Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ UK riots are what happens when immigration debate is driven out of conversation

00:00:00.000 I want to take you through an opinion poll in the United Kingdom that shows how many people support the anti-immigration riots.

00:00:08.680 It's probably a little bit bigger than you think.

00:00:11.180 And I'm going to make the case that if we don't allow anti-immigration parties some success in our political system,

00:00:18.720 if we drive them out and cancel them, don't be surprised if that riot number goes up.

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00:00:45.520 Here's today's podcast.

00:00:50.880 Tonight, what happens if you drive anti-immigration viewpoints out of the mainstream conversation?

00:00:56.800 I'll give you a hint from the United Kingdom.

00:00:58.680 It's August 22nd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show. 0.53

00:01:04.620 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:07.880 We have more work to do on the mass immigration story here in Canada.

00:01:20.980 We've covered it pretty well.

00:01:22.200 We've probably been to Roxham Road a dozen times, just as one example.

00:01:26.820 I have a special reporting project that I'll tell you about another time, but I believe that looking at how mass immigration is handled and mishandled in other countries gives us a sense of how things could go here.

00:01:40.040 They're like laboratory experiments that we could learn from.

00:01:42.500 For example, I don't know if you recall, but I was in Hungary about a year ago.

00:01:46.280 I visited the great Jewish synagogue in Budapest.

00:01:50.540 No security guards.

00:01:51.700 I don't even think the front door was locked.

00:01:53.720 No anti-Semitic graffiti anywhere in town.

00:01:56.340 No arson.

00:01:57.860 A lot safer than Toronto.

00:01:59.080 I spoke to some of the Jewish kids I saw near the synagogue.

00:02:03.040 They said, it's easy being Jewish in Hungary.

00:02:05.840 That was the words they used.

00:02:07.700 And indeed, the World Jewish Congress said that Budapest is the safest city in Europe for Jews, along with Rome.

00:02:15.860 And my friends, there is an obvious reason why.

00:02:18.100 Because there is no third world immigration to Hungary.

00:02:22.280 There is no immigration from anti-Semitic countries.

00:02:26.400 Ethnic Hungarians are not anti-Semitic.

00:02:29.320 Just like old stock Canadians are not anti-Semitic, and neither are the British.

00:02:34.240 Sure, there are some woke white leftists in universities and unions. 0.57

00:02:38.160 But in the main, it's Islamist immigrants.

00:02:42.460 I'm sorry, that's just a fact.

00:02:44.600 For the rest of my life, I'll never forget what this Algerian man told me in Marseille, France.

00:02:50.500 He said to me, France colonized Algeria, and now Algerians are coming to colonize France. 0.82

00:02:59.420 Remember this?

00:03:00.340 Why millions of Muslims immigrate to France if France is racist?

00:03:08.800 Well, they colonized us for 132 years, and now it's our turn to come here to come here to... 0.95

00:03:15.500 How do you explain it?

00:03:17.140 I can't find the words.

00:03:21.140 They colonized us for 132 years, and now we're going to colonize them to life, to death, to the end of time. 0.98

00:03:26.820 Wow.

00:03:29.540 In the United Kingdom, they're about five years further down the mass immigration road than we are here in Canada.

00:03:35.100 But Trudeau's trying to catch up.

00:03:36.400 As I've reported to you before, in their last election, July 4th,

00:03:41.000 five seats in their election went to Islamist candidates, not to Labour, not to Tories.

00:03:47.320 Four out of the five were Muslim extremists themselves.

00:03:50.600 One was Jeremy Corbyn, who had been kicked out of the Labour Party for being too anti-Semitic.

00:03:54.960 Seriously, this is what campaigning in the United Kingdom looked like

00:03:59.640 in those districts that had about 40% or so of the voters from Pakistan and other Muslim places, like this guy.

00:04:07.520 Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan! Pakistan!

00:04:22.080 Well, things popped off a few weeks ago in the UK after a mass stabbing incident killed three girls and a few other provocations and counter provocations.

00:04:34.760 It ended in riots, including a hotel that had been turned into a refugee camp being set on fire.

00:04:52.080 Hi, guys. Why are you here today?

00:05:00.540 We're here to defend this hotel from the fascist mob that you can see over there.

00:05:04.800 OK, so over the last few days, I've been speaking to people within the community.

00:05:08.740 They have concerns because some of the men have been following children as young as 12 years old and women.

00:05:16.980 Well, they're concerned for their safety.

00:05:19.560 Are they?

00:05:20.240 Right.

00:05:20.640 Do you think they're lying?

00:05:22.080 Yeah. Yeah, I do.

00:05:23.640 Why would children?

00:05:26.320 Well, why not?

00:05:27.280 Well, because I can just tell from your approach that you're one of them.

00:05:31.320 Well, I'm actually a reporter and I'm going to be speaking to both sides.

00:05:35.140 Well, if you're here to get your side across, you know, now's the perfect time.

00:05:39.360 Well, you can see why we're here.

00:05:41.100 Don't talk.

00:05:42.020 I know, I know. I've worked it out.

00:05:45.100 I've worked it out. I could tell from the way that she spoke that...

00:05:47.840 Well, I'm speaking because children and women are concerned, which you seem to be completely ignoring.

00:05:53.400 There's children and women that are concerned for their safety and you don't seem to be interested in that.

00:06:02.140 Oh, they're asking.

00:06:03.580 That's not your agenda.

00:06:04.220 Oh, is it not?

00:06:05.140 Okay, then.

00:06:05.660 That's Sammy Woodhouse reporting.

00:06:10.840 She works for Tommy Robinson's Urban Scoop outlet.

00:06:14.220 I hope to interview Sammy at length next week.

00:06:16.760 By the way, she's not just a reporter.

00:06:18.520 However, she's a survivor of Pakistani rape gangs herself.

00:06:22.740 An incredible and shocking story.

00:06:24.520 I'm against riots, in case you're wondering.

00:06:26.760 I'm against arson and stabbing, in case you're wondering.

00:06:30.420 Because although I think our democracy is failing, I still believe in it more than I believe in the alternative.

00:06:34.400 I am losing faith in our courts too, but I still believe in them enough to go to them to seek justice.

00:06:39.820 And a few times we've actually succeeded, such as when we fought back against Trudeau's debates commission censoring us

00:06:45.160 or cabinet ministers censoring us on Twitter.

00:06:47.460 But let me say a word about how the left fights the right in 2024.

00:06:52.100 It fights not so much by arguing, but by silencing and canceling.

00:06:57.320 I mentioned Sammy Woodhouse, the victim of rape gangs, now a citizen journalist.

00:07:02.140 And the Times of London, perhaps the most prestigious newspaper in the world, dating back to the 1780s,

00:07:08.900 for whom the typeface Times was created on your word processor.

00:07:12.800 The Times did a smear, a hit job on Sammy Woodhouse.

00:07:16.640 The rape victim.

00:07:18.900 Because she recently met with a labor cabinet minister to talk about rapes against young girls.

00:07:23.540 If I recall, the meeting was about taxi drivers.

00:07:26.660 But the details aren't important.

00:07:28.940 What's important is that a victim of horrific crimes met with a cabinet minister to talk about how to stop more horrific crimes.

00:07:37.300 By the way, she had met with the previous government's cabinet ministers as well.

00:07:41.620 And the Times of London's clear ambition in their article, from the headline on through, was to demonize Sammy, the victim.

00:07:50.980 But more importantly, to deplatform her, to cut her off, to make her toxic in the eyes of the government, 0.99

00:07:56.160 to punish that labor cabinet minister for meeting with her, and to try to get Sammy canceled.

00:08:00.360 Is it because her attackers were immigrants that they are set against her?

00:08:05.760 Is it because she works with Tommy Robinson now?

00:08:07.760 Is it because she contradicts the regime's narrative?

00:08:10.200 Probably all of those things.

00:08:11.460 But do you see what they're doing?

00:08:12.960 Sammy Woodhouse is a marginalized person, a victim of a horrific crime, a working class woman from a poor part of the country. 0.99

00:08:20.180 But look what she's daring to do. 0.90

00:08:21.540 Be a journalist.

00:08:22.300 Like the fancy people from Oxford.

00:08:25.640 She met a cabinet minister.

00:08:27.700 Like the fancy people from Cambridge.

00:08:29.320 Whatever.

00:08:30.160 Who does she think she is? 1.00

00:08:31.800 Drive her out. 0.91

00:08:32.800 Cancel her. 1.00

00:08:33.620 She's N-O-K-D. 1.00

00:08:35.720 Not our kind, dear.

00:08:38.600 That's cancel culture in a deeper sense than just banning the woman from Twitter, isn't it? 0.99

00:08:42.800 But here's my larger point.

00:08:44.040 It's about Sammy Woodhouse and Tommy Robinson.

00:08:46.060 And it's about, in the UK, Nigel Farage and GB News.

00:08:49.800 It's about things in Canada, too.

00:08:52.440 It's about rebel news.

00:08:53.700 It's about past attempts to marginalize the Reform Party as some sort of far-right institution.

00:08:59.660 What it really is is an attempt to drive people who have contrary views or even just grievances to drive them out of the political establishment and the entire system to make them pariahs, to send them into exile, to keep all the political institutions just for one group and no one else.

00:09:15.880 Even though our system and its brilliance contemplates an official role for someone called His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, where we take someone whose job is to be the leading dissident, the leading contrarian, and give him a job and resources and staff and protection.

00:09:33.740 We give him something called question period or question time, as it's called in the UK.

00:09:38.200 We institutionalize opposition.

00:09:40.980 So we don't drive out opponents and dissidents.

00:09:44.020 We embed it in our system.

00:09:45.560 You can see that in our legal system, too.

00:09:47.120 We have a prosecutor.

00:09:48.280 Yeah, but we also have a defense attorney. 0.98

00:09:50.380 We have two sides to every story, sometimes more than two sides.

00:09:53.480 My point is cancel culture is trying to remove the minority from the system. 1.00

00:09:59.300 By that, I mean political minorities, although people who disagree with mass immigration are not a minority in any Western country.

00:10:05.180 That's what's even more perverse about it.

00:10:06.620 You can call anti-immigration people extremists if you like, but in fact, those who call for open borders are the extremists, the French. 0.99

00:10:13.960 Do you see my point?

00:10:14.940 Our system says don't throw out the opponents.

00:10:18.420 Don't throw out the dissidents.

00:10:19.740 In fact, put them in parliament.

00:10:20.840 Call them the opposition leader.

00:10:21.900 But look at how gleefully the British police are arresting not just rioters.

00:10:27.580 I support arresting rioters.

00:10:29.500 But they're arresting people who tweet about riots.

00:10:32.920 There was a guy who was jailed for gesticulating at a cop.

00:10:36.400 How's that a crime?

00:10:38.220 More than a year in jail.

00:10:39.300 There was a guy who was jailed for saying mean things to a police dog.

00:10:43.540 Did the police dog get offended?

00:10:45.700 There was a guy who was jailed for saying that the riot police cracking down on indigenous British are no longer British themselves.

00:10:52.580 I'm not saying any of those things are polite.

00:10:54.780 I'm saying they've got more jail time than some actual rapists have.

00:10:58.420 And the reason that prosecutions are such a spectacle is that the establishment is trying to scare ordinary Brits into shutting up.

00:11:06.880 They're trying to cancel about 80% of indigenous Brits who are skeptical of mass immigration.

00:11:12.240 By the way, where is the opposition leader speaking of?

00:11:16.920 In the UK, his name is Rishi Sunak.

00:11:18.840 He's the former prime minister.

00:11:20.320 By the way, he completely supports open borders.

00:11:22.720 He expanded immigration.

00:11:24.320 Of course, he's not opposing anything.

00:11:26.700 Just like in Canada, the conservatives have really never said a word against mass immigration for 15 years.

00:11:31.580 They're afraid.

00:11:32.280 It reminds me of the leaders' debates in Canada in 2021 when all five of the debate leaders agreed with everything the others did.

00:11:41.080 And they kept out the one dissident, Maxime Bernay, just to be safe.

00:11:44.960 Remember this?

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00:12:00.400 It's how we get forward together.

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00:12:05.900 Vaccines are the best way for you to protect yourself, your family and your community. 0.77

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00:12:32.940 We're all in agreement this is not a partisan issue, so please get vaccinated.

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00:12:43.700 And it's time for everyone to do it.

00:12:45.960 Get the shot. 0.99

00:12:47.240 Get the shot. 0.99

00:12:49.700 Yeah, total unanimity amongst the ruling class. 0.97

00:12:53.220 No citizens allowed.

00:12:55.160 Not very democratic.

00:12:56.460 But let me show you what that does.

00:12:59.400 What that systemic, repeated, vicious denormalization and demoralization and marginalization of people does.

00:13:06.220 People with a grievance.

00:13:07.940 That's where hate comes from, by the way.

00:13:09.720 I mean, do you think that guy who told the cops that they weren't even British cops anymore?

00:13:14.040 Do you think that arresting him and jailing him for saying that has convinced him he's wrong or convinced him that he's right?

00:13:20.120 Has it cured him of his underlying grievance?

00:13:22.640 So let me show you something.

00:13:24.940 It's a poll that a famous UK pollster called YouGov published.

00:13:29.720 This was right after the riots.

00:13:31.320 I referenced this the other day and I wasn't as precise as I wanted to be.

00:13:34.940 So I'm going to show you some of the actual numbers here.

00:13:37.120 On page 5, here's a question they put to Brits.

00:13:41.800 Thinking about the recent protests and unrest that have taken place, the riots, how much sympathy, if any, do you have with the views of the following?

00:13:51.380 Those taking place in recent protests peacefully.

00:13:56.300 And you can see 58% of people support that.

00:13:59.220 So despite the hurricane of media attacks on the protests, 58% of Brits tell pollsters that they sympathize with the anti-immigration protests.

00:14:08.440 The pollster then asked people if they support those causing unrest, as in rioters.

00:14:15.200 Now, 8% say they do, which is pretty small.

00:14:18.360 But 25% of people who voted for Reform UK voters said they sympathize.

00:14:24.680 I'm going to come back to that and what I think it means.

00:14:26.720 But let me show you on the bottom of page 6 and top of page 7, they ask,

00:14:31.160 do you think the recent protests and unrest that have taken place are justified or unjustified?

00:14:37.140 So it's a little bit different than asking if you personally support it.

00:14:41.640 On the top of page 7, 12% of the general population says the riots are justified.

00:14:48.720 And again, for supporters of Reform UK, that's Nigel Farage's party, that number goes up to 33%.

00:14:54.840 I'll just show you a few more stats.

00:14:57.080 At the bottom of page 7, 16% of all Brits said the rioters were, quote,

00:15:01.920 people were with legitimate concerns.

00:15:05.500 And again, fully 49% of Reform UK voters said that.

00:15:09.040 By the way, on page 9, 69% of Brits say the news media bears responsibility.

00:15:15.080 Isn't that the truth?

00:15:17.220 I'll stop with the numbers.

00:15:18.400 Here's what I'm trying to prove with this poll.

00:15:21.300 Reform UK, that's Nigel Farage's party.

00:15:23.580 He's the man who successfully led the Brexit referendum to get the UK out of the European Union.

00:15:29.580 He's pretty much the only mainstream politician against mass immigration.

00:15:33.580 He got more than 4 million votes, but he only got five seats.

00:15:37.300 Came in second in nearly 100 ridings.

00:15:39.660 That obviously doesn't count.

00:15:41.080 So he would be like Maxime Bernier if Bernier got five seats.

00:15:45.080 But they're trying to drive Nigel Farage out, out of parliament, out of polite company.

00:15:50.440 They're trying to demonize him and cancel him.

00:15:53.360 Literally, his bank debanked him, firing him as a client and smearing him in public, simply because of his politics.

00:16:02.140 They're trying to cancel Nigel Farage, even though he gets millions of votes.

00:16:05.800 They're trying to cancel Tommy Robinson.

00:16:07.200 And they pretty much succeeded until Elon Musk brought him back on Twitter.

00:16:12.080 They're canceling any Brits who simply tweet or Facebook their opposition to the way the world is going.

00:16:17.620 And they're even trying to cancel Sammy Woodhouse, the victim of rape gangs.

00:16:21.760 They're literally trying to destroy her, to drive her out, even as a citizen journalist.

00:16:27.640 What if they succeed?

00:16:28.460 What if in the UK they succeed in driving out anyone concerned about mass immigration, drive them out of politics and the media and the courts, drive them out of polite company?

00:16:39.620 That's what's happening.

00:16:40.660 I can see it.

00:16:42.520 What if they manage to do it, to effectively strip actual British citizens of their citizenship in a meaningful sense, to turn them into non-persons in order to continue with their mass immigration schemes?

00:16:55.440 What if they take away all the normal customs of being a Brit?

00:17:00.020 You can't speak out.

00:17:00.980 You can't run for office.

00:17:03.380 If you can't speak up on GB News, the last conservative TV station in the UK, because the government regulator silences you.

00:17:10.400 If you can't speak up on your own citizen journalism website because the Times comes to destroy you.

00:17:16.120 If you can't vote for reform in the UK.

00:17:17.980 If you can't win in court because woke judges and woke laws criminalize patriotic dissent.

00:17:22.860 Well, then what happens then?

00:17:25.440 If you are told you do not belong in the system, if you are told you do not count, if the rules are twisted, if there's two-tiered justice, if you no longer believe you can work within the system, what do you have to lose then?

00:17:41.180 That's what I'm worried about.

00:17:43.180 12% of Brits say the riots were justified.

00:17:46.460 16% say the rioters have legitimate concerns.

00:17:49.800 It's still a small minority, but it's not nothing.

00:17:52.000 And a big chunk of Reform UK voters say so.

00:17:56.480 If you tell everyone that you hate, that they are not allowed to participate in democracy, they'll finally get the message.

00:18:06.220 And it could be a terrible message.

00:18:08.360 Look, I'm against riots.

00:18:10.340 But Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson and Sammy Woodhouse did not cause the riots.

00:18:14.660 They're actually the safety valve.

00:18:16.000 They're the preferable solution to riots.

00:18:19.800 They're the only people trying to keep dispossessed, working-class, indigenous Brits still hopeful, still engaged in the system. 0.87

00:18:27.860 You cancel Nigel Farage, you jail Tommy Robinson.

00:18:31.480 Well, then why wouldn't their supporters riot?

00:18:35.280 It's the only path you've left for them.

00:18:37.100 And after all, isn't that what the authoritarian left really wants?

00:18:41.300 I think they want that.

00:18:43.360 They want right-wingers to riot.

00:18:45.400 They don't want them in Parliament.

00:18:47.080 All this time, for years, for decades, the left has talked about defunding police and releasing criminals from prisons.

00:18:55.080 But it's only because it was the wrong kind of criminal.

00:18:57.080 They're emptying the prisons in the U.K. right now of real violent criminals because they can hardly wait to fill the prisons back up with their political opponents.

00:19:07.380 I think the U.K. is in for trouble.

00:19:09.900 And if we don't change our course, we'll go the same way.

00:19:13.380 Stay with us for more.

00:19:14.440 I suppose I'm guilty of it myself, talking about a foreign country's politics, when I should focus on my own knitting here in Canada.

00:19:31.520 Sometimes we study mass immigration in other countries, but in particular, I'm talking about U.S. politics.

00:19:37.000 I think Canadians like to follow U.S. politics because it's exciting.

00:19:41.080 It's the big leagues and we're in the minors.

00:19:42.960 I should say, to our credit, Rebel News was really the only media outlet in Canada to fairly cover and indeed support Donald Trump's nomination back in 2015 and 2016 and his run for the U.S. presidency.

00:19:57.960 Other than Conrad Black, I don't think a single other journalist in Canada supported him.

00:20:04.200 And so, yeah, I suppose we cover American politics a lot, too.

00:20:07.580 But what is the excuse for the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, that exists specifically, courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Act, specifically to promote Canada, Canadian culture, and Canadian voices?

00:20:25.940 Why are they so obsessed not just with bashing Trump but promoting the U.S. Democrat?

00:20:31.080 Is it that they themselves think Canadian politics is too boring by comparison?

00:20:38.780 Is it they secretly hope that they'll be plucked out of Canadian obscurity and hired by CNN or MSNBC that maybe they'll get the call to write a guest column in the New York Times or appear on some pundits panel?

00:20:51.680 Well, I don't know what it is, but I find it sort of pitiful when I see columnists in Canada sort of mimicking and echoing the Democratic warrior columnists in the States.

00:21:01.960 But I say again, what is the CBC's excuse, given that the $1.5 billion they liberated from us through our taxes is specifically excused by them doing Canadian content?

00:21:14.060 Well, our friends over at True North have looked into this question scientifically and mathematically.

00:21:19.680 And Cosman Jirja, a reporter at True North, joins us now via Skype from Victoria, British Columbia.

00:21:25.440 Cosman, great to see you again. Thanks for taking the time.

00:21:28.660 Thanks for having me, Ezra.

00:21:29.920 You have a very interesting piece.

00:21:32.840 You actually counted the number of articles that the CBC did about their new hero, Kamala Harris, versus covering the prime minister of our own country.

00:21:46.820 Tell me what you found.

00:21:49.080 That's right.

00:21:49.940 So essentially this was all prompted because over the weekend I decided to stroll over to the CBC's homepage and I realized that it was entirely sprawled with Kamala Harris' coverage.

00:22:01.260 And so I figured let's just see how much they've covered Kamala Harris in the last month since Joe Biden stepped down as the Democratic candidate for the presidential election.

00:22:13.340 And we found that the CBC covered Kamala Harris' campaign solely about 68 times.

00:22:21.480 So that averages to over two pieces a day of American election coverage.

00:22:27.720 And it was four times more than they actually covered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the same time period.

00:22:35.540 And I'd like to stress the importance of this is because CBC is mandated by law under the Broadcasting Act to cover distinctly Canadian content and to cover Canadian regions and Canadian cultural, social issues, political issues solely.

00:22:53.680 Yet here they are dedicating a ridiculous amount of time to a foreign election.

00:23:00.200 Yeah.

00:23:01.100 You know, if there was a Canadian angle, if she had policies touching on Canada, if she referred to Canada, if there was some legitimate reason to Canadianize the story, I'd get it.

00:23:13.960 Sometimes it's absurd the lengths Canadian journalists go to to try and find a Canadian angle in a foreign story.

00:23:20.140 But that's not there.

00:23:21.940 I mean, the Democratic National Convention, where they solidified her as the nominee, it really was policy free.

00:23:29.780 If you go to the Kamala Harris campaign website, there actually is no policy section.

00:23:35.960 This was pure fanboy, fangirling.

00:23:40.440 This was pure, she's the Taylor Swift of politics and we want to be there.

00:23:45.040 This was nothing but the semi-erotic emotional reaction by socialist journalists in Canada who have become disillusioned with Justin Trudeau, who have resigned themselves to the fact that Pierre Polyev is likely to win.

00:24:01.420 And so they've moved on.

00:24:04.160 They've got a new girlfriend now and her name is Kamala.

00:24:06.380 What do you think of that theory?

00:24:07.300 No, I think it's a good one.

00:24:10.360 And it's funny because a few hours after we went to the CBC with our questions about their inordinate amount of coverage for Kamala Harris's campaign, the editor-in-chief of CBC News, Brody Fenlon, put out an entire blog post trying to justify their coverage of the American election.

00:24:32.100 Now, I don't know if that's what he's saying.

00:24:34.360 What was the excuse?

00:24:35.420 I got to know.

00:24:37.160 Yeah.

00:24:37.500 So he went into all sorts of reasons about how, you know, it's our closest neighbor.

00:24:42.060 We share a border, et cetera, you know.

00:24:44.140 And also he made this argument that because we're not an American outlet, we can have an objective.

00:24:51.440 The CBC can have an objective perspective on it.

00:24:55.760 Yeah, right.

00:24:56.160 But when you look at the actual coverage, they're covering memes about Kamala Harris.

00:25:01.220 They put out articles and videos titled, Why Are People Going Coconuts for Kamala Harris?

00:25:08.220 This is not objective coverage.

00:25:10.620 It's like it was written up at the DNC.

00:25:13.240 It's like it's propaganda, even worse propaganda than they've done for the liberals in some cases.

00:25:20.200 You know, every once in a while, a Canadian journalist does go on to bigger things in the U.S.

00:25:24.240 Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star now does that, I think, for CNN.

00:25:27.040 So I think some American-obsessed Canadian pundits secretly dream that they'll be picked up by an American TV station.

00:25:35.880 It's not just that they're pro-Harris, pro-Democrat.

00:25:38.700 The level of anti-Trump extremism is off the charts.

00:25:43.240 And by the way, it started way back in Trump's early days.

00:25:48.220 I remember they had a crazy show called The Trump Effect.

00:25:53.680 And you're not even going to believe me, Cosman, but they hired actors, swear to God, they hired actors to sell racist merch on the street.

00:26:03.900 And by the way, no one was buying it.

00:26:06.160 And the CBC hired actors.

00:26:08.600 It wasn't a real thing.

00:26:09.700 They tried to create a news story to show how the Trump Effect was making people more racist.

00:26:15.880 The story didn't pan out.

00:26:17.780 Like, their thesis, their hypothesis was refuted by people's reactions.

00:26:22.220 But that's how desperate they were, literally creating fake news with hired actors.

00:26:28.060 They have been obsessed with Trump ever since.

00:26:29.880 I remember Wendy Mesley, before she was fired for repeatedly saying the N-word.

00:26:34.780 She had a show that was basically, every single week, another left-wing conspiracy theory about Trump.

00:26:42.220 There's just this weird, weird thing in Toronto where doing anti-Trump or pro-Democrat performances is just like the highest level you can get as a liberal for some reason.

00:26:57.940 I don't have to cover what's happening in Pickering.

00:27:00.700 I don't have to cover what's happening in Lethbridge.

00:27:04.820 I'm beyond that now.

00:27:06.740 I can go to the highest heights and give you my deep thoughts on Kamala Harris and the second husband and her daughter or whatever.

00:27:14.580 Like, it's something actually anti-Canadian.

00:27:17.680 I cover the world, and we cover the world because we try and learn from trends like mass immigration.

00:27:22.480 They cover Kamala Harris because that's what they want to be. 1.00

00:27:27.360 Yeah, and I think we have to look at who's in charge of the CBC.

00:27:30.700 Their CEO, Catherine Tate, is on the record a Democrat donor for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.

00:27:40.560 And she lives in the United States, at least in part, because her husband owns property there.

00:27:46.360 And so it raises the question, who is she loyal to?

00:27:50.880 It seems like she's totally skewed the coverage of the U.S. election in one direction, and she has a history of financial contributions to the Democrats. 0.93

00:28:03.400 It's ridiculous.

00:28:04.620 How can this person speak for Canadian people when they're out there advocating for a foreign party, essentially? 0.99

00:28:14.120 You know, I think you just answered my question there, in that, like, losers like Andrew Coyne, who just parrot the craziest – like, he's the Keith Olbermann of Canada. 0.90

00:28:24.540 He'll never get picked up in America. 0.96

00:28:26.160 He's just too much of a caricature.

00:28:29.500 But the person who might get hired is Catherine Tate. 0.99

00:28:33.660 She knows she's done the second Pierre Paglia becomes prime minister.

00:28:38.300 I mean, he's said as much, she's said as much.

00:28:41.180 She never moved back to Canada, as far as I know.

00:28:43.940 She's still commuting from Brooklyn.

00:28:46.000 She's an executive.

00:28:47.240 She follows the cash.

00:28:48.660 She's good at lying, especially about bonuses. 0.90

00:28:51.300 She took a huge bonus.

00:28:53.040 If there's anyone at the CBC who can cash in chips with the DNC, the Democrats, it's Catherine Tate. 0.70

00:29:00.700 She has no future in Canadian broadcasting.

00:29:04.340 Polly will fire her day one. 1.00

00:29:06.700 She would wreck any private broadcaster.

00:29:08.740 She's cut – every year after year, she's cut viewership of the CBC, which is an astonishing accomplishment, given that our population is growing by 5% a year.

00:29:18.580 But she could get a gig in the States.

00:29:21.020 Absolutely.

00:29:21.540 That's what this is about.

00:29:22.940 Cosman, great to see you.

00:29:24.080 Folks, if you want to read the story, you can get it at True North, which is TNC.news.

00:29:29.820 Keep in touch, Cosman.

00:29:31.660 For sure.

00:29:32.400 Thanks, Ezra.

00:29:33.220 All right.

00:29:33.640 There you have it.

00:29:34.480 Stay with us.

00:29:35.520 More ahead.

00:29:35.980 Hey, welcome back.

00:29:45.720 Your letters to me on my monologue last night.

00:29:48.980 Scott Halloween says, Canada is dead.

00:29:51.840 We are merely soil and tax cattle.

00:29:54.800 Well, look, I know I can be pretty pessimistic sometimes, but I actually think that I wouldn't do what I'm doing if I didn't have a drop of hope in me.

00:30:05.740 Some of my friends moved to the United States during the COVID lockdowns, and a fair number of them said, why don't you move down to Florida?

00:30:14.580 It's the best.

00:30:15.080 It's the best.

00:30:15.580 It's the best.

00:30:15.640 Great people, great politics, great economy, great weather.

00:30:20.360 I mean, it's a wonderful place.

00:30:22.520 I visited there as a tourist, but I did not go.

00:30:25.580 And the answer, I said, was because I believe I got to stay and fight, but I believe that there's a reason to stay and fight, is that there's a hope to win.

00:30:32.260 That's why.

00:30:32.820 So, I talk about negative things, but I am underneath it, hopeful.

00:30:37.120 Otherwise, I wouldn't do what I do.

00:30:39.980 On our guest, the Justice Center lawyer, Monique Grenier, Walrus Almond says, now who will be prosecuted for the more serious crime of violating this man's rights?

00:30:50.020 Well, that's a question that I am asked all the time.

00:30:52.660 Because our criminal justice system, when someone is arrested, jailed, prosecuted, put through the ringer, and finally accused, they get nothing.

00:31:04.680 They get no compensation.

00:31:06.080 At least in a civil trial, two private parties are fighting.

00:31:10.180 The loser typically has to pay at least something to the winner in court.

00:31:14.560 Tamara Leach has been put through an endless trial. 1.00

00:31:18.280 And you mentioned Monique Grenier's 22 cases, and the Democracy Fund has had 3,000 cases.

00:31:24.680 Not a single one of those people will get their money back.

00:31:27.640 In fact, they had to pay for their own case.

00:31:30.040 The Democracy Fund covered, you know, obviously, when there's a charity involved, it covers the case.

00:31:34.640 But let me say this.

00:31:36.280 You have to pay for your own prosecution through your taxes.

00:31:41.780 I wonder if something should be done about that, because there needs to be a damper.

00:31:45.320 There needs to be a negative consequence for the police and prosecutors going after innocent people.

00:31:51.220 And right now, that's not a natural, built-in part of the system.

00:31:54.280 It is possible, if you can hire a lawyer and go after the government, once in a while there's a case of false imprisonment or malicious prosecution.

00:32:03.180 We're doing that for some of our reporters.

00:32:05.180 But it's rare and it's expensive.

00:32:08.200 That's our show for today.

00:32:09.880 Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:32:14.580 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:32:16.320 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - August 23, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ UK riots are what happens when immigration debate is driven out of conversation

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