Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ezra Levant visits Nova Scotia searching for 'coward' MP Chris d'Entremont

00:00:00.360 Oh, hi everybody. I went to Nova Scotia. Oh, what a lovely place. You know, if you haven't

00:00:05.820 been, you've got to go. We flew to Halifax, then we drove to Yarmouth. Why? Because the

00:00:11.360 local MP there who was elected a conservative just a few weeks ago, in fact, he was pounding

00:00:17.420 away at Mark Carney and the liberals just a few weeks ago. Well, he flip-flopped. He

00:00:21.420 changed sides. He defected to the liberals. So we wanted to go see if we could track him

00:00:26.580 down and see what his voters had to say about it. That's today's show. I really want you

00:00:31.280 to get the video version, not just the audio version, because I want to show you how lovely

00:00:36.000 Nova Scotia is. I want to show you what happened when we went to his constituency office. And

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00:01:00.420 Tonight, we're in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, looking for the member of parliament that flipped from

00:01:06.180 a conservative to a liberal and now is hiding. It's November 20th, and this is the Ezra LeVant

00:01:12.180 Show.

00:01:12.500 You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug. 0.94

00:01:24.220 Hi, everybody. Ezra LeVant here in beautiful Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Oh, just the drive from 0.59

00:01:33.060 Halifax, where we landed at the airport, to here, just about three hours. It's so lovely.

00:01:37.760 It's a reminder how big Canada is and how once you get out of the ugly big cities, it's so

00:01:44.660 picturesque. And Yarmouth itself is such easy living. It's near the water. I'm sort of jealous

00:01:51.140 because, you know, I'm in Toronto these days, but I'm not jealous of their politics. You

00:01:55.280 know, their local member of parliament here, Chris Dantremont, ran, as he has for several

00:02:00.880 elections now, as a conservative. And he ran loyally as a Pierre Polyev conservative. And

00:02:08.580 just a few weeks ago, he was letting a rip in parliament about why he did not trust Mark

00:02:15.200 Carney's liberals and why he stood with Pierre Polyev's conservatives. Here's a clip of that.

00:02:19.860 I want to speak in support of the conservative motion because Canadians are hurting. Families

00:02:24.640 are being forced to cut deeply into their grocery budgets just to get by. And frankly, that makes

00:02:30.820 me a little bit angry and a little bit sad.

00:02:33.180 Canada is a wealthy country, but under this liberal government, it's being mismanaged. Taxpayers

00:02:44.860 are being squeezed and their hard-earned money is being wasted.

00:02:51.640 In southwest Nova Scotia, where I have lived my entire life, people work hard. They want

00:02:57.820 to own a home, feed their children, provide a good education to them, and maybe take a vacation

00:03:04.700 every once in a while. But you know what? Since 2015, everything changed. Since I was first elected

00:03:10.500 here in 2019, the cost of living has skyrocketed. Even then, families in West Nova, it was called

00:03:17.060 at the time, but in Nakedi Annapolis, were struggling. We warned that liberals that are out of control

00:03:21.500 spending and massive deficits were irresponsible. But of course, they didn't listen. And now,

00:03:28.200 after six months under a new prime minister who promised financial discipline, Canadians are

00:03:34.080 still waiting. He said he'd be judged by the cost at the grocery store. Well, Mr. Speaker,

00:03:42.080 Canadians are judging him, and they are not impressed. Instead of delivering relief, this

00:03:47.080 government delayed its budget. So we're still waiting for a budget. We haven't seen a budget

00:03:51.640 in a year and a half. Why? Because it's projecting an over $92 billion deficit. That's a monstrous,

00:03:59.080 irresponsible burden on future generations. We'll hear it. We'll hear it, I'm sure, maybe

00:04:04.420 the questions, that they're talking about a generational investment. But Mr. Speaker,

00:04:09.640 what it really is, is a generational debt. That my kids, their kids, and their kids' kids

00:04:16.240 are going to have to try to pay in one way or another. That causes inflation and extra costs

00:04:24.080 to future generations. That was literally a couple of weeks ago. But then two things changed. The first

00:04:32.140 is, well, Chris Dantremont wanted to be the deputy speaker of the house, which is a pretty plum perk.

00:04:38.780 It means you get more pay, more staff, and you get to go to more ceremonial functions. It's also

00:04:45.800 often a precursor to one day being the speaker himself, which is a very highly paid position,

00:04:51.840 comes with a special house, even an apartment in on the center block of parliament itself.

00:04:58.240 It's an incredible perk. And it looked like Chris Dantremont wasn't going to get it. So he wasn't going

00:05:05.360 to make as much money as he thought he would. And don't think for a second that wasn't on his mind,

00:05:11.840 because as I showed you a moment ago, he said he hates Mark Carney and Carney's spending in debt.

00:05:17.600 Well, all it took was a friendly phone call from the Liberals. And Chris Dantremont, who short

00:05:24.400 months ago ran in this neighborhood as a conservative, well, he followed his pocketbook. He followed the

00:05:31.360 money and he became a Liberal. Look at him being embraced. Have you ever seen Mark Carney so joyous

00:05:37.440 this before? Look at Chris Dantremont go and join the Liberals.

00:05:57.120 Now, I don't have anything inherently against people switching parties if there's an important reason

00:06:03.040 to do so. Many of us have switched parties in our lives, especially where I'm from in Western Canada.

00:06:09.520 The Conservative Party, remember, used to be the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party,

00:06:15.040 which broke off from the Conservatives years before. I'm not against party switching. Winston

00:06:21.680 Churchill himself switched parties on at least one occasion. But there's ideological reasons or

00:06:28.240 practical reasons or political reasons for that, not just personal ambition and frustration and greed.

00:06:35.520 And that's what Chris Dantremont did. We're here in Yarmouth trying to find the guy. And right over

00:06:41.280 there in Lovett Plaza is his office. Let's go in and see if he's there. I have a hunch he's not going

00:06:49.760 to talk to us. But we may as well try. Let's go take a look. Chris Dantremont, Member of Parliament for West Nova.

00:07:09.280 And here's the sign taped to the door. Office hours, Monday to Thursday, 10 to 4. Please note,

00:07:16.160 in-person service is available by appointment only. And it's completely locked. He's hiding from his own

00:07:25.920 people. I don't blame him.

00:07:36.080 Hi, I'm Andrew LeVant. How are you? I'm great. I was just looking at the sign that says it's closed with no

00:07:43.120 appointment. Is, is Mr. Dantremont not doing any, any, is he in Ottawa? How's it been these last couple

00:07:50.720 of weeks? Yeah. What do people say? Is it tough? Is it a, it's tough? I'm sorry to hear that. How would

00:08:02.720 you say it's going? Like about 50-50?

00:08:10.480 Oh, I think, I think she ran away and the, and she closed the door. I think I scared her off.

00:08:23.280 Huh. She seemed pretty friendly though. 0.64

00:08:25.600 That's that Nova Scotia way. Well, as you can see, I went in to see Chris Dantremont.

00:08:33.360 The office was locked and there was a sign saying by appointment only. I had a brief but friendly

00:08:38.960 chat with the lady in there who says it's been a hassle. Look, obviously I don't blame the staff

00:08:46.240 for the decision obviously done by the boss. I'm sure that Chris Dantremont did not consult

00:08:51.840 anybody other than maybe his close family and his investment manager. There's no way he would

00:08:58.880 have talked to the local people here. They voted for him several times as a conservative. And as I

00:09:04.240 said before, there was no compelling reason for him to switch parties. There was no great betrayal

00:09:10.880 by Pierre Paldier. There was no important change by the liberals. Like I say, just a few weeks ago,

00:09:17.200 Chris Dantremont was smashing the liberals in parliament. All that changed was his own greed.

00:09:24.720 It doesn't surprise me. His lovely staff don't want to take the flack for it on TV. And I'm going

00:09:29.440 to leave them alone. It's not them I'm looking for. It's Chris Dantremont who's in hiding.

00:09:35.760 Have you heard that the local MP for these parts, Chris Dantremont, switched from

00:09:39.280 liberals to conservative, conservative liberal? Yeah, he did. And what do you make of that?

00:09:42.560 What a coward. I don't know. How do you switch sides that easily and that quickly? I don't know. 1.00

00:09:49.840 It doesn't make sense to me, especially when the vote was so close here. But now the entire

00:09:53.360 province is pretty much liberal. So I don't know. I think it was a coward, weak move. It just doesn't

00:09:58.800 seem sensible to me. I think that he already had that in mind. So for the people that were supporting

00:10:06.000 him, then I don't think that was right. No. As a young person who's kind of starting to pay a

00:10:14.000 little bit closer attention just due to certain living circumstances, I think that him switching

00:10:21.360 over to red just kind of paint something in the same color, if you know what I mean.

00:10:28.880 Is it frustrating in the democracy like it was so quick after the election?

00:10:32.560 It was kind of funny. You kind of think, well, how long have you been thinking about doing that?

00:10:37.760 So how many terms with Trudeau were you thinking, oh, I think I want to switch over there,

00:10:42.560 but you're still fighting the blue fight? It doesn't make sense.

00:10:47.200 You know what? I love that you said that. It makes me feel so welcome. I mean,

00:10:50.160 Nova Scotia is one of the friendliest places anyways, but I've had so many friendly people

00:10:54.400 here saying hello to me. It feels great.

00:10:56.560 Well, I'm back in Toronto now. It was a whistle stop one day adventure. We got up at 4am to catch

00:11:03.760 a 6am flight out to Nova Scotia. Then we rented a car. It was three and a half hours out to Yarmouth.

00:11:09.440 We only had about an hour or so on the ground before we had to turn around and come home.

00:11:13.760 We did stop super quickly in Digby for a quick bite, but I had so much fun meeting the people of

00:11:20.160 Yarmouth. Oh my gosh, they were friendly. And there were a number of rebel fans there too.

00:11:25.520 But most of the people we talked to did not support the... In fact, we didn't find anyone

00:11:31.120 who supported... I don't think we saw anyone who supported Chris Dantremont switching sides. Now,

00:11:37.440 a number of people were wearing some sort of uniform that day, some sort of a corporate lanyard or hat,

00:11:43.360 and they said they didn't want to talk to us on the record because they didn't want to

00:11:47.360 appear partisan when they were dressed in their corporate gear. So we only spoke to,

00:11:52.080 you know, about three or four people on the record before we had to skedaddle. But look,

00:11:56.160 it is clear. Everyone knows exactly what happened here. A conservative MP who didn't get the,

00:12:03.520 you know, boost in pay that he wanted, realized he could be treated like a star and he'll get some

00:12:08.560 reward by crossing the floor. He put himself above his constituents. I thought it was pretty gross.

00:12:14.320 By the way, we've set up a little website called firechris.ca. And if you think that Chris Dantremont

00:12:20.640 has done the wrong thing and that he should quit, and if he wants to run again in a by-election, do it,

00:12:26.960 where he's crossing the floor is the issue. You can't run for public office and then weeks later,

00:12:33.360 switch sides. I think that's a betrayal of democracy. Anyways, it's great to be back, but I sure

00:12:38.800 loved the visit and talk about friendly people. One last anecdote before I go. You know, we do

00:12:44.400 streeters or man on the street bids. Sometimes they're called Vox Pop or Vox Populi. And in

00:12:50.080 places like Toronto, they're tough to do. You know, you go to Young Dundas Square, which is like the

00:12:55.200 Times Square of Toronto, and you try and get people to stop and talk to you. And maybe one in five people

00:13:00.880 will stop. Most other people actually brush you off or even swear at you. They say F off when you try and

00:13:06.160 talk to them. I mean, sure, they're busy, and Toronto's a busy place. But in Yarmouth,

00:13:12.160 not a single person did that. Every one of them was happy to talk. And if they couldn't stop to

00:13:17.760 talk, they'd say, oh, I don't want to talk about that, or I don't know about that. But none of them

00:13:21.840 said F off. It was sort of a fun step back in time to a politer, I don't know, more old-fashioned

00:13:29.360 Canada. I know that's a lot to say based on just one day's visit, but I really liked it. Anyway,

00:13:34.480 that was our show. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks to the friendly people of Nova Scotia. Thanks to my

00:13:39.520 colleague, Lincoln Jay, who got up early with me and did the long journey. I really think that that

00:13:45.040 Chris D'Entremont has to go. I see a lot of gross things in politics, but this felt pretty bad. You can

00:13:52.480 go to firechrist.ca.

00:14:02.240 Are they safe in Jackson sites or drug houses? The mayor of Kamloops, Reed Hammerjack, says the latter,

00:14:10.000 and he's got some compelling reasons for doing so. My name's Drea Humphrey with Rebel News, and I'm

00:14:17.040 standing on Victoria Drive West in Kamloops, where I've travelled here and spoken to the mayor about

00:14:26.000 how businesses are being negatively impacted by these so-called safe houses for people who are 1.00

00:14:33.040 struggling. Businesses, including his own, which has been completely ransacked. Let's go take a look.

00:14:41.440 So we've got a shelter and a supportive housing right across the street, and we've got people all

00:14:45.840 over the lot right over here. I could probably go wake them up because they should probably move them

00:14:49.600 along anyways. Well, it's okay. We won't disturb them, but tell me what's going on here.

00:14:57.680 We're going to talk about what happened to your actual business here,

00:15:01.120 but tell us what's changed and what's caused the change.

00:15:05.360 What's caused the change is BC Housing, CMHA, Ask Wellness. They came into town. Well, this was

00:15:14.640 probably 12 years ago now. They said it was going to be a shelter for women and children. So we all

00:15:19.280 supported that. And then in 2018, they stepped it up and Selene Robinson came into town and she was the

00:15:25.760 housing minister at the time and said they're going to have wraparound services. And they don't. They

00:15:30.160 haven't. They've put 40 people in a building and they get two people to look after them. They're all

00:15:33.840 struggling with mental health and addictions. And then they add one down the road there with

00:15:37.920 another 40 or 50 people. And then they, you know, we've got another one down here. So

00:15:42.960 they just continue to add these facilities and they're not getting the people service.

00:15:46.880 We need an audit. And I believe for, for the residents and clients, for the staff,

00:15:50.320 I mean, you don't mean to staff and you got people all struggling with mental health and addictions and

00:15:54.640 and nobody's looking after them, you know, and they're just, I mean, we just had four deaths

00:15:58.560 here just in the last little while. And, and, and it's, we got to get a handle on it, you know?

00:16:03.920 Well, and you said BC housing said this was going to be primarily for women and children. You guys

00:16:08.640 were behind that, but it's been nothing of the sorts. So what exactly is it?

00:16:13.120 Well, it's a, to me, it's a drug house. It's, it's got nothing but crime.

00:16:16.720 Even back in 2020, I had 95 police files here.

00:16:19.760 95. Well, I've got a lot more now, a lot more now. Yeah. But they, and then they opened another

00:16:26.480 building and they say, there's going to be wraparound service. These are people. And I

00:16:28.880 supported that also people are trying to move on with their lives. They at that time paid 375 a month,

00:16:34.080 two free meals a day. And it's been a, it's been a nightmare. I don't know. Probably most of the

00:16:38.640 people in there to start in there, which is January of 2020. I know ones that have been hit by trains,

00:16:44.720 overdosed and died. They're on the streets today. Matter of fact, one guy that originated there,

00:16:48.800 I think he just died here the other day, gentleman in a wheelchair. So we just keep 1.00

00:16:52.560 building them and we do the same thing over. And I think we really got to start on a recovery focused

00:16:56.880 facilities. So you said over this way that, tell us what happened over here.

00:17:03.920 Well, I wasn't here, but it was, I came down, I had two files within 24 hours. They have my gas meters

00:17:10.880 on the other side of the building and somebody was vandalizing it and then it got broke loose.

00:17:14.400 And I guess there was a serious gas leak. So they had to shut the gas off here

00:17:18.480 and then they lit a fire down here. If you look, I got steel doors, so it didn't go

00:17:22.320 and get into the building, but it, uh, it burnt the steel doors and, uh, it's just ongoing. This,

00:17:27.760 uh, not that long ago, there's a fire here. I burnt my fence all the way. You can see where

00:17:31.520 the fire started there. Burnt my fence all the way there. Um, yeah, it's just gotta happen.

00:17:36.480 So this whole area over here used to be fenced up. Yes. Yeah. Wow. And they stole the, and the power,

00:17:42.240 see the power there. They cut the power from this building to this building. Right here.

00:17:46.000 So this big, yeah, that there ran from here to that building there. And they've cut that power

00:17:52.480 off there too. This is crazy. Uh, but you told us your specific business here. Um, we're gonna walk over

00:18:00.480 to that. Tell us what your business was or is how long it's been here before we go look and see

00:18:07.360 what's happened to it. Well, my business was a good business. We could stock anywhere from 30 to 50 late

00:18:14.080 model vehicles. Um, I've been here, uh, for almost 30 years. Um, and, uh, now I can't even keep burnt

00:18:21.120 cars on my lot. I've been the last two vehicles that they left a lot. Uh, one was burnt twice. They

00:18:26.640 towed it away. He said it was a fire hazard. I still don't know how a vehicle is twice burned

00:18:31.200 as a fire hazard was tarped up and everything. And then I had a bucket truck that was parked here

00:18:34.800 that was a fire in it too. And they vandalized it also. Really? It gets in the right position.

00:18:39.520 Okay. That, that, um, that's, uh, that's barricaded now, but they kicked that door in

00:18:44.720 and then they went through the drywall and through into the, into the office area. And then you'll see

00:18:50.240 what they did on the inside. All right. This is horrible. Imagine trying to operate

00:18:56.320 any business in an area where this can happen. Not once, not twice, but three times. We're going

00:19:01.760 to have a look in the back room. I'm a little scared. Let's take a look. Oh my gosh. Take a

00:19:06.880 look in this first room here. This and look at the amount of Starbucks. Where is the money for the

00:19:15.040 Starbucks cups coming from? Like that much? Look at that. Disgusting. Oh, that's Tim Hortons.

00:19:22.320 Oh, is it Tim Hortons? Oh my gosh. That's you. Okay. But they're, but they weren't where they

00:19:27.760 are. Okay. This is horrendous. There's no lights because there's no gas, right? And look at this.

00:19:35.040 Look at all of the broken glass. Yeah. Like just, they just smashed everything.

00:19:40.320 Yeah. And they took your couches. Okay. Here's where the blood is. Yeah.

00:19:44.880 But safety first, of course, there's a nice mass there. You said this used to be a thriving

00:19:53.360 business. Yes. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Like I said, until they, they said it was going to be a shelter

00:19:57.840 for women, children fleeing violence. And then they just kept adding to it and, and they don't

00:20:02.160 seem to care, you know, and it's not just here. I'm this, I'm talking as a citizen here,

00:20:06.240 as a businessman. Right. But this is happening all over our city now. I was going to ask you,

00:20:11.280 what on earth is that smell? It's horrible in here. Yeah. It's a sewer. They ripped the toilet

00:20:15.920 out of the, out of the floor. Yeah. Okay. So this happened a couple of weeks ago or?

00:20:20.960 No, this, well, there was, there was, there was, there was a three different break-ins, but

00:20:25.360 this happened a couple of months ago originally. And they, like you said, they smashed every picture.

00:20:30.560 They've smashed a photo of your family here. It looks like they've been eating, drinking. There's a

00:20:36.720 credit card. Are the police looking into the name on that? Or you think that's stolen?

00:20:41.440 Well, it's probably stolen, but the police, police have been in. They, the, um, the IDENT team was in,

00:20:46.000 they've got some blood, uh, from one of the door switches there. Um, they also got a hammer that they,

00:20:51.680 I think they got some stuff off of it. And yeah, they just smashed everything. And they didn't

00:20:56.400 hardly take anything. I just found out, uh, not that long ago that they stole checks because somebody was

00:21:01.760 trying to cash a check out of an account that wasn't, uh, used, but yeah, they smashed everything.

00:21:06.080 They smashed the doors. They smashed everything. The offices tipped all the computers and all the

00:21:11.200 screens. And, and, uh, like you see all the memorabilia pictures, I've got pictures of the

00:21:15.600 Stanley cup there with Mark Recki and Shane Doan and Jerome McGinley. And, and, um, you know, uh,

00:21:22.320 for their pictures of what we did, uh, uh, raise the money for the hospital on golf tournaments and

00:21:26.960 things like that. So. Well, we've seen this issue pop up. I, I must admit, never have I seen it like,

00:21:33.760 so in your face, smelt it. So in my face, but I have done coverage on, you know, what we're being

00:21:38.960 promised with these safe injection sites. They don't seem so safe when they're this close to

00:21:43.840 businesses and things like that. You said the provincial government needs to do more.

00:21:49.200 What more do you think they need to do? Well, they need to do an audit on them. They need to,

00:21:54.080 again, these safe injection sites, they don't use them. There's one across the street. It's probably

00:21:57.200 hardly ever used. They're all they use. They're right there. You can see right there. Um, they

00:22:02.000 said they all, all I, all I'm asking for is them to do what they said they were going to do. I have

00:22:05.520 wraparound services. I supported all these. And what has the response been, uh, from your efforts?

00:22:11.200 Um, well, before I was the mayor in 2020, uh, I've been working on it for a long time. Like I said,

00:22:15.600 in 2020, I had about 95 police files that we actually reached out. Our whole block here reached out

00:22:20.880 to Todd Stone and Peter Milibar or two MLAs at the time. And they went down to the legislature and

00:22:25.680 they argued in the legislature in June of 2020, uh, with Selena Robinson, who was the housing minister.

00:22:31.040 Uh, she said she was going to do a review, uh, six months later, nothing happened. Uh, they, um,

00:22:36.000 moved her into finance and moved David Eby into housing and, uh, still nothing's happened. They did

00:22:41.520 one little, one little review called the BC housing research center review. And that was for this

00:22:45.680 Rose Thorn building and this beer house on the North shore. And it was, uh, the residents and clients

00:22:50.000 doing a survey on themselves with the staff. So it's, it's, it's, we need, we need some help

00:22:55.040 here in council. We've got probably 15 and I'm going to be blunt. I'm going to call them drug

00:22:58.640 houses. That's what they call them. That's what the people that I knew that passed away

00:23:01.760 and overdosed. And that's what they called them. And that's what the ones that hang out here

00:23:05.760 now call them. So tax paid for drug houses tax paid for that's exactly. Yeah.

00:23:12.160 If you agree with the mayor of Kamloops, that something has to be changed. You can take

00:23:17.200 action demanding more safe measures and recovery options for people in need at our special website

00:23:24.880 called fixourcities.com. David Menzies for rebel news here in West end Toronto, literally at the scene

00:23:36.480 of the crime. And now you might recall back on September 8th, I was at this LCBO store,

00:23:42.880 just minding my own business off the clock and who should come in, but a small gang of thieves who

00:23:51.200 cleared out some shelves and well, they made their way to their getaway card. And I decided I better

00:23:57.920 film this here. Check out the video. Are you guys paying for that?

00:24:04.800 Hey, are you punks paying for that? Hey, what is that?

00:24:26.480 So why am I back here some two and a half months later, folks? Well, here's the reason. Actually,

00:24:40.960 there's three reasons. First of all, last week, it was reported that the LCBO will be returning less

00:24:49.360 than $2 billion to the Ontario government. That is the first time in 10 years that the LCBO has not

00:24:59.920 returned at least $2 billion. Now, why would that be? Well, certainly, new competition is a factor.

00:25:08.000 Convenience stores and grocery stores can now sell beer and wine. Not the hard stuff,

00:25:14.720 mind you, and tarians aren't mature enough for that yet. So that probably took a kick out of the LCBO 1.00

00:25:22.080 store network. But what about the issue of theft? Now, we know going back to 2018, the union that

00:25:31.040 represents the workers here said then that $77 million was going out the door unpaid for.

00:25:38.880 I will bet you a bottle of fine scotch that that number has increased dramatically,

00:25:46.320 given the economic conditions of Canada in 2025. And this is part of the reason why we're here.

00:25:55.120 As you saw in the video, the employees just stood around gawking. They didn't do anything. I think that's

00:26:01.680 what they've been told to do by head office. But this is not private sector money being stolen. It is

00:26:10.480 the money coming out of the pockets of Ontarians. The LCBO is a crown corporation. It's not their money.

00:26:18.400 It's not their stock. It's ours. But they don't care. Because literally, they have no skin in the game.

00:26:26.160 That's shameful. The second reason why we're here is the crime reporting angle. If you can believe it,

00:26:33.520 we're here in mid November. The crime took place on September 8. And I still have yet to get through

00:26:41.360 to a law enforcement agency to report it. If you phone the non emergency number, you are put on hold

00:26:49.440 for hours. And then your call is simply not answered. That's not just my experience. I've spoken to other

00:26:56.000 people who have experienced the exact same thing as well. So it is that we went to a Peel region

00:27:05.040 police office last month because through a little detective work, we discovered the house where the

00:27:14.480 getaway car, which was a van, was registered to. It was in beautiful Brampton, Ontario. But when we went to

00:27:22.240 Peel, the police there weren't interested because the crime did not, was not committed in Peel. Rather,

00:27:29.360 it was committed in the city of Toronto. So they just shrugged their shoulders and said, move on.

00:27:36.080 So it was, I went to 22 division, which is very close to this LCBO. And I tried to report the crime there,

00:27:44.960 folks. And the person behind the desk said, nobody was able to take my report. Yeah, that's right.

00:27:53.120 I was at an entire police department. And there was not a single cop that could come out and take

00:27:59.760 a simple report. And it wasn't just me they were saying that to the fellow in front of me tried to

00:28:05.760 report theft over $10,000. He was told that nobody was available for him as well to take his report.

00:28:14.880 Now, one of the cops told me there is an online portal that you can report the crime. So I took

00:28:24.000 that information down. I reported it online and miraculously, the police got back to me very, very

00:28:31.280 quickly. But get a load of this. Because there was a weapon brandish in the crime. You cannot report

00:28:39.840 that crime to an online portal. So what would I what was I told? Either go on that phone, the non 1.00

00:28:46.640 emergency line that nobody ever seems to pick up or go back to 22 division. We will be doing that

00:28:53.280 a little later today. But talk about a vicious circle. It's insane. And it makes me wonder,

00:29:01.200 when the Liberals say, Oh, look at the recent stats, crime is down. Do you believe that folks? Do you

00:29:07.040 think crime is down? Or do you think there is a big proportion of crime not being reported? Because

00:29:15.280 it's impossible to report the crime. And that brings me to the third and final point of our mission today,

00:29:23.280 which is this, I did get information from the police, that the September 8 crime that occurred

00:29:30.960 at this LCBO store, there is no record of it being reported. So just imagine that.

00:29:39.360 I followed the thieves out. I filmed the thieves taking away hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars

00:29:46.720 of alcohol. I got the license plate number. I had a vial of pepper spray trained upon me. He didn't fire

00:29:55.680 it. Thank goodness. And all they have to do after I give them this information, the video, the license

00:30:04.080 plate number, the eyewitness account is phone it in to 911. They didn't even do that. They could not even

00:30:14.160 be bothered to make a phone call to law enforcement. So I'm going to go in, I'm going to try to get the

00:30:21.040 manager, Joe, to answer that. Last time I phoned him, he hung up on me. But again, it speaks volumes. I think

00:30:29.840 if this was a private liquor store, and by the way, there's no role in government running liquor stores,

00:30:37.280 government's role is to regulate and tax liquor, not retail and warehouse it. But do you think somebody who had to pay the

00:30:46.560 mortgage would be so laissez faire, so uncaring, that millions and millions of dollars worth of liquor

00:30:53.760 is flying out the stores for free because they can't stop the thievery? And really, there are some

00:31:01.680 methods, isn't there, folks? Why not hire off duty police officers? Why not go back to the way the LCBO

00:31:09.120 used to sell liquor, which is to say, you had to pay for the product in full before you got your

00:31:16.480 hands on the bottle. But like I said, they don't care. Because at the end of the day, it's not their

00:31:22.480 money. Let's see if we can get some answers as to why they didn't even bother to report this thievery.

00:31:30.640 I found out from police, it was never reported.

00:31:33.120 I wasn't here. I remember you came in a couple of weeks ago, we talked. I have received no updates

00:31:41.680 and stuff, unfortunately. Is that standard procedure, just not to report a theft?

00:31:46.640 I have received no information about airplane points. I have no information about that.

00:31:55.360 Okay. You can see the concern because this is the money of the Ontario taxpayer going out the door.

00:32:00.800 Yeah. We'll check your seats. I can get you a card for our media relations department. I can get you

00:32:08.320 a card for our store. I appreciate that. I have reached out to them. They do not even acknowledge

00:32:14.480 our emails. So this is the problem I'm in. I wanted to ask Joe, the manager, why I never-

00:32:18.800 Joe is not in today. Yes, I understand that. Yeah. So again, my only question is when you're given

00:32:25.600 information about a theft, is it reported to the police? I was not given that information. I can't

00:32:31.200 tell you. No, but in general, I'm saying, sir. I would believe they would. I cannot tell you what

00:32:35.440 the information you provided. I don't know who you spoke to. No, but if say a theft happened right now

00:32:40.880 and I ran out and I filmed it and I got the license plate number of the getaway card,

00:32:45.200 would you or one of your colleagues report that theft? You would do an incident report. You would do an in-store

00:32:50.960 report. Incident report. Incident. But that doesn't necessarily mean contacting the police. If that's

00:32:56.560 what our procedure is involved, then yes. Okay. Because you can contact the media relations if you

00:33:01.680 want the actual direct step. I can't give you any information. I would love to entertain an interview

00:33:07.360 with the media relations department. I don't even know who the names are. They don't respond to us.

00:33:11.200 But an incident report internally is not the same as phoning 911 and making a police report.

00:33:17.200 Okay. And you don't have a problem with that. I, like I said, I wasn't here when the incident

00:33:23.360 happened. I can't tell you anything about it. I have no updated info about that. Okay. I just,

00:33:28.000 you know, I'm not talking about you personally, but it's a bit of, um, ungratefulness here. I mean,

00:33:32.800 I put my life at risk potentially to get that information and your manager, Joe, can't even be

00:33:37.920 bothered to phone in a police report. I don't know what Joe did with that information, unfortunately. If you

00:33:43.040 provided it, I'm sure he submitted it to the relevant departments, but I don't know.

00:33:47.600 Not according to the police. They had no report of a theft. I haven't had any contact with the police.

00:33:51.360 I don't know what information. Okay. No, I'm telling you what the police told me though, right?

00:33:54.400 Well, I haven't heard that unfortunately from them. So I don't know what they have or don't have.

00:33:58.800 And again, we all have skin in the game. This is a crown corporation. We're all shareholders.

00:34:02.800 Yep. Shouldn't we be concerned? Yeah, sure. Okay. Well, folks,

00:34:06.960 my cameraman Maurizio and I, we returned to 22 division. I decided I'd roll the dice. Maybe

00:34:13.440 there would be an officer available to take my report. And lo and behold, there was,

00:34:21.600 but I wasn't able to make that report. You are not going to believe this. Even though I was an

00:34:29.360 eyewitness, even though I have video footage for evidence, even though I have a license plate,

00:34:36.160 and even though I tracked the getaway car to a house in Brampton, the police at 22 division will

00:34:43.920 not take that report. They will only take the report from the victim air quotes. That would be the LCBO.

00:34:52.880 And when I told them that the LCBO has not phoned in this report and have no intention on doing so,

00:35:01.280 the officer told me then there is absolutely nothing they can do. So a few phrases spring to mind. I

00:35:08.960 think one is, as they say in Alabama, this dog don't hunt. What's that other one? If a tree falls in the

00:35:16.400 forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound? In other words, if an LCBO was robbed, but the robbery

00:35:26.560 was never reported, was it indeed robbed in the first place? And again, I can't emphasize the real

00:35:33.840 outrage to this folks. If you are a resident of Ontario, you are a shareholder in the LCBO. This

00:35:42.400 is your money flying out the door. And the booze bureaucrats who are in charge of this outrageous 1.00

00:35:51.040 liquor bureaucracy, they don't give a rodent's rectum. Welcome to Doug Ford's Ontario. How you 0.96

00:35:59.360 enjoying it? For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies. Well, folks, as if we needed yet another 0.82

00:36:08.000 reason to privatize the bloated bureaucracy that is the LCBO, well, we get another reason, don't we?

00:36:15.040 They don't care about tens of millions of dollars of bottles going out the door because they have

00:36:21.120 no skin in the game. It's not their personal assets being robbed. It is those of the people of Ontario.

00:36:29.680 Can you do me a favor? Can you go to sellthelcbo.com? That's sellthelcbo.com. Please put your name to our

00:36:39.520 petition to get rid of this ridiculous organization. Government has a role in liquor. It's to tax it and 1.00

00:36:47.920 regulate it. It's not to retail it and warehouse it. Please sellthelcbo.com. Put your name on that

00:36:55.600 petition. And if you're able to, kindly make a donation.

00:37:07.280 That's our show for the day. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World

00:37:11.360 Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - November 21, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ezra Levant visits Nova Scotia searching for 'coward' MP Chris d'Entremont

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