Rebel News Podcast - April 29, 2024


SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ All political parties in Saskatchewan reject Trudeau's gun control agenda


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All political parties in Saskatchewan reject Trudeau's gun control agenda. Then Alexa Lavie joins the show to talk about the campus Pogrom at McGill University. (Alexa Lavie is a law professor at the University of British Columbia.)

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00:00:00.000 All political parties in Saskatchewan reject Trudeau's gun control agenda, then Alexa
00:00:20.440 Lavoie joins the show to talk about the campus pogrom at McGill University. I'm
00:00:25.400 Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:32.400 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:00:43.400 Trudeau's gun grab is falling apart and the Saskatchewan NDP are helping that to happen.
00:00:50.400 Now like so many of you I'm shocked but I couldn't be happier to see this latest
00:00:54.400 Trudeau failure. Yes, the happy news is out of Saskatchewan where so many good conservative
00:01:00.400 ideas are tested first before being adopted in big showy fancy ways here in Alberta.
00:01:05.400 For example, Saskatchewan had an Associate Minister of Provincial Autonomy dedicated to fighting
00:01:11.400 with the federal government, opposing federal overreach into provincial jurisdiction while
00:01:16.400 at the same time, former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was busy writing strongly worded
00:01:22.400 letters to Justin Trudeau that we now know Trudeau never read because Trudeau doesn't read anything,
00:01:27.400 not even high level security briefings.
00:01:31.400 The only sure way to make me aware of a priority issue is not simply to give me a note which I may or may
00:01:41.400 not read or may not have time to read if I am travelling or if I'm particularly busy at that point.
00:01:48.400 The best way to convey information to me is to receive a direct briefing from my national security advisor,
00:01:57.400 an intelligence advisor who would give me security updates, usually on several topics during the same session.
00:02:08.400 And this would happen on a regular basis. Sometimes it's once or twice a week or even more often if necessary.
00:02:17.400 Sometimes it's only three or four times a month. It all depends.
00:02:20.400 But the only way to guarantee to make sure that I receive the necessary information is to give me an in-person briefing
00:02:32.400 or over a secure line if necessary on any issue or priority issue.
00:02:39.400 And Saskatchewan introduced its Saskatchewan First Act on November 1st, 2022.
00:02:45.400 That was about a month before Alberta introduced our own version of similar anti-federal overreach legislation.
00:02:53.400 We called ours the Sovereignty Act.
00:02:56.400 Saskatchewan has also led the charge on parents' rights,
00:02:59.400 introducing legislation in September of 2023.
00:03:02.400 And they even went so far as to invoke the constitutional nuclear button of the notwithstanding clause
00:03:09.400 to go around activist court challenges to the law.
00:03:13.400 The notwithstanding clause is not utilized often in this province,
00:03:17.400 utilized much more often in a province like Quebec.
00:03:20.400 And listen, maybe just a comment with respect to the notwithstanding clause.
00:03:24.400 It was part of those very charter discussions advocated on by the premiers at the time of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
00:03:32.400 Because there was, as those rights that were included under the charter were being discussed,
00:03:39.400 there was other rights that were identified as well that were not included under the charter.
00:03:42.400 And it was also identified that at some point in the future there could be the collision of these charter protected rights
00:03:48.400 and other rights that are important to Saskatchewan residents and to Canadian residents as well.
00:03:53.400 And when those rights collide, the notwithstanding clause was provided to ensure that the elected government of the day
00:03:58.400 would be able to make the decision as to which of those rights would be in effect for the people that they ultimately represented.
00:04:06.400 In this case, that's the rights of a parent to ensure they're involved in their children's decision,
00:04:12.400 bring our parents closer to our children's classrooms, schools,
00:04:16.400 and ultimately make for a more reactionary and more responsive education system in the province.
00:04:23.400 A similar version of that parental rights policy was adopted in Alberta only a few short months ago in February 2024.
00:04:33.400 Well, we know that we have to preserve the rights of kids to be able to make decisions as adults.
00:04:38.400 I think that we've seen in other jurisdictions, I believe in June of last year,
00:04:43.400 New Brunswick made policy changes in the fall.
00:04:47.400 The Saskatchewan made policy changes.
00:04:50.400 We've been watching internationally as the UK has made policy changes,
00:04:55.400 as well as Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden.
00:04:58.400 I mean, this has been an ongoing conversation over the last number of years.
00:05:01.400 We've been monitoring it very closely, and we wanted to make sure that we struck the right balance
00:05:05.400 so that kids are not making irreversible decisions when they may not be mature enough to make those decisions.
00:05:11.400 We want to make sure that those adult decisions are made as adults.
00:05:13.400 Now, back in 2020, in direct response to Justin Trudeau's unscientific gun grab of 1,500 models of Canadian shotguns and rifles,
00:05:23.400 including the AR-15 through an ordering council, Alberta and Saskatchewan nearly simultaneously announced that they were kicking out
00:05:31.400 Justin Trudeau's federal chief firearms officers in their respective provinces and then appointing their own.
00:05:39.400 Then, both provinces said they would not direct RCMP resources to confiscate the now-banned firearms from otherwise law-abiding people,
00:05:49.400 while Trudeau's bail policies, soft-on-crime nonsense and permissive drug laws cause societal breakdown and decay,
00:05:57.400 and of course, a spike in violent crime across our communities.
00:06:01.400 Well, I call that a success that they haven't been able to seize a single law-abiding firearms owner's gun.
00:06:06.400 So, I wish them continued success at being able to achieve zero compliance with their program,
00:06:12.400 and we are not going to do anything to help them.
00:06:14.400 We believe that the issue is the illegal firearms getting into the hands of gangs and organized crime coming across the border,
00:06:21.400 and the federal government should be focused on that, not focusing on taking guns away from sports shooters, duck hunters and farmers.
00:06:29.400 But Saskatchewan went one step further and actually put that announcement into law with the Saskatchewan Firearms Act.
00:06:37.400 The law established a licensing requirement for businesses and individuals involved in what the government called firearms expropriation.
00:06:47.400 What they mean here is helping Justin Trudeau take firearms from law-abiding Canadians.
00:06:54.400 In Saskatchewan, if you want to participate in the federal buyback program, which is a misnomer because you cannot buy back something that you didn't own in the first place.
00:07:05.400 Anyway, if you want to participate in snatching the lawfully acquired property from your fellow Saskatchewan resident, you cannot receive money from the federal government to do it.
00:07:16.400 You just, I guess, have to be ideologically aligned with the federal government to do it.
00:07:22.400 So, all good stuff out of Saskatchewan.
00:07:24.400 You guys don't get enough credit for being keepers of the freedom flame.
00:07:27.400 However, and this is weird for me, it's not just conservatives in Saskatchewan fighting Trudeau's gun grab.
00:07:35.400 It's everyone, including the NDP.
00:07:38.400 Again, unsettling for me, but credit where it's due.
00:07:42.400 Look at this tweet from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
00:07:46.400 Last week in the legislature, a motion was passed unanimously calling on the federal government to devolve all parts of the Firearms Act to the province of Saskatchewan in order to allow the province to administer and regulate legal firearms possession.
00:08:02.400 Our government remains committed to protecting the rights of law-abiding firearms owners and will continue to stand up against Bill C-21, that's the gun grab, while supporting initiatives aimed at the illegal use of firearms in our province.
00:08:17.400 With a rare unanimous yes vote in the Saskatchewan legislature, a private member's motion on guns passed Thursday.
00:08:24.400 The motion from Carrot River Valley MLA Fred Bradshaw calls on the federal government to devolve or pass on responsibility for all parts of the Firearms Act to the province so it can administer and regulate gun possession itself.
00:08:40.400 So thank you Saskatchewan for being a pragmatic prairie petri dish that grows common sense policies, especially on gun issues.
00:08:50.400 Our cultures out here in the West are vastly different from that of downtown Toronto and so our laws should reflect that. 0.98
00:09:00.400 So, all that is to say, I see you have yet another good idea we here in Alberta would like to adopt.
00:09:07.400 Alexa Lavoie joins the show after the break to discuss the anti-Semitic sit-in at McGill University in Montreal.
00:09:14.400 Stay tuned.
00:09:15.400 Justin Trudeau's soft on crime policies are not the only thing that have caused the erosion of civil society here in Canada.
00:09:35.400 It's also his soft on anti-Semitism policies.
00:09:40.400 Right now, in university campuses across North America, what I would call campus pogroms have popped up, making it nearly impossible for Jewish students to feel safe as anti-Semitic sit-ins occupations are occurring.
00:10:00.400 Now, we know that there have been these occupations at Columbia in the United States at the Fashion Institute of Technology as well.
00:10:11.400 But, as with most bad leftist ideas, it's spilled into Canada.
00:10:17.400 We've got one at McGill.
00:10:18.400 One is threatened to occur at Ottawa today.
00:10:22.400 So, joining me is my friend and one of the hardest working journalists in the country, Alexa Lavoie.
00:10:28.400 She was out over the weekend at McGill.
00:10:31.400 I wanted to bring her on to have her report to us exactly what she saw because you just cannot trust the Trudeau compromised mainstream media to tell you exactly what is occurring there.
00:10:44.400 And I know Alexa goes into these things with the eyeballs of a normal person. 1.00
00:10:49.400 She will notice things that the CBC won't.
00:10:52.400 Alexa, you worked all weekend.
00:10:54.400 Now you're the guest on the Ezra LeVant show today.
00:10:58.400 I know you're very busy editing stuff in the background too.
00:11:02.400 I wanted to have you on the show though because I think this is one of the most important stories in the country today.
00:11:08.400 That we have now rolled back the clock 70 or so years so that it is nearly impossible for Jewish students to attend university in some universities across North America.
00:11:22.400 Tell me, what piqued your interest?
00:11:25.400 Why did you go to McGill over the weekend?
00:11:27.400 So you need to see that there is multiple side of the story.
00:11:32.400 So when you are on the ground, first of all, mainstream media are welcome.
00:11:37.400 And I was not really surprised.
00:11:39.400 They were really nice with them.
00:11:41.400 They were giving interview with them and they were showing one side of the story to the mainstream media.
00:11:47.400 But what I really saw on the ground was, first of all, camp, supplies, and also like people asking,
00:11:56.400 asking for everyone to continue to supply them with food or other furniture and everything for creating more of this outrageous like board that they have like antisemite sign.
00:12:12.400 They have also a toilet in the tent and they have, so they are pretty well organized, I would say.
00:12:21.400 But when you arrive there, there is also a really fun side of the story.
00:12:27.400 So if you want to speak with someone, everything is really controlled.
00:12:32.400 So you cannot speak with the people on the ground.
00:12:35.400 There is specific people mandated to speak with media.
00:12:40.400 So your freedom of expression, we don't really care about it.
00:12:44.400 So shut up and not talk to media because you're not allowed to.
00:12:50.400 So just wear your mask for not being recognized and stay into the encampment.
00:12:55.400 Police are not really coming into the premises because it's a private property of McGill.
00:13:02.400 McGill issued a statement to their citizens saying that they are looking into removing the tents.
00:13:12.400 They are speaking with lawyers right now because since the beginning that started on Saturday, the number of tents have apparently tripled.
00:13:23.400 So they are not really happy of all of this.
00:13:27.400 And we will see in the next few days if McGill will really do what they are saying, removing the tent.
00:13:35.400 I met some Jewish students that say to me that since October 7th, they don't feel safe on the campus.
00:13:43.400 They've been followed.
00:13:44.400 They've been harassed.
00:13:45.400 They've been treated.
00:13:47.400 One of them actually sent me a video and we see him and other people are just surrounding him and chanting, go back to Europe.
00:13:59.400 And he just replied, but my family is from Iraq.
00:14:02.400 Like, I'm not even from Europe.
00:14:05.400 And everybody was just screaming at him.
00:14:08.400 But like imagine being a Jewish student arriving on their campus where they go to school and being surrounded by people who are fully masked chanting some anti-Semite slogan.
00:14:22.400 And by the way, like saying like when our people is occupied, resistance is justified.
00:14:29.400 This is actually saying that October 7th was justified.
00:14:34.400 So I tried to engage conversation with some of them, but I would say that was surrounded by Antifa right away when I arrived.
00:14:42.400 So I was just filming like some tent and some sign of anarchists, communism.
00:14:48.400 There were flags of communists flying around.
00:14:51.400 Of course, no flag of Canada.
00:14:54.400 There were no, no flag of it.
00:14:56.400 No flag of, of Quebec.
00:14:58.400 It was either communism or Palestine. 0.88
00:15:02.400 And, um, and so they came to me, they stopped me to record on either the march because they had a march and they were also the encampment.
00:15:12.400 But what I can actually say, say the people who took over the park in the university, they are rich, wealthy, um, white student who most of them doesn't know nothing about the complex.
00:15:28.400 You ask them like just basic question of, Oh, what the river, what the sea mean?
00:15:33.400 Like which, what can you tell me the name of the river or the sea?
00:15:39.400 They don't, they cannot say to me what, what it is.
00:15:44.400 And, and I saw also there is other people, different kinds of people who were marching in the street, like mostly much more anti-Israel, but not as Antifa or like anti-capitalist or anti-everything.
00:16:01.400 I would say like anti-police, anti-everything.
00:16:04.400 So I would say on the campus, the tension was way more palpable.
00:16:12.400 Uh, so I want to ask you, are the tents, they look new, right?
00:16:16.400 Like these are not outdoorsy people.
00:16:19.400 I would say I'm going to open like a, like a tent shop because probably they will have like more encampments, um, growing in Canada.
00:16:31.400 I'm, I'm, I can make like a lot of money because like most of the tents, oh, by the way, some of them like had a hard time to bring it up because they were still like putting it up.
00:16:42.400 But like, you see, Ottawa university, they supposed to go there afterwards.
00:16:49.400 We see because the Ottawa university have issued a statement that they refuse that.
00:16:55.400 Um, I just feel sorry or not sorry in the same time for all those universities that now they are like trying to organize everything.
00:17:05.400 But in the same time, when you look at it, teachers are taking part of this movement.
00:17:12.400 And I think that's why they're wearing masks is I think some of them are members of the faculty and they don't want people to know.
00:17:20.400 Could you imagine just being an apolitical student, not even a Jewish student, but just somebody who wants to go to university and escape unbrainwashed.
00:17:30.400 And your teachers are participating in the anti-Semitic sit-in movement.
00:17:35.400 Yeah. And I try to engage conversation and just ask them, do you condemn, uh, October 7 massacre?
00:17:42.400 Or do Hamas is a terrorist organization? Can you actually say it?
00:17:47.400 They cannot say it. They always have a reason why they will not say it.
00:17:53.400 They will not say it. And one of the men actually say to me, I will not condemn the October 7 massacre, but I understand it. 0.98
00:18:04.400 But I was like, there is nothing to understand.
00:18:06.400 Right. That's like how Justin Trudeau understood why people were burning down churches.
00:18:11.400 And, you know, they really don't even understand the, the issue here, because when they say that, you know, their resistance is justified because of an occupation, there's no occupation in Gaza.
00:18:26.400 There's not a Jew in Gaza. They even dug up the bodies when Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip.
00:18:33.400 So they don't even understand what the issue is here. What are their demands? Why are they even there?
00:18:40.400 I would say every demand that they are asking doesn't make sense.
00:18:45.400 Look at, they are asking for a ceasefire, but at the same time saying that we need to normalize and, and do Antifada a little bit everywhere.
00:18:55.400 And Antifada is actually, they keep saying that it's uprising. It's not.
00:19:02.400 For the beginning of the history, Antifada caused multiple deaths in Israel. And it was not what you think. It was not just like with like some like rock and just like throwing rocks at people.
00:19:20.400 It was violent. And it doesn't go in the same side that, oh, we are claiming for a ceasefire. They don't want a ceasefire.
00:19:29.400 No, there was a ceasefire on October 6th. There was a ceasefire.
00:19:33.400 So every ceasefire has been broken by Palestine. And, and the thing is, most of them, probably some of them have good faith. 0.78
00:19:45.400 I would say, I would say, and they were, I've been brainwashed and they, they really believe that they are doing a good cause.
00:19:52.400 I'm sorry for them because it's, there is a lot of manipulation or on this movement.
00:19:58.400 And some of them, like the, the, the, the, the thing that, yes, they will achieve something, but in the same time, it's clear Palestine doesn't want to have a state with, with the partition line.
00:20:15.400 So at the end of the day, the other man is actually the destruction of Israel, but they would don't want to say it out loud because it's anti-Semite.
00:20:25.400 But they do, but they don't do, they do, they do it, but in another way that they can actually confuse people and say, no, that the meaning is not really what you think.
00:20:36.400 It's something else. But in the same time, their meaning, it's all true, their slogan, but it's easier to manipulate people by saying that it means something else and confuse them.
00:20:48.400 So, um, right now the students say that they want the universities to sever ties with Israel, but in the same time, I, that would never happen.
00:21:01.400 So all along those people would be allowed to, to camp everywhere across Canada on campus and stopping Jewish students or just normal people to go to assist to their, their courses. 0.96
00:21:14.400 Because most of our teachers have canceled some of their courses just, just because of that, because some of them like the, but first of all, there is some people who are not going into their, their course.
00:21:27.400 And we will receive because in the McGill statement, they say that most of the people in those campaigns, they are not students at McGill.
00:21:36.400 So right now there is an issue of, we are for freedom of speech, freedom of, uh, protest, but those people are not from our, in the university.
00:21:49.400 So, so we are not supporting people who are not our, I would say our client, because it's kind of like being a client when you go to the school.
00:22:00.400 But so we will see what will happen, but I know that right now they are looking to remove them from there, but it would be hard.
00:22:07.400 I think, uh, police would need to intervene at one point because they will not let anybody to go and pull down the tent, especially because they've really put real fence, metal fence around it.
00:22:19.400 But I would say that, uh, I visited their, their telegram chat and, uh, they are asking for money, uh, donation, um, everything that they need as supplies.
00:22:33.400 And, uh, they are also asking people to come at night for security to protect the camp.
00:22:40.400 So I don't think a lot of people are sleeping in the camp.
00:22:44.400 I think there is some people who rely themselves to keep the camp up because on the first night there were a big storm that happened in Montreal.
00:22:54.400 So I was just thinking, Oh my God, they probably not happy like right now.
00:22:59.400 Uh, Alexa, I know that you are going to keep a very careful eye on this story.
00:23:05.400 I think you were the first independent journalist on the scene there, and I know you'll probably be there.
00:23:11.400 And I know you'll probably be the last.
00:23:13.400 Um, I just appreciate your willingness to just get out there in the field and bring the people the news because they can trust us and they can't trust the mainstream media who are only talking to the controlled media relations people of these protests.
00:23:29.400 Because we know if you talk to an actual protester, they might tell you exactly what they think.
00:23:34.400 And it probably wouldn't be pretty.
00:23:36.400 Um, and you know, as always, if these people are Canadian citizens, well, okay.
00:23:42.400 But if they are foreign national supporters of Hamas, people can go to our petition site at deporthamas.com and sign that petition calling on the governments to evict these terror apologists from our country.
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00:24:35.400 Now, today's letters come to us on Ezra's interactions with protesters at the New York Fashion Institute.
00:24:43.400 And those were the aforementioned anti-Semitic protesters.
00:24:49.400 I believe Ezra calls them mine camp.
00:24:52.400 They are there to demand the divestment of the university from any ties to the state of Israel because they have sided with Hamas on the October 7th terror attack.
00:25:05.400 I guess they feel that those 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians had it coming along with the 240 plus hostages, the babies that were kidnapped.
00:25:16.400 They obviously deserved it, according to these people.
00:25:19.400 Now, Joyce, Joyce, I'm sorry, I'm probably saying that wrong, says ironic that protesters are protesting the occupation of Gaza, but are occupying private property.
00:25:31.400 That indeed they are.
00:25:32.400 But as I pointed out in my discussion with my friend Alexa Lavoie, there is no occupation of Gaza.
00:25:41.400 The Israelis pulled out of Gaza a decade ago.
00:25:45.400 They even dug up the bodies of the dead from the cemeteries.
00:25:52.400 Gazans have been in control of Gaza and they have decided to focus all their attention and aid dollars on terrorism rather than building their economy and giving the people of Gaza a better life.
00:26:06.400 So they are not even protesting a thing that is really happening even remotely.
00:26:13.400 Roberto Cifredi says universities cannot discriminate and single out a country for divestment.
00:26:19.400 It's against both federal and state statutes.
00:26:23.400 I'm not all that sure about United States statutes.
00:26:30.400 However, singling out the state of Israel for divestment while the state of Israel is fighting an existential battle for survival feels slightly anti-Semitic.
00:26:46.400 And targeting Jewish students who may or may not be citizens of the state of Israel feels completely anti-Semitic.
00:26:55.400 Making Jewish students uncomfortable to go to their own university.
00:27:01.400 That's anti-Semitism.
00:27:04.400 And it has rolled the clock back to, you know, 1939 Berlin.
00:27:11.400 It's morphed, says it's Gazafloid.
00:27:16.400 You know, it's more than that.
00:27:19.400 It's Occupy 2.0.
00:27:23.400 For those of you who have been around the political block as long as I have.
00:27:28.400 I hate to say that.
00:27:29.400 But this is exactly like Occupy Wall Street.
00:27:32.400 It's an astroturfed, union-funded, if I had to guess, protest.
00:27:41.400 Where the people involved in the protest are exactly what Ezra describes them as useful idiots.
00:27:48.400 They're not even sure why they're there.
00:27:49.400 Just somebody told them that they should be there and they are social justice advocates.
00:27:54.400 And so this is how they fight for social justice without actually knowing what justice really is.
00:28:00.400 And if I had to guess, most of these people are not there in the evening.
00:28:08.400 They leave their brand new tent that probably still has the price tags on it and their sleeping bag that's never been washed and they go back to their comfortable first world lifestyle. 0.84
00:28:19.400 This is the lowest form of social justice sitting in a park all day in new camping equipment without even having to camp.
00:28:29.400 It's, it's, it's lame.
00:28:34.400 And, you know, there's a reason it popped up in the spring and not in the winter when much of the fighting in Gaza was already taking place.
00:28:46.400 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:28:50.400 I'm not sure who's hosting the show tomorrow.
00:28:52.400 Maybe it's me. Maybe it's David Menzies.
00:28:54.400 I don't think it is Ezra Levant.
00:28:56.400 But thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes to put the show together so that it's there for you whenever you want to watch it.
00:29:03.400 Because, you know, this is the internet. Things are convenient.
00:29:07.400 And as Ezra Levant always says, keep fighting for freedom.
00:29:16.400 We'll be right back.