Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why is Justin Trudeau destroying so many Canadian icons, including our passport？

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00:00:55.980 Tonight, why is Trudeau destroying so many Canadian icons, including in our passport? We'll talk about

00:01:05.780 that and other issues with our friend Manny Montenegro in a feature-length interview. It's

00:01:10.780 May 19th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:12.940 You're fighting for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:01:25.980 By some measures, Canada is doing worse than ever. I'm genuinely concerned about the state of civil 0.84

00:01:33.800 liberties in this country. Our economy, government spending is out of control. I think there are a

00:01:39.920 lot of things that are terrifying, but underneath it all, I think there's hope. I say that because

00:01:45.740 the remedies that we typically reach for in this country are elections, and it looks like Pierre

00:01:52.260 Polyev, despite the hatred for him of the raging media, is taking hold. And as Canadians get to know

00:02:00.780 him more and more, they seem to like him, or at least, if not like him personally, think he would

00:02:07.180 do a better job than Trudeau. It's very interesting to see Pierre Polyev, who I've known actually since

00:02:13.520 he was in his 20s, to see him straddle being a good communicator and sort of folksy, but also a bit

00:02:22.880 of an intellectual. And with your permission, I'd like to start with a video that's a few minutes long,

00:02:28.320 but I want you to bear with me and go through it. It's a video of Pierre Polyev talking about some issues

00:02:35.040 I want to dig into today, talking about replacing Canadian icons and images, replacing historical

00:02:44.960 people in Canada with nothing, with voids. And this is a video that Pierre Polyev did straight to camera.

00:02:54.240 I would call this an intellectual video. We're going to come right back after this video. We're going to

00:03:00.400 tuck into it with our dear friend, Manny Montenegrino, who's with us for the entire show today.

00:03:08.080 We're going to talk about this video, what it means about passports and symbols and Terry Fox.

00:03:13.440 Then we're going to talk about bail reform in this country. We're going to talk about

00:03:19.360 a surprising piece of news, Trudeau ordering 90 million more COVID doses, and other subjects,

00:03:27.920 and we'll deal with them in a way that only Manny Montenegrino does. So watch this video with Pierre

00:03:33.680 Polyev. Stay with us and come back and we'll tuck into it. Here, take a look. 0.95

00:03:38.320 Your passport. Why is Trudeau redone it to delete Terry Fox, who ran halfway across the country on one

00:03:46.080 leg to fight cancer? Why did he delete the Vimy Memorial, which honors 3,598 soldiers who died?

00:03:54.080 Why did he delete this beautiful war memorial or even the parliament buildings beyond it? Well,

00:03:59.840 to answer that question, you need to get the country that Trudeau wants us to become.

00:04:05.120 The level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship,

00:04:14.800 admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship.

00:04:22.720 Or when he said, El Comandante Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for

00:04:29.760 almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator. Like the leaders and regimes that Trudeau

00:04:36.640 so admires, he's censoring what you can see and say, including his online censorship bill,

00:04:43.120 a bill so controversial that even legendary liberal author Margaret Atwood had this warning.

00:04:51.840 So it is creeping totalitarianism if governments are telling creators what to create. But here's the

00:04:58.000 problem for leaders that want to control everything. The only way to justify it is by promising a utopia.

00:05:03.760 Now, utopia is a beautiful word, but in Greek it actually means no place. You cannot promise to take

00:05:11.280 people to no place unless you start in no place. Put more simply, the only way you can redraw an entire

00:05:20.640 country is to wipe away the existing painting so that you can draw on a blank slate. Or as Orwell said,

00:05:28.800 the past was dead. The future was unimaginable. All that was needed was an unending series of victories

00:05:37.120 over your own memory. Reality control. So they knock down statues of our past leaders. They delete words.

00:05:45.200 They delete achievements. They even delete our most wonderful and treasured heroes. Even Nellie McClung,

00:05:52.480 who along with the rest of the famous five, proved women were persons, got erased from Trudeau's passport. 0.88

00:05:58.880 This by a so-called feminist prime minister. Our soldiers, our Mounties, our explorers, our champions,

00:06:06.400 all had to disappear. Why? Because they show that Canada is amazing above and beyond its government.

00:06:13.120 If Canada is already amazing, how could you justify having the state bend and twist it into something

00:06:19.280 completely different, as he tries to do every single day? We can have no heroes. And our history must be

00:06:26.240 portrayed as a wretched pile of injustices to justify remaking everything from scratch. Instead, our national

00:06:33.680 story in this passport looks now more like Justin Trudeau's personal colouring book, filled with trivial little

00:06:41.760 things like Canadians raking leaves or a squirrel eating a nut. The country must be made little so

00:06:50.000 that his state can be made big. There can be no heroes from the past that get in the way of the man

00:06:57.040 who appoints himself the hero of the future. The regimes that Trude admires portray the dear leader

00:07:04.240 as the only hero that could ever be. But you and I both know that the real heroes are not on state

00:07:10.560 billboards or state television. They're the common people. The folks who over centuries had to wrestle

00:07:16.720 control over their lives from the crown and put it in the hands of commoners. Our democratic tradition

00:07:22.480 goes back 800 years to the Magna Carta when the common people forced King John to sign the great

00:07:28.000 charter that brought in liberty under the law. And over those 800 years, through fits and starts and many

00:07:34.640 flaws, we've evolved closer and closer to a more democratic place where the people are in charge.

00:07:41.760 That is a precious inheritance. It may be 800 years long, but it's only one generation deep.

00:07:49.840 If this generation, the living generation fails to pass on what we inherited from those who came before 0.99

00:07:57.040 to those that come after, then it could be lost forever. That's why it's so important to keep our common

00:08:02.160 stories, our common symbols, and most importantly, our common sense. A passport is known for taking us

00:08:11.040 abroad. But sometimes the most important thing, especially when it comes to our traditions and

00:08:16.800 freedom, is to bring it home. Well, joining us now to talk about that and many other things is our friend

00:08:21.840 Manny Montmagrino. Manny, I was moved by that. I was impressed, I was educated, I was inspired, and I'm a bit of a

00:08:31.600 cynic. Tell me your thoughts on that. First of all, great to see you.

00:08:35.280 Yeah, great. Nice being here, Ezra. I was immensely moved. You know, speaking to the intellect of

00:08:42.000 Canadians is a very rare task for politicians, and Pierre did a wonderful job. He is absolutely correct

00:08:51.120 as to what's happening. And let me add some context to it. And as you know, Ezra, you know,

00:08:56.400 I look for a pattern, I look for a historical pattern, and then I come to a conclusion as to

00:09:01.360 what is really happening. Pierre is correct about the passports. All great Canadian human beings have

00:09:09.520 been removed from the passport. And there were many, and the list was there. And, but this is just one of

00:09:17.360 what's happened. There is a pattern going on. And the pattern is not, not a shock. It's what to be,

00:09:25.280 is what to be expected from Justin Trudeau. He is a one world socialist type of person. And the only way

00:09:33.920 you can get to that is you have to remove the history of Canada. Now, what has happened in a short

00:09:43.120 eight years with Trudeau? Canada is the only country that self-declared itself as genocidal.

00:09:52.080 We're a genocidal country for taking Indigenous kids and bringing them to colonial schools. That is, 1.00

00:10:03.600 that is insane to say the word genocide. There's true genocide that's happened in the world,

00:10:08.800 but the label sticks and it's there. We have removed great historical names from

00:10:17.040 statutes, everything else. It's all a pattern. And Ezra, the pattern is quite simple. And that is,

00:10:25.680 if you remove great Canadians that have done great things and diminish Canada's past and scrub Canada's

00:10:33.840 past, then the only thing that remains is the state. And the state is a way forward. We will not

00:10:40.640 be, Trudeau's intention is not to remove Kerry Fox for a new person. And that is the slight

00:10:49.840 distinction I would make from what Pierre Polivar said. It isn't, it is a scrubbing and it's a scrubbing

00:10:57.520 to keep clean. So only the state leads, only the government leads. So there will be no future

00:11:04.240 leaders that we will, you know, build statutes for, whoever they may be. There'll be no further

00:11:10.400 leaders like Kerry Fox that we will come to adore here in Ottawa, his statutes. It's the removal of

00:11:17.120 the individual. And if you remove the individual, the state becomes supreme. Now, that's the goal. The goal

00:11:25.600 is Canada should be relying, or Canadians should never look to themselves. Canadians should never 0.68

00:11:32.160 look to its greatness of its people, just the state and the state's direction. And let me, I'm going to

00:11:39.120 quiz you, Ezra. Name me one great Cuban that is not a politician or a Castro. We can't think of one.

00:11:49.680 Yeah. Name me one. Yeah. You know, name me one great Chinese individual that did X. It's not, 0.96

00:11:56.880 it's a state. Yeah. Well, in China, Mao had a saying, the four olds. Right. Traditions, 0.77

00:12:03.360 old beliefs, old customs. Right. I can't remember the fourth one. And he said they had to eradicate the

00:12:09.200 four olds. Right. Which is a way of saying everything that the generations before us learned at great cost,

00:12:15.920 and over great time and wanted to give to us as the current generation, here's the collective

00:12:23.040 wisdom of all of our troubles. Here's centuries, maybe thousands of years, maybe even more than that,

00:12:30.000 tacit knowledge about what it means to be a person. Right. Mao wanted to year zero. I mean.

00:12:37.040 But not replace it, but not replace it with new. It's replacing the person, the individual. If there

00:12:46.080 is no individual, then the only thing that occupies the vacuum is the state. I mean,

00:12:52.320 the greatest example is North Korea. There are mainly one great North Korean historian. There isn't. You

00:13:00.160 remove all people, all history. I mean, North Korea has a long history. Remove it all. And this 0.99

00:13:07.440 focus on not an individual achievement, but the state's achievement, the achievement by one family,

00:13:16.000 the politicians. And that's all you have. And you can't look anywhere else. You can't look to your

00:13:20.960 neighbor, a great Terry Fox that motivated millions of Canadians. You can't look to Anneli McCann. You can't

00:13:27.760 look to these individuals that brought forth this great country. Vimy Ridge, the young man who died

00:13:34.400 to make Canada, you know, propelled Canada into a great nation. You can't look to them. They're not

00:13:41.440 the guys that you should be looking to. Only look to me, Justin Trudeau and the socialist state. We will

00:13:48.560 solve all your problems. We have your backs. It's obvious. It's simple. You know, that's that's

00:13:56.000 if you if you remember the core of the book 1984 by George Orwell, Winston Smith, the hero of the book,

00:14:03.680 his job was to work in the Ministry of Truth, which Trudeau wants to set up with his various

00:14:08.720 censorship regulations. And his job, it's sort of crazy when you think about it, was to take old

00:14:14.480 newspapers, cut out stories that are now inconvenient, and replace them with new versions of the history

00:14:21.200 history. So that what was the history? Well, it's whatever we say today it was. Were we at war with

00:14:27.760 Eurasia or East Asia? Well, we've always been at war with Oceania or whatever. I mean, and it was insane

00:14:34.800 when it was done that way, cutting and pasting. But that really is what Trudeau is doing. He's cutting out

00:14:40.640 Terry Fox and Vimy Ridge from history and replacing it with, you know, and you can't teach those things.

00:14:46.480 Take down the statues of Johnny McDonald. Well, with the yeah, with the internet, it's just it

00:14:50.720 happens immediately. I'll give you my first example. When the pandemic began, and we did not have

00:14:58.880 masks. And you remember, March, masks were not implemented till I think July. So for the first

00:15:06.640 wave of the pandemic, not one of these great experts said, you should have masks of Fauci,

00:15:14.320 TAM. Not one expert said we should be masked. They told us not to. They positively said,

00:15:20.560 do not have masks. Now, here is an interesting fact. I'm a research hound. I went to Canada website,

00:15:28.560 and there was a publication because I'm going to shock people. This isn't the first virus that we

00:15:35.360 have studied. This is actually the second coronavirus. It's COVID-2. And it's one of the

00:15:42.020 one of the dozens of viruses. And so Canadian health experts have studied. There was a study

00:15:48.340 prepared and and published in the Health Canada site saying that we studied H1N1. We studied SARS.

00:15:56.740 Masks do not work. And I had that study on that site and I had access to it. By June, July, when they

00:16:04.500 implemented the masks, that study was scrubbed. I couldn't find it anymore. And I was upset that I

00:16:10.660 couldn't. I said, I, you know, Manny, you're smarter than that. You got to print this stuff out,

00:16:15.700 because these scoundrels are going to change history in real time. And it did happen on that 0.91

00:16:21.460 one occasion. And there are many others. You know, it's why history is important.

00:16:26.580 Yeah. You know, I want to show you before we leave the subject of the the void that Trudeau wishes to

00:16:33.060 create. I just saw this yesterday. I want to show it to you. Tucker Carlson, who thinks about Canada a

00:16:40.100 lot and, in fact, was doing a whole documentary on Canada that was set to be released the week he was

00:16:44.660 fired. He he sent his team up to Canada, interviewed myself, David Menzies, Alexa Lavoie. I was really

00:16:51.380 looking forward to this documentary. I don't think it'll ever see the light of day. But he recently

00:16:57.380 did a podcast where he talked at some length about Justin Trudeau. And Tucker Carlson's an American

00:17:03.460 deep in his bones. He's America first. He but but I think he does follow Canada because he he detects 0.97

00:17:10.740 something in Trudeau. I'd like to play this excerpt from the full send podcast for you, Manny. And I

00:17:18.500 don't think most Canadians have seen this. And I'm not saying I agree with every word here. But I think

00:17:23.940 Tucker follows Canada more closely than ninety nine percent of Americans. And I and I think that was to

00:17:29.540 our benefit during the trucker issue. Many of Trudeau's foibles are not well covered by Canadian

00:17:35.220 media. Tucker covers them here. Let's watch this excerpt from the full send podcast. And I'd like

00:17:40.660 your most candid thoughts. And maybe you disagree with them here. Take a look. Well, people hate

00:17:45.060 Justin Trudeau there, too. Yeah. If you go to like Alberta or Calgary, like you see hockey jerseys with

00:17:49.140 like fuck Trudeau. Yeah. Like signs on trucks. It's like it's a real hate. What do you think about him? 0.99

00:17:56.020 Well, he's grotesque. I mean, he's he's not even like he's like Joe Biden. He's not even I'm not mad

00:18:02.820 at Justin Trudeau or whatever we're calling him. He's not even a real person. He's like a living

00:18:09.700 metaphor, like our president. He is a repository for this weird. It's not even left or right Democrat

00:18:16.660 or Republican. It's so much bigger than that. It's this weird techno based anti-human politics whose main

00:18:24.280 message is you don't matter. Your life doesn't matter at all. And what matters instead is like

00:18:31.240 obeying the people who are actually in charge, which is not heads of state. Right. It's huge

00:18:37.560 companies, honestly. Yeah, it's huge companies. And that's just like, who's the prime minister of

00:18:42.640 England? Do you even know? No, we've had nine in the past. No, Boris is gone. Oh, right. Exactly.

00:18:48.900 That's some woman. It's a hundred years ago. England was the most powerful country in the world, 0.93

00:18:52.300 largest empire in human history. And now it's like, who's the prime minister again? It doesn't

00:18:55.260 matter. They'll get another one next month. These things, we're looking at it the wrong way.

00:19:00.860 What matters is the ideas and who's propagating them. And it's an international group of companies

00:19:10.400 and rich people. And Justin Trudeau is just a vessel for their ambitions. He doesn't believe anything.

00:19:17.120 Justin Trudeau, if he thought, you know, it would be advantageous to him to push Nazism or Marxism,

00:19:24.280 it doesn't even matter. Like none of these things are real. It's just about control. Yeah. And the way

00:19:30.020 you control people is by convincing them. This is like your classic kind of alcoholic parent thing,

00:19:35.340 convincing them that they're worthless and they don't deserve better. Like, shut up. Who cares what 1.00

00:19:38.740 you think? We don't want to hear what you have to say. Right. Your ambitions to like make enough

00:19:44.120 money to send your kids to summer camp or retire happily. Like that's irrelevant. Like, shut up.

00:19:49.740 You don't deserve it. Go kill yourself. And so they break people's spirits. So I'm telling the truth 1.00

00:19:55.640 and I can tell that you know that I am. He's from Canada too. Right. You know. But it's happening

00:19:59.800 in the United States too. I'm not just singling out Canada here at all. It's happening all over the

00:20:04.700 West in every English speaking country, Australia, New Zealand. These were real countries like five years 0.86

00:20:09.500 ago. They're not anymore. Yeah. And the people have been broken. Their spirit has been broken.

00:20:14.200 That's powerful stuff. And Tucker has a unique way of putting things. But I think there's some truth

00:20:18.620 to it. And it goes to what you said earlier, Manning, about demonizing Canada as a genocidal country.

00:20:25.240 Everyone's a racist. Everyone's a sexist except Trudeau himself, Mr. Blackface. And I think that 1.00

00:20:30.500 there's something to Tucker when he says telling people they are not worthy of him. He's the only

00:20:36.560 worthy one. And your own goals for your life are not as important as his, you know, carbon tax plans.

00:20:42.920 I think Tucker, I might have phrased some of it differently, but I responded. I thought, yes,

00:20:50.360 Tucker sort of caught a glimpse from there. What did you think? And feel free to disagree with me,

00:20:54.400 Manny. Well, you know, as I do disagree, but I agree with what Tucker has said about the goal.

00:21:02.600 I disagree with Tucker saying that Trudeau is an empty vessel. Everyone says that about Trudeau.

00:21:10.620 I have studied him just from the beginning. There was, and again, I regret that I didn't take this

00:21:20.060 screenshot. But when Trudeau was not a politician, and I was active on Twitter, his Twitter account said

00:21:27.760 he described himself as citizen of one world. All right. Now, this man believes that there should

00:21:38.420 be one global government. How he became prime minister of a independent country is beyond me,

00:21:47.780 but I know how. But this is the person who doesn't believe in the existence of Canada.

00:21:52.700 He wants it to be morphed into this global nation. All his efforts with respect to global warming,

00:22:01.120 it's all UN-based. Submit your independence and your sovereignty to these globalists.

00:22:09.480 Trudeau actually believes that. Trudeau is not an empty vessel. He's a vessel that's been filled

00:22:16.040 to what he wanted to. There is a clip, Ezra, and it alarmed me. When he fought Senator Brazzo,

00:22:27.600 that boxing match, and he spoke to his wife, kind of said to him, calm down. It was one of those clips

00:22:35.480 that accidentally leaked. But calm down. You're being a little too pompous or something. And he goes,

00:22:43.400 I've been put on this earth for this goal. He truly believes that he's going to change Canada

00:22:51.080 into this one world government. Every law that he's put forward is to get closer to that. So

00:22:59.280 although I think Tucker is correct in understanding what the one world government types are trying to do,

00:23:06.620 i.e. marginalize individual rights, marginalize people, remove state governments, make them not

00:23:13.640 even important. Let we, the WF or whoever it may be, let us run the world and you people have nothing.

00:23:22.600 Trudeau loves that idea. It's been embedded in him since he was a teen. And his Twitter account

00:23:30.280 showed it. He is only too happy to be in power, to be the vessel to get Canada to drop all its

00:23:40.660 independent sovereignty and be part of the globalist plan. So I agree and disagree. I agree

00:23:47.820 with his context of what's happening. But believe me, Trudeau is not this empty vessel,

00:23:54.140 you know, dementia type Biden guy who's learned after 50 years, do everything so he can live his

00:24:00.760 life of crime. He's actually feels that he's fulfilling. He's one of the young guys fulfilling

00:24:05.940 this purpose of a one globalist. Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth to that. I mean, I think

00:24:11.940 what Tucker isn't fully calculating is that Justin Trudeau has sort of been groomed first by his father

00:24:20.840 and then by his father's, you know, executors of his will and managers of the trust and the Liberal

00:24:26.500 Party senior elite groomed for this position. And he deeply believes that he is not holy, but he's

00:24:36.500 a cut above us all and the destiny. Absolutely. And so I think you're right in a way that say a Jacinda

00:24:43.240 Ardern wouldn't be. She, she succeeded, but I don't think her entire life she thought, I am the

00:24:50.820 chosen one. I think Trudeau truly does. Well, listen, he said that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I want to

00:24:57.560 talk about a couple other things and I don't want to always come back to Pierre Paul yet, but I want

00:25:02.000 to acknowledge when he's doing a good job. And I think, yeah, I see the latest polling polls out

00:25:07.340 conservative party has about an eight point lead depending on, you know, and, and this isn't just

00:25:13.740 by quote, right wing pollsters. I think the liberals are worried and you have an eight point lead.

00:25:19.460 That's not margin of error time. That's, that's a real victory, possibly even the majority government

00:25:25.140 by the conservatives. And I think one of the reasons is Pierre Paul is not as afraid to take

00:25:32.020 on issues as say Aaron O'Toole, who was afraid of his own shadow in my view. And, and he, he's not

00:25:38.520 afraid to lean into the media. And this clip just a couple of days ago, I think this is a CTV reporter,

00:25:44.320 but really it could be any reporter. And this is about bail. This is about criminals, especially

00:25:51.020 violent criminals, getting easy bail. Tamara Leach, 50 days in jail for mischief for the trucker 1.00

00:25:58.500 convoy, but violent criminals, it's a revolving door. Watch this exchange. Um, and I'd love your

00:26:04.840 thoughts on this and let's talk about bail. Take a look.

00:26:06.680 Talk about bail. The crime has already happened or the alleged crime has already happened. So

00:26:12.680 how can you attribute bail to this increase in crime and not, should we, should there not be

00:26:19.340 more supportive measures to prevent the crime in the first place? Well, uh, the, uh, the,

00:26:26.380 You're talking about someone being on bail. They've already allegedly committed the crime. So where,

00:26:30.440 you know, they're committing crimes on bail. That's the problem. The problem is, I'll give you an

00:26:38.220 example. In Vancouver, the same 40 offenders were arrested 6,000 times in a year. That's 150 arrests

00:26:50.240 per offender per year. Why? Because they're arrested in the morning. Then they're released on bail by noon.

00:26:57.200 They re-offend. They're back in jail by two in the afternoon. And then they're released by the

00:27:02.480 evening so that they can commit their final crime before they go to bed.

00:27:05.220 It's a failure of the system to not support people who have committed crimes, gone to jail,

00:27:11.480 serve their, their sentence to let, you know, and then they're committing another crime. So is this

00:27:16.760 not a failure of things like social services and support for people who have committed crimes?

00:27:21.480 Are you serious? I'm asking you.

00:27:24.140 No, I mean, are you serious? Come on. You're telling me. No, excuse me. Let me answer your

00:27:28.700 question. Are you honestly saying that it's society's fault if a repeat violent offender

00:27:36.760 commits 60 or 70 offenses? I think that criminal is to blame for his own actions. He is personally

00:27:44.520 responsible. We're not talking about some kid who made one mistake when he was 19. We're talking about

00:27:49.520 people who do 60, 70 violent offenses. And then they're big because they're criminals.

00:27:57.000 But why are they criminals? Because they do crime. And why do they do crime? Because we let them out

00:28:01.660 early on bail. So because they got let out. I think we've solved the riddle here. Because they got let

00:28:06.840 out early on bail. That's right. They then commit the crime. That's right. So that's what, that's what

00:28:12.240 all the experts agree is the cause of the crime. So have they stayed in jail the whole time on bail,

00:28:18.080 in jail, not on bail, as you say, they would then not commit crimes? Because they'd be in jail. So

00:28:24.040 they couldn't commit crimes. And when they get out at the end of their sentence, they're crime free?

00:28:27.700 Well, they, we can't guarantee that. But what we can guarantee is the period when they're behind bars,

00:28:32.480 they will not be able to do crime. Wow. Wow. I thought he had the right tone. Let's hear your

00:28:39.560 thoughts. What do you think, Manny? The pure ignorance of that media, liberal media bias question

00:28:47.220 just makes me irk. Look, it's very simple. But he didn't seem malicious. Like he seemed truly not

00:28:53.420 to understand. I don't know how, I don't know how, I don't know how Pierre can do it in such a

00:29:00.320 positive way. I mean, thank you. I mean, I certainly couldn't, but he did a great job

00:29:04.420 in answering that. I mean, Ezra, I don't know why journalists do not do five minutes worth of

00:29:12.640 research. You know, crime is not a new thing. It's been happening for about, since man has hit the

00:29:20.120 planet. And we've been taking... Been and able. Exactly. So we've been taking statistics. Now,

00:29:26.280 Ezra, I have personal knowledge in this. A, I'm a lawyer. I understand bail. I understand

00:29:32.880 the criminal law system. And B, I was with Mr. Harper in 2005. You might remember, Mr. Harper was

00:29:41.840 elected in 2006. A tragic thing happened on Boxing Day 2005, which helped people galvanize and were very

00:29:52.100 upset. A known criminal who had a record, was up for gun charges, was released on bail and went to

00:30:04.960 settle his crime on Yonge Street and shot at another person and accidentally killed this beautiful young

00:30:14.160 child, Jane Kriba. Now, that, it rocked me because, and it rocked Prime Minister Harper because that young

00:30:22.760 innocent woman died shopping around Christmas on Boxing Day. And that young girl, I mean, she was

00:30:30.360 about the same age and same everything as Prime Minister Harper's daughter. He immediately brought bail

00:30:38.340 reform. Every fool knows that most of the crime are committed by the same people. It's a simple 0.98

00:30:48.600 research tool. Look at it. About 90 percent, 80 percent of the crime are committed by the same 10 percent

00:30:54.680 of the people. Bail is extremely important. So what Prime Minister Harper did was tightened up bail.

00:31:02.600 And statistically, during his prime ministership, gun deaths went down 40 percent. 40 percent. You

00:31:14.020 could research it. And then when Trudeau became Prime Minister, well, of course, the Conservatives

00:31:18.920 are mean and they're racist and whatever, he said. And he removed Harper's great laws. And as a 0.57

00:31:26.500 practicing lawyer, I'm saying, oh, my God, it's working. This is great. What a great move. People are

00:31:31.580 living. People are being killed. And so he removed the laws. I remember when he did and my liberal

00:31:37.940 friends were happy about it. And I'm saying, guys, this is not a good thing. Well, since Justin Trudeau

00:31:44.260 has been in power, gun deaths or homicides have gone up 60 percent. And he's railing and ranting about

00:31:52.660 guns all the time. Ezra, I have a conclusion. I have a theory. And the theory is,

00:32:01.580 back to what we spoke about a little while ago, is the more. I mean, it's simple. Ezra,

00:32:08.820 if somebody has an illegal gun and we've seen nothing but 24 seven news, if you own an illegal

00:32:14.340 gun, it's terrible. That person shouldn't have any bail rights. So it's that simple. Why is that

00:32:21.220 not the law? It's an illegal gun. We know guns are bad. Illegal guns are bad. But I truly believe

00:32:27.140 that Trudeau, I mean, this is a terrible theory. But if you can continue the illegal gun and let

00:32:35.860 these people out and kill themselves, as actually happened, 60 percent of gun deaths have increased,

00:32:45.220 then you can seize the guns of law abiding farmers and owners. I don't, you know, because Ezra,

00:32:52.060 if you're guided by fact and you're guided by statistics, it was working. Why did they reverse

00:32:58.380 it? And they didn't. And they actually, they reversed it and there's more gun. And then every

00:33:03.740 time somebody shot in downtown Toronto or downtown Ottawa with an illegal gun on a score of criminals

00:33:11.760 doing things to each other, all of a sudden we have new gun laws or confiscating somebody in

00:33:16.780 northern Ontario or northern Quebec, they're the farmer's guns. And I think it's, Ezra, I come to

00:33:23.860 the conclusion it's intentional. It's intentional. I might have been skeptical, but my eyes have been

00:33:30.040 opened to the nature of some of this by Dr. James Lindsay, who studies critical theory. And I think

00:33:36.380 there's a difference between a liberal and a communist. And I never used the word communist

00:33:41.400 for years other than for absolute pure communists. I thought, no, that's, that's too far. That's like

00:33:47.140 calling everyone a Nazi, but the critical Marxist approach to crime, to race, to gender,

00:33:55.800 you know, back to, there's a lot of Marxist ideas, like the worst, the better. I don't know if you

00:34:00.420 ever heard that phrase. It's a, it's a radical communist idea, which is, you know, they would say

00:34:06.880 accentuate the contradiction, the contradictions, I think is another way they say it. Trudeau,

00:34:16.140 I, I, I think I agree with you, likes violent street crime in the cities. It keeps those voters

00:34:24.920 scared and voting for Trudeau who promises gun control. He doesn't control the illegal guns in

00:34:30.940 Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver. He punishes lawful, safe gun owners in the prairies, hunters, farmers,

00:34:40.460 ranchers, whatever, people in the rural parts. So he's winning every way. He keeps urban voters afraid

00:34:46.840 and he offers the solution, which is to pick on conservative lawful gun owners. The chaos,

00:34:53.800 he benefits from it. It goes to the demoralization we talked about earlier. I don't know. I think

00:35:01.380 you're right. You know, can I, go ahead. Well, I mean, as a, as a one small point, we know that

00:35:06.640 illegal guns are the source to about 90% of the gun deaths in Canada. Every Canadian, I don't care if

00:35:15.540 conservative, liberal, whatever, would agree that if an individual Canadian who knows that illegal guns

00:35:22.740 are abhorrent and should never be in anyone's possession, if that person is found with a legal

00:35:28.540 gun, any person, there should be simple law, no bail and minimum 10 year sentence. That would

00:35:36.420 alleviate 90% of the crime. But why is that law not in place? We all agree illegal guns, because that

00:35:44.380 will solve the problem. Yeah. And liberals don't want to solve gun deaths, gun violence. They talk about

00:35:51.200 making the border more strengthened. No, it's very simple. You have an illegal gun in your, not,

00:35:57.540 you have an illegal gun in your possession. After hearing everything we've heard about what illegal

00:36:01.940 guns do, you then get no bail, minimum 10 year sentence, and that will dry up. No young punk would

00:36:11.180 be, you know, gang banger would be having an illegal gun. He would say, Hey, this is too much. Maybe I'll use

00:36:17.940 a stick or something. Oh, I don't know my fists. But but that's the solution. And it worked with what

00:36:24.040 Harper didn't go that far. But it worked with the strong bail and and focus on the problem, not some

00:36:32.140 guy in Saskatchewan that needs guns to defend his property, because the RCMP is 200 miles away.

00:36:39.040 Yeah. You know, you made me think of when I was in New York City in 2002, not too long after 9-11,

00:36:51.060 it was the Republican convention, if I recall correctly. I went to a press conference, sort of

00:36:58.500 a conference where one of the speakers was Rudy Giuliani's right hand man for mopping up crime

00:37:05.580 in the city. You might recall that in the 70s and 80s, New York City was a crime nightmare. It was

00:37:11.520 the stuff of terrible dystopian movies. It was a city in decline. Rudy Giuliani turned that city

00:37:17.880 around. And with dramatic moves, but also small incremental steps. James Q. Wilson's theory of

00:37:24.860 broken windows. You know, you park a car on the street, no one touches it. You break one window.

00:37:31.260 People say, oh, it's it's free for all. Then all the windows are broken. The car is stripped.

00:37:36.700 It's sort of the signals you send. And what I learned that day, 20 years ago, and I remember

00:37:40.880 to this day in New York, according to Giuliani's right hand man, often it was just one criminal

00:37:49.580 who would terrorize an entire city block. Right. Hundreds of people, just one guy who made hundreds

00:37:56.940 of people have bars on their windows, not go outside living here. If you could sweep this one guy off

00:38:03.100 the streets instead of just putting him back and back and back and back on bail, you would free a

00:38:08.300 hundred people, change an entire neighborhood. It was just one guy all the time. And as they picked up

00:38:15.420 those guys by enforcing small laws, jaywalking, whatever, people came out of their houses again.

00:38:22.220 They sat on their steps again. The community emerged again and they were free. And they didn't

00:38:28.140 know at the time that it was just such a small number. As you said, 10 percent of the criminals

00:38:32.700 doing 80 percent of the crime. And I'm reminded of how Giuliani mopped up New York. And we need that

00:38:38.860 in our cities. We need that in Toronto and Vancouver. We also need it in Calgary and Edmonton

00:38:43.660 and other places, too. Listen, Manny, we're almost out of time, but I want to hear from you a quick

00:38:48.700 snapper. I was shocked to learn that Trudeau is still going full tilt, buying tens of millions of

00:38:56.780 doses of vaccines. Tell me the stats. I haven't been following this. This comes as a bit of a surprise

00:39:01.900 to me. Well, it's not only a surprise, but 90 million doses this year have been purchased by Trudeau,

00:39:09.180 90 million next year. And I think 90 million for another tilt. It's, I think, a three-year contract,

00:39:14.700 so 2,000. There is only about half a million people now asking for booster shots. And I think

00:39:23.420 most of them are being forced in old age homes and so on. So clearly something's wrong. But there's a

00:39:28.460 question that I put to people. You know, I raise this issue. I go, well, you know, this is a lot of

00:39:33.260 money for nothing. And of course, the apologists, the liberal apologists say, well, you know,

00:39:40.140 what do you expect, Manny? We were in a crisis and Trudeau made a long-term contract, so we had to do

00:39:45.740 that. And then, Ezra, here's the question. And everyone forgets the truth and the facts because

00:39:53.500 it's a modern thing to do. But during the crisis, when the vaccines came out, Canada was late in

00:39:59.820 purchasing the vaccines. I think we were the 58th country in line on, so we already knew that the

00:40:06.460 vaccines were not going to work when we bought it. But let's assume that Trudeau did the contract at

00:40:12.060 the very first day. The premise of the vaccines were quite simple. They're 100% effective. They'll get

00:40:19.900 you to herd immunity. All we need is 60 to 70% of the population, two dose and we're free. If we get 60

00:40:28.300 to 70%, well, in fact, we got about 80% and everyone got two dose and it didn't do anything.

00:40:36.940 So the question I put to Justin Trudeau or his government is, if you knew that these doses were

00:40:44.300 what you said or advertised and that they work 100% or 95% in efficacy, that's all we heard,

00:40:51.420 and all we need is two shots and we're free and we got herd immunity, then why would you enter

00:40:57.100 into a multi-year contract? Entering into a multi-year contract is an admission that these

00:41:03.260 vaccines didn't work from the beginning because you would need it if they worked. So in my view,

00:41:10.620 again, in my critical thinking, this is a massive fraud committed by a massive fraud company that has

00:41:19.740 been found guilty with the biggest fraud in history and simply they did an arrangement to enrich

00:41:26.940 certain people and probably be politicians. But why would you enter into a multi-year contract

00:41:33.500 of a drug that's supposed to free you in the first year? Yeah. You know, you're referring to

00:41:38.780 Pfizer paying a $2.3 billion fine for practices. You know, we still don't know which company it was,

00:41:45.180 paid $50,000 to bribe the boss of Unifor Union. I think it's shocking that that has not been

00:41:50.780 shot a light on. I wonder if it's because maybe other, is it really true that the head of Unifor

00:41:55.580 was the only person in the country in public office who took a $50,000 cash payoff? I doubt it was,

00:42:01.660 he was the only one. He's the only one who so far has been caught. And the fact that the rest of the

00:42:05.660 establishment has not named the company. Well, I got to give it to, I got to give it to Pfizer

00:42:10.140 because, you know, they are the largest fraudulent criminal fine in history. And that was, I think,

00:42:19.660 a dozen years ago. But I think they learned something and they learned how do we do it better?

00:42:26.540 And how they did is they co-opted the media. Every ad I watch on TV. So once you've got the media on

00:42:34.140 side and you do your boat, you know, I'll call it legal bribery by buying tons of ads. 1.00

00:42:39.580 I mean, this is why Fox News probably got rid of Tucker Carlson. He looked at it and said,

00:42:44.140 hey, why are we on the side of Pfizer when we should be on side of citizens? So I got to give

00:42:50.940 it to the big farmer. They had the doctors, they had the politicians, but you know what? If you get

00:42:58.060 the media on your side, you're never going to see a bad report. Brilliant.

00:43:02.140 Yeah. Yeah. I hate to say it. You're right. Manny Montenegrino, always a pleasure. Thanks

00:43:07.180 for spending so much time with us. Have a great weekend and look forward to getting with you again

00:43:11.180 soon. Thank you very much, Ezra. All the best. Right on. There you have it. Manny Montenegrino,

00:43:16.380 CEO of ThinkSharp. That's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel

00:43:22.620 World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 20, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why is Justin Trudeau destroying so many Canadian icons, including our passport？

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