Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Doug Ford backs Ontario man charged for fending off home intruder — but ducks blame for broken justice system

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. It broke last night that the homeowner in the town of Lindsay, Ontario,

00:00:06.960 who was charged by police when he defended himself against an intruder. He was sleeping at 3 a.m.

00:00:13.300 Someone broke into his house. He defended himself and he was charged by police. Well,

00:00:18.120 I made contact with him last night and we've decided to help him at Rebel News. I got a big

00:00:22.640 story for you. So that's ahead. But first, and also we got a great story out of the UK. Oh,

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00:01:23.960 Tonight, millions of Canadians are shocked when an Ontario homeowner is prosecuted for fighting

00:01:41.960 back against an intruder. I'll give you the latest. It's August 20th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:47.080 Hey everybody. After I recorded my show yesterday, I record it typically before 5 p.m. Around 5 p.m.,

00:02:08.600 some news broke and we released another video. I don't know if you saw it, but I want to talk a

00:02:12.720 little bit about it today. Yesterday morning, I woke up to the news that a lot of people saw

00:02:17.060 that in the town of Lindsay, Ontario, which is about 90 minutes outside Toronto,

00:02:21.760 there was a man, a homeowner who was sleeping at night. It was 3 a.m. You're supposed to sleep at

00:02:27.220 night, but someone who wasn't supposed to broke into his home at 3 a.m. So the homeowner wakes up,

00:02:34.560 there's a conflagration, down goes the intruder, he's injured. Police come to the house

00:02:39.980 and they charge the homeowner. Now they do charge the intruder also, but they charge

00:02:44.740 the homeowner with serious assault. I couldn't believe it. I was frustrated. I was furious.

00:02:50.880 There's such a crime wave in this country. The police are not protecting us. Politicians make

00:02:55.300 it worse in a number of ways. The courts make it worse. Turns out the intruder is a serial criminal,

00:03:01.080 well known to police already. Just crazy. But no one knew the name of the homeowner, at least no one 0.68

00:03:08.980 who published it. And it wasn't in a police note. So I made a tweet. I said, if anyone knows this guy,

00:03:15.280 have them email me. And I put my email there and I thought, well, there's a chance.

00:03:20.360 A ton of people saw that and shared that and it came to his attention. Someone showed it to him.

00:03:26.200 And so I get an email and then I talked to him on the phone. Jeremy McDonald is his name.

00:03:31.880 And it really happened. And I talked to him a bit and I don't think he was that familiar with

00:03:36.060 Rebel News. But I said, look, let's do some journalism for you. Let's start a petition to

00:03:40.220 strengthen what in some jurisdictions is called castle law or castle doctrine, which is just what

00:03:46.600 it sounds like. A man's home is his castle and he can defend it. You know, there's a wonderful

00:03:50.840 tradition, especially in the British legal system. It goes back centuries that your home really is your

00:03:58.180 castle and not even the king himself can come into your home without a warrant. And it's a beautiful

00:04:03.680 law. And no matter how lowly your house is, you are the king of your own castle. And the idea that

00:04:10.680 some serial criminal breaks in your home and you get charged because you were a little too rough

00:04:16.080 in defending yourself, I find that anathema. There are different jurisdictions around the world

00:04:21.000 where castle doctrine basically says you can do whatever you want to protect yours and your own.

00:04:26.960 Now, I don't know what's going to happen. I hope that this case is dropped before it goes to court.

00:04:31.980 I think there's no jury in Canada that would convict such a man. We all know how bad things are.

00:04:39.260 And I made a video last night basically saying what I said here. And I noticed today the premier

00:04:46.580 of Ontario, who is in many ways responsible for this because it's the provincial government,

00:04:52.180 there's provincial courts that handle a lot of these minor or these criminal matters. It's the

00:04:56.800 provincial government that handles the prosecutors. So yes, there are some problems with the federal

00:05:02.220 government for sure. But in almost every way, what happened to this man was the fruits of Doug Ford,

00:05:09.920 the conservative premier. Well, he made a statement today about how he's totally on side with Jeremy

00:05:16.160 McDonald from Lindsay, Ontario. Take a look at Doug Ford.

00:05:20.500 Everyone hear about the story in Lindsay? So this criminal that's wanted by the police

00:05:25.540 breaks into this guy's house. This guy gives him a beating. And this guy gets charged. Like,

00:05:33.160 and the other guy gets charged. But like, something is broken. I know someone breaks into my house or

00:05:39.160 someone else's. You're going to fight for your life. This guy has a weapon. You're going to use any

00:05:44.240 force you possibly can to protect your family. I'm telling you, I know everyone would. I'd be scared

00:05:51.460 to break into Kevon's house. Look at this. He's like a linebacker. He'd beat the living crap out of the

00:05:56.200 guy, as he should. Because no, enough's enough here. Violence and breaking into people's homes, 0.99

00:06:06.760 putting guns in their heads. And guess what? Some bleeding heart judge, little Johnny,

00:06:11.600 he didn't have a good upbringing. So we're going to let him out on bail five more times

00:06:16.180 because he's on his fifth, you know, being let out on bail five times just to go do the same thing

00:06:21.840 the next day. I'll tell you one thing. I get more calls than anyone in the country. People are done

00:06:28.200 with this. They're absolutely done. They're finished. You should be able to protect your family when

00:06:35.300 someone's going in there to harm your family and your kids. You should use all resources you possibly can

00:06:41.180 to protect your family. And maybe these criminals will think twice about breaking into someone's home.

00:06:45.820 Yeah, you know, there's something that really bugs me when politicians adopt the third person, 0.98

00:06:50.060 when they talk about a mess they created. Justin Trudeau was a master of that. He would do something

00:06:55.440 atrocious, awful. And when it blew up, he would say, oh, yes, we have a lot to learn from this.

00:07:01.180 And he would sort of position himself as a pundit commenting on what had happened,

00:07:05.780 like he was some passive observer instead of the prime actor. Doug Ford has appointed many

00:07:12.440 provincial judges. He presides over the police. That is a provincial jurisdiction. He presides over

00:07:19.360 the prosecutors. That's a provincial jurisdiction. It was Doug Ford that arrested and charged this man,

00:07:26.820 not him himself, but his delegates. And the chutzpah of this guy to position himself as if he's

00:07:32.580 outraged by this. This isn't the first time he's done it. Here he is on an earlier occasion,

00:07:37.480 specifically using the phrase castle law. But that liar didn't do a thing about it. Take a look. 0.93

00:07:43.800 Did you hear about the guy that these thugs came up, you know, ready to steal his car? They're all in

00:07:49.400 their masks and everything. So I guess he was a hunter or something. He shot, he shot a shot up in

00:07:54.220 the air. I don't recommend that, by the way. But he gets charged. I got to find out this guy's name

00:08:00.280 and number. And I got to hold a fundraiser for lawyer fees for him. He should get a medal for

00:08:05.660 standing up. It's like down in the U.S. We should have the castle law. Someone breaks into your house.

00:08:11.300 I know any of these people here. Someone breaks in your house and they're coming after your kids

00:08:15.580 and you're coming after your spouse. You're going to fight like you've never fought before. You're

00:08:20.460 going to use anything that you have, be it weapons, baseball bats, knives. You're protecting your

00:08:25.600 family. You know, the fancy people, they have private security. I mean, Doug Ford has private

00:08:32.220 security wherever he goes. And in fact, at his house, there's a police car parked nearby. And I

00:08:36.720 think that's a good idea, by the way. I think that premiers of provinces should have some protection.

00:08:42.420 But the chutzpah of this guy claiming that he's with the underdog here, he is telling the story

00:08:47.000 of when someone tried to rob a vehicle from his property. There's a massive spate of vehicle crimes

00:08:53.880 in Canada. Here's Doug Ford explaining how it went down on his own property. But because he had a

00:08:59.800 police car there, they caught the bad guys right away. Here's Doug Ford. I'm going to tell you a

00:09:03.720 story. Probably get in trouble for this. Do you want to hear about stupid criminals? Have you ever seen

00:09:08.200 that show about stupid criminals out there? So four thugs come racing down my street, masks on, 1.00

00:09:15.280 ready to take the car out of the driveway. Surprise, surprise. At 1230, the two police cars are there.

00:09:21.380 The chase is on. So they chase him. One guy runs out, takes off. They capture him. And they catch these

00:09:28.960 other guys. But just imagine all the unfortunate people that don't have security there at their house

00:09:35.500 with masks on. And they have all the tools ready to break in and everything. You know, and guess what's

00:09:41.540 going to happen? They're going to be back out. Why don't you guys come over for a barbecue tonight?

00:09:45.920 You know, I'll take care of you better than the police. And thank God the police got you. And I

00:09:49.860 never did. Anyways, that's my rant. I'm sick and tired of the weak justice system that we have.

00:09:55.620 They have to get a backbone. And we start, we need to start throwing these people in jail.

00:10:02.240 This is turning into a lawless society. Yeah, I say again, the fancy people,

00:10:06.860 they have the private policing or their bodyguards. It reminds me of, I don't know, a couple years ago now,

00:10:13.260 when a police officer was having some public meeting about the crime wave. And his advice

00:10:18.300 to the little people was basically lie back and think of Queen Victoria. Here, take a listen to

00:10:23.620 the advice of how to make it easier for someone stealing a car from your garage. Take a look.

00:10:29.560 To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door.

00:10:34.900 Because they're breaking into your home to steal your car. They don't want anything else.

00:10:38.840 A lot of them that they're arresting have guns on them. And they're not toy guns. They're real guns.

00:10:43.200 Yeah, you know what? I'm sort of tired of the mayor, the premier, and the prime minister,

00:10:48.680 at least the liberal government, who have presided over a decade of crime, then saying they sympathize

00:10:54.300 with this guy. They do not. If they sympathize with them, they would act in the public interest

00:10:59.180 and give us Castle Doctrine. I am not for vigilantism, but it is not vigilantism when you

00:11:05.020 defend your home. You are there. And even if police respond in five minutes, which could be quite quick,

00:11:12.460 five minutes, an intruder can do horrific things, especially if he's armed. If it is your house

00:11:18.420 and someone willfully broke into it, I believe in the Castle Doctrine. I do not believe that's

00:11:23.060 vigilantism. In Canada, we have a doctrine of self-defense. And we talked about that on the show

00:11:28.660 the other day when a young person actually killed someone who was threatening him. And the court found

00:11:35.680 that that was self-defense. The courts say that you are not to wade to a nicety. Juries and judges are

00:11:44.680 not to be exquisitely accurate in what they demand of a person who, in a crisis, defends himself. That

00:11:51.060 goes doubly in your house. Could you imagine? I mean, that's the stuff of nightmares. My recurring

00:11:55.900 nightmare is that someone breaks into the house and I am sharing with you my private thoughts. That's my

00:12:01.600 number one nightmare. And I mean, it's never happened to me. I don't know why it's my nightmare,

00:12:05.660 but that's horrific. Could you imagine? It's 3 a.m. and someone, and you hear a sound. Oh,

00:12:09.600 it's just a tree. Oh, it's just a raccoon. No, someone's breaking into your house and you defend

00:12:14.720 yourself and your family. And you're the one. I just, I'm beside myself on it. Anyways, the good news is

00:12:21.180 the public is overwhelmingly on the side of Jeremy McDowell. And as I mentioned, I called him up

00:12:25.800 and I agreed to crowdfund for him and he agreed to accept that help. You know, this is new territory

00:12:32.040 for him, but he's not a rich guy. I'm not going to get into his personal state of affairs, but he

00:12:37.280 made it clear to me that he needed the financial help to fight this. He's, he's not sophisticated in

00:12:42.860 manners, matters of criminal law. Luckily, we have a lot of experience with that. In fact, I told him

00:12:48.700 that we had worked with many other people, including famous cases like Tamera Leach, which for whom we

00:12:54.180 continue to crowdfund. So I think he feels like rebel news can help him. And I know we can, we can

00:12:59.020 certainly help pay for his lawyer. The petition we have at castle law now.com. I, I think that will

00:13:06.940 show how many last I checked, it was around 10,000 people who have signed it in less than a day,

00:13:11.960 which is pretty good. And the fact that so many, um, media reports of this are so overwhelmingly the

00:13:18.820 response by the public. I don't know. I think there's a chance something will happen here,

00:13:23.680 but if I had to make a prediction, it would be this, that after putting Jeremy McDonald through

00:13:28.780 the grinder, they at the last minute grudgingly stay the charges against them, but wag their finger

00:13:34.940 in them. They, I don't think they want to go through with the trial. And by they, I mean,

00:13:39.080 the attorney general of Ontario. I think, I think it would be a PR disaster for Doug Ford and he would

00:13:45.960 no longer be able to pretend that he's on the side of the people. But I think the reason they charged

00:13:51.880 Jeremy McDonald in the first place is in French pour encourager les autres to set an example for

00:13:59.080 others to tell others, if you dare defend yourself, we'll prosecute you. I think they're trying to

00:14:05.180 make an example out of this guy and basically saying, don't try and defend yourself in Mark Carney's

00:14:10.340 Canada, in Doug Ford's Ontario, in Olivia Chow's Toronto. And don't think it's not the same in other

00:14:16.360 provinces too. Police really don't want people defending themselves. And on the one hand, I can

00:14:21.060 understand it because we, you know, we don't want vigilantism. We don't want a war of all against all.

00:14:26.220 We don't want people using weapons or even firearms that they don't know how to use. But the thing is

00:14:31.400 people are driven to that by, because things are so bad and people, because people no longer trust

00:14:37.820 the police. Police are clearly making political choices about what laws they enforce and what

00:14:45.300 they don't. We see that every day. It's tough to maintain your trust and respect and hope and

00:14:49.940 reliance on police when you see them abide crime every day. And I think, for example, of the pro-Hamas 0.96

00:14:55.480 protests and even riots in this country. Everyone says, oh, the police really aren't there for us

00:15:00.580 anymore. I guess we're on our own. I promised to Jeremy McDonald that we would crowdfund his defense.

00:15:07.480 We would continue to do journalism about his case and we would put forward that petition. And that's

00:15:11.820 a promise I'm going to keep. What I'm so excited about today is how the entire country seems unified

00:15:16.860 by this. And I don't think I've seen Pierre Pauly make a statement on it, but I expect that he will

00:15:23.600 soon. How could he not? That's my report. And all of that happened yesterday after I did my show. So I

00:15:30.400 wanted to catch you up on that in case you missed it. Okay. So for today, I want to do two things.

00:15:34.740 I want to give you some amazing news out of the United Kingdom. I was there a couple of weeks ago

00:15:39.360 when there was a street protest outside a migrant hotel in the town of Epping. That building over

00:15:45.460 there with the three chimneys and the old bell on the roof, that's a hotel that has been the heart of

00:15:50.840 this community for ages until the government, the central government, not the local government,

00:15:56.120 but basically the national government of the UK bought the thing and turned it into an urban

00:16:03.440 refugee camp. And I heard from someone today that the reason they needed to open this urban refugee camp

00:16:09.200 in a hotel is because a migrant burned down the previous one. Now, no one knows who exactly is in there.

00:16:17.000 They're not vetted. Even the government doesn't know who is really in there.

00:16:20.760 So incredibly, Epping won. They won through a legal maneuver because that migrant hotel had not been 1.00

00:16:28.100 properly put through the planning and the zoning. And, you know, when you change the use of a property,

00:16:35.380 when you want to build an office, when you want to build a restaurant, if you want to build a

00:16:39.140 skyscraper, there's all sorts of questions. What about the parking? What about, you know, safety?

00:16:44.480 What about traffic, et cetera? They didn't do that for this migrant hotel. And on that technicality, 0.98

00:16:50.500 the migrants are being booted out in two weeks. Here's my conversation with Jack Hadfield,

00:16:55.580 who was there with me two weeks ago and was there this week.

00:17:04.660 Well, a couple of weeks ago, you might remember, I went to a beautiful little suburb of London called

00:17:10.280 Epping. And one of the chief features of Epping is the forest. People walk through the forest. People

00:17:16.580 ride through the forest. People, as part of their getting around town, go through the forest. It's

00:17:21.580 lovely until they brought a hotel full of migrants, unvetted military-aged men. And guess who lurks in 1.00

00:17:30.860 the forest? And sure enough, before long, there were alleged rapes. Men from the migrant hotel that 1.00

00:17:38.160 were dumped there were arrested. This led to massive protests. And these were spontaneous,

00:17:43.760 organic, authentic, local protests. Hundreds of people, not professional activists, even like my

00:17:51.200 friend Tommy Robinson. No, these were mums and dads who were sick of the fact that their lovely town was

00:17:56.880 no longer safe, especially for young women. Here's a clip of my trip there.

00:18:01.420 You know, more ordinary people, mums, grandmothers. You can see, if you look around here, I've just

00:18:07.300 spoken to a couple who have come from 85 miles away to come and support this today. This is how the

00:18:13.060 feeling is growing. And I think we need to do this. I've been here all my life and I know the benefits

00:18:17.560 that they get. They get house, phones, money. They're illegal for us. They're already, like,

00:18:21.900 people are saying, like, oh, they're, like, some people are in support of it. But they're criminals. 0.97

00:18:27.620 They're over illegally before they even get here. So get rid of them. 100%. They shouldn't be here. 1.00

00:18:32.460 It's disgusting. 0.96

00:18:33.780 But here they are right here. Where are you from? 0.78

00:18:36.420 Iran.

00:18:37.020 Iran? And where are you from, sir? Where are you from?

00:18:39.780 Go to the south of Iran. 0.80

00:18:40.900 Well, that one guy told me he was from Iran. That's interesting.

00:18:45.380 Yeah.

00:18:45.800 When I was growing up, refugees were the young, the old, the sick, and the poor. 1.00

00:18:49.980 They weren't military-aged men.

00:18:52.240 No, that's right.

00:18:53.240 They were women and children.

00:18:54.400 Yeah. They say that they're children, but they're all men.

00:18:57.520 How is this all going to end?

00:18:59.740 Who knows? Hopefully the government will start listening and start doing something about it,

00:19:04.240 making it strict. So they need to be vetted. We need to know who we've got coming in the country.

00:19:08.260 We couldn't go into another country without a passport. So why can't they? 0.62

00:19:11.600 Well, these protests, peaceful protests, did not stop in Epping and outside Canary Wharf,

00:19:19.120 the financial center of London, again and again. Well, in Epping, an amazing thing happened.

00:19:26.720 The local town council voted to oppose the hotel. And in a legal decision, the migrant hotel, 0.82

00:19:36.180 amazingly, was given two weeks to shut down. The home office, that's the national government

00:19:43.100 in the United Kingdom, tried to appeal that decision but lost. Joining us now to talk about

00:19:49.180 this case and to fill in any gaps I've left in my telling of the story is our friend Jack Hadfield,

00:19:54.520 who I had the pleasure of spending some time with in Epping. Jack, great to see you again.

00:20:00.500 Yeah, good to see you. Great. And thank you. Thank you for having me back on again.

00:20:03.920 Jack, did I correctly explain what happened? Basically, there was a series of protests.

00:20:08.000 The local town council saw which way the wind was blowing. No one in Epping wanted that migrant 1.00

00:20:12.880 hotel. They moved to shut it down. The national government, the labor government tried to keep

00:20:17.900 it, but it was a court ruling in the end that gave them the boot. Is that how it went down?

00:20:24.300 Yes, that's right. So what's happened is that the Epping Forest Council launched a lawsuit against

00:20:31.100 the imposition of the Bell Hotel as an asylum center onto the people of Epping. So what's

00:20:37.640 happened now is that the High Court has granted first a temporary injunction against the use of

00:20:44.600 the hotel as an asylum center. So as of now, the Bell Hotel has 14 days from yesterday to turf 1.00

00:20:54.080 these migrants out of the hotel. Now, I do expect this to be challenged, but of course, this will be 1.00

00:21:00.560 going to, they'll be looking to make this a permanent injunction as well. Now, what's interesting is

00:21:06.060 is that I think there is a good chance that this injunction will be made permanent because of the

00:21:12.840 reasons why this injunction was won temporarily in the first place. And that's because it wasn't done

00:21:18.640 over because, oh, the protests are there, therefore there's a risk to migrants, blah, blah, blah, or people

00:21:25.160 are getting annoyed about this. No, the technical legal reason is because it was determined that the

00:21:30.900 hotel did not properly get planning permissions to move from a hotel, a temporary place of residence,

00:21:38.700 to what has more become, you know, a borsal, a place for asylum seekers to live there basically

00:21:44.020 permanently. So this is done under planning law, which is why this decision has been made. And that's

00:21:49.620 also why there's a good reason why other hotels across the country, which also may not have had the

00:21:56.520 the technical correct permits to change and to move over may now be faced because of this. Now,

00:22:04.040 there's obviously the government will obviously want to try and hold it down, but going up against

00:22:08.340 planning law, British planning law, as those who want to build in this country know is very strong

00:22:14.960 and has had a lot of legal backing. So going down this route makes it easier, I think, for more asylum

00:22:23.320 hotels to be shut down without having so much of a challenge of, you know, racism or human rights

00:22:28.660 or so on and so forth. You know, that's such a great point. There is a reason we have zoning law,

00:22:34.820 you know, planning law. There is a reason for that, even if it becomes our, you know, it's sclerotic,

00:22:40.540 even if the red tape starts to overwhelm things, you know, parking, driving, are there enough

00:22:49.740 amenities? There's a lot of real questions that a shopping mall is asked, that a new hotel would be

00:22:56.160 asked. So to turn a temporary hotel lodgings into a permanent place for 200 men, of course, that's 0.74

00:23:03.020 going to trigger some planning issues. I think that's that's an outstanding way to deal with the

00:23:10.180 issue. And you're right, it skirts any accusations of racism. I've seen that other towns are going to

00:23:17.260 copy this legal precedent. They're going to challenge the hotels on a planning basis. I think

00:23:22.880 this could spread. And by the way, Jack, I think one of the reasons people in the community are so

00:23:28.520 upset is because they were surprised by this. It was a sneak attack, an ambush. It was secret.

00:23:34.280 One day, suddenly, hundreds of migrants show up. They weren't told, they weren't consulted.

00:23:39.560 The secret part of it, and by the way, there's a lot of secrecy going on. I mean, we did a story a few

00:23:45.800 weeks ago about this so-called super injunction when the government, when the former conservative

00:23:50.940 government decided to bring over up to 200,000 Afghans, and they went to court to keep the whole 0.88

00:23:56.340 thing secret. So I think one of the things that irks a lot of Brits is that there being demographic

00:24:03.180 changes, cultural changes, immigration changes, and the British people are not only not consulted,

00:24:09.020 they're deliberately kept in the dark. Avoiding a planning session is something no other Brit gets

00:24:15.420 to do, whether you're building a golf course, a hotel, or a school, or a shopping center.

00:24:20.340 I think this is a brilliant way to deal with it.

00:24:23.960 No, it definitely is. It'll be a lot harder for other people to challenge the closure of

00:24:29.920 these hotels over this way. But you're right as well, there has been a lot of secrecy

00:24:34.300 regarding the imposition of these hotels, and also migrants being in HMOs, which is houses of 0.99

00:24:40.900 multiple occupation spread throughout private property as well in the community. A lot of

00:24:45.200 this is done secretly under the cover of darkness. You know, we saw this with the Britannia Hotel

00:24:49.440 in the Canary Wharf area. When that was announced, you know, we only found out because people's bookings

00:24:57.080 were cancelled, and then only people who lived next door were told only on the day of when it was

00:25:02.940 announced that it was to be an asylum hotel. You know, the security got wind of it and told them

00:25:06.580 and told them that morning. With the Bell Hotel in Epping, of course, it's funny, it was actually

00:25:11.400 shut down under the, when Robert Jenrick, who is the Shadow Justice Secretary, was Immigration

00:25:17.940 Minister. He was involved in shutting down the Bell Hotel for the first time when it was first made

00:25:22.780 into an asylum center in around 2019, 2020. But then the Labour government, when they came back 0.99

00:25:27.940 into power, they actually reopened it. And, you know, it's then been full of, you know, new

00:25:33.280 asylum seekers since then. I think it was actually previously, before the Labour government reopened it,

00:25:40.780 it was a mixed sex accommodation for families, for women and children. But it was reopened as the

00:25:46.880 single sex accommodation, which obviously most people have more of a concern about, because that

00:25:51.780 means they're more of a risk from fighting age men more likely to have sexual assaults, rapes,

00:25:56.300 murders, other crime in the area. And just as you mentioned about the Afghan scheme and the data

00:26:01.840 leaks there, I do think, and there are a lot of people that think this in Britain, that this whole

00:26:08.740 data leak was deliberate and was designed to bring these Afghans in, because, oh no, all the Home 1.00

00:26:15.160 Office has leaked these lists of names. Oh, these people are now going to be in danger, which means

00:26:19.660 they definitely have to come over here. So it created this sense of urgency to bring all these people

00:26:25.400 over. And as we know, you know, it's Afghans out of all other nationalities that are 22 times more 0.97

00:26:31.820 likely to be convicted for sexual assaults in the United Kingdom compared to British nationals. So

00:26:37.740 that scheme itself really does rub people the wrong way, I think, given that they can bring in 0.94

00:26:43.620 not just people who supposedly helped the British army in Afghanistan, but families and family members

00:26:49.020 who don't even have to be related by blood or by law at all.

00:26:52.080 Yeah, there were not, I can just tell you, there were not 200,000 Afghan translators. In fact,

00:26:58.540 I've been advised there were 1,000 Afghans that did serve as interpreters and translators,

00:27:04.900 and yet that somehow has multiplied 200 times. Let me ask you one last question. So if this hotel in

00:27:11.680 Epping is being shut down as a migrant center and hopefully revived as a hotel, I mean, hotels aren't 1.00

00:27:17.600 just for visitors. There are places where you celebrate life cycle events, your 65th birthday,

00:27:22.560 a wedding reception. Like, it's not just that they brought in 200 foreign men with a rape culture, 1.00

00:27:30.620 it's what they've shut down. They've shut down, I mean, it's not quite the same as a British pub,

00:27:36.540 but a pub has an important place in a community. It's where people go and confer and socialize,

00:27:41.800 it's like it's a building block of society. And to take these hotels out of commission,

00:27:46.760 not just killing tourism, and it really is a terrible thing that I don't think has much public

00:27:54.940 support at all. Is labor going to continue to bring in and warehouse migrant men? Because it's so 1.00

00:28:06.600 obviously opposed by these communities. And I would have to think that if I was a local politician,

00:28:14.700 if I didn't get on the right side of this tidal wave, I would be washed out of office. But these

00:28:20.760 decisions are not being made by the local communities, they're being made by the national

00:28:25.320 government. Is there any sign whatsoever that the labor government will stop letting these illegal, 0.51

00:28:32.820 fake refugee claimants in? Or are they just too committed to it? And they're worried about their

00:28:38.960 Islamic voting base, perhaps?

00:28:41.220 Well, yes, I do think they are too committed to it. Not just the Islamic voting base, because it's 0.99

00:28:47.320 oddly enough, that voting base is moving further and further away from them as they move towards

00:28:53.580 things like your party, you know, the Corbyn-Zara Sultana party, which seems to be set up, you know,

00:28:58.240 the Gala independents, which now have five or six MPs in Parliament. And so labor is stuck between

00:29:04.380 trying to get back, you know, this Islamic vote, this, you know, brown immigrant vote, 0.70

00:29:10.280 which is moving away from them, versus the white working class voters who are moving away from

00:29:16.720 reform. So whichever side they tack to, they're going to lose one of them anyway. But labor, you know,

00:29:23.140 like the conservative government and other people, really are so tied up into legalism,

00:29:29.520 all the rule of law, you know, as Poppy Coburn from The Telegraph said on Newsnight just a couple

00:29:36.800 of weeks ago, you know, really, the only solution to this is to get out of the UN Convention on

00:29:43.280 asylum seekers, get out of the European Convention on Human Rights, get rid of the Human Rights Act. 1.00

00:29:47.720 You know, these conceptions of rights really don't help anymore, anyone. And, you know, people want to

00:29:53.620 see these so-called asylum seekers removed, not just from their community, but from their country.

00:29:59.440 Just in terms of immigration overall, every single demographic believes that immigration has been

00:30:06.720 too high. Labor voters, conservative voters, old, young, you know, every single demographic has been

00:30:14.220 against this. And when you ask people what numbers they think immigration is in terms of illegal and

00:30:20.940 legal, people think that illegal immigration is around 45% of immigration in total. Now, that's not

00:30:27.080 the case. It's only around about 4%. And it's 96% of immigration in this country is legal. But people 0.96

00:30:33.800 also think that, oh, how many people are coming to the country each year? They think it's around 70,000.

00:30:39.920 So even at that number, when the numbers are more, you know, we've hit net migration in the

00:30:44.720 millions gross, even more than that last year. When people think that immigration is too high

00:30:50.520 at 70,000, and they're off by factors of 10, there is no way that any government that doesn't fix

00:30:58.760 immigration won't constantly be booted out of office at the next elections.

00:31:03.380 Yeah. By the way, here in Canada, if you've ever been to Niagara Falls, you will be stunned,

00:31:07.560 you will not recognize it. And the reason for that is displayed in a viral video by our own David

00:31:13.340 Menzies a week ago. There are 2,000 migrants being housed in hotels in Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls

00:31:21.140 is considered a sort of a mini Vegas. It's like a, it's restaurants and gambling and shows. No,

00:31:29.980 not anymore. Hotels have cut deals with the government. 2,000 migrants in that city. You can tell 1.00

00:31:37.300 just by driving through it. Well, Jack, listen, it's great to catch up with you. And I'm very

00:31:42.540 interested in the UK. Sometimes Canadians say, why are you so interested in the UK? Well, I think

00:31:46.840 it's because those are the same issues that we have here. And you guys are just a little bit further

00:31:51.220 down the road than us. Thanks very much for being our eyes and ears out there. And your colleague,

00:31:56.080 Emma, has been doing some great work with us too. So thanks to you guys, the citizen journalists of the UK.

00:32:00.980 It's very exciting. And by the way, we have huge migrant hotels in Canada to be interesting to see

00:32:09.400 if they've broken the zoning laws. I bet they have. Let me leave you with a live stream we had today.

00:32:14.840 Every week we have a Western themed live stream. And I was on it today. Normally my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:32:20.680 co-hosted with Lise Merle. But we talked a little bit. We talked about some Western things. We talked

00:32:25.420 about the by-election in Crowfoot, but we talked a little bit more about the Castle Doctrine. And I

00:32:30.220 made some of the points I just made here. But I also heard from Marty Belanger, Marty Up North,

00:32:35.640 and Derek Fildebrandt, of course, who is the publisher of Western Standard. Of course,

00:32:40.580 our friend Lise Merle was on there too. So let me leave you with an excerpt from today's live stream.

00:32:46.100 And let me invite you, you know, we do a live stream every day. Most of the time,

00:32:49.780 it's sort of a general interest one. Once a week, we have other YouTube rising stars,

00:32:55.800 citizen journalists. That's pretty fun. And once a week, we have a Western themed one. So

00:32:59.540 if you're around during the day at 1 p.m. Eastern or 11 a.m. Mountain, it's a fun thing to tune into.

00:33:06.820 And because it's live, you can chat back and forth with the hosts. Anyways, let me leave you

00:33:12.440 with today's episode of our Western Roundup.

00:33:19.780 When the cop is saying you're on your own, you know, make it easier for the home invaders so

00:33:27.060 they don't get handsy with you. What message does that send to people, not just in Toronto,

00:33:33.520 but across the country? You are on your own. And so if a fella in Lindsay, Ontario defended himself

00:33:40.160 and didn't weigh to a nicety just how hard to fight back. You know what? I'm on his side. So

00:33:46.940 we've set up Castle Law now, which we don't just want to help this guy. But I think everyone,

00:33:53.660 I think there should be some change to the criminal code that if you were defending your home,

00:33:57.980 whatever the intruder does, it's on him.

00:34:00.060 Yeah, I 100% agree. I mean, I, you know, I live in semi-rural Alberta, not completely rural, but

00:34:07.280 we have a large percentage of our population that's rural. And the police are, you know,

00:34:11.540 people say, call the police. If I call the police here, it's going to be 20 minutes before they show

00:34:14.980 up, if that. So, and I want to say this, we don't have Castle Laws in Canada, but I'd say Alberta is

00:34:22.400 pretty close to there, right? We've actually had quite a few similar cases, and the judges have thrown

00:34:29.280 him out of court and said, no, you're allowed to defend your property. So not your property. You're

00:34:34.320 allowed to defend yourself when somebody's in your house. So we've had a, we've had a few landmark

00:34:38.440 cases in Alberta, and that sets a precedent, but I'd sure, I support a Castle Law. I'd sure like to

00:34:44.480 see it as a, as a, as a formal law that if you're in my house, my driveway, maybe not, but if you set

00:34:51.080 foot in my house, expect some resistance. Yeah, this, this case has many, many parallels to the

00:34:58.000 Gerald Stanley story that happened in Saskatchewan in 2016, where a farmer, Gerald Stanley, and his

00:35:04.420 wife were working in the yard when a group of ne'er-do-wells from a local reserve came on site. 0.98

00:35:09.320 And, you know, it was just a schmozzle, but in any case, Gerald Stanley's gun went off. He did a

00:35:14.760 couple of warning shots, and then one of the kids in the car was shot on his property, and he was

00:35:21.380 charged and was dragged through the court system for two years to eventually be found innocent.

00:35:26.800 Okay. He, he was not found guilty. Um, but, but that he was dragged through the court system,

00:35:34.060 the ideologically captured court system for two years for defending his home and defending his

00:35:41.240 wife, um, is, is kind of egregious. Derek Fildebrandt, is it the homeowner that is the criminal,

00:35:48.320 or is it the police and the justice system that is the criminal here?

00:35:52.480 Well, you obviously saw my tweet. Uh, the real criminal here, uh, it's not even the guy who

00:35:58.560 broke into the guy's house. It is the police officers who laid the charge, and it is the

00:36:03.360 justice system itself that is coming after this guy. Uh, I've always felt strongly about this stuff.

00:36:09.040 I feel a little particularly personally about it. I, uh, the police came after me, uh, about two years

00:36:14.020 ago because I had some vandals committing, you know, pretty fairly minor vandalism on my property,

00:36:19.540 but it was repeated stuff I had in the area. So I was a little pissed off and I had a walking cane

00:36:22.860 because I was recovering from a motorcycle accident at the time. And I literally told them

00:36:27.040 to F off and waved my cane at them like grandpa Simpson. And the police charged me for threatening

00:36:31.560 them with a shotgun. Cause the, cause the vandals said that my cane was a shotgun. We proved it was not

00:36:37.260 a shotgun. The whole thing was ridiculous, but I had to spend a bunch of money and time, uh, and it

00:36:42.660 costed me business. Cause you know, advertisers are like, Oh, is this guy going to shoot someone 0.62

00:36:46.360 there? You know, um, they came after me for literally waving a walking cane as I was recovering

00:36:52.240 from a motorcycle accident at vandals. That was like, it was absolutely crazy in this country. This is not

00:36:57.640 just the Lindsay police or Ontario police. This is everywhere. Our justice system, uh, is ass backwards

00:37:05.020 and figuring out who is the victim, who is the criminal, uh, who is the aggressor here? We don't,

00:37:11.420 we have no sense of justice left in this country. Now, uh, a number of years ago here in Alberta,

00:37:16.340 we had a very high profile case. I know Marty will remember this. We had Eddie Maurice,

00:37:21.000 um, a guy in, uh, Okotoks, that's a town just South of Calgary. Uh, he was just outside of it on a

00:37:26.960 rural property. He had a guy, uh, it was maybe a little more politically sensitive because it was an

00:37:32.600 indigenous person who came onto his property trying to steal some ATVs. And he fired a warning

00:37:37.240 shot at this guy. Um, he, uh, did not try to hit him, but it ricocheted and he had, the guy had a

00:37:43.560 minor injury from a ricocheted bullet. Uh, and the police came down like a ton of bricks on this guy.

00:37:48.420 They tried to take him to the cleaners. Uh, he was ultimately, uh, he was acquitted or the charges

00:37:53.560 were eventually dropped. So in Canada, uh, you know, we don't have castle doctrine, but Ezra was right.

00:38:00.440 He was alluding to, uh, English common law. We have forms of it that have been recognized over

00:38:06.480 the centuries coming from our English legal tradition, uh, that has been watered down

00:38:11.400 over time. Ultimately, if this stuff goes before a jury and you, you, and you were being reasonable,

00:38:17.460 you know, if the vandals setting, you know, had set foot on my lawn and I had actually pulled out

00:38:21.860 a shotgun and blown them away, that would not be reasonable. But, um, you know, as long as you're

00:38:27.580 being reasonable, uh, a jury will tend to acquit you in Canada, uh, in most cases. Uh, but you're

00:38:34.140 going to have to take out a second mortgage on your house. You're going to go bankrupt defending

00:38:37.580 yourself. Uh, as Ezra used to say about the Canadian human rights commissions, it's the

00:38:42.740 process is the punishment. So fine. You might not go to prison for this. As long as you've got the

00:38:48.100 means to take out a second mortgage on your house here and, and put together an extra, a prohibitively

00:38:54.060 expensive legal defense, you'll win. Uh, we need, uh, we need changes to the criminal code here.

00:39:01.340 We need to, uh, every single cop involved should be stripped of their badges and publicly named

00:39:07.260 and shamed here. Uh, the judges themselves, uh, now not great, but, but the jury's ultimately

00:39:14.860 acquit here, but the punishment should not be the process. You should not have to be financially

00:39:20.120 ruined for defending your, your home, uh, against an invader. Uh, and you know what? I pulled up some

00:39:27.140 numbers while we're talking here. Uh, I like to use Montana as an example, Montana, just South of,

00:39:31.920 uh, Alberta here. Uh, now they have some demographic differences with say Ontario, but, uh, one of the

00:39:38.140 biggest differences is also gun ownership and castle doctrine. There is an extremely high chance.

00:39:43.540 If you break into someone's home in Montana, they have a gun and they're going to shoot you with it.

00:39:48.660 Uh, the robbery rate in Montana is less than half of what it is in Ontario, less than half.

00:39:57.260 And the two big things are people in that house that you're breaking into are very likely to have

00:40:02.620 a gun and the government is not very likely to prosecute them for using it. Yeah. And, and, and,

00:40:08.480 uh, just wanted to add one thing. Yes, we do need, uh, it'd be nice to get a formal castle doctrine.

00:40:14.340 We might get one now because some of the, because something interesting is happening. Now we have

00:40:19.940 senior politicians that are being affected by some of these wave, you know, these crime waves. So

00:40:24.400 then Ontario, then Doug Ford recently get, uh, something happened to him. And I'm so happy.

00:40:31.200 I'm so happy you mentioned Marty, because we have a little video of Doug Ford talking about that exact

00:40:36.180 event. Doug Ford with a, with a personal police detail. Okay. Had something happen to him. And

00:40:41.920 we're just going to watch what he said about that.

00:40:46.840 I'm not sure if we got that team that teed up, but I can hear it.

00:40:50.060 Oh, about the, oh, sorry. He's, he's talking, sorry. We're going to watch a Doug Ford speak

00:40:54.240 out against the Lindsay man who was charged.

00:40:56.620 There's two clips. And I do want to show that first one, Lise, which is someone tried to steal

00:41:01.560 a car right off of Doug Ford's own property. Doug Ford's the premier of Ontario and he happens to

00:41:06.440 have a police car station nearby. So they caught him pretty quick, but that shows how pervasive it

00:41:11.220 is. The premier himself, but of course, not all of us have that police car, uh, at our property.

00:41:17.400 So that Doug Ford a few weeks ago was complaining about it, but he of course has protections. We don't,

00:41:23.020 but today all of all the chutzpah, I think this is the clip that you're referring to.

00:41:27.760 Well, let's, can we play both Olivia? Do we have both handy? Let's start with the one.

00:41:32.380 So Lise, you're exactly right to remember when Doug Ford himself was nearly robbed here. Here he is,

00:41:38.800 uh, talking about how bizarre that was. And it was only stopped because he's got

00:41:43.360 cops stationed there. Take a quick look at this one. 0.83

00:41:46.540 He should get a medal for standing up. It's like down in the U S we should have the castle law.

00:41:50.840 Did you hear about the guy that these thugs came up ready to steal his car?

00:41:54.860 They're all in their masks and everything. So I guess he was a hunter or something. He shot up in

00:41:58.600 the air. I don't recommend that by the way, but he gets charged. I got to find out this guy's name

00:42:03.680 and number and I'm going to hold a fundraiser for lawyer fees for him. He should get a medal for

00:42:08.560 standing up. It's like down in the U S we should have the castle law. And I know any of these people

00:42:12.980 here, someone breaks in your house and they're coming after your kids and you're coming after your

00:42:16.880 spouse. You're going to fight like you've never fought before. You're going to use anything.

00:42:20.800 That you have weapons, baseball bats, knives, you're protecting your family. These thugs shouldn't

00:42:25.900 be coming in there. That's not even the clip I had in mind, but let me just tell you, he's a wicked 0.98

00:42:30.880 liar because who do you think the prosecutor is of Jeremy McDonald? And, and so play, can you play

00:42:38.600 the new, that's a great clip and we should circulate that one widely you guys. Cause that's, you know,

00:42:44.160 what he said there should be played by Jeremy McDonald. If his matter goes to trial, but we

00:42:49.760 just did a clip rebel news, just clipped it. Here's Doug Ford moments ago, talking about the latest

00:42:56.720 case as if he's some passive third party observer, as opposed to the guy who's prosecuting him here.

00:43:03.960 Take a look. Everyone hear about the story in Lindsay. So this criminal that's wanted by the police

00:43:10.280 breaks into this guy's house. This guy gives him a beating and this guy gets charged like, and the other

00:43:18.320 guy gets charged, but like something is broken. I know someone breaks into my house or someone else's, you're

00:43:24.900 going to fight for your life. This guy has a weapon. You're going to use any, any force you possibly

00:43:30.100 can to, to protect your family. I'm telling you, I know everyone would. I'd be scared to break into

00:43:36.740 Kevon's. He's like a linebacker. He'd beat the living crap out of the guy. And you'd prosecute him.

00:43:42.880 And you would prosecute him. You liar. The hypocrisy is unreal, right? Like violence and, 1.00

00:43:49.120 and, uh, breaking into people's homes, putting guns in their head. And guess what?

00:43:53.220 Some bleeding heart judge, little Johnny. So the judge is prosecuting him. So we're going to let

00:43:59.120 him out on bail five more times, uh, because he's on his fifth, uh, you know, being let out on bail

00:44:04.240 five times just to go do the same thing, uh, the next day. I'll tell you one thing. I get more calls

00:44:10.480 than anyone in the country. People are done with us. Well, you're not, you're prosecuting. Done.

00:44:15.880 Jeremy McDonald. You should. Yeah. You're the premier of the province. Change the rules and

00:44:20.100 someone's going in there behind your family and your kids. You should use all resources you

00:44:25.140 possibly can to protect your family. And maybe these criminals will think twice about breaking

00:44:29.560 into someone's home. Liar. Liar. Okay, boys, have at it. Have at this. Can I, uh, if I can, 0.99

00:44:35.360 if I can hear, uh, I really hate the role I'm going to play for myself here. Uh, I am,

00:44:42.160 I am not a defender of Doug Ford. Doug Ford is taking that position probably because he unders,

00:44:47.040 he has a good sense of what's popular. He does what he thinks is popular. And I think

00:44:50.640 to the average person, you don't have to have any, uh, great understanding of Castle

00:44:55.420 Doctrine. What's happened is ridiculous. Everyone understands who the real victim and the real 0.94

00:44:59.720 criminal is here. So that he's on the right side speaking there. But, um, the criminal,

00:45:06.540 I, I, God, I don't want to defend Doug Ford, but let, I'm going to have, I'm going to have

00:45:11.220 to semi do it here. You have to forgive me, everyone watching, forgive me, but the criminal code

00:45:16.460 of Canada is federal law. That's not provincial. It's not like in the States and the States,

00:45:21.180 the States have a large latitude in, in, uh, matters of criminal law. Um, now the appointment

00:45:27.940 of the prosecutors that is provincial, the appointment of at least the lower court judges

00:45:33.460 that is provincial, uh, and the police force itself that that is municipal. So I, I think

00:45:40.880 there's some room for grace here. Uh, I, I want to be fair to Doug. There's, there's, there's

00:45:47.080 99 times out of 10 out of a hundred. I think there's a lot of fair to hit Doug with, uh, Doug

00:45:52.260 Ford on, with on this one. Um, I think he, there, there is some limited, uh, legislative

00:45:58.680 work that can be done by amending provincial statute in Ontario. They could follow the lead

00:46:03.040 of some of the small things that were done in Alberta, largely after the Eddie Maurice case

00:46:06.960 that, uh, we were discussing. There is some, some that can be done. Uh, but ultimately

00:46:12.240 I, I think this is primarily, uh, the fault of the police themselves. Those cops, as I

00:46:17.580 said, should have their badges stripped. They shouldn't be allowed to be mall cops

00:46:21.080 after this. Um, but the big change needs to happen at the federal level with the criminal

00:46:26.320 code of Canada. And because he's so chummy with the liberals, maybe he could, uh, use a little

00:46:32.100 of that political capital, call up Mark Carney and say, Hey, I I've been, uh, shining your

00:46:36.940 shoes here for a bit. Why don't you, uh, do this one for me?

00:46:40.180 I'm so happy he brought up his relationship with the federal government, Derek, because

00:46:44.360 he has sleepovers with the actual prime minister. And you know, if there's any, a good time to

00:46:48.620 mention to the prime minister that we need to reform some of these laws, it's then, but

00:46:52.940 Marty.

00:46:53.700 No, so Derek, you're, you're referring, I like what you're saying. So you're, you're, you're

00:46:57.300 kind of referring to the fact that cops are no longer using their discretion,

00:47:00.280 right? I mean, if, if I, if I beat up a guy on my property, a cop could show up at

00:47:04.600 my house and look and go, yeah, that guy's in trouble and, and, and drag them back to

00:47:08.420 the jail and leave me alone. So, um, well, no, I think it's, uh, cops always have to use

00:47:13.560 discretion. It just, they're just using their discretion extremely poorly. They're charging

00:47:18.380 the wrong people. When vandals attack my prop, uh, you know, vandals damage things on my

00:47:23.760 property. They charge the guy who tells them to pee off or F off, uh, waves a cane.

00:47:30.280 Uh, when this guy breaks into someone's home and the guy defends his home, they

00:47:34.800 charge the guy who defended his home. Both are using discretion. They're just using

00:47:40.000 it in an appallingly terrible way. So the fault is the police here. And the fault is

00:47:45.420 perhaps I, I, we don't know enough about it yet. The prosecutors who are provincially

00:47:49.640 appointed, perhaps some fault there because they can decide not to go forward with

00:47:54.480 prosecution. The decision of whether to lay changes charges is mostly in the hands of

00:47:58.820 the police. Sometimes they'll consult with the prosecutors. I'm not sure if that was

00:48:01.820 done in this case or not, but the prosecutors have a decision to make now if this is appropriate

00:48:06.040 to go forward. But the big one, the, the, if we're going to prevent this going forward,

00:48:10.600 the criminal code of Canada needs to be changed. When you enter someone's home with the intention

00:48:16.720 of committing a criminal act, you have surrendered your right to the protection of the state.

00:48:22.120 Uh, you are, your, your life now belongs to the man and woman who owns that home.

00:48:29.740 You know, I don't know who made the final call to make these charges. It would not surprise me

00:48:34.560 one bit if they consulted the crown attorney's office. Um, and you know, what's the test for a

00:48:41.260 prosecution, reasonable likelihood of conviction. And is it in the public interest? Those are the main

00:48:46.800 ones. There's sort of a, a newer third one as well. I think that this is really designed to tamp

00:48:54.080 down anyone who has big ideas of defending themselves. I think, now I don't know the exact

00:48:59.200 details and I have not availed myself of the information. Let the court work its own processes,

00:49:04.080 but I bet this, I bet you, this guy will be acquitted for certain by a jury, as you mentioned.

00:49:08.800 Um, I just, you know what? I mean, let me just switch subjects for a second. I've been covering

00:49:14.100 the Tamara Leach trial for years now. It's the longest running mischief trial, not just in Canada, 0.53

00:49:20.060 but in the history of the Commonwealth, more than 50 days. And people hate Justin Trudeau and

00:49:26.620 Chrystia Freeland. They didn't charge him. It's all the provincial, uh, it's all the provincial

00:49:32.800 government and the decision to be so obsessed with it is the provincial government. And I think

00:49:37.900 we should never forget that Doug Ford has been like this with the feds, even during the, the

00:49:45.020 trucker convoy, he declared an emergency. He's the one who's, who had a, you can't go outside for any

00:49:51.100 reason announcement that even the police forces said, yeah, boss, we're not going to enforce that.

00:49:56.340 Doug Ford, Dean Skareko on Twitter calls him fat Trudeau and I'm fat. So I shouldn't call anyone

00:50:02.960 else fat, but dammit, that sticks fat Trudeau. He is sort of fat Trudeau. He's sort of dumb like 1.00

00:50:09.440 Trudeau. Um, he just re you know, he, he, he's so awful. He's worse than everyone except for the 1.00

00:50:17.620 liberal and NDP alternatives. And he, you know, he tried to undermine Pierre Polyev during the federal

00:50:22.680 election. He's, he said just yesterday, Olivia, call up this clip of you, please. He said yesterday,

00:50:28.120 I'm going to continue to insult Donald Trump every day. And I'm thinking just while you're

00:50:33.700 not a diplomat, you're not part of our negotiation team. Um, you have no, you know, authority to

00:50:40.220 conduct foreign relations. Um, you have an auto industry that's at risk, frankly. Uh, you know

00:50:46.500 that this is counterproductive. Donald Trump sometimes takes things personally. What is your

00:50:52.220 game? You stupid buffoon. Take a, I mean, why, what, why don't you, I know what the answer is. 1.00

00:50:59.480 He's trying to distract from his own failures over seven years, and he's trying to rebrand the coming

00:51:04.900 recession as a Trump recession rather than his own fault. Take a listen to this idiot. 1.00

00:51:10.620 I'll never stop, you know, poking Donald Trump, but we're going to focus on what we can do. 1.00

00:51:15.600 So that no matter who the next president is, or whatever the next crisis, we're able to protect

00:51:23.060 our workers, the services, the public relies on, and our communities, not just from President Trump,

00:51:30.980 but from anything that comes our way for decades to come. We need to build a stronger and more

00:51:37.940 resistance. I just can't stand it. But you know, he's going to keep poking Donald Trump every day.

00:51:41.320 I think that Mark Carney actually wants the US-Canada relationship to fail. And thank goodness

00:51:48.900 for Danielle Smith, who is not a kamikaze pilot like Doug Ford there. She has the self-discipline.

00:51:56.700 I saw her in Washington on the inauguration. I bumped into her at an event. She was down there

00:52:01.320 making friends, um, because they are the number one importer of, in fact, almost the sole importer

00:52:07.400 of Alberta oil, Saskatchewan oil. It's a, it's a scorched earth strategy, Ezra. I agree with you.

00:52:14.600 I, I, you know, Carney in particular, I mean, the failures of the liberals, rather than acknowledge

00:52:19.180 the failures of the liberals of the last decade, let's just keep driving forward and making life

00:52:24.100 worse and, and blame everything on Donald Trump. It's done on purpose. Anybody, everybody should be

00:52:30.780 able to see this. They're, they're using Donald as a boogeyman and for all and get, and deflecting

00:52:36.740 off of him, all their failures. It's, it's, to me, it's black and white.

00:52:41.880 Yeah.

00:52:42.660 Mr. Derek, what do you think about Doug Ford?

00:52:48.320 Very little, I hope.

00:52:50.380 Uh, I just defended him.

00:52:52.660 I almost, uh, drowned out an F-bomb there when you asked the question. I, I barely stopped. I've got

00:52:59.060 kids. I'm getting really good at stopping myself now. Um, look, I'm definitely bookmarking that

00:53:04.720 quote of, of, uh, of, uh, Ford. Now, if I'm ever in court, I'll say, well, Doug told me to do it.

00:53:10.720 He told me to defend myself, so bookmark that somewhere. Yeah.

00:53:13.880 Well, look, I, I, go ahead.

00:53:15.980 No, no, you're good. Sir, go ahead.

00:53:17.340 I was going to say, talk about, Derek, when you said, I'm reluctant to say this, I thought you were

00:53:21.600 going to be the grownup and say, look, um, we have to let the legal process act independently. It

00:53:27.200 shouldn't bend to the will of journalists or politicians. And that is a correct thing to say.

00:53:31.980 Yeah, I would agree with that.

00:53:33.060 And I thought that's what you were about to say a few minutes ago when you, when you, uh, when you

00:53:36.860 said, I'm going to say something that may not be popular.

00:53:38.480 Well, that is actually a part of it is that, I mean, Danielle Smith got in a bunch of trouble, 0.84

00:53:43.940 um, for discussing the possible pardoning of people who had been given tickets and charged

00:53:50.260 and whatnot in Alberta during COVID. Um, and I think that'd be appropriate, but she got in a ton

00:53:55.060 of trouble for it. Um, technically in Canada, the heads of government, unlike governors and

00:54:00.360 presidents in the States cannot pardon directly, but they can make recommendations to, uh, there's

00:54:06.640 a certain, uh, board or body of some kind that can issue pardons. This, this was done, this

00:54:12.060 has been done for certain times. Uh, people have been pardoned for, uh, you know, acts of

00:54:16.980 sodomy, you know, criminalization of homosexuality back in the sixties and whatnot. There have been

00:54:21.360 pardons, but it's just, it's much less regular in the Canadian political culture. You've got

00:54:25.680 to be careful on interventions directly into the justice system. Uh, and so I, I, I have

00:54:33.440 to be a little, give a little grace to Ford there, but you've got to, uh, but it's the

00:54:38.780 law itself. The justice system itself is broken. The justice system is stacked with people with 1.00

00:54:44.380 no sense of justice itself. Uh, but ultimately the biggest single change we'd have to make

00:54:48.620 this is around castle doctrine. Well, thanks for watching. I got a couple of letters from

00:54:54.860 viewers. Let me read them to you. Stay awake says the fact that a government tells you whether

00:54:59.420 or not you can defend yourself is beyond insane only in Canada. Yeah. I really think that if

00:55:05.620 someone is breaking into your home, anything goes, that's my view. I mean, I'm not looking

00:55:10.580 for people to be cruel or violent beyond reason, but you know, you broke into their house and

00:55:17.060 that person is probably terrified and doesn't know how many of you intruders there are. And

00:55:22.960 this is the worst day of their life. And you made it that way. I think you should basically

00:55:28.180 absorb whatever they do to you. And, uh, you know, I, I don't want people to be killed and

00:55:33.160 I don't want vigilantism, but you break into someone's home. You're an intruder. You're a

00:55:37.440 robber. You're a, God forbid a rapist. Yeah. I have no, no sympathy for you. And the fact 1.00

00:55:45.020 that this was a repeat criminal, it just is the icing on the cake. Next letter from

00:55:49.780 curious who says, how can a government who is trying to abolish private ownership, recognize

00:55:54.000 any castle law? It goes against their whole purpose. You know, you're very thoughtful on

00:55:58.660 that. There's ideological reasons to be against castle law. Castle law makes a lot of sense

00:56:03.820 from a property rights point of view, from a self-defense point of view, from a legal point

00:56:09.320 of view. It makes sense in all those regards, but think of the ideologies that contradicts

00:56:14.660 property rights, the fact that you could defend yourself, that you're allowed to defend yourself

00:56:18.940 as opposed to giving the state, the monopoly on violence. If you can, if you defend yourself,

00:56:24.680 that's a rebuke that the government wasn't able to defend you. In this case, that's very

00:56:29.040 true. This was a serial criminal and a very interesting. And I feel like it's a classic rebel

00:56:35.160 case. We're reporting this story. We're having a petition to change the law, but we're also getting

00:56:39.640 right in there and making sure that this homeowner does not suffer because it is not a normal thing

00:56:46.040 to suddenly have to raise tens of thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer. Most normal people cannot

00:56:51.400 do that. Luckily, we have hundreds of rebels who say, I'll chip in 50 bucks. I'll chip in a hundred

00:56:56.340 bucks. If you're one of those people, go to castlelawnow.com. I'm really excited about being able to defend

00:57:02.620 this guy. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel

00:57:07.720 World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - August 21, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Doug Ford backs Ontario man charged for fending off home intruder — but ducks blame for broken justice system

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