Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau fires Anthony Rota, the speaker of the house, but terrible questions still remain

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Anthony Rota, the Speaker of the House, has resigned. He's a scapegoat for

00:00:04.880 Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, who absolutely had to know who Yaroslav Hanka was,

00:00:11.060 the Nazi SS officer who they championed as a hero on Friday. I'll have the video of the

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00:00:35.520 from Trudeau. All right, here's today's podcast. Tonight, Trudeau fires Anthony Rota, the Speaker of

00:00:56.600 the House, but terrible questions still remain. It's September 26th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:05.260 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:08.620 Big news today. Anthony Rota was sacked by the liberals for introducing Nazi SS officer Yaroslav

00:01:25.260 Hanka as a war hero in Parliament on Friday when Vladimir Zelensky was in town. Just a reminder of

00:01:32.180 how that went down on Friday. We have here in the chamber today Ukrainian-Canadians,

00:01:37.980 Ukrainian-Canadian world veteran from the Second World War who fought the Ukrainian independence

00:01:44.160 against the Russians and continues to support the troops today, even at his age of 98.

00:01:51.440 ole. Thank you.

00:02:03.060 His name is Yaroslav Hunka.

00:02:26.900 And I was going to say he's in the gallery,

00:02:28.960 but I think you beat me to that.

00:02:30.220 But I'm very proud to say that he is from North Bay

00:02:34.360 and from my riding of Nipissing to Miskaming.

00:02:43.280 He's a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero,

00:02:46.640 and we thank him for all his service.

00:02:49.020 Thank you.

00:03:00.220 He didn't read those words naturally.

00:03:06.160 He read them from a script almost haltingly.

00:03:09.040 I wonder who wrote the script for him.

00:03:10.700 I don't think it was him.

00:03:11.860 Was it a constituency staffer who thought this would be cool?

00:03:15.460 We have an old Ukrainian soldier in our district,

00:03:17.800 and that's a fit with this Ukrainian war today,

00:03:20.140 so let's just slip him in to the day's events and not tell anybody?

00:03:23.000 I mean, I suppose technically that could happen,

00:03:27.200 but I don't believe it.

00:03:29.060 It's like those U.S. State of the Union speeches

00:03:30.900 where the president calls out to someone in the audience,

00:03:33.160 a military veteran or a small business person,

00:03:35.660 and uses their background story to make a larger point.

00:03:38.440 They're meticulously researched and vetted

00:03:40.980 because they would never take liberties for such an event,

00:03:44.080 not from a political point of view,

00:03:45.560 not from a diplomatic point of view,

00:03:47.400 not from a security point of view.

00:03:48.920 Indeed, Karina Gould confirmed that Yaroslav Hanqa

00:03:53.020 had been vetted by the PMO.

00:03:55.980 Unfortunately, I think my honorable colleague

00:03:58.040 has misinterpreted what I was saying.

00:04:01.000 What I was saying and what you yourself indeed have said

00:04:03.940 is that you invited this particular individual.

00:04:08.680 You yourself decided to recognize this individual

00:04:12.180 without informing either the government

00:04:14.940 or the Ukrainian delegation that you would be doing this.

00:04:19.260 When it comes to everyone that was invited to parliament,

00:04:23.220 of course, that vetting happened.

00:04:25.780 However, the decision to recognize an individual

00:04:30.980 was that of the speaker.

00:04:33.440 And I would ask that the members opposite

00:04:37.500 would please be respectful.

00:04:40.520 This is a very difficult time for all of us,

00:04:43.420 but I do ask them to stick to the facts

00:04:46.920 and the issue at hand,

00:04:49.100 which was the fact that this individual

00:04:51.860 was invited by the speaker

00:04:54.020 and the decision to recognize by the speaker,

00:04:57.540 not by the government.

00:04:59.060 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:05:00.100 I'm sorry, I just don't believe that Justin Trudeau

00:05:02.140 and his office, who were manipulative,

00:05:04.220 control-free communications bosses,

00:05:06.860 would have let some stranger speak

00:05:09.500 without knowing who he was in advance.

00:05:11.780 I just don't believe it.

00:05:12.480 I think Anthony Rota is lying

00:05:14.800 when he said it was him and only him.

00:05:18.120 Here's what he said yesterday.

00:05:19.920 I wish to make a brief statement.

00:05:23.560 On Friday, in connection with my speech,

00:05:28.940 following the Ukrainian president's speech,

00:05:31.660 I pointed out the presence of an individual in the gallery.

00:05:35.920 It was my intention to show that the conflict

00:05:39.140 between Russia and Ukraine is nothing new

00:05:42.220 and that Ukrainians have unfortunately been subject

00:05:45.360 to foreign aggression for far too long now,

00:05:48.140 and it's time it stopped.

00:05:49.540 I would subsequently become aware of more information,

00:05:51.860 which causes me to regret my decision to recognize this individual.

00:05:56.340 I wish to apologize to the House,

00:05:59.340 and I am deeply sorry that I have offended many with my gestures and remarks.

00:06:05.460 I would also like to add that this initiative was entirely my own.

00:06:13.840 The individual in question being from my writing

00:06:16.440 and having been brought to my attention,

00:06:19.580 no one, including you, my fellow parliamentarians,

00:06:21.780 or the Ukraine delegation,

00:06:25.540 was privy to my remarks prior to their delivery.

00:06:29.440 Do you believe that? I don't.

00:06:31.500 Boy, did the liberals ever put it on him, though.

00:06:34.700 He's the bad guy.

00:06:35.800 Not them. No, no.

00:06:37.420 Blame him or blame the Russians.

00:06:40.500 That's what Trudeau tried to do.

00:06:42.400 Obviously, it's extremely upsetting that this happened.

00:06:45.820 The speaker has acknowledged his mistake

00:06:48.880 and has apologized.

00:06:50.380 But this is something that is deeply embarrassing

00:06:53.520 to the Parliament of Canada

00:06:54.800 and, by extension, to all Canadians.

00:06:57.580 I think particularly of Jewish MPs

00:07:00.020 and all members of the Jewish community across the country

00:07:02.440 who are celebrating Yom Kippur today.

00:07:07.360 I think it's going to be really important

00:07:10.320 that all of us push back against Russian propaganda,

00:07:14.140 Russian disinformation,

00:07:15.460 and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine

00:07:19.580 as we did last week with announcing further measures

00:07:24.000 to stand with Ukraine in Russia's illegal war against it.

00:07:27.780 Yeah, the Russians made Trudeau do it.

00:07:30.320 Talk about a propaganda coup for Putin.

00:07:32.940 He just teed it up perfectly for them.

00:07:35.060 So today it was done.

00:07:36.920 It's with a heavy heart that I rise to inform members

00:07:40.680 of my resignation as Speaker of the House of Commons.

00:07:44.840 It has been my greatest honour as a Parliamentarian

00:07:47.940 to have been elected by you, my peers,

00:07:50.740 to serve as the Speaker of the House of Commons

00:07:53.500 for the 43rd and 44th Parliament.

00:07:56.640 I have acted as your humble servant of this House,

00:08:01.860 carrying out the important responsibilities of this position

00:08:04.520 to the very best of my abilities.

00:08:06.940 I would like to thank you, my colleagues,

00:08:12.360 for your support and for your collegiality

00:08:16.180 during my term as Speaker.

00:08:19.680 This House is above any of us.

00:08:22.240 Therefore, I must step down as your Speaker.

00:08:25.580 I reiterate my profound regret for my error

00:08:31.420 in recognizing an individual in the House

00:08:33.120 during the Joint Address to Parliament of President Zelensky.

00:08:37.440 That public recognition has caused pain

00:08:40.200 to individuals and communities,

00:08:42.420 including the Jewish community in Canada

00:08:44.340 and around the world,

00:08:45.860 in addition to survivors of Nazi atrocities in Poland,

00:08:49.460 among other nations.

00:08:50.440 I accept full responsibility for my actions.

00:08:56.680 My resignation is effective

00:08:58.040 at the end of the sitting day tomorrow,

00:09:00.580 Wednesday, September 27th,

00:09:02.540 to allow preparations for the election of a new Speaker.

00:09:06.360 Until that time,

00:09:08.140 the Deputy Speakers will chair the House proceedings.

00:09:12.600 Thank you. Merci.

00:09:16.560 You know, I did a ton of media on this

00:09:18.540 in the past 24 hours.

00:09:19.660 I'm doing more tonight.

00:09:20.440 in Canada,

00:09:21.940 but also in the United States,

00:09:24.080 where they see Trudeau more clearly than we see him

00:09:26.380 because their journalists are not on Trudeau's payroll.

00:09:29.620 I don't know if you saw this,

00:09:30.780 but I saw this this morning in Black Locks.

00:09:33.600 That's one of the few independent media companies

00:09:35.360 left in Ottawa.

00:09:36.400 The story's called Admit Media Subsidies Failed.

00:09:39.620 Let me read the headline.

00:09:41.440 Subsidies will not save money losing news media,

00:09:44.000 says a Department of Heritage memo.

00:09:46.600 But I actually think that misses the point.

00:09:48.180 The bailout was never intended to fix the industry.

00:09:52.200 How could it?

00:09:53.800 It's like programs for the poor or the homeless

00:09:56.980 aren't actually intended to stop them from being poor or homeless.

00:10:00.060 Then those social workers would be out of a job. 1.00

00:10:02.300 The media bailout was intended to rent reporters in perpetuity,

00:10:09.020 and more importantly, rent their editors and their publishers.

00:10:11.220 And in that way,

00:10:11.920 it was designed perfectly,

00:10:13.720 a renewable grant that has to be begged for every year by journalists

00:10:18.480 to keep newspapers and TV stations on their toes,

00:10:20.820 to keep them hungry,

00:10:21.860 to keep them dependent on Trudeau.

00:10:23.400 Of course, they don't want to save the industry.

00:10:25.760 That would be a disaster for Trudeau

00:10:27.320 to have a healthy, independent news media again.

00:10:29.880 It is very much working as planned,

00:10:33.360 keeping the media dependent on Trudeau

00:10:35.380 so they cover him with butterfly kisses.

00:10:38.700 That's why the toughest coverage of this news has,

00:10:41.380 as always,

00:10:42.220 been foreign news media

00:10:44.320 who are not on Trudeau's payroll.

00:10:45.700 Speaking of which,

00:10:47.380 here's a cabinet minister from Poland

00:10:49.280 where the Nazi SS was particularly brutal,

00:10:53.480 including the particular Nazi battalion

00:10:56.280 that was celebrated in Parliament on Friday.

00:10:59.540 Poland says they want to extradite Trudeau's war hero,

00:11:02.960 Yaroslav Hanka,

00:11:04.100 for war crimes.

00:11:04.940 Now, Hanka's 98. 0.71

00:11:05.920 There is no statute of limitations on criminal trials,

00:11:08.940 but I don't actually know if Poland means to go through with it.

00:11:12.560 But at the very least,

00:11:13.720 this is their way of saying they're grossed out by Trudeau

00:11:16.920 and this embarrassing embrace of that Nazi, 0.53

00:11:18.920 but also the fact that that Nazi

00:11:21.060 and many more have lived in Canada for 70 years

00:11:24.660 with no prosecutions.

00:11:27.640 As Joe Warmington pointed out in the Toronto Sun,

00:11:30.100 there's actually a war memorial

00:11:31.260 to those Nazi soldiers in Oakville, Ontario.

00:11:34.940 Literally a war memorial for the Nazi SS.

00:11:38.880 That's up in Proud,

00:11:40.760 whereas the statue of Sir Johnny MacDonald

00:11:42.740 is covered up in Toronto.

00:11:44.040 So, yeah, go Poland. 0.98

00:11:45.660 Now, Rota, the speaker, is gone.

00:11:47.580 I think the bailout media will move on

00:11:50.080 as fast as they possibly can.

00:11:51.920 They'll try to move our attention to something new.

00:11:53.760 Who knows?

00:11:54.500 Maybe with another scandal.

00:11:55.720 I mean, it was just a week ago

00:11:56.920 that Trudeau was starting a diplomatic war

00:11:59.220 against India,

00:12:00.120 the world's largest democracy.

00:12:01.580 Trudeau's cabinet was musing

00:12:03.400 that the Indian government

00:12:05.080 actually wanted to assassinate Trudeau

00:12:07.240 by sabotaging his plane.

00:12:08.940 Listen carefully to this.

00:12:10.080 Sabotage we ruled out

00:12:11.060 in the technical issue in Canada's plane

00:12:12.740 on its trip to India.

00:12:15.920 I'm not going to comment on that.

00:12:17.380 There are obviously ongoing concerns.

00:12:19.840 I am also focused on replacing those planes

00:12:22.260 because we've already made that step.

00:12:24.440 But you're not commenting on

00:12:25.440 if there's any potential sabotage

00:12:27.500 that left the plane on that runway.

00:12:29.580 So give Trudeau credit.

00:12:33.380 People have stopped talking

00:12:34.600 about the India fiasco

00:12:36.080 to start talking about the Nazi fiasco.

00:12:38.800 He just needs a third fiasco

00:12:40.580 to change the channel again.

00:12:42.560 And he lost his number one weapon

00:12:44.240 calling other people Nazis.

00:12:45.800 He can't really do that anymore, can he?

00:12:47.940 Well, of course, he'll try to.

00:12:50.180 And the CBC will be there to help him.

00:12:52.940 But I was asked a question this morning

00:12:54.700 by a Quebec radio station about this,

00:12:57.100 which was, who knew?

00:12:58.140 Did anyone really know about Yaroslav Hanka?

00:13:01.820 I mean, was it really just a big misunderstanding

00:13:03.480 as Trudeau and his friends say?

00:13:05.460 Was it really a secret

00:13:06.660 between the speaker, Anthony Rota,

00:13:08.940 whoever wrote his carefully worded speech

00:13:11.200 and the Nazi himself that no one else knew?

00:13:14.260 Is that true?

00:13:15.620 I thought about it.

00:13:16.440 And here's what I said

00:13:17.280 on the Quebec radio station this morning.

00:13:18.860 I said that Christia Freeland must have known.

00:13:22.480 I mean, she speaks Ukrainian fluently.

00:13:24.320 It was actually her first language, she says.

00:13:25.980 She has a home in Ukraine to this day.

00:13:30.160 She visits there frequently.

00:13:31.940 She's very active in the Ukrainian community

00:13:33.860 here in Canada.

00:13:34.660 And she would know very deeply

00:13:36.900 all about Ukrainian nationalists

00:13:39.000 and the Waffen-SS Nazis

00:13:42.080 and those Ukrainians who positively

00:13:43.980 joined the Nazis when they invaded Ukraine

00:13:46.660 and collaborated with them.

00:13:48.660 She would know that

00:13:50.540 because her grandfather was one of them.

00:13:55.160 Her grandfather was a full-blown Nazi.

00:13:57.080 He expropriated a newspaper

00:13:58.220 that had been owned by a Jew

00:13:59.820 and he turned it into a pro-Nazi propaganda mill.

00:14:02.340 That was Christia Freeland's grandpa.

00:14:04.640 And she tried to cover it up for years.

00:14:06.500 I'm not saying she's a Nazi.

00:14:07.700 I'm not saying that.

00:14:08.980 But she knows all about them.

00:14:10.420 She would have 100% known

00:14:12.440 who this mystery war vet was.

00:14:15.620 Because you say to her,

00:14:17.680 here's a war hero from Ukraine

00:14:19.580 who in the 1940s fought against the Russians

00:14:21.560 and she would have known exactly who you meant.

00:14:25.260 You can see, look at that,

00:14:26.500 the pure ecstatic joy on her face

00:14:28.880 as Hanka was given the round of applause.

00:14:31.160 A 98-year-old man

00:14:32.620 that surely made Freeland think of her own Nazi grandfather.

00:14:36.120 How could she not?

00:14:37.680 But here's my point

00:14:38.600 and here's what I said on the radio.

00:14:40.980 Freeland and Trudeau have been going harder

00:14:43.180 and harder and harder in recent months.

00:14:45.840 I'm not talking about being anti-Russia.

00:14:48.180 I'm not talking about the $9 billion Trudeau

00:14:50.880 has given from Canadian taxpayers to Ukraine

00:14:53.580 without so much as a vote in the House of Commons,

00:14:56.140 let alone a real debate.

00:14:57.420 I'm not talking about the ethno-politics here

00:14:59.700 about how Trudeau in the past two weeks

00:15:01.620 has had two scandals,

00:15:03.200 both of which are tied to his attempts

00:15:05.360 to politically capitalize on foreign affairs battles

00:15:07.820 here in Canada,

00:15:09.500 Sikhs and India,

00:15:11.140 and Ukraine and Russia.

00:15:12.200 I'm not talking about that.

00:15:13.660 I'm talking about Trudeau's growing comfort level

00:15:17.000 guided by Chrystia Freeland,

00:15:18.640 the Nazi's granddaughter,

00:15:20.600 a comfort level with becoming more and more radical.

00:15:24.720 Trudeau has been radicalized.

00:15:27.080 I'm not talking about supporting Ukraine against Russia

00:15:29.140 or sending money over there.

00:15:30.560 I'm not calling that the radicalization.

00:15:33.580 I'm talking about Trudeau taking increasingly

00:15:36.800 a strident tone and substance

00:15:39.480 and connecting with radicals

00:15:41.680 so that honoring someone like Hanke,

00:15:44.580 which would have been unthinkable a few years ago,

00:15:46.740 well, it's not so much of a stretch for him anymore.

00:15:48.960 I showed you this guy yesterday,

00:15:50.820 Andre Melnick,

00:15:51.840 a disgraced Holocaust denier

00:15:53.360 that Trudeau met with and toured with in June.

00:15:56.160 Not a peep from the mainstream media when he did it.

00:15:58.480 Not a peep from any Jewish group, 0.59

00:16:00.280 although you might recall,

00:16:01.040 I did a news story about it

00:16:02.480 and I sent questions to the official Jewish groups in the country,

00:16:05.720 asking them about it.

00:16:06.940 They were all silent,

00:16:08.120 every one of them.

00:16:08.940 So Trudeau obviously felt confident.

00:16:11.760 I mean, this is the guy who met with them

00:16:13.960 and not a single article about it in the mainstream media.

00:16:16.740 The whole world knows that Bandera

00:16:19.420 is at the killing of the 100.000 Jews.

00:16:21.800 No, that's true.

00:16:22.360 Except for the Ukraine.

00:16:23.560 It doesn't have any evidence,

00:16:26.280 that Bandera Truppen 0.96

00:16:27.640 100.000 Jews were killed.

00:16:30.120 It doesn't have any evidence.

00:16:31.360 That is this narrative,

00:16:33.100 that the Russians until today

00:16:34.020 and that they are in Germany

00:16:36.220 and also in Poland and Israel

00:16:38.520 also support them.

00:16:40.080 Denken sich die jüdischen Gemeinden

00:16:41.340 that all out?

00:16:42.020 I don't know where they take this data.

00:16:44.880 But I am ready

00:16:47.160 to talk about the jüdischen Gemeinden

00:16:48.300 and to talk about it.

00:16:50.520 If they really

00:16:51.960 not only do that

00:16:53.520 what we've heard

00:16:54.640 since decades.

00:16:55.680 Bandera is...

00:16:56.720 It was a Flugflug.

00:16:57.300 As the Germans came to the Kewive. 0.89

00:16:59.480 It was called

00:17:00.100 Volk.

00:17:01.320 That you have to know.

00:17:02.420 Moskowiten, Polen, Ungarn

00:17:03.960 and Juden.

00:17:04.540 They are your enemies.

00:17:05.560 You have to know.

00:17:06.020 You have to know.

00:17:06.240 You have to know.

00:17:07.260 Your Führer.

00:17:08.500 Your Führer.

00:17:09.600 Stepan Bandera.

00:17:11.320 What for a Flugflug.

00:17:12.560 As the Germans 0.97

00:17:14.160 were,

00:17:16.320 you have to tell them

00:17:18.440 who were

00:17:43.540 So if you're hanging out with an outright Holocaust-denier and the media and the official Jews give you a pass, you're feeling pretty confident that you're bulletproof on this stuff, aren't you? 0.76

00:18:06.800 If the only people who call you out for holding a scarf in Nazi colors are independent media, no mainstream media, guys, you're starting to learn that there really are no boundaries anymore, are they?

00:18:18.800 Did you actually see Trudeau's speech on Friday, not the one in Parliament, but the one at the Royal York Hotel?

00:18:24.040 Here's a clip from the internet. This is so over the top. It's so angry. Forget the substance. Just look at this guy's face. You don't see rage, Trudeau, that often.

00:18:34.180 When was the last time he expressed this deep hatred? Here, take a look at him on Friday.

00:18:41.020 Canadians know this is a question of right or wrong. Canadians know that, yes, it is incredibly hard for Ukraine to continue to stand against Russian aggression.

00:18:54.400 And let's be honest. It's hard for the democracies around the world who are there to support their citizens, who are investing for the future,

00:19:03.500 who are challenged with a challenging economy around the world to continue to step up as Canada has with close to $9 billion in aid for Ukraine.

00:19:12.680 But we will, because the cost on Canadians, on our lives, on our world, will be so much greater if Putin wins this war, 0.62

00:19:21.880 that we will and have to stand every single day until Ukraine wins this war! 0.66

00:19:28.340 Last time he was like this when he was raging against the unvaccinated. Remember this?

00:19:32.640 If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice. But don't think you can get on a plane or a train beside vaccinated people.

00:19:41.440 Look at his face.

00:19:44.100 If Putin wins this war, that we will and have to stand every single day until Ukraine wins this war! 0.73

00:19:51.980 And did you catch that slogan on the wall?

00:19:54.960 You've probably heard Slava Ukraini, which means glory to Ukraine.

00:19:58.640 But then there was another one on the wall, Heroyam Slava, if I'm saying that right, which means glory to the military heroes.

00:20:07.220 That sounds pretty innocuous, right? And I'm sure it could be said that way.

00:20:11.980 But it was actually the slogan of a violent partisan group called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

00:20:16.620 They had sort of a call and response. Here's one of their posters. You can see it.

00:20:22.180 It says Slava Ukraini at the top, glory to Ukraine.

00:20:24.820 And then Heroyam Slava, glory to the heroes, by which they meant their heroes.

00:20:30.300 Now, I'm not comparing it to the Nazi slogan, Sieg Heil, that literally means glory to victory or hail victory.

00:20:37.380 You can say Slava Ukraini today without being a fascist, obviously.

00:20:41.520 And I think you can say Heroyam Slava without being a fascist, too.

00:20:44.700 It's just that between the flags and the scarves and the SS Nazis and the Holocaust deniers and now the actual deniers and actual Nazis, maybe Trudeau should dial it back a bit.

00:20:56.900 Maybe he's getting a little bit unmoored.

00:20:58.820 I find Trudeau incredibly irritating when he does his fake, caring sound, his male feminist sound.

00:21:05.720 Hey, let's go on a date.

00:21:07.000 You know, when he tweets out about being on Team Barbie or when he sits in that way with his legs crossed.

00:21:15.880 And I'm sorry, that's not how men sit.

00:21:17.860 But that's when he's in his I'm precious mode.

00:21:20.820 And I find it repulsive.

00:21:21.980 But that's him.

00:21:22.940 And it actually works for him.

00:21:24.180 It's really weird to see the Team Barbie guy shouting and threatening like this.

00:21:30.420 The cost on Canadians, on our lives, on our world will be so much greater if Putin wins this war that we will and have to stand every single day until Ukraine wins this war. 0.52

00:21:44.260 What's my point?

00:21:45.040 Anthony Rode had deserved to be fired, of course.

00:21:48.060 But it could be true that he really didn't know what he was doing.

00:21:51.960 It really did seem like he was reading some script written by someone else.

00:21:56.300 But Chrystia Freeland, she knew exactly what she was doing and what was going on and who this guy was.

00:22:01.680 And Justin Trudeau, well, you tell me.

00:22:04.580 I actually think he's stunned by what happened over the last couple of days.

00:22:07.380 He's been getting away with anything, everything for more than a year.

00:22:12.440 And he thought he had the media well-trained.

00:22:15.360 It just didn't work this time, the most important time.

00:22:18.940 I wonder if the embarrassment of today is enough to make him change his ways.

00:22:24.640 Yeah, we'll see.

00:22:26.420 Stay with us for an interview about this with our friend Viva Frye.

00:22:29.400 Well, what's interesting about this scandal, the scandal of Yaroslav Hanka, is that other than independent Twitterers like myself,

00:22:49.500 the story had earlier interest from foreign sources as opposed to Canadian.

00:22:57.500 And I find that telltale because, remember, all eyes were focused on the Canadian Parliament.

00:23:03.400 You had all MPs from all parties there.

00:23:06.100 You had various dignitaries who were not members of Parliament.

00:23:09.560 And you had all the national media as well as other media.

00:23:13.420 And none of them thought anything was odd about introducing a Canadian-Ukrainian war hero who fought the Russians during the Second World War.

00:23:25.140 No one said, what does that mean?

00:23:27.460 No one thought of what this battalion was.

00:23:30.440 The first, quote, mainstream publication to write about this was actually the Jewish Daily Forward, a hundred-year-old newspaper in New York.

00:23:39.040 They wrote about this before any Canadian medium did.

00:23:43.180 And even today, I feel like the regime media in Canada are too busy making excuses and trying to heap all the blame on the scapegoat, the Speaker of the House, Rota,

00:23:55.080 and giving an easy buy to Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau.

00:24:00.560 Well, one former Canadian, now based in the U.S. of A., who has done yeoman's work on this,

00:24:08.500 and I think who has put to shame most Canadian journalists, is our friend David Freiheit, who goes by the name Viva Fry Online.

00:24:16.820 And we've caught him in California today, where he is to take in the Republican debate tomorrow.

00:24:23.560 David, or I'll call you Viva, your YouTube and Rumble personality.

00:24:27.900 Great to see you again.

00:24:29.460 Thanks for taking time out of your day in California.

00:24:32.240 I think you see more clearly what's going on in Canada because you're no longer here.

00:24:38.820 What do you think of that?

00:24:40.680 Ezra, it's a scandal of epic proportions.

00:24:43.720 When you tweeted out, you had a thread, and you said, I hope I'm wrong, but this guy looks like an SS Nazi soldier.

00:24:52.220 And you look into it, and then you watch the video.

00:24:55.380 First of all, Rota is a scapegoat.

00:24:57.520 There's no question about it because when they're announcing this guy, Zelensky knows damn well who he is.

00:25:03.200 And maybe not by name, but I'd be suspicious if it weren't also by name because this guy, Junka, had a history in Canada.

00:25:09.400 He knows the history of Ukraine.

00:25:11.280 These buffoon parliamentarians are giving a standing ovation to someone who fought valiantly against our allies.

00:25:19.680 SS Nazi soldier or not, they have so little understanding of what they're doing. 0.90

00:25:24.460 They're a bunch of virtue signaling seals clapping it up when they think they found a hero who's fighting a current day enemy, real or fake.

00:25:32.060 Not even processing that that made him an Axis force back in World War II fighting an ally force.

00:25:39.620 They don't think about it.

00:25:41.460 But everybody knows what's going on here.

00:25:43.840 Krista Freeland, if she didn't know him by name, she knew him by what his history represented.

00:25:48.640 Zelensky, when he's accepting the ovations, knows damn well what this is because it's part and parcel of their history.

00:25:53.740 The Canadian government, on the one hand, I think knows about it. 0.98

00:25:57.060 And on the conservative side are just ignorant, virtue signaling buffoons that say, hey, this guy's a hero. 0.99

00:26:02.360 We should clap. 1.00

00:26:02.920 Let's just go up and clap.

00:26:03.600 We have no idea what we're clapping at.

00:26:04.980 Yeah.

00:26:05.300 You know, it's very rare for me to say anything in support of the liberals.

00:26:09.220 But I saw someone who was in that room.

00:26:11.760 He's not a member of parliament.

00:26:12.980 Remember, this was MPs plus, plus, plus.

00:26:15.820 It was all the establishment who wanted to be there at this exciting moment.

00:26:20.120 And one of them was a lawyer named Jason Triniak.

00:26:22.860 And I remember him from student politics days.

00:26:25.420 And he said, he explained what it was like for him there.

00:26:28.340 He's Jewish, by the way.

00:26:29.620 And he said, it happened so quickly.

00:26:32.740 He didn't know this guy would be introduced.

00:26:35.040 He was introduced in that strange, halting way.

00:26:39.100 Everybody stands up to applaud.

00:26:40.760 So just out of sort of peer pressure, like at the end of a Broadway show and everyone stands up to applaud, you sort of do it.

00:26:48.060 And he said he didn't know who he was applauding.

00:26:51.660 He was applauding because everybody else was.

00:26:54.160 And when he later sort of learned the detail, maybe he didn't even hear it properly.

00:26:58.260 When he later heard the details, he was appalled at what he had done.

00:27:01.840 I believe that he was telling the truth.

00:27:04.580 And I bet that's the truth for most of the MPs.

00:27:08.300 If you're a regular MP from, I don't know, Toronto, what do you know about Ukrainian history?

00:27:15.460 You should probably tweak into a guy in the 40s fighting Russia and Ukraine.

00:27:19.060 That sounds weird.

00:27:20.000 But you cannot give that same pass to Chrystia Freeland, whose own grandpa was a Nazi activist.

00:27:28.280 You can't give that same pass to Zelensky, who deals with fascists in his own country and tries to have some sort of a detente with them.

00:27:36.540 But I think there were people who should have known better.

00:27:40.900 There's no question.

00:27:41.900 There's people who knew better.

00:27:43.420 They knew damn well.

00:27:44.500 Christopher Freeland, Justin Trudeau, Rota are not going to convince me they didn't know.

00:27:49.020 And if they didn't know, that's still just as damning because they're marching us into a war right now in a conflict, the history of which they don't have the slightest understanding about. 0.99

00:27:58.280 And yet these are the idiots shipping off billions of our dollars and walking us into World War III without an understanding of the history. 0.99

00:28:04.920 They can't understand the present, let alone the future. 1.00

00:28:07.460 And either they are ignorant at best or malicious at worst. 0.99

00:28:10.900 There's no excuse. 0.98

00:28:11.640 Again, I gave Cherniak a bit of a hard time online.

00:28:13.840 Yeah.

00:28:14.040 Because right after the incident, and I made a joke about how Pierre Poilier looked really uncomfortable clapping.

00:28:20.000 He was just like begrudgingly clapping.

00:28:21.740 And this was before anybody really knew what was going on.

00:28:23.980 I said, Pierre, you're not going to get any brownie points for a lackluster clap.

00:28:27.860 If you don't want to clap, don't clap.

00:28:29.720 And yet all of these people, they just clap.

00:28:31.920 They don't know what they're clapping at.

00:28:33.220 And yet they're the ones governing us.

00:28:34.760 They're the ones shipping off billions of our taxpayer dollars to fund a proxy war in Russia, Ukraine, that's killing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. 0.98

00:28:41.720 And they're the ones making decisions despite being ignorant at best, malicious at worst. 0.98

00:28:46.760 Yeah. 0.99

00:28:47.260 You know, let me tell you a personal story.

00:28:48.820 I remember about a dozen years ago when Stephen Harper was prime minister.

00:28:53.540 I was sort of friends with him, and I was frankly closer friends with his wife, Lorene Harper, who I knew first.

00:28:59.320 And I had a book launch at 24 Sussex Drive.

00:29:02.960 Book launch is a big word.

00:29:04.020 It was a pizza party.

00:29:05.820 And I was just going there as a guest of Lorene Harper.

00:29:08.820 I had to, in advance, give the name and a one-line description of everyone I invited.

00:29:17.500 And they had to be vetted first by the RCMP for security and second by some sort of political eyes to make sure that even in my mini pizza party, and I'm sort of laughing at myself even describing it, but my point is even to go to a private event, a private event.

00:29:35.540 I'm calling it a book launch.

00:29:36.920 It was, I had 20 friends over there, and we had pizza, and I had a book launch.

00:29:41.300 I had to go through hoops, and there was no media there.

00:29:45.180 It wasn't a public event.

00:29:46.660 There was no, even the prime minister himself didn't come till later.

00:29:50.080 My point, besides a little bit of a show-off here, is that you couldn't even get into the property without being vetted by at least two sets of eyes.

00:30:00.880 I don't believe for a second that they didn't vet this guy, and he was the guest of honor.

00:30:07.380 They called him out.

00:30:08.640 They hollered at him.

00:30:09.700 He stood up.

00:30:10.820 He cheered.

00:30:11.680 I do not believe that only Speaker Rhoda knew who he was.

00:30:15.640 I don't believe it.

00:30:16.220 I don't believe someone who micromanages his media as much as Trudeau didn't know who that was.

00:30:22.240 Ezra, you don't believe it because you weren't born yesterday, and the only people who purport to want to believe it are, I mean, they're dishonest, because it is, it's laughable on its face that Trudeau doesn't know who he is, that Chrystia Freeland, with her history, her ancestry, doesn't know if not who he was by name, who he was by battalion.

00:30:40.640 Zelensky bloody well knows.

00:30:42.340 While he's doing his rounds with his hands out, asking for billions of our dollars so they can finance every aspect of their government, he's literally, knowingly accepting a standing ovation for an SS Nazi soldier.

00:30:54.260 There's no excusing it in any respect, way, shape, or form.

00:30:57.500 And then you have the audacity coming from Karina Gould, invoking her Jewish ancestry, I think, to say, well, I'm blameless or I'm a victim in this, wanting to erase it from the archives or whatever the records are.

00:31:11.000 I mean, if anybody else had done this, if this had been conservatives, it would be resign yesterday.

00:31:17.960 But because they're liberals and because they're the ones who are always weaponizing the system and always purporting to be victims, now they say, delete history, delete us giving a standing ovation to a Nazi story.

00:31:29.660 I mean, it's almost worth the incident.

00:31:31.260 Oh, yeah.

00:31:32.160 And Karina Gould saying, hey, everybody, don't politicize.

00:31:35.960 She used her sad voice.

00:31:37.760 Don't politicize this.

00:31:39.580 This is a bad thing.

00:31:40.800 We can't politicize it now.

00:31:42.320 And the fact that she wanted to have it deleted, I don't know if you remember the book 1984.

00:31:46.700 What was the job of the hero in the book, Winston Smith?

00:31:49.320 He would go to work at the Ministry of Truth, and his job was to delete or in those days cut out newspaper articles and glue in a new version of history to change what had happened.

00:32:01.760 Karina Gould literally lived the Orwellian story of wanting to revise history.

00:32:08.060 I made the joke, it's a digital book burning, and I said to Karina in a tweet, you know who else was engaged in book burnings?

00:32:15.200 But don't politicize it.

00:32:17.640 There was one Nazi flag, one swastika at the entire Ottawa protest, origin unknown, intent unknown, and they weaponized that, politicized that to write off the entire protest as Nazi extremists, right-wingers, misogynists, xenophobes, trans folk, everything.

00:32:32.760 It's not that they don't have standards.

00:32:35.180 They are lawless in their application of rules.

00:32:37.560 And I will, for the rest of my life, hold them to their own standards.

00:32:41.380 I'm never going to let them forget about this.

00:32:43.020 This needs to be an international scandal, and it needs to highlight the fact that our governments are funding a regime that has a Nazi problem, current and past.

00:32:53.200 And if they don't know it, Justin Trudeau just let the cat out of the bag by making it an international incident.

00:32:57.040 Yeah, you know, it's funny you mention the fake Nazi flag that just happened to be revealed for one second, and an unknown photographer took the photo and it was circulated.

00:33:08.920 So, obviously, a stitch-up or a false flag move by an agent provocateur.

00:33:13.800 Compare the rage levels from Trudeau and Freeland and Karina Gould, the rage levels for a fake Nazi with their lack of rage for a real Nazi. 0.96

00:33:27.620 I mean, you would think – they're calling everyone like a Nazi, you're like a Nazi, you're like a Nazi.

00:33:33.780 Well, here's an actual Nazi who served in the SS, and then they take their tone down and were embarrassed.

00:33:42.020 But you'll notice this.

00:33:43.080 They say they're embarrassed, but none of them have actually condemned the Nazi for being a Nazi.

00:33:48.640 They say it was –

00:33:50.080 Did you hear the audacity of Trudeau's apology?

00:33:56.140 He somehow worked in Russian propaganda and Russian disinformation in his apology, which didn't even include the words, I screwed up.

00:34:04.560 And by the way, you know who certainly hasn't apologized for it?

00:34:07.680 Zelensky.

00:34:08.420 The guy knew damn well he's not distancing himself from the Nazi history of Ukraine, past and present. 0.67

00:34:14.500 But Justin Trudeau comes in and says we have to push back against Russian propaganda and Russian disinformation.

00:34:21.220 No, we have to push back against liberals giving standing ovations to Nazis.

00:34:25.620 That's what we have to push back against.

00:34:26.600 And that's the point because he's more concerned about what people, in this case Russia, will say about what he did do than what he did do.

00:34:35.940 He's more worried about, well, Russia's going to say bad things.

00:34:38.840 We have to push back at them for saying the bad things.

00:34:41.000 Not a word about the bad thing.

00:34:42.760 I mean, if you look at Melanie Jolie, Justin Trudeau, all the people who have spoken on the record, and it's not very many, not one of them will say this man, other than the Polish government, which is now talking about extraditing him.

00:34:58.720 And we do have a bit of a Nazi problem here in Canada, but it's not the one that Trudeau tells you.

00:35:03.400 It's not the truckers.

00:35:04.500 It's not Muslim parents who are worried about what their kids are learning in gender ideology class.

00:35:09.300 Canada allowed thousands of actual Nazis to come into the country.

00:35:14.620 A generation ago, there was a case of Dmanuk.

00:35:18.240 John Dmanuk was the name of an accused Nazi.

00:35:22.060 And I can't remember how the trial resolved.

00:35:24.000 I don't think he was convicted in the end.

00:35:25.700 I'm just going from memory here.

00:35:27.100 It's hard to prosecute someone when the facts and the evidence is, you know, almost 100 years old and there's no one left.

00:35:34.320 I don't know if Poland will actually extradite this guy and prosecute him, but I think they're making the point, you let this guy stay in your country like he was the boys from Brazil for 70 years. 0.84

00:35:46.080 I mean, we like to make fun of Argentina and Brazil for harboring Nazis after the war.

00:35:50.760 Canada did it too, and I'm not calling everyone a Nazi and you're a Nazi and you're a Nazi.

00:35:54.700 I'm not saying that.

00:35:55.460 That's the liberal way.

00:35:56.260 We actually did have some real Nazis in this country, and as Joe Warmington pointed out in The Sun today, they actually have a Nazi monument in Oakville.

00:36:04.960 I say, Ezra, at some point, the guy's 98 years old.

00:36:08.640 He's beyond prosecution.

00:36:10.300 He's no longer reflective of a current problem above and beyond the reality of what's going on in Ukraine and the ignorance of our government.

00:36:18.900 I'm not the one.

00:36:20.080 Poland wants to extradite him.

00:36:21.320 I don't know.

00:36:21.600 Go ahead.

00:36:22.020 He's 98.

00:36:22.780 He's beyond prosecution.

00:36:23.820 He's beyond punishment for what he's done.

00:36:25.560 Right.

00:36:25.620 But our government is not beyond punishment for what it's done, and there has to be political hell to pay for this.

00:36:31.260 It's not an accident.

00:36:32.420 Right.

00:36:32.620 It's not something you can sweep under the rug and delete from the archives and forgive and forget.

00:36:35.840 Yeah. 1.00

00:36:36.360 Horse crap. 1.00

00:36:37.560 On blast forever, Ezra. 1.00

00:36:39.120 Yeah.

00:36:39.500 I think you're right.

00:36:40.680 And that, I think, may be the only positive legacy here is that maybe, just maybe, liberals and their allies in the regime media will be slightly less likely to call you or me or truckers.

00:36:54.980 Or parents worried about their kids Nazis for fear of reminding the world about what they've done.

00:37:01.440 David, it's great to connect with you.

00:37:02.780 Thanks for carving out time in the middle of your day.

00:37:04.900 Tell me a little bit more about what you're up to and where we can follow your work.

00:37:09.420 You're down there covering the debates.

00:37:11.240 When are those debates?

00:37:12.640 Will you be covering them?

00:37:13.960 How will you?

00:37:14.500 And what channel?

00:37:15.560 What's the best way that people can follow you?

00:37:17.280 Best way to follow is Rumble Viva Fry. 0.97

00:37:20.580 Rumble's got the online streaming exclusive of the debate.

00:37:24.300 Fox has the broadcast version.

00:37:26.140 So as of 2 o'clock tomorrow, I'm going to be on site.

00:37:28.860 It's at this very cool, I think it's called the Reagan Museum.

00:37:32.560 I think it's a very cool place up in Laguna Hills.

00:37:35.840 And so I came down last night so I could get a day here.

00:37:38.520 Actually, I'm wearing a wetsuit on my lower half because I'm surfing for a couple of hours now.

00:37:43.940 But tomorrow, I'm going to be all day streaming, interviewing, seeing who I can meet.

00:37:48.620 And then when the event happens, I'm going to be covering it, doing an after thing as well.

00:37:52.540 So it's going to be on Rumble.

00:37:53.700 It's going to be on my Locals channel, vivabarneslaw.locals.com.

00:37:57.160 And I'll be doing some stuff today.

00:37:58.380 Right now, the waves out in California are a little bit bigger than the waves in Florida.

00:38:02.200 So I've got to try to surf some of the big ones here.

00:38:04.380 Right on.

00:38:04.900 Well, listen, have fun.

00:38:06.200 Tomorrow, the debate is going to be lively.

00:38:07.640 Is Donald Trump participating in this one?

00:38:10.380 No, Donald Trump is not.

00:38:12.040 You know, there's going to be the same crew who's going to be down there.

00:38:14.060 I think Don Jr. is coming down.

00:38:15.620 Dave Rubin is coming down.

00:38:17.080 So there's going to be a number of people covering it.

00:38:18.720 It's going to be phenomenal.

00:38:20.300 And it's going to be a little bit more intimate than the last one in Milwaukee.

00:38:22.840 So hopefully, I'm going to get, you know, a few more quieter interviews.

00:38:26.680 But it's going to be an amazing event, even if Trump's not going to be there.

00:38:30.820 And there will be some heckling.

00:38:32.080 There will be some screaming.

00:38:33.240 And there will be some, you know, live reaction.

00:38:34.920 Well, it sounds like a lot of fun.

00:38:36.160 And David Freyheit, also known as Viva Frey, joining us from California.

00:38:41.560 Great to see you, my friend.

00:38:42.600 Stay with us.

00:38:43.060 Thank you very much as well.

00:38:43.840 Oh, it's a pleasure.

00:38:44.600 Your letters to me, next.

00:38:45.820 Hey, welcome back.

00:38:58.580 Your letters to me.

00:38:59.400 Bruce Atchison says, I must write my MP.

00:39:02.000 She was dealt with us there in Parliament when the Ukrainian war criminal was applauded.

00:39:06.140 Listen, as I mentioned about this guy named Jason Cherniak, who was just in the crowd.

00:39:11.920 He didn't quite hear who was being introduced.

00:39:14.260 It was so quick.

00:39:15.500 The introduction was not really an honest introduction.

00:39:18.400 And so everyone stands up and applauds.

00:39:20.020 And he sort of did it almost robotically, I'd say.

00:39:24.920 And I don't blame him for that.

00:39:26.300 I mean, OK, who is that guy?

00:39:28.200 He was obviously vetted.

00:39:29.720 We're supposed to stand up.

00:39:30.980 I'll stand up and collect.

00:39:31.800 Like, have you ever done?

00:39:32.540 Of course you've done that.

00:39:33.320 We've all done that.

00:39:34.060 I think most people in that room didn't know what was going on, but a few did, including

00:39:40.560 Chrystia Freeland.

00:39:43.080 Kitty Govenlok says, anyone invited to attend Parliament must be vetted by Trudeau's security.

00:39:48.640 And they failed miserably.

00:39:50.220 Trudeau should be the one to step down, not Speaker Rota.

00:39:52.940 All they had to do was check online and his history is there.

00:39:55.600 Oh, exactly.

00:39:56.680 As I mentioned to Viva Frye, I had to give the name and a one-line description of the

00:40:00.660 people I invited to a private pizza party at Laureen Harper's.

00:40:04.520 And Stephen Harper wasn't even there until later.

00:40:06.100 It wasn't a public event.

00:40:07.540 Don't tell me Trudeau is not at least as stringent.

00:40:11.440 Joel Stewart says, what a disgrace to the human race.

00:40:14.560 You know, I think all the blame for inviting him lies with the liberals.

00:40:19.060 But he's been in Canada for 70 years.

00:40:23.060 There were a lot of conservative governments during that time, too.

00:40:25.620 And they didn't invite him to Parliament, it's true.

00:40:27.620 But they've abided thousands of Nazis in this country.

00:40:31.280 Well, that's our show for today.

00:40:33.100 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:40:36.660 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:40:38.960 Good night.

00:40:52.080 Good night.

00:40:53.120 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - September 26, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau fires Anthony Rota, the speaker of the house, but terrible questions still remain

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