Ezra Levant’s episode examines Canada’s 8% inflation—called "painfully high" by Tiff Macklem—as either policy failure or deliberate, citing dairy price-fixing and carbon taxes. Conservative leadership hopeful Roman Babber proposes ending supply management, withdrawing from the Paris Accord, and expanding tree planting to 500 million annually while criticizing Trudeau’s silence on China’s Uyghur abuses and Cardinal Zen’s arrest. Viewer letters blame Trudeau’s haircut for election sympathy and Biden’s Green New Deal push, while Karen Selevitz’s $21K fraud conviction sparks calls for stricter Municipal Act reforms. The episode ties economic struggles to liberal policies, urging a democratic reset through bold Conservative reforms. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, we're talking about whether or not the sky-high inflation, the worst in 40 years, what the Bank of Canada's governor describes as painful, is it by design or by accident?
I'll lay out the case, you be the judge, and I'll show you exactly why the mainstream media doesn't seem to care anyway.
And then we're talking to Conservative Party leadership hopeful Roman Babber about his commitment to Canada.
It's his new policy document.
We walk all the way through it or as much as we have time for.
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Tonight, are sky-high inflation rates simply an accident caused by idiotic politicians?
Or are they something more, something sinister and by design?
Then, Conservative Party leadership hopeful Roman Babber joins us to discuss his commitment to Canadians.
It's July 21st, 2022.
I'm Sheila Gunread, but you're watching the Ezra Levant show.
Inflation's Painful Hike00:06:38
Shame on you, you sensorism bug.
I want to show you this clip from the governor of the Bank of Canada, a guy named Tiff Macklin.
It comes on the back of a Statistics Canada report from just Wednesday that said Canada's annual inflation rate has crept up over 8% from 7.7% in May.
It's the largest yearly change in about four decades.
Anyway, here's the clip.
There's no way around it.
8.1% inflation is painfully high.
We do expect, we know gasoline prices came down in July.
So a month from now when StatsCam publishes July inflation, it probably will come down a bit.
But look, unfortunately, inflation is probably going to start with a seven for the rest of the year.
It is going to be painfully high.
When a liberal appointee is saying that things are painful and bad, trust me, it's painful and bad and probably worse.
But painfully high, that's the plan.
If you listen to Christy Freeland, our deputy prime minister, our finance minister, and the woman whose financial prowess was just so stedler that she ran an entire news division of Reuters right into the dirt.
Anyway, this painful inflation that's biting into your family savings as you try to cover the cost of essentials at the grocery store and fuel in the minivan, well, it's what Freeland wants.
Take a listen.
From my perspective, this price increase in fuel costs is a reminder of why climate action is so important and why as a country, we have to work even harder and move even faster towards a green economy.
It's an insurance policy against higher energy prices.
Your suffering is her opportunity.
So just shut up and keep suffering.
She makes no bones about it.
She's actually proud of it.
Look at this clip.
Real proof point for me that Canada can, Canada will seize the opportunities in the green transition.
And so much of that seizing of opportunities is going to happen here in Calgary.
It's going to happen here in Alberta.
When I tabled the budget last week, one of the things that I emphasized was that the green transition is here.
The world economy, our trading partners, they have decided that their economies are going to go green.
And this is a huge, huge transformation.
It is the biggest transformation of the global economy since the Industrial Revolution itself.
We have a unique opportunity here in Canada and here in Alberta to be leaders in that green transition.
And I've seen the evidence just in the past hour here today.
Now, it's not just government printing money like it's going out of style and spending like there's no tomorrow driving up inflation rates.
It's so much more.
It's supply issues on the housing market.
The housing market's being pressured by inflated immigration targets that are now making it hard for young Canadians to get into their first homes.
It's a carbon tax and then a hike on the carbon tax on top of that, making the cost of groceries and food and basically everything that travels by a truck or a train or a plane even more expensive to the consumer.
That same tax is also crushing the family trying to fill up their car on the way to soccer practice these days.
And if all that, all of that were not enough, there's liberal price fixing on essential foodstuffs that will ultimately hurt the poor the most.
Look at this from Blacklock's Just Today.
Food prices were up 9% compared to the same time last year.
And yet a federal agency, the Canadian Dairy Commission, last February 1st raised wholesale milk prices by 8.4%.
The wholesale cost of butter went up 12.5%.
The commission stockpiled butter and cheese to maintain prices.
The agriculture minister's office in a separate briefing note titled The Milk Price Increase for Producers acknowledged federal regulators approved higher costs despite the worst inflation in 39 years.
They don't care.
They just don't care.
They've done this to you and they're hell-bent on making it worse because who needs cheese when you can, I guess, just eat the bugs.
And the media, they don't seem to care either.
They're supposed to hold truth to power, but if you can't make ends meet, well, here's someone who works for the CBC, their personal finance expert, in fact, telling you what to do.
Take a listen.
Shelter and hydro in combination should be about 30% of your income.
And that is much higher right now, especially in cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, where rents are much higher.
One way that you can mitigate that is by speaking to your employer about getting a raise.
With inflation, the way that it is going, it is completely reasonable right now, especially in this tight labor market, to go to your employer and say, I need you to bump my wage because it's becoming impossible for me to still survive in the city that I was hired in.
And if that doesn't work, looking for another job, especially if you've got skills that are in demand, will often give you the bump that you need in order to afford that apartment and that rent that goes with it.
I can hear a whole bunch of people at home going, so my boss will say no.
Yeah, and that is, and that's a fair point.
Guys, it's obviously just that simple.
Just get a better job, ask for a raise.
And frankly, it's no wonder these people who exist in the subsidized, insulated bubble of the CBC think this way.
In April, we reported that the CBC was on track to pay out $12 million in pay raises over the course of 2022.
But Black Locks, again, today they have a higher number: $30 million in pay raises at the CBC.
So, yeah, I guess if you can't make ends meet, you can just ask for a raise that you don't deserve if you work at the CBC, and you'll probably get it.
But in the real world, for the people who pay those inflated salaries at the CBC, well, it just doesn't work that way, sister.
After the break, someone who is trying to inject some reality into not just the financial situation in Canada, but also the democratic situation in Canada, joins me.
China's Supply Management Agenda00:15:23
Conservative Party of Canada leadership hopeful Roman Babber joins me after the break to explain his major campaign policy announcements today.
Stay with us.
One of the great things about Patrick Brown no longer being in the race to replace Aaron O'Toole as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is that the other more serious and less scandal-plagued candidates have a chance now to advance great policy ideas, things that matter to Conservatives and ultimately matter to Canadians without being overshadowed by Patrick Brown and his many, many scandals.
And one of those candidates who is advancing some, I think, fantastic policy ideas is Roman Babber.
He was, as you know, removed as a member of the Ontario PCs for his principled stance against lockdowns and COVID restrictions.
And he joins me right now because he is releasing his commitment to Canada and he's going to walk us through it.
Roman, thanks for joining us on the show.
Why don't you explain to us why you felt the need to, I guess, put pen to paper and document your commitment to Canada?
Look, I've enjoyed this race, and I also think that it's been a very positive race in that it's been a race of ideas.
Contrary to the traditional allegation that Conservatives are afraid to put forth a bold and principled stance during leadership races, I wanted to spark a conversation on some things that really matter to Canadians.
And some of those I think are long overdue.
I'm running against socialism in Canada.
That's why I think it's appropriate to suggest that we should end equalization payments instead of continuing this provincial interdependency.
We should probably phase out supply management instead of telling farmers how much dairy they can produce.
And we need to have the courage to stand up for all Canadians and defend them against Bill 21 and Bill 96 in Quebec and so on and so forth.
I think we should make this race about the conscience and the future of the Conservative Party.
And that means not being afraid to put forth bold and courageous ideas.
Now, you've got a sort of a four-point plan of your commitment to Canada.
And the first one is to defend Canada's democracy.
And, you know, not only in there, do you talk about decentralizing powers away from the prime minister's office?
And I suppose that goes back to giving power to the MPs to exercise matters of conscience without being booted from caucus.
But also, I suppose that involves giving powers back to the provinces too to make decisions without meddling from the prime minister's office.
Absolutely.
So, look, the principal reason why I'm in this race is because I think we're watching an unprecedented erosion of Canada's democracy.
And as someone with a unique perspective on how precious and fragile our democracy is, I think it's incumbent on us to stand up for our country and all Canadians.
So, first, I will end this 21st-century segregation that we've been seeing for the last couple of years.
I'll pass federal legislation to ban all passports and mandates and medical discrimination.
I'll restore the freedom of speech.
That's the most important thing we can do because through speech, we protect all other rights.
So, I'll repeal the liberal censorship laws.
I'll defend regulated professionals.
I'll speak to the social media giants through the Bureau of Competition and ensure that Canadians are not censored online.
And most importantly, we have to ensure free and independent media, and that means end all media dependency on government.
But at the same time, you can't restore democracy in Canada without restoring democracy in the Conservative Party of Canada.
So, I'll restore parliamentary democracy by decentralizing power away from the PMO, allow free votes on matters of conscience, and encourage MPs to express their views without fear of reprisal.
You know, I think that's a really great thing that you're talking about: that free speech is, you know, it's the thing by which we argue about all the other rights.
And we, you know, I was talking to Ezra the other day about one of the great things about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is that he is unafraid to use all the levers of power at his disposal to advance his agenda.
And we see the left do this all the time.
Justin Trudeau does it all the time.
It's how he banned 1,500 popular models of Canadian firearms.
He just did it.
Now, I disagree with his agenda, but he's using all the levers of power to advance it.
And it's nice to see a conservative talking about doing the same, saying, you know what, I'm going to advance and pass this legislation.
I'm going to get it done.
Instead of conservatives being afraid to advance ideas, we always talked about, you know, the left talked about Harper's hidden agenda.
10 years later, 15 years later, I've never seen it.
We're still looking for it.
It was so slow and hidden that nobody ever found it.
And the left is always up front.
At least we may disagree with them, but we know what we're getting.
And it's nice to see a conservative like yourself talking about it.
One of the things you, I think, is a new policy to you is the repeal of supply management.
Now, as a farmer, I've got a unique perspective on this.
I'm not a supply-managed farmer, so I don't, I'm not, I'm not pro-supply management.
If I can make it, they can make it.
But I think this is a new policy for you, or at least I've never seen you talking about it.
So why now?
Why are you talking about this?
Why is this a Roman Babber issue now?
Just to your earlier comment very quickly, we do not need to be afraid of presenting a serious proposal and agenda before Canadians.
I think that that, in fact, is what lost us the prior two elections: is that we're afraid to be ourselves or we run to the right during leadership and then we pivot to the left during the general election.
That is inconsistent with our brand.
We need to ensure that the Conservative Party stands on principles.
And folks might disagree with me, but that's okay.
That's democracy.
But at the very least, you will always know where I stand.
Like I said at the outset of the interview, I'm running against socialism in Canada.
And that means that I do not believe that we should have central planning of the economy.
And I can't imagine a more quintessential policy that plans the economy centrally than supply management, whereby effectively a political bureau of sorts, the Dairy Council of Canada, regulates how much dairy products we may produce every year.
I find that terrible for the consumer.
Of course, for prices, especially when prices are skyrocketing in the grocery stores, we are spilling out thousands of gallons of milk when we need to encourage increasing supply, not decreasing, especially given that we have a lot of money in the economy.
And so I think that if a Canadian wants to get up and farm, we should not prevent them.
Of course, I understand that some folks own concessions and quotas, and we need to figure out a way to wean ourselves off supply management.
And that means maybe looking at amortization, looking at some sort of exchange policy.
But I want to free our ability to farm.
You know, I think that's great.
I think very rarely people think outside the box on this issue.
And, you know, it's nice to see that you are addressing those arguments where they say, well, I have a quota.
This quota is expensive.
You're rendering it useless to me.
You've actually sort of thought a little bit down the road about how we're going to deal with people who hold these quotas so that eventually there will be more farmers in the marketplace to bring those costs down to consumers.
I think it's wonderful.
One of the things that you're sorry, go ahead.
I was going to say, absolutely, we cannot devalue someone's personal property.
We cannot come in and overnight render it without any value.
Sorry, devalue it overnight.
And so what I propose we do instead, we have some models to look at.
New Zealand has been able to wean itself off supply management.
But most importantly, I think we need to think about the long term.
And we have too many cartels in Canada, whether it's maple syrup or agricultural products.
We're limiting the supply of fertilizer, for instance, through a cartel, which makes no sense either.
We need to free up our economic opportunity, especially at a time when we're seeing an unprecedented price inflation.
You know, one of the policy issues you talk about in your commitment to Canada is standing up to China.
And again, that is something that I have not seen a lot from the other candidates.
In fact, I would, I think, credibly accuse one of the other candidates, Jean Charé, of being at least some point in his career in the pocket of a CCP-linked company named Huawei.
But you have said that since you were born under a communist regime, you really understand why people, particularly people from China, come to Canada to have their rights protected.
And you're going to make sure that some of those Chinese style policies of hijacking intellectual property, cracking down on religious minorities, you're going to make sure that they never come here, but you're also going to speak out against China doing it.
And I know a lot of candidates, they're just scared because of the sheer economic force of China to say these things.
Again, we should not be afraid and we should project moral clarity on issues that are important to Canadians.
Like many of your viewers know, I was born and I lived under a communist regime under the first almost nine years of my life.
And I recall the fear of religious prosecution that my family experienced being Jewish, part Ukrainian and part Russian in the former Soviet Union.
And so I believe that communism is evil.
And we must confront such evil without fear.
And so my government will stop pandering to China and will rally the international community to oppose their onerous lockdowns.
They're still locking down tens of millions of healthy people.
They're oppressing religious minorities.
Specifically, we know that they are transporting Chinese Muslims into camps.
They're stealing our intellectual property.
They have taken over effectively Hong Kong's democracy and they're threatening Taiwan.
We need to work with countries around China and encourage the manufacturing flow to some of the neighbors in the region.
And we need to rally the international community to stop pretending that China is not one of the worst human rights abusers around the world.
And in fact, a regime that is destabilizing the world and lead the international community to this moral clarity.
I wanted to ask you, and I know it's not in your policy document, but you've obviously thought about this issue.
So I'm going to ask you about this.
You touched on the treatment of the Uyghurs in China, and there's some strong overlays between what's happening to the Uyghurs and the residential school system here in Canada that the liberals speak out again.
I think most people disagree with the treatment of Canada's Indigenous people in the residential schools.
But right now in China, they are taking Uyghur children, preventing them from speaking their language, practicing their religion, and taking away their Muslim names, basically sending them to these re-education schools for little children while their parents are off in the re-education camp and the forced slave labor camp.
And we don't hear Justin Trudeau talking about this at all.
He rightfully speaks out against anti-Muslim racism and bigotry in Canada and around the world.
He invited the entire world to come to Canada when Justin, or I'm sorry, when President Trump imposed what the left called a Muslim ban with his immigration policy.
But we don't hear about this systemic racism and genocide against this Muslim minority in China.
Why do you think that is?
I think Justin Trudeau is weak and lacks moral principles.
This is not the only issue on which he's hypocritical.
But to go back to this issue, when every year we use the phrase never again, we should mean the words never again.
And I'm very hesitant to make all sorts of historical comparisons.
It's something that is very, very sensitive to many folks.
But it's for that reason that we need to be open-minded and appreciate what is transpiring in China.
And of course, we know that the only religion allowed in China is communism, which is, and so it's not new for them to oppress religious minorities.
We know, for instance, the Falun Gong people, the Falun Daffa people, something that I take a considerable interest in, effective practice a form of meditation with breathing, with yoga techniques, and some spiritual enlightenment.
And they have been oppressed and jailed since the early 90s in China.
They have been used potentially in all sorts of markets around the world that are just unthinkable.
And I think we have a duty as loving and peaceful people to speak for human rights all around the world.
I don't propose an interventional interventionist policy, but I do propose that we project moral clarity on such important issues.
You know, it's interesting that you brought up, you know, the Falun Gong and the fact that what's happening to the Uyghurs, it's happening to other religious groups in China as well.
You rightly point out that communism is the only allowed religion there.
For example, Cardinal Zen, he's the cardinal, the Catholic Cardinal of Hong Kong.
Cardinal Zen And Human Rights00:14:27
He was arrested in May, May 25th.
And he has been an outspoken advocate for a free Hong Kong for a very long time.
And it has been an absolute failing of the Canadian government to speak up on his behalf.
A Canadian singer was also arrested at the same time.
It was not just Cardinal Zen, but again, Justin Trudeau, too scared of China, and as you rightly point out, has no moral clarity and has been completely silent on this issue.
The man is a political prisoner based on his religion.
And Canada, who, you know, we used to take the lead in these issues, I think we were instrumental in dismantling South African apartheid.
And we are completely silent on this.
Absolutely.
I think part of the issue is that over the last couple of years, we have completely taken our eye off the ball around the world.
We have been focused on COVID response, which, as you know, I'm a big critic of, because I felt that we need to reassess our COVID response and focus on where the risk is, which is primarily in long-term care homes and congregate settings and beef up our hospital capacity because the virus is so transmissible.
A rest of the virus, I believe, is naive.
But it's not just the Chinese regime that Justin Chudeau refuses to stand up.
I believe that one of the greatest threats to world peace and stability is the Republic of Iran.
And I remember after the Ukrainian plane was shut down with 158 Canadians on board, I remember he met with the foreign minister about a month later and effectively bowed to him.
I joked at the time that he was Justin's Valentine.
And I'm very, very concerned about the fact that Canada is unwilling to play a key role and project this moral clarity and delineate for the international community right from wrong.
And that's something that I think Prime Minister Harper did very, very well.
And so I certainly look forward to restoring such credibility around the world.
But I want to stress that we're not going to restore our credibility around the world until we restore democracy at home.
And I want to come back to the fact that we are seeing a remarkable erosion of our rights.
We still have close to 20% of Canadians treated like second-class citizens.
We have censorship legislation working itself through the courts, through Parliament.
We have an unlawful invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Have the top police officer in the country potentially doing the prime minister a political favor.
I would propose, at least at the outset, to focus on restoring democracy at home before we can credibly opine on what's transpiring around the world.
You know, you're right to say that because so often we see Chinese politicians and bureaucrats, they chirp us online all the time.
And they probably have, you know, at least the ability to point out some serious hypocrisy by the Canadian government on some of these things.
I suppose it would be pretty hard to speak out against Cardinal Zen when you didn't say anything when James Coates, Pastor James Coates, was sitting in prison in Canada or speaking out against political prisoners while Tamara Leach is still in prison.
Now, one of the things I wanted to talk to you about that sort of sets you apart, even amongst your own conservative colleagues, is on the issue of environment and climate change.
Because as I'm reading through your policy document here, you note a very mainstream, reasonable, I think it's a pretty accepted fact here that Canada is a carbon sink, that we actually soak up because of the size of the boreal forest, more carbon than we emit.
And yet, Canadians are still being taxed on their carbon emissions.
Do you think, I guess my question is, are you going to face some criticism for just saying this very acceptable, mainstream scientific fact that most kids in grade 10 biology understand?
We cannot be afraid to talk about some of the difficult issues that are facing our country.
And I think that, if anything, we learned from the last couple of years is that it was our fear to stand up to the left-wing cancel culture COVID mob that has allowed this remarkable catastrophe to go on for almost two years.
You know, I said a couple of days ago, we somehow allowed government and public health and our school system to convince our children that if they play next to one another in close proximity, that someone, God forbid, may die.
We're raising a generation of children that have suffered a mental trauma who will have difficulty potentially leading a normal life.
And we should not be afraid to confront those that seek to further potentially, whether it's purposefully or not, to inflict harm on our country, on Canadians, and on our economic interests.
And we should not be afraid to address the discussion around the environment and climate change.
But take it hand on.
Canada produces only 1.5% of all global emissions.
Even if we were to cut all of them, it's not clear that it would actually make any material difference in the climate.
We know that most nations are now giving up on the Paris Accord.
We know who the polluters are.
I think it's a pie in the sky that is not attainable and not necessary, which is why I'll take Canada out of the Paris Accord.
And we're blessed with so much forest, as you say, that most, if not all of our greenhouse gases are actually naturally absorbed.
That is why I oppose the carbon tax.
I do not believe that taxing Sally $10 at the gas pump is actually going to affect the global climate.
I don't think that anyone really believes that anymore.
And I will not impose a regressive tax on Canadians, which achieves nothing other than effectively punishing Canadians and making life more expensive.
So, you know, right now we're planting 360 million trees a year.
I will look to increase it to maybe half a billion, but I think that Canada's natural resources are a blessing.
It's one of the themes of my commitment to Canada is to make Canada a natural resources superpower.
And that means repealing the anti-pipeline bill, rethinking, legislating, and negotiating the three main pipelines and revisiting the discussion on Excel.
Americans are very unhappy with the price of gas, clarify the duty to consult, encourage the creation of refinery capacity, and reconsider our approach to mining and invest and encourage mining.
I think the only way we get out of the fiscal hole that we're in right now is to unleash our economic superpower, and we can do that through Canada's natural resources.
Yeah, you see, in your policy document, you are making sure that you don't leave Canada's Indigenous communities behind, particularly in those partnerships with the resource industry.
I think most Albertans know that if you were to pick a resource or sorry, any industry in this country that you would describe as Indigenous, it would be the resource industry.
I think Indigenous people are double represented in mining and resource extraction projects as a percentage of the workforce versus a percentage of the Canadian population.
So you've rightly pointed that out in here.
The one last thing I want to talk to you about, because I could probably talk to you all day, but I'm sure you have other things to do.
Healthcare.
It's an evergreen problem that you just pick up the paper, you go on the internet, and you see the healthcare system is in collapse.
And it's not a COVID thing.
This is a perennial problem in Canada.
So how do we fix that?
And is there room in your plan for private innovation to alleviate the load that the publicly funded system is bearing?
Shiley, if I may, very quickly on Indigenous policy, as I travel the country, I realize how prevalent and still important and raw this issue to so many Canadians, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
And I think that this is certainly something that the Canadian government, that our future Conservative government should be thinking about.
We must be mindful of our history so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past, but we should not be encouraging or succumbing to Justin Trudeau's divisive rhetoric.
So I think that the best thing we can do for reconciliation is actually improve the lives of Indigenous people.
And we can get a good start with water.
We still have hundreds of communities around Canada that still don't have access to clean and safe drinking water.
And given today's technologies where we can essentially drop water anywhere and make water out of air, that is inexcusable, which is why I'm committed to making sure that every Canadian community has water by the end of my first term.
But back to your question on healthcare, we have to acknowledge, we have to concede that Canada has one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world and one of the lowest rates of hospital beds in the OACD.
My region of North York has one of the lowest bed numbers in the countries and therefore in the developed world, it's unacceptable.
So we have to own up to the fact that we're probably overdue for a major capital expansion as our population is getting older and people are living longer.
We need more beds, but it cannot come without administrative improvements.
For instance, in the province of Ontario, we have more healthcare bureaucrats than family physicians.
I read in the post media last year that Canada has about 10 times more healthcare bureaucrats than Germany per capita.
So that's impossible.
So, we need to work with the provinces to reduce our administrative burden if we're going to look at a capital injection.
And, second of all, I am in favor of looking at a private delivery model still within the framework of the Canada Health Act.
We should encourage doctors and surgeons to innovate and see patients outside of the hospital or existing frameworks.
We should encourage private imaging and diagnostics.
And at the same time, we can still remain within the single healthcare payer system where a private supplier would build government directly.
And finally, on healthcare, I'm going to amend the Canada Health Act to make sure that we will not discriminate against any Canadian because of their medical status or their personal healthcare choice.
You know, it's funny when people talk about healthcare, they just pretend like Saskatchewan doesn't exist.
Saskatchewan does this all the time.
Or Quebec.
You know, they do this all the time.
They have lower wait times.
They spend far less in Saskatchewan than we do here in Alberta.
They have better outcomes.
And yet, it seems to be that in the other eight provinces, the only way of delivering something is the same way that you keep doing it that doesn't work.
So, I'm happy to see that you've sort of examined some of these Canadian success stories and are willing to allow replication of that in other places.
Roman, how do people find out more about your commitment to Canada and support you as you try to advance these ideas within the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race?
Well, everyone's encouraged to visit joinroman.ca, joinroman.ca, and click on policy is where you can find the entire document, Commitment to Canada, which is essentially four pillars: restore Canada's democracy, restore Canadian opportunity, make Canada a natural resources superpower, and reinstate trust in government.
We have a record deficit of trust in government.
Now, we've got to say what we believe and do what we believe is right.
I'll propose a judicial inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, review the lobbying act and the representation formula.
Most importantly, restore and defend the rule of law.
We are running an excellent campaign.
I think we have certainly influenced the conversation very much in the democracy direction among all other candidates.
I would remind your viewers that it's a ranked ballot.
There is no vote splitting.
They can comfortably put me, rank me first, and then another, perhaps a more popular candidate who's likely to survive longer on the ballot than I am after me.
Although we do see a path to winning, but if we're not going to get there, then we ask that your viewers rank us first, to send a strong message of democracy to the Conservative Party of Canada, and that we reward politicians that say what they believe and put their constituents ahead of politics.
Joinroman.ca.
We're one of the least underfunded, we're the least funded campaign.
But at the same time, we're doing great and I'm excited for the conclusion of this race.
Yeah, you're sure punching up, Roman.
Thanks so much for coming on the show.
I wish you the best of luck.
I admire how unafraid you are to advance these ideas because these are truly mainstream ideas.
If you take a minute to talk to the grassroots, Roman, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Best of luck in the race and your letters to Ezra read to me, read by me after the break.
This is the portion of the show where, well, Ezra used to call it his hate mail, but we don't get a lot of hate.
In fact, we get a lot of pretty thoughtful responses to our work from our viewers out there in the wild.
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Trudeau got that hilarious bull cut so people would feel sorry for him and vote for him in his sneaky new election that he's soon to call.
I see that photo of Justin Trudeau with his new haircut, and I know for sure that his hairdresser probably votes conservative.
I feel like that is a haircut given from spite.
Someone who has had their business closed one too many times thanks to the COVID scare lockdowns and is quietly fighting back in the one way they know how.
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It's about time conservatives as well stopped focusing on Biden and started talking about policies.
Yeah, you know what?
Biden is a decrepit, aging old man whom I think is being abused by the Democrat establishment.
I don't know how we report them for elder abuse, but what I see is absolutely that.
He should be shuffling around in his slippers in a nursing home, visiting with his grandchildren and just relaxing, eating dinner at four o'clock and going to bed at 7.30.
Unfortunately, he is in charge of the nuclear codes, and that's where I've got a real problem.
But it's really his policies, which are not even his policies.
I think his policies are the policies of the people who are currently abusing him.
It's the Green New Deal types.
He's a very easily manipulated, vulnerable old man.
And the Green Radicals of the Democrat Party, they're doing the manipulating.
And we can see it playing out in his policies every single day.
Hutch 101 writes, the only success for Canada is for the liberals, the millstone hanging around the necks of Canadians, and the only success will be them being voted out.
You know, that is very true when you look at what is currently hindering the Canadian economy.
It is a lack of pipelines.
It's carbon taxes.
It's a hike in the carbon tax.
It's inflation.
It's the price of buying a home in this country that is being driven up by supply shortages because of hyper-inflated immigration targets.
All those things are liberal policies.
Some conservatives are talking about them.
Some are not.
But we do need a great reset, to use the language of the left, of the political system in this country.
And I think, I think we're about to get it.
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Finally, a little bit of good news to report on the crooked politician front.
Sneaky Karen Selevitz, Richmond Hill's self-appointed queen of Ward 5, was recently found guilty of fraud.
Yet, despite the conviction, there remains a bitter aftertaste.
In fact, the outcome of the Sullovitz fraud case makes me seriously question the justice system as well as the Municipal Act when it comes to crime and punishment.
Now, before I address that aspect, allow me to recap Karen's odious shenanigans.
Astute viewers might recall that last month, Rebel News aired an exclusive interview with the person Karen Sullovitz had hoodwinked.
That would be Patty Burton Garcia.
Patty was hired by Sullovitz to work as a part-time assistant for the counselor beginning in the summer of 2019.
Her salary was $25,000, and Patty was paid approximately $900 every two weeks.
But as soon as Patty received her first paycheck, things took a weird twist.
Namely, Sullovitz informed Patty that she and her boyfriend, Derek Christie, would be taking the lion's share of Patty's paycheck.
Yeah, typically about $800.
Eventually, Sullovitz and Christie dinged Patty for some $21,000.
In other words, more than 80% of Patty's actual earnings.
Now, the motive for Sullovitz acting like the tax man on steroids was apparently financial desperation.
It was around this time period that Sullovitz was in the process of being docked a whopping 315 days pay.
This was due to numerous successful complaints that had been filed against Sullovitz to the City of Richmond Hill's integrity commissioner regarding her misbehavior.
Now, losing 315 days worth of pay is quite a hefty penalty given that, oh, there's only 365 days in a year, but I digress.
In any event, Patty actually agreed to this outrageous clawback of her wages given that she had a desire to contribute to public service and that she was making ends meet thanks to her existing pension.
But things came to an ugly head around tax time the following year.
Patty was informed by her accountant that because on paper she was earning that full salary, well, she owed the Canadian Revenue Agency about $4,000.
Patty was stunned, and when Patty told Sullovitz about the impending tax hit, the counselor allegedly responded with three words, not my problem.
Talk about chutzpah.
But it later became Karen's problem, all right.
Oh, big time once law enforcement got involved.
This was fraud, plain and simple.
And not only was Patty being defrauded, so too were the residents of Richmond Hill, given these were tax dollars that Sullovitz was redistributing.
Yeah, redistributing into her own bank account, that is.
Well, this case dragged through the courts for some 18 months, but last week, a verdict was finally handed down.
Selevitz was found guilty of fraud under $5,000.
And according to the court, Selevitz has already allegedly paid back the full restitution to the city of Richmond Hill.
Where this cash challenge person got the moolah is anyone's guess, however.
But here's the thing.
This conviction was the result of a plea deal.
The original charge was fraud over $5,000.
And Sullovitz was also facing a charge of breach of trust by a public officer.
She was caught red-handed.
There was evidence galore.
So why a plea deal in the first place?
And another thing that makes me question the justice system pertaining to this case, and it's the so-called penalty.
Most would argue that Sullivitz should be behind bars for what she did, but instead, this fraudster will serve a three-month conditional sentence, meaning that she is simply required to remain in her residence daily between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. except for emergencies.
Wow, that's harsh.
And yes, my tongue is firmly inserted in my cheek, folks, because you see, for the last several months, Sullivan has existed as a house hermit.
She hasn't even shown up to numerous council meetings in person, deciding to simply zoom in her contributions, such as they are.
So how is it that being confined to quarters between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. is a penalty in the first place when Sullivitz has already volunteered to confine herself to quarters on basically a 24-7 basis.
And holy Patrick Brown Batman in the aftermath of this humiliating criminal conviction.
You would think that Sullivitz would be full of contrition and that she'd be issuing mia culpas all around, but no.
Like sneaky Patrick himself, a familiar pattern emerges, namely, Karen breaks the rules, Karen gets caught breaking the rules, and then Karen plays the victim card, claiming that for some unfathomable reason, so many people are out to get her as part of some grand conspiracy.
It's pathetic.
Now, we did reach out to Karen Selvetz to get her side of the story.
We even visited her condominium, but she declined to comment.
However, she's all over social media shedding crocodile tears about her plight while blaming others for her troubles.
Her rants are vomit-inducing, quite frankly, given how tone deaf she is.
Indeed, check out this nugget: quote, over the past four and a half years, I have been on the receiving end of ongoing hateful and hate-filled bullying, enduring abusive and malicious treatment, including cyberbullying on Facebook, end quote.
Oh, there's been bullying these past four and a half years, all right.
Except Sivalitz was not on the receiving end.
Rather, when it comes to being a bully, she's the star quarterback.
Case in point, you might recall her infamous recorded rant in which Karen went after Richmond Hill resident Steffi Goodfield.
At the time, Steffi was a stage four cancer patient.
And what was Steffi's crime, you might ask?
Well, Steffi had the utter gall to use the words Ward 5 to describe a music festival she was organizing in Ward 5.
But crazy, Karen, she apparently thinks she owns the copyright for the term Ward 5.
Check out this two-minute slice of utter insanity.
Please be advised that nobody but Richmond Hill counselors use the term ward in any event unless you are a counselor.
So you can let him listen to this if he doesn't have the balls to call me back.
But be advised, Steffi, that if you in any way or if Matt Bergman in any way calls your Sunday Night Jail at Archibald's the Ward 5 event, there is going to be serious problems that you are both going to have to deal with illegally.
Astonishing.
And much like how the good people of Brampton are cursed with Patrick Brown, so too are the folks in Richmond Hill with Karen Sullivan.
You see, under the Municipal Act, she is still allowed to sit on council and she's allowed to run for re-election in the fall.
But how can this be?
It was just proven in a court of law that she defrauded the city out of thousands of dollars.
And now this fraudster can continue to carry out making financial decisions on the behalf of the city?
That's outrageous.
And methinks the Municipal Act clearly needs to be revised so that elected fraudsters are kept away from the taxpayer-funded cookie jar.
For Rebel News, I'm David, the Menzoid Menzies.
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