Ezra Levant examines Eric Zemur’s 14% surge in France’s presidential race despite legal battles and censorship—his viral video (3M views) was restricted by YouTube, yet his nationalist stance on immigration and assimilation sparks violent rallies. Comparing COVID-19 and climate policies, Levant argues both justify authoritarianism, citing Fauci’s role in lockdowns and a Canadian doctor diagnosing "climate-induced illness." Over 200 Toronto cops, including Doug Ford’s son-in-law Sergeant Dave Haynes, face unpaid suspensions for refusing vaccine mandates, protesting lost benefits and perceived hypocrisy. Elections may not curb bureaucratic overreach, as civil liberties erode under policies that prioritize control over freedom. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, there's a very interesting candidate running for president of France.
The media lies about him.
I'll let him speak for himself.
It's December 6th, 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 is government.
But why publish them?
It's because it's my bloody right to do so.
Look at this man.
He has an interesting face, don't you think?
He's a dream come true to political cartoonists.
His face is so easy to exaggerate.
If you had to guess his ethnicity, what would you say?
I'm telling you that he's running for the presidency of France.
He's in third place in a field of seven front-rank candidates.
The president right now, Emmanuel Macron, is at just 24%, but this man is at 14%.
And unlike the others, this is his first time out.
It's why he's being compared to Donald Trump.
The reason I ask you to guess his ethnicity is that although I think he could fairly be called a French nationalist, probably a French chauvinist, a France first candidate, if I can make up a phrase, he's not ethnically French.
He's not descended from the Gauls.
Doesn't look like Napoleon, does he?
His name is Eric Zemur.
And although he himself was born in France, his parents most definitely were not.
They're Algerian Jews, Arab Jews, who moved to France because of the civil war in Algeria.
Zamour is brilliant, obviously.
And maybe you could even say he's more French than France.
He's called right-wing.
He's a son of immigrants.
He married to a daughter of immigrants, but he is worried that unlike his wife and himself, immigration to France today does not assimilate.
He assimilated better than many French-born Frenchmen, and he despairs of what he sees.
He wrote a book called The Suicide of France.
It sold half a million copies.
Other books include France Hasn't Said Its Last Word and The Coup d'État of the Judges.
Those are interesting titles to me.
Aren't they interesting to you?
And unlike Trump or most other politicians to whom he's being compared, he is clearly his own speechwriter.
His whole life has been as a journalist and public intellectual.
That's a French thing, isn't it?
A UK thing maybe sometimes, but we don't really have public intellectuals run for office in North America.
That's a pretty French thing.
He's controversial, obviously.
He's the son of an Arab Jew from Algeria, but he doesn't like the failure to integrate of the new generation of immigrants.
And he's repeatedly being convicted and fined for inciting hatred.
And he's been acquitted and had many of his convictions overturned on appeal, literally a dozen altogether.
They're trying to shut him up.
I don't think it's working.
In fact, he's just running for president, but literally last month, another trial against him started.
His enemies call him right-wing, but they're the ones who want to censor his freedom of speech.
If he were a left-winger, I think he'd be called an immigrant person of color, but he's right-wing, so they hate him and smear him.
And yet he's in third place.
Enough of my preamble.
I want to show you his remarkable speech where he declared his candidacy.
Again, the American and the British media compare him to Trump because they compare everything to Trump.
There is no one they miss more in the world than Trump.
Everyone is boring compared to Trump.
Everyone is to be measured plus or minus from Trump.
They're more obsessed with Trump than even Trump supporters are.
I don't know if you saw this in the Globe and Mail.
I laughed so hard when I saw that awful former liberal justice minister, Alan Rock, warn in the Globe and Mail that Trump is lurking.
Thanks, buddy.
Someone who really cared about democracy might have something to say about, oh, I don't know, China or Iran or Venezuela, or frankly, the reduction of our own civil liberties.
But that old liberal Alan Rock has his Trump fantasies to keep him warm at night.
But back to Zimour.
When Trump made his announcement, he came down that golden escalator at Trump Tower, and he gave a great speech, by the way, and it was fun and high energy and a sign of the razzle-dazzle impromptu campaign to come.
But look at Zimur, by contrast, sitting down at a desk, reading a speech, not even from a teleprompter, but looking down, reading from a piece of paper.
He's sitting down at a desk, reading from notes.
He doesn't have the Trumpy charisma as part of his message.
Don't believe the charismatic fancy people anymore.
Don't believe the media.
Don't believe France's president Emmanuel Macron, who has the personality of Mark Zuckerberg.
Believe this small intellectual man, an ink-stained wretch, a provocateur who won't shut up, someone who talks about the real things.
Let me play for you some excerpts from his announcement video.
A Provocateur's Message00:12:55
I saw it.
It had nearly 2 million views in its first day.
I tweeted, an Arab Jew throws his hat in the ring for the French presidency with a patriotic flourish that references Napoleon and de Gaulle.
1.5 million views on YouTube.
You don't need to speak French to understand it.
I predict YouTube will deplatform him tomorrow.
That's what I predicted.
I was slightly wrong.
They didn't fully deplatform him.
They merely marked his content restricted at all, as if it were pornography or something like that, so that only adults can watch it.
But first, you have to log in and create an account with YouTube, improve your age or whatever.
Probably kept the audience way down just for the hassle of going through that process.
But nearly 3 million French people have watched it anyways.
Here, take a look to see what all the fuss is about.
You have to write the public, the televised series, or match football, or cinema, or spectacles, or chansons, and the scholars of your children.
You put it, you know, and in desire, you know, yours, sort of college, you accompany your people of the Pital, you know, coupons, or agents for the people, you passionate in a commissariat, or in a tribunal, and you have an impression of the country that you can say.
Holy moly, you can see the poet in him.
You can see the man who thinks and feels.
And it is true, isn't it?
He expands and listens to what he thinks of France, what he thinks of as France, of the France that's slipping away.
The country of the Fables of the Fontaine, the characters of Molière and the Verts of Racine, the country of Notre-Dame-de-Paris and the Clochers in the villages, the country of Gavroche and Cosette.
the country of Barricades and Versailles, the country of pasteurs and voices, the country of Voltaire and Rousseau, Clemenceau and Dogaud and Jean Moulin, the country of Gabin and Dolong, the Belle Mondeaux, Johnny and Navaus,
Brassons, and Barbara, Sauté, and Verneuil, this country that you have, we laugh at them the country that you cherish and enter disparate.
You know, you have the sensation of the view.
We have not your country, but it's concise your country, you have to.
You are strangers, our countries, you exiles.
I think that's true.
I feel that way in Canada, mainly about the pandemic, but about other things to a degree, too, not as much as things are being lost in France.
I've seen the change there.
It's shocking.
Here it's more incremental.
And listen to this.
Who else but him could say this?
We can see what you've got and surrender.
You have what you're doing.
And then the idea of your women, your Marie, your children, your parents, your Amy, your colleague, your voice.
And then, you said it to the unknown, and you understood that your feeling of possession was shared by everyone.
France was no longer France, and everyone was perceived by it.
He means it on a deep historical, cultural and ethnic basis, even though he himself is not ethnically French.
Although he clearly believes in France with every drop of his blood.
The next line is the one that gets me.
It was them who made you mal.
That's why we have to preserve our architecture, cultural and natural heritage.
It's why we restore our republicanism, their excellence, and its culture of merit, and these lives in children, the egalitarian experiences of pedagogists, and theories of people, and Islam.
It's for us, we must conquer our sovereignty, abandoned, or technocrats, or European people, who deprived the people of France, where we chimaire of Europe, who nation.
We must render the power to pop, the minority whose tyrannis, majority, and the judge who substitutes their juridicity, the government of Pope, by the pop for the popes.
You can see the echoes of his themes from his books, from his life.
And he talks about his own unusual life as a Cassandra.
That's a prophet who no one believes.
I said, I suppose, revenue of this illustrious.
As you, I mean, as you decide to take our destiny in my head.
I understand that politicians saw the country of tragic peace that I understand that all these competences were all.
When President Macron is presented as president, was the two predecessors in Pierre.
In all the parties, he continued to reform their price.
It is no longer time to reform the France, but to save the France.
That's why I decided to introduce myself to the presidential election.
The French are the French, proud of their past and confident in their future.
For the French to feel again at the end of the year, and for the last arrival, to their culture, to their history.
For our fashion in France, and not estrangés on Colonel.
Now, this next part is interesting.
He's a visible minority from Algeria by descent, a Jew, no less, an Arab too.
And listen to what he says about France.
Listen to his language.
We dim victory, and we cruel defects.
We are dying in our hearts, we less dominate, vassalizé, conquer, colonizé.
We less pass.
What do you do when a visible minority, religious minority, son of immigrants, says that?
Can he write him off as racist?
That's what the media party, that's what the establishment says about him.
And then, a prediction.
The French population was intimidated, tetanized, indoctrinated, culpabilized.
But he role-blatted, they les masks, he disciplined men, he chased these movements.
We continued France.
We laid et no French.
We transmit the flambeau to generation.
And moire, rejoined moire, very view.
We les French, we always triumph to all.
Vive la Républic and surtout, live la France.
Well, that's taking a stand.
He's like the photo negative of Canada's Aaron O'Toole, a man who stands for nothing.
Zamour stands for many things fiercely.
Right or wrong, he'll tell you what he believes.
And he didn't just cook this up on the basis of a new poll.
He's believed these things for decades, made the case for decades, written books about it, being punished and prosecuted for these ideas for decades.
Even if you disagree with him, he's no liar.
A few days ago, after that video, I saw this tweet announcing a huge rally with what looked like thousands of chairs and inviting the public to attend.
It was in the outskirts of Paris, and I thought, that's a bit trumpy.
Will he get Trump-sized crowds?
Clearly, he's not into the social distancing mask business.
I don't know his position on those things, but I can sort of see how he acts.
But in the back of my mind, I wondered if they'll do to him what they did to Trump.
Remember when Trump had that rally in Chicago, how the gangs descended on it, indistinguishable from the Democratic Party, the violence?
I wondered if it would be like that.
And it was.
But look at this language here.
This is from Twitter.
Violent scenes break out at Rally for French presidential candidate Eric Zamour.
Does violence just break out like a rash or something?
Sounds accidental or passive or random.
Did violence break out?
Or like at Trump's Chicago rally where Antifa thugs sent to break out the violence?
Here, violence erupts like it was a volcano or something and erupted.
Here's another report from a German state media company saying Zamur was far-right.
Okay, but it doesn't label the people who broke out the violence, does it?
They don't have an insult attached to their name.
Here's the disgraceful AFP.
They say anti-racism advocates were beaten up at a French presidential rally for far-right TV pundit Eric Zamur, while in Paris, thousands marched to denounce his views.
Got it.
So the people who broke out the violence were anti-racism advocates, even though they had crashed an event featuring an Arab Jew, son of immigrants, a person of color.
Okay, got it.
Here's Reuters.
Here's some video published by Reuters.
Looks like the Antifa protesters were right there inside the event.
They weren't protesting outside.
They went inside.
Imagine blaming that on the people hosting the event.
If Trump's supporters infiltrated a Joe Biden rally, not that he had rallies, and then got into a fight, do you think the headlines would read the same way?
But look at this.
Paris, French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zamour was left lightly injured after being assaulted at his first campaign rally on Sunday, where fighting also broke out during his speech in front of thousands of supporters.
Oh, I thought it was the bad Zamour supporters who were the violent ones, but someone actually injured Zumur himself.
Oh, but it was lightly injured, was it?
That's funny.
Breaking.
Zumur, the candidate, has been injured just before his first meeting.
He must rest for nine days.
Oh, lightly injured, to stay at home for nine days, really?
You know, they tried prosecuting him and fining him.
YouTube is censoring him.
His opponents are infiltrating his events.
I wonder how far they'll go to stop this Arab Jew who loves France.
I don't know much about him, not much more than I've told you today.
Perhaps he is awful.
I don't know.
But the people against him, they, I know, are awful.
But what will they do to stop him?
It wouldn't shock me if they did what they did to Yair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil.
Do you remember this from the campaign trail?
Shocking.
Stabbed him on the campaign trail, nearly killed him, lost so much blood.
That injury still hobbles him.
An inch over, it would have killed him.
They'll do whatever they can to stop Bolsonaro.
The same people hate Zamur.
This is a race to watch.
Stay with us for more.
The Larger Climate Problem00:14:37
Do people who have one, two, or three booster shots still have to wear masks?
What's the logic behind it?
I mean, one answer is that the vaccines we've discovered don't actually stop you from catching the virus or transmitting the virus or even getting sick.
But there's another answer that I see in National Review.
Kevin Hassett is the author.
He says, if the vaccine is so effective with hospitalization probabilities near zero for people in my age group who are vaccinated, then how can it be that the scolds continue to hold so much power over me?
And he gives this answer.
He says, the answer, of course, is that the section of our ruling class, a notion that broadly defined expands far beyond our legislatures, that wants to take away our freedoms and control our lives found in Tony Fauci the perfect device for mass oppression.
And he goes on a bit and then he switches gears and talks about climate change.
As terrible as the virus has been, nobody has claimed that it will destroy the earth as we know it.
The same cannot be said for the climate.
I won't read any more of this article, but the point is the training, the obedience conditioning that we've all gone through, that nothing is ever enough, that whatever you do is not enough, and that the state of crisis is permanent, is a lesson that the climate extremists have learned from the vaccine extremists.
And here to join us now about the terrifying thought of death by a thousand climate Fauci's.
That's his words, is our friend Mark Morano, the boss of climate depot.com.
A thousand climate Fauci.
Now, that's the stuff of nightmares.
It is.
And unfortunately, I think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it best.
He's the J. Edgar Hoover of public health.
He really is.
And he is now going to get his tentacles into every aspect of American life.
I don't know if this was known.
In August of 2020, Ezra, Anthony Fauci wrote, co-authored in an epidemiological journal an article that said COVID-19 is due to, quote, extreme backlashes from nature.
And he went on, this is Fauci writing in a peer-reviewed journal.
COVID will require changes in human behavior and other radical changes, rebuilding the infrastructure of human existence, unquote.
The exact words of Joni Fauci in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
That is a thousand Fauci because he is going to get the sinews of his bureaucracy into every aspect of our lives and make it permanent.
That's been their goal.
This is what Fauci said in a journal.
I even missed this.
At the time, I remember he did something and didn't pay much attention.
I've just recently gone back and reread it.
It's amazing stuff.
Anthony Fauci is a deep state player.
This was not a man who even just taken advantage of a crisis.
This is someone who's been waiting for his moment, and his moment came in March of 2020.
Wow.
Well, you're going to have to send me the link for that journal.
I mean, that is a crazy, crazy thing to say.
But you're right.
So many of the things that are COVID solutions, even if they're not actual solutions, just happen to be climate solutions.
Lockdown, don't travel, shut down industry, especially even on flights.
Like, I mean, here we are in Canada, huge vaccination rates, but only now they're clamping down on planes and trains and ships.
In Canada, in the world's second largest country, you can't get on a plane now if you're not vaccinated.
Is that about a virus?
Is that about control?
Is that about climate?
I'll tell you one thing.
It doesn't seem to be about the nature of public health.
No, and this is what they've sought.
The idea is your rights are conditioned upon whether you are being obedient to the regime in power.
And that's literally all it is.
New York City now is going to be doubling down.
I publicly call New York, the mayor of the largest or the most prominent U.S. segregated city.
I mean, this is a racially segregated city now.
Unvaccinated are among blacks and Hispanics.
And the white New York City mayor is doubling down and saying only the vaccinated can go to movies and restaurants and shops and entertainment and et cetera.
This is essentially resurrecting the old segregated South in America.
And it's now in the progressive city of New York and other major cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
It's amazing to watch this.
But here's the good news, Ezra.
There are liberals that are waking up to this.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my new hero, a man who wanted to jail climate skeptics.
Naomi Wolf, Max Blumenthal.
Max Blumenthal wrote an incredible piece about lockdowns.
He talks all about how the left has just been largely silent on the greatest human rights violations of what's been going on.
Max Blumenthal used to work for Media Matters.
He used to work for the nation.
I'm willing to embrace these political figures.
Jimmy Dore, the pothead comedian, self-described, he used to be on the, what's that show called?
The Young Turks.
The Young Turks, yeah.
And then you have a whole series of other people from the Hollywood actors and others.
I'm willing to say it's a new coalition.
This is no longer left and right.
Those are old paradigm.
This is for tyranny, against tyranny.
And we are finding many common allies.
And it just gets wackier and wackier.
I don't know if you're aware that the British Columbia doctor, who the first doctor to clinically diagnose a patient suffering from climate change, this is that whole first step, a lady who had a heat exhaustion, the whole first step to lead it to the death certificate to get us to that COVID-like hysteria, which Bill Gates has said COVID will kill far more.
Sorry, climate change will kill far more people than any virus.
They're setting the stage.
They're not letting go.
But thankfully, we have liberals on our side, a lot of big-name liberals that we can now, we need to organize a coalition with them.
You know, I saw that British Columbia doctor.
What's so crazy is that the College of Physicians and Surgeons is suspending or prosecuting any doctor who strays from the Pfizer narrative, who talks about alternative.
And when I mean alternative medicine, I don't mean like homeopathic medicine.
I mean like alternative prescription meds like Ivory McCarthy.
Repurpose medicine from other things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they'll be suspended or prosecuted, but some quack talks about a political diagnosis like, you're sick from climate change.
And he's the celebrity that's super gross.
Yeah, by the way, he's not just some intern doctor.
This is the head of the emergency room department at the hospital out in British Columbia.
This is not just some obscure country doctor trying to get attention or something.
This is how wacky it's become.
But it's, I don't know what's happening.
I just cannot believe that the American political left, the large majority of it, appear to be okay with this kind of civil liberties violation and respecting authority.
There's no end in sight as we go.
You have major medical, major energy reports, international energy agency coming out with reports essentially calling for permanent lockdowns for climate.
They want to restrict freedom of movement, make airline travel very expensive.
So only the wealthy essentially will be able to do it.
They want to stop building new airports.
They want to start locking down every aspect.
Business Insider Magazine said electric cars aren't enough.
We have to get rid of private car ownership and regular cars.
They're actually just not even trying to disguise their agenda at this point.
Yeah.
You know, it's incredible.
I think you're right to point out that the segregation that's come, it's not just segregation based on the choice of people who are vaccine hesitant or for health reasons don't want to or for whatever reason.
It does break on racial lines.
And there's historical reasons for that and cultural reasons for that.
But in the great city of New York, I think it's up to 40% of black people are not vaxed.
They'll be the servant class of these progressive leftist white liberals.
It's just incredible how what's happening and the silence of most liberals, you name Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Naomi Wolf, the communist Max Blumenthal.
He's not even a liberal.
He's a communist.
Jimmy Dore, It is amazing to see these people stand up, but for every one of them, there's a thousand liberals and Democratic Party members who are silent.
Where's the my body, my choice people?
Where's the I'm skeptical of big pharma people?
Where's the I want to stand up for the working man in a union against the corporation changing the terms of his collective agreement on him, you know, foisting new terms on him?
You've listed some wonderful people that I agree with you, but there's a million people you haven't listed because they've just shucked off all their beliefs that they claim to have held so dearly.
They have, and they're willing to accept this dystopian vision.
The Surgeon General under Joe Biden came out today and said, how to celebrate Christmas?
This is an example.
Get vaccinated, get boosted, get tested before you gather, gather in well-ventilated spaces, use masks, and then you can have a quite, he says, utterly, it says a quite fulfilling Christmas with your family.
This is the official guidance from the United States government of how to celebrate Christmas.
I just can't imagine any holiday occasion.
I just can't imagine how liberals from the 1960s would be okay.
These were the liberals who came out with the Pentagon papers, and they were going after the war machine and the lies of the big establishment.
And now they accept everything from the big public health establishment.
This is, it's an amazing thing to watch.
I don't see a way out of this.
I call it Marxism's new face, this idea of the COVID lockdown, the climate lockdown.
I think the reason the liberals, the answer to your question is they have a piece of the power.
When you think of all the anchors at CNN and you figure this is, you know, these are the billionaires' playthings.
Bill Gates gives out all this money.
So they're essentially on this.
I hate to say they believe this because they have money, but they're not offended by it because they're doing so well.
And this is why corporate America is willing to go along because corporate America is the ones that are benefiting from all of this.
You know, it's corporate America and the national chains and the big tech and Amazon and Walmart.
They're the ones getting boosted.
It's the small businesses being crushed.
And make no mistake, build back bankrupt, build back better.
That's what it's all about.
They want to collapse the old order and rebuild it into this, you'll owe nothing and be happy, great reset vision.
Yeah, I mean, as we started, the same thinking behind climate authoritarianism, which never really took off, is the exact same thinking behind COVID authoritarianism.
So I think journalists can detect, oh, these are cousins.
This is related.
The impact on someone's life is the same.
You know, it may be a different argument, different facts, but the process of authoritarian government decision-making is the same.
A thousand little Fauci.
I just, I wish I didn't read that phrase because it's haunting me.
Mark, it's great to see you.
The website is called climatepot.com.
You can see a link to this article in the National Review that makes the similarities.
Great to see you.
Keep up the fight.
I got one last question.
Let me jam it in before you have to go.
I was talking to a Canadian friend and saying, when's this going to end?
And he said, it's going to end when America ends it because Canada so often follows the U.S. lead.
He said that the pendulum is going to swing back in the 2022 midterms.
He pointed to the results in Virginia and New Jersey recently that, you know, just one year after Biden won, the shift is 10 or 15 points away from the Democrats, partly on COVID, partly on other things.
And my friend said, 2022, you're going to have a blowout in the Congress.
And 2024, you're going to see a Republican back in the White House.
That sure feels like an awfully long time to wait.
I think he's right.
We're going to have to wait for America to come to its census first.
Are you as optimistic as my friend is that America is sick of not just the inflation and the surrender of Afghanistan and the humiliations around the world, but they're sick of Democrat lockdownism?
Do you think that 2022 and 2024 will bring freedom?
I do think there'll be a big pushback.
The problem is the Republican Party is so pathetic and the leadership on this issue.
There's a lot of great senators and congressmen, but the Capitol Hill leadership, so they're not drawing that attention.
But here's the big, the larger problem.
With what they've done with the bureaucracy, both with environment, social governance, the banking system, every agency, executive orders, the administrative state, their goal, and it's a lofty goal and they probably can achieve it, is to make elections irrelevant.
This is what worries me, Ezra.
It doesn't matter who you elect for president, prime minister, senator, congress, mayor, if the electoral, if the bureaucracy behind the scenes wields the real power.
And the low point of the Trump administration was his top financial advisor, Larry Kudlow, being asked in April of 2020, when is the economy going to open?
And he said, I don't know.
That's up to the doctors.
When officials can cede that to the bureaucratic state under public health or climate emergency, that's when elections cease to matter.
And that's what scares me right now is how much strength have they gathered and how easy is even a politician going to be able to undo this when the real power behind this is coming from the bureaucracy, the unelected bureaucracy.
Toronto Police Controversy00:11:43
Well, you're sure right on that.
Mark, great to see you.
Thanks for your time today.
Thank you, Ezra.
I appreciate it.
There you have it.
with us.
Hey, welcome back.
Your viewer feedback.
Nigel Waterhouse writes a letter.
He says, in relation to Wroxham Road, serious question, does anyone ever cross the other way?
Asking for a friend whose church got shut down by the government and who was locked out of civil society because he is unvexed.
It is nuts.
It is not lost on me that people can traipse across their very first act, breaking the law, their second act, breaking the quarantine COVID rules, and they're treated like honored guests, whereas citizens, well, you know, prosecutions are absurd.
They're having jailings.
Someone, I think this is a nickname, PEST 138.
That would be an unusual name for your mama to give you.
The fact that these police officers are going along with this is unbelievable.
I know a lot of cops here in the U.S., and they and their unions have stated flat out that they will not cite or arrest anyone for mask distancing or lockdown shutdown violations for the simple reason that they are all unconstitutional.
Well, I do note that some cops say that.
In fact, some sheriffs, some police union bosses, even the odd police chief.
But there are those who do implement it, not as many as in Canada or Australia or New Zealand or the UK.
I think that's that American spirit of freedom.
And it cannot be ignored.
The fact that they have not just the First Amendment, which respects religion and speech, including religious gatherings, but also the Second Amendment.
If everything goes straight to hell, and I mean all the way, what's stopping the police from going full police state?
In Australia and the UK, the answer is a lot different than in the U.S. Canada's more like the UK and Australia.
That's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
And keep fighting for freedom.
And let me leave you with this video of the day, David Menzies, talking to unvaxed and suspended Toronto police officers holding a sit-in protest.
Take a look at this.
We've been told that the vaccine is akin to part of your uniform.
That if you don't have the vaccine, you actually aren't wearing your entire uniform.
Therefore, you're unfit for duty.
Prior to that, I was 11 years with the KA military.
I've been all over this world in a combat unit protecting the rights and freedoms of this country and the rights and freedoms of other people.
And I got to tell you, I am a little upset that, you know, the rest of this nation has not stood up.
We're taking good men and women that have served us and put their lives on the line on a regular basis and they're being treated like this.
Can I see your security license?
David Menzies for Rebel News here in Toronto.
Well, folks, I'm outside the Toronto Police Association office.
That's effectively the union for members of the Toronto Police Service.
As you may know, more than 200 members of the Toronto Police Service that would be officers and administrative staff, well, they're suspended without pay for refusing to reveal their medical status regarding the COVID vaccine or for those who have just said we are not going to get jabbed no matter what.
You know, it's kind of funny, isn't it?
Do you know if a police officer is accused of first-degree murder, he or she is suspended with pay.
You don't reveal your medical history.
You are suspended without pay, effectively fired.
And they're going to, they're congregating right now, as you can see, and they're going to have a sit-in at 9 a.m., which is about half an hour from now.
And the funny thing is, when we got here, security guards were already trying to give these police officers the bums rush.
Now, I don't know if this was the security guards acting independently or if the Toronto Police Association sicked those security guards on their own members.
We know that Toronto Police Association President John Reed said in a statement that the TPA is quote disappointed that the Toronto Police Service has placed members on unpaid leave for not revealing their vaccination status or not getting vaccinated.
And a notable member of the force who is suspended is Sergeant Dave Haynes, a 20-year veteran and Premier Doug Ford's son-in-law.
He is one of the suspended masses.
And get a little this, according to Sergeant Haynes, he said, quote, there is no provision in the collective agreement for the employer to force employees on unpaid leave, end quote.
So as the day goes on, we're going to see how this unfolds.
I can't ever remember members of the Toronto Police Service having a sit-in at their very own union office.
And already it doesn't look good given that security guards are telling them not to assemble here.
But like I said, we'll be here to see how the day proceeds because yet again, the mainstream media, they're sitting this one out.
We felt as though the union hasn't been representing us the way our voices need to be heard.
There's a lot of particulars about the way this has all have gone down as far as they've taken away our sick bank time, they've taken away our loo time, they've taken away all our benefits.
And it's just even those small things that we feel could be negotiated and allow us to sort of have a way to live.
We've been left with essentially nothing.
My personal opinion is I didn't think that it would come to this.
I thought that there would be a little bit of leeway accountability because I know that there are individuals here who have received one shot of the vaccine.
And I won't say that we were given assurances, but we were told that they were going to be sitting down at the table, they were going to be talking, and that as a sign of good faith, that there may have been an extension or there may have been some testing possibilities coming through.
It just goes to show you the level that we're at in today's society when we're taking good men and women that have served us and put their lives on the line on a regular basis and they're being treated like this.
I can't believe that city officials that are treating them like this.
I mean, they were heroes two years ago.
They were heroes a year ago.
And today they're just put out here in the cold.
And they got families.
There's a lot of people here who are not anti-vaxxed.
Apparently, there are injured officers who are struggling to get paid accordingly through WSIB.
And they're just not taking any liability whatsoever.
How does this mandate make Toronto as safe or any safer than before the mandate?
I don't think it does, to be quite honest with you.
And I don't think it's a matter of making the citizens of the city safe.
They keep on falling back on the Occupational Health and Safety Act, saying that they have a duty and a responsibility for the safety of all the employees, which I agree.
That's, you know, but I mean, we've been working in this capacity, doing what we're doing for two years.
We've been told that the vaccine is akin to part of your uniform.
That if you don't have the vaccine, you actually aren't wearing your entire uniform.
Therefore, you're unfit for duty.
Nobody wants to take accountability.
They're saying, take the vaccine, take the vaccine.
Okay, fine.
I'll take the vaccine.
And if it's wrong or I get hurt or I get injured, then you're liable.
No, we're not.
What has happened to the freedom that we all came to this country for?
My grandfather left Germany in World War II, just when it started.
He saw what was coming.
He could smell it.
And he left and he saved people.
And then he came to this country for a better life for us.
Is this a better country?
Is this a better world?
We really wish the association, at the very least, would show a little empathy and sympathy towards us, our lives, our families.
And that's not happening.
And that costs nothing.
I've seen a lot of stuff.
And prior to that, I was 11 years with the Kenya military.
I've been all over this world in a combat unit protecting the rights and freedoms of this country and the rights and freedoms of other people.
And I got to tell you, I am a little upset that the rest of this nation has not stood up, at least said something.
Like I said, it has nothing to do with vaccines anymore.
Thankfully, I got 32 years in with Toronto Police, and I'm in a good spot.
And thankfully, I have a very supportive partner and family.
And I'm looking at the possibilities rather than the problem right now.
And I'm looking for my next best chapter.
And whatever that is, I'm open, you know.
So I'm trying to be positive.
Like I said, there's been no logic to this, David.
I don't know.
I don't know.
You have to move outside?
Oh.
Yeah, outside?
Because this is a private property?
Yeah, I paid for my car to be on a space here.
Yeah.
What do you mean it doesn't matter?
I've paid for a space.
You paid for a space.
That's the parking, not the premises.
So why can't I congregate just a parking lot?
This is a parking lot.
You know, a lot of these people are police officers here.
You have to do it outside.
But this is a private property.
So even though these are police officers, you're trying to frog march them off the property.
And these are police officers that are suspended without pay, perhaps losing their jobs, and you don't care about that.
We have to do it outside, please.
Can I see your security license?
Well, folks, we always believe in getting the other side of the story, and we tried to go up to the floor where the Toronto Police Association is situated.
We wanted to get President John Reed on camera or anyone else with the TPA.
But if you can imagine, they have actually disabled the elevator to go to that floor.
So I guess whether it's the media or their own members, they are in no mood to talk about this grotesque act of dismissing members on a suspension without pay.
I think that's shameful.
Check out this sad and somewhat disturbing display.
Many of the officers who came to protest here, well, they've left behind their police boots as a sign of protest for what's happened to them.
And what a dire state of events, isn't it, folks?
You have men and women in law enforcement who are essentially no longer employed.
They've been suspended without pay.
And as citizens of Toronto, do you feel any safer now that so many members of law enforcement are no longer on the Toronto police force?
What a sad, sad day in Toronto's history.
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