Barbara Kay, a journalist and critic, praises Rex Murphy’s legacy as CBC’s Cross Country Checkup host—350K weekly viewers—while lamenting his forced exit due to ideological clashes, including a 2019 union-driven backlash over calling Canada "the least racist country." Levant compares Hamas encampments to unchecked lawlessness, citing police inaction despite criminal violations, like drone harassment of his reporter Alexa Lavois, and contrasts it with Alberta’s firm response. Kay warns Canada’s immigration policies risk importing anti-Semitism, noting Trudeau’s Gaza resettlement push despite Hamas-supporting demographics, and fears institutions will prioritize appeasement over free speech. Their discussion underscores how unchecked radicalism reshapes norms while mainstream voices face suppression. [Automatically generated summary]
We're going to reminisce a bit about the late, great Rex Murphy, and then we're going to talk about some of these Hamas encampments across the country and why they're being allowed to continue, even if they break the law, including in some cases the criminal code.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, a heart-to-heart conversation with Barbara Kay.
We'll talk about Rex Murphy and the Hamas encampments across the country.
It's May 14th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you sensorism bug.
So many things are going on around the world.
So many things are going on across our country, things we haven't seen before.
Why He Could Speak to All00:11:22
There's one friend I trust on so many issues, very thoughtful.
She's a writer for the National Post.
I'm so glad she has that forum.
She also comes on our show with her wisdom.
You know who I'm talking about, our friend Barbara Kay, who joins us now via Skype Barbara.
Great to see you again.
I've been meaning to catch up with you on so much that's happening.
But first, before we get into the news, let's talk just for a minute about our mutual friend, Rex Murphy, who passed away a few days ago.
Share with us your thoughts on Rex and his passing.
Well, I like most journalists.
Well, I shouldn't say all, but most journalists, I recognize Rex as a sort of a colossus over the years of Canadian journalism.
He's done every medium.
He owned Cross Country Checkup.
That was a show that attracted upwards of 350,000 viewers or listeners rather.
And he would get the numbers like nobody in CBC's history.
And, you know, when you look at the numbers they're getting today, which is kind of pathetic, it just shows you what could be and what was.
Wonderful programming.
And that really was very, he was a very unifying force because he cared deeply about Canada.
He came from Newfoundland.
He brought a very different perspective from most of our Laurentian elites and most of the journalists who were kind of grew up in Ontario or Quebec or wherever, even on the prairies.
I just thought this is a guy who really cared about people.
He really listened.
He was really open to everybody's point of view.
He respected people and they respected him.
They loved him.
He was a great speaker.
He could speak on any topic and did to any number of people of groups.
He could speak to kings and he could speak to plumbers.
And he gave both the same respect and the same, you know, he just wanted to share.
He wanted to hear from them.
And anyways, and his airy audition, on my tribute this morning, the National Post, they gave it the headline, The People's Intellectual.
So I like that heading.
That's exactly right.
And I didn't forget about his role at Cross Country Checkup.
I'm just thinking about it now.
And what I recall from that is how subordinate he made himself.
He wanted to pull out of people from across the country their stories, and he let them go on quite long, longer than a normal talk radio show.
And maybe you could tell a little bit where he stood, but he was the servant on that show.
He wasn't the pontificator.
He was surely smarter than 90%.
of the people he talked to, but he had a respect for their humanity and their experience and it was a cross-country checkup.
He did check in with the whole country and in that way I think he showed a love for the far-flung regions that maybe someone born and raised in Toronto or Montreal might not so naturally do.
I think that's part of his Newfoundland roots and you're right about his eudition.
He uh, he was an editor of a dictionary and it's it shows what we mentioned.
I think it was you, somebody told me.
A friend of mine said Ezra Levant once visited Rex's house and said he'd never seen such a collection of dictionaries.
Was that you?
You never saw?
I did.
I did visit his house and he had the full Oxford English Dictionary, the expanded version, which I think was like 20 volumes.
It's been a while, I don't remember, and we were a little bit nerdy so we tried to stump each other with words uh, that the other guy wouldn't know and I actually got them, which shocked me.
Maybe he was just letting me win.
The word was in Infandus and uh, the fact i've never heard that word.
I have never apparently, Rex.
I don't believe that Rex didn't hear it and I think he was just trying to let me feel better about myself.
He, I don't think so, because I, I have a pretty good vocabulary and that is a word I n f?
A n d o?
S.
Yeah, it's very similar to infamous.
Anyhow, i'm I shouldn't be talking about that word, infantis.
It's just the only time I managed to know a word that Rex didn't.
I mean, the man was a road scholar, he.
He knew his Shakespeare better than anyone else and um but, as you alluded to, he wasn't a snob, he wasn't elitist, he was elite by every, every measure of the word.
But he was not an elitist.
He saw the wisdom in ordinary people.
It was like Kipling's poem.
If, as you mentioned before, he could talk with kings or with paupers and um and uh, I don't, I can't.
Rex would know that whole poem by heart.
But of course he would, and he and he, he would he he, he could speak anywhere without notes, without with complete fluency.
Another, a friend of mine, told me that he was asked at the very last minute after october 7th.
Uh the, the rally in Ottawa was supposed to be addressed by, I think, somebody from the IDF.
They couldn't make it and they asked Rex, he stepped in and Ex Tempera said, gave the greatest speech.
Uh, that was just incredible.
And and that reminds me that, on his literal deathbed, his last two columns about the october 7th pogrom and the horrible aftermath of it.
Uh, and the Trudeau government's failure to address the the, what was happening, the rise in anti-semitism with honor or or uh, you know really even reason.
Uh was shaming for Canada and he, his passion was undiminished.
Uh, and it was within days of him dying.
In fact um, the last uh, the last uh, um communication that the editor at the National POST had with him was when Rex wanted to make sure.
He said, did you get my column?
Is it going in?
Wow um, and that was the last communication they had.
You know.
I was just looking down at my phone for a second.
I wanted to read just one line from Kipling's If, because this really is Rex If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but none too much, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it.
And what is more, you'll be a man, my son.
What a great poem by Kipling.
And of course, Rex would have known that by memory.
He'd have known it, and that was Rex.
Yeah.
Well, we miss him, but I was thinking about him on the weekend.
We had a Rebel News Live event and we played a montage, and I thought, how do you replace a giant like that?
Well, part of the answer is he wasn't born a giant.
He was born a baby, became a man, and he grew into the colossus that you described.
I mean, he was still great 10 years ago and 20 years ago and 30 years ago, but he only turned into the man he is over time.
And the replacement for Rex, the successor to Rex, doesn't appear like a snap.
It grows over time.
And I think everyone has to climb the next rung on the ladder.
All of us have to grow one more rung, one more tree ring.
And, you know, he really was a unique person, but I think all of us can step up and take some of the burden and continue the mission he did.
Well, he's certainly an inspiration.
I hope that young journalists, that his passing will be an occasion for young journalists to take an interest in his work, to look back at some of his columns and his radio work and reflect on the qualities that made him gladden the hearts of Canadians and make them proud to be Canadian along with him.
So I hope that his legacy will be an inspiration for young journalists coming up.
We've been speaking so highly of the man, I don't want to bring a note of negativity, but you will remember that a few years ago when Rex wrote a piece about how Canada is the least racist country you can imagine.
We're inherently not racist.
In fact, it's very Canadian of us to be multicultural and to bend over backwards and to learn about different cultures.
And he didn't say there was no acts of racism in the country.
That would be impossible.
Canada's full of men and women, not angels.
But how the country in its bones was not racist.
It was a beautiful pro-Canadian article.
And yet there was a petition in the National Post newsroom signed by a majority of writers who felt comfortable using their names.
It wasn't anonymous.
Who not only demanded that he be rebuked, but demanded that he no longer be allowed to write about subjects of race.
And they actually had a town hall meeting at the National Post about it, like a grievance, like a struggle session.
And the National Post did not give in, of course.
Of course they didn't fire their star rider.
In fact, some of those agitators behind that petition have been gently moved on to other places.
But right now there is a red guard amongst young journalists.
Struggle sessions, condemnations tearing down.
It really is a kind of cultural revolution.
So I don't mean to be pessimistic, but Rex was targeted even by his colleagues, which is astonishing to me.
It's a sign of the times.
Well, I guess I was a little astonished that that happened at the National Post.
But yes, they went through a kind of turbulent period.
It was during a union drive.
And actually, that wasn't somewhere in that mix.
I left for a while because it was threatening, it threatening to get out of control.
Fortunately, they got it under control, very well under control.
So there has been none of that since then.
But yeah, Rex stood for something they didn't like at all.
And I mean, look, he was a classic liberal.
He didn't change.
His whole life, he believed in judge the individual, don't judge by a group.
He was very much against the Marxist template that these young people have grown up in.
And so he didn't change, but that's why he had to leave the CBC.
It's why he had to leave Globe and Mail because he didn't change, but everybody around him kept changing.
So, yeah.
No, I wasn't trying to disparage the National Post there.
I was sort of making the point, even in the National Post.
Even in the National Post, there was turbulence.
It's true.
Fortunately, the right balance came back.
Yeah.
Alexa's Flags: Finding the End00:11:06
Well, it's just incredible.
All right.
Well, let's talk about, anyhow, I'm glad we talked about Rex and hopefully we can all become a little bit more like he was.
Let's talk about the news, especially in New York City of Montreal.
Today, our reporter, Alexa Lavois, is out there.
There are court orders to remove some of these Hamas encampments.
I call them Mein Kamp.
A pun on Mein Kampf.
If only it were funny.
You have absolute Jew hatred, anti-Semitism, that if it were a KKK camp, if it were white people wearing white Klan hoods screaming about blacks go back to Africa, which is the analogue of Jews get out or whatever they're saying, the condemnation would be uniform, complete, instant, and passionate.
But shockingly, when it's about Jews, these encampments have gone on for weeks.
And I should tell you that the police, when our reporter Alexa Lavois presented today, the police moved her away.
She was going to use a drone camera.
The police said, you do that, we'll find you $1,000.
Meanwhile, the Hamas drone was literally buzzing Alexa so much she could grab it out of the sky.
And the police did not, like just, these are just little examples of authority.
You would think that the university authorities would act.
You would think that campus security would act.
You would think that the police would act.
You would think that with a court injunction, there would be action.
But from the entire establishment, police, politicians, the press, professors, it's just this is acceptable now.
This is the new normal.
I find that astonishing.
Yeah, I saw a phrase in a book review earlier today, and it was called the normalization of deviance.
And this is what is happening on these encampments.
The police, obviously, they're acting according to orders that they're getting from above.
They have to answer to the mayor.
Well, actually, they don't answer to the mayor so much.
She says she can't answer.
She can't answer for them.
She allows them total freedom.
So the top of law enforcement in Montreal has decided on this policy of going very easy.
It's a big mistake.
I wish they would have taken their cue from what happened in Alberta.
I watched your coverage of, was it Edmonton or University of Alberta?
Calgary, our reporter, Sidney Fazard, was in Calgary, and I think he did a great job, and he was on his own there.
He didn't want to get too close because his knee was injured, and he wanted to be able to.
I mean, and these guys have no compunction about being physical.
Like, they will do whatever.
They're inspired by Hamas.
They say resistance, they say one of their slogans is: you don't get to determine the way we resist, which is their way of saying we'll be violent if we want to.
It's a stone.
Yeah, on your property, on somebody else's property.
No, they tried to resist.
I thought the police were effective.
They kept their cool.
They were very calm.
They didn't strong-arm anybody.
They didn't get no need to get violent.
They sort of just formed a line and kept pushing with the shields back and back and back until they got-I should, I was going to say the students, but I think probably half of them are not students.
They're outside agitators.
They got them out.
And naturally, they got a letter of protest.
I think the NCCM was right in there saying, no, no, this is, you know, the police overstepped.
And so there's going to be an investigation.
But I think they'll survive that because they did their job properly.
But the point is, you know, if you keep trying to talk or to argue with these people, they're not going to negotiate.
They're not acting in good faith.
They're acting in bad faith.
And you're absolutely right.
If this was any other minority group, they wouldn't even have been able to set up those tents in the first place.
It's only, only, they'll say it's Zionists, but it's Jews.
And we already saw last week when a Jewish professor with an Israeli accent was not allowed access to his office and they just wouldn't let him pass.
And he knew it was because he had an Israeli accent.
So this negligence in authority, it's very, they're playing with fire.
They really are because they're pretty well giving permission to trespass, to keep trespassing, and to keep upping the ante.
They're setting the terms and the authorities are letting them.
It's such a huge mistake.
As you said at the beginning, you know, you give an inch, they'll take a mile in the end.
You've got to end these things very soon or they fester and they get worse.
We'll see.
Yeah, I have some friends who say, for example, they saw the other day when Hamas supporters were blocking highways, Chicago's airport, New York airport.
More recently, they were blocking a highway in Florida that was shut down very quickly.
Very inconveniencing things, like they shut down a major highway in Toronto briefly a few weeks ago.
And I see people say, oh, that's not persuading anybody.
You're not winning hearts and minds.
That's not what this is about.
This is about exerting dominance, showing who the new boss is, moving the Overton window, and letting you know that the country you lived in your whole life is not the country you're in now.
And the rules that you thought were in place are different now.
And who you thought the police listened to in the politics, it's different now.
And they're actually like a child looking for a boundary.
How far can I go?
And in Calgary and Edmonton, they have found that limit.
But so far, they have not found that limit in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal.
And I don't think they ever will because show me a political leader of any power who has said a word against it.
Show me, other than the National Post and the Toronto Sun and independent media like Rebel News, Show me a major French-speaking newspaper that has come out fully against this.
And so the Hamas side, which is buttressed by anti-Fa and hard left-wing activists, they are not trying to persuade.
They're trying to teach.
They're trying to teach you who the new masters are.
They're trying to demoralize people like you and me and Jewish students and pro-Canadian, pro-American, pro-Western students.
They're trying to exhilarate and encourage their tribe and demoralize the rest of us.
And they are absolutely succeeding.
And they're retraining the police, aren't they?
I think so.
I just wanted to say, by the way, there are independent, not independent, there are writers, for example, the Journal de Montréal and even at La Presse and on radio shows who do not fall into line with that pro-Hamas thing.
They are.
There are anti-Hamas and anti that are, you know, very much standing up for Jews and Zionists and Canadians.
I mean, I'm a Jew and you're a Jew, so we have a tendency to speak from that identity.
But I would have to hope that I would be just as mad if it was the Klan versus black kids.
I see this as an anti-Canada thing as much as an anti-Canadian.
It's anti-democracy.
It's anti-West.
It's anti-West.
And they won't stop because they also say death to America.
Not at McGill, I don't think, but in the States, we've seen them chanting death to the West and death to America.
They, you know, it's kind of interesting.
Have you noticed that they're now enacting at some universities, they're doing Muslim prayers, like, you know, bending down and bowing down.
And some of the women are putting on hijabs and stuff.
They're not converting to Islam, but they are indicating that their support is so great for Hamas that they actually are co-splaying Islamic customs and just really a poke in the eye to the West.
It's just part of the revolutionary activity that just shows how mindless and crazy they are.
Because I visited Colombia a couple of times, and when I went into Colombia and I saw the tents, I saw a lot of trans activists were there.
And of course they are, Barbara.
Not because they think Gaza is hospitable to trans.
They don't even think about that.
They just know what they believe in, which is tearing things down, demolishing the patriarchy, smashing America.
And I'm mad at you, Dad, or whatever.
I mean, if you're the kind of person who is part of the trans political trajectory, of course you're going to be with the revolutionaries.
So you're bundling up all the revolutionary.
Why is Greta Tunberg at one of the encampments?
She was arrested there the other day.
Do you think she could find Gaza on a map?
She knows just as little about Gaza.
She knows less about Gaza than she knew about global warming science, but it's the pointy edge of the spear for the global revolution now.
So this is bringing together a coalition of all the revolutionaries.
And that's what it is.
And the cult like you talked about a behavior of non-Muslims participating in Muslim prayers.
They want to belong.
They want to behave and belong together.
I saw that at the Fashion New Institute of Technology.
Some girls were waving flags.
I said, What flags are those girls?
Oh, they're Palestinian flags.
No, they weren't, but they don't even know anything.
They don't know anything about anything other than this is the time and the place.
This is the summer of love, the summer of hate, whatever you want to call it.
This is their 1968.
This is their Woodstock.
This is their moment.
And damn it, they're going to be there.
Context Matters00:02:36
And I never much like the Jews anyways.
And they're too powerful.
Well, they're oppressor class.
They have privilege.
So it's okay.
That's the context that the university presidents were talking about.
Is it okay to call for the genocide of Jews?
Well, you have to look at the context around it.
They would never say that about any other minority.
But with Jews, it's always context.
What context would that be?
That it's okay to call for the genocide of them.
Well, if it's Zionism, then.
Let me ask you this: because I saw one of your columns was about Jewish law firms.
I mean, I don't know if there's any law firms that are just Jews, but there are law firms where there's a lot of Jewish lawyers.
Or they're led by, or the partners are Jewish.
Right.
And some of them are saying, look, if you're part of these anti-Semitic encampments, we just don't want to hire you.
And there was a little bit of that in the U.S. as well.
And I think that scared a few of these folks who had their big dreams of going to huge well-paying law firms and they realized that what plays well with their classmates might not sit as well at a big law firm.
But I don't know how terrifying that is anymore because there are increasingly businesses and lawyers and law firms, like the owner of Paramount Foods, just forgot his name off the top of my head.
He's a senior advisor for Justin Trudeau.
He said, I don't want any Zionist money in my restaurants.
And he's also, he said, I'll pay your legal bills.
I'll hire you.
Like he's not a major industrialist, but there are enough places, I think, that you can come out full anti-Semitic, full pro-Hamas.
And yeah, you might not go to work for a really, really Jewish law firm, but there are enough places where you will succeed.
And I look over to the United Kingdom as a time machine, what we're going to look like in five years.
And they're absolutely, I'd say, the anti-Semitic firms, the anti-Semitic businesses that outnumber those that are tolerant.
And we see candidates winning local office, like city councilor positions, who are running on a full pro-Gaza platform.
Like they're not even talking about local issues.
Anti-Semitic Firms Dominating00:11:00
I think that with the demographic changes being fed by out-of-control immigration and with no moral leadership at the top, this country will become effectively a parallel country.
Sure, you can be polite company and not say anything bad about the Jews and operate over there, but you can go full-tilt anti-Semitic and still get a great job and a law firm and be on TV and run for public office and maybe you'll become the mayor of London one day.
Maybe you'll look at Malmo, Sweden, where the Eurovision contest had 50% Islamic.
The Israeli singer there needed 100 police to escort her to this to the stage.
There were thousands of people there who would have killed her and ripped her limb from limb.
Yeah, that is true.
But on the upside, when the people voted, she actually came into second place.
It was interesting because the juries, there's the two sides.
I don't watch Eurovision, but I understand there's the juries.
The juries are made up of appointed whoever they are.
But the people, anybody can vote.
And it's seen by something crazy, like 163 million people.
And the votes came in from all these countries like Ireland and all these other, all these countries that are officially quite anti-Israel, quite anti-Israel, and a lot of anti-Semitism amongst the, you know, the university crowd and even politically.
But overwhelmingly, the popular vote was with her.
I mean, the Swiss person who won apparently deserved to win.
But the popular vote was for her and by millions, like so, or hundreds of thousands, which shows you that it's unfortunate that it's top-down.
As you say, there are plenty of people in politics and in business who are very supportive of the whole pro-Palestinian movement.
But I think ordinary people, the silent majority, they're not so crazy about this rabid anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism.
That doesn't, it's not a help in the sense that they can't do much about it.
But it does show you that it's very much coming, the movement is very much ideologued, their followers.
And although it makes the news and sucks up a lot of airtime, and it gives you the impression that entire countries are against Jews.
It's not the case.
It's just very organized at the top.
Well, in some places, I've been to Malmo.
I spent a full day in the neighborhood called Rosengard.
I had security with them.
I saw one Swedish face the entire day.
And I talked to young men who were born in Sweden, but their entire lives was a Sharia life.
They wanted liquor banned.
They wanted homosexuality banned.
They told me this.
Absolutely, they believed in polygamy.
These were not people who immigrated to Sweden and just hadn't been accultured.
These were people born in Sweden who, I mean, I don't, just like Istanbul used to be called Constantinople, the largest Christian city in the world.
It's not the largest Christian city in the world today.
It's called Istanbul.
And the Haji Sophia was turned into a mosque.
And I don't think the city of Malmo, Sweden, will be called Malmo forever.
It wouldn't surprise me if in my lifetime it's renamed.
And what happened?
I don't know.
I think that we are in deep trouble.
I think the first thing to do is to hit pause on immigration because we are bringing in people from places where anti-Semitism is endemic.
We don't test for that when we bring people over.
And unfortunately, some of the institutions that welcome newcomers are happy with anti-Semitism, universities being the most obvious one.
Or indifferent.
I wouldn't say that our government, everybody in the government is anti-Semitic themselves.
I think it's almost like a matter of indifference.
They just think that immigration is a good thing, that it's Islamophobic even to consider what people believe about Jews.
That would be like sort of a purity test for them or whatever.
They have a naive belief that once they've come into Canada, that they'll somehow become Canadian and all pluralistic and everything.
They are indifferent to reality, in fact.
And this, we have a prime minister who is eager.
He's the only, I think he's the only political head of state in the world that is actually eager to bring in thousands and thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, even though the polls show that they are largely supportive of Hamas.
So he never asks himself, why are all these Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond, why are none of them receptive to the idea of giving shelter and refugee space to these Palestinians?
He doesn't know anything about history and he doesn't care about history.
He's very incurious about foreign affairs in general and the Middle East in particular.
And so to him, these are just people in need of, you know, and he's going to be their white savior.
So it'll have to be a new government.
And by that time, we'll just have, I don't know how many more from hotspots in which anti-Semitism is the norm.
But maybe the damage is already done because you don't need a million Jew haters to actually make Canada a very unpleasant place for Jews.
You just need, you know, you only need 1% of the population that is culturally in whose culture anti-Semitism is the norm.
You only need 1% of them to actually take action.
And then it gets very unpleasant for all Jews.
You know, I studied the phenomenon of broken windows policing in New York, James Q. Wilson's theory, Rudy Giuliani implemented it.
I've talked about it on the show before.
He would arrest people for very minor offenses, jaywalking, littering, just to stop those things, send a message, and also to nab larger criminals when they did smaller things.
But the main theory was to turn off the signal that a broken window or graffiti sent to the city, which is no one's paying attention, no one cares, no one's going to enforce things.
We accept this now.
This is a dangerous place.
A broken window sends messages.
And so by fixing the broken windows, by covering up the graffiti, you send a message that, no, we don't allow this.
One of the things I learned is that when they were cracking down on gangs and criminals in parts of New York, often it was just one or two thugs who would terrorize an entire city block, maybe a thousand people, would live in fear because there was a couple of bad dudes.
And everyone was inside and everyone had barred windows just from a couple of dudes.
And you take them away and people started coming outside and living on the street and reclaiming the space that had been conceded.
And I think that that's one of the things going on.
I don't think that there are a million Hamas supporters in Canada.
I think, in fact, if you look at the numbers who were finally cleared from University of Calgary, University of Alberta, it was in maybe 100 or not even much more than that.
But that's enough to feed a thousand images on social media.
That's enough to change policing and send a message.
And when you have 700 paid agents by Iran running around fomenting things, you can feel surrounded.
think we are demographically in danger but i think also if we took a broken windows of policing approach and just snuffed out this trespass vandalism and anti-semitism in the first bud i think yeah well that i mean look if you wanted to go back october 7th was the capstone on years and years of ignoring uh anti-semitism look
Look, Al-Qutze, how many times did Rebel News cover violently anti-Semitic? language in those marches by Imams, sometimes in Arabic, sometimes in English.
They knew what the cutoff was before they would get arrested, so they avoided certain things.
But when they would speak in Arabic, very often they would be saying real hate speech.
And none of them were ever arrested.
Nobody was ever arrested.
And there's your broken window.
So they set the stage and the government made it clear.
Law enforcement made it clear.
You know, keep it in the street.
Keep it to your own followers.
We won't interfere because we don't want to be called racist.
So we go back years and years and years and we would see how this all began.
Also, Students for Justice in Palestine, Sanbidun, all these organizations that have been either linked to funding of terrorism or in one way or another to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Nobody ever took the Muslim Brotherhood seriously.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a worldwide organization that Arab countries do not want operating in their states because they know how disruptive and how apocalyptic it is.
They have an agenda that is actually extremely anti-Western and with an endgame of actually conquering the West and replacing.
This has been completely ignored for so many years because nobody wanted to bell that cat.
You know, they were so afraid of being called racist.
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You know, it's funny.
I mean, the government that won't assert rules against trespassing or assault now wants to bring in C63 hate speech.
I can tell you, they're not going to use hate speech rules against people that they won't even use assault rules against or death threats.
The hate speech rules will be for you and me, I can assure you that.
Barbara, it's great to catch up with you.
Keep up the fight in the National Post.
Part of the burden of Rex's passing falls to you to keep up his ideas.
And I know that you'll execute that duty.
And all of us will try a little bit to do so as well.
Thanks for spending so much time with us today.
Pleasure, as always, Ezra.
Thank you.
That's our pleasure, too.
There you have it.
Barbara Kay, columnist for the National Post.
Stay with us.
your letters to me next.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
This is about Sid Fazard's coverage of the Calgary police versus the Hamas encampment.
Brenda Stavelesky says student unions need to be held accountable and given the bills for cleanup and cost of police.
Students should be expelled and deported, if not Canadian citizens.
You know, I agree with that.
It's like if someone is in your house and is saying outrageous and racist things.
If they're your son or daughter, you know, they live there.
You got to put up with it and try and correct them.
But if they're a foreign guest just at your pleasure in your house, kick them out.
My view would be the same for these encampments.
If someone is a Canadian citizen, listen, use your free speech.
If you're a Canadian citizen breaking the law, you should be charged.
But if you're a foreign national here on a student visa, purportedly to learn and get an education, but instead you're doing this, deport.
Kathy Ray says, not sure anyone noticed as they were clearing protesters, the protesters had the choices of leaving East, West, and South.
Most chose to walk back to taunt police and then act like they were unjustly attacked, make a wrong choice, pay the consequences.
You know, it's incredible how long the police waited before doing anything.
And of course, they're waiting even longer at University of Toronto, McGill, and other places.
And these are protests on private property.
These are protests governed by other rules besides just the law, rules of a university.
And it's just incredible to me that the police in places like Montreal abide law breaking, not just noisy protests, but outright law breaking for weeks or months.
Compare that to the brutal crackdown on peaceful truckers who did nothing more than honk their horns or maybe had a view parking violations.