Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The National Post refuses to publish ad critical of mass immigration

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. You know, I tried to buy an ad, a full page ad in the National Post. I was

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00:01:37.520 Tonight, no one voted for more immigration, so why can't we vote against it? It's April 24th and this

00:01:44.980 is the Ezra LeVant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:02:01.580 It's just four days until election day. I voted in the riding of York Center four months ago. That

00:02:07.400 was going to be a slam dunk to get rid of Ya'ara Sachs, the self-hating Jew who embraced the 1.00

00:02:13.080 Palestinian terrorist, Mahmoud Abbas. I still think she's going to lose to Roman Baber, the former 0.97

00:02:18.020 provincial PC who was booted out of Doug Ford's party because he very carefully and very politely

00:02:23.960 questioned COVID mania. But now it's going to be very close. I'm pleased to say that our third party

00:02:31.080 group for Canada has deployed the truck in that neighborhood. And just today I did a robocall,

00:02:37.560 a personal message I recorded and sent to the entire riding by phone. Hopefully that will make

00:02:43.060 a dent. It's close though, but I don't think it's as bleak as the media makes it out to be. There

00:02:47.920 really is an information operation going on right now. Did you see this story in the Globe and Mail

00:02:54.380 headline, Poliev may lose his Ottawa area riding as liberals poised to sweep the region.

00:03:02.320 Really? Is that true? I mean, Poliev has been MP there for ages. He probably knows everybody.

00:03:10.360 Last election, he won by 20%. I checked and that district, Carlton, has voted conservative every

00:03:19.000 single time since Confederation with the exception of a two-year liberal MP in the 60s.

00:03:25.860 Sir John A. MacDonald was an MP there once. I'm not saying that can't change.

00:03:32.320 But you tell me what you think of this. Let me quote from this story.

00:03:35.760 Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is at risk of losing his Ottawa area riding as the party scrambles

00:03:41.140 to send in volunteers to save the seat he has held since 2004, two federal and two provincial

00:03:47.360 conservative sources say. Provincial? I'll come back to that. The Globe is not identifying the

00:03:53.960 conservative sources, two of whom are from the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, because they were

00:03:59.000 not authorized to discuss the conservative campaign or internal polling. Really. So the Ontario PCs,

00:04:05.680 you mean Doug Ford, who has been publicly undermining Pierre Poliev for weeks. Is that a news story?

00:04:12.960 Oh, and what a surprise. The Toronto Star is running the identical story, and they put four reporters on

00:04:19.360 the case. Four, you can see for yourself. Let me read a little bit from their story.

00:04:23.460 Conservatives pour resources into Pierre Poliev's riding amid fears of a tight race. The federal

00:04:28.920 Conservatives are funneling resources into Pierre Poliev's local campaign, shoring up volunteer

00:04:34.240 support in the leaders' Ottawa area riding over concerns that winning a seat is not guaranteed,

00:04:39.400 the Star has learned. It's not guaranteed, says the Star. Four reporters to tell you that little

00:04:46.960 truth. Yeah, no win is guaranteed. It's a democratic election. But look at this from way down in the

00:04:54.040 story. This is the ninth paragraph down. The Signal, the Star's polling aggregator, has listed Carleton as

00:05:02.840 a safe seat for the Conservatives. What? But they wrote the story anyways. They just buried the truth

00:05:08.940 of it nine paragraphs down. So why would the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star go so huge on this rumor?

00:05:14.740 It's not even a rumor. It's an accusation. It's a speculation from anonymous sources in bad faith.

00:05:20.660 I mean, the Ontario Tories have, for some reason, tried to destabilize Pierre Poliev since the

00:05:25.340 beginning. This story even contradicts the Star's own polling analysis. What are they doing here?

00:05:32.760 Well, they're doing it to demoralize conservative voters, of course. If Pierre Poliev will lose,

00:05:39.040 what's the point in continuing? If the polls are so huge for Mark Carney, what's the point?

00:05:44.100 Why even bother to vote? Be downbeat. Stop campaigning. Stop door knocking. Just give

00:05:50.720 up. It's a psyop, a psychological operation. Of course, the regime media couldn't be happier

00:05:57.600 to participate. They understand what's going on. Which is interesting, because every single

00:06:04.220 poll I've seen is narrowing. Remember the other day I showed you the latest 10 polls? Well,

00:06:11.540 let me show you the three polls that came out yesterday. You can see for yourself, Wikipedia,

00:06:16.360 you always have to double-check Wikipedia. But for things like this, they're useful.

00:06:20.100 They have every single poll just aggregated. And you can see that Nanos and Mainstream,

00:06:27.160 an innovative research group, they had three polls, those three companies yesterday.

00:06:32.820 Nanos and Mainstream both show pretty much the same. Conservatives at 40 and Liberals at 43.

00:06:39.380 An innovative research group actually puts the two parties in a tie at 38% each. That's quite a

00:06:48.580 difference from 43 for the Liberals. Innovative research group is also a bit different in that

00:06:54.460 it puts the NDP at 12%, which is higher than most other pollsters do. These polls are within the margin

00:07:01.520 of error now. The difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals is close enough that the polls are

00:07:07.920 essentially tied. It's the closest things have been in a month. This is a chart of all the polls,

00:07:15.200 every single one. It's the first time you can see that the gray band of confidence is touching. This

00:07:21.400 is statistical tie. First time in a month. And the trend, as you can see over the past week or so,

00:07:28.200 is towards the Conservatives. Has been for more than a week. You could call that momentum.

00:07:33.860 And we still have four days to go. Now, I'm not getting ahead of myself. I'm still pessimistic.

00:07:40.600 But it's clear that Mark Carney peaked too soon. And it's clear the media is doing everything they

00:07:46.100 possibly can to prop up Carney and knife Polly Eve in the back. Anyways, let me tell you another story.

00:07:53.500 As you know, I started a third-party group called For Canada. We've registered with Elections Canada.

00:07:57.960 We've made tons of ads and memes and videos and radio ads and mainly the Billboard truck. That's the big

00:08:04.100 thing we've used. And those robocalls I mentioned. We tried to get the best bang for the buck. So we

00:08:12.320 had ads in Western Standard and Juno and Counter Signal and I'm forgetting some. We did a ton of stuff

00:08:18.800 radio. And my rule of thumb that I said when we launched this was that I didn't want to just copy

00:08:23.980 what Pierre Pauly was doing. What's the point of that? I wanted to talk about things that even he

00:08:28.200 wouldn't or couldn't. And obviously the biggest taboo in Canadian politics, transgenderism is one 0.98

00:08:33.600 of them. But talking honestly about immigration is another one. So for our final hurrah, on Saturday, 0.86

00:08:42.280 two days from now, we contacted the National Post newspaper and got a quote for a full page,

00:08:48.700 full cover ad to be run nationwide in all their editions in their front section. I was very excited

00:08:55.680 about it. With tax, it was low five figures. That's a lot of dough to spend on one ad, but we thought it

00:09:01.920 was worth it. And I was very excited about it. And I thought, well, let's talk about immigration. It's on

00:09:07.380 everybody's mind. But still, few politicians are willing to talk candidly about it. It is a global issue,

00:09:14.100 by the way. Just today, Nigel Farage, who's actually in first place in most UK polls, he came out with a

00:09:20.720 pretty tough immigration platform that's quite bracing. Here, let me show you just a minute or two

00:09:26.320 of it. We will appoint, we will demand, this government does the same, that there is a minister

00:09:31.040 for deportations. It will be part of the Home Office, but it'll be a separate department within it.

00:09:38.760 We will need to recruit new people, as much of the evidence is that those that currently work

00:09:44.080 in the Home Office would willfully obstruct policy if we won the next general election.

00:09:50.180 But somebody somewhere in government needs to be held accountable. And, you know, you've

00:09:55.300 only got to go back 20 years to a last Labour government, and they were deporting tens of

00:09:59.900 thousands of people a year who were here illegally. When Blunkett was Home Secretary, if you came

00:10:05.440 illegally, you know, you didn't touch the sides. You were sent back. So what I'm calling

00:10:09.720 for isn't actually anything particularly radical. It's actually just common sense. It's what

00:10:15.600 most countries in the world do. You want to go and live there? You want to go and settle

00:10:20.580 there? You have to meet a set of criteria. And that country chooses, are you the right

00:10:26.420 person? Or are you not?

00:10:28.440 So that's the UK. And on Saturday, there's gonna be a huge rally against mass immigration 0.97

00:10:34.740 in Ireland. And of course, it's a big issue in France and Germany and Austria and the Netherlands.

00:10:40.200 And of course, it was the single most important campaign promise that Donald Trump made that

00:10:45.520 put him over the top in the United States. So why can't we talk about it here too? So that's

00:10:51.240 what we decided here. We made an ad about immigration entitled, Mass Immigration is on the Ballot. 0.52

00:10:58.980 The Canada we know is being obliterated by mass immigration. I'll read the ad. A million foreign 1.00

00:11:05.480 workers drive down wages, taking entry-level jobs away from Canadians. A million foreign students pay 0.99

00:11:11.040 cash to fake diploma mills and never leave. Housing prices, hospital waiting lines, even traffic. 0.89

00:11:18.620 We're in a crime wave as foreign gangs pillage our high-trust society. Anti-Semitic hate marches.

00:11:25.200 Mark Carney plans to bring in thousands more migrants from Gaza. No one voted for mass immigration.

00:11:33.680 But on Monday, you can vote against it. And then we had the required information for Canada.

00:11:41.500 I like that ad. It's not perfect, but it's good ad, I think. Get people talking a bit. So we sent

00:11:47.080 it in, assuming it would be good to go. While we were finishing up with the pictures, we sent in all

00:11:52.860 the words to their compliance lawyers. And we received a letter back. Let me read that to you.

00:12:00.320 And I'm not going to tell you who sent it to us. I don't want to embarrass anyone in particular.

00:12:04.860 But let me show you the letter we got from Post Media's lawyers.

00:12:07.500 Based on Post Media's political advertising business rules and approval process, this ad would likely be

00:12:14.700 rejected for several reasons. Content analysis. False accusations. The ad makes several claims that

00:12:21.500 could be considered false or misleading, such as foreign workers driving down wages and foreign

00:12:26.540 students attending fake diploma mills. Exploitation of fear. The ad exploits fear by linking immigration to

00:12:33.780 crime waves and anti-Semitic hate marches. Targeting specific groups. The ad targets specific groups,

00:12:39.840 foreign workers, foreign students, migrants from Gaza, in a negative manner, which is against the 0.99

00:12:44.340 guidelines. Comparative advertising. The ad indirectly compares the impact of foreign workers and students

00:12:50.740 to Canadians, which is not allowed. Not allowed says who? Labeling and compliance. Labeling. The ad does

00:12:57.460 include the required labels, paid political advertisement, and authorized by For Canada.

00:13:04.260 Compliance checklist. The ad fails to meet several items on the compliance checklist, including fact-based

00:13:10.220 opinions and avoiding prohibited content. Conclusion. Given the bad points, the ad does not comply with

00:13:15.620 Post Media's rules and regulations and would likely be rejected. So this was, we showed them the

00:13:21.260 preliminary version. Now first of all, I've read this letter a few times now. I think it was generated

00:13:26.120 by artificial intelligence, by some AI engine, because it's just too weird. Now the salesman claims he

00:13:33.100 wanted to sell. And I went back and forth with them a bit. I offered to footnote all the claims by

00:13:38.420 citing authoritative sources, including the National Post itself or Statistics Canada. I insisted that the

00:13:44.580 ad was an opinion. And I could add a few wiggle words in there to emphasize that it was an opinion. But

00:13:50.080 we went back and forth a little bit and it was clear that the Post lawyers or the AI pretending to be a

00:13:56.320 lawyer wasn't allowing it. I mean, they say it's, quote, not allowed to compare the impact of foreign

00:14:03.280 workers to Canadians. Why is that not allowed? Says who? They say it, quote, could be considered false

00:14:11.640 that foreign workers drive down wages. I mean, I suppose someone could think that, but the whole 1.00

00:14:16.540 point of temporary foreign workers is to lower wages for employers who claim they can't get Canadians

00:14:21.840 to work at Tim Hortons or McDonald's at those low rates. That's literally the purpose of the program

00:14:28.260 is to bring in cheaper labor. I mean, I offered to show the National Post lawyers or their AI lawyer 0.88

00:14:34.160 studies by economists to prove it. There are plenty. The whole point of temporary foreign workers is to 1.00

00:14:39.740 get cheap labor. The lawyers said to me, quote, the ad exploits fear by linking immigration to crime

00:14:45.720 waves and anti-Semitic hate marches. But I have attended several of those hate marches and our

00:14:51.860 reporters collectively have probably been to 20 or 30. And almost all of the organizers are, they are

00:14:59.240 new migrants. They just are. And as to crime, it is well reported that foreign gangs are behind much of 1.00

00:15:06.520 the current crime wave, including car theft in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver and drugs. If I can't say

00:15:13.300 that, I'm really stopped from talking about the issue altogether, aren't I? Now, I really like the

00:15:18.400 National Post, by the way. I like them editorially. Frankly, that was one of the reasons I wanted to

00:15:23.980 buy an ad from them to support them a bit. We did contact the Globe and Mail too, by the way, but they

00:15:28.600 wanted nearly $100,000 for an ad with them. That was a deal maker for us, but I'm just going to guess

00:15:34.620 they would ban our ad too. What is with censorship in Canada these days? Censored from the Debates

00:15:41.560 Commission, censorship from press conferences, censored on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram,

00:15:47.000 and now censored from even buying ads for thousands of dollars because the ad mentions migrants in

00:15:53.320 Gaza? Who says that's illegal? A lawyer? I don't even know if that was a real lawyer. It felt like an AI

00:15:59.640 answering as a lawyer. Based on what? Does the National Post ownership to their editors, to their

00:16:07.540 publishers, even know what's being rejected by their lawyers? Does the Post lawyer even read

00:16:14.740 the Post? If Pierre Polyev wins the election on Monday, which is possible, perhaps we'll get a

00:16:21.740 little bit more press freedom in Canada, and perhaps we'll have a chance to rein in mass immigration a 1.00

00:16:26.420 bit. But if Mark Carney wins on Monday, we'll have a lot less press freedom. Of that, you can be sure,

00:16:32.060 and you will have a lot more immigration. You just won't be able to talk about it, not even in a paid

00:16:39.520 ad in the National Post. Stay with us for more.

00:16:44.560 It's tough being an independent journalist. It's especially tough being an independent journalist

00:17:00.440 on the streets, like a citizen journalist. And the toughest of all is when you try to cover

00:17:06.640 the pro-Hamas hate marches in this country, particularly in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.

00:17:12.620 In those cities, police turn a blind eye to low-level crimes by the Hamas protesters, whether it's

00:17:19.900 trespass or blocking streets or vandalism or mischief, the kind of things they actually declared a

00:17:26.960 martial law emergency over when the truckers did it. They've been practiced to turn a blind eye to when

00:17:32.640 Hamas does it. But those same police crack down on citizen journalists. We know this firsthand. Our friend

00:17:39.160 David Menzies was arrested five times last year. I myself was arrested merely because the police said

00:17:45.800 I was causing a disturbance because the pro-Hamas people were disturbed by my presence. Well, if you

00:17:53.120 think it's bad if you're with Rebel News, imagine being a citizen journalist operating on your own

00:17:59.400 without crowdfunding, without a lawyer, without a team. Well, you could be in great jeopardy.

00:18:06.600 And that's exactly what happened to Natasha Graham a couple of weeks ago. She was covering a pro-Hamas 0.56

00:18:12.680 hate march in the city of Montreal. Our friend Alexa Lavoie was there too. Take a look at what happened

00:18:19.880 to Natasha Graham.

00:18:23.160 Hey! Hey! Hey! 0.96

00:18:25.080 Hey! Here is someone!

00:18:27.960 Attack! Attack! 0.66

00:18:46.640 Hey! Hey! 0.97

00:18:47.640 Hey, it's a woman! 1.00

00:18:59.640 But let's see! But let's see! You are crazy!

00:19:17.640 Hey, it's a woman! It's a independent journalist! What are you doing there? 1.00

00:19:33.640 I'm going to show you on the police.

00:19:35.640 I'm not going to show you on the camera!

00:19:47.640 Absolutely brutal. Absolute police brutality. Three thuggish men pounding a woman on the sidewalk.

00:19:55.640 And you can hear our Alexa Lavoie saying, that's a woman. That's an independent reporter. 1.00

00:20:00.640 Incredibly, that police brutality has not caused charges or an internal affairs investigation against the police.

00:20:08.640 The opposite. That citizen journalist, Natasha Grayne herself, has been charged with two offenses by the police.

00:20:16.640 She joins us now from Montreal. Natasha, I am... I've watched those videos.

00:20:21.640 It's the third time I've seen them now. And I'm filled with anger and disgust at how the Montreal police act.

00:20:28.640 And the jeering and the cheering of the crowds as they arrest you, it really doesn't feel like Canada anymore, does it?

00:20:37.640 No. It's hard to watch from my end. I have a traumatic brain injury and I have been diagnosed with that.

00:20:52.640 I've been diagnosed with PTSD. I've been diagnosed with numerous soft tissue injuries.

00:20:59.640 And I'm grateful, you know, to be alive. It was horrific.

00:21:10.640 What exactly has been going on with you and the protesters?

00:21:16.640 It feels like they hate you the same way they hate Alexa Lavoie. Are you a regular reporter on this circuit like Alexa is?

00:21:26.640 I began reporting on and documenting the in-person events in August of 2024, because I had previously been doing kind of OSINT style viewing of their own social media accounts.

00:21:52.640 But the thing people need to understand is that the leaders of these hate marches tend to cherry pick the pieces they put up, the recordings they put up.

00:22:07.640 And so I thought it was important to see in person with my own eyes what was going on.

00:22:12.640 And I had the first the first time I attended one of these protests, it was an homage to Ismail Hanaya, who was a Hamas leader of the political side of Hamas.

00:22:25.640 And I filmed an eight minute, more than eight minute actually video of Iyad Abu Hamad, who was one of the leaders of Montreal for Palestine.

00:22:36.640 And it went viral to the point where politicians were reposting it, not with credit to me, unfortunately.

00:22:42.640 But even Anthony House father reposted this viral video.

00:22:47.640 So that basically put me on the radar of the jihadis. And since then, I have received threats.

00:22:56.640 I have been physically assaulted more times than I can count.

00:23:00.640 I have filed charges against against one of the leaders of Montreal for Palestine because I was a swarmed and assaulted on the anniversary of October 7th when I was documenting their hate rally at Place des Arts.

00:23:19.640 So, yeah, I've been consistently assaulted. But what happened on October 7th, because I've been to I've been to six at length, and then I've been to like gone to the Roddick gates at McGill and kind of just in and out quickly to other events.

00:23:37.640 But what happened on October 7th on the anniversary was that I kept asking the police for assistance.

00:23:44.640 And one of the police officers said to me, meaning, oh, she's like rebel news.

00:23:53.640 And so that's when I started.

00:23:55.640 Using that as a kind of insult or they think that any citizen journalist must be rebel news.

00:23:59.640 I've seen that. Well, they kept insisting that I was rebel news.

00:24:02.640 And this is also what happened when I was manhandled by the three police officers was they kept repeating to me, you're rebel news, you're rebel news, you're creating an event.

00:24:16.640 And I kept saying, I am not rebel news.

00:24:19.640 I've never worked for rebel news.

00:24:21.640 But they really had this narrative in their minds.

00:24:26.640 And the the narrative of the police officers is provably demonstrably false.

00:24:34.640 I have footage and Alexa, thank goodness she was there nearby, because she had the 360 camera, which shows exactly what happened, because my camera was covered by the police officer,

00:24:52.640 who initially applied the physical force to me and grabbed one of my arms before the second police officer grabbed my other arm. 0.89

00:25:03.640 They began pulling me in different directions.

00:25:05.640 But he was very preoccupied with this narrative.

00:25:09.640 And because it was inaccurate, it was it was difficult to understand directives because I was following the directives to stay out of the protest, as I always have not to go into the protest.

00:25:26.640 But the pro Hamas jihadis mob anybody who is recording them.

00:25:32.640 So then you need to try and evade them by moving away.

00:25:36.640 And then if you go onto the road a little bit, then you're mobbed there, surrounded and hit.

00:25:41.640 And then if you move back onto the sidewalk, they mob you there.

00:25:45.640 At one point, Alexa and I were pressed up against a building wall.

00:25:48.640 And it's just it's impossible for me to understand why the police are not protecting any free citizen who wishes to document what's happening on our streets.

00:26:04.640 This is very important that the public see this.

00:26:07.640 I have only seen Guillaume and Alexa from rebel documenting these events and other independent journalists in Ottawa in Montreal.

00:26:17.640 I've only ever seen them.

00:26:18.640 Yeah, I don't know where the journalists are.

00:26:21.640 I don't know why they are not documenting these events.

00:26:25.640 Perhaps they're afraid to perhaps they also get assaulted.

00:26:28.640 I can't say.

00:26:29.640 I think that's a very real factor.

00:26:31.640 It's funny because when Rebel News went to Montreal en masse during the lockdowns, no independent journalists were on that beat.

00:26:39.640 In fact, police were startled to see us out documenting the curfew.

00:26:42.640 They had never seen journalists show any curiosity before.

00:26:45.640 You know, when I was in Montreal last week for the leaders debates, I had lunch with a prominent lawyer who told me something I didn't know.

00:26:52.640 He said that there was a class action against the city for over policing these riots, these protests, and that the mayor paid $25 million, that the mayor ordered the police to pay $25 million to settle this class action.

00:27:09.640 It was a bogus class action.

00:27:11.640 It was those Hamas protesters suing the cops saying the cops were too tough on them.

00:27:15.640 And it was basically money laundering so the mayor of Montreal could give all those people $25 million.

00:27:21.640 But imagine what the lesson the police took from that.

00:27:24.640 The police took the lesson.

00:27:26.640 The mayor is on the side of the Hamas protesters.

00:27:29.640 And if police dare lift a finger against the Hamas protesters, there could be another lawsuit.

00:27:36.640 So best be violent with citizen journalists like Alexa Lavois or Natasha Graham, because no harm can come from that.

00:27:45.640 But I want to tell you what we're going to do.

00:27:47.640 It pains me, obviously not physically, but it pains me, my spirit, to see you being treated this way.

00:27:55.640 And you are not a rebel news journalist.

00:27:59.640 And that's a very strange thing that the police regard any independent-minded person as a rebel news journalist.

00:28:06.640 In a way, it's a compliment to us.

00:28:08.640 But I want to make sure you have help, because I know that for 99% of people to be faced with a legal process, especially a criminal charge, is terrifying and costly.

00:28:21.640 And I know that normal people don't sometimes even know what to do.

00:28:27.640 So I'm pleased to say that Alexa and I have talked with you and have taken a few steps to set you up with a lawyer.

00:28:36.640 And I would like to confirm with you our intentions to crowdfund the cost of that lawyer at SaveNatasha.com.

00:28:46.640 Because I want to remove from you the stress of the finances, and I want to remove from you the stress of, well, how do I do it?

00:28:53.640 The lawyer you're using, I believe, is a lawyer that worked with Alexa before, and he comes highly recommended.

00:29:02.640 I haven't worked with him myself, but he's been recommended by an excellent lawyer.

00:29:06.640 So I would like to let you know that we can at least remove that piece from the equation.

00:29:13.640 And I know that that's not a total solution.

00:29:16.640 That's not security guards when you're on the street.

00:29:19.640 That's not a political solution.

00:29:21.640 It's not those things.

00:29:22.640 But at least it's one piece of the puzzle.

00:29:24.640 We deal with this all the time with Alexa, by the way.

00:29:27.640 We need lawyers for her. 1.00

00:29:28.640 We have bodyguards for her sometimes.

00:29:30.640 But for now, I would like to commit to you that we will work with you and your lawyer to take care of the costs of your prosecution.

00:29:41.640 And I'm actually optimistic.

00:29:42.640 I think that video was so brutal that I think a, and your infraction was so made up and exaggerated by the cops.

00:29:50.640 I don't even know what they could possibly have charged you with, that I'm pretty sure that this will be, if I had to guess, I think it'll be resolved even before trial.

00:29:59.640 But you need a good lawyer to do that.

00:30:01.640 So we're happy to crowdfund that.

00:30:03.640 I am extremely grateful.

00:30:06.640 And I wanted to say because the amount of support I received after was really moving.

00:30:16.640 You know, you reached out and Alexa reached out and Rebel News and Mark Stein wrote an article.

00:30:24.640 Joe Warmington reached out.

00:30:26.640 Many independent, like Viva Frye and David Creighton.

00:30:30.640 And it's just been overwhelming.

00:30:32.640 And then from everybody who's reached out to me.

00:30:34.640 And I had wanted to do an interview with you closer to the time after it happened.

00:30:39.640 And so that people weren't confused, but I was so bereft.

00:30:45.640 I was in physical pain and I was traumatized.

00:30:50.640 I still am.

00:30:51.640 And I couldn't, I was incapable.

00:30:55.640 You know, I was, I was literally incapable of doing an interview.

00:31:00.640 So I apologize.

00:31:01.640 Don't apologize.

00:31:02.640 You know, the confusion to people, you know.

00:31:05.640 We all saw what was done to you and we were all appalled by that.

00:31:08.640 The least we can do is to help you with a lawyer.

00:31:11.640 If I was there right now, it looks like you could use a little bit of a hug.

00:31:15.640 I would give you a hug if I were there.

00:31:17.640 And I know Alexa has been a moral supporter of you.

00:31:22.640 And I'm sure she has hugged you because you two see each other.

00:31:25.640 So please keep your spirits high.

00:31:27.640 Don't let them grind you down.

00:31:30.640 Know that you have some, you've just listed some excellent people to have on your side.

00:31:34.640 We'll crowdfund the legals. 0.71

00:31:36.640 And, and I hope this doesn't stop you from doing an important thing.

00:31:41.640 You are correct.

00:31:42.640 You are correct.

00:31:43.640 No.

00:31:44.640 The Montreal Gazette, Le Journal de Montréal, La Presse, Le Dois, all these newspapers are failing to cover this important beat because they're either afraid or politically correct, or they're afraid of the police or they're being ordered by some political boss not to do the work you're doing.

00:31:59.640 And they're trying to stop you from doing it.

00:32:01.640 I hope you continue.

00:32:02.640 And I promise you that we've got your back.

00:32:04.640 When I'm feeling, when I've recovered, I'll resume.

00:32:09.640 But I did want to correct one thing in Alexa's excellent 22 minute report that she did.

00:32:15.640 At one point, she said I was fearless.

00:32:17.640 And I'm, I'm not fearless.

00:32:19.640 I am fearful because I think these people are dangerous.

00:32:23.640 But I'm tenacious because I love Canada and I want, I want children to have the Canadian dream.

00:32:36.640 Yeah.

00:32:37.640 And I'm doing everything I can possible to try and show the Canadian people what is happening on our streets.

00:32:44.640 And I'll continue doing that.

00:32:46.640 And I'm not going to be cowed by jihadis who cheer while a woman is physically assaulted on concrete steps.

00:32:58.640 I won't be cowed as they yell Allahu Akbar when they see this.

00:33:03.640 If I saw this happening to one of the women who attends the protests, I would have been horrified and appalled and shocked.

00:33:14.640 I would not have been cheering and laughing and returning to the sight of it and raising a finger, which is what the, that's a terrorist signal and bragging about it on social media.

00:33:28.640 It's just despicable behavior.

00:33:30.640 It's, it's, it's, so I, I won't be cowed, but I do need to recover.

00:33:34.640 I'm, I'm physically, you know, I had a medical appointment today.

00:33:39.640 I have a neurology follow up.

00:33:41.640 I'm, I'm, I'm not, I'm not physically well yet, but removing the stress of the legal is unbelievably generous and very appreciated because I've obviously never been criminally charged.

00:33:58.640 And I was in shock when I was told that I was being charged with assault.

00:34:04.640 I was, I was in shock.

00:34:07.640 I was, I'm still stupefied.

00:34:09.640 Well, you've spoken very passionately and very movingly and our viewers are, are to thank.

00:34:16.640 I mean, Rebel News is just sort of the organizer.

00:34:18.640 The support comes from our viewers.

00:34:20.640 So I know that hundreds, maybe even thousands of our viewers will respond to your call and we'll keep in touch with you.

00:34:27.640 And I hope you have a full and speedy recovery and you're very touching.

00:34:32.640 The way you've described what you've seen is heartbreaking.

00:34:35.640 And I'm very glad that Alexa is sometimes there with you as a, as a supportive ally.

00:34:41.640 And perhaps in the future, we can do some more things to help you.

00:34:44.640 I, I want to take that one step at a time.

00:34:47.640 We sometimes send Alexa with physical bodyguards and maybe that's something we could talk about in the future.

00:34:53.640 You are not a rebel employee.

00:34:55.640 We just like you and Alexa sees you.

00:34:58.640 But for now, we'll take the legal piece and perhaps in the future, because the idea that you would be physically vulnerable to these people again pains me.

00:35:08.640 So let's, when, when you're back in action, be in touch either directly or through Alexa.

00:35:13.640 And maybe we can talk about a few more things because it is appalling to me.

00:35:18.640 And I am sure my viewers agree that you are being physically attacked this way.

00:35:24.640 And, and the Hamas side are laughing and jeering.

00:35:29.640 That is not the Canada that I know, but let's take things one day at a time.

00:35:33.640 Your health is the most important thing.

00:35:35.640 And we've got the legals covered.

00:35:37.640 Folks, if you want to help Natasha, go to SaveNatasha.com and we will cover her legal defense.

00:35:46.640 Good luck, my friend.

00:35:47.640 And thank you for being so brave.

00:35:49.640 Thank you, Ezra.

00:35:50.640 Thank you.

00:35:51.640 All right.

00:35:52.640 There you have it.

00:35:53.640 SaveNatasha.com.

00:35:54.640 Stay with us.

00:35:55.640 More ahead.

00:36:07.640 Hey, welcome back.

00:36:08.640 Your letters to me.

00:36:10.640 The first one is from James Turncliffe, who says, the only liberal with a brain, Mr. LeDrew.

00:36:16.640 I love Steven LeDrew, but you know what?

00:36:18.640 These days he's to the right of the liberals.

00:36:21.640 Now he has not moved his ideology in the last 20 years.

00:36:25.640 The party has moved.

00:36:26.640 And in a way it was brilliant.

00:36:28.640 The liberals and the NDP are indistinguishable, which is one of the reasons why the NDP's vote

00:36:33.640 has fallen in half.

00:36:35.640 Almost all the polls say that the NDP is going to be in single digits because they are all

00:36:40.640 voting for Mark Carney.

00:36:42.640 Maybe it was smart of them to move the party to the left so hard.

00:36:45.640 Next letter is from Trevor W., who says, they are deflating.

00:36:48.640 Carney's spending is simply insane and reckless.

00:36:52.640 Well, I mean, that's certainly going to get young people to vote because people know that

00:36:56.640 debt and spending is not helping with anything.

00:36:59.640 But what about boomers and seniors, people who are in the sunset chapter of their life? 0.82

00:37:04.640 What do they care about debt and spending?

00:37:07.640 They aren't going to be troubled by it.

00:37:09.640 They have their house paid off.

00:37:11.640 If anything, rising housing prices increase the size of their nest egg.

00:37:16.640 They really don't have a lot of income, so they're not worried about taxes.

00:37:21.640 I think that the disastrous economic plans of Mark Carney won't make that big of a dent in his support from older voters.

00:37:30.640 John the second says, my guess for any liberal support baffled as I may be is that NDP block and green support seems to have collapsed and gone over to the liberals.

00:37:40.640 I expect that it's either strategic voting or that the NDP green and block have voted with the liberals too many times for the left leaning voters to see much of a difference between them.

00:37:48.640 I think there is an absolute amount of truth there that's absolutely right.

00:37:53.640 In fact, I would say a little bit more than that.

00:37:56.640 I would say when Justin Trudeau was the liberal leader and at the party's absolute low, and Pierre Pagliav was at its absolute high, and I'd say this was, oh, over Christmas, let's say.

00:38:10.640 Some of that might have been a mirage in that if an election was called, some of the vote that was parked with the NDP might well have gone over to the liberals because liberals was holding their nose to having anybody but the conservatives vote.

00:38:23.640 I say again, I said this the other day, the absolute highest heights that Pierre Pagliav's conservatives got in polling over the last two years was in the low 40s.

00:38:33.640 There might have been one or two odd polls to put them at 44 or 45, but that was just when the liberals were in their absolute meltdown mode.

00:38:42.640 So the conservatives are actually performing around optimal.

00:38:47.640 I mean, we've seen some polls showing them at 38 and 40.

00:38:52.640 If they get those numbers up 41, 42 by election day, that's pretty much the conservative party's maximum in this country.

00:39:02.640 We live in a center-left country, and I am as frustrated about it as you are.

00:39:08.640 It was only because Trudeau was so hated and so long in the tooth and the carbon tax that Pierre Pagliav had that lead, but boy, I hope Pagliav wins.

00:39:17.640 And people say sometimes, Ezra, don't you want Mark Carney to win?

00:39:21.640 Isn't that better for Rebel News because you love more to fight against? Are you kidding me?

00:39:25.640 This country will be wrecked by Mark Carney.

00:39:29.640 I deeply want him to lose, and I deeply want Pagliav to win.

00:39:33.640 I don't agree with everything Pagliav says.

00:39:35.640 He's not strong enough on many issues for me, whether it's immigration or dealing with the CBC.

00:39:40.640 But he is so much better than the alternative.

00:39:46.640 And I am afraid that Canada would not recover from another turn in the Liberals.

00:39:50.640 Not economically and not...

00:39:52.640 I mean, he literally hired the head of the Century Initiative who wants to bring 100 million people to Canada in our lifetimes.

00:40:00.640 That is unrecoverable.

00:40:02.640 Sorry to be such a downer, but your letter is right.

00:40:06.640 That's our show for today.

00:40:07.640 I'll have some surprise news for you over the next couple of days.

00:40:11.640 I hope you'll like it.

00:40:12.640 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:40:16.640 to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:40:32.640 Thank you.

00:40:33.640 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - April 24, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The National Post refuses to publish ad critical of mass immigration

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