Ezra Levant exposes the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) push to redefine happiness as toxic, citing a video and psychologists—though he dismisses their claims as politically motivated. The WEF, based in Davos, Switzerland, previously promoted "owning nothing" and extreme dietary shifts while now enforcing state censorship, like Quebec’s dancing bans and Canada’s $6,250 border fine on 15-year-old Henry Nrique Ecclesia for minor COVID test delays. Levant frames these actions as part of a broader assault on freedom, religion, and social bonds, mirroring China’s social credit system, while contrasting Canada’s Constitution with the U.S.’s "pursuit of happiness" right. [Automatically generated summary]
If you think the World Economic Forum was crazy, you know those are the people who say you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, those folks, well they've got a new thing.
You won't be happy at all.
Being sad is the new happy.
You think I'm making it up?
I am not making it up.
I will prove it to you.
Trouble is some of the evidence I'm going to show you is video only.
And there's no words in it.
It's just images.
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I apologize for that.
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They show it.
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Here it is.
Tonight, the World Economic Forum says you should get used to being unhappy.
It's October 25th, and this is the Ezra 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 publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
One of the most famous lines in the U.S. Declaration of Independence is in the preamble.
I'm a Canadian, and so are most viewers of this show, but I know you know it.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You've heard that.
Just turn that over in your mind for a little bit.
You don't just have the right to life and to liberty, which really means to be left alone, to do your thing.
It's a kind of negative freedom, freedom from.
Free speech is freedom from censorship.
Freedom of mobility is the freedom from being stopped, right?
All of these things are under attack by the government right now, by the way.
But that last part there, the pursuit of happiness, that's a positive right.
You're allowed to go out there and find your own path to pursue happiness.
It's incredible, actually.
Imagine putting that in your Declaration of Independence.
It's rather poetic.
You have the right to be happy, and that's because you were meant to be happy.
Or more precisely, to pursue happiness.
You're not guaranteed you'll find it.
No one can guarantee you will be happy, but you can try to get there on your own pursuit.
You got to admit, that's so great.
We don't have that kind of talk in our nation's primary documents.
But our Constitution includes the word lumber, wood chips, and sawdust.
Did you know that?
So take that, you happiness-pursuing Americans.
Does your Constitution talk about sawdust?
Ours does.
Well, the U.S. Constitution is falling out of favor with the masters of the universe.
The First Amendment in their Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, that sort of thing.
Well, they're trying to get rid of that up here in Canada.
We don't have the Bill of Rights, so we're not as protected.
We're about to see the new internet censorship laws introduced.
They're doing that in the United Kingdom, too.
On the freedom of religion side, you can see that they're arresting pastors in Canada almost every week now because pastors obey a higher power than Justin Trudeau and Teresa Tam, and that can't be allowed.
The UK hasn't arrested pastors, but they're certainly going to ban the internet.
Censorship, but this story today, I got you a crazier story.
The World Economic Forum, that's the globalist lobby group based in Davos, Switzerland.
They're literally campaigning against happiness itself.
I'm serious.
These are the people, you will recall, who tell you that in the future, you're going to own nothing and you're going to love it.
I'm serious.
They say this, they promote this.
They're also the folks telling you to stop eating meat and to start eating bugs instead.
As if those billionaires when they meet in Davos don't eat and drink whatever they want and it ain't bugs.
But look at this.
This is new.
This is a new level of crazy even for them.
Fear, anger, and sadness are natural emotions and we should embrace them too.
Embrace fear.
Embrace anger and sadness.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence promised you the right to pursue happiness.
The globalists in 2021 are telling you to embrace fear, anger, and sadness, and eating bugs and owning nothing.
They've even invented a new phrase, toxic positivity.
As if being hopeful and happy and positive and optimistic is toxic.
And of course, we know what we do to toxic things.
We ban them.
We fight against them.
We denounce them.
We've been doing that to toxic masculinity for a decade now.
Being happy is what's next to be attacked.
Here, watch a little bit.
They put together this video.
Oh, psychologists are saying that.
Really?
Who?
Some crackpot somewhere?
The same person who tells us that owning nothing will make us happy?
Why are you referring to some authority?
Psychologists say, stop lying.
This is a political agenda.
There's no science here.
Then they say, sure, being happy might sound nice, but it's actually a mask.
It's false.
It's a lie.
And it covers up problems.
Don't be happy.
That's evil.
Don't be happy.
That's cruel.
Don't be happy.
You're actually a mean person.
So when you pretend to be happy, that's a lie.
It's toxic.
And if you're not wallowing around enough in grievance and being sorry, get on it.
It's like what we've done to Canada as a country, permanently flying our flag at half-mast.
We should be ashamed, not patriotic as a country.
Now they want to do that to you too, personally.
Only a liar would be happy.
Only a deceiver, because things are awful.
And if you're happy, it's just a mask.
Imagine condemning someone for trying to cheer up a friend, for saying, hey, look on the bright side.
Why the hell would anyone give such awful advice, telling someone not to cheer up a friend?
Why would anyone try and rebrand being happy as actually being evil?
Is it so there's no difference anymore between good and bad, happy and sad?
Is it to make being evil the new happy, being negative the new positive?
You have to be sad to grow.
Otherwise, you're shallow, they say.
Look at this.
They say the internet is too happy, too positive.
I've never heard that before.
I've been on Twitter.
It's nothing but negativity.
No, no, no.
It's too happy.
Why would they say that?
Well, of course, to license the state to crack down on the internet, to silence the voices they don't like.
Take a look at this.
So you have to be sad to be happy.
Being sad keeps you safe.
Being sad and stressed and depressed will take care of you.
Don't you know?
We have some psychologist who says so, and we wouldn't lie to you, would we?
Why would they say all this?
Well, it's the new dreary future.
Trump said, make America great again.
He was an optimist.
And in many ways, he did make America great.
A great economy, lots of confidence, strong foreign policy.
Joe Biden is like Jimmy Carter.
He's managing an economy in decline, rampant inflation, disastrous exit in Afghanistan, supply chain crisis.
And here's the Washington Post, owned by the Amazon owner, Jeff Bezos.
He says, don't rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes.
Try to lower expectations.
Hey, guys, just try and lower expectations.
Your whole life, you've lived a life of plenty.
You've never gone to a grocery store that wasn't full on the shelves.
Well, time to lower your expectations.
Expect less.
And expect pay more for what you get.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
Happy people are toxic.
You heard the World Economic Forum.
It's the new talking point for Joe Biden's spokesman.
Here she is on soaring gas prices.
Go ahead.
Let me ask you if I can about gas prices.
The president was asked about that.
A lot of Americans have been concerned about the cost to go to the pump these days.
He said, I don't see anything that's going to happen in the meantime that's going to significantly reduce gas prices.
He said, I don't have a near-term answer.
For Americans who are looking for an answer, what is the answer?
Well, what is true, and I think the president, as I said earlier, was quite candid last night, as the American people should express from him, expect from him, and from any president.
And there are limitations to what any president can do as it relates to gas prices.
Here's what we have been doing.
As we've said for some time, we are engaging broadly with OPEC on our concerns at a range of levels.
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And that is something we will continue to do.
As you know, Jake Sullivan, our national security advisor, recently met with leaders in Saudi Arabia and certainly raised this issue.
So much for Build Back Better.
That implied happiness, improvement, growth, success, prosperity.
It's going to get better.
No, no, no.
I think they pretty much abandoned that now because it ain't getting better.
Now it's endless depression, recession, unhappiness, and masks and endless vaxes and boosters, plus inflation and high gas prices.
So you better get used to being sad and depressed.
That's the new happy.
Haven't you heard?
Stay with us for more from some people fighting back for the right to dance.
It is a very Quebec-style Protest.
Les es nous doncé, let us dance.
You know, movies like Footloose, where they banned dancing.
Dancing, how can you ban dancing?
Are you not allowed to dance?
I mean, just watch any music video, even Westside Story, don't they have sort of a dance-off, the rival gangs?
How about Michael Jackson's Thriller or Michael Jackson's Bad or half of Michael Jackson's repertoire?
They settle their grievances through dance.
Isn't that better than through fists?
Let your feet do the talking.
Well, I have to tell you that Quebec has banned dancing.
I don't quite get it because massive concerts by Hollywood celebrities are permitted, but not dancing in little bars and clubs here to talk to us about it.
And our campaign to let them dance is our friend Alexa Lavoie, our Quebec correspondent.
Great to see you.
Great to see you.
Ah, great to see you too.
You know, it's a very Quebec thing to protest for the right to dance.
Tell us a little bit about it.
It feels very French.
It feels very artistic, something that maybe we wouldn't see in Toronto, but it's caught the imagination of many Quebecers.
So actually, recently in the Bear Center, we had 15,000 people dancing for Henry Nrique Ecclesia's show and Ricky Martin.
Nobody, most of the people didn't wear masks and they were dancing.
And for the scientists, it was not a problem.
So since they reopened the bar, we are not allowed to dance in the bar here.
So I think people are enough and they wanted to make their voice heard that they want to dance back.
And it's why they bring all the artists or the DJ and they make like a big like protest and say like, let us dance.
You know what?
It's such a beautiful idea.
Let us dance.
You would have to have a heart as small as the Grinch who stole Christmas to say, no, you can't dance.
Imagine being a politician who says, I think you can't dance.
And imagine being a policeman who goes out to enforce the ban on dancing.
I can't believe that a single policeman in all of Quebec, when they were a kid, thought, I'm going to grow up, go to the police academy, study how to be a police officer, so I can go around Quebec arresting people for illegal dancing.
It's almost too ridiculous to be true.
If that was a Hollywood movie, people would say, come on, that's not believable.
But it's real life in Quebec in 2021.
Yeah, and I just met like a manager of a bar during that day.
And what he was saying to me, if two people are dancing or people are dancing in the bar, is like he's risking fine himself and them too.
That's crazy.
You know, in the United Kingdom, they had some rules about a year ago against singing in the bar.
And sounds sort of, I mean, it's just as ridiculous, but there were a lot of practical questions.
I'm not even kidding.
Is spoken word like beat, like rapping?
Is that singing?
What if you don't know the words and you just sort of go la la la.
Is that singing?
What if you just hum?
And how loud is singing?
Like if you speak melodiously, is that singing?
I know that sounds ridiculous, but the ridiculous thing is banning singing.
So all sorts of questions were, well, what exactly is singing?
Can you sing to yourself in the bathroom?
I don't know.
And I think the same applies for dancing.
If you're standing by yourself, is that dancing?
If you're dancing by yourself, what if you're dancing at a wedding?
Is that allowed?
Or what if your dancing is so bad, it's like Elaine Bennis on Seinfeld.
And people just think, you know, I mean, I'm having a little bit of fun with the question, but imagine being an inspector or an officer and having to enforce this law.
Really, if you rock back and forth, is that dancing?
What if it's slow dancing?
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, Alexa.
But actually, I think it's just for stopping people to have fun together.
Because I don't see the point to stop people dancing and singing as well.
But I'm not really surprised now.
Every measure doesn't make sense.
It's not based on science.
It's really just for stopping people gathering and having fun.
You know, it reminds me of when public health officers across Canada, including Teresa Tam, had advice for wearing masks when you kiss people or wearing masks when you have sex.
I don't want to hear from Teresa Tam about what her particular kink is.
You want to wear a mask if you're having sex?
Please don't tell me about it.
I don't want that to haunt my dreams.
But, you know, there's no science behind any of this.
And I bet they dance when they bloody well feel like it.
I don't like the fact that they're telling people to dance.
You're right.
It really is whatever they can be irritating.
They want to break us apart.
They want to stop us from gathering and commiserating and talking and living like the social beings we are.
They want us to be separate and alone and demoralized and sad and scared.
And if you're together and dancing and laughing and singing and drinking and maybe even kissing, then you have a power that's of your own creation.
You're not at the mercy of the state.
I think that only terrible people would order an entire province not to dance.
You're completely right.
It's what they want.
They want us to be separate and be alone with ourselves.
And when you're alone and when you separate people, you can take over them really easily.
Yeah, I mean, one of the first things that, I mean, it's typical in a cult, the cult isolates people.
They isolate them from their friends and family.
They break their social bonds.
And that way they're psychologically more vulnerable.
They're less resilient.
I think some of those psychological manipulation techniques have been happening here.
Tell me a little bit more before we go about the demonstration, because it's one thing to have a ridiculous law.
But in a wonderful, and I have to tell you, I admire Quebecers, and I admire the French in France, both of whom seem to stand up for their freedoms more even than Anglos in English Canada.
Tell me about the demonstration where people were fighting for their right to dance.
So I was, it was really a different kind of demonstration because most of the people were double vax and they were like, I'm double vax, I'm following all the rules.
I've been like, you know, really a good citizen and they still not like permit me to have my freedom back.
And we can see them that they were like, okay, I'm going to do everything that what the government tell me, so I will have like what they promised me, my freedom.
But it's not the case.
So we saw like really, you know, people who got the vaccine and they were like, you know what?
I'm not scared.
And I asked them, are you scared to got anything now?
Are you scared?
Or do you feel at risk?
They say, no, I'm not.
I just want to dance.
I just want to have fun.
I just want to experiment, to, you know, to just to live my life as before.
And it was really nice.
It was a lot of color, energy, and people were really happy to be there.
And unfortunately, the police stopped it like two hours before the end, but that's another thing.
Well, Alexa, I'm so glad you're there to bring us those stories.
First of all, you're telling the stories for Quebecers, so Quebecers can hear the other side of the story, because the Quebec media is like the rest of the media in Canada.
It's very one-sided.
But I also love the fact that you're sharing these Quebec stories with the rest of us in Ontario and the Atlantic and the West, so we can see that there is resistance to this tyranny in Quebec.
And I love the Let Us Dance protest.
We have a petition at letusdance.ca.
If people feel like signing it, please feel to do so.
Or laissez-nous dans dot point.
Is that right?
Do I have the French version?
Les est du danse point sea.
Point sea.
That means points.ca.
Excuse émoi for getting more français incorrect.
My French is terrible, Alexa.
That's why we're so glad to have you to say it and do it right.
Great to see you.
Keep up the fight.
We love your fighting spirit.
And we can hardly wait to see what you do next.
Thank you, my friend.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
There you have it.
Alexa Lavoie on the front lines of the Battle of the Dances in Quebec.
Stay with us.
More ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Your feedback.
Someone named Second Kaiser says, the phrase for the common good is the all-encompassing justification for coercion and tyranny.
Well, there is a place for the common good, absolutely.
But what happens when the majority is tyrannical?
I mean, you could say two people robbing a third.
Well, let's have a vote about it.
Who says we rob the guy?
Oh, it's two against one.
That's a democracy.
No, the whole point about a constitutional democracy with enshrined civil rights is there are some things that even a majority cannot do.
It may be that your neighbor wants you vaxxed, that your neighbor wants you to do this or that.
They might actually even be right.
But in a liberal democracy, you have certain rights that can't be taken away from you, even if there is a vote.
Even if two gunmen meet you in an alley and have a vote two to one to take your stuff.
Aklamello says, in Italy, some things never go out of style.
Suits, fascism, and corruption.
You know, I don't really understand what's going on.
We spoke to Abri of the Epoch Times, and she seemed more positive about the Vatican's rule there, but of course it was just brutal.
Imagine being banned from working at all if you're not vaxed anywhere.
Market Edge Pro says, you are witnessing the fourth industrial revolution.
It is very coordinated.
I don't know if I would call it an industrial revolution, at least not this vaccine lockdown thing.
I just don't think that's an industrial revolution.
It doesn't meet that meaning of those words to me.
I think it's using the crisis of the pandemic opportunistically to put people in a state of fear and to use that as an excuse to bring in a permanent surveillance state, as Ron DeSantis calls it, a biomedical security state.
I think there's a famous saying on the left, it's a Leninist saying, the worse, the better.
Never let an opportunity, a crisis go to waste.
I think that's what's happening here.
I don't really think it's about an industrial revolution other than implementing a surveillance state, China-style social credit style.
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It's not good.
That's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rubber World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
And keep fighting for freedom.
And let me say goodbye to you by playing for you an interview of a teenager trying to cross the border, said the wrong things, and he's got thousands of dollars in fines.
What's going on?
Take a look at this.
When he leaves the border, he calls me and he was with a shaking voice.
He tells me they didn't give me a $120 fine.
There's quite a few digits on the fine.
And he was scared to tell me how much it was.
He was shaken.
He says, it's $6,250 fine.
And I had to reassure him and try and calm him down, but he was completely shaken.
Catherine Krasnowski here for Rebel News.
I'm in Thornhill, Ontario today with Hani Zaltzmann, who is speaking to me on behalf of her 15-year-old son, who was slapped with over $6,000 worth of fines crossing the border.
He was fined because he didn't have a COVID test, but he actually did.
It was just a small communication error in the email address, which we'll let Hani explain.
It's a huge fine for a minor, and we're going to get to the bottom of how that happened.
But stick around until the end of the video because I'm going to get an update from our legal team on the status of this case.
And I'm also going to ask you to get involved in helping Hani and her whole family and the thousands of other people that were helping with fight the fines.
This happened in June.
My son was in New York with his friends, and he took a COVID test on Sunday, and he was returning on Monday.
He took an Amtrak from New York to Buffalo, and then he had a taxi from Buffalo to the border, and then another taxi from the border back home to Toronto.
And when he arrives at the border, he's calling me.
As he's approaching the border, he's calling me and asking me, do I have, can I forward my COVID test to the taxi driver?
And he has no phone.
So he tells me to forward the COVID test result to the taxi driver.
And I'm like, I never got a COVID test result.
He tells me, but I sent it to your email.
And I realized that it was because he was missing the dots between my first and last time in my email.
So we tried to get a COVID test.
The thing is that he arrived to Buffalo around 12 a.m.
So we couldn't get a COVID test there done like in Buffalo.
And he tried to check into a hotel because I had a COVID test that I would get the result.
I would get it.
I would call the place where he did it and get the result the next morning.
He tried to check into three hotels and all the hotels refused to take him because he's a minor.
He's 15 years old.
So he couldn't check into a hotel and he had to go through the border.
And so we tried to explain at the border.
He explained that he has a COVID test.
We can show it to them the next morning.
But right now we don't have it.
So they said, it's okay.
We'll call public health and try and let him through the border.
Public health calls me in the middle of the night and I explained to them the situation.
They said that's okay.
They were actually not interested in seeing the COVID test the next day, but they told me we'll let him through.
And they gave him, they said, well, it's just a $125 fine.
So I reassured my son that he can get to the border.
He should just hold on.
And when he, so he's by the border, and when he leaves the border, he calls me and he was, with a shaking voice, he tells me they didn't give me a $120 fine.
There's quite a few digits on the fine.
And he was scared to tell me how much it was.
He was shaken.
He says, it's $6,250 fine.
And I had to reassure him and try and calm him down, but he was completely shaken.
He comes home with a six over $6,000 fine, and he's scared, right?
And now you are on the hook for that fine.
Yeah, he was definitely traumatized.
He wasn't treated very well by the border, by the officials.
He was traumatized.
And the next day when he's home, I mean, in the morning when he got home, we tried to calm him down and tell him that it's okay.
We're not going to take the money from.
It's not like he has money to pay for it.
I told him not to worry about it.
It's not an amount that we can pay anyways.
And I'll try to do whatever I can and that he shouldn't worry about it.
But the trauma of the border and everything that he went through trying to find a place, trying to find a hotel, he did go through quite a night.
He did get his negative test, right?
He has tested, come back negative.
I know what I wanted to add that, yeah, they were not interested in seeing the COVID test the next day, neither public health nor the border.
I told them I can show it to you the next day, but that was not relevant to them.
Unfortunately, there is no rule for showing your test within 24 hours at the border.
It's fictitious.
It's never been a rule.
It's akin to showing up to the police station with an insurance car if you've been pulled over and you don't have that.
It doesn't exist, unfortunately.
You must have proof of your test when you're crossing the border.
That includes if you're a minor and if you're vaccinated, whether or not you're accompanied.
That sounds like an ordeal, the poor guy.
So he was with a friend.
Was the friend also going through the same motions or the friend had his tests?
So the friend was with him, thankfully to my son.
And he had a test.
He had a test with him.
But he was just there waiting for my son.
He wasn't going to leave him alone, stranded.
So he was there supporting him a little.
That's good.
That's a nice friend.
I was a minor once traveling alone and my flight was overbooked.
So they had to put me in a hotel and the hotels said the same thing to me.
They wouldn't take me because I was under 18 at the time.
And you said that the border officials weren't very nice to your son.
Is that right?
They were a little bit treating him like, why don't you have your COVID test here?
Like, you're doing something wrong.
They were very strict with him.
They were not trying to calm him down at all.
That feeling of like, I just want to get home and I'm being told I can't get home and I can't sleep in a safe, warm bed in a hotel room.
And then I wonder also how the fine went from $125, which is what they told you, to over $6,000.
Public Health said that it was $125,000 and then the border agent gave him a $6,000 fine.
It's like that is not in the budget, right?
$6,000.
I'm so sorry that that happened to you, but I'm so glad that we can help you fight this fine in court at no cost to you.
How did you hear about Fight the Fines?
So the next day, I posted about this fine with all my shock on a family chat.
And a cousin of mine told me about Ezra Levant and Fight the Fines and Rebelle News.
So I said, you know what?
I'll try it.
Yes, that's amazing.
So if you don't already know, Rebel News, we use our network of viewers and donors who generously donate to a registered Canadian charity called the Democracy Fund.
So none of the money comes to Rebel News.
It goes from the Democracy Fund straight to the legal teams, the lawyers and the paralegals who will be fighting these fines for you.
I'm really thankful for this charity organization and all the work that you do.
I'm going to get an update from the legal team.
Thank you so much for talking to me.
I feel that this case is definitely a winner.
I've already found several flaws in the way that this case is being presented.
It's not going to be for anything, any sexy or dramatic reason, but I can definitely see this being withdrawn.
And if it's not withdrawn, there's going to be a whole host of tribal issues that we serve on a platter for the Justice of the Peace to review.
Namely, this is a youth that we're talking about.
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