32.620 You're fucking trying to upset him.

00:09:35.780 You're trying to be legaled.

00:09:37.060 The opposite.

00:09:38.040 I wanted to find out what the cops...

00:09:40.220 He said a bunch of outrageous things.

00:09:42.580 What was outrageous?

00:09:43.760 You're anti-Semitic.

00:09:45.140 Out of nowhere.

00:09:46.180 I just came here to talk...

00:09:47.160 I'm not anti-Semitic out of nowhere.

00:09:49.040 Oh my God, you're...

00:09:49.560 2,000 years of evidence.

00:09:51.520 You're shaking me.

00:09:52.560 You're shaking.

00:09:53.260 2,000 years of evidence.

00:09:54.040 All five foot nothing of you is shaking like a leaf.

00:09:56.500 I'm not.

00:09:57.120 Don't be so disrespectful.

00:09:58.600 I'm not.

00:09:58.980 You know, the guy just...

00:10:00.100 The guy was smearing me in a racist tone.

00:10:03.320 It's just out of control.

00:10:04.460 Okay.

00:10:04.900 I think you guys are little wannabe brown shirts.

00:10:08.660 No, you're...

00:10:09.140 You just want to be brown shirts.

00:10:10.740 I have no problem with wearing a brown shirt.

00:10:12.360 Absolutely not.

00:10:13.460 Well, you're a disgrace.

00:10:14.320 Nothing wrong with National Socialism.

00:10:16.200 Oh my God.

00:10:16.880 National Socialism knew how to deal with people like you.

00:10:19.680 You know what?

00:10:20.140 You've got to be a Fed.

00:10:21.380 You've got to be with the black and tan.

00:10:22.840 Oh, it's always...

00:10:23.560 You're MI6.

00:10:24.720 Fed, Fed, Fed.

00:10:25.860 You're an MI6.

00:10:26.960 Fed, Fed, Fed, Jackie.

00:10:28.680 Jew.

00:10:29.080 Jew.

00:10:29.960 Go away, Jew.

00:10:31.000 It's like your own ear.

00:10:32.020 Go be Jewish somewhere.

00:10:33.140 No, it's so over the top.

00:10:35.480 It's so disreputable.

00:10:37.480 It's got to be...

00:10:38.940 This is about immigration, not Jews.

00:10:45.060 Irish people can't get homes.

00:10:46.540 They can't get hostel beds.

00:10:47.840 This has to come to an end.

00:10:49.420 Nationalism is not racism.

00:10:51.240 Hilda's Island Belante.

00:10:53.560 This government doesn't care for our own people.

00:10:57.300 They care for the other people.

00:10:58.660 You need to look after the Irish people first.

00:11:00.680 Irish streets!

00:11:02.300 Irish streets!

00:11:03.200 Wouldn't you know it, there it is.

00:11:05.460 There's a hammer and sickle flag.

00:11:07.260 There's a rebel on.

00:11:08.180 They don't have a lot of Irish flags.

00:11:10.400 The government here, like many Russian governments,

00:11:12.840 only speak to...

00:11:13.880 Only listen to the NGOs.

00:11:16.300 Bring Ireland back to the way it is, man.

00:11:17.700 Because we're losing our culture or our history.

00:11:19.140 There's nothing here for me.

00:11:19.980 Who's the name?

00:11:20.860 Irish streets!

00:11:21.760 Who's the name?

00:11:22.620 Irish streets!

00:11:23.300 I don't know if you can hear me over the noise of the crowd.

00:11:27.760 I am standing in the heart of Dublin.

00:11:30.060 We're literally right at the front,

00:11:32.120 where in a number of minutes,

00:11:35.260 a variety of speakers will address the crowd.

00:11:39.100 People are struggling with the bills,

00:11:41.180 the rents, the mortgages.

00:11:43.300 People can't get boy in this country anymore.

00:11:45.620 And we've had enough of it.

00:11:47.640 And the people in Leicester House are just not listening.

00:11:50.620 What's our vision for Ireland?

00:11:52.640 It's an Ireland be born,

00:11:54.340 an Ireland united,

00:11:55.380 and an Ireland that is free.

00:11:56.680 So, Tommy,

00:12:00.480 you're not coming out of the court.

00:12:01.640 What has happened?

00:12:02.640 Only accredited journalists,

00:12:04.600 when they say accredited,

00:12:06.180 only government-supported journalists

00:12:08.340 were allowed to report on the second half of the trial,

00:12:10.820 which means no one, I guess, out here,

00:12:12.320 because you're not going to hear it from the mainstream media,

00:12:14.320 because I've looked through the mainstream media

00:12:15.480 who's reporting on the case this morning.

00:12:16.900 It's insane.

00:12:17.940 It's fucking insane.

00:12:18.960 You're lying.

00:12:19.420 All the unlawful stuff they've done,

00:12:21.380 all the illegal stuff they've done,

00:12:22.640 and not one part of it has been reported on.

00:12:24.260 It's mad,

00:12:25.120 which is the need for people like Ezra

00:12:26.640 and other people who have flown over from Canada

00:12:28.700 to come and report on this.

00:12:30.080 Unfortunately, he's been gagged today

00:12:31.940 from when we went back in.

00:12:34.120 No one else other than the government-controlled,

00:12:36.780 which, what is that?

00:12:37.220 That's communism, though.

00:12:38.540 Only government-controlled media

00:12:40.060 are allowed to report on what's going on inside the courtroom.

00:12:42.540 And it's meant to be about fair and open justice

00:12:44.000 for people to understand.

00:12:45.200 The reason why we need citizen journalists

00:12:46.540 is because these fucking frauds don't report.

00:12:48.900 We've seen that by the reporting this morning.

00:12:50.820 We've seen that.

00:12:51.860 An officer has accepted this afternoon,

00:12:54.440 which you wouldn't have heard,

00:12:55.620 that he held me unlawfully

00:12:56.920 because he was supposed to have done certain things

00:12:59.560 that he didn't do.

00:13:00.820 And then there was three different things

00:13:02.800 that he was lawfully had to do

00:13:04.460 that he didn't do

00:13:05.840 in order to detain me under terrorism act.

00:13:08.540 It's not like we're stopping you

00:13:10.480 for a quick check in your car.

00:13:11.960 We're nicking you for terrorism.

00:13:13.820 We're using terrorism legislation

00:13:15.440 to detain you

00:13:16.780 and pump around the whole world

00:13:18.580 that you're being charged under the terrorism act.

00:13:20.700 You better make sure your shit's in order.

00:13:22.440 And none of it's in order.

00:13:23.760 The reason for detaining me wasn't in order.

00:13:25.600 They just made up as they went along.

00:13:27.060 What we then found out is

00:13:28.380 they made up stuff today

00:13:30.180 that's not in their statements.

00:13:31.820 Do you know how many times

00:13:32.440 we've asked them for disclosure

00:13:33.540 and they've refused it?

00:13:35.280 So we've gone back saying,

00:13:36.200 what did you do for an hour and a half?

00:13:37.860 Because they detained me,

00:13:38.980 there was a 40 minute gap,

00:13:40.160 then there's another hour and a half gap.

00:13:41.960 What were you doing in that time?

00:13:43.660 From stopping me originally,

00:13:44.880 what was going on?

00:13:45.660 We know what was going on.

00:13:46.540 It was going up the ladder to the top.

00:13:48.360 Yeah?

00:13:48.640 And they were making decisions.

00:13:50.040 But they didn't make any notice.

00:13:52.220 And even though we asked them,

00:13:53.260 what were you doing?

00:13:53.920 They refused to answer.

00:13:55.160 And then today,

00:13:56.120 we were taking information

00:13:57.600 from other organisations.

00:13:59.920 Well, we've asked you that multiple times.

00:14:01.460 You have to give us disclosure.

00:14:03.000 Which they haven't given.

00:14:04.160 They didn't give.

00:14:04.960 So now there's been another application

00:14:06.840 to make the judge aware.

00:14:08.320 We've asked all this information.

00:14:09.720 Then they've brought shit up today in court

00:14:11.160 where there's no evidence of it.

00:14:12.720 There's no paperwork trial.

00:14:14.160 There's no email trial.

00:14:15.380 There's nothing.

00:14:16.480 And then he started making up.

00:14:17.600 Do you know what his reason was?

00:14:18.360 Islamophobia.

00:14:20.240 Islamophobia.

00:14:21.160 What even is Islamophobia?

00:14:23.560 They're taking it from

00:14:24.180 the Labour government's Islamophobia bill.

00:14:25.780 You talk about Islam,

00:14:26.520 we're going to nip you under terrorism.

00:14:27.860 That's it.

00:14:28.900 Hello.

00:14:30.400 Hello and welcome

00:14:31.440 to the hundreds of thousands of you

00:14:34.640 stretching for miles

00:14:36.240 in this great city.

00:14:38.120 And hello to the millions more

00:14:39.860 watching online

00:14:41.280 around the world.

00:14:44.060 That's part of the story, isn't it?

00:14:46.940 The establishment media,

00:14:48.440 the regime media,

00:14:49.380 the legacy media,

00:14:50.800 the government media.

00:14:52.460 They haven't mentioned this rally.

00:14:54.460 They want to pretend

00:14:55.600 it doesn't even exist.

00:14:57.060 Well, it exists.

00:14:58.460 You exist.

00:14:59.580 Even if the media party

00:15:01.260 pretends you don't.

00:15:03.000 And if the only source of news

00:15:05.820 we had was the regime media,

00:15:08.320 that would be a problem.

00:15:09.480 But across the United Kingdom

00:15:11.040 and in my country of Canada

00:15:13.020 and around the world,

00:15:14.640 a new generation of citizen journalists

00:15:17.340 is arising

00:15:18.440 to tell the other side of the story.

00:15:21.480 Whether it's the Canadian truckers

00:15:23.920 or the Dutch farmers

00:15:25.800 or now the mothers and grandmothers

00:15:28.560 protesting outside Britain's

00:15:30.760 dangerous migrant hotels.

00:15:33.820 Just as establishment politicians

00:15:36.620 have failed to loyally serve the people,

00:15:40.720 establishment journalists

00:15:42.360 have failed to honestly tell us

00:15:44.940 about our world.

00:15:46.200 But here's the good news.

00:15:48.100 Each of you can be a journalist.

00:15:50.760 If you have a cell phone

00:15:52.760 with a video camera,

00:15:54.320 you can be a journalist.

00:15:56.160 If you have an X account,

00:15:57.540 you can be a journalist.

00:15:59.240 To fill in the blanks

00:16:01.040 left by the media party.

00:16:03.080 Our host today,

00:16:04.400 Tommy Robinson,

00:16:05.620 is in fact

00:16:06.560 Britain's leading journalist.

00:16:09.460 And the response from the regime

00:16:11.080 to simply call everyone a racist,

00:16:13.460 it just doesn't seem to work anymore,

00:16:15.440 does it?

00:16:16.040 And more people will watch

00:16:18.900 this rally online

00:16:21.000 than watch all of the official

00:16:23.120 TV news stations

00:16:24.540 and newspapers in the UK combined.

00:16:28.960 It's not easy being a dissident

00:16:30.940 these days, though.

00:16:32.460 Police will find a way to arrest you.

00:16:35.340 Even just for a post on social media,

00:16:37.620 30 people a day across the UK

00:16:39.700 are arrested for mean tweets.

00:16:42.400 Some of them,

00:16:42.920 like the mother Lucy Connolly,

00:16:44.440 are sent to prison

00:16:45.860 for their words.

00:16:47.840 This in the country

00:16:49.100 that gave us the Magna Carta

00:16:51.000 and set the standard

00:16:52.600 for free speech.

00:16:54.000 That's why there are so many people

00:16:55.580 around the world watching.

00:16:56.960 Because we're worried

00:16:58.020 about Great Britain.

00:16:59.420 We love you.

00:17:00.860 You're the place that taught us

00:17:02.600 about responsible government

00:17:04.200 and freedom.

00:17:05.460 And you're losing both

00:17:06.660 and it's painful to watch.

00:17:09.080 The British people

00:17:10.320 are slow to anger.

00:17:12.420 They're polite.

00:17:13.080 They believe in keeping calm

00:17:14.600 and carrying on.

00:17:15.760 They believe in a stiff upper lip.

00:17:17.900 As Kipling said in his poem

00:17:19.400 The Beginnings,

00:17:20.740 hating is not in the blood

00:17:23.200 of the English,

00:17:24.400 but even the English

00:17:25.780 have had enough.

00:17:27.860 Some people want to ban

00:17:29.140 Tommy Robinson

00:17:29.880 to silence him,

00:17:31.240 to jail him,

00:17:32.080 perhaps even worse.

00:17:33.780 I don't think he can get

00:17:34.900 a fair trial anymore

00:17:36.020 in the UK courts.

00:17:37.480 He's become the official scapegoat,

00:17:39.880 the official enemy of the state.

00:17:42.360 And yet he keeps going,

00:17:45.400 warning his fellow countrymen.

00:17:48.180 The best time to have heeded

00:17:50.100 Tommy's warnings was 15 years ago.

00:17:53.480 But the second best time

00:17:55.180 is right now.

00:17:56.660 And I think that's actually happening.

00:17:59.280 Mainstream politicians and journalists

00:18:01.400 are now talking about stopping immigration

00:18:03.900 and even mass deportations

00:18:05.960 and re-migration.

00:18:07.440 Politicians who used to support censorship

00:18:10.860 like the Online Safety Act

00:18:12.920 are now talking about freedom.

00:18:15.020 They now carefully and modestly

00:18:17.220 support the things

00:18:18.280 they used to condemn

00:18:20.120 when Tommy Robinson said them.

00:18:22.440 And we noticed that.

00:18:24.400 Tommy was just ahead of his time.

00:18:27.320 That is my hope today.

00:18:29.400 That the ideas that were censored,

00:18:31.600 the debates that were forbidden,

00:18:32.700 the news that was covered up,

00:18:34.620 the marginalization of patriotic citizens,

00:18:37.720 the bizarre preference for foreign people

00:18:40.400 and foreign ideas over national ideas.

00:18:44.140 My hope is that era finally comes to an end.

00:18:47.100 And when the British people look back,

00:18:51.060 when you take back your country,

00:18:52.880 you will be able to say,

00:18:54.700 you were there.

00:18:55.700 You were there at a turning point.

00:18:57.660 You were there when the people decided,

00:19:00.280 in their millions,

00:19:02.180 to no longer be afraid

00:19:04.300 to love their country.

00:19:06.820 Good luck.

00:19:08.380 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:19:10.800 Freedom.

00:19:11.120 There's ideological reasons

00:19:18.540 or practical reasons

00:19:19.920 or political reasons for that,

00:19:22.160 not just personal ambition

00:19:24.000 and frustration and greed.

00:19:26.340 And that's what Chris Dantremont did.

00:19:28.380 We're here in Yarmouth

00:19:29.820 trying to find the guy.

00:19:31.220 And right over there in Lovett Plaza

00:19:33.300 is his office.

00:19:35.820 Let's go in and see if he's there.

00:19:38.560 I have a hunch

00:19:39.500 he's not going to talk to us,

00:19:41.320 but we may as well try.

00:19:42.640 Let's go take a look.

00:19:54.740 Chris Dantremont,

00:19:55.740 Member of Parliament for West Nova.

00:19:59.800 And here's the sign taped to the door.

00:20:03.320 Office hours,

00:20:04.580 Monday to Thursday, 10 to 4.

00:20:06.060 Please note,

00:20:06.960 in-person service

00:20:09.000 is available by appointment only.

00:20:12.620 And it's completely locked.

00:20:15.020 He's hiding from his own people.

00:20:17.820 I don't blame him.

00:20:23.640 All right, well, I'm filming.

00:20:26.700 Hi, I'm Andrew LeVant.

00:20:28.340 How are you?

00:20:29.140 Good.

00:20:29.680 How are you?

00:20:30.400 I'm great.

00:20:31.260 I was just looking at the sign.

00:20:32.600 It says it's closed

00:20:33.420 with no appointment.

00:20:34.360 Is Mr. Dantremont not doing any...

00:20:37.480 He's not here.

00:20:38.240 Is he in Ottawa?

00:20:39.260 Yes.

00:20:39.800 How's it been these last couple weeks?

00:20:41.940 He's working at the sign.

00:20:42.900 Yeah.

00:20:43.640 What do people say?

00:20:45.900 Well, it's going to go to media.

00:20:47.560 You can see what he wants.

00:20:48.680 Is it tough?

00:20:49.580 Is it a little...

00:20:50.300 It's tough?

00:20:50.940 I'm sorry to hear that.

00:20:53.060 How would you say it's going?

00:20:54.600 Like about 50-50?

00:20:56.360 Oh, I think she ran away.

00:21:03.140 And she closed the door.

00:21:07.140 I think I scared her off.

00:21:13.880 Huh.

00:21:14.780 She seemed pretty friendly, though.

00:21:18.260 That's that Nova Scotia way.

00:21:19.760 Well, as you can see,

00:21:21.940 I went in to see Chris Dantremont.

00:21:23.960 The office was locked

00:21:25.400 and there was a sign saying,

00:21:26.860 by appointment only.

00:21:27.880 I had a brief but friendly chat

00:21:30.020 with the lady in there

00:21:31.100 who says it's been a hassle.

00:21:33.580 Look, obviously,

00:21:34.520 I don't blame the staff

00:21:36.980 for the decision

00:21:37.780 obviously done by the boss.

00:21:39.920 I'm sure that Chris Dantremont

00:21:41.620 did not consult anybody

00:21:43.500 other than maybe his close family

00:21:45.580 and his investment manager.

00:21:48.640 There's no way

00:21:49.300 he would have talked

00:21:50.000 to the local people here.

00:21:51.440 They voted for him

00:21:52.380 several times as a conservative.

00:21:54.340 Have you heard

00:21:54.760 that the local MP for these parts,

00:21:56.420 Chris Dantremont,

00:21:57.200 switched from conservative to liberal?

00:21:59.480 Yeah, he did.

00:22:00.300 And what do you make of that?

00:22:01.840 What, a coward?

00:22:02.920 I don't know.

00:22:03.840 Like, how do you switch sides

00:22:05.360 that easily and that quickly?

00:22:07.960 I don't know.

00:22:08.360 It doesn't make sense to me,

00:22:09.320 especially when the vote

00:22:10.060 was so close here,

00:22:11.040 but now the entire province

00:22:12.220 is pretty much liberal.

00:22:13.440 So, I don't know.

00:22:14.360 I think it was a coward,

00:22:15.280 weak move.

00:22:16.600 It just doesn't seem sensible to me.

00:22:18.640 I think that he already

00:22:20.700 had that in mind.

00:22:21.900 So, for the people

00:22:22.820 that were supporting him,

00:22:25.240 then I don't think

00:22:26.600 that was right.

00:22:27.340 No.

00:22:28.320 Is it true

00:22:29.360 that 88-year-old

00:22:31.080 Leslie Commons

00:22:32.080 of Belgravia Road

00:22:34.180 and the Isle of Man,

00:22:35.600 fellow whose home

00:22:36.300 we're going to right now,

00:22:37.840 is it true

00:22:38.560 that he is the boss

00:22:40.380 of Brookfield IOM?

00:22:42.340 Can that really be true?

00:22:43.960 Or is this just

00:22:44.900 a legal fiction

00:22:45.820 set up by Mark Carney

00:22:47.520 and his tricky lawyers

00:22:48.460 to avoid paying taxes

00:22:50.700 in Canada?

00:22:52.080 You'll remember

00:22:52.820 this was around the time

00:22:53.860 that Mark Carney

00:22:54.600 voted to move

00:22:56.000 the headquarters

00:22:56.680 of Brookfield

00:22:57.920 out of Canada

00:22:58.900 to the United States,

00:23:00.180 again,

00:23:01.000 for tax reasons.

00:23:02.260 Let's find out.

00:23:03.220 And by the way,

00:23:03.720 I'm going to be super friendly

00:23:04.640 to Mr. Commons

00:23:05.340 because my guess

00:23:06.540 is he's just a fella

00:23:07.540 who earns some pocket money

00:23:09.260 by being a straw man

00:23:10.800 placeholder

00:23:11.400 in Mark Carney's filings.

00:23:13.300 It's Mark Carney

00:23:14.020 and the lawyers

00:23:14.680 who crafted all this.

00:23:16.400 They just needed

00:23:17.180 some guy

00:23:18.480 and they found

00:23:19.560 88-year-old Mr. Commons.

00:23:21.080 Let's see if we can find him.

00:23:22.700 Well, we found it.

00:23:23.820 Planes, trains,

00:23:24.720 and automobiles

00:23:25.280 half a continent away.

00:23:26.640 We found the head office

00:23:28.780 for Brookfield IOM,

00:23:30.980 Brookfield Isle of Man.

00:23:32.720 It's a foreign shell company

00:23:34.640 set up by Mark Carney

00:23:36.420 two and a half years ago

00:23:38.120 when he was the chairman

00:23:39.140 of Brookfield Asset Management.

00:23:41.220 It was renewed in 2023

00:23:42.800 and again in December 2024.

00:23:46.960 That's it.

00:23:53.160 Hi.

00:23:55.400 I'm Ezra.

00:23:56.440 Are you,

00:23:57.260 is Mr. Commons in?

00:23:59.600 I have no idea.

00:24:00.880 I asked what he's doing.

00:24:01.840 I came here from Canada

00:24:04.280 because the Canadian

00:24:06.460 Prime Minister

00:24:07.280 has an office here

00:24:09.940 and it's registered

00:24:11.820 to Mr. Commons.

00:24:14.400 Do you know who he is,

00:24:15.880 Leslie Commons?

00:24:16.680 He's my landlord, yeah.

00:24:18.080 He's your landlord?

00:24:19.220 Yeah.

00:24:21.760 He is upstairs.

00:24:23.120 I don't know if he opens in or not.

00:24:24.340 Oh, okay.

00:24:25.460 So I pushed the button

00:24:26.700 and...

00:24:27.540 So he's the landlord.

00:24:30.020 Flat by.

00:24:30.620 Yeah, I pushed the button there

00:24:32.520 because there's a political story.

00:24:35.040 I just wanted to ask him

00:24:36.020 some questions about it

00:24:36.880 but you don't know if he's in.

00:24:38.900 I've just come back

00:24:39.860 and I'm going on holiday

00:24:41.180 this afternoon

00:24:41.780 so if he hasn't answered his bell

00:24:43.600 then I presume

00:24:44.200 either he's not in or...

00:24:45.480 Yeah, I pushed the button

00:24:46.620 three times and...

00:24:48.320 Yeah.

00:24:49.860 So he's the landlord

00:24:50.960 but does he also live here?

00:24:52.900 Sometimes.

00:24:53.980 Yeah.

00:24:54.240 Not only in town.

00:24:55.620 Right.

00:24:56.480 Do you know where he goes

00:24:57.680 when he's not here?

00:24:58.580 Like, is he in town now?

00:24:59.660 I saw him last week

00:25:02.420 but I don't know

00:25:03.620 if he's around now.

00:25:04.340 Yeah.

00:25:05.880 Okay.

00:25:06.740 Well, thanks very much

00:25:07.820 and I'm not talking about you

00:25:11.320 and don't worry about it

00:25:12.680 we're just talking about

00:25:13.580 the Prime Minister...

00:25:14.980 Obviously, it's just because

00:25:15.620 you're shooting a camera

00:25:16.460 at the building

00:25:17.060 honestly, it's like...

00:25:18.060 Yeah, well...

00:25:18.920 I'm not in the film at all now.

00:25:21.900 We'll blur your face.

00:25:23.880 Okay?

00:25:24.240 I can just put my sign down.

00:25:26.340 Okay, that's a good idea.

00:25:28.060 Thank you.

00:25:29.280 In closing here

00:25:30.420 are you guys going to give up?

00:25:32.080 Is now this

00:25:32.660 hey, you know,

00:25:33.200 the Liberals won?

00:25:34.460 What is the battle cry

00:25:35.860 for the Canadian patriot?

00:25:38.120 Because I just have

00:25:38.700 such respect for you guys

00:25:39.940 because even though

00:25:41.500 people in California say

00:25:42.940 Charlie, it's so bad here

00:25:43.880 I said, no, no, no.

00:25:45.080 Go to Ontario.

00:25:46.660 Go to Toronto.

00:25:47.680 Go to Ottawa.

00:25:48.620 Are you going to give up?

00:25:49.720 One minute remaining, Ezra.

00:25:51.280 No, I love...

00:25:52.220 This is my home.

00:25:53.100 I mean, for generations

00:25:54.000 my family being here

00:25:54.940 this is my country.

00:25:56.060 I'm not going to give it up

00:25:57.020 without a fight.

00:25:57.920 We fought during the COVID lockdowns

00:26:00.000 which were extreme up here.

00:26:01.480 Remember the Canadian truckers?

00:26:03.000 They came and they broke the fever

00:26:05.520 and they set an example

00:26:06.560 for the world.

00:26:07.120 And remember,

00:26:07.780 no politicians supported them.

00:26:09.480 They didn't have a big

00:26:10.860 super PAC behind them.

00:26:12.540 It was grassroots people

00:26:13.560 saying enough is enough.

00:26:14.740 That inspires me,

00:26:15.960 those truckers.

00:26:16.880 So we're going to keep fighting.

00:26:18.080 And again,

00:26:18.880 I'm a glass half full guy.

00:26:20.340 The Conservative leader of Canada

00:26:22.320 got the highest vote

00:26:23.680 that his party has received

00:26:25.180 in a generation.

00:26:26.000 I think that he'll

00:26:27.760 break through next time.

00:26:28.780 He's got a conservative

00:26:30.460 working class coalition

00:26:32.240 including young people.

00:26:34.000 It's pretty unique

00:26:34.900 around the world.

00:26:35.920 I think it can win.

00:26:37.400 And I would just say

00:26:38.820 to our American friends,

00:26:39.780 don't give up on us.

00:26:40.780 Don't annex us.

00:26:41.760 You don't need to.

00:26:42.620 You already have

00:26:42.980 a free trade agreement

00:26:43.840 that'll give you

00:26:44.540 all the oil and gas

00:26:45.800 and minerals you can buy.

00:26:47.200 So you don't need to annex us.

00:26:49.080 That spooked Canadians.

00:26:50.520 That's frankly a reason

00:26:51.920 why the Liberals

00:26:53.400 eked out a win.

00:26:54.200 But let's get back

00:26:55.200 to being best friends.

00:26:56.140 You can be Batman

00:26:56.860 and we'll be Robin.

00:26:57.700 We're the junior partner

00:26:58.600 in the friendship.

00:26:59.560 But let's be best friends again

00:27:00.720 is what I have to say.

00:27:02.480 Ezra, God bless you,

00:27:03.300 my friend.

00:27:03.800 Hope to see you soon.

00:27:04.840 It's a depressing picture

00:27:06.000 from my view,

00:27:06.640 but your optimism

00:27:07.260 and positivity

00:27:08.240 is remarkable

00:27:09.640 and noteworthy.

00:27:10.420 Thank you.

00:27:10.760 Thanks, Charlie.

00:27:12.720 Search Rebel News

00:27:14.180 for Canada

00:27:15.280 and you will see

00:27:15.960 clear as day

00:27:16.840 as will Evant

00:27:17.980 as the owner

00:27:19.160 of both of those companies.

00:27:20.580 He has third-party advertising trucks

00:27:23.280 driving around this video

00:27:25.280 right now.

00:27:28.440 It's owned by Rebel.

00:27:30.260 It's owned by you.

00:27:31.680 Oh, sorry, sorry.

00:27:32.800 The truck is for Canada

00:27:34.860 which is owned by you

00:27:36.300 which is separate

00:27:37.420 from Rebel News

00:27:38.720 which is also owned by you.

00:27:40.700 Would you...

00:27:41.100 If you wanted to pull up

00:27:42.980 I think you're one by one.

00:27:44.700 Control your emotions.

00:27:45.480 No, I'm just not saying.

00:27:47.280 You're out of control.

00:27:49.220 Speaking quietly

00:27:50.760 doesn't make your things

00:27:52.180 any less important.

00:27:53.060 You're completely

00:27:53.520 out of control emotions.

00:27:55.460 And your facts

00:27:56.520 are completely wrong

00:27:57.440 and embarrassing.

00:27:58.980 What's your name?

00:28:01.160 What's your name?

00:28:03.820 You're suddenly shy.

00:28:05.320 No, I'm Googling.

00:28:07.080 You're Googling your name?

00:28:08.540 No.

00:28:09.520 Why don't you tell us

00:28:10.560 who you are, tough guy.

00:28:12.600 Stuart Benson Hilltimes.

00:28:14.520 Stuart Benson...

00:28:15.180 Well, you're a disgrace

00:28:16.000 to the Hilltimes.

00:28:17.480 And your facts are wrong.

00:28:18.640 You're a disgrace

00:28:19.420 to journalism, buddy.

00:28:20.720 Well, actually,

00:28:21.200 I can do the job

00:28:23.680 of one of me

00:28:25.560 can do the same job.

00:28:26.620 You clearly need

00:28:27.360 five reporters to do.

00:28:29.040 So, am I the disgrace

00:28:30.320 or is it all of the people

00:28:31.560 you needed to do the job

00:28:32.840 I do by myself?

00:28:33.780 You just try to

00:28:34.340 control your emotions.

00:28:35.320 I don't think so.

00:28:36.880 I don't think so.

00:28:37.880 I don't think so.

00:28:38.380 Rebel News Network

00:28:39.940 Limited.

00:28:40.640 March 27th.

00:28:41.800 Registered with

00:28:42.520 Elections Canada.

00:28:43.680 Name of applicants.

00:28:44.660 Ezra LeVant.

00:28:45.560 Neil Anderson.

00:28:46.540 Address.

00:28:47.080 Edmonton, Alberta.

00:28:48.420 T5JOK4.

00:28:50.540 I wonder where that would have been.

00:28:53.820 T5JOK4.

00:28:55.140 I wonder what that is.

00:28:57.020 Postalism.

00:28:58.600 Well, you certainly

00:28:59.720 got a tiger bite.

00:29:00.680 Let's go check out

00:29:02.880 sports Canada.

00:29:04.300 Who was it who they are?

00:29:09.740 Am I not?

00:29:10.280 Am I talking too loud now?

00:29:11.700 Or should I?

00:29:12.020 No, you just,

00:29:12.780 you don't understand,

00:29:14.420 you don't even understand

00:29:15.420 what you're looking at.

00:29:16.580 What work are you doing?

00:29:18.240 With nothing in front of you.

00:29:21.020 Oh!

00:29:22.360 Oh!

00:29:22.920 Yes!

00:29:24.620 Yes!

00:29:25.100 The really

00:29:25.600 exceptional work

00:29:26.720 you're doing.

00:29:34.320 Thank you.

00:29:34.980 There's a bus.

00:29:35.680 Thank you.

00:29:40.860 What are you going to do?

00:29:42.180 You can do that.

00:29:43.120 Okay.

00:29:45.480 Mr. Cromier,

00:29:46.000 you have a comment

00:29:46.500 about what he's asking?

00:29:49.100 I had a heart-to-heart

00:29:50.180 with Mr. Cromier.

00:29:51.040 And I think we found

00:29:52.620 common ground.

00:29:55.280 What's the common ground?

00:29:57.560 Well,

00:29:58.240 I'm kidding around.

00:29:59.440 We don't have,

00:30:00.020 I don't know what his,

00:30:01.260 he's,

00:30:01.620 yesterday I think

00:30:02.900 the independent journalists

00:30:04.060 were a little bit

00:30:05.120 too independent.

00:30:06.440 And the regime journalists

00:30:08.100 are too friendly

00:30:09.100 with the regime.

00:30:10.700 And,

00:30:11.080 and I've seen

00:30:12.020 a full pork press

00:30:12.920 by regime journalists

00:30:14.080 over the last 24 hours

00:30:15.920 to bring in limits

00:30:17.280 to what independent

00:30:18.440 journalists can do.

00:30:19.560 You mean third-party

00:30:20.160 advertisers as well?

00:30:21.040 Can you talk about

00:30:22.080 the $180,000

00:30:23.040 you're spending

00:30:23.940 to do advertising

00:30:25.480 voter contact

00:30:26.400 both through

00:30:27.200 For Canada

00:30:27.620 and into

00:30:28.440 Rebel News Network Limited?

00:30:29.640 I see you're wrong

00:30:30.320 on that.

00:30:30.800 And that's,

00:30:31.180 that's what concerns me

00:30:32.240 is that

00:30:33.240 For Canada

00:30:34.060 is a different group

00:30:35.180 that was registered.

00:30:37.520 It's made $170,000

00:30:38.780 to Rebel News Network Limited.

00:30:40.320 Is that not true?

00:30:41.820 You're getting

00:30:42.500 your facts wrong,

00:30:43.280 Justin,

00:30:43.640 and I want to

00:30:44.660 make sure you're careful.

00:30:45.800 What did the commissioner

00:30:45.920 say to you?

00:30:47.280 We were actually

00:30:48.040 talking about the CBC

00:30:49.160 who want us

00:30:50.880 out of here.

00:30:51.860 The CBC

00:30:52.440 want us kicked out.

00:30:54.320 We're not leaving.

00:30:56.120 The CBC

00:30:56.680 were outraged

00:30:57.800 that Mr. Cormier

00:30:58.720 let us in.

00:31:00.260 The CBC

00:31:00.860 who had four questions

00:31:02.960 yesterday,

00:31:03.760 Rebel News

00:31:04.600 had four questions

00:31:05.420 yesterday.

00:31:06.540 The CBC

00:31:07.040 thinks that's normal

00:31:08.320 and it's abnormal

00:31:09.740 and it's abnormal

00:31:09.760 and we need it.

00:31:10.820 Was he talking to you

00:31:11.840 about your

00:31:13.040 accreditation

00:31:13.540 or asking questions

00:31:14.140 or was it about

00:31:14.800 the incident here

00:31:15.720 right now?

00:31:16.540 It was about me.

00:31:18.280 It was actually about

00:31:19.880 what's his name?

00:31:21.100 The ball guy

00:31:21.600 in the CBC?

00:31:23.320 Maybe Cawcran.

00:31:24.100 Cawcran.

00:31:24.600 Yeah.

00:31:25.200 I mean,

00:31:25.720 Cawcran wanted

00:31:26.280 to be kicked out.

00:31:27.720 I ain't leaving.

00:31:29.600 Cawcran's really

00:31:30.420 thin skin.

00:31:31.400 I talked to

00:31:31.840 Rosemary Martin too.

00:31:32.800 I invited her

00:31:33.640 to a challenge

00:31:35.060 and she declined

00:31:36.040 but that had

00:31:37.140 nothing to do

00:31:37.680 with it.

00:31:38.160 Anyways,

00:31:38.740 I want to get back

00:31:39.400 to the journalism

00:31:40.020 here but it's a pleasure

00:31:40.940 to be in the center

00:31:41.660 of the attention.

00:31:42.820 I want to give a shout

00:31:43.760 out to my fellow

00:31:44.440 independent journalist

00:31:45.220 Keem Bexley,

00:31:46.360 proud alumnus

00:31:47.180 of Rebel News.

00:31:49.300 A. Lee is not

00:31:50.020 associated with us

00:31:50.840 but I admire

00:31:51.400 his independence

00:31:52.020 and I would like

00:31:53.120 to encourage

00:31:53.620 everyone who's watching

00:31:54.600 you can be a journalist.

00:31:56.500 If you've got a phone,

00:31:57.600 you're a journalist.

00:31:58.520 If you've got a Facebook page,

00:31:59.800 you're a journalist.

00:32:00.740 Yes it is Judy.

00:32:02.180 In fact,

00:32:02.680 what do you

00:32:02.980 have a journalist

00:32:03.960 higher drop?

00:32:04.880 I don't know,

00:32:09.000 you're a government journalist.

00:32:10.480 Every single one of you

00:32:11.720 takes...

00:32:12.720 No, no, no.

00:32:13.500 I'm not a government journalist.

00:32:14.560 If you get the government subsidy,

00:32:16.220 you're a government journalist.

00:32:17.300 I'm not a government journalist.

00:32:18.200 Who do you work for, sir?

00:32:19.260 I'm not going to get an impression.

00:32:20.600 Canadian press gets massive grants

00:32:22.380 from the government.

00:32:23.000 No, no, no.

00:32:23.140 It's someone wearing a liberal.

00:32:24.240 It's an admission in funding.

00:32:25.460 I mean, you're literally

00:32:26.140 wearing them the wrong line here.

00:32:27.520 Because I follow the liberals.

00:32:29.460 You know how...

00:32:30.200 You're ready to handle

00:32:31.180 your own by the government.

00:32:32.480 Sir, may I ask?

00:32:34.460 What do you think

00:32:36.220 about the third-party advertisers

00:32:37.680 that are supporting

00:32:38.440 the CDC?

00:32:38.580 Only your own media

00:32:39.420 can ask you questions.

00:32:40.380 Go ahead.

00:32:41.100 You'll come out.

00:32:41.800 Come on.

00:32:42.000 You'll run away.

00:32:42.700 Why don't you answer his question?

00:32:44.140 What was his question?

00:32:44.760 Let's be careful.

00:32:46.480 I actually didn't hear the question.

00:32:49.440 I'm flattered to be here.

00:32:50.520 Let me just say this.

00:32:51.300 I think that journalism

00:32:52.620 needs to be democratized.

00:32:53.940 And I think it's sort of creepy

00:32:55.440 that the enemies of rebel news

00:32:58.000 in the press gallery

00:32:59.560 stop us from asking questions

00:33:01.160 of politicians 99% of the time.

00:33:04.020 Once every four years

00:33:06.040 we're allowed to put

00:33:06.980 a couple of questions

00:33:07.820 to these high priests of politics.

00:33:09.880 And there's a total freak out

00:33:10.840 in the press gallery.

00:33:11.960 Like, seriously,

00:33:12.620 it's like leap years.

00:33:13.840 Fifteen minutes

00:33:14.780 every four-year season

00:33:16.180 we're allowed...

00:33:16.700 Can you move your scrum now?

00:33:21.980 We want to watch the story.

00:33:23.040 Babe, thanks very much.

00:33:25.140 Okay, thank you.

00:33:26.180 Play the tape.

00:33:27.580 So you can see

00:33:28.400 I arrive

00:33:29.520 and there's a CBC guest.

00:33:31.280 Okay, stop right there.

00:33:33.180 So that was a guest

00:33:34.280 getting off the panel.

00:33:35.880 And you can see someone

00:33:37.100 in a red shirt or sweater

00:33:40.020 puttering with

00:33:41.720 Rosemary Barton's earpiece

00:33:43.640 or something.

00:33:44.980 So you could see

00:33:46.000 that first guest

00:33:47.440 who was just leaving

00:33:48.760 the CBC panel.

00:33:50.280 He was in the shot

00:33:51.140 where I am now.

00:33:52.200 He casually said hi to me.

00:33:54.100 You can see

00:33:54.880 there's a producer in red

00:33:56.640 who's puttering around

00:33:58.100 in the shot.

00:33:59.080 They're all clearly

00:34:00.120 on a break.

00:34:01.700 And I introduced myself

00:34:03.020 immediately

00:34:03.700 and said why I was there.

00:34:05.340 Here, watch a little bit more.

00:34:07.480 Yeah.

00:34:08.080 How are you doing?

00:34:09.780 I'm live on the air.

00:34:12.240 I'm live on the air.

00:34:13.520 Like, I don't interrupt

00:34:14.440 your broadcast.

00:34:14.880 Okay, stop for a second.

00:34:19.320 He said they're live

00:34:20.580 on the air.

00:34:22.040 Is that true?

00:34:23.780 Do you see the guy

00:34:24.500 in the red sweater

00:34:25.520 with the hat on

00:34:26.460 puttering with

00:34:27.660 Rosemary Barton's equipment?

00:34:28.880 Was this really on air?

00:34:32.420 This was happening

00:34:33.400 before I approached.

00:34:34.580 This is why I approached.

00:34:36.480 I could see

00:34:37.280 that they were not

00:34:37.880 on air at all.

00:34:39.660 Maybe they were

00:34:40.340 about to be

00:34:41.080 but not in any way

00:34:42.380 that that guy

00:34:42.920 in the red vest

00:34:44.220 took seriously.

00:34:45.320 You'll see that he was there

00:34:46.620 before I arrived,

00:34:47.740 while I was there,

00:34:48.500 and after I was gone.

00:34:50.180 Was he scrambling?

00:34:52.580 Were they talking

00:34:53.620 at all?

00:34:54.960 No, they weren't.

00:34:55.580 Here, keep playing some more.

00:34:57.580 Here.

00:34:58.080 Can I come back

00:34:58.760 and...

00:34:59.100 Do you want to get

00:34:59.540 the ball away?

00:35:00.340 Yeah.

00:35:01.200 Can you defend me?

00:35:02.340 I'm going to ask you

00:35:07.320 to please respect our broadcast.

00:35:08.780 Okay, can I come back

00:35:09.620 and rebuttal?

00:35:10.660 I am not here.

00:35:12.340 I think we have to correct

00:35:16.440 some of you said.

00:35:17.740 Sir, we have to drop it

00:35:18.620 in the thinking.

00:35:19.400 Please, thank you.

00:35:20.680 Did you see my challenge?

00:35:22.660 Yeah, it's better.

00:35:23.760 Okay, stop it right there.

00:35:25.280 So, I didn't go

00:35:26.480 to talk to Rosemary Barton.

00:35:27.720 I mean, she lied about us

00:35:29.120 in other ways,

00:35:30.180 but I really went

00:35:31.020 because David Cochran

00:35:32.060 had this whole day-long

00:35:33.840 vendetta against us.

00:35:35.820 Rosemary Barton stood up

00:35:37.500 instead of doing

00:35:38.960 whatever she was going to do

00:35:40.000 and squared up with me

00:35:41.500 and called security

00:35:43.280 to have me thrown out.

00:35:45.780 All right.

00:35:46.580 I mean, in fact,

00:35:47.100 you can see I stepped down

00:35:48.900 and start to leave.

00:35:49.820 I'm only a few seconds away

00:35:51.060 from leaving,

00:35:52.060 but these people

00:35:53.100 were not on air.

00:35:55.120 They were not trying

00:35:56.460 to make a broadcast.

00:35:58.020 They were not in any rush at all.

00:36:00.000 The fella in the red sweater

00:36:01.620 kept doing what he was doing,

00:36:03.760 but Rosemary Barton

00:36:04.580 was quite aggressive

00:36:05.720 or at least tried to get

00:36:07.420 the security to be aggressive,

00:36:08.640 but, you know,

00:36:10.200 I left soon enough.

00:36:11.100 Here, take a look.

00:36:12.880 All right.

00:36:13.820 Well, David,

00:36:14.400 I'd like to come back on

00:36:15.680 and rebut some of your errors

00:36:17.200 about revolution.

00:36:18.460 Yeah.

00:36:18.700 That's cool.

00:36:19.280 See you later.

00:36:20.460 Have a good debate.

00:36:23.880 Who can I talk to about that?

00:36:25.700 The main reason?

00:36:26.560 Me?

00:36:27.060 Go into the media room, Israel.

00:36:28.680 Like, I know you're gonna...

00:36:30.140 I know you're doing your face.

00:36:31.920 I'm doing a show.

00:36:32.960 I know you're up to a broadcast.

00:36:34.540 I'm going to say...

00:36:35.760 Is there someone

00:36:36.720 I can talk to on your phone?

00:36:38.500 Sorry.

00:36:39.440 So, stop for there.

00:36:40.760 So, by now,

00:36:41.480 I'm out of the shot.

00:36:43.140 The guy in the red sweater

00:36:44.520 is still there doing...

00:36:45.700 I'm not sure what he was doing,

00:36:46.920 but he was still doing it.

00:36:47.940 They're obviously not live.

00:36:49.780 None of them are live.

00:36:50.660 None of them are being broadcast.

00:36:52.240 And I've stepped away

00:36:53.500 because, frankly,

00:36:54.320 I don't want to, you know,

00:36:55.780 put the security in the pickle.

00:36:57.420 They were commanded

00:36:58.060 by Rosemary Barton

00:36:58.980 to shoo me away.

00:36:59.740 But I'm still asking,

00:37:01.120 is there anyone I can talk to?

00:37:03.340 I mean,

00:37:03.720 they had talked about us all day

00:37:06.120 and said some very particular

00:37:07.940 false facts about us.

00:37:09.600 They defamed us.

00:37:10.740 And I waited

00:37:11.620 until there was a moment

00:37:12.500 to talk to them.

00:37:13.180 I mean, normally,

00:37:14.000 you reach out to someone

00:37:15.060 you're going to attack

00:37:15.880 in journalism

00:37:16.500 just to make sure

00:37:17.320 you get your facts straight.

00:37:18.500 They didn't do that.

00:37:19.640 I positively said,

00:37:20.880 hey,

00:37:21.680 is there anyone I can talk to?

00:37:23.020 Can I come on the show?

00:37:24.580 You said some defamatory things.

00:37:26.340 I'd like to rebut them

00:37:27.320 even for a few minutes.

00:37:29.180 And all they said was,

00:37:31.100 we're busy.

00:37:32.080 Go away.

00:37:33.040 Go away.

00:37:33.580 Go away.

00:37:34.180 Go away.

00:37:35.080 Rosemary Barton really felt

00:37:36.400 like chiming in

00:37:37.120 for some reason.

00:37:37.780 I think she's got a bit of a,

00:37:39.440 she hates rebel news,

00:37:41.400 but I made a gentle crack

00:37:43.080 about the two of us.

00:37:44.080 I had challenged her,

00:37:45.620 the two of us,

00:37:46.400 to have a public fitness contest.

00:37:48.680 I don't think she liked

00:37:49.480 that very much.

00:37:50.400 Anyhow,

00:37:50.600 keep playing the rest of the tape.

00:37:52.420 David?

00:37:53.300 David's in charge.

00:37:54.540 Who is, sorry?

00:37:55.520 David's in charge.

00:37:56.320 Is there like a producer

00:37:57.820 or a lawyer or something?

00:37:59.580 Yeah.

00:38:00.520 So stop there again.

00:38:02.240 Rosemary Barton

00:38:02.940 literally pivoted in her seat,

00:38:05.080 spun around,

00:38:06.260 because she still wanted

00:38:07.300 to argue-bargue with me.

00:38:09.060 These are not people

00:38:10.120 who were on air.

00:38:11.440 These are not people

00:38:12.080 who were busy.

00:38:13.100 These are people

00:38:13.680 who were still puttering

00:38:14.600 in some break.

00:38:15.440 The guy in the red jacket

00:38:16.460 is still there.

00:38:17.600 The reason I tell you

00:38:18.760 all this is twofold.

00:38:21.000 To let you know

00:38:22.060 just how unprofessional

00:38:23.700 they are in terms of

00:38:25.420 getting the other side

00:38:26.740 of the story.

00:38:28.020 All day they had been

00:38:29.440 attacking and smearing

00:38:30.720 and lying about Rebel News.

00:38:32.580 But they never once

00:38:33.960 reached out to us

00:38:34.860 to check a fact

00:38:35.720 or invite us on

00:38:37.040 for some right of reply.

00:38:38.400 Never once.

00:38:39.400 So I calmly waited

00:38:40.720 till I could see

00:38:41.520 they were not on air

00:38:42.400 to ask for that opportunity.

00:38:44.820 I didn't raise my voice.

00:38:46.020 I didn't swear.

00:38:47.020 I didn't shout.

00:38:48.320 I didn't call security.

00:38:50.320 I just said,

00:38:51.040 can I come on the show?

00:38:52.560 Who do I talk to?

00:38:53.960 Is there a producer?

00:38:55.380 Is there a lawyer?

00:38:56.620 Thank you, Minister,

00:38:57.840 for agreeing to accredit Rebel News.

00:38:59.640 I very much appreciate

00:39:00.500 your dedication

00:39:01.300 to freedom of the press.

00:39:03.180 I have a question

00:39:04.200 about the ostrich farm.

00:39:05.620 Now, don't worry.

00:39:06.060 I'm not going to ask

00:39:06.640 about the lawsuit

00:39:07.380 because I don't want you

00:39:08.580 to talk about anything

00:39:09.900 that are before the courts.

00:39:11.780 But there was a letter

00:39:12.840 and I noticed in the statement

00:39:14.040 you talk about

00:39:14.720 Canada-U.S. cooperation.

00:39:17.120 I know that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

00:39:18.980 your U.S. counterpart,

00:39:20.700 has written saying

00:39:22.000 he thinks that there's

00:39:23.400 some medical research value

00:39:24.980 in these ostriches

00:39:25.800 because they had avian flu

00:39:27.160 but then have recovered

00:39:29.360 and they're now immune.

00:39:30.960 In fact, he's offered

00:39:32.000 to do the research

00:39:33.160 and even to pay for it.

00:39:35.260 It seems to me

00:39:36.640 that we need allies

00:39:38.080 around Trump's cabinet table.

00:39:40.160 And if you could throw him

00:39:41.780 a bone and say,

00:39:42.840 sure, Secretary Kennedy,

00:39:45.060 you can study these birds,

00:39:46.320 it's sort of no skin

00:39:47.600 off Canada's nose

00:39:48.580 and don't you think

00:39:49.560 it would be helpful

00:39:50.140 to have an ally

00:39:51.880 in Trump's cabinet

00:39:53.120 when we're doing

00:39:53.960 our trade negotiations?

00:39:57.820 That's my question.

00:39:59.060 Don't you think

00:39:59.620 it would be helpful

00:40:00.160 to have a friend?

00:40:00.920 Next reporter.

00:40:01.600 Merci.

00:40:06.520 Oh, you're not going

00:40:07.460 to answer, Minister?

00:40:08.900 Prochaine question.

00:40:09.740 Merci.

00:40:10.660 I don't understand.

00:40:11.720 Did I do something wrong?

00:40:12.520 Next question.

00:40:14.020 Thank you.

00:40:16.820 Minister, did I miss an answer?

00:40:18.860 I don't get it.

00:40:20.500 Okay.

00:40:21.260 I'll sit down.

00:40:22.380 I guess it's question period,

00:40:25.360 not answer period.

00:40:26.360 Merci beaucoup.

00:40:29.100 I'm going to read

00:40:30.180 some questions to you

00:40:31.480 because the spokesman

00:40:34.300 refuses to talk to me.

00:40:36.080 So I'm going to put

00:40:36.760 some questions to you, okay?

00:40:38.860 And feel free to answer

00:40:40.220 any of the ones

00:40:41.140 that you feel comfortable with.

00:40:43.300 Can I ask you,

00:40:44.840 who did the shooting?

00:40:47.060 How many people

00:40:47.980 did the shooting

00:40:48.580 and where did they come from?

00:40:50.380 Were they police?

00:40:51.940 Were they from

00:40:52.400 the local gun club?

00:40:53.780 Were they military?

00:40:54.740 Do you know

00:40:55.060 who did the shooting?

00:40:59.880 Pardon me?

00:41:03.540 What's that?

00:41:06.260 Oh, I'd be extremely

00:41:07.660 grateful if you would.

00:41:08.840 She just said

00:41:09.400 she's going to get

00:41:09.920 the team leader

00:41:10.680 to talk to me.

00:41:11.700 Thank you very much.

00:41:13.260 I would love

00:41:14.040 to talk to the team leader.

00:41:15.340 Wow.

00:41:15.640 I did not expect

00:41:16.500 that reply

00:41:17.500 because I just heard

00:41:18.940 from the police liaison team

00:41:20.380 that the spokesman,

00:41:22.400 who I think his name

00:41:22.960 is Chris Clark,

00:41:24.260 refuses to talk to me

00:41:25.880 even on speakerphone.

00:41:27.300 So I would love

00:41:28.240 to talk to the team leader.

00:41:29.380 Thank you very much, officer.

00:41:31.660 I got a question for you.

00:41:32.860 Do you think

00:41:33.100 the team leader

00:41:33.560 is actually going to talk to me?

00:41:34.920 Well, I'm surprised

00:41:36.400 that she didn't just

00:41:37.120 roll up her window right away,

00:41:38.160 but I'm a bit of a pessimist

00:41:40.080 after everything

00:41:40.600 that's happened here, Chris,

00:41:41.620 and I don't think

00:41:42.300 the team leader

00:41:42.760 is going to talk to me.

00:41:43.580 That's okay.

00:41:43.980 I'm going to ask

00:41:44.340 my questions nonetheless.

00:41:45.340 I know you would too.

00:41:46.820 All right.

00:41:47.140 Well, we'll wait a bit.

00:41:48.840 If I was a betting man,

00:41:50.260 I would bet that

00:41:51.220 the team leader

00:41:52.100 will not present,

00:41:53.140 and if he does,

00:41:53.880 it'll just be to say,

00:41:54.940 I got nothing to say to you.

00:41:56.400 Well, did the staff sergeant

00:41:57.480 not speak to you

00:41:58.220 the first time?

00:41:59.060 Yeah.

00:41:59.460 I think you were one

00:41:59.540 of the only people

00:42:00.140 that was right here,

00:42:00.900 I believe,

00:42:01.300 before I got here.

00:42:02.300 Yeah, and I thought

00:42:03.040 it was actually

00:42:03.560 a very fair interview.

00:42:05.180 I asked questions

00:42:06.060 that I thought were real,

00:42:06.860 they weren't attack questions,

00:42:08.320 and I thought he answered

00:42:09.660 probably half of them

00:42:10.680 pretty well.

00:42:11.700 Well, those were

00:42:12.200 the only answers

00:42:13.120 that I've seen anyone

00:42:14.040 give about anything

00:42:15.020 really on the record.

00:42:16.160 Do you follow

00:42:18.480 what the CFIA is doing

00:42:19.840 to see if there's anything

00:42:20.760 that might be

00:42:21.480 on its own illegal,

00:42:23.720 or you just sort of,

00:42:25.160 like you say,

00:42:25.780 it's a CFIA operation,

00:42:27.200 you don't really get involved?

00:42:28.800 Because it seems to me

00:42:30.380 that that is mischief,

00:42:32.860 that is beyond the scope

00:42:34.220 of a search warrant,

00:42:35.620 that's political,

00:42:36.900 that's sneaky,

00:42:38.680 and I don't know

00:42:41.460 if the RCMP

00:42:42.400 would abide that.

00:42:43.880 Are you making sure

00:42:45.240 that they don't take liberties,

00:42:46.600 or is that just not

00:42:47.320 part of your mandate here?

00:42:49.460 Well, I think you need

00:42:50.320 to look at the contents

00:42:51.820 of the search warrant,

00:42:52.640 because that may very well

00:42:53.920 be part of it.

00:42:55.320 I can't say.

00:42:55.980 So, that's something

00:42:58.520 to look into.

00:43:00.740 You know, as indicated,

00:43:03.960 we're here to enforce the law.

00:43:06.180 So, certainly,

00:43:07.240 if we were to witness

00:43:07.940 an offense,

00:43:10.060 then we would need

00:43:11.660 to take action.

00:43:12.880 Yeah, and I was saying

00:43:13.700 to one of the police

00:43:14.400 liaison officers,

00:43:15.440 I said, look,

00:43:16.180 in darkness, you know,

00:43:19.920 theories and conspiracy

00:43:21.260 theories flourish.

00:43:23.420 It breeds paranoia.

00:43:24.700 Well, yeah,

00:43:25.240 and you,

00:43:25.700 especially if you expect

00:43:27.020 transparency from your police.

00:43:28.960 A shocking international incident

00:43:31.540 happened here yesterday,

00:43:32.700 and there are legitimate questions

00:43:35.360 in the public interest,

00:43:36.700 and the idea that the cops

00:43:38.440 would talk to me

00:43:39.340 quite candidly a few weeks ago,

00:43:41.100 but today,

00:43:41.960 after the massacre,

00:43:42.860 they won't talk to me,

00:43:44.000 is upside down,

00:43:45.120 and I think it's part

00:43:46.380 of a new strategy

00:43:48.400 of provocation

00:43:49.680 that I've seen them deploy

00:43:50.660 against different people here.

00:43:51.980 We'll see.

00:43:52.560 She said she's going

00:43:53.300 to get the team leader.

00:43:54.280 I'm a skeptic,

00:43:55.300 but I'm willing to wait.

00:43:56.740 We'll have to speak

00:43:57.360 to Chris Clark,

00:43:58.600 the media liaison.

00:44:00.180 Yeah, he's back in Surrey.

00:44:02.140 By email or by phone.

00:44:03.560 Okay, so the team leader

00:44:04.900 refused to come?

00:44:06.520 You'll have to speak

00:44:07.120 to Chris Clark.

00:44:07.880 Well, would Chris Clark

00:44:09.100 in Surrey know

00:44:09.860 what the team leader

00:44:10.620 just said to you?

00:44:11.940 What did the team leaders say?

00:44:13.680 The clock you used.

00:44:15.180 All right, I'm going to continue

00:44:16.080 reading my questions

00:44:16.980 if you don't mind.

00:44:17.900 What?

00:44:18.040 So, oh, you're rolling

00:44:19.780 up the window.

00:44:20.740 You're bravely rolling

00:44:22.060 up the window.

00:44:22.980 I knew it.

00:44:24.260 I knew it.

00:44:26.040 All right, it's 1.24.

00:44:27.740 I tell you that

00:44:28.460 because we've only got

00:44:29.640 about one hour left

00:44:31.140 before we've got to fly.

00:44:32.700 I just went into 73 Front Street.

00:44:35.120 I went into the Winner's Edge

00:44:38.220 bike shop,

00:44:38.960 and I talked to

00:44:39.580 the friendliest fella.

00:44:41.120 You know, there's actually

00:44:42.200 a Bermudian accent,

00:44:43.680 and I think it's lovely.

00:44:45.040 This is an amazing island

00:44:46.300 that has an interesting

00:44:47.380 ethnic mix as well.

00:44:49.520 I think there's almost

00:44:50.140 a Bermudian ethnicity,

00:44:52.540 part African-American,

00:44:53.940 part white,

00:44:54.640 part Portuguese,

00:44:55.660 part indigenous.

00:44:57.000 Anyways, don't get me started

00:44:58.120 on these lovely Bermudians.

00:44:59.720 I went in there,

00:45:00.600 and the friendly fella

00:45:01.500 said he's got nothing to do

00:45:04.420 with Brookfield Asset Management.

00:45:06.900 He just runs a bike shop,

00:45:08.540 but he heard for the first time

00:45:11.400 about Brookfield

00:45:12.100 when CTV published a picture

00:45:15.040 of their front edifice.

00:45:17.940 He said that was the first time

00:45:18.920 he heard about it.

00:45:19.880 I asked him,

00:45:20.700 had any journalist ever popped by?

00:45:23.260 He said, no, of course not.

00:45:25.720 Yeah, I got a question for you.

00:45:26.800 It's not really about bikes.

00:45:28.420 I'm from Canada,

00:45:30.200 and I don't know if you heard,

00:45:31.620 but we got a new prime minister,

00:45:33.680 and 73 Front Street

00:45:35.620 is the address

00:45:36.480 of one of his companies,

00:45:37.960 and it's obviously

00:45:39.160 not this bike shop.

00:45:40.560 Yeah.

00:45:41.220 Has any other reporter

00:45:42.540 come by asking about that?

00:45:44.180 No.

00:45:44.940 Not a single reporter's,

00:45:46.220 have you ever heard of this before?

00:45:47.620 Yeah, we saw an article

00:45:48.820 about it in the CTV.

00:45:50.380 Oh, really?

00:45:51.000 What do you think of that article?

00:45:53.220 Yeah.

00:45:53.480 Not much about it.

00:45:54.240 Not much about it.

00:45:54.720 We're just a bike shop

00:45:55.560 in their building.

00:45:56.360 Yeah.

00:45:57.040 So there is something else going on,

00:45:59.180 like there's offices upstairs?

00:46:00.700 Yeah.

00:46:01.200 How would I get there?

00:46:01.980 Like, is there stairs, or?

00:46:06.080 You would have to go,

00:46:07.440 yeah, so you got the door,

00:46:08.520 then you go,

00:46:08.980 there's a little alleyway

00:46:09.860 on the left,

00:46:10.340 on the left side.

00:46:11.180 Yeah.

00:46:11.780 And then there's a door there.

00:46:12.940 I'm not sure if it's key card,

00:46:14.360 it might be a key card.

00:46:15.360 Okay.

00:46:18.280 Have you ever met anyone

00:46:19.620 from Brookfield Asset Management?

00:46:21.660 Nope.

00:46:22.300 No?

00:46:22.900 Have you ever heard of it,

00:46:23.920 other than that CTV article?

00:46:25.900 Like here, I mean,

00:46:26.900 the building over

00:46:28.200 that's getting built, yeah.

00:46:29.580 Oh, they're building a building?

00:46:30.760 Yeah.

00:46:30.940 Okay.

00:46:31.480 That building that's going up

00:46:32.520 right there,

00:46:32.940 that's Brookfield's building.

00:46:34.580 All right.

00:46:35.560 Well, thanks very much

00:46:36.420 for telling me.

00:46:37.020 You're welcome.

00:46:37.440 Okay, cheers.

00:46:38.480 Have a good rest of your day, sir.

00:46:39.280 You too.

00:46:39.820 Good luck with your reporting.

00:46:41.240 Thank you.

00:46:42.220 Why would anyone seek

00:46:43.340 to investigate

00:46:44.220 Mark Carney's

00:46:45.380 $25 billion tax evasion?

00:46:47.300 That's not in the public interest.

00:46:48.760 So he said he hadn't heard

00:46:50.380 about any of that.

00:46:52.140 He didn't even know Mark Carney.

00:46:54.700 But he did say

00:46:56.000 that above

00:46:57.220 is a Brookfield Asset Management

00:46:59.600 address.

00:47:00.180 And he told me

00:47:01.320 to go around the corner

00:47:02.340 where it says 73

00:47:03.680 and see if I can

00:47:04.640 buzz my way in.

00:47:05.680 So I'll do that.

00:47:06.540 He said one more thing

00:47:07.540 on my way out.

00:47:08.560 He said that

00:47:09.380 this construction

00:47:10.920 over there

00:47:11.720 is a Brookfield

00:47:13.700 Asset Management

00:47:14.780 construction.

00:47:15.560 and I looked that up

00:47:17.280 and indeed it is

00:47:18.980 and Brookfield

00:47:20.440 is being sued

00:47:21.480 by shareholders

00:47:22.620 in a company

00:47:23.200 called Argo

00:47:24.100 who claimed

00:47:24.980 that Brookfield

00:47:25.600 did not properly

00:47:26.540 disclose

00:47:27.200 important information

00:47:28.620 in the shareholders

00:47:30.900 battle.

00:47:31.420 I'm not going to get

00:47:31.880 too deep into it

00:47:32.720 but the point is

00:47:33.800 Brookfield is

00:47:34.560 building an asset here

00:47:35.940 but it's not

00:47:37.140 their environmental

00:47:38.140 sustainable project.

00:47:40.200 That's not a

00:47:40.680 $25 billion building.

00:47:42.640 That's just an office building

00:47:43.820 because I guess they're tired

00:47:45.140 of being above

00:47:45.980 the bicycle shop.

00:47:47.820 So there is

00:47:48.700 a presence of

00:47:49.520 Brookfield Asset Management

00:47:50.740 or at least there

00:47:52.000 will be

00:47:52.880 when that's done.

00:47:54.340 For now

00:47:54.960 73 Front Street

00:47:56.320 is just a bike shop

00:47:57.960 and some offices above.

00:48:00.020 I say again

00:48:00.760 here's the scam.

00:48:02.140 If you're wondering

00:48:02.720 why we're here

00:48:03.760 and what the problem is

00:48:05.140 it's this.

00:48:06.760 Mark Carney

00:48:07.440 was the chairman

00:48:08.220 of Brookfield Asset Management.

00:48:09.480 He personally chaired

00:48:11.460 two progressive

00:48:12.780 environmentalist funds

00:48:14.200 that were all about

00:48:15.300 solar panels

00:48:16.080 and wind turbines.

00:48:17.360 Fair enough.

00:48:18.040 I really don't care

00:48:19.060 about that.

00:48:20.000 What I care about

00:48:20.920 is that he lied.

00:48:22.480 He said this is

00:48:23.180 the principal

00:48:23.800 executive offices

00:48:25.020 of those $25 billion

00:48:27.120 in managed asset funds

00:48:29.100 so that he could avoid

00:48:31.040 paying taxes in Canada.

00:48:32.820 He lied when he said

00:48:34.500 that's the principal

00:48:35.220 executive offices.

00:48:36.600 Do you think

00:48:37.440 that you've got $25 billion

00:48:39.340 worth of managers

00:48:41.040 and builders

00:48:41.900 and executives

00:48:42.840 for wind turbines

00:48:45.100 and solar panels

00:48:45.900 up there?

00:48:46.480 I can promise you

00:48:47.600 they don't.

00:48:48.420 And that's the problem.

00:48:50.080 It's bad enough

00:48:51.020 if Mark Carney

00:48:51.760 was hiding

00:48:52.700 his company's assets

00:48:54.040 and income

00:48:54.840 from Canadian taxes.

00:48:56.500 But to lie about it

00:48:57.940 to lie about it

00:48:59.260 and to keep holding

00:49:00.300 on to $6.8 million

00:49:01.520 worth of stock options

00:49:02.880 pretending he doesn't

00:49:04.400 still have a stake in it

00:49:05.520 and then make you pay

00:49:07.480 all of his taxes.

00:49:09.200 What a hypocrite

00:49:10.040 we've got as a prime minister.

00:49:11.600 All right.

00:49:11.880 It's $1.28.

00:49:13.140 I'm going to go around

00:49:14.000 to see if we can

00:49:14.840 ring the doorbell

00:49:15.720 and find this

00:49:17.360 corporate headquarters.

00:49:19.180 What a laugh.

00:49:27.580 All right.

00:49:28.200 So far I don't see it.

00:49:29.380 I see Biesmont,

00:49:31.060 Hamilton Legal,

00:49:32.120 Harneys.

00:49:32.540 I see Christian and Company.

00:49:34.900 I don't know

00:49:35.200 what these things are

00:49:35.940 but I don't see Brookfield.

00:49:37.060 Let's go in

00:49:37.400 and see what we can find.

00:49:42.740 73 Front Street.

00:49:45.460 It's a very lovely building.

00:49:47.460 So it's not just

00:49:49.040 the bike shop.

00:49:50.700 Let's see what we can find.

00:49:52.760 There's some floors there.

00:49:53.900 All right.

00:50:02.040 Brookfield Bermuda,

00:50:03.280 Brookfield Infrastructure Partners,

00:50:05.300 Renewable Partners,

00:50:06.380 Property Partners,

00:50:07.740 Business Partners.

00:50:08.540 That's on the fifth floor.

00:50:09.820 So they really are here.

00:50:11.220 It's not just the bike shop.

00:50:13.040 And that's the one

00:50:14.220 that's got the $25 billion.

00:50:17.560 Let's see what they have to say.

00:50:19.020 Here we go.

00:50:37.160 Hi.

00:50:40.540 Hi, how are you?

00:50:42.240 Is Jane Shearer in, please?

00:50:44.420 No.

00:50:45.060 No.

00:50:45.460 What's your name?

00:50:46.540 I'm Ezra Levant from Canada.

00:50:48.780 Ezra.

00:50:49.380 Hi.

00:50:49.920 Hi.

00:50:50.400 Hi.

00:50:52.080 Is Jane available?

00:50:53.320 No, I'm afraid not.

00:50:56.400 I have a question

00:50:57.220 maybe you could help me with.

00:50:58.500 Sorry, I can't.

00:50:59.960 No.

00:51:00.480 No?

00:51:00.920 Is there anyone I can talk to

00:51:02.060 who can...

00:51:02.640 No, I can get you a...

00:51:04.820 get you some of our PR people.

00:51:06.940 Would they really talk to me, though?

00:51:08.440 I don't think they talk.

00:51:10.560 I don't know.

00:51:11.480 That's all I'm allowed to do,

00:51:12.600 I'm afraid.

00:51:12.900 Okay.

00:51:14.200 So I'm glad to know

00:51:15.360 that there are some Brookfield people

00:51:17.020 here in Bermude.

00:51:18.120 It's not just a PO box.

00:51:20.920 But is it really

00:51:22.420 the principal executive office

00:51:24.460 for the various funds?

00:51:26.020 I find that hard to believe.

00:51:27.240 I'm afraid I have no comment.

00:51:28.880 I can't help you.

00:51:29.980 Can you tell me what you do here?

00:51:31.880 No.

00:51:32.200 What's your name?

00:51:33.060 No.

00:51:33.380 Sorry?

00:51:33.960 Okay.

00:51:34.480 Well, you'd be polite

00:51:35.320 to talk to me at all.

00:51:36.160 That's more than Mark Carney

00:51:37.040 himself has done.

00:51:37.960 So I won't impose upon you.

00:51:40.680 But perhaps I can take you up

00:51:44.720 on your offer

00:51:45.240 of those corporate spokesmen.

00:51:47.580 All right.

00:51:47.860 If you could wait

00:51:48.400 for one minute.

00:51:48.940 I will.

00:51:49.340 I'll see if I can find

00:51:50.200 the information.

00:51:51.180 Thank you.

00:51:58.140 That took so long.

00:51:59.060 It wasn't what I thought of.

00:51:59.580 No.

00:51:59.980 Well, you were...

00:52:00.580 You're so helpful.

00:52:01.960 Suzanne Fleming.

00:52:02.540 Suzanne Fleming.

00:52:03.200 212-416.

00:52:05.360 Okay.

00:52:05.740 Well, thanks for your help.

00:52:06.560 You know, you were very courteous.

00:52:07.880 And I know we sort of surprised you here.

00:52:09.620 It is a bit of a surprise.

00:52:10.660 Yeah.

00:52:11.020 But good luck.

00:52:12.420 Thank you.

00:52:12.880 It's a lovely place.

00:52:14.300 Just...

00:52:14.620 Have you been here for a long time?

00:52:16.180 Yeah.

00:52:16.340 I've been here for a while.

00:52:17.500 If you get a chance

00:52:18.160 to get out to the beaches

00:52:18.820 before you leave, please do.

00:52:20.040 Thank you.

00:52:20.440 You're worth it.

00:52:21.040 Thanks for being friendly.

00:52:21.920 Cheers.

00:52:22.280 See you.

00:52:22.420 Bye.

00:52:22.940 Well, our friend here

00:52:23.900 was very helpful.

00:52:24.660 He gave us Susan Fleming's

00:52:25.920 phone number in New York,

00:52:26.960 looks like.

00:52:27.600 I'll give Susan Fleming a call.

00:52:29.100 I am a little bit skeptical

00:52:32.380 that she'll answer our questions,

00:52:33.540 but you never know.

00:52:34.780 We'll give her a try.

00:52:35.540 We'll let this fella go.

00:52:37.360 Well, I think things go

00:52:38.340 pretty easy-peasy here in Bermuda.

00:52:40.500 It's not part of the Caribbean.

00:52:42.100 It's further north.

00:52:42.940 It's in the Atlantic.

00:52:43.720 But they have that friendly,

00:52:45.480 easygoing style to them.

00:52:46.960 So we did go up to Brookfield

00:52:48.600 on the fifth floor.

00:52:49.600 And they opened the door

00:52:51.060 and had a very brief chat with us,

00:52:53.240 but they were certainly friendly.

00:52:54.200 In fact, they gave us some recommendations

00:52:55.800 to go to hit the beaches afterwards.

00:52:58.780 Brookfield, indeed,

00:52:59.800 does have a handful of people up there.

00:53:02.080 They do have one floor

00:53:03.400 in this very small building.

00:53:05.380 But I can tell you,

00:53:06.140 just from peering around the corner,

00:53:08.000 this is not the executive offices.

00:53:10.200 It's full of a handful of probably clerks

00:53:13.820 or form filler outers

00:53:15.780 just to keep the technical formalities legal.

00:53:19.760 Brookfield Renewable Partners

00:53:20.900 and these other companies

00:53:22.200 do business around the world.

00:53:24.300 The reason why they have this office here

00:53:27.180 in the tourist section of Bermuda

00:53:30.140 is so they can avoid paying taxes in Canada.

00:53:34.280 That's what's so crazy.

00:53:36.420 Mark Carney made the decision

00:53:38.100 as the chairman of Brookfield

00:53:40.180 that he would rather hide money

00:53:42.380 here in Bermuda

00:53:43.320 than pay taxes back home.

00:53:45.660 And he's still doing it

00:53:47.460 with his own stock options.

00:53:48.740 Back in Canada

00:53:49.820 after a momentous day in Dublin.

00:53:52.240 Holy smokes.

00:53:53.480 That was madness.

00:53:54.960 It's October 22nd

00:53:55.980 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:53:57.280 Thank you.

00:53:57.320 Thank you.

00:54:25.980 Peaceful protest turned not peaceful, horses stormed in, firecrackers were shot in response.

00:54:40.980 The police have deployed their riot brigades.

00:54:43.980 I've been hit with pepper spray, I'm not opening my right eye because my face has pepper spray on it.

00:54:55.980 I would estimate 100 riot police in response.

00:55:07.980 They charged everyone, pepper spraying everyone, including journalists like myself, indiscriminately.

00:55:13.980 There are women and children in this protest, they were pepper sprayed as well.

00:55:17.980 I've never been pepper sprayed before, it's quite painful.

00:55:20.980 And more than that, it's disabling, you can't see and so you can't really react.

00:55:26.980 I'm being guided around by my videographer, Lincoln Jay, thank you Lincoln.

00:55:30.980 An incredible show of force by the Irish police defending the migrants against Irish citizens.

00:55:37.980 Many of the protesters here would wonder when the Gardaí will protect Irish citizens from the refugees.

00:55:44.980 If you look at us, thankfully, we've just sent us thatagit of illegal people.

00:55:52.980 Let's go to work and mate, you see how we can happen, no Nejala is.

00:55:55.980 Let's go to

00:56:09.920 Go, go out, go out, go out, go out.

00:56:11.320 All right, so I got pepper sprayed to the face.

00:56:14.200 I'll stop being such a big baby.

00:56:15.480 I want to let you know I'm crying from the pepper, not from sorrow.

00:56:19.100 But it's quite a violent response from the Gardaí.

00:56:21.340 Now, in fairness to them, there were some protesters who threw some projectiles at them.

00:56:26.760 And there were three men on horses that stomped on some pylons.

00:56:30.620 But holy smokes did the police respond with overwhelming force.

00:56:34.520 Like I say, probably 100 police, full riot gear.

00:56:38.080 They had attack dogs, pepper spraying everyone in the face indiscriminately.

00:56:41.780 You can see helicopters overhead.

00:56:43.800 I don't know if there's even a way out.

00:56:45.680 I've got a fair bit of pain from the pepper.

00:56:47.900 I do not know where the front line is.

00:56:50.120 My goal is just to sort of rinse my eyes.

00:56:52.760 There's no political party in the Irish Parliament or the Senate that represents these people.

00:57:00.040 There's no mainstream media organization that represents these people.

00:57:04.060 High Premier Ezra Levant from Rebel News.

00:57:06.040 The first deadline in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, is April, where the duty is on Alberta to jack up carbon taxes.

00:57:19.440 And the last date in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, correct me if I'm not, is 2040.

00:57:25.300 That's when this pipeline, you know, that's sort of the end date.

00:57:28.800 It can't be any later than that.

00:57:30.240 In terms of building trust with the anti-oil liberals, they're asking Alberta to raise carbon taxes now for a promise of an oil pipeline years or even more than a decade in the future.

00:57:44.360 Does that really build trust?

00:57:46.000 Well, you have to start somewhere.

00:57:48.920 And one thing I would say is that we did have the Supreme Court of Canada rule on the federal government's ability to set a price on emissions.

00:57:58.960 So the Supreme Court has ruled on that.

00:58:01.160 It's part of the reason why we negotiated a stringency agreement that would have seen the carbon tax price go up to $170 a barrel by 2030.

00:58:10.000 We've demonstrated, and I think the Prime Minister agrees, that's too high, too fast.

00:58:16.300 So that's why we understand that there was always going to be a negotiation around that.

00:58:21.580 We froze the carbon tax at $95 pending consultation with the industry and greater work with the Prime Minister.

00:58:27.820 But remember, Alberta was the first to have an industrial carbon price.

00:58:31.340 They did in 20—we implemented that in 2007.

00:58:34.080 It's generated revenues that have allowed us to invest billions of dollars in new technologies, including carbon capture.

00:58:40.500 So there is a commitment on the part of the industry to have a carbon price, and we did do some consultation on that.

00:58:46.580 We're just glad that we have the means to manage it our way in Alberta under our tier program.

00:58:52.380 And we'll see as of April 1st—and no, that wasn't a joke.

00:58:56.360 April 1st is going to be the date that we have an agreement on that front.

00:59:01.820 When it comes to the building of a bitumen pipeline to Asian markets to the B.C. coast, if you read the MOU, those two things have to happen in tandem.

00:59:11.820 We have to see the Pathways project proceeding at the same time as an agreement to build that.

00:59:17.060 One is dependent on the other.

00:59:19.000 I don't know that the Prime Minister would have agreed to a new bitumen pipeline without Pathways,

00:59:22.640 and we wouldn't have agreed to Pathways without a new bitumen pipeline.

00:59:25.340 So they are going to be staged.

00:59:27.520 They are going to go on together.

00:59:28.780 We've already had a meeting with Pathways about how we're going to do that.

00:59:32.540 That will require a trilateral negotiation as well.

00:59:36.100 But I'm very hopeful.

00:59:37.880 Since we have used carbon capture technology before for enhanced oil recovery,

00:59:42.160 that's another part of this announcement is that CO2 will be able to be used for enhanced oil recovery,

00:59:47.320 which should allow us to generate more revenue.

00:59:49.680 So I would say that you don't always get 100% of what you want,

00:59:58.380 but we addressed seven out of the nine bad laws that I'd put on the table to,

01:00:02.940 I think, what will be the satisfaction of Albertans.

01:00:05.580 And I think that this will allow us to see some substantial investments.

01:00:09.860 I mean, that's the thing about a peace deal.

01:00:12.580 You have to make it with an enemy.

01:00:14.120 So I suppose the fact that for a decade, his Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero,

01:00:19.840 it was about putting a capital strike on the oil and gas sector.

01:00:24.280 Just a couple of weeks ago, he was asked about pipelines, and he said, boring.

01:00:28.620 So is there anything, I mean, after a lifetime of attacking the oil patch,

01:00:36.280 he was even interrogated by the U.S. Congress for an attempt to capital strike their oil companies.

01:00:42.560 Is there anything the prime minister has said to you in private that you could share with us

01:00:48.820 that would signal that his lifetime's work of attacking carbon-based fuels will somehow be put to the side?

01:00:58.280 Like, I think he's just a slightly smarter version of Stephen Gilbeau.

01:01:02.440 I think he hates the oil patch as his life's work.

01:01:06.140 Is there anything he's said to you that make you believe that maybe he can be turned on this?

01:01:14.240 Well, I'll start by saying my joke has been that I would love for pipelines to be boring again.

01:01:19.080 I would love for no matter what party is in power, what level of government,

01:01:23.520 that there wasn't sort of an overwrought response anytime anyone talked about building a pipeline.

01:01:29.860 It's actually quite remarkable that we're talking about expanding uranium mines,

01:01:34.420 building nuclear power plants, building new transmission lines through pristine areas,

01:01:39.220 massive new mining projects, and not one of them has raised any ire

01:01:43.680 on the part of any environmental group or anyone in the media,

01:01:46.400 but there has been all of this ire raised around a pipeline.

01:01:50.980 So I hope that we can make pipelines boring again

01:01:53.180 because it's just a way to get our product to the consumers who need it.

01:01:59.100 I would say that, as you know, I was not a huge champion of carbon capture technology

01:02:05.940 when I was in politics the first time.

01:02:07.760 I wasn't.

01:02:08.200 But I've seen, with the passage of time, the investments being made

01:02:11.860 and the fact that the technology works and we're getting better and better at it

01:02:14.600 and you can create a product out of it so that you can enhance oil recovery,

01:02:19.720 I changed my mind.

01:02:21.240 And so I would say that the prime minister, maybe in the past 10 years,

01:02:25.280 it looked like wind and solar and batteries were going to be the ability

01:02:28.580 to power industrial economies.

01:02:30.460 I think the world discovered that's not true with the Russian invasion of Ukraine,

01:02:34.180 with the instability in the Middle East.

01:02:35.600 Everyone is having to recalibrate and rethink that.

01:02:39.100 I was recently in the Middle East and the conversation around the table now

01:02:42.300 was talking about natural gas as a foundational fuel, not a transition fuel.

01:02:46.860 So I think that demonstrates that there is a global understanding

01:02:50.180 of how important it is to have reliable electricity.

01:02:54.140 And so I have to just give the prime minister credit

01:02:58.740 for perhaps he's recalibrating his own thinking on this.

01:03:02.100 It certainly seems to be in the agreement that we signed,

01:03:04.440 but we will trust, but we will verify.

01:03:07.560 We will make sure that he lives up to the commitments in this agreement that we had.

01:03:12.900 And we have to proceed somewhere with a measure of good faith.

01:03:15.900 I can tell you 100% that the former prime minister would never have moved this far on these issues.

01:03:21.780 We tried for three years.

01:03:23.100 We got nowhere.

01:03:23.720 And in my very first meeting with the prime minister, I said to him,

01:03:28.740 you know, the way that we can get to an agreement is just orienting around a 2050 target.

01:03:33.740 Our industry is there.

01:03:35.180 We think it's achievable with technology.

01:03:37.000 And you'll see in the context of this MOU that the interim targets are gone.

01:03:41.560 And so that's what we're going to move forward on.

01:03:45.720 And we'll see as we meet these milestones whether I'm correct

01:03:50.260 or whether your skepticism is correct.

01:03:52.580 Thanks.

01:03:53.020 Thanks, Cessera.

01:03:53.360 Thanks, Cessera.

01:03:53.620 Thanks, Cessera.

01:04:07.420 Thanks, Cessera.

01:04:07.840 Thanks, Cessera.

Rebel News Podcast - January 01, 2026

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