Ezra Levant exposes Patrick Brown’s hypocrisy—hockey during pandemic lockdowns while children were banned, seven city staffers allegedly aiding his 2020 leadership bid without consequences, and integrity commissioner Meniza Sheik fired after billing $660K for part-time work. Meanwhile, Pope Francis’s $100M Canada apology tour sidestepped direct Church accountability, ignored Indigenous crises like unsafe drinking water, and flouted pandemic protocols. Toronto Mayor John Tory prioritizes global climate policies over local homelessness and infrastructure failures, while Julio Rosas’ Fiery But Mostly Peaceful reveals legacy media’s sanitized portrayal of 2020 U.S. riots and Biden’s escalated border chaos. The episode underscores systemic double standards in leadership, media, and justice. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, could it be that the city of Brampton is a municipality devoid of ethics thanks to sneaky Patrick Brown?
It's Thursday, July 29th, 2022.
I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Is it possible that the city of Brampton, under his horror ship, sneaky Patrick Brown, is quite literally a municipality without integrity?
Here's the skinny.
We are still trying to find a modicum of justice when it comes to at least seven city of Brampton staffers who were working on the now thankfully aborted Patrick Brown campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Not only were the staffers doing Brown business as opposed to Brampton business, some of them were actually jet-setting around Canada with the sneaky one.
None have proven that they took leaves of absence, so their actions violate everything from the Canada Elections Act to the City of Brampton Code of Conduct.
We have the photographic and video evidence of their shenanigans, but it's been more than a month since we outed them and nothing tangible has occurred in terms of penalties or even criminal charges.
Oh, sure, the CPC has ousted Brown, but that was due to a separate violation of the rules.
Uncanny, Patrick Brown and scandal.
They kind of go together like peanut butter and jam, don't they, folks?
Now, we've contacted the City of Brampton media relations team regarding these staffers, but no callbacks.
And we've been reaching out to the city's chief administrative officer, Paul Morrison.
He hasn't returned our emails.
And when you call his phone number, you get a busy signal.
No, I swear.
When was the last time you heard a busy signal?
1982?
So last week, we ventured out to Brampton City Hall and we hand-delivered a dossier outlining all of Brown's shenanigans in terms of apparently using city staff to help him with his ill-fated campaign.
And to date, the CAO, Morrison, hasn't even had the decency to acknowledge receipt of that package.
As I understand things, when presented with the dossier, he allegedly took sick leaves.
And when his sick leave was over, he then went on vacation just to avoid addressing the myriad issues that we raised, apparently.
Again, how unprofessional can you get?
Or is this a matter of everybody in the city of Brampton is beholden to the vindictive lying liar that is Patrick Brown and that no city staffer dares to make waves?
Now, folks, it was suggested by some viewers of previous reports that we should reach out to the city's integrity commissioner, Meniza Sheik.
The reason I didn't bother contacting Ms. Sheik in the first place is that she is, well, a Patrick Brown stooge.
You see, when Brown first got elected in Brampton in 2018, one of the first orders of business was to appoint a brand new integrity commissioner.
And Moniza is a personal friend of Patrick Brown.
Holy conflict of interest.
And Brown's gal pal, well, she sure came through for the mayor when we caught the sneaky one secretly playing hockey in Brampton with his Berry friends some two years ago.
Now, I don't have any issue with the best game you can name, except for this.
Back in the summer of 2020, Brampton was perhaps the most locked down city in our entire Dominion.
Baseball diamonds and soccer pitches and kiddie playgrounds, they were all no-go zones.
And Brown even hired Paladin security guards to serve as the city's snitches.
They would spy on the wrecked facilities.
And if anyone was, oh, you know, kicking a ball around or going down a slide or whatnot, well, these paladin punks would call city of Brampton bylaw enforcement officers who would rush to the rescue, ticket books in hand.
And yet, while the children of Brampton were forbidden from playing games, not so Patrick Brown.
He was playing shiny on a weekly basis.
Check out our infamous video footage when we caught Mayor Brown crimson-handed.
Well, 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's a rebel news.
You'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.
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 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 it one law for me and one law for thee in this city?
Mr. Brown.
Now, in the aftermath in our quest for fairness and justice, our superb lawyer, Aaron Rosenberg, officially filed a complaint with Muniza, the so-called integrity commissioner.
Here's the basis for the complaint.
Quote, as you may know, the city of Brampton entered stage two reopening effective June 24th, 2020.
Ontario Stage 2 reopening limited indoor sports and recreational fitness activities to use by a business or organization to train amateur or professional athletes or to run amateur or professional athletic competitions.
Team sports could not be practiced or played within the facility with the exception of training sessions for members of a sports team that did not include games or scrimmage games.
Informal team practices, scrimmages, or competitions were not permitted.
End quote.
So at the end of the day, Rosenberg stated that it seems as though Brown broke at least four code of conduct rules and we outlined those rules and oh, there was that little matter of video evidence.
I thought we had a rock-solid case, quite frankly.
Still, we had our suspicions that the fix was in from the get-go.
Indeed, Rosenberg noted the following: quote: Our clients are also troubled by your reported ties to Mayor Brown, as reported by the Globe and Mail last year, including your reported public expressions of support for Mayor Brown and reported payments to your husband's company by the Progressive Conservative Party in 2017.
Accordingly, our clients are calling for your recusal and a corresponding independent investigation into Mayor Brown's alleged violations of the code of conduct.
End quote.
So did Ms. Sheik recuse herself?
It's Brampton, of course not.
She did not.
Indeed, when the investigation into Brown's shiny shenanigans were completed, Meniza, the city's so-called ethics watchdog, found no evidence.
Yeah, no evidence that the mayor violated the city's code of conduct.
Well, knock me down with a feather.
But wait a second, if it was indeed kosher that day for Brown to be playing hockey, then why did Brown say he was at the arena to inspect the facility?
And why didn't he actually, you know, inspect the facility as opposed to running away to his getaway car?
And if he did mean to simply inspect the facility, why was it his hockey bag was there full of equipment?
It makes no sense.
Unless maybe that Brown was lying through his teeth and once again lost track of his lies, as compulsive liars tend to do so often.
So you can see why we didn't reach out to the Integrity Commissioner regarding this latest scandal, once bitten, twice shy, as the saying goes.
But since I was getting absolutely nowhere with everyone else at City Hall, I figured that just maybe, like that proverbial broken clock, Muniza Sheik is correct at least twice a day.
But lo and behold, the city of Brampton is such a shite show these days, folks, you sometimes lose sight of who's who in the zoo.
Which is to say, it turns out that a few months ago, Muniza Sheik herself was fired by the city.
As chronicled in The Pointer, an online publication that is doing superb work covering the ongoing nonsense in Brampton, Sheik was given the boot after a two-hour closed session discussion back in March.
One of the reasons seems to be purely financial.
In the course of two years, Muniza had billed the city of Brampton more than $660,000 for what was essentially part-time work.
But it wasn't just the money.
It was also her unethical relationship with Brown.
The pointer quoted Duff Conaker, a legal scholar and director with Democracy Watch, who noted that Muniza's ties to Brown tainted her credibility as Brampton's integrity commissioner.
And one of the examples cited was, you guessed it, Brown's hockey hijinks during the lockdown.
As the pointer noted, quote, despite clear evidence and witnesses that said Brown, who was caught on video at the rink by media outlet Rebel News, was there to play hockey, Sheik accepted his claim that he was not there to play hockey.
Sheik accepted his claim that he was not there to play, even though the video footage shows a hockey bag next to him with his name on it, filled with equipment and players who said on camera that Brown was a regular at the game, which was not allowed under pandemic rules at the time.
End quote.
Oh, the karma.
But on sober second thought, does it really make sense trying to get a modicum of justice when it comes to bumbling Brown's rule breaking and ethical violations by reaching out to any city of Brampton staffer?
Pope's Apology Tour00:11:07
Enough is enough.
This has to be taken to the next level, which is to say it is high time for law enforcement to get involved.
So how about it, RCMP?
We've already done all the heavy lifting for you.
You have all the evidence on a silver platter.
What the HE double hockey sticks are you waiting for?
In the meantime, the city of Brampton continues to exist as a biosphere of the bazaar, a cauldron of corruption.
Brown's own personal fraudulent fiefdom.
And this shyster wanted to be Premier of Ontario, and this compulsive liar wanted to be Prime Minister of Canada?
Again, enough is enough.
Indeed, folks, to quote the Joker from the 1989 Batman movie.
This town needs an enema.
The process of reconciliation, Pope Francis traveled to Canada earlier this week to essentially apologize to any who were affected adversely by the residential school system of yesteryear.
He touched down in Edmonton, Yukon, and of course, traveled to Quebec City, where my guest, Alexa Lavois, was there to report on the Pontiff's visit.
And joining me now is indeed Alexa Lavois.
How are you doing there, Alexa?
I'm pretty good.
Thank you.
And you, David?
Oh, doing great.
Thanks for asking.
So, Alexa, the Pope spoke to, I think, 60,000 plus people at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium.
Then he flew out to Quebec.
You went to cover the event.
How did things go?
So, first of all, he arrived really late on the first day.
His flight was postponed.
And afterwards, he postponed all the events.
So it was supposed to arrive on the Habaran field and at the citadel around, I think at the beginning was supposedly to be three in the afternoon and being on the field about four in the afternoon.
But at the end, he arrived around seven at night.
So it was really a long day to wait, but the crowd was there.
A lot of people were really excited to see him.
And everything went well the both of the day because this morning I went to the Basilica Cétan de Beaupre and it's where he did give another apologize ceremony there.
And so a lot of people were there.
Big screen was outside for people that was not allowed to be inside, was able to see the ceremony outside as well.
The Pope had his pop mobile that we called and he just like passed into the crowd, kissed a lot of baby.
And yeah, that was something that a lot of people was waiting.
I will say that most of the people who were there were mostly South America or Central America.
And a lot of people were Aboriginal as well.
So not much French Canadian was there.
What I was able to see with my eyes.
Interesting.
Now, Alexia, you said that the Pope was able to kiss a lot of babies.
I would think that Premier Legault must be blowing his stack over that.
I mean, Quebec was certainly one of the most locked down provinces during the pandemic.
It was the only one that had a curfew.
And now all of a sudden, kissing strangers is okay.
I mean, I'm saying that sort of in jest, but in a way, not because look at how many people had their lives made miserable because we were supposed to mask up, stay two meters away from one another.
And I guess that's all gone out the window, at least depending on who you are.
Yeah, so at the beginning, they took like the festival of Quebec as I would say as a cause of rising case in the hospital.
And now the Pope came and now all vulnerable people are in the field, but this is not a problem anymore.
But Lego is really promoting if you're in presence of a vulnerable person, you should wear a mask.
But what we saw so far, Lego and Trudeau was in presence of the Pope that is 86 years old and not really in good shape.
But none of them was wearing a mask.
Jeez, you know, I still can't figure out the motive of this COVID-19 virus and who it decides to attack and whatnot.
But getting back to the meat of the story, Alexa, certainly the Pope is making more, you know, very genuine, it would seem, apologies to me.
But there were those that say, hey, words are not enough and that the Vatican has vast resources of wealth.
And how about compensation?
How about getting programs in place to those dozens and dozens of Native reserves that still don't have clean drinking water in this year of 2022?
How do you feel about that?
So first of all, what I heard this morning at the radio, the whole trip of the Pope in Canada, the cost was what they say this morning at Carter Ventes with Point Aunt, it was about $100 million of dollars.
On that, a part was paid by the Vatican and the church, of course, but a part was being paid from us.
And they say that for Quebec, it's about $3 million of dollars that we did pay for having the Pope over.
But I was asking people: what do you think?
Should we invest that money into the community to have good drinking water and better facilities and better place to live for them?
Or should we have the Pope over?
Some people were, yeah, it's a good thing to have the Pope, but some of them was like, yeah, but we have like on our reserve still problem with the running water.
So I would prefer to have like drinkable water than to have a Pope over because it's all my life that is affected by it.
And as for the speech, a lot of people, not all, but some people have told me that the first speech in Edmonton was touching and more emotional.
Then in Quebec, it was more, it was more look like it was mixing stuff like Ukraine war with climate change, with aboriginal problem.
So a lot of people was kind of not angry, but yeah, they were angry because they say that it seems not really authentic and sincere, especially because he never talked on the name of the church.
He did talk on his name on all this process of apologize.
And some of people were not happy of the result of it.
Interesting.
But you know, Alexa, I can't help but notice, I mean, it seems to me that during the Pontiff's trip to Canada, Justin Trudeau was giving this vibe of him being holier than now.
And let us not forget that it was Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
He was prime minister of this country when those residential schools were still in existence.
Jean Cretan, as Indian affairs minister and later prime minister, under his bailiwick, they were still in existence.
Do you find that these individuals are getting off easy?
And maybe because they're liberals and of course the liberal funded mainstream media, well, they just don't want to bite the hand that feeds, I suppose.
But I will say, first of all, it's what I asked to some of the people present at the event, that the government have a big part of what happened during this camp and this color place where we took away the children.
But I say, sure, they apologize.
All the people who were in charge at that moment, do they should apologize more than the church?
Or do you think that the church have more to apologize to?
And a lot of people say, yeah, the government have like a big, big role on this.
And the under subvention, like they give so low money to these native schools, where we know that tuberculosis was really high at that time.
Some children die from it.
And that is not the fault of the church at this.
It's because they didn't have the money to treat correctly the children who were sick.
Of course, that doesn't erase the fact that, yes, they were mistreated.
They were probably a lot of sexual abuse.
I don't know what happened because nobody wants to tell us the truth of what happened there because we don't have any record or maybe they are there, but we don't have access to it.
But the fact is that the people who were in charge as the, but Trudeau should apologize for what his father did when he was the prime minister at that time.
And Jean-Cretain has a card in this responsibility too.
So why is only the Pope who needs to do a trip all over Canada to three different cities when it's actually really not well in shape and apologize many times when he was not in charge at that time?
No, well said, Alexa.
One last parting question very quickly.
Pope's Climate Trip Debate00:04:16
Now that we review how the trip went with the pontiff, was it a success?
Was it a failure?
Was it maybe a mix of both?
How do you score it, my friend?
I will say this is my personal opinion.
I think it's a big fail.
First of all, there was not many, many people and the cost of it was really high.
And at the end of the day, if we really, really care for climate change, why spending how many carbon footprint for this trip, for the private jet and all this, like moving and like the Pope, like the car of the Pope needed to be transport as well.
And all the security, all the car involved.
And at the end of the day, like everything was closed around, like shop was closed.
And for my part, I don't think, I think in a week, everybody would have forget about it.
Interesting.
Alexa, thank you so much for being on the ground in Quebec City.
Really appreciate your work there.
And you have yourself a wonderful weekend, my friend.
Thank you, you two.
And that was Alexa Lavois from Montreal.
Keep it here, folks.
More of the Ezreal event show to continue right after this.
Well, folks, lots of response regarding my monologue yesterday regarding the C40 gathering of mayors.
It's almost 100 mayors of major cities, including Mayor John Torrey, who are enacting all kinds of crackpot policies, all in the name of climate change.
Yeah, thanks, John Torrey.
I don't need your advice in life to get by.
In any event, Fat Ninja writes, have fun riding your vegan bicycle down to the local Starbucks for a cricket frappe.
Yeah, really, that's one of the deals when it comes to the climate change argument.
We got to give up meat and pork and lamb and all those other delectable animals because they're burping and they're flatulence.
Well, it's going to destroy the planet.
So we should settle on insects instead.
Well, as soon as I see Mayor Torrey and company chomping down on mealworms, maybe then I'll consider it.
Cryptos and Espanel writes, government needs to manufacture crisis to make themselves relevant.
You know, you're absolutely right.
When I go to freedom rallies, folks, I can tell you this, the most passionate demonstrators tend to be those from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc nations.
They've gone through this horror show before.
They see it for what it is.
The government uses a crisis or manufactures a crisis to, you know, take back some of your civil liberties temporarily, of course.
But the truth of the matter is, those civil liberties never come back to you.
And before you know it, you're under a dictatorship.
In other words, they've seen this movie play out.
They've seen the ending.
It's not happy.
And they don't want it to happen here.
Jimmy Zao writes, okay, this made me spit out my coffee.
Quote, I'm sorry, ma'am, I'm just reading your breasts, end quote.
David can give tutorials on being a pickup artist, LOL.
No justice, no nips.
Well, folks, if you didn't see the monologue, that refers to the fact when Dufferin Grove Park was being cleared out of hobos.
There was this plump woman that came running up to me topless, and she had all kinds of messages written on her breast.
Hey, I'm all for freedom of expression, but I just couldn't read the words properly.
And the words were no justice, no peace.
But in the bigger picture, here's the deal.
Talking About 2020 Riots00:03:21
Mayor Torrey is telling us how to live our lives in the name of greater cities the world over.
And yet he can't keep his backyard in Toronto clean.
If you look at the number of tent cities, the number of hobos taking over, that ludicrous Afro-Indigenous rising encampment that lasted three weeks right on the doorstep of Toronto City Hall.
Give me a break, Mayor Tory.
Clean up your own mess first and then worry about our alleged messes later.
And by the way, you are a municipal mayor.
You're not a premier.
You're not a prime minister.
Shouldn't your role be, you know, picking up the garbage, making sure the water is clean, fixing potholes?
Yeah, I know it's very mundane for you, Mr. Mayor, but it kind of affects our lives in a profound way.
Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition of the Ezra Event Show.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
The big boss man, Ezra, he'll be back tomorrow, Friday.
In the meantime, as always, stay sane.
Juan Mendoza with Rebel News.
We're back here in Tampa, Florida at the Student Action Summit.
And I have with me right now Julio Rosas from Town Hall Media.
Thank you very much for talking with us at Rebel News.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
So you recently published a book talking about your experience with the 2020 riots.
And you were a big, you're one of the big reporters that were reporting at the scene all across the U.S. when all that was happening.
So tell us more about that.
How's that been?
Yeah, I mean, the book's called Fiery But Mostly Peaceful, The 2020 Riots and the Gas Lag of America.
You know, I didn't set out when everything was happening to have the end goal of writing a book.
It just sort of just kind of happened in the sense that they just kept happening in 2020.
Like I thought they would stop at some point, but they didn't.
And so I was at a lot of places, Minneapolis, Kenosha, Chaz, and Seattle.
I was at the Portland Federal Courthouse siege.
So I saw a whole bunch of things that were happening and that were obviously making a lot of impacts on the 2020 election and politics in general.
And so I decided to write things down, but I also wanted to include people who were victims of the riots because unfortunately, a lot of people who were on the pro-rioting side, they were trying to minimize their plight because they say, well, if they were a business owner, for example, they would say, oh, we have insurance.
It's just a building.
Who cares?
But these are people's livelihoods that were, in some cases, completely destroyed.
And not to go too in the weeds, but insurance doesn't necessarily cover riot damage.
And so, it was set out to have a definitive account, a first-hand account, about all these very destructive events, while also just cementing things in writing.
Because this is history.
We're going to be talking about 2020 and the riots, similar to the way that we talk about Los Angeles in 1992 or the hot summer of 68 and 69.
So it took a while.
Border Crisis Intensifies00:02:15
It was a good endeavor.
Daily Wire published it.
I'm thankful for that.
And so, yeah, I never thought I'd be an author, but here I am.
Yeah, and it's good that good reporters like you were on the ground there showing the reality of what was going on.
Meanwhile, the legacy media was trying to frame it as the summer of love, you know?
So, Julio, so another thing that you've been reporting on as well, I've been at the border with you doing reports there many times.
So have you seen anything new down there since the last time you went down to the border?
I mean, the thing that's kind of crazy is, you know, I've been covering the border since 2019.
It was under President Trump, so obviously things were very, very different back then.
And so when I started covering the border, when things started to unravel back in, I mean, it really started to kick up in March of last year, after Biden came into office.
It was just startling to see over 200 people illegally cross the border in one area within the span of two, three, four hours.
Today, we're getting groups of like 500.
I mean, it's insane how it's gotten worse.
I mean, and it's not slowing down.
I mean, we're here in Tampa, right?
We got similar to the humidity and heat that they're getting in McAllen, Texas right now, or Del Rio or Eagle Pass.
And can you imagine?
I mean, we're complaining about, oh, it's so hot in our suits and all this other stuff.
But can you imagine trying to, in the hands of smugglers, trying to illegally cross the border in this heat with oftentimes no water, no food, or anything like that?
I mean, it's insane just how inhumane the border has become.
I mean, don't get me wrong, the border's been a problem for a very long time.
It's just that, like with everything else under this administration, Biden has seemed to make an effort to make things 10 times worse on purpose.
So today, I'm just shocked at how bigger the groups have gotten, how more consistent they've gotten in all the different areas that normally they've never seen activity like this before.
And so it all just speaks that this is a problem, number one, but also two, it's a very fixable problem.
The White House just needs to go back to what was happening two, three years ago.