Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Has mass immigration damaged Canada beyond repair？

00:00:00.000 Hello my friends, I've got some video, some disturbing video from around the world, from

00:00:04.340 Melbourne, from Montreal, and a crazy video even from Toronto, where a guy sort of forces his way

00:00:10.040 into a women's bathroom in a club. You can see what the women say, but what does the man say?

00:00:14.760 Just some crazy stuff. I talk about immigration and mass immigration. I want you to see it though,

00:00:20.900 not just hear it. So I'd like you to get a video version of this podcast. Go to rebelnewsplus.com,

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00:00:31.940 satisfaction of keeping Rebel News strong, because we do not take government money, and it shows.

00:00:44.000 Tonight, some thoughts on Canada's future, and if it's too late to fight back.

00:00:57.160 It's July 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:59.780 You're ready for freedom! 0.71

00:01:02.800 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.96

00:01:14.460 I think I'm an optimist. I think I have to be. If you're a pessimist, what would be the point of 0.97

00:01:19.680 fighting back? You would just retreat from every fight, or hide, or even surrender. One of the

00:01:24.580 reasons I didn't leave Canada during the pandemic lockdowns was because I felt a solidarity with

00:01:29.900 everyone else going through the same battles. Leaving Canada felt like the opposite of the

00:01:34.860 phrase, the captain goes down with the ship. I know a lot of people who did move to Florida,

00:01:39.840 for example, and elsewhere during the lockdowns. It was the crisis that jolted them out of their

00:01:44.300 inertia. I recently went to a barbecue, and most of the people there were Canadians who have simply 1.00

00:01:49.760 moved away. They come back to Canada for business reasons or family reasons, but they are building

00:01:55.020 their lives, and more importantly, their families' futures in more promising lands. It's a very sad

00:02:01.060 thing to say, but imagine how sad they must be to sever their roots here and replant those roots

00:02:08.000 elsewhere. Those are pessimists, is my point. I was thinking the other day that the most important

00:02:13.640 decision that my family ever made was 122 years ago, to leave Russia and come to Canada probably

00:02:22.920 saved the entire family from whether it was the Russian Revolution or the Nazis. That was an epochal 0.99

00:02:30.120 decision. Maybe the decision by these folks to leave Canada now will be regarded in the sweeping of time

00:02:37.860 as just as important. I don't know, but I'm here. I also didn't leave because I felt a

00:02:43.620 special duty to fight back. Most of the people I just referred to are business people or professionals.

00:02:48.420 Their work is, by definition, apolitical. They're just about earning a living and providing for their

00:02:52.840 family, and that's fair enough. That's very noble. Those are my duties, too. But if you were to call

00:02:57.060 me a businessman, which I suppose is part of what I do, my business is precisely that of independent

00:03:02.420 journalism and public interest campaigns, including our largest campaign ever to fight against abuse of

00:03:08.520 government lockdowns and penalties during the COVID moral panic. As you know, we crowdfunded the

00:03:14.100 Democracy Fund, a registered CRA charity, and it helped 3,000 people charge with insane COVID and

00:03:20.420 lockdown offenses, including some famous cases like Tamara Leach and Arthur Pavlovsky and a half a dozen

00:03:25.420 churches. We're still fighting for the Amish community. My point is, it's tough to do that if you're not on the

00:03:32.640 front lines. That's the Rebel News way. We do lots of commentary from our studios. That's what I'm

00:03:37.420 doing right now. But our signature work, and the stuff I personally love to do, is something that

00:03:42.440 makes us different from many others, is that we go out into the streets, sometimes at our peril.

00:03:48.600 Antifa thugs are one risk, for sure. Basically, the street gangs of the far left, but increasingly,

00:03:53.620 it's the police who would rather we not film certain things, including them. Here, watch what our Alexa

00:03:59.400 Lavois had to put up with the other day, simply recording a mass pro-Hamas protest outside the

00:04:05.440 major cathedral in Montreal. Their pro-Hamas activists and their crowning move every time 0.99

00:04:10.900 is to have a massive prayer on the street outside the cathedral, blocking streets and sidewalks.

00:04:17.840 There are a hundred or so mosques in Montreal. This isn't about praying. This is about asserting

00:04:23.180 dominance in the public square and showing who's the boss, and the police are happy to help. Take a look.

00:04:28.280 occasional事情 at first.

00:04:34.320 I don't know what I mean.

00:04:35.780 I'm trying to scare you!

00:04:36.680 I'm trying to.

00:04:38.060 I'm trying to say something.

00:04:39.460 I just don't make money on your job.

00:04:41.520 I written it to her in northern place whenаю politique.

00:04:43.480 When do we give it's your life?

00:04:44.940 What and why about the situation when you're working with a journalist?

00:04:48.160 I'm needing this to be a joy.

00:04:50.260 I'm needing this to be successful!

00:04:51.740 If I can't remember him, I could dare him.

00:04:54.020 I've come up with time.

00:04:55.160 It's your decision to come back.

00:04:57.160 Sérieusement, on se voit en cours?

00:04:59.160 Je veux avoir ton badge number.

00:05:01.160 Il y a un arrêt pour ça, madame.

00:05:03.160 7737.

00:05:05.160 519.

00:05:07.160 Votre nom, c'est...

00:05:09.160 Secto.

00:05:11.160 Non, parce qu'on va se voir en cours, monsieur.

00:05:13.160 Vous savez que je suis en cours contre vous?

00:05:15.160 Ils vont avoir refusé de nous protéger.

00:05:17.160 Ils vont avoir refusé de nous protéger.

00:05:19.160 Vous avez juste...

00:05:21.160 En ce moment, j'ai le droit d'être ici.

00:05:23.160 C'est un lieu public.

00:05:25.160 Je suis ici.

00:05:27.160 Je m'en fiche, monsieur.

00:05:29.160 Vous ne protégez pas les journalistes.

00:05:31.160 Oui, on protège là.

00:05:33.160 Non, vous l'avez pas vu.

00:05:35.160 Mais oui, vous m'avez empêché de faire mon travail de journaliste.

00:05:37.160 Non, non, tu fais très bien ton travail tout là.

00:05:39.160 T'as pas besoin...

00:05:41.160 Parce que vous, vous pensez que les prières de rue

00:05:43.160 ne sont pas d'actualité, monsieur.

00:05:45.160 En passant, là, en ce moment, il y a un projet de loi

00:05:47.160 pour bannir ces prières de rue-là, monsieur.

00:05:49.160 On n'est pas sur la même longueur, donc.

00:05:51.160 OK, vous êtes du côté des musulmans, des islamistes?

00:05:55.160 Oui, oui, oui.

00:05:57.160 Parfait, on le sait maintenant.

00:05:59.160 Monsieur, j'ai le droit d'être ici.

00:06:01.160 Ça, c'est un petit peu comme ça.

00:06:03.160 Pouvez-vous, je suis un peu deANCTION.

00:06:05.160 C'est un peu d'accompagnement, de l'environnement,

00:06:07.160 d'ouvrez, d'Ottawa, d'Ottawa.

00:06:09.160 C'est une âme chale.

00:06:11.160 C'est une âme chale, c'est une âme chale.

00:06:13.160 C'est une âme chale.

00:06:15.160 C'est une âme chale.

00:06:17.160 C'est une âme chale.

00:06:19.160 C'est une âme chale.

00:06:21.160 C'est une âme chale.

00:06:23.160 C'est un âme chale.

00:06:25.160 Now, I'm told that was an Islamic holiday in a park near that cathedral,

00:06:51.820 not necessarily an anti-Christian campaign, but then tell me, why were they surrounding

00:06:56.960 the church like that?

00:06:58.580 Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot.

00:07:00.960 Now, that's in Melbourne, a city where in the past week, a Jewish synagogue was set on

00:07:05.280 fire with 20 Jews inside of it, a synagogue, not an Israeli government or military target.

00:07:10.460 It's just about getting the Jews. 1.00

00:07:13.140 By the way, those Hamas terrorists and the Tagalong Gaza civilians who entered Israel 0.99

00:07:18.360 alongside the official terrorists on October 7th, 2023, when they raped and murdered Jews

00:07:24.580 and live streamed themselves doing it and made videos and phone calls home, they didn't

00:07:29.580 talk about a new Palestinian country or a two-state solution or any particular political

00:07:34.880 issue.

00:07:35.340 They didn't even say the word Israel, really. 1.00

00:07:37.140 They just talked about killing and raping Jews. 0.99

00:07:39.800 Don't try to intellectualize what they did or whitewash it. 1.00

00:07:42.760 They just loved murdering and raping Jews. 1.00

00:07:46.380 That's what they said. 1.00

00:07:48.200 But we don't need to look so far away.

00:07:50.400 Here's a celebration in Windsor, Ontario at a Canadian mosque.

00:07:54.840 Here's how it's described online.

00:07:56.600 Hezbollah loyalists gather at the Alul Beit Mosque in Windsor, Ontario to commemorate the

00:08:02.380 martyrdom of Imam Hussain by paying tribute to fallen Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah,

00:08:09.260 the leader of a designated terrorist entity in Canada.

00:08:14.660 Watch the video.

00:08:15.520 It's in a foreign language, of course.

00:08:16.720 Here's the thing about the mass deportations in the U.S. that I mentioned yesterday.

00:08:40.720 The vast majority of migrants to the U.S. are illegal because Joe Biden just made it

00:08:46.480 that easy.

00:08:47.020 They just walked across the border in a slow motion invasion.

00:08:51.660 Many were Mexican or from other places in Latin America, true.

00:08:54.880 But of course, many other foreigners realized that that was the way in.

00:08:59.120 People from China, people from Iran, people from Arabia.

00:09:02.180 Remember this guy?

00:09:02.940 Please, by the way, if you are smart enough, you will know who I am.

00:09:06.780 But you are really not smart enough to know who I am.

00:09:09.660 But soon you're going to know who I am.

00:09:11.760 Very easy.

00:09:12.080 Wow.

00:09:12.780 Very easy.

00:09:14.060 The entitlement.

00:09:15.280 The entitlement.

00:09:16.300 No, believe me.

00:09:17.360 I'm much better than that.

00:09:18.920 The entitlement, guys.

00:09:20.620 Wow.

00:09:21.980 Yeah, that ain't a Spanish accent, if you were wondering.

00:09:24.700 So the thing about the mass deportations in America is that they're scooping out illegals.

00:09:30.180 It's really just a matter of logistics.

00:09:31.880 The law is simple enough.

00:09:33.920 Look at this.

00:09:34.980 The federal government is not leaving L.A.

00:09:37.220 I don't work for Karen Bass.

00:09:38.620 The federal government doesn't work for Karen Bass. 1.00

00:09:41.400 We're going to be here until that mission's accomplished, as I said.

00:09:44.220 And better get used to us now, because this is going to be normal very soon.

00:09:49.860 That's pretty awesome.

00:09:50.700 That's part of a deportation army larger than most countries' armies.

00:09:55.600 But what do you do in Canada when most of the pro-terrorist activists are either Canadian

00:10:00.560 citizens who, you know, white is the phrase I'm using, woke, white Canadians on the left,

00:10:07.700 or citizens who immigrated here and were naturalized.

00:10:11.820 Came here through a legal process.

00:10:14.020 Maybe came five or ten years ago under Trudeau or under Stephen Harper.

00:10:17.780 We have the least restrictive immigration process in the world.

00:10:22.180 So, you really don't need to sneak in.

00:10:25.400 Trudeau and now Mark Carney will let anyone in.

00:10:28.020 Here's a story from Black Locks.

00:10:30.100 Admit they never checked.

00:10:31.000 That's the headline.

00:10:31.640 The story says, the Department of Immigration, in a briefing note, admits it never sought, quote,

00:10:36.500 comprehensive security screening of suspected Egyptian terrorists arrested a year ago for

00:10:41.100 plotting an attack on Toronto.

00:10:42.380 Then Immigration Minister Mark Miller, at the time, defended his department's handling of the case,

00:10:47.520 quote, security screening note.

00:10:50.100 The application was not referred to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

00:10:53.260 or Canadian Border Services Agency for comprehensive security screenings,

00:10:57.660 said the October 28 briefing note.

00:11:00.580 Alleged terrorist immigration to Canada, quote,

00:11:03.600 work permits linked to asylum claims are not typically assessed for admissibility.

00:11:09.380 Do you get that?

00:11:10.040 So, they don't even Google these folks.

00:11:12.940 Let me read just one more line.

00:11:14.440 Egyptian national Ahmed El Didi, 63, and his adult son Mustafa of Scarborough

00:11:20.700 were arrested last July 28th by the RCMP on suspicion of plotting a serious violent attack

00:11:26.460 at an undisclosed Toronto location.

00:11:28.840 According to police, the pair remain in custody pending a 2026 trial on charges of terrorism,

00:11:34.640 conspiracy to murder, possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose, and aggravated assault.

00:11:39.080 I think we're at 5,000 people a day in Canada when you include temporary foreign workers

00:11:44.460 and students and asylum seekers.

00:11:46.480 They're not even Googling them.

00:11:48.740 They're not even asking them.

00:11:50.160 There's no in-person meetings anymore to come into Canada.

00:11:53.280 You just click some words on a website.

00:11:55.800 What happens when you bring in 2 million people a year,

00:11:58.700 overwhelmingly, from countries that are low-trust societies, 1.00

00:12:01.920 and they're on the legal track?

00:12:04.840 Where our codes of honor and conduct just don't...

00:12:08.460 They're just not held by these folks.

00:12:11.620 Well, take a look at the ladies' room at a Toronto bar called Cabana the other day.

00:12:15.800 Just take a look at this.

00:12:17.460 Then get out! 0.99

00:12:18.600 You are a man in the middle of a five-year-old better size!

00:12:22.760 Why are you talking for 11 silver? 1.00

00:12:24.420 Get the fuck out! 1.00

00:12:25.280 Who are you? 1.00

00:12:25.840 If I'm worthless, get out! 0.99

00:12:27.160 You are a man! 1.00

00:12:28.300 You're fucked out of the bathroom! 1.00

00:12:30.740 Then go! 1.00

00:12:31.780 You are a man! 1.00

00:12:32.760 Get the fuck out of the bathroom! 1.00

00:12:34.460 Then go! 1.00

00:12:35.260 I don't have to fucking leave! 1.00

00:12:36.600 Get the fuck out of the bathroom! 1.00

00:12:38.920 We don't have to fuck out of the fucking bathroom! 1.00

00:12:41.660 Get the fuck out! 1.00

00:12:42.460 Get the fuck out! 1.00

00:12:44.540 Yeah, that guy, he's not pretending to be transgender. 1.00

00:12:58.980 He's not pretending at all. 0.73

00:13:00.660 He's just forcing his way into the women's bathroom. 0.75

00:13:03.200 And what are you going to do about it?

00:13:04.200 Call the police?

00:13:05.340 They'll arrest you for transphobia or maybe for racism.

00:13:08.480 A low-trust man from a low-trust society comes to Canada

00:13:13.320 and walks right into the women's bathroom. 1.00

00:13:15.380 Do you think that's the first time he's done that?

00:13:18.000 Do you think that's the only time he's done that?

00:13:21.240 Do you think that's the limit of what he's done?

00:13:24.480 What do you think he would have done if there was just one woman in there 0.85

00:13:27.440 or one girl in there? 1.00

00:13:30.040 See, in most of the world, a woman on her own is in danger.

00:13:33.540 In most of the world.

00:13:35.240 It was that way in the West centuries ago, too.

00:13:37.340 But over time, we developed bonds and mutual promises,

00:13:40.760 a culture, a set of laws, manners, a way of life.

00:13:43.560 It took centuries to build a high-trust society

00:13:46.520 where women can actually walk outside alone. 1.00

00:13:49.340 They don't need to wear a burqa.

00:13:50.500 They don't need to be under the protection of a guardian.

00:13:52.840 And then people from places in the world that are still barbaric

00:13:56.900 are coming here and just tearing through us like a hot knife through butter.

00:14:01.060 I'm worried about it.

00:14:02.080 Because we have a government that knows this will win it for them.

00:14:06.640 It'll ruin the country, but they can preside over those runes.

00:14:10.160 Every day this goes on, gives them more votes and gives our side more chaos.

00:14:16.560 You know, Pierre Polyev did pretty well in the last election,

00:14:18.460 but that's just a Canadian way of saying he lost.

00:14:21.640 Even if he had won, he was still open to mass immigration, wasn't he? 0.64

00:14:25.600 I don't think he's come right out and said what his limits are, has he?

00:14:29.220 I say again, if Polyev had run on two things,

00:14:33.860 ending immigration and ending transgenderism, 0.90

00:14:36.780 he'd be prime minister right now.

00:14:39.140 But maybe it's too late for that now.

00:14:41.700 What do you think?

00:14:43.440 Stay with us for more.

00:14:44.540 I think Canada is falling behind in terms of coming to its senses on transgenderism.

00:15:04.360 All around the world, I think it was a mania, a moral panic,

00:15:08.260 a kind of gaslighting that men can be women and you have to call them trans women.

00:15:14.700 You can't just say, well, that's a bloke.

00:15:16.560 I can see it.

00:15:17.760 All around the world, that is falling by the wayside,

00:15:20.760 whether it's in the United Kingdom.

00:15:22.720 Their highest court ruled that there are only two sexes, men and women. 0.98

00:15:28.160 And in the United States, Donald Trump has brought in executive orders

00:15:32.200 banning biological men from sports.

00:15:34.940 And he's really taken it to those institutions that are defying him.

00:15:39.180 He's not just letting his edict be an empty promise.

00:15:44.160 But in Canada, things don't seem to be receding, at least not yet.

00:15:48.360 Now, we know that the public is against transgender extremism.

00:15:53.760 And Alberta's premier, Danielle Smith, has taken some steps to have a fairly balanced policy.

00:15:59.140 Of course, a judge overturned it, calling it unconstitutional.

00:16:03.520 But what will it take for Canada to get on the right track?

00:16:07.000 I think part of the answer is to know how out of step we are with our fellow democracies.

00:16:12.840 And I don't know anyone who follows this file more closely than our next guest.

00:16:17.460 She's been on it for years.

00:16:18.640 In fact, she, along with Barbara Kay, published a book through Reveldues called

00:16:23.380 Unsporting, How Trans Activism and Science Denial Are Destroying Sport, 1.00

00:16:28.580 Ahead of Her Time.

00:16:29.960 In fact, no other publisher in Canada would handle such a book.

00:16:34.080 We were delighted to.

00:16:35.360 Joining us now via Zoom from Hyderabad, India, is our friend Linda Blade.

00:16:40.860 Linda, great to see you again.

00:16:42.060 Thanks for coming on the show.

00:16:44.160 Really great to see you, Ezra.

00:16:45.860 I'm very happy to be here.

00:16:47.580 Well, things are very interesting.

00:16:49.320 University of Pennsylvania, which is such a fancy school.

00:16:53.300 It's not quite Harvard League, but it's up there.

00:16:55.760 It's very reputable.

00:16:56.560 It's got a huge endowment.

00:16:58.340 It's regarded as a source of pride in the community.

00:17:03.060 They were, I would say, ground zero for some of this madness.

00:17:06.420 That's where this man, called himself Leah Thomas, joined the women's swim team.

00:17:14.380 He had his twig and berries, but he claimed he was a woman.

00:17:18.760 He would insist on changing in the change rooms.

00:17:21.540 It was so obviously abusive.

00:17:23.100 But the entire administration was fine with it.

00:17:26.440 It was only when some brave female swimmers stood up to it did that start to tumble. 1.00

00:17:32.420 Tell us the story of University of Pennsylvania and how that story culminated just a week or two ago.

00:17:38.580 Well, it's quite a story, Ezra.

00:17:42.600 The 2022 NCAA championships in swimming, women's swimming, saw this man win NCAA women's titles and exclude people like Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlon and so many women from their awards or from their rightful awards.

00:18:04.600 And everybody knew the problem.

00:18:07.760 Everybody could see it.

00:18:09.340 And very few people back in 2022 dared to say anything.

00:18:13.040 But that seemed to be the final straw for some of these young girls.

00:18:16.980 They finally started to speak out.

00:18:19.620 And as you most of our viewers would know, Riley Gaines has gone on to being a highly recognized person across the United States, fighting very strongly for the female only sport.

00:18:31.660 And finally, finally, this past week, University of Pennsylvania signed the agreement with the Department of Education that, yes, they had violated Title IX.

00:18:43.640 Yes, they would apologize to their female athletes. 0.94

00:18:46.060 They would post it on their website that their sports here for will be female only in the women's category. 1.00

00:18:53.660 It's a great victory for women's sports.

00:18:57.120 It's incredible that, I mean, really, other than, let's say, Harvard, this is as prestigious a place as it gets.

00:19:03.780 And they were as adamant as possible.

00:19:05.660 They went to bat for this man, quote, Leah Thomas, so hard.

00:19:09.480 But so for that, I mean, I'm not going to say it's a groveling, abject flip-flop, but actually, I sort of think it is.

00:19:17.960 I mean, to apologize to the women, to strip the men of their fake awards and medals, and to basically, they basically apologized to women.

00:19:30.000 I mean, it was as total as surrender as possible.

00:19:34.220 Now, not a lot of Canadians know what the phrase Title IX means.

00:19:37.380 And I'm not even sure if I have a total command of it.

00:19:39.360 That's basically a legal promise in the United States that universities have to treat women's athletics on the same terms as men's athletics.

00:19:50.460 It was really designed to let women enter sports and to say to universities, you can't just support the men.

00:19:57.520 Now, that was in terms of having a woman's team in addition. 1.00

00:20:00.420 Like, maybe it wasn't as lucrative, but really, if you're letting men beat up girls, you're violating Title IX.

00:20:08.100 Do I get it?

00:20:08.780 Did I understand it correctly?

00:20:10.720 Yes.

00:20:11.280 Yes.

00:20:11.560 It was a rule passed in 1972.

00:20:13.880 And even I, as a Canadian athlete, back in the 80s, was able to take advantage and have a full athletic scholarship to get my university degree out of the University of Maryland.

00:20:25.780 It has helped so many women across the world and in the United States to obtain an education and to be able to compete at a higher level in collegiate athletics and then going on to higher, even higher performances.

00:20:38.260 So Title IX has really, really made an impact in the last 50 years.

00:20:46.680 And I even credit Title IX for the emergence of the soccer moms in the 80s and 90s, all the women who care so much about sports and putting their kids in sport. 0.53

00:20:56.700 It's led to women starting their own businesses. 1.00

00:21:00.700 It's had a huge economic impact.

00:21:02.700 And so for the woke to undermine Title IX in the way they have been doing in the last 10 years is disgusting.

00:21:11.260 It's undermining everything about this culture in our society in the West. 0.98

00:21:15.860 And it's really great.

00:21:17.460 I'm very happy to see this turn around.

00:21:20.760 Yeah, it really is incredible.

00:21:21.860 I mean, I think Title IX, I think it's fair to say when it was made law some 50 years ago or so, you could call it feminist. 0.98

00:21:29.640 I wouldn't say like radical feminist, but it was equality for both sexes. 1.00

00:21:35.160 And like you say, it really unlocked a whole field of life for women. 1.00

00:21:40.860 I mean, it made women's sports a career, a project, a hobby, a passion, an activity.

00:21:49.240 Like it opened up a whole, and then to use, and then for these elite universities, especially in these elite organizations, to then turn around on women and inject men into them. 1.00

00:22:02.540 It reminds me of how these elite universities who claim to be so progressive often screen out Asian candidates from admission because the Asian kids do really well, just statistically speaking, on entrance exams. 0.98

00:22:19.340 So you have universities like Harvard or Columbia, they claim to be progressive on issues of race, actually discriminating against Asian Americans because they were smart. 0.89

00:22:31.500 And you have these same progressive institutions actually discriminating against women. 0.99

00:22:36.420 I just find it, the similarity I'm pointing to, Linda, is that these people claim to be the guardians of civil rights and the champions of minorities or women.

00:22:46.800 And in fact, they were the undertakers who were destroying rights in both cases.

00:22:51.920 I'm delighted to see the pendulum swing back in the United States, though.

00:22:55.960 Give me a quick survey of the scene in the U.S.

00:22:58.980 Given that Trump signed that executive order so early in his term, and that he's following through with the different departments, like the Department of Education, are there any holdouts in the United States?

00:23:09.580 Are there any institutions or leagues or other things that are resisting a return to common sense?

00:23:18.020 There are holdouts.

00:23:19.800 Every Democratic state is holding out.

00:23:23.020 The Republican states protect kids in school, sports, and even in universities.

00:23:28.220 And yet the Democratic states, run by obviously Democrat governors, are resisting this and are allowing boys and men to compete in women and girls sports in open defiance of the Trump executive order.

00:23:44.440 And, by the way, in defiance of the law, which is Title IX.

00:23:47.680 And just this week, on Monday, California rejected a letter from the Department of Education that is reprimanding California for allowing boys to compete against the girls.

00:24:01.340 And it's been happening all spring.

00:24:02.780 We've been watching it.

00:24:04.240 And they just simply refused.

00:24:05.800 Even though Governor Gavin Newsom, on an interview, admitted that it was grossly unfair to have a girl competing against a boy.

00:24:15.980 And yet the state sort of bureaucracies continue to thumb their nose at the federal government in the United States just because.

00:24:26.020 Yeah.

00:24:26.660 You know, that's very interesting.

00:24:28.780 I didn't know there were so many holdouts.

00:24:30.960 I'm not surprised.

00:24:32.060 It's so ideological.

00:24:33.500 It really is a leading-edge issue for so many folks.

00:24:37.460 But I think that ordinary people, I think it's got to be like 70% to 30% or 80% to 20% people who just, I mean, especially, I mean, there's different ways to talk about it.

00:24:49.300 You can be sort of mean and angry.

00:24:51.180 Or you could say, guys, look, these are women and girls. 1.00

00:24:53.500 They need their own space.

00:24:54.500 Like, there's different ways to communicate this stuff.

00:24:56.620 And I think the Riley Gaines of the world have been very smart about how they've done it.

00:25:01.200 But, you know, that image of Trump being surrounded by women and girls signing the executive order, I remember even J.K. Rowling commenting on it.

00:25:11.160 Like, how did the Democrats fumble an issue that so many moms and daughters, I mean, it's not an, I mean, I just don't know how these Democrat politicians can dig their heels in when they're against the will of the people.

00:25:28.500 And when they're against women and girls, I just think that's a strange political hill to die on.

00:25:34.860 I don't know the stats in California.

00:25:37.800 Is that state in support of boys and men entering women's sports?

00:25:43.940 Or is it just the politicians?

00:25:45.680 Like, do you know if ordinary Californians are happy with transgenderism in sports?

00:25:51.720 Or are they like the other Americans? 1.00

00:25:52.900 They're like the other Americans at ground level, except that the leadership class is still very woke.

00:26:01.100 They still want to hang on to gender identity ideology.

00:26:05.500 They still want to promote it.

00:26:07.280 And yet they're closing down their gender clinics for children. 0.99

00:26:09.980 They're starting to understand that the public does not support.

00:26:13.420 The public is, you're right, 80% in favor of female-only sex-based guidelines and eligibility in sports. 0.68

00:26:21.880 And yet they keep going down this path.

00:26:25.440 I think California even is showing signs at the ground level of turning red, turning Republican,

00:26:32.320 because they're just getting tired of the Democrats not standing for anything reasonable.

00:26:38.100 They're just, they've gone out of their minds.

00:26:40.560 And people can't quite understand, like you say, why is this, how is this the hill to die on?

00:26:47.220 So illogical.

00:26:49.300 You know, there's a phrase that I first heard during the pandemic called mass formation psychosis.

00:26:55.160 It's almost, you know, if I were to translate that into plain English, I would say sort of a mass hypnotic spell over people,

00:27:03.800 where they just sort of fell into a mania or something.

00:27:08.100 Peer pressure, conformity.

00:27:11.760 Or in other words, the boy who said the king had king's new clothes.

00:27:16.880 You know, that old story, I think it was an Aesop's fable about the, you know, everyone said, look at the king in his lovely clothes.

00:27:25.220 And it was a boy who said, the emperor has no clothes.

00:27:28.400 I really think that for a while there, everyone was sort of gaslit into saying, yeah, that's a woman.

00:27:37.200 And I think people are just shaking their heads and saying, what was I doing there?

00:27:40.880 But how about up here in Canada?

00:27:43.320 Because like I say, the UK, they've had inquiries.

00:27:46.840 One's called the Cass Report, the high court case.

00:27:50.220 In the US, we've just done a bit of a survey from Trump's executive orders to the University of Pennsylvania.

00:27:55.980 But Canada seems to be digging in as much as ever on this.

00:28:02.440 Why is that?

00:28:03.620 And again, I'm with you.

00:28:05.600 I think ordinary Canadians are just like ordinary Californians, just like ordinary Pennsylvanians.

00:28:09.700 I think ordinary people think this is nuts, but maybe we haven't snapped out of the emperor has new clothes mind control yet.

00:28:17.960 I don't know what's going on.

00:28:20.720 Well, I think at the national level, the entities controlling sport and funding sport, they seem to have intimidated the sports organizations into adopting this idea that people can compete in whatever category they feel like or they want.

00:28:36.240 And that men can compete in women's sports and we should all just be quiet and be accepting.

00:28:41.040 But at the ground level, again, most people disagree with that.

00:28:45.040 And thank goodness in Alberta, at the provincial level, at least Alberta has Bill 29 that passed in December of 2024, this past Christmas, that Daniel Smith is just working hard to protect the female category.

00:29:01.340 And anybody accepting funding from the Alberta government, whether that's a school or sports organization, has to ensure that in every sport, there must be at least one category that is female only.

00:29:14.760 There can be other categories, but there has to be a category that's female only. 1.00

00:29:18.900 Right.

00:29:19.380 And, you know, it's my observation that trans athletes are not looking to participate in the trans category.

00:29:26.620 They're not interested in going into an all genders bathroom. 1.00

00:29:30.920 Their whole point, and I don't know if it's a psychological thing or a political thing or a sexual thing, they want to play on the women's team. 1.00

00:29:38.280 They want to go in the women's change room. 1.00

00:29:40.000 They're not interested in a trans league.

00:29:42.780 At least I've never met a trans person who is. 1.00

00:29:45.040 I think, but I think Danielle Smith is right on that, even though the courts are trying to undermine her. 0.83

00:29:51.080 Let me ask you a question, because sometimes, because Canada is one-tenth or one-ninth the size of the United States, and we're so integrated with the U.S., I remember when I was in grade eight, we had an international band tour.

00:30:06.040 We just went across the border into Montana, and, you know, how many Canadians go on a school trip to the States?

00:30:16.280 I think an enormous number, because so many of our cities are really close to the States.

00:30:20.840 And how many Canadian sports leagues cross the border?

00:30:25.480 I think quite a lot.

00:30:26.620 And I'm not even talking about the very senior levels, like the Olympics or whatever.

00:30:30.300 So here's my question to you, Linda.

00:30:33.640 Will the fact that so many U.S. sports leagues are coming back to gender sanity here, will that in some ways wash over Canadian sports?

00:30:45.480 Because Canadian teams that allow a man to play on them will not be able to do so when they do their trip across the border into Montana or Washington State or Oregon or New York or Maine or whatever.

00:30:56.860 Will American decisions have a knock-on effect in Canada?

00:31:03.860 Yes, they will.

00:31:05.760 And in Trump's executive order, they literally, part of that executive order is to work with Homeland Security in barring any male entering the United States with the intent to compete against female athletes.

00:31:17.260 So if there is a male on the Canadian team, that team is going to have to drop that player.

00:31:22.960 Wow. And has that issue come up?

00:31:28.440 Has there been a quarrel or a conflict?

00:31:31.300 Do you know if that's happened, if that's been enforced?

00:31:34.500 Not yet.

00:31:35.220 Not yet?

00:31:36.500 Okay, well, that's very interesting.

00:31:38.100 You know, Trump has – he's got good antenna.

00:31:43.460 And I really think that he has managed to get a whole swath of support from people who probably wouldn't normally consider themselves Republicans, let alone Trump Republicans.

00:31:57.240 And I think it's honest.

00:31:59.100 I mean, I think he just looks at it with common sense and says that's nuts.

00:32:02.940 He is the boy who says the emperor has no clothes and no one else will bring themselves to say it.

00:32:08.700 It's quite incredible.

00:32:09.340 Are you optimistic?

00:32:10.980 Are you optimistic that this sanity, the pendulum is swinging back to sanity from insanity?

00:32:17.280 Or has this dug in so deeply it's impossible to eradicate?

00:32:22.060 I think that transgenderism is so new that you can defeat the political ideology. 1.00

00:32:30.480 But you're actually fighting in the trenches on this.

00:32:33.660 Can it be weeded out?

00:32:35.120 Yes, but it has to definitely change at the top.

00:32:39.840 And thank goodness the new president of the International Olympic Committee now has made a statement that she is – it's cup and treat.

00:32:48.500 She has actually said they are going to work to protect the female category.

00:32:52.320 Now, we're not sure what that's going to look like.

00:32:54.540 But I think she's responding to Trump's executive order again because the next Olympics is going to be in Los Angeles.

00:33:00.080 And so, you know, the stars are aligning, Ezra.

00:33:05.700 And I think that there's going to be now a new consultation, a new sort of universal guidelines on athlete eligibility.

00:33:14.940 Forget the transgender policy. 1.00

00:33:17.100 Having a transgender policy in sport is like saying we're going to have a Jewish policy or a Muslim policy.

00:33:22.580 No, we have to have a universal policy on athlete eligibility.

00:33:27.420 It shouldn't matter what religion you are, what idea you have in your head.

00:33:30.700 We have to have a sex-based universal policy on sport participation from the top to the grassroots.

00:33:37.900 That's the only way it's going to be fixed.

00:33:39.640 Well, I feel like I've learned an awful lot from you.

00:33:43.020 And you're obviously deeply involved in this project.

00:33:45.520 So thank you for the update.

00:33:47.300 And you were so ahead of the curve yourself.

00:33:49.820 I say again, your book is called Unsporting, How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sporting. 1.00

00:33:56.080 And I remember that book packed with statistics.

00:33:59.960 Like it really – it's not just an editorial rant.

00:34:03.800 It is a fact-based scientific analysis, which I really benefited from reading it.

00:34:09.480 So thank you for publishing that.

00:34:10.560 Linda, great to catch up with you.

00:34:12.300 Thanks for taking the time zones into consideration to meet with us today.

00:34:17.000 And hopefully when we talk again, we'll have more good news like the University of Pennsylvania apology.

00:34:23.020 More news – good news to talk about.

00:34:25.660 Well, I'm really looking forward to it, Ezra.

00:34:27.760 And thank you for supporting the book as well and for publishing it.

00:34:30.620 Nobody else would.

00:34:31.300 Well, it's our pleasure.

00:34:32.900 And you were a prophet.

00:34:34.740 And it's a delight to see your prophecies come true in a good way.

00:34:38.140 So, you know, it doesn't always happen that a prophet is recognized in their time.

00:34:42.100 So thank you, Linda Blade.

00:34:43.700 Great to catch up with you.

00:34:45.560 Thank you very much.

00:34:46.740 All right.

00:34:47.140 There she is, Linda Blade, an author, activist, and, of course, someone who has spent her life in women's sport.

00:34:54.980 Stay with us.

00:34:55.780 More ahead.

00:35:01.300 Hey, welcome back.

00:35:09.240 Your letters to me.

00:35:10.760 On my monologue, Paul Schofield commented,

00:35:13.020 The American left had better be careful for what they wish for.

00:35:16.800 As Ezra mentioned, their moment, rather than a George Floyd summer violence, they may get something more akin to General Sherman's march to the scene.

00:35:25.920 Well, I tell you, it's very exciting to see how confident and bold the ICE team is.

00:35:32.480 And they have to look very butch like that and be well armored like that because, I mean, partly, I suppose, because the people they're deporting sometimes are murderers or gang members.

00:35:42.300 But because there are Antifa rioters on the streets, left-wing white people, who want to keep their demographic transformation project alive.

00:35:53.460 Next letter is from GCanada3005.

00:35:57.580 On my interview with Fatima Gunning, why can't Canadians show the same national pride?

00:36:03.240 This is something I think about a lot.

00:36:04.540 I think one of the things that is motivating Ireland to push back against mass immigration is, first of all, it's happening so stunningly quickly. 0.89

00:36:12.720 Second of all, it's a small country which has a small-town feeling.

00:36:17.340 Not Dublin.

00:36:17.940 It's a big city.

00:36:18.620 But the rest of it, they really know their neighbors.

00:36:21.760 It's like a step back in time in a good way.

00:36:25.060 And in a high-trust society, people look out for each other.

00:36:28.500 You could say it's a nosy way of living.

00:36:31.100 Everyone knows everybody else's business.

00:36:32.680 It's like going to a small school.

00:36:34.980 You maybe are in a rut that you don't like, but everyone has their place.

00:36:39.760 In Canada, we're too atomized, especially in the big cities, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton.

00:36:46.900 A lot of that community cohesion is gone, so terrible things can happen.

00:36:50.540 And who's going to say anything about it?

00:36:52.240 In Northern Ireland, where there were actually riots a few weeks ago because some migrants allegedly raped a girl,

00:36:58.400 the whole community came out, moms and dads too, because they felt they knew those families and the migrants were new intruders. 0.87

00:37:07.000 I don't know if we have that same family spirit in Canada.

00:37:10.620 We don't have the same ethnic solidarity either.

00:37:13.280 There is an Irish ethnicity.

00:37:14.800 It's the indigenous people of that place.

00:37:17.920 I'm not sure if that bond exists in Canada.

00:37:20.380 There is a Canadian culture.

00:37:22.580 I just don't know if it's cohesive enough and protective enough to stop the mass immigration that's coming. 1.00

00:37:30.940 We'll see in the months and years ahead, I guess.

00:37:34.160 It's our show for today.

00:37:35.500 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:37:39.700 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:41.440 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - July 09, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Has mass immigration damaged Canada beyond repair？

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