Rebel News Podcast - September 25, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau pushes globalist propaganda during Stephen Colbert interview


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

166.05443

Word Count

7,323

Sentence Count

563

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

Ezra Levant on the Ed Sullivan Theatre and Stephen Colbert's recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and why he should get tickets to his own show. Ezra Levant is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. He's also a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and host of the radio show "The Ezra Levant Show."


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ezra Levant here in Manhattan, New York. I'm on Broadway and behind me is the Ed Sullivan
00:00:11.000 Theatre. It's almost a hundred years old. It's got a lot of history, musical history, cultural
00:00:17.000 history. From the 50s to the 70s, the Ed Sullivan Theatre was home to the Ed Sullivan Show. And
00:00:24.000 Ed Sullivan, even though he was a slightly nerdy middle-aged guy, he had access to all
00:00:31.000 the new bands and cultural movements of those raucous years. It was the Ed Sullivan Show
00:00:39.000 that provided the doorway for, for example, British talent, the British Invasion as it
00:00:44.000 was called, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, to find a market in America. To go to the
00:00:51.000 Ed Sullivan Theatre in the 60s was to have a front row seat on the culture of the day.
00:00:57.000 Here's a little flashback of how that looked.
00:00:59.000 I wanna hold your hand
00:01:03.000 Richard Rogers, who's one of America's greatest composers, wanted me to congratulate you and
00:01:19.000 tell the four of you that he is one of your most rabid fans. And that goes for me, too.
00:01:25.000 I'd like to have a fine hand for these guys.
00:01:27.000 Well, after Ed Sullivan retired, there were some other shows in this iconic building. And
00:01:33.000 then the Late Show with David Letterman took up the space. And whatever else you think of
00:01:38.000 David Letterman, he did have some jokes. The guy was naturally a comedian. He wasn't as
00:01:44.000 important culturally as Ed Sullivan before him. But I'd say he, he was a man of the left for
00:01:50.000 sure. And he had his foibles. But he was a cultural icon himself in them. After he had
00:01:57.000 his show the next day at the water cooler, the next day over coffee, people were often
00:02:01.000 talking about what they saw on it. Well, fast forward to 2024 and the Ed Sullivan Theatre
00:02:08.000 is no longer named after Ed Sullivan, but after Stephen Colbert. And Stephen Colbert, who
00:02:14.000 picked up the mantle for the Late Show from David Letterman, I suppose he in his past was a comedian,
00:02:23.000 too. But I think it's far more accurate to say for the last 15 years, Stephen Colbert has
00:02:29.000 been a political activist who sometimes tells jokes as opposed to a comedian who sometimes
00:02:36.000 gets political. This, I think, was at its worst during the corporate COVID lockdowns.
00:02:43.000 I want to show you an extremely unfunny sketch, one of several, where Stephen Colbert, comedian,
00:02:52.000 late night talk show host, just really thought, no, to heck with it. I'm going to be a Pfizer
00:02:57.000 salesman. They're paying the bills. I'm going to do what it takes. I'm going to dance for the cash.
00:03:03.000 Look at this outrageous video. The vaccine.
00:03:13.000 If you think that was a one-off, it wasn't. Here's some more of that.
00:03:26.000 The love that Stephen Colbert showed for Anthony Fauci can only be described as fallacial.
00:03:45.000 It was so gross to watch, and so obviously a corporate machine, not an organic place, a theater,
00:03:53.000 a platform for new talent or humor or music. It just wasn't any of that.
00:03:58.000 I don't know who would come to New York City, be on Broadway, where there are dozens of theaters
00:04:04.000 with real shows, musicals, dramas, comedies, and say, no, I don't want to see real talent.
00:04:11.000 I want to go and watch in person a TV show that pumps out pasteurized, homogenized political talking points.
00:04:20.000 Who would come to this amazing city and say, I've got to get myself some tickets to Colbert?
00:04:25.000 I don't even know if they actually have a crowd for all their interviews.
00:04:30.000 And case in point was Justin Trudeau's visit to the Colbert show a couple of nights ago.
00:04:36.000 They never actually showed any of the crowd, and the raucous applause by the people who were allegedly there,
00:04:46.000 it sounded awfully like a laugh track and an applause track to me.
00:04:50.000 I have a theory, and I could be wrong, that when Justin Trudeau came on the Colbert show a couple of nights ago,
00:04:56.000 there was actually no one else in the room.
00:04:59.000 Because had there been someone in the room, there's a good chance there would have been heckling and booing.
00:05:04.000 As you know, Justin Trudeau can't step outside in Canada anywhere, in any province,
00:05:09.000 without being heckled and booed and jeered and sworn at by ordinary people.
00:05:15.000 He is universally detested. One of the reasons he loves going on foreign junkets, including to New York,
00:05:21.000 is to get away from Canadians.
00:05:23.000 But there are probably a quarter million Canadians in New York City,
00:05:27.000 and had they had a studio audience, I'm sure there would have been at least one heckler.
00:05:33.000 Our friend and alumnus, Kian Bextie, tweeted that he had tickets.
00:05:37.000 He told me afterwards that he was just messing with Trudeau's entourage's head.
00:05:41.000 He didn't actually have a ticket to get in.
00:05:43.000 But that's the kind of thing they would be terrified of.
00:05:45.000 My thesis is no one was there, except for the cameraman, Stephen Colbert and Justin Trudeau.
00:05:52.000 I want to show you some clips of it.
00:05:54.000 It was an astonishingly long interview in three chunks.
00:05:58.000 It must have been half the show.
00:06:01.000 And there was nothing particularly interesting about it.
00:06:04.000 No announcements, nothing fresh.
00:06:06.000 It was like it was the warmed-over campaign stump speech
00:06:11.000 that Trudeau gave in the recent losing by-elections in Canada.
00:06:15.000 Like I say, the show and the theatre has fallen a lot
00:06:19.000 since Ed Sullivan brought the world's most amazing artists to New York.
00:06:24.000 Here's Stephen Colbert, corporate pitchman, pitching corporate softballs to Justin Trudeau,
00:06:30.000 the official globalist-approved candidate.
00:06:34.000 Just listen to this opening part.
00:06:35.000 I mean, what should be the easiest question in the world, sell me on Canada.
00:06:40.000 You tell me, how did Trudeau answer this question?
00:06:43.000 Take a look.
00:06:45.000 I hear really good things about Canada.
00:06:47.000 Sell me.
00:06:49.000 Canada's the best country in the world.
00:06:52.000 I mean, like, you see the scenes, like the beautiful mountains, the rivers, the lakes.
00:07:02.000 The purple mountains of majesty.
00:07:03.000 No, no, no.
00:07:04.000 And the waves of rain.
00:07:05.000 No, that was your thing, yeah.
00:07:06.000 The sea of the shining sea.
00:07:07.000 Is that what you're trying to claim now?
00:07:08.000 Actually, we go coast to coast to coast.
00:07:09.000 We have the arctic ocean as well.
00:07:10.000 Oh, you have the arctic, that's right.
00:07:11.000 Yeah, we're going toe-to-toe with the Ruskies over all the resources up there.
00:07:15.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:07:16.000 That's a bit of a challenge there.
00:07:17.000 But the...
00:07:18.000 That is...
00:07:19.000 Canada's called Vladimir Putin a bit of a challenge.
00:07:21.000 That is a...
00:07:22.000 That is a Canadian understatement if I've ever heard it, sir.
00:07:26.000 No, the thing is that, you know, everyone focuses on the land, but really, Canada's about
00:07:31.000 the people.
00:07:32.000 It's...
00:07:33.000 It's a range of people from every possible background who come together, and a little
00:07:39.000 different from the melting pot in the United States where everyone gets to be American.
00:07:42.000 Yes.
00:07:43.000 We try to celebrate differences, and people keep their cultures and keep their languages,
00:07:48.000 and like when the Polish Prime Minister came to visit, he was super amazed and pleased that
00:07:53.000 so many of the members of the Polish community continued to speak Polish, even though they've
00:07:56.000 been here for generations.
00:07:58.000 Whereas, you know, everyone sort of becomes American more.
00:08:02.000 I've heard it described that America is a melting pot and Canada perceives itself as a mosaic.
00:08:07.000 Is that...
00:08:08.000 More of a mosaic or a tapestry or...
00:08:10.000 Yeah, we just...
00:08:11.000 The differences, not just regional, because you guys have those as well, but differences
00:08:16.000 in stories, differences in perspectives.
00:08:18.000 Every day you meet a Canadian, you get to hear a different, different approach to life,
00:08:23.000 a different, you know, take on the values we have, on the things that we love.
00:08:28.000 It's an amazing country, and I really encourage you to come up and see more than just for the
00:08:33.000 maple syrup and mountains.
00:08:34.000 Okay, so you mentioned the mountains, and that's good.
00:08:38.000 And then you say you really like the people because they're diverse threads of things,
00:08:43.000 and I actually didn't learn anything about Canada.
00:08:46.000 He didn't speak to any qualities at all.
00:08:49.000 I thought that was a post-national answer.
00:08:52.000 I don't think Trudeau actually knows why he loves Canada.
00:08:56.000 He doesn't know what's special about it, because everything that is special about it
00:08:59.000 is something that he's trying to reduce or forget.
00:09:02.000 He despises our history.
00:09:04.000 Morally, he says we're genocidal.
00:09:07.000 And he's trying to cancel so many aspects of it.
00:09:11.000 And his vast immigration program seeks to change the nature of the country.
00:09:17.000 I think Justin Trudeau can't answer what he loves about Canada,
00:09:21.000 because I don't really think there's anything he loves about Canada other than he's the boss of it.
00:09:27.000 Well, again, Colbert is speaking to his American audience.
00:09:30.000 But again, he's not there to entertain.
00:09:31.000 He's there to sell.
00:09:33.000 Incredibly, the following day, Stephen Colbert had Bill Gates as a guest.
00:09:38.000 I can assure you there was no chance that Bill Gates would be heckled by the crowd or would be asked about his countless visits to Jeffrey Epstein's island.
00:09:47.000 That's because this, again, is a corporate presentation.
00:09:50.000 It's really an ad pretending to be a comedy program.
00:09:54.000 So he asked Justin Trudeau to talk a little bit about really what he's fighting for, what he's passionate about.
00:10:00.000 And the answer was $10 daycare and some free dental work. Take a listen to that.
00:10:06.000 But, like, the things that we've managed to do, we've had to work really, really hard at.
00:10:11.000 I mean, you know, universal healthcare was, you know, decades of trying to bring people together and make it happen.
00:10:19.000 We've moved forward on, you know, world-leading fight against climate change with a price on pollution.
00:10:27.000 We're moving forward with dental care for low-income Canadians.
00:10:31.000 We're moving forward with $10 a day childcare.
00:10:34.000 These are things that we have to fight for and that are really hard to do.
00:10:38.000 Trudeau actually mentioned that twice.
00:10:40.000 And I'm thinking, you're in New York City.
00:10:42.000 I don't know how many people watch The Colbert Show.
00:10:45.000 I mean, is it hundreds of thousands?
00:10:48.000 Is it really in the millions?
00:10:50.000 Are there that many people who actually want to hear it?
00:10:52.000 I don't know.
00:10:53.000 But you're in New York City.
00:10:54.000 You've got an international audience and you're just reheating your talk about,
00:10:58.000 well, we've got dental care for a few people and $10 a day daycare.
00:11:02.000 This is your great point about Canada.
00:11:05.000 He said that a second time when Colbert said something that I think was sort of gross,
00:11:09.000 but you can count on it from the corporate media.
00:11:12.000 He accused Pierre Polyev of being part of an international wave of far-right fascists.
00:11:20.000 And then he compared Polyev to Trump.
00:11:23.000 Now, I would take being compared to Trump as a compliment, as would others in the world,
00:11:28.000 like Javier Millet or Jair Bolsonaro of Argentina in Brazil.
00:11:32.000 But, of course, when Stephen Colbert compares someone to Trump, they mean something completely different.
00:11:37.000 They mean someone who is extraordinarily wealthy and promiscuous and convicted of crimes
00:11:43.000 and has an unpredictable wildness and a rudeness to him.
00:11:47.000 None of those things apply to Pierre Polyev.
00:11:51.000 And Pierre Polyev being a fascist, it's an outrageous slur on a Canadian.
00:11:57.000 And Trudeau just sat there, nodded along with it, and then said,
00:12:02.000 oh, we're going to fight fascism by giving out $10 a day daycare.
00:12:06.000 It was the weirdest set-up question and answer I've heard. Take a look.
00:12:12.000 Here's one thing, you know, something that I'm sure that comes, you know, quite clearly when the U.N. General Assembly is that the far-right and flirtations with fascism, at the very least, is rising across the globe.
00:12:30.000 Even in Canada, your Conservative Party leader, your opponent there, has been called Canada's Trump, and I'm sorry about that.
00:12:40.000 But I'm curious why at least some form of nativism or far-right xenophobia might grow in a country even as polite as Canada.
00:12:52.000 Why do you think this is getting a foothold even in your country?
00:12:55.000 See, that phrase, even in Canada, I mean, we're not some magical place of unicorns and rainbows all the time.
00:13:03.000 We've got more than our fair share.
00:13:04.000 There's a big argument right now about whether dental care even exists.
00:13:09.000 We've delivered it to 700,000 people across the country, and my opponent is gaslighting us and saying, oh, dental care doesn't even exist yet.
00:13:15.000 And, you know, this went on for three whole segments.
00:13:19.000 It was so boring. It was nothing that the youth of America would be interested in.
00:13:25.000 I don't even think it's a boomer's idea about what the kids would be interested in.
00:13:29.000 I think it was just a corporate assignment given to the corporate PR man, Stephen Colbert.
00:13:34.000 You are now going to interview Justin Trudeau. He's a globalist. He's a bit of a loser.
00:13:40.000 He's probably going to be thrown out of office, but he's part of our team.
00:13:44.000 So give him softballs for 15 minutes. And Colbert did. I say again, I don't believe there was actually a single person in that room other than the two of them.
00:13:52.000 Anyhow, mercifully, it was over. I have to say I watched the video for you so you don't have to go through it yourself.
00:13:57.000 And then I saw some pictures on the Internet of Trudeau relaxing a bit after that stressful grilling.
00:14:04.000 And he was hanging out with some transgender transvestites.
00:14:08.000 I'm not sure if this is RuPaul, the trans activist who was on the show right after Justin Trudeau.
00:14:13.000 But Trudeau felt a lot more in his element. He wasn't saying canned answers.
00:14:18.000 He wasn't flummoxed about what does he really like about Canada.
00:14:21.000 How could a prime minister of nearly 10 years not have a smooth answer to that?
00:14:25.000 And it sort of reminded me of how stressed and fake and forced it always seemed between Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie.
00:14:37.000 Remember when they were about to get their injections together and he took her hand and she sort of threw his hand away?
00:14:44.000 Remember that awkwardness?
00:14:47.000 Yeah, there was always something iffy about those two.
00:14:57.000 Here's a video that I saved about five years ago because I just sort of had a feeling it was going to be deleted.
00:15:05.000 This is a video from the CBC show in Quebec called To Le Monde en Paro, which is a really big program in Quebec.
00:15:11.000 And this is before Trudeau was prime minister.
00:15:14.000 He hadn't yet learned to be careful and he hadn't yet reigned in some of his excesses.
00:15:20.000 So he's on this show along with Gian Gomeschi, the sexual predator at the CBC who was a little bit after that.
00:15:28.000 He was drummed out.
00:15:29.000 So you had Gian Gomeschi, Justin Trudeau and Sophie Trudeau right there.
00:15:34.000 And Trudeau was in a very strange way.
00:15:38.000 Here's a still image of him kissing one of the men on the program, which is a little unusual to kiss men on the lips.
00:15:45.000 I'm not saying it never happens.
00:15:47.000 I suppose those who watch The Godfather know about the baccio di tutti baci.
00:15:52.000 But Trudeau's not Italian and he's not in the mafia.
00:15:56.000 It's a little weird to kiss a man on the lips, I think.
00:15:59.000 But look at this exchange between Sophie Trudeau, Justin Trudeau and Gian Gomeschi.
00:16:06.000 Because you're very handsome.
00:16:07.000 Thank you, Justin.
00:16:09.000 Kiss him.
00:16:11.000 I think because...
00:16:13.000 Did you catch that wink at the end?
00:16:16.000 I don't know.
00:16:17.000 There's always been something a little unusual there, but Trudeau is finally unleashed.
00:16:21.000 He's no longer pretending to be married and Sophie Trudeau no longer has to pretend to hold his hand.
00:16:27.000 So he, I don't know, let off some steam afterwards with RuPaul and friends.
00:16:31.000 I guess my report outside Broadway is that Justin Trudeau came down here.
00:16:37.000 I don't think he came to talk to Americans.
00:16:39.000 I think he came to talk to, I don't know, the 50,000 Canadians who watch The Colbert Show in Canada.
00:16:45.000 But they're not actually young people.
00:16:47.000 They're old people who are curious about what a middle-aged person thinks young people care about.
00:16:53.000 I don't think the answer is Justin Trudeau.
00:16:55.000 Anyways, I'm going to do two more things when I'm in this city.
00:16:59.000 I'm going to go to the United Nations where Justin Trudeau gave a hollow speech that was remarkably similar to what he did here today.
00:17:07.000 And I'm going to go to try and find Stephen Colbert's audience.
00:17:11.000 The people who were shuffled out of the room when Justin Trudeau had his interview.
00:17:16.000 Again, I'd bet a stack of dollars that Justin Trudeau and Stephen Colbert were alone in the room.
00:17:21.000 And that was just a laugh track because I do not believe in 2024 there would have been no heckling for Trudeau.
00:17:28.000 Hi, everybody. We started the day outside of the Ed Sullivan Theatre.
00:17:35.000 We went to Times Square where we did some great streeters.
00:17:39.000 But most of the people we met in Times Square, I think they were tourists, either from different parts of America or even from foreign countries.
00:17:46.000 We even bumped into a few Canadians. But now we're as close as they're allowing us to get to the United Nations.
00:17:52.000 It's just a couple of blocks that way. The world's leaders are gathered for that talk shop.
00:17:58.000 And police won't let us go any closer without accreditation.
00:18:03.000 You can see those two big dump trucks. They're just full of sand.
00:18:08.000 That's how they block streets from prospective suicide bombers that would come and ram through it.
00:18:14.000 You can't really ram through a big old truck like that full of sand.
00:18:18.000 It would absorb any shock in the blast for sure.
00:18:21.000 Absolutely tons of cops. Over there you can see some anti-Israel protesters.
00:18:26.000 There's someone accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a Nazi.
00:18:32.000 That's freedom of speech for you in a city that is hosting many world leaders that don't allow freedom of speech at home.
00:18:38.000 One of those guys is actually our leader, Justin Trudeau.
00:18:41.000 As you know, I've been asking New Yorkers if they know who this guy is.
00:18:46.000 The vast majority just have no idea.
00:18:49.000 I think Justin Trudeau is sort of famous in his own mind.
00:18:52.000 To be fair, I don't think they would recognize Stephen Harper either.
00:18:56.000 I mean, Canada just is receding in importance around the world.
00:19:00.000 There was a time when Canada really could be in the first ranks of the world's countries.
00:19:05.000 I'll give you the example of, you know, peacekeeping 30 years ago.
00:19:10.000 Or Korea 80 years ago or so.
00:19:15.000 Or the Second World War.
00:19:17.000 But we're just not there anymore.
00:19:19.000 We're not included in NATO exercises because we don't have the equipment.
00:19:23.000 We're not included in the new AUKUS agreement between Australia, the UK and the United States.
00:19:28.000 We're just not players anymore.
00:19:30.000 Justin Trudeau made a decisive decision, a conscious decision to realign Canada with China.
00:19:39.000 And to bend the knee to China in every way.
00:19:42.000 Including allowing China to influence our politics.
00:19:45.000 I think the rest of the allies noticed and said, we're just going to slowly back away from you, Justin.
00:19:50.000 And yeah, I'm going to see if we can go around a little bit and get a little closer.
00:19:53.000 I don't think we'll be able to.
00:19:55.000 I am going to see if members of the UN court, as I'm calling them, the hangers-on, the lobbyists, the junior, junior, junior diplomats.
00:20:06.000 All of them with diplomatic license plates.
00:20:09.000 I'm going to see if they recognize Trudeau.
00:20:11.000 I bet they will.
00:20:12.000 Because when you're in that milieu, when you're in that circuit, you get to know who the different players are.
00:20:19.000 From where?
00:20:20.000 From Canada.
00:20:21.000 Hey, Ezra Levance, what's your name?
00:20:23.000 My name is Avi, and I live in New York.
00:20:25.000 And we are so happy that Netanyahu is coming to town.
00:20:27.000 Well, what do you say about some of the protesters here who don't want them to be here in town?
00:20:32.000 New Nazis.
00:20:34.000 And what about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
00:20:37.000 Joe Biden is going home.
00:20:39.000 Okay, well, Kamala Harris is running.
00:20:41.000 That was an issue.
00:20:42.000 I mean, wherever he's going to be, I believe, will be okay.
00:20:46.000 It's never as good as you think it is.
00:20:48.000 It's never as bad as you think it is.
00:20:50.000 That's a wise way of thinking the world.
00:20:53.000 Do you know who this guy is?
00:20:54.000 Yes.
00:20:55.000 Who's that?
00:20:56.000 The Canadian Prime Minister or President.
00:20:58.000 What's his name?
00:20:59.000 Do you know it?
00:21:00.000 Trudeau.
00:21:01.000 And how do you know him?
00:21:02.000 What do you think of him?
00:21:03.000 Could be better.
00:21:04.000 Yeah.
00:21:05.000 I was just in Canada.
00:21:06.000 We went to Montreal for the summer.
00:21:09.000 There's issues that needs to be handled in Canada.
00:21:12.000 All right.
00:21:13.000 Well, we'll do our best up there.
00:21:14.000 Are you trying?
00:21:15.000 He's also a good boy, but he can do better.
00:21:17.000 Thanks for stopping by and say hello.
00:21:18.000 Okay.
00:21:19.000 Support Israel, my friend.
00:21:20.000 Support Israel.
00:21:21.000 Friendly New Yorkers.
00:21:22.000 I thought he knew who Rebel News was.
00:21:25.000 I think he just saw my face and wanted to say hi.
00:21:28.000 Anyways, you never know who you're going to bump into here.
00:21:30.000 We literally bumped into a Rebel News fan in Times Square out of the blue.
00:21:34.000 Like I say, they have the First Amendment here, which gives freedom of speech even for offensive
00:21:39.000 speech, even for speech you don't like.
00:21:41.000 Now, the question is what happens when that speech spills over into trespass, into physical
00:21:47.000 property damage, into assault and threats.
00:21:50.000 That's what we saw this summer at the various encampments, starting at Columbia University
00:21:56.000 in the heart of New York City and spreading, spreading up to Canada.
00:22:00.000 It's free speech when you use your words or other expression, but how about when you trespass?
00:22:05.000 How about when you physically destroy things or threaten people?
00:22:09.000 I think that the way that US universities and Canadian universities too, in the name of free speech,
00:22:16.000 tolerated violence, I think revealed that those institutions are not truly liberal anymore.
00:22:21.000 The kind of places that talked about trigger warnings and microaggressions were fine with
00:22:27.000 people marching, calling for the genocide of Jews from the river to the sea, that's what
00:22:32.000 that means.
00:22:33.000 Anyways, we'll wander around a little bit and let you know what we see here about a block
00:22:36.000 away from the UN.
00:22:37.000 Well, we're trying to get a little bit closer to the United Nations building, but it's very
00:22:40.000 locked down.
00:22:41.000 You can imagine the security risks that having all of the world's leaders, or most of them
00:22:46.000 at least, gathering in one spot.
00:22:48.000 I mean, the world's in a crazy state between Hezbollah and Hamas and Russia and Ukraine and
00:22:55.000 just other risks along the way.
00:22:57.000 This really is the most guarded place in the world right now.
00:23:00.000 The UN building is the green glass one, about two blocks east of us here.
00:23:05.000 Swarming the streets are hangers-on journalists, diplomats, lobbyists.
00:23:10.000 A lot of them are wearing that United Nations 2030 pin, which I think is like a scarlet letter
00:23:18.000 marking them as a globalist with their sustainable development goals.
00:23:22.000 It's basically a socialist program of global regulation.
00:23:27.000 That's really what the UN is about.
00:23:29.000 The UN and its partner, the World Economic Forum, seek to replace national sovereignty,
00:23:34.000 where local citizens make decisions, with a kind of global internationalism where an elite
00:23:41.000 priesthood like Klaus Schwab of the WEF make the decisions.
00:23:44.000 I mean, let me give you the most obvious example of mass migration.
00:23:48.000 When was the last time there was a vote in Parliament about the number of immigrants Canada
00:23:53.000 should take?
00:23:54.000 I don't know if that's been voted on in my lifetime.
00:23:57.000 It just sort of happens.
00:23:58.000 It's never an election issue.
00:24:00.000 It's just decided.
00:24:01.000 But it's weird how it's decided the same way in pretty much every country in the world.
00:24:06.000 And those handful of holdouts like Hungary and Poland are sort of browbeaten until they
00:24:11.000 finally give in.
00:24:12.000 That's an example of what I mean.
00:24:14.000 But it's not just on immigration.
00:24:15.000 It's on global warming and carbon taxes and bans on plastic straws and even on bans on firearms.
00:24:25.000 These things, they want to substitute the UN and swap out local democracies.
00:24:30.000 Here's just a crazy example.
00:24:32.000 Here's Keir Starmer, the new British Prime Minister, saying he prefers to do things at Davos at the
00:24:37.000 World Economic Forum rather than boring old Westminster, which is where their parliament is.
00:24:43.000 Here's that clip.
00:24:44.000 Let's ask you quickly.
00:24:45.000 You have to choose now between Davos or Westminster.
00:24:48.000 Davos.
00:24:49.000 Now, I'm not against politicians and leaders meeting to talk to each other.
00:24:53.000 There's nothing wrong with having a building or even a, you know, a hall where people get together and a staff.
00:25:00.000 But when the UN itself becomes the main player, the central character, as opposed to just a meaning place, then we have a problem.
00:25:08.000 We shouldn't know the name of the Secretary General of the UN.
00:25:12.000 We shouldn't have famous people like Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization.
00:25:17.000 They shouldn't be famous at all.
00:25:19.000 They should be like waiters or servants in the background waiting on and serving the democratically elected officials.
00:25:26.000 We're going to see if we can get a little bit closer to them.
00:25:29.000 I tried to ask people who this guy is, but I think these folks, the $1 to answer my question thing that I tried in Central Park,
00:25:38.000 it doesn't work on these folks.
00:25:40.000 They're at much higher prices to get their attention.
00:25:43.000 And I think they're also at more risk averse of being politically embarrassed.
00:25:49.000 We'll keep wandering around and see what we can find.
00:25:51.000 Well, there's about 200 countries in the world.
00:25:54.000 And each one of them has a prime minister or a president, sometimes both.
00:25:58.000 They each have a foreign minister and maybe a deputy foreign minister and an ambassador to the UN.
00:26:05.000 They each probably have an ambassador to the United States.
00:26:08.000 And each of those very important people probably have a driver and a security guard.
00:26:13.000 Well, you get where I'm going with this.
00:26:15.000 Pretty soon.
00:26:16.000 And you have a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York and they're all invited.
00:26:20.000 You're going to have thousands or tens of thousands of people, all very important, all coming to the center of the action, which is just down this road.
00:26:30.000 It's a pretty serious blockade, a people blockade.
00:26:33.000 And then they've set up that sort of terrorism proof steel and concrete blockade.
00:26:39.000 They're taking things seriously.
00:26:40.000 There's all sorts of different kind of cops.
00:26:42.000 There's regular police, New York police, secret service.
00:26:47.000 And I'm sure there's quite a few undercover police too.
00:26:50.000 And then there's foreign security agencies also.
00:26:52.000 There's a lot of important people here.
00:26:56.000 Just ask them.
00:26:57.000 But there actually really are truly important people, not just fake important.
00:27:01.000 One of the fun things we did earlier, and I'm not going to try and replicate it here, was to ask people on the street if they could identify Justin Trudeau based on this photo alone.
00:27:12.000 I think that's a nice photo of him.
00:27:13.000 A couple of people told me that they thought he was quite handsome, but he couldn't place him.
00:27:17.000 When I gave them the hint of the black face image, more people guessed who he was.
00:27:21.000 I'm not going to play that trick here, not because I'm not curious.
00:27:26.000 I just don't think people are going to engage.
00:27:29.000 But it does come down to the real question.
00:27:32.000 Is Justin Trudeau as important as he thinks he is?
00:27:37.000 And I think the question is, look, the leader of Canada, a mid-sized country, will only ever be, quote, so important.
00:27:45.000 Canada is not going to be a competitor with China, Japan, Russia, America for largest economy.
00:27:51.000 It's not going to be a competitor with America, Brazil, India, China, Indonesia for population.
00:27:57.000 Our military, even if it was properly funded, wouldn't be able to cast power around the world like the more than a dozen US aircraft carrier groups or the increasingly rambunctious Chinese military.
00:28:10.000 And when it comes to the moral authority of Canada, I think that's particularly being squandered under Justin Trudeau.
00:28:16.000 So I guess what I'm saying is, at the best of times, Canada punches above our weight and is a proud member of the G7.
00:28:25.000 Even though, statistically speaking, we wouldn't be in the top seven countries measured just by our GDP.
00:28:32.000 But I think under Trudeau we've become marginalized.
00:28:35.000 And I think the country is regarded as unserious.
00:28:38.000 Stephen Harper, whether you liked him or not, was treated seriously.
00:28:42.000 There was that dramatic showdown with Vladimir Putin when Putin thought he would sort of bulldoze Harper.
00:28:48.000 And Stephen Harper said, well, I'll shake your hand, but you've got to get out of Ukraine.
00:28:52.000 That was when, after the first invasion of Ukraine.
00:28:55.000 I guess what I'm saying is Stephen Harper kept his wits about him, stayed dignified, delivered a stern message to Putin, and wasn't childish about it.
00:29:05.000 And I think that that was a lever of sobriety that Canada was known for.
00:29:09.000 Harper and President Obama, his counterpart, were at odds ideologically, aesthetically, stylistically.
00:29:16.000 But they managed to work things out together.
00:29:18.000 And I note, it wasn't until Stephen Harper was no longer prime minister that Obama nixed the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:29:27.000 He had too much respect or too much belief in a working relationship with Stephen Harper to kill that pipeline while Harper was prime minister.
00:29:36.000 But as soon as Harper was done, Obama had very little respect for Justin Trudeau and killed the pipeline.
00:29:44.000 Of course, Trudeau probably wanted that.
00:29:47.000 Which brings me to the comments made by Justin Trudeau.
00:29:50.000 Now, the other day I took you through his speech at the General Assembly.
00:29:53.000 It was only about five minutes long.
00:29:55.000 The place was pretty much empty.
00:29:57.000 And bizarrely, instead of talking about global matters like the Middle East or talking at depth about Ukraine, Russia, he chose to repeat his stump speech from the losing by-elections in Canada.
00:30:09.000 Here's a clip of that.
00:30:10.000 The promise that if you work hard, you can do better than the generations that preceded you.
00:30:16.000 That promise is slipping out of reach.
00:30:19.000 So as a government, we are stepping up.
00:30:22.000 The solution to anxiety and angst is not to deceive and deflect, but to take action.
00:30:29.000 We know that confident, successful countries invest in their citizens, in their workers, in their middle class.
00:30:39.000 In national $10 a day childcare that saves families money while ensuring women can choose the best path for themselves.
00:30:48.000 In nutritious school meals so our kids can focus on learning and growing.
00:30:54.000 In an ambitious housing plan that will deliver good, abundant, and affordable homes.
00:31:01.000 In a national dental care program that in its first months has already delivered quality care to three quarters of a million Canadians.
00:31:10.000 In a growth and industrial strategy that creates good paying, community building, middle class jobs, all while fighting climate change.
00:31:20.000 These are choices that deliver on the promise of Canada for every generation.
00:31:26.000 Yeah, that's weird.
00:31:27.000 You don't go to the United Nations to talk about dental care or $10 daycare.
00:31:32.000 Did no one even bother drafting a fresh speech for him at the UN?
00:31:37.000 By the way, he gave the exact same remarks to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.
00:31:43.000 I mean, take a look.
00:31:44.000 But, like, the things that we've managed to do, we've had to work really, really hard at.
00:31:49.000 I mean, you know, universal healthcare was, you know, decades of trying to bring people together and make it happen.
00:31:57.000 We've moved forward on, you know, world-leading fight against climate change with a price on pollution.
00:32:05.000 We're moving forward with dental care for low-income Canadians.
00:32:09.000 We're moving forward with $10 a day childcare.
00:32:12.000 These are things that we have to fight for and that are really hard to do.
00:32:16.000 So everyone in the world is here politically.
00:32:19.000 And Justin Trudeau has his big moment and he recycles a stump speech from back in Canada.
00:32:24.000 That's sort of pitiful.
00:32:25.000 But after Trudeau was at some meeting feeling important, he gave a bit of a press conference and he had the audacity to lecture other people about freedom of speech.
00:32:36.000 Take a look at that.
00:32:37.000 We know that democratic values and principles are under attack around the world from authoritarians, from far right-wing populists, from a whole bunch of people who don't particularly want to see strong and thriving free democracies.
00:32:55.000 Part of the targets of attacks on democracies is on a free, independent media.
00:33:02.000 Part of the media is on the work that professional journalists do to hold governments and people in power to account and inform Canadians and informed citizens about what's going on in their democracies.
00:33:17.000 I, as you well know, have often disagreed with some of the conclusions that media has been opining on from time to time.
00:33:28.000 But in the conveying of facts, in the challenging people in positions of authority or who seek positions of authority, it's absolutely essential that we always defend the freedom of and independence of the media.
00:33:45.000 Hang on. Was this the same Justin Trudeau that invoked the Emergencies Act form of martial law because peaceful protesters were criticizing him and embarrassing him, the invocation of which was later found to be unconstitutional?
00:33:59.000 Is this the same Justin Trudeau that handpicks censors to keep media he doesn't like out of the leaders debate?
00:34:06.000 The same Justin Trudeau who, just this week, is pushing through Parliament, Bill C-63, the Online Harms Censorship Act?
00:34:13.000 It's quite something to see Trudeau pontificate in New York about freedom when back home he's doing everything in his power to undermine it.
00:34:21.000 That's why Trudeau likes to travel to New York. He gets away from prying eyes, sort of. He has fun. He flies on his private jet, stays at a $6,000 a night hotel and generally feels important.
00:34:33.000 But he also gets to say things without accountability. If Justin Trudeau were to give a speech like that in Canada about freedom of speech, I think people would laugh at him.
00:34:44.000 Here in New York, he can get away with it. Stay with us for more.
00:34:48.000 Can I ask you a question? So you're protesting here because the United Nations is meeting over there?
00:34:58.000 Yes.
00:34:59.000 So there's a lot of world leaders and you want them to hear this message?
00:35:01.000 Yeah, and they're lying about the Gaza war. It's the gas and oil war.
00:35:05.000 Five feet behind you, there's a guy on the street. I'm guessing he's an American. Maybe he's a migrant. I don't know.
00:35:11.000 But, you know, I believe in caring about things around the world, too. But you've got some problems literally five feet away from you.
00:35:18.000 Absolutely. Absolutely. And you know what?
00:35:20.000 What are you going to do for him?
00:35:21.000 The cops will walk right by him. I'll give him a sandwich when he wakes up.
00:35:24.000 Will you really?
00:35:25.000 Yeah, I got an extra sandwich.
00:35:26.000 You know, it's sort of weird protesting about this very complex international thing you're talking about. We're five feet away from you as a man.
00:35:36.000 Listen, I'm born and raised in New York City. It's just part of being here. You can't feed everybody.
00:35:42.000 Tell me a little bit about Code Pink and what are you here to say?
00:35:46.000 Well, hi, I'm Jody. I'm from Code Pink. I'm one of the co-founders. And we're here, you know, smack in the middle of where UN visitors are walking.
00:35:55.000 Because there's not really a conversation about Gaza. And this is UN week, you know, UN climate week.
00:36:03.000 But war is the greatest contributor to climate change. We're not hearing it on any of the stages.
00:36:10.000 So we're here to bring the message, to disrupt in certain audiences, to be out in front of the UN saying war is not green.
00:36:17.000 Where's that conversation happening here? All you hear about are like capitalist solutions to climate change,
00:36:23.000 which is so hypocritical because it's capitalism and it's violence and it's greed that is driving this destruction of the planet.
00:36:32.000 You seem very charming, but I want to ask you some tough questions. Is that okay?
00:36:36.000 I love tough questions. Are you sure? I'm sure.
00:36:39.000 What do you think of Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris?
00:36:41.000 Well, I think it shows who Kamala Harris is. She's the warmongering president. You know, it's horrible.
00:36:50.000 See her embrace war and then watch women flock to her is very hard to watch as a feminist. Very hard to watch as a feminist.
00:36:59.000 And not only that, the fact that she's the vice president and hasn't done anything about a genocide isn't even speaking out,
00:37:05.000 isn't speaking against Biden around a genocide. She doesn't understand that that would galvanize people to her.
00:37:11.000 Instead of she just looks, well, she's, you know, the Manchurian candidate.
00:37:16.000 I have one last question for you and you've been very generous with your time.
00:37:20.000 A skeptic would say, even if you look at the worst case for the numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza, that although tragic, every civilian life loss is tragic,
00:37:38.000 just in sheer numbers, it's smaller than other wars going on in the world right now.
00:37:45.000 And that wars that have gone on for years. And yet, where has Code Pink been on that?
00:37:51.000 For example, Turkey versus the Kurds.
00:37:53.000 And I just feel like that, but where's your signs about that?
00:38:00.000 Here's what we do. Here's what we do.
00:38:04.000 I think you focus on the Jews.
00:38:06.000 No. Oh, my God.
00:38:07.000 Well, you're not focusing on the Turks. You're not focusing on the Libyans.
00:38:10.000 You're not focusing on the Iranians. You're not focusing on the Saudis or the Yemenites.
00:38:14.000 We focus on our government.
00:38:16.000 What do you think about some of the mottos I've heard chanted at Columbia and in Canada?
00:38:21.000 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:38:24.000 What do you think of that chant?
00:38:27.000 I think that is the dream that the Israelis will become Jewish and practice their religion
00:38:35.000 and that everyone in the land of Palestine will be free.
00:38:39.000 I don't think that's what it means. I think it means to remove the Jews from Israel.
00:38:43.000 I don't think that's what it means.
00:38:45.000 And how about, there is only one solution, intifada revolution?
00:38:49.000 What do you think that means?
00:38:51.000 I don't know what intifada means.
00:38:53.000 You don't know what intifada means? You're a peace activist.
00:38:55.000 You don't know what intifada means? You hear protests against Israel.
00:38:57.000 I know what intifada means in the sense in Islam.
00:39:01.000 And what does it mean?
00:39:03.000 It's an internal practice.
00:39:05.000 I don't think it is. I think you're confusing that with jihad.
00:39:08.000 I'm not a Muslim here, no.
00:39:10.000 Okay, I'm more schooled and being Jewish than being Muslim, so I can't really talk about it.
00:39:19.000 How has the climate crisis affected you and your people?
00:39:24.000 I don't know. I haven't noticed a crisis.
00:39:27.000 What is critical that I should be noticing?
00:39:30.000 Have you watched the news?
00:39:33.000 Okay, so you're talking about the news.
00:39:35.000 So it's a news-generated thing?
00:39:37.000 Partly, or it could be. What about the weather even in the city?
00:39:41.000 Seems very lovely today.
00:39:43.000 Yeah, but we've had some incredible heat.
00:39:45.000 I think we had the hottest August on record all over the world.
00:39:51.000 So that's summertime. It's hot in the summer, right?
00:39:54.000 Super hot.
00:39:56.000 Well, in terms of climate disasters, I mean, the more people get wealthy, they can mitigate against that.
00:40:04.000 Like in a poor country, if there's a hurricane or a flood, a lot of people get hurt.
00:40:10.000 But the richer the country, the more they can prepare.
00:40:12.000 Even massive hurricanes don't kill tens of thousands of Americans.
00:40:16.000 They might kill a few dozen.
00:40:18.000 Doesn't freedom and industry and economy overcome...
00:40:22.000 Don't we master the climate by being wealthy?
00:40:24.000 No, I don't think so.
00:40:26.000 If people are fabulously wealthy, they may be able to escape it for a while.
00:40:30.000 But lots of us are not fabulously wealthy, and we can't escape it.
00:40:33.000 Well, compare how a hurricane hits Florida with a hurricane hitting Haiti.
00:40:38.000 Haiti is devastated. Florida, it's a week of inconvenience.
00:40:41.000 Well, it's more than a week of inconvenience.
00:40:43.000 I mean, think about New Orleans. It took them ten years to recover from Katrina.
00:40:46.000 So it's not a week at all.
00:40:48.000 But tens of thousands of people didn't die, is my point.
00:40:51.000 Climate mastery means we're no longer at the whim of Mother Nature.
00:40:55.000 No, I think we can protect ourselves better.
00:40:57.000 We have a little more resiliency in this country.
00:40:58.000 We cannot protect ourselves.
00:40:59.000 It's going to get worse and worse in this country.
00:41:01.000 Well, I just came down to New York City for the day.
00:41:04.000 I came because I had a cheap flight that I and my cameraman, Mauricio, could take.
00:41:09.000 And I thought, let's just go down there for the day.
00:41:11.000 We don't even get a hotel room.
00:41:13.000 Let's go around and sort of retrace Justin Trudeau's steps.
00:41:16.000 We started with by far the most important thing he did,
00:41:19.000 was go on the late show with Stephen Colbert.
00:41:22.000 It was an embarrassment. It was a nothing burger.
00:41:25.000 It was so bland. It was a corporate PR move.
00:41:28.000 And I'm quite certain there wasn't anyone in the studio audience
00:41:31.000 that probably was a Trudeau condition to make sure there were no hecklers.
00:41:35.000 I really enjoyed going to Times Square and scrumming people on the street,
00:41:41.000 what we call streeters.
00:41:42.000 I would just hold up a dollar bill and say,
00:41:44.000 tell me who this is and I'll give you a buck.
00:41:46.000 And people were sort of surprised by that.
00:41:49.000 And I counted up afterwards and I gave away $13.
00:41:52.000 So I think that that was a great little project and it was a lot of fun.
00:41:56.000 Some people liked Trudeau, including some Canadians,
00:41:59.000 but others did not have any time for him. I can guarantee you that.
00:42:02.000 And it's sort of fun to bump into some Rebel News fans in the wild.
00:42:06.000 We actually bumped into some folks while we were running around town.
00:42:09.000 Here at the UN, it's really not a lot we can do
00:42:12.000 because it's an ultra-high secure facility,
00:42:15.000 given that 200 of the world's leaders are here.
00:42:18.000 This has got to be the most secure place in the world.
00:42:21.000 We talked with a few protesters who haven't yet got alert
00:42:25.000 to the cancel culture approach of the Canadian left who know us.
00:42:30.000 I spoke at some length with the lady from Code Pink
00:42:33.000 and she didn't like it when I pointed out she's really only protesting
00:42:37.000 against the Jewish war against Hamas.
00:42:40.000 I haven't seen Code Pink really say a lot about other wars.
00:42:44.000 She took some umbrage to that but sort of walked away at the end.
00:42:47.000 And some of these ladies talking about climate crises.
00:42:51.000 I don't know. I thought it was very telling when the first thing they said
00:42:54.000 was, what crises? They said, don't you follow the news?
00:42:57.000 The news is the crisis manufacturer. They're the misinformation spreader.
00:43:02.000 Anyways, an interesting day. I'm going to go back up to Canada now.
00:43:05.000 There's a lot cooking up there.
00:43:07.000 But one thing is for sure.
00:43:11.000 The world can get along without Justin Trudeau.
00:43:14.000 They don't notice him. They don't include him.
00:43:17.000 And random people on the street in our closest neighbor and ally.
00:43:21.000 They never heard of him even when I offered him a buck to tell me his name.
00:43:25.000 For Rebel News, I'm Ezra Levant in New York City.
00:43:37.000 I'm Ezra Levant in New York City.
00:43:55.000 I'm Ezra Levant.
00:44:00.000 I'm going to go back to Canada now.