Ezra Levant critiques Canada’s 2024 crackdown on press freedom, citing David Menzies’ arrest near a Toronto synagogue after interviewing a pro-Hamas protester who claimed he’d pray in the street—charges Levant calls baseless. He slams Bill C-63, including its life imprisonment for "hate speech" and secret complaint mechanisms, comparing it to China and Iran’s authoritarian tactics, while exposing Trudeau’s hypocrisy on gun laws (June 2024 handgun freeze) and fossil-fuel funding. Menzies, held four hours in filthy conditions—no soap, toilet paper, or water—describes police as politicized, vowing legal action after 200K views of his arrest video. Levant warns: journalists face imprisonment for facts, while protesters evade consequences, signaling a dangerous erosion of democratic norms. [Automatically generated summary]
So many things that we've covered as journalists and so many things that have actually happened to us, including to our star journalist, David Menzies.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, it's already springtime.
Let me show you the best rebel journalism so far in 2024.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
I can't believe 2024 is already, what, about a quarter done?
It's springtime already, and we've had such a busy year.
I have, Sheila Gunread has, Alexa Lavois, all our journalists.
I think David Menzies has had the busiest of years, and we're just getting started.
So for the next half hour or so, enjoy the best of 2024 so far.
I'm enjoying it and I'm doing my best to be fair and friendly.
If this was Canada, you could have him arrested.
Did you see that?
Your rival, Christy Frieland, had one of our reporters arrested.
She did, I think.
She didn't say a word against it.
On the incident, as you guys know very well, Canada is a rule of law country.
Canada is a democracy.
Operational decisions about law enforcement are taken by the police of jurisdiction quite appropriately.
Political elected officials have no role in the taking of those decisions.
And that's why I don't have any further comment.
It was the wrong thing.
It was absolutely the wrong thing.
Thank you for saying that.
Look, freedom of the press.
Look, I've been doing it.
I've been a public figure in Canada, been a public figure in the UK.
I know you got to answer tough questions.
And you guys, you know, you ask tough questions, and that's fair.
Well, I want to thank you for saying that because I have to say, Christy Frieland has not yet said anything in the vein that you have.
She's been happy to let the cops do her work for her.
And if she disagrees with the cops, she hasn't said so.
Well, I've said what I said.
But look, the questions you were asking earlier about energy, and I'm going to have to.
Well, thanks for your time.
I really appreciate that.
I appreciate keeping it.
Until next week.
Take care.
Thank you.
David Benzies with Rebel News.
Mr. Polyev, the Liberals use both a carrot and a stick to control journalists in Canada.
Which of these carrots and sticks would you keep as Prime Minister, and which would you repeal?
Thank you.
We are going to repeal C-11, the censorship law, which allows CRTC bureaucrats to secretly manipulate social media algorithms to promote certain information, demote other information, and censor certain things altogether.
This is a form of censorship that exists nowhere in the democratic world.
Right now, Justin Trudeau is censoring those that he disagrees with and trying to buy off the rest.
And that makes that undermines confidence among Canadians in the news media.
worst part of C-21, which the whole bill is junk, but the worst part is it cements the handgun freeze in legislation, making it very complex and difficult, but not impossible, to overturn.
So that's the worst part.
But yeah, it's a bill that directly targets licensed sportshooters and hunters instead of criminals.
Today forward, it is no longer legal to buy, sell, or transfer a handgun in Canada.
What I encourage people to do is get as much people out there, getting their gun license, get as much people out there, because it's going to be a lot harder to take back if there's a lot of people that own guns.
Responsible, ethical gun owners aren't out there committing crimes.
We get a background check every day.
My neighbor doesn't, but I do.
Justin Trudeau thinks that stopping crime means we have to take away Grandpa Joe's hunting rifle.
What do you want, Justice?
What do you want it?
Let's go on our side!
No, we're not in Gaza.
We're not under Sharia law, sir.
They have every right to protest.
They could do it in a peaceful place like City Hall, but not in front of a synagogue.
We're here because this place of worship has chosen to make for a venue, a venue to sell illegal.
Is it possible that you're living on stolen land also, according to your very argument?
Can you give a ticket to this guy?
He's idling his vehicle.
Oh, sir.
Sir, why are you idling your vehicle?
There's a bylaw about that.
Oh, really?
So basically, oh, you jacked up a conflict?
Another coward.
Now, if I go back even the last two years, we were under-policed, under emergency services, and under-hospitalized.
That's what we were told.
Now, we're adding millions of people.
Are we not going to be short?
Either healthcare, police-wise, any of the functionality.
Oh, thank you, sir.
Oh, sir, are you part of the Prime Minister's security detail?
Yeah, have a great day.
It's just mind-blowing how they spend money every single time, just giving to everybody for nothing.
Canadians have a right to protest.
Absolutely, to make their anguish, their anger heard by other Canadians.
That's important, and we will always protect that right.
Tommy, I did a full show about your court hearing.
It's going to be on my show tonight.
But just for the folks on Twitter, what the hell just happened in there?
What was that guy from the Evening Standard newspaper doing?
And I have never seen anything like it.
So I've gone into court.
I've written my address down.
Obviously, a threat to my life.
People are aware of that.
I've written my address down.
The judge has my address.
They've then argued that they want the address read out in public court.
So then it's in public court.
So then they can report.
So when they do their report, they say Stephen Lennon of and give my exec address.
That's what they were arguing.
Your address is not in the public interest.
Nothing turns on it.
There was no crime committed there.
The police know where you live.
The judge knows where you live.
The lawyers know where you live.
But this judge, this reporter, the judge ruled, you have to now read out your address.
But what was crazy is this journalist just stood up and argued for five minutes that he has the right to let my address.
It's not like they don't, it's not like they're not aware there's threats to my life.
And I said, that's why I stood up when the judge said, read your address.
I said, you want me to read out and endanger my family?
The judge knows the answer.
And yeah, she's got it in front of her.
So again, this case is nothing to do with a dispersed lawyer.
This case, that incident there is nothing to do with justice.
It's to do with damaging me to endangering me.
It's to do with an attack.
This is an attack on freedom of speech.
It's an attack on me personally.
It's an attack on freedom of the press.
Cleric Ramer, you're being issued a press cast in order.
I'm disappointed.
I'm disappointed.
You know, it's just a great day.
I just want to give glory to God.
And it's just a day of victory that I felt very confident coming into today.
Then I thought, certainly, am I going to be, you know, now punished for praying silently in City Hall 10 months ago?
Certainly not.
Lab Secrets and Cover-ups00:08:26
I don't think that we've fallen that far quite yet.
But, you know, hey, we're going to continue the fight and we're going to continue the battle here.
And that's why I encourage everybody to sound their God-given race and convictions and just to keep living free.
Now, the origins of COVID-19, still a mystery, despite it killing almost 5 million people since December 2019.
This is the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
It's Canada's only level 4 microbiology lab.
It's also the only level 4 microbiology lab in the world that Chinese scientists outside of China had access to.
This lab is also the site of an international espionage story, five years in the making, and a three-year-long cover-up that goes all the way up to the Prime Minister's office.
And that cover-up, as documents now show, involves gain-of-function research involving filoviruses from bats.
Now, this lab is in a normal Winnipeg area.
It's in a residential neighborhood.
It's got businesses across the street, and it is near the head offices of Canada Blood Services.
And this lab's proximity to all those locations should send a chill up your spine.
Why?
In 2019, two Chinese nationals working at the lab and their students were marched out of the building.
They had been working with the Chinese military and transferring deadly pathogens, including Ebola, out of this lab and into the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with many of those deadly samples ending up in the hands of researchers at the Wuhan Virology Institute.
The removal of Dr. Jiang Ku Kui and her husband from this lab triggered a Canadian Security Intelligence Services investigation.
That investigation was called the 2020 Report on Review for Cause of Security Status.
That report was hidden from the public for three years, but 600 pages of it were just made public, and it is damning.
We know as a country that increasingly countries like China and others are trying to either influence or get secrets out of our country.
And that's why we have to continue to be extraordinarily vigilant about how we're making sure we're doing everything necessary to keep people safe, to keep our research institutions safe.
Reporting on the documents by Sam Cooper from the Bureau revealed that Kui led the Wuhan Virology Institute's, quote, synthetic bat filovirus project with the Wuhan Institute's vice director, Dr. Xi Zhen Li.
She's known as the Bat Woman.
Dr. Xi is the senior Chinese scientist that worked in 2015 on a controversial United States hybrid version of a bat coronavirus.
The research according to those CSIS records was to assess cross-species infection and pathogen risks of bat phyloviruses for future vaccine development purposes which suggests that gain of function studies were possibly to take place.
I'm going to walk you through the timeline and you can draw your own conclusions because we still don't know what's being covered up here at the National Microbiology Lab.
Is it Justin Trudeau's own ineptitude and his complete and total disregard for the safety of Canadians?
Or has Justin Trudeau been completely colonized by Beijing and the dictatorship that he admires so much all to hang on to power?
Or is this a cover-up of something much worse involving Canada, the United States, and China?
The information appears to be mostly about protecting the organization from embarrassment for failures in policy and implementation, not legitimate national security concerns, and its release is essential to hold the government to account.
In other words, there was no national security reason why we couldn't have had this before.
It was only because Trudeau didn't want the embarrassment.
According to the official timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic, cluster outbreaks began occurring in November and December in Wuhan, China, with the Wuhan Virology Institute, the suspected site of the release of the pathogen, intentional or otherwise.
And as we all know, the global pandemic of COVID-19 was declared in March 2020, just a few short months later.
But let's go back to Canada and this lab here.
In June 2019, Dr. Kui, whose whereabouts are now unknown, her husband and her students were all marched out of the National Microbiology Lab and stripped of their security clearances for removing vials of some of the world's most deadly pathogens and then sending them to contacts in China.
Fast forward to October 2019, China has either a problem or a plan.
A whistleblower has alleged that the Chinese government intentionally spread COVID-19 at the October 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China.
In a previous report, Rebel News revealed through a whistleblower that Canadian soldiers had been among those infected with severe respiratory illness at the October 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan and that the Trudeau government had gone to extensive lengths to cover it all up.
Either way, by November and December of 2019, COVID was on the loose and it was spreading across the world.
Fast forward to June 2021, CESIS has wrapped up their investigation into the espionage at the lab behind us.
But now, Ian Stewart, the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada, refuses four times to turn over the findings of the CESIS investigation to Parliament, becoming the first federal manager to be censured by Parliament since 1891.
Then, four months after his censure, Stewart steps down and moves to the National Research Council.
More recently, Stewart has just retired to a hero's send-off just weeks before 600 pages of the CSIS investigation into the lab that he oversaw were released to the public.
Now, in that same month that Ian Stewart was censured, June 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sued the Speaker of the House, his own Liberal MP Anthony Rota, to block the release of those 600 pages of documents.
Why?
Six weeks later, August 2021, Justin Trudeau calls a snap election completely unnecessarily in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic with multiple COVID restrictions in place in most jurisdictions.
Oddly enough, while Justin Trudeau was holding a majority parliament, moving ahead to 2023, it's now been credibly alleged that the Chinese government intervened on behalf of Trudeau and his federal liberals in that snap election in multiple ridings across the country, flipping potentially a dozen seats in favor of Justin Trudeau.
It's odd because it was an election he was set to win anyway.
And while the Chinese government is credibly accused of meddling in the 2021 election, the Chinese government is simultaneously operating police stations on Canadian soil.
So what was being grown in this lab by Kui and her team?
What was being sent from this lab to the Wuhan Virology Institute, the place pinpointed now as the genesis of the global COVID-19 pandemic?
And why?
At the dawn of the pandemic, did Justin Trudeau give the Wuhan Institute of Virolog $900,000 to investigate COVID-19?
Did it have anything to do with Kui's research into bat filoviruses?
Will we ever learn what Justin Trudeau knew?
Will we ever learn why he acted so desperately to cover up and to continue to cover up what happened here in this lab?
If Canada was truly the victim of espionage and not implicated in something far more sinister, why did our government go to such lengths to cover it all up?
For Rebel News in Winnipeg at the National Microbiology Lab, I'm Sheila Gunread.
New Hate Crime Law00:13:09
Let me tell you what's going on in Canada because as I always say, what happens in Canada today may happen in the U.S. five years from now.
It's like we're a bad time machine to see your future.
This week, Justin Trudeau introduced a new bill called Bill C63.
It's got a lot of things in it that are atrocious.
He's created a new hate crime bill, life in prison, new hate crime law.
There's nothing that gets you left in prison in Canada, not even murder, but hate speech now does.
He's created a pre-crime for hate.
If you have, quote, fear of hate, fear of hate, that's the title of the section of the law.
You can get a judge to issue a kind of restraining order against your enemy before he does anything, before he says anything.
And that restraining order can include house arrest, giving up any lawful firearms, limiting who he can talk to directly or indirectly, limiting the places he can go and requiring him to take urine and blood tests.
Just because you are, quote, afraid he might in the future say some hate speech.
He doesn't have to have done anything in the past.
This is a pre-crime, like in that science fiction movie, Minority Report.
That's in this bill.
Let me tell you other things in this bill.
Donald Trump and his travails with the U.S. legal system, they're covered a lot by the Canadian media.
And Justin Trudeau is obsessed with Donald Trump.
So he's been watching what Democrats have done and he's learned from it.
Trump is being prosecuted by high-profile prosecutors.
Trudeau has won up that.
Trudeau has now said that anyone in Canada, even non-citizens, can file hate speech complaints against anyone.
And if they are successful, they get $20,000 from the target.
And the target has to pay a fine of up to $50,000.
So let me just say this more clearly.
If there's anyone on social media, because this is a social media law through those introduced, if there's anyone who has a YouTube video, a tweet, a Facebook comment that you think creates hate, you can go to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and complain about it.
You don't have to hire a lawyer.
You don't have to spend any money.
The government will have the hearing.
And if your complaint is upheld, you get 20 grand from the victim.
So instead of having maybe 20, wait, Who gets the 30?
The remaining 30?
20 goes to the complainant and an additional 50 goes to the government.
So you're on the hook for 70 grand a pop.
So let's take someone like Jordan Peterson.
Every day he's saying something controversial on YouTube, on Twitter.
Oh, and by the way, this applies to all of your historical work that's online.
So as long as it's still online and you control it, they can go back through your history five years, 10 years.
And why wouldn't they complain about literally every tweet you make, literally every YouTube video?
There's no cost.
There's no downside.
And even if only 5% of your complaints get through to the target, you're smacking them with 20 grand for yourself and a 50 grand fine.
This will create a huge industry.
So Trudeau saw what they were doing to Trump and said, I can do one better.
I'm not going to have a few sniper shots.
I'm going to have a shotgun blast.
I'm going to have hundreds of complaints swarming my enemies.
And I don't even have to do it.
I will mobilize a woke army.
But there's one more thing.
And people can't believe it when I tell it to them, but it's right there in the law in black and white.
You can make a complaint in secret.
And the target of your complaint never gets to know your identity.
You can give evidence in secret.
The complaint can be made in secret.
So you could have a company, a political party, a busybody who's literally filing 100 a day, and you'll never know it.
And let me just be clear about one thing.
You don't have to be a victim.
You don't have to have any standing.
You don't have to be mentioned at all.
You can just do this as a hobby, as an obsession, as a job, as a political vengeance.
Maybe you're a disgruntled ex-employee.
This is all in Bill C63, and you take it all together.
This is the most draconian anti-free speech bill anywhere in the world, other than I suppose Iran and China, who just do this stuff naturally.
And kill you.
So what does that mean to people like you, Ezra?
Because you're going to be attacked.
Rebel news is going to be attacked.
You're out.
Let me just, let me go to first principles for one second.
Let me tell you what they're doing at the basic principle level here.
What is a hate crime?
What's hate, Glenn?
It's a human emotion.
If you never feel any hate in your life, you don't have a fully formed personality.
The challenge in life is to take these bad emotions and transform them into positive work, into reforming the world, into fixing a problem.
Hate comes from an underlying grievance.
So to pass a law to say we're going to ban hatred, that's impossible.
If it were possible, we'd have passed the Love Each Other Act a long time ago and we'd be in heaven.
So to criminalize a human emotion, it's insane.
And that is what the law actually governs.
And I know because I was charged under a precursor to this law about 15 years ago when I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.
I was charged with publishing something, quote, likely to expose a person to hatred or contempt, unquote.
So it's a pre-crime.
It's a future crime.
And it's not to do any actual damage, it's just to hurt feelings.
And that's the thing: it's so subjective, we're all guilty in advance.
So, as the Soviet secret police chief, Lavrentiberia said, show me the man, I'll find you the crime.
We're all guilty of having hate in our hearts.
So, it's just whoever they choose to prosecute who'll get dinged.
So, tell me this won't pass in parliament.
Well, the reason it was introduced this week is because last week, Justin Trudeau signed a new coalition agreement with a hard left-wing socialist party.
Justin Trudeau does not have a majority of seats in our house, so he signed a coalition deal with an even worse party.
And I fear this will be passed into law.
And I fear, you know, I mean, it'll take some time.
They're setting up three new censorship agencies, not one, but three.
There will be three new censorship bureaucracies.
And I think it's going to take them a number of months to get it going.
I think this will probably be operational in 2025.
And then it's going to be the final battle, Glenn, because, you know, this will bankrupt any critic of the regime.
And then there's those pre-crime restraining orders.
And then there's the actual criminal prosecution.
They've created a standalone hate crime law for life in prison.
Not even murder gets you that in Canada.
So if this passes, you've become a Stasi state, East Germany.
Yeah, the secret informants, the secret prosecutions, the secret witnesses, the subjective political nature of the crime, the three different agencies.
It's, oh, and they have special rules for Facebook, YouTube, Instagram.
They say if they get a complaint, a hate complaint, they must take it down within 24 hours or be subject to enormous fines.
And so there's no way you can adjudicate if something is right or wrong or fair or not in 24 hours.
And the fines are so enormous.
Basically, a complaint will automatically get things taken down.
Again, I'm going to tell you something now, and you're probably not going to believe me, but I swear it's in the text of the law.
There are fines in there that can tag global social media companies 8% of their global revenue.
So Justin Trudeau, sitting up here in Canada, says to Facebook, if you break my law, I will fine you 8% of your entire worldwide revenue.
That's a $10 billion fine.
Now, I think Facebook, YouTube, Google, et cetera, I think they're probably going to push back on this, or maybe they'll just leave Canada.
And Trudeau's going to be fine with that.
Facebook has already left Canadian news because Trudeau said to them, you have to pay $100 million to our list of approved journalists for the pleasure of linking to them.
And Facebook said, that makes no sense.
We're getting out of the Canadian news business.
You cannot post a Canadian news story on Facebook.
It blocks it.
Trudeau's fine with that because that hurts the independent guys like us.
You cannot read rebel news on Facebook.
We're blocked, as are every other Canadian news source.
We are becoming like China in that there's this great firewall of Canada going up.
Trudeau would be happy shutting down any independent sources of news.
Soon there will only be two kinds of journalists left in Canada: government journalists and banned journalists, Glenn.
David Menzies with Rebel News, and my question is for Mr. Guibot.
Mr. Guibo, according to this press conference, it looks like this program is available for residents of the city of Peterborough.
In that regard, it's reminiscent of the announcement last fall that only Atlantic Canadians would receive relief from the federal fuel charge if they heat their homes with heating oil.
Given that your prime minister once said a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, why is it that only some Canadians qualify for relief and others do not?
Actually, the premise of your question is wrong.
The home eating oil rebate applies to Canadians who use heating oil all across the country.
And I'll give you an example.
There are more people who heat their homes with oil in Quebec than in all of Atlantic Canada.
So it's not a project.
It's not a program that's specific to Atlantic Canadians.
What we're announcing today is a partnership with the city of Peterborough, but we're announcing similar partnerships.
And we've heard from the Canadian Federation of Municipalities that one in 2,100 similar programs have been funded through the Green Municipal Funds.
And we're hoping to fund even more with those type of announcements.
Thank you.
Here, here we go.
Can you come on each side?
Over here?
Yeah.
I guess one right over here, y'all.
Mr. Guibo, as you walk to your vehicle, can I just grab your ear?
Your government wants Canadians to buy pricey EVs, to ride bicycles, to use public transit, yet you get chauffeured around in fossil fuel vehicles.
Why the double standard, sir?
Oh, I took the train Monday morning from Montreal to Quebec City, and then I took the train back from Quebec City to Montreal.
And this morning, I took the train from Montreal to Oshawa.
And tomorrow I will be taking the train from Oshawa back to Montreal.
How did you get here today, sir, to this residential neighborhood?
So what I'm saying is that I try to modulate my transportation as possible to use active transportation when it's possible, use public transit when possible, and to use a car.
And as you probably know, my service vehicle as Environment and Climate Change Minister is a fully electric vehicle.
That's one of the few.
Actually, it's not for cabinet.
I mean, it's not.
All vehicles now, all cabinet vehicles, new purchases are either fully electric or are plug-in hybrids.
And Mr. Guibel, what were you thinking last week when you said that the government would no longer invest in major road projects?
How will Canadians get around, how will truckers get goods to market without roads?
I clarified that I was speaking specifically about the project called the Trois Amiens in Quebec City.
Just here in Peterborough since 2015, we've funded 18 road projects representing more than $20 million.
Is this a vehicle you're leaving in?
Now, the RAV4 comes as a plug-in hybrid.
I know that.
Why is this a full fossil fuel gas burner?
Thank you very much.
It's a hybrid.
This?
Not a plug-in hybrid.
It's written here, hybrid.
But it doesn't have a green plate, sir.
You know who has a plug-in hybrid, folks?
Mr. Trudeau Apologizes?00:05:19
Me and Lady Menzide.
Is Britain still safe for Jews?
Yes, but it's tense.
It's very tense.
I mean, if there's a march every Saturday where there are people calling for your death and destruction, you can't say that that's a happy society.
Well, Jay, the Chet guy, Monday, is going to Ottawa for his court case.
So we're just going there to support him.
We are all here in support of JK for Jet!
What made you go to the Convoy in the first place?
Honestly, I was sitting in an excavator on a job site and I honestly think it was the Holy Spirit that just told me, you gotta go, you gotta say something, stand up for the others.
Calm down.
Calm down please.
Everybody calm.
Pablo Rodriguez, do you think that Mr. Trudeau should resign and apologize to Canadians for violating the concentral rights of Canadians?
You make your work on the other side.
It's simple to do that.
You apply the orders.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
We apply the law and the jurisprudence.
Absolutely.
You explain that you have arrested, just a journalist, at Toronto, the GRC.
How do you explain that?
Because clearly you have released without any accusation, so clearly you have arrested, just a moment.
Okay.
So you just express it.
You don't have anything to say about that, for example.
OK.
It's quite clear to say where you're going to be.
It's called the discretionary power.
You're not obligated to say that.
Would you resign or apologize to Canadians for violating their rights?
Of course, Mr Trudeau is not answering any questions since we are not deemed acceptable media.
So, hey look at me with a smile.
Can you believe that?
The federal court has ruled that the emergencies act was unconstitutional.
So that means that Mr. Trudeau did violate the constitutional rights of Canadians.
And Mr. Trudeau is not answering a question regarding that.
How many truckers, how many Canadians were beat up by RCMP and police and on an unconstitutional invocation of a law?
So you can see Mr. Trudeau is just in this suburban right there and is not deemed to answer a question regarding that.
Mr. Trudeau, what do you think?
I would jump on the car, Mr. Trudeau.
The federal court has ruled that the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional.
Do you apologize or resign to Canadians for violating their rights?
Why is your government supporting Islamo-Nazis?
What?
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
What do you mean?
Don't you?
Why are you pushing me?
You cannot just say because I'm a police officer, I can do everything I want.
Aren't you insulted with Justin and them being in there for that memorial?
Ms. Freeland, why are you running away?
The fact that journalists are present to hold governments to account makes governments better.
Transparency builds citizens' faith and confidence in their governments and in democracy.
That's why journalists must have the ability to report facts freely and to defend, expose, and advance the truth without fear of retaliation, reprisal, violence, or imprisonment.
I mean, I know your government paid a terrorist, our homegrown Al-Qaeda guy, 10.5 million, Omar Carter.
Did you support that?
I have no tolerance for people who sympathize with terrorists.
Absolutely not.
Death to an entire group as a blanket statement is absolutely wrong.
Yeah, some need help, but there's also stuff that we don't want bringing here.
Civil society, the pluralistic society is falling apart.
Oh, we're not part of the demonstrator, sir.
I know, but I was just explaining to them earlier: your recording posted on social media.
Why Can't You Stand on the Bridge?00:03:23
People are gonna come and be like, well, they're standing on the bridge.
Why can't I stand on the bridge?
We're journaling fear.
But we're not the pro-Hamas people chanting for genocide.
You know, officer, I understand your position, but we're not hanging banners and flags over there.
If you want to file a complaint, by all means, go file a complaint.
But at this time, we've been directed that no one, regardless of who you are, whether you're a journalist or not, you're not to stand on that bridge.
If you don't agree with that, you more than welcome to go file a complaint.
More than welcome.
So if he stands on the bridge, are you going to arrest him?
So we have authority for obstruct public and obstruct police.
If you stand on the bridge, you will be arrested, right?
So you can't be standing.
We are mismarres.
I have a y el dive of the pueblo.
Area?
No sabría, no cabevisto?
No soya ALDE?
No.
No, no, no.
When you cross the forest, how was the walk?
It was bad.
There were thieves there.
Yes, of course.
There were a lot of problems.
Yes, yes.
We had to go running with our lives.
Y a día age muriero unaío.
Mása y tirados or miras que.
On estáns papas.
Ya está naca?
No, not the candocier.
They don't know the deaths.
Wow.
and all they will survive here.
Whose phones, you give them the phones?
So, but where are you going?
Are you going to?
Is Alan going to respond to you?
Do you have a family here in the U.S.?
The three?
Primas.
Thank you.
And the father of this, do you know him?
Was it a boyfriend or was it different?
We'll offer you some food if you want to eat it.
What is going on?
We just want you to watch the nice guys.
Excuse me for trying to put him behind the street.
Hey, hey, that's my guy.
That's my guy.
Stop.
Stop.
Why don't you take care of that guy?
Stay back, guys.
Stay back.
Stay back.
Stop pushing forward.
Fighting for Identification00:11:42
Did you see what that showed?
There was a pro-Hamas protester.
You probably recognize him.
He's the guy who shouts hateful things at synagogues, at Jewish schools.
He's the one who has been leading the Hamas rallies around Toronto.
David was trying to interview him and he said, I'm going to pray in the middle of the street right now.
Okay, well, you go ahead.
It's a public street.
David can stand there.
But no.
The police came and pulled David off the street as if it became suddenly a Sharia street, a mosque or something.
And then they later arrested him.
They claimed he didn't show his ID.
I'm far enough, buddy.
I'm not shoving you, sir.
I'm standing here repeating you.
I'm standing here already on the floor.
I'm not violent.
Are you going to listen to me?
It's a police investigation.
Don't get smart.
I asked you to step away, okay?
What's your badge number?
731, sir.
Thanks, buddy.
Thanks, man.
That's your bud.
Sir, if you can kindly read it.
Sir, I can record my coworker, right?
Whatever you like.
Okay.
I've never repeated anything.
It's what I tell you.
Are you listening or not?
That's better.
That's a good split.
Do your job, I'll do mine, right?
Okay.
You're going to be under arrest for a strong please.
Here we go.
Hey, that's my wallet.
You're under arrest for fucking police.
There we go.
What is this?
I've asked you for identification numerous times.
You failed to identify yourself.
Tell me fucking police.
Effern, can you grab my sword?
We'll get it, sir.
Don't worry.
Nobody will touch it.
We'll get your identification for you.
I think you guys are going to be hearing from our lawyers.
I'll get them, sir.
Don't worry.
Nobody will touch your property.
You're walking back behind the gate.
Thanks, Roy.
Take it back behind the gate.
I promise you on behalf of our viewers that we will not only defend you against the charges and see them for not only towards the community I'm so sorry you went through this.
And I thank you on behalf of our company and our viewers.
Ezra, it was a surreal experience.
I'm so sorry you and Desson have wasted hours of your night here.
And it was the least thing I expected.
No, it was very funny.
The pro-Hamas people, they can be violent.
And we were talking in the morning meeting.
We're not sure we have enough time to get security.
And I said, oh, well, the prime minister there.
There'll be security glory.
There'll be RCMP.
They'll be police.
We don't need security.
And I was thinking in terms of being protected from Hamas, I didn't think the police would do a stitch-up job.
Again, it's deja vu from Jacob.
Well, we got it on tape.
Ephron was there and he had to get on tape where the police grabbed you and pulled you out.
We just want you to watch the wall.
Excuse me.
We're trying to drop him behind the city.
Hey, hey, that's my guy.
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!
Let me take care of the world We have the false arrest itself.
We're going to be under arrest for a specific place.
Here we go.
Hey, hey, that's my wallet.
You're under arrest for fucking police.
There we go.
What is this?
I've asked you for identification numerous times.
It failed to identify itself.
Tell me the fucking police.
Effern, can you grab my slug at it, sir?
Don't worry.
Nobody will touch it.
We'll get your identification for you.
Okay, I think you guys are going to be hearing this from our lawyers.
I'm looking at my watch.
It's 12:18 a.m.
You've been arrested for, I think you've been in custody for four hours or so.
Now, were you physically hurt during the arrest?
You know, I'm not, I don't think so.
I mean, I've got the screwed-up shoulder, but you know, that's been an ongoing issue.
But no, I can't say that.
But again, Ezra, it's not the assilians, the charges.
Oh, I know.
It's your freedom of the press, but also your freedom of religion.
Why should you have to move?
Because some guy says this is wholly sidewalking.
What?
Your freedom of mobility to move around?
It's all violated not by the Hamas guys, but by the police.
Yeah, and you know, it's amazing.
The reason why we're there, Ezra, is that we were asking the pro-Hamas people on the other side of the Hordendo area by the police to get comments.
And then we knew the anti-Trudeau people were on the other side, led up by Derek, Conson Fiction.
So we went there to interview him.
That happened to be where this impromptu prayer session was going to take place.
And I say it was going to take place because they weren't in any kind of prayer when I got there.
It was a stunt.
It was a ruse.
Yeah.
And I was looking for Derek, and then I recognized the individual who had stolen Lincoln Jay's camera.
Round the one.
He's the thug.
He's the leader of these Hamas thugs.
He seems to be getting the orders these days, the law enforcement.
Well, I mean, if he doesn't have them delivering coffee to him, he's giving them orders.
Yeah, I got one more question before I forget.
What was the cell you were in like?
And I know you've been arrested before, for example, in Montreal.
Just tell me what it was like in the holding cell.
You know, it was cleaner than Montreal.
I will say this, Ezra.
You know, they say time flies when you're having fun.
When you are sitting in a concrete cell and you don't have a book or a magazine or a cell phone, time crawls at a snail's pace.
That's the first thing.
The second thing is, it's just the sanitary issues.
There is a toilet right beside that little concrete bed, but there's no wormwater.
There's no soap.
There's no toilet.
No toilet.
I know.
I don't understand.
And it looked like somebody had taken paper towels and put some sticky stuff on it and had thrown it up to the ceiling because, well, you're lying there and you have nothing to do.
You're looking at the ceiling, and there's all this, all these like paper towels that have hit a hand.
It's so gross.
And you know what?
It's that way on purpose as a kind of humiliation.
How are the police themselves?
I mean, we saw some of the folks who arrested you.
How were you treated when you were brought here and when you were put in the cell?
They were friendly.
I won't say that.
They were doing their job.
And you got a phone call from the lawyer, Leora Shemish?
I did indeed.
And did she, how much?
How long did you speak with her for?
Probably a good five or six minutes.
Okay.
And she basically said she'll be representing me and, you know, take the paperwork, which I have, and she'll go to the court.
So we crowdfunded Leora Shemish.
We did a quick video of her arrest.
And I want to say thanks to viewers who have shipped in at standwithdavid.com.
We're not just going to play defense on this.
I'm sick of this.
And I can only imagine you're sick of it.
We're going to sue the Toronto Police because they have become politicized and biased.
There's two-tier policing.
They are violating the charter rights of journalists.
And no one has said no to them yet.
Not the mayor, not the police chief, not the Toronto Star.
So we're going to say no to them.
We're going to ask a judge to say no to them.
And we've done this before for other journalists.
Our friend Abiy Amini in Australia.
He was falsely arrested again and again and again until we sued the police.
And they actually wrote him a lengthy apology.
We're suing the RCMP.
We're going to sue the Toronto Police.
And we will not abide the abuse from the Hamas thuds, nor will we abide it from the Toronto Police.
And I want to tell you that I don't want to keep you longer.
Have you had a chance to call your wife since you got out?
No, I haven't.
You know, I'm sure she wants to get a call from you.
We'll let you go because it's really late.
I would just say to our viewers at home and around the world, 200,000 people have watched the video of your arrest in the last hour.
So people are outraged as they should be.
On behalf of Rebel News and myself, I want to thank people for standing with David.
And I pledge to you that we will not stop simply with his acquittal.
We will continue thereafter to go after the police until a judge puts them in the right place.
Last question.
What were you charged with?
It was, you know what?
I think it was causing a disturbance.
And they had a Hamas into FADA near riot.
And they charged you with causing it to.
Yeah, and let's see.
This is the detective that we have to deal with, Ezra.
And also, the second charge was violating my peace bond based on the fake arrest of the LCBO manager, Ashley Metello, who falsely accused me of assault.
So I had to sign a peace bond, which breach your peace bond.
Yeah.
Absolutely outrageous.
And we're not going to let this stand.
We're not going to let Toronto turn in a gas.
Hey, let's get you calling your wife.
And we'll say goodnight and thanks to our viewers.