Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Who won last night's Conservative Party leadership debate？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, we all know that sneaky Patrick Brown is a lying liar, but maybe he is dangerous 1.00

00:00:22.380 as well. It's Friday, May 6, 2022, and this is the Ezra LeVent Show. 0.95

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00:00:45.340 bloody right to do so.

00:00:51.500 Hey folks, did you catch the conservative leadership debate last night?

00:00:56.280 Well, if you didn't, here's the post-game summary. Judging by applause, the clear-cut winner was

00:01:02.100 surely Pierre Pollyevre. Judging by the boos, the jeers, and even downright derisive laughter,

00:01:09.340 the definite loser was Jean Charest. No surprise there, really.

00:01:14.660 But there was also a candidate who lost the debate due to default, given that he was

00:01:21.020 a no-show, and that would be sneaky Patrick Brown, Brampton's full-time mayor and part-time

00:01:28.460 Zamboni inspector. One must wonder what Patrick Brown was thinking. Why wouldn't he want to

00:01:35.540 be on a national stage making a case for what he believes in? Gee, could it be because the

00:01:42.160 majority of Canadians aren't buying what he's selling? Or maybe because so many grassroots

00:01:48.080 conservatives know that Patrick Brown is a compulsive liar? You know, the kind of guy who 0.58

00:01:53.620 would spit in your face and tell you that it's raining? Or maybe because we all know, or we should

00:01:59.920 know, that Patrick Brown will say anything to anyone if he thinks it will garner him a vote or three?

00:02:07.780 All of my points are provable, folks, by the way. For example, check out how we caught Patrick red-handed

00:02:14.920 at a Brampton hockey rink in 2020. This tale never gets old. Here's the backstory. Brown had closed all

00:02:23.440 the playgrounds and baseball diamonds and soccer pitches to the children of Brampton. He hired Paladin

00:02:30.000 security to spy on these facilities. And if they saw violators, the security guards would call Brampton

00:02:36.560 bylaw. And like firefighters to a four alarm blaze, the bylaw buzzards would whip over to the scene of

00:02:44.580 the crime and issue hefty tickets. It was all about keeping people safe at the height of COVID, you see.

00:02:53.360 But Patrick Brown is one of those political parasites who subscribes to the mantra of 0.93

00:02:58.380 do as I say, not as I do. We were tipped off that Brown was playing shinny at the Ernst Cliff 0.95

00:03:05.140 Recreation Centre with his Barry Buddies. At first blush, we found this tip hard to believe.

00:03:13.120 Surely even Patrick Brown isn't that entitled. But we paid a visit to the rink and well, here's what

00:03:20.640 transpired. Well, folks, we're getting the bums rush. But holy mackerel, I think I see Patrick

00:03:28.360 Brown himself. Oh, hey, how you doing? Good. Mr. Brown, right? Yeah. David Menzies with

00:03:35.120 Rebel News. You're in a city facility? What's that? You're in a city facility? Yeah, so are you.

00:03:40.640 Yeah. So are you playing hockey here? No, I'm just coming to check in our facility. So I'm

00:03:46.300 going to, we're going to check. You're not supposed to be here, actually. We were told that you play

00:03:51.260 a pickup here. Mr. Brown, how come the kids in Brampton can only practice sports, but your

00:03:58.960 buddies can play hockey? Yeah. So I don't know why you are harassing people in the city of

00:04:07.640 Brampton, but you shouldn't be. Oh, who's harassing who? Your guys handed out 122 bylaw violations

00:04:16.140 in one week. Mr. Brown, why is there a hockey game going on in this arena? I thought you're

00:04:25.960 only allowed to practice sports, not play them. And who is paying the $1,000 a day, Mr. Brown,

00:04:33.980 for this rink? Mr. Brown, are these taxpayer dollars being used for your buddies to play

00:04:43.080 hockey on this rink? Or are you paying it? Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon? So Mr. Brown,

00:04:54.060 why is there one law for me and one law for thee in this city?

00:04:57.760 Mr. Brown?

00:05:07.660 Oh yeah, he was there all right. He was there to inspect the facility. You know, if I had a job

00:05:14.020 that entailed checking Freon levels and tinkering with the engine of a Zamboni, I would also wear

00:05:20.780 a finely tailored suit from Harry Rosen as opposed to, you know, haberdashery obtained from Mark's

00:05:26.740 work warehouse. But Brown blatantly lied about his shinny shenanigans. He would also later lie with

00:05:35.040 his pals in the mainstream media that I had misrepresented myself as a correspondent with

00:05:41.400 Maple Leafs TV, an outlet that doesn't exist, by the way. And he wrapped it all up in a bow by stating

00:05:49.840 that Rebel News is an Islamophobic organization. Gee, I'm sure that last allegation must come as a

00:05:57.520 shock and a surprise to Raheel Raza, the chair of Rebel News. I mean, I don't think a Muslim would 1.00

00:06:03.740 want to be part of an Islamic news organization after all. But here's the deal. If Patrick Brown 0.51

00:06:11.320 is caught on tape lying about a little thing like sneaking off to a hockey arena to play a sport

00:06:18.500 that was verboten to all the other citizens of his city, well then chances are he is going to lie

00:06:25.460 about the big things too. That's really why the Progressive Conservative Party made Patrick walk the

00:06:32.100 plank back in January 2018. It really had little to do with an alleged sex scandal and a whole lot more to

00:06:40.540 do with the fact that Patrick Brown was destroying the party's brand thanks to his incessant lying.

00:06:49.320 For example, he told Social Conservatives that if made leader of the PC party and elected premier,

00:06:55.660 he would terminate the Liberals' radicalized sex education curriculum. And then, after becoming

00:07:01.880 party leader, he tossed Social Conservatives under the bus by telling them, nope, the sex ed curriculum,

00:07:08.320 it's just fine and dandy, thank you very much. Inexplicably, he then tossed fiscal Conservatives

00:07:15.580 under the bus when one of his first major policy announcements was his vow to bring in a provincial

00:07:22.800 carbon tax for Ontario. That was baffling. Despite declines in recent years, Ontario is still a

00:07:31.640 manufacturing province. A carbon tax would have been cancerous. So when allegations of a sex scandal

00:07:39.100 emerged, the PC party had a very convenient excuse to stage a palace coup and rid themselves of someone 0.95

00:07:47.460 who was less leader and more compulsive liar. But like Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees,

00:07:54.580 Patrick Brown is back from the grave. This shameless shyster has set his sights on becoming the leader 0.91

00:08:01.640 of the Conservative Party of Canada, ultimately hoping to emerge as our next Prime Minister. 0.93

00:08:09.560 Holy horror movie indeed. Yet, what does Patrick Brown stand for? Since tossing his hat in the ring back in

00:08:18.400 March, for the most part, he's been missing in action. Unlike the other five candidates who have

00:08:25.460 been crisscrossing our Great Dominion and holding rallies, Patrick Brown has had about as much of a

00:08:31.840 public presence as the Invisible Man. Well, not quite. You see, Patrick Brown is less about public rallies

00:08:39.840 and far more about backroom deals. And one of those deals that he cooked up recently is downright

00:08:47.740 disturbing. As reported in the Globe and Mail, in private appeals to Tamil Canadians, Brown has promised

00:08:55.000 to deliver an apology as Prime Minister for Canada's behaviour during the Sri Lankan civil war that ended in

00:09:03.480 2009. You know, I don't know what Canada was supposed to have done in a civil war half a world away,

00:09:11.380 maybe send in the snowbirds for a flyby. But Patrick has nevertheless offered to serve up a mea culpa

00:09:18.520 on the behalf of all Canadians because he thinks that some Tamil Canadians will support him for this?

00:09:26.760 Wow. But wait, there's more folks. Brown has also promised to remove the Liberation Tigers of Tamil

00:09:34.660 Elam, aka the Tamil Tigers, from Public Safety Canada's list of designated terrorist organisations.

00:09:43.260 This group was first put on the terrorist list by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government

00:09:48.600 in 2006. Yeah, when Patrick Brown was an MP in that very government. Funny how he didn't raise a

00:09:56.500 ruckus about the Sri Lankan conflict back then. Oh, but then again, what am I saying? He didn't stand

00:10:04.460 to personally benefit from taking such a stance some 16 years ago. Yikes. By the way, the blacklist

00:10:12.340 pertaining to the Tamil Tigers is not just a conservative thing. The Justin Trudeau Liberals

00:10:18.260 reaffirmed the Tamil Tiger terrorist designation after a review in 2018. Here's what Public Safety Canada

00:10:26.220 stated then, quote, although the LTTE was militarily defeated in May 2009, subversion,

00:10:35.140 destabilisation and fundraising continue particularly in the diaspora, end quote. Should be noted that this

00:10:43.680 is not just a Canadian thing either. 32 other nations around the world also consider the Tamil Tigers to be a

00:10:51.640 terrorist group. And rightly so, the Tamil Tigers were actually successful in assassinating a former 1.00

00:10:58.600 head of state, namely India's Rajiv Gandhi. That's quite the achievement for a terror group. Yet even though 0.98

00:11:07.140 the Tamil Tigers have blood on their hands, Patrick Brown, he could care less. That's because Canada is 1.00

00:11:13.480 home to one of the largest Tamil populations outside Sri Lanka. Approximately 140,000 Canadians claim

00:11:22.180 Tamil as their mother tongue. The overall population of the Tamil Canadian community is estimated at about

00:11:28.320 twice that number. In numerous Greater Toronto Area ridings, Tamil voters count for more than 10% of the

00:11:36.240 electorate. Brown is obviously wagering that most Tamil Canadians are supporters of the Tigers and that

00:11:43.820 they would respond favourably to the Tigers being removed from the terrorist list. The quid pro quo, of

00:11:50.960 course, is that these Tamil Canadians would support Patrick Brown by buying party memberships and voting 0.95

00:11:57.440 for him. That's what's so appalling about Patrick Brown's pledge to declassify the Tamil Tigers. He aims to do 0.96

00:12:05.720 so not because it is the right thing to do, not the right thing to do for Canada, that is, but because

00:12:11.960 it's potentially the right thing to do for Patrick Brown's leadership ambitions. That, in a nutshell,

00:12:20.520 is Patrick Brown for you. The party he represents is not the Ontario progressive Conservatives nor the

00:12:26.600 federal Conservatives, but rather he's leader of the me, myself and I party. Yet by exploiting

00:12:35.560 diaspora politics for purely personal gain, Brown is playing a very dangerous game here indeed.

00:12:43.800 And by the way, how low will he go? What about, I don't know, declassifying Al-Qaeda as a terrorist

00:12:51.080 group in order to entice pro-Al-Qaeda Muslim Canadians to the Brown camp? Hey, I'm sure our homegrown Al-Qaeda 1.00

00:13:00.040 terrorist little Omar Cotter would approve. Heck, Omar could even make a substantial donation to the

00:13:07.000 Brown campaign, given that this murderer is a multimillionaire due to your tax dollars hard at

00:13:14.600 work yet again. By the way, we can all thank Prime Minister Trudeau for that benevolence,

00:13:19.800 given that Justin has apparently never met a jihadi he didn't admire. But in the big picture,

00:13:26.600 think of what's consuming the thoughts of most Canadians these days. Like how about gasoline at

00:13:33.240 almost two bucks a litre? How about inflation spiralling out of control? Just how many citizens

00:13:40.120 go to bed at night thinking that hopefully, maybe one day, there will be a Prime Minister who will

00:13:46.440 finally remove the Tamil Tigers from the terrorist list? But this is inconsequential to Mr. Brown,

00:13:54.120 the leader of the Me, Myself and I party. Clearly, his goal is to sell hundreds if not

00:14:00.360 thousands of party memberships to certain targeted ethnic groups. Brown promises to pay attention to

00:14:08.520 their old mother world concerns. In return, they need only buy a party membership and vote for Patrick

00:14:16.520 Brown. The thing is, such a hoorish strategy might just swing the vote in certain key writings. The

00:14:25.000 fact that the vast majority of Canadians likely don't want our nation to get soft on terrorism and

00:14:32.360 terrorists is of no concern to Brown. This pathetic weasel seeks power for the sake of power. In his 0.99

00:14:42.280 playbook, the ends always justify the means. And maybe that is the reason Patrick Brown was a no-show at

00:14:50.280 the debate last night. He's just way too busy cooking up backroom deals. And some of those backroom deals

00:14:59.160 are being done with people who, quite frankly, do not subscribe to the values of a Western democracy. 0.95

00:15:05.560 In his insatiable quest for power, this lying liar will say or do anything, including exploiting 0.87

00:15:15.720 diaspora politics and embracing those who support terrorism. Mr. Brown is not simply a fake conservative 0.97

00:15:26.280 who finds it almost impossible to tell the truth. Rather, Patrick Brown is downright dangerous. 0.58

00:15:45.160 Well folks, earlier this week, in a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that, quote,

00:15:51.080 no one can be forced to be vaccinated, end quote. The court also ruled that bodily integrity and

00:15:58.440 personal integrity are protected under the law as a constitutional right. Wow. For those who

00:16:06.200 subscribe to freedom of choice and medical privacy, this is indeed an incredible decision

00:16:13.080 by the Supremes. Ah, but alas and alack, I forgot one very important detail, folks.

00:16:19.560 It was the Supreme Court of India, not Canada, that made this landmark decision on May the 2nd.

00:16:27.320 And joining me now to discuss how India's High Court got it right on vaccine mandates,

00:16:33.400 while this country refuses to budge on such COVID-19-inspired regulations,

00:16:39.800 is Rupa Subramanya, a columnist for the National Post. Well, thanks so much for joining me,

00:16:46.760 Rupa, and I hope I didn't massacre the pronunciation of your surname. No, it was perfect. It was perfect.

00:16:52.360 Thank you so much for having me. Well, Rupa, you wrote a superb column in the Post yesterday,

00:16:57.480 contrasting India and Canada when it comes to the vaccine mandates. The question arises,

00:17:04.200 why do Indians finally have freedom from these oppressive rules, whereas Canadians are still 1.00

00:17:10.920 essentially stuck in lockdown mode? That's an excellent question. And it's not just India 0.98

00:17:17.800 that seems to be in the end of the pandemic. It's a whole bunch of different countries. Canada is

00:17:23.800 increasingly an outlier in the world when it comes to vaccine mandates, especially as they apply to,

00:17:30.600 for example, the civil service. I can't think of any other country which insists that federal government workers

00:17:42.120 should be vaccinated, especially when they've been working from home. The judicial system of the two countries,

00:17:47.720 India and Canada are very similar. They have the same parent, essentially. And there's also a culture

00:17:57.880 of deference in Canada, in the Canadian judicial system, and the Indian judicial system. So that's

00:18:06.040 what makes this Supreme Court ruling extraordinary, because it begs the question, why aren't the courts,

00:18:12.520 why isn't this happening here, given how important the issue of vaccine mandates has been for the last

00:18:21.880 few months? And the judgment was remarkable in the sense that they tried to strike a delicate balance

00:18:30.680 between the government's responsibility towards maintaining public health and safety and bodily

00:18:40.360 autonomy of the average Indian citizen. And that in the context of this current situation where

00:18:48.440 infection rates are actually low, and also they refer to emerging scientific evidence that shows that

00:18:56.040 the transmission rates between the unvaccinated and vaccinated are almost on par. So what is the

00:19:04.280 rationale behind vaccine mandates? And that was the original rationale for vaccine mandates. If you

00:19:11.080 remember last fall, this was before Omicron, the rationale was to curb transmission. But post-Omicron

00:19:18.520 and post-Omicron subvariants, which are highly transmissible, even people with three or four doses

00:19:24.760 are getting COVID. I got COVID after my third booster. So what purpose do mandates serve at this point?

00:19:34.840 You know, you're quite right, Rupa. It's not just India. I know very recently, Switzerland and Greece,

00:19:41.320 as you noted in your column, they've gotten rid of the mandates. Even, my golly, New Zealand arguably

00:19:48.760 had the strictest mandate laws on the books. They're now freeing things up. I believe on May 1st,

00:19:55.960 it no longer applies to international travelers. That's the vax mandates. So what is the unspoken

00:20:03.720 strategy here, Rupa? I mean, is this really all about politics? Is this about the Justin Trudeau

00:20:11.400 Liberals demonizing the unvaxxed for political gain somehow? Well, I've been desperately searching

00:20:20.680 for the science. What is the scientific rationale behind these mandates? And as I mentioned to you

00:20:25.560 earlier, the original rationale was the curb transmission. Now that everybody is getting

00:20:31.160 infected, that becomes, you know, that basically falls apart. So then the question is, so why are

00:20:40.600 these mandates in place? And I can't help but think that this is all about politics at this point.

00:20:45.320 And then the more you demoralize the unvaccinated, the more you denigrate them. And all of that has

00:20:54.440 been happening. You know, we know that's been happening. The Freedom Convoy protesters,

00:20:59.000 for example, have been demonized like, you know, to such a great extent that I think, you know,

00:21:05.400 many of them are actually feeling a little demoralized at this point. And I think it's all about

00:21:12.200 politics. I think the Trudeau government probably wants to see where this is going to go.

00:21:18.680 You know, they probably just want to also attack their opponents in the Conservative Party,

00:21:24.440 especially now that the leadership campaign is in full force. And I suppose, you know,

00:21:30.200 that if you were a Conservative leader in support of the convoy, you know, this is, you know,

00:21:37.480 they're hoping to play this as a wedge issue as long as it takes.

00:21:41.960 You know, you mentioned the Freedom Convoy. We saw how they were demonized, Rupa. Last weekend,

00:21:47.240 I was in Ottawa to cover Rolling Thunder. These were a group of peaceful bikers. All they wanted to do

00:21:53.400 was take a lap around the National War Memorial and lay a wreath. They were denied doing that. They

00:21:59.400 were demonized to. Again, another peaceful protest. I'm beginning to think, Rupa, for those on the left,

00:22:07.080 is freedom the new F word?

00:22:12.680 Freedom seems to be, seems to become really a toxic word, which is quite bizarre to me because it's so

00:22:20.520 fundamental to our existence. It's fundamental to democratic societies. Freedom may not mean much to

00:22:28.040 the average North Korean, but it does mean a lot. I think it means a lot to the average Canadian. So,

00:22:34.360 so I just find that, you know, every time one talks about freedom and individual liberty,

00:22:40.440 it seems to trigger folks on the left and which is, which is, you know, a really bizarre reaction.

00:22:47.320 But I do think that maybe at a basic level, people, people are actually afraid of being free.

00:22:53.160 And, you know, those of us who've come to Canada from countries that didn't protect individual

00:23:01.400 liberty, that gave short shrift to freedom and individual liberties, we really value

00:23:10.440 freedom. And that's something that, you know, you start valuing it when it's taken away from you.

00:23:17.000 And going back to the issue at hand, Rupa, I mean, we don't have a Supreme Court decision one way or

00:23:23.320 the other, but you did mention in your column, it was a very interesting anecdote. It was how

00:23:28.280 arbitrators ruled against the Canadian Union of Postal Workers when that, you know, union filed a

00:23:36.760 grievance against Canada post-mandatory vaccination requirement. This doesn't seem hopeful what's

00:23:45.320 happening here as so many other nations around the globe are opening up. It seems that, be it

00:23:52.120 corporations, crown corporations, the federal government, they're still hell-bent on keeping

00:23:58.920 these VAX mandates. But given the lack of effectiveness, what's the point?

00:24:05.560 It is politics. It's not about the science anymore, as I mentioned earlier. And there have been a series

00:24:10.840 of these cases that have come up before arbitrators, the most recent one being the Canadian Union of

00:24:17.960 Postal Workers. And, you know, and it's not just that. I mean, it's the unions as well, which is

00:24:25.560 extraordinary. I mean, the UK, for example, the unions were very, you know, came up strongly against

00:24:34.120 vaccine mandates when they were being proposed. So, but our unions here, for some reason,

00:24:40.920 seem to side with the government on this issue. And it truly is perplexing. I mean,

00:24:47.160 the left has essentially sided with the government on this and focused on other issues when they should be

00:24:55.560 fighting for workers' rights. Where are they? You know, they're nowhere to be found.

00:25:02.120 You know, and it's almost perversely embarrassing because we see government, corporations, unions,

00:25:09.880 walking in lockstep. I mean, we have come across unionized employees who are suspended without pay

00:25:16.120 and they get no benefits. And it's one thing for the company and the government to wage war on them in

00:25:23.560 this regard, Rupa. But their union, too? I mean, I'm asking, why am I paying union dues? Why do I need

00:25:30.600 a union when you're simpatico with the company and the government?

00:25:35.720 Yeah, it is extraordinary. I mean, it is, you know, large sections of the media, the commentariat,

00:25:42.360 the unions, of course, and, you know, they're all basically speaking, you know, they're all using

00:25:51.000 the same talking points. As you say, they seem to be in lockstep with the government. And again,

00:25:56.920 I would point that, I'd like to point that Canada, again, is uniquely, you know, it's an outlier in

00:26:04.120 this, you know, as far as mandates are concerned and as far as opposition to the mandates is

00:26:10.280 concerned from unions and, you know, other organizations that should be fighting for

00:26:16.520 workers' rights. And so it is extraordinary. I think at this point it is really about politics.

00:26:24.040 Like I mentioned in my column, and I mentioned to you earlier, that it makes sense for them to play

00:26:29.800 this as a wedge issue, continue to polarize Canadians, continue to divide Canadians,

00:26:35.720 continue to demoralize the unvaccinated in the hopes, perhaps, you know, that, 0.90

00:26:42.280 you know, let's say a protest turns violent. I wasn't here this past weekend, but I know

00:26:47.080 friends who were at the protests and, you know, and they, many of these folks, you know, mentioned

00:26:54.600 to me that, you know, there was a dark element to the protest this time. You know,

00:26:59.240 it didn't have the spirit of, it wasn't like the Freedom Convoy protest. It was something

00:27:05.560 definitely a dark underlining, a dark line to the protests. And perhaps it speaks to the fact that

00:27:14.280 many of the protesters are now really tired. Their patience is wearing thin.

00:27:19.080 They've not been told why these mandates are in place. I mean, they asked some very

00:27:23.320 good questions. The conservatives have been asking excellent questions in the House of Commons,

00:27:28.760 you know, asking the government, you know, show us the evidence, point us to a study that justifies

00:27:37.880 these mandates. You know, who are the experts that you're consulting? And these are questions that

00:27:43.320 a lot of people have been asking. But, you know, there are no answers. The answers that we get,

00:27:48.280 the responses that we've been getting from the government is that, I think at one point,

00:27:53.000 Prime Minister Trudeau said, in response to Melissa Lansman's very, very specific questions on

00:27:59.080 the rationale for travel mandates, he said, most Canadians are vaccinated. I mean,

00:28:02.680 that's a complete non-response. So it's frustrating. It's adding to the frustration of

00:28:08.280 people who are not able to board a plane. They're not able to go back to work because

00:28:13.480 they're on leave without pay. And so it is getting, you know, their patience is wearing thin. And I

00:28:20.440 worry, the more this goes on, the more angry people are going to get. And then, you know,

00:28:26.920 that corrosive narrative that was in place during the freedom convoy may end up becoming a self-fulfilling

00:28:33.880 prophecy. Well, Rupa, I'm going to throw now to a clip from a Justin Trudeau Liberal MP who is

00:28:41.000 indeed justifying that we have to keep these mandates in place when it comes to Canadians

00:28:46.920 who are unvaccinated and want to travel. Let's check out what he has to say.

00:28:50.360 If the NDP Liberals won't follow the province's lead and give unvaccinated Canadians their rights back,

00:28:55.000 maybe they will follow our international partners. We know that the Prime Minister values his plane

00:29:00.040 away image on the world stage more than anything else, as his travels and selfies prove. But our

00:29:04.840 international partners are bewildered as to why the Canadian government is so reluctant to let life

00:29:08.840 return to normal for all Canadians. Switzerland and Greece are removing all travel-related

00:29:14.840 restrictions next week, and virtually no other country requires it for domestic travel for their

00:29:19.960 citizens. So why won't this government follow the science?

00:29:26.920 The Honourable Prime Minister to the Minister of Health and the Minister of Sport.

00:29:30.840 Thank you, Madam Speaker. And I thank my Honourable colleague for giving me the opportunity to

00:29:34.200 highlight a recent study indicating that, unfortunately, the unvaccinated continue to 1.00

00:29:37.800 disproportionately risk the safety of those vaccinated against COVID-19 and highlight the fact

00:29:42.360 that in the last week, almost 12,000 Canadians have received their first dose, 30,000 Canadians have

00:29:48.120 received their second, 89,000 received their third, and over 220,000 have received their fourth dose,

00:29:54.040 Madam Speaker. This pandemic is not over. We all want it to be, but we must continue to follow the

00:29:58.440 science. We must continue to support our neighbours. We must continue to fight for kids to ensure that

00:30:03.640 young people under six do not get COVID-19 as they have been the biggest numbers in the last couple of

00:30:09.160 days. Thank you. Well, par for the course, yet another Justin Trudeau liberal that doesn't answer

00:30:14.280 the question. We've got to wrap it up, Rupa. I want to ask you to gaze into a proverbial crystal ball.

00:30:23.000 What do you think, when do you think these mandates, whether it's by the government dropping them or by

00:30:29.960 our Supreme Court ruling on this issue, when is someone, well, like me, who's unvaccinated, where I can

00:30:37.880 get on a plane, fly down to the Dominican Republic, I'd love to do that like the good old days,

00:30:43.400 when or when do you think that's going to happen, if it's going to happen?

00:30:49.160 I think it will happen. I don't, I think it's a question of, you know, when, and, you know,

00:30:56.600 I don't have a specific date in mind, but I do think that the pressure, that they're certainly

00:31:01.400 feeling the pressure. I know almost every day, there's a question in the House of Commons,

00:31:07.080 trying to hold the government to account, asking them to explain to us why these mandates

00:31:12.040 continue to be in place when other countries, including New Zealand, which followed a very

00:31:17.160 aggressive COVID zero policy, has rolled back many of these mandates, including the fact that you can

00:31:23.800 get Bored Air New Zealand unvaccinated. And that's quite extraordinary. So, you know,

00:31:31.240 the government can continue to justify these mandates, they can refer to studies that show that

00:31:36.040 the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated, and they can, they can, they can do all of that. 0.56

00:31:41.000 But, you know, the rest of the world is moving on, and we're still, you know, in pandemic mode.

00:31:47.080 And, and that's, that's clear for everybody to see that the world is watching us. I know people who,

00:31:54.360 you know, visited Canada and left Canada, and they say Canada feels like a prison,

00:31:59.240 because our restrictions here are, you know, harsher than anywhere else.

00:32:04.040 I couldn't agree with you more, Rupa. Thank you so much for your time. It was a pleasure. And,

00:32:11.160 folks, please check out Rupa's column in the National Post. The headline, India's courts get it

00:32:18.360 right on vaccine mandates, and Canada doesn't. What a disgrace. Keep it here. More of the Ezra

00:32:25.560 Levent show to come right after this.

00:32:34.040 Well, folks, you know, we here at Rebel News, we get your correspondence electronically, that is,

00:32:45.000 every minute of every day. And why don't we just check out some of our fan mail, or is it perhaps

00:32:52.280 hate mail? That's okay. We're an equal opportunity employer here. Grace Friesen writes,

00:32:59.000 Isn't it about time to call MSM welfare media? Oh, and while we're at it, why not call all politicians

00:33:07.400 welfare bums too? Well, certainly, the career politicians who basically don't do anything,

00:33:14.200 I think bum is an apt descriptor. But you're right, in terms of the mainstream media receiving

00:33:20.440 government money, not only are they receiving a form of welfare, but they are inherently in a conflict

00:33:27.400 of interest. How can you possibly, fairly, and impartially cover the government, when the

00:33:33.960 government is, in essence, your sugar daddy? Unbelievable. Sarah Kandent's blog writes,

00:33:41.320 Canada is doomed. That's why my family and I left this year, only coming back after Fidel's son 0.98

00:33:48.520 leaves the government, and it might be after 2025. Well, you know, first of all, I'd love to know

00:33:55.640 where you flew off to. I, of course, being one of the filthy unvaxxed Canadians, I can't get out of 1.00

00:34:02.440 our country under the present vax mandates. And yeah, 2025, it seems so long away. I mean,

00:34:11.720 as the saying goes, today can't possibly dream of what tomorrow brings. Let's hope Jagmeet Singh grows a

00:34:19.480 set and stops propping up this hideous liberal government. Let's hope we have regime change sooner 0.99

00:34:27.240 than three years away. Photo 606 writes, love listening to Sheila Gunn-Reed. As a Winnipegger,

00:34:36.120 I don't listen to local radio unless it's music. And I loathe the Winnipeg Free Press, which seems to have

00:34:43.320 been deteriorating in quality and integrity for years. Well, my friend, I can tell you the same

00:34:49.480 deal with terrestrial radio in Toronto. If some of these cats don't get off the air, I'm going to

00:34:56.120 stop breathing it, to use the old Dick Beto's quote. And what do you think about the fact that

00:35:02.120 the Winnipeg Free Press that you have disdain for, you are indirectly paying for that. That would be part

00:35:09.080 of the newspaper cabal getting that $600 million plus a year to keep them afloat. Otherwise, it's a

00:35:18.200 bankrupt entity. Funny that, if something's going to fail, why do we have to come to its rescue?

00:35:25.880 I never understood that kind of perverse capitalism. Maybe because it's not capitalism at all. It's more

00:35:33.480 like Marxism. Well, folks, that wraps up another edition of the Ezreal event show. The big boss

00:35:39.960 man, he'll be back on Monday. In the meantime, have a great weekend. And as always, stay sane.

00:35:47.720 I know you said that. I understand why. We're going to ask you to leave now.

00:35:50.520 Why? Zach? Why is that? Because we're not giving

00:35:54.120 your accreditation to this event. So we're going to ask you to leave this evening.

00:35:57.960 Under the Trespassing Property Act, we will remove you. Okay. Who are you?

00:36:01.320 I work for the party and I'm... Okay. Can I see some ID then? It's right here, sir.

00:36:05.960 It just says Tour 2022. Yeah. We're going to have to ask you to leave.

00:36:09.160 Okay. What is your name then? So we have uniformed police on site

00:36:12.920 that will come and remove you. I don't even know. Can I ask you why? That's a fair question.

00:36:17.480 I see other media here. You're not invited to the event and you're not checked in. You're not coming

00:36:22.280 into the event. But do you have to be invited? I see all sorts of people coming in here.

00:36:25.400 Everybody here is invited and they're all here for the right reasons. So...

00:36:32.760 So you're asking us to leave, but you won't give us a reason why?

00:36:35.240 I'm asking you to please leave. Okay. But what is the reason?

00:36:37.880 Can you please... Let's go. Come on. What is the reason?

00:36:41.080 Sir, we're going to leave. Can I just ask... I'm not answering any questions.

00:36:44.600 We're going to leave right now. I'm just asking online.

00:36:46.040 I'm only telling you, you have to leave. We know who you are and we're not causing any...

00:36:49.720 What does that mean, you know who we are? I don't understand what that means.

00:36:53.240 It's on your mic right there. That's right. Rebel News.

00:36:55.000 So we're media. Thank you.

00:36:56.840 Okay, then.

00:36:58.920 Isn't that amazing? We can't get in.

00:37:03.800 But the state-funded media, CBC, City TV, Global, CTV, they can.

00:37:12.360 That was Ford's spokeswoman, the person I was talking to.

00:37:15.960 You see, there'll be no problem of Brian Lilly getting entry because that is Brian Lilly's mistress.

00:37:24.280 It is a grotesque conflict of interest. It's a conflict of interest that, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't been declared.

00:37:31.080 So is that the new rule that you got to get really up close and personal with the PC communications team or else you're asked to leave?

00:37:41.640 Well, I'm sorry. I'm a married man. And besides, Ivana is not my type.

00:37:45.480 In any event, as always, we will try to make lemonade out of lemons and do our streeters outside.

00:37:54.200 But what does it say that a man, Doug Ford, in September 2017, I remember it well, I was interviewing him at Rebel News headquarters, proposed a weekly Rebel News show.

00:38:08.200 And only to change his mind, not based on what he wanted to do, but you see, Dave, the team, the team has different ideas.

00:38:18.420 That's what he told me in November after he was ignoring my phone calls, emails, texts, etc.

00:38:23.880 So in any event, it's baffling. Perhaps his cozy relationship with Justin Trudeau is what has made his media non grata.

00:38:34.800 We have come to the Toronto Congress Centre several times, several times in the last four years.

00:38:43.320 We've been warmly received, but now we're media non grata.

00:38:47.700 And I don't think it's an unfair question to ask why.

00:38:53.220 And but you saw it, even his communications head honcho, a.k.a. Brian Lilly's mistress, says we are not wanted.

00:39:02.700 I used to work with her at Sun News. Boy, do relationships change quickly.

00:39:07.740 Well, enough about that. Let's see what some of the folks have to say in terms of Doug Ford's greatest achievement and greatest failure.

00:39:16.220 Oh, I think I can weigh in chapter and verse on failures, folks, believe me.

00:39:21.100 But we'll see what the folks have to say.

00:39:23.180 For me, I think it's bringing peace back to the province, you understand.

00:39:31.440 Moving away from the politics of identity politics that was dividing the province so much before.

00:39:37.200 And when you have peace, you can get many things done.

00:39:39.920 OK.

00:39:40.500 And it's getting many things done.

00:39:42.580 You know.

00:39:43.200 And that's a slogan, this campaign. Get it done.

00:39:45.740 But get what done exactly?

00:39:47.600 The infrastructures.

00:39:48.560 OK.

00:39:50.260 Restoring the school to standard that the children can be able to study and get good grades, right?

00:39:55.300 OK.

00:39:55.760 And making Toronto and Ontario more and a better place for everybody to live and feel equal.

00:40:06.100 Well, I'm a candidate.

00:40:07.200 Oh, OK, then.

00:40:08.100 Yes.

00:40:08.460 So I don't know if it's appropriate for me to comment, but I think he did a great job.

00:40:11.640 And you know what?

00:40:12.580 Especially his leadership through COVID, making sure that everybody was safe.

00:40:15.540 And we put people, you know what?

00:40:17.420 We had to make sure that all the province was safe and we put the people first.

00:40:21.580 But in fairness, he got a lot of flack.

00:40:23.000 He said one month he was against vaccine passports and then he flip-flopped on that.

00:40:28.080 And that caused a lot of discontent.

00:40:30.580 Do you think he made the right call?

00:40:32.420 I absolutely believe he made the right call.

00:40:34.420 OK.

00:40:34.580 He was thinking about people's health.

00:40:39.500 That this protection was extra work to care about the Ontarians.

00:40:47.480 Hey, Randy, how are you doing there?

00:40:49.780 You know, we're just asking people today what Doug Ford's biggest achievement has been

00:40:54.320 and his biggest failure these last four years.

00:40:58.280 Hey, Randy.

00:40:59.360 Hey.

00:40:59.700 I'm happy with that interaction because unlike the last time I had an encounter with Randy

00:41:08.040 Ford via a voice box at Deco Labels, a story I don't think, I mean, a business I don't think

00:41:15.780 ever closed during the pandemic.

00:41:17.240 In fact, I think business has never been better.

00:41:19.400 Well, he or one of his henchmen called the police.

00:41:23.080 Check it out.

00:41:25.480 I want you to leave the property or I'll have the police here. 0.95

00:41:28.920 Oh, who are you, sir?

00:41:33.740 OK.

00:41:34.560 I won't say a single thing.

00:41:37.160 OK.

00:41:37.520 OK.

00:41:37.880 He's a perfect leader.

00:41:39.520 Perfect.

00:41:40.640 Absolutely.

00:41:41.420 OK, then.

00:41:42.340 Because, you know, the saying goes, show me a great man, I'll show you a flawed man,

00:41:45.600 but not with Doug Ford?

00:41:46.620 Not at all.

00:41:47.460 Not at all.

00:41:48.240 You have to be clear in your mind when you select a leader.

00:41:51.020 You have to be very clear what you are saying about him.

00:41:53.360 OK.

00:41:53.740 So I don't see anything negative.

00:41:55.420 I just want to support him.

00:41:56.740 We want to be looking forward next four years for him.

00:41:59.560 But sir, when it comes to clarity, I mean, he received a lot of flack when he said there

00:42:03.200 was no way there was going to be a two-tier citizenship status in Ontario in terms of a

00:42:08.700 vax passport.

00:42:10.000 But the answer is no.

00:42:11.680 We aren't going to do it.

00:42:12.480 We aren't going to have a split society.

00:42:13.920 A few weeks later, he said, guess what, folks?

00:42:15.840 We're getting a vax passport.

00:42:17.120 I follow the medical advice of the chief medical officer in the science, and we haven't wavered

00:42:22.300 from that.

00:42:23.220 And we have two options here.

00:42:25.280 We either do this or we risk shutting down the economy, which would even be worse.

00:42:31.640 Having our hospital capacity maxed out and at the brink.

00:42:35.520 That kind of flip-flop, is that truly leadership?

00:42:39.540 Well, you know, we are all human beings, OK?

00:42:42.220 There are certain types of U-turn that you have to do at the time when looking at the ground

00:42:47.600 realities.

00:42:48.340 OK.

00:42:48.700 So I would ignore that, you know, if that happens.

00:42:51.740 First of all, he's not misstepped at all.

00:42:53.460 He's putting the province in the right direction.

00:42:57.780 To quote his mantra, get it done, and Doug's doing it, OK?

00:43:01.020 He's made commitments, and he's followed through in his commitments.

00:43:04.080 In front of the building there, just where I was telling you before.

00:43:08.340 Where's the line exactly?

00:43:09.820 Just so I can.

Rebel News Podcast - May 07, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Who won last night's Conservative Party leadership debate？

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