Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Alberta uses the nuclear option against the Feds' 'clean' electricity regulations

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Alberta's Premier Daniel Smith uses the nuclear button on the Feds then, wouldn't

00:00:20.340 you know it, Justin Trudeau's trip to the King's coronation came with a half a million

00:00:25.900 dollar price tag, and the total bill's not in yet. It's November 28th, 2023. I'm Sheila

00:00:33.100 Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:48.360 Well, I bet you're all kinds of surprised to see me hosting the show here and

00:00:55.640 also see the old digital studio, but I don't live or work near Toronto, and Ezra's on a

00:01:00.220 very special mission today, so here I am filling in from my studio in the basement in the wilds

00:01:06.920 of Alberta. So thank you in advance for bearing with me. Now, speaking of very special missions,

00:01:12.320 Alberta's Premier Daniel Smith is on one of her own on behalf of all of us. That mission

00:01:17.880 is to exert Alberta's rights and authority within the Confederation of Canada and strike 1.00

00:01:22.840 fear in the hearts of the stupidest man in all of politics. Yes, I'm talking about 1.00

00:01:26.780 Justin Trudeau.

00:01:28.580 These measures are not something that we want to do. They are a plan to counteract the absurd,

00:01:34.100 illogical, unscientific, and unconstitutional interference in Alberta's electrical grid by

00:01:40.000 a federal government that simply doesn't care what happens to our province, so long as they have a good

00:01:45.560 virtue-signaling story to tell their leftist friends and special interests. We would much rather

00:01:51.420 work with Ottawa on meaningful ways to reduce emissions while continuing to generate reliable,

00:01:57.480 affordable electricity. That's better for all Albertans and Canadians. But we refuse to meekly

00:02:04.120 accept actions which are so plainly destructive to Alberta's economy and to the very safety and

00:02:09.340 security of Alberta's citizens. We will do whatever we must to stand up and protect the people of this

00:02:14.460 province. In doing so, Daniel Smith is also forcing the NDP to oppose NDP ideology in a bit of a

00:02:20.360 strange way. The NDP socialist concept of the government being big and doing everything better

00:02:25.920 than the private sector has been a cornerstone of the party since its inception. But right now,

00:02:30.920 they are crying the blues about the potential for a new crown corporation here in Alberta,

00:02:36.520 and I love, I love, I love watching them twist themselves in knots, but we'll get to that in a second.

00:02:43.220 First, let's talk about what my premier has done, this time to the feds.

00:02:47.460 Alberta's premier, Daniel Smith, invoked her Sovereignty Act, something that we were told

00:02:52.420 just couldn't be done, and it was a big theatrical threat, conservative showboating,

00:02:57.320 if you will. We were all told by our moral and intellectual superiors in the mainstream media

00:03:03.700 that Daniel Smith would never use her flagship piece of legislation, which mandates her to fight

00:03:10.000 with the feds every time the feds overstep into provincial jurisdiction. We were told the Sovereignty Act

00:03:16.600 was just right-wing virtue signaling and that things wouldn't change and Albertans would be happy,

00:03:21.960 just so happy, to be the doormat under the feds' feet the way we've always been, because why do

00:03:29.340 anything different in politics ever? However, however, bright and early Monday morning,

00:03:37.840 Daniel Smith used the Sovereignty Act to make life more affordable for Albertans.

00:03:42.440 Ottawa persists in trying to regulate and remake Alberta's electrical system from generation to

00:03:48.580 transmission to distribution, which will make life more expensive for families and put the

00:03:54.080 reliability of our grid at risk. And they're pushing ahead with their plan, even though Section 92A

00:04:00.380 of the Constitution of Canada is clear that legislating and regulating the development of electricity

00:04:06.660 falls within the jurisdiction of the provinces. Alberta's government is committed to protecting

00:04:12.080 Albertans from federal overreach. That is why, this afternoon, I intend to table a resolution

00:04:18.420 in the chamber under the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act. We developed this legislation

00:04:25.540 to shield the province from federal intrusions, and we're using it now because the consequences of

00:04:31.720 this particular overreach would be so severe. And the feds, of course, they're scared, so scared,

00:04:37.400 and they don't like it. But isn't that truly the point?

00:04:40.360 So let's talk about the Alberta Sovereignty Act, and we'll go back to questions about

00:04:44.520 official languages after. Like, this is a massive distraction from the real preoccupations of

00:04:50.760 Albertans, which are housing, growing an economy that works for everybody, getting the renewables

00:04:55.540 moratorium reduced, and actually building up an economy that works for everybody. I said this when

00:05:00.700 the Act came out. It's a dubious piece of legislation. This is theatre to distract people

00:05:06.620 from what's really going on, which is the fact that Danielle Smith has made some bad calls. 0.96

00:05:10.960 She's scared away at least $12 billion on renewables already. That could go as high as $30 billion. 0.99

00:05:15.960 When I met with her a couple of weeks ago, I said, can this end soon? And she didn't have a clear

00:05:21.140 answer on that. She's actually put in a piece of legislation that would stop regulations that 1.00

00:05:26.060 don't plan to go in place until 2035. And there's a working table in place to actually talk about

00:05:31.280 if 2035 is even the right date. So this is political theatre. It's a political spat. It's another

00:05:37.140 opportunity for the province to try to pick a fight with the feds that, quite frankly,

00:05:40.680 Albertans don't need. And if the premier or her ministers want to reach out to the federal

00:05:44.800 government, they can just pick up the phone. They don't have to impose the Sovereignty Act.

00:05:47.860 Contrary to many of the claims that, well, all of the claims that the premier is making

00:05:51.440 on this, we have, in fact, signed agreements with provinces like Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,

00:05:56.680 who are still very dependent on fossil fuel to produce their electricity, and who've agreed

00:06:01.240 to work with us to have a carbon neutral grid by 2035. So it is possible to do so in Canada.

00:06:08.460 It is possible to do so in jurisdictions that are still very dependent on fossil fuel. But

00:06:13.820 it means that we have to work together, not against each other. And that's what I find

00:06:18.360 unacceptable with the position that Premier Smith is taking, because it's bad for Albertans.

00:06:23.300 It's bad for workers in Albertans. It's bad for the economy of Alberta. And obviously,

00:06:29.880 we know that as far as Pierre Polyev is concerned, nothing would happen on this, because he doesn't

00:06:34.980 even, the official position of his party is that they don't believe in climate change,

00:06:38.540 let alone measures that we should put in place to fight climate change. So we will continue moving

00:06:45.100 ahead with this. There is no legal basis for what Alberta is doing. And we feel that we're on

00:06:52.260 very solid ground. And the fact that we already have some provinces who are on board with us,

00:06:55.900 as well as a number of private companies and investors who say that this is the way to the

00:07:00.180 future, we will continue working on this.

00:07:02.680 But here's the thing. Premier Smith told the feds she was going to do this. She warned them

00:07:08.640 over and over and over again.

00:07:10.860 How are the talks going between Alberta and the feds with regards to the clean

00:07:18.460 electricity regulations? Because of course, the clock is ticking on this whole file.

00:07:25.100 Well, we're getting pretty frustrated because they've had a Supreme Court loss now that says that they

00:07:31.780 cannot use their federal power as a pretext to invade provincial jurisdiction. And they're acting

00:07:36.660 like that Supreme Court case didn't happen. They had another loss on the issue of plastics,

00:07:41.120 which was also an unconstitutional overreach and unreasonable. And instead of accepting the

00:07:46.100 court's judgment, they're going to drag it out again. So we've got a lawless federal government. 0.72

00:07:50.580 And when you have a lawless federal government, then you've got to assert that the Constitution

00:07:53.940 matters. We've got the Supreme Court behind us. We're continuing to press that matter. They

00:07:58.260 haven't dropped it yet. But I can tell you, we are just like Premier Mo getting increasingly

00:08:04.440 frustrated at the way they're behaving on this. We think that there is a resolution. So align to get

00:08:10.140 to 2050 on emissions reductions targets. That's the position that we continue to put forward. And

00:08:14.980 that's what we're going to do in Alberta, quite frankly. We know that that's achievable. We know we

00:08:19.020 have the constitutional jurisdiction. And we know that they're acting in a way that's outside of their

00:08:24.160 boundaries. I guess Justin Trudeau is just not used to dealing with a woman he can't grope, 1.00

00:08:28.540 bully, fire, or otherwise put in her place. Danielle Smith is smarter than Justin Trudeau, 0.96

00:08:33.820 and Justin Trudeau knows it. But back here in Alberta, it is fascinating to watch the NDP try,

00:08:41.860 try to understand business after being anti-business since forever and ultimately get it all wrong.

00:08:48.520 The NDP leader and former Premier Rachel Notley, who previously acted as some sort of

00:08:53.140 scarecrow for oil patch investment, scaring it off to North Dakota and Texas for four years through

00:09:00.400 her anti-oil policies, has suddenly become an expert in attracting business, you know, after she 0.99

00:09:07.640 oversaw some of the most catastrophic job losses in Alberta's existence.

00:09:12.300 This Premier is determined to hold us back. Invoking the so-called Sovereignty Act is either

00:09:17.860 illegal or a dishonest stunt to claim it is. Either way, the Premier's actions will jeopardize

00:09:23.940 investment certainty. Weaken the nation, ignore the rule of law, breach treaty rights across the

00:09:30.500 country and here in Alberta, and declare that we're on the wrong side of fighting climate change.

00:09:35.300 To the Premier, why is she putting her own extremist politics ahead of economic common sense? 1.00

00:09:41.680 Now, here's where the NDP turned into absolute hypocrites. Part of yesterday's announcement by 0.97

00:09:47.620 Smith was that the groundwork would be laid for the creation of a Crown Corporation energy generator,

00:09:54.860 which would be a last resort stopgap against the feds. You see, Saskatchewan right now,

00:10:01.240 they're not collecting the carbon tax on the electricity that it sells through a provincial

00:10:06.480 Crown Corporation, SaskPower. In Alberta, that's not a thing that we can do in our fight with the feds.

00:10:13.980 Our provincial government cannot ask our privately owned energy retailers to not collect the carbon tax

00:10:22.000 or to breach Justin Trudeau's clean energy standards. This new Crown Corporation would be an end

00:10:30.600 run around all of that. This new energy generator would adhere to Alberta's electricity generation

00:10:37.820 standards and not those of the feds. And yet, the NDP, who are so pro-putting everything under the

00:10:46.480 jurisdiction of government, including businesses, are suddenly against the creation of this government-run

00:10:54.220 business. Because the NDP aren't really for Albertans, are they? My Premier has them

00:11:00.500 pegged. We know where they get their marching orders from.

00:11:03.000 Well, I see the leader of the opposition is true to form, opposing something she hasn't even read and

00:11:07.480 still has apparently not read the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act. It will do none of those

00:11:13.040 things. In fact, what it is going to do is it's going to push back against a lawless federal government

00:11:18.540 that incidentally is supported by her federal leader. She should actually stand with us in making sure

00:11:24.700 that we have affordable, reliable electricity for Albertans, because that's what this motion is all about.

00:11:29.840 And I would invite the leader of the opposition to read the constitution, section 92a, which gives the

00:11:35.900 province exclusive jurisdiction to develop policy and law around electricity generation transmission and

00:11:42.480 conservation. In fact, is the federal government acting in a lawless way? We are standing up for the law.

00:11:49.260 If she had any influence on her federal leader, then she should ask them to abide by what the constitution says

00:11:56.000 and support us in a target of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.

00:12:00.420 Stay with us. Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins us after the break to discuss the

00:12:05.960 ballooning costs of Justin Trudeau's coronation vacation.

00:12:10.080 The saga of the federal government's trip, entourage, junket to the King's coronation really is the gift

00:12:30.120 that keeps on giving to the conservatives. The only problem is that it is the taxpayers who keep giving

00:12:36.440 the gift to the liberals in their government in the form of these incredibly large, expensive junkets.

00:12:44.500 And joining me now is Franco Teresano with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:12:50.140 The King's coronation junket, we're close to getting a final number pegged on just how enormous this thing was.

00:12:59.660 Tell us about this. Well, look, taxpayers are on the hook for what $534,000 for the federal government's trip to England

00:13:09.540 for the King's coronation. Now, look, I understand the King's coronation is a big event, but that does not give

00:13:16.680 the government of Canada a blank check to spend more than half a million dollars so 102 delegates can go to England

00:13:25.240 for three days. Folks, you hear that? $534,000 is the bill to taxpayers. That doesn't even include airfare

00:13:33.260 for 102 delegates. So let's break down the math even more. That is a cost per traveler of about $5,200

00:13:41.840 for three days. That's outrageous. And that doesn't even include the airfare yet. You know, the CTF first broke

00:13:51.320 the story of the $6,000 hotel room that they wouldn't tell us who stayed in it, even though we

00:13:57.160 definitely all knew. It took a very long time for you to just wring that little bit of information out

00:14:03.460 of them. Well, so we're the ones in that story. If I'm not mistaken, the Toronto Sun, I think Brian

00:14:09.840 Lilly might have broke the original one. Good digging for him. But what the Canadian Taxpayers

00:14:14.200 Federation did is we launched a legal challenge. Why do we launch a legal challenge? Because we filed an

00:14:19.800 access to information request to see who stayed in the room. Now, look, you don't have to be

00:14:24.820 Sherlock Holmes to know that it was always Mr. Justin Trudeau who stayed in that room. But we

00:14:30.580 wanted to set a precedent. You waste taxpayers' money. You got to be honest about it. You got to

00:14:35.700 face the crowd. So what did the government do? They wrote down Justin Trudeau's name and then they

00:14:41.080 blacked it out. They sent us a redacted ATIP. So we launched a legal challenge. We forced them to

00:14:47.460 fess up. And Trudeau, he knew he was going to lose that legal challenge. So he finally admitted

00:14:53.240 that it was him who stayed in the $6,000 per night hotel room. But when did he admit it? The day that

00:14:59.940 President Joe Biden was coming to town, folks. That's called a cover up. Yeah, that's burying the

00:15:06.680 lead a little bit. Now, you guys broke down some of the numbers here and it's outrageous. It makes you

00:15:11.440 wonder if there was anybody actually left in Ottawa. So as you said, Canada's delegation was

00:15:16.920 102 people, 87 people traveling with Justin Trudeau and 15 more traveling with Governor

00:15:25.380 General Mary Simon. And you know, she's got a taste for luxury, don't you? 0.58

00:15:29.800 Oh, she sure does. Now, folks, that joke is in reference to another access to information

00:15:34.580 request this Canadian Taxpayers Federation dug up. When we found that the Governor General and her

00:15:39.880 entourage in a separate trip to the Middle East spent almost $100,000 on fancy airplane food,

00:15:46.660 right? They were dining on Beef Wellington, Beef Carpaccio, Stuffed Pork Tenderloin.

00:15:51.520 I get hungry just thinking about the fancy feast that they had. Now, folks, if you've traveled on

00:15:57.600 Air Canada or WestJet, you can't even get Beef Wellington flavored chips. But I guess if you're

00:16:03.080 the Governor General and you're spending other people's money, you can afford to dine on Beef

00:16:08.260 Wellington at the taxpayer expense. Now, I want to kind of come back to the real key issue here,

00:16:12.680 right? Because number one, $530,000 of taxpayers' money to go to a three-day trip with over 100

00:16:19.800 people, that's ludicrous, right? That's ludicrous. But also just factor in what was going on in Canada

00:16:27.480 when that happened. How many people worried about losing their mortgage? How many people just worried

00:16:32.640 about the ground turkey that they want to pick up for taco night to feed their families? Or how many

00:16:37.960 people just are worried that they can't afford to fuel up their car on the way to work, okay? But

00:16:42.480 there's one other important issue here. And it's the fact that this is not the exception. It's become

00:16:48.720 the rule in Ottawa to make taxpayers pay for your fancy trips, right? It almost seems like this

00:16:55.120 government is going out of its way to bring as many people as possible to stay in the fanciest of

00:17:01.520 hotels and to take the sweetest rides.

00:17:04.040 And that is chilling for somebody like me because we're coming up to the annual climate change

00:17:10.580 conference. This year it's in Dubai, in the UAE. So you know that the federal government is going to

00:17:17.120 take a massive entourage as they tend to do. They tend to be some of the largest, like the feds,

00:17:24.340 the liberals, their entourage is usually much larger than, let's say, the Americans, a country 10 times

00:17:30.580 our size. And it's Dubai. I just went there for work. We were exploring the Abraham Accords. 0.80

00:17:38.000 If you're looking for luxury, you can find it there. And I'm worried that the feds are really,

00:17:42.160 really going to find it while they're there.

00:17:44.000 Oh, I am too. And we're going to keep an eye on it. I'm sure, Sheila, you and your team are going to

00:17:49.300 as well. We certainly are. Because let's not forget, folks, what was it? I don't know. Can't

00:17:53.760 remember the number, maybe COP26, the one in Glasgow, Scotland, when the Canadian delegation,

00:17:59.960 we sent the largest delegation out of any G7 country, including the host country, the United

00:18:06.540 Kingdom. So we sent more people to their conference than they did. Not only that, our dear finance

00:18:13.440 minister, Chrystia Freeland, what did she do? Well, she booked a hotel in the wrong city, Edinburgh,

00:18:19.460 86 kilometers away from Glasgow. Okay. Then what did she do in her infinite wisdom? Well,

00:18:26.380 she decided to book taxpayers or bill taxpayers for thousands of dollars on a chauffeur service. 1.00

00:18:33.280 So look, first of all, why are we sending the biggest delegation out of any G7 country? But second

00:18:39.060 of all, do you not have Google Maps on your phone? Couldn't Google the fact that Edinburgh is not in the

00:18:45.080 same place as Glasgow? I mean, this is crazy. Yeah. And also very frightening that that is the woman 0.98

00:18:51.500 in charge of the entire Canadian economy. And one of the reasons I wanted to have you on the show today

00:18:56.380 is because of the fiscal update from the federal government. And it brutal. And you had a great op-ed

00:19:04.640 about a week ago about how the budget proves that Trudeau is not serious about federal finances. I don't

00:19:11.080 think you could be if you put Chrystia Freeland in charge of them. But just the escalating debt and

00:19:18.540 what that really means for Canadians. I mean, it's causing an inflationary crisis. You tack on the carb,

00:19:25.000 the escalating carbon tax on top of that. And Canadians are in for a lot of trouble. And I don't

00:19:31.800 think the feds have a plan to get us out of this. Oh, they couldn't balance the budget of a lemonade

00:19:37.460 stand. Right. But look, the debt, the debt is directly related to your high cost of living.

00:19:45.780 Here's what happened during the pandemic. Right. They ran these massive deficits, sometimes into

00:19:50.500 the hundreds of billions of dollars. And then they had their Bank of Canada print up hundreds of

00:19:57.960 billions of new dollars, largely purchasing the government debt. That is literally, ladies and

00:20:03.380 gentlemen, the inflation tax. Okay. But let's even move past that. Another huge concern are the

00:20:09.260 interest charges on the government credit card. This year alone, the interest charges on the

00:20:14.780 government debt will cost taxpayers about $4 billion every single month. Billions of dollars every month

00:20:21.280 that isn't improving services, isn't lowering taxes because it's going to the bond fund managers on

00:20:27.300 Bay Street just to service the government's debt. But listen to this, folks. Next year, interest charges

00:20:35.140 on the federal debt will surpass the amount of money the federal government sends to the provinces for

00:20:41.240 health transfers. Okay. In a couple of years, a handful of years, interest charges on the government debt

00:20:48.140 will equal the entire revenue of the GST, the government sales tax. So every penny the government

00:20:56.700 brings in through the GST in 2028 will be going to interest charges on the government debt. Let that

00:21:03.240 sink in, folks. And then, you know, when you throw the carbon tax right on top of that, we saw Tiff

00:21:08.600 Macklem, head of the Bank of Canada. Usually these people are not, you know, political types, but even he

00:21:14.740 is coming out and saying one of the single largest drivers of inflation on top of out-of-control

00:21:20.500 government spending is the carbon tax. And I'm reliably informed by liberals who don't know how to

00:21:25.800 balance a budget that we would get more back in government bursaries and payments than we would

00:21:33.660 pay for the carbon tax, which if you said something like that in the private sector, you would be

00:21:38.780 investigated for running a Ponzi scheme. But since the federal government said it, it's perfectly

00:21:43.720 reasonable. And that's just how money works. Well, Sheila, if you think that the government can raise

00:21:49.420 taxes, skim some off the top and still make everyone better off with rebates, then I've got some

00:21:54.400 Oceanview property in Lethbridge, Alberta to sell you. I mean, of course, nobody believes it. Of

00:22:00.500 course, nobody believes it. And the parliamentary budget officer, right, the non-partisan independent

00:22:05.440 budget watchdog here in Ottawa has called out the federal government for using magic math, because

00:22:11.020 guess what, folks? The carbon tax is costing the average family this year up to $710 more than what

00:22:19.000 they get back in rebates. And that's just this year alone. And the carbon tax, according to Trudeau,

00:22:24.440 will continue to go up and up and up and up. But here's the thing. The whole point of the carbon tax

00:22:31.520 is to make the necessities of life more expensive. That's the whole point for the Trudeau government's

00:22:38.420 carbon tax. All right. So they can pretend they can host these press conferences saying,

00:22:42.940 um, we're making life more affordable for you. But in reality, I think every time Mr. Trudeau

00:22:49.680 passes a gas station and sees those high pump prices, I think he's patting himself on the back.

00:22:55.800 Right. And then it's interesting because when the carbon tax does what it is intended to do,

00:23:02.400 and that is drive up the costs of everyday necessities so that you don't use everyday

00:23:07.800 necessities as though you have a choice. Like the root word is necessary. Right. Um, but when that

00:23:15.480 happens, the liberals freak out only when it drives up the cost of living in places that might be

00:23:22.680 politically precarious for the liberals, like Atlantic Canada, when they are, um, risking a revolt

00:23:30.240 from their own MPs out there, then they have a carve out for carbon taxes, which I mean, if,

00:23:37.100 if they're supposed to change the weather and save the world, why are we carving out the,

00:23:42.500 uh, like the least clean version of home heating oil? Are you suggesting, are you suggesting that

00:23:48.040 that carbon tax was purely political? No way, no way. Was it purely political? I mean, of course,

00:23:54.720 everyone knows that it indeed was purely political, uh, rank regional favoritism. Um, but here's the

00:24:00.660 thing, right? Let's get back to the main issue here. And it's the fact it's, it's just a simple fact

00:24:05.240 making it more expensive for someone in Canada to fuel up their minivan or to fill up their grocery

00:24:12.300 cart does absolutely nothing to reduce emissions in places like China or India or Russia or the

00:24:18.940 United States. And Canadians by in large numbers are waking up to that obvious fact, right? That the

00:24:25.920 carbon tax is a ripoff, that the carbon tax is making your life more expensive, that the carbon tax

00:24:31.880 does not help the environment. So it's good to see that Canadians are, are, are starting to wake up

00:24:36.540 to that fact. And I really do think that the Trudeau government is, is on their back foot now.

00:24:41.380 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a government can only punish you for being alive for so long before you end up

00:24:47.840 having enough of the punishment. And I think that's showing up at the polls. Now, Franco, you guys do some

00:24:53.840 great work at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and you don't even allow yourself to take advantage of

00:25:01.440 any sort of specialty tax treatment. How do people support the very important work you do to hold all

00:25:08.640 levels of government to account, and to force them to hopefully be a little smaller and a little less

00:25:16.000 greedy?

00:25:16.920 Well, thank you for saying that. And we never have never will take a penny from the government. Absolutely

00:25:21.900 not. I appreciate you having me on today. But please, folks, if you want to see our work, you

00:25:26.780 can check us out on social media, just type in Canadian Taxpayers Federation, or head over to our

00:25:30.820 website, taxpayer.com.

00:25:32.920 Great, Franco. Thanks so much for being on the show. We'll have you back on again very, very soon.

00:25:38.740 My pleasure. Thank you.

00:25:40.460 Stay with us. Your letters to Ezra, unceremoniously read by me, up after the break.

00:25:51.900 Letters, letters, letters. We get your letters every hour of every single day. Letters, questions,

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00:26:10.080 unlike the mainstream media, we actually want to hear from you. They just want your money in the form

00:26:16.840 of bailouts from Justin Trudeau without any of your icky little opinions. Well, we welcome your

00:26:23.160 opinions. Now, today's comments come by way of Ezra's interviews the other day on the streets of London

00:26:34.860 in the UK. He was at a protest against anti-Semitism, wherein controversial activist Tommy Robinson was

00:26:46.620 arrested for, I think, pre-crimes. I guess they were worried that he might rile up the crowd.

00:26:56.600 And then instead of arresting the rambunctious people in the crowd, they arrested him instead.

00:27:06.460 Anyway, make UK policing make sense to anybody, because I cannot make sense of it. Anyway,

00:27:14.760 Buckeye1Patriot writes, so many of the people Ezra interviewed are deluding themselves on

00:27:23.120 immigration, and it will be the downfall of their country. Yeah. The Western world doesn't do a very 1.00

00:27:30.020 good job of vetting new immigrants for extremist ideologies. And then you couple that with 0.80

00:27:35.740 hyper-immigration, just bringing people to the country more and more and more all the time, 0.69

00:27:45.680 despite the ability to house the people or to properly integrate them into Western culture.

00:27:54.640 And you've got a recipe for ghettoization and disaster. Soaring Eagle writes,

00:28:02.900 can't believe the so-called police were doxing Tommy Robinson's personal information in front of the

00:28:08.900 world. If you're going to arrest the guy with your unjust and woke rules, just get over it and handle

00:28:15.840 the personal details away from the crowd and news crews. You know, what a great point. I'm so glad you

00:28:22.320 caught that. The police were basically showing the world, hey, this is where Tommy lives. And in a world

00:28:31.280 where people are told that Tommy Robinson is a dangerous radical akin to a Nazi, and they've 0.91

00:28:40.180 also been told, hey, you should punch a Nazi, but the supply of Nazis never quite meets the demand.

00:28:46.320 Guess what these people are going to do with the information the police just gave them? Might they 0.97

00:28:50.620 turn up at Tommy Robinson's house and punch him out or do something far worse? I mean, 0.64

00:28:57.200 I'm sure Tommy can't go home now that he's been released by the police. And I bet he's probably

00:29:05.080 going to have to move again for his own safety. Billy Zed Zed writes, government hate speech laws

00:29:13.440 only allows the terrorist cancer to grow. It's like blaming prison guards for the criminals. You know,

00:29:20.180 there's a real problem that comes from hate speech laws. And it's just not on the policing of speech,

00:29:28.100 which I'm generally opposed to, unless it's, you know, calls for genocide, glorification of terror and

00:29:35.420 calls for violence. But when laws, any laws are applied unfairly, then it causes division,

00:29:49.660 an angst in society. It creates a second class of citizens who will ultimately rise up.

00:29:57.140 Now, hopefully they do it peacefully, the way the Freedom Convoy did. But it doesn't always

00:30:02.900 happen that way. And I hate, I hate the idea of seeing violence on the streets. But when,

00:30:10.860 you know, for example, let's talk about the UK. When Tommy Robinson is arrested for things he didn't say,

00:30:16.420 because the police are convicting him of a pre-crime, you've got a real problem. Because

00:30:24.980 simultaneously, the police in the UK are also turning a blind eye to chants of genocide and

00:30:31.560 glorification of terror on the streets from these anti-Israel rallies. You know, if you can say from

00:30:39.760 the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which is, I don't care how you try to justify it,

00:30:45.100 or how many years it's been chanted at these protests, it is indeed a call for genocide. It is

00:30:50.820 from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, Palestine will be free of Jews. That's what they mean, 1.00

00:30:57.280 that Israel won't exist. If that can go on, on the streets of London, but if you misgender somebody, 0.99

00:31:08.680 someone will show up at your door and arrest you, um, you've got a real problem in that country.

00:31:17.740 And I just hope for the sake of the Western world, it doesn't turn into any more violence than we've

00:31:24.440 already seen. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:31:29.940 Um, thanks to the big boss for trusting with the show and everybody, including Olivia,

00:31:34.200 who works behind the scenes to put together the random pile of files. I send them into a proper

00:31:41.540 show for you all to watch. Uh, I believe Ezra will be doing the show tomorrow. If not, I guarantee

00:31:47.460 there will be some sort of show for you, but, uh, he's completing a very special mission today.

00:31:53.520 And as Ezra Levant always says, keep fighting for freedom.

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