Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ It’s so disillusioning to see people like a former Governor General and a former Supreme Court judge soil themselves

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00:01:34.100 Tonight, it's so disillusioning to see people like a former governor general

00:01:40.520 and a former Supreme Court judge soil themselves. Sad, actually. It's May 25th,

00:01:45.260 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:46.700 You're fighting for freedom!

00:01:49.880 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:01:52.920 Hey, we're in our boardroom again. We will be in the new studio soon. I am watching it come

00:02:06.680 together. It's extremely exciting. I can hardly wait to show it to you, but you've just got to

00:02:11.340 wait one or two more days. I'm very excited. I'll send you an email about it. I know I've been saying

00:02:15.220 that for a few days now to explain why we're in the boardroom, but it's a great reason. Anyways,

00:02:19.560 I mentioned this the other day that David Johnston looks like he'd want a governor general to look

00:02:25.780 central casting. And in his own way, he was fine. I mean, as far as we know, there were no scandals

00:02:31.660 or personal abuses like there have been under Justin Trudeau's nominees. Julie Payette, famous for her 1.00

00:02:37.800 temper tantrums and abuse of staff. At least that's Trudeau's side of the story. He was constantly

00:02:43.140 leaking against her. We never really heard Julie Payette's side of the story herself as she was 0.98

00:02:48.420 driven out, which is odd because in a way she was Trudeau's boss, but he fired her. Then Trudeau

00:02:54.640 appointed Mary Simon, who apparently thinks she's a queen, not a governor general. David Johnston didn't

00:03:02.020 do that sort of thing that we know of, or maybe he was just more skilled and experienced at how to work

00:03:07.740 the expense account machinery so as not to set off alarms. Maybe he's just slicker than Simon and

00:03:15.420 Payette. After all, Johnston has spent his entire life in one bureaucracy or another, including as the

00:03:21.420 head of a university. He probably is an expert at working systems. He really is the deep state in a

00:03:29.100 person when you think about it. Appointed to high offices by both conservative and liberal parties,

00:03:33.640 he's the permanent ruling class, though he himself has never been elected to anything.

00:03:39.240 I told you before that he is a vicious partisan, though, even though he looks like a harmless

00:03:43.500 grandfather. In 2019, he banned Rebel News and our friends at True North from attending the national

00:03:49.680 leaders debates. The federal court smacked him down hard. A good man, a law-abiding man, or man

00:03:56.480 who believed in the rule of law, would have obeyed the court. But not Johnston. In 2021, he did the exact

00:04:04.260 same thing again. His boss, Trudeau, demanded it. So Johnston banned Rebel News from attending the

00:04:10.080 election debates despite the 2019 court ruling. In 2021, the court smashed him down again.

00:04:16.260 Just because he looks like a friendly grandfather doesn't mean he is not a vicious bastard who will

00:04:20.740 do whatever he thinks will benefit him and his masters. And these days, that's not just the

00:04:25.220 Canadian deep state, but the Chinese one. I still marvel at the fact that he sent his daughters to 1.00

00:04:30.900 university in China. You do not get a better liberal education, classical education in China than you do at

00:04:39.160 Harvard or Yale or Stanford or Oxford or Cambridge or the Sorbonne or even U of T or Queens or McGill or any

00:04:45.180 of the schools that David Johnson could have sent his rich and powerful and connected children to. He sent

00:04:50.160 them to China. You can't speak freely in China. Education is more by rote. It's about obedience. 0.89

00:05:00.020 You are there with politically selected students. It's a monoculture. It's not the diversity of the

00:05:07.180 Western university. The children of Communist Party bosses are who you're mingling with. David Johnston did

00:05:13.420 not send his children to Chinese universities to learn. He would have sent them to McGill or Queens or 1.00

00:05:19.740 Harvard for that. He sent them to Chinese universities to connect with the Communist Party youth. He is deeply

00:05:28.720 into China. And he has brought China deeply into Canada, welcoming their propaganda agency right into 0.92

00:05:37.000 the university over which he presided. Like Justin Trudeau and Alexander Trudeau, he is the Chinese 1.00

00:05:43.980 asset. Imagine having him try and find the Chinese asset. It really is quite astonishing. I don't know if 1.00

00:05:49.380 you remember our former foreign minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, who took out a mortgage, as millions of

00:05:56.620 Canadians have, from a bank. That's what Canadians do. Owned by the Chinese government? Who does that? 0.86

00:06:04.580 We've got lots of great banks in Canada. Take your pick. I mean, great banks. They're all atrocious. But

00:06:09.360 anyone can get a bank loan in Canada. Royal Bank, TD Bank, Scotiabank. There are credit unions. There are

00:06:15.740 alternative lenders. Who literally chooses to get a mortgage from a bank owned by the Chinese dictatorship?

00:06:25.340 Who does that? And then keeps that loan even as becomes foreign minister. Can you imagine that's

00:06:33.460 how it was and how it still is? Again, I recommend to you the Twitter citizen journalist Andy Lee,

00:06:39.580 who through simple Google searches has shown half the Trudeau family and half the Trudeau cabinet

00:06:44.760 at various functions by the Chinese government. I'm not talking about ethnic Chinese Canadian things.

00:06:50.680 That's great. That's fine. Chinese Canadians aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the 1.00

00:06:54.420 dictatorship itself. The Chinese Communist Party, they were all in bed with it. All of them. 0.99

00:07:00.560 Even the media party is starting to think things are a bit weird. Look at this story in CTV.

00:07:06.120 Why does Canada have a disproportionately high number of Chinese diplomats?

00:07:11.840 As former Governor General David Johnson prepares to release his report on Foreign Interference Tuesday,

00:07:16.020 this was written right before that. New data provided by Global Affairs Canada sheds light

00:07:21.780 on the breadth of China's diplomatic presence. Isn't that strange? Look a little bit further

00:07:28.600 down. There are 176 Chinese nationals with diplomatic credentials in Canada. China has the second largest

00:07:37.060 diplomatic presence in Canada after the United States, which is 294 representatives. The UK has 44

00:07:44.520 accredited representatives in Canada, while Japan has 73. The number of Chinese diplomats, consuls,

00:07:50.600 and attachés south of the 49th parallel is almost identical to the number north of it. The most recent

00:07:55.540 data from 2020 shows that the U.S. accredited 178 Chinese nationals, just two more than the current

00:08:01.860 Canadian numbers. It's a surprising statistic given that the population in the U.S. is 10 times

00:08:06.560 the size of Canada. That is crazy. Or is it? Why would China do that?

00:08:16.560 Because they think there's a lot of good things here to be mined. They're colonizing us. And I don't

00:08:22.020 mean that in terms of immigration, although China is consistently in the top one or two or three

00:08:26.580 countries from which immigrants come to Canada. 100,000 Chinese students are here too. And I say

00:08:31.580 again, they are the sons and daughters of the Communist Party elite. They're not random Chinese

00:08:35.680 citizens. When I say colonizing, I do not mean immigration in this case. I mean, they are converting 1.00

00:08:40.520 our machinery of state, our politicians, our bureaucrats, and our deep state into their colony.

00:08:47.960 That's my point about the Trudeau family being the Chinese assets. Why do you need a Chinese spy when

00:08:54.180 Trudeau will be the man for you? I mean, do you remember this humiliating moment when Melanie Jolie

00:09:00.220 was face to face with Michael Chong, the conservative MP who was targeted for punishment by the Chinese 0.78

00:09:07.180 Communist Party? And they kept that a secret from him. And he complained about it very passionately.

00:09:12.160 And she literally looked him in the eye and said she didn't really want to do anything in response

00:09:18.060 because that could make China mad. 1.00

00:09:21.280 You are, you have given accreditation to a diplomat here who is using his diplomatic immunity to target

00:09:28.380 not just me and my family, but other members of Parliament. So why do you, Minister, continue to

00:09:34.600 allow this diplomat to be accredited in this country on Canadian soil? That is the question.

00:09:41.040 And you haven't answered the question.

00:09:42.600 Well, let me be able to answer the question. And of course, Michael, I understand your frustration

00:09:47.460 and I understand your anger. We haven't expelled a single PRC diplomat. We are one of the only

00:09:54.420 democratic allies in the NATO alliance that has not expelled a single PRC diplomat. And Canadians are

00:10:00.780 being targeted by the over 100 diplomats accredited here.

00:10:04.680 Mr. Chong, would you allow the Minister to respond?

00:10:05.680 Yes. Okay. Thank you. So first and foremost, what we're doing right now as a government is we're

00:10:10.060 assessing the consequences that we'll be facing in case of diplomatic expulsion, because there will

00:10:17.920 be consequences. I think it's important that Canadians know what we've learned from the

00:10:21.980 two Michael experience is that, of course, China and the PRC will take action. These interests,

00:10:29.980 including economic interests, consular interests, and also diplomatic interests, will be affected.

00:10:36.900 Minister, I can't think of any interest.

00:10:39.040 And therefore, no, Michael, I just want to finish my answer because this is very important. It's

00:10:43.800 about you, but it's about also the interest of the country. So as we are assessing the interest,

00:10:50.640 and I know that we are under pressure to go fast, we need to make sure as well that we protect our

00:10:57.900 democracy. And that is why we will take action in light of the facts that are being presented

00:11:05.500 regarding your case and, you know, any MP that could be targeted. So that's why my deputy minister

00:11:12.360 right now is meeting with the Chinese ambassador and summoning him. And that's why also we're

00:11:18.080 assessing different options, including the expulsion of diplomats, because it is important that we take

00:11:24.160 a decision.

00:11:25.100 Yeah. Who needs a spy in our foreign ministry when our foreign minister is herself doing the bidding of 1.00

00:11:33.220 China. But it's not just how the Chinese Communist Party is throughout Canada and governments and

00:11:38.520 schools and industries. It's how our deep state has circled the wagons now that there is some

00:11:44.340 scrutiny on them.

00:11:46.020 Trudeau appointing his longtime family friend, David Johnson, to look into it. David Johnson,

00:11:50.080 who was at the Trudeau Foundation, which took a Chinese grant. I mean, it's all in the family.

00:11:55.120 It's a club and you are not invited to that club. David Johnson, as we showed you the other day,

00:12:01.780 he didn't want to recuse himself. He said he didn't have to because he's so trustworthy. And to prove it,

00:12:07.580 he had a former Supreme Court judge write him a secret letter to prove it. I'm serious. The letter

00:12:11.880 was secret, but take his word for it. Oh yeah, that Supreme Court judge is his old friend too. And he

00:12:16.760 just happens to have been with the Trudeau Foundation too. It's a club. It's all in the family.

00:12:21.520 Now, some reporters who normally shill for Trudeau just can't control their gag reflex here. I mean,

00:12:28.380 even the Toronto Star says a public inquiry is needed when the red star thinks Trudeau is wrong

00:12:33.720 and is willing to say it, you know there's a problem. Hey, here's David Johnson the other day

00:12:39.240 trying to downplay his relationship with Trudeau. I mean, sure, they went skiing all the time. They're

00:12:45.200 two families. They were longtime friends, lifelong friends. But I mean, really, who amongst us hasn't

00:12:51.100 just bumped into the Trudeaus on the ski hill from time to time? It was nothing unusual.

00:12:56.520 Part of the issue around having to believe what you are saying today is around your credibility.

00:13:01.580 I'm not sure if you expected this to happen. Obviously, the allegations, particularly from

00:13:06.560 the conservative leader that you are a friend of Justin Trudeau's family, you are a member of

00:13:10.520 the Trudeau Foundation. Should you have anticipated that, Mr. Johnston, that you would be attacked in

00:13:16.620 that way, and that this might undermine the credibility of what you've offered today?

00:13:21.360 No, I did not anticipate that my credibility or my impartiality or integrity would be attacked.

00:13:26.380 The facts are, with respect to a friend of the Prime Minister, when his family returned to Montreal,

00:13:33.880 we knew his father. And we had a condo at the slopes of Mont-Tremblant, about 100 meters from the ski

00:13:41.400 trail. Mr. Trudeau Sr. and his three boys had a country home about 50 kilometers away at Valmoran.

00:13:48.520 On five different occasions over two or three years, his three boys and our five daughters skied

00:13:54.980 together in the mountain because he could park his car at our condo, and we'd ski out to the mountain.

00:14:00.560 On one of those five occasions, he had to go back to Montreal, and I dropped the boys off at

00:14:05.080 their mother's home and their husband about 10 kilometers away. So we were not neighbors.

00:14:11.440 That was the contact with the current Prime Minister.

00:14:14.140 Yeah, I don't think that actually disproved the allegation, David. He literally mocked a reporter

00:14:21.120 for suggesting they were friends. He said that Trudeau was his so-called friend. Really?

00:14:26.200 Well, let me respond by stating basic facts. First of all, my friendship with the current

00:14:32.140 Prime Minister. When our children, five, were ages seven to 12, we had a condo at the foot

00:14:43.140 of Mont-Tremblant. I knew Mr. Trudeau's father. He had a country home about 50 kilometers away

00:14:53.120 in Val Moran. On, I think, five occasions over several years, he and his three sons came

00:15:00.340 and parked their car at our parking lot outside our condo, and we skied. On one of those five

00:15:08.060 occasions or so, he had to leave early to get back to Montreal, and on that occasion,

00:15:13.920 I drove the three sons over to their mother's home, country home, which was about 10 kilometers

00:15:18.460 present. Those are the so-called neighborhoods. My friendship with the current Prime Minister

00:15:24.920 was based only on a few skiing expeditions with my children. He was a student at McGill,

00:15:32.860 where I was principal, and amongst about 20,000 students, I would see him from time to time.

00:15:38.360 In that period of time, until he became a Liberal member of Parliament, and I was Governor General,

00:15:45.760 I had no meetings with Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Justin Trudeau. I had no letters that I can recall,

00:15:53.180 no telephone calls. The only occasion I recall meeting him in that period of 40 years was at

00:15:59.820 the funeral of his father, which my wife and I attended. So there was no interaction with respect

00:16:05.880 to the current Prime Minister of a friendly kind, other than the respect I have for a graduate of

00:16:12.200 McGill University. And my only real contact occurred when he became an elected Member of Parliament,

00:16:19.320 and I held the office of Governor General. Those are the facts with the so-called friendship

00:16:24.120 and the scheme. Is that true? Here's a great video that Pierre Polyev put out about the so-called

00:16:31.580 Friends Park. And the family have become good friends, and our friendship with Mr. Trudeau

00:16:37.900 goes back to children's days when our five daughters and he and his two brothers skied together at Mont

00:16:43.520 Trambouin. Tell us a little more of that, because a lot of Canadians don't realize that you, in fact,

00:16:48.400 were a very good friend of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and that your family, you knew all the Trudeau

00:16:53.900 kids when they were growing up. I guess it shows what a small country Canada is, but when Mr. Trudeau

00:16:59.140 left politics, came back to Montreal, his host was just on the edge of the McGill campus. And I and the

00:17:05.360 rector of the University of Montreal were working very hard for him to return to the University of

00:17:10.240 Montreal Faculty of Law, where he'd been a constitutional law professor, and have a joint appointment to

00:17:14.400 McGill. His three boys were the same age as of our five daughters, so we were kind of a ski party from

00:17:21.180 time to time at Mont Trambouin, where we have a place and would ski on weekends. So we got to know

00:17:25.560 the children, and our friendship, our relationship was really built out of childhood exchanges. And

00:17:32.340 our children had enormous respect for Mr. Trudeau Sr. He was a lovely, a wonderful father, and very good

00:17:38.980 with children. He would lead them into discussions that would be, let's come, let's talk about how many

00:17:46.100 functioning democracies there are in the world, for example. This was with teenagers, it was just great.

00:17:51.180 Yeah, I think they're more than just so-called friends. That's from David Johnson's own mouth.

00:18:10.600 And he looked at reporters straight in the eyes, and he lied the other day. He lied

00:18:14.480 like a Trudeau family member lies. Isn't that something? The old governor general, the old

00:18:21.500 reliable guy trusted by both sides, he has sullied himself, dirtied himself. He's in his 80s now. I

00:18:28.060 think he's 81. He should be spending his time with his grandchildren. He should be enjoying the golden

00:18:32.840 years of his life after a life of service, but he's torching his life's reputation and his family name

00:18:39.200 for what? To protect Trudeau because he took dirty money?

00:18:45.480 Well, maybe Johnston's in on it too. I mean, Johnston continued to do business with communist China

00:18:50.300 even after he was governor general. Why would he keep in touch with them? What kind of business did he have

00:18:54.900 with them? Which side was he working for, Canada or China? Why wasn't that in his report? Well, it's like

00:19:02.100 putting OJ in charge of finding the real killers. That's David Johnson. He looks good, which is his

00:19:09.740 main use to Trudeau, because he lies like a rug. Which makes me think of another shill for the Chinese 1.00

00:19:16.460 Communist Party, Beverly McLaughlin, the former chief justice of the Canadian Supreme Court. She's a

00:19:22.380 great liberal. I don't know if you recall, she's the one who really got the ball rolling denouncing 1.00

00:19:26.340 Canada as being a genocidal state. She's the one who started that. Trudeau loved it and embraced it.

00:19:33.400 He calls us genocidal all the time. Well, she retired, and like Johnston and Frank Iacobici, the

00:19:41.420 former justice who wrote the secret letter to Johnson, Beverly McLaughlin thought she would cash in,

00:19:48.860 which is pretty gross. And she went to China. Beverly McLaughlin actually went to China to 0.64

00:19:56.020 sit on the final court of appeal in Hong Kong as a judge. Now, she went there when Hong Kong was free.

00:20:04.280 When China took over Hong Kong and brutally shut down its democracy and political dissent and shut

00:20:09.620 down independent media and arrested peaceful protesters, most of the other foreign judges,

00:20:14.760 the Brits on that court, resigned in protest. They resigned because they refused to work for a

00:20:20.180 dictatorship. They resigned to make a stand, to make a point, to show that China is not fair or free.

00:20:25.560 Not our Beverly. She positively said that that was her time to shine. She didn't have to

00:20:33.880 share the spotlight with those Brits anymore. She was delighted to stay on to enforce 0.96

00:20:38.960 Xi Jinping's brutality in Hong Kong. Funny, though, it's really odd. She was quick to denounce Canada

00:20:46.520 as being a genocidal state, but she has yet to say the same thing about her new adopted country,

00:20:52.240 which actually has perpetrated a genocide against Uyghurs and other minorities.

00:20:58.820 You know, for years we were told to look up to these elites. I remember in law school

00:21:02.360 being told to look up to her. Look up to the chief judge for sure. Look up to the governor general for

00:21:07.600 sure. Oh, and they wear fancy robes sometimes, don't they? And their regalia and their pomp and

00:21:12.520 circumstance. They're better than you, really. They're better people than you. They're higher on the

00:21:17.120 hierarchy. Know your place, okay? They look better than you. They sound better than you.

00:21:22.280 They dress better than you. They earn better than you, even though it's all from the public trough.

00:21:27.020 So are they really earning it? So understand they are morally better than you. Obey them when they

00:21:32.260 make laws from the courts, not the parliaments. Accept it when they want to censor Trudeau's enemies,

00:21:37.520 like Johnston-censored Rebel News. Stop asking questions about corruption when it embarrasses Trudeau

00:21:44.520 and his cronies and family friends. You know what? They are not better than you and me. In fact,

00:21:51.840 I think they're worse. Stay with us for more.

00:22:07.520 Well, Roxham Road, which Justin Trudeau declared open in a tweet shortly after his election,

00:22:14.840 it's been closed. And thousands of migrants who had planned to come from New York City as the

00:22:23.420 staging ground across the Canadian border, well, they're backed up in the United States, including

00:22:28.400 in New York itself. Now, New York is an enormous city, the largest city in the United States, and it

00:22:34.140 has its own problems, including its own homeless problem. New York City, being a Democrat city,

00:22:40.220 proudly declares itself a sanctuary city. By that they mean they will not deport, they will not assist

00:22:46.100 in the deportation of illegal migrants. They say things like, no one is illegal. Well, that's easy to 1.00

00:22:52.520 say when the illegals are at border crossings in places like Texas. But what happens when thousands

00:22:59.320 of foreign migrants start to bottleneck in New York because Trudeau is no longer taking them

00:23:06.560 through Roxham Road? What happens to them? What are their plans? Well, we sent two reporters to New

00:23:12.040 York City to find out. I'm talking about Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jay, both of whom have reported on the

00:23:17.400 Roxham Road crossing. They're in New York, and they found some very interesting things. Joining us now

00:23:22.220 from the streets of the Big Apple is our friend Alexa Lavoie. Alexa, great to see you. I'm sort of

00:23:26.120 jealous. It looks like a lovely spring day in New York City, but it's actually a squalid time

00:23:31.560 for those migrants. Tell us what you've discovered about where they're being housed,

00:23:36.480 how they're being housed, and what's happened to them.

00:23:40.380 So, thanks for inviting me on your show. So, right now, what we saw so far, we went to the

00:23:48.460 Roosevelt. It's a hotel where migrants have been housed and still been housed at this hotel.

00:23:54.840 We saw multiple migrants getting in and out of this hotel. Afterwards, we went to that school where

00:24:02.700 some migrant was being housed inside of the gymnast during that school where children was going into

00:24:12.500 school. And so, because of the backlash of the parents knowing about what is going on in that

00:24:18.260 gymnasium, they actually cleaned the school. So, no migrant is housing at that school anymore. That was in 1.00

00:24:26.040 Colony Island. So, now we're in Manhattan, and we are walking through the city to see where the migrant 1.00

00:24:33.680 are being housed. So, we saw multiple shelters where, unfortunately, homeless told us that if they are not

00:24:45.580 there at 11, buses full of migrants arrive at night, and they take their bed if they didn't sign up for their bed 1.00

00:24:54.600 before the bus arrive. This is really sad because what they were explaining is, like, the resources have

00:25:02.660 diminished. And now, they need to find, like, as a help as possible. And they are citizens of New York,

00:25:11.400 or they are citizens of the U.S., and now they see their rights and what they should have as a services

00:25:20.000 being taken away by the migrant who arrive in New York. We also follow to another hotel where there is 1.00

00:25:31.740 security, and you are not allowed to enter, but it's riding no vacancy, and they say that it's only

00:25:37.760 immigration. 38 rooms in that small hotel, full booked by migrants. And they say that it started 0.94

00:25:45.640 beginning of May, and now they don't know until when the old hotel will be rent out by the government

00:25:52.800 to house migrants. And now, we are going to see some places where they receive free food. So,

00:26:00.920 these organizations don't receive any help from the government to feed them. So, I was talking

00:26:07.400 with some of the organizers and some volunteers, and they say that they never saw that before.

00:26:13.560 They say that they have so many people arriving from all around the world. They don't have any job

00:26:21.180 yet. They don't have a place to save, and they have no food also. So, they need to provide them

00:26:26.920 services. But fun fact, you know that the mayor, Eric Adam, was so proud to call himself and his city,

00:26:35.000 a sanctuary city. But recently, he's been to court to ask the judge to revisit the sanctuary statue of

00:26:43.220 New York City, since now it's getting costly and very chaotic in this city.

00:26:49.620 You know, Democrats are good at virtue signaling, at telling us how noble they are.

00:26:56.020 They talked a good game about sanctuary cities when all the illegal migrants were in Texas. It's 0.99

00:27:02.180 incredible to me that, I think I heard you say, they were housing them in schools, school gyms,

00:27:10.140 during the time when kids were using the schools. That's got to be dangerous. I mean, a lot of schools,

00:27:16.300 if you're an adult, you must check in at the front office. You're not allowed to roam around. I mean,

00:27:20.720 you protect the kids from strangers. Imagine having dozens or hundreds of strangers, not even

00:27:26.160 citizens, just homeless strangers from foreign lands in your school gym. That's crazy. I'm sure 1.00

00:27:32.620 the hotel operators won't quarrel, because they're obviously getting paid by the government. And,

00:27:38.360 you know, although the homeless themselves can't pay, the government's good for it,

00:27:41.600 so they probably don't mind. We saw that in Canada, too. The thousands and thousands of migrants that

00:27:46.620 came through Rocks and Road, they were put up in hotels all around Canada. Even, you know,

00:27:50.420 the provinces. Now, you and Lincoln have done some interviews, just interesting people on the

00:27:55.780 street, people you found. Why don't you set up a couple of the clips that you've taken and tell

00:28:00.640 us what they are and then show them to us? A man who explained his in-language in Spanish

00:28:06.160 how it was to cross not only the Darien Gap, where is the really dangerous jungle, saying that

00:28:13.060 they saw, like, dead body and mercenary, like, raping people. And he actually explained also how it was

00:28:21.560 hard to cross into the U.S. And now he's placed in the shelter. Doesn't know how long he can be

00:28:28.420 staying there. Doesn't know, like, nothing about his work permit or anything. And he's just waiting,

00:28:36.520 chasing food as much as he can go. And he have just the identification paper with him to travel around.

00:28:45.160 And we had, like, also a homeless person who actually shared his story.

00:28:50.780 So, can you describe how the influx of migrants is impacting your life as a homeless person in a shelter?

00:29:00.480 Yeah. Um, it's impacted me in different ways, emotionally, mentally, even physically in some

00:29:11.760 ways, because now the food has changed, you know, I'm not getting nutritious meals, even though I'm

00:29:17.020 receiving public assistance, even that is not enough because of where I'm located. The prices,

00:29:22.200 the cost of living is high. So, the money that I do receive each month, I have to really, really,

00:29:27.460 really stretch it out. You know what I mean? So many different testimonies of people saying that

00:29:33.000 they spent all their money to come to U.S. And some of them did pay coyote to cross. Some of them 0.77

00:29:41.820 didn't pay coyote to cross. But it's sad to hear their story. I'm saying that some people maybe are

00:29:50.160 there for a different reason. But what we saw so far is there's desperate people who doesn't have a job

00:29:55.460 at their, where they live. It's kind of dangerous city. A lot of Venezuelan people are here right now. 1.00

00:30:03.060 What happened with the migrant, with the school that is just behind us? 1.00

00:30:07.220 Well, one night we just saw them bringing in a bunch of buses. Um, it was a bunch of police and then

00:30:13.620 they waited till people went to sleep. They snuck them in about maybe five o'clock in the morning, maybe

00:30:19.860 three in the morning. Um, once we found out about it, because my son goes to the school,

00:30:25.460 you know, I was just concerned for the safety of my son.

00:30:27.460 So they shouldn't have, they shouldn't have never allowed to be there. Second of all,

00:30:33.700 they put this in place. They should have had a meeting with the neighborhood. The people live

00:30:37.620 here and let us know what's going on. Like she said, we don't know who they bring in there. We

00:30:42.740 don't know who these people is here. You understand?

00:30:45.060 They are just searching for a better life. But what they get when they arrive in New York is

00:30:49.380 actually almost worse than what they had in their country. Living in the street and chasing food when

00:30:55.940 they have like minor children and like with them, it's just incredible. Like, I don't know if they

00:31:02.980 should like proceed to keep them. They were using, um, one bathroom. There's only one bathroom in our

00:31:08.900 gym and there was thousands of them in there. It was, they said it was maybe only 600. It had to be

00:31:14.980 more than 600 people in there because the cots, they had cots. They were, they were set up like cots.

00:31:20.420 They were not beds. They were cots. Like jail cots. Set up in a gym. And there was one bathroom.

00:31:26.820 And they can't even bathe in there. There's no, it's not even a shower in there. It was a bathroom,

00:31:30.900 just a bathroom. They have already a problem of homeless and now they're getting like more people

00:31:35.700 in the street. And so I'm just thinking what will happen with the big apple when all these

00:31:41.380 migrants will begin homeless forever. And of course, these are the people that Justin Trudeau said,

00:31:48.420 hey, if you're having problems being, um, homeless or being stateless in New York,

00:31:54.660 come on all up to Canada. So it's interesting that, uh, these are the, Justin Trudeau essentially

00:32:02.900 for seven years has volunteered to be America's homeless shelter.

00:32:07.140 I just want to, maybe you heard a quote of a man who actually crossed the Darien jungle and all

00:32:16.820 dangerous it is for them to cross and to have a better life here in us. 1.00

00:32:21.780 So they are ready to cross everything to get here.

00:32:25.460 Well, it's very interesting. There's different layers here. I mean,

00:32:27.700 the fact that the American border is absolutely obliterated there,

00:32:30.820 there really is no border for any intents and purposes is newsworthy. Um,

00:32:35.860 Donald Trump would say, I'll build a wall. He, he of course had four years and did not build a wall.

00:32:40.660 Um, the fact that the sanctuary city Democrats are suddenly now talking back and saying, well,

00:32:46.260 we didn't really meet it is an incredibly incredible story. And I think the sleeper story

00:32:50.820 here is that for seven years, Canada was the safety valve. We took the, uh, the migrants from 1.00

00:32:59.620 the United States that they were going to deport. It's quite an astonishing thing. Well, listen,

00:33:04.260 keep up the reporting down there. It's a very interesting story. And, um, it's exciting that

00:33:11.300 our team can travel again because it was only May 11th that unvaccinated Canadians could enter

00:33:18.180 the United States, uh, without having to show vaccination status. So, so many of our team

00:33:23.620 couldn't travel. It's great to be able to travel the world again. Rebel news journalists have covered

00:33:28.340 stories in a dozen countries. And, uh, this is an interesting story in New York. It's great to

00:33:33.060 see you down there. Look forward to your safe return. Thank you. And remember that on May 11th,

00:33:38.340 not only the list, the last L restriction, but they also lift the title 42 to replace it by title

00:33:47.540 eight at the border. And it's why we see probably like a backlash back because Joe Biden said out loud

00:33:55.620 that it would be chaotic for a while because of the changing of the title at the border.

00:34:02.820 By the way, folks, if you want to see all of our reports on this issue, go to migrant

00:34:07.620 reports.com. See you soon, Alexa. Thank you. All right. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.

00:34:16.100 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Amazon 62 writes about the BBC verify.

00:34:31.140 She's obviously qualified enough to say what misinformation is working, working for the BBC. 0.80

00:34:35.380 She must be well up to speed with what misinformation is. Yeah. You know, um,

00:34:41.140 this whole new phrase, fact checkers, misinformation, disinformation. Um, this is

00:34:47.700 since the beginning of time. Um, he said, she said, uh, Cain and Abel, um, who do you believe?

00:34:55.540 Uh, that's the job of journalists is to try and seek the truth. But, um, the truth is difficult to

00:35:02.980 find sometimes and people can disagree. And that's why we have freedom of speech. That's why we have

00:35:08.340 elections because you have two different people who, presumably in good faith, come to completely

00:35:13.060 different conclusions about the world and what should be done about it. The hubris of anyone

00:35:18.820 saying, I will tell you what is true. You can tell me what you think is true and you can do your best

00:35:24.420 to prove it and I'll give you the, I'll listen to you. But for you to tell me that you will resolve the

00:35:29.380 debate you who is, uh, her degree is in French and Russian and as a journalist for about five

00:35:41.220 years, mainly in the TikTok field. The idea that she would be the arbiter of anything is a laugh.

00:35:48.820 Al talks about the church burning, says if it were a mosque being burned down, you'd never hear the end

00:35:53.780 of it. Well, listen, I don't want any place of worship to be burned down. But I also note

00:35:59.140 that it was only churches that were shut down by police during the lockdowns too,

00:36:03.460 only Christian pastors who were jailed. Cindy Hadyuk says, wasn't Pastor Derek also arrested

00:36:10.580 for the crime of kneeling and praying in front of a city hall? Yes, you're right. And I, and I didn't

00:36:15.140 give a full description of what he was arrested for. You're talking about Derek Reimer, who, um,

00:36:21.220 the democracy fund is defending. I'm very pleased to say that's a civil liberties case.

00:36:26.100 And where are the liberal civil libertarians? Well, there are not really any more of them

00:36:30.740 around anymore, are there? That's our show for today. Boy, I got to tell you, I'm aching to show you

00:36:36.660 the studio, which is under construction. It's, uh, it's going to be ready soon. And you're going to say,

00:36:43.300 wow, I, at least that's how I feel. And we're in the boardroom until then. So thanks for your patience

00:36:48.660 with us. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:36:52.340 see you at home. Good night. And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 25, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ It’s so disillusioning to see people like a former Governor General and a former Supreme Court judge soil themselves

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