Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Trudeau Liberals issue a warning against travelling to the United States (I’m serious)

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, welcome back. I guess welcome back to me. You've always been back. I was overseas and

00:00:04.900 back in Toronto now at our world headquarters and I've got a show today about Chrystia Freeland

00:00:10.140 warning gay people not to go to America. I don't remember her warning gay people not to go to

00:00:16.200 Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan or places like that, but America, or at least the Republicans, she just

00:00:21.760 hates too much. I'll do my show on that today and I'll invite you to get the video version of this

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00:00:45.120 knowing that you keep Rebel News strong and healthy. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:59.840 Tonight, the Trudeau liberals issue a warning against traveling to the United States. I'm

00:01:09.280 serious. It's August 30th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:12.680 You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:19.020 Crazy news. The Trudeau liberals have actually issued an official government warning against

00:01:33.420 Canadians traveling to the United States because they claim that it is dangerous to be gay there.

00:01:39.540 I'm serious. Here's the official travel advisory for the U.S. Canada has a page like this for most

00:01:45.580 countries in the world. Here's what they added. 2SLGBTQI plus travelers. Some states have enacted

00:01:56.740 laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI plus persons. Check relevant state and local laws.

00:02:05.980 Now, I've got a ton to say about that and I will in a moment, but can I say a word first about being

00:02:11.440 back in the studio? And actually, maybe you can give me some feedback on this because I feel like I'm

00:02:17.380 constantly torn between different things that I love to do, different duties I have here at Rebel News,

00:02:22.120 and I only have 24 hours in a day. What should I do with my time? Produce commentaries about the news

00:02:29.280 like I'm doing now? I love doing that. I always have. Or should I go out into the field and do on-the-scene

00:02:36.440 reporting? That's usually a great adventure and you never know what you're going to learn. I'm

00:02:41.280 really glad that I went to Lahaina, Maui to cover the wildfires with my colleagues Alexa Lavoie and

00:02:46.260 Lincoln Jay. Or should I work on what we call campaigns, like the crowdfunding campaign we

00:02:51.260 created for Maui to help a citizen-run non-FEMA relief camp we saw over there. By the way, it's raised

00:02:59.080 over $30,000 U.S. I feel great about that. That's one thing that Rebel News viewers love doing.

00:03:05.080 It's not just to watch the world, but every now and then to stop to fix the world just a little

00:03:09.760 bit. Or how about going to do Rebel News events, like our recent tour across Canada with Tamara

00:03:16.160 Leach in support of her best-selling book? Then there's just managing the company, working with

00:03:22.460 my colleagues, trying to plan, trying to make sure the company can make payroll, working on the new

00:03:27.300 website, organizing conferences, planning new books, things like that. I'm not complaining. In fact,

00:03:32.120 it's exactly the opposite. I wish I had three days every day because I love to do all of those things,

00:03:37.240 but alas, that's not how life works. I have to pick a lane. I say all this because it's on my mind

00:03:42.620 as I just got back from Australia and New Zealand. The reason I went was because our Australian star,

00:03:48.140 Avi Amini, released his new book and autobiography called A Rebel from the Start, which is a perfect

00:03:54.260 title for him, isn't it? I wanted to be there for his book launch, but I also sort of knew in my bones

00:03:58.980 that the far left down there would try and stop him. And indeed they did, threatening an Anglican

00:04:05.340 church that had agreed to rent a room to Avi, and that church caved in in a cowardly way. As you know,

00:04:11.340 a church run by Maori people. Those are the indigenous people in New Zealand. They stepped up and offered us

00:04:18.020 their facility on very short notice and six big bodyguards too. At the end of it all, they even did a

00:04:24.100 Maori haka, as it's called for Avi, which is very exciting. Here, I've just got to show

00:04:28.700 that to you one more time.

00:04:58.700 So I'm back in the office and I'm here this week and I'm glad, but I know that I'm leaving again

00:05:13.300 next week for our Rebel News fact-finding trip to Israel and the United Arab Emirates. We did a

00:05:18.600 similar tour before the pandemic where we took about 40 of our most enthusiastic viewers. I guess

00:05:24.300 it was for a holiday, but it was more for a journalistic mission. Every day we met different

00:05:28.340 experts about different things. We did news reports on them, but our Rebel News viewers were right there

00:05:33.400 with us. So for example, here's a video I did with a guy named Danny Tirza. He's the retired Israeli

00:05:39.400 military officer who designed the security barrier between Israel and Arab towns to stop suicide

00:05:47.060 attackers from coming through. And I thought this was a good template for Donald Trump and how to

00:05:52.640 build the wall. Take a look. I'm standing in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. Down there is

00:05:57.840 Bethlehem and Beit Jala in the West Bank. And with me is retired Colonel Danny Tirza. Nice to see you.

00:06:04.520 You were the colonel in charge of the security barrier between the West Bank and Israel. How is it

00:06:10.180 working? How many years old is it, first of all? It was start constructed here in 2002 and now we're in

00:06:16.420 2017. So 15 years that it works. How many people try and cross the barrier on any given day? Today,

00:06:26.400 maybe 20 to 30 times a week someone tried to cross the fence. So three to five times a day. Are they

00:06:35.040 people who were lost? Are they regular criminals? What's the breakdown of those 20 or 30 people a week?

00:06:41.180 Most of them are criminals. Some of them are illegal workers. And even Palestinian women that are 1.00

00:06:47.760 running away from the families. You know what happened to a Palestinian wife if her husband 1.00

00:06:52.240 suspects her. She better run away. How has it affected regular life, commerce? Can people on the

00:06:59.540 Bethlehem side still come to Israel and vice versa? Yes, they have. But they can. But they can do it

00:07:06.420 only through checkpoints and after a security check. If you came with a ladder, you could

00:07:13.840 probably get over that fence in five or ten minutes. That's the whole point. It's not to stop

00:07:18.400 people. It's just to detect them and delay them. Is that right? That's right. How long would it take

00:07:25.080 someone if there was no rapid response team? You told us earlier that the army comes within five

00:07:30.200 minutes. That's their quota. That's their goal. How long would it take to cross over the various

00:07:35.620 layers there if no army response was coming? About between eight to 12 minutes. That's all.

00:07:44.280 So you really only have three minutes of wiggle room there. That's right. And therefore,

00:07:48.060 we are working on both sides of this area. When we have the alert, first we are using our technology

00:07:55.400 things to detect it. And then the patrols are coming once from the valley and the two other from

00:08:01.320 the mountain here to close the area. Last question. Has anyone crossed the barrier successfully? Have

00:08:08.580 terrorists crossed the barrier successfully? Or would you even know? Only when it was under

00:08:14.180 construction. From the end of 2006 till today, we had in Israel only 33 terror attacks from the West

00:08:22.920 Bank. I'm not talking about launching missiles. I'm talking about terrorists that crossed from the

00:08:28.520 West Bank to Israel and succeeded to make terror attacks here. So I was doing an official interview,

00:08:35.300 but the whole team of rebels were right behind me. They had just had the same exact briefing I had.

00:08:41.480 They toured the fence just like I did. The only difference was at the end of it,

00:08:45.000 I jumped in and interviewed Danny Tearsup for the record for five minutes. So we're doing that same

00:08:51.420 trip again next week, but we're adding on a three-day visit to the UAE. That's an Arab country that made 0.99

00:08:57.720 peace with Israel under Donald Trump's Abraham Accord. So we're going to Israel and we're flying to the 0.71

00:09:03.760 United Arab Emirates to see if the peace deal is real, to see if decades, even centuries of animosity

00:09:10.240 can be overcome in that region. So that's a rebel news event and it's a fundraiser for us and it's

00:09:16.760 real news reporting. But alas, I'll be away for over a week, even though we'll do lots of news

00:09:22.220 updates from there. And of course, not all of our team will be there, but a few. We'll cover many

00:09:27.520 other things in Canada. Tamara Leach's trial begins in Ottawa next week. And as you know, we've

00:09:32.160 crowdfunded her legal defense fund. That's hard on the heels of the great victory this week by Chris

00:09:37.200 Scott, the proprietor of the Whistle Stop Diner, who has been hounded for two years by the government,

00:09:42.740 would suddenly drop the charges against him. Here's his reaction to that.

00:09:47.160 Well, I was just acquitted of all of my charges relating to the Public Health Act of Alberta

00:09:53.540 in relation to me doing what normal business people do, which is engage in business.

00:10:00.060 I was brought before the court after I was arrested and I was made to answer for the alleged crime

00:10:08.220 of serving hamburgers and pouring coffee. Well, I was acquitted on all charges today. The

00:10:14.800 hearing took approximately five minutes. Neither side contested the application for

00:10:24.260 an acquittal. And it was all over and done with right away. How do I feel about that? Well,

00:10:31.240 I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. As a matter of fact,

00:10:35.100 throughout this entire thing, I haven't had much feeling about the court process at all. I never felt

00:10:42.020 despair or anything like that because I was dragged before the court. That was part of the process and I

00:10:50.300 knew it was going to happen. And I knew that was going to happen when I took a stand against the

00:10:54.200 public health restrictions anyway. So no, there is no, I don't really have any feeling about it.

00:10:59.540 I'm not jumping for joy, although I am happy with the outcome in that I'm not going to be

00:11:05.580 annihilated with fines. Thank you to Williamson Law and to the Democracy Fund for crowdfunding and

00:11:12.160 providing me with the legal support that I needed to do this, this fight. If it wasn't for the

00:11:17.320 Democracy Fund, Rebel News and everybody that supported and contributed to the crowdfunding,

00:11:21.800 I would have never been able to do this. I would have never been able to stand up even

00:11:24.980 more than a week against the government. You know, that little video on Twitter

00:11:28.460 had more than 300,000 views in just one day. People really care. And that makes me take heart

00:11:33.660 that they haven't forgotten. All right. So that's all a very long way of saying that I'm trying to find

00:11:37.980 the balance in my day between doing commentaries in the studio and doing reporting out in the world and

00:11:44.700 doing events with rebels in real life versus doing things online. And then there's just running the

00:11:50.300 company. I'd like your feedback on how I should balance all of those things. Most other pundits

00:11:55.280 usually just do one thing. They do punditing. I think of Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire. That's his

00:12:00.060 main job. I see that Tucker Carlson just went to Hungary again. I was there a month ago. Unlike me,

00:12:06.960 he managed to get another sit-down interview with the prime minister over there, Victor Orban.

00:12:10.600 And that interview, according to Twitter, has had more than 40 million views in one day. So

00:12:16.180 Tucker does journalism, and he does long-form journalism, and he travels and does some events.

00:12:21.880 There's a reason he's the world's best. His interview with Donald Trump was literally watched

00:12:27.000 a quarter of a billion times. I can't even process that number. So that's the world's best journalist.

00:12:33.140 So let me do some Canadian journalism now. Let me show you the news story I mentioned

00:12:36.920 a few minutes ago before I told you why I haven't been in the office lately and why I'll be away

00:12:41.400 next week, too. Let me show you a nutty thing that Trudeau liberals just did. And it's no surprise,

00:12:47.540 whenever they get into trouble, they go for their old standbys. They talk about abortion or gay rights 0.96

00:12:54.040 or transgenderism. It's their way of changing the channel, so to speak, from bad news for them. They

00:12:59.640 know how they can get the media party regulars to change the subject and flip things around for them.

00:13:05.000 They need that a lot these days. Things are going pear-shaped, as the Brits would say.

00:13:10.620 Inflation, taxes, crime, housing costs. It's really spiraling out of control. Did you see the

00:13:15.940 latest pull from Abacus Data? I mentioned them, as you know, because they're run by a liberal. So

00:13:21.060 when they say there's bad news for Trudeau, it's like when the New York Times says there's bad news

00:13:25.680 for the Democrats. It's an admission against their own interests that they don't like to make. So you

00:13:30.900 know you can believe it. I mean, look at this. Conservatives lead by 12% as only 27% think the

00:13:38.480 prime minister should run again? I mean, come on. Look at this. The liberals are literally in third

00:13:44.880 place every place west of Ontario. They're even behind in the Atlantic. When did you see that last?

00:13:51.240 When was the last time the conservatives had a nine-point lead amongst women voters? 0.97

00:13:55.180 Look at young voters. They can spot a phony a mile away. They hate Trudeau. Yeah, so time to change

00:14:02.540 the channel. Trudeau's favorite, Melanie Jolie, got the ball rolling with this weird statement the

00:14:09.140 other day. Remember this? Canada mulling game plan if U.S. takes far-right authoritarian shift.

00:14:16.860 Jolie. We are certainly working on scenarios, Jolie said in French during an interview.

00:14:22.340 How weird is that? Authoritarianism? You mean like declaring martial law, stomping on peaceful

00:14:28.900 protesters with riot horses, seizing bank accounts of political opponents, and censoring the internet?

00:14:34.200 That kind of thing? An authoritarian shift like that? But nothing that weird could be a mistake.

00:14:40.940 Melanie Jolie only reads what's written for her. So this was part of a planned new narrative. It's a

00:14:47.880 plan, a media plan to run against Donald Trump and against Ron DeSantis. Think about it. If you're

00:14:53.980 Justin Trudeau and you're running against Pierre Polyev, you're sparring with a guy who talks about

00:14:59.880 inflation and housing prices and crime in an effective way, a guy Canadians seem to be warming up to.

00:15:06.280 What liberal candidate wouldn't prefer to spar against a U.S. Republican?

00:15:12.080 All of whom have been demonized in the Canadian media, none of whom have any Canadian sensibility,

00:15:19.680 and none of whom will bother to fight back against Trudeau. And even if they did, he'd love it.

00:15:25.440 So it's an unserious way to govern. It's an unserious way to deal with issues. But the liberals

00:15:30.620 obviously believe they can distract from their real problems in Canada by shadowboxing with Americans.

00:15:36.440 They'll do it all day long. And look at how eager the media is to go along with them. Which is why

00:15:42.380 the liberals did that weird thing I mentioned at the beginning of this long monologue. They declared

00:15:47.040 that America is a dangerous place for gay people. Of course they didn't say gay. They said 2SLGBTQI+. And I know 0.99

00:15:57.960 gay people. I know some trans people. And never in my life have I ever heard anyone real use the phrase 2SLGBTQI+. It's like when Democrats invented the word Latinx to say Latino. Or it's like cisgender. No one real talks that way. So naturally Trudeau loves it. 0.80

00:16:20.680 2SLGBTQI+. Workers within the federal government. So they brought in this warning. Hey, 2SLGBTQI+. People better not go to San Francisco or New York. It's too dangerous for you there. I'm sure they actually meant Florida and Texas and other Republican places. They don't single those states out though because of course it's complete BS. I can't think of a single gay right in Canada that they don't have in Texas and Florida. It's just a weird attempt, like I say, to shift the focus away from Trudeau's mess in Canada to 0.83

00:16:50.660 the US instead. The CBC is absolutely down with this agenda, of course. I listen to CBC radio once every month or two so you don't have to. And they're obsessed with American news. They're obsessed with Trump, of course. It's really weird for a Canadian national broadcaster using Canadian tax dollars to give us hot takes on what's going on in other countries if we're not bombarded with American news all the time. And it's for the same reason, too. They'd rather talk about alleged corruption in America than alleged corruption in

00:17:20.640 Canada. All this talk about Russian collusion, Russian influence in America that, by the way, the Mueller inquiry said did not exist. That's a lot easier for the CBC to talk about than, say, communist China's actual influence in actual Canada. That's hard for the CBC to talk about. So they made the announcement. And here's Chrystia Freeland talking about the announcement in her signature rambling style, condescending in tone and substance, totally evasive.

00:17:50.640 It really is like Kamala Harris. Here's Chrystia Freeland.

00:17:53.640 Why has your government issued the travel advisory for LGBTQ plus people to the United States? And was this something you discussed with President Biden or your government discussed with President Biden first?

00:18:06.640 So, you know, as someone who has had the real privilege of serving as Canada's foreign minister, I know that our travel advisories are done very professionally.

00:18:21.640 We have professionals in the government whose job is to look carefully around the world and to monitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians. That's their job. And it's the right thing to do.

00:18:42.640 When it comes to the United States specifically, I have personal experience of dealing with a diversity of U.S. administrations and of dealing with American leaders at all levels of government, in all branches of government, and with Americans from who represent diverse groups across the country, whether it is business or labor or civic.

00:19:11.640 Or labor or civic organizations. And that's because our government understands, as every Canadian government needs to understand, that one of the principal responsibilities of the federal government is to understand how to work with our U.S. neighbor.

00:19:30.640 I think our government has shown that that's a priority for us and that we work hard at it and that we're able to manage that relationship regardless of the choices that the people of the United States make.

00:19:44.540 Even as we work hard on that government to government relationship, every Canadian government, very much including our government, needs to put at the center of everything we do, the interests and the safety of every single Canadian and of every single group of Canadians.

00:20:11.780 That's what we're doing now. That's what we're doing now. That's what we're always going to do.

00:20:14.760 So it was a clear question. Why did you do it? And did you talk to Joe Biden about it?

00:20:18.780 And then she rambled on for more than two minutes saying literally nothing.

00:20:22.720 But they all do this because they know the compliant, colonized regime media will either ignore her windy answer or quote it, but never say, you just gave us a word salad.

00:20:33.960 Can you please answer the question? It's a simple yes or no. Did you talk to Joe Biden about this?

00:20:38.940 Her answer really reminds me of Kamala Harris. Both Harris and Freeland are the number two in each of their country's governments.

00:20:45.500 Both are obviously affirmative action hires. I mean, just ask Trudeau.

00:20:50.940 Your cabinet, you said, looks a lot like Canada.

00:20:53.600 And I understand one of the priorities for you was to have a cabinet that was gender balanced.

00:20:58.480 Why was that so important to you?

00:20:59.860 Because it's 2015.

00:21:08.840 Both Kamala Harris and Christian Freeland are extremely unlikable people.

00:21:13.920 Both are extremely awkward and unaccomplished, which may be why each are where they are.

00:21:19.720 Anyone who thinks of getting rid of Joe Biden or thinks of getting rid of Justin Trudeau immediately thinks, yikes, Kamala Harris would be worse.

00:21:28.000 The governor and I, and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right?

00:21:37.860 The significance of the passage of time.

00:21:40.060 So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs.

00:21:50.920 And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.

00:21:58.960 Thank you for the warm welcome.

00:22:00.140 So here's the thing.

00:22:03.460 Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right?

00:22:06.400 Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus, right?

00:22:09.880 Just there's something about the, and most of us, many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right?

00:22:18.460 And it's part of, it's part of our experience growing up.

00:22:22.740 It's part of, you know, a nostalgia and a memory of, you know, we used to have a great Kamala Harris impersonator who made little parody videos for us.

00:22:37.140 Some people actually thought it was Kamala Harris.

00:22:39.320 She was so spot on.

00:22:40.480 Hello.

00:22:41.160 Hello, America.

00:22:44.800 You don't have to clap.

00:22:46.520 But he's clapping.

00:22:47.180 With the exploration of space having been defined in the 21st century, we know then what we know now, and what we know now is absolutely nothing.

00:22:58.820 She's really good at being really bad.

00:23:01.160 Anyways, that's our deputy prime minister, really.

00:23:03.800 No wonder we're in a mess.

00:23:05.400 But here's the weird thing, and it's like when it's pride month or pride season, as Trudeau now calls it,

00:23:11.080 and woke corporations turn their logos into rainbow colors.

00:23:14.460 But they only do so in their North American and European outlets.

00:23:18.500 Look at this.

00:23:19.080 Mercedes, BMW, Cisco, all the big companies.

00:23:24.300 They don't quite have the political courage to fly that pride flag in Riyadh or Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, or Islamabad, Pakistan.

00:23:34.360 Now do they?

00:23:35.860 And that's how it is with Trudeau and Freeland.

00:23:37.840 Where is their public denunciation of regimes that actually kill gay people?

00:23:41.840 When was the last time you saw Trudeau or Freeland actually speak truth to power?

00:23:47.320 You'll recall that Trudeau, who doesn't seem to do well with powerful women, just ask Jody Wilson-Raybould, 0.99

00:23:52.320 you'll recall that he thought it was important enough to publicly shame the new prime minister of Italy, Georgia Maloney, for being anti-gay,

00:24:00.520 which, of course, she isn't anti-gay, but Trudeau likes mansplaining things to women.

00:24:05.100 We know that it's a time of tremendous anxiety for our citizens, whether it's the war in Ukraine,

00:24:11.260 whether it's hangovers from the pandemic, whether it's the global economic challenges people are facing.

00:24:17.900 People need green insurance.

00:24:19.240 People need to be included.

00:24:20.520 Obviously, Canada is concerned about some of the positionings that Italy is taking in terms of the LGBT rights,

00:24:28.800 but I look forward to talking to you about that.

00:24:31.120 I'd like to see him do that to a country that actually kills gays instead of to Italy or America. 0.95

00:24:36.560 But then again, Trudeau is the prime minister who just sent Stephen Gilboa,

00:24:40.500 the convicted criminal who's now our environment minister,

00:24:43.600 he sent Gilboa to communist China, the dictatorship, by far the world's largest emitter of pollution, 0.98

00:24:49.840 and Gilboa in China, instead of speaking truth to power,

00:24:54.000 thought he would condemn a Canadian oil sands company from China.

00:24:58.620 Not condemn China, which is opening two new coal-fired power plants every week,

00:25:02.180 but to attack a Canadian ethical oil company.

00:25:05.080 I got a kick out of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith denouncing Gilboa on the radio the other day,

00:25:09.540 though I disagree with her belief in net zero by any date.

00:25:13.820 But take a listen to this.

00:25:15.640 Well, we're in favor of reaching an aggressive emissions reduction target of 2050,

00:25:20.660 and that is what we signed on to.

00:25:22.040 It's what the international community is signed on to.

00:25:24.400 In fact, some of the biggest emitters in the world, China, has a 2060 target.

00:25:29.300 India has a 2070 target.

00:25:31.080 So I think 2050 is one that's achievable.

00:25:33.840 And talking to the industry associations and the companies that are providing electricity

00:25:38.020 and other types of productions,

00:25:40.420 they're all looking towards a carbon neutrality by 2050 target.

00:25:44.260 For the Minister of Environment,

00:25:46.560 who doesn't know a single thing about our power grid in Alberta,

00:25:49.140 who has no constitutional authority for electricity,

00:25:53.560 to pull out of the air an arbitrary target, it's unacceptable.

00:25:57.240 I can tell you he's dead wrong.

00:25:59.160 We are phasing out emissions.

00:26:01.200 We're not phasing out fossil fuels.

00:26:03.500 And I find it appalling, as do most Albertans,

00:26:06.500 that he is co-chairing a committee with China that has a 2060 target,

00:26:12.800 China that is adding two coal-fired plants a week.

00:26:17.100 So he is working with China on a less aggressive target

00:26:21.460 than he is trying to impose on Alberta.

00:26:23.780 And that is unacceptable.

00:26:25.380 That's the reason why we have drawn a hard line saying,

00:26:28.160 we have a plan for 2050, which is more aggressive than China. 0.92

00:26:31.780 And we already have coal phased out of our grid, which China does not.

00:26:36.940 And we're going to continue working on carbon capture utilization and storage

00:26:40.480 in order to phase out emissions.

00:26:42.680 But let's be clear, we are not phasing out fossil fuels.

00:26:45.680 And that's exactly the reason why Stephen Gibbo is antagonizing our province so much.

00:26:51.000 Not only is electricity provincial jurisdiction,

00:26:53.680 but management and developing our resources is our jurisdiction too.

00:26:58.280 We can work on common cause on emissions reduction,

00:27:00.740 but we are not phasing out this industry.

00:27:03.360 You know, Danielle Smith had better be careful.

00:27:04.920 Even though she's LGBTQ friendly, she'll surely be denounced by Trudeau. 0.99

00:27:11.020 It wouldn't surprise me if Freeland puts out some sort of travel advisory warning

00:27:15.000 telling people not to visit Alberta.

00:27:19.180 Stay with us for more.

00:27:20.120 Hey, I just got back into Canada yesterday.

00:27:33.580 I'm still a little bit jet lagged.

00:27:34.980 I had two Red Bulls and a coffee this morning.

00:27:37.540 I'm trying to get an even keel.

00:27:40.820 Hey, you know, the Tamara Leach trial is starting next weekend. 1.00

00:27:43.800 Unfortunately, I'm going to be out of town for now.

00:27:45.520 I'll be able to do some journalism from afar.

00:27:47.260 But we've got a good team who's going to be on the ground led by one of our new teammates,

00:27:52.060 who I haven't even properly introduced to you yet.

00:27:54.280 And I'm sorry about that.

00:27:55.500 His name is Robert Kraychuk.

00:27:56.740 You probably have seen some of his videos.

00:27:58.460 He's doing a great job.

00:27:59.940 And he's going to be covering the Tamara Leach trial every single day.

00:28:03.840 He's based in Ottawa.

00:28:05.040 We're also sending some other folks as reinforcements.

00:28:07.620 And I understand that Alan Hauner,

00:28:09.420 the director of litigation for the Democracy Project,

00:28:11.900 will be there sort of live tweeting it.

00:28:13.580 We're taking this trial very seriously.

00:28:15.420 And, of course, Rebel News has published Tamara Leach's autobiography,

00:28:20.900 and the Democracy Fund is paying for the legal bill.

00:28:23.000 So lots of stuff there.

00:28:24.400 So I mentioned all that because that's coming up.

00:28:26.700 But I mentioned that because you're going to see a lot more of Robert Kraychuk.

00:28:29.780 And I thought I would show you this video that he recorded last week

00:28:33.020 just to give you a sense of the man.

00:28:34.900 Here, take a look.

00:28:35.460 Robert Kraychuk here in Ottawa, Ontario for Rebel News at the Capital Pride Parade.

00:28:45.740 We're going to see what's up, what people are doing here.

00:28:48.400 We're going to try to speak with some of the attendees, participants,

00:28:51.020 perhaps some of the performers,

00:28:52.520 ask them about what I call the LGBTQ enterprise campaign operation,

00:28:56.460 whatever you want to call it,

00:28:57.420 and share some interesting news with you folks over there in the audience.

00:29:01.320 Stay tuned.

00:29:13.900 For a moment, and I really just want to know,

00:29:15.700 the audience wants to know,

00:29:17.040 Gary, what is important about Pride?

00:29:18.680 Why are you here?

00:29:19.680 What should people know about it?

00:29:20.780 What's the message, if any?

00:29:22.280 I think years ago was a protest.

00:29:26.460 It started as a protest and as a movement to ensure our rights and everything.

00:29:32.280 Now I think it's a party.

00:29:33.480 It's a way for everybody to come out and express themselves the way they want to

00:29:38.880 and just be happy and be comfortable being queer

00:29:45.140 or being whatever you are or whatever you think you are.

00:29:48.680 So you said a moment ago it was a protest.

00:29:50.500 Years ago when it started, Pride started, you know, 40 years ago.

00:29:55.180 It was more of a protest and more of a fight for our rights and everything.

00:30:01.940 But now it's more of a party, I think.

00:30:04.100 But I don't want to put words in your mouth.

00:30:06.280 You said the word comfort.

00:30:07.500 So the comfort was lacking decades ago and has now been achieved or secured?

00:30:11.940 It's much better than it had been, but we will never get, you know, in my lifetime,

00:30:19.940 I don't think we'll ever get to a point where there's no discrimination

00:30:25.400 and there's no bigotry and everything like that.

00:30:28.000 But it's much more comfortable now being, I mean, I couldn't do this 50 years ago

00:30:35.800 and I can now.

00:30:38.040 Any of you people want to do an interview with me for Rebel News?

00:30:42.260 After our show?

00:30:43.800 Sure.

00:30:44.180 We're done at 4.

00:30:45.200 4.30.

00:30:46.000 4.30?

00:30:46.680 No, we're done at...

00:30:47.480 We're done.

00:30:47.960 Very soon.

00:30:48.840 Totally want to get your thoughts to why you're here, like what Pride means to you,

00:30:51.640 what you're getting out of it, where you might have come from if we're not from Ottawa.

00:30:53.980 What is it for?

00:30:55.040 Which I like.

00:30:55.600 I'm with Rebel News and I just want to get participants' views

00:30:58.180 or share their thoughts to why they're here, what they're doing, what it means to them.

00:31:02.460 I'm going to say no, thank you.

00:31:05.240 I'm going to have to pass.

00:31:06.140 I'm not feeling sure.

00:31:06.480 It's a shame because you guys look so good on camera, man.

00:31:09.340 The outfits are like...

00:31:10.340 Quick little video note.

00:31:11.620 I was about to do an interview with a few ladies who were gracious enough to accept 1.00

00:31:14.780 an opportunity to share their thoughts with the Rebel News audience

00:31:17.040 as to why they're here, what Pride means to them.

00:31:19.480 And they were informed by some minder, let's call her,

00:31:22.800 not to proceed with the conversation.

00:31:24.420 Obviously noticed the Rebel branded mic and told people not to speak with me.

00:31:28.700 So, to be continued.

00:31:29.980 You want to talk to us?

00:31:30.900 What do you do?

00:31:33.220 Do you want to interview with people at Pride?

00:31:35.640 Yeah, we'd love to get your thoughts if you want to talk to us.

00:31:38.880 What's her name?

00:31:41.740 Amber M. Robert.

00:31:43.280 Anyway, if you do change your mind, if you want to talk to us, what are your thoughts?

00:31:46.240 So, I'm here with Ana and Shauna, who were gracious enough to speak with me for a moment.

00:31:50.700 Do you mind if I get in the middle of you two ladies? 1.00

00:31:53.080 So, why don't you tell our audience...

00:31:56.000 Ah.

00:31:56.160 One quick observation I want to share with you folks in the audience

00:32:15.560 is the massive corporate sponsorship of this entire Pride event here in Ottawa.

00:32:20.120 All the big box stores, all the big corporations, whether it's Staples or Starbucks or Shopper's Drug Mart,

00:32:28.040 TD Canada Trust, you name it.

00:32:29.440 They're all doing the rainbow flag messaging.

00:32:33.560 They're all pushing this inclusivity campaigning.

00:32:37.500 And you can just see that top-down direction, that corporate flavor to the entire event.

00:32:42.600 So, across that time, you have a good depth of experience.

00:32:47.560 You've got these horizons that you've seen over time.

00:32:50.440 And maybe you can share with us, have there been things there that you really loved,

00:32:53.060 things you didn't like, things that occurred with these Pride parades that you found maybe wrong,

00:32:57.760 you weren't down with, you found to be excessive?

00:33:00.260 What were the things that were the highlights?

00:33:01.680 What were the most amazing parts?

00:33:03.320 Maybe you can indulge us with that.

00:33:04.400 Like, just things that really stood out with you in terms of changes you observed and experienced

00:33:07.880 across your years attending these Pride parades.

00:33:10.860 Well, I would certainly say there's nothing been excessive.

00:33:16.900 I can understand how people will say that things have been excessive.

00:33:21.640 But, I mean, you see some of these people wandering around today, and you would call that excessive.

00:33:28.780 But, you know, we don't think of that way anymore, right?

00:33:31.640 And I think it's wonderful.

00:33:33.260 I think it's wonderful to see these younger people just expressing themselves this way

00:33:39.740 and being able to do it freely and without reservation.

00:33:44.140 And so I think it's...

00:33:45.780 I have no complaints.

00:33:51.260 Hey, welcome back.

00:34:03.960 Your Letters to Me.

00:34:04.780 This is about my monologue on Monday about the book launch.

00:34:09.220 Buster Rogers says,

00:34:10.720 Jacinda Ardern can't even go out to a cafe in her own country without being heckled. 1.00

00:34:14.840 Make no mistake, she's the most hated person in New Zealand.

00:34:17.660 You know, it's tough for me to get a read on it.

00:34:20.480 I was only in that country for a few days.

00:34:22.420 But I think the only reason she left is because she felt she would be fired if she wasn't. 0.99

00:34:28.640 Zane Hojepa says,

00:34:29.760 Brian Temeke is a good man tarred by the media who, unfortunately, even many freedom fighters seem to believe.

00:34:35.960 Whatever the man believes, his actions reflect that of a good, honest man who has been campaigning against liberalism for years.

00:34:42.900 Way to go, Brian.

00:34:43.780 I had the pleasure of meeting him.

00:34:45.800 That's the leader of the Destiny Church group of churches.

00:34:49.140 He's a Maori man.

00:34:51.120 He's a Christian man.

00:34:52.160 And he's the head of the Freedoms NZ Party, which, I don't know, I was really impressed with him and his church.

00:34:59.460 And they really were contrarians and dissenters during the COVID pandemic.

00:35:03.440 I really like them.

00:35:06.120 Joe Brorsma, 7419, said,

00:35:08.560 Avi's shirt is genius.

00:35:10.440 Oh, that one that said Kia Ora, North Korea.

00:35:12.640 Kia Ora is the friendly Maori way of saying how do you do and welcome.

00:35:16.560 Well, I'm glad you liked those episodes.

00:35:19.060 I mean, I was glad to go down there to see what New Zealand is like and to be back in Australia with Avi.

00:35:24.520 It's a very long distance to go.

00:35:26.360 And I always feel guilty from missing my show.

00:35:29.140 But I did manage to crank out a few from down there.

00:35:31.320 So that's our show for today.

00:35:33.880 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:35:38.820 And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - August 30, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Trudeau Liberals issue a warning against travelling to the United States (I’m serious)

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