Rebel News Podcast - Ezra Levant Show May 24 2018

00:00:00.000 Tonight! Hey, did you know that global warming could cause a volcano in Canada?

00:00:05.440 No, it's not true, but the CBC broadcasts that anyways.

00:00:08.460 It's May 24th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:16.580 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:20.340 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:24.060 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:27.040 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.

00:00:37.400 The CBC, Canada's state broadcaster, says that global warming could cause volcanoes to explode in Canada.

00:00:46.680 I am serious. Look at this headline.

00:00:50.260 Canada has dormant volcanoes. Climate change could wake them up.

00:00:57.040 No, that's not true. That's not even close to true.

00:01:00.800 That's not even fake news because there's no news there.

00:01:03.400 That's just plain old making stuff up.

00:01:05.360 I won't even call it a conspiracy theory because that would involve the CBC claiming people were conspiring.

00:01:10.940 That's the conspiracy part.

00:01:12.340 No, this is just plain old unscientific gobbledygook,

00:01:15.500 like saying global warming could cause the Earth's gravitational pull to end,

00:01:19.460 and we'll all drift into space, or saying that global warming could cause us to mutate,

00:01:23.420 like the X-Men comic books.

00:01:24.980 No, that is not even a conspiracy theory.

00:01:27.320 It's just made-up stuff, and it's kooky, and it's embarrassing that anyone would publish that.

00:01:31.860 But it's extra embarrassing and troubling that it would be on the state broadcaster,

00:01:37.000 to whom we all pay $1.5 billion a year in taxpayer money,

00:01:40.720 and who so clearly they are in campaign mode for Justin Trudeau's carbon tax.

00:01:45.720 That's really what's going on here, to scare people of volcanoes in Canada

00:01:51.520 so that people will support doing something, I don't know, with the carbon tax.

00:01:56.860 I mean, you don't want us all to be swallowed up by a volcano, do you?

00:01:59.300 Why do you hate children and babies and little critters?

00:02:02.840 Why do you support Islamophobic volcanoes?

00:02:05.840 Support Trudeau's carbon tax, or the volcanoes will hurt you. 0.79

00:02:10.340 It's so pitiful.

00:02:11.920 It's the worst internet clickbait, too.

00:02:14.600 But it's not even fake news. 0.99

00:02:16.100 It's just a lie, trying to make us all dumber, preying on fear and gullibility. 0.98

00:02:21.980 That's the CBC. 0.98

00:02:23.420 It was obviously prompted by the spectacular news out of Hawaii,

00:02:27.840 that one of their famous volcanoes is oozing lava again.

00:02:32.240 Spectacular footage.

00:02:33.220 Look at that.

00:02:34.140 It's riveting.

00:02:35.240 It is awful and gorgeous at the same time.

00:02:38.080 That beautiful Hawaiian setting, the brute force of nature, 0.92

00:02:42.200 overwhelming anything that mere mankind can do.

00:02:46.280 I don't think anyone has been hurt in this lava.

00:02:49.580 It's all pretty slow motion.

00:02:52.260 Some property damage and a reminder that in the grand scheme of things,

00:02:55.420 we are small compared to God's nature.

00:02:58.640 I understand why the CBC wants to show these images.

00:03:01.520 They're riveting.

00:03:02.040 But imagine being the government journalist of the CBC who says,

00:03:05.500 hmm, how can I link this to Canada?

00:03:09.240 Well, obviously you can't.

00:03:10.860 I mean, there were volcanoes pretty much all over the world at one point in time.

00:03:16.980 But in Canada, that was so long ago,

00:03:18.720 you'd have to use words like the Cretaceous period or the Cenozoic era.

00:03:24.780 That's how many tens of millions of years ago.

00:03:27.740 There are a few little cones, as they're called.

00:03:30.960 They're sort of mini volcanoes in some uninhabited places in the mountains

00:03:36.360 near the BC coast where some small amounts of cinders and ash

00:03:40.980 have percolated out of the earth.

00:03:42.700 Some of them even had baby eruptions centuries ago,

00:03:47.260 most of them thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago.

00:03:50.240 I don't think I'd want to build my house on one of these cones, they're called,

00:03:54.200 even though it's been centuries since they even burped.

00:03:57.040 But the idea that we're going to see what they have in Hawaii in Canada

00:04:02.100 isn't just a joke.

00:04:04.480 It is deeply unscientific.

00:04:07.500 But this isn't science, it's politics.

00:04:09.800 Or more precisely, it's superstition.

00:04:11.560 The superstition needed to give you the zeal required to be a global warming warrior,

00:04:16.760 just like Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna and the CBC.

00:04:20.100 We'll come back to the CBC story in a minute.

00:04:21.880 I'll quote a bit and I'll play you a bit from the radio show they did on it.

00:04:25.360 But first, I mean, you know how volcanoes happen, right?

00:04:30.760 And of course you do, because every kid is fascinated by volcanoes,

00:04:34.300 at least for a few years of their life.

00:04:35.660 I think for a while, kids are fascinated by dinosaurs and volcanoes.

00:04:40.240 So when you're 10 years old, you read about them as much as you can.

00:04:43.620 So I think literally everyone in the world knows how a volcano happens.

00:04:46.780 It's about the molten core of the earth.

00:04:49.700 It's got nothing to do with what we're doing here on the surface.

00:04:53.280 It's got nothing to do with whether or not you drive a car or take the bus or pay a carbon tax.

00:04:58.880 But it's just got nothing to do with that.

00:05:01.420 I mean, there's the literary device of sacrificing a virgin by throwing her into the volcano

00:05:06.760 to appease the volcano gods or whatever.

00:05:10.500 I'm not sure if that has ever happened in real life, that a virgin was thrown into a volcano.

00:05:15.060 But I know that if it did, it was a murderous cruelty based on a superstition.

00:05:19.120 And if it didn't happen in real life, I think the point of that literary archetype is to show

00:05:23.840 how brutal we humans can be, how desperate we can be, how foolish we can be, how tiny we are

00:05:30.160 and powerless we are when we face the awesome power of nature. 0.99

00:05:33.760 And it makes us do crazy things like kill people to sacrifice them to the volcano.

00:05:38.420 That's the archetype there, the virgin in the volcano, to appease the volcano gods or something.

00:05:43.580 It's not too different from the brutal sacrifice of people in Central America under the Aztecs.

00:05:48.340 This is a clip from Mel Gibson's movie called Apocalypto.

00:05:52.740 Superstition combined with brutal authoritarian regimes who claim it is necessary to tame nature this way

00:06:00.140 because volcanoes can be terrifying.

00:06:01.660 I mean, I don't care if you're the richest, most powerful person in the world, even an entire army,

00:06:06.420 if a volcano blows, it wins.

00:06:08.640 Let me tell you a little story here.

00:06:09.840 Let me take a two-minute tangent.

00:06:12.220 In 1883, a volcano on an Indonesian island erupted.

00:06:16.780 The island was called Krakatoa.

00:06:19.920 It was the loudest sound ever heard in the world, scientists say.

00:06:25.340 It was so loud, such a massive volcanic explosion.

00:06:28.740 It was heard 3,000 miles away.

00:06:32.020 People thought it was a cannon firing 3,000 miles away.

00:06:35.840 It was so loud.

00:06:37.240 It burst the eardrums of sailors 40 miles away.

00:06:41.180 It caused tsunamis 150 feet high, killed 36,000 people.

00:06:48.800 And the amount of ash released into the atmosphere literally cooled the entire planet for five years by a full degree.

00:06:57.400 There was so much particulate pollution in the sky, it shielded the earth from the sun.

00:07:03.560 That's global cooling, actually.

00:07:06.200 Did you know that volcano in Krakatoa in the 1880s had a religious outcome, too?

00:07:14.620 I mean, think about it.

00:07:15.480 The loudest sound ever heard, the most destructive thing ever, you can imagine.

00:07:19.580 Indonesia is a Muslim country, of course.

00:07:21.680 This devastating volcano and its effects so shocked the country.

00:07:26.380 It truly was like something out of the Bible or the Koran that it actually prompted a jihad. 0.77

00:07:33.520 Here, let me read a passage from Simon Winchester who wrote the book Krakatoa, The Day the World Exploded.

00:07:39.720 And thank you for letting me indulge this story.

00:07:41.600 I read this book.

00:07:42.380 It's a great book.

00:07:44.900 Let me quote Winchester.

00:07:45.980 He says,

00:08:15.980 It's not that surprising.

00:08:25.760 Like the superstitious Aztecs, we must appease the volcano god, whether that's through a human sacrifice or a jihad.

00:08:34.980 Or in the case of the CBC, through global warming superstition.

00:08:39.700 And that means you need a carbon tax.

00:08:42.300 It really is the same way of thinking, isn't it?

00:08:44.380 Except that in Krakatoa, something terrible really did happen to Indonesia.

00:08:50.740 Nothing terrible has happened to Canada.

00:08:52.800 We don't have volcanoes.

00:08:54.580 And we won't ever have volcanoes.

00:08:57.660 Let me show you that CBC headline again.

00:09:02.920 Canada has dormant volcanoes.

00:09:05.120 Climate change could wake them up.

00:09:07.860 I'm sorry, that is a lie.

00:09:08.920 I should point out the subtle anthropomorphism.

00:09:12.940 You know what that is?

00:09:13.700 When you ascribe to inanimate objects, human-like characteristics.

00:09:19.000 Dormant volcanoes.

00:09:20.060 Now that's a real word, dormant volcano.

00:09:22.460 Dormant comes from the word for sleep.

00:09:25.040 So I guess that's scientifically accurate enough.

00:09:26.820 But the wake them up.

00:09:28.020 Like they're angry gods who were sleeping and we woke them up by being too noisy.

00:09:33.980 Shh! 0.97

00:09:34.580 Don't wake up the volcano gods, people.

00:09:36.800 They'll be angry.

00:09:39.160 That's like saying Mother Earth.

00:09:40.660 It's not really the mother.

00:09:43.040 Waking up the volcano gods.

00:09:44.540 That's kooky superstition talk here.

00:09:46.340 Let me quote from the CBC story.

00:09:47.760 As Mount Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, kicked into high gear Thursday

00:09:53.460 with an explosive eruption, scientists are keeping an eye on a Canadian volcano that is

00:09:58.700 currently unstable.

00:10:00.640 Oh my God.

00:10:01.600 Oh my God.

00:10:02.280 Do we have an unstable volcano in Canada?

00:10:05.220 Should I be panicking?

00:10:08.100 No, they're lying to you again.

00:10:09.780 They're talking about Mount Meagher in BC.

00:10:11.980 It is not unstable.

00:10:13.260 At least not in the way that they're misleading you.

00:10:15.700 I mean, eight years ago, it had a rock slide.

00:10:20.140 A rock slide.

00:10:20.800 Not a volcanic eruption.

00:10:22.000 It had a rock slide.

00:10:23.080 As mountains sometimes do.

00:10:24.500 Now, no one was hurt, of course.

00:10:25.500 It's in the middle of nowhere.

00:10:26.900 That's what unstable means here.

00:10:29.300 They're tricking you.

00:10:31.320 The volcano itself hasn't spit out a rock or a drop of lava in thousands of years.

00:10:37.120 You see they trick the plate on you?

00:10:38.460 They said the volcano is unstable.

00:10:40.680 But what the real facts are is that rock slides are unstable.

00:10:46.340 And not because of global warming.

00:10:47.900 There is no evidence of that at all.

00:10:49.520 They just made that up.

00:10:50.200 There's some foolish theory that they're just flying up the flagpole in the service of a 0.60

00:10:53.760 panic narrative to drive their ideological agenda.

00:10:56.120 Here, let me play for you some of the audio from the radio interview.

00:10:59.940 They're so desperate.

00:11:01.200 It's such a stretch.

00:11:01.960 It's so ideological.

00:11:02.800 It's so bracing.

00:11:03.360 And it will surely guarantee the CBC gets its $1.5 billion next year from Justin Trudeau.

00:11:08.640 Now, this is Laura Lynch, the CBC radio host, interviewing a volcano scientist.

00:11:14.220 And you know he's a scientist because he uses the word monster to describe a volcano.

00:11:20.640 And that's scientist talk.

00:11:22.200 Here, listen.

00:11:23.180 So just northwest of Vancouver, about 160 kilometers northwest, or northwest of Pemberton,

00:11:29.040 we've got this big monster volcano.

00:11:31.700 It's about 2 million years old, and it's been ticking along, changing over that time.

00:11:37.320 But we know that there's volcanic gas coming through the ice.

00:11:41.000 In fact, my team and I and colleagues from UBC have gone in there and made gas measurements.

00:11:46.920 But the other thing that is interesting is this big ice-clad volcano is also falling down.

00:11:53.440 We have these huge landslides, and it's the center of the largest landslides in Canadian history.

00:11:59.040 Okay, this sounds concerning to me, and I understand that something happened in 2010 that was really significant.

00:12:05.000 So you've got a dormant volcano, and some gases are seeping out of it.

00:12:13.440 Surely they're warm or hot, as often happens from hot springs, for example.

00:12:18.340 That's obviously going to do a lot more to melt any ice than a tenth of a degree of alleged global warming. 0.95

00:12:24.040 I mean, there's so much junk science here, but you can see already the clickbait headline was a lie, a fake.

00:12:29.760 Their theory is a rock slide, and that's what Laura Lynch was referring to at the end, what happened in 2010.

00:12:34.540 Here's a rock slide, a bit of a letdown, and it gets more pitiful.

00:12:39.980 Listen to this.

00:12:40.520 And, you know, it's not related to the volcano being active right now, but it's part and parcel of the volcanic activity that's formed the system itself.

00:12:50.400 It's a big, rotten pile of rock. 0.93

00:12:53.720 Rotten. 0.99

00:12:54.140 Rotten. 0.79

00:12:54.960 And that rotten rock eventually fails.

00:12:58.420 Well, what would trigger the rock to cause a landslide?

00:13:02.380 Gravity.

00:13:03.100 It's always gravity pulling down on things.

00:13:06.020 Hang on.

00:13:08.420 I signed up for a volcano story.

00:13:12.220 Now you're telling me it's just gravity and rocks?

00:13:17.740 Gravity.

00:13:18.380 I thought there was a global warming causing a volcano story, and you're just saying there's some gravity and some rocks.

00:13:27.080 And the scientist who first called the rocks a monster, it's a monster, he now says the rocks are rotten.

00:13:34.380 Because that's scientists.

00:13:35.620 I didn't know rocks could be rotten.

00:13:39.260 But then again, I don't listen to the scientists at the CBC a lot.

00:13:42.620 I'm learning so much. 1.00

00:13:44.420 This is so dumb. 1.00

00:13:45.540 And we're all getting dumber just listening to it. 1.00

00:13:47.780 I've learned that volcanoes are monsters and rocks are rotten. 0.96

00:13:50.840 But let me play you one more clip.

00:13:52.720 This is his thesis, okay?

00:13:54.020 This is the kooky idea.

00:13:55.920 So let me give you his best case.

00:13:58.820 He says that if you have a huge two kilometer thick sheet of ice sitting on top of an active volcano, that ice might be sort of holding it in place.

00:14:10.580 And if we were to melt this two kilometer thick sheet of ice, that could release the monster.

00:14:16.580 Take a...

00:14:17.460 I mean, let me just show you for a second.

00:14:19.640 We're not talking about Mount Meagr.

00:14:23.140 Okay?

00:14:23.400 There is no two kilometer thick sheet of ice on top of Mount Meagr.

00:14:27.300 And it is not an active volcano.

00:14:29.100 It's not being kept in place by ice, okay?

00:14:32.080 He's talking about Iceland or Greenland or something.

00:14:35.000 But that's the thread they're holding this thing on.

00:14:38.080 But even this kooky scientist admits this is just a weird theory.

00:14:44.140 Listen.

00:14:44.940 We think actually 10,000 years ago, the end of the last glaciation, that there may have actually been more volcanism, more active volcanoes,

00:14:54.240 because we were removing two or three kilometers of ice.

00:14:58.400 At Mount Meagr, you know, it's a much, much smaller system, but really it's a whole sequence of events.

00:15:03.960 Is this accepted wisdom among volcanologists that this is happening?

00:15:07.860 No, I wouldn't say accepted wisdom at all.

00:15:10.100 Really, this is new work that is being done by some really top-notch graduate students.

00:15:16.660 And it's pushing the paradigm, trying to move to that next level of understanding for a given system.

00:15:24.240 Oh, so he says his theory's not accepted, and it's just some students just brainstorming.

00:15:31.120 Huh.

00:15:32.040 Let's look at that headline one more time.

00:15:34.480 Canada has dormant volcanoes.

00:15:38.140 Climate change could wake them up.

00:15:43.080 Yeah, that's just not true, is it?

00:15:45.560 It's not true in terms of true-false real-life stuff.

00:15:49.260 It's not even what the kooky scientist said, is it?

00:15:52.560 He said, no, that's not the case here.

00:15:56.360 It's just propaganda, isn't it?

00:15:59.020 It's worse than fake news.

00:16:01.500 It is a lie.

00:16:03.020 It's a lie.

00:16:05.400 Can you trust a single word that Canada's state broadcaster says about anything?

00:16:12.260 Stay with us for more.

00:16:14.720 Well, I tell you, there's a few issues on which there is a massive divide between the political media elites and severely normal people.

00:16:37.180 Well, my favorite or least favorite example, depending on how you look at it, is Omer Cotter.

00:16:42.740 All the fancy people said, oh, he was so hard done by.

00:16:45.880 Trudeau only hangs out with fancy people.

00:16:48.080 So he was absolutely certain that when he gave $10.5 million on a public apology to Omer Cotter,

00:16:53.280 the country would say, right on, you're so virtuous, and said it was such a backfire amongst the public.

00:16:58.780 And Trudeau later said, oh, yeah, I was outraged by that, too.

00:17:01.200 There's a few issues like that, but none more pronounced than immigration, as we've shown you before.

00:17:06.900 The liberal government's own polls show that only 8% of Canadians want to increase the number of migrants to this country.

00:17:14.160 And that latest poll was before the massive waves of people simply walking illegally over from the U.S.

00:17:19.920 I bet the number is even lower now.

00:17:22.140 But there is this theory, this fashion, this fad amongst the fancy people called sanctuary cities that would say,

00:17:31.680 well, even if someone manages to sneak into the country illegally,

00:17:34.900 even if they're facing a deportation order because they're a criminal,

00:17:37.980 they will find sanctuary in this city and no one will be able to root them out.

00:17:42.760 It's actually a tradition that is seen in the Bible.

00:17:46.020 There were refuges where people could flee beyond the grasp of the law.

00:17:51.320 But like with these other cases, there's a huge disconnect between severely normal people and the fancy pants who cook them up.

00:17:58.320 Even in California, where sanctuary cities are being brooded, California, the deep blue state,

00:18:03.960 this issue is suddenly turning many local races competitive.

00:18:08.580 As people say, yeah, you reporters and politicians, you don't live where the rest of us live.

00:18:14.540 We're against these sanctuary cities.

00:18:16.660 Well, enough preamble.

00:18:17.640 We're joined by a guest who's written about sanctuary cities and how they've suddenly become an issue in the Ontario provincial election.

00:18:23.640 I'm talking about my friend Candace Malcolm, her column in the Toronto Sun.

00:18:27.380 Let me read the headline.

00:18:28.320 Canada doesn't need another sanctuary politician.

00:18:31.440 Isn't that the truth?

00:18:32.400 Candace joins us now via Skype.

00:18:33.800 Hey, welcome to the show.

00:18:34.660 Don't mind me giving a few examples.

00:18:36.260 I really think this is something where the gulf between the official people and the regular people is enormous.

00:18:42.280 What do you think?

00:18:42.860 Yeah, you're absolutely right, Ezra.

00:18:45.480 So Andrea Horvath, the Ontario, she's running for Ontario Premier in the upcoming election there. 1.00

00:18:50.520 She just sort of throws out the idea that she wants to make the province of Ontario a sanctuary, whatever that means.

00:18:55.660 I mean, I don't think that the plan has been thoroughly thought through.

00:18:58.480 She couldn't even tell reporters how much her proposal would cost.

00:19:01.920 But the idea that somehow in the midst of this huge crisis with illegal border crossings, with people coming across Roxham Road, increasingly settling in Toronto and Ontario, that now might be a good time to just once again declare Canada has open borders and once again another politician virtue signaling that's going to lead to another influx of illegal border crossings into Canada.

00:19:23.580 Yeah. You know, we already have become a form of a sanctuary country because Justin Trudeau has basically opened up the borders.

00:19:32.080 And I see that almost half of these clearly bogus refugee claimants. 0.82

00:19:37.460 I mean, at the very least, they're coming from America, which is a safe country.

00:19:40.380 And quite often they came from an interim country as well that was safe.

00:19:44.720 They're not refugees under law.

00:19:46.420 The safe third party agreement says so.

00:19:48.540 But Justin Trudeau has already made it loose enough.

00:19:51.860 If Trudeau wants to deport someone, they are awful.

00:19:56.900 And what Andrea Horvath is basically saying is we are going to hide these deportees, these potential deportees, even from Trudeau.

00:20:05.240 If you are more leftist and more pro-open borders than Trudeau, you're off the charts.

00:20:12.040 Well, that's a really good point.

00:20:13.360 And I was trying to figure out what exactly the policy would mean, because you're right.

00:20:17.040 Canada essentially already has sanctuary city policies.

00:20:20.280 As soon as a person crosses into Canada, Ezra, they get arrested by the RCMP.

00:20:24.820 So most of these people are being registered with authorities.

00:20:27.520 As soon as they do, they get their screening and vetting.

00:20:29.360 As long as they pass the initial security clearance into Canada, they can file refugee applications.

00:20:35.660 They get to they're set free into Canada, get to go wherever they want.

00:20:38.740 All they have to do is show up on the date of their refugee hearing.

00:20:43.840 And in the interim, they already get access to every single Canadian social program, every welfare program.

00:20:50.700 They already get health care.

00:20:51.840 They already get education.

00:20:53.040 You name it, they get it.

00:20:54.460 So so what Andrea Horvath is essentially saying is that the policy that already exists, she just wants to basically double down on it. 0.87

00:21:01.980 Maybe add some policing elements to evade CBSA deportation orders.

00:21:07.900 But really, Ezra, what we know this is all about is just virtue signaling.

00:21:11.460 It's it's Andrea Horvath showing her moral superiority, showing how generous and nice she is, because, you know, Canada is already super generous to refugees.

00:21:19.040 Well, she's going to take it one step further and tell tell these migrants, you know, even even if you're about to get deported, we're going to protect you.

00:21:26.760 And she's going the extra mile. 0.73

00:21:28.600 I think it's despicable.

00:21:29.700 And I think that many Canadians see through it.

00:21:31.860 Like you said, I think that these politicians are really off base with the Canadian public, with the sentiments of the people who really don't want to be providing such a safe haven for people who aren't refugees, who are abusing the system.

00:21:44.240 Yeah.

00:21:44.440 If you're coming in from New York state, by definition, you are not a refugee.

00:21:47.660 You're someone who was about to be kicked out by Donald Trump because you were bogus or maybe even committed a crime.

00:21:53.420 Or you're just someone who has heard that Trudeau now pays for catastrophic health care for foreigners.

00:21:59.260 You go to the front of the list.

00:22:00.360 We've seen stories like that.

00:22:01.580 You know, I should tell you, Candace, I don't have the date at my fingertips, but a few months ago, Montreal was debating officially becoming a sanctuary city, too.

00:22:11.340 And again, I don't even know what that means.

00:22:12.900 I don't think they did either other than it sounded cool and the Democrats are doing it.

00:22:16.480 So they're me tooing it.

00:22:17.660 That was rejected.

00:22:20.720 And I saw polls from Quebec.

00:22:22.480 And you want to talk about virtue signaling, Candace.

00:22:24.880 No one doesn't like Quebec society.

00:22:26.660 They are morally righteous.

00:22:28.960 They'll let you know how morally righteous they are.

00:22:31.600 Quebec is so burnt out on this issue.

00:22:35.240 Overwhelmingly, Quebecers were against the concept of a sanctuary city.

00:22:38.440 If Quebecers are against it, I can imagine they are in Ontario.

00:22:42.880 Let me throw something at you.

00:22:43.660 I'd love your thoughts on this, Candace.

00:22:45.260 We see John Tory, the mayor of Toronto, saying, we're out of money.

00:22:49.240 All our shelters are full.

00:22:50.660 Now we've got to stuff these migrants into college dorms and community centers. 1.00

00:22:54.020 And we need tens of millions of dollars.

00:22:56.620 So that's a guy who's not speaking out on a moral basis.

00:23:00.640 He's just saying we physically have nowhere to put them.

00:23:03.980 We financially have no more dough.

00:23:07.220 Surely, surely that's going to be as odious to Ontario voters as it was to Quebec voters.

00:23:12.520 Well, I agree.

00:23:15.040 And good for John Tory for actually speaking out.

00:23:17.280 This is an instance of the frontline workers, the people who are tasked with actually caring for the people, actually providing services.

00:23:23.940 As it reminds me of Justin Trudeau's big pledge to accept Syrian refugees and how quickly they did it and how they rushed these people into the country. 1.00

00:23:32.260 And we had local agencies in Vancouver and Halifax and Calgary asking for the Trudeau government to hit the pause button, saying, no more refugees.

00:23:40.480 We can't handle any more people physically.

00:23:43.060 Our systems are overwhelmed.

00:23:44.860 We can't take any more.

00:23:46.160 In our health care, we have nowhere to house them.

00:23:47.980 We have no way to integrate them.

00:23:50.520 No language lessons.

00:23:51.700 All of these actual issues.

00:23:53.220 So, you know, politicians can sit on their high horse and virtue signal until the end of the day.

00:23:59.660 And then the actual consequences for the people on the ground are a totally different reality.

00:24:05.460 And so you kind of have these two things clashing.

00:24:08.820 And in Toronto, we're seeing that.

00:24:10.060 There is a 500% increase in asylum seekers in the refugee shelters.

00:24:15.500 I mean, somebody has to pay for this.

00:24:17.640 Somebody has to actually work with these people and welcome them and make sure that they have a place to live and a place to stay and that they're not going to, you know, commit crimes.

00:24:26.280 They're going to follow Canadian laws.

00:24:27.620 It takes a lot of work.

00:24:28.840 Immigration policy takes a lot of work.

00:24:30.820 And I think these politicians who are just so concerned with their own self-image and getting positive attention forget about the actual realities and how difficult it is to handle mass migration on this level.

00:24:43.340 Yeah.

00:24:43.660 You know, John Tory's talking about stacking these illegals in community centers. 1.00

00:24:49.420 I wonder how many, you know, community meetings, community sports leagues, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides will have to be canceled because of this.

00:24:59.120 I have an idea.

00:25:00.120 Let me close on this.

00:25:01.420 There's a very large property I know of that's owned by the government.

00:25:06.460 It's in Ontario.

00:25:08.740 I've been there myself.

00:25:10.440 I haven't been there in probably three years.

00:25:13.680 But I think it's beautiful.

00:25:15.840 It's been maintained.

00:25:16.960 There's been, I think, $800,000 or $900,000 worth of repairs put in.

00:25:20.820 Right now, it's just occupied by a chef.

00:25:24.100 Candice, what do you think about opening 24 Sussex Drive to some of Trudeau's migrants? 0.58

00:25:29.020 Right now, we know that only the chef lives there.

00:25:31.220 He cooks food for the Trudeaus, and then it's driven across the street to the governor general's compound where the Trudeau family lives.

00:25:40.660 What do you think?

00:25:41.140 I think, I've been to 24 Sussex.

00:25:43.260 I think you could easily have 10 migrants live at 24 Sussex Drive.

00:25:49.600 They're already paying for the building.

00:25:51.840 That's my idea.

00:25:52.840 Go there first before you come to my community center.

00:25:55.220 What's your views?

00:25:55.640 Well, wouldn't that be symbolic, Ezra, that Canada has given up so much of itself that we would now give up the official residence of the prime minister to migrants? 0.99

00:26:05.740 But that's the double standard and the hypocrisy of these leaders.

00:26:08.740 They always say that Canada can fit more, that we can welcome more, that we should do more.

00:26:12.760 But then when it comes to what they would actually do and would they actually house an unscreened, unvetted, self-selected migrant to live in their home with their family and with their children, I doubt it. 1.00

00:26:23.260 You know, all of these virtue signaling celebrities and politicians and fancy people, as you call them, you know, they're never the ones that are going to volunteer to give up their own personal space.

00:26:34.500 They're the ones that build walls around their own home that use private security and all that kind of stuff.

00:26:38.800 So I think it would be symbolic.

00:26:40.520 And, you know, it's such a waste of taxpayer dollars to have it sitting empty.

00:26:44.160 But I highly doubt that Trudeau would go for that.

00:26:47.560 If I was a troublemaker, and I am not, Candace, I am not a troublemaker, but if I were a troublemaker, I would hire a little bus, take it down to Roxham Road there in Quebec.

00:26:59.400 Once some of these migrants come through, put them in the back of a bus, you know, not that far a drive to Ottawa. 0.99

00:27:04.900 I would let them out on 24 Sussex Drive.

00:27:08.320 It's a big lawn, too.

00:27:09.700 It's a big house, but it's a huge grounds.

00:27:11.820 So if you just put tents there, you could probably have a hundred migrants.

00:27:17.460 And what?

00:27:18.640 What?

00:27:18.820 Does Trudeau have higher standards for his?

00:27:20.980 He doesn't even live there.

00:27:22.040 So you say live with the Trudeaus. 0.99

00:27:23.240 No, no, no.

00:27:23.840 I'm not saying live with the Trudeaus. 1.00

00:27:25.740 I'm saying live at the unoccupied 24 Sussex Drive.

00:27:29.660 I'm going to stop my shenanigans and my brainstorming of goofy ideas, but I think it would be quite symbolic if a busload of migrants showed up at 24 Sussex Drive. 1.00

00:27:38.520 They would be given the bums rush right away.

00:27:40.800 They would be told, well, go down market.

00:27:43.220 Go to where the regular people live.

00:27:44.540 Get off swanky Sussex Drive.

00:27:46.260 All right, I'll stop ranting.

00:27:47.220 Last word to you, Candace.

00:27:49.400 Well, you know, that would be at least a step in the right direction.

00:27:52.660 It doesn't seem like Trudeau has taken any leadership on this issue.

00:27:55.860 He doesn't really talk about it.

00:27:57.680 He doesn't really come up with actual solutions.

00:27:59.780 So right now, all we're seeing is people flowing into Canada basically just to disappear.

00:28:05.780 Hopefully they show up for the refugee hearing.

00:28:07.480 And, you know, meanwhile, virtue signaling politicians with no idea how much it would cost want to offer them unlimited protection.

00:28:14.800 So, you know, hopefully people in Ontario have a bit more sense than to fall for a scheme like that.

00:28:19.600 Yeah, I hope you're right.

00:28:20.600 Well, thanks for taking the time with us today, folks.

00:28:22.760 The article is called Canada Doesn't Need Another Sanctuary Politician.

00:28:27.040 It's by our friend Candace Malcolm in the Toronto Sun.

00:28:29.360 Thanks for your time.

00:28:31.460 All right.

00:28:31.720 Thanks.

00:28:32.180 All right.

00:28:32.720 Stay with us.

00:28:33.800 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:28:34.580 Hey, welcome back.

00:28:46.440 Well, it is coming up close to the Ontario provincial election.

00:28:50.340 And according to you, I think it's three polls in a row now from different companies.

00:28:53.720 So I think it's safe to say this is an accurate reflection of the facts.

00:28:56.700 The NDP and the PCs are tied, basically first and second place, or almost tied.

00:29:04.060 And the liberal incumbents are far back.

00:29:07.700 I am a little bit nervous, to tell you the truth.

00:29:09.160 We're going to see a Rachel Notley situation where the NDP comes up in the middle, the least offensive, perhaps, because some people are never forward.

00:29:16.120 Some people are never win.

00:29:17.300 But people say, ah, the NDP just looked that bad.

00:29:19.720 Well, today, the liberals tried a Hail Mary pass.

00:29:22.840 They said they had an incriminating tape, a secret tape, between Doug Ford and an attractive young female candidate named Kinga Surma.

00:29:32.440 And, of course, the scuttlebutt was, oh, my God, was there some personal relationship or something like that?

00:29:35.860 There was the hint.

00:29:37.100 Let me show you the announcements by the liberals today with their bombshell tape.

00:29:43.540 I've got two clips for you, and then I'll bring in my friend David Manzies to help analyze.

00:29:46.260 The first is the announcements by the liberals.

00:29:50.580 Get ready for this, folks.

00:29:51.780 Take a look.

00:29:52.840 Well, we do have some new information, and it implicates Doug Ford himself in the sale of bogus memberships.

00:30:02.640 In fact, it reveals an extraordinary degree of involvement by Mr. Ford in the nomination campaign of Etobicoke Center candidate Kinga Surma.

00:30:11.660 According to this new evidence, Mr. Ford was involved directly in the sale of bogus memberships on behalf of Ms. Surma.

00:30:22.620 He encouraged people to provide incomplete information, incomplete membership forms, and he assured them that others would pay their membership fees.

00:30:32.980 Oh, that's all you got?

00:30:37.560 No, I thought you had a bombshell.

00:30:39.240 I thought, you know, there were actually gossip sites out there.

00:30:43.920 I don't want to repeat them because it's just gossip, but the lurid speculation was off the chart.

00:30:51.340 So Doug Ford told people that they didn't have to fill out a whole form, and you think that disqualifies the man from being premier.

00:31:02.800 This was the big event.

00:31:03.980 The liberals were hyping this hard.

00:31:06.160 Let me show you the actual audio tape they had, and then I'll bring in my friend David.

00:31:09.380 Take a look.

00:31:09.800 Let me show you the actual audio tape they had, and I'll bring in my friend David.

00:31:39.780 Give us your name.

00:31:40.220 We'll fill it out for you.

00:31:41.640 That's not even against the rule.

00:31:43.520 That's not even bogus.

00:31:44.540 You know, you get a form, and it's all your details.

00:31:47.860 He just said, give us your name.

00:31:48.680 We'll fill it out.

00:31:49.460 That's not even against a rule, let alone against a law.

00:31:54.520 David Menzies is sitting right next to me.

00:31:56.100 I mean, I'm not going to play that whole thing.

00:31:57.880 When you say we've got a secret recording, I think James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, I think you're going to hear a confession of murder.

00:32:06.160 I mean, not murder, but you're going to hear something awful.

00:32:08.940 And we're so used to that kind of secret tape business with the late Rob Ford.

00:32:14.120 Images of him doing crack cocaine, images of him drunk, for example.

00:32:18.600 This is a little bit lame.

00:32:21.960 Yeah.

00:32:22.660 Emily Peller, the former Wendy spokeswoman, as I remember that, wears the beef.

00:32:27.300 As you said, this is a nothing burger.

00:32:29.240 I mean, it goes back two years, first of all.

00:32:31.120 Maybe it contravenes the rules.

00:32:34.740 Certainly not a criminal matter.

00:32:36.160 Certainly not a David Livingston criminal matter.

00:32:38.800 Oh, that's the chief of staff at Dalton McGinney.

00:32:40.540 Yes.

00:32:41.000 Where he scrubbed public documents to prevent others from going to jail.

00:32:47.160 That, you know, and here's the thing.

00:32:48.600 There's a couple of angles to this, Ezra.

00:32:50.380 First of all, does the average rank and file Ontarian voter care about inside party politics, especially since, and I'm not excusing it by saying this, but it's especially since they all do this.

00:33:03.840 They all do, and worse.

00:33:05.100 I mean, if you and I went to a local McDonald's or a Tim Hortons and stood outside with a clipboard and we asked 100 people coming out of that restaurant, what do you think of this?

00:33:14.060 Would it even register with anyone?

00:33:16.520 The second thing, Ezra, is that, you know, given that this was coming from the liberals, I don't see it helping the liberals.

00:33:24.260 You know, I think the biggest winner here potentially is Andrea Horwath, because this is more and more a change election.

00:33:31.880 I really think Kathleen Wynne, who has a knack of pulling a rabbit out of the hat, she is done like dinner, as Tiger Williams used to say.

00:33:40.060 She is toast.

00:33:41.380 And I think any negativity towards Ford and the PCs isn't going to go to the liberals to bolster them.

00:33:47.620 It's going to go to the NDP.

00:33:49.000 So I don't know why maybe this is payback to the NDP for always propping up the liberals when, you know, there was a chance to, you know, have a non-confidence vote with them.

00:33:58.160 You know, and again, I'm not saying that I'm for any shortcuts in clerical forms and, you know, maybe did they pay their own 10 bucks or not.

00:34:06.880 I just don't even think that that rises above what a lawyer would say is de minimis, as in it's so minimal, it's so marginal.

00:34:14.320 How does that go to the heart of issues?

00:34:16.860 Like, do we have to pay a carbon tax?

00:34:19.020 Do we really need more child sex ed?

00:34:21.620 After so many years, maybe we should kick the liberals out.

00:34:26.720 Can we get away from the social engineering?

00:34:29.080 How about a break on taxes?

00:34:31.000 Oh, oh, yeah, those are all good points.

00:34:33.740 But, you know, in 2016, when Doug Ford wasn't even leader, he helped someone fill out forms and he filled out their name for them.

00:34:40.860 So I don't think we can impose the carbon tax.

00:34:43.400 This, you know, the liberals have run an awful campaign.

00:34:46.520 These guys used to be the pros.

00:34:49.620 The wheels have come off the bus.

00:34:51.000 Oh, and they're desperate.

00:34:52.540 And I mean, in some writings, Ezra, there wasn't even nomination.

00:34:56.560 The liberals were desperate to find somebody just to run under the liberal banner. 0.97

00:34:59.840 People aren't stupid. 0.88

00:35:00.660 They know this ship is going down.

00:35:02.120 But again, to go back to that Tim Hortons poll, you ask people about the several multibillion dollar scandals.

00:35:08.020 Orange, e-health, canceled gas plants, green energy, all of which, you know, is probably numbers that are so incalculable.

00:35:16.560 But at the end of the day is hurting you and hurting this province and hurting jobs in this province.

00:35:22.340 And that's what resonates.

00:35:24.440 And, you know, and later in that tape, to show the desperation, when she said and she said it twice and I wrote it down about Doug Ford driving his, quote, hulking black SUV as he was stalking a female PC party member in supposedly an act of intimidation.

00:35:45.600 And I mean, like, like just throwing everything out there, not just a car, an SUV.

00:35:51.000 It's a big Lincoln Navigator.

00:35:52.840 And, you know, not not cherry red.

00:35:55.240 It was black.

00:35:56.400 Right. 0.98

00:35:56.680 You know, the black house.

00:35:57.900 It's like some secret CIA death squad.

00:36:02.120 You know what?

00:36:02.940 We're laughing.

00:36:03.660 It's pitiful.

00:36:04.280 Well, you know, the thing about politics is when you're laughing at them, it's a sign they're done.

00:36:09.980 And the Ontario Liberals have been so successful for so long, they dispatched conservative after conservative.

00:36:18.340 And I think Doug Ford will be the next premier.

00:36:21.120 I think there is a real worry about the NDP coming up in the middle.

00:36:24.020 But I think their vote will likely be concentrated in a number of ridings.

00:36:28.060 They get a super majority.

00:36:29.160 And I'm still confident in a Doug Ford majority.

00:36:32.380 Are you?

00:36:33.440 I'm not, Ezra, because a couple of months ago or six weeks ago, at least, what was the lead that the PCs under Ford had?

00:36:42.360 It was close to 20 points.

00:36:44.440 Now the latest poll is showing even Stephen.

00:36:46.740 And that is a shocking either failure on the behalf of the PCs or an incredible renaissance on behalf of the Andrea Horwath NDP.

00:36:58.200 And the more and more I look at the climate out there, Ezra, I'm getting this vibe of 1990 Ontario.

00:37:07.640 You know, no one saw that coming.

00:37:10.480 To this day, I still can't find one person who admits to voting for the Bob Ray NDP.

00:37:16.740 But, of course, the Bob Ray NDP government, they almost look like fiscal conservatives compared to what the McGuinty-Win liberals have done to this province.

00:37:24.420 Andrea Horwath, it's crazy.

00:37:25.660 We were talking with Candace Malcolm today about sanctuary cities.

00:37:30.580 I mean, like, that's how kooky she is. 1.00

00:37:32.220 She wants to make Ontario a sanctuary province. 1.00

00:37:34.820 You know what?

00:37:36.340 I think you're closer to this file than I am.

00:37:38.620 You're following it much more closely.

00:37:39.700 You're going to the events.

00:37:40.800 So I'm going to yield to your judgment on it.

00:37:43.080 And I will say one thing.

00:37:44.380 In the last generation, it's been an entire generation. 0.59

00:37:47.140 Since Bob Ray won.

00:37:48.460 Actually, you know, what's that, 28 years, if my math is right.

00:37:52.440 Correct.

00:37:53.820 In that time, socialism has made a comeback.

00:37:56.940 Bernie Sanders.

00:37:57.860 Absolutely.

00:37:58.260 Popular.

00:38:00.360 Around the world, socialism is on the march, whether it's in Venezuela.

00:38:03.560 And I think I see some parallels with the U.S. scene.

00:38:08.480 I know Doug Ford doesn't like to be compared with Donald Trump, but I think he has some stylistic similarities.

00:38:14.560 He's generally more confident towards the media.

00:38:20.700 He's more politically incorrect.

00:38:22.400 He's got a bit of a business background.

00:38:24.140 He's got a big personality.

00:38:25.620 And I see the Bernie Sanders wing.

00:38:29.140 Maybe that's the power of the end.

00:38:31.200 And you had a generation of hard left schooling.

00:38:34.440 So you've pumped out 28 years of left wing grads from school.

00:38:39.500 Maybe you're right.

00:38:40.320 Maybe we are going to see another horrific, and God forbid, a coalition.

00:38:43.680 And Ezra, I agree with your analysis.

00:38:45.320 And also, I think when I noticed the screw turning was when Doug turfed Tanya Granik-Allen.

00:38:52.880 And because, you know, a few days later, there was that debate in downtown Toronto at the City TV news studios.

00:38:58.960 And there was a bunch of Tanya Granik-Allen supporters still holding her signs.

00:39:03.260 And I went to each and every single one of them and said, are you going to be voting PC?

00:39:08.460 And every one of them said no.

00:39:10.060 Now, they didn't say they were going to vote liberal or NDP.

00:39:13.100 But I have the idea that they're going to decline their ballot, you know, spoil their ballot, or simply stay at home.

00:39:19.160 Well, yeah.

00:39:19.440 I mean, and look at Donald Trump.

00:39:20.540 The guy is a downtown Manhattan guy, but he maintains a positive working relationship with social conservatives.

00:39:29.220 No one would ever say that Donald Trump is a social conservative.

00:39:31.920 I mean, he's, you know, even just his personal life is sort of the opposite of social conservative.

00:39:37.180 And this whole Stormy Daniels thing reminds people of that.

00:39:39.740 But, first of all, he never pretended to be.

00:39:42.240 But he has a working relationship and a respect for whether it's the NRA types or pro-life types or Christian types.

00:39:47.840 And my point is, it doesn't tar him or hurt him.

00:39:53.380 Doug Ford's team who threw Tanya Granik-Allen under the bus, I think you're right.

00:39:56.860 I think it broke off part of the coalition, demoralized them.

00:40:01.520 And wouldn't that be something that actually cost him the campaign?

00:40:04.960 I think it is, Ezra.

00:40:06.220 And it breaks my heart to see this.

00:40:07.800 And that's the biggest difference between, I think, Doug Ford and Donald Trump, which, of course, Kathleen Wynne compared the two men earlier this month.

00:40:16.340 But the fact is, is that Trump, if his advisor says, oh, well, you know, the Washington Post and the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC, they're all saying this.

00:40:26.420 So you better do something to appease them. 0.99

00:40:28.780 He'd tell them to go to hell. 1.00

00:40:30.160 Yeah, fire them. 1.00

00:40:30.560 Yeah. 0.87

00:40:31.680 And it would just be that way.

00:40:33.600 And Doug Ford somehow got convinced to drink this Kool-Aid.

00:40:37.500 And the fact of the matter is, those, you know, nattering nabobs of negativity in the media party, Ezra, are going to continue to hate him.

00:40:46.120 Yeah, they're going to hate him no matter what.

00:40:47.200 And the thing is, if you bend the knee to the media party, you demoralize your friends, you embolden your enemies, you allow the critics and the haters to set the campaign narrative, and you lose the enthusiasm in your base.

00:41:00.220 Donald Trump's base was so enthusiastic.

00:41:02.320 Yes.

00:41:02.900 Hillary Clinton's were so grudging.

00:41:05.140 Yeah.

00:41:05.280 And I think it'll be, it's too early to say, I'm not writing them off.

00:41:09.240 I still think he has a good chance.

00:41:10.500 You're more in touch with it than me.

00:41:11.720 You're worried about him losing.

00:41:13.320 You make the good point.

00:41:14.360 He's lost a 20-point lead.

00:41:16.820 It's too early to say.

00:41:18.800 I hope for all of our sakes, for Ontario's sake, that Doug Ford wins.

00:41:22.580 But it's too close to Kahl right now.

00:41:24.880 Last word to you.

00:41:25.780 I fear for the province.

00:41:27.100 I fear for that, you know, Bernie Sanders-style socialism.

00:41:29.720 I mean, one of the most recent things was it looks like Andrea Horwath wants the Pickering nuclear plant to close down. 0.99

00:41:38.120 And in a shocking example of double talk or Orwellian newspeak, Ezra, this is a job creation program.

00:41:45.780 Because we need all these temporary jobs, you know, these demolition men to come and take this down.

00:41:51.080 Oh, my God.

00:41:51.220 Really what it does is—

00:41:52.220 What is she going to replace it with?

00:41:53.000 What did she say she's going to replace it with?

00:41:54.140 I've heard that story.

00:41:54.920 Well, it gets rid of 4,500 direct jobs.

00:41:57.200 It gets rid of, according to the Chamber of Commerce, 7,500 ancillary jobs.

00:42:01.940 And now you've got to—

00:42:03.020 Yeah.

00:42:03.360 The most reliable fuel in the world.

00:42:04.540 Yeah, and now you've got to go to Quebec and buy more energy from them.

00:42:07.320 So that's NDP Economics 101 couched in, this is a job creation program.

00:42:14.180 I am very scared what's happening, Ezra.

00:42:16.480 You know what?

00:42:17.020 The people are always right in a democracy.

00:42:19.260 But I do not want Ontarians to be punished in the manner that they will be punished if they choose Andrea Horwath.

00:42:27.480 Rachel Notley won the Alberta election fair and square.

00:42:30.020 No one would ever say she rigged it or hacked it or anything.

00:42:32.700 And Albertans have been paying a deep, deep price for that foolish choice they made in 2005.

00:42:39.980 I fear that if Ontarians vote for Andrea Horwath, get ready for Notley-style pain, Bob Ray-style pain.

00:42:47.720 And this province, it is a have-not province, will follow them further behind.

00:42:52.860 I don't even want to contemplate it.

00:42:54.720 Let's keep our fingers crossed.

00:42:55.840 We've got to go.

00:42:56.280 It's great to see you again.

00:42:57.200 Okay, yeah.

00:42:57.640 We are talking another 50 shades of gray if they get it.

00:43:00.380 All right, well, stay on this front.

00:43:02.760 I'm really glad you're covering it.

00:43:03.920 All right, there's our friend David Menzies.

00:43:05.500 He's more in touch with this scene than me, and you heard him.

00:43:08.400 He's a pessimist.

00:43:09.220 That scares me.

00:43:11.240 Stay with me.

00:43:12.040 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:43:13.380 Hey, welcome back.

00:43:25.640 On my monologue yesterday about environmental charities breaking Canadian tax laws, Tami writes,

00:43:30.300 You know what?

00:43:42.680 You know what?

00:43:46.660 It's that Libranos way. 0.96

00:43:49.320 It's so important that the Canada Revenue Agency be absolutely nonpartisan and nonpolitical.

00:43:56.040 I mean, could you imagine if every time you changed parties, all of a sudden, okay, conservatives,

00:44:01.700 you don't have to worry about your taxes, but liberals, you do.

00:44:04.080 Okay, now the liberals in power.

00:44:05.500 Liberals, you don't have to pay taxes.

00:44:07.040 Conservatives, you don't have to pay taxes.

00:44:07.400 And it's not just who has to pay taxes.

00:44:10.800 All the confidential information that goes into the CRA, it has to be clean as a whistle.

00:44:17.280 I mean, just imagine all the scams and the schemes and the danger.

00:44:22.280 You have to have the absolutely most trustworthy people in the country.

00:44:26.220 They're trustworthy in some ways even more than a police officer, right?

00:44:30.860 Because a police officer, to get private info about you, has to get a search warrant,

00:44:35.100 and you have to do something wrong, and da-da-da.

00:44:37.400 The CRA, they get all your personal details, you're compelled to give it to them,

00:44:42.800 in a way that it's, I mean, you could type in any name there.

00:44:45.660 You could type in your enemy.

00:44:47.140 You could type in an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend.

00:44:49.260 It's like, you need the most trustworthy people in the country.

00:44:53.780 Would you agree with me?

00:44:55.640 And now what you have is the prime minister's office saying,

00:44:58.200 tap, tap, tap on the shoulder of the auditors.

00:45:00.080 Hey, guys, those are my friends.

00:45:02.580 So can you suspend the audit?

00:45:05.940 Yeah, that's not how it works.

00:45:07.400 That's not how it works in a country with the rule of law.

00:45:11.780 If someone failed an audit, you give them their appeal, you let them go through the rules,

00:45:15.180 and if they fail the audit, they fail the audit.

00:45:16.800 You do not exempt your friends from being cheaters under the Tax Act.

00:45:23.920 Bruce writes,

00:45:24.480 Yes, it's deja vu all over again. 0.96

00:45:26.000 Dad, Trudeau's liberals were just as corrupt. 0.86

00:45:28.040 So were liberals after him. 0.97

00:45:29.520 When will people realize that the Libranos are the party of sleaze? 1.00

00:45:33.440 Yes, that's part of it.

00:45:34.920 But I think the second part is, the liberals did not hide this.

00:45:38.300 I quoted from a CBC story where I first learned this.

00:45:42.240 They're boasting about it.

00:45:44.040 And the media says, okay, so you're intervening to let your friends off the hook.

00:45:49.980 And they're writing this as a good story, as a happy story.

00:45:53.400 So yeah, there's corruption in the government and in the CRA.

00:45:58.200 Sorry, that's what that is, telling auditors to stop auditing a tax cheat.

00:46:04.360 That's corruption.

00:46:06.300 That's pretty much the definition of it.

00:46:08.500 But then the media is saying, yeah, this is cool.

00:46:10.940 That's a form of corruption, too, especially when they're a state broadcaster.

00:46:14.240 Paul writes,

00:46:14.800 Hey, that is very friendly.

00:46:42.980 Thank you for that note.

00:46:45.100 I appreciate the positive feedback.

00:46:46.540 I will confess, I was a little too starstruck.

00:46:50.040 I mean, I've met Conrad Black a dozen times before.

00:46:52.040 But I was in super fan mode.

00:46:54.400 I think it showed.

00:46:55.660 And I got a little giddy there, as I am sometimes with Jordan Peterson.

00:46:59.180 What can I say?

00:47:00.060 I love those guys so much.

00:47:01.500 And I want to have like a three-hour conversation with them.

00:47:04.520 And I'm trying to jam that into half an hour.

00:47:06.540 And I'm also trying to let them get a word in edgewise,

00:47:09.240 so it's not just me basking in them.

00:47:11.840 So I'm glad you liked it.

00:47:13.200 I think I talked too much, but I think I gave them 51% of the talk time.

00:47:17.140 Anyways, that's the show for today.

00:47:18.820 Can I tell you, I read that book on Krakatoa.

00:47:21.720 I read it more than 10 years ago when it came out.

00:47:25.740 I thought, I mean, I'm not the kind of guy who would say,

00:47:27.600 I'm going to get a book on volcanoes.

00:47:29.260 Actually, a friend had it and he gave it to me.

00:47:31.180 And I just thought, Krakatoa, what's that?

00:47:32.680 And I just started flipping through the book.

00:47:33.840 I thought, oh my God, that's the most interesting story.

00:47:35.460 There's so many shocking facts.

00:47:37.180 And it was just in the modern era.

00:47:40.160 I mean, photography was still very nascent.

00:47:44.520 Global communications were still very rudimentary.

00:47:48.200 But to see the effects of the world's worst volcanic explosion in the recent past

00:47:55.200 was just an astounding, fascinating story.

00:47:58.300 If you're looking for books, I mean, this is not a political book.

00:48:01.720 It's a historical book and a scientific book.

00:48:05.320 There is that political religious element that I talked about, the jihad that came out of there.

00:48:11.120 Frankly, it's a book that gives you a break from the shturm und drang of today's politics. 0.99

00:48:16.000 There's no mention of Donald Trump in the book.

00:48:17.660 There's no mention of Justin Trudeau in the book.

00:48:19.740 It's very alien to a lot of things.

00:48:22.220 As you can see, there was a colonialism reference there.

00:48:25.080 So if you just want an interesting book about volcanoes and you will bug your friends with

00:48:29.920 these details for days, may I recommend that book?

00:48:33.180 Just thought I'd throw that out there.

00:48:34.440 All right.

00:48:34.680 Well, the show's gone on for long enough.

00:48:36.140 Thank you for joining us today.

00:48:39.020 I'll be back tomorrow doing the noon hour thing.

00:48:41.440 I don't know if you tune in, but noon Eastern, 10 Mountain, 9 a.m. Pacific.

00:48:45.980 I sit down and do a live YouTube chat.

00:48:48.200 So this is pre-taped what I'm doing here now.

00:48:49.900 But at noon Eastern, I just sit, camera's on, and people can write YouTube comments.

00:48:54.560 And I reply to them.

00:48:55.860 I show some clips.

00:48:56.560 The Suns produces this show, but it's sort of fun.

00:48:58.880 And I do it every day at noon.

00:48:59.880 I was away today at noon.

00:49:01.220 I had a meeting, so John Cardillo sat in for me.

00:49:03.560 But I'll be back tomorrow.

00:49:04.820 I hope to see you then until tomorrow, either at noon for their super chat, as we call it,

00:49:09.840 or 8 p.m. Eastern.

00:49:11.360 Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:49:13.860 Good night.

00:49:16.700 Good night.

00:49:17.520 Good night.

00:49:18.560 Good night.

00:49:19.540 Good night.

00:49:21.020 Good night.

00:49:22.660 Good night.

00:49:24.920 Good night.

00:49:26.360 Good night.

00:49:29.840 Good night.

00:49:34.540 Good night.

00:49:35.560 Good night.

00:49:37.420 Good night.

00:49:38.760 I was at night.

Rebel News Podcast - May 24, 2018

Ezra Levant Show May 24 2018

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