Justin Trudeau is ordering Canada s banks to hand over the complete personal records of half a million citizens to the government without a search warrant. What can we do about it? Ezra Levant explains on The Ezra Levant Show on October 31st.
00:00:49.620Stats Canada requesting banking information of 500,000 Canadians without their knowledge.
00:00:54.560Let me read a bit from David's story that he wrote with Andrew Russell.
00:01:00.040Statistics Canada is asking banks across the country for financial transaction data and personal information of 500,000 Canadians without their knowledge, Global News has learned.
00:01:11.360Documents obtained by Global News show this national statistical agency plans to collect individual level financial transactions data and sensitive information like social insurance numbers from Canadian financial institutions to develop a new institutional personal information bank.
00:01:32.120Just a database of everything you buy, everything you save, everything you transfer, every time you use an ATM, every time you buy something on your credit card, every time you tap your credit card on a machine, all the money in your account at all the time.
00:02:15.520You're just chosen to be the lucky ones and you won't even know if you were chosen and your bank will not even be able to tell you that they've given your information to Trudeau.
00:02:25.600Here, watch some of David's video about this.
00:02:28.240Compare just how secret it is to the official spin from Trudeau's spokesman.
00:02:33.360And the level of detail it wants is significant.
00:02:36.000Not only does it want a complete description of each transaction, the value, the date, the location, and so on,
00:02:41.680it wants to link each of those transactions to an individual person by asking banks and others to turn over the following information about each of its customers.
00:02:52.500Social insurance number, date of birth, name, gender, and address.
00:02:57.040Banks will turn over all this information without the knowledge or consent of those 500,000 randomly selected Canadians on StatsCan's list.
00:03:06.960We're not keeping Canadians in the dark.
00:03:09.680We're fully transparent about the data that we collect and how we collect it and we're happy to speak about it.
00:03:30.220I won't know if I've been selected for this data dump.
00:03:33.300I won't know what is being done with this data.
00:03:35.880But you've got the gall to look into the camera and say you're being very open with Canadians about it.
00:03:42.840You're lying to me and I can see you're lying to me and you know you're lying and I know you're lying and you know that I know you're lying,
00:03:52.080but you're lying anyways because it's Justin Trudeau.
00:04:16.960Would Justin Trudeau, knowing that you spent a dollar on a candy bar and knowing what store you bought it in and when you bought it and what credit card you used,
00:04:25.240all that time and place data would be in there.
00:04:29.160Would that really help him make better decisions about pipelines?
00:04:33.360Would he maybe not be bringing in a carbon tax?
00:04:36.140Would he not be sending our peacekeepers to Mali where they're in great danger?
00:04:40.120Would he maybe have negotiated a better NAFTA deal?
00:04:42.740Would he be committing fewer diplomatic incidents like he just did by snubbing Brazil's new president?
00:06:36.040When there are clear-cut cases of data being leaked or stolen, like by Facebook or by Equifax or Nissan, Trudeau doesn't do anything about it.
00:06:45.560In fact, he says, hey, I want to do that too.
00:06:50.000Now, the conservative opposition brought this up on Parliament for the past two days, and I'm glad they did.
00:06:54.900Here's Candace Bergen, one of my favorite MPs.
00:06:57.420Here's what she said, and listen to the answer.
00:06:59.720Mr. Speaker, there were disturbing reports this weekend that Stats Canada has informed banks and credit card companies that it expects them to hand over personal financial data of at least half a million Canadians without their knowledge or consent.
00:07:13.360Even worse, banks won't be allowed to inform their customers that the government is following every single one of their transactions.
00:07:20.580With a long history of government privacy breaches, Canadians are rightly worried.
00:07:24.860Why are the Liberals collecting the personal data of Canadians without telling them?
00:07:32.440Our government is ensuring that the personal data of Canadians are protected.
00:07:37.760Statistics Canada will use the anonymized data for statistical purposes only.
00:07:42.980No personal information will be made public.
00:07:45.860I understand Statistics Canada is actively engaged with the Privacy Commissioner's office on this project and is working with them to ensure Canadians' banking information remains protected and private.
00:07:59.160High quality and timely data are critical to ensuring the government programs remain relevant and effective for Canadians.
00:08:06.480Hang on, he said the data would not be made public, that it would be protected and private.
00:08:45.400I'm worried about that guy, about Trudeau.
00:08:47.620It's not protected and private if it's in his grubby hands.
00:08:54.080Let me show you the next question and answer, too.
00:08:56.000Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government plans to access the personal financial information of Canadians without their knowledge or consent.
00:09:04.860Personal information like bill payments, online purchases, credit card transactions, cash withdrawals and deposits, even e-transfers between family members.
00:09:27.700Mr. Speaker, Canadians rightly expect that government agencies and groups like Statistics Canada work with the Privacy Commissioner to ensure that their private lives are protected.
00:09:40.220But, Mr. Speaker, need I remind you and all Canadians that it was the Conservative government that chose to stop the long-form census, to cancel the long-form census as a way of protecting people's private information.
00:09:55.240What that led to was more policy based on ideology and less policy based on evidence like we are doing now.
00:10:01.980Their attacks on data and information continue.
00:10:04.460Their attacks on data and information.
00:10:10.640Data, information, that's just numbers.
00:10:17.540You can attack people, and in this case, people's privacy.
00:10:20.540The number of dollars in a bank account, that's not the problem.
00:10:24.540The problem is that that number of dollars in a bank account belongs to someone who has an expectation and a right to privacy.
00:10:30.060And Trudeau was snooping on them as if the number is the center of things instead of the person being spied on.
00:10:37.120What a bizarre and audacious spin to criticize the Conservatives by comparing how they shut down the other snooping, the mandatory long-form census a few years back.
00:11:13.360He's surrounded by ideological extremists.
00:11:15.620None of that will change if he knows what your vacation budget is or your grocery budget or your phone budget or if you borrow or loan money to a friend.
00:11:52.840Canada Revenue Agency logs 2,338 privacy breaches in just under two years.
00:11:59.620Revenue Canada staff themselves breached security and snooped on people they liked or hated or were neighbors worth or spied on people more than 2,300 times.
00:12:09.40080,000 people had their privacy breached.
00:12:12.340And remember, that's just the stuff you tell Revenue Canada.
00:12:16.420But what you tell Revenue Canada is a sliver of a fraction of what your total banking information is.
00:12:38.500The type of personal information included name, contact information, social insurance number, income and deductions, and employment information.
00:21:36.620And there was one anonymous complaint who said that this was offensive, and immediately the government responded by pulling it.
00:21:47.260And ostensibly, it may have had something to do with the U.S. election in 2016 and a certain candidate and, you know, Grabber.
00:21:55.800Because if you use your imagination, it could say Grabber.
00:21:59.160But nobody was using their imagination for 27 years.
00:22:02.520So we filed a court action against the Nova Scotia government for Loren Grabber's right to go back to the 27-year tradition of proudly displaying his last name on his car, on the license plate.
00:22:19.300You've recently filed an expert report in the court.
00:22:23.900And we're familiar with that expert, Dr. Deborah So, who's been very courageous at pushing back against the excesses of radical feminism.
00:22:33.320Tell me a little bit about what she testified.
00:22:36.460Well, the Nova Scotia government got an expert report from a professor at McGill University, Kerry Rentschler, who said that the last name Grabber promotes violence against women.
00:22:49.280And displaying this name is going to lead to more rapes taking place in Canada.
00:23:33.820I mean, imagine the government commissioning, like spending money, finding an expert in a different province and having her justify this.
00:23:41.860Now, by the way, Dr. So points out that there are some vanity plates in Canada.
00:23:51.040One has the word, chuckling, penis, which actually is not the last name of the person who has it.
00:23:58.940That's someone named Sylvain Poirier, who for some reason wanted a license plate that says penis.
00:24:03.800Now, that's goofy, and he's not even pretending it's his name.
00:24:06.540But that was upheld because, if I'm not mistaken, that was, you know, that's a body part, and you might be shy about it, but it's not in itself obscene.
00:24:18.200The Quebec authority in charge of license plates said that both penis and anus were acceptable as license plates.
00:24:25.200I mean, I don't know who would want that on their license plate.
00:24:28.820I'll be honest with you, but if you can have that for free speech, surely Mr. Grabber can have his name that he's had for 27 years.
00:24:36.260He ought to, and the case is going to be heard in April of 2019.
00:24:40.740It was set for September, but the government was dragging its heels with the report, and they weren't meeting deadlines and so on.
00:24:46.580So the September 2018 hearing had to be canceled and bumped over to April of 2019, which is a disgrace.
00:24:56.480You know, I want to talk about one more case you have, and this looks like a silly case and a goofy case and something like a clickbait story online.
00:25:06.620But I think it's the front line of a battle of government censorship and what you can and can't say.
00:25:12.800And I'm not even kidding when I say if you ban a license plate today, you ban his company name tomorrow, and then maybe you ban his own name the next day.
00:25:20.880Just because some, you know, it's childish to say, oh, ha, ha, ha, Graber sounds like Grabber, or just like Falker sounds like a swear word.
00:25:30.160Ha, ha, like that's a Beavis and Butthead level childish cartoon joke.
00:25:34.360But now the government of Nova Scotia and this highfalutin professor are saying, no, no, no, that's not a joke.
00:25:39.940That's really a problem we need to censor.
00:25:42.020Like, you've got to fight these goofy fights when you see them.
00:25:45.000You've got to stamp them out before this craziness becomes normal.
00:25:48.260Well, and the whole thing, you see, with the Grabber license plate, part of the problem we face in Canada is that there's this false notion that, you know, that I have a right to not be offended and to not hear and see.
00:26:00.940That's a counterfeit human right not to be offended.
00:29:54.220He's violating their privacy, their norms.
00:29:57.780It's so obvious to me that he's looking for some psychological affirmation that he really is a woman because only a woman could be involved in something so incredibly intimate.
00:30:09.860And I think he's using these 16 people as some sort of therapy for him psychologically.
00:30:16.360And when they resist, he's punishing them.
00:30:19.080The fact that the Human Rights Commission of B.C. has allowed 16 such complaints is proof that that whole commission is rotten to the core and has to be shut down.
00:30:29.600Well, you know, they are kangaroo courts.
00:31:13.000100,000 bucks in legal fees or more that this rape crisis center had to take away from helping real rape victims to fighting this man, a big six-foot-something guy who said, I want to be in the rape crisis center because I'm a woman now.
00:31:28.040Well, and by the way, there, the staff were nice to him.
00:31:34.140They apologized to him, but they said, sorry, we can't let a six-foot-something guy like you, in drag essentially, come into the rape crisis center for women who have just been raped.
00:31:43.820And they had paranoia about the rapist breaking in and men sneaking in.
00:31:47.840And there was testimony in that case, I'm glad you reminded me of it, of women who said, had he been allowed in there, they simply wouldn't have gone to the rape crisis center because they wanted a safe, a true safe place.
00:32:09.260Well, what's going on now is typically the complaints are public and you can find out the name of the complainant.
00:32:17.580That's the name of, that's how our justice system normally works.
00:32:19.840Unless there's like a minor child involved or some very rare circumstance, our justice is supposed to be open and public in Canada.
00:32:26.720And thus far, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is not releasing the names of the, we were aware of two.
00:32:33.640The two cases we took on, both of them were one without even going to a hearing because the complainant backed down.
00:32:40.400The other 14, we're trying to get the names of these 14 female estheticians in British Columbia, mostly greater as, well, we don't know for sure, but we believe the greater Vancouver area.
00:34:18.180How can it be private if you're going to court and demanding that the state compel these single moms to come to court, compel them to testify, compel them to submit or pay a fine?
00:34:30.080That's not, that's the opposite of private.
00:34:49.760I have one more question and then I'm going to tell people how they can go to your website to help you directly because you're doing such important work here.
00:35:11.360And he's doing things like he said, if ISIS terrorists come back to Canada, if Trudeau lets them back in, he's going to block them from getting welfare.
00:36:24.660And he's forcing universities to honor free speech as a condition for public funding, which is the way it should be.
00:36:31.580And they're whining and crying about how their autonomy is being violated.
00:36:35.780They never had autonomy in the first place.
00:36:37.540Because when they're getting their billions and billions, they sign agreements where in order to get the money, you have to do this and this and this and this and this.
00:36:46.300They don't get a blank check to do whatever they want.
00:36:48.860So the Ford government is adding one more condition for funding and saying you have to uphold free speech on campus.
00:36:54.960I guess my point is Doug Ford looks like he might be the kind of premier to, I don't know if I would say abolish human rights commissions, but at least rein them in on these extreme political correctness cases.
00:37:08.660I'm guessing you haven't had a chance to connect with him.
00:37:11.820But I hope that over the course of time, you'll get to know the minister responsible or meet someone in the premier's office.
00:37:18.160Because if there's any place where we can roll back this craziness in Canada right now, it's obviously not Trudeau's federal government.
00:37:25.420It's obviously not the NDP government in B.C. or Alberta.
00:37:29.180But I think Doug Ford has the courage.
00:37:31.800And maybe that's something for you to look at in the year ahead.
00:39:37.180I remember when we spoke about this last time, I asked you if you had any word from the United Conservative Party, Jason Kenney's opposition.
00:39:49.800It was a day or two or three after our interview, and they created an online petition in regards to protecting the freedom of religious schools.
00:40:02.500Has anyone, an online petition, we've had.
00:40:05.660And Jason Kenney made a statement in opposite, a public statement.
00:40:10.440Well, I'm glad to hear it because I'm worried he's going politically correct, not because he himself is politically correct, but because he's so afraid of the media.
00:40:18.020And what you're saying is that he has stood up on this issue?
00:40:33.420So, I mean, we, the mainstream media tried to boycott the story, but yet we had this citizens group in Alberta called Parents for Choice in Education, which you're familiar with.
00:40:41.800And they've got over 10,000 people on their email list.
00:40:45.860And they put out the news, and I was just lighting up on Twitter and Facebook, the word got out there anyway, in spite of the mainstream media boycott.
00:40:54.480You know what, the mainstream media is being as discredited as the mainstream politicians, and if they don't realize that soon, they're going to be out of business.
00:41:16.780That stands for Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, jccf.ca.
00:41:21.340Would you agree with me that in this vast country of ours, you can really count on one finger the groups that are fighting the fight in the court of law?
00:41:31.980And this case of grabber and the case of the guy who wants to be grabbed in all these estheticians, would you not agree with me that while those sound goofy, they are actually the pointy edge of the spear to move us towards political correctness and control by our governments to give the government power over our lives?
00:41:51.460I believe that John Carpe, probably more than anyone else, is fighting the fight in the court of law.
00:41:58.320And if you have a few extra dollars, may I encourage you, and I think they get a tax receipt for that.
00:42:06.700If you're in Calgary on November 10th, he will be one of our key speakers at the Rebel Live.
00:42:11.720There are still some tickets available, although I should say, I do believe we're going to sell out, and the venue does have a maximum capacity, of course.
00:42:19.680So please, if you haven't got your tickets, go to therebellive.com, because I think it's going to sell out.
00:42:39.440Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday on the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and the media party calling him far-right Allen writes,
00:42:46.400Like the Trump election, or any election of anyone right of Stalin, it means that the world is going to end soon.
00:42:52.700The apocalypse is upon us, and we won't even live long enough to see global warming end all life as we know it.
00:42:59.780Look, Bolsonaro is right-wing in style and dramatic in his language, and I should point out that he got almost 50% in the first round of elections,
00:43:09.560and then this second round, the runoff, there were only two candidates, so of course he got more than 50%, but still.
00:43:15.620I don't think you can call someone far-right if they are that popular.