Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Menzies walks free, here's what comes next

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00:00:45.480 Tonight, we won.

00:00:47.300 A Toronto court drops the last of the charges against David Menzies.

00:00:51.520 Now we go on the hunt.

00:00:53.260 It's August 29th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:55.500 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:10.780 Ezra Levant here.

00:01:11.900 Look what's behind me.

00:01:13.880 It is the Rebel News truck, and there's our friend David Menzies on it.

00:01:18.760 You can see the message, stand with David.

00:01:20.660 Well, I literally am standing with David.

00:01:24.500 We're together outside the courthouse.

00:01:27.800 Let me just spin my selfie stick around.

00:01:30.260 You can see this is the Toronto, the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto.

00:01:37.120 We are here for justice.

00:01:38.400 We haven't got it yet.

00:01:40.180 David, how many times have you been to court over those false arrests that were done to you

00:01:46.820 when you were just doing journalism?

00:01:48.660 I'm talking about when you scrummed Chrystia Freeland, when you went to cover the pro-Hamas 0.94

00:01:53.860 activists in the streets of the city, when you went to cover a pro-Israel rally and the

00:02:01.900 Hamas idiots crashed it. 0.97

00:02:03.760 How many times have you been to court now because of the police arresting you for doing your

00:02:08.840 journalism?

00:02:09.340 Well, Ezra, no court appearance yet for the matter with Freeland.

00:02:14.320 And of course, that's now a civil matter with our lawsuit.

00:02:16.880 The Mountie himself dropped the charges within one hour.

00:02:20.840 But for this, I would say we're up to about a half dozen at least.

00:02:24.320 That's for the obstruct police charges in March, the trespass charges right across the street

00:02:29.400 at City Hall, Ezra, literally the town square where Pierre Polyef was holding a vigil,

00:02:35.180 the six-month anniversary vigil for the massacre in Israel in October 7th.

00:02:40.880 Over 2,000 people there.

00:02:42.920 The pro-Hamas people had the hotspot to chant genocide at a vigil.

00:02:48.300 And my cameraman, Ephraim Monsanto, and I, we were physically assaulted.

00:02:52.320 I didn't even got a question out.

00:02:53.980 I saw the police coming.

00:02:55.420 I thought, oh, thank goodness, they're going to bear witness.

00:02:58.000 And they arrested me for trespass.

00:03:00.340 You know, I'm sick of it.

00:03:01.220 You've been arrested, by my count, four times this year.

00:03:04.160 Four times within five months.

00:03:05.720 That's outrageous.

00:03:06.600 That's the kind of thing you expect from police states.

00:03:09.640 And in fact, it is the literal definition of a police state where the police are getting

00:03:14.840 involved in politics and journalism.

00:03:16.960 You've committed no crime.

00:03:18.720 That's been evident by the fact that on several of these matters, the police dropped the charges,

00:03:23.280 but not before committing false arrest, false imprisonment, assault, and just stopping you

00:03:31.520 from actually doing your work, interference with your economic affairs.

00:03:36.640 They are targeting you.

00:03:38.300 It is so clear.

00:03:39.640 I understand there is a chance that today, this fourth and final arrest will be dropped

00:03:45.720 by the government.

00:03:47.000 But you said you've been here half a dozen times.

00:03:50.140 I'm here in person.

00:03:51.800 They're putting you through the ringer.

00:03:53.440 Every time we're here, we have to hire an expensive lawyer because we just have to.

00:03:59.060 We were fighting against the unlimited resources of the state.

00:04:02.700 The government is conducting itself poorly.

00:04:05.120 They have not released what's called the disclosure package to you.

00:04:08.940 They're either afraid to, they're hiding it, or they just are so slothful that they're not

00:04:14.020 getting it done, there's a chance they'll drop the final charges today.

00:04:17.960 I want to be here when that happens.

00:04:20.120 So we're going to go into the court.

00:04:21.340 I'm going to live tweet the court.

00:04:23.520 Now, it's a quick court.

00:04:25.140 I'm not sure if it's called docket court, but it's just sort of case after case after case.

00:04:29.560 Usually procedural matters.

00:04:31.180 I think it's the justice of the peace that runs it.

00:04:34.780 You tell me if I'm wrong on that.

00:04:36.520 No, I believe you're right, Ezra.

00:04:38.160 And, you know, the mockery, I think, is, as you've stated before, Toronto is experiencing

00:04:44.160 a record crime wave.

00:04:46.380 And we're talking serious stuff.

00:04:48.080 Assault, murder, attempted murder, carjacking, car theft is off the charts.

00:04:53.460 And the idea of clogging up the court's time and, you know, being a time vampire to you and I.

00:05:00.520 We have to come here.

00:05:01.520 We have to, we have expenses.

00:05:03.100 We're not out there, you know, covering real journalistic issues that we should be.

00:05:07.540 And as you've always said, it's the process is the penalty, isn't it?

00:05:11.680 And everyone on the inside of this building gets paid no matter what.

00:05:14.700 Yeah.

00:05:14.920 The cops are getting paid.

00:05:15.900 The judges are getting paid.

00:05:16.960 The clerks are getting paid.

00:05:17.840 The bureaucrats are getting paid.

00:05:19.020 And the lawyers are sure to getting paid.

00:05:21.040 Everyone in here is a winner except the people.

00:05:24.360 All right.

00:05:24.520 We got to sign off.

00:05:25.260 We got to get into the court.

00:05:26.260 I don't know if you saw, but the stand with David truck is literally circling the courthouse.

00:05:30.720 I don't know if I caught it the last time it went around.

00:05:33.220 There's, you know, what bugs me is you've had to come down here and the cops who arrested you

00:05:37.440 falsely, they don't even have to show up and waste their time.

00:05:40.620 They're probably out of Tim Hortons, yucking it up, just having a ball.

00:05:44.660 They're breaking the law time after time.

00:05:46.620 But I, as God is my witness, we will turn the tables and bring them to court for false

00:05:52.340 arrests and other things like that.

00:05:53.860 Now, let's just wait a minute because before I sign off, I don't know if you saw it in the

00:05:58.400 background, but it passed by once while we were here.

00:06:01.560 So the stand with David truck, if you want to learn more about this outrage and if you

00:06:05.960 want to help, because we have to hire a lawyer every bloody time and she's a great lawyer 1.00

00:06:10.720 and I'm glad she's on our side, but we have to come up with a dough for it.

00:06:14.860 Unlike the rogue police officers, unfortunately, they're not even rogue.

00:06:19.000 They have the full support of the chief.

00:06:20.720 Let's just wait a minute to see if the truck is making another round. 1.00

00:06:23.860 And while we're waiting is, or doesn't that say something?

00:06:25.980 Our lawyer is a veteran criminal lawyer.

00:06:28.180 She has said she has never seen anything like this.

00:06:31.420 Never.

00:06:32.080 You know, the idea of a journalist on public property practicing journalism, getting arrested,

00:06:37.940 handcuffed, roughed up, held for hours.

00:06:40.680 As you said, it is Banana Republic stuff, isn't it?

00:06:44.680 Yeah.

00:06:45.380 All right, David.

00:06:46.560 I was going to wait for the truck to do one more loop.

00:06:48.500 He's doing big loops around City Hall and the courts.

00:06:52.360 So I've seen him go by twice, but...

00:06:55.140 Maybe he's being arrested on Dundas.

00:06:56.980 Well, you know, don't joke.

00:06:58.020 He was stopped by police, York Region police, a couple of days ago.

00:07:02.160 They stopped him.

00:07:03.740 They filmed the videos on the outside of the truck, and then they let him go.

00:07:08.680 I wish I was there.

00:07:09.820 I would have had a few words for those police.

00:07:11.920 Like you say, there is a massive crime wave in the greater Toronto area, and indeed across

00:07:17.060 all of Canada right now.

00:07:18.520 And I'm talking very serious crimes, home invasion, robberies, obviously car theft, extortion.

00:07:25.080 There's stabbings and shootings.

00:07:27.120 There's a general state of misery.

00:07:28.960 And the police are putting aside all that unimportant stuff to focus on our truck.

00:07:33.800 Unbelievable.

00:07:34.520 And they should be ashamed.

00:07:35.840 All right, I'm not going to wait for the truck to do another loop.

00:07:37.920 He's probably taking a wider arc.

00:07:39.720 We'll see the truck later on.

00:07:40.960 We're going to go inside now.

00:07:42.000 I'm excited because I know there's a chance the charges will be dropped, and that will

00:07:45.860 clear the way for us to turn the tables.

00:07:48.980 I want you to follow along on Twitter.

00:07:50.560 My Twitter handle is Ezra Levant.

00:07:52.980 And of course, if you want to help us fight back, go to Stand With David.

00:07:56.480 I'm Standing With David.

00:07:57.640 I hope you do too.

00:07:58.980 Cheers.

00:08:04.940 Ezra Levant here.

00:08:05.980 I'm standing in front of the Stand With David billboard truck.

00:08:10.460 What a glorious vehicle that is, shining bright in high def.

00:08:15.400 And let me spin around, because the man of the hour himself, David Menzies, is here.

00:08:19.680 We just got out of court five minutes ago, where the Toronto police, in their disgrace,

00:08:26.000 and Doug Ford's prosecutors, in their disgrace, finally dropped the last of the Toronto police

00:08:31.760 charges that were against David Menzies.

00:08:34.200 And he walks free.

00:08:35.520 A completely unblemished record.

00:08:37.360 He was arrested four times this year, and all four times, they dropped their BS charges

00:08:43.360 against him.

00:08:44.400 We've had to come to this courthouse so many times.

00:08:47.460 But I got to tell you something, folks.

00:08:49.260 If you think this is done, let me tell you, it is not done.

00:08:52.240 Now we go hunting for these charter violators, for these free press violators, for false arrest,

00:08:59.100 false imprisonment, assaults, and all the other things they did to David.

00:09:04.020 We're going to go after them now.

00:09:05.900 And you can help us at StandWithDavid.com.

00:09:11.020 Put your phone down.

00:09:12.100 Put your hand behind your back.

00:09:13.540 Put your hand behind your back.

00:09:15.320 You're under arrest and refusing to leave, okay?

00:09:17.660 We're going to walk you to the wagon, Mr. Menzies.

00:09:19.560 I would say to the Toronto Police, the RCMP, the York Regional Police, and any other police

00:09:24.720 force that thinks it can handle Rebel News abusively.

00:09:28.840 And that is, think twice.

00:09:30.320 We will sue you.

00:09:31.560 We will find you.

00:09:32.960 And we will come to court with you.

00:09:34.960 We will outlast you.

00:09:36.580 Because unlike you, we actually believe in something called freedom.

00:09:43.040 Ezra Levant here.

00:09:44.000 We're standing outside the Toronto Courts.

00:09:46.240 It's called the Ontario Courts of Justice.

00:09:48.000 I don't know if we got justice today, but we got something.

00:09:51.320 Standing next to me is David.

00:09:52.880 David, they threw out.

00:09:54.520 They dropped.

00:09:55.220 They withdrew.

00:09:55.880 They stayed.

00:09:56.780 They abandoned.

00:09:58.020 The last of the Toronto Police charges against you.

00:10:00.340 How do you feel?

00:10:01.140 You know, in a way, I'm disappointed, Ezra.

00:10:03.560 And I know a W is a W, as they say in the sports world, whether it's a blowout or a default.

00:10:08.880 But in one respect, I would have loved to have seen the police on the stand and explain

00:10:14.760 why I was arrested twice in March and April for practicing journalism in the public square

00:10:21.700 while to the left and to the right of us were the pro-Hamas Hitler youth movement chanting

00:10:28.000 genocide.

00:10:29.420 And nothing we can do here.

00:10:31.080 They're blocking streets.

00:10:32.500 Nothing we can do here.

00:10:33.520 But on the presumption, you might ask a question, because in each case, Ezra, I never got a

00:10:38.720 question out, that might offend and enrage the mob.

00:10:42.720 We're going to arrest you, I guess, for your own good.

00:10:45.520 And you'll go to jail for your own good or what have you.

00:10:48.540 I just would have loved to have seen them make the case, because to me, there is no case.

00:10:53.400 You've been arrested four times this year.

00:10:55.280 All four of them have been thrown out or abandoned.

00:10:58.700 All four of them were false, therefore.

00:11:01.140 False arrest.

00:11:01.840 False imprisonment.

00:11:02.540 They've assaulted you.

00:11:03.620 They've burned up your time.

00:11:04.700 I don't know how many times you've been at court.

00:11:07.160 I was here because I heard that they might be dropping the case today.

00:11:10.780 And we sat in there for 46 minutes while every low-life thug and criminal in this town was

00:11:19.800 paraded through.

00:11:20.860 There was a guy for concealing a weapon.

00:11:22.860 There was like every thug.

00:11:24.560 And amongst all these thugs was a journalist who was charged by the police, thrown in with

00:11:32.100 the thugs.

00:11:32.600 I was seething by the time it came to your name.

00:11:36.080 And the prosecutor, you know the French word, Henri, it's not just bored.

00:11:41.760 It's bored and tired.

00:11:43.120 Oh, well.

00:11:44.320 Oh, who's next?

00:11:46.000 Oh, David Menzies.

00:11:48.160 Who's got the...

00:11:48.980 Anyone know what the...

00:11:50.140 Like the prosecutor, she... 1.00

00:11:52.740 I wish she were animated by hatred.

00:11:55.040 She was animated by bureaucratic inertia. 0.99

00:11:58.820 Couldn't give a damn.

00:12:00.180 Didn't know her file.

00:12:01.940 Your worship, I don't know the number that's going on.

00:12:05.300 Do we have to delay it again?

00:12:06.660 Like incompetence.

00:12:07.880 And every single person in that room was getting paid no matter what happened.

00:12:13.020 Guilty or not guilty.

00:12:14.840 Delay, a delay.

00:12:16.080 They don't care.

00:12:17.220 They are part...

00:12:18.080 They're cogs in the system.

00:12:20.360 And the prosecutor...

00:12:21.080 And they withdrew the charges against you.

00:12:23.120 They didn't even have the courtesy to say why.

00:12:26.500 Yep.

00:12:27.040 To say this wasn't in the public interest.

00:12:29.240 Yeah.

00:12:29.760 Let alone, God forbid, someone in this gross system actually says,

00:12:34.260 Sorry, I'm looking at this staggeringly large building.

00:12:38.680 I don't know how many hundreds of millions of tax dollars went to build it.

00:12:42.900 And it looks like its purpose, which is just to grind people down.

00:12:47.720 Yep.

00:12:48.920 And amongst all these thugs, there's you.

00:12:51.800 And they trapped you in this system as a punishment in itself.

00:12:55.660 You were acquitted of all the matters, but you were punished nonetheless.

00:12:59.280 Yeah.

00:12:59.540 And, you know, Ezra, I'm a little baffled because I thought my charge was trespass.

00:13:03.600 But it came up in court, failure to leave the premises, which I guess is really technically the same thing.

00:13:09.680 But, I mean, if we go back to that day on April 7th, the six-month vigil for the Israeli victims of October 7th,

00:13:17.400 more than 2,000 people in the square, including Pierre Polyev leading the vigil,

00:13:22.160 the pro-Hamas having the chutzpah to chant for genocide during a vigil.

00:13:27.480 But who asked me to leave the premises?

00:13:31.800 I mean, it wasn't like, remember when Afro-Indigenous Rising some four years ago illegally camped out for three weeks,

00:13:39.080 breaking 11 sections of the Trespass Act?

00:13:41.700 At least back then you had City Hall Security telling the police,

00:13:44.900 hey, we don't like those independent media types.

00:13:47.680 They might incite the mob.

00:13:49.620 But this officer, Chang, badge number 7724, he never once said what I was doing as being illegal.

00:13:59.660 He was just frog marching me away.

00:14:02.200 And when he was getting handsy with me, I asked if I was under arrest and he went right to arrest mode.

00:14:07.760 But the point is, Ezra, City Hall Security, anyone running City Hall, never said, I think, to the police,

00:14:14.880 we want that guy off the square, which is when the police would act.

00:14:19.320 They were acting on their own volition, and that is literally right behind us, Ezra, the town square.

00:14:25.080 If you can't be there as a citizen, if you can't be practicing journalism there, where can you do it?

00:14:31.240 David, what you described reminds me of the book by Franz Kafka called The Trial.

00:14:37.580 And let me just read, and this is a translation, I think it was written in German.

00:14:40.940 This is the first sentence of that book.

00:14:44.220 Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph.

00:14:49.360 He knew he had done nothing wrong, but one morning he was arrested.

00:14:53.520 That's a great first sentence in a book.

00:14:55.580 I was live-tweeting this in court today.

00:14:57.060 I said, why was David Menzies arrested?

00:14:59.980 Who complained?

00:15:01.460 What law did he break, and exactly how did he break it?

00:15:04.400 Who was the victim of the supposed crime?

00:15:07.700 None of these things are known to us.

00:15:09.020 It doesn't matter.

00:15:09.680 All that matters was that the Toronto police needed some excuse to stop David from asking questions.

00:15:15.720 The abusive system that actually doesn't care, and that the world doesn't care.

00:15:21.620 And I can only imagine how many times this happens to people who do not have the resources to fight back in any way.

00:15:27.460 David, we are going to turn the tables.

00:15:30.980 I remember when Churchill remarked on the North African campaign.

00:15:34.700 He said, I think it was there, he said, this is not the end, and it's not the beginning of the end, but it's the end of the beginning.

00:15:42.760 And so this is the end of the beginning.

00:15:44.480 The police shot their shot, so to speak.

00:15:47.080 God forbid they actually shot a shot.

00:15:48.480 The police have arrested you again and again, and this was the last of them thrown out.

00:15:53.120 That's the end of the beginning.

00:15:54.560 Now it's the beginning of the end.

00:15:56.380 We're going to go after them.

00:15:57.420 We've already filed the lawsuit.

00:15:58.460 We've already got a lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon.

00:16:00.240 We're suing not just for the actual damages done to you that we can measure.

00:16:05.260 You were arrested.

00:16:06.080 You were handcuffed.

00:16:06.740 You were assaulted.

00:16:07.320 But our Charter of Rights allows courts to punish governments that are abusive by giving what's called charter damages.

00:16:16.300 It's the reason why Omar Khadr got $10.5 million from Trudeau.

00:16:21.760 Omar Khadr didn't actually suffer any harm.

00:16:24.100 He's a terrorist murderer thug.

00:16:25.960 But because his charter rights were violated, he got $10.5 million from taxpayers.

00:16:32.400 The Toronto police will obviously continue to keep harassing you and all of their other enemies until someone, namely a judge, gives them a $10.5 million bill for it.

00:16:44.740 And maybe they'll think twice about coming after Rebel News and David Menzies.

00:16:48.120 Wouldn't that be wonderful, Ezra?

00:16:49.500 But I've got to tell you, I am of mixed emotions because despite everything that's happened to me and us, I still back the blue.

00:16:56.920 You've got to back the blue.

00:16:57.920 This whole defund the police, that's nonsense.

00:17:01.480 What do you have then, the rule of the jungle?

00:17:05.760 And I have a lot of respect for the individual men and women on the Toronto Police Service and other police services that I've interacted with.

00:17:14.140 I truly think there's something bigger at play.

00:17:17.840 I think someone maybe in the brass, maybe beyond the brass, maybe in the mayor's office.

00:17:23.340 I don't know.

00:17:24.560 I'm not claiming to have the answers.

00:17:26.220 But they are being directed.

00:17:28.820 I mean, when you see this footage of those thugs actually carrying out physical assault against Efren and I, and I'm the one that gets arrested?

00:17:37.780 How, you know, I can't even imagine the most incompetent police officer making such a bad call.

00:17:44.360 I think there's some unspoken strategy behind the scenes, behind the current Ezra.

00:17:50.260 And in disclosure, if this goes to trial, wow, I would love to find those answers.

00:17:55.580 Well, I promise you, as long as we live and breathe, we will pursue this.

00:17:59.880 And the Toronto Police Service should think twice about arresting you again.

00:18:04.800 I remember in Australia when our Australian reporter, Avi Yamini, kept getting arrested and arrested and arrested.

00:18:10.440 And finally, we took him to court and they realized that they were in deep trouble.

00:18:15.060 They actually gave him a letter of apology.

00:18:16.740 Avi turned it into a T-shirt.

00:18:18.820 Then they went after Avi's bodyguard, Daniel, and we sued on his behalf, too.

00:18:23.680 And they actually gave him a six-figure settlement.

00:18:25.920 So, I would say to the Toronto Police, the RCMP, the York Regional Police, and any other police force that thinks it can handle Rebel News abusively, and that is think twice.

00:18:37.480 We will sue you, we will find you, and we will come to court with you.

00:18:42.320 We will outlast you, because unlike you, we actually believe in something called freedom.

00:18:47.460 Last word to you, David.

00:18:48.540 Ezra, I just want to say on the Avi Yamini matter and all the other matters that we are fighting,

00:18:53.180 you know, I told you off camera earlier, I was talking about this over dinner with Lady Menzoid, 0.97

00:18:58.400 and she said to me, you are so lucky to have a boss like Ezra Levent, somebody that, you know, isn't going to abandon you.

00:19:06.660 Oh, you're on your own, mate.

00:19:08.400 Not only defend our rights, but now the ball is in our hands.

00:19:14.500 We are on offense.

00:19:16.600 You are the Patrick Mahomes of journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

00:19:20.560 And now we are going to get accountability from these people.

00:19:25.160 And you know what?

00:19:25.680 It costs a lot of money.

00:19:27.200 It takes a lot of time.

00:19:28.900 This isn't a trifle by any means.

00:19:31.160 And I just want to say, I guess, Ezra, I'm so happy to be a Rebel News reporter.

00:19:36.060 I am so glad you are a lion when it comes to standing up for the rights and freedoms of your employees.

00:19:42.780 So thank you.

00:19:44.160 And anyone out there that wants to contribute with stanwooddavid.com, it would be greatly appreciated.

00:19:52.620 Right on.

00:19:53.020 Well, that is true.

00:19:54.520 We've hired, we've got two lawyers helping on this file now.

00:19:58.860 Sarah Miller, civil litigation expert, who people would remember from the Arthur Pavlovsky case.

00:20:05.200 And Lawrence Greenspawn, who I've gotten to know over the last year for his work with Tamara Leach.

00:20:12.600 And I truly believe that Lawrence Greenspawn is one of the finest criminal lawyers in the country.

00:20:17.240 In fact, I've told him, I think you were there when I said to him, if I'm ever arrested, I want him representing me.

00:20:22.500 And I know a lot of lawyers, and he would be my personal choice for me if I was ever in a pickle.

00:20:26.880 We are going to flip the script, turn the tables, and go after these human rights abusers at the police.

00:20:34.380 And I hope they see the light, like they did in Australia, and come clean, admit wrongdoing, apologize.

00:20:41.180 But if we have to go the distance to court, I tell you that we will.

00:20:45.020 Go to stanwooddavid.com.

00:20:46.380 I enjoy standing with them.

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00:20:53.100 Look, one of the things that makes Rebel News different is what David says.

00:20:59.100 We actually sometimes get into the fight.

00:21:02.480 Most of the time, we're just telling you the other side of the story.

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00:21:12.160 If you follow my live tweets today, you'll see I referred to a time 20 years ago in Canada

00:21:17.340 where every news agency in the country would have in the past got together, chipped in $1,000 each,

00:21:23.100 and hired a top lawyer, and it would have intervened in a court case like this today.

00:21:26.420 It was a beautiful idea, because it made it cheap.

00:21:29.520 Because if 20 different newspapers and radio stations and TV stations all chipped in $1,000,

00:21:35.340 that's not a huge burden for a media company.

00:21:38.380 And it allowed them to get a great lawyer together.

00:21:41.180 It was sort of an all-for-one-and-one-for-all three musketeers.

00:21:44.300 And it showed the courts, look, that this is a very serious freedom of the press issue.

00:21:49.280 And it had a great impact.

00:21:51.240 I don't—that used to be called the consortium.

00:21:53.580 That's what they called it when the news companies got together.

00:21:56.540 They don't do that anymore, because Justin Trudeau has colonized them,

00:22:00.260 so they don't care about freedom of speech.

00:22:02.400 They're paid not to care.

00:22:04.020 It falls to Rebel News, which is very bizarre, because we're such a small company,

00:22:07.440 and it's so hard to raise this money in $20 and $50 dribs and drabs.

00:22:11.900 But I tell you, we will.

00:22:13.440 And Ezra, two things on that note.

00:22:16.060 How quickly things have changed.

00:22:17.920 Back when you were the publisher of the Western Standard,

00:22:20.300 when you were the only one in Canada that had the courage to publish the Danish Mohammed cartoons,

00:22:27.360 back then—we're going back some 15-odd years ago—

00:22:30.380 you did have people in the mainstream media coming to bat for you.

00:22:34.240 Today, if you were to do that same thing, I bet you would be 0.0.

00:22:39.320 And, you know, I'm no fan of, say, the CBC, the Toronto Star,

00:22:44.440 but if that happened to a CBC or Toronto Star reporter,

00:22:48.660 I would be as outraged as what happened to me that day on April 7th.

00:22:53.280 But there's no quid pro quo.

00:22:55.740 As you've said before, the watchdogs have become Justin Trudeau's lapdogs.

00:23:01.860 They're getting paid by the federal government,

00:23:04.300 which is an inherent and egregious conflict of interest.

00:23:08.980 So we are on our own, my friend, I think.

00:23:11.880 Well, we're on our own in terms of the establishment.

00:23:15.560 No other media is with us.

00:23:17.640 No other journalism advocacy group is with us.

00:23:21.500 No NGO is with us.

00:23:22.780 We're all alone.

00:23:23.640 No one's on our side except the people.

00:23:26.220 And I'll take those odds every time.

00:23:27.900 Me too.

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00:25:01.660 I remember very soon after the pandemic and the lockdowns were announced that the state of

00:25:12.560 California brought in draconian rules, including a prohibition on singing out loud in churches.

00:25:20.540 Well, singing is a form of prayer, has been since before recorded time.

00:25:26.380 And this, of course, was a violation of the First Amendment.

00:25:30.660 This very quickly made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it was a wonderful ruling.

00:25:36.280 I haven't looked at it in a couple of years, but it was written so poetically in which the Supreme Court of the United States said

00:25:42.820 that the state of California was welcome to regulate singing.

00:25:47.120 It absolutely could, but they couldn't regulate the singing in churches more harshly than they regulated the singing in American Idol in Hollywood.

00:25:59.280 And so they struck down the rules because they had exemptions for the favored classes they did everywhere around the world.

00:26:07.040 And even if they didn't, well, the fancy people simply didn't pass, didn't follow the laws themselves.

00:26:13.520 Laws were for the little people, don't you know? 1.00

00:26:16.540 But what I take away from that is this.

00:26:19.820 The U.S. Supreme Court realized that it was a bonfire of American civil liberties and nothing less than the First Amendment itself was at stake.

00:26:28.600 And so very quickly, I would say it was within months, they ruled and struck down that law and others as well.

00:26:36.100 There was a famous case in California.

00:26:38.000 I believe there was another one from Massachusetts.

00:26:40.680 It's been a little while since I read them.

00:26:42.620 And I say all this because it is now almost 2025.

00:26:47.760 And we have been in this state of pandemic or post-pandemic for, what, four and a half years now.

00:26:53.980 And if I'm not mistaken, and our next guest will correct me if I am, our Supreme Court has been too busy to take a single substantive case emanating from the lockdown.

00:27:07.120 It's been four and a half years.

00:27:08.060 I'd say again, this dramatic case that dealt with violations of civil liberties was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in very short order, within months, I'd tell you.

00:27:16.600 And here we are coming up on the five-year anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic, and I don't think our court has bothered with anything as trifling as the curfew in Quebec, as the mandatory vaccinations, or you'd lose your job, or a hundred other outrages.

00:27:34.600 And so it brings me to the troubling headline I see before me today.

00:27:40.180 Supreme Court of Canada declines to hear COVID vaccine travel mandate cases.

00:27:49.280 And those are cases in which the plaintiffs included Brian Peckford, the former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.

00:27:55.360 In fact, the last surviving signer of the Constitution and Charter of Rights of 1982, and another case with Maxime Bernier as a plaintiff.

00:28:05.900 And the reason they say is that, well, the pandemic's over, so it's moot anyways.

00:28:12.480 There's no point in even hearing it.

00:28:14.360 Our Supreme Court is so, so busy, you see, dealing with very important things.

00:28:19.140 And lockdowns and pandemics just don't make the list.

00:28:23.340 Joining us now to talk about this is the lawyer for the Justice Center of Constitutional Freedoms, Alison Pajovic, who joins us from Calgary.

00:28:31.520 Alison, nice to meet you.

00:28:32.580 Thanks for coming on the show.

00:28:34.660 Thank you so much for having me today.

00:28:35.960 Am I correct in saying that the Supreme Court of Canada has yet to hear a civil liberties case emerging from every level of government regulating to its heart's content during the lockdowns?

00:28:49.880 And please correct me if I'm wrong, but I really don't think they've actually touched on a single lockdown case.

00:28:56.000 Am I wrong?

00:28:56.360 That was the case up until this year when they announced that they have agreed to hear a case of Newfoundland called Taylor v. Newfoundland.

00:29:07.280 It involved a case of a woman who wanted to travel to Newfoundland from out-of-province to visit her ailing mother.

00:29:16.120 And there was a Newfoundland, a travel restriction that prohibited any out-of-province residents of other provinces from entering Newfoundland during that time.

00:29:29.260 And she took that case to the Newfoundland court and she raised Section 6 of the charter, which is the mobility right.

00:29:37.780 And the court found that the mobility right was infringed, but that the infringement was justifiable based on the circumstances.

00:29:48.240 You know, it's COVID and government was just doing what it needed to do.

00:29:53.860 And the case went to the Newfoundland court of appeal.

00:29:56.840 The Newfoundland court of appeal dismissed it for mootness because it found, you know, the travel restriction is gone.

00:30:03.860 The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear that case.

00:30:07.080 It's unclear to me as to whether that the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment will, if the applicant is successful, whether the case will go back down to the Newfoundland court of appeal to be heard on the merits there, or if the Supreme Court will adjudicate the charter issue at the highest level.

00:30:29.680 So they have agreed to hear this very narrow issue.

00:30:34.140 But I will say, in contrast to our case, I mean, I'm sure that case was, you know, beautifully presented to the court.

00:30:41.380 But we've got a mobility case on such a greater level where Canadian citizens couldn't get on airplanes to leave the country, basically walking Canadians in the country,

00:30:52.820 unless you wanted to swim across the Atlantic, which government witnesses admitted was permissible in cross-examination.

00:30:59.820 So it's really, really distressing to our clients and to Canadians as a whole, vaccinated or unvaccinated.

00:31:09.540 Because now Canadians just don't know whether they're living in the kind of country where this is lawful behavior from the federal government.

00:31:17.140 Well, first of all, thank you for telling me about that case.

00:31:20.480 I was unfamiliar with it.

00:31:22.660 And that does sound like it was an atrocious violation of our Constitution.

00:31:28.120 I've never before heard, I mean, when foreign nationals come to our country illegally, cross Roxham Road, 0.50

00:31:35.180 their very first act on Canadian soil is an act of lawbreaking.

00:31:38.700 They are not required to stay in one province or another.

00:31:41.380 They have mobility rights.

00:31:42.680 And when Canadian citizens are not allowed to travel across provinces because of a COVID scare, that's an atrocious violation.

00:31:50.840 But what I don't understand, so you're saying this will be heard by the Supreme Court, whether they decide to send it back or hear it in full.

00:31:58.000 You're saying they have accepted this case and it'll be heard in 2025.

00:32:01.580 Is that what you're saying?

00:32:02.920 I don't know when that case will be heard.

00:32:05.280 I'm not sure of the date, but certainly it ought to be later this year or in 2025.

00:32:09.820 Yeah, I don't think it, I mean, the Supreme Court moves as slowly as a glacier.

00:32:15.080 At the very least, late, late 2024, if not 2025.

00:32:18.980 So five years after the lockdowns begin, our Supreme Court has decided to take a look at a case.

00:32:25.640 So I can no longer say they haven't bothered with a single case.

00:32:29.320 Now I have to say they mentioned they do with one case.

00:32:31.880 But as you point out, although this was a violation of this woman's rights, it was one person.

00:32:38.440 Whereas it wasn't just airplanes.

00:32:40.260 If I recall, it was trains and it was ferries and it was ships.

00:32:45.000 And it wasn't just to leave the country.

00:32:47.220 It was to get around within the country.

00:32:49.020 You couldn't fly within your own country.

00:32:53.000 There was no science behind it.

00:32:54.260 I know that the Justice Center examined in great detail different decision makers in the government.

00:33:01.760 And they admitted that there was no science behind it.

00:33:03.980 They admitted that this was not actually an act of public health based on science.

00:33:09.480 How can you say, if you're the Supreme Court, we're going to hear this case of this poor woman in Newfoundland?

00:33:15.300 And that's not moot, or at least you're going to rule on that.

00:33:20.040 But a massive travel ban that affected tens of millions of people, that paralyzed the whole country, that's moot.

00:33:27.560 We don't need to ask any questions about it because it's over now.

00:33:30.200 How do you square the circle?

00:33:32.640 It's very difficult to understand.

00:33:34.940 And I can tell you, it didn't get a lot of media attention.

00:33:40.220 But one of our clients, as you mentioned, was the former Premier of Newfoundland, Brian Peckford.

00:33:46.020 He actually had a hand in drafting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

00:33:49.300 And when he comes to the court and says, I drafted the charter myself, and I'm telling you that I believe a plethora of my rights have been violated.

00:34:00.460 I'm asking you to hear my case.

00:34:02.540 And he can't get his day in court.

00:34:04.660 That's very troubling to Mr. Peckford and should be for all Canadians.

00:34:10.220 We also have the unique circumstances of Maxime Bernier, who is the leader of the PPC Party of Canada.

00:34:17.520 And specifically, in his circumstances, he's trying to build his political party.

00:34:23.860 And Canada is a large country.

00:34:25.620 It's very difficult for him to drive from city to city, town to town, across the country, meeting people and growing his party.

00:34:31.900 He needs to get on an airplane to do that, to be competitive with his political opponents.

00:34:36.480 And here you have one of his political opponents basically instituting a policy which prevents him from fairly participating in the democratic process and getting a fair shot at becoming elected.

00:34:50.220 And that is novel.

00:34:52.800 We've never seen this before.

00:34:54.120 And when we, you know, the federal court below said, well, there are no novel issues in this case.

00:35:00.440 This case is not important enough.

00:35:02.240 It's not evasive of review.

00:35:04.220 We've had other COVID cases, so we don't need to hear this.

00:35:07.360 Actually, no, this is extremely novel for Maxime Bernier and anyone else who wants to follow in his footsteps and try to campaign across the country.

00:35:15.740 If they can't do that, that is unfair and it's certainly undemocratic.

00:35:21.120 You know, I can't believe that such an atrocious, draconian, bullying, tyrannical, unscientific, prejudicial, partisan, and generally unfair law can be implemented on people.

00:35:35.560 And just because, I mean, how long was it in effect, the no-fly zone for unjabbed people? 1.00

00:35:41.020 Was it a year?

00:35:41.580 It was in effect, no, not quite a year, but I know for the people that it affected, it felt like a year.

00:35:47.840 It was the end of November of 2021.

00:35:50.940 I think the first two weeks you could still get through with a negative PCR test.

00:35:55.440 But then the end of November, the first couple weeks of December, you had to show proof of vaccination.

00:36:02.500 And then the prime minister decided to lift the mandate in June of 2022.

00:36:09.060 And ironically, that was immediately after some of the evidence came out that you referenced, which was that the COVID recovery team at Transport Canada admitted in cross-examination that she'd never received a word or a memo or a request or anything from the Public Health Agency of Canada,

00:36:30.960 which gave a health reason, a medical reason to implement the travel mandate shortly after that evidence came out, the federal government lifted the travel ban for unvaccinated people.

00:36:43.600 So, you know, it was a long time coming for people who were trying to see dying loved ones.

00:36:51.940 And some of our clients had very sick loved ones in South Africa and in Europe, and they were unable to go and visit them.

00:36:58.760 I mean, this was basically like something you would hear about in a country far away with what you'd think of as a far more totalitarian head of government than we think of as having in Canada.

00:37:12.100 You know, the word lockdown heretofore had been used to describe prisons when there was a riot and everyone was confined in their cells.

00:37:21.140 I don't really remember the use of the word lockdown on innocent citizens ever in history.

00:37:28.500 And so if you're saying this is from November 2021 to June 2022, that's about seven months.

00:37:33.300 I've got to think that that was millions of people who would have flown, taken a train or at least hundreds of thousands and for a very long time.

00:37:43.200 And they didn't know when it would end, by the way.

00:37:45.240 And there's certain things you can only do once.

00:37:47.560 Attend a funeral, attend a wedding, attend a surgery.

00:37:51.620 Yeah, hold the hand of your dying loved one.

00:37:53.660 And for the court to say, well, it's no longer in effect now, so we don't need to tell you if it was unconstitutional or not.

00:38:03.160 Basically, that sends a message to the government that the courts are so slow.

00:38:07.460 Like I say, that U.S. Supreme Court moved wicked fast.

00:38:11.240 I'd have to look it up, the case about praying in California.

00:38:16.040 That was within months.

00:38:17.780 It wasn't years.

00:38:19.860 The Supreme Court got straight to it.

00:38:21.640 But what Canada's lethargic Supreme Court is teaching is, hey, governments, be as abusive as you like.

00:38:29.140 Come up with new and exotic ways to punish people, not based on science, but based on politics.

00:38:34.740 And we'll move so damn slow that you can have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven months of the most bizarre and arcane rules.

00:38:43.820 And then as long as you stop it before the lawsuit begins, you're fine.

00:38:49.220 You're good as gold because we're not going to get into a fuss about what tyranny you did a few months ago.

00:38:55.360 That's moot now.

00:38:56.960 I promise you this.

00:38:59.000 The government learned their lesson, which is they can do it.

00:39:01.940 They can get away with it and they'll do it again.

00:39:04.080 I find this atrocious.

00:39:06.800 Absolutely.

00:39:07.240 And what's interesting about our case, I mean, the points you make are perfectly valid.

00:39:11.200 But in our case, you may not be aware, but we filed our application at the lower court in February of 2022.

00:39:19.040 And we had five expert witnesses on our side.

00:39:22.300 We were partnered with another set of applicants who had four experts.

00:39:26.460 The government came back with numerous experts.

00:39:28.400 And they were all cross-examined in a short time period in May and June 2022.

00:39:33.860 And we had a court date of October.

00:39:36.040 So we were able to get filed and before the court for that charter hearing in less than a year.

00:39:43.380 So we all moved very quickly.

00:39:45.560 The Crown moved very quickly and we worked well together.

00:39:48.100 And we were still unable to get this case heard.

00:39:50.880 And so you're quite right.

00:39:53.600 It does send a message to Canadians.

00:39:57.800 You know, you can dislike the public health or is all you want, but you may never get to challenge them in court.

00:40:04.720 And what I find really interesting is when the Freedom Convoy was going, if you recall, and I know that you will,

00:40:11.340 the Freedom Convoy, part of the reason why the truckers and lots of Canadian citizens went to Ottawa to protest

00:40:18.460 was to protest, you know, various mandates, but certainly the travel ones were high on the list.

00:40:24.220 And, you know, they were told by, you know, the media or whoever else,

00:40:29.740 you know, this isn't the appropriate forum for you to be protesting.

00:40:34.220 You should exercise your rights through the court system.

00:40:39.820 Have the judges adjudicate.

00:40:41.860 That's the way to challenge what you feel is unjust.

00:40:45.340 Well, I mean, this is what happens.

00:40:49.560 You get these orders that are put in and removed before Canadians can get to the court system.

00:40:56.680 And then when you get there, the judges do have discretion to hear these cases anyway, but they're deciding not to.

00:41:02.420 And so we're a Canadian but.

00:41:04.240 They file these court challenges that don't go anywhere or they peacefully protest and get their bank accounts frozen.

00:41:10.180 So, you know, what are we left with here in Canada?

00:41:13.740 What a great point.

00:41:15.700 You're not allowed to protest in Parliament Hill, even though it was the largest peaceful protest in Canadian history.

00:41:20.620 You're not allowed to go to court.

00:41:21.760 Well, you can, but you'll just burn up your money because at the last minute they'll say, oh, sorry, it's moot.

00:41:27.400 The five political parties that were in the leaders debate in 2021 were unanimous on all the key issues

00:41:34.120 because they included the Green Party, but did not include the aforementioned Maxime Bernier of the People's Party,

00:41:40.460 even though he was at the same point in the polls as the Green Party.

00:41:43.840 So you're not allowed to join politics.

00:41:45.720 You're not allowed to go to the law.

00:41:47.540 You're not allowed to have a political protest.

00:41:49.300 And, of course, social media companies would censor you for disinformation if you disputed health measures.

00:41:57.820 What a stitch up, as the British would say.

00:42:01.300 But it's not that surprising that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court himself issued a statement

00:42:06.420 that he was going to enforce vaccines on the court precincts itself.

00:42:11.100 So just in case any lower judge was wondering what the Supreme Court's position was on the lockdowns and the pandemic,

00:42:21.700 the Chief Justice himself pretty much winked and said, guys, let me put it this way.

00:42:26.180 I'm enforcing a vaccine mandate at the Supreme Court building, so govern yourself accordingly. 0.97

00:42:31.460 We don't need to have the fuss and the muss of having actually have a hearing.

00:42:35.400 You just know what to do.

00:42:36.720 I find this very demoralizing, which is yet another reason why I thought the truckers were so important and so effective.

00:42:43.540 And, by the way, I credit the truckers for defenestrating Aaron O'Toole as conservative leaders.

00:42:50.200 So perhaps the truckers helped fix our political system, too. 0.87

00:42:53.560 Last word to you, Allison.

00:42:55.420 Thank you for your work on this.

00:42:57.880 I guess this is a closed door, then.

00:43:00.100 There's just nowhere else to go.

00:43:01.480 The Supreme Court declines to hear it.

00:43:03.360 Am I right?

00:43:03.680 Yeah, there's nowhere else to go for us in this case, but, you know, it's a real travesty of justice, you know, being the lawyer, working on the file, getting to know the clients very well, and hearing the evidence that came out, you know, win or lose.

00:43:22.300 And, of course, if we'd gone through the hearing and lost and gone through the approval process and lost, that's one thing.

00:43:28.920 And, you know, as lawyers, we win some and we lose some.

00:43:31.500 But having the kind of evidence come out that came out during those cross-examinations on such an important issue, not having that evidence properly adjudicated and going through the appropriate charter test with it is, I can't tell you what a tragedy that is for Supreme Court justice.

00:43:52.880 Honestly, I mean, some of the information that came out, most people will never hear about it.

00:44:01.280 I mean, I know we've done some news releases, but it's really, it's going to get lost.

00:44:07.100 And the public deserves to know loud and clear that there was no medical health reason, at least testified to, admitted to by the government cross-examination, to put these draconian mandates in place.

00:44:20.300 What would the court have done with that information?

00:44:23.880 They don't deserve to know.

00:44:25.320 And they deserve to know the kind of country they live in.

00:44:28.800 And if they cannot count on being able to leave when they want to leave, then, you know, they have to make decisions as to whether they want to join their family or their countries.

00:44:39.440 So these are really critical issues, and it's so disappointing as an understatement, to say the least.

00:44:46.280 Wow, very powerful.

00:44:47.120 So glad to meet you, Alison Pejevich, lawyer who was working on the file on behalf of the Justice Center.

00:44:55.040 Great to meet you, and I share your views on these things, but I'm glad you fought the fight.

00:45:00.340 Thanks so much, Ezra.

00:45:01.040 It was very nice to be here today.

00:45:02.440 Thank you.

00:45:02.820 You're welcome.

00:45:03.160 Thanks to have you.

00:45:04.020 Stay with us.

00:45:05.380 More ahead.

00:45:05.780 You know, there's so many legal battles we're in, and part of it is because we're pugnacious.

00:45:20.120 We're fighters.

00:45:20.740 Part of it is because if we don't do the lawsuit, no one else will.

00:45:24.200 For example, when we sue politicians who block people on Twitter, when we sue David Lemeney, the former justice minister who was destroying the public records in his Twitter account after he was disgracefully kicked out of parliament, basically.

00:45:38.920 You might remember he was the justice minister, brought in the Emergencies Act.

00:45:43.040 The federal court deemed that illegal.

00:45:45.260 He quit in disgrace.

00:45:46.340 And as he was going out the door, he clicked delete.

00:45:48.400 We went to court to stop that.

00:45:49.560 So that's an example of litigation that we didn't have to do.

00:45:52.540 It wasn't necessary for our survival.

00:45:54.500 It was just outrageous that something was happening and no one was doing anything about it.

00:45:58.160 So that's an example.

00:45:59.620 Another example is when we are under attack, and our journalists are under attack more, I put it to you, than all other journalists in Canada combined.

00:46:07.740 I know that sounds like an astonishingly large thing to say, but tell me any other journalists in this country who's been physically assaulted.

00:46:14.620 Tell me other journalists who arrested four times already in the year.

00:46:18.420 But that's what's happened with David Menzies alone.

00:46:20.260 I think he's been, I think it's close to 10 arrests total since his time at Rebel News.

00:46:25.280 And he's done nothing wrong.

00:46:26.320 You know David.

00:46:26.860 All he does is journalism.

00:46:28.380 The most a critic could say is he's annoying.

00:46:31.260 He's never rude.

00:46:32.360 He never blocks people.

00:46:33.380 He never shouts.

00:46:34.320 He's just persistent.

00:46:36.100 And I know that what's happening in Canada is not normal because when we travel to other countries in the world, I see how police are.

00:46:43.900 I see how they are.

00:46:45.280 One of my favorite examples is with the VVIPs in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.

00:46:51.460 Those are extremely important people if you can measure the importance of people.

00:46:57.200 John Kerry, Tony Blair, Albert Bourla, the president of Pfizer.

00:47:03.140 These are just names of individuals that I myself have scrummed.

00:47:05.660 The head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, I don't know if you remember, I scrummed him on a walk and talk scrum for almost 10 minutes.

00:47:13.960 Police couldn't care less.

00:47:16.380 As long as I'm not touching anybody or blocking anybody, the police, they were fine.

00:47:21.580 And by the way, they were very well armed.

00:47:23.520 They weren't afraid of anything.

00:47:25.440 They just simply weren't getting in the censorship business, unlike Canadian police and increasingly UK police.

00:47:32.380 So we have to defend our people, and that means we battle.

00:47:36.960 Another thing that I can say is no one else is doing it.

00:47:42.180 There's an alphabet soup of NGOs that claim to be dedicated to press freedom that simply aren't.

00:47:48.260 They either don't believe it anymore or they're being colonized by Justin Trudeau's subsidies.

00:47:53.020 Did you know there's something in Canada called Canadian Journalists for Free Expression?

00:47:56.760 You would think they would be all over David's case, let alone the Online Harms Act censorship bills.

00:48:03.100 Not a peep.

00:48:04.360 They're in on it.

00:48:05.780 There's something called the Canadian Association of Journalists.

00:48:08.800 They act as lobbyists for more handouts.

00:48:11.840 There's something, as you know, called Amnesty International, something called Pen Canada.

00:48:16.540 That's a writer's sort of support group for writers in jeopardy.

00:48:20.940 They are silent about what's going on.

00:48:22.960 There's the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:48:25.840 When was the last time they helped a journalist at Rebel News?

00:48:28.960 They don't because they hate Rebel News for ideological reasons.

00:48:32.400 In the case of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and in the others, they're just on Team Trudeau.

00:48:37.600 So it falls to us to fight.

00:48:39.000 And I tell you that because we are going to fight.

00:48:41.040 And in the case of David Menzies, we're going to take it to the police now.

00:48:44.540 They're just going to keep arresting him unless we go to court and have a judge review the bullying misconduct of the police

00:48:51.520 and tag them with a large payment.

00:48:53.860 And we're requesting what's called charter damages, which is when the government violates your rights,

00:49:00.800 do they have to pay you a settlement?

00:49:02.560 Well, they paid the atrocious terrorist Omar Khadr $10.5 million.

00:49:07.060 They can pay David Menzies some money, too.

00:49:09.940 That's our show for the day.

00:49:11.380 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.

00:49:15.460 Good night.

00:49:16.520 And keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 30, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Menzies walks free, here's what comes next

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