Ezra Levant critiques Pierre Poilievre’s November 23 press conference outside a Toronto synagogue, where he announced deporting 700 alleged IRGC agents and accelerating security funding, yet media fixated on carbon tax claims—ignoring how it drives 2M Canadians to food banks monthly. Poilievre dismissed unrelated questions, like French minority rights, while Levant highlights Wilders’ Netherlands victory, his "Nexit" push, and unyielding anti-Islamic ideology despite coalition pressures, including a Turkish refugee-led VVD. Wilders’ 20-year armed guard and past assassination threats underscore his defiance, contrasting with Canada’s press corps’ perceived irrelevance at synagogue events, as Rebel News sharpens focus on terrorism and globalist resistance. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, Pierre Polyev makes an announcement about the security of Jewish synagogues, but the media party has other things they want to talk about.
It's November 23rd, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
I'm standing outside a large Jewish synagogue in North Toronto.
This synagogue itself, as far as I know, has not been attacked by the anti-Semitic mobs that have been marching in the regular hate marches.
Although I do notice they have a high security system, video cameras everywhere, panels of different videos, and pictures of, I suppose, people who have threatened them before and that they should keep an eye out for.
But no Molotov cocktails or shootings here, unlike what we've seen in Montreal.
There's a police car driving by.
Do you want to catch a quick look at that?
So there are patrols of police in the neighborhood.
And just up Bathurst Street, there is a police truck that's permanently parked, lights on, just as a signal to the Jewish community that police are nearby and a signal to would-be vandals or threateners that the police are nearby.
Anyways, the reason I'm here today is because Pierre Polyev, along with one MP named Melissa Lanceman, the MP for Thornhill, and Roman Baber, who was the former provincial politician who stood up against the COVID lockdowns, he's now running federally against the incumbent liberal Ya'ara Sachs.
Ya'ara Sachs, you'll know her by the only thing she's ever done that was noteworthy, which was to stand up in the House of Commons.
I chuckle whenever I think about it, and claim that the trucker convoy by saying Honk Honk was actually called for Heil Hitler.
I know you don't believe me.
That's why I got to show you the videotape.
Take a look.
How much vitriol do we have to see of Honk Honk, which is an acronym for Hail Hitler?
Do we need to see by these protesters on social media?
Yeah, so she's the MP for this riding.
Absolutely useless, as you can imagine.
So Pierre Polyev, along with the two Jewish candidates that I mentioned, Lanceman and Babber, were here to make an announcement.
It was not a public event.
Only journalists were invited, and we were invited too.
And since our office is not too far away, I thought I'd personally come and see what's what.
There were about six other TV cameras there.
CBC, CTV, I presume one of the cameras was global.
Canadian press or CP was there as well, as well as a reporter from the local Jewish newspaper.
So Pierre Polyev made his announcement at several points.
He was going to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terror group, as other Western allies have.
He was going to kick out the 700 Iranian terror agents that are operating at will in Canada because Trudeau refuses to criminalize a terror group.
He's going to speed up security infrastructure for synagogues and other houses of worship like we see here.
And finally, he was going to have some integrated anti-hate task force.
I'm not quite sure what that means.
Anyway, I'll let you listen to him.
He gave the announcement in French and then in English.
I'm not going to play the whole thing, but I just want to give you a little bit of a taste of what he said in English.
But the real story is what came next.
Let me just show you a couple minutes of the statement.
But the reason I'm doing my show on this is what happened after his statement.
So here's the statement.
I'm very honored to be joined today by the common sense conservative deputy leader and member of parliament for Thornhill, Melissa Lanceman.
Risk Of Unreported Attacks00:15:17
We have also common sense conservative candidate for York Center, Roman Baber, former MPP, lawyer, and Raptors fan.
Here we are gathered to present a common sense plan to protect the freedom and security of Canadians in these times.
After eight years of Justin Trudeau, Canada is a more dangerous place.
Hate crimes are up 150% after his economy has caused more desperation.
His divisive censorial policies have turned Canadian against Canadian, and his weak laws have allowed criminals and other violent operators to walk freely in our streets and terrorize their fellow citizens.
So today, Conservatives present a common sense action plan to protect our people in these times.
Our first proposal is we want the government to immediately ban the Iranian terrorist group, the IRGC.
This is the most sophisticated, well-financed terror group on planet Earth.
It was behind coordinating the October 7th attacks in Israel.
It coordinates with other terrorist groups like Hezbollah, which are criminalized in Canada.
According to a recent global news report, there are 700 regime and IRGC agents operating with impunity using stolen money, terrorizing our Persian and Jewish populations and putting Canadians at risk on our soil.
I will add, this terrorist group fired a missile at a civilian aircraft killing over 100 Canadians.
This was almost four years ago.
Can you imagine what kind of Prime Minister would allow a terrorist group to fire a missile at killing our people?
And four years later, he lets them legally operate in our country with impunity.
This is a disgrace, and it is time that Justin Trudeau stood up to defend our people against these IRGC murderers and terrorists by banning them today.
And we should work to kick out every single regime agent or terrorist that is operating in this country, of which 700 have been identified.
Second, we need to establish a foreign influence registry, something the government promised it would do back in June.
We have multiple Beijing-controlled police stations harassing the Chinese population in Canada.
As I said, 700 Iranian regime agents harassing Persian and Jewish Canadians.
And countless others may be operating as well.
We want a foreign agent registry, which requires that anyone who works for a foreign dictatorship register, have their names publicized and exposed.
Third, the United Kingdom has said that Canada is the likely spot for a terrorist attack.
Now, Canada's government says that there's only a medium risk.
Well, the Prime Minister said the other day that there has been a terrorist attack on our people.
There was a terrorist attack against, there are multiple terrorist attacks against synagogues and schools in Montreal, according to the Prime Minister, while he says the risk level is only medium.
We also have terrorist attacks that happened against innocent Muslims in Quebec City and in London, Ontario, and we've had churches burned down.
We need to have a review of Canada's assessment of the risk of an attack in this country.
Fourth, we need to remove red tape from the Security Infrastructure Program, which protects places of worship and other community centers from attacks.
That means quickly approving funding to protect our people.
There's one mosque I visited where their people were mowed down by a car and now by a terrorist who came onto their property.
They've been waiting two years to get protection for their place of worship, but the whole application is stuck in more red tape and bureaucracy.
We want to streamline it so that all places of worship, synagogues, mosques, temples, gurdwaras, churches, can protect themselves against future attacks.
And finally, we want to create a task force against anti-hate violence that would coordinate federal intelligence and law enforcement with local police.
The risk we have is that federal intelligence bureaucracies in Ottawa may be aware of a potential risk, but if they don't tell the local police of where that risk could manifest itself, the attack could happen before anyone has a chance to prevent it.
We want one coordinated task force that will bring together law enforcement at all three levels of government to share intelligence, interrupt attacks, and protect our people.
Well, I made sure I had the first question, and you can imagine it was about something that we at Rebel News have been talking about, namely deporthamas.com.
That's our petition to have non-citizens who are here in Canada and frankly in the United States and Australia and the United Kingdom, non-citizens who participate in these hate marches.
I believe in what the Americans call the First Amendment, what here in Canada is Section 2B of our Charter of Rights, namely freedom of speech.
And you've heard me say it myself.
Freedom of speech is the gift you have to give your enemy if you want it for yourself.
You have to tolerate even odious speech as long as it doesn't rise to the level of a violent threat or something like that.
But what about non-citizens?
If someone is here not as a member of our quote family, but rather as a house guest, if we invited them into our family home just for the purpose of attending university on a student visa or a temporary foreign worker, if they are not Canadian citizens, if they are here at our pleasure, can we not revoke that and kick them out if they're engaging in these hate rallies?
Because it seems like an enormous number of people marching in the streets are not actually Canadians.
So here's my question to Pierre Polyev, and here's his answer on the subject.
What do you think of it?
Yes.
Hi, Mr. Polyev.
That's the Levant from Rebel News.
You mentioned certain things that rise to the level of a crime, but there are many things that aren't quite at that level.
For example, people marching calling for an intifada or using language that may not rise to the level of a criminal prosecution.
And you've said before that you respect freedom of speech even for odious views.
But what about people who are not Canadian citizens, who are foreign nationals, perhaps here on a student visa to go to our schools, and instead of studying at university, they're participating in these hate marches, intimidating people, Jewish restaurants, calling for the death of Jews.
Again, not criminal level, but these are foreign nationals.
Would you support canceling the visas and deporting foreign nationals who, instead of doing what they came here to do, are spreading hate at these pro-Hamas rallies?
Thank you for your question.
You raise a number of different issues.
One, if someone comes here on a student visa and they're not actually a student, then on that basis alone, they should go home.
We don't want to have, one of the problems we have with the student visa program is that it has been used as a fraudulent point of entry, particularly for corrupt employers trying to get labor from abroad.
So in general, we believe that we should shut down all the fraud in the student visa program.
And anyone who claims to come here to study but is not actually studying should not be here.
With regards to protests, I do believe in freedom of speech.
I believe people should be allowed to say things I disagree with, even things that I find appalling.
That is the price of living in a free country.
The alternative is to have state censors who then decide what kind of speech is acceptable and what is not and then who chooses those state censors.
And then those censors will pick and choose based on their own political views which speech is allowed and which speech is not.
That's why I believe in freedom of expression.
You mentioned, for example, if someone stands up and calls for violence against a particular group, they can, under the current criminal code, be charged with incitement.
Those provisions already exist.
And I would encourage law enforcement to make sure those provisions are upheld for any and all people who incite, deliberately incite violence against an identifiable group, because that has been criminalized for many years.
And anyone who is convicted of that, who is not a citizen, should obviously not be in Canada.
I knew he was going to talk about freedom of speech, and I believe in freedom of speech.
He was talking about kicking out foreign students who don't actually go to school, but that wasn't really my question.
I'm not saying that these foreign students don't also go to school.
They're not going to these hate marches, you know, nine to five every day.
They are doing their studies, but then just for the weekend, larks, they're walking around shouting at Jews.
So I don't think Pierre Polyev answered my question directly, and I tried to get a follow-up, but I was not permitted.
Here's how my attempt went.
Well, Lisa, I tried.
There was one other question about the Jewish issue.
Again, we're in a Jewish synagogue with two Jewish candidates talking about protecting the Jewish community.
So there was a reporter from the Canadian Jewish News, which is what it sounds like, asking a question.
And again, Pierre Polyev said he's for freedom of speech.
I'll let you know how that exchange goes.
Lila Serre, Canadian Jewish News.
You spoke about the demonstrations and freedom of speech, but we've seen multiple large demonstrations in Toronto and Montreal, certainly that are quite frightening for the community.
Would you take any action against these large demonstrations?
People have the right to demonstrate as long as they do so peacefully.
The line is drawn when someone is violent towards someone else, when they inhibit a business from legitimately operating.
At the same time, I think we need to be, when we see things that we disagree with, I have the freedom of expression to condemn those things.
And that's what I have done.
When I have seen chants that I disagree with, I condemn those chants.
When I see political messages that I disagree with, I condemn them with my words.
We live in a free country, and that means people are free to say things that I don't like, and I am free to condemn them for doing so.
So that was the local reporter for the little Jewish newspaper here in town.
But what followed were, like I said, there was CBC, CTB, Canadian Press, all the mainstream media were here.
I tell you, not a single question was about the Jewish community or Hamas or terrorism or the announcement that Polyev just made.
None of it.
Every single regime journalist, every single Justin Journome, and you know that just this week Trudeau announced he's going to triple the subsidies to regime media.
And oh my God, you could feel it.
I mean, even if you disagree with Pierre Polyev, if you think he's doing too much or too little or doing the wrong things, he came in with an announcement in a Jewish synagogue that has surveillance on it because it's under threat.
Not a single question.
The media doesn't care about that.
There were actually two questions about why Pierre Polyev doesn't support a carbon tax for Ukraine.
I'll just let you see the questions.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it.
That's what the media wanted to talk about.
Instead, take a look at question number one.
Can you explain why the Conservative Party voted against the new Ukraine-Canada free trade agreement?
We didn't vote against a free trade agreement.
We brought in the free trade agreement.
We voted against Justin Trudeau forcing a carbon tax into that pre-existing agreement.
Conservatives understand how devastating the carbon tax has been for Canadians.
It's caused 2 million people to go to a food bank every single month, 7 million Canadians not eating enough to stay healthy.
We never had these problems before, Justin Trudeau and his costly carbon tax.
Now he wants to quadruple the tax.
And just to show you how pathologically obsessed Trudeau is with his tax, he did something that has never been done in the history of trade agreements, which is to put a carbon tax in one.
The people of Ukraine are now going to, he expects them to rebuild from a war with a devastating and crippling tax on their energy.
The Ukrainian farmers, he expects them to pay a carbon tax while they're trying to feed their hungry people.
This is cruel and frankly, it is disgusting that Trudeau's ideological obsession with taxing working class people, seniors, and suffering families, has come ahead of what should have been a free trade agreement.
Thank you.
And here's question number two.
CBC, if you could in English and French.
Just going back to the carbon question.
Yes.
The deal refers to promoting carbon pricing, and it's something that the Ukraine has already, or something Ukraine's already offered to do in their talks with the EU.
So is that a fair thing for the government to ask of Ukraine?
No.
No.
No, it's not.
There's no reason to promote a carbon tax for Ukrainians or for Canadians.
The carbon tax is crippling our people.
It's driving up the cost of food, gas, and groceries.
It's driven a record smashing 2 million Canadians to the food bank.
Now Trudeau wants to quadruple the carbon tax on your food, gas, and groceries.
This is going to force seniors to choose between eating and heating.
A better thing to do would be for him to amend the agreement, throw that carbon tax clause out, and to top it off to pass Bill C234, which would take the carbon tax off our farmers so that they can feed us more affordably.
Thank you.
They were literally fighting with him about why he doesn't insist that Ukraine brings in a carbon tax.
Pierre's Political Calculus00:10:59
I was thinking, what planet am I in?
In what possible world is that newsworthy at all, let alone for this event?
I think my favorite part, and I got to say, I was there and I was representing Rebel News and I had my official microphone.
I was doing street journalism, citizen journalism, like my friend David Menzies and the rest of our team normally does.
So I was trying to be on my best behavior.
I watched this exchange with Canadian press and I did my best not to laugh out loud because I was being very professional and very serious.
I want to show you, again, so this was about how to protect the Jewish community, especially here in Toronto, large Jewish community, from these hate marches and from the Molotov cocktails and the shootings we've seen in Montreal.
That's what it was about.
Again, you can criticize that or ask other questions I did.
Not a single regime journalist did.
Here's the Canadian press asking Pierre Polyev why he called that bizarre car crash an explosion yesterday at the border crossing, why he called that a possible act of terrorism.
I want to play the whole thing for you.
And you'll see the CP reporter got a supplementary question, even if I didn't.
But I wish this would have gone on much longer.
This was the most delightful thing I have seen in days.
Well, I mean, there's a lot of wonderful things, so maybe it's not in days, but certainly today.
This was my favorite thing I've seen today.
Watch Pierre Polyev go back and forth with a poor schlepp from Canadian press who very clearly was given a job, attack Pierre Polyev.
You tell me how you think it went.
Hi, Paola La Regier with the Canadian Press.
The Cield de Bond vali du Nançafsi.
Do you think it was responsible for you to call yesterday's explosion by the customs, by the checkpoint at the Rainbow Bridge terrorism, when no U.S. or Canadian officials said that was, like authorities said that was the case, and when the New York governor also said there was no evidence to suggest terrorism activity?
Actually, you're wrong.
Are you a CP?
Okay, so CP, by the way, CP, just for everyone's knowledge, did have to make three corrections for falsehoods that they put into a single article.
I think that might be unprecedented.
I'm actually thinking about checking with the Guinness Book of World Records to see if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue three corrections for patent falsehoods that they admit they had been made in one single article.
And now you've made yet another falsehood in your question.
Where you are wrong is that CTV reported that the government of Canada was presuming that the incident was terrorist.
So, yeah, that's what I said in my remarks.
You're right.
It was a media report, which is what I said in the House.
I said there are media reports.
And you think that's a responsible thing to go on to make that kind of a statement at the time without speaking.
What kind of statement?
Calling something terrorist.
I didn't.
I said there were media reports.
That's the distinction we're making?
Okay.
No, there's no distinction.
What I said, and I was right, was that there were media reports of a terror-related event.
By your admission, there were media reports of a terror-related event.
And that media report, according to CTV, unless you're questioning their integrity now, came from security officials in the Trudeau government.
So do you think the CTV was irresponsible in putting out that tweet?
Do you think it was a responsible comment to make in the House of Commons?
Sorry, I'm asking, and I have already answered that.
Do you think CTV was irresponsible to put that tweet out?
That's none of my business.
That's not for me to comment.
Well, you just did comment.
I just hope you're not going to print something that you have to apologize for again.
Okay.
That was absolutely wonderful, and it was actually my favorite moment of the entire press conference because it shows to me that Pierre Polyev knows that their real enemy in this election campaign is not actually Justin Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau is disgraced.
He's discredited.
Even liberal voters say he is phony and inauthentic.
He's never been this low in the polls.
His own MPs and cabinet ministers are grumbling about him.
He's hated on the streets.
People jeer him from the right and the left.
No, the real enemy against Pierre Polyev were those six other cameras in the room, and he knew it.
And the fact that he was willing to go on the offensive against CP proves to me he will not make the mistakes that Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer made before him, thinking they could win them over.
I think they really like me.
I think I'm really getting through to them.
No, they hate you.
And Pierre Polyev treated them the right way, treated them.
I only wish he had an apple.
I think Pierre Polyev, when he does his press conferences, should carry an apple.
And if a reporter starts getting stroppy like that, Polyev should take out the apple.
And if the reporter keeps going on like that, Polyev should say, I'm going to take a bite.
I'm going to take a bite.
You know what I'm talking about, right?
This exchange in British Columbia about a month ago that was just absolutely classic.
Remember this?
On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you're obviously taking the populist pathway.
What does that mean?
Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess.
I mean, certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently.
Like what?
Left wing, you know, this and that, right-wing.
I mean, it's that type of ideological stuff.
I never really talk about left or right.
I don't really believe in that.
Okay.
A lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump.
Like which people would say that?
Well, I'm sure a great many Canadians, but.
Like who?
I don't know who, but.
Well, you're the one who asked the question, so you must know somebody.
Okay.
I'm sure there's some out there, but anyways, the point of this question is, I mean, why should Canadians trust you with their vote, given, you know, not just the sort of ideological inclination in terms of taking the page of Donald Trump's book, but also think about what page?
What page?
Can you give me the page?
Give me the page.
You keep saying that.
In terms of turning things quite dramatically in terms of Trudeau and the left wing and all of this, I mean, you make quite a, you know, it's quite a play that you make on it.
So I'm sure.
I'm not sure.
I don't know what your question is.
Okay.
Then forget that.
Why should Canadians trust you with their vote?
Common sense.
Common sense for a change.
We're going to make common sense common in this country.
We don't have any common sense in the current government.
You know, the guy prints $600 billion, grows our money supply by 32% in three years.
That's growing the money eight times faster than the economy.
No wonder we have the worst inflation in four decades.
I'm going to cap spending, cut waste, so that we can balance the budget and bring down inflation and interest rates.
You'll want to be able to pay your mortgage again.
You want to be able to afford rent?
Then you have to vote for Pierre Polyev because I am the only one with a common sense plan that will bring back the buying power of your paycheck.
Yeah, the rest of the questions were completely off point.
One of them was a CBC reporter.
I think it was CBC or CTV.
It's all a blur.
They're all the monolith saying, someone got a mean phone call.
Is this, are you to blame?
Here's the question.
Take a look.
This question is from Kevin Gallagher of CTV News.
The Independent Senators Group are accusing your House Leader Andrew Scheer of tweeting out a most wanted poster of two senators, encouraging people to call them and ask them why they shut down debate on Bill C-234.
It resulted in a threatening phone call to one senator's office that resulted in police telling her to leave her home.
Did this tactic go too far?
You know, Polyev had a long answer.
I'll just show you the part where he says, yeah, we all get threats.
It's too bad.
Take a look.
If someone has been threatened, then they should be, then whoever uttered that threat should be held accountable.
I receive threats all the time, as do members of my caucus.
It's terrible when it happens.
That does not change the fact that taxing our farmers makes food more expensive for everyone.
And that's why senators should immediately pass common sense conservative bill C234 to take the tax off and let our Canadian people eat affordable food.
I say again, were any of these questions asked by the media party relevant to you or to the news?
You have CP playing gotcha.
Hey, it wasn't actually a terrorist attack.
And Polyev said, well, I didn't say it was.
I said that CTV reported it as that.
The question about why won't you carbon tax Ukraine?
What about a mean comment that led to a mean phone call?
You know what?
Sometimes the regime media, they don't do it a lot anymore, but they look down their nose at citizen journalists like us.
But I got to tell you, the only two reporters in the building today who actually asked questions on the subject at hand that were very newsworthy to the community here, at least the local community, and I would say the national community, were me and the Jewish reporter from the Canadian Jewish News.
The rest of them were asking about their pet grievances, their petty vendettas inside Ottawa baseball.
And they're literally demanding that Pierre Polyev make taxing, carbon taxing Ukraine a condition precedent for Canadian support.
I came here to see Pierre Polyev and put a question to him about Deport Hamas.
And I'd give him a five out of ten for his answer.
He sort of evaded it.
And his press boss didn't want me to ask a follow-up.
I'm half pleased with the answer.
It's a baby step, but he didn't.
I'm not talking about foreign nationals who completely fake being students.
I'm talking about the ones who are students by day and haters by night.
But what I really learned today was not about the war on terror or the Jewish community or Polyev's plans.
I saw firsthand who the enemy is.
And it's the regime media that you are forced to pay with your tax dollars.
Yes, Radio-Canada, Toronto.
Yesterday, conservatives voted against the C-316 project to prevent judicial contestation, often used by French communities in a minority situation.
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Why would they turn their head to these minority communities?
No, that's not true.
You know, I almost forgot the French language CBC reporter asked a question about French minority rights.
Again, is that the issue of the day?
And I'm not saying that French minority rights people don't have a right to ask a question, but that's a lobbyist question.
That's the CBC activist question.
Is that in the top 100 issues of the day today?
I don't know.
Well, that's my reporting on the ground.
But I want to now go to exciting news across the world, news that I hope will inspire Canada and other countries.
I'm talking about the massive electoral success of Kirt Wilders, the head of the Dutch Party for Freedom.
I interview Ava Vardingebrook next.
It's being compared in terms of its seismic political impact to Brexit when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.
I'm referring, of course, to the electoral victory, the tremendous success, the surprising success to many of Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands.
And joining us now is one of our favorite Dutch political observers and commentators, our friend Ava Vlardingerbrüek, who is on the road in Europe doing a documentary.
Thanks very much for jamming us in.
What a remarkable outcome.
I didn't think that the Dutch would embrace someone who was so radical in the Latin sense of that word.
He goes to the root.
Eva, what do you make of Geert Wilder's success?
I guess it was last night now.
Yeah, well, personally, I'm euphoric.
I voted for the PVV personally, and just like you, Ezra, I had honestly no idea that this would happen.
It was completely unexpected.
It's unprecedented.
They won now.
They're looking at 38 seats even.
So they keep on rising with the last code votes being counted.
And it's just, it's something that no one saw coming, I think.
The PVV, they've been branded as, well, extremely radical and not in a good sense.
You know, Geert Wilders has even been prosecuted and trialed here in the Netherlands for his opinions and his views.
Voters of the PVV have been ridiculized, demonized for years now.
And the fact that so many people, one in four Dutch people, have now said, enough with that.
We want change and we are going to vote for this party.
It's just, it's unheard of.
And I'm honestly really, really happy.
Yeah, I mean, he is a free speech champion.
He has fought prosecution for his ideas.
He has a very hard line on Islam.
And I've listened to him say it many times.
He says, I respect Muslims as people, but I quarrel with the ideology, the philosophy of Islam itself, which is a very interesting distinction.
He's very tough on Islam.
And he's talked about, for example, a moratorium on building mosques.
He's talked about ending, for all intents and purposes, all third world immigration.
He's been saying these things for really 20 years.
And he's been saying them from the margins of politics, but now he's in the heart of politics.
I have a question for you.
I have my answer to this question, but I want to hear it from you.
Do you think that he will be able to carry out his basic ideas?
Like they're radical in the sense that they go to the root.
He wants to pull out immigration from the root.
He wants to challenge Islam by name.
He's not dancing around it.
Do you think he's going to hold fast to his values now that he is in the driver's seat?
Well, I think there's really no other option for Geert Wilders.
I mean, this man is not joking when it comes to his opinions about this.
He is, you know, he has security details following him around 24-7.
He can't go anywhere without being protected by his bodyguards.
He drives a car that is armored.
All of that.
It's not a joke.
Geerd Wilders has sacrificed a lot for his views on Islam and his critic of immigration.
And so I don't think that that's something that he will compromise on necessarily.
Of course, all sorts of other powers, other political parties in the Netherlands that he will have to form a coalition with are probably going to want him to water that message down.
But I think Geert Wilders is very much aware of the fact that the people in the Netherlands have chosen him for this particular reason.
I think also the events of October 7th and how that has played out all over Europe.
You have seen the protests here.
People have come out in vast numbers waving Taliban flags, waving al-Qaeda flags.
And I think that that has woken the masses up in a way.
And another thing that Geert Wilders' party is in favor of is the Dutch version of the Brexit.
So he's in favor of a next it.
And if that is something that we can actually do, then we stand a chance, you know, because a lot of these open border policies ultimately start, begin and end in Brussels.
You know, they begin and end with the European Union.
And Geert Wilders' party has been very clear on the fact that they want to leave the EU, which is something that I think absolutely needs to happen if we want to see any real substantial change with regards to immigration.
That's incredible.
You know, my answer to my own question is: Geurt Wilders has lived for this one purpose.
And as you mentioned, he's under extreme security.
And for good reason, other Dutch critics of Islam have been assassinated.
Theo Van Gogh, Van Gogh, as he'd be called, Pim Fortown, was a gay politician, actually, who both of these men were killed for challenging, for speaking out.
I and her CLE had to basically flee the country for death threats.
So a man who has lived for 20 years under armed guard because he holds these beliefs, there's no way he's going to abandon them now.
As you say, I think the challenge is: can he work with other parties to get over the hump for a working coalition?
Now, tell me about one of the other parties.
I understand that another party that actually was for the former PM, Mark Rutte, that the new leader of that party is a Turkish refugee herself who is critical of immigration.
Do you know more about these potential coalition partners?
Like, are there other people who support an immigration crackdown that Geert Wilderss can work with?
Well, the VVD has been saying that for years now.
That is Mark Roette's party.
And indeed, it's now led by a Turkish woman.
And she also, just like, well, every single VVD politician, has been quite anti-immigration right before the elections, but usually right after the elections, and when they are actually elected, they change their tombs again and they, you know, they answer to the whims of Brussels.
So I wouldn't trust the VVD as far as I could throw them personally.
But there is a chance now that if they do form a right-wing coalition with some other parties on the right that have taken a stauncher anti-immigration stance than the VVD, that that would be a possibility.
It remains to be seen because, like I said, the PVV, Gerd Wilders' party, he's been excluded from the formation of a coalition for, well, as long basically as they exist.
It only happened once.
And now I think that he has become so big, you know, that they just can't ignore him anymore.
If they now try to form a coalition without him, God forbid, you know, I really think that the Dutch people will, well, let's just put it diplomatically, they won't be happy.
So I doubt that that's still an option.
I think you're right.
This is, I think, related to the global uprising of Islamic anti-Semitism because Kurt Wilders has always warned Israel today, Europe tomorrow, in terms of the battle plan of Hamas and groups like that.
So I think ordinary Dutch people have observed what's going on in the streets and they sort of decided this is the moment.
It's very, very late.
But if they do want to do something, Geurt Wilders is the man and this election is the time.
Let me ask you one last question, then I'll let you go.
I know you're on the road doing a documentary.
Mark Rutte was the essential World Economic Forum man.
He was one of their young leaders, if I'm not mistaken.
He reminded me in some ways of Justin Trudeau.
He wanted to be accepted by the multinational organizations.
He didn't believe in local sovereignty.
He was at war with the farmers of the Netherlands.
Trudeau hates carbon.
Ruta went to war against nitrogen and other fertilizers.
He really was the perfect Klaus Schwab puppet.
I think Geurt Wilders is the 180-degree opposite.
And I think it's sort of a backlash to that.
You have Javier Millé, the new president of Argentina.
I think around the world, maybe the pendulum is swinging back against the WEF style of governance.
What do you make of that?
Yeah, it's about time, hey, but it's true.
There's definitely a wave of patriotism, of nationalism, of, well, the identitarian right-wing, anti-immigration right-wing in Europe and all around the world.
And I'm so happy to see it finally.
You know, it's clear to me that the intimidation game of calling everybody who opposes immigration or who loves their own country a racist, a Nazi, xenophobe, whatever, that those days are over.
You know, it doesn't work anymore.
And people go out and they vote and they now vote for a party that has been, as I said, shunned, ridiculed, demonized for as long as it existed.
And they've gone out in vast numbers and done it.
And Geerd Builders is somebody who I really trust when he says the Netherlands first.
You know, as you mentioned, he has paid a really, really high price throughout his life for his political views.
And I dare to say that I really believe that George Builders will set or will put the Netherlands first.
And well, this next point that he makes all the time that we need to leave the EU, I think also proves that.
It's not just words for him.
Well, that's very exciting.
I had the pleasure of going on a small Canadian tour with him probably about 15 years ago now.
I had published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in Canada and we went on a speaking tour together.
And he was very passionate.
He was a true believer.
But the number one thing I took away with me was his life, how he lives under armed guard all the time.
And when I visited him once in the capital in the Netherlands, our meeting was almost called off because there was a death threat.
One of his own security guards had leaked Wilders' whereabouts and they were sort of on lockdown.
The guy has lived sort of like Salman Rushdie, you know, with this five hanging over him.
And he's an incredible man.
And I think it's his moment.
Speaking of Canadian tours, Ava, I understand you're coming to Canada.
What can you tell us about your visa?
When is it?
What cities are you going to go to?
And where can we find more information about it?
Yeah, I'm coming to Canada for the first time.
And I'm very excited because, well, you know, Canada and the Netherlands, we've already talked about Mark Roette and Trudeau basically being the same person, being a puppet of the same guy, having the same globalist, destructive ideas and policies.
And, well, you know, I take a lot of hope from the fact that both in Canada with the truckers and in the Netherlands with the farmers, we've been able to put up a fight against the globalists.
And the fact that now Geerd Wilders has won this election to me is a real sign of the times that people are done with that.
And that's something that I'm very happy about.
And I hope to come to Canada and spread that message of hope and let people know, yeah, we can resist this.
You know, it's our times, our days are not numbered.
We can stand up against these guys and we can win.
We can be successful.
So I'm coming to Canada.
Very excited.
I'll be there on the 26th of November.
So in just a few days, I'll go to Vancouver first.
I'll go to Winnipeg and I'll go to Ottawa.
And the dates are listed on my Twitter profile, my ex-profile.
So if you want to go check that out, I would love to see all of you guys.
And I know that we will be seeing each other, Ezra.
So that's always fun.
Well, that's wonderful.
Thank you again.
Welcome to Canada.
Looking forward to having you here.
And we will put on the bottom of this website the links for people to get tickets to see you in those three cities.
Great to see you.
Ava Vlardingerbrook.
Good luck in your documentary and we'll see you in Canada.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ezra.
See you soon.
Thanks.
Bye-bye.
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