Rebel News Podcast - September 18, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Carney applauded in Europe as Canadians await answers on EU associate membership

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. We got a new petition for you. Did anyone ask you if you want to join the
00:00:05.020 European Union? Do you know what that means in terms of travel? Not just your travel there,
00:00:09.500 but does any migrant in Europe now get to come to our country? Do we have to pay
00:00:13.940 the European Union? Do we have to pay them taxes? Do they get to write laws here? Do they
00:00:18.460 get to have us go to their courts now? Those are all questions that have not been answered.
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00:00:56.180 Tonight, do you think
00:00:57.840 canada should join the european union government it's september 18th and this is the ezra levant
00:01:03.280 show shame on you you censorious bug
00:01:18.560 so mark carney wants canada to join the european union in some sort of associate membership it's a
00:01:24.400 It's a form of global government, but it's much more powerful than the UN.
00:01:28.520 They actually have a parliament that passes laws that are binding in the governments that
00:01:33.220 are part of it.
00:01:34.220 They have a European court.
00:01:37.260 Is that something you want?
00:01:38.260 Let me walk you through how you found out about this, because I think that matters quite
00:01:42.720 a bit.
00:01:43.720 It started on Sunday last week.
00:01:45.340 A story appeared in the Wall Street Journal, not the Globe and Mail, not the National Post,
00:01:49.520 not the CBC, an American newspaper sourced to officials in Brussels, Belgium, and in Ottawa,
00:01:55.280 who wouldn't give their names. Mark Carney, it said, was exploring whether Canada should become
00:02:01.260 an associate member of the European Union. I mean, where did that come from? Here's one headline,
00:02:06.820 Carney pushes idea of making Canada's associate member of EU, Wall Street Journal reports.
00:02:13.580 Not announced, leaked. And leaked in the US, of all places, the country where it's supposedly
00:02:18.880 running away from. Same day, a second anonymous official, this one to CTV. Canada is not seeking
00:02:24.920 EU membership in any capacity. The journal had overstated it. I tell you, getting whiplash here.
00:02:31.780 So which is it? I don't know. I said, no need for parliament to meet to clear things up. We can just
00:02:38.240 run our democracy based on dueling media leaks. That's what I said. So that was on the weekend,
00:02:44.580 On Sunday, two leaks, zero answers.
00:02:47.400 Now watch what happened next.
00:02:48.640 On Wednesday, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission,
00:02:53.500 a woman no Canadian has ever voted for, and I've got to tell you, a few have even heard of,
00:02:57.220 stands up in the European Parliament and says the quiet part out loud.
00:03:01.440 She says she would like to make Canada the first associate member of the European Union.
00:03:06.820 This is why I have invited Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada.
00:03:14.580 Mark, your presence here is a symbol of the enduring friendship between our people.
00:03:33.180 Our cultural, historical and personal links run deep in the fabric of our societies.
00:03:38.800 This is not a partnership against anyone else, but for our common strength.
00:03:47.140 In short, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible.
00:03:54.880 And dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships.
00:04:00.040 So I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada
00:04:06.720 to being the first associate member of the European Union.
00:04:23.740 First ever, eh?
00:04:25.300 Category that does not exist in any EU treaty.
00:04:27.740 they're going to invent it for us. And just yesterday morning, Carney walked into that
00:04:34.300 same chamber in Strasbourg and gave a bit of a taunting speech poking at Donald Trump.
00:04:41.260 He said he was opening the door to Canada becoming the European Union's first associate
00:04:45.460 member. Yesterday, President von der Leyen spoke of moving beyond CETA to an alliance
00:04:52.700 for the future, opening the door to Canada to become the European Union's first associate
00:05:00.580 member. Canada welcomes this ambition, and I will tell you polling shows that an overwhelming
00:05:08.820 majority of Canadians support much closer ties with Europe. An alliance for the future
00:05:17.940 is a unique positive approach that we will define together building on our common strengths and
00:05:26.420 based on our share of values now so on sunday a senior government source said we're not seeking
00:05:31.500 membership in any capacity but by thursday the prime minister's standing in a foreign parliament
00:05:37.920 and welcoming becoming the first associate member which official was lying to you because one of
00:05:43.900 them was, or maybe they all are. Now, notice where he said it. Strasbourg. The European Parliament,
00:05:49.400 720 members of the European Parliament, MEPs, from 27 countries. And they gave him a standing
00:05:56.800 ovation, of course. Do you know when the Canadian Parliament last sat? Back in June, June 18th.
00:06:03.060 It's been dark all summer. It does come back on Monday. Thank you very little. And when it's
00:06:09.700 sitting, Mark Carney's not even there. Since the election, the House has sat 137 days. Carney has
00:06:17.980 showed up for just 36 question periods. I mean, he hates it. He doesn't like answering questions. He
00:06:26.360 feels it's a waste of his time. In his first year, he spent 68 days out of the country. That's double
00:06:32.960 Justin Trudeau's first year. Global News actually did the count on this. More than one day in five
00:06:38.360 he spent in a different country uh he'll stand for a foreign parliament though he won't stand
00:06:45.540 for ours he'll take a standing ovation from people who can't vote for him but he'll skip
00:06:50.580 question people question period from people who can so let's ask the question the europeans didn't
00:06:56.500 what is an associate member of the european union well nobody knows i'm not being cute here's the
00:07:03.020 global news headline the day after von der Leyen said it nobody seems precisely sure what that
00:07:08.940 means here's a european analyst aaron gash burnett on npr a lot of excitement about what it means it
00:07:16.400 does not in fact exist oh okay here's canada's own ambassador to the eu jonathan wilkinson used
00:07:23.440 to be an mp until a few weeks ago uh this is what he said the same day we are not looking to be a
00:07:28.120 member of the european union because that is a sovereignty issue and people give up certain
00:07:32.000 portions of their sovereignty so the ambassador says membership would mean giving up sovereignty
00:07:38.020 and we're not doing that the commission president said we're the first associate member the prime
00:07:43.880 minister says he welcomes it three people three different answers and not one of them given in
00:07:48.400 the house of commons so here are the things you'd want to know before you joined anything
00:07:51.720 doesn't mean the movement of people the wall street journal sources talked about canadians
00:07:57.520 living and working visa free in europe time magazine says the package includes quote freedom
00:08:03.280 of movement between the eu and canada these things go both ways of course if canadians can go there
00:08:08.540 live there work there europeans can live and work here by the way there's 450 million people with a
00:08:15.040 european passport including millions who arrived in europe in the last decade and pick one up on
00:08:21.540 the way from syria afghanistan algeria etc somalia europe's migration crisis becomes ours by treaty
00:08:31.720 there's no cap and there's no vote is that a back door bigger than the front door carney's
00:08:37.480 immigration minister says he closed nobody knows nobody's been allowed to ask does it mean european
00:08:43.900 union law will rule here i mean the only model anyone can point to is norway i guess norway
00:08:48.560 gets into the single market and in exchange it takes the rules doesn't write them though takes
00:08:53.820 them farming energy fishing cars chemicals what you're allowed to say online we just spent two
00:08:58.780 years fighting ottawa's censorship laws now we sign up for europe's censorship laws does it mean
00:09:04.720 european union courts norway has to answer to a european court would we nobody said do we pay
00:09:13.100 into the european union budget the horizon associates as they're called can is already
00:09:18.360 one of those for research pay membership fees and get no vote is that is that the model here
00:09:23.860 so do we have to pay how much do we have to pay no one said it's not a partnership it's sort of
00:09:30.000 a franchise isn't it you pay the fees you follow the manual head offices in brussels they're going
00:09:34.960 to outvote you every time and here's the thing the regime media skipped the europeans aren't even
00:09:39.220 sure they want this. The German government, the biggest force in the EU, the day after
00:09:44.380 von der Leyen spoke, said, as for the terminology, the label attached to it, we ought to reconsider
00:09:49.920 that. That's interesting, isn't it? A French member of the European Parliament, Manon Aubry,
00:09:55.680 said there was, quote, a serious question of method that the commission president doesn't
00:10:00.280 get to decide this on her own. NPR reports some European governments were, quote, furious.
00:10:06.680 they weren't consulted 27 countries have to agree to anything unanimously and how good are they at
00:10:12.960 agreeing on canada well look at the ceta the canada europe trade agreement our actual free trade deal
00:10:19.740 with europe it came into force nine years ago this week back in september 2017 provisionally though
00:10:26.300 because 10 european countries still haven't ratified it france italy belgium ireland poland
00:10:32.140 Greece, Hungary, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Slovenia. They just haven't signed it for whatever reasons.
00:10:38.340 The French Senate voted it down in 2024. 211 to 44. Why? Because the French farmers, I mean,
00:10:47.700 if you want to see a farmer's lobby, look at Europe. They don't want our beef there,
00:10:52.560 and it's not going to happen. That's why they don't want Canada. I thought this whole thing
00:10:56.180 was about new export markets. I mean, isn't that what Mark Carney promised us? He would find
00:11:00.720 new markets to replace the u.s europe does not want our stuff that's the whole point
00:11:06.540 of the european union to keep out foreign stuff they can't ratify a trade deal with us in nine
00:11:12.960 years and we think they're going to invent a new kind of membership for us i'm not sure they'll
00:11:17.280 buy it i think carney knows that i think that's the point you get the ovation without ever having
00:11:21.660 to deliver anything get a chance to poke trump in the nose because listen to what this speech
00:11:27.000 was actually about here's the line every wire service ran i also want to be precise about what
00:11:33.820 i am not proposing i'm not proposing a third block in order to become a great power rival only with
00:11:43.380 better manners we would you look at that a better manners better manners than who um he doesn't say
00:11:55.500 better manners than, I don't know, Wob Canoe, Doug Ford, Brian Eby. He doesn't actually say
00:12:00.260 Trump in his speech. He didn't say United States once either. He didn't have to.
00:12:04.840 We are not fair weather allies. We do not pursue zero sum deals. Our commitment to the rule of law
00:12:16.480 and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the
00:12:24.000 same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication. We hold common values for which we have always
00:12:33.340 fought and in whose defense we must always remain vigilant. Sovereignty and openness are
00:12:41.380 intention. Economic integration has been weaponized. Tariffs used as leverage, financial plumbing as
00:12:47.320 coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. We do not seek power to dominate
00:12:53.680 others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one, no one can control our open markets,
00:13:03.520 impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our
00:13:08.880 democracies, our rule of law. Every member of the European Parliament in the room knew exactly
00:13:20.640 what that was about. Every reporter knew. And so did the man in the White House.
00:13:24.740 Now, I think it's laughable. Look, the whole thing with Canada. Canada's been a terrible
00:13:29.460 trade partner. And no, I don't see that. And if they do that, if I think it's at all a hostile
00:13:36.240 act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things. So if they
00:13:43.640 do that, if Europe does that with a bad intention, if it's a good intention, that's fine. If it's a
00:13:49.860 bad intention. We'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe. He called it laughable. And then he
00:13:54.660 threatened Europe with tariffs over us. So congratulations before the ink is dry on a
00:14:00.200 membership that doesn't exist. The Americans are threatening our new partners with tariffs.
00:14:04.520 That's what the better manners bought. Now let's come back to the thing that actually
00:14:08.180 matters. The thing Carney was actually elected to fix. Trade. Tariffs. August 22nd, the Americans
00:14:17.240 put a 50% tariff on $27.6 billion worth of Canadian goods. On September 8th,
00:14:25.280 Carney hit back dollar for dollar. Okay, how's that going for you? Well, July 1st of the USMCA
00:14:29.920 review, the Americans refused to renew the deal. We're now on one-year reviews every year until
00:14:35.820 2036. This is not going well. It's important that it does go well. It's more important than getting
00:14:41.980 some applause in a foreign capital. Canada sold $565 billion worth of goods to the U.S. last year.
00:14:51.480 72 and a half cents of every export dollar we earn. That's not going to change. Europe cannot
00:14:57.620 make up for that. In December, for one month, $44 billion to the U.S., whereas we sold just $3.8
00:15:03.580 billion to the whole European Union. Not even one-tenth. You cannot replace the United States
00:15:10.460 as a market 10 to 1 you know i uh take cars obviously canada which means ontario builds
00:15:19.900 about 1.2 million vehicles a year and uh but 1.1 million of those go to the united states
00:15:27.860 they make about a hundred thousand cars for canadians the rest is for the u.s that's more
00:15:33.760 than a million cars every year across the ambassador bridge and um is europe going to
00:15:39.320 pick up that slack how many cars is europe gonna buy i'm gonna go with um close to zero under the
00:15:46.280 ceta our great trade deal with europe canadian made cars get a quota literally 100 000 a year
00:15:53.780 that's the ceiling and uniform the auto workers union say that even that hasn't been delivered so
00:15:59.720 about one tenth of what we sell to the americans if you're an auto worker how you feel about
00:16:06.640 Mark Carney's visit to Strasbourg. So the man in Oshawa, the woman in Oakville, the family in
00:16:12.560 Windsor, what do they get out of this fancy meeting in Strasbourg? The standing ovation
00:16:17.820 they didn't hear for a quota that wouldn't even fill one plant. Or even the fighter jet thing.
00:16:23.660 What a stupid fight that is. The great symbol of turning our back on America. Cancel the F-35,
00:16:28.600 buy the Swedish Gripen jet instead. Well, guess what's inside the Gripen? I don't know if you
00:16:33.220 know this, but it runs on an American general electric jet engine, which means every single
00:16:39.480 Gripen sold anywhere in the world needs a license from Washington when they buy it. When Columbia
00:16:44.360 tried to buy Gripen's last year, the reports out of Washington were that the Americans were holding
00:16:48.500 up the engine license to steer Columbia to the F-16 instead. That's what it's like. You can't
00:16:55.960 escape the Americans by buying a Swedish plane with an American engine. You can only annoy them.
00:17:00.380 so ask yourself if the goal is a trade deal with the u.s the thing that pays for the cars the jobs
00:17:06.900 the 72 percent of our exports does any of this make sense fly to strassburg taunt the president
00:17:12.880 about manners get europe threatened with tariffs come home empty-handed what does he have to show
00:17:17.540 for it makes no sense at all unless the real goal isn't a trade deal if the real goal is to keep
00:17:26.260 america canadians angry at americans because an angry canadian votes liberal and a canadian who's
00:17:31.660 worried about his mortgage might not that it makes perfect sense distract misdirect every foreign
00:17:38.000 standing ovation is a campaign ad then the better manners isn't diplomacy it's a campaign it's a
00:17:43.780 bumper sticker for the liberals this is that davos speech business all over again remember that
00:17:48.200 back in january if we're not at the table we're on the menu the media mob swooned it got its own
00:17:54.020 Wikipedia page. Everyone who was anyone loved that speech. Did the single auto worker in Ontario
00:17:59.280 read it? Did it save a single shift at an auto plant? No, it wasn't for them. It was for the
00:18:04.760 people who think anything European is sophisticated, whereas anything American is vulgar. That's not a
00:18:10.340 foreign policy. That's a dinner party prejudice with a motorcade, maybe. And when the Europeans
00:18:15.240 do invest here, look at what that word means. Statistics Canada's own numbers. In 2024,
00:18:20.420 platform, nearly half of all foreign direct investment into Canada was just mergers and
00:18:26.180 acquisitions. Buying companies that already exist. Genuine new investment, like starting a plant from
00:18:33.180 scratch, opening a mine, a thing that wasn't there before, has averaged about a quarter.
00:18:39.780 We're just for sale at low prices because of our dollar. It's not investing in Canada. They're
00:18:44.860 buying Canada at a discount while the dollar's down and the Americans are squeezing us. And
00:18:49.020 Carney calls it a partnership, and none of it has an electoral mandate.
00:18:53.320 Mark Carney ran on one thing.
00:18:55.160 He said he alone could be the Trump whisperer and get a deal.
00:18:59.240 Nobody heard that as become the 28th associate member of the European Union.
00:19:04.160 It wasn't in the platform.
00:19:05.460 It wasn't in the debates.
00:19:06.380 It wasn't in a throne speech.
00:19:07.900 There's been no motion, no vote, no committee, just like his whole China thing.
00:19:12.020 During the election, Carney called China our biggest security threat, and he got votes for it.
00:19:16.760 eight months later, he's in Beijing, letting in 49,000 Chinese electric cars a year and talking
00:19:23.340 about a new world order. Nobody voted for that. That was the pivot to China. This is the pivot
00:19:28.260 to Europe. Both announced abroad, both leaked before they were explained. Neither one ever
00:19:32.200 put to you. A jet setter, jet saving. Beijing, Davos, Strasbourg, Ottawa, maybe if he can fit
00:19:40.580 it in for a few days. Parliament comes back on Monday, four days from now. He could have waited
00:19:45.560 it four days and told you first. He didn't. He told them first. So here's what I'm asking you to
00:19:51.520 do. Since nobody in Ottawa is allowed to ask any questions, let's ask it from out here. We set up
00:19:56.960 a petition at no to the EU dot com. It says one thing. No Canadian government has the right to
00:20:03.040 sign us up for European laws, European courts, European borders, European bills without putting
00:20:08.500 it to the Canadian people first in parliament on the record with a vote. I think there should
00:20:13.300 actually be a national referendum on it go to no to the eu.com no to the eu.com and sign it
00:20:21.320 takes 30 seconds and then send it to five people who work for a living the auto worker the trucker
00:20:25.880 farmer the ones carney didn't think to consult before he took his bow in strassburg and let's
00:20:30.960 make sure that when he walks back into the house of commons there's a stack of canadian names
00:20:35.300 waiting for him that's bigger than the standing ovation he got from the europeans no to the eu.com
00:20:42.000 So on Monday, watch whether he even shows up for question period.
00:20:46.520 And if he does, watch whether anyone in that room is allowed to ask him the one question that matters.
00:20:52.000 What did you just sign us up for?
00:20:55.820 Don't you think you should have heard it in Ottawa before you heard it from Strasbourg?
00:21:06.460 Hey, welcome back.
00:21:07.440 you might remember a few weeks ago when we sent a couple of rebel news reporters to Spain. Now,
00:21:13.420 not Spain on the European continent, but a little Spanish enclave that's actually part of Africa.
00:21:21.220 It's a little place called Ceuta, about 80,000 citizens, and it's actually attached to Morocco.
00:21:28.100 It's on the southern side of the Mediterranean Sea. Well, a few weeks ago, about 50,000
00:21:34.680 Moroccans just stormed in crossing the small land border and actually many of them going by sea
00:21:42.320 just around a little sea barrier. Here's some of the footage that we saw our reporter Alexa
00:21:49.360 Lavoie and our videographer Efron Monsanto. Take a look. Do you see an islamization of
00:21:55.500 the European country? Sure yeah yeah I think so yeah. Do you think it's a good thing? Yeah it's
00:22:00.780 It's a good thing, normal.
00:22:30.780 This is a threat, an absolute threat to European security, to Spanish security.
00:22:40.280 It's a CELTA being opened today. I say I will go.
00:22:47.180 How has the migration crisis affected you personally?
00:22:51.780 No, absolutely.
00:22:53.780 well our team was there for a few days and even as they were there tens of thousands of the
00:23:04.560 moroccan men then they were about 95 men they went home but thousands remain to this day
00:23:11.740 weeks are turning into months are they becoming a permanent presence in zuta one thing's for sure
00:23:19.560 the sexual assaults and other crimes have skyrocketed. That's what happens when tens of
00:23:24.540 thousands or even just thousands of military age migrants camp out in your country. Joining us now
00:23:32.560 to talk about it is a reporter and activist. She's Spanish herself. Ada Luke joins us now. Ada, great
00:23:41.220 to see you. We first met at a Tommy Robinson rally in London. I'm glad you're doing your activism and
00:23:47.280 journalism in your home country of Spain. You were there much more recently than our reporters.
00:23:52.780 Tell us what you saw on the ground. Hi, thank you so much for having me. Yes, indeed, I was there
00:23:59.820 this past weekend and I went there expecting the worst and I did find, in fact, the worst situation
00:24:07.200 possible. There is still, I would say, 15,000 invaders in Ceuta. As you said, Ceuta is a very
00:24:14.020 tiny city in the north african continent about they have about 80 000 people living there it's
00:24:21.300 a beautiful small city so when you have 15 invaders who doesn't know how to assimilate
00:24:26.560 into our culture completely take over the streets it's a very impactful situation to see
00:24:32.060 um you know la playa del trampoline it's the famous beach that everyone records and it's all
00:24:37.960 over social media so my image in my imagination i thought all the invaders would be there and the
00:24:43.160 rest of the city would be sort of okay but that was far from the truth the truth is that the
00:24:48.360 invaders took over the entire city all the neighborhoods and of course that beach so it
00:24:54.240 was a very tragic situation well tell me a little bit about the police and the army because you've
00:25:01.480 used the word invaders that's really what it was i mean they may not have weapons on them
00:25:06.480 But when thousands of military-aged men illegally storm into one country from another country, that's the dictionary definition of an invasion.
00:25:18.060 So what have the Spanish police and military done in response?
00:25:22.560 Have they done anything?
00:25:25.000 So I will tell you, there's like a very fine line that I don't want to cross.
00:25:30.700 Because I do feel, I talk with some police officers there, they are all very tired, very frustrated about the situation.
00:25:37.340 And they, of course, they would act differently if they were allowed to.
00:25:41.340 So I think we need to blame the politicians and the top officers on the Spanish police that are giving them the instructions to do nothing about it.
00:25:50.100 As I said, La Playa del Trampoline, it's the beach where all the migrants stay there all night long.
00:25:55.760 And there's no police at all.
00:25:58.080 The police only goes there, meanwhile, the criminal Red Cross NGO gives them food.
00:26:05.180 And once the Red Cross leaves, the police leaves with them.
00:26:08.160 So there's no control.
00:26:09.880 There's no law enforcement.
00:26:11.880 Anything at all.
00:26:12.620 It's complete chaos there.
00:26:14.320 So no, they are not doing enough.
00:26:16.260 But again, I don't think they are allowed to do so.
00:26:19.800 I think they are just following the instructions from the top.
00:26:23.080 You mentioned NGOs.
00:26:24.860 when you have thousands of foreign men in a very small place like Sudha, it's really a town,
00:26:31.220 I think, or a small city. If they didn't have food, water, someplace to sleep, I think they
00:26:39.280 would go home pretty quickly because it's not like they've taken a jet and they really haven't even
00:26:44.180 taken a boat. They sort of, I mean, some of them have, but they've just walked around. So home for
00:26:50.760 them is very close by like the this the Moroccan country is just a hundred feet away so if there
00:26:59.420 was no food or anything like that I think they would go home like the other 50,000 have gone
00:27:04.540 home would you agree with me that it's the NGOs who have made the presence of these migrants
00:27:10.180 permanent absolutely I'm the first one that criticizes the Red Cross NGO if the Red Cross
00:27:18.120 didn't exist, or if they were not feeding them every single day, they would go home. As a matter
00:27:23.940 of fact, I went to visit the border as well. And I don't know if you remember when they first
00:27:28.420 stormed into Spain, there was like this big gate. It's completely open now, so they can go back.
00:27:34.380 But they are making a nice life for them here, so they do not want to go back. Actually,
00:27:39.920 I was very surprised to see how a lot of those migrants had better phones than my own mother.
00:27:45.700 they have everything there that's incredible incredible now some other countries when this
00:27:52.480 first happened for example italy said that they were rethinking their approach to what's called
00:27:58.100 the schengen zone that's a that's a name for the area in the in europe where you have free travel
00:28:05.260 so you don't need to show a passport or other papers you can go from france to germany to
00:28:10.520 Austria, etc. And when other countries saw this invasion, they said, well, maybe they were going
00:28:16.720 to rethink the open borders. What's happened with that? Have those other countries followed
00:28:23.740 through on that threat? Has Spain tried to fix that diplomatic problem? What's going on with
00:28:31.080 the rest of Europe? I feel like everyone stopped talking about it. I recently flew to Italy and
00:28:37.300 was no control at the border whatsoever coming from Spain. So I didn't see any change since the
00:28:44.100 invasion first started. I wouldn't even blame them if they kicked us out from the Schengen area,
00:28:49.540 because I would too. This is a threat to any nation's sovereignty. But I feel like everyone
00:28:55.620 just stopped talking about it. They just had a plenary session in the European Parliament
00:29:00.260 yesterday and there's even there's one MEP from Italy her name is Hilaria Salis she even said
00:29:08.260 Ceuta is not Spain Ceuta belongs to Morocco so we do find some people from the left from other
00:29:15.780 countries who are even supporting Morocco in this case that's incredible I mean it's been Spanish
00:29:22.180 for centuries literally it's Spanish people there let me ask you about the media I haven't seen any
00:29:27.860 coverage of this story in the mainstream media in canada or the united states so i know it was news
00:29:33.660 in spain and i know there's independent journalists like our own journalists who were there
00:29:38.780 what's the media coverage being like in spain or have or when you were there did you see any
00:29:45.040 reporters remaining there or had they all sort of gone home there were a few reporters that we still
00:29:53.460 cover it in spain every day on the mainstream media but of course the opinions vary depending
00:29:59.120 on what media you are watching for example the media that's owned by the state like tv uno la
00:30:05.780 sexta etc they want us to feel sorry for them they are asking us to emphasize with this poor
00:30:12.980 man that are coming to spain to look for a better future and they are so poor and hungry which it's
00:30:18.580 very far from the truth and then there's other programs that are sort of showing the truth but
00:30:24.660 again it's only showing in spain like i do not see any reporter from america or italy or france
00:30:32.260 they just forgot about this issue well i'm really glad you were there and i appreciate your reports
00:30:37.540 and we showed some of your twitter videos online here and i hope i can contact you from time to
00:30:42.980 time for more stories from spain we like to send our reporters around the world but of course
00:30:48.420 you know the lay of the land you speak spanish of course so i i hope we can call you in the future
00:30:54.500 to give us an update ada absolutely i would love to right on there she is ada liuk a spanish
00:31:01.700 activist and commentator stay with us your letters to me next
00:31:06.260 next. Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me about Benita Peterson being prosecuted
00:31:19.220 in Alberta for the hurt feelings law that I was targeted with 20 years ago. Wild and Free Alberta
00:31:25.560 says, end this now, Premier Smith. We don't much go for thought crime in Alberta. This is an insult
00:31:31.000 to who we are. Yeah, and the point I was sort of making is, it's not like putting conservatives in
00:31:37.380 power will change this, because the law is the law, and you've got to remove the law. You can't
00:31:42.880 just say, oh, well, there's conservatives in there. And by the way, it's under conservatives
00:31:46.180 that this prosecution is happening. You've got to take that power away from government altogether.
00:31:51.420 That's what we did with the federal campaign. Ollie Canal says, we're comfortable banning
00:31:56.360 books and flags. We've set a precedent. Yeah, I mean, what I'm worried about is I know that's not
00:32:01.740 in the Canadian nature, but two things are changing. Number one, woke leftists, especially
00:32:06.200 in school, are really propagating the idea of safe spaces and trigger warnings. And at the same time,
00:32:12.500 mass immigration from countries that don't have a history of valuing freedom, it's like a pincer
00:32:17.440 movement, and freedom of speech is caught in the middle. That's our show for the day. Until next
00:32:22.500 time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:32:26.360 Keep fighting for freedom.