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00:01:32.000Something that has always confused historians, and something that almost every high school social studies student or college history student will learn is the transition from Rome, for Rome, from a republic to an empire.
00:01:45.000This is something that people have studied in great detail, and the question is usually posed in an essay format, sometimes in an AP world history or sometimes in a just world history context.
00:01:58.000Why did Rome go from a republic to an empire?
00:02:04.000There are many reasons why that gets articulated.
00:02:07.000Of course, the tension of the Roman Senate, the corruption there within, the inability to make decisions, and of course, the breaking up of the Roman triumphant.
00:02:18.000Julius Caesar, who came from the Gaul region, crossed the Rubicon, declaring effectively Roman civil war.
00:02:27.000Julius Caesar won, governed for a couple years, and of course was killed by his friends, best articulated in Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar.
00:03:13.000He also had an affair with Cleopatra, separate issue for a different time.
00:03:18.000But then the Roman Senate decided to basically suspend its operation.
00:03:23.000And in 31 BC, Caesar Augustus, who was then followed by Tiberius and many others, became Rome's first emperor.
00:03:32.000And like that, the Republic was dead and the empire was born.
00:03:37.000Now, this fascinates historians for a lot of different reasons.
00:03:41.000Because the question that those of us in the West ask is, how could you turn your back on representative government and go towards a dictatorship?
00:03:51.000How could you go from something that is enlightened to something that is more primal?
00:03:55.000How could you go from something that is cultured to something that is more tribal?
00:04:00.000How could you go from something that is more organized to something that is more chaotic or centralized?
00:04:08.000This is a question that, if you have a good teacher, you wrestle with.
00:04:13.000And then the conclusion is like, well, thankfully, we have moved past that.
00:04:17.000Thankfully, in the year 2022, we no longer have to go through the kind of arc of going from a republic or a democracy, let's just use representative government as a filler to a dictatorship.
00:04:29.000And so, but seldom, almost never, do you get to see a country in real time go from that type of representative government to an empire overnight?
00:04:43.000We're used to the opposite of these fairy tales of southeastern Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia shedding the dictatorships and going to representative government.
00:04:55.000We're used to the Arab Spring, where we're supposed to believe somehow that Libya is going to be Louisiana just because we got rid of Muammar Gaddafi.
00:05:02.000We decided to drag him through the streets.
00:05:05.000The narrative that is usually told in the West is that because of us and our superior values, we go from, we help liberate people from dictatorships into democracy or into a representative government.
00:05:20.000But happening right now on our northern border, the opposite story is unfolding.
00:05:28.000In Canada, you have officially seen a country that was once a representative government to a dictatorship.
00:05:38.000In the last 48 hours, Justin Trudeau has announced extraordinary war powers for 30 days, including the power to prohibit public assembly, travel, and use of specific property.
00:05:51.000Justin Trudeau is now officially gone to war with his citizens.
00:05:57.000Now, what's so interesting is that as we fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria and Libya, as we tried to spread democracy across the entire planet, we did so for 20 years and spent $5 trillion and thousands of lives and hundreds of thousands of damaged lives to try to spread democracy.
00:06:15.000We have now seen the very ideology that we were sworn to try to eradicate, the very menace we were trying to displace, come to our own border in Ottawa.
00:06:27.000Justin Trudeau is mobilizing the shock troops all throughout Canada.
00:06:33.000He has full rights to shut down bank accounts, arrest people on demand.
00:07:13.000Trudeau says, we'll always defend the rights of Canadians to peacefully assemble and have freedom of expression, but these blockades are illegal.
00:07:21.000The federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations.
00:07:49.000Only way you could regulate cryptocurrency this way, based on every expert I know in the crypto world, is to literally shut down the power, which I don't think is out of the realm of possibility because these truckers really have Trudeau on the ropes.
00:08:03.000First, we are broadening the scope of Canada's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use.
00:08:18.000These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.
00:08:27.000The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act.
00:08:43.000So you might hate the truckers, you might not like what they stand for, but there's something much broader at play here.
00:08:55.000It's about the death of a system of government that is right next to America.
00:09:01.000So we go and invade Iraq because we don't like Saddam Hussein's form of government.
00:09:06.000We go and occupy Afghanistan for 20 years because we don't like the fact that there are goat herding child molesters in the hills of the Kandahar Valley that don't allow eight-year-olds, eight-year-old girls to read.
00:09:20.000We go and try to have a proxy war against Bashar al-Assad, almost stumbling into a war with Russia because we don't like his form of government.
00:09:28.000Hillary Clinton gets like super excited.
00:09:31.000She gets like a real high level of pleasure to like displace Muammar Gaddafi and turning Libya into a civil war.
00:09:40.000But what does our ruling class do when the phantom or the ghost or the spirit of Muamm Qaddafi comes to Ottawa?
00:09:53.000We're going to seize your crypto assets because we don't like your politics?
00:10:28.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:11:07.000You know, usually when governments change their form or their structure, it's network news.
00:11:14.000Remember, like the fall of Saigon with the helicopter imagery or the Iranian revolution or when Saddam Hussein's statue was drug through the streets or even in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over Kabul again.
00:11:29.000Typically when governments decide to transition from one philosophy to the other, again, either from primal to enlightened or enlightened to primal or from culture to tribal or from chaos to organized or from separate parts to centralized, that's usually a really big deal.
00:11:48.000Usually, network news say, wow, they're deciding to go a different direction.
00:11:52.000This is worth communicating to the general population.
00:11:55.000That sort of change is usually really compelling.
00:12:12.000Because if the media actually did a full court press on Canada deciding consciously to metamorphosize its entire governmental structure, it would be really unpopular.
00:12:24.000People in Manhattan would say, oh, you know, I was all for this kind of COVID mandate thing, but I'm not really sure if I'm okay with Canada becoming Cuba.
00:12:35.000So let's go a level deeper here when it comes to the philosophy of what's happening in Canada.
00:12:42.000And I think one really important piece of tape to kind of set up this argument is Cut 36.
00:12:48.000When Justin Trudeau said in an interview that he admired China's basic dictatorship, play Cut 36.
00:12:56.000There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we need to go green as fast as we need to start investing in solar.
00:13:15.000I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting.
00:13:30.000But this is a sentiment that is widely held amongst Western liberals.
00:13:36.000Now, before he decided to just lose his mind and become a really cantankerous person, one of the most important pieces of literature that articulates this is liberal fascism.
00:13:44.000Jonah Goldberg, I give him credit every time I mention it because it was one of the most important political books written over the last 40 years.
00:13:51.000And I think he misunderstands, obviously, Trump.
00:14:13.000So Trudeau, deep down, he has this inclination to try to liberate groups that have allegedly been oppressed.
00:14:20.000He's all about liberating LGBT groups, all about liberating black groups, all about liberating indigenous groups.
00:14:29.000But within the DNA of a Western liberal is a totalitarian waiting to get out.
00:14:40.000Most liberals, not all, not like Dave Rubin, not Glenn Greenwald, those people deserve to be complimented, not Russell Brand, not Joe Rogan, who is whatever, but he's probably more classical liberal than not.
00:14:57.000Outside of those people, but the card-carrying People that are aggressively liberal, the entire live and let live bumper sticker, the I'm not going to interfere with your life.
00:15:10.000I'm going to do whatever we want to do, which Trudeau kind of ran on.
00:15:14.000Trudeau kind of ran on a very Canadian, Woodstock-y, I'm not going to get in the way of you doing your business.
00:15:21.000You know, we're all Canadians together.
00:15:24.000But the warning that we have always put forward, we being constitutionalists and conservatives, is that we know that within these liberal advocacy groups, it quickly goes from, let's go and free the disadvantaged groups, which is obviously a bunch of nonsense, to let's go seek revenge against the people that we consider to be oppressors, like that.
00:15:49.000And the issue is that the people that Trudeau has always been wanting to crush have decided to show up on his doorstep.
00:15:58.000Is that the domestic war that Trudeau has dreamed of, he just said that in that clip?
00:16:02.000I've always admired China, is that they preempted him.
00:16:06.000Is that the truckers, they struck first.
00:17:34.000With us right now is Ezra Levant, who's been on our show a couple times throughout the last few weeks, covering what's happening in Canada.
00:17:47.000You wouldn't know that civil liberties have been suspended using the modern version of the War Measures Act.
00:17:56.000I want to tell you, this Emergencies Act has never been used before in Canada, not on 9-11, not in the year 2014 when our parliament itself was attacked by an ISIS terrorist.
00:18:10.000But this peaceful truckers' rebellion that we've all seen, moms and dads, and Canadian flags and street parties dancing, Trudeau has used that as the pretext to suspend our civil liberties.
00:18:24.000And the first reaction many people have is: what's the problem?
00:18:29.000There has literally not been a single act of violence.
00:18:33.000What do they need to suspend civil liberties for?
00:18:59.000So what do they need basically martial law for?
00:19:04.000Well, last night it became terribly and horrifically clear.
00:19:10.000Trudeau and his deputy prime minister, whose name is Christia Freeland, have announced that they intend to seize the bank accounts of their political opponents without any due process, without any court orders.
00:19:28.000And I know what I'm saying must sound astounding to you, but they said this in the press conference, that they will treat donors to the truckers as if it was terrorist financing, and they will authorize and direct banks to seize those accounts, and they will hold the banks harmless from any lawsuits in reply.
00:19:57.000This is a move they would use in Caracas.
00:20:01.000This is what they would do in a police state, a banana republic.
00:20:05.000They would take away the funds from the peaceful political opponents of the ruler.
00:20:11.000There is no national security crisis in Canada.
00:20:15.000Everyone has seen the Truckers Rebellion.
00:20:17.000They're boisterous and noisy, but they have committed no crimes.
00:20:22.000At least they've been charged with no crimes.
00:20:25.000Trudeau used it as a pretext to basically, it's hard to imagine a coup by someone already in office, but the coup is he just took away our civil rights.
00:20:37.000Well, and so, Ezra, I made an argument earlier this hour that seldom do we get the opportunity to witness a country go from a representative form of government to a dictatorship.
00:20:52.000That kind of transition is very rare, actually, in human history.
00:20:56.000The most famous example that we talked about on this show that is studied by historians is Rome, obviously, that went from a republic to an empire.
00:21:04.000And we've been actually accustomed by the Western propaganda press to believe the opposite is always happening, that we're liberating Syria so they can become a democracy or whatever stupid experiment they're doing.
00:21:15.000But, Ezra, is it hyperbole or out of the kind of realm of reality to say that Canada very well might be transitioning its form of government at this very point?
00:21:26.000I mean, signing the War Powers Act because a bunch of people are partying in the streets?
00:21:31.000Well, I mean, if you look at the requirements in the law, there are four examples of a threat to the nation that are used to trigger this emergency act.
00:21:43.000But they are, I mean, it's very clearly laid out.
00:21:45.000They include things like a foreign act of espionage that endangers the state, serious violence, like not just a little bit of violence, but massive, serious violence that seeks to overthrow the government in like a revolution.
00:22:09.000In fact, the law specifically protects peaceful dissent, which is what these truckers are.
00:22:16.000So for Trudeau to say we have a national security threat, which it clearly doesn't, and to immediately announce he plans to seize the financial bank accounts of his political enemies, what is that other than, I mean, there's lots of jokes, is Fidel Castro actually Justin Trudeau's father?
00:22:41.000And of course, Trudeau's mom visited with Fidel many times.
00:22:47.000I don't know if I believe that Fidel is actually the biological father of Justin Trudeau, but I deeply believe that he's the father figure, the role model for Justin Trudeau.
00:22:59.000Trudeau has many times admired, publicly expressed his admiration for Castro.
00:23:06.000Remember, Trudeau said China is the country he most admires.
00:23:09.000Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, went to Soviet Russia, went to Siberia with his sons and said, This is the land of the future.
00:23:20.000Trudeau's, Justin Trudeau's brother made a documentary film produced by the dictatorship of Iran.
00:23:29.000That same brother, Alexander Trudeau, wrote a book about China published by the Chinese government as propaganda.
00:23:37.000This is a family that admires authoritarian power.
00:23:43.000Justin Trudeau sees himself as a tyrannical leader who is restrained by nothing.
00:23:52.000And so if he can seize power, he will.
00:23:55.000I have no doubt that he really will seize the finances of his political opponents.
00:24:02.000I see today that Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster has taken the list of donors to Gibson Go that was doxxed.
00:24:12.000I'm not sure if you're up to speed on that.
00:25:45.000There was no problem to solve on the streets.
00:25:48.000So I don't know if the truckers will be.
00:25:50.000By the way, the Ottawa police chief resigned today, which is sort of ironic because it was Trudeau that created the mess, and the police chief resigned over it.
00:26:01.000There is no need for a military or paramilitary solution on the streets of Ottawa because all it is is like a noisy blog party.
00:26:09.000I think that was just the excuse for Trudeau to get financial information about his enemies.
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00:29:47.000For about 25 years, she's been a biographer of George Soros.
00:29:52.000She sits as a governor on the World Economic Forum.
00:29:57.000So if you go to the World Economic Forum in Davos, if you go to their website, type in Christia Freeland, you'll be shocked to see that she's not just a member, she's one of the governors, as she also sits as the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister in Canada, Trudeau's heir apparent, the second most powerful cabinet minister.
00:30:17.000Some would say even more powerful than Trudeau because he doesn't really get involved with the substance of government.
00:30:23.000You'll remember that video of Klaus Schwab boasting that not only is Trudeau one of his young acolytes, but half the Canadian cabinet is too.
00:30:34.000Well, Christia Freeland is the Klaus Schwab key person in the Trudeau government.
00:30:41.000This is not a speculation or a conspiracy theory.