Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Tim Hortons says it's done lobbying for foreign workers — but the records say otherwise

00:00:00.080 Hello, my friends. I'm so mad at Tim Hortons. They are such liars. And I just don't think

00:00:05.320 you can lie that much in 2026 in the era of social media and instant fact checks. They

00:00:11.540 are lying when they say, hey guys, no more temporary foreign workers for us. Yeah, it's 1.00

00:00:16.900 just a lie to hope that you don't switch to Dunkin' Donuts. I'll take you through the

00:00:20.740 lies, including with written proof that they were lobbying for more foreign workers as

00:00:26.580 recently as seven days ago. I'll show you all that, but first let me invite you to become a

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00:00:44.080 News because we take no money from the government, and it shows. Tim Hortons is lying to you again.

00:00:49.860 I've got the proof in writing. It's May 25th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:57.540 Shame on you, you sensorious bug.

00:01:09.180 Hey, did you see the news? 0.90

00:01:10.740 Very important news for snackers like me.

00:01:13.700 Dunkin' Donuts is returning to Canada.

00:01:16.720 They're a big company, especially in the States,

00:01:18.920 but around the world, including in South Korea, for example.

00:01:21.840 they've got 14,000 stores and they have affiliates. For example, they are connected to

00:01:28.440 Baskin Robbins. I didn't know that. Now they're coming back to Canada big time. They're planning

00:01:33.900 on opening an enormous number of stores. And oh, suddenly, and I'm sure this is totally by

00:01:40.200 coincidence, Tim Hortons has had a revelation. They were wrong, you see. So they had a carefully

00:01:49.020 crafted message that they leaked to the Globe and Mail. They want to say that they're moving away

00:01:56.540 from temporary foreign workers. They're not letting them go. They're just moving away from 0.98

00:02:02.480 them. And the Globe and Mail was very happy to launder this press release. Let me read a little

00:02:06.920 bit from their breathless story. Restaurant chain, Tim Hortons is planning to dial back its use of

00:02:14.080 Ottawa's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, to staff restaurants and commit to hire up to 10,000

00:02:19.920 local workers as it embarks on a push to expand the number of Tim's locations across the country

00:02:25.620 this year. I wonder what they mean by local. I'll get back to that. The chain's new approach to

00:02:32.380 hiring is a stark reversal from its previous tenor. For years, Tim Hortons was one of the

00:02:37.760 biggest proponents of the TFW program, a controversial immigration stream that expanded

00:02:42.740 in popularity during the pandemic and came to symbolize some of the failings of the Trudeau

00:02:47.040 era immigration strategy. Restaurant Brands International Inc., Tim Horton's parent company,

00:02:52.920 is also pledging to stop lobbying the federal government to expand the temporary foreign

00:02:57.980 mortgage program, citing the high youth unemployment rate. Hey guys, they really care and it's got

00:03:02.780 nothing to do with Dunkin' Donuts coming to town. Quote, we have not lobbied the government since

00:03:09.460 last year and we won't be lobbying them on temporary foreign workers anytime soon oh so

00:03:16.820 so you still will in the future given our commitment to hire locally everywhere possible

00:03:23.400 said duncan fulton chief corporate officer of restaurant brands by the way tim horton says

00:03:28.920 long ago ceased to be a canadian company as you may know they're owned by a hedge fund in brazil

00:03:34.080 called 3G. Mr. Fulton noted that wages for Tim Hortons workers are the same, regardless of

00:03:40.340 whether franchise owners hire a local or foreign worker. I'll stop quoting the propaganda there.

00:03:46.240 Tim Hortons is a deceiver. They're a deceptive advertiser. As I just mentioned, they are not 0.64

00:03:50.740 Canadian. It's a Brazilian company. I've had a beef with them ever since 10 years ago.

00:03:57.100 They banned ads from within their building. They used to have little video ads on their screens

00:04:03.180 in their in their stores they banned oil sands ads because it wasn't ethical enough that was

00:04:09.140 enough for me for tim hortons uh to say goodbye and as you can see that would be that was probably

00:04:14.440 thousands of dollars they've lost over the course of time anyways um they say they're not lobbying

00:04:19.940 anymore for now wasn't that a weird way to put it and we're not going to lobby anytime soon

00:04:24.080 but they're lying about that i'll prove it to you in a moment i will show you proof of them lobbying

00:04:30.840 um now by the way just literally days ago they said they couldn't survive without temporary

00:04:36.460 foreign workers they they kept on repeating the lie that they could only get foreigners

00:04:40.820 to work as if every person in my generation didn't love their first job working typically

00:04:46.800 in retail I remember I was 14 years old I went to work at the local it's actually called Callaway

00:04:51.840 Park it was an amusement park and of course I worked in food service what else would I have

00:04:56.400 the skills for when I was 14. It used to be a great job for teenagers, but now it's a great

00:05:01.020 job for people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s from foreign countries. So now they're saying they're 0.94

00:05:06.520 going to hire 10,000 local workers. That word local. What does local mean? Isn't that a trick?

00:05:16.540 Is a local worker someone who happens to be in the neighborhood but is a foreign student?

00:05:24.740 I'll get back to that. 0.97

00:05:25.560 These are slippery fish, these Tim Hortons liars.

00:05:27.920 Anyways, have they really stopped lobbying? 0.58

00:05:30.580 They say they haven't lobbied in a long time.

00:05:33.980 You sure about that?

00:05:36.320 I went on the Lobby Canada registry.

00:05:39.340 This is where corporate lobbyists are required by law to disclose and register what they were doing.

00:05:44.920 And as you can see here, their CEO, Joshua Kobza, from Restaurant Brands International, that's the parent company.

00:05:55.780 So we're talking about the big boss himself.

00:05:57.420 And look at this date, 2026-05-18.

00:06:01.760 That's May 18th, 2026.

00:06:05.160 That's literally seven days ago.

00:06:08.440 Subject matter details.

00:06:11.520 Immigration.

00:06:12.240 they were lobbying seven days ago they were lying they just lied again let me read it to ensure

00:06:21.100 that the labor challenges small business owners face in the restaurant industry are taken into

00:06:25.660 consideration during consultations or development of policies they're lobbying about immigration

00:06:30.520 they're lobbying as recently as literally seven days ago they're liars and they're lying about 0.55

00:06:37.460 stopping to lie. But look at this. This is from a memo they sent to the liberals in 2024. So this 0.84

00:06:44.020 is a slightly older document, but it gets to that point I mentioned about local workers. What's a

00:06:49.100 local worker? Is that like a legal term or anything? So let me read from this, and this is

00:06:54.580 obtained by an access to information document. This was something that was submitted to the

00:06:59.780 immigration department from Tim Hortons. These were their demands. And the last one is super

00:07:05.980 important to understand their lives today. So as you can see, I'm not going to read every word,

00:07:10.400 I'm just going to read the subject headings for the different paragraphs. Change the current 20%

00:07:18.000 cap on temporary foreign workers back to 30%. So they wanted to increase the number of foreigners

00:07:24.620 they could hire from 20% to 30%. That was their goal. And get this, this is so arrogant, so gross.

00:07:33.240 They wanted to introduce a dedicated food service stream with a pathway to permanent residency. 0.54

00:07:43.140 So basically, they wanted to turn Tim Hortons into an immigration agency.

00:07:49.140 So if you got hired by Tim Hortons, it wouldn't just be a job.

00:07:53.760 You would get your permanent residency. 0.91

00:07:56.740 Tim Hortons would basically be selling immigration to the third world. 0.99

00:08:02.620 you'd have to do your term of duty at Tim Hortons but then you could become a citizen

00:08:07.120 they were actually selling our citizenship to save a few pennies per cup of coffee

00:08:14.040 Tim Hortons is so so gross look at this point three and this is their list of demands introduce

00:08:21.700 a permanent foreign worker permanent the chronic restaurant labor shortage is not temporary but

00:08:28.740 rather it's permanent they say so this isn't about some seasonal demand like temporary foreign

00:08:33.260 workers as the name temporary suggests is for example when you need a bunch of men to harvest

00:08:39.640 a crop quickly for a few weeks but then you don't need them the other 50 weeks of the year i remember

00:08:45.660 20 years ago meeting a man south of albert south of calgary who brought in the same group of mexicans

00:08:51.860 every year for about two or three weeks just to pick all of his saskatoon berries and then they

00:08:57.100 would go home they worked hard because he needed a bunch of men quick and then he didn't need them

00:09:02.160 for the rest of the year that is that sort of makes sense for a temporary foreign worker obviously i

00:09:06.960 would want canadians to have those jobs first but these were not permanent workers tim hortons wants

00:09:14.400 a permanent displacement of canadian workers so their brazilian hedge fund owner can save a few

00:09:20.700 cents a cup of coffee but here is the gross part and this is the part that you need to understand

00:09:26.040 to unlock their lies today. Again, I'm going to read from their document. The cap on international

00:09:33.780 student hours. So understand this. A foreigner comes to Canada allegedly to go to school. Many

00:09:39.120 of the schools they attend are not real schools. They're what called diploma mills. You pay them

00:09:43.160 20 grand, they'll give you a junk diploma. And you can say, I'm a student, but really you're 0.95

00:09:48.220 immigrating to the country. So they call those international students. The cap on international

00:09:53.520 student hours worked should be increased to 28 or 30 hours per week. We recognize that the

00:09:59.620 international students are here for an education first. It's the opposite, isn't it? And foremost, 1.00

00:10:05.160 however, the housing crisis and the cost of living is making it difficult for them to make

00:10:09.080 end means. We really care about these people. We strongly believe that the 28 or 30 hours worked

00:10:15.700 per week is a reasonable amount that benefits both the students and the employers, and it still

00:10:20.120 allows them to focus on their studies. Oh, Tim Hortons cares so much. You know, 30 hours a week

00:10:27.120 is practically a full-time job. I mean, seven hours a day times five days is 35 hours. So it's

00:10:34.740 basically a full-time job. Do you see what they're doing here? An international student is really

00:10:40.200 a temporary foreign worker that doesn't show up in the temporary foreign worker numbers,

00:10:45.140 that doesn't have to have a labor market impact assessment first.

00:10:49.360 There are more international students working at Tim Hortons

00:10:53.080 than temporary foreign workers.

00:10:54.820 And so their announcement today is simply trickery.

00:10:57.300 They're going to shift towards those international students. 1.00

00:11:00.500 That's what they're doing here.

00:11:01.920 Tim Hortons lies, you know.

00:11:05.700 They need to delete their brand and start again.

00:11:08.240 It's like Bud Light in America or Jaguar.

00:11:11.900 Have you seen those ad campaigns?

00:11:13.160 absolutely destroying billion-dollar brands. Whoever is behind these decisions to put foreigners 1.00

00:11:20.020 first has destroyed something beautiful. Tim Hortons used to be truly as Canadian as anything

00:11:25.260 you can imagine. The words Tim Hortons were synonymous with Canada. Now they're synonymous

00:11:30.900 with favoring foreigners over our own citizens, with poor quality, by the way, poor hygiene,

00:11:37.260 and with disrespecting their customers. I've never seen such a strong Canadian brand be so

00:11:42.980 destroyed as what they've done here you know people cheered when we took our billboard truck

00:11:48.480 to a tim hortons recently did you see this clip to really drive home the message that tim hortons

00:11:54.900 temporary foreign employment should not be a pathway to citizenship the act for alberta

00:11:59.940 billboard truck managed to navigate the drive-through and send a message to onlookers

00:12:05.740 but also everybody inside that tim hortons is fueling a crisis of unemployment in canadian

00:12:11.940 youth. I believe the single worst offender of the temporary foreign worker program is Tim Hortons.

00:12:18.920 They drape themselves in Canadiana and patriotism and nostalgia while importing an underclass of 1.00

00:12:27.260 temporary foreign workers that drive down wages and drive up the cost and scarcity for everything 0.99

00:12:33.540 else. To sign our petition, please go to timsboycott.com. You know, Tim Hortons was a

00:12:40.180 real guy, as you know. If he himself were still alive, I hate to say it, but I think he would

00:12:46.800 demand that his name be taken off this gross, gross company. Stay with us more ahead. 0.62

00:13:03.640 Well, they say the mainstream media covers all the stories. Yeah, covers them with a pillow until

00:13:08.780 they stop breathing. My point is, some things are easier for them to cover than others. I know my

00:13:13.620 friend in Montreal, Alexa Lavoie, for example, she would cover the massive pro-Hamas protests

00:13:19.520 outside the large Catholic basilica, the big church in town, and how they would have their

00:13:25.800 mass prayer right at the foot of the church. A shocking move of territorial dominance,

00:13:32.180 not a religious act, but a political one, and something that deeply offended so many Quebecers.

00:13:37.900 but Alexa Lavoie was almost the only journalist to cover it. Why? Her videos received hundreds

00:13:44.380 of thousands of views, which tells me that many Quebecers wanted to see that news. So why

00:13:49.000 would the regime media, the mainstream media, not show that? I mean, journalistically,

00:13:54.880 it would be valuable. Commercially, it would be valuable to mark the record of what happened. Why

00:13:59.840 would they not do it? Well, it's a complicated answer. There's probably a lot of answers. One

00:14:05.040 They didn't want the hassle from an increasingly stroppy group of Islamic activists. 1.00

00:14:10.700 They didn't want to be targeted.

00:14:12.440 I remember more than 15 years ago when the Danish cartoons of Mohammed were published and caused riots around the world.

00:14:19.760 I spoke to a very senior manager at Post Media.

00:14:23.080 It was called something different back then.

00:14:24.560 I said, why are you not publishing these cartoons?

00:14:28.100 Why are you not standing in solidarity with the handful of us who did?

00:14:31.560 I was at the Western Standard at the time.

00:14:33.080 And this big boss, I won't name him, said, we have more than a dozen offices around the country.

00:14:39.940 If we were to publish those cartoons, it would cost us, he gave me an estimate, hundreds of thousands of dollars in security for all their sites.

00:14:48.240 It was simply fear, either fear of physical violence or fear of political hassle or legal hassle these days, or simply just fear of being called Islamophobic.

00:14:58.760 Which brings us to the topic of this interview, something extremely newsworthy happened in the last few days, something that you would think every newspaper would cover from the CBC on down, or would you say the CBC on up?

00:15:11.900 But in fact, it was only our friends at Juno News who were there and an outstanding young journalist named Melanie Bennett. 0.97

00:15:17.160 It was the meeting, a conference, in fact, of the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Committee, a shocking event, several of whose speakers were turned away at the border because of their foul associations, their terrorist rhetoric. 0.81

00:15:31.520 Joining us now via Zoom to talk about what she saw is our friend, Melanie Bennett.

00:15:36.840 Melanie, great to see you again.

00:15:38.580 Thank you for having me.

00:15:39.560 Thank you for calling me a young journalist.

00:15:41.620 Well, everyone's young to me.

00:15:44.840 I'm just having fun.

00:15:45.980 no listen it's uh you are seasoned uh in in terms of your your focus and i think you take on

00:15:52.820 complicated subjects so you have uh uh more seriousness than your years would betray uh

00:15:59.580 now tell me a little bit about what you did because it did make news in the wider media

00:16:04.680 when some of the more radical speakers at this muslim public affairs committee were turned away

00:16:09.420 but i didn't see anyone else and maybe i missed it i didn't see anyone else actually

00:16:13.720 look at what happened with the conference that attended you you tracked it you filmed it you

00:16:22.000 recorded it you wrote about it take it away tell us what happened well before the mac convention

00:16:30.220 there was a fair amount of media or reporting on speakers from this conference who had been

00:16:39.100 turned away at the border or didn't receive a visa for entry to Canada. And that was because

00:16:47.180 of some of the affiliations or links that they have to organizations that are either considered

00:16:52.280 extremist or possibly designated as terrorist entities in other countries, including the Middle

00:16:57.340 East. And I thought, well, why not go listen? Why not go and see if it's, you know, something to be

00:17:06.760 concerned about. And so I purchased a ticket and I went and I listened to the different speakers

00:17:12.740 over the three days. It was the Victoria Day weekend. So when everybody was out enjoying the

00:17:17.160 30 degree weather, I was at the conference listening to the different speakers. And I have

00:17:22.460 to say that it was enlightening to say the least. Well, I'm so glad you worked that long weekend.

00:17:30.460 Thank you for that. Let me just stop for a second and ask you about what it was like. If you had

00:17:35.400 some if you have some tradecraft you don't want to give away then don't answer my question but

00:17:40.180 for example did you attend with a hijab or a niqab or did you go with your hair uncovered i'm just

00:17:45.680 saying you may well have stood out again if you want to keep your secrets so that you can use them

00:17:51.300 again feel free to mention it now but i for some reason i thought you were auditing this via a zoom

00:17:57.000 camera at home but but you actually attended in person didn't you no of course not i went in person

00:18:01.920 like this is a conference for the public and there's no reason for the public not to attend

00:18:07.420 so like I said I purchased a ticket I dressed in a respectful manner with you know modest clothing

00:18:13.000 and a hijab I used my name I have no reason to be hiding I was there to honestly I was there to

00:18:19.460 learn and quite I did learn and I'll say the interesting thing is that I attended the Muslim

00:18:28.000 association of canada convention which had very little security they were not concerned and for

00:18:32.380 all of the talk of islamophobia and oppression and so on so forth they didn't have any concerns

00:18:38.140 at all they was very relaxed nobody you know i was obviously a white woman in in hijab nonetheless

00:18:44.060 but you know a white woman i didn't attract any particular kind of undue attention one person who

00:18:49.340 stopped me and had a conversation with me asked me if i was a muslim i said no i was just being

00:18:53.360 respectful and he was like mashallah very cool um so it you know there was no concern over me being

00:18:59.260 there which is fine why should they you know they're just holding a convention why should

00:19:02.180 they be concerned but the interesting thing is on the saturday on the sunday pardon me um i

00:19:08.080 attended only for half a day the mac convention and then i sped over to the tafzik anti-zion

00:19:13.320 world uh world anti-zionism conference and let me tell you that was a different scene altogether

00:19:18.260 the security was tight they you know checked id there was um police and security there was protests

00:19:24.980 and you know people speaking to those protesters it was very very very different environment and so

00:19:31.380 for me that was quite that was quite the contrast to experience those things two of those things in

00:19:35.860 the same day you're so right to point that out whenever there's an anti-semitic incident i feel

00:19:41.100 like some of the islamist groups in canada feel the need to jump in and say oh islamophobia too

00:19:46.460 and this has caught on amongst white politicians who it's as if they cannot say the word

00:19:51.740 anti-semitism without immediately saying and islamophobia so a synagogue gets shot up oh

00:19:59.220 we have to stand on guard against anti-semitism and islamophobia why why did you bring that in

00:20:04.820 are you trying to offset what has happened to the jews by and as you point out there's no security

00:20:10.620 necessary. There's not, we haven't had a three-year anti-Muslim crime wave where literally

00:20:17.180 every day a synagogue or a school gets vandalized or even shot. It's so gross, the attempt to 0.94

00:20:24.620 dilute what's happening to the Jews. And it sounds like you observed that firsthand. 0.92

00:20:30.180 But let's get back to the conference. Some of our viewers might be familiar with the name

00:20:36.200 Hassan al-Banna. Now, that's a name that's not in current events, but it's in history.

00:20:41.920 Tell me who Hassan al-Banna is, why he was praised so much as a role model at this conference,

00:20:48.200 and what it might mean for Canada in 2026. Well, listen, I'm not a Muslim Brotherhood 0.99

00:20:53.460 scholar, but I can tell you that Hassan al-Banna is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood

00:20:57.280 in the 1920s. And as a young man, he decided to return to a more fundamentalist Islam after the

00:21:03.720 fall of the ottoman caliphate it was a great insult to the uh the caliphate the islamic nation 0.64

00:21:08.820 they didn't have political power and so he uh rose up through the ranks pushing a very politicized

00:21:14.780 islam um and during the on the last day actually i at the last minute i was actually going to go to

00:21:21.700 a different session but at the last minute i thought i'm going to go to this uh youth activism

00:21:27.200 lab called visionaries of the umma visionaries of the umma that's correct and the people leading

00:21:34.440 this uh it started with 20 25 minutes uh speech or promotion of the muslim brotherhood by an

00:21:41.900 individual called khalid al-qazaz of cmpac the canadian muslim public affairs council

00:21:47.000 um which is a lobby organization essentially and they work on policy and pressuring the government

00:21:52.920 for for Islamic affairs Muslim affairs and he gave a 20-25 minute impassioned speech encouraging the

00:21:59.960 young people so 12 year olds 14 year olds all the way up to young adults to take on the example of

00:22:06.960 Hassan al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood um and and that that would be an example for their life

00:22:12.820 how to how to lead a good life as a Muslim and that was followed on uh by some other another

00:22:19.000 session another lady who i haven't published on yet but at the end of the other session in this

00:22:24.080 whole visionaries of the ummah they asked the children what is your vision of the perfect ummah

00:22:29.860 where are we going wrong how can we do better this is like a vision board and you know people

00:22:34.460 are on their phones answering what what their vision of a perfect ummah and as part of that

00:22:38.460 you know you have justice you have diversity of all kinds of words like this but it also included

00:22:44.680 the word Jew free, which attracted no particular pushback from anybody in the room. And by the

00:22:52.200 way, there's so little concern about me being there or so little security. I just take pictures

00:22:56.420 of it, you know? And this is what I shared on X. Here, let's show that on X. Let's take a look

00:23:01.320 right now. I mean, that's just sort of incredible. It's not a reference to Israel. There's a photo

00:23:06.400 right there. So these are the words that would have been the size of them, I presume, refers to

00:23:12.160 how often they were said so united justice strong those would be the most common words but

00:23:17.100 jew free jew free jew free that's the youth and like i have to say after 20 minutes of priming

00:23:25.340 about the muslim brotherhood and by the way the the youth the young people in the crowd they knew

00:23:29.660 exactly exactly what that was and they were responding appropriately to the questions being

00:23:33.640 asked about the brotherhood in albana um after being primed with that that's when they answered

00:23:38.000 that the perfect government was Jew-free.

00:23:39.680 And so that's very, very concerning.

00:23:42.720 And again, size refers to how many times it was referenced.

00:23:46.720 So justice united and strong are bigger, 0.87

00:23:48.700 but Jew-free is as large as peace or freedom or diverse. 0.69

00:23:52.860 And Jew-free is not a comment on Gaza or Israel.

00:23:57.140 It's not an international matter.

00:23:58.980 They're not using the fake euphemism of Zionism,

00:24:03.900 which they could say, oh, no, no, no, we got another day as Jews. 0.90

00:24:06.420 We're just anti-Zionists. 0.96

00:24:07.420 Here, they're just saying it. It's the Jews. Or as it was said in German, Judenrein. One of Hitler's projects was to make Europe Judenrein, which means clean of Jews, Jew-free. They really are using the same language. And no one bats an eye. 1.00

00:24:28.420 No adults in the room. Nobody said anything. This was not a natural. Why should they respond? It was a question of, well, why would anyone respond? This is totally normal. There's nothing unusual going on in the room.

00:24:37.980 That's just unbelievable. And they may achieve their goal, by the way, either through violence

00:24:47.100 or through driving out the Jews from Toronto, from Canada. It's a fact that most of Arabia 1.00

00:24:54.220 is a Jew-free zone. There were Jews, even in Saudi Arabia, even in Afghanistan, in Egypt, 1.00

00:25:01.560 in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, all of those places are Jew-free zones. So when they say that's their 0.99

00:25:09.620 goal, it's not just a look into their heart, it's a reflection of what they have done over the last

00:25:16.200 1400 years in other places. There are also Christian-free zones. I mean, Constantinople 0.91

00:25:22.480 is now called Istanbul. There's not a lot of Christians anymore. Jew-free today, Christian-free

00:25:27.200 tomorrow, I suppose. Let me ask you, was there any criticism of Christianity or was there any 0.99

00:25:32.100 antipathy towards Christianity that you saw over the course of the weekend? No, so I didn't see

00:25:36.720 that. I did, however, it's funny you bring up the Middle East and being generally Jew-free and 1.00

00:25:42.280 generally Christian-free because one of the big lamentations throughout the several days was

00:25:45.660 this idea of colonialism and how that's a terrible insult to the Islamic nation, the Ummah,

00:25:52.420 just Islamic nations yeah they talk about you know their Umar they talk about how can they bring that 0.97

00:25:59.700 forward how can they impose that how can they bring basically Sharia into into Canada right 0.94

00:26:04.400 so there was a lot of talk about colonization and how terrible that was but no I and Islamophobia

00:26:10.880 there's a lot of talk about Islamophobia but I didn't hear any see the thing is about these

00:26:15.560 speakers is that the language that they're using is more carefully crafted. And I must say,

00:26:23.040 they speak very much a social justice language of freedom, of justice, of equality, inclusion,

00:26:30.940 and all these things, but they do it in service of the UMA, if you want to call it that, right?

00:26:37.920 And so I learned that they very much speak the language of the left, but they don't share the

00:26:44.000 same dictionary and so it's been very clear to me why the left likes these guys so much and so

00:26:49.120 the speakers aren't necessarily out there saying things like Jew free in this conference this is

00:26:54.420 why this came from young people they're not as careful with their language you know they haven't 0.70

00:26:58.280 been trained and so on so forth so you kind of have to read into what's being said I mean one

00:27:02.720 of the clips that I posted on X I don't know maybe it's too long to play but a speaker who

00:27:08.220 was banned from the country, who participated on Zoom, I believe his name was Khalid Hanafi, 1.00

00:27:14.860 or I think that was his name, he was talking about the fact that too many Muslims had a nation 0.95

00:27:22.600 consciousness, as in they cared too much about the nations that they lived in, and that they

00:27:27.200 had to develop more of an Oma consciousness, or an Islamic nation consciousness, and so this is

00:27:32.460 kind of what I mean, like it's more couched, but you have to sort of understand what they're saying,

00:27:36.940 But what they're saying is reject the idea of Canada, reject the idea of Britain, reject the idea of Europe.

00:27:42.140 Like, you know, forget these. You need to have an Ummah consciousness. 0.71

00:27:45.800 You would need to advance the Islamic nation, right? 0.99

00:27:49.060 That's what you have to prioritize above all else.

00:27:51.440 So you have to understand what you're listening to when you hear these sessions.

00:27:55.760 Here, let's play a clip of that that you posted on your Twitter account.

00:27:59.660 Let's take a look right now.

00:28:01.580 I hate the word integrate. 1.00

00:28:03.640 this is a tool used to beat the muslim community with we don't need to

00:28:08.180 we need to abide by the law we need to abide by the law 0.99

00:28:12.180 we're british canadian american citizens we don't need to try harder

00:28:17.220 or to live by whatever means in order to prove ourselves

00:28:21.340 more and more people here in the united kingdom their opinions are changing as a result

00:28:25.860 you can see it in america who would have thought tucker carlson of all people

00:28:29.800 would end up becoming one of the biggest advocates

00:28:31.980 for Palestine today.

00:28:33.280 All the likes of Candace,

00:28:34.340 all the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, 1.00

00:28:35.960 where when AOC, who used to be a darling,

00:28:38.800 AOC goes after Marjorie Taylor Greene 0.88

00:28:40.880 and people flip an AOC. 0.65

00:28:42.260 They tell her, hey,

00:28:43.120 you were able to hug Biden in a genocider. 1.00

00:28:45.060 Don't do a purity test on Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:28:47.720 May Allah forgive you.

00:28:48.900 At the same time,

00:28:50.160 it's an imagination that told us,

00:28:52.620 how do you forget your own rights?

00:28:54.220 That you're a minority. 1.00

00:28:55.940 Do you even deserve these rights? 1.00

00:28:57.880 And so when something happens,

00:28:59.200 I mean, subhanAllah, right before, in between these two sessions, I was checking in with some parents

00:29:04.540 who are dealing with Islamophobia at their school in which their students are being targeted

00:29:09.600 simply because they're Somali and simply because they're Muslim.

00:29:12.980 So the secularization of our faith has allowed us to really think about religion just belonging in private spaces.

00:29:20.200 Religion being confined to your own private life as opposed to the public.

00:29:24.160 Something that's within your heart and not meant to be shared. 0.91

00:29:26.920 something that's within the masajids but not lived out practically in the society that you're part of 0.93

00:29:31.380 subhanallah but then at the same time it disconnects our understanding of how we understand our rights

00:29:36.600 i mentioned earlier about how is allah that give you islam that gives you islam and at the same

00:29:42.820 time brothers and sisters islam expects you to be an angel of change you know there's an interesting

00:29:49.340 statistic that i've heard many times in the united kingdom that more british muslims went to the

00:29:55.300 middle east to fight for isis which stands for the islamic state then join the british army 0.72

00:30:01.060 which is just astonishing and i think they're following this point about don't join your nation

00:30:05.780 join the islamic nation the islamic state the umma is very interesting to me um you know you talked

00:30:12.100 about how they're one thing actually before we move on to this topic another thing that you might

00:30:16.700 your audience needs to be aware of is that one another band speaker who who was there on zoom

00:30:21.660 after a question by the audience asking about how do we infiltrate the western wolves and he did say

00:30:27.820 the western wolves um the part of the answer was listen let's not let's stop talking about

00:30:33.100 integration i want to i want to stop talking about we we don't assimilate we don't integrate 0.92

00:30:38.020 we follow the law and that's it this is just a cudgel used to beat muslims with right so and

00:30:44.560 then another speaker in the same session said he sort of disagreed he said well no we need to 0.63

00:30:48.700 integrate, but we must not assimilate. And so they're being very clear if you pay attention

00:30:53.980 to what they're saying. And so we have to ask ourselves as Canadians, as Westerners,

00:30:59.480 we have our own system of laws and culture and so on and so forth. And are we willing to defend

00:31:04.220 that from people who want to use those systems to impose their own? Here, let's play a quick

00:31:08.960 clip of that. So I would like to address some questions because I actually think they cover,

00:31:14.640 subhanAllah, like broadly, what all of the speakers have spoken about today. And I will read the

00:31:19.680 questions as they are, and then I will summarize them and invite, inshallah, to our speakers to

00:31:25.260 speak. So the first question was, how is young, born, and raised Canadians? Can we apply ourselves,

00:31:32.680 especially in politics, to infiltrate the Western world? Well, it's very interesting because

00:31:38.180 there is a measure, in the States, I've heard it called the Red-Green Alliance. You can see

00:31:43.740 it ilhan omar uh who's a radical in her own way but she's right at home with far left i'd say

00:31:50.180 communists you sure can see it in the uk where their green party has two co-leaders one is a

00:31:58.120 secular gay jew and the other is a radical muslim who dresses even though he's born in sheffield 0.91

00:32:04.140 dresses in the full pakistani garb you've just got this bizarre alliance for now they both believe 0.98

00:32:11.400 in destroying the West. What it looks like afterwards is a huge difference. It's either a 0.94

00:32:16.580 Sharia law or a total gay environmental utopia. I'm pretty sure I know which one of those is going 1.00

00:32:22.360 to win if the battle gets kinetic. But in the meantime, they both hate the UK. And in Ilhan

00:32:28.640 Omer's case, she hates the US. I think we're seeing a lot of that here, but they've just so far

00:32:34.580 kept it fairly quiet. I mean, you have to go to one of their conferences to hear it.

00:32:39.460 was there any other media there i mean i presume there was some media from local muslim

00:32:43.780 uh news sources but i i i know without even asking that you were the only

00:32:48.360 english journalist there is that right if there was i'm not aware yeah maybe there are other people

00:32:56.900 no i you know i didn't even need to answer that ask that question i know the answer to that

00:33:01.140 well um do you think you'll be allowed to attend future conferences like that now that

00:33:05.900 you know your name and your face are associated with your critical but accurate reporting um do

00:33:11.640 you think they're confident enough that they would say sure come on in it's not like anyone's

00:33:14.960 going to stop us or do you think they would say oh uh there's a loose end here got to keep her out

00:33:19.640 listen this is not the first time that i've done this and people call it infiltrate i'll just

00:33:25.600 point out there's no infiltration here i thought right in you're walking in the front door with

00:33:29.840 real name going to a thing right i know i was fully aware i didn't hide my name i'm not i have

00:33:36.180 no secrets to keep um so i knew full well going in that if i was going to write about it afterwards

00:33:41.760 that there will never be an opportunity for me to do this ever again i'm aware of that

00:33:47.440 however if other citizens would like to do a similar thing i would encourage you to but i

00:33:53.480 would also encourage citizens to remember that we can sit at home complaining about things or we can

00:34:00.700 actually participate in our own uh democracy our own cities our own municipalities and so on so

00:34:07.220 forth right like we can actually go there's no reason why you can't do these things um i have

00:34:12.920 to point out that this organization they are not street um street protesters they are not screaming

00:34:19.560 and shouting um they're very well educated you know they're very well spoken the crowd was very

00:34:25.640 polite i mean even the questions they they didn't even raise their hands in that question they wrote

00:34:30.320 them down on a piece but everything's very civilized you know so so no i don't think anyone

00:34:34.960 should be afraid of engaging civically with with people we may agree or not disagree with

00:34:39.980 you know it's not like i walked in there and started shouting at people i listened very

00:34:43.840 respectfully and so i i would encourage other people if you're curious you you should do it

00:34:48.800 Yeah. Well, I appreciate you saying that. That said, it did take a lot of courage for you to do so. You didn't know how it would go and you went anyway. So congratulations. Great journalism. The story, it's in Juno News. Headline exclusive. Islamic Youth Session Promoted Muslim Brotherhood Activism Model. And I should say that the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in many countries as a terrorist group. Melanie Bennett, great work. Thanks for coming on the show.

00:35:13.120 Thank you, Ezra.

00:35:13.960 Our pleasure. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.

00:35:17.400 oh hi guys we interviewed melanie bennett about an hour ago and when she finished the interview

00:35:23.360 she sent us a note that the conference that she had attended was lashing out at her condemning her

00:35:29.640 and claiming that the jew free comment wasn't from them it was actually perhaps written by her

00:35:36.540 so crazy such a pack of lies proving she was close to the target wow wow wow i mean no one 0.90

00:35:43.660 shoots at a dead duck. I think she was doing a great job there. And it's clear to me that the

00:35:48.240 conference didn't want their secrets exposed. Just wanted to add that little addendum.

00:36:02.080 Hey, but it's great to be back in town. I was in Ireland for a couple of days because I'm always

00:36:06.000 interested in freedom of speech. And there's a real battle going on, especially for that Kirk

00:36:10.760 loco the fella who tweeted an accurate tweet about a migrant man sexually harassing a 14 year old

00:36:17.340 girl and he's the one prosecuted for tweeting about it not the migrant man very interesting

00:36:22.300 um came back was in toronto for the annual meeting of the canadian coalition for firearm rights

00:36:29.900 i was there along with a table full of rebels showing our support for sheila gun reid who was

00:36:36.380 their keynote speaker. Isn't that great? It was fun to have Sheila out here. It was fun to have

00:36:41.220 the Rebel team supporting her. And boy, was it great to be amongst friends. Here's an image from

00:36:45.740 that day. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel

00:36:51.500 World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:06.380 Thank you.

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