Rebel News Podcast - Ezra Levant Show May 25 2018

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Tommy Robinson was sentenced to a year in prison today.

00:00:03.820 The story is subject to a publication ban in the UK,

00:00:06.600 but I'm in Canada, and I'll tell you the shocking facts.

00:00:09.480 It's May 25th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:17.520 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:21.280 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:25.020 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:28.000 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it

00:00:31.980 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:38.760 Tommy Robinson was arrested today in Leeds in the UK outside the courthouse.

00:00:43.680 A few hours later, he was sentenced to 13 months in prison.

00:00:47.160 I've never heard of that before.

00:00:48.560 Normally, there's an alleged offense, then an arrest, then the charges,

00:00:52.600 then lawyers get involved, then a first court appearance,

00:00:54.620 then maybe bail, and then disclosure of documents, and then a trial.

00:00:58.000 And then a conviction, and then a sentence, and then an appeal.

00:01:01.060 Normally, that takes months, maybe years.

00:01:03.640 But this happened today, in just a few hours,

00:01:06.180 from Tommy standing on the street laughing, talking,

00:01:09.580 to be sent to prison for 13 months?

00:01:12.360 That happened in the United Kingdom today.

00:01:14.600 And while Tommy Robinson is the man who was condemned,

00:01:17.220 I think the UK courts, well, they committed murder

00:01:20.180 of their own reputation for liberty and law.

00:01:22.480 Let me show you the moment it happened.

00:01:24.860 Here is the arrest, filmed by Tommy's own cameraman.

00:01:28.100 The content of what I'm streaming, I'm being arrested for breaches of peace.

00:01:32.520 Are you warritten yet?

00:01:33.440 I'm being arrested for breaches of peace.

00:01:34.840 You've all watched this.

00:01:35.600 Oh, my God.

00:01:36.680 You've all watched this.

00:01:38.040 You've all watched this.

00:01:38.700 Can you get me a slister?

00:01:40.160 Can you get me a slister?

00:01:41.120 Can you just turn off your life fee?

00:01:42.420 Yes.

00:01:42.560 Can you get me a slister?

00:01:43.320 Just turn off your life fee, please.

00:01:44.500 Yeah?

00:01:45.540 Do you understand what other stuff to do?

00:01:46.740 Sorry, can you explain it again?

00:01:48.200 What's that mean?

00:01:51.660 What does that mean?

00:01:52.300 What does that mean?

00:01:54.300 What does that mean?

00:01:56.300 What does that mean?

00:02:06.300 That's the information I've got.

00:02:08.300 I'm inciting people.

00:02:10.300 How have I inciting people?

00:02:12.300 This is free speech. This is where we're at.

00:02:14.300 You're not even allowed to. Look at this.

00:02:16.300 Look how many people...

00:02:18.300 Do you know when you do this?

00:02:20.300 More people...

00:02:22.300 More people...

00:02:24.300 Just let them do this.

00:02:26.300 More people are going to watch this now than ever. 0.99

00:02:28.300 This is ridiculous lads. 0.95

00:02:30.300 Do you feel right what you're doing here? 0.98

00:02:32.300 I haven't said a word. In fact, someone laid their hand

00:02:34.300 and assaulted me outside court.

00:02:36.300 Other people have shwored me and threatened me about my mother

00:02:38.300 and here I am being arrested for saying nothing.

00:02:40.300 I'm threatened to behead me.

00:02:42.300 I've done nothing.

00:02:44.300 Breach of the peace. Apparently I'm inciting

00:02:46.300 on my video.

00:02:48.300 George, get me a solicitor.

00:02:50.300 Because I'm there.

00:02:52.300 I'm on a suspended sentence.

00:02:54.300 He has actually done nothing wrong.

00:03:00.300 Causing a disturbance?

00:03:02.300 But he was standing by himself on the public street.

00:03:04.300 He had a cameraman with him and another supporter.

00:03:08.300 But it wasn't a public disturbance.

00:03:10.300 It wasn't public at all really.

00:03:12.300 There was no crowd either on his side or against him.

00:03:16.300 There was no disturbance.

00:03:18.300 In fact, Tommy had been just talking into his cell phone.

00:03:20.300 You can see an image of it behind me.

00:03:22.300 He was doing a Facebook video live stream

00:03:24.300 and he had been doing it for literally one hour.

00:03:28.300 Just standing and talking into the camera

00:03:30.300 or running commentary for one hour.

00:03:32.300 And a few times during that hour,

00:03:34.300 people walked up to him on the street

00:03:36.300 to have a very brief conversation.

00:03:38.300 And Tommy did talk with him and they were all polite.

00:03:40.300 Even when someone disagreed with him.

00:03:42.300 No swearing. No shouting.

00:03:44.300 Tommy kept the camera running for a full hour

00:03:46.300 until that arrest.

00:03:48.300 I think I counted seven cops there.

00:03:50.300 Public disturbance?

00:03:52.300 He was practically alone by himself for an hour.

00:03:54.300 Here's a sample of that one hour live stream.

00:03:56.300 It was an interesting conversation.

00:03:58.300 It was political.

00:03:59.300 He had a strong point of view.

00:04:00.300 But it was not a disturbance.

00:04:02.300 There was no exhortation to take any action.

00:04:04.300 He was doing journalism.

00:04:06.300 He was standing outside a courthouse 0.99

00:04:08.300 where a Muslim rape gang was on trial. 0.90

00:04:10.300 Here's just a sample of one hour of Tommy just talking. 0.78

00:04:15.300 I'm outside Leeds Crown Court

00:04:17.300 where today, ten men are facing verdicts.

00:04:20.300 They're verdicts for a grooming,

00:04:22.300 alleged grooming and rape scandal.

00:04:25.300 People need to know what's going on.

00:04:27.300 People need to know these court cases are happening.

00:04:29.300 Obviously, the problem is you have people like that

00:04:32.300 who think I'm a wanker for reporting on it.

00:04:33.300 What's it got to do with you?

00:04:35.300 What's it got to do with you?

00:04:36.300 What's it got to do with me?

00:04:37.300 I'm an English man and they're English girls. 0.97

00:04:39.300 They're women. They're young girls.

00:04:41.300 Residents now feel they can no longer rely on police

00:04:44.300 in these issues.

00:04:46.300 And they're trolling and highlighting

00:04:48.300 and trying to combat this epidemic.

00:04:51.300 The streets were empty.

00:04:54.300 You could see it was raining out.

00:04:56.300 Tommy was literally looking into the camera

00:04:58.300 and just talking for an hour holding his own phone.

00:05:00.300 He was pacing and slowly wandering around a bit.

00:05:03.300 And you can see that there was no one there.

00:05:06.300 Public disturbance? It was impossible.

00:05:07.300 There was no public to disturb.

00:05:09.300 And he wasn't disturbing.

00:05:10.300 Now, literally an hour before his arrest,

00:05:13.300 Tommy had asked a few tough questions

00:05:15.300 of two Muslim men who were on trial

00:05:17.300 and were in court that day, today, 0.98

00:05:19.300 to hear the verdict on their trial for raping white girls 0.99

00:05:22.300 and forcing them into prostitution. 0.99

00:05:24.300 Tommy accosted the men and asked them

00:05:26.300 if they were feeling guilty

00:05:27.300 and what they had to say about the young girls

00:05:29.300 as young as 11 years old who were raped.

00:05:32.300 The entire interaction was very brief.

00:05:34.300 It was aggressive, sure.

00:05:35.300 But the men went away quickly.

00:05:37.300 They were just walking into court.

00:05:38.300 There was no rule against hollering at an accused rapist.

00:05:41.300 Tommy was very careful throughout his whole broadcast

00:05:44.300 to always call them accused or alleged criminals.

00:05:47.300 I listened closely.

00:05:48.300 He was very careful.

00:05:50.300 And it's a judge-only trial, by the way.

00:05:52.300 There's no jury.

00:05:53.300 And today's the sentencing day.

00:05:55.300 It's not like Tommy's interaction

00:05:57.300 with these accused criminals that was very brief

00:05:59.300 would alter the course of the trial or tamper with a jury.

00:06:02.300 There was no jury here.

00:06:03.300 Just for full disclosure, I want to show you

00:06:05.300 the entire footage of Tommy hollering

00:06:07.300 at a couple of criminal accused.

00:06:10.300 now was that a disturbance i suppose in the dictionary definition of the word it was a

00:06:38.820 was a disturbance. It was a bit of an interruption, a bit of noise, but it lasted just, what was that?

00:06:43.580 Less than 30 seconds. And it was neither violent nor threatening, other than that one man who

00:06:48.000 threatened Tommy's mom. You'll notice Tommy didn't even go up the steps on the courthouse. He was

00:06:52.080 very careful not to be on court property. Was Tommy accusatory or insulting? Sure, but it's a

00:06:57.360 free country. Sort of. Anyways, that was literally an hour before he was arrested. He was standing

00:07:03.680 there for an hour thereafter. There was no disturbance when police descended on him an

00:07:07.760 hour later. Seven of them, they were arresting him for something that was clearly not happening.

00:07:12.980 And we could all see it. I should say, because when Tommy worked with us at the Rebel, we had this

00:07:18.580 issue with Tommy before. Tommy was very careful about where he stood. He did not stand on court

00:07:23.280 property because a year ago, when he did stand on court property, he was arrested for contempt of

00:07:28.120 court, for having a video camera running on the steps of the court. Now, that's absurd. That's unfair.

00:07:32.960 Every single journalist in the UK and in Canada sets up their cameras on the steps of the courthouse to

00:07:37.460 do court reports. It's normal. It's positively where press conferences are scheduled. But Tommy

00:07:42.100 was held in contempt of court a year ago for doing what every other journalist does. So he was very

00:07:47.300 careful this time, I could tell. He didn't stand where he was not supposed to stand. And in part of

00:07:52.560 the video, you can hear him confirm this, both to his viewers and with some court official.

00:07:56.680 Officer, are they, are these stairs the, so if, you're not allowed to go on those stairs, am I?

00:08:03.720 Whilst recording.

00:08:07.320 This isn't the property of the court though, is it? No, it's this. Okay, so I'll stay off then. Cool.

00:08:15.440 It's obviously not on the court steps. By the way, last time Tommy was arrested for this trumped up

00:08:19.640 charge. It was a 4am raid on his home. 4am, just for maximum political harassment to his family.

00:08:26.200 They could have popped in in the daytime. They could have phoned or emailed him and asked him to

00:08:29.800 come in. But they raided his house in the dead of night like he was a terrorist, just to demoralize

00:08:35.320 him, scare his wife and kids. Remember this?

00:08:39.800 0-4-32 and the police are at my house. And I'm being arrested for going to a court case

00:08:47.800 in Canterbury and trying to video the Muslim PFRs.

00:08:52.360 Well, they didn't do that this time. They didn't wait till the dead of night

00:09:04.680 to get him from his bed. They arrested him in the day. Now, last time, when he worked with the rebel,

00:09:10.840 we hired the best lawyers in the UK for him. But he was still convicted. And it was the same judge

00:09:16.280 who sent for Tommy, who was mad at Tommy, who sat in judgment of Tommy. And Tommy was

00:09:22.280 sentenced to three months in prison a year ago, in prison, for taking a 45-second selfie video.

00:09:27.320 Now, that three-month sentence last year was suspended for an 18-month period, which means

00:09:32.360 he didn't have to go to jail for three months, but it was hanging over him like a dagger on a thread,

00:09:37.080 that three-month sentence. And still, since we're in that 18-month period, so if he's convicted of

00:09:43.720 contempt of court or whatever, that three months, it becomes alive. And that's what happened

00:09:52.040 today. Here, let me show you some more. Tommy isn't working for the rebel now. He's independent,

00:09:58.360 but we still keep in touch from time to time. And I've privately reached out to his team

00:10:02.120 to see if we can help, but I don't want to interfere with his strategy or do anything

00:10:05.800 without his permission. Tommy was briefly released, but then was ordered back to court today.

00:10:11.400 Here's the court docket. You can see Tommy's on there for contempt of court. Not the breach of the

00:10:16.600 peace that the cops said when they arrested him. And we've blurred them out here, but those were

00:10:22.760 all names of the Muslim rape accused. That's the gang members. Now, I'm blurring the names, 0.96

00:10:28.040 because as I write this, I don't know if they were convicted or not. And apparently,

00:10:31.800 the names were subject to a publication ban. But it is a fact that other media had published

00:10:36.680 these names in public. And we happened to be in Canada, so the ban probably wouldn't apply to us,

00:10:40.760 too. But other than abundance of caution, I'm blacking the names out. But that's what they used

00:10:45.000 to arrest Tommy today for. For saying those names, for contempt of court, for naming the accused rapists,

00:10:52.520 even though that information had already been published in the mainstream media, and the trial

00:10:55.960 was over, and there was no jury that could have seen Tommy's comments and been affected in any way.

00:11:00.680 Tommy's longstanding lawyers were not notified of his arrest today. Instead, Tommy was rushed into

00:11:06.040 court that moment, given a court-appointed lawyer who was neither an expert in contempt of court law,

00:11:11.480 nor familiar with Tommy and his legal history. And the hearing was done in a matter of minutes. In

00:11:17.960 minutes! That used to be called a drumhead trial, from arrest to conviction to sentencing, 0.68

00:11:24.280 in a couple of hours. And Tommy was sentenced to a shocking 13-month prison term. Tommy got a longer

00:11:29.240 sentence for reporting on rape gangs than many rape gangs themselves receive for rape.

00:11:35.000 Even crazier, the judge today issued a publication ban about Tommy, making it illegal to report the

00:11:41.240 details of Tommy's case. And that publication ban only applies to the United Kingdom and the rebel

00:11:45.640 media. We're based here in North America, which is why I'm free to talk about it. So what? 13-month

00:11:51.000 prison sentence and a publication ban. No one in Britain can even talk about this. Look at this

00:11:55.320 Google News search. Lots of coverage of Tommy's case. Look at all these news stories. But if you

00:12:00.200 click on any of the British media, they've taken down the stories. It was secret. Tommy was convicted,

00:12:07.720 and the judge ordered that it be kept secret. Look at that. All deleted. Sorry, is that the

00:12:14.120 freest country in the world? Or is that the place that Orwell warned us about? Now why? Did Tommy cause

00:12:20.360 a disturbance? No, he did not. Did Tommy wreck a trial? No, he did not. It's because Tommy speaks

00:12:24.520 boldly about the Islamification of society, especially the systematic rape of young British 1.00

00:12:29.160 girls at the hands of Muslim migrants. We don't understand what rape gangs are here in Canada or 0.99

00:12:34.200 the US. And thank God, it's not like a man jumps out of the bushes, grabs a woman and rapes her and runs

00:12:40.040 off. That's not what rape gangs do in the UK. It's much more systematic than that. It's organized,

00:12:44.760 it's planned. It's like in Rotherham, where 1,400 young girls were raped. They were tricked and

00:12:51.800 trapped and extorted, and not just raped once. They were raped dozens, hundreds of times. A young 0.91

00:12:56.680 girl, say just 12 years old, might be approached by a man who offers them candy or cigarettes or even

00:13:02.120 a drink of alcohol or drugs, but that usually comes later. It could even just start by telling a

00:13:06.840 young, impressionable girl, I love you. Do you want a grown-up boyfriend? Something that might be

00:13:11.240 appealing and tempting to a young girl. And I'm giving an actual example here. And then the man

00:13:15.320 would say, ah, you've had a free meal or a free drink. Now let me take a topless picture of you

00:13:19.640 as thanks. And then he says, aha, I'm going to show this picture to your mother, and I'm going to

00:13:25.480 tell her what you've done, unless you sleep with me. And then sleep with my friends, or I'll tell

00:13:31.800 your mother that you slept with me, and we're going to pass you around. And if you tell anyone, well,

00:13:35.720 we know where you live, and we know where your mother lives, and we're going to burn down your house. 1.00

00:13:39.640 That is an actual example I'm giving you that actually happened. I'm not making that scenario 0.89

00:13:44.200 up. That happened. That's what rape gangs, grooming gangs are in the UK. It's not a brute force

00:13:49.000 attack, grab a woman in a dark alley. It's extortion and exploitation targeting young girls.

00:13:54.920 As young as 11, the girls feel trapped and ashamed. And the Muslim men, and they're almost always 1.00

00:13:59.480 Muslim men, and the victims are almost always white girls. There are some Sikh girls targeted too. 0.68

00:14:03.880 The Muslim men don't report each other to the police. They don't stop each other. They join in together.

00:14:08.120 That's why they're called gangs. They pass these girls around as young as 11 years old for years. 1.00

00:14:14.280 Of course, there's other criminality too. Violence, threats of violence, even murder. So the first

00:14:18.920 problem is the individual criminals. The second problem is that other men collude with each other

00:14:23.720 to support them and help in the con and help in the rape. And the third problem is that every single

00:14:29.160 authority turns a blind eye to this police, the press, politicians, prosecutors, professors,

00:14:33.960 because it's politically incorrect to criticize Muslims. And the perpetrators are almost all

00:14:38.200 Muslims. And the victims are almost all white girls. It's racist to mention it, you see. 0.97

00:14:43.160 And even if they had the courage to speak the truth, what do you do? There are so many millions

00:14:47.080 of Muslims in the UK now, and a large percent support Sharia law. And there are literally 23,000

00:14:52.840 jihadis on the loose in the UK that they know about. Holy warriors suspected of being terrorist sleepers.

00:15:00.440 Those are known to the UK authorities. So the authorities are paralyzed by fear. Fear of being

00:15:05.320 called Islamophobic, and even more fear of violence from the 23,000 terrorists within.

00:15:12.440 Not Tommy Robinson. He speaks truth to power. He's motivated by a big heart,

00:15:17.080 but he's inconvenient to the powerful people. So he was thrown away today. And you know what?

00:15:23.240 It's almost just as well that the mainstream media were censored, because all they would have done

00:15:28.040 would be to celebrate and to cheer. Like on Twitter, the jubilation of Tommy's opponents was

00:15:33.480 unrestrained. And they were thrilled that he will surely be killed in prison. So yeah, where are your 0.82

00:15:41.640 press freedom liberals, your civil liberties liberals now, eh? They don't think Tommy Robinson should have

00:15:46.760 civil liberties. They're happy to have him silenced. Not me. Tommy Robinson doesn't work for us anymore.

00:15:52.440 He hasn't for several months. But I reached out to his family today, and I spoke to his lawyer, and I

00:15:56.760 offered to help them crowdfund their legal defense fund, even though we don't have a formal connection

00:16:01.160 with them. I'll let you know what they say when I last spoke with them. They hadn't actually even had

00:16:04.840 a chance to talk with Tommy. That's how fast it happened. They hadn't even had a chance to talk to

00:16:09.320 Tommy on the phone yet. Even his own lawyer hasn't. I won't give away any confidences. I'm just saying,

00:16:15.000 if they want our help, we'll help them, even though he's not with us anymore. But we're not going to impose

00:16:20.360 ourselves on them. I'll wait for them to ask. Because Tommy, even though he's not with the

00:16:25.640 rebel anymore, he's actually still with us in spirit, because he is still the biggest rebel

00:16:30.440 in the whole of the UK. And he's not just fighting for his own freedom now. He is fighting

00:16:35.400 for all of our freedom, too. I'll wait for Tommy or his family to accept our offer for help,

00:16:39.640 and if they do, I promise I will let you know, because I will ask you for your help, too. But we're

00:16:43.560 keeping our powder dry until then. But whether he takes our financial help or not, we will be doing our

00:16:48.600 best journalistically to support him. I just wish, I wish the mainstream media would, too.

00:16:55.480 And even mainstream conservatives. It's Tommy today. And it's you tomorrow. Stay with us for more.

00:17:18.600 Welcome back. Well, who knew that student dorms and community centers, well, they're not for students

00:17:26.680 anymore, and they're not for at least the Ontario community. They are being commandeered for the

00:17:33.480 purposes of housing illegal migrants who are simply traipsing across the border from the United States

00:17:39.000 and claiming to be refugees, because there is such need to find refuge from the horrific states of

00:17:45.720 America. I'm making jokes, but it's not really funny. The flood of illegal migrants continues, 1.00

00:17:52.120 despite the existence of the so-called safe third-party agreement between our two countries,

00:17:56.600 that it is a matter of fact and a matter of law that no one coming from the states to Canada or vice

00:18:02.040 versa is a refugee. We'll tell that to Justin Trudeau and the tens of thousands of migrants he has 1.00

00:18:08.120 welcomed in. Joining us now to talk about this is the author of an outstanding column in the Toronto

00:18:12.920 Sun. Let me read the headline to you. It's called, Toronto to turn college dorms, community centers

00:18:19.240 into refugee shelters. And the author is our friend, Anthony Fury. Anthony, it's very frustrating to me.

00:18:27.000 I'm sure it's frustrating to a lot of Torontonians, and even people who aren't directly affected. I'm

00:18:32.120 sure they find it frustrating that this crazy idea of having refugee camps in Canada has come true.

00:18:39.560 Frustrated? Well, if they even know about it. Because, Ezra, this story is very much hidden

00:18:45.240 in plain sight. It comes from a City of Toronto press release. They are clearly trying to get

00:18:49.640 the attention of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to say, hey, you've got to do something about

00:18:53.160 this. You've got to help us out. Both fund these initiatives here because we need space,

00:18:57.320 we need to deal with these people, and perhaps also stop the flow. But what's interesting,

00:19:01.480 Ezra, is this hasn't been really discussed all that much, even though it's a hidden in plain

00:19:05.560 side story. And I think people would be surprised to hear that over 500 kilometers away, this is where

00:19:10.760 Roxton Road is, somehow there are people crossing there in a completely different province, and yet

00:19:16.600 many of them are winding up in Toronto. And in just the past four-week period, they've already had about

00:19:22.920 400 people enter the shelter system in Toronto. They're estimating that by about November, the shelter

00:19:29.560 system is going to be made up of about 55% of asylum seekers, of illegal border crossers.

00:19:36.280 And that's not including perhaps previous government-sponsored refugees may be in the

00:19:41.720 shelter system a little bit. And of course, dealing with the homeless population in Toronto. And last

00:19:46.120 winter, there's a bit of a crisis where they said they don't have the space to house people who are

00:19:50.360 already there. So the city said, what are we going to do? Well, we've got all these students who have just

00:19:54.440 left their dorms. We're going to take 800 beds, and we're going to commandeer them, turn them into

00:19:59.400 refugee centers. What happens when school starts again in September? Well, they've said, then we're

00:20:04.840 probably going to have to commandeer community centers. Now, Ezra, I asked the city, I said,

00:20:10.280 can you tell me how that will affect programming? Because I know all the community centers in my

00:20:14.280 area where my children play, and there's not just massive rooms that aren't being used. There's

00:20:17.960 usually the gym, and then there's a place for older people to do Tai Chi and play cards and so

00:20:23.000 forth. And then that's kind of it. So are you shutting down the gym so little Johnny doesn't

00:20:27.160 get to play basketball? It looks like that's what will happen in September.

00:20:31.240 Yeah. Well, I mean, all of those solutions are terrible. I mean, homeless shelters,

00:20:36.040 that's not for migrants. That's not for immigrants. Those are for people who 1.00

00:20:40.040 have a destitute situation. Frankly, I think we all know that a lot of the people who go to

00:20:45.640 homeless shelters are people who have been deinstitutionalized from either

00:20:49.800 prison or a psychiatric care. There's not enough to hold them. So they are truly the most marginal

00:20:56.440 people. It's not meant to be like a hotel. It's not meant to be a permanent place to stay. It's

00:21:01.960 actually high needs. And let's be very candid, people with alcohol, drug problems, a lot of

00:21:08.920 aboriginal people downtown, these are people who have chronic problems. They're being pushed aside

00:21:14.360 by this plan just to give it to the folks Donald Trump was going to kick out. It's not even the

00:21:21.320 purpose of a homeless shelter, is it? A homeless shelter is not to be a long-term lodging for some

00:21:26.920 would-be Canadian. I find this infuriating. Have the people who advocate for these marginalized 0.95

00:21:35.960 citizens? Have they spoken out or are they too worried about political correctness to stand up 0.83

00:21:41.800 for the true homeless? Well, as I said, nobody is really speaking about this issue. This is one of

00:21:47.720 those, you know, see no evil, hear no evil sort of stories. So I think it's largely been ignored,

00:21:52.200 although I have been vilified by some individuals for simply reporting what is in a city of Toronto

00:21:57.560 press release. I guess they're really upset that this basic news of what is actually happening

00:22:02.920 is getting out there. And, you know, you make a good point. What do we do with this whole situation?

00:22:06.680 When the Syrian refugee intake came in, they hired spaces in many, many motels and sort of outlier 1.00

00:22:12.600 areas of Toronto. And whatever one thought about the Syrian refugee intake, it was controlled. It was 0.98

00:22:18.840 planned. The UN, I guess, did their best to vet these people as genuine refugees. And they said they

00:22:24.520 did security and health screening and so forth. And while social services agencies did tell Justin Trudeau,

00:22:29.640 please slow down. We can't handle this. It was still a form of controlled, confirmed refugees. 1.00

00:22:34.760 What we have here is uncontrolled migration where we have no clue actually how many people are going

00:22:39.960 to come across. I know the estimates say 400 people a day once it really gets going in the summer. But

00:22:45.000 when will it stop? We just don't know. And this could present a long-term problem here. Well,

00:22:51.160 it already has because it's been going on for over a year. Now, you point out that Roxham Road,

00:22:55.320 which has become quite an entry point, that is in the border between New York and Quebec. And

00:23:02.280 we're talking about Toronto here. So that tells us something that I think we, at least I've observed,

00:23:09.080 which is that Quebecers are a lot more blunt on this issue. And Quebec has political parties

00:23:14.920 that are not shy about saying politically incorrect things. I think the last wave or two waves of

00:23:21.240 migrants ago were a lot of Haitians. So they spoke French. They were Haitians who were in the United

00:23:26.440 States because they were given a reprieve after an earthquake there about five years ago. And that

00:23:31.800 five-year amnesty has come to an end. So all these French-speaking Haitians couldn't stick around 1.00

00:23:38.760 America anymore. They either had to go back to Haiti or, well, you speak French, you're going to go to 0.88

00:23:43.080 Quebec. I think that's so taxed the public patience of Quebecers that all of a sudden you had thousands

00:23:49.160 and thousands and thousands of Haitians who are not refugees. They just didn't want to go home.

00:23:54.200 Here's my theory, Anthony. Quebecers have been so burnt by this open borders thing that they've lost

00:24:00.520 all patience. Justin Trudeau sees that in the polls. He sees the provincial legislature in Quebec

00:24:07.480 taking a harder and harder line on these migrants. And he's saying, you know what?

00:24:11.320 I don't want to mess with my political base. I need Quebec in the 2019 election.

00:24:16.760 That's how I'm going to be reelected. So to hell with Toronto. They can take these migrants because 1.00

00:24:22.680 they're so worried about being called politically incorrect. They're not going to squawk. Quebecers

00:24:27.960 can squawk. So we'll ship these people down the highway to Toronto. That's my long theory.

00:24:32.360 Do you think there's any merit to it?

00:24:33.640 I think it's interesting, but I think you're giving Justin Trudeau a lot of credit that he

00:24:39.240 actually has has long theories that he actually has long game plans. I think it's perhaps just

00:24:45.480 simpler than that, that he is bizarrely something of a quasi open borders advocate. Now that that

00:24:52.200 hashtag welcome to Canada tweet and here at Post Media, we got documents that showed that it did

00:24:57.480 actually cause trouble in the government embassies, various government departments writing in and saying,

00:25:02.360 you know, what do we do? People are calling saying, we heard you had open borders. Is it true?

00:25:05.320 How do we handle that? That tweet, Ezra, go look at it right now. It's still up. People are still

00:25:10.680 retweeting it and they're still interacting with it, responding, saying, you know, thank you very much

00:25:15.160 for being so welcoming to us and so forth. Even though we've all agreed that that his tweet was

00:25:20.120 a bunch of malarkey and is not true, but he's never ever once walked that back. There's one Quebec 0.99

00:25:25.880 politician, Ezra, who has said, maybe we should build some sort of a wall, a sort of fence. One politician.

00:25:30.680 Now in my column in the weekend papers, I actually say maybe we should look at building some sort of

00:25:35.400 a structure between the two legal crossings on either side of Roxham Road. You got the Lacol 0.99

00:25:40.040 crossing and the Hemingford. They're about 10 kilometers apart. Build some sort of structure,

00:25:44.200 a chain-link fence. We can take it down in a couple years to send the visual cue to people.

00:25:49.160 Hey, you're not actually welcome. It's not open borders. Because when we investigate a lot of these

00:25:53.640 WhatsApp, social media channels, they, a lot of these people, Ezra, they do genuinely believe that

00:25:58.280 Trudeau has said, come on in and that they are going to be accepted. And then some of them get

00:26:02.280 sent back later. So I almost think what Trudeau is doing is unfair to taxpayers, to Quebecers,

00:26:06.840 to the homeless in Toronto. It's also unfair to these people because he's misleading them

00:26:11.160 about their prospects. I think we should put up those visual cues to say, in fact, no, you can't

00:26:17.320 come in at this part of entry. Instead, the visual cue they have now are semi-permanent structures

00:26:23.080 where people who look like cops are actually, well, that's actually the uniform of our Royal

00:26:27.480 Canadian mounted bellboys. I mean, we literally have police schlepping the luggage of these illegals. 1.00

00:26:35.800 So, I mean, you see a cop, you're doing something illegal. I think most people would say, yikes,

00:26:39.800 don't do that. No, no. They've learned that the police will actually carry their bags. I got one

00:26:44.840 last question for you, Anthony. I'm a conservative and I feel like Canada's immigration numbers are too high. 0.99

00:26:51.160 A poll suggests that 92% of Canadians think the numbers are either fine or too high. Only eight

00:27:00.920 percent want that. And that's a poll that the Liberal government itself commissioned.

00:27:07.000 I want less immigration, but let's say you want more immigration. I'm not for that. 1.00

00:27:11.960 But it would seem to me that you would want to protect the reputation of the immigration system

00:27:16.760 so that people don't start to feel suckered. Because immigration to Canada is dependent on

00:27:22.200 the goodwill of Canadians towards newcomers. And by favoring illegals over legals, by favoring scammers 0.71

00:27:30.360 instead of law-abiding, hardworking applicants, this is the paradox, is that Trudeau and Ahmed Hassan 0.62

00:27:36.520 are actually poisoning the well of goodwill. And if they actually were open borders activists,

00:27:41.480 they would want to stamp out in a very showy way this illegality to maintain public support.

00:27:49.560 I'm worried that they're going to poison Canadians against all immigrants. What do you think of that?

00:27:57.320 Well, you know, I think you're hitting upon a phenomenon that's really happening with

00:28:01.160 Justin Trudeau, where the people who are most frustrated by refugee intakes and this intake process

00:28:07.080 are people who are refugees and legal immigrants. The people who are most upset about his appeasement

00:28:11.880 of Iran are Iranian dissidents who have come to Canada because they believe in Canadian values,

00:28:16.680 this sort of admiring China's basic dictatorship thing, even though he just got the ACON deal,

00:28:20.760 right? I mean, these are all things that upset a lot of the Chinese dissidents. So a lot of people

00:28:25.320 come to Canada because they hear about Canadian values and they want to be a part of them and celebrate

00:28:29.480 them. And our top immigration countries, India, China, the Chinese people, not the Chinese government,

00:28:34.600 North South Korea and so forth. I mean, these are people who are coming for Canadian values.

00:28:38.600 And then the prime minister saying there's no such thing as Canadian values. So I think we certainly

00:28:42.680 have a major disconnect here. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting playing hockey and just asking the

00:28:51.080 migrants to get off the ice rink for a little bit or so, I don't know, community centers. It's going to be 0.99

00:28:56.520 a mess. And I think that grassroots Ontarians will come to be as angry as grassroots Quebecers.

00:29:01.720 Anthony, it's great to talk to you again. Thanks very much for being here today.

00:29:05.720 Have a good one, Ezra. All right, you too. That's our friend, Anthony Fury. Just again,

00:29:08.520 if you haven't seen it, his column in the stun is called Toronto to turn college dorms,

00:29:13.400 community centers into refugee shelters. And you thought that was only for our friends

00:29:18.280 in Germany. Stay with us. More ahead on the rebel. 0.68

00:29:33.240 Welcome back. Well, yesterday, I said to David Menzies that I still thought Doug Ford had a good

00:29:37.600 chance of forming majority. But David was much more skeptical. He pointed out the obvious that

00:29:43.160 the conservative, the progressive conservatives, Doug Ford, who had a 20 point lead just a few

00:29:48.680 weeks ago, is now basically in a dead heat. And all the momentum is with the NDP. And that is

00:29:55.000 terrifying to any Ontarian who lived through Bob Ray's accidental government or any Albertan who is

00:30:01.640 watching with horror at Alberta's accidental government. Well, will Andrea Horrath and Ontario's 0.75

00:30:06.840 hard left wing NDP win the day in Ontario in 2018? Well, some big labor unions seem to think so.

00:30:16.040 Joining us now to talk about the latest endorsements of the NDP is our friend Catherine Swift. She's with

00:30:22.040 Working Canadians, a pro-free enterprise group. Great to see you again, Catherine.

00:30:27.720 Good to see you, Ezra. Look, I want to be optimistic. I'm so desperate for good news these days.

00:30:33.000 I was excited for a month when Doug Ford seemed to have a clear lead. He was so fresh and brash and

00:30:39.800 not afraid of the media. But now, do you think these polls accurately reflect the sentiment in

00:30:46.360 the province? Do you think anybody but Ford is coalescing around Andrea Horrath?

00:30:52.760 Well, there's no question there's momentum that the NDP has. I don't think that can't be denied.

00:30:57.800 That being said, however, the extent of it is is still questionable. I think it's so recent.

00:31:05.880 And as you know, there's a huge chunk of undecided to left in in all of the polls,

00:31:11.800 like anywhere 30 to 40 percent in some of the polls. So that's again, that that's a, you know,

00:31:18.760 a very, a very open question, I guess. But there's there's no doubt they have momentum.

00:31:23.160 And the same dirty tricks that have been done to conservatives in a number of elections in the

00:31:31.080 last 15 years or so are being done now by a lot of these third party, so-called third party groups,

00:31:38.040 labor unions, notably public sector labor unions, who basically want naturally they want a friendly

00:31:45.480 government who is who will permit them to continue to fleece the rest of us. Unfortunately, the rest of

00:31:52.120 us, and when you look at public sector unions, the rest of us are the strong majority. So from my

00:31:57.640 standpoint, anyone in the private sector, which is most of us, who would vote for an NDP government

00:32:04.280 is shooting themselves in the brain. Yeah, shooting themselves in the brain. You're right. Now, 0.98

00:32:09.080 recently, the liberals have moved far left, both provincially, Kathleen Wynne and federally.

00:32:14.120 In many ways, Justin Trudeau has outflanked the NDP. And in return, labor unions and groups that

00:32:20.760 traditionally would always be NDP have switched their affections and their political donations

00:32:26.280 and their political volunteering to the liberals. I mean, Jerry Diaz is practically buddies with

00:32:32.600 Justin Trudeau. And Kathleen Wynne is to the left of, I would say she's the left of what Bob Ray governed

00:32:39.560 like. But I see that in Ontario, the unions are coalescing again around the NDP. Let me show you,

00:32:44.520 for example, here's the Teachers Federation, the Elementary Teachers Federation. I suppose it's no

00:32:49.880 surprise, but Elementary Teachers Union endorses NDP ahead of Ontario election. I mean, that that is not

00:32:57.160 a surprising headline. But they're not going with Kathleen Wynne, who actually is sort of has her 0.96

00:33:04.760 roots in teaching. Let me show you one more ad from a big labor union. This is a private sector

00:33:09.880 labor union. The steelworkers get involved and steelworkers vote for the Ontario 2018 election.

00:33:18.280 And it is, as you can see, a little bit higher up, help the NDP and our political allies. So both

00:33:24.840 public sector and private sector join the NDP there, are really throwing their weight behind them.

00:33:30.200 Um, by the way, do you think if the steelworkers tell their work, their people to vote for the NDP,

00:33:38.760 they will? Or do you think, do you think that they're as autonomous as anyone else?

00:33:43.480 Well, I don't think they're as, as autonomous as any, as anyone else, but, um, I think some will vote

00:33:48.840 the way the union says, but many, many won't. Well, we've seen that before, uh, back in the Ray days,

00:33:54.840 for example, um, an awful lot of auto workers voted for Mike Harris because they found their

00:34:00.840 level of taxation was so unbearable, they would have welcomed any change. So I don't think everyone

00:34:07.080 will follow the union, but I think some will probably let less informed voters will, will

00:34:12.040 pay attention to the union because they haven't maybe formed their own, uh, opinions yet. Um, but,

00:34:17.160 but, but again, I think the bottom line here is that unions, for one thing, I think it's probably

00:34:24.120 illegal, uh, the monies they spend. I, I think a lot of these third parties should, should be way

00:34:29.160 more limited than they are now, all of them, no matter where they sit on the political spectrum,

00:34:33.080 uh, during elections. But a lot of them, as you probably know, Ezra, there's an awful lot of, uh,

00:34:38.840 public sector workers, for example, private sector is one thing, but public sector workers on our

00:34:43.960 taxpayer dime going out and being paid to go and canvas, uh, you know, in certain ridings in

00:34:51.160 favor of whatever the union's flavor of the election happens to be. Now it tends to be NDP and in a lot

00:34:56.920 of cases, uh, that's outrageous. And that doesn't tend to get counted into the overall spending when

00:35:02.760 it well should. So there's not enough scrutiny, uh, on these groups, uh, the various elections

00:35:08.680 officials. I think, I think they're, I don't know what they do. Frankly, they're supposed to oversee,

00:35:12.840 uh, spending in elections and yet all manner of shenanigans go on. Um, that should be,

00:35:17.960 they should be counted into the total, you know, limit of spending during elections, but they're not.

00:35:24.200 Um, you know what? I, I'm, I've only been in Ontario a few years, so I don't have a deep history here,

00:35:30.680 but I think that Kathleen Wynne has, has, is so toxic. I mean, she's not mentioned in any liberal

00:35:37.240 party ads. There was the case of that one liberal candidate whose signs were sort of orange and who

00:35:42.600 she was trying to sort of sneakily pretend she was a new Democrat. Um, Kathleen Wynne's not appearing in

00:35:47.480 her own ads. Uh, and the one she is appearing in, she says, I can do better. So she's really damaged.

00:35:53.880 But Doug Ford has a real built-in base of enemies who hated his brother just as much as him.

00:35:59.560 Um, here's my fear. Andrea Horvath has been around for a while. People feel sort of comfy with her.

00:36:06.360 She's attractive, but not too attractive. She's not off-putting to women or men. She's 0.98

00:36:10.920 friendly. She seems nice. Um, like she just seems like a low risk personality. 0.59

00:36:17.960 In some ways, it reminds me of Rachel Notley. She was around for a while. People really weren't

00:36:22.760 paying attention to her, but she, they knew she was there. They hated the other alternatives,

00:36:26.680 so they said, oh, the heck with it. I'm sensing that's the same with Andrea Horvath. She's not

00:36:32.120 odious as a person. She hasn't become toxic. And I'm worried she's going to be the anybody but

00:36:38.600 win and anybody but Ford vote. I think she'd be the second choice for either liberal or PC voters.

00:36:45.640 What do you think? Well, for one thing, she hasn't been under scrutiny either. You're right. She's been

00:36:50.920 around. This is her third election. Uh, normally party parties get rid of their leaders after they've lost

00:36:56.200 two. Uh, and maybe they don't have it. They didn't have anybody take her place or whatever, 1.00

00:37:00.040 but they they've left her in for, you know, strike three, I guess, as it were. Um, but I don't think

00:37:06.280 she's come under scrutiny yet because she might seem nice enough, but when you listen to her ideas,

00:37:12.280 they're anything but nice. Uh, and, and the more unions, it's very intriguing. It just in the past

00:37:17.480 couple of weeks, uh, more unions who have shifted their support toward her because of course they see

00:37:22.520 that Kathleen Wynne is dead, you know, dead premier walking kind of thing. They realize

00:37:26.520 that's a lost cause. Where can we park ourselves now? Well, it's going to be to another government

00:37:31.800 that's going to be very friendly to unions. And I wonder if they'll be even more friendly. For

00:37:35.560 example, uh, Horvath came out lately and said she would revisit the notion of having wine and, and

00:37:42.840 liquor and beer in grocery stores, uh, uh, ludicrous stuff. I mean, that's, you know,

00:37:49.800 we finally sort of entered the 19th century with that in Ontario because most parts of the world

00:37:55.080 have had much more, uh, you know, sane, uh, alcoholic, uh, uh, retailish than we have here

00:38:02.440 in Ontario. But, you know, stuff like that was clearly a response to support from unions because

00:38:08.040 naturally the unions love having their little monopoly in the LCBO. And there's other examples

00:38:13.400 as well that, um, you know, talking about some, some of these issues. So I think, um,

00:38:18.440 I would really hope that Ontarians give her a hard, hard look at her policies, a hard look,

00:38:25.160 because even though she might seem innocuous and nice, her policies are anything but, 0.99

00:38:29.960 and what kills me is people hate the liberals seemingly because they spent like mad, dug our,

00:38:35.880 you know, dug a massive debt hole that our kids and grandkids and their kids and so on are going to be

00:38:39.960 paying off for generations, et cetera, et cetera. And yet now they're going to shift their vote

00:38:44.440 to a party that is promising not only more of the same, but an even more extreme version of what

00:38:51.080 we've got now. It just seems insane to me. Yeah. Well, um, insane things happen at the polls

00:38:57.640 sometimes. And, uh, you've just scared me a little bit. Catherine Swift, it's great to catch up with you.

00:39:02.120 Thanks for your time today. My pleasure. All right. There you have a Catherine Swift.

00:39:06.280 She's with Working Canadians, a pro-free enterprise advocacy group. Stay with us. 0.98

00:39:11.400 We're ahead on The Rebel.

00:39:23.080 Hey, welcome back. Your letters. On my monologue about CBC's fake news story about

00:39:27.720 global warming triggering volcanoes in Canada, Hansen writes,

00:39:32.360 I know it's the CBC, but how the heck does anyone interviewing such craziness actually

00:39:36.760 hold a straight face? Yeah. I mean, the headline, waking, sleeping volcanoes in Canada.

00:39:44.280 Uh, when you get to the actual part of the interview, it's yeah, well, there might be a rock slide and

00:39:48.920 gravity is to blame. It's just, you know, um, they're not journalists anymore. They're propagandists.

00:39:54.280 Jonathan writes, next, they will tell us that Vulcan is hammering away so hard because Jupiter

00:40:01.320 needs his lightning bolts to bring on the crazy weather. So those dumb mortals will give their 1.00

00:40:05.640 government more cash and get poor. So they will worship the gods more. Well, that's very thoughtful. 1.00

00:40:09.960 Of course, that's where volcanoes come from the word Vulcan. And you're right. Jupiter is also named

00:40:15.640 after a god from mythology. Um, and that's what I alluded to, uh, yesterday is that there are a lot

00:40:22.600 of superstitions related to massive powers in nature, whether it's, uh, the Aztecs and the eclipses,

00:40:28.920 uh, or volcanoes and the archetype of throwing a virgin in the volcano to appease the gods.

00:40:34.440 It's not that far removed from that to global warming and pay the carbon tax. It's a tithe to

00:40:40.440 mother nature. Someone named Jay Smart writes, we could give all our income for a century and

00:40:47.080 wouldn't have no effect on volcanoes or climate change. You're right. Um, and you'll notice that

00:40:54.600 no politicians proposing carbon tax actually say it will change the weather. Some of them say it will

00:41:00.840 change the amount of emissions by some trivial amount, an amount that China will make up for in

00:41:05.240 days. But no one actually says it will change the weather because it won't. It is 100% virtue

00:41:11.640 signaling in service of 100% cash grabs. Well, folks, that's our show for today. I was quite upset

00:41:20.280 by what happened to our friend, Tommy. I'm deeply worried for him in prison. It's terrible in prison

00:41:25.400 for anyone. But for Tommy, it's, it really is akin to a death sentence. I am very worried about him.

00:41:33.800 I don't think I'm breaking confidences to say that in recent months, I mean, I haven't seen Tommy in

00:41:39.240 about two months, but, um, he would sometimes, uh, muse that he, he might not, uh, he might not make it.

00:41:50.600 I think he in some ways was fatalistically resigned to an untimely end. I think he thought

00:42:00.200 that he might be assassinated or killed. And that's not, that's not just fantasy. We know he was

00:42:05.800 attacked from behind and put in a coma last year. Um, I'm, I'm deeply worried about him.

00:42:11.320 I regard him as a friend. I mean, I worked with him for a year and even if I wasn't a friend,

00:42:15.240 even if he was a complete stranger to me, I regard him as a leading light of freedom

00:42:19.480 and dissent and free journalism in the United Kingdom. And I'm quite sad.

00:42:23.640 And immediately to me, Great Great Britain feels less great. It feels smaller.

00:42:29.160 And I feel like things are darker and blurrier and foggier and more pessimistic now. And the

00:42:35.000 cheering of his enemies, uh, is a, is a deep sound of warning to me. Before I get any emotional,

00:42:42.280 I wish you good night. Have a great weekend. Keep enjoying our YouTube videos and I'll be back on

00:42:47.720 Monday. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting

00:42:53.160 for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 27, 2018

Ezra Levant Show May 25 2018

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