Ezra Levant dissects the Conservative leadership debate, where Pierre Poilievre won applause while Jean Charest faced jeers, and Patrick Brown’s no-show—accused of 122 bylaw violations in one week—exposes his "compulsive lying." Brown’s pandering to diaspora groups, like promising to delist the LTTE (responsible for Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination), reveals vote-chasing over national issues. Levant contrasts Canada’s vaccine mandates with India’s Supreme Court rejection of forced vaccinations, citing political targeting of protesters and unions’ complicity, while Doug Ford’s selective media bans and past controversies—like calling police on critics—undermine his "get it done" credibility. The episode suggests leadership debates prioritize optics over substance, with mandates and exclusions exposing deeper ideological divides. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, we all know that sneaky Patrick Brown is a lying liar, but maybe he is dangerous as well.
It's Friday, May 6, 2022, 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 don't give them an answer.
The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
Hey, folks, did you catch the conservative leadership debate last night?
Well, if you didn't, here's the post-game summary.
Judging by applause, the clear-cut winner was surely Pierre Polyev.
Judging by the booze, the jeers, and even downright derisive laughter, the definite loser was Jean Charay.
No surprise there, really.
But there was also a candidate who lost the debate due to default, given that he was a no-show, and that would be sneaky Patrick Brown, Brampton's full-time mayor and part-time Zamboni inspector.
One must wonder what Patrick Brown was thinking.
Why wouldn't he want to be on a national stage making a case for what he believes in?
Gee, could it be because the majority of Canadians aren't buying what he's selling?
Or maybe because so many grassroots conservatives know that Patrick Brown is a compulsive liar.
You know, the kind of guy who would spit in your face and tell you that it's raining.
Or maybe because we all know, or we should know, that Patrick Brown will say anything to anyone if he thinks it will garner him a vote or three.
All of my points are provable, folks, by the way.
For example, check out how we caught Patrick red-handed at a Brampton hockey rink in 2020.
This tale never gets old.
Here's the backstory.
Brown had closed all the playgrounds and baseball diamonds and soccer pitches to the children of Brampton.
He hired Paladin Security to spy on these facilities.
And if they saw violators, the security guards would call Brampton bylaw.
And like firefighters to a four-alarm blaze, the bylaw buzzards would whip over to the scene of the crime and issue hefty tickets.
It was all about keeping people safe at the height of COVID, you see.
But Patrick Brown is one of those political parasites who subscribes to the mantra of, do as I say, not as I do.
We were tipped off that Brown was playing shiny at the Earnscliffe Recreation Center with his Berry buddies.
At first blush, we found this tip hard to believe.
Surely even Patrick Brown isn't that entitled.
But we paid a visit to the rink and well, here's what transpired.
Well folks, we're getting the bums rush, but holy mackerel, I think I see Patrick Brown himself.
Hey, how you doing?
Mr. Brown, right?
David Mancy, the Rebel News.
We're in a city facility?
What's that?
You're in a city facility?
Yeah, so are you.
Yeah.
So are you playing hockey here?
No, I'm just coming to check in our facility.
So I'm going to check you.
You're not supposed to be here, actually, guys.
We were told that you play pickup here.
Mr. Brown, how come the kids in Brampton can only practice sports, but your buddies can play hockey?
So I don't know why you are harassing people in the city of Brampton, but you shouldn't be.
Oh, who's going to?
Your guys handed out 122 bylaw violations in one week.
Mr. Brown, why is there a hockey game going on in this arena?
I thought you're only allowed to practice sports, not play them.
And who is paying the $1,000 a day, Mr. Brown, for this rink?
Mr. Brown, are these taxpayer dollars being used for your buddies to play hockey on this rink?
Or are you paying it?
Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon.
So Mr. Brown, why is there one law for me and one law for thee in this city?
Mr. Brown.
Oh yeah, he was there all right.
He was there to inspect the facility.
You know, if I had a job that entailed checking Freon levels and tinkering with the engine of a Zamboni, I would also wear a finely tailored suit from Harry Rosen as opposed to, you know, haberdashery obtained from Mark's work warehouse.
But Brown blatantly lied about his shiny shenanigans.
He would also later lie with his pals in the mainstream media that I had misrepresented myself as a correspondent with Maple Leafs TV, an outlet that doesn't exist, by the way.
And he wrapped it all up in a bow by stating that Rebel News is an Islamophobic organization.
Gee, I'm sure that last allegation must come as a shock and a surprise to Rahil Raza, the chair of Rebel News.
I mean, I don't think a Muslim would want to be part of an Islamic news organization after all.
But here's the deal.
If Patrick Brown is caught on tape lying about a little thing like sneaking off to a hockey arena to play a sport that was verboten to all the other citizens of his city, well then chances are he's going to lie about the big things too.
Dealing with the Tamil Tigers00:09:16
That's really why the Progressive Conservative Party made Patrick walk the plank back in January 2018.
It really had little to do with an alleged sex scandal and a whole lot more to do with the fact that Patrick Brown was destroying the party's brand thanks to his incessant lying.
For example, he told social conservatives that if made leader of the PC party and elected premier, he would terminate the liberals' radicalized sex education curriculum.
And then after becoming party leader, he tossed social conservatives under the bus by telling them, nope, the sex ed curriculum is just fine and dandy.
Thank you very much.
Inexplicably, he then tossed fiscal conservatives under the bus when one of his first major policy announcements was his vow to bring in a provincial carbon tax for Ontario.
That was baffling.
Despite declines in recent years, Ontario is still a manufacturing province.
A carbon tax would have been cancerous.
So when allegations of a sex scandal emerged, the PC party had a very convenient excuse to stage a palace coup and rid themselves of someone who was less leader and more compulsive liar.
But like Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees, Patrick Brown is back from the grave.
This shameless shyster has set his sights on becoming the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, ultimately hoping to emerge as our next prime minister.
Holy horror movie indeed.
Yet, what does Patrick Brown stand for?
Since tossing his hat in the ring back in March, for the most part, he's been missing in action.
Unlike the other five candidates who have been crisscrossing our great dominion and holding rallies, Patrick Brown has had about as much of a public presence as the Invisible Man.
Well, not quite.
You see, Patrick Brown is less about public rallies and far more about backroom deals.
And one of those deals that he cooked up recently is downright disturbing.
As reported in the Globe and Mail, in private appeals to Tamil Canadians, Brown has promised to deliver an apology as Prime Minister for Canada's behavior during the Sri Lankan civil war that ended in 2009.
You know, I don't know what Canada was supposed to have done in a civil war half a world away.
Maybe send in the snowbirds for a flyby.
But Patrick has nevertheless offered to serve up a Mia Kalpa on the behalf of all Canadians because he thinks that some Tamil Canadians will support him for this.
Wow.
But wait, there's more folks.
Brown has also promised to remove the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, aka the Tamil Tigers, from Public Safety Canada's list of designated terrorist organizations.
This group was first put on the terrorist list by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in 2006.
Yeah, when Patrick Brown was an MP in that very government.
Funny how he didn't raise a ruckus about the Sri Lankan conflict back then.
Oh, but then again, what am I saying?
He didn't stand to personally benefit from taking such a stance some 16 years ago.
Yikes.
By the way, the blacklist pertaining to the Tamil Tigers is not just a conservative thing.
The Justin Trudeau Liberals reaffirmed the Tamil Tiger terrorist designation after a review in 2018.
Here's what Public Safety Canada stated then, quote, although the LTTE was militarily defeated in May 2009, subversion, destabilization, and fundraising continue, particularly in the diaspora, end quote.
Should be noted that this is not just a Canadian thing either.
32 other nations around the world also consider the Tamil Tigers to be a terrorist group.
And rightly so, the Tamil Tigers were actually successful in assassinating a former head of state, namely India's Rajiv Gandhi.
That's quite the achievement for a terror group.
Yet, even though the Tamil Tigers have blood on their hands, Patrick Brown, he could care less.
That's because Canada is home to one of the largest Tamil populations outside Sri Lanka.
Approximately 140,000 Canadians claim Tamil as their mother tongue.
The overall population of the Tamil Canadian community is estimated at about twice that number.
In numerous Greater Toronto Area ridings, Tamil voters count for more than 10% of the electorate.
Brown is obviously wagering that most Tamil Canadians are supporters of the Tigers and that they would respond favorably to the Tigers being removed from the terrorist list.
The quid pro quo, of course, is that these Tamil Canadians would support Patrick Brown by buying party memberships and voting for him.
That's what's so appalling about Patrick Brown's pledge to declassify the Tamil Tigers.
He aims to do so not because it is the right thing to do, not the right thing to do for Canada, that is, but because it's potentially the right thing to do for Patrick Brown's leadership ambitions.
That in a nutshell is Patrick Brown for you.
The party he represents is not the Ontario Progressive Conservatives nor the federal conservatives, but rather he's leader of the Me, Myself, and I party.
Yet by exploiting diaspora politics for purely personal gain, Brown is playing a very dangerous game here indeed.
And by the way, how low will he go?
What about, I don't know, declassifying al-Qaeda as a terrorist group in order to entice pro-Al Qaeda Muslim Canadians to the Brown camp.
Hey, I'm sure our homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist little Omar Cotter would approve.
Heck, Omar could even make a substantial donation to the Brown campaign, given that this murderer is a multi-millionaire due to your tax dollars hard at work yet again.
By the way, we can all thank Prime Minister Trudeau for that benevolence, given that Justin has apparently never met a jihadi he didn't admire.
But in the big picture, think of what's consuming the thoughts of most Canadians these days.
Like how about gasoline at almost two bucks a liter?
How about inflation spiraling out of control?
Just how many citizens go to bed at night thinking that hopefully, maybe one day, there will be a prime minister who will finally remove the Tamil Tigers from the terrorist list.
But this is inconsequential to Mr. Brown, the leader of the Me, Myself, and I party.
Clearly, his goal is to sell hundreds, if not thousands, of party memberships to certain targeted ethnic groups.
Brown promises to pay attention to their old mother world concerns.
In return, they need only buy a party membership and vote for Patrick Brown.
The thing is, such a Hoorish strategy might just swing the vote in certain key writings.
The fact that the vast majority of Canadians likely don't want our nation to get soft on terrorism and terrorists is of no concern to Brown.
This pathetic weasel seeks power for the sake of power.
In his playbook, the ends always justify the means.
And maybe that is the reason Patrick Brown was a no-show at the debate last night.
He's just way too busy cooking up backroom deals, and some of those backroom deals are being done with people who, quite frankly, do not subscribe to the values of a Western democracy.
In his insatiable quest for power, this lying liar will say or do anything, including exploiting diaspora politics and embracing those who support terrorism.
Mr. Brown is not simply a fake conservative who finds it almost impossible to tell the truth.
Rather, Patrick Brown is downright dangerous.
Supreme Court Ruling on Vaccine Mandates00:04:07
Well, folks, earlier this week in a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that, quote, no one can be forced to be vaccinated, end quote.
The court also ruled that bodily integrity and personal integrity are protected under the law as a constitutional right.
Wow.
For those who subscribe to freedom of choice and medical privacy, this is indeed an incredible decision by the Supremes.
But alas and alack, I forgot one very important detail, folks.
It was the Supreme Court of India, not Canada, that made this landmark decision on May the 2nd.
And joining me now to discuss how India's High Court got it right on vaccine mandates while this country refuses to budge on such COVID-19 inspired regulations is Rupa Subramania, a columnist for the National Post.
Well, thanks so much for joining me, Rupa.
And I hope I didn't massacre the pronunciation of your name.
No, it was perfect.
It was perfect.
Thank you so much for having me.
Well, Rupa, you wrote a superb column in the post yesterday contrasting India and Canada when it comes to the vax mandates.
The question arises, why do Indians finally have freedom from these oppressive rules, whereas Canadians are still essentially stuck in lockdown mode?
That's an excellent question.
And it's not just India that seems to be in the end of the pandemic.
It's a whole bunch of different countries.
Canada is increasingly an outlier in the world when it comes to vaccine mandates, especially as they apply to, for example, the civil service.
I can't think of any other country which insists that federal government workers should be vaccinated, especially when they've been working from home.
The judicial system of the two countries, India and Canada, are very similar.
They're very similar.
I mean, they have the same parent, essentially.
And also, there's also a culture of deference in Canada, in the Canadian judicial system, and the Indian judicial system.
So that's what makes this Supreme Court ruling extraordinary, because it begs the question, why aren't the courts, you know, why isn't this happening here, given how potent the issue of vaccine mandates has been for the last few months?
And the judgment was remarkable in the sense that they tried to strike a delicate balance between the government's responsibility towards maintaining public health and safety and bodily autonomy of the average Indian citizen.
And that in the context of this current situation where infection rates are actually low, and also they refer to emerging scientific evidence that shows that the transmission rates between the unvaccinated and vaccinated are almost on par.
So what is the rationale behind vaccine mandates?
And that was the original rationale for vaccine mandates.
If you remember last fall, this was before Omicron, the rationale was to curb transmission.
But post-Omicron and post-Omicron, some variants, which are highly transmissible, even people with three or four doses are getting COVID.
I got COVID after my third booster.
So, you know, what purpose do mandates serve at this point?
You know, you're quite right, Rupa.
It's not just India.
I know very recently Switzerland and Greece, as you noted in your column, they've gotten rid of the mandates.
Even, my golly, New Zealand arguably had the strictest mandate laws on the books.
Mandates And International Comparisons00:13:36
They're now freeing things up.
I believe on May 1st, it no longer applies to international travelers.
That's the vax mandates.
So what is the unspoken strategy here, Rupa?
I mean, is this really all about politics?
Is this about the Justin Trudeau liberals demonizing the unvaxed for political gain somehow?
Well, I've been desperately searching for the science.
What is the scientific rationale behind these mandates?
And as I mentioned to you earlier, the original rationale was to curb transmission.
Now that everybody is getting infected, that basically falls apart.
So then the question is, so why are these mandates in place?
And I can't help but think that this is all about politics at this point.
And the more you demoralize the united, the more you denigrate them.
And all of that has been happening.
You know, we know that's been happening.
The Freedom Convoy protesters, for example, have been demonized to such a great extent that I think many of them are actually feeling a little demoralized at this point.
And I think it's all about politics.
I think the Trudeau government probably wants to see where this is going to go.
They probably just want to also attack their opponents in the Conservative Party, especially now that the leadership campaign is in full force.
And I suppose that if you were a Conservative leader who supported the convoy, they're hoping to play this as a wedge issue as long as it takes.
You know, you mentioned the Freedom Convoy.
We saw how they were demonized, Rupa.
Last weekend, I was in Ottawa to cover Rolling Thunder.
These were a group of peaceful bikers.
All they wanted to do was take a lap around the National War Memorial and lay a wreath.
They were denied doing that.
They were demonized too.
Again, another peaceful protest.
I'm beginning to think, Rupa, for those on the left, is freedom the new F word?
Freedom seems to have become a really toxic word, which is quite bizarre to me because it's so fundamental to our existence.
It's fundamental to democratic societies.
Freedom may not mean much to the average North Korean, but it does mean a lot.
I think it means a lot to the average Canadian.
So I just find that every time one talks about freedom and individual liberty, it seems to trigger folks on the left, which is a really bizarre reaction.
But I do think that maybe at a basic level, people are actually afraid of being free.
And those of us who've come to Canada from countries that didn't protect individual liberty, that gave short shrift to freedom and individual liberties, we really value freedom.
And that's something that you start valuing it when it's taken away from you.
And going back to the issue at hand, Rupa, I mean, we don't have a Supreme Court decision one way or the other, but you did mention in your column, it was a very interesting anecdote.
It was how arbitrators ruled against the Canadian Union to post the workers when that Union filed a grievance against Canada post-mandatory vaccination requirement.
This doesn't seem hopeful what's happening here as so many other nations around the globe are opening up.
It seems that be it corporations, crown corporations, the federal government, they're still hell-bent on keeping these vax mandates.
But given the lack of effectiveness, what's the point?
It is politics.
It's not about the science anymore, as I mentioned earlier.
And there have been a series of these cases that have come up before arbitrators, the most recent one being the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
And, you know, and it's not just that.
I mean, it's the unions as well, which is extraordinary.
I mean, the UK, for example, the unions were very, you know, came up strongly against vaccine mandates when they were being proposed.
So, but our unions here, for some reason, seem to side with the government on this issue.
And it truly is perplexing.
I mean, the left has essentially sided with the government on this and focused on other issues when they should be fighting for workers' rights.
Where are they?
They're nowhere to be found.
And it's almost perversely embarrassing because we see government, corporations, unions walking in lockstep.
I mean, we have come across unionized employees who are suspended without pay and they get no benefits.
And it's one thing for the company and the government to wage war on them in this regard, Rupa, but their union too.
I mean, I'm asking, why am I paying union dues?
Why do I need a union when you're simpatico with the company and the government?
Yeah, it is extraordinary.
I mean, it is the large sections of the media, the commentariat, the unions, of course.
And they're all basically speaking, they're all using the same talking points.
As you say, they seem to be in lockstep with the government.
And again, I would point that, I'd like to point that Canada, again, is uniquely, it's an outlier in this, as far as mandates are concerned, and as far as opposition to the mandates is concerned from unions and other organizations that should be fighting for workers' rights.
And so it is extraordinary.
I think at this point, it is really about politics.
Like I mentioned in my column, and I mentioned to you earlier, that it makes sense for them to play this as a wedge issue, continue to polarize Canadians, continue to divide Canadians, continue to demoralize the unvaccinated in the hopes, perhaps, you know, that, let's say a protest turns violent.
I wasn't here this past weekend, but I know friends who were at the protests.
And, you know, and many of these folks mentioned to me that there was a dark element to the protest this time.
You know, it didn't have the spirit of, it wasn't like the Freedom Convoy protest.
It was something definitely a dark underlining, a dark line to the protests.
And perhaps it speaks to the fact that many of the protesters are now really tired.
Their patience is wearing thin.
They've not been told why these mandates are in place.
I mean, they asked some very good questions.
The Conservatives have been asking excellent questions in the House of Commons, Asking the government, you know, show us the evidence, point us to a study that justifies these mandates.
You know, who are the experts that you're consulting?
And these are questions that a lot of people have been asking.
But, you know, there are no answers.
The answers that we get, the responses that we've been getting from the government is that I think at one point Prime Minister Trudeau said in response to Minister Lanceman's very, very specific questions on the rationale for travel mandates, he said most Canadians are vaccinated.
I mean, that's a complete non-response.
So it's frustrating.
It's adding to the frustration of people who are not able to board a plane.
They're not able to go back to work because they're on leave without pay.
And so it is getting, you know, their patients is wearing thin.
And I worry the more this goes on, the more angry people are going to get.
And then, you know, that corrosive narrative that was in place during the Freedom Convoy may end up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Well, Rupa, I'm going to throw now to a clip from a Justin Trudeau Liberal MP who is indeed justifying that we have to keep these mandates in place when it comes to Canadians who are unvaxxed and want to travel.
Let's check out what he has to say.
The NBP Liberals won't follow the province's lead and give unvaccinated Canadians their rights back.
Maybe they will follow our international partners.
We know that the Prime Minister values his play-amoy image on the world stage more than anything else, as his travels and selfies prove.
But our international partners are bewildered as to why the Canadian government is so reluctant to let life return to normal for all Canadians.
Switzerland and Greece are removing all travel-related restrictions next week, and virtually no other country requires it for domestic travel for their citizens.
So why won't this government follow the science?
The Honourable Prime Minister Sex to the Minister of Health and the Minister of Sport.
Thank you, Madam Speaker, and I thank my honourable colleague for giving me the opportunity to highlight a recent study indicating that unfortunately the unvaccinated continue to disproportionately risk the safety of those vaccinated against COVID-19 and highlight the fact that in the last week almost 12,000 Canadians have received their first dose, 30,000 Canadians have received their second, 89,000 have received their third, and over 220,000 have received their fourth dose.
Madam Speaker, this pandemic is not over.
We all want it to be, but we must continue to follow the science.
We must continue to support our neighbours.
We must continue to fight for kids to ensure that young people under six do not get COVID-19 as they have been the biggest numbers in the last couple of days.
Thank you.
Well, apart from the course, yet another Justin Trudeau Liberal that doesn't answer the question.
We've got to wrap it up, Rupa.
I want to ask you to gaze into a proverbial crystal ball.
When do you think these mandates, whether it's by the government dropping them or by our Supreme Court ruling on this issue, when is someone, well, like me who's unvaccinated, where I can get on a plane, fly down to the Dominican Republic, I'd love to do that like the good old days.
When or when do you think that's going to happen, if it's going to happen?
I think it will happen.
I think it's a question of when.
And I don't have a specific date in mind, but I do think that the pressure that they're certainly feeling the pressure.
I know almost every day there's a question in the House of Commons trying to hold the government to account, asking them to explain to us why these mandates continue in place when other countries, including New Zealand, which followed a very aggressive COVID-0 policy, has rolled back many of these mandates, including the fact that you can get Board Air New Zealand unvaccinated.
And that's quite extraordinary.
So, you know, the government can continue to justify these mandates.
They can refer to studies that show that the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated and they can do all of that.
But, you know, the rest of the world is moving on and we're still in pandemic mode.
And that's clear for everybody to see.
The world is watching us.
I know people who visited Canada and left Canada and they say Canada feels like a prison because our restrictions here are harsher than anywhere else.
Couldn't agree with you more, Rupa.
Thank you so much for your time.
It was a pleasure.
And folks, please check out Rupa's column in the National Post.
The headline: India's courts get it right on vaccine mandates and Canada doesn't.
What a disgrace.
Keep it here.
More of the Ezra Levent show to come right after this.
Well, folks, you know, we here at Rebel News, we get your correspondence electronically, that is, every minute of every day.
And why don't we just check out some of our fan mail, or is it perhaps hate mail?
That's okay.
We're an equal opportunity employer here.
Grace Friesen writes, Isn't it about time to call MSM welfare media?
Oh, and while we're at it, why not call all politicians welfare bums too?
Well, certainly the career politicians who basically don't do anything, I think bum is an apt descriptor, but you're right.
In terms of the mainstream media receiving government money, not only are they receiving a form of welfare, but they are inherently in a conflict of interest.
Inviting Doug Ford00:09:39
How can you possibly fairly and impartially cover the government when the government is, in essence, your sugar daddy?
Unbelievable.
Sarah Candent's blog writes, Canada is doomed.
That's why my family and I left this year, only coming back after Fidel's son leaves the government, and it might be after 2025.
Well, you know, first of all, I'd love to know where you flew off to.
I, of course, being one of the filthy unvaxed Canadians, I can't get out of our country under the present vax mandates.
And yeah, 2025, it seems so long away.
I mean, as the saying goes, today can't possibly dream of what tomorrow brings.
Let's hope Jugmeet Singh grows a set and stops propping up this hideous liberal government.
Let's hope we have regime change sooner than three years away.
Photo 606 writes: love listening to Sheila Gunn Reed.
As a Winnipegger, I don't listen to local radio unless it's music, and I loathe the Winnipeg Free Press, which seems to have been deteriorating in quality and integrity for years.
Well, my friend, I can tell you, same deal with terrestrial radio in Toronto.
If some of these cats don't get off the air, I'm going to stop breathing it, to use the old Dick Beddoes quote.
And what do you think about the fact that the Winnipeg Free Press that you have disdained for, you are indirectly paying for that?
That would be part of the newspaper Cabal getting that $600 million plus a year to keep them afloat.
Otherwise, it's a bankrupt entity.
Funny that.
If something's going to fail, why do we have to come to its rescue?
I never understood that kind of perverse capitalism.
Maybe because it's not capitalism at all.
It's more like Marxism.
Well, folks, that wraps up another edition of the Ezra Event Show, the big boss man.
He'll be back on Monday.
In the meantime, have a great weekend.
And as always, stay sane.
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That's a fair question.
I see other media.
You're not invited to the events and you're not checked in.
You're not coming to the event.
But do you have to be invited?
I see all sorts of people coming in.
Everybody here is invited, and they're all here for the right reasons, so.
So you're asking us to leave, but you won't give us a reason why?
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I'm just asking on why.
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What does that mean?
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That's right, Rebel News.
So we're media.
Thank you.
Okay, then.
Thank you very much.
Isn't that amazing?
We can't get in, but the state-funded media, CBC, City TV, Global, CTV, they can.
That was Ford's spokeswoman, the person I was talking to.
You see, there'll be no problem of Brian Lilly getting entry because that is Brian Lilly's mistress.
It is a grotesque conflict of interest.
It's a conflict of interest that, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't been declared.
So is that the new rule that you got to get really up close and personal with the PC communications team or else you're asked to leave?
Well, I'm sorry, I'm a married man, and besides, Ivana is not my type.
In any event, as always, we will try to make lemonade out of lemons and do our sweeters outside.
But what does it say that a man, Doug Ford, in September 2017, I remember it well, I was interviewing him at Rebel News headquarters, proposed a weekly Rebel News show and only to change his mind, not based on what he wanted to do, but you see, Dave, the team, the team has different ideas.
That's what he told me in November after he was ignoring my phone calls, emails, texts, etc.
So in any event, it's baffling.
Perhaps his cozy relationship with Justin Trudeau is what has made us media non-grata.
We have come to the Toronto Congress Center several times, several times in the last four years.
We've been warmly received, but now we're media non-grata.
And I don't think it's an unfair question to ask why.
But you saw it, even his communications head honcho, aka Brian Lilly's mistress, says we are not wanted here.
I used to work with her at Sun News.
Boy, do relationships change quickly.
Well, enough about that.
Let's see what some of the folks have to say in terms of Doug Ford's greatest achievement and greatest failure.
Oh, I think I can weigh in chapter and verse on failures, folks, believe me.
But we'll see what the folks have to say.
For me, I think it's bringing peace back to the province, you understand.
Moving away from the politics of identity politics that was dividing the province so much before.
And when you have peace, you can get many things done.
Okay.
And it's getting many things done.
And that's the slogan, this campaign, get it done.
But get what done exactly?
The infrastructures.
Okay.
Restoring the school to standard that the children can be able to study and get good grades, right?
Okay.
And making Toronto and Ontario more a better place for everybody to live and feel equal.
Well, I'm a candidate.
Oh, okay, then.
Yes, so I don't know if it's appropriate for me to comment, but I think he did a great job.
And you know what?
Especially his leadership through COVID, making sure that everybody was safe.
And we put people, you know what, we had to make sure that all the province was safe and we put the people first.
But in fairness, he got a lot of flack.
He said one month he was against vaccine passports and then he flip-flopped on that and that caused a lot of discontent.
Do you think he made the right call?
I absolutely believe he made the right call.
Okay, then.
He was thinking about people health.
This protection was extra work for to care about the Ontarians.
Hey, Randy, how you doing there?
You know, we're just asking people today what Doug Ford's biggest achievement has been and his biggest failure these last four years.
Hello, Randy.
I love your call.
I'm happy with that interaction because unlike the last time I had an encounter with Randy Ford via a voice box at Deco Labels, a store I don't think, I mean a business I don't think ever closed during the pandemic.
In fact, I think business has never been better.
Well, he or one of his henchmen called the police.
Check it out.
I want you to leave the property.
Girl, call up the police here.
Oh, who are you, sir?
Okay.
I won't say a single thing.
Okay.
Okay, he's a perfect leader.
Perfect.
Absolutely.
Okay, then.
Because you know, the saying goes, show me a great man, I'll show you a flawed man, but not with Doug Ford.
Not at all.
Not at all.
You have to be clear in your mind when you select a leader.
You have to be very clear what you are saying about him.
So I don't see anything negative.
I just want to support him.
We want to be looking forward to the next four years for him.
But sir, when it comes to clarity, I mean, he received a lot of flack when he said there was no way there was going to be a two-tier citizenship status in Ontario in terms of a vax passport.
But the answer is no.
We aren't going to do it.
We aren't going to have a split society.
A few weeks later, he said, guess what, folks?
We're getting a vax passport.
I follow the medical advice of the chief medical officer in the science.
And we haven't wavered from that.
And we have two options here.
We either do this or we risk shutting down the economy, which would even be worse.
Having our hospital capacity maxed out and at the brink.
That kind of flip-flop, is that truly leadership?
Well, you know, we are all human beings, okay?
There are certain types of U-turn that you have to do at the time when looking at the ground realities.
So I would ignore that, you know, if that happens.
First of all, he's not misstepped at all.
He's putting the province in the right direction.
To quote his mantra, get it done, and Doug's doing it, okay?
He's made commitments and he's false in his commitments.
In front of the building there, just where I was telling you before, basically.