Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Is Trump really serious about Canada becoming the 51st state？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. What do you make of this whole 51st state thing that Trump keeps tweeting at

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00:01:35.880 Tonight, Donald Trump keeps poking Canada in unusual ways. He's really pushing the 51st state idea.

00:01:58.840 Why is he doing that, and what should Canadians say in replying? It's December 18th, and this is the

00:02:04.480 Ezra LeVant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:02:20.440 It started out with a tweet, as many things do when it comes to Donald Trump. He said he wanted both

00:02:27.240 Canada and Mexico to tighten up their borders with the United States to stop two things, illegal drugs

00:02:34.820 and illegal immigrants. Now, if he had just ended things there, I'm not sure anything would have 1.00

00:02:40.940 happened. I mean, do you? I mean, Trump has been saying that for years. During his whole campaign,

00:02:47.780 during the four years he was out of office, and during the four years he was president the first time.

00:02:52.540 So I think politicians and diplomats and bureaucrats in the permanent state would say, sure, yeah, blah,

00:02:59.660 blah, blah. That's just Trump being Trump. What's new, right? So he added a bit of jet fuel to it. He

00:03:06.940 demanded that these countries fix the borders by January 20th, the day he takes office. That's quite

00:03:13.780 some demand to make. It gave both Canada and Mexico enough time, though, if they were truly interested in

00:03:20.920 cooperating to at least agree in principle and to come up with a bit of a plan. I mean, aren't we supposed

00:03:27.040 to be enforcing the laws now anyways? We already have police and border police. Why not, you know, just

00:03:34.660 enforce the laws of our own country? You'd think we'd enforce our own laws for our own sake or else what's the

00:03:41.920 point of us having a law. But it was that final flourish, the or else part of his tweet, do this

00:03:48.860 or be slapped with a 25% tariff on anything you export to the United States. Of course, that really

00:03:56.100 has nothing to do with fixing the border, other than I suppose the irony of taxing legal imports 0.56

00:04:03.620 with a tariff while illegal imports of drugs continue. I don't think you have to be a master

00:04:09.140 negotiator though to know that that's just Trump's way of adding an exclamation point. He's got our

00:04:15.480 attention. Just do the right thing and the threat goes away. I don't think he wants to do the threat

00:04:21.740 part. He wants you to look at that and be motivated to do the real thing he wants, seal the border, which

00:04:28.760 we should want to do anyways, especially if Trump is about to engage in a mass deportation. We don't want

00:04:34.420 those folks just traipsing across into Canada. It's in our interest too. Now, Mexico complied

00:04:41.520 pretty much immediately. Trudeau did not. Now, he flew down to Mar-a-Lago for dinner and he was

00:04:49.380 welcomed. That's quite a powerful table that had gathered there, including the incoming commerce

00:04:55.360 secretary. But obviously things didn't go as well as Trump wanted because the next day Trump's side

00:05:01.680 leaked to the media that Trump had been joking about the 51st state thing. Obviously a joke,

00:05:07.160 but a joke that would resonate. It touches on Canadian insecurities, I think. It touches on the

00:05:12.140 historical battles that we've had with America going back centuries, War of 1812. And more recently,

00:05:18.860 what happens when Canadian prime ministers get offside with U.S. presidents? Here's an old film I

00:05:25.620 found. The White House lawn is fast becoming an international heliport. President Johnson comes

00:05:34.780 out to greet a welcome visitor, Canada's Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who with his wife arrives

00:05:40.460 for a two-day visit, a visit Mr. Pearson had promised upon his election last fall. Mr. Pearson has recently

00:05:48.100 returned from conferences with French President Charles de Gaulle. And though he thinks U.S. French

00:05:53.020 differences are not unbridgeable, he is not here as a go-between. He is here to promote U.S.-Canadian

00:05:58.840 cooperation. As his Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Paul Martin, then U.S. Secretary of State

00:06:04.940 Dean Russ, signed the treaty for a multi-million dollar power and flood control development for

00:06:10.120 the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest. Later, the two presidents sign a treaty of a more

00:06:19.040 sentimental nature. This agreement makes an international park of the summer home of President

00:06:23.800 Franklin D. Roosevelt at Campobello Island. Thus, in the realms of the future and the past,

00:06:29.180 the United States and the Dominion of Canada draw closer together.

00:06:34.860 That was the happy propaganda version. Everything's fine. It wasn't really between those leaders in

00:06:40.860 particular. Here's a snippet that wasn't in the news until much later. Things even got physical in 1965

00:06:48.740 when Pearson made a speech at Temple University proposing a pause for peace. Later, at Camp David,

00:06:56.420 an infuriated Johnson grabbed the Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister by the lapels and screamed,

00:07:02.080 don't you come into my house and piss on my rug. You can certainly get it. I mean, imagine a foreign 1.00

00:07:08.260 leader coming into your country and denouncing your war. So things aren't always friendly between U.S.

00:07:14.080 presidents and Canadian prime ministers. It's a real art being the smaller party in that partnership,

00:07:20.060 and Trudeau doesn't have it. Anyways, you know all of this, but my point is Trump has not stopped

00:07:25.820 poking at Canada and Trudeau. In fact, he's done it again and again. He put out social media posts

00:07:32.400 pretty much taunting Trudeau, or Canada as a whole even, like this one implying a U.S. invasion,

00:07:38.540 maybe, I don't know, or this one just deliberately calling Canada a state, and Trudeau a governor.

00:07:45.860 He's done that again and again, actually, and when Chrystia Freeland detonated Trudeau the other day,

00:07:51.040 Trump tweeted his sympathy to Trudeau and said Freeland herself was toxic, and the latest one was this one.

00:07:58.520 He said, no one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100 million a year. Makes no sense.

00:08:09.100 Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st state. They would save massively on taxes and military

00:08:14.360 protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st state! Now, I'm not exactly sure how Trump believes

00:08:21.940 they subsidize Canada each year, unless that's a typo. He's saying $100 million, and you may know

00:08:29.900 two-way trade between our countries is about a trillion dollars, or 10,000 times that. I think

00:08:35.000 he probably meant to say $100 billion, and I'm guessing he means a trade surplus. It's not a

00:08:41.740 subsidy. It just means they're buying $100 billion a year more than we buy from them,

00:08:47.180 and I'll give you an explanation of how that happens a little bit later, but my main point is

00:08:53.020 to show you that tweet, that Trump is still poking at Canada, still pushing the 51st state thing,

00:08:59.360 and he's now adding a commercial grievance to his border grievance. He's saying, we subsidize you.

00:09:05.940 You know, I just reordered the book, Art of the Deal. That was Trump's best-selling book from way back

00:09:10.880 about how to negotiate. I read it when he was elected in 2016, and I did a little monologue about it.

00:09:16.580 I can't find my old copy, so I want to read it again. I'm 100% certain, going from memory, that

00:09:21.300 this kind of badgering and these dramatic statements are part of his negotiating style.

00:09:26.680 I know they are. I mean, have you ever seen this weird thing he did to put Larry King,

00:09:32.540 the old TV interviewer, on the back foot?

00:09:35.420 Do you mind if I sit back a little bit? No.

00:09:37.100 Because your breath is very bad. It really is. Has this ever been told to you before?

00:09:41.520 No. Huh? Okay, then I won't bother.

00:09:43.160 No. Actually, Larry King. That's how you get the age.

00:09:47.000 Trump later said Larry King didn't have bad breath at all, but Trump said he did

00:09:50.660 to put King on the defensive. Trump does that sort of thing, doesn't he? At least

00:09:56.020 to people he's in a tussle with. It's like his really grippy handshake, you know, the one?

00:10:02.380 There's perhaps no better way to express a sense of control

00:10:05.840 in business and in politics than a firm handshake. For Trump, it's a full contact sport and he's got

00:10:13.240 a few power moves. Anyway, so we're in a pickle. That first tweet by Trump started a chain reaction

00:10:19.180 and now Chrystia Freeland is out of cabinet and it looks like that scuppered Mark Carney's planned 1.00

00:10:24.680 accession to cabinet and Trudeau couldn't be weaker at home or abroad. So Trump keeps pumping this 51st

00:10:32.060 state thing. Why not? I mean, here's Jean Charest, the former conservative MP and liberal premier of

00:10:38.780 Quebec. Let me read it carefully because he has some advice for all of us. Every Canadian, regardless

00:10:44.460 of their opinion of the prime minister or political affiliation, should feel deeply offended by President

00:10:50.380 Trump's remarks. We might one day be grateful for this wake-up call. For too long, we have been

00:10:56.920 complacent in our relationship with the United States and the rest of the world. We need to unite

00:11:02.580 and rise to this historic occasion to shape the future of Canada. So Charest is really revved up.

00:11:09.620 He used capital letters and all. He says it's a wake-up call. We need to unite and rise to the occasion,

00:11:15.440 yada, yada, yada. But he doesn't actually tell us what to do. What does rising to the occasion mean?

00:11:20.540 I don't think he knows what to do. His only one piece of advice is that we should all feel,

00:11:26.620 quote, deeply offended, which is just an emotional feeling. It's not really a plan or an activity.

00:11:36.420 Be offended isn't really practical advice, I don't think. It's certainly not constructive advice or

00:11:42.740 how to solve a problem. I'll come back to that again in a moment, what constructive advice might look

00:11:48.780 like. But why is this so heavily heard by Canadians? Is it insulting? Sure, a little bit, I think.

00:11:55.260 Although it implies that Canadians would want to do this. It wouldn't be a hostile move.

00:12:00.660 But why do people, why does this prick people, like Charest? I mean, why does this work on Canadians,

00:12:06.420 but I don't think it would really work, say, on the Brits or Australians. I don't think it would. I mean,

00:12:11.680 maybe geography is part of it. I suppose Trump did something like this once before. I don't know if you

00:12:17.120 remember a few years back he joked about buying Greenland, which is owned by Denmark. Rebel News

00:12:24.620 actually sent a reporter over there to talk to locals about it. Greenland is almost completely

00:12:29.540 empty. The reason Trump was interested in it, besides him being a real estate guy who always

00:12:35.460 thinks about land, is that I think it was China was looking to establish some sort of military presence

00:12:41.740 there. And Trump wanted to scare them away. Would Denmark really sell the land to America? It's hard

00:12:48.540 to imagine they would. Maybe. But America has indeed grown by buying land before. Alaska was bought from

00:12:57.560 Russia. The Secretary of State was called Seward. They called the deal Seward's Folly, because it was

00:13:04.080 thought to be a crazy expenditure of money at the time for useless land. That's what they said. Before that,

00:13:10.540 there was the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the USA by buying land from France. So

00:13:16.260 I suppose it's not that crazy? But mainly the idea shakes things up. It made Denmark, in the case of 0.97

00:13:25.000 Greenland, say, well, do we want Greenland or not? And if we do, why would we lease some of it to China?

00:13:30.920 And it's fun, of course, and it shows Denmark that Trump was thinking about them fondly. And everyone

00:13:36.300 is flattered when people talk about them, especially in an admiring way. So how does talking about making

00:13:43.180 Canada the 51st state work? Well, it's a possibility. Quebec set the legal precedent. You can separate from

00:13:51.300 Canada. The Supreme Court had a hearing about it. It's legal. The Supreme Court, in fact, outlined the

00:13:57.040 process. And remember, the United States has been eyeing Canada for a long time. That's what spurred

00:14:02.960 our country to make the Canadian Pacific Railway. That's why it's called the Canadian Pacific Railway,

00:14:08.480 to fasten the west of Canada to Ontario and Quebec before the Americans could grab it. 0.82

00:14:14.900 But who would and who wouldn't want to be an American? I bet a lot of people prefer Trump to

00:14:20.660 Trudeau. Not everyone. But I bet a lot of people do, especially in the west. But it's not just about

00:14:26.440 an ephemeral politician who could be gone in a moment. Just in general, the richest Canadian

00:14:32.380 province, though, is poorer than the poorest U.S. state. Chew on that for a while. Or how about their

00:14:38.500 freedom of speech down there that we don't have? Or how about their entrepreneurial spirit? Or how about

00:14:43.460 their relative ease of doing business? Or how about their better weather, even? I mean, those are all good

00:14:49.720 reasons for, I don't know, 100,000 Canadians a year to take matters into their own hands right now and

00:14:56.800 just head on down. I don't know if you saw this story. I think it was back in May. Emigration from

00:15:02.960 Canada to the U.S. hits a 10-year high as tens of thousands head south. Census says 126,340 people left

00:15:13.720 Canada for the U.S. in 2022 as 70% increase over a decade ago. Tens of thousands of Canadians are

00:15:21.480 emigrating from Canada to the United States. And the number of people packing up and moving south

00:15:25.760 is at a level not seen in 10 years or more, according to the data compiled by CBC News.

00:15:31.800 There's nothing new about Canadians moving south of the 49th parallel for love, work, or warmer weather.

00:15:39.220 But the latest figures from the American Community Survey, ACS, suggest it's now happening at a much

00:15:47.040 higher rate than the historical average. We all probably know people who left during the COVID

00:15:53.040 lockdowns, typically wealthy professionals, who could afford to move, get a green card, work from

00:15:58.560 remote. People who were sick of living in Teresa Tam's little prison. Now, COVID is long over,

00:16:04.120 but I think the exodus is actually speeding up, not slowing down. It's actually a surprising story

00:16:11.720 for the CBC to publish. They talk about how many people just hate Trudeau. When do they do that?

00:16:17.980 They talk about how cheap housing is compared to up here in Canada. I mean, look at some of these

00:16:22.360 little headlines in the story. I hate the politics here, talking about Trudeau. Canada is not what it

00:16:29.880 used to be. And look at this, in the Toronto Star. So first the CBC and now the Red Star says,

00:16:37.560 from O Canada to No Canada, national pride has taken a steep decline in recent years,

00:16:43.600 new polls suggest. Canadians' pride and attachment in their country have taken a dive. A new poll from

00:16:49.340 the Angus Reid Institute suggests, what's going on? I'll tell you what's going on. Canada, you know,

00:16:56.960 Trudeau changed the anthem. He changed even what our money looks like. He took Sir John MacDonald

00:17:02.500 off the $10 bill. He changed the passports, taking out anything historic. He really hates

00:17:08.640 the symbols of the country because he hates the country. He calls us genociders. He says we're

00:17:14.560 racist. We're transphobic. We're sexist. He always apologizes for what we did, not for what he does.

00:17:22.060 He thinks we're not living up to him. So between Trudeau destroying the country financially,

00:17:29.220 destroying its livability through mass immigration, and telling us we have no value as a society, 1.00

00:17:35.780 why wouldn't someone want to move to the U.S. of A? Of course not everyone can just pick up and move.

00:17:42.780 So how many people who can't move, like a local factory worker, a local waitress,

00:17:47.380 would like their city or province of the whole of Canada to become American?

00:17:52.940 It's probably a minority, even though right now it's just a speculative question, but I think it's

00:17:58.220 a real enough idea that it's a hot button in Canada. Trump knows it, and he knows how to push

00:18:02.940 buttons. Will you grant me that? And he knows that Canadian politicians know it. Best health care

00:18:08.540 system in the world? No, not really. No one believes that. Best nature in the world? Yeah, sure,

00:18:14.500 if you don't mind homeless encampments in your city parks and national parks crowded with foreigners, 1.00

00:18:20.600 many of whom lack basic cultural compatibility. Let's just use that euphemism. That's another thing,

00:18:26.540 though. Last Jew out of Montreal, please turn off the lights. America will take you and protect you. 0.99

00:18:33.820 I don't think it's going to happen that Canada is going to join the states. I just don't think that's

00:18:38.420 the likely outcome, but it's real enough to start a million conversations and to take Canadian political

00:18:44.200 leaders down a peg. Trudeau has presided over the demoralization and decline of Canada.

00:18:51.120 Our regime media, the CBC and others, have covered it up. They've promoted tiny homes and small living

00:18:59.560 and degrowth and you'll own nothing and you'll be happy and the carbon tax is good for you and

00:19:05.780 eat the bugs. But no one really bought into it. And faced with the daydream opportunity of being an

00:19:13.760 American, who amongst us wouldn't at least take a moment to take stock of how things are going up

00:19:20.320 here right now? And most of us say it's not really going well in Canada right now. So yeah,

00:19:27.040 it's a button to push. But here's the right way to push back if you like America and love Canada

00:19:34.080 and want this spat to be over and want to improve life up here. Here's a response from Danielle Smith,

00:19:42.400 the Premier of Alberta. She quotes Trump's social media post. Fair question on the trade deficit with

00:19:47.960 Canada, Mr. President. The reason for this is because Canada, especially Alberta, sends billions of raw

00:19:55.820 materials, oil, gas, minerals, grain, livestock, timber, etc. to your U.S. refineries and factories,

00:20:02.140 which your great American companies and workers upgrade and sell around the world, including back

00:20:07.940 to Canada. We are your biggest customer by a mile. Literally millions of good-paying American jobs and

00:20:14.260 companies rely on these affordable raw materials from Canada to make trillions of dollars of wealth in

00:20:20.200 your country. As a Conservative Premier in Canada, I believe we have two of the greatest countries on

00:20:27.040 earth. We have fought and bled together in many wars and built an incredible alliance and partnership.

00:20:32.760 I really hope we can strengthen that partnership throughout your presidency by securing our shared

00:20:37.460 border as you've requested and partnering to protect our North American workers from unfair Chinese

00:20:43.780 trade practices. Americans and Canadians will both benefit immensely from this. We in the province of

00:20:50.560 Alberta, which sends 4.3 million barrels of oil and gas to your country each day, stand ready to work with

00:20:57.380 you, looking so forward to attending your inauguration in Washington this January. That is how you deal with

00:21:06.300 Donald Trump. Not pouting like Trudeau. Not making empty threats like Ontario's Doug Ford. Not indulging in

00:21:15.520 Trump derangement syndrome like the CBC, but making our case and solving the problems. I love the fact that

00:21:23.400 she's going to his inauguration. I love the fact that she calls American companies great and Canadian

00:21:30.040 companies too. And by the way, don't you know that telling Trump that she's going to his inauguration and

00:21:35.440 saying American companies are great? That's pushing his buttons in a good way. I mean, how can he attack

00:21:43.240 someone who is so friendly, so deal-making oriented, and frankly, so flattering to him? Who is Canada's

00:21:50.440 foreign minister right now? I mean, de facto, in real life, not just on paper. It is not Jihad Joe Lee in

00:21:57.460 Montreal. It's not Tiny Trudeau or Little Justin, as he's called on Fox News. It's Daniel Smith.

00:22:05.440 The premier of Alberta. That's how you do it. You don't listen to the former premier of Quebec

00:22:12.680 telling you to pout and be offended. Stay with us for more.

00:22:17.480 There's only so many times I want to read a statement by Melanie Jolie or Justin Trudeau

00:22:33.920 responding to some terrorist incident against a Jewish school or Jewish synagogue where they say,

00:22:39.600 this isn't Canada. Well, yeah, actually it is. After 14 months of the largest anti-Semitic crime wave in

00:22:48.020 Canadian history, I think it's safe to say this is Canada. I refer, of course, to the firebombing,

00:22:54.400 the arson attack on a Montreal area synagogue called Beth Tikva early this morning. An attack on the

00:23:03.180 synagogue happened the second time this particular synagogue has been targeted. Joining us now live on location

00:23:11.140 is our friend Alexa Lavoie, who has been at this synagogue before for the same reason. Alexa, thank you for

00:23:19.320 making the journey there. It looks frightfully cold. You're standing outside the Beth Tikva. Tell me what you see.

00:23:25.760 Tell me who's there. Tell me the kind of damage that's visible. And tell me if anything is known yet.

00:23:34.020 So for now, we don't really know who committed the crime. I know there is an ongoing investigation by this

00:23:43.300 BBM behind me. I don't know if you can see they are currently replacing the window of the facade of the

00:23:51.240 synagogue. It's not only Beth Tikva who was targeted, but also the Sijia building, the other side of the street

00:23:59.520 where a window was smashed also. What we know is the incident happened a little bit before 3 a.m.

00:24:08.840 The SPVM. The SPVM say that it was an incendiary device that they found with broken glasses.

00:24:20.020 And some witnesses say that they saw someone fleeing the scene early after the incident.

00:24:28.680 So we don't know much yet. I didn't speak with nobody. I know that the SPVM is on the scene,

00:24:36.640 but later on I'm going to speak with the president of Beth Tikva, Karen Ritter. She's coming to meet me

00:24:45.560 and we will have a full interview coming up on RebenNews.com. Well, thank you very much for doing

00:24:52.400 that. And I'm glad they're speaking with you. This has happened across the country. It happens so much

00:24:58.120 that it doesn't even make the news on many occasions. Let me give you an example. Here in Toronto,

00:25:04.040 a large Jewish day school had a massive arson attack and police refused to call it arson. They

00:25:11.440 said it was an accidental fire in a shed. There was an arson attack on Jewish school buses and police

00:25:18.440 again refused to say it was arson as if the school buses suddenly spontaneously combusted. I'm guessing

00:25:25.900 this is just too big to sweep under the carpet. I think I saw the Montreal Gazette and CTV cover it.

00:25:32.320 Has this been covered widely in the Quebec media besides the Gazette and CTV?

00:25:37.920 I know that CBC is currently on the scene, Radio Canada, for the French viewer. But also you need to

00:25:47.640 understand that Beth Tikva is not only a synagogue, it's also annexed to a Jewish school. So it's probably

00:25:56.120 why there is way more coverage for this. And also because it's the second attack. In November 2023,

00:26:04.120 Beth Tikva was also the victim of a Molotov cocktail. And so the fact that this place had been victim

00:26:13.960 twice make it like a vulnerable area for the Jewish community.

00:26:19.480 You know, it's tragic. This is the new normal. And I see Melanie Jolie putting out a perfunctory

00:26:26.520 statement. She's not even trying anymore. I want to tell you, I went to Paris almost 10 years ago,

00:26:32.600 Alexa, after the terrorist attack on the Bata clan, which was a concert venue that terrorists attacked and

00:26:41.560 killed an enormous number of people. And there had been anti-Semitic attacks around the city.

00:26:46.080 I went to a Jewish grocery store. And outside the grocery store was a French paramilitary

00:26:54.800 police officer with a very serious semi-automatic weapon. Like it was more than an ordinary policeman

00:27:02.400 might have. It was almost something you'd expect a soldier to have. And at various Jewish locations in

00:27:08.480 Paris, you had permanently stationed heavily armed police, not only as a visual deterrent,

00:27:18.320 but for safety. I get the feeling we're almost at that point. I mean, how many times can the same

00:27:25.280 synagogue be attacked before we stationed a police officer outside them? I don't know what else to do. 1.00

00:27:30.800 I think I see behind you. I'm not sure if that's a security camera. I'm sure there's security cameras

00:27:38.080 at this place, but those aren't really a deterrent if someone is wearing a mask. And at most, they

00:27:43.920 record what happened after the fact. They don't stop it in real time. What do you think can be done?

00:27:49.520 Do you have any ideas? Or maybe we have to wait to know a little bit more. But I think this is to the

00:27:57.520 point of being ridiculous now. I mean, there's got to have been 50 of these attacks over the last year.

00:28:03.520 Well, first of all, they have already their private security over here to survey the area.

00:28:09.680 They have already also some SPVM doing some surveillance. So what's next? I think the next step

00:28:19.600 is to enforce the law, to enforce the law to everybody who are spreading hate speech and hate rhetoric in our

00:28:30.400 street. Make sure that the lies apply. Make sure that those people, when they got caught, they have a

00:28:38.480 harsh repercussion, harsh condemnation. And they go to jail, not just like going to jail and watch Netflix

00:28:48.400 or having like a really weak sentence. Law needs to be applied. And for now, they know they will get away

00:28:56.640 with it. It's why we are seeing those kinds of crimes being perpetrated against Jewish schools, Jewish 1.00

00:29:03.440 businesses. We have a recently death trap being made towards a Jewish business downtown. So it doesn't 1.00

00:29:12.160 stop. It's because the inaction of the SPVM by arresting those individuals, by condemning,

00:29:22.000 by charging them, prosecuting them properly, make them emboldened to commit more crimes.

00:29:29.840 I think you're right. And just for our viewers who don't know, SPVM is the acronym for the Montreal

00:29:36.160 Police Service. It's the Service Police Ville-Marie, if I'm not mistaken, or Ville-Montreal. You correct

00:29:42.000 me if I'm wrong on there. Not Ville-Marie, Ville-Montreal. Ville-Montreal. Ville-Montreal, thank you.

00:29:46.960 So SPVM is Montreal Police. I think you're so right. Let me expand on what you said. A few weeks ago,

00:29:52.880 there were actual riots, a full-out riot in Montreal. And I think only three arrests were made the entire

00:29:59.440 night. So what message does that send to the rioters? And you have huge mobs in Montreal blocking

00:30:06.240 the streets, committing all sorts of smaller crimes from mischief, to vandalism, to trespass,

00:30:11.680 to more serious things like uttering threats. And if there's no consequences to that,

00:30:17.520 well, how is it surprising that a few of those people then become emboldened to actually attack

00:30:22.960 a Jewish synagogue at 3 a.m.? So I think you're right. I think it's not just how do we protect this

00:30:28.720 synagogue from being attacked again. It's we have to change the culture of permissibility

00:30:35.440 that Trudeau and Jolie and Valerie Plante, the mayor, and others have allowed to grow.

00:30:40.880 I think they could crack down on this anti-Semitic crime wave in a week if they wanted to. They don't

00:30:47.120 want to. As Jolie said, it's because of the domestic demographic situation in her writing. Did you hear

00:30:54.240 about that, what Melanie Jolie said? I think she said it to Thomas Mulcair.

00:30:57.760 She explained that her foreign policy is in part because there are so many Muslim immigrants in

00:31:04.240 her district. I mean, I think that she's just admitting the whole thing.

00:31:09.280 She's admitting that they are opening our door to some people who carry with them an anti-Jewish

00:31:16.480 sentiment. It's all they are. They need to integrate, but they don't want to integrate. And now we see

00:31:24.240 our Jewish community being victim of those hate crimes. And what would be next? Do they are waiting

00:31:33.200 that someone get hurt for real?

00:31:34.720 Yeah. Well, that's the thing. It's like a child testing the boundaries. We see that in Toronto also.

00:31:41.200 You know, the pro-Hamas side literally has terrorist reenactments on the street in a Jewish 0.88

00:31:46.800 neighborhood, and they haven't found the limits yet. Like a child testing, testing, seeing what

00:31:51.200 they can get away with. The answer in Canada so far is you can get away with anything. Well,

00:31:56.560 Alexa, thank you for making the journey there. I know you have the interview with the synagogue

00:32:01.120 president lined up. I'll be very interested to see that. And I would be, I mean, I am depressed

00:32:07.280 about the state of affairs in Canada. To me, this will only get worse until we end mass immigration, 1.00

00:32:15.280 and until we start to vet immigration for cultural fit. Without knowing who the suspects are,

00:32:21.520 I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's some of the millions of people we have brought to

00:32:25.760 Canada in recent years from countries that are endemically anti-Semitic. And don't be surprised

00:32:31.520 if you bring over millions of people from countries like Syria or Afghanistan or Somalia, that you're 0.93

00:32:38.240 going to have some people who hate Jews. And then they look to Trudeau and Jolie for moral guidance,

00:32:43.200 and they say, oh, it's safe to take a shot at the Jews. I'm depressed, but I'm glad you're covering 1.00

00:32:48.000 it. Thank you for being there, Alexa. Thank you.

00:32:50.880 All right. There you have it. Alexa Lavois on location at the Beth Tikva Synagogue.

00:32:56.160 She'll have her report with the president of the synagogue later.

00:33:10.640 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. It's what it is says, if any of these liberals truly

00:33:15.760 wanted Trudeau gone, they can vote no confidence. They won't. Well, if they vote no confidence,

00:33:22.160 they're going to bring an election very quickly, and they're going to get slaughtered.

00:33:25.840 So as much as they don't like Trudeau, they like themselves more than they dislike him.

00:33:31.920 Amir Amaze, he says, all options are on the table, including my pension. You're talking about

00:33:37.200 that clip from Jagmeet Singh where he kept saying Trudeau must resign. And when they say, well, you vote

00:33:41.520 against him, all options are on the table. He repeated that so, that was like watching a child.

00:33:47.200 It was very embarrassing. Aquila says, carnage carbon tax Carney should be arrested too. Well,

00:33:57.040 I don't know if he's committed a crime. And I think the whole shenanigans of this past week

00:34:01.680 have spooked him. According to two different news reports that I've seen, Carney was supposed to swoop in

00:34:08.720 and become the next appointed finance minister that was supposed to happen really right after the

00:34:14.160 mini budget was released. I think he's decided to walk away slowly from this train wreck. He might

00:34:19.760 take a crack at it later, but he doesn't want to be in it right now. Well, that's our show for the day.

00:34:25.920 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, so you at home,

00:34:29.840 goodnight, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - December 19, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Is Trump really serious about Canada becoming the 51st state？

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