Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Yet another church destroyed by fire as Canada shrugs at a disturbing pattern

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00:00:39.600 Now, let's get into it.

00:00:56.160 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:11.100 Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.

00:01:12.880 Behind me, a church last night burnt to the ground.

00:01:17.240 You can see the massive bell tower which fell at around 8 p.m. last night.

00:01:21.940 The fire was detected just before 7 p.m.

00:01:25.900 More than 40 firefighters tried to battle the blaze from this village of Saint-Romain, or Saint-Romain, Quebec,

00:01:33.680 and five municipalities in the area, but they couldn't save it.

00:01:38.960 Every timber charred to the ground.

00:01:41.260 You can still see some remnants, for example, of the music sheets for the hymns.

00:01:47.780 Behind the wreckage is a cemetery.

00:01:50.600 I was looking at some of the tombstones. They go back more than a century.

00:01:56.240 This building itself was almost 100 years old, and there were churches on this land that predate that.

00:02:03.860 I can only imagine how this church was an integral part of the community for everything.

00:02:10.700 I mean, now we live in a country dominated by the state,

00:02:15.260 But for a great amount of time, social services were provided not by the government, but by the church.

00:02:22.420 It would have been the daycare. It would have been the preschool.

00:02:26.180 It would have been a food bank.

00:02:28.700 It would have been a community center where people would celebrate life cycle events, a birth, a christening, a funeral, a wedding.

00:02:37.880 This church was an integral part of Saint-Romain, the same way the church has been an integral part of Quebec.

00:02:43.500 I flew early this morning from Toronto to Quebec City and then rented a car and drove the two hours to Saint-Romain.

00:02:50.620 And town after town, first of all, they're named after saints, just like Saint-Romain is.

00:02:56.400 And the highlight, the architectural, cultural, geographic center of every one of these towns is a beautiful church.

00:03:04.940 Some of them astonishingly large, given the small town they're in, which suggests that in an earlier era,

00:03:11.560 the church was absolutely the focal point of life in these towns.

00:03:15.960 I put it to you that the history of Quebec is the history of the Catholic Church.

00:03:20.480 You could do a tour from church to church, cathedral to cathedral in this province,

00:03:26.140 much the way you could do that in Italy.

00:03:29.240 Obviously, the grandeur and the size of those churches in Italy would be superior.

00:03:34.480 But considering that these were small towns,

00:03:37.220 the effort and the resources and the love that went into building these churches

00:03:40.900 is just as astonishing.

00:03:43.840 I saw this news last night on Twitter,

00:03:46.480 which is how I usually learn about arsons,

00:03:50.960 vandalism, and other attacks on churches.

00:03:53.480 I certainly don't learn about it through mainstream media.

00:03:57.340 You may recall just a few weeks ago,

00:03:59.500 I saw that there was a church in New Brunswick

00:04:02.220 that was torched, and I went out there.

00:04:04.580 I saw it in no official media.

00:04:07.320 It was only on Twitter.

00:04:08.320 there has been some mainstream coverage of this church fire simply because of its enormous size

00:04:14.360 and the devastation i'm holding my camera up you can just see the scale of it like i say almost 50

00:04:22.440 pompiers almost 50 firemen fighting it it would have been enormous and uh i saw there were stories

00:04:31.480 in cbc or the french version called radio canada and the journal de montreal that's a paleto

00:04:37.240 newspaper the police as of last night and i just checked this morning say they do not know the

00:04:44.280 cause of it they have not ruled out arson i have to say there's something funny about church fires

00:04:51.160 funny is the wrong word something odd about church fires is that they always authorities race to say

00:04:58.160 it's not vandalism it's not arson i remember the most shocking case of a church being torched

00:05:03.760 namely the grand Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

00:05:08.000 When I saw that, especially when I saw the spire tumble down,

00:05:11.720 it felt like a dagger.

00:05:13.660 Other than the death toll,

00:05:15.620 the shocking moral attack on Paris

00:05:20.020 reminded me of nothing so much as 9-11,

00:05:23.420 a dagger to the heart of America.

00:05:25.000 Thank God the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral

00:05:28.480 didn't have the same death toll,

00:05:29.780 but it was the same deliberate attack on the heart of France.

00:05:33.760 and i remember in that case before the investigation the government announced that

00:05:40.160 it was not terrorism before the investigation was done because you could only imagine the

00:05:44.780 ramifications in france if it had been found to have been the target of a jihadist attack

00:05:50.540 that may sound alarmist but i put it to you that that is what jihad does you may know

00:05:56.480 the grandest mosque in all of turkey the haja sophia it wasn't built as a mosque

00:06:02.620 that was a church and when constantinople was conquered by the turkish ottomans and turned into

00:06:10.040 a muslim country that church was converted into a mosque that is one of the reasons that churches

00:06:17.020 are torched another reason i put it to you is the anti-catholic bigotry perpetrated by the canadian

00:06:24.280 government with their narrative of anti-indigenous genocide for about 15 or 20 years now the

00:06:32.020 authorities no one less than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or former Chief Justice of the

00:06:36.800 Supreme Court Beverly McLachlan have said that Canada has committed a genocide against Aboriginal

00:06:44.940 peoples and they put the blame quite often on churches which ran many of the schools including

00:06:51.180 the residential schools I think part of the mania the moral panic about residential schools in

00:06:59.200 canada is a deliberate attempt to undermine catholicism and the catholic church is an

00:07:05.440 institution and you'll note that uh no that justin trudeau's primary advisor his principal

00:07:14.320 secretary gerald butts said that he found the attacks on churches understandable that's the

00:07:22.000 word he used i should tell you that in canada more than 100 churches has have either been

00:07:28.640 vandalized or torched now thank god most of them have not been burned to the ground like this was

00:07:35.100 but you know one is a tragedy two is uh is worse but five ten dozens a hundred that's a pattern

00:07:49.120 that even a blind man could see but look at this i'm here all by myself um this fire just happened

00:07:57.840 last night i'm not going to touch the wood to see if it's still warm i don't think it is

00:08:01.300 this is a major attack uh if it is an attack but we don't know yet and there's so little curiosity

00:08:09.360 if this were a mosque would the prime minister be on the ground here would he be making a statement

00:08:16.720 would there be a task force to find out who did it i don't know if a synagogue was burned to the

00:08:22.000 ground if the prime minister would give a damn he doesn't seem to care when they're shot at by guns

00:08:25.980 But Christians seem to be one of the last groups that you can burn the churches down and people just shrug.

00:08:33.680 Here's some of those music sheets I was talking about.

00:08:40.880 I'm not jumping to conclusions.

00:08:42.960 I don't know what caused this fire.

00:08:47.220 And I don't know if we'll ever know.

00:08:49.860 The authorities have not released that information yet.

00:08:52.140 But I know for a fact that many other church fires in Canada, including several that I've attended to document, have been caused by arson.

00:09:03.380 And you would think that if there's a pattern of church arsons, that this would have a major response from authorities.

00:09:10.540 I mean, think of the United States when there was attacks on black churches by Ku Klux Klan or other white racists who would target black churches.

00:09:19.700 That became a priority for the FBI and even the National Guard in some cases, let alone local police, to track down who was doing that terrorism.

00:09:29.260 And again, I don't know if this is terrorism or if this is an accident.

00:09:32.520 I don't know that.

00:09:33.620 But I know that many of the other fires in Canada have been determined to be arson.

00:09:38.500 There's no national task force between different police forces and CSIS and other spy agencies and intelligence agencies.

00:09:46.300 a hundred churches vandalized and burned and a shrug a collective shrug i i find that deeply

00:09:55.320 depressing and one of the things we do at rebel news is document this war against churches and

00:10:03.180 that's why i came out here this morning that's why i went to the new brunswick church that was

00:10:07.220 torched a few weeks ago in fact we've set up a website called save our churches dot ca where

00:10:14.240 we have a compilation of all of these and if you think this is an interesting or valuable journalism

00:10:19.100 you can chip in to help cover my airfare there if you feel compelled to do so why are there not

00:10:26.620 other journalists on the scene I came in from Toronto which was a bit of a journey where

00:10:30.280 where are the journalists from Montreal did they come here it's I mean it's visually

00:10:36.440 an interesting story if you're just trying to justify it in its newsworthiness a large church

00:10:43.540 torched shocking images you would think that a entrepreneurial journalist from the cbc or tva

00:10:50.320 would be out here i don't know maybe they've already come and gone but this place seems

00:10:54.240 pretty barren to me i don't know i just feel like it's um everyone accepts the fact that christianity

00:11:03.180 must be on on retreat and can be poked at and if there's a arson or other bigoted attack on a

00:11:12.780 church, which this may or may not be, we don't know yet, that, well, that's, don't worry about

00:11:17.160 it because discrimination and racism only focuses on minorities. Well, I find this a painful thing

00:11:25.180 to see. I find this absolutely shocking. And I'm not, from here, I'm not even Christian myself.

00:11:30.700 I can only imagine my feelings if this was a major synagogue in Toronto. I would be so 0.97

00:11:37.580 troubled i would be retching from the stress and the grief of it i saw a few people locals just

00:11:45.740 looking at it they came to to see the last of their church i don't know if it'll be rebuilt

00:11:50.400 apparently there were no longer services in this church but

00:11:53.960 rather social services and other events i don't know

00:11:56.820 i don't know the future of this but in the present i do know this very little coverage

00:12:05.180 in the mainstream, no interest by the political class,

00:12:09.660 and a massive, beautiful church burnt to the ground.

00:12:19.780 Well, I'm very happy to report that the CBC is here to cover the story.

00:12:24.180 They came in from Sherbrooke, and they confirmed that it is not yet known

00:12:29.560 the cause of the fire, but one of the journalists was very helpful to me, and let me tell you what

00:12:36.620 he just showed me. Do you see that building there? That's the fire department. The fire department

00:12:46.700 is one block away. You can see it. Here, let me turn around and flip the camera. That

00:12:53.780 is the fire department this is the fire it couldn't be any closer unless the fire

00:13:02.400 department itself was burned very interesting quirk i'm not not saying it necessarily means

00:13:09.180 anything other than you would think that they would have detected the fire very quickly it

00:13:13.740 was literally in their line of sight how a fire can consume such an enormous structure

00:13:19.300 and not be saved with 45 firefighters

00:13:23.540 from five different municipalities.

00:13:26.460 I don't know.

00:13:27.480 I mean, I suppose it's an old building.

00:13:29.400 Maybe it's dry.

00:13:30.380 Maybe it didn't, like the wood was very combustible.

00:13:33.960 Maybe it didn't have modern sprinkler systems in it.

00:13:36.380 There could be different explanations.

00:13:39.480 And I suppose the reason why I'm so suspicious

00:13:43.260 is because this is not the first church I've been to

00:13:46.680 that has been torched on purpose.

00:13:48.160 and it's not the first it's not even the first hundred in Canada so I hope you'll forgive me

00:13:53.640 if my spider senses are tingling anyways I'm glad I talked to the CBC and I'm glad they're here

00:13:58.400 frankly if you want to keep following this terrible issue this series of bad news stories

00:14:06.960 go to saveourchurches.ca

00:14:18.160 broad slide through the perilous fight.

00:14:23.520 O'er the ramparts we've watched, we're so gallantly streamed.

00:14:30.520 And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air.

00:14:38.440 Scarlet Grace with Rebel News. 1.00

00:14:39.720 We are outside the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, where Iranians

00:14:44.760 have gathered at the call of their king.

00:14:47.320 Thousands of Iranians will be gathering all over the world today in front of U.S. embassies to tell Trump one clear message.

00:14:54.400 Stay the course. Finish the job. Don't stop until there is regime change in Iran.

00:15:00.340 We are starting the day at the U.S. embassy where speakers are speaking.

00:15:04.400 We had the Star Spangled Banner play and as well as A-Iran, the national anthem of Iran.

00:15:10.640 Right now they are gathered chanting and there will be a march to Parliament Hill where we will catch up with protesters

00:15:16.480 and see how they're feeling right now

00:15:19.180 considering the ceasefire that was just announced.

00:15:22.320 We are here today for Iran

00:15:25.120 and we want to emphasize we support Pahlavi, Reza Pahlavi.

00:15:30.820 So the main message I'm getting is

00:15:32.880 Trump, stay the course

00:15:34.540 and you guys have a chosen leader.

00:15:36.600 Exactly, that's it.

00:15:38.000 And our choice is Reza Pahlavi as you hear before, yeah.

00:15:41.900 This was shared with me by the organizers.

00:15:46.480 Okay, they don't like rebel news. That's a first from the Iranian community. Usually, they're all about us. 1.00

00:15:52.480 Ababa is the capital of Canada, and we decided to have this demonstration this time in our capital for two reasons.

00:16:00.480 One, to speak to the United States because the embassy is here.

00:16:04.480 Number two, to have an even parliament help to restrict the Canadian government.

00:16:09.480 So we have certain demands for Canadian government and certain demands for US government.

00:16:15.480 That's why we are in Ottawa.

00:16:17.480 We are at the very front of the march that is just making its way to Parliament.

00:16:20.480 And leading the entire march, this is very important, is a giant picture of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.

00:16:29.480 There are so many mainstream media channels that do not want to show this.

00:16:33.480 They do not want to show that Iranians are united and have a chosen leader.

00:16:38.480 leader. It is not even a question where Iranians stand on this. And his face is leading the 0.83

00:16:47.880 march for that very reason, so that you cannot get a picture of this demonstration, you cannot

00:16:51.740 get a video without it showing their chosen leader. What brought you out today to this

00:16:57.320 demonstration? Common cause. These are people who are fighting for freedom against a brutal

00:17:02.440 tyranny of the last 47 years. We have watched the price that they've paid in rivers of blood

00:17:07.140 their own street and standing for their own freedom you'll notice that these iranian rallies

00:17:11.380 they are peaceful they sing oh canada they uh condemn tyranny uh they clean up after themselves

00:17:17.700 this is an incredible community of beautiful iranians who are contributing to our country

00:17:22.260 fearlessly um we need to stand with them this is a this is an hour of extraordinary trial

00:17:28.980 the country has been blacked out from internet access for uh since the beginning of this fight

00:17:34.820 it has been horrific to hear little bits of news here and there but look at the

00:17:39.980 strength with which they stand with their people today it's a great honor

00:17:43.940 for me to be able to join them today stand with their people and they stand

00:17:46.600 with Canadians too they're so honoring to their host countries always they're

00:17:53.180 enormously successful like the Iranian community Canada has integrated in every

00:17:57.300 part of our national life they pay their taxes they want the same things that

00:18:01.140 every Canadian deserves,

00:18:02.140 which is to live in freedom and prosperity.

00:18:06.480 Dawood Bar-Shava, my name is Shu Fajumdar.

00:18:08.880 I bring greetings to you from

00:18:11.020 the great Iranian-Canadian community in Calgary.

00:18:16.560 All across this land,

00:18:19.000 we have seen Canadians come together

00:18:21.160 and stand to defend freedom from fear,

00:18:24.460 to fight tyranny at every turn,

00:18:26.840 to make sure that the end of this 47-year dictatorship

00:18:30.400 is final. 0.99

00:18:31.400 So Reza Pahlavi is the only true representative of our nation, like the Iranians, so we're 0.64

00:18:41.500 here to pretty much offset all the propagandas, all the false regime changes, the signals 0.91

00:18:50.640 from inside.

00:18:51.640 So not even all those other parties, all the people involved in regime, they're part of the regime.

00:19:01.480 Or they will be just the continuous of current regime.

00:19:06.600 Pahlavi is our only representative.

00:19:09.860 And it's not just us we're saying this.

00:19:12.140 We are being the voice of Iranians.

00:19:15.000 Those who have been massacred. 1.00

00:19:17.420 Those who truly require military support.

00:19:22.420 So this, for us Iranian, this is not a war.

00:19:27.420 This is a rescue operation when our people are under machine guns just for showing up in the streets.

00:19:37.420 We are boycotts with CBC, with CTV, and they are not actually covering what we have here.

00:19:46.420 I really appreciate Rebel News because I follow your channel and I see that you cover all

00:19:51.420 these rallies in Toronto or in Ottawa or in other cities. 0.96

00:19:56.880 But what we see is that Western countries other than US are boycotting what Iranian

00:20:04.480 people want and what Iranian people are shouting here and what people Iranian are looking for.

00:20:10.740 Honestly, like with the bravery of the American soldiers, we just wanted to show our support

00:20:16.180 how we are like honoring them and how we are thankful for the initiative they took to 0.95

00:20:22.740 come to iran because people of iran have no voice like they uh massacred like over 40 000 0.68

00:20:30.500 of iranians with like the bare hand they went into the like just the street to show that they

00:20:37.300 don't want the regime and at the same time regime like killed them all and we were like helpless

00:20:45.460 And at this time, USA and Israel, they took the initiative.

00:20:50.440 They went to help the people of Iran.

00:20:53.620 And yeah, we are thankful.

00:20:55.580 Like, we are sorry that we lost American soldiers.

00:20:58.840 But at the same time, we want to show how we honor them and how we are thankful.

00:21:04.660 Wear the Israeli flag. 0.94

00:21:06.540 Well, because there have been one of the countries that have always been against the Islamic Republic.

00:21:11.720 Benjamin Netanyahu said it, even the other Itamar Ben-Giver said it. 1.00

00:21:17.720 They've always been strongly against the Islamic Republic and that's why I support them. 0.98

00:21:22.720 Do you think it's a bit of a risky move? Do you worry about your safety wearing the Israeli flag in public here? 1.00

00:21:28.720 Well, no, I believe we have the freedom of choice. I wear it proudly because, you know, it's a country that I love for what they do.

00:21:36.720 So far there's no sign of counter-protesters, there never really is, at least when I'm here in Ottawa, I've never seen them, the police do seem to know to keep them back, we don't see that in Toronto, which is why I always say this is the best place to protest, you've got political buildings, you've got police who know to keep the crowds apart, and way better scenery.

00:22:02.220 And how do you feel about the current negotiations with the mullahs? 1.00

00:22:07.500 We don't, we never support them, I think they can't negotiate, you know, they are not, 1.00

00:22:16.700 they don't represent us, Iranian, and that's the reason they can't negotiate. Negotiate with what? 1.00

00:22:23.100 One would say you can't negotiate with terrorists. 0.98

00:22:25.980 No, exactly, they are terrorists and they are not represent Iranian people. 0.98

00:22:32.800 These are not the regime we want, you know. 0.96

00:22:35.180 U.S. government wants to negotiate with Islamic Republic

00:22:38.740 and there are certain serious conditions.

00:22:43.100 And if the regime doesn't meet those conditions,

00:22:46.220 obviously the strikes will be resumed.

00:22:50.280 But the thing is, we don't want to weaken the regime.

00:22:53.820 stay in power, because they're going to regain the power, kill more people. 0.72

00:23:01.420 And if the United States want to take Iran's demands seriously, it's to change the regime. 0.91

00:23:09.580 It's removing the entire regime, not just the labor of the regime, but keeping them 0.59

00:23:15.060 in power.

00:23:16.060 So we believe that this ceasefire will help the regime to gain power and be more and stronger. 0.89

00:23:26.500 And if you speak to Iranians, no one is happy with this ceasefire. 0.73

00:23:30.540 United States and Israel promised to support Iranian people. 0.94

00:23:35.720 But now they are making a deal with the regime.

00:23:38.180 We understand that both countries have to protect their interests.

00:23:43.120 But how about their promise to the Iranian people to support them?

00:23:49.760 U.S., Canada and international community must understand that Iran is not Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:23:58.080 The people of Iran are united in their demand for human rights, freedom and democracy.

00:24:04.300 So yours says regime change has not happened. Stop deals. They still execute.

00:24:10.240 So what does that mean?

00:24:11.880 The agreement, actually, sessions they have in Pakistan between the regime agents and

00:24:19.760 U.S.

00:24:20.760 This is to have some sort of ceasefire, which is against what Donald Trump said to people

00:24:27.380 of Iran to support them.

00:24:29.640 And we still want the support to topple this regime.

00:24:32.760 And it's not as done yet.

00:24:36.080 And so what we say is that they have to continue and they have to support Iranian people.

00:24:42.920 And they shouldn't negotiate with the regime agents, anyone.

00:24:47.960 And that's why we are here, to support them.

00:24:52.640 The thing is that this regime has always been like this.

00:24:55.780 They execute oppositions, anyone against them.

00:25:00.900 They oppress people. 0.87

00:25:02.320 There is no freedom in Iran and what we want is to have no ceasefire with this regime because 0.99

00:25:09.560 any ceasefire means that they will continue what they have done over the past four decades. 1.00

00:25:17.360 So all Western countries should continue supporting Iranian people similar to what is done by 0.97

00:25:26.440 israel and by the united states leading by trump and netanyahu it can be just to make a deal it 0.93

00:25:35.080 can be to make a deal to stop the war but it can also be a way to bring more weapons in because

00:25:40.920 there have been recent uh u.s planes and tankers that have just gotten near the gulf and it can

00:25:48.840 be to make a deal but it can also be to get more weapons and get more ammunition in it could be

00:25:54.520 strategy yeah yeah you know it's uh fog of war it's really difficult to fully understand exactly

00:25:59.720 what the full picture of negotiations both in islamabad and in lebanon are uh we know that

00:26:05.480 this regime has been degraded uh massively uh that we've it's now been revealed to what extent

00:26:12.440 they had ballistic missiles and drones trained on the world it's now been revealed to what range

00:26:17.320 those missiles can now hit which is much of europe and camp diego garcia um we have seen that their

00:26:22.920 sprint for nuclear ambitions was still fully underway so a lot of that degradation has happened

00:26:27.320 we've also seen in the last 40 some odd days the instruments of the regime's repression through the

00:26:32.520 besiege been degraded massively i'm not entirely sure that there's a consolidated leadership in

00:26:38.120 iran that can speak for the people in charge so i'm watching these negotiations very closely to

00:26:43.320 see exactly who speaks for who and to what level we can actually achieve a pathway to peace and

00:26:48.440 in progress for the Iranian people.

00:26:49.900 Oh, we have a picture in the middle of the crowd here.

00:26:54.840 Moshtaba Khamenei, no deal.

00:26:57.140 That is the son of recently deceased, thank goodness, Ali Khamenei,

00:27:02.600 and supposedly the new supreme leader of Iran.

00:27:07.160 But nobody has seen or heard from him since his father's assassination.

00:27:12.760 What do you think about Trump using the term regime change already?

00:27:16.000 Oh, there's no regime change.

00:27:18.440 There is no regime change.

00:27:20.000 He's saying there is a regime change

00:27:21.420 because he killed a supreme leader and an IRGC commander.

00:27:27.140 It doesn't mean that regime changed.

00:27:28.980 The same regime is still in the power

00:27:30.540 and the same people are in the government

00:27:34.520 and the other commanders of IRGC controlling the country.

00:27:41.900 This country is governed by IRGC, controlled by IRGC,

00:27:45.500 The IRGC now has 100% control of the country.

00:27:50.380 Do you think that it's a tactic he could be using?

00:27:52.480 Do you think he's playing chess, or are you critical of him right now?

00:27:54.980 We don't know. Honestly, if we don't know, we can't judge.

00:27:57.900 But what I'm saying is the U.S. and Israeli governments should take our demands seriously 0.99

00:28:04.300 because removal and ayatollahs is beneficial for all countries, Iran, U.S., Israel, and the world, 0.96

00:28:09.860 because they're fighting with the Iranian regime and ayatollahs because of the security threats.

00:28:14.700 So if they remove Ayatollahs and we can build a democratic government, then they're going to be a peace in Middle East.

00:28:23.500 And there will be no security threat coming to U.S. and Canada and Israel.

00:28:27.260 Iranians are not seeking conflict among themselves.

00:28:31.340 They are seeking real change, regime change.

00:28:35.180 And everybody knows that.

00:28:36.620 There is growing support among Iranians for coordinated leadership led by Crown Prince Rezaab al-Avi.

00:28:43.940 and, of course, participation of many opposition figures and activists

00:28:48.780 for a transitional period toward a secular and democratic Iran.

00:28:54.260 So the narrative that supporting change in Iran will inevitably lead to chaos

00:29:00.900 should not be used as an excuse for inaction.

00:29:05.380 Something that you might actually see a lot of in the crowds today are masks.

00:29:10.160 But Iranians aren't wearing masks because they're afraid of COVID or whatever else the mainstream is telling you to be afraid of these days.

00:29:16.920 They're wearing masks for their own protection in another way.

00:29:20.440 We have, again, at least 700 suspected IRGC agents operating in Canada with little to no enforcement from our government to get them out.

00:29:29.700 And that endangers Iranian Canadians, especially Iranian Canadians who are here standing against the IRGC, standing against the Islamic Republic in Iran.

00:29:37.940 So some of them feel they have no choice but to obscure their identity to keep themselves

00:29:42.400 safe and their families back home in Iran.

00:29:48.400 Last time we were here, some Palestinians were interfering in the protests and taking

00:29:55.500 high-resolution pictures from people with high-end cameras.

00:30:02.700 And they were infiltrating, I don't know for what purpose.

00:30:05.980 Actually, I do know, everyone knows that, but this is the reason I'm putting on the mask.

00:30:11.140 Right.

00:30:11.580 So, yeah.

00:30:12.380 I mean, there's a lot of fear of IRGC agents in Canada as well.

00:30:16.100 There's longer threats, direct threats.

00:30:18.180 And Canada is not safe because the government of Canada is not supporting, like, the anti-terrorism movements.

00:30:26.440 Or perhaps they might sometime even back it up by not saying anything. 0.71

00:30:31.480 And we know about the threat of their weapons through warfare, but what about the threat in the diaspora?

00:30:35.980 the threat in Canada specifically, because we have estimated at least 700 IRGC agents

00:30:40.680 still operating freely in Canada.

00:30:42.940 What do you think about the Liberal government's response to that?

00:30:45.500 Look, even less than a week ago, we saw an American report saying there could be in excess

00:30:49.480 of a thousand of them here.

00:30:51.700 The Mark Carney Liberal government has had the grace of a year to confront this threat,

00:30:57.320 to understand how to deport, identify and deport regime officials in this country.

00:31:02.480 They had an opportunity of even more focus over the last 40 days.

00:31:05.600 We had their public safety minister, Gary Hernandez-Angry, say that they're looking at it, they're going to focus on it, they're going to get the job done.

00:31:11.320 They're not getting the job done.

00:31:12.960 They're not bringing any energy to the file.

00:31:14.600 To the best of our knowledge, maybe one has been deported since the beginning of this horrific event.

00:31:19.800 Iranian-Canadian families, and in fact all Canadian families, our Jewish communities, any Canadian community worried about the long arm of transnational repression on our streets should be concerned about this.

00:31:29.960 When you come out to protest in peace, you have the right to do so freely.

00:31:33.680 but when you have concerns and fears that regime agents are around the corner taking pictures of

00:31:39.160 you here, broadcasting them back to the terror and repression organizations in Iran, murdering your

00:31:45.420 own families, it's absolutely unacceptable. I just talked to two people today who had that very fear

00:31:49.820 and that's why they wear face coverings here. They're not afraid of COVID, they're afraid of

00:31:53.160 the regime in Canada. How would the conservative government approach that differently? With strength

00:31:57.580 on every file, with strength and clarity, with moral clarity. Pierre Polyev, right at the beginning

00:32:02.540 of his leadership less than seven days a newly minted conservative leader went to toronto to

00:32:06.880 stand with thousands of iranians to call for a change in the regime of iran and to make absolutely

00:32:11.780 clear that this is the party and the cause that understands what the regime is the threat it poses

00:32:17.460 to its people to the region to the world the necessity to stand with all our friends and

00:32:22.100 allies to rid the world of this terrorism and to start working with the people toward a world of

00:32:27.140 peace. And finally, your thoughts on Canada's position in the UN yesterday in support of the

00:32:33.460 Islamic Republic. Not appropriate for television, but I would have to say, you know, here's the one

00:32:38.100 forum where at the United Nations, you have the Cyrus cylinder on display for the world to see

00:32:43.700 the ancient promise of pluralism, of freedom and of liberty. Yet our country can't even raise our

00:32:49.200 voice to condemn the regime from taking a governing position over a human rights body.

00:32:53.200 Instead, it backs the Iranian clerical military dictatorship and denies Iranians their rights to freedom and democracy, enshrined in that very institution.

00:33:02.660 So the fact that Mark Carney, Anita Anand couldn't summon the basic strength to tell their officials to vote for the Iranian people and against the regime is one of the worst moral failings I've seen them conduct since they've been in power.

00:33:14.200 We must deport every single IRGC official still walking our streets, intimidating our people.

00:33:23.200 We should not tolerate thousands.

00:33:26.200 We should not tolerate hundreds.

00:33:28.200 We should not tolerate dozens.

00:33:30.200 Not one IRG official or their families should be on our streets.

00:33:39.200 Hi, officer. How's everything going today?

00:33:42.200 Thanks, but I'm not the media person,

00:33:44.200 so I'm not going to answer any of your questions.

00:33:46.200 Okay.

00:33:47.200 Have a great day.

00:33:48.200 Thank you.

00:33:49.200 It's very peaceful.

00:33:50.200 It is peaceful.

00:33:51.200 It's a little different than some other demonstrations, isn't it?

00:33:54.200 We are from the Falun Dafa group.

00:33:57.200 We have been persecuted in China for so many years.

00:34:01.200 We are here to tell people what's going on in China.

00:34:04.200 It's a human rights violation, very severe human rights violation in China.

00:34:08.200 So we are here to tell people about that.

00:34:10.200 We also have the issue in Canada of CCP infiltration in our politics.

00:34:16.200 So it kind of goes in line with what's going on today with the Iranian demonstration.

00:34:20.200 How do you feel about their fight for freedom?

00:34:22.200 Well, I was not sure what their demonstration is for, but it looks like they're against

00:34:26.440 changing regimes.

00:34:27.440 They're chanting.

00:34:28.440 Yes.

00:34:29.440 I'm for it, too.

00:34:30.440 Do you support them?

00:34:32.440 It has been known.

00:34:34.320 From what I hear, the CCP and the Islamic Republic are pretty good friends, so their 1.00

00:34:38.200 fight is your fight. 1.00

00:34:39.200 I think they're probably falling apart somewhat these days, but, you know, this is a very

00:34:45.040 important movement for them, too, for their country, so I'm all for it.

00:34:49.440 Thank you so much.

00:34:51.300 Can I take one of those?

00:34:52.980 Is this information?

00:34:54.260 It's a wonderful practice of mine.

00:34:57.980 You know, this is amazing.

00:35:00.120 It's a solution for all your issues.

00:35:02.440 You become very peaceful.

00:35:05.100 Okay, thank you.

00:35:06.780 Thank you so much.

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Rebel News Podcast - April 14, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Yet another church destroyed by fire as Canada shrugs at a disturbing pattern

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