Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ In Davos politicians face questions they dodge in Canada

00:00:00.000 tonight big day in davos at the world economic forum it's january 21st and this is the astral

00:00:21.520 event show oh hi everybody we're at the airbnb in clusters one town over from davos where the world

00:00:43.820 economic forum has its big meaning we can't get into davos itself as you know because every single

00:00:50.900 hotel room and airbnb is booked up by the organizers so you have to stay one town two town three towns

00:00:56.840 over and take the train in every morning i'm not complaining we love to do it it's uh just part of

00:01:02.600 the story of how reclusive and exclusive the world economic forum is uh that said uh it seems to be

00:01:10.720 popular because this year had the highest turnout ever both in terms of paying guests but also world

00:01:18.560 leaders you had everyone from a to z uh z being zelensky donald trump being the a team um he gave

00:01:27.600 a 90 minute speech to delegates about a thousand of them in the room and everyone else basically

00:01:33.460 watching the speech from their phone um what he says matters more than all of them put together and

00:01:40.220 i should tell you that a lot of his message was just being a pep uh talk pep rally booster for the

00:01:46.300 united states and its economy and how well the economy is doing he spent a lot of time going

00:01:51.320 through how well the united states is doing compared to the previous president and by the way it's all

00:01:57.920 true um he talked a lot about how countries free ride on the united states and i disagree with some of

00:02:06.500 his calculations he calls a trade deficit you know or a trade surplus he thinks that that's taking money

00:02:13.540 away or giving money away and i suppose in some sense it's true but for example if the united states

00:02:19.600 buys a hundred million hundred billion dollars worth of oil from canada um and they pay for that oil

00:02:26.380 they're getting something for it it's not like they just gave the money away to canada and so i'm not

00:02:32.320 quite sure if i agree with how he calculates things but let me come down to the the more basic truth

00:02:37.820 which is every country in the world loves to trade with the united states and every country in the

00:02:44.080 free world loves to be protected from the united states and i don't know if you were following this

00:02:48.120 but a few days ago a number of uncomfortable allies in nato sent a token soldier or two to greenland

00:02:57.100 as a show of force in case donald trump tries something my favorite part was that there was a single

00:03:02.860 as in one soldier from the uk that was sent they all came into one little plane uh the rest of them

00:03:08.960 and as howard lutnik said hang on you guys have not sent any soldiers into ukraine but you're sending

00:03:17.260 soldiers into greenland so you won't send soldiers in to fight against russia but you'll send soldiers

00:03:24.380 into greenland to sort of show america you'll fight it or something and um another

00:03:32.620 uh trump cabinet minister scott percent likes to point out that germany alone spends more money

00:03:39.540 on russian oil and gas even to this day than it has sent ukraine to fund the war so in in effect

00:03:47.280 germany is on the other side of the war just from a financial point of view there's a lot of hard

00:03:53.000 truths that europeans still like to hear and the canadians still like to hear and listen um i mean i i the

00:03:58.700 one line i always quote from wab canoe the premier of manitoba says we don't want to be your 51st state

00:04:04.620 but we want to be your number one friend i mean who knows what's going to happen with the alberta

00:04:08.740 independence uh referendum it would not shock me if that thing passes i don't know if albertans would

00:04:13.700 choose to be the 51st state i think they would rather be a very wealthy very happy small country of

00:04:18.980 their own um i think there there is some correlation between small size and happiness in countries

00:04:25.000 anyways that's for another day here let me show you some excerpts from trump's speech here's just i'm

00:04:31.240 going to show a few of them and um it was a 90 minute speech and i tried my best to listen to all of

00:04:37.780 it but i was running around a little bit outside here here are let's say five symbolic or key moments

00:04:44.200 from trump's remarks this afternoon i want to discuss how we have achieved this economic miracle

00:04:50.720 how we intend to raise living standards for our citizens to levels never seen before

00:04:55.500 and perhaps how you too and the places where you come from can do much better by following what we're

00:05:02.520 doing because certain places in europe are not even recognizable frankly anymore they're not

00:05:08.620 recognizable and we can argue about it but there's no argument friends come back from different places

00:05:15.840 i don't want to insult anybody and say i don't recognize it and that's not in a positive way that's

00:05:22.900 in a very negative way and i love europe and i want to see europe go good but it's not heading in the

00:05:29.780 right direction in recent decades it became conventional wisdom in washington and european capitals that the only

00:05:38.420 way to grow a modern western economy was through ever increasing government spending unchecked mass

00:05:44.780 migration and endless foreign imports the consensus was that so-called dirty jobs and heavy industries 1.00

00:05:51.600 should be sent elsewhere that affordable energy should be replaced by the green news scam

00:05:57.040 and that countries could be propped up by importing new and entirely different populations from

00:06:03.780 faraway lands this was the path that sleepy joe biden administration and many other western governments

00:06:11.540 very foolishly followed turning their backs on everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong

00:06:19.640 and there's so much potential in so many nations the result was record budget and trade deficits and a

00:06:27.800 growing sovereign deficit driven by the largest wave of mass migration in human history we've never seen

00:06:35.320 anything like it quite frankly many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes and

00:06:41.100 the leaders don't even understand what's happening and the ones that do understand aren't doing anything

00:06:46.580 about it virtually all of the so-called experts predicted my plans to end this failed model

00:06:52.660 would trigger a global recession and runaway inflation but we have proven them wrong it's actually just the

00:07:00.520 opposite instead of empowering bureaucrats we're firing them and they're going out and getting jobs

00:07:07.660 in the private sector for two and three times what they were making in government so they started

00:07:15.160 off hating me when we fired them and now they love me instead of raising taxes on domestic producers

00:07:22.460 we're lowering them and raising tariffs on foreign nations to pay for the damage that they've caused

00:07:29.560 in 12 months we have removed over 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal payrolls

00:07:36.660 the largest single year reduction in government employment since the end of world war ii

00:07:42.300 nobody thought that was coming but we had no choice to make a country great you can't have all federal jobs

00:07:50.060 we're cutting illegal aliens off welfare and other government benefits and i have directed that starting 1.00

00:07:55.620 immediately there will be no more payments to sanctuary cities because they are really just

00:08:01.500 sanctuaries for criminals they're really protecting criminals and those are the ones we have to get out of the

00:08:06.100 country murderers drug dealers the mentally insane they emptied their mental institutions into the united 0.90

00:08:13.860 states and despite that we have the lowest crime numbers that we've ever had in the history of the

00:08:19.120 country just came out but equally importantly we're cracking down on more than 19 billion dollars in

00:08:26.720 fraud that was stolen by somalian bandits can you believe that somalia they turned out to be higher iq than we

00:08:34.540 thought i always say these are low iq people how do they go into minnesota and steal all that money

00:08:40.520 venezuela has been an amazing place for so many years but then they went bad with their policies 20

00:08:48.100 years ago it was a great country and now it's got problems but we're helping them and those 50 million

00:08:55.640 barrels we're going to be splitting up with them and they'll be making more money

00:09:01.760 they've made it a long time venezuela is going to do fantastically well we appreciate all of the

00:09:07.580 cooperation we've been giving we've been given great cooperation once the attack ended

00:09:14.000 the attack ended and they said let's make a deal more people should do that

00:09:19.940 but venezuela is going to make more money in the next six months than they've made in the last 20 years

00:09:27.260 every major oil company is coming in with us it's amazing it's a beautiful thing to see

00:09:33.320 the leadership of the country has been uh very good they've been very very smart we never ask for

00:09:41.880 anything and we never got anything we probably won't get anything unless i decide to use excessive

00:09:48.900 strength and force where we would be frankly unstoppable but i won't do that okay now everyone's saying oh

00:09:59.720 good that's probably the biggest statement i made because people thought i would use force i don't have

00:10:06.160 to use force i don't want to use force i won't use force all the united states is asking for is a place

00:10:12.600 called greenland where we already had it as a trustee but respectfully returned it back to denmark not

00:10:20.680 long ago after we defeated the germans the japanese the italians and others in world war ii we gave it back

00:10:28.280 to them we were a powerful force then but we are much more powerful force now after i rebuilt the military

00:10:36.040 in my first term and continue to do so today we have a budget of 1.5 trillion dollars we're bringing

00:10:43.420 back battleships the battleship is 100 times more powerful than the great battleships you saw in world

00:10:51.740 war ii so what we have gotten out of nato is nothing except to protect europe from the soviet union and

00:11:02.600 now russia i mean we've helped them for so many years we've never gotten anything except we pay for

00:11:08.360 nato and we paid for many years until i came along we paid for in my opinion 100 of nato because they

00:11:15.560 weren't paying their bills and all we're asking for is to get greenland including right title and

00:11:24.360 ownership because you need the ownership to defend it you can't defend it on a lease number one legally it's

00:11:32.200 not defensible that way totally and number two psychologically who the hell wants to defend

00:11:40.280 a license agreement or at least which is a large piece of ice in the middle of the ocean where

00:11:48.200 if there is a war much of the action will take place on that piece of ice think of it

00:11:53.480 those missiles would be flying right over the center of that piece of ice 0.55

00:11:56.920 all we want from denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and

00:12:06.840 dangerous potential enemies at bay is this land on which we're going to build the greatest golden dome

00:12:13.560 ever built we're building a golden dome that's going to just by its very nature

00:12:18.760 going to be defending canada canada gets a lot of freebies from us by the way they should be grateful

00:12:27.480 also but they're not i watch your prime minister yesterday he wasn't so grateful but they should

00:12:33.560 be grateful to us canada canada lives because of the united states remember that mark the next time you

00:12:40.920 make your statements well of course you know european sensibilities don't like that

00:12:47.240 hustler that salesman that pep rally style they're more somber and emo but who cares i mean it is true

00:12:55.400 that the u.s economy is growing and growing fast and it's the envy of the world and the united states

00:13:00.680 military is by far the envy of the world and i think that the stunning success of decapitating venezuela

00:13:06.840 and sort of taking over the husk of the dictatorship that remains is so shocking and so unbelievable i

00:13:14.600 think that that alone is bending the will of hostile leaders from nicaragua to colombia to cuba i think

00:13:23.480 you may see a totally free western hemisphere by the way javier mille was in town um i just why i just

00:13:32.040 happened to be walking by when he came out of a building i mean i was 10 feet away from him i

00:13:36.520 i called out to him just to say hi really uh he didn't respond but it was fun to just by random

00:13:43.000 chance i almost bumped into the guy here take a quick look mr mille are you excited about trump's

00:13:49.000 speech today mr president are you excited about trump's speech today yeah that's davos for you there's more

00:13:58.680 vvips per square foot than anywhere else in the world i mean it was it's sort of incredible when you

00:14:04.440 think about it um i want to show you what uh you may have seen this because we emailed this out not

00:14:12.280 on the ezra levant show it's my eight minute walking scrum with christia freeland who i bumped into like

00:14:19.880 i almost missed her she's short and was walking by herself and just i wasn't really i didn't really catch

00:14:25.480 her but my videographer did and uh i wanted to ask her about the fact that she signed up to be 0.82

00:14:32.760 an agent of the ukrainian government before she had resigned as an agent of the canadian government

00:14:37.080 she was working for two governments at once at a exact moment when canada was sending 2.5 billion

00:14:43.960 to ukraine it was such a bad look i asked her about that and then i talked to her a little bit more

00:14:49.720 about the truckers and how the federal court of appeal just confirmed three to zero that what she

00:14:55.080 did was illegal when she seized and froze bank accounts so there was one judge in the trial court

00:15:00.920 at federal court and three more judges at the federal court of appeal that's four judges in a

00:15:06.600 row that said her conduct in specific was unconstitutional and illegal asked her about that

00:15:12.200 too here take a look at this video watch all the way to the end when we have a little bit of a

00:15:16.200 surprise for you take a look miss freeland why didn't you disclose your job offer from ukraine

00:15:23.640 to the conflict of ethics commissioner within seven days as required hi nice to see you i just i

00:15:31.880 disclosed it to the ethics commissioner immediately are you sure about that because you didn't tell

00:15:36.760 the prime minister for two days i told the prime minister as soon as i spoke to him as soon as i could

00:15:42.040 speak to him why did you keep it secret from the public though until the president of ukraine tweeted

00:15:47.320 it out it wasn't finalized are you sure it wasn't because you guys were shipping two and

00:15:53.160 a half billion dollars out and it would be odd to have you on both sides of the deal

00:15:58.600 that was a decision of the prime minister and let me just say i think canada should be proud

00:16:06.440 to support ukraine and i don't think that's a question you you were on both sides of the deal

00:16:12.120 was the question i wasn't on both sides of the deal i actually wasn't at that meeting with the prime

00:16:16.040 minister but in any event let me be very clear ukraine is fighting for canada's security and for

00:16:25.160 canada's democracy but that doesn't no one's disagreeing with that in our conversation i answered

00:16:32.200 your questions very clearly go ahead ukraine is fighting for canada ukraine is fighting for democracy

00:16:40.280 in ukraine and in the world we benefit from supporting ukraine i'm proud of the support that

00:16:46.600 canada has given and i've been very very proud but you have to be you have to follow the law hang on i

00:16:54.040 do you have to follow the law oh i follow i followed the law 100 percent well i followed

00:16:58.760 the law 100 and let me just be clear your questions are about casting doubt on support for ukraine no

00:17:07.080 it's about casting that on your ethics no your questions are about casting doubt on support for

00:17:11.000 ukraine i think you should be you're trying to misdirect you're trying to misdirect no i am telling

00:17:16.760 how can you be on both sides of the deal you should be ashamed of yourselves i'm not ashamed i'm

00:17:22.440 ashamed of your misconduct his job for him i have behaved ethically at every moment and i'm very

00:17:29.800 proud you were you were canada's special envoy to ukraine while while you had an offer pending

00:17:35.800 from ukraine your question you have not you have tried to distract and misdirect i have not tried to

00:17:42.200 distract for one minute where are you living these days where is your home here are you in the uk are you

00:17:48.360 in ukraine or you in canada so that is not pertinent to the question interesting question but my home is

00:17:54.600 in toronto thank you very much do you still work for the roads trust i haven't started that job are

00:18:00.360 you going to do that job as well yes the job for ukraine is voluntary and unpaid thank you very much

00:18:07.160 thank you why why did you freeze bank accounts of canadian well that's a good question that i don't

00:18:12.200 think you've ever answered the federal court of appeal recently ruled three zero that your decision

00:18:17.400 was unconstitutional do you regret that you seized and froze bank accounts the federal court of appeal

00:18:24.440 said that was unconstitutional any regrets

00:18:29.480 no regrets do you have an apology for the people whose bank accounts you illegally seized

00:18:34.920 are you still happy about it i'm proud of standing up for canadians are you proud of breaking the law

00:18:42.040 that's the charter you broke ma'am that's not just any old law

00:18:46.280 four judges in a row have agreed you broke the law

00:18:52.680 you're a law breaker that's weird

00:18:55.000 i've answered your question you should be really proud and i think you should be ashamed of yourself

00:19:05.880 for what for doing poochins work you froze canadians bank accounts you're still a lawbreaker and you're

00:19:12.600 still four to zero judges saying you're a lawbreaker your legacy is a lawbreaker

00:19:19.880 your legacy is someone who turned our banking system into a third world system a banana republic 1.00

00:19:34.600 you have no compunction you're fine with what you did you don't regret it as i said i've spoken to you

00:19:42.600 and we're finished but you haven't answered the fact that four judges say you broke the law

00:19:46.920 you don't think you need any public statement on that

00:19:51.480 i've spoken at length about the issues that i need not since the court of appeal ruled

00:19:55.960 the court of appeal said you're a lawbreaker you haven't said anything since then that this

00:20:00.200 constitutes harassment by people who are doing poochins job for him you're a censor aren't you 0.69

00:20:06.360 you would love to take my bank account wouldn't you extremely

00:20:10.040 embarrassed and ashamed of them not embarrassed at all i didn't break the law like you did

00:20:13.640 you should be ashamed of yourself i'm neither shamed or embarrassed because i'm not a lawbreaker like you

00:20:22.360 four judges say you're a lawbreaker four judges say you violated the constitution

00:20:27.160 four judges said you illegally stole money what are they are they right or wrong

00:20:30.920 what do you say to tamara leach what do you say to people who are wrongfully arrested because of

00:20:44.840 your illegal invocation of the martial law

00:20:52.760 don't you care about civil liberties the liberals used to claim they cared about civil liberties

00:20:56.920 well i for one i'm glad you're gone hopefully canada's seen the last of you

00:21:05.640 you know it's funny i've had more access to canadian government cabinet ministers in the last

00:21:11.640 two days than i have had in the last two years um i had a walk and talk with francois philippe champagne

00:21:18.600 um you know i was just so stunned that he actually sort of called me over and i didn't want to give

00:21:26.200 him too much of softball but i didn't want to fight with him brawl with him either because i was i guess

00:21:32.360 i was stunned it had never happened to me before that a liberal cabinet minister and i mean his answers

00:21:38.280 were not good his they were not compelling they were talking points but here this is me interviewing

00:21:43.560 canada's finance minister and minister of national revenue me ezra levant the rebel take a look for

00:21:49.320 saying hello i'm ezra levant yeah i've seen you before i think no i've seen you in the not often

00:21:55.560 yeah we just said hello to justin trudeau did you know he was here i have i've heard of it but i've

00:22:01.480 not seen it he's here with katie perry they look great together well listen if you say so can i ask you

00:22:08.200 a question about china and qatar both of those countries have human rights records and you guys

00:22:13.080 didn't emphasize that publicly did you raise that privately with them what i would say you know every

00:22:20.280 g7 countries i found a word to engage in a strategic fashion uh with china for example um with eyes wide

00:22:32.760 open and canada is no different so you know we just remain very true to our own values but at the

00:22:40.760 same time as you've seen with all our g7 partners uh people find a a way to engage uh with china but

00:22:49.320 a lot of the deal with china thank you so much i appreciate that

00:22:54.120 that's okay thank you very much minister he's always he's on tv i just need to know where i'm

00:23:00.920 going i'm not asking unfair questions i don't think listen i'm working with you thank you for

00:23:07.160 that i'm working with you now doug ford says that chinese-made electric vehicles have spyware in them

00:23:13.480 i think he's talking about the cameras and sensors that go through chinese uh servers i call it the spy car

00:23:19.000 that they're bringing in and uh they won't be allowed to get over there and it's going to take

00:23:23.960 off the americans uh 80 of our autos are going down there but now throw china in here for what 0.98

00:23:31.240 uh they aren't going to manufacture here so it's just a terrible terrible miscalculated decision

00:23:37.000 by the prime minister what do you think about that is that a risk i think you would have to ask him

00:23:42.600 israel recently limited chinese electric vehicles that its officers can drive because they were worried

00:23:48.120 about that threat do you think that it would be wise to have a limit that no canadian forces could

00:23:53.400 drive a chinese-made ev well like i said it's it's eyes wide open that's that's what uh we have to do

00:23:59.160 and that's how we have to engage like i said like all our g7 partners uh which i found a a a

00:24:06.120 strategic way to engage eyes wide open true to their values and like i said we're no different

00:24:12.360 thank you for walking with me my last question yes is at least it's sunny today that's right it's not too

00:24:17.800 to call for you the foreign minister said that canada has a new foreign policy that's quite a

00:24:23.240 bold thing to say not long ago in your indo-pacific strategy you called china a global disruptive power 1.00

00:24:29.000 do you still not believe that's the case or has your language around china softened

00:24:34.680 this is a new government with a new prime minister a new foreign policy and a new geopolitical environment

00:24:44.760 in this moment of economic stress for our country it is necessary for us to diversify

00:24:56.280 our trading partners and to grow non-us trade it was never really raised in the election there wasn't

00:25:03.880 a debate or a vote in parliament do you think that there needs to be a democratic test of this new

00:25:09.960 foreign policy because it's swung us away from america towards china and other countries and

00:25:16.040 that's a big shift well i think you you need to adapt i mean you and i would agree that the world has changed

00:25:22.840 significantly in the last few months i mean i think it's something you and i can agree on and therefore

00:25:30.120 you know you you you're well advised you have to show humility and humility as they say if the world

00:25:35.880 change you need to adapt to new circumstances in the world and that's what we're doing but like i

00:25:41.400 said if you look at our partners around the world they've also adapted in light of this different world

00:25:47.480 we see the speed scope and scale of change which is quite unprecedented some would say you have to go

00:25:53.640 back to 1945 some would say you go to the fall of berlin but that's why you need to adapt to this new

00:25:59.720 reality to protect canadian interests to promote canadian interests and that's what we're doing

00:26:05.560 last question and thanks again for talking with the last one well i got one last last last it's

00:26:09.720 a very short one this is like one was the question this is the follow-up it's a deficit it's it's the

00:26:16.760 hst on top of my other questions yeah um some kind of reduce it for a first time home buyer okay and

00:26:22.440 cancel the carbon tax did you report on that those are good news you know you've got a lot of good news

00:26:28.200 last question i promise it's the last one um the united kingdom germany other countries sent a

00:26:34.760 handful of troops to greenland as a symbolic statement do you know if canada is thinking of

00:26:39.320 sending any troops to greenland as a symbolic statement we will continue to support the kingdom

00:26:46.280 of denmark and greenland it's a broader question of what are the operating principles upon which we

00:26:55.960 undertake our diplomatic relations and the operating principles while this world is so volatile the

00:27:03.720 operating principles themselves haven't changed the operating principles are state sovereignty and

00:27:10.760 territorial integrity and those principles underpin our membership in nato and our relationships

00:27:21.640 diplomatically around the world i would refer to the statement of the prime minister you say we've been

00:27:27.800 very clear in our principle that the future of greenland um uh is for the people of greenland to

00:27:34.680 design in denmark and we've been very clear about respecting the uh the territorial integrity of

00:27:42.760 of greenland minister thank you for walking and talking with me i really appreciate it pleasure all

00:27:47.160 the best to you i'll see you again i'm sure i hope so thank you minister he's got a great job be careful

00:27:52.040 because it's tough to walk backwards yeah he's got the tougher job with a big backpack to get hurt

00:27:57.400 thank you minister thank you very much minister and by the way he walked by the second time and shook

00:28:04.280 my hand again i have no idea what's going on and slightly uh scary uh here's me asking a couple of

00:28:10.920 questions of melanie jolie and then she sort of ran away which i didn't think was very brave but again

00:28:17.080 when was the last time i was allowed to get within 20 feet of her take a look at me and melanie jolie 0.95

00:28:22.440 the minister of industry why are you cozying up to china with their human rights abuses china and hamas 0.99

00:28:29.000 there's a bit of a pattern there don't you think i'm sorry are you going to trip right now no i don't

00:28:33.640 think so but i'm worried that you're that you are whitewashing china's human rights abuses just to

00:28:39.880 troll donald trump well listen you can explain that uh to your your viewers we have a different

00:28:48.200 point of view and so we're doing it for us for canada well but your prime minister said that china

00:28:53.800 was the number one security threat and now he's making a partnership with them i think the biggest

00:28:57.960 security threat to canada is china so you heard what the prime minister had to say what do you have

00:29:02.760 to say about this thank you guys come on we're just we're just trying to do a job here thanks and

00:29:08.440 i'm trying to do my job as well that's great run away bravely run away bravely run away there's

00:29:13.720 canada's great pride right there and then of course you saw yesterday that i did a walk and talk with

00:29:21.880 justin trudeau again he sometimes stonewalled me or gas lit me or just gave bs answers but do you see

00:29:28.840 my point um and why is it the and then of course christia freeland why is that i mean you've got

00:29:35.720 trudeau himself christia freeland uh franco philippe champagne and and and melanie joly and i there's

00:29:42.760 still a chance i'll bump into anita and and the foreign minister if i can find her isn't that crazy

00:29:48.280 no it's not crazy it's just what happens when you're in a place when the police don't arrest you

00:29:53.960 for asking questions of politicians for the last 10 years we have lived in a system called canada

00:30:00.200 where when rebel news reporters get close to politicians we are physically swept away sometimes

00:30:06.520 like in the case of david menzies physically beat up it's outrageous in fact menzies would beat up twice

00:30:12.440 once by trudeau's bodyguards and once by freeland's own bodyguards that's not normal here in davos they

00:30:20.200 think it's normal that ordinary people can walk up to politicians and ask them questions don't touch

00:30:25.320 them don't threaten them don't hit them of course not but ask them tough questions and if you watch

00:30:31.960 the whole tape of me scrumming christia freeland you'll see at the end some police were sort of

00:30:36.520 concerned i don't know if freeland had called the cops she had just talked about uh what you know we

00:30:41.800 were harassing her the cops came over asked for her id made some calls and said okay you're fine just

00:30:47.880 you know stay calm and um that would never happen canada i would be sitting in jail my videographer

00:30:55.240 would be in jail and it's actually sort of sad that i can meet more of my own country's politicians in

00:31:03.560 switzerland than i can in my own countries and that's shocking and gross and sad all at the same time

00:31:10.200 anyways so we had a few more uh you know we had some very short uh interactions and we had some

00:31:18.920 longer ones i had a very short interaction with tedros let me just tell you how tedros adenum the uh

00:31:24.680 world health uh organization boss i had with i had just finished talking to melanie jolie she had ran in 0.58

00:31:31.800 so i turned around to walk and i just bam there's tedros uh the head of the world health organization and

00:31:38.680 to to think oh who is that oh that's tedros oh right what are my questions for him like that

00:31:44.360 you got to think of that like you've got three seconds seriously because they're about to walk

00:31:48.600 away so i'm not sure how well i did in fact that's sort of how it is out there in davos you see someone

00:31:54.840 and you have to think okay who is that okay what do they do okay what are my questions for them that

00:32:01.000 might be interesting and it's it really is uh a way to keep your noggin jogging because you got to

00:32:07.880 switch gears and switch subjects but i was i suppose i was sort of ready for justin trudeau

00:32:12.760 and christian freeland because i think about the things they did a lot other people like tedros i

00:32:17.080 i suppose i don't think about him that much tedros do you have any regrets about the mandatory

00:32:22.600 vaccines and people being fired for not taking them now that we know that that they didn't really

00:32:28.280 do the job do you have any regrets i think countries have the right to decide based on

00:32:34.040 the risk the situation in their countries if you had to do it all over again would you do anything

00:32:38.600 differently anyways another very interesting day out here and we'll be here for a couple more days

00:32:46.360 in fact tomorrow we're having the private town hall meeting for donors of a hundred dollars or more who

00:32:51.480 helped chip in to um crowdfund our trip and uh you can get more information at wefreports.com if you

00:33:00.200 want to get on that list anyway it's uh really late here let me just check what time it is it's

00:33:05.960 11 30 p.m and we get up so early because we gotta uh get on that we have to walk to the train station

00:33:13.000 to take the train um to the next town over so unfortunately we're not going on a lot of sleep but i think we're

00:33:19.480 actually having a great impact out here i think we're making a real difference i hope you think

00:33:23.880 so too we'll see you tomorrow night if we can on the um zoom town hall meeting with abhi and i and um

00:33:31.400 until next time on behalf of all of us at rebel news to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - January 22, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ In Davos politicians face questions they dodge in Canada

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