Ezra Levant declares August 27th the worst time to live in Canada since WWII, framing vaccine mandates and passports as a dystopian "war on freedom" akin to wartime censorship. He cites Health Canada’s low COVID-19 death toll, Quebec Premier François Legault’s data breach, and universities banning unvaccinated individuals without exemptions, while noting 5,000 caregivers opting for screening over vaccines. Rebel News journalist Alexa Lavoie reveals politicians dodging her questions, including Trudeau avoiding unscripted inquiries about nurse shortages. Levant warns of permanent biosecurity measures, fearing Canadians lack resilience to resist, and urges support amid ongoing legal battles. [Automatically generated summary]
It has about five or six stories from other media that we think are interesting.
Today's version had so many crazy stories in it.
I thought, I'm going to tell you about 10 stories today, not one.
I'm just going to whiz through them and show you the headlines, give you a quick thought.
I'm going to show you 10 terrible things about our situation in Canada and the virus and the vaccines and the out-of-control government.
So very depressing show today.
I'm sorry, but I got to call it like I see it.
I got to tell you the truth.
I'm not going to tell you it's grown great.
It's not.
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All right, here's today's show.
Tonight, this is the worst time to live in Canada since the Second World War.
It's August 27th.
This is the Answer Levant Show.
Why should others go to jail when you're the biggest carbon consumer I know?
There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm opposing them is because it's my bloody right to do so.
I love being alive and we cling to life, but I really think it's the worst time to be alive right now in Canada since the Second World War.
Of course that was worse.
More than a million Canadians had to fight in the war, and more than 44,000 of them were killed.
More than that were wounded.
And remember, Canada's population then was about 11 million people.
So triple those numbers to get the proportionate impact today.
But for most of the war, until 1944, in fact, there was no conscription.
It was a volunteer army until the last year of it.
People volunteered to fight out of a belief in freedom, a fear of the Nazis and the Japanese Empire as a part of a national project.
Some people just for work.
So many Canadians died, but it was actually a fraction of the number who died in the trenches of the First World War.
Did you know that?
Life was harder.
So much wealth and work was diverted from living towards fighting and killing and being killed.
There was censorship back then, of course, but it was mainly military censorship to stop secrets from being discovered by enemy spies.
You could still talk about other things, though.
I would not have wanted the best five years of my life taken up by a war, nor would I have wanted the risks or the horrors of the deprivation.
So I will say that the two world wars were the worst thing to ever happen to Canada, the worst times to be alive here since Confederation.
But I look at Canada now and I think that we are approaching a similar level of devastation, not in terms of lives killed, and not through violence.
And I'm certainly not talking about death from the virus.
Here is the latest death rate published by Health Canada, which shows that it is close to zero in every province in this country and has been for some time.
I'm not talking about the virus.
I'm talking about the concerted war against our freedom that has moved from an inconvenient two-week emergency to flatten the curve of infections to a perpetual systematic biomedical security state where our every move is tracked, where we cannot go anywhere, whether it's a coffee shop or a gym or a restaurant or even a private gathering, unless we submit ourselves to an indefinite series of medical injections by the government.
That's just so dystopian.
Two years ago, you'd be called a madman for saying those things.
But now you have governments egging each other on, demanding vaccine passports and forced vaccinations and the infringement of civil liberties on a scale that we didn't even see during those world wars.
90% of Canadians did not go to war in the 1940s.
They stayed at home and paid high taxes and had their minds and hearts directed towards the war.
And there was some rationing.
But there is nowhere to hide today from this new government scheme to monitor your every move.
There is no one opposing it.
In fact, the front page of the Toronto Star helpfully prints a series of slurs against non-vaccinated people wishing they would die, hoping they would die, wishing they were banned from hospitals altogether.
I've never seen such a thing.
Imagine them saying that about AIDS patients or cancer patients.
I've never seen such a thing.
I've never seen it so uniform, so simultaneous at all levels of society.
I've never seen such unanimity.
That's partly on technology.
Every word we see or hear other than in person, which, surprise, surprise, were banned from meeting in person.
It's all filtered through the censorship of the big tech companies, which suspend you if you criticize the pandemic's official narrative.
What do doctors say, do no harm?
Well, look at this.
A BC man says he was turned away from a walk-in health clinic near his community because he isn't vaccinated.
Okay, so for reasons of health, he will be denied health.
That's the front page of the Toronto Star come alive.
I could choose from amongst 10 terrible news stories to tell you today.
And instead, I thought I'd literally just read you 10 headlines to show you the state we're in.
I have a few half-hearted suggestions at the end, but I admit right now they're likely impotent.
Here.
The president of the Association of Medical Officers of Health says Ontario's health units will implement their own vaccine certificate in September if the Ontario government doesn't roll out a province-wide system.
They're not elected.
No one's heard of them until last year.
But now they're telling the elected Premier he must lock down the province and force vaccines or they will do it.
Do you doubt them?
So every politician and bureaucrat is now a little emperor.
Look at this.
The city of Toronto has confirmed that employees who refuse to get vaccinated could potentially lose their jobs.
Taking a medical injection, especially one that is not done being tested, one that thousands of Canadians have had serious side effects after taking, it's not a lightly taken decision.
It must be taken freely and with informed consent.
Some people can't take them at all for medical reasons.
Being fired if you don't get the injection is duress.
It's like having a gun pointed at your head.
There are some people who are so desperate, I'm sure they will literally allow themselves to have, I don't know, just come up with a crazy idea, crazy today.
I think some people would literally allow themselves to have a finger amputated or worse, just to keep a job.
Seriously, who can afford to just lose a job?
If you're the breadwinner for your whole family, you'll agree to almost anything.
If you are going to be denied the right to graduate from a university with a degree, your life will be ruined, your prosperity destroyed, you're a pariah.
Of course, you'll do almost anything.
We've never done this to each other or to ourselves before.
It's atrocious, and yet it is being normalized.
It's everywhere.
Here's Mississauga.
The city of Mississauga announced Thursday that all city employees and volunteers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 31st.
They chose Halloween.
I wonder if unions will fight back.
Unifor, the biggest private sector union in the country, run by Trudeau's best friends, they endorse him, they run campaigns for him.
They've told their members they're going to side with the government on this against their members.
What's the point of a union then?
Isn't the union supposed to fight against institutions and bosses on behalf of members?
Why would you join a union that represents your employer against you?
Isn't this supposed to be the opposite way around?
Here's the news out of Quebec.
I'll read it in English.
Throwing even more doubt on the security of the vaccine passport, hackers easily downloaded yesterday the vaccine evidence of the Premier of Quebec, Francois Legault, and members of his cabinet.
It's in French.
It basically says the vaccine passports are hackable.
But look, you have to put your most intimate information in it.
And really, if every waiter or shopkeeper can demand to know your intimate health information, like any bouncer says, show me that, what difference is it really if the Chinese army can hack that information too?
There's one politician in Quebec who's opposed to all this madness, our old friend Eric Duem.
Remember him?
Look at this story.
Conservative Party of Quebec leader Eric Duem was expelled Thursday from the public hearings being held on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers in the province.
So he was there to oppose mandatory vaccines as a party leader and he was thrown out of the room for COVID reasons, health reasons.
How soon before you're not even allowed to vote if you're not vaxed?
Before you can't be elected if you're not vaccinated?
This isn't about a virus in case you didn't realize.
Seriously, here's a politician who was investigated for simply having a different point of view on the subject.
They investigated him.
Center Wellington Counselor Stephen Van Loewen did not contravene the township's code of conduct when he joined the end the lockdowns caucus last year.
This is ubiquitous now.
It's everywhere.
Here's the University of Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston announcing Thursday that unvaccinated individuals without a valid medical or human rights exemption would not be able to access their campuses.
Just banned, just segregated.
I thought bullying was out of vogue.
I thought that human rights and minorities were a liberal cause, certainly an intellectual cause.
I was wrong.
Conformity and money, that's the thing on campus.
Cape Breton University has mandated full vaccination for its students, faculty, and staff by early October.
Hmm, really.
I wonder how many staff they're going to lose over this.
I wonder what kind of staff they'll lose also.
Custodians, janitors, I don't know, that sort of thing, or fancy people too.
Look at this.
At least 5,000 caregivers prefer screening to vaccination in Quebec, so they don't want to be vaxed.
It's a story out of Quebec saying they would rather be tested than injected.
I don't know if they'll get the choice.
Imagine losing 5,000 caregivers in your province because you're a little tyrant.
How many nurses and doctors?
How many other social workers are you willing to lose over this?
Oh, they don't care.
How many cops?
I see that the Toronto police have demanded mandatory vaccations.
I see that the Toronto Police Union has said no.
I don't think it's going to go any further.
That's a union that represents its members.
How can unvaxed cops implement forced vaccines, though, on the rest of the population?
Well, they don't have to.
There are plenty of volunteer enforcers out there.
They're called, I don't know, Human Resources Office at your company or university admissions officers.
Or even mayors.
Look at this guy.
Saskatoon mayor considering vaccine passports.
So even mayors are getting into the game.
Anyone who wants to flex some muscles, boss someone around, have a bigger budget, set the table for a run for higher office.
It's unconstitutional, but so what?
The judges haven't stopped anything in the past 18 months.
Why would they start now?
This is the worst.
And yet it's getting worse every day.
I don't know what to say.
I'm glad Maxime Bernier and the People's Party is speaking out about this.
I see he's up a little bit in the polls, but he's still in the single digits.
I think at most he'll win his own seat.
He'll be a spoiler in dozens of others, maybe.
Perhaps he could steal enough from Aaron O'Toole, and O'Toole would see that, that he would panic and maybe take a pro-freedom stand in this campaign, but I doubt it.
And Maxime Bernier is banned from the leaders' debates.
The government commission that makes the rules of who can attend the debate says you need to be at 4% in the polls to get in.
He said 7%, actually, but they won't let him in.
But they'll let in the Green Party, which has lower polling support than he does.
I mean, they'll do whatever to shut him up.
We're trying to sue on behalf of ordinary Canadians to stop some of these excesses.
We set up fightvaccinepassports.com and good luck to us.
We've got some amazing plaintiffs.
I expect we'll file our first lawsuits as soon as next week.
Our crowdfunding is going well, and that's great.
And thank you for chipping in.
But like I keep saying, we don't just need good lawyers.
We need a good judge.
I feel like we're entering a new kind of dark age.
It's not like the Second World War.
I know that.
But we're number now.
We're on the opium of Netflix and Disney Plus and DoorDash.
People are fine.
They're easily distracted.
People can get CERB payments.
They don't need to work.
The media tells us everything's fine.
The media tells us the enemy are those dirty, unvaxed amongst us.
That's what the Toronto Star says.
And a generation of woke education in our schools has turned out a generation of people who are subjects, not citizens.
I'm worried, my friends.
We'll keep fighting.
What else can we do?
But I'm worried.
Stay with us for more.
Welcome back.
Alexa Lavoie's Citizen Journalism00:15:14
Whoa, did you know we have 17 journalists who are either full-time on camera or part-time on camera covering the Canadian election?
It's amazing.
And one of our rising stars is Alexa Lavoie from Quebec.
She speaks English and French and does her videos twice, once in each language.
And incredibly, she has talked to five different political party leaders already in the campaign, as well as a Quebec lieutenant of another party joining me now via Skype from Quebec City is Alexa.
Alexa, great to see you, and congratulations.
You've had the busiest campaign of anyone at Rebel News.
Yes, I actually see that all the leaders come to Quebec.
I think they want to win Quebec heart.
Yeah, well, you know what?
And you have a great style.
You're very friendly, but you're also fearless.
So you walk right up to these people.
And I think because you have such a delightful smile, they let their guard down.
And then you ask them a question, and some of them run away.
We've got six video clips, so I want to go through them because I think some of our viewers in English Canada who aren't as familiar with you yet, they'll be amazed at what you've done.
So why don't we watch six quick clips from your work just in the past week?
Here's, I think this fellow is Gerard Deltel, who's a conservative, sort of a conservative lieutenant for Aaron O'Toole in Quebec.
Here's a quick look at that.
Here's a quick look at Gérald Dertel for the Conservative Party, and at the beginning he wanted to give me an interview, he saw the rebel microphone, and he stopped, and he was like, no, okay.
You know what?
I think he was scared or ordered not to talk to you because when he just saw you as a friendly, smiling Quebecois woman, he wanted to talk.
There's something strange about that.
I think he missed an opportunity, don't you?
Yes, because at the beginning he actually crossed the other side of the street to come to see me.
And he actually said, okay, we go there to have an interview.
And he stopped to give me an interview.
But that looks so bad for him for his campaign to stop to talk with independent media.
I don't look like a scary person.
And my question is not as tough as other ones.
Yeah.
I mean, if he can't face you and Rebel News, how is he going to go head-to-head with, I don't know, Justin Trudeau or the CBC?
Well, I want to tell our viewers that that, however, did not deter you.
And you had a quick chat with Gerard Deltel's boss, Erin O'Toole.
Let's take a look at that.
Well, there you are with the leader himself, Aaron O'Toole.
I think that was an excellent question.
I haven't heard a lot of good questions about vaccine passports from the media.
So good for you for putting that to him.
Actually, I was scared that Gerard Delta was able to see me because he was there and the media relations liaison was there, the one that told me that I was not welcome and I will be never welcome because of my outlet.
And so I wait my turn to talk with Mr. O'Toole, and because he didn't know who I was, he was really friendly and really welcome to answer to my question.
So I don't really understand why they are in fear of rebel news.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think it looks good on them.
By the way, his answer saying, well, I'll leave vaccine passports to the provinces, I don't think that's good enough.
I think he should at least make a moral statement about freedom and privacy.
I think he tried to get off the hook on that one.
But I'm glad you put the question.
Now, here's another one: the Bloc Québecois.
And I don't know why all these folks are so censorious.
I think that's the age we're in.
Cancel culture, deplatforming.
Your questions are very good, as good as any other reporter in Quebec.
And this guy was scared of you, too.
Let's take a look.
I don't get it.
That's another proof.
You saw?
Like… People who actually do are running for being like a prime minister.
If they have nothing to hide, they will answer to rebel news.
You know what?
It's not just that.
Alexa, first of all, I salute you for your high energy.
You've been crisscrossing the province, going to so many of these things.
You know what?
We don't agree with everything the Bloc Quebecois leader says, but we talk to him anyways because we're all part of the same country and all part of the same democracy.
He may not agree with everything Rebel News says.
I doubt he even knows what we say, but we are Canadians and he's seeking to be an MP for everyone in his jurisdiction and in his riding.
I think he ought to talk to people, even those he disagrees with.
I think it's undemocratic for him to say, I'm not going to talk to you because I don't like who you are.
He owes you an answer because you're a Quebec woman.
He's a Quebec politician.
And if he got his way, he would be a ruler over you.
He owes you the courtesy of an answer.
But not only that, yes, he honed me a answer because I'm from the same province and he represented Quebec all around Canada, but as well, because I'm in media and I'm independent, so I have the voice of every other citizen who have the same question than us, who want an answer.
Yeah, well, listen, I salute you, and you're not getting down.
In fact, you kept going and you had some great success.
Now, this next interview is another Quebec politician.
Now, he doesn't ban talking to us.
I'm talking about Maxime Bernier.
Here's a quick clip of your discussion with him.
When we think that the Bloc Québécois are invited to the debate, but not the PPC, what do you think about that?
But the Bloc Québécois, you know, in their constitution, they're just having candidates in Quebec and they're at 6%.
But the most important for me is not the Bloc Québécois, it's the Green Party of Canada.
So Maxime Bernier is not allowed into the leaders' debate just the same way politicians are trying to keep independent media out.
They're trying to keep a smaller party out.
I don't think that's very democratic.
No, it is not.
So actually, what he was explaining to me, they took like nine Statistic, and they choose the one that was the lowest one to discriminate him and to say, No, I'm sorry, you don't have enough percentage, so you are not part of the debate.
So, I think it's all organized to not put him in the debate because he has another point of view than the rest of all the other parties.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I think they want to, they don't want someone who disagrees with this central issue of our time.
Now, there's two more interviews, and I think I've saved the most exciting for last.
I mean, Gerard Deltel ran away from you.
I thought that showed a little bit of cowardice.
Erin O'Toole answered you, and it may have been because you were wearing a mask.
He didn't know who you were.
The block leader, I think, disgraced himself democratically.
Maxime Bernier, give you, you know, he spoke to you, he's happy to talk to us.
Our next video clip is you spoke with Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader.
Let's take a look at how that went.
Bonjour.
Ça va?
Oui, oui, j'aurais une petite question pour vous.
Je m'intéressais à savoir si le passeport vaccinal devrait être permanent.
Là?
Le passeport vaccinal, s'il devrait être permanent.
Permanent.
Pour moi, le but, c'est comment on peut protéger la population.
Ça, c'est le premier but.
Donc, pour moi, je suis le conseil de santé publique, les experts, et ceux qui vont nous protéger.
Donc, s'il y a une bonne raison pour faire quelque chose qui va protéger la population, donc oui.
OK, so you asked him the same question, is this vaccine passport, does it terminate?
Right?
That was your question.
Is there an end date to it?
I think that's such an important question because it's sort of like when the income tax was brought in in the First World War just to pay for the war.
Well, here it is over 100 years later.
We still have the income tax.
I'm worried that this vaccine passport will be the beginning of a lifelong computer-tracking biosecurity state.
How did you feel about his answer?
So, I feel, and I he actually answered that, he is for a permanent vaccine passport if he needs to keep it as long as he will keep it as long as we need to have it.
But who decides when we should let it go or not?
It's them.
So, if they want to keep it forever, they will keep it forever.
Alexa, I'm so proud of you asking these excellent questions that so few other journalists are.
And I want to leave the prime minister for last.
So, we've shown Gerard Deltel, Aaron O'Toole, the block leader, Maxime Bernier, the PPC, Jack Meet Singh, and here you are.
I think this is the most recent of them all, talking to Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister.
So let's take a look.
Excuse me, Mr. Trudeau, how many nurses do you think we are able to lose before the health system crash, Mr. Trudeau?
How many nurses are we able to lose?
They haven't had a vaccine for the first 18 months.
Why are you forced them to?
Well, you tried, and I give you four marks for trying.
I don't know.
I think he heard you, but he just doesn't like asking answering unscripted questions.
But even though you didn't get an answer from him, though you did from Aaron O'Toole and Jagmeet Singh, Alexa, the fact that you have spoken to one, two, three, four, five party leaders and a senior lieutenant, that's six people in just one week.
I can't believe your productivity.
I can't believe your energy, your good spirits.
You're not getting down when the politicians are rude.
You're asking smart questions.
I have to say, I'm so proud of the work you're doing, and I love the fact that you're doing it in English and in French.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
But just to let you know that he Justin Trudeau, that it was the end because I was waiting all the conference until the end.
But at the beginning, I ran after him and all I don't want to give you like because it's coming, but they were actually so scared of me.
And I can tell you, Justin Trudeau knew I was there because he turned around to say something to me.
But that you will see in another video.
Okay, well, we have to leave our people wanting more.
So you're saying you did chase him and he turned around and he knew it was you and he said something.
And that's in another clip.
Well, that gives us something to look forward to.
Alexa, I think you're doing great work.
You really have that rebel spirit.
You are a citizen journalist in the best sense of that word.
And I think that despite all the barriers being thrown at you, you are actually doing more real grassroots journalism than many of the mainstream media who have been doing it for decades and have huge budgets.
You're there doing grassroots journalism.
We're so proud of you.
It's great to see you.
And keep up your high spirits.
There are so many of us rooting for you, not just in Quebec, but all across Canada.
Thank you very much, Ben.
And I'm doing that for everybody who wants answer.
And keep following us because we are all doing that for everybody.
Yeah, well, you've got that great spirit.
Thank you, my friend.
That's Alexa Lavois, one of the wonderful new journalists we have at Rebel News, and we're just so proud of her work.
Take care.
Have a great weekend, my friend.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
There you have it, Alexa Lavoisier.
Would you agree with me that she's just an outstanding addition to the Rebel team?
And I don't care if those politicians are rude.
That's what politicians are like.
Alexa is asking great questions.
And you know what?
She's getting some good answers, too.
Stay with us.
more ahead.
Hey, welcome back on my show last night.
Travis writes, hopefully this has angered enough voters in her writing that they sent her packing after the election.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
You know, that she was re-elected after it was discovered that she was an immigration fraud.
I think a lot of people vote liberal no matter what.
R. FastCats writes, she's the one that said Sharia law fascinates me.
Just a reminder, we're talking about Maryam Monsef from Peterborough, who said the Taliban are our brothers.
Yeah, she said that Sharia law fascinates me.
There's so many things about that that are odd, and I appreciate you letting me do a monologue on it again after the first time.
But it's not just her, right?
I mean, Trudeau has stood by her.
And how many hands in the civil service worked on that speech, saw that speech first?
Fighting Thank Scare Tactics00:01:33
That's how they all think.
Well, that's a show for the day and for the week.
I want to keep hope alive.
I don't want to be too blackpilled.
I think that our challenges to the constitutionality of some of these vaccine passports might make a difference, but I think that the real purpose of these insane commands is to scare people, to stampede them into giving up their free and informed consent and just taking a jab no matter what.
I think it's sort of like the airport quarantines.
They were deliberately awful to scare people into not flying.
I think these announced vaccine passports are deliberately terrifying to make people say, I've got to do this or I'm going to lose my job.
Like I say, it's the worst of times.
We'll do our best.
I feel like we're actually in a lucky situation.
I feel that, I mean, just speaking personally, I mean, I suppose I'm the boss, but our whole company here is independent enough.
I don't care if people here at the company get the jab or not.
It's up to them.
I feel like we have the resilience that we can fight back and even come up with ideas to help others fight back.
But I know that for the vast majority of Canadians, they simply don't have that independence or freedom.
And for anyone in school, for anyone who's part of a union that they gave their rights to the union and the union doesn't support them in return, I think these are terrifying times.
What can I say?
We'll keep fighting.
It's all we know how to do.
And thank you for supporting that.
Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.