Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Homelessness is up, and the poverty consultants are cashing in all their chips

00:00:00.000 Homelessness is up in Canada and the poverty consultants are cashing in.

00:00:20.020 Then Alexa Lavoie joins us to discuss the Texas border fight.

00:00:24.000 It's February 5th, 2024.

00:00:25.780 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show. 0.89

00:00:30.000 Shame on you, you sensorious bug. 0.99

00:00:44.080 Friends, you may notice a change of scenery.

00:00:46.640 Ezra's busy today, David's off, and so here I am at the kitchen table of the Airbnb in Ottawa

00:00:52.000 that's serving as the HQ where he and Simone and I are working on our newest documentary.

00:00:56.500 It's called Made, the Dark Side of Canadian Compassion.

00:01:00.280 You can learn more about that at maidedocumentary.com.

00:01:04.620 However, medical killing isn't the only misery ballooning under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:01:09.580 Homelessness is on the rise in Canada, along with spending on so-called homelessness consultants.

00:01:16.120 Since February 2020, homelessness is up 40% in Canada.

00:01:21.580 According to Statistics Canada's latest data, financial challenges are the leading cause of homelessness.

00:01:29.080 Deteriorating housing affordability following the onset of the pandemic, combined with higher unemployment and fewer job vacancies in recent months,

00:01:40.080 along with a surge in inflation through 2021 and 2022, has led to higher costs for essential goods and services.

00:01:47.160 These factors continue to place financial pressures on many households across Canada.

00:01:53.040 In the fall of 2022, almost half, or 44% of Canadians were very concerned about their households' ability to afford housing or rent.

00:02:01.080 So it comes as no surprise that the most reported reason leading to homelessness was financial issues, almost 42%.

00:02:08.440 What would be the effect on inflation if the carbon tax was eliminated?

00:02:12.420 And that would create a one-time drop in inflation of 0.6 percentage point.

00:02:18.220 But wait, there's more.

00:02:21.220 Victims of abuse may have nowhere to go.

00:02:24.960 The link between abusive home situations and homelessness is an ongoing concern,

00:02:30.820 as the incidence of family violence in Canada rose for the fifth consecutive year in 2021,

00:02:36.420 with women and girls accounting for two-thirds of the victims.

00:02:40.680 Relationship issues at nearly 37% was the second leading factor driving Canadians into homelessness.

00:02:47.180 A related driver was fleeing abuse at 13%, a common pathway into homelessness for many,

00:02:52.780 but four times more likely for women than men.

00:02:56.460 When looking at absolute homelessness exclusively,

00:03:00.200 these figures double with over two in five women reporting absolute homelessness at some point.

00:03:06.420 as a result of fleeing abuse compared with 12% of men.

00:03:10.460 But friends, there's still more.

00:03:12.380 Health issues can interrupt housing stability.

00:03:15.600 While financial and relationship issues are the most common causes of homelessness,

00:03:19.920 health-related issues can also lead to homelessness episodes.

00:03:24.180 Canadians, who have experienced any form of homelessness,

00:03:28.060 were more likely to report fair or poor mental health,

00:03:32.160 38% versus 17% than the overall population.

00:03:36.200 More respondents listed health issues as a major factor contributing to absolute homelessness

00:03:41.200 than to hidden homelessness.

00:03:44.540 Canadians experiencing homelessness and underlying mental health conditions

00:03:48.500 have also been highly represented in recent opioid hospitalizations.

00:03:54.300 The Canada.ca website says very clearly a few grains can kill you.

00:03:58.900 Is that appropriate?

00:04:00.100 So, Mr. Chair, my colleague did ask this question before,

00:04:03.600 and I believe we've already tabled all the proofs on safer supply,

00:04:06.380 and I'll be happy to table them again for further reference.

00:04:08.720 That's not the question, Minister.

00:04:09.900 My question is, do you think you should be giving an incredibly potent synthetic opioid

00:04:14.140 of which a few grains can kill you to children? 0.64

00:04:17.760 Yes or no? Simple.

00:04:18.800 Each physician works with their patient on the treatment protocols that work best for them.

00:04:25.720 That is a very unique and important relationship.

00:04:28.840 Have you had enough yet?

00:04:29.900 The Trudeau Liberals haven't.

00:04:31.280 There's still more here.

00:04:32.900 Moving doesn't always lead to finding a home.

00:04:36.360 Canadians move for a variety of reasons, including changing household size,

00:04:40.660 employment, better housing or neighbourhoods,

00:04:42.940 and evictions, leading to many diverse experiences of hidden homelessness.

00:04:47.620 Other notable drivers of hidden homelessness are relocation at almost 21%

00:04:53.440 and waiting to move into a new home, 16%.

00:04:56.560 Over one in three households relocating at some point in the past

00:05:00.760 reported waiting over six months in a state of hidden homelessness.

00:05:05.660 The truth is that the Prime Minister is not spending money on any of those things.

00:05:09.260 He has a food program that doesn't feed kids.

00:05:12.020 It feeds bureaucracies and creates frameworks that kids can't eat.

00:05:16.960 He has a housing affordability program that doubles the cost of housing,

00:05:21.500 a housing accelerator that hasn't built a single house,

00:05:25.100 a carbon tax that hasn't reduced emissions.

00:05:28.140 So instead of spending billions on programs that cause inflation

00:05:31.760 and do nothing but sound pretty,

00:05:34.280 why won't he axe the tax on our farmers so that it can feed Canadians this winter?

00:05:39.440 The Right Honourable Prime Minister.

00:05:44.980 Whether the leader of the opposition makes a homemade video about it or not,

00:05:49.320 a key factor contributing to food inflation around the world is Putin's illegal war in Ukraine.

00:05:57.160 That party has been playing right into the Kremlin's hands

00:06:00.700 by voting against Operation Unifier,

00:06:04.820 by voting against funding for military aid to Ukraine,

00:06:08.980 and by voting at every opportunity, including again this morning,

00:06:13.320 against the Canada U-Trade free trade agreement that Ukrainians have been asking for.

00:06:18.620 We will never abandon Ukraine,

00:06:20.780 unlike the Conservative leader who's shown Canadians...

00:06:24.160 Now, like every problem in liberal land, Trudeau knows the solution.

00:06:27.860 Just line the pockets of rich consultants to tell us the problems are

00:06:31.140 something other than what we know them to be.

00:06:33.720 Easily predictable outcomes of bad liberal policies.

00:06:37.820 This is from Today in Black Locks Reporter.

00:06:40.460 A federal homeless relief program paid millions to consultants, documents show.

00:06:45.800 Overall spending on consultants jumped 13% last year,

00:06:49.000 despite Cabinet's promise to cut spending on consultants.

00:06:52.220 The Department of Infrastructure, in an inquiry of ministry,

00:06:55.300 tabled in the Commons, disclosed $2.8 million was paid to date

00:06:59.260 to consultants under the 2019 Reaching Home program.

00:07:02.660 The grant program was to reduce homeless rates

00:07:05.020 at a budgeted $4 billion over nine years.

00:07:08.080 Homelessness? According to the Liberals, it just needs more consultants

00:07:11.560 instead of bail reform, drug treatment not enabling,

00:07:15.080 more mental health supports, fewer taxes, and more housing starts.

00:07:18.460 Oh, and a pause in immigration to take all that strain off the housing supply.

00:07:23.120 Instead, us Canadians, we just get more of the same.

00:07:26.020 For example, are people being injured by untested vaccines

00:07:29.300 thanks to vaccination or unemployment and segregation ultimatums

00:07:33.780 from the federal government?

00:07:34.760 Well, here comes the Vaccine Injury Support Program.

00:07:37.880 But two-thirds of the money there is going to administration and consultants,

00:07:42.120 and not the people who were injured by the policy.

00:07:44.480 The Justin Trudeau Liberals have paid out nearly $11 million of compensation

00:07:48.700 for injuries from the safe and effective novel COVID-19 jabs,

00:07:53.400 but most of the funding allocated to the Vaccine Injury Support Program

00:07:57.820 goes to the consultancy firm responsible for administering it.

00:08:02.860 I am extremely pleased that I got the AstraZeneca vaccine a number of weeks ago.

00:08:07.860 Every single vaccine available in Canada has been approved by Health Canada

00:08:15.260 as being both safe and effective.

00:08:18.700 So what we do not know as yet are the effectiveness of the vaccines that we have

00:08:26.580 in preventing asymptomatic infection or to reduce transmission.

00:08:32.380 That data is just not there.

00:08:33.640 But I do know that international studies, the vaccine manufacturers,

00:08:37.220 also following that.

00:08:38.460 So we expect to sort of take that data in mind as we look at what the impact

00:08:46.700 of vaccinating persons in long-term care could be.

00:08:51.040 Certainly, I think that the primary goal is I absolutely think that everyone has to commit

00:08:59.120 to getting vaccines as fast as possible into this population.

00:09:02.880 And the Conservatives won't tell us how many folks haven't been vaccinated.

00:09:06.440 And why is this a concern?

00:09:08.200 Well, I mean, look, last week, the Conservatives had a caucus,

00:09:11.100 a member tested positive.

00:09:12.800 And now here we are in the House, unvaccinated members with exposure to somebody

00:09:17.680 with COVID being in the House.

00:09:19.160 That's a great concern.

00:09:20.060 Then you need a travel app to enforce all that vaccine segregation.

00:09:24.300 Well, 76% of the contractors on that travel app, Arrive Can,

00:09:28.860 did no work whatsoever for their paydays.

00:09:31.220 But this is the way in the Trudeau universe.

00:09:33.640 They talk about the middle class and those working hard to join it.

00:09:37.460 Good morning.

00:09:37.900 Theresa Wright, the Canadian Press.

00:09:39.700 You've triggered an election today and you're asking Canadians to vote for you.

00:09:43.460 Perhaps you could tell Canadians why they should trust you to be returned to power

00:09:47.260 when we still don't know all the details of the SNC-Lavalin affair,

00:09:50.920 despite numerous attempts.

00:09:52.300 And some of that has to do with committees with a Liberal majority blocking those details

00:09:57.120 coming forward.

00:09:58.360 We made a commitment to Canadians to grow the economy for the middle class

00:10:02.620 and for people working hard to join it.

00:10:04.540 That was the heart of the promise we got elected on.

00:10:07.940 And we've delivered on that by watching Canadians create well over a million jobs

00:10:14.040 over the past four years,

00:10:15.200 at the same time as 900,000 Canadians have been lifted out of poverty.

00:10:20.280 Our commitment to invest in communities,

00:10:23.080 our commitment to support and move forward on giving a real chance to Indigenous peoples

00:10:28.360 to succeed by advancing reconciliation,

00:10:31.360 to move forward on demonstrating that we understand that growing the economy

00:10:35.540 and protecting the environment goes together every step of the way.

00:10:39.020 And it's not a choice of either or anymore.

00:10:42.200 But it's all about the consultant class.

00:10:43.900 Rich consultants get richer for less work than ever before.

00:10:47.360 And you get poorer.

00:10:48.720 Stay with us.

00:10:49.520 Alexa Lavoie joins us after the break to talk about what she saw in Eagle Pass, Texas.

00:11:09.020 Alexa Lavoie joins us.

00:11:27.500 Alexa Lavoie joins us.

00:11:29.440 Alexa, what happened to掉 speed?

00:11:32.280 Alexa Lavoie joining us with a Soul brothers on the name of theia.

00:11:37.500 I got a one called in Yeti.

00:11:38.220 I come to you here for a minute.

00:11:46.220 You have been here, huh?

00:11:52.220 Yes.

00:11:54.220 Thank you.

00:11:56.220 Thank you.

00:12:08.220 So that clip you saw right there is from a trip that our Revolues reporters Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jay made to the Texas border, the southern border of the United States.

00:12:26.220 As the state of Texas and Governor Greg Abbott is in a bit of a standoff with the Biden administration about what to do with illegal immigration.

00:12:37.220 Greg Abbott thinks that he has a solution.

00:12:40.220 He wants to enforce border policies.

00:12:42.220 And Biden has other plans, I think, because he assumes that many of the people fighting across the border will end up one day as Democrat voters in the state of Texas, thus flipping the state of Texas to the Democrat Party.

00:12:56.220 It's all about changing demographics.

00:12:58.220 But what about the people who have to live with the consequences of Biden's manipulation of a humanitarian crisis to help Democrats?

00:13:08.220 Well, that's part of what Alexa and Lincoln were doing down there, talking to the very people affected by Biden's, I was going to say inability, but I don't think it's an inability to enforce border policies.

00:13:21.220 He just doesn't want to because it helps his agenda.

00:13:24.220 Alexa, you're just home now.

00:13:27.220 We have a ton of videos still that you filmed at the border to publish.

00:13:33.220 Tell us what you learned at the southern border at Eagle Pass.

00:13:38.220 I was really surprised because the main reason why we went down there, it's because of the pushback of Greg Abbott against what he say that is Biden lawless policy regarding the immigration.

00:13:52.220 So Greg Abbott has decided to reinforce the border, putting some razor wire, putting some shipping container and making really a wall where it's Shelby Park.

00:14:05.220 Shelby Park is a park in Eagle Pass.

00:14:08.220 So since then, since he's reinforcing in these arresting people for crossing illegally, making as a crime because he started in 2021 at the Operation Lone Star.

00:14:22.220 So the word has spread in the other side in Mexico, where people like now know that in Texas, it's beginning beginning a little bit more difficult to cross over.

00:14:34.220 So we saw a decrease in the illegal crossing, but we need to know that in January, we usually it's a month that it's always low for the crossing.

00:14:46.220 So we need to wait a little bit longer in the next few months to see like if it is effective what Governor Greg Abbott is actually doing in Texas.

00:14:58.220 But for now, what we were able to see, it's like, yes, there is less people crossing around Shelby Park, but not far away.

00:15:08.220 We talk about 20 minutes drive.

00:15:11.220 Me and Lincoln, we were able to access to straight to the river without passing through razor wire or fence.

00:15:19.220 So the border is really huge.

00:15:21.220 If there is a lot of loophole where you can just like cross over and and it would be always difficult for the government, the states to take care and to seal the border completely.

00:15:37.220 There is also like border patrol that are patrolling and there is helicopter all the time patrolling the area.

00:15:45.220 There is also sensor tower with camera who are always like, look what is going on at night.

00:15:52.220 We see more border patrol because of course, like the camera is probably less effective.

00:15:58.220 But we saw tons like not we saw on our eyes eight people crossing.

00:16:06.220 We were kind of lucky because, as I say, border is huge.

00:16:09.220 They cross everywhere.

00:16:10.220 But we saw on social media and from other independent journalists were on the ground that we met.

00:16:17.220 We saw 14 one day, another 20.

00:16:21.220 They are all by bunch of people.

00:16:23.220 Sometimes it's all men, all single men crossing.

00:16:26.220 We noticed like when when we saw the eight people crossing a young boy of 10 years old on a company by himself crossing into the US.

00:16:38.220 No family here in the US.

00:16:41.220 No relative.

00:16:42.220 And he say that he was there for going to school, that he had no parents.

00:16:47.220 And the border patrol say that is actually something common to see a lot of unaccompanied child just crossing over.

00:16:57.220 Who are those kids and who push them to come into the US? 0.95

00:17:03.220 And talking with a lot of people from the US, they are really concerned and scared about the sleepers.

00:17:12.220 People come into the US are there, keep silence for a while and have an agenda behind.

00:17:20.220 They don't know who are these people.

00:17:23.220 It's not all people that are nice, but it's a thing.

00:17:30.220 Texas is a Republican state.

00:17:33.220 They are doing what they can to protect their border.

00:17:36.220 But when we look at Arizona and California, there are two Democrat places where illegal migrants are just flooding in.

00:17:45.220 And we know that there they have a huge problem with drug addicts, homeless people.

00:17:52.220 They have tent cities where people are just like sleeping in tents or outside.

00:17:58.220 And those people who are crossing, they don't want to stay close to the border.

00:18:04.220 They want to go up north.

00:18:06.220 And talking with the former border patrol agent, what they were saying is like, you know, those people are getting processed here.

00:18:14.220 But after that, they are either being bussed up or fly up.

00:18:19.220 So those people are going to sanctuary cities and those cities is not safe anymore.

00:18:25.220 Those cities, it's being crowded by illegal migrants or by like people would cannot find like any place to stay because the inflation is getting skyrocket. 0.99

00:18:39.220 And so those people would want to go to Canada where it's like really spacey, where it's better because our health system is better from the US because it's free.

00:18:54.220 Everything is free in Canada.

00:18:55.220 We're all helping those illegals to cross over and to get all the help that they need.

00:19:03.220 So now those people who are crossing illegally, and this shocked me so much because as I was mentioned before, they don't need to have any idea.

00:19:17.220 They don't need to prove from which country they are coming from.

00:19:21.220 They don't need to prove who they are.

00:19:24.220 If you say, oh, my name is this and I'm coming from Honduras and you have no proof.

00:19:30.220 They need to trust your world.

00:19:34.220 So you receive afterwards a sheet, a travel sheet that have your detail on it.

00:19:41.220 And afterwards you can fly.

00:19:43.220 You just show your paper, you fly around and afterwards you receive a court date.

00:19:52.220 It can be between one to six years and you disappear into the US.

00:19:57.220 And most of them, they will disappear where? In Canada.

00:20:01.220 Yeah. I mean, and let's not forget that the United States has birthright citizenship.

00:20:06.220 So a lot can happen in one to six years.

00:20:10.220 You could have a child that then becomes the American citizen that can sponsor you and now your entire family into the country.

00:20:18.220 It will unillegalize, I guess.

00:20:22.220 That's not the right word, but you know what I mean, for the entire family.

00:20:26.220 And, you know, the monologue today on Ezra's show is about homelessness, the rise of homelessness in this country and what's causing it.

00:20:35.220 We know it is mental illness.

00:20:38.220 We know it's drug addiction.

00:20:39.220 But one of the big precipitating factors is cost of living.

00:20:42.220 And then, so this is not a problem that's unique to the United States when you have an influx of people that you don't have the resources for and you don't have housing for and you don't have healthcare for and you don't have the supports for.

00:20:56.220 That drives homelessness right across the board.

00:20:59.220 And you did reporting on this earlier in Quebec where when you were doing reports on Roxham Road, which is now closed, but there's kind of a loophole there and we'll talk about that in a second.

00:21:11.220 But the illegal migrants from Roxham Road were occupying the homeless shelters meant for Canadians because there were just too many of them coming across the border. 1.00

00:21:23.220 And as you say, a lot of these people are being shipped up north, some of it by Greg Abbott.

00:21:28.220 You know, if New York wants to be a sanctuary city, they get to prove it and take a bunch of migrants, but they don't stop there. 0.78

00:21:36.220 They end up crossing the border.

00:21:38.220 And one of the loopholes in closing the illegal border crossing at Roxham Road is that now a number of asylum claims will be taken at regular ports of entry.

00:21:53.220 So at the airport, at Pearson, at Trudeau Airport, you can make a sanctuary claim there now.

00:21:58.220 And we know the Canadian government turns away very few people and those people will continue to take spaces in our homes.

00:22:06.220 Yeah.

00:22:07.220 Yeah.

00:22:08.220 And what we learned not long time ago, I think it was by CTV, but the number of people arriving by flight for refugee status have doubled this year.

00:22:23.220 Just this year, I have doubled.

00:22:25.220 So people arrive on a tourist visa, but not for being tourists.

00:22:29.220 And the same day, they will come and claim for asylum.

00:22:33.220 And so this is a real burning problem because not only our airport is being slammed, but our border by feet is getting slammed, too.

00:22:43.220 So we have people arriving from everywhere because the word is passing around.

00:22:48.220 People know about it and they know that they would be welcome under Justin Trudeau and under Biden administration.

00:22:56.220 When the administration would change, because it might change in the future if Piapoli is taking office or maybe if, I don't know, a Republican is taking office in the U.S.,

00:23:09.220 I'm pretty sure that there would be a flooding of people getting in before anything's changed.

00:23:17.220 But the question remains, like, for how long it takes us we'll be able to hold the line and protect the border?

00:23:25.220 Because some of the people say that all what is going on at Shelby Park is kind of big show to show because it's just at Shelby Park.

00:23:35.220 Like, every reinforcement that we see, mostly it's at Shelby Park when we know that people are crossing on the side of it.

00:23:43.220 And we don't know for how long, but what we know that apparently the governor of Texas is putting pressure on the Mexican government to do something.

00:23:54.220 So apparently at multiple bus stations, military is looking at buses to look for migrants and to turn them back at the southern border for exposing them.

00:24:08.220 For now, we saw some video online. We tried to find where the military were doing that. Unfortunately, it's not at the main town. It's apparently outside.

00:24:20.220 But this is something that I learned, too. Under Trump administration, the migrants were crossing illegally. They wanted not to be seen. They wanted to really hide.

00:24:32.220 But under Biden administration, they want to be caught. They want to be caught by the Border Patrol. They want to be caught by the authorities because they know they will be receiving refugee status or they will wait for so long for their court trial that they will be a little bit everywhere. 0.60

00:24:51.220 And when we were at the airport, me and Lincoln coming back, we saw some migrants with the bracelet on their feet because those people are waiting a court trial to know if they are receivable into the country.

00:25:07.220 So they have, like, electronic bracelet on their feet. So they have, like, electronic bracelet on their feet. And they've been, like, put on flights. And now they need to wait.

00:25:14.220 So I just wonder, because when I was at Roxham Road, I was able to see someone with the ankle bracelet.

00:25:23.220 So these people were waiting for a court trial in the U.S. to know if they were receivable as a refugee claimer.

00:25:33.220 And because they knew they would not be received, they just say, we will just try into Canada.

00:25:39.220 Because I know I saw some people having that at their ankles. So all this, we should be more concerned because it's just people flooding in from different countries, sometimes from Middle East, sometimes from China.

00:25:58.220 And you just think to yourself, why all those men that travel alone are going to do it? And they are all middle age, about 20 to 30.

00:26:15.220 So I think we should be more concerned of who is crossing over.

00:26:19.220 Yeah, I think you're exactly right. You know, the other side of this says, you know, it's mostly women and children. It's families. They're fleeing strife or whatever.

00:26:32.220 But as you demonstrated time and time again, that's really not the case.

00:26:37.220 And I think one of the reasons the Biden administration really wants to crack down on what Greg Abbott's doing is Greg Abbott is showing that reinforcing the border is possible.

00:26:50.220 And with all the resources of the federal government, the Biden administration just refuses to.

00:26:57.220 It's not that they can't. They just don't want to.

00:27:00.220 And also the old story about, you know, the legal battle.

00:27:07.220 Now that we heard that, OK, Greg Abbott has lost a Supreme Court saying that, yes, the Fed can cut the razor wire if they need to.

00:27:18.220 But the Supreme Court didn't say to Greg Abbott, don't put more razor wire or you have no rights to put razor wire.

00:27:27.220 No. Greg Abbott can put more if he want. He can put whatever he wants.

00:27:34.220 And the thing is, we didn't see federal cutting the razor wire, especially at the Shelby Park, because the part remains to the state.

00:27:45.220 It is a state property.

00:27:48.220 And the federal have no rights to come and cut the razor wire on a piece of land that is not them.

00:27:55.220 So for now at Shelby Park, they give access to the water to federal official, the Border Patrol, so they can cross and put their boat on the water.

00:28:06.220 But that's it. They have no rights to to operate on the state place.

00:28:13.220 So Border Patrol is being mostly seen on the side road and patrolling the road and on a state land.

00:28:23.220 Alexa, I want to thank you and pass along my thanks to Lincoln for your very hard work at the southern border with the United States and Mexico.

00:28:32.220 How do people see your reports? I mean, you've got a ton of reports that already got.

00:28:37.220 I mean, in the morning staff meeting this morning, you listed like at least half a dozen more yet to come.

00:28:43.220 You guys work nonstop in some pretty treacherous and changing conditions.

00:28:48.220 How do people see the reports that are coming, but also support your independent journalism to the southern border?

00:28:55.220 So me and Lincoln, we travel really mostly modestly. We we travel economic.

00:29:02.220 We had like a really modest Airbnb and we eat on the fly all the time.

00:29:08.220 So if you want to support us on our journey, you can do it at TexasBorderReports.com.

00:29:16.220 On this website, you can donate a couple of bucks if you it's only what you have.

00:29:21.220 But just helping us and make this journey being a worthy trip.

00:29:28.220 And I think we need to really put our awareness on the southern border because the southern border is also a kind of our border

00:29:37.220 because we have the same border with the US.

00:29:41.220 So thank you for everybody who chip in generously.

00:29:44.220 And you can also watch all of our reports and you will see a really nice report about Canadians coming up at the southern border.

00:29:54.220 I think really nicely produced, but I think the video will be frightening.

00:30:01.220 A dire warning for us as Canadians.

00:30:04.220 Alexa, thanks for your hard work and just good job getting the truth out and telling the other side of the story.

00:30:12.220 Thanks.

00:30:13.220 Stay with us your letters to Ezra unceremoniously read by me up after the break.

00:30:18.220 Again, for those of you who want to see and support Alexa and Lincoln's work from the border, please go to TexasBorderReports.com.

00:30:40.220 Now, we've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback.

00:30:44.220 I say this every time I host Ezra's show, but also on my own show, The Gun Show.

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00:31:06.220 Now, today's letters come to us on Ezra's show the other day on CBC Kids News lying about the Freedom Convoy.

00:31:18.220 Ray Zier writes, I remember a time when children's TV was about innocuous cartoons.

00:31:25.220 Now, everything has become politicized.

00:31:28.220 They're grooming an entire generation of aspiring activists.

00:31:32.220 Yeah, if they don't get your kids in the classroom, they get them on what they sell to you as innocent children's programming.

00:31:39.220 I don't know if you've spent any time whatsoever on CBC Kids.

00:31:43.220 It's nothing but climate activism and sex activism.

00:31:49.220 It's polluting the most innocent amongst us.

00:31:52.220 And the worst part is that CBC Kids does it with our tax dollars.

00:31:57.220 They're brainwashing our kids with our tax dollars. 1.00

00:32:01.220 And if I were you, I'd be wondering if your children's school uses CBC Kids as a learning resource, because I know some schools do do that.

00:32:11.220 Lori Parker Stewart 868 writes, always remember Prime Minister Trudeau on the television telling parents to leave the room, saying he wants to talk to your children alone.

00:32:23.220 These are your family, not the property of his government.

00:32:27.220 Yeah, I remember that.

00:32:31.220 The second somebody says that they want me to leave the room and talk to my kids alone, that's when I want to look at their hard drive.

00:32:37.220 And I'm not saying Justin Trudeau has anything strange on his hard drive, but it's funny how normalized the language of grooming has become.

00:32:49.220 You know, we see this in Alberta right now where activists are doing their best to pit kids against their parents and doing their best to advance a narrative that they love your kids and know your kids better than you do.

00:33:08.220 And we know that's absolutely wrong, but that's what Marxists have done ever since there were Marxists.

00:33:15.220 Renee KK1HF sends us a note on Alexa and Lincoln and their trip to the southern border of the United States.

00:33:26.220 Renee writes, thank you for going to Texas to cover this.

00:33:29.220 The migrants seem to be going in through California now. 1.00

00:33:33.220 I heard Trudeau has given flights to the border with travel papers.

00:33:37.220 Stay safe.

00:33:38.220 Now, I don't know if that's true.

00:33:39.220 There's a lot of things on the Internet that we hear about Justin Trudeau that aren't necessarily true.

00:33:43.220 And Justin Trudeau is so bad that we don't need to exaggerate how bad he is.

00:33:50.220 That's why we always double check, triple check everything that we publish.

00:33:55.220 But Justin Trudeau doesn't have to give these people flights and travel papers because the Biden administration, as you heard from Alexa, is already doing that.

00:34:09.220 And Justin Trudeau, for his part, is allowing people to make refugee claims at regular points of entry.

00:34:18.220 So his big thing was that, oh, we're closing Roxham Road.

00:34:23.220 OK, but the reason people were using Roxham Road is because you couldn't make a refugee claim at a regular point of entry.

00:34:33.220 So they were doing it at what they called an irregular point of entry while Justin Trudeau fixed that by just making migrants able to make refugee claims at Pearson or Trudeau International or, you know, however they come into the country.

00:34:48.220 So you may have heard that Trudeau has given flights to the border with travel papers.

00:34:55.220 He doesn't need to do that. He absolutely doesn't need to do that.

00:34:59.220 The Biden administration is already doing that.

00:35:02.220 We don't need to advance conspiracy theories when we have already conspiracy facts.

00:35:07.220 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you for tuning in.

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Rebel News Podcast - February 05, 2024

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