Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ New poll shows the Conservatives at a new low — and a majority looming for Justin Trudeau

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Bad news if you're Aaron O'Toole. He is now at his lowest poll number

00:00:07.680 since he was elected Conservative leader. I think if he stays on this track, he's

00:00:12.640 not only going to lose the election, but lose his own seat. And that is the silver lining.

00:00:17.400 I'll tell you what I think is going to happen. I'll show you the polls, and I'll tell you who

00:00:20.520 I think should pick up the reins when O'Toole drops them. But before I get to that, let me

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00:00:55.600 Tonight, a new poll shows Aaron O'Toole at a new low, and a looming majority for Justin Trudeau.

00:01:13.060 It's June 25th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:17.740 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:21.320 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:25.640 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:30.260 bloody right to do so.

00:01:36.360 How is it possible that Justin Trudeau is so high in the polls? The economy is precarious. We've had

00:01:42.800 massive unemployment for over a year because of the lockdowns. It's still 8.2% unemployment.

00:01:48.500 It's actually up from last month. How did that happen? It's going in the wrong direction.

00:01:53.540 And worse than that, the labor participation rate fell, which means fewer people are even

00:01:59.300 trying to find work. National debt's at an all-time high, of course. And now inflation

00:02:04.920 is coming back. Housing prices are high economically. I think we're in trouble.

00:02:10.520 Part of that is because Trudeau refuses to open the border with the United States, refuses to

00:02:15.600 normalize Canadian industry, even though the pandemic has receded. So on top of the economic

00:02:21.860 malaise and their growing risk of inflation, we have violations of civil liberties. We have

00:02:27.900 massive stress because we're not allowed to live like humans need to live. And we're being propagated

00:02:34.640 with a constant message of fear. This new variant, that new mutation. Add to that scripted panic, the

00:02:43.720 opposite approach with vaccines, downplaying any risks, changing the health rules to obviously cover up

00:02:49.560 for political mismanagement, lack of supply. It's a very stressful time in Canada because of the lockdowns.

00:02:56.820 And then there's the general animosity that Trudeau and his cabinet have whipped up.

00:03:02.700 Anti-Alberta sentiment that's leading to frustration and separatism there. Deliberate strategies to create

00:03:09.560 discord along lines of race and sex and sexuality and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.

00:03:17.720 Demonizing any of his opponents is hateful. And now bringing in censorship laws to silence opponents.

00:03:24.200 My point is, you'd think that would be some fodder for the opposition. But I guess other than the

00:03:32.320 pandemic, that was the case for Andrew Scheer too. And back then in the last election, add in the shock

00:03:39.120 of Jody Wilson-Raybould being fired by Trudeau for opposing his corruption scandal and add in the shock

00:03:45.160 of the blackface photos. Andrew Scheer couldn't get the job done then. Incredibly, Aaron O'Toole is doing

00:03:53.420 worse. Actually, worse than ever. Here's the latest poll from Abacus. Now, I know one of their

00:03:58.100 principals, David Colletto. He worked at the Sun News Network. Good guy. The chairman of Abacus is a

00:04:04.080 senior Liberal Party operative. Bruce Anderson is his name. So I discount some of what they do because he

00:04:11.420 really shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a polling company that claims to be neutral or nonpartisan.

00:04:16.300 But that said, other polling companies in recent months are saying the same thing.

00:04:21.740 People just don't plan to vote for Aaron O'Toole. So keep this on your screen for a bit. Here's from

00:04:27.260 the Abacus poll. You can see that red line at the top. That's the Liberals. They're at 37% now.

00:04:33.900 That's majority territory, depending on how the other parties divide up the spoils. The NDP have been

00:04:40.700 bouncing around 18% forever, as you can see. That's the orange line. The bloc looks strong

00:04:47.580 in Quebec. It's at 9% in the polls nationally. But remember, you've got to basically quadruple that

00:04:52.760 to properly reflect their strength in Quebec. And the Green Party is sagging, which is to Trudeau's

00:04:58.260 benefit, especially in BC. But look at that dark blue line near the top. That's Aaron O'Toole's

00:05:04.000 conservatives at 27%. Fourth poll in a row now that they've been falling. Lowest level for O'Toole

00:05:12.800 since he was elected leader. Just to compare, even the hapless Andrew Scheer had 34% in the last

00:05:18.820 election. In fact, he had more actual votes numerically than the Liberals, who had 33%. But

00:05:24.420 Scheer just had them, you know, lumped up. The Liberal vote was spread out better strategically. But

00:05:29.660 now, Aaron O'Toole is literally 10 points behind. And it's not just Ontario and the Atlantic. Look at

00:05:37.780 this. Here's them broken down by province or region. The NDP is looking strong in BC. I believe that.

00:05:44.480 I think the Liberals hurt themselves by throwing out Jody Wilson-Raybould. I think Trudeau generally

00:05:48.760 ignores the West. I think the province's provincial NDP government, while bad, isn't as awful as they

00:05:54.480 could be. In fact, they've had the lightest touch in Canada for the lockdown, if you can believe it.

00:05:59.260 So maybe that's redounding to the credit of the federal NDP. I'd like to say it's a three-way

00:06:04.360 split there, and it sort of is. But really, the Conservatives are in third place there. Isn't

00:06:08.580 that incredible? Third place in BC? Alberta, 39% for the Conservatives, 34% for the Trudeau Liberals.

00:06:16.940 I remember when that number was 60% for the Conservatives. The Trudeau Liberals have 34% in

00:06:24.400 Alberta. How is that even possible? Do I believe that Albertans love Justin Trudeau? I do not think

00:06:31.060 so. I think they're just so disgusted with Aaron O'Toole and his carbon tax and his woke cancel 1.00

00:06:36.940 culture and his clear message that true Conservatives are not welcome in the party. Seriously, Trudeau is

00:06:42.620 within the margin of error of Aaron O'Toole in Alberta. And why not? If you want a carbon tax,

00:06:47.980 why not get it from Trudeau, who at least is honest about it, instead of from a flim-flam man 0.95

00:06:52.920 like Aaron O'Toole, who wants a carbon tax but lacks the ability to look you in the eye and try to

00:06:58.500 say, no, no, no, no, this is a carbon levy. It's totally different. What a weird sales pitch. He's

00:07:04.160 losing. It's actually worse than Saskatchewan, Manitoba. It's a statistical tie. Trudeau actually

00:07:11.120 ahead. Saskatchewan, incredible. Even more fossil fuel and mining and commodities and export-oriented

00:07:16.460 than Alberta. And of course, the carbon tax devastates farmers too. It's the big bullseye 0.64

00:07:22.180 for the carbon tax. So yeah, not surprised they have no time for O'Toole. They want an alternative,

00:07:27.960 not an echo. All this was supposed to yield a payoff in the rest of Canada for O'Toole, but

00:07:33.540 it hasn't happened. Liberals are at 42% in Ontario. That's 13 points ahead of O'Toole's

00:07:40.500 Conservatives. That's a total wipeout in the Greater Toronto area. There's so many seats

00:07:45.340 there. But in the suburbs too, that's losing probably, I don't know, two dozen seats in

00:07:52.040 Ontario if that number holds up. Quebec was never strong for the Tories, but look at the

00:07:56.200 Atlantic. That could well be a total sweep again. So what are we looking at? A Trudeau majority?

00:08:03.140 Trudeau's third win either way. When he ought to lose or at least be held to minority. Not that

00:08:08.200 a minority would make a big difference. He has a minority now. And tell me how it's hobbled him 1.00

00:08:13.880 at all. I mean, Parliament barely meets. The media is complacent. The NDP and the Blocks support the

00:08:18.740 Liberals on their worst plans, like their new censorship plans, C10, and their new censorship

00:08:23.240 plans in C36. So it's as bad as it is anyways. And even on the unusual occasion when all opposition

00:08:30.200 parties unite to oppose Trudeau, he just ignores them. Like when they demanded public documents,

00:08:38.080 for example, about the pandemic, about Chinese spies in our virus lab, things like that.

00:08:42.820 Trudeau just ignores Parliament. In fact, he's suing Parliament. He learned that contempt for

00:08:47.460 Parliament from his dad. Here's an interesting chart. It compares the state of affairs right before the

00:08:53.220 last election with right before this looming election. Trudeau is 14 points stronger relatively.

00:08:59.260 The government is 11% more popular. His own reputation is 5% better. O'Toole, by contrast,

00:09:06.000 has barely half the popularity as that empty void Andrew Scheer did.

00:09:11.920 Most people don't want a change in the government, they say. This is too bad. It doesn't have to be

00:09:18.240 this way, you know. What could make a difference is leadership is in taking a strong position,

00:09:24.360 communicating it clearly, not deviating from it, not being scared away from it by the CBC,

00:09:29.080 and asking people to follow us and changing the political landscape. O'Toole did the opposite.

00:09:34.500 He thought he'd conform to the political landscape as shaped by Trudeau and the CBC. He spent his

00:09:41.540 political capital not fighting to win over new voters, but fighting to impose a carbon tax on his

00:09:47.340 own party that his own party hates. And he's declared war on the populist and conservative elements

00:09:53.140 of his base and on us too at Rebel News. Of course, it won't win him a single vote from the liberals or

00:09:59.620 the NDP. They love watching him fight his own party. It will make conservatives stay home. At least that's

00:10:05.520 what the polls seem to say. How opposite from Ron DeSantis of Florida, who won his governorship with less

00:10:11.560 than 1% margin a couple years ago. But by solidly opposing the lockdowns, not being blown off course

00:10:17.580 by the media, fighting against big tech's cancel culture, fighting against Chinese meddling even,

00:10:24.000 slowly, relentlessly pushing back at the media, he's becoming a very popular governor and he's shaping

00:10:30.640 the politics of that important state. It used to be a toss-up state. It's not anymore. It's Republican.

00:10:35.940 He didn't conform. He shaped his world. Aaron O'Toole has conformed. And so he's playing the role handed

00:10:42.840 to him by the media. He's the happy loser. But he will lose. You know, in 2012, O'Toole entered 0.99

00:10:50.860 parliament in a by-election. And he got nearly 51% of the vote. But by the next election, 2015, that shrunk

00:10:58.160 to 45%. And in the next election in 2019, that shrunk again to just 42%. But the party is failing

00:11:07.640 worse than that. If O'Toole slips a few more points, and if the NDP consolidates behind the liberal in

00:11:13.700 his own riding, there is a real chance that Aaron O'Toole will lose his own seat. Along with two dozen

00:11:20.440 others in Ontario. Hey, they deserve it. They're not speaking out. Let them go down with the captain.

00:11:25.060 But you know, O'Toole losing, that's the silver lining there. You know, the conservatives look

00:11:29.860 to be on track to get slaughtered in the looming election. That is bad for conservatives, but it is

00:11:36.000 very bad for Canada. But if O'Toole is kicked out of parliament, perhaps the party can start from

00:11:44.380 scratch and replace him and undo the damage he's done this past year. You know me, I'm for Pierre

00:11:49.320 Polyev, the most effective MP in parliament. He's not wild. He's not erratic. He's not extreme.

00:11:54.460 He's just solid and articulate and strong and conservative. It's a shame that we're all

00:12:00.300 going to have to lose again and stay lost for probably four more years to get back. I hope

00:12:07.220 there's something left to save by then. Stay with us for more.

00:12:22.560 Welcome back. Well, I'm out here in Toronto, which I can assure you will be a city that not a single

00:12:28.680 conservative MP wins. That's not hard to say. It happens so rarely, certainly south of the famous

00:12:35.120 401 highway. That's all liberal red. The only, uh, diversity, maybe the odd new Democrat who

00:12:42.300 sneaks in. But what about Alberta? One of the safest places I see that the conservatives are

00:12:48.860 under 40% and the liberals are just, I don't know, 5% behind. Now I take this with a grain of salt

00:12:55.720 because abacus data, you know, their chairman is a liberal activist, Bruce Anderson. But I think

00:13:00.720 this is in accord with other polls is Alberta is Saskatchewan is the West. Are they enamored with

00:13:10.440 Trudeau or just disappointed in Aaron O'Toole? Joining us now from Edmonton gateway to the North

00:13:15.460 city of champions is our friend, Lauren Gunter, senior columnist with the Edmonton Sun. Lauren,

00:13:19.800 great to see you again. Thanks for joining us. Hey, you're welcome. Um, you know what? I,

00:13:24.540 I, I have an animosity, not a personal animosity, but I'm a deep critic of Aaron O'Toole. So I'm

00:13:31.540 going to rely on you to be more fair. Not that I'm unfair. I'm just mad at the guy. I think he's

00:13:36.940 blown it. I think he just was so, he put all his eggs in the carbon tax basket. I, I just, I mean,

00:13:45.040 the fact that he doesn't talk to rebel news, I doesn't buy me that much. No conservative MP does

00:13:50.160 for some reason. Um, I just think that he's not that conservative and he's blowing it. What do you

00:13:56.620 think? Yeah, I agree. I agree. So don't expect me to try and be fairer than you about Aaron O'Toole.

00:14:04.240 I mean, I've, in the last two months, I've called him a dud in print. Uh, then he came out with this

00:14:09.320 carbon tax plan. I called him a dishonest dud. Uh, and I just think he's bumbling. I, you know what? 0.94

00:14:16.440 I think the biggest single problem he has is you look at popular, successful, conservative

00:14:22.760 politicians. And in Canada, you look at Ralph Klein, you look at Mike Harris in Ontario,

00:14:27.000 in the rest of the world, you look at Ronald Reagan, you look at Margaret Thatcher. Those

00:14:32.560 were people who took conservative positions, even Stephen Harper, conservative positions,

00:14:39.140 and made them palatable to centrist voters. Yeah.

00:14:44.320 Well, I think what Aaron O'Toole is doing is trying to take liberal views and make them

00:14:50.380 palatable to conservative voters. And that's simply not important. You know, I, I think the

00:14:54.580 abacus data is, is way off in the West on the liberal. I do not sense any support for the liberals

00:15:03.980 beyond the usual suspects. You know, a few downtown lawyers in the big cities, uh, people who are

00:15:09.960 looking to be appointed to the bench at some point, uh, and, and the, the activists who always liked

00:15:16.680 the liberal, you get beyond that group. There is no sense that I get of any support for the liberals.

00:15:24.400 I think what's happening federally is what has happened provincially in Alberta. And that is that

00:15:29.720 the UCP government under Jason Kenney is not very popular. Its support is under 30 percent,

00:15:35.340 but the big beneficiary is not the liberals. It's not the new Democrats and the Democrats are exactly

00:15:41.260 the same support level as they've been at since they were defeated in the, in the 2019 election. The

00:15:47.500 big beneficiaries have been the undecided undecided provincially in Alberta are almost up to 30

00:15:54.940 percent. And that's because you have a lot of right of center people who don't think that the UCP

00:16:01.740 is serving them. And I think you've got the same dynamic going on federally. You've got an awful

00:16:07.340 lot of right of center voters in Alberta and to some extent in Saskatchewan who don't like Aaron

00:16:14.220 O'Toole. They think he's weak. They don't think that he's conservative enough. They don't think he's

00:16:18.380 conservative at all. And that is my sense of what's happening. Yeah. You know, there's one thing I

00:16:24.060 mentioned about this abacus poll, and I don't want to talk too much about the methodology or anything,

00:16:27.740 because it, frankly, other polls have said similar things. It doesn't measure Maxime Bernier's

00:16:33.020 People's Party. Now I know what they would say. They would say, well, that, you know, he doesn't

00:16:37.660 have a likelihood of succeeding and he doesn't have a seat. Well, okay. But they measured the Green Party

00:16:43.900 and they've only got a couple. I, I sense that alienation that, that none of the aboveness that

00:16:50.140 you talked about provincially. I sense that federally. And there's the Maverick Party. There's,

00:16:55.420 I think if they had tested People's Party and Maxime Bernier and Maverick, I think they would

00:17:02.620 have seen different numbers, at least in Alberta. It's that once a generation Alberta mood of every,

00:17:09.100 the system's failed us. Maybe let's start a new party. Like this has happened in Alberta. For those

00:17:13.580 who know the history, Preston Manning and the Reform Party, way back in the day, the Social Credit Party.

00:17:19.180 I mean, Alberta comes up with new parties in a way that really no other place in Canada does.

00:17:25.420 I mean, even, even before that, the CCF. Yeah. You know, I mean, if you go back as far as the 30s,

00:17:30.940 an awful lot of the impetus for starting the, the CCF, the precursor to the NDP came out of Alberta and

00:17:37.580 Saskatchewan. So we're not afraid of starting new parties. And maybe, I don't get any sense that Maxime

00:17:44.460 Bernier has any traction at all in Alberta. None. The People's Party doesn't register in any

00:17:49.820 of the conversations I have. Nobody I talked to says the Maverick Party does. The Maverick Party

00:17:54.540 with Jay Hill, who is a former Conservative MP under Stephen Harper, does have some traction.

00:18:01.980 What it doesn't have yet are recognizable candidates. And I think that that's the thing

00:18:07.260 that stands between it and maybe being competitive in four or five places. My biggest concern for them

00:18:13.820 is that we will see Liberals elected because the federal Conservatives under O'Toole are so weak.

00:18:22.060 And the Maverick Party might come up just enough to split some votes and let Liberals walk down the

00:18:26.620 middle in a few urban ridings. But there are really only four ridings out of 34 in Alberta where the

00:18:31.420 Liberals could possibly win, two in Calgary, two in Edmonton. And even at that, like Edmonton's very

00:18:39.580 lefty mayor, Don Iverson, was sniffing around at maybe trying to get the nomination for Edmonton Center.

00:18:46.700 But the MP from, the Liberal MP from that riding who lost in 2019 announced he was running for the

00:18:55.820 nomination this week. And I think that is a sign that Iverson is not running, because the party would

00:19:02.540 have cleared the decks to let Iverson win uncontested. So I don't think Iverson is going to win.

00:19:10.860 And I just don't think that Justin Trudeau can muster enough support in any location in Alberta,

00:19:18.780 even in downtown Calgary and downtown Edmonton. I don't think they can muster enough support to win a seat.

00:19:25.420 Yeah. Well, I find it very frustrating. And I don't think Justin Trudeau cares about getting,

00:19:31.340 I mean, he'd like a seat in Alberta, but he doesn't care. He's going to pick up 20 seats in

00:19:36.540 Ontario. He's going to wipe clean the Atlantic. He doesn't care. I mean, and by the way, he doesn't

00:19:41.500 need a majority. The NDP and the block give him a working majority anytime he needs one.

00:19:46.220 Do you mean he's going to pick up an extra 20 seats in Ontario? Is that what you meant by that?

00:19:51.180 Because he's going to get way over 20. Oh yeah. Sorry. Oh, sorry. Trudeau. Yeah. He's going to,

00:19:55.740 I mean, I think the conservatives are going to lose seats in Ontario, perhaps up to 20.

00:20:00.860 I think so too. I think so too. I think the Liberals are headed for 80 seats in Ontario. I

00:20:05.100 think they're headed for 25 to 30 in Quebec and they'll get 34 out of Atlantic Canada. And it

00:20:09.660 matters not what happens from Manitoba West. They don't care. They would love to pick up a seat in

00:20:16.380 Alberta, but that would only be to rub it in our faces. There's no other reason. It would not

00:20:22.700 change federal policy one iota to have Liberals elected. I mean, we have Amarjeet Sohi, who was

00:20:28.940 the natural resources minister in Trudeau's first term, who was an Edmonton MP, who's now running for

00:20:34.300 the mayor. I wouldn't vote for, I mean, Amarjeet Sohi's a very nice man. I've met him several times.

00:20:39.020 He's a very pleasant person. I wouldn't vote for him to be the head of the Rotary Club,

00:20:43.180 because he was Trudeau's natural resources minister when they started stripping the energy

00:20:49.420 business in Alberta. But that's the kind of animosity there is towards the Liberals in

00:20:56.300 Alberta. I can't see them electing an MP unless there's both splitting. And there could be because

00:21:03.340 Aaron O'Toole is simply so weak. I mean, we thought Andrew Scheer was bad.

00:21:09.020 Yeah. Yeah. I think Aaron O'Toole is worse. Yeah, you're right. You know, as I get older,

00:21:16.620 I truly believe the saying, things can always get worse. They always can get worse.

00:21:24.300 I want to ask you about something that I think is about to get worse. And I'm,

00:21:27.420 you're making me very sad. It's a very depressing conversation, but it's great to see you, my friend.

00:21:32.140 And it's, there's a couple of Senate vacancies in Alberta and Alberta for about 20, 30 years now,

00:21:41.580 actually more, has been trying in fits and starts to reform the Senate. Now that can be done

00:21:47.820 by a province unilaterally. It's in the constitution. It's a federal power to appoint senators. But

00:21:53.980 Alberta has historically had some Senate elections, sort of like a plebiscite. It's not binding,

00:21:59.660 but if you have a half a million votes, you've got some authority. And whereas the liberal prime

00:22:04.300 ministers typically ignore that, like when Harper came in, he appointed those who had been elected

00:22:10.540 in earlier elections. So Jason Kenney has scheduled Senate elections to coincide with the municipal

00:22:17.660 elections in Alberta this fall. And so far, I think there's only two people who have indicated their

00:22:23.180 intention to run a labor NDP activist named Duncan Kinney and a, uh, Aaron O'Toole, Jason Kenney lobbyist,

00:22:32.700 I think with the last name Barutz or something, I can't recall. So I, I, but I think Lauren,

00:22:39.820 if ever there's going to be a place for Western sentiment to express itself,

00:22:44.380 it would be in that Senate vote because nothing big turns on it. You talked about vote splitting,

00:22:50.860 maverick party, conservative party. Albertans, I don't think would worry about a vote split

00:22:55.580 because it's the Senate. It's a, it's a purely symbolic middle finger to Ottawa,

00:23:00.940 but it could also be a middle finger to Jason Kenney and Aaron O'Toole

00:23:05.500 by any frustrated conservative. I think if, if the right candidate were to run as an independent or an

00:23:13.980 independent conservative, they would not only beat the O'Toole candidate or the Kenney candidate,

00:23:19.900 let alone the NDP candidate, they could have a real firebrand who would be dedicated to

00:23:26.380 criticizing Ottawa and the half conservative parties too. Yeah. And you would have a bully pulpit.

00:23:34.780 Yeah. You would be selected as a Senator. It's entirely possible that before this vote is even held

00:23:40.860 in October, that Trudeau will have appointed two people to fill the vacancies in Alberta.

00:23:50.140 And it will be entirely moot, but you would still then be the, the, the Senate selection

00:23:58.700 choice of Albertans. And you would have the ability to go around the province making speeches. You would,

00:24:04.460 you would have the, uh, people would phone you, reporters would phone you and say, Hey,

00:24:09.100 what do you think? Yeah. And you would have that opportunity for about a year, year and a half,

00:24:13.020 two years to, uh, to just get, you know, ideas out there that aren't being put out by, uh, by the,

00:24:21.180 as you call them, the half conservative. Well, I, I actually, I mean, Lauren, I don't remember,

00:24:25.900 but, but, uh, a generation ago, like a quarter century ago, actually, uh, I was, uh, I worked for

00:24:32.220 the reform party and there was a provincial, uh, Senate election and Jean Chrétien did that exact

00:24:39.820 thing. Like right before the election as a big thumb in the eye to Albertans, he appointed Doug Roach

00:24:46.220 was the name of the Senator. And it was his way of saying, not only am I going to pick, I'm going to do

00:24:52.140 it in your face to show you what I think of your election. Well, still that election went ahead

00:24:57.020 and people voted. Every single person who voted, not only was choosing their choice, but was giving,

00:25:02.460 flipping the bird to Chrétien in return. So I think Trudeau will absolutely play that same playbook.

00:25:08.700 He'll appoint a really irritating Senator right before the vote, just to say, I'll show you who's

00:25:14.700 boss, but that will provoke Albertans to go out and vote in mass. Now, all we need is a conservative

00:25:20.380 candidate, Lauren. Is there anyone you can think of? Uh, no, although I was asked yesterday and I

00:25:27.020 said, no, I, well, I'm glad someone was thinking of you. I'm, that's an excellent suggestion.

00:25:32.140 I'm too comfortable in this library here to, uh, to give that up. But, but, you know,

00:25:38.460 there's a practical side to that too. The conservative party will have a large organization.

00:25:45.340 They will have money to put into this. So will the UCP. Uh, it remains to be seen whether the

00:25:51.660 People's Party or the Maverick Party or just an independent organization could come together,

00:25:57.660 find a half a million dollars to run a decent province-wide campaign with a little bit of TV.

00:26:03.500 It's certainly a quarter of a million though. Uh, and as fair or unfair as that may be, that's how

00:26:09.340 things work in place. You need to have a little bit of money. But you could get a firebrand,

00:26:13.500 a well-known Albertan who said, look, I don't care whether I get appointed or not. I'm running

00:26:19.100 to make a point. Vote for me to make the same point. We're not happy with the way things are

00:26:26.700 in federal politics right now. And I am going to be the personification of your disgruntlement.

00:26:33.420 And, uh, and I think that would work. Well, I tell you, Lauren, if I was an Albertan,

00:26:37.340 I mean, I've been out here in Toronto long enough. I don't know if I could claim to be an Albertan

00:26:42.380 anymore, even though it's in my blood. I tell you, I would consider throwing my hat in the ring.

00:26:46.300 I mean, I briefly ran for parliament, uh, almost, uh, you know, 25 years ago. I think someone has

00:26:52.140 to run who's not from the O'Toole party or the Kenny party. I think someone has to run

00:26:58.220 to do exactly what you said, to take a club and bash Ottawa and the system every single day.

00:27:03.980 And it's not going to be the NDP or Duncan Kinney. And it's not going to be this generic

00:27:09.020 conservative party registered lobbyist CBC pundit. I forget her name already. Boy, oh boy.

00:27:16.220 That I, I think that's actually an important, uh, election, even though Trudeau is going to

00:27:22.380 screw it up. I'm going to keep brainstorming for candidates. Lauren, it's great to see. I'm glad

00:27:26.700 someone else thinks you'd make a great center. I think it's true by the way, but because of the white 1.00

00:27:31.420 hair. Well, you know, if you ever do throw your hat in the ring, let us know. Cause I'm sure we'll,

00:27:35.500 uh, we'll endorse you. Although that might be the kiss of death. I don't know. But, uh,

00:27:39.580 anyhow, great to talk to you again, my friend. Likewise. Okay. There you have a Lauren Gunter, 0.98

00:27:43.660 senior columnist with the Edmonton sun. And as you can hear, I'm not the only one

00:27:48.060 who thinks he'd make an excellent Senator. If you have an idea, send me an email at

00:27:52.860 Ezra at rebel news.com. Cause we've got to get someone running. Stay with us more.

00:28:01.420 Hey, welcome back on my show last night on bill C36 Bruce writes, this is a Trojan horse bill as is

00:28:15.340 C10 so that political foes can be prosecuted, but they can't prosecute back. Well, yeah. What's so

00:28:21.900 interesting is that complain about your neighbor, how you're afraid of him section. It doesn't even

00:28:27.280 require police or prosecutors. Anyone in the country can now seek vengeance against anyone

00:28:33.440 in the country. And they just have to prove they're afraid. No, you don't have to commit a

00:28:37.600 crime to be locked under house arrest. It's terrible. If you, if you want to, uh, look through the law,

00:28:43.520 the bill rather it's at stop C36.com. You can read the bill for sale.

00:28:49.440 Maurice writes, where are the conservatives on this bill? Well, I haven't seen any,

00:28:54.480 anyone speaking out yet. I'll let you know if I do. Paul writes signed and shared. Thanks for that.

00:29:01.600 You know, I don't know exactly what we're going to do to fight bill C36. I don't know if it's going

00:29:07.680 to be passed because of course it was just introduced. Parliament's probably going to

00:29:11.200 break for an election, et cetera. So I think the bill will have to be reintroduced under the new

00:29:16.320 parliament, probably given a different bill number, but we're going to have some time to think about what

00:29:22.240 we're going to do. The first thing obviously is we have to ensure that the conservative party opposes

00:29:26.160 this bill and not in some mealy mouth way. The second thing we have to do is, uh, mobilize other

00:29:32.080 civil liberty groups, other media groups, other political opponents. But finally, I think what we're

00:29:36.720 going to have to do is go to court with the charter challenge because some of the insane censorship and

00:29:44.080 arresting people for having the wrong views, house arrest, mandatory blood and urine samples,

00:29:51.600 $70,000 fines for tweets, secret accusers, secret trials. That's not Canada. At least I hope it's not.

00:30:00.000 That's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World High

00:30:03.760 Warriors, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 26, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ New poll shows the Conservatives at a new low — and a majority looming for Justin Trudeau

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