Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Tim Hortons bans Rebel News nationwide over Temporary Foreign Worker questions

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I got a threat letter sent to me by Tim Hortons. I'll read it out to you

00:00:04.760 and I'll read you my response. Let me give you the short version. Yeah, we're not scared.

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00:00:23.960 One more thing.

00:00:30.000 Tonight, Tim Hortons threatens to sue us

00:00:43.560 if we keep asking their managers questions.

00:00:47.020 It's June 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:49.900 You fighting for freedom! 0.98

00:00:52.840 Shame on you, you censorious thug! 0.99

00:01:00.000 Oh, hi, everybody. Great to see you again. My visit the other day to Tim Hortons has caused 0.99

00:01:10.260 a domino effect. A lot of things happening. I want to talk a little bit more about it because

00:01:15.500 it wasn't just a little visit to Tim Hortons with our billboard truck, which was pretty fun.

00:01:19.940 It's about larger issues, including temporary foreign workers and the role of foreign workers

00:01:25.180 in Canada, mass immigration, how universities have turned into diploma mills, Tim Hortons itself has

00:01:32.940 turned into an immigration agency, but also about how corporations manage the message and in some

00:01:39.540 cases threaten journalists talking about things. Anyways, I want to just repeat for you a little

00:01:44.480 bit of what I did when I went to the Tim Hortons, very close to our office, to ask them about the

00:01:49.440 fact that they had publicly said they're going to lean away from temporary foreign workers

00:01:54.900 towards local workers. And the reality, which was right now, there's about 90 different Tim

00:02:01.040 Horton stores that are actively advertising on the government's temporary foreign workers

00:02:05.360 help wanted page. How could you reconcile those two? So I went in there and I'm not going to

00:02:12.220 replay the whole thing. It was a 20 minute video, but I just want to show you a few things because

00:02:16.200 we received a threat letter from Tim Hortons. And I want to refresh your memory about a few

00:02:23.400 facts. Let me start off by when I walked into the Tim Hortons, I went straight to the cashier

00:02:29.020 and I didn't talk to her about big public policy issues. I immediately asked for the manager.

00:02:35.420 I wasn't going to talk with a frontline, lower level employee, put them in a pickle talking

00:02:41.240 about things. I asked for the boss and she introduced me to the boss here. Let me show

00:02:45.360 a little bit about how I introduced myself, spoke to the manager, and said who I was with,

00:02:52.660 said why I was there. Take a look. Are you the person to talk to about this

00:02:56.600 at Help Wanted ad? Are you a client? No. I'm with Rebel News. I want to ask a little bit about it

00:03:01.460 because this is a temporary foreign workers position, and I thought Tim Hortons was done

00:03:07.680 with temporary foreign workers. So at the restaurant level, we have nothing ready to say

00:03:11.900 about it so did you take out this ad or was this corporate no i have no idea where it is from are

00:03:17.640 you still hiring temporary always you see the you see the flag what it says what does it say

00:03:23.180 it's clearly okay whoever want to come apply apply but how about foreign nationals like i can't

00:03:30.140 comment on any of that well but if you're if you're still hiring foreign whoever comes and apply

00:03:35.200 apply the Tim Hortons always having but maybe there was a big announcement by

00:03:40.300 the corporate boss and and I went online and it looks like around 90 stores like

00:03:46.360 yours yours is one of them it's hiring specifically for foreign workers is that

00:03:52.180 a decision you made no it's not about just reading what we're saying is that

00:03:55.420 the sun is open anybody can come apply but this this is from I printed this off

00:04:00.220 like one hour ago this is from the government's temporary foreign workers account we have nothing

00:04:07.900 just to comment on that well you did you do that because it says labor market impacts us

00:04:12.220 i have nothing to comment on that someone from your team also no hi i was asking your colleague

00:04:18.940 here about this job wanted for restaurant manager this location for a foreign worker

00:04:25.980 and i i thought you guys were done doing that like i said i don't know maybe maybe there's

00:04:32.300 you look like a boss man kind of guy do you know do you know about this is about 90 different

00:04:36.860 locations including this one so this one here says that this location is hiring foreign workers and

00:04:46.700 you specifically lmia and labor market impact assessment so it's not like random you guys are

00:04:52.220 Trying to get foreign workers here.

00:04:53.780 I just want to know how that squares with corporate statements the other day.

00:04:57.520 Yeah, this is my first time seeing this.

00:04:59.980 So we don't have any comment on it at this point.

00:05:03.880 There's 90 locations doing this.

00:05:06.540 This is one we popped by.

00:05:08.740 Yeah.

00:05:09.380 What do you think?

00:05:10.200 Does this catch you by surprise?

00:05:12.360 I'm not going to share anything today.

00:05:13.820 So it's not a surprise.

00:05:15.100 I won't play that whole interaction, but it was clear that I was talking with the senior managers,

00:05:20.000 the general manager, someone from head office. And by the way, they didn't give any useful

00:05:25.840 information to me. And they said, we want you to leave right away. And I said, okay, I did leave

00:05:33.260 because I'm a respecter of private property. Here's how that looked. I'm going to talk to

00:05:37.680 some folks outside to see what they think about this. We're the landlord of this location. And

00:05:41.600 we ask that you absolutely do not do that. You do not have permission to do that. And we actually

00:05:46.100 at this point i'm just going to ask you to leave altogether leave what altogether this property

00:05:50.100 okay you're not going to interpret with our guests i didn't say i was going to interfere

00:05:53.380 no you're not going to have no so i don't think i did anything wrong there by the way i interfered

00:05:59.620 with no one i didn't get in anyone's way it was not busy at all that location is largely a drive

00:06:05.740 through location they didn't block anybody i certainly didn't raise my voice or use any rough

00:06:10.620 language um i was just asking genuine questions i even had a little bit of a sense of humor about

00:06:15.720 the guy being a big guy or whatever. Um, they offered no answers whatsoever, even though they

00:06:20.500 were senior management. Um, and, uh, when I did engage with their customers, I didn't do so on

00:06:26.720 their property. I did so on the street. They were looking at our big, beautiful billboard truck and

00:06:31.800 I waved some of them over. I talked to them for maybe 30 seconds each. Here's a sample. I just

00:06:36.900 want to show to you that far from harassing or upsetting their customers, every single one of

00:06:43.080 them felt sort of enthusiastic to talk to me. Here, take a look. We're talking about Tim Hortons here

00:06:48.680 and they're hiring. They said they were going to hire Canadians, but they have ads hiring

00:06:53.600 foreign workers. Do you think they should hire Canadians? They should hire Canadians for sure. 0.99

00:06:58.340 They said that they were going to hire Canadians, but I saw this ad online right now for foreign

00:07:03.000 workers. I think Canadians should have first crack of the jobs. What do you think? You know what, 0.99

00:07:06.360 man? Indians, they killed it. I'm telling you right now, they come from there. They try to 1.00

00:07:11.040 study. And at the end of the day, you see them at Tim Horton, McDonald's and other fast food,

00:07:15.480 you know. So I hope one day this get controlled and they fix it for sure for the Canadians.

00:07:21.320 You know what? Tim Horton's announced that they're going to hire Canadians, which I think is great.

00:07:25.800 But here's an ad from this Tim Horton saying they want to hire foreign workers. What do you think? 0.94

00:07:30.460 Do you think they should hire Canadians or for Canadians? 100% Canadians. Do you agree? 1.00

00:07:35.640 yeah i got two young kids they can't find part-time work and they've applied everywhere and

00:07:41.880 that's all i see is foreign workers everywhere from tim hortons to home depot everywhere everywhere

00:07:47.480 do you think they should hire canadians or temporary foreign workers canadians i think

00:07:51.400 so do you agree yes i think it's sort of crazy that they're that they're not hiring canadians

00:07:55.800 there's a lot of canadians who need work yeah i have a lot of people that i know the young young

00:08:00.120 kids that they want job they cannot get a job this store here is still advertising for foreign

00:08:05.240 workers i think they should hire canadians first what do you think obviously yes canadians must

00:08:09.800 comes first canadians love everyone but we need to take care of our own first my friend david

00:08:15.160 menzies did something similar at another tim hortons now there were a couple of people who

00:08:19.560 didn't like david and shouted at him that he was a donald trump supporter i didn't quite get that

00:08:25.240 part but it had nothing to do with his questions about tim hortons here take a look you take pictures

00:08:30.440 Of course, I'll have you in court. 0.99

00:08:32.120 Get the f*** away from me. 0.97

00:08:33.400 What would the charge be, ma'am? 1.00

00:08:34.720 You interrupted me. 1.00

00:08:37.440 Get lost, you pig. 1.00

00:08:39.540 Why am I a pig? 1.00

00:08:42.600 Get out of this country. 0.98

00:08:44.800 But I was born in this country.

00:08:46.980 You're not acting like it.

00:08:48.700 Why?

00:08:49.220 Because we have a problem with temporary foreign work? 0.98

00:08:51.420 Get away from me. 1.00

00:08:52.480 Hey, watch it.

00:08:53.460 Get away from me. 1.00

00:08:55.200 That's not very ladylike. 0.99

00:08:56.660 I bet you if you bought a business, you'd probably hire your family members, wouldn't you? 1.00

00:09:02.840 Yeah, but your family member would be a citizen, not a foreigner. 1.00

00:09:07.760 What, these people aren't citizens? 1.00

00:09:09.800 Correct.

00:09:10.840 Well, you got, do you have, show me some information that they're not citizens.

00:09:14.420 Well, that's how you would qualify under the temporary.

00:09:16.260 You're one of these people that want to separate this country, aren't you?

00:09:19.300 Separate this country from, I don't understand.

00:09:21.380 well you just want to create argument confusion because we're standing up for canadian citizens

00:09:30.180 show me that they're not canadian citizens sir we can we can give you the federal government

00:09:34.500 show me show me okay come to the truck it's printed on the truck i have got time well you

00:09:40.100 asked her to show you now you don't have time you don't have time for you okay then have a nice day

00:09:45.060 So I went to Tim Hortons and I had 100% supportive reaction from customers.

00:09:51.460 And as you saw, I left the restaurant when I was asked to, even though I was doing nothing wrong.

00:09:55.700 I respected their right to boot me out.

00:09:58.280 Since then, our colleague Tamara Ugolini did a similar story. 0.90

00:10:02.760 And you'll see that she didn't even set foot in the Tim Hortons.

00:10:06.820 She was outside on a sidewalk and yet Tim Hortons still called police.

00:10:13.120 Here, take a look at that.

00:10:14.260 Well, it's never a dull day at a Tim Hortons location in Canada.

00:10:17.760 We are at super rural Havelock, Ontario, and the police, the OPP, have been deployed onto us for the dangerous criminal activity of asking questions on a sidewalk.

00:10:31.040 Just straight shoe leather, sidewalk journalism, asking people whether or not they think Tim Hortons should prioritize temporary foreign worker hiring or hiring Canadians first.

00:10:42.320 They called police. Tamara is probably the nicest person at Rebel News. Well, there's a lot of nice people at Rebel News, but she's so inoffensive. She's not a threat to anyone. She's physically, she's just a friendly mom who asks questions about the world. That's journalism.

00:11:00.880 And she didn't even go into the Tim Hortons, let alone on their property, let alone do anything.

00:11:06.540 And Tim Hortons called police.

00:11:08.560 That is crazy.

00:11:10.820 And I don't think that's media relations.

00:11:13.720 I think that's some sort of weird attempt to intimidate us.

00:11:17.820 And I spoke to Tamara today about it.

00:11:20.480 And I should tell Tim Hortons, which is now obsessively watching our videos, Tamara Ugolini was not scared by you.

00:11:27.580 She was not dissuaded.

00:11:28.840 She knows she was within her rights.

00:11:30.380 She knows she was doing legitimate journalism, and I think you just look super thin-skinned.

00:11:36.460 I'm talking to Tim Hortons right now.

00:11:38.240 But I want to let you know that we have received a threat letter from Tim Hortons, from John

00:11:47.200 Domanco, their vice president in charge of legal things.

00:11:51.560 I'm going to read pretty much most of the letter to you.

00:11:54.380 Some of it's a little repetitious.

00:11:55.600 He starts off by saying, I represent Tim Hortons, the TDL Group Corp, the licensor of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada and for many locations, the head lessee or property controller.

00:12:08.040 OK, so he's representing them, not just the company, but that they happen to own the parking lot or whatever.

00:12:15.220 apparently he said rebel news personnel have demonstrated a pattern of attending tim horton's

00:12:21.320 restaurant premises and confronting team members and guests on camera without consent and without

00:12:27.460 warning you know um we in at least in my video i don't think i've watched all our tim horton's

00:12:34.940 videos but i showed every single interaction i had and every single person i spoke to

00:12:42.980 was happy to talk to me and consent.

00:12:46.060 I'm talking about the customers now.

00:12:47.740 And in terms of the managers who I spoke with,

00:12:50.240 I talked to them as long as they were willing to talk to me.

00:12:52.400 And then I laughed.

00:12:54.060 Tim Hortons is making it seem like we were hiding in the bushes

00:12:57.720 and scared the heck out of them.

00:12:59.740 By the way, when people talk to you, when they engage with you,

00:13:04.680 that is consenting by their conduct.

00:13:07.940 When I was there, no one said stop

00:13:10.400 other than when the managers finally asked me to leave, which I did immediately, by the way.

00:13:15.620 I'll continue. I mean, I think they're exaggerating. I think maybe that this lawyer,

00:13:19.960 he's either exaggerating or more likely Tim Horton's managers are giving him a revved up

00:13:25.760 version of events. I'll keep reading his letter though. He said, this conduct intimidates young

00:13:31.740 employees, distresses guests, and disrupts lawful businesses. Well, let me stop there for a moment.

00:13:38.860 but every word of that is a lie. I didn't intimidate anyone. We didn't distress any

00:13:46.340 guests. In fact, you saw the friendly guests who were delighted to talk to us. I acknowledge

00:13:51.260 that a couple of Tim Hortons guests hated David because they thought he was a Trump supporter,

00:13:57.220 but it wasn't because he was asking questions about Tim Hortons. We did not at all disrupt

00:14:03.180 their lawful businesses. I say again, I didn't block anything. There was actually no customers

00:14:08.360 uh coming or going from the restaurant like there was no lineup whatsoever that's a lie

00:14:15.800 now i don't know if this uh vp legal of tim hortons knows he's lying or if he has been lied

00:14:22.080 to by the managers but we didn't disrupt anything there in fact our journalism was disrupted i'll

00:14:29.760 read a little bit more based on past requests rebel news is clearly aware of how to contact

00:14:35.400 TDL's communications team, thus approaching team members for the purpose of provoking a reaction

00:14:41.040 on camera rather than seeking comment from those authorized to give it, serves no legitimate news

00:14:46.620 gathering purpose. Yeah, we don't take advice on how to do journalism by a donut boy. I'm sorry.

00:14:53.300 I mean, you focus on making donuts and coffee and we'll focus on journalism and we don't need

00:14:59.360 your consent in a free country to ask questions. The reason I went to that specific Tim Hortons

00:15:05.120 was pretty obvious because that specific Tim Hortons was right then advertising on the

00:15:11.560 government of Canada's temporary foreign workers page. While they were saying they were hiring

00:15:15.980 local, at the same time, they had an ad calling for foreigners. And I asked the general manager

00:15:22.380 and I asked the operations manager and both of them stonewalled me. I was absolutely doing

00:15:28.800 legitimate journalism. And I'm not going to stop because some donut lawyer says that's not a

00:15:34.920 legitimate purpose. Who are you to tell me I can't ask you accountability style questions when you

00:15:41.380 are clearly doing one thing and saying another? I'll keep reading. They say legitimate inquiries

00:15:47.820 as if they get to tell me what's a legitimate question or not. Legitimate inquiries about

00:15:53.220 Tim Hortons can be directed to our communications team at any time. Well, I hope so because I wrote

00:16:01.300 them a long letter that I'm going to read to you today. Now, here he comes to the threat. He says,

00:16:06.760 now, therefore, take notice. I wonder if he knows that we're not really intimidated by fake legal

00:16:14.400 tough talk. I mean, now, therefore, take notice. I'm a former lawyer myself. It's not my first

00:16:21.880 rodeo dealing with corporate cowards who don't like to ask questions. I mean, seriously, I had 0.88

00:16:28.360 your operations guy there and he wouldn't tell me a thing here's a flashback to that do you know

00:16:33.960 do you know about this is about 90 different locations including this one so this one here

00:16:41.380 says that this location is hiring foreign workers and you specifically lmia and labor market impact

00:16:48.820 assessment so it's not like random you guys are trying to get foreign workers i just want to know

00:16:53.920 how that squares with corporate statements the other day. Yeah, this is my first time seeing

00:16:58.500 this. Um, so we, we don't have any comment on it at this point. Um, there's 90 locations doing

00:17:05.160 this. Okay. This just is one we popped by. Yeah. What do you think? Is this, does this catch you

00:17:10.740 by surprise? I'm not going to share anything. So it's not a surprise. Yeah. I, uh, I'm going to

00:17:15.720 keep asking him questions. I'm sorry to say, but here's the threat letter. Now take therefore,

00:17:20.480 Now, therefore, take notice that under the applicable provincial trespass legislation in each province and territory, that one, Rebel News Network and all persons acting on its behalf, including but not limited to Ezra Levant, are not for any purpose other than ordinary patronage as a paying guest.

00:17:38.460 and never for the purpose of filming, confronting, or recording team members or guests.

00:17:43.740 Permitted access to the premises, including parking lots, landscaped areas, and drive-thrus

00:17:48.240 of any Tim Hortons restaurant in Canada, any and all distribution facilities owned or operated by

00:17:53.820 TDL across Canada, and the Tim Hortons offices in Montreal, Calgary, and Toronto. Did you see

00:17:59.840 that I'm still allowed to go and buy Tim Hortons coffee and donuts? I have not had Tim Hortons

00:18:07.980 coffee or donuts in more than a decade i actually stopped drinking tim hortons and i love the

00:18:13.220 chocolate glazed donuts as you can see but i stopped uh going there about 11 years ago when

00:18:20.060 they put a boycott on the alberta oil and gas sector you might recall that about 11 years ago

00:18:25.420 tim hortons had little tv screens inside their shops where they would run paid ads it was just

00:18:31.000 a little way for them to make money and that back then enbridge was proposing to build a safe clean

00:18:36.940 modern high-tech pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast of BC. And they took out really soft

00:18:42.540 sell ads in Tim Hortons, which is great because Tim Hortons, you know, basically the oil patch

00:18:47.940 in Alberta runs on Tim Hortons coffee. But some environmental extremist said to Tim Hortons,

00:18:53.620 hey, that's, how dare you? And Tim Hortons actually issued a statement saying they were

00:18:58.420 taking down the oil patch ads because their morality, their code of ethics was not in sync

00:19:03.520 with these ads so half the customers of tim hortons especially in northern alberta work for

00:19:08.800 the oil patch but because some radical environmentalist who probably doesn't even go to

00:19:12.860 tim hortons said boo to them they condemned and defamed the entire oil patch and took down those

00:19:19.600 ads well i made a decision there you might even remember we had a bit of a campaign to boycott

00:19:23.980 tim's coffee never to patronize them again and you can just tell by looking at my physiology that

00:19:30.640 That has cost Tim Hortons thousands of dollars.

00:19:33.680 By the way, I've discovered that McDonald's has excellent coffee,

00:19:36.780 much better than Tim Hortons, and they got good breakfast food too.

00:19:40.220 So yeah, thanks very much, John, but I am not going to patronize your coffee.

00:19:45.660 I found better donuts and coffee around.

00:19:47.900 Now, they also have a paragraph right under that saying that David

00:19:50.880 is even banned from going for coffee and donuts.

00:19:54.440 So I'm allowed to go for coffee and donuts, but not David.

00:19:59.260 and I'm sure that he is nursing his wounds over this.

00:20:02.440 Let me keep reading, okay?

00:20:03.740 He says, in the event that the above is violated,

00:20:06.960 for any reason, we will report the trespass to police

00:20:10.260 and pursue all available remedies,

00:20:12.240 including charges under the applicable act

00:20:14.500 and civil action.

00:20:16.260 No further warning will be given

00:20:17.780 and you are advised to govern yourself accordingly.

00:20:21.760 Our guests, restaurant owners, and their team members

00:20:24.640 deserve to be treated with respect.

00:20:26.620 okay john please don't lie please don't lie we treat everyone with respect in fact we treated

00:20:34.100 not only your customers but your staff with more respect than we were treated we asked them

00:20:39.780 respectful questions here let me just play about 30 seconds of the questions i put to your team

00:20:44.920 take a look how you doing good thank you good can i talk to the manager can i talk to the manager

00:20:50.940 It's about the job posting?

00:20:53.940 Sure, let me get it.

00:20:55.940 Hi, how you doing?

00:20:57.940 Good, I'm Angela Vance.

00:20:59.940 I'm Cousin.

00:21:00.940 Hi, Cousin.

00:21:01.940 That's my friend.

00:21:03.940 I've talked by to talk about this restaurant manager position.

00:21:07.940 Are you the person to talk to about this at Help Wanted Act?

00:21:10.940 Are you applying?

00:21:11.940 No, I'm with Rebel News and I want to ask a little bit about it

00:21:14.940 because this is a temporary foreign workers position

00:21:18.940 and i thought tim hortons was done with temporary foreign workers so at the restaurant level we

00:21:24.180 have nothing ready to say about it yeah those are respectful questions and i was stonewalled and

00:21:28.660 asked to leave you know i'm not hurt my feelings aren't hurt about it but just don't lie and

00:21:33.940 pretend that we did things we didn't do 100 of the staff uh which are 100 of the customers i

00:21:40.360 spoke with were delighted to talk with me um i'm not scared about a mega company based in brazil

00:21:48.600 because Tim Hortons hasn't been owned by Canadians in a very long time.

00:21:53.020 They're owned by a Brazilian hedge fund called 3G.

00:21:56.680 I'm not scared of you threatening us with litigation.

00:22:00.360 I'm just not.

00:22:01.340 We do this all the time, and our viewers would look very skeptically

00:22:07.740 at some big thuggish corporation that thinks the right way

00:22:11.240 to answer our questions is to call the police on us,

00:22:15.220 even though that's exactly what they did to Tamera Ugolini.

00:22:19.780 Tim Hortons demands respect, but they don't treat us with respect.

00:22:24.260 They don't tell the truth.

00:22:26.560 They don't answer questions at all.

00:22:29.560 They're not immune from public scrutiny.

00:22:32.400 They're subsidized by the government, so they should answer questions.

00:22:36.640 They're breaking the law with their fraudulent use of the local market impact analysis

00:22:43.460 and their temporary foreign workers program. 0.98

00:22:45.780 They're using international students as staff

00:22:48.300 and they're demanding, in fact,

00:22:50.080 they lobbied for international students

00:22:52.460 to be able to work even more for them.

00:22:54.660 They actually demanded to be treated

00:22:56.060 like some sort of immigration agency

00:22:58.320 where they could take people from foreigners

00:23:00.420 to permanent residents all the way through

00:23:02.160 to basically citizenship. 0.72

00:23:03.820 They wanted to turn Tim Hortons

00:23:05.940 into a kind of immigration agency.

00:23:08.080 This was in an access to information request

00:23:10.100 released in 2024.

00:23:12.360 Tim Hortons is one of the most unethical companies in Canada.

00:23:16.180 And I don't even want to use the word Canada for them.

00:23:18.560 They're not even a Canadian company.

00:23:21.140 But let's pretend that they have a legitimate quarrel with the way we do our news.

00:23:25.880 They don't.

00:23:26.740 They're just thin-skinned bullies who think that we're going to jump 0.63

00:23:29.700 because they use a few legal phrases.

00:23:32.220 I'm going to ask them in the next two minutes about 20 questions.

00:23:37.020 I emailed these to Tim Hortons earlier today.

00:23:39.780 I doubt I'll get a single one answered. And by the way, John, we're going to continue asking

00:23:46.720 your customers if they agree with your anti-Canadian policies. So you should probably

00:23:52.280 decide against calling the cops because you call 911 so many times with false alarms. They're

00:23:58.720 probably going to start treating it as, you know, the boy who cried wolf. Anyway, here's a letter

00:24:03.000 I sent today. Dear sirs and maidems, my name is Ezra Lavand. I'm president of Rebel News.

00:24:09.780 I was given your email address by one of your managers to whom I had put questions about your hiring practices.

00:24:15.100 Maybe you can answer my questions.

00:24:16.740 One, how many temporary foreign workers does Tim Hortons have?

00:24:21.180 Two, how many other foreign workers, such as international students or refugees, does Tim Hortons have?

00:24:27.640 Given that your marketing heavily uses the Canadian flag, do you think you're misleading customers?

00:24:33.560 Three, when you recently indicated

00:24:35.720 you were looking to hire 10,000 local workers,

00:24:38.540 what did you mean by local?

00:24:40.220 That isn't an immigration status.

00:24:41.960 Did you mean citizens or permanent residents?

00:24:45.080 If so, why don't you say so?

00:24:47.280 Four, at least 90 Tim Hortons locations

00:24:50.440 are still looking to hire temporary foreign workers,

00:24:52.940 according to the government's website.

00:24:55.120 Some of those jobs are entry-level positions

00:24:57.420 and some are manager positions.

00:24:59.560 How can you reconcile this with your public statements

00:25:01.880 to hire local. Five, who is responsible for choosing to hire temporary foreign workers 0.97

00:25:08.940 and putting those openings on the government website? Is it local branches or corporate?

00:25:14.820 Six, why have your managers been ordered not to answer any questions about this,

00:25:19.820 including who posted the ads? Seven, do you have any intention of taking those temporary

00:25:25.400 foreign workers ads or other foreign workers taking those ads down? Eight, given that youth 0.99

00:25:33.120 unemployment is skyrocketing nearly 15%, do you think you have a moral or patriotic obligation 0.54

00:25:38.660 to hire Canadians rather than foreign nationals? Nine, when was the last time Tim Hortons lobbied

00:25:45.640 the federal government? Who did the lobbying and who did they lobby for? And what did they lobby

00:25:50.480 for. What did they say? 10. I recently visited a Tim Hortons in North York. I was polite,

00:25:57.540 immediately introduced myself and asked to speak to the manager. When I was asked to leave the

00:26:01.540 property, I did. And yet your lawyer sent me a letter permanently banning me and other Rebel

00:26:06.180 News staff from attending at Tim Hortons, either your stores or head office, to ask questions and

00:26:11.580 banning my colleague David Menzies for life. Do you think that's an appropriate response to being

00:26:16.580 asked questions 11 more recently rebel news staff attended at two tim horton's locations in

00:26:24.200 ontario but did not set foot onto tim horton's property nonetheless tim horton's management

00:26:29.140 called the police on us what do you say the police in your calls did you exaggerate

00:26:34.560 what do you think we were doing that was illegal what remedy did you hope for from the police

00:26:41.960 Did you want our journalists arrested?

00:26:44.680 If so, for doing what?

00:26:47.380 12. In both cases, the police answered your call,

00:26:50.500 but after attending and reviewing the scene,

00:26:52.680 confirmed that we were doing nothing improper

00:26:54.220 and left without interfering with us.

00:26:56.200 Do you accept their decision that what we were doing was not improper?

00:26:59.280 Will you continue to call the police?

00:27:02.560 13. Do you think you're making proper use of limited police resources?

00:27:07.900 Do you believe your corporate PR challenges are an appropriate reason?

00:27:11.000 to take police away from other priorities?

00:27:13.760 Fourteen, why don't you just answer our questions?

00:27:16.480 I'm sure you have answers for everything we would ask.

00:27:18.840 And even if we didn't agree with your answers,

00:27:20.380 we would at least have your side of the story

00:27:22.640 and show it to our viewers.

00:27:24.140 Why wouldn't you do that?

00:27:26.560 Fifteen, when we ask people on the street

00:27:29.260 if they agree with your policy 0.83

00:27:30.520 of hiring temporary foreign workers,

00:27:32.680 100% of them say they think you should

00:27:35.340 hire Canadian citizens instead.

00:27:37.500 And many people refer to high youth employment.

00:27:39.240 Are you hearing the same thing from the public?

00:27:42.700 16. What do you have to say to people who have signed our petition to boycott Tim Hortons to try and win them back?

00:27:50.300 Last question.

00:27:52.240 If Dunkin' Donuts hires Canadian workers, are you worried that they will have a competitive advantage?

00:27:58.100 If so, why don't you preempt them now by doing so?

00:28:01.300 Or was that what your higher locals PR was about?

00:28:04.840 And then I ended by saying, thanks very much.

00:28:06.940 I hope you answer these questions.

00:28:08.260 They're all real questions to which millions of Canadians would like to hear the answer.

00:28:12.580 I'm happy to talk to you in person, via Zoom, or even by phone or email.

00:28:16.740 I just really think you should stop hiding behind no comment and calling the police.

00:28:20.800 It's not a good look for you.

00:28:22.200 Yours truly, Ezra Levant.

00:28:25.560 What do you think?

00:28:27.500 Do you think we've done anything that warrants police to be called?

00:28:31.160 What would police do?

00:28:33.300 Hopefully they wouldn't shoot us.

00:28:34.960 Would they handcuff us?

00:28:37.120 would they take us to jail would they charge us with some donut crime what exactly does him

00:28:46.100 tim hortons have in mind when they call police against us and why would the police attend are

00:28:52.900 they bored are they excited to go to a donut and coffee shop or did tim horton say something in

00:28:59.060 their 911 calls that panicked the police did they lie and exaggerate about what we were doing

00:29:05.620 I wonder. I have a message for Tim Hortons, though. If you think being a thug makes us stop,

00:29:13.900 you don't know Rebel News very well, but you're going to get to know us. Stay with us for more.

00:29:29.100 Well, as you know, I'm originally from Alberta, and in so many ways, the heart of Rebel News

00:29:33.440 is in Alberta, even though our studio is in Toronto. Sheila Gunn-Reed is our chief reporter

00:29:38.460 out there. She's also the head of a so-called third-party campaign group to make sure we can

00:29:43.860 get the facts out there for the Alberta independence referendum, or what's turning into a referendum

00:29:49.220 about a referendum. One of our friends out there who's been working with us in different ways,

00:29:54.940 for example, he comes on our live streams from time to time, and we just republished a new

00:30:00.160 edition of his book called The Sovereignist Handbook is our friend Corey Morgan. And he's

00:30:06.120 died in the wool Albertan, who has set up a third party group as well. And he's put up a billboard

00:30:13.280 by the side of the road near Tabor, Alberta, one of the most conservative places in the province.

00:30:18.640 The billboard is very innocuous. We'll put a picture of it on the screen now. There's nothing

00:30:24.340 coarse about the language there's nothing radical it it is you know i don't want to be mean but it's

00:30:30.480 a it's a bland message send ottawa a message choose alberta like there's there's nothing

00:30:36.120 offensive whatsoever there as you can see in the the fine print underneath authorized by

00:30:41.440 pathway to independence that's cory's group so it complies with all the rules

00:30:45.560 incredibly this sign has been threatened by the bureaucrats in Tabor joining us now to talk about

00:30:55.300 this is Cory Morgan. Cory can it be true is that Tabor one of the most right-wing places in the

00:31:01.780 world and they're mad with the most simple message send Ottawa a message like that how can you be

00:31:08.200 mad at that? I don't know of all the towns I you know it's not Nelson BC or something like that

00:31:14.500 i'd heard from others there's actually a big pro-life billboard in the town which everybody's

00:31:19.160 perfectly fine with but uh there'd been some complaints given to the town office and the

00:31:23.760 town office sent a letter to the company that hosts the sign and demanded that he remove it

00:31:28.720 and uh at this point you know it's still there where we're seeing how is it's an unreasonable

00:31:33.760 request and it's as you said a pretty innocuous bland sign i don't think it's setting a good

00:31:38.640 precedent if towns can start determining who may or may not advertise on private space during

00:31:44.360 campaign. I'm going to say innocuous, not bland. I didn't mean to say bland. I was just making the

00:31:49.080 point that you'd have to work pretty hard to be upset with that message. I mean, any, you know,

00:31:55.940 in all 10 provinces and three territories, I'm sure people like to send a message to Ottawa.

00:32:00.280 It's not an unusual thing to call for. You know, when it comes to freedom of speech, obviously a

00:32:06.200 private sign, you know, as long as it's not breaking the law of obscenity or something or

00:32:11.960 defamation it should be left alone in our jurisprudence over freedom of speech political

00:32:17.680 speech is deemed to be one of the most protected species of speech there is because it's not just

00:32:24.760 for the interests of the talker and the listening and the interest of the listener it's an integral

00:32:30.860 part of our democracy so for them to target this sign is sort of crazy but you know as these things

00:32:37.100 sometimes happen you know the the streisand effect cory that when people criticize something

00:32:42.220 all of a sudden it draws a lot of attention to it as what happens to barbara streisand's house in

00:32:47.060 malibu tell us about the streisand effect when some town bullies tried to get that sign taken

00:32:54.420 down it turned into something wonderful why don't you tell us well since this has happened i mean

00:32:59.760 i've done some things that are pretty rare i've done some legacy media interviews as well and

00:33:03.720 They typically like to pretend that our, you know, type of advocacy doesn't exist.

00:33:08.320 As well, I've had now donations of thousands and thousands of dollars with people expressly donating for me to put more billboards up around the province.

00:33:16.960 So I got another one that's live on Highway 1 over on the east side of Calgary, or the east side of Alberta, and I'm negotiating with a few other spots to get even more billboards going.

00:33:26.920 So our strategy is if you keep trying to get them banned, I'm going to keep getting donors and we're only going to spread farther.

00:33:32.100 And I can only thank the complainants for this because it really brought us into the scroll to reach out to that many more supporters.

00:33:38.880 Yeah, well, I tell you, I hope that the town of Tabor goes no further.

00:33:42.820 I think they made a mistake by sending a communication to the billboard company.

00:33:48.200 I'm glad so far the billboard company has held firm.

00:33:51.400 And I just don't – I think they need to be corrected.

00:33:54.680 But you did turn lemons into lemonade.

00:33:57.340 We have a – I mentioned a moment ago we have a third-party group as well.

00:34:00.640 Yours has done superbly well.

00:34:03.860 It's all public information.

00:34:05.660 It's all filed with the government.

00:34:07.600 So it's no secret for me to say, I think you've raised $26,000 on people coming to your aid.

00:34:13.720 Am I right?

00:34:15.520 That's what's on the Elections Alberta site.

00:34:17.460 And actually, we don't report yet all the donations under $50.

00:34:20.560 And we're still a day or two behind on that.

00:34:22.740 So actually, it's over $41,000 now, which was well and beyond in a week.

00:34:27.620 that we thought we'd raise a few thousand dollars and get a few hundred lawn signs out.

00:34:32.020 And this is people were obviously eager to find something to start moving a campaign along here.

00:34:36.860 So it's been fantastic.

00:34:38.340 Great. Well, good for you for standing firm.

00:34:40.100 And I saw on Twitter a picture of you just jamming your Hyundai full of lawn signs.

00:34:46.700 You know, it's a painstaking business delivering lawn signs,

00:34:50.900 but there's really no better way to meet people

00:34:53.200 because the people who take lawn signs are some of the best people around.

00:34:56.400 they're showing some courage uh have you been out and about delivering those because i remember

00:35:00.860 you know i'm 54 but when i was 29 half a lifetime ago i briefly ran for the canadian alliance i was

00:35:07.820 a candidate in calgary southwest to succeed preston manning before stephen harper came in

00:35:12.560 and going door to door you know it's it feels sometimes like you're a door-to-door salesman

00:35:18.220 it's sort of tough to screw together the courage to do it but when you're at the doors talking to

00:35:22.600 good people it is so rewarding you make so many friends just give me some tales from the from the

00:35:29.180 campaign trail you're out there delivering these signs what's the feedback like yeah well i haven't

00:35:34.600 been hitting the ground yet we got a big event tomorrow where people are going to be coming in

00:35:38.080 and picking them up off me because i've had hundreds of requests so i haven't started the

00:35:42.480 door to the door part yet uh but most of the the messaging from people was just thank you thank you

00:35:48.120 thank you i want to display support for this i want to see a campaign i can participate in and

00:35:52.900 help with i feel the same as you and they're just thrilled that that you know they could start with

00:35:57.820 that first little gesture by putting one on their lawn so as soon as those events for a lot of time

00:36:02.680 pick up or finished i've had people coming to my house to pick up signs for panoca and okatoks

00:36:06.700 already to bring them out to their neighbors out there uh it's going to be a lot of great

00:36:10.780 interactions to look forward to there's no doubt well congratulations and i just want to tell folks

00:36:14.980 of course, we have been fact checking, uh, largely the regime media, the legacy media

00:36:20.640 that has a very anti Alberta, uh, slant to it. So Corey, along with our own Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:36:26.520 have set up a website called Alberta fact check.com. And every day they are fact checking the

00:36:34.040 crazy things that come out, not just from the legacy media, but from pundits. And give me an

00:36:40.420 example of a recent fact check you've done, Corey, that just made you scratch your head

00:36:44.860 about how wrong the critics can be? Sure. I mean, well, one that just kind of came out an hour ago

00:36:52.100 was that somehow Stefan Dion and Kretzian emerged. Legacy Media tracked them down to wherever they're

00:36:56.680 hiding in retirement. And they're explaining to us that literally they called the Clarity Act

00:37:01.580 perfect legislation. They say it literally was perfect, it's flawless, and it's the best thing

00:37:06.540 they ever did uh you know considering it's anything but clear and it doesn't tell us

00:37:11.600 how many people need to vote to trigger a referendum and and that it doesn't involve

00:37:15.480 the senate and many many other questionable things but legacy media picks those quotes up

00:37:20.260 from them put them out on face value and people are supposed to say wow canada's got perfect

00:37:24.400 legislation to deal with that that's not one of the most egregious by any means uh thomas

00:37:28.920 lukastic that sheila who's regularly been correcting excellently who keeps saying that

00:37:33.780 He does those signatures not to trigger a referendum, but to put in a motion in the legislature.

00:37:41.920 And he's been on video multiple times and signed documents that said it's exactly what he wants to do is form a referendum.

00:37:48.260 So it's been great to be able to hold these guys to account.

00:37:50.680 Well, I'm really glad you're doing it.

00:37:51.940 And in addition to appearing on our live streams and working with us on your book, you also are with the Western Standard.

00:37:59.100 So you do journalism there.

00:38:00.900 So it's fun to have you sort of freelancing with us along with Sheila.

00:38:04.100 I think the two of you are very reputable, very moderate in your tone.

00:38:08.280 And I think you're doing a great job as fact checkers.

00:38:10.220 It's sort of fun to us, for us to fact check the mainstream media, because historically

00:38:15.500 they've tried to fact check us, but they're not actually fact checking us.

00:38:18.660 They're checking our opinions, which is a very different thing.

00:38:21.460 I think you're doing great work.

00:38:22.440 I was just so happy to see that the attempt to silence you has backfired so spectacularly.

00:38:27.580 So I wanted to say hi to you and thanks.

00:38:29.760 Keep up the great work.

00:38:30.900 Um, and, uh, you, you're a one man army looks like it, and it's fun to watch.

00:38:36.400 So thanks very much for coming on the show today.

00:38:39.060 Great.

00:38:39.520 Thank you again, Ezra.

00:38:40.460 I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

00:38:41.720 Right on our pleasure.

00:38:42.580 And by the way, if you're interested in Corey's book, you can find it on Amazon.

00:38:46.200 The book is called the Sovereignist's Handbook.

00:38:49.720 Corey's been at this for years.

00:38:51.820 Stay with us.

00:38:52.660 Your letters to me next.

00:39:00.900 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me about the terrible case in the UK

00:39:06.060 about young Henry Novak. Duck245 said these cops should go to jail and never see the light of day

00:39:12.980 again. It was disgusting watching them manhandle a wounded and dying teenager. 0.95

00:39:18.240 Just appalling, gut-wrenching. Oh my God, so terrible. HypocriticYT says a whole family of 0.97

00:39:25.460 criminals, jail and deportation required. Yeah, they all tried to cover up for him, the mom,

00:39:31.920 the rest of the family. And that was one of the reasons why the police didn't properly deal with

00:39:38.340 the man who was stabbed, because the family helped with the deception.

00:39:44.220 Don P says, as an American, I claim my pistol as a religious implement. Well, there are some states

00:39:50.160 in the United States where you can have what they call open carry of your firearm. There's other

00:39:55.400 places where you can have concealed carry i think as they say an armed society is a polite society

00:40:02.040 it's a tragedy what happened over there but that's because of inverted racist justice

00:40:08.680 we used to have anti-black and anti-minority racism i hate to say it now across the west

00:40:15.340 there's anti-white racism well that's our show for the day and for the week on behalf of all

00:40:21.280 us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 06, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Tim Hortons bans Rebel News nationwide over Temporary Foreign Worker questions

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