Fascists, Fuel Seizures, and GoFundMe—Frontline Updates from Ottawa with Ezra Levant
Despite an anti-mandate victory in the courts, some Chicago schools continue to impose medical tyranny on students. Charlie highlights the courageous fight being put up by students in his home state and asks the question: where are the parents? All of that before he's joined by Ezra Levant, a Canadian journalist and Founder of Rebel News, who has an in-depth update on the latest developments in the Canadian Convoy's fight for Freedom in Ottawa.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Students Fight Back Against Mandates00:09:49
Hey, everybody, the students are rising up against mask mandates.
Oh, so Ezra Levant, Frontlines of Canada, gives us a report of what's happening to her neighbors in the north and the truckers.
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Here we go.
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So there are still some states that have mask mandates right now, not every state, but Illinois is one of them.
And in the suburbs of Chicago, see, I got my good Chicago accent too, still.
Kids are starting to fight back, and it is really amazing.
Now, since many of their parents feel as if they need to wear cloth masks all day long, the students are fighting back themselves.
And honestly, God bless them.
We are 100% behind these students.
Let me say that again.
We are 100% behind these students.
Why the parents have put up with this nonsense for as long as they have?
I know there's a lot of parents that haven't, but the students don't care.
Now, a judge in Illinois has struck down the mask mandates.
High school students in a Chicago suburb, I know exactly where this is, right near St. Viter and other places.
They're just walking out.
Walking out of school, they are done.
St. Viter High School, as well.
St. Viter in Arlington Heights, Illinois, about six minutes from where I grew up.
I know a lot of kids that went to St. Viter.
Their parents are paying a ton of money in tuition to go to St. Viter.
St. Viter is a great school.
And St. Viter is actually, here's a little fun fact for you: Ted Nugent went to St. Viter.
There you go.
So they got that Ted Nugent energy there.
We're getting some tape of it, but it's starting to happen all across the country.
And if you have stories of students starting to rise up against mask mandates, you guys can email us anytime freedom at charliekirk.com.
We also have Turning Point USA chapter leaders who are politely protesting the hypocritical masking of students for young, low-risk students when leaders of their state like Gavin Newsom and Mayor Eric Garcetti have been photographed recently not wearing masks while posing with celebrities at SoFi Stadium.
Our Turning Point USA students are beginning to fight back against this, and our high school chapters across the country at Turning Point USA are now pushing back against this.
At Laverne, Turning Point USA students, 80 students are segregated into a gym for not wearing masks.
And remember that girl in Naperville, Illinois that gave that incredible school board speech?
She reached out to us and said, I just want you to know that the lawsuit that stated it was illegal to force kids to wear masks in school just passed.
However, my district, along with a few others, have gone against the court ruling, right?
Schools think they're above the law and said that we'll need to wear masks.
So my friends and I have gone into school without a mask because it's legal, and they put us in a classroom and refused to let us go to class.
I just thought I'd let you know so you can go bring attention to it if you want.
I'm not trying to bash parents.
I'm not.
But really, where are the parents and grandparents?
Why are you guys putting up with this?
Like, why are you still sending your kids to these schools?
Why aren't you flooding the principal's office peacefully and say, we're not putting up with this anymore?
Like, we pay your salary.
Stop it.
It's not going to happen.
There is no school if there's no students.
Let me say that again.
There is no school if there's no students.
And I'm sure some parents really kind of get thrilled about their kids wearing cloth masks all day long.
It is so bad for childhood development.
Every single study shows almost zero epidemiological advantage and extraordinary psychological, social, spiritual, and emotional harm.
And so if you want to see the great contrast of the rulers versus the people, look no further than Stacey Abrams.
Stacey Abrams goes and visits an elementary school.
When she visited the elementary school recently, it's one of the most extraordinary pictures.
It's so bad, you think it's edited.
It really, I mean, I honestly thought this was an edited mockery of a picture.
It's so dystopian.
It's so extraordinary.
So it's Stacey Abrams sitting right in the middle, surrounded by about 25 elementary school kids, all wearing masks perfectly, while Stacey Abrams remains maskless.
And Stacey Abrams with this kind of weird, giddy smile, while all 25 children around her remain completely and totally maskless.
Now, her campaign has come out and said, it is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack.
And it is pitiful and predictable that our opponents continue to look for opportunities to distract from their failed records when it comes from protecting public health during the pandemic.
Stacey Abrams, here's some advice.
Stop running for governor.
Get some really good lawyers because I've seen some evidence in Dinesh D'Souza's movie that you're going to have some serious criminal explaining to do.
Why is it that the mules that were dropping off ballots in Georgia also kept on showing up to your headquarters that you were running?
Why is it that they would go to your office first and then go to 10, 20, 30, 40 drop boxes after that?
Why is that, Stacey Abrams?
Hope you have a good lawyer.
Because using cell phone technology, we know that they were going to your office.
We know that they were coming to you.
Were you the architect of this?
Were you Mark Elias' lieutenant on the ground in Georgia to make this all happen?
Stacey Abrams, I'd be a lot less worried about Black History Month reading lessons and more worried about whether or not you're going to have to spend some time for not just a felony, but creating a potential criminal conspiracy of ballot trafficking in a battleground state in not just one, but two elections 60 days apart.
But then Stacey Abrams actually came out that she told the kids to wear a mask so that when she was around, she felt safer when they were wearing masks.
So the children wear masks, but she does not.
When you see this picture, it is rage-inducing.
I honestly thought the picture wasn't real.
I thought it was a manufactured artificial picture.
Now, here's the thing.
Actually, let me play this.
Play cut 22, please.
Make a mistake.
If my kid was in the classroom, would I be outraged?
The answer is definitely not.
Stacey Abrams is not trying to harm children.
She was not flaunting our regulations purposefully.
She took a picture with their mask off, and everyone else had their mask on.
So there's not an issue there.
But politically, she probably wants the day back because now she's going to lose a week or two having to deal with this issue, which is for the most part a non-issue.
Yeah, most part it's a non-issue.
While she's maskless and she sits on the floor and the other kids have to remain completely and totally clothed, totally shameful.
But students in high school and middle school are starting to push back.
There is a legitimate movement that is bubbling up in the Chicago suburbs right now.
And if you can hear my voice, please participate in it.
There is no school without students.
School board members that have continued these mask mandates have failed the children.
Parents that have allowed these mask mandates to continue have failed the children.
Now, there's some phenomenal parents out there that have been fighting and fighting and fighting in Chicago and other places.
But there's way too many parents that have been passive, that have been compliant with this total garbage.
And we're starting to see the bubbling up and the reaction in response to that.
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It's a smaller example than the one that we've used.
I shouldn't say smaller, but it's an individual example.
They kicked James O'Keefe off of almost every single social media site because he was willing to tell the truth.
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You see, the strategy of cancellation has now broadened outside of just using the law, but also using companies.
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The move sparked immediate outcry, including by Ron DeSantis, who said Saturday that the Florida's Attorney General will investigate GoFundMe.
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With us right now for a first-hand report from our friends to the north from Canada, Ezra Levant from the wonderful Rebel News.
They do a great job.
Ezra, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Thanks very much for having me.
Appreciate it.
I've been a big fan of yours.
You do a wonderful job covering all the insanity that's happening in Canada.
What's the latest?
I'm being told that there are police being deployed to try to break up the truckers.
What's going on in the ground in Ottawa?
Well, starting just before midnight last night, hundreds of riot police, many with large weapons in their hands, started going around Ottawa seizing diesel fuel, little jerry cans of diesel fuel.
They made arrests and handed out hundreds of tickets too.
Now, diesel fuel is not illegal.
In fact, it is perfectly legal.
And in Ottawa, it's very cold.
So these truckers who are sleeping in their cabs of their trucks, they need the diesel fuel to run their trucks to stay warm, to stay alive, really.
So without a court order, without a search warrant, these police at gunpoint literally started collecting hundreds of jerry cans to freeze out or even starve out the protesters.
I say again, there has been no court order.
There is no lawsuit.
There is no sentence.
This is not an unlawful protest.
There may be the odd parking violation.
Fine.
So issue a ticket.
If there's some honking of horns, if there's a not noise bylaw, issue a ticket.
But to seize gasoline, diesel fuel, is just what is that other than theft?
I'm sorry.
If the police force takes something without color of right, that's theft.
But that's life under an authoritarian regime.
And I hate to say it because I love Canada, born and raised here, but we're becoming more and more like a banana republic under the hands of Justin Trudeau.
And you can see that when they seized the power for their lockdowns, it wasn't for public health.
It was just so they could run this country in an authoritarian manner.
It's very troubling.
Yeah, I mean, I love Canada too.
It's a great place, but it seems it's really slipping in many regards.
So walk us through kind of Canadian kind of constitutional structure because, I mean, do they have like emergency use rights?
They could do this.
I mean, I know in America, if they did that, there would be a very specific way that there could be a check and balance.
It just wouldn't be allowed.
In Canada, what's the process to try to rectify that?
Well, you mentioned checks and balances.
In the United States, you have a number of them.
Your Supreme Court has stopped some of the worst lockdown rules.
You have 50 different states which have different approaches.
You've got the Ron DeSantis approach on the Liberty end of the spectrum, and you have the New York approach on the other end, let's say.
But in Canada, we have 10 provinces that's our analog to your states.
Unfortunately, all 10 provinces are lockdown provinces.
And both at the federal government and the provincial level, every governing party and every opposition party is in favor of the lockdowns.
So there's no political debate.
Parliament hasn't sat much, and most of these rules have been issued by public health doctors who were not elected.
And they are suddenly issuing decrees.
The media party, as I call it, is another check and balance that has failed.
In Canada, more than 99% of the media are directly subsidized by Trudeau's bailouts.
We're one of the few media companies that's not.
Our courts have not issued a single substantive ruling against any forms of the lockdown.
Our academia has been silent or cheering on the lockdowns.
Colleges of physicians and surgeons have suspended doctors who've dared to speak out or issue medical exemptions.
Police forces are running political errands.
Like, can you ever imagine police going around grabbing jerry cans of diesel fuel, enforcing some public health order?
It's just absurd.
So, every single knot in the net, like you can, a net still works if one or two knots breaks.
It'll still catch fish.
But if every single knot in the net breaks at the same time, you have a total system failure.
Every single node in our Canadian establishment has failed simultaneously.
And that's why we're slipping into that Venezuela-style form of government that Justin Trudeau has explicitly praised.
I think you know that he's always been a fan of Castro, that he said communist China is the country he quote most admires because of its basic dictatorship.
He said those words.
I think that we almost need some outside help.
I'm not talking about an invasion, of course, but maybe I'm so grateful to be on your show.
We need our friends and allies around the world to shine a light of scrutiny.
Normally, Canada is a happy, boring place, and we sort of like it that way.
But we're not so happy these days, and we're not that boring.
There's a real battle on for freedom, and I'm grateful for you shining a light on it.
Yeah, I mean, look, this is something that Castro would do.
It seems like there's a lot, there's more than one way of similarities in this case with Trudeau and Castro.
We've danced around that topic for quite some time.
So, talk to me about kind of Canadians in general and their view of Trudeau.
I mean, is he still popular?
Is he still?
I mean, it doesn't seem that way, but he calls it a fringe minority.
Is that true?
Well, it's funny you say that.
We have a multi-party parliamentary system.
So, Trudeau won the last election with only 32% of the vote.
So, it's quite rich for him to say that anyone who criticizes him is a fringe majority when 68% of Canadians who voted didn't vote for him at all.
I should say that the latest polls show that the truckers, 32% of Canadians, say they see themselves in the truckers.
So, if the truckers were a political party, they would immediately be at the top of the polls in Canada.
So, that's a bit of a political earthquake.
These truckers, by the way, they weren't organized by any political party.
There's no super PAC.
They're really not even organized.
It's sort of an organic movement.
People said, I'll join, I'll join.
And over the course of time, probably 100,000 trucks joined.
Some came and went, some went to different parts of the country.
And along the roads, maybe a million Canadians went out to see them, to wave at them, to cheer them on.
So much so that the Canadian province of Nova Scotia passed a health order.
Again, no debate in a legislature, just issued an executive order that it is illegal to stand by the road to quote support the trucker convoy.
And the words support and trucker convoy are specifically named.
So you can go to the side of the road to oppose the trucker convoy.
You can go to the side of the road to oppose or support any other thing you want.
But the government of Nova Scotia specifically made it illegal to support this trucker convoy.
That's clearly unconstitutional.
It's clearly illegal.
But who's going to stop them?
I mean, it's a bit of a madness here.
Yeah, it is.
And this is a really important point.
And, you know, Canadians have a different culture than Americans, but I've always said the Constitutional Republic system is the gold standard.
And, you know, in Canada, you haven't really had these kind of tensions of speech.
Recently, Jordan Peterson tried to warn against a lot of this a couple of years ago, to his great credit.
But in America, the idea that they would restrain you from going to a protest, we're starting to see a little bit of that here and there, but courts just wouldn't allow that to happen.
And don't, again, please excuse my lack of understanding here, but from what I understand, Canada does not have the same sort of robust First Amendment protections like we do in America.
It's just there isn't a constitutional system that recognizes natural rights and separation of powers and an independent judiciary and consent to the governed.
These are all characteristics that make our constitution work and allow our civilization to succeed.
Talk about how, since you don't have that, it's just basically Trudeau's candidate.
He does whatever he wants.
We do have a constitution and we have what's called the Charter of Rights.
Ironically, it was enshrined by Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, who was prime minister in the 70s and early 80s.
He was a big fan of Castro, vacationed with him all the time.
He went to the Soviet Union, told his children Siberia is the future.
So Justin Trudeau comes from his love of authoritarians, honestly.
He inherited from his dad.
But the thing about our Charter of Rights, which is different from your American Bill of Rights, is your First Amendment is for free speech.
Your Second Amendment is the firearms.
I won't try and teach you about your laws, but what's our first section of our Constitution?
Is it free speech?
Is it the right to own firearms?
No.
Section one of our Charter of Rights is the asterisk.
It's the footnote.
It's the caveat.
It's the exception.
Section one says that every right that is about to be listed can be infringed.
Wow.
So section two is where we get into the good stuff.
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of assembly.
That's all in our Constitution.
But it starts with point two.
Point one is a giant loophole that says if the government thinks it's a pressing and substantial reason to limit it that's rationally connected to some purpose, they can go ahead and violate your rights.
So before they even list your rights in section two, section one of our charter of rights says, well, maybe you can have them and maybe you can't.
It's almost like what follows after section one doesn't count.
It's almost like there's a pandemic clause in our constitution.
Whenever the government calls in an emergency, they can suspend our rights.
I don't want to oversimplify things, but I say again, in two years, not a single court case brought anywhere in Canada has had a substantive victory stopping the lockdowns.
And here's a quick example of how extreme the lockdowns are.
The province of Quebec, wonderful place, eight and a half million people, very large province.
They had curfews from 10 p.m. till 5 a.m., as if it was a province of children.
You could not go out after 10 p.m.
You'd be arrested.
Healthy people, vaccinated people even.
You couldn't go out after 10.
What free people accepts that?
That is completely lawful in Canada.
I didn't even think Cuba had those curfews.
They probably didn't.
I want to explore with you the Canadian temperament and the psychology of a Canadian that puts up with this.
Whether you think there's anything to that, because there is this kind of stereotype, a positive stereotype that Canadians are nice and overly magnanimous and peace-seeking.
And you've heard all of it, right?
The friendly Canadian, and whether or not that kind of plays into the naivete of tyranny that allows it all of a sudden for a smug teenager-looking Fidel Castro lookalike to govern from his lake house and keep the nice people at home because they don't quite have the muscle memory to fight against tyranny.
Whereas we, as Americans, kind of in our blood, we are good at it.
Not all of us, by the way, but there's plenty of us that don't put up with this nonsense.
And I just want to reiterate for our American listeners: this is the difference between having an American Constitution and a Canadian Constitution.
It's not an insult to Canada, it's just a big difference.
And God bless our founding fathers so long ago that saw these sort of moves that were going to happen and prevented against it.
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I want to explore with you.
Can you explain to me whether or not the Canadian temperament has anything to do with this?
Kind of the agreeable, nice, magnanimous people that all of a sudden can be quickly transitioned into subservient serfs under an authoritarian government.
It's true.
I mean, we've never had a civil war.
We've never had a revolution.
We've had a very lucky existence.
And being next to America, you guys do the hard work for us.
I mean, frankly, I think we probably would have been invaded during the Cold War were it not for NORAD.
So we're very lucky.
Remember, Canada was founded in part by what were called United Empire loyalists.
Those who are the losing side of the U.S. Revolution, they just came north.
So we were, by definition, sort of agreeable, more passive, less rambunctious.
And that suited us fine, I guess.
Trouble is, you need your government to have a light touch.
We haven't had a light touch over the last two years.
Truckers Unite Across Canada00:03:46
And too many Canadians have obediently worn masks, bent the knee, accepted curfews.
And we haven't had that same check and balance system.
Like I say, we don't have a Ron DeSantis up here.
We don't have any difference between our conservative and liberal parties here.
I think, though, that these truckers have shown that there is a deeper part of Canada that wants to be free, that remembers how we were before, perhaps.
And these truckers have been a physical manifestation of that.
And they're not for moving.
They're not wobbly.
They're very blue-collar.
They're plain spoken.
They're ethnically diverse.
And people, like I say, 32% of Canadians see themselves in the truckers.
It's the first resistance, the first opposition in two years.
It's really incredible.
There's so many points I want to explore with you in that regard.
And do you see a generational divide?
Do you see an urban rural divide?
Do you see that a lot of the kind of mandate Trudeau coalition is centered to Ottawa and Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver?
Is that sort of divide something you see?
And finally, talk about states' rights or province rights.
Are the provinces able to make their own decisions?
In Canada, provinces have jurisdiction over health care, but the government sort of buys the federal government sort of buys its way in.
So most of the lockdowns have happened at the hands of provincial leaders.
But like I say, they're all in lockstep.
In terms of who's with these trucker protests, I think truckers are individualist.
I think in the rural parts, people are more conservative.
But what's been so heartening is many truckers are new Canadians.
They happen to be Sikh or indigenous, also.
That's, I guess, the opposite of a new Canadian.
So they're visible minorities.
So when Trudeau denounces them as racist and sexist, it doesn't really stick because there's many Sikh truckers wearing their Sikh turbans.
And for Trudeau to call them white nationalists, as he has, it's just laughable.
Like it might work against a middle-aged white male conservative politician, but when a young Sikh trucker is called racist, he sort of laughs.
A lot of women are against vaccine mandates.
I mean, remember what these trucker protests is about.
Trudeau said you cannot be a trucker crossing the border without a vaccine.
Truckers are one of the most isolated jobs there is.
I mean, you're in your cab by yourself for days on end.
You probably sleep in your cab.
So to force them to get vax, the truckers who took care of the rest of us for two years, it wasn't about public health.
It was about submission and compliance and obedience.
And I think it was the final straw for people.
People realize that it's not really, people are tired of it in Canada.
We have been too obedient for too long.
Even passive, friendly, smiling Canadians have their limit.
And I think it's a political earthquake here, and we haven't yet seen all of the results that will flow from it.
Trudeau is trying his Castro-like crackdown.
Thank God no one's been shot yet.
Although there was someone who rammed a trucker protest if it were the other way around, if a trucker had rammed someone, that would be world news.
But it was a Trudeau supporting leftist who rammed four truckers.
And so that's being buried.
So it's been a very peaceful Canadian style protest, but there is the flame of freedom burning.
I hear the word freedom being chanted more in the last two weeks than in my entire life.
I see people of all racial and religious backgrounds chanting freedom.
It's actually been a moment of tremendous unity.
I've never been this optimistic about the Canadian spirit.
Now, whether or not that's enough to break the government domination is another question, but I think Canada has rediscovered the phrase to true north, strong and free.
That's wonderful and beautiful.
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