Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Toronto police punished peaceful Canadians during COVID, yet ignore pro-Hamas hate marches

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Great to be back in the studio today. I want to show you some crazy things

00:00:03.820 that happened over the weekend. A bridge closure in Toronto. Hamas protesters started to close the

00:00:11.060 bridge and police came and finished the job for them and actually brought hot coffee for the

00:00:16.080 Hamas protesters to be, quote, helpful to them. Absolutely outrageous. And the next day, those 0.93

00:00:22.900 same protesters, the same people stormed a public skating party of the mayor. I'll show you footage

00:00:28.860 from that, too, which is why I want you to get the video version of this podcast. Go to

00:00:33.580 rebelnewsplus.com. It really is a video story, and it's citizen journalists who are making it happen,

00:00:39.660 not the mainstream media. I want you to see the cops giving the protesters, the Hamas protesters. 0.89

00:00:45.680 I want you to see them getting them coffee. I want you to see the abusive approach that these Hamas 1.00

00:00:50.560 thugs took to ordinary Torontonians skating on Sunday. You've got to see it. Go to rebelnewsplus.com.

00:00:56.500 Click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You get all the video for these shows and you help keep

00:01:01.260 less strong. All right, here's today's broadcast.

00:01:18.060 Tonight, why are Toronto police refusing to arrest pro-Hamas mobs? It's January 8th,

00:01:24.940 and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:41.160 It's great to be back in the studio at our world headquarters. January is going to be a busy month

00:01:45.740 for Rebel News. Obviously, we're covering so many things in Canada, but as you know,

00:01:50.060 a lot of decisions about our life here in Canada, well, those decisions are made far away by

00:01:55.000 undemocratic entities, whether it's at the United Nations or the World Economic Forum,

00:02:02.180 which are two Justin Trudeau's favorite places, certainly a lot more than, say, Alberta.

00:02:07.660 So this Friday, just four days from now, we're sending a big team to the World Economic Forum in

00:02:13.560 Davos, Switzerland. We're sending six journalists. I'm going. How do you mean he's going? We're going

00:02:19.220 to bury, not to praise. As you know, we are not officially permitted to go. We are not accredited.

00:02:25.180 They refuse us. But Switzerland is a liberal democracy with freedom in the press. And from

00:02:30.020 personal experience, I can report that their police are actually the most respectful of freedom

00:02:35.340 that I've encountered anywhere in the world. On two occasions at the last World Economic Forum

00:02:42.180 meeting in Davos, Switzerland, police asked us questions, including at a checkpoint on the

00:02:48.060 highway. We literally said, we're exercising our freedom in the press. And the police immediately

00:02:53.180 let us go on our way. It was actually kind of amazing. And remember when Avi Yamini and I

00:02:59.040 scrummed the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, asking him about his vaccines? That, I don't think,

00:03:05.340 would have happened in Canada. The RCMP would have come in and started pushing and shoving us,

00:03:10.000 maybe even arresting us. Not so in Switzerland. In fact, their cops were very heavily armed there

00:03:16.540 at Davos. Like, I'm talking submachine guns and whatnot, but they had a very light touch.

00:03:21.700 As long as we were not threatening or physically bugging anyone, they didn't care what we asked

00:03:28.480 them. Here's a flashback of that scrum with the Pfizer CEO.

00:03:33.200 Mr. Bourla, can I ask you, when did you know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission?

00:03:38.620 How long did you know that without saying it publicly?

00:03:41.960 Thank you very much.

00:03:43.040 I'm sorry.

00:03:43.540 To that question. I mean, we now know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission,

00:03:48.780 but why did you keep it secret?

00:03:52.420 You said it was 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%. But we now know that the vaccines do

00:03:59.740 not stop transmission. Why did you keep that secret?

00:04:03.500 Have a nice day.

00:04:04.180 I won't have a nice day until I know the answer. Why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine

00:04:10.440 did not stop transmission?

00:04:12.640 Is it time to apologise to the world, sir? To give refunds back to the countries that

00:04:19.400 poured all their money into your vaccine that doesn't work, your ineffective vaccine?

00:04:23.880 Yeah, you have a little bit of a rag.

00:04:25.220 Are you not ashamed of what you've done in the last couple of years?

00:04:28.340 Do you have any apologies to the public, sir?

00:04:30.740 Are you proud of it? You've made millions on the backs of people's entire livelihoods.

00:04:38.980 How does that feel, to walk the streets as a millionaire on the backs of the regular person

00:04:44.280 at home in Australia, in England, in Canada?

00:04:47.360 What do you think about on your yacht, sir? What do you think about on your private jet?

00:04:52.200 Are you worried about product liability? Are you worried about myocarditis?

00:04:56.700 Anyway, so that's the police. That's the best police force I've ever encountered in the whole world.

00:05:02.000 Now I'd like to talk to you about some of the worst policing I've ever seen.

00:05:06.700 You remember the Toronto Police Service and how when there was a young restaurant owner

00:05:10.880 named Adam Skelly who dared to keep his barbecue open during the pandemic lockdowns,

00:05:16.580 the Toronto Police deployed, I don't know, 100 police officers to shut them down,

00:05:21.340 including riot police and horses?

00:05:23.720 It was the most grotesque police state display I've ever seen in Canada.

00:05:28.620 Well, at least until that point, because the trucker convoy police brutality, of course,

00:05:33.940 exceeded that, but that came later.

00:05:36.000 So here's a flashback of how violent and over-the-top the Toronto police were

00:05:41.640 when some guy wanted to sell some sandwiches. Remember this?

00:05:45.340 What is that?

00:05:56.160 What is that?

00:05:58.060 What is that?

00:06:00.080 He's a hero!

00:06:01.220 You're feeding it up!

00:06:03.040 Where's he going?

00:06:05.140 Shame on you! 1.00

00:06:06.680 Shame on you! 1.00

00:06:08.000 Shame on you! 1.00

00:06:08.400 Shame on you! 1.00

00:06:10.340 Shame on you! 1.00

00:06:11.340 Look at the way they started now!

00:06:26.180 Stop it, stop it. 0.83

00:06:28.180 Get it on me.

00:06:30.180 Get it on you! 0.99

00:06:32.180 Shame on you! 1.00

00:06:34.180 Shame on these police!

00:06:36.180 Shame on these police! Look at where they've started now!

00:06:38.180 You're a hero, I know!

00:06:40.180 I love you guys.

00:06:42.180 Move back! 0.99

00:06:44.180 Move back! 0.99

00:06:46.180 Get back! 0.96

00:06:48.180 Shame! 0.73

00:06:50.180 Shame on you, brother! 0.60

00:06:52.180 Shame on you, brother! 0.95

00:06:54.180 Shame on you, brother!

00:06:56.180 So that's how it was when a peaceful

00:06:58.180 Canadian citizen was trying to keep 0.98

00:07:00.180 his company alive.

00:07:02.180 But here's how it is when violent, 0.74

00:07:04.180 foreign thugs wearing masks, 0.91

00:07:06.180 often flying flags of banned terrorist 0.99

00:07:08.180 groups, storm through our streets,

00:07:10.180 into our shopping centers, vandalize 0.90

00:07:12.180 and harass Jewish businesses, 0.89

00:07:14.180 and outright make death threats.

00:07:16.180 Here's a reminder of a bit of that.

00:07:18.180 Let's start with that masked 0.66

00:07:20.180 Hamas thug shouting

00:07:22.180 inside a private shopping center

00:07:24.180 that he has already been asked to leave,

00:07:26.180 shouting about murdering someone

00:07:28.180 with the Toronto cops right there.

00:07:30.180 You know what? I'm telling you,

00:07:32.180 because if he touches me, I'll put him on the floor. 0.95

00:07:34.180 If you come near me, I'll put you 0.74

00:07:36.180 lay down on the floor.

00:07:38.180 I'll lay you asleep. I'll put you six feet deep. 0.82

00:07:40.180 I'll put you six feet deep.

00:07:42.180 I'll put you six feet deep.

00:07:44.180 But the cop just stood there.

00:07:46.180 Here's some more, a reminder of how 0.99

00:07:48.180 docile and useless 0.96

00:07:50.180 the Toronto police are when it's 0.97

00:07:52.180 a politically protected group

00:07:54.180 of protestors, if you can call 0.99

00:07:56.180 chanting death to the Jews 1.00

00:07:58.180 a protest. 1.00

00:08:00.180 ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA! ESA!

00:08:17.200 All your f***** jobs are dropping! 0.98

00:08:21.200 Oh! 0.99

00:08:30.180 I can't hear you, I can't hear you.

00:09:00.180 Yeah, I don't think there's been a single arrest made of any of these thugs, even when they chant death threats or call for genocide, which is weird.

00:09:19.320 Those things are actually in the criminal code. I've never been a fan of hate speech crimes, but they are the law of the land.

00:09:26.400 They have been used by left-wing prosecutors against right-wing individuals, typically marginal, working class, maybe mentally unbalanced individuals, usually harmless and nonviolent.

00:09:36.660 In those cases, the police and the prosecutors are very brave, but when it's an actual menacing mob, well, the police aren't quite as courageous and neither are the prosecutors, are they?

00:09:47.660 Here, let me remind you of some of the laws on the books. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with these laws.

00:09:52.860 I think they're too restrictive on speech, but they are the laws of the land, but not a single one is being deployed against the daily hate marches.

00:10:02.420 I'm going to read through. This is from the criminal code. You can look it up yourself.

00:10:05.580 Section 319, Public Incitement of Hatred.

00:10:11.320 Everyone who, by communicating statements in a public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace,

00:10:21.340 is guilty of an indictable offense and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or an offense punishable on summary conviction.

00:10:30.440 I'll keep reading, Section 2.

00:10:31.960 Willful Promotion of Hatred.

00:10:33.860 Everyone who, communicating statements other than in private conversation, willfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group,

00:10:41.060 is guilty of an indictable offense and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or an offense of punishable on summary conviction.

00:10:50.580 I'll keep reading because there's one more here I want to tell you about.

00:10:54.260 Willful Promotion of Antisemitism. 0.97

00:10:56.160 Yeah, those things are happening every day, let alone actual death threats like,

00:11:21.220 I'll put you six feet under, vandalism, harassment, and just plain traffic offenses,

00:11:27.200 which were enough to imprison truckers like Tamera Leach for nearly two months. 0.99

00:11:31.120 So yeah, two-tiered policing.

00:11:32.820 It's bad enough when these protests shut down entire highways, like this.

00:11:38.720 This is on behalf of everybody in Toronto, for Palestine.

00:11:42.640 We're showing solidarity with them.

00:11:44.160 This action is only taking four minutes.

00:11:46.060 We're not here to disturb anybody.

00:11:47.540 We just wanted to show solidarity, and we're going to be on our way.

00:11:50.300 Four minutes, that's it.

00:11:51.220 Remember, your brothers and sisters in Palestine, and to say that we will never, ever give an inch away from this land.

00:11:59.000 When there are young brothers and sisters like yourself, who are so concerned about a matter they thought they made you forget it.

00:12:08.080 But they are wrong, because as long as we live, and as long as we breathe air, Palestine will never, ever be forgotten.

00:12:17.620 And this is the message that we send clearly to the Zionist Israeli regime. 0.81

00:12:23.620 That's the main downtown road in Toronto.

00:12:25.940 Clearly an organized shutdown.

00:12:28.000 No charges, of course, of any sort.

00:12:30.140 It's bad enough when private businesses and malls are targeted with anti-Semitic boycotts.

00:12:35.200 But the Hamas mob has moved from highways and malls into residential areas now. 0.73

00:12:43.160 I did a story about this a few weeks ago, before the Christmas break, and I talked with David Menzies about it last week.

00:12:49.020 But it went nuts just over the weekend.

00:12:52.140 I'm talking about the blockade of the Jewish community in Armor Heights in Toronto.

00:12:57.280 Lots of Jewish homes and synagogues and schools in the neighborhood.

00:13:01.460 It's a completely residential neighborhood.

00:13:03.360 There's no corporate offices, no embassies, just Jews. 1.00

00:13:08.100 The Hamas supporters are clever enough to use the euphemism Zionists. 0.99

00:13:12.440 Listen to these foreign thugs dehumanize Canadians. 1.00

00:13:15.640 Take a listen. 0.99

00:13:17.160 Zionists are nice!

00:13:19.200 Zionists are nice! 0.78

00:13:20.780 When their leaders are calling for the elimination of Palestinian people in Gaza, they are no better than the Nazis, they are no better than the Nazis, who thought they were also a superior race.

00:13:36.520 Zionists think they are superior than anybody else. 1.00

00:13:39.280 And tomorrow is Christmas Day. 1.00

00:13:40.960 And in the Holy Lands, Zionists are the worst shit-discoverers. 1.00

00:13:46.760 Jesus! 1.00

00:13:47.400 Yes, Jesus!

00:13:48.520 And Christian holy places and holy places.

00:13:51.920 How dare they disempreate churches in the Holy Lands. 1.00

00:13:56.640 What is this for you, asshole? 1.00

00:13:58.640 That is why on this side you have Jews again on our side. 1.00

00:14:03.020 You have poor Palestinian Jews. 1.00

00:14:05.140 And you have Christians on our side. 1.00

00:14:08.600 Over there, all you have is filthy Zionists and filthy Zionists. 1.00

00:14:14.560 These are Hamas thugs. 1.00

00:14:18.360 And they're promising that they will continue to keep harassing ordinary Jews on the streets in Jewish neighborhoods. 0.98

00:14:27.820 They go crazy when they see this flag, so we will keep exposing them.

00:14:32.220 How many of you, how many look at their middle fingers, bring it all on, no problem.

00:14:36.840 Bring it all on.

00:14:38.260 We are never going to shy away from coming into any neighborhood who experiences anti-Palestinian racism, inshallah.

00:14:46.360 On the ground, on the ground, on the ground, perfect.

00:14:49.120 Whether it's the walk against Israel, you will be there. 0.83

00:14:52.740 At the walk against Israel, you will see us there. 0.62

00:14:56.780 All of you here today, face your attention that you will be present at the walk against Israel.

00:15:02.180 Because that is where you see it, you know, they're going to have to find us.

00:15:06.280 We will never, as we are standing here today, we will never shy away from exposing this guilt.

00:15:14.660 Never.

00:15:15.020 That is our promise.

00:15:17.140 So they've been blocking a key bridge for a key road into that community.

00:15:22.360 It's a very major road called Avenue Road, and it's the main way in and out of this Jewish residential area.

00:15:29.560 And these Hamas protesters are just blocking it.

00:15:33.020 And instead of clearing the road, issuing tickets, and telling these foreign harassers to leave, 0.74

00:15:38.460 the police actually come to help them.

00:15:40.660 The police formally block the road and give tickets to any Jews trying to leave or come on that road.

00:15:48.160 I kid you not.

00:15:49.240 Here's a video of the cops ticketing one Jew who slowed down his car to argue with a Hamas protester.

00:15:55.220 The Jew got the ticket. 0.98

00:15:56.800 The Hamas protester can't believe his lot. 0.89

00:15:58.720 Thank you.

00:16:00.300 We don't talk of you to say that in your car.

00:16:04.440 Thank you.

00:16:04.780 We don't talk of you to say that in your car.

00:16:06.440 The Rams will come to the circulate, and some shuck.

00:16:12.380 Free Palestine.

00:16:13.460 Free Palestine.

00:16:15.740 Free Palestine.

00:16:17.180 Free Palestine.

00:16:17.380 But the cops actually blocked the bridge into this community.

00:16:40.860 The Hamas supporters didn't block it. 0.98

00:16:44.140 The cops blocked it.

00:16:45.860 They brought in huge buses to actually block the streets on the Jews, to make a little 1.00

00:16:51.400 ghetto, an enclosed Jewish neighborhood where police and Hamas racists decide who can go

00:16:57.420 in and out and when and where.

00:16:59.600 And they loved doing that on the Jewish Sabbath.

00:17:02.760 Can you imagine if there were a racist group shouting hateful things against Muslims, blocking

00:17:07.680 a Muslim neighborhood and a Muslim mosque on a Muslim holy day?

00:17:11.120 It's unthinkable.

00:17:11.840 It would never happen.

00:17:13.020 But if it did, do you think the police would actually assist?

00:17:17.300 But thanks to citizen journalist Karim Assad, we saw this beautiful moment of friendship

00:17:22.200 and allegiance.

00:17:24.000 A Toronto cop actually delivering hot coffee to the Hamas thugs to help keep them warm during 0.99

00:17:31.140 their little protests.

00:17:34.000 I kid you not.

00:17:34.600 Take a look.

00:17:35.000 He left, no one told him they can't come back, otherwise he would have said, okay, I understand.

00:17:38.180 Okay, I'll just ask just to, just so.

00:17:43.460 Sorry, it's the person with the vest?

00:17:45.740 Jihad? 0.94

00:17:46.660 Yeah.

00:17:47.020 Straight at it?

00:17:47.800 Yeah.

00:17:48.160 I love the vest.

00:17:48.720 No.

00:17:49.600 It's not in the yellow vest.

00:17:50.960 How did you get coffee from the police?

00:17:54.280 Well, not the police.

00:17:55.180 Someone has brought it for us, but the police won't let them in.

00:17:57.980 So the police are now becoming our little messengers between us.

00:18:02.120 I don't know.

00:18:03.320 I have no idea what's going on.

00:18:05.480 We're up, we're on the bridge.

00:18:07.440 They're not letting anyone else come on, which makes no sense.

00:18:11.340 Because if we're already on the bridge, how is there public safety?

00:18:14.940 I tell you, the Hamas protesters must be laughing, laughing, and laughing at us. 0.92

00:18:21.020 I mean, the rest of the world is, that insane collaboration between the police and the Hamas protesters was covered around the world, including on Fox News.

00:18:30.680 But throughout the English language, Europe too, I did a tweet on the subject myself that got more than 2 million views on the weekend.

00:18:38.280 The whole world was stunned by that video.

00:18:41.300 What is wrong with Canada?

00:18:43.180 I mean, I guess it's not that surprising, considering Trudeau voted with Hamas of the United Nations, and that got a thank you video from Hamas. 0.88

00:18:52.220 But to literally help a racist hate march blockade a Jewish street? 0.94

00:18:57.620 That's just nuts.

00:18:59.940 One of the Toronto Police Service's many Twitter cops, I'm serious, they have those.

00:19:04.400 I thought she'd help by tweeting, and let me read this to you.

00:19:08.520 Our officers are managing a dynamic situation.

00:19:12.720 In performing a helpful act today, our officers' motivation was to help keep tensions low and should not be interpreted as showing support for any cause or group.

00:19:23.700 Our officers continue to work to de-escalate these demonstrations.

00:19:27.700 What?

00:19:28.320 What?

00:19:29.460 You saw the video.

00:19:31.420 They were cheerfully chatting back and forth with the Hamas thugs. 0.98

00:19:34.660 What do they mean by de-escalate?

00:19:36.300 Is there some hostage they're negotiating for?

00:19:38.880 In a way, I guess there is.

00:19:39.840 They're holding the whole Jewish community there hostage.

00:19:42.120 But what are they talking about?

00:19:44.340 No one was arrested or even ticketed except that Jew who drove by the other day and heckled them.

00:19:50.600 Helpful act.

00:19:51.740 Well, that part was right.

00:19:53.120 That PR cop later deleted the whole Twitter account.

00:19:56.560 But it was a police Twitter account, a public Twitter account.

00:20:00.400 What went on there?

00:20:01.380 Who wrote that?

00:20:02.220 If it was an incorrect message, what was incorrect about it?

00:20:06.160 Won't they correct it?

00:20:07.180 Why are morally void children running police messaging about deadly serious events? 1.00

00:20:14.120 What a stupid, useless police force. 1.00

00:20:16.260 I wonder how much in taxes the Jews of armed rights. 1.00

00:20:19.540 I think they need their own police force, a private police force, because Toronto's public police force is too partisan, too political.

00:20:27.100 They've been colonized by DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:20:32.560 That's the phrase used for cultural Marxism.

00:20:35.640 They believe the same thing that that Harvard president who just resigned believes, which is you determine right and wrong, not on merit, but based on race or sex or grievance.

00:20:45.080 So foreign bigots who propose violence, they're still the oppressed ones here. 0.55

00:20:50.460 And the Jewish children trying to get to school in Armor Heights, they're the oppressors. 1.00

00:20:55.240 It's the same logic that defended the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7th.

00:21:00.980 It's a double win for the left.

00:21:03.220 They have co-opted the police to protect Hamas and even to bring them coffee. 0.96

00:21:08.300 And they're also turning law-abiding Canadians against the police.

00:21:11.560 It's a double win.

00:21:12.420 And the Jews really do need their own police because they cannot trust the Toronto police anymore.

00:21:17.300 I sure don't. 1.00

00:21:19.000 In part because Toronto is one of the stupidest, most commonest mayors in Canada. 1.00

00:21:22.640 And I say those as observations, not as insults. 0.99

00:21:25.700 Olivia Chow is mayor only because she is the widow of former NDP leader Jack Layton.

00:21:31.400 That name recognition was enough to give her the edge in what turned into a mayor's race of more than 100 candidates. 0.98

00:21:37.600 Seriously, there were more than 100 names on the ballot.

00:21:39.640 So sheer name recognition gave it to Olivia Chow.

00:21:43.420 That and the city socialists and communists wrote it for her, too.

00:21:47.720 She endorsed the pro-Hamas ceasefire that would let them rearm and regroup. 0.86

00:21:52.360 She's absolutely in sync with the Hamas terrorists. 0.85

00:21:55.420 She doesn't care much for Jews or for Israel.

00:21:58.280 But the funny thing is, yesterday, she had her mayor's annual skating party,

00:22:04.020 a family affair right outside City Hall at a place called Nathan Phillips Square.

00:22:08.740 It's named after Toronto's first Jewish mayor, actually. 0.98

00:22:11.180 And the exact same fucks, literally the same people who were blocking the Jewish neighborhood, 0.99

00:22:16.820 they came to disrupt Chow's family skating party. 0.99

00:22:19.900 Take a look at some of that.

00:22:21.140 Free, free, free Palestine! 0.97

00:22:23.640 Free, free Palestine!

00:22:25.720 Free, free Palestine!

00:22:27.780 Free, free Palestine!

00:22:29.760 Free, free Palestine!

00:22:31.740 Olivia Chow, you can hide! 0.99

00:22:33.820 You support this genocide!

00:22:35.720 Olivia Chow, you can hide! 0.99

00:22:37.660 You support the genocide!

00:22:38.900 Olivia Chow, you can hide! 0.99

00:22:39.980 You support this genocide!

00:22:47.860 Olivia Chow, you can hide! 0.99

00:22:49.880 You support this genocide!

00:22:51.480 So they weren't skating.

00:23:13.160 They weren't wearing skates.

00:23:14.880 They were bringing their hate flags and their megaphones and they're shouting at Canadians.

00:23:18.940 And they have that sign promoting Hamas itself, which is crazy.

00:23:23.560 They're literally claiming that Hamas is no different from Nelson Mandela.

00:23:27.800 By the way, it is a crime in Canada to support a banned terrorist group.

00:23:31.080 But if they're not going to arrest a Hamas thug for wearing a mask and uttering death threats,

00:23:36.440 they're certainly not going to arrest these people.

00:23:39.120 Harassing, shouting, threatening Canadians. 0.99

00:23:43.320 You so hard. You so hard. 0.99

00:23:45.200 Don't touch me. Do not touch me. Do not touch me. 0.51

00:23:48.080 You touched me. Don't touch me.

00:23:50.440 You literally touched me. Back the fuck away. 1.00

00:23:52.280 Are you assaulting people? 1.00

00:23:55.640 Shame on you. 0.99

00:23:58.900 Shame on you. 0.57

00:24:02.220 Shame on you. 0.57

00:24:06.080 Shame on you. 1.00

00:24:07.200 And no family skating party would be complete without some foreign thug 1.00

00:24:36.720 bringing his loudspeaker and calling for an armed genocide against every Jew in Israel. 0.97

00:24:41.600 I mean, he's been getting away with this for three months.

00:24:44.180 Why would he have his beats for the 300th time?

00:25:01.620 I said 300 times because that's how many Hamas hate marches have happened, 0.59

00:25:05.900 according to the police chief.

00:25:07.700 On Sunday night, after the whole world was wondering what was wrong with Ontario, with Toronto,

00:25:13.700 the chief put out a useless, vague word salad.

00:25:16.580 I'll read some of them.

00:25:18.140 Questions have been raised regarding one particular interaction between officers and a person

00:25:23.060 on the Avenue Road Bridge during an hours-long demonstration.

00:25:26.720 Whatever the intent, the impact is being to cause concern and confusion.

00:25:30.280 And for that, I am sorry.

00:25:31.380 Well, what was the intent, and what is the policy?

00:25:37.540 And really, who cares about the coffee other than it was a symbol?

00:25:41.660 Final, utter proof that the police are in league with Hamas protesters.

00:25:45.600 They're a team.

00:25:46.300 They're buddies.

00:25:46.980 They're normalizing this hate march.

00:25:50.700 Imagine police bringing in coffee, say, for the Ku Klux Klan, if they were blocking a road

00:25:56.140 outside a black church and chanting in support of lynchings, and the cops just brought coffee

00:26:01.220 to help.

00:26:01.740 The police chief wrote, we are doing everything we can in the locations that have been targeted

00:26:09.620 for demonstrations to uphold and enforce the law.

00:26:12.740 Don't lie.

00:26:14.120 They're not doing everything.

00:26:15.380 They're doing nothing.

00:26:17.340 Not one arrest.

00:26:18.220 Not one clearing of the road, even.

00:26:20.520 The opposite, they brought in big buses to block the road for the Hamas protesters.

00:26:24.900 They're bringing coffee for them. 0.99

00:26:27.700 Just useless. 0.94

00:26:28.860 What is the point of the Toronto police? 0.98

00:26:30.520 What an awful statement.

00:26:32.860 But really, it's a reflection of the awful mayor and the awful premium prime minister. 0.88

00:26:37.540 But I think the connection is the closest to that atrocious communist mayor.

00:26:42.600 Watch this clip of Olivia Chow, the mayor, trying to make some banal statement about her 0.89

00:26:46.600 skating party, and being shouted down.

00:26:49.440 You'll notice she stops and turns around and says, I agree with you.

00:26:52.620 She says she agrees with the protesters.

00:26:54.500 She interrupted herself when they were interrupting her to plead with them to say, look, I've already

00:26:58.940 endorsed a program of ceasefire.

00:27:00.680 They don't care.

00:27:01.240 This isn't about persuasion.

00:27:02.760 This is about domination and showing Canadians who's boss now, who controls the streets now, 1.00

00:27:08.740 who are the new masters of the police now.

00:27:10.660 I do agree.

00:27:12.660 You've seen my message about ceasefire, right?

00:27:17.680 So why don't you let me continue?

00:27:21.120 Anyway, today we are told that I belong.

00:27:24.660 We're hoping what I belong.

00:27:33.360 We're hoping!

00:27:38.460 I'll just keep talking about it.

00:27:39.280 We're hoping to escape here.

00:27:43.280 Hey, sir, you know what?

00:27:49.280 I'm the city councilors, too.

00:27:53.280 The 24 city councilors.

00:27:57.280 You condemn Hamas?

00:27:59.280 You condemn Hamas?

00:28:01.280 Anyway, I'm trying to have a dialogue.

00:28:05.280 How many more kids, Olivia? How many more kids?

00:28:07.280 10,000 kids are dead.

00:28:09.280 Democracy in action? Is that what that is?

00:28:13.280 Coming to a children's skating party,

00:28:15.280 storming onto the ice without skates,

00:28:17.280 but with megaphones and terrace flags and banners,

00:28:21.280 shouting at Canadians just skating?

00:28:23.280 Is that democracy in action, really?

00:28:25.280 Is it democracy in action to block a road to homes and schools

00:28:29.280 and shut it down? Oh, by the way,

00:28:31.280 here's what Olivia Chow wrote about her skating event after the fact.

00:28:35.280 Some good fun at today's New Year's levy and skating party.

00:28:39.280 Looking forward to a great year ahead.

00:28:41.280 And it's carefully curated.

00:28:43.280 No Hamas protesters in sight.

00:28:45.280 And just photos, no videos,

00:28:47.280 so you won't hear the swearing and I'm up that chance.

00:28:50.280 That's Toronto.

00:28:51.280 The laughing stock of the world.

00:28:53.280 We know the truth because a citizen journalist, by the way.

00:28:57.280 It would be funny all this,

00:28:59.280 unless you're a citizen wondering,

00:29:01.280 what the hell happened to your city and

00:29:03.280 what's happening to our whole country?

00:29:06.280 Stay with us for more.

00:29:20.280 You know, a fish rots from the head down.

00:29:22.280 What does that mean?

00:29:23.280 Well, it means everyone in an organization

00:29:25.280 watches the boss

00:29:27.280 and sort of models himself after that.

00:29:30.280 That's how they know what's acceptable or not.

00:29:32.280 So, for example, when Stephen Harper was the prime minister, Bev Oda,

00:29:37.280 a cabinet minister, was actually sacked from cabinet

00:29:40.280 because she had the audacity to buy an orange juice

00:29:43.280 from a hotel mini bar.

00:29:45.280 You know how expensive those are.

00:29:46.280 It was a $16 orange juice,

00:29:48.280 but that was so offensive,

00:29:50.280 not just to the media party, which was outraged by this,

00:29:53.280 but to Harper's own sensibilities, that he sacked her.

00:29:56.280 That's how it was under Harper.

00:29:58.280 Compare that to Justin Trudeau,

00:30:00.280 who's been convicted under the Conflict of Interest Act so many times,

00:30:03.280 and he doesn't care.

00:30:05.280 And over the Christmas holidays,

00:30:07.280 we learned that contrary to his public statements,

00:30:10.280 he accepted a free gift worth almost $100,000

00:30:14.280 of a vacation getaway in Jamaica that he claimed he had paid for,

00:30:19.280 but he lied, just absolutely tone deaf to begin with,

00:30:24.280 going to this $100,000 free vacation

00:30:26.280 when Canadians are having one of the toughest economic times in a generation.

00:30:30.280 The lie, of course, came naturally.

00:30:33.280 Now, his son Xavier, who's quite active on Instagram,

00:30:36.280 was boasting about it,

00:30:38.280 publishing videos of some of that luxury lifestyle.

00:30:41.280 I mean, really, rock star lifestyle.

00:30:44.280 It's really weird to me also that Sophie Trudeau tagged along,

00:30:47.280 even though, allegedly, she's in a new relationship with a new guy.

00:30:51.280 Well, she came along for the party, too.

00:30:53.280 Here's some of Xavier Trudeau's Instagram videos

00:30:57.280 just showing what it's like being part of that rock star family.

00:31:01.280 Listen, I don't begrudge anyone having wealth,

00:31:03.280 but this was not earned wealth.

00:31:05.280 This is a bribe.

00:31:07.280 This is a $100,000 gift to Trudeau,

00:31:10.280 which I guess is how it is now.

00:31:13.280 Yeah. Under Stephen Harper, you get sacked for a $16 orange juice.

00:31:17.280 So every...

00:31:19.280 The reason I tell you this is that every single person in the public service,

00:31:23.280 every single MP and cabinet minister is watching the boss,

00:31:26.280 and they're learning, by example, what is or isn't acceptable.

00:31:31.280 And so far, we have found no limits of what is or isn't acceptable.

00:31:36.280 And that is on my mind because I see a new press release by our friends

00:31:39.280 at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:31:41.280 Let me just read the headline to you

00:31:43.280 before we go to their director, Franco Teresano.

00:31:46.280 The headline...

00:31:47.280 Oh, it's just perfect timing.

00:31:50.280 Feds drop half a million on glitzy galas for bureaucrats.

00:31:57.280 Let me just read a paragraph before I call on Franco.

00:32:00.280 Cameras flashing as honored guests strut down a red carpet.

00:32:04.280 Tatered menus featuring charcuterie, cured Arctic char, and duck prosciutto.

00:32:10.280 Speechwriters and lavish venue rentals.

00:32:13.280 Trophies made of antique gold, clear crystal, and beveled black glass.

00:32:18.280 It's not the Oscars, not the Golden Globes, not even the Junos.

00:32:23.280 It is the Public Service Award of Excellence.

00:32:28.280 Joining us now to talk about how the public service has just taken after their boss

00:32:33.280 is our friend Franco Teresano, the director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:32:38.280 They're living in their own world, and it's a luxury world,

00:32:41.280 and things have never been better, richer, fatter, comfier in that world.

00:32:46.280 To heck with what ordinary Canadians are going through.

00:32:49.280 Franco, tell us what this is all about.

00:32:51.280 What are these glitzy galas, and why are you and I not invited?

00:32:55.280 Well, yeah, you're right.

00:32:56.280 We're not invited, but we sure are picking up the tap, aren't we?

00:33:01.280 I mean, we're laughing, because if you don't laugh, you have to cry,

00:33:04.280 because this story is just so outrageous.

00:33:07.280 The feds have dropped about 476,000 smackers since 2012,

00:33:13.280 so that's over a decade, on these award shows, okay?

00:33:17.280 And they're supposed to be celebrating the excellence within the public service,

00:33:21.280 if I can even say that, when these government departments can't even meet half

00:33:25.280 of their own performance targets.

00:33:27.280 Now, folks, we're going to dive into the details here, but let me just give you

00:33:30.280 kind of the big picture here.

00:33:32.280 Half a million dollars for these bureaucrats to show up and get these very fancy awards. 1.00

00:33:37.280 Some of the menus that we've seen in recent years show these fancy feasts,

00:33:42.280 these fancy foods, all paid for by you.

00:33:44.280 But let me just start with the last two years.

00:33:48.280 So, over the past two years, these award shows that these bureaucrats pat each other on the back over,

00:33:54.280 at a time when so many Canadians struggled during government lockdowns,

00:33:58.280 during government-induced inflation,

00:34:01.280 during small businesses closing down, during people losing their jobs.

00:34:05.280 While all that was happening, they dropped, over the past two years,

00:34:08.280 $118,000 on these award shows for themselves.

00:34:14.280 And, folks, the big part of the bill here are these fancy trophies worth $80,000.

00:34:20.280 Come on! Come on! 0.56

00:34:22.280 $80,000. Ezra, one last stat here.

00:34:26.280 I'm a number cruncher. One last stat here.

00:34:28.280 The trophies, over the last decade, have cost taxpayers $240,000.

00:34:35.280 You know, we have the Rebbe Awards here at Rebel News, and we get these fun...

00:34:39.280 Like, part of the fun is that they're little and goofy and they're sort of cheesy.

00:34:43.280 It's like when you're a kid and you get, like, a bowling award in third place.

00:34:48.280 I think we spend maybe $20 on each of them, including engraving.

00:34:53.280 It's the fun of it. It's just the...

00:34:56.280 I can't believe, like...

00:34:59.280 Like, that's what a real Oscar would cost.

00:35:02.280 Like, it...

00:35:04.280 I mean, next year...

00:35:05.280 You're lost for words, Ezra.

00:35:06.280 Oh, my...

00:35:07.280 They did the unthinkable Ezra.

00:35:08.280 Even you're lost for words because of their crazy spending.

00:35:11.280 And that's something else.

00:35:12.280 It's...

00:35:13.280 Oh, my...

00:35:14.280 I didn't realize that.

00:35:15.280 I knew they were having gourmet meals.

00:35:17.280 And I'm looking at your press release here about...

00:35:20.280 And frankly, the menu sounds delicious.

00:35:22.280 These folks really are partying like rock stars.

00:35:26.280 This is the rock star life.

00:35:27.280 This is, you know, a pop music star.

00:35:30.280 This really...

00:35:31.280 When you start off by talking about the Oscars or the Junos, that's where you would expect this kind of luxury menu.

00:35:38.280 This is so out of touch with the times for the public service.

00:35:42.280 They aren't servants at all.

00:35:44.280 They're our masters.

00:35:46.280 And we're just paying for it.

00:35:48.280 Yeah, it really sounds like public servant in name only, right?

00:35:52.280 It really feels like you work hard so that you can pay their lavish work lifestyle and fund their big bloated paychecks, right?

00:36:01.280 So, who is serving who?

00:36:03.280 I think that's a question to leave in everyone's mind.

00:36:05.280 You mentioned the menus.

00:36:07.280 Let me read you the menu from 2019 or a proposed menu from 2019.

00:36:11.280 Charcuterie, curd, arctic char, smoked and candied salmon, smoked trout, forked tree.

00:36:18.280 I don't even know what that is, but it's probably fancy.

00:36:21.280 And duck prosciutto.

00:36:23.280 Folks, in 2019, they had a literal red carpet.

00:36:27.280 Isn't that nice, right?

00:36:29.280 They had a photographer for a flashy photo shoot.

00:36:32.280 All that fun stuff.

00:36:34.280 Now, out of all the different details in this, which are truly absurd, Ezra, you want to know which one for some reason I'm just so upset about?

00:36:42.280 Go ahead.

00:36:43.280 Is in 2022, their annual party for themselves in 2022 was $37,000, okay?

00:36:50.280 That's enough to make you mad.

00:36:52.280 What makes me so frustrated is the fact that the expensed mileage-

00:36:56.280 I was just going to say, I was just going to say, go ahead, finish it.

00:37:01.280 The expense mileage for 165 local employees?

00:37:05.280 Local employees, just to get up, drive to their own party.

00:37:10.280 They got paid to do- That is not normal, by the way.

00:37:13.280 That's not normal to pay someone to come to work.

00:37:16.280 That's just not- And this is to come to their own gala.

00:37:19.280 That's not normal.

00:37:21.280 I don't think that's normal.

00:37:23.280 You have to wonder if they had to buy these bureaucrats a map so they could remember how to get back down. 0.95

00:37:29.280 That's a good point.

00:37:30.280 They were all working from home.

00:37:31.280 Houseboat.

00:37:32.280 Oh, my God.

00:37:34.280 Holy moly.

00:37:35.280 You know what?

00:37:36.280 I just am reading that menu again.

00:37:38.280 But it's the trophies themselves.

00:37:40.280 I just- You know what?

00:37:44.280 I think that there are two Canadas, or maybe more than that.

00:37:47.280 But I think, yeah, I like to joke that Trudeau's base is what I call the media party, all the journalists that are on the dole now.

00:37:55.280 But in a way, anyone with a government job is part of his base because, you know, they work from home.

00:38:02.280 I was stunned to learn half of the passport office is still working from home in 2024.

00:38:07.280 Government services has rarely been worse.

00:38:12.280 The size of the government has never been larger.

00:38:14.280 The cost of it has never been higher.

00:38:17.280 There's no such thing as restraint for them.

00:38:20.280 They get cost of living and inflation adjustments, so they're not pinched in any way.

00:38:27.280 They are living a fake life that is supported by, you know, the number of people pulling the wagon versus the number of people riding in the back of the wagon is so out of joint.

00:38:41.280 But why would they not do that if their leader and boss is living that party lifestyle?

00:38:48.280 I don't know.

00:38:49.280 I'm just very frustrated by this.

00:38:51.280 And it makes me long for the boring days of boring Stephen accountant Harper again.

00:38:57.280 Ezra, can I jump into two things here?

00:39:00.280 Because as you were talking, two things really came to mind.

00:39:03.280 And number one is, I think, the real issue that we face when it comes to how do we deal with this mess of a government or just governments across Canada, right?

00:39:12.280 And it's the fact that it's us versus them, the makers versus the takers.

00:39:16.280 You are not the government.

00:39:18.280 The government is not you, right?

00:39:20.280 And I know that's a tough pill to swallow, especially when growing up, you know, going through grade school, high school, university.

00:39:27.280 This might sound different, but the truth is the truth, right?

00:39:30.280 Like, it is so different.

00:39:32.280 There really are two classes, right?

00:39:34.280 There's the productive class, the people who essentially drive our country forward, you know, working, producing the tax revenue.

00:39:42.280 And it kind of has become the fact that there's also now another separate distinct class, the government class, that takes this money, that spends money without thinking about the people who actually work for it.

00:39:53.280 And essentially, they're spending a lot of money to benefit themselves, right?

00:39:57.280 These fancy parties or whether it's Trudeau spending $61,000 on fancy Manhattan hotel rooms during a two day anti poverty summit or the governor general spending $71,000 on a limo service in Iceland for what a four day meeting where the hotel was like an eight minute walk away from the main conference center, right?

00:40:20.280 It really does feel like the makers and takers here in Canada.

00:40:25.280 But the second thing that really came to my mind, more of a deeper issue than this crazy amount of spending, is that I honestly, I have to say, this goes much deeper than just the political element of it, right?

00:40:37.280 It's really, if we want to address this, we have to realize, like, how do we fix the bureaucracy, right?

00:40:44.200 And I take your point that it all starts at the top, the political leadership, and we pay for them to be there to look after the public first.

00:40:51.060 But the real question, if we really want to solve these issues, is how do we tame the unelected bureaucracy?

00:40:56.860 And who's actually going to go in there and do what has to be done?

00:41:01.340 And what has to be done isn't just control spending.

00:41:04.280 It's not just moderate spending a little bit.

00:41:07.080 We actually need a massive overhaul.

00:41:10.080 Spending has to go down.

00:41:12.080 It can't just be, you know, business as usual with a little bit of savings.

00:41:16.460 Yeah.

00:41:16.920 Well, I sure hope so.

00:41:18.220 And Pierre Polyev has said that he will outline some cuts before the next election.

00:41:22.980 I certainly hope he does, and I hope he's not deterred and scared off of that, because it absolutely must happen.

00:41:31.300 I think the number one problem is the mindset.

00:41:33.620 And, you know, some people say, Edson, why are you suing these cabinet ministers for blocking rebel news reporters on Twitter?

00:41:39.180 That seems a little bit petty.

00:41:40.640 I don't believe it's petty.

00:41:42.320 I think it goes to the government mindset that they think they're the boss.

00:41:46.600 They think we are subjects, not citizens.

00:41:49.380 And it shines through everything they do.

00:41:52.240 And this half-million-dollar bureaucrat party for themselves, I think, is a symptom of their mindset.

00:42:00.820 Franco, I'm so grateful to you guys at the Taxpayers' Federation.

00:42:03.820 As I always say, the reason you're trustworthy is because you do not take government money,

00:42:09.040 and so you can advocate for your members who are ordinary Canadians.

00:42:12.520 Great to see you again.

00:42:13.400 Keep up the fight.

00:42:15.200 Thanks, Ezra.

00:42:15.680 All right, there you have it.

00:42:16.780 Franco Teresano, the director of the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation.

00:42:20.820 Can you believe paying people to come to their own gala from their own town?

00:42:25.700 Unbelievable.

00:42:26.300 Stay with us.

00:42:26.940 Hey, welcome back.

00:42:39.520 Instead of letters, I'm going to give you some final thoughts on this crazy bridge blockade in Toronto.

00:42:44.480 It's a neighborhood that is served by Avenue Road, which if you've ever been to Toronto, you may know it's one of the large north-south roads.

00:42:52.360 There's Young Street, and there's Avenue Road, and there's, like, it's a major artery.

00:42:56.620 And to block that off right where it enters this Jewish community is basically sealing off half the community. 0.99

00:43:03.040 It's ghettoizing them.

00:43:04.360 It truly is a blockade, and it's just so astonishing that that happens time after time, and that the police have normalized it.

00:43:12.900 The media have ignored it in the Maine.

00:43:16.080 It's citizen journalists who are showing the craziness there. 0.99

00:43:18.960 But I can't help but think, what if there was a band of Ku Klux Klan or other racists who were marching on a black neighborhood?

00:43:27.220 I mean, what would the police do? 0.70

00:43:29.300 They would have their batons out.

00:43:30.780 Every single one of them would be charged with some made-up offense from jaywalking.

00:43:35.440 Remember when I encountered Omer Cotter on the streets in Halifax at the airport, and I was following him, and a cop said,

00:43:43.300 You step on the road, I'm going to get you for jaywalking.

00:43:46.320 Like, you know, as Lavrenti Beria of the, you know, Soviet secret police said,

00:43:53.780 Find me the man, show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.

00:43:57.360 As in, there's so many laws out there.

00:43:59.200 I got you on anything.

00:44:00.280 Just show me the guy, and I'll get him.

00:44:02.860 And when I was going to follow Omer Cotter, this cop said,

00:44:06.600 You step on the road, I'll get you for jaywalking.

00:44:09.500 So there are countless laws you could apply, but none of them are being applied, even for a thug making death bets.

00:44:18.040 And I remember when we went on Nathan Phillips Square, and the police wouldn't let us there in the daytime to do peaceful journalism, because Antifa had a little tent city.

00:44:28.420 You remember that?

00:44:28.980 That was a few years back.

00:44:29.980 So police have a lot of discretion.

00:44:32.860 And by the way, I think we generally want police to have discretion, because every situation is different. 0.84

00:44:38.600 But when week after week, the Hamas thugs chant for the death of the Jews, oh, they say Zionists.

00:44:44.580 They're smart enough to say that. 0.94

00:44:45.800 But it's not a Zionist community center.

00:44:48.180 It's not a Zionist building.

00:44:49.700 It's a school.

00:44:51.260 It's a synagogue.

00:44:52.320 Those are houses with people.

00:44:54.940 They mean Jews when they talk about infested with Zionists. 0.99

00:44:59.060 That's Nazi-like language. 0.66

00:45:02.180 And the city's fine with that.

00:45:04.360 And I never would have imagined it.

00:45:06.260 Growing up in Calgary, we had a fairly small Jewish community at the time, less than 10,000.

00:45:10.900 And I always thought of Toronto as this Jewish Mecca, because there's 200,000 Jews, and they had the highest heights of the city.

00:45:19.280 And wow, that's an amazing place.

00:45:20.740 No, not in 2024, when cultural Marxism says Jews are the oppressor class and Palestinians are the oppressed class.

00:45:30.300 So you can literally do or say anything, and the cops aren't going to do anything because they're involved in this whole DEI business.

00:45:36.660 I think it's a terrible look.

00:45:39.060 I think the world is shocked by Canada.

00:45:41.620 But who's going to do anything about it?

00:45:42.940 Justin Trudeau?

00:45:44.360 Rob Ford?

00:45:45.800 Sorry, Doug Ford.

00:45:47.320 Excuse me, Rob Ford passed away.

00:45:48.820 I think that this is out of sync with Canadians. 0.93

00:45:54.420 But just like during the unanimity amongst the parties during the COVID lockdowns, if there's no one in a position of power who will stand up and do anything, the people have no outlet.

00:46:05.480 I think you might see someone getting killed or injured.

00:46:09.380 I think you might see some vigilante reaction.

00:46:12.180 When people can no longer trust the police or rely on the police to uphold the law, terrible things may happen.

00:46:16.780 And I think this is only going to get worse, not better.

00:46:20.520 That's our show for the day.

00:46:21.980 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:46:27.160 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:46:28.260 We'll see you.

00:46:31.200 Seriously.

00:46:32.480 We'll see you next time.

00:46:33.120 Friday, I'm looking forward to questioning.

00:46:33.540 We'll see you next time.

00:46:35.560 We'll see you next time.

00:46:37.860 Bye.

00:46:38.240 Bye.

00:46:38.680 Bye.

00:46:38.740 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 09, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Toronto police punished peaceful Canadians during COVID, yet ignore pro-Hamas hate marches

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