In the wake of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, Ezra Levant asks the question: What caused it to burn down? And why is the government refusing to admit that it's a mystery? Is it because they don't know what happened? Or because they just don't care?
00:02:43.020And it was a detailed plan to destroy the oil sands, as you can see, by defaming them, by denormalizing, by suing them, by using Aboriginal people as cannon fodder.
00:03:25.320It's an old rule of thumb that the simplest explanation is usually the right explanation.
00:03:30.880And there's a variation on Occam's Razor that's useful for dealing with people, especially bureaucracies.
00:03:37.520Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
00:03:43.400As in, if someone is evil or someone is dumb, they're probably dumb.
00:03:48.000But I'm afraid we live in an era of great deception where there is both malice and stupidity.
00:03:56.820And the people we trust the most to tell us the truth no longer seem to do it.
00:04:02.140Think of what we learned from the two-year, $50 million special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller.
00:04:08.140For two years, everyone in a position of trust in society, the media especially, but every think tank, every pundit, every expert, every lawyer, every professor, the whole elite.
00:04:22.040Daniel Pipes calls them the 5P professionals.
00:04:40.500But they literally, I mean, insane things like this cover of Time magazine implying that he's a spy.
00:04:47.200And this conspiracy theory was reported seriously by all the media.
00:04:52.420And more to the point, it was seriously said and stoked by the highest officials in Barack Obama's FBI and the national security establishment.
00:05:02.120So, yeah, never suspect malice when plain old stupidity can answer it.
00:05:06.720But here we now have proof delivered by Robert Mueller and his team of Democrats, by the way, that the whole thing was exactly what Donald Trump said it was from the beginning, a hoax, a witch hunt.
00:05:28.420But those cops and FBI and secret this and media that, they lied to us for two years about the most important thing in the world, I think.
00:05:37.380Wouldn't it be insane if the president of the United States were actually a Russian spy?
00:05:41.980That would be the greatest scandal and problem since the Second World War, I think.
00:05:48.280If only all those experts would have cared as much about real collusion with Russia, like Hillary Clinton selling America's uranium to a Russian company.
00:07:12.060The Paris prosecutor's office says investigators are treating the blaze that destroyed part of Notre Dame as an accident for now.
00:07:20.620The prosecutor's office said late Monday they have ruled out arson in Monday's fire, including possible terror-related motives for starting the blaze.
00:07:29.100Prosecutors say Paris police will conduct an investigation into involuntary destruction caused by fire.
00:07:35.880Really? So, they're only investigating it as an involuntary accident.
00:07:43.080And they made that decision about what they're going to look into before they looked into anything.
00:07:48.380Before the investigation was done, they sort of said what they're going to look for, only one thing.
00:07:53.260Shouldn't you normally investigate first, investigate the fire, and follow the facts wherever they lead?
00:07:59.280And shouldn't you wait until the investigation is over before announcing what you're looking for, what caused it?
00:11:02.380Have you ever tried to light a beam of wood like that on fire?
00:11:07.860Now, I am not an expert about fire, but I think I need an explanation of how the greatest symbol of Western civilization, of Christendom, in all of France, suddenly burst into flames.
00:11:18.480And so quickly that the whole thing was consumed so quickly.
00:14:22.100The safety procedures on the Notre Dame de Paris construction site, quote, have been respected, said one of the leaders of the scaffolding of the cathedral on BFM TV Tuesday.
00:14:31.100So this is a newspaper quoting an appearance by him on TV.
00:14:35.940The day after the fire that ravaged the building, quote, all I can tell you right now is that at the start of the fire, absolutely none of the employees of my company was present on site, said Julien Le Bras, adding that all employees of his company, Europe Escafodage, participate in the inquiry without any reservation.
00:14:53.300Okay, I thought it was a construction fire, but he says his people weren't working then.
00:15:18.740Michel Picot of the Friends of Notre Dame, a U.S.-based foundation dedicated to fundraising for the cathedral's reconstruction efforts, said the entire roof was destroyed.
00:16:59.360This isn't me, a know-nothing, who keeps having glitches.
00:17:03.380This is the chief architect of the cathedral, obsessed with its safety, who knows every staircase, every stone, every timber in the building.
00:27:09.240Now, I agree with him that everything he saw there was disgusting, but I thought he was actually cruel to the genuine homeless people who often have physical or mental disabilities or simply can't help their situation.
00:27:20.940I'm not joking around when I say that is an unfair comparison to hobos or the homeless, because the people at that super gross environmental event were largely wealthy middle class or upper class kids who were doing this on purpose, who were being super gross as some sort of moral statement.
00:27:42.840And I think that was my only criticism with what we saw there.
00:27:46.260Our own Janice Hankinson went to this same environmentalist event and asked some really simple questions and got some silly answers.
00:27:56.760Here she is asking someone, how are you supposed to travel to Australia if you can't fly?
00:28:18.320But helping me figure out what the Extinction Rebellion is and who's behind it, who's financing it.
00:28:24.900And if it made any difference other than having a bunch of people live sort of gross for a day.
00:28:29.740We're joined now by our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com, who was on the West Coast, hopefully not surrounded by super gross environmentalists.
00:28:45.000There's a lot of environmentalism there, too.
00:28:47.260It's also a high-tech city, and people love to be wealthy in Seattle.
00:28:51.640One of the things that gets me about the environmentalist credo is they want us to move backwards in time, in my view, to where things that were gross in the world,
00:29:02.340like for millennia, people wanted to get away from gross things.
00:29:07.100That's why we invented fridges so food didn't rot.
00:29:10.460That's why we dealt with garbage in landfills so it wasn't just on the street.
00:29:15.180That's why we had proper plumbing and sewage and sanitation.
00:29:18.340To me, not flushing, which is an environmental thing, sorting your garbage and composting it in your backyard, not showering for a day.
00:29:32.680They're getting back to an unhealthy, unhappy era in human existence that, for millennia, humans tried to move away from.
00:29:40.380Here you've got a bunch of rich kids in London living gross as if anyone in medieval ages wouldn't give anything to live in our hygienic, safe, healthy, modern, industrialized society today.
00:29:54.600Yeah, actually, in my sequel that I'm working on to the film Climate Hustle, I actually feature a Hollywood component that's exactly what you're talking about.
00:30:04.380Actress Drew Barrymore of, you know, E.T. fame and a whole bunch of other movies went to Bhutan and all these other poor developing world nations with other Hollywood celebrities.
00:30:15.140They flew there. And in the documentary footage, she is bragging about how she went and took a poo in the woods and how it was awesome and there was no modern plumbing and sanitation.
00:30:25.700And they were just all laughing and they were going to go take, you know, number two in the woods.
00:30:29.600They look at this as though glorifying it, as you're mentioning here, they're glorifying gross, primitive behavior as and they're extolling the virtues of lack of development, of lack of fossil fuels.
00:30:42.140This is at the same time enjoying all the benefits. And I think you mentioned this is the these are the children of the well-to-do kids who, in many cases, went to nice private boarding schools who now have taken up their cause with the Extinction Rebellion and are doing things like gluing their breasts to Goldman Sachs in London, bare breasts on the I guess on the side of the building.
00:31:03.360And the police had to come in there. The lady did that yesterday.
00:31:06.360They are doing the most outrageous stunts they can think of. They're trying to disrupt everything.
00:31:11.840But you're right. It's an absolute glorification of primitiveness, if we can say that.
00:31:17.500Yeah. And we just saw some imagery of protesters there, all of them wearing or using fossil fuels.
00:31:23.580I mean, the majority of artificial, a lot of outside clothing.
00:31:28.660Look at that. That banner is made of vinyl, that wheelchair.
00:31:31.640I don't know what that is, but I see metal, vinyl, plastic.
00:31:37.200None of this possible without hydrocarbons, fossil fuels, industry.
00:32:43.520But in the last few months, as she's gained celebrity and her movement is gone in the United States, March 15th, we had the kids climate strike.
00:32:50.500She's gotten, as you're saying, the word creepy, more and more doomsday like and saying more and more dark, disturbing, weird things about the climate and about essentially there being no hope.
00:33:04.020And the kids, why should they be in school when they have no future?
00:33:06.800Because, you know, there's no future because we're not listening to the world's best scientists at the United Nations.
00:33:11.740Yeah. And I've heard I think she's got some form of autism as well.
00:33:15.700So you're describing her. So she's well funded.
00:33:19.560She's her parents are PR. I think her mom is a PR agent.
00:33:23.740And this whole movement that she's gone is not some spontaneous little movement of a teenage girl who cares about the climate.
00:33:30.860This was a contrived, plotted, planned, orchestrated effort, and it's paid off spectacularly for them.
00:33:39.740She is now the face of the climate movement, internationally, certainly more.
00:33:44.940And she's also up for a Nobel Prize now.
00:33:50.180People are openly talking where she could win the Nobel Prize for skipping school to talk about doomsday.
00:33:56.000You know, children of tender years, I don't think, should be weaponized for politics.
00:34:39.580She said that I have no point in living.
00:34:41.860And when you have kids talking to kids in a semi-suicidal way, I think that's bordering on child abuse.
00:34:48.400If I heard that some teenager was going to my kids' schools to talk about how she doesn't think there's any point in living or going to school,
00:34:57.220I'd say keep that weirdo away from my kids.
00:34:59.600Or actually, I'd say keep that tool of her weirdo parents and their funding marketing scheme away from my kids.
00:35:06.860And she clearly couldn't or wouldn't do any of this on her own if she didn't have a team of adults orchestrating it behind the scenes.
00:35:14.580No, in fact, she's been asked very specific questions about renewable energy and the climate.
00:35:20.320And she falls back on, hey, I'm just a kid.
00:35:24.460And to which the answer is, yes, exactly.
00:35:27.000So why are you going around talking about the world's finest scientists and we have no future?
00:35:30.780Again, just the typical, so they're trying to have it both ways.
00:35:34.760But there's a funny incident with this Extinction Rebellion in London yesterday where they went up to the head of the UK party and there was a journalist with them.
00:35:44.360And these boys were going off about, you know, we need to do this, we need to do that.
00:35:48.920And the interview went awry and they turned on these protesters and started asking where they went to school.
00:35:54.820They called them Posh Boys, a journalist named Katie Hopkins.
00:36:17.140There's this perception I have where I live, and it's a place called the rest of the UK, that climate protesters are massively overprivileged and kind of posh kids.
00:36:26.000And you seem to be falling straight into that for me.
00:36:29.200So can you explain to me why it is that it seems to be almost a luxury of the privileged that live in London to dictate to the rest of us what we should and shouldn't be allowed to do?