Ezra Levant takes a deep dive into the results of the Liberal Party leadership vote, and tries to figure out if there was any reason to suspect that the results were anything other than a fake election. He's joined by Stephen LeDrew, who was the former president of the party when it transitioned from Jean Chrétien to Paul Martin.
00:00:00.360Hello, my friends. I want to take a deep dive into the leadership contest vote results for the Liberal Party.
00:00:07.440And you might say, Ezra, that's boring. We already know the winner.
00:00:10.100We already know that almost 90% of the vote went to Mark Carney.
00:00:14.320Okay, and if that's all I knew, I wouldn't dispute it.
00:00:17.660But I started going through, riding by riding, and the vote is almost identical in every single riding in the country.
00:00:24.960And I thought, that just can't be right.
00:00:27.600Let me take you through it, and I think I'm going to blow your mind.
00:00:32.200Before I do, let me invite you to get the visual version of this podcast.
00:00:35.660I want to show you the statistics I'm reading from.
00:00:38.360This is from the Liberal Party's own page.
00:00:40.520You've got to see this with your own eyes to believe it.
00:00:42.380Just go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe, and there you go.
00:00:57.600Tonight, Mark Carney is selected as the new Liberal Party leader, and the person who will be your Prime Minister, whether you like it or not.
00:01:10.040It's March 10th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:35.220400,000 people had registered to vote for the Liberal Party leadership, but only 150,000 did vote or were allowed to vote.
00:01:46.320The phrase that the Liberal Party uses is, they were verified.
00:01:50.040So if you have 400,000 who registered, but only, let's say, approximately a third of them were permitted to vote, a lot of explaining is necessary.
00:01:59.860I mean, if you had a vote for your local mayor, and there were, let's say you were in a small town, and there were 4,000 people who were registered to vote, and in the end, only 1,500 people were allowed to vote, or the rest were spoiled ballots or in some way disqualified, so more were disqualified than were qualified, you would have a lot of questions.
00:02:24.620So, such a strange factoid, and then to learn that the proportion in every district was almost identical, too much there.
00:02:34.240I want to show you my analysis in real time today on our live stream as I discovered some of these anomalies.
00:02:41.900I'm going to talk a bit about that, and then I'm going to interview my old friend, Stephen LeDrew.
00:02:45.600He was the president of the Liberal Party of Canada when it transitioned from Jean Chrétien as the leader to Paul Martin.
00:02:51.960There were very rancorous times back then, but as you'll hear him tell me, even back then, things were more orderly and more serious than they are under Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney.
00:03:07.380I don't know if there was foreign meddling or if it was just an inside deal.
00:03:11.680I remember watching the leaders' debates between Frank Bayliss, Karina Gould, Christophe Freeland, and Mark Carney, and I thought, this isn't a debate.
00:12:18.900The four columns on the left are the raw vote count, right?
00:12:23.520So in Avalon, which is a beautiful part of Newfoundland, eight for Kearney, 252, sorry, eight for Bayless, 252 for Kearney, 24 for Freeland, four for Karina Gould.
00:14:00.060Are you telling me that in every single district from the west to the east, from the north to the south, that it's all within this tiny bandwidth?
00:14:34.180Five for Bayless, 174 for Kearney, 13 for Freeland, and four for Gould.
00:14:40.880And wouldn't you know, so that's such a small number of, if you know anything about Scarborough, that is a political place, especially for the liberals.
00:27:56.280Someday, someday, someday I may beat them up.
00:28:00.660But we had some great shows and great distinctions of differences of opinion, and it was a lot of fun.
00:28:09.340And those were the days when you could have differences of opinion on network TV, which is disallowed now.
00:28:17.840If you have an opinion that's not, as you well know, Ezra, that is not followed by the president or the vice president of communications, whether it be CTV, Global, or CBC, you're not on TV anymore.
00:28:52.040I mean, when Christian Freeland quit on the day of the budget update and sort of detonated things in Justin Trudeau's lap,
00:29:00.200I mean, he was having a tough go of it, but that was a very dramatic moment.
00:29:04.900What did you think, as a former Liberal Party president, what went through your mind as you saw those final machinations of Freeland and Trudeau, and now in comes Carney?
00:31:25.560And now that expanded in the last few years to include Mr. Carney and Mr. Carney's wife, who is, by all accounts, a very smart woman.
00:31:37.000And she works for Eurasia in New York City, which is a company that Mr. Butts runs.
00:31:43.980And they receive big, lucrative contracts from the Canadian government.
00:31:48.700So instead of having a broad-based party run by a 52-person executive with rioting associations across the country, and quite frankly, sometimes those were rioting associations and all those thousands of liberals card-carrying paid members of the party were a pain in the butt to the government.
00:32:11.080And that's what they were supposed to be.
00:32:17.640They want to continue running the show.
00:32:20.180And they engineered the voting so that, I mean, look, you and I have seen, your audience has seen, more people voting for a college student president council than voted for the prime minister of Canada this past weekend.
00:32:55.820They have their ways of dealing with it.
00:32:57.240I don't know if you want to go into all the policy things, Ezra, but, I mean, they want to run Canada the same way they've run Canada for the last 10 years.
00:33:05.380Let me bring to your attention one specific district, because over the weekend I saw that the liberals had 400,000 people register to vote.
00:33:16.740And only 150,000 were verified and qualified.
00:33:23.400So almost two-thirds of the voters were not allowed to vote.
00:33:27.920But I just, I started today to go, the Liberal Party has published the district-by-district results.
00:33:33.680There's something very quirky about it, and I want to run it by you.
00:33:37.280In every single district, all 338, Mark Carney had 89.6% of the vote, plus or minus five.
00:33:48.560French Canada, English Canada, the North, the South, rural, urban, Indigenous, like rural, or like really the statistical deviations were minimal.
00:34:01.660And it's a start, like they're not a, let me read you one particular district, maybe you've heard of it.
00:37:09.980And then there are problems as to whether, in fact, these were actual people, citizens, dogs or cats or hamsters, and how many were going to vote.
00:37:19.780Well, we know now the total of the vote.
00:37:22.240But we also know that there are people in Ottawa, Canada 2020, these wonderful think tanks that the prime minister Trudeau has fostered, has benefited from.
00:37:34.440And I don't know how they would do it.
00:37:38.640I'm not a computer expert, as your assistant just found out when we were trying to set up this Zoom call.
00:37:45.740But these are not people who came out and stuck a ballot in, and that there's some similarity across the country leaves a problem.
00:37:55.020Listen, Ezra, he is going to be the prime minister.
00:37:58.680Mr. Carney is, and we've already seen that he is not going to run on the record of the last 10 years, because they don't want – if they run on the record of the last 10 years, it's certain defeat.
00:38:29.260They didn't want that conservative government in the last few years.
00:38:32.280People, unless they have rocks in their head, Ezra, they don't want the same kind of liberal government that has strangled Canada, that has tortured Canada economically, that has left Canada in its wake in the world.
00:38:47.040So this government right now, with Carney in there, Ezra, is saying, oh, the real big issue of the next election is going to be who can handle Trump.
00:38:59.040Let me just say – you know, I was just thinking – like, I appreciate the wisdom when you said it strains credulity, because you're not saying – because neither of us know for a fact what happened.
00:39:08.000But, I mean, I remember when I was just 20, in Alberta, there was the Ralph Klein revolution, and there was a primary, there was a leadership vote, and in the first ballot – I don't know if you remember this, Stephen – there was a woman named Nancy Betkowski who got 16,393 votes.
00:39:39.220Well, it was just the first ballot, so every guy with a pickup truck and a ball cap said, oh, my gosh, that was me because I didn't go and vote.
00:39:48.140And the best thing that ever happened to Ralph Klein was losing by one vote in the first round.
00:39:55.220So all his guys came out, and he smoked it in the second round.
00:39:58.800It's a little bit of political trivia from the age before the internet.
00:42:09.020So in a – and also in a proper leadership, in the leadership of battles, you know,
00:42:16.340Gretchen, Turner, Gretchen, Martin, there were scads of people, living people on either side saying they were watching.
00:42:25.060They were watching to make sure there were no shenanigans, make sure there's no funny things going on.
00:42:29.420I don't know, but I doubt very much whether the three candidates who did not win the liberal leadership had a whole bunch of scrutineers out there.
00:42:41.340And how do you have a scrutineer on a computer vote?
00:42:44.280Like, what is scrutinizing the integrated circuit, like on the semiconductor?
00:42:49.440How do you scrutinize a computer vote?
00:44:16.460What are you going to be looking for in the weeks ahead?
00:44:18.420Do you think he's going to go to an election quickly?
00:44:20.500Or do you think he's going to try and have as many months in office as he can to build up a reputation as a prime minister before he goes to the polls?
00:45:03.200So my betting is that they're going to go to the polls as quickly as possible so that if he was prime minister for six months, wait until next fall, he's going to have all kinds of luggage.
00:45:15.500And it's not going to be nice luggage.
00:45:17.040So they want to get out there quickly and have him established as this genius, world class, as he himself said to a British interviewer, I am an elitist who knows how things run with the world.
00:45:33.820And they also want out there quickly, I think, Ezra, while Trump is out there.
00:45:37.800We don't know what Trump's going to be doing, much less tomorrow, as in four months.
00:45:44.260So they want Trump to be able to run Carney against Trump so that they don't have to worry about the record of the last 10 years.
00:45:52.060Because if somehow Canadians smarten up and say, you know, we didn't like that, and notwithstanding that you're telling us a new tale right now, we still aren't going to vote for you, then that's not what the Liberals want.
00:46:08.520So I think sooner rather than later, and maybe you'll invite me back on, we'll have some predictions, because the NDP are in very rough shape, too, and the Greens are nowhere.
00:47:22.180But 100% tariffs from China, especially targeting the canola industry and not even a tweet from our prime minister, let alone bans or boycotts.
00:47:31.960It sort of tells you who really is the boss up here, doesn't it?
00:47:35.140Another letter, this one from Edward Farkas, who says, can you imagine if Trump had a news briefing and starts crying?
00:48:29.560And before I retired, I worked with many Canadians that would come to Boston to work in construction business, mostly iron workers and carpenters.
00:48:37.700Well, I happen to know that in Halifax, with the terrible explosion, that World War II gunpowder ship basically exploding, killing countless people in Halifax, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, it was Boston that sent help.
00:48:56.880Boston that heard about the blast and sent men and equipment and material.