Giorgia Meloni’s landslide victory in Italy—backed by 1.5M Italian Canadians—exposes Justin Trudeau’s divisive, allegedly misogynistic silence, while Pierre Poilievre’s 68% leadership win signals Canada’s conservative resurgence amid collapsing healthcare, soaring food costs, and Trudeau’s globalist policies. Montenegrino contrasts Meloni’s economic realism with Trudeau’s progressive disconnect, calling his oil industry attacks "racist" and warning that media bias against conservatives is fading as social media reveals their narratives. Yet Seattle’s defunded police crisis—with 400+ officers gone since 2020—shows how leftist policies fuel chaos, while Marxist leaders like Kashama Sawant deny accountability. Poilievre’s rise and Meloni’s defiance prove voters reject ideological extremes, prioritizing stability over performative virtue. [Automatically generated summary]
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Italy has a new prime minister that the liberals all hate and And can Pierre Polyev win?
It's a feature interview with our friend Manny Montenegrino.
It's September 29th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
There's a lot going on in the world, a lot going on here in Canada.
One of my favorite guys to talk to.
He's got a very clever mind.
He's a great analyst.
He's got a legal way of thinking, but he's also very political.
You know, he's been a lawyer to political leaders, including former prime minister Stephen Harper.
I love talking to Manny Montenegrino.
He's the boss of Think Sharp in Ottawa, but I always have to make sure we take our time because there's so much we cover.
We can't just fit it in the 15-minute interview.
So today, what a delight to have for our entire show my friend Manny Montenegrino joining us live via Skype from Ottawa.
Manny, great to see you again.
Great to be with you, Ezra, as always.
Well, I love it when you come on the show, and I thank you for your time.
I want to talk about something that's close to my heart as a super fan of Italy.
You know, I was born Jewish, I like being Jewish, but if I had to be any other background, I would want to be Italian.
I love the country, the people, the food, the music, everything.
And God bless the Italians who have shaped the world in so many ways.
And Italy just elected its first female prime minister, Giorgia Maloney.
And I don't know that much about her, but I like what I see.
Italy's a G7 country.
They're a NATO ally.
There's a million and a half or more Italian Canadians.
Like Italy and Canada are friends.
But Manny, Justin Trudeau, refuses to issue even the most perfunctory congratulations to her winning.
Like she, she's a female leader.
You think that would be his bailiwork, but he is treating her.
He's ghosting her.
He's giving her the cold shoulder.
I find that shocking.
Yeah, no, so do I.
I mean, I'm extremely disappointed, but it tells you the true nature of who Justin Trudeau is.
He is a very vindictive, divisive human being.
If you do not align with his personal principles, you do not exist.
He will ghost you.
He will completely ignore you.
And Ezra, we've seen this for years with this guy, this vindictive, hateful prime minister.
Black Lives Matter.
Now, remember that protest?
This was during a pandemic where people, we weren't even allowed out.
It was the worst of times during this pandemic.
He sat there, went and met with them.
Forget the health rules, forget everything.
He's aligned with that value.
He knelt with them.
And that's who if you are on Justin Trudeau's bandwidth, you are going to get royal treatment.
Now, compare that with the truckers, who he once called only a year and a half ago.
He called Truckers essential workers.
These are our heroes.
We need them.
We love them.
They're bringing our food and everything to us.
And then a year later, he, because they wanted to stop this very vindictive policy, imagine putting in a new health policy for COVID when we were at the tail end and about to release it all.
He puts this vindictive policy and he wouldn't meet with them for a second.
That tells you who he is.
Now, the Italian, new Italian PM is very oppressive.
She's basically going back to core values.
And, you know, Italy has done a lot in the years being progressive and moving on to this progressive values, and it hasn't worked well.
If you talk, I mean, it works well with the elites, but not to the people on the street, Italians.
And so, yeah, we have a change in government.
She's a wonderful woman.
I mean, again, the fact that Trudeau will not say anything about her goes back to his, I will call him a huge misogynist.
Why would I say that?
Not because of facts.
You might recall that he sexually assaulted Rose Knight, the reporter.
I mean, that was admitted.
And then he said that she experienced it differently.
Like she had an awful excuse for it.
Yeah, of course, but he did.
And then the second thing, which was, I mean, I take, I kind of look at who our attorney generals are.
And Judy, Jody Wilson Roibo was an impressive attorney general, a female indigenous woman.
He just kicked you to the curb.
Very misogynist in his treatment, as well as he was with Philipot.
And then we know about his misogyny.
If women do not agree with him, then boom, they're done.
So we've seen that.
He talks the talk about women in policies.
The whole liberal world, Hillary Clinton, everybody should be applauding that we finally have a PM, a PM in a female PM in a G7 country.
But no.
You know, just diplomatic protocol.
Like the whole idea of having diplomats is that you still deal with each other, talk to each other, even if there's tensions.
I mean, for heaven's sakes, we have diplomats in communist regimes on China.
We actually never stopped dealing with China when they took those Canadians and two Michaels hostage.
If Trudeau will continue to do business with China when they were holding our hostage, but he won't even say congratulations.
He wouldn't even say congratulations to the Italian people on a successful election.
Like he just won't say anything.
And I checked, I checked Trudeau's Twitter feed, the Foreign Affairs Twitter feed, Melanie Jolie's Twitter feed, like not even acknowledging it.
That's just pouty.
And this is a guy, Trudeau, who gave a beautiful eulogy for Fidel Castro, but he can't say a word about our G7 NATO ally.
Not even a perfunctory congratulations.
I look forward to working with you, though we may have our differences.
Our friendships are greater.
Like whatever.
He won't even say that.
He's like a pouty child.
He's like a pouty teenager.
Well, I think the biggest threat to a progressive, vacuous, You know, liberal that is all virtue signaling is a woman with conservative values that is well spoken.
And those are the biggest threats because very powerful.
She's very powerful.
You know, let's forget about the personalities.
Let's just look at what's happening in Italy.
I have a friend that just came back from Italy.
Italians are paying a thousand euros for hydro per month.
Their pension is 1,300 per month.
Like, can we at least give the people of Italy some credit?
They're saying, we can't do this.
We can't get on this road of progressism because we are literally dying.
We are not going to survive the next tranche of these wonderful little experiments that these millionaires and billionaires contrived.
So it's fair that they're saying, well, we've had enough.
I mean, Italians say, hey, you know what?
I mean, Italians are, you know, you can push them around a lot, but there's a point in time where they say, okay, basta, basta.
And, you know, and they say, enough.
And so where you have the Italian people saying, we can't, I mean, you look at their whole culture is under attack.
I mean, we as Canadians have to respect every other culture except the Canadian culture.
Italians have to respect every other culture except the Italian culture.
And I tell you, the Italian culture is a pretty damn good culture.
It's got a lot.
And to see it be, you know, dismantled daily.
You know, Canada's culture is a wonderful culture, but we're only been around 100 years or so to sit there and see the progressives destroying the family.
You know, Dio, La Familia, you know, La Pies.
When you go after country families, I mean, families are important to Italians.
To sit there and say only five people can get together for Christmas on an arbitrary decision.
The Italian family was under assault.
So, you know, I mean, it's inevitable that they're going to ask for a new government.
And it's nothing untoward.
Manny, you made me think of two videos I've watched recently by Georgia Maloney.
The first one is where she talks about her values and her identity as a mother, as a wife, as a Christian, as an Italian.
And I thought this kind of strong patriotic talk would have really resonated.
Now, the left called that fascism, but they denounce everything as fascism.
Here, watch Georgia Maloney really go through who she thinks she is and by expansion, who she thinks Italians are.
Look at this video.
I thought it was beautiful.
I thought it was beautiful.
Non-evo potentially defined Italian, Christiana, don't worry, no?
Yo, this is not generous, genitive una, generator 2, 2, 3, 1, Because when we were saying, when we identified, when we purati bears a road, the perfection of financial speculation and consumatory perfection, no fault.
We have a lot of fear.
This is the reason why today this appointment is a lot of fear.
Because we don't want to be numbers.
We are not, but it is not a defender, the value of the person.
I sing a man, because a dinosaur genetic.
And this is a sacro.
The defenderemo, defender in modern, the past, the family that was not here.
The farewell to defend the libertarian, because no more simplified consumators in Balia of the financial speculation, etc.
Chesterton, for my studio, we ran to demonstrate that two per dimension are not in this world.
Gracias, Manny, that's I love that.
But let me show you another video that goes to what you were talking about: about poverty and how, you know, in many ways, Italy has not kept pace economically.
Energy prices, listen to her critique Emmanuel Macron, and talk about how Italy's energy plans were stifled by European Union bosses.
Listen to this.
This really resonated with me, and I'm not Italian.
I could see why someone who feels like they didn't benefit from the last 20 years of globalism why this resonated.
Take a listen to Giorgia Maloney talk about the economy.
Italy privileged, energetic, with DAFIC and migration in which we are franchised and the Mary Respedenietro, where a immigrant confirms 2015.
Masso brought good things together.
Vomitable and here, like the French friends, continues to fruit the Africa, stamping all African nations, their African signal, bambino, in the miniere, prime, like the franchise, and 30 years of service to the central nuclear center, and viva electricity.
Mother And Vindicator00:07:23
So that's a, you know what?
She's attractive, she's energetic, she's passionate, she's patriotic, she's a fighter, not a wishy-washy woman.
I think she's a hell of a presence.
And I don't know, I'm it, but she's not, you know, a caricature.
In her first day on the job, she gave a shout out to Ukraine.
So she's not some pro-Putin activist as someone accused her of.
I think she's very interesting.
I'd like to learn more about her.
Yeah, you know, you forgot to add on your list.
She's a mother.
Right.
You know, Italian mothers, when you go too hard against who they are, their identity, you get a little bit of a fight back.
And we should be getting a little bit of a fight back from all mothers.
So she doesn't like to be that role, which in some people is the greatest role a woman can achieve, is being a mother, giving birth.
I mean, it's like there's nothing greater that you can do than to create life.
And to sit there and be demeaned, some mothers don't like that.
And she seems to be one of those mothers that doesn't like that.
You know, I'm enjoying getting to know her through her speeches.
But let me show you something funny.
I mean, I'm on Twitter.
I use it to express myself, but I also use it to search things.
It's got a good search engine.
You can search by video.
You can search by image.
If you go to twitter.com and search for just the word Georgia Maloney and search for videos, it will not give you a single result.
Twitter is banning you.
It's absurd.
I just tried it before we came on the show here.
I thought, well, let me just check.
Is that really what's going on?
And I tried it, and our control room boss, Olivia, tried it.
We could not, Twitter is banning the entire world from searching for Georgia Maloney videos.
And I'm shocked by that, but I shouldn't be shocked if they kicked off Donald Trump.
Of course, they're going to kick off a foreign leader.
I find that atrocious.
They're trying to meddle in Italy's democracy.
I find that outrageous, but completely predictable.
Yeah, and no, the most anti-democratic people are the people on the left, are liberals.
They will not tolerate.
Listen, I have, Trudeau has policies that I don't agree with.
They truly hate.
They're vindictive.
I mean, you look what's happening in the United States.
You know, they're going after Trump like using all the full force of the law.
They're very vindictive people.
And so they don't like the idea.
And because the ideas are sound, I will, I mean, the ideas resonate.
The great Arnie, what made Canada great?
What made America great?
What made Italy great?
What made a lot of these countries great are the values that she's now reinstating.
I mean, when I came to Canada, it was God, country, family.
You know, in 1959, it wasn't a, you know, we felt that we were a little more family, Italians, but Canadian families were pretty, pretty, had a strong resolve.
So, you know, Canada was not much different from a value system than Italy when we immigrated in 59.
And now those values are gone.
I mean, the family is gone.
The identity of the, so instead of being identified to these core values, now you must identify with these liberal values that unfortunately can't meet the test of time.
I mean, if you were a feminist and you said, you know, only women should have on their persons, well, what is a woman today?
I mean, we've, you know, so their values, unfortunately, don't endure.
And because they don't endure, they're always in crisis.
You know, I was going to ask you when you talked about Trudeau's vendettas.
I know why he had a vendetta against the truckers.
They embarrassed him.
They caused people to wake up to the fact that not everyone was going on.
It was actually a very transformative moment.
So I know why he has that vendetta.
But I was thinking, why does he have a vendetta against Maloney?
I'm sure he's never met her.
I'm sure he knows very little about her.
But I don't think it's so much personal as he just despises all those things you listed.
She's sort of the anti-Trudeau.
He's woke.
She's traditional.
He's all style, no substance.
She's about core values.
He's a globalist who believes in shutting down carbon, shutting down nitrogen, and she's a real person who cares about the poor.
That's why he's got a vendetta against her.
He hates what she believes.
But not only that, Ezra, what's most important to a misogynist like Trudeau, and I can prove, if I were in a court and I had 12 jury members, I could prove that he's a misogynist.
There's enough evidence I've given you.
But most importantly to a misogynist liberal is those strong values, great oratory skills wrapped up in a very, in a woman, is what destroys him the most.
I mean, we can go back as far as Margaret Thatcher.
I mean, there's a strong conservative, like what they didn't like about her, the liberals, is that she's a woman.
You can go after a man that has conservative values.
You know, you can call him a racist.
You can call him a misogynist.
You know, you just make these charges.
It's pretty hard to use those tried and true lies against a woman.
So they basically, the only thing they can do to stop her is to obliterate her and pretend she doesn't exist.
Because they, I mean, the very first, had he been a man and had he been saying the same thing, the exact same words that she's been saying, they would then run up a few women saying, oh, he sexually assaulted me.
He did this.
And they would destroy him.
But they can't touch her.
So she's an incredible threat.
Any woman, you know, and I assure you it's going to happen.
The first, you know, in Canada, we had our first female prime minister was a conservative.
America, their first female president will be a woman.
And it will be a powerful person because they cannot be attacked using the same, you know, tried and true.
Oh, she's a racist, she's a sex, or he's a racist, he's a sexist, he's a misogynist.
So that's why it's really the nature that the fact that she's a woman that is saying these exact words.
Women Leaders and Right Turn00:15:36
I agree with you.
And I'll give you some more examples.
You mentioned Jodi Wilson-Raybole, Jane Philpott.
I would add to that, Celine Cesar Cervanas.
He really doesn't do well with women who don't obey him.
But he also hates men who disagree with him.
I remember the last time he had a pout over a foreign leader being elected was Yair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
And now Brazil doesn't have the same close ties with Canada that Italy does.
We didn't have the same immigration from Brazil.
We just don't have some of the similarities.
But Brazil is a very important country.
It's a very large country economically, population-wise, resources.
To have that kind of a pout about major countries, it just feels so small time.
I don't know if you remember this.
I think this clip is from the G20, where Trudeau is looking around for anyone to make eye contact with him.
And he sits down to Bolsonaro, and Bolsonaro couldn't care less about Trudeau.
Trudeau wanted to shake his hand and be cool when the cameras were on, but he wouldn't even send him a letter of congratulations.
Let me ask you about one last exchange.
I'm going to show you two quick videos, Manny.
This first one is a montage put together by the Media Resource Center in the States, which is just different American TV hosts using almost the identical language to denounce Maloney.
And I tell you, Manny, not a single one of these journalists had even heard the name Maloney the day before.
But now they're so certain she's a neo-fascist.
They all used identical language.
It was like they were reading from the same press release.
Take a look at this two minutes of hate against Giorgia Maloney.
Take a look.
Voters in Italy tomorrow appear poised to make a hard right turn.
The woman expected to become prime minister leads a party with roots in neo-fascism.
The hallmarks of Italian fascism, like this motto.
God, fatherland, and family.
A far-right political party whose roots go back to post-World War II neo-fascist.
Far-right political party whose roots go back to post-World War II neo-fascists.
Roots in Italy's post-war fascist movement.
Roots in Italy's 20th century neo-fascist movement.
Maloney herself was a hardcore neo-fascist militant.
It's funny because of Italy's disastrous history, the last time a hard-right party rose to power.
The most far-right government in that country since Mussolini.
Most right-wing government since Mussolini.
Since Mussolini.
A red flag, if there ever was one, says Edith Brooke, a renowned poet and Holocaust survivor.
Italy about to see the country's most right-wing government since World War II.
Most far-right, far-right, far-right government since World War II.
Since the end of World War II.
Maloney's win will probably send alarm bells throughout Europe.
You know, it's alarming to a lot of people around Europe.
Italy is revered for its history, but not all of that history is beautiful.
And many fear that one particularly ugly chapter could soon repeat itself.
Manny, here's the thing: someone who actually knows Giorgia Maloney, who fought against her in politics, is an Italian politician by the name of Renzi.
And he appeared on CNN, and CNN thought, oh, this is going to be great.
We got ourselves a liberal.
I'm going to set it up nice and slow.
And it's just going to be Matteo Renzi.
He's a former Italian prime minister, no less.
So certainly no fan of Maloney.
But watch this exchange.
It is too good, Manny.
Take a look.
But personally, frankly speaking, I was against Giorgio Maloney.
So I'm not the best friend that we grew up together in politics, but we were, we are, and will be rival always.
At the same time, I think that is not a danger for Italian democracy.
She's my rival.
I'm a rival.
We will continue to fight each other.
But the ideas are now there is a risk of fascism in Italy is absolutely a fake news.
She won election, particularly because populism, a lot of times, won in Italy.
So they were hoping that he would say, oh, she's a fascist.
He specifically said she's not a danger.
She's not a fascist.
She's my rival, and I'll keep fighting her.
But she's not a fascist, Manny.
Right.
Now, you would think that would be so instructive to the fake news media.
Here you have her biggest opponent, a liberal in the Italian parliament, who says nothing.
In fact, says quite the opposite.
She's not a fascist.
She just has a different view of politics.
You would think that someone like Trudeau, someone like the fake news media would say, well, that person's probably the most credible person about her personality.
And we should give him the greatest weight because he's saying nothing but complimentary stuff about her.
And she's nowhere near what the media or Trudeau is trying to do.
And you would think that they would at least listen to somebody who's been on the ground, a liberal like them, and saying, you know what, she's all right.
She just have different values than I do, which is fine.
I mean, this is what democracy.
What I don't understand about the new liberal is they just hate the concept of democracy.
It's all right.
Canada does very well when it has two different ideas to pick from, when the electorate has two different ideas.
Italy does well.
We don't do very well.
I mean, you look at Cuba, you look at China.
They don't do very well when they have nobody to pick from.
So if illiberalism works when conservatism fails, conservatism works when liberalism fails.
And if you keep pushing that stone, we become a great country.
To sit there and to demonize one half of the population, one half the ideas, is just repugnant.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
That was the other point Renzi makes.
She just won an election.
I mean, she didn't have a coup.
She didn't have a put.
Twice something.
Well, listen, I find Italy very interesting as a country.
I love the history.
It's a wonderful place for a vacation.
There's so many things to like about it, but I'm going to study their politics more closely if I can.
If I'm ever allowed to search for videos from Giorgio Maloney, apparently Twitter thinks that's too risky.
I can't handle that.
Well, as there are one more bad election in Canada, the Montenegrino family might have to immigrate back to Italy.
Well, you know, that would be our law, but, you know, it's beautiful over there.
Well, let me switch gears.
I mean, I introduced you as someone who knows law and politics here in Canada.
You were the lawyer to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, for example.
So it was fun to talk to you about Italy.
I know it's close to your heart.
And, you know, I find it very interesting.
And we learn a lot about Trudeau and the media censorship through what's happened there.
But I want to get back to Canada because that's where we both live.
And that's the country we love.
I am cautiously optimistic about the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Polyev.
And we haven't had you on since he became leader of the party.
And I must say he won with a great majority on the first ballot, 68% and change on a ranked ballot, first ballot.
That really took the air out of the balloon for those who would say, oh, the party's divided.
This isn't a party we know.
No, it shows.
And he won in almost every single district in the country.
I think he won more than 99% of the districts.
So a strong win.
Give me your thoughts.
I'll just stand back.
Why don't you riff on Pierre Polyev for a while?
Well, I'm so excited.
I know Pierre personally.
I can tell you that he is extremely impressive, extremely knowledgeable.
And there's one thing that Pierre, obviously Stephen Harper, in my opinion, was the best prime minister we ever had.
But I think Pierre will do better.
And the reason why Pierre will do better is he's from a different age group who understands the media a lot more than we did 20 years ago or 15 years ago.
We now know that the media acts very much like the enemy to conservatism, the enemy to idea.
I mean, we just gave some examples where you can't even get a video of the newly elected PM, where the media simply creates a narrative for the liberals.
Pierre understands that.
And unless you understand and meet it, we don't do well.
And that is the most impressive part about him is he understands that the media are not the friend.
And so that's great.
He has great core idea.
Now, here's an interesting thing about Pierre.
And this is what I love about him.
He would otherwise be the poster boy for the Liberal Party.
And let me explain that to you.
Not because of his ideology, but because of what liberals always put forward.
They always put forward concepts like a single mom, immigrants, refugees.
Well, Pierre Polliver is an adopted child from a single mom.
His parents that adopted him, God bless him, probably two wonderful people because they raised a wonderful boy, were teachers, not millionaire oil barons like the Trudeau's.
They were just humble teachers.
Now, plus he married this wonderful woman from Venezuela.
She sounds like my family where we immigrate.
Immigrate.
Oh, she is, but immigrated with nothing, just a lot of spunk and a lot of determination and a lot of love and a lot of openness in her heart.
And here she is, an immigrant, a refugee, you know, marrying an adopted child that was raised by two teachers.
That would be the poster person of the Liberal Party.
They would say, oh my God, that's every, he's everything we wanted.
No, what they really choose all the time are the swamp, are the millionaires in.
I mean, you look at Trudeau.
I mean, he hasn't worked a day in his life before he became a politician.
Nothing but privilege.
So much privilege that he wore blackface five times or too many times to count.
This is who the liberals really are.
You look at in the States, Joe Biden.
I mean, nothing but swamp and privilege, like his whole 50 years of being.
It is quite funny because you would think that if you just looked on paper, Pierre should be getting 90% of the liberal votes if the liberals believed in the values that they talk about.
Yeah.
You know, I think you've zoomed in on two of his great strengths.
One is he knows the media in 2022 is not neutral.
And more importantly, he knows he can't win them over.
They are not his friends.
If they're smiling at him, it's the smile of a crocodile.
I think you're so right on that.
I think we should talk a little more about that.
But the second thing, and this is what hit me when I was there on that leadership night, because I had seen little snippets of his wife.
I think her name is Anayda.
I had never really heard her give a speech.
And she can give a speech.
Not only is she eloquent, her substance.
Let me just play a little clip of her election night speech.
She is a secret weapon, Manny.
Take a look at this.
My husband and I share the same values, although our background is a little different.
Mon mari et moi, nous partageons les mêmes valeurs, malgré que notre parcours est un peu différent.
I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and my family immigrated to Canada in 1995, in a working class neighborhood in the east end of Montreal.
My father, he went from wearing business suits and managing a bank to jumping on the back of a pickup truck to collect fruits and vegetables because that's what he had to do to feed his family.
The Yalinda family present here tonight taught us hard work and that there is no greater dignity than to provide for your own family.
Manny, you know, I don't want to pick on Sophie Trudeau because that's the spouse of a PM.
She's her own person.
She was touted as, you know, a media personality in her own right, but very quickly they pulled her out of the public's sphere.
She doesn't say a lot in public.
She just isn't strong for a number of reasons.
And I really am not picking her.
I'm picking on her, by the way.
But it's clear that Pierre Polyev's misses is going to be a significant part of the campaign to reach out to new Canadians.
I think she would probably be described as a visible minority.
I think that she will be a secret weapon and she will be deployed.
And I think she will have great success.
And by the way, all of a sudden, Justin Trudeau looks not old, but let's just say he doesn't look young anymore.
He's 50, almost 51.
And Polyev and his wife are half a generation younger and they feel younger.
Yeah, the difference between the two wives, in my opinion, and it goes down to the difference between conservatism and liberalism.
When you listen to Pierre's wife speak, you see the true core values.
You see that she's actually lived the values.
And when she speaks, there's authenticity and credibility to her words.
That's why she's a powerful speaker.
When you hear Sophie speak, it's kind of like a stage actress talking about things.
And you know there isn't any veritas, there isn't any gravitas to her words.
They're just words that are vacuous.
Because if she truly believed in what she said, she could not be married to a man that has been fundamentally racist.
You know, I can give you, and I think we did a show this on his racism, but his black face, you know, likening me, immigrant from Italy, to ISIS warriors that come back after killing Canadians.
I remember that.
Yeah, he talked about Italian and Greek immigrants.
Here, let me play a clip of that.
That was so crazy.
It was so weird.
Here, take a quick look.
A little heckling out here, so appreciate you coming.
I just want to know how your stance on ISIS is going to help Canadians in any way.
I need to know how you're going to protect future Canadians like my young daughter and 10, 15, 20 years from now when you're letting people in with an ideology that just does not conform to what we're doing here.
So I'd really like to know your take on things.
Absolutely.
Every Wave Faces Pushback00:02:38
No, I think that gives me an opportunity to talk about, first of all, the fact that one of the reasons Canada is successful as a country is because we have been open to people fleeing persecution.
fleeing war zones, looking for a better life for themselves and their kids.
That's been the story of this country from the time the first European settlers came to be received by Indigenous people.
People were fleeing conflict, poverty, difficult situations, and came to Canada to build a better life for themselves.
And successive waves of people have in every different time, every different wave.
And when we welcomed in waves of refugees, whether it was the Ismaili refugees in the early 70s, whether it was the Vietnamese vote people in the early 80s, whether it was people fleeing the devastation of the Second World War from Southern Europe in the 50s and 60s, the Italian communities, the Greek communities, the Portuguese communities and others.
Our country is so much the better for it.
And there is a sense at one point that, okay, maybe now that's enough.
Maybe we have just about all the diversity we can handle and we shouldn't have any more.
Well, I can tell you, when Italian families settled in Montreal in the post-war years, they faced terrible discrimination and people who pushed back at them and said, no, no, no, you don't belong here.
You don't speak English or French.
Every wave of immigration has faced pushback because of how they dressed or how they sounded or what their belief was, what their religion was.
And every wave of immigration has led to Canada being a better, stronger, more resilient, richer country.
Yeah, Manny, that's just weird.
Well, that's not weird.
I will never, you know, there's a line in The Godfather for the Italians that are watching.
And the Godfather, they're from my home village, so we have a dialect.
And he says, nomeskor dumai.
And that means, you know, I will never forget.
And when he made that parallel to my father, you know, it brings me to tears, this man that gave up his land, his language, his culture, because his family was dying in Italy after the war, gave up everything, came here, worked hard, broke his back in construction, raised five beautiful boys, always contributed to society, never even saw the shade of the law, and loved Canadian values.
Do You Believe What You Say?00:12:43
To liken him to an ISIS fighter who went and tried to kill Canadian troops and come home is something I will never forget.
This man is racist.
Trudeau has no concept what values are, what people are.
He just judges them by either their skin color or they came from a different place, so they must be the same person.
So, no, so that's the difference.
When you listen to Sophie, I sit there and go, nothing she says is true.
Because why are you married to a racist?
Why are you married to a sexist?
Look what he's done to women.
Look, he sexually assaulted a woman and basically blamed the reporter that she didn't quite understand that that wasn't sexual assault.
And she, I mean, how does a wife accept that?
So Sophie has to deal with a lot of things, but that's the liberal way.
You basically have to deal with things that you say you believe, but you really don't believe.
But you see the veritas from Pierre's wife.
When she speaks, you know she's telling the truth.
Yeah.
Well, I was impressed with her.
Now, let me ask you a few quick questions.
I remember when Stockwell Day became the new leader of what was then called the Canadian Alliance, and he had some pizzazz, and he was a bit of a media sensation.
And Jean Cretchen, being a wise old hound, thought, well, let's go to election quick.
Let's define this guy, get him before he's really got a grasp of it.
Now, Stockwell Day got a few more seats.
If memory serves, he added, I don't know, six or so seats to the count.
But Cretchen moving fast certainly wobbled Stockwell Day.
Do you think that Justin Trudeau and his Brain Trust are saying, we got to move quick before Pierre Polyev defines himself?
We got to move quick before the economy goes into a recession.
Let's have an election quickly.
What do you think?
I think you're absolutely right.
He has to do it.
I mean, he's probably getting advice because it's going to get worse and worse because we're going to see the strength of Pierre.
The only difference is nobody knew who Stockwell Gay was when Stock had to run out.
Well, there are two differences, Ezra, two major differences.
The media defined the politician back in the day.
The liberal fake news media decided always defined.
I mean, I can't tell you how many, you know, David Dukes were described as conservative leaders.
I mean, you know, the story with Preston Manning.
I was first to meet him in Ottawa.
And I remember reading the Globe and Mail headlines.
This is back in 1991, 92.
The David Duke of the North described him.
And I'm here I am, an immigrant, an Italian, a managing partner of a national law firm, sitting behind Jean Cretchan's desk, and I want to meet this guy.
And I was just so afraid.
What if the media was true?
And I knew, you know, the kind of spider senses in me said, they're liars.
I met Preston Manning, the nicest one of, well, of course, now he's loved, but that's what the media does.
It just describes, they did the same thing with Stephen Harper, and they did seem to Stockholm Day.
It's good, two things.
They can't do it with Pierre, because Pierre's been around a long time, but also Pierre knows that how to fight the media.
Kind of like DeSantis in Florida, he understands the media.
And in the moment, see, you know, Ezra, I'm a lawyer.
I practiced in a big law firm for a long, long time.
I had to get a law degree, which was pretty hard.
And it's hard to be a lawyer because credibility is very important.
The media, the general media, there's no requirement, no test.
You just become.
And the credibility for the media, now this is a profound statement, only exists because others give them credibility.
And once you strip away that gracious granting of credibility, these people are pretty based, pretty normal, and pretty unimpressive.
I've known a lot of media journalists who, if you take away the clout that they have in front of the national TV, these are not impressive human beings or really impressive thinking.
There, of course, there are a few exceptions, but they aren't.
And if we get to understand that and what's happened with social media, everybody's starting to see it.
I mean, they're starting to see, boy, this guy's embarrassing.
How can he ask that question?
Because we know XYZ.
Well, before, if we didn't know XYZ, that person was a profound thinker, that media.
So really, the moment we strip away the credibility from these people that are building a narrative that is not reported in news.
I mean, in my opinion, the media have the greatest job.
And, you know, they have the, probably the most important institution in a free democracy.
But when they start driving a narrative, I mean, they're already lining up against this female Italian PM.
I mean, wait a minute.
You haven't even done any due diligence.
We're lining up.
We're lining up.
And we're seeing.
So the moment you stop giving these people credibility and you question them, like Trump started questioning, when he started questioning, they folded.
DeSantis started questioning, where are you getting that premise from?
Most people think that XYZ, well, where's your study?
And then they fold.
And so once you start removing the credibility that they get by nature, that we're a polite society.
We don't want to sit there and be unpolite.
The media really is stark naked.
And I think Pierre understands that.
You know, let me add two things to what you just said.
The first is on his leadership election night, his campaign manager, Jenny Byrne, came up to us and said, just so you know, Pierre Polyev's not going to be doing any interviews tonight with any media.
So Rebel News don't take it personally.
I like the fact that she went over to say that.
But I thought that was an excellent move because she knew that she could craft the message that he wanted to get out there.
And he's so good, those little videos.
Yeah.
Like he just does like a three minutes on that or five minutes on that.
And they're sort of fun, folksy tales.
Sometimes he'll talk about a coin.
He'll talk about an old wooden barn.
I mean, he's just, he's got a certain, he's a good talker.
And he knows he can get hundreds of thousands of views that he controls on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube.
He doesn't have to submit to the CBC to get the word up.
Right.
And, you know, we saw, I'm amazed President Trump, who probably was the greatest Twitter user out there.
He understood.
That man understands the media.
I mean, he's been in it.
He had a number one TV show.
So his major skill is understanding energy and media and so on.
So he knew, and that's why Twitter was so important.
He was getting out more messages than the trillion-dollar legacy media out there.
He was getting his message out.
That's why he's off Twitter because it was so effective.
I think Pierre understands that, you know, I mean, I look at my kids.
I mean, I'm still stuck on CBC nightly news because I'm old, but I also do other social media research.
My kids don't even know what CBC is.
I mean, they get their news from somewhere else.
They don't, you know, and my kids aren't even, I mean, they're old now.
They're almost 40.
But so think about that.
Next generation underneath, the 20-year-olds, they're not getting anything from the legacy media.
Nobody watches it.
So their influence is less and less.
And because their influence is less and less, they've become more militant in their narrative more and more, just to keep that last 60-year-olds watching, subscribing to their views.
So there's a neat thing happening.
Information is broader.
People are getting informed different ways.
And the once entrenched legacy media doesn't have a stranglehold on what is the truth.
You know, Danny, it's great to catch up with you.
I enjoyed our talk about Georgia Maloney.
And it's interesting to talk about Pierre Polyev.
Maloney, the polls showed that she was destined to win, and the polls were correct.
I think that the polls are showing that Pierre Polyev is a real chance.
I was going to ask you, can he win?
But I'm sure you agree with me.
Of course he can.
Yeah.
I want to ask you a bolder question.
Do you think he will win?
If you had to make a prediction today, will Pierre Polyev beat Justin Trudeau in the next election?
Absolutely.
I mean, there isn't a question.
And the reason why I say that, it doesn't have to do with Pierre Polymer.
It doesn't have to do with Justin Trudeau.
Just talk to a Canadian, any Canadian.
I mean, you know, like we're looking, like, I cannot believe, like, like, Ezra, this runs deeply with me.
I cannot believe that Canada's health care system is collapsing.
We basically, you know, we're almost third world in our health care.
I cannot believe that we can't afford to fill up our tanks.
I cannot, like, the average Canadian is saying, what price do we pay for Trudeau's vanity projects?
I mean, I get it.
Trudeau's a multimillionaire.
He still flies to his trips.
He still gets to do exactly what he wants.
But the average Canadian is, we're taking, like, like, like, you know, our food prices are going up.
We're now going, you know, we've done a, you know, the liberals have done a job of destroying the oil sands and oil industry in Canada.
I mean, think about if we had a different mindset and we said, you know what, China is still buying all its oil.
Oil is like there are there are 8 billion people on this planet.
1 billion has decided, which is what I call the basic, you know, the white colonialist countries, have decided, well, we've had enough with fossil fuels.
Let's move to something else.
We're rich.
We can do it.
But there are about 7 billion people on the planet, China, India, Africa.
They're saying, yeah, nice talk, guys, but we want to just get out of poverty.
We need these cheap fossil fuels.
You know what?
Because we're dying.
Our mortality rate, our lifespan is 56, 60 years old.
We kind of want to be where you were, and fossil fuels are doing it.
So the most racist thing, in my opinion, most greatest racist movement that there is in the world today is the global warming narrative.
I mean, these people, so imagine if Canada and not Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other oil-produced nations produced oil, you know, very environmentally sound, ethically, and all that.
And we were putting out the oil.
There would be no war in Russia.
There would be no war in Ukraine.
Zero.
Putin doesn't have the money.
You know, that's an important statement.
We would not have, now, Ezra, this is personal.
I'm a golfer.
We would not have the Live tournament.
I don't know if you know what that is.
You don't know what that is.
Oh, well, some of your viewers would.
But we wouldn't have Saudi Arabia putting a billion dollars to compete with the PGA.
Yeah, you know, right.
Yeah.
So, I mean, like, Canada would actually have, we would have a decent pension for elders.
Well, you're talking about ethical oil.
You know, our oil is superior to conflict oil.
You're preaching the choir here, my friend.
So, so people are starting to see that.
They're starting to say, like, so it's not a Pierre Polivera or a Justin.
It's like, can you give me back some of my life that I want to enjoy a bit?
I'm prepared to be progressive and help people, but not to the extent that puts me to my knees.
Yeah.
Well, Manny, it's great to catch up with you.
We learned so much and the conversations are always so wide-ranging.
A little bit of politics, a little bit of law, a little bit of history, a little bit of geography.
It's great to see you again, my friend.
Great to see you.
And I hope you enjoyed the Italian passion.
Oh, you know what?
You make me want to go back there.
I haven't been able to leave the country in three years, but I'll hopefully have a chance.
Take care, my friend.
Okay, take care, Ezra.
Need to Refund the Police?00:05:19
There you have it.
Manny Montenegrino, the CEO of Think Sharp.
Stay with us.
My final thoughts are next.
Well, it's always great to catch up with Manny.
I don't know.
I'm excited by Georgia Maloney because it tells me that it is possible for a thoughtful conservative populace to win in Europe despite censorship from social media giants.
I know that in France, Facebook and Twitter and others have really worked hard to prop up Emmanuel Macron.
They've tried that in other parts of Europe, too.
I'm glad to see some parts can punch through because, boy, the stranglehold of communication these days is powerful.
Of course, Justin Trudeau wants to throttle our internet here, too.
I think Manny's right about Pierre Polyev.
I believe he can win.
I believe he will win.
Of course, I don't want to be held to that.
You never know what's going to come up.
And of course, Pierre Polyev's greatest opponent is not the Liberal Party, never was.
The media party and they are out for blood.
Well, that's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
Katie Davis Court reporting for Rebel News.
I'm on location at 3rd and Yesler in downtown Seattle.
A shooting just occurred while I was one block away walking.
And so I came to investigate what was going on.
A man was shot in the neck.
We have one victim.
The suspects fled the scene.
They have not been located yet.
So I thought it'd be a good time to ask what's going on in Seattle, ask the public about if we have a public safety crisis and if we need to refund the police department.
And so let's see what they have to say.
Police are looking for the person who shot a man in Pioneer Square, that man in critical condition at this point.
So a shooting just happened on 3rd and Yesler.
What are your thoughts?
That's Seattle.
Do we have a public safety crisis?
Of course we do.
Do we need to refund the police department?
Of course we do.
If the mayor was here, what would you say to him?
What would you say to City Council?
Do your job.
I think they need to figure out something.
They need to get the homeless and get help for these people and give them the option to either get help or send them away, put them in prison.
You know, this ain't the place for him.
There was a shooting that just occurred in broad daylight at 2 p.m.
A man was shot in the face.
What are your thoughts on that?
More safety.
More cops, I guess.
Welcome to Seattle.
Yeah, it's getting worse out here.
There's many things that happen here in broad daylight.
It's not just shooting.
I was walking down to the light rail on the elevator two months ago, and I was attacked and I didn't do anything.
The woman came and attacked me for nothing.
Do you know who attacked you?
Was it a homeless person?
It was homeless.
Some type of drug person.
Do you think that we have a public safety crisis in the city?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Do you think we need to refund the police department?
I mean, I don't see a problem with it.
I think there's a stigma behind that whole defund the police.
It means a lot more than just that.
It means abolish the police, and that's not what we should be doing.
That's a dumb idea.
We need the police, obviously.
Right.
That offense.
Yes.
If that's just what it meant, then maybe it would be useful, but it's not.
It's so much more than that.
Do we need to refund the police department?
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Do we need to refund the police?
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Do we need to refund our police department?
I think they're getting that figured out right now.
Yeah, it was a huge mistake.
Thanks, Biden.
Thanks to City Council.
They have defunded them by more than 50 million and officers are fleeing in droves.
We don't have enough officers to even respond to normal calls.
They're all on priority one calls.
It's unreal.
It's like, what's this place?
What's this state coming to?
What's this city coming to here?
If City Council was here right now, what would you say to them?
I really wouldn't know what to say.
You know, it speaks for itself.
So, what are your thoughts on them still not having open meetings to the public?
They're not attending.
They're still claiming COVID and no one can address their concerns.
Should they return to in-person meetings?
I mean, I gotta work.
I gotta go to work every day.
Now, this unfortunately has become Seattle's new normal following the defund the police movement in 2020.
Just last month, the city recorded the highest number of fatal shootings in recent history, but the majority of city officials still refuse to acknowledge that their decisions created a severe public safety crisis.
In 2020, city council proposed to defund the Seattle Police Department by more than 50%, and their war against police created a significant staffing crisis where more than 400 well-trained officers left the department since 2020.
While Seattle's new mayor, Bruce Harrell, has been an advocate to restore public safety and there are plans in place to try to restore staffing levels with incentives, the majority of city council refuses to publicly acknowledge that their decision to defund the police severely impacted the community.
In fact, some council members, such as Marxist Kashama Sawant, would still like to see police abolition despite the city hanging on by a thread.
Jeff Bezos and the Tax Fight00:00:57
I have a message for Jeff Bezos and his class.
If you attempt again to overturn the Amazon tax, working people will go all out in the thousands to defeat you.
And we will not stop there because you see we are fighting for far more than this tax.
We are preparing the ground for a different kind of society.
And if you, Jeff Bezos, want to drive that process forward by lashing out against us in our modest demands, then so be it.
Because we are coming for you and your rotten system.
We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism, this police state.
We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy and equality.