Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ SHOCKER： Sharia law states want Hamas gone!

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Very interesting days. Qatar and Saudi Arabia calling together for Hamas to 0.84

00:00:07.280 lay down its arms and get out of Gaza. I don't think I've heard of that before of you. I'll 0.96

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00:00:52.640 Tonight, why are Canada's liberals more pro-Hamas than even Sharia law Muslim countries like 0.99

00:00:59.500 Saudi Arabia and now Qatar? It's July 30th. And this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:07.840 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:11.100 Hey, look at this story from the Times of Israel. Very interesting headline. It reads,

00:01:26.260 Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. Signed declaration calling for Hamas to disarm. End rule of Gaza at UN

00:01:35.440 two-state confab. So basically, I mean, there's a lot in this. And I read the very lengthy document.

00:01:43.000 There's some good stuff and some bad stuff. I mean, it's a UN document. But I think the news here,

00:01:48.880 as you can see in the headline, is that some most powerful Arab Muslim countries are saying,

00:01:54.540 Hamas, you got to go. Let me read a little bit from the story. 0.89

00:01:57.120 Arab countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. And notice that Egypt borders Gaza,

00:02:04.220 if you didn't know, have signed onto a statement calling for Hamas to disarm

00:02:10.340 and end its rule of Gaza in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

00:02:18.040 17 countries, plus the European Union and Arab League, are throwing their weight behind a seven-page

00:02:24.280 text obtained by the Times of Israel, agreed at the United Nations Conference on reviving the

00:02:29.560 two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. So I'll just read a little bit from their declaration

00:02:35.880 now. In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its 0.75

00:02:45.780 weapons to the Palestinian Authority with international engagement and support in line with the objective

00:02:51.540 of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state, says the declaration. Now, I skimmed through the

00:02:57.840 document. There are some terrible anti-Israel things in there, too, for sure. But still, it couldn't

00:03:04.020 be clearer. Hamas is no longer being protected, let alone championed even by its very longtime hosts and

00:03:12.180 funders, Qatar. I think that's an important change. And I think it's completely due to Donald Trump,

00:03:18.400 by the way. Now, other countries signed on to this, too, including France and the United Kingdom,

00:03:23.380 who also call for a Palestinian state. So there's that. I mean, they basically want to reward Hamas 0.94

00:03:30.960 for October 7th. But here they are saying Hamas must go. Of course, it really only matters what

00:03:37.500 America says. Am I wrong? Here's Trump on the plane to the UK the other day talking about

00:03:42.860 not rewarding Hamas, as he says Keir Starmer, the PM of Britain, is doing.

00:03:47.980 Is there any use at all in pressuring Israel now to come to some sort of longer-term solution?

00:03:53.620 Well, you could make the case that you're rewarding people, that, you know, you're rewarding Hamas if 0.87

00:03:58.840 you do that. And I don't think they should be rewarded. So I'm not in that camp, to be honest.

00:04:06.360 We'll let you know where we are, but I am not in that camp. Because if you do that, you really are

00:04:11.220 rewarding Hamas. And I'm not about to do that. 0.84

00:04:14.460 But I think Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are getting a bit sick of things.

00:04:20.220 I think they're actually becoming the real leaders in the Arab world. I mean, when you think of

00:04:24.520 the capital city of Arabia, obviously, it's dozens of countries. But obviously, you think of Dubai.

00:04:30.860 Maybe you think of Cairo, one of the largest cities in the world, but maybe just for its history and

00:04:35.240 its size. But the future, the wealth, the excitement, the internationalism, Dubai is the way.

00:04:42.540 Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, a very liberal country that has already made peace with Israel

00:04:47.940 and that has a very strong program against Islamification, against radical Islam.

00:04:54.660 By the way, here is Saudi Arabia, which is catching up to the UAE in that regard.

00:05:00.020 Here's Saudi Arabia. That's a few years ago. But listen to this tough talk from their foreign 1.00

00:05:04.700 minister.

00:05:05.100 Could you say a few words about the falling out on the one hand of Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the

00:05:15.200 one hand and Qatar on the other? Are you moving toward a resolution of that situation? 0.98

00:05:21.100 It's not a falling out. It's just we don't want to have anything to do with them.

00:05:30.900 The Qataris, since the mid-90s, have been sponsoring radicals. They have been inciting people. 1.00

00:05:40.440 They have become a base for the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. And the Muslim Brotherhood, 0.94

00:05:45.140 you have to keep in mind, is what begot us Takfir and Hijra, which begot us Al-Qaeda, which 0.95

00:05:51.580 begot us Al-Nusra.

00:05:54.940 The Qataris allow their senior religious clerics to go on television and justify suicide bombings. 0.91

00:06:02.460 That's not acceptable.

00:06:04.040 The Qataris harbor and shelter terrorists. That's not acceptable.

00:06:07.400 Al-Nashri, the head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in 2000, entered Saudi Arabia on a

00:06:14.880 Qatari passport. We captured Al-Qaeda types coming into Saudi Arabia with Qatari passports.

00:06:20.720 The Qataris know this. The Americans know this. The world knows this. The Qataris are funding 0.58

00:06:25.400 dissidents in the Emirates and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and in Kuwait in order to cause problems

00:06:32.340 for those governments and to create instability. Why would you do this? The Qataris pay ransom 1.00

00:06:38.940 to terrorist groups, including $500 million to Hezbollah in Iraq, $50 million to Qasem Soleimani,

00:06:48.700 according to text messages between the Qatari ambassador in Iraq and the foreign minister of

00:06:53.780 Iraq, including, I don't know how much, to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Is that acceptable?

00:06:57.920 If we gave $1 to Hezbollah in Iraq, we'd be sued in a court down the street. And so the 0.57

00:07:04.520 Qataris use their media platforms to spread hate. The Qataris send weapons to Al-Qaeda-affiliated 0.95

00:07:17.520 militias in Libya. The Qatari Amir was conniving with Gaddafi on how to overthrow Saudi Arabia. The

00:07:26.520 Qataris connected Gaddafi with a Saudi dissident in London, who they fund, who connected the Libyans 0.85

00:07:34.820 with a group in Mecca with the objective of assassinating the then Crown Prince, later King

00:07:40.520 of Saudi Arabia. Is this acceptable? In 2012, we cut off relations with them, the same countries. 0.81

00:07:50.240 Annihilated, they came back and agreed that they will end all of this nonsense. And they signed an

00:07:57.540 agreement. And nothing happened. So this time, we said, you know what, we're not going to deal

00:08:05.540 with you. Until, unless you change, this, we will not allow you. There's a list of terror finances that 0.60

00:08:13.840 the US puts out, the UN puts out. And a number of them are living openly in Qatar, raising money and

00:08:19.540 giving it to bad people. Is this acceptable? Shouldn't be. Why do the Qataris get away with it? Because I think 0.97

00:08:27.140 people see a young country, young leadership, they buy fancy buildings, they have a nice airline, and they

00:08:37.040 think, wow, these guys are really modern. But we have to deal with the dark side that I just explained.

00:08:43.540 So in a way, things are going well in the region. I mean, for Israel, it was a terrible massacre on 0.74

00:08:50.660 October 7th, 2023. But militarily, they have rubbled their enemy Hamas. And unfortunately, there are 0.59

00:08:59.160 collateral damage to the citizens that Hamas hid underneath. They destroyed Hezbollah with that 0.95

00:09:06.800 startling pager explosion that took out 2,500 senior military leaders of Hezbollah and took out

00:09:16.140 the big boss there with really without a war. Syria, total regime change. And of course, Iran

00:09:23.200 was deeply degraded in their military abilities, including their nukes. Things are different on

00:09:28.960 the ground. But the problem is, Israel, for just as much as it's winning the hard war, the hot war, 0.52

00:09:35.260 the kinetic war. It's losing the propaganda war terribly so. Here's an image that was on the front

00:09:42.720 page of the New York Times and countless other media as well. A picture purporting to show a child

00:09:49.660 who had been starved by those Israeli occupiers. But turns out that child actually was not suffering 0.72

00:09:59.380 from starvation. The child had a rare and different chronic condition, nothing to do with the war,

00:10:06.100 had actually been attended to by Israeli physicians. But Hamas knows propaganda and knows

00:10:11.760 that Western media will publish anything. 55 million people saw the lie on the front page of the

00:10:20.360 New York Times. At least that's how many people follow the New York Times main Twitter account.

00:10:25.540 The Times printed this retraction and correction yesterday on a tiny Twitter account with just

00:10:33.840 89,000 followers. Why would they tell the defamatory lie to 55 million people, but just have their

00:10:41.300 correction on an 89,000 person corporate account? Why would they do that? Because it wasn't a mistake.

00:10:48.680 Of course, it's not a mistake any more than citing the Hamas figures for casualties. That's not a mistake.

00:10:54.920 They know that Hamas is a propaganda organization, yet every single time they quote Hamas and show

00:11:01.320 Hamas images as the truth. Well, here in Canada, I mean, no one really cares what our foreign minister

00:11:07.680 says. I bet you you'd have trouble naming our foreign minister. It's not Melanie Jolie. It's Anita Anand.

00:11:14.220 And here's her comments the other day.

00:11:16.060 And one that charts a path toward lasting regional peace and prosperity. As Article 1 of the UN

00:11:26.960 Declaration of Human Rights states, all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

00:11:36.680 Canada remains firmly committed to a two-state solution, an independent, viable, and sovereign

00:11:46.300 Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security. Canada supports the Palestinian

00:11:56.160 people's right to self-determination, and we endorse the principle of Palestinian statehood.

00:12:03.500 We shall continue to discuss with the Palestinian Authority the next steps in our relationship.

00:12:12.620 A workable Palestinian state needs legitimate democratic governance that serves all Palestinian

00:12:20.760 people. Crucially important is the Palestinian Authority's commitment to undertake the comprehensive

00:12:29.340 reforms necessary to govern Gaza and the West Bank. To that end, today, Canada is pledging an additional

00:12:38.580 $10 million this year.

00:12:41.580 I don't think there's a single decision maker in the world who cares what Anita Anand has to say,

00:12:49.660 except and other than Hamas itself, which has now sent three thank you letters to Canada's liberals.

00:12:58.460 That is so, so gross.

00:13:00.700 For the reasons I cited earlier, Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th session

00:13:06.660 of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025.

00:13:12.460 This intention is predicated on the Palestinian Authority's commitment to much-needed reforms,

00:13:18.440 including commitments by the Palestinian Authority's President Abbas to fundamentally reform its

00:13:24.040 governance, to hold general elections in 2026, in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize

00:13:31.920 the Palestinian state.

00:13:34.620 Canada will increase its efforts in supporting strong democratic governance in Palestine

00:13:39.100 and the contributions of its people to a more peaceful and hopeful future.

00:13:44.400 I spoke today with President Abbas at length to reaffirm his commitment.

00:13:52.600 Canada reiterates that Hamas must immediately release all hostages taken in the horrific terrorist

00:13:59.140 attack of October 7th, that Hamas must disarm, and that Hamas must play no role in the future

00:14:07.160 governance of Palestine.

00:14:10.900 Canada will always steadfastly support Israel's existence as an independent state in the Middle

00:14:15.760 East living in peace and security.

00:14:20.120 Any path to lasting peace for Israel also requires a viable and stable Palestinian state, and one

00:14:27.340 that recognizes Israel's inalienable right to security and peace.

00:14:31.900 Israel is losing the PR war though, it's winning the war war, and with Trump it might actually

00:14:38.080 win the peace in the region.

00:14:40.060 Wouldn't that be something if the Abraham Accords round two created another peace deal with Iran

00:14:47.720 knocked down to size and some other terrorist forces denuded?

00:14:51.840 Imagine if Saudi Arabia sanded on to that, and the word is, when the king, who's very aged himself, passes away, his successor, the crown prince, will make peace with Israel. 0.56

00:15:03.660 I believe it.

00:15:04.760 I personally flew across Saudi Arabia with a whole rebel gang.

00:15:08.320 We had 60 people with us in what we called the Abraham Accords Strip.

00:15:11.380 We flew from Tel Aviv to Dubai over Saudi Arabia in an Al-Israeli Airlines jet that would have been impossible a decade ago.

00:15:22.580 For all the talk of World War III and how Trump was going to blow up the world, it didn't happen.

00:15:28.920 There's never been a bigger chance for peace in the region.

00:15:31.500 Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace several times over.

00:15:34.480 It's the West that I'm worried about.

00:15:39.600 It's London.

00:15:41.020 It's Toronto.

00:15:42.080 It's Montreal that I'm worried about.

00:15:44.320 The Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group is legal in Canada.

00:15:48.640 It's banned in the United Arab Emirates and places like that.

00:15:52.160 I hate to see people being anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic just as the ultimate virtue signal.

00:16:02.380 You know, all wars are horrific.

00:16:05.080 Here's a terrible picture of a large city turned into rubble.

00:16:08.820 No, that's not Gaza.

00:16:10.280 That's Mosul. 0.55

00:16:12.700 The United States and the United Kingdom turned it into rubble.

00:16:15.660 I don't know how many children died.

00:16:17.300 I don't know how many civilians died there.

00:16:20.000 Like with Hamas, ISIS melds in with the population. 0.73

00:16:24.020 They don't just ride around in tanks.

00:16:26.080 That's what happens in war.

00:16:27.380 That's why war is so horrible.

00:16:28.580 Just like the bombings of Dresden and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

00:16:34.940 That is war.

00:16:35.800 War is hell.

00:16:37.300 Suddenly being Israel, attacking Israel is a sign of an ultimate virtue signal. 0.85

00:16:44.040 And I think it gives people license to be anti-Semitic.

00:16:46.800 I think things are more anti-Semitic.

00:16:48.920 I'm not talking about anti-Israel.

00:16:49.980 I'm talking anti-Jewish in the world than has been since the 1940s. 0.75

00:16:54.720 I'm more worried about Canada than I am about Israel. 0.82

00:17:00.660 We'll see how things go in the months and years ahead.

00:17:03.440 Stay with us for more.

00:17:13.160 There are a lot of moral hazards to being a diplomat.

00:17:17.100 For example, if you work in the Canadian embassy in China for even just a few years,

00:17:23.240 you are working for the interests of Canada, supposedly.

00:17:28.140 But the minute you're done, your ability to sell your services to either side of that

00:17:34.660 equation in the private sector is enormous.

00:17:37.360 Imagine saying to a Canadian investor into China, hey, I know the ropes.

00:17:42.020 I have all these connections from being a diplomat in Beijing.

00:17:45.520 Or imagine saying the opposite.

00:17:47.440 Imagine saying to the Chinese side, well, I am connected in Canada.

00:17:52.140 I know how the embassy works.

00:17:54.260 I know how the security side works.

00:17:56.500 The trade side works.

00:17:57.920 That is a moral hazard, an ethical hazard.

00:18:01.940 It's one of the problems of the foreign ministry.

00:18:05.980 And it was ever thus.

00:18:07.300 But what about people who go beyond ethical questions?

00:18:12.000 I mean, by the way, if you're wondering if that ever happened, I put it to you that

00:18:14.800 Jean Chrétien, when he retired as prime minister within six weeks, went to work as a lobbyist

00:18:20.040 for communist China.

00:18:20.980 Do you remember that?

00:18:22.300 Anyways, what about people, though, who can't wait till they're retired before selling their

00:18:28.540 connections and influence?

00:18:30.380 What about diplomats who literally start selling influence or embezzling or selling visas while

00:18:37.820 they work for the government?

00:18:39.820 Joining us now to talk about this and the number of diplomats who have been fired for it

00:18:46.160 is our friend Franco Teresana, the boss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:18:50.480 He joins us now via Ottawa.

00:18:52.100 Franco, good to see you.

00:18:53.660 Hey, Ezra.

00:18:54.120 Thanks for having me on.

00:18:55.400 Oh, it's a pleasure.

00:18:56.180 You know, I just I really think of that Beijing embassy because that was a starting point of

00:19:00.740 so many lucrative careers for consultants.

00:19:04.040 But what we're talking about here is something more dastardly, actual crimes.

00:19:08.040 Tell us a little bit of the story that our friends at Black Locks broke this morning.

00:19:13.140 Yeah, well, shout out to Black Locks. 0.98

00:19:15.500 I mean, they're doing some great investigative journalist work, right, showing you how governments

00:19:19.600 are wasting and spending your money.

00:19:22.120 And like, look, this is gross.

00:19:23.780 I really felt sick to my stomach reading this story, just knowing how hard Canadians work

00:19:28.280 for the money they earn and the taxes they pay.

00:19:30.800 And meanwhile, you have 22 Canadian diplomats that were fired.

00:19:35.280 OK, some of the allegations or some of the reporting that Black Locks looked into, by the

00:19:40.700 way, from records from the Department of Foreign Affairs, soliciting kickbacks, gross, falsifying

00:19:48.540 receipts so that they can claim allowances, misusing government issued fuel cards, falsifying

00:19:56.080 travel expenses.

00:19:58.060 I mean, this really is some gross stuff that was reported by Black Locks.

00:20:03.200 And again, they're just reporting what was in reports from the Department of Foreign Affairs

00:20:07.900 itself.

00:20:09.180 You know, there's four words in this story that I think are even worse than what you've

00:20:15.000 described.

00:20:15.500 Let me read the first two sentences in the story.

00:20:18.080 Some of it you've touched on.

00:20:20.260 22 Canadian diplomats were fired last year for fraud, theft, embezzlement, soliciting kickbacks,

00:20:25.620 and other wrongdoing, according to Department of Foreign Affairs figures.

00:20:28.080 And then here are those four words, Franco.

00:20:30.360 No police were called.

00:20:35.520 Hang on, embezzling, selling interest.

00:20:39.000 Like what they're doing is like we don't have the details here, but maybe it's selling a

00:20:43.180 citizenship visa or like a path to citizenship.

00:20:47.060 Maybe it's, you know, a kickback for a contract.

00:20:50.180 Those are serious offenses that typically in the private sector, the cops would be called.

00:20:55.040 But the private sector, you know, theft is more important than PR.

00:20:59.860 Here, PR rules.

00:21:01.620 Imagine 22 serious crimes and they just didn't call the police, Franco.

00:21:06.820 That's crazy to me.

00:21:08.680 Well, you know, I hope what this reporting from Black Slacks does is really kick off further. 1.00

00:21:15.060 I don't know how to say further auditing within the House of Commons.

00:21:18.320 Right, Ezra?

00:21:18.860 Like you'll kind of remember how the Arrive Can story, how that developed into a national

00:21:24.040 scandal where there was initial reports of the app ballooning somehow to $54 million.

00:21:29.420 And then members of Parliament, the House of Commons, other people, other journalists just

00:21:33.880 kept smashing some of the records around Arrive Can.

00:21:38.420 And eventually it became a national scandal.

00:21:40.600 So I'm really hoping that that's what can happen when it comes to Global Affairs Canada.

00:21:45.020 Right, because this is one of the worst waste offenders in the entire government.

00:21:49.560 You know, Ezra, I mentioned off the top that you had 22 Canadian diplomats who were fired.

00:21:54.280 But you know what my first thought was?

00:21:56.360 Is why aren't more bureaucrats at Global Affairs Canada being fired? 0.68

00:21:59.920 Right?

00:22:00.320 Who are the bureaucrats who decided to spend $8,800 on a sex toy show in Germany? 0.96

00:22:05.480 Who are they?

00:22:06.540 And why aren't they fired?

00:22:07.960 Right?

00:22:08.180 Who are the bureaucrats who decided to spend $12,000 on a show where senior citizens in other

00:22:13.540 countries could talk about their sex lives in front of live audiences?

00:22:16.940 Who are those bureaucrats? 1.00

00:22:18.480 And why aren't they fired?

00:22:19.800 How about the bureaucrats at Global Affairs who's approving $51,000 a month on booze? 0.99

00:22:25.040 Who are those bureaucrats? 1.00

00:22:26.180 And why aren't they fired?

00:22:27.940 Right?

00:22:28.180 So I hope what this reporting can do from Black Locks is put a spotlight on some of the stuff

00:22:32.880 going in that's happening at this department.

00:22:35.480 And I hope our members of Parliament can run with it and continue to dive into the wasteful details.

00:22:41.180 Franco is absolutely on fire here.

00:22:43.120 It's a pleasure to see.

00:22:44.640 Hey, you know what?

00:22:45.660 I have a theory for you.

00:22:47.280 And again, I'm not being partisan here, but I remember when Stephen Harper was in office

00:22:50.920 and his foreign trips often were cut short, as in they didn't stay an extra night.

00:22:57.840 They would fly home at night just to avoid staying in a fancy hotel.

00:23:03.220 Like Stephen Harper's entire foreign affairs style was to really limit chances for, oh, why

00:23:10.320 did you stay an $800 a night hotel kind of thing?

00:23:13.240 He literally came back like he would rather get on the plane and come home than risk that.

00:23:18.340 That was his style.

00:23:19.820 Remember, that was when Bev Oda was sacked for a $16 room service orange juice.

00:23:26.200 Well, what kind of example have we had for 10 years?

00:23:32.060 And now Mark Carney having 600 conflicts of interest.

00:23:35.620 I think what I'm saying is a fish rots from the head down.

00:23:38.840 Leadership starts at the top.

00:23:40.200 So if you've got a penny pinching Scottish accountant in the form of Stephen Harper, who's

00:23:48.320 making a, you know, who's making an example by being frugal versus the billionaire oligarch

00:23:56.360 Mark Carney, who refuses to divest, or Anita Anand's husband, who just happens to be involved

00:24:03.100 in so many government contracts.

00:24:05.140 I think people get the message, which is get while the getting's good.

00:24:08.380 And as long as you get away with it, you're fine.

00:24:10.480 And if you're caught, no big deal.

00:24:12.120 The police won't be called.

00:24:13.200 I think this is a moral example that comes from the top.

00:24:16.540 Well, Ezra, first, I just want to say, look, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we're filing

00:24:20.480 access to information requests every time Carney goes on a trip overseas, right?

00:24:25.680 So we're going to be getting all those records in and we're going to be exposing what type

00:24:29.380 of spending the Carney government is undertaking.

00:24:31.980 But, you know, your point about the Trudeau government, and it's just massively wasteful and

00:24:36.400 extravagant spending overseas.

00:24:37.880 Look, and we all remember who it was who billed us taxpayers $6,000 per night hotel suite during

00:24:44.880 the Queen's funeral in London, England.

00:24:46.680 It was the right Honorable Justin Trudeau.

00:24:48.920 Or how about the time that he spent $61,000 on a two-day star-studded conference?

00:24:55.440 What was the conference about in Manhattan, by the way?

00:24:58.920 Fighting poverty, you know?

00:25:00.700 So Trudeau was fighting poverty the only way he knew how, with selfies and room service.

00:25:05.960 So we've seen so much extravagant waste over the last decade or so, it's getting out of

00:25:12.200 hand.

00:25:12.700 But Ezra, let's look at the big picture here and let's just expand all of the foreign aid,

00:25:17.600 okay?

00:25:18.280 The government spent $11 billion on foreign aid in 2023-24.

00:25:24.680 $11 billion on foreign aid.

00:25:27.060 Ezra, I went through the departments, okay?

00:25:29.060 In that same year, the government spent $6 billion through the entire Department of Veterans

00:25:35.500 Affairs.

00:25:36.480 Wow.

00:25:36.960 $11 billion for foreign aid, $6 billion through Veterans Affairs.

00:25:41.380 Almost double on foreign aid as what the government was spending through Veterans Affairs.

00:25:46.200 Let that sink in.

00:25:47.260 Wow.

00:25:47.500 I tell you, I'm worried because Mark Carney, he's giving off mixed signals.

00:25:53.200 He talks about cutting certain budgets and it gets me a little bit excited, but then

00:25:56.700 he goes and brings in the largest deficit.

00:25:59.060 Like it's almost, how many commas would $92 billion be?

00:26:02.720 That would be, how many digits is that?

00:26:04.580 That's like, oh, 11 figures or something.

00:26:07.520 I mean, these are, don't tell them what comes after a trillion, I always say.

00:26:11.440 Anyways, Frank, I'm glad you guys are on the beat.

00:26:13.680 Keep coming with your access to information requests.

00:26:15.840 And like you said earlier, blacklocks.ca is just such a great news source and we subscribe

00:26:22.080 to it here.

00:26:22.900 It's not cheap, but they do research that no one else does.

00:26:26.000 Hey, let me throw something in here.

00:26:27.000 Just curious.

00:26:28.720 What do you think about Justin Trudeau going on a date with Katy Perry?

00:26:32.460 I think that's the right place for him.

00:26:35.520 That's, you know, a little bit of celebrity, aging celebrity past their prime.

00:26:40.720 He, you know, he doesn't have to well read briefing notes.

00:26:43.400 He's probably using his own money for the first time in memory.

00:26:47.160 I think it's a really good look for him.

00:26:49.180 I think this is the best Justin Trudeau has been in years.

00:26:53.420 I, for me, I totally support this.

00:26:55.420 What do you think?

00:26:56.760 Well, you know, now that he's not wasting taxpayers' money, Ezra, I couldn't care less

00:27:00.920 who he's going on dates with.

00:27:02.900 You know?

00:27:03.520 Well, fair deal.

00:27:06.900 I was just joking around.

00:27:08.060 I just have to say this.

00:27:08.980 The first normal thing he's done in 10 years, and I'm glad he's doing it with his own money,

00:27:13.680 as you point out.

00:27:14.520 There he is.

00:27:15.220 Franco Teresano.

00:27:15.980 Didn't mean to throw you that curveball.

00:27:18.400 But I was, you know what?

00:27:19.740 It's remarkable how little people refer to Justin Trudeau once he's gone.

00:27:24.540 Like, I literally have never heard anyone say, WWJD.

00:27:28.280 What would Justin do?

00:27:30.220 I have heard no one, even in the Liberal Party, say, oh, if only we had Justin Trudeau's

00:27:35.380 wise counsel, we sure would get out of this mess.

00:27:38.200 I don't think anyone misses him.

00:27:40.540 And hey, you know what, folks?

00:27:42.220 Don't feel too bad for Mr. Trudeau, right?

00:27:44.940 He's going to be taking two taxpayer-funded pensions in retirement.

00:27:48.980 Yes, you heard that right.

00:27:50.000 All the prime ministers, they get not one, but they get two pensions in the retirement.

00:27:55.440 So there you go.

00:27:55.980 He's going to need it to keep up with Katy Perry.

00:27:58.100 Great to see you, Franco.

00:27:58.960 Thanks for joining in.

00:28:00.480 Hey, thank you, Ezra.

00:28:01.520 All right.

00:28:02.020 There he is.

00:28:02.500 I'm just joking around.

00:28:03.460 There's Franco Teresano with the Taxpayers Federation.

00:28:06.260 Stay with us.

00:28:06.980 More ahead.

00:28:16.400 Hey, welcome back.

00:28:17.340 Your letters on my UK trip and the London hotel converted into a migrant camp.

00:28:23.100 Burn Dog says, this is crazy.

00:28:25.340 And it's happening here in Canada.

00:28:27.160 Yeah, you're right.

00:28:27.820 And that's why I'm so riveted by it, because they have migrant hotels here in Canada. 1.00

00:28:31.520 I know them.

00:28:32.700 We have covered them before.

00:28:34.720 We got into a sort of a quarrel in front of the Radisson, Toronto East.

00:28:38.500 It's been turned into a migrant hotel.

00:28:39.700 So why is it that we have mass immigration, including by some measurements, more than the UK does, but we don't have the reaction they have in the UK?

00:28:47.940 We have migrant hotels, too, but we don't have the same reaction.

00:28:50.740 And suddenly, now that you have protests all the time in the UK, spontaneously, large local protests, what was the tipping point for the UK?

00:29:02.220 And will we see that here in Canada?

00:29:05.060 Cooley Guy says, exactly the same thing happening in Ireland.

00:29:09.360 The Irish government have just bought the City West Hotel in Dublin for 148 million euros to house refugees.

00:29:14.720 Couldn't find a dime to help our own before now.

00:29:16.660 Well, I'm riveted by what's going on in Ireland, and the reason it's so interesting to me is it's a small country, 5 million people, and it's happening at like double the pace it has anywhere else.

00:29:27.760 And Ireland is so ethnically and religiously and linguistically unique.

00:29:31.940 It's got a real ethnos.

00:29:33.760 It has its own indigenous people.

00:29:37.320 So when you bring in foreign migrants, the shock on the system is much more than if you were to bring them, let's say, into a real already multicultural city like, say, London. 1.00

00:29:50.140 When you take foreign migrants, military age, and put them in a tiny town and outnumber the town, it's such a shock. 1.00

00:29:56.900 And Ireland is something to watch, that's for sure.

00:30:00.000 Last letter from RSP.

00:30:01.740 Tommy Robinson will be hailed as a British hero one day.

00:30:04.320 Well, I think many people do hail him as a hero, but others, you know what they say, a prophet is hated in his own time.

00:30:11.320 Because he speaks the truth about things that the establishment does not like, they're doing everything they can to censor him, silence him, jail him, and God forbid, I fear, even one day to kill him.

00:30:22.360 That's the show for today.

00:30:23.900 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:30:29.500 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - July 30, 2025

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