Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's in deep denial amid flailing Liberal support

00:00:00.000 Tonight, are there telltale signs that Justin Trudeau is way past his best before date?

00:00:05.960 Oh, you better believe it. I've made a list and there's no need to check it twice.

00:00:10.560 It's Monday, August 12th, 2024. I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levent Show.

00:00:20.640 Shame on you, you sensorism bug.

00:00:30.000 Maybe Justin Trudeau has the sort of thick skin that would make a rhinoceros envious or maybe he's deep in denial or maybe he subscribes to a scorched earth policy.

00:00:45.820 You know that he would prefer to go down in flames as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in the next federal election as opposed to simply being a spectator on the sidelines.

00:00:58.120 He's far too important for that, after all.

00:01:01.240 And besides, rumor has it that he's just taken shipment of some new whiz-bang rainbow-colored socks.

00:01:08.860 Sunnyways, my friends. Sunnyways.

00:01:12.380 Would you believe cloudy with a chance of rancid meatballs?

00:01:16.360 Anyway, clearly there's no indication from Trudeau that he's willing to be put out to political pasture, a la his American counterpart, sleepy Joe Biden.

00:01:27.960 And yet, deep down, Trudeau must realize that in the words of Colonel Troutman from the movie Rambo...

00:01:36.600 It's over, Johnny. It's over.

00:01:40.600 Yeah, it's over, Justin. It's over.

00:01:43.580 Indeed, the Liberal Party may as well rebrand itself as the Titanic because October 2025 is kind of looking like one whopper of an iceberg on the horizon.

00:01:56.400 Polls are going from bad to worse.

00:01:59.700 Just yesterday, a new Abacus poll shows the Conservatives now have a daunting 20-point lead over the Liberals.

00:02:07.540 Which is to say, if an election were held today, 43% of committed voters would vote for the Pierre-Paulievre Conservatives, while only 23% would vote for the Liberals.

00:02:21.100 Meanwhile, the NDP is languishing at just 18%.

00:02:25.740 How sad.

00:02:27.800 Wasn't the strategy of propping up the Liberals supposed to result in the NDP forming the next federal government?

00:02:35.520 Remember for Burnaby South.

00:02:37.780 When I'm Prime Minister, I will keep my promises.

00:02:44.520 Um, maybe he meant to say when he becomes leader of the official opposition?

00:02:50.380 You know, I've seen MPs heckled into silence in the House of Commons, but I can't remember a parliamentarian being reduced to stunned silence thanks to hundreds of MPs LOLing their asses off due to a statement that was so unintentionally funny.

00:03:09.620 But let's get real, the unspoken reason for the NDP-liberal unholy alliance was to ensure NDP leader Jagmeet Singh gets one more year in office under his Gucci-branded belt.

00:03:23.840 He wants to qualify for that lifetime pension, after all.

00:03:28.240 Hey, they don't call Jagmeet sellout Singh for nothing.

00:03:31.920 And you would think that the NDP would be outraged by this.

00:03:36.800 They used to stand up for the working men and women.

00:03:39.780 But nope, they've signed on.

00:03:42.780 Jagmeet Singh is delaying the election until next year when he qualifies for a pension.

00:03:48.340 $2.2 million paid for by these hardworking people.

00:03:53.600 Sellout Singh has betrayed these workers.

00:03:56.640 He gets his pension, Trudeau gets power, these workers get the bill.

00:04:03.300 Why do you continue to support Justin Trudeau when you know Canadians want him out?

00:04:12.640 But I digress, because aside from horrific polling numbers, I think there's another surefire indicator that the jig is up for Justin.

00:04:21.440 And that indicator is the reception the Prime Minister is receiving all across our Great Dominion when it comes to Trudeau trying to prop up fellow Liberal MPs on the fundraising dinner circuit.

00:04:36.460 Because the due rigueur occurrence at these fundraisers is demonstrators showing up to viciously heckle the Prime Minister.

00:04:46.320 The most recent occasion was in Brampton, Ontario on Saturday.

00:04:51.680 The Prime Minister is apparently done with his latest surfing safari in Tofino, B.C.

00:04:57.160 So he swung by this lovely fiefdom lorded over by sneaky Patrick Brown.

00:05:03.240 As per usual, Trudeau arrived in a motorcade consisting of several eight-cylinder fossil fuel burning extra-large SUVs.

00:05:11.600 Oh, I know, the PM says EVs are the way of the future, and he's backing that bet with billions of dollars in taxpayer handouts.

00:05:21.780 But pricey EVs, they're not for Justin or his security detail.

00:05:27.160 You see, Justin Trudeau wants you to save the planet by taking out a second mortgage in order to buy an electric vehicle.

00:05:34.140 You see, Justin Trudeau is just way too important to get stressed out over things like, oh, I don't know, range anxiety.

00:05:43.100 Anyway, the PM was in the People's Democratic Republic of Brampton to prop up the electoral fortunes of Brampton North MP Rudy Sahota.

00:05:52.940 Hard to imagine there were still some rubes out there who are willing to fork over $1,725 for a lunch with the PM, 1.00

00:06:03.520 given that many observers would argue that tab is overpriced by $1,724.99.

00:06:12.740 But again, I digress.

00:06:14.180 Because check out this footage of the merry members of the Welcome Wagon who greeted Trudeau on Saturday.

00:06:22.660 Ooh, it was ugly.

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00:06:49.180 Disgusting! 1.00

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00:06:53.180 ei jeff!

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00:07:01.580 You know, I wonder what Trudeau was thinking while, ensconced in his armor-plated Chevy Suburban along

00:07:07.160 with his Mounties packing heat? 0.76

00:07:08.720 Oh, by the way, that's another surefire sign of hypocrisy, isn't it? 0.85

00:07:12.400 isn't it? Trudeau has declared war on gun owners, not gangbangers, mind you, but law-abiding

00:07:18.800 sport shooters and hunters. Yet Trudeau doesn't even cross the street these days without being

00:07:24.740 accompanied by his Royal Canadian Mounted Pistol Packers. But I'm sure one of his thoughts last

00:07:31.700 Saturday afternoon, as he was called all sorts of nasty names, was this. What the hell do these

00:07:38.780 people want? I mean, Trudeau can't even make an order at the drive-thru without uttering, 0.95

00:07:45.600 diversity is our strength. And when it comes to the dozens of pro-Hamas demonstrators last Saturday,

00:07:51.500 it doesn't get more diverse than that, does it? We saw the flags of Palestine being waved. We even

00:07:58.840 spotted a toddler waving the flag of Pakistan. Hey, whether you're a Madison Avenue marketer or a

00:08:06.640 card-carrying Marxist, as the saying goes, get them young, get them forever. What you did not see

00:08:13.200 on display that day was a Canadian flag. Actually, that's not quite true. There was one lonely maple

00:08:19.520 leaf being waved, albeit it was mounted upside down, which is to indicate that the country is in distress.

00:08:26.480 You know, I can't argue that point with the members of the New Age Hitler Youth Movement, 0.89

00:08:32.060 but I will say that the country is not in distress due to what's going on in the Middle East, but rather

00:08:39.480 for factors that are way too numerous to list here. Speaking of foreign policy, the question arises

00:08:47.000 when it comes to the hobos for Hamas contingent, what exactly is their beef when it comes to the Justin Trudeau

00:08:55.060 liberals? No reasonable person would ever call this government pro-Israel. Case in point, Israeli-Canadian 1.00

00:09:04.240 Jewish MP Yara Hong Kong Sachs recently traveled to the Middle East earlier this year to shake hands with

00:09:12.460 pay-for-sleigh terrorist Mahmoud Abbas. Can you imagine? So what more do the pro-Hamas folk in Canada

00:09:21.700 want, pray tell? I mean, when you have a Jew in cabinet that is of the self-hating variety and who 1.00

00:09:29.060 lusts after photo ops with anti-Israel terrorists, what's not to love? Alas, attempts to seek answers 0.94

00:09:37.740 from this frothing mob prove to be an exercise in futility. Free, free Palestine! 0.92

00:09:44.180 Sir, can I ask you about the message on your mask? He's fire. Would that be on condition of Hamas 0.98

00:09:49.820 freeing the hostages? He's a racist. Don't talk to him. Yeah, don't talk to him. I'm racist? How am I racist? Sir, how am I racist? 0.99

00:09:57.180 What a sight. So the thing is, if Canada and the U.S. and Germany, if you guys stop going into the 0.61

00:10:10.500 people's country and invade them. They're going to take it out of context. They're a racist organization.

00:10:16.080 Ma'am, who are these people censoring you? If you guys stop sending weapons, people wouldn't come here.

00:10:22.980 This is a genocide! This is a genocide! October 7th, you mean?

00:10:29.660 Journalists. Don't talk to racist journalists. Why don't you talk before October 7th? It didn't

00:10:34.300 start on October 7th. Oh, when did it start? Go educate yourself! Educate yourself! Oh, please educate me!

00:10:44.800 Free Palestine. Oh, is that right? Free from what? Free from Israel. Okay, man. What do you think 0.84

00:10:51.400 about the idea of having a ceasefire in exchange for freeing the remaining hostages?

00:10:56.960 IDF is a terrorist state. Terrorist state. The IDF are terrorists? Yeah, absolutely.

00:11:03.400 What's your opinion of Hamas? 16,000. Pardon me? Sorry? They murdered 15,000 kids. 0.56

00:11:10.300 What? You mean the IDF was responsible for October 7th? No, I'm saying IDF is a terrorist state.

00:11:17.100 Okay, then. But wasn't it Hamas that attacked Israel on October 7th?

00:11:22.660 Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you asshole. 0.98

00:11:28.640 Good to pancho. Get out of my place. Get out of my place. Get out of my place. 1.00

00:11:35.000 Hey, wash your hands. Don't come near me. Don't come tendencies.

00:11:37.980 In a public place, ma'am. Please respect Canadian law.

00:11:41.660 Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. 1.00

00:11:46.760 Shame on you. What do they have to be ashamed for, ma'am?

00:11:49.440 Shame on me. Stop supporting genocide.

00:11:51.460 hey sir oh what's this about sir oh okay then um do you have anything in support of israel 0.94

00:12:04.860 uh i just have one that says this fck israel it doesn't say israel 0.75

00:12:11.260 well it's a now sir are you indeed a jew for a free palestine here's a peace uh muslim peace 0.94

00:12:19.420 pride for you you know what sir this is an interesting illustration it's the rainbow

00:12:24.320 colors how well are the lgbt people treated in gaza

00:12:29.100 you know that that's quite fascinating um i guess i shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth

00:12:39.080 um i don't think i'll be wearing this pin anytime soon as you can see it's the flag of palestine

00:12:45.520 and the pride colors of the peace symbol how much peace does the lgbt community receive

00:12:57.220 in a place like gaza do you recall several years ago i encountered a demonstrator at an al-quds rally

00:13:05.420 and i got him to weigh in on the issue of islam and being gay and wow it didn't live up to this

00:13:15.460 narrative check it out what would happen to a gay couple in gaza executed according to islamic law

00:13:21.520 islam doesn't endorse gayism islam doesn't endorse homosexuality okay so would you like to see sharia 0.96

00:13:27.560 law in canada replace canadian law at some point it will you know because we are we have families we

00:13:33.940 are making babies you're not your your your population is going down the slump right by 0.96

00:13:40.400 2016 muslims will be the biggest religious group the world over what are you going to do then 0.69

00:13:46.180 actually go post sharia is even then what's problematic as many of these people aren't

00:13:51.960 even canadian citizens

00:13:53.700 if you're going to report report correctly the governments are turning a blind eye to

00:13:59.420 genocide oh do you mean what happened on october 7th i'm talking about before october 7th for 76

00:14:04.300 years and what's happening now in gaza over a hundred people were massacred over a hundred

00:14:09.040 civilians were massacred yesterday this morning they woke up they sleep to massacres and they wake 0.98

00:14:14.680 up to massacres report the news correctly report the news correctly trudeau you're a coward blood is 0.99

00:14:23.320 on your hands he is not worth it do not talk to him what's your opinion of zionist ma'am 0.99

00:14:31.280 i don't talk to zionist you are brainwashed how much money does sorry i can't hear you with your 0.78

00:14:39.080 face diaper on ma'am oh with my face diaper on who funds you by the way why are you wearing a 0.55

00:14:43.480 disguise what would that be who funds you i work for rebel news ma'am who funds you who funds you

00:14:48.860 who funds you or do you actually work or are you on welfare who funds you you'll take money wherever

00:14:54.340 you can get we're crowdfunded who funds rebel crowdfunded who internationally in israel funds

00:15:01.260 rebel oh i wouldn't know that but i can tell you our average donation is 58 dollars who funds you

00:15:08.720 unengaged we do crowdfunding what do you think about hamas i think it's a terrorist organization

00:15:16.680 what's your opinion so if hamas called six kids idf called 16 000 kids if hamas took 250 hostages

00:15:28.180 idf took the 25 000 hostages so which one is more terrorist sir where are you getting these numbers

00:15:35.920 i can't see every day hundreds tens of and hundreds of photos and videos and we see

00:15:43.620 how it's going on right sir but what is the source of these numbers that you're quoting isn't it

00:15:49.740 hamas themselves can you tell me why you're demonstrating you know exactly why no i don't

00:15:55.800 please educate me how about you ma'am can you uh explain why you're demonstrating

00:16:01.920 that's not very ladylike

00:16:07.040 you you you are ladies right i didn't misgender you or anything like that did i 1.00

00:16:13.780 how many more palestinian children have to be massacred you're a liar you're fake news oh is that 1.00

00:16:21.240 right uh can you articulate sir why you're here today none of your damn business well it is a public 1.00

00:16:26.580 demonstration isn't it you don't need to know well you have the microphone you can put your own 1.00

00:16:31.920 words on camera talk to you well you approach me sir no you're a liar i know that i'm a liar 0.96

00:16:37.880 you didn't approach me i was just doing my stand up and you came to me stand somewhere else are you 0.99

00:16:43.200 the pharmacist sir that's not your damn business what makes me a racist ma'am walk away we don't 1.00

00:16:49.380 engage with race no please don't what can you give me an example of anything racist i've said 0.98

00:16:54.260 free the people free the land it's funny how you want it free the people free the land go back in 0.99

00:17:01.000 the rat hole that you came from go back in your rat hole i was born here ma'am but what does it 0.99

00:17:06.780 matter if i what i believe in i'm just trying to understand what point you're getting are you jews 0.99

00:17:11.540 i am not jewish no sir okay thank you so much okay i hope i answered would you talk to me if i said i

00:17:18.840 was jewish no i'm just asking you you ask me i ask you okay is that fair or not fair can i ask you or

00:17:26.240 not or you just you have to ask me sir no one cares about my opinion but here you are at a

00:17:32.000 pro-hammas rally with a palestinian flag i find you very must rally oh okay i support resistance

00:17:38.200 resistance is justified when the people are occupied right or not

00:17:42.480 well we're in a public place man

00:17:46.280 you know if you can't articulate your position i don't think you really have much of a position

00:17:53.400 once again folks as what often happens when we come to the pro-hammas people i end up interviewing

00:18:03.720 a sign sir why are you guys wearing disguises don't talk to him it looks like i've stumbled

00:18:11.060 across a mexican wrestling show or something don't talk to him don't talk to him don't talk to him

00:18:16.380 sir can you articulate why you're demonstrating against prime minister justin trudeau

00:18:26.040 turn around turn around stop looking at him and don't talk to him don't talk to him sir what do you

00:18:31.220 think of that cameraman's trans mask 0.97

00:18:33.900 oh we didn't like that question

00:18:38.560 interestingly the rank and file members of the fake stinians had vowed on social media they were 0.97

00:18:49.100 going to shut down the event and hey one never knows after all these hooligans successfully 0.98

00:18:56.240 forced the cancellation of a dinner trudeau wanted to host with his italian counterpart

00:19:01.840 giorgia malani at toronto's art gallery of ontario back in march but on saturday likely due to the huge

00:19:10.840 police presence it was all bark no bite as the assorted scholars confined their disruption of the event

00:19:18.660 to well calling for genocide against the jewish people that's despicable of course but after 10 0.99

00:19:26.380 months of this rubbish it's getting a little boring now wouldn't you say as for ruby sahoda the mp 0.99

00:19:33.460 trudeau was propping up it should be noted that she is all about accelerating the process of

00:19:41.760 international students receiving permanent residency and stopping any more deportations

00:19:49.500 indeed she is the liberal who last march introduced petition e 4454 in the house of commons

00:19:57.340 seeking to support this agenda on behalf of 24 349 signatories this petition addresses requests

00:20:07.700 an extension of the postgraduate work permit the rationale given is that public policies recently

00:20:16.220 have given 18 month extensions and based off of that this petitioner requests that the three-year

00:20:25.960 postgraduate work permit time be turned into five years and the one-year postgraduate work permit

00:20:33.940 time be extended to two years the reasoning for that is that many students find themselves uh that

00:20:41.920 it takes some time to find a job in their sector and making sure that they get the skills they need

00:20:47.320 we have shortages of workers little wonder that immigration lawyers and agents are big fans of

00:20:53.360 rudy sahoda check out this x posting by kanwar sierra directed to the liberal party of canada and prime

00:21:01.720 minister trudeau quote consider appointing ruby sahoda as the next minister of immigration refugees

00:21:09.280 and citizenship canada this would mark a historic moment as the first time someone from the indian

00:21:16.800 community holds this esteemed position additionally this move could rejuvenate the ontario liberal party

00:21:26.020 and strengthen ties with a growing and influential community in canada end quote staggering isn't it we are

00:21:35.740 already dealing with a record number of immigrants coming to canada there is already considerable strain 1.00

00:21:42.200 on housing and the health care system is completely overwhelmed and yet the likes of sahoda and

00:21:48.900 sierra want to further amp up the number of newcomers what madness is this why are they doing this oh i'm

00:21:58.100 sorry i almost forgot diversity is our strength i should note that i have no idea how well attended the

00:22:06.720 fundraiser was you see only state funded and state approved media such as the cbc were actually allowed

00:22:14.960 into the venue but judging from the parking lot it seemed that this event was far from a sellout

00:22:22.680 sad really oh and this hostile reception this isn't a one-off folks check out this footage from last month again

00:22:32.720 at a brampton event well folks uh given the gta is the gta in this day and age of post october 7th

00:22:41.960 it didn't take long for the pro hamas uh people to show up how do i know that they're pro hamas well

00:22:48.840 they are wearing the kafifa and four out of six of the uh gaggle are wearing masks so i wonder why that is

00:22:59.320 too i thought covid was in the rearview mirror i know the masking mandates uh were toast almost two and a half

00:23:08.040 years ago so uh maybe they are anticipating virus x so sir what brings you out to demonstrate in front

00:23:17.560 of the dreams convention center well what brings me out is that there's over 500 000 canadians living

00:23:23.960 with autism uh one in 36 are born every day um we have a we have a prime minister who just clearly

00:23:32.520 doesn't understand or want to help the families with autism that's what mr trudeau is about you

00:23:38.280 know he's just uh he's very cold he's very uh cold-hearted he doesn't care about uh canadians

00:23:44.760 and their actual needs uh you know like i said i mean you know to see on how families are struggling

00:23:51.400 with autism you know we have families that are remortgaging their houses they're getting second and

00:23:57.000 third jobs to pay for treatment uh dealing with all kinds of mental health issues but uh yeah he

00:24:03.560 just does not uh get what we've been wanting to ask for him we've been asking for help since uh 2000

00:24:10.040 when our own courts had said that autism treatment is medically necessary so folks it's kind of amusing

00:24:15.560 in a perverse way uh the dueling uh demonstrations here you've got the pro hamas hooligans chanting free

00:24:23.880 free palestine and you've got the freedom patriots here uh chanting free free canada i guess the

00:24:33.080 implication being that under the trudeau liberals canada isn't as free a dominion as it once was

00:24:40.440 hey ladies what brings you out to this just how come you don't have a canadian flag none of your

00:24:47.080 colleagues have a canadian flag either so as you can see folks there's no sense trying to get

00:24:53.480 comment uh from the pro hamas uh people but you know what it's very interesting um dueling demonstrations

00:25:04.120 i guess they're both united in their contempt for prime minister trudeau and the liberal party of canada

00:25:11.400 but there's very noticeable differences aren't there first and foremost you do not see a single

00:25:19.720 canadian flag uh with this group meanwhile it's a sea of maple leafs uh with the patriots the other

00:25:28.200 thing you'll notice is that when you see the when you look at the patriots here on this side of the

00:25:33.880 ledger um nobody is wearing a mask nobody is wearing a disguise and i would say maybe over 50 percent of the

00:25:42.440 people here are where are masked up so i don't know well folks i'm with derek noonan he is a fixture

00:25:51.080 whenever there's a trudeau event in fact if you see derek on a street corner you know the prime minister

00:25:57.400 isn't that far away and derek i'll tell you what's different about this little demonstration i see you've

00:26:03.160 got your uh usual uh patriots out here with their signage and their flags but a little further yonder

00:26:10.520 there's a gaggle of pro-hamas demonstrators yeah and my take on this derek is that from what i hear

00:26:19.720 from the jewish community they are just incensed with how the trudeau liberals have handled what's going

00:26:27.160 on in the middle east and clearly we have people on the pro-hamas side that are very angry too

00:26:33.480 i think it takes a special kind of dubious skill to well piss off both far ends of the political

00:26:42.280 spectrum what's your take well absolutely uh you used the world uh the word handled uh very loosely

00:26:49.560 in fact he didn't do anything with it the fact is he's gutless and he's not a leader and this is why we

00:26:53.880 have the chaos that we're having on the streets right now yes yeah absolutely now that was really

00:26:58.840 interesting wouldn't you say not only were the pro-hamas people in attendance but so too were the

00:27:05.080 patriots who comprised the freedom movement and what's really fascinating is that these two groups

00:27:12.440 have precious little in common except of course for their mutual contempt for justin trudeau

00:27:20.360 but as they say in the middle east the enemy of my enemy is my friend and you know come october 2025

00:27:30.680 it will be most fascinating indeed to find out at the ballot box how many canadians from coast to coast

00:27:39.720 to coast also subscribe to this idiom can't wait

00:27:50.360 you know folks i can recall a time when toronto's nickname was toronto the good the city was clean

00:28:01.320 it was safe traffic moved but today hogtown is in the midst of its worst crime wave ever homeless

00:28:10.360 encampments are everywhere the city has the worst traffic congestion in all of north america third worst

00:28:19.240 in the world it's unbelievable pro-hamas protesters shut down streets on a continual basis while

00:28:26.840 chanting for the genocide of the jewish people and the mayor's response well olivia chow likes to

00:28:33.640 bury her head in the sand while that is when she's not dressing up in costumes and shaking her booty 0.85

00:28:41.080 unbelievable and joining me now to discuss the rapid downward descent of people city

00:28:49.080 is sue ann levy of true north how you doing there sue ann i'm great thank you well thank you so much

00:28:56.760 for joining me you know sue ann i think we're both old enough to remember when peter ustinov way back in

00:29:02.920 1987 described toronto as new york as run by the swiss i would say sue ann those days are long gone

00:29:12.920 your thoughts it's a third world city now it's not run by this twist at all

00:29:20.520 it's you know the massive influx of immigrants mostly jew haters many jew haters i should say

00:29:27.640 um the i could see its downward descent way way back in 2017 and you can't blame olivia chow entirely 0.99

00:29:38.600 for this because it was really started under her predecessor john tory uh when they started allowing

00:29:45.160 safe ejection sites in the city and encampments illegal encampments and just didn't take care of the

00:29:51.960 infrastructure and i remember doing a story back in 2017 about seattle and that toronto wasn't far from

00:30:01.800 the demise of seattle which i think maybe is in a turnaround situation now but toronto has definitely

00:30:10.760 become another seattle you know you raise a good point uh sue ann we know where olivia chow's politics are 1.00

00:30:18.680 but she's only been the mayor for about one year uh meanwhile john tory he claims he's a conservative

00:30:25.880 you think he would bring common sense values to toronto but i don't know maybe he was too busy

00:30:32.920 chasing his mistress around the cottage uh when he was in office uh but you're right he supported

00:30:39.720 things like toronto being a sanctuary city toronto having safe injection sites and we know just last

00:30:46.360 summer uh a beautiful mother of two out in leslieville paid for her life simply walking by 1.00

00:30:53.880 the leslieville uh or the south riverdale community center uh when two gangbangers got into a gunfight in

00:31:01.080 broad daylight um why did john tory go down these horrible policy routes that we've seen uh take root

00:31:10.920 in places traditionally like seattle portland and san francisco well he governed from the left and he

00:31:18.440 let the left wing of council decide what policy should be put in place and he didn't have the intestinal

00:31:26.920 fortitude to stand up for many things that were right and i guess in his mind he thought that's how

00:31:34.120 he's going to win on certain policies but he didn't really win on anything he just uh sort of cascaded

00:31:43.000 toronto into this huge descent uh by going along with all these crazy policies and the i mean when he

00:31:51.640 was mayor i can't even remember everything that i wrote about that was just crazy like the drug and

00:31:58.200 safe injection sites which they brought into play during his time uh illegal encampments which were

00:32:05.560 uh cleared out post pandemic but then came back and i mean i think he was he felt he was very much

00:32:13.880 beholden to special interests and you cannot be beholden to special interests in this city because

00:32:20.760 they just take over and they just want more more and more now olivia chow came in and i knew she was 1.00

00:32:28.280 going to be a train wreck i absolutely knew it um but i i guess she had enough of progressives and i hate

00:32:36.760 that word because they're not really progressive uh but she had enough progressives uh backing her along

00:32:43.800 with progress toronto and you know i predicted that she would just continue the descent into this 0.82

00:32:52.920 absolute um i can't say it on air i guess s-h-i-t hole um that toronto has become i mean at layer on top

00:33:01.480 of that uh the 10 months going on 11 month conflict uh israeli uh palestini uh israeli hamas conflict

00:33:11.480 and you've got all these would-be hamas nicks uh would-be terrorists uh taking over the streets 0.52

00:33:18.440 of toronto and as i've learned many many years ago covering anti-semitism if you give them an inch

00:33:24.120 they will take a mile and it just gets worse and worse and it has gotten worse and you know i want

00:33:29.160 to do uh delve into that what's happening on the streets of my beloved hometown uh suen and uh it's

00:33:36.520 heartbreaking and sometimes i look at the the mobs and what they're saying and what they're doing

00:33:43.640 and i can't even believe sometimes i'm in the dominion of canada but you know you touched upon

00:33:49.560 special interest groups calling the shots and you know with all the problems facing toronto that i went

00:33:57.560 through in the preamble you would think that the most pressing issue according to olivia chow and the

00:34:05.960 lefties on council is renaming young dundas square sankofa square you know suen nobody wants 0.97

00:34:15.000 this the vast majority of torontonians do not want this we're supposed to be broke that's the city that

00:34:21.480 is yet this rebranding exercise just for the square alone it's going to be in the millions of dollars

00:34:26.520 and the streets and whatnot and yet um if you have an issue with that you're a racist but let make no

00:34:36.040 mistake the dundas part which is problematic for the people pushing the rebranding uh that refers to

00:34:42.920 henry dundas he was an abolitionist it seems that his uh his sin suen was that he wasn't fast enough in

00:34:51.640 being an abolitionist what do you make of this fiasco going on right now well in sankova square

00:34:58.120 the it was named after this tribe that are a group of people who were slave traders so it makes 0.98

00:35:05.320 no sense absolutely no sense i mean between sankova square and the deluge of bike lanes across the city

00:35:12.920 and of course if you elect a bike biking mayor although i would venture to say she doesn't do much 0.96

00:35:18.600 biking these days because he he's discovered the luxury of travel by you know probably electric

00:35:25.080 vehicle or you know hybrid vehicle with a driver uh so why bike anywhere with your flowered bike

00:35:32.680 but uh you know the deluge of bike lanes and i can talk about my own community they're putting bike lanes

00:35:38.760 on eglinton um and nobody's going to use them except food delivery people i've used the ones on young

00:35:46.600 street all i see when i use the ones on young street are food delivery uh carriers various food

00:35:54.120 delivery services they come by me and i don't see the average commuter using them you know suen it is

00:36:03.400 insane i think and by the way i think there was more than 120 kilometers of new bike lanes put in

00:36:10.680 under the leadership so-called of john tory and i want to tell you i mean i'm not anti-bike biking is

00:36:18.280 my number one form of exercise i like to say right now i'm fat without my cycling i'm circus fat but i've

00:36:26.360 always cycled in traffic and uh with very few exceptions never had a problem but we have a city that is

00:36:34.920 growing and growing and growing every year in population and the infrastructure is not stagnant

00:36:41.000 it is shrinking we're taking lanes of traffic out that would accommodate motor vehicles for bikes and

00:36:47.720 i think used to do stories back in your toronto sundays they would do the uh the city would do a

00:36:52.840 census of how many people are using the bike lanes and i recall correct me if i'm wrong suen the census

00:36:58.600 would take part between april and october so in other words they would avoid half the year that is

00:37:04.600 bad weather when nobody virtually nobody is using these lanes if i had my way uh suen if i was mayor

00:37:12.360 i'd rip out every one of these bike lanes tomorrow what say you well you know in fact you i mean i i

00:37:20.120 pleaded and cajoled and did get numbers for the winter um from bloor and danforth area and i think it

00:37:26.840 was some ludicrous figure like 660 people over the entire winter but it was crazy and you know they're

00:37:35.320 always the first to get the snow shoveling i don't know who the heck uses them if they're not being used

00:37:41.240 in the summer who's using them in the winter but this is the ideology of these special interests they

00:37:47.720 have a very loud voice at city hall they always have and yes i see i use some of these bike lanes

00:37:55.320 but i would be very judicious about where i put them and i certainly wouldn't be putting them on

00:37:59.880 university avenue and i wouldn't be putting them on eglinton when we have a very nice um

00:38:06.760 bike lane trail uh just south of eglinton called the belt line and you can get from point a to point b

00:38:15.320 very easily but like i said it's like the protesters uh you give an inch and they want more and they want

00:38:23.320 more and they want more and they keep talking about people uh getting hurt and cyclists getting hurt

00:38:29.880 well i'll tell you some of those cyclists who ride in the lanes like i'm moseying along and my electric

00:38:36.440 bike and they'll come up from behind me won't even give me any warning they breeze by me they think

00:38:42.600 they're on the you know they're on the tour de france i don't know what but and also the food

00:38:49.160 delivery people often have uh motorized bikes which shouldn't be allowed and then scooters i mean it's

00:38:59.640 like a nightmare out there it's a nightmare for drivers because i also drive i try not to drive

00:39:04.760 downtown but what a mess uh between tori and chow what a mess they've made of this city and you know 0.99

00:39:12.040 swan i'm so happy you you mentioned university avenue i think that's the most egregious place

00:39:16.840 in the city they place these bike lanes for those who aren't familiar with chowano university avenue

00:39:21.640 is hospital row there's so many major hospitals and it was always argued we can't put the bike lanes

00:39:27.880 there because we need to have university moving for emergency vehicles fire trucks ambulances and so

00:39:35.320 on and suddenly during covid uh those bike lanes were snuck in and they're not going anywhere and as

00:39:41.400 a result university is to use your words uh suen a shite show uh in terms of uh traffic moving when

00:39:49.320 once upon time it was a major artery but you know the other thing we alluded to earlier what we see on 0.98

00:39:55.240 the streets of toronto virtually every weekend suen we have mobs of people who are chanting genocide

00:40:02.760 against the jewish people they are vandalizing jewish owned businesses arson attacks they're shooting

00:40:10.840 up jewish schools um people have been violently assaulted and what do i observe well i can tell

00:40:18.920 you i have some skin in the game i've seen peaceful counter demonstrators being arrested i have been

00:40:24.920 arrested twice by the toronto police once for obstructing police once for trespass literally covering a

00:40:31.720 demonstration on nathan phillips square in effect the town square um what is what are your thoughts

00:40:38.680 here suen what is going on i don't think the individual cops are making this call i think there is some

00:40:45.320 politicization of the police i don't know if it's olivia chow we know several months ago prime minister

00:40:51.720 trudeau met with toronto police chief myron demkew why the the the prime minister demkew does not take his

00:40:59.560 orders from the prime minister so what is going on that they're turning a blind eye to both hate crime

00:41:06.600 and real crime by the pro-hamas people and meanwhile throwing the book at law-abiding citizens well that

00:41:14.200 is out of control dave and i i have to admire you you're like you know one of those bobbleheads that go

00:41:20.040 up and down and you know you fall over and you you know you're right back up i i'm very very i respect

00:41:27.240 you tremendously for i mean you've been through a lot uh i think there's been tremendous political

00:41:33.720 pressure i mean i was at city hall long enough to know that mayors are not supposed to be involved

00:41:39.880 with the police force but they very much are and they take their cues from whatever mayor is in office

00:41:45.960 i mean john torrey even sat on the police services board you couldn't get any closer than that

00:41:50.280 uh olivia chow has been known not to like police not to be a fan of police you know way back going to

00:41:58.040 2000 when she interrupted the police when they were trying to police a protest a very violent one at

00:42:04.280 at queen's park by ocap um so i think they've gotten the message that they're to stand down

00:42:10.440 uh to just keep the peace but you know they haven't kept the peace i know i know that uh

00:42:20.680 they probably many of them are very frustrated by what's going on but i mean we've seen scenes over

00:42:27.400 the course of the winter where they delivered coffee to the protesters on avenue road we've and then the

00:42:33.800 latest which makes me absolutely insane is i guess the pro-palestinian people bending down on a major

00:42:41.480 artery and praying and blocking traffic now i'm about to do a story on the fact that the police

00:42:47.480 spokesperson said they have a right to do that no they don't so obviously these police spokespersons

00:42:53.880 don't even know a municipal law because no they're not it's illegal to bend down and block a roadway a

00:43:01.640 major roadway without a permit and they certainly didn't have a permit to do what they did these

00:43:07.720 are what i call pop-up prayer sessions and pop-up protests i'm so disillusioned with uh the alleged

00:43:17.960 leadership i'm disillusioned with mayor chow of course uh she parties every weekend in various costumes has 0.98

00:43:25.400 no control over the city and the police chief he's a wimp myron demkow is a wimp okay i've said it yeah 0.54

00:43:34.280 you know what i'll go further i i think myron demkow might be the worst police chief in the history of 0.69

00:43:40.200 toronto and given that bill blair was once the chief that's saying something but you know that's not saying

00:43:46.200 much but you know to that point you made about um the pro-hamas people on the streets of young and

00:43:53.400 dundas shutting down traffic cops are going they've got every right to do so and i remember less than

00:43:58.440 10 years ago there was a christian group that was fighting to be allowed to sing hymns on young

00:44:05.560 dundas square do you remember that uh suen and that was blocking nobody no pedestrians no traffic and

00:44:12.520 they were going through some incredible uh battle for ideological reasons but we could go on so when we've

00:44:19.160 outlined all the problems i think the big question is how do we fix this how do we make toronto great

00:44:29.160 again well unless there's recall legislation to get rid of uh fluteless america olivia chow and her 1.00

00:44:37.320 costumes i think we're stuck with her i think part of the problem is the media like we're sitting here

00:44:43.720 we're talking about it every other legacy media as they do with many liberal and socialist politicians

00:44:51.880 give her a free pass they don't question her they don't ask hard questions how many of them criticize

00:44:57.800 sankova square how many of them talk about what's happening to the streets of toronto like are they

00:45:03.720 blind they not see what's going on how many of them ignore the fact that uh homeless have taken over

00:45:11.160 many of our parks and i've been to a couple of them um and shelters are being rammed into

00:45:18.360 neighborhoods without people even being advised beforehand i mean it it's it's mayhem it's 0.93

00:45:25.640 absolute mayhem and and it's not being reported uh so these politicians think they can get away with

00:45:32.760 it they think uh and the police think they can get away with it and what do we do well the average person

00:45:39.560 has to keep applying pressure i think that's all we can do because we can't rely on the media doesn't

00:45:45.640 that sound like a story south of the border now it sure does i'm having deja vu soon and you know i

00:45:53.320 guess well we have to look i guess the big date in terms of toronto municipal politics would be 2026

00:45:59.480 that's the next election and you know i thought it was a bit of a tragedy what happened in the last

00:46:04.280 election uh the snap election in which we had over a hundred candidates run but when it came to the

00:46:10.040 serious candidates um your former colleague at the toronto sun anthony fury i thought he was saying

00:46:16.440 all the right things it was such great common sense and i personally think for those on the right or the

00:46:23.160 center uh anthony fury and uh mark saunders pretty much split the vote if one of them had uh bowed out

00:46:31.160 uh my preference would be for mark to have bowed out uh i think we would have had a uh a different

00:46:38.040 kettle of fish um but you know what sue ann uh if i'm to ask you to crystal ball gaze who do you think 1.00

00:46:44.680 has the best shot at becoming the mayor of toronto uh in the years to come and even with strong mayor

00:46:52.680 powers is that enough to right this sinking ship in the first place well i i know i've covered

00:47:00.680 election after election after election so you've got to get a council in there at least half of the

00:47:05.320 council who's got some common sense who uh you know votes with their heads not even i mean i don't even

00:47:13.640 think i was going to say heart but it's not even heart with you know the nonsense with their ideology

00:47:19.800 um so uh power i guess constituent groups have to be a little stronger look what happened in saint paul's

00:47:28.600 my own writing how john stewart uh beat out the liberal and i think it can be done but um people

00:47:38.520 have to be more aware of the issues they have to be angry enough to uh vote out uh the socialists

00:47:45.880 in council and not vote based on name recognition so there's so many things that happen repeatedly and

00:47:53.480 it's really disillusioning to see i um i think that if some strong constituent groups hold coalesced

00:48:03.480 and put forward a real good slate of candidates there might be a hope for this city you know what

00:48:09.720 swan we're gonna have to leave it there but i think you're right hope abounds doesn't it uh you know

00:48:15.800 toronto saint paul's uh liberal since 1993 considered a stronghold and uh wow what an upset that was a

00:48:24.680 couple of months ago uh when uh the uh liberal uh candidate uh lost so if she can lose in toronto

00:48:32.200 saint paul's maybe uh there can be regime change and maybe swan it's just a matter of as the misery

00:48:38.840 continues the crime the congestion the tent cities even the city itself you know swan it looks filthy 0.94

00:48:48.120 to me it looks like the whole city needs to be sandblasted dave i'm going to give you a very quick

00:48:54.680 anecdote my street is just near where they're putting in the bike lanes on eglinton so uh two uh

00:49:02.840 uh front end loaders are sitting parked at the top of the street blocking entry egress and entry to

00:49:10.520 the street and there's a big pile of of pebbles on the street and no one can park in those spots or

00:49:19.000 i mean it's hard to even access the street no one is working no one has been seen all of today 0.98

00:49:27.160 i called city hall i called 311 i was passed from department department they just don't give a crap 0.92

00:49:34.280 at city hall someone really needs to go and shake it up you know suanne i don't have to fact check 1.00

00:49:39.400 that anecdote just last week i was on on uh o'connor in the east end of the city uh that street is being

00:49:46.200 dug up completely and i i wish i wasn't driving i wish i could get a picture of this there was about

00:49:51.800 12 workers and every single one hand up to god they were on their phones text messaging nobody was

00:50:01.000 working and it wasn't even five o'clock yet so suanne these guys didn't even show today

00:50:11.160 unbelievable listen suanne you are doing fantastic work at true north i was always a big fan

00:50:17.480 of your tenacious reporting uh out of city hall when you were with the toronto sun thank you so

00:50:22.600 much uh for joining me and uh please enjoy what's left of summer if you're able to in this city thank

00:50:29.240 thank you well folks tons and i mean tons of response to my report last week about a toronto senior

00:50:48.920 citizen who was debanked by scotia bank her crime she merely suggested that seniors should be 0.99

00:50:58.920 added to the diversity equity and inclusion policy and that didn't go over with the he him manager

00:51:06.760 at the west end toronto bank and she was fired as a customer at least we think that's the reason

00:51:13.160 the bank or even the bank's uh public relations staff won't give the real reason just that she violated

00:51:22.040 terms of an agreement you know that multi-page document that nobody reads but in any event

00:51:28.760 a lot of you had plenty to say on this disturbing issue rotty x writes i was a scotia bank employee for

00:51:37.640 42 years this is absolutely disgraceful to treat any customer in this manner whoever made this boneheaded

00:51:46.440 decision should be de-employed you know i couldn't agree with you more and it's not a one-off my friend

00:51:54.360 i reported a while back that a fellow in grand prairie alberta he was also debanked by scotia bank

00:52:03.160 what was his sin he was merely inquiring when the rainbow icon scotia bank logo will be removed from

00:52:11.560 his phone and replaced with the normal one well evidently that was anti-woke rhetoric and

00:52:19.400 off with his head in a banking sense as well unbelievable yankee jade writes this lady isn't 1.00

00:52:27.720 racist against the gay community she just asked if they could add the senior citizens to the same list

00:52:34.440 how is that a verbal crime indeed how is that a crime it's diversity equity and inclusion and scotia

00:52:44.520 bank is fulfilling inclusion by excluding somebody who had a harmless suggestion give me a break

00:52:54.920 captain of the heart writes she has two strikes against her she's female and a senior that demographic 0.98

00:53:03.640 is being erased thank you david we know something i would argue this undeniably there are a lot of

00:53:09.880 seniors in our country unfortunately that are on hard times but by the same token there are a lot of

00:53:16.440 seniors who are very well off indeed and you know what when you have excess money as a financial institution

00:53:27.160 aren't those the type of people you want as oh i don't know customers absolutely baffling anyways that

00:53:36.120 wraps up tonight's edition of the ezreal event show the big boss man himself ezra he'll be back again

00:53:42.120 tomorrow in the meantime folks as always stay safe and stay sane

Rebel News Podcast - August 12, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's in deep denial amid flailing Liberal support

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