Ezra Levant examines the controversial disqualification of Patrick Brown from Canada’s Conservative leadership on July 6, where Ian Brody cited unspecified financial misconduct amid Rebel News revelations—including city staff (like Babu Nagalangam) allegedly working for his campaign and secret hockey games during public bans. Brown denies wrongdoing but blames Rebel News, despite dropped trespassing charges against journalists. Meanwhile, Tamara Leach’s detention under a non-communication warrant raises legal concerns, while Trudeau’s ArriveCan app sparks privacy debates. Protesters on Parliament Hill call Trudeau divisive, comparing his policies to historical oppression, as Levant defends free speech rights under C-44, urging resistance despite fines. [Automatically generated summary]
Just before midnight, we got an email from the Conservative Party of Canada saying that really one of the frontrunners, Patrick Brown, was disqualified for running for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Shocking release at a shocking hour.
And then Patrick Brown responded even later saying he himself was shocked.
Very interesting, and who he blames for it.
Well, I'll give you a hint.
He blames us.
We've got a big show for you today.
We're going to talk about that, including with the journalist who really set things in motion, our friend David Menzies.
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All right, here's today's show.
Tonight, Patrick Brown is forced out of the conservative party leadership race.
We'll tell you what really happened.
It's July 6th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you you sensor is bug.
Well, sometimes I like to go to bed early Sometimes I stay up late.
I'm glad I stayed up late last night because seriously, close to midnight, the Conservative Party of Canada sent out this unusual press release, unusual, including the fact that it was sent out at nearly midnight.
It was written by Ian Brody, who's the head of the leadership committee that is running the contest for the Conservative Party of Canada.
And he announced that Patrick Brown, one of the frontrunners, I would say the second place most likely to win frontrunner, Patrick Brown, was disqualified for misconduct, for financial misconduct and shady business.
They didn't detail that shady business, saying that there were other investigations afoot, including, said Ian Brody, that they had referred the matter to the government because there may be violations of the Canada Elections Act.
That's quite something to learn coming up on midnight.
But also last night, the Patrick Brown campaign fired back, saying it was all unsubstantiated gossip, that there was no basis for it.
And more to the point, there was no due process.
They were not allowed to challenge these things in a proper way.
And although I am not sympathetic to Patrick Brown, there may be something to that.
The fact that there was this secrecy of what was alleged.
Well, I don't know if that's true, but the press release that Ian Brody put out did not really particularize things.
It's a big deal, though, because taking Patrick Brown out raises a lot of questions.
Will his people that he signed up bother to remain conservative at all?
Will he throw his weight behind someone else, perhaps Jean Charrain?
Will it be a cakewalk for Pierre Polyev, who appears to be the frontrunner?
Will this demoralize the party, cause some sort of a civil war?
I don't know, but I certainly went to bed wondering about what I had just read in the late hours.
Well, this morning, Patrick Brown did the radio circuit and sort of a woe is me, I've been hard done by tour.
Maybe he's right, by the way.
But he said, on radio twice that the reason he was knocked out, at least he implied this, was because of little old us.
Rebel news.
You hear some chuckling in the background.
My friend David Mentes is just off camera.
I'll introduce him in a moment.
But let me play for you, Patrick Brown on radio denouncing rebel news for his downfall.
Take a listen.
Outside, we spoke to two of your deputy mayors, a city councilor and a regional counselor, who all said that they're very concerned about the city of Brampton.
They said this doesn't make Brampton look good.
Not only that, they said that they're not surprised that there's been financial irregularities at the city level as well.
And they also said that there was a whistleblower within the city that says that you used city resources for your leadership campaign.
Is any of this true?
And what's your response?
So they're referring to the rebel media video.
I don't consider rebel media to be media.
They're extreme right-wing activists.
We do have a debate at City Hall, and that's the other hat I wear as mayor.
There's a 5-5 division, and there was five counselors who wanted to illegally appoint a counselor before MPP Williams was elected.
The city clerk has said they can't do that.
The city solicitor has said they can't do that.
That was obviously a TV interview where he was blaming Rebel News.
He may not think of us as news, but it was news, and people certainly watched us.
He kept at that theme, blaming us.
Here's another version of that.
Well, I saw some stuff on YouTube, and there was something about a rebel news thing.
I wonder if Rebel News was involved in this by chance.
If Patrick knows anything about it.
Okay, Pat Brown.
Yes, and first of all, I've had a history of calling out rebel media for their history of Islamophobia, intolerance, and hate.
And so I'm certainly not someone that they support.
They've been working very closely supporting Pier Polyev's campaign, and they were one of the organizations that lodged a complaint against me.
Their complaint was false.
It said that city of Brampton staff are working on my campaign during work hours, which was incorrect.
But the caller is absolutely correct.
Rebel media was part of this.
And I have to say, you know, Aaron O'Toole, Andrew Scheer, refused to do media interviews with Rebel, given their history.
This is another example of how Pier Polyev, aside from wanting to ban childhood vaccines for polio and measles and his bizarre policy on crypto.
Well, there's Patrick Brown on the radio blaming us once again.
But you know what?
The common sense of the common people was strong today.
Here's the next caller saying, yeah, no, what about the actual proof that was in that David Menzies report?
Take a listen.
Scott, what were you going to ask him?
Well, I saw the same thing the other person did, and they showed the employees cars.
They blocked out the license plate numbers, but they showed the employees' cars, and then they showed the employees' faces and listed what they did for the city and who they worked for.
None of them have taken a leave of absence, and they're all up at this secret campaign place in Newmarket.
I mean, what's going on with that?
And then when none of us could go play hockey, everything was shut down.
They got film of this guy with his hockey bag, and they were at the Brampton Arena playing hockey with all of his friends when the rest of us couldn't go.
You know, I'm glad the conservatives got rid of this guy.
This guy is nothing but trouble.
Okay, I appreciate that.
Now, and that may be your view.
And look, there's a lot of people that want like the guy, and there are a lot of people that don't.
There are a lot of supporters of Mr. Polyev or Mr. Shere or Mr. Aitchison or Mr. Baber or Ms. Lewis.
I totally agree.
Well, there you have it.
Joining us now in studio, right next to me, in fact, is our friend David Menzies, mission specialist, who was the investigative journalist who had those two huge scoops.
First, that Patrick Brown was having secret hockey games with his buddies when the arenas were locked down to you and I.
And second, that great expose of city staff working for Patrick Brown.
He claims not on City Time.
David, great to see you again.
I give you great credit for your investigative journalism.
It certainly showed Patrick Brown in a very critical light.
And I have no doubt that it undermined his support because it made him look sneaky and unethical.
That said, I must also guard against taking too much credit in that he may be blaming you for his ouster.
There may be other things we don't even know about.
There may be other financial irregularities that he really did.
I don't know.
And he would rather blame us and what did he say?
Hate and racism or whatever.
He would rather blame your journalism than what he may actually be in trouble for because we don't know exactly what the allegations are.
You know, you're absolutely right.
Mr. Brody, who's chair of the leadership election organizing committee, his quote was serious allegations of wrongdoing, end quote, related to financing rules.
And that can mean anything.
But my goodness, there was so much to unpack.
When he says the history of Islamophobia that we have, that's going to come as shocking news to our chair, Rahil Raza, who I believe is a practicing Muslim.
Anyway, this is part for the course for Patrick Brown.
He gets caught in some shady dealings or some lie.
He's exposed and he plays the victim card.
Woe was me.
I don't know if he actually cried like he did in January 2018 when he was frog marched out of the PC party of Ontario.
But in regard to the six employees, and we showed you their names or titles, the top one being Babu Nagalangam, chief of staff for the mayor, we have chronicled their visits to the secret Vaughan headquarters.
And three of them did get back to me and say that we took an unpaid leave of absence.
Well, I'm kind of like Clara Peller, you know, the old lady in the Wendy's ads.
Where's the beef?
I said, okay, maybe I got it wrong.
Show me your leave of absence.
Show me your papers.
Radio silence Ezra.
You know, and that's the thing.
You tried to get Patrick Brown himself to answer you.
You even followed him to a police station when he ran away from you.
You sent emails to all the people in question.
You did excellent journalism.
I remember when you were putting that story together, we held back publishing it for days and days to give Patrick Brown and his team a chance to answer.
And by the way, Ian Brody, and I'm not saying I trust Ian Brody, by the way, but he claims that the Patrick Brown campaign did not sufficiently answer these things.
Well, I can find that plausible because he did not answer you.
Patrick Brown himself refuses to answer legitimate questions.
And sorry, just saying, well, you guys are racist.
Yeah, no, that's a bit of a Trudeau move to avoid accountability.
I want to give you credit for the journalism you did in both the hockey rink event and the secret campaign headquarters.
I think it had some effect on the campaign.
Whether or not it was caused, what caused him to be discalled, I don't know.
We will probably find out.
I'm glad that his BS spin was called out by an ordinary person on the radio.
That tells me that there's a lot of people out there who their spider senses are tingling with Patrick Brown.
I mean, once, twice, three times, an ethical scandal.
Maybe there's something about this guy.
Oh, and now there's a whisper that he's going to legally challenge the Conservative Party of Canada on.
I'm sure he will.
And maybe he should, by the way, flush it out, smoke it out.
And here's the question, Ezra.
You know, that's going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars to mount that challenge.
Who's paying for that?
Yeah, well, Patrick Brown seems to have no problem getting access to funds.
You know what?
And although he may deserve to be disqualified, I'm not against him suing and forcing the party to put up a shut up.
And maybe he'll live to regret that if they reveal it.
He's playing a rough game.
When you sue someone, you have to disclose in the civil court any document touching on it, your private emails, your records.
So you cannot, especially if there's financial matters, you can't sue without exposing the facts.
I mean, maybe he will sue, but it would be shocking to me if Patrick Brown, with his iffy history, said, I'm willing to open the kimono for everyone to look.
I don't think he wants to.
I agree with you.
I think transparency for Patrick Brown is like kryptonite for Superman.
We have, you know, also today, this was just put out, Ezra.
It is from five Brampton city councilors who are absolutely livid.
Our viewers might not know this with all the shenanigans with the Conservative Party of Canada stuff, but in the city of Brampton, of which Patrick Brown is mayor, there has been three council meetings canceled, and tonight there's another one scheduled.
It will be canceled.
So that's four in a row, Ezra, because Patrick convinces his council minions not to show up.
So they don't have a quorum.
And we heard him talk about that, and he was defending it as some sort of notable act.
Imagine months going by and you refuse to let the city hall meet because you're afraid that they'll undermine your political ambitions in some way.
Like he really should quit as mayor and run, but he is says Brampton's a big city.
For those folks who aren't in Ontario, it's a big city.
Yes.
There's a lot going on in Brampton.
It's part of the greater Toronto area, but it's its own city.
To simply say we're going to stop city business for months because I'm busy running a campaign.
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That's crazy.
And read the headline.
What's that press release say?
Okay, it says, after Patrick Brown's CPC disqualification, his scandalous time inside Brampton City Hall also needs to end.
And what they're getting at, Ezra, here's the unspoken reason why Patrick Brown doesn't want to have a council meeting.
They have on the agenda a motion for two forensic audits of Mayor Brown.
And I guess he's terrified of what those forensic audits or investigations are going to determine.
Yeah.
A forensic audit is a particular word.
It's not just, oh, show me that the numbers add up and I'll stamp it.
It's show me the underlying receipts.
It's really digging deep.
It's the kind of thing that financial crimes police do.
They dig into it.
They look into bank accounts.
It's a deep dive to look for shenanigans.
And this guy has a track record of shenanigans.
We set up a website called sneakypatrick.com, and I really encourage people to go to it.
I want to give you a reminder for those of you who didn't see the first time around.
Let's start with the fun one, which fun in that it was just so startling and bizarre.
But it really was a disaster for the children of Brampton.
Children's sports was shut down.
Ordinary people could not exercise.
You were banned from gathering.
You couldn't go to the beautiful hockey arena, but the mayor, Patrick Brown, and his buddies were meeting every week for a private game under the radar.
You got a tip and you went there and you caught him, as they say, inflagrante delicto.
That's a fancy way of saying hand in the cookie jar.
The look on his face, I'll never forget it.
This is David catching Sneaky Patrick the first time.
Folks, we're getting the bums rush, but holy mackerel, I think I see Patrick Brown himself.
Oh, 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 on 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?
Yeah, so I don't know why you are harassing people in the city of Brampton, but you shouldn't be.
Oh, who's harassing who?
Your guy 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.
Wow, that was incredible.
And that's why he's mad at you.
Not that you're a racist, but you caught him hands in the cookie jar, and then you got him a second time.
And I just, sorry, go ahead.
Oh, Ezra.
And I was just going to say, that hockey story speaks volumes.
And I'll tell you why.
When you are a compulsive liar, their downfall is the failure to keep track of the lies.
Now, as you saw, he said he was there to inspect the facility.
Now, wait a minute.
If you're there to inspect the facility, inspect it.
By the way, who wears a $2,000 suit to check Freon levels and the oils and the Zambia?
And I didn't know that the mayor of Brampton did inspections.
It's like the old 70s teacher.
I'm a bikini inspector.
Yeah, you know, that's a joke.
You're not really a bikini inspector.
There's no such thing.
I'm a hockey rink inspector.
I inspect it by playing games.
And yet we showed up the hockey bag was there.
Yeah, his name was on his hockey.
Yes.
Now, two weeks ago, there was a brief interview.
Patrick Brown was on with our friend Jerry Agar of News Talk 1010.
And Jerry Agar brought up this thing about the hockey rink.
And the first thing he said was, Jerry, you're sounding like rebel media right now.
And he said, no, Patrick, don't shoot the messenger.
Speak to the facts of the matter.
And what he said now was, Jerry, if you look back at that time, three weeks prior to me being, I'm paraphrasing right now, being at the rink, Premier Ford had changed the rules allowing that.
But wait a minute.
He said in 2020.
He was an inspector.
He was inspecting.
And he didn't do the inspection.
And now, so if that's true, if the premier said, oh yeah, go ahead, play hockey, then why didn't you suit up and play hockey?
We know he loves to play hockey.
It looks like he's going to have a lot of time to play hockey now.
And also on the bigger point of this canceling council meetings thanks to a quorum not being reached.
Could you imagine him being prime minister?
Oh, yeah.
It would be endlessly proroguing parliament because something nasty might be asking.
He's always in some sort of trouble.
He's always just barely, he's like a hustler.
I don't know if you ever saw that movie called Uncut Gems and with who's he Adam Sandler.
It's the most stressful movie I've ever seen in my life of a guy who's got all these debts and he's in trouble with like five different people and he's got this, it's like spinning plates and he doesn't want one of them to drop.
That's Patrick Brown.
He's got so many lies and so many ethical problems.
I don't know how he doesn't collapse under nervousness, but that hockey think it was telling.
He's a liar.
He was having fun while banning kids from playing.
But take a look at, just a reminder, this was just outstanding investigative journalism.
This is what really, well, this is what Patrick Brown blames for his ouster.
This is when you caught him in a secret meeting, certainly in a secret office.
There's nothing wrong with a secret office, but this is where the city staff are working for him.
Take a look.
We are here back at the secret headquarters of Patrick Brown.
Incredibly, Babu's white audi is still here.
I would have thought he would have hit the road too.
That would have been the smart thing.
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Let's go inside and see if we can find Babu or any other city of Brampton staff who should be working for the taxpayers of Brampton, not for Sneaky Mayor Patrick Brown's campaign.
And if they are, did they get a leave of absence?
We'll be very interested to see if we can document that.
I'm sure that's what they're going to claim, but we want to see that in writing.
In any event, let's go inside and see what we can find.
Recorder?
We're just looking for Babu.
I am recording, sir, yes.
Oh, John Netitian, how you doing there?
How do you like that?
Anyways, I'm just wondering, excuse me, is you're not allowed to be on this property.
I'm asking you to leave now.
Okay, where's Babu?
Thank you very much.
Oh, sorry, don't squeeze my arm like that.
How many City of Brampton employees?
Great.
Yeah.
How do you like that?
It's great.
Babu, Margaret Beveridge.
Can you get your hands off me?
Can you get out of the office?
I am.
I am moving.
Oh, no, you're not moving.
Is that right?
I thought you weren't involved in the...
Hang on a second.
I thought you weren't involved.
Do you have a release for me for that video?
It doesn't need it.
He doesn't need it.
Why?
No.
Because we're practicing journalism.
No, you're not.
Where's Babu?
His audio is there.
His audio is there.
Thank you very much.
Have a great day.
John, why did you lie about not being involved with the campaign?
That was an incredibly exciting video.
And I should tell our viewers, I think you might have done a follow-up on this.
You were investigated by some serious cops.
Yes.
When the mayor tells the police chief, investigate them, I guess the police chief sort of better do it.
And these cops did.
And I remember they called you up at night and they called our friend Lincoln Jay, who was working on this with you.
And I thought, oh my God, these cops are literally investigating you.
But give them credit.
They wrote a beautiful letter.
Yes, they did.
Saying we're ending our investigation.
What you did was clearly journalism in the public interest.
Yeah, 100%.
And, you know, but what was so perverse about that, Ezra?
Lincoln and I both got a call.
I think it was after 10 p.m. on a Friday.
There's nothing more important than doing policing in Toronto.
The same day of the O.J. Simpson-style chase on the 407.
And like you said, in Peel Region, what do we have?
The crime du jur seems to be violent carjacking.
We got homicide, we got sex trafficking, we got gun crime.
And you're telling me a detective that very night gets assigned and calls Lincoln Jay and I.
And of course, we pass it on to our lawyer who always does great work for us.
And to their credit, like you said, they realize this was a nothing burger.
You know what?
I didn't like the fact the cops called you.
It felt like intimidation.
But I will give them credit.
I mean, put yourself in the cop's position for one minute.
Yes.
The mayor of the town goes to the police department and says, those guys are stalking me.
That's what he said.
Okay, you better at least make a phone call if you're a cop.
Like, if you don't even make a phone call, you so the fact that they called you, it irritates me.
It was a form of intimidation.
But I think they closed that loop properly by saying, no more investigations.
What you did was perfectly fine.
I think that's a happy ending to that story.
And you know what?
I'm critical of cops very much these days.
I'll give that guy full marks.
But two things, Ezra.
One is, I really want to know what Patrick Brown said on his 911 call, or if it was a call to the police division directly.
Was he saying some, I'm speculating now.
I'm in fear of my life.
You know, these guys might be carjackers.
Because if he did say a pack of lies, Ezra, Lincoln J caught on camera his driver, when Lincoln J came out of the police station, his driver said, We know who the F you are.
Of course they do.
But that would contradict the old carjackers are after me.
And secondly, maybe you want to throw to this clip.
I'm not telling you how to run your show.
Remember, I was arrested at the hockey arena for being on private property.
So he's used the cops before.
He has.
And that's a very important part of the story because I just gave credit to the police for writing you the proper letter.
But after the hockey thing, five police cars, all sorts of private security, you were arrested, handcuffed, put in a police car, charged with trespass.
And I know that the fine for that was only like $70.
Something like that, yeah.
But I remember saying to you, we'll spend $70,000 if we have to, going all the way to the Supreme Court because this is a beat.
And you know what?
They dropped the ticket.
They did.
They dropped the ticket because the prosecutor said there's no reasonable prospect of conviction.
This was absolutely, there was nothing here.
Credit to the prosecutor for not going along with the farce, but shame on those five cops who arrested you for that journalism.
That's Iran-style stuff.
Let's show a little bit of that.
A dark day.
I was there too, and I actually thought I might be arrested.
I'm not trying to be dramatic.
I took my wallet out and left it in my car.
I took my watch.
Like, I thought, if I'm going to be arrested, I don't want to have any things on me.
I mean, I'm not being, but I was there because they had harassed you so many times, I thought I better be there too.
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And I'm not going to bend the knee.
They arrested you, not me.
And not that I want to be arrested, but if a journalist of rebel news is going to be arrested, I should bloody well be there too.
And the crime for standing on the parking lot of a publicly funded community?
I don't know why they didn't arrest me and they only arrested you.
And I'm not glad that they arrested you, but the prosecutor said we're not going to go with this far.
So here, take a look.
I have some terrible news to report.
My friend and colleague David Menzies, beloved by many public interest journalists, was just arrested.
I'm telling you to leave, so you should leave.
I think it's incredibly important that you know and I'm talking to you.
He was there reporting on the corrupt mayor of this city, Patrick Brown.
Are you ready to leave now?
I am not, sir.
I am here to.
I'm trying to help you off the property.
Let's go.
He's under arrest.
He's not under arrest.
I swear to you.
I'm not going to touch any officer that we will go through such a disclosure procedure, and we will have every one of the officers there, and we will answer the question: who made the order to arrest a journalist doing public interest journalism on a public sidewalk?
I'm not under arrest, so you can't touch me, right?
I am not.
Well, he is the mayor of Brampton, at least in name.
Of course, he's AWOL.
I agree with you.
He's probably going to sue the party, and why not?
He's got a lot of lawyers on his team, including Wally Solomon.
Oh, yeah.
He's got no problem getting money.
He's got no problem getting lawyers.
And he's been humiliated by this.
So I think he will sue.
I don't think he'll pursue it because, like I said, when you sue someone, you have to disclose your records.
And there's no way that Sneaky Patrick's going to do that.
And I'm going to close how I open, which is your journalism was excellent.
I don't know if your journalism in itself was enough to disqualify him as a candidate.
Your journalism raised questions, but it didn't, it was not determinative.
I'm not downplaying it in any way.
I'm just saying you couldn't say, I've watched the video, you're out.
You'd have to at least start a conversation with him and back and forth.
So it may have been your journalism, but with Patrick Brown, there's always four or five things on the go.
You know, you're so right.
I had a call just before the show.
It was somebody close to city council, and he was talking about all the stuff happening in Brampton and with his leadership campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada, Ezra.
And what he said, he asked me, do you watch The Simpsons?
I said, sure.
He says, do you remember that episode where Mr. Burns goes to the doctor and the doctor's conclusion is you have every possible disease in the book.
We don't even know where to begin, right?
He says, that's Patrick Brown.
There is so much stuff to get to just in the last four years of how he's run that city as his own personal fiefdom, Ezra.
And I think, you know, there are some people saying, oh, this damages the brand of the Conservative Party of Canada.
I say the opposite.
Having that guy pretend he's a conservative, that damages the brand.
And I just want to say this.
I hope Mr. Brody, and I hope the party, in the days ahead, Ezra, they come forward and they give us the nitty-gritty.
I mean, if it wasn't, you know, the idea of using paid city of Brampton staff that got him disqualified, then what was it?
Please show us.
Yeah.
My preference would be for him to run and lose.
And that way, he's not the leader of the party.
And the party can say, yeah, we took his measure and we rejected him.
If he actually has broken a law, then I think it may be fitting what he and Brody did.
I never like it when some, and Patrick Brown called it a secret meeting, which it surely was.
And it's bizarre that the news came out after 11 p.m.
But it's always better to let the voters decide, yeah, he's corrupt, throw the bum out, than have a small.
And by the way, at least Patrick Brown could then say, well, I tried and gave it my best and I lost.
So Patrick Brown would feel better losing that way than this way, which he'll always think I could have done it.
And the world would know that the Conservative Party members rejected Patrick Brown ethics.
So I'm glad Patrick Brown is out, but I wish it had been that he was voted out.
And although I think Patrick Brown is a terrible political leader, I do think he's corrupt.
I do think he's sneaky.
I have also an ounce of sympathy for the fact that he found out about this, as he said, in a midnight email in the media.
And I don't have much time for Patrick Brown, but he has an ounce of an argument when he says this is due process.
So a strange time, but let us not linger on him.
I want to say that you did more journalism on Patrick Brown than all other media combined.
It's a reminder of the importance that rebel news never becomes a partisan shill.
What I mean by that is that we love criticizing liberals.
It's my hobby.
And New Democrats and Greens and leftists.
But we also must apply our standards to so-called conservatives.
And we have, to Doug Ford, to Jason Kenney, to Aaron O'Toole, to Patrick Brown.
And if Pierre Polyev wins the leadership, we must also hold him to account.
In fact, it's more important that we hold conservatives to account for their principles than for us to go after a liberal.
It's obvious, and it's dog bites man when we go after Justin Trudeau.
Well, of course you're going after Trudeau.
He's a lefty.
But when we go after a conservative for ethical reasons or because he's not a real conservative, that's when it counts the most.
And I think that's when we build the most trust with our viewers because they say you guys are holding the line on your principles, even if you're shooting at someone called a conservative.
I agree.
I think we are the umpires behind home plate, Ezra.
We're not PR meisters for anybody, be they liberal or conservative.
And I just want to say, I mean, I share your concern about, you know, it'd be nicer to have seen him voted out.
But then again, let's go back four years ago when Patrick Brown, who was the man who would be premier, that famous January 2018 press conference, less than six months before the Ontario election, where he was made to walk the plank.
And look at what he did.
First of all, he campaigned before he became leader of the PC Party of Ontario that he was going to tear down the radical McGinty Wynn sex education thing.
And once he became leader, what did he do?
He threw social conservatives under the bus.
Also, one of his first, I think it was the first speech he made as leader, he talked about introducing a made-in-Ontario carbon tax for a manufacturing province.
So he threw fiscal conservatives under the bus.
So when there were no more conservatives to throw under the bus, Ezra, the party threw him under the greyhound.
What I'm getting at is these are self-inflicted wounds.
I really think Patrick Brown is a sociopath.
I think he will do and say anything to get ahead.
And he has a weird leadership style in terms of dealing with people.
He treats them like Kleenexes.
You're very valuable when you've got a runny nose.
Once I've used it or wiped my nose, you're garbage.
And that's why we get these tenants.
Whistleblowers.
He's made so many enemies.
And do you want this guy to be the prime minister?
I want him nowhere near power.
I want him nowhere near public money.
I want him nowhere near a position where he can give favors or take them away.
I think he is uniquely unsuited for public life.
And I also wish that the people of Brampton may have a better mayor, one who actually shows up for work.
David, you've done great stuff here.
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Thank you so much.
You've been a very interesting, you know, not even 24 hours.
And we'll see how this ricochets through the party.
What do the other candidates say or do?
Do they try to woo Patrick Brown's voters?
Does Patrick Brown, in a hasty way, make an emergency application to a court to overturn things?
Could be.
I mean, we've done that before when we had a crisis when Trudeau banned us from the leadership debates.
In an emergency basis, we went to the federal court and got it overturned.
Maybe Patrick Brown's going to try and fight to get back in.
I don't know.
These are very interesting times.
It's certainly not boring.
Patrick Brown has blamed David and Lincoln and Rebel News.
I don't accept the blame.
It's Patrick Brown's own deeds that did him in.
But I say that Rebel News, and in particular, David Menzies and Lincoln Jay, who was with him on both investigations, did excellent public interest journalism that you did not find anywhere else.
And I'm glad to see radio callers remembered it.
Stay with us.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me, Pax Imperium, which means imperial peace, says it's absolutely ridiculous that she's in jail, referring to Tamara Leach, and being held there for breach of a non-communication condition, which actually is a breach of her rights as per the charter.
I think it's outrageous she did not communicate with that other gentleman.
They were literally mouths closed, smiling, posing for a photo.
I learned that it was an ordinary police officer who issued that national warrant and sent for her.
They didn't get a legal opinion, which police often do when doing something exotic.
And outrageously, the Justice of the Peace who heard the matter the other day is not even a lawyer.
Now, I'm not saying you can't be a non-lawyer Justice of the Peace, but for a complex matter in the public eye, to give it to a junior Justice of the Peace who's not a lawyer to rule, I feel is risky and dangerous.
And it may explain why the Justice of the Peace wants three full days to think about it while Tamara Leach rots in jail instead of immediately releasing her and saying, I'll give you my reasons later.
A lot of things are wrong with this.
Crushing all deceivers, I think that's a nickname, says who and what body of government is responsible for the ArriveCan app?
Well, there's no secret there.
It's Justin Trudeau's government.
He personally promoted it, and it's part of the border system, which is part of the public safety portfolio.
I don't think it is about safety.
I think it is about getting us used to being tracked and used to having our privacy invaded.
Game Queen says, the facial hair makes Ezra look more distinguished.
You know, I appreciate you saying that.
I don't think it does.
I think it makes me look old.
It makes me look like I don't have enough masculinity to actually fill it in.
I don't know why I'm doing it.
My mom says I should shave it off.
I don't know what I'm waiting for.
But sorry, you have to look at me.
That's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
Keep fighting for freedom.
Good night.
You celebrate together the country that we love and share because Canada Day is Canadians Day.
Isabel Ravosch for Rebel News.
I'm here in Ottawa, Ontario.
It's Canada Day, and I'm here on Parliament Hill.
There's tons of people out.
And so I'm going to go around and ask people if they think Justin Trudeau is doing a good job uniting the country or if they feel like it's divided.
What brings you out here today?
The same thing that always brings me here in Ottawa Man at standing up for freedom for all Canadians and equality under and before the law.
That means no caste of citizens, not one group gets more rights than the other group.
Everyone gets the same rights, bar none.
I see that you're wearing some rebel news masks.
First of all, I came to celebrate Canada, but also I am part of the resistance.
What do you call it, resistance?
I am for freedom.
The Chuckers gave us the opportunity to recognize that they weren't the only ones that were alone.
They weren't alone, we weren't alone.
So we need to exercise this freedom where we have and not allow the government to again take it away from us.
Do you feel that Canada is united or does it feel divided?
He has been the most divisive prime minister we've seen in our lifetime.
And it's just really sad that it's come to this point.
Especially, you know, in Canada Day, we shouldn't have to be searching families just to go in parliament.
What feels divided?
I feel that right now.
A lot of Canadians are divided.
Although I'm not in a comment whether he's doing a good job or not, but I believe that yes, Canadians are somewhat divided.
Of course, there are some issues.
I mean, we're trying to look at the positive side.
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Absolutely not.
He's doing nothing to unite the country.
As a matter of fact, he wants, he likes the separation, he likes the division, he likes to get people fighting against each other.
And that way, they wouldn't pay attention to him and his malfeasances.
You know, all the stuff that goes on in his life and all the things that he does to all the people.
So, yeah, he doesn't really care about the actual people.
He cares to be in power.
He cares to do what he's doing now, traveling, you know, be a, you know, he's really an actor in disguise, right?
You know, once you're divided, you can't stand against something.
Divide and conquer, right?
Exactly.
That's exactly what he does.
Yeah.
He does a great job of breaking people apart.
know he tells a bunch of people that they're they don't they're not worth anything and he's complete look at all of this right now This never even should have happened.
But instead of talking to the truckers, he said, I'm going to vilify you and make you like you're some sort of subjugated little group.
And now they are a group and now they're angry.
Are you serious?
Like, he's called us misogynists and he's called us racists.
And what was that?
Should we tolerate these people who take up space?
Was that not something that came out of Germany or something like that by some kind of a genocidal maniac?
Which in the science are racist, it's Grope, but leaders, in a country leader, is tolerance, these people, and voyages, the most part of people because we do not vaccinate.
We're in a bad place in this country, so we need to keep showing up.
That's why I'm here.
I'm going to keep showing up in peace.
And I urge everyone to remain peaceful, no matter how upset you get, no matter how angry you are.
Please stay peaceful and come here, enjoy your country, exercise your rights.
Protected by our charter, protected by our Canadian Bill of Rights.
Let me show that to you real quick.
C44-1960, still valid federal legislation.
This is right here.
Sure, they'll be getting in a thousand-dollar ticket.