Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ How do you feel about a movie calling for eco-terrorism against oil companies？

00:00:00.300 Hello, my friends. Did you know that there's a new movie in Canadian theaters called How to Blow Up a Pipeline?

00:00:06.280 And no, that's not code for anything. It is about how to blow up a pipeline.

00:00:10.800 It's an eco-terrorist movie, and I haven't heard a word against it. I'll take you through it.

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00:00:29.220 and I want you to see it. I mean, you'll hear it on the podcast, and you'll get a lot from that,

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00:00:59.220 Tonight, how do you feel about a movie playing in Canadian theaters right now

00:01:16.780 calling for eco-terrorism against oil companies?

00:01:20.080 It's April 25th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:23.520 You ready to feed them?

00:01:24.860 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:38.300 Here's a thought experiment. How would you feel about a movie playing in theaters in Canada

00:01:43.360 called How to Blow Up an Abortion Clinic?

00:01:47.020 Or what about How to Shoot Up a Church, which, by the way, just happened a few weeks ago in Nashville, Tennessee?

00:01:56.180 What about a movie called How to Blow Up a Mosque?

00:01:59.680 I'm guessing you're not too comfortable with any of those, even if you are a free speech absolutist.

00:02:05.760 But right now, in theaters across Canada, there really is a movie called How to Blow Up a Pipeline.

00:02:14.980 Here's Cineplex's website. As you can see, it's being marketed to teenagers.

00:02:20.120 There's ads for it everywhere, on TikTok in particular.

00:02:23.640 It's rated 14A.

00:02:26.220 So teenagers can go to the movie by themselves if they're 14 or older.

00:02:30.940 Cineplex is so proud of that.

00:02:32.280 Here, watch the movie's trailer for two minutes yourself.

00:02:38.960 Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Boom Talk.

00:02:42.120 Today, teaching myself to make a homemade blasting cap.

00:02:45.580 If this works, it'll be step one in making our own improvised explosive.

00:02:54.100 Might be headed to Texas for the winter.

00:02:56.820 What's in Texas?

00:02:57.420 It's a project.

00:03:01.920 One kind of project.

00:03:04.960 Trying to stop the pipeline from being built on my property.

00:03:08.240 Poisons of the air, water.

00:03:13.680 Damn, this place is sick.

00:03:15.360 You guys cooking meth in here?

00:03:16.900 I'm ready to start working.

00:03:17.760 We have to show how vulnerable the oil industry is by hitting something big.

00:03:27.560 Michael, what do you think the odds are we blow ourselves up?

00:03:35.020 I don't really care.

00:03:39.180 We could blow the pipe at the hilltop.

00:03:41.400 Keep the oil from Lincoln. 0.65

00:03:42.400 You're not actually thinking.

00:03:45.680 I'm not thinking about it.

00:03:46.960 I'm doing it.

00:03:49.840 What if y'all do structural damage?

00:03:52.620 Structural damage is kind of the point.

00:03:55.140 This is destruction of federal property.

00:03:57.720 Terrorism.

00:04:00.440 American empire calls us terrorists and we're doing something right. 1.00

00:04:03.740 If you're seeing this, let those who profit from mass death know their properties will be trashed.

00:04:12.460 Three, two, one.

00:04:15.840 They will defame us and claim this was violence.

00:04:20.120 Or vandalism.

00:04:22.420 But this was justified. 0.52

00:04:30.400 This was an act of self-defense.

00:04:33.740 Obviously, there's no scientific basis to the underlying thesis here.

00:04:40.020 Pipelines do not poison the air, despite what they said.

00:04:43.940 They're by far the safest way to move oil or natural gas around.

00:04:47.800 The eco-terrorists here are obviously hypocrites, just like Al Gore or John Kerry or David Suzuki or Leonardo DiCaprio.

00:04:54.400 And the rest of them, they use oil and gas themselves for everything.

00:04:57.700 They use things made from oil and gas and coal, plastic, steel, pretty much everything in modern life.

00:05:04.460 But this is not an intellectual movie.

00:05:05.900 It's an emotional movie, motivating people to blow up a pipeline.

00:05:09.080 This movie is targeted at teenagers and 20-somethings.

00:05:12.980 You can see that by its style and its actors.

00:05:15.420 It could not be clearer.

00:05:16.980 However, it is pro-terrorism.

00:05:20.180 They actually say that word in the movie.

00:05:24.380 That YouTube trailer I just showed you has 1.5 million views alone.

00:05:30.360 And I saw little clips of it everywhere on social media.

00:05:34.080 I'm not sure how many people actually are going to go see the movie in a theater.

00:05:37.860 But just the two-minute ad and all the social media clips, they pretty much do the job right there, don't they?

00:05:45.440 The movie is playing across Canada, including, I checked, for example, in the heart of Calgary, in Cineflex theaters there, in the oil patch.

00:05:54.180 Oh, and just glowing reviews from movie critics.

00:05:58.700 The critics love it.

00:05:59.600 According to the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of critics love this movie.

00:06:05.220 Now, only 73% of moviegoers do, which is still a lot.

00:06:10.120 But it shows you the ideology of the Hollywood industry, doesn't it?

00:06:15.000 Now, the movie was based on a book by this guy, Andreas Malm, who looks exactly like what you'd imagine he'd look like.

00:06:24.260 He's a Marxist professor in Sweden.

00:06:26.920 You know, I've been to Sweden.

00:06:28.640 It's a pretty northern country.

00:06:30.660 It's capital city, Stockholm, is one of the most northern capital cities in the world.

00:06:35.960 59 degrees north latitude.

00:06:38.960 For comparison, Whitehorse is 60 degrees latitude.

00:06:43.000 That's how far north Stockholm is.

00:06:44.740 Ottawa is practically tropical.

00:06:47.400 It's 45 degrees north latitude, and we like to think it's a northern city.

00:06:51.900 My point is, Andreas Malm and his whole country would freeze without fossil fuel.

00:06:59.300 You cannot power Sweden through the dark winter with solar power.

00:07:05.240 But he published a book called How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and now it's a movie.

00:07:10.460 And funny enough, it's set in the United States.

00:07:13.560 I mean, he's not stupid.

00:07:15.540 He's like his fellow Swedish propagandist, Greta Thunberg.

00:07:19.260 They're Marxists, but they like making money.

00:07:22.140 No one in America is going to pay to see a movie about Swedish teens blowing up something in Sweden.

00:07:27.500 And the regime media couldn't be more excited about it.

00:07:31.520 Here's the Globe and Mail, owned by Canada's richest oligarch.

00:07:36.420 Their headline is electric and gripping eco-thriller.

00:07:40.780 How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a fast and tight cinematic provocation.

00:07:47.080 You know, the Globe and Mail actually called it a courageous movie.

00:07:49.960 And they even complain that it's too politically soft.

00:07:53.360 They say, you'll be a better person for watching it.

00:07:56.360 I'm serious.

00:07:57.380 Let me quote a little bit.

00:07:59.180 Is it controversial, even dangerous, to make a movie unambiguously urging illegal action?

00:08:05.900 No more so than the thousands of films that squeal over wholesale murder or whose politics

00:08:12.020 push the agendas of the American military.

00:08:14.040 I'm not sure what the murder part he's referring to there.

00:08:18.840 There are a lot of people killed in Hollywood movies, but I'm not sure if squealing about

00:08:23.260 murder is the same as encouraging it or the same as a two-hour propaganda course literally

00:08:30.040 telling people to become terrorists.

00:08:33.020 And you can oppose the agendas of the American military, which would be new for the Globe and

00:08:38.200 Mail, by the way.

00:08:39.300 They have been an unambiguous cheerleader for escalating war in Ukraine.

00:08:44.740 But at the end of the day, the U.S. military, like Canada's military, is a lawful organization

00:08:50.260 directed by democratically elected civilian politicians.

00:08:54.080 So you can agree or disagree with foreign policy, and I disagree with a lot of foreign policy

00:08:59.300 of both countries.

00:09:01.000 I can disagree with wars.

00:09:03.000 Again, I just have never seen that before from the Globe and Mail.

00:09:06.200 But that's different from encouraging young people to engage in violent terrorism in their

00:09:12.860 own country against fellow citizens.

00:09:16.440 I say again, would the Globe and Mail rejoice about a movie called How to Blow Up a Church?

00:09:23.560 And why wouldn't they?

00:09:25.420 They could condemn the agendas of the Christian church.

00:09:28.460 In fact, they sure have, haven't they?

00:09:30.680 Especially with regards to residential schools.

00:09:32.660 I haven't seen any opprobrium in the Globe and Mail when more than 50 churches were torched

00:09:39.240 or vandalized a year or two ago in Canada.

00:09:42.360 And really, as I mentioned in a monologue a couple of weeks ago, Canada really does have

00:09:47.240 people trying to blow up pipelines, gas pipelines, not oil pipelines.

00:09:51.380 It's called Coastal Gas Link.

00:09:53.820 It's in northern B.C.

00:09:55.120 Even the CBC has reported on it.

00:09:57.360 They obviously support the terrorists, but even the CBC points out that many of them

00:10:01.260 are foreign terrorists of fortunes coming up to B.C., either from out of province or

00:10:06.920 even out of the country, hijacking the local Indian bands.

00:10:10.560 So, yeah, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised if the government, the RCMP, the public safety

00:10:17.600 minister, the prime minister, and the media are all fine with blowing up a gas pipeline.

00:10:22.520 Why shouldn't Hollywood cash in, too, and Cineplex, and why shouldn't they be able to make a few

00:10:27.320 bucks off blowing up an oil pipeline?

00:10:30.060 I mean, we have a country where the environment minister, Stephen Gilbeau, literally participated

00:10:35.620 in an eco-terrorist home invasion himself, storing the home property of the former premier

00:10:43.360 of Alberta, Ralph Klein, when only his wife, Colleen, was at home by herself.

00:10:46.820 They literally came onto the property, climbed onto her roof, and terrorized her.

00:10:52.680 And now he's environment minister.

00:10:54.360 Why would a mere movie upset anyone if that doesn't?

00:11:00.400 Now, Trudeau and the censors talk about violent online extremism and radicalization, and they

00:11:06.760 never mean Islamic terrorism or eco-terrorism.

00:11:10.260 They mean you.

00:11:11.980 They mean people like you and me who clap back at leftist journalists and leftist politicians.

00:11:16.400 They mean peaceful trucker protest.

00:11:18.740 They didn't put the country under martial law after 9-11 or after an al-Qaeda terrorist

00:11:24.960 stormed Parliament Hill.

00:11:26.000 Remember that?

00:11:27.300 They put the whole country under martial law when some truckers parked illegally and honked

00:11:32.280 their horns at Parliament Hill.

00:11:33.940 They don't mean what they say about violence and extremism.

00:11:37.500 As always, they're projecting.

00:11:38.700 They're the ones who support violence against their enemies, against churches, against oil

00:11:45.280 and gas companies.

00:11:47.220 But if you're a peaceful protester, they'll say you engage in hate speech and extremism,

00:11:52.400 and you need to be shut down.

00:11:54.220 Interestingly, the one critic I've seen about this movie, or actually about the book that

00:12:00.160 inspired him, was a Marxist who I've met a few times.

00:12:04.520 His name is James Wilt.

00:12:05.720 He's actually sort of a nice guy as a person.

00:12:08.820 Here's what he wrote about the book, and it's in the left-wing magazine Canadian Dimension.

00:12:14.000 He said,

00:12:14.340 How to Blow Up a Movement, Andreas Malm's new book, Dreams of Sabotage, but Ignores Consequences.

00:12:20.740 That's the title of his essay.

00:12:22.420 Look at this.

00:12:22.940 Let me quote a bit.

00:12:23.980 I find it odd quoting a communist, but he had an interesting take on things.

00:12:29.180 He's talking about the book's author, Andreas Malm, and he says this.

00:12:33.100 Malm specifically advocates for the destruction of luxury commodities like SUVs and superyachts,

00:12:38.840 along with fossil fuel infrastructure like gas stations, petroleum refineries, and pipelines.

00:12:44.340 Yeah, SUVs and superyachts.

00:12:46.320 Those really aren't two things that go together.

00:12:48.880 SUVs are driven by families, by moms taking their kids to school or to the hockey rink after

00:12:55.360 school.

00:12:55.760 They're not as cheap as regular cars, I guess, but they're really not luxury.

00:13:00.760 You can get a luxury SUV, but if you're attacking an SUV, odds are you're attacking your neighbor,

00:13:09.680 which bizarrely is something that mom himself claims to have done.

00:13:14.340 Super yachts?

00:13:15.300 Yeah, show me a superyacht in Sweden.

00:13:17.240 They're in elite places like the Mediterranean.

00:13:19.120 They're guarded by private security.

00:13:20.880 Anyone who calls for an attack on SUVs and superyachts is really just calling for attacks

00:13:24.980 on SUVs or really his neighbors and families in his neighborhood.

00:13:30.120 How gross and classist in a way, which is what my communist buddy James Wilt points out.

00:13:35.760 He also said this.

00:13:36.600 Mom is a scholar, not a cop, but this book veers awfully close to entrapment.

00:13:42.280 Could be, but look, like Greta Thunberg, he just loves the publicity.

00:13:46.560 Other people can pay the price for actually living out his ideas.

00:13:50.520 I mean, you don't think that these leftists are actually going to give up fossil fuels in

00:13:55.360 chilly Sweden, do you? 0.82

00:13:57.540 Here, read this.

00:13:58.340 A fiery deterrent.

00:14:01.440 Mom's claims to authority on the subject are twofold.

00:14:04.400 A lengthy involvement in the climate movement, dating back to Cop 1 in 1995, and more recent

00:14:09.520 experience with relatively minor property destruction.

00:14:12.680 In 2007, Mom participated in deflating tires of luxury SUVs in a wealthy Swedish community

00:14:20.440 as part of a group called Indians of the Concrete Jungle, an appallingly offensive name that

00:14:26.540 he continues invoking throughout the course of the book, following a half apology.

00:14:30.860 More recently, in 2016, Mom was part of rogue Endegalande faction that tore down a few fences 0.96

00:14:37.900 and sprayed a slogan at a coal mine before police forces arrived and chased us away with

00:14:42.880 Ember Tonson spray.

00:14:45.020 Deflating tires, you know, could be dangerous.

00:14:47.000 Which you could, I suppose, cause someone to be killed if they got in a car accident.

00:14:52.200 But it's pretty timid.

00:14:53.960 You might say even cowardly.

00:14:56.640 To encourage other people, especially teenagers, to go around and commit violent crimes or dangerous

00:15:02.400 crimes or blow up pipelines when the most you've done is deflate someone's tires and then run

00:15:07.840 away.

00:15:08.200 Here's James Wilt again, the communist.

00:15:10.200 He says, these examples supposedly point to a key argument in the text.

00:15:14.380 This property destruction should be strategically targeted and part of a much broader struggle

00:15:18.720 for social change.

00:15:20.080 Mom derides actions like extinction rebellions blockading of a London subway in 2019 and tens 0.99

00:15:25.800 of thousands of sabotages between 1973 and 2010 by Earth First, Earth Liberation Front and

00:15:31.200 Aminimal Liberation Front as insufficiently strategic due to obstructing working class mobility and

00:15:37.920 failing to engage in a broader mass movement, respectively.

00:15:40.460 Let me just read to you one last story from James Wilt.

00:15:44.680 He talks about when he himself was a protester, a peaceful protester, who was trespassing on

00:15:51.000 company land.

00:15:51.660 I just got to read this to you.

00:15:53.040 So this is James Wilt talking about himself.

00:15:55.240 The encampment led by indigenous land defenders stood up to increasingly escalating tactics by

00:16:01.040 the owner that included setting up floodlights to inhibit sleep, 24-7 security, and private

00:16:07.340 investigators following people from the property.

00:16:09.340 The developer eventually won an injunction, and the encampment fell under threat of police

00:16:14.840 crackdown.

00:16:16.140 Soon after, we received notice that close to 50 of us were being sued by the developer

00:16:20.480 for millions or tens of millions of dollars in alleged damages.

00:16:24.760 We scrambled to find legal representation and funds for a retainer.

00:16:28.180 Many lawyers turned us down given the scope and nature of the case, but we struck lucky with

00:16:32.120 a firm that specialized in construction law.

00:16:34.260 It took us years of legal proceedings and scraping together money and resources before a settlement

00:16:39.820 was eventually reached.

00:16:41.500 We paid out tens of thousands in legal fees and tens of thousands more to the developer.

00:16:46.580 In the process, many members of the group experienced severe mental health distress during

00:16:50.680 this time, including suicidal thoughts.

00:16:53.640 All momentum and militancy behind the action was neutralized as intended by the lawsuit.

00:16:58.720 Popular support evaporated.

00:17:00.320 The forest was clear-cut.

00:17:02.460 We unequivocally lost.

00:17:04.680 Okay, let me just quote one more sentence.

00:17:07.960 If pipelines and petrol stations start to explode across Canada, as Malm is calling for, October 1.00

00:17:14.760 crisis-inspired martial law will be introduced within weeks.

00:17:19.240 All right, well, you see, that's where I disagree with James Wilt.

00:17:22.280 And this is where I say the eco-terrorists actually have the upper hand.

00:17:28.780 Petrol stations, gas stations haven't exploded across Canada, but churches have.

00:17:35.160 Fifty of them torched or vandalized.

00:17:38.040 Pipelines haven't been blown up, but they've been deeply vandalized by other means.

00:17:43.320 And nothing.

00:17:45.280 Not a word from Trudeau or Gilbo.

00:17:47.900 Not a word from Brenda Luckey, Trudeau's woman at the RCMP.

00:17:51.360 You know, my commie friend is wrong.

00:17:54.160 Other than his sorry example of being sued, absolutely nothing has happened to actual eco-terrorists

00:18:02.120 in Canada, other than one of them became Trudeau's environment minister.

00:18:07.800 I think that this is a terrorist provocation.

00:18:12.140 And all the censors in the world, they love it.

00:18:16.360 I think they want it.

00:18:18.960 Stay with us for more.

00:18:20.120 Well, you might not notice the difference, but 155,000 public service employees are on strike.

00:18:39.080 The reason I say I might not know the difference is that when they were working, were they really working?

00:18:43.880 An enormous number of government workers still work from home, even though the rest of the world has moved on from the pandemic.

00:18:51.920 If you had a passport that needed renewed, there was a period of time when you had to wait half a year for that.

00:18:57.900 And the airports were a mess.

00:18:59.980 And I hear from my friends in the industry, it's going to be even more of a mess.

00:19:04.380 All of these things were things that Justin Trudeau's federal government were in charge of.

00:19:09.060 And the union called PISAC.

00:19:11.340 Well, they've been on strike for a few days now.

00:19:14.320 And sometimes their comments are just, you know, they're their own worst enemy.

00:19:19.640 Here's some clips of that.

00:19:21.340 We're not taking over the streets.

00:19:44.680 We're not shutting down airports or borders yet.

00:19:48.420 We're not inconveniencing the public today.

00:19:51.380 We're here on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

00:19:53.900 The public don't care about us being up here.

00:19:56.020 We're not inconveniencing the public by being on Parliament Hill.

00:20:00.300 And that is our strategy.

00:20:02.080 We have strategic picket lines right across the country.

00:20:04.880 And as I said, we haven't, you know, set up picket lines at airports or borders or anything like that to inconvenience the public.

00:20:12.760 But the longer we're out, the public are going to see more and more inconvenience.

00:20:18.300 We don't want to do that.

00:20:19.980 It's up to this government how long this strike lasts.

00:20:23.080 Oh, and I've just got to show you this video.

00:20:25.440 I just, it popped up on my feed.

00:20:27.840 It felt like those videos by the Twitter employees before Elon Musk bought the place where they would talk about,

00:20:35.260 they went to the coffee shop at Twitter and then the spa at Twitter.

00:20:39.080 And they got to work at the crack of 10 and they left at four.

00:20:42.600 Tell me this video by a PSAC worker, a government worker, doesn't feel exactly like the bloated staff Twitter selfie videos before Elon Musk fired 80% of that company.

00:20:57.220 Take a look at this.

00:20:58.060 We proved ourselves that we can work efficiently and more productively from home.

00:21:02.420 And the fact that they're mandating us going back to work two days a week just doesn't make sense.

00:21:07.400 Um, I believe that there, we made the transition, um, in during the pandemic to, uh, work from home.

00:21:15.940 I still believe that the pandemic is not over.

00:21:18.980 Um, going to work is risking getting sick.

00:21:22.080 I feel like working at home, you are still completing your day-to-day tasks.

00:21:26.400 So I think as public servants, we should have the option to choose.

00:21:30.340 Well, listen, obviously there are some good people who work for the government.

00:21:33.080 I'm not saying they're all bad, but the chutzpah in demanding that they get a raise and work from home is just too much.

00:21:41.360 But that's just my point of view.

00:21:42.980 Let's talk to a guy who crunches the numbers for a living and who is an advocate for all taxpayers.

00:21:50.220 You know who I'm talking about.

00:21:51.360 It's one of our favorite guys.

00:21:53.000 Franco Teresano joins me live from Ottawa via Skype.

00:21:56.400 Franco, great to see you.

00:21:57.760 What do you make of this strike?

00:22:00.360 One word comes to mind, privilege.

00:22:03.080 Yeah.

00:22:03.620 Privileged federal bureaucrats who took pay raises during the pandemic, who never had to worry about losing their job.

00:22:10.180 And now they want to take billions more from taxpayers who are worried about their mortgage payments going up, who are worried about the price of gasoline, the price of ground beef.

00:22:20.200 So the word that comes to mind to me, Ezra, is privilege.

00:22:22.680 Yeah.

00:22:23.600 You know, you're so right.

00:22:25.220 And I've probably watched 20 interviews with strikers and there's no rage.

00:22:31.560 There's no sense that they've been wronged or harmed.

00:22:34.720 They're not facing massive layoffs.

00:22:37.380 They're just, oh, well, well, you know, I don't really want to come back to work or, oh, well, I'd like to get more.

00:22:41.960 In fact, a lot of them have this strange talking point.

00:22:44.660 If I get a raise, that's actually good for everyone else because their employees will have to give them raises, too, because that's how it works.

00:22:54.020 Like, it's it's I have never heard of a more pathetic excuse for a strike in my life.

00:22:59.720 There's no passion there.

00:23:01.720 Like these folks have not been wrong.

00:23:03.720 And J.J. McCullough, the cheeky YouTuber from out west, he points out the flag of PESAC, these big industrial gears, as if most of these workers are toiling in some factory in dangerous conditions.

00:23:17.800 They're they're paper pushers and and they've had a two or three year staycation during the lockdowns.

00:23:26.520 I know I'm generalizing, but my God, is there any public sympathy for these strikers?

00:23:32.020 No, I don't think so.

00:23:33.060 And why?

00:23:33.660 I mean, why should there be?

00:23:35.140 Because outside of the bubble of Ottawa, outside of those golden government, golden gates of government, people have been struggling.

00:23:40.780 Now, Ezra, I'm talking fast because you fired me up with that statement that they made saying it's going to benefit all workers.

00:23:48.520 Where do they think they're going to be getting that extra money?

00:23:51.220 Yeah, they're going to be taking it from the pockets of their neighbors.

00:23:53.740 Yeah.

00:23:54.280 Those who work for a business, those who work for themselves, those who hire employees in their own business.

00:24:00.500 Right.

00:24:01.000 Because they're going to have to take that money from taxpayers.

00:24:03.360 And here's what's so crazy is the demands coming from these union negotiators in Ottawa who are pushing for up to a 47 percent compensation increase over three years, up to 47 percent compensation increase over three years.

00:24:17.180 Now, let's talk about that private sector worker, because those demands would cost taxpayers nine point three billion dollars. 1.00

00:24:25.820 Yeah, that's that's crazy.

00:24:28.180 You know, you're exactly right to say it's privilege, peace act privilege.

00:24:32.240 The privilege of never having to worry about making a budget because the government just runs a deficit.

00:24:39.020 The privilege of knowing the only government, the government only gets bigger, never smaller.

00:24:43.220 The privilege of having the slackest.

00:24:45.600 I mean, you were telling us the other day, what's the average income of these folks?

00:24:50.920 Like, look, it's six figures.

00:24:53.360 These are these are the one percenters that they told us about. 0.99

00:24:57.340 What what's the average pay of a peace act privilege worker?

00:25:00.180 The average compensation for the privileged peace act workers who don't deserve a penny more from taxpayers.

00:25:07.140 Now, I don't have peace act specifically, but we have the entire federal bureaucracy.

00:25:12.220 Are you ready for it?

00:25:12.960 Let's remember peace act is representing the largest union.

00:25:16.280 We have about one hundred fifty thousand people on strike.

00:25:18.280 So the average compensation of all the federal bureaucrats is one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

00:25:24.680 Let me give you some more numbers, and this is why people should be so fired up, OK, because during the pandemic years since 2020, over the last three years, the federal government has handed out more than eight hundred thousand raises.

00:25:37.460 Listen to that, folks. Over the last three years, the government has handed out over eight hundred thousand raises.

00:25:44.680 We've already know that more than 90 percent of all federal employees took at least one pay raise during the pandemic.

00:25:50.640 The Fed's handed out five hundred and fifty nine million dollars in bonuses since 2020.

00:25:55.640 The Fed's hired more than thirty one thousand new bureaucrats over the last two years. 0.93

00:26:00.860 So here's what happened.

00:26:02.360 Taxpayers paid for hundreds of thousands of pay raises, hundreds of millions in bonuses and for tens of thousands of new employees.

00:26:09.160 And now these privileged bureaucrats are going on strike, demanding to take billions more from their struggling neighbors across Canada.

00:26:16.860 You know, I'm thinking that one guy who said, I mean, a lot of them say this.

00:26:20.420 Well, if I get a raise, that'll have a domino effect for everyone else.

00:26:23.560 That's just that's just not real life.

00:26:26.200 I mean, I think of the guy a block or two away from my house who opened a restaurant that was shut down by the pandemic.

00:26:34.580 Who's he going to get this raise from?

00:26:36.760 I mean, he lost everything, by the way, because of the government.

00:26:40.360 And you open a restaurant. Who do you get a raise from?

00:26:42.860 Who do you ask for a raise and say, hey, P.S.A.C. got a raise.

00:26:46.740 Can I get a raise? You're like it just it shows the strange bubble they're in.

00:26:52.280 Well, you're getting me revved up in turn, Franco.

00:26:55.440 People can learn more at taxpayer.com. Am I right?

00:26:59.120 Yes. Well, thank you for having me on. Please go to taxpayer.com.

00:27:02.160 One last comment I want to leave your list, your viewers with, Ezra, is, hey, pay raises are for when you do a good job.

00:27:08.600 Yeah.

00:27:08.920 But has this federal government really been doing a good job?

00:27:11.300 Why do they think that they deserve a raise with your money?

00:27:14.500 That's the question, folks.

00:27:15.520 That is you. You nailed it.

00:27:18.140 You know, people talk about white privilege or male privilege.

00:27:21.860 There is a government privilege when it comes to salaries.

00:27:25.260 And these folks want more.

00:27:26.540 And that is not how the world should be.

00:27:28.720 Franco Teresano, taxpayer.com.

00:27:30.520 Good egg. Keep up the fight. 0.99

00:27:33.240 Thanks, Ezra.

00:27:34.000 All right. Stay with us.

00:27:35.800 More ahead.

00:27:45.520 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me.

00:27:49.300 Diane Sanger says, Tucker always lets us know when he's expressing his own opinion and always tries to find common ground.

00:27:55.540 Democracy cannot function without debate and coming to an agreed settlement so that society can move forward.

00:28:02.160 Yeah. You know, if someone is saying things that challenge you, I think better that they be said and hashed out than silenced or hidden.

00:28:10.660 I don't know exactly what's going on.

00:28:12.400 I mean, news is trickling out, but it's really rumors.

00:28:15.480 Why did they fire Tucker and how does firing him solve the problem for Fox?

00:28:20.180 I don't quite know.

00:28:21.640 But that's less important to me than hoping that he has a journalistic future.

00:28:26.060 I think we'll hear from him soon enough.

00:28:29.420 The Holistic Surrogate says, so what happens to Tucker's documentary O Canada now?

00:28:34.360 I'm guessing Fox was paying the bill for that.

00:28:36.640 Think it had anything to do with his release, Ezra?

00:28:38.680 I'm so curious.

00:28:39.380 No, I don't think that the O Canada documentary was the turning point.

00:28:44.340 I think it was other things, either his monologues on the deep state or the Ukraine war, January 6th, or who knows if there were legal matters.

00:28:54.740 Fox News just signed a huge settlement with Dominion Voting.

00:28:57.540 So I think that was the issue.

00:29:01.260 I'm really sad we were one week away from seeing that O Canada documentary.

00:29:07.380 Ray Fraser says, Canada needs the CBC once they become neutral and represent the views of all Canadians, which was their original mandate.

00:29:14.320 Why does Canada need that outlet any more than it needed the Sun News Network, which I was a part of a decade ago, or CTV or Global or CNN or Fox?

00:29:25.960 I don't understand why CBC is needed.

00:29:28.860 That's certainly not what Canadians seem to say in terms of voting with their remote control, voting with their web browser.

00:29:37.760 CBC's viewership is falling, even though Canada's population is growing and CBC's budget is growing.

00:29:43.420 I think it's the relic of an old time.

00:29:46.640 I don't want to pay for the CBC, do you?

00:29:51.080 That's our show for today.

00:29:52.640 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:29:57.700 And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - April 25, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ How do you feel about a movie calling for eco-terrorism against oil companies？

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