Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC deplores 'unfair' media coverage of lavish exec bonuses

00:00:00.000 new year new you same old justin trudeau and the cbc neither one of them care for any more

00:00:22.340 scrutiny it's january 2nd 2025 i'm sheila gunner-reed but you are watching the ezra

00:00:28.520 levant show shame on you you censorious bug

00:00:35.520 newly revealed emails obtained by black locks reporter show executives at the cbc whining

00:00:50.040 about what they call unfair coverage from other media outlets regarding the cbc's executive bonus

00:00:57.560 program imagine that canada's entitled billion dollar plus taxpayer funded bloated behemoth of

00:01:06.400 a state broadcaster is upset that their buddies in the media dared to report the truth about their

00:01:12.960 14.9 million dollars in bonuses and let me just stop you right here that 14.9 million dollars

00:01:21.920 that they spent in executive bonuses performance bonuses if you can imagine that it's actually more

00:01:28.500 money than the cbc spends on indigenous language programming so next time the cbc tells you that

00:01:35.380 there would be no indigenous language programming if not for them well i mean even they don't think that

00:01:42.920 and when did these bonuses get handed out well right when the cbc was slashing 346 jobs crying poor at

00:01:51.800 parliamentary hearings and watching their ad revenue plummet yet somehow they found millions of dollars

00:01:59.740 for executive payouts you make about half a million dollars and uh plus you haven't ruled out bonuses so maybe more than that

00:02:07.580 um would market rates mean that executive vice presidents may be on salary for over a million bucks a year

00:02:15.140 i'm sorry i'm not following your logic here

00:02:20.500 if you are competing in the ecosystem as you described it are you having to pay potentially

00:02:26.000 executive vice presidents a million dollars a year i think um um uh the deputy shampoo raised this question

00:02:32.720 with me last appearance when we talked about the compensation at belt and at um other um divya and

00:02:39.500 other media companies we are not paying anywhere near as i said we stay to about 50 percent of market rates

00:02:46.740 gotcha so could you confirm how many cbc employees may be earning in the range of your salary or higher

00:02:54.680 i don't believe anybody at cbc radio canada has a base salary higher than mine what about if you

00:03:02.860 factored in bonuses would there be salaries that would be comparable to yours uh yes there would be at

00:03:08.480 the executive vice president level okay so um would there be any indicators in your business performance

00:03:15.160 that would cause you to consider that you might be overpaying some of your employees based on the

00:03:21.820 performance of the organization are there any indicators that would cause concern uh in your mind

00:03:27.180 to overpayment for what the cbc is producing and what the outcomes absolutely not as i've said before we

00:03:34.180 do an annual review with the board of directors with outside experts to check on that very question

00:03:41.240 we're constantly mapping salaries right through the unaffiliated groups to look at um that they're

00:03:48.040 that they are as i said at a 50 percentile again performance bonuses what is the level

00:03:56.680 of performance that you'd have to hit to not qualify for a performance bonus now according to these emails

00:04:05.720 chuck thompson the cbc's chief of staff had the audacity to complain that outlets like the canadian

00:04:13.420 press didn't give them quote enough time to explain the bonuses i think those bonuses explain themselves

00:04:20.640 don't you and leon marr the cbc's director of media relations griped that cp had the nerve to report

00:04:27.860 the facts based on publicly available records before waiting for cbc's spin doctors this isn't just

00:04:35.560 entitlement it's a refusal to take accountability for what they're doing with your money but let's

00:04:42.720 take a step back for a second this isn't the cbc's first scandal and we know it won't be their last

00:04:48.720 until they are mercifully defunded post october 2025 just two months ago in november of 2024 the ethics

00:04:58.360 commissioner fined katherine tate the cbc's ceo for conflict of interest violations what a liberal

00:05:06.380 thing to do it's true the head of our taxpayer funded state broadcaster violated ethics rules

00:05:12.440 just like her bosses in the liberal party tate had undisclosed dealings that created conflicts of

00:05:19.200 interest all while sitting at the top of an organization that constantly cries about being

00:05:24.520 underfunded and let's not forget tate isn't exactly scraping by the woman's not hard pressed 1.00

00:05:31.760 out there she's raking in nearly five hundred thousand dollars a year best guess she won't 1.00

00:05:37.700 divulge her salary and we know she gets a performance bonus for being the ceo of a failing state broadcaster

00:05:46.220 on top of that and yet she has the gall now to go to parliament and ask for an additional 500 million 0.63

00:05:54.700 annually because in her words the cbc is quote not out of the woods uh minister when the uh ceo of cbc

00:06:04.960 miss tate and the board appeared before this committee the board made it clear that they approved

00:06:09.860 of her performance as the ceo of the public broadcaster but it was also made clear that it

00:06:16.820 is your call whether or not she gets a bonus my question when the board made clear that they approve

00:06:23.980 of her performance do you and will you be planning on awarding ms tate a bonus

00:06:30.660 for now i can tell you that the decision has not been made yet i'd remind you also that the

00:06:41.100 privacy act means that we can't disclose the details of people's pays and contracts

00:06:47.300 so the decision has not been taken and we'll continue to look at the uh issue in light of

00:06:58.340 ms tate's performance but here's where it gets even better or worse depending on how much patience

00:07:02.720 you have for this kind of waste and i am completely out of it catherine tate racked up thousands of

00:07:07.820 dollars in expenses for a trip to paris to attend the olympics while already on a holiday in france

00:07:14.020 ms tate i just want to clarify a couple of things that i heard today uh so first did you say that you

00:07:20.160 were on a personal trip to france decided to extend your vacation go to the olympics and then bill the

00:07:27.360 taxpayer for it is that correct i was on a personal trip to france and i did not bill the taxpayer for

00:07:35.680 my flight or travel from canada what did you bill the taxpayer for the hotel and the train to get to

00:07:42.980 paris where does your personal trip and and your the day i taxpayer billing begin when i as part of my

00:07:50.760 job being at the at the opening of the olympics was absolutely expected of me so i interrupted my

00:07:57.020 holiday and took the four days to go to the olympics could you understand why that sounds concerning to

00:08:03.320 somebody just because you know bit of a weird situation where you get to go on a trip you're

00:08:08.640 having your personal time and then you just unilaterally get to decide what becomes work and what

00:08:13.880 doesn't well not if i'm not charging the company for the trip but you did charge the taxpayer six

00:08:18.780 thousand dollars correct when i was working in paris i did yes and but could you understand why it'd be

00:08:24.020 concerning i would think that it would be concerning that i would be decision it would be concerning if

00:08:29.340 the ceo of cbc radio canada did not attend the opening of the olympics given him it was one of the

00:08:35.500 most important events of our calendar year yes while canadians are struggling to make ends meet

00:08:42.020 tate was whining and dining and flying at the taxpayer's expense to the city of light and what

00:08:49.140 was the purpose of this trip cbc isn't even the lead broadcaster for the olympics anymore by the way

00:08:55.040 what woods are the cbc in catherine canadians are the ones not out of the woods quite yet canadians are

00:09:04.120 struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living families are tightening their belts businesses

00:09:08.380 are laying off employees and our economy is on shaky ground at best and those are all due to the

00:09:15.900 trudeau policies that cbc acts as apologists for and while canadians are forced to make sacrifices the

00:09:22.840 cbc is padding executive salaries cruising around first class and demanding more money your money with

00:09:28.980 zero accountability let's not forget that cbc topped the canadian taxpayers federation's naughty list

00:09:35.420 this year why because of their blatant disregard for transparency and their insatiable appetite for

00:09:41.440 taxpayer dollars it's not enough that they already receive 1.4 billion dollars a year from us they

00:09:48.060 want more these hungry hungry hippos and let's talk about declining viewership fewer and fewer canadians are

00:09:56.540 tuning into the cbc and honestly can you blame them with programming that feels more like propaganda than

00:10:03.100 journalism canadians are tuning into other sources for news and entertainment but instead of addressing

00:10:09.200 the root of their problems cbc insists it's the fault of quote financial challenges in the media

00:10:14.820 industry no cbc the phone call is coming from inside the house the problem is you and here's another

00:10:22.420 kicker catherine tate and her executive team expect ordinary canadians to believe they're running a tight

00:10:29.500 ship over at the cbc but of course while ordinary canadians are facing layoffs and rising costs cbc

00:10:35.480 executives are handing out millions and bonuses charging taxpayers for luxurious trips and then

00:10:39.760 whining about media outlets exposing it now here's a thought what if the cbc embraced accountability for

00:10:48.200 once what if they acknowledged the trust canadians have placed in them is broken what if they actually

00:10:56.820 delivered on their mandate as a public broadcaster what if instead of funneling millions of dollars

00:11:03.740 into executive pockets they invested in programming that reflected the values and voices of everyday

00:11:08.380 canadians and not the values and voices of everyday canadians that vote for justin trudeau but no

00:11:16.380 instead of reforming the cbc doubles down just look at their push for more funding under the trudeau

00:11:21.800 government this is not about serving canadians this is about serving themselves

00:11:26.520 canadians are fed up and rightly so cbc has become a bloated unaccountable organization that

00:11:34.160 serves its executives more than the public you guys know how i feel canada should have

00:11:41.160 no public broadcaster at all and the most successful campaign to defund the cbc is led by catherine tate

00:11:49.760 herself every time she opens her mouth sink or swim on your own cbc uh independent third party

00:11:55.900 organizations that analyze this indicate that trust in the cbc fell 17 percent in just four years

00:12:02.860 viewership is down less than three percent in prime time markets that means during prime time when when

00:12:08.960 when canadians are getting into the living rooms to watch what is on tv 97 percent of canadians

00:12:16.520 say no to the cbc tune it out and move on to other things based on all of that miss tate i just want

00:12:25.900 to say on behalf of the conservative party i want to thank you for your efforts in helping us promote

00:12:32.400 the campaign to defund the cbc because i think outside of the conservative caucus you have been the

00:12:37.520 most successful person in creating the demand to defund the cbc 1.4 billion dollars of taxpayers money

00:12:44.680 doesn't go for an online streaming service it goes to a whole host of products in which canadians are

00:12:51.400 choosing other sources of information and entertainment so again i don't really have a question there i just

00:12:57.160 wanted to say thank you for your efforts to help us defund the cbc

00:13:03.560 did you have a comment i must say that it really does shock me the extent to which certain members of

00:13:10.680 this committee and and subs in or whatever you call it seem to make me the target and throw insults to

00:13:20.680 my tenure at cbc radio canada in order to discredit the organization the organization has stood for 90

00:13:31.000 years and we know 79 percent of cf canadians say they believe that cbc radio canada should continue and

00:13:42.360 so to to have this be uh somehow uh um uh you know a proof that uh that deep that we should be defunding

00:13:50.440 the cbc is ridiculous you know what else i think cbc will get that extra half a billion from trudeau

00:13:56.760 he needs the help from his biggest cheerleaders who will polish his 0.98

00:14:02.360 lies and failures like their jobs depend on it because with a conservative promise to defund the

00:14:08.600 cbc their jobs do depend on trudeau getting re-elected canadians should read and watch the cbc

00:14:17.240 with that awareness with that warning label on it post media columnist lauren gunter joins the show

00:14:24.760 next to discuss trudeau's fortunes in 2025 stay with us

00:14:41.000 joining me now is good friend of the show lauren gunter columnist for post media and he's got a

00:14:47.240 really great article detailing just the absolute desperation of the trudeau liberals his biggest

00:14:52.440 apologists up until about 30 seconds ago are turning on him real quick last time i had lauren

00:14:59.240 on the show we discussed how i i didn't think at the time i don't think lauren thought at the time

00:15:05.320 either that the liberals were going to call an election because they could lose now or lose later

00:15:10.760 lauren has your prediction changed no and and despite the fact now that trudeau's ontario caucus his

00:15:19.960 atlantic caucus and his quebec caucus have all suggested that he uh formally suggested that he resign

00:15:29.080 uh i i still think he thinks he can hold on and he alone has the moral authority the moral oomph uh and

00:15:40.280 the charisma to turn their fortunes around and and prevent that dastardly pierre polyev from becoming uh from 1.00

00:15:47.960 uh from becoming prime minister i mean their their whole modus operandi right now seems to be that

00:15:54.680 well at least we're not polyev and so if we can convince the canadian public that polyev is as bad

00:16:01.240 as we know he is then there is still hope that we can pull this election out of the fire but that's pure

00:16:08.840 delusion i mean that that that that goes against what we all witnessed in november in the united states

00:16:16.200 right which was where you know all of the mainstream media in the united states and and we can say how

00:16:23.080 bad our media is in canada and how biased it is and lots of times that's true i have never seen the kind

00:16:30.200 of cheerleading and bias that we saw for kamala harris among abc nbc cbs i've never seen that kind of bias

00:16:40.360 it was it was unapologetic i mean they they they would basically say yes well we're really in the bag

00:16:47.320 for harris and the democrats uh and so we're going to just lie through our teeth about how wonderful she is

00:16:54.360 because they actually believed it they actually believed that they had found someone who could

00:16:58.680 stop donald trump from becoming president for a second time and i think we're going to see the

00:17:04.040 same kind of reaction in canada where people in a lot of the media outlets are going to say well

00:17:11.960 okay true is awful he's terrible but you know at the beginning he was fabulous and he could be

00:17:17.800 fabulous again and at least he's not polyev uh expect the cbc to do that from beginning to end

00:17:26.520 from morning to night because polyev has said if he gets elected their funding is gone period there

00:17:33.560 won't be a cbc unless it can be individually or privately funded so yes i think it's the same thing but

00:17:42.520 even though he's been abandoned by most of his caucus trudeau i think is going to come back from

00:17:48.680 this ski trip snowboarding trip that he's been on over the the holidays and decide he's going to stay

00:17:56.120 yeah i think so too i think the problem might be that there's no real successor that isn't already

00:18:02.360 tainted by trudeau's nonsense i mean you you could say oh they're lining up mark carney um but he sort

00:18:08.680 of left trudeau holding the bag after freeland was uh quit fired and freeland herself i mean she

00:18:15.880 thinks she's going to survive this firestorm unscathed that's why she's staying on as an mp

00:18:21.960 but again up until about 30 seconds ago she was trudeau's biggest enabler she was the doer that was

00:18:30.600 inflicting all the bad policies on us and she's not a great candidate no people who are in the press

00:18:37.080 gallery in ottawa don't like asking her questions they don't like going to her press conferences

00:18:41.240 because she doesn't seem not only does she not answer questions all politicians don't answer questions

00:18:48.280 she said they claim she doesn't seem to understand the questions so it's very frustrating to interview

00:18:54.840 her it's very frustrating to ask her questions in the scrum and it's and it's it's fascinating that she

00:19:02.840 thinks she's going to have the uh appeal to become leader herself i i think that's what's the problem

00:19:11.240 with the liberals from top to bottom is that they overestimate their own appeal they overestimate their

00:19:17.640 appeal as individuals they overestimate their appeal as a party because they've never had to work hard

00:19:24.680 to become the government in canada they have been periodically voted out of office

00:19:29.160 uh so that they would go out and renew and come back uh a little more in touch with ordinary people

00:19:36.520 this time they are so completely out of touch one of the examples i gave in the column that you

00:19:42.200 referenced at the beginning about how desperate they are uh is from a guy named adam vaughn who was a

00:19:48.040 liberal mp for two terms uh from central toronto and he said well you can use crime stats to try and

00:19:56.680 scare people into voting you the way conservatives do but we know that they crime always went up under

00:20:04.520 conservatives and even though they complain about bail and and criminal justice it's up to the people

00:20:10.840 who believe in social justice to solve the crime no we've had nine years where we emphasize social

00:20:18.120 justice to try and reduce the crime rate in canada and the result has been in nine years under the

00:20:23.400 liberals violent crime has gone up 44 44 and there's an average of about 200 people a year

00:20:31.240 killed in canada by someone who is out on bail or some other form of early release because they

00:20:37.480 changed the bail laws in 2019 so that judges cannot keep people in jail you can be up for the your second

00:20:44.120 or third or fourth violent crime and judges have real trouble finding any way of keeping you behind

00:20:50.840 bars until your trial so you go out and you kill somebody else or you or you assault someone or you

00:20:55.640 you you rape somebody it the the crime rate in this country now according to a study that's coming

00:21:02.040 in in the new year from the fraser institute the violent crime rate now is 14 percent higher

00:21:08.200 on a per capita basis than it is in the united states oh wow and people say to me well that can't

00:21:13.560 be possible we see about all the crime against what you see in the united states are 20 or 30 communities

00:21:20.280 and usually parts of 20 or 30 cities that have very violent very high violent crime rates that's fine

00:21:28.600 but most of the united states is actually quite peaceful uh it's funny of course the the two most

00:21:36.120 heavily armed states in the united states are georgia and north dakota and they have among the

00:21:41.160 lowest crime rates when you get outside atlanta georgia is actually quite peaceful but i don't know

00:21:47.400 there's a coincidence there between i think there is i think there is too but but i'm you know we have

00:21:53.080 this idea that oh everyone has a gun so it's always violent everywhere in the united states is bad and

00:21:57.320 it's mean it's terrible so it's not and the thing is now that among our large cities and the neighborhoods

00:22:06.200 within them that have crime problems violent crime is now higher than it was when the higher than it is in

00:22:13.080 the united states and much higher than it was when the liberals took over and yet the liberals will not

00:22:18.280 believe that their emphasis on social justice over criminal justice has led to more crime and and

00:22:25.480 you're going to see more and more and more of that i think between now and voting day in october because

00:22:31.800 they really are delusional and that's why i think trudeau will come back from his holiday

00:22:36.360 yep i think they will say to him look justin the time has come for you to go let's find

00:22:43.880 an honorable exit for you let's not not make this look like we've pushed you out uh you'll go in

00:22:52.920 march maybe sometime we will appoint an interim leader and that interim leader will go into the uh

00:22:59.400 election this is actually a plot that was being hatched just before new year's among the liberals in

00:23:04.600 ottawa trudeau would come back he would resign in march they would appoint an interim leader and

00:23:09.640 the interim leader would go into the election and say yeah i'm not the real leader but you know vote

00:23:14.920 for us and after the election we'll have a leadership race and we'll elect a leader and and and you know

00:23:21.080 you're going to like that person like who in heaven's name even comes up with a scenario like that

00:23:27.240 that's not going to happen they're not going to do that i do think they're going to eventually push

00:23:32.600 trudeau i don't think trudeau will be their leader in the in the election although i think he could

00:23:36.920 hang around for another two or three months i hope he does i hope he takes them into the election

00:23:42.840 they'll be down to where kim campbell and the conservatives were after mo rooney resigned and

00:23:47.720 they and she led them into election and got two seats i you know i i don't see downtown toronto

00:23:55.240 downtown ottawa downtown montreal might still vote uh big time for the liberals or or solidly for the

00:24:03.000 liberals it's not like the by-elections it's not like toronto saint paul back in the summertime which

00:24:08.920 the liberals lost and even though it was very safe city because you cannot concentrate the opposition

00:24:13.880 cannot concentrate all of its resources on every riding they can concentrate them in one riding so for

00:24:19.640 a by-election they can embarrass you but i do think you know the liberals might slip out with 15 17 21 0.83

00:24:27.480 seats uh if trudeau were leading them but if it's the pig and the poke party vote for us even though 0.92

00:24:35.160 you don't know who our leader is uh they could be down in single digits like it's just insane and 0.60

00:24:40.200 that's how desperate they are it's a measure of that the fact that they would think through a scenario like

00:24:45.240 that as though it were plausible right is it is a sign of just how desperate they really are

00:24:52.920 well and the absolute delusion that they think canadians would vote for a party without

00:24:57.720 actually knowing who the prime minister would be at the end of it all yep well you know i i saw that

00:25:03.400 something the other day from uh one of the mainstream media uh types there was they had a commentator

00:25:11.240 on so the commentator is not necessarily indicative of the whole the whole network's thinking but they

00:25:18.840 had somebody on and said well you know a green ndp coalition is possible after the what in heaven's

00:25:25.720 name are you smoking um you know good lord that that is not a that's not a you come up with an idea if

00:25:32.600 i type that into a column i would hope somebody at post media would say phone gunter up and tell

00:25:38.920 him that he's got a great future as a barista because he is not writing any more columns for

00:25:44.200 us like that that's positively ridiculous the conservatives are going to win there would have

00:25:50.120 to be some huge scandal and even after that like i don't think so look at all the scandals that trump

00:25:56.760 survived sure to win he didn't win a landslide this is his was not one of the greatest landslides in the

00:26:03.960 history of presidential elections but it was a decisive victory and it was a decisive victory

00:26:09.640 against all of the headwinds that the establishment could blow at him uh and i think the same thing

00:26:17.400 similar is going to happen here we are not as conservative and freedom oriented uh an electorate

00:26:23.720 as the americans are but i still think that people are just so fed up with the emergencies act being

00:26:30.600 invoked on truck drivers who are in the freedom convoy in it people saying oh you're a bigot if you

00:26:37.320 don't want uh trans women to compete in female sports uh it's you know we understand that all parents

00:26:45.640 are knuckle-dragging uh neanderthals and so we can't tell them that their children are changing pronouns 1.00

00:26:52.600 and names that's i mean all of this elite overthinking of every issue i think has finally caught up with

00:27:00.440 them and i think you know that i i hope that pauliev and and his team bring up things like

00:27:08.840 catherine tate at the cbc asking for another 500 million dollars for the cbc already gets 1.4 billion

00:27:17.160 dollars from taxpayers and people are fed up with that stuff they cannot go to the grocery store

00:27:22.040 right and by the kind of you know the nice slice of meat that they would like they have to settle for

00:27:27.560 b grade um tougher they're not getting the pasta they would like they're not buying all of the

00:27:34.360 fruits and vegetables they would want they're they're compromising on everything in their daily

00:27:38.760 lives you know they're thinking about can we afford to go on a vacation this year and still drive our

00:27:46.040 son or daughter who's on the rep team in their sport around during the winter season you know they

00:27:51.800 have to make choices like that and they're fed up to hear with the kind of attitude that uh that the

00:27:59.000 liberals have have been showing and their and the liberals friends in the media and so i i think the

00:28:04.840 liberals are going to get desperate as their poll numbers continue to decline and everything they

00:28:09.400 try the gst holiday whatever it is everything they try blows up in their faces well and i'm glad you

00:28:17.480 brought up the american election because that kamala harris really had to campaign against herself 1.00

00:28:24.200 being the solution for the problems that her administration has caused and i think trudeau

00:28:29.480 finds himself in the exact same place you know he's got to admit yes crime is out of control yes we've

00:28:35.320 been in charge for the last 10 years um yes maybe there is systemic racism but guess what we're also the

00:28:42.280 system um he you know like how does he become the affordability solution when he's the guy who made

00:28:48.040 life uh less affordable than ever how does he become the guy who deals with the housing crisis when he's

00:28:54.760 the guy with the out of control immigration targets driving up the cost of housing so i i don't know how

00:29:00.040 he gets around that kamala harris couldn't get around it either no and and um granted he is i think

00:29:07.560 a more attractive individual than kamala harris was who is kamala harris i think one of the sourest 1.00

00:29:17.640 candidates to run uh since 2016. since 2016. thank you. so hillary clinton you know i i to me i i'm not a

00:29:29.160 big trump fan and people who've read and seen me talk about this know that to be a fact i would have voted for

00:29:35.960 him in a heartbeat over clinton and over kamala harris and i had been really torn uh not to vote for for

00:29:45.400 anybody in the in the 2020 election when biden was the option um so you know i but you get a sense for

00:29:54.200 how sour those two candidates were and yet there was trudeau two weeks ago defending both of them and

00:30:02.600 saying it was the inherent misogyny of american voters that kept them from being no it wasn't

00:30:10.360 it was the inherent it was the inherent sense that american voters had that both of them were sour

00:30:15.960 and they didn't want to have to put up with that for four years that's what turned people off and you

00:30:21.400 know and and on top of that now this time i think in in 2024 there was the added revulsion for everything

00:30:29.640 elite uh and she was an elitist candidate i mean she she did herself in when she was on 60 minutes 1.00

00:30:38.760 and she was asked was there anything during the biden years when you were vice president that you

00:30:45.160 would have changed and she gave that thought she said no no i don't think there was it's the easiest

00:30:51.880 thing in the world you maybe really believe that but it's the easiest thing in the world to say oh

00:30:55.560 you know uh yeah there's a few things i think we did wrong and i'd like to do this differently on

00:31:01.000 cost of living and i'd like to do that differently on um no no i think i work too hard and i care too

00:31:07.800 much exactly you know and then and then and that the whole joy thing oh this is the campaign about

00:31:13.800 joy yeah when you're the sourest candidate in the field it ain't about joy honey you know it's that's

00:31:20.600 just the way it is and i think that the liberals have the same misguided sense of themselves of

00:31:27.480 the electorate of the issues as the democrats did i think they're worse actually but canada is a more

00:31:34.120 liberal electorate than the united states and they maybe have some hope of holding on to three cities

00:31:43.720 toronto ottawa montreal that's it i think you get more than 10 kilometers away from the cn tower

00:31:52.680 and people are not voting liberal in the greater toronto area that golden horseshoe i don't think

00:31:57.880 that's happening northern ontario is not going to vote southwestern ontario eastern ontario those are

00:32:03.720 all going to go conservative sometimes in the past they have gone ndp but that's another factor in this

00:32:10.840 election is that the ndp have done themselves absolutely no good by propping up the liberals

00:32:17.160 for two years that it their current seat projections based on an agglomeration of all the polls would be

00:32:25.000 at just about the same level they were at last time probably a little bit lower there's 25 seats now i

00:32:30.680 think most of the polls show them at 18 to 20 seats they've done themselves no good they if if you're

00:32:36.680 going to get the liberal party even if you vote ndp what's the point of voting ndp and so all of the

00:32:44.280 people who are sick and tired of elitism and and the progressive agenda are now no longer voting either

00:32:52.520 ndp or liberal they have shifted over to the conservatives and that's going to have problems

00:32:57.880 for right you know you end up with a caucus of 250 mps you can't keep them all happy you know there's

00:33:05.960 there's going to be bozo eruptions there's going to be bimbo eruptions there's like it's going to be 0.96

00:33:12.120 a massive problem for poliev to keep the lid on that group and keep them all happy but they're going

00:33:20.200 to win a staggering majority if everything goes the way it's going now i for one cannot wait to have

00:33:27.960 randy bossano return to his ppe business

00:33:35.000 his indigenous own ppe right right right he can go uh examine his cultural heritage he'll have all

00:33:41.000 the time in the world for that um lauren predictions for 2025 with the liberals i know we went through a

00:33:46.520 little bit of them what do you think what's the timeline here um will we see uh trudeau jettisoned as

00:33:51.960 the leader um will we see an early election are we going to go all the way to 2025 october i think

00:33:59.320 the liberals hope they can go all the way to october because they're they're going to ease trudeau out

00:34:05.720 and that could take as long as i think march but it could take as long as may if it takes that long

00:34:12.920 then they're going to have to appoint an interim that interim is going to have to have at least three

00:34:16.840 or four months in order to campaign uh and and that takes us to october i i don't think we're going to

00:34:24.920 see an early election because jagmit singh will not vote for a non-confidence motion that he does not

00:34:32.360 introduce himself i mean i think that's become obvious right he said oh i'll vote to get the uh

00:34:38.040 liberals out and then and then the conservatives very cleverly found this loophole where they can

00:34:44.920 introduce a non-confidence motion through one of the committees that's meeting during the

00:34:50.120 parliamentary recess this month and then by as early as january 30th there could be a non-confidence

00:34:56.360 motion in the commons well that's clever singh never expected that so he said oh no no i only meant

00:35:03.640 i would vote for a non-confidence motion that we the nvp had introduced they don't have an opposition

00:35:10.600 day because they're the third party they get very few they don't have an opposition day until

00:35:14.680 sometime in march i think so we won't see them bring in a non-confidence motion until march my

00:35:21.080 guess is they will by that time see the writing on the wall for trudeau they'll let the liberals go

00:35:29.000 as long as trudeau is gone and we'll be limping all the way to october i like i hope i'm wrong i i hope

00:35:36.040 trudeau comes back you know we're recording this on january 2nd i hope trudeau comes back on january the

00:35:41.880 6th and says hey folks i've really enjoyed what i've done and i think i've accomplished a lot i'm

00:35:48.280 out of here bye bye but that would be a that's my birthday that would be a perfect birthday present for

00:35:54.200 me but i don't think i'm getting the birthday present i want from justin trudeau all i wanted

00:35:58.920 for christmas was a new prime minister but here we are lauren thanks so much for coming on the show

00:36:04.520 and taking the time uh please before you go tell people where they can find your great work well

00:36:10.520 the best place to start looking is edmontonsun.com everything i write is there great stay with us

00:36:17.720 your letters to ezra read by me up after the break

00:36:31.720 one thing that really sets rebel news apart from our competitors in the mainstream media as if we can

00:36:37.480 even call them competitors they're failing and we are not um besides the fact that we don't take any

00:36:42.760 money from justin trudeau and we allow for the free and liberal exchange of ideas is that we don't

00:36:48.600 close the comment section we want to hear from you because without you there is no rebel news so there

00:36:53.560 are a few different ways to get a hold of ezra you can find them here but another great way to get in

00:36:57.480 touch with us is to leave a comment on one of the videos that you see wherever you see it now today's

00:37:04.840 letters come to me by way of ezra's interview with lieutenant colonel david redmond on the purposeful

00:37:15.560 destruction of the canadian military under prime minister justin trudeau we've all heard the stories

00:37:22.840 you know the canadian soldiers having to share 40 year old sleeping bags soldiers deployed to latvia without

00:37:31.080 proper body armor or helmets our servicemen and women forced to go to the food bank because they're not

00:37:45.240 being paid enough to survive and justin trudeau's inflationary canada and i'm not a conspiracy theorist but

00:37:56.120 i am a conspiracy realist and if you think canada is a post national state and that borders shouldn't

00:38:04.520 exist so why would you need a military to defend your borders and if you believe that there are no

00:38:13.480 such thing as shared canadian ideals to defend at home and abroad well of course why would you why

00:38:20.040 would you think you needed a military a fully functioning military at all on ezra's interview

00:38:27.080 with lieutenant colonel redmond a little bo peep 240 writes my family fought in world war one world

00:38:34.200 war ii and in korea and afghanistan i'm proud of their sacrifice i spoke with american soldiers and they

00:38:41.320 stood by and said they were glad to stand with canadian soldiers now it seems what they fought for was wiped

00:38:46.680 out in nine years sir thank you for your service we canadians stand with you it seems as though

00:38:52.760 every time there's a liberal in power the canadian military is subject to a decade of darkness and

00:38:59.960 uh i think we're there again and it i i'm not sure if the canadian military will ever be able to

00:39:09.160 crawl its way out of the hole the the hole that justin trudeau dug and then shoved it in and

00:39:16.040 then tried to throw dirt on the body what's in your head right as a caf vet the canadian military has

00:39:25.560 been broken for a very long time uh i would agree with that um i have many veteran friends who tell

00:39:33.320 me if you know a young person who is interested in going into the military do not allow them to go into

00:39:41.720 this military because uh it's broken unsafe and does not respect the young men and women who would 0.85

00:39:51.080 sign up to wear a canadian military uniform and then ultimately be willing to die in defense of canadian

00:39:57.000 ideals jocelyn como 6572 writes my father died for this country and i'm so sad to see what happened to

00:40:07.560 our military and our country there are a lot of families i think who feel the exact same way that

00:40:14.200 the sacrifices of the men and women before uh just being washed away disrespected stuff in a hole

00:40:25.560 by justin trudeau and his woke crazy dei policies i know a young man who despite my best efforts to

00:40:34.920 convince him away from it uh is joining the military he will leave for basic training 0.86

00:40:41.720 in just a few short days and if he had been gay they would have taken him sooner and this is a young 0.98

00:40:50.840 man who works out religiously runs in a weighted vest just for fun takes his health and fitness very

00:41:01.720 seriously he is an elite specimen of the young canadian male and he was bumped down down down because

00:41:13.160 apparently he didn't check the right identity box and what does that have to do with being able to

00:41:26.360 defend canadian ideals what does your sexuality have to do with that i think when you bring people into the

00:41:31.480 military uh in a preferential way based on dei policies uh that makes everybody less safe

00:41:39.720 but especially the people serving gordon smith 9369 writes as a proud canadian and supporter of our armed

00:41:53.720 forces that was tough to hear we can't get rid of this poisonous liberal government fast enough gordon

00:41:59.640 from your lips to god's ears the clock is ticking on the liberals uh the latest we'd have to wait of

00:42:09.560 course as i said several times in the show today is october 2025 i don't know if justin trudeau can hang

00:42:16.920 on that long i mean he's gonna try he's got this stranglehold on power he feels entitled he thinks it's

00:42:25.880 his hereditary right it's his inheritance to be the prime minister of canada it's not something he does

00:42:32.920 because he loves this country and wants to serve it um he he thinks we are here to serve him so it

00:42:39.960 couldn't end quick enough for all of us well everybody that's the show for today thanks for tuning in

00:42:46.280 to the first uh not pre-recorded uh ezra levant show of 2025 here's to many more happy new year

00:42:56.200 and as my boss ezra always says keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - January 03, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC deplores 'unfair' media coverage of lavish exec bonuses

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