Rebel News Podcast - MENZIES ｜ Transitioning to a radical agenda is in nobody's best interest

00:00:00.000 Tonight, are you not down with the radical transgender revolution? 1.00

00:00:05.180 Well, watch what you say, otherwise the police might come a-calling.

00:00:10.600 It's Tuesday, November 1st, 2022.

00:00:13.740 I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.

00:00:17.480 You've got it for freedom!

00:00:20.220 Shame on you, you sensorism bug!

00:00:30.000 Say, folks, have you heard the new whiz-bang saying for 2022 and likely beyond?

00:00:38.560 It goes like this.

00:00:39.780 If it's trans, it's good, and if it's good, it's trans. 1.00

00:00:44.400 I speak not of trans fats nor transcontinental railways, but rather transgenderism. 0.83

00:00:51.120 Make that radical transgenderism, actually. 0.82

00:00:55.000 Now, full disclosure, I'm a huge proponent of freedom, a concept that is continually

00:00:59.540 under attack these days, or in the words of wannabe conservative leader Jean Charest, something

00:01:05.580 that is, you know, overrated.

00:01:07.880 So, in the name of freedom, I take no issue with those who want to go through life pretending

00:01:13.980 to be the other sex. 0.90

00:01:15.520 Thus, if an adult wants to take hormone shots and slice and dice their genitalia and wear 0.98

00:01:21.480 the clothes of the opposite gender, hey, happy Halloween, 365 days a year, I suppose. 1.00

00:01:28.600 But I think the vast majority of the population draws the line where I do when it comes to

00:01:35.780 the transgender community, which is to say, tolerance and acceptance is one thing, but

00:01:41.220 affirmation and applause is quite another.

00:01:44.940 Indeed, why should it be incumbent upon all members of society to collectively don a cheerleader's

00:01:50.540 uniform, complete with pom-poms, and cheer on those who decide to transition, giving them

00:01:56.280 a big standing O for their gender-bending ways? 1.00

00:01:59.720 Look, if that 300-pound bearded dude wants to go through life wearing a miniskirt and demands

00:02:05.260 that he be addressed as Tinkerbell, she, her, this is not an achievement.

00:02:10.540 On the contrary, it might be an indicator of mental illness.

00:02:15.040 More on that later, by the way.

00:02:17.760 However, if that person invents a cure for cancer or develops an engine that will deliver

00:02:23.000 200 miles to the gallon, then I'll applaud, regardless of that person is a daily cosplay

00:02:29.900 enthusiast who identifies as an asexual gender-fluid spirit unicorn.

00:02:35.620 And yeah, I'm looking at you here, Busty Lemieux. 1.00

00:02:38.460 See, in my book, it's all about merit rather than gender identification.

00:02:44.820 Oh, and there's another caveat I subscribe to when it comes to transgender acceptance.

00:02:50.000 As I go through life minding my own business, can you folks in the radical transgender community

00:02:55.920 do likewise? 0.97

00:02:57.420 Which is to say, can you kindly keep your trans hands off our children? 1.00

00:03:02.440 Because given that the current motto of the progressive left these days is, 0.95

00:03:06.720 if it's good, it's trans, and if it's trans, it's good. 0.63

00:03:10.320 This has really emboldened the radical elements in the trans community to press their agenda

00:03:16.340 in the most despicable fashion imaginable, namely, trying to convince even elementary-aged children

00:03:24.400 that the solution to their woes, be they real or imagined, is to transition into the opposite sex. 0.99

00:03:31.820 Now, in yesterdecade, if little Laura liked to climb trees and play with toy cars as opposed to Barbie dolls, 1.00

00:03:39.420 she was what was known as a tomboy, and she'd most likely grow out of this phase. 0.99

00:03:44.700 Today, little Laura is not a tomboy, but a candidate for gender reassignment surgery, 1.00

00:03:50.600 and the sooner the better.

00:03:52.360 This is truly beyond the pale, but the indoctrination continues because, well, once again,

00:03:59.380 if it's trans, it's good, and if it's good, it's trans, and if you all have a problem with that, 0.88

00:04:05.080 then obviously you are a transphobe, and that's even worse than being a racist or a sexist 0.97

00:04:11.300 or maybe even worse than an Islamophobe. 0.95

00:04:14.260 And so it is that the progressives now espouse the marketing mantra of those advertising companies

00:04:21.060 on Madison Avenue, namely, get them young and get them forever,

00:04:25.520 a slogan that applies as much to pitching a brand of beer as it does to embracing woke ideology.

00:04:32.960 For example, a few years ago, somebody thought it was a jolly good idea to stage something called

00:04:38.100 Drag Queen Storytime.

00:04:40.940 No, not at a gay bar with an adult clientele, but rather at an elementary school or a library

00:04:47.500 in front of impressionable minors.

00:04:50.500 Question, how did this even become a thing?

00:04:54.040 How did anyone think that it was a good idea for children to be exposed

00:04:57.860 to a man pretending to be a grotesque caricature of a woman?

00:05:02.480 And really, what's the purpose other than a perverse form of gender-bending shock and awe? 0.58

00:05:10.120 Indeed, those in the radical transgender movement and their enablers in general society, 0.57

00:05:16.140 ranging from librarians to school principals,

00:05:19.460 don't seem to subscribe to age appropriateness when it comes to gender-bending.

00:05:24.680 How supremely odd.

00:05:26.300 We have age benchmarks when it comes to the purchase of liquor and lottery tickets and fireworks.

00:05:31.340 You have to be 16 to get a driver's license.

00:05:34.140 You have to be 18 to vote.

00:05:36.020 But it's never too early to undergo butchery to identify as the opposite gender. 1.00

00:05:42.980 What rational-thinking person subscribes to this mindset?

00:05:47.620 And if drag queens are allowed into schools and libraries to entertain kids, 1.00

00:05:53.480 well, why not invite 100% biological female strippers in too? 1.00

00:05:57.940 No, really, seriously.

00:05:59.480 What's the difference?

00:06:00.240 Look, I'm just trying to figure out the rules here, folks.

00:06:03.540 I'm trying to figure out who's who in the sexual zoo because, quite frankly, I'm completely baffled.

00:06:10.380 And then there is the contentious issue of mental illness.

00:06:14.420 I think back to a column in the National Post some five years ago by Susan Bradley,

00:06:20.140 who was a consultant child psychiatrist, formerly chief of psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children

00:06:26.900 and head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

00:06:32.640 Now, Bradley referenced a column in Crisis Magazine written by Elsie Earnhardt entitled,

00:06:38.600 Has the Transgender Movement Gone Too Far?

00:06:41.820 Ernhardt notes how the transgender movement began as activism for the rights of a tiny number of people

00:06:49.480 who were uncomfortable with their biological gender.

00:06:52.820 But these days, she says trans activism has evolved into an ideological movement to normalize the practice of changing genders.

00:07:03.460 But in the process, she says the trans movement has crossed ethical lines with a very vulnerable segment of young people struggling with issues of gender identity.

00:07:16.640 In particular, Earnhardt addresses the aggressive approach by adult trans activists in recruiting adolescents with Asperger's syndrome or other types of autism.

00:07:29.560 Notably, Earnhardt herself has Asperger's.

00:07:32.980 And typically among Asperger's girls in their adolescence, she preferred the company of boys due to the bullying she experienced from other girls.

00:07:42.480 Citing a social media campaign featuring the hashtag autistic trans pride, she understands why Asperger's and other autistic adolescents believe they are transgender when, in fact, they are not.

00:07:59.340 In short, these adolescents are told that they are a girl trapped in a boy's body or vice versa.

00:08:05.820 And many parents buy into this completely unscientific hypothesis.

00:08:13.220 Now, two points, folks.

00:08:15.220 One, do you find this trend downright terrifying?

00:08:19.740 And secondly, could such a column even be published today in the National Post without the usual suspects who comprise the cancel culture woke left?

00:08:30.880 Indeed, because these days, even members of law enforcement are being used to crack down on transgender wrong thought. 0.95

00:08:41.140 Which is to say, if you don't subscribe to If It's Good, It's Trans, and If It's Trans, It's Good, then shut the hell up or face arrest? 0.92

00:08:50.740 Check out this recent story in the National Telegraph penned by Wyatt Claypool.

00:08:55.660 Quote, yesterday, a woman was unjustly arrested by police in Gravenhurst, Ontario, for protesting on the sidewalk outside of a Halloween-themed drag queen event taking place in a church.

00:09:10.300 The family event was billed as the Hallow Queen and Pump King Spooktacular and was hosted at the Gravenhurst Trinity United Church by Muskoka Pride,

00:09:22.660 which involved both drag performances and drag story time. 1.00

00:09:28.300 Crystal Peters, the woman who was arrested outside of the building, was standing with a couple of other protesters when she was confronted by two police officers who accused her of trespassing

00:09:39.480 and told her that she cannot prove the event was inappropriate for children because she had not been inside.

00:09:47.020 At the same time, the officers denied the ability for Peters or any of the other protesters to enter the church's premises.

00:09:57.400 In the face of the officers attempting to shut down the small protests, Peters declared that,

00:10:03.020 I am protesting grown adults who want to dress in lingerie and dance around children.

00:10:10.160 We have a whole country, a whole nation filled with children who do not know whether they are boys or girls because of activities like this,

00:10:18.540 and it is up to us adults to stand up and to protect these children.

00:10:24.260 To stand on Muskoka Pride's side is wrong, and for them to hold it in a church is wrong.

00:10:30.760 After Peters stands for basic human decency, one officer accuses her and the other protesters of blocking the entrance to the church,

00:10:40.720 which the woman proves to be nonsense by turning her camera towards the church's entrance, showing a completely clear path into the building.

00:10:49.540 The officer then counters with the ridiculous claim that the protesters do not know what is going on in the church,

00:10:57.700 despite public Facebook posts advertising the drag event.

00:11:02.540 Then, after more back and forth between the protesters and the police officers,

00:11:07.600 the officers then walk into the church briefly before walking back and arresting the woman filming for swearing, 0.94

00:11:15.540 which supposedly constitutes a public disturbance, end quote.

00:11:21.920 Oh, and if you think this is a matter of he said, she said, folks,

00:11:25.580 well, let's check out the video evidence, shall we?

00:11:28.460 To protect the public and to keep things peaceful.

00:11:30.840 Okay, well, you can go on your way, then.

00:11:33.080 And thus, no, no, sir, thus far, thus far, this or this protest is the only thing that's unpeaceful.

00:11:39.720 You guys are trespassing.

00:11:40.700 We are totally peaceful.

00:11:41.460 Nobody is trespassing.

00:11:42.680 We're not being unpeaceful.

00:11:43.520 We're stating our point of view.

00:11:46.580 You're trespassing on the property.

00:11:48.240 Yeah.

00:11:48.520 You're engaging with participants.

00:11:49.120 We're on public property.

00:11:50.840 She came out engaged with us.

00:11:52.620 You're welcome to have a people.

00:11:54.200 She came out engaged with us.

00:11:56.060 Ma'am, you're entering the church.

00:11:57.320 I did not enter the church.

00:11:58.640 Somebody from your protest entered the church.

00:12:01.820 I didn't.

00:12:02.240 I just happened to be driving by.

00:12:03.700 I understand.

00:12:04.860 However, you're trespassing on the property, and you're not able to do that.

00:12:08.960 If you would like to peacefully protest, you can't impede individuals from going in,

00:12:14.960 and you can't be trespassing on the property.

00:12:17.520 Also, same thing with no swearing.

00:12:19.940 It's a public place.

00:12:21.500 Not engaging in an environment.

00:12:22.720 No swearing isn't a game for the law.

00:12:24.860 It is.

00:12:25.260 It is in a public place.

00:12:26.120 No, it's not.

00:12:26.680 Yes, it is.

00:12:27.100 Yes, it is.

00:12:30.340 So, the adults that are in there provocatively dressed around minors, that's not an offense?

00:12:37.600 Ma'am, I don't believe that you've been in there, so I don't think you can attest to what they are.

00:12:41.720 Well, apparently, according to you, I'm not allowed in there, which is a public church.

00:12:47.220 In this manner, you're protesting on an office.

00:12:50.160 I'm protesting growing adults who want to dress in lingerie and dance around children.

00:12:55.840 We have a whole country, a whole nation filled with children who do not know whether they are boys or girls because of activities like this.

00:13:03.360 And it is up to us adults to stand up and to protect these children.

00:13:07.640 To stand on their side, to stand on their side, to stand on their side in front of them is morally wrong.

00:13:12.220 It is wrong.

00:13:13.460 And for them to hold it in a church is wrong.

00:13:17.120 You cannot block their entrance.

00:13:18.540 Nobody's blocking.

00:13:19.240 Look it.

00:13:19.660 The entrance is wide open.

00:13:21.000 Nobody's blocking the entrance.

00:13:22.820 You guys should be outraged for what's going on right now.

00:13:25.320 You should be outraged.

00:13:26.980 Ma'am, ma'am, you're making assumptions.

00:13:29.840 You just stated that you don't know what's going on in there.

00:13:32.940 I know exactly what's going on in there.

00:13:34.300 You have seven drag queens in there that are around children. 1.00

00:13:38.440 Seven drag queens that are around children carving pumpkins, having drag story time.

00:13:46.700 It's advertised as pumpkin carving for kids.

00:13:50.680 A drag queen event.

00:13:52.940 I warned you that swearing in a public place.

00:13:55.000 So now you're arresting me?

00:13:56.020 You're under arrest.

00:13:56.640 You're under arrest.

00:13:57.820 For cause of disturbance.

00:13:58.680 Excuse me.

00:13:58.980 I'm not...

00:13:59.460 You're swearing and yelling in a public place.

00:14:01.420 Okay, no problem.

00:14:03.060 Okay, get out of here. 0.90

00:14:05.240 You've been working.

00:14:06.440 Roger.

00:14:07.120 Get my keys out of my pocket.

00:14:09.840 10-4.

00:14:11.280 10-4, rubber duckie.

00:14:13.720 And so what's up?

00:14:14.460 Unreal.

00:14:15.100 Unreal.

00:14:15.960 You're arresting me.

00:14:17.240 You're sending the people in there that are sitting there with children. 0.90

00:14:21.340 Gee, what sort of a church would temporarily pretend to be a gay bar, albeit one that turns 0.99

00:14:27.660 a blind eye to age restrictions? 0.90

00:14:29.700 Well, that would be the United Church, of course.

00:14:33.900 Membership in the United Church of Canada, which was created nearly a century ago by the

00:14:39.300 merger of four mainline Protestant churches, peaked at 1.1 million in the 1960s, according

00:14:46.240 to Statistics Canada.

00:14:47.720 Official reports in 2018 show the United Church has 388,000 members, with about 121,000 regularly

00:14:58.320 attending services.

00:14:59.980 So, in other words, United Church membership has plummeted by more than 60%, and of those

00:15:07.120 remaining members, less than one-third of that sum actually go to church on Sunday.

00:15:13.020 This is a dying church, most likely because it has drifted so far away from, you know,

00:15:19.900 the tenets of Christianity.

00:15:22.380 And it would seem that the solution for its membership crisis is to double down on wokeness.

00:15:30.800 The end result, alas, is that the United Church is really just a church in name only.

00:15:36.920 But there's plenty of blame to go around when it comes to a church reimagining itself as

00:15:42.840 a strip club.

00:15:43.940 For instance, what sort of a parent would be okay with bringing an elementary school-age

00:15:49.660 child to such a venue in the first place?

00:15:52.440 I mean, where's the Children's Aid Society when you really need them?

00:15:56.040 But the really disturbing thing for me is the Ontario Provincial Police acting as the

00:16:02.220 Gestapo for the United Church, arresting someone for, what, swearing in public?

00:16:08.640 Protesting on a sidewalk?

00:16:10.740 Those aren't crimes.

00:16:12.560 And if they are now classified as quasi-crimes, well, listen up, all you freedom fighters toting

00:16:18.520 around those F. Trudeau flags in Ontario.

00:16:21.000 Be warned, the OPP might come a-calling. 1.00

00:16:26.040 Alas, being harassed by stupid cops who clearly do not know the law, they are sworn to uphold 1.00

00:16:32.620 as a matter of deja vu for yours truly. 1.00

00:16:35.760 Back in May 2021, Sid Fizard and I went to Elmer, Ontario to do a story regarding the Church

00:16:42.140 of God.

00:16:43.280 Now, the Church of God and its pastor, Henry Hildebrandt, were being continually harassed

00:16:48.660 by everyone from bylaw and police officers to Antifa types.

00:16:53.820 And when we arrived at our destination, lo and behold, the Elmer trans community, population

00:17:00.260 two, by the way, was staging a protest across the street from the Church on public land.

00:17:07.100 I decided to interview the various he-hims and she-hers, and apparently I must have asked 1.00

00:17:13.140 an impolite question or two along the way, because the trans folk, they called the Elmer 1.00

00:17:18.580 police?

00:17:19.480 Oh, yeah, check it out.

00:17:21.260 Oh, good, sir.

00:17:22.020 How about yourself?

00:17:22.960 Just mind leaving them alone, okay?

00:17:24.480 They don't want you talking to them, so can you just move on?

00:17:27.540 Here, why don't we go behind here?

00:17:28.760 Well, let's go over here.

00:17:29.820 Well, no, wait a second.

00:17:30.940 I'm sorry.

00:17:31.600 No, no, I'm sorry.

00:17:33.040 No, no.

00:17:33.300 They don't want you to talk to them, okay?

00:17:35.300 Yeah, they're in a public place, officer, so I will talk to them.

00:17:38.520 Please move out of the way.

00:17:39.540 I'm losing my patience with you.

00:17:40.420 Okay, I'm moving out of the way right now.

00:17:42.080 Five times, okay?

00:17:43.200 Okay.

00:17:43.660 I'm standing in the roadway.

00:17:45.000 I don't want to get hit by a car, so please move.

00:17:47.360 Here, come over here, officer.

00:17:48.940 What is the crime I'm committing right now?

00:17:51.160 What is the crime?

00:17:52.620 I'm not obstructing you.

00:17:53.980 Please move out of the way, okay?

00:17:55.480 I am here asking-

00:17:56.840 I'm in a lawful order to leave these people alone.

00:17:58.240 You're telling me you're not going to, so if you don't follow my directions, get your microphone

00:18:02.640 out of my face.

00:18:03.400 You came to me, sir.

00:18:05.320 Yes.

00:18:05.900 Okay.

00:18:06.260 Asking you to move back out of the way.

00:18:07.760 Okay, well-

00:18:08.460 As far as I know, the practice of journalism is not illegal yet, so unless I'm mistaken,

00:18:13.540 you can write me up for a ticket.

00:18:14.780 This is going to happen, okay, Mr. Menzies. 0.98

00:18:15.920 You're going to leave this area.

00:18:17.280 I've asked you not to harass these people.

00:18:19.060 If you come back and you speak with them, you will be arrested for-

00:18:21.440 I am on a public piece of land.

00:18:23.380 You have no right whatsoever to make me leave this area.

00:18:25.940 I do have a right to allow you-

00:18:27.920 Can you quote me the law, sir?

00:18:29.340 Okay, yeah.

00:18:29.880 Criminal harassment, okay?

00:18:30.960 Criminal harassment?

00:18:31.420 I ask you to not speak with them and not to bother them.

00:18:34.040 I'm conducting journalism, sir.

00:18:35.440 You are arrestable for that.

00:18:36.880 I am arrestable for harassment?

00:18:39.540 Is he not able to answer the questions?

00:18:41.500 In the course of my duty is to inform you that you are not to harass people.

00:18:45.660 That's why I'm here speaking with you.

00:18:46.800 Okay, then you're going to write me a ticket for harassment.

00:18:49.500 I didn't say that I'm going to write you a ticket.

00:18:51.020 So I'm trying to figure out what-

00:18:52.240 Leave these people alone or you're going to get arrested for criminal harassment.

00:18:54.920 And I know you don't believe in freedom of the press.

00:18:56.640 Can you stand there and be quiet?

00:18:58.100 No, I will not be quiet.

00:18:59.280 Then you will be arrested if you approach- 0.57

00:19:01.580 Arrested for talking.

00:19:02.960 Is that what we're into now?

00:19:04.260 And asking questions is harassment?

00:19:07.260 If they don't want contact-

00:19:08.620 Yes, and absolutely-

00:19:09.660 Really?

00:19:09.940 Can I see the criminal code violation that spells that out?

00:19:12.620 Yeah.

00:19:13.000 Anybody has a right to not be harassed, okay?

00:19:14.820 So you have a-

00:19:15.900 And move away from me.

00:19:17.580 Please get the microphone out of my face, okay?

00:19:19.760 What is the benchmark of harassment?

00:19:22.060 Anybody that doesn't want to be harassed, okay?

00:19:24.120 Please move out of the way.

00:19:25.000 I've told you to-

00:19:25.520 I think you're harassing me, officer. 0.99

00:19:27.240 How sad that officers dumb and dumber have, A, no appreciation for the independent free press, 1.00

00:19:34.480 and B, do not even know the law. 0.99

00:19:38.480 Being on a public place asking queries of demonstrators is not criminal harassment.

00:19:44.440 But it would appear that members of law enforcement have been told by their superiors that,

00:19:50.600 you guessed it, if it's trans, it's good.

00:19:53.240 And if it's good, it's trans. 1.00

00:19:55.120 And that hurt feelings meet the benchmark these days for criminal charges.

00:20:01.440 But what is really going on here?

00:20:04.740 I would argue that radical transgenderism is a strategy being used by those who embrace a Marxist agenda.

00:20:12.280 Marxism is all about breaking down the status quo and building up what remains into a communist utopia.

00:20:21.840 Except for one little hitch.

00:20:23.980 As the deaths of some 100 million people under communism over the decades has proven,

00:20:31.060 Marxism, much like the 1970 Ford Pinto, might look good on paper.

00:20:37.820 But in reality, this tyranny is an utter disaster.

00:20:42.300 Indeed, let's rewind the clock back a decade, say.

00:20:45.540 No, actually, let's just turn it back five years ago.

00:20:49.200 What if I told you then that in the near future that I was going to create a movement

00:20:54.340 that would cast doubt on the validity of a proven proof,

00:20:59.520 in this case, that there are two sexes, male and female?

00:21:03.700 What if I said to you back then my plan was to make people doubtful what a woman is, 0.99

00:21:10.240 that even a female U.S. Supreme Court justice would not be able to define the word woman? 1.00

00:21:17.820 Would you believe this could be achieved?

00:21:20.380 And in such a short time, no less?

00:21:23.140 And yet, here we are, folks. 1.00

00:21:26.640 Thanks to woke politicians and activists and their useful idiots in the mainstream media, 1.00

00:21:33.720 the dog is being wagged by the tail. 1.00

00:21:36.780 The vast majority are being dictated to by mad Marxists and mentally ill people 1.00

00:21:42.360 in the radical trans community. 0.99

00:21:44.840 Individuals who think it is perfectly reasonable to recruit minors into their fold.

00:21:50.980 Do you think maybe it's time to push back?

00:21:55.460 Do you think it's time to stand up to this insanity?

00:21:59.580 Or in the name of political correctness and wokeism and cancel culture,

00:22:05.560 will we continue to bend the knee and lose this battle,

00:22:10.740 a battle that will claim far too many children as casualties?

00:22:20.980 Well, folks, this just in regarding the ongoing Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.

00:22:33.340 We now have further confirmation that the Justin Trudeau Liberals were never acting in good faith

00:22:39.400 when it came to negotiating with the rank-and-file members of the Freedom Convoy.

00:22:44.300 Indeed, it turns out that the federal government was keen to promote the narrative

00:22:49.440 that the trucker convoy was Canada's version of January 6th,

00:22:54.880 that an insurrection was afoot.

00:22:58.620 That's hogwash, of course.

00:23:00.320 But just consider the text conversation in which Mary Liz Power, of the Prime Minister's office,

00:23:06.660 said there might be an opportunity for Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to,

00:23:14.040 quote, get in on this growing narrative, end quote,

00:23:18.100 of the convoy truckers being, quote, extreme, end quote.

00:23:23.080 Yeah, extreme insurrectionists.

00:23:25.980 Is that what you call peaceful protesters who erected bouncy castles and a hot tub on Wellington Street?

00:23:32.660 Oh, all those kids bouncing around, all that bubbling, steamy water.

00:23:37.760 Oh, the horror, the horror.

00:23:40.100 And joining me now with more on this story is Spencer Fernando,

00:23:44.100 the head honcho at spencerfernando.com.

00:23:47.740 Hey, how you doing there, Spencer?

00:23:49.780 Not too bad. Yourself?

00:23:50.820 I'm doing great.

00:23:52.120 You know, Spencer, so many angles to unpack here,

00:23:54.920 but what stands out for me is that the federal liberals seemed hell-bent

00:24:01.180 to not let a good crisis go to waste, as the old saying goes.

00:24:06.600 Just one hit, Spencer, as you know.

00:24:09.140 There was no crisis to begin with.

00:24:11.480 So what's your takeaway regarding the Trudeau government's plans

00:24:15.800 to demonize the Freedom Convoy even before it arrived in Ottawa?

00:24:20.780 Yeah, well, I think, you know, the narrative they've tried to push is that,

00:24:25.380 oh, we had no choice but to use the emergencies act.

00:24:28.100 It was a last, you know, last-ditch resort.

00:24:30.720 You know, there's nothing we could do.

00:24:31.960 The situation got so bad.

00:24:34.040 And the fact that they were already calling, you know,

00:24:36.640 the Freedom Convoy extremists before it got there, as you say,

00:24:39.520 getting in, in their words on the narrative that the media was pushing,

00:24:42.900 it just shows that they had their endgame kind of thought out ahead of time.

00:24:45.940 They were always going to try to make it look like, you know, January 6th.

00:24:49.460 They were always going to try to make it look extreme,

00:24:51.680 and they were always going to try to use it to justify expanding government power.

00:24:56.180 So, you know, the idea that they were ever acting in good faith

00:24:59.480 and that they were ever really willing to listen to other people is,

00:25:02.480 you know, obviously, you know, absurd.

00:25:04.960 And what's so unfortunate about it is, you know, the,

00:25:08.140 at one point, Justin Trudeau, before the 2021 election, said, you know,

00:25:13.020 Canada's not a country that mandates vaccinations.

00:25:15.460 You know, he didn't seem to want to divide Canadians down those lines.

00:25:18.700 And then the second they got worried about an election, you know,

00:25:21.140 their poll numbers weren't looking good, he decided to divide the country.

00:25:24.780 And even after the election, he decided to keep pushing with that division

00:25:27.960 and obviously drove so many people to the point where they felt they had no choice

00:25:31.200 but to go and protest.

00:25:33.100 And so at each step of the way, he chose to escalate and, you know,

00:25:35.820 push people to be angrier and divide people more and more.

00:25:38.760 And then he goes out there and talks about, oh, divisions are real threat in this country

00:25:41.800 and Canadians need to be united. 0.92

00:25:43.600 And it's just, the hypocrisy is just absurd.

00:25:45.760 No, indeed, as the saying goes, physician, heal thyself.

00:25:50.200 But, you know, Spencer, you brought up the inquiry.

00:25:54.260 And, of course, the reason for the inquiry is the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

00:26:00.040 And it's an automatic that an inquiry does follow when it comes to the Emergencies Act.

00:26:05.440 Here's the thing, of all the people that are going to testify,

00:26:09.600 I just can't wait to see Public Safety Minister Marco Mandicino take the stand

00:26:16.840 because he has said repeatedly and over and over again

00:26:21.400 that law enforcement asked the government to invoke the act.

00:26:27.060 We have no evidence.

00:26:28.740 We have everyone from the Ottawa Police Service to the RCMP saying, not us.

00:26:33.720 So, either Marco Mandicino is, shockers, lying, or there is some, I don't know,

00:26:41.680 remote police force somewhere that advised the government to invoke the act.

00:26:47.320 What are your thoughts on that?

00:26:49.560 Well, today you have Brenda Luckey saying that, oh, she doesn't know why she sent a message

00:26:53.020 talking about, you know, showing retroactive, you know, police and authority support

00:26:58.160 for using the Emergencies Act.

00:26:59.440 So, obviously, they're trying to get their story all lined up,

00:27:02.080 and it's not working for them.

00:27:03.240 And so, yeah, I think you're right.

00:27:04.580 He's going to be very interesting to watch.

00:27:05.960 I mean, he also has talked about meeting the Emergencies Act because of the threat of arson,

00:27:11.020 you know, the supposed story of someone from the Freedom Convoy

00:27:13.640 trying to set an apartment on fire, which, of course, the police repeatedly have said

00:27:18.040 did not turn out to be the case.

00:27:19.720 And he repeated it after the police said that wasn't the case.

00:27:22.020 He still went out and repeated it.

00:27:24.240 And so, what I think it shows you is the, just the fact that they're,

00:27:27.720 they still don't really have their story together.

00:27:29.600 And they're just flailing around, they're trying to, you know,

00:27:32.320 notice how they're shifting away from saying, oh, this is a real national emergency

00:27:36.560 to saying, oh, well, a lot of the protesters, you know, said things that we disagree with.

00:27:40.760 And they said some things that, you know, a lot of Canadians may not like.

00:27:44.080 And, of course, that's not the standard for invoking the Emergencies Act.

00:27:47.180 It's not just that some protesters have opinions that some people don't like.

00:27:50.440 I mean, then the standard, that could be used, you know, by anybody.

00:27:53.660 And, you know, the one thing that a lot of liberals, you know, I see supporting what the,

00:27:57.360 what the Trudeau government did, the one thing they're not thinking of is what are the long-term

00:28:02.260 consequences to the country of, you know, lowering the bar for the use of emergency government

00:28:07.460 powers?

00:28:08.420 I mean, you have in BC right now, people setting RCMP vehicles on fire, you know,

00:28:12.540 messing around with pipelines and, you know, acts that you can certainly, you can certainly

00:28:16.620 say, oh, well, this is a threat to Canada's national energy infrastructure.

00:28:20.320 You know, the Emergencies Act should be invoked and we should go arrest those people.

00:28:23.500 So I think as a country, you need to be very careful about lowering the threshold for invoking

00:28:29.740 such draconian powers.

00:28:31.020 And a lot of liberals seem to just assume they're going to be in power forever, which in a democracy,

00:28:34.840 obviously, is not the case.

00:28:36.440 No, that's a good point, Spencer.

00:28:37.660 And I mean, I think back to just, well, 10 minutes before COVID hit, you had those rail

00:28:42.840 blockades, mostly by natives across Canada.

00:28:45.580 It was doing hundreds of millions of dollars in economic damage.

00:28:49.220 It was, you know, really hurting people's daily lives.

00:28:53.520 And that went on for weeks and weeks and weeks.

00:28:56.440 And there was no consideration of the Emergencies Act for something that you could argue was

00:29:01.680 more of a genuine emergency than what happened on Wellington Street.

00:29:06.740 But I got to ask you, Spencer, the perverse sidebar that's going on right now with the inquiry

00:29:13.360 is Doug Ford's reluctance to go there.

00:29:18.460 He seems downright terrified.

00:29:21.140 I'm wondering if you have any insight into what might be making the premier so timid to

00:29:27.820 take the stand.

00:29:28.660 I mean, after all, he said he stands shoulder to shoulder with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:29:34.700 If you can think back to February, do you think that the federal government was justified

00:29:38.440 and using the Emergencies Act to lift the occupation of downtown Ottawa?

00:29:42.780 Well, we have some of the top officials with the OPP testifying.

00:29:46.900 And, yes, I stood shoulder to shoulder with the Prime Minister.

00:29:51.980 These folks were, you know, camping out everything from whirlpools, disrupting downtown, disrupting

00:29:59.680 the lives of the people of Ottawa.

00:30:01.500 We've worked collaboratively with the Mayor and the Prime Minister over at the borders.

00:30:08.100 They were holding up a billion dollars of trade every single day getting across our borders.

00:30:13.300 We were getting phone calls from governors.

00:30:15.620 It's unacceptable.

00:30:17.220 Myself and I know the Prime Minister believe in free speech.

00:30:21.440 And if you want to protest, protest.

00:30:23.380 If you want to come down to Queen's Park and do cartwheels.

00:30:25.840 But if you disrupt the lives of the people of Ottawa every single day, disrupt the lives

00:30:30.560 of economic flow across our borders, I have zero tolerance for it.

00:30:35.000 Thank you.

00:30:35.640 Who, by the way, earlier today threw Doug Ford under the bus by saying he stands with the

00:30:40.380 teachers unions.

00:30:41.540 But using the notwithstanding clause to suspend workers' rights is wrong.

00:30:48.120 Well, I know that collective bargaining negotiations are sometimes difficult, but it has to happen.

00:30:56.080 It has to be done in a respectful, thoughtful way at the bargaining table.

00:31:01.120 The suspension of people's rights is something that you should only do in the most exceptional

00:31:06.200 circumstances.

00:31:06.900 And I really hope that all politicians call out the overuse of the notwithstanding clause

00:31:12.980 to suspend people's rights and freedoms.

00:31:14.480 Nevertheless, Spencer, what is your take on why Ford seems so downright terrified to go

00:31:21.620 to Ottawa?

00:31:22.920 I think for him, it's very political.

00:31:24.820 I think he's kind of trying to have it both ways.

00:31:27.180 He's trying to, you know, not talk about the convoy too much.

00:31:30.160 When he does, he tries to, you know, say he supported the federal government.

00:31:33.900 But he doesn't really want to say that too often.

00:31:35.940 He doesn't want too many clips of him saying that because he knows a lot of his base supported

00:31:39.860 the Freedom Convoy.

00:31:40.600 So I think the last thing he wants is to have, you know, hours and hours of clips of him.

00:31:45.840 Either were they taking a position either way, either if he's talking about, you know,

00:31:49.640 fully supporting that kind of action.

00:31:51.480 A lot of people in his own party won't like it.

00:31:53.600 And if he talks about if the evidence comes out that he was actually opposed to it, then

00:31:57.620 people question, OK, well, if you were opposed to it, why are you saying something different

00:32:01.860 now?

00:32:02.160 I'm not sure that's the case, but obviously they're very concerned.

00:32:04.740 So I think he just kind of wants it to go away.

00:32:06.820 He thinks, oh, you know, I got reelected.

00:32:09.320 That's all in the past.

00:32:10.360 Let's move on from it.

00:32:11.780 But yeah, it's it's there's obviously something they're very concerned about.

00:32:15.300 And I think, you know, I think it's really a political issue for him.

00:32:17.920 I think he's he's tried to kind of walk the line and and, you know, keep both, you know,

00:32:22.180 some in his, you know, voter coalition liked the use of the act.

00:32:26.340 A lot of people didn't.

00:32:27.260 And he's trying to, you know, keep those people together.

00:32:29.220 And I don't think he wants hours and hours of clips of him, you know, talking about it

00:32:33.700 because some some stuff is going to come out that's going to anger either side.

00:32:38.100 Yeah, I think it might be right, Spencer.

00:32:39.520 I think maybe, too, that back in the day to day dealings with the Freedom Convoy, maybe

00:32:46.920 Premier Ford had some conversations, wrote some memos, engaged in text messaging with all

00:32:56.220 the material he was assuming at the time would always be private.

00:32:59.600 And maybe some of that is really sensitive or and or embarrassing material.

00:33:06.440 And he just wants to clamp it down.

00:33:09.980 Let me ask you, Spencer, we've had almost two weeks of testimony so far at the Emergencies

00:33:16.940 Act inquiry.

00:33:18.820 What to you was the most shocking, the most surprising, the most revealing moment in all

00:33:26.180 the testimony you've seen to date?

00:33:29.360 Yeah, I think it would have to be the what we're talking about today, a member of the

00:33:35.800 PMO talking to Medellino staff.

00:33:38.200 And I think the reason it's the most shocking is just because it shows how just the complete

00:33:42.760 absence of good faith from the liberal government and how much it goes against the narrative.

00:33:46.460 You could also include the fact that every every police official has said that they didn't

00:33:51.640 ask for it.

00:33:52.320 And most of them have said that there's no there was no need for it.

00:33:56.220 And, you know, they had plans to get tow trucks without the Emergencies Act.

00:33:59.460 They had a plan to deal with it without it.

00:34:01.800 And, you know, but, you know, before it even began, I talked about how I think both sides

00:34:06.780 are going to find enough from the inquiry to basically stick to their original positions.

00:34:10.900 I think that's still largely the case.

00:34:12.780 You know, we've seen, you know, Trudeau get away with so many scandals.

00:34:16.200 His supporters tend to stick with him.

00:34:17.820 So I don't see him losing too much support.

00:34:20.880 And Jagmeet Singh, of course, as we know, is completely sold out.

00:34:23.140 So he said, even if the liberals are found to use it improperly, he's not going to remove

00:34:26.540 them from power or get out of their coalition or pact or whatever he's calling it.

00:34:31.640 But I think the question will be, does it just erode, you know, the average kind of voter

00:34:37.060 in the middle who can maybe will vote liberal and maybe vote conservative?

00:34:40.520 Does it erode their trust in the liberals?

00:34:42.680 Does it start to concern them?

00:34:44.420 Not just that Trudeau is often naive and, you know, too far to the left for a lot of

00:34:47.800 people.

00:34:48.400 But the fact that he acted in such an authoritarian way, the fact that the government has been

00:34:52.680 quite dishonest about it, he's already about 30, 32, 33 percent of the polls, doesn't really

00:34:57.680 ever get above that.

00:34:59.120 And so if he loses two, three, four percent more people who say, you know what, this guy,

00:35:03.260 you know, he lied to the country.

00:35:04.820 He used authoritarian powers.

00:35:06.420 He shut down people's bank accounts.

00:35:07.980 And he can't even be honest about it afterwards.

00:35:10.300 Then I think you could see some long term damage to them.

00:35:12.920 But the idea that they're going to lose a massive amount of support over it, I don't

00:35:16.900 think it's going to happen.

00:35:17.740 Politics in this country right now is too polarized for any any huge shift.

00:35:21.460 So it's going to be the long term effect of a long term erosion that I'll be looking for.

00:35:25.860 I think, Spencer, when push comes to shove, whenever the election is, I think the downfall

00:35:31.980 of the liberals is just going to be the economy.

00:35:33.980 What we're seeing at the gas pump, at the grocery store, grocery stores, the interest

00:35:40.700 rates rising.

00:35:42.300 Typically, any government of any political stripe, when it's the economy going off the rails,

00:35:48.240 that spells doomsday.

00:35:49.920 But we shall see.

00:35:51.120 And I'm glad you brought up Jagmeet Singh with his words and actions.

00:35:55.460 It almost seems to be he's got a sinister agenda to make the NDP completely irrelevant.

00:36:02.040 I mean, you know, it is incredible that he would say such a thing even before those statements

00:36:08.800 in the inquiry were made.

00:36:10.400 But one last question for you, Spencer, before we leave.

00:36:13.800 What is your, I guess, analysis of the media's behavior?

00:36:19.060 And when I say that, the mainstream media, they seemed so gung ho in following that federal

00:36:26.220 government narrative that this is our January 6th.

00:36:31.060 These are insurrectionists.

00:36:33.700 Or do you have a different take than I?

00:36:36.780 No, I think that's true.

00:36:38.100 And I think part of it is the media.

00:36:39.820 Just much of it is just lazy.

00:36:42.340 And there's a lot of hardworking reporters, even in the outlets.

00:36:44.840 I don't appreciate.

00:36:45.720 There are a lot of hardworking reporters, but the overall attitude of setting the narrative

00:36:50.300 has become so lazy.

00:36:51.620 And so it's not, there's no nuance.

00:36:53.160 It's not, hmm, maybe the fact that this protest in Canada began due to vaccine mandates and

00:36:59.520 the mandate on truckers and not an election, as it was in the States.

00:37:04.300 Maybe that makes it a completely different story.

00:37:06.220 But no, no, they'll just say, oh, well, there's a big protest of people who don't like a government

00:37:10.580 and they're outside of a, outside of the capital.

00:37:14.600 You know, we're outside of the main government building in the capital city.

00:37:17.360 So it's the same thing.

00:37:18.360 We'll just cover the same thing.

00:37:19.400 We'll call it an insurrection.

00:37:20.400 And so it's just, it's just lazy.

00:37:22.800 And the other part is it fits into a pattern that we often see too much in Canada, where everything

00:37:27.800 that happens here, we just filter through the lens of the United States.

00:37:30.220 We say, how does this match up with what's happening in the U.S.?

00:37:33.140 And that's understandable because we're very heavily influenced by them.

00:37:36.060 We're in many ways very similar.

00:37:37.300 We're very close to them.

00:37:38.600 They're close allies.

00:37:39.440 But we need to realize that, you know, events in Canada are Canadian events.

00:37:43.220 They're not the same as events in the States.

00:37:45.280 And there has to be, I think, a little bit of understanding of the nuance of what's taking

00:37:48.420 place in this country, not just looking for the easiest narrative all the time.

00:37:52.380 No, I think you're right, Spencer.

00:37:53.460 And there's also there, they have subtle ways of putting down the freedom convoy.

00:37:57.900 Whenever I'm commuting, I'm listening to mainstream media talk radio.

00:38:02.360 And when they're doing the news reports, they don't refer to the freedom convoy as the

00:38:07.200 freedom convoy.

00:38:08.220 It's always the so-called freedom convoy.

00:38:11.880 They never say so-called Black Lives Matter, mind you.

00:38:15.640 But it just shows you the prevailing double standard.

00:38:19.140 And thankfully, we have other sources, your website included, to get the other side of

00:38:24.580 the story.

00:38:25.460 So, Spencer, thank you so much for weighing in on this.

00:38:28.920 Greatly appreciate your time, my friend.

00:38:31.180 No problem.

00:38:31.620 Take care.

00:38:32.360 You too.

00:38:33.220 And that was Spencer Fernando of spencerfernando.com.

00:38:37.800 Keep it here, folks.

00:38:39.220 More of the Ezra Levent show to come right after this.

00:38:42.580 Well, folks, lots of feedback regarding my interview with Jim Carajalios and his theories as to

00:38:57.640 why Ontario Premier Doug Ford is so terrified to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry in

00:39:06.040 Ottawa.

00:39:06.480 Contra writes. 0.99

00:39:07.340 Contra writes, it was obvious to anyone with a functioning frontal lobe that Ford was a soy-ass 0.98

00:39:15.100 libtard when all this started. 0.98

00:39:17.100 You know, I'll tell you, talk about the ultimate example of bait-and-switch when it comes to Ontario politics.

00:39:31.480 I think the rank and filed of Ford nation thought that Doug Ford was just the same as his dearly departed brother, Rob Ford.

00:39:42.320 And what we've discovered these past four and a half years is that nothing could be further from the truth.

00:39:49.920 BigDaddyJ69 writes, wondering just how much of a kickback Ford is getting.

00:39:57.960 You know what?

00:39:58.440 I have no evidence to suggest there's any shenanigans going on there.

00:40:02.140 But remember, this was the same premier who kept saying, we're all in this together as places like Adamson's Barbecue was shut down and eventually put into bankruptcy.

00:40:13.300 Meanwhile, crown corporations like the LCBO and big companies that had lobbyists working for them, that would be Walmart.

00:40:21.920 They got to stay open and lo and behold, the Ford family's deco labels, they stayed open and apparently business was never better.

00:40:31.860 You know, producing all that signage and those arrows of how to walk in stores.

00:40:36.600 Yeah.

00:40:36.920 So another lie, eh, folks?

00:40:39.140 We're all in this together.

00:40:41.420 Yeah.

00:40:42.060 And the check is in the mail.

00:40:44.000 Frogman2 writes, testifying under oath means Ford can't lie.

00:40:48.880 Hello, McFly.

00:40:50.780 Anybody?

00:40:51.060 Well, it's either that, that he's afraid of lying on the stand, or maybe it's a matter of there is just simply no good cherry cheesecake in our nation's capital.

00:41:03.120 I can think of nothing else.

00:41:05.180 Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's show.

00:41:07.960 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:41:09.600 The big boss man, Ezra Levant, he'll be back from his travels tomorrow.

00:41:14.180 So you'll get to catch him on Wednesday.

00:41:16.320 In the meantime, stay safe, and as always, stay sane.

00:41:21.600 And there was York Regional Police and Mark Cruiser's here, and that person was so brazen to seem to try to attempt something with his vehicle.

00:41:32.320 What do you make of that, sir?

00:41:34.720 Well, I'm not able to comment on an ongoing investigation.

00:41:38.100 I can tell you that there have been charges laid.

00:41:40.820 If you'd like to make a formal inquest in relation to a media inquiry, you can do that through our media office.

00:41:46.580 Is our government here in Canada doing enough to support the Iranian people?

00:41:52.860 They say that, yes, but it's not enough.

00:41:56.180 No.

00:41:56.720 We need more.

00:41:57.720 We need more.

00:41:58.700 We are fighting on your behalf, on Canadians' behalf.

00:42:03.940 Canadians have no idea how many terrorists organized sent to Canada by Iranian regime.

00:42:11.780 We are fighting your fight, and I hope Canadians, we are going to be here every Sunday.

00:42:18.720 I hope Canadians join us.

00:42:20.760 This place must be shut down.

00:42:23.040 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Thornhill, Ontario.

00:42:30.820 And, folks, I'm back at the scene of the crime, quite literally.

00:42:35.420 Now, you can see some demonstrators protesting against this mosque, which allegedly has ties to the Iranian regime and has been accused of money laundering.

00:42:45.880 And they were here last Sunday, we were covering that demonstration as well, but just 15 minutes after we left, well, check this out.

00:43:15.880 Yes, so apparently this individual, people suspect, was trying to position his SUV to hop the curb

00:43:44.940 and take out some of the demonstrators.

00:43:48.060 It's absolutely stunning because there was already York Regional Police on site, but the driver did not care.

00:43:56.420 And speaking of the driver, that would be Faraz Al-Najim, 38, of Toronto.

00:44:02.960 And Mr. Al-Najim has a very checkered history when it comes to hatred. 0.92

00:44:09.720 Usually, it's all about anti-Semitism for him.

00:44:12.520 He has dressed up as an Orthodox Jew, gone into Jewish areas, and harassed Holocaust survivors, if you can believe it. 0.97

00:44:21.660 And he is now pro-Iranian regime, for reasons that escape me.

00:44:27.100 And he was charged last Sunday with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, flight from police, and weapons dangerous,

00:44:37.920 which is to say he had bear spray in his vehicle.

00:44:41.960 Now, if you can believe it, he only did it one night in the cooler.

00:44:45.780 He was released the next day.

00:44:47.620 Funny that, how Tamara Leach had to do 48 days in jail, but that's another story. 1.00

00:44:53.100 In any event, I don't think this guy's learned his lesson on Saturday, yesterday.

00:44:58.980 There was a large anti-regime demonstration on Yonge Street.

00:45:04.300 And Al-Najim drove by, and he posted this video on TikTok.

00:45:10.540 Check it out. 0.98

00:45:11.080 And as you can see, these people are all lost cases, munafiqeen, as we call them, is that, hypocrites. 1.00

00:45:16.960 Or they're part of the munafiqeen al-Khalq, terrorist organization, well-known. 0.98

00:45:22.020 As you can see, these guys are wasting their life, wasting their time.

00:45:24.960 And the government of Canada, unfortunately, is empowering them.

00:45:27.880 And that's possibly why they got me arrested the other day,

00:45:30.640 and the police twisted it around and turned it all around,

00:45:33.500 that Mr. Frost on the gym was driving to hurt the protesters or something like that,

00:45:38.960 in that kind of pretext, okay?

00:45:41.100 That was not the scenario at all.

00:45:43.860 That was not the case at all.

00:45:45.420 It's been altered.

00:45:46.620 It's been manipulated.

00:45:47.900 It's been fabricated.

00:45:49.060 And we will fight it until justice prevails.

00:45:51.460 And we will reform this system.

00:45:54.340 We will reform the system by winning this case and fighting it to the end.

00:45:57.200 Yeah, so you can't teach an old dog new tricks, it would appear.

00:46:01.980 In any event, I'm back here to see if this man will dare show his face.

00:46:07.740 And I'm going to talk to Nasser Pouli.

00:46:10.740 He is a freedom fighter, a patriot, an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime.

00:46:17.580 He witnessed firsthand last Sunday what happened.

00:46:20.780 Let's see what Mr. Pouli has to say.

00:46:23.940 First of all, I want to talk about his background just a little bit.

00:46:28.420 He had threatened me five years ago that he's going to kill and everything else.

00:46:33.940 Prior to the demonstration, he had threatened again the others.

00:46:38.260 At the beginning, he had threatened myself first.

00:46:41.400 Anyway, when we had the demonstration, I was not sure he's going to show up or not,

00:46:46.680 or their crowd or what's going to happen.

00:46:48.620 But I was, my eyes always was on the streets, what's happening.

00:46:53.680 I was standing right by the, by the police station, police officers there over there,

00:46:59.540 by the car standing in the south, south of the line, just like this in the south part of it.

00:47:05.180 I saw him coming in the middle line.

00:47:08.540 As soon as I looked at him, he's driving strangely.

00:47:11.240 I looked, I, when I saw his face, right from the driver, driver's side.

00:47:18.000 I start yelling at the police, that's him, that's him, that's him.

00:47:21.940 Only thing that came in my mind, what can I do?

00:47:24.100 All I would see at that point, maybe it took a few seconds, but that few seconds for me was years.

00:47:29.320 All I pictured was in my mind, I'm going to see the dead people shot on the streets, blood coming down.

00:47:36.860 That's what is in my mind.

00:47:38.460 And even on the other videos, you can see, I'm yelling at him, I'm yelling, running to the streets, 0.94

00:47:43.660 shouting at him, I'm here, I'm here, if you want to shoot me.

00:47:46.140 I didn't know if they have a gun or not, what they have. 0.92

00:47:48.600 The way he attracted me, I was expecting the machine gun.

00:47:53.080 That's what I was expecting.

00:47:54.620 And I am shouting at him, I'm here, I'm here, I'm running after them to the street.

00:47:59.760 And he came from there, turned over here, fast turned, and people by that time realized something going on.

00:48:09.420 Immediately they moved away from that car.

00:48:11.640 And he came, there was nobody in front of him there.

00:48:14.740 And then cars were coming, he couldn't do that.

00:48:17.800 Then he saw he has to run away.

00:48:20.240 And then he came back, he starts running away.

00:48:23.920 Another gentleman, he's right here.

00:48:26.020 He ran in front of his car.

00:48:28.860 At that point, police guys start running towards him.

00:48:33.440 And Nasser, can I ask you, do you think his intention was to hop the curb here and to harm these demonstrators?

00:48:41.080 Definitely, definitely, definitely. 0.94

00:48:43.200 He wanted to come to the crowd to kill a lot of people.

00:48:47.480 What I find amazing is that there were several police here, some in uniform, some in mark cruisers.

00:48:55.620 And even with the police presence, this guy was so brazen to potentially stage an attack.

00:49:03.280 I can't believe it.

00:49:04.500 Absolutely, we have, he's not the only one, David.

00:49:08.620 What we are fighting for here right now in this mosque that you see in here, we are fighting on your behalf.

00:49:16.060 On Canadians' behalf.

00:49:18.420 Canadians have no idea how many terrorists organized, sent to Canada by Iranian regime. 0.90

00:49:26.300 We are fighting your fight.

00:49:29.340 And I hope Canadians, we are going to be here every Sunday.

00:49:33.220 I hope Canadians join us. 0.86

00:49:35.280 This place must be shut down.

00:49:38.020 And Nasser, I have reached out to the mosque.

00:49:41.100 They won't return my emails.

00:49:43.200 I even reached out to al-Najim. 0.77

00:49:45.960 He hasn't responded.

00:49:48.340 And are you worried that he might come back today because he only spent a night in jail?

00:49:54.300 I am very worried, not for myself.

00:49:57.160 I am very worried for all others that they are here.

00:50:01.260 They want to, they want to him and right.

00:50:04.120 They want to, that fascist done, regime done, dictatorship done.

00:50:09.320 I am worried that something is going to happen.

00:50:11.780 And I am shocked from the police.

00:50:14.080 They didn't charge him for hate crime.

00:50:16.640 They didn't charge him for attempted murder.

00:50:19.880 I'm very shocked.

00:50:21.180 And I hope police reviews the matter again.

00:50:25.540 And they charge him with the hate crime and attempted murder in public.

00:50:31.200 And Nasser, what I'm shocked at, well, kind of,

00:50:35.640 is the fact that the mainstream media is completely disinterested in this story.

00:50:41.700 There was barely any coverage in Canadian media to find out about this individual.

00:50:48.060 I had to read about him in the Jerusalem Post, for goodness sakes.

00:50:52.040 These people are coming with the money, for the money.

00:50:55.720 They are not supporters of Iranian people. 0.96

00:50:58.260 They are terrorist supporters. 0.99

00:51:00.000 Terrorist supporters, the terrorists themselves. 0.97

00:51:01.700 I remember a Toronto police officer warning me not to use the T word, terrorist,

00:51:07.860 or I was going to be in trouble.

00:51:09.380 Let's check that clip out.

00:51:10.800 I can't call a terrorist a terrorist?

00:51:12.680 You're not in this sort of environment.

00:51:14.220 No, you can't, okay?

00:51:15.120 Because that's going to incite a breach of the peace.

00:51:17.600 And that is Canadian law.

00:51:19.060 Am I clear?

00:51:19.580 If I was to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist, that would be against...

00:51:23.720 Am I clear?

00:51:24.740 No, you're not clear, sir.

00:51:25.860 I can't call Osama bin Laden.

00:51:28.080 And it incites a breach of the peace.

00:51:29.640 You will be placed under arrest.

00:51:30.760 Terrorists?

00:51:31.840 Oh, what are we going to be arrested for?

00:51:33.980 What am I going to be arrested for, sir?

00:51:36.420 They did a very sympathetic piece on this mosque calling the graffiti on the walls Islamophobic

00:51:44.840 when, for all we know, the person that did the graffiti might be a Muslim himself.

00:51:50.440 The graffiti was in Farsi, and it wasn't anti-Muslim.

00:51:54.300 It was anti-regime. 1.00

00:51:56.720 Why is it that people in the mainstream media are so stupid? 1.00

00:52:00.760 They are, if they cover that, but they don't cover when they're making a terrorist act towards the people standing in here. 1.00

00:52:12.220 Because I don't know why.

00:52:14.140 Hopefully, they will change their way.

00:52:16.080 But I'm asking from all Canadians, please, email Mr. Trudeau.

00:52:21.260 Email Parliament members.

00:52:23.880 IRGC, they must be going on the terrorist list.

00:52:28.260 Because if they go, they go to terrorist list, all their members are in Canada.

00:52:33.400 They have to be investigated.

00:52:35.400 Right now, in our country, we have a lot of, lot of them in Vancouver, Toronto, there, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, a lot of them.

00:52:45.900 They have come with millions of dollars.

00:52:48.520 In the time that this regime needs, they're going to do a lot of different terrorist acts.

00:52:53.700 Before it's too late, before somebody loses their life, please act now.

00:52:59.020 Don't wait for tomorrow.

00:53:00.600 Act now.

00:53:01.640 They must go to terrorist list.

00:53:03.540 And we know hundreds of people have been killed.

00:53:07.360 We know that thousands have been jailed.

00:53:10.240 Just like, is his name Tumaj?

00:53:12.400 Is that his name, ma'am?

00:53:14.240 Yes, yes, yes.

00:53:15.440 So it's a very dangerous thing in Tehran to come out and do a demonstration like you're doing here in Thornhill, isn't it?

00:53:23.500 Yes, it is.

00:53:24.520 Yes, it was a lot of people that came from here.

00:53:27.420 And there's Iranian people, Iranian women, they stand up everywhere in U.S., in America, in Canada, Europe, everywhere in the world. 0.89

00:53:41.440 And ma'am, the Iranian government yesterday said that Saturday was the last day they would tolerate demonstrations in Iran.

00:53:51.160 If people dare to come out another day in Iran to demonstrate, what do you think is going to happen?

00:53:57.420 Very soon as the Iranian government is going to come down, we're going to bring it down for sure. 1.00

00:54:02.740 Because look at this, we don't have this, it's a revelation now.

00:54:07.800 It's not just, you know, people touch.

00:54:10.640 No, it's a revelation now.

00:54:12.200 Oh, that's very interesting.

00:54:13.400 So these intimidation tactics are against the people are not going to work.

00:54:17.060 The people are still going to come out and demonstrate.

00:54:19.580 Of course, of course.

00:54:20.740 People are perfect.

00:54:23.500 They're going to stand up all the time, for sure.

00:54:27.420 And then until the government is going to come down.

00:54:29.740 Is our government here in Canada doing enough to support the Iranian people?

00:54:36.340 They say that, yes, but it's not enough.

00:54:39.100 No.

00:54:39.660 We need more.

00:54:40.660 We need more.

00:54:41.680 I was just wondering, I was here last week too, officer.

00:54:44.840 Yeah.

00:54:45.320 And I was just shocked.

00:54:47.080 We left 15 minutes before that SUV incident.

00:54:49.780 And there was York Regional Police and Mark Cruiser's here.

00:54:53.960 And that person was so brazen to seem to try to attempt something with his vehicle.

00:54:59.980 What do you make of that, sir?

00:55:02.100 Well, I'm not able to comment on an ongoing investigation.

00:55:05.100 I can tell you that there's been charges laid.

00:55:07.760 If you'd like to make a formal inquest in relation to a media inquiry, you can do that through

00:55:13.260 our media office.

00:55:14.160 All right.

00:55:14.700 Well, you guys stay safe.

00:55:15.840 I thought you really acted bravely and efficiently.

00:55:19.480 It could have been a tragedy last week.

00:55:21.260 So thank you so much.

00:55:23.040 You take care.

00:55:23.580 Have a good day.

00:55:23.960 Bye-bye.

00:55:24.640 So, Nasser, you just pointed out this sign on the other side of the fence at the mosque.

00:55:28.680 And it says, this is a place of worship under supervision of the Canadian government.

00:55:34.780 At least that's what you're saying.

00:55:36.100 It says in Farsi.

00:55:36.940 That's exactly what it says.

00:55:38.040 It says,

00:55:39.660 This is just a praying place under supervision of the Canadian government.

00:55:51.540 Really?

00:55:52.760 You know, that kind of gives me the creeps.

00:55:55.100 Because really, as we've seen so many churches locked down and pastors arrested during the

00:56:02.220 COVID lockups, who wants the government at a place of worship in the first place?

00:56:07.260 No, this makes me really upset.

00:56:10.760 They are using Canadian government.

00:56:12.340 Even Canadian government should come there, say, what kind of a sign?

00:56:15.740 If the Canadian government is supporting this, we'd like to know.

00:56:19.580 Yeah.

00:56:20.240 So, in other words, this is BS.

00:56:23.180 This is not true.

00:56:23.960 It's definitely BS.

00:56:26.300 Okay, then.

00:56:27.240 So, is this an idea of the mosque?

00:56:29.080 It's trying to portray itself as we're a member of Canadian society.

00:56:34.180 There's no wrongdoing here.

00:56:36.240 Everybody's got it wrong about the ties of the regime, the accusations of money laundering,

00:56:41.340 et cetera.

00:56:42.300 Exactly.

00:56:43.060 This mosque, member of the IRGC members, they have issued a lot of statements saying that

00:56:50.380 if you go to the front of the mosque to the administration, there's a three to ten years jail time. 0.70

00:56:55.900 This is what they have said to Iranian Canadians, that they don't know the laws.

00:57:00.500 And in here, when you see that, obviously, they're going to say, oh, they're right.

00:57:05.040 They issued that.

00:57:05.860 And this sign says that's true.

00:57:07.480 And I'm asking from Canadian authorities immediately to come to remove this sign.

00:57:12.360 Interesting.

00:57:12.980 Well, I guess that's part of the war, the propaganda front, right?

00:57:17.620 That's exactly.

00:57:18.880 The Iranian regime is very good at it. 1.00

00:57:21.140 Well, folks, here we are at Pearson International Airport, home to the newest merry band of censorious slugs.

00:57:34.180 You see, Pearson wants media people to give them 24 hours notice when they show up to cover a story.

00:57:41.140 They might deny you.

00:57:42.520 They might approve you.

00:57:43.480 Who knows?

00:57:44.120 Oh, and they're going to send an escort along with you, you know, to monitor the questions you're asking.

00:57:50.780 Yeah, sounds pretty Orwellian to me as well.

00:57:54.020 In any event, you know we'd love to give you the other side of the story, the side of the story the mainstream media isn't reporting.

00:58:00.480 So if you can go to rebelinvestigates.com, that's rebelinvestigates.com.

00:58:06.720 And if you can chip in a buck or three, we would greatly appreciate it.

Rebel News Podcast - November 01, 2022

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