Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Modern Left abandoned equality before the law — so the victims of crime suffered

00:00:00.240 Hello, my friends. If you only consume mainstream media, you will not have heard about the case of the beautiful Ukrainian refugee murdered on a North Carolina train.

00:00:09.640 I want to talk to you about that and relate it to a terrible stabbing in Manitoba.

00:00:14.440 I think there's something in common, and it's race. 0.61

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00:01:07.340 Tonight, it's very hard to talk about race and crime, but sometimes I think we have to. 0.99

00:01:27.680 Let me give you two examples.

00:01:29.740 It's September 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:32.020 You're fighting for freedom!

00:01:35.080 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.55

00:01:47.680 Racism is wrong for a few reasons. 0.54

00:01:50.060 It denies that each of us carries within us a spark of God.

00:01:53.600 It denies people their own identity and personality, replacing it with a collective blame.

00:02:00.240 I think it can sometimes enable the racist to scapegoat his own flaws and failures on others as a group.

00:02:07.060 One of the problems with mass immigration, which we have in Canada right now, truly insane numbers, ten times what the country can possibly absorb, is that it creates racism where I don't think any existed before.

00:02:19.780 I think Canadians were very tolerant, very hospitable, very friendly towards newcomers until it was turned into a hurricane, wrecking so many of the things that made Canada a great place to live.

00:02:29.760 Let me say more plainly, by mass migration, that has caused so many problems that it has created animosity between peoples. 0.97

00:02:40.460 And race has been a shorthand for it, since the vast majority of migrants are visible minorities.

00:02:46.240 I blame Justin Trudeau for the racism in Canada today.

00:02:49.800 That's what I'm saying.

00:02:50.900 He caused it.

00:02:52.280 Now, I prefer not to take race into account for things.

00:02:54.640 I prefer to be race-blind, make race-blind decisions in life.

00:02:57.800 The classic statue of justice being that blindfolded woman holding a scale. 0.98

00:03:07.200 I think the point there is just way the relevant factors in this dispute do not bring race or other things into it.

00:03:15.180 That's the whole blind justice thing.

00:03:17.480 But here's the point.

00:03:19.240 That colorblindness, that Martin Luther King approach to race, it's gone.

00:03:24.880 It's been gone for a generation, and it was the left that removed it.

00:03:30.340 The sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

00:03:39.780 I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

00:04:01.560 Because I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

00:04:16.840 I have a dream today.

00:04:18.860 I remember seeing a wonderful clip on 60 Minutes some years ago.

00:04:22.460 Tell me a Hollywood star who would say this today.

00:04:25.840 Black History Month, you find... 0.99

00:04:28.940 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:04:30.180 Why? 0.97

00:04:31.460 You're going to relegate my history to a month?

00:04:34.040 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:04:34.600 What do you do with yours?

00:04:36.900 Which month is White History Month? 0.88

00:04:39.540 Well, come on.

00:04:41.040 Tell me.

00:04:41.700 Well, I'm Jewish.

00:04:45.500 Okay.

00:04:46.280 Which month is Jewish History Month?

00:04:47.920 There isn't one.

00:04:49.060 Oh.

00:04:50.320 Oh.

00:04:51.160 Why not?

00:04:51.820 Yeah.

00:04:52.300 Do you want one?

00:04:53.220 No, no.

00:04:53.920 No.

00:04:54.060 I don't either.

00:04:55.840 I don't want a Black History Month. 1.00

00:04:59.940 Black History is American history. 0.54

00:05:02.140 How are we going to get rid of racism and...

00:05:04.620 Stop talking about it.

00:05:08.120 I'm going to stop calling you a white man.

00:05:11.680 Yeah. 0.97

00:05:12.480 And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

00:05:17.000 I know you as Mike Wallace.

00:05:18.640 You know me as Morgan Freeman.

00:05:20.000 You want to say, I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.

00:05:23.660 You know what I'm saying?

00:05:24.280 I think the world really was becoming race blind more and more, at least America was, 0.98

00:05:31.620 until the turn of the century.

00:05:33.140 And weirdly, it was Barack Obama whose election proved that America was beyond race.

00:05:38.800 It was Obama who chose not to bury it as an issue, but to weaponize it.

00:05:44.580 Think about it.

00:05:45.140 Obama won, not once, but twice in a row.

00:05:47.120 He won an enormous number of white votes, obviously.

00:05:50.040 He did something in America that has never been done in the UK or France or Italy or Germany or China or Russia.

00:05:56.860 He won a popular vote as a minority.

00:05:59.920 But instead of using that as proof that race no longer divided America, he wielded it as a weapon through the Black Lives Matter, 0.99

00:06:08.080 street riots and extreme political moments like the death of George Floyd.

00:06:13.440 Obama did not heal wounds.

00:06:14.920 He poured salt into them for his own political benefit.

00:06:18.960 I tell you all this to say that I preferred the race blind days. 1.00

00:06:22.860 I preferred the 80s and 90s where people were working on harmony, not division.

00:06:28.420 But those are long gone.

00:06:29.500 Now we're in extremely racial days, DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion.

00:06:35.140 It's in full flight in Canada.

00:06:37.080 I mean, the new medical school at this university used to be called Ryerson, now they call it TMU, Toronto Metropolitan University.

00:06:44.280 They're starting a new medical school there, and it is explicitly a racial quota medical school, a DEI school.

00:06:50.800 I just hope people don't D-I-E because of it, but they will. 1.00

00:06:55.200 Just like people have died in a variety of recent plane crashes by DEI female pilots who were promoted, not for their skill, but to make a political point. 1.00

00:07:07.180 I don't care about the race of my doctor, if they're the best at doctoring.

00:07:11.960 What I've been saying for the past five minutes is that I don't want to talk about race.

00:07:15.800 It's not the Canadian way. 0.59

00:07:17.120 When I grew up, there was a societal effort to get to equality before the law.

00:07:21.520 But the left decided to use race as a stand-in for class in their Marxist worldview.

00:07:28.000 They deployed cultural Marxism, where other characteristics were forced into the oppressor-oppressor template.

00:07:35.020 So it wasn't oppressive capitalists wearing top hats versus the oppressed workers anymore.

00:07:40.220 It was oppressive men versus oppressed women in radical feminism. 0.93

00:07:44.540 It was oppressive white people versus oppressed minorities in racial Marxism, etc.

00:07:52.220 It was a new way to radicalize people, to divide them, to conquer them.

00:07:56.480 Saying this reminds me of the speech excerpt by Catherine Burble saying,

00:07:59.840 a teacher in the United Kingdom with an almost completely minority race school.

00:08:05.120 Here she is saying that slavery was not a racial thing.

00:08:08.160 And it was not a white thing.

00:08:10.120 It was a people thing.

00:08:11.360 An everyone thing.

00:08:12.620 That slavery was not about race.

00:08:14.720 And it's important.

00:08:15.280 It was not about race.

00:08:16.420 The only reason we think it's about race is because philosophers like David Hume in the 18th century

00:08:20.480 ranked human beings and put Africans at the bottom, saying that they had no souls.

00:08:24.840 The Enlightenment imposed the concept of race on a practice that had been going on for centuries

00:08:29.500 in order to justify that practice.

00:08:32.300 And why did they have to justify it?

00:08:34.040 And this is the point.

00:08:35.500 Because people in the West began to question slavery's moral validity.

00:08:39.580 The fact is that people of all colors owned slaves, both as part of the Atlantic slave

00:08:44.140 trade and outside of it.

00:08:45.440 In the United States and Caribbean black people, black people owned thousands of black slaves.

00:08:49.980 And so did the Native Americans. 0.92

00:08:51.520 Nearly 20,000 of the Native American five civilized tribes sided with the Confederacy during the

00:08:56.620 Civil War, fighting to keep slavery alive.

00:08:59.120 28% of the black population who were free in New Orleans pledged their support to the Confederacy.

00:09:03.660 All of the 13 southern states of the Confederacy had substantial numbers of black slave owners.

00:09:09.440 There were more than 250,000 free blacks, and nearly 4,000 of them were slave masters,

00:09:15.300 who owned more than 20,000 slaves.

00:09:18.620 The practice of slavery was legal, after all. 0.99

00:09:22.060 We need to remember that governments did not own slaves.

00:09:25.260 Slave owners did. 1.00

00:09:26.320 In fact, the U.S. government fought a war to end slavery.

00:09:29.020 How much should the descendants of the 400,000 Union soldiers who lost their lives fighting

00:09:34.680 to free the slaves pay to the descendants of the slaves they freed?

00:09:38.980 It's bizarre to suggest that human beings should inherit the outrage of the deeds of

00:09:42.660 their parents.

00:09:44.000 Should the child of a mass murderer be sent to prison because of his father's crime?

00:09:48.020 No.

00:09:49.000 In America, in the Maine, it was the Democrats who owned slaves. 0.59

00:09:52.900 And the Democrats who in the Maine passed and enforced Jim Crow laws.

00:09:56.360 It was also the Democrats who founded the Ku Klux Klan. 0.78

00:09:59.820 Should the current Democratic Party be held responsible for this?

00:10:02.820 No.

00:10:03.500 We do not inherit the sins of our fathers.

00:10:05.840 Here's the great Thomas Sowell making similar points.

00:10:08.780 Slavery has been a universal institution for thousands of years, as far back as you can

00:10:15.820 trace human history.

00:10:17.320 And what we're looking at is if slavery is something that happened to one race of people

00:10:20.980 in one country, when in fact the spread of it was around the world.

00:10:26.440 And in 1776, which is when Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nation, as well as when the United

00:10:31.300 States got started, he said that Western Europe is the only place in the world where there is

00:10:36.420 no slavery.

00:10:37.060 And even the Western Europeans had vast numbers of slaves in the Western Hemisphere, but not

00:10:41.520 in Western Europe itself.

00:10:42.880 And so if you're going to have reparations for slavery, it's going to be the greatest

00:10:47.260 transfer of wealth back and forth.

00:10:49.660 Because the number of whites, for example, who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary

00:10:54.820 pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies

00:11:01.500 before that put together.

00:11:02.740 But nobody is going to North Africa to ask for reparations because nobody is going to be 0.52

00:11:07.100 fool enough to give it to them. 0.68

00:11:08.660 You know, the Bible, the Koran, they're full of stories about slaves. 0.99

00:11:13.100 It was accepted.

00:11:14.480 It was normal.

00:11:15.200 It wasn't racial.

00:11:16.660 There was racism in every place in the world.

00:11:21.080 And I think of all this because of two racial crimes in the past week.

00:11:24.860 Absolutely shocking crimes.

00:11:26.380 The first, a mass stabbing in Manitoba.

00:11:29.100 Now I had a sinking feeling in my bones about what happened when I first heard about the mass

00:11:34.020 killing or stabbing rather.

00:11:36.040 And I also knew that if I was right about what was going on, the story would soon be

00:11:40.720 buried out of the news cycle immediately.

00:11:42.940 Did you hear about it even?

00:11:44.800 Let me read a story from Global News.

00:11:47.000 This is how they covered it.

00:11:48.100 And this was pretty much the last they'll say about it.

00:11:50.500 Man who killed sister in Manitoba mass stabbing was out on bail.

00:11:57.120 Court records.

00:11:58.140 How terrible is that?

00:11:59.300 So sad.

00:11:59.920 So infuriating.

00:12:00.620 Let me read a bit.

00:12:01.260 The man police say killed his sister and attacked several others with a knife on Hollow Water

00:12:05.880 First Nation in Manitoba was out on bail.

00:12:09.980 Court records show 26-year-old Tyrone Simard was charged with assault with a weapon and

00:12:14.800 mischief for alleged offenses that happened June 8th.

00:12:18.460 The records show a Winnipeg court granted his release June 12th with various conditions,

00:12:23.680 including a curfew and an order not to use drugs or alcohol or possess weapons.

00:12:28.100 RCMP say Simard stabbed eight people at two homes on the First Nation northeast of Winnipeg

00:12:37.140 on Thursday.

00:12:38.560 His 18-year-old sister died and the others are in hospital.

00:12:42.500 Mounties say Simard fled in a stolen vehicle and died in a highway crash with an RCMP cruiser.

00:12:49.560 Absolutely shocking and horrible.

00:12:51.800 He killed his own sister.

00:12:53.600 Have you heard about this concept, missing and murdered indigenous women?

00:12:57.640 And it's a phrase used so often that it has its own acronym, MMIW.

00:13:02.560 And it's true, indigenous women are missing and murdered.

00:13:05.800 But the RCMP has studied the phenomenon exhaustively.

00:13:09.440 Go online and Google it and read their extremely detailed reports.

00:13:13.080 The first thing you'll learn is that far from ignoring these murders, police investigate

00:13:17.400 them thoroughly.

00:13:18.640 And they lay charges at the same rate as they do with white women. 1.00

00:13:22.040 But let me quote from one of those painful RCMP reports.

00:13:26.900 I mean, they have them every year, but here's one.

00:13:29.640 Look at this chart.

00:13:31.040 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, they're comparing the stats here.

00:13:36.380 In both white women and Aboriginal women, most homicide victims knew their murderers.

00:13:42.700 You probably could guess that.

00:13:44.320 And that's horrible, isn't it?

00:13:45.540 But in the case of Indigenous women, 41% of murder victims, 41% were killed by their spouses.

00:13:55.800 29% is the stat for white women. 1.00

00:13:59.580 Other family members, it's about equal, 23-24%.

00:14:03.000 Fewer than 10% of women are murdered by complete strangers, same with both white and Indigenous

00:14:10.620 women. 0.81

00:14:10.980 And let me read this terrible note to you.

00:14:13.300 Again, I'm just telling you about the stats of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

00:14:17.520 This heading is Previous History of Family Violence.

00:14:20.720 In cases of homicide where the offender and the victim are in a familial relationship, investigators

00:14:26.520 are asked to note on the homicide survey whether they were aware of any previous history of

00:14:32.820 violence between the two.

00:14:34.400 More often, they cited a known history of previous family violence, which may or may not have been

00:14:39.420 reported to police, between Aboriginal female victims and their offenders than their non-Aboriginal

00:14:45.440 female counterparts. 0.99

00:14:46.360 62% compared to 43%.

00:14:48.800 Why am I telling you that?

00:14:51.320 I'm telling you that most, most Indigenous murder victims are killed at the hands of someone

00:15:00.120 they know, including their family. 0.83

00:15:01.780 And I'm telling you that because the solution to this, by guilty white liberal politicians

00:15:08.780 and judges, when an Indigenous man is arrested for violence against women, including against

00:15:14.260 their own family members, the white liberal solution is to let them out on bail or an extremely

00:15:20.420 short sentence.

00:15:22.140 Anything else would be racist, you see.

00:15:23.720 Sure, but by releasing them back into the community, they put the women at risk of violence 1.00

00:15:29.380 again.

00:15:30.100 62% of murdered Indigenous women were attacked before by the same man.

00:15:37.100 See my point about the do-gooders who want to reduce sentences for Indigenous criminals based 0.89

00:15:41.560 on race?

00:15:43.100 Which literally every judge in Canada is commanded to do now since the Glad You Accord case. 0.95

00:15:48.500 And now liberals are proposing to do that with every single black criminal. 1.00

00:15:52.340 That's part of the Liberal Party's Black Justice Plan.

00:15:56.120 They're not just politicizing and weaponizing racism.

00:15:59.340 They are legalizing it.

00:16:00.920 They're putting it into the legal system.

00:16:02.760 They would say to do otherwise is to be harsh to minority criminals.

00:16:06.360 Yes, I suppose.

00:16:07.460 And it would be kind to their victims, though, like Tyrone Simard's sister.

00:16:12.080 Who do you choose?

00:16:14.840 In the U.S., the media prefers to focus on police brutality, such as the case of George Floyd.

00:16:20.120 But a shocking murder happened in a North Carolina train just a couple days ago.

00:16:24.800 A Ukrainian refugee who fled the war there gets on the train and a serial criminal sits 1.00

00:16:32.140 down behind her, complete stranger, completely random, unprovoked.

00:16:36.020 And he just takes out a knife and murders her. 0.88

00:16:39.660 Watch this video.

00:16:40.580 Obviously, the killing part is not shown here.

00:16:43.260 But look at him dripping blood on the floor afterwards.

00:16:46.060 And other people on the train don't seem to know.

00:16:48.460 It's so shocking.

00:16:49.800 If you don't want to see that, close your eyes for the next minute.

00:16:52.800 And then, close your eyes for the next minute.

00:17:22.800 Oh, boy.

00:17:24.800 Oh, boy.

00:17:29.060 He's got that light going.

00:17:31.360 He's got that light going. 1.00

00:17:34.780 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:17:35.840 Come on, bro. 1.00

00:17:37.580 Come on.

00:17:38.060 How do you think he's got it, bro?

00:17:40.180 What do you got?

00:17:44.960 All right.

00:17:46.460 I said, we can put a real hand on the hand and turn.

00:17:49.800 Huh?

00:17:50.960 Say, what?

00:17:51.440 The woman's name was Irina Zarutska, who happens to be beautiful and white. 1.00

00:17:56.700 And the accused murderer was DeCarlos Brown, Jr., repeat offender, repeatedly bailed, arrested 0.63

00:18:03.540 countless times, happens to be black. 0.62

00:18:07.340 Have you heard about this shocking murder? 0.95

00:18:09.880 I mean, Ukraine is in the news these days a lot.

00:18:12.760 A Ukrainian refugee murdered in America.

00:18:14.440 I think that meets the test for shocking news.

00:18:17.560 But the racial angle is too unpleasant for the leftist narrative and too contrary to how liberals view the world.

00:18:26.240 Do you doubt that if a black woman were murdered by a white man that it would be front page news on The New York Times?

00:18:31.220 Here's Donald Trump on the news. 0.79

00:18:32.480 I've made clear Attorney General Pam Bondi is working really hard that we must get answers about the causes of these repeated attacks.

00:18:41.920 And we're working very, very hard on that.

00:18:44.120 The Trump administration will have no tolerance for terrorism or political violence.

00:18:49.100 And that includes hate crimes against Christians, Jews, or anybody else.

00:18:52.680 We're not going to allow it.

00:18:53.440 And there was also a horrible killing recently in Charlotte, where I talked about, and so many others.

00:19:03.760 And we will, we're going to get to the end of it.

00:19:07.260 And, you know, when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions.

00:19:11.920 And the actions that we take are nothing.

00:19:14.000 We, this cashless bail started a wave in our country where a killer kills somebody and is out on the street by the afternoon.

00:19:23.200 In many cases, going out and killing again.

00:19:26.200 Now, this is all American.

00:19:27.480 So maybe Canadian news might not have an interest in reporting it, though.

00:19:31.120 I think it's newsworthy.

00:19:32.900 But then I typed in the words George Floyd, in quotes, in the CBC website.

00:19:38.220 And the CBC apparently, and I find this a little bit hard to believe, but actually completely plausible.

00:19:45.460 10,000 stories about George Floyd on the CBC.

00:19:50.360 10,000.

00:19:52.520 Now, I want justice to be blind.

00:19:54.400 I don't want to prejudge people based on race.

00:19:56.980 I don't want to weaponize race.

00:19:58.860 I don't want to fall into the collectivist mindset of condemning some people or rewarding some people based on skin color, based on a collective decision.

00:20:06.560 Oh, I don't know you, but I know people like you.

00:20:09.160 So I'm going to judge you as a collective punishment or something.

00:20:12.060 I don't want to dredge up past quarrels to be resolved today with some reverse racism either.

00:20:16.580 But the left has done all these things in America and in Canada, too.

00:20:20.740 Donald Trump is actually trying to undo DEI policies in his country.

00:20:25.280 I mean, good luck.

00:20:26.180 They're deeply entrenched up here, too.

00:20:28.940 And the place they're entrenched the most deeply, I hate to say it, is in the mind of young people.

00:20:35.100 Stay with us for more.

00:20:36.560 Well, it is not just custom.

00:20:47.200 It is a charter right to a speedy trial.

00:20:51.020 And there's a reason for that.

00:20:52.200 If you are accused by the state of an offense, you're stressed out by it.

00:20:58.080 You have to hire lawyers.

00:20:59.580 Your life is disrupted.

00:21:01.200 You may even be in custody.

00:21:02.640 And more than that, there's the stigma that you are accused.

00:21:06.620 So you must have done something.

00:21:09.700 Knowing this, our charter framers have a right to a speedy trial.

00:21:14.380 And typically in a criminal court setting in a place like Ontario, that means within two or three years at the most, your matter must go to trial.

00:21:24.440 Now, if you as the suspect, the defendant, the accused are the one responsible for endless delays, the judge will say, oh, no, you can't delay your way out of it.

00:21:33.740 But if the delays are in the hands of the prosecution, well, then that's their problem.

00:21:39.520 And, you know, since COVID times, there has been a huge backlog still to this day because the courts essentially shut down other than for the most emergency matters.

00:21:49.580 And so you have to wonder, is it a high priority for the public to see old tickets and old trucker convoy prosecutions proceed?

00:22:00.580 Or should we put those aside and deal with more critical matters?

00:22:03.900 Well, you know, the answer to that in Ontario, at least Doug Ford, the premier, has decided that pursuing Tamara Leach is the most important thing on the public docket.

00:22:13.580 We were not in Ottawa court today and neither was Tamara Leach, but there were some very interesting matters.

00:22:20.140 And I'd like to introduce you to an online commentator and streamer and Twitterer.

00:22:27.060 His name is Jean Villeneuve.

00:22:28.840 He goes by Right Blend online and he joins us now.

00:22:33.720 I can see that telltale Ottawa courthouse behind him.

00:22:37.560 I'm going to call you John, although I love the nickname Right Blend.

00:22:41.720 And, John, tell us a little bit about what was going on in the court today, reminding that it's three and a half years since the convoy.

00:22:50.160 Yeah, absolutely.

00:22:51.320 It has been quite a long time for Mr. Shaba, who is waiting to go to trial.

00:22:56.080 He's not going to trial just yet.

00:22:57.660 These are the pretrial motions that are now in process.

00:23:01.020 And it was a pretty eventful day.

00:23:02.580 We also had another Freedom Convoy matter, Mr. Robert Donnell, who was actually having his case stayed.

00:23:09.000 There was some arguments or points made by the judge about the delays in his trial being the fault of the Crown.

00:23:15.920 And I have that on good authority.

00:23:17.380 I wasn't personally in the room for Mr. Donnell's case as it coincided with Shaba's proceeding.

00:23:22.820 But it's certainly good news to be shared today.

00:23:26.300 And for Mr. Shaba, he has a long road ahead in this.

00:23:30.020 As you know, he's almost three years into this now.

00:23:33.240 And there are certainly more important matters for the court to be spending its precious time on rather than a man who parked a truck and honked a horn in Ottawa.

00:23:41.280 Yeah.

00:23:41.600 Well, first of all, the fact that there are so many trucker cases in this Ottawa courthouse that you can't even cover them all because they're at the same time.

00:23:50.940 That goes to my point about it's incredible to me that three and a half years later, the government thinks this is the best way to use reason.

00:23:59.060 Ottawa has a crime wave, but they're focusing on getting each last trucker.

00:24:04.460 It's incredible.

00:24:05.160 Let's just talk briefly about Robert Donnell.

00:24:07.420 So he was a protester and from a colleague you had in his room, basically, the judge went through and said delay after delay was on the fall of the prosecution.

00:24:18.060 And he said, you're free to go.

00:24:21.180 And happy birthday.

00:24:22.720 Apparently, it was the birthday of Robert Donnell.

00:24:24.980 So that is a very happy birthday, President, isn't it?

00:24:28.580 Absolutely.

00:24:29.060 And my sources were very clear to indicate that the judge spent particular time putting notice on the Crown that they were responsible for these delays and that this is basically not acceptable.

00:24:42.360 As you said, we have a right to speedy trial and then staying the proceeding.

00:24:46.620 And as he was on his way out the door, the judge said, it is your birthday today.

00:24:50.760 Happy birthday.

00:24:51.300 And you're free to go.

00:24:52.240 So they were very clear that the judge spent quite a lot of time highlighting just how long this has taken and how it was the fault of the Crown to get here.

00:25:00.620 You know, and I got to say, I don't know the details of Mr. Donnell's case, but even being put through the ringer for three and a half years, the process is the punishment.

00:25:09.980 Now, the case that you sat in on, it's a freedom trucker, and I hope I'm saying it right, Chabavizzi.

00:25:17.700 And it's not surprising to me to learn that he's from a former communist country, namely Romania, which had one of the most repressive communist regimes.

00:25:27.820 It was my observation during the trucker convoy and during other COVID protests, I heard a disproportionate number of Eastern European accents wherever I went.

00:25:37.520 People from the former Soviet Union, people from Poland, people from Romania.

00:25:42.640 These were people who were not freed until, I suppose, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, or at least their parents were.

00:25:51.280 So they're one or two generations closer to tyranny than most of us.

00:25:56.580 In fact, most of us who grew up in Canada don't even know what tyranny is like.

00:26:00.140 So it doesn't surprise me that someone who grew up under a communist system would defy the government in Canada when it comes to lockdowns.

00:26:10.620 Yeah, absolutely. I was just going to mention that myself.

00:26:13.640 I'm glad that you brought it up.

00:26:14.780 During the convoy, I personally noticed quite a few different Romanian and Eastern European flags,

00:26:19.660 and I came to the same conclusions that you did.

00:26:21.820 These are people who are intimately familiar, either directly or through their parents or grandparents,

00:26:26.140 with how these things tend to go, and my thinking is that they saw the path our country was on and is still on

00:26:32.740 and were alarmed by it and decided to stand up to it.

00:26:36.020 And I think that they were more willing to do that because they understand the consequences of inaction.

00:26:40.780 If you don't act, then you're going to spend the rest of your life regretting it.

00:26:44.780 I think so.

00:26:45.460 And they did it peacefully.

00:26:47.080 They did it with numbers, and they provided a voice for their entire community and for all Canadians.

00:26:52.520 And they joined the large group of people who had come together in Ottawa to tell our government,

00:26:56.940 to tell Justin Trudeau, that enough was enough, and it's time to give us our rights and freedoms back.

00:27:01.620 You know, you have to go quite far to motivate a lot of Canadians to get to that point.

00:27:05.840 And it's a stark reminder of how bad things were at that time.

00:27:09.640 Small businesses being shut down, large businesses being allowed to continue and to operate,

00:27:14.300 everyone losing their livelihoods, coursing the vaccine.

00:27:17.900 It was a terrible time, and I'm just so glad that people like Chaba were able to come to Ottawa 0.89

00:27:22.580 and to be part of this movement to liberate our country.

00:27:25.720 Let me read from one of your tweets today.

00:27:27.700 You said, after years of government overreach, Chaba Vizzi decided to take a stand and join fellow truckers in Ottawa.

00:27:33.840 And you said, thousands of people expressed gratitude to him on the streets of Ottawa,

00:27:38.700 and he promised them that he would never leave until freedom was restored.

00:27:41.900 He kept that promise and even endured a beating from police while doing so.

00:27:49.020 He's charged with mischief, disobeying a court order, and resisting arrest.

00:27:53.520 So tell me what facts you heard.

00:27:56.740 And I'm not sure if it was a pre-trial hearing or what exactly was going on.

00:28:02.140 It was. It's a defense motion.

00:28:03.880 Do we know what the facts are?

00:28:06.500 Like, was he beaten up when they say he's charged with resisting arrest?

00:28:09.780 It could be, but it could be that's just how the police framed beating the tar out of a guy

00:28:15.900 because that's what they did during the trucker convoy.

00:28:20.580 Yeah, his case was the most egregious case of police brutality that I can bring to my mind.

00:28:26.940 I think most of your viewers will be familiar with the infamous video of him in that square at Metcalf and Wellington

00:28:35.960 being held down by a group of police officers while another flew his knee into him repeatedly.

00:28:41.560 I know Chaba had made statements in the past in documentaries and such saying that he was quite injured from that,

00:28:46.480 and I can imagine he was if you just remember that visceral video.

00:28:50.520 Now, the charges, as I'm hearing from another reliable source, same one who was in the court this morning,

00:28:56.360 I was about an hour late.

00:28:57.680 They said that two of the charges were withdrawn by the Crown, I believe, so I'll have to double-check on that,

00:29:03.580 but it seems pretty reliable.

00:29:05.400 But right now what's happening is defense counsel Diane Magus, who also represents Chris Barber in his trial,

00:29:11.580 made a defense motion to say basically that his character section 8 and 9 rights,

00:29:16.680 his right to not have an unreasonable search and seizure and not to be unduly arrested, were violated.

00:29:22.280 And it basically, from my understanding, stems around the incidents of how they obtained his name,

00:29:28.400 at which point they got his documents, the questions about his truck.

00:29:32.620 And in the order in which that was done, there may have been some issues with note-taking.

00:29:36.400 A lot of the afternoon testimony from a police officer was about that,

00:29:41.640 was about duty notes and investigative actions and what they call spot notes,

00:29:48.120 from where one group of police officers takes custody of another person in a large event of arrest,

00:29:54.040 like we saw during the public order arrests at the Freedom Convoy.

00:29:57.960 And basically the summary of that is the notes were terrible.

00:30:00.780 It seems that whenever a detail that would have been convenient to defense was asked about,

00:30:06.080 the officer's memory was maybe not so great, but all of a sudden he could remember the exact,

00:30:11.540 this is hyperbole, but he could recall what he had for lunch that day,

00:30:14.860 but he can't recall this or that, right, when it's not convenient to the Crown or the police.

00:30:19.440 Well, I remember that video of the cop just going after the guy with his knee,

00:30:23.760 and I think a lot of people saw that and they felt sick to their stomach

00:30:27.560 and they thought, what the heck is happening in Canada?

00:30:30.400 I'm glad he's got a lawyer.

00:30:31.720 I don't know Diane Magus well, but I know she is defending Chris Barber,

00:30:35.780 who is the co-defendant with Tamerly.

00:30:37.620 So I've seen her in action.

00:30:39.240 And I think she's a fairly seasoned lawyer.

00:30:41.720 I don't know her.

00:30:44.540 I haven't interacted with her.

00:30:46.220 It's interesting to me that the cops are pressing so hard on this,

00:30:50.580 and it makes me think maybe they're going by that aphorism,

00:30:54.040 the best defense is a good offense.

00:30:57.160 So this guy, Chabavizzi, probably has a claim against the police for false arrest,

00:31:05.100 for police brutality.

00:31:06.520 So maybe they're trying to muddy the waters by saying, no, no, no, no, no.

00:31:10.280 You're the one who kept hitting that officer's knee with your back or something.

00:31:16.900 Like, I shouldn't laugh.

00:31:17.960 It's not funny at all.

00:31:18.960 But the fact that they're going so hard against him suggests that, you know,

00:31:23.040 maybe they're after justice or maybe they're after the opposite.

00:31:26.200 Maybe they're after pushing him on his back feet.

00:31:30.280 Because that guy, judging by that video, he's got a hell of a lawsuit against the police.

00:31:36.540 But if they convict him, then I can't imagine his police brutality lawsuit winning.

00:31:43.360 But if he's acquitted, they're in some trouble.

00:31:47.380 I think this is a strategic prosecution.

00:31:50.280 Because if they can get a conviction on him, then his police brutality claim gets weaker.

00:31:56.540 Let me ask you a question, John.

00:31:57.880 Is this continuing tomorrow or when?

00:32:00.520 Do you know when the next court date is?

00:32:02.480 I really am glad that you're there and that your friend is there.

00:32:05.400 We sometimes send a reporter to Ottawa, too.

00:32:08.720 I got to say, I'm glad you were there because we couldn't be there today.

00:32:13.220 Does this continue tomorrow or what's going forward?

00:32:17.100 Yes, it continues tomorrow.

00:32:18.560 The day ended a little bit early.

00:32:20.280 It seems that we're well ahead of schedule.

00:32:22.520 I'd just like to quickly mention that the witness that we heard from in the afternoon,

00:32:25.660 Detective Dio, I think it is, Ann Dia.

00:32:28.460 Can't really say that name properly.

00:32:30.120 But he wasn't originally going to testify.

00:32:32.920 But Diane Magus successfully argued to the judge that he should be to testify and that she should 0.99

00:32:38.600 be allowed to ask leading questions of him.

00:32:40.720 So we're in a vore dure right now.

00:32:42.580 And ultimately, the judge agreed with Miss Magus and compelled the officer to testify and

00:32:47.520 allowed Miss Magus to ask leading questions in her chief.

00:32:51.220 As you know, that's not typically in chief.

00:32:53.060 You can't do that.

00:32:53.860 So she was able to do that because it would have otherwise damaged her defense.

00:32:58.740 And right now, again, we're going through a preliminary pretrial motion of a charter issue

00:33:03.440 here of a few charter issues going forward.

00:33:06.240 There's going to be court tomorrow.

00:33:07.580 We're done with that witness, that detective.

00:33:09.940 And we're moving on to arguments tomorrow.

00:33:12.600 And that's what's on tap.

00:33:14.520 Well, this is very interesting.

00:33:16.020 And I have heard of the name Chabavizzi.

00:33:18.800 I haven't followed the case.

00:33:20.200 I'm glad that we caught up with you, John.

00:33:22.320 And thank you for telling us what you saw and what you heard from your friend.

00:33:26.400 And I'm sympathetic to this man.

00:33:28.160 First of all, three and a half years later, really, this is a high priority for the government

00:33:32.220 of Doug Ford.

00:33:33.020 That's very disappointing.

00:33:34.420 But the more I think about it, and now that you remind me, this is the guy who got the

00:33:38.120 daylights beat out of him by police.

00:33:40.360 I think they're trying to make a point.

00:33:41.940 How dare you raise your head?

00:33:43.900 You know, I think this is a political prosecution, and I think the police are covering their

00:33:48.540 behinds.

00:33:49.680 John Villeneuve, a.k.a.

00:33:51.000 Right Blend, thanks for joining us today.

00:33:52.620 I appreciate you jamming us in and setting up the camera.

00:33:55.240 You did a great job, by the way.

00:33:56.500 It's crystal clear.

00:33:57.460 Thanks very much.

00:33:58.820 Thanks for having me.

00:33:59.620 All right.

00:33:59.940 There he is, John Villeneuve.

00:34:01.020 You can follow him on Twitter, or X, as it's now known, at Right Blend.

00:34:06.860 Stay with us.

00:34:07.580 More ahead.

00:34:08.020 Hey, welcome back.

00:34:18.520 Your letters to me.

00:34:20.260 On Temporary Foreign Workers, SG says, maybe it is more accurate to say that E.B. wants

00:34:26.860 to be seen as opposing cheap foreign labor, but he still wants it very much, just like

00:34:30.660 Carney.

00:34:31.660 It's not going to get cut off.

00:34:33.360 This is comparable to E.B. saying he wants to help reduce drug crime, violent crime, crime

00:34:37.480 against women, crime against children, build ferries in Canada, and so on.

00:34:41.000 It's very insincere and not backed up by action.

00:34:43.860 You're right.

00:34:44.620 I don't believe him.

00:34:45.720 But the fact that he is a new Democrat premier feels the need to at least say it, says that

00:34:50.980 maybe he can see which way the wind is blowing.

00:34:53.060 So far, not Mark Carney.

00:34:55.920 I see you boo says axing it isn't enough.

00:34:59.120 Deportation needs to happen.

00:35:00.640 Well, that's the thing.

00:35:01.660 I mean, I think there are 5 million people in Canada who have overstayed either their work

00:35:06.080 visa or their student visa or their fake refugees. 0.99

00:35:09.280 I think if you mass deported them, even if you only made a dent in that, first of all,

00:35:14.380 you would send a signal, no more people coming here.

00:35:17.720 Like there is literally zero people sneaking across the Mexican border into the States now.

00:35:23.140 So first of all, stop the digging.

00:35:25.060 Second of all, mass deportations.

00:35:27.680 Do not let more people simply walk across the border into Canada from New York at the,

00:35:33.600 it's not called Roxham Road anymore, but there's a crossing there.

00:35:37.720 Control Feek says young Canadians need to start their own small business and not rely on corporations.

00:35:44.180 Well, listen, a corporation just means it's a legal structure for a company.

00:35:49.280 A small business is often a corporation.

00:35:53.100 Some big corporations do not use foreign workers.

00:35:55.860 I don't think Costco does.

00:35:57.900 They pay living wages.

00:36:00.040 And I'm not a communist, I'm not a class warrior, but I think maybe things are out of joint.

00:36:05.720 And I think if the fulcrum moved a little bit more away from these big international companies driving down wages

00:36:13.160 and it moved a little bit more towards workers, I would be fine by that.

00:36:16.620 I don't like what's going to happen to our country when young people can't afford to buy a house, 1.00

00:36:20.680 can't afford to get married, can't afford to have kids.

00:36:23.260 I don't care about the profits of Tim Hortons.

00:36:25.260 They're not even Canadians anyways. 0.71

00:36:26.960 They used to be a long time ago.

00:36:28.340 Now they're owned by a Brazilian hedge fund company.

00:36:30.920 I mean, to heck with them.

00:36:32.760 It's tough times, but, and I wish that Pierre Pauly have talked about this a year ago or six months ago.

00:36:38.320 Maybe he'd be prime minister now if he had.

00:36:41.820 That's our news for today.

00:36:43.520 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:36:47.700 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:36:49.600 Let's go.

00:36:58.600 Let's go.

00:36:58.900 Let's go.

00:36:59.160 Let's do it.

00:36:59.740 Let's go.

00:36:59.780 Let's go.

Rebel News Podcast - September 05, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Modern Left abandoned equality before the law — so the victims of crime suffered

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