Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Romanian migrant threatens Irish children with violence

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I have a shocking and terrifying series of selfie videos from a migrant, a refugee 1.00

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00:01:42.060 Tonight, a refugee is finally arrested after threatening to kill children. It's May 30th, 1.00

00:01:49.020 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:53.700 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:02:05.740 I want to show you a series of videos. They're from Ireland, but they could be from the United

00:02:10.740 Kingdom or from France or Germany or Sweden, and they could absolutely be from right here in Canada,

00:02:17.780 because they're part of the same phenomenon, mass immigration, of fake refugees, military-aged men,

00:02:27.060 no vetting, no cultural fit, often mentally ill, here under false pretenses, economically and culturally 0.99

00:02:34.520 unable to fit in, let alone thrive, becoming homeless perhaps, expressing rage, and even madness.

00:02:41.920 I found this video terrifying, and I still do, and multiply this by what? A hundred? A thousand? A hundred

00:02:50.180 thousand? It starts off with this selfie-style video of a migrant from Romania to Ireland. His name

00:02:57.900 apparently is Benjamin Peter, and here he talks about slicing up Irish children. 1.00

00:03:05.220 Motherfuckers, I still see Americans logged in. I see still commercials. My phone switched off, 1.00

00:03:16.440 it switches on, with a commercial in my face. Sluts! 1.00

00:03:24.300 I will slice you and your children in the fucking streets! Every fucking Christian on this planet will be crucified! 1.00

00:03:36.200 What on earth is that? Is that even real? It's like he's possessed by a demon. Oh, yes, that's real. 1.00

00:03:46.600 Did police do anything about it, though? Not that I can find in that first instance,

00:03:52.280 but it took off like wildfire on social media. Some local Irishmen found where he was living,

00:03:59.520 in the middle of a forest of sorts. He had built up a kind of camp in the woods. The men knew that

00:04:07.380 the Irish police, called the Garda, wouldn't do anything about it. In fact, would probably arrest

00:04:12.580 them. But they took it upon themselves to destroy his little camp, and as they went through it, they

00:04:18.500 seized several knives. You can see the man himself briefly in the video. They gave him about 10 minutes

00:04:27.180 to get his stuff and go, before they destroyed his camp.

00:04:32.600 You have 10 minutes to get out of here! You have 10 minutes to get out of here!

00:04:37.820 This is why all these camps need to be broke up all over the country and shut down. These are dangerous

00:04:59.820 men here. Blades, knives, threatening members of the public. All sorts he has here. These camps have to be

00:05:07.800 simple. We can't have this stuff in our country. Men threatening our fucking women and kids like that.

00:05:14.300 Who the fuck does this man think he is? To put all our women and children in danger. 1.00

00:05:23.580 What's that? There's another big blade. Look at that. All these weapons this man is left up here with.

00:05:40.540 There's another noise. Look. Look at the weapons there this man has. Two noise. What's that?

00:05:47.820 A big huge blade. An axe. Look at this fucking setup. People want to start checking all the wooded

00:05:58.860 areas around our communities and ruling these men. Break all these fucking camps up. Something be 0.99

00:06:06.260 happening in our country. These men are let do what they want and threaten all our women and kids.

00:06:11.160 There won't be fucking happening around us. I don't know who the fuck they think they are. 1.00

00:06:17.160 Take the whole thing down. The whole fucking lot. 1.00

00:06:27.160 Over here now. Yeah, well done. No more fucking camp for this cunt. Coming in here to fucking 1.00

00:06:34.160 get a little bit of a deal out of. Threatening our women and kids. 1.00

00:06:44.160 Now we hope the council are going to come in and get a little of all this fucking dirt. 1.00

00:06:48.160 And don't leave it for us to clean it up like we had to do with the other fucking dead. 0.99

00:06:52.160 That's how it's done. Check all that areas because there's dangerous men like this all 0.99

00:07:02.160 over the country. Point down the fucking park. All the bushes. Get up and do something about it. 1.00

00:07:08.160 This isn't a fucking joke anymore. There you go. That's all the blades this man had up here. Look. 0.99

00:07:16.160 Hatchets. Knives. Fucking. Look at that. There's this fucking point there. Look. Bottles of gas.

00:07:23.160 Fucking. Everything the contact is here. That's the fucking end of that. 1.00

00:07:29.160 You know, it shouldn't be that way. It shouldn't be vigilantes. 0.99

00:07:33.160 But the police in Ireland are like the police here in Canada.

00:07:36.160 They have become politicized like the prosecutors and much of the rest of the establishment.

00:07:41.160 It's obviously true in the United Kingdom and increasingly so in the U.S. as well.

00:07:46.160 The whole point of the social contract, the whole idea, is that we agree to some norms as a society.

00:07:53.160 And most of those norms are mild, like customs and manners and simply social graces,

00:07:59.160 like how we treat each other throughout the day.

00:08:02.160 But the more serious rules are given to the police to enforce, backed up with their monopoly on violence.

00:08:08.160 But here is a foreign national, a true danger, and the police won't do anything. 1.00

00:08:15.160 So local men had to step up.

00:08:19.160 This isn't in a vacuum, by the way.

00:08:21.160 Foreign nationals have stabbed children in Ireland before, and in a horrific instance in the United Kingdom last year, too.

00:08:32.160 Well, then came news.

00:08:35.160 This migrant had relocated himself near a school.

00:08:39.160 And I kid you not.

00:08:41.160 And the school went into a lockdown.

00:08:44.160 And then finally, the police arrested him.

00:08:48.160 Here's a story from Dublin Live.

00:08:51.160 School put into lockdown as Guard Eye arrest man over alleged online threats.

00:08:57.160 They weren't alleged.

00:08:58.160 You heard them.

00:08:59.160 One man was arrested by Guard Eye or Guard Eye in, I don't know how you even say this word, Laos.

00:09:05.160 I don't know my Gaelic, forgive me.

00:09:07.160 As part of an ongoing investigation into alleged threats shared online.

00:09:11.160 Why are you using the word alleged?

00:09:13.160 The alleged King of England.

00:09:15.160 Guard Eye have arrested a man in Laos as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged threats shared online.

00:09:22.160 Officers made the arrest in Abilex.

00:09:25.160 Again, forgive me, I can't speak Gaelic.

00:09:27.160 On Wednesday morning, following an ongoing probe into alleged threats that have been shared widely across social media.

00:09:34.160 That's true.

00:09:35.160 While the veracity of the threats cannot be confirmed.

00:09:37.160 What do you mean the veracity of the threats?

00:09:39.160 We heard him say it.

00:09:40.160 It is understood that the alleged remarks were sinister in nature.

00:09:44.160 Well, thanks for granting that.

00:09:47.160 In a video circulating on social media, a man can be heard saying,

00:09:51.160 Irish, I'm coming on top of you now. 1.00

00:09:54.160 I'm going to be slicing your babies, kids and you. 1.00

00:09:57.160 Good for everybody. 1.00

00:09:58.160 Get ready because you pissed me off.

00:10:01.160 What's the alleged part of that threat?

00:10:04.160 Skulmur on the Ballyron Road in Abilex, forgive me my Gaelic, went into lockdown for several hours as a precaution on Wednesday morning,

00:10:13.160 before the male was apprehended by Guard Eye and is now in custody.

00:10:19.160 They literally waited for him to go next to his school before picking him up.

00:10:23.160 Those men moved quickly to take away the knives.

00:10:25.160 But he can buy a knife in five minutes in any place in Ireland.

00:10:29.160 But look at this.

00:10:30.160 I don't know the timing of this.

00:10:32.160 This is suggested he might be out again.

00:10:34.160 I'm trying to confirm it.

00:10:35.160 Take a look.

00:10:36.160 Irish, I'm coming on top of you now. 1.00

00:10:39.160 I'm going to be slicing your babies, kids and you before everybody. 1.00

00:10:45.160 Get ready.

00:10:47.160 I think that may predate his arrest because I think he's actually still in custody awaiting a proper trial.

00:10:54.160 But he's been doing this for years.

00:10:56.160 He has been out on the streets recording threats of violence for years.

00:11:01.160 Here is another video from him purporting to be from 2021, four years ago.

00:11:08.160 All charity shops in Ireland, especially in Dublin since I'm still here.

00:11:15.160 If I walk in a shop, if I walk in a shop of yours and I'm being questioned again and I'm being asked name and where I come from and what's in my ass and what's in my pocket, because you want to help me. 1.00

00:11:31.160 I'm going to fucking kill you with my own hand in that fucking shop myself. 1.00

00:11:41.160 If you wonder how with this, I'm just going to catch a juggler in a fucking second. 1.00

00:11:47.160 You won't even have time to gasp. 0.99

00:11:52.160 When I come and ask for a shower, you let me in and you let me out.

00:11:56.160 No questions asked.

00:11:59.160 Not in the shower, not before shower, not after the shower.

00:12:04.160 Because all you know to do is ask questions.

00:12:09.160 Are you okay?

00:12:11.160 Every two minutes. 0.73

00:12:12.160 I'm fucking okay since you helped me. 0.99

00:12:16.160 I'm so fucking okay since you helped me in Dublin, bitches. 1.00

00:12:21.160 I'm so okay, I want to slice you all. 1.00

00:12:26.160 Bitches. 1.00

00:12:28.160 Again. 1.00

00:12:29.160 Every single fucking charity shop. 1.00

00:12:31.160 It's open 24-7 now. 1.00

00:12:33.160 If it's not, I will fucking kill you and your families. 1.00

00:12:38.160 Son of a bitches. 1.00

00:12:41.160 Hypocrites, motherfuckers. 1.00

00:12:44.160 Acting interesting. 1.00

00:12:45.160 You're uneducated.

00:12:47.160 So I have a question for you.

00:12:49.160 Why?

00:12:52.160 Why is someone from Romania a refugee at all? 0.99

00:12:57.160 Romania is in NATO.

00:12:59.160 Romania is in the European Union.

00:13:02.160 Romania doesn't have a war going on, doesn't have a civil war going on.

00:13:06.160 It's pretty free.

00:13:08.160 I've been there for a few days.

00:13:10.160 It's definitely got that Eastern European post-Soviet vibe to it, but it's not an authoritarian regime.

00:13:16.160 It's not a wasteland.

00:13:17.160 It's not war-torn.

00:13:18.160 So again, why did Ireland take him in?

00:13:23.160 And why have they abided him being an unemployed, unemployable menace, making terrifying threats against children for years?

00:13:31.160 Why even after these latest videos went viral, did police do nothing?

00:13:37.160 Why did it have to fall to vigilantes?

00:13:41.160 Why did police actually wait until he went near a school and the children were surely terrified?

00:13:47.160 Why him and why a thousand others like him?

00:13:52.160 What is their standing?

00:13:54.160 What is their right to come to Ireland or to the United Kingdom or to France or to Germany or to Sweden or to Netherlands or to Belgium or to Austria or to the United States or to Canada?

00:14:04.160 By what right?

00:14:05.160 By what right?

00:14:07.160 They're not employable.

00:14:08.160 They're not adding to the countries they come to.

00:14:11.160 They're a burden at best, a danger at worst.

00:14:15.160 They're the source of terrorism and crime.

00:14:17.160 They have brought fear with them. 0.79

00:14:20.160 Their very first act to claim that they're refugees is a fraud. 0.93

00:14:24.160 Oh, I saw this the other day.

00:14:26.160 It's a new group, unthinkable until recently, the Women's Safety Initiative.

00:14:33.160 Quote, our mission is to expose the dangers of uncontrolled immigration, put women and girls first, advocate for victims and demand real solutions.

00:14:41.160 I like the sounds of that.

00:14:43.160 They'll probably be called racist or something.

00:14:46.160 You know, when I was in Marseille, France, a couple of years ago, a lovely Mediterranean city, there are luxury cafes right near the waterfront.

00:14:54.160 It really is beautiful.

00:14:55.160 I've never been to Monaco or something like that, but this felt like I imagine Monaco might feel elite tourism is what I'm saying.

00:15:03.160 But go two blocks further into the city and it changes.

00:15:09.160 Those lovely patios, they're a few blocks in, but it's just men. 0.94

00:15:16.160 You go a few blocks in.

00:15:18.160 It's just men. 0.63

00:15:19.160 Remember this video?

00:15:20.160 Here we are, Marseille, one of the most fashionable cities in France.

00:15:25.160 And to my right is a woman wearing a halter top showing a lot of skin, very modern woman. 0.92

00:15:32.160 And to my left is a patio and the only women there are wearing head coverings. 1.00

00:15:40.160 And over there is no women at all. 0.99

00:15:48.160 How do these things fit together?

00:15:51.160 I was talking to some Muslim men about their grievances and one of them said people here disrespect the veil.

00:15:59.160 It's like the veil.

00:16:00.160 You have to stop the racism.

00:16:02.160 The racism on TV is too much.

00:16:05.160 They discriminate too much the Muslim race.

00:16:08.160 The women want to go and let people live as they want. 1.00

00:16:12.160 That's all I have to say.

00:16:14.160 And all the other guys seem to agree with them.

00:16:17.160 There were no women around to disagree. 0.89

00:16:19.160 I'm looking at another patio.

00:16:22.160 I don't see a single woman on it.

00:16:25.160 I've been to Paris and there's some bistro patios on the sidewalk that are a hot dating scene.

00:16:34.160 I mean, forget about Tinder.

00:16:35.160 Just go to Paris and sip coffee and have a croissant on a cafe.

00:16:40.160 I mean, there's beautiful people.

00:16:41.160 But that's not the purpose of patios in at least the Muslim parts of Marseille.

00:16:48.160 I mean, here's another woman wearing fairly short shorts, but so it's not Sharia law or anything.

00:16:56.160 But there is a clash of cultures.

00:16:59.160 And it is a divide.

00:17:01.160 That's life in so much of the Islamic world.

00:17:04.160 And Marseille is half Islamic. 1.00

00:17:06.160 Women stay at home. 1.00

00:17:08.160 And if they go out, it's only very briefly.

00:17:10.160 And they're covered head to toe.

00:17:11.160 And they're usually in the company of a male guardian.

00:17:14.160 But I've seen that with my own eyes in the West.

00:17:17.160 I've seen it in Malmo, Sweden, in Marseille, as I've shown you in France.

00:17:22.160 Even in the suburbs of Paris, in Luton in the United Kingdom.

00:17:26.160 That's what those women in the UK are worried about. 1.00

00:17:30.160 This refugee man, Benjamin Peter, is a Romanian man.

00:17:34.160 I don't know what his religion is, but he clearly is unfit to be in any Western country. 0.98

00:17:39.160 And frankly, unfit to be on the streets of Romania either, in my opinion.

00:17:43.160 But I promise you, it's just the tip of the iceberg all across the mass immigration West. 0.99

00:17:48.160 I have just rarely seen it as clearly as I have in these murder threat videos.

00:17:54.160 And the complete lack of attention to it by authorities until he was at the school.

00:18:00.160 You know, in recent days, the Irish government has been seized with their new top priority,

00:18:05.160 changing the definition of the word genocide so they can accuse Israel of it.

00:18:10.160 I'm not kidding.

00:18:11.160 That's a story in itself.

00:18:12.160 They, I guess, implicitly acknowledge Israel has not committed a genocide, 0.86

00:18:17.160 but they want to move the goalposts and change the definition so that it is.

00:18:23.160 But imagine making that your top political priority.

00:18:26.160 It dawned on me why.

00:18:28.160 You see, Ireland has no connection to Israel or Gaza.

00:18:31.160 No ethnic connection, no historical connection, no geographical connection.

00:18:35.160 It dawned on me why.

00:18:37.160 Here's my theory.

00:18:38.160 There are barely 2,000 Jews in all of Ireland, a country of 5 million people.

00:18:43.160 That is 0.04% of the population.

00:18:47.160 So I think what they're doing is about demonizing some outside enemy.

00:18:52.160 There's only 2,000 Jews in Ireland, so you don't have to worry about that.

00:18:56.160 You can demonize Israel as an external enemy, like in George Orwell's 1984, to direct the hate at some outside force.

00:19:06.160 Actually, in 1984, it was called Immanuel Goldstein, a Jew.

00:19:11.160 Because I think people sometimes need a visceral hate against an ethnic group, perhaps, the Jews.

00:19:18.160 And I think in Ireland, what the politicians are doing, this is my theory.

00:19:22.160 Tell me what you think of this theory.

00:19:24.160 I think the Irish politicians are taking the growing rage in Ireland against the mass immigration schemes, and they're trying to misdirect it.

00:19:34.160 They're trying to push it somewhere else.

00:19:36.160 They're so dedicated to mass immigration, they will do anything to change the subject rather than deal with the crisis of people like Benjamin Peter.

00:19:45.160 But in the end, it's social media and citizen journalism that is showing Ireland and the world what mass immigration is like.

00:19:52.160 Oh yeah, and don't think we don't have the same thing in Canada, too.

00:19:57.160 We just lack the men with broad chests willing to go into a camp like that and deal with it.

00:20:03.160 There's one difference between the Irish and us Canadians.

00:20:06.160 Their republic was born in a rebellion, barely a century ago, and it's still in their blood, I think.

00:20:13.160 We Canadians, we're passive, and so we're an easy mark for the Benjamin Peters of the world. 0.61

00:20:20.160 Stay with us for more.

00:20:22.160 Hey, I don't know if you know this, but Canada has been in a recession for years.

00:20:38.160 Now, you might be surprised to hear it from me because you haven't heard it blaring in all the other media, but I'm referring to it on a per-person basis, a per-capita basis.

00:20:46.160 We are each getting poorer.

00:20:48.160 A recession has declined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

00:20:53.160 So really six months in a row where you're getting poorer and poorer and poorer.

00:20:58.160 That's called a recession on a national scale.

00:21:01.160 That's been happening to Canadians on an individual basis.

00:21:05.160 But to cover that up, to hide that decrease, they've just juiced immigration by so much.

00:21:12.160 Literally bringing in millions of foreign nationals just to keep the global number higher.

00:21:18.160 But on a per-person basis, we are all poorer than we were.

00:21:24.160 It's not just that.

00:21:25.160 It's not just that the economy itself is shrinking.

00:21:28.160 It's that the burden that taxpayers must carry is getting heavier.

00:21:33.160 I was shocked to see the headline today by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in a news report by our friend Franco Terrazzano.

00:21:40.160 Here's the headline.

00:21:42.160 Bureaucracy balloons by 99,000 employees over 10 years.

00:21:50.160 That's a city's worth of employees.

00:21:53.160 If you're wondering why it's so hard to make ends meet, it's because you're carrying another 100,000 people on your back.

00:21:59.160 Joining us now via Skype is our friend Franco Terrazzano.

00:22:02.160 Franco, great to see you again.

00:22:04.160 Hey, Ezra.

00:22:05.160 Thanks for having me on.

00:22:06.160 Do you know the total number of federal civil servants?

00:22:11.160 And by the way, why would I limit it to Fed?

00:22:14.160 There's provincial government.

00:22:15.160 There's municipal government.

00:22:17.160 There's so many different people who are not helping to pull the wagon.

00:22:22.160 They're in the wagon while the rest of us push it.

00:22:25.160 Give us the 199,000.

00:22:27.160 That's huge.

00:22:28.160 Yeah.

00:22:29.160 No, no, no.

00:22:30.160 I mean, look, like there's now more than 357,000 federal government bureaucrats.

00:22:36.160 And you're right.

00:22:37.160 It's not just the federal level, right?

00:22:38.160 You got the provincial government bureaucrats, the municipal government bureaucrats.

00:22:42.160 It's really a story of the taxpayers versus the tax consumers, right?

00:22:47.160 The makers versus the takers.

00:22:49.160 But if you look at the federal level, I mean, the bureaucracy has absolutely ballooned over the last decade.

00:22:56.160 There are now 99,000 more federal bureaucrats today than what there was in 2016.

00:23:03.160 And Ezra, I don't remember hearing about some bureaucrat shortage in Ottawa all the way back 10 years ago.

00:23:10.160 And it's not just the number of bureaucrats that are increasing.

00:23:14.160 Taxpayers are also paying for a bigger bureaucracy, taking bigger paychecks, right?

00:23:20.160 So the number of bureaucrats has gone up 38% in a decade, but the cost, the cost of the bureaucracy has gone up 73% since 2016.

00:23:33.160 You know, I didn't realize what a large percentage that was.

00:23:38.160 So if you're saying it's increased by 99,000, and if it's 357,000 today, that means that 10 years ago, and you correct my math, maybe I'm doing this wrong.

00:23:47.160 There was just over a quarter million 10 years ago, 258,000.

00:23:51.160 So that is such a huge increase.

00:23:54.160 It's not like a 5% or a 10% increase.

00:23:58.160 What's 99 over 258?

00:24:00.160 That's got to be close to a 50% increase.

00:24:04.160 We have not received 50% more in services or 50% better services.

00:24:11.160 Like, what are they actually doing?

00:24:14.160 How can you add 100,000 people and everything seems to be worse?

00:24:19.160 The service, like every aspect of government, other than tax collection, that they're doing very well.

00:24:26.160 Well, yeah, you know, they're supposed to be public servants, but who is really serving who right now?

00:24:33.160 You know what I mean?

00:24:34.160 And look, there are seven federal departments that more than doubled in 10 years.

00:24:39.160 Okay.

00:24:40.160 Let me just list some of these numbers off here.

00:24:42.160 Infrastructure Canada saw a 375% increase in its number of bureaucrats in less than a decade.

00:24:51.160 Right? 375% increase.

00:24:54.160 Women and Gender Equality Canada, 334% increase.

00:24:59.160 So there are seven departments that have doubled or more than doubled in the number of bureaucrats over the last 10 years.

00:25:07.160 And as I mentioned, Ezra, it's not just the number that is going up, right?

00:25:11.160 It's also the pay, the bonuses, the perks.

00:25:13.160 So the average compensation, when you look at salary, bonuses, pensions, other types of perks, the average compensation for a federal bureaucrat is now $125,000 a year.

00:25:29.160 Yeah.

00:25:30.160 You know, I'm looking at your press release here, bureaucracy balloons by 99,000 employees over 10 years.

00:25:36.160 And you've got those bullet points, infrastructure Canada up 375%.

00:25:40.160 And I'm just thinking, you know, a lot of infrastructure, when I think infrastructure, I think ports or highways or overpasses, stuff like that.

00:25:48.160 A lot of those are funded by multiple levels of government.

00:25:53.160 You have the city, the province, the feds sometimes.

00:25:55.160 Really, when I think of federal infrastructure, they're not involved in everything.

00:26:03.160 I'm trying to think, why would they need to nearly quadruple the number of bureaucrats that infrastructure can?

00:26:12.160 Like, I don't know what they're doing.

00:26:14.160 But I mean, I live in Toronto, which is a dilapidated city falling apart.

00:26:19.160 What infrastructure are they talking about?

00:26:22.160 Are we getting 375% better infrastructure in this country?

00:26:27.160 Because we've got 375% more bureaucrats in infrastructure. 1.00

00:26:32.160 No, I mean, but that's the whole story across government, right?

00:26:35.160 Where you're seeing the cost of government go up.

00:26:37.160 You're seeing the size of government go up.

00:26:39.160 But yet, taxpayers are not getting better quality services.

00:26:42.160 I mean, like, here's the other startling point here.

00:26:45.160 So, okay, let me talk about the taxpayer funded bonuses.

00:26:48.160 Because I know your listeners, your audience will know of the CBC bonuses, right?

00:26:52.160 That they've been dishing out year after year after year.

00:26:54.160 Well, all of that is also happening across the federal departments as well.

00:26:58.160 So, the federal bureaucrats have taken $1.5 billion in taxpayer funded bonuses since 2015.

00:27:05.160 Well, you might be asking, well, how are they doing?

00:27:09.160 Well, the results are in and the performance is poor.

00:27:13.160 So, look, these federal departments are failing to meet half of their own performance targets every single year.

00:27:22.160 They can barely meet half of their own performance targets.

00:27:25.160 And, like, think about it, folks.

00:27:26.160 Like, these aren't performance targets written by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:27:30.160 This is their own performance targets.

00:27:33.160 It's like they wrote their own tests, and yet they can barely squeak past a D-minus.

00:27:38.160 Yeah.

00:27:39.160 You know, these aren't just jobs that are immune from real life.

00:27:44.160 I mean, if you had a private sector company that was failing as badly as the federal government is failing to provide its services,

00:27:51.160 it would be punished by consumers.

00:27:54.160 They would choose to go elsewhere.

00:27:55.160 But that's the thing about a government.

00:27:56.160 You can't go elsewhere.

00:27:58.160 You can't say, I'm quitting Rogers and going to Shaw or quitting Bell and going to Fido or whatever.

00:28:04.160 You can't do that.

00:28:06.160 The government has a monopoly.

00:28:08.160 You can't run away from their crappitude.

00:28:10.160 But not only are those 99,000 and now I guess more than a third of a million employees immune from the vicissitudes of this economy that punished the rest of us,

00:28:25.160 but they have become a voting bloc.

00:28:27.160 You know, it is now a major, I mean, if you take the 357,000 or 358,000 bureaucrats who work for Mark Carney,

00:28:37.160 and let's say each one of them has a spouse and each one of them has a kid or two,

00:28:41.160 that is a major voting bloc that will never vote for smaller government.

00:28:47.160 I think at a certain point in time, the government is such a huge distortionary effect.

00:28:52.160 It's like a black hole that just sucks everything into it.

00:28:55.160 What do you think?

00:28:57.160 No, I think you bring up a good point.

00:28:58.160 The only thing is, is I think you might even be understating it, right?

00:29:01.160 Because you said 358,000 as a voting bloc.

00:29:05.160 But I mean, there's also the provincial government bureaucrats and the municipal government bureaucrats on top of it.

00:29:10.160 So this is absolutely a huge concern, right?

00:29:13.160 Because like, why would a bureaucrat want to vote to reduce the size of government, right?

00:29:18.160 They're not going to vote themselves out of a job.

00:29:20.160 So the problem also exists here because in the private sector and the free market, none of this nonsense would be allowed to survive, right?

00:29:28.160 Like if they were a business, they would be kicked out of the marketplace by consumers.

00:29:34.160 So the problem that we're facing here is the fact that you have this monopolized government, of course, but it's also that we don't have any political will from the politicians to actually clean up this mess, right?

00:29:45.160 So Carney is very much on the record saying he's not going to cut the government bureaucrats.

00:29:49.160 He's going to cap the size of the bureaucracy.

00:29:52.160 So essentially entrenching the Trudeau era out of control bureaucrat hiring spree.

00:29:59.160 But then also, too, right, like we got to call out the other parties as well, like even Mr. Polyev and the conservatives.

00:30:06.160 They have not taken a hard stand against the absolute runaway costs that is the ballooning federal bureaucracy.

00:30:14.160 So the real problem that I think we're facing here is a lack of political leadership given our current circumstances where we're not really hearing any of the major parties really come out and say what has to be done.

00:30:27.160 And that is a massive reduction in the number of bureaucrats, but also in their pay and perks. 0.84

00:30:32.160 Hey, you know, after the election, I was I mean, I tried to put my best foot forward and say, well, you know, was close and Donald Trump upended things.

00:30:43.160 And I was it was sort of copium, as the kids say.

00:30:47.160 And listen, I'm used to setbacks.

00:30:52.160 I've always been a bit of a rebel.

00:30:54.160 So when you're a rebel, you're always, you know, fighting as a bit of a dissident.

00:30:58.160 You're always in the opposition.

00:31:00.160 You're never really in power, so to speak.

00:31:03.160 But I was a little down in the dumps because I had thought, well, we're going to bring in a new leader that is going to fix a lot of things from 10 years of Trudeau.

00:31:14.160 And instead, Trudeau 2.0 squeaked in.

00:31:17.160 What are you hearing from your base?

00:31:20.160 You're a grassroots organization with individual members across the country, severely normal folks.

00:31:27.160 Just about the general mood of things.

00:31:30.160 How are your people feeling?

00:31:32.160 What are they saying to you?

00:31:34.160 Yeah, well, as a reference, let me just say, I totally understand the sentiment, right?

00:31:38.160 Like, you know, I totally get it.

00:31:40.160 And we actually surveyed our supporters immediately following the election.

00:31:45.160 And to my absolute surprise, and I was very happy about this, is our supporters were ready to keep fighting.

00:31:52.160 Yeah.

00:31:53.160 They were motivated to keep fighting.

00:31:54.160 I was a little bit worried that, you know, some people would be, you know, go through a stage of apathy following the election.

00:32:00.160 But no, our CTF supporters overwhelmingly were ready to get back on the saddle and get back to work.

00:32:06.160 And, you know, Ezra, I mean, you and I, what else are we going to do, right?

00:32:10.160 We believe in what we believe very strongly.

00:32:12.160 Yeah.

00:32:13.160 And it's time to get back into the fight and just keep swinging away.

00:32:17.160 Well, I like your attitude.

00:32:18.160 You're always high energy, always a positive guy.

00:32:21.160 And you've got to be.

00:32:22.160 If you're in the business like yours, you can't be, you know, down in the dumps.

00:32:26.160 And even if you are for a moment, you've got to pick yourself up, get back on that horse and keep going.

00:32:30.160 And that's what we love about the Taxpayers Federation.

00:32:32.160 And I'm glad that your grassroots members are saying that because we need Franco and the Taxpayers Federation more than ever.

00:32:41.160 Thanks for catching up with us.

00:32:42.160 Stay in touch.

00:32:43.160 And hopefully we'll have good news one day.

00:32:45.160 But in the meantime, we have to tell people the truth about the bad news.

00:32:49.160 Yeah, we do. Ezra, thanks so much for having me on the show today.

00:32:51.160 Really appreciate it.

00:32:52.160 My pleasure.

00:32:53.160 There he is, Franco Teresano, the boss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:32:57.160 Stay with us.

00:32:58.160 Your letters to me next.

00:33:12.160 Hey, welcome back.

00:33:13.160 Your letters to me.

00:33:14.160 AdCap says, send homeless encampments to Olivia Chow's lawn. 1.00

00:33:19.160 Yeah, you know, I guarantee you that the elites who dominate our politics, our media, our judiciary, all the fancy people, they are well insulated from the decisions they make for the rest of us.

00:33:36.160 I think that's pretty obvious.

00:33:37.160 I think it was very obvious during the COVID crisis.

00:33:40.160 They all enjoyed a staycation.

00:33:43.160 At most, they worked from their laptop at home or from the cottage, while people who worked as bartenders and waitresses and clerks in the stores, they were the ones who were unemployed.

00:33:54.160 Yeah, the decisions made by the elites often don't affect them, do they?

00:33:59.160 Next letter is from Matthew Powell, who says about these black only homeless shelters, how black and who decides is exactly what I asked when Trudeau announced his business loans for blacks. 0.63

00:34:11.160 I mean, you can't pull someone up by pulling someone else down.

00:34:18.160 And I think the promise of Abe Lincoln, who I quoted yesterday, and the promise of Martin Luther King was that we would all become free and peaceful together.

00:34:28.160 You know, Elon Musk said that we're all descended from slaves if you go back far enough.

00:34:35.160 I think that's true.

00:34:36.160 I mean, the idea of freedom and democracy is a relatively new idea.

00:34:40.160 I mean, there were moments of it going back to Greece, I suppose, and even earlier.

00:34:45.160 But the default state of man is, as, you know, Hobbes said, nasty, brutish, and short.

00:34:57.160 Life was nasty, brutish, and short.

00:35:00.160 A war of all against all. 0.77

00:35:02.160 And slavery was the norm.

00:35:04.160 That's why that slavery is in the Bible.

00:35:06.160 It's not even, you know, in the Bible in a controversial way.

00:35:10.160 It's just a thing.

00:35:11.160 It was like wallpaper.

00:35:13.160 It was always there.

00:35:15.160 It's only in the miraculous recent present, thanks in large part to the British Empire, that the world is relatively slavery free.

00:35:26.160 The idea is to make that the happy, steady state, not to flip it around and try and turn former slaveholders into slaves.

00:35:38.160 Because no one they're punishing today was ever a slaveholder, and no one they're benefiting today was ever a slave.

00:35:45.160 The people you're giving these false benefits to never suffered the racism.

00:35:49.160 And the people you're punishing never meted out the racism.

00:35:53.160 Last letter on the Red Deer event.

00:35:56.160 SG says, independence for the whole West.

00:35:59.160 Alberta and Saskatchewan to start, but then also BC, Manitoba, and maybe even Yukon and Northwest Territories.

00:36:05.160 I mean, the whole West gets the shaft from the East.

00:36:08.160 How can people tolerate being treated with disdain as a colony in their own country?

00:36:11.160 You're talking about our big town hall meeting that we're scheduling for Red Deer, Alberta, on Saturday, June 14th.

00:36:18.160 If you're in Alberta, I hope you can make it.

00:36:20.160 Actually, early next week, I'm going to be in Regina.

00:36:24.160 We have almost 500 people coming in Regina, which is not a huge city, to talk about the future of Saskatchewan.

00:36:32.160 And I think that, you know, Preston Manning wrote it in the Globe and Mail a few weeks ago, and I think some people were shocked by it.

00:36:39.160 He said, if Mark Carney wins, he could be the last prime minister of what we now call Canada.

00:36:43.160 And he was scolded for that, but I think he may have been prescient about that.

00:36:48.160 I think he may be right.

00:36:50.160 If Mark Carney continues the war against Alberta and the war against the West and the war against the oil industry and continues to exacerbate things,

00:37:00.160 I see new statistics show that in the first four months of this year, there were 817,000 new immigrants to Canada.

00:37:10.160 You do that on an annualized basis, that's a staggering 2.5 million.

00:37:14.160 That is 10 times the number of immigration that Stephen Harper had as prime minister.

00:37:19.160 If you keep up the push and the pull, you're going to push Alberta and the rest right out of this country.

00:37:25.160 That's my prophecy.

00:37:26.160 Well, that's our show for today, and that's the week.

00:37:30.160 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home,

00:37:35.160 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 30, 2025

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