Rebel News Podcast - June 15, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Vladimir Putin offers a ceasefire deal. Should Ukraine accept it？


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41 minutes

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509

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Summary

Vladimir Putin makes a ceasefire offer to Ukraine. Should they accept it? And what does it mean for the future of Ukraine and the peace process between Russia and Ukraine? Ezra takes you through the details of Putin's proposal.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I don't know if you heard it, but Vladimir Putin made a proposal for a ceasefire
00:00:05.440 in Ukraine. Now, you might think that's BS, but did you even hear about it? And if not,
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00:00:51.680 Tonight, Vladimir Putin offers Ukraine a ceasefire deal. Should they accept it? It's June 14th,
00:00:58.760 and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:03.980 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:14.980 Did you hear about Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for a military ceasefire with
00:01:22.620 Ukraine? I'll show you some of them in a minute. You can judge it for yourself. You can call it
00:01:28.140 propaganda, or a trick, or a lie. You can say it ought to be rejected, or whatever your point of
00:01:34.320 view is. But before I show it to you, can you please answer my first question? Did you even hear
00:01:40.040 about it? Maybe you did. Here's how the country's self-described newspaper of record reported on it.
00:01:47.440 I'll just quote from the Globe and Mail. They called their headline,
00:01:51.900 Ahead of Peace Summit, Putin Demands to Keep Parts of Ukraine. There's no detection at all of a peace
00:02:01.480 offer from Putin, is there? I'll read a little bit from the beginning. One day before the start of a
00:02:06.580 summit in Switzerland, aimed at advancing a plan to end the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir
00:02:13.220 Putin has made it clear that he is still seeking Kiev's capitulation, not a negotiated peace deal.
00:02:21.220 A weekend meeting at the Bergenstock Resort near Lucerne, which many Western leaders are attending,
00:02:27.780 but Russia wasn't invited to participate in, is expected to end with an endorsement of parts of
00:02:34.020 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's 10-point peace plan, which calls for a complete Russian
00:02:41.000 withdrawal to pre-2014 borders before Russia seized and illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula from
00:02:51.600 Ukraine, unquote. So the Bergenstock meeting, that's the peace summit. That's where the peace,
00:03:00.700 they call it the peace summit. Putin is the belligerent one. He doesn't want a deal. That's
00:03:07.000 the global mail says. That's how they report it. I just have to say, if it's possible to be neutral
00:03:13.280 and objective here, that for Vladimir Zelensky to say that he wants Russia not only to withdraw from
00:03:20.140 all the land that they've invaded in the past two years, but also land that they formally annexed in
00:03:27.400 another war 10 years ago and give that back to Ukraine too and reparations. And I just don't
00:03:36.660 think that's a real peace proposal. I mean, maybe it's a dramatic opening position, but the idea that
00:03:43.140 Russia would not only completely withdraw from Ukraine, but would also give back cities and
00:03:49.340 industries and territories and a major port with 2 million people that has been annexed into Russia
00:03:56.020 for a decade so that Ukraine actually ended this war with more territory than it started in 22.
00:04:04.280 I just think that's an offer that's designed deliberately to fail. I mean, they want reparations.
00:04:10.860 They want like a treaty of Versailles. That's what unconditional victors in a war get. That's not what a
00:04:17.860 smaller country losing gets. Perhaps Russia is doing the same thing with their offer, making absurd
00:04:25.480 demands. But given that I don't think that you've even heard Vladimir Putin's offer yet, let me play it
00:04:32.800 for you. I'm not praising it. I'm not recommending it. I'm not rejecting it. I'm just playing it for you
00:04:37.980 so that you can hear what the other side here says. Because I don't quite think that the Western media
00:04:44.620 is reporting on it at all, or if they are, neutrally, which is sort of weird because we talk about the
00:04:51.380 ceasefire now in Gaza all the time, even though clearly Israel and America are making ceasefire
00:04:58.860 offers and Hamas is rejecting it. The war between Russia and Ukraine has cost probably a million
00:05:06.420 lives. It's very hard to get accurate figures on either side. So it's 50 times more deadly than the
00:05:13.400 war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. And of course, one of the militant sides in the Ukraine-Russia
00:05:20.040 war just happens to have nuclear bombs. So it's just astonishing to me that you have a constant
00:05:25.980 drumbeat for a ceasefire between a democracy and a terrorist group. But this war between two major
00:05:31.580 European powers, one of whom has nuclear weapons, has cost hundreds of thousands of lives on each side.
00:05:38.360 Do you not find it unusual that there's no peace movement, especially from the left?
00:05:44.380 Anyway, here's a clip from a TV station called RT, which stands for Russia Today, which is a state
00:05:52.780 broadcaster of Putin, which, by the way, is banned on YouTube, which is interesting. You can't find it
00:05:58.860 on YouTube. I don't think RT is hate speech. I think it's propaganda, like CBC is Trudeau's propaganda.
00:06:07.220 I don't think RT has been accused of breaking any law that I know of. It's just that YouTube has decided
00:06:14.360 it will not publish RT videos because Russia invaded another country, which is true. But if that were the
00:06:22.700 case, YouTube wouldn't publish videos from many countries that it does, including, you know, a critic
00:06:30.240 might say, the United States. Okay, here's a clip from Putin, and he uses the word Kiev regime.
00:06:39.480 It's an insult. He refuses to acknowledge that Ukraine is a legitimate entity. He says that
00:06:45.320 there's a little clique in Kiev. So, of course, he's got his language torqued up. But just listen to it,
00:06:51.140 because I'm betting you haven't heard it before.
00:06:52.680 Today, we're making another real peaceful proposal, a proposal of peace. If they refuse
00:07:02.120 once again in Kiev, it is their business. It is their choice to continue this bloodshed. The reality
00:07:12.640 on the ground will keep shifting and not in favor of the Kiev regime. And the conditions for the talks
00:07:20.120 will change as well. Let me emphasize that the gist of our proposal is not just a ceasefire or a
00:07:29.560 temporary truth, as the West wants it. They want to rearm the Kiev regime. This is not about transforming
00:07:42.560 this into a frozen conflict. We want to put an end to this conflict. Once again, I would like to say
00:07:49.220 that as soon as Kiev agrees to this turn of events, as we propose it today, as soon as they agree
00:07:57.780 to withdraw the troops from the Poros and Kherson regions and the People's Republic, we are ready to
00:08:05.240 launch these talks without any delay. Here's the second part. And just if he's going to say some
00:08:11.460 words you may not be familiar with, he says Donetsk and Luhansk and Kherson. My accent's terrible.
00:08:17.660 These are regions or oblasts or like provinces that Russia claims are actually ethnically Russian
00:08:26.800 and historically Russian. Now, you can disagree with that, but that's what Russia claims. And I know
00:08:33.520 from personal history that some of those towns and cities and regions changed countries. I mean,
00:08:41.000 the country, the city called Lviv today was called Lviv when it was under Russian domination,
00:08:48.920 and it was called Lemberg when it was under Polish control. So the borders have moved around, and I'm not
00:08:56.120 saying I know where the borders ought to be. I suppose I would lean towards self-determination, and I
00:09:01.200 believe in the idea that nations should not invade other sovereign nations. But I'm just explaining to
00:09:09.440 you what Putin says. I mean, he is basically saying that he wants the areas where the Russian invasion
00:09:15.640 has focused on. He wants that under Russian control. Much of it is under Russian control now. Take a look
00:09:23.200 for this video that you won't find on YouTube. It's on Rumble. These principles are quite
00:09:27.840 straightforward. Ukraine must fully withdraw its troops from the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic,
00:09:34.600 from the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. And let me emphasize that I'm talking about the entire
00:09:40.080 territories of these regions within their administrative borders as they existed under Ukraine. As soon as
00:09:48.800 Kyiv says that it's ready and starts the withdrawal of its troops. And once they say that they're no longer
00:09:58.560 willing to join NATO, just the same moment immediately, we will stop the fire and launch talks. We will do this
00:10:08.480 immediately. Let me repeat this. At the same time, we guarantee that Ukraine will be able to withdraw its
00:10:19.120 troops safely. These decisions on the withdrawal of troops and then non-aligned status and the dialogue
00:10:27.640 with Russia, which will define Ukraine's future. We believe that these decisions must be taken by Kyiv
00:10:34.480 independently guided by the genuine national interests of the Ukrainian people without getting
00:10:42.520 instructions from the West. So he's basically saying to Ukraine, give up those territories and give up
00:10:48.380 your dream of joining NATO and stop getting instructions from the West. And I hate to say it, but that part
00:10:57.860 about getting instructions from the West, that's an insult, of course. It's meant to demean Vladimir Zelensky
00:11:03.080 as a puppet of the West. But I don't think it helped that the response to this didn't, I mean, Zelensky
00:11:09.180 did make a response, and I'll read some of it shortly. But the response was from NATO. Here's Jens Stoltenberg,
00:11:15.260 used to be the prime minister of Norway. He's the boss of NATO, and he responded.
00:11:19.940 It's not for Ukraine to withdraw forces from Ukrainian territory. It's for Russia to withdraw their forces
00:11:29.020 from occupied Ukrainian land. And this proposal is a proposal that actually means that Russia should have
00:11:39.320 the right to occupy even more Ukrainian land. All the four provinces that they claim are not Ukrainian.
00:11:48.300 So this just demonstrate that this is not a proposal made in good faith, but this is a proposal that actually means that
00:11:58.920 Russia should achieve their war games, aims, by also expecting or by expecting that Ukraine should give up
00:12:12.620 significantly more land than Russia has been able to occupy so far. So this is not a peace proposal.
00:12:23.520 This is a proposal of more aggression, more occupation. And it demonstrates in a way that Russia's aim is to control Ukraine.
00:12:36.920 And that has been the purpose of Russia since the beginning of this war. And that's a blatant violation of international law.
00:12:46.800 And that's also the reason why NATO allies continue to support Ukraine.
00:12:50.920 I mean, that really does play into the hands of the Russian side here, which claims that Ukraine has been turned into nothing but a
00:12:58.500 Western or NATO stocking horse.
00:13:01.500 Here's Sergei Lavrov, the very longstanding and deeply foreboding foreign minister for Russia,
00:13:11.400 who just says, look, we're not even asking the West to trust us. We just, it's an offer, take it or leave it.
00:13:18.460 Sort of a very real politic comment. Take a look.
00:13:21.620 No, we don't ask the West to trust us. Trust is not something which is illustrating the Western positions, the Western actions.
00:13:36.680 And today there were many examples. I don't want to recite those failures to deliver on the promises,
00:13:47.220 those failure to deliver on the legal obligations. Frankly, I don't care whether the West trusts us or not.
00:13:56.120 The West must understand the real situation. They don't understand anything except real politic.
00:14:04.040 Let them go to the people. You are democracies, right? Ask the people what the West should do in response to the Putin's proposals.
00:14:12.720 Now, of course, diplomacy is warfare by peaceful means. You could say that about politics, too.
00:14:21.280 And, of course, Hitler, when he annexed and invaded the Sudetenland, when he started expanding the regime,
00:14:27.760 he had diplomacy, too, that he used to trick the West. You might recall that Neville Chamberlain flew to meet Herr Hitler
00:14:34.460 and came back with a piece of paper saying, peace in our time. He was bamboozled.
00:14:40.580 And, of course, when Hitler invaded Poland and carved it up between the Nazis and the Soviets,
00:14:46.800 Chamberlain gave way shortly thereafter to Churchill.
00:14:50.740 Here's Lavrov talking, though, about something that I fear is very real.
00:14:55.620 Splitting the West. Using the war in Ukraine to split the West. Take a look.
00:15:00.180 The door is open for Europe, for those European countries that would finally understand that they need to link their destinies
00:15:08.140 with the implementation of the deep-rooted interests of their people,
00:15:12.740 not serving to the United States that, as I've mentioned before, subjugated the entire collective West to their will.
00:15:20.060 So the goal that we were set with is concerns, first of all, the creation of the concept,
00:15:29.260 detailed concept of the Greater Eurasian Partnership and of the Eurasian security.
00:15:35.420 I put it to you that the West is already splitting.
00:15:37.880 There are plenty of countries in Europe that have fallen out of love with this war in Ukraine for financial reasons,
00:15:44.440 or they're asking, why war?
00:15:47.420 You may recall that I had the pleasure of visiting Hungary about a year ago,
00:15:51.760 and I heard a speech by Viktor Orban where he said he, you know, is very sympathetic with Ukraine.
00:15:57.660 There are Hungarians in Ukraine, if I recall his speech, but he didn't believe in getting into the war.
00:16:04.240 It's tragic. So all of our heart is with the Ukrainians.
00:16:08.540 We understand how much they suffer, but I'm speaking here as a politician who should save lives.
00:16:14.700 The most important thing for the international political community is to save lives,
00:16:20.580 especially when you are convinced, as I do, that there is no chance to win this war.
00:16:26.460 So therefore, what we should do far more energy, invest into,
00:16:32.940 to convince everybody that the only solution is ceasefire.
00:16:36.580 And then after the ceasefire, peace talks should start.
00:16:40.060 Okay, well, let me quote from a source I don't really go to,
00:16:42.940 but it's so mainstream that I think you'll accept it.
00:16:46.920 I've been quoting RT, that's Russian propaganda.
00:16:49.860 So here's the Associated Press, which basically I feel like I'm reading the CIA
00:16:54.620 or the White House when I read the Associated Press.
00:16:57.960 It is so on the official narrative of the White House.
00:17:01.040 Let me read from the Associated Press.
00:17:02.180 Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to, quote,
00:17:06.080 immediately order a ceasefire in Ukraine and start negotiations
00:17:09.600 if Kiev began withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022
00:17:15.120 and renounced plans to join NATO.
00:17:18.540 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky rejected what he called an ultimatum by Putin
00:17:23.520 to surrender more territory.
00:17:26.600 Putin's remarks came as Switzerland prepared to host scores of world leaders,
00:17:30.360 but not from Moscow this weekend to try to map out the first steps towards peace in Ukraine.
00:17:37.200 I just have to ask, how is it a peace meeting if the enemy isn't there?
00:17:44.200 I really think it's more honestly called a war meeting.
00:17:49.560 If you're only meeting with your team, that's a war meeting.
00:17:57.400 The peace meeting is much tougher because you've got to meet with people you hate.
00:18:01.000 I mean, that's that Israeli saying, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends.
00:18:05.120 That's what Israeli leaders have said throughout the decades.
00:18:08.220 When they sit down with terrorists, it's repulsive to many Israelis.
00:18:12.520 But the Israeli leaders accurately say, if you want to make peace,
00:18:15.620 you're probably going to be doing it with people you've been at war with.
00:18:18.020 Let me read a little bit more.
00:18:19.420 Broader demands for peace that Putin listed include Ukraine's recognition of Crimea as part of Russia,
00:18:26.940 keeping the country's non-nuclear status, restricting its military force,
00:18:31.580 and protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population.
00:18:35.080 All of these should be part of fundamental international agreements,
00:18:38.260 and all Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted, Putin said.
00:18:43.400 Now, again, you might say those are outrageous demands for Russia to make.
00:18:48.600 And I'm sure if you believe that every inch of territory that Russia has taken the last few years
00:18:53.600 should be returned to Ukraine, that this feels like a non-starter.
00:18:56.660 And the fact that they would acknowledge Crimea, which, as I mentioned, was annexed a decade ago,
00:19:02.200 feels outrageous.
00:19:03.220 And dropping the sanctions feels outrageous.
00:19:04.860 Of course.
00:19:05.280 But that's how the war is going, and that's the larger party with the larger army
00:19:11.520 that seems to be grounding, grinding down Ukraine.
00:19:15.140 I have to say that those demands, I just read from Russia,
00:19:18.860 seem fairly similar to demands that Russia has been making throughout the war and even before the war.
00:19:24.580 Let me read a little bit.
00:19:25.380 Here Ukraine's foreign ministry called Putin's plan manipulative, absurd,
00:19:30.700 and designed to mislead the international community,
00:19:32.980 undermined diplomatic efforts aimed at achieving a just peace,
00:19:36.780 and split the unity of the world majority around the goals and principles of the UN Charter.
00:19:42.100 It's probably true.
00:19:43.420 I'm sure it is.
00:19:44.640 But that's what it's like when you're dealing with an enemy.
00:19:49.040 I got a few questions for you.
00:19:50.400 Who is winning this war?
00:19:52.400 Who's winning?
00:19:54.640 I'm not sure.
00:19:55.720 I mean, Russia has made territorial gains.
00:19:58.620 They gained a lot, then they were pushed back,
00:20:00.120 and then they have reasserted themselves.
00:20:02.980 So I guess if territorial gains are a measure, then Russia's winning.
00:20:08.600 Who's losing?
00:20:11.280 Well, I think it's incontrovertible that the Ukrainian people are losing.
00:20:15.400 Hundreds of thousands of dead.
00:20:17.880 Absolutely destroyed towns and infrastructure.
00:20:20.660 And they're rubbling the whole place.
00:20:24.460 There are millions of Ukrainians who are refugees around the world, including here in Canada.
00:20:31.080 I learned 100,000 went to Ireland.
00:20:35.220 Nearly one million Ukrainian men have left the country to dodge the draft.
00:20:42.360 Because they're getting desperate for more cannon fodder.
00:20:45.920 That's what happens when you fight against a country that's, I think, triple your population.
00:20:50.920 Ukraine is now conscripting old people and young people, even mentally disabled people.
00:20:57.280 Even women are being sent to the army.
00:21:01.800 They're trying to bring home men from around the world by cutting off consular services.
00:21:07.160 That is, if you are a man of military age, a Ukrainian, outside Ukraine, maybe you're living in the UK or Ireland or Canada or wherever, or Germany, Poland.
00:21:17.520 And you are not allowed to renew your passport from outside the country.
00:21:21.600 They're making you go back home to get your passport.
00:21:24.500 And then they're going to basically press gang you into going into the war.
00:21:29.580 Here's a story I read in the CBC.
00:21:32.200 The average soldier's age in Ukraine is in their 40s.
00:21:39.400 In their 40s.
00:21:40.920 They have ground through a generation of young men or they have fled.
00:21:45.680 Look, I'm not Russian or Ukrainian.
00:21:48.400 I mean, maybe four or five generations ago, my family did come from Dnipro, which is one of the battlegrounds, 121 years ago.
00:21:55.940 But I'm Canadian.
00:21:57.640 But I don't want any more Russians to die.
00:21:59.680 I don't want any more Ukrainians to die.
00:22:02.520 I don't think there's such a thing as a victory here.
00:22:07.840 And I think the wild cheerleaders in the West, I don't really know what they mean.
00:22:13.120 Like when Trudeau says he will be with Ukraine to the end.
00:22:17.840 To the end of what?
00:22:19.660 What is that end?
00:22:20.840 What does that end look like?
00:22:23.540 Here's Trudeau with a manic cheer.
00:22:26.080 Canadians know that, yes, it is incredibly hard for Ukraine to continue to stand against a Russian aggression.
00:22:35.240 And let's be honest, it's hard for the democracies around the world who are there to support their citizens,
00:22:41.620 who are investing for the future, who are challenged with a challenging economy around the world,
00:22:46.540 to continue to step up as Canada has with close to $9 billion in aid for Ukraine.
00:22:52.760 But we will because the cost on Canadians, on our lives, on our world will be so much greater
00:22:59.940 if Putin wins this war that we will and have to stand every single day until Ukraine wins this war.
00:23:07.980 I find it odd, Trudeau's bellicosity for this war, when he is so hostile to every other war.
00:23:15.020 What's the outcome?
00:23:16.100 What does he think will happen if another 100,000 Ukrainian men are fed into the meat grinder?
00:23:21.920 I have to tell you that I'm heartbroken about what I learned about Russia and Ukraine.
00:23:26.500 As you know, for two years in a row now, I've visited the Ukrainian pavilion at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
00:23:32.440 So I go there to learn their side of the story.
00:23:34.600 It's very important to me.
00:23:36.200 And I have to tell you, I report to you, and I do this every year in my videos,
00:23:39.960 their side of the story is one of disastrous civilian losses.
00:23:44.920 Put aside the military losses, the humanitarian losses.
00:23:49.760 How can you visit that Ukrainian pavilion, which I know Christopher Freeland does,
00:23:54.980 and leave with an enthusiasm for this war?
00:23:58.840 It's like the trench warfare of World War I.
00:24:03.140 In fact, it is similar to that.
00:24:05.440 Artillery, trenches, this time there's the additional horror of little drones
00:24:10.240 that come right over a trench and drop a grenade in them.
00:24:13.200 It really feels like the pointless killing fields of the First World War.
00:24:18.320 But I've never been there.
00:24:20.640 What I'm scared about is here at home, or at least nearby.
00:24:24.980 Did you see this story?
00:24:26.080 Four Russian warships, including a nuclear sub, are sitting 200 miles off the coast of Florida.
00:24:34.700 Ukraine is the target.
00:24:39.160 But as NATO countries arm Ukraine, Russia is putting their military in places that we don't like.
00:24:47.220 I think one of the dangers is that Western countries are growing impatient with Ukraine's military losses.
00:24:54.440 And so they're giving stronger and stronger weapons,
00:24:57.680 but they're also permitting Ukraine to not just attack Russian military in Ukraine proper,
00:25:04.900 but deep into Russia.
00:25:07.760 So let me say that again.
00:25:09.480 British and American long-range weapons are being given to Ukraine,
00:25:14.120 and in the past they've been restricted to fighting to liberate Ukraine,
00:25:18.780 to kick out the Russians.
00:25:20.760 But now Ukraine is flying drones or missiles hundreds of miles into Russia
00:25:27.760 and targeting oil refineries, targeting military bases.
00:25:33.140 That's an escalation.
00:25:34.600 That's why Russia is sailing those ships off the coast of Florida.
00:25:37.900 And I don't like an escalation with NATO when we're part of NATO.
00:25:44.260 Look, I don't think it's pro-Russia to want peace.
00:25:48.100 Of course I don't want Ukraine devoured.
00:25:51.120 But if the fighting kept going for another year,
00:25:53.980 would Ukraine really be able to win?
00:25:58.380 At what human cost?
00:26:00.340 Putin may actually wish to conquer the world,
00:26:04.820 as some enthusiasts in NATO suggest.
00:26:07.600 I'm skeptical.
00:26:09.300 His demands actually sound like what he's been asking for for 20 years.
00:26:14.260 I don't know.
00:26:14.700 Maybe it's a trick.
00:26:15.780 Or maybe what he's been asking for for 20 years,
00:26:18.120 the neutrality of Ukraine, the demilitarization of Ukraine,
00:26:21.260 and some sort of ethnic self-determination for the Russian population there.
00:26:26.880 Maybe that's unacceptable and outrageous.
00:26:28.320 So maybe it's a violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.
00:26:30.840 And maybe it's unacceptable.
00:26:32.220 But for 20 years, Putin has demanded it.
00:26:34.380 And for 20 years, NATO has opposed it.
00:26:37.180 I've just never seen so many people so eager for a war.
00:26:41.460 The same people who call for a ceasefire in Gaza every week,
00:26:44.680 they're insisting on a bloody war in Europe.
00:26:47.240 But it's a bit unseemly, I think,
00:26:50.400 given that it's someone else's citizens doing the dying.
00:26:55.860 Stay with us for more.
00:26:58.320 You know, I think you know all the rebels.
00:27:10.240 One of our newer rebels named Robert Krejcik is in Lethbridge again.
00:27:14.200 He's following up on the trials of the so-called Kootz IV,
00:27:19.040 two of whom took a plea deal a few months ago,
00:27:21.260 two of whom are on trial.
00:27:22.360 So I think Robert is the newest rebel.
00:27:24.760 I was going to say the littlest rebel, but he's actually the biggest rebel if you've ever seen him.
00:27:28.240 I really recommend you follow his work if you're interested in that.
00:27:32.400 That's still a trucker trial, if you can believe it.
00:27:34.920 Our website is truckertrial.com, by the way.
00:27:37.160 So Robert, until recently I would call him our newest rebel,
00:27:41.200 but we have a rebel who's been working sort of in the background of it.
00:27:44.420 She's done a few videos, but she's just cranking out the videos every day now.
00:27:50.560 And I think she's doing a great job.
00:27:53.360 So she, I would say, is the newest rebel street journalist.
00:27:57.080 And she's getting a ton of practice.
00:27:58.920 And I think she's doing a really good job.
00:28:00.660 And she's about, I don't know, 30 years younger than me.
00:28:04.100 So she's, she can really connect, I think, with young people.
00:28:08.240 And I put it to you, the young people are amongst the most skeptical of Justin Trudeau
00:28:14.280 and certainly of Joe Biden.
00:28:16.620 And it's a real pleasure to watch a rebel take flight.
00:28:21.020 So let me show you a fun little streeters video that Sarah Stock published the other day.
00:28:27.140 And I expect that you'll see a lot more of her because she'll be doing videos every day.
00:28:31.720 So here's Sarah Stock asking Torontonians to sum up Justin Trudeau in one word.
00:28:37.980 Take a look.
00:28:40.600 Sarah Stock for Rebel News.
00:28:42.480 We're at Woodbine Beach in Toronto.
00:28:45.180 Now, Toronto is known to be a liberal stronghold.
00:28:47.720 And it's also Canada's largest city when it comes to population size.
00:28:51.400 So that means that Trudeau has managed to win these past two elections by getting the Toronto vote.
00:28:56.660 He's less popular than ever right now, with his approval ratings being only at 28% as of April 2024.
00:29:04.660 Let's go talk to some people in real life and see what they have to say about Trudeau.
00:29:09.420 Could you describe Justin Trudeau in one word?
00:29:13.600 Oh.
00:29:17.240 Just one word?
00:29:18.700 Just the first one that comes to mind.
00:29:22.720 Past due.
00:29:23.680 Time to go.
00:29:24.240 Selfish.
00:29:25.580 Dummy.
00:29:26.700 Dummy?
00:29:27.640 I don't like his father.
00:29:29.420 I don't like him, though.
00:29:30.540 I love his father.
00:29:32.160 Pierre was good.
00:29:33.600 Justin Trudeau don't know what to do, man.
00:29:35.260 He's out to lunch.
00:29:37.080 Justin Trudeau is a very good leader.
00:29:41.960 I like Justin Trudeau.
00:29:44.960 And Canadian government, policy, and everything, I like Trudeau.
00:29:51.120 Liberal.
00:29:51.480 Well-intentioned.
00:29:55.020 Well-intentioned?
00:29:56.080 I've been a word, but well-intentioned.
00:29:58.620 Reasonable man.
00:29:59.740 Reasonable man?
00:30:00.560 Yeah, sure, why not?
00:30:01.920 Annoying.
00:30:02.800 Okay, head.
00:30:04.120 Competent.
00:30:04.880 Could you describe Justin Trudeau in one word?
00:30:08.820 No.
00:30:10.160 No?
00:30:11.220 Honestly, I'm sorry, but I don't think I can comment very well.
00:30:14.340 I can't, but thank you.
00:30:15.780 Um, I don't know.
00:30:19.600 I don't know?
00:30:20.160 I don't know.
00:30:21.420 I'm sorry, I don't know.
00:30:23.320 Misinformed.
00:30:24.580 Disgusting.
00:30:25.400 Disgusting.
00:30:26.560 Disgusting.
00:30:27.500 S***.
00:30:28.880 Why?
00:30:29.620 He's a crook.
00:30:30.200 He's a gangster.
00:30:31.060 He stole everybody's money.
00:30:32.880 Eccentric.
00:30:34.000 Eccentric?
00:30:34.720 Really?
00:30:35.240 Why?
00:30:35.720 Um, because I feel like with the cannabis legalization and everything, he was really aiming for the
00:30:42.120 younger voters, the younger generations and such.
00:30:45.100 Uh, floofy.
00:30:46.820 Floofy.
00:30:47.600 I like that.
00:30:48.400 Floofy.
00:30:49.420 It's just kind of a floofy-haired idiot.
00:30:51.780 Disgraceful.
00:30:52.680 Disgraceful?
00:30:53.320 Why do you think so?
00:30:54.540 I just think he's a globalist and he's not looking out for Canada's best interests.
00:30:59.280 Disappointing.
00:31:00.120 Disappointing?
00:31:00.700 Yeah.
00:31:00.960 Uh, too naive.
00:31:04.500 Naive?
00:31:05.120 Yeah.
00:31:05.780 What do you think?
00:31:07.960 Actually, I don't know much about him.
00:31:10.580 Uh, too gentle.
00:31:15.360 I think he's okay.
00:31:16.440 He legalized marijuana.
00:31:18.540 That was like, what, like eight years ago?
00:31:21.160 What has he done since then that you like?
00:31:23.240 Uh, nothing really.
00:31:24.740 He's taxed us to death.
00:31:27.000 Yoga practitioner.
00:31:28.540 Practitioner?
00:31:29.380 Oh.
00:31:29.660 You want yoga practitioner?
00:31:31.160 He does yoga.
00:31:31.960 Oh, he does?
00:31:32.640 Yeah.
00:31:33.080 I had no idea.
00:31:36.000 He's a bit of a dick.
00:31:37.220 I mean, yeah, I don't know.
00:31:39.240 Confused?
00:31:40.020 Confused.
00:31:41.500 Probably.
00:31:42.500 Irresponsible.
00:31:43.060 Irresponsible.
00:31:44.000 Loser.
00:31:44.900 Loser?
00:31:45.740 Yeah.
00:31:46.000 Why?
00:31:46.460 Why not?
00:31:48.220 Everything he does is just, doesn't make sense.
00:31:50.660 It's not for our people.
00:31:52.020 Controversial.
00:31:52.760 I liked him initially, like, you know, when, when, eight years ago, I voted for him and,
00:31:59.540 you know, now I have a little bit of regret.
00:32:01.240 But, you know, I just wish he would listen to the people more.
00:32:04.160 Who are you going to get to replace him?
00:32:05.780 And I haven't heard of anybody who is, that I want to replace him or that I even want him.
00:32:11.740 He's had his sunny, sunny ways and sunny days.
00:32:15.640 And I think for the, for the liberals or for people that agree with this type of politics,
00:32:23.020 he's, they probably had enough of him.
00:32:24.480 Well, I mean, the selfishness of him trying to pad his own pockets allowed people to suffer
00:32:30.780 in this way.
00:32:31.740 He's not a good, uh, politician at all, man.
00:32:34.980 I don't think he's good at politics.
00:32:37.020 I like to do.
00:32:39.420 Why?
00:32:40.700 Uh, I'm, he's a young man and his policy is very good.
00:32:45.280 It's a very good policy.
00:32:47.420 He like that, uh, father, he's like father.
00:32:50.960 Well, I think that the convoy, that, you know, he wanted to do the right thing.
00:32:54.000 And it's just, everything is so complicated and we live in such divisive times.
00:32:58.700 And I think when you're trying to please everybody, you end up disappointing a whole lot of people.
00:33:03.940 And I wouldn't want to be, I wouldn't want the job, but I wouldn't want Pierre Poilier to have his job either.
00:33:09.420 Who would you want to have the job?
00:33:12.480 No one, none of the options, none of the above?
00:33:14.800 I like Jagmeet Singh, but that'll never happen in my lifetime.
00:33:17.620 He's raised taxes, astronomically, that people can't afford to live and put gas in their car.
00:33:29.620 Many of his policies are absolutely brutal.
00:33:33.700 The male class, you go down Queen Street today.
00:33:37.000 And one block, you'll find five for-lease buildings.
00:33:43.920 These are restaurants who have gone, lost everything.
00:33:48.060 All of them.
00:33:49.320 And he's supposed to be for the middle class?
00:33:51.840 I don't think so.
00:33:53.180 Who would want to come here?
00:33:54.780 Zero.
00:33:55.260 There are going to be no new money coming to this country from outside of the country.
00:34:02.220 So the only way to make more money is to tax it from the people who already taxed too much.
00:34:08.740 No, that's everything that he's doing is so corrupt.
00:34:10.940 And Canada is no Canada anymore.
00:34:12.700 I'm actually leaving Canada.
00:34:14.240 You are?
00:34:14.580 Where are you going?
00:34:15.240 In the south of the Caribbean.
00:34:17.000 Oh, that sounds nice.
00:34:18.340 You can't live here anymore.
00:34:19.160 How can you live here anymore?
00:34:21.380 What's your problems with Canada?
00:34:23.020 Like, what has Trudeau done to Canada?
00:34:25.880 Well, we have no rights anymore.
00:34:27.360 We have no rights to protest.
00:34:28.520 We don't have a right to say anything.
00:34:29.700 And apparently now with the CBC, if you say anything bad against the government, you're
00:34:33.780 going to be attacked, you know?
00:34:35.120 What's that?
00:34:35.760 That's not Canada.
00:34:36.860 I feel like he should focus more on us rather than the outside, like the Conservatives have
00:34:41.980 been.
00:34:43.880 What do you mean he's focusing on the outside, like sending money overseas?
00:34:46.600 Yeah, sending money overseas, like focusing on the outside world rather than being like,
00:34:51.880 hey, our people need help.
00:34:53.380 Maybe we should focus more on them than on others.
00:34:57.100 He walks in, everyone hates him.
00:34:59.780 It's true.
00:35:00.840 I mean, I don't think you're going to find anyone who thinks that he's a good man.
00:35:05.740 Yeah, what about things like, I know a lot of people complain about immigration because
00:35:09.480 we've just had such a big wave of immigration recently.
00:35:11.980 Do you see that as a good or bad thing?
00:35:13.520 Um, I feel like it should be motivation for the Canadians who are jobless to be like,
00:35:18.980 hey, if the immigrants can get a job, why can't I get a job?
00:35:22.760 I'm blown away that he survived the blackface scandal.
00:35:26.260 He honours Nazis in Parliament.
00:35:28.860 I don't know why we should take him very seriously.
00:35:30.660 The only thing worse for him, the only thing worse than him for Canada is a poly of government.
00:35:37.700 That's the only reason he's been in power for as long as he's been in, because there's
00:35:41.160 no credible opposition.
00:35:44.140 Yeah, that's all.
00:35:45.820 Where does the, if he wins again, where do you see the future of Canada?
00:35:50.020 Oh, I mean, Canada's just going to continue declining, right?
00:35:52.960 The RCMP says so.
00:35:54.320 The OCD says so.
00:35:56.840 Like, Canada's just going to, in a tailspin.
00:35:59.380 And it's not going to stop.
00:36:00.720 It's not going to stop with Trudeau.
00:36:01.780 It's not going to stop with Polly F.
00:36:02.840 It's not going to stop with Singh.
00:36:04.280 The capitalist class is sending us into a downward spiral.
00:36:07.160 You guys probably aren't going to use that last part.
00:36:09.520 We'll put it in.
00:36:10.880 Uh, no, just disappointing, right?
00:36:12.340 I mean, we had so much hope.
00:36:13.200 He had that friendship with Obama.
00:36:15.280 And then he just went total on the left, left, left, left, left, left, left.
00:36:19.160 And it's created a lot of problems.
00:36:20.840 Yeah, like with the economy or with what?
00:36:22.900 When are you talking about these problems?
00:36:24.600 Uh, it trickles down to the economy.
00:36:25.960 But it's a lot of sort of like with this whole woke agenda.
00:36:28.920 That's sort of really, you know, unfortunately, the backlash is people are going to vote far right,
00:36:34.180 which is not good either.
00:36:35.280 He's not a serious person.
00:36:36.640 He never was a serious person.
00:36:38.360 He's a front man for capital so that they can continue to bamboozle us
00:36:42.060 while they extract as much wealth as they can out of the society
00:36:45.120 and then pitch us all overboard.
00:36:46.920 That's their obvious strategy.
00:36:49.700 They're all in it together.
00:36:50.760 And they're going to continue acting that way as long as we keep voting for these dim-witted loser capitalists.
00:36:56.520 Do you think that he'll be taken out of power in this next election?
00:37:00.500 Absolutely.
00:37:01.520 I believe he will.
00:37:02.820 I'm praying he'll be the, he'll go and hopefully he'll be happy that he's going.
00:37:08.760 But he's loved by the upper elite and hated by the people like on the street now.
00:37:15.380 Go ask those people who lost everything.
00:37:17.780 He seems to have an idea of what people need.
00:37:20.820 Like, it seems like it.
00:37:22.220 But then as soon as he starts talking, he starts talking about something completely different than what was asked.
00:37:27.180 So it's like, I feel like he kind of knows what's going on,
00:37:29.280 but then just totally gets confused or lost with how to go about it.
00:37:33.000 When you say he's not for our people, who's he for?
00:37:35.460 Who's he working for?
00:37:36.400 Well, himself.
00:37:37.880 Yeah, he wants those votes.
00:37:39.500 He's all taking care of us.
00:37:41.440 What about, what about the money?
00:37:42.860 What's he using that for?
00:37:43.840 All our tax dollars?
00:37:44.680 Definitely not us.
00:37:45.480 I try not to get into politics too much with people because it clashes so much.
00:37:51.460 But, yeah, pretty divisive.
00:37:53.760 But I'd say everywhere politically right now is very divisive.
00:37:57.520 A lot of issues are kind of black and white when they shouldn't be,
00:38:00.580 and there should be a lot more conversation between people.
00:38:03.360 That's how I feel.
00:38:10.800 Hey, can I show you a video that Pierre Polyev's campaign just dropped?
00:38:14.500 I got the chills from this.
00:38:16.760 This, at least for me, was very powerful.
00:38:19.680 What do you think?
00:38:20.280 Take a look.
00:38:21.500 It's time for a change in this country, my friends.
00:38:24.800 A real change.
00:38:27.940 A real change.
00:38:31.640 A real change.
00:38:35.260 A real change.
00:38:38.240 A real change.
00:38:40.280 A real change.
00:38:42.280 A real change.
00:38:43.300 It's time for a change in this country, my friends.
00:38:46.640 A real change.
00:38:48.480 A real change.
00:38:48.880 A real change.
00:38:49.920 A real change.
00:38:50.920 Just the other day, I was downtown, but as that video shows, this could be any city.
00:38:55.420 I happen to be in Toronto.
00:38:56.720 There's a major road called the Gardner Expressway.
00:38:59.480 Really, it's the main road in and out of downtown Toronto.
00:39:02.680 And it's crumbling.
00:39:03.780 Like, you can see exposed rebar, concrete chunks.
00:39:07.920 I'm scared.
00:39:09.320 It's an elevated highway, is what I'm saying.
00:39:11.420 It's like the whole thing is a bridge, and then it goes, the off-ramps go down.
00:39:15.380 It's crumbling.
00:39:17.460 Like, chunks of it.
00:39:19.380 But even crazier, underneath this elevated highway are countless tents of homeless people.
00:39:29.220 We're going to go down and investigate them, and I want to do this investigation in other cities, too, because this isn't just a Toronto thing.
00:39:34.440 It's an Ottawa thing.
00:39:35.320 It's a Vancouver thing.
00:39:36.260 It's a Montreal thing.
00:39:37.320 And crazy enough, it's even come to smaller towns.
00:39:40.960 And are these homeless people, regular homeless?
00:39:44.460 Are these people who are getting legalized drugs?
00:39:48.020 Are these foreign migrants who have no place to stay?
00:39:51.860 Are the foreign migrants in the homeless shelters forcing out Canadians?
00:39:55.620 Like, I want to learn more about it.
00:39:57.100 I want to be careful that our reporters don't get into trouble.
00:39:59.780 But being down at this Gardner Expressway the other day, I hadn't been down there in a while, I was shocked.
00:40:06.540 I thought, this feels like I'm in Skid Row or something in Los Angeles or in decrepit Portland.
00:40:12.880 No, it's Canada, too.
00:40:13.980 And I say all of this because whenever I see Justin Trudeau announcing another $5 billion for the war in Ukraine,
00:40:21.840 and I don't understand the path to peace or the path to victory, if there is even one,
00:40:27.400 all I can think about is, how about instead of giving foreign aid,
00:40:32.860 how about instead of trying to be a hero in other countries, how about fix a few things here?
00:40:38.740 I don't know if you saw the news.
00:40:39.760 Calgary had a huge water main break.
00:40:44.300 And it's been more than a week now.
00:40:46.560 And they have water limitation rules.
00:40:49.740 And I don't even know where it's going to end.
00:40:51.800 And now politicians are talking about making this a semi-permanent water ration.
00:40:56.200 And it feels like a third world country.
00:40:58.880 And my point is, our politicians are so good at, in Calgary, for example, declaring a climate emergency, climate emergency.
00:41:07.320 Our city councillors in every city in this country are so good at banning single-use cutlery or banning single-use plastic bags.
00:41:16.040 They're experts at that student union level BS, but they can't build a road and they can't maintain a water main.
00:41:26.600 And I saw a tweet today by Dean Skareko showing that just atrocious public art.
00:41:32.380 Politicians using tax dollars for public art has got to be banned somewhere.
00:41:37.840 Calgary really knows how to do the climate emergency and atrocious public art,
00:41:41.760 but it's not so good at, you know, doing basic stuff like water mains.
00:41:45.080 It's unbelievable.
00:41:46.760 That's our show for today.
00:41:48.720 Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:41:53.140 And keep fighting for freedom.