Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Not all were welcome to attend Trudeau's photo-op at a Toronto Ukrainian Catholic church

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Justin Trudeau could do something to tangibly help Ukraine, but he won't.

00:00:21.800 It's Monday, March 7th, 2022, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.

00:00:30.000 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:33.780 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:37.860 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:49.060 On Friday afternoon, all were welcome to attend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's whiz-bang photo-op session at a Toronto-Ukrainian Catholic church.

00:00:59.000 Well, not everyone.

00:01:02.020 You see, while the Justin Trudeau liberals can't stop talking about diversity and inclusion,

00:01:08.160 there's precious little tolerance for, well, diversity of opinions,

00:01:12.920 and there's pretty much zero tolerance for espousing critical views pertaining to this current federal government.

00:01:21.780 Trudeau desperately wants to be seen as a strong man,

00:01:24.880 but the truth is he's got very thin skin and an ego that's so easily bruised.

00:01:32.500 How else do you explain the fact that F Trudeau flags are apparently banned from being displayed upon Parliament Hill these days?

00:01:41.840 Check out this video footage from Saturday.

00:01:44.040 What's the problem? Are they saying that's banned now?

00:01:50.000 They're saying that F Trudeau flags are not allowed on the Hill.

00:01:53.420 Ah, that's a new law, is it?

00:01:55.520 Can I just...

00:01:56.100 No, go for it.

00:01:57.620 You know, all things considered, we've had it worse than that.

00:02:11.020 So I guess they're saying that, um, that, uh, this is a...

00:02:23.020 They're saying this sign is not allowed anymore.

00:02:30.040 It doesn't say it is.

00:02:31.360 Well, so much for freedom of expression.

00:02:38.600 In any event, we visited St. Demetrius the Great Martyr Ukrainian Catholic Church in West End Toronto back on Friday

00:02:46.780 to see what the PM had to say and knock me down with a feather.

00:02:52.140 We yet again discovered that the only media allowed inside a Trudeau presser were those journalists

00:03:00.820 who are state-funded trained SEALs, you know, members of the CBC and CTV and the like.

00:03:09.180 Justin knows full well that when it comes to media coverage,

00:03:12.280 it's a prudent strategy to have the scribes dependent upon federal government funding.

00:03:19.140 So it is the Canadian mainstream media these days is a real-life Ministry of Truth,

00:03:25.580 an Orwellian journalistic version of the sinkhole, albeit sacred cow, that is SNC-Lavalin.

00:03:33.280 Now, guarding the entrance was a pair of presumably undercover Mounties.

00:03:37.220 I say presumably, folks, because the RCMP, well, these members of law enforcement

00:03:43.060 don't tend to identify themselves, nor do they provide badge numbers these days.

00:03:49.140 So let's just call this power couple, oh, I don't know, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Do-Right.

00:03:55.040 And the Do-Right's quickly informed us we were media non grata.

00:04:00.440 Check it out.

00:04:01.580 It's for invited guests and media only.

00:04:05.020 Right. We are media.

00:04:07.220 Invited guests and media only.

00:04:10.300 Please get that out of my face. 1.00

00:04:12.360 Why are you afraid of it?

00:04:13.520 No, I just, I don't feel comfortable with you having this, this close to me.

00:04:18.700 Really?

00:04:19.000 I thought because your fellow henchman roughed me up in December.

00:04:23.340 Do you remember that?

00:04:25.040 I was not there.

00:04:26.520 Okay.

00:04:27.920 So we're media, so why can't we get it?

00:04:33.420 It's by invitation only.

00:04:35.960 In the media, by invitation only?

00:04:37.980 Yes.

00:04:38.760 Okay.

00:04:39.260 So in other words, CTV, CBC, it's only state-funded media that can come in here.

00:04:44.780 Is that correct?

00:04:45.420 I don't know the answer to that.

00:04:46.360 Sir, we don't choose who comes.

00:04:48.440 We have a list.

00:04:49.280 I go by the list and we're following.

00:04:51.400 You're just following orders, right?

00:04:53.360 I'm just doing my job.

00:04:54.480 Yeah.

00:04:55.140 Well, I'm trying to do my job, which is a report.

00:04:58.000 And so why can CTV and CBC, there's their van right there.

00:05:01.840 Why can they get in and we can't?

00:05:03.920 I have no idea.

00:05:04.820 Yeah.

00:05:05.260 It's only the state-funded media?

00:05:07.480 I can't answer that.

00:05:09.000 Okay.

00:05:09.580 Yeah.

00:05:10.140 So can you find out what the answer is then?

00:05:14.340 First of all, media is already in and doors are now closed.

00:05:17.520 There's a list.

00:05:18.740 Unfortunately, you're not on the list and that's all I can tell you.

00:05:21.580 Well, the event isn't scheduled for, is it 20 o'clock at the end?

00:05:26.880 And Justin Trudeau is always late, so what differences make if they go in?

00:05:34.520 I'm not sure what you're not understanding, sir.

00:05:36.920 Well, I'm not understanding because the event hasn't started.

00:05:39.580 The prime minister's not here yet, correct?

00:05:41.720 I can't speak to that.

00:05:43.400 Okay.

00:05:44.220 Well, if there's not a problem with us getting in or not interrupting anything, what's the issue then?

00:05:49.360 The issue is you're not on the list and the doors are now closed and that's what the issue is.

00:05:56.180 So it was that we were banished from going inside the church and as we discovered just moments later,

00:06:02.680 we were also banned from standing outside the church, too, under threat of being arrested for trespassing?

00:06:11.800 Gee, so much for sanctuary.

00:06:14.340 Check it out.

00:06:15.420 We're at the...

00:06:17.060 Who are you?

00:06:18.340 I'm with the RCMP.

00:06:19.360 Okay, what's your name and your badge number?

00:06:21.040 Sir, can I ask you...

00:06:21.800 Your name and your badge number.

00:06:22.920 Are you going to be trespassing while you're here, sir?

00:06:24.400 Your name and your badge number.

00:06:25.820 You're obligated to give that to me.

00:06:27.000 No.

00:06:27.440 Oh, you're going to beat me up like you did in December?

00:06:30.100 I wasn't around in December.

00:06:31.280 Oh, no, you know nothing.

00:06:33.260 You saw nothing.

00:06:34.500 Huh?

00:06:34.680 You're refusing then to remove the sidewalk.

00:06:37.600 Sidewalk's down there.

00:06:38.460 Yeah, we're media and we're covering the event.

00:06:41.080 Sidewalk.

00:06:41.460 Your name and your badge number.

00:06:43.160 Moving to the sidewalk.

00:06:43.900 Your name and your badge number.

00:06:44.980 That's fine.

00:06:45.580 I'll get Toronto Police for you.

00:06:48.380 That's how they roll, folks.

00:06:50.000 I'm on...

00:06:51.360 I'm not even in the church.

00:06:52.820 I'm on a driveway.

00:06:54.700 And again, he doesn't give his name, his badge number.

00:06:57.880 He could be Joe Blow.

00:06:58.840 You know, I'm pinching myself, folks.

00:07:00.660 Are we still living in Canada or are we in North Korea?

00:07:05.020 Then again, I should consider myself lucky.

00:07:08.260 Astute viewers of Rebel News might recall what happened to me at the hands of Trudeau's

00:07:13.600 Royal Canadian Mounted Henchmen back in December.

00:07:17.360 Namely, I was physically manhandled for the egregious crime of standing on a public sidewalk.

00:07:24.620 Check it out.

00:07:25.220 What are you doing?

00:07:25.900 What are you doing?

00:07:26.020 Get off me. 0.85

00:07:27.720 Hey, I can...

00:07:28.900 Hey, this is assault.

00:07:32.000 I'm on a side...

00:07:33.220 What is this?

00:07:34.640 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:07:39.360 I am on a sidewalk.

00:07:40.960 What is this?

00:07:42.080 You cannot touch me.

00:07:43.600 No question working.

00:07:45.440 Hey.

00:07:45.820 Hey.

00:07:47.560 Are you kidding?

00:07:51.100 Are you kidding?

00:07:52.000 I told you.

00:07:52.840 What is this?

00:07:56.500 You can't...

00:07:57.460 Am I under arrest?

00:07:59.100 Am I under arrest?

00:08:01.380 Am I under arrest?

00:08:02.960 Because otherwise you have no right.

00:08:06.960 You know, that's really banana republic stuff, folks.

00:08:10.120 Of course, we don't grow bananas in Canada.

00:08:13.020 So let's just call the Trudeau regime a maple syrup republic.

00:08:17.040 Oh, by the way, that uncalled for assault occurred on December 9th.

00:08:22.920 But check out this National Post story dated December 22nd.

00:08:27.760 Turns out three members of Trudeau's personal staff and three members of his security detail had tested positive for COVID-19 that month.

00:08:37.860 At least I now have a really, really good hunch who infected me thanks to an obvious lack of social distancing.

00:08:47.820 But again, back to the Ukrainian church event.

00:08:50.860 Clearly, there was no way we were going to get inside.

00:08:54.380 But if misery loves company, we found fellow soulmates on the sidewalk staging a counter-protest, including, if you can believe it, some parishioners of this church.

00:09:06.980 Check out this lady who was barred from her own place of worship for committing the cardinal sin of not being liberal enough. 1.00

00:09:15.840 What brings you out here today?

00:09:19.080 We're here to post-test Justin Trudeau coming to our parish.

00:09:23.420 He's been anti-Catholic.

00:09:26.420 He's pro-abortion. 0.57

00:09:28.720 He's anti-life.

00:09:30.660 He had, a few summers ago, we had to have an attestation to sign if you wanted to get charitable money for summer programs.

00:09:40.080 And I think he's just using the church to come and do a photo op.

00:09:43.420 Excuse me.

00:09:43.860 And ma'am, I'm just curious.

00:09:45.320 That's very interesting.

00:09:46.880 This is your parish.

00:09:48.420 I grew up here.

00:09:49.380 Okay.

00:09:49.860 You attend church here regularly?

00:09:51.380 Yep.

00:09:51.920 I do.

00:09:52.260 I got married here.

00:09:53.380 I went to school here.

00:09:54.540 My children went to school here.

00:09:56.540 They're now in high school.

00:09:57.560 Why aren't you indoors?

00:09:59.080 I wasn't invited.

00:10:00.520 Oh, it's by invitation only.

00:10:01.780 We found out.

00:10:02.640 I found out last minute from somebody else that this was going on.

00:10:05.500 Then again, perhaps Team Trudeau and our father were doing us all a jolly good favor by keeping us deplorables locked out. 0.58

00:10:15.080 After all, according to media reports, the focus of the prime minister's speech was on the ongoing slippage in democratic values these days.

00:10:25.500 And such slippage, said Justin, is responsible for emboldening Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

00:10:34.900 No, I'm not kidding.

00:10:36.880 Check it out.

00:10:38.660 And we've come to a moment that, quite frankly, we've seen coming over the past years.

00:10:48.420 And we've talked about it in the news, not just about Ukraine, but about democracies around the world, that we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies.

00:11:00.440 Countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders.

00:11:04.900 Countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media, turning people against the values and the principles of democracies that are so strong.

00:11:20.840 And that slippage over the years, unfortunately, emboldened Putin.

00:11:29.000 It made him think that he could get away with this, that he could get away with it in Ukraine.

00:11:34.900 Right.

00:11:35.400 Right.

00:11:38.900 Can you believe the sheer, unmitigated gall of this man who reels against a slippage in democratic values?

00:11:49.040 Keep in mind, this is a PM who is hell-bent on censoring the internet once Bill C-11 has passed.

00:11:56.040 And how perversely ironic is his concern for democracy, given that Trudeau was so gung-ho to enact the Emergencies Act against the peaceful protesters who made up the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa last month.

00:12:12.220 Indeed, this is a PM who made the streets of our nation's capital resemble a police state, thanks to concrete roadblocks and steel fences and some 100 checkpoint Charlies asking law-abiding citizens for their papers.

00:12:28.500 Please, check it out.

00:12:30.540 If you have a reservation on your phone for your hotel that is down here, then we can let you through.

00:12:38.500 But if you don't, then we can't let you through.

00:12:40.400 I would have to get Alexa to send it to me because it's both under my name.

00:12:42.920 And it has to be in one of your names rented it for you.

00:12:46.040 Is there any reason for this?

00:12:47.780 You know we're not demonstrators, ma'am.

00:12:49.460 We're members of the media.

00:12:51.320 I mean, if this was a CBC reporter...

00:12:52.540 If you wanted to come through for the media purpose, you can get that authorization through the Ottawa City Police.

00:12:58.160 Please give them a call and they give you an authorization to get down here.

00:13:01.040 Oh, okay.

00:13:01.820 So we're kind of like Australia now.

00:13:03.280 Our colleague, Abby Yamini, always has to get a permit to perform journalism down under. 0.96

00:13:08.140 I can't comment on that.

00:13:09.300 I don't know.

00:13:09.740 You just want to get your hotel.

00:13:11.860 A hundred percent, sir.

00:13:13.180 Okay, so you had a photo.

00:13:14.280 You know, we can work around it somehow as far as if we see the reservation in your boss's name

00:13:19.140 and then we talk to your boss and confirm that you are who you are and they're staying there.

00:13:22.820 You know, like it'll be a long process, but we can do it.

00:13:25.020 Yeah, that was OPP Officer Dyke reading me and cameraman Lincoln Jay, the riot act.

00:13:31.920 And by the way, did you notice how she said that if we wanted to get past the checkpoint as journalists,

00:13:38.960 we would need authorization from the Ottawa Police?

00:13:43.020 Well, we paid a visit to Ottawa Police Headquarters the very next day to get that special authorization press pass.

00:13:52.060 Just one hitch, folks, to quote Romulan Senator Vrenak.

00:13:57.620 It's a fake.

00:13:59.560 Yeah, that's right, folks.

00:14:01.040 There's no such thing as a special authorization press pass to be obtained from the Ottawa Police Service.

00:14:08.540 So was Officer Dyke merely misinformed or was she outright lying?

00:14:14.040 We'll never know.

00:14:15.140 But given that we were a zero security risk, i.e. a couple of independent journalists

00:14:22.400 simply trying to get to our hotel situated a few hundred meters away,

00:14:27.960 this security shakedown was completely unnecessary.

00:14:31.860 Indeed, we could only ponder were we in Ottawa in 2022 or East Berlin circa 1946.

00:14:41.280 Sorry, but when it comes to slippage, Justin Trudeau pretty much resembles a German bobsled team

00:14:49.480 going down a grease track.

00:14:51.600 As I speak, our fearless leader is in England and will soon be en route to Latvia.

00:14:59.400 Say, folks, in keeping with his disastrous India trip,

00:15:03.620 do you think Justin took along his Mr. Dress Up tickle trunk in order to,

00:15:09.160 oh, I don't know, don a beef eater uniform or perhaps a Latvian folk costume?

00:15:14.640 Or maybe Justin fancies himself as Canadian superhero Captain Canuck.

00:15:21.000 After all, the ostensible policy reason for this current European vacation

00:15:25.940 is to meet with leaders across the pond to address the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

00:15:32.420 No doubt Vladimir Putin is paying some very close attention right now.

00:15:37.920 Please, I scare easy.

00:15:40.060 But as they say down at the Kearney, let's not kid the kidders here. 0.84

00:15:44.920 Justin Trudeau is an international embarrassment who has zero influence on the world stage. 0.54

00:15:51.880 We all know that. 0.98

00:15:53.160 So why would this worldwide laughingstock make such a useless voyage to Europe in the first place,

00:16:01.240 given he cannot save Ukraine, nor can he halt the Russian invaders?

00:16:06.480 Well, it's the exact same reason, folks, why he showed up at that Ukrainian Catholic church last Friday.

00:16:13.580 It's to curry favor with the Canadian Ukrainian community.

00:16:18.060 There are about 1.4 million persons of full or partial Ukrainian origin living in Canada.

00:16:25.400 That's the largest population of Ukrainians in the world outside of Russia and Ukraine, of course.

00:16:31.900 So it is that Justin Trudeau is not really concerned with the Russian army invading Ukraine today.

00:16:39.540 Rather, he's really concerned about earning some political capital with the huge Ukrainian-Canadian demographic come the next federal election.

00:16:50.240 Because if he wanted to do something tangible, it's actually in his power to do so.

00:16:57.340 Which is to say, he could reinvent himself as pro-fossil fuels and pro-pipelines,

00:17:04.380 thereby unleashing trillions of dollars of mineral wealth and thereby reducing the price of oil.

00:17:12.040 For it is oil at U.S. $115 per barrel and climbing that is currently funding Mr. Putin's war machine.

00:17:22.960 But the fact is, the ever-virtue-signaling Trudeau isn't really concerned with a real war,

00:17:30.660 but rather with a fake conflict, namely the war on climate change.

00:17:35.540 He could care less about innocent Ukrainian civilians perishing because he's all-in when it comes to appeasing the climate change Cassandras of the world, 0.95

00:17:46.920 the David Suzuki's and the Al Gore's and that poor, pathetic teenage girl in Sweden. 0.99

00:17:53.380 How dare you! 0.99

00:17:54.460 So it is that visiting a Ukrainian church in Toronto or hobnobbing with leaders in Europe

00:17:59.820 has nothing to do with Trudeau doing anything of value.

00:18:03.340 He just wants to seem like he's doing something sincere when it comes to ending the bloodshed in Ukraine.

00:18:11.800 And the hope for quid pro quo is gratification from Ukrainian Canadians via the ballot box. 0.99

00:18:20.360 Well, I'm so sorry, Mr. Prime Minister.

00:18:23.100 I happen to know a lot of people of Ukrainian descent.

00:18:26.880 They're not so easily duped.

00:18:29.300 And they sure aren't buying what you're selling.

00:18:33.340 Which is to say, so many of them originally emigrated to Canada to flee tyranny.

00:18:39.820 And they can spot a tyrant in the making from a kilometer away.

00:18:44.560 Well, folks, to paraphrase Anita Bryant, a show without Ezra is like a day without sunshine.

00:19:01.600 And I am going to deny you no longer.

00:19:04.920 Here is the big boss man himself, Mr. Levent, to give us an update on a very important lawsuit.

00:19:10.560 How are you doing, Ezra?

00:19:11.220 Great, David. Thanks so much for filling in today with the show.

00:19:14.600 I had to excuse myself because I had a legal proceeding.

00:19:18.080 And I did it from the office here via Zoom, as so many legal proceedings are done these days.

00:19:23.860 And that's why I wasn't available.

00:19:25.720 So thanks for filling in.

00:19:26.580 And I just want to tell our viewers what I was doing because I believe it's important, not just legally, but I think that there's a moral purpose to it.

00:19:33.520 But we filed a lawsuit, me and Sheila Gunn-Reed, against two liberal cabinet ministers a couple of years ago.

00:19:43.340 One is Stephen Gilboa.

00:19:45.100 He used to be the heritage minister in charge of censorship.

00:19:47.920 Now he's the environment minister.

00:19:49.900 A bit of a radical.

00:19:50.540 As you know, he was, in fact, convicted of a crime for sort of his eco-criminality.

00:19:56.320 Catherine McKenna used to be the environment minister.

00:19:58.940 She's actually retired from politics.

00:20:01.060 So we've dropped the lawsuit against her.

00:20:04.100 But I'm proceeding against Stephen Gilboa.

00:20:06.780 And here's what we're suing over.

00:20:09.320 As you know, politicians can have a private social media account, Facebook page, Twitter page, whatever.

00:20:15.920 And that's their own business.

00:20:17.520 But members of the government also have a government public social media account.

00:20:24.660 For example, Joe Biden, the president of the United States, he has the social media account POTUS, P-O-T-U-S, president of the United States.

00:20:33.720 And when he's done being president, the next president will have that same Twitter handle.

00:20:39.360 So it's a public Twitter handle.

00:20:41.740 Stephen Gilboa, and before him, Catherine McKenna, has blocked me, and I think Rebel News, I have to check, from following his public government account on Twitter.

00:20:58.820 Just like Catherine McKenna did the same to Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:21:02.180 And here's why that's important.

00:21:04.340 I'm not interested in Stephen Gilboa's personal life.

00:21:08.840 I'm not interested in his private thoughts on things.

00:21:11.080 I don't care.

00:21:12.020 But when he has a Twitter account run by public servants using taxpayers' money as a way to communicate with the public about the issues of the day.

00:21:25.040 And I'm a taxpayer, and I'm a citizen, and I'm a voter, and I am personally blocked from hearing what the ministry of the environment has to say.

00:21:35.560 And before that, when he was the minister of censorship, that's a kind of cancel culture.

00:21:41.520 It's a kind of deplatforming.

00:21:44.000 And what else, what other services can they withhold from me because they don't like my politics?

00:21:52.000 So he's using a government account but banning people he doesn't like from getting press releases in the public interest, announcements in the public interest, or being able to engage in a debate with thousands of other people about, in this case, environmental issues.

00:22:09.420 So we are suing Stephen Gilboa, not over anything personal, but the fact that he has decided to cut off, cancel, and deplatform people that he personally doesn't like from getting government services.

00:22:23.440 And I'm sorry, that's the wrong way to go, that's cronyism, that's running the country as if it's your personal fiefdom.

00:22:31.220 And that's where I was today instead of doing the show.

00:22:33.980 And Ezra, obviously, Gilboa and the rest of the Trudeau liberals, they don't like us.

00:22:39.080 In fact, I think their hatred for us is visceral.

00:22:41.760 But has Mr. Gilboa ever given an official reason why he has cut you off?

00:22:48.920 You know, he has filed what's called a, so we filed a lawsuit, it's not called a statement of claim, I forget the legal term, but you can see it for yourself.

00:22:59.940 So he has written a reply, and he's basically saying, you know, suck it up, buttercup.

00:23:05.560 Like he's digging it, like you would think, but he would just say, all right, fine, I'll unblock you.

00:23:10.960 And if he doesn't want to hear from me, there's something on Twitter called mute.

00:23:14.820 I don't know if you know what that is.

00:23:15.760 So you can block someone, that means they can never see what you have to say, never engage with you.

00:23:20.080 Or you can use what's called mute, and it's just what it sounds like.

00:23:24.660 I could still read what he has to say, but he would never see or hear from me.

00:23:28.920 It would be like on a TV remote control, mute button, he would just be.

00:23:32.440 So if he didn't like my criticism of him, and that's fine, I'm pretty critical, he could just mute me and he'll never even hear it for the rest of his life.

00:23:42.100 But he has chosen to block me to deny me access to his government service.

00:23:47.340 So if you want to see his defense, go to twitterlawsuit.ca.

00:23:53.440 And here's what's so crazy about that.

00:23:56.440 I don't have my notes with me, but there were, I think, five lawyers on the government side today.

00:24:03.940 Five lawyers.

00:24:05.020 Maybe there was four.

00:24:06.400 It was at least four.

00:24:07.200 And I don't know how much this Zoom hearing cost the government today, because if it was his personal lawsuit, why isn't he paying for his lawyers personally?

00:24:18.620 It's obviously not.

00:24:19.860 It's a government account, government lawyers, and that shows how much contempt Guilbeault has for taxpayers.

00:24:27.300 Instead of just unblocking me or muting me, he's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars saying, no, I have the right to blacklist any citizen I don't like.

00:24:40.960 And I'm not saying that the services he's giving through his Twitter account are akin to like a hospital service or a, you know, school.

00:24:50.920 But if he can block me from one government service, why can't he block me from others?

00:24:56.020 And we've seen this in the Trudeau government, their attestation.

00:24:59.840 You had to sign that you agreed with Trudeau on social policy or you wouldn't get a summer jobs grant for your company.

00:25:06.000 So this is an important battle and it's an important legal battle.

00:25:10.760 And I want to set the precedent that politicians cannot blacklist you from government services because they don't like you.

00:25:18.060 No, I totally agree with that.

00:25:19.260 And I think, Ezra, that, I mean, I didn't see the court proceedings of today, but I would say that if Guilbeault was saying words along the lines of suck it up, buttercup, if he's showing a complete lack of contrition, this is a gift to you.

00:25:34.100 I think if I'm a judge, I'm looking at this as almost like bargaining in bad faith.

00:25:39.140 You know, it just shows the stubbornness and these folks, you know, it was quite something for Stephen Guilbeault, literally a criminal convict in cabinet last month saying, oh, these truckers, their protest, you know, is improper.

00:25:58.820 You are a convicted criminal for your eco-terrorism and you're telling peaceful truckers that they're unacceptable. 0.96

00:26:05.360 And my point for mentioning that is the left, they don't care if they're hypocrites. 0.95

00:26:10.500 I mean, I think I think some other people would feel shy. 0.72

00:26:15.020 I mean, if you're literally a convicted criminal, you probably would feel shy about calling a peaceful trucker names just because he's honking his horn.

00:26:21.540 But the left, they're not bothered by conscience.

00:26:26.700 So Guilbeault will literally do anything and say anything to attack his enemies.

00:26:32.940 So, of course, he's not going to be reasonable.

00:26:35.720 Of course, he's not going to say, all right, fine, I'll let you.

00:26:39.200 He's going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars because he wants to set the opposite precedent.

00:26:45.900 Yeah.

00:26:46.160 He wants to set the precedent that he can ban, silence, crush anyone.

00:26:52.140 And the fact that he actually himself is of odious moral character, that doesn't bother him.

00:26:58.160 He's loving it.

00:26:58.880 He's going to get as much as he can.

00:27:00.380 And Catherine McKenna was the same way.

00:27:02.460 The only reason we dropped the lawsuit against her is because the lawsuit was dragging on so long.

00:27:07.080 She left politics.

00:27:08.320 Yeah.

00:27:08.440 I mean, these cats can't even wait for Bill C-11 to get passed, can they, Ezra?

00:27:13.500 One last question.

00:27:14.980 Is there any kind of legal precedent, Ezra, of an elected official anywhere in the world who decided that I'm going to block this person, I'm going to block this constituent, I'm going to block this reporter, and a judge overturned that blockage?

00:27:30.640 That's a great question.

00:27:31.200 I think that Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, did, but after a lawsuit, he settled, by which I think he just said, all right, this is crazy.

00:27:40.160 I'm just going to unblock the guy.

00:27:41.580 I'd have to double check that.

00:27:42.920 I mean, I don't have that fresh in my memory, but you have to be a wasteful dictator to say, not only am I going to hold the line and block, I'm so petty, but I'm going to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.

00:27:56.580 So, like, it takes that special sociopath I described earlier, like, Mayor Jim Watson, whatever you think of him, he wasn't going to torch a quarter million bucks just because he didn't like some guy on Twitter.

00:28:09.160 Yeah.

00:28:09.640 Stephen Gilboa has no such compunction.

00:28:11.600 Unbelievable.

00:28:12.640 Well, there you have it, folks.

00:28:13.740 I mean, the war on, I guess, free speech, freedom of expression, it just continues.

00:28:18.720 I only know of one person that's blocked me on Twitter.

00:28:21.600 It's sneaky mayor Patrick Brown of Brampton.

00:28:24.360 And golly, I wonder why.

00:28:26.440 Keep it here.

00:28:27.120 More of the Ezra Levin show to come right after this.

00:28:42.300 Hey, welcome back, folks.

00:28:43.580 Now, let's get to some of your letters.

00:28:45.940 Jingreet writes, the media isn't struggling to mention it.

00:28:50.120 They're refusing to mention adverse effects, period.

00:28:54.360 They've been paid to keep quiet about it.

00:28:57.620 That includes the usual subjects, along with Fox and Newsmax.

00:29:03.120 Well, to be fair, Jingreet, I wouldn't be so quick to lump Fox and Newsmax into the category of usual suspects.

00:29:10.280 But, yes, when it comes to the mainstream media in Canada, those are the usual suspects in that they're all on the take.

00:29:19.480 But I'm sorry.

00:29:20.120 That's what it is.

00:29:21.040 When the CBC is getting over a billion dollars annually, when the newspapers are getting more than $600, $600 million, that is.

00:29:31.000 Well, how can they indeed objectively cover anything?

00:29:36.040 Jamie Dig Dug writes, in order for a tyrant to find out the extent of their control, they must push the people until they revolt.

00:29:47.000 We stood up.

00:29:48.420 They folded.

00:29:49.480 Just imagine if we did this over the two weeks to flatten the curve.

00:29:54.240 We could have saved ourselves two years of this.

00:29:58.500 Well, you know, that is a good point.

00:30:00.440 And we had a blip of hope.

00:30:03.560 I go back to November 2020.

00:30:05.620 Adam Skelly of Adamson Barbecue.

00:30:07.760 That got worldwide attention for standing up and opening his fantastic restaurant out in Etobicoke.

00:30:14.760 That was the moment for all Toronto restaurants, all Toronto businesses, to take a stand and, like Adam Skelly, defy the law via civil disobedience.

00:30:27.740 They didn't.

00:30:28.820 They were too intimidated.

00:30:30.600 I can't say I blame them when the mayor sends in the mounted unit.

00:30:34.020 That is quite daunting.

00:30:35.380 But from that moment onward, we were all bending the knee, can hardly wait for this two weeks to flatten the curve nonsense to end in the weeks ahead.

00:30:46.860 G. Williamson, 61, writes,

00:30:49.760 Typical of big pharma using humans as guinea pigs, people should not forget that Bayer was the one major pharmaceutical company that experimented on inmates of concentration camps during World War II.

00:31:05.380 If you tour Auschwitz, you can see the Bayer bottles in the medical center.

00:31:10.540 Well, you know what, folks, as I've said before on previous shows, I don't have a problem with vaccines, but I do have a problem with vaccines that have been rushed to market, such as the experimental vaccines that are meant to treat COVID.

00:31:28.580 I say this as a child of 1962 when thalidomide was on the market, something approved in Canada for pregnant women suffering morning sickness, but not approved in the United States.

00:31:43.680 And for good reason, as we found out to our horror, thalidomide was responsible for so many deaths and deformities of children of that era.

00:31:52.920 My mother, I'll tell you, did get a prescription, fourth thalidomide, for whatever reason, a hunch, woman's intuition. 0.63

00:32:00.720 She never broke that seal.

00:32:02.400 She never took one single tablet.

00:32:04.920 Thank God for that.

00:32:06.780 Well, folks, I'm now going to leave you with our video of the day.

00:32:09.200 It features our ace cameraman, Lincoln Jay.

00:32:12.200 Here he is speaking with Dr. Roger Hodkinson and Dr. Paul E. Alexander,

00:32:18.200 both of whom were standing firm with the Freedom Convoy.

00:32:21.520 Dr. Paul E. Alexander, background training in clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine research methods.

00:32:29.480 I just have a short piece tonight just to reiterate the support that we're asking Canadians to dig deep

00:32:37.740 and provide support to the give, send, ghost.com site forward slash freedom convoy 2022.

00:32:45.860 And we are here in Ottawa, and we're on the ground, and we're supporting the truckers.

00:32:52.240 We're the research scientists, the medical doctors supporting the truckers,

00:32:56.660 because they have their scientific table with them, which is us.

00:33:00.600 There are some additional persons.

00:33:02.600 We want Canadians to understand that the pandemic is basically over.

00:33:06.320 It has been over, maybe a year now, and it is time that we declare this pandemic emergency finished and done.

00:33:15.280 And it is time we move on and begin opening up our lives.

00:33:19.420 And one of the key issues then is to drop these mandates.

00:33:23.880 Mandates across the board.

00:33:25.660 Mass mandates, any sorts of mandates, particularly the vaccine mandates,

00:33:30.040 because the vaccine mandates are constraining society and causing a lot of hardships for good persons within Canada,

00:33:38.080 for example, the truckers, as well as truckers coming into Canada,

00:33:42.740 which are from the United States, and they bring their goods here.

00:33:46.320 They are unable to enter if unvaccinated.

00:33:49.240 And I wouldn't speak too much because we are talking this every day,

00:33:52.920 but I'll say it this way.

00:33:54.100 The science is absolutely bulletproof that at this time, the vaccines have failed.

00:34:00.420 They are non-sterilizing, and that means that they do not prevent transmission.

00:34:05.320 And there is no difference, therefore, between a vaccinated and an unvaccinated person.

00:34:11.140 And therefore, why would you prevent an unvaccinated trucker from entering the country 0.99

00:34:16.340 and earning a living when they had no increased risk, additional risk,

00:34:21.080 than a vaccinated person in terms of transmission?

00:34:23.960 So it's illogical.

00:34:25.180 It has no scientific basis.

00:34:27.060 And it must end over to you, Dr. Hutchinson.

00:34:30.040 Thank you, Dr. Alexander.

00:34:34.260 My name is Dr. Roger Hutchinson.

00:34:37.000 I'm a pathologist, graduate of Cambridge University.

00:34:41.500 I've done lots of things in medicine, of which I'm very proud.

00:34:45.220 But I'm also the chairman of an American biotechnology company,

00:34:49.540 heavily involved in DNA sequencing.

00:34:51.540 I'm here because I am passionate about freedom.

00:34:57.800 What we're seeing going on in Ottawa now is probably the greatest demonstration that this country has ever seen,

00:35:05.980 short of the return of troops from the Second World War.

00:35:09.680 This is massive.

00:35:11.260 Make no mistake about it.

00:35:13.160 This is a turning point in Canadian history.

00:35:16.260 And we are leading the world.

00:35:18.840 The truckers are leading the world.

00:35:22.740 We failed.

00:35:24.980 Medicine failed to move the needle.

00:35:27.140 And it took truckers to do it for us.

00:35:30.180 So we're here, giving them all the support we can,

00:35:34.140 giving everyone that knows from just common sense that nothing is working.

00:35:39.620 We're here to give you comfort that you're right, you are correct,

00:35:44.540 and you don't have to be a medical specialist to know that.

00:35:49.260 Everything that's been done has failed.

00:35:52.520 Everything has failed.

00:35:54.620 Nothing has worked.

00:35:56.360 Nothing has worked.

00:35:58.220 Nothing will work.

00:36:00.120 Simply because the science is not there.

00:36:02.680 And we knew that for decades.

00:36:05.580 The vaccines were not needed.

00:36:08.240 The vaccines are experimental.

00:36:10.500 The vaccines are not being tested.

00:36:11.980 And the vaccines simply do not work.

00:36:16.360 Not only that, but they're creating enormous hardship, death, and disease

00:36:22.500 across the entire world that was totally unnecessary.

00:36:28.080 If the unvaccinated and the vaccinated are the same, 0.78

00:36:31.640 the vaccine isn't doing what, let's say, the federal government is saying,

00:36:36.440 why is the federal government still pushing vaccinations so hard?

00:36:40.920 What is the ultimate reason for that?

00:36:43.180 You need to look no further than Occam's razor,

00:36:46.460 the concept of medieval philosophy in which the most obvious and simplest solution

00:36:51.380 is probably the one that's causing whatever is going on. 1.00

00:36:55.200 Look no further than political stupidity. 1.00

00:36:58.920 Politicians are not smart enough to do anything original. 1.00

00:37:02.080 They follow the crowd.

00:37:03.160 That's what's happening, copying everyone else because there's safety in doing that.

00:37:09.620 They know that nothing works, but they're dressing themselves in the flag,

00:37:14.460 pretending that they're everyone's savior when it simply cannot be.

00:37:18.560 But they're obligated in their minds to protect the general public from everything from cradle to grave.

00:37:26.320 And you don't have to worry about anything except your Netflix, your water bottle, and your iPhone.

00:37:32.220 We'll look out for everything else.

00:37:33.960 Well, I'm sorry.

00:37:35.940 The gig's up.

00:37:37.340 You're not going to look after everything anymore.

00:37:40.260 We are now in control, and we're going to look after ourselves.

00:37:43.320 And this is the first demonstration project for that incredible idea.

00:37:48.840 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - March 08, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Not all were welcome to attend Trudeau's photo-op at a Toronto Ukrainian Catholic church

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript