Ezra Levant Show May 14 2018
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Why haven't the dozens of ISIS terrorists returning to Canada from Syria and Iraq been prosecuted? Why not just put in a POW camp until the war is over, like the Germans did in World War II, and then allowed to go home?
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Tonight, the New York Times finds an ISIS murderer living in Oakville, Ontario,
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while the CBC and Justin Trudeau cover for him.
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It's May 14th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Why haven't the dozens of ISIS terrorists returning to Canada from Syria and Iraq, why haven't they been prosecuted?
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First of all, why are they being let back into Canada at all?
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Second, why are we not arresting them and prosecuting them?
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I mean, I know that the criminal law and courts and procedures and evidence and lawyers and witnesses,
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those systems are not well suited to wars or terrorist wars.
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Unlike a normal crime scene, it's not practical to get physical evidence or eyewitnesses,
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that sort of thing, from a battleground, which is why we so rarely prosecute soldiers for crimes.
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In general, whenever an enemy soldier is captured, he's just put in a prisoner of war camp and detained until the war is over.
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Did you know that tens of thousands of German soldiers captured in the Second World War were sent by ship to Canada,
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and then they put on the rail to a lot of them to Alberta, where they served up the war in camps?
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They're not Nazi killers or concentration camp guards or anything.
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But they were soldiers, so they weren't charged with crimes.
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They were just being held until hostilities were over, and then they were allowed to go home.
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They preferred Canada to their bombed-out homeland.
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So when the great terrorist war against the West began in earnest on 9-11,
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the U.S. government set up a kind of POW camp for captured terrorists at the U.S. military base on Guantanamo Bay.
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Those terrorists did not have the same legal rights as law-abiding soldiers of a foreign country.
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I mean, they're not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention because they're not soldiers.
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They're actually much more akin to murderers, pirates.
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And in the case of Omar Khadr, he actually was charged and convicted of murder, not just being a terrorist.
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The rest of the terrorists in Guantanamo Bay are technically not criminals, even though most of them surely are.
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They're just being kept out of the field of battle until the war is over,
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which could be forever until Al-Qaeda and its offshoot ISIS surrender, which could be a while.
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Which is why it's all so bizarre that George W. Bush and Barack Obama, after him, released so many Guantanamo Bay terrorists.
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They did exactly what you'd expect them to do, go back to war against the West.
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Anyways, my point is, why is Canada allowing ISIS terrorists just to come back to Canada from Syria and Iraq
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and just live a normal life as if they were only away on some holiday that went bad or something?
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Why have they not been arrested and prosecuted?
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Or even, like I say, if the legal requirements for a prosecution for crimes would be hard to find,
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why are they just not put in a POW-style camp, POW-style camp, until the war is over, like Guantanamo Bay?
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled not once, but twice, that Guantanamo Bay is perfectly legal.
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Both Republican and Democrat presidents have said so and used it.
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If it's good enough for Barack Obama, it's certainly good enough for me.
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My point is, you don't even have to meet the evidentiary case against a terrorist actually committing a crime.
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You don't even need to have a confession of a crime, like with Omar Khadar,
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or the Al-Qaeda propaganda videos of Omar Khadar assembling IEDs that he then used against Canadian and U.S. forces.
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You don't need to prosecute a terrorist to hold them.
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34,000 German POWs held in Canada until the Second World War was over were not prosecuted.
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They were just kept in a prison war camp until the fighting was done.
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Well, why not actually prosecute them for the crime of joining a terrorist group itself?
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As in, you don't need to prove that they did a murder in Syria or Iraq, as was proven in Omar Khadar's conviction.
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He murdered a U.S. Army medic named Christopher Speer.
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And as you know, rebel viewers have actually raised more than $200,000 for Sergeant Speer's two kids for the college fund.
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So no need to prosecute for actual terrorism committed,
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because the Canadian Criminal Code makes the mere act of joining a terrorist group or going overseas to join a terrorist group or even trying to go overseas to join a terrorist group.
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There are so many provisions in the Criminal Code that would apply to an ISIS terrorist who's trying to return to Canada,
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even one that hadn't committed murder or rape, or that we would have evidentiary trouble proving he committed murder or rape beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Let me read this to you from our Criminal Code.
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It's called Participation in Activity of Terrorist Group.
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It's Section 83.18, Sub 1 of the Criminal Code.
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Everyone who knowingly participates in or contributes to, directly or indirectly, any activity of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of any terrorist group to facilitate or carry out a terrorist activity,
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is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to the imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years.
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So you can get 10 years in prison just for helping a terrorist group.
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Just for helping, you have to be a murderer yourself.
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Here's a provision that's even easier to get, because to help a terrorist group, you've got to help them.
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It's several degrees easier to prove than a murder, right?
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Section 83.181, Leaving Canada to Participate in Activity of Terrorist Group.
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Everyone who leaves or attempts to leave Canada or goes or attempts to go on board a conveyance
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with the intent to leave Canada for the purpose of committing an act or a mission outside Canada
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that, if committed in Canada, would be an offense under subsection 83.181, that's what
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I just read to you, is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for a term
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So just going to join a terrorist group or trying to go, trying to get on a plane, trying
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to get on a ship, that's a 10-year prison term.
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Just to try to get on the plane, you buy tickets.
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There's so many laws on our books in addition to normal laws like murder and rape and treason.
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Every person who, by communicating statements, knowingly advocates or promotes the commission
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of terrorism offenses in general, other than an offense under this section, while knowing
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that any of those offenses will be committed or being reckless as to whether any of those
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offenses may be committed as a result of such communication, is guilty of an indictable
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offense and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.
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If your comments are likely to have an effect or you're reckless about it.
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We have confessed ISIS terrorists who have come back to Canada and are just hanging out.
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He's doing media interviews with the CBC and the New York Times.
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No prosecution, no arrest, no 10 years in prison, no five years in prison, let alone
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A few months back, we played you some of the footage of the CBC interviewing one of these
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This guy admitted in great detail that he was a terrorist.
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There's no court-ordered publication ban or anything.
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The CBC just agreed to not disclose his identity.
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But now we learn the ISIS terrorist that the CBC bragged about, he actually confessed to
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Here's a clip of that from a New York Times podcast.
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So at a certain point, you decide that you want to quit.
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Can you, can you, was there one moment or a series of moments?
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The second time I did the kill, I killed someone.
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She was able to put together that Abu Huzaifa is a Canadian, that he had been inside the Islamic
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state sometime, we believed in 2014, and that he had returned to Canada and was somehow
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So that little ISIS terrorist has been back in Canada for a couple of years, since at least
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2016, and he has all the rights and privileges of a Canadian.
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Free welfare, free health care, freedom of movement.
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Well, here's a clip from the CBC just over the weekend, still keeping his identity secret
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from viewers and from the terrorist's neighbors.
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If you lived in Oakville, wouldn't you want to know if the terrorist was living right next
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Maybe you'd want to know if he was wandering around.
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Maybe if you ran a Jewish synagogue or school or, frankly, any church, since ISIS mainly
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There really wasn't a lot of Jews on the ground in Iraq and Syria to murder.
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If you had a Christian church in Oakville, let's say you were an Arab Christian who fled
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there, wouldn't you want to know that a confessed ISIS murderer who believes in murdering
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Christian men and raping Christian women, wouldn't you want to know who he was, what
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I mean, isn't that pretty much the definition of news?
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Well, the CBC News is keeping his identity a secret.
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He said that he had made that up in the podcast to the New York Times, and he claimed that
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These are events that he says he witnessed, but he was not the person pulling the trigger.
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He says he instead changed a third-person story to a first-person story.
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After their long campaign for the terrorist, oh, Mark Carter, do you really not know whose
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But the CBC is just a disgraced propaganda organization.
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What about the people who actually have the legal and constitutional duty and power to implement
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And here he is, being asked about ISIS terrorists a few months back in Parliament.
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Mr. Speaker, it's this Prime Minister that's de-emphasizing Canadian security, and Canadians
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It was Conservatives who amended the Criminal Code to make it an offense to leave Canada
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It was Conservatives who were focused on giving our law enforcement new tools to prosecute ISIS
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This Prime Minister is using a broad spectrum that includes poetry and podcasts and all
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kinds of counselling and group hug sessions, Mr. Speaker.
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When will the Prime Minister take the security of Canadians seriously and look for ways to
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party learned nothing from the last election and the lessons
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They ran an election on snitch lines against Muslims.
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They ran an election on Islamophobia and division.
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And still, they play the same games trying to scare Canadians.
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The fact is, we always focus on the security of Canadians, and we always will.
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And they play politics of fear, and Canadians reject that.
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Trudeau sure is passionate when he defends ISIS returnees, isn't he?
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And he calls anyone who criticizes a terrorist and Islamophobe.
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When news of this murderer was brought up last week, the New York Times revealed he committed
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Mr. Speaker, an ISIS terrorist who returned to Canada in the past few years recently gave
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an interview with the New York Times podcast, The Caliphate.
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In the podcast, Abu Husayr states that he worked for ISIS enforcing Sharia law in Syria.
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He brags about getting splattered with blood while brutally lashing people who broke their
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And he proudly admits to murdering ISIS prisoners and having, and he said, the bloody, irony
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When is the Prime Minister going to stop allowing these bloodthirsty terrorists to walk on our
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Mr. Speaker, once again we see the Conservatives trying to drum up fear as a way of political
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We have every reason to be responsible and serious about how we protect the integrity of
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But quite frankly, illustrations like that question, or for example, the attack ads they put out
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that featured footage of ISIS executions for political gain are below the norm and shouldn't
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And the Conservatives have a lot to answer for if they're going to keep up that same approach
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His answer is, stop asking about terrorists or I'll call you a racist.
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It's not legitimate to ask about terrorists and murders, or he'll smear you, and he'll
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If you have a worry or a criticism about terrorists and murderers walking through our neighborhoods,
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your divisive and your voice should be silenced.
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We have security agencies that are engaged on this file very much, but there's also a
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We know that actually someone who has engaged and turned away from that hateful ideology can
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be an extraordinarily powerful voice for preventing radicalization in future generations and younger
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If you're worried and you voice your worries, you're divisive.
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If a terrorist and a murderer comes back, well, his voice is extraordinarily powerful.
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Yet Trudeau wants to hear what they have to say.
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Justin Trudeau isn't neutral as between good and evil, which would be bad enough.
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Go to the Hamilton Board of Education and report this.
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They're going to call the police and they're going to call parents and all that.
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God forbid if a child, and I hate to keep using this, was sexually mistreated.
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And a person came and said, listen, Dave, I made a mistake.
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First of all, I'm going to be pissed off because you don't do that.
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But you see, you get it down to the lowest level possible.
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A teachers union boss in New Jersey telling undercover journalists from Project Veritas
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that even if there's an allegation of sexual misconduct,
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the teacher's job is not to protect the student, or certainly not to advise the parents,
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but rather to protect the person who engaged in the Harvey Weinstein behavior.
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Well, that undercover report landed like a bombshell.
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New Jersey teachers union bosses actually resigned.
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And the New Jersey Education Association, that's the name of their union,
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Another example of Project Veritas doing outstanding journalism and getting real results.
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Joining us now via Skype is the boss of Project Veritas, our friend James O'Keefe,
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If you were on the left, you would have more Pulitzer Prizes than any living journalist.
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But you're on the right, so you have to, unfortunately,
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merely live off the gratitude of every viewer out there.
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Give me the latest, though, on your undercover investigations into teachers union bosses.
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Another, Kathleen Valencia, the president of the Union City office, has also resigned.
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Two union presidents in New Jersey have resigned.
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There's the governor of New Jersey and the state senate president have launched
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legislating hearings as a result of these videos.
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You also have a video dropped this morning in Michigan.
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The Michigan executive director of the Education Association, that's one of the largest teachers
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unions in the state of Michigan, was caught on a hidden camera.
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He said it's your choice whether you want to mandatory report child abuse.
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He also said that he does not want the child abuser to be investigated.
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The people in the tapes, you couldn't make up a caricature of a union executive if you
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And Randy Weingarten tried to issue a restraining order against us in federal court.
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So a lot of tapes, ongoing series here, and I'm sure there'll be some fallout from this
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We've got a clip from your Michigan undercover operation.
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I mean, I've had where teachers have pushed kids and pushed them down and it hasn't come
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Nugent is saying he has seen this kind of thing before and little or nothing is done
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I've had it where like I had a coach one time and he's teaching me to, you know, push
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It was reported and then he ended up with a six-day suspension.
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In Michigan now, James, the way he was talking, it seems like standard operating procedure is
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defend teachers even if or especially if they actually did it.
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And in terms of reporting to police, to parents, that's sort of the opposite of what they do.
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The whole narrative is that they care about the children.
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And if you question the public employee unions, you hate children or you're against the children.
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These tapes seem to indicate that they don't like the children, that in fact their job is
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And the fact that this guy in the Michigan Education Association says it's your choice
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whether you want to engage in mandatory reporting, that is not a choice.
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What possible way could that be a choice if you're aware of sexual abuse of a child?
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This guy in Michigan is much more subdued than the man you saw a few minutes ago in New Jersey.
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They're covering up child abuse and it's the heart and soul of who these people are.
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And I guarantee you that in the next 24 hours, we will see a statement.
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We'll see a reaction to what this guy has said and done.
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You know, the cover-up culture of these teachers unions, it's not just dealing with the teachers.
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I think you alluded to this a moment ago, that the Michigan Teachers Union, this is an attempt
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to have the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, U.S. District Court, to have
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them put a restraining order on you that you ought not to be able to publish your videos.
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But what did they claim and what did the judge say in response?
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Well, they claim that we are criminals who fake videos, maliciously interfere with videos
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and all this sort of thing that you've heard, you know, on Google and my Wikipedia page and
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by the culture that we're fake and we're hoaxters and we're going to put out fake information.
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And the judge, the federal, they did it twice, Ezra, twice, two attempts at a restraining order.
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We won the first time and then they asked the judge to overrule the first decision.
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So the second time, the judge was like, this is a First Amendment issue.
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Unless it's a matter of national security, you can't stop a journalist from publishing
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But unfortunately, we reached an era in our society when they want to jail us for exposing
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I mean, if they are willing to hide child abuse to begin with, it's no surprise to me
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that they would take steps to stop you from aiding the whistleblowers.
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An alt-left extremist punched one of our reporters in the face and we went to court to
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And when we won the case, we got merely $1,000 in costs from the alt-left violence.
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When you win a restraining order case like this, when your First Amendment protects
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you, and boy, it makes me jealous, James, that you've got that First Amendment, do you
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Did the teachers union have to pay for your lawyers in any way?
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I'll follow up with our general counsel, but not to my knowledge.
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I don't think people realize just how expensive our legal bills are.
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In any other situation, Ezra, if CBS News or the New York Times had restraining orders against
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them or issued in federal court, they would never do that.
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Harvey Weinstein, restraining order, restraining order against the New York Times.
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And he did try to sue the New York Times, but that went away in like a few hours.
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Well, not just that, but I think other organizations would come to their aid.
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The ACLU would probably intervene on their behalf, probably Reporters Without Borders, and
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others would intervene as a sign of solidarity.
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I mean, journalists sometimes travel in a pack when they're protecting each other, and
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No other journalistic organization has ever intervened to protect your free speech, have
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I mean, they want, the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize three weeks ago, Ezra, for
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Yeah, because, oh, jeez, that says it all, doesn't it?
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If you read the article on the Washington Post, because they compromised one of our undercover
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reporters in November who tried to meet with the Washington Post under alias as a source
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to get a meeting to record conversations about Russia and about their bias.
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We got some comments from some other reporters.
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So the Washington Post discovered that this was an undercover reporter, and they won the
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They really, I mean, they really hate us, Ezra, in a way that most people don't realize.
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It is an existential hate because we're doing the things that they maybe should be doing, and they're jealous, they're upset.
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They can't abide the fact that we break these stories to get consequences, and a lot of other reasons.
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But no, Ezra, no organization ever comes to our defense.
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We don't expect that, I think, that we need to become the media.
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We get the results, we bypass the media, and we force the media to report on the results.
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So this teachers' union story has already caught two presidents to be fired, resigned, whatever you want to call it.
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Democrat politicians in New Jersey have called for investigations.
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That's the best we can do and deliver the information right to the people.
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You've got so many other interviews to do of this amazing story.
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I was once sued by George Soros, and I thought that was quite a feather in my cap.
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But you're taking on Jeff Bezos and his Washington Post, who's, I think, seven times bigger, tougher, richer.
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So you're seven times braver than me, James O'Keefe, and it's great to have you as an ally.
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Tell us the website where people can go and check you out and even give you a few bucks to help with your legal bills.
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Help us, you know, fund the salaries of our journalists.
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We don't face boycotts, and we go after the sacred cows.
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James O'Keefe, pound for pound, the most effective journalist in North America.
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Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations,
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engage actively with so-called non-governmental organizations,
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environmental organizations working against shale gas, obviously, to maintain European dependence
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Well, that was Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who was the head of NATO several years ago, when
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he said, I think what should strike everyone as obvious is that Vladimir Putin, the former
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KGB agent who is now the president of Russia, has no compunction in undermining and infiltrating
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Western environmentalist NGOs for commercial purposes, to get them to object to fracking and
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other sources of energy and other sources of energy that would prove rivals and competition to Russia's gas problem and other energy companies.
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Of course, oil and gas represent about 40% of Russia's state income.
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And so a modest investment of, what, $100 million in anti-fracking propaganda, there's a high rate of return on that.
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Well, I've been talking about this for years, and it was such a pleasure to read a thoughtful summary of Russia's anti-Western energy propaganda.
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And it's a piece in the Hill Times, sorry, the Hill, out of Washington, D.C., headline, Russian trolls are pitting Americans against energy industry.
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And the author of that essay, Dr. Merrill Matthews, is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation.
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Dr. Matthews, what a pleasure to have you on the show.
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So we're always a little bit skeptical of people who say Russia, Russia, Russia, because for a year we've seen the politicization of Russian collusion.
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But in this case, we actually have hard evidence, including that which was described by Anders Fograsmussen four years ago.
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Russia really doesn't want the West to be fracking, does it?
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It does not want the West to be fracking, because, as you point out,
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they receive such a large portion of their government revenues from oil and gas revenue.
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And so they have been apparently undermining the fracking movement in the U.S.
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And some of this has been revealed by Representative Lamar Alexander, a congressman from Texas,
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who published a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury last year highlighting some of the ways that Russia was funneling money
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through money laundering organizations to the environmental movement.
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Now, then recently in March, he released another paper where they had gone out to ask some of the social media groups,
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You're saying you have evidence of Russia backing some of the tweets and other things that are going on there.
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And Facebook did Facebook, Instagram, Twitter handed that over to the congressman, and he highlighted he's got thousands of tweets and other social media things
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where the Russians are out there doing things mostly backing the environmental movement against fracking and other types of oil and gas production.
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Some of it actually supported it, but most of it backed the anti-fracking movement.
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Well, we've had reports throughout Europe, especially in places like Poland, where fracking was a real prospect,
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and other Eastern European countries that agents provocateurs who had connections back to the KGB or even pre-Soviet era secret police
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were behind some of the movements against fracking because there's so many parts of Europe.
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I mean, I don't think there's any way to stop fracking in America.
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Yeah, you can have moratoriums in certain states, but the genie's out of the bottle, especially in Texas, Pennsylvania.
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There's so much fracking going on in America and even in Western Canada.
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Wouldn't you agree with me, doctor, that, I mean, whether it's France or Poland, there's so much natural gas there,
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I've actually seen statements from various industry leaders there in the European Union who have said,
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And so you have to wonder, well, why is it that?
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If you're able to go and access this and increase production, especially with Eastern Europe,
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which has been so heavily dependent upon Russia for natural gas, if you have that access,
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Yeah. Well, one of the countries in the European Union that buys natural gas from Russia,
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almost every European country does, and some of them, I mean, Germany,
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it's about a third of their energy comes from Russia.
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And their former chancellor, Gerhard Schrader, was actually an executive on a Gazprom board,
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But the U.K. itself buys a fair amount of its energy from Russia, which I find disturbing.
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The U.K. is in a bit of a diplomatic tiff with Russia these days.
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Do you see any prospect that they might allow some fracking?
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Because, you know, they have natural gas prospects there, both offshore and onshore.
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But they've been a real lefty, anti-fracking hotbed.
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Does the latest quarrel with Russia maybe give them a chance to get their own energy?
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But one of the developments that's happening is that the U.S. is now exporting natural gas
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And President Trump has made the case that he thinks a lot of our Western European allies
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would love to have an alternative to the Russian source.
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And if we are able to produce it for a lot less than the U.K. and some of the European countries,
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They don't have to do fracking if that's a problem for them politically.
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But also, they may be able to get it cheaper from us and then solve two problems.
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Well, you know, Doctor, I'll have to send you a copy of a couple of my old books.
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And another was called Groundswell About Fracking.
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I mean, some of my viewers have heard this from me once or twice before,
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that ethical energy from the West is morally superior to conflict energy from countries
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like Russia, Qatar, Iran, which are the three big reserves countries for natural gas.
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I've got to send you a copy of my books just for fun because it sounds like you and I...
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Please, dude, I'm probably one of your few guests who actually taught ethics at the college level,
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Well, you know, I mean, most people in economics and trade just talk about dollars and cents,
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You talked about political concerns, especially Europeans.
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They care about the environment, peace, the treatment of workers, and civil rights.
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And all four out of four of those measures, the United States and Canada produce more ethical
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Can we show that article from The Hill one more time for those who haven't found it there?
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It's called Russian Trolls Are Pitting Americans Against Energy Industry.
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The director of national intelligence was writing about this even before the Mueller-Russia collusion
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Here in Canada, we have an awful lot of natural gas and oil.
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We have more reserves here than the United States does.
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But our LNG, liquefied natural gas, our oil sands pipelines, are still born because of
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foreign-funded, foreign-based environmental groups.
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And we've seen Patronus pull out of a $36 billion LNG project in Western Canada.
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My observation, and I'd love your reaction to this, my observation are that the groups
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that are targeting Canadian fracking pipelines, LNG and oil sands, the green pieces of the
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world, for example, the Sierra clubs of the world, I have never in my life seen them criticize
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OPEC countries such as Qatar, the world's largest, you know, they're by far the largest
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Do you think, and even if it's just speculation, do you think that there is a similar infiltration
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or pressure from OPEC countries to get Western environmental groups to ignore conflict oil
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and just focus their wrath on Canada and the United States and Western Europe?
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I've never seen the Greenpeace press release against Saudi Arabia.
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I've never seen the Sierra Club press release against Qatar.
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You know, a little while back, James O'Keefe, who does some underground steam things, met
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with some prominent Hollywood liberals to make a movie, and they said, we're from the
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Middle East, we make all our money on oil, and we would like to fund an anti-oil and gas
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And they recorded this, and they said, absolutely, we're fine with taking that money.
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To fight the oil and gas production in the U.S., and it was just funny because it was,
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You know, we're good friends with James O'Keefe.
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In fact, he's going to be on the show today talking about some other exploits.
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Well, listen, Dr. Matthews, it's nice to meet you.
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I am going to send you a courtesy copy of my books, just for fun.
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You can use them if you have a short leg of the table to prop it up or something.
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I think it's important that Canada, the United States, the U.K., and as many of our European
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democracy allies get into the energy business ourselves.
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Because if we're not buying and producing our own energy in an ethical way, we're buying
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And I regard America as an ally in this and a role model.
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The fact that you're exporting now makes me jealous.
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I wish our country had our act together like you do.
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And the U.S. and Canada together can actually get pretty close to energy independence just
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He's a Ph.D. and a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation.
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Boy, I got to tell you, I'm jealous those Americans exporting their oil and gas while
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we here in Canada delay for yet another decade.
00:37:43.200
Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about the media protecting the identities of professional
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As Peter writes, of course, the media is hiding the activist identity.
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The mainstream media always pretends that the pipeline protests are all local grassroots
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folks concerned about that evil oil coming through that evil pipeline.
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So to have a protester that is paid from out of town and even from out of country goes counter
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to the narrative they have so carefully crafted over the years.
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And I say again, I know I've told you this before, that I really didn't get to know these professional
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protesters until I moved out to Toronto from Calgary because there's not a lot of professional
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There are a few and there's more because of Rachel Notley these days.
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But I really didn't get to know them until I moved to Toronto and I went to Occupy Toronto.
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And I was there for a good hour and I met a lot of people that got to know their names.
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And then I saw them a few weeks later in anti-oil protests.
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And I saw them and I saw them at an anti-Barrick gold protest.
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And I was new to the city and I had only met these people two, three times.
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Don't tell me that lifelong journalists who had been on the reporting beat for five,
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10, 20 years, don't tell me they don't know who these people are.
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If they don't know who these people are, they're terrible journalists.
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And I don't think they're terrible journalists.
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I think they know who they are and they're choosing to keep it secret, private, irrelevant,
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as you say, because the narrative is grassroots Canadians versus big oil as opposed to big
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foreign anti-oil lobby groups versus ordinary Canadians.
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Drew writes, these traders will be the first to whine and complain when the well runs dry
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Well, Drew, you could be referring to so many things.
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If you're talking about the professional protesters in Vancouver, well, Vancouver has been blessed
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with the most expensive gasoline in North America.
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And they're whining about it, including their premier.
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You're complaining about high gas prices, but the NDP wants to block a pipeline, supply
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Tammy writes, professional agitators should be treated like the criminals they are.
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Well, we heard from, we heard of reports of the RCMP being told to lay the lowest possible
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charges even when they themselves have been assaulted.
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And that shantytown, that camp cloud that's set up on the side of the road there, do you
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think you'd be able to set up a little shantytown by the side of a busy road with impunity?
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And now the city's spending $60,000 to protect them?
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I think that we need to have the rule of law, which is if you're left-wing or right-wing,
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And I just don't think that's the way it is in Canada.
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And I don't think we have the rule of law, and I don't think Trudeau is willing to enforce
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The one liberal cabinet minister who briefly mused about it, Jim Carr, the energy minister
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from Winnipeg, he was immediately fraud-marched out by Justin Trudeau to apologize for saying
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that the police or the army would enforce the law against eco-terrorists.
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So yeah, I know who's going to win this battle.
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By the way, in case you've forgotten, the end of May is when Kinder Morgan said it's going
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to have its final drop-down decision on the pipeline.
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I'm not saying it's impossible for them to be persuaded to stay.
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I suppose if Justin Trudeau cut them a $10 billion check, they would just be, they would
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say this guy is so stupid and then so much money will stick around.
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But failing some insane move like that, it's just not going to happen.
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And by the way, do you really think Justin Trudeau would give Bombardier kind of money
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to a Texas-based company to stay invested in our bird NBC?
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On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.