Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Netanyahu stares down UN members amid rising anti-Jew hate

00:00:00.000 Tonight, dozens of foreign diplomats walk out of the United Nations when Benjamin Netanyahu

00:00:19.880 speaks. Did they ever do that to China? It's September 26, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:25.160 These anti-Semitic lies, they have consequences. In recent months, Jews have been assaulted in

00:00:49.300 Canada, Austria, or rather Australia, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.

00:00:58.300 Here in America, an elderly Holocaust survivor was burned to death in Colorado, and a beautiful 0.98

00:01:07.020 young couple from the Israeli Embassy in Washington was brutally gunned down right in front of

00:01:13.300 the Holocaust Museum there. Thankfully, President Trump's administration is

00:01:20.300 forcefully fighting the scourge of anti-Semitism, and every government here should follow its 0.99

00:01:26.300 lead. But instead, many do the opposite. They actually reward the worst anti-Semites on earth.

00:01:36.300 This week, the leaders of France, Britain, Australia, Canada, and other countries unconditionally

00:01:47.300 recognized a Palestinian state. They did so after the horrors committed by Hamas on October

00:01:56.300 7. Horrors praised on that day by nearly 90 percent of the Palestinian population. And let me say 0.99

00:02:05.300 that again. Nearly 90 percent of Palestinians supported the attack on October 7. It's not

00:02:14.300 supported only. They celebrated. They danced on the rooftops. They threw candies. That's

00:02:23.300 close, both in Gaza and in Judea Samaria. The West Bank, as you call it.

00:02:30.300 And it's just the way they celebrated another horror, 9-11. They danced on the rooftops. They

00:02:40.300 cheered. They threw candy. You know what message the leaders who recognized the Palestinian state

00:02:47.300 this week sent to the Palestinians. It's a very clear message. Murdering Jews pays off. Well, 0.97

00:02:58.300 I have a message for these leaders. When the most savage terrorists on earth are effusively praising

00:03:05.300 your decision, you didn't do something right. You did something wrong, horribly wrong. Your disgraceful

00:03:14.300 decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere. It will be a mark of

00:03:22.300 shame on all of you.

00:03:24.300 Today, the Prime Minister of Israel spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. What's more accurate to say

00:03:29.300 he spoke at the General Assembly. Many of the diplomats walked out, refusing to hear what he had to say.

00:03:35.300 That adds up. I mean, they don't want to hear the other side of the story. They want to hear from

00:03:40.300 the pro-Hamas side, the pro-Palestinian side. The UN is supposed to be a place where different

00:03:45.300 countries can meet in a neutral way, but that's long gone. Of course, many of the diplomats who

00:03:50.300 walked out are from dictatorships. I don't know who needs to hear this, but there is no true democracy

00:03:55.300 in the entire Middle East, except for Israel. Some of the dictatorships are benign, like the United Arab 0.99

00:04:01.300 Emirates, and maybe Jordan, and maybe a few others, but the rest are dictatorships all the way down,

00:04:06.300 where the main difference is how Islamist they are, how pro-terrorist they are. So, naturally,

00:04:12.300 they hate Israel. But if you take the walker-outers at face value, they're walking out because they say 0.79

00:04:18.300 Israel has committed a genocide. A genocide is a deliberate campaign to eradicate an entire race of 0.85

00:04:25.300 people. Israel is not committing a genocide. It's committing a war against a terrorist group

00:04:31.300 that attacked it and now hides behind civilians to maximize PR damage to Israel. In fact,

00:04:37.300 the population of Gaza has increased over the course of the war. But take it at face value,

00:04:43.300 just for the purpose of debate, that is why the diplomats walked out. Okay, now you know who

00:04:49.300 really is committing a genocide or trying to? China. They have a massive series of concentration camps,

00:04:58.300 like the Nazis did. But they have Uyghur Muslims in it. That's an ethnic minority in the west of China.

00:05:05.300 More than a million people. They do crazy things, like forcing them to eat pork, having the religion 1.00

00:05:12.300 beaten out of them, basically trying to replace their belief in Islam with their belief in Chinese communism. 0.54

00:05:18.300 A United Kingdom expert panel really has declared it a genocide, but it's so hard to stand up to China, 1.00

00:05:25.300 and they're so rich and so powerful, and they're the biggest counterweight to the hated United States,

00:05:31.300 so no criticism for them. Never a walkout, never a boycott. Any boycott of Chinese athletes?

00:05:38.300 Any blacklisting of Chinese businesses? Just kidding. Of course not. But here in Canada, look at this.

00:05:45.300 Advocacy Group calls on Canada soccer to refuse to host World Cup if Israel plays.

00:05:52.300 And UN experts have also pushed FIFA and UEFA to suspend the nation from their respective competitions.

00:05:58.300 Oh, UN experts have, eh? They're experts in soccer. Let me read just a little bit more.

00:06:04.300 They haven't yet qualified, but Israel could be facing other challenges, making it to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

00:06:11.300 A Canadian independent human rights group, do you believe they're independent?

00:06:16.300 Has joined the growing calls to suspend Israeli soccer teams from international play over the war in Gaza.

00:06:22.300 Just Peace Advocates, a Toronto-based Palestinian solidarity organization.

00:06:29.300 Hang on, I thought you said they were independent a moment ago, and now you're acknowledging they're on the Palestinian side.

00:06:35.300 They sent a letter this week calling on Canada soccer to publicly demand the suspension of the Israeli Football Association and to refuse to host next summer's World Cup if Israel remains part of it.

00:06:47.300 The letter is signed by some 270 academics, legal experts, journalists, and advocates.

00:06:54.300 Journalists, eh? Sound like the most objective journalists around.

00:06:58.300 And to think they say Rebel News is too opinionated.

00:07:01.300 The whole thing sounds a bit like Jackie Robinson is reverse.

00:07:04.300 You know, the first black pro baseball player.

00:07:08.300 Except for they're doing it in reverse. They're purging the Jews from soccer. 0.85

00:07:12.300 Israel isn't even qualified yet, but they need to be purged. 1.00

00:07:15.300 These people are obsessed.

00:07:16.300 But then there's this. It's even crazier.

00:07:18.300 European Eurovision body to hold vote on Israel's participation.

00:07:24.300 Now, Eurovision is a song contest with notoriously awful songs.

00:07:29.300 Every country in Europe participates, and it's like a giant America's Got Talent.

00:07:34.300 There's voting.

00:07:35.300 Israel has traditionally participated too.

00:07:38.300 Just for the flavor of the music, here is Ireland's entry from last year.

00:07:43.300 I won't inflict the whole thing on you.

00:07:45.300 Yeah, that's lovely.

00:08:10.300 Here's the Israeli contestant last year with a song about resilience to terrorism.

00:08:14.300 Take a look for a minute.

00:08:16.300 Jordan Whiteкраiner

00:08:19.300 Later on supplting the Frank Krugman

00:08:23.300 Hey Hey, I love you.

00:08:24.800 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:08:29.300 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:08:29.800 Ride around my symphony.

00:08:32.300 Play it with me, look into my eyes scene.

00:08:35.300 People walk away, but they never say goodbye.

00:08:40.300 Songs to the mountain I took my life

00:08:45.300 Everything is black and white

00:08:47.300 Who's the fool who told two boys don't cry?

00:08:52.300 Hours and hours and powers

00:08:55.300 Life is no game but it's hours

00:08:58.300 Why the time goes wild

00:09:03.300 Every day I'm losing my mind

00:09:07.300 Holding on in this mysterious run

00:09:13.300 The singer, Eden Golan, had to practice singing with people shouting at her.

00:09:18.300 If I understand correctly, the Eurovision production actually played a pre-recorded version

00:09:22.300 because they knew so many people in the crowd would be shouting and shrieking at her. 0.75

00:09:27.300 They seemed like really nice people.

00:09:28.300 Nonetheless, she came in second in the whole contest.

00:09:33.300 And I say again, it's based on ordinary people voting in every country.

00:09:38.300 Ordinary people voting by the thousands.

00:09:40.300 So the official people, the independent human rights experts, may not like her.

00:09:45.300 But ordinary people, ordinary Europeans, voted for her.

00:09:48.300 She actually came in second. 1.00

00:09:50.300 I find that very reassuring.

00:09:52.300 Now, this year, the Israeli candidate is Yuval Raphael.

00:09:57.300 She survived the Hamas attacks on the Nova music festival.

00:10:01.300 If you know, October 7th, there was this big dance party.

00:10:04.300 That's where a lot of the young people were kidnapped.

00:10:06.300 She hid in a bomb shelter with about 50 other people.

00:10:10.300 She literally hid under a pile of bodies for eight hours 0.99

00:10:14.300 and was one of only 11 survivors rescued there.

00:10:17.300 So yeah, it's pretty crappy to shout at her, but she's faced worse, hasn't she?

00:10:21.300 But that satanic girl from Ireland is tickety-boo. 1.00

00:10:25.300 This is madness.

00:10:26.300 It feels like a mania, literally.

00:10:28.300 It's not just anti-Israel.

00:10:30.300 It's anti-Jewish.

00:10:31.300 When visibly Jewish people get attacked on the streets in Canada,

00:10:34.300 when schools and synagogues get attacked in Canada,

00:10:37.300 it's not a foreign country that's being attacked.

00:10:39.300 It's Jews who are Canadian.

00:10:41.300 I think this makes most people deeply uncomfortable what's going on.

00:10:44.300 Most Canadians, at least.

00:10:46.300 But I think the worst thing about it is how enthusiastic

00:10:49.300 the Canadian government is in all of these boycotts

00:10:53.300 and the official moments of hatred.

00:10:56.300 And it's because Trudeau, and now Carney,

00:10:59.300 see the millions of anti-Semites we have imported into our country. 0.94

00:11:03.300 And the Liberals aren't going to let their votes go to waste, are they?

00:11:07.300 And if the cost is a few Jews, well, that's a price they're willing to pay. 1.00

00:11:12.300 Stay with us for more.

00:11:23.300 Well, I was slightly surprised, but I shouldn't have been, earlier this week,

00:11:26.300 when Pierre Pauly of the Leader of the Opposition went after Gary Anandasangari,

00:11:31.300 that's the public safety minister, for a solid ten minutes straight in question period.

00:11:38.300 It was so bad that Anandasangari started repeating his scripted answers again and again

00:11:43.300 until he was finally saved by an intervention of the slightly,

00:11:47.300 but not much smarter, justice minister.

00:11:50.300 The reason that Anandasangari was on his feet was that he was recorded talking to a tenant.

00:11:56.300 You see, Anandasangari isn't just an MP.

00:11:59.300 He's not just the minister in charge of public safety.

00:12:02.300 That's a huge portfolio.

00:12:03.300 Everything from border, to spies, to terrorist groups, to prisons.

00:12:09.300 It's a huge job, but apparently, like half the Liberal cabinet,

00:12:13.300 he's an entrepreneur, by which I mean he owns a bunch of residential properties,

00:12:19.300 and he goes around collecting rents.

00:12:20.300 That's one of the reasons why the Liberals obviously love high housing prices. 0.98

00:12:24.300 You know, I would feel pretty busy if I was the public safety minister,

00:12:28.300 but apparently Gary has higher priorities.

00:12:30.300 So he was talking with a tenant, and for 20 minutes, this tenant,

00:12:35.300 who was obviously a law-abiding gun owner, was, and by the way,

00:12:40.300 this was brought up by Gary Anandasangari, it was not brought up by the tenant,

00:12:43.300 recording Gary, I'm just going to say Gary because his last name is hard to say,

00:12:48.300 say, look, this gun buyback is just for show.

00:12:52.300 It's stupid policy.

00:12:54.300 Don't worry about it.

00:12:55.300 If you get in trouble, you're a buddy of mine, so I'll make sure your bail is covered.

00:12:59.300 Like, it was just crazy.

00:13:01.300 And good on his tenant for recording him.

00:13:03.300 Here's just a couple of minutes of that to remind you how crazy it was.

00:13:08.300 These guys, I hate to say if you're catching police policies, these guys are caught, right?

00:13:13.300 Might spend a couple of days in jail, get a bail hearing, and out they go.

00:13:17.300 But you're taking stuff away from people that aren't a problem.

00:13:21.300 Yeah.

00:13:22.300 Listen, it's voluntary, okay?

00:13:24.300 That's the only answer.

00:13:25.300 It's not voluntary.

00:13:26.300 So, what's the third option?

00:13:27.300 So, I deactivate, I turn them in, what's the third option?

00:13:31.300 Third option is you don't move either.

00:13:35.300 And?

00:13:36.300 What does that mean?

00:13:38.300 Then it's up to the local police.

00:13:40.300 So, what does that mean to be common?

00:13:42.300 Yeah.

00:13:43.300 What's that?

00:13:44.300 A criminal.

00:13:45.300 If police enforce it, yes.

00:13:48.300 Well, of course the police are going to enforce it.

00:13:50.300 Because you're going to mandate.

00:13:52.300 Well, it's already written in the criminal code.

00:13:55.300 So, basically, you're saying, if I don't deactivate or return at a loss,

00:14:04.300 I'm going to be-

00:14:05.300 I'm going to be-

00:14:06.300 I'm going to be-

00:14:07.300 In your case, what are your losses?

00:14:09.300 You're telling me I'll personally-

00:14:11.300 It's not the point of that.

00:14:12.300 What do you think may have done better?

00:14:14.300 I mean, it's been rolled out anyways.

00:14:15.300 Look, I'll tell you, if I were to redo this from the beginning,

00:14:18.300 like I'm picking up where it was left off, right?

00:14:21.300 And that's-

00:14:22.300 But you don't have the power-

00:14:23.300 That's a rollback.

00:14:24.300 But this is the mandate that was given by Carney to complete this-

00:14:29.300 Because you guys look like fools rolling in, like stepping back.

00:14:33.300 And not revisit this.

00:14:35.300 Sure.

00:14:36.300 But that's my objective, right?

00:14:38.300 Just to put an end to this and move on with other additional criminal justice tools,

00:14:46.300 including on bail, including on, you know, increasing penalties for people who have illegal and,

00:14:54.300 you know, unlicensed firearms.

00:14:56.300 Sort of read the things that we're already going to be doing.

00:15:00.300 But-

00:15:01.300 This is just not new.

00:15:02.300 This has been happening-

00:15:04.300 I can't-

00:15:05.300 Over it, I mean.

00:15:06.300 Going forward, it'll be a different approach.

00:15:09.300 Okay?

00:15:10.300 This is completing something that was started five years ago that, you know, frankly-

00:15:15.300 But as the minister, you can sit down with Mark and say, listen, there's something-

00:15:23.300 We need to address these four issues.

00:15:25.300 We've had all these conversations.

00:15:27.300 Like I've had for the last four months, it's been like constant, constant discussions on this to see what's next, right?

00:15:35.300 And the conclusion is, let's finish this.

00:15:37.300 Because we committed to it in the campaign.

00:15:39.300 Like-

00:15:40.300 Like campaign promises, but we've broken in the past.

00:15:43.300 I know.

00:15:44.300 So why must you go through on this one?

00:15:46.300 There's-

00:15:47.300 Look.

00:15:48.300 Just say it, Sean.

00:15:50.300 The-

00:15:51.300 You know what's wrong-

00:15:52.300 Quebec, for example, is in a very different place in Ontario.

00:15:55.300 Right?

00:15:56.300 We're talking about Canada.

00:15:57.300 It's a-

00:15:58.300 It's federal.

00:15:59.300 It's not-

00:16:00.300 I get it.

00:16:01.300 Quebec is in a different place than other parts of Canada, right?

00:16:03.300 And this is something that's very much a big, big, big deal for-

00:16:07.300 for many of the-

00:16:08.300 the Quebec, uh,

00:16:10.300 electric that- the border for us.

00:16:12.300 Right?

00:16:13.300 And that's- that's one of the-

00:16:14.300 That's a bigger thing than it looks.

00:16:15.300 First of all, it makes Gary-Ann Andes angry.

00:16:17.300 Look, very questionable about his judgment.

00:16:19.300 This is a guy who the RCMP have already flagged as a security risk.

00:16:23.300 He's not allowed to deal with any files involving the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist group, because he's affiliated with them. 1.00

00:16:30.300 That's insane.

00:16:31.300 It would be like having a Hells Angels member, the head of public safety, only in Canada.

00:16:36.300 This just adds doubt to his competence.

00:16:38.300 But, see, the conservatives don't understand that-

00:16:40.300 Andes angry his value to the liberals.

00:16:42.300 There's nothing to do with his brains.

00:16:44.300 It's his voting block.

00:16:45.300 That's what they want.

00:16:46.300 The Tamil Tigers is not a negative.

00:16:48.300 It's a positive, because they want those votes, just like they want the pro-Hamas votes. 0.93

00:16:53.300 Anyways, my point is that the liberals had a bad week in terms of firearm policy, because their own boss of it admitted the whole thing was fake and stupid and just done for political machinations to police certain constituencies in Quebec.

00:17:09.300 That was then.

00:17:11.300 But only a few days later, we have amazing news, I think.

00:17:15.300 And there's actually a few things I want to talk about.

00:17:17.300 I'm not a firearms expert in the same way that my dear friend Sheila Gunn-Reed is, but I'm lucky today to be joined by Daniel Fritter, who is a firearms expert.

00:17:26.300 He's an expert in his own right, and he's also a journalist.

00:17:29.300 He writes for CaliberMag.ca, and he joins us now via Zoom.

00:17:34.300 Daniel, great to see you again.

00:17:35.300 Thanks for coming back on the show.

00:17:36.300 Thanks for having me.

00:17:37.300 It's my pleasure.

00:17:39.300 You know, I remember a few months ago, when the government was expanding the list of firearms it was going to seize.

00:17:45.300 And it's got so many different variants.

00:17:48.300 It's got hundreds and hundreds.

00:17:50.300 But they keep coming up with obscure new variations so they can make it look like they're seizing more guns.

00:17:56.300 But they tried this wrinkle.

00:17:58.300 They said, we're not just doing it to make Canada safer.

00:18:01.300 We're going to give these guns to Ukraine because they need the weapons. 0.99

00:18:07.300 And I was thinking, you don't take a little blink, blink, blinker.

00:18:11.300 You don't take an antique.

00:18:12.300 You don't take a gun that you use for scaring away, I don't know, a coyote from your farm.

00:18:18.300 That's not what you use when you're fighting against Russian armored personnel carriers.

00:18:23.300 It was the stupidest idea I ever heard.

00:18:25.300 But, oh, the media loved it so perfectly.

00:18:28.300 Daniel, what's the news on that?

00:18:30.300 It turns out that the Liberals, they finally come to the same conclusion.

00:18:36.300 It's a stupid idea.

00:18:37.300 Tell us a little more.

00:18:38.300 So apparently the Ukrainian forces basically told the Canadian government that they have very little interest in acquiring any of the firearms that would potentially be seized.

00:18:50.300 Which is not surprising because, like you kind of intimate, that announcement that was made way back was both laughable and offensive for two alternative reasons.

00:19:01.300 But laughable because the firearms that they were considering sending to Ukraine, it was reported by, I believe, David Pugliese, if I'm getting his last name correct, that there was a specific subset of firearms that they were looking at seizing.

00:19:15.300 Including, and this is where things get a bit weird, SIG handguns, which are not on the list of guns in the buyback.

00:19:22.300 You can still own a handgun.

00:19:24.300 They haven't been banned.

00:19:25.300 If you own them, you get to keep them.

00:19:27.300 Cold Canada AR-15s, which are a semi-automatic version of a rifle made by the same people that make our military's rifles.

00:19:34.300 But then the DND stipulated that they would only be transferring new firearms to the Ukrainian forces.

00:19:40.300 And Cold Canada has not released any civilian AR-15s for some time now.

00:19:45.300 And it was other guns like anti-tank missile launchers that no one who owns one of those in Canada is going to be affected by the ban because the only people that own a javelin missile launcher are basically the military or people who work for companies that service them for the military.

00:20:02.300 So none of them would be seized.

00:20:04.300 So obviously, I think what ended up happening was it seemed like a good idea from probably a more junior person unfamiliar with this stuff floated through to DND who said, well, we can't use any used guns because we can't guarantee their quality and whatnot.

00:20:18.300 They got through to the Ukrainians and said, well, if we can get guns, we will. 1.00

00:20:22.300 But then eventually it trickled down to, so we're not going to get anything.

00:20:25.300 And the Ukrainians obviously announced that.

00:20:28.300 It seems like the wheels are basically coming off this thing in real time from the leaked audio from Mr. Ananda Sangry to this now.

00:20:35.300 The former promises are just kind of unraveling.

00:20:38.300 And we're seeing more and more people realize that the entire program from stem to stern is misguided at best to use the minister's own language.

00:20:47.300 Potentially far more offensive than that because, like I said, although laughable that we would ever send guns to the Ukraine from civilian gun safes where you're seizing .22 caliber rimfire rifles.

00:20:59.300 It's also somewhat offensive as a gun owner to think that the government was seemingly somewhat on my behalf negotiating the expropriation of my private property to a foreign military is where that gets a bit.

00:21:13.300 OK, it stops being funny now and starts being insanely disrespectful to me, a Canadian citizen, a voter, a taxpayer, a licensed gun owner who has jumped through all the hoops to own these things.

00:21:24.300 That they would be already talking with foreign officials about which specific guns I may own that they might be interested in getting for free at the expense of my tax dollars again.

00:21:34.660 That's that's not funny. That's offensive.

00:21:36.680 And I think that was one of the things that when that story came up in the media wished had come up more of the this is inappropriate, like you cannot if this was any other sort of property, imagine them saying we're going to seize your F-350 and send it over to a war zone.

00:21:51.440 People would be getting very angry about the government negotiating that on their behalf.

00:21:55.300 But because it's guns, it's somehow OK. And I think I hope Canadians are starting to realize that these discussions around guns don't limit to guns.

00:22:02.940 If the government takes this attitude around gun owners, private property, they probably have similar attitudes around private property you may own that you might think is otherwise safe.

00:22:12.160 Yeah, your comparison to an F-350 pickup truck is right on.

00:22:16.680 I mean, SUVs are always being criticized as gas guzzlers.

00:22:20.420 Oh, you got to have an electric vehicle. You got to take your bike.

00:22:22.620 I could imagine a future liberal government saying we're going to seize your old truck and give it to Ukraine to fight the war.

00:22:30.040 Both sides of that are atrocious.

00:22:33.040 But the idea that Ukraine is going to take, like you say, used domestic rifles and shotguns.

00:22:40.420 That's an idea so stupid.

00:22:43.020 Only someone who has never held a firearm could say it.

00:22:46.040 And I'm not passing myself off as a firearm aficionado.

00:22:48.620 But this must have been come up with some by some intern.

00:22:54.340 But you never know.

00:22:55.120 It could have come from a cabinet minister themselves.

00:22:57.720 My favorite question to see is when any liberal is asked, can you define an assault weapon?

00:23:04.940 I mean, just give it a go.

00:23:06.800 And they usually say, well, it looks really scary.

00:23:09.300 I think the look and feel of it is what they typically answer.

00:23:13.740 But here's why I think this is particularly useful.

00:23:17.340 It goes to the assault weapon thing.

00:23:19.220 Oh, these assault weapons, assault style weapons.

00:23:21.660 We got to get rid of them.

00:23:22.960 Well, the people who actually do use weapons for assaults, the Ukrainian military are saying, no, those are not them.

00:23:29.660 We have serious weapons of war, including, you know, you mentioned the Javelin anti-tank missile.

00:23:35.640 So in a way, it's sort of a rebuttal that these were ever assault weapons in the first place.

00:23:40.720 Because an actual army that actually needs them saying, no, they're not.

00:23:44.260 Just stupid all the way down.

00:23:45.840 But there's someone who I think understands firearms.

00:23:48.580 I would bet.

00:23:49.880 I mean, maybe Scott Moe of Saskatchewan knows his way around a firearm.

00:23:54.060 I sort of get the feeling that he does.

00:23:55.520 But other than maybe Scott Moe, I think that Alberta's Premier Daniel Smith probably has the most familiarity, just on a personal basis, with firearms of any premier, certainly more than any federal cabinet minister.

00:24:09.080 Can you tell me a little bit about what Daniel Smith has been saying?

00:24:12.300 Because there's a jurisdiction, there's a constitutional issue.

00:24:16.340 Who gets to regulate? 0.59

00:24:17.840 Who gets to enforce these laws? 0.99

00:24:20.160 And as you may know, provincial affairs of a local nature fall to the provincial government, matters of a local nature.

00:24:31.900 So certain things like the military, the post office, harbors, international harbors, that's the Fed's jurisdiction.

00:24:39.860 But actual enforcement or seizure of firearms, that would be provincial.

00:24:44.040 What's Daniel Smith saying about that?

00:24:45.520 Well, Daniel Smith has long maintained, actually, that Alberta does not have any intention in participating in this ban.

00:24:53.620 That's been their position for basically the last five years.

00:24:56.660 And she's leaning on both, like you said, the jurisdictional issues around policing and, in very real terms, budgeting, because policing is obviously paid for by provincial budgets.

00:25:06.420 And as the custodian of Albertan taxpayer dollars, she made it very clear that she didn't want to see that money go towards this sort of thing.

00:25:16.080 In response, the federal government years ago did offer to say, well, you know, what we'll do is we'll transfer money to your provinces to pay for it, which in turn led her to go, no, that's not what we want.

00:25:24.700 I mean, if the money was there for policing, transfer it and do something more useful with it.

00:25:29.880 So instead, she created basically a licensing program where in order to seize firearms in Alberta, the Alberta government will require that those seizure agents obtain a license to do so from the Alberta government, which they basically have no intention of issuing, which is a fun inversion of the normal situation around gun ownership.

00:25:50.360 Because everyone that has one legally has to have a license.

00:25:52.680 So it kind of makes sense that if you want to seize it from someone with a license, you should also have a license.

00:25:57.380 So it's a really smart move.

00:25:58.820 It also leans heavily on the administration of the Firearms Act as federal legislation falls to provincial authorities.

00:26:07.560 And in some cases, some provinces have hired federal staff to do so.

00:26:11.720 That's a really weird division in this particular area.

00:26:15.240 BC and Alberta, for example, both have provincial CFOs.

00:26:18.240 They are employees of the provincial government.

00:26:20.360 Who are in charge with administrating this entire piece of legislation within the province and working with local police and whatnot to do so.

00:26:28.900 Other provinces like Ontario have a federal CFO where the actual chief firearms officer of Ontario is paid for by the federal government.

00:26:36.480 So you get into this very strange jurisdictional thing where some provinces can't do what Daniel Smith is now asking to be done.

00:26:42.940 Because the person in charge of all of this works for the federal government sort of on behalf of the provincial people.

00:26:50.420 So it's a strange situation.

00:26:51.880 But it's really cool to see.

00:26:53.780 And, I mean, she's been so explicit as to say that they are going to throw every roadblock possible in front of this thing.

00:26:59.520 Because she very clearly disagrees with the premise, obviously, on a political level.

00:27:04.200 But I think also, too, has made some pretty impassioned comments about this just isn't going to work.

00:27:09.640 Alberta, this is not how you address crime.

00:27:13.160 The people with gun licenses taking their guns away.

00:27:15.480 It's a total waste of money and time.

00:27:16.940 And I think that in some of the comments, I know that some people that are pro-gun control may interpret her to be somewhat dismissive.

00:27:25.160 But I think that they have to look at that and think she's being dismissive of these arguments because they are worthy of being dismissed.

00:27:30.680 It shouldn't.

00:27:31.500 Spending all of this time even debating it is a waste of time.

00:27:34.280 We could be talking about homelessness, addiction issues, all of these other factors that play a much bigger role in criminality and the crime rate in Canada

00:27:41.540 than whether or not some guy with a gun license likes to take his AR-15 to the range on the weekend.

00:27:46.940 There's another part to it.

00:27:48.600 When you disarm the best possible gun owners, law-abiding, trained, responsible, licensed people, 0.66

00:27:58.220 like those are of the entire population, those are the folks you want with firearms.

00:28:02.700 If you're explicitly taking it away from them, you're basically telegraphing that you cannot defend your home.

00:28:08.620 And there's been that very notorious case, and Rebel News is a little bit involved,

00:28:12.240 we've been crowdfunding the legal defense for Jeremy McDonald, that he did not use a firearm,

00:28:16.460 but someone broke into his apartment with a crossbow.

00:28:20.600 McDonald had a contretemps and bested the intruder, and Doug Ford is prosecuting him.

00:28:28.500 Even though Doug Ford had a press conference saying, this is outrageous, it's his prosecutors doing it.

00:28:33.500 And I spoke briefly to Daniel Smith about this, and I hope to talk to her on camera about it.

00:28:37.940 She says it's just generally the policy of Alberta not to prosecute.

00:28:43.500 And that's a discretion that police have, and that prosecutors have, that governments have.

00:28:49.520 Let me give you a quick example.

00:28:51.020 For at least a decade before Justin Trudeau decriminalized marijuana,

00:28:55.040 every province in Canada had a de facto policy that they were not going to arrest or prosecute people

00:29:01.960 just for mere possession of a small amount of marijuana.

00:29:05.360 If they were charging him with 10 other things, sure, they'd throw that in the bucket.

00:29:09.300 But you would never be arrested just for smoking a joint.

00:29:12.840 Maybe the cop would tell you to put it out or something.

00:29:15.640 That was a, even though the law said it was against the law,

00:29:18.360 it was a public policy decision not to enforce the law.

00:29:21.000 I believe that provincial governments like Alberta, and if Ontario truly were conservative,

00:29:27.500 they should do it too, would simply choose as a matter of policy not to prosecute people

00:29:32.620 who defend their homes, not to enforce these ridiculous and stupid and fake gun control laws, 0.62

00:29:41.220 and just say, you know what, we've got 100 things to do that are more important.

00:29:46.140 Once we finish with those, let's get back to this gun.

00:29:49.280 And by the way, Mark Carney used the phrase gun registry.

00:29:52.220 I think he really doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:29:55.620 He's been out of Canada for so long.

00:29:58.160 Last word to you, Daniel.

00:29:59.280 Do you think that the renewed Mark Carney, like Mark Carney is doing a lot of Trudeau things.

00:30:06.620 He's reviving them, the censorship bill.

00:30:08.780 He's overspending his foreign policy is even worse.

00:30:11.680 I get the feeling he's going to double down on guns just because the Liberals always do.

00:30:16.900 But on the other hand, you have people like Daniel Smith pushing back.

00:30:21.340 What's the future look like?

00:30:23.180 Is it more freedom or less for gun owners in Canada?

00:30:25.460 I think it'll depend on an election.

00:30:28.620 And I think that I agree.

00:30:30.640 I think they're going to double down.

00:30:31.700 Actually, I've been obviously thinking about this a ton ever since the announcement and the way it's been handled since then.

00:30:37.680 I actually think they'll double down in the form of legislation.

00:30:40.680 I think that we will shortly be hearing about how this pilot program was not the raving success they were hoping for.

00:30:47.800 Gary and Andesangiri will probably be shuffled into either a Secretary of State position or somewhere else.

00:30:52.840 They will bring in current Secretary of State for Nature, Natalie Provost, to head up the public safety file.

00:30:59.180 Mark Carney will make an announcement saying, you know what, that wasn't the success we were hoping for,

00:31:03.120 but it's a five-year-long program that we were heavily invested in already.

00:31:06.220 But it is a throwback from the Justin Trudeau era.

00:31:08.760 We're going to scrap this buyback program to begin with,

00:31:11.820 and we're going to go right back to the drawing board with legislation amending the Firearms Act,

00:31:16.220 seeking to take these firearms out of circulation, off the streets, move them into gun ranges,

00:31:21.400 allow people to keep them with a grandfathering scheme.

00:31:24.240 And they'll put this amendment out there to the Firearms Act,

00:31:26.620 redefining prohibited firearms to include semi-automatic centerfire rifles with detachable magazines capable of holding more than five rounds.

00:31:33.700 They'll grandfather current owners in so that Carney can say,

00:31:36.360 oh, look, we did actually hear the concerns of gun owners.

00:31:38.640 We are allowing them to keep their guns, but we are limiting their sale in the future

00:31:42.400 so that we prevent going down an American gun culture path.

00:31:45.760 And they'll just basically control the timeline on that legislation into an election that I think will probably happen sooner rather than later,

00:31:53.000 because the economy is not getting better at a pace that I think gives them confidence in their minority mandate.

00:31:57.960 So it wouldn't surprise me if we see all this kind of unravel over the winter in preparation for some either winter or spring legislation announcements

00:32:06.420 that get put on the back burner until the order paper or get killed off on the order paper when the writ drops,

00:32:13.280 at which point they'll campaign on once again banning the same guns that they've been promising to do for six years.

00:32:19.120 Well, that is a very specific prediction.

00:32:23.700 Well, like I said, I've given a lot of thought over the past little while.

00:32:26.920 And, you know, for those wondering why, Mark Carney was nowhere near this announcement.

00:32:31.840 They didn't delay it when it should have been delayed after that audio leak.

00:32:35.240 It made no sense to have Mr. Nandesangri step in front of a firing squad of the press corps.

00:32:40.100 Two days later, Mark Carney did not go in front of the media to defend this program whatsoever.

00:32:46.400 He did say he had confidence in the minister in the House of Commons.

00:32:49.340 But the only people to watch Question Period are people that have already decided how they're going to vote.

00:32:53.180 So it doesn't really matter too much.

00:32:54.460 But he didn't get in front of media.

00:32:56.480 He's kind of stayed at arm's length from all of this.

00:32:59.440 They're launching it in an area specifically where the chief of police is the brother-in-law of a liberal MP,

00:33:06.100 meaning that, you know, if no one signs up for this program,

00:33:09.120 how better to guarantee that the information around registrations and signups doesn't get released,

00:33:13.840 other than having a family member head up the police department that's leading it.

00:33:17.360 So there's a lot of things there that kind of go, well, these coincidences start to line up.

00:33:21.160 Why would you bring on Natalie Provost, a former lobbyist, as an MP?

00:33:24.340 That's a huge liability for any political party.

00:33:27.080 Well, maybe it's because you've been planning to do this and pivot from a buyback to legislation the whole time,

00:33:31.420 and how better to control how angry one of the largest gun control groups in Canada gets in front of the media

00:33:36.920 than by bringing in their lobbyist into the caucus.

00:33:39.920 So a lot of this stuff makes sense when you think of that being their strategy.

00:33:44.640 Wow.

00:33:45.340 Well, we'll keep an eye on it, and thanks for taking the time to give us the details.

00:33:49.300 And, of course, Sheila Gunn-Reed is our point person on the firearms file,

00:33:53.000 and she cares a lot about these details, too.

00:33:55.680 So I really appreciate the briefing.

00:33:57.600 We've been talking with Daniel Fritter of CaliburMag.ca.

00:34:02.180 Stay with us.

00:34:03.300 More ahead.

00:34:03.820 Your letters to me on Carney of the United Nations, soul-venting, says,

00:34:17.480 Trump's UN speech was 100% correct.

00:34:19.640 Canada needs to follow his lead.

00:34:21.500 This poking Trump won't end well.

00:34:23.600 Carney is deliberately destroying Canada.

00:34:26.120 You know, he's doing so many things that—

00:34:28.200 I mean, I suppose you could say, well, he doesn't know how that looks,

00:34:30.760 and maybe it's by accident that it's insulting America.

00:34:34.600 Don't be so naive.

00:34:36.020 Everything a prime minister does is looked at from five different ways.

00:34:40.240 They have hundreds of—

00:34:41.300 There's hundreds of people in the Canadian embassy in Washington alone.

00:34:44.680 They know exactly what they're doing.

00:34:46.140 My thesis is Carney wants to pick a fight with Trump,

00:34:49.520 so he has someone to blame when, inevitably, Canada goes into a deep recession.

00:34:54.120 Ben Photoshare says, sounds like more money laundering.

00:34:59.880 You know, you could be referring to so many things,

00:35:02.080 but I think you're talking about that long baffle gab clip

00:35:05.440 where Mark Carney just says, you know, we're going to catalyze and crowd in billions.

00:35:11.140 Like, it's just three minutes of jargon.

00:35:13.820 I think you might be right.

00:35:15.000 It's just fog to hide what he's really doing.

00:35:18.700 Jordan from the county says,

00:35:20.260 You're so right.

00:35:35.180 I was thinking I'm doing my show on that today.

00:35:37.840 There's these dinghies that come over from France, 0.99

00:35:40.440 full of migrant men who've made their way from Africa and Asia all the way to France,

00:35:44.600 and they've bypassed all those countries because they know the most generous welfare,

00:35:49.340 the four-star hotels, the lenient justice system that doesn't deport you, you meant rape.

00:35:55.420 It's all across the English Channel.

00:35:57.280 So they're coming across the English Channel.

00:35:59.540 The answer is to stop the boats.

00:36:02.360 It's not to force the English to have digital ID.

00:36:05.640 That would be like if Trump said,

00:36:06.940 Well, we're going to, instead of closing the southern border and patrolling it and putting a fence up,

00:36:12.060 we're going to require 330 million Americans to get an ID.

00:36:16.040 It's so laughable that that would be the accepted rationale.

00:36:20.680 It's obviously a lie.

00:36:22.000 And yeah, it's absolutely coming to Canada.

00:36:24.980 Well, that's our show for the day.

00:36:27.280 Until Monday, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News, to you at home, good night.

00:36:31.980 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - September 26, 2025

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