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After Patrick Brown was disqualified from the Conservative leadership race, he blamed the media for his downfall. But there's a good chance it's not just the media that s to blame. We talk to journalist David Menzies and reporter Lincoln J. Jones about what really happened.
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And I'll do the audio now. Hello, my rebels. Wow, what a night it was last night. Just before
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midnight, we got an email from the Conservative Party of Canada saying that really one of the
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frontrunners, Patrick Brown, was disqualified for running for the leadership of the Conservative
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Party. Shocking release at a shocking hour. And then Patrick Brown responded even later saying he
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himself was shocked. Very interesting. And who he blames for? Well, I'll give you a hint. He blames
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us. We got a big show for you today. We're going to talk about that, including with the journalist
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who really set things in motion, our friend David Menzies. First, let me invite you to become a
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because I'm going to show you two video investigations that David and our reporter Lincoln J did. And
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Tonight, Patrick Brown is forced out of the conservative party leadership race. We'll tell
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you what really happened. It's July 6th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Well, sometimes I like to go to bed early. Sometimes I stay up late. I'm glad I stayed up
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late last night because seriously, close to midnight, the Conservative Party of Canada sent
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out this unusual press release. Unusual, including the fact that it was sent out at nearly midnight.
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It was written by Ian Brody, who's the head of the leadership committee that is running the contest
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for the Conservative Party of Canada. And he announced that Patrick Brown, one of the frontrunners,
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I would say the second place most likely to win frontrunner, Patrick Brown, was disqualified for
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misconduct, for financial misconduct and shady business. They didn't detail that shady business,
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saying that there were other investigations afoot, including, said Ian Brody, that they had referred
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the matter to the matter to the government because there may be violations of the Canada Elections Act.
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That's quite something to learn coming up on midnight. But also last night, the Patrick Brown campaign
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fired back, saying it was all unsubstantiated gossip, that there was no basis for it.
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And more to the point, there was no due process. They were not allowed to challenge these things in a proper way.
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And although I am not sympathetic to Patrick Brown, there may be something to that. The fact that
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there was this secrecy of what was alleged. Well, I don't know if that's true, but the press release
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that Ian Brody put out did not really particularize things. It's a big deal, though, because taking
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Patrick Brown out raises a lot of questions. Will his people that he signed up bother to remain
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conservative at all? Will he throw his weight behind someone else, perhaps Jean Chirain?
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Will it be a cakewalk for Pierre Polyev, who appears to be the frontrunner?
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Will this demoralize the party, cause some sort of a civil war?
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I don't know, but I certainly went to bed wondering about what I had just read in the late hours.
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Well, this morning, Patrick Brown did the radio circuit in sort of a,
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woe is me, I've been hard done by tour. Maybe he's right, by the way. But he said on radio twice
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that the reason he was knocked out, at least he implied this, was because of little old us.
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Rebel news. You hear some chuckling in the background. My friend David Mendes is just off
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camera. I'll introduce him in a moment. But let me play for you. Patrick Brown on radio
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denouncing Rebel News for his downfall. Take a listen. Outside, we spoke to two of your deputy
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mayors, a city councillor and a regional councillor, who all said that they're very concerned about the
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city of Brampton. They said this doesn't make Brampton look good. Not only that, they said that
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they're not surprised that there's been financial irregularities at the city level as well. And they
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also said that there was a whistleblower within the city that says that you used city resources
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for your leadership campaign. Is any of this true? And what's your response?
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So they're referring to the Rebel Media video. I don't consider Rebel Media to be media. They're
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extreme right-wing activists. We do have a debate at City Hall, and that's the other hat I wear as
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as mayor. There's a 5-5 division, and there was five councillors who wanted to illegally appoint a
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councillor before MPP Williams was elected. The city clerk has said they can't do that. The city
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solicitor has said they can't do that. That was obviously a TV interview where he was blaming
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Rebel News. He may not think of us as news, but it was news, and people certainly watched us.
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He kept at that theme, blaming us. Here's another version of that.
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Well, I saw some stuff on YouTube, and there was something about a Rebel News thing. I wonder
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if Rebel News was involved in this by chance. Patrick knows anything about it.
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Yes. And first of all, I've had a history of calling out Rebel Media for their history of
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Islamophobia, intolerance, and hate. And so I'm certainly not someone that they support. They've
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been working very closely supporting Pierre Polyev's campaign, and they were one of the organizations
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that lodged a complaint against me. Their complaint was false. It said that city of Brampton staff are
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working on my campaign during work hours, which was incorrect, but the caller is absolutely correct.
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Rebel Media was part of this. And I have to say, you know, Aaron O'Toole, Andrew Scheer refused to do
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media interviews with Rebel, given their history. This is another example of how Pierre Polyev,
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you know, aside from wanting to ban childhood vaccines for polio and measles and his bizarre
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Well, there's Patrick Brown on the radio blaming us once again. But you know what? The common sense
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of the common people was strong today. Here's the next caller saying, yeah, no. What about the actual
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proof that was in that David Menzies report? Take a listen.
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Well, I saw the same thing the other person did, and they showed the employees' cars. They blocked out
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the license plate numbers, but they showed the employees' cars, and then they showed the employees'
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faces and listed what they did for the city and who they worked for. None of them have taken a leave
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of absence, and they're all up at this secret campaign place in Newmarket. I mean, what's going on
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with that? And then when none of us could go play hockey, everything was shut down. They got film
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of this guy with his hockey bag, and they were at the Brampton Arena playing hockey with all of his
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friends when the rest of us couldn't go. You know, I'm glad the Conservatives got rid of this guy.
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Okay, I appreciate that. Now, and that may be your view, and look, there's a lot of people that want,
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like the guy, and there are a lot of people that don't. There are a lot of supporters of Mr.
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Paulyev or Mr. Sherey or Mr. Aitchison or Mr. Baber or Ms. Lewis. I totally-
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Well, there you have it. Joining us now in studio, right next to me, in fact, is our friend David
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Menzies' mission specialist, who was the investigative journalist who had those two
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huge scoops. First, that Patrick Brown was having secret hockey games with his buddies
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when the arenas were locked down to you and I. And second, that great expose of city staff working
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for Patrick Brown. He claims not on city time. David, great to see you again.
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I give you great credit for your investigative journalism. It certainly showed Patrick Brown
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in a very critical light. And I have no doubt that it undermined his support because it made
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him look sneaky and unethical. That said, I must also guard against taking too much credit
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in that he may be blaming you for his ouster. There may be other things we don't even know
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about. There may be other financial irregularities that he really did. I don't know. And he's
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he would rather blame us. And what did he say? Hate and racism or whatever. He would rather
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blame your journalism than what he may actually be in trouble for, because we don't know exactly
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You know, you're absolutely right. Mr. Brody, who's chair of the Leadership Election Organizing
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Committee, his quote was serious allegations of wrongdoing, end quote, related to financing
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rules. And that can mean anything. But my goodness, there is so much to unpack. When he says the
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history of Islamophobia that we have, that's going to come as shocking news to our chair, Raheel
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Raza, who I believe is a practicing Muslim. Anyway, this is par for the course for Patrick Brown.
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He gets caught in some shady dealings or some lie. He's exposed and he plays the victim card.
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What was me? I don't know if he actually cried like he did in January 2018 when he was frog
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marched out of the PC party of Ontario. But in regard to the six employees and we showed you their names
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their titles. The top one being Babu Nagalangam, chief of staff for the mayor. We have chronicled
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their visits to the secret Vaughn headquarters. And three of them did get back to me and say that we
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took an unpaid leave of absence. Well, I'm kind of like Clara Peller, you know, the old lady in the
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Wendy's ads, where's the beef? Yeah. I said, OK, maybe I got it wrong. Show me your leave of
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absence. Show me your papers. Radio silence, Ezra. You know, and that's the thing. You tried to get
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Patrick Brown himself to answer you. You even followed him to a police station when he ran away
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from you. You sent emails to all the people in question. You did excellent journalism. I remember
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when you were putting that story together, we held back publishing it for days and days to give Patrick
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Brown and his team a chance to answer. And by the way, Ian Brody, and I'm not saying I trust Ian
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Brody, by the way, but he claims that the Patrick Brown campaign did not sufficiently answer these
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things. Well, I can find that plausible because he did not answer you. Patrick Brown himself refuses
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to answer legitimate questions. And sorry, just saying, well, you guys are racist. Yeah, no, that's
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that's a bit of a Trudeau move to avoid accountability. I want to give you credit for the journalism you
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did in both the hockey rink event and the secret campaign headquarters. I think it had some effect
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on the campaign, whether or not it was caused what caused him to be disqualified. I don't know.
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We will probably find out. I'm glad that his BS spin was called out by an ordinary person on the radio
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that tells me that there's a lot of people out there who their spider senses are tingling with
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Patrick Brown. I mean, once, twice, three times an ethical scandal. Maybe there's something about this
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guy. Oh, and now there's a whisper that he's going to legally challenge the Conservative Party
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of Canada. I'm sure he will. And maybe he should, by the way, flush it out, smoke it out.
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And here's the question, Ezra. You know, that's going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars
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to mount that challenge. Who's paying for that? Yeah. Well, Patrick Brown seems to have no problem
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getting access to funds. You know what? And although he may deserve to be disqualified,
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I'm not against him suing and forcing the party to put up or shut up. Yeah. And maybe he'll live
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to regret that if they reveal it. He's playing a rough game. When you sue someone, you have to
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disclose in the civil court any document touching on it, your private emails, your records. So you
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cannot, especially if there's financial matters, you can't sue without exposing the facts. I mean,
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maybe he will sue, but it would be shocking to me if Patrick Brown with his iffy history said,
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I'm willing to open the kimono for everyone to look. I don't think he wants to.
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I agree with you. I think transparency for Patrick Brown is like kryptonite for Superman.
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We have, you know, also today, this was just put out, Ezra. It is from five Brampton city councilors
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who are absolutely livid. Our viewers might not know this with all the shenanigans with the Conservative
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Party of Canada stuff, but in the city of Brampton, of which Patrick Brown is mayor.
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There has been three council meetings canceled. And tonight there's another one scheduled. It will
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be canceled. So that's four in a row, Ezra, because Patrick convinces his council minions not
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not to show up. So they don't have a quorum. And we heard him talk about that and he was defending
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it as some sort of noble act. Imagine months going by and you refuse to let the city hall meet
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because you're afraid that they'll undermine your political ambitions in some way.
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Like he really should quit as mayor and run. But he is, Brampton's a big city. For those folks
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who aren't in Ontario, it's a big city. Yes. There's a lot going on in Brampton. It's part of the
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greater Toronto area, but it's its own city. To simply say we're going to stop city business for months
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because I'm busy running a campaign. That's crazy. I agree. And read the headline. What's that press
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release say? Okay. It says after Patrick Brown's CPC disqualification, his scandalous time inside
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Brampton City Hall also needs to end. And what they're getting at, Ezra, here's the unspoken reason
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why Patrick Brown doesn't want to have a council meeting. They have on the agenda a motion for two
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forensic audits of Mayor Brown. And I guess he's terrified of what those forensic audits
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or investigations are going to determine. Yeah. A forensic audit is a particular word.
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It's not just, oh, show me that the numbers add up and I'll stamp it. It's show me the underlying
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receipts. Yes. It's really digging deep. It's the kind of thing that financial crimes police do.
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They dig into it. They look into bank accounts. It's a deep dive to look for shenanigans. And
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this guy has a track record of shenanigans. We set up a website called sneakypatrick.com and I
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really encourage people to go to it. I want to give you a reminder for those of you who didn't see the
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first time around. Let's start with the fun one, which fun in that it was just so startling and
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bizarre. But it really was a disaster for the children of Brampton. Yes. Children's sports
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was shut down. Ordinary people could not exercise. You were banned from gathering. You couldn't go to
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the beautiful hockey arena. But the mayor, Patrick Brown, and his buddies were meeting every week for
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a private game under the radar. You got a tip and you went there and you caught him, as they say,
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inflate, grantee, delicto. That's a fancy way of saying hand in the cookie jar. The look on his
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face, I'll never forget it. This is David catching sneaky Patrick the first time. Folks, we're getting
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the bums rush, but holy mackerel, I think I see Patrick Brown himself.
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Oh, hey, how you doing? Mr. Brown, right? Yeah. David Menzies with Rebel News. You're in a city
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facility? What's that? You're in a city facility? Yeah, so are you. Yeah. So, are you playing hockey
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here? No, I'm just coming to check in on our facility. So, I'm going to check. You're not
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supposed to be here, actually. We were told that you play pickup here. Mr. Brown, how come the kids in
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Brampton can only practice sports, but your buddies can play hockey? Yeah. So, I don't
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know why you are harassing people in the city of Brampton, but you shouldn't be. Oh, who's
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harassing who? Your guys handed out 122 bylaw violations in one week. Mr. Brown, why is there
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a hockey game going on in this arena? I thought you're only allowed to practice sports, not
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play them. And who is paying the $1,000 a day, Mr. Brown, for this rink? Mr. Brown, are these
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taxpayer dollars being used for your buddies to play hockey on this rink? Or are you paying
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it? Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon? So, Mr. Brown, why is there one law for me and one
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Wow, that was incredible. And that's why he's mad at you. Not that you're a racist, but you
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caught him, hands in the cookie jar, and then you got him a second time. And I just, sorry,
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go ahead. Oh, Ezra, and I was just going to say, that hockey story speaks volumes, and I'll
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tell you why. When you are a compulsive liar, their downfall is the failure to keep track
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of the lies. Now, as you saw, he said he was there to inspect the facility. Now, wait a minute.
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If you're there to inspect the facility, inspect it. By the way, who wears a $2,000 suit to check
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Freon levels and the oils in the Zamboni. Yeah, and I didn't know that the mayor of Brampton
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did inspections. It's like the old 70s teacher. I'm a bikini inspector. Yeah, you know, that's
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a joke. You're not really a bikini inspector. There's no such thing. I'm a hockey rink
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inspector. I inspect it by playing games. And yet we showed up, the hockey bag was there.
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Yeah, his name was on his hockey bag. Yes. Now, two weeks ago, there was a brief interview.
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Patrick Brown was on with our friend Jerry Agar of News Talk 1010. And Jerry Agar,
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brought up this thing about the hockey rink. And the first thing he said was, Jerry, you're
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sounding like Rebel Media right now. And he said, no, Patrick, don't shoot the messenger.
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Speak to the facts of the matter. And what he said now was, Jerry, if you look back at that time,
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three weeks prior to me being, I'm paraphrasing right now, being at the rink, Premier Ford had
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changed the rules allowing that. But wait a minute. He said, in 2020, he was an inspector.
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He was inspecting. And he didn't do the inspection. And now, so if that's true, if the Premier said,
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oh, yeah, go ahead, play hockey, then why didn't you suit up and play hockey? We know he loves to
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play hockey. It looks like he's going to have a lot of time to play hockey now. And also on the bigger
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point of, you know, pro of this, you know, canceling council meetings, thanks to a quorum
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not being reached. Could you imagine him being prime minister? Oh, yeah. It would be endlessly
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proroguing parliament because something nasty might be. He's always in some sort of trouble.
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He's always just barely. He's like a hustler. I don't know if you ever saw that movie called
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Uncut Gems. And with, who's he? Adam Sandler. It's the most stressful movie I've ever seen
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in my life with a guy who's got all these debts and he's in trouble with like five different
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people. And he's got this, it's like spinning plates and he doesn't want one of them to drop.
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That's Patrick Brown. He's got so many lies and so many ethical problems. He, I don't know
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how he doesn't collapse under nervousness, but that hockey think it was, it was telling he's
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a liar. He was having fun while banning kids from playing, but take a look at just a reminder. This
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was just outstanding investigative journalism. This is what really, well, this is what Patrick
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Brown blames for his ouster. This is when you caught him in a secret meeting, certainly a secret
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office. There's nothing wrong with a secret office, but this is where the city staff are working for
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him. Take a look. We are here back at the secret headquarters of Patrick Brown. Incredibly
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Babu's white Audi is still here. I would have thought he would have hit the road too. That
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would have been the smart thing. Let's go inside and see if we can find Babu or any other city
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of Brampton staff who should be working for the taxpayers of Brampton, not for sneaky mayor
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Patrick Brown's campaign. And if they are, did they get a leave of absence? We'll be very interested
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to see if we can document that. I'm sure that's what they're going to claim, but we want to see
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that in writing. In any event, let's go inside and see what we can find.
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Hey, how are you doing there? We're just looking for Babu. I am recording, sir. Yes. Oh,
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John Titian. How are you doing there? How are you like that? Anyways, I'm just wondering. Excuse
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me. Excuse me. Yeah. Excuse me. You're not allowed to be on this property. I'm asking you to leave
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now. Okay. Where's Babu? Thank you very much. Oh, sorry. Don't squeeze my arm like that. You're
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leaving, right? How many city of Brampton employees? Great. How are you doing? Yeah. How do you like
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that? That's great. Babu, Margaret Beveridge. What's there? Can you get your hands off me? Can you get
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out of the office? I am. I am moving. No, no, you're not moving. Oh, is that right? I thought
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you were, I thought you weren't involved in the, uh, hang on a second. I thought you weren't involved.
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Do you have a release for me for that video? It doesn't need it. It doesn't need it? Why? No,
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because we're, we're practicing journalism. No, you're not. Yeah. Uh, you as well. Where's Babu?
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His audio is there. His audio is there. His audio is there. Thank you very much. John, why did you lie
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about not being involved with the campaign? That was an incredibly exciting, uh, video. And I should tell
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our viewers, I think you might've done a followup on this. You were investigated by, uh, some serious
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cops because when the mayor tells the police chief investigate them, I guess the police chief sort of
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better do it. And these cops did. And I remember they called you up at night and they called our
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friend Lincoln Jay, who was working on this with you. And I thought, Oh my God, these cops are literally
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investigating you, but give them credit. They wrote a beautiful letter. Yes, they did saying
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we're ending our investigation. What you did was clearly journalism and the public interest.
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Yeah. A hundred percent. And you know, but what was so perverse about that, Ezra,
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Lincoln and I both got a call. I think it was after 10 PM on a Friday night.
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There's nothing more important than doing policing in Toronto.
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The same day of the, uh, the OJ Simpson style chase on the 407. And like you said, um, in Peel
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region, what do we have? The crime is yours seems to be violent carjackings. We got homicide. We got
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sex trafficking. We got gun crime. And you're telling me a detective that very night gets assigned
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and calls, uh, Lincoln Jay and I, and then of course we pass it on to our lawyer who always does
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great work for us. And to their credit, like you said, they realized this was a nothing burger.
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You know what? I, I didn't like the fact the cops called you. It felt like intimidation,
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but I will give them credit. I mean, put yourself in the cop's position for one minute.
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Yes. The mayor of the town goes to the police department and says, those guys are stalking
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me. That's what he said. Yeah. Okay. You better at least make a phone call if you're a cop.
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Like, like if you don't even make a phone call, you, so the fact that they called you, it irritates
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me. It was a form of intimidation, but I think they closed that loop and properly by saying
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no more investigations. What you did was perfectly fine. I think that's a happy ending to that
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story. And I'll, you know what? I'm critical of cops very much these days. I'll give that
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guy full marks. But two things, Ezra. One is I really want to know what Patrick Brown said
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on his 911 call or if it was a call to the police division directly. Um, was he saying some, I'm
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speculating now. I I'm in fear of my life. You know, uh, these guys might be carjackers because
00:25:40.160
if he did say a pack of lies, Ezra, Lincoln J caught on camera, his driver, when Lincoln J came
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out of the police station, his driver said, we know who the F you are. Of course they know. Yeah.
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But that would contradict the carjackers are after me. And, um, and secondly, maybe you
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want to throw to this clip. I'm not telling you how to run your show. Remember, I was arrested
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at the hockey arena for being on private property. So he's used the cops before he has. And that's
00:26:09.040
a very important part of the story because I just gave credit to the police for, uh, writing
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you the proper layer, but letter, but after the hockey thing, five police cars, all sorts of
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private security, you were arrested, handcuffed, put in a police car, charged with trespass.
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Yep. And I remember, and I know that the fine for that was only like $70, but I remember
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saying to you, we'll spend 70,000 if we have to going all the way to the Supreme court, because
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this is a B and you know what? They dropped the ticket. They did drop the ticket because
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the prosecutor said there's no reasonable prospect of conviction. This was absolutely that there
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was nothing here. Credit to the prosecutor for, for not going along with the farce, but
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shame on those five cops who arrested you for that journalism. That's Iran style stuff.
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Let's show a little bit of that. A dark day. I was, I was there too. And I actually thought
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I might be arrested. I'm not trying to be dramatic. I, I took my wallet out and left it in my car.
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I took my watch. Like I thought if I'm going to be arrested, I don't want to have any things
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on me. I mean, I'm not being, but I was there and cause they had harassed you so many times.
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I thought I'd better be there too. And I'm not going to bend the knee. They arrested you and not
00:27:19.500
me. And, uh, not that I want to be arrested, but if, if a journalist of rebel news is going to be
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arrested, I should bloody well be there too. And the crime for standing on the parking lot of a
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publicly funded community. I don't know why they didn't arrest me and they only arrested you.
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And I don't, and I'm not glad that they arrested you, but the prosecutor said, we're not going to go
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with this farce. Here, take a look. I have some terrible news to report. My friend and colleague,
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David Menzies, beloved by many, um, public interest journalist was just arrested.
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I think it's incredibly important that you know, and I'm talking to you.
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He was there reporting on the corrupt mayor of the city, Patrick Brown.
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I'm going to help you off the property. That's all.
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I swear to you that we will go through such a disclosure procedure and we will have every one of
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the officers there. And we will answer the question, who made the order to arrest a journalist
00:28:18.620
doing public interest journalism on a public sidewalk?
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Well, he is the mayor of Brampton, at least in name. Of course, he's AWOL.
00:28:30.700
Um, I agree with you. He's probably going to sue the party and why not? He's got a lot of lawyers
00:28:38.460
Um, he's got no problem getting money. He's got no problem getting lawyers and he's been
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humiliated by this. So I, I'm, I think he will sue. I don't think he'll pursue it because like I said,
00:28:48.860
when you sue someone, you have to disclose your records and there's no way that sneaky Patrick's
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going to do that. I, and I'm going to close how I opened, which is your journalism was excellent.
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I don't know if your journalism in itself was enough to disqualify him as a candidate.
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Your journalism raised questions, but it didn't, um, it was not determinative.
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Uh, I'm not downplaying it in any way. I'm just saying you couldn't say I've watched the video.
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You're out. You'd have to at least start a conversation and with him and back and forth.
00:29:20.700
Like, so it may have been your journalism, but with Patrick Brown, there's always four or five things
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on the go. You know, you're so right. I had a call just before the show. It was somebody close to city
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council and he was talking about all the stuff happening in Brampton and with his leadership,
00:29:41.580
uh, campaign for the conservative party of Canada as well. And what he said, he, he asked me,
00:29:46.620
uh, do you watch the Simpsons? I said, sure. He said, do you remember that episode where Mr. Burns
00:29:50.700
goes to the doctor and the doctor's conclusion is you have every possible disease in the book.
00:29:57.020
We don't even know where to begin, right? He says, that's Patrick Brown. There is so much stuff to get
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to, uh, just in the last four years of how he's run that city as his own personal fiefdom, Ezra. And,
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um, I think, uh, you know, there are some, some people saying, oh, this damages the brand of the
00:30:18.220
conservative party of Canada. I say the opposite, having that guy pretend he's a conservative that
00:30:23.900
damages the brand. And I just want to say this, I hope Mr. Brody, and I hope the party in the days
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ahead, Ezra, they come forward and they give us the nitty gritty. I mean, if it wasn't, you know,
00:30:34.380
the idea of using paid city of Brampton staff that got him disqualified, um, then what was it?
00:30:40.380
Please show us. Yeah. Um, my preference would be for him to run and lose. And that way he's not the
00:30:51.740
leader of the party and the party can say, yeah, we took his measure and we rejected him. Um, if he
00:30:57.980
actually has broken a law, then I think it may be fitting what he embroidered. I never like it when
00:31:03.660
some, and Patrick Brown called it a secret meeting, which it surely was. And it's bizarre that the news
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came out at, after 11 PM, but it's always better to let the voters decide, yeah, he's corrupt,
00:31:16.220
throw the bum out, then have a small, and by the way, at least Patrick Brown could then say,
00:31:22.300
well, I tried and gave it my best and I lost. So Patrick Brown would feel better losing that way
00:31:27.660
than this way, which he'll always think I could have done it. And, and the world would know that
00:31:32.700
the conservative party members rejected Patrick Brown ethics. So I'm glad Patrick Brown is out,
00:31:39.900
but I wish it had been that he was voted out. And although I think Patrick Brown is a terrible
00:31:46.860
political leader, I do think he's corrupt. I do think he's sneaky. I, I have also an ounce of
00:31:55.100
sympathy for the fact that he found out about this, as he said in a midnight email in the media. And I
00:32:03.340
don't have much time for Patrick Brown, but he has an ounce of an argument when he says this is due
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process. So, um, a strange time, but let us not linger on him. I want to say that you did more journalism
00:32:18.220
on Patrick Brown than all other media combined. It's a reminder of the importance that rebel news
00:32:25.660
never becomes a partisan shill. What I mean by that is that we love criticizing liberals. It's my hobby.
00:32:32.860
And new Democrats and greens and leftists, but we also must apply our standards to so-called
00:32:39.500
conservatives. And we have to Doug Ford, to Jason Kenney, to, to Aaron, uh, to Aaron O'Toole,
00:32:46.460
to Patrick Brown. And if Pierre Polyev wins the leadership, we must also hold him to account.
00:32:52.540
In fact, it's more important that we hold conservatives to account for their principles
00:32:58.060
than for us to go after a liberal. It's obvious. And he it's, it's dog bites man when we go after
00:33:03.260
Justin Trudeau. Well, of course you're going after Trudeau. He's a lefty. But when we go after a
00:33:07.340
conservative for ethical reasons, or because he's not a real conservative, that's when it counts the
00:33:11.580
most. And I think that's when we build the most trust with our viewers because they say, you guys,
00:33:16.380
are holding the line on your principles, even if you're shooting at someone called a conservative.
00:33:20.700
I agree. I think we are the umpires behind home plate, Ezra. We're not PR meisters for anybody,
00:33:26.860
be they liberal or conservative. And I just want to say, I mean, I share your concern about,
00:33:31.340
you know, it'd be nicer to have seen them voted out. But then again, let's go back four years ago
00:33:35.740
when Patrick Brown, who was the man who would be premier, that famous January 2018 press conference,
00:33:41.980
less than six months before the Ontario election, where he was made to walk the plank. And look at
00:33:48.700
what he did. First of all, he campaigned before he became leader of the PC party of Ontario,
00:33:54.700
that he was going to tear down the radical McGuinty win sex education thing. And once he became
00:34:02.220
leader, what did he do? He threw social conservatives under the bus. Also, one of his first, I think it
00:34:07.740
was the first speech he made as leader, he talked about introducing a made in Ontario carbon tax for
00:34:14.540
a manufacturing province. So he threw fiscal conservatives under the bus. So when there were
00:34:19.500
no more conservatives to throw under the bus, Ezra, the party threw him under the Greyhound.
00:34:25.980
What I'm getting at is these are self-inflicted wounds. I really think
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Patrick Brown is a sociopath. I think he will do and say anything to get ahead. And he has a weird
00:34:40.140
leadership style in terms of dealing with people. He treats them like Kleenexes. You're very valuable
00:34:45.740
when you've got a runny nose. Once I've used it or wiped my nose, you're garbage. And that's why we get
00:34:51.020
these tips. He's made so many enemies. And do you want this guy to be the prime minister?
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I want him nowhere near power. I want him nowhere near public money. I want him nowhere near a position
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where he can give favors or take them away. I think he is uniquely unsuited for public life. And
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I also wish that the people of Brampton may have a better mayor, one who actually shows up for work.
00:35:15.980
David, you've done great stuff here. Thank you so much, Ezra.
00:35:17.900
It's been a very interesting, you know, not even 24 hours. And we'll see how this ricochets
00:35:25.340
through the party. What are the other candidates say or do they do? They try to woo Patrick Brown's
00:35:32.380
voters. Does Patrick Brown in a hasty way make an emergency application to a court to overturn things?
00:35:38.380
Could be. I mean, we've done that before when we had a crisis, when Trudeau banned us from the
00:35:43.260
leadership debates in an emergency basis. We went to the federal court and got it overturned.
00:35:47.980
Maybe Patrick Brown's going to try and fight to get back in. I don't know. These are very
00:35:52.060
interesting times. It's certainly not boring. Patrick Brown has blamed David and Lincoln and Rebel News.
00:35:59.260
I don't accept the blame. It's Patrick Brown's own deeds that did him in. But I say that Rebel News,
00:36:04.620
and in particular, David Menzies and Lincoln Jay, who was with him on both investigations,
00:36:09.100
did excellent public interest journalism that you did not find anywhere else. And I'm glad to see
00:36:16.780
Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Pax Imperium, which means imperial peace, says,
00:36:37.260
it's absolutely ridiculous that she's in jail, referring to Tamera Leach, and being held there
00:36:42.380
for breach of a non-communication condition, which actually is a breach of her rights as per the
00:36:46.860
charter. I think it's outrageous she did not communicate with that other gentleman. They
00:36:52.700
were literally mouths closed, smiling, posing for a photo. I learned that it was an ordinary police
00:37:00.780
officer who issued that national warrant and sent for her. They didn't get a legal opinion, which police
00:37:05.420
often do when doing something exotic. And outrageously, the justice of the peace who heard the matter the
00:37:10.780
other day is not even a lawyer. Now, I'm not saying you can't be a non-lawyer justice of the peace,
00:37:16.540
but for a complex matter in the public eye, to give it to a junior justice of the peace who's not a
00:37:23.740
lawyer to rule, I feel is risky and dangerous. And it may explain why the justice of the peace wants
00:37:31.100
three full days to think about it, while Tamera Leach rots in jail instead of immediately releasing
00:37:36.620
her and saying, I'll give you my reasons later. A lot of things wrong with this.
00:37:41.820
Crushing all deceivers, I think that's a nickname, says, who and what body of government is responsible
00:37:46.620
for the Arrive Can app? Well, there's no secret there. It's Justin Trudeau's government. He personally
00:37:52.460
promoted it, and it's part of the border system, which is part of the public safety portfolio.
00:38:02.060
I don't think it is about safety. I think it is about getting us used to being tracked
00:38:07.980
and used to having our privacy invaded. Game Queen says, the facial hair makes Ezra look more
00:38:14.380
distinguished. You know, I appreciate you saying that. I don't think it does. I think it makes me
00:38:20.860
look old. It makes me look like I don't have enough masculinity to actually fill it in. I don't
00:38:27.260
know why I'm doing it. My mom says I should shave it off. I don't know what I'm waiting for. But
00:38:35.740
sorry, you have to look at me. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here
00:38:42.860
at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Keep fighting for freedom. Good night.
00:38:46.300
You celebrate together the country that we love and share. Because Canada Day is Canadian's Day.
00:38:57.740
Isabelle Ravel for Rebel News. I'm here in Ottawa, Ontario. It's Canada Day, and I'm here on
00:39:03.100
Parliament Hill. There's tons of people out. And so I'm going to go around and ask people if they
00:39:07.820
think Justin Trudeau is doing a good job uniting the country or if they feel like it's divided.
00:39:12.780
What brings you out here today? The same thing that always brings me here in Ottawa,
00:39:16.060
man. It's standing up for freedom for all Canadians and equality under and before the law. That means
00:39:20.700
no cast of citizens. Not one group gets more rights than the other group. Everyone gets the same rights
00:39:25.180
bar none. I see that you're wearing some Rebel News merch. Of course I am. First of all, I came to celebrate
00:39:30.620
Canada Day, but also I am part of the resistance. What do you call a resistance? I am for freedom. The
00:39:36.540
truckers gave us the opportunity to recognize that they weren't the only ones that were alone. They weren't
00:39:42.060
alone. We weren't alone. So we need to exercise this this freedom where we have and not allow the
00:39:46.620
government to again to take it away from us. Do you feel that Canada is united or does it feel divided?
00:39:54.540
He has been the most divisive Prime Minister we've seen in our lifetime and it's just really sad that
00:40:02.060
it's come to this point. Especially, you know, on Canada Day we shouldn't have to be searching families
00:40:08.380
just to go on Parliament. It feels divided. I feel that right now a lot of Canadians are divided.
00:40:14.380
Although I'm not going to comment whether he's doing a good job or not. But I believe that yes,
00:40:18.620
Canadians are somewhat divided. Of course there are some issues. I mean we're trying to look at the
00:40:23.340
positive side. Absolutely not. He's doing nothing to to unite the country. As a matter of fact, he wants,
00:40:29.500
he likes the separation. He likes the division. He likes to get people fighting against each other and that
00:40:35.660
way they wouldn't pay attention to him and his malfeasances. You know, all the stuff that goes
00:40:39.900
on in his life and all the things that he does to all the people. So, yeah, he doesn't really care
00:40:45.660
about the actual people. He cares to be in power. He cares to do what he's doing now, traveling, you know,
00:40:51.500
be a, be a, you know, he's, he's really an actor in, in, in disguise, right? You know, once you're divided,
00:40:57.500
you can't stand against something. Divide and conquer, right? Exactly. That's exactly what he does.
00:41:01.580
Yeah. He does a great job of breaking people apart. You know, he tells a bunch of people
00:41:06.860
that they're, they don't, they're not worth anything. And he's completely, look at all of
00:41:11.740
this right now, this never even should have happened. But instead of talking to the truckers,
00:41:16.620
he said, I'm going to vilify you and make you like you're some sort of subjugated little group.
00:41:22.220
And now they are a group and now they're angry.
00:41:27.420
Are you serious? Like, he's called us misogynists and he's called us racists and what was that?
00:41:34.540
Should we tolerate these people who take up space? Was that not something that came out of Germany
00:41:40.940
or something like that by some kind of a genocidal maniac?
00:41:45.740
But there are also people who are faroochement opposed to the vaccination.
00:41:51.020
Who are not in science. Who are often misogynists, who are often racist.
00:41:55.020
It's a small group, but who takes place. And there, there is a choice as a leader, as a country.
00:42:03.420
Is-t-on, is-t-on tolère these people or is-t-on say, well, let's say,
00:42:07.740
we're in a bad place in this country, so we need to keep showing up. That's why I'm here.
00:42:19.420
I'm going to keep showing up in peace and I urge everyone to remain peaceful no matter how upset you
00:42:24.220
get, no matter how angry you are. Please stay peaceful and come here, enjoy your country, exercise
00:42:29.900
your rights protected by our charter, protected by our Canadian Bill of Rights. Let me show that to you
00:42:34.300
real quick. C-44, 1960, still valid, federal legislation. This is right here.
00:42:42.060
I'm sure they'll be getting a $1,000 ticket. And I said, I don't care, you can take me because
00:42:49.260
I love my country and I love my family and I, I love my fellow man.