Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Nigel Farage takes on banking cancel culture： A turning point for free speech in the UK

00:00:00.000 Tonight, the other coots, a British bank called coots, debanks Nigel Farage for having the wrong

00:00:06.640 political opinions, but he fights back. What will this mean for Canada? It's July 26,

00:00:12.200 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:16.860 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:20.140 Well, hi, everybody. I am literally on the road. Forgive me for the wind sound and the microphone

00:00:34.580 and the fact that I'm not in the studio or really on location. I'm traveling. It's funny. For the

00:00:41.460 last few days, I've been in Coots, Alberta, well, actually in Lethbridge, at the hearing of four

00:00:47.680 men who were arrested for their role in the coots blockade a year and a half ago. So coots has been

00:00:54.100 on my mind, and I've been searching the word coots online, and it shows up for the case in Alberta.

00:01:01.320 But it also has been in the news because there's a bank in the United Kingdom called coots. Same

00:01:08.680 exact spelling. In fact, I was in London about a month or two ago. I was walking by on the street,

00:01:15.020 and I saw this word coots with no explanation of what it was. I stood in front of it to take a

00:01:19.420 selfie. I thought that's sort of unusual. Coots is not a common name. I had no idea what it was at

00:01:24.200 the time. And then fairly recently, like within the last week or so, Nigel Farage, the conservative

00:01:33.100 populist politician in the UK who led the Brexit movement, led a party called UKIP, the UK Independence

00:01:40.860 Party, to a smashing success. This was, if you recall, in early 2016. He won a national referendum

00:01:49.440 for Britain to remove itself from the European Union. The European Union, of course, is sort of a

00:01:55.820 mini version of the UN just for Europe, but it had much more power. There was a European Union currency

00:02:03.120 called the euro. Luckily, the Brits didn't give up their pound. There's European Union courts and

00:02:08.660 parliaments and budgets. So it was an awful organization, sort of a little empire run out of

00:02:14.420 Brussels. And Nigel Farage fought and won, beating the entire establishment, the entire media, all the

00:02:22.220 banks, of course. Every institution and establishment in the UK was for the European Union, except Nigel

00:02:31.140 Farage, the people and the people. And he won. And it was a shockwave. And it was a premonition of what

00:02:37.280 was to come in the United States a few months later when Donald Trump upended the establishment, too.

00:02:42.940 2016 was quite a year for populist conservatives. Anyways, it took years for that Brexit to take

00:02:50.020 force. And Nigel Farage was the man of the hour. Anyway, since then, he has dabbled in politics,

00:02:55.980 including with the Brexit party. But he has found a home in one of my favorite TV networks in the

00:03:01.420 world called GB News, which is a freedom-oriented TV station in the United Kingdom that's on real TV,

00:03:09.080 as well as the internet, as well as radio. And Nigel Farage has a show there, along with other

00:03:14.560 amazing talent, including Neil Oliver, one of my favorite guys, our friend Calvin Robinson. If you've

00:03:19.460 never heard of GB News, you really should check it out. You can watch it on their app or just on

00:03:23.700 YouTube or whatever. So Nigel Farage does a great job of his show. And the other day, he, I'm going

00:03:31.500 to say he admitted something, because I imagine it was embarrassing to do so. Because I went through

00:03:38.680 something similar myself. Nigel Farage said that his bank, called Coots, had written him a letter

00:03:48.740 firing him as a client. Nigel Farage had been a client of Coots for decades, he said, in good

00:03:56.780 standing. Nigel Farage is a wealthy man. He was a successful stockbroker or other financial

00:04:02.860 officer. I don't know exactly what he did. And then he was in politics, and now he's making money in

00:04:07.320 media and giving speeches. He's not a poor man. He's had his money with Coots. He's been a customer in

00:04:12.240 good standing. And they debanked him. Here, here's how he revealed the matter on GB News. And I can

00:04:19.200 imagine it was a little bit embarrassing for him to do so, because there's an implication

00:04:23.460 that he was wrong and or morally wrong in some way. And the fact that he has been marginalized

00:04:30.080 from society, that must have hurt. Here's Nigel Farage announcing the news.

00:04:34.440 Two months ago, I received a phone call from my bank. Now, bear in mind, I'd been with the same

00:04:39.800 banking group since 1980. I've had my personal account there with that group ever since that

00:04:45.040 date. I ran my business through there when I worked in the city in the 1990s into the noughties.

00:04:51.620 And today, I have my personal and business accounts there. But two months ago, I get a phone call out

00:04:57.100 of the blue from a personal manager, a new personal manager, not one I'd ever spoken to before, who

00:05:02.760 simply says on a phone call, we are closing your accounts. I asked why. No reason was given.

00:05:08.720 I was told it would all be explained in a letter that would arrive in a couple of days' time.

00:05:14.360 The letter just told me the accounts are closing and please, by the date they gave me, make sure

00:05:19.720 you've moved to another bank. I did inquire further within the group. I sent an email to the chairman

00:05:25.980 and I got someone ring me up and say it's purely a commercial decision. Hmm, I thought.

00:05:32.320 So I've tried for two months to get another bank account and I've spoken to seven different

00:05:38.140 banks and they've all said no. And the reason is it would seem to be political. I don't know

00:05:45.040 precisely what the reason is, but there is a category of person called a PEP, a politically

00:05:49.900 exposed person. It was a term that came into our law as a result of our membership of the

00:05:55.860 European Union. I'm told that the city minister and the government are thinking about redefining

00:06:01.600 it, but that may take some time. So it could be purely political. It could be, of course,

00:06:08.680 prejudice. After all, I'm pretty used to prejudice, prejudice that comes from the establishment

00:06:14.680 against me. Um, but I also worried, I also worried very much that what was said in the

00:06:23.460 House of Commons last year by Chris Bryant, Member of Parliament for South Wales, Labour

00:06:28.060 Member, Chairman of the Privilege Committee, who used parliamentary privilege to say that

00:06:34.120 in a calendar year I'd received half a million pounds from the Kremlin. This was done under

00:06:40.700 parliamentary privilege. I appealed to the Speaker, I appealed to Mr Bryant, but there

00:06:45.240 had been no retraction whatsoever. There have also been extraordinary headlines written

00:06:51.060 about me in all of the newspapers, some suggesting that on the night of the Brexit referendum, I

00:06:56.980 engineered a coup along with the hedge funds where we pushed the pound up, shorted it, and

00:07:02.820 we all made a fortune. Well, I'm afraid that isn't true either. But whatever reason, it's

00:07:09.220 become clear to me that I cannot get a bank account. Well, what does that mean? Well, it means

00:07:15.760 that basically you've become a non-person. It's rather like living in Germany or Russia 0.77

00:07:21.480 80 years ago, or perhaps even communist China today. I wonder, are we living in communist China

00:07:28.120 today in this country? Are we akin to communist China? Love your thoughts on that, please.

00:07:33.240 Faraj at GBNews.com. Well, all of this has been quite stressful and quite difficult, because

00:07:40.580 without a bank account, you simply can't exist, you simply can't live. But what's even worse

00:07:45.460 is that over the course of the last few months, some of these ridiculous rules and closures have

00:07:51.000 been extended to my immediate family. And whilst I'm sad and annoyed about where I am, I'm absolutely

00:07:58.100 incandescent that members of my family should be singled out and targeted just because I

00:08:03.780 campaigned for and pushed a Brexit campaign for all of those years. This is truly and utterly

00:08:09.840 disgusting. But it isn't just happening to me. I know of people going back nearly 10 years

00:08:15.380 who were UKIP candidates, UKIP MEPs, others in prominent positions in the Brexit party who

00:08:22.420 also had their bank accounts closed. But none of them had the, really had the voice to speak

00:08:28.480 out. And I feel that I do. There are other people in media too, who've had their media accounts

00:08:34.240 closed down. And it seems to be all one way. It seems to be all against people who have traditionalist

00:08:40.460 or conservative views. There is something totally outrageous going on here. So I've been considering

00:08:47.180 over the course of the day my options. I've spent time talking to lawyers. I've been considering

00:08:52.020 legal action. I've been asking myself whether, frankly, it's even worth staying in this country.

00:08:57.600 I could go to one of the fintechs and I could get the ability of at least a payments mechanism.

00:09:03.660 But it's not a bank account. It doesn't have a debit card. It wouldn't pay you interest on money.

00:09:09.240 And you certainly wouldn't be able to borrow any money or get a mortgage if you wanted one in the

00:09:14.240 future. So I've been seriously considering my options. And I said earlier on today that at seven

00:09:19.820 o'clock tonight, I'd tell you what my next steps were. Well, you could not be down with a feather

00:09:24.120 because the phone rang at quarter to seven. And it was the bank that wants to close me down

00:09:29.800 completely in a few weeks time. They claim there's nothing political at all in what they're doing.

00:09:36.200 It's purely a commercial decision. And it was said to me on the phone a few minutes ago,

00:09:40.680 they could get me a personal account with another bank that is part of the same group.

00:09:45.220 But that doesn't apply to the business account. So, frankly, isn't of much use to me.

00:09:52.200 I'm used to battling against the odds. I'm used to being prejudiced against in the most

00:09:57.820 extraordinary way. And I'm generally pretty tough in fighting through these things. But just for once,

00:10:04.680 I'm really pretty thoughtful. Pretty thoughtful about whether it's actually worth living in this

00:10:09.600 country right at the moment. So what I am going to do is take some time off, take a week or two off,

00:10:14.880 maybe more, to consider what my next steps are going to be. This is going on in our country.

00:10:21.440 It's happening to plenty of people. I just happen to be one of them. But you know what? Unless this

00:10:26.840 rot is stopped, in time to come, you at home may say things on Facebook or Twitter that may result in

00:10:33.540 you losing your bank accounts, too. That, I think, is how scary this whole thing is.

00:10:39.320 Now, Coots is a very fancy bank. I'm told it's the bank that Queen Elizabeth herself used to bank

00:10:45.400 with. They have a one million pound minimum, they say, to invest there. That's quite something.

00:10:52.680 The hilarious thing is that their ad campaign features young kids and teenagers, none of whom

00:10:58.080 would have a million pounds to invest. It's sort of weird that way. Coots is part of the NatWest

00:11:03.880 banking group that got into financial trouble and had to be bailed out by the government, which still

00:11:09.080 has a 40% stake in them. So it's doubly wrong that a bank that is 40% owned by the government

00:11:16.780 is now firing clients for having the wrong political views. Now, the bank didn't talk about

00:11:26.900 Nigel Farage's policies because that would be illegal. A bank cannot blab about your confidential

00:11:33.200 banking matters. It's sort of like a doctor can't go on TV and talk about your ailments. It's

00:11:38.620 private. But the BBC, the state broadcaster over there, ran a story saying their sources

00:11:45.500 said the real reason Nigel Farage was debanked had nothing to do with his politics, but rather

00:11:51.880 it was because Nigel Farage didn't have enough money. And that was posted in the BBC. But

00:12:00.500 it was a lie. Now, the world didn't know that. And we had two competing stories. You had Nigel

00:12:05.180 Farage, who was the advocate, the protagonist of the story. And then you had the state broadcaster

00:12:12.620 saying, no, no, no, we know the truth. That's a lie. Well, there goes Nigel again. But Nigel

00:12:20.240 says he had the money, I believe. Remember, this is a woke bank. They're deep into environmentalism,

00:12:27.340 deep into climate change. They're trying to get their DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion stats

00:12:34.860 up. And you could tell they sort of hate Nigel Farage by nature. But in the United Kingdom,

00:12:43.820 they have a law that allows people to request internal records about themselves from any

00:12:49.920 institutions. It's sort of like our access to information laws in Canada, except it applies

00:12:55.660 to other agencies too. So Nigel managed to get all the internal documents, including a lengthy

00:13:02.400 report on his political hygiene. Nigel Farage managed to get the internal bank report that basically

00:13:11.140 condemned him, unpersoned him, said he was not worthy of having a bank account at Coutts.

00:13:18.180 Here, take a look for yourself.

00:13:20.240 So I put in what's called a subject access request to Coutts, the bank, who decided they

00:13:25.800 wanted to close me out. I wanted to find out why. What was the reasoning behind them closing

00:13:31.000 the account? Now, as you know, they had briefed the BBC that it was to do with lack of funds and

00:13:37.080 nothing else. Well, here's the document. It is an incredible 40 pages. It reads rather

00:13:44.920 like a brief that you'd give to a barrister ahead of a serious criminal trial. I mean,

00:13:51.900 from the tone of this document, I must be one of the worst human beings ever to have inhabited

00:13:56.720 this planet. But I guess if you were, you know, upper middle class, wealthy London metropolitan

00:14:04.400 elite, then that's perhaps how you would view me. Although quite what this has to do with

00:14:10.120 banking and commerce, I don't really know. Let me give you just a few pointers as to what's

00:14:16.820 in this document. Word search is really interesting. Brexit is mentioned 30 times. Well, I think

00:14:24.940 it's quite very easy to understand that. I don't think the globalist establishment, I don't

00:14:29.240 think the corporates ever forgave anybody directly involved in the Brexit movement. They didn't

00:14:36.640 accept the result of the referendum, and I guess they never ever will. Russia is mentioned 22 times

00:14:43.640 with links to a whole series of articles that appeared in The Guardian and elsewhere attempting

00:14:50.060 to link myself and Aaron Banks to Russia and indeed to Russian funding. All of that has been

00:14:57.180 disproved, with Aaron Banks winning his court case, his libel action against Carol Cabweller,

00:15:03.900 the journalist involved, who wrote these things. But that's fine. All these people do is take every

00:15:11.120 negative press article about me they possibly can and collate it in this document. Twice in this

00:15:17.180 document, Sir Chris Bryan is mentioned. I hinted a couple of weeks ago, I thought this could be behind

00:15:22.060 it. And sure enough, twice, the accusation made under parliamentary privilege that I'd received

00:15:28.660 over half a million quid in one year from the Kremlin is mentioned in this document and constitutes

00:15:35.160 quite a big part of their conclusions. Donald Trump, well, of course, he gets a mention 14 times.

00:15:41.000 Donald Trump is mentioned. The fact that I support Donald Trump is again, part of this charge sheet.

00:15:48.880 Racist is mentioned nine times, well, I thought it might be. And politically exposed person five times.

00:15:56.440 Let me just give you one or two quotes from this that might be instructed.

00:16:02.020 The client's financial position is now sufficient to retain on a commercial basis. The decision to close

00:16:10.020 me down was made at a meeting on November the 17th last year on the Wealth Reputational Risk Committee.

00:16:18.400 They got together and decided that once the small mortgage I had with them expired in 2023, they would

00:16:25.240 get rid of me, even though I met the financial criteria on a commercial basis, contrary to what

00:16:32.780 was spun to the BBC. They haven't told the truth on this, and I'm pretty blooming angry about it.

00:16:38.340 But now we get into what this report's really all about. One, it is accepted that no criminal convictions

00:16:47.520 have resulted. Gosh, they sound disappointed, don't they? Commentary and behaviours that do not align

00:16:55.300 with the bank's purpose and values have been demonstrated. So the bank has a series of values.

00:17:04.200 The bank has a series of political positions. And as for purpose, well, I thought the purpose

00:17:12.180 of companies was to act ethically, yes, of course, but to return to their shareholders dividends.

00:17:20.580 And in this case, folks, do you know who the shareholders are? It's you and me. This bank is part

00:17:26.100 of the RBS group. It's 38.6% owned by us because we bailed them out in 2008 after their greed and

00:17:34.800 short-sighted stupidity. We are the shareholders, but they're more bothered. They're more bothered

00:17:41.040 about putting up rainbow flags and being popular at dinner parties in Chelsea than they are about

00:17:48.000 actually making money. When considering our stance, our stance, this is the bank stance,

00:17:55.880 specifically on ESG, diversity and inclusion, the comments and articles are not in line with our

00:18:02.340 views or our purpose. That word purpose, coming back again. I go on. He is seen as xenophobic and

00:18:10.480 racist. Oh, charming. That's nice, isn't it? That really is lovely. Thank you so very much indeed for

00:18:15.860 that. And here's the final one. In making the decision, risk factors, including accusations

00:18:23.080 of links to Russia and controversial public statements, which are felt to conflict with

00:18:29.200 the bank's purpose. So let's be clear. The decision to get rid of me wasn't financial. It was done

00:18:36.060 because somehow I don't fit with their values. They were bailed out by us. They have a duty to run

00:18:42.780 at a profit as a commercial business. But no, they are to be the moral guardians of all. And that's

00:18:47.840 because the march through the public and private corporate sectors of left-wing institutions who

00:18:54.920 want to change the way the world is, organisations like Stonewall has led us exactly to where we are.

00:19:02.680 And I guess it's not just coups, because I've been refused by 10 other banks. I will not get a UK

00:19:08.520 bank account. That is done, dusted over. Mercifully, in the modern world, there are fintech solutions

00:19:14.560 where I can receive and pay money. I won't be able to earn interest on that money. I won't be able to

00:19:18.980 borrow money. It won't be a full bank account, but I will be able to exist and survive. So is this all

00:19:24.420 about me? No. Since I broke this story, the number of people who've been in touch with me, who've been

00:19:31.620 summarily closed down by the banks, because you see, the banks don't have to give any explanation.

00:19:36.900 There's something called the tipping off rule, which means they don't have to tell you,

00:19:40.780 for example, if the police are investigating your affairs. I'm not sure they've ever been

00:19:45.560 challenged fully, publicly, over closure of bank accounts the way that I've done. The number of

00:19:51.140 people running little businesses, window cleaners, taking cash. No, we don't want your business anymore

00:19:54.940 as we move towards a cashless control society. Worst of all is this. Above our banks are a series of

00:20:04.340 international agencies. The biggest of them be a firm being called Refinitiv. Banks go to that firm

00:20:11.340 to see what our credit worthiness is, whether we are an acceptable risk to lend money to, for example.

00:20:17.720 Now, I don't blame the banks for protecting themselves, but Refinitiv are now going to work

00:20:23.120 with banks so they'll be able to check your social media posts. What has happened to me can very soon

00:20:32.080 happen to you. And if it does, we start to move towards a China-style social credit system where

00:20:39.240 our freedoms are gone. Our liberty is gone. Our ability to exist as ordinary human beings is gone

00:20:44.380 unless we obey the accepted wisdom of the day. This is completely against free speech,

00:20:51.380 completely against liberty, completely against democracy. And whilst I am absolutely fuming,

00:20:57.280 at least with this document, I have got the truth.

00:21:00.260 The dossier proved that the BBC was lying, or at least that the BBC was lied to. Nigel Farage

00:21:07.200 had the money to qualify to be Ian Coutts. It was the Coutts Internal Political Hygiene Committee

00:21:14.120 that stabbed him in the back. And the BBC reporter had participated in the lie. And then it came out

00:21:21.000 that the night before the BBC ran that story, the reporter at the BBC had had dinner with the CEO of the

00:21:31.420 Bank, Alison Rose, who obviously leaked that banking smear or lied to the BBC. This was incredible.

00:21:43.640 Not only did the bank fire Nigel Farage for plenum reasons, not only did they work up a dossier against him,

00:21:50.360 but then they leaked internal talking points to the BBC that ran with it. The bank was engaging in a smear.

00:21:58.980 And although the data they released to the BBC was obviously false, they were disparaging their own

00:22:06.560 client, violating, surely, laws of banking privacy. Now, obviously, Nigel Farage had the support of

00:22:14.760 GB News. And all of GB News started to weigh in on the subject. That was very powerful, because GB News

00:22:20.780 is growing in popularity. Here's a sample of some of the videos that they did.

00:22:25.360 GB News, do you think Nigel Farage should have a bank account with codes?

00:22:28.980 Do you think it's bad that Coutts have been briefing the BBC and FT?

00:22:32.500 GB News, do you think it's right that Nigel Farage doesn't have an account with Coutts?

00:22:35.820 Do you think Nigel Farage should have a bank account with Coutts?

00:22:38.500 Do you think Nigel Farage should have a bank account with Coutts?

00:22:41.260 Do you think it's right that Coutts have been briefing the press?

00:22:43.900 Are you aware of their slave trade links?

00:22:46.620 Thank you.

00:22:47.360 GB News, do you think Nigel Farage should have a bank account with Coutts?

00:22:50.220 Hi. GB News, do you think Nigel Farage should have a bank account with Coutts?

00:22:54.520 Do you think it's right that Coutts have been briefing the BBC and FT?

00:22:57.320 I bank it, I don't work it.

00:22:59.320 I'm not working.

00:23:01.320 Do you think that Nigel Farage should have a bank account with Cootes?

00:23:05.320 I don't have an opinion on that.

00:23:07.320 Do you work for Cootes?

00:23:09.320 I don't have an opinion on it, but thank you.

00:23:11.320 GB News, do you think that Nigel Farage should have a bank account with Cootes?

00:23:15.320 Do you think it's right that Cootes have been briefing the press on Nigel Farage's personal bank information?

00:23:22.320 I have no idea at all. I'm not Cootes. 1.00

00:23:25.320 Thank you.

00:23:29.320 Are you aware of Cootes' slave trade links?

00:23:32.320 Do you think Nigel Farage should have a bank account with Cootes?

00:23:37.320 Any comment on that?

00:23:39.320 Thank you.

00:23:40.320 Do you think it's right that they've cancelled his bank account?

00:23:43.320 Thank you.

00:23:44.320 The thing is, it's a wider question.

00:23:46.320 We have cultural Marxism embedded in all of our institutions now.

00:23:51.320 This is the long march through the institutions that has been happening since the 60s.

00:23:55.320 It started with educational institutions, then political and media institutions.

00:24:00.320 Now it's got to the banking institutions.

00:24:03.320 So they are fully on board with the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.

00:24:09.320 But the thing is, it's not inclusive to people like Nigel Farage and thousands of other people who don't have the right view.

00:24:16.320 So I would support a bank that says we are not going to follow the equality, diversity, inclusion and environmental social governance, ESG program that they've got going on.

00:24:27.320 We need something like that.

00:24:28.320 But here's where things got interesting from my point of view.

00:24:31.320 And here's what was very surprising to me.

00:24:34.320 Nigel Farage is a counter-establishment figure, an anti-establishment figure.

00:24:39.320 In a sense, he's partly established.

00:24:41.320 He led a political party.

00:24:42.320 He won a campaign.

00:24:43.320 He's on TV.

00:24:44.320 But he is, I don't know if Maxime Bernier would be the equivalent because Maxime Bernier did not win a big electoral battle.

00:24:52.320 He would be more establishment than Bernier, more establishment than Preston Manning, but he's certainly an insurgent.

00:24:58.320 And a lot of people in the establishment hate Nigel Farage.

00:25:02.320 They hate what he achieved and they hate his style.

00:25:05.320 But here's what became incredible from my mind is various newspapers across the political spectrum in the UK, various media channels, various commentators took Nigel Farage's side in the map.

00:25:18.320 Some of them prefaced their remarks by saying, well, I don't like Nigel, but, or whatever you think of Nigel, let me tell you.

00:25:27.320 But even with that disclaimer, they came to his aid.

00:25:30.320 I guess they could see that if you can debank Nigel Farage for his political friends, you can debank anybody.

00:25:37.320 And the pressure on the bank, the bank surely would have been able to withstand pressure just from Nigel Farage and even just from GV News.

00:25:46.320 But when the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail and other huge newspapers, both the tabloids and the respectable broadsheets started literally doing front page stories about this, the pressure on the bank ramped up.

00:26:01.320 And the bank was in trouble because they had obviously broken the law by disparaging their client and lying about him and tipping off the BBC.

00:26:10.320 The BBC, by the way, ran an apology saying they were misled by their source.

00:26:16.320 Take a look at this.

00:26:17.320 Good evening. I told the world about three weeks ago that Cootes had closed my business and my personal accounts and had not given any reason whatsoever.

00:26:27.320 I also said that I'd struggled to open bank accounts literally anywhere else.

00:26:32.320 But this began to really matter on the 4th of July when the BBC ran this headline.

00:26:41.320 Now, it came from their business editor, Simon Jack, Nigel Farage bank account shut for falling below the wealth limit, which led, of course, to much hilarity among political commentators in the media.

00:26:53.320 And of course, me saying the whole thing was political was clearly some sort of crackpot conspiracy.

00:26:58.320 But once I got my subject access request back from Cootes and goodness me, I didn't really expect 36 pages of bile, vitriol and actually quite a lot of it, frankly, just outright libelous.

00:27:11.320 The only way that I could disprove the BBC story was to publish it in full.

00:27:18.320 And there are many things in that report I did not want to put into the public domain, so vile were they, but I had to do it.

00:27:26.320 And this all emerged last Thursday when, of course, I got a letter of apology from Dame Alison Rose, who is the CEO of the entire NatWest group.

00:27:37.320 I felt that the BBC, frankly, were being a little bit slow in correcting the story and changing the headline.

00:27:46.320 And I thought the hurt the story had caused me was such that actually I really, really, really wanted an apology.

00:27:54.320 Well, BBC apologies are very, very rare. They only happen once every few years.

00:27:59.320 But today I got that apology and it began with Simon Jack, the BBC's business editor.

00:28:06.320 And he says the information on which we based our reporting on Nigel Farage and his bank accounts came from a trusted and senior source.

00:28:13.320 Hmm. Interesting. However, the information turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate.

00:28:18.320 Therefore, I would like to apologise to Mr Farage.

00:28:22.320 On top of that, I got a letter this afternoon, which I was pleased to get, and it came from Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs.

00:28:33.320 And I'm going to put the letter up on your screen now.

00:28:36.320 And let's go through what is significant.

00:28:39.320 She made very, very clear that it repeated that the information turned out to be inaccurate.

00:28:46.320 And at the bottom of that paragraph, she says, I would therefore like to apologise to you on behalf of BBC News.

00:28:54.320 Thank you. Thank you.

00:28:56.320 Thank you, Simon Jack.

00:28:57.320 Thank you, Deborah Turness.

00:28:59.320 I know some will say it took too long, but thank you.

00:29:02.320 A fulsome apology from the BBC is not something that happens very often.

00:29:07.320 I'm delighted to get it.

00:29:09.320 But when we go into the detail of this letter, it's really, really interesting.

00:29:13.320 Because, again, she repeats that a senior and trusted source had put this information out.

00:29:20.320 But what was really interesting, and what I learned from this letter, was that, she says, we went back to the source to check they were happy for us to publish the information.

00:29:32.320 They said that they were.

00:29:35.320 Now, the BBC have apologised.

00:29:37.320 They are now out of it.

00:29:39.320 Which points the finger back to Cootes Aminat West Banking Group.

00:29:45.320 Well, things started to pile up.

00:29:47.320 The great political interrogator, Andrew Neal, started publishing lists of questions that he felt that the bank had to answer.

00:29:57.320 And Andrew Neal, there is no equivalent to him in Canada.

00:30:00.320 He would be sort of like Peter Mansbridge.

00:30:02.320 But if Peter Mansbridge was universally respected by left and right alike as an interrogative journalist.

00:30:09.320 Andrew Neal, probably the most senior journalist in all of the United Kingdom, started really putting specific questions to the bank, which clammed up.

00:30:19.320 It was incredible to watch the entire journalistic community ask tough questions of the most prestigious bank in the UK.

00:30:27.320 And of Alison Rose, who incredibly was making five million pounds a year, even though the bank was 40 percent owned by the government.

00:30:36.320 Now, Alison Rose put out a non apology apology.

00:30:41.320 Here it is.

00:30:42.320 And she thought this would be enough.

00:30:44.320 But.

00:30:45.320 She didn't say the Cootes would take Nigel Farage back and she didn't admit to do any doing anything wrong.

00:30:51.320 It wasn't enough.

00:30:53.320 The board of directors had an emergency meeting and they said, we stand by Alison Rose.

00:30:59.320 Alas, she later resigned.

00:31:01.320 Can that board stay the board?

00:31:04.320 If they said they had confidence in her.

00:31:07.320 But she obviously broke the banking laws and obviously felt she had to resign. 1.00

00:31:11.320 During this whole process, Facebook groups popped up of other people saying they were debanked.

00:31:17.320 Other political candidates said they were debanked.

00:31:20.320 Ten thousand people came forward from various banks saying it was happening to them.

00:31:25.320 And soon you started to see members of parliament and even cabinet ministers tweeting their support for Nigel condemning the bank.

00:31:32.320 How long could that last?

00:31:34.320 And then the prime minister himself, Rishi Sundak, tweeted the same thing.

00:31:39.320 And then just today, the leader of the Labor Party, who must hate Nigel Farage with every fiber of his body, tweeted the same thing.

00:31:49.320 That whatever you think of Nigel Farage, it is wrong to have a political hygiene test for banking.

00:31:56.320 This is the most astonishing thing I've ever seen.

00:31:58.320 And it's not even done yet.

00:32:00.320 I think by the time this is done, the entire board of the bank will be sacked.

00:32:04.320 It's unthinkable in Canada that a bank CEO quits or is fired or pushed her a bit of that.

00:32:11.320 Now, this is happening in Canada, too.

00:32:13.320 As you might recall, Rebel News applied for a mortgage we were approved by the Royal Bank of Canada, their Calgary branch.

00:32:19.320 They told me that.

00:32:21.320 But then their national office said that we failed their political hygiene test.

00:32:26.320 Here's my recording of the Calgary mortgage officers telling me that I knew something was fishy.

00:32:33.320 I knew I had one chance to capture it.

00:32:35.320 Remember this?

00:32:36.320 The Royal Bank, with whom I personally banked for my own entire adult life, said my credit was fine, but they wouldn't give us the mortgage for political reasons.

00:32:45.320 Remember this?

00:32:46.320 It's just about the nature of the business altogether.

00:32:50.320 Because the bank has been, I'll be blunt with you, the bank has been trying to pry away from certain clients where they're kind of out there in the media and very strong opinionated, which is your business in a way.

00:33:08.320 So we're just clearing some internal hurdles to make sure that the bank is okay to kind of onboard you as a client internally.

00:33:19.320 Certainly, my hands are tied as well.

00:33:21.320 I tried defending it.

00:33:23.320 We went back and forth, but that was their decision.

00:33:27.320 So what's the difference?

00:33:29.320 Why is Canada fine with debanking people?

00:33:32.320 Even our government debanked over 200 people during the trucker convoy.

00:33:36.320 Why did the entire British political media establishment stand by Nigel Farage?

00:33:41.320 But in Canada, there's a general shrug, not just in my case, but of the 200 people who were debanked because they were trucker convoy supporters.

00:33:48.320 I think there's a few reasons for that.

00:33:50.320 First of all, our banks are few in number, and they're completely colonized by the government, highly regulated.

00:33:56.320 And there's sort of a revolving door between our banks and the government.

00:34:00.320 So I think they're really effectively government agencies.

00:34:03.320 They're highly political.

00:34:04.320 I think cancel culture is really the Canadian way, a passive, aggressive way of silencing people without debating them.

00:34:11.320 I think also our media has been undermined and colonized by Justin Trudeau and his subsidies.

00:34:21.320 Whereas in the UK, the British press, especially the newspapers are still very independent.

00:34:26.320 I think Nigel Farage fighting back against the Coots Bank political blacklist and the fact that other media and other politicians got on board is one of the most significant pushbacks against cancel culture in years.

00:34:44.320 Perhaps even eclipsing Jordan Peterson resisting the attempt to silence him.

00:34:51.320 In fact, I think it is much more important because it goes to these banking institutions.

00:34:55.320 Who would have thought that when Coots Bank badmouth and blacklisted Nigel Farage that they would actually be firing their own CEO?

00:35:04.320 And it's not done yet.

00:35:05.320 We have this debanking problem in Canada.

00:35:09.320 Not just the truckers, but I bet there are thousands of people who are being debanked like they are in the UK.

00:35:16.320 I understand that there is consideration in the British Parliament to bring in a law banning this political test for banking.

00:35:24.320 I hope that happens and I hope that becomes the new norm for banking and it applies to banks here.

00:35:30.320 It's a very exciting story and it's a victory and it's just fascinating to me that it all happens at a place called Coots.

00:35:39.320 That's my monologue for today. I am traveling so a colleague of mine will provide the guest interview for today.

00:35:47.320 Thanks for your patience as I'm on the road.

00:35:49.320 And I was on the road in Hungary, Romania before that, but I'll be back home tomorrow.

00:35:54.320 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Toronto.

00:36:05.320 And folks, I'm standing near North York Centre subway station.

00:36:10.320 This was the beginning of a shocking story.

00:36:14.320 Indeed, it shocked the entire city.

00:36:16.320 It shocked the world thanks to a video going viral.

00:36:19.320 I am with the victim depicted in that video.

00:36:22.320 That would be Derek Dykoff.

00:36:24.320 And before we get into his story and show you the now viral footage,

00:36:29.320 I want to ask a favor of you.

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00:36:36.320 That's fixourcities.com.

00:36:39.320 So many wonderful cities in our great dominion are just devolving into hell holes and we have to take a stand.

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00:36:53.320 Now, before I get into the nitty gritty with what happened to Derek last month,

00:36:57.320 let's throw to that now viral YouTube video.

00:37:01.320 I caution you.

00:37:02.320 It is very disturbing.

00:37:04.320 It is very violent.

00:37:06.320 It is disgraceful.

00:37:08.320 But check out the video evidence of what happened to Derek on a TTC subway car that day.

00:37:15.320 You can't do sh** motherfucker.

00:37:27.320 You can't do sh**.

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00:37:46.320 He's coming inap!

00:37:48.320 He's giving him!

00:37:50.320 He's giving him!

00:37:51.320 He's giving him!

00:37:52.320 He's giving him!

00:37:54.320 Oh man!

00:37:55.320 Oh man!

00:37:58.320 oh

00:38:19.120 oh no we get up

00:38:28.320 oh my god i can't get off the train

00:38:42.320 doors will open on the left

00:38:58.320 it's not a long time

00:39:10.320 sorry we gotta get

00:39:12.320 now derek first of all thank you

00:39:34.320 so much for your time thank you for joining

00:39:36.320 us before we get into

00:39:38.320 deconstructing

00:39:40.320 that incident i want to ask you

00:39:42.320 you were just released from hospital

00:39:44.320 a few days ago i see

00:39:46.320 the extent of your injuries

00:39:48.320 how is your recovery coming

00:39:50.320 well you know i'm happy

00:39:52.320 to be alive i mean i'm in a bit of

00:39:54.320 pain i'm not really on any pain meds

00:39:56.320 i'm not really much of a pill guy

00:39:58.320 um everything is pretty much

00:40:00.320 feeling good around my lungs are good

00:40:02.320 uh but this uh this is going to be a while

00:40:04.320 to heal the severed nerve in my pinky

00:40:06.320 and ring finger

00:40:08.320 and that's important because you are a construction

00:40:10.320 worker you are a musician

00:40:12.320 you need your

00:40:14.320 arms and hands to be in

00:40:16.320 top function don't you

00:40:18.320 oh no absolutely i'm also an amateur arm wrestler

00:40:20.320 i mean my hands are my life and uh

00:40:22.320 yeah without this i can't do what i love

00:40:24.320 and i can't make a living

00:40:26.320 a little back to analyzing the video

00:40:28.320 we just took a look at i know

00:40:30.320 there must have been some

00:40:32.320 storyline leading

00:40:34.320 up to the point where you

00:40:36.320 throw that punch at the 1.00

00:40:38.320 assailant can you tell us what

00:40:40.320 happened just before

00:40:42.320 the video begins yep so i

00:40:44.320 entered the subway here at north york center i was on my

00:40:46.320 way to the beach um he got on at

00:40:48.320 lawrence station uh i was facing

00:40:50.320 the front of the train so i saw him walk

00:40:52.320 on to my left and he looked up and down

00:40:54.320 he looked me right in the eyes and started to walk right

00:40:56.320 towards me he was uh playing

00:40:58.320 rap music on his cell phone holding it right to his

00:41:00.320 ear at full blast it was quite a loud

00:41:02.320 phone very trebly and annoying

00:41:04.320 and he sat right behind me

00:41:06.320 and it was playing right in my ear so

00:41:08.320 i just turned and i said hey man do you mind turning

00:41:10.320 that off you're not supposed to be playing that on

00:41:12.320 the subway and i don't think the people around

00:41:14.320 really appreciate it and

00:41:16.320 he ignored me at first so i asked

00:41:18.320 him again and he basically said i can't

00:41:20.320 hear you so i said well

00:41:22.320 maybe if you turned it down you could right i'm just trying to have a

00:41:24.320 dialogue with him i can tell he's being you know

00:41:26.320 trying to be a tough guy

00:41:28.320 i felt like he was trying to antagonize me

00:41:30.320 right off the bat just for the sake that he met eyes

00:41:32.320 with me as he walked up and then sat directly behind me

00:41:34.320 so uh

00:41:36.320 i just went on to ask him again look buddy

00:41:38.320 there's rules against this stuff on

00:41:40.320 the train you're not supposed to be playing it

00:41:42.320 would you turn it off and

00:41:44.320 he looked at me and he said suck your mom 1.00

00:41:46.320 my mom actually just passed away in may

00:41:48.320 may 21st she was my last surviving close

00:41:50.320 family member it was a really

00:41:52.320 hard for me and i had just finished

00:41:54.320 taking care of all the

00:41:56.320 stuff in terms of

00:41:58.320 cremation and clearing out her apartment 0.84

00:42:00.320 it was one of my first days i finally

00:42:02.320 had some freedom actually

00:42:04.320 july 4th is when i had finished with all those things and this occurred

00:42:06.320 on july 6th so that really

00:42:08.320 that hit me hard and i said

00:42:10.320 to him what and he repeated it

00:42:12.320 and the both times he said it he just gave me the

00:42:14.320 biggest most sinister grin you've ever seen

00:42:16.320 can you explain why

00:42:18.320 you found it necessary to slug

00:42:20.320 him so after he said suck your mom 1.00

00:42:22.320 twice i knew wow this guy's really trying to

00:42:24.320 instigate a fight here i didn't feel safe

00:42:26.320 um and so i stood up to take

00:42:28.320 a look at him and as i looked his hands were reaching

00:42:30.320 into his pockets so at that

00:42:32.320 point i decided do i let him pull out

00:42:34.320 whatever he's got who knows if it was a gun or

00:42:36.320 a knife or whatever or do i start trying to defend myself

00:42:38.320 before i get injured

00:42:40.320 so i did i threw the first punches and

00:42:42.320 uh at first he pulled his hands out and

00:42:44.320 didn't have a knife in his hand so i thought he was bluffing

00:42:46.320 he has no knife so i gave him

00:42:48.320 some space so we could have a fair fight

00:42:50.320 and sure enough that's when he pulled out the knife

00:42:52.320 wow uh is that

00:42:54.320 a regrettable moment in the incident

00:42:56.320 the fact that you backed off

00:42:58.320 allowing him to arm himself

00:43:00.320 absolutely i should have just stayed on

00:43:02.320 him the whole thing is the canadian law system

00:43:04.320 is is atrocious when it comes to self

00:43:06.320 defense or anything like that so you know

00:43:08.320 i have knockout power but i didn't want to use

00:43:10.320 it because what if i killed him right

00:43:12.320 i don't want to go to jail so i was kind of just

00:43:14.320 trying to pepper him until the train would come to

00:43:16.320 the next station and i could run out

00:43:18.320 and derrick um

00:43:20.320 the fight turns from a fist fight

00:43:22.320 into a knife fight although you're not

00:43:24.320 armed with a knife and he

00:43:26.320 stabs you several

00:43:28.320 times what were the

00:43:30.320 extent of those stabbing injuries

00:43:32.320 um yeah so i mean uh one of the

00:43:34.320 first ones i got probably during throwing a

00:43:36.320 punch he must have raised the knife and

00:43:38.320 he cut my forearm really deep it was i'd say

00:43:40.320 it was about two inches deep two inches wide i could see

00:43:42.320 right through my forearm to the ground it was a

00:43:44.320 gaping wound uh he severed

00:43:46.320 my nerve in my forearm so uh

00:43:48.320 once i saw that i knew i can't continue

00:43:50.320 fighting um also he had stabbed

00:43:52.320 me in my uh back of my

00:43:54.320 left lung which you can see in the video

00:43:56.320 the blood start to soak through my shirt at that point

00:43:58.320 i still didn't even know i'd been stabbed i thought it was just a really

00:44:00.320 hard punch but uh then i saw

00:44:02.320 the knife in his hand so i uh decided well i

00:44:04.320 can't continue i tried to run

00:44:06.320 uh to the driver hopefully hoping that

00:44:08.320 he would open the door let me in maybe he had seen what was

00:44:10.320 happening on the cameras but he was right on my

00:44:12.320 ass so uh i understand why the driver didn't

00:44:14.320 open it for his own safety sake and

00:44:16.320 uh when he caught up he had stabbed me several more times

00:44:18.320 and i just remember looking at my left

00:44:20.320 rib and there was two stab wounds and blood

00:44:22.320 was just pouring out like a fountain so

00:44:24.320 i had to beg beg for somebody to put

00:44:26.320 pressure on my wound um there was

00:44:28.320 one gentleman um looked to be a white male

00:44:30.320 brown hair um you know

00:44:32.320 about my age i'm 37

00:44:34.320 uh and he was quite hesitant uh he was like i don't know

00:44:36.320 what to do and i just said put pressure pressure he's like i don't

00:44:38.320 have anything i actually have to take off my own

00:44:40.320 t-shirt while i'm bleeding out give it to him

00:44:42.320 uh and he wasn't really putting pressure at

00:44:44.320 all and i'm like harder harder harder right and then

00:44:46.320 at that point i started to go to the ground

00:44:48.320 i didn't know but i actually had two collapsed

00:44:50.320 lungs oh uh because

00:44:52.320 uh yeah he punctured both my lungs

00:44:54.320 so um i was just on the ground trying to breathe for my

00:44:56.320 life and eventually and i felt so dehydrated

00:44:58.320 you wouldn't believe how dehydrated you get when you lose that much

00:45:00.320 blood worst dehydration feeling you could

00:45:02.320 imagine and i started to beg for water

00:45:04.320 someone did come with a bottle of aquafina

00:45:06.320 uh and poured water and i was able

00:45:08.320 to stick my tongue out and just get a

00:45:10.320 it was the sweetest taste in the world

00:45:12.320 and meanwhile

00:45:14.320 uh moses is casually

00:45:16.320 walking off the subway

00:45:18.320 train at the next stop

00:45:20.320 uh

00:45:22.320 insult to injury he stole your backpack

00:45:24.320 yeah so after he stabbed me i'm sure he thought

00:45:26.320 i was gonna die with all the blood pouring out of

00:45:28.320 me so once he figured he finished me off he walked back

00:45:30.320 casually took my bag and walked off the train with

00:45:32.320 it and you know i can't state this

00:45:34.320 um

00:45:36.320 any more vehemently

00:45:38.320 derek this is a career criminal

00:45:40.320 as i understand it

00:45:42.320 out on bail

00:45:44.320 he was supposed to be on that very day

00:45:46.320 going to milton

00:45:48.320 uh for a court hearing obviously

00:45:50.320 he had no intention

00:45:52.320 on doing that

00:45:54.320 why is a reprobate

00:45:56.320 like him

00:45:58.320 a free man in the first place

00:46:00.320 he doesn't take our legal system seriously i mean he's clearly

00:46:02.320 gotten away with potentially murder a million times

00:46:04.320 before and uh he feels very

00:46:06.320 comfortable going out in broad daylight i mean this

00:46:08.320 was at noon hour on a train with tons of witnesses

00:46:10.320 tons of cameras and he has no

00:46:12.320 regard at all for

00:46:14.320 anything despicable i think you're right

00:46:16.320 by the way now i guess the

00:46:18.320 paramedics show up finally

00:46:20.320 and uh tell us what happens then

00:46:22.320 yeah so as i'm on the ground bleeding out

00:46:24.320 uh someone

00:46:26.320 some woman came who said she was a doctor or a nurse

00:46:28.320 she's like well you're gonna be okay with your name i could barely answer

00:46:30.320 your questions

00:46:32.320 uh but i did just to let her know i'm not dead

00:46:34.320 and uh i'm still coherent

00:46:36.320 and she uh she basically just comforted me saying

00:46:38.320 paramedics are on the way

00:46:40.320 the driver also came out and said paramedics are on the way

00:46:42.320 and uh i just every breath in

00:46:44.320 was the hardest thing i've ever done

00:46:46.320 and i just continued to fight to breathe

00:46:48.320 and paramedics showed up just in time

00:46:50.320 you're rushed to sunnybrook hospital

00:46:52.320 you are essentially

00:46:54.320 re-victimized what happened

00:46:56.320 there uh i had i had to fight

00:46:58.320 for my life in the hospital actually i mean i

00:47:00.320 gotta thank the paramedics and the hospital

00:47:02.320 for saving me because they did

00:47:04.320 but there were certain nurses there expressing

00:47:06.320 their opinions that i was the

00:47:08.320 um one in the wrong i had attacked this guy

00:47:10.320 for no reason and he defended himself with a

00:47:12.320 knife i had a nurse michelle's actually her name 1.00

00:47:14.320 a blonde with glasses a white 1.00

00:47:16.320 quite slim maybe about my age

00:47:18.320 and she was outside my room as i'm

00:47:20.320 you know coming to explaining to another colleague

00:47:22.320 how yeah so basically he just started beating

00:47:24.320 up on this guy for no reason and he had to pull

00:47:26.320 out a knife to defend himself and a lot of them there

00:47:28.320 were against me you could tell i mean the first time

00:47:30.320 i woke up in the hospital was i was

00:47:32.320 being choked by a suction tube

00:47:34.320 because they put the tube down your lungs to breathe

00:47:36.320 and then they put a suction tube in your in your mouth

00:47:38.320 so they had placed that tube right on the back of my throat

00:47:40.320 and that's what had woke me up is that i couldn't breathe

00:47:42.320 and i woke up saying i can't breathe you gotta move

00:47:44.320 it you gotta move it and i was about to die

00:47:46.320 and they're saying no it's fine whatever and i had six

00:47:48.320 um you know surgeons nurses

00:47:50.320 holding me down and i had to rip 0.99

00:47:52.320 up out of all of their grips

00:47:54.320 and pull it right out of my mouth one of the things

00:47:56.320 was i don't eat microwave food right uh the first

00:47:58.320 day i was there they gave me a meal with fish

00:48:00.320 and my friend had said how that fish looks kind of

00:48:02.320 fishy probably don't want to eat that 1.00

00:48:04.320 so i i said hey can i get the veggie meals

00:48:06.320 from now on they said sure i didn't know the veggie meals

00:48:08.320 are outsourced they explained to me later so they're all

00:48:10.320 microwaved right i don't eat out of a microwave

00:48:12.320 so i kept turning the food away so they

00:48:14.320 sent psych people to talk to me one of their questions

00:48:16.320 was do you think we're trying to poison you here in the food

00:48:18.320 and i'm like no it's just gross and then they're

00:48:20.320 like uh you know they asked me a few more questions

00:48:22.320 because people uh

00:48:24.320 essentially in the hospital when you pull a tube out

00:48:26.320 they give you an observer to watch you because they think that

00:48:28.320 you're gonna jeopardize your own process

00:48:30.320 right but after three days and i didn't have any

00:48:32.320 more incidences like that they took my observer away

00:48:34.320 and then weird things would happen to me in the

00:48:36.320 middle of the night like the room that they put me

00:48:38.320 in to recover in was the

00:48:40.320 nurses would come and tell me this is the stuffiest hottest

00:48:42.320 room in the hospital no one with lung

00:48:44.320 injuries should be in here they also had me in

00:48:46.320 there with a roommate who was 95 and deaf

00:48:48.320 so he yelled when he spoke and everyone

00:48:50.320 yelled at him and they were with him all in the middle

00:48:52.320 of the night so i couldn't sleep and that's another

00:48:54.320 question the psych ward had for me well the psych

00:48:56.320 the psychiatrics there had for me was that

00:48:58.320 like why aren't i sleeping they think i'm

00:49:00.320 paranoid schizophrenic so i can't sleep i'm like

00:49:02.320 no i've got people yelling in my room all day and

00:49:04.320 night there was also another patient there poor

00:49:06.320 guy suffered a brain injury so he's yelling at the top

00:49:08.320 of his lungs all night there was no rest

00:49:10.320 yeah so police actually came in

00:49:12.320 uh the next day that i was uh

00:49:14.320 conscious and awake and uh this nice

00:49:16.320 officer came in i can't remember his name but uh

00:49:18.320 he basically explained to me that there was a

00:49:20.320 a bit of a foot pursuit they uh

00:49:22.320 they had located him the next day and he ran

00:49:24.320 and made them chase him and they tackled him down

00:49:26.320 and now he's in jail sadly

00:49:28.320 sadly it's not news

00:49:30.320 that the ttc

00:49:32.320 is a very dangerous venue

00:49:34.320 these days in toronto we've even had

00:49:36.320 murders on the ttc

00:49:38.320 briefly law enforcement

00:49:40.320 made a presence they came

00:49:42.320 and they went i guess it's a budgetary

00:49:44.320 issue what would you like

00:49:46.320 to see happen derek

00:49:48.320 moving forward i mean is it

00:49:50.320 too much to ask that one

00:49:52.320 at least one or two trained

00:49:54.320 security personnel

00:49:56.320 are on subway cars

00:49:58.320 to ensure the safety of people

00:50:00.320 who are just minding their own business

00:50:02.320 and commuting no it's not too much to ask

00:50:04.320 at all i mean i'm actually an ex ttc busker

00:50:06.320 i used to play guitar in the subways for a living

00:50:08.320 so i know their security system they had about 10

00:50:10.320 guards uh back then it's explained

00:50:12.320 to me by one of the head uh constables

00:50:14.320 at the time bill was his name i don't know if he's retired

00:50:16.320 now but um yeah i mean you go on a street

00:50:18.320 car at any given day they'll have up to three fair

00:50:20.320 inspectors on there so ttc will

00:50:22.320 pay them to cover their own revenues

00:50:24.320 but they can't afford to put one security guard on each train

00:50:26.320 i mean it is atrocious and disgusting

00:50:28.320 you have a theory that back in the winter time

00:50:30.320 you two had an accidental

00:50:32.320 bumping into one another

00:50:34.320 and he

00:50:36.320 maybe recognized you and that's

00:50:38.320 why he was trying to

00:50:40.320 instigate something absolutely

00:50:42.320 it wasn't an accidental bump in at all he

00:50:44.320 intentionally shoulder checked me

00:50:46.320 i was actually on delaware avenue near

00:50:48.320 osington and college and i was going to check

00:50:50.320 my apartment out i'm not usually in that neighborhood

00:50:52.320 um this it was winter time the sidewalks

00:50:54.320 were plowed there wasn't much room in the sidewalk

00:50:56.320 i moved to the right as far as i could as he was approaching

00:50:58.320 again holding the same cell phone right up

00:51:00.320 to his ear blasting gangster rap same

00:51:02.320 black frame glasses same guy it was the same guy

00:51:04.320 um so he says he stayed dead

00:51:06.320 dead center in the sidewalk

00:51:08.320 and i knew he wanted to shoulder check me i couldn't move over

00:51:10.320 any further so i said i'm game right

00:51:12.320 so boom we check shoulders

00:51:14.320 um i turn around i say buddy what's your problem you walk on

00:51:16.320 that side i walk on this side like do you want to go or

00:51:18.320 something what's your problem and all he did was just smile at me

00:51:20.320 with that same sinister smile

00:51:22.320 just a big cheeky grin

00:51:24.320 who are you most upset with

00:51:26.320 this career criminal who almost

00:51:28.320 killed you

00:51:30.320 or i guess

00:51:32.320 the justice system taking its direction

00:51:34.320 from the justin trudeau liberals

00:51:36.320 to grant parole

00:51:38.320 grant bail

00:51:40.320 to some of the most heinous criminals

00:51:42.320 out there

00:51:44.320 where does most of your anger

00:51:46.320 reside right now clearly moses

00:51:48.320 is criminally insane right i mean at this point

00:51:50.320 this guy's he is what he is and it doesn't

00:51:52.320 look like he's ever going to change it is up

00:51:54.320 to the legal system to keep the public safe

00:51:56.320 and make sure that these people are off the streets

00:51:58.320 and they have failed miserably at that and definitely

00:52:00.320 my resentment and my anger is towards

00:52:02.320 the system i'm sure you've

00:52:04.320 reflected on this if you had

00:52:06.320 to live that day over again

00:52:08.320 what would you do

00:52:10.320 differently well i mean you know i'm

00:52:12.320 not much of a person who likes to back down

00:52:14.320 from people who are trying to cause

00:52:16.320 confrontation with me but unfortunately

00:52:18.320 when you're on a subway car you're trapped right

00:52:20.320 um that's one of the longest stops

00:52:22.320 between lawrence and eglinton on the subway

00:52:24.320 um you know looking back of

00:52:26.320 course it would have been better to just get up and leave

00:52:28.320 but the situation was that there was a lot

00:52:30.320 of women around and they looked very uncomfortable

00:52:32.320 and nervous about him being there too and i just

00:52:34.320 didn't feel like much of a man if i were to get up and abandon

00:52:36.320 them there with this psycho criminal

00:52:38.320 basically uh taunting everybody

00:52:40.320 yeah and derek has anyone

00:52:42.320 with the city of toronto reached

00:52:44.320 out to you is anyone with the

00:52:46.320 toronto transit commission reached out

00:52:48.320 to you nobody

00:52:50.320 to me that's appalling

00:52:52.320 um and i guess it's all about

00:52:54.320 liability they're probably worried you're

00:52:56.320 going to commence legal action and

00:52:58.320 that's my next question are you pondering

00:53:00.320 that of course i am i

00:53:02.320 need to get anything i can get out of this

00:53:04.320 at this point because i don't know when or if i'll ever be able

00:53:06.320 to work again i mean my friends have set up

00:53:08.320 a go fund me for me and it's been going pretty

00:53:10.320 well uh that won't last forever

00:53:12.320 and um any any compensation i can get for what's happened here i'm gonna

00:53:16.320 pursue i mean i did take the ttc

00:53:18.320 the first day i was out of hospital i went to the

00:53:20.320 beach tried to enjoy my life

00:53:22.320 i had a friend with me so it made me feel a little more

00:53:24.320 comforted but uh yeah no i i don't ever

00:53:26.320 want to take the ttc again i i think

00:53:28.320 as few people should take it as possible

00:53:30.320 until they do something about taking care of their

00:53:32.320 passengers i mean they're more worried about their profits

00:53:34.320 and they are their patrons and it just goes to show

00:53:36.320 you know why why protect the peasants when we can

00:53:38.320 put a few extra shekels in our pocket

00:53:40.320 i'm just really thankful to be here i i

00:53:42.320 want to thank god for giving me the strength to

00:53:44.320 survive that i don't think i would have done it with

00:53:46.320 some meditation training that i've received

00:53:48.320 as well from this gnostic meditation group

00:53:50.320 i really owe them i don't think my lungs have been

00:53:52.320 strong enough to endure double

00:53:54.320 punctures um if i hadn't had that

00:53:56.320 type of training so i i just strongly recommend

00:53:58.320 people get into meditation

00:54:00.320 um you know it's it's a real exercise

00:54:02.320 it's very difficult trying to relax your body

00:54:04.320 while doing deep breathing it's it's one of the hardest

00:54:06.320 things you could ever try to do

00:54:08.320 so um i i really owe a lot of uh

00:54:10.320 what helped me survive that day to that

00:54:12.320 derek i wish you well i'm sure

00:54:14.320 all our viewers wish you well

00:54:16.320 uh godspeed on your recovery

00:54:18.320 and um you know

00:54:20.320 please stay in touch with us

00:54:22.320 tell us how you're making out

00:54:24.320 both with your recovery with your financial

00:54:26.320 situation what happened to you was

00:54:28.320 egregious and outrageous

00:54:30.320 it should never have happened this guy

00:54:32.320 should have been behind bars

00:54:34.320 at from from the get-go

00:54:36.320 but we've got a hug a thug mentality

00:54:38.320 this is outrageous derek

00:54:40.320 good luck in the months and years ahead

00:54:42.320 thanks a lot david appreciate it

00:54:44.320 that's our show for today until tomorrow

00:54:54.320 when i'm back in our main office from

00:54:56.320 all of us at rebel news to you at home

00:54:58.320 good night and keep fighting for free

00:55:00.320 thank you

00:55:14.320 you

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