Justin Trudeau wants to ban all religious groups from getting government grants because they don t agree with him on certain matters. What does that have to do with religion? And why does it matter if you don't agree with the Prime Minister on them?
00:00:00.000Tonight, nearly 2,000 Christian groups were banned from getting summer jobs grants,
00:00:04.660but wait till you see the Muslim ones that got them.
00:00:07.860It's May 4th and you're watching The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:15.960Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:19.780There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:23.500You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
00:00:26.480The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:37.180Justin Trudeau doesn't like Christians, or at least Christians who mean it.
00:00:41.800Here he is prior to the last federal election announcing that he's banning any pro-life Christians from running as liberal candidates, just banning them.
00:00:49.760All that talk about diversity, of course he doesn't mean it.
00:00:52.340It's just virtue signaling, politically correct fashion preening.
00:06:59.520That's the guy. He's teaching kids. He's getting them to laugh that if you're next to someone who's gay, literally move your chair away.
00:07:13.180So a Salvation Army, food bank, or a Christian summer camp is banned from getting summer jobs by Justin Trudeau because they're quietly pro-life and they won't lie about it on a form.
00:07:25.720But anti-Semitic groups, groups that positively teach mockery of gays, they get Trudeau's money.
00:09:20.180Well, there might be 71 Muslim groups in Ontario, explicitly anti-gay and pro-life Muslim groups that got summer jobs grants,
00:09:28.460but not groups in other provinces that have any Christian beliefs, even if their work is completely unrelated to the issues of abortion and transgenderism.
00:09:39.580And joining us now via Skype from Brooks, Alberta, is one such company that made an application.
00:09:45.120I'm talking about a company that specializes in eco-friendly irrigation.
00:09:50.300There's really nothing transgender-ish or pro-choice or pro-life-ish about it.
00:09:56.680But because the owners of the company would not swear an oath that they support Justin Trudeau's political views, they were denied.
00:10:04.440There's summer jobs grant joining us now is Rhea Lee Anderson and her husband, Bill.
00:10:32.700So our primary business is setting up pivoted irrigation equipment for farmers so they can grow food and grow feed for cattle and pigs and other things like that.
00:10:44.980So, I mean, would you agree with my assessment that you are not a political company?
00:10:50.680You're not proselytizing pro-life views?
00:10:53.820I mean, even if you were, I think that would be completely your right under the charter.
00:10:58.240But what you do has got nothing to do with politics.
00:11:09.480And we do some outreach work, you know, both through our business and personally.
00:11:15.040But we're not politically minded, I guess, or politically driven at our business.
00:11:20.340And what was the position you were looking to hire?
00:11:24.120Just a student to help you install the irrigation or drive around?
00:11:28.940Or what was the, who were you looking to hire?
00:11:31.440Well, previously we've had a, we had an engineering summer student and when he was with us, he came in and he learned how to use hand tools, install equipment, help with maintenance and repairs.
00:11:44.700And with his background going into engineering, we actually had him in our design department so he could learn some of the design aspects and take some of that value forward as he went back to engineering school.
00:11:56.560So you applied for the summer jobs grant this year and you saw the religious attestation and did you write anything?
00:12:19.600I was the one that filled in the application and, you know, when I read the attestation, there's portions of it that I didn't disagree with.
00:12:27.800But there was the inner voice that said, a lot of this, the government really shouldn't be asking you these questions.
00:12:36.560So because there's so much built into the attestation, there's a lot of aspects to it.
00:13:28.040So now I'm very pleased to hear that you've teamed up with the man I believe to be Canada's leading civil liberties lawyer, John Carpe of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
00:13:38.480Tell me about the lawsuit in layman's terms.
00:16:27.080I think they thought if these fools will give us money and all we have to do is check a box, we'll take it and we'll take the money for our Islamic evangelism.
00:17:13.080They have an A1 irrigation and technical services company in Brooks, Alberta that was refused summer jobs funding because they would not sign an attestation that we read you in full earlier today.
00:17:33.180And when I heard there was a legal challenge to this attestation, I knew it had to be you because, quite simply, there is no other civil liberties lawyer in Canada worth his salt on this issue.
00:17:42.600First of all, congratulations and thank you for taking the case of the Andersons.
00:17:45.540Well, it's a real honor to have people that are willing to come forward because it's not easy to be a client or an applicant in court action.
00:17:56.240Well, I just spoke to them for about five minutes, not much more.
00:18:00.260They seem like severely normal people, so to speak.
00:18:05.920They're in the irrigation business, for heaven's sakes.
00:18:08.220And the idea that they would have to bend the knee to Justin Trudeau's own interpretation of abortion rights or transgenderism is so absurd.
00:18:17.120And that they couldn't hire a summer student to work on their irrigation projects because they wouldn't say, yeah, boss, we're pro-choice.
00:18:28.260That is an un-Canadian thing that they were forced to do.
00:18:30.860Well, people forget that, you know, even if Justin Trudeau was correct in saying that abortion is a charter right, and of course he's not correct,
00:18:40.880anybody that's read the Supreme Court of Canada decision, 1988, Morgenthaler, will understand that even the Supreme Court said that Parliament has authority to protect unborn human life.
00:18:54.900But here's the thing, even if Trudeau was correct and there is a charter right to abortion, even there, in a free country, you do not have to agree with your own country's constitution.
00:19:08.700You can be free to say, you know, I think that there's parts of the constitution that are wrong.
00:19:12.740And that should not prevent you from getting your Canada pension check or EI benefits or, you know, access to any government program.
00:19:21.380Yeah. And that's what's so incredible.
00:19:25.420And another layer here is, I mean, put the shoe on the other foot.
00:19:29.500Let's say Stephen Harper had required Canadians to say, I agree with Stephen Harper's interpretation,
00:19:37.340and we should have a three strikes you're out rule for serious crimes.
00:19:42.900I mean, that was the law of the land under Stephen Harper.
00:19:46.560Because it would have been so bizarre to the world that you would have had to agree with Stephen Harper and nod your head to get a grant for an irrigation company summer job.
00:19:56.880And I can only imagine the shrieking and the constitutional, it really would have been a constitutional crisis.
00:20:05.780This is a theocratic coup or something.
00:20:08.120But I see extremely little pushback from the media party, from the political media establishment.
00:20:15.340I haven't seen I could probably count on one hand's fingers the lawyers and law professors who have spoken out against this.
00:20:22.400If this were on the other side, you would see entire faculties of law not only speaking out against it in the media, but they would be suing.
00:20:52.100And, you know, there's something fundamentally wrong with the government requiring that you declare something or pretend to agree to certain values.
00:21:02.800And to have that as a condition for accessing a government program.
00:21:08.440You know, this is, if we don't stop this trend, you know, what we're heading towards is ultimately, and we're not close to it, but ultimately, this is the kind of thing that would go on in, you know, places like North Korea.
00:21:22.280Or, you know, theocratic Iran or Maoist China or Stalinist Russia or, you know, so on and so forth.
00:21:31.600So we have to really nip this in the bud and, you know, cut it off at the roots before it grows any further.
00:21:38.680Just this whole concept that a citizen has to agree with certain values in order to access a government program.
00:21:49.980Your example of will you still get CPP?
00:21:52.780Will you still get unemployment insurance?
00:21:54.140Those are excellent examples because those are as much you're right.
00:21:57.380If you meet the eligibility criteria, you know, did you pay in, are you unemployed, did you pay in, are you of a certain age, to add another layer that you must make some sort of political declaration.
00:22:09.220That really is a Big Brother style thing.
00:22:11.360That really is, I mean, you mentioned some of these totalitarian regimes where they took notes who would be the first to stop clapping.
00:22:18.780And who would be the, and in Canada, we believe dissent is so important that we give the biggest complainer in the country a job called the leader of the opposition.
00:22:34.800And the idea that certain things are no longer debatable and that you must echo the prime minister's views, it's, I say again, it's un-Canadian.
00:22:44.560John, tell me, give me one minute on the legalities itself.
00:22:47.140What's the nature of the lawsuit you filed on behalf of the Anderson family?
00:28:25.480It's the people with less integrity that would be the ones that would just take off the box.
00:28:33.680I'm not saying everybody who takes off the box is lacking in integrity.
00:28:37.140I mean, there are people who agree with abortion being legal and they agree with Justin Trudeau.
00:28:42.100So they're not lacking in integrity when they check off the box.
00:28:46.600But there could be people, you know, as far as I know, Islam is not in favor of abortion or transgenderism.
00:28:54.220So, you know, I don't know what these Muslim groups are doing if they're ticking off the box to get the money.
00:28:59.940But this is this is very, very sad commentary as well, that that you when the government starts pressuring people to, you know, agree with certain sets of values, you get into that problem of people maybe being less than honest just because they want the money or, you know, good people of conscience being blocked from a government program.
00:29:25.240So the whole thing is just rotten to the core.
00:29:27.400You know, I'm thinking back to my law school days.
00:29:31.440One of the cases I remember, just because I thought the name of the two parties was so interesting, was called Ron Corelli versus Du Plessis.
00:29:39.580And there was a restaurateur in Quebec named Ron Corelli.
00:29:43.180And there was a premier named Du Plessis.
00:29:46.300And Ron Corelli kept on bailing out Jehovah's Witnesses who would get in trouble for this or that.
00:29:52.580And this guy, Ron Corelli, just kept on paying their bail.
00:29:54.860And Du Plessis hated the Jehovah's Witnesses so bad.
00:29:58.420And he was so angry at this guy, Ron Corelli, for bailing him out that he refused to give Ron Corelli his liquor license, which basically put him out of business.
00:30:05.380And that case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
00:30:07.140And the Supreme Court said, you cannot use a government tool like in this case, a liquor license.
00:30:13.480You can't use that for collateral reasons to, in this case, a religious battle.
00:30:20.860And it just, you know, that was, what, 50 plus years ago.
00:30:25.020And here we are again, another bully from Quebec, Justin Trudeau, is trying to punish people whose religion he disagrees with, his religious views.
00:30:34.880This time it's Christians or other people who honestly say they disagree with him.
00:30:38.280I'm sure that Ron Corelli case will be part of your legal case.
00:30:45.360In both cases, you have an abuse of authority and you have people that are using their government power just to punish or penalize their political opponents.
00:30:56.740And, you know, don't be surprised if that Ron Corelli versus Duplicy case, and I remember it well from law school, and we often have it in our materials at the Justice Center.
00:38:07.280And it's been 30 months and still nothing done.
00:38:10.560And he continues to maintain his living on Ritos grounds.
00:38:16.540I mean, there's so many weird questions here.
00:38:21.200Like, we know that the Trudeaus hired not one but two nannies.
00:38:26.040We know this, even though it's a personal matter, because they put those nannies on the government payroll as if that's suddenly a public cost.
00:38:34.300And, I mean, I know one of the jobs typically that a nanny has is, you know, making lunch for the kids.
00:38:40.820But I guess that's not the job for these nannies.
00:38:47.240If you're just driving three meals a day and snacks, I'm not going to call that a full-time job.
00:38:51.960But you're not going to do an awful lot of other things if you're doing three meals a day and snacks for a family of five plus two nannies.
00:38:59.920There's a level of luxury and entitlement here that's just so weird.
00:39:13.920At least the rate's point is this isn't exactly a carbon-friendly lifestyle, a low-carbon choice that the prime minister's hectoring us all to make.
00:39:23.100But I think the bigger point is, is there no one in the government who says, yeah, boss, having a courier just for your food?
00:39:31.900That's a bit aristocratic, don't you think?
00:39:35.160Like, there's no one in the government who says that.
00:39:37.240You know, if we just think about the cost of the food delivery to the prime minister, we're keeping up a house for $400,000 a year, a chef well over $100,000, the driver probably around $100,000.
00:39:53.160And we're talking about just for the maintaining of the meals, it's costing $600,000 to $700,000 a year.
00:40:16.360And that was when the chef sued the prime minister, and he had some details about their day-to-day living.
00:40:23.760Maybe that's what Justin Trudeau is trying to avoid, not having the chef on premises to see what's going on in the home.
00:40:32.420Well, I don't know, but I mean, if you keep him in one home, your chef in one home, and you keep yourself in another home, you avoid that problem.
00:40:41.280So it is a luxury that's not afforded to any prime minister.
00:40:46.180And we're talking about $600,000, $700,000, $800,000 a year just to deliver his meals, or create and deliver his meals from one of the most prestigious properties in Canada.
00:41:01.460That is a – it doesn't make sense in any other way.
00:41:05.060I mean, of course, their second home has a kitchen, and if it didn't originally, it's been 30 months, as you point out.
00:41:11.500Of course, it's absurd to have someone driving back and forth all day.
00:41:15.460But to keep someone out of that family so that they have no other eyes on what they're saying and doing in there, who comes and goes, what – anything.
00:41:27.800That – I think your hypothesis – it's a hypothesis that – go ahead.
00:41:32.600Well, it's a stab in the dark, but I have a second one.
00:41:36.400And that is I was around as a young lawyer when the Trudeau family lived at 24 Sussex.
00:41:43.260And it probably wasn't a happy place for Justin for what I read back in the day.
00:41:48.480And I don't think Justin wants to live at 24 Sussex for the reasons that those at my age and read reports of how the family lived and how the family interacted at that building.
00:42:01.480It's probably not a friendly place for Justin.
00:42:59.020And, of course, there's silence on official Ottawa.
00:43:02.580I wonder what that third Trudeau house is up to.
00:43:05.500Well, that's exactly the question that should be asked.
00:43:08.780And if you want to tag that with the environmental concerns, the prime minister finds himself jetting around the world, staying in private islands that are owned by lobbyists.
00:43:18.500And when you jet around the world, you bring everybody with you.
00:43:21.720Your RCMP detail, it's a very carbon-intensive vacation.
00:43:26.640Stephen Harper drove to Harrington Lake, the home the Canadians provided to him, and that's where he holidayed.
00:43:32.520His carbon footprint for vacations were probably one-one-thousandth or one-one-millionth of Justin Trudeau because the Canadians have provided a home for him to vacation.
00:44:55.700There's our friend Manny Montanagrino, who, of course, was a former senior advisor to Stephen Harper and is a very keen observer of the new administration.
00:45:04.180I encourage you to follow him on Twitter.
00:45:06.140We'll put his Twitter handle on the screen in case you're a Twitter follower and you can look him up.
00:45:24.820On my monologue yesterday about a NAFTA ruling that will cost Canadian taxpayers up to a half a billion dollars because of social license gobbledygook, Merrill writes,
00:45:33.040Yeah, Canada's looking better every day for foreign investors.
00:45:37.020Future projects are basically a nada based on current social license because social justice, federal and provincial governments could care less.
00:45:44.880Add to that numerous projects that have been pulled out or, in this one case, fought back because our provincial and federal governments have simply ripped them off.
00:47:00.040Andy writes, since Digby Neck is a financially strapped area, except for those that hold a lobster license, as is most of rural Nova Scotia,
00:47:07.940this was a bizarre choice by some vocal locals who prevailed against common sense and NAFTA.