Ezra Levant critiques the June 11 fire at Toronto’s 120-year-old St. Anne’s Anglican Church, where media fixated on architectural loss while ignoring 100+ church attacks in four years—often dismissed as mere vandalism. He ties this to Justin Trudeau’s past "understandable" remark about arson and Chrystia Freeland’s dystopian tax-hike warnings, suggesting elite indifference to cultural values and a pattern of fiscal recklessness, like the $600B debt surge under Trudeau, while targeting entrepreneurs and professionals. Levant and guest Franco Terrazano warn such policies erode trust, with Shopify leadership now opposing them, exposing a government prioritizing revenue over fairness. [Automatically generated summary]
I went to the scene of the St. Anne's Anglican Church in Toronto.
That's the big church that was burnt down on Sunday morning.
I chatted with some firefighters, and I'll give you my thoughts about what happened.
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Tonight, a major church in Toronto is burnt to a crisp and all the media cares about is the architectural loss.
It's June 11th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
I have an interesting show for you today.
In a few minutes, I'll introduce you again to my friend Franco Terrazano.
We're going to go over the latest weird statement by Christia Freeland.
She implied that if we don't raise taxes, there's going to be like some hunger games, sci-fi dystopian revolt, and people will climb over the gated fences of rich people and skewer them or something.
It was sort of really crazy, and it was really crazy for a finance minister whose party has been in power for almost 10 years to say, didn't you make the mess we're in?
Anyway, we'll talk about that a little later.
But first, I want to show you a video I recorded on the streets yesterday.
We just did it late in the day, so we didn't have the chance to show it yesterday.
We're going to show it today.
A large and impressive church, almost a cathedral, beautiful on the inside, to be sure, went up in smoke.
It was a forealarm fire.
It was the first thing on Sunday morning.
Luckily, no one was hurt.
I stopped by and looked around and I talked without a camera to a number of the firemen.
I'd like to show you a report I put together on the scene of St. Andrew's Anglican Church.
Here, take a look.
Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.
I'm in Midtown Toronto.
Behind me, the charred remains of a major church in Canada, St. Anne's Anglican Church, a mighty church more than 100 years old, a massive edifice in this community, burnt to a crisp a fore alarm fire early yesterday morning.
You can see fire crews are still here en masse, almost a dozen vehicles surrounding the place.
Firefighters told me that the fire has burned out and now they're focused on pumping out the water from the basement.
The water obviously used by them to put out the flames, but not before the building itself was completely burnt.
Now, what's interesting is that this has received coverage in the mainstream media, which is not usual.
There have been literally dozens of churches, many of them burnt to a crisp in Canada that have been hit by a crime wave of arson in the last few years.
In fact, if you add in other vandalism, more than 100 Canadian churches have been vandalized, smashed, or burnt in approximately four years.
It's every other week.
The fact that this one also had some famous paintings in it by the so-called group of seven, I think that's what made the mainstream media cover it.
For example, let me quote to you the headline from the Globe and Mail.
Look at this.
Loss of historic St. Anne's Anglican Church in Toronto's catastrophe for Canadian architecture.
Seriously, an entire article, and the bulk of it is how architecturally interesting it is, and there was some secular artwork in it.
Could you imagine if a Jewish synagogue or a Sikh temple or a Muslim mosque had been torched?
And the headline was, it was architecturally interesting, people.
This is a real loss for architecture.
Unthinkable.
Now, I should say that we don't yet know conclusively the cause of the fire.
I spoke to two firefighters who said it's still under investigation.
And yet every news article I've read and public statements too, such as this one from the CBC, say they rule out arson.
How can you rule out arson if the investigation is ongoing?
Would they prejudge a fire at a mosque that way?
Of course not.
Justin Trudeau would have an emergency national press conference using his best substitute drama teacher voice.
But this is just a Christian church, so who cares?
The Prime Minister has not been motivated to put out a statement, though it's burnt to a crisp.
The fact that officials or the official regime media, they're really one in the same, say it's not arson while the investigation is ongoing is reminiscent of the terrible fire that torched the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.
Before the investigation, they announced it was not terrorism.
Our friend Morrissey even made a song about it.
Remember this?
Notre Dame, we will not be silent.
Notre Dame, we will not be silent before any investigation issues.
They said this is not terror.
Listen, it is possible that it wasn't arson, and it's also possible that if it was arson, it wasn't anti-Christian bigotry.
This is Toronto.
It's in a perpetual crime wave.
Typically, the crime is stolen vehicles, not arson.
But it might have just been mischief all around, including right across the street.
Vandalism is everywhere.
Graffiti, it's accepted as normal in Mayor Chow's Toronto.
I can't just put the blame on her.
The premier of this conservative province and the prime minister, they abide this as the new normal.
It's interesting to me what does or does not get labeled a hate crime.
Even hoaxes get this prime minister's attention.
I don't know if you recall a few years ago, a young lady said someone ran up to her with scissors to cut her hijab.
It was so evidently a Jussie Smollett style hoax.
But the prime minister met, tweeted about it, and the tweet remains, even though it's debunked.
I don't know if this is a hate crime or just a regular crime.
I do know the silence of officialdom is echoing.
The worst that they're concerned about is the architectural catastrophe.
I shouldn't say that Justin Trudeau had nothing to say about this.
A few years ago, his senior advisor, Gerald Butts, when pressed about this crime wave of church arsons, said it was, quote, understandable.
As I've also said, it is unacceptable and wrong that acts of vandalism and arson are being seen across the country, including against Catholic churches.
One of my reflections is I understand the anger that's out there against the federal government, against institutions like the Catholic Church.
It is real and it is fully understandable given the shameful history that we're all becoming more and more aware of.
It was understandable.
I mean, not that he condoned it or approved it.
He just understood why people would torch churches.
This, of course, because, like Trudeau, Butts himself has a loathing for Christianity.
He participates in the defamation that the church was responsible for a genocide of Indigenous people.
And who wouldn't understand torching a symbol of genocide?
That's where we are under Justin Trudeau in Canada.
We'll keep you posted on this story.
It's very sad that an iconic church is torched.
Yeah, there's architectural and art reasons for it, but when a house of worship is burned and no one in the regime gives a damn, I think that's a sign that your civilization is unhealthy.
For Rebel News, I'm Ezra Levant.
Well, one of our younger reporters, Sarah Stock, was down there as well.
She later went and did what we call streeters, Vox Pop, asking ordinary people on the street what they thought about things.
Here's an excerpt of that.
Sarah Stock for Rebel News.
We're here in Little Portugal in Toronto, standing in front of St. Anne's Anglican Church.
It burnt down yesterday morning just before 8 a.m.
Went all the way up in flames.
And the way the mainstream media is talking about this church, the focus seems to be, oh, this church was a symbol for the community.
People would meet in this church and have dinner.
This church, they're focusing on the artwork and the architectural design, which, yes, that's important, and I think it does make the church stand out.
In the grand scheme of things, there have been more than 40 churches in the past couple of years that have been burnt down, whether by arson or whether by inconclusive investigations.
It could have been arson.
Now, this came after insufficient claims about residential schools committing a genocide against Indigenous people.
And when Justin Trudeau talked about these events, he said this torching of churches was understandable.
As I've also said, it is unacceptable and wrong that acts of vandalism and arson are being seen across the country, including against Catholic churches.
One of my reflections is I understand the anger that's out there against the federal government, against institutions like the Catholic Church.
It is real and it is fully understandable.
So what's to stop Canadians from burning down churches?
Imagine if this was a Jewish synagogue or a Muslim mosque.
The mainstream media would have the same reaction.
Well, we're here in Young Dundas Square, which is soon to be named St. Cofa Square, by the way, because apparently Henry Dundas was a racist, even though he was an abolitionist.
But regardless, it's noisy here as usual.
There's lots of people around, so this is the perfect place to talk to your average Toronto resident and see if they've even heard of the 100 churches that have either been vandalized or burnt down in the past couple of years and see how that relates to the St. Anne's church that was just burnt down yesterday.
Have they heard of that?
Not sure.
Let's see if anyone sees a connection here.
Do you know that there are 47 churches in Canada, Christian churches, that have been burnt down either by arson or suspected arson just these past couple of years?
Have you heard about that?
No, not at all.
Not at all?
No.
Why do you think you haven't heard of that?
I don't know.
It hasn't been in the news.
Actually, I haven't.
No.
No.
I have not.
You haven't?
No.
Okay.
Why do you think that is that you haven't?
I'm not too sure.
I'm not too involved with Christian media myself.
What was the question?
I heard about that, but I don't know much about this.
I did not know that.
No, no, I did not.
Why do you think you haven't heard about that?
Because the news is censored in our country, maybe?
Yeah.
Wow, that's very unfortunate.
Did you know it?
I did not.
You haven't even heard about it anywhere?
Maybe I have and just forgot, but I don't know, to be honest.
No.
You haven't?
Why do you think that is that you haven't heard of it?
I'm not sure.
It's not on the news.
Maybe it's not that big of a deal.
For real?
I've not heard that.
I've not heard about that.
Why do you think you haven't heard about that?
Why aren't people making a big deal about this?
Yeah, because this is 2024, right?
People are known as religious.
Have you heard of that?
I have not.
You haven't heard that?
No.
A little bit of it.
A little bit.
A little bit.
Did you hear about the church that burned down yesterday?
I did not hear about those.
Let's just think about this.
Do you think if it was 47 Jewish synagogues or Muslim mosques, do you think you would have heard of it?
Well, yeah, but are you sure that there are 47 churches burned down?
That's an awfully large number.
Yeah, probably more than that were accidents, but it's 47 that either confirmed arson or suspected arson.
Yeah, no, I wasn't aware.
Did you hear about that in Toronto?
That I actually didn't hear either, no?
No?
Sorry, no.
Like, why do you think that is that you haven't heard of it?
Like, it seems like it's like a pattern, you know what I mean, of these hate crimes.
Personally, I would not be involved in any type of Christian things because I'm a First Nations person.
And just because due to residential school and the pain that it put all of my family through, I prefer not to deal with it.
Okay.
Do you think that this would be considered a hate crime if you're burning a church down because it's a place of worship?
Yeah, I think so.
You think so?
Yeah, I think so.
Do you think the mainstream media might have anti-Christian bias?
There's definitely some sort of an agenda, but I feel like it shifts throughout the years, you know?
Yeah, for sure.
In the government, they say mainstream media sources like the CBC, they like to call a lot of things hate crimes, right?
But when we hear all these churches have burned, I haven't heard the word hate crime used once, and it's a place of worship.
Why do you think that is?
Shit.
I don't know.
Church Burnings Ignored?00:05:19
Kind of gone to stomp there.
I think it's because there's maybe in the news people are just talking about bigger things than the church is burning down, as in, for example, the Palestine and Israel war.
But it is an important issue.
But I just think that people just don't really exactly know what's going on because it's not really out there.
Yeah.
Not too much.
I don't know.
It just seems to be a fairly common occurrence now.
Why is it so common?
What could the motivation be, do you think?
Well, what kind of church was it that was burned down?
What religious church?
This was an Anglican church.
Anglican church.
See, I'm an atheist, so to me, like, all churches and synagogues.
Well, the churches that have been burned down, they were from all sorts of different denominations all over Canada.
So it wasn't, you know, it's kind of a common misconception.
They were all Catholic churches, but there's Anglican, United Church, Lutheran.
It's a pretty big assortment.
I mean, let's face it, anything to be burned down like that, it's bad, and I certainly don't condone it, but I don't get all exercised about it because, you know, to me, it just doesn't affect me.
Doesn't it affect you, as I said?
No, because I don't go to churches or synagogues.
I do respect the churches.
I respect everyone.
But it's just coming from my personal point of view.
So that I wouldn't really be involved.
Do you think that it would be considered a hate crime if you burn a church?
It depends your reason for it.
Yeah, I think it really depends on the context because it's just different from each person's point of view.
I think it's like I don't think it's okay to disrespect people's religious beliefs like that.
Like, you can take it up with the church without, like, messing up their place.
Like, if there were 47 Jewish synagogues or Muslim mosques that were burnt down in Canada, do you think you would have heard about it?
Yes, I do think so.
Because I think, well, there's a couple reasons.
One, I think those two religions are very vocal.
And they, again, not to get too religious or whatever, but I think those religions actually stand for their beliefs.
I don't know, maybe the media is trying to hide it.
I'm not sure.
Do you think that might have to do with, you know, the kind of bias there?
They're not going to call it a hate crime.
Even Justin Trudeau, he said, oh, you shouldn't do that, but it's understandable.
That's what he said about burning churches.
One of my reflections is I understand the anger that's out there against the federal government, against institutions like the Catholic Church.
It is real and it is fully understandable.
What do you think about him saying that?
Yeah, it's kind of like, shit, you got me there.
I mean, it's kind of like, it's like you're feeding them something to work with, right?
Yeah, I think it's a hate crime because like it's destroying property, right?
That's already a crime already.
So like, I think it's a hate crime.
Like, let everyone do whatever they want to do, to be honest.
This is an important thing.
Something that's a part of God, a lot of people believe in nowadays.
Now, like, we believe in, it's a religion, got burnt down, and no one absolutely cares about it because they're going to go talk about the next celebrity or like, oh, the celebrity got pregnant or something.
Like, it's insane.
Crime is a very subjective term.
Yeah.
And it's very, very hard to decide if something's done because of something being Jewish or something being Muslim or something being Christian.
Probably there is some about it, but then it could just be random violence.
I don't know.
It's hard to prove.
I mean, do you think if it was 47 transgender care facilities that were burnt down, do you think people would call it a hate crime?
That for sure, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, 100%.
I think it's yellow tape.
Everyone's going crazy.
Yeah, I think they'd probably value that more than the churches, to be honest.
Why do you think our culture has gone to that point where people don't seem to care?
I'm not sure, to be honest.
Maybe just propaganda and shit.
I don't know.
Okay, do you think that's considered a hate crime if you burn a church?
Yeah.
Do you think that the government would call it that?
No.
Well, we've talked to a lot of different kinds of people here today, but one thing seems to be in common.
Not very many people have heard anything about these churches burning down.
I wonder why that could be.
For Rebel News, it's Sarah's talk.
Well, what do you think of the whole thing?
I mean, maybe it was an electrical fire.
Could be.
Maybe it was just regular arson.
I mean, Toronto is in the middle of a crime wave and there's a lot of graffiti and vandalism.
Or maybe it's just the latest in fires against Christian churches.
It's hard to tell because, of course, like Notre Dame's fire in Paris, authorities do not want you to know who really is torching places.
They didn't in Notre Dame.
And in almost actually over 100 churches in Canada that have been torched or vandalized in other ways, it certainly feels like the regime doesn't want you to know that they're being targeted because they're Christian.
Stay with us.
My interview with Franco Terrazzano is next.
Why Freeland Was Appointed?00:03:41
I'm not sure why Chrystia Freeland was appointed finance minister.
She has no training in the subject.
She went to school studying Slavic matters, language, geography, which are interesting things, but have nothing to do with economics or finance.
She was an absolute disaster when she was appointed an executive for Thomson Reuters, a large news company.
She was put in charge of something called Reuters Next, and she actually destroyed the entire company once she was done with it.
They didn't try and fix it, they threw it out.
She lost hundreds of jobs and tens of millions of dollars, an absolute meltdown.
And you can see in it the descriptions of how she would ignore advice, bring in her personal friends, money was no object, sort of a premonition for how she would run Canada.
And of course, she was right up Trudeau's alley.
Never forget that Christia Freeland's job before she became an MP was George Soros's authorized biographer.
That's really what she did.
No wonder she's been appointed finance minister.
One last tidbit before I show you a video, and you'll understand why I'm talking about Christia Freeland, is she lived in the States, she jetted around the world, she came back to Canada as a favor to us to run for parliament.
You would think someone who had held high positions at Reuters and was probably making close to a million dollars a year would have saved up to a few bucks.
But even 10 years ago, she couldn't afford a home in Canada.
Now, I'm not mocking or laughing.
It's extremely expensive to buy a home in Canada.
In Toronto and Vancouver these days, the average home is more than $1 million.
But 10 years ago, that wasn't the case.
And she was a grown woman, an MP.
Her husband was working too.
And yet she needed her parents to co-sign her mortgage for her, to make the down payment for her.
And I'm not laughing at someone for being poor.
I'm not laughing at someone for not having a million dollars that they can borrow in their own credit.
I'm not saying a million cash.
She couldn't even get credit for that.
I'm saying these are warning signals that maybe she has no clue how to manage her own money or a business's money in the case of Reuters Next, and you want to put her in charge of the economy.
Well, look at Christia Freeland just the other day talking about how she thinks the economy works and how she thinks people should consider taxes.
Take a look at this monstrosity.
Do you want to live in a country where the only young Canadians who can buy their own homes are those with parents who can help with the down payment?
Do you want to live in a country where we make the investments we need in health care, in housing, in old age pensions, but we lack the political will to pay for them and choose instead to pass a ballooning debt onto our children?
Do you want to live in a country where those at the very top live lives of luxury, but must do so in gated communities behind ever higher fences using private health care and airplanes?
Fiscal Woes and Corporate Taxes00:07:12
Because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot.
Every Canadian across our great country needs to ask themselves these same questions because the stakes could not be higher.
Oh my God, what a wacko.
Oh, I've got a lot to say about this, as you can guess.
But let me bring in an expert.
I'm talking about Franco Terrazano.
He's the boss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
I had no idea the stakes were this high.
Franco, if we don't raise taxes, by the way, it's been nine and a half years of liberal government.
If we don't raise taxes right now, we're going to turn into some, I don't know, blade runner, robo-cop dystopian place where people are hiding with their private jets behind gated.
I don't even know what that was all about.
Franco, do you want to take a first stab at it?
I mean, all this government does is raise taxes and waste our money.
So, like, what are they talking about?
There's so much to pick at there.
But first, can I just state the obvious?
Did the finance minister just warn about adding debt onto the backs of future generations?
Like, are you serious?
Like, are you serious?
I mean, as of this year, the Trudeau government will have officially doubled the entire federal government debt.
Nine years doubled the entire federal debt by adding $600 billion onto the debt tab.
Well, who's going to be paying for that?
Canadians' kids and grandkids, future generations of Canadians will be making payments on the debt for their whole lives.
So, like, I don't think Canadians buy that line of argument from the finance minister or the Trudeau government.
But you know what?
I think that Freeland and Trudeau really have to worry about here are Canadians who are absolutely fed up about being overtaxed, all the tax hikes that we're seeing, and the federal government wasting our money like crazy.
You know, I'm glad you focused on that debt part because that's insane for the liberals to pretend they care about the debt.
I mean, you probably know the stats off the top of your head, hat, of how much they've added to the debt.
I don't know that figure without looking it up, but it's but I think the largest deficit in Canadian history was actually run under Justin Trudeau.
Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I'm not putting you on the spot with no, no, no.
During the COVID years, I mean, remember the massive deficits that we were seeing.
You said, look, when Trudeau first came to power, the debt was like $616 billion.
The debt today is more than $1.2 trillion.
Oh, my God.
So the Trudeau government.
He's doubled it.
So the Trudeau government has doubled the federal debt.
And Ezra, to your point, they don't care about the deficit.
I mean, come on.
They don't care about the debt.
They've proven to taxpayers that they do not care about fiscal responsibility.
This is fiscal insanity.
I mean, listen to this, folks.
They're hiking the capital gains tax.
This is a massive tax hike.
And the government is still running a $40 billion deficit this year.
Okay.
The capital gains tax increase will cost Canadians about $7 billion this year.
But with Trudeau spending $535 billion this year, he's going to blow through that extra cash in less than seven days.
Oh my gosh.
Now, that's what this is.
This is her sales pitch for her increase in capital gains tax.
And I think what she's trying to do is to bash the rich.
Only rich people get capital gains.
This is about, I think she actually said, I don't know if it was in this clip or I think it was another one where she talked about the 0.013% as if it was just an obscure group of billionaires.
I think she implied people with private jets.
But that's not who pays, that's not who pays capital gains tax.
Tell me about the typical Canadian.
Give me a sketch for me an example of a Canadian who would be taxed under the capital gains tax.
got a few ideas, but you taxpayers is your business.
Tell me who will be hit by this.
What about doctors?
You know, doctors who spend their whole career saving lives and now just want to save for the retirement.
Well, they're going to get hammered by the capital gains tax increase.
Or what about, you know, your small business owner who doesn't have a government pension, so relies on capital gains to fund their golden years.
Right.
So essentially, the government is going after entrepreneurs, going after, you know, professionals like doctors, also, like to state the obvious, discouraging young, smart computer science grads who graduate from a Canadian university who want to start like the next Amazon here in Canada, but now are being chased away to other places because of this capital gains tax increase and all the other tax hikes that the federal government is doing.
But, you know, let's go back to that political wedge here for a second, okay?
Because like Trudeau and Freeland are talking about how they want the rich to pay more.
Well, how about you just make rich multinational corporations pay for their own factories, right?
Like let's not pretend, let's not pretend like the federal government didn't just announce billions of dollars for the boardrooms in Germany and Japan, right?
The billions of dollars going to multinational corporations from taxpayers to corporations like Volkswagen, Honda, Stellantis, and companies like that.
So you want to make the rich pay their fair share?
Well, how about you just cut out all this corporate welfare going to multinational corporations?
Yeah, that's a great point.
They're giving money to some of the most profitable foreign countries and companies in the world.
And I suppose money is fungible, but they're getting it.
I mean, tell me if this is an example of someone who, I mean, I'm not a tax expert.
So Franco, correct me if I'm wrong.
So let's say someone's a plumber and they save up a few bucks and get their own equipment, get their own truck and hire some other guys.
And soon they've got a couple of trucks and a couple of guys.
And soon they built up a bit of a plumbing company and you work your fingers to the bone for 50 years and then you retire and you sell that thing.
Is that an example of a capital gains?
Is that a scenario?
Well, those are similar.
Those are things that could happen here or just people who have like other real estate properties because they don't have the government funded pension that all the bureaucrats in Ottawa essentially do, right?
So one other thing, you know, Jack Mintz, a famous economist who was at the University of Calgary, rightly pointed out that it's not the same people every single year who are making these capital gains, right?
Like many Canadians will make capital gains or many different Canadians will make capital gains in different years as they sell some of these assets, for example, to fund their golden years.
So it's not like the government is just going after like a couple people who have all these bags of money.
Like this is going to have real life implications for Canadians who are getting ready to retire.
Government Overreach and Carbon Tax Implications00:06:14
You know, there was a while, I think it was 2006, 2007, sorry, 2016, 2017, before Trudeau's policies really started to bite, where he was still riding on being cool when he was showing foreign leaders his fancy socks, you know, before people really started to find out about him.
And he would hang out with tech leaders because nothing is cooler than tech.
And one of the most successful Canadian high-tech companies is called Shopify.
And that might sound strange to some people, but it's an online system for selling things.
It's basically a way to sell things online, whether you're a small business, a big business, or just someone with a hobby.
And Shopify is a Canadian success story.
And in the past, Trudeau would hang out with their president and founder and their senior executives because it's pretty cool starting a high-tech company from scratch, being a global force, making lots of money.
But in the past week or two, the leaders of Shopify, who used to be really chummy with Trudeau, have put out statements just completely candid saying this will destroy entrepreneurship.
And I have to say, that's all Shopify is, entrepreneurs.
They don't deal with anyone else.
I bet you that the CEO of Shopify knows a thousand business owners on a first name basis.
And their company would know hundreds of thousands aggregate.
Like no one, I don't think there's a human being in Canada who knows more about small businesses and entrepreneurship and how to make a go of it than Shopify.
Like that's all they do.
And here's a tweet from them just saying, this is a disaster.
I don't think Trudeau would be welcome in a lot of those high-tech hot houses anymore.
What do you think?
Okay.
So, you know, I think it's pretty obvious that this tax hike is going to be disastrous for entrepreneurs, for small businesses, for professionals like doctors, right?
Like, I think that's very easy to understand how this tax hike will chase away investment.
It'll chase away young talent to other countries.
But let me just like make a pitch on why every single Canadian taxpayer should be against this.
Number one, it's not about tax fairness.
Okay.
If it was even remotely about tax fairness, somebody's taxes would be going down.
But in fact, people's taxes are going up.
Carbon tax up, alcohol taxes up, payroll taxes up, a new streaming tax, and now this capital gains tax hike.
So this is about really one thing when it comes to all taxpayers.
The government trying to take as much money from Canadians as it can get away with.
Number two, we cannot let the Trudeau government get away with this.
With it running deficits in the tens of billions of dollars every single year, if the Trudeau government gets away with this capital gains tax hike, it is a very good bet that it's going to keep on looking for new ways to get more money from already tapped out Canadian taxpayers.
So even if you think that this particular capital gains tax hike won't affect you, you need to get off the bench and you have to oppose this because guess what?
This government doesn't deserve a single penny more from Canadians.
This government does not have a revenue problem.
It has a spending problem.
And all Canadians have to push back against Trudeau's capital gains tax hike before the government comes looking for even more ways to take more money from you.
Yeah.
I just want to touch on one last thing before you go.
I think it was the craziest part of Christian Freeland's little scream there.
I mean, you pointed out immediately the joke that she cares about debt and the deficit.
You're pointing out how, you know, the tax is going to hurt everyone.
But she had a like her theme was, hey, rich people, if we don't raise this tax on you, the poors are going to like, it's going to be like Mad Max, a Mad Max movie.
They're going to invade and with swords and, you know, attack you in your gated communities.
Like it was basically saying there will be a civil war and you'll be killed.
Like that's actually how it sounded.
She was talking about gated communities and private jets.
Like she was saying, she was basically saying, Canadians are so animalistic and volatile.
They hate you so much.
If we don't tax you more, there's going to be a civil war.
I think that's what she was saying.
I think she's full-on wacko, to use a phrase.
I don't know if she wrote that herself or if some staffer wrote it.
I think that sounded full on crazy.
What do you think?
Well, I think it's another proof point that the government just has absolutely no idea the struggles facing ordinary Canadians or what ordinary Canadians are talking about and thinking, right?
Because let's just go back only a couple months to April 1 when the government raised the carbon tax again, which for ordinary Canadians makes the necessities of life more expensive, like driving to work, like heating your home, like buying groceries.
And the vast majority of Canadians, we released the poll, the vast majority of Canadians were against the carbon tax increase.
What did the federal government do?
Did it listen to Canadians?
No.
It hiked the carbon tax again.
It plans on hiking the carbon tax again next year.
So you know what?
What I really think that the government has to do, and particularly Freeland and Trudeau and the liberal cabinet ministers, is to listen to Canadians and to understand that what Canadians are really fed up with is the overtaxing, the tax hikes, and then the fact that they take our money and they waste it largely on themselves.
Just madness.
I mean, there's also an implication that the crime in this country is because people are poor.
There is a crime wave in this country, and I don't think it has anything to do with it.
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I'm going to be thinking about that rant by her for a long time.
Franco, it's great of you to spend some time bringing the smarts.
I'm bringing the, I feel like I was watching a little bit of a sci-fi movie there, like the, like, you know, what's that movie where for 24 hours, what's it called?
The purge or something for 24 hours, there's mass lawlessness.
That's the craziness of Christian Freeland.
I can hardly wait till the next election.
Franco, we love you because you're nonpartisan and because you don't take a dime from government.
So you are the advocate for taxpayers of all stripes.
Thanks for your time, my friend.
Hey, thank you, Ezra.
All right, there he is.
Franco Terrazano.
Can you imagine?
That really is like the movie The Purge or Mad Max, where she's saying we need to raise taxes or else the wildlings will come.
All right, stay with us.
more ahead.
What do you think of that fire at a church?
I mean, it really irks me that the coverage was all about the architecture and the art.
And I'm not denying it was an interesting church.
I mean, it wasn't a great medieval wonder.
I mean, it's 120 years old.
I respect the building.
And it did have some artwork.
And I'm not denying that.
And I'm not denying that either are a loss or a painful loss.
I'm not denying any of that.
I just find that an odd thing to focus on.
If there was a mosque or a Jewish synagogue that was burnt down in Canada, do you think that would be the totality of the commentary by the Globe?
Actually, I shouldn't say that.
These days, the Globe and other media are doing their best to downplay anti-Semitic attacks.
So maybe they wouldn't care if it was a Jewish synagogue.
But I just find it odd.
At the slightest flicker of an insinuation of Islamophobia, Justin Trudeau's on the scene with denunciations and statements.
I don't think he said a word about this church because I don't think he cares.
Actually, I do think he actually does care.
I think part of him is glad to see it.
You saw his statement and that of Gerald Butts.
They understand people who want to burn down the church.
Just outrageous.
Well, that's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.