Ezra Levant examines Canada Border Services Agency’s August 2022 press release on ArriveCan, now permanent despite its COVID origins, while David Menzies highlights Toronto Pearson’s 57.1% delays and CBSA’s evasive leadership. Rabbi Shmuel Nefton reveals ignored break-ins at the Jewish-Russian Community Center, contrasting police inaction with swift responses to pro-Palestinian protests, questioning systemic bias. Meanwhile, Windsor’s Chris Soda faces remote council demands after vaccination hurdles, exposing anti-unvaccinated stigma. Florida’s DeSantis appoints Judge Renata Francis amid legal battles over enforcement, signaling a clash between public health mandates and individual rights—raising concerns about creeping government control and political exclusion. [Automatically generated summary]
Are things about to get better at our hellacious Canadian airports anytime soon?
Well, in a word, no.
It's Friday, August 5th, 2022.
I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
So on Wednesday, a press release from Canada Border Services Agency, CBSA, popped on my desk.
And at first blush, the headline certainly looked promising, quote, make your customs and immigration declaration in advance and save time at the border, end quote.
Well, that sounds quite jolly now, doesn't it?
Given that outrageous lineups at Canadian airports, well, they're so du rigueur these days.
In fact, it's now far beyond annoying and aggravating.
The Canadian airport experience is a borderline form of torture.
Indeed, as we recently reported, thanks to the various stupefying mandates of the Justin Trudeau Liberals, Toronto Pearson International is the number one airport in the world.
Number one when it comes to the most delayed flights.
Yes, this dubious achievement is based on data obtained from the flight tracking company Flight Aware.
The data covers the period of May 26th to July 19th, 2022.
Oh, and Flight Aware noted Pearson was number four in the world when it comes to canceled flights.
Way to go.
Pearson International Airport has been ranked the worst airport in the entire world, sir, in terms of flight delays, fourth worst in the world in terms of canceled flights.
What has been your experience here?
I guess I'd say we agree.
We're flying through Toronto to get back to Columbus and all of our luggage and all of our flights got canceled.
Came in from Reykjavik and my flight to continue on to Saskatoon has been canceled.
So I'm going to find the Sheraton Hotel where I have a voucher.
And I also have two $10 meal tickets.
What can you get for?
And after that, I'm going to check in and watch television until I fall asleep.
You know, the situation at Pearson and other major Canadian airports is so dire, it is quite literally a matter of life and death.
Oh, not for the beleaguered Homo sapien travelers.
We just endure misery and plenty of it.
Rather, I speak of pets.
Remember our story last month about Little Winston?
This was a rescue dog flown to Toronto from the Dominican Republic by Jenna Butts.
Winston probably wish he never left the DR. You see, the airport folks lost the little dog like he was a piece of luggage.
By the way, parts of Pearson now resemble the island of lost luggage as hundreds of wayward suitcases pile up.
But what made matters worse when it came to Winston is that Jenna says airport and airline staff, well, they didn't seem to care that her dog was lost and famished and thirsty.
Check it out.
Well, I've seen a lot of people saying, you know, you saved him from the Dominican and then you had to save him from Air Transit as well.
Quite literally, the voyage almost killed them.
They called me downstairs and the custom woman opened, ripped open his crate and had him with a bowl of water in front of him.
And he was soaking wet in his own pee.
And they could have definitely been more empathetic.
I was kind of just pushed to the side and nobody was helping me.
So I blame Air Transat.
But you know what is truly incredible about the dubious achievements of Pearson International?
All airports were surveyed by Flight Aware, including those airports situated in third world nations.
Pearson's record of 57.1% of flights arriving late is inexcusable.
And by the way, things were only slightly less ghastly at Montreal Trudeau Airport, with 52.6% of flights being delayed.
Indeed, so much for flying the friendly skies, air travel in Canada today resembles the title of one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes, namely Nightmare at 20,000 feet.
Not that liberal cabinet ministers experience delays and cancellations and endless lineups.
For them, it's first class and customer service excellence all the way.
They are VIPs, after all.
They get the royal treatment while slapping down a carbon footprint that is Godzillian in size.
Indeed, you don't really think Justin Trudeau has to get in line when he say buggers off to Costa Rica like he did last week, do you?
Hey, they say that Nero fiddled as Rome burned way back when.
Today we have a prime minister who surfs and smokes a bong as Canada becomes increasingly dysfunctional.
No, seriously, whether it is getting on a plane or renewing one's passport, nothing seems to work properly anymore because so many government employees are apparently still sitting on their fat Ricota cheese candy asses at home as opposed to being on the front lines providing, you know, customer service as opposed to virtual customer service.
In fact, that day we visited Pearson International last month, not even the vending machine that dispenses the still mandatory face diapers was working.
Well, you know what, folks, my cameraman Auricio was told to put a mask on.
He didn't have one.
He's directed to the vending machine and guess what?
It's not working.
Isn't that just so typical about how things are operating right now at Pearson Toronto International?
You can't even pay for an overpriced face diaper without something going wrong.
Wow, to quote the ever-loving thing, what a revolting development.
ArriveCan's Future Uncertain00:13:20
Anyway, back to the CSBA press release that seemed to indicate that hope is on the horizon.
Here's what it said.
Quote, CSBA is constantly exploring innovative ways to deliver a better and faster experience for travelers without compromising the safety and security of Canada's border.
To modernize and expedite the travel experience, the CBSA is now providing travelers the option to submit their customs and immigration declaration up to 72 hours in advance of their arrival in Canada through ArriveCan.
The Advance CBSA Declaration optional feature is currently available for international travelers arriving at Toronto Pearson, Montreal Trudeau, and Vancouver International Airports.
In the coming months, the optional feature will also become available to travelers arriving at Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton, Billy Bishop, Toronto City, Ottawa, and Quebec City International Airports.
By submitting their customs and immigration information in advance, travelers spend less time at primary inspection kiosks or e-gates when they arrive at the airport, resulting in shorter lineups in arrival halls.
End quote.
Okay, fair enough, it's something, I suppose.
Yet, the more I continued to read this press release, folks, the more annoyed I became for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, everyone knows that ArriveCan is a dead dog with fleas.
It is a major source of delays when this pig in a poke is actually working, that is.
But here's the thing: nowhere in the press release does the CBSA announce a retirement date for this unnecessary hunk of junk.
I would suggest the vast majority of Canadians who travel desperately want to know when ArriveCan is going to be tossed upon the scrap heap of obsolescence.
But no.
And so it was that my spidey senses began tingling here.
Is ArriveCan here to stay as in forever and ever?
Do the Justin Trudeau liberals love the idea of an app that provides them with the personal medical status of Canadians?
I think they do because they are control freaks.
After all, wasn't ArriveCan supposedly to be a temporary measure in terms of dealing with COVID-19?
Oh, yes, the coronavirus.
You see, here's another thing that grinded my gears reading through that CSBA press release.
Not once does this agency ever mention COVID-19.
Don't you find that odd?
After all, it was the pandemic that turned air travel into a god-awful nightmare for all of us in the first place.
And while most of the world has returned to a pre-COVID-19 state, well, not so at Canadian airports for reasons that remain unfathomable.
But then again, keep in mind that Justin Trudeau is a man who admires the basic dictatorship of China.
He actually said that back in 2014 before becoming prime minister.
Now, call me an extremist if you must, but I kind of get a sick feeling in my gut when I hear the future leader of a Western democracy saying he admires a communist dictatorship that is becoming increasingly belligerent on the world stage these days.
You know, folks, if I ever got a chance to ask one question to the PM, it would be this.
With China being ground zero for COVID-19, a virus that has killed millions and caused global economic damage in the trillions of dollars, Mr. Prime Minister, do you still admire China?
I think it's a fair question, but don't expect any of the Trudeau-funded mainstream media trained SEALs to utter such an impolite query.
One must never bite the hand that feeds after all.
By the way, the day the CSBA release came out, guess who was gushing over this so-called advancement on social media?
Well, well, well, it was none other than Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino.
He had this to say on Twitter, quote, the new advanced declaration feature in the ArriveCan app, now available at Montreal Trudeau Airport, makes submitting your info quicker and easier.
Most importantly, it cuts the time spent at the kiosk by a third, end quote.
Really?
Does anyone believe that?
A one-third reduction in wait times?
As we've demonstrated in recent weeks, Marco Mendocino is such a compulsive liar, he actually makes sneaky Patrick Brown blush.
Mendocino still clings to the outrageous lie that law enforcement agencies asked the federal government to enact the Emergencies Act, even though there's not a single police chief in our great dominion that will confirm this supposed fact.
So when Mendocino gets giddy over the supposedly new and improved ArriveCan, sorry, I'm not buying what the right honorable Pinocchio with a portfolio is selling.
After all, this is a shyster who would spit in your face and have the chutzpah to tell you it's actually raining.
In any event, earlier today, a press conference was held by Deborah Flint.
She's the president and CEO of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority.
This is the entity that runs Pearson.
And there was a whole lot of blather about future improvements coming to Pearson, hopefully before the second coming of Christ.
The press release issued at the event also bragged about current achievements.
I use air quotes there, folks, because one achievement was this, quote, last week across the airport, 44% of all flights were on time, end quote.
Wow, 44%, you say.
Hey, let's have a ticker tape parade.
You know, if a baseball player was batting 440, he'd be the best slugger in the game since Ted Williams.
But for a business to achieve a 44% success rate, sorry, that's a failing grade.
In any event, here are the questions I asked Ms. Flint.
I thought the queries were clear and concise.
As for Ms. Flint's answers, I'm not sure she actually provided any tangible answers.
Here, check it out for yourself.
Thank you for your time, Ms. Flint.
David Menzies with Rebel News.
Ms. Flint, on Wednesday, the Canada Border Services Agency issued a press release about alleged improvements to the disastrous ArriveCan app.
But the press release was ominous for two reasons, I think.
One, there was absolutely no mention when the ArriveCan app is going to be retired.
Secondly, there was no mention of COVID, which is the ostensible policy reason for having the ArriveCan app in place in the first place.
Therefore, the conclusion is it looks like the Justin Trudeau Liberals want ArriveCan to be a permanent fixture for Canadian air travel.
And my question to you is, are you lobbying this government to get rid of this lousy app so that this airport can finally start to function as it should be?
The federal government is responsible for health and security and border screening policies at this airport.
We absolutely have a seat at the table with the government to talk about how those policies and practices affect the airport and how we can work more effectively together to improve the passenger experience, to decrease the processing times, and to increase the ability for passengers to control their journey.
What we've seen along the way is that the health requirements that were previously in the airport, arrival testing taking place here, requirements for employees, that those have been removed.
And we've seen an incredible change in the efficacy of processing as a result.
As I shared earlier, I believe that the future can be more digitally enabled.
I will say that I am pleased to see that the ArriveCan has been adapted to include the customs arrival function.
So that eliminates the time that an individual is spending at a kiosk in the airport.
The individual did not used to spend time at a kiosk in the airport doing that function.
It used to be filled out on paper.
And not that that was a great solution, but it kept it out of the airport processing space and function.
So with that addition, we've seen a significant reduction in processing time with the adaptation of those mobile tools.
What the mobile tools in the future are remains to be seen.
But what I'm advocating for is the airport of the future to be digitally equipped with mobile-enabled tools, biometric tools, and modern screening functions.
Pearson is the absolute worst airport in the entire world in terms of delayed flights.
You're the fourth worst for cancellations.
What's really troubling is this report includes data for airports that are situated in third world countries.
In addition, the lineups here are outrageous.
There are literally tons of lost luggage.
There are people who have had their animals almost die due to dehydration because they got lost.
Not that it seems that the staff here cares about that.
My question is, because Pearson is a mismanaged mess and an international laughingstock, has any GTAA employees been fired?
Or indeed, Ms. Flint, have you even considered tendering your resignation?
I'm joined here by a representative group of people that reflect the unwavering commitment to make this airport better.
Everything that you've said about the passenger experience here, I take to heart.
I take accountability.
I am deeply committed to making sure that the passengers have a great and reliable experience.
And as I've led the airport to be one of the top airports in the world, I'm committed to making sure that we rise back to that status once again.
Toronto Pearson is very unique.
And this is not uniquely to Toronto Pearson.
We are in a significant transitionary environment coming out of a global pandemic, a global pandemic that's quite not over as of yet.
And so we're working through those issues.
We have an incredible strength in leadership in the industry, one that is going to give us the confidence that we can move this airport back forward.
But the strengths of being the sixth most internationally connected airport in the world and the complexity that comes along with that, two borders within our airport facilities, being the largest airport in Canada.
These are all significant strengths for the future, but they are also challenges in the immediate.
I think the stories will be told that we rose from the most challenging situation of airports across the world back to the greatest heights, and I'm committed to making sure that happens.
You know, folks, I think Ms. Flint is potential Liberal Party of Canada material here.
You know, blather on forever without actually saying anything.
There is no planet blah.
By the way, here's an excerpt of Ms. Flint's bio.
Quote, at GTAA, Deborah began her leadership at the onset of the global pandemic and has led Pearson to being globally recognized and awarded for its healthy airport program, end quote.
So there we have it, folks.
Welcome to Justin Trudeau's New and Improved Canada.
You run the worst airport in the world and you get an award.
Talk about failing upward.
Don't know about you, but I think it will be months, maybe years, before things finally get back to normal at the airport.
Because the folks in charge and their political puppet masters, well, folks, they simply don't give a rodent's rectum.
Security Breach at Community Center00:13:21
The Jewish-Russian Community Center is located in North Toronto, but on several occasions recently, video surveillance indicated that an individual was trying to break into the center.
While he damaged the building's front facade, he never was able to actually break in.
Perhaps the man was motivated by anti-Semitism, or maybe he was just a garden variety thief who reckoned there were valuables to pilfer from inside the building.
But here's the real story, folks.
When Rabbi Shmuel Neft reported these incidents to the police, incredibly, the cops at 32 Division, they simply couldn't be bothered to take this matter seriously.
But why?
And joining me now is Rabbi Neff for more on this story.
Hey there, Rabbi.
How are you doing?
Good to see you, David.
Great.
So first things first, in the beginning of your quest for justice, as I understand it, you were put on hold for more than two hours?
Is that correct?
Yeah.
So when we finally got a hold of the security footage that showed the incident, which was, by the way, the third of a series of incidents, second break-in, but a third incident involving the same individual.
By the way, she's a woman, apparently.
The police called me back today and told me they found who it is, but we'll get to that.
So I found the footage.
I was ready to hand it over to the police and I called as soon as we were able to download it.
I called 32 Division to the non-emergency hotline.
And yes, as you said, I stayed on hold for just about two hours.
I managed to pray in the afternoon services and evening services, as well as go out to dinner with a community member, all while on hold with the Toronto Police Service.
Unbelievable.
And then when you actually got to speak to them, I understand they were very nonchalant about what was happening.
Is that correct?
The truth is, is that I never really reached them in a direct way.
I gave up at about 10, that was last Thursday, the 27th of July.
I pretty much gave up on the phone call and drove to 32 Division, which is not so far away on Yonk Street, and thinking that I would be able to get their attention in person.
And I was basically told that, number one, that the system that they have is that non-emergency reports go exclusively through the phone line, the hotline.
Emergency things obviously go through 911.
And they couldn't do anything for me there at the scene.
And basically, Before I was trying to be a little stubborn, so I was trying to maybe see if I could do anything.
I said, you know, I was on hold for two hours.
Yeah, we know you might be on hold for two hours, three hours, four hours.
I said, why is that?
I said, well, he said, frankly, well, we're understaffed right now, which is mind-blowing.
And basically, yeah, 10:30 at night, he said, get back on the phone, wait until they answer, and then you'll be able to report the crime.
And that's when I decided I'm going to take other measures in trying to get the attention of the police department.
And, Rabbi Nath, I can understand why you would be sensitive to this kind of attempted break-in at your community center.
We were talking off camera.
You came to Toronto from New York.
And of course, my producer, Nai Efren, we went down to New York in 2019 when there was a horrible spike in anti-Semitism.
It would be people basically looking like you, walking down the street, minding their own business and getting sucker punched or worse.
And of course, your hometown, Pittsburgh, in 2018, that was the scene of that horrible synagogue attack there.
So when someone is coming, perhaps even weaponized, we don't know.
You can't tell from the footage.
It is cause for concern.
And quite frankly, I'm scratching my head why the police were so nonchalant about this.
Right.
So I'm saying ultimately, I'm saying you could tell by the footage that, you know, this wasn't a hate crime.
We have to be real with ourselves.
What is a hate crime?
What is not a hate crime?
Hate crimes are not rare anymore in the city of Toronto and its surrounding areas.
Let's start with that.
The level-headed observer could see that this was an attempted theft.
And the police department called me, the inspector, chief and lead inspector of 32 Division.
By the way, I have to make mention that after all the noise we made, 32 Division was on the job, on ball.
The detectives calling me almost daily, updating me.
I called, you know, I have a lead detective's personal cell phone number.
We were in touch about things throughout the week.
And then when I finally found footage of the first and second incidents with this individual, the next day, I called him that night, Wednesday night, Thursday, yesterday.
I had an officer bright and early to come pick up that footage.
So they've been on the ball ever since we made a lot of noise.
But like you said, David, we don't take these things lightly.
This is not a community center.
This is a, well, this is not just a community center.
It happens to be a synagogue.
This is the heart of the local Jewish community.
And look, historically, Jews have a long-standing trauma of feeling vulnerable throughout history, before we, you know, in the old countries, whether it was in Europe or whether it was in the Middle East, Jews were mistreated all over.
And, you know, coming to Canada and coming to North America in general, but especially Canada, which was always a place people, you know, Canadians tell me that Canada is better than the United States of America, even though I'm American, so I'll stay out of the conversation.
But people say, you know, it's safer in Canada.
There's better amenities in Canada.
There's better protection in Canada.
Well, look, the Jewish community lives in Canada, and they're starting to feel that, starting to get a little feeling of that same vulnerability they had, right?
Especially, JRCC stands for Jewish Russian Community Center.
We work primarily with Russian-speaking Jews.
People who grew up, at least the older generation already, grew up under the thumb of the KGB.
Their upbringing was the police are not for you.
The police are against you.
That was the existence of the police back then.
They come to Canada.
They were taught that the police are supposed to protect them.
And they feel even a little bit, but a breach in this feeling of protection.
And that starts to spark up all of those old traumas again of, are we really protected?
Is this really our home?
Are we really safe here?
So, yeah, our case, obviously, attempted theft.
But this person came here once, came here twice, and came here three times.
They were targeting the synagogue for whatever, you know, whatever was inside, whatever she wanted to get.
And at a very, at least superficial level, we would feel this lack of attention from those who we felt at least.
And now, like I said, they were on the ball, but then we were feeling vulnerable.
I said to the officer at 32 Division, I said, you're sending me home now, and I have to go to bed thinking that this person is going to come back another time.
And now this person is smartened up and knows what works and what doesn't work.
So then when she actually gets into the building and starts stealing things and runs out, and I find out about it, so she's already way gone with all of my stuff.
Then I'm going to call you.
Then you're going to come a little faster.
And then you're going to take care of it.
And that's no way to live.
We're not in Chicago.
We're not in Detroit.
You're not in New York.
We're in Toronto.
Well, you know, Rabbi Neft, I'm glad at least the police, as you said, are now treating this more seriously than the beginning.
But I want to talk to you about another issue.
And it seems to be the double standard when it comes to hate crimes or alleged hate crimes.
A few years ago, it might have been just before you moved to Toronto, Rabbi, we had a Muslim schoolgirl who claimed that her hijab had been shredded by a man with scissors, an Asian man.
And that story would later become known as the hijab hoax.
It never happened.
And yet, look at the reaction.
You had a press conference set up by the Toronto District School Board.
You had a who's who in certain circles coming to attend that.
You had the prime minister himself flying into Toronto to denounce Islamophobia.
And it was all false.
And when it was revealed it was false, the narrative was, well, yeah, it wasn't true, but it could have been true.
So that's why we should still take this seriously.
It was quite perverse.
But here's an example of something caught on video.
It's not a falsehood.
It is someone clearly trying to break in.
And it seems to be a nothing burger.
Why is that, sir?
Canadian culture, as far as I've observed, has been somewhat of an outsider on the inside.
There's this hesitancy to offend people.
Canadians don't like offending people.
And I can see that those that are, you know, those that have the power also don't want to offend people.
And that's exacerbated by the fact that the people they're afraid of offending, they know will make a big stink out of even the most minor thing.
Right.
So if a bunch of anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian protesters rock up to a Jewish business like they did last month in Thornhill, those same people will criticize the police who came and responded as being Islamophobic for getting in their way.
Right?
And so this sort of pleasing the loud crowd is what's kind of happening.
And you see it, I'm saying the thing is, you're not going to, you will not ever see in this city or pretty much anywhere else Jews riding, you know, Black Lives Matter style because they're being underhanded by their government.
That doesn't happen.
And everyone knows that.
We're not that kind of people.
We're not a victim, we're not a victim mentality people.
We're people that adapt.
Sometimes we have to adapt with force, and that's why you have the modern state of Israel that has a strong army and that, as you said today in the news, Israel is being now attacked in response to their preemptive attack, knowing that someone's going to attack them.
And yet, they're the ones that are being shamed for it.
So, everyone knows that it's not the Jewish mentality to play victim.
And therefore, you could say that we're a bit pushovery.
So, if it's between offending someone that's a pro-Palestinian protester that's going to make a big scene, that the police are Islamophobic or the Jews that are going to, as we say, kfetch about it.
And maybe they'll put pressure in other ways, but they're not going to scream and yell and break windows and things.
So, that's what they go for.
And you see that obviously in the city.
You see it with, like you said, in that incident that happened before I moved, or you had it in the incident in Thornhill a few weeks ago last month.
You have it, you have the all these incidents that involve hate against the Jewish community.
You see that the police are trying to please those that are going to make more noise.
No, I like what you said earlier, Rabbi.
The loud crowd.
I mean, I'm thinking back to, I think it was May of last year, 2021, and we covered it was pro-Palestinian demonstrators who converged on City Hall.
They were climbing the arches of Nathan Phillips Square, incredibly dangerous.
And they were allowed free reign, and some of them actually went and beat up Jewish counter-protesters.
And in the meantime, freedom protesters, people against the lockdowns and the COVID-19 mandates, they were violently physically arrested at nearby Young Dundas Square, which became a no man's land for some reason.
Again, it speaks to, I think, the outrageous double standard that we're seeing.
And it's downright shameful.
Last question goes to you, Rabbi.
Where do we go from here?
Obviously, you're, I guess, keeping a keen eye on the video surveillance, but is maybe law enforcement doing drive-by, surveillance, what have you, to see if they can catch this culprit?
Well, there's a lot to say to answer this question.
Credit Where Due00:06:54
First, I want to make a lot of credit where credit is due.
Number one, the federal government of Canada, with the help of our now former MP Michael Levitt, gave us a security grant, a large, sizable security grant, which allowed us to have multiple cameras that caught this guy in the act from, or this lady in the act from multiple angles, as well as kept the door shut.
Right?
Those doors were impenetrable for her.
She couldn't get through them.
Although, if you look at the way she was trying to do it, it was not really the smartest way.
But either way, so we have to give credit where credit was due to our local MPP, Michael Kersner, who was even on vacation, even though on vacation, he was on the phone with me, keeping tabs and introduced me to some people that can help and is also committed to taking this further.
James Pastornak, city counselor, who was on whose office was on the phones with the police and are continuing to be on the phones of the police.
And all the people in, you know, we have, look, we have to, we had to, we had to resort to being in touch with private Jewish organizations that were willing to both advocate on our behalf as well as provide volunteers to do patrols around here.
And it's a fortune that has to come to that, that we have to have our own organizations doing things to protect us, to protect us.
You know, I've been in close contact with the police department.
They told me that they will be increasing, they have been and will be increasing patrols in the area.
And we had some frank conversations, myself, the detective, the lead detective, about what we can do in order to mend this and to strengthen this relationship.
Because frankly, David, we love the police.
Like I said, I'm born and bred Midwest.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is blue-collar.
And we were brought up with this principle that the police are good.
We like the police, but we want a strong police.
We want a police that is reliable, that can protect us.
And I want to see the same thing here.
I believe we should have an active, fully staffed, fully budgeted police force that is reliable, that has no holes in the system, no glitches in the system.
And look, it took this situation for us to learn something.
And a lot of times, you know, we learn from our experiences.
And I've, you know, this really riled me up enough that I really feel a responsibility to continue advocating, continue the conversation with those that have an influence in the situation.
I personally want to, you know, want to push the city government to look into how three music festivals with hundreds of thousands of people were permitted or given permits to happen on the same weekend, thereby stretching an already underfunded and understaffed police force.
Why did this have to happen?
And what we can do in order to prevent it from happening again for anybody.
This should be a safe city for all its residents, not just the Jewish community.
And also, we take these things very sensitively in the Jewish community.
And with regards to protection of Jewish community assets and people in the Jewish community, we're also continuing the conversation about security for our community.
And in general, we're continuing the conversation.
We just want to do whatever we can.
I want to do whatever I can in order to make the city a better and safer place for all of its residents.
Well, Rabbi Nefton, in closing, two points.
One, I think maybe the police should take away, should reassign those police officers in Hyde Park giving speeding tickets to bicyclists.
A, I don't think that's a top priority thing.
And B, I'm so happy to hear that ex-liberal MP Michael Levitt is doing something positive for the Jewish community.
The last time I saw him, I asked him a question: Should the Canadian Embassy be in Jerusalem?
He looked at me like Bambi looking into the high beams of a Hummer on the 401 and took a bow of silence.
You know, we love Michael.
Okay.
Very clear.
There's only one party in this country whose platform includes recognizing Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jewish people.
And I don't think it was the same party that Michael served with, but Michael is an incredible individual.
Okay, then I'll take your word for it.
Rabbi, thank you so much for your time.
And you have yourself a great evening, my friend.
you as well.
Well, folks, a lot of response came in regarding my interview yesterday with Chris Soda.
He's the Windsor resident who is hoping to run for council in Ward 2 at the city of Windsor.
And he was originally told that unless he was fully vaccinated, he would not be allowed to run as a candidate.
Absolutely unbelievable.
In any event, Sean, 1973, writes, the reason for the jab is most likely to keep the rebels and conservatives out of the political realm.
They want, yes, people in office.
Those who got the jab are most likely to be bought.
You know, I agree with you 100%, sir, but here's the slippery slope argument.
If you're telling political candidates they're not allowed to run unless fully vaccinated, well, what's next?
Telling citizens they can't vote if they're not fully vaccinated?
Yeah, I'm sure certain political types would like that kind of stipulation enacted on us as well.
Too much for air rights.
Windsor just became the looniest city in Canada.
Well, in fairness, when Chris raised a stink about this, the policy was reviewed and he will be allowed to run in Ward II in Windsor this fall, even in his typhoid merry state.
But here's the thing: should he win, he will have to attend city council meetings via Zoom or Skype.
He's not going to be allowed to come into City Hall.
It is unbelievable.
Why enforce such a stigma on this man should he become the victor?
Why demonize and vilify the unvaccinated?
It just gets worse and worse.
Well, folks, thank you so much for tuning in to tonight's edition of the Ezra Levant Show.
Florida Supreme Court Appointment00:01:52
The big boss man, he'll be back on Monday.
Have a fantastic weekend and never forget, stay sane.
This is Quin Mendoza reporting for Rebel News.
Well, good morning.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference on August 5th in West Palm Beach announcing the appointment of Judge Renata Francis to be in the Florida Supreme Court.
Beginning of September for our next justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Judge Renatha Francis.
She will be filling up the vacancy left by Al Lawson.
Former Florida Supreme Court Justice Al Lawson announced his retirement earlier this year.
So Justice Francis will be taking over his spot and will start in September 1st of this year.
You can do great things.
You can realize great dreams if you put your mind to it, if you work hard, and if you believe in the principles that make our country what it is and what we're trying to continue it to be here in our state.
And so I think she'll be emblematic of that.
This comes a day after Governor Ron DeSantis announced the suspension of state attorney Andrew Warren for refusing to uphold Florida law.
When you depart from the rule of law, like we've seen with a lot of these prosecutors, like look at San Francisco, you know, the wealthy people still voted to keep that prosecutor in.
Why?
Because all the chaos that was unleashed by the insane policies, those were falling on the shoulders of working class communities.
They were falling on the shoulders of communities that couldn't necessarily retreat behind gates and private protection.