Rebel News Podcast - Why is the Media Party hiding the Toronto mass shooter's links to Muslim terrorism？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, a mass shooting in Toronto kills two and wounds 13.

00:00:04.240 Why are the mainstream media trying to hide the shooter's links to Muslim terrorism, though?

00:00:09.080 It's July 24th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

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00:00:38.840 On Sunday night in the lovely Toronto neighborhood of the Danforth, lots of shops and restaurants

00:00:44.820 and bars, lazy summer evening, a terrorist calmly walked down the street shooting everyone he

00:00:51.060 could.

00:00:51.820 He murdered a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman.

00:00:55.120 That's a lot of shooting and a lot of hitting his targets.

00:00:59.520 It went on for a very, very long time.

00:01:02.360 He walked almost a quarter of a mile at a leisurely pace before he was finally stopped

00:01:07.180 by police.

00:01:07.720 Here's a quick video of the terrorist captured on someone's cell phone.

00:01:11.360 He's on the sidewalk on the left.

00:01:13.140 Take a look. 0.76

00:01:13.600 Calm, cool, collected, not the style of a madman, the style of a trained killer and assassin.

00:01:26.060 I've read reports from firearms experts commenting on the style in which the terrorist held and

00:01:31.480 fired his weapon, not in the manner of street gangs, but in the manner of law enforcement

00:01:36.320 or military.

00:01:36.880 I've read reports from eyewitnesses who say he was completely cool throughout.

00:01:41.940 Were it not for the fact that he was shooting people, he'd be unremarkable in his demeanor.

00:01:46.220 We don't yet have the minute-by-minute TikTok-style report, but clearly he obviously reloaded his weapon.

00:01:53.080 He was prepared.

00:01:54.420 He was trained.

00:01:56.340 As I mentioned, he was stopped and killed by police, but it took a while.

00:01:59.680 But then they fairly quickly identified the killer.

00:02:04.120 Police said he was known to police, and his age, 29, was immediately published.

00:02:10.840 But authorities declined to publish his name, too.

00:02:13.840 Why?

00:02:15.080 He's not a minor child.

00:02:17.300 He has no privacy rights.

00:02:18.680 He's dead in any event.

00:02:21.020 But for some reason, authorities did not name him for a full day.

00:02:24.880 That's odd, don't you think?

00:02:25.980 And so for the next 24 hours, the discussion was somewhat unmoored.

00:02:29.900 Toronto's feckless mayor, John Tory, really didn't have much to say.

00:02:32.700 He never does.

00:02:33.760 Under his watch, the murder rate has doubled.

00:02:36.440 The murder rate in Toronto is now higher than the murder rate in New York City.

00:02:39.500 Can you even imagine saying those words?

00:02:41.380 But he's like Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, who brushes off all the murders and stabbings,

00:02:45.940 and they've got acid attacks over there, too, and, of course, terrorism there, too.

00:02:50.340 Sadiq Khan says it's just part and parcel of life in a big city, you know?

00:02:53.800 Well, that's not true.

00:02:55.680 It doesn't happen in Tokyo, does it?

00:02:58.600 And not even in New York, as bad as Toronto.

00:03:01.580 But then yesterday, in a move that can only be described as choreography,

00:03:05.760 the police released the name of the terrorist, Faisal Hussain, a Muslim man, obviously.

00:03:12.500 And immediately, simultaneously, a Muslim reporter at the CBC,

00:03:17.520 Shanifa Nasser, with an Islamic studies degree,

00:03:19.860 she published an unsigned letter purportedly from the terrorist family.

00:03:25.440 But, of course, it wasn't written by them, older Muslim migrants. 1.00

00:03:28.340 Not this language. 0.68

00:03:29.360 This was written by some professional PR person,

00:03:32.040 maybe a journalist, maybe a political staffer, who knows?

00:03:35.520 Maybe Shanifa of the CBC herself.

00:03:38.280 But it was remarkable how perfect the timing was.

00:03:42.840 They obviously had it prepared and ready.

00:03:44.800 So the moment the terrorist was named, with his Muslim name,

00:03:49.000 instantly the counter-narrative was grafted onto it.

00:03:53.000 The message from the family being, no, no, no, nothing to do with Islam.

00:03:55.920 They didn't even use the word. 0.90

00:03:56.960 It's just mental illness that he had struggled with his entire life. 0.95

00:04:00.240 As if people with mental illness go out and just naturally shoot people. 0.74

00:04:06.260 Now, it could be that this was some psychotic episode.

00:04:10.220 But we don't have that from the family directly.

00:04:12.540 We have it from some unsigned document served up by the state broadcaster,

00:04:17.580 and they won't discuss the provenance of that document.

00:04:19.840 Who wrote it?

00:04:21.060 When did they get it?

00:04:21.840 From whom did they get it?

00:04:22.580 Why did they wait to release it with such perfect timing?

00:04:25.160 Is there any corroboration for the facts?

00:04:27.900 And it was Faisal Hussain, in fact, struggling with mental issues.

00:04:31.380 Or did they just make that up?

00:04:32.940 And even if he was struggling about mental issues,

00:04:34.740 what about the reports that he was known to police?

00:04:37.400 That's what police said.

00:04:39.200 And that CISIS was involved.

00:04:40.640 CISIS doesn't get involved if you're just depressed.

00:04:44.500 Joe Warmington, the reporter for the Toronto Sun,

00:04:47.480 says law enforcement sources say Hussain had made trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan,

00:04:54.360 and that he consumed ISIS propaganda online.

00:04:58.400 No, no, no, no.

00:04:59.220 Forget all that. 1.00

00:05:00.160 He's mentally ill, people. 1.00

00:05:01.680 Just leave it at that. 1.00

00:05:03.020 Actually, the CBC didn't even leave it at that.

00:05:04.820 They went from being 100% championing the murder victims, Toronto Strong,

00:05:09.980 to 100% championing the terrorist.

00:05:14.220 It was like they just flipped, just switched sides.

00:05:16.620 Look at this.

00:05:17.260 This is another report from Shanifa Nasser of the CBC.

00:05:20.680 Let me quote.

00:05:22.420 He had a million-dollar smile.

00:05:25.140 Well, she's talking about the terrorist here, not his victims.

00:05:30.220 The CBC is talking about how wonderful a person the terrorist was.

00:05:38.320 Here's another CBC propaganda piece.

00:05:41.140 The terrorist was polite, humble.

00:05:45.680 They're really doing this.

00:05:46.840 They're really whitewashing the murderer.

00:05:49.000 The murder victims aren't even buried yet.

00:05:51.160 The CBC has switched sides.

00:05:53.940 Now, the Toronto Star put their investigative reporter on the case.

00:05:56.440 Okay, good.

00:05:57.120 They've got some good investigative reporters over there, the Toronto Star,

00:05:59.880 whatever else you think of them.

00:06:01.600 Look at the headline.

00:06:02.500 What drove Toronto shooting suspect to unleash violence on the Danforth?

00:06:05.820 That's a good question.

00:06:07.380 Was it terrorism?

00:06:08.580 If so, was it homegrown terrorism?

00:06:10.940 Did he practice being in terrorist overseas?

00:06:13.280 How did he get that gun?

00:06:15.080 That's a restricted handgun.

00:06:16.180 It's not like getting a hunting rifle or shotgun.

00:06:18.400 Did he have what's called an RPAL?

00:06:20.580 That's a restricted possession and acquisition license.

00:06:23.500 To get one of those, you need to do a deep background check.

00:06:26.180 They call your family.

00:06:27.000 I mean, someone who has a lifetime of mental illness, 0.91

00:06:29.320 you're not going to get a handgun.

00:06:31.020 That anonymous memo about lifetime psychotic depression,

00:06:35.160 you're not going to get a gun.

00:06:35.960 So how did he get the gun?

00:06:37.920 Where did he get the training?

00:06:39.040 He was obviously trained.

00:06:40.760 Joe Warmington's article in The Sun said,

00:06:42.840 Hussein regularly met up near his house with up to 20 friends.

00:06:48.440 Now, that's fine.

00:06:49.120 Were they just friends, though?

00:06:50.240 Or are they a group of people planning and plotting things together?

00:06:53.520 Was this a lone wolf or part of a team, a pack?

00:06:56.220 So what did the investigative reporter for the Toronto Star say?

00:07:01.000 Well, let me quote.

00:07:03.620 Hussein also shared a characteristic in common with many mass murderers,

00:07:07.200 one that has received particular attention in the wake of a string of explicitly misogynistic attacks.

00:07:11.880 He was male.

00:07:13.800 Sorry, that's your deep investigation.

00:07:17.440 That's why he did it.

00:07:18.020 He was male.

00:07:19.300 Yeah, it's got nothing to do with Islam, people. 1.00

00:07:20.920 He's just a toxic man. 0.99

00:07:22.340 Let me quote some more.

00:07:24.620 So, for example, if a man is passed over for a job, say,

00:07:28.220 and the job is given to a woman, 1.00

00:07:30.360 he may feel like that woman stole his job,

00:07:33.300 but it was never actually even his to begin with.

00:07:37.540 My God, did that?

00:07:38.740 Did that just happen?

00:07:39.380 Is that what happened to Faisal Hussein?

00:07:41.140 Did some woman steal his job? 1.00

00:07:42.520 Is that why he killed two women?

00:07:45.420 No.

00:07:45.960 That was just some hypothetical situation that the Toronto Star published,

00:07:49.960 something that explicitly did not happen

00:07:52.200 because they actually don't want to talk about what did happen.

00:07:55.840 They want to talk about something else that didn't happen,

00:07:59.880 that they can explain away that other thing

00:08:01.940 without criticizing Islam or open border immigration

00:08:05.120 or terrorism or unworkable multiculturalism.

00:08:08.420 They literally had their investigative reporter call up some professors

00:08:12.860 to get them to do some feminist rant about some hypothetical killer 1.00

00:08:17.780 instead of investigating the actual killer. 0.99

00:08:20.860 The words Islam and Muslim and terrorists 1.00

00:08:22.220 appear nowhere in that Toronto Star story.

00:08:24.960 Instead, they actually wrote this,

00:08:27.380 the way society tells boys from a young age

00:08:30.300 they need to be in control to be the hero and never back down.

00:08:35.760 That's what they're blaming here.

00:08:37.820 Is that what happened?

00:08:39.780 And that's the Toronto Star.

00:08:40.840 That's the biggest newspaper in the country in terms of readership.

00:08:43.560 But I've been asking some questions on Twitter.

00:08:45.860 I've been thinking about it, talking to folks.

00:08:47.920 And I've just been thinking out loud.

00:08:49.600 And then this reporter from the Toronto Star,

00:08:53.460 Jennifer Pagliaro, told me to delete my questions.

00:08:59.160 Ezra, this kind of fear-mongering is unacceptable.

00:09:01.580 It is disgusting.

00:09:02.900 It won't be tolerated.

00:09:05.520 You should delete it immediately and apologize.

00:09:09.080 Holy cow. 0.89

00:09:09.980 Now, I was asking about the CBC's curious timing

00:09:12.940 to release the pre-written anonymous statement

00:09:16.340 saying, oh, nothing to see here.

00:09:18.880 At the precise moment, the murderer's name was revealed.

00:09:22.300 I asked questions like, who wrote that memo?

00:09:25.000 Is it real?

00:09:26.140 Just basic factual questions for which there are basic answers.

00:09:29.660 I mean, there might be perfectly innocuous answers

00:09:31.380 or there might be concerning answers,

00:09:33.140 but all of that is wrong think, according to the star.

00:09:36.540 And it's not enough that I'd be criticized.

00:09:38.680 I must delete those bad thoughts.

00:09:42.200 And look at the words again.

00:09:42.880 Look at this again. 0.99

00:09:45.100 Disgusting, unacceptable, intolerable, fear-mongering. 0.99

00:09:49.760 No, no. 0.99

00:09:50.380 It's just journalism.

00:09:52.060 But what's odd is the mainstream media is full of rage.

00:09:55.020 Those are rageful words.

00:09:56.200 Rage towards me.

00:09:58.780 Not rage towards the terrorists.

00:10:00.580 They were calling the terrorists a humble, polite man

00:10:03.960 with a million-dollar smile.

00:10:05.300 They were calling me names full of rage

00:10:08.900 for asking questions and telling me to censor myself.

00:10:12.780 A fellow journalist from a rival publication

00:10:14.880 telling me to stop asking questions?

00:10:17.980 Yeah, no.

00:10:18.960 We're still a little bit free in Canada.

00:10:21.080 At least a little bit.

00:10:22.400 I want to know how that guy got a gun.

00:10:26.040 I want to know where he got his executioner-style training.

00:10:29.040 I want to know what his relationship with the police and CSIS was.

00:10:32.880 I want to know if he did indeed go to Afghanistan and Pakistan

00:10:36.040 and what he did there and who he met there.

00:10:38.360 I want to know what his parents really knew.

00:10:40.960 I want to know what professional spin doctor grafted themselves onto the family

00:10:44.800 to issue that spin statement.

00:10:46.820 I want to know who else was in on that,

00:10:48.360 whether it was the CBC or a politician or even the police.

00:10:51.220 I want to know what other threats we have around the country.

00:10:54.440 I want to know if, in fact, Faisal Hussain was a terrorist somewhere else

00:10:58.440 and we let him back in.

00:11:01.140 What are those ISIS terrorists, maybe, that Justin Trudeau says

00:11:05.120 have a powerful voice that we need to hear?

00:11:08.220 So, no, sorry, I'm not going to be shushed by the Toronto Star

00:11:13.600 or the dozens of CBC government journalists who chimed in

00:11:17.500 after the Star to the same effect.

00:11:19.580 Look, we're just tiny here at The Rebel,

00:11:21.580 but we will ask real questions otherwise.

00:11:24.220 I mean, really, what's the point?

00:11:26.660 Stay with us for more.

00:11:27.680 Welcome back, and joining me now is our friend David Menzies,

00:11:47.060 who immediately, upon the identity of the terrorist being revealed,

00:11:51.200 went down to his home, and he joins us now here in studio.

00:11:54.820 Great to see you, David.

00:11:55.520 Great to be with you, Ezra.

00:11:56.500 Well, thanks for going down there.

00:11:58.040 Tell me about the neighborhood where the terrorist Faisal Hussain lives.

00:12:02.280 Tell me what the demographics are like, what the people are like,

00:12:05.200 and who you met.

00:12:06.120 Well, you know, it's very funny, Ezra.

00:12:07.400 This is a neighborhood that, if you walk,

00:12:11.300 within walking distance of his building,

00:12:13.180 was the first mini-mosque in a school board,

00:12:18.040 Valley Park Middle School, right?

00:12:19.520 That's where they turn the cafeteria into a mosque every Friday. 1.00

00:12:22.040 Right.

00:12:22.420 It's a public school, like a government school.

00:12:24.000 The gender apartheid mosque, as it's being called.

00:12:26.860 And a further walk along, you'll come to a community center,

00:12:30.680 publicly funded by the taxpayer, which is home of what I call the Sharia swim. 0.96

00:12:34.580 That's where I did the caper when I went in as a trans woman to see if I could swim with the regular Muslim woman. 1.00

00:12:39.740 But, so basically… 0.85

00:12:41.860 So it's a ghetto. 0.99

00:12:42.900 It's a Muslim ghetto. 0.98

00:12:43.740 It is, for lack of a better term. 0.98

00:12:45.280 And what I would put money on this,

00:12:48.280 you will not see more burkas in the cabs in a, like, five-kilometer square radius than Thorncliffe Park. 1.00

00:12:57.220 You, like, when you watch the video that Efron shot, you'll see in the periphery just people walking by in the full face covering.

00:13:05.900 So it's definitely going back, say, 50, 60 years ago.

00:13:09.480 It's gone through a demographic change, 100%. 0.97

00:13:11.980 And it was also, interesting enough, Ezra, part of Kathleen Wynne's writing, the ex-premier of Ontario, right?

00:13:19.660 And, you know, so…

00:13:22.340 And I bring Kathleen Wynne into this because I think the way the narrative has gone here is that there seems to be aching political correctness,

00:13:31.640 you know, going into who the shooter was, what his motive was.

00:13:36.560 It really got my spidey senses, tingling, Ezra, that for 20 hours the police knew this man's name and they withheld it.

00:13:45.040 And one of the explanations is that we're consulting with the family.

00:13:47.840 Well, hang on, double homicide, injuring 13 others, when do you consult with the gunman's family?

00:13:56.520 Yeah, I've never heard of that ever before.

00:13:59.180 I mean, there are mass shootings all the time.

00:14:02.320 The idea, stop everything, the real person we have to…

00:14:05.820 I mean, why didn't they consult with the victim's families?

00:14:08.180 Why are you consulting?

00:14:10.000 That's so bizarre and so political and so not standard police practice.

00:14:14.820 We're consulting with the murderer's family?

00:14:17.520 I've never even heard that before.

00:14:19.060 Either if I, and Ezra, I can only think of one reason, one valid reason.

00:14:22.320 Is this your son?

00:14:23.940 Yes, it is.

00:14:25.040 Positive identification?

00:14:26.660 Right.

00:14:27.280 But that would take, what, 10 seconds?

00:14:29.120 Yeah.

00:14:29.300 Not 20 hours.

00:14:30.580 And then when they…

00:14:31.400 But let me stop you there.

00:14:32.260 And they identified him.

00:14:33.720 Yes.

00:14:35.160 But then they kept it secret for a full day after.

00:14:38.180 So we know that it didn't take them a day to do that.

00:14:41.120 They identified him very quickly.

00:14:42.640 They kept it secret after that.

00:14:44.400 What were they consulting about?

00:14:45.760 You know what?

00:14:47.480 Here's what I think.

00:14:48.760 Given the timeline, Ezra, the chronology, when we finally got a name, within about an hour,

00:14:54.400 I'm estimating, we got that polished PR, like almost from Hill and Knowlton's statement

00:14:59.800 from an elderly Muslim family, you know, saying about the history of mental illness and schizophrenia 0.98

00:15:07.160 and what have you.

00:15:08.420 And the way it was written, it was so polished that I'm not buying this.

00:15:14.060 I don't think this came from you.

00:15:15.320 And it wasn't signed.

00:15:16.400 Yeah.

00:15:16.680 So who actually is allegedly behind?

00:15:19.880 If a piece of paper comes from the family, but we don't know who the family is, did the

00:15:27.680 family send it to the reporters or did some middleman send it to the reporters or did a

00:15:32.320 politician send it to the reporters or did the police or did the CBC itself cook it up?

00:15:37.160 And those aren't conspiratorial questions.

00:15:39.000 They're just questions.

00:15:40.700 And it seems like you're not allowed to ask any questions because, as you suggested, when

00:15:46.240 police are consulting with the murderer's family, all your priorities are upside down

00:15:51.060 now.

00:15:51.280 It's not get to the truth.

00:15:52.180 It's obscure the truth.

00:15:53.320 It's not flesh out all the facts about the murderer. 0.93

00:15:55.840 It's obscure all the facts about the murderer because he is Muslim. 1.00

00:16:00.300 I think you're right.

00:16:01.060 I think, Ezra, I'm only speculating here, but if he was a guy that looked like me and

00:16:05.480 had named Duncan McDonald, they'd be running to a mic saying white male gunman.

00:16:12.520 And I bring in Kathleen Wynne because, as you remember, that horrible, tragic Pulse nightclub

00:16:17.640 shooting in 2016, Ezra, and she had a press conference.

00:16:21.500 And this is where 49 mostly gay men were killed.

00:16:25.720 And her statement, which to me was the jump the sharknado moment in terms of political

00:16:32.180 correctness, Islamophobia cannot, sorry, homophobia cannot be fought with Islamophobia.

00:16:40.140 Hang on. 0.98

00:16:41.700 49 gay men murdered in cold blood by a jihadi? 0.97

00:16:46.660 Who are you calling an Islamophobia? 0.89

00:16:47.740 And when she said that in public to all these white liberals, the usual suspects, it was

00:16:53.600 almost like a standing ovation, right?

00:16:55.540 You know, what's so weird is the CBC, I mean, the whole world was Danforth strong, Toronto

00:17:01.160 strong, we'll get over this.

00:17:03.220 It was, you know, it was victimology and it was worthless other than a sentimentality, but

00:17:09.140 at least it was sentimentality in support of the victims.

00:17:11.800 The minute the attacker was identified as Muslim, forget the victims.

00:17:15.840 This is about the poor family.

00:17:18.520 The CBC called him polite, humble, respectful, million dollar smile.

00:17:23.140 The CBC has been whitewashing this terrorist.

00:17:25.540 What about the family of Reese Fallon, the 18-year-old who just graduated Malvern Collegiate,

00:17:32.480 Ezra, and was going to go to McMaster to become a nurse to save lives ostensibly.

00:17:36.600 What about her family?

00:17:37.700 What about the family of the 10-year-old girl?

00:17:39.200 We still don't have her name.

00:17:40.420 And here's the added element of that tragedy.

00:17:42.720 Can you imagine her poor father who is in hospital recovering from life-saving surgery?

00:17:49.140 And when he comes out of that, someone's got to say, by the way, your 10-year-old, you

00:17:53.220 know, the angel of your life has been killed.

00:17:55.380 And all of a sudden we have to think, oh, think of the family of the gunman.

00:17:59.180 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:59.780 It's perverse.

00:18:01.020 You know what?

00:18:03.640 Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun has been doing great reporting on this.

00:18:06.280 You were down there.

00:18:07.460 I think you saw Joe.

00:18:08.600 Great guy.

00:18:09.520 You're doing great reporting.

00:18:10.540 We're asking the questions we can, but all the official media, the media party, as I

00:18:15.420 call it, the CBC with their unlimited resources, the Globe and Mail, CTV, Global News, Post Media,

00:18:21.040 with the exception of the Sun, they're all in cover-up mode.

00:18:25.120 And it's so bizarre because I just saw a story on CBS News, and I'm learning more from an American

00:18:30.480 network than I am from the CBC because I think the news is out there, the facts are out there.

00:18:35.740 But the Canadian media is positively unreporting, anti-reporting, dis-reporting this story.

00:18:42.120 Well, Ezra, it's what I've said for a long time.

00:18:44.240 If there's anything worse than state censorship, it's self-censorship.

00:18:49.400 And look, if I'm with one of these media outlets, right?

00:18:52.200 We just saw a guy last week for making a morning show host in Winnipeg, you know, Dan Wheeler,

00:18:58.920 Dave Wheeler, rather, who lost his job making a joke about a transgendered person.

00:19:04.980 If you, if the politically correct Kool-Aid means this is all about the religion of peace

00:19:10.340 and don't go, don't play the Islam card, you know, you think I'm going to put my neck 0.99

00:19:14.940 out on the line in a sunset industry where jobs are few and far between?

00:19:18.720 It's unbelievable for me to see.

00:19:20.960 I mean, I showed it earlier with some Toronto Star reporter who said, delete my questions

00:19:26.100 immediately. And I thought, I don't know if you saw this. Yeah. The city reporter for

00:19:30.920 the Toronto Star, I was asking questions about the timing of, of the alleged letter from the

00:19:36.860 family. And I just had some questions and this Toronto Star reporter just says, delete that

00:19:42.220 tweet. It's very offensive. It's outrageous. And I, and I thought normally they're not that

00:19:48.440 bold. Normally they just censor themselves, but they can't stand anyone breaking formation.

00:19:56.100 They, it's truly scary to me because Gerald Butts and Justin Trudeau and, and, um, Katrina

00:20:03.080 Gould, a liberal MP and others have basically said, uh, no, no dissident voices, dissident voices,

00:20:09.560 no dissenters. They've shut down parody accounts.

00:20:11.920 Yes.

00:20:12.320 I mean, they truly want to stop unapproved political commentary, including on pressing and urgent

00:20:20.080 matters of public policy, such as a terrorist crime. And David, as long as the rebel lives,

00:20:24.780 we will ask the questions that the people want answered and we'll accept the answers

00:20:28.820 if, if they're acceptable. There may be a very acceptable answer to some of the questions you

00:20:33.900 and I have posed here today, but so far we've been stonewalled. And I think, uh, as my friend

00:20:39.320 Tommy Robinson would say, it's a stitch up and we're not going to, we're not going to bend

00:20:43.820 the knee to Gerald Butts or the politically, politically correct mayor or police chief.

00:20:48.180 Yeah. And, and I mean, look, before they released the name as well, there was a closed door, uh,

00:20:52.220 meeting for hours between Mayor John Tory, uh, Chief Saunders, the police officer, Bill Blair,

00:20:57.300 then the, you know, the, the new cabinet minister, uh, responsible for crime and, uh, border security.

00:21:03.020 And, um, it was almost the vibe I got as run, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't buy into

00:21:09.220 that, but the vibe I got was, it's like three guys, um, sort of saying, how do we spin this?

00:21:15.560 Yeah. They're all, and they're all liberals or liberal appointees. Was the provincial

00:21:18.600 PCs there, were Doug Ford's people in that meeting? Uh, good question. I think at one

00:21:23.060 point, Doug Ford was in a closed door meeting. Okay. I'd like to know because, because it sounds,

00:21:27.440 I mean, if, if this is just all folks who are all politically correct together, and I'm not saying

00:21:31.140 Doug Ford might not be politically correct too. We're independent here. So we ask questions

00:21:35.740 on behalf of our viewers and we follow the facts wherever they lead. Right. Now it, it might be

00:21:40.420 that this just was someone mentally ill who managed to get a firearm, uh, who managed to get training 0.65

00:21:47.180 and calmly and coolly executioner style go down, uh, the street. It might be just a bunch of

00:21:54.440 coincidences and someone mentally ill. It might be, uh, but there's other, uh, hypotheses that we need

00:22:00.540 to vet too. And we're going to keep doing that. Last word to you, David. Last word is Ezra. Is this

00:22:05.160 going to be the so-called new normal when there is a Muslim gunman that the default position is 1.00

00:22:11.020 either going to be mental illness or lone wolf? That's what it seems to be. Uh, you know, sort of 0.98

00:22:16.960 disassociating the idea that this person is part of our radical Islamic group, such as ISIS. If that

00:22:23.440 is the truth, then why can't we have the truth? What? And, and also, I know that they're saying a

00:22:28.880 history of mental illness. Can we get some proof of that? Can we get a doctor on? Cause I know the

00:22:32.980 how, Oh, his privacy, you can't violate his privacy like that. He's dead man and he's a murderer. He 1.00

00:22:38.060 doesn't have any privacy rights. Well, I tell you, David, this is frustrating, but it's moments like

00:22:42.680 these where the value of the rebel is proved because the entire mass of the media, except our

00:22:48.740 friend Joe Warmington of the sun is on the other side. And it's moments like these at the rebel

00:22:52.800 council. And thanks for going down there last night. My pleasure, sir. There you have it. So our

00:22:56.320 friend, David Menzies, who went down there on a moment's notice and went to the home of the

00:23:02.680 terrorist killer and saw it's a little enclave of niqabs and hijabs. I can just bet what the 1.00

00:23:10.280 politics is there too. Maybe we'll find out. Stay with us. More ahead on the rebel.

00:23:25.640 Welcome back. Well, I see in the newspaper today, the Calgary Herald, that the Manning Center

00:23:30.240 is closing its doors. They've laid off most of their staff. They're putting at least part of

00:23:36.000 their building up for lease, basically shutting down everything except their conferences. And it

00:23:41.000 wouldn't surprise me if that happens too. And I can't help but think that it comes from Preston

00:23:46.760 Manning's unconservative decision to support a carbon tax or a carbon levy, as he told liberals

00:23:55.040 to call it, to sneak its way through conservatives. Well, it never did sneak its way through conservatives.

00:24:00.020 It was tough enough selling a carbon tax when Alberta was booming. But now that it's economically

00:24:05.180 hurting from a carbon tax, well, that's just poison. It's strange to me why any conservative

00:24:11.260 thought that would be a saleable position. But until quite recently, it was the fashionable

00:24:16.960 thing to say. Green conservatism was supposedly a thing. Well, then this man was elected the leader

00:24:24.480 of Ontario's Conservatives and became Premier. Take a look at Doug Ford just letting a rip on

00:24:31.060 a carbon tax. Today, I want to confirm that in Ontario, the carbon taxes days are numbered.

00:24:36.900 In fact, upon the swearing in of my new cabinet, at the top of our agenda, the very first item

00:24:43.480 will be to pass an order to cancel the Liberal cap and trade carbon tax. As of June the 29th,

00:24:50.480 the cap and trade, the carbon tax, they're gone. They're done.

00:24:57.360 Well, I used to like Doug Ford, but now I got to say, folks, it's love. Joining us now via Skype

00:25:03.420 is our friend Brad Trost, a federal conservative MP for the riding of Saskatoon University. He joins us

00:25:11.160 now via Skype. Brad, great to see you again. You've been a longtime opponent of the carbon tax for a

00:25:16.980 variety of reasons, political, economic. You're a scientist by background. Tell me what you think

00:25:23.220 of this pendulum swinging back so boldly. I mean, I think six months ago, the carbon tax felt like a

00:25:30.200 done deal. Now I wouldn't bet on it at all. Well, I think it's a good thing. I think that one of the

00:25:36.040 best things is when you listen to Ontario, as they've repealed that, more and more news stories are coming

00:25:41.740 out about how the real purpose of the cap and trade carbon tax they had in Ontario was just to spend

00:25:47.480 and buy money and buy votes. And we're hearing one story after another of various groups that got money

00:25:53.060 from this tax grab, this tax grab on consumers' wallets, and they're complaining now that the

00:25:58.260 taps are being turned off. So I'm quite optimistic. A lot of voters suspected it was just a cash grab

00:26:04.680 moralistically sold to them to make them feel good about turning over their money. But with Ontario

00:26:09.460 offside, I'm pretty optimistic that Manitoba and a couple other provinces may rethink their

00:26:15.180 positions. Yeah, it's interesting to me to watch Catherine McKenna, the global warming minister, 0.89

00:26:19.680 squawk about it. Her chief complaints about Ontario stopping the carbon tax and the cap and trade

00:26:25.140 are all her crony capitalist insider friends who now won't be getting subsidies for wind and solar and

00:26:33.680 other schemes that have no economic value in them other than they are rent-seeking, a term

00:26:39.440 an economist would use for basically asking for a hand. It's very bizarre to me that her counterpunch

00:26:44.660 to Doug Ford is on these elite business people not getting their, you know, six or seven figure

00:26:50.460 dollar subsidy. It really reveals it just to be a slush fund for insiders. That's how it looks to me.

00:26:56.160 Well, the carbon tax often ends up being a tax on the poor to subsidize the rich. It's interesting to

00:27:02.160 listen to the progressives always talk about how they're in favor of the poor. Well, they make the

00:27:07.380 poor poor. And that's why they talk about then spending the money because they've taken it away

00:27:13.040 in the first place. So it's fascinating to watch. It's one of the reasons I think you're increasingly

00:27:17.580 seeing places not just like North America, but overseas as well. Working class voters are really

00:27:23.940 fed up with the left and are voting for someone who's actually going to defend their jobs and

00:27:28.600 defend their pocketbooks. You know, if you want to work for a living, you have to spend energy

00:27:33.320 and to produce goods, you need fuel. Yeah. You know, it was, I thought it would be impossible

00:27:40.420 to stop a carbon tax once it gets momentum, but Australia proved it was true. Saskatchewan,

00:27:47.420 where you're an MP from, has always been against the carbon tax, both under Pradwell and under the

00:27:52.880 new premier. But I'm looking around the country and Alberta obviously will be anti-carbon tax when

00:27:58.400 Jason Kenney's the premier next year. We see Doug Ford, just all systems go. We see now that New

00:28:04.780 Brunswick is trying to tell Trudeau, well, we've already got a carbon tax. It's called a gasoline tax.

00:28:11.100 So we're done. Thanks very much. We don't need another one. I just see news that Prince Edward

00:28:17.880 Island, they're saying they're only going to tax industrial emitters. And that being a tiny province,

00:28:25.040 it's really no bigger than the university I went to. They only have one industrial emitters called

00:28:29.460 Cavendish Farms. I'll probably get a grant. So everyone is slowly backing away from the disaster

00:28:35.260 that is the Trudeau carbon tax. I really think if I had to bet, I think the thing's going to be

00:28:42.380 stopped. I mean, when you've got liberals like New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that are like

00:28:46.500 liberal forever saying no thanks, they're obviously not scared anymore. I mean, when Trudeau was new and

00:28:53.460 fresh and high in the polls, he was scary to those liberal premiers. I don't think they're scared

00:28:58.840 anymore. Am I wrong? Well, I think you're absolutely right. I'm out here in Newfoundland

00:29:04.400 this week talking to voters, not just about this issue, but other issues. And I don't hear anyone

00:29:10.900 going around saying the price of gasoline is too low. Make it two bucks a liter. That just doesn't

00:29:16.800 that isn't something that you hear. I drove out to a community two and a half hours outside of the

00:29:23.740 city here last night to talk to some people. And it costs money. If you're a fisherman in Newfoundland,

00:29:30.240 it is expensive to fuel your boats to drive to and from where you need to go to live.

00:29:35.400 People just can't afford this. And energy is one of the inputs to life. It's not like an income tax,

00:29:40.780 it's money after that you've produced. Income tax is bad enough. But the carbon tax takes your money

00:29:46.400 before you even earn income. And that's what makes it even harder for people to deal with than just

00:29:52.100 about anything else. Yeah. Well, I sure am optimistic about it. And when it was just Saskatchewan,

00:29:59.360 I thought, geez, I love Saskatchewan, but they're a smallish province, just over a million folks.

00:30:04.900 And it's a forgotten country for the mainstream media, which is based in Toronto. But I feel like

00:30:10.820 the battle has been joined. And let me credit you as one of the Saskatchewanites who's been fighting

00:30:16.380 against us since the first day. Thank you for holding the line until reinforcements have

00:30:21.900 arrived. I think we're going to win this one. Brad, it's great to talk to you again.

00:30:25.460 Good to see you, Ezra, and keep up the good work.

00:30:27.280 Thanks very much. Well, there you have it. Brad Trost is the Conservative Party MP

00:30:31.440 for the Saskatchewan riding of Saskatoon University. He joined us today from Newfoundland. Stay with us.

00:30:38.020 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:30:39.080 Hey, welcome back. I'm in monologue yesterday about Tommy Robinson's appeal and the lies about him from

00:30:56.520 the UK media. Eliza writes, good job, Ezra. Welcome back. I bet Tommy and his family were darn glad you were

00:31:02.100 there reporting the truth. I know we were. Well, thanks very much. I saw his folks at court, and

00:31:10.260 they're so cute. Yeah, it was nice. I mean, they're pretty private people, as you can imagine.

00:31:17.840 But yeah, it was great to see them. Lloyd writes, good show, Ezra. You are going to be super busy

00:31:24.320 this week, what with the impending release of Tommy and the Islamic attack in Toronto.

00:31:28.460 Well, I gave you some of my thoughts earlier in the show and the reaction to it by the media party

00:31:33.840 telling me to delete my tweets and shut up, and I'm despicable for asking fairly basic questions.

00:31:38.800 No, no, I don't think I'm going to comply with them. But yeah, I am going to hop back over to

00:31:42.020 London when we know when that appeal will be released. Now, the judges said it would be by the

00:31:46.580 end of July, which is coming up pretty soon. So, I mean, obviously, I'm not going to leave until we

00:31:53.040 know what day the results are in. Now, it's a seven-hour flight from Toronto, and I got to book the

00:31:57.800 ticket and get to the airport and whatever, so I hope that I'll have enough notice to get there

00:32:01.640 on time. But I just can't go there and wait over there. I got to work here. On my interview with

00:32:07.060 Sheila Gunn-Reed, Jonathan writes, after seeing those sorry excuses of Canadian flags at Camp Cloud,

00:32:12.460 I just want to cry. They need to be taken down and simply burned. Not even worth repairing at that 0.52

00:32:19.180 point. What a disgusting sight. I'm not sure the proper protocol of what to do with an old flag.

00:32:24.920 Do you burn them or do you bury them? Now, that's being very, you know, etiquette-oriented. I don't

00:32:31.240 know what the right thing is, but they're just generally gross. And I hope you've been tuning

00:32:34.420 into the rest of Sheila's reports from there. You can find them at rebelburnaby.com. Paul writes,

00:32:41.680 these idiot protesters will not comply with any orders as long as they face no real consequences 1.00

00:32:45.400 for their actions. Absolutely. And they know they will not face consequences from the mayor of Burnaby, 1.00

00:32:51.840 who has effectively said he's one of them, and he sued against the pipeline. From the premier of BC,

00:32:58.200 who is against the pipeline. From Justin Trudeau, who is against the pipeline in reality,

00:33:05.400 and who in fact ordered his former energy minister, Jim Carr, to retract when he said he would have the

00:33:10.920 army enforce the law if necessary. The police have been ordered to, if not stand down, be as lenient as

00:33:18.920 possible and only applied the most minor charges. And the courts have two. Remember, two members of

00:33:24.080 parliament were convicted of breach of a restraining order. Elizabeth May was one of them. What was her

00:33:30.940 sentence? A lawmaker, an MP, breaking a court order, illegally protesting on Kinder Morgan property.

00:33:38.760 $500 fine. There's speeding tickets. There's probably parking tickets close to that. When a member of

00:33:45.920 parliament gets away with a tiny slap on the wrist like that, and probably fundraisers off of that,

00:33:52.860 yeah, these protesters know they're safe. I knew they would be. That's why we had Sheila go out

00:33:57.400 there, because I knew that that eviction would not be followed. It won't be. Well, that's our show for

00:34:03.160 today. I hope you enjoyed it. It's not enjoyable watching this Toronto terror attack. What's interesting

00:34:08.780 to me is Justin Trudeau has had another personal day. He was, this terrorist attack happened Sunday night.

00:34:14.660 Monday, he took a personal day. Today, he took a personal day. And I mean, if this was George W.

00:34:21.780 Bush or Donald Trump hiding in the face of a horrific crime like that, there'd be calls for

00:34:26.800 their impeachment. But Justin Trudeau, don't bother him. Maybe the media know he would just put his foot

00:34:31.560 in his mouth and they're just doing it to protect him. Yeah, Justin, you stay away from the cameras.

00:34:37.020 Well, until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:34:40.680 goodnight, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - July 25, 2018

Why is the Media Party hiding the Toronto mass shooter's links to Muslim terrorism？

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