Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada wants to deport Tommy Robinson… but they’re not quite sure how to do it

00:00:00.080 Hello, my friends. I'm in Calgary with Tommy Robinson, who's scheduled to give a speech in Edmonton tonight and Toronto on Sunday.

00:00:10.400 Alas, he was arrested by border police and given conditions, he cannot leave the city.

00:00:16.700 I'll tell you the whole legal saga, but first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.

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00:00:36.520 All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:42.180 You're listening to a Rebel News Podcast.

00:00:44.440 Tonight, after his first speech in Canada, Tommy Robinson is arrested.

00:00:58.220 I'll tell you exactly what happened and what we're doing about it.

00:01:01.660 It's June 25th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:04.600 You fighting for freedom!

00:01:07.900 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.92

00:01:11.080 Oh, hi there. I'm in a very natural setting. 0.76

00:01:23.360 I'm by myself. I don't have a videographer.

00:01:25.480 I came to Calgary because this was the first stop in our three-city tour of Tommy Robinson speaking in Canada,

00:01:34.240 and the Calgary event was great.

00:01:36.620 We were very excited. We were looking forward to Edmonton.

00:01:39.060 I was excited to show Tommy Robinson around my home province, or the province of my youth.

00:01:45.080 And then out of nowhere, four plainclothes police undercover, I guess,

00:01:50.900 and four uniformed police grabbed Tommy, handcuffed him, arrested him,

00:01:57.880 piled him into a couple of vans, and took him away.

00:02:01.240 Here, take a look.

00:02:01.800 How's your luck? Have you got one more to eat?

00:02:06.660 What about my stuff? What about my stuff?

00:02:08.120 What about my stuff?

00:02:09.020 Absolutely the same thing.

00:02:15.620 Give me a look.

00:02:18.020 I've got an outstanding morning.

00:02:24.820 Yeah, for an outstanding immigration morning.

00:02:28.400 Copy.

00:02:29.020 Yeah.

00:02:29.300 Love you, buddy.

00:02:30.760 I'm going to put these in front of you.

00:02:32.840 Yeah, you can't.

00:02:34.600 Thank you.

00:02:36.180 So, wait.

00:02:37.320 Calgary is fine.

00:02:38.240 Justin Trudeau.

00:02:39.320 Tommy, did they tell you what to be arrested?

00:02:41.100 You're too forced to go on that Sunday morning.

00:02:42.960 Okay, thank you.

00:02:44.160 I can't see it. I can't see it.

00:02:45.120 I can't see it. I can't see it.

00:02:45.140 I can't see it.

00:02:46.520 Where can I go to help him get a lawyer and get bail?

00:02:50.660 He'll have access to a lawyer.

00:02:51.920 Which police?

00:02:52.780 Which police?

00:02:54.600 APU.

00:02:55.500 If you're going downtown, APU.

00:02:56.840 Which precinct?

00:03:01.320 APU downtown.

00:03:02.780 Where can I go to help out?

00:03:05.620 Which precinct?

00:03:07.500 Go to your ballot box.

00:03:09.300 That's how you can help out.

00:03:10.360 Ezra Levant here with an emergency update.

00:03:16.840 I'm standing outside the carriage in Hotel in Calgary, Canada, where Tommy Robinson just finished giving a major speech to 150 Calgarians about freedom of speech and lawfare and his battles in the UK.

00:03:33.420 No sooner did he finish that speech and walk outside, but he was swarmed with 10 police officers, half of them undercover in plain clothes, half of them uniformed, who put him in the back of an SUV.

00:03:48.080 There were three police vehicles and they drove him off.

00:03:50.700 We asked what the charge was.

00:03:52.920 We asked where he was being taken to.

00:03:54.960 Police refused to give us the answer.

00:03:57.400 Tommy was in town as part of a three-city speaking tour for Rebel News.

00:04:02.140 Tonight was the first night in Calgary.

00:04:04.120 Tomorrow night in Edmonton, he's expected.

00:04:06.140 And next Sunday in Toronto.

00:04:08.400 Police have obviously jumped in to upset this and to do who knows what.

00:04:13.580 They wouldn't tell us.

00:04:14.480 I immediately got on the phone with one of Calgary's top criminal lawyers who himself jumped on the phone.

00:04:22.160 Step one is to locate Tommy.

00:04:24.340 He could be at a number of different holding centers depending on what the alleged offense is.

00:04:30.140 We think it might be an immigration warrant.

00:04:33.560 And so that tells us where to find him.

00:04:36.280 We will be working.

00:04:37.420 As you can see, the sun is setting.

00:04:39.180 It's after 9 p.m.

00:04:40.960 But we have got the lawyer engaged.

00:04:43.540 I am now going to see what I can do to assist in finding him, deploying the lawyer, and freeing Tommy.

00:04:50.920 Not only so he can finish his speaking tour in Canada, but that he can fight what's another obvious political stitch-up.

00:04:59.740 I am not surprised that the Canadian government, which takes orders from Justin Trudeau,

00:05:05.640 would engage in censorship of a free speech activist like Tommy Robinson.

00:05:10.280 That seems to be Canada's reputation these days.

00:05:13.540 But as you know, it's Rebel News' reputation to fight back.

00:05:17.220 Those sirens I hear are from an ambulance.

00:05:19.580 Don't you worry.

00:05:20.460 There's not more police coming.

00:05:22.040 In fact, I think the good guys are just getting started.

00:05:25.420 Well, I was lucky I hadn't gone home for the night.

00:05:28.160 And a whole team of ours followed him downtown to the federal building.

00:05:32.640 I didn't know they took arrested people to the federal building.

00:05:36.100 That's news to me.

00:05:37.160 So here's how that went.

00:05:39.580 We can cover all of that.

00:05:40.880 I mean, Rebel News will put up a surety bond for him.

00:05:43.620 We can insist and assist, rather, with accommodations for him.

00:05:48.840 We can sort of be his guarantors or his sureties.

00:05:52.420 I just got a phone call from one of Calgary's most senior criminal defense lawyers, Alain Heppner.

00:06:00.280 I interrupted him at his home, of course, at 9.30 p.m., moments after Tommy was arrested so unceremoniously after his well-received speech in Calgary.

00:06:12.180 For those who are just joining this insane story, Tommy was speaking in Calgary to a great crowd.

00:06:20.920 It was a wonderful speech about censorship, about government lawfare.

00:06:24.960 And he steps out feeling great after a standing ovation, and he's swarmed by police, half of them undercover, half in uniform.

00:06:31.960 They bundle him up in a SUV, and they drive him here of all places.

00:06:36.880 It's the federal building called the Harry Hayes Building, and if you can see over here, they have a sign of what's banned.

00:06:46.160 Bicycles are banned.

00:06:47.800 Skateboards are banned.

00:06:49.580 Rollerblades are banned.

00:06:50.940 And political speech that Justin Trudeau doesn't like is banned.

00:06:54.840 I've never heard of people being detained at the federal building, and that's a whole new question we've got to look into.

00:07:00.560 But I, moments ago, received a phone call from Alain Heppner, and I got some details on the reason for Tommy's arrest.

00:07:10.860 It's an alleged immigration infraction.

00:07:13.440 Right now, the lawyer is working with the police to see if there is a way that Tommy can be released under a set of conditions,

00:07:25.320 rather than being held in jail for an undetermined period of time.

00:07:31.800 I offered to be Tommy's surety.

00:07:34.720 That means to put up a bond to guarantee that he would be of good behavior.

00:07:39.600 Goal number one is to get him out of custody.

00:07:42.160 He's in a holding situation here at Harry Hayes, but if they transfer him to the Remand Center, that is an atrocious place for anyone.

00:07:51.380 So priority one is get him out of this building.

00:07:55.380 Priority two, once that is achieved, is to find a set of conditions or orders that Tommy can live with to get out of jail.

00:08:05.340 And I don't know what those will be.

00:08:07.300 I'm absolutely delighted that our lawyer is working at this late hour.

00:08:13.920 We have the best person in the city on it.

00:08:16.240 I'm really amazed that he's able to jump on this case within minutes.

00:08:22.980 Hopefully, the lad will be out and not spend even a single night in custody.

00:08:27.800 I haven't talked to the lawyer about his fee.

00:08:30.500 I just wanted to get him working.

00:08:32.560 I will obviously pay the fee.

00:08:34.520 If you can help me crowdfund that fee, I'd be grateful to you.

00:08:37.900 We set up a little crowdfund page at TommyTrial.com.

00:08:41.100 If you can chip in a few quid or a few dollars, I'd be grateful.

00:08:44.680 I want him out.

00:08:45.960 I want him safe.

00:08:47.000 I want him free.

00:08:48.120 And I want him speaking truth to power.

00:08:51.000 Frankly, as a Canadian, I'm a little bit embarrassed of what happened to him.

00:08:55.880 That's not the candidate I know.

00:08:57.400 The candidate I know and love believes in free speech.

00:09:00.240 What Tommy saw today was the candidate of Justin Trudeau.

00:09:03.400 Let's get that lad out and let's get him doing what he does best.

00:09:06.800 We were there until very late trying to get in.

00:09:09.660 And Tommy was eventually released after midnight,

00:09:13.780 after we managed to hire a lawyer to connect with the arresting officers.

00:09:18.780 Tommy!

00:09:25.180 You're out.

00:09:26.300 I'm out, but I'm banned from leaving now, but I'm banned from leaving Calgary.

00:09:31.020 Banned from leaving Calgary.

00:09:32.300 I have to see, they want my, I have to hand them apart.

00:09:34.020 The conditions are, conditions of release are,

00:09:36.800 I have to get my passport in in the morning.

00:09:38.220 I'm not allowed to leave Canada.

00:09:39.660 I said, what if I just want to go home?

00:09:41.240 They said, you're not allowed to.

00:09:42.520 So if there's certain conditions, I'm not allowed to,

00:09:45.340 I have to come here every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

00:09:48.620 And they have to, I have to give them the address of where I am,

00:09:52.000 notify them of any hotel that I'm staying in.

00:09:55.600 But not, I don't understand it in the sense of.

00:09:58.800 Do you have to make any bond or surety?

00:10:02.820 Do you have to put any money up?

00:10:04.060 No bond or surety.

00:10:05.020 No, they just said, I just have to wait now.

00:10:06.560 But I said, well, how does that make sense?

00:10:08.660 Because I meant to go home anyway.

00:10:10.500 It's my daughter's birthday.

00:10:11.780 And they said, well, you don't automatically, you can't go home, basically.

00:10:15.600 You don't automatically have permission to go home.

00:10:18.620 We're taking your passport and you're awaiting a hearing.

00:10:20.940 Now, obviously, fixing these problems is priority one.

00:10:25.200 But in terms of your Canadian speaking tour,

00:10:27.580 we had you scheduled for Edmund and tomorrow.

00:10:29.660 I'm not allowed to go to Edmund.

00:10:30.520 They made that clear.

00:10:31.520 You're not allowed to, it says it here.

00:10:33.320 Red Deer, what's Red Deer?

00:10:34.500 Red Deer, that's a city in central Alberta.

00:10:36.380 Okay, that's where I'm allowed.

00:10:37.320 Not allowed south of Red Deer.

00:10:38.640 It says, turn in your passport no later than 11 a.m.

00:10:42.020 Remain in southern Alberta, Red Deer to the USA border at all times.

00:10:46.940 That's so weird and arbitrary.

00:10:48.620 Well, that's to stop me going to Edmonton.

00:10:51.120 It's to stop me talking in Toronto.

00:10:54.060 That's the sole purpose of this.

00:10:55.760 That's what I said.

00:10:56.180 The sole purpose of this is to stop me having discussions

00:10:59.080 and talking in the cities I was meant to be in.

00:11:01.140 Maybe we'll have to reschedule that Edmonton event in Red Deer.

00:11:04.740 In Red Deer, yeah.

00:11:05.500 Maybe we'll have to get a bus to bring our Edmontonians down to Red Deer. 0.99

00:11:08.580 Now, this is all waiting for what?

00:11:11.060 Like, what are we waiting for?

00:11:12.500 Is there a hearing?

00:11:13.380 They're waiting for a hearing, yeah.

00:11:14.480 They said waiting for a hearing.

00:11:15.260 But I said, how long can a hearing take?

00:11:16.220 They said, they didn't say.

00:11:19.120 So they said originally, they were talking about holding me here.

00:11:21.780 They said they might hold me for 48 hours

00:11:23.480 and then transfer me to Vancouver on a plane.

00:11:25.200 48 hours in this building or in a local jail?

00:11:27.780 In a jail.

00:11:28.580 So in a jail for 48 hours and then transport me in a plane to Vancouver.

00:11:31.420 In a plane to Vancouver.

00:11:32.500 Why?

00:11:33.100 Because that must be where their center is.

00:11:35.080 So this was immigration?

00:11:37.260 Immigration, yeah.

00:11:37.820 And inside there, were you just in an...

00:11:40.620 I was called into immigration.

00:11:41.940 I'd done a three-hour interview in immigration to come in here.

00:11:44.660 I went through immigration.

00:11:46.000 I said that I went through immigration to come in here.

00:11:47.840 I don't want you to say anything that you think is confidential

00:11:50.220 that you want to share only with a lawyer.

00:11:51.920 But what exactly have they accused you of?

00:11:55.360 They haven't accused me of anything.

00:11:56.640 Just immigration violations.

00:11:58.920 Immigration violations.

00:12:00.380 And they detained me under...

00:12:01.760 Have you ever been to Canada before?

00:12:03.100 No.

00:12:03.520 And they arrested me under a warrant.

00:12:05.620 Did you get my recording from in the back of the car?

00:12:07.480 Yeah.

00:12:07.860 Where it was saying...

00:12:08.520 I was recording it in the back of the car.

00:12:10.040 And it was saying the man who's off right.

00:12:11.800 And do you know what?

00:12:12.580 I'll be straight up.

00:12:13.080 The three officers were lovely.

00:12:14.260 And they said, this isn't us.

00:12:15.940 The cop has said that.

00:12:17.780 Can I ask you who's made the order for my arrest?

00:12:22.680 The minister's delegate.

00:12:24.420 Who's the minister's delegate?

00:12:29.300 One of the what?

00:12:30.680 One of the what?

00:12:31.560 One of the arms.

00:12:32.880 One of the obvious...

00:12:33.940 Is that government?

00:12:35.920 So a director with the CBSA...

00:12:39.420 A director with who?

00:12:40.660 CBSA Canada Border Service.

00:12:42.440 A director with the CBSA...

00:12:44.240 Has signed.

00:12:45.260 Has signed the order to have me arrested.

00:12:47.040 Signed an arrest warrant.

00:12:48.340 An arrest warrant.

00:12:51.460 Okay.

00:12:53.020 I'm guessing now what...

00:12:54.340 And you look to now what...

00:12:55.340 Arrest me.

00:12:55.920 You've left all my stuff there.

00:12:56.880 My passport.

00:12:57.580 What are you going to deport me?

00:12:59.280 No.

00:12:59.740 There's a whole procedure.

00:13:01.000 Yeah.

00:13:01.180 There's a whole procedure.

00:13:03.300 I believe that.

00:13:03.980 Yeah, they were really nice.

00:13:05.420 They were really nice.

00:13:06.100 Even then, they were really nice.

00:13:07.460 They said, look, this isn't us.

00:13:08.900 And this goes...

00:13:09.600 Because I said, well, how can I be held?

00:13:11.520 What are you saying?

00:13:12.480 I just can't leave.

00:13:13.500 I haven't even got anywhere.

00:13:14.140 I've got a hotel room for a night.

00:13:16.220 How can I be held here for weeks and weeks?

00:13:18.440 He goes, well, you're held.

00:13:19.520 We're taking your passport tomorrow.

00:13:20.440 So, you have to apply for everything.

00:13:23.320 Well, let me say this.

00:13:25.360 You dealt with Alain Heppner on the phone.

00:13:27.420 I spoke to him on the phone, yeah.

00:13:28.760 In my experience, he's one of the top criminal lawyers in Calgary.

00:13:32.820 Now, and if this is more an immigration matter, he'll know the right people.

00:13:36.960 I believe, just based on what you've told me in the last five minutes, that it may be possible

00:13:41.200 to get an expedited hearing in front of a judge to alter these conditions.

00:13:46.020 Yeah, it's because of the conditions.

00:13:47.380 Because if I'm in Canada, I'm in Canada.

00:13:49.320 Because these were just conditions placed on you by the police, right?

00:13:52.300 There was no hearing.

00:13:53.000 There was no judge.

00:13:54.100 These were by the police to, if I want to get out.

00:13:57.460 So, if I want to get out, agree to these conditions.

00:13:59.460 You did the right thing by agreeing to it, just to get out of there.

00:14:02.160 The idea of sending you to Vancouver is insane.

00:14:05.100 They probably would have put you at the Remand Centre, which is an awful, awful jail here in town.

00:14:09.360 So, you made the right decision by agreeing to those.

00:14:13.360 I'll be back here by 11 in the morning to give them my passport.

00:14:16.360 We'll work with Alain or whoever immigration expert he advises to see how quickly we can

00:14:22.840 get in front of a judge to vary these.

00:14:25.060 This is the police's opinion.

00:14:27.260 And they had custody of you, so they really had you...

00:14:29.720 Get before a judge.

00:14:30.680 I believe so.

00:14:31.720 I'm not an expert in immigration law, but I'm glad it's a Monday as opposed to a weekend.

00:14:38.340 We should be able to get you into court quickly.

00:14:40.480 Tuesday, Wednesday.

00:14:41.200 What did I say?

00:14:41.740 It says on there, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday.

00:14:43.660 I have to be in here between 9 and 12.

00:14:47.980 Just to check in?

00:14:48.940 Is that what you're saying?

00:14:49.340 Just to check in, yeah.

00:14:50.000 Check in on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Fridays.

00:14:52.960 Tuesday and Wednesdays?

00:14:53.760 Even that doesn't even make sense.

00:14:54.900 That's just...

00:14:55.340 I know.

00:14:55.640 I've got the weekend.

00:14:56.680 Go do it for the weekend.

00:14:57.620 Well, I don't want to make light of things, but I got to say, I mean, I was born and raised

00:15:01.540 in Calgary, and it's a wonderful city.

00:15:04.280 What I asked him, I asked him specifically, I said, look, your borders are open like every

00:15:07.800 other country's borders.

00:15:08.980 Is this normal?

00:15:10.060 It's four cars of officers turning up.

00:15:11.980 They were armed.

00:15:13.060 Are all your officers armed?

00:15:14.460 Are your officers...

00:15:15.120 They had firearms?

00:15:16.260 Most police are.

00:15:17.040 They are, okay.

00:15:17.560 Not in England.

00:15:18.160 I said, is this normal to come and pick someone up?

00:15:20.340 I said, you've seen what I was doing.

00:15:21.360 I was just doing a speaking engagement.

00:15:22.800 They said, where have you been?

00:15:23.680 I said, yesterday, I met Nsaf Badawi.

00:15:26.460 That's why I traveled here.

00:15:27.800 I've just met family, spoke to them, and today I was talking about freedom of speech.

00:15:31.860 You were talking about the very things that happened to you in the moment you can finish

00:15:34.820 your speech.

00:15:35.160 You talked to...

00:15:35.780 It happens.

00:15:36.440 You talked about lawfare censorship.

00:15:37.580 They mentioned the threat to national security.

00:15:40.240 That's what they mentioned.

00:15:41.140 You hear them in the car.

00:15:42.180 Yeah.

00:15:42.580 Well, what?

00:15:43.220 Did they particularize that?

00:15:44.660 No.

00:15:45.240 No.

00:15:45.540 One of the reasons you could be being detained is for this reason.

00:15:47.600 It's like...

00:15:49.360 Free speech.

00:15:51.320 You know, as you saw...

00:15:55.360 I had them out, because I was sort of thinking, not again.

00:15:58.080 Not again.

00:15:59.060 And I'm in Canada.

00:16:00.040 Well, let me tell you, we've posted a few tweets and a few short videos.

00:16:04.340 And even though it's...

00:16:05.540 What time is it here?

00:16:06.740 It's late at night here.

00:16:09.440 It's not morning yet in the UK.

00:16:11.720 So it's that time when North America and Europe are sleeping.

00:16:16.540 But despite that, the videos that we've posted about your arrest have been seen hundreds

00:16:22.260 of thousands of times.

00:16:23.740 And they've been retweeted by people who were shocked, including Jordan Peterson, by the

00:16:27.780 way.

00:16:27.960 And I understand you're scheduled to meet with him?

00:16:30.180 Well, it was scheduled.

00:16:31.040 Now it doesn't look like I'm possible to, does it?

00:16:32.720 Well, let me say the opposite.

00:16:33.760 I believe that...

00:16:34.820 And by the way, this was a federal thing.

00:16:37.900 This was Justin Trudeau's border services.

00:16:40.400 This isn't a local Calgary police.

00:16:42.340 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:16:43.180 This wasn't Calgary police.

00:16:44.120 He says that, didn't he?

00:16:45.020 I recorded him.

00:16:45.680 So I've got the recording on my phone.

00:16:46.880 So I recorded him in the back of the car with my phone in my pocket and just said, tell

00:16:50.520 me who instigated this.

00:16:51.820 And he gives me the name, doesn't he?

00:16:53.340 Yeah.

00:16:53.540 He gives me the name on there.

00:16:54.640 And I think he said it's federal government.

00:16:56.520 Well, listen, you've had a busy...

00:16:58.080 You're probably still jet lagged because you just got in the country.

00:17:00.320 I know, man.

00:17:01.460 Let's get...

00:17:02.100 I'm glad you're out too.

00:17:04.320 Yeah.

00:17:05.300 Thanks for getting the lawyer.

00:17:06.040 He's the best and we'll get the best.

00:17:08.460 We'll see if we can get before a judge.

00:17:10.040 See if we can get these conditions all through.

00:17:11.360 I want to go to Toronto.

00:17:11.880 I want to meet the people in Toronto.

00:17:13.260 I still want to go.

00:17:14.160 I want to go to Toronto.

00:17:15.460 I want to...

00:17:15.960 I certainly wanted to meet Jordan Peterson and Tammy Peterson.

00:17:18.320 I've admired and watched them for a long time.

00:17:20.380 Which is what I said to them.

00:17:21.400 I'm not here as a risk.

00:17:22.600 I'm here as a journalist.

00:17:23.320 I'm a journalist.

00:17:25.020 Did any of them watch the presentation?

00:17:27.440 No.

00:17:28.160 And they were waiting outside till it was over?

00:17:29.700 Yeah.

00:17:30.020 Well, I just...

00:17:30.560 I went upstairs and as I come walking outside, they just come running over.

00:17:34.620 So they were waiting.

00:17:35.180 Did they handcuff you?

00:17:36.040 Yeah.

00:17:36.480 They did, eh?

00:17:36.980 Why would they do that?

00:17:37.780 They had me by my back, yeah.

00:17:38.640 That's outrageous.

00:17:39.720 Yeah, I said that to them as well as I was back in the back of the car.

00:17:41.680 I just take my handcuffs off, man.

00:17:42.760 At least unlike the Metropolitan Police, they didn't pepper spray you.

00:17:45.120 No, they didn't.

00:17:45.620 And do you know what?

00:17:46.080 They were really nice.

00:17:46.880 I'm going to say, I don't think they liked what they were doing.

00:17:49.740 And in fact, they were saying...

00:17:50.660 I asked him multiple times.

00:17:52.100 He said, look, I can't comment on our country's situation.

00:17:54.580 And I can't comment on any of these things, Tommy.

00:17:57.300 And he kept...

00:17:57.980 They seemed very sympathetic.

00:17:59.600 You know, Calgary is the freest...

00:18:01.480 They seemed very nice.

00:18:02.520 The police officers were very nice.

00:18:03.480 See, they all shook my hands on the way out of the door as well.

00:18:05.420 They just said, look, like, this is what it is.

00:18:07.220 This has come...

00:18:07.720 And they said, this isn't our decision, yeah?

00:18:09.460 They made that very clear.

00:18:10.520 This isn't our decision.

00:18:11.540 None of it's our decision.

00:18:12.360 You hand your passport in, whether you can leave the country, it's not down to us.

00:18:15.120 It's from up there.

00:18:16.640 Well, it's pretty late, and I know you'll be wanting some sleep.

00:18:19.620 I wonder if they try and hold me in the country until I miss July to 8th 7th.

00:18:22.040 I wonder if they're going to try and hold me in Canada for months.

00:18:24.760 I've got lots going on in the UK.

00:18:26.040 That's what I was thinking.

00:18:26.740 Are they going to detain me and keep me here for months?

00:18:28.680 Because he said, like, it's not up to you when you go home.

00:18:30.780 You can't just go home.

00:18:32.160 Well, that's madness.

00:18:33.080 And I...

00:18:33.600 Listen, what they said, that's their opinion as police.

00:18:36.180 That's not...

00:18:37.220 I think get in front of a judge. 0.95

00:18:39.760 You came to this country to do public interest journalism, speaking.

00:18:44.200 You came by invitation of Gadsad and Tammy and Jordan Peterson.

00:18:48.020 You came here in good faith.

00:18:50.320 I did in good faith.

00:18:51.220 I've had a nice time.

00:18:52.000 I've been in Montreal.

00:18:52.660 I said to them, I've been in Montreal for a week.

00:18:54.200 I had a lovely time.

00:18:54.920 I said, I went to the Bad Badawis yesterday for dinner. 1.00

00:18:57.060 I said, I've come here now with Rebel Media.

00:18:58.940 I said, I've worked for Rebel for two years.

00:19:00.680 I said, so I've come to thank their supporters.

00:19:02.960 What's the problem?

00:19:03.740 Well, I don't understand the problem.

00:19:04.680 It's not like there's been a high-risk event.

00:19:05.860 It's not like there's been any protests.

00:19:07.740 There wasn't a single protester at the event tonight?

00:19:10.060 Nothing.

00:19:10.720 It was a nice event, wasn't it?

00:19:12.080 I really, yeah.

00:19:12.880 I was just about to go get some dinner.

00:19:15.840 We just found the name of the best steakhouse in the city.

00:19:18.940 And it's like, boom.

00:19:20.440 Well, we'll help you out.

00:19:22.580 We'll get whatever lawyer.

00:19:23.720 I mean, I'm from this town, so I think we've got some friends that we can get together to help.

00:19:28.880 Folks, if you want to chip in to help cover the criminal lawyer who did his work tonight

00:19:32.900 and the immigration lawyer that we'll likely need.

00:19:36.180 I'm not an expert in these matters, but it seems to me that step one is to get before an actual judge

00:19:41.140 and have these conditions varied.

00:19:44.000 I do not believe it makes sense to keep you here indefinitely.

00:19:49.840 Yeah, indefinitely.

00:19:50.560 For how long?

00:19:51.020 That's what I said.

00:19:51.480 For how long?

00:19:51.940 I asked him.

00:19:52.540 For how long?

00:19:53.160 He said.

00:19:53.400 So we're going to get right on this first thing in the morning.

00:19:57.620 I'm glad you're out.

00:19:58.480 I'm glad you're not staying in a cell.

00:20:00.140 If you want to help cover the lawyers, the criminal lawyer, the immigration lawyer, go to TommyTrial.com.

00:20:05.980 I was planning on spending tomorrow going up to Edmonton with you, so we'll spend the day lawyering.

00:20:13.760 I don't know what we can do with our Edmonton event other than cancel it.

00:20:17.440 I mean, we could try and bust them down to Red Deer, but I think we've got to focus instead on getting you a legal solution.

00:20:23.460 Tommy, I'm glad you're out.

00:20:24.320 Well, one of Tommy's instructions was to present himself to the same federal building this morning

00:20:29.700 to hand in his passport, but that's a strange thing because he can't go home.

00:20:35.920 They want to deport him, I suppose, but he can't leave if they have his passport.

00:20:41.540 I think, no exaggeration, the last seven days I've had 680 pieces of bacon.

00:20:47.540 Literally.

00:20:49.320 Right.

00:20:50.020 I'm on the way to the police station, which is one of my conditions upon release from last night, to surrender my passport.

00:20:57.340 So I have to give them my passport. 0.52

00:20:59.900 I've got lots of conditions in here.

00:21:01.240 I have to report to the police station three times a week.

00:21:04.040 I'm sort of a bit conscious that I may well get here this morning because I've seen it's now blown up all over.

00:21:09.340 It's viral everywhere.

00:21:10.560 So I may turn up this morning and they may just grab me again.

00:21:13.320 That's what I'm conscious of.

00:21:14.560 So we'll find out now.

00:21:16.180 I don't know what that means because, yes, I was concerned yesterday because they said you'll be getting detained into custody, which is a prison.

00:21:22.580 I don't know what a prison's going to be like here.

00:21:23.900 I don't know what it's going to be like for Islamic prisoners.

00:21:27.780 If it's an immigration centre, it's going to be full of probably Islamic migrants.

00:21:31.640 So who knows, man?

00:21:33.700 We'll see now.

00:21:34.740 But all in all, what have I come to do?

00:21:36.660 I've come to give a couple of talks.

00:21:37.820 I gave a great talk last night.

00:21:38.920 It was a lovely event, a really peaceful, nice event with great people.

00:21:42.580 I don't understand the problem.

00:21:43.500 And I was detained for three hours at immigration on the way in it.

00:21:46.780 If there was any problem, they could have sorted it out then.

00:21:48.360 So who knows?

00:21:50.620 It seems like it's a control order.

00:21:52.480 This is a control order they've given me to limit my movement in Canada from going to other cities and having discussions.

00:21:58.800 I was meant to meet Jordan Peterson and his wife, Tammy Peterson, for discussions.

00:22:01.880 That would be a big platform for me.

00:22:03.220 I was supposed to be in Toronto for an event.

00:22:05.800 I was supposed to be in Edmonton for an event today.

00:22:08.740 It seems like they're just trying to control that, which is controlling free speech, which is controlling people's movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press.

00:22:15.080 I'm a journalist, so time will tell.

00:22:18.660 Ezra Levant here with Tommy Robinson.

00:22:20.280 Tommy, we were at this exact building last night.

00:22:23.060 They finally released you just after midnight.

00:22:25.880 It's now the following morning, and you have to present your passport, surrender it.

00:22:31.280 Tell me how you're feeling today and what's going on.

00:22:35.440 I'm more confused about everything.

00:22:36.800 As I said, I spent three hours in immigration.

00:22:38.980 I've been here.

00:22:39.660 When you landed in Montreal.

00:22:40.620 When I landed in Montreal, I spent three hours in immigration.

00:22:42.740 They contacted people I was staying with.

00:22:44.560 They wanted addresses.

00:22:45.540 They wanted to see my return flight.

00:22:46.640 They had all that information.

00:22:47.940 So I was just surprised.

00:22:49.520 Even when they've detained me last night, it seems like this is to control where I can and can't go because I'm not allowed out of this city.

00:22:54.560 We were due to have an event in Edmonton.

00:22:55.960 I was due to meet Jordan and Tammy Peterson in Toronto.

00:22:58.620 We were due to do an event in Toronto.

00:23:00.540 This limits me doing that.

00:23:01.840 I'm also a bit conscious that I may walk in here now.

00:23:04.520 I've got to surrender my passport, but I think they may detain me.

00:23:07.880 I don't know.

00:23:08.300 I don't trust them.

00:23:08.820 So I don't trust them.

00:23:10.340 I don't know what they're going to do.

00:23:11.920 As I said, I've come here.

00:23:13.520 I've met Rafe Badawi's family, Ensaf Badawi.

00:23:17.000 I'm not causing any problem in Canada.

00:23:19.360 No, you're an invited guest.

00:23:21.140 You're here to do public interest journalism, to tell us the story of your journalism, to learn about Canada.

00:23:27.020 You are, I guess you could say, a tourist or a visitor.

00:23:30.420 Even as we drove here, we saw migrants. 1.00

00:23:34.340 I saw migrants absolutely off their head on drugs, with no shoes on, running around the street, acting crazy. 1.00

00:23:39.400 That's who, it's like I said to the gentleman last night, you seem to get really, really heavy-handed on the wrong people.

00:23:45.560 Like, yeah, you do need tough borders.

00:23:47.460 You do need to monitor who's coming into your country. 0.99

00:23:49.800 But the minute, you've got lots of dangerous people entering on a daily basis without any papers or passports.

00:23:55.140 Well, we're going to go in because we want to make sure we're not late.

00:23:57.800 You've got that 11 a.m. deadline to hand it off.

00:24:00.120 God forbid, if you are detained, we have an excellent lawyer named Alain Heppner, who did work with him last night.

00:24:06.520 We've got a meeting with him scheduled that we're going to try and revise the conditions that you're under.

00:24:13.720 The crazy thing is, I said to him, yes, okay, so it's my daughter's birthday coming up.

00:24:18.480 I said, so if I want to go home, I've got a flight booked to go home.

00:24:21.320 They said, no, you're not free to go home.

00:24:22.980 That's so weird.

00:24:23.860 Like, if they don't want you.

00:24:25.200 If you don't want me, get rid of me.

00:24:26.540 So we're going to go in.

00:24:27.620 Hopefully, it's just handing the passport and you're free.

00:24:30.040 But if you are detained, we'll get straight to work in getting you out.

00:24:34.760 We are scrambling to try and rearrange things so you can do some public interest work here in Calgary.

00:24:41.900 And maybe even fit in a trip to Banff, Alberta, which is allowed in your conditions.

00:24:46.780 I want you to see the Rocky Mountain.

00:24:47.860 I want you to have a...

00:24:48.340 I want the same as well.

00:24:49.140 As I said, if I'm stuck here, I want the same as well.

00:24:50.900 One last thing.

00:24:52.160 At breakfast in the hotel today, people were coming up to you to say hello, ordinary people.

00:24:56.880 It's sort of neat here.

00:24:57.960 Even thousands of miles away from the UK, people know who you are.

00:25:01.540 Yeah, it's good.

00:25:02.000 And all they're going to have done is raise my profile.

00:25:03.720 And hopefully, if they raise my profile, people don't listen to the headlines and the smears.

00:25:07.040 They actually listen to what I'm saying.

00:25:08.420 And all I'm saying is giving...

00:25:09.580 We're ahead of the curve from Canada.

00:25:11.240 We're way ahead of the curve on the problems that open border immigration are going to bring you, 0.96

00:25:14.440 the problems of Islamization. 0.98

00:25:15.820 We come with a warning.

00:25:16.780 That's what I've come here to do.

00:25:17.840 Give Canadians a warning, but also to tell them to wake up and stand up. 1.00

00:25:21.040 The time to be silent is no longer.

00:25:22.420 You're going to lose your country.

00:25:23.460 You're going to lose your identity.

00:25:24.680 You're going to lose your children's freedoms.

00:25:26.380 And safety.

00:25:27.460 One last thing.

00:25:28.340 We did hire the top criminal lawyer in Calgary.

00:25:30.700 His name's Alain Heppner.

00:25:31.800 He was amazing.

00:25:33.500 He got straight on it last night.

00:25:35.320 Worked till after midnight.

00:25:36.800 I've spoken to him today.

00:25:38.360 If you can help me crowdfund the legal bills for Tommy, I'd appreciate it.

00:25:41.900 I don't want to give away all of the details of what we're doing, but we have meetings with him.

00:25:46.460 If you can help chip in to crowdfund that cost, I'd be grateful.

00:25:49.540 Go to SaveTommy.com.

00:25:52.000 SaveTommy.com.

00:25:53.540 Get me to Toronto.

00:25:54.660 I still want to come to Toronto.

00:25:56.200 I still want to come to Toronto.

00:25:57.660 So whatever legal avenue there is to try and get me to Toronto, if we can try and maneuver these conditions,

00:26:01.900 then I want to try.

00:26:03.260 I've come to Canada.

00:26:04.760 I've come to Canada and I know there's hundreds of people who have already paid to attend an event.

00:26:08.900 I want to come and speak.

00:26:09.520 So we went there to drop off his passport, but they wanted to do more than that.

00:26:14.140 They wanted to talk to him about his plans.

00:26:17.020 It's clear they want him out of the country, but they're not quite sure how to do it.

00:26:21.360 Here's an update on how that interesting conversation went.

00:26:27.520 So all the federal agencies, it looks like they have all their offices.

00:26:31.480 Was this where you left?

00:26:32.740 No, this ain't where it was now.

00:26:33.940 Of course it's fine.

00:26:39.520 I'm standing inside the Harry Hayes building.

00:26:43.280 That's the federal building in Calgary.

00:26:45.460 I'm in the fairly secure office of the Canada Border Services Agency.

00:26:51.520 That's basically the border police.

00:26:54.320 These are the people who arrested Tommy last night and held him until we were able to get him released on conditions just after midnight.

00:27:02.440 Tommy was required to present himself this morning before 11 a.m. to surrender his passport and to have a discussion.

00:27:11.500 He has surrendered the passport and is now being fingerprinted.

00:27:14.760 I was allowed in the room as an observer.

00:27:18.020 I'm not a practicing lawyer, but I was a lawyer in the past, so I'm aware of certain legal issues.

00:27:23.280 I asked if I could get a proper lawyer on the phone, and they said yes.

00:27:27.900 I made a phone call, and we think that we can get a really top immigration lawyer to join the conversation.

00:27:35.820 Alain Heppner is a top criminal lawyer.

00:27:37.440 We think we can get a top immigration lawyer just so we have the best advice possible from people who do this every day.

00:27:45.340 While we're waiting for that second lawyer to come through, they're fingerprinting Tommy.

00:27:50.840 They say they're going to come back for me in about five or ten minutes, and we'll have the discussion, really.

00:27:57.600 It almost feels like a kind of negotiation.

00:28:02.540 Does Tommy just want to go home?

00:28:04.440 Does he want to finish his tour in Canada?

00:28:06.240 Will that be permitted?

00:28:08.920 Let me tell you the most important takeaway.

00:28:11.760 They're going to come and grab me any minute to go back in, and I definitely want to be in there.

00:28:16.220 They took note of the massive global media footprint.

00:28:22.020 They raised that, not me or Tommy.

00:28:24.240 So they are extremely aware that all eyes are on Calgary.

00:28:30.160 And it is clearly animating them.

00:28:32.680 I have to say they have been exquisitely friendly with me.

00:28:37.360 Maybe they're just friendly people by nature, but I think they know the eyes of the world are on this.

00:28:42.680 And so they want to be on their best behavior.

00:28:46.940 And by the way, Tommy's on his best behavior.

00:28:48.960 And if there's a path forward, I hope we can find it.

00:28:52.200 To me, that would include allowing Tommy to go on with the show.

00:28:57.580 He has a speech planned for Edmonton tonight.

00:29:00.460 I don't know if it's possible to save that.

00:29:02.800 He has a speech planned for Toronto in less than a week.

00:29:06.200 He has other appointments, including a podcast with Jordan and Tammy Peterson.

00:29:10.680 Oh, looks like I've got to go back in.

00:29:16.040 Thanks.

00:29:16.840 Yes.

00:29:17.800 Thank you so much.

00:29:18.740 You're welcome.

00:29:22.340 So the option has been given that, obviously, I'm not allowed to leave Calgary, but they asked what my plans would be and when I'd leave.

00:29:30.000 I said, I want to go to Toronto.

00:29:31.100 I've had an event planned about freedom of speech.

00:29:33.800 I want to go to Toronto.

00:29:35.260 And Ezra then offered to put up a bond for that to say, because I have to sign in here on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

00:29:41.540 So I could go to Toronto on a Saturday, be there Sunday, come back on Monday, and I can still meet their conditions.

00:29:46.660 So Ezra put forward and said he'd offer a bond.

00:29:48.720 They sounded susceptible to it.

00:29:51.260 You know, if I'm putting myself in the shoes of that frontline immigration cop, he looks at Tommy and say, that guy's a handful.

00:30:00.160 And I get it.

00:30:01.000 Tommy used to work for Rebel News.

00:30:02.440 He is a handful.

00:30:03.040 But I said to him, give that job to me.

00:30:06.700 If you're worried about Tommy complying, put it on me.

00:30:09.480 I'll be, I'll guarantee that he shows up where he's supposed to.

00:30:13.120 I'll guarantee that he gets on the plane when he, I'll drive him to the airport.

00:30:16.620 And I even offered to put up a bond, which is basically signing a check to the government that they hold as ransom for your good behavior.

00:30:23.580 And I think that they were sort of pleasantly surprised by that idea.

00:30:27.540 And we got on the speaker phone a very senior immigration lawyer, Kevin Zemp, who sort of walked us through it.

00:30:34.200 And he reminded the border police.

00:30:36.400 About free speech.

00:30:37.160 About free speech.

00:30:38.240 About free speech.

00:30:39.020 Because Tommy is here to talk about free speech, which in itself is an act of free speech.

00:30:44.220 And it is so crystal clear to me that this arbitrary rule that Tommy can't go north of Red Deer or south.

00:30:51.040 It doesn't make sense.

00:30:51.900 It's what the lawyer said.

00:30:52.860 It doesn't make sense.

00:30:54.080 How can that make sense?

00:30:54.660 It just doesn't make sense.

00:30:55.560 There is only one reason for that weird geographical rule, and it's to stop Tommy giving the speech.

00:31:01.040 So the lawyer chimed in then, a very polite lawyer, but very sound.

00:31:04.880 And he said, Tommy has his free speech rights too.

00:31:08.320 So we've got a half hour lunch break and we're going to, they're going to take it up the food chain.

00:31:12.620 But that's, that's what scares me, Tommy.

00:31:14.400 The media was worrying them though, as well.

00:31:16.060 He met the first comment he made.

00:31:17.380 The first comment he made is, look, we see how big this has gone.

00:31:20.500 I'm so glad you're, we, we didn't mention it.

00:31:22.860 We didn't bring it up.

00:31:23.600 It was the first thing on his mind.

00:31:25.460 I think that when, yesterday in the truck, the cops said to you that the director of the CBSA ordered your arrest.

00:31:31.800 Is that what I heard, correct?

00:31:32.720 Yeah.

00:31:32.940 So this is the big boss man.

00:31:34.240 This is Trudeau's handpicked boss of the border police, who from Ottawa would have ordered your arrest.

00:31:39.560 And it, the way you described it, the cops who picked you up, they really, they, they, they, they, when we got down here, they couldn't have been nicer.

00:31:44.900 They went and got me dead at Tim Hornens.

00:31:48.320 So I think you've got the frontline border police who realize you're not a threat.

00:31:53.100 There are actual illegal migrants to Canada every day.

00:31:56.640 There's, there are real border crises.

00:31:58.460 You're not it.

00:31:59.560 They want to let you go.

00:32:00.880 And frankly, they'll be happy when you're gone, but they don't want to put you in jail.

00:32:04.580 They don't want to do these things.

00:32:05.480 But the bosses in Ottawa, and so that, so let's see what the, I make a good faith offer.

00:32:11.740 Put me in charge of Tommy, make me responsible for him following the rules.

00:32:15.540 And I'll pay a, a bond to guarantee it.

00:32:19.960 I don't tell, Tom, tell.

00:32:20.840 Yeah.

00:32:21.260 All right.

00:32:21.880 Tell him.

00:32:22.280 We put to them the idea that I would become the surety, that I would become the guarantor of Tommy's good behavior.

00:32:29.940 I've sort of done that before.

00:32:31.200 When Tommy worked for Rebel News, I was sort of in charge of him following the rules.

00:32:35.620 It's a tough thing to be sure to manage Tommy Robinson.

00:32:38.700 He's sort of lightning in a bottle.

00:32:40.740 But I offered to do that and basically to take the problem off of the cops and onto myself.

00:32:46.600 And they seemed to like the idea, but of course it wasn't theirs to make.

00:32:50.820 They had to kick the decision upstairs to their bosses in Ottawa.

00:32:55.320 No, they've just refused.

00:32:56.880 So, but they've refused.

00:32:58.680 Not the officers.

00:32:59.740 They've refused.

00:33:00.360 They just said, let's come back.

00:33:01.780 No, we're not changing the conditions.

00:33:03.220 You're not allowed to leave this city.

00:33:06.680 Not saying, they don't even, they're not telling me when I need to go home either.

00:33:09.500 They just said, you're not allowed to leave the city.

00:33:11.640 You know, I thought, I thought maybe I was.

00:33:14.280 I thought they, no, no, they really seemed like they were going to let us go.

00:33:16.960 I think the local cops thought, get Tommy out of our hair, stop the hurricane of global bad press and get him on his way.

00:33:25.580 I thought they would take the deal where I basically say, make me the cop.

00:33:28.500 I said, I'll fly home.

00:33:29.360 I said, once I go to Toronto, I'll fly straight home.

00:33:31.800 Once I've done my event.

00:33:32.860 But they kicked it upstairs to the boss. 0.98

00:33:35.500 In fact, they were late.

00:33:36.740 They said, give us half an hour.

00:33:38.260 We got back there.

00:33:39.480 They weren't ready.

00:33:40.500 They needed five minutes.

00:33:41.420 They needed ten minutes.

00:33:42.160 They were obviously having a back and forth debate with their Ottawa bosses.

00:33:45.580 And then they come back and, because we had the immigration lawyer on the phone, they come back and said, no, you're only allowed five days.

00:33:50.660 From when you do a speaking event, you're allowed five days.

00:33:52.840 And the immigration lawyer said, no, you're not.

00:33:54.840 You're allowed five different days.

00:33:56.480 We thought you guys were going to wait for him.

00:33:58.600 That's all right.

00:33:59.180 That's the use of representative.

00:34:00.420 So if you guys go to the lawyer, that's when you print it off.

00:34:02.440 Okay.

00:34:03.360 Okay, thank you.

00:34:04.120 That's my card.

00:34:05.000 Thank you.

00:34:06.040 Officer Jobin is not going to be available after tomorrow.

00:34:08.260 Okay.

00:34:08.760 So I'll be covering until Wednesday and then he's back Wednesday.

00:34:11.440 So that's his card.

00:34:12.080 So I'll give all this to our solicitor?

00:34:13.440 Yep.

00:34:13.580 Yeah, okay.

00:34:14.540 Cool.

00:34:15.060 All right, cool.

00:34:16.020 Thanks very much.

00:34:17.180 Cheers.

00:34:18.400 So when I say give all this to our solicitors, because they said, well, now we're not letting you do that.

00:34:23.640 What are you doing next?

00:34:24.600 And obviously the immigration lawyer is on the phone.

00:34:26.220 I said, well, we're going to court.

00:34:27.840 Yeah.

00:34:28.400 We're going to court tomorrow, hopefully.

00:34:29.680 I mean, you can see those were them right there.

00:34:31.540 We have to give us some paperwork here because we're retaining Kevin Zemp, who's the leading immigration lawyer in the city.

00:34:38.520 I feel like we've had some really good representation.

00:34:40.980 Let me give you an example of that.

00:34:42.040 But they came up with some rule.

00:34:43.760 They just invented it.

00:34:44.280 They can't rule with it.

00:34:44.820 They say you're not allowed to talk for five days.

00:34:46.160 But our lawyer knew the law and he read it.

00:34:49.060 He said, no, you're not allowed to do a seminar of more than five days.

00:34:53.420 Tommy gave a speech and he's going to give another speech.

00:34:55.820 Our lawyer caught that.

00:34:57.340 That was obviously a trick that someone in Ottawa cooked up.

00:35:00.620 These two here were like reading from a script they were handed.

00:35:04.320 I'm not mad at these two.

00:35:06.920 I don't want to be doing that.

00:35:07.760 Yeah, and I don't know who's pulling the strings in Ottawa, but I know this.

00:35:12.560 We have an excellent lawyer who on the phone said, let's go and rumble.

00:35:17.320 He said, let's go straight to court.

00:35:18.600 Yeah.

00:35:18.820 He said, this is a free speech fight.

00:35:20.060 Let's go to court.

00:35:20.540 I'm excited about it because we are, I think we have the moral high ground here.

00:35:27.020 Tommy is exercising free speech and they're stopping him from talking about free speech.

00:35:32.100 This is a battle that's happening in the UK, happening in Canada, happening around the world,

00:35:35.840 this free speech battle.

00:35:37.560 I want to tell you these are great lawyers.

00:35:39.120 Alain Hefner on the criminal side, Kevin Zemp on the immigration side.

00:35:43.160 I need your help, though.

00:35:43.980 I haven't got the legal bills yet.

00:35:45.140 I'm a little bit scared.

00:35:46.000 If you can go to SaveTommy.com, because I think we're going to be in court as soon as

00:35:51.200 tomorrow.

00:35:51.600 Do you know what?

00:35:51.980 Say we win.

00:35:52.600 That's what I said.

00:35:53.260 I said, say we go to court tomorrow and we beat them and we win.

00:35:55.620 And then we go to Toronto for our speech and our event.

00:35:57.600 It's going to blow.

00:35:58.300 It's going to be massive.

00:35:59.120 Yeah.

00:35:59.580 Because they've tried to stop.

00:36:00.660 They don't want the public hearing what we're coming to say.

00:36:02.560 Yeah.

00:36:02.760 So, yeah, I'm excited.

00:36:03.840 But again, I don't know how much all the lawyers are going to cost, but we're hoping we're in

00:36:07.580 court tomorrow.

00:36:08.180 If you've contributed, I'm personally grateful.

00:36:10.500 It's a battle for free speech and it's a battle we want to win.

00:36:12.780 And at least we want to be in the fight.

00:36:14.200 If you have tickets for the Toronto event, don't give up.

00:36:18.120 We're trying to save that Toronto event.

00:36:19.720 So we're not refunding your tickets yet until we have our day in court.

00:36:23.320 All right.

00:36:23.540 We better get going.

00:36:24.220 We've got a lot of stuff to do.

00:36:25.160 But thanks for your support, everybody.

00:36:26.500 Thank you.

00:36:27.600 Well, unfortunately, the proposal we had was not accepted.

00:36:32.740 We have a few excellent lawyers on this case.

00:36:35.620 And so in the days ahead, we're going to try whatever we can to get those conditions

00:36:40.880 amended so that Tommy Robinson can indeed finish his speaking tour in Toronto as scheduled

00:36:46.760 on Sunday.

00:36:47.560 We have a lot of people who have signed up at TommyTour.ca to hear him speak.

00:36:54.440 And it would be a shame if he isn't allowed to do that.

00:36:56.620 In addition, he had events scheduled, for example, an interview with Jordan Peterson and

00:37:02.660 Tammy Peterson.

00:37:03.340 That's being scuppered now because of this geographical restriction, which feels like

00:37:08.620 it's very political in nature.

00:37:09.920 There's no real reason why he can go to Red Deer or Lethbridge, but not Toronto.

00:37:14.800 They're all within Canada. 0.51

00:37:15.820 He can't leave the country anyways because he doesn't have his passport anymore.

00:37:19.700 It's an interesting battle.

00:37:21.120 And it's very exciting.

00:37:22.340 And as usual with Tommy, millions of views follow.

00:37:26.720 I mean, the video I uploaded of his arrest outside our event was seen millions of times.

00:37:31.360 And by my rough estimate at this point, all the different videos of the different moments

00:37:36.480 of his arrest are about 30 million.

00:37:39.120 The guy is a global free speech force.

00:37:43.140 And in fact, one of the very first things that the cop mentioned to us when we met with

00:37:46.920 him was how much media coverage this has received.

00:37:49.580 Obviously, the Trudeau government wants Tommy Robinson out of here.

00:37:53.120 The question is, will they be reasonable with him while he's here or will they be political

00:37:57.760 and punish him?

00:37:59.200 We'll find out.

00:37:59.840 And I'm going to stick around Calgary for another day to see if I can help the legal

00:38:04.840 resolution to this problem.

00:38:06.420 Of course, there's a lot of stories going on across the country and around the world.

00:38:10.180 An absolutely stunning, shocking rebuke of the Liberal Party and Justin Trudeau and the

00:38:16.140 Toronto riding of St. Paul's, which has been liberal since I was a child, going conservative

00:38:22.240 last night.

00:38:22.900 Just an absolute referendum on the Trudeau government.

00:38:27.180 Trudeau says he's not stepping down.

00:38:30.320 I'm not so sure.

00:38:31.280 I think he might be saying that now and planning a graceful exit.

00:38:34.900 I can't believe that there is anyone happy in the Liberal Party.

00:38:39.280 To lose St. Paul's in the heart of Toronto to a conservative means that every seat in Toronto,

00:38:45.560 every seat in BC, every seat in every city is up for grabs.

00:38:50.480 I don't even know if Montreal seats are safe.

00:38:53.100 This could be the Kim Campbell 1993 election for the Liberals.

00:38:58.360 They could literally be wiped out.

00:39:00.780 Here's hoping.

00:39:02.140 And, you know, that's my report from out here in Calgary.

00:39:04.560 I will stay out here because I think that it's incumbent upon me to try and fix things

00:39:10.440 for Tommy's tour to get things back on track.

00:39:14.040 I'll keep you posted.

00:39:15.440 If you want to chip in to help us cover the legal fees, feel free to go to SaveTommy.com.

00:39:21.280 There's a lot of action.

00:39:22.220 It reminds me of the wild times when Tommy worked for Rebel News, and we had these wild moments

00:39:27.420 every week.

00:39:28.520 But I think it behooves us as his host here in Canada to help him out.

00:39:32.760 That's the show for today.

00:39:34.280 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News, to you at home, good night, and keep

00:39:38.620 fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 26, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada wants to deport Tommy Robinson… but they’re not quite sure how to do it

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