Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Mainstream media can't figure out why Canadians are heckling Justin Trudeau

00:00:00.000 Tonight, have you been seeing what's happening on the Justin Trudeau campaign trail?

00:00:19.280 Or is it really as horrific as the mainstream media is reporting?

00:00:24.880 It's Monday, August 30th, 2021, and this is The Ezra Levin Show.

00:00:32.400 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:36.200 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:40.280 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:51.040 Oh, the humanity.

00:00:52.640 Have you been seeing what's happening out on the Justin Trudeau campaign trail recently, folks?

00:00:58.580 What was supposed to be friendly photo ops with the PM and his adoring superfans,

00:01:04.740 well, that's morphed into scenes seemingly lifted from The Walking Dead,

00:01:09.700 with Trudeau, the former part-time drama teacher, running away from the zombie hordes played by the, oh, Canadian electorate.

00:01:19.000 This federal election version of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre kicked off in White Rock, B.C.

00:01:25.360 last week, and my colleague, Matt Brevner, well, he was there to chronicle the action,

00:01:30.680 namely everyday people running out of their houses and making a beeline towards Justin,

00:01:36.480 not to pose in a selfie, mind you, but rather to loudly voice their displeasure.

00:01:42.420 Here, check out the footage, and whatever you do, kids,

00:01:45.060 don't forget to put on your 3D glasses.

00:01:48.960 You're a local, you live in the White Rock area?

00:01:50.920 Yeah, yeah, I live in White Rock, yeah.

00:01:52.420 Okay.

00:01:52.920 Are you a homeowner?

00:01:54.260 No, no.

00:01:55.380 So, how can you be?

00:01:56.940 How can you be these days?

00:01:58.120 I think this guy basically represents, he's a drama teacher, okay?

00:02:03.720 And he has absolutely no place in politics of a city, not to mention the country, you know?

00:02:12.720 Here, here.

00:02:13.880 Is there a way in which you feel this administration has let you down,

00:02:16.900 or that you think they've done great?

00:02:18.420 Um, you should almost feel embarrassed asking that.

00:02:24.980 Uh, Prime Minister Trudeau, are vaccine passports here to stay, sir?

00:02:29.660 Vaccine passports disproportionately affect black Canadians, sir?

00:02:33.540 Black Canadians are disproportionately unvaccinated compared to Caucasian Canadians.

00:02:38.940 Vaccine passports create a two-tiered society, sir? 0.81

00:02:42.760 Sir, will there be religious exemptions?

00:02:45.020 Will there be religious exemptions for vaccine passports, sir?

00:02:47.600 Sir, will there be religious exemptions, sir?

00:02:50.840 Do you think that it's insensitive to call a snap election when there are Canadian Armed Forces

00:02:56.440 dying in Afghanistan, stuck in Kabul, sir?

00:03:00.120 Do you think it is insensitive?

00:03:01.640 Piece of goddamn f***er!

00:03:03.380 You, you, you, you, I'm calling you, sir!

00:03:06.300 I thought you were against segregation!

00:03:09.140 I thought you were against segregation!

00:03:10.900 Wow, that looked like that old Twilight Zone episode,

00:03:16.100 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

00:03:18.860 But it only got worse for Justin Trudeau.

00:03:22.660 For example, he dropped by Bolton, Ontario on Friday for a campaign stop.

00:03:27.640 It was actually called off due to safety reasons?

00:03:32.540 What the...

00:03:33.540 But yes, folks, somehow people heckling the PM is akin to a downed live wire or a swarm of

00:03:41.720 killer bees on a rampage.

00:03:44.140 And so it is that Trudeau never left the comfort zone of his big red liberal campaign bus.

00:03:50.520 We're deeply sorry, folks.

00:03:52.980 Unfortunately, for safety reasons, this event will no longer be taking place here today.

00:03:59.020 Thank you all so much for your support, for everything you're doing.

00:04:03.800 Our top-line opening is always everybody's safety.

00:04:07.060 So please, safely make your air home.

00:04:09.940 Thank you very much.

00:04:12.760 And just yesterday, Justin's Mr. Wonderful Tour dropped by Cambridge, Ontario.

00:04:17.940 The brave PM actually ventured out of his bus this time without getting scared by his

00:04:23.740 shadow, a la Wyarton Willie.

00:04:25.980 But one thing remained delightfully consistent, and that was the hostile reception.

00:04:31.720 Indeed, there was more booing taking place yesterday in Cambridge than what one observes

00:04:37.600 at a New York Mets game these days.

00:04:40.180 And I am so proud of the way we worked together.

00:04:44.460 I'm so proud of the way that our government was able to stand up for people here.

00:04:53.380 And you know what?

00:04:54.640 We did it.

00:04:55.720 We won.

00:04:56.760 You guys are still able to export to the United States on privilege.

00:05:02.260 Wow, that's harsh.

00:05:04.900 But that's all it is.

00:05:06.800 Harsh.

00:05:07.900 It's not violent.

00:05:08.900 It is not a crucible of danger for the PM or anyone else.

00:05:14.240 But just check out the media spin cycle.

00:05:18.140 It's gone into overdrive.

00:05:19.980 Check out this Canadian press story headlined,

00:05:23.020 There is fear out there, with the subhead being another Trudeau campaign stop targeted by hecklers.

00:05:31.380 Written in a bewildered, how can this be, style, the article notes how, quote,

00:05:38.440 An angry crowd of agitators surrounded Justin Trudeau's campaign buses and screamed profanities at the Liberal leader

00:05:47.260 during a campaign event Sunday in Cambridge, end quote.

00:05:51.820 First, a correction, folks.

00:05:53.480 Trudeau has only one big red bus.

00:05:55.760 The other big red bus, well, that is almost identical to Justin's set of wheels,

00:06:01.520 but it is for the bought and paid members of the media party,

00:06:06.880 Justin's official state-sponsored stenographers.

00:06:10.920 Anyway, the tone is set in the article, isn't it?

00:06:14.600 These Canadian demonstrators are not merely protesters, but rather they are agitators

00:06:21.880 and they are shockers, screaming profanities.

00:06:27.020 How odd when the Marxists who comprise the rank and file of Black Lives Matter or Antifa assemble 0.97

00:06:33.660 and do such things as, oh, you know, tear down statues or set neighbourhoods ablaze

00:06:38.500 or even throw haymakers.

00:06:40.200 These cats aren't agitators, but rather they are mostly peaceful protesters.

00:06:47.600 Funny that.

00:06:49.320 The Canadian press story goes on to note that one of the crowd members hurled a racist slur

00:06:55.220 at a black officer in Trudeau's security detail and a misogynistic slur at a female officer.

00:07:03.440 We're all adults here.

00:07:05.220 Is it too much to ask what the racist and misogynistic insults were?

00:07:10.640 But no, that is left up to our imaginations.

00:07:13.540 Maybe putting those insults into print might cause for yet another unsafe situation

00:07:18.880 when it comes to Snowflake Nation.

00:07:22.220 Now, full disclosure, I don't think it is proper to use racist and sexist slurs.

00:07:27.520 That's certainly not my style.

00:07:29.920 But in the aftermath, the Prime Minister himself was asked by the almost fainting members of the media party

00:07:38.180 to weigh in on the racist and sexist insults.

00:07:42.580 Seriously.

00:07:43.880 The trained SEALs imitating journalists actually thought that Prime Minister Justin Blackface McGroper,

00:07:51.680 Trudeau, occupies the high moral ground when it comes to racism and sexism?

00:07:59.620 Give me a break.

00:08:01.500 And as for the headline, there is fear out there.

00:08:06.420 Gee, was that pithy copy meant for a story on the Afghan interpreters and their families?

00:08:13.000 You know, the people that the Justin Trudeau liberals have abandoned in Afghanistan?

00:08:17.560 Now, that's fear with a capital F, as the barbarians who comprise the Taliban go door-to-door 1.00

00:08:24.660 looking for our allies to torture or behead or hang from a lamppost.

00:08:30.860 Oh, I'm sorry, did I say barbarians? 0.95

00:08:33.220 How culturally insensitive of me.

00:08:35.680 What I meant to say, of course, was brothers.

00:08:38.660 But the disbelief regarding the media party members pertaining to these hostile receptions

00:08:44.580 speaks volumes, doesn't it?

00:08:46.140 Justin's their boy, after all.

00:08:49.140 He's siphoning millions, and in the case of the CBC, billions of taxpayer dollars to pay

00:08:55.700 these media hordes off.

00:08:57.400 They can't believe that anyone would have anything disruptive to say about Justin Trudeau.

00:09:04.700 He's so lovable.

00:09:05.860 And what a head of hair.

00:09:07.740 Wonder what shampoo he uses.

00:09:09.280 By the way, that was an actual question posed to the Prime Minister by a CTV reporter a while

00:09:14.960 back.

00:09:15.340 What shampoo do you use?

00:09:18.140 I swear.

00:09:20.600 And so it is that the media narrative is now pursuing this theme.

00:09:25.060 Who's paying these protesters, these agitators?

00:09:29.140 That's right.

00:09:30.180 These Canadians you see venting their anger are obviously paid actors, right? 0.75

00:09:36.920 Well, my advice to the rank and file of the mainstream media is this.

00:09:40.980 Just because you are on the take, that doesn't mean everyone else is on the take as well.

00:09:48.600 Just consider this.

00:09:50.180 Maybe these are justifiably emotional Canadians who are at their breaking points because for 0.97

00:09:58.800 almost two years now they've been told to exist like hermits, they have lost their jobs, they

00:10:04.960 have lost their businesses.

00:10:06.260 So yeah, they are justifiably really pissed off to the point that they are shockers, espousing

00:10:14.600 profanity.

00:10:15.500 These people are in no need of a sugar daddy to cut them paychecks. 1.00

00:10:21.360 Their anger is real and genuine.

00:10:24.260 And it should be noted that calling this election in the first place is a driver for this anger.

00:10:32.420 For way too many months now we've been told to hunker down to defeat COVID.

00:10:37.000 We've been told to cancel weddings and funerals.

00:10:39.860 We've been told to not visit loved ones in hospitals or long-term care facilities.

00:10:45.920 We've been told that playing sports or going to the gym cannot be accommodated.

00:10:50.520 Those are the stuff of super spreading events.

00:10:54.460 And yet Justin Trudeau says, well, to hell with the pandemic when it comes to an opportunity

00:10:59.920 to snag a majority government, a majority that was completely unnecessary given that the

00:11:07.240 NDP's Jagmeet Singh, he was propping up the Justin Trudeau Liberals on every single issue

00:11:12.820 that this minority government was never in danger of falling.

00:11:18.160 And so it is that Canadians of every political stripe are saying to themselves,

00:11:24.500 why are we even in a federal election in the first place?

00:11:28.540 Or is this really all about Justin Trudeau and his precious ego?

00:11:34.760 Another point worth noting is the narrative that has emerged by those in the media party

00:11:39.720 that this anger on the campaign trail is, quote, unprecedented, unquote.

00:11:45.880 The journalists saying this are either ignorant jabronis or they are simply too young to know

00:11:53.400 that the history of Canada began in 1867, not 1997.

00:11:59.540 There are so many examples of emotional discourse on the Hustings.

00:12:03.420 And one of the prime examples is what happened in the summer of 1982.

00:12:07.840 You see, Justin's father, Pierre Elliott, borrowed the governor general's train car

00:12:13.760 for a summertime trip out west.

00:12:16.960 Trudeau's three sons were along for the trip too, including the then 10-year-old Justin.

00:12:23.600 At the time, inflation was rampant, unemployment was surging,

00:12:28.540 and Trudeau's national energy program was devastating Alberta's energy sector.

00:12:33.780 The optics were brutal.

00:12:36.840 Here was Prime Minister Trudeau, like some modern-day Marie Antoinette,

00:12:41.760 touring the beleaguered western provinces in a luxury rail car.

00:12:46.800 So it was hardly surprising that Trudeau met with a hostile crowd of protesters

00:12:52.760 in salmon-armed British Columbia.

00:12:56.220 Ever the statesman, Pierre responded with a raised middle finger,

00:13:00.240 which would later become known as the Trudeau Salute.

00:13:04.700 Now at that point, protesters began hurling vegetables at the rail car.

00:13:09.980 And that became a trend.

00:13:12.860 Outside Calgary, eggs rained down on the Trudeau rain car.

00:13:17.240 Those without foodstuffs to throw would moon the passing rail car.

00:13:22.140 In Sudbury, Ontario, things got so bad that hundreds of protesters

00:13:26.520 assembled to throw rocks at the train,

00:13:30.800 smashing some of the rail car's windows in.

00:13:33.540 In any event, at one point, the train was covered in so much vegetable residue

00:13:40.100 that it was nicknamed the Caesar Salad Special.

00:13:45.380 The point is, on the 2021 campaign trail, there's been no vandalism.

00:13:50.880 Neither Justin nor his buses have been pelted with vegetables or eggs or rocks.

00:13:57.340 Nobody's even mooned him, to the best of my knowledge.

00:14:01.120 It's just been some harsh language and a few impolite signs.

00:14:06.620 But to the members of Justin Trudeau's media party,

00:14:09.560 we are living through a period of infamy.

00:14:13.140 Gee, maybe the reaction to Justin Trudeau might be a little less hostile

00:14:18.160 if the Prime Minister wasn't so obsessed with taxing hard-working Canadians into insolvency.

00:14:26.520 That's what the rank-and-file of the media party simply failed to understand.

00:14:31.820 Unlike them, the vast majority of Canadians aren't being bribed by Justin Trudeau

00:14:38.180 to be shameless shills for the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:14:43.260 The anger is real and it is justifiable.

00:14:45.880 If Trudeau and his state-sponsored sluggos can't take the heat, 1.00

00:14:51.900 maybe they should all just get out of the political kitchen.

00:15:06.980 Well folks, recently we brought you the story of MPP Rick Nichols.

00:15:12.180 He's the MPP for Chatham-Kent-Leamington.

00:15:15.880 He was faced with an ultimatum by the Doug Ford government,

00:15:20.540 which was essentially he had to get double-jabbed or he would be fired from caucus.

00:15:27.220 Well, a while back he gave a press conference one hour before the deadline

00:15:31.720 and here is what Rick had to say.

00:15:34.840 For personal reasons, together with my wife Diane of 44 years,

00:15:40.660 I made the personal decision not to inoculate with the COVID-19 vaccine.

00:15:48.880 I took the Premier at his word that vaccination is a choice

00:15:52.360 and that all Ontarians have a constitutional right to make such a choice.

00:15:58.340 Three days ago, I received a call from the campaign manager for the Ontario PC 2022 re-election campaign.

00:16:07.900 Unfortunately, in a demeaning tone,

00:16:11.260 this individual threatened that I will be expelled from the Ontario PC caucus

00:16:15.740 if I do not vaccinate by 5 p.m. today.

00:16:20.380 Expulsion means leaving the government benches

00:16:25.100 and may result in the loss of my office as Deputy Speaker.

00:16:31.660 Now, over the past 10 years, I've always strived to do the right thing.

00:16:36.260 For the last 18 months, I've watched with great sadness

00:16:40.520 not only the effect of COVID, but the remarkable health, mental impacts,

00:16:46.820 and economic toll on our government's pandemic response.

00:16:51.720 I've watched members of my own family lose their entire livelihood

00:16:56.340 and suffer tremendous toll to their mental health.

00:17:00.540 I've voiced my concerns about our policy privately to the Premier

00:17:06.540 and to the Ontario PC caucus.

00:17:10.300 But under no circumstances will I, nor should any Ontarian,

00:17:15.720 be forced or coerced to do something against their will.

00:17:21.120 To do so is an affront to the democratic principles

00:17:24.780 of this magnificent institution.

00:17:27.700 And sure enough, Premier Ford did indeed order Mr. Nichols out of caucus.

00:17:35.160 But folks, there is an epilogue to this story,

00:17:39.320 and it's almost unbelievable.

00:17:41.400 So I'd like to welcome back Rick Nichols once again.

00:17:45.340 And Rick, so good to see you, my friend.

00:17:48.540 You took a principled decision about what you wanted into your body,

00:17:53.120 and you paid the price by being yet another MPP in the Progressive Conservative Caucus,

00:17:59.500 being kicked out of caucus.

00:18:01.400 But then to add insult to injury, you got in touch with me,

00:18:05.080 and you had a meeting with House Leader Paul Calandra.

00:18:08.780 And what did he say to you, my friend?

00:18:11.100 Well, first of all, David, thank you for allowing me back on Rebel News once again.

00:18:15.400 And my principal decision has probably cost me my political career.

00:18:21.600 But you know what?

00:18:22.560 I've always been one to be upfront, honest, and always wanting to do the right thing,

00:18:27.540 not just for myself.

00:18:28.880 It's not about me.

00:18:29.780 This is about people who, in fact, are really concerned about, you know,

00:18:34.180 getting what has been described as the jabs and so on.

00:18:37.700 But with regards to my former Government House Leader, Paul Calandra,

00:18:43.640 Paul called me up, and he said, Rick, I don't need answers from you right now.

00:18:48.780 But when you go back, you know that your position currently is the Deputy Speaker

00:18:53.820 of the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

00:18:56.660 And apparently the NDP don't want me to be the Deputy Speaker

00:19:03.400 of the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

00:19:05.120 Now, they're really making a bunch of noise.

00:19:08.960 And, of course, he suggested to me there were some options available,

00:19:12.380 in fairness to Paul, one of them which was I could just simply,

00:19:17.160 as I would describe it, jump on my horse and ride off into the sunset

00:19:21.920 quietly and undisturbingly.

00:19:25.160 That's not part of my, no pun intended, but my DNA with regards to this.

00:19:30.960 And so at this point, I'm giving very careful consideration as to whether I just want

00:19:37.580 to go quietly or do I really want to make a bit of a, make this an issue.

00:19:42.740 Because I think, again, I asked, what are the reasons why they don't want me

00:19:47.760 as a Deputy Speaker?

00:19:48.860 Because I'm very well known and, in many cases, you know, appreciated and liked

00:19:55.820 in the legislature.

00:19:56.640 And they said, well, because he's not vaccinated.

00:19:59.980 Well, I've got news, you know, for them.

00:20:03.060 They say, well, I could be a risk to them.

00:20:05.780 Well, guess what?

00:20:06.440 They could be a risk to me.

00:20:07.940 What's really changed ever since we started talking about this idea of mandatory vaccinations?

00:20:14.800 We were, we've been meeting in the legislature for, for months prior to, in different cohorts.

00:20:20.980 And I've been in the Speaker's chair.

00:20:22.980 And now all of a sudden, they're on this bandwagon.

00:20:26.040 Well, they get rid of him because he's a threat to our health and safety.

00:20:29.980 Nothing's changed.

00:20:31.100 It's just that all of a sudden, other media, mainstream media, are advocating and pushing

00:20:38.200 the fact that, oh my goodness, there's vax versus unvax and so on.

00:20:41.360 So that's, that's a reason for not wanting me there.

00:20:44.580 And they have threatened, they have threatened to get up and walk out if I'm in the Speaker's

00:20:49.040 chair.

00:20:49.600 Well, I just say, well, enjoy your walkout, you know, if I'm in the Speaker's chair.

00:20:55.140 So that's kind of the predicament that I'm in right now.

00:20:58.020 But it won't really shake out until, well, until we go back on the 13th of September.

00:21:05.100 And Rick, it gets worse than that, because didn't you tell me that if you don't resign

00:21:10.480 and ride out on that horse into the sunset, that Mr. Calandra was allegedly told by members

00:21:19.380 of the opposition that they will pursue an impeachment of you to get you out that way?

00:21:25.000 Is that correct?

00:21:27.260 Yeah, that's, that's actually quite correct.

00:21:30.000 Impeachment, I believe, is not really a term used in our parliamentary system, because I

00:21:35.740 talked with the, with our, with our clerk, Mr. Todd Decker, and Todd was wonderful.

00:21:41.640 He explained a lot of situation, or circumstances, situations to me.

00:21:45.400 But yeah, they could, they could try to force me out.

00:21:49.160 And I don't think that that's justified at all.

00:21:52.280 And Rick, how often has that happened in the history of Ontario?

00:21:57.400 This will be a first.

00:21:59.340 This would be a first.

00:22:00.960 Wow.

00:22:01.440 There have been situations, I'm sorry, David.

00:22:03.780 There have been situations where, in fact, a speaker or a deputy speaker, excuse me, for

00:22:09.640 whatever reasons, has chosen to step down.

00:22:13.140 So they would then write a letter of resignation, and jump on their horse and ride off into the

00:22:18.860 sunset.

00:22:19.940 But for this one, this, you know, if they're forcing me, and I'm resisting them, then this

00:22:26.220 is a first.

00:22:27.440 Rick, this is incredible to me.

00:22:29.260 I mean, you're going to be the answer.

00:22:31.040 If this goes through, you'll be the answer to a trivia question.

00:22:33.700 Who is the first MPP forced out of the Ontario legislature?

00:22:39.240 Answer Rick Nichols.

00:22:40.180 And then the follow-up question, why was he forced?

00:22:43.340 What kind of egregious scandal was he involved with?

00:22:45.980 Well, he made a personal choice about an experimental vaccine, if you will, going into his body.

00:22:53.400 You know, Rick, you stood up for your principles.

00:22:56.300 You paid an enormous price, i.e. you're out of caucus, as you said earlier, probably the

00:23:02.000 end of your political career, given that it's unlikely you're going to run again next

00:23:06.360 year as an independent.

00:23:07.280 Why are the opposition members wanting to kick you while you're down?

00:23:12.760 And why in the world would Paul Calandra simply not tell them, take a long walk off a short

00:23:18.900 pier?

00:23:20.120 The Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives are a majority government.

00:23:24.780 They don't have to be at the beck and calling of these opposition leaders.

00:23:29.020 What is the unspoken story here, Rick?

00:23:31.620 Well, I think also, Paul Calandra had mentioned to me, Rick, what they could do to really force

00:23:41.020 the issue.

00:23:42.140 We have something called opposition day motions.

00:23:46.060 And that's why their opposition day motions are usually something that is designed to make

00:23:50.140 the government look bad.

00:23:51.400 And they get out there and they huff and they puff and they're going to, you know, blow the

00:23:55.840 legislature down.

00:23:57.560 And but whether that that motion passes or not really doesn't matter because it's an

00:24:02.660 opposition day motion.

00:24:04.080 And it does it.

00:24:05.300 We don't have to do anything about it.

00:24:07.260 But with this one, my understanding is, is that they will continue to bring up opposition

00:24:13.260 the motions until until in fact it does pass.

00:24:18.540 And at which point in time, then the and when it passes, that means that there's probably

00:24:24.120 going to be some from the PC caucus.

00:24:27.080 Now, we know the liberals and the and the NDP, you know, have stated that they want me

00:24:31.240 out as well.

00:24:32.340 And again, for what reason?

00:24:34.420 Because I am exercising, you know, my rights, my constitutional rights to not have an experimental

00:24:44.520 drug injected into my body.

00:24:47.380 And so whatever happens from that, if it does pass, then it will then be up to the government

00:24:54.360 house leader to decide what actions that he will take.

00:24:57.500 And we'll have to see just whether or not caucus is on board with that or not.

00:25:03.520 I at this point in time, I don't know.

00:25:06.060 But I would hope that they would still stand up even for a former former colleague based

00:25:12.260 on principle, because that's what I did.

00:25:14.360 I stood up on principles as well.

00:25:16.800 I would hope so, too, Rick.

00:25:18.440 But as far as the members of the opposition are concerned, do you think it's a matter where

00:25:23.640 they legitimately fear you being in the house as a safety risk, a modern day typhoid

00:25:29.840 married because you didn't get double jabbed? 0.98

00:25:31.760 Or is this really all about political hay?

00:25:35.440 They're just trying to create a bogus scandal so that they can go on and on about their love

00:25:43.160 and affection for vaccine passports and people getting the double jab.

00:25:47.700 What do you think it is?

00:25:49.500 That's political, purely political.

00:25:51.040 I think that and I mean, I do have some friends on the on the opposite side and I consider them

00:25:58.820 friends and I'm sure that they're somewhat confident feeling compromised because they

00:26:04.240 have to vote the way in which their leader has wants them to vote.

00:26:10.000 And that that is probably problematic for them.

00:26:13.760 Again, the situation, I think they just want to make some political noise.

00:26:20.060 They don't I believe they don't understand the implication of, you know, if they say, well,

00:26:24.620 this has to be mandatory, then where does it stop?

00:26:27.200 Everybody in Queen's Park, mandatory vaccines.

00:26:29.960 Where does it stop?

00:26:31.140 Mayor John Tory, you know, stating that the public and public servants for the city of Toronto

00:26:36.800 all must be vaccinated or else kind of gave an ultimatum there.

00:26:41.400 And now other companies are trying, where does it stop?

00:26:43.980 It began.

00:26:44.460 It's a slippery slope.

00:26:45.840 And you've got many colleges and universities saying the same thing.

00:26:49.660 So they're holding students ransom because of the fact that, well, if you don't want to

00:26:54.820 get the jab, then you can't attend class in person classes.

00:26:59.080 Well, that's not fair.

00:26:59.940 That's not democracy at all.

00:27:02.300 And they're saying and but they they position it as a guide to we have to ensure that our employees

00:27:09.500 are safe.

00:27:09.920 I get that.

00:27:10.740 But what's changed from before all of this became an issue, you know, to now?

00:27:16.900 What's changed other than now they're talking about it?

00:27:19.900 And I'm thinking, well, hold on a minute.

00:27:22.360 You know, I was I was as much of a risk or a danger, if they want to use that term, back

00:27:28.920 when I was sitting in the speaker's chair, even during the summer months and back into May

00:27:34.860 in June and April, I was as much of a risk then as I am now.

00:27:39.940 And now, again, what I don't know is the protocols going into Queen's Park as to whether or not

00:27:45.320 I'll have to be tested.

00:27:46.260 Well, you know what?

00:27:46.740 If I have to be tested.

00:27:47.680 OK, I'll be tested.

00:27:49.540 And if I if I'm negative, then I'm allowed in.

00:27:54.100 And my understanding is they cannot prohibit a sitting and elected sitting member access

00:28:01.080 into the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

00:28:04.120 That is just and if they try, that is just wrong.

00:28:08.080 And they shouldn't be trying that.

00:28:09.840 And again, all they're trying to do is score some political points.

00:28:13.040 But again, they're only talking, I think, to their base.

00:28:17.020 That's my side of the story.

00:28:19.180 Incredible, Rick.

00:28:20.080 And I got to ask, surely the buck stops with Premier Doug Ford.

00:28:25.040 One would think he is the premier.

00:28:27.600 A month ago, he said that he wasn't in favor of a vaccine passport for Ontario.

00:28:35.100 He didn't want to create a two-tier citizenship in this province.

00:28:40.160 And now the rumblings are, well, folks, it's coming.

00:28:44.440 What's made him change his mind on this?

00:28:46.800 I mean, I'm trying to make sense of how he's flip-flopped.

00:28:52.160 He's done a complete 180 in the space of a month, Rick.

00:28:56.020 Well, again, I believe that Premier Ford, he has a lot of different advisors who have

00:29:02.440 their own opinions.

00:29:04.200 And he and I actually spoke yesterday, had a really nice chat discussion.

00:29:10.480 We talked about this very thing.

00:29:12.180 And we also talked about the importance of utilizing discernment when you are listening

00:29:16.780 to other people, because some of the ideas and some people may try to speak louder than

00:29:21.500 others and try to influence one's decision, because ultimately the buck does stop with

00:29:26.700 Premier Ford.

00:29:28.220 But I'm very, very concerned about the direction of these vaccine passports. 0.88

00:29:33.260 I think that that is a true affront to our democracy, a true affront to our freedoms.

00:29:39.460 I think that we need to, like, who cares?

00:29:43.620 People said to me, Rick, are you vaccinated?

00:29:46.500 I answered, honestly, no, I'm not.

00:29:48.760 But the truth be told, it's none of their business.

00:29:51.700 It's none of their business.

00:29:53.480 And if, you know, sporting events, and then where's it going to stop from there?

00:29:58.900 You know, we're baseball season right now, we're hockey season coming up.

00:30:02.480 And then where does it stop?

00:30:03.880 Well, everybody has their vaccine passports.

00:30:05.740 Oh, what does that mean?

00:30:06.580 Well, that means that perhaps they can't go into department stores.

00:30:11.220 They can't go to a lot of places.

00:30:13.340 And next thing you know, oh, you can't even go to the grocery store unless you show that

00:30:16.560 you're proof.

00:30:17.660 So what they want is, I mean, I'm understanding that there's an app that you can put on your

00:30:21.880 phone.

00:30:22.880 And I mean, who knows?

00:30:23.700 I mean, this whole thing is escalating almost out of control.

00:30:28.060 And we have to put the brakes on.

00:30:30.240 We need to put the brakes on.

00:30:31.760 I agree, Rick.

00:30:32.460 Well, maybe part of the solution is maybe you should get yourself decked out in a Toronto

00:30:37.440 Blue Jays uniform.

00:30:39.020 And then you'd qualify for a national interest exemption.

00:30:42.000 And like I said, during our first interview a while back, so much for that chestnut that

00:30:48.160 the feminists have long said for decades now with the abortion debate, my body, my choice. 1.00

00:30:53.180 It has morphed into your body, government's choice.

00:30:57.660 It is just astonishing.

00:30:59.100 We've got to wrap it with one quick question.

00:31:00.760 I know you want to really weigh in on this.

00:31:03.360 It's sort of not on the, well, I guess it is connected.

00:31:06.920 But the Toronto Star published an egregious front page several days ago, basically with

00:31:14.040 the suggestion that, hey, if you're not vaxxed and you die, too bad, so sad.

00:31:19.700 Well, not really.

00:31:21.560 That's not what they said literally, but that was the thrust of it.

00:31:25.160 Rick, I know you wanted to weigh in on that Toronto Star article and the way they're now

00:31:29.280 kind of dialing it back because the uproar was incredible.

00:31:33.740 What do you have to say about that article?

00:31:36.220 When I saw the front page and then I saw a few back pages with regards to that, I read

00:31:42.580 it and I went, I've read this before.

00:31:44.680 And I think what they did is they picked that up off of a Facebook posting by a health care

00:31:49.020 worker that was extremely frustrated.

00:31:51.040 I understand the frustration.

00:31:52.760 But for them, a national newspaper to actually put that on their front page of the Toronto

00:31:59.740 Star is egregious.

00:32:01.360 I think that that is hate propaganda because it would be taken many, many different ways.

00:32:08.580 And now all of a sudden, it sounds to me like they're trying to pit vaxxed against

00:32:12.220 unvaxxed people.

00:32:13.360 You'd be saying that we are the ones that are, the unvaxxed people are the ones that

00:32:17.660 are creating, causing the illnesses and the disease.

00:32:20.660 Well, hold on a minute.

00:32:21.680 Didn't we hear that even those vaccinated can still get COVID and give COVID, can still

00:32:28.180 get the variant and still give the variant?

00:32:30.500 So come on, people.

00:32:31.540 It's a two-way street.

00:32:32.400 Let's not have that double standard.

00:32:34.560 So I really went after the star, wrote to one of their head people regarding public opinions.

00:32:40.500 And the nice thing about it was, and I got a hold of a lot of my people, sent emails

00:32:45.820 in.

00:32:46.420 Well, they got over 4,000.

00:32:48.360 That's not all because of me.

00:32:50.220 Please, let's make that clear.

00:32:51.880 But they got over 4,000 responses, people that just totally upset with regards to how

00:33:00.560 that came across.

00:33:02.480 And what the star did is they dialed it back, said, yeah, we've made a mistake.

00:33:08.880 And that was in Sunday's paper.

00:33:10.940 Well, that's good to hear that some common sense took root because I think you're right,

00:33:16.100 Rick.

00:33:16.300 I mean, if we replaced unvaccinated people with any other kind of identifiable group, be 0.92

00:33:23.120 it a minority, be it a religious group, you name it, and said, yeah, if they die, I don't

00:33:27.860 care.

00:33:28.360 Too bad.

00:33:29.980 That would be hate speech.

00:33:32.320 And the left is all about hate speech.

00:33:34.340 But apparently, in our society today, if you're unvaccinated, it's almost as though they're

00:33:41.660 saying, good riddance, you're out of the herd.

00:33:45.080 It was, as you said, just an absolutely egregious article.

00:33:48.360 And it's good to see that they're dialing it back.

00:33:50.040 But in the future, Rick, we're going to keep an eye that the house is going to be sitting

00:33:54.800 in less than two weeks.

00:33:56.860 And we are going to watch very closely what happens to you in terms of you being removed.

00:34:04.160 I don't think that should happen.

00:34:05.900 You've already paid your price.

00:34:07.640 You stood up for your principal.

00:34:09.060 Last word goes to you, my friend.

00:34:11.500 Well, again, I just and I thank you, David.

00:34:13.200 You know, what I would like to say is that this this is for me, it's this is all about

00:34:18.520 choice and people should have choice.

00:34:20.100 I mean, I've even challenged and questioned our medical people when I was back in caucus

00:34:26.200 as to just how safe are these vaccines for children.

00:34:29.440 And now they're saying that, well, a child doesn't have to have consent of a parent.

00:34:33.260 Excuse me?

00:34:34.480 You know, that is so wrong and whatnot.

00:34:37.020 So, again, my argument is choice.

00:34:40.680 And if someone chooses to get the vaccine, that's their choice.

00:34:45.680 I choose not to.

00:34:46.920 That's my choice.

00:34:47.760 You know, and let's let's just agree to disagree.

00:34:51.060 So I I am I don't want to see this this divide between the vaccinated people and unvaccinated

00:34:58.000 people.

00:34:58.500 I think that's wrong.

00:34:59.540 And I think that the the vaccine passport is totally wrong.

00:35:03.480 That is not the way to go because people will start getting what they get the app.

00:35:07.380 They'll start getting, you know, dings on their phone.

00:35:09.460 It's time for you to get your time to get your booster shot every six months.

00:35:13.520 And if you don't get it, then they could expire your your your your your your sheet that says

00:35:19.860 that you've been vaccinated.

00:35:21.100 Anyway, that's that.

00:35:22.240 You know, some people might say, well, that's that's conspiracy theory.

00:35:25.520 I just don't want to see that ever happen at all.

00:35:27.900 We've got to put a stop to this now with your help and with the help of everybody else,

00:35:31.480 David.

00:35:31.780 You know, we can put a stop to this, this insanity, this insanity.

00:35:36.760 Hey, COVID is real.

00:35:38.040 Variants are real.

00:35:39.220 Let's deal with it and let's move on.

00:35:41.180 We're going to be heading into the flu season.

00:35:43.160 And what I found out was that flu, you know, when you when you have flu symptoms, it's very

00:35:48.580 similar to the variant.

00:35:50.540 How do you decide between the two?

00:35:52.280 Oh, well, let's just call it.

00:35:53.740 Well, it's the variant.

00:35:54.560 It's not flu.

00:35:55.600 I I have a challenge with that.

00:35:58.260 Well, Rick, I think you're right.

00:35:59.880 I think the COVID-19 saga is very quickly becoming the never ending story.

00:36:05.160 It's never going to go away.

00:36:06.540 Sir, I want to thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us.

00:36:11.800 And like I said, we'll be watching what happens to you in the days ahead.

00:36:15.600 Good day, sir.

00:36:17.080 Thank you, David.

00:36:17.980 Good day.

00:36:29.880 Hey, folks, thanks so much for watching the Big Boss Man Ezra Levent.

00:36:33.780 He'll be back here tomorrow.

00:36:35.260 In the meantime, stay sane.

00:36:36.960 Good day.

00:36:53.060 Thank you.

00:36:54.200 Thank you.

00:36:58.780 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 31, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Mainstream media can't figure out why Canadians are heckling Justin Trudeau

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