The Candice Malcolm Show - February 11, 2022


How will the Trucker Convoy standoff end？ (ft. Ezra Levant)


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

182.46605

Word Count

4,950

Sentence Count

424

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Freedom Convoy has united Canadians, and calls to end mandates and lockdowns are louder than ever.
00:00:05.920 Meanwhile, the establishment is starting to panic.
00:00:08.340 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:15.440 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:18.260 And so we've seen so many wins recently for the Trucker Convoy,
00:00:22.020 and I want to emphasize how much of an impact these protesters are having,
00:00:28.020 not just in Canada, but all over the world.
00:00:30.360 And to talk about this and to talk about some of the most deranged reactions that we are seeing from legacy media,
00:00:35.500 I am bringing in my friend Ezra Levant today.
00:00:37.860 Ezra is the founder and CEO of Rebel News.
00:00:40.640 He's the host of The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:42.580 And the thing that the Rebel has done incredibly well during this protest and during these convoys
00:00:47.900 is have people on the ground talking to the truckers, showing the footage, showing the images.
00:00:53.660 So many of their videos have gone viral.
00:00:55.640 They're a huge part of the reason why we're even able to understand the other side of the story.
00:01:00.020 So, Ezra, thank you so much for joining me,
00:01:02.160 and thank you for the tremendous journalism that you guys have been doing over at the Rebel recently.
00:01:06.200 Well, thanks, Candice.
00:01:07.100 Of course, I'm mainly here at the office.
00:01:09.060 Credit goes to our people in the field.
00:01:11.020 Last Saturday, we had reporters in nine different cities.
00:01:15.260 Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Milk River, Coutts, Alberta, Toronto, Ottawa,
00:01:19.760 Quebec City, and Canberra, Australia, where an echo of the Canadian convoys.
00:01:27.320 I see other convoys forming in the Netherlands.
00:01:29.860 In France, they're inspired by the Canadian truckers.
00:01:33.180 And you know what?
00:01:34.160 All it takes is your phone.
00:01:35.960 Your phone can turn you into a journalist.
00:01:38.020 A citizen journalist with the phone in his or her pocket can do more good work than a government journalist sneering and sputtering from a million-dollar studio.
00:01:48.080 Because as long as people can see the facts with their own eyes, for example, see that they're positive, Canadian flags, you know, people of all diverse backgrounds,
00:01:57.280 what people see with their own eyes puts a lie to the media party's smear that these are racist, sexist, Nazis, or whatever.
00:02:05.120 So it's really been a triumph of citizen journalism over corporate media legacy journalism.
00:02:10.780 Well, I think that's absolutely right, Ezra.
00:02:12.940 And you, again, just you've shown this so that the contrast is so obvious for anyone who can see images of the protests,
00:02:20.340 anyone who goes directly to the source, be it independent media or social media.
00:02:24.480 I mean, TikTok, Instagram, we can see the images flooding out versus the really bad faith coverage that we've had from legacy media that echoes Justin Trudeau's bad faith.
00:02:34.240 I wanted to bring you on there.
00:02:35.460 There's two different threads that you've had over on Twitter, which a thread is just when you have a series of tweets and you make a longer point than you would in just one single tweet.
00:02:44.200 And so I wanted to discuss those two with you.
00:02:46.100 The first one you've already started to pick up on here, this idea that the legacy media, why is it that they're so biased?
00:02:52.660 Why did they fail to give this an honest shake and cover it in a fair and honest way?
00:02:57.240 So I want you to sort of walk us through your thread on the legacy establishment media and why they fail Canadians so much.
00:03:04.900 Yeah, thank you.
00:03:06.240 I mean, I was just daydreaming about it and I just thought, well, I'm just going to write it all down in Twitter.
00:03:11.260 And I guess in the olden days, I would have written like a 700 word column about it.
00:03:15.920 But in Twitter, you have to do it in little bite sizes.
00:03:18.640 So I thought, OK, why is the media failing?
00:03:21.880 I mean, really, why?
00:03:23.640 OK, well, the first thing, and I don't mean to be mean, but I think that a lot of journalists are lazy.
00:03:29.480 And by that, I mean, they would rather sit in a warm office rewriting a government press release that's really easy to do than to get bundled up in the cold, go out with strangers and try and wrap their head around.
00:03:41.160 Like it's it's just easier to be lazy. That's the path of least resistance. Governments count on that.
00:03:47.020 That's what press releases and spin doctors are for to to sort of pre digest what the media does.
00:03:54.820 Our the funny thing is, Candace, as you know, Rebel News has been denied access to the parliamentary press gallery.
00:04:00.900 And that really bugs me because it's discrimination and it's a form of censorship.
00:04:05.080 But that absolutely forces us to get the real news instead of going just to some pre digested press conference.
00:04:13.040 So we're out there on the street while the fancy reporters are in their offices rewriting Trudeau's press release.
00:04:18.160 So there's laziness and a lack of curiosity. And that's a shame.
00:04:21.680 There's ideological sameness. Like there's no working class people in the media.
00:04:26.240 There just aren't. Almost every journalist went to university and journalism school, which is really just ideological school in these states.
00:04:34.380 It's all critical race theory and whatnot. So you're culturally choosing a certain stratum.
00:04:42.280 One of the favorite, least favorite or most favorite things I saw this whole protest was a Globe and Mail reporter.
00:04:50.620 I think her first name is Marika, if I'm pronouncing it right.
00:04:52.840 And she saw a crane like there's not just trucks in Ottawa. There's a crane, a construction crane.
00:04:58.440 And as you probably know, if you've ever seen a crane, there's a hook on the end of it.
00:05:04.200 But there's also a weight so that the chain isn't sort of all flapping around.
00:05:08.780 It's just a weight. It's a ball the size of like a grapefruit, a metal ball.
00:05:12.160 It's a weight. I guess Marika has never seen a crane before.
00:05:16.580 And she finds them terrifying because she said, there's a wrecking ball right outside the prime minister.
00:05:23.300 It's a wrecking ball. I know what a wrecking ball is. It's a thing.
00:05:26.880 You don't actually see them that often anymore because it's not that's a huge ball.
00:05:31.460 That's like, I don't know. It's a huge ball, a chunk of steel.
00:05:35.600 And she she thought this little weight was a wrecking ball.
00:05:38.940 And she's tweeting this. And I just thought.
00:05:41.620 You're the expert on the working class, aren't you?
00:05:44.580 You know what working people know and think and want because you thought a little weight was a wrecking ball.
00:05:51.020 And you tweeted that. That's your command of the facts.
00:05:54.900 And it reminded me of something that Charles Murray, the great, amazing philosopher, author, scholar, said he had a test.
00:06:02.200 He called it. How thick is your bubble?
00:06:03.840 You can find it really quickly on PBS and it it it's not a judgment.
00:06:09.060 It's just do you know how the other half lives?
00:06:11.180 And they ask you questions that are start when you first hear them, like.
00:06:16.640 Have you ever been on a factory floor?
00:06:19.020 Not to work there, but have you actually ever even been on a factory floor?
00:06:23.260 And by the way, you're not a bad person if you haven't.
00:06:26.380 But just realize that you don't know how the other half lives.
00:06:28.620 Have you ever been in a parade that wasn't political or or like environmental or a rights?
00:06:33.540 Have you ever been like here comes the band parade because that's a cultural thing?
00:06:39.060 There's one question that shows some military insignia.
00:06:41.520 Can you identify them?
00:06:42.620 Again, it's a bad thing.
00:06:43.560 But in America and in Canada to a lesser degree, military is the working class.
00:06:48.360 If you don't know anyone who's ever been in the army, any military branch,
00:06:51.840 then how can you can you really understand them?
00:06:56.000 He has lots of questions about what restaurants you go to.
00:06:58.800 Applebee's.
00:07:00.340 Oh, no, I would never walkie fine.
00:07:02.700 But then don't don't pretend to know how the working classes are.
00:07:06.120 And I'm not pretending I'm working class.
00:07:08.060 I'm what they would very much call middle class.
00:07:10.000 My dad was a doctor.
00:07:10.840 I went to law school.
00:07:11.920 I'm not saying I'm a working man.
00:07:13.300 My hands are soft.
00:07:14.240 But can we understand the trucker and talk to the trucker rather than stay in our ivory tower and condemn the trucker?
00:07:20.840 I made a few other points in the in the tweet thread.
00:07:24.860 I talked about how it's really an oligopoly and how really all the newspapers in Canada, except for two or three, are owned by post media.
00:07:36.420 So there's no true diversity of thought.
00:07:38.040 I talked about how the TV stations are even more highly regulated, like CTV is owned by Bell.
00:07:43.960 And Bell is extremely regulated.
00:07:45.860 It's cable and cell phone.
00:07:47.320 So I talked about some of the structural problems, the classism problems.
00:07:50.280 And I just tried to understand why the media is getting it so bloody wrong, because they are, Candace.
00:07:56.100 This trucker is like a tsunami.
00:07:58.520 If you've ever seen a terrifying tsunami, it comes and it washes everything away, everything, cars, buildings, God forbid, people.
00:08:07.120 And Aaron O'Toole was washed away by the tsunami of the truckers.
00:08:11.200 Jason Kenney looks like he's wobbling.
00:08:14.280 Scott Moe said, oh, I'm going to get my surfboard and ride it.
00:08:16.960 I'm not going to fight it.
00:08:18.120 He you know, he's removing restrictions.
00:08:19.680 This tidal wave is so strong, it might actually topple Trudeau.
00:08:23.920 I don't know how that part's going to end.
00:08:25.700 The only institution that literally does not know they are in the middle of a tsunami is the media, because their disgraceful coverage and smearing, they're calumniating against these truckers.
00:08:38.400 It's moved the public perception of journalists from, I don't trust them to, I hate them and I'll never forgive them because I saw them lie about me.
00:08:48.580 The media has lost as much as Aaron O'Toole has, as Jason Kenney has, as Justin Trudeau has.
00:08:56.280 But the media is always the least, has the fewest consequences for getting it wrong.
00:09:02.320 Aaron O'Toole gets it wrong, he's fired.
00:09:04.080 What's the consequence of the media party for getting this wrong?
00:09:07.120 Nothing.
00:09:08.060 They're all on Trudeau's bailout anyways.
00:09:09.820 They don't care.
00:09:11.040 The media does not understand that they have been just as rocked by this as have every other institution.
00:09:16.680 And from a selfish point of view, I hope they never realize what they got wrong, because all the better for Rebel News and True North.
00:09:24.520 But the media does not yet know how damaging this has been to them.
00:09:29.820 That's so interesting, Ezra.
00:09:31.080 And there's a couple of things I want to pick up on what you said, because you mentioned the social scientist Charles Murray and that bubble reader that he had.
00:09:39.140 And I remember that book came out, I think it was probably around 2006 or 2007.
00:09:42.660 And I read it and it alarmed me and concerned me.
00:09:45.760 And I remember thinking about how I observed those trends in the United States.
00:09:50.740 And it was far from Canada.
00:09:52.220 Canada didn't feel that way.
00:09:53.260 Canada didn't feel like there was this big kind of class divide between the working class and the middle class.
00:09:57.460 And it's so interesting how over the last 15 years, you know, you could see it.
00:10:02.220 You could see it so clearly.
00:10:03.880 The elitism in the Globe and Mail, the CTV reporters, the way that they talk about these truckers, the liberal MPs and people like Gerald Butts,
00:10:11.340 the way that they talk and try to smear these these truckers as being extremists and radicals and racists and terrorists.
00:10:18.560 Everything is just so dripping in in classism.
00:10:21.120 So I'm glad you pointed that out.
00:10:22.820 And also the media.
00:10:23.920 I mean, I know True North has had I was just looking at our stats today as where we had 30 million views on Twitter of our tweets.
00:10:30.880 We gained something like 25,000 Twitter followers.
00:10:33.600 And I'm sure you guys are in a very similar road, if not way more, because you have more reporters on the ground than we do.
00:10:38.140 But there is a shift happening.
00:10:40.500 You can feel it.
00:10:41.920 And that sort of segues me to your second thread that you put out last night.
00:10:46.000 It was it was riveting.
00:10:46.900 I was I was trying to get to bed because I get up super early with my kids.
00:10:50.440 But I had to stay online as we're just to just to see how how the thread was going to end.
00:10:54.580 But you walk us through your theory on how the trucker rebellion is going to end.
00:10:59.300 But first, you walk us through some really interesting ideas about how this is really hurting Trudeau, how Gerald Butts is is sort of spiraling out of control.
00:11:08.860 He threatened to sue Jordan Peterson over over a pretty, you know, straightforward tweet.
00:11:14.900 But I want you to sort of walk us through your hypothesis here and give us the, you know, the Ezra Levant preview of what you think is going to happen, how this is all going to end.
00:11:25.980 I will.
00:11:27.000 But give me 30 seconds.
00:11:28.100 You said something.
00:11:28.800 So I just looked it up on my phone.
00:11:30.180 Forgive me when you the Globe and Mail had a had an article, an editorial by Andrew Coyne.
00:11:37.420 And I just I just got a I did a tweet about it.
00:11:39.880 Forgive me.
00:11:40.600 Let me just read this for one second.
00:11:42.000 Then I'll answer your question.
00:11:43.160 So the Globe and Mail said that the truckers are and I'm going to list it.
00:11:47.960 You can read the article for yourself.
00:11:50.160 The Globe and Mail said the truckers are loons, absurd, hostage takers, white nationalists, intolerable, violent, frightened, angry, vastly uninformed and disturbing.
00:12:05.900 And then here's the punchline.
00:12:09.020 And almost routinely insulting.
00:12:13.160 You know, here's 20 insults.
00:12:19.020 And you guys are so insulting, too.
00:12:21.440 Oh, my God.
00:12:23.200 So, yeah, I mean, are you trying to win?
00:12:28.040 You know, someone needs a Dale Carnegie book.
00:12:30.540 How to influence people and make friends.
00:12:32.720 Oh, my God.
00:12:33.460 OK, I just wanted to like what you said made me think of that Globe article.
00:12:37.480 They don't know what they look.
00:12:38.380 But remember, the media isn't playing to a mass audience anymore.
00:12:42.260 They're playing to an audience of one person.
00:12:43.960 His name is Justin Trudeau because he is by far their biggest financier through the media bailout, but also through advertising and regulatory.
00:12:54.080 When I mentioned that Bell owns CTV, if Bell gets a good ruling from the CRTC on a cell phone deal or a cable deal, that could be a billion dollars.
00:13:02.040 That's much more important than anything CTV News does.
00:13:04.940 Anyways, I just want to tell you that.
00:13:07.220 But back to your question.
00:13:09.920 I think I figured out how it's going to end.
00:13:13.600 Because Trudeau can't blink, right?
00:13:15.860 He can't.
00:13:16.240 Have you ever seen Trudeau admit he was wrong?
00:13:19.520 I haven't.
00:13:20.820 He's very good at apologizing for other people.
00:13:22.900 That's sort of an ironic apology.
00:13:24.440 Like, I'm better than you.
00:13:25.680 Like, I'm sorry that Harper was so evil.
00:13:30.280 Therefore, you know I'm better than him because I'm apologizing for him.
00:13:33.320 So, I've never seen Trudeau apologize for anything.
00:13:35.420 Remember when he was caught sexually assaulting Rose Knight in Creston, B.C.?
00:13:39.480 He said, well, she experienced it differently.
00:13:42.020 Like, I've never seen him apologize.
00:13:44.280 He can't lose face.
00:13:45.780 It's part of his sociopathic game.
00:13:48.240 Just be confident.
00:13:49.140 Just brazen it out.
00:13:50.180 Whenever he gets convicted by the Conflict of Interest Commissioner, just brazen it out.
00:13:53.640 This is a learning opportunity for everyone.
00:13:55.460 He never says sorry.
00:13:56.400 So, what happens, Candace, when you say about 10 times that the truckers are misogynist, racist, Nazis, intolerable, when you say all these things again and again and again, I will not meet with them.
00:14:13.000 How can you then meet with them?
00:14:14.400 You just said they were Nazis.
00:14:15.840 Are you meeting with Nazis now?
00:14:17.120 So, he's really painted himself in the corner.
00:14:20.220 And I really think that's the handiwork of Gerald, who suddenly has been rehabilitated for some reason by the media.
00:14:25.220 How did that happen?
00:14:26.120 Like, he was drummed out of Canada.
00:14:27.820 He went to work for a New York lobby firm called the Eurasia Group because he was so disgraced in Canada for interfering in the SNC-Lavalin prosecution.
00:14:35.680 And now he's back as this honored, you know, wise man.
00:14:38.940 And Gerald Butts is just dripping with wrath about these truckers.
00:14:43.920 And I'm guessing he's talking to Trudeau again because, you know, he says something one day on TV.
00:14:49.140 Trudeau is saying it the next day in Parliament.
00:14:51.500 So, I think Gerald Butts is really a bad influence on Trudeau.
00:14:55.680 But it's always worked for Butts, in fairness.
00:14:58.300 You know, call your enemies racist sex.
00:14:59.680 It works against Andrew Scheer.
00:15:00.960 It worked against Aaron O'Toole.
00:15:02.960 You know, it just always works.
00:15:04.880 It didn't work this time, maybe because there's so many diverse truckers, lots of Sikh truckers.
00:15:10.400 A million people have seen the convoy with their own eyes, so they know that they've been lied to.
00:15:15.380 So, the racism accusations don't work.
00:15:17.080 But what it's done to Trudeau is it's painted him into a corner.
00:15:20.180 Point one, it's caused two liberal MPs to abandon the party.
00:15:24.000 That's shocking.
00:15:25.000 Did you expect the two liberal MPs were going to quit over this?
00:15:28.960 So, what can Trudeau?
00:15:29.940 He can't back down, right?
00:15:30.880 He can't blink.
00:15:32.040 So, how is he going to get out of this pickle?
00:15:33.660 And it's not going away.
00:15:34.880 You've got the Ambassador Bridge now.
00:15:36.220 You've got a bridge in Sarnia.
00:15:38.120 You've got the border crossing in North Dakota.
00:15:40.060 You've got the border crossing in Montana.
00:15:41.520 Oh, my God, this thing's growing.
00:15:43.340 And what's he going to do?
00:15:44.320 And by the way, these protesters are peaceful.
00:15:47.460 So, you can't, you don't have a moment where you can swoop in and say they're the insurrectionists.
00:15:52.720 I mean, he's trying that.
00:15:53.540 People laugh.
00:15:54.420 So, here's how I think it's going to end.
00:15:57.340 That Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor across the Detroit River.
00:16:01.600 That's the most important bridge in North America from an economic point of view.
00:16:04.880 A quarter of all Canada-U.S. trade goes over that bridge.
00:16:08.420 It's over 100 million bucks a day.
00:16:10.340 Because that's really the bridge that the auto industry uses on both sides.
00:16:15.940 That's shut down.
00:16:17.740 And all of a sudden, they're talking about the convoy in Washington, D.C.
00:16:22.360 And Jen Psaki, who is much more than any ordinary press secretary, I think she's the de facto vice president, if you want my opinion.
00:16:31.840 She was asked about it.
00:16:33.280 And did she lash out?
00:16:35.020 Did she say racist, Nazi, blah, blah, blah?
00:16:37.340 And believe me, the Democrats can do that if they want.
00:16:39.520 She did not.
00:16:40.080 In fact, she led that day by talking about all the things Joe Biden has done for truckers.
00:16:46.460 And she specifically praised the truckers' freedom of speech.
00:16:50.340 And she said, oh, this is just some local congestion.
00:16:53.100 She de-escalated her language, the opposite of Trudeau.
00:16:57.180 Why?
00:16:59.000 Do you think they want these trucker convoys in America?
00:17:02.000 You think Joe Biden wants that?
00:17:03.180 He's already at 32% in the polls, whatever it is.
00:17:07.720 Inflation, disaster in Afghanistan, disaster with China, disasters everywhere, high prices of gasoline.
00:17:17.540 He's going to be wiped out in the midterms in Congress.
00:17:20.280 Does he need another layer of that?
00:17:22.300 Does he need to lose the trucking working class demographic now?
00:17:26.620 No, he most certainly does not.
00:17:29.440 Does he want this?
00:17:30.400 And it's sneaking across the border.
00:17:32.460 It's on two bridges now.
00:17:34.980 Pull up the drawbridge.
00:17:36.740 What's he going to do?
00:17:37.720 And here's how I ended my tweet storm.
00:17:40.040 Sorry to keep you up last night, Ken.
00:17:42.060 Joe Biden has not painted himself into a corner, has he?
00:17:46.500 Joe Biden can...
00:17:47.760 And by the way, the truckers have already helped free America.
00:17:50.020 In the last week, six Democratic states have said we're done with masks.
00:17:53.520 I think that's attributed to the truckers.
00:17:55.700 Because this is 24-7 coverage of these Canadian trucks in America and around the world.
00:17:59.920 I mean, I've been on Fox four times.
00:18:01.960 I've been on Tucker.
00:18:02.760 I just got off the show with Huckabee.
00:18:04.380 They can't get enough of this.
00:18:06.740 So Joe Biden, here's my prediction.
00:18:08.580 He's going to say, guess what, guys?
00:18:10.720 It's working.
00:18:11.740 Our plan is working.
00:18:13.360 Here is St. Fauci saying we can relax the vaccine mandate for truckers because we got this licked.
00:18:19.040 Oh, we're so successful.
00:18:21.000 We're normalizing.
00:18:22.360 I'm ending the trucker mandates in America.
00:18:25.040 You're welcome, Teamsters.
00:18:26.480 Oh, thanks for posing for a photo op with me.
00:18:28.300 Because he's not eating his hat.
00:18:31.560 He's not eating his words, is he?
00:18:34.000 He's not looking embarrassed.
00:18:37.920 He should say, oh, it was successful.
00:18:40.480 And if Joe Biden removes the trucker vaccine mandate on the U.S. side, obviously Trudeau will have to do it on the Canadian side because these trucks just make endless round trips, right?
00:18:51.680 You can't go into one country and have a quarantine, but not the other.
00:18:56.280 Like, it just makes no sense.
00:18:58.080 So if Biden drops, you have to have both on or both off.
00:19:01.760 So if Biden drops the vaccine mandate on the U.S. side, Trudeau will have to drop it on the Canadian side.
00:19:08.540 I think that's how it's going to end.
00:19:10.900 And Justin Trudeau will say, oh, I'm doing it because of Biden.
00:19:13.900 But he will have to give in to the truckers because Biden does not want the fiasco that Trudeau has made for himself.
00:19:24.560 Biden, I don't even think he's the decider down there.
00:19:27.820 It may even be Jim Psaki herself.
00:19:30.340 For all their flaws, they're grownups.
00:19:32.780 And they don't need a spitting match with working class Americans calling them Nazis.
00:19:37.820 So I think Joe Biden's sense of self-preservation and terror about the looming U.S. midterm elections will cause him to take the stinger out on the U.S. side.
00:19:51.780 The truckers will have done it, but the politician they will have convinced is not Trudeau, but rather Joe Biden.
00:20:00.160 And I believe that win is coming within days because that ambassador bridge cannot stay closed.
00:20:08.160 It cannot.
00:20:10.340 And Joe Biden will do.
00:20:11.580 And Michigan's a Democrat state.
00:20:13.960 Joe Biden will do what he has to do to clear that bridge.
00:20:18.280 That's my thesis.
00:20:19.680 It's so interesting.
00:20:20.620 That's so interesting.
00:20:21.460 I think you're really onto something because I agree.
00:20:23.620 I listen to a lot of podcasts and watch a lot of American news.
00:20:26.800 And they're all talking about the convoy.
00:20:28.860 Like Ben Shapiro's entire show yesterday was based on the convoy.
00:20:32.080 It is everywhere.
00:20:33.460 And, you know, even Barry Weiss had a piece on her sub stack.
00:20:37.760 Brett Weinstein was talking about it.
00:20:39.120 Like it's front of mind for Americans.
00:20:42.300 And interesting how suddenly the U.S., so many of these states are getting rid of their mask mandates.
00:20:48.500 You know, we've seen, we have seen.
00:20:51.120 And the other thing, when Jen Psaki was responding, I hadn't seen that clip until I saw it in your Twitter thread there.
00:20:58.780 And as soon as the question comes up, she quickly goes to her notes.
00:21:01.700 So that wasn't just a spontaneous response.
00:21:03.800 They had prepared and she was ready.
00:21:06.020 And she said exactly what she meant to say, which, you know, goes to show the premeditation.
00:21:11.260 So I think you're right about the analysis.
00:21:12.860 I hope you're right about the way this ends because it looks like the truckers have just been scoring point after point after point.
00:21:19.860 You know, Aaron O'Toole is gone.
00:21:21.800 You have the CPC coming out in support of the trucker convoy.
00:21:24.580 I know they're now telling them that it's time to leave, but they're in support of the idea of mandates.
00:21:28.840 We're seeing more speeches from MPs on the floor, right?
00:21:31.360 We see Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island even, all talking about removing their restrictions.
00:21:38.780 Quebec got rid of their evil, terrible vax tax idea that they were going to add an additional tax to the unvaccinated.
00:21:46.760 I think that if they were to win on this and have this mandate disappear, it would be one of the biggest political victories in modern Canadian history.
00:21:57.140 I want to ask you a final question, Ezra.
00:22:00.200 Your analysis of Justin Trudeau, to me, seems correct.
00:22:03.740 I think that he's made a mistake.
00:22:05.660 He's backed himself into a corner.
00:22:07.580 He's coming across as angry and out of touch.
00:22:10.340 And so many Canadians are seeing through it.
00:22:12.060 But two members of his own party have publicly come out against him.
00:22:16.900 I don't think that's ever happened in his career as leader of the Liberal Party.
00:22:20.620 I know that he had a falling out and he kicked Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott out of the party.
00:22:26.040 But that was like a foul swoop.
00:22:29.020 They didn't come out and disagree with him.
00:22:30.880 They were just out of the party.
00:22:32.080 Whereas I haven't seen anything like that for these two liberals who are speaking out.
00:22:36.440 And they're both male MPs from Quebec.
00:22:39.280 So really interesting.
00:22:40.200 What do you think is going to happen to Trudeau?
00:22:42.680 Do you think that he can recover from this politically?
00:22:45.520 How do you see that part playing out?
00:22:48.080 You know, I deleted TikTok, the app on my phone, because I was worried about Chinese malware, to be honest.
00:22:54.900 But I've reloaded it.
00:22:57.000 Maybe that's a bad idea.
00:22:58.160 Because I find TikTok a window onto worlds other than my own.
00:23:01.940 Younger, more female.
00:23:04.780 In other words, Justin Trudeau's base.
00:23:07.740 Ethnic.
00:23:08.180 Like, there's people on TikTok doing and saying things that I can't find elsewhere.
00:23:13.180 I think it's a way to tap into a younger zeitgeist.
00:23:15.900 And I am stunned every day to see the opposition to Trudeau amongst young women, amongst cool people, amongst minorities, amongst Sikhs.
00:23:28.540 Like, I follow this Sikh guy named Palminder.
00:23:31.300 He's a Sikh trucker.
00:23:32.520 Every day he's just doing killer vids about Trudeau and the man.
00:23:37.760 He's maybe a 25-year-old guy.
00:23:39.800 He's got a beautiful beard and turban.
00:23:42.140 And he's just giving her.
00:23:43.560 And so I see these people, and they've taken it personally.
00:23:48.740 They've taken the insults personally.
00:23:51.100 You know, a lot of young people really care about fitness.
00:23:53.740 They're sick of the...
00:23:54.920 The funny thing here, Candace, is that most of the lockdowns were done by cities and provinces.
00:24:01.780 Trudeau was responsible for the airline fiasco and everything to do with that, including the COVID hotels at the airports, the no flying rules.
00:24:10.880 But really, so little of this was Trudeau.
00:24:14.560 So much of it was the premiers.
00:24:16.800 But in the last two weeks, it's like Trudeau has become the liver of the Canadian political body.
00:24:23.840 And he has defined...
00:24:27.280 He has made himself the target for everything.
00:24:29.820 All the toxins are now on him.
00:24:32.340 Like, these truckers are mad about 10 different things, nine of which were done by premiers and mayors.
00:24:37.720 But the 10th thing is on Trudeau.
00:24:39.940 And he has been more brutal towards them than any other political leader.
00:24:44.400 And my point is, I don't think when a young person, a young woman, a young new immigrant, a working class person sees that, I don't think they can unsee that.
00:24:57.680 And I think...
00:24:58.500 I've always believed that he was a faker.
00:25:00.420 I very early assessed him as a male feminist, which is a manipulative deceiver who fakes being a feminist to actually be a player or an abusive man.
00:25:12.140 His sexual assault of Rose Knight is proof of that.
00:25:15.280 I've always felt him a deceiver.
00:25:16.960 He's a blackface guy who calls you racist.
00:25:19.820 You know, he takes away your civil liberties by calling you violent.
00:25:22.780 He projects that way.
00:25:24.120 It's a form of psychological abuse.
00:25:25.760 And until you see it, you think he's dreamy.
00:25:29.640 But the moment you see that that male feminist was actually abusive or that guy scolding you about using your right pronouns, he was actually sexist, you can never unsee it.
00:25:41.180 In fact, it's more than just learning the truth.
00:25:44.100 You feel like you were deceived before.
00:25:45.660 And you're sort of angry that you were tricked before.
00:25:48.360 I believe that you cannot unsee those fangs.
00:25:54.540 And he was Mr. Sunnyways in 2015.
00:25:57.720 And in 2019, he was friendlier than Andrew Scheer and sexier and even against Darren O'Toole.
00:26:05.040 But I think he looks old and bitter and desperate.
00:26:09.740 And most of all, he looks angry.
00:26:12.660 I don't know.
00:26:16.200 I wouldn't bet on him.
00:26:18.400 And if Pierre Polyev is the next leader of the conservatives, I think Pierre's got a chance of winning.
00:26:24.720 Well, I think that's a great way to end the episode, Ezra, because it gives us some hope that hopefully Justin Trudeau's time as leader of this country is soon coming to an end.
00:26:34.100 Because I tend to agree with you, I think, that the way he's handled this is really exposed his worst flaw, which is that he hates, I think he hates conservatives more than he loves Canada.
00:26:44.920 And in the case of the vaccines, it's like he hates the unvaccinated more than he loves his country.
00:26:50.520 And that's such a bad look.
00:26:52.360 Ezra Levant, thank you so much for joining us.
00:26:54.000 I really enjoy your journalism and your takes on these issues.
00:26:57.180 Keep up the good work over there at Rebel News.
00:26:59.860 Thanks.
00:27:00.300 You too.
00:27:00.780 We're big fans of True North.
00:27:01.940 And thanks for having me, Candace.
00:27:02.840 All right.
00:27:03.600 Thank you so much.
00:27:04.240 Thanks for tuning in.
00:27:04.880 It's been Fake News Friday.
00:27:05.780 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.