Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's hollow charade rolls on as nation looks for new direction

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today we're talking with our good friend Manny Montenegrino about a number of

00:00:04.380 things, including Justin Trudeau's separation from his dear wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.

00:00:09.840 Is that off-base and off-bounds to talk about? Or for a guy who hoists himself so high as a

00:00:16.880 role model and pushes you down so low, he's the feminist, you're the misogynist. Is the way he

00:00:23.080 treats women and his failures and successes, is that public game? I don't know. Manny and I'll

00:00:28.540 talk about it. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. That's

00:00:32.700 the video version of this podcast. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com and click subscribe. All right,

00:00:39.160 here's today's show. Tonight, we catch up with our favorite guy, Manny Montenegrino.

00:00:58.540 and talk about Justin Trudeau's separation. It's August 16th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:05.700 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:11.080 Who do you talk to if you love talking about politics? All right, who would you talk with 0.94

00:01:25.120 about journalism? Okay, here's a smaller set. Who would be an expert in the legal basis of it all?

00:01:33.240 Well, what happened if you found a triple threat? Someone who is an expert in all three,

00:01:40.100 and he's been an observer at the seat of power for decades. You know who I'm talking about,

00:01:45.620 my favorite pundit. We love to have him on once a month to catch up. I'm talking about

00:01:50.560 Manny Montenegrino, the CEO of Think Sharp, based in Ottawa, who joins us now by Skype.

00:01:56.120 Manny, it's always a pleasure. You're always a fan favorite. We get so many emails when you're on

00:02:00.760 the show, and it's a good time for me to listen more than I talk, because I talk too much in

00:02:06.340 interviews, but I love to hang on your every word. I'm not exaggerating, because you bring

00:02:11.120 insights that I often have never heard before. Well, thank you, Ezra. Thank you for that

00:02:16.780 introduction. I'm always willing to provide my analysis on issues that relate to the law and

00:02:23.940 politics. Well, you're a figure in some ways of the establishment. You were with a major national

00:02:29.660 law firm. You were the lawyer to prime ministers, but you're also a bit of a rebel. Hey, Manny,

00:02:35.560 what do you think is a hot issue of the last month? Let me throw one out there,

00:02:41.660 and it's a little bit sensitive, but I know you're a sensitive man. What about Justin Trudeau

00:02:46.600 announcing on Instagram that he and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau were separating? What do you make

00:02:55.580 of that news and how he announced it and what he's sort of done in social media since?

00:03:02.880 Well, that's a good question, and of course, the media wants nobody to talk about it, but

00:03:08.780 Trudeau himself has made this an issue and continues to make it an issue, so I think it's fair to talk

00:03:14.220 about it. When I practiced law and I was a managing partner of the auto office of a very big law firm,

00:03:21.900 I had a team of lawyers that provided service to the matrimonial law, divorce lawyers, and there was 0.99

00:03:31.540 a good 10 of them in my office, and there are two reasons why people get divorced fundamentally. 0.85

00:03:37.720 One is financial, and that's a big reason, and second of all, one of the spouses, particularly the 0.92

00:03:44.100 husband doesn't connect with the wife, and that's a second reason, and there is a loss there. Well,

00:03:51.540 when you take those reasons in the history that I've had in practicing matrimonial law,

00:03:57.340 our office has, is, well, clearly it's not the first. The Trudeaus are very well. Daddy left the

00:04:05.120 millions, and I think he's found a way to make more millions. So it's not a financial issue. So it has

00:04:10.920 to be with the parties not connecting. And I find that I don't understand how that could be, because

00:04:19.380 one friend told me that these are the two smartest, happiest, in love people that they know, and of

00:04:28.020 course, they're separating. So how does that make sense? You know, it just seems that, I mean, Trudeau

00:04:35.500 himself goes out of his way to declare that he's a feminist. And from what I understand, when a man

00:04:44.120 says that, and he basically said it publicly, he said it at a conference, when a man says that,

00:04:53.080 it means that he truly understands how a woman feels, acts, and conducts herself. So it's more alarming

00:05:00.840 is he a feminist finding himself separated. Here's a speech that Trudeau recently gave,

00:05:09.020 actually a little while back, where he talked about how feminist he was. Here, take a look.

00:05:13.700 Well, first of all, I'm going to keep saying loud and clearly that I am a feminist until... 1.00

00:05:20.840 Hear me roar.

00:05:24.520 Until it is met with a shrug. Why does every time I say I'm a feminist, you know, the Twitterverse 0.97

00:05:32.820 explodes and news medias pick it up, it shouldn't be something that creates a reaction. It simply is

00:05:41.320 saying, I believe in the equality of men and women, and I believe that we still have an awful lot of work

00:05:46.260 to do to get there. That's like saying the sky is blue and the grass is green. So the fact that it

00:05:53.420 still garners a response, a positive response, means that we're still going to have to be using

00:06:01.560 that word. And if I can encourage people to use that word more and more often, to say that they're

00:06:07.740 feminists, to say they're raising their children, their daughters, obviously, to be feminists, 1.00

00:06:12.460 but also their sons to be feminists, which is something my extraordinary wife Sophie has drilled

00:06:18.980 into me, that it's not just about empowering my daughter, it's about making sure my sons work as

00:06:25.240 well to empower, you know, their sister, however annoying they are, to each other as kids.

00:06:32.320 But that mindset of how we shift perceptions and engagement is something that, yes, we do still

00:06:40.400 have to keep working on, and I'm proud to be able to keep pushing that.

00:06:44.100 Well, I have a slightly different take on it. I mean, he's trying to say, oh, I'm a feminist,

00:06:47.940 it should be normal. But actually, I think that, like saying, Manny, I'm really smart, or I have

00:06:55.340 good fashion, or whatever. Like, if you're praising yourself or trying to give yourself a positive

00:07:00.260 appellation in some way, if you have to say it, it's probably not true. Like, if you went around

00:07:06.320 saying, hey, guys, you know, I'm really smart. No, no, no, no, seriously, I'm really smart. People

00:07:09.820 would know if you're smart. If you treat women right, it's sort of evident, I think. There's a

00:07:16.860 phrase from Hamlet, my lady doth protest too much. If you're saying it too much, maybe it's because

00:07:24.800 it's not true. I think that Justin Trudeau is a fake feminist. He's a male feminist in the meaning 0.92

00:07:30.660 that he's not a feminist at all, except for as a trick. It's like Jehan Gomeshi, if you recall,

00:07:35.820 that CBC star who got a degree in women's studies. And it was later found out he was a serial abuser,

00:07:44.740 including physical abuse of women. And he said, no, no, no, no. I'm a women's studies major. I'm a

00:07:50.740 major feminist. It was what Professor Gad Saad called being a sneaky effort. But he would sort of

00:07:57.420 sneak under women's radar because he said all the right things. Here's Gad Saad explaining the

00:08:02.800 sneaky effort idea. Take a look. I talked about male social justice warriors as sneaky fuckers. 1.00

00:08:10.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's an actual term, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, sneaky fuckers is actually not a term 1.00

00:08:15.600 that I came up with to be profane. It's actually a zoological term that captures in nature the idea 0.98

00:08:23.340 of kleptogamy, where you're trying to steal mating opportunities. So for example, let's say you have

00:08:28.600 a type of fish where there are two phenotypes of a male, you know, of a male. There's the dominant

00:08:34.660 physically imposing male. And then there's a whole bunch of other males that actually pretend to be

00:08:41.180 females so that they can sneak by the dominant males and then have a surreptitious coupling 1.00

00:08:47.920 opportunity with the females. And that became known as the sneaky fucker mating strategy. And so 1.00

00:08:54.060 in the parasitic mind, I argue that male social justice warriors are instantiating a form of 1.00

00:09:03.220 sneaky fucker strategy, right? Look, look, I'm, you know, I'm very sensitive. I hug trees. I cry when 0.99

00:09:09.760 I watch Bridget Jones' diary. See, I'm not, you don't have anything to be afraid of. And then hopefully

00:09:15.420 that can allow me to have access to some willing and available female. 1.00

00:09:19.960 I think anyone who goes around talking about how feminist he is, is preemptively trying to cover

00:09:25.060 up the fact that he is absolutely not a feminist in atrocious ways.

00:09:30.180 Well, that's why I put, I connected it. Trudeau, as a feminist, sexually assaulted a reporter. 1.00

00:09:39.600 Rose Knight. 0.97

00:09:40.620 Rose Knight in Creston, BC.

00:09:42.360 Right. And that's a fact. And why I say it's a fact is that she published it. And if it was not

00:09:48.860 true, she would be sued. The magazine would be sued. And there was no lawsuits and no denials and no

00:09:55.500 retractions. So I have to conclude that he did sexually assault a reporter. He also, you might

00:10:01.340 recall, in the House of Commons, storming across the aisle and elbowing an NDP female minister

00:10:10.800 in her breast to get her out of the way. Men don't treat women like that when they want to get 1.00

00:10:16.840 something done. They don't manhandle a woman. And also, you know, how he's treated the very strong

00:10:24.480 female ministers. The attorney general doing an absolute great job, Jody Wilson-Raybould.

00:10:31.200 And so now I add this fourth dimension to prove what you say is true, that he is a fake feminist. 0.99

00:10:40.880 And that is, I can't for the life of me see how a feminist who does connect and understand a woman, 1.00

00:10:50.140 particularly the wife, particularly the mother of his three children, has it fail. Feminists don't fail 1.00

00:10:57.940 in understanding women. So that's, so put it all together. I think you're right, Ezra. I think

00:11:03.720 he is a fake feminist, but we know that. And there's a lot of fake, a lot of things that Trudeau 1.00

00:11:10.260 claims to be, like, you know, sitting there talking about racism when he's the only person I know in

00:11:17.080 Canada who's worn blackface more times than he can count. So I think his claim of feminism 0.64

00:11:24.260 and the separation, that's just another fact that adds to their conclusion.

00:11:29.920 Yeah. You know, whenever he's tested on his feminism, it doesn't work out well. I mean, 0.95

00:11:34.900 you mentioned his sexual assault of Rose Knight. Well, he was asked about it. He did not deny it.

00:11:40.540 He engaged in some sort of gaslighting, say, well, that's not how a bitch said she liked it. Like, 1.00

00:11:46.260 he basically was turning on her and accusing her of lying. Here, remember what he said when he said she,

00:11:52.320 quote, experienced it differently? That's a more polite way of saying, oh, it was wonderful for

00:11:59.200 me. She should just get used to it. Here's Trudeau saying that. I've been reflecting very

00:12:05.920 carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years ago. And again, I am, I feel,

00:12:15.880 I am confident that I did not act inappropriately. But part of this awakening that we're having as a

00:12:24.360 society, a long-awaited realization, is that it's not just one side of the story that matters.

00:12:35.400 That the same interactions could be experienced very differently from one person to the next.

00:12:43.120 And I am not going to speak for the woman in question. I would never presume to speak for her.

00:12:50.720 But I know that there is an awful lot of reflection to be had as we move forward as a society

00:12:56.880 on how people perceive different interactions. Like I said, I do not feel that I acted inappropriately

00:13:05.040 in any way. But I respect the fact that someone else might have experienced that differently.

00:13:12.500 And this is part of the reflections that we have to go through.

00:13:15.200 Yeah, I don't know. I think there's something creepy about him. And I think he inherited it from

00:13:18.560 his father, Pierre Trudeau. It was well known that Pierre Trudeau physically battered Margaret Trudeau.

00:13:25.580 And I'm not saying any of these things with delight. It's just how he was. Here's an article. It was on

00:13:31.420 the news wires. I mean, they had a terrible relationship. And maybe Trudeau learned that's

00:13:37.960 how you deal with women. You cheat on them. You physically attack them. You gaslight them. 1.00

00:13:43.840 That's what Pierre Trudeau did to women, including his mom. Maybe that's how Justin Trudeau thinks

00:13:49.640 you handle women. I don't know. Well, there's another interesting fact. I read that the children

00:13:57.800 are going to be in the primary custody of Justin Trudeau, which I, for the life of me, cannot

00:14:06.340 understand how that arrangement was made. And I can understand how women are not in an uproar over

00:14:14.280 this white male privilege. And here's, again, I go back to the number of lawyers in my office who

00:14:21.160 practice family law, and you learn a lot. Normally, custody will not be given to a spouse

00:14:27.940 that sexually assaulted someone. Custody will not be given to a spouse that breaks federal laws,

00:14:35.540 the conflict laws. And then he was found to break the law. Custody will not be given to someone who

00:14:42.700 has basically shown some form of misogyny. Custody will not be given to, and this is a very

00:14:51.840 important point, to a spouse that has been or cannot be at home attending to the children

00:15:00.240 because his work is so demanding. I don't think there's a greater demanding job than being prime

00:15:06.400 minister that takes you away from the daily nine to fours of running a family. So how is it possible

00:15:14.360 that Justin Trudeau has custody of three children? And why are people upset about why is Sophie

00:15:21.920 Gregoire denied custody of the children? Why is she shipped away? I mean, I understood why it happened

00:15:28.660 with Pierre Trudeau. And in fact, I knew Pierre Trudeau's, that's how old I am, family law lawyer when he got

00:15:35.640 divorced. And I knew why he kept custody, because it was a different time. Back in, you know, the 70s and

00:15:43.420 the early 80s, powerful men got to get what powerful men wanted. And so there was no question that the

00:15:51.880 prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, had custody of the children, and off goes Margaret without the children.

00:15:57.340 But this is a different time. Women, men should not have the, powerful men, powerful men, powerful 0.90

00:16:06.120 white men, should not have the automatic default that they get what they want. So I don't understand

00:16:12.260 it. I don't understand the facts. I have not read of any report of Sophie Gregoire not being a great

00:16:18.180 mother, not being a good woman. There was no allegations of drug use. In fact, if there was 0.95

00:16:24.660 allegations of drug use, it was Pierre, I mean, Justin Trudeau. So when I look at all the factors

00:16:30.200 as to what, where does custody or primary custody belong, it certainly would never be with Justin

00:16:37.520 Trudeau. Well, I didn't hear that he got custody. I mean, there's a concept of joint custody, where both

00:16:44.740 sides have shared custody. And I would imagine that would have been the one here. But for the man alone

00:16:51.300 to have custody, if that's what you're saying, and I haven't heard this news before you said it.

00:16:54.900 Well, yeah.

00:16:55.840 That's very unusual. I'd say that's fewer than 10% of the cases where the man gets custody,

00:17:01.640 especially if it's sort of a homemaker mom who's with the kids all the time while the dad is traveling 1.00

00:17:07.900 the country and traveling the world. It's very unusual. Let me throw something else at you. And this was

00:17:11.880 revealed by Black Locks, which is an independent news company based in Ottawa. They note that by

00:17:19.720 signing this separation agreement, they believe that that means Sophie Trudeau's business affairs

00:17:27.460 are no longer disclosable to the ethics commissioner in the House of Commons. And recently,

00:17:34.540 she created her own sort of media relations, government relations company, says Black Locks. 0.60

00:17:43.520 First of all, I don't know if Sophie Trudeau is an expert in media relations, government relations,

00:17:49.140 public relations. I don't really think so. But it's sort of like Hunter Biden selling his

00:17:54.940 paintings for three quarters of a million dollars. No one thinks that those paintings are worth three

00:18:00.260 quarters of millions of dollars. It's just a way to money launder cash to the Bidens. And you're

00:18:06.140 darn straight, Joe Biden is paying attention. Oh, that guy gave my son a three quarters of a million.

00:18:11.820 I think that people who hire Sophie Gregoire Trudeau for media advice or public affairs advice,

00:18:18.960 they'll nod along and say, oh, yes, that's very good advice. They'll pay literally whatever she wants, 0.77

00:18:24.600 because it's simply a way to launder cash to the Trudeaus. I think that's what that is. You wouldn't

00:18:29.960 hire Sophie Trudeau to do anything real. You'd hire her to impress her husband, say, oh, I'll take 0.97

00:18:36.860 care of your ex for you. I'll hire her for half a million bucks. And now it's not disclosable to

00:18:44.120 the ethics commissioner. Yeah, no, that's a theory as well. You know, Ezra, the thing I learned the

00:18:50.580 most when I was a law student back in the 70s by a great litigation lawyer, he said the truth will come

00:18:56.960 out and the truth will not change. We'll know what the true story is. Again, I'm perplexed that a

00:19:05.720 self-declared feminist in a perfect marriage, loving marriage, gets separated. There's something 1.00

00:19:14.820 behind that we don't know. And the truth will come out. It may be what's reported by Black Lives. 0.78

00:19:22.040 I don't know about being worried about the ethics commissioner, Ezra. There isn't one.

00:19:27.460 Well, that's a good point. That position is vacant. And that's fine with the Ottawa media.

00:19:32.300 How brilliant is that? I mean, you have an unprecedented ethics violations against you

00:19:40.740 by a series of ethics commissioners. I think it was two or three that all found you guilty. And the way

00:19:47.260 you solve the problem is you don't appoint an ethics commissioner. I mean, absolutely brilliant.

00:19:52.920 You know, there's one more thing I want to mention. And I know people are probably saying,

00:19:56.100 hey, this is a lascivious discussion. And I think some of it may be in the personal realm as opposed

00:20:02.900 to the public realm. Although that's difficult to assert, given that Trudeau showcased his own

00:20:09.300 feminism in the public square. He talked about how he deals with women. He talks about what a

00:20:14.920 feminist he is. So when he has a failure with the central woman of his life, maybe it is for the

00:20:21.640 public grist. I don't know. It's a bit of a gray area in some ways. I mean, I think that Sophie Trudeau

00:20:27.240 in her own right is a largely private person. She hasn't been like, oh, I don't know. Pierre

00:20:33.340 Polyev's wife has been campaigning hard for him. Or in the past, I don't know, either first ladies,

00:20:41.320 for example, in the United States were very political. Michelle Obama, for example. I think

00:20:45.820 Sophie Trudeau was much more private. And so I personally have, over the last eight years, given

00:20:50.960 her more space because I don't think she's duking it out in the public square. But I want to point out

00:20:56.420 something that we saw through an access into information request. One of the things we do,

00:21:02.300 Manny, is we ask for the flight manifests on Justin Trudeau's private jets. So when he jets around,

00:21:09.860 they're not quite private jets. They're government jets, which is why we can get the list of

00:21:14.000 passengers. And when he went over to the UK for the coronation, I think it was on his flight back,

00:21:23.020 his kids were not on the plane. Sophie Trudeau was not on the plane. But his kid's nanny, 0.98

00:21:31.620 paid for by taxpayers, was on the plane. Now, I would certainly not make an accusation against a

00:21:36.720 young woman who I know nothing about. But I saw that and I thought, that's weird. Why is the nanny

00:21:43.820 on a private jet with Justin Trudeau coming back from this amazing week in London? And she's not

00:21:53.840 with the kids. Like, isn't a nanny supposed to be with the kids? I don't know. I mean, I don't have

00:21:59.640 an accusation to make. And I don't know anything about the nanny. All I know is she's a stand-up 1.00

00:22:04.160 woman who just needed a flight home. But for some reason, she went home with Trudeau and not the

00:22:10.140 family. She was there to nanny. Yeah, I have no idea about this. But that's probably the smallest

00:22:17.740 concern I have about Trudeau and how he's running his government. But in fairness, you know,

00:22:24.540 the reason why I think it's okay to talk about the separation, and we're not talking anything

00:22:32.520 salacious. It's when someone stands up and lectures, I feel lecture, I mean, liberals love to be lectured,

00:22:40.740 love to be told how poor they are. And that's why Trudeau does a great job. I don't like people telling

00:22:47.700 me that I'm not a good husband. I'm not a good man, because I'm not a feminist, or at least I'm not

00:22:55.020 declaring that I'm a feminist. So when Trudeau, you know, I mean, his very first statement in 2015,

00:23:03.860 when he talked about his equal cabinet of the females, he said, well, it's 2015. I mean,

00:23:12.340 why even talking about it? So I think he has made it a central platform of who he is. That is that he

00:23:19.660 cares so deeply about women. He cares so much about equality. It just behooves you to ask,

00:23:28.940 how did it fail in the most important relationship with a woman that is your marriage? So I think it's

00:23:37.120 fair to ask. If he never talked about himself as a person who's a feminist and connects with women,

00:23:43.640 then I would be raising it. It just has to do with the hypocrisy of Justin Trudeau and everything he 0.79

00:23:49.680 says. I mean, on Emancipation Day, he sat there with a bunch of black people around him, lecturing 0.98

00:23:58.020 Canadians about black hate and black racism. And he's the guy that wore blackface so many times 0.97

00:24:07.420 he couldn't remember. So he lectures people. So it's fair when he lectures me, it's fair to me to say,

00:24:15.500 yeah, but you did this. So I think it's fair.

00:24:19.660 You mentioned Emancipation Day a few years back on Martin Luther King Day, which is an unusual day for

00:24:26.160 the Canadian government to celebrate because Martin Luther King was American in every way.

00:24:31.460 Trudeau was attending an event in Ottawa, and it was a largely black affair, as you would imagine,

00:24:37.720 Martin Luther King Day. So who was the keynote presenter? Well, it was actually Sophie Trudeau,

00:24:43.560 who was singing a homemade song. And I've just got to play that. There's two ways to play that song.

00:24:50.020 One is just to play it in its original glory. And another is to play it with our friend,

00:24:55.620 Gavin McInnes, singing along and giving a commentary. And Manny, I've got to tell you,

00:25:01.540 this video is one of the funniest things Rebel News has ever produced. Let me, you just made me

00:25:06.640 think of it when you mentioned Emancipation Day. Here's Martin Luther King Day about seven or eight

00:25:11.720 years ago. And at a black civil rights event, the keynote speaker was Sophie Trudeau singing her song.

00:25:21.140 I'm maybe in a, I don't know, maybe in a bluesy style, or I don't know why she thought this was a fit,

00:25:29.020 but take a look. And, and our friend Gavin singing along. Here it is.

00:25:33.580 Some people die. Oh, yeah, yeah. Angels can fly. Yeah, yeah. And some people fight.

00:25:44.100 Look how white that audience is. Without knowing why. Oh, sing it, sister. Preach it. 0.94

00:25:51.460 Some people live. Without seeing the light. Oh my God. Look at them. What do you think,

00:25:59.000 brothers and sisters? There's some African back there. He's never even heard of Martin Luther King. 0.72

00:26:02.980 Look at the picture behind her. And I know that good will prevail.

00:26:07.560 Who's this lady? Good will prevail.

00:26:11.120 The love that I feel. When you smile back at me. When you smile back at me.

00:26:22.240 What is she, Eartha Kitt? 1.00

00:26:23.180 From the corner of your eye. Oh, it's a new song now.

00:26:26.020 The day that we will say goodbye. But nothing will take away what's between you and me.

00:26:33.180 Oh my God. Is that guy a sleeper blind?

00:26:35.600 When you smile back at me. When you smile back at me.

00:26:40.260 When you smile. When you smile. When you smile.

00:26:46.160 Beautiful. I love you, my child.

00:26:49.780 I love you, my child.

00:26:53.240 Ooh. Check this out.

00:26:56.500 Was she Eva Peron? Is this Evita?

00:26:58.880 Don't cry for me, Argentina.

00:27:02.580 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

00:27:04.400 Well, that was just incredible. And who knew she had so much talent.

00:27:09.380 Listen, we're poking some fan at her. But I think you nailed it when you said,

00:27:12.820 if a man praises himself as a feminist, if he holds out that aspect of his life as a role model for society

00:27:20.920 and at the same time condemns you as a misogynist, anti-woman, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic. 0.57

00:27:31.520 That's the thing about Trudeau. He didn't just praise himself as the ultimate modern man.

00:27:38.100 He condemned you. Bizarrely, he condemned the truckers as misogynist.

00:27:44.100 If you call everyone else misogynist, you better not be doing wrong to women in your own life. 0.96

00:27:50.440 If you call everyone else racist, you better not be the blackface guy yourself. 0.82

00:27:54.460 So that, I think, is why this is prior game to an extent. 0.52

00:27:59.460 Right. I mean, that's why we're talking about it. I wouldn't otherwise.

00:28:02.640 I mean, there are many politicians that don't go around and lecture and tell.

00:28:06.300 Like, you know, I've been married now 46 years.

00:28:10.080 When Trudeau speaks on how wonderful of a husband he is and how wonderful of a man he is

00:28:16.380 and how connected he is to women, of course I feel smaller.

00:28:19.760 I mean, that's the intent of the liberal ways. Make everyone feel smaller and that way you're appreciative of someone who's greater.

00:28:27.180 Well, I don't like that. I don't like to be told by a guy that has failed, you know, many, many times that he's a wonderful feminist.

00:28:38.060 And you know what? You're not. I'm a better person. I'm a better man.

00:28:42.140 Well, let's dig into it. Why did feminism fail? 1.00

00:28:45.880 Why is it that you as a feminist failed? What parts of it did you fail? 1.00

00:28:50.660 What did you not understand? And what is true feminism? 1.00

00:28:53.880 So it goes to the core of his political platform, which is, you know, you know, if you're citing a way about racism and racism and racism,

00:29:03.800 well, it's fair to ask, what have you done?

00:29:06.640 I remember seeing a picture of, you know, when I got married, I mean, obviously it was an Italian wedding and this is, but I had non-Italians, I had other ethnic groups as my, as ushers.

00:29:20.200 If you look at Trudeau's wedding picture, I mean, you couldn't get a whiter, richer, I think they're all in cabinet now, but it was a sliver of the economy of white privileged people. 0.51

00:29:32.220 So it's fair to ask, why did you have a man of color at your wedding? What is it?

00:29:37.480 Why are you, everyone that's close to you and very close to you, the whitest and the most privileged Canadians that there are? 0.99

00:29:43.800 I think it's a fair question.

00:29:45.160 Well, listen, we've been talking about his marital troubles and I think they're a fair game to an extent.

00:29:52.920 And I think he's made them a fair game to an extent.

00:29:55.520 And I think the, the regime media lecturing people, you may not talk about these personal matters is a bit rich considering how Trudeau talked about our personal matters,

00:30:07.060 including whether or not we were jabbed, whether or not we were vaccinated.

00:30:11.460 I'm not sure if I'm going to take lessons on privacy from the man who took away ours, but Manny, let's pivot for a second.

00:30:17.820 We've been talking for about a half an hour about Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau and Justin Trudeau.

00:30:22.400 Let's, let's move on to something perhaps most sub, more substantive.

00:30:26.220 And I've just noticed something in the last few months, the number of severely normal Canadians, young people, new Canadians, people who are clearly not political hacks,

00:30:37.980 just going on social media and saying, I can't recognize Canada anymore.

00:30:43.000 I can't make it here anymore.

00:30:44.960 I can't afford it here.

00:30:46.480 Like it, it's almost like there's this wave of young people saying, how can I live in Toronto or Vancouver or even Calgary?

00:30:56.620 How can I pay for life?

00:30:58.600 How can I handle crime?

00:31:00.080 I think it's a combination of inflation, housing prices, huge immigration numbers that are turning into homeless camps in different cities, crime. 0.77

00:31:09.420 I think suddenly things have turned really sour in terms of measurable quality of life issues.

00:31:18.700 So put aside sort of the gossipy personal stuff.

00:31:21.440 All of a sudden, times are not great in Canada.

00:31:25.360 I think most people would say we're heading in the wrong direction.

00:31:28.820 And that abacus poll says 81% of Canadians think we need a change.

00:31:33.600 Do you think that those people will actually vote for an alternative in the next election?

00:31:40.040 Or will they be scared back into voting for the safe liberal instead of the scary conservative?

00:31:47.220 Well, yeah, I think the media is going to do all its best.

00:31:50.480 And certainly CBC has to, because CBC is on the chopping block, do all its best to demonize Pierre Poliver.

00:31:58.280 He's going to be, I've seen it done with Stephen Harper.

00:32:04.120 I was there with Preston Manning.

00:32:06.500 So they'll demonize, they'll demonize Pierre Poliver, who is raised by two teachers, was an adopted child, married a refugee.

00:32:20.480 You couldn't get a better example of what a Canadian, centralist Canadian is.

00:32:27.940 But they'll demonize him.

00:32:29.880 They'll make him, I mean, they'll make him a terrible soul.

00:32:33.180 But I do agree with you, Ezra.

00:32:34.920 I did a post and I'll give you some stat and I'll send it to you.

00:32:39.440 But it is a comparison with Russia and Canada.

00:32:44.280 Now, just two comparisons.

00:32:46.420 But Russia is under severe economic sanctions because of its war in Ukraine.

00:32:51.980 Well, Russia's food inflation is about 1%.

00:32:58.160 Canada's food inflation is about 8.6% or 8.3%, I'm going.

00:33:04.980 Gasoline in Canada is $100.87 across the board per litre.

00:33:12.520 And in Russia, it's 60 cents.

00:33:15.060 The Canadians, Trudeau's policies, and here's this country that emits 1.4% of the world's CO2, India and China in the last 10 or 15 years have added 30 Canada's in emissions.

00:33:32.680 30 full Canada's in emissions and continue to add each day.

00:33:39.820 And here in Canada, we are taxing our Canadians and we're making it. 0.97

00:33:46.020 Now, a carbon tax, the sixth or seventh tax on gasoline, makes it harder to drive.

00:33:52.340 And most poor people need their cars, either delivery or what they do.

00:33:56.720 That's the job.

00:33:58.160 They have to get to somewhere.

00:34:00.660 Food inflation, think about it, Ezra.

00:34:03.660 The farmer has a carbon tax that needs.

00:34:06.220 His cost goes up.

00:34:07.760 His storage, whatever it's, grains or whatever, has to be heated or cows or whatever.

00:34:13.320 That goes up.

00:34:14.660 That transportation goes up.

00:34:16.440 And by the time he gets to the grocery store, the carbon tax kicks in there as well.

00:34:20.480 So food has become almost unaffordable.

00:34:24.700 Hydro, we were the cheapest in the world.

00:34:27.760 Abundant energy everywhere, either through hydro or through coal or through gas.

00:34:34.800 Canada, so hydro or heating ourselves has become unaffordable and driving has become unaffordable.

00:34:41.760 All because we have these virtue signaling taxes that absolutely do nothing in alleviating any concern about the global boiling.

00:34:56.600 And if it did do so.

00:34:57.680 Yeah.

00:34:57.820 Yeah, well, that's my favorite now.

00:34:59.620 But that's, I mean, you might as well, I don't know.

00:35:01.760 I think it's the next one.

00:35:03.120 I looked at the chart.

00:35:04.120 I think it's global murder now.

00:35:06.600 I don't know what the next one is.

00:35:07.860 But you sit there and say, even if it worked, do you not know that China is adding a whole Canada every year?

00:35:16.220 Now, I put it to people, like, if it's true and we're coming to the end of humanity, global boiling, do you think that China, India, and I don't know if you know of any Chinese or Indian scientists, but they're probably part of the world's best.

00:35:38.540 And they probably have 100 times more statistically than Canada due to population.

00:35:45.600 Do you think these experts are saying we are going to kill ourselves because we are adding a Canada every six months?

00:35:53.980 No.

00:35:54.820 So it's either, Ezra, either we are the global boiling is now the most racist tool that there is because we're ignoring experts from China.

00:36:05.800 We're ignoring experts from India, and I know some Chinese and Indian scientists who are the top, and they're not saying, hey, government, stop.

00:36:19.860 We're going to kill the planet.

00:36:21.220 They're saying, go, go, go. 0.95

00:36:23.500 So what is the global boiling, in my view, is the biggest racist adventure by the white privilege trying to keep the growing part of the world, the third world, the blacks and browns of the world, attaining a life that we have and enjoy. 0.51

00:36:42.860 And they're saying, no, thank you.

00:36:44.880 We'll not have any part of it.

00:36:46.520 Well, it's funny because you're right.

00:36:49.980 I mean, the Industrial Revolution, we had our Industrial Revolution in the UK and Western Europe and North America.

00:36:56.960 And if we had a policy to restrict food and energy in Asia and Africa, they would be stunted in their growth.

00:37:05.040 But I think what's happening is, as you mentioned, India and China, they are growing as they wish.

00:37:09.940 They're not binding themselves to these rules.

00:37:11.740 Only the luxurious, post-industrial, post-national West is committing actual economic suicide.

00:37:23.220 I tell you, it's depressing.

00:37:24.720 Go ahead.

00:37:25.440 Yeah, Ezra, in India right now, there are five times Canada's population that don't even have electricity.

00:37:36.940 Now, think about that.

00:37:39.080 Electricity, at its bare minimum, extends life by 10 to 20 years.

00:37:45.520 So Indians are dying much younger than Canadians because they don't have basic electricity.

00:37:53.280 Do you think that the Indian government is saying, whoa, let's let all these people die early so we don't have the earth boiling?

00:38:04.680 There isn't one expert in India saying, they're laughing at us.

00:38:10.440 And we in Canada are taxing.

00:38:13.160 I think we're at the seventh, eighth, ninth tax on gasoline.

00:38:17.100 And I always say, had they named the very first gasoline tax, a carbon tax, there would be no global boiling today.

00:38:25.700 But it's just, it is absurd.

00:38:28.400 We're putting Canadians into poverty that they want to leave. 0.77

00:38:31.560 My children want to leave this country.

00:38:33.880 We fought to get into Canada.

00:38:36.140 You have no idea when we landed on the shores of Canada, how my family, and I was a little bit a boy, how my brothers, we were so happy to come to Canada.

00:38:46.100 Nothing but prosperity.

00:38:47.800 And seeing your children want to leave is the greatest failure that there can be.

00:38:53.540 Wow.

00:38:53.660 Well, Manny, you're part of the fight back and so are we.

00:38:56.940 It's great to catch up with you again.

00:38:58.820 We started talking about Sophie Trudeau and we ended talking about trying to fix the country to stop good people from wanting to leave.

00:39:07.040 It's the fact that they want to leave that's so bloody sad.

00:39:10.800 Manny, great to see you again, my friend.

00:39:12.420 Great.

00:39:12.780 Thank you, Ezra.

00:39:13.620 Take care.

00:39:14.180 All right.

00:39:14.440 There you have it.

00:39:15.600 Well, that's our show for today.

00:39:16.900 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:39:24.240 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - August 16, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's hollow charade rolls on as nation looks for new direction

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