Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau enters his 'mad king' phase

00:00:00.200 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you into the bosom of the Liberal Party's convention.

00:00:07.600 I'll show you a clip from Justin Trudeau's speech. I want to show it to you because he

00:00:12.760 bears his teeth in that angry manner that he does from time to time. I want you to see it.

00:00:19.120 And then I'll read to you from a policy proposal that was voted by the liberals to be amongst

00:00:24.540 their top 20 ideas. It won't surprise you to hear that it involves censoring the media.

00:00:31.100 I'll show you that and more. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News

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00:00:40.080 It's eight bucks a month. What a bargain. And, you know, in addition to getting the video stuff,

00:00:45.240 you will support Rebel News because we do not take any money from Trudeau. How could we? We

00:00:49.400 criticize him. He would never give it to us. And to take money would mean we would have to bend the

00:00:53.680 knee to him. 99% of the media in Canada bend the knee to Trudeau. We will not. All right,

00:01:00.300 here's today's podcast. Tonight, Trudeau enters his Mad King phase. It's May 5th and this is

00:01:21.520 the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:37.700 Yesterday was an astonishing day on Parliament Hill. Michael Chong, a Chinese-Canadian MP for the

00:01:42.860 Conservative Party, who has criticized communist China. It was revealed this week that the Chinese 0.99

00:01:48.680 government was targeting him and his family, both overseas in Hong Kong and here in Canada.

00:01:54.820 And in fact, one of the people targeting him was known and he was actually given diplomatic

00:02:00.820 credentials to be here in Canada working for the Chinese embassy. There's over 180 Chinese diplomats

00:02:08.220 with those credentials. Trudeau had lied about it, saying he didn't know and no one knew and he blamed

00:02:14.380 CISUS. But CISUS met with Michael Chong and told him the truth that Trudeau had lied. It was shocking.

00:02:21.300 Now, watch this. Watch Michael Chong go head to head with Melanie Jolie, the foreign minister,

00:02:25.780 probably the least serious, least qualified foreign minister Canada has ever had in office. Listen to

00:02:32.360 her stammer a bit and then basically say, well, we can't do anything because China's watching us and we

00:02:38.700 don't want to displease the Communist Party. Have you ever seen such weakness before?

00:02:44.880 We would take action.

00:02:45.740 Minister, the Article 9 of the Vienna Convention is clear.

00:02:48.940 I would just, if I can.

00:02:50.260 The article, let me, I've heard your answer.

00:02:52.980 No, no, but I'm not finished.

00:02:54.320 Why is this diplomat still here? Article 9 of the Vienna Convention is clear.

00:02:57.740 Article 9 says that the government can declare a diplomat persona non grata for no reason.

00:03:04.160 The article is clear. So why is this diplomat still here, a diplomat who has more rights and

00:03:11.780 immunities than the Canadians around this table, to go around and conduct his foreign interference 0.89

00:03:17.400 threat activities? He has diplomatic immunity. He cannot be criminally prosecuted. We all remember

00:03:22.700 the case of the Russian diplomat who mowed down a Canadian citizen in a drunk driving case and killed

00:03:29.200 her. And Minister Manley was unable to do anything about it. You are, you have given accreditation

00:03:35.160 to a diplomat here who is using his diplomatic immunity to target not just me and my family,

00:03:41.860 but other members of Parliament. So why do you, Minister, continue to allow this diplomat to be

00:03:48.580 accredited in this country on Canadian soil? That is the question. And you haven't answered the

00:03:53.880 question.

00:03:54.200 Well, let me be able to answer the question. And of course, Michael, I understand your frustration

00:03:59.260 and I understand your anger.

00:04:00.960 We haven't expelled a single PRC diplomat.

00:04:04.360 Michael, can I just finish?

00:04:05.000 We are one of the only democratic allies in the NATO alliance that has not expelled a single PRC 0.82

00:04:11.420 diplomat. And Canadians are being targeted by the over 100 diplomats accredited here.

00:04:16.700 Yes. Okay. Thank you. So first and foremost, what we're doing right now as a government is

00:04:21.720 we're assessing the consequences that we'll be facing in case of diplomatic expulsion because

00:04:29.260 there will be consequences. I think it's important the Canadians know what we've learned from the

00:04:33.780 two Michael experience is that, of course, China and the PRC will take action. These interests,

00:04:41.280 interests, including economic interests, consular interests, and also diplomatic interests, will be

00:04:48.760 will be affected. And therefore, no, Michael, I just want to finish my answer because this is

00:04:54.580 very important. It's about you, but it's about also the interests of the country. So as we are

00:05:00.980 assessing the interests, and I know that we are under pressure to go fast, we need to make sure as well

00:05:08.160 that we protect our democracy. And that is why we will take action in light of the facts that are being

00:05:16.840 presented regarding your case, and, you know, any MP that could be targeted. So that's why my deputy

00:05:23.820 minister right now is meeting with the Chinese ambassador and summoning him. And that's why also we're

00:05:29.900 assessing different options, including the expulsion of diplomats, because it is important that we take

00:05:35.960 a decision. A disgraceful show of weakness, lack of national confidence, total submission to China, 0.89

00:05:42.080 so gross. I don't even know why the Chinese need spies here. They're right in the heart of the 0.97

00:05:47.580 government. But where was Trudeau yesterday? He was in Ottawa. He just didn't bother going to

00:05:54.820 question period or anything like that. He was very busy, though, doing other important things. It was May 4th

00:06:01.640 yesterday. Now, you might know that the children's movie called Star Wars, it had a catchphrase,

00:06:07.920 may the force be with you. And it's become a meme. May the 4th be with you is a joke for when the

00:06:17.340 it's the 4th of May. So on May 4th, Star Wars fans say that it was a children's, may the 4th be with

00:06:24.600 you. It's a funny joke if you're a kid. So here's what Trudeau was doing yesterday, not dealing with

00:06:32.540 the Chinese spy scandal, not dealing with an MP being attacked by a foreign diplomat, not answering

00:06:38.820 Michael Chong in Parliament. He was busy and he tweeted about it. He said, I have an important message for

00:06:47.240 you. Oh, you have something to say about Michael Chong? No. Yeah, he's a child. He has the moral

00:07:08.440 seriousness of a child. But he had time to go to his party's political convention. He gave a partisan

00:07:14.560 speech, which is fine. And listen to one of his attacks on his opponent, Pierre Polyev. Look at

00:07:19.720 Trudeau's face. Look at the moment he bares his teeth that way. He does that when he can't control

00:07:25.200 his rage. Take a look. But this, this is what the Conservative Party of Canada has become

00:07:37.180 under Pierre Polyev. Even Aaron O'Toole knew that. Before he left, he admitted that members of the

00:07:46.980 Conservative Party went deep down into the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories during the pandemic,

00:07:54.920 and they show no sign of coming out.

00:07:57.340 It's quite telling that when Pierre Polyev sat down with President Joseph R. Biden a month

00:08:07.140 ago, he used his precious time to complain about vaccine mandates. Not borders, not jobs for the

00:08:19.440 middle class, certainly not Ukraine, but vaccine mandates.

00:08:27.600 So Pierre Polyev mentioned forced vaccines to Joe Biden, that Joe Biden still has in place today.

00:08:33.680 You know, they're still in place for another week. You can't go into America if you're not jabbed.

00:08:39.520 It's one of the, I don't even know if there's another country in the world that has that rule.

00:08:42.860 It makes no scientific sense. It makes no health sense. It makes no economic sense. It makes no sense

00:08:47.620 between our two countries, supposedly allies. But put aside making sense, it's just downright

00:08:52.660 immoral. And look at the rage with which Trudeau spits out his words. Yeah, he's full of hatred.

00:09:00.540 I think he always has been, at least towards anyone who crosses him, like the truckers.

00:09:06.360 For a brief moment a few days ago, Trudeau pretended, oh, I never forced anyone to get the vaccine.

00:09:12.520 I guess he's done pretending. Here's our little video mashup of that gaslighting.

00:09:17.620 If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice. But don't think you can get on a plane

00:09:23.160 or a train beside vaccinated people.

00:09:27.720 And now is the time for people who are still resistant to getting vaccinated to realize

00:09:35.140 that that choice, which has consequences on putting our kids at risk, which has consequences

00:09:43.220 at having us risk more lockdowns because they haven't chosen to get vaccinated yet,

00:09:51.440 that there will be consequences for those people in not being able to go to a gym or a restaurant,

00:09:59.040 not being able to go to a movie theater, not being able to get on a train or a plane.

00:10:03.280 I want to stand up for the choice of those who are there for their neighbors,

00:10:09.580 not those who are risking us all going into further lockdowns, of slowing our economic recovery.

00:10:17.240 Trying to bring people together is not always compatible with science, with respect for human rights,

00:10:28.680 with the best way to move things forward.

00:10:31.620 I mean, when Aaron O'Toole talks about, oh yes, we need to unite people,

00:10:34.920 we need to bring people together, he's talking about defending the rights of people who are anti-vax.

00:10:42.740 That's why we've been unequivocally.

00:10:46.080 If you want to get on a plane or a train in the coming months,

00:10:49.880 you're going to have to be fully vaccinated.

00:10:51.520 So families with their kids don't have to worry that someone is going to put them in danger

00:10:57.540 in the seat next to them or across the aisle.

00:11:00.820 Unfortunate that people who chose not to get vaccinated are now the ones clogging up our ICU systems

00:11:09.460 and our hospital beds that should be available for people who did their work and did get vaccinated,

00:11:17.520 making sure that businesses that choose to move forward with vaccination requirements

00:11:23.780 aren't subject to unnecessary or unjustified lawsuits.

00:11:27.760 If you make a choice, a personal choice, to not get vaccinated,

00:11:33.980 then I will have no sympathy for you when you come to me and said,

00:11:38.380 oh, but I can't go out to a restaurant with my friends,

00:11:40.900 or I'm not being allowed to go to the gym,

00:11:43.240 or my employer is telling me I have to continue to work from home.

00:11:48.800 You don't have a right to endanger others.

00:11:51.460 Those people are putting us all at risk.

00:11:54.420 So what do they do at these liberal conventions?

00:12:00.180 Well, they get drunk and then do the blackface thing or anti-indigenous thing,

00:12:06.720 other racist things inspired by Trudeau.

00:12:08.980 Don't take my word from it.

00:12:10.060 I'd never make that false accusation.

00:12:12.000 Take it from this liberal delegate who was there.

00:12:14.500 My name is Dawn Upshaw.

00:12:16.040 I'm from Nova Scotia.

00:12:18.700 I'm African-Canadian and the black loyalists.

00:12:22.360 I'm also Ms. Disney Cree from Bay James.

00:12:26.280 I attended a reception last night.

00:12:30.120 We're here from different time zones.

00:12:31.900 People are tired.

00:12:32.940 People are hungry.

00:12:34.220 And there was liquor served at the event.

00:12:36.060 So people were getting drunk and tired rather quickly.

00:12:39.900 And that's when the racism come out.

00:12:41.740 So I was here last night listening and reacting to racism from liberals.

00:12:49.540 So when you respond to racism, do not respond with food, fun, and fashion shows as you've done in the past.

00:12:58.240 Do something.

00:12:59.220 And let us do something.

00:13:01.120 And let us be the people who guide you.

00:13:04.420 Thank you.

00:13:05.740 Thank you very much.

00:13:06.940 I'm very, very sorry that that happened.

00:13:09.680 And I think we all want to make sure that we condemn any type of racism of any type.

00:13:14.800 And we need to understand that actions matter more than words.

00:13:18.060 Yeah, never let a Trudeau liberal get away with calling you racist or sexist or anything.

00:13:22.320 But seriously, when they're not drunk and racist, they're planning new ways to rule you like this.

00:13:28.460 So this document here is the proposed 2023 policy resolutions.

00:13:33.740 This is where liberals daydream about what they want Trudeau to do.

00:13:38.340 There are a ton of ideas, many of them kooky ideas, that come up from the grassroots of the party.

00:13:45.000 All parties get this.

00:13:46.380 And they winnow down the ideas to get rid of the more extreme ones.

00:13:49.540 I think there's 338 riding associations in the country.

00:13:54.560 So the liberals whittled down all their ideas to the 20 best ideas.

00:14:00.240 Here's how they say it.

00:14:01.620 Note, the following policy resolutions are presented and submitted by provincial territorial boards,

00:14:07.040 liberal policy commissions, and the liberal caucus.

00:14:09.820 Registered liberals from across the countries have prioritized the following 20 resolutions

00:14:14.680 through a national online voting and discussion process.

00:14:18.120 And the resolutions below will be presented at the national convention.

00:14:21.660 The resolution is not considered a policy of the party unless it has earned majority support

00:14:25.120 as a priority at a national convention.

00:14:27.860 So these have been voted on by liberals across the country.

00:14:30.480 These are the 20 ones that they like the best.

00:14:33.120 What you are about to read is what they consider one of the most important issues in the country.

00:14:37.620 Top 20 out of hundreds, I presume.

00:14:40.020 Now, I'll read it to you, and I'll intersperse my thoughts in between each sentence, okay?

00:14:47.580 It's called Combating Disinformation in Canada, and it's sponsored by the Liberal Party of Canada

00:14:52.840 in British Columbia.

00:14:54.120 Now, there's a bunch of preambles, whereas the United Nations Secretary General recognizes disinformation

00:15:01.280 as an existential risk to humanity.

00:15:04.640 So I shouldn't have laughed.

00:15:05.780 I should have read that with a straight face.

00:15:07.380 Yeah, it's an existential risk to humanity, just like climate change, just like COVID,

00:15:12.340 just like we need gender reassignment surgery, just like your tax increase. 0.99

00:15:16.960 Whatever they want to do, it's essential, you see.

00:15:19.640 It's an emergency.

00:15:20.420 And the UN says so, so it must be true.

00:15:24.840 Whereas online information sources are the source of most disinformation aimed at and

00:15:30.820 or available to Canadians.

00:15:33.140 But I don't even know what that means.

00:15:34.680 Isn't everything online?

00:15:35.800 Even most books are online.

00:15:37.440 Don't we all watch TV online now?

00:15:39.720 What does that sentence even mean, other than trying to sound very deep?

00:15:43.840 Whereas those who produce misinformation seek to undermine trust in people and institutions,

00:15:48.100 including mainstream media and government.

00:15:51.260 No, I disagree.

00:15:52.340 First of all, you can disagree with and distrust government for good reasons.

00:15:56.760 It's not misinformation.

00:15:57.840 You just disagree with the establishment.

00:16:00.580 And I think the establishment has done an impressive job of undermining their own credibility

00:16:05.160 and their own trust, don't you think?

00:16:08.360 Whereas one recent poll found 44% of Canadians believe much of the information from news organizations

00:16:14.100 is false.

00:16:14.800 And 71% believe official government accounts of events are untrustworthy.

00:16:20.240 So you mean to say that 29% of people still trust politicians?

00:16:23.860 That is a shockingly high number of people who still trust.

00:16:27.400 I guess those are liberal voters.

00:16:28.920 Whereas the demand for information 24-7 has increased the need for programming contemporaneously with

00:16:37.600 the loss of advertising revenue to online platforms.

00:16:41.620 I don't even know what they're saying there.

00:16:44.640 Whereas to reduce costs, mainstream media no longer employs as many reporters with extensive

00:16:49.540 knowledge of particular subject areas and fills content with opinion programming rather than news.

00:16:54.680 And whereas the result has devalued mainstream media as a source of news and

00:16:58.680 information, be it resolved that the Liberal Party of Canada, and I'll read the next part

00:17:05.800 next, but you notice they're talking about the mainstream media.

00:17:09.080 They're worried about the mainstream media losing trust.

00:17:13.980 By the way, what is mainstream media?

00:17:16.340 What's the definition other than just media Trudeau controls?

00:17:19.080 I think that's why they like the mainstream media.

00:17:20.900 It's just that what they mean is the Trudeau media.

00:17:23.280 And yeah, that's all their throat-clearing preamble.

00:17:26.400 That's all their because, because, because.

00:17:28.660 Here's what they want to do because of that.

00:17:31.480 They have two points.

00:17:32.320 The first is, request the government provide additional public funds to support advertisement-free

00:17:39.100 news and information reporting by Canadian media through an arm's-length nonpartisan mechanism.

00:17:45.460 So naturally, liberals want more money for their friends, more taxpayers' money.

00:17:49.900 But why should it be advertising-free or subscription-free?

00:17:56.020 Why can't they earn a living?

00:17:57.440 If you can't sell ads or sell subscriptions or crowdfund like we do, why should your hobby

00:18:01.780 be called a job and bailed out by taxpayers just because the liberals like you?

00:18:05.580 Why?

00:18:05.920 I don't quite get it.

00:18:07.140 The laugh is they're already doing that.

00:18:10.300 They're already handing out hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

00:18:12.680 They're just not doing it in an arm's-length, nonpartisan way.

00:18:15.560 But look at this second recommendation.

00:18:17.900 This is really weird.

00:18:19.720 Request the government explore options to hold online information services accountable

00:18:24.480 for the veracity of material published on their platforms and to limit publication only

00:18:30.700 to material whose sources can be traced.

00:18:33.220 Oh, to limit publication, eh?

00:18:36.380 Now, it used to be that reporters would hold politicians to account.

00:18:41.580 Citizens would hold politicians to account.

00:18:43.780 We would all hold politicians to account.

00:18:45.980 No longer, don't you see?

00:18:47.500 Politicians will hold you to account.

00:18:49.520 Politicians here will hold journalists to account.

00:18:52.040 Politicians will tell reporters what is true or not about the politicians.

00:18:56.120 Politicians will tell you what to believe or not.

00:19:00.080 They'll demand to trace your information sources.

00:19:03.540 What a laugh.

00:19:05.220 Especially given that the very next policy idea in this booklet is to protect whistleblowers,

00:19:09.400 except if the government will want to trace your whistleblowers, I guess, if he blows the

00:19:13.900 whistle on them.

00:19:15.320 What a bunch of little fascists in training.

00:19:18.480 They're all in on it.

00:19:19.760 You remember my story a couple of days ago about the CBC threatening Twitter?

00:19:23.940 That if Twitter didn't delete certain tweets, the CBC didn't like, the Trudeau government

00:19:27.340 would punish Twitter?

00:19:28.800 That's what the CBC threatened Twitter with?

00:19:30.800 Well, Matt Tybee is an American reporter who released the first wave of the Twitter files,

00:19:36.180 which showed internal censorship at Twitter before Elon Musk.

00:19:40.500 He got in touch with us and sent us this.

00:19:44.700 It's an internal email from Twitter Canada where the Twitter executive says they had reviewed

00:19:50.660 the censorship demands by the CBC and found they didn't amount to anything.

00:19:54.580 They were unreasonable.

00:19:55.220 So the CBC threatened to sue them, to sue them.

00:20:00.160 During the call with Cam Gordon and myself, the CBC threatened legal action, so Cam and

00:20:04.640 I ended the call.

00:20:06.540 What?

00:20:07.240 Why would the CBC, which is a news organization, call up Twitter and threaten to sue them, a

00:20:13.900 private company, because they didn't censor people the CBC wanted them to censor?

00:20:17.820 That's so weird.

00:20:19.560 Why do we have to pay for that to begin with?

00:20:21.720 But what has that got to do with journalism?

00:20:23.380 Hey, you know who has Trudeau's number?

00:20:27.800 Robert F.

00:20:28.380 Kennedy Jr.

00:20:29.920 He's running for president.

00:20:31.200 He's seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party.

00:20:34.100 Look at this amazing tweet from him just yesterday.

00:20:39.620 The financial censorship of political enemies is something we're used to seeing under authoritarian

00:20:44.000 regimes.

00:20:45.460 No one was surprised when Russia froze more than 100 bank accounts tied to opposition leader

00:20:50.240 Alexei Navalny.

00:20:51.640 But Canada did it, too, locking more than 200 accounts of people protesting vaccine mandates.

00:20:58.220 Kennedy 24.

00:21:00.180 That got three and a half million views, that tweet.

00:21:02.860 RFK Jr. is John F. Kennedy's nephew.

00:21:06.660 He's the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, who was the attorney general.

00:21:11.220 RFK Jr. is a progressive American political legend.

00:21:14.000 And he's against forced vaccines, just like Pierre Pauli had.

00:21:19.000 He doesn't mind if Trudeau scowls at him.

00:21:21.880 He knows that Trudeau is just a little thug.

00:21:24.880 I think some people are waking up.

00:21:28.220 At least I hope so.

00:21:30.600 Stay with us for more.

00:21:31.580 Hey, welcome back.

00:21:43.760 You know, there are some neighborhoods that are known around the world, Skid Row in Los

00:21:49.260 Angeles.

00:21:49.760 There were some places even in Canada, East Hastings Street, that for years were known

00:21:55.220 as the dangerous drug place where people who perhaps should be institutionalized either

00:22:00.780 for medical care or psychological care, they were just dumped on the streets.

00:22:05.840 But the thing about Skid Row and East Hastings Street is they are in every big city in North

00:22:12.740 America now, maybe not so much in Florida, but in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto,

00:22:19.840 certainly, and across Democrat-led cities. 0.59

00:22:22.960 But I've never seen anything as shocking as this, well, it's almost a billboard in Vancouver.

00:22:30.680 Hard drugs for sale, top quality.

00:22:34.060 Just come on in and buy it.

00:22:36.740 It's just the craziest thing, but actually it's completely unsurprising.

00:22:42.740 How different is that from what politicians and activists call safe injection sites?

00:22:50.140 This was just a man trying to make some money off it.

00:22:53.620 Well, police shut it down after a few hours, but not before our friend Aaron Gunn went there

00:22:59.160 to take a look around.

00:23:00.640 He's joining us now via Skype to tell us the story of the latest dystopian development from

00:23:07.120 Vancouver.

00:23:08.220 Aaron, great to see you.

00:23:10.580 Part of me thinks, what's the big deal?

00:23:13.260 To pretend that there's been no hard drugs and other things for sale on the streets of

00:23:17.060 Vancouver is a bit of a laugh.

00:23:19.120 Maybe it's just that this guy was more brazen than anyone else.

00:23:22.140 Police were embarrassed by it.

00:23:23.420 But actually, what he's doing isn't new, is it?

00:23:28.660 No, it's not.

00:23:29.640 And in fact, you almost have to thank him for being the perfect example of how ridiculous

00:23:35.820 the situation in Vancouver has become.

00:23:38.960 Yes, not everybody's got a big sign out front when they're selling crack or cocaine or crystal

00:23:44.460 meth.

00:23:45.720 But it's widely available.

00:23:47.860 It's never been easier to get drugs or to get high in B.C.

00:23:50.600 And I know you mentioned that, you know, these kind of skid rows are popping up all over

00:23:54.920 the country in big cities.

00:23:55.980 Well, here in B.C., which is obviously the flashpoint of Justin Trudeau's decriminalization,

00:24:00.900 it's come to small cities, too.

00:24:02.340 It's in cities, you know, as small as Duncan and Campbell River and Penticton, where they

00:24:07.960 have their own mini skid rows there.

00:24:09.520 Drug use is open and rampant and the crime that's associated with it, of course, because

00:24:15.220 if you're going to be spending $100 or $200 a day on your drug habit, you got to find a

00:24:20.020 way to get that money and you probably don't have a nine to five job.

00:24:22.860 So there's all sorts of deep societal consequences from this.

00:24:26.960 But of course, this particular instance in Vancouver, which we stumbled upon, it wasn't

00:24:31.380 even my plan to be in the city that day, was just kind of, you know, Vancouver's reached

00:24:37.720 that peak absurdity, or at least for today.

00:24:39.900 We'll see what happens tomorrow.

00:24:41.320 Yeah.

00:24:41.680 Hey, let me read from the Vancouver police press release.

00:24:44.800 And even in the press release, there's some irony.

00:24:49.460 I'll put it on the screen here.

00:24:50.620 VPD, Vancouver Police Department, arrests illegal drugstore operator.

00:24:54.820 Vancouver police have arrested a man for drug trafficking in connection with an illicit drug

00:24:59.200 dispensary that began operating yesterday in the downtown east side.

00:25:03.760 See, there are plenty of drug dispensaries.

00:25:05.480 It's just that this guy wasn't part of the club, you see.

00:25:08.620 VPD's organized crime section launched an investigation, began gathering evidence after

00:25:13.260 the suspect started selling cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, and heroin out of a mobile

00:25:17.640 trailer parked near Maine and Cordova streets.

00:25:20.220 And then I just got to read this part, Aaron, and I'd love your reaction.

00:25:23.280 This is from the cops.

00:25:24.780 And it's not funny.

00:25:25.760 It's absurd.

00:25:27.000 That's why I'm smiling.

00:25:27.880 It's actually extremely sad.

00:25:29.380 We support measures aimed at improving public safety for people who use drugs, including

00:25:37.300 harm reduction services and decriminalization, says Constable Tanya Vizintin.

00:25:42.840 However, we remain committed in our position that drug trafficking will continue to be the

00:25:48.100 subject of enforcement.

00:25:49.400 Well, hang on.

00:25:49.920 Which is it?

00:25:50.700 You can't suck and blow. 0.89

00:25:52.760 Are you arresting this guy just because he's not part of your approved drug dealing NGOs?

00:25:59.400 Like, how can you?

00:26:01.420 That's a 180 degree turn in the course of one paragraph.

00:26:04.800 We're going to crack down on drug trafficking.

00:26:07.120 But we support dispensaries to give people good drugs.

00:26:11.040 Which one is it, sister?

00:26:14.220 Well, exactly, Ezra.

00:26:15.620 And here's the other little hidden truth that the government probably doesn't want you to

00:26:18.980 know and I think is going to explode over the next six months.

00:26:21.340 The biggest drug dealer in Canada right now, when you're talking about powerful, addictive

00:26:25.920 drugs, is the federal government, is Justin Trudeau.

00:26:29.380 With the so-called safe supply program, a so-called safe supply that they've rolled out across

00:26:34.040 the country.

00:26:34.560 I've chatted with pharmacists off the record that are dispensing over a thousand pills

00:26:40.200 every single day of powerful, addictive opioids.

00:26:43.720 So maybe the feds and maybe the police are just worried about this entrepreneurial individual

00:26:50.500 taking some market share away from the government.

00:26:53.660 You know, we're talking in an absurd way because it's an absurd situation, but it's deeply troubling.

00:26:58.340 I have trouble wrapping my head around the ideology for this, but there was a video I saw by a

00:27:05.680 futurist intellectual named Yuval Noah Harari.

00:27:09.700 And we've mentioned him on the show before.

00:27:11.460 Aaron, I don't know if you've ever come across him.

00:27:12.980 He's sort of the muse at the World Economic Forum.

00:27:16.200 He's sort of Klaus Schwab's ideas guy.

00:27:18.680 And he talks about a future where most people are, quote, useless because of high tech and

00:27:26.540 automation and AI.

00:27:27.740 And he says the thing to do with useless people is drugs and video games.

00:27:35.080 You take a listen to Yuval Noah Harari talk about a terrifying dystopian future where people

00:27:40.300 are deemed useless.

00:27:41.800 Again, I think that the biggest question in maybe in economics and politics of the coming

00:27:46.940 decades will be what to do with all these useless people. 0.97

00:27:52.180 I don't think we have an economic model for that.

00:27:56.020 My best guess, which is just a guess, is that food will not be a problem.

00:28:02.420 With that kind of technology, you will be able to produce food to feed everybody.

00:28:07.640 The problem is more boredom and what to do with them and how will they find some sense

00:28:14.220 of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless.

00:28:19.200 My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games.

00:28:24.660 I think that is a terrible future that we want to fight against.

00:28:28.800 But Justin Trudeau goes to Davos almost every year.

00:28:32.560 He loves that place.

00:28:34.160 Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister, is actually a trustee of the

00:28:37.580 World Economic Forum.

00:28:38.440 I don't know how you can be a trustee of that while also in the Canadian cabinet.

00:28:43.500 It's really crazy.

00:28:44.900 I think there's an ideology that some people want as many people drugged, helpless, in

00:28:52.360 some state of suspended animation.

00:28:54.560 They don't want them to be independent, free, and healthy.

00:28:58.320 I can think of no other reason for the government doing what you've just described, Aaron.

00:29:03.180 Well, at the very least, I think the point that you're making, Ezra, is an important

00:29:09.240 one, which is that this push for decriminalization, this push to just hand out free drugs, this

00:29:15.760 is not the compassionate solution.

00:29:17.720 You are basically telling these people, this is the best you can do.

00:29:21.920 This is your lot in life.

00:29:23.400 And we're going to almost treat what's happening in places like the downtown east side as a

00:29:28.120 palliative issue.

00:29:29.540 You know, when I was standing outside this truck, and to be clear, the police knew it

00:29:33.480 was there.

00:29:33.900 They knew it was coming.

00:29:34.560 The guy publicized it beforehand and allowed him to operate for the entire day.

00:29:39.840 They didn't actually arrest him until the following day.

00:29:42.220 So there's huge lines there of people buying meth and heroin and cocaine.

00:29:47.800 And the police didn't do anything.

00:29:49.480 So it was completely operating in broad daylight for 24 hours.

00:29:53.260 We even got a picture of a police car driving by while this was happening.

00:29:56.340 But while I was standing there interviewing people, a group of three or four individuals

00:30:01.220 actually walked past the truck and were quite animated and frustrated and angry.

00:30:06.600 And they were walking just one block away.

00:30:08.640 There was a recovery house for people that were formerly addicted to opioids who are now

00:30:13.060 kind of part of the 12-step process.

00:30:14.860 The one individual told me he'd been clean for a year and was just insulted that the government

00:30:19.460 would be allowing this to happen right in front of his face.

00:30:21.680 I think it's an important part of the story because even those right in the worst throes

00:30:28.160 of addiction, it's amazing with health, with recovery, with treatment.

00:30:32.500 People can turn their lives around.

00:30:34.220 They can return to being taxpaying and productive members of society once again.

00:30:38.740 And when you just start handing out free drugs like this, when you allow other people to

00:30:44.960 be openly dealing drugs or using drugs right in the open, which is commonplace here in British

00:30:49.540 Columbia, you are enabling this kind of behavior and you are normalizing this kind of behavior.

00:30:55.720 And the deep societal consequences that are going to stem, that are going to echo, I think,

00:31:00.940 for years and decades to come from the policies of this government are, I think, actually quite

00:31:06.640 sad because these are people's lives at the end of the day, as you pointed out.

00:31:10.420 Yeah.

00:31:10.720 You know, I think one way to think about it is alcoholism.

00:31:14.820 I mean, there's drug addictions and there's alcohol addictions, and in fact, alcohol is

00:31:19.620 a kind of drug.

00:31:20.920 And if someone's an alcoholic, they need attention.

00:31:24.860 They need reform.

00:31:25.960 They need a 12-step program.

00:31:27.240 They need a buddy in those 12-step programs, someone to call if they're feeling vulnerable.

00:31:32.040 They need an accountability moment.

00:31:33.960 And of course, the old Alcoholics Anonymous, you know, there was a spiritual element.

00:31:38.400 It was actually quite central to it.

00:31:40.380 You had to give yourself over to a higher power.

00:31:43.180 And the idea that instead of the AA program, Alcoholics Anonymous, obviously, I've never

00:31:49.220 been to one.

00:31:50.080 I'm not a drinker myself.

00:31:52.020 But they've been enormously successful for a number of people, not for everybody.

00:31:56.400 Imagine throwing out the Alcoholics Anonymous model and saying, no, we're going to do the

00:32:01.040 opposite.

00:32:02.340 We're going to have free drinks.

00:32:04.660 It's just going to be really safe.

00:32:06.780 Free drinks, but I promise you they're safe and it's in a friendly environment.

00:32:13.200 And if you want help after you've taken all your drinks, we'll give you like, like we

00:32:18.260 just know instinctively, viscerally, that would be absolute madness and insanity if it

00:32:23.340 would never fly for alcoholism.

00:32:26.460 Why are we doing that to drug addicts?

00:32:28.920 And I'm doing that to them because you're tempting them.

00:32:32.480 You're entrapping them and and I just can't fathom a mind that says this is good.

00:32:40.620 This is safe.

00:32:41.760 I find it deeply depressing.

00:32:43.760 And you're so right how this will echo for decades and for generations, by the way.

00:32:50.980 Yeah, I know.

00:32:51.460 And the other thing is I saw Trudeau making a statement on this as well.

00:32:56.820 He's been very pro safe supply.

00:32:58.760 He says we need to look at the evidence.

00:33:00.240 We need to follow the data.

00:33:01.160 Well, if you're in British Columbia, the evidence is in the data's in.

00:33:05.060 I mean, 2000, 2000 young British Columbians as right dead last year who could, you know,

00:33:12.120 mothers, fathers, sons and daughters who died unnecessarily from overdoses from dangerous

00:33:17.520 drugs.

00:33:18.720 I don't think it's surprising that when it's never been easier to get drugs, it's never

00:33:22.120 been easier to overdose on drugs.

00:33:23.800 So I think we've been heading in the exact wrong direction.

00:33:27.060 What we've done around harm reduction and safe consumption, the project that we have that

00:33:34.840 working with BC to decriminalize possession of harder drugs now.

00:33:39.700 Um, as we, I mean, there was a lot of shouting about that and it's a very politically polarizing

00:33:46.080 issue still.

00:33:47.080 And you can see the conservative leader doing videos about how, how bad that is, but grounding

00:33:52.460 ourselves in facts and data and public treatment and evidence, um, of a public health problem

00:33:59.580 is, is the way to move forward on this.

00:34:01.580 So we're going to continue, uh, to invest in supporting people.

00:34:05.340 Yeah.

00:34:05.760 More young people in BC die from drugs, even at the height of the pandemic, more young

00:34:10.820 people were dying from drug overdoses than from the coronavirus.

00:34:14.380 You know, it's funny that Trudeau said that because as you may know, Justin Trudeau's own

00:34:18.520 mother, Margaret Trudeau has had a lifelong battle with both drugs and mental health.

00:34:24.540 And she has publicly said on many occasions that when she used drugs, her mental health

00:34:30.040 deteriorated and I'm not picking on her, I'm just saying what she said and she's right 0.91

00:34:34.640 to say it.

00:34:35.460 And that's a good thing that Margaret Trudeau talks about that that way. 0.97

00:34:38.580 How can Justin Trudeau be the son of that mother, witness her, what she, what she went

00:34:46.540 through and then call for more drugs and heavy drugs?

00:34:51.820 It's, it, it boggles the mind.

00:34:54.000 I've, I'm really concerned about the direction of all this.

00:34:56.920 I think this arrest was just for show because it was too much.

00:35:01.500 It was too over the top, but I think things are going to continue to get worse.

00:35:04.860 You tell me, what's that new mayor of Vancouver doing?

00:35:07.560 Does he have anything to say about this?

00:35:11.240 I mean, you know, he's not, uh, he's better than the last mayor, which is maybe the only

00:35:16.220 positive thing that I can say about him.

00:35:18.240 Um, I'm sure I have a funny feeling that this van would probably still be up and operating

00:35:22.660 today.

00:35:23.040 Uh, if we had the old mayor Kennedy Stewart still in, but look, I think that, uh, whether

00:35:29.340 it's Ken Sim, the mayor or, uh, conservative leaders, especially across the country, it's

00:35:34.260 time to draw a line in the sand.

00:35:35.760 And that line I think has to be, uh, the government perpetuating and enabling the problem by handing

00:35:41.660 out free drugs and turning a blind eye to, to open destructive behavior in our city streets.

00:35:47.760 Uh, that's what Portugal has done.

00:35:49.600 That's what other countries in Europe have done, um, that don't have the same kind of

00:35:53.860 problems as Canada or on the, uh, these on the West coast of the United States.

00:35:58.180 Um, and we just have to say, you know, this is someone told me I'm filming a documentary

00:36:03.380 right now, Isra.

00:36:04.120 And, um, somebody told me is, uh, you, you get what you tolerate.

00:36:08.400 Yeah.

00:36:08.600 Um, so if you tolerate rampant drug use, if you tolerate, um, kind of this chaos disorder,

00:36:14.520 disarray in our city streets, obviously the, the random violent attacks that stem from the

00:36:19.620 psychosis that stems from the rampant addiction problem that we've allowed to spiral out of

00:36:23.800 control, you're going to get more of it.

00:36:25.700 And we keep getting more of it.

00:36:27.440 And unfortunately in the short term, I don't see the situation getting better, at least until

00:36:31.480 we have a change of leadership at the provincial and federal level, um, provincial and BC, because

00:36:37.600 that's who's really driving and pushing these policies forward.

00:36:41.080 Yeah.

00:36:41.340 Very, very sad.

00:36:42.700 Aaron Gunn, filmmaker and social commentator.

00:36:45.120 Great to have you on the show.

00:36:46.680 Tell us where we can find more Aaron Gunn.

00:36:49.480 Where, what, what are you up to?

00:36:50.820 What, is there someplace we should go if we want to, I mean, for example, your, your film,

00:36:56.340 your short film on Vancouver was such a viral hit.

00:36:58.620 Is there anything new you'd like to tell our viewers about before you say goodbye?

00:37:03.560 Yeah.

00:37:03.960 Working on a sequel to the Vancouver film, which is going to be out later this month.

00:37:07.820 Actually, it's going to be called Canada's Dying.

00:37:09.920 Taking a look at, at how these issues, the addiction crisis, homelessness, and this revolving

00:37:15.740 door justice system is affecting, as you pointed out at the start of this interview, not just

00:37:19.380 BC, but the entire country.

00:37:20.840 And to watch that and all my content, it's best just to follow me on social media, and

00:37:25.460 you can just type in Aaron Gunn to Twitter or YouTube or Facebook or Instagram, and I'm

00:37:30.900 sure you'll be able to track me down.

00:37:32.620 Great.

00:37:32.820 Well, I'm very much looking forward to Canada dying.

00:37:34.960 Your video, Vancouver is Dying, went super viral, and I think it helped shape the outcome

00:37:40.300 of that Vancouver election.

00:37:41.460 There you have it, Aaron Gunn.

00:37:42.260 Great to see you.

00:37:42.820 Thanks for stopping by today.

00:37:44.140 I appreciate it.

00:37:45.860 Thank you for having me, Ezra.

00:37:47.340 It's our pleasure.

00:37:48.100 All right, folks, stay with us.

00:37:50.340 More next.

00:38:02.980 Hey, welcome back.

00:38:03.940 Your Letters to Me, Wilfred Blakey says, you mentioned that Trudeau is trying to overcome

00:38:08.320 the internet and have complete control.

00:38:10.440 After all, the internet is a free thing.

00:38:12.640 I don't mean to sound any attitude.

00:38:15.020 It's just that I can't come up with a name for it.

00:38:19.200 If it is free and Trudeau wants to own it, and if it is worldwide, then I don't see how

00:38:23.460 one jerk in one country can overcome the world from his rooster's nest and expect everyone

00:38:28.020 to obey him.

00:38:29.180 I don't know if there is a name that accurately suits him.

00:38:32.260 As you can tell, I have no use for him, and the sooner he is out of office, then the better

00:38:36.040 for the world.

00:38:36.720 Well, obviously, Trudeau can't stop companies, usually headquartered in California, you know,

00:38:46.400 Twitter is in San Francisco.

00:38:48.660 They're all in Silicon Valley, which is really near San Francisco, YouTube, Facebook.

00:38:53.140 Obviously, they're not going to be changed by a Canadian tyrant, but their operations in

00:39:04.040 Canada could be, or they could be shut down.

00:39:06.780 These global tech companies have to operate in a country under the laws of that country,

00:39:13.080 and if those laws are intolerable, then at a certain point, they exit the country.

00:39:18.620 Let me give you an example.

00:39:20.320 My understanding is that Rumble, the YouTube competitor, refused to ban Russia Today, RT.

00:39:26.860 That's a Russian state broadcaster.

00:39:29.020 So France barred rumble.com from being in France, and that's too bad for France, but Rumble said

00:39:36.100 we're just not going to do that.

00:39:37.320 So I don't know.

00:39:38.220 You could probably still find a way to get it in France, but that's an example of how a

00:39:43.900 little pipsqueak country can tell the biggest companies what to do.

00:39:51.220 They sort of can, just with regards to their little fiefdom.

00:39:54.800 So Trudeau could try and ban Facebook, YouTube.

00:39:59.240 I don't know if he would succeed at banning them, but he would probably just prosecute them

00:40:03.340 and fine them, and they have assets in Canada.

00:40:06.140 They have offices in Canada.

00:40:07.540 And by the way, they don't want to be rogue.

00:40:09.160 They don't want to be lawbreakers, but they might just shut down certain things.

00:40:12.600 Facebook and Google have both been talking about cutting off news because one of Trudeau's

00:40:17.500 censorship bills, C-18, wants to tax them for linking to news.

00:40:21.540 It's sort of crazy.

00:40:23.760 Mike Boland says, if the CRTC bans Fox News, then I'd like to see Elon Musk ban the PM Twitter

00:40:29.180 feed.

00:40:29.940 You know, it's absolutely insane.

00:40:32.160 The CRTC regulator is actually having hearings on banning Fox.

00:40:37.760 Like, could they be more out of sync with the times?

00:40:43.260 Could they be more a caricature of tyrants?

00:40:46.920 The day after C-11 passes, the CRTC now talks about going into newsrooms to inspect their

00:40:53.300 ethics policy.

00:40:54.480 They have hearings about banning Fox News.

00:40:56.920 If you don't think that they're coming to censor you, what will it take?

00:41:00.880 My heavens.

00:41:01.540 Look at, they're just, they can't even wait for the law to be proclaimed to start censoring.

00:41:06.340 Gary Shoutsen says, the West doesn't have to separate from Canada.

00:41:11.660 All they have to do is exert their constitutional rights under the BNA.

00:41:15.480 Quebec has done this for decades.

00:41:16.740 It's time the rest of the provinces do the same and more.

00:41:19.560 By the way, federal income tax is unconstitutional.

00:41:21.780 Only the provinces can have an income tax.

00:41:24.180 I believe the rights are outlined in section 1551 of the BNA and a ruling by the Supreme

00:41:28.080 Court of Canada in 1955 stated the provinces.

00:41:30.320 All right.

00:41:31.020 I, I'm going to stop there.

00:41:33.640 I don't know about those sections or the Supreme Court reference you're referring to.

00:41:36.880 It is correct that the provinces have yielded, have given up a lot of their jurisdiction to

00:41:42.880 the feds in return for cash.

00:41:44.560 And Quebec has tried to reverse that trend by taking over their constitutional rights and

00:41:49.340 getting the cash too, which is the best of both worlds.

00:41:52.600 That's what Danielle Smith is talking about with her Sovereignty Act. 1.00

00:41:55.580 And Saskatchewan is doing similar things.

00:41:57.420 I agree with you to an extent.

00:41:58.780 For example, there is no constitutional reason why the RCMP is the police force for rural

00:42:04.080 Alberta.

00:42:04.740 They just sort of bought their way in by subsidizing it and saying to the province, hey, we'll police

00:42:09.920 you for cheaper than you can police yourself.

00:42:12.280 But a lot of the things that the provinces give up to the feds are not the feds under the

00:42:17.200 BNA Act, which is now called the Constitution Act of 1867.

00:42:21.360 Anyways, I appreciate the email and all the emails.

00:42:24.300 Thanks for watching us all week.

00:42:26.100 Great to be here with you.

00:42:27.340 Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:42:31.060 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 06, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau enters his 'mad king' phase

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