Rebel News Podcast - Ezra Levant Show May 7 2018

00:00:00.000 Tonight, it was a bad weekend for conservatives as Doug Ford and Jason Kenney

00:00:03.980 throw them under the bus to appease the CBC.

00:00:07.400 It's May 7th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:15.660 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:19.440 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:23.160 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:26.140 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my

00:00:31.160 bloody right to do so.

00:00:36.620 On Saturday, the Ontario Liberals published comments by Doug Ford's star candidate, Tanya

00:00:41.900 Granik-Allen.

00:00:42.940 They weren't comments made in private or secretly recorded that would surprise or shock anyone.

00:00:48.720 They're her public comments, in the same vein that she's been talking for years.

00:00:53.000 Everyone who saw her high-energy performance during the Ontario PC leadership debates would

00:00:58.620 know that's what she says, that's what she sounds like.

00:01:01.500 I mean, the lady is the opposite of politically correct, and it's one of the reasons why Doug 1.00

00:01:06.220 Ford himself seemed to like her.

00:01:10.460 Wind turbines.

00:01:12.440 I pledge that if I'm leader, I'm going to take those wind turbines and I'm going to rip

00:01:17.780 them right out of the ground.

00:01:19.080 Beautiful.

00:01:19.560 Ford and Granik-Allen had a deal.

00:01:24.880 I think she knew she wouldn't win the leadership, but she'd bring in socially conservative party 0.99

00:01:30.180 members, including Christians, who felt betrayed by Patrick Brown, the previous leader, who

00:01:35.740 showed respect to truly conservative people, just until he abandoned them in a heartbeat when

00:01:42.100 the Toronto Star was mean to him about it.

00:01:44.080 Granik-Allen brought in thousands of Christian voters, homeschooling voters, socially conservative

00:01:50.340 voters, and they backed Doug Ford after she fell off the ballot.

00:01:54.700 It was a close enough race that Ford almost surely would have lost to Christine Elliott without 0.98

00:02:00.200 her alliance with Danny Granik-Allen.

00:02:02.400 It wasn't just a smart strategy in terms of votes.

00:02:06.020 It was smart in terms of making sure Ford wasn't the most right-wing person in the public

00:02:10.460 debates to social conservatives and Christians.

00:02:13.320 He could point to her and say, she's part of my coalition, and while she won't always

00:02:18.260 carry the day, she's part of the conversation.

00:02:20.900 And to the red Tories and the left-wing media, he could say, she's part of my coalition, and

00:02:25.660 while she won't always carry the day, she's part of his coalition.

00:02:28.320 To the media, it actually allowed Ford to position himself as a thoughtful moderate, someone who

00:02:34.480 listens to all sides, the alternative being that Doug Ford himself would be the most right-wing

00:02:39.400 controversial thing in the party.

00:02:41.600 It's always good to have someone to your right as well as to your left, but conservatives too

00:02:45.620 often only have people to their left.

00:02:47.920 Patrick Brown, again, being the best example, he was awful on conservative ideas such as fighting

00:02:52.960 back against the insane child sex curriculum that Kathleen Wynne forced at Ontario schools.

00:02:58.540 It was a curriculum overseen by Ben Levin, who was later convicted of child pornography and

00:03:03.580 trying to meet young children to molest them.

00:03:08.340 Ben Levin's curriculum is still being pushed on parents.

00:03:10.720 It's official school board policy.

00:03:12.680 Fighting against that has been one of Granite Allen's key issues, and for her supporters too,

00:03:17.960 called parents.

00:03:18.780 Well, Doug Ford took her support when he needed it to win.

00:03:23.960 He made her fight and win her own nomination in Mississauga, and she did amazingly well,

00:03:29.120 beating all of her opponents combined on the first ballot.

00:03:32.280 No special favors of a direct appointment for her as a candidate, as Doug Ford gave to others.

00:03:38.300 She had to earn it.

00:03:39.000 That's fine.

00:03:40.060 But on the weekend, like I say, when some of her old video clips were published, again,

00:03:44.000 by the liberals, Ford panicked and sacked her within hours.

00:03:48.780 And appointed the second place candidate in her local writing.

00:03:52.440 She said she didn't like to see niqabs in Canada, the full face obscuring Muslim veil. 0.99

00:03:58.560 Said they reminded her of ninjas.

00:04:00.760 That's a joke, I think.

00:04:01.980 Or it's not a joke.

00:04:03.200 It's just what she says.

00:04:04.520 And yeah, that's what they look like.

00:04:06.800 It's un-Canadian for anyone to cover their face in public. 0.89

00:04:09.840 And it's sexist to have a subculture that demands only women do so. 0.97

00:04:13.380 Well, is that sufficient reason to sack a candidate who overwhelmingly won her riding?

00:04:18.320 Did Doug Ford think she supported niqabs? 0.99

00:04:22.280 Does he?

00:04:23.840 She referred to abortion as a kind of holocaust.

00:04:26.460 That's dramatic language.

00:04:27.740 And it's not rare in the abortion debates.

00:04:29.720 And there's a truth to it, too.

00:04:31.380 100,000 babies a year are aborted in Canada.

00:04:34.020 Probably more.

00:04:35.160 If Doug Ford doesn't like people talking bluntly about abortion, though,

00:04:38.480 why did he invite them into the party?

00:04:41.620 Is any of this a surprise to him?

00:04:44.340 Other than to invite them in for their momentary use in his leadership campaign.

00:04:47.440 By the way, that quote about abortions was apparently said by Granik Allen 18 years ago.

00:04:54.840 If that's the worst they've got on her, that's pretty thin gruel.

00:04:59.500 She did talk about radical sex ed targeting very young kids in kindergarten.

00:05:03.600 Now, I think she's Croatian and she talked about Croatia that used to be communist

00:05:08.840 and now they have social engineering of a different sort teaching children of tender years

00:05:14.560 about sexual ideas that are not appropriate for kindergartners.

00:05:18.180 Here, take a listen.

00:05:18.880 Perhaps those aren't the most polished or nuanced comments.

00:05:46.280 They're obviously off the cuff.

00:05:47.620 It's a little bit ambiguous what she's saying was appalling to her,

00:05:51.660 what was taught or that it was taught in kindergartens.

00:05:54.600 But seriously, you're sacking a star candidate over that?

00:06:00.060 That's Ontario.

00:06:01.260 Let's put that aside for a second because over the weekend,

00:06:03.040 Jason Kenney in Alberta had a huge convention for the UCP.

00:06:07.420 That's the United Conservative Party in Alberta.

00:06:09.800 More than 2,500 delegates.

00:06:11.260 The largest party convention in Alberta history, reports say.

00:06:14.400 And lots of what you'd expect, anti-carbon tax votes, pro-pipeline speeches, lots of debates

00:06:20.520 over issues.

00:06:21.720 And as Jason Kenney has been saying for months, he wasn't going to let the people, sorry,

00:06:26.260 rather, he was going to let the people make the policy.

00:06:29.600 Very democratic, very grassroots.

00:06:31.360 Here's a video he recorded on the subject last August, nine months ago, saying it's up

00:06:36.580 to the party members to make key policy decisions.

00:06:39.140 Hey everybody, I'm here at my favourite diner, the Blackfoot truck stop in Calgary.

00:06:44.340 And I just signed our grassroots policy guarantee.

00:06:48.260 You see, I think that our new United Conservative Party should ensure that you, the grassroots

00:06:53.620 members, are in charge.

00:06:55.680 That you develop the policies of this new party and give the leadership its marching orders.

00:07:01.460 You know, one of the reasons we had this division in the Alberta Conservative Movement in

00:07:05.480 recent years was because of an arrogant style of top-down leadership, where leaders were

00:07:11.160 telling people what to think rather than listening to them.

00:07:14.600 I think we've got to turn that on its head and have a more like a servant leadership approach

00:07:19.380 where we empower grassroots members to decide the basic policies of the new party.

00:07:24.500 I don't think it's my role as a leader to tell the membership what to think.

00:07:29.680 I don't think we should be running a presidential-style leadership campaign.

00:07:33.800 It's time, as I say, for humility, for listening, for servant leadership.

00:07:38.500 It's time for less I and me and more us and we as we build this party together.

00:07:45.220 It sounds pretty grassroots-y, doesn't it?

00:07:49.060 And here's the page from Jason Kenney's own website, jasonkenney.ca, when he was running

00:07:55.140 for a leader, where he expands on that idea.

00:07:57.080 Here's a few passages from it.

00:07:58.280 Let me quote.

00:07:59.560 Today I signed a new grassroots guarantee that the policies of the UCP must be developed

00:08:04.380 democratically by its grassroots members, not imposed by the leader.

00:08:08.340 And he also said, our conservative coalition fractured in recent years, partly because leaders

00:08:12.760 began telling people what to think rather than listening to them.

00:08:16.140 We must not repeat that mistake.

00:08:17.700 We've had enough arrogant, top-down leadership.

00:08:19.720 We need servant leadership that empowers grassroots Albertans.

00:08:23.080 Instead of dictating our new party's policies to them.

00:08:26.420 All right, you get the point.

00:08:28.380 But here's what happened at Kenney's policy convention in Red Deer.

00:08:32.840 Here's a Calgary Herald headline.

00:08:34.460 Kenney drops hammer on UCP policy blow-up.

00:08:38.640 Here's the Edmonton Journal.

00:08:39.660 Well, UCP founding convention hit socially conservative pothole.

00:08:44.880 And then I don't know if you can read underneath.

00:08:46.200 It says United Conservative Party delegates had one job at their founding convention this

00:08:50.140 weekend.

00:08:50.620 Don't look extreme.

00:08:51.680 They didn't succeed.

00:08:53.500 So what did they do that was so extreme?

00:08:56.400 And you know the Edmonton Journal is the arbiter of extreme.

00:09:00.140 Well, 57% of the delegates, there were thousands of them there, they voted for this proposal.

00:09:05.640 Let me read it to you in full.

00:09:06.800 The United Conservative Party believes that the government of Alberta should reinstate

00:09:11.540 parental opt-in consent for any subjects of a religious or sexual nature, including

00:09:16.720 enrollment in extracurricular activities, clubs, or distribution of any instructional materials,

00:09:21.960 resources related to these topics.

00:09:24.520 And then they had a rationale.

00:09:26.920 Respects and affirms parental primacy and authority regarding the educational material presented

00:09:31.960 to their children.

00:09:32.640 That seems pretty standard.

00:09:36.980 I think that's pretty much how it's always been in school.

00:09:40.500 The only reason that it's a proposal at a policy convention is that the NDP has recently

00:09:44.780 changed that and has now forbidden, by law, parents from being allowed to know.

00:09:50.180 They literally have changed the presumption, the NDP.

00:09:53.200 And now they presume that by default, the parents, I don't know, hate their own children instead

00:09:57.740 of love their own children more than anything.

00:09:59.240 And the bureaucracies and teachers union activists know better and care more about a child than

00:10:04.680 does that child's own parents.

00:10:06.320 And the presumption, a bigotry really, that if a parent is conservative or religious, that

00:10:11.280 they'll somehow be harmful or hurtful to their own beloved child.

00:10:14.760 And that to give any information about this to parents is akin to outing them to strangers.

00:10:19.680 It's all looked through the lens of a gay-straight alliance that's a student club.

00:10:24.620 And for that, the NDP would ban, would ban it, the information going to parents about

00:10:31.820 what club's religious or faith-based nature.

00:10:35.660 The NDP, like all socialists, truly thinks that a child is the property of the state.

00:10:39.740 Normal parents disagree.

00:10:40.940 This is a pretty tame motion.

00:10:42.300 I mean, I read you every word, don't you think?

00:10:44.660 Pretty normal.

00:10:46.080 Wouldn't even raise an eyebrow at any parent-teacher association in North America.

00:10:49.840 It's how it is or should be, but it's necessary because governments are changing things.

00:10:54.600 Sex ed is extreme now, and it's not just being taught in sex ed classes, but in student clubs

00:10:59.160 that are explicitly set up to talk about sex with teachers without parents in informal chit-chats.

00:11:05.020 Yeah, so parents just want to stay in the loop.

00:11:08.100 And can you blame them?

00:11:09.660 I mean, it is bad enough when far-left teachers politicize regular classrooms and brainwash kids

00:11:15.920 about regular public affairs.

00:11:17.780 Remember the story about the Edmonton School that was teaching its students that oil companies

00:11:21.200 were evil.

00:11:22.480 There's not a school in Canada that doesn't promote global warming hysteria.

00:11:25.900 I mean, that's irritating.

00:11:26.940 That's politics.

00:11:27.820 But what about when those same politicized teachers unions start pushing their political

00:11:32.460 theories about extremely personal matters that have nothing to do with reading, writing,

00:11:37.420 and arithmetic, but rather about Islam or about transgenderism, religious and sexual issues.

00:11:45.440 Something that a few years ago, transgenderism was literally classified as a psychiatric illness

00:11:50.180 by the American Psychiatric Association.

00:11:52.240 It's now being force-fed to students as young as kindergarten.

00:11:56.360 Tanya Granik-Allen was right, but more right than she knew.

00:11:59.460 It's not just in Croatia.

00:12:00.720 In Ontario, they teach kids about the six genders.

00:12:05.040 Can you name all six without Googling it?

00:12:07.480 Being gay, by the way, is not a gender, just to be clear.

00:12:11.300 In Ontario, they're teaching children of tender years that there are six genders.

00:12:15.060 And which one are they?

00:12:16.580 They're teaching kindergarten kids this kind of stuff.

00:12:19.700 That's age five.

00:12:21.140 Transgender, what are you doing? 1.00

00:12:22.540 Why are you even talking to five-year-old kids about sex at all? 0.91

00:12:27.100 Why are you talking about sexuality with children of tender years?

00:12:31.340 Gay, straight, trans, whatever.

00:12:33.860 Why are you taking away their innocence, their childhood?

00:12:38.220 Listen to these activists.

00:12:39.900 I think it's important to learn Soji language to better support the youth.

00:12:44.040 At the beginning of class, I say to all my students, I say,

00:12:46.680 okay, when we do names today, I'm still getting to know you.

00:12:49.580 Can you tell the rest of the class what pronouns you use?

00:12:53.440 Intersecting identities means that people don't move around the world with one singular identity.

00:12:59.860 The concept of intersecting identities is really beautiful.

00:13:03.020 Me being gay, an immigrant, and a person of color.

00:13:07.320 And I can't choose one being more important than the other part of my identity.

00:13:11.900 A lot of these things intersect and really layer

00:13:14.100 in terms of the discrimination that a youth may be facing.

00:13:17.360 It wasn't in that clip there, but they have classroom posters about RuPaul and drag.

00:13:25.620 What are you talking to kids about that for?

00:13:29.460 That school's in British Columbia.

00:13:31.160 Here's a Toronto kindergarten teacher.

00:13:32.760 When you think about it, really, bringing drag performers together with little kids

00:13:38.240 is kind of a perfect relationship. 0.68

00:13:40.700 And it's kind of like drag performers are clowns, right? 0.98

00:13:43.920 Like, they really sort of, they play things up. 0.90

00:13:46.560 They're over the top.

00:13:47.640 They're like a cartoon come to life.

00:13:49.660 Welcome to Faye and Fluffy's Storytime.

00:14:04.000 Listen, let me be clear, and I've said this before whenever we talk about the issue.

00:14:07.940 I do not want to bother people who are trans. 1.00

00:14:10.000 I do not want to pick on them or be mean to them in any way.

00:14:12.900 I don't want the law or private citizens to discriminate against them.

00:14:17.020 I don't want harm to come to them.

00:14:18.340 I know the facts about transgenderism, for example,

00:14:22.340 that people who undergo a transition from male to female have a suicide rate of about 50%.

00:14:26.880 There's deep psychological issues here.

00:14:29.160 And by the way, that suicide rate rises to 60% attempted suicides

00:14:33.480 for those who actually undergo the surgery or go on hormones.

00:14:36.820 My point is, this was considered a mental illness until a few years ago for a reason.

00:14:41.640 I think the answer is compassion.

00:14:44.340 Deal with these folks with compassion.

00:14:45.700 But do you see why some parents might be upset about transgenderism and gender identity issues

00:14:51.460 being brought into schools, into kindergarten?

00:14:54.240 I'm sorry, that is not academics.

00:14:55.560 That is not scholarship.

00:14:56.680 That is propaganda.

00:14:57.960 And 57% of Alberta parents at the UCP meeting said they would just like to know what's going on.

00:15:04.660 They just want to know what's going on.

00:15:06.360 And be told if their child is being signed up for a club that does this.

00:15:10.940 Because that is how loving parents are about their kids.

00:15:15.220 Well, to the media, such parents are extreme and controversial.

00:15:19.980 Here's the CBC's Michelle Balfontaine.

00:15:22.160 She's a reporter. 0.93

00:15:23.460 And she literally tweeted,

00:15:24.640 yikes, when parents voted just to have notice.

00:15:29.700 Yikes.

00:15:30.500 That's professional reporting from our state broadcaster, people.

00:15:33.400 Here's the Edmonton Journal's headline.

00:15:35.280 UCP passes controversial motion to reinstate parental choice in education.

00:15:40.680 Controversial?

00:15:41.480 To whom?

00:15:42.200 By what measure?

00:15:43.160 That's how it's always been.

00:15:44.780 Controversial to the mainstream media, sure.

00:15:46.300 But the parents?

00:15:48.560 Well, Jason Kenney, like Doug Ford, is terrified of the liberal media.

00:15:52.640 It's why he threw the rebel under the bus a year and a half ago

00:15:55.340 when a handful of unemployed oil men at our anti-carbon tax rally at the legislature

00:15:59.120 chanted the joke, taunt, lock her up. 0.99

00:16:02.160 He was so terrified of what the CBC would say,

00:16:04.800 he demonized unemployed Alberta oil men for not protesting their unemployment politely enough.

00:16:10.240 That's how scared he is in the CBC.

00:16:12.740 And now Jason Kenney.

00:16:13.800 He who said he deeply believes in the grassroots policy process,

00:16:19.000 he says he refuses to be bound by this resolution.

00:16:22.460 Here's some of his quote to the mainstream media from this weekend.

00:16:25.460 I'm quoting from the Calgary Herald here.

00:16:27.600 He said,

00:16:28.440 I do say we don't believe and we will not ever take the position

00:16:32.220 that there should be mandatory notification.

00:16:34.760 They don't have to when joining the press club,

00:16:37.460 so why should they do it joining a GSA?

00:16:40.420 That stands for a Gay Straight Alliance.

00:16:41.900 Well, because a press club is not controversial or personal.

00:16:45.760 It is academic or scholarly.

00:16:47.560 It does not go to a child's faith or a family's customs or values or beliefs.

00:16:52.280 That's why.

00:16:53.320 But here's how Kenney ended it.

00:16:54.700 And I'm quoting from Don Braid's article in the Herald here.

00:16:58.800 And that's okay, Kenney argued, because, quote,

00:17:00.760 guess what, I'm the leader and I get to interpret the resolution

00:17:05.080 and its relevance to party policy.

00:17:07.420 And he added, I hold the pen when it comes to the party platform.

00:17:13.200 Oh, I thought the party members did.

00:17:15.520 I thought that's specifically how Jason Kenney campaigned for leader.

00:17:19.160 I thought that's what that video we watched of him saying was about.

00:17:22.940 Well, by the way, when you Google Jason Kenney's grassroots guarantee now,

00:17:26.880 do you see it?

00:17:27.700 You see it right at the top there.

00:17:29.340 Number one result on Google when you type in Jason Kenney grassroots guarantee.

00:17:33.560 See it right at the top there?

00:17:35.260 Now click on it.

00:17:36.600 Click on that link there.

00:17:38.620 Huh.

00:17:40.120 This is what you get.

00:17:41.920 Page cannot be found.

00:17:44.740 Jason Kenney deleted that from his web page.

00:17:46.780 The page I quoted to you before when I was reading from it is a Google cache of the version

00:17:51.400 that he forgot to delete the Google cache version or didn't know how.

00:17:56.900 Look, if you don't know, let me be clear.

00:18:00.000 I want both Doug Ford and Jason Kenney to win.

00:18:03.940 Kathleen Wynne and Rachel Notley are disasters for their provinces.

00:18:06.600 But I don't want Ford and Kenney to win for personal reasons, because I may like them or not.

00:18:11.840 I want them to win to stop awful things being done in the government to our people.

00:18:16.460 And by the way, marginalizing parents who are concerned about their kids,

00:18:20.180 who are concerned about the proliferation of Muslim extremism in the form of niqabs, 0.95

00:18:25.160 as Tanya Granik-Allen is,

00:18:26.640 or who are concerned that radical sex ed is being taught to their littlest kids,

00:18:31.900 five-year-olds.

00:18:32.880 You saw the videos.

00:18:33.820 Or who are concerned that activist teachers are talking to them about crazy things.

00:18:39.820 That is not controversial.

00:18:42.300 That's normal parental instinct.

00:18:46.860 Doug Ford and Jason Kenney are more afraid of the CBC than they are of real parents.

00:18:51.440 I would never hold Jason Kenney's status as a non-parent against him ever.

00:18:54.960 I never even thought of it.

00:18:55.780 It's irrelevant in 99.999% of cases, but actually not in this one.

00:19:01.200 Unless and until you are a parent, you just don't know in your bones how terrifying and infuriating

00:19:08.320 and frustrating and powerless it feels to have smug teachers' union activists treat your child

00:19:15.480 as their political project, as a guinea pig.

00:19:19.860 And now, to be able to keep that a secret from you.

00:19:23.860 Jason Kenney is dead wrong on this, and 57% of his own party told him so,

00:19:28.020 despite clear instructions from him not to vote that way.

00:19:33.040 Doug Ford is dead wrong to fire Tanya Granik-Allen for comments that perhaps could have been phrased better,

00:19:37.960 but surely Doug Ford knew exactly what she stood for on these core issues when he made his bargain with her.

00:19:45.880 Both men are listening to their leftist critics, not their own consciences or their own parties.

00:19:50.680 It's our job at the Rebel to push back against this, because no other media will.

00:19:55.240 We want Doug Ford to win.

00:19:56.640 We want Jason Kenney to win.

00:19:58.020 But we want them to win as conservatives, and we want them to grow a backbone

00:20:01.940 and to treat the media party with the disrespect they deserve

00:20:06.480 rather than treating party members with the disrespect they don't deserve.

00:20:12.860 Stay with us for more on this with David Menzies.

00:20:15.120 Welcome back.

00:20:32.540 Well, look, Jason Kenney and Doug Ford are so close to becoming premier.

00:20:36.680 They can taste it.

00:20:38.000 Both of them have double-digit leads over their far-left opponents

00:20:41.460 who have tired out their respective electorates.

00:20:44.600 In Ontario, the election is a month away.

00:20:48.380 Exactly, I think, if my math is right.

00:20:50.100 Joining me now to talk about this is our friend David Menzies.

00:20:52.420 David, great to see you. Is it a month today?

00:20:54.240 June 7th, so today is what?

00:20:56.260 Yeah, you're right, by my math.

00:20:58.020 So, I mean, you're Doug Ford, and you're Doug Ford's campaign team.

00:21:02.000 You got a double-digit lead.

00:21:03.240 Some polls showing that Kathleen Wynne is actually in third place,

00:21:06.240 and you're thinking, don't screw anything up.

00:21:09.720 Stay out of trouble.

00:21:10.560 And I think, so they're hypersensitive.

00:21:15.060 But I think that you could be so hypersensitive, you could be too panicky,

00:21:22.240 and you can start making some strategic errors.

00:21:24.680 I think they've made three.

00:21:25.940 And we'll talk about Albert in a second, but you're the boss of Ford Nation.

00:21:29.140 You understand Ford Nation better than anyone.

00:21:30.560 First, making an appointment of 11 candidates trumping any local democracy,

00:21:40.740 including people who have been campaigning for years.

00:21:43.800 That was one of the reasons people didn't like Patrick Brown.

00:21:46.960 So that was a strange flip-flop from Doug Ford that seemed anti-democratic.

00:21:51.320 I should note, he didn't give that favor to Tanya Granik-Allen.

00:21:55.060 She had to find out on her own.

00:21:56.320 You got it.

00:21:57.300 Number two, a flip-flop by saying we're going to develop the Green Belt,

00:22:01.360 ease housing prices, ease environmental extremism.

00:22:04.380 Flip-flop.

00:22:05.200 Yep.

00:22:06.040 And then now, throwing out Tanya Granik-Allen,

00:22:08.880 because in an 18-year review of all the words she's ever said,

00:22:13.840 a few of her comments weren't as gentle as they could have been.

00:22:17.920 Three in a row.

00:22:19.160 Once is a mistake.

00:22:20.080 Twice is carelessness.

00:22:22.220 But three is a trend.

00:22:23.440 Correct.

00:22:23.880 I'm worried here.

00:22:24.720 Me too, Ezra.

00:22:26.960 And you mentioned Ford Nation.

00:22:28.640 What people have to understand, Ezra,

00:22:30.020 there's nobody in Ford Nation that's behind this campaign, as far as I can tell.

00:22:35.720 These are not...

00:22:37.540 Doug is getting advice and marching orders from people that are not Ford Nation types.

00:22:43.100 That's becoming clear.

00:22:44.260 Secondly, in the department of Et Tu Brute,

00:22:47.020 and what have you done for me lately,

00:22:48.220 let's not forget that without Tanya Granik-Allen supporters,

00:22:53.340 Doug Ford is not the leader of the PC party.

00:22:56.400 Tanya lost on the first ballot of the convention.

00:22:59.960 About, I think the figure was 83% of her supporters went and supported Doug Ford.

00:23:04.780 And you know, the margin was razor thin between Doug and Christine Elliott.

00:23:09.520 If those supporters didn't go there, or if Tanya Granik-Allen hadn't been part of that convention, Ezra,

00:23:14.840 he's not the leader.

00:23:16.240 But, you know, some heat from the liberal media, from certain Muslim organizations,

00:23:22.320 and suddenly he collapses, you know, like a cheap lawn chair.

00:23:27.220 And I'm telling you, you know, Ezra, our friend Joe Warmington,

00:23:30.260 he once said to me a while back, and it's becoming true with every passing week,

00:23:34.840 he once said to me that Doug Ford is not Rob Ford.

00:23:39.480 And I'm bringing this up, Ezra, because Rob Ford would not be doing this.

00:23:44.160 Rob Ford would not be flip-flopping all over the place

00:23:47.020 and throwing a loyal supporter and her supporters overboard.

00:23:53.640 It's despicable.

00:23:55.160 I think you're right.

00:23:55.800 I think one of the great strengths of Rob Ford's character,

00:24:00.580 and he had great weaknesses too,

00:24:02.040 but Rob Ford was all about loyalty.

00:24:05.420 Loyalty to others, including those who made mistakes and were in tough times,

00:24:09.220 and people gave him loyalty in return.

00:24:11.720 And you don't want loyalty over everything,

00:24:14.640 but loyalty should count for something,

00:24:17.100 because if you're not loyal to the people who got you elected,

00:24:20.940 and it's not just based on the people, it's based on the promises.

00:24:23.960 And nothing that Tanya Granik-Allen was shown to have said,

00:24:27.160 in one case 18 years ago,

00:24:28.880 was a surprise.

00:24:31.500 I mean, maybe she could have used more nuanced language, more poetic language,

00:24:35.880 but being skeptical of the full face obscuring niqab,

00:24:38.880 calling it a ninja mask.

00:24:40.600 Yeah.

00:24:40.720 Yeah, that's what it looks like.

00:24:43.340 Being against the promotion of sex ed in kindergarten,

00:24:50.240 that is something that would make a parent's gag, 0.69

00:24:54.780 or she used the word vomit. 1.00

00:24:57.080 It's not an anti-gay comment. 0.98

00:24:58.440 It's, what are you talking to my children of tender years about sex about?

00:25:02.600 So I guess what I'm saying is,

00:25:04.480 these weren't revelations.

00:25:05.660 She knew, Doug Ford knew that Tanya Granik-Allen stood for all these things.

00:25:10.880 He just jumped because the liberals and the media told him to jump,

00:25:14.320 and in so doing, encouraged his enemies, discouraged his allies,

00:25:19.700 and now the media knows,

00:25:21.900 oh, just throw another thing at Doug and he'll panic again.

00:25:24.300 And we can dominate Doug by telling him what he's going to talk about for a day

00:25:28.140 instead of having his own narrative.

00:25:29.540 Well, that's what it looks like to me.

00:25:30.860 You know, Kathleen Wynne, a couple of weeks ago,

00:25:33.220 compared Doug Ford to Donald Trump.

00:25:35.200 And I say, if only,

00:25:36.420 because Donald Trump wouldn't get some heat from a left-wing media and fold.

00:25:41.280 Donald Trump would double down and go to Twitter and say,

00:25:44.320 here's what I say, you know, here's what I believe in plain language.

00:25:47.340 And also, you know, I have to bring this up, Ezra,

00:25:50.340 because on this whole topic of morality and inappropriate remarks,

00:25:54.640 we have a candidate who seems to be completely protected.

00:25:59.420 She goes by the alias the Persian cat.

00:26:01.740 She represents Carlton, Goldie Gamere. 0.99

00:26:05.380 She has written, right, Christianity is gay. 1.00

00:26:10.240 Jesus is worm food. 1.00

00:26:12.320 Stephen Harper was a national embarrassment to Canada.

00:26:15.780 And she has tweeted out images that seem to convey an aura of pro-terrorism.

00:26:21.660 We ran this story last July here.

00:26:24.220 We broke this story.

00:26:25.120 Anyway, not a word is uttered about this.

00:26:30.200 When Tanya Granik-Allen ran in Mississauga Center, 0.98

00:26:33.740 we had a candidate, Tadir Shah,

00:26:35.940 whose campaign manager, according to the Quiggin report,

00:26:39.540 has family links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:26:43.600 That's okay.

00:26:44.680 We should have put on the record that he denies that.

00:26:46.860 Well, you know, it was the shortest interview ever.

00:26:50.280 Well, actually, the campaign manager, if you look at the interview,

00:26:53.180 he didn't say anything.

00:26:54.180 That's right.

00:26:54.800 I just want to put it out there that there is some dispute,

00:26:57.880 but the Quiggin report did say it was a fact.

00:26:59.720 Okay, correct.

00:27:00.020 Anyway, keep going.

00:27:01.000 Yeah, you're right.

00:27:01.960 And here's the thing.

00:27:05.200 You mentioned that there's no one from Ford Nation around Doug Ford.

00:27:08.940 Now, Michael Diamond, who was director of operations for Rob Ford,

00:27:12.280 is with Doug Ford.

00:27:13.400 But other than that, you're right.

00:27:14.940 And one of the things, and this is what worries me,

00:27:17.640 and I don't want to put too much credence into it.

00:27:20.680 Right now, I would call it a hypothesis.

00:27:23.000 I'm not going to call it a theory.

00:27:24.740 It's just a hypothesis, maybe a speculation.

00:27:28.200 When Doug Ford trounced all the establishment candidates

00:27:32.620 with the help of Tanya Granicalan,

00:27:35.580 in the interest of healing and unifying the party,

00:27:38.440 Doug Ford hired his enemy's staff.

00:27:41.680 He hired the communications director from Caroline Mulrooney.

00:27:47.420 He hired other staff who were loyal to the Doug Ford haters,

00:27:53.840 people who were publicly mocking Doug Ford,

00:27:56.680 calling him a drug dealer, et cetera.

00:27:58.620 Now, these are amongst the decision makers

00:28:01.160 against Tanya Granicalan.

00:28:04.100 For example, Ian Todd.

00:28:05.780 I remember Ian from years ago when I worked with him

00:28:08.340 with Preston Manning and Stockwell Day.

00:28:09.960 He helped lead the rebellion against Stockwell Day.

00:28:13.380 Is he a loyal Doug Ford man?

00:28:15.340 How about Melissa Lansman, old friend of mine

00:28:17.660 from Parliament Hill?

00:28:19.540 She was for Caroline Mulrooney.

00:28:21.500 Are these people making the decision

00:28:24.080 based on Doug Ford and Ford Nation,

00:28:26.380 or are they making a Caroline Mulrooney-style decision?

00:28:28.920 And frankly, do they really want Doug Ford to succeed?

00:28:35.520 Or do they want maybe Caroline Mulrooney

00:28:36.980 to have a crack at things again in four years?

00:28:39.140 Well, Ezra, once again, you're looking at the big picture,

00:28:41.860 and I think you're onto something.

00:28:44.800 I think this might, you know, critics of mine might say,

00:28:48.720 oh, you're venturing into conspiracy-ville with this.

00:28:51.120 But with all those people, and clearly Ford Nation they reject,

00:28:56.200 Doug Ford, come on, that's not their guy.

00:28:59.620 You know, they're Christine Elliott people.

00:29:01.640 They're, you know, Princess Caroline people.

00:29:03.960 We've already seen one palace coup going back to late January

00:29:07.120 with Patrick Brown.

00:29:09.640 Who's to say we won't see another one?

00:29:11.420 And in fact, if I might double down on the conspiracy,

00:29:14.940 why not use Doug Ford as a convenient pawn right now?

00:29:18.860 Have Ford Nation propel him into the premiership,

00:29:22.400 and then once he gets there,

00:29:23.980 then come up with some kind of cockamamie reason

00:29:26.580 to do another palace coup.

00:29:28.580 You know, this is Ontario politics in 2018, Ezra.

00:29:31.420 I think anything can happen.

00:29:33.200 You know what?

00:29:34.460 You're speculating, I'm speculating, we don't know.

00:29:36.840 But it is, and it is not a conspiracy theory.

00:29:40.000 It is a conspiracy fact that people who two months ago,

00:29:43.920 or a month ago, were doing their very best

00:29:46.500 and were paid large sums of money to defeat Doug Ford

00:29:49.160 are now Doug Ford's advisors.

00:29:51.540 And the person who actually helped Doug Ford become leader

00:29:54.340 was just thrown out the window on a pretty meager excuse.

00:30:00.720 You know...

00:30:01.420 And Ezra, can I just interject one other thing?

00:30:04.360 I'm getting deja vu all over again of 1990.

00:30:07.720 And as you know, that's when the NDP formed the government.

00:30:11.400 Nobody saw that coming.

00:30:13.420 Nobody.

00:30:13.720 And where I'm tying this into the shenanigans,

00:30:16.980 you adroitly noted all the flip-flops.

00:30:20.640 If Doug Ford goes down the path of Patrick Brown

00:30:23.720 and keeps alienating conservative bases

00:30:26.540 to the point that I'm either going to do a protest vote

00:30:29.860 or not vote or just stay at home,

00:30:33.100 who's to say that Andrew Horwath and the NDP

00:30:36.880 might come up the middle and grab a minority?

00:30:40.280 And Caroline Marooney wouldn't mind that. 1.00

00:30:41.840 So Doug Ford's taken out of the running.

00:30:43.860 Christine Elliott, I don't know if she would run again, 0.71

00:30:46.640 but people would say,

00:30:48.600 oh, well, for sure we're going to vote for the conservatives after that.

00:30:51.920 And that's the thing.

00:30:53.700 It reminds me a little bit of Australian politics

00:30:55.780 where regicide is now the normal

00:30:58.780 and disloyalty reigns

00:31:01.540 and there's this habit of throwing leaders overboard

00:31:03.880 and you can't trust anyone.

00:31:05.620 The way that, I mean, I was no fan of Patrick Brown

00:31:08.480 and I think he was defamed by CTV.

00:31:10.580 I'm glad he's gone.

00:31:12.180 Are you going to?

00:31:12.540 But the way he was thrown out was so devious

00:31:15.380 and was so clearly orchestrated.

00:31:17.820 And the fact that the very next day

00:31:19.460 his senior staff show up working for Caroline Marooney.

00:31:21.620 Isn't that amazing?

00:31:22.260 And my point is

00:31:23.800 if the reputation of the PC party

00:31:27.480 is that they keep on knifing leaders

00:31:30.280 and aren't loyal to their own leader

00:31:31.640 and everyone's leaking

00:31:32.680 and everyone's undermining,

00:31:34.280 people are going to say,

00:31:35.060 if you can't even govern your own house,

00:31:36.780 there's no way you're going to govern this province.

00:31:38.560 A hundred percent.

00:31:39.040 And the one thing I'll give the liberals,

00:31:40.700 they understand the value of loyalty in politics.

00:31:43.880 You know what?

00:31:44.360 We've taken up a lot of time

00:31:45.660 and some of it's been speculation,

00:31:47.260 but the reason I think I'm speculative

00:31:49.900 and you are too,

00:31:51.560 is because the Doug Ford that we thought we knew,

00:31:54.320 Ford Nation, Rob Ford's brother,

00:31:56.580 was someone who didn't care what the media said,

00:31:59.000 mocked the media, set his own agenda,

00:32:01.640 and was proudly conservative.

00:32:03.740 And the only analogy with Trump is

00:32:05.960 he didn't let other people conquer his mind.

00:32:09.120 Whoever got him to throw Tanya Granik-Allen out,

00:32:12.560 if that is the real Doug Ford,

00:32:14.160 it's a disappointment.

00:32:15.300 If that's people around Doug Ford,

00:32:17.160 I think he needs to be careful in the next 30 days

00:32:19.580 because I think he's,

00:32:21.240 I think your possibility of Andrea Horwath

00:32:24.200 and the NDP coming up the middle 0.96

00:32:25.500 is not as far-fetched as it sounds.

00:32:27.540 I think so, and I fear for this.

00:32:29.460 And Ezra, just to put an asterisk on those appointments,

00:32:33.060 we talked about this on a previous show of yours, of course.

00:32:36.620 Some of them are hardcore liberals, right?

00:32:40.420 This is, so not only did Doug Ford

00:32:42.580 break his promise of the grassroots,

00:32:44.860 he's putting in the elites he's always fought against.

00:32:47.660 Mike Harris Jr. could be a great guy.

00:32:50.100 He might be a fantastic government like his father.

00:32:52.440 But still, he lost the nomination meeting in other writing,

00:32:55.200 and he's appointed.

00:32:55.940 That, to me, is nepotism.

00:32:57.180 Meredith Cartwright, candidate in Toronto Centre,

00:32:59.320 hard left-wing legal activist.

00:33:01.060 Human rights law.

00:33:01.940 You ran for the Liberal nomination to the left of Bob Ray.

00:33:05.400 Now she's suddenly a Ford nation Tory. 0.82

00:33:08.060 I don't buy it.

00:33:08.900 We've gone on too long.

00:33:09.840 We've got to wrap it up here,

00:33:10.720 but there's going to be a lot for us to cover in the month ahead.

00:33:13.800 Let me close with something that I think I ought to put on the record.

00:33:16.940 I want Doug Ford to be the next Premier, if that's in any doubt.

00:33:19.820 I want Jason Kenney to be the next Premier of Alberta.

00:33:21.900 We didn't talk about that.

00:33:22.780 We don't have time.

00:33:24.220 But I don't want half a Doug Ford or a watered-down Doug Ford.

00:33:27.980 I don't want a Liberal-lite Doug Ford.

00:33:29.800 I don't want a politically correct Jason Kenney.

00:33:33.420 I want real Conservatives there.

00:33:35.940 You can have a Conservative Kenney and a Conservative Doug Ford.

00:33:40.800 Bizarrely, these guys are being so hyper-cautious

00:33:43.700 that they might actually blow their double-digit lead

00:33:46.600 because they're being too cautious.

00:33:48.260 Last word to you.

00:33:49.300 I, too, want Doug Ford Classic.

00:33:52.340 I don't want Patrick Brown version 2.0.

00:33:55.240 Yeah.

00:33:55.760 It's like Coke Classic or New Coke.

00:33:57.260 I don't like this New Coke business.

00:33:58.580 All right.

00:33:59.020 Great to see you.

00:33:59.800 Thank you.

00:34:00.080 Well, there's our friend David Menzies.

00:34:01.520 No one knows Ford Nation like he does.

00:34:04.020 He lives and breathes it.

00:34:05.800 He's a bit of a celebrity when he shows up at a Ford Nation event.

00:34:09.400 Everyone loves his coverage.

00:34:10.420 He truly understands the pulse of that place, I dare say,

00:34:13.200 better than the Caroline Mulroney staff that now surround Doug Ford.

00:34:17.440 Stay with us.

00:34:18.140 More ahead on the Rebel.

00:34:18.860 Welcome back.

00:34:30.680 Welcome back.

00:34:31.000 Well, wouldn't you know it?

00:34:32.420 I knew it.

00:34:33.480 People who say they support government intervention in the environment,

00:34:38.580 global warming, carbon taxes, regulations, shutting down coal or cars,

00:34:43.220 in their private lives.

00:34:45.500 They're the least environmentally sensitive, according to a new study.

00:34:50.000 Joining us now via Skype with a man who has read the study and published it on his website,

00:34:54.540 climate depot.com, our friend Mark Morano.

00:34:56.940 Mark, great to see you again.

00:34:57.920 Hi, guys.

00:34:59.700 We're happy to be here.

00:35:00.580 Tell me, who did the study?

00:35:02.080 What are their credentials?

00:35:03.040 What was the institution?

00:35:04.300 And what were their findings?

00:35:05.360 I mean, I just know this in my bones, but it's good to have an academic confirmation of it.

00:35:10.780 Yeah, this was from the University of Michigan.

00:35:12.980 And these were done by your typical, you know, modern researchers who accept all the

00:35:18.320 classic environmental premises, the climate change premises.

00:35:21.620 And I think they were actually surprised by their own research, which showed that the climate

00:35:27.620 activists, the environmental activists most committed and the most vocal were the least

00:35:32.700 likely to walk that talk in their private lives.

00:35:36.620 So University of Michigan, typical academics are actually surprised by their own study.

00:35:43.160 And of course, they're putting all kinds of spin on it now.

00:35:45.340 Well, I'm slightly amazed that a study that has those results, contrary to the official

00:35:51.700 narrative, even sees the light of day.

00:35:54.480 This doesn't come as a surprise to me.

00:35:56.580 I mean, I watched the movie An Inconvenient Truth, and Al Gore is flying first class jetting

00:36:01.560 around the world, and he doesn't even see the irony of it.

00:36:05.100 There's never been an environmental protest I've ever seen in person or in the media that

00:36:11.020 hasn't left a mountain of trash behind it, as opposed to the odd time conservatives ever

00:36:16.680 rally.

00:36:17.040 They typically clean up after themselves.

00:36:19.040 What is it about environmentalists that lets them mouth off how righteous they are, but

00:36:25.260 then live an anti-environmental lifestyle?

00:36:29.240 Well, you know, a lot of the, I would say, the warmest sympathizing researchers, they've

00:36:33.920 come up with the, well, it's a valid concept, the concept of moral licensing.

00:36:37.660 And this would be the equivalent if you were trying to lose weight and exercise, you go

00:36:42.240 out for a long run or you do the bike, and then you come in and you think you're entitled

00:36:46.520 to eat an entire cream pie or have a dozen donuts because you put in the time and you

00:36:51.260 feel it's owed to you.

00:36:52.400 Well, they've extended that now in order to explain these studies results from the University

00:36:56.780 of Michigan.

00:36:57.580 They're saying that these researchers, because they give to environmental groups, because

00:37:02.100 they're vocal on the climate issue, because they use bumper stickers, because they have

00:37:06.360 signs, because they go to pro-science marches, in quotes, that they're doing more than the

00:37:12.460 average person.

00:37:13.180 Therefore, they're entitled to use that plastic bag.

00:37:16.400 They're entitled to that SUV.

00:37:18.480 They're entitled to keep their air conditioner core because they've already done more than

00:37:22.640 their neighbor who doesn't express the same concern.

00:37:25.520 That's how they're explaining this hypothesis.

00:37:27.080 Yeah, and the SUV of Michigan study actually shows that people who are skeptical of government

00:37:31.220 and environmentalism live more environmentally sustainable lives.

00:37:34.280 You know, this reminds me a little bit of, I mean, you tell me if this is a stretch, but

00:37:38.300 this is what just popped into my mind, how so many of the male feminists throughout the 1.00

00:37:42.940 years, from Bill Clinton to Teddy Kennedy to Harvey Weinstein in our country, Gian Gomeschi,

00:37:50.380 so many of the male feminists who talk about feminism and respecting women, they were the 0.95

00:37:57.240 ones who the Me Too movement shows were the biggest sexual predators and had the most sexual 0.99

00:38:03.840 misconduct, and I think it's because they said, well, on TV, I'm so feminist, I'm allowed 0.97

00:38:09.960 to, to the world in the abstract, so in my real life, I'm allowed to engage in sexual misconduct

00:38:16.080 because I've done, I've done more than most, so grant me this indulgence.

00:38:22.420 It's like a reverse indulgence from the medieval Catholic Church.

00:38:27.160 They've, they've done a bad thing so they can, they're so good in, in public so they can

00:38:32.240 get away with a private indiscretion.

00:38:34.020 What do you think of my Me Too analogy?

00:38:36.860 I think it's exactly right.

00:38:38.360 I mean, because they feel, it's kind of the old expression, I've given at the office, you

00:38:42.820 know, leave me, go away from my door, I don't need to give any more.

00:38:46.080 People feel they've already done their part, so therefore, they're entitled, and in the

00:38:50.660 case of Harvey Weinstein, they may have joined all those groups because they wanted better

00:38:55.300 access to women, which may or may not be related, but what's happened with this climate, but

00:38:59.500 you mentioned the other thing, other part of the study is that the people who were most

00:39:03.480 skeptical were the most, most environmentally friendly, and what that tells you is climate

00:39:09.180 skeptics don't fall behind the curtain of, oh, you know what, I already gave money, so

00:39:13.460 therefore, no, they actually care about the earth, they're just not buying the idea that

00:39:17.880 a trace of central gas in the atmosphere is driving a climate catastrophe or is the control

00:39:21.940 of a climate.

00:39:23.140 So this is one of those things where you can see it in all their leadership.

00:39:26.780 You mentioned Al Gore, but even the head of the UN panel, Regina Pachari, admitted he lived

00:39:31.640 at 30,000 feet.

00:39:32.660 The UN has conferences in developing world countries in exotic locations from Cancun to

00:39:39.340 Bali to beaches in South America, all over the world annually, not just annually, but sometimes

00:39:45.640 three, four times a year in odd locations.

00:39:48.640 They feel that they don't have to follow their own rules, and I've heard this with Leonardo

00:39:53.320 DiCaprio, people say it doesn't matter because he's doing so much good, it doesn't matter what

00:39:57.440 he does in his personal life.

00:39:58.940 It's that license to do, it's a free pass, get out of jail free.

00:40:03.000 You know, I want to give one more analogy, and I know I'm just throwing analogies in the

00:40:06.040 air, but it just makes me think about it.

00:40:07.900 You know, when I think of people who take their own time to do voluntary charity in the community,

00:40:13.920 to actually work at a soup kitchen, to actually help people get their hands dirty at a food

00:40:20.420 bank or whatever, often they're conservative, often they're Christian conservative, and they

00:40:25.940 reject big government, and they may reject big government welfare, but they're doing

00:40:30.760 a lot in their personal life with their own personal funds.

00:40:33.900 And again, the mirror image of that is the guy who doesn't do anything of himself, because

00:40:39.500 he says, oh, I paid my taxes.

00:40:41.280 That's for the government to do.

00:40:42.520 It's almost like when you outsource your civic duty to the government, it takes away your own

00:40:49.560 personal responsibility.

00:40:50.880 And frankly, the less government we would have in the social safety net, the more each of us

00:40:55.440 would feel incumbent to do something real life.

00:40:57.800 I think it's the same moral hazard.

00:40:59.800 If the government is doing it, and you pay the government, you've already given your

00:41:05.420 bit.

00:41:05.900 So I think there's a lot of analogies here, and every single environmentalist protest I've

00:41:10.440 ever seen leaves behind overflowing garbage cans.

00:41:12.960 Last word to you, Mark.

00:41:15.160 No, you're absolutely right.

00:41:16.940 When people who are actors vote for politicians who say they're going to take care of whether

00:41:21.420 it's the environment, whether it's poor people, and you expand all these programs, then the

00:41:26.380 people themselves think, well, I've already voted for someone, and the taxes are taking

00:41:29.600 care of that.

00:41:30.440 But if you don't have that mindset, and you actually say, well, I don't trust government

00:41:34.600 to do it, you're more likely to volunteer.

00:41:36.740 You're more likely to care.

00:41:38.000 And I think that's the case.

00:41:39.380 I'm going to call it the skeptics of climate change.

00:41:41.780 The conservationists, they're the ones who actually care about the earth and care about

00:41:46.160 our environment, whereas the climate activists actually believe that they're working on passing

00:41:53.320 legislation, so therefore the government is going to solve this through treaties, regulations,

00:41:59.240 EPA rules, and all kinds of nonsense.

00:42:01.460 So therefore, they can do what they need to, because they've already done their part.

00:42:04.740 So this is one of those things where it cuts all the way across, but the more you appeal

00:42:09.760 to government, the less you're going to do in your own life.

00:42:12.140 And I think we're seeing that exact dynamic that you mentioned there.

00:42:14.740 Yeah, well, there you go, Mark.

00:42:15.900 Great to talk to you about this very interesting study.

00:42:18.340 I recommend people go to climatedepot.com.

00:42:20.380 I know you've linked to it there.

00:42:22.120 Great to see you.

00:42:22.820 Keep in touch, my friend.

00:42:24.980 Thanks a lot, Ezra.

00:42:25.760 Appreciate it.

00:42:25.960 All right.

00:42:26.340 There you have it.

00:42:26.760 Mark Morano, he's the boss of climatedepot.com.

00:42:29.700 We've been talking about a study from the University of Michigan.

00:42:32.300 You can see it at his website.

00:42:34.100 Stay with us.

00:42:35.100 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:42:44.740 Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about Trudeau's summer jobs grant, denying over

00:42:52.160 1,400 applications for Christian groups, but not to controversial Islamic groups.

00:42:56.440 Joel writes, the attestation was added so the Trudeau government could drive another wedge

00:43:01.060 between Canadians.

00:43:03.060 It's true, but I think it's to drive a wedge between a person and themself.

00:43:07.620 You know, if you read enough about the Soviet Union, about the secret police, about communism,

00:43:15.360 about Stalin, even if you read George Orwell's 1984, the great tactic of the state to destroy 0.53

00:43:26.640 a dissident is to manage to get the dissident to betray himself.

00:43:30.940 Because once a dissident betrays himself and betrays his own values, he never has that fire 0.80

00:43:38.080 burning inside himself anymore because he knows he's a fraud, an imposter.

00:43:42.760 If he sells out a friend for a moment of comfort, if he signs a jailhouse confession or something,

00:43:50.840 he'll never burn with the same brightness again because he'll have the guilt of knowing

00:43:54.740 that he put something ahead of his so-called values.

00:43:58.500 That is the ultimate tactic of the authoritarian left.

00:44:02.560 Don't take it from me.

00:44:03.200 Take it from every scholar, every novelist, every philosopher about Soviet totalitarianism.

00:44:10.000 That is what the attestation is, to make people break their own conscience in return for a few

00:44:16.120 thousand bucks.

00:44:18.640 Bruce writes, thanks for exposing the wastefulness of the Trudeau family.

00:44:23.400 I'll have to remember this in the event that CPP cuts me off of my disability pension.

00:44:28.620 I'll have to remind my senior friends that while they're struggling to heat their homes,

00:44:32.680 the Trudeaus are squandering more than half a million dollars just on their chef and food

00:44:36.960 deliveries.

00:44:37.680 I'll also remind veterans how this family lives so lavishly while they can't be given more

00:44:41.660 help because they're asking for more than the government can afford.

00:44:45.660 Next year, let's remind all of our friends how this family scolded us while living the high

00:44:49.580 life.

00:44:49.900 Yeah, you know, an example I use, I mean, I've done some events around Canada and sometimes

00:44:56.820 we book them in legions.

00:44:58.020 I love going to the legion.

00:44:59.060 It's always affordable.

00:45:00.420 Everyone knows where it is.

00:45:02.500 Cheap eats and drinks and a pretty friendly crowd.

00:45:04.960 And it's always good to be reminded of our military history.

00:45:07.980 And just take a moment and look at the plaques and the photos and the stories.

00:45:12.360 Every single legion hall I've been to in Canada is a little bit, I don't know if dilapidated

00:45:20.300 is too strong a word.

00:45:21.960 Some of them are dilapidated.

00:45:23.120 All of them could use a little bit of a refresh, you know?

00:45:27.100 And I remember the one I went to in, I think it was Port Credit, near Mississauga.

00:45:32.720 And boy, that place needs a reno. 0.91

00:45:34.820 It needs a fixer-upper.

00:45:36.360 And I thought, Justin Trudeau gave $10.5 million to Omar Khadr.

00:45:42.220 I bet that legion hall has not had $10.5 million put into it in 40 years combined.

00:45:49.720 And so, yeah, you can come up with your own example of what we could or should do with

00:45:56.600 money rather than the way the Trudeaus burn it. 0.78

00:45:59.900 Just burn it.

00:46:01.680 On my interview with John Carpe and the Andersons, Tammy writes,

00:46:05.860 Thank you for interviewing the Andersons when the government pushed this unlawful attestation.

00:46:09.920 It was evident to me it would not stand a court challenge.

00:46:12.360 Very happy to hear John Carpe is representing the Andersons.

00:46:15.400 Yeah, me too.

00:46:16.180 And Carpe is the best.

00:46:17.520 I say again he is Canada's leading civil libertarian.

00:46:24.040 What is frustrating to me, and I think I mentioned this in the interview,

00:46:29.660 was that a lawsuit like this takes time.

00:46:32.640 It grinds very slowly through the wheels of justice.

00:46:36.080 And it is most likely that the 2019 Summer Jobs application will also have this attestation

00:46:41.880 because it probably, this probably won't see a court before that.

00:46:45.980 But it's also frustrating to me all the damage that's being done in the meantime.

00:46:49.920 The 1,400 Christian groups that were denied, the stress on the Anderson family and others,

00:46:56.860 the fact that they have to go to the courts.

00:46:59.840 And I suppose the most frustrating thing of all is the silence of the lambs in the media party. 0.59

00:47:06.020 They don't give a damn. 0.62

00:47:06.960 They don't give a damn, do they? 0.92

00:47:08.180 Well, that's the show for today.

00:47:10.640 By the way, at least for last week and this week while we're figuring it out,

00:47:14.940 every day I do a chit-chat talk show at 12 noon Eastern Time.

00:47:22.020 It's live on our YouTube page.

00:47:24.860 So we flip on the camera and instead, I pre-record this show, the interview show, the main show.

00:47:31.180 But from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Eastern Time, it's 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Mountain Time.

00:47:39.140 Flip the camera on.

00:47:40.100 It's lightly produced.

00:47:41.260 I have a few video clips, but I don't script a whole monologue or anything.

00:47:44.640 And I take questions that people type in in the comments section.

00:47:47.620 And it's sort of fun.

00:47:48.520 And we've been doing it all last week and today we did it again.

00:47:51.640 So we'll be doing that this week.

00:47:52.880 We're trying to figure out, I think that the time zone might be a bit of a problem

00:47:56.240 because most of our folks work during the day.

00:47:58.800 And even 12 noon Toronto Time, well, that's still the middle of the work morning in Calgary time.

00:48:03.960 So we're figuring it out.

00:48:05.180 But if you have a chance, check it out.

00:48:07.220 And by the way, even after it's done live, that video is saved.

00:48:12.200 So you can watch it later on on YouTube.

00:48:13.900 You just won't be able to do the interactive stuff, which was live.

00:48:16.560 So check that out if you haven't already.

00:48:17.840 Anyways, until tomorrow at noon, for those of you who can make it,

00:48:21.920 and 8 p.m. Eastern for those of you who can't,

00:48:24.040 on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:48:26.020 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:48:27.800 Everybody that's gone over there.

00:48:31.920 All the time with that, we're ready to take a look.

00:48:35.340 Thank you so much, thank you so much for watching.

00:48:37.440 Please see, as soon.

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Rebel News Podcast - May 07, 2018

Ezra Levant Show May 7 2018

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