Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ On October 19th, send those bastards a message they’ll never forget!

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. We just did a massive 3,000-person public opinion poll in Alberta

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00:01:08.040 Tonight, our third-party campaign group commissioned a massive poll on Alberta independence.

00:01:23.180 I'll tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly.

00:01:25.280 It's April 30th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show. 0.88

00:01:27.920 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:38.040 As you know, for a variety of good reasons, we've set up a third-party campaign group in Alberta.

00:01:49.540 Now, it's not a political party. It's just called a third party.

00:01:52.480 It's more like a super PAC, as they would say in the States.

00:01:55.060 It allows us to get involved in the petition-gathering phase and the campaigning phase of the referendum on Alberta independence

00:02:02.840 that's expected to take place on October 19th, less than six months from now.

00:02:07.240 We're carefully following the law. The super PAC that we're calling Act for Alberta is following

00:02:12.880 all the rules. Our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, is the contact person for it. And we have a

00:02:18.140 financial agent and a special bank account. We're doing weekly filings with Elections Alberta. So

00:02:23.360 we're being very compliant. Anyways, one of the first things we did with the super PAC was commission

00:02:29.220 a poll, a whopping 3,000 person sample size. In a province like Alberta, that's a really rigorous

00:02:36.600 poll, and we asked all kinds of questions for what pollsters call crosstabs. That's where you

00:02:42.560 compare various characteristics. For example, we could compare support for independence with sex,

00:02:49.140 with age, with income, with region of Alberta. And then we tested a few other ideas like

00:02:55.680 immigration or pipelines or crime. I'll explain why in a moment. Let me start with the most

00:03:01.420 striking news from the poll. If the referendum were held today, it would fail. The question,

00:03:08.160 do you support or oppose the idea of an independent Alberta separate from Canada?

00:03:13.620 As you can see on page 21 of the poll, 26.5% strongly support that and 8.7% somewhat support

00:03:22.800 that. So that's the four, but look at the opposition. It's about double. 53.3% strongly

00:03:31.820 oppose it. And actually only 2.3% somewhat oppose it. If you're against it, you're very against it.

00:03:39.060 Now on page 22, there's some variation, as you can see in some of these cross tabs. Young men

00:03:45.920 are much more likely to support it. Also high school or people in the trades versus university.

00:03:52.000 That would be 43.4% for high school education versus basically 19.8%, half as much for university

00:04:01.840 grads. On page 23, you can see the real divide in Alberta. Rural support is 53.5%. I'm combining

00:04:10.360 the strong support and the somewhat support. Compare that to Calgary and Edmonton in the

00:04:15.840 mid-20s, about half as much. So if a referendum were held today to decide on separation,

00:04:23.980 60.1% of Albertans would vote remained. 28.1% would vote to leave. So even some people who

00:04:33.340 earlier said they want independence, when they're asked how they would vote in the referendum,

00:04:38.540 them, they won't vote for it. I don't know, out of fear or lack of readiness. But why? Well, my hunch

00:04:46.500 is I don't think independence has been properly explained. I don't think the objections that

00:04:51.680 people would have have been overcome. People ask legitimate questions like, what happens to my

00:04:57.740 Canada pension plan? What about the borders? Can we still travel to BC and Saskatchewan as we

00:05:03.540 normally do? How about the airports? How about the postage stamps? How about the currency? These are

00:05:10.080 all legitimate questions, and all of them have legitimate answers. But I just don't think people

00:05:16.420 have been educated about it yet, as opposed to, say, Quebec, which has been talking details like

00:05:21.900 this for 50 years. Everyone knows how Quebec would go. And, and I want to be gentle here,

00:05:28.880 Who have the messengers been in the independence campaign so far?

00:05:33.580 If you've been following on the last six months, who have been the advocates?

00:05:36.740 We know who the advocates are for the Remain side.

00:05:40.080 Former Premier Jason Kenney, former Cabinet Minister Thomas Lukasik, the NDP leader there, Nahid Nenshi.

00:05:47.500 They've been the Remain voices.

00:05:49.460 Who have the Leave messengers been?

00:05:52.080 Well, I like Jeffrey Rath.

00:05:54.700 He's been on our show before, but he is a cowboy straight out of central casting.

00:05:59.440 I think he'd admit that maybe he's not the best ambassador to other demographics like soccer moms.

00:06:05.980 And to be very candid, and I like Jeff, but going down to the states repeatedly to meet with the Trump administration

00:06:11.980 and then blabbing about that to the whole world, but keeping the details of the conversation secret,

00:06:18.000 that's again something that the Mark Carney war room could only dream up.

00:06:22.540 that's just not going to convince soccer moms that this is a good idea.

00:06:27.020 So I think we've been looking at the results of six months of messaging

00:06:30.640 and a messenger that we're pretty scary to people.

00:06:35.720 And, you know, I don't even think that's what this referendum is about.

00:06:39.860 Here, let me give you a hint about what it's about.

00:06:42.000 This is my point of view based on our poll.

00:06:44.720 But let me quote a leftist named Michael Moore.

00:06:48.460 He's that commie who made a bunch of documentaries in the 1990s

00:06:51.960 against General Motors, against firearms. He's a bit of a wackadoodle documentary maker.

00:06:57.980 He's been at it for about 30 years. But listen to him. This was 10 years ago,

00:07:01.900 talking to Democrats in Ohio, why he thought Donald Trump was about to win. He was one of

00:07:08.120 the only lefties that got it. He understood what voting for Trump actually meant. Take a listen,

00:07:15.660 take a couple of minutes here. And while you're listening to him talk about Trump,

00:07:19.120 Think about Canada from the point of view of Alberta or Saskatchewan or any of the regions that you can't see from the CN Tower in Toronto.

00:07:26.800 Take a look.

00:07:27.440 Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who are hurting. 0.50

00:07:34.560 And it's why every beaten down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump.

00:07:43.520 He is the human Molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for.

00:07:49.120 the human hand grenade that they can legally throw

00:07:52.080 into the system that stole their lives from them.

00:07:56.220 And on November 8th, Election Day,

00:07:59.600 although they've lost their jobs,

00:08:02.220 although they've been foreclosed on by the bank,

00:08:04.860 next came the divorce, and now the wife and kids are gone,

00:08:07.860 the car's been repoed,

00:08:09.520 they haven't had a real vacation in years, 0.98

00:08:11.940 they're stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan 1.00

00:08:14.840 where you can't even get a fucking Percocet. 0.99

00:08:17.020 they've essentially lost everything they had except one thing the one thing that doesn't 0.98

00:08:27.920 cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the american constitution the right to vote 0.96

00:08:34.680 they might be penniless they might be homeless they might be fucked over and fucked up it doesn't 0.98

00:08:41.920 matter because it's equalized on that day. A millionaire has the same number of votes 0.99

00:08:49.100 as the person without a job. One. And there's more of the former middle class than there are

00:08:57.080 in the millionaire class. So on November 8th, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth,

00:09:05.760 be handed a ballot, close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touchscreen 0.98

00:09:11.180 and put a big fucking X in the box by the name of the man 0.98

00:09:15.980 who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system 0.99

00:09:20.360 that has ruined their lives.

00:09:24.480 Donald J. Trump.

00:09:27.220 Now, Trump has governed better than Michael Moore predicted,

00:09:31.160 but I think half the reason people support Trump, even today,

00:09:34.920 is just to send a message to the establishment the only way they could.

00:09:40.940 Well, hello.

00:09:42.640 So look at page 26 of the poll.

00:09:45.340 Do you think the way Alberta is treated by the federal government in Ottawa is fair?

00:09:50.580 49.7% say it's unfair, which is a lot higher than the number who say they want independence

00:09:57.960 or vote for a referendum.

00:10:01.120 Hey, what's the number one issue in Canada today?

00:10:03.640 Well, it's obviously immigration.

00:10:05.220 Look at page 35 of the poll. 0.95

00:10:07.020 nearly 49% of Albertans agree that Alberta needs to take control of immigration away from the 0.99

00:10:13.980 fools in Ottawa. Same thing with the extremely woke, weird, lenient criminal justice system. 0.99

00:10:20.120 On page 38, more than 40% of Albertans want to take over the criminal justice system and get

00:10:25.820 out of the hands of these liberal judges. Do you see my point? Do you see what I'm getting at?

00:10:30.920 If the message of this referendum campaign is, let's build a utopian country,

00:10:37.540 well, you're going to have people with questions.

00:10:39.480 I'd have questions.

00:10:41.160 People will take the devil they know rather than vague answers and a touch of secrecy,

00:10:46.180 which is what they've faced so far.

00:10:47.680 And what they've faced so far plays to the fears of the 51st state.

00:10:51.660 But if you say, you know, this referendum is the first opportunity you've had to fight back

00:10:59.580 against Ottawa in your lifetime. It's what Quebec got to do twice, by the way, and it helped them

00:11:05.980 win either way. It's win-win. If Quebec would vote to go, they'd have their own country, but

00:11:11.000 even if it would be close, they could still boss around Ottawa pretty good and get everything they

00:11:15.960 want, don't you think? I mean, if Alberta does secede, I think it would be amazing. I think

00:11:20.440 that the few technical issues could be ironed out quickly, and it would soon be

00:11:24.240 the monaco of north america it would be so wealthy unhooked from justin trudeau and mark carney and

00:11:30.560 the rest of them imagine a life without them and just alberta being albertan but even if the

00:11:36.660 referendum only gets say 35 45 even 49 of the vote well it's a message to ottawa that they cannot

00:11:45.700 ignore that's the way that's the ballot question that's the way to campaign whenever mark carney

00:11:52.460 raises your taxes, whenever Mark Carney shuts down your oil jobs, lies to you about pipelines

00:11:58.160 and tankers and an MOU, whenever he opens up the floodgates of mass immigration or issues an insane

00:12:05.820 court ruling or permits Islamic terrorists into our country, this is your way to hit back. It's 0.88

00:12:12.260 your only way, a peaceful, legal way that our cousins in Quebec get to use. And dammit, we can 0.98

00:12:18.780 uses them too. On October 19th, send those bastards a message they'll never forget. 1.00

00:12:27.440 That's your campaign message. And if you look at the poll, it just might win. 1.00

00:12:33.500 To learn more, go to actforalberta.com.

00:12:36.660 you know i learned a terrifying statistic in the united kingdom a few years ago

00:12:51.120 more british muslims had signed up to fight with isis in the islamic state then had signed up to

00:13:01.240 join the British army. Let me say that again. More British Muslims went to fight for the enemy 0.99

00:13:07.940 terrorist group, then joined the army to fight against the terrorist group. It's one of the 1.00

00:13:13.860 challenges of having people who have a different sense of loyalty, in that case, to the Islamic

00:13:18.440 state, not the British state. Well, in Canada, we've chosen an interesting path when it comes

00:13:23.660 to meeting military recruitment. Numbers were dramatically down. They first had a big push to

00:13:28.620 bring in transgender recruits. That really didn't go anywhere other than a black eye from a PR 1.00

00:13:34.880 department in putting the condoms, sorry, not condoms, tampons in men's bathrooms. That was

00:13:43.460 sort of a source of global laughter. But they've switched gears from trying to get transgender 1.00

00:13:49.880 people to join the military to getting foreign nationals, people who are not Canadian citizens,

00:13:56.380 In some cases, people who have only been in Canada for a few months.

00:14:00.300 In some cases, people who can barely speak English or French.

00:14:04.660 In some cases, people who can't stand other ethnic rivalries.

00:14:09.640 This is not just a theory.

00:14:10.680 This is the subject of an explosive report in Juneau News by our friend Cosman Georgia,

00:14:16.280 who reviewed a confidential internal Canadian Armed Forces memo on one such recruitment cohort,

00:14:23.960 where 83% of non-citizens devolved into ethnic infighting.

00:14:30.600 It was a battle between the Cameroonians and the Cote d'Ivoire people.

00:14:35.580 And, of course, none of them appreciated taking orders from 0.98

00:14:38.820 or acting as peers with women. 0.99

00:14:42.140 Joining us now is Cosman Georgia.

00:14:43.840 Cosman, great to see you.

00:14:44.740 What an amazing scoop.

00:14:46.900 This document is so shocking.

00:14:48.800 You were just telling me before we turned on the cameras

00:14:51.160 that when you first saw it,

00:14:52.360 you were skeptical that it was even real you thought maybe it was a hoax tell me about the

00:14:57.100 document yeah absolutely so this was written up as a report by the commandant of the canadian

00:15:05.620 forces training and recruit school which is essentially a program where they take in recruits

00:15:14.300 and train them to be canadian soldiers but particularly in this document it talks about

00:15:20.020 the BMOQ, which is the Basic Military Officer Qualification Program. And that program is to

00:15:28.320 enter essentially the military leadership. You get an officer rank, you have to have certain

00:15:34.660 prerequisites like education requirements, etc. to enter that rank. But a little bit of a background

00:15:41.280 in 2022, the Liberal government lifted prohibitions on permanent residents entering the Canadian

00:15:49.040 armed forces. So after that decision, permanent residents could be recruited into the Canadian

00:15:55.700 armed forces. And actually, the Canadian armed forces engaged in a recruitment drive to try to

00:16:00.980 get as many of these permanent residents. Now, this document was essentially an evaluation

00:16:06.660 of how that played out. It covers the span of, I believe, the year 2025. It was released earlier

00:16:14.540 this year. Well, not released, sorry, pardon me. It was actually submitted by this commandant

00:16:22.040 for review earlier this year in January. But it essentially shows that a flood of these permanent

00:16:29.720 residents came into officer training programs. And one Quebec platoon saw up to 83% permanent

00:16:39.120 residents, as you mentioned. And this caused huge issues, interpersonal issues between opposing

00:16:45.200 factions. So the Cameroonian and the Ivory Coast people didn't get along. Also issues with women,

00:16:53.580 as you said. A lot of these people, the report notes, did not have never lived with a woman

00:16:58.860 before that wasn't a family member. And they couldn't respect women. They couldn't take orders

00:17:03.860 from women superiors. The other interesting thing is a lot of these permanent resident recruits are 1.00

00:17:10.140 significantly older than the recruits you see from Canadian citizens. Canadian citizen recruits

00:17:17.120 are around like 21, 23 years old on average, but these permanent resident recruits are well into

00:17:23.680 their 30s, but also up to age 45. And they also had issues taking orders or following direction

00:17:32.420 from younger superiors, even male superiors.

00:17:36.620 So yeah, it was hard to believe that this thing was actually real

00:17:40.720 because it details, it's essentially a goldmine

00:17:44.020 and it confirms all of the concerns that yourself had,

00:17:48.360 myself had, and everybody who was talking about

00:17:51.160 that this was a bad idea to let permanent residents

00:17:54.180 into the military and it's going to be a disaster. 1.00

00:17:57.060 Yeah, I mean, especially if I understand correctly,

00:18:00.340 some of these folks had only been permanent residents

00:18:02.160 for like three months.

00:18:04.280 They had not yet gone, achieved citizenship.

00:18:07.740 They have not pledged their loyalty to Canada.

00:18:10.380 You know, you're talking about quarrels

00:18:11.820 between Ivory Coast and Cameroon,

00:18:14.540 and Canada really doesn't have much to do

00:18:17.060 with either of those places.

00:18:18.120 But there's also, there could be Chinese citizens

00:18:21.200 who are associated with the Chinese Communist Party.

00:18:23.600 There could be people, as I mentioned before,

00:18:25.480 who are associated with Islamic terrorism. 0.64

00:18:27.840 And I say that because I know that the government

00:18:31.520 was trying so hard to meet their quotas and the trans recruitment didn't work that they lowered

00:18:36.520 their vetting. One of the things we didn't even talk about is the fitness levels. I guess that's

00:18:41.280 expected. If you're bringing in 40 or 45 year old men, they're not going to have the same fitness as

00:18:46.140 a 20 year old guy. I want to tell you, Cosman, whenever I see a fat cop, a little voice inside

00:18:52.740 my head says, oh, Ezra, there's another career alternative for you if this rebel news thing 0.59

00:18:57.420 Does it work out?

00:18:58.360 I'm chuckling because the idea of a fat cop is so, um, it's such a contradiction in terms,

00:19:04.240 but that's what we've got here. 0.74

00:19:05.600 We've got people who don't speak English or French, who don't get along with other ethnicities.

00:19:09.940 They're not loyal to Canada as per a citizenship pledge. 0.97

00:19:13.120 They cannot be near women, let alone take commands from women. 0.90

00:19:18.620 Um, they're just not Canadian. 0.99

00:19:20.960 I mean, I understand the need for mercenaries.

00:19:23.360 I mean, the United States, Canada often hire private contractors to assist in war zones.

00:19:29.420 I get it.

00:19:30.180 So sometimes you're dealing with people who are not your nationals.

00:19:33.340 I get it.

00:19:34.160 But at least in the case of hiring a mercenary, you're hiring a fighting machine, someone who knows what they're doing. 0.78

00:19:40.440 Here, I can picture this being a very silly CBC comedy show. 0.89

00:19:47.640 Like, you know, they had that Korean corner store show. 1.00

00:19:50.700 They could do a silly sitcom of this, you know, fish out of water, Cameroonian and Cote d'Ivoire and their their white female commander. 0.99

00:20:01.760 They refuse to salute. It sounds like a comedy on the CBC. 0.99

00:20:07.660 Yeah, absolutely. And the government, you know, remove these standards for fitness tests.

00:20:14.020 They also removed like they made the academic portion of the test actually easier as well.

00:20:19.240 You mentioned, you know, allowing transgender people into the military. They also loosened up uniform rules. They did essentially everything they could to make it as easy as possible to join the military.

00:20:32.060 And I've spoken to a lot of guys who were at this school actually training people around the time they changed this.

00:20:39.860 There's a lot of people coming forward since we've released this report with really astounding tales that we hope to report soon.

00:20:47.600 But they're essentially saying that these recruits are of such poor quality that the military is essentially doomed.

00:20:57.660 One guy actually told me who was at this school training people, he said he's afraid that the deaths the military is going to report domestically are going to outnumber the ones that they report on deployment that is abroad.

00:21:15.160 So he's essentially scared that these recruits are going to start, you know, misfiring, shooting people on training grounds, causing all sorts of accidents, driving these massive trucks.

00:21:26.260 Like if you've ever seen a military truck or live near a military base, these things could kill people.

00:21:32.260 They could squash any electric vehicle on the road that's zipping by.

00:21:36.580 And he has a genuine fear that these changes are going to put not only other service members in danger, but the Canadian public as well.

00:21:46.660 You know, I was joking about Kim's Convenience, sort of a goofy sitcom with, you know, all the requisite DEI.

00:21:53.400 But that's not even silly enough to keep up with the truth here. 0.60

00:21:57.360 I'm reading your report.

00:21:58.780 Recruiters noted that as a result of these changes, the recruiting school is experiencing significant changes in candidates' basic capabilities.

00:22:09.540 Here's the key line.

00:22:11.140 The government is, quote, modernizing medical standards, which permits candidates to enroll with specific medical limitations.

00:22:20.780 I mean, I can imagine one guy has a limp.

00:22:24.260 Another guy has narcolepsy, that he falls asleep.

00:22:28.640 You know, that's his, what's your special power?

00:22:30.740 I fall asleep every hour.

00:22:33.180 And I mean, if they're specifically permitting disabilities and medical conditions, specifically

00:22:41.320 lowering it just to get numbers, it sounds like, you know, like, I don't know, Mighty

00:22:48.240 Ducks or something.

00:22:49.080 You're assembling this quirky team and they don't speak English and they don't respect women and they're getting into fights and they don't know which end of the bazooka is the pointy end.

00:23:00.760 I mean, I'm laughing and I'm making fun of it. 0.96

00:23:03.560 But this I have your first reaction to this is so silly that no serious country, no serious country would abide this.

00:23:12.320 Let me ask you, is there any chance that the government will blink on this? 0.77

00:23:18.060 Because, boy, David McGinty, the defense minister, was so proud and the media, the regime media, were so proud to write the story.

00:23:26.780 Hey, guys, recruitment is ahead of schedule.

00:23:29.400 They smashed their quotas. 1.00

00:23:31.080 And it was only in the fine print that you saw they were letting in fat, old, racist, illiterate migrants. 1.00

00:23:38.300 whether the liberal government is actually in a change of direction i'm not so certain about that 0.99

00:23:45.840 um what we do know is that they have actually taken some steps to kind of like uh vet some of

00:23:53.680 these permanent resident candidates i believe they've made a requirement recently to make sure

00:23:59.520 that they've at least lived in canada for two years instead of the three months apparently that

00:24:04.760 they were letting in. That seems to be a newer introduction, but I don't. So from what people

00:24:10.800 have told me is that the top down direction to staff is to focus on numbers and making sure that

00:24:19.360 the quantity keeps going up. So if that's their priority, they're going to sacrifice the quality

00:24:26.200 of the recruits that they get. And another thing one of these trainers told me is, is we're

00:24:32.740 essentially keeping out the true warriors, the Canadian warriors from joining the military. 0.73

00:24:39.240 And we're letting in these guys who can't even handle weapons, can't even tie their

00:24:43.660 shoelaces. And I quote that, that's what he told me. It's really troubling. And whether

00:24:49.800 the Liberal government decides to reverse this direction, I don't think so. Because as

00:24:54.560 you said, Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Defence Minister have been lauding what a

00:24:58.360 great job they've been doing, increasing these so-called record number of recruitment. But in

00:25:05.480 reality, when you look at the stock that the Canadian military is getting, and another thing

00:25:12.200 I think about is like once these recruits go into deployment in other countries, it's just going to

00:25:17.320 even further downgrade Canada's reputation in international allies' eyes. Yeah, viewers will

00:25:24.520 recall we showed a clip from the parliamentary committee where i think it was the deputy minister 1.00

00:25:28.300 said that after failing out some of these migrants live on the base like they fail the basic training

00:25:35.960 they get drummed out but hey stay for free on our base in our housing it's the strangest thing

00:25:43.280 you know the united states um has really changed its approach to the military there's no more

00:25:49.040 transgenderism which was a thing in the states also they've renamed their military they've

00:25:53.780 renamed the department. It's now the Department of War, not the Department of Defense.

00:25:58.800 Their choice for Secretary of War is a really active guy himself who likes to film himself

00:26:04.640 actually working out with the troops. He's very aggressive. He uses aggressive language,

00:26:09.620 and he uses the phrase warrior. We're warriors. There's no more wokeness left. There still are

00:26:17.220 women in the U.S. military, of course, but they're not emphasizing the quotas or the DEI. It's 1.00

00:26:22.560 culturally you can feel the shift at least in their identity and i think we're going the exact

00:26:28.400 opposite direction and i think you're right i think that it's going to demoralize actual

00:26:34.080 war fighters who who would sign up for the canadian military i think it's going to turn

00:26:39.360 us into a continued laughing stock i note that we have not participated in various nato training

00:26:45.360 exercises lately just because we're not able to long ago we abandoned maple flag which was like

00:26:51.440 our top gun um i think this is just like a a death rattle and it and it makes me sad i'm laughing

00:26:59.680 i'm just thinking of goofy things for this sitcom but it's not funny at all we used to after the

00:27:06.160 second world war we had the third largest navy in the world like we we punched above our weight

00:27:10.760 and now this last word to you cosmon

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