Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ From London to Wexford, the free speech fight spreads across the Anglosphere

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Rebel News fights for freedom of speech all around the Anglosphere.

00:00:05.380 It's October 27th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:11.200 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:22.800 Oh, hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. I am in Wexford, which is the southeast corner of Ireland,

00:00:28.900 about two hours south of Dublin, depending on traffic.

00:00:31.740 I'm at their beautiful new courthouse. 0.50

00:00:33.760 And look at that harp.

00:00:34.760 That's the symbol of Ireland itself, as well as the symbol for Guinness.

00:00:39.700 I have come to learn the hard way.

00:00:42.040 Anyhow, I'm here for a very serious matter, an unhappy matter,

00:00:45.020 the prosecution of Hugh Fagan.

00:00:47.460 He's a local man who has an unusual hobby.

00:00:50.680 He has signs.

00:00:52.340 They're cardboard signs about, I don't know, 11 by 17.

00:00:56.300 and he writes messages on them in capital letters and he sits in the town square and that's it he

00:01:04.280 just sits there in fact he puts headphones on and his signs do the talking it's sort of like

00:01:10.100 twitter but in real life uh i mean my hobby is tweeting all day his hobby is sitting with seven

00:01:18.440 signs and if someone comes up to him he'll talk to them politely he'll try and persuade them i

00:01:24.660 I should tell you that I've looked at his signs and there's no profanity on them, there's

00:01:29.040 no threats, there's no obscenity.

00:01:31.940 He has some strong opinions, but really nothing outside the mainstream.

00:01:36.360 And even if they were outside the mainstream, so what?

00:01:39.460 It's Ireland.

00:01:40.460 You're allowed to have strong opinions, especially on political matters.

00:01:43.260 That's half the point of being Irish, it seems to me.

00:01:47.700 People come and banter with him.

00:01:49.320 He says that most people support him.

00:01:51.440 I believe that, by the way, just observing him for a while.

00:01:54.800 But some people go and sort of pick a fight with him.

00:01:57.720 Like I say, it's just like Twitter, but in real life.

00:02:01.280 Now, they don't get into fisty cups.

00:02:03.160 They just holler at him, and he generally keeps calm.

00:02:05.700 Like I say, he's actually sitting with earphones on most of the time.

00:02:09.260 But the police, or the guardee, as they're called here in Ireland, they don't like this.

00:02:14.720 I mean, if he was on Twitter, they probably wouldn't like it either.

00:02:17.260 They're a bit censorious here that way, too.

00:02:19.680 But they've arrested Hugh, and they're prosecuting him today.

00:02:25.140 That's why I left London early.

00:02:26.740 I was there to cover Tommy Robinson's trial.

00:02:29.620 But I had a promise that I would come here not only to report on Hugh Fagan's trial, but to help crowdfund for it.

00:02:38.260 Because he doesn't have the funds to buy a quality legal team.

00:02:43.860 And that's what we're trying to do with our campaign called irishfreespeech.com.

00:02:47.860 It's sort of crazy. Just a few days ago on Friday, I was in Bray in County, I think that's in County Wicklow, just outside Dublin.

00:02:58.840 I might have my counties wrong. And Kirk Loco is on trial there for making a tweet, warning people in his neighborhood about a man on a bus who was harassing teenage girls.

00:03:10.420 By the way, that migrant who was the harasser confessed to sitting right next to these teenage girls, talking to them, having his pants half down. 0.86

00:03:20.740 So there's no doubt that it was a true tweet.

00:03:23.980 It's just that it embarrassed the authorities and they want to stop people from saying uncomfortable things.

00:03:29.480 So on Friday, Kirk Loco was prosecuted.

00:03:33.540 On Monday, Tommy Robinson's prosecuted in London.

00:03:37.520 On Tuesday, Hugh Fagan prosecuted here in Southeast Ireland, in Wexford.

00:03:44.060 What is going on?

00:03:45.680 It's this epidemic of police tone policing and content policing instead of crime policing.

00:03:55.320 How many cops are on the Twitter beat?

00:03:58.140 Or in the case of Hugh Fagan, on the cards sitting in the town square beat.

00:04:05.040 It's sort of crazy.

00:04:05.880 the details of course are even crazier they they when they sent Hugh the summons

00:04:13.260 they didn't tell him which sign they found offensive they didn't say which words he

00:04:19.120 found offensive how is a man possibly supposed to defend himself if he doesn't even know what

00:04:24.280 the police are going to prosecute him for and you know what's the public interest here

00:04:29.960 he was a unusual fella he's not a man with great power in fact i think one of the reasons he does

00:04:37.820 this is this is his way to sort of argue with the world and wrestle with ideas with the world

00:04:43.080 this is his choice on how to do it he's not a leader of a political party or a editor of a

00:04:49.140 newspaper who has those forms at his fingertips this is an ordinary man who wants to argue with

00:04:54.300 the world and let him or how about ignore him he's not coming up to your house and knocking on your

00:04:59.480 door he's literally sitting with his headphones on you don't have to engage with him I find it

00:05:06.300 sort of crazy that this is happening at such a pace and I don't want to pick on Ireland even

00:05:12.280 though it's pretty bad I mean in the UK as you know the Sunday time sorry the Times of London

00:05:17.240 reported that every single day on average 30 people in the UK are arrested for social media

00:05:25.460 tweets, 30 a day. So when I'm telling you about one a day that's happening around here, that's

00:05:32.480 just scratching the surface. I think that authorities love control and they want to be in

00:05:39.980 control of the message and they want controlled opposition. I should tell you, I don't find Hugh

00:05:45.780 Fagan very scary. I don't think he's going to start a massive uprising or rebellion here in

00:05:51.280 ireland uh but the police nonetheless regard him as a greater threat than anything else they could

00:05:58.080 be doing with their time and resources i mean there is a crime wave in ireland i've seen it

00:06:05.440 with my own eyes and i don't mean to be politically incorrect but it's not people who are born and

00:06:11.040 raised in wexford it's people like that guy on the bus who was treated like the victim by the way

00:06:20.000 Incredibly, a senior police officer testified that these migrant men who often harass Irish girls, the men are the vulnerable ones.

00:06:30.820 That's what he said in court. It was sort of crazy.

00:06:33.300 I was referring in particular to a group of migrant men who were filming girls' sports.

00:06:40.020 The girls were under 14 years of age, and the cops were calling those men vulnerable. 0.98

00:06:45.820 It's upside-down land.

00:06:47.300 Anyway, so I'm going to go back in. I just wanted to record this message outside the court.

00:06:52.880 I don't know if Hughes Matters will actually wind up being heard today. There's a bunch of matters

00:06:57.300 ahead of it in court. I hope it proceeds today simply because I'm here in Ireland and I would

00:07:02.160 like to cover it and it may be difficult for me to get back depending on what day it is.

00:07:06.540 But I'll do my best to report. I'll tweet from the courtroom. I'll give you videos from outside.

00:07:12.160 and if you want to learn more about any of the cases i'm talking about for example kirk loco's

00:07:18.320 case with the tweet about the bus or hugh fagan's case with his signs you can find it at irish

00:07:24.740 freespeech.com and if you want to help fight back against this stuff do me a favor and ship in a

00:07:30.800 few euros or a few pounds or a few dollars we've hired lisha de brun and as the barrister and

00:07:37.300 Padraig Lynch as the solicitor, and I could use your help in paying their bills.

00:07:42.040 For Rebel News, I'm Ezra LeVance.

00:07:44.940 Well, hi, everybody.

00:07:46.260 It's almost 4 p.m., and I'm in Wexford, Ireland, where I've spent the day in the courtroom

00:07:52.400 waiting for the manner of Hugh Fagan to be heard.

00:07:56.540 That's the young man here in Wexford who has sort of a live version of Twitter.

00:08:03.140 That is, he doesn't just tweet on his phone.

00:08:06.100 he prints out signs, sets them up around himself, and sits in the center of the city.

00:08:12.760 And for some reason, police don't like that very much,

00:08:14.880 even though there's nothing threatening or profane or obscene in his placards.

00:08:19.040 They just don't like him having certain opinions.

00:08:21.840 So anyways, today was supposed to be the trial.

00:08:24.400 But there's a kind of strike or work to rule going on in Irish courts right now.

00:08:29.260 So things didn't start till 1030.

00:08:32.020 And by the time the judge addressed Hugh Fagan's matter,

00:08:35.320 it just wasn't enough time left in the day so we spent all day here just uh hanging out really but

00:08:42.120 the date has been scheduled for may 10th and hopefully this strike will be over by then

00:08:46.940 i'll be back here on may 10th and so will hugh fagan and between now and then uh he let it be

00:08:52.840 known that he is going to continue to exercise his freedom of speech and to sit in a public place in

00:08:58.680 the center of town quietly with his messages and people can come up to him and talk and heckle and

00:09:04.000 haggle all they like he's not making any criminal act in his mind and i share that point of view i

00:09:10.600 think this is just another example of censorship which i regret to report is on the rise in ireland

00:09:17.860 and around the world i'll be back here in may to report on it because not only should irish people

00:09:22.900 see what's happening to their country a country built in my view on freedom of speech i mean just

00:09:27.800 think of all the irish troublemakers or just poets from yeats to um oh my goodness where do we start

00:09:36.840 james joyce obviously um oscar wilde i think he was irish i think c.s lewis was irish i mean and

00:09:43.880 i'm not even getting into modern you know political rock stars from sinead o'connor being the most

00:09:50.600 obvious but you too in their own way uh dolores or reardon i mean the idea that an irish person

00:09:57.320 would not have freedom of speech i think half of being irish is that fighting rebellious spirit

00:10:03.800 isn't it so why are there courts and police cracking down on mild-mannered people who have

00:10:11.720 the wrong opinion it just doesn't seem natural i'll let you decide that if you want to help me

00:10:18.520 with my decision to help these guys well please chip in go to irishfreespeech.com

00:10:24.600 we've crowdfunded or that's our project to crowdfund we haven't got there yet for kirk loco

00:10:30.600 who's on trial in bray for hugh fagan who's on trial here in wexford there's another person i

00:10:35.560 haven't announced yet that we're helping so if you want to help me help them go to irish

00:10:39.880 freespeech.com for some reason this beautiful country has decided that its future lies with

00:10:45.880 controlling what people say and think. I just think that's wrong. Go to irishfreespeech.com.

00:11:00.440 I'm Corey Morgan from Rebel News. Please go ahead.

00:11:04.540 Premier Smith, opposition leader in the head in NCI recently said merit is code for not hiring

00:11:10.680 ethnic people or women how do you respond to the people who are sure to be implying the new policies

00:11:17.320 are intolerant or even bigoted well we have had merit-based hiring in the alberta public service

00:11:23.080 ever since dale mcfee came on board but keep in mind that only applies to the uh those who are

00:11:30.760 employed by the government of alberta directly and i would just invite you to look at the the

00:11:36.120 diversity that we have not only with women being hired but also those of diverse backgrounds just

00:11:43.080 since we've had this policy in place it's a it's a priority for us to make sure that the public

00:11:48.200 service is reflective of the people that they serve but every single person who's been hired

00:11:52.520 can feel confident that they were the best person for the job and that's what we want so this is now

00:11:56.280 extending that policy that we've had in place for some time to all of the institutions that we

00:12:01.080 we govern. And as Minister Amory said, if somebody feels that they've been discriminated

00:12:06.820 against, then there is still the avenue of the Human Rights Commission to pursue it.

00:12:12.100 Okay. With the government, just to go further, will the government release demographic data

00:12:16.760 on the current public service hires or promotions so Albertans can evaluate whether the outcomes

00:12:21.480 change under these new rules? I don't think that we track people based on race within our system.

00:12:28.520 I could check with Dale McPhee if that's the case, but it would be an odd thing, I think, for us to track our employees on that basis.

00:12:37.520 And so I think what we would like to do is be able to have an avenue.

00:12:41.200 If somebody does feel that they have been treated unfairly, then they still can go to the Human Rights Commission.

00:12:47.320 But we want to make sure that in applications or calls for resumes, that there aren't any of these characteristics that create discrimination.

00:12:55.400 And we want to make sure that when training occurs, that it's relevant to the position that they're going to be holding.

00:13:02.600 And that's why mandatory DEI training will also be removed.

00:13:06.720 And we'll be making sure that the training that is mandatory is relevant to the position.

00:13:19.460 Paris is burning.

00:13:21.380 And the latest sad news is the burning of a church.

00:13:25.160 But is this a surprise?

00:13:26.900 And is it rude to say, I told you so? 0.98

00:13:37.160 It's not a surprise to me, because all of Europe has been smoldering under the weight of Islamist ideologies for longer than we wish to accept. 1.00

00:13:47.360 As you know, Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon. 1.00

00:13:50.640 And that wasn't the deal. That wasn't the deal. 1.00

00:13:53.080 I told Emmanuel you should close up your borders, and let's see, I've known him for probably eight or nine years.

00:14:00.240 I told him as soon as I met him, I said you're making a big mistake.

00:14:04.340 We closed our borders. He did.

00:14:06.320 While government officials are hesitant to say that the Islamists have anything to do with the current crisis in France, 0.66

00:14:13.340 the writing is on the wall.

00:14:15.380 Macron admits that the extreme left is responsible. 0.81

00:14:18.860 But here is the dangerous red-green alliance. 0.94

00:14:38.920 The unholy partnership between the ultra-left and the Islamists is at play. 0.92

00:14:44.360 and those of us who have studied and warned about the smoldering flames engulfing Europe 0.94

00:14:51.160 since the past decade know that the problem existed long before the fire was lit.

00:14:57.880 How do I know about this? I personally witnessed the Islamization of Europe when I traveled with 1.00

00:15:04.900 a delegation hosted by Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum on a fact-finding mission to Europe 0.95

00:15:11.780 in 2016. Imagine it has taken 10 years for Western governments to do absolutely nothing,

00:15:21.800 even though we sounded the alarm right after the trip. Our delegation spent two days each in Paris,

00:15:30.160 Berlin, and Stockholm. In each city, we had a local guide, met government officials,

00:15:36.020 organizations, and civil society. Let's take a look at France. There are roughly 1.4 million

00:15:44.260 Muslims in France, with about 25% identifying themselves as French Muslims. 40% of French

00:15:52.560 Muslims support Sharia law. They bemoan the fact that media paints them in the negative light,

00:15:59.340 But when pressed about radicalization in youth, they confessed that they have huge problems, both in society and especially in prisons.

00:16:11.320 Imams are being sent from Turkey, Morocco, and Algeria, and the sermons are in their own language.

00:16:19.480 As we traveled across Paris, some parts were like being in the Middle East, with hardly a white person in sight.

00:16:27.380 Behind one of the oldest churches in France is the office of the Muslim Brotherhood, running under the innocuous name of Association of Cultural Muslims.

00:16:40.060 The fallacy that these areas are ghetto was removed as we saw good housing, roads, and infrastructure, telling us that the problem is not only socioeconomic, but essentially a clash of ideologies and culture.

00:16:57.020 These areas are called the lost territories of France, with high levels of crime and drugs,

00:17:04.300 where police are hesitant to intervene. This is known commonly as 93 area, and all major

00:17:13.240 Muslim organizations in France have their headquarters in the 93 area, including

00:17:19.100 Muslim Brotherhood and the Tablighi Jamaat. There was an intellectual debate going on in France at

00:17:25.300 that time about Islam and Muslims. Author and scholar Oliver Roy said, and I quote,

00:17:32.160 it's not Islam that's being radicalized. It's radicalization that's being Islamized.

00:17:39.200 Other intellectuals and politicians warned of an impending civil war unless these things 0.99

00:17:46.340 changed drastically. And you know what? His borders are a problem. The French identified

00:17:51.960 the problems as one, France has no Muslim past. Two, efforts towards integration are failing.

00:17:59.700 Three, cultures are widely different and there is a clash. Four, in schools, parents impose their

00:18:07.320 culture upon the majority. Five, gender disparity, for example, women who won't see male doctors.

00:18:14.680 and six Muslims don't accept French history as well they are anti-semitic and they have attacked 0.61

00:18:22.580 women and butchers selling pork. Now the messages from some of the mosques and Islamist organizations

00:18:29.220 are based on hate and many French Muslims want Sharia law imposed. Secondly we went to Sweden

00:18:36.140 and Sweden was the biggest shock. In Sweden political Islam came on the scene some 30 years 1.00

00:18:42.100 ago. We met with government officials, academics working on the issue of migrants and radicalization

00:18:48.860 and an ex-Muslim Brotherhood operative. From their conversations, we were told, and I quote,

00:18:55.660 Islamists work transnationally and Europe is their arena, end of quote. The Swedes generally say that

00:19:03.020 they don't have a culture and they have too much of a good thing, so they must share. And share they

00:19:09.480 do. Sweden has taken per capita the largest number of immigrants, and the consequences are 1.00

00:19:16.200 over 50 billion in costs, plus 55 no-go zones. According to one report, in 2015, Sweden took

00:19:28.100 162,000 asylum seekers, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, which is MENA region,

00:19:36.520 which included 35,369 unaccompanied minors. The largest numbers were from Syria and Afghanistan.

00:19:46.940 At that time, anyone coming from Syria would get immediate refugee status and benefits.

00:19:54.080 The government did not help the situation by placing, for example, 500 immigrants in a small

00:20:00.740 town of 150 Swedes. This was happening across Sweden, where heritage buildings, hotels and

00:20:08.520 old people's homes were being turned into migrant centres with no move to educate and inform the

00:20:15.640 host community or the migrants. In Germany, the conversation in Berlin was about the future of

00:20:22.300 Europe against a backdrop of Islam, and there were many studies being done on the issue,

00:20:28.080 including anti-Semitism. Once upon a time, Berlin was a major city for Jews, but the numbers are

00:20:35.260 now dwindling due to the pull to go to Israel, as well as a fear for the future. A problem specific

00:20:42.240 to Berlin was the animosity and tension between Turks and Arabs, the Turks considered to be a more

00:20:49.220 moderate community. There was also a problem with clans or tribes, where a family of 100 would live

00:20:57.060 as a tribe close together and gang up against law enforcement if they came to investigate a crime.

00:21:04.380 This is how partial no-go zones are created, as law enforcement is hesitant to enter these areas.

00:21:12.120 The problems of extremism are not restricted to Europe. UK has also succumbed to the lure of

00:21:20.160 Islamists. In 2018, I was invited to the United Kingdom to give testimony in the House of Lords 0.99

00:21:28.200 about the Sharia debate in Ontario. At the same time, there was a rising number of Sharia councils

00:21:35.380 operating in UK that were performing fake marriages and depriving many Muslim women of 0.69

00:21:41.580 their rights. This is when I discovered the scandal of the grooming gangs. These so-called

00:21:47.900 grooming gangs, sexually exploited hundreds of vulnerable young women and girls across

00:21:54.020 the UK for many years before their activities came to the public attention in the early

00:22:00.120 2010s. In essence, because the perpetrators were largely groups of British Pakistani men,

00:22:08.420 the media, law enforcement, and officials failed in their duty to address or publicize the scandal

00:22:15.380 for fear of being accused of racism. This is a truly tragic result of identity politics on a

00:22:24.020 massive scale. I worked with Baroness Carolyn Cox of the House of Lords and attended rallies to

00:22:31.200 expose the abuse, spoke to the victims of the grooming gangs, and thought that something would

00:22:37.260 be done about it. But political correctness, fear of being called racist, and woke culture

00:22:43.900 sidelined the issues. It's not that they have not been warned. United Arab Emirates Foreign

00:22:51.540 Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nihan, speaking at a conference, warned that Europe

00:22:58.720 would face growing numbers of radical extremists and terrorists due to political correctness

00:23:04.460 and a lack of decisive action. There will come a day that we will see far more radical extremists

00:23:13.440 and terrorists coming out of Europe because of the lack of decision-making, trying to be politically

00:23:23.140 correct, or assuming that they know the Middle East and they know Islam and they know the others

00:23:31.300 far better than we do. And I'm sorry, but that's pure ignorance.

00:23:37.020 UK's solution to the problems it faces is to ban good journalists like our own Ezra Levan.

00:23:46.060 Luckily, that ban has now been lifted.

00:23:48.780 And you'll see it again on Saturday at a march designed to confront and intimidate 0.98

00:23:54.220 this diverse city and this diverse country.

00:23:58.700 That is why this Labour government will block far-right agitators from travelling to Britain

00:24:03.300 for that event, because we will not allow people to come to the UK to threaten our communities

00:24:08.780 and spread hate on our streets. Also, the joke is on the UK. When they tried to deport the head

00:24:17.180 of the grooming gang, a Pakistani, Pakistan refused to take him in. Well done, UK. How long 1.00

00:24:24.900 does it take for an ideology to travel across the Atlantic? Back home in Canada, I wrote a piece for

00:24:32.480 the McDonnell-Laurier Institute, asking the key question, could these gangs operate in Canada?

00:24:39.620 So Canada, brace yourself. This is not fear-mongering, it's reality, and a reality check is needed

00:24:47.160 urgently. It might be too late, but we must continue to speak out and expose the problems

00:24:53.760 that are compromising our Canadian values of liberty, equality, freedom, and democracy.

00:25:00.880 Ironically, while the shit has hit the fan in Europe and UK, 0.99

00:25:04.940 in Muslim countries, the same organizations who fuel the problems of radicalization 0.74

00:25:10.700 and extremism like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood are banned.

00:25:16.020 It's time to think and strategize how we can save Canada.

00:25:21.540 This is Raheel Raza for Rebel News.

00:25:23.900 Don't forget to click and like www.rebelnews.com.

00:25:30.300 With the midterms being just days away,

00:25:40.920 we went to the streets of Ottawa to ask Canadians

00:25:43.480 what do they think about America.

00:25:45.720 I don't have enough non-swear words.

00:25:48.860 These are complete trolls.

00:25:52.200 Fascists, they're out of control and they need to be put down.

00:25:55.120 They're pretty much at the end of their run

00:25:59.780 with democracy now and their their government is failing the united states of america has been our

00:26:06.260 longest standing friend that canada has ever had they're our closest neighbor they're our greatest

00:26:12.100 ally and we love them and they love us and there's no question about that we're not getting the

00:26:20.020 proper political representation this uh sitting prime minister is not the voice of the people of

00:26:27.700 Last Wednesday, the American Embassy published a document

00:26:32.800 with their evidence that Canada has been interfering

00:26:35.800 in the midterm elections.

00:26:37.540 Melanie Jolie, on record, saying Canada is putting pressure

00:26:41.340 on American businesses in key Republican states.

00:26:44.560 MELANIE JOLI, President, We're making sure to put pressure

00:26:47.360 on American businesses in key Republican states

00:26:51.400 to put pressure on the Trump administration.

00:26:54.100 Because meanwhile, we know that the American public

00:26:56.900 that don't want any tariffs understand that President Trump is actually imposing

00:27:02.140 effects on them. Doug Ford's 75 million ad campaign, the one that got Trump to

00:27:07.820 cut off trade talks last year, which Ford promised to take to every Republican

00:27:12.740 district there is. Canada's Consul General appearing at a trade event with

00:27:17.480 Democrats only, three weeks before the vote. And federal billboards in a dozen

00:27:23.240 mostly Republican states. The embassy signed off with a warning. Americans decide America's

00:27:29.900 elections. Ottawa denies it, but this week it told its diplomats in the U.S. to stay away from

00:27:37.220 midterm candidates. It's the latest chapter in a trade war that started early last year.

00:27:42.940 Some say this tension is real, with tariffs costing jobs on both sides of the border.

00:27:48.480 Others say it's being manufactured because a fight with the neighbors wins votes in Ottawa and in Washington.

00:27:55.220 So with the midterms being just days away, we went to the streets of Ottawa to ask Canadians what do they think about America?

00:28:03.040 And do they think that Canada should be interfering with American elections?

00:28:07.480 Let's see what they have to say.

00:28:09.220 So this is right across the American embassy.

00:28:11.280 Actually, we're right on the main street of downtown and it says anti-Trump rally peacefully.

00:28:15.460 And also a photo saying it takes a village to protect a pedophile, actually, with the American ambassador's picture right here on the side.

00:28:22.780 It feels like Canada really does have an anti-American sentiment here, an anti-Trump sentiment.

00:28:27.540 And it's straight across the American embassy as well.

00:28:31.140 Asking Canadians what they think about America, would you like to give your opinion by any chance?

00:28:35.160 I don't have enough non-swear words.

00:28:38.160 America, their administration.

00:28:40.420 I mean, I think everyone knows.

00:28:41.840 They're complete souls.

00:28:42.920 um fascists they're out of control and they need to be put down i think america is a very

00:28:49.000 interesting place i think there's a lot more to america than donald trump and i think unfortunately

00:28:53.880 now a lot of people just associate america with donald trump um but i do think it's pretty

00:28:59.640 disheartening that as a nation i mean i know that a lot of people did not vote in that election that

00:29:04.520 that is who represents that nation i think they're making a lot of mistakes and i i grew up in a

00:29:10.200 border town so here's what we used to say i like americans but i don't always like america they're

00:29:15.720 at the pretty much at the end of uh their run with democracy now and their their government

00:29:24.040 is failing and i unfortunately anticipate some form of violence before the end of the year i

00:29:30.840 don't think america is a country that is treating its citizens particularly well and i think that

00:29:35.480 extends to their relationship with other countries the united states of america has been our longest

00:29:39.640 outstanding friend that canada has ever had they're our closest neighbor they're our greatest

00:29:44.840 ally and we love them and they love us and there's no question about that we're not getting the

00:29:52.920 proper political representation this uh sitting prime minister is not the voice of the people of

00:30:00.640 canada as a matter of fact it's quite disgraceful to consider that the voices of everyday canadians

00:30:07.580 are certainly not being heard and not represented i don't think president trump's doing too well

00:30:12.780 and i i think uh the the trade deal with canada uh is affecting him the reason i say that i know

00:30:19.660 a lot of americans talk to a lot of governors senators and and congress people from both sides

00:30:25.020 of the aisle and they i'll tell you one thing americans love canadians they can't figure out

00:30:30.140 why uh we're under attack by the the president and i know canadians love americans so i differentiate

00:30:37.180 between president trump and the great american people but it's going to be interesting so

00:30:41.420 i can't wait to for the midterms and we'll we'll see what happens america just released

00:30:45.660 a statement or a whole document of how did you see it of how canada interfered in the elections

00:30:52.460 coming up their claims like examples like anthony house for the member of parliament

00:30:57.020 went to um campaign for a democrat different things like that like melanie jolie saying that

00:31:02.060 that she will target certain Republican states.

00:31:05.660 And that's why I want to hear Canadians' opinions on that.

00:31:09.940 Yeah, so I mean, I guess I would say that,

00:31:13.300 I guess I don't think there's anything wrong in particular

00:31:15.640 with what you have said about how Canadians might be trying

00:31:18.400 to influence American politics or the elections.

00:31:20.780 I feel like when it comes down to it, ultimately,

00:31:23.400 it's individuals who are going to make the decision

00:31:25.160 about whether they're even going to vote or who they're going to vote for.

00:31:28.100 So I feel like if you're influencing it in a way where it's not corrupt,

00:31:32.060 then I personally don't see any issue with it.

00:31:35.280 I think Canada should stop pretending that they're not aligning with and contributing to all of the shitty things that America's doing and start acting for the people.

00:31:49.500 There are different types of influence. And what we're attempting to do through the trade sanctions and tariffs ourselves is perfectly legitimate. Any backdoor action like seems to be happening from their side, particularly in Alberta, and we'll see it in British Columbia, that is particularly offensive and needs to stop.

00:32:16.620 i think both countries are sovereign countries and they should be able to vote and make their

00:32:23.500 political decisions separately i think the american people should vote for who they think is

00:32:30.540 fit to lead them i don't think they should be influencing our elections and i don't think we

00:32:35.500 should be influencing theirs i don't think that that would be a wise thing to do because they're

00:32:39.020 still two different countries and i think that their point of view might be different

00:32:42.860 So I don't think it would be ideal for them to do that.

00:32:46.860 I don't think any nation should influence

00:32:48.860 another nation's election.

00:32:50.860 Elections are for the people.

00:32:52.860 And the people get the government that they deserve.

00:32:54.860 So I don't think there should be any foreign interference.

00:32:56.860 In terms of influence,

00:32:58.860 and there's all kinds of influence peddling going on.

00:33:02.860 And it comes from both sides of the equation.

00:33:04.860 So, you know, George Soros pumps a lot of money

00:33:08.860 money into this whole propaganda war machine that we all have to endure and live through.

00:33:16.600 So Carney's going out and he's pretending that he's not involved in weapons transfers through

00:33:26.180 the US to Israel. He's pretending that he's not selling off our assets. He's protecting the

00:33:32.840 environment. It's all garbage. And I, you know, I don't really care what he does with the U.S.

00:33:39.100 other than get out of it and start actually representing the people who foolishly elected

00:33:45.360 him. And I'm not counting myself in that. Canada has been making 90 billion dollars a year off us

00:33:51.620 for years and years. They've taken advantage of our country, but we're getting close to a deal

00:33:56.100 and a deal could happen that's going to be very good for everybody, but especially for the United

00:34:00.780 It says, look, for years, they've taken advantage of this country.

00:34:04.500 And I love Canada. I love everything about it, other than some of the leaders I'm not thrilled with, because they have taken advantage of us.

00:34:12.420 Do you think that Americans should be able to influence Canadian elections in any way?

00:34:17.860 Just the same as their legitimate means and procedures.

00:34:24.680 and then there are backdoor nefarious procedures that should not ever be permitted.

00:34:32.380 If we're exposing the liars and the corruptions with facts, with the evidence,

00:34:39.220 and we're saying, hey, look, there's some bad people that are in positions of trust

00:34:44.740 that are clearly guilty of crimes, yes, then I think at that point we should.

00:34:50.400 I don't think so. I think our sovereignty is in our democratic ability to vote.

00:34:55.080 I think every country should just stick to their own politics.

00:34:58.540 As we saw in the last Canadian election, you know, the behavior of American politicians does influence our country in our elections.

00:35:06.220 But in terms of direct influence, I don't think that that's reasonable. I would agree with him.

00:35:11.540 So the verdict from Ottawa?

00:35:13.060 Some people we spoke to said that because of the Trump administration, some things could be justified in these upcoming elections.

00:35:19.800 Others said that it is not okay for Canada to be interfering in America's elections.

00:35:24.460 Let us know what you think in the comments.

00:35:26.580 I'm Anastasia Zorchinski reporting for Rebel News from Ottawa.

00:35:31.400 Stories like this don't make the evening news, and they don't happen by accident.

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Rebel News Podcast - October 28, 2026

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