EZRA LEVANT | Liberals win again... but awaken Conservative grassroots
Summary
For a moment there, I thought the conservatives might pull it off, but they did hold the liberals to a minority. I ll tell you why I think the glass is half full, and why you should look at it that way.
Transcript
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Hello, my friends. It's the morning after the night before. Wow, the election was quite something,
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up and down. For a moment there, I thought the conservatives might pull it off, but
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they did hold the liberals to a minority. I'll tell you why I think the glass is
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Tonight, the morning after the big election. It's April 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.
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We're ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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Oh, hi, everybody. I hope you tuned into our live stream last night. I was in this chair for eight
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hours straight. My friend Sheila Gunn-Reed was in her house, and we had a series of guests throughout
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the evening, but most importantly, we followed the election, and our hearts went up and down.
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I think in my own case, I was sort of demoralized by the polls over the last few months, so I was
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bracing for the worst. And while the conservatives didn't win the election, it was not the worst. The
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worst would have been a Mark Carney majority government with the conservatives dashed. That's
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actually how it looked for a little bit a few weeks ago. I didn't quite believe the polls, but I didn't
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want to, I didn't want to, you know, imagine my way out of the reality. When 10 different pollsters
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are saying the same thing, I think you have to bend to reality. But I got up this morning, even though
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we were up super late last night. By the way, about a million people watched our live stream last night
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between Rumble and YouTube. It was the largest live stream we've ever done, which was pretty cool.
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I got up this morning because I was sort of excited and my brain was turning about what I had
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seen. And I took the liberty of writing some notes and I first shared it with the team. And then I thought,
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heck, I'm going to, I'm going to do a little video about it. So here with is my sort of six minute summary of
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why I'm feeling glass half full about the election rather than glass half empty. Here, take a look at my thoughts
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that I wrote this morning. So why did Pierre Polyev lose the election last night? After all, under him,
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the conservatives received a higher vote share than any party has received since 1988, 41.4%. That was
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enough to give Brian Mulroney a majority government. But Mulroney was fighting against a divided left.
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The most important factor in this election was Jagmeet Singh happily euthanizing the NDP,
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taking it down to just 6.3% and only seven seats. Singh had thrown in the towel years ago. It was
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obvious. And he was a de facto liberal. It'll be interesting to see what patronage he receives
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from Mark Carney as a thank you. The Green Party went even further, officially canceling nearly a hundred of
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their own candidates explicitly so as not to split the left-wing vote. They wanted it all to go with
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the liberals. Left-wing Canadians don't actually need the NDP or the Green Party anymore. Canadians are
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about to learn just how radical Mark Carney is on everything from net zero environmentalism to foreign
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policy. He didn't need to keep up the anti-Americanism in his speech last night when he won. I mean,
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the election was over. But Mark Carney chose to because he actually believes in realigning Canada
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with China. As I've been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water,
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our country. Never. But these are not, these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us
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so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen.
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Just as he did when he chaired Brookfield Asset Management. I've called Carney Trudeau 2.0,
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but smarter and harder working. Now that's true. And Carney has most of the same team
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as Trudeau, including the disgraced Rasputin figure, Gerald Butz. But Carney and his extremist wife
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are deep ideological activists, whereas Trudeau was more of a cliche spouting mascot. If it helps to
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understand Carney, know that the company he chaired, Brookfield Asset Management, has a trillion dollars
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under management. It's like BlackRock and just as ideological and dictatorial. By the way, has any
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Canadian media outlet other than Rebel News reported that Mark Carney was interrogated last year by
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congressional staff accused of extorting coal companies? I believe Polyev will actually win
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the next election. The Trump challenge will resolve itself one way or another. Carney's thin-skinned,
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domineering personality is already showing itself. He'll soon find out that running a caucus and
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running a confederation is a bit different than being a corporate oligarch where everyone says,
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yes sir. I'll give Trudeau this. He could be charming and his wife was embarrassing but harmless.
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Mark Carney doesn't have emotional intelligence and his wife is like Lady Macbeth. More important
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than personality, all of the issues that caused people to hate Trudeau, housing costs, mass immigration,
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taxes, wokeism, all those issues are going to continue under Carney and people will see that Carney's
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cabinet is largely the same as Trudeau's was. There has been no real change in the liberals.
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Polyev's achievements include realigning the conservatives, making it the party of the working man,
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something that will accelerate as the public slowly realizes just who Carney is and who he listens to.
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Carney hasn't given up his belief in net zero de-industrialization or other world economic forum
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obsessions. You know there's a reason the mainstream media don't want you learning about the world
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economic forum or what Carney did there as a board member. Imagine you're a 25 year old who can't
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afford to buy a house and you're watching Carney's boomer dance last night and his wife's Elaine Bennis
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moves. The world economic forum is like the bohemian grove but for Europeans and leftists there's a
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different temperament amongst the little people. Expect Carney to keep his promise to lavish money
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on the CBC state broadcaster partly as a reward for their service these past months and partly to start
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campaigning for the next election that could come within a year. Don't be surprised if as a corollary
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Carney reintroduces Trudeau's C63 Online Harms Act censorship bill. You've already seen how they treat
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Rebel News. They want citizen journalists to know their place. Rebel News played a role in this election
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as you know. We had 318 million views and impressions during the campaign. In the riding of York Center
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for example we helped drive out the pro-Hamas MP Yaara Sachs a bright spot in a gloomy night. It's going to be
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an interesting year. There are a lot more stories to tell and the regime media won't tell them so we at
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Rebel News will. There's also more need than ever for rebel style of activism especially our civil liberties
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litigation. We have a track record of beating the liberals in court especially when it comes to their
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censorship and bullying. We're going to need to do a lot more of that and frankly I'm going to need your help
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to do it. I'll share more thoughts later but the results last night were not as disappointing as I feared.
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Come on. Don't mope. Pick yourself up and get going. Surely you can see how close we are now.
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Hey to follow all of our reporting on Mark Carney including our investigative journalism
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go to thecarneyfiles.com. What do you think? Do you think I'm deceiving myself just to cope or do you
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think? Perhaps Pierre Polyev is on the precipice of a strong majority. I guess time will tell. It's too
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easy of an answer. By the way I got a lot of calls from Americans today who were interested in what
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happened. I mean Americans are focused on other things. The war between Russia and Ukraine. The
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situation with Iran. The Abraham Accords part two. China. Europe. There's so much the Americans think
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about that Canada really isn't in the top 10 but they started to pay attention to our country during
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the trucker convoy and they got Justin Trudeau's read pretty quick so I did a few interviews. I'm not
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going to show you all of them because they they went on rather long but let me show you an excerpt from
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my visits with Charlie Kirk who is a very influential Republican conservative activist really focuses on
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young people. I was really glad to have a chance to talk with him and then my old buddy Alex Jones
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who is so smart and so well read. Frankly he could be doing these monologues. He really understands
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Canadian politics. So without further ado here's a couple of clips from my day talking to Americans.
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We're going to dive deeper into the Canadian results here with my friend Ezra Levant from
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Rebel News. Ezra great to see you. You actually have a glass half full interpretation of the Canadian
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election results. Tell us about it. Thanks. I mean you got to if you're a conservative in the left of
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center country like Canada you always got to be looking for the silver lining and let me tell you
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what it is. The Conservative Party of Canada led by Pierre Polyev got the highest vote count of the
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Conservative Party in a generation. The last time the Conservatives got this many votes it was 1988.
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Trouble is we have a multi-party system. It's not the U.S. style two-party system. So Pierre Polyev the
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Conservative ran a working-class Conservative campaign that focused on things like reducing
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immigration, reducing inflation, reducing the cost. You know it was actually something that I think
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American Conservatives would like. Trouble is the left-wing parties all joined together. So
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Pierre Polyev got about 41.5 percent and you're thinking well that's terrible because in the two-party
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American system it would be. But believe it or not that's the highest any politician has got in Canada
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in 30 years. But the Socialist Party fell down to six percent. All of it went to the Liberals. The Green
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Party did a trick. They canceled over a hundred of their candidates to stop splitting the vote. So what
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happened is the Liberal candidate led by a World Economic Forum board member named Mark Carney,
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he squeaked past Pierre Polyev and he formed a minority government. What does that mean? He didn't
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get most of the seats in the parliament. So he's there's a chance we'll be going back to the polls
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sometime this year. It's not a disaster. It feels bad because as recently as four or five months ago
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the Conservatives were looking to cruise to victory with the majority. But I'll be candid with you Charlie
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and you know me. I'm the biggest Trump booster in Canada. Donald Trump's heckling and his banter about
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the 51st state. That spooked some people who had thin skin or didn't understand what to make of it.
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And I think that probably drove five or ten percent over to the Liberals. So glass half full is best
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conservative results in a long time. The new Conservative Party is very attractive to young people
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and working class people. The bad news is the Liberals squeaked past them. And I hate to say it,
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it was that Trump banter that hurt some feelings. Yeah. So let's let's dive deeper into this and examine
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it. So first, that sounds like it was a French playbook where there was meaning in the France,
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they did something similar where the Liberal parties kind of all combined together. I have to imagine,
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though, it's just a little bit different than American politics, where was it not cost of living
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and mass migration and cultural cohesion? That was a bigger issue. Was this really a referendum on
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President Trump externally? I mean, walk us into the elements here.
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Well, there was a generational divide, which was so interesting. Historically, the Liberal Party gets the
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young voters. Justin Trudeau won in 2015, in part on his promise to legalize marijuana. Trudeau tried
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to come across as young and hip and cool. And he got the young vote. This time around, young people
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really tilted towards the Conservatives for the reasons you say. It's tough to find a house you can
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buy in Canada. Mass immigration has driven down wages and pushed up housing costs. So immigration was the
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subtle driver of all, not so subtle driver of all these things. Crime is a huge crime wave in Canada.
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In many ways, we're now actually more violent than the United States, which has never happened before.
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And finally, we have big pro-Hamas street marches, things that, I mean, occasionally you see them in
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the United States, but they're a weekly thing in Canada. So yes, immigration was at play. But it was a
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generational thing. Young people feel a little bit hopeless. They can't buy a house. They can barely
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afford to get ahead. And they see that mass immigration is driving those things. Whereas boomers
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and seniors, they've already got their home paid off. So they don't care if house prices rise. That's
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good for them. They don't really pay income taxes because they don't work anymore. And I think that they're
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oblivious to some of the street battles in Canada over race and ethnicity, diaspora politics. So the
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boomers and the seniors could afford the luxury political belief of being offended by Donald
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Trump. Like imagine that is driving your vote for your prime minister. Who's going to push back at
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Trump's heckles? That is not a serious reason to vote for someone because like I say, it's a luxury
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belief you can only afford if everything else in your life is going right. Young people didn't really care
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about the Trump tweets, but boomers and seniors, especially liberal minded boomers and seniors,
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they cared a lot. So it's a luxury belief to be so offended at Trump that you can basically crap on
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your kids' future. And luxury beliefs are something we talk about a lot on this program. Okay. So you are
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rather hopeful actually about the future of Canadian politics based on your analysis and your
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interpretation. Just kind of, let's take a step back. What, what does an election look like?
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Uh, what was, is there a lot of money being spent? How much money was spent on this? Was it campaigning
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across the country? I know that it was a rather truncated or a rather compressed election season.
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So educate us on what Canadian elections look like. Canadian elections. There's a five week period
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where everyone goes full guns. Now, obviously everything before that there's sort of have the
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campaign in mind, but there's an intensity of those last five weeks in Canada, the government has
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nationalized leaders debates. So there was an official government run leaders debate halfway
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through. And typically people really pay attention to those. Um, but, uh, you know, there is a lot of
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money being spent Canada is about one 10th, the size of the U S and we probably had one 10th the size of
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the budget, but the campaigns of their campaign jets, and it's all about ID in your vote and get out the
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vote. Obviously a lot of the campaigning is digital. Um, so it's very much like an American campaign. In fact,
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the liberals typically have campaign advisors from the Democrats. Um, let me tell you a quirky thing,
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Mark Carney and, uh, and another candidate named Evan Solomon. They're, they're basically run by a
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globalist lobby group in New York called the Eurasia group. It's sort of weird how that it's in New York
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city, but it was sort of running the campaign for the liberal party in Canada. Justin Trudeau's
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former mentor works at the Eurasia group. And that's where Mark Carney, the prime minister, his wife
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works like this little office in New York is basically being the puppet master for Canada.
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It's a little bit weird. There's a lot of foreign interference in our election. I should
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mention in the last election, the Chinese communist party was found to be interfering in 11 different,
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uh, districts. This election, it was even worse. In fact, um, one candidate had to step down
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because he was a Chinese Canadian candidate who said, if you kidnap my opponent and take him to
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the Chinese consulate, you'll get a million dollar bounty. I know what I said just sounded insane,
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but he said it three times. And finally he resigned as the candidate to be replaced
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by another Chinese communist party candidate, a police officer, Chinese Canadian police officer
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who would attend Chinese communist party events in his police uniform, sing communist songs. Like
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the hand of China is very apparent in our politics. In fact, our new prime minister, Mark Carney,
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you may know that he was the chair of Brookfield asset management, which is like a slightly smaller
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black rock. He's met with Xi Jinping. He's done huge business deals in China. He took a quarter
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billion dollar loan from China. So we have a real China problem in Canada. There are great
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loyal freedom oriented Chinese Canadians fighting against that. But the Mark Carney government is as
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pro China as you can get. Let me throw one last thing at you, Charlie. Canadian politicians were sort
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of heckling back at Donald Trump. I know you didn't hear it because it was for Canadian domestic
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consumption. It was sort of, can you prove who is the toughest to stand up to Trump?
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That was a campaign thing to juice the turnout that we talked about, those sensitive boomers and
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seniors. But last night, after the votes were counted, Mark Carney, the new liberal prime minister,
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the former World Economic Forum board member, the former chair of Brookfield asset management,
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he takes the stage for his acceptance speech. Campaign's over now. Now he has to think like a prime
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minister. He goes extra hard at Donald Trump. He says that Canada and the US will never have the same
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relation again. He will reorient Canada. If he gets his way, he will realign us with communist China.
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So it wasn't just a campaign trick. It wasn't just a way, his anti-Americanism wasn't just a tactic.
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He deeply believes in it. This guy is the ultimate globalist. I think I told you
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before him. He has three passports. He has a home in the United Kingdom, a home in New York City.
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I don't think he's actually been back in Canada for more than a few weeks. I flew to the Isle of Man
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two weeks ago because he had set up a shell company with a straw man director there. I don't even know
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what country he pays his taxes in. We are dealing with someone who truly is the World Economic Forum.
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But I mean, just just really quick, though, and it's just I have the 30 seconds. We'll pick it up
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after the break, though. All of that is true. Then how how was the Canadian polity so bamboozled by this
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guy? Is it because you don't have free speech and you don't have alternative media to be able to get
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this message out? There's some anti-Americanism in Canada. Our media is so concentrated it would be
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as if PBS was larger than all other media combined. That's our CBC state broadcaster. And I say again,
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despite all that, Pierre Polyev did exceedingly well. It just wasn't good enough, given the France
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style trick you mentioned, where they all unified behind the lefty. It was close, though. The liberal
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only beat the conservative by two percent. So don't write us off yet, Charlie. That's why I'm
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not gloomy. Glass half full. I think Polyev will win it within the next year and we'll be smiling
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again. So now the policies of the globalists that have destroyed Canada. It's horrible. I think we
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got a bad economy when they're so rich resource wise. Now the bad guys get to pose as the good guys,
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as Ezra Rovant politely, respectfully warned on this broadcast. Ezra, you were absolutely right.
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What's the lay of the land? Can this be salvaged? What do you think Trump should start doing?
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Well, I got bad news and I got good news. You saw the bad news. Here's why that acceptance speech
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by Mark Carney is scary. I understand that he campaigned as an anti-American to get votes.
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There's Trump derangement syndrome in Canada. There's a streak of anti-Americanism that goes back
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to the US Revolutionary War. Where did the, you know, royal loyalists go when they lost
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to George Washington? They came up to Canada. So anti-Americanism has been under the surface in
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Canada for a long time. I had thought that Mark Carney was just stoking that anti-Americanism
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till the election. But what you saw there was his speech after he won. So he really is in his heart
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an anti-American. And remember when he was the chair of Brookfield Asset Management,
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which is a slightly smaller BlackRock, he was totally in bed with China. Did you hear what
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he said there? Our relationship with America is over as we know it. He wants to realign Canada
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towards China. And there was more of his speech. He talked about replacing American trade
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with foreign trade. And he's talking about things like energy. Canada has an enormous amount of oil
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and gas. China's been sniffing around. I'm worried Mark Carney is going to try and reorient our country
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towards him. And that's what he warned of a month ago. He said Trump needs to come in and make an oil
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deal right now to block that. Yeah. I mean, Canada right now, I'll be candid. The reason we have a
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trade surplus with America, it's not nefarious. It's because you guys buy oil from us. And my point is
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better to buy oil from Canada when, by the way, it's often US firms pumping the oil than to buy
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it from OPEC countries. First of all, you don't have to have the Pentagon patrolling the Persian
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Gulf sea lanes. You just have a pipeline. Well, sure. And the US also refines most of it. So it's
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a good deal. Yeah. So that's the bad news. And I think you know Mark Carney quite well. You know,
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for example, that he's got three passports, Irish, American, sorry, Irish, British, and Canadian.
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You know that he's a globalist tax evader. You know that he's, for example, hung out with
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficker. You know that his wife, her family, bizarrely,
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is in Epstein's black book. You know that Prince Andrew, a client of Jeffrey Epstein,
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threw a party for Mark Carney at Buckingham Palace and picked up the tab. Those are alarm bells. There
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might be some innocent explanation for it, but we haven't heard it. So this guy truly is an anti-American
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World Economic Forum actor. That's the bad news. But can I tell you some good news? I have to be an
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optimist, Alex, because I live in Canada. If I was a pessimist, I'd flee this place a long time ago.
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I want to stay and fight. And so a guy like me needs hope. Let me tell you why I have a little bit of
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reason for hope. Number one, the conservative candidate in Canada, his name is Pierre Polyev,
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he actually got the highest vote for any conservative candidate since the 80s. The only
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reason that wasn't enough to push him over the top is that all the opposition parties on the left
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united around the liberals. It was like in Macron's France, where the minor parties all withdrew their
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candidates so that they had a unite the left plan to beat Le Pen. I don't know if you followed that,
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but they did that in Canada. So for people that don't know, it's not a two party system. You got
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a whole bunch. So they do this uniting all these other parties to win. Yeah, we have a parliamentary
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system. So typically you get 40 percent of the vote. You've won it because there's five parties in
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parliament. What happened is the Green Party, they canceled 100 of their candidates. The Socialist Party
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called the NDP. They basically stopped campaigning. So even though the conservatives had a record vote
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last night, it wasn't enough to beat the total united leftists. But it came within two percent, Alex.
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There's one more thing I want to tell you, and I think you might appreciate this. One of the things
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that Donald Trump has done for the U.S. Republican Party, he's made it a working man's party. He's a
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billionaire himself, but he's a blue collar billionaire in his sensibility and his friendships.
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He's at home with a steel worker. He's at home with a construction worker. Pierre Polyev,
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that's the Canadian conservative, has managed to do the same thing. He's made the Canadian
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Conservative Party a party of the working class and incredibly a party of the young. When Justin
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Trudeau became PM 10 years ago, he did so in part by promising young people he'd legalize marijuana.
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It's not a great policy, but it was how he appeared hip to the kids. Pierre Polyev now dominates
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young people their vote, rather, because in Canada you can't afford a house. Our mass immigration
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has driven down wages and pushed up accommodation. So Pierre Polyev, he came so close last night,
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and he's within two points of winning, and he's got the young people and he's got the working class.
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And so Mark Carney won last night. It's true, but he didn't win a majority. And in a parliamentary
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system, if you have a minority government, that means there's a risk you could fall as a government.
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There could be election anytime. I'm trying to keep my hopes up because we've got to stop Mark Carney
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before he does Canada in. He wants to put us in a Chinese orbit. He wants, he, I don't know if you
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know what his main job was before he came back to Canada. He led something called the Glasgow Financial
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Alliance for Net Zero, G-Fans, basically forcing companies to get rid of any fossil fuels.
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Sure, I mean, he's a major ESG enforcer. So if Pierre Polyev lost his own seat in the Canadian election,
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you know, they're calling it humbling. But you're saying they had the biggest showing ever. A,
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what does that mean? And then B, a lot of people didn't support him because they're saying he's not
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really a conservative. But I guess you know him well. What do you think?
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Look, I've known him for 25 years. In fact, they tried to hang that around him. There were stories
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as relevant as Pierre Polyev's mentor. I'm not his mentor. We did work together 25 years ago. And here's
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what I can say about that. He's been a conservative his whole life. I've known him for 25 years. I'm not
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going to pretend to be close to him. The liberals would use that against him. It's not true that I'm close
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with him. But I know him well enough to know that he has been a conservative advocate his whole life
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without changing his mind or his view. And yeah, he lost his seat. That's a hassle. It's a small
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problem. Let me give you an example in the World Economic Forum. He has announced that no member
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of his party will go to the World Economic Forum in Davos. That's what he has to say about globalists.
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He has announced that he'll cut foreign aid and use it on Canadian projects. He has announced the
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end to woke-ism. Sure. What do you think of Maxime Bernier, though? I just know when I talk to
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Canadians and open the phones up, a lot of them said that Polyev wasn't that good. But I mean,
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I know you're a really smart guy and I trust you. I like Bernier. I like the fact that he stood up
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against the COVID pandemic lockdowns. I like the fact that he believes in free speech and zero
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immigration. But Alex, last night he got 0.7 percent of the vote. Maxime Bernier is a good
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egg. He's got a good heart. I like him. I like his style. But he gets like Libertarian Party level
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votes. And that's because the Conservatives know that the main Conservative Party had a better chance
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of winning. Yeah. And listen, Pierre Polyev is not perfect, but he is the most Conservative leader
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we have had in Canada in a generation. He did the best of any Conservative in a generation.
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There are only two choices for Prime Minister, him or Mark Carney. So voting for Maxime Bernier is
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a luxury that I don't think Canadians... I understand. At the same time, he's eloquent and he did win
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votes to be the party leader, which they ignored before. So I see why he's upset. But he has done
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some good, at least on his speaking tours, educating people about the globalists and policies.
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And he should do more of that. He should be like, I don't know, like Charlie Kirk, going around the
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country, giving speeches, debating, encouraging people. But there is a place for Maxime Bernier for
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sure. And you're showing some great pictures of him. That's his place. Well, let me ask you this,
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then. What I'm getting from what you're saying is just like Labour was able to do a parliamentary
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manipulation in the UK and get in, but now they're more unpopular than ever. So it's causing an
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awakening. And you're saying this was the best showing ever for the Conservatives in Canada, vote-wise,
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that if Trump's misstep, you know, making it about sovereignty of Canada, driving people into the
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Liberals' hands, as soon as people figure out that it's, oh, wait, it was the globalists and the
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WEF candidates and people like Trudeau and now Carney that are doing this, that as long as Trump
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stops the nationalistic attacks on their sovereignty, that Trump could come up with a new
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form of rhetoric to approach this and actually be instrumental in helping the Canadians unseat the WEF
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party. I try and understand what Trump is doing. And here's my thinking. And Alex, you correct me if
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I'm wrong. Here's what's on Trump's plate in terms of foreign policy, war between Russia and Ukraine,
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possible war with Iran, Abraham Accords part two, dealing with China, European Union, Brazil,
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like the Mexican border. There's so many, I've just listed five or 10 foreign policy things,
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each of which is more important than Canada. I don't think Trump is spending a lot of intellectual
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bandwidth on Canada because we're not a crisis. So I think he, he came up with that one liner.
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You should be our 51st state because it really jabbed Justin Trudeau. And Trump likes to do that
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with, with people. But what he didn't know is 100% Trudeau came down to Mar-a-Lago. He made the joke.
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Everybody loved it. And then Trump just, you know, he's a ham. He started just making the joke more,
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but then you and I were like, that's not going to be funny to Canadians. Please stop.
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You know, because some Canadians found it an indecent proposal. It would be like asking a
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married woman to go on a date. If she was ready to divorce her man, maybe she would,
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but if she loved her husband, it would be, it would come across as impertinent.
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You should have sold it as an alliance against the globalists. And then, and then,
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and then we'd have conservatives in right now. I mean, let's just say it.
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I want us to get back to being best friends. I want America and Canada to be like Batman and Robin.
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I know we're the junior partner, but we can be best friends. And that's got off track.
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And here's the thing. Trump did it accidentally. Well, here's the issue. If we don't have an
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alliance with Canada, the CHICOMs are, and that is untenable. That's why Canada is important people.
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Some of my listeners, I see them comment. Why are we hearing about Canada? Well,
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you better care about Canada because the CHICOMs do. Let me give you four reasons to care about
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Canada. Number one, we're a laboratory for bad ideas. Universal. It's like a giant California to our
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north. Exactly. Number two, we are geographically between you and Russia, between you and Chinese
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hot air balloons coming over the Arctic. So we are part of your security plan, whether we or you like
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it or not. And like Russia, you've got shit tons of resources. We should be working with you.
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That was my next point. We've got so much oil. We rival Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
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And our free trade agreement that Donald Trump negotiated personally contains a side letter
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giving Americans preferential access to our oil and gas.
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You don't have to tell me about Canada. Do you know where my East Texas family,
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but they've had a lot of kids and a great family. I mean, Jerry Earle's probably got like,
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I don't know, like 15 grandkids and like a whole bunch of kids. A whole bunch of his family works up
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in Canada and they go up and visit and they love it and they're making good money and they're happy.
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So I got a lot of family employed up in Canada. I want to come back into the American orbit. I want
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to stay an independent country. But if we're in the American orbit, that is where we belong. We don't
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belong in a European orbit or in a Chinese orbit. I got a video clip. I'm sorry, I didn't think of it
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for today's show of Mark Carney saying at a World Economic Forum panel, he said, I'm a European.
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That's how he thinks of himself. I think of myself as a proud Canadian who loves America.
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And I don't see a contradiction in that. Mark Carney thinks of himself as a globalist,
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a European and an anti-American. That's what makes me nervous. You heard him. He's not campaigning
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anymore. And he's saying we are breaking away from America. You don't want that. You want us close
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and we can be best friends again. We just got to tone down that one barb that Donald Trump was using
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because for whether it's reasonable or not, Canadians were sensitive to it.
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And well, that's why they don't like the WF party as they started figuring out Trudeau was selling
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them out to China. And so then again, instead of going with the truth, Trump did the joke and now
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it's backfired. And I love his jokes. That's half the fun of Donald Trump is his personality.
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His rallies are really, they could be standup comedy shows. He's just such a great entertainer.
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But the joke here scared people. And you know how close it was last night? It was 41% to 43%.
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So if just 1% moved, they would have been tied. I think that joke might've moved 5%.
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Oh, 100% Trump handed the globalist victory in Canada.
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And I know he didn't mean to do that. At least I hope he didn't mean to do that.
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And there's so many better ways to be friends and allies. Look, I think we're going to get along
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more or less anyways. I think Mark Carney doesn't control all the levers of power and there will
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be other levels of friendship. For example, the premier of the province of Alberta, that's the
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oil province. She went to Trump's inauguration. She has not said a hard word about Trump because
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she's a diplomat. She wants to get the deal done. So there are other forces in Canada besides the
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prime minister. Look, I'm optimistic that within a year we'll be able to fix this. I don't think that
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Mark Carney's minority government. I totally agree. If Trump stops the rhetoric that helps
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the globalists. Yeah. And listen, I love Trump, but I like his bellicose style and it's needed
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for dealing with China, for dealing with the Middle East. You need his strength. But with Canada,
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you know, people thought the roughness was out of place. And I say this as the only journalist in
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Canada, whose company endorsed Trump in all three elections, we've got the scars to show for being
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pro-Trump. I think Trump needs to recalibrate here because I want to, I want to get back to being best
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friends and I want to get rid of Mark Carney. Yeah. I want to have Canada not be the giant
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California of the North. I mean, I'd love to freak California as well. All right. Just one minute on
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this, Ezra, how do you see the trade war going in general though? Look, I don't, again, I wish I
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understood a little bit better. Trump has a fair argument when he says we have too much dairy and
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poultry tariffs. It's true. And that makes food twice as expensive here. You know, there was actually
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a smuggling ring that smuggled cheese across the border from Niagara Falls, New York, and in Niagara
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Falls, Ontario, because it was so much cheaper on the American side. You got to Google it.
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The cheese smuggler. It's crazy. Trump's right on that. Trump's right that American banks should be
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allowed to give mortgages in Canada. I wish we had the competition in our banking sector. I wish we had
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American cell phone companies. We pay amongst the highest data rates in the world for cell phones.
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All of these things are good for American business, but they're great for Canadian citizens. I agree with
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all of that. The trade surplus is in large part because of oil and gas. You're going to have that trade
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surplus with whoever you buy it from until you get your own oil and gas industry.
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Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. There's not a one, one, one size fits all here. Since you mentioned your new
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prime minister, the globalist, uh, that Trump's misstep has put into power here, uh, here is a Mark
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Karnke saying he's not a Canadian. He's a European, meaning globalist.
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Mark, you look like you were about to, um, as a European, you know, as a, as a European,
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I'm a European actually. Yeah. So there you go. Um, speaking as a European, um, I like to say
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falling. And that's recent. So he's not a Canadian. He is a real globalist. Wow. So you guys literally
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have a, a usurper. I don't think he has a Canadian driver's license or health card. Uh, I think he
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literally moved back to Canada weeks ago. He was interrogated by the U S Congress. They were looking
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into his, his alleged extortion of fossil fuel companies. And he said under oath to the U S
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Congress that he was a resident of the United Kingdom. That was just a few months ago, but I'm
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excited about the work ahead. Yeah. I wish the conservatives had won. And yeah, I'm worried
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about what Mark Carney will do to the country, but I feel like we're going to have another crack at
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things within the next year that we won't have to wait four years. And I think that Mark Carney might
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come apart faster than we think. And I know rebel news is really important right now to have that
00:39:44.560
alternative point of view, to have a, uh, a voice in the media that's not bought and paid for by the
00:39:50.160
government. I don't know if you saw my, uh, message the other day that rebel news and for Canada, I added
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up the, all the views and the impressions that they got. And it's about 318 million, 318, like a third of a
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billion almost views and impressions directly from us. That's such a huge number. We really have the
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same footprint during the campaign as the CBC. I know that's hard to believe, but their own rate card
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says they have 360 million views and impressions a month. So we're 318 million just to drop behind
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them. That's why they hate us so much. And that's why we have to keep on fighting. We have to keep
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journalisming. We have to keep telling the other shot of the story. And you know what I like to do?
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I like to sometimes drop the gloves and fight often in court. We have to keep doing that too,
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because I think that Mark Carney is going to try and do some of the things Trudeau has done in the
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past, including censorship. Anyways, um, I feel energized. I am not going to give into sorrow or
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despair. I know my role. My role is to lead a little team here to try and serve Canada and our supporters
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and where appropriate, use our special skills to try and make a difference. That's what I'm going
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to do. Well, that's our show for today. On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you
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at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.