Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Would Canadians really join the EU just to spite Trump？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. A couple of polls I want to show you. One of them, the second poll in a row

00:00:04.860 shows Canadians are interested in joining the European Union. I don't really believe it because

00:00:09.900 I don't think Canadians know what they'd be getting into. The second poll shows different

00:00:14.200 issues, including the three issues where the Conservatives beat the Liberals. I'll take you

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00:01:27.880 Tonight, a new poll says most Canadians would want to join the European Union.

00:01:39.640 They would literally join a foreign empire if it meant they disparaged Donald Trump.

00:01:44.260 It's April 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:46.820 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:57.880 Well, hi there. It's great to be back from Ireland.

00:02:04.800 We were only on the ground for a day and a half, but oh my gosh, did we ever see a lot?

00:02:10.600 I hope you've been going to our special website, thetruthaboutireland.com.

00:02:15.380 We have so many videos. I think we've made like 20 videos in the day and a half we were there.

00:02:20.860 You know, I love going to the United Kingdom and to Ireland and other places to see what I think is our future.

00:02:27.080 but i always am cognizant of the fact that i've got to get back here because of course canada

00:02:31.180 is where we live and it's the battles that we fight but i uh i think i learn about how to fight

00:02:37.540 censorship and how to fight against undemocratic regimes by studying the uk and ireland and i hope

00:02:43.240 you feel the same way too so please go to the treat the public ireland.com to see that's our

00:02:47.360 compilation page i think we really did see a lot and i just couldn't help but see so many similarities

00:02:53.560 between the Canadian trucker convoy from 2022 and the farmers, especially in Coots, Alberta,

00:03:00.040 and what's going on in Ireland. It just feels so similar. The demographics, the politics,

00:03:06.460 the, you know, standoff with police, the politicians panicking. It really felt like

00:03:12.320 deja vu. But this was almost uniquely about fuel prices. I asked everyone, I said, why are you here?

00:03:19.000 And only one or two people gave an answer that wasn't fuel prices first.

00:03:23.380 They always said fuel prices and then maybe they would say there was a secondary issue.

00:03:27.760 But that's what it was.

00:03:28.980 This was the purest rebellion against really carbon taxes I've ever seen.

00:03:33.780 It's not just diesel and what they call petrol, gasoline and home heating and anything with carbon in it.

00:03:40.440 It's just insanely expensive.

00:03:43.180 And prices there are about double what they are here in Canada.

00:03:47.100 We rented a car and filled it up, and Efron, who was with me, was just shocked at how much it was.

00:03:52.680 Really similar vibe in how the police and politicians don't know what to do when they lose the consent of the governed.

00:04:00.260 Policing by consent is very important to the West.

00:04:04.320 It's the difference between being in a liberal democracy and being in a police state.

00:04:10.100 The police, there's no way in the West that the police could enforce the law if the population didn't support that law.

00:04:16.480 There's just simply not enough of them and they're not brutal enough.

00:04:19.340 The only way you can do that is if you run a genuine police state.

00:04:23.400 So that policing by consent, it's a theory that was expanded on by Sir Robert Peel in

00:04:28.840 the UK over a hundred years ago.

00:04:30.620 And that's really our light touch policing that we've enjoyed ever since.

00:04:34.660 And what do you do if you're a police officer who, you know, everyone in the country is

00:04:40.020 standing up together and they're not doing violence.

00:04:42.980 They're like blocking roads and things like that.

00:04:45.200 What do you do if you're the police?

00:04:46.480 There's no way you can enforce this on a country of five million people if you're a few thousand.

00:04:52.860 And by the way, a lot of your own pain comes from high gas prices.

00:04:56.580 Anyways, it was very interesting.

00:04:58.900 And in terms of actual police, I mean, Dublin's a big city, but so much of Ireland is small towns and villages where they would know the police or as they call them, the Garda, singular or Gardee.

00:05:10.500 It's what they call police in plural.

00:05:12.080 Anyway, very interesting.

00:05:13.440 I just want to tell you one more little anecdote, which I got a kick out of.

00:05:17.160 So we were trying to get down to the south of Ireland.

00:05:19.980 You could drive across the country in less than half a day.

00:05:23.220 But there were all these blockades on all these major highways and usually the on-ramp to the highway.

00:05:31.460 And we kept on being rerouted by our Google Maps because, oh, this was closed.

00:05:36.800 And it would add another half hour, add another half hour.

00:05:39.040 And I was worried we were never going to get to where we were going.

00:05:41.460 So we stopped and talked to some of the farmers who were blocking one road, and we interviewed them, actually.

00:05:47.860 And then afterwards, we said, look, fellas, we're trying to get to Cork.

00:05:50.320 Can we get on the highway?

00:05:51.700 So they removed the blockade, and we got on the highway, and then they moved the blockade back in.

00:05:56.760 So we were the only car on the highway, and this was a major, major road.

00:06:02.180 It was, in fact, larger than the Trans-Canada Highway in terms of the number of lanes.

00:06:07.020 Like, this was a big highway, and we were the only car on it.

00:06:10.860 Actually, we saw one other car in half an hour.

00:06:13.380 It was sort of like those apocalyptic movies where you're the last man alive and you have the highway to yourself.

00:06:19.700 Except for in those, there's often abandoned cars.

00:06:21.760 This was just an empty highway for half an hour.

00:06:24.240 It was sort of a fun little story, but I thought I'd share it with you.

00:06:28.480 I'm glad I'm back, though, because I have unbreakable commitments in Canada.

00:06:31.420 But I should tell you, we are sending Efron Monsanto, our head of video, who was there with me, and Alexa Lavoie.

00:06:38.100 We're sending them tonight for a couple of days because the story is still going on.

00:06:43.000 I'll show you a little bit, a few more videos later.

00:06:45.360 The government has sort of blinked, but that's only encouraged the protesters more.

00:06:50.300 I think there's going to be a vote of non-confidence imminently.

00:06:52.840 It looks like the government's going to squeak through.

00:06:55.120 But in a way, that's good because it just makes the contradictions starker.

00:06:59.180 I mean, the Marxists say the worse, the better.

00:07:02.440 I usually don't agree with that.

00:07:03.780 But if the problem is condescending, out-of-touch politicians, the fact that they are being even more abusive and even more condescending and even more defiant, well, that will make their fall sooner and harder than had they been more reasonable.

00:07:19.740 I'm not joking when I say, what if they are using Justin Trudeau as an advisor?

00:07:25.180 And you think, oh, that's impossible.

00:07:26.880 Well, they all hang out at the World Economic Forum together.

00:07:29.820 Justin Trudeau spoke there all the time.

00:07:33.780 and the current prime minister and foreign minister who are sort of sharing government

00:07:37.800 in a coalition, they're big world economic followers too. And all of Dublin really thinks

00:07:43.560 of itself as a European project, not just an Irish project. Like I said in one video,

00:07:48.340 they need a Nigel Farage to really represent the sovereign national interests of Ireland.

00:07:55.440 You know, it's funny because the coalition government, both are center-left parties.

00:07:58.720 The opposition is a far-left party. There's no one, and they're all for mass immigration. There's no one standing up for Ireland. It's so weird.

00:08:08.820 By the way, in Hungary, Viktor Orban finally lost after 15 years of being prime minister, but I'm pleased to say his successor maintains many of the key policies of Hungary, including very strict rules on immigration and refugees.

00:08:22.320 In fact, the successor actually originally came from Orbán's own party. 0.98

00:08:27.200 So that's better news than I had thought.

00:08:29.240 Anyways, back to Canada.

00:08:30.520 Let me talk about Canada.

00:08:31.200 I just want to explain where I was over the weekend.

00:08:35.700 I saw the dumbest poll.

00:08:37.480 It's so dumb.

00:08:38.380 It's the second one I saw in a row.

00:08:39.800 The first one follows, it was by Spark Advocacy, which is a liberal-backed group.

00:08:46.280 So you can see they have a bit of an agenda.

00:08:47.700 um mark carney is trying to denigrate canada as a north american country trying to denigrate our

00:08:56.220 ties to the united states you know his pivot towards china his talk about a new world order

00:09:00.920 calling china a strategic partner it's crazy stuff he's trying to undo our ties with america

00:09:06.220 and here he is saying that canada is the most european country around that's not in europe

00:09:12.240 Most European and non-European nations, it's not necessarily a comment about the historical makeup of the country, but it's the relative value set, the value on liberty, the value on democracy, the importance of solidarity.

00:09:29.160 We have similar social welfare systems.

00:09:34.600 The importance we put on sustainability.

00:09:37.080 Our ability to mutualize, in other words, to work with others and protect.

00:09:41.580 Our belief in a rules-based international system, which the footprint of that is shrinking,

00:09:47.320 but it's not immaterial, and we're helping to build that with Europe.

00:09:51.660 And the way we see it, if I could frame it, final comment,

00:09:56.320 and this could be a bigger discussion at the right point,

00:09:58.580 Europe, part of what Europe is focused on as members of the European Union is a so-called

00:10:05.260 ever closer union. We're looking for a closer partnership with that union. So yes, we cooperate

00:10:12.760 much more clearly and broadly to our mutual benefit, but not as a member, but along that

00:10:20.140 continuum, that start stance. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what that means. Carney himself, though,

00:10:24.900 has a british passport and an irish passport mainly for tax dodging purposes um he's got

00:10:31.280 these little weird quirks like i don't know if he's doing this anymore but for the first few

00:10:34.840 months as prime minister he would write his tweets or his staff would with british spellings like

00:10:40.400 adding like with s's instead of z's and ou's where like he's it was he had a brit doing his

00:10:47.660 communications and i think that was his way of saying i'm better than you i'm better than trump

00:10:52.080 I'm British in nature. I mean, he has a home in the UK. None of his family live in Canada. They're

00:10:57.480 either in New York or in London. He's sort of like Michael Ignatieff in a way, if Ignatieff

00:11:03.900 had become a billionaire off of China. But back to the poll that asked Canadians,

00:11:12.140 do you want to join the European Union? I actually don't think Canadians really know that much about

00:11:17.020 the European Union because it doesn't affect us. We're not in it. The European Union started off

00:11:21.620 as a common market to try and get trade barriers down on the continent which is not a bad idea

00:11:27.020 then it expanded to borderless travel and you know that really makes it convenient if you're

00:11:33.740 especially remember how small most European countries are in Canada you go for a drive from

00:11:39.240 Calgary to Vancouver that's 10 hours to go for a drive from Toronto it's a very big country

00:11:43.840 but in Europe you drive for a few hours you're probably in a different country so it makes sense

00:11:50.180 to have seamless travel within the European Union and mobility of labor. And it's very convenient

00:11:56.920 and saves red tape because a border is about red tape. But what if you let in millions of people

00:12:03.960 from strange and faraway lands and now they have freedom of mobility? And of course, the European 0.93

00:12:09.980 Union decided they wanted a single currency called the euro, which can really hamper some countries

00:12:16.280 like poorer countries and it started to become much more than just low tariffs easy travel

00:12:22.440 it became a kind of country in itself a super country a super state the united nations is much

00:12:31.600 bigger but of course the united nations doesn't pass actual laws that are binding in all countries

00:12:36.200 in the world but the european union does to me the most outrageous part of the european union

00:12:42.300 is they have something called the European Parliament.

00:12:44.720 It really is a parliament, and they have votes for European MPs.

00:12:50.240 They're called NEPs, members of the European Parliament.

00:12:53.460 They have elections.

00:12:54.540 They sit in a parliament in Brussels, Belgium,

00:12:57.260 and they write laws that lay on top of every country that's in the EU,

00:13:03.360 and they are binding laws.

00:13:05.640 And what's crazy about this parliament, as you can probably guess,

00:13:08.460 is the United Kingdom is a country of, I don't know, about 60 million people.

00:13:12.300 And it has its own parliament, an ancient parliament that passes its own laws.

00:13:17.020 But now, or when it was under the European Union, it was part of this European parliament also.

00:13:24.400 And so they had only 73 seats in the European parliament that had 751 seats.

00:13:31.260 Imagine a parliament with 751 people, but the UK only had 10% of the seats. 1.00

00:13:37.000 So this parliament of foreigners could pass a law. 0.99

00:13:41.560 every single british mp could object so what it would become law in the uk and not just that on 0.75

00:13:46.640 the courts they have something called the european convention on human rights which is basically the 0.75

00:13:51.160 refugee machine and to this day uh the united kingdom still obeys the european convention on 0.99

00:13:58.200 human rights even though it's out of the eu it's crazy so the european union was a terrible thing 0.99

00:14:02.920 brexit really was an amazing actor the brits from pulling out but here's the poll i'm talking about

00:14:08.920 my point was just to give you a reminder about the European Union was, because I think most people

00:14:12.800 who said, yeah, I want to join the European Union, they don't realize how insane that is. Imagine

00:14:17.300 Canada being subjected to every law written here, but also every law written overseas. That's crazy.

00:14:24.660 Anyways, here's the poll by Nanos, the pollster. And I'll just show you the top line here.

00:14:30.620 56% like the idea, 32% don't.

00:14:39.640 I bet most don't know what it even is

00:14:42.140 other than thinking it's an anti-American club,

00:14:44.080 the European Union. 0.95

00:14:45.300 I'm shocked that British Columbian

00:14:48.360 is the most interested province in joining the EU.

00:14:53.140 It's the furthest away, 64% say it.

00:14:55.540 In Ontario, 60%, I'm showing you the numbers here,

00:14:57.940 60% of Ontarians like the idea, which is double those who are opposed.

00:15:02.300 Alberta stats are buried with two other prairie provinces, but it's 48% for joining, 40% against.

00:15:09.280 So it's the lowest in the land, but they still suggest they want to be part of it.

00:15:12.860 Now, I think this is such a goofy question and it's such an impossibility that I think it's like asking people a poll about Bigfoot or UFOs.

00:15:22.760 It's purely hypothetical.

00:15:24.640 It's just for banter, just for laughs.

00:15:26.460 It's not asking people a real question like, are you satisfied with garbage pickup in your

00:15:32.140 neighborhood? Or how is crime in your neighborhood? Or should we raise the GST? Those are real

00:15:38.500 questions that people probably think about and probably give you a serious answer. If you ask

00:15:42.500 people, would you like to join the European Union? It's clearly a joke. And so people would answer

00:15:47.780 unseriously or without a lot of information. And I think that's the purpose of this BS poll. I think

00:15:54.500 It's a hypothetical exercise, the subtext of which is to embarrass Trump.

00:15:59.120 So if you're mad at Trump, you say, yeah, I want to join Europe.

00:16:02.080 I want to get out of this whole America thing.

00:16:04.580 I think the sole purpose of most European political identities is just to spurn America, and in particular Donald Trump.

00:16:11.620 I saw the other day this call for a post-American NATO, and I was thinking, what is NATO without the U.S.?

00:16:20.360 I mean, there was some British diplomat who, you know, 75 years ago said the purpose of NATO was to keep the Germans down, the Russians out and the Americans in.

00:16:33.100 I'm not sure if you can do any of that without America.

00:16:36.780 I mean, there's just not a lot of there there without America.

00:16:40.020 I mean, America spends more than all NATO countries combined.

00:16:43.140 Anyways, I want to show you this.

00:16:46.640 And while I'm on the subject, I want to show this incredible tweet by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer.

00:16:52.660 He's talking about the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

00:16:57.360 That's that very narrow passageway where oil ships go.

00:17:01.240 So that's the real sticking question right now is, are there mines there?

00:17:05.580 Is Iran going to sink some oil tankers or whatever?

00:17:09.020 So here's what Keir Starmer had to say.

00:17:10.500 Remember, he's refused to send any warships or other military might.

00:17:15.600 He says it's illegal to fight with Iran. 0.86

00:17:18.660 Okay.

00:17:19.020 So here's what he tweeted today.

00:17:20.440 He said, the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply damaging.

00:17:26.080 Getting global shipping moving is vital to ease cost of living pressures.

00:17:30.300 That's funny.

00:17:30.860 I thought he was for carbon reduction and net zero.

00:17:34.280 Here's the key part.

00:17:35.180 The U.K. has convened more than 40 nations who share our aim to restore freedom of navigation.

00:17:42.780 This week, the U.K. and France will co-host a summit to advance work on a coordinated,

00:17:48.380 independent, multinational plan to safeguard international shipping when the conflict ends.

00:17:58.420 What?

00:17:58.720 so you will safeguard shipping when they're already safe that's lit you will safeguard

00:18:06.780 international shipping when the conflict ends that's i'm quoting word for word we will defend

00:18:11.480 the ships when they don't need defending when the battle's over we will do bad what that is just so

00:18:17.440 perfect that's so on brand for nato in 2026 that is i think what most canadians i think really want

00:18:24.940 Just a way to dunk on the U.S.

00:18:27.180 That's what this poll about the European Union is.

00:18:30.160 But hang on, what about if you were actually to join the European Union?

00:18:34.080 Like I described before, you would lose sovereignty.

00:18:37.320 You would lose a lot of money.

00:18:39.800 You would have open borders with, you know, 20 plus countries in Europe.

00:18:44.260 You would have that parliament in Belgium passing laws that apply here in Canada.

00:18:50.000 I mean, how unfaithful could you be?

00:18:52.040 How disloyal?

00:18:52.680 I mean, really, you would swap out a parliament in Belgium for the one we've had in Canada for more than a century.

00:18:58.260 And yet that's totally cool.

00:18:59.780 Mark Carney himself suggests it.

00:19:02.560 But if you're an Albertan who wants to look at independence, that's odious.

00:19:07.880 Got it? Do you understand?

00:19:09.020 So if you want to be a minority partner in the European project and have a European parliament and European court, that's so cool.

00:19:18.620 But if you're an Albertan who thinks, well, maybe if we are independent, we can get our oil produced, that's disloyal.

00:19:26.060 Hey, let me show you the latest Canadian polls.

00:19:28.180 You've got to go to the EU for a moment.

00:19:29.380 This is from David Coletto.

00:19:30.980 I like this chart.

00:19:32.120 Coletto's with Abacus Research.

00:19:33.600 I think he's pretty accurate.

00:19:35.500 This shows where the liberals beat the conservatives and vice versa.

00:19:39.020 It's a poll issue by issue.

00:19:41.460 And you can see if Trump is the issue, the liberals win 61% to 20%.

00:19:46.960 That's basically what happened in the last election.

00:19:49.520 They got rid of their main liability, the carbon tax.

00:19:53.440 And then they said, we're meaner and madder at Trump than you are.

00:19:57.240 And they won.

00:19:58.940 In fact, the liberals are so focused on that issue of hating Trump, it's more important

00:20:04.620 to them than anything except for the environment, which I don't really think makes people vote

00:20:10.340 based on the environment anymore.

00:20:12.080 But conservatives, if you look at that chart, conservatives do lead on three issues that I think are really big ones.

00:20:19.800 On the cost of living, conservatives have a slight lead, 43% to 39%.

00:20:24.880 I think that's very good.

00:20:26.360 That shows that despite Mark Carney's look and feel as I'm a banker who knows how the world works,

00:20:32.420 people don't trust him more than they trust Pierre Pauly to get the cost of living down.

00:20:36.880 The next stat is 55% to 38% for crime.

00:20:40.660 And I think that's so true. And I think both of those are related to the next one, a whopping 61% of Canadians trust the Conservatives on immigration compared to 25% for the Liberals.

00:20:53.680 And I put it to you that immigration leads to crime and cost of living issues.

00:20:58.600 And to me, this is so obviously the roadmap for Pierre Paliab to get back on track, to take bold, controversial stands on immigration, crime and the cost of living in that order.

00:21:10.660 to switch the subject back to winning terrain.

00:21:14.240 I think this is clear that Polyev will never win

00:21:17.040 if the question is Trump.

00:21:18.900 If the question is a million migrants a year, 1.00

00:21:21.800 Polyev will win every time.

00:21:23.560 The media will freak out about it.

00:21:25.100 They'll call him racist, of course,

00:21:27.100 but he'll win.

00:21:29.100 By the way, David Coletto says the liberals

00:21:30.680 only lead by 6%.

00:21:32.140 Don't believe the regime media hype on your TV

00:21:35.240 who say that it's just going to be a trounce.

00:21:38.680 I mean, I think that Mark Carney would win an election.

00:21:41.700 Tonight, there's three by-elections.

00:21:43.540 I think they'll win two, maybe three of them.

00:21:45.800 But it'll be interesting if they don't win Quebec.

00:21:47.920 But these polls show two different futures, don't they?

00:21:53.720 The Mark Carney future is based on performative Trump-hating,

00:21:58.000 like teenagers having a tantrum.

00:21:59.660 They're showing off just how, you know, deliciously,

00:22:03.460 how exquisitely they hate Trump.

00:22:05.600 The other path, the poly-path, the conservative path,

00:22:08.360 is getting back to basics, get the cost of living down,

00:22:11.840 cut down on crime, get immigration down.

00:22:14.120 That sounds like Trump's agenda too,

00:22:16.260 and that's why it's hard for Paliyev.

00:22:18.380 How can he say these Trumpy things like cut immigration,

00:22:22.720 get tough on crime, reduce cost of living?

00:22:24.900 How do you say Trumpy things without sounding like Trump?

00:22:27.920 That's the hard part.

00:22:29.820 But things get worse every day in Canada.

00:22:31.580 Maybe that's why Ontario and other folks

00:22:34.440 want to join the European Union.

00:22:35.720 But for Albertans, I think news like this is why independence looks so appealing.

00:22:43.900 Stay with us. More ahead.

00:22:53.860 Hey, welcome back.

00:22:54.840 Like I said, I was only in Ireland for a day and a half.

00:22:58.220 And I mean, it's a bit of a journey there and back, but I've got to do stuff in Canada.

00:23:02.440 But my colleagues, Alexa Lavoie and Ephraim Monsanto, are flying out tonight.

00:23:07.460 So they're landing tomorrow and there's so much going on.

00:23:10.000 Vote of non-confidence, more street protests than ever.

00:23:14.080 Some politicians are finding a spine, independent politicians.

00:23:17.140 And I don't know, I really wish I could be there, but I can't.

00:23:20.400 But two of my colleagues will be there and they'll continue to post their videos to our special compilation page called thetruthaboutireland.com.

00:23:29.040 Let me, in fact, we saw, we showed you some of our trip to Ireland the other day,

00:23:33.860 but we've posted probably about 10 more videos since then.

00:23:36.780 Without further ado, let me show you some of the vids that we collected over there.

00:23:42.140 And tell me if this doesn't really, really feel like the Trucker Con one.

00:23:47.040 Oh, it sure does to me. Take a look.

00:23:51.000 Oh, I don't mind one bit. My name's Ezra. What's your name?

00:23:53.660 Larissa.

00:23:54.580 Danielle.

00:23:55.580 Dylan.

00:23:55.800 Are you guys a farming family?

00:23:58.200 no actually why are you here to support yeah more support and whose rig is this

00:24:04.740 uh well it's the lad i walk for i we are out here since tuesday morning to come out and

00:24:09.680 as we said we're not leaving till we get what we want so are you sleeping here yeah wow and

00:24:15.560 how have the uh let me ask first how the police treated you are all three of you staying here

00:24:21.640 no we just came up this morning to see what the crack was whereabouts are you coming in from

00:24:25.960 Monaghan.

00:24:26.960 Monaghan.

00:24:27.960 How far away is that?

00:24:28.960 An hour.

00:24:29.960 An hour, yeah.

00:24:30.960 Why would you come an hour?

00:24:32.960 Just out of solidarity?

00:24:33.960 Yeah.

00:24:34.960 The truth be told, I love the community.

00:24:36.960 I love the spirit.

00:24:37.960 The town that I'm from is small enough and there's a big farming population.

00:24:41.960 And obviously Ireland's a very agricultural area, obviously.

00:24:45.960 But the reason that I personally wanted to come up here is because I know people who

00:24:50.960 are personally affected from the whole crisis.

00:24:53.960 i know people who are farmers although you know my family aren't farmers i know people who are

00:25:00.120 obviously and so i decided to come up to kind of just be here to support and to just kind of see

00:25:05.800 what was going on so you say you work for the family that has this tractor how has the fuel

00:25:12.360 crisis affected the farm that you work on well the fuel crisis is crippling our sector and

00:25:20.040 the haulage sector, and even the coaches, the bus drivers.

00:25:23.740 It's affecting everyone.

00:25:25.180 But it's affecting us long enough now at this stage,

00:25:28.140 where we're losing money when we go out to work,

00:25:30.080 because the price of diesel is so expensive.

00:25:32.980 We are paying, for 3,000 liters of diesel,

00:25:36.180 we are paying 4,500 euro, where we used to only pay about 2,500

00:25:40.000 euro.

00:25:41.500 So our diesel bill, in the space of a couple of months,

00:25:43.600 has nearly doubled.

00:25:44.700 So how long, like, that much diesel, how long would that

00:25:49.500 lasts you like how often you have to fill up well it depends on how busy we

00:25:52.940 are but i'll put it to you this way these tractors when you're working them

00:25:57.180 they're born anywhere from the region of about 35 to 50 liters of diesel an hour

00:26:03.420 and what exactly what kind of crops do you have well we don't we don't have as crops like we we

00:26:08.860 we're contracting so we go around to farmers and we we cut their silage we spread their slurry we

00:26:14.620 We do all that work for them, but as I say, this whole thing is crippling our industry.

00:26:20.980 It's crippling the whole years.

00:26:22.380 Well, and that's because you guys, farmers get slightly discounted diesel, right?

00:26:26.580 Because it's the green, it's the farmer's diesel.

00:26:29.500 Because we're burning so much, we have to like.

00:26:32.800 So it's even worse for the truckers, is it?

00:26:35.000 Truckers will be worse, and the truckers are using white diesel.

00:26:37.120 We're using green diesel for agricultural use, and these all have to go on white diesel

00:26:41.120 because they're on the public roads.

00:26:43.200 Now, normally you park a tractor on this street, you're going to get a ticket.

00:26:47.380 Can I ask you how the police have been in their interactions with you?

00:26:51.260 Oh, the police are 100% on our side.

00:26:53.780 There has been no issues with guards since we came here Tuesday morning.

00:26:56.820 So no traffic tickets?

00:26:58.440 No, not one.

00:26:59.800 And yesterday there was a GoFundMe page set up by the public, the people of Dublin.

00:27:04.960 They set it up of their own regard.

00:27:07.260 They took it upon themselves to start getting money together for us to pay for hotel rooms, to pay for food, to pay for any fines that lads might get for parking somewhere.

00:27:20.880 And the last I heard yesterday was there was 47,000 euro in this GoFundMe and still growing.

00:27:27.220 Well, that's amazing.

00:27:30.440 Sounds like you have a lot of solidarity and support on the ground.

00:27:34.160 But the more I learn about Ireland, the more I think that your political class is out of touch with grassroots people.

00:27:40.540 And I saw some statements by Simon Harris, who used extremely rough language for the protesters.

00:27:50.080 And I saw there were some military vehicles.

00:27:53.700 Would you think the politicians are going to blink?

00:27:56.040 Because they're very proud.

00:27:57.040 They don't like to change course or admit they're wrong.

00:28:00.360 No, they don't.

00:28:01.180 But what we are doing here today is we have the entire county of Dublin on lockdown.

00:28:06.100 We have 29 or 30 protests all over Ireland, blocking major ports, major cities, especially here today.

00:28:15.460 There's Dublin bus, a fleet of 880 buses, and we have every single one of them off the road here on Wednesday morning with 100 men.

00:28:25.020 So how is this going to end or how do you want it to end?

00:28:28.800 Well, we want a reduction in tax on diesel

00:28:31.740 because the government is getting 60% of the price of diesel at the pump.

00:28:36.140 And is that just, are they greedy or is it an environmentalist thing?

00:28:39.540 Or why are they doing that?

00:28:40.940 Oh, it's pure greed.

00:28:41.940 It is pure greed because they're getting their 60% tax on the diesel

00:28:46.040 and the petrol and the home heating island.

00:28:48.220 And the other 40% is enough to cover buying our,

00:28:53.980 taking our oil out of the North Sea,

00:28:56.520 Buying it, importing it, refining it,

00:28:59.800 selling it to the petrol stations in the four corners.

00:29:01.780 Doing all the work.

00:29:03.220 The entire supply, the government are getting more

00:29:05.380 than the entire fuel supply chain.

00:29:07.280 Isn't that incredible?

00:29:08.280 Well, listen, thanks for talking with me.

00:29:09.780 Sorry to sort of crowd you in your space here,

00:29:11.960 but I wish you good luck.

00:29:13.620 And, you know, in Canada, we had a trucker convoy a few years back,

00:29:17.280 and the government sort of panicked,

00:29:20.260 and they invoked a form of martial law.

00:29:22.420 I'm praying that doesn't happen here,

00:29:24.040 but I think you guys certainly have the public on your side,

00:29:26.620 so we're rooting for you.

00:29:27.820 Oh, yeah, we have loads of support.

00:29:30.180 And what you see here, this is nothing compared to what's happening outside the city.

00:29:35.000 Every major road that's leading into this city is completely at a standstill.

00:29:39.640 The thing is, I don't think the government actually can impose anything at the moment

00:29:44.140 because there is so much pressure from not only what you're looking at here,

00:29:48.140 but as Dylan said, everywhere all over the country,

00:29:50.880 everyone is fighting for this because it's not just affecting the people here today or the people

00:29:55.860 anywhere else in this country it's affecting every person you see anyone with a car anyone who drives

00:30:02.340 to work even yeah like even commuters because obviously dublin is the capital it has the most

00:30:08.920 job opportunities for like this area at least so everybody is affected by that and so people are

00:30:16.100 backing it because they know backing this will do them nothing but good they don't care about

00:30:22.180 their people they care about the salaries that's couldn't say it any better myself now in fairness

00:30:27.540 the government at the moment they're upset and they're angry and they're threatening all these

00:30:31.780 things but it's not going to happen because they realize if they start you know hitting it hard

00:30:37.860 and they say oh you can't do this we need to actually start physically pushing us on people

00:30:43.140 are going to get back at them and people are going to go from here straight to the

00:30:47.380 dog and that's the truth of it because they know that because they know with the crowds

00:30:52.100 that are out in the country at the moment if the government push back and they're aggressive with

00:30:57.060 people or they start you know with that speech that was made obviously as you said there was

00:31:01.780 very negative language used there was very negative terminology and it upset me personally like

00:31:06.420 Like, as I said, I'm not a farmer, but to read that and to see that being said about, you know, people who are literally just sitting here trying to do their job, trying to work like anybody else in the city, in any country ever, trying to work and to see them being called all these names and getting told that, you know, it's all of these things that it's not, it hurts everybody.

00:31:31.380 Trying to keep their own businesses alive.

00:31:33.240 Yeah.

00:31:33.940 I'll give you a great example.

00:31:35.360 this tractor i'm sitting in here now when we bought this tractor we have we had to pay tax

00:31:42.020 on the money we used to buy the tractor the tractor came we paid for it and then we had to pay tax on

00:31:46.500 it we're paying tax to put tires on the tractor we're paying tax to put diesel in the tractor

00:31:50.460 we're paying tax to put adblue engine aisle gearbox aisle we're paying tax on the window

00:31:56.080 to drive these on the roads legally everything you see here today is being taxed we've been

00:32:01.640 taxed into extinction.

00:32:02.780 That's the only way I can put it.

00:32:05.340 Well, I'm delighted to talk with you.

00:32:07.540 And we're going to put this on our channel, which is we're

00:32:11.900 based in Canada.

00:32:12.840 But we have a solid following here in Ireland.

00:32:15.440 But really, I want the whole world to see.

00:32:17.100 I mean, Irish people should know what's going on.

00:32:19.740 But I think the rest of the world should see what's going on,

00:32:22.220 too, because I think it's really important.

00:32:25.680 And it's very exciting that you guys are standing up for things.

00:32:28.080 So good luck, and thanks for your time.

00:32:29.840 We don't have no other choice only to come out here today.

00:32:31.920 Like, we sent in demands three or four weeks ago.

00:32:34.300 They didn't so much as even open the envelope they were sent in.

00:32:38.180 So we don't have to know other choice.

00:32:41.880 What's that?

00:32:43.340 That's Tristan over there. I'm James D'Aggam.

00:32:45.300 Hey, let me just step down and I'll shake your hand so I don't fall.

00:32:48.540 That's another great man.

00:32:49.480 All right, I'll talk to him right away. Thanks, guys.

00:32:51.420 All right, see you later.

00:32:54.600 What brings you out here today?

00:32:56.000 Well, I came out to support all of the truckers and the farmers and the people protesting here, you know, who've taken time out of their day, actually not a day, the past week, to bring this thing to a head.

00:33:09.800 And I hope that there's success with them in government, you know, in bringing things to a close.

00:33:16.540 I think what's happened is we had the Greens in government in Ireland

00:33:22.260 for a good few years, and the Greens' tail is still wagging the government donkey.

00:33:27.960 So do you think there's an environmentalist reason behind these fuel taxes?

00:33:32.300 Yeah, it's environmental.

00:33:33.580 The whole energy policy is connected with the environmental issue

00:33:37.720 and, you know, the carbon emissions and CO2, you know.

00:33:43.940 And Ireland is responsible for a sliver of a fraction of a tiny, like it's not even a blip.

00:33:50.140 China in one day makes more emissions. 0.62

00:33:52.920 The whole thing is a joke because when you consider that CO2 is only 0.04% of the gas in the atmosphere, 0.87

00:34:01.540 and that's only the man-made portion of it,

00:34:05.460 it's really ridiculous to think that the whole earthly climate is going to change so significantly.

00:34:11.880 Now, I know and we can see that global climate is changing,

00:34:16.300 but it's not a result of CO2.

00:34:18.720 It's other, let's say...

00:34:20.500 And Ireland can't fix it.

00:34:22.240 I mean, it can't be on these farmers and truckers to pay the price,

00:34:25.240 as if taxes change the weather.

00:34:27.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:34:27.600 It's like taking your clothes off to give to somebody else to freeze to death.

00:34:30.960 That's the way I see it.

00:34:31.980 Now, while we do support people around the world financially,

00:34:35.740 our government has gone mad.

00:34:37.720 Look at this.

00:34:38.320 We have people here in Ireland on the streets,

00:34:40.420 and the government are supporting mass migration into the country

00:34:45.360 and supporting them financially with housing and all kinds of things

00:34:49.960 to the exclusion of their own people.

00:34:52.040 It feels like it's more than just a policy.

00:34:54.260 It feels like an obsession.

00:34:56.060 And, like, it's so much.

00:34:57.480 I mean, it's ten times more than it should be.

00:35:01.900 It's fascism.

00:35:04.020 It's sit down, shut your mouth, and pay the bill.

00:35:10.420 that that's what it is it's fashion sit down shut your mouth and pay the bill 0.97

00:35:19.780 and it's our our government uh imposter irish men who are they trying to impress

00:35:25.700 who the the prime minister the the taishak and the and the foreign minister the tanish if i'm

00:35:32.200 saying those right like who are they trying to impress by doing this because i don't think it's

00:35:35.820 impressing the irish people really have i mean you know this is a gross insult to the members

00:35:41.260 of the cabinet the so-called irish government it's they're really like for me the gestapo

00:35:47.660 the irish uh local gestapo for von der lying in europe oh so they so they see themselves as

00:35:57.260 as part of the european union project oh yeah they're out now globalists running this country

00:36:02.300 they've been selling herself and immigration is very important to the eu isn't it the way they're

00:36:06.780 going after hungary yeah well it's been a policy that's been ongoing for many many years and it

00:36:12.940 was really introduced by the let's say one of the forerunners of this policy of mass migration into

00:36:18.780 europe was the uh banker he is an irish man a fine gail one of our parliamentary parties

00:36:27.980 uh sutherland peter sutherland he was one of the main architects of this you know and he then

00:36:35.780 became a member of the uh not the world bank the um goldman sachs right so you can see all the

00:36:43.880 connections but the government especially finna fall and finnegale have been actively selling

00:36:49.780 out the country for the past 10 to 15 years or more is it too late to stop it though sometimes

00:36:56.640 things go so far that the momentum is lost the demographics have shifted can ireland make a

00:37:02.480 comeback can it fix these things let's hope we can make a comeback what we need is a

00:37:08.720 a conservative movement in ireland and but who why isn't there one i mean there's a little one

00:37:13.520 but it's not i don't see a part like in the uk you've got nigel farage and reform uk and whatever

00:37:19.520 his flaws he's filling that space he's meeting that demand is there an equivalent here in ireland

00:37:26.180 There isn't yet. I don't think there is yet.

00:37:29.080 But there is a growing, let's say, aspiration towards it.

00:37:33.160 Our main problem here in Ireland is, unlike most of the other European countries,

00:37:38.340 we have the worst media in the world.

00:37:41.420 I think it's true.

00:37:41.940 We have absolutely, well, first of all, most of our TV, radio and print media are supported by the government.

00:37:51.160 Yet they have advertisements in papers that are probably 25, 30, maybe 100,000 euro in a single paper.

00:37:59.540 That's money that the newspapers aren't going to turn away very easily.

00:38:04.020 As far as the broadcasting is concerned, there's money, you know, backdoor channels there to the broadcasters.

00:38:10.720 Well, I mean, RTE probably is such a dominant player in a small market, isn't it?

00:38:15.480 I haven't watched RTE since my mother passed, Lord Rester, about four years ago.

00:38:21.920 You know, she used to throw rubber sponge.

00:38:24.360 My brother bought a rubber sponge for my mother, 98 years of age,

00:38:28.420 to throw at the television when the politicians were on.

00:38:30.980 But nobody in their family watches RTE or any of that, you know.

00:38:34.600 Well, Rebel News is a group of citizen journalists, as you know.

00:38:37.700 I know it very well.

00:38:38.100 Because I know you're a supporter. Thank you.

00:38:40.520 And there's a few people, like Philip Dwyer, I know sometimes live streams.

00:38:45.480 and I but it's a small number of what where I mean the Irish are if I may naturally creative

00:38:52.040 and expressive there's the gift of the Blarney you know gift of the gab so I mean historically

00:38:57.820 Irish have been poets and and songwriters where are the talkers uh for the freedom movement I

00:39:05.280 think they are here but um they have yet to come to the surface because there is such a weight of

00:39:13.260 oppression against anybody speaking out against the government in ireland that the media automatically

00:39:20.460 brand them as subversive and and in a demeaning way they become a target for it even this protest

00:39:27.340 i saw one of the cabinet ministers saying this is tommy robinson from england manipulating you which

00:39:32.460 is so it's it's so absurd and that guy's a buffoon well i happen to like him but he but put that

00:39:39.020 aside he is not what made all these farmers bring their tractor oh you mean the cabinet minister

00:39:44.060 i mean the cabinet minister no no tommy robinson i said i support him um because he is trying to

00:39:51.260 protect the interests of the people of britain i agree but he's not the guy who organized this

00:39:55.820 try like it's such an absurd thing to deny agency every farmer here that i've spoken to knows

00:40:02.460 exactly why they're here and for the government to say no you don't you're just a dupe a puppet

00:40:07.260 that's being manipulated by foreign interests that's so condescending whoever said that he is

00:40:13.820 an uneducated uninformed individual well that's that the cabinet has said that half the media has

00:40:21.020 repeated that they have to say it because they're they have to say that for their their lackeys in

00:40:26.060 europe you know they're they're the bootlickers here let me ask you bootlickers licking the boots

00:40:30.940 of the european vander lying and all the rest of them well how's it going to end because i thought

00:40:35.980 there was i thought yesterday there was going to be a meeting between some of the protest leaders

00:40:40.700 in the cabinet that seems to have fallen through um we were traveling around a bit yesterday the

00:40:46.140 men we saw at blockade say they're adamant they're not going to leave it really is shutting down a

00:40:51.660 lot of the country how's this going to end well i'm i hope it doesn't end like what trudeau did

00:40:59.020 in canada you know i hope that uh you know even the the words that our so-called imposter prime

00:41:06.220 minister said uh last week or during the week it sounded like a book a leaf out of trudeau's book

00:41:15.340 and sorry go ahead i i can't exactly say how it will end but you know you know there's a deputy

00:41:21.980 commissioner of the gardee she's a canadian woman which is very strange to me and she was talking

00:41:27.260 very tough about quote enforcement which is i think code for arresting people on mass like they

00:41:34.460 did in canada um now the the street level police seem to be having none of it um i don't know

00:41:43.580 there's a lot of tough talk but so far i haven't seen a crackdown thank god no um hopefully that

00:41:50.140 will never happen hopefully the government so-called government will will get sense i mean

00:41:55.260 i don't think these guys have even made the past play school in my opinion intellectually

00:42:02.860 the way they operate you know but they won the election i mean they won the election and they

00:42:08.060 kept maria stein off the ballot for president you know i feel like they've rigged the system

00:42:13.820 yeah you know there was there was 200 000 people who spoiled their ballot in the presidential yeah

00:42:20.700 and i know the presidential position is largely symbolic but the fact that the insiders colluded

00:42:27.100 to keep out an alternative choice that's so undemocratic and i i don't know it would frustrate

00:42:33.180 me if i was irish yeah it's just you'll do what we say but the mouthpieces of the government is

00:42:39.100 all the irish media and that's why a lot of the irish people who have historically been trustworthy

00:42:45.820 of the irish media maybe going back 15 maybe 20 years or more but hopefully that's being eroded

00:42:52.620 because you can see if you listen to the irish especially broadcasters in being interviewed

00:42:59.900 sorry interviewing politicians or personalities connected with anything politically you can hear

00:43:07.020 in the intonation of their voices which side of the you know game they're on you know the prejudice

00:43:13.340 and the bias that comes out in the way they ask the questions and the way they don't let the

00:43:18.780 answers the people respond in a way that's that they they want to respond you know so we really

00:43:25.020 have um you know we i see a lot of comments on your your channel you know rebel news channel about

00:43:32.620 support from ireland to canada and back from canada to ireland and i think it's really we're all in it

00:43:38.780 together at the end of the day if canada and america falls the world is gone because you know

00:43:46.540 it's really such a difficult position that we're in but we have illegitimate government here in

00:43:53.020 ireland we do not have real government we have puppet government from eu von der leyen all the

00:44:00.300 The WEF, globalist interests, you know, Davos, all of the secret interests.

00:44:08.640 Well, yeah, we go to Davos every January to poke around the best we can.

00:44:13.060 Well, listen, it's great to connect with you.

00:44:14.460 Can you tell me your name one more time?

00:44:15.800 I apologize.

00:44:16.520 It's Liam.

00:44:16.980 Liam.

00:44:17.840 Nice to talk with you again, Liam.

00:44:19.020 And thank you for all that you guys do over there in Canada and for what you're doing here in Europe.

00:44:25.340 Well, it's our pleasure. And we enjoy visiting Ireland and we wish Ireland a free future, freedom and justice and prosperity and peace.

00:44:36.400 And the same back to all the guys in Canada and all the men and women in Canada.

00:44:40.560 Thanks, Liam.

00:44:41.360 Take care.

00:44:47.160 Well, it's pretty fun over there. And I was getting such trucker convoy vibes.

00:44:52.060 Anyways, let me read you some letters on Ireland.

00:44:55.660 Crannabitha says, good man, Ezra, you and Rebel News are always welcome here.

00:44:58.980 You know, I really feel that way.

00:45:00.480 Ireland is so friendly, partly because it's Irish and it's small and it's like it feels cozy, almost like an extended family than a country.

00:45:08.440 But no, we were beautifully received.

00:45:10.980 There was one moment where we were standing right on, I think it's called O'Connell Street, right in the heart of Dublin.

00:45:17.780 And one guy came up and wanted a selfie and then another person did.

00:45:20.880 And then a third, like they were just random people who just, there was such a density of Rebel News support because there really is so few independent media there when Rebel News comes to town.

00:45:31.820 And some of our videos are getting hundreds of thousands of views.

00:45:34.980 Everyone who's involved in the protest sees the video.

00:45:37.880 So it's pretty crazy.

00:45:39.280 I think per square mile, Rebel News might even be stronger in Dublin than it is in Toronto or Calvary.

00:45:46.520 It was pretty amazing.

00:45:48.940 Chris I5 says,

00:45:50.200 not a single word on the BBC here in the UK. I hope we start doing this here. Well done,

00:45:54.720 the Irish farmers. Yeah, I mean, there have been protests in the UK specifically focused on

00:46:00.660 migrant hotels. There were some amazing protests a few months back. This is very specific to fuel

00:46:07.440 prices and a stupid decision by the Irish government to put massive taxes on top of high

00:46:12.820 fuel prices. And it just, and that's why it's farmer led, which I think really shows the 0.88

00:46:17.780 character of it. It's very interesting. Ben R. Tomahawk says, what's disgusting is Irish police.

00:46:24.860 They are telling the citizens they can't travel in their own country, telling people they can't

00:46:28.880 support these brave folks is unconscionable. You know, I think the Irish police or the Gardias

00:46:34.920 they're called, most of them are probably conservative and they don't like the government

00:46:40.060 and they don't like taxes, but they are loyal and they follow orders. The question is, what if the

00:46:46.280 Our orders are to use violence against peaceful protesters.

00:46:49.780 I don't know if they'll all comply.

00:46:52.360 I think that's backfiring on the government, by the way,

00:46:55.020 especially their threat to use the military.

00:46:57.300 Ireland is sort of independent and sort of neutral.

00:47:00.680 I mean, it does have a military, but it doesn't,

00:47:03.660 like it's not running around the world going to war.

00:47:05.640 And to use the military against its own people,

00:47:09.020 I think that crossed a political line in Ireland.

00:47:11.000 That's what I think.

00:47:13.160 Deathman says,

00:47:14.040 this is why nato doesn't want to help the u.s they want gas prices so high to help push for

00:47:19.080 their clean green energy nonsense liberal governments are becoming more authoritarian

00:47:22.640 to its people and not looking to their people's best interest carbon taxes are crazy and

00:47:29.940 you know they can be repealed it was done in canada on the on the retail side it was done

00:47:35.400 in australia i think they're going to be repealed in ireland no one wants food taxed or fuel tax

00:47:41.220 those are the basic stuff of life and any politician who wants a fuel tax or a food tax is

00:47:47.460 really saying they don't like people like of all the things to tax that's what you're taxing

00:47:52.600 it's outrageous and i love watching the irish push back so i'll be here in canada but let's

00:47:57.160 all watch efron and alexa do their work overseas well that's our show for today until tomorrow on

00:48:03.380 behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep fighting for

00:48:08.280 freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - April 13, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Would Canadians really join the EU just to spite Trump？

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