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00:00:00.000 And I'll do the audio now. Hello, my rebels. Wow, what a night it was last night. Just before

00:00:09.260 midnight, we got an email from the Conservative Party of Canada saying that really one of the

00:00:13.580 frontrunners, Patrick Brown, was disqualified for running for the leadership of the Conservative

00:00:18.480 Party. Shocking release at a shocking hour. And then Patrick Brown responded even later saying he

00:00:24.680 himself was shocked. Very interesting. And who he blames for? Well, I'll give you a hint. He blames

00:00:30.040 us. We got a big show for you today. We're going to talk about that, including with the journalist

00:00:35.260 who really set things in motion, our friend David Menzies. First, let me invite you to become a

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00:00:44.760 because I'm going to show you two video investigations that David and our reporter Lincoln J did. And

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00:01:25.360 All right, here's today's show.

00:01:26.240 Tonight, Patrick Brown is forced out of the conservative party leadership race. We'll tell

00:01:47.940 you what really happened. It's July 6th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:51.740 Well, sometimes I like to go to bed early. Sometimes I stay up late. I'm glad I stayed up

00:02:11.020 late last night because seriously, close to midnight, the Conservative Party of Canada sent

00:02:17.460 out this unusual press release. Unusual, including the fact that it was sent out at nearly midnight.

00:02:24.360 It was written by Ian Brody, who's the head of the leadership committee that is running the contest

00:02:32.980 for the Conservative Party of Canada. And he announced that Patrick Brown, one of the frontrunners,

00:02:38.760 I would say the second place most likely to win frontrunner, Patrick Brown, was disqualified for

00:02:46.760 misconduct, for financial misconduct and shady business. They didn't detail that shady business,

00:02:54.760 saying that there were other investigations afoot, including, said Ian Brody, that they had referred

00:03:02.020 the matter to the matter to the government because there may be violations of the Canada Elections Act.

00:03:08.260 That's quite something to learn coming up on midnight. But also last night, the Patrick Brown campaign

00:03:15.660 fired back, saying it was all unsubstantiated gossip, that there was no basis for it.

00:03:21.740 And more to the point, there was no due process. They were not allowed to challenge these things in a proper way.

00:03:28.300 And although I am not sympathetic to Patrick Brown, there may be something to that. The fact that

00:03:34.720 there was this secrecy of what was alleged. Well, I don't know if that's true, but the press release

00:03:40.340 that Ian Brody put out did not really particularize things. It's a big deal, though, because taking

00:03:47.620 Patrick Brown out raises a lot of questions. Will his people that he signed up bother to remain

00:03:53.620 conservative at all? Will he throw his weight behind someone else, perhaps Jean Chirain?

00:04:00.040 Will it be a cakewalk for Pierre Polyev, who appears to be the frontrunner?

00:04:04.660 Will this demoralize the party, cause some sort of a civil war?

00:04:09.460 I don't know, but I certainly went to bed wondering about what I had just read in the late hours.

00:04:14.900 Well, this morning, Patrick Brown did the radio circuit in sort of a,

00:04:19.540 woe is me, I've been hard done by tour. Maybe he's right, by the way. But he said on radio twice

00:04:27.080 that the reason he was knocked out, at least he implied this, was because of little old us.

00:04:33.360 Rebel news. You hear some chuckling in the background. My friend David Mendes is just off 1.00

00:04:37.400 camera. I'll introduce him in a moment. But let me play for you. Patrick Brown on radio

00:04:43.160 denouncing Rebel News for his downfall. Take a listen. Outside, we spoke to two of your deputy

00:04:51.040 mayors, a city councillor and a regional councillor, who all said that they're very concerned about the

00:04:56.600 city of Brampton. They said this doesn't make Brampton look good. Not only that, they said that

00:05:01.360 they're not surprised that there's been financial irregularities at the city level as well. And they

00:05:06.820 also said that there was a whistleblower within the city that says that you used city resources

00:05:14.700 for your leadership campaign. Is any of this true? And what's your response?

00:05:19.400 So they're referring to the Rebel Media video. I don't consider Rebel Media to be media. They're

00:05:25.200 extreme right-wing activists. We do have a debate at City Hall, and that's the other hat I wear as

00:05:32.100 as mayor. There's a 5-5 division, and there was five councillors who wanted to illegally appoint a

00:05:39.580 councillor before MPP Williams was elected. The city clerk has said they can't do that. The city

00:05:46.480 solicitor has said they can't do that. That was obviously a TV interview where he was blaming

00:05:51.120 Rebel News. He may not think of us as news, but it was news, and people certainly watched us.

00:05:56.880 He kept at that theme, blaming us. Here's another version of that. 0.89

00:06:02.100 Well, I saw some stuff on YouTube, and there was something about a Rebel News thing. I wonder

00:06:06.540 if Rebel News was involved in this by chance. Patrick knows anything about it.

00:06:11.360 Okay. Pat Brown?

00:06:12.780 Yes. And first of all, I've had a history of calling out Rebel Media for their history of

00:06:17.900 Islamophobia, intolerance, and hate. And so I'm certainly not someone that they support. They've

00:06:23.620 been working very closely supporting Pierre Polyev's campaign, and they were one of the organizations

00:06:29.140 that lodged a complaint against me. Their complaint was false. It said that city of Brampton staff are

00:06:37.280 working on my campaign during work hours, which was incorrect, but the caller is absolutely correct.

00:06:43.500 Rebel Media was part of this. And I have to say, you know, Aaron O'Toole, Andrew Scheer refused to do

00:06:49.000 media interviews with Rebel, given their history. This is another example of how Pierre Polyev,

00:06:54.860 you know, aside from wanting to ban childhood vaccines for polio and measles and his bizarre

00:07:00.540 policy on crypto.

00:07:02.000 Well, there's Patrick Brown on the radio blaming us once again. But you know what? The common sense

00:07:07.260 of the common people was strong today. Here's the next caller saying, yeah, no. What about the actual

00:07:13.820 proof that was in that David Menzies report? Take a listen.

00:07:16.520 Scott, what were you going to ask him?

00:07:20.000 Well, I saw the same thing the other person did, and they showed the employees' cars. They blocked out

00:07:26.500 the license plate numbers, but they showed the employees' cars, and then they showed the employees'

00:07:31.320 faces and listed what they did for the city and who they worked for. None of them have taken a leave

00:07:38.120 of absence, and they're all up at this secret campaign place in Newmarket. I mean, what's going on

00:07:44.480 with that? And then when none of us could go play hockey, everything was shut down. They got film

00:07:50.180 of this guy with his hockey bag, and they were at the Brampton Arena playing hockey with all of his

00:07:55.320 friends when the rest of us couldn't go. You know, I'm glad the Conservatives got rid of this guy.

00:08:01.900 This guy is nothing but trouble.

00:08:03.920 Okay, I appreciate that. Now, and that may be your view, and look, there's a lot of people that want,

00:08:08.120 like the guy, and there are a lot of people that don't. There are a lot of supporters of Mr.

00:08:11.400 Paulyev or Mr. Sherey or Mr. Aitchison or Mr. Baber or Ms. Lewis. I totally-

00:08:17.100 Well, there you have it. Joining us now in studio, right next to me, in fact, is our friend David

00:08:22.260 Menzies' mission specialist, who was the investigative journalist who had those two

00:08:26.600 huge scoops. First, that Patrick Brown was having secret hockey games with his buddies

00:08:31.460 when the arenas were locked down to you and I. And second, that great expose of city staff working

00:08:38.800 for Patrick Brown. He claims not on city time. David, great to see you again.

00:08:43.860 Great to see you again.

00:08:44.440 I give you great credit for your investigative journalism. It certainly showed Patrick Brown

00:08:50.860 in a very critical light. And I have no doubt that it undermined his support because it made

00:08:56.900 him look sneaky and unethical. That said, I must also guard against taking too much credit

00:09:01.460 in that he may be blaming you for his ouster. There may be other things we don't even know

00:09:08.120 about. There may be other financial irregularities that he really did. I don't know. And he's

00:09:13.340 he would rather blame us. And what did he say? Hate and racism or whatever. He would rather

00:09:19.300 blame your journalism than what he may actually be in trouble for, because we don't know exactly

00:09:24.680 what the allegations are.

00:09:26.100 You know, you're absolutely right. Mr. Brody, who's chair of the Leadership Election Organizing

00:09:31.080 Committee, his quote was serious allegations of wrongdoing, end quote, related to financing

00:09:37.680 rules. And that can mean anything. But my goodness, there is so much to unpack. When he says the

00:09:43.300 history of Islamophobia that we have, that's going to come as shocking news to our chair, Raheel

00:09:49.020 Raza, who I believe is a practicing Muslim. Anyway, this is par for the course for Patrick Brown.

00:09:55.620 He gets caught in some shady dealings or some lie. He's exposed and he plays the victim card.

00:10:05.320 What was me? I don't know if he actually cried like he did in January 2018 when he was frog

00:10:11.200 marched out of the PC party of Ontario. But in regard to the six employees and we showed you their names

00:10:18.320 their titles. The top one being Babu Nagalangam, chief of staff for the mayor. We have chronicled

00:10:26.620 their visits to the secret Vaughn headquarters. And three of them did get back to me and say that we

00:10:35.140 took an unpaid leave of absence. Well, I'm kind of like Clara Peller, you know, the old lady in the

00:10:39.580 Wendy's ads, where's the beef? Yeah. I said, OK, maybe I got it wrong. Show me your leave of

00:10:44.860 absence. Show me your papers. Radio silence, Ezra. You know, and that's the thing. You tried to get

00:10:50.820 Patrick Brown himself to answer you. You even followed him to a police station when he ran away

00:10:55.020 from you. You sent emails to all the people in question. You did excellent journalism. I remember

00:11:01.340 when you were putting that story together, we held back publishing it for days and days to give Patrick

00:11:06.800 Brown and his team a chance to answer. And by the way, Ian Brody, and I'm not saying I trust Ian

00:11:12.000 Brody, by the way, but he claims that the Patrick Brown campaign did not sufficiently answer these

00:11:16.960 things. Well, I can find that plausible because he did not answer you. Patrick Brown himself refuses

00:11:22.320 to answer legitimate questions. And sorry, just saying, well, you guys are racist. Yeah, no, that's

00:11:29.420 that's a bit of a Trudeau move to avoid accountability. I want to give you credit for the journalism you

00:11:34.620 did in both the hockey rink event and the secret campaign headquarters. I think it had some effect

00:11:40.360 on the campaign, whether or not it was caused what caused him to be disqualified. I don't know.

00:11:44.600 We will probably find out. I'm glad that his BS spin was called out by an ordinary person on the radio

00:11:52.040 that tells me that there's a lot of people out there who their spider senses are tingling with

00:11:57.440 Patrick Brown. I mean, once, twice, three times an ethical scandal. Maybe there's something about this

00:12:02.820 guy. Oh, and now there's a whisper that he's going to legally challenge the Conservative Party

00:12:09.780 of Canada. I'm sure he will. And maybe he should, by the way, flush it out, smoke it out.

00:12:13.900 And here's the question, Ezra. You know, that's going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars

00:12:17.800 to mount that challenge. Who's paying for that? Yeah. Well, Patrick Brown seems to have no problem

00:12:22.800 getting access to funds. You know what? And although he may deserve to be disqualified,

00:12:27.260 I'm not against him suing and forcing the party to put up or shut up. Yeah. And maybe he'll live

00:12:32.700 to regret that if they reveal it. He's playing a rough game. When you sue someone, you have to

00:12:39.560 disclose in the civil court any document touching on it, your private emails, your records. So you

00:12:46.200 cannot, especially if there's financial matters, you can't sue without exposing the facts. I mean,

00:12:53.260 maybe he will sue, but it would be shocking to me if Patrick Brown with his iffy history said,

00:12:59.280 I'm willing to open the kimono for everyone to look. I don't think he wants to.

00:13:02.220 I agree with you. I think transparency for Patrick Brown is like kryptonite for Superman.

00:13:07.820 We have, you know, also today, this was just put out, Ezra. It is from five Brampton city councilors

00:13:14.860 who are absolutely livid. Our viewers might not know this with all the shenanigans with the Conservative

00:13:20.400 Party of Canada stuff, but in the city of Brampton, of which Patrick Brown is mayor.

00:13:27.020 There has been three council meetings canceled. And tonight there's another one scheduled. It will

00:13:33.380 be canceled. So that's four in a row, Ezra, because Patrick convinces his council minions not

00:13:41.800 not to show up. So they don't have a quorum. And we heard him talk about that and he was defending

00:13:47.500 it as some sort of noble act. Imagine months going by and you refuse to let the city hall meet

00:13:53.220 because you're afraid that they'll undermine your political ambitions in some way.

00:13:58.400 Like he really should quit as mayor and run. But he is, Brampton's a big city. For those folks

00:14:04.960 who aren't in Ontario, it's a big city. Yes. There's a lot going on in Brampton. It's part of the

00:14:09.500 greater Toronto area, but it's its own city. To simply say we're going to stop city business for months

00:14:15.040 because I'm busy running a campaign. That's crazy. I agree. And read the headline. What's that press

00:14:21.820 release say? Okay. It says after Patrick Brown's CPC disqualification, his scandalous time inside

00:14:29.700 Brampton City Hall also needs to end. And what they're getting at, Ezra, here's the unspoken reason

00:14:34.820 why Patrick Brown doesn't want to have a council meeting. They have on the agenda a motion for two

00:14:41.900 forensic audits of Mayor Brown. And I guess he's terrified of what those forensic audits

00:14:48.500 or investigations are going to determine. Yeah. A forensic audit is a particular word.

00:14:54.360 It's not just, oh, show me that the numbers add up and I'll stamp it. It's show me the underlying

00:14:59.580 receipts. Yes. It's really digging deep. It's the kind of thing that financial crimes police do.

00:15:06.640 They dig into it. They look into bank accounts. It's a deep dive to look for shenanigans. And

00:15:13.920 this guy has a track record of shenanigans. We set up a website called sneakypatrick.com and I

00:15:20.660 really encourage people to go to it. I want to give you a reminder for those of you who didn't see the

00:15:24.900 first time around. Let's start with the fun one, which fun in that it was just so startling and

00:15:31.480 bizarre. But it really was a disaster for the children of Brampton. Yes. Children's sports

00:15:39.120 was shut down. Ordinary people could not exercise. You were banned from gathering. You couldn't go to

00:15:45.140 the beautiful hockey arena. But the mayor, Patrick Brown, and his buddies were meeting every week for

00:15:52.060 a private game under the radar. You got a tip and you went there and you caught him, as they say,

00:15:58.340 inflate, grantee, delicto. That's a fancy way of saying hand in the cookie jar. The look on his

00:16:04.660 face, I'll never forget it. This is David catching sneaky Patrick the first time. Folks, we're getting

00:16:11.320 the bums rush, but holy mackerel, I think I see Patrick Brown himself.

00:16:16.980 Oh, hey, how you doing? Mr. Brown, right? Yeah. David Menzies with Rebel News. You're in a city

00:16:25.220 facility? What's that? You're in a city facility? Yeah, so are you. Yeah. So, are you playing hockey

00:16:31.000 here? No, I'm just coming to check in on our facility. So, I'm going to check. You're not

00:16:36.080 supposed to be here, actually. We were told that you play pickup here. Mr. Brown, how come the kids in

00:16:44.700 Brampton can only practice sports, but your buddies can play hockey? Yeah. So, I don't

00:16:51.620 know why you are harassing people in the city of Brampton, but you shouldn't be. Oh, who's

00:16:57.620 harassing who? Your guys handed out 122 bylaw violations in one week. Mr. Brown, why is there

00:17:09.940 a hockey game going on in this arena? I thought you're only allowed to practice sports, not

00:17:16.420 play them. And who is paying the $1,000 a day, Mr. Brown, for this rink? Mr. Brown, are these

00:17:27.640 taxpayer dollars being used for your buddies to play hockey on this rink? Or are you paying

00:17:35.580 it? Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon? So, Mr. Brown, why is there one law for me and one

00:17:44.460 law for thee in this city? Mr. Brown?

00:17:55.780 Wow, that was incredible. And that's why he's mad at you. Not that you're a racist, but you

00:18:01.200 caught him, hands in the cookie jar, and then you got him a second time. And I just, sorry,

00:18:06.100 go ahead. Oh, Ezra, and I was just going to say, that hockey story speaks volumes, and I'll

00:18:10.340 tell you why. When you are a compulsive liar, their downfall is the failure to keep track

00:18:16.740 of the lies. Now, as you saw, he said he was there to inspect the facility. Now, wait a minute.

00:18:22.580 If you're there to inspect the facility, inspect it. By the way, who wears a $2,000 suit to check

00:18:28.360 Freon levels and the oils in the Zamboni. Yeah, and I didn't know that the mayor of Brampton

00:18:32.220 did inspections. It's like the old 70s teacher. I'm a bikini inspector. Yeah, you know, that's

00:18:38.620 a joke. You're not really a bikini inspector. There's no such thing. I'm a hockey rink

00:18:42.260 inspector. I inspect it by playing games. And yet we showed up, the hockey bag was there.

00:18:47.280 Yeah, his name was on his hockey bag. Yes. Now, two weeks ago, there was a brief interview.

00:18:52.520 Patrick Brown was on with our friend Jerry Agar of News Talk 1010. And Jerry Agar,

00:18:58.140 brought up this thing about the hockey rink. And the first thing he said was, Jerry, you're

00:19:04.480 sounding like Rebel Media right now. And he said, no, Patrick, don't shoot the messenger.

00:19:09.820 Speak to the facts of the matter. And what he said now was, Jerry, if you look back at that time,

00:19:16.600 three weeks prior to me being, I'm paraphrasing right now, being at the rink, Premier Ford had

00:19:22.060 changed the rules allowing that. But wait a minute. He said, in 2020, he was an inspector.

00:19:28.780 He was inspecting. And he didn't do the inspection. And now, so if that's true, if the Premier said,

00:19:34.180 oh, yeah, go ahead, play hockey, then why didn't you suit up and play hockey? We know he loves to

00:19:38.360 play hockey. It looks like he's going to have a lot of time to play hockey now. And also on the bigger

00:19:43.360 point of, you know, pro of this, you know, canceling council meetings, thanks to a quorum

00:19:49.140 not being reached. Could you imagine him being prime minister? Oh, yeah. It would be endlessly

00:19:53.960 proroguing parliament because something nasty might be. He's always in some sort of trouble.

00:19:59.960 He's always just barely. He's like a hustler. I don't know if you ever saw that movie called

00:20:04.500 Uncut Gems. And with, who's he? Adam Sandler. It's the most stressful movie I've ever seen

00:20:11.080 in my life with a guy who's got all these debts and he's in trouble with like five different

00:20:15.320 people. And he's got this, it's like spinning plates and he doesn't want one of them to drop.

00:20:19.240 That's Patrick Brown. He's got so many lies and so many ethical problems. He, I don't know

00:20:24.780 how he doesn't collapse under nervousness, but that hockey think it was, it was telling he's

00:20:30.140 a liar. He was having fun while banning kids from playing, but take a look at just a reminder. This

00:20:36.440 was just outstanding investigative journalism. This is what really, well, this is what Patrick

00:20:41.620 Brown blames for his ouster. This is when you caught him in a secret meeting, certainly a secret

00:20:47.200 office. There's nothing wrong with a secret office, but this is where the city staff are working for

00:20:52.060 him. Take a look. We are here back at the secret headquarters of Patrick Brown. Incredibly

00:20:59.620 Babu's white Audi is still here. I would have thought he would have hit the road too. That

00:21:05.320 would have been the smart thing. Let's go inside and see if we can find Babu or any other city

00:21:12.980 of Brampton staff who should be working for the taxpayers of Brampton, not for sneaky mayor

00:21:21.600 Patrick Brown's campaign. And if they are, did they get a leave of absence? We'll be very interested

00:21:30.260 to see if we can document that. I'm sure that's what they're going to claim, but we want to see

00:21:34.620 that in writing. In any event, let's go inside and see what we can find.

00:22:04.620 Hey, how are you doing there? We're just looking for Babu. I am recording, sir. Yes. Oh,

00:22:27.420 John Titian. How are you doing there? How are you like that? Anyways, I'm just wondering. Excuse

00:22:33.380 me. Excuse me. Yeah. Excuse me. You're not allowed to be on this property. I'm asking you to leave

00:22:38.980 now. Okay. Where's Babu? Thank you very much. Oh, sorry. Don't squeeze my arm like that. You're

00:22:44.320 leaving, right? How many city of Brampton employees? Great. How are you doing? Yeah. How do you like

00:22:50.000 that? That's great. Babu, Margaret Beveridge. What's there? Can you get your hands off me? Can you get

00:22:56.380 out of the office? I am. I am moving. No, no, you're not moving. Oh, is that right? I thought

00:23:01.820 you were, I thought you weren't involved in the, uh, hang on a second. I thought you weren't involved.

00:23:06.380 Do you have a release for me for that video? It doesn't need it. It doesn't need it? Why? No,

00:23:10.620 because we're, we're practicing journalism. No, you're not. Yeah. Uh, you as well. Where's Babu?

00:23:14.720 His audio is there. His audio is there. His audio is there. Thank you very much. John, why did you lie

00:23:20.860 about not being involved with the campaign? That was an incredibly exciting, uh, video. And I should tell

00:23:26.160 our viewers, I think you might've done a followup on this. You were investigated by, uh, some serious

00:23:33.460 cops because when the mayor tells the police chief investigate them, I guess the police chief sort of

00:23:40.740 better do it. And these cops did. And I remember they called you up at night and they called our

00:23:44.920 friend Lincoln Jay, who was working on this with you. And I thought, Oh my God, these cops are literally

00:23:49.880 investigating you, but give them credit. They wrote a beautiful letter. Yes, they did saying

00:23:56.140 we're ending our investigation. What you did was clearly journalism and the public interest.

00:24:01.300 Yeah. A hundred percent. And you know, but what was so perverse about that, Ezra,

00:24:05.400 Lincoln and I both got a call. I think it was after 10 PM on a Friday night.

00:24:09.280 There's nothing more important than doing policing in Toronto.

00:24:11.280 The same day of the, uh, the OJ Simpson style chase on the 407. And like you said, um, in Peel

00:24:19.940 region, what do we have? The crime is yours seems to be violent carjackings. We got homicide. We got

00:24:25.640 sex trafficking. We got gun crime. And you're telling me a detective that very night gets assigned

00:24:31.860 and calls, uh, Lincoln Jay and I, and then of course we pass it on to our lawyer who always does

00:24:36.060 great work for us. And to their credit, like you said, they realized this was a nothing burger.

00:24:40.720 You know what? I, I didn't like the fact the cops called you. It felt like intimidation,

00:24:45.580 but I will give them credit. I mean, put yourself in the cop's position for one minute.

00:24:52.200 Yes. The mayor of the town goes to the police department and says, those guys are stalking

00:24:57.900 me. That's what he said. Yeah. Okay. You better at least make a phone call if you're a cop.

00:25:03.280 Like, like if you don't even make a phone call, you, so the fact that they called you, it irritates

00:25:07.960 me. It was a form of intimidation, but I think they closed that loop and properly by saying

00:25:13.340 no more investigations. What you did was perfectly fine. I think that's a happy ending to that

00:25:19.120 story. And I'll, you know what? I'm critical of cops very much these days. I'll give that

00:25:23.240 guy full marks. But two things, Ezra. One is I really want to know what Patrick Brown said

00:25:28.980 on his 911 call or if it was a call to the police division directly. Um, was he saying some, I'm

00:25:35.140 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

00:25:46.620 out of the police station, his driver said, we know who the F you are. Of course they know. Yeah.

00:25:53.180 But that would contradict the carjackers are after me. And, um, and secondly, maybe you

00:26:00.400 want to throw to this clip. I'm not telling you how to run your show. Remember, I was arrested

00:26:04.040 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

00:26:13.180 you the proper layer, but letter, but after the hockey thing, five police cars, all sorts of

00:26:18.180 private security, you were arrested, handcuffed, put in a police car, charged with trespass.

00:26:23.680 Yep. And I remember, and I know that the fine for that was only like $70, but I remember

00:26:30.320 saying to you, we'll spend 70,000 if we have to going all the way to the Supreme court, because

00:26:35.460 this is a B and you know what? They dropped the ticket. They did drop the ticket because

00:26:39.860 the prosecutor said there's no reasonable prospect of conviction. This was absolutely that there

00:26:46.740 was nothing here. Credit to the prosecutor for, for not going along with the farce, but

00:26:50.980 shame on those five cops who arrested you for that journalism. That's Iran style stuff. 1.00

00:26:57.140 Let's show a little bit of that. A dark day. I was, I was there too. And I actually thought

00:27:01.980 I might be arrested. I'm not trying to be dramatic. I, I took my wallet out and left it in my car.

00:27:06.640 I took my watch. Like I thought if I'm going to be arrested, I don't want to have any things

00:27:11.040 on me. I mean, I'm not being, but I was there and cause they had harassed you so many times.

00:27:15.620 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

00:27:24.160 arrested, I should bloody well be there too. And the crime for standing on the parking lot of a

00:27:28.720 publicly funded community. I don't know why they didn't arrest me and they only arrested you.

00:27:32.480 And I don't, and I'm not glad that they arrested you, but the prosecutor said, we're not going to go

00:27:36.220 with this farce. Here, take a look. I have some terrible news to report. My friend and colleague,

00:27:40.800 David Menzies, beloved by many, um, public interest journalist was just arrested.

00:27:46.140 I'm telling you to leave. So you should leave.

00:27:48.600 I think it's incredibly important that you know, and I'm talking to you.

00:27:52.080 He was there reporting on the corrupt mayor of the city, Patrick Brown.

00:27:58.500 Are you ready to leave now?

00:27:59.560 I am not, sir. I am here to-

00:28:00.800 I'm going to help you off the property. That's all.

00:28:02.440 He's under arrest.

00:28:03.220 He's not under arrest.

00:28:03.860 I swear to you that we will go through such a disclosure procedure and we will have every one of

00:28:11.540 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?

00:28:21.460 I'm not under arrest, so you can't touch me.

00:28:23.620 Are you wanting to leave then?

00:28:25.280 I am not.

00:28:26.180 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

00:28:36.140 on his team, including Wally and Solomon.

00:28:37.900 Oh yeah.

00:28:38.460 Um, he's got no problem getting money. He's got no problem getting lawyers and he's been

00:28:43.500 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

00:28:53.180 going to do that. I, and I'm going to close how I opened, which is your journalism was excellent.

00:28:58.540 I don't know if your journalism in itself was enough to disqualify him as a candidate.

00:29:02.540 Yeah.

00:29:02.860 Your journalism raised questions, but it didn't, um, it was not determinative.

00:29:08.860 Uh, I'm not downplaying it in any way. I'm just saying you couldn't say I've watched the video.

00:29:16.380 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

00:29:27.580 on the go. You know, you're so right. I had a call just before the show. It was somebody close to city

00:29:34.220 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

00:30:04.380 to, uh, just in the last four years of how he's run that city as his own personal fiefdom, Ezra. And,

00:30:12.620 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

00:30:29.100 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

00:31:09.420 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, 0.94

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

00:32:09.580 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

00:34:31.180 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?

00:34:57.100 I want him nowhere near power. I want him nowhere near public money. I want him nowhere near a position

00:35:02.780 where he can give favors or take them away. I think he is uniquely unsuited for public life. And

00:35:10.940 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

00:36:13.660 radio callers remembered it. Stay with us.

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 1.00

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 0.84

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. 0.99

00:41:22.220 And now they are a group and now they're angry.

00:41:24.140 Liberté! Liberté! 0.87

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 0.99

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.

00:41:49.020 Who are extremists.

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.

Rebel News Podcast - July 07, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Supporting J.K. Rowling's gender stance lands a nurse in hot water — but she's fighting back

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