Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Toronto police investigate Rebel News for alleged 'hate crime'

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Crazy show today. I can't believe it. Rebel News is being investigated

00:00:04.780 by police for a hate crime. It's unbelievable, but it's happening. I'll tell you our plan to

00:00:10.940 fight back. I'd like to show you what we're being charged for. It's an ad that ran on a

00:00:18.040 billboard truck. So I want you to see it with your eyes, not just hear me describe it.

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00:00:42.300 right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:57.940 Tonight, Rebel News is being investigated by police for a hate crime. I'll tell you the

00:01:05.400 terrible details on how we're fighting back. It's June 20th, and this is The Ezra LeVance

00:01:10.280 Show.

00:01:10.560 You're fighting for freedom!

00:01:13.720 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:01:16.900 I've got some breaking news. It's another censorship battle, probably our biggest one ever. I need

00:01:32.400 your help to save free speech in Canada. The Toronto police are officially investigating Rebel News

00:01:40.680 for running these ads by local community activists on our Rebel News billboard truck. The ads were

00:01:48.000 created by a group called Canadians Opposed to the Occupation of Our Streets and Campuses. It's a bit

00:01:54.800 of a mouthful, but it tells you everything. They're anonymous because they know they'd face retaliation

00:02:00.920 for speaking out. That's how bad things are these days. The ads just show actual footage of what the

00:02:08.480 pro-Hamas gangs have done to Toronto, including committing real crimes ignored by the police

00:02:14.060 and politicians. In the case of this particular ad, the images included pro-Hamas gangs shutting

00:02:20.660 down the streets in downtown Toronto. Here's the official police announcement declaring those ads

00:02:28.280 Islamophobic and suggesting that a hate crime has been committed, a crime. The Toronto police don't

00:02:36.420 think the pro-Hamas street gangs themselves are committing hate crimes. They think the ad we ran on our

00:02:43.380 truck is a hate crime. In Trudeau's Canada, you're allowed to support terrorism. You're not allowed to

00:02:51.780 criticize terrorism. That sounds more like 1984 than 2024. Here, let me give you some more background and then I'll

00:03:00.840 tell you how you can help us fight back at a special website we've set up called savethetruck.com.

00:03:07.800 But it's really about more than just a truck. It's about cancel culture and the weaponization

00:03:15.080 of hate speech laws and two-tier policing. I've hired a lawyer and we're obviously going to fight

00:03:22.280 because this is still Canada, not Gaza. We still have free speech here for now. It's actually pretty

00:03:31.560 serious. If convicted under the law for a hate speech, I could be jailed for up to two years

00:03:38.900 just for running that ad. And don't think they won't try. Our Rebel News reporters have been arrested

00:03:46.640 by Toronto police several times just for asking Hamas supporters questions. The police hate us because

00:03:54.880 we're not silent and obedient, which is what they've told the Jewish community to be. The police chief isn't

00:04:02.160 dumb. He's doing what his political bosses want. Here's Toronto's mayor denouncing the truck. No surprise,

00:04:09.840 she's a pro-Hamas NDP mayor, an extremist who refused to attend key Jewish community events this year.

00:04:18.960 It goes much higher than the mayor though. Here's a tweet by a pro-Hamas Trudeau member of parliament

00:04:25.920 who wrote, there needs to be an investigation and there needs to be justice. Can you imagine that same

00:04:33.840 member of parliament hosted a Holocaust denier on parliament hill, but she wants us prosecuted for hate speech?

00:04:42.800 Other Trudeau supporters joined in too, including Trudeau's personal friend, Mohamed Faki. He owns a chain

00:04:50.720 of restaurants called Paramount Foods and he notoriously said he doesn't want Jews as customers. This is the guy 0.93

00:04:58.320 calling for a hate speech investigation. He's even put a $25,000 bounty on my head. Easy, Mohamed, 0.98

00:05:06.080 you're not in Lebanon anymore. But the Toronto police are a full-on DEI police force. They're woke.

00:05:15.360 Six months ago, Trudeau had a highly irregular meeting with Toronto's police chief, Myron Demkew. Demkew's

00:05:23.120 office refuses to release any notes from that meeting, but it's pretty clear. Since that meeting,

00:05:29.760 the police have not arrested pro-Hamas street gangs in the city because they're Trudeau's political base.

00:05:37.200 Oh, by the way, there are other billboard trucks driving around Toronto too. Here's one with pro-Hamas 0.99

00:05:45.200 and anti-Semitic ads on them. Police are fine with those. Only people who say things that criticize Trudeau

00:05:53.360 or his Hamas allies get investigated by police. Trudeau truly is turning Canada into a banana republic

00:06:01.360 or Gaza if he could. I think I know why people feel so desperate that they're taking out anonymous

00:06:07.680 ads on our truck. They feel completely abandoned and ignored by the institutions they used to rely on.

00:06:15.200 They want to speak out because no one is speaking for them. I know the feeling. The reason we bought

00:06:21.440 the truck in the first place is because all the truck companies we used to work with, we used to

00:06:26.560 rent the trucks, they told us they're too scared to criticize Hamas because they're worried their trucks

00:06:32.640 will be attacked and their drivers could be injured. Police should be embarrassed that they're

00:06:39.280 investigating the messenger instead of understanding the message. Just a few weeks ago, masked Hamas gunmen

00:06:48.480 shot at a Jewish girls' school in Toronto. The Hamas encampment at the University of Toronto has thugs

00:06:56.400 checking if students are Jews or not before letting them pass. There was an insane eight-hour anti-Semitic

00:07:04.560 hate march outside a Thornhill synagogue. Hamas supporters walk through Jewish residential

00:07:11.200 neighborhoods in North Toronto shrieking at Jews in their homes. This happens every day. The police

00:07:18.800 just stand there and do nothing. Sometimes they actually bring the Hamas gangs coffee like this when 0.84

00:07:26.320 they blocked a road into a Jewish residential neighborhood. We've used our billboard truck 0.99

00:07:32.800 to talk about these issues for months including our campaign to deport foreign nationals who support 0.89

00:07:39.840 Hamas. We also have a campaign against Trudeau's crazy plan to bring thousands of Gaza refugees to 0.98

00:07:47.120 Canada. In the case today, we were running the ads for another group of loyal Canadian citizens

00:07:53.440 who felt totally abandoned by the police and politicians. Real Canadians express themselves not 1.00

00:07:59.920 by shooting schools or taking over campuses. They run ads on trucks like ours. It's called free speech.

00:08:07.520 You can look it up in our Charter of Rights. I've been fighting against censorship my whole life.

00:08:14.480 I'm not going to stop now. There's a crime wave in Toronto and across Canada and it's not ads from

00:08:21.840 scared citizens worried about Hamas gangs. It's the Hamas gangs themselves. I'm going to fight this 0.86

00:08:29.360 like hell. You know I will. We're going to take the truck out again because I'm a free man in a free

00:08:36.080 country. At least for now. I have broken no laws and if the Toronto police think they can bully us into

00:08:44.720 silence, we'll bring it on. I still believe enough in our country and even in our courts to know that

00:08:52.720 this trumped up censorship will not stand. If you want to help me, I need your help. I need your help

00:09:00.800 to pay for our lawyer to fight this police investigation. If you want to help save me and

00:09:06.160 save our truck, go to savethetruck.com and at that same page you can sign up for email updates so I

00:09:14.720 can let you know what happens as this proceeds. I was born and raised in Canada and so was my dad

00:09:22.000 and so was his dad all the way back to 1903 before Alberta was even a province. This country is built on

00:09:30.480 free speech and I'll be damned if some Hamas thugs and their obedient shills in Trudeau's police force 1.00

00:09:39.920 think they can scare me into silence. If you want to support me and I need your support, go to

00:09:46.480 savethetruck.com. You won't just be saving a truck or even just saving me. You'll be saving

00:09:53.520 freedom of speech in our great country. Go to savethetruck.com. Thanks.

00:10:00.480 You hear me criticize the regime media or the mainstream media or the subsidized media,

00:10:16.640 but you do hear me once in a while single out excellent journalists such as Steve Chase

00:10:23.200 and Bob Fyfe of the Globe and Mail. Not only did they do great journalism about the firing of Jody Wilson

00:10:29.600 Rabel at the hands of Justin Trudeau, but they've been excellent on the China files. They really have

00:10:37.200 taken stories and thrust them into the center of our political discussion in a way that smaller or

00:10:44.000 independent media just simply don't have the power to do. That said, I think it's accurate to say that

00:10:53.440 citizen journalists and independent journalists have done the lion's share of the reporting,

00:11:01.840 even if they don't have a prestigious platform like the Globe and Mail. The Bureau, which is a

00:11:09.280 new independent substack, has done excellent work on Chinese interference and foreign interference in

00:11:16.320 Canada. But if I had to name the single person who has done more digging into China's and by China, I mean

00:11:26.320 the Communist Party of China and their attempt to interfere in our democracy. If I had to name the

00:11:34.720 number one journalist in the country, it would be our guest today, Andy Lee, who has an uncanny ability to follow

00:11:44.000 the money, to follow the social media, including deep into social media apps that most of us don't know

00:11:51.600 anything about their Chinese social media. Joining us now is our friend Andy Lee. Andy, I'm heaping praise on

00:11:58.560 you, but it's not just to puff you up. You are an indispensable read. I follow you closely on Twitter.

00:12:05.360 Welcome back to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me back. It's been a while and a lot's gone on.

00:12:12.000 Everything you've said has borne fruit. Everything you warned about has come true. If you're like me,

00:12:17.120 you hate saying I told you so because you've always been warning us of bad things.

00:12:21.200 Yeah, I mean, this isn't a nice time to say I told you so, unfortunately, because, you know,

00:12:27.920 a lot of people were hoping that certain people would be exonerated of some serious accusations

00:12:35.840 during the inquiry. And that happened to a degree when we had Justin Trudeau's special rapporteur,

00:12:42.320 David Johnson. He says some things that exonerated some individuals who were named specifically by Sam

00:12:49.600 Cooper and the Bureau, that being that Handong, you know, had a hand in foreign interference, 0.95

00:12:56.160 and that we have these at least 11 candidates in the GTA alone that seemed to have been the

00:13:02.560 beneficiary of foreign interference from the People's Republic of China. So unfortunately,

00:13:09.840 that inquiry didn't seem to go deep enough. We don't know if David Johnson saw the same files

00:13:16.000 that were released in the recent report by the NSI cop. So we don't know if he saw the same documents,

00:13:23.440 or if he saw a sanitized version of documents. And he also said that he had time constraints.

00:13:29.200 So maybe he didn't view the same information. But two vastly different reports surfaced in whatever event.

00:13:37.600 And, you know, the most recent one was a very, very firm that yes, you know, these allegations, there was

00:13:46.720 definitely substance behind them. And this was brought up. So that's kind of where we're at now is

00:13:51.520 trying to reconcile. Well, how are people coming to different conclusions? And we saw that by, you know,

00:13:57.680 party leaders the other day, we had Elizabeth May saying that she wasn't concerned at all. And then we had

00:14:02.240 Jagmeet Singh come up and say something totally different. And he felt that somebody should be charged with

00:14:06.720 treason and that Handong should not be allowed to rejoin the caucus. So there's a lot going on. And we don't 0.99

00:14:12.640 get to see the documents, which is really, really important for us to do the digging ourselves. Sometimes

00:14:18.400 retroactively, you can go back and find the things that weren't detailed in the reports. And we've done that a

00:14:23.920 number of times. We did that. And Rebel News published that when Michael Chong was targeted. And they said that

00:14:31.440 there was no evidence, you know, they suspected it was a PRC state-sponsored campaign. But we actually

00:14:37.920 went into WeChat and we found the exact factors and traced it directly back to the PRC.

00:14:43.760 And WeChat is one of those Chinese social media that I think most Canadians don't know anything

00:14:48.320 about. It's amazing you can navigate them. I want to push pause on you for one second, Andy,

00:14:52.240 because you said so many things because you're in the center of it. But I just want to recap for some of

00:14:57.040 our viewers who are maybe more casual followers. Your reference to David Johnston is he was the

00:15:02.160 hand-picked cleanup crew that Trudeau said, oh, he'll look into these interference accusations and

00:15:08.080 get to the bottom of it. And he gave an all clear. It was only when the, I suppose, deep state of

00:15:15.680 Canada's security intelligence services said, that's insane. We've got to leak the truth that this

00:15:21.280 committee was struck to look into it. And there's been shocking allegations. And you're referring to a

00:15:26.000 report that has not yet been released. And so we have this strange situation where we have to rely

00:15:32.000 on other people reading the report and interpreting it. And Elizabeth May says there's nothing to worry

00:15:37.040 about. Jagmeet Singh says there's traitors. Trudeau's pretty mum on it. I just wanted to,

00:15:42.880 am I accurate in sort of summarizing how this story has gone from nothing to cover up to holy moly,

00:15:49.760 there's a lot there. Yeah, well, I think it was always cover up and a lot of people tried to

00:15:55.680 discredit the reporting that came out and discredit the CSIS leaks. And we've heard this all along that,

00:16:01.760 you know, intelligence is not evidence and it was just information gathering and they're not

00:16:06.640 substantiated. Well, now these claims are looking fairly substantiated. So somebody has been vindicated.

00:16:13.440 It certainly hasn't been hand on. That's for sure. You know, good for Sam Cooper for sticking to his

00:16:20.240 guns. Of course, he's got these lawsuits against him for his reporting, unfortunately. It was really

00:16:26.720 disappointing to see people and also other journalists turn against one of their own.

00:16:33.760 Oh, did they? Tell me a little bit about that.

00:16:35.600 Yeah, well, I mean, you know, he was he was ostracized. And again, a lot of people tried

00:16:40.720 to downplay the information and say that, you know, it was just a memo and then it wasn't something

00:16:47.280 that was seen or it was something that was maybe not seen by the right people. It was something that

00:16:50.960 was not taken seriously. So I wanted to expand and I wanted to give them even more firepower,

00:16:59.120 specifically about the allegations on Handong and given that he has this lawsuit against him.

00:17:03.680 And so one of the, you know, the allegations that we've heard is that we had foreign international

00:17:09.360 students who were bused into Handong's riding to vote for him in his liberal nomination contest

00:17:16.320 and that they weren't from his riding and that perhaps they were directed to do this by the consulate.

00:17:22.800 But again, that's very vague, right? There's no details. So what we did is we went and we found the

00:17:27.840 actual academy. And when I say we, I say the people like me and I have several people who

00:17:33.200 helped me as well. We go into WeChat, we look for the exact details. So we did find details on that

00:17:38.560 academy. It was called the NOAC Academy. It used to be New Oriental International College.

00:17:45.040 It's based in Markham. But when you really dig into it, it's got very, very close ties to the

00:17:50.720 People's Republic of China and officials in China. They go to, you know, events hosted by Tencent and things

00:17:57.120 like that. And so this was the academy, one of the places that bused the students in.

00:18:03.360 You know, they've got reviews from the consulate right on their website. And the other fascinating

00:18:08.800 thing about this particular academy is that Justin Trudeau himself has visited there and he's invited

00:18:14.640 them to several events. What are the odds?

00:18:19.360 And Handong has been there. A lot of the Liberal Party have been there. So, you know, there was a

00:18:24.960 briefing somewhere that said, hold on, we think that this academy has assisted this candidate in

00:18:32.560 doing something that's illegal, right? That's breaking election rules. You can't just get

00:18:38.400 students to go vote in whatever riding they want in a Liberal nomination contest. So at some point,

00:18:44.400 and they would have known what academy it was, and they would have known that it was the academy

00:18:49.440 that they all visited, the NOAC Academy. So that was something fantastic that we've been working on.

00:18:55.280 And I was so glad that that came up. And especially, you know, that the Prime Minister is aware of this

00:19:01.440 academy. So I can't say who saw the briefing, but somebody definitely saw it, saw that this was the

00:19:07.360 academy that was implicated and decided that this was a nothing burger. You know, knew the people,

00:19:13.120 he knows the CEO and decided that this wasn't important and discounted it and allowed him to

00:19:20.160 run and didn't disclude him from the nomination contest. Let me ask you a question. It's really wild,

00:19:24.400 the amount of cover-up. It's crazy that the PRC, the People's Republic of China, has a connection with

00:19:30.480 that actual school. There's so many things that you can imagine they did through that institution.

00:19:35.680 But let me ask you about something that I think how this story has evolved. And you tell me if I've

00:19:40.720 got this right. I think the early versions of this story were, oh, there was help for certain pro-China

00:19:49.520 MPs, or certain pro-China candidates, get rid of some candidates that were critical of Communist

00:19:57.040 China put in friendlier ones, but that the role of the Canadian candidates was pretty passive.

00:20:04.160 They just sort of sat back while the People's Republic of China did the heavy lifting. But what

00:20:10.000 I think I'm hearing now, Andy, tell me if I'm wrong, is that there has been active participation

00:20:17.920 by these Canadian MPs. So it's not just, oh, gee, that election went better than I thought. I'll be

00:20:24.400 me now. It's, oh, that election went better than I thought. Now I will actually collude with, assist,

00:20:31.280 brief, help, be actively engaged with the foreign entity, whether it's China or Iran or others,

00:20:39.840 we don't know. So it seems to me, and tell me if I missed, listen, you're so deep in this stuff,

00:20:44.560 you would know better than me. But there's the idea of traitor and treason. Those are words that I

00:20:50.720 almost never use. I see them being used by serious people now. That suggests people are actively helping

00:20:57.840 foreign countries. They're not just passively accepting help. They're giving help. Am I wrong?

00:21:02.880 Yeah. I mean, we talked about this a little bit when Olivia Chow, and we did a great article about

00:21:08.240 this and Olivia Chow and her race and how she accepted help from this United Front group who's

00:21:14.800 affiliated with the United Front, very, very close to Chinese diplomats, very, very close to the Chinese

00:21:19.600 government. And she was just kind of like, well, this is the game that you have to play. You have to

00:21:24.320 get their support. So yeah, I mean, that's passive, but we're talking about an entirely different level

00:21:30.480 where the accusations are that, you know, there was some tit for tat, we'll help you get elected

00:21:36.320 and throw our support and get our groups to throw their support behind you. And then maybe you're

00:21:41.360 going to do something for us. Now, we don't know exactly what that looks like, right? Does that look

00:21:46.000 like abstaining from voting on the Uyghur genocide? Right? Is that the help? Plugging the Beijing Olympics?

00:21:54.720 Is that the help? Maybe keeping quiet about, you know, certain investments that are tied to,

00:22:00.480 we just found one that, and I'm digging into this, and this is just fascinating because it's

00:22:05.040 somebody that Justin Trudeau knows. And she actually accompanied him on his 2017 trip to China.

00:22:12.560 You know, her company is now actively working with the People's Liberation Army,

00:22:17.360 their military in Xinjiang, right? So, you know, what does that look like? So we don't have a really

00:22:24.880 good definition, but we do see serious people who, you know, do know the difference between treasonous

00:22:30.160 and not treasonous dipping into that territory where, you know, we might actually be looking at

00:22:36.320 something that's prosecutable, even though we have very, very weak laws right now. And, you know,

00:22:41.600 somebody was named as directly colluding, and it was a former MP. I'm not going to say who it was

00:22:48.960 exactly, but we do know that there was a foreign MP who rallied on behalf of a certain mayoral candidate

00:22:57.840 that we did a article on, you know, and delivered a letter to the embassy on behalf of this mayoral

00:23:07.440 candidate who has very, very close ties to the Chinese government. And he was caught by that

00:23:12.560 and caught up in that. Why he was specifically lobbying for this particular person who happens to

00:23:20.080 be, you know, charged with fraud and embezzlement. It's questionable, right? It's a good question to

00:23:28.240 ask. How do you find yourself with a letter from somebody who's facing very, very serious charges

00:23:33.520 and hand delivering it to, you know, PRC diplomats? And of course, he's not there anymore. But I mean,

00:23:39.680 yeah, it's very, very serious. And they're making jokes about it, right? Boohoo. No, it's not boohoo.

00:23:46.000 It's not boohoo to Kenny Chu, right? Kenny Chu, there's a very excellent chance that he lost his

00:23:51.600 seat because he tried to bring in a foreign agent registry. And that's not just speculative anymore.

00:23:57.360 We've traced some of those ties and looked at the campaigns. There's no doubt that there was one

00:24:01.360 against him. Did it end up ultimately costing him a seat? It's hard to say, but it certainly

00:24:06.560 contributed to it. And one seat is too much to be lost because of foreign interference.

00:24:11.680 Even if it wasn't effective, this campaign, it sounds like it was very effective. It's dead

00:24:17.200 wrong and has to be called out. And like you suggest, maybe it hasn't been called out. Maybe

00:24:23.040 that's part of the collusion itself. Andy, what's the best way to follow your stuff? Tell me your

00:24:27.520 Twitter account again. So I'm Real Andy Lee Show. Real Andy Lee Show. That's A-N-D-Y-L-E-E 0.99

00:24:36.400 Show. And I follow you. You've got a huge follower count. And I think it's because you do real research.

00:24:42.880 I mean, you like to fight. You're great on Twitter and I enjoy following it. But the number one thing I

00:24:48.160 like about your Twitter account is you, as the kids say, show the receipts. You bring the receipts,

00:24:53.360 you have the proof, as the kids say. And I think you have been ahead of the curve on this. We've got

00:24:59.600 to go now, but please keep in touch with us. And if you have the time, I know you're so busy on this

00:25:06.320 file. We would love to publish more of your work on the website because it really, you've been a year

00:25:11.920 or two ahead of things. It's great to see. I'm glad you still got that fighting spirit. And it sounds like

00:25:16.560 like the good guys are finally catching up on this story. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fascinating time

00:25:24.560 for sure. We're definitely trending in the right direction. I'm looking forward to see what Justice

00:25:29.760 Hogue is going to do with this information. I definitely think that she deserves more time

00:25:34.080 to reexamine it. And maybe she wants to recall some people that she's already examined and put them back

00:25:39.680 up on the witness stand based on new information, which she's trying to obtain right now. And yeah,

00:25:44.400 I'm really, really glad that again, because so much of this is it's murky for us, right? Because

00:25:50.240 it's redacted or it's vague. We don't get the specifics, right? We don't see the briefings.

00:25:56.560 So it's really, really nice to be able to pinpoint and say, hold on. Well, this was,

00:26:01.120 this was the academy that busted the students for hand on. And these are the ties to the PRC.

00:26:05.920 So this is where the allegations stem from. So this is evidence backing the intelligence finally,

00:26:12.320 right? And so the more that we can actually do that and pinpoint that, even if we're in the dark,

00:26:17.280 the more that we can, you know, help, you know, people understand and legitimize the intelligence,

00:26:24.240 and hopefully to a point where we can get some actual action on it, and maybe even prosecution.

00:26:32.400 We're going to have to leave it there. Andy Lee, great to see you again, folks. Again,

00:26:35.040 that's real Andy Lee show on Twitter. I highly recommend.

00:26:51.360 Hey, welcome back letters. Wes Brown says, I like Pierre, but isn't it a bit early for a biography?

00:26:58.160 Let him win the election first, at least. You know, I see your point, as in, you're saying,

00:27:03.680 if he wins, that's an if, and the big chapter of his life is yet to be written. So yeah, you're right.

00:27:10.400 But I think it's pretty standard fare that when a politician is about to run for that final

00:27:19.520 Game of Thrones, they publish a book or have someone write a book about them. So either it's a

00:27:25.280 autobiography, almost always ghost written, or it's a biography written by someone who,

00:27:30.400 I'm not going to say is sympathetic, but has access to them. Because voters want to know.

00:27:36.480 I think millions of Canadians are getting used to the idea that Pierre Polyev might be our next

00:27:42.720 Prime Minister. And for those who like to read, and for those who want to go a little deeper,

00:27:47.120 and those who really like him, or those who are worried, I think they will want to read a book.

00:27:51.280 And I'm just so glad that Andrew wrote it. I mean, don't you think that's better than if, say,

00:27:56.160 Rosemary Barton or Althea Raj from the CBC did? I meant what I said. I'm thrilled that it was a

00:28:03.200 good guy who wrote the book and not a bad guy. Franz Anton Mesmer says, don't hold your breath.

00:28:09.440 Where's the heartbeat law? Why hasn't he announced the UN migrant quotas? Why won't he decriminalize 0.95

00:28:14.880 gun owners? I could go on and on. Okay, you're saying that, if I can quote the Bible, don't put

00:28:21.040 your trust in princes. You're saying, don't have a hagiography, which is the word that Andrew used

00:28:27.040 yesterday. That's a great word. You're right. He's not perfect. And one of the things that,

00:28:33.280 one of the ways politics has sometimes been defined is the art of the possible. And that's not just some

00:28:39.600 airy-fairy slogan. It means, what can you do? There's certain things you want to do, but you cannot.

00:28:45.200 What do you want to do that you can? It's not everything. It's like a Venn diagram. Here's

00:28:50.560 what's possible. Here's what you said you would do. How much of that loop can you get overlapping?

00:28:57.280 And there are certain things that I don't know if Pierre Polyev will be able to do at all. For

00:29:01.680 example, a lot of people note that the Senate is still dominated by Justin Trudeau's picks because

00:29:07.360 Stephen Harper didn't fill the Senate on his way out the door. So I think there's going to be a

00:29:11.920 constitutional crisis. Pierre Polyev is going to have a massive mandate if things hold up in the

00:29:17.120 polls. But the Senate, unelected, unaccountable, appointed for life, partisan, in some forms

00:29:23.360 corrupt, is in the position to say no to everything. It could be a crisis.

00:29:29.520 D.L. Carbino says he is a conservative, not small c conservative, told the trucker convoy to go home

00:29:35.840 after three days. Controlled opposition. You know, there's another saying I'm going to use, which is

00:29:42.400 don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. It's related to don't put your trust in princes.

00:29:48.640 Here's what I know about Pierre Polyev. And as I said to Andrew, I've known Pierre Polyev since

00:29:53.040 he was a student. He's talked about freedom and conservative ideas consistently. Now you're

00:30:00.000 saying that he told the truckers to go home. I don't remember the exact details of that,

00:30:03.360 but I'm sure you're right. Still, what a change from Aaron O'Toole, who banned all his MPs even

00:30:08.880 talking to truckers. There's only one way to know what Pierre Polyev would be like in power,

00:30:15.600 and that is for him to get into power and for us to observe. And do you know the rebel news

00:30:19.280 obligation when there's a conservative in power? I think you do because it's what we do

00:30:25.360 when we've had Jason Kenney veer off course, or Doug Ford veer off course, or other conservatives in

00:30:31.920 name only. We hold them to account. So I am not here to pitch Pierre Polyev to you as a choice. I

00:30:37.680 don't have a party membership in any party. I don't want to because I want the freedom that I have to

00:30:43.040 criticize any and all politicians of all stripes. And you know that we do. That's our show for today.

00:30:49.760 I hope you check out SaveTheTruck.com. It's been a big and busy day for us today. I've never been the

00:30:55.920 target of police investigation like this before. I've never had a police chief, not just the department,

00:31:01.840 but the chief tweet out that he's coming to get me. I mean, I think a normal person would be a bit scared.

00:31:08.000 Um, but I happen to know the law enough to know that it's, it's, we haven't done anything wrong,

00:31:14.480 and we certainly haven't broken that law. It would be as ridiculous as the police chief saying he's

00:31:19.280 coming to accuse me of murder. God forbid. I mean, I just haven't done that. There's no case. He's full

00:31:25.600 of it. He's clearly a political puppet. Ain't gonna happen. So I think check out the details at

00:31:31.520 SaveTheTruck.com. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:31:35.360 see you at home. Good night. And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 20, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Toronto police investigate Rebel News for alleged 'hate crime'

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