Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Can Donald Trump restore the American Dream？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, is it possible that Kamala Harris could become the next U.S. President? 0.89

00:00:19.540 And if so, is it possible that the 1979 being there actually predicted the future?

00:00:27.600 It's Friday, October 25th, 2024.

00:00:32.400 I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levent Show.

00:00:35.700 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:51.200 The U.S. presidential election is but 10 days away.

00:00:55.000 There's a plethora of pundits who are stating this is the most important American election

00:01:01.880 since the Civil War.

00:01:04.060 And I don't think this is an exaggeration.

00:01:07.900 I also don't think the stakes could be any higher.

00:01:11.500 Former President Donald Trump wants to restore America to what it was just four years ago.

00:01:18.040 That would be prosperity on the home front via energy independence, record low unemployment,

00:01:24.420 and low interest rates.

00:01:26.260 As for the southern border under President Trump, this particular zip code did not resemble

00:01:31.600 a slab of Swiss cheese.

00:01:33.600 Meanwhile, in terms of foreign policy, well, peace was breaking out all over the place.

00:01:40.360 As for Vice President Kamala Harris, she says she's campaigning for change.

00:01:48.060 When she stages a press conference, which is rare, and when she agrees to an interview

00:01:53.440 with a journalist who isn't moonlighting as a cheerleader for the Democratic Party, which

00:01:59.040 is even more rare, she can't open her mouth without a denouncing Donald Trump and b positioning herself 1.00

00:02:08.340 as a catalyst for change.

00:02:11.780 Well that's one hell of a sales pitch, wouldn't you say?

00:02:14.420 I mean, how does one campaign for change against oneself?

00:02:20.540 For those who are calendar challenged, Harris has been the Vice President these past four

00:02:25.740 years.

00:02:26.740 She's been the number two person in the Biden administration.

00:02:31.660 How do you possibly claim that you're an agent for change, when really you represent more

00:02:38.060 of the same old, same old?

00:02:40.560 I highly doubt this laughing leopard has changed her spots. 0.99

00:02:45.700 Oh sure, out on the hustings, she now says things like, she's going to toughen up border

00:02:52.120 security.

00:02:53.520 But she was the self-proclaimed border czar these past four years.

00:02:58.900 Remember that?

00:03:00.520 And the numbers don't lie.

00:03:01.840 It is estimated that at least 8 million illegal aliens have made their way onto U.S. soil in

00:03:10.180 the past four years.

00:03:12.020 This invasion has economic implications, security implications, crime implications.

00:03:18.400 It's also a grotesque dereliction of duty by Tsarina Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:03:25.640 Unless of course the goal was to flood the United States with illegals in order to alter 1.00

00:03:30.460 the demographics in an attempt to transform red states into blue states.

00:03:35.840 In this regard, the Biden-Harris administration gets a five-star rating.

00:03:41.840 And will wonders ever cease?

00:03:45.220 Kamala is suddenly pro-fracking.

00:03:48.220 Is anyone buying that, given that U.S. fracking licenses have remained frozen these past four

00:03:55.360 years?

00:03:56.280 Or just maybe it is strategically prudent for Harris to be pro-fracking during an election

00:04:03.220 campaign, given that fracking makes for a huge economic shot in the arm for, say, Pennsylvania,

00:04:11.100 which of course is a crucially important swing state.

00:04:15.640 My advice to Pennsylvanians, should Kamala Harris actually become president, don't expect what

00:04:22.340 she's promising on the campaign trail will translate into actual policy once she's ensconced in the 0.97

00:04:30.580 White House.

00:04:32.080 In the retail world, this is what's known as bait and switch.

00:04:37.120 Indeed, a vote for Kamala is a vote for the status quo, i.e., runaway inflation, yet more

00:04:44.700 millions of illegal aliens, no energy independence, turning a blind eye to Iranian-funded terrorism,

00:04:52.960 embracing the radical transgender agenda, weaponizing the FBI and the Department of Justice against 0.88

00:05:00.560 Donald Trump.

00:05:02.600 That's a wide range of targets, ranging from concerned parents attending school board meetings,

00:05:05.600 to even the former, and perhaps future, President Donald Trump.

00:05:10.600 Meanwhile, in the Department of Foreign Affairs, I could care less if you're a Republican, Democrat,

00:05:16.600 independent, or simply don't give a rodent's rectum when it comes to politics.

00:05:21.600 The fact of the matter is the world is a hellaciously more dangerous place today than when Donald Trump

00:05:30.640 was president.

00:05:31.640 Wars are ranging from the Middle East to Ukraine, while China and North Korea continue to rattle

00:05:37.640 their neighbors.

00:05:39.680 And the Democrats believe that the answer for peace in our time is a nuclearized Iran? 0.73

00:05:46.680 Talk about a death wish, given that the crazed mullahs in Tehran see Israel as the little

00:05:52.680 Satan, whereas the U.S., which is currently Iran's enabler, is the big Satan. 0.85

00:05:59.720 And should Iran get nuclear weapons, expect this regime to use those weapons of mass destruction? 0.78

00:06:07.720 Again, talk about a death wish.

00:06:10.720 As well, a key Democratic Party plank in this election is all about protecting and preserving democracy.

00:06:17.720 Really?

00:06:18.720 How?

00:06:19.720 Especially given the Biden administration has proven itself to be the biggest threat to democracy.

00:06:27.720 And the Dems are just getting started, folks.

00:06:31.220 Should Harris become president?

00:06:33.460 Expect the U.S. Supreme Court to get stacked with Democratic-friendly judges?

00:06:39.120 Expect the elimination of the filibuster?

00:06:42.020 These people don't love democracy.

00:06:44.300 They despise it.

00:06:46.300 And yet, if the polls are accurate, it would appear that this election might end up being

00:06:53.060 a proverbial photo finish, especially when it comes to the crucial swing states of Ohio,

00:06:59.540 Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and, of course, the aforementioned Pennsylvania.

00:07:06.120 But that's the big question, isn't it?

00:07:08.600 Are the polls indeed accurate?

00:07:11.540 For what it's worth, my gut feeling is that if there are no shenanigans when it comes to

00:07:17.700 counting the ballots on Election Day, and that's a big if when it comes to certain electoral

00:07:24.300 districts, then the 2024 election might very well be a replay of what happened in 1980.

00:07:32.860 Just prior to Election Day in 1980, major polls suggested that the Democrats, under President

00:07:39.100 Jimmy Carter, had a slight edge over Republican challenger Ronald Reagan.

00:07:45.180 Alas, 1980 turned out to be a landslide for Reagan.

00:07:50.060 Reagan captured 489 electoral votes to Carter's 49 electoral votes.

00:07:59.020 Could we see the same outcome come November 5th?

00:08:02.960 Have the pollsters got it completely wrong again?

00:08:05.820 Well, stay tuned.

00:08:08.140 In hindsight, Jimmy Carter was both ineffectual and woefully weak as president.

00:08:14.900 But even the former peanut farmer stands as a presidential colossus in comparison to Kamala

00:08:21.760 Harris.

00:08:22.760 Seriously, is Kamala Harris really the best the Democrats have to offer? 0.94

00:08:28.140 When she ran to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2020, her campaign was an unmitigated

00:08:35.460 disaster and she quickly dropped out.

00:08:38.620 And yet today, Kamala, with the passage of time, has somehow emerged as the gold standard.

00:08:46.520 So much so that the primary process was replaced by a coronation.

00:08:51.900 Hey, who needs all that messy voting stuff, eh?

00:08:55.920 It's really overrated and yeah, so much for that protecting and preserving democracy shtick.

00:09:03.060 But in late June, it had become abundantly clear after the debate debacle that Joe Biden

00:09:10.420 was mentally unfit for the job. 0.85

00:09:13.520 Even for him to run a presidential campaign from his basement, just as he did in 2020, well,

00:09:19.560 that would be tantamount to elder abuse.

00:09:23.400 And yet the more Ms. Harris speaks, the more it becomes clear why she was a 2020 write-off.

00:09:31.580 This woman is an empty pantsuit. 1.00

00:09:34.580 This is someone so vacuous and so vapid that it is impossible for her to make coherent points

00:09:42.080 or give direct answers to direct questions.

00:09:46.600 And unlike Biden, dementia is not a factor when it comes to Kamala's incoherence.

00:09:52.780 Well, I'm guessing here, of course.

00:09:55.660 And yet, to borrow a Hollywood term, Kamala Harris has been reimagined as presidential material.

00:10:03.780 Again, why? How?

00:10:06.240 By the way, don't take my word for it when it comes to the VP's incoherence and cluelessness.

00:10:12.420 Check out Kamala in her own words.

00:10:15.420 And let me just tell you, I love Gen Z.

00:10:21.600 I don't know if some people, you know, I love Gen Z.

00:10:24.600 We love you!

00:10:25.600 We love you!

00:10:26.600 So, okay, for the older adult, this is going to be a humbling thing I'm about to share with

00:10:32.600 you.

00:10:33.600 If someone is 18 years old today, they were born in 2005.

00:10:40.780 Oh yeah, check that out.

00:10:41.780 What?

00:10:42.780 Think about that for a minute.

00:10:45.660 The governor and I, and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about

00:10:52.040 the significance of the passage of time, right?

00:10:55.200 The significance of the passage of time.

00:10:58.100 So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms

00:11:02.560 of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs.

00:11:08.580 And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in

00:11:14.520 the life of our children.

00:11:16.400 I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?

00:11:21.220 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:24.800 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:29.340 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:33.360 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:37.360 What we can see, what we believe can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:41.380 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:43.380 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:50.400 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:11:54.400 unburdened by who we have been what can be unburdened by what has been where we can be

00:12:00.820 unburdened by where we have been and unburdened by where we are right now i grew up understanding

00:12:05.700 the children of the community are the children of the community sadly in real unsettled times

00:12:13.340 it is the caribbean nations island nations in the western hemisphere that is where the caribbean is

00:12:21.460 we are also in the western hemisphere they are our neighbors i love venn diagrams

00:12:26.140 i really do i love venn diagrams it's just something about those three circles and i like

00:12:34.180 to think about a lot of things in the context of a venn diagram i love venn diagrams always ask is

00:12:39.340 there a venn diagram for this i'm telling you it's fascinating when you do so venn diagram those three

00:12:45.880 circles right i asked my team to do a venn diagram of where these attacks are happening

00:12:50.220 so voting rights women's reproductive rights lgbtq rights and of course there was a huge

00:12:57.640 intersection yikes is she hoping to fool us with this baffle gab are we supposed to be bamboozled 0.99

00:13:05.420 into thinking that these pronouncements are supposedly profound apparently camilla harris

00:13:12.100 has deluded herself into thinking so and don't expect her useful idiots in the mainstream media to 1.00

00:13:19.760 call her out on this nonsense they're actually protecting her but for anyone with a single

00:13:25.960 functioning brain cell regardless of one's political posture these statements and so many

00:13:33.120 others uttered by harris make for a heaping helping of word salad that remain at the end of the day

00:13:39.900 undecipherable nonsense alas when camilla isn't talking camilla is laughing and what a laugh but

00:13:50.460 really what the hell's so funny not the price of the pump that's for sure nor a visit to the supermarket

00:13:57.840 these days so is this some sort of psychological defensive mechanism is this so much nervous laughter

00:14:06.540 as opposed to genuine lol laughter hey who knows maybe given the proximity to halloween camilla

00:14:15.260 is channel is channeling the cackling of a certain wicked witch regardless it's downright embarrassing

00:14:22.620 you think you think you just fell out of a coconut tree

00:14:29.340 hello

00:14:31.340 hello i want to talk to you

00:14:38.060 they want to know now

00:14:40.060 they want to know now

00:14:42.060 they want to know now

00:14:44.060 i want to know now

00:14:50.780 i was waiting for you to say it

00:14:52.780 love goodness

00:14:54.780 you're like how she always gotta say you and

00:14:56.860 you may clap

00:15:02.780 and your answer is part of the job

00:15:04.780 I'll try to say something kind here she has beautiful teeth but dental fortitude 1.00

00:15:21.700 aside that sonic assault there's such a degree of familiarity to that laughter no

00:15:27.400 oh wait a second I remember I'm thinking about these characters make those

00:15:34.460 messages clear holy funny bone Batman speaking of pop culture I now come finally to the point of this

00:15:48.860 monologue which is this when I reflect upon Kamala's inexplicable ascension to vice presidential power

00:15:56.720 and perhaps even presidential power I can't help but think of the 1979 Peter Sellers movie being

00:16:05.780 there I think I've seen being there more than 100 times no I'm not obsessed with this flick rather

00:16:12.980 I worked as a part-time usher at Toronto's dearly departed Hollywood theater when the film was

00:16:19.700 originally released part of being an usher is to simply stand around in the dark watching the same

00:16:26.660 movie over and over again you pray the movie will be a good one and being there certainly makes the

00:16:32.840 grade based on Jersey Kosinski's satirical novel of the same name being there is about an illiterate

00:16:39.940 gardener who lives his entire life behind the walls of a Washington DC house the man's only knowledge

00:16:47.840 of the world comes from the TV shows he watches from cartoons to handyman programs when his employer

00:16:56.360 dies Chauncey Gardner is inexplicably catapulted into the fast lane of political power this is not by

00:17:06.260 design mind you rather thanks to a series of bizarre coincidences and misunderstandings and cosmic

00:17:13.640 flukes Chauncey is suddenly deemed to be leadership material soon Chauncey's childlike utterances are

00:17:22.160 misinterpreted as words of profound wisdom pertaining to everything from social to economic policy check

00:17:31.400 out this excerpt from the trailer on television mr. president you look much smaller dumb as a jackass as 0.71

00:17:43.160 long as the roots are not severed all is well and all will be well in the garden

00:17:51.920 in the garden

00:17:52.440 in the garden

00:17:59.360 hmm

00:18:00.540 hmm

00:18:01.880 hmm

00:18:03.880 often a lease of information on mr. Chauncey Gardner's background

00:18:08.120 what do you mean he's got no background that's impossible

00:18:11.340 listen to that boy

00:18:13.480 mr. Gardner the new york times spoke of your peculiar brand of optimism what was your reaction to that

00:18:19.280 i do not know what it means

00:18:21.440 ho ho ho he was very clever keeping it at a third grade level that's what they understand

00:18:27.420 he's very very sexy but i think he's brilliant i raise that boy it's always uh somewhat surprising

00:18:36.980 to find men like yourself working so intimately with the president and yet somehow managing to remain

00:18:43.620 relatively unknown yes it is surprising and look at him now i can't write i heard he speaks eight

00:18:52.700 languages i can't read

00:18:54.340 i like to watch dv of course there are profound differences between the real life camilla harris

00:19:02.920 and the fictional chauncey gardner chauncey had a good heart he was completely unambitious

00:19:10.640 he was good-natured he wouldn't hurt a fly heck his only desire was to be left alone so that he could

00:19:17.040 watch tv as for camilla harris she has always been a creature of profound ambition

00:19:23.440 it is an open secret that she got her start in california politics thanks to an affair

00:19:30.000 with then san francisco mayor willie brown brown supported camilla in her successful quest to become 0.99

00:19:37.760 san francisco district attorney then again maybe that was just a coincidence i'm sure camilla ascended 0.98

00:19:45.360 to that position purely on merit as opposed to horizontal jogging with influential men and if you

00:19:54.080 believe that whopper folks i hear the golden gate bridge is for sale by all means make an offer oh

00:20:01.360 should i apologize for making mention of this inconvenient truth the mainstream media calls

00:20:07.920 allegations of sleeping to the top as nothing short of misogyny after all misogyny is a hatred of woman 0.91

00:20:16.560 and you see america could make history with the election of its very first woman president um i hate

00:20:25.360 to be a nitpicker here but just when exactly did the term woman suddenly come back in vogue with the

00:20:33.200 progressives i thought womanhood was some sort of really hard to define concept it was just two years

00:20:40.240 ago that u.s supreme court justice katanji brown who i think is a woman struggled mightily with the 0.91

00:20:48.880 definition of the word woman here check it out can you provide a definition for the word woman

00:20:57.680 can i provide a definition no yeah i can't you can't

00:21:05.680 not in this context i'm not a biologist of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can't

00:21:12.720 give me a definition senator in my work as a judge what i do is i address disputes if there's a dispute

00:21:23.600 about a definition people make arguments and i look at the law and i decide whoa whoa whoa stop the clock

00:21:31.280 senator blackburn that was then and this is now you see when it appeared that the presidential race was

00:21:37.680 going to be a rematch between two dudes well woman was rendered obsolete we have so many mentally ill 1.00

00:21:45.920 biological men pretending to be woman demanding trans rights now and invading female safe spaces in the 0.99

00:21:53.440 process but diversity is our strength etc etc etc but now that a real bonafide female is indeed running to 0.67

00:22:02.160 be the commander in chief well the word woman much like elevated sneakers well it's suddenly retro cool

00:22:11.600 these days absolutely nobody on the left is unclear what the word woman means funny how quickly

00:22:19.520 the world changes when viewed through the lens of a progressive just like how camilla mere months ago

00:22:26.960 was all for open borders but now talks about building walls just as she supported a fracking 1.00

00:22:32.480 ban as being part and parcel of the green new deal but is now allegedly all in when it comes to the

00:22:39.840 fracking miracle what a fracking reprobate and despite all of camilla's laughter is that guffawing really

00:22:50.000 just a facade is there some dark soul that lurks behind that mask of merriment here's an astonishing fact

00:23:00.240 camilla harris has had an astounding 92 percent turnover rate in her staff these past few years as vp

00:23:11.360 that's simply unheard of check out this article from july 29th published in the washington free beacon

00:23:18.960 headlined don't look her in the eye father of office intern recounts office horror stories quote as california

00:23:28.880 attorney general camilla harris consistently berated staff members instructed them to stand and call her 0.94

00:23:36.960 general when she entered the general when she entered the office and banned many of them from 1.00

00:23:42.560 looking her in the eye according to the father of one of harris's former interns the father terry

00:23:51.280 mcateer penned a 2019 op-ed recounting the horror stories from his son gregory's short time as a public

00:24:01.680 policy intern in harris's attorney general's office senator harris vocally throws around f-bombs and other

00:24:10.400 profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others mcateer wrote the staff is in complete fear of

00:24:19.520 her and she uses her profanity throughout the day he continued as attorney general senator harris

00:24:27.440 instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say good morning

00:24:35.440 general never once during the month-long internship did harris introduce herself to our son and staff

00:24:44.080 was too intimidated by her to introduce him end quote wow talk about privilege donald trump

00:24:52.640 is not the problem he is the solution i would compare trump's record as president versus what

00:25:00.240 biden and harris have accomplished these past few years pick a file any file in fact if i had the

00:25:08.560 former president's ear i would advise him to revise one of the most popular american election ads of all

00:25:16.240 time namely morning again in america the republicans ran this ad in 1984 when ronald reagan was seeking

00:25:25.120 a second term in office here check it out it's morning again in america today more men and women

00:25:34.000 will go to work than ever before in our country's history with interest rates at about half the record

00:25:39.680 highs of 1980 nearly 2 000 families today will buy new homes more than at any time in the past four

00:25:46.960 years this afternoon 6 500 young men and women will be married and with inflation of less than half of

00:25:56.480 what it was just four years ago they can look forward with confidence to the future

00:26:01.600 it's morning again in america and under the leadership of president reagan our country is

00:26:10.720 prouder and stronger and better why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short

00:26:19.280 years ago isn't this ad from 40 years ago the very embodiment of today's make america great again

00:26:35.120 slogan and it sure worked wonders for reagan in 1984 reagan captured a staggering 525 electoral votes

00:26:47.120 versus walter mondale's 13 electoral votes yeah that's right 525 to 13. reagan won every single

00:26:57.920 state in the union except minnesota what is it about minnesota here's a little bit more from snl uh with

00:27:06.480 quote tim waltz and quote president biden you claimed you were in hong kong during the 1989 tiananmen

00:27:12.880 square massacre when you were home in minnesota can you explain that so i think what happened is i

00:27:18.960 went to epcot you can go around the whole world and i had a couple in the germany section and i thought

00:27:28.640 i went to china anyway i'm a knucklehead you know how do you ever come back from the nickname tampon tim

00:27:37.520 oh and by the way the vikings suck now being a canadian citizen some may wonder why i care so much

00:27:45.360 about what might occur south of the border on november 5th well i care because i love america

00:27:51.760 and i love the american spirit and i love the american people america is our greatest ally we share the

00:27:58.880 world's longest undefended border with the us a strong us typically means canada will be stronger too

00:28:05.680 all boats rise with the tide after all and this election in my eyes boils down to giving donald trump

00:28:13.520 another mandate in his quest yes to make america great again or four more years of misery as always

00:28:22.960 isn't the question simply this are you better off today than you were four years ago okay maybe if

00:28:30.240 you invested in certain pharmaceutical companies during the covet 19 pandemic maybe then you're on

00:28:37.280 easy street the rest of us not so much but if i were a betting man and i am i'm feeling more confident

00:28:46.240 about a trump victory for one particular reason that whiff of desperation in the democratic camp has

00:28:54.880 increasingly become an unbearable stench how desperate are the democrats well this desperate

00:29:03.120 two days ago kamala harris actually played the hitler card when referencing donald trump check it out

00:29:10.480 donald trump's former chief of staff john kelly a retired four-star general confirmed that while

00:29:16.800 donald trump was president he said he wanted generals like adolf hitler had

00:29:23.680 donald trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the united states constitution

00:29:31.520 he wants a military that is loyal to him he wants a military who will be loyal to him personally first

00:29:40.240 of all trump did not say that but never mind but more to the point you have lost the room when you

00:29:47.040 compare someone to adolf hitler it's not that such a comparison can never be made if for example someone

00:29:54.880 is hell-bent on world conquest and carrying out a genocide then a hitler comparison well that's fair 0.53

00:30:03.120 game but does that sound like donald trump to you really in fact the precise opposite is true i can think

00:30:11.040 of no other president since the establishment of the state of israel in 1948 who has been

00:30:17.280 a greater champion for the jewish state and for jews the world over trump moved the u.s embassy from

00:30:24.560 tel aviv to jerusalem he was the driving force behind the abraham accords more recently he has repeatedly

00:30:33.520 encouraged israel to wipe out the islamist terrorist group that is hamas whereas kamala ceasefire harris

00:30:42.160 would prefer that you know you don't use the descriptor islamist terrorists as if such a

00:30:48.480 creature does not exist and let's not forget that when benjamin natanahu addressed a joint session of

00:30:57.600 congress back in july harris snubbed israel's prime minister by being a no-show unbelievable but then

00:31:07.040 again not really given that kamala is a supporter of the river to the sea crowd and despite the backlash

00:31:15.760 she received regarding the hitler comparison well kamala doubled down on the vilification of trump 0.88

00:31:23.840 during a cnn town hall meeting on wednesday night here check it out you yourself have not used that

00:31:30.400 word to describe him let me ask you tonight do you think donald trump is a fascist yes i do yes i do

00:31:36.800 you know folks when you call a political rival hitler when you call a political rival a fascist when you are

00:31:44.720 hell-bent on demonization rather than debate is it any wonder that there are crackpots out there

00:31:53.600 who have tried to assassinate trump at least twice in recent months kamala harris and her ilk are evil 0.98

00:32:03.040 it is they who are the hate mongers in the final analysis the movie being there ends with the

00:32:11.200 intellectually infantile chauncey gardner seemingly headed to the oval office as the screen fades to black

00:32:21.120 it appears that in all likelihood an imbecile is going to become the next president of the united 0.56

00:32:29.520 states of america it's preposterous it's baffling yet being there is a work of fiction it's a social satire

00:32:39.200 but the question arises if kamala harris is actually successful somehow in winning the election

00:32:48.960 some 10 days from now could it be that being there was 45 years ahead of its time was author jersey

00:32:58.560 kosinski prescient did he actually foresee something that could actually occur in america

00:33:05.600 in america in the movie the possibility of chauncey gardner becoming president plays out as comedy

00:33:15.280 as for kamala harris becoming president

00:33:18.000 given the stakes does this qualify as horror or tragedy maybe both

00:33:35.360 well folks things are really heating up for stefan gibault the minister of the environment and

00:33:41.600 climate change for starters gibault faces heightened scrutiny amid accusations of negligence

00:33:48.880 surrounding the devastating wildfire earlier this year in jasper alberta parliamentary hearings have

00:33:56.560 revealed troubling details including that 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters were turned away during the blaze

00:34:06.960 allegations have also surfaced regarding improper fire hydrants in the town which were found to lack the

00:34:14.720 correct adapters hindering firefighting efforts as a result an estimated 358 of jasper's

00:34:23.440 1 113 structures were destroyed representing nearly one-third of the town's buildings and about one

00:34:32.960 billion dollars worth of property damage compounding the controversy is a scandal involving circle capital

00:34:41.040 a company where gibault worked for 10 years as an advisor and in which he still holds shares the company

00:34:49.120 reportedly received 200 million dollars in subsidies from the government's green slush fund raising

00:34:56.480 significant concerns about conflicts of interest and potential misuse of taxpayer money well a few days ago my

00:35:05.360 colleague alexa lavoie she confronted gibault at a fundraising event to try and get some answers

00:35:11.520 and shockers and shockers gibault deferred to the silent treatment mostly refusing to answer questions about

00:35:19.440 his involvement regarding the circle capital subsidies nor his handling of the jasper wildfire how odd

00:35:28.960 didn't the justin trudeau liberals promise almost a decade ago that this government was going to be the

00:35:35.120 most transparent government in canadian history oh well yet another broken promise it would seem and

00:35:43.280 joining me now is our quebec-based colleague alexa laval how are you doing there alexa i'm pretty good and you

00:35:52.160 david menzay oh i'm always good i'm that much better whenever you uh hop on uh the show and uh speak to me alexa great job

00:36:01.040 uh the other day in trying to scrum uh mr gibault and so many things unpack here but first things first

00:36:09.760 alexa the town of jasper is facing a catastrophic wildfire and yet 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters

00:36:22.160 are turned away why

00:36:24.240 the ironic part is when steven gilbo is actually um pleasing himself saying how much they did a good

00:36:35.840 job over there while 30 percent of the town burned down uh in jasper um there were a huge lack of

00:36:45.040 negligence uh regarding if it's not the fire hydrants why they turned away a crucial support crucial help

00:36:54.080 to extinguish the fire we talk about 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters also the liberal government

00:37:04.160 knew for multiple years about the risk of fire regarding the dead tree that they should have removed

00:37:14.880 through the year and they had people warning them that if there is a fire they would not be able to

00:37:22.080 handle it so i think seven gilbo had to answer a couple of questions it's why i came all the way to

00:37:29.520 quebec to try to catch him at the cosmos lorier in saint-foy and uh obviously he pretended to be on the

00:37:38.000 phone when i arrived while i didn't really hear him speaking once really to someone else in the phone so

00:37:47.600 i think it was just a tactic to try to because i'm a nice person i'm a nice girl so usually i would

00:37:55.040 not interrupt someone in the phone so but this time i was like it's sure that he's pretending to be on

00:38:02.960 the phone so i need to continue to ask my question and why i choose english is because the people who

00:38:09.440 want answer about the fire live in the west coast and those people are english canadian and they have

00:38:19.120 to have answer and accountability from those politicians but in the video you will see if

00:38:26.160 you watch it already or not um mr gilbo answered me the only thing that he answered me at the beginning

00:38:33.120 was uh we are in quebec so you can speak in french but while i changed in french he didn't answer

00:38:40.240 anyway and you know alexa i'm gonna throw to the clip of you scrumming mr gilbo in a second but i just

00:38:49.120 want to get back to what might have been the unspoken reason why 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters

00:38:57.200 were turned away when they were crucially needed and as you mentioned in your report um there was

00:39:03.200 adaptability issues with the fire hydrants there and the way i look into it and please tell me if

00:39:10.640 i'm going down the wrong path here alexa i think they didn't want those firefighters to find out that

00:39:18.480 there were compatibility issues that they couldn't hook up to the hydrants but what an incredibly flawed

00:39:26.160 strategy because all of this came out in the inquiry anyways what what say you but it tell me the

00:39:34.560 same thing uh they wanted to hide something that was improper but in the same time uh they knew they

00:39:42.080 will have an investigation afterwards on the fire since it was just a big 30 of the town being destroyed

00:39:52.320 so of course people will want to have some answer of how all this was endowed and if it was in a proper way

00:40:01.040 and obviously what we hear so far in parliamentary hearing was just exposing negligence and also the fact

00:40:12.480 that the government were aware of the problem the issue that was pending on the head of the population over

00:40:21.360 jasper and really that's my point alexa if that was a cover-up they even failed in the cover um but

00:40:29.760 you know what before we go on folks i'm going to throw to a clip it's alexa love law in all her glory 1.00

00:40:35.520 scrumming the minister uh spoiler alert didn't go well check it out mr gilbeau have a question for you

00:40:42.640 i was just wondering are you in the caucus revolt yeah but are you in the in the caucus revolt or do

00:40:51.840 you still believe that justin chudeau is doing a great job yeah but you have the right to answer

00:40:58.320 like some question mr gilbeau mr gilbeau knowing that there is 20 water truck and 50 firefighters

00:41:05.040 being turned away in jasper mr gilbeau you have to answer we know now that 20 water water truck and 50

00:41:15.440 firefighters were turned away in jasper was that to hide the improper fire hydrant in the town site

00:41:23.920 if not can you explain why they were turned away mr mr gilbeau mr gilbeau you worked for a company

00:41:31.840 for 10 years as an advisor and you still have share on it and they received 200 millions of dollars in

00:41:40.800 subsidies mr gilbeau can you explain to canadian the abuse can you explain to canadian the abuse of tax

00:41:48.000 payer money okay pouvez-vous expliquer aux canadiens monsieur gilbeau l'abus de l'utilisation de l'argent

00:41:55.520 des contribuables pour le donner à vos compagnies comme circle capital qui vous avez

00:42:01.680 donné 200 millions de dollars en subventions pouvez-vous leur expliquer l'abus de l'utilisation

00:42:08.080 de cet argent-là pouvez-vous l'expliquer pour bénéficier non seulement vous mais

00:42:18.160 20 20 water truck and 50 firefighters were turned away in jasper during the fire was that to hide the

00:42:28.960 improper fire hydrants on the town side mr gilbeau and if not why they were turned away mr gilbeau

00:42:39.120 why you don't want to answer that question mr gilbeau you work for circle capital as

00:42:46.960 an advisor for 10 years mr gilbeau no another white right wing i'm asking it's a good guy

00:42:56.640 i'm not uh i'm not uh wait uh what you said i don't know why

00:43:04.400 i just i just want you to answer a quick question

00:43:08.080 alors s'il vous plaît monsieur gilbeau a à répondre à une petite question ça va prendre

00:43:14.560 une seconde monsieur gilbeau monsieur il y a 200 millions de dollars qui a été donné à une compagnie

00:43:20.160 pour laquelle vous avez travaillé dix ans comme advisor pouvez-vous juste répondre à cette question-là

00:43:24.960 pourquoi et je vais quitter après que monsieur gilbeau a répondu oui mais c'est une petite question monsieur

00:43:30.560 vous êtes capable de dire il y a plusieurs questions vous avez posé question qu'est ce que vous avez

00:43:35.040 pourquoi vous donner 200 millions je suis ministre de l'environnement mais c'est c'est moi je suis

00:43:40.040 ministre de l'environnement oui alors regardez dans toutes les subventions qui ont été données par

00:43:44.240 le ministre de l'environnement il n'y en a eu aucune qui sont allées à cette organisation là

00:43:47.680 un cerco capital aucune ministère de l'environnement 200 millions aucune subvention vous avez eu votre

00:43:54.320 réponse donc pourquoi il y a une investigation en ce moment sur l'investissement qui a été donné de 200

00:43:59.440 millions sur le capital j'ai répondu à votre question merci beaucoup mais je pense que vous

00:44:06.160 auriez davantage à répondre à nos questions quand on est avec vous au lieu de dans un événement privé

00:44:11.320 vous n'avez pas demandé d'entrevue jamais que vous acceptez monsieur gilbeau j'ai répondu à votre

00:44:16.960 question est-ce que vous acceptez habituellement nos invitations la prochaine fois je vous invite à

00:44:22.840 répondre à nos demandes d'entrevue merci bonne soirée monsieur gilbeau so there you go alex and you

00:44:32.680 alluded to this earlier i mean again so many things unpacked from that uh scrum but what was this

00:44:39.640 business where he said you know you're in quebec and you can't speak french what did he mean by that

00:44:46.920 because as you explained earlier um most of the people in jasper in alberta for that matter uh

00:44:53.560 they're anglophones uh that's why you were uh speaking english you're completely conversant

00:44:59.640 in french it is your mother tongue but why did he say that well first of all why politicians

00:45:07.320 are using french most of the time they know that uh the biggest part of canada doesn't speak french

00:45:14.840 and so everything that what they would say would not spread as as far as if it's in french because

00:45:23.480 you need someone to translate in english so the impact is not the same so choosing to speak in french

00:45:30.760 with me he knew already that uh my report or my coverage would not have been seen as much if it

00:45:39.640 was answering to me in english um also it's not really a good thing for him because most of their

00:45:47.080 supporters are still in the quebec so for my part is like you asked me to speak in french but right now

00:45:54.840 uh the only people who are still supporting you speak french so um maybe it's not that great for

00:46:01.880 you but when i arrived among their supporters um first of all there were not many i would say that

00:46:10.520 if there were 20 of them but i think it was way oh that that was empty by the way when i entered the

00:46:18.200 first couple of table was not part of the event it was really on the back of the restaurant okay

00:46:25.000 you mean they didn't even rent the whole facility no just the back of the restaurant where like you

00:46:31.640 used to have like private events but i arrived there i was like oh my god most of the place is empty

00:46:38.680 there is almost no people here and i was like keeping asking my question among all those supporters

00:46:46.840 and at the end i saw stephen gable was looking at me with like killing highs saying like i should

00:46:55.800 probably go and it was like keep keeping repeating it's a private event it's a private event i say i'm

00:47:02.840 going to live when you will answer this question and i was pretty surprised because they threatening me with

00:47:09.960 police at the end but at the beginning nobody tried to stop me or make me go away or try to to ask me

00:47:20.520 to live until really at the end where i was really facing uh stephen gilbo and at that moment i was

00:47:28.680 pressuring him regarding the 200 million dollars subsidies at circle capital a company who worked

00:47:36.520 for 10 years as a lobbyist and still have share in and i just asked him where the taxpayer money goes

00:47:46.600 why are you misusing abusing of taxpayer money to give to you and your liberal friends

00:47:53.080 and benefiting from it yeah and and you know what i and he did answer that question he said there was no

00:47:59.640 uh conflict one i'm not sure i believe that i think we might have to do a deep dive to make sure

00:48:06.360 he's telling the truth because you know don't tell me how i know this folks but some liberals well they

00:48:12.360 get a little liberal when it comes to telling the truth secondly alexa when it comes to a conflict of

00:48:19.560 interest there's the conflict of interest part but there is also the appearance of a conflict of

00:48:26.360 interest um which can be just as damning and you know so i don't understand uh unless it's strictly

00:48:35.000 financial why he's still hanging on to these shares your thoughts well first of all it's not a surprise

00:48:42.520 that the liberals are just getting their liberal friends having more benefit since they are in power

00:48:51.160 we saw them handling money to those companies those friends and it's why right now trudeau is falling

00:48:58.920 in the pole nobody wants him anymore and same his own caucus doesn't want him anymore so that prove 0.69

00:49:05.320 you right there that they are doing a wrong job they are doing everything in with the lack of

00:49:13.160 transparency we have a foreign interference um that is happening in canada we have multiple other issue

00:49:22.040 that we saw over the last nine years i think now it's time that the liberals step down

00:49:27.480 and they call for an election oh yeah uh well don't hold your breath on that although i think it might

00:49:34.040 be sooner rather than later i think there's more indicators it'll be a spring election uh the moment uh

00:49:41.640 jagmeet singh the co-prime minister gets enough time in to get his full two million dollar plus uh pension

00:49:49.080 which i believe is february of this of next year rather and uh by the way i should mention alexa

00:49:54.760 uh uh lincoln jay and i we were able to scrum um mr guibo several months ago he was in peterboro

00:50:02.440 uh for some sort of uh oppressor surprisingly he did talk to me but what i'm always fascinated when it

00:50:09.480 comes to these politicians who preach climate change is um how did they get to the event and why don't we

00:50:19.480 throw to a a clip of that right now mr guibo as you walk to your vehicle can i just

00:50:24.360 uh grab a year your government wants canadians to buy pricey evs to ride bicycles to use public

00:50:31.880 transit yet you get chauffeured around in fossil fuel vehicles why the double standard sir oh i

00:50:39.160 i took the train monday morning from montreal to quebec city and then i took the train back

00:50:44.760 from quebec city to montreal and this morning i took the train from montreal to oshawa and tomorrow

00:50:50.280 i'll be taking the train from oshawa back to montreal how did you get here today sir to this

00:50:55.800 residential neighborhood so what i'm saying is that i try to modulate my transportation as possible to

00:51:02.120 use active transportation when it's possible use public transit when possible and and to use a car

00:51:08.040 and as you probably know my service vehicle as environment and climate change minister is a fully

00:51:13.240 electric vehicle that's one of the few actually it's not for cabinet i mean it's not all vehicles

00:51:19.560 now all cabinet vehicles new purchases are either fully electric or are plug-in hybrids and mr guibo

00:51:27.240 what were you thinking last week when you said that the government would no longer invest in major road

00:51:32.520 projects how will canadians get around how will truckers get goods to market without roads i clarified

00:51:38.360 that i was speaking specifically about the project called the troisième in in quebec city just in

00:51:43.800 here in peterborough since 2015 we funded 18 road projects representing more than 20 million dollars

00:51:51.320 now is this a vehicle you're leaving in now the rav4 comes as a plug-in hybrid i know that why is this a

00:51:57.160 full fossil fuel gas burner thank you very much it's a hybrid this not a plug-in hybrid it's written here

00:52:03.640 hybrid but it doesn't have a green plate sir yeah so there you go uh stephen guibo tried to bamboozle

00:52:10.520 me by pointing out that that the toyota was a hybrid but it's not a plug-in hybrid it doesn't qualify

00:52:19.160 for the green plate because remember uh these are the type of politicians they're all about us taking out

00:52:26.120 a second mortgage on our homes to buy a tesla or something a full ev so um i guess he thought he could

00:52:33.640 you know pull the wool over my eyes but i i know a thing or two about cars just like last week when

00:52:38.600 we saw jagmeet singh show up at an event and he was in a 360 horsepower dodge durango rt full-size

00:52:49.800 suv eight cylinders fossil fuel burning what i'm getting at alexa in addition to the issues you brought

00:52:56.200 up that when it comes to climate change when it comes to this government spending tens and tens of

00:53:02.280 billions with a b billions of our money on ev battery plants that might turn out to be white

00:53:09.080 elephants they don't practice what they preach they are outrageous hypocrites your thoughts 0.97

00:53:15.160 just because they know it's not really effective do you see them running out of electricity in their

00:53:21.720 their their battery car in the middle of going somewhere or being chased by example you so um

00:53:29.800 they don't want that of course they don't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere where their car

00:53:35.160 cannot go further but you have david manzi knocking at the door unbelievable do as i say not as i do

00:53:42.200 one law for the one law for me and by the way alexa your video is doing really well i was strolling

00:53:47.720 through the uh the comments and i think the most prevalent comment was he meaning stephen gibault

00:53:55.160 he belongs in prison well that would be like a homecoming to him wouldn't it i mean he is a

00:54:00.120 convicted criminal is he not he is he is and this is the most surprising things how come this man who was

00:54:10.280 previously convicted was able to enter politics and be now a minister of something and especially

00:54:17.480 he is a former greenpeace how come we are giving activists who are not following the science

00:54:25.400 activists to take over a ministry well i would say this alexa it's because justin trudeau is the biggest

00:54:34.120 activist of them all you know he is far left that he is any you know he is not your classical liberal i

00:54:41.720 mean i even see former members of the liberal party mps like dan mctaig he was a liberal for 18 years

00:54:48.760 he denounces uh this government and justin trudeau uh stephen le drew the former president of the liberal

00:54:55.640 party of canada he denounces this government and justin trudeau um this isn't your father's liberal

00:55:03.400 party to uh steal a uh a general motors advertising tagline from the old oldsmobile brand here's the

00:55:11.240 big question uh alexa um that does this amount to a proverbial hill of beans at least within the next

00:55:18.840 year we're going to have an election is stephen gibault safe or not oh absolutely not i don't think we

00:55:28.440 will see against stephen gibault uh in power i think he needs to go back to greenpeace and do

00:55:34.600 something else well hopefully it won't be climbing the cn tower you know i wouldn't want him to fall 0.96

00:55:41.480 off that's a that's a pretty high structure uh but uh alexa what a wonderful report um can't wait to see

00:55:49.160 what happens in his writing and don't you worry i'll never lecture you i'll never mansplain you what

00:55:55.720 language to speak whenever we're together how outrageous was that you have a great weekend my

00:56:02.200 friend and uh keep the hits coming well folks tons of feedback has come in regarding our latest caper

00:56:16.920 with our jumbotron equipped truck namely we went down to cbc headquarters in toronto and basically

00:56:24.600 demanded via our video presentation on our truck that cbc president and ceo catherine tate give back

00:56:35.000 the money and the money we speak of is that when she went to paris in the summertime she stayed at a

00:56:42.520 one thousand dollar a night hotel room and even though she makes a half million in salary 0.99

00:56:49.560 and bonuses well she billed that hotel stay to you unbelievable dunn writes we love the cbc

00:56:59.240 but can't name a show on cbc what a joke tate was on a personal trip and she needs to reimburse 0.95

00:57:07.720 canadians indeed you know folks that was one of my questions for those few cbc supporters we found out

00:57:14.600 there what's your favorite cbc show the only one that was named was hockey night in canada hardly

00:57:22.520 original hammy wood writes i'm sick of listening to these people who think they are deserved of

00:57:30.120 spending any amount of taxpayers money as they truly believe they are privileged sickening and trudeau

00:57:37.480 needs to be financially investigated as well and you know i can tell you my friends when rebel news when

00:57:43.800 we reach out for funding a campaign uh for funding our journalism our haters always mock us they go

00:57:53.000 oh look at that rebel news begging again but let me tell you something i think this is the most honest

00:57:59.560 way to raise funds there is if you want to give to us fine if you don't well more than 95 percent of

00:58:07.320 our content is online and is free but what the cbc does as well as mainstream media outlets now under

00:58:15.880 trudeau they just take a direct deduction out of your bank account every two weeks where is the ethics

00:58:24.120 where is the accountability in that can man writes 230 cab ride from young street to willowdale avenue

00:58:35.880 is one hell of a ripoff oh my goodness that is incredible for those who know toronto that's not

00:58:44.600 a very bad distance i don't know if that is entitlement in terms of i don't know getting a cab that is

00:58:52.040 actually a stretch limousine or given that toronto is the third has the third worst traffic in the

00:58:58.920 world and the worst traffic in north america that is a scathing indictment of how much it costs

00:59:06.760 to just travel a few kilometers thanks to gridlock unbelievable well folks thank you so much for tuning

00:59:15.000 in to this edition of the ezreal event show the big boss man ezra he will be back on monday i hope you

00:59:22.440 all have a wonderful and festive weekend and as always stay safe and stay sane

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