Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Doug Ford slouches back into government with a majority

00:00:00.160 Hello, my rebels. Today, I pick over the bones of the Ontario provincial election.

00:00:06.660 I think the main fact to know is that voter turnout plunged from 50-something to 40-something percent, 14% fewer people voted.

00:00:16.220 They just, what's the point? The parties are all think-alikes on the key issues of the day.

00:00:21.860 Doug Ford did get a majority, but I'll tell you what interesting things I can make out of it.

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00:01:04.660 Tonight, Doug Ford slouches back into office with a majority government.

00:01:27.360 It's June 3rd and this is the Ezra Mansion.

00:01:29.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:35.400 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:39.480 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:45.340 Well, last night was the election in the province of Ontario.

00:01:55.320 Not a lot of people cared.

00:01:56.440 I think one reason is there really wasn't a lot of difference on the key issues amongst the parties.

00:02:01.660 They all supported lockdowns.

00:02:03.500 There really was no daylight between them.

00:02:05.780 Turnout in the previous election was 57%, which isn't great, but it's respectable these days for Canada.

00:02:13.660 This time, voter turnout was just 43%.

00:02:17.760 Most Ontarians either felt like they had no option or they were all the same or they couldn't be bothered.

00:02:25.100 Doug Ford actually lost 400,000 votes as compared to last time.

00:02:30.920 He had 400,000 fewer voters.

00:02:33.300 I think one of them would be me.

00:02:35.400 Why on earth would I vote for the man who presided over some of the most brutal lockdowns in North America?

00:02:40.940 But the NDP opposition lost 800,000 votes.

00:02:47.780 Now, some of those were probably union members.

00:02:51.800 These days, the NDP and in the United States, the Democrats no longer really represent the working man.

00:02:57.840 They're more about extremist woke policies like saying words like Latinx or critical race theory or global warming extremism.

00:03:06.980 That's got nothing to do with actual working men.

00:03:09.020 A lot of private sector unions endorsed Doug Ford.

00:03:13.320 I think that's part of them.

00:03:15.620 The NDP would have actually won had they held on to their vote from the last election.

00:03:22.100 They had more votes last time than Doug Ford had this time.

00:03:26.680 I think that you would have to call the re-election of Doug Ford, giving him a majority government.

00:03:32.540 I think you have to call that bad news as opposed to the worst news if the liberals or the NDP had won.

00:03:42.020 The liberal leader, Steve Del Duca, he threatened to bring back lockdown rules like masks and jabs.

00:03:50.680 Who on earth would vote for that?

00:03:53.260 Remember this video?

00:03:54.160 So today I'm here to announce that if elected, Ontario liberals will make the COVID-19 vaccine for kids part of the universal roster of vaccines that are required for kids to attend publicly funded schools right across the province of Ontario.

00:04:11.500 And the NDP leader, Andrea Horwath, was just atrocious, really egging on more and harder lockdowns.

00:04:23.920 Would have been the same as the other two, plus economic disaster socialist style.

00:04:29.200 Hey, I can't help but show you this image of the NDP leader's son.

00:04:34.260 Now, I'm not blaming the mum for the son, although really, who would have a greater design on what a child is besides their parent, besides a brutal misogynist.

00:04:45.560 There he is with a, what appears to be a loaded assault rifle.

00:04:50.340 Now, I'm not against people, law-abiding people, owning firearms, but I wonder why the media didn't press the NDP princess on her son's fondness for firearms, giving the total unanimity on the media and the left about banning guns.

00:05:08.280 Doug Ford, who presided over one of the most brutal lockdowns in North America, said during the election that he can't think of any mistakes he made, and he has no regrets.

00:05:22.060 Well, you're asking me to point to one thing. I can't. You know, I'll tell you one thing.

00:05:26.700 I was the first to stand up there, and if I made a mistake, I think I'm the only elected official, politician, whatever you want to call us, that would go up there and say, you know, I made a mistake.

00:05:35.760 I apologize. This is what we're doing to correct it, and I corrected it immediately within 24 hours, and I'm going to continue doing that.

00:05:43.540 I'm not perfect by any means. I'll tell you that.

00:05:46.800 It wasn't a gaffe he reiterated at during the leaders' debate.

00:05:51.560 He presided over a province where parks were closed. Parks.

00:05:56.540 Probably the least transmissible place for the virus, the place where you could get exercise.

00:06:01.200 He proposed random police stop and frisk on the street for anyone caught outside.

00:06:08.980 He approved of the use of riot police, not just against a restaurateur in Toronto that was driven by the city,

00:06:17.040 but of course deploying provincial police to crack down on the peaceful trucker protest.

00:06:23.640 It was Doug Ford who brought in the Emergencies Act before Justin Trudeau did.

00:06:28.860 It was Doug Ford who went to court to seize the funds in the GoFundMe crowdfund.

00:06:35.620 It was Doug Ford who presided over the mass shutting down of schools and the forced masking of children.

00:06:41.900 Doug Ford who presided over vaccine mandates and segregation.

00:06:45.660 Doug Ford who clearly took orders from any health care extremist, giving them the reins of government rather than himself.

00:06:54.940 Horwath won her own seat, but she quit. 1.00

00:06:57.980 Del Duca lost his, and he quit.

00:07:00.680 I think those are both good results.

00:07:02.920 Let's see if Ontario can furnish any opposition to Doug Ford.

00:07:06.900 I think that part of it, if you understand Ontario history, and I'm not an expert,

00:07:13.100 is that Ontario has a bit of a tradition of being a counterweight to Ottawa.

00:07:17.900 That is, whatever party is governing Canada in the federal parliament, Ontario seems to go the other way,

00:07:24.180 which I think is a kind of natural, organic wisdom of the people.

00:07:28.020 When you think about it, the Liberals ruled Ontario when Stephen Harper was the prime minister.

00:07:32.940 That's flipped around with Justin Trudeau.

00:07:37.440 Now, there were smaller parties that ran.

00:07:40.580 The Green Party ran, and their one MPP, the leader of the party, was reelected.

00:07:46.600 I give thanks to that in part to the broadcasters, which in the one debate that was aired on the provincial state broadcaster called TVO,

00:07:56.000 the only minor party that was allowed in was the Green Party.

00:08:00.480 Even though there were several parties on the right that had candidates in every riding, that had sitting MPPs,

00:08:07.500 they only gave the coverage, the access, the credibility, their media assent to the Green Party.

00:08:14.040 But, of course, the Green Party got less than 6% despite all the help.

00:08:21.780 I think the Green Party serves an important role in Canada.

00:08:24.560 They provide an illusion of opposition.

00:08:28.940 But I watched the leaders' debate in Ontario, and there was really zero difference between what the Green Party was saying

00:08:35.160 and what all the other parties were saying, including Doug Ford.

00:08:39.500 And the Green Party federally has played the same role.

00:08:42.600 They're just there to emphasize and echo what every other party is adopting,

00:08:48.060 to make it seem like it's unanimous.

00:08:50.520 I think that it's a fake opposition, a controlled opposition.

00:08:55.240 There were small parties on the right in this campaign.

00:09:00.040 It happened mainly over the key issue of our time, the lockdowns and the civil liberties bonfire

00:09:05.640 and the junk science and the tyranny of unelected doctor bureaucrats. 0.99

00:09:11.740 Derek Sloan, a former MP, had his party, the Ontario Party. 0.95

00:09:15.300 Jim Carajalios and his wife Belinda had their party, the New Blue Party.

00:09:21.080 There were other MPPs that were kicked out of Doug Ford's caucus.

00:09:26.380 Roman Babber, who's running federally for the Conservatives.

00:09:30.200 Randy Hillier, just to name a few.

00:09:32.900 There were others still.

00:09:34.480 Had they united, there would have been four, five, maybe six or seven.

00:09:39.120 Maybe they would have attracted more MPPs.

00:09:41.160 They would have created a real party that would have been the same size in the provincial parliament

00:09:48.200 as the Liberals.

00:09:50.160 There's no way that new party could have been kept out of the leaders' debates.

00:09:56.240 And more than that, they could have been an effective opposition force and earned daily media for it.

00:10:01.800 Because they all splintered, well, united they could have stood, but divided, they all fell.

00:10:08.660 There was one interesting piece of news, an independent candidate won that's very rare in Canada.

00:10:18.240 Her name is Bobbie M. Brady, and she became the MPP in the writing of Haldeman Norfolk,

00:10:23.780 which, by the way, is where Leslie Lewis is from.

00:10:26.700 What's interesting about her is that she was the assistant, the longstanding 23-year executive assistant

00:10:37.120 to the incumbent conservative MPP for that writing, and she wanted to seek the nomination to succeed him.

00:10:45.460 But Doug Ford didn't have a vote.

00:10:48.080 He appointed his own favorite, a local mayor.

00:10:51.000 So the entire writing association, including the outgoing MPP, endorsed this young lady,

00:10:59.960 and she won as an independent.

00:11:02.460 That is, Doug Ford's anti-democratic, undemocratic order that Haldeman Norfolk run his friend

00:11:09.000 rather than this local champion backfired, and she was elected as an independent.

00:11:14.060 I think it's quite likely that she will be absorbed back into the Ontario PCs, but maybe I'm wrong on that.

00:11:22.380 But it's proof that not everyone was thrilled with Doug Ford.

00:11:26.060 As I say, 400,000 fewer people voted for him.

00:11:30.560 14% of the electorate that voted last time just didn't vote this time.

00:11:36.580 People were so demoralized.

00:11:38.220 Let me say a word about those small parties on the right that I referred to earlier.

00:11:42.960 Jim and Belinda Karajalios, their new blue party got 2.7% of the vote.

00:11:50.220 Derek Sloan's Ontario party, 1.8% of the vote.

00:11:54.960 These are tiny numbers.

00:11:56.600 If you add them together, you're getting to around where the Green Party was.

00:12:00.280 But in the case of merged parties, one plus one can be three because you have a momentum.

00:12:05.280 I say again, had the small parties on the right united, I think they might have been able to punch through in a few ridings.

00:12:13.680 Alas, we'll never know.

00:12:15.380 There were a lot of parties running.

00:12:17.260 I'm looking at the Elections Ontario homepage.

00:12:20.500 The Communist Party ran candidates.

00:12:23.540 They got 0.04% of the vote.

00:12:28.620 And you might laugh and say, that's a good sign.

00:12:31.020 No, no, no.

00:12:32.560 It's a sign that you don't need the Communist Party in Ontario because all the extreme authoritarian ideas that the Communist Party would have proposed,

00:12:41.860 they've already been absorbed and promulgated by Doug Ford and the Conservatives and egged on by the Liberals and the NDP.

00:12:48.960 Who needs a Communist Party when every one of their ideas, from treating people as prisoners to censoring and silencing dissenting doctors?

00:12:58.720 Who needs a Communist Party when your Conservative Party does those things? 0.99

00:13:03.660 I like the election of the one independent.

00:13:06.360 And I thought it was interesting what happened in the city of Brampton.

00:13:09.680 In Brampton East, the MPP there, his name is Guritan Singh.

00:13:15.840 You might recognize that.

00:13:18.080 He's the brother of the federal NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh.

00:13:23.120 But he lost this time.

00:13:25.280 He got thumped, actually.

00:13:26.840 He got just 30% of the vote, losing to a Conservative candidate who was also Sikh, by the way.

00:13:33.660 It's very interesting to me what's happening in the Sikh community.

00:13:37.420 There are Sikhs in every party.

00:13:40.520 And there seems to be a Sikh anger with the Singh family, Jagmeet and Guritan.

00:13:47.260 There's fascinating videos all over social media of members of the Sikh community sort of chasing Jagmeet Singh around at public events,

00:13:59.980 going to his events, finding him on the street and hollering at him, driving by and hollering at him,

00:14:05.640 calling him a sellout, saying that he's selling out to the tyrant.

00:14:11.800 And I thought, well, maybe this is some internecine quarrel within that ethnic community that I just don't understand.

00:14:17.580 But we had our reporter, Lincoln Jay, talk to these guys, and I've tried my best to figure it out.

00:14:23.500 No, I think it's what it looks like on the face of it.

00:14:25.620 I think these Sikh activists truly think that Jagmeet Singh has sold out, including selling out to Justin Trudeau federally.

00:14:36.900 I don't know why they would be mad at Guritan Singh provincially, unless it's just the two brothers or peas in the pod.

00:14:42.740 Remember that during the trucker convoy, many Canadians discovered something that maybe they had only a vague sense of before,

00:14:50.800 that an enormous number of truckers in Canada, for whatever reason, happened to be Sikh.

00:14:57.360 And there were quite a few trucker protesters at the Ottawa convoy who I think had a political awakening.

00:15:04.640 I follow one fellow on Twitter, I think his name is Parminder Singh, and he's a Sikh trucker who came alive and he's become this amateur pundit every day with new short videos.

00:15:16.780 I think a lot of Sikhs had their politics flipped on by the authoritarian crushing of civil rights by Trudeau.

00:15:24.980 And I think they just actually appalled that Jagmeet Singh, who holds himself out as such a pure idealist, would give support to Trudeau.

00:15:33.580 I think we should take these Sikh critics at face value.

00:15:37.600 And I think it bodes very ill for Jagmeet Singh.

00:15:40.340 Maybe he'll lose his seat in the next election, too.

00:15:42.940 Maybe that's why he's joined up with Trudeau.

00:15:45.480 He wants to delay and defer the next election as long as possible.

00:15:50.820 So why did this all happen?

00:15:52.300 Why did Doug Ford win when Aaron O'Toole was thrown out, when Jason Kenney was thrown out?

00:15:57.740 Well, first of all, Aaron O'Toole and Jason Kenney were not defeated in a general election, but rather by their party.

00:16:04.300 Their conservative parties had no more time for them.

00:16:07.760 I think federally, the truckers were the proximate cause of Aaron O'Toole's departure.

00:16:13.220 In Alberta, there were a lot of things, including the fact that Alberta has a tradition of having new parties to throw out the old and those new parties typically being of the right.

00:16:22.700 And in Alberta, independent media, including Rebel News, is very strong.

00:16:28.460 True North is there, but also the Western Standard.

00:16:32.360 That's the name of the magazine I used to run 15 years ago.

00:16:34.920 It's been revived in Alberta as a website.

00:16:38.660 And it's quite conservative.

00:16:39.940 So you have a lot of independent, Western-oriented, freedom-oriented journalism in Alberta that I think really connected with people.

00:16:48.640 And the fact that backbenchers in that party were not thrown out for criticizing the lockdowns.

00:16:55.960 So I think there was a real democracy there, real choices.

00:16:59.420 But here in Ontario, as soon as MPPs were kicked out of the party by Doug Ford, they were anathematized, not just in politics, but by the media.

00:17:10.980 The media treated anyone kicked out by Doug Ford as cranks, as weirdos. 0.98

00:17:15.580 They echoed Doug Ford's own language of those yahoos and covidiots. 0.97

00:17:20.500 I think that you have a political and journalistic monoculture in Ontario. 0.52

00:17:25.600 You had no real choices.

00:17:27.740 You had no real conversation.

00:17:30.680 Like I say, the Green Party was added as controlled opposition to a government-run debate.

00:17:36.980 TVO is the government-owned provincial TV station in Ontario.

00:17:41.600 You had no real alternative.

00:17:43.560 And I say again, it didn't help that Derek Sloan and Jim Carahalios and Randy Hillier and the others were splittist and made it impossible for a freedom-oriented small party to put it down any roots.

00:17:56.560 I think Doug Ford today is less atrocious than he was six months ago when he was brutally enforcing the lockdown.

00:18:05.500 But Doug Ford will literally say anything his handlers tell him to say if they show him a few polls to convince him it's the politically pragmatic thing to do.

00:18:16.560 Don't think for a second that Doug Ford would not lock down Ontario again if his handlers told him to do so.

00:18:25.540 The Liberal leader, Del Duca, threatened to re-lock down.

00:18:29.340 He didn't wait for the fall.

00:18:30.660 He said he wanted to do it.

00:18:32.240 I think that's one reason people were spooked by him.

00:18:35.260 But you really doubt Doug Ford would mask and lock us down again, too?

00:18:40.120 Stay with us for more on this with our friend Tamari and the people in the next week.

00:18:45.320 Well, I'm always happy to see politicians quit.

00:19:00.160 If you are, too, here's a few videos that'll make you feel better.

00:19:03.380 And I'm going to keep working to earn your confidence each and every day.

00:19:07.920 I'm going to keep doing that.

00:19:09.560 But tonight, it's time for me to pass the torch, to pass the baton, to hand off the leadership of the NDP.

00:19:17.080 And you know what?

00:19:17.700 It makes me sad, but it makes me happy because our team is so strong right now.

00:19:23.160 So strong.

00:19:25.280 Now, to be clear, this isn't the outcome that we had hoped for and worked hard for.

00:19:39.380 And yes, it's true.

00:19:40.820 I am disappointed to not have been successful here in my home community, my home riding of Vaughn Woodbridge.

00:19:47.340 And I just want to say again, I have no doubt that the women and men that Ontario Liberals have elected to the legislature will do their part.

00:19:54.660 In fact, we'll do more than their part to help grow a new and energetic progressive movement here in Ontario.

00:20:02.960 It will, however, be a movement that will be led by a new leader.

00:20:08.480 Earlier this evening, I informed our party president of my decision to step down from the leadership of our party.

00:20:15.800 And I have asked him to meet with the executive to set a leadership contest for as soon as is reasonable.

00:20:22.340 Yeah, that was last night in Ontario's election.

00:20:25.360 I feel like the whole thing was anticlimactic.

00:20:29.420 And I'm not alone.

00:20:30.860 Voter turnout in Ontario was atrociously low.

00:20:33.700 Why bother?

00:20:34.560 There really wasn't much choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

00:20:38.160 Joining us now via Skype from Port Cobourg, Ontario, is our friend Tamara Ugolini.

00:20:42.620 You might be wondering why I'm in the boardroom here.

00:20:44.400 It's because the main studio I usually use is being occupied by a very special guest making some special videos.

00:20:52.220 I'll tell you about that another time.

00:20:53.440 But let's go to Tamara Ugolini now.

00:20:56.320 Great to see you today.

00:20:57.760 I feel underwhelmed.

00:20:59.720 I feel anticlimactic.

00:21:01.340 I didn't feel like I had a champion in this election.

00:21:04.820 I didn't feel like I had a meaningful choice.

00:21:07.020 I mean, it was all degrees of bad to me.

00:21:10.660 Doug Ford probably was the least worst of the three big leaders.

00:21:14.720 But anyone who oversees brutal lockdowns, mandates vaccines, denounces protesters who were peaceful, invokes his own emergencies act, seizes money.

00:21:29.320 Like, really, how different was he on the key issues of the day than Justin Trudeau?

00:21:36.180 So, I don't know.

00:21:37.680 Count me as one of the 14% of Ontarians fewer that voted this time from last time.

00:21:44.560 I understand it's the lowest voter turnout in Ontario history.

00:21:47.780 I'm still checking that.

00:21:49.480 But it doesn't surprise me.

00:21:50.580 What do you think, Tamara?

00:21:51.680 Well, I've checked the same.

00:21:53.500 At 43% voter turnout, that appears to be the lowest, the second lowest voter turnout happened, I guess, in 2011.

00:22:02.480 So, it just speaks volumes as to the fact that people are tired.

00:22:07.080 Obviously, the Uniparty is now very uninspiring.

00:22:11.620 No one aligned fully with what they all were touting, which was just varying degrees of one another.

00:22:18.100 There was no real opposition.

00:22:20.840 And no one's enthused.

00:22:21.880 The people aren't enthused by any of these leaders enough to actually get out and vote, as evidenced by this record-breaking voter turnout in Ontario's history.

00:22:33.160 Yeah, you know, I see some of the media complaining that the federal Conservative Party is too much of a brawl.

00:22:41.160 They're fighting each other too hard, which is a strange thing.

00:22:44.040 You want politicians to disagree.

00:22:45.560 So, you have a choice.

00:22:47.420 I love that there's a real difference on real issues between Patrick Brown, Jean Charest, Pierre Paulyev.

00:22:54.880 Good.

00:22:55.860 And let's make a choice.

00:22:57.420 And it's very exciting.

00:22:58.720 And I think it's revving people up.

00:23:00.720 And you'll at least know what the federal Conservatives stand for, whoever they choose.

00:23:05.260 I don't think you could say the same because there were no sharp differences amongst these parties.

00:23:10.260 You know, I remember watching the debates run by the government broadcaster at the provincial level, TVO.

00:23:19.400 All of the questions were limited to areas of great agreement and consensus amongst the mainstream elites.

00:23:29.260 There were no questions about civil liberties other than for about one second when the Liberal candidate pretended to care about, you know, unreasonable search and seizure of people on the streets during the lockdown.

00:23:43.040 There was like about 10 seconds about civil liberties in the whole debate.

00:23:47.340 They cared more about global warming than they cared about the civil liberties inferno the last two years.

00:23:53.540 I really think it's awful in Ontario, and I don't think it's much of a victory other than a victory on paper.

00:23:59.420 I suppose it's the only victory that counts.

00:24:01.640 But I don't know.

00:24:02.820 I thought it was a weak day for democracy.

00:24:06.320 I blame the media, too.

00:24:07.360 What do you think?

00:24:08.080 Yes.

00:24:08.640 Yeah, I think indefinitely a weak day for democracy, again, as evidenced by that voter turnout.

00:24:13.120 But I wonder, too, if a lot of the Liberals who obviously didn't align with Del Duca's sentiments, especially, I think, as he tried to mandate a major campaign, part of his campaign was trying to mandate the COVID injectables for children at school.

00:24:29.180 And so I wonder that if Liberals are just so stubborn that they would rather stay home and not vote than to actually get out and switch to a different party.

00:24:39.060 I mean, the illegal carting that Ford tried to put in place after he already decimated small businesses and terminated workers who didn't want to comply with a mandated medical procedure.

00:24:52.060 I wonder if he's learned anything from that over the last two years, that, you know, touting and letting the Ontario science table essentially have free reign into policymaking decisions.

00:25:05.220 And we saw that that was based more on political science than actual science.

00:25:09.840 So I hope that that there's been some sort of refreshment, wake up call here for Ford that he will say, say, you know, obviously people, the tides have turned now.

00:25:20.280 People are sick of the lockdowns.

00:25:22.220 No one discussed any of the lockdowns and the policies and the measures that were put in place during the campaign trail, which I find very concerning because we lived under essentially totalitarian rule for the better part of two years under the Doug Ford regime.

00:25:35.020 But I guess one way to look at this also isn't necessarily a cheer on for the fact that Ford won and he gained more seats, but rather a cheer on that the other two were so completely decimated that you saw both party leaders now resigning.

00:25:51.340 Del Duca and Horwath are both passing the torch, so to speak, on to someone new to handle and manage the parties because they just were obviously didn't have their things together enough to actually

00:26:05.060 garner more support and more seats. The NDP lost, what was it, eight, nine seats and Del Duca only gained one.

00:26:13.160 He's not even official. The liberals are not official party status. Neither were they the last time around.

00:26:18.780 So I think that there's a small win there that you just saw that Ontarians definitely didn't want the other two.

00:26:26.880 Yeah, that's what I said. It's a bad election, which is slightly better than a worse election.

00:26:31.740 I was about to say, well, maybe the leadership campaigns for the Liberal Party and the NDP will provide better leaders, and I just know that's not going to happen.

00:26:44.260 I know that with every passing year, those two parties are engulfed more by wokeism, by identity politics, by really a form of extremism.

00:26:55.100 The liberals haven't really cared about civil liberties in a very long time.

00:26:59.120 The NDP haven't really been a party of the workers for a very long time.

00:27:02.740 It was interesting how many labor unions did not endorse the NDP this time.

00:27:06.920 I don't know. I mean, I've learned, I mean, I'm 50 years old, and so a lot of naivete is being beaten out of me over the years through bad experience.

00:27:14.760 And I've learned that things can always get worse.

00:27:18.080 That's actually, that's not a pessimistic point of view.

00:27:20.840 It's just, it's actually the opposite.

00:27:23.600 It's saying, you know, however, there may be some good things today that we lose if we change.

00:27:30.880 I think that the next NDP leader will be so diabolically opposed to civil liberties, it's going to be atrocious.

00:27:38.720 I noted in my monologue, the Communist Party of Ontario had like 0.04% of the vote, because you don't need the Communist Party.

00:27:46.120 You've got all your authoritarian needs provided by at least two opposition parties, and most of the time by the government.

00:27:53.000 I don't know. I'm just, I'm frustrated by it, and I'm trying to keep my hope alive by focusing on the federal level.

00:27:58.320 What do you think?

00:27:58.960 Yeah, well, I wonder too if the federal, at the federal level, for instance, the NDPs, how they lost seats provincially,

00:28:06.660 is because of how distasteful the Jagmeet Singh has conducted himself over the last two years as well,

00:28:14.580 just complete disregard for the working class, which typically is their voter base.

00:28:19.200 We saw that three NDPs, they lost their three seats in Brampton, which was a fairly stronghold.

00:28:24.940 Jagmeet's brother lost his seat.

00:28:27.140 The deputy leader lost her seat as well.

00:28:30.820 So I think that people are starting to recognize on both political spectrums, both provincially and federally,

00:28:38.140 just how much the leaders of those parties and the direction that they're heading have been inept failures over the last two years.

00:28:44.120 And as I said before, it's maybe not a cheering on for the Conservative win, necessarily,

00:28:49.620 but a cheer on for the decimation of that radical left.

00:28:54.520 And I think that if we were to have a federal election now, as opposed to, you know, just shy of one year ago,

00:29:02.540 you would see more of that pendulum swinging back to the right once again,

00:29:07.680 because I think a lot of the sleepy Canadians, as evidenced by Ontario's election last night,

00:29:13.500 have awoken and recognized that we're not getting out of this mess that we're in as a country or as a province

00:29:21.120 by continuing to pander to those woke lefties.

00:29:25.020 Yeah, you call it a uniparty, and it's true. 1.00

00:29:28.660 Jagmeet Singh is the only reason why Justin Trudeau maintains his government and acts as if he has a majority.

00:29:36.100 And I keep seeing these little videos pop up on social media of other Sikh Canadians chasing down Jagmeet Singh and denouncing him.

00:29:44.680 And at first I thought it was some internal battle or something.

00:29:47.660 But no, they're saying you're a sellout.

00:29:49.600 You're supporting the tyrant.

00:29:51.220 I think they actually really, really mean that.

00:29:53.080 And that could explain the loss of the seats in Brampton.

00:29:58.340 I think Jagmeet Singh is terrified of going to the polls, which is why he cut this deal with Trudeau.

00:30:02.980 I think he may well could lose.

00:30:05.040 Again, I fear what comes after him.

00:30:07.700 I don't know.

00:30:08.440 I look to other places for hope.

00:30:10.640 I look to the federal level where the Conservative Party seems to be reviving itself.

00:30:16.200 I look to Alberta, where Jason Kenney was thrown out clearly over his lockdownism,

00:30:22.320 which was out of touch with the province.

00:30:24.700 So I'm looking elsewhere besides Ontario for my hope.

00:30:27.920 But Tamara, I really appreciate your reporting, including last night's live stream.

00:30:32.820 And keep fighting for freedom in Coburg.

00:30:35.620 I remember that's how we met you.

00:30:37.420 You were a fight class client who got some outrageous Doug Ford fine.

00:30:40.800 So it's great that you joined us and been fighting for freedom ever since.

00:30:45.540 Yeah, well, thank you, Ezra, and for, of course, taking a chance on me as well.

00:30:49.280 It's been a really great learning experience being with the rebel.

00:30:52.460 And I look forward to seeing how the future goes as well.

00:30:55.640 And actually, just before we close out, too, I wanted to mention that Ontario is now the eighth province in Canada or territory that holds a majority Conservative government.

00:31:06.020 So if that lends anything into how Canadians are feeling coast to coast to coast, you know, I think that if we were to see something happen federally, and that's probably why Justin Trudeau chose last summer to call a snap election, because more Canadians are waking from their sleep.

00:31:24.080 I hope, I hope this is evidence of that.

00:31:26.940 And they're done with the wokeism, and they want to get back to regular, strong Canadian values once again.

00:31:33.860 Well, from your mouth to God's ears.

00:31:35.420 Great to see you, my friend.

00:31:36.400 Take care.

00:31:37.100 Thanks, Ezra.

00:31:37.820 You as well.

00:31:38.780 Right on.

00:31:39.220 There you have it.

00:31:39.700 Tamara Ugolini from Coburg, who is reporting on the Ontario election.

00:31:45.600 Stay with us.

00:31:46.120 Your letters to me are next.

00:31:47.280 Thank you.

00:31:54.080 Hey, welcome back.

00:31:59.960 Your viewer feedback on my show about the media party reporter who bantered with me a bit.

00:32:05.320 Mark Saulnier says, if only she challenged the woke liberal and NDP socialists, the ones who are actually in power, the same vigor as she would Pierre.

00:32:17.560 Yeah, and arguing with me instead of arguing, say, with the CBC or some mighty, you know, brand that, you know, the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star or the CBC.

00:32:29.800 I mean, I'm not saying that we're nothing, but I've never seen her with the rage or the passion or the plain spokenness take on power the same way she takes on less power.

00:32:42.680 I'm not saying that Pierre Polyev is nothing, and I'm not saying he shouldn't be scrutinized, and same with Rebel News.

00:32:47.980 I think we're quite something.

00:32:49.640 But it's very noticeable that a global news journalist thinks that she's totally challenging Justin Trudeau by saying, hey, come on, where's your censorship package already?

00:33:02.640 Hey, come on, how come you're not going harder on climate change?

00:33:05.780 She thinks that's speaking truth to power, whereas she calls Pierre Polyev a conspiracy theorist liar.

00:33:12.680 Barry Forge says, a journalist with Global News is an oxymoron on steroids.

00:33:20.220 You know, I'm old enough to have known a little bit Israel Asper, who is the Asper who created Global News.

00:33:29.020 He created a great TV station, really from nothing, starting in Manitoba, and he built out from there, and it was a mighty and outstanding news agency.

00:33:39.560 I think that that company has really strayed from his vision of excellence, and I'm sorry he's not around to guide it.

00:33:48.000 Chud 67 BBC says, as is the case with Biden, who thinks Trudeau actually has 6 million followers?

00:33:57.940 You're talking about his 6 million Twitter followers.

00:34:00.180 Yeah, there's a lot of fake or robot or bot followers on Twitter.

00:34:05.400 It's funny because when Elon Musk said he was making a massive $40 billion plus offer for the company, he later said, whoa, the company estimates only 5% of their followers are fake, but the number could be many times that.

00:34:19.800 And if Joe Biden is close, I don't know, going from memory, close to 100 million followers, and half are fake, right there that tells you that Twitter's number can't be real.

00:34:30.560 I wonder how many people are fake, and if they're just bots that someone else set up, or if it's what Trudeau and Biden purchased to make themselves look big and important.

00:34:41.300 It wouldn't surprise me with either of those men.

00:34:42.980 Well, that's our show for today.

00:34:45.900 Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:34:50.760 Keep fighting for freedom, and let me leave you with our video of the day.

00:34:53.340 Our friend David Menzies just shows the state of Doug Ford's conservative party.

00:34:58.840 David Menzies, who's been to a dozen Ford Fests, who's been the, you know, other than Joe Warmington, probably the most friendly pro-Ford reporter in Ontario, banned from coming to Doug Ford's events.

00:35:13.140 Even though he was personally invited, I think the fact that the Ontario government and Doug Ford are lurching into Justin Trudeau's style censorship and exclusion of journalists tells you all you need to know.

00:35:24.680 I'll leave you to that video.

00:35:25.880 Bye-bye.

00:35:26.160 David Menzies for Rebel News here at the Toronto Congress Centre, and folks, I'm here for a Ford rally, and guess what?

00:35:37.340 I have an invitation from Premier Doug Ford himself.

00:35:42.540 Check it out.

00:35:43.260 Hey, this is Doug Ford calling, leader of the Ontario PCs.

00:35:46.380 You can reach our team at 1-800-903-6453 or email at info at OntarioPC.com.

00:35:54.320 I'm inviting you, your family and friends, to our rally in Toronto to get it done.

00:35:58.740 It's Wednesday, June the 1st at the Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon Road in Etobicoke.

00:36:03.500 Doors open at 7 p.m. and there's no cost.

00:36:06.680 That's Wednesday, June the 1st at the Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon Road, and doors open at 7 p.m.

00:36:13.020 With your help, our PC party is building Ontario and keeping costs down for families like yours.

00:36:18.700 Head to OntarioPC.ca.

00:36:21.660 Click on rallies and please RSVP to let us know if you're coming.

00:36:26.380 Admission is free.

00:36:27.380 I hope to see everyone there.

00:36:28.820 Yeah, that's what came across my phone just a few days ago, a personal invitation, as far as I can tell, from the Premier.

00:36:36.260 And I'm very grateful for that, folks, because, you see, when we were here last month for the campaign kickoff,

00:36:43.740 well, I was shocked because I've been going to Ford Fests and Ford Family Events for maybe 15 years.

00:36:51.880 I'm always welcomed with open arms.

00:36:54.840 Not this time. Check it out.

00:36:56.620 I understand why.

00:36:57.820 We're going to ask you to leave now.

00:36:58.760 Why?

00:36:59.340 Zach?

00:37:00.420 Why is that?

00:37:01.620 Because we're not giving you accreditation to this event.

00:37:03.580 Okay, then.

00:37:04.220 So, yeah, we're going to ask you to leave this evening.

00:37:06.120 Under the Trespass and Property Act, we will remove you from the party.

00:37:08.420 Okay, who are you?

00:37:09.440 I work for the party and I'm...

00:37:11.060 Okay, can I see some ID then?

00:37:12.500 It's right here, sir.

00:37:14.160 It just says tour 2022.

00:37:15.960 Yeah, we're going to have to ask you to leave.

00:37:17.480 Okay, what is your name then?

00:37:18.860 So, we have uniformed police on site that will come and remove you.

00:37:22.280 I don't even know...

00:37:22.980 Hold on.

00:37:23.500 Can I ask you why?

00:37:24.560 That's a fair question.

00:37:25.600 I see other media here.

00:37:26.720 You're not invited to the event and you're not checked in.

00:37:30.060 You're not coming to the event.

00:37:31.100 But do you have to be invited?

00:37:32.340 I see all sorts of people coming here.

00:37:33.800 Everybody here is invited and they're all here for the right reasons.

00:37:36.180 Yeah, so I was considered persona non grata.

00:37:40.980 The same with Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun.

00:37:44.540 And it's inexplicable because Joe Warmington, I think, has given the Ford family the fairest coverage over the past 20 years.

00:37:53.480 And he was given the bum's rush as well. 0.69

00:37:56.740 But we are indeed here on an invitation basis.

00:38:00.880 So they can't possibly kick us out again.

00:38:03.880 Or can they?

00:38:04.860 Oh, and by the way, just to show I'm a really good guest.

00:38:08.540 Well, a good guest doesn't come empty-handed.

00:38:12.420 I have a gorgeous cherry cheesecake for the Premier.

00:38:15.980 We know he loves cherry cheesecake.

00:38:18.880 Check out the video evidence.

00:38:20.820 I'm going to pour this on.

00:38:22.580 But if you don't like cherries, you can eat blueberries.

00:38:27.000 If I wasn't Premier, I'd open up a cheesecake factory. 0.72

00:38:30.680 That, my friends, is the Premier's cheesecake.

00:38:33.220 Friends, stay safe, stay healthy.

00:38:36.660 And these are some of the fun things you can do when you're self-isolating.

00:38:42.260 Ho, ho. 1.00

00:38:43.720 Ho, ho. 1.00

00:38:44.980 So there you have it, folks.

00:38:46.460 A party awaits.

00:38:48.300 A cheesecake awaits.

00:38:49.980 Let's go and join the revelry or not.

00:38:56.680 Hi, guys.

00:38:58.440 Fortunately, it's a private event tonight.

00:39:00.400 Oh, I know that.

00:39:01.480 I've been invited.

00:39:02.200 You have not been invited in, unfortunately.

00:39:04.740 Here you go, officer.

00:39:05.520 Listen.

00:39:08.380 Unfortunately, you're not invited in today.

00:39:09.820 Oh, I am.

00:39:10.420 Listen.

00:39:10.840 Well, according to the party, you're not invited in today.

00:39:13.760 That's not true.

00:39:14.500 I have an invitation from Doug Ford.

00:39:16.480 Here is a printed transcript.

00:39:18.980 That's not an invitation.

00:39:21.680 Oh, you're the fellow that kicked me out last time, too.

00:39:24.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:39:24.360 Who are you, by the way?

00:39:25.520 My name is Zach.

00:39:26.720 Zach who?

00:39:28.120 That's it.

00:39:28.560 My name is Zach.

00:39:29.300 Zach.

00:39:29.800 Yeah.

00:39:29.920 Okay, then.

00:39:30.920 Well, I'm...

00:39:31.720 I'm an invitation team member.

00:39:32.500 My name is Zach.

00:39:33.380 Okay.

00:39:34.080 Are you a security guard?

00:39:35.160 I'm a security representative for the party, yes.

00:39:36.240 Oh, okay.

00:39:36.620 Can I see your security license, please?

00:39:38.260 You can see my tour badge, if you'd like.

00:39:40.540 No, I'm not interested in that.

00:39:41.820 That could be anyone's.

00:39:42.820 If you are...

00:39:43.380 I am telling you that you're not welcome here based on the trespass authority.

00:39:46.000 This is...

00:39:46.940 It's okay.

00:39:47.820 It doesn't even matter.

00:39:48.500 The gentleman doesn't have to show you, but you're just not welcome here, okay?

00:39:50.840 Here is the transcript, sir.

00:39:52.460 I would appreciate you.

00:39:54.320 I would appreciate you.

00:39:55.440 Please just oblige me, and you're not welcome here, okay?

00:40:00.420 I have...

00:40:01.240 You can film on the street there.

00:40:02.240 That's the only five of the other...

00:40:03.440 Oh, is that right, Zach?

00:40:04.360 Yeah.

00:40:04.700 Really?

00:40:05.260 Okay.

00:40:05.680 How much do you charge the haunted house, by the way?

00:40:07.920 What?

00:40:08.420 What?

00:40:08.800 Okay, that's...

00:40:09.360 No, no.

00:40:10.640 I have an invitation.

00:40:12.620 Sir, can you please make your way to the Typhoon?

00:40:14.240 Please.

00:40:15.580 I don't think you outranked the Premier of the province, sir, and I have an audio invitation.

00:40:20.760 Okay, then.

00:40:21.500 So, why does the Premier invite me, and then you guys say, not only am I not invited, you

00:40:27.380 won't even give me a reason why I'm not invited.

00:40:29.500 I just told you why you're not invited.

00:40:31.180 No, you didn't.

00:40:32.160 What is the reason?

00:40:33.540 You're not invited because you've tried this before, and we didn't allow you in, so...

00:40:36.620 For 15 years, I've been coming to Ford Family Events, 15 years more, and I've been welcomed

00:40:43.360 with open arms.

00:40:44.340 Is it too much to ask to get a...

00:40:46.120 You're trespassing now, so you can make your way to the sidewalk.

00:40:48.200 I'm on the sidewalk.

00:40:49.040 You're not on the sidewalk.

00:40:50.280 This entails private property.

00:40:52.140 Yeah.

00:40:52.440 Where those people are standing right there, if we could ask you to please...

00:40:55.280 Who is the private property owner of this building, sir?

00:40:58.500 It's the Toronto Congress Centre.

00:40:59.820 Okay, so is this taxpayer supported?

00:41:01.960 No, it's a private entity.

00:41:04.540 All right.

00:41:05.100 Well, folks, we tried, and even with an invitation, I...

00:41:11.380 You know, the...

00:41:12.040 Feel free to cover and record us, but we're just going to ask you to go...

00:41:17.780 Oh, that's very generous of you, officer.

00:41:19.260 I really appreciate that.

00:41:20.460 You see, I have an invitation here.

00:41:22.240 Okay.

00:41:22.660 I have an audio recording of that invitation, and why am I not being allowed in and not even

00:41:30.020 given a reason, officer?

00:41:31.160 I'm not trying to give you a hard time.

00:41:33.540 I just want some transparency, if that's possible.

00:41:36.100 So, we're obviously hired by their security team, and that's all I can tell you.

00:41:40.580 I'm not going to engage in further conversation with you.

00:41:42.560 Okay.

00:41:43.060 And they have their provisions, and we're simply providing security for this venue here.

00:41:47.940 Okay?

00:41:48.160 I see.

00:41:48.240 Just following orders, then.

00:41:49.280 Well, I have a job to do, and I'm going to do it.

00:41:52.200 Okay?

00:41:52.500 Yeah.

00:41:53.180 Well, there you have it, folks.

00:41:54.560 Even though I have a bona fide invitation to attend this Ford rally, we are journalists

00:42:01.540 non-grata.

00:42:02.260 We are guests non-grata.

00:42:03.540 Funny that, and yet, obviously, the CBC, the Toronto Star, you know, the people that Doug 0.97

00:42:11.880 Ford used to call a bunch of maggots, they're allowed in. 0.91

00:42:16.500 And, you know, I didn't even get a chance to give them this beautiful cherry cheesecake. 0.96

00:42:22.600 I'm just standing here like Richard Harris in MacArthur Park.

00:42:26.980 You know, I don't think I can take it, because it took so long to bake it, and I don't think

00:42:32.660 I'll have that recipe anymore.

00:42:35.220 But, you know what, folks?

00:42:40.500 Mmm.

00:42:41.620 No, sir.

00:42:42.840 When it comes to cherry cheesecake these days, tastes like tyranny.

00:42:50.300 For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies. 0.60

00:42:56.000 Wow.

00:42:56.980 Probably a ton of preservatives.

Rebel News Podcast - June 04, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Doug Ford slouches back into government with a majority

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