Ezra Levant examines Vladimir Putin’s June 14, 2024, ceasefire proposal—ignored by Western media as an ultimatum—demanding Ukraine withdraw from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye while renouncing NATO. Zelensky and Stoltenberg rejected it, but Lavrov warned of Western divisiveness. Levant questions Ukraine’s military sustainability amid conscription of marginalized groups and deep strikes into Russia using Western arms, while contrasting Trudeau’s $9B aid to Kyiv with domestic crises like Toronto’s Gardner Expressway collapse and Calgary’s week-long water rationing. The episode suggests elite detachment from public needs fuels leadership distrust, exposing a prioritization of foreign wars over crumbling infrastructure and rising homelessness. [Automatically generated summary]
I don't know if you heard it, but Vladimir Putin made a proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Now, you might think that's BS, but did you even hear about it?
And if not, why?
I'll take you through that.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, Vladimir Putin offers Ukraine a ceasefire deal.
Should they accept it?
It's June 14th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
You hear about Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for a military ceasefire with Ukraine?
I'll show you some of it in a minute.
You can judge it for yourself.
You can call it propaganda or a trick or a lie.
You can say it ought to be rejected or whatever your point of view is.
But before I show it to you, can you please answer my first question?
Did you even hear about it?
Maybe you did.
Here's how the country's self-described newspaper of record reported on it.
I'll just quote from the Globe and Mail.
They called their headline, ahead of peace summit, Putin demands to keep parts of Ukraine.
There's no detection at all of a peace offer from Putin, is there?
I'll read a little bit from the beginning.
One day before the start of a summit in Switzerland aimed at advancing a plan to end the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that he is still seeking Kiev's capitulation, not a negotiated peace deal.
A weekend meeting at the Bergenstock Resort near Lucerne, which many Western leaders are attending, but Russia wasn't invited to participate in, is expected to end with an endorsement of parts of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's 10-point peace plan,
which calls for a complete Russian withdrawal to pre-2014 borders before Russia seized and illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
Unquote.
So the Bergenstock meeting, that's the peace summit.
That's where the peace said, they call it the peace summit.
Putin is the belligerent one.
He doesn't want a deal.
That's what the Globe and Mail says.
That's how they report it.
I just have to say, if If it's possible to be neutral and objective here, that for Vladimir Zelensky to say that he wants Russia not only to withdraw from all the land that they've invaded in the past two years, but also land that they formally annexed in another war 10 years ago and give that back to Ukraine too, and reparations.
I just don't think that's a real peace proposal.
I mean, maybe it's a dramatic opening position, but the idea that Russia would not only completely withdraw from Ukraine, but would also give back cities and industries and territories and a major port with 2 million people that has been annexed into Russia for a decade so that Ukraine actually ended this war with more territory than it started in 22.
I just think that's an offer that's designed deliberately to fail.
I mean, they want reparations.
They want like a treaty of Versailles.
That's what unconditional victors in a war get.
That's not what a smaller country losing gets.
Perhaps Russia is doing the same thing with their offer, making absurd demands.
But given that I don't think that you've even heard Vladimir Putin's offer yet, let me play it for you.
I'm not praising it.
I'm not recommending it.
I'm not rejecting it.
I'm just playing it for you so that you can hear what the other side here says, because I don't quite think that the Western media is reporting on it at all, or if they are, neutrally, which is sort of weird because we talk about the ceasefire now in Gaza all the time, even though clearly Israel and America are making ceasefire offers and Hamas is rejecting it.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has cost probably a million lives.
It's very hard to get accurate figures on either side.
So it's 50 times more deadly than the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
And of course, one of the militant sides in the Ukraine-Russia war just happens to have nuclear bombs.
So it's just astonishing to me that you have a constant drumbeat for a ceasefire between a democracy and a terrorist group.
But this war between two major European powers, one of whom has nuclear weapons, has cost hundreds of thousands of lives on each side.
Do you not find it unusual that there's no peace movement, especially from the left?
Anyway, here's a clip from a TV station called RT, which stands for Russia Today, which is a state broadcaster of Putin, which, by the way, is banned on YouTube, which is interesting.
You can't find it on YouTube.
I don't think RT is hate speech.
I think it's propaganda like CBC is Trudeau's propaganda.
I don't think RT has been accused of breaking any law that I know of.
It's just that YouTube has decided it will not publish RT videos because Russia invaded another country, which is true.
But if that were the case, YouTube wouldn't publish videos from many countries that it does, including a critic might say the United States.
Okay, here's a clip from Putin, and he uses the word Kiev regime.
It's an insult.
He refuses to acknowledge that Ukraine is a legitimate entity.
He says that there's a little clique in Kiev.
So of course he's got his language talked up, but just listen to it, because I'm betting you haven't heard it before.
Today we're making another real peaceful proposal, a proposal of peace.
If they refuse once again in Kiev, it is their business.
It is their choice to continue this bloodshed.
The reality on the ground will keep shifting and not in favor of the Kyiv regime.
And the conditions for the talks will change as well.
Let me emphasize that the gist of our proposal is not just a ceasefire or a temporary truth, as the West wants it.
So, they want to rearm the Kyiv regime.
This is not about transforming this into a frozen conflict.
We want to put an end to this conflict.
Once again, I would like to say that as soon as Kiev agrees to this turn of events, as we propose it today, as soon as they agree to withdraw the troops from the Porozhian Kherson regions and the People's Republic, we are ready to launch these talks without any delay.
Here's the second part.
And just if he's going to say some words you may not be familiar with, he says Donetsk and Luhansk and Kherson, my accent's terrible.
These are regions or oblasts or like provinces that Russia claims are actually ethnically Russian and historically Russian.
Now, you can disagree with that, but that's what Russia claims.
And I know from personal history that some of those towns and cities and regions change countries.
I mean, the country, the city called Lviv today was called Lvov when it was under Russian domination, and it was called Lemberg when it was under Polish control.
So the borders have moved around.
And I'm not saying I know where the borders ought to be.
I suppose I would lean towards self-determination.
And I believe in the idea that nations should not invade other sovereign nations.
But I'll just play, I'm just explaining to you what Putin says.
I mean, he is basically saying that he wants the areas where the Russian invasion has focused on.
He wants that under Russian control.
Much of it is under Russian control now.
Take a look at this video that you won't find on YouTube.
It's on Rumble.
These principles are quite straightforward.
Ukraine must fully withdraw its troops from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republic, from the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
And let me emphasize that I'm talking about the entire territories of these regions within their administrative borders as they existed under Ukraine.
As soon as Kyiv says that it's ready and starts the withdrawal of its troops, and once they say that they are no longer willing to join NATO, just the same moment, immediately, we will stop the fire and launch talks.
We will do this immediately.
Let me repeat this.
At the same time, we guarantee that Ukraine will be able to withdraw its troops safely.
These decisions on the withdrawal of troops and then non-aligned status and the dialogue with Russia, which will define Ukraine's future, we believe that these decisions must be taken by Kyiv independently, guided by the genuine interests, national interests of the Ukrainian people without getting instructions from the West.
So he's basically saying to Ukraine, give up those territories and give up your dream of joining NATO and stop getting instructions from the West.
And I hate to say it, but that part about getting instructions from the West, that's an insult, of course.
It's meant to demean Vladimir Zelensky as a puppet of the West.
But I don't think it helped that the response to this didn't.
I mean, Zelensky did make a response, and I'll read some of it shortly, but the response was from NATO.
Here's Jens Stoltenberg, used to be the Prime Minister of Norway.
He's the boss of NATO, and he responded.
It's not for Ukraine to withdraw forces from Ukrainian territory.
It's for Russia to withdraw their forces from occupied Ukrainian land.
And this proposal is a proposal that actually means that Russia should have the right to occupy even more Ukrainian land.
All the four provinces that they claim are not Ukrainian.
So this just demonstrates that this is not a proposal made in good faith, but this is a proposal that actually means that Russia should achieve their war aims by also expecting or by expecting that Ukraine should give up significantly more land than Russia has been able to occupy so far.
So this is not a peace proposal.
This is a proposal of more aggression, more occupation.
And it demonstrates in a way that Russia's aim is to control Ukraine.
And that has been the purpose of Russia since the beginning of this war.
And that's a blatant violation of international law.
And that's also the reason why NATO allies continue to support Ukraine.
I mean, that really does play into the hands of the Russian side here, which claims that Ukraine has been turned into nothing but a Western or NATO stalking horse.
Here's Sergei Lavrov, the very long-standing and deeply foreboding foreign minister for Russia, who just says, look, we're not even asking the West to trust us.
We just, it's an offer, take it or leave.
It's sort of a very real politic comment.
Take a look.
No, we don't ask the West to trust us.
Trust is not something which is illustrating the Western positions, the Western actions.
And today there were many examples.
I don't want to recite those failures to deliver on the promises, those failure to deliver on the legal obligations.
Frankly, I don't care whether the West trusts us or not.
The West must understand the real situation.
They don't understand anything except real politics.
Let them go to the people.
You are democracies, right?
Ask the people what the West should do in response to Putin's proposals.
Now, of course, diplomacy is warfare by peaceful means.
You could say that about politics too.
And of course, Hitler, when he annexed and invaded the Sudetenland, when he started expanding the regime, he had diplomacy too that he used to trick the West.
You might recall that Neville Chamberlain flew to meet Herr Hitler and came back with a piece of paper saying peace in our time.
He was bamboozled.
And of course, when Hitler invaded Poland and carved it up between the Nazis and the Soviets, Chamberlain gave way shortly thereafter to Churchill.
Here's Lavrov talking, though, about something that I fear is very real.
Splitting the West, using the war in Ukraine to split the West.
Dangers Of Western Impatience00:11:47
Take a look.
The door is open for Europe, for those European countries that would finally understand that they need to link their destinies with the implementation of the deep-rooted interests of their people not serving to the United States that, as I've mentioned before, subjugated the entire collective West at their will.
So the goal that we were set with concerns, first of all, the creation of the concept, detailed concept of the greater Eurasian partnership and of the Eurasian security.
I put it to you that the West is already splitting.
There are plenty of countries in Europe that have fallen out of love with this war in Ukraine for financial reasons, or they're asking why war.
You may recall that I had the pleasure of visiting Hungary about a year ago, and I heard a speech by Viktor Orban where he said he was very sympathetic with Ukraine.
There are Hungarians in Ukraine, if I recall his speech, but he didn't believe in getting into the war.
It's tragic.
So all of our heart is with the Ukrainians.
We understand how much they suffer, but I'm speaking here as a politician who should save lives.
So the most important thing for the international political communities to save lives, especially when you are convinced, as I do, that there is no chance to win this war.
So therefore, what we should do far more energy, invest into, to convince everybody that the only solution is ceasefire.
And then after the ceasefire, peace talks should start.
Okay, well, let me quote from a source I don't really go to, but it's so mainstream that I think you'll accept it.
I've been quoting RT, that's Russian propaganda.
So here's the Associated Press, which basically I feel like I'm reading the CIA or the White House when I read the Associated Press.
It is so on the official narrative of the White House.
Let me read from the Associated Press.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to, quote, immediately order a ceasefire in Ukraine and start negotiations if Kiev began withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounce plans to join NATO.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky rejected what he called an ultimatum by Putin to surrender more territory.
Putin's remarks came as Switzerland prepared to host scores of world leaders, but not from Moscow, this weekend to try to map out the first steps towards peace in Ukraine.
I just have to ask, how is it a peace meeting if the enemy isn't there?
I really think it's more honestly called a war meeting if you're only meeting with your team.
That's a war meeting.
The peace meeting is much tougher because you've got to meet with people you hate.
I mean, that's that Israeli saying, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends.
That's what Israeli leaders have said throughout the decades.
When they sit down with terrorists, it's repulsive to many Israelis.
But the Israeli leaders accurately say if you want to make peace, you're probably going to be doing it with people you've been at war with.
Let me read a little bit more.
Broader demands for peace that Putin listed include Ukraine's recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, keeping the country's non-nuclear status, restricting its military force, and protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population.
All of these should be part of fundamental international agreements, and all Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted, Putin said.
Now, again, you might say those are outrageous demands for Russia to make.
And I'm sure if you believe that every inch of territory that Russia has taken in the last two years should be returned to Ukraine, this feels like an on-starter.
And the fact that they would acknowledge Crimea, which, as I mentioned, was annexed a decade ago, feels outrageous.
And dropping the sanctions feels outrageous, of course.
But that's how the war is going.
And that's the larger party with the larger army that seems to be grounding, grinding down Ukraine.
I have to say that those demands that I just read from Russia seem fairly similar to demands that Russia has been making throughout the war and even before the war.
Let me read a little bit.
Here, Ukraine's foreign ministry called Putin's plan manipulative, absurd, and designed to mislead the international community, undermine diplomatic efforts aimed at achieving a just peace, and split the unity of the world majority around the goals and principles of the UN Charter.
It's probably true.
I'm sure it is.
But that's what it's like when you're dealing with an enemy.
I got a few questions for you.
Who is winning this war?
Who's winning?
I'm not sure.
I mean, Russia has made territorial gains.
They gained a lot, then they were pushed back, and then they have reasserted themselves.
So I guess if territorial gains are a measure, then Russia's winning.
Who's losing?
Well, I think it's incontrovertible that the Ukrainian people are losing.
Hundreds of thousands of dead.
Absolutely destroyed towns and infrastructure.
They're rubbling the whole place.
There are millions of Ukrainians who are refugees around the world, including here in Canada.
I learned 100,000 went to Ireland.
Nearly 1 million Ukrainian men have left the country to dodge the draft because they're getting desperate for more cannon fodder.
That's what happens when you fight against a country that's, I think, triple your population.
Ukraine is now conscripting old people and young people, even mentally disabled people.
Even women are being sent to the army.
They're trying to bring home men from around the world by cutting off consular services.
That is, if you are a man of military age, a Ukrainian outside Ukraine, maybe you're living in the UK or Ireland or Canada or wherever, or Germany, Poland, you are not allowed to renew your passport from outside the country.
They're making you go back home to get your passport, and then they're going to basically press gang you into going into the war.
Here's a story I read in the CBC.
The average soldier's age in Ukraine is in their 40s, in their 40s.
They have ground through a generation of young men or they have fled.
Look, I'm not Russian or Ukrainian.
I mean, maybe four or five generations ago, my family did come from Dnipro, which is one of the battlegrounds, 121 years ago, but I'm Canadian.
But I don't want any more Russians to die.
I don't want any more Ukrainians to die.
I don't think there's such a thing as a victory here.
And I think the wild cheerleaders in the West, I don't really know what they mean.
Like when Trudeau says he will be with Ukraine to the end, to the end of what?
What is that end?
What does that end look like?
Here's Trudeau with a manic cheer.
Canadians know that yes, it is incredibly hard for Ukraine to continue to stand against Russian aggression.
And let's be honest, it's hard for the democracies around the world who are there to support their citizens, who are investing for the future, who are challenged with a challenging economy around the world to continue to step up as Canada has with close to $9 billion in aid for Ukraine.
But we will, because the cost on Canadians, on our lives, on our world will be so much greater if Putin wins this war that we will and have to stand every single day until Ukraine wins this war.
I find it odd, Trudeau's bellicosity for this war when he is so hostile to every other war.
What's the outcome?
What does he think will happen if another 100,000 Ukrainian men are fed into the meat grinder?
I have to tell you that I'm heartbroken about what I learned about Russia and Ukraine.
As you know, for two years in a row now, I've visited the Ukrainian pavilion at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
I go there to learn their side of the story.
It's very important to me.
And I have to tell you, I report to you, and I do this every year in my videos.
Their side of the story is one of disastrous civilian losses.
Put aside the military losses, the humanitarian losses.
How can you visit that Ukrainian pavilion, which I know Christian Freeland does, and leave with an enthusiasm for this war?
It's like the trench warfare of World War I. In fact, it is similar that artillery, trenches.
This time there's the additional horror of little drones that come right over a trench and drop a grenade in them.
It really feels like the pointless killing fields of the First World War.
But I've never been there.
What I'm scared about is here at home, or at least nearby.
Did you see this story?
Four Russian warships, including a nuclear sub, are sitting 200 miles off the coast of Florida.
Ukraine is the target, but as NATO countries arm Ukraine, Russia is putting their military in places that we don't like.
I think one of the dangers is that Western countries are growing impatient with Ukraine's military losses.
And so they're giving stronger and stronger weapons, but they're also permitting Ukraine to not just attack Russian military in Ukraine proper, but deep into Russia.
So let me say that again.
British and American long-range weapons are being given to Ukraine.
And in the past, they've been restricted to fighting to liberate Ukraine, to kick out the Russians.
But now Ukraine is flying drones or missiles hundreds of miles into Russia and targeting oil refineries, targeting military bases.
That's an escalation.
That's why Russia is sailing those ships off the coast of Florida.
And I don't like an escalation with NATO when we're part of NATO.
Look, I don't think it's pro-Russia to want peace.
Of course, I don't want Ukraine devoured.
But if the fighting kept going for another year, would Ukraine really be able to win?
At what human cost?
Putin may actually wish to conquer the world, as some enthusiasts in NATO suggest.
I'm skeptical.
His demands actually sound like what he's been asking for for 20 years.
I don't know, maybe it's a trick.
Or maybe what he's been asking for for 20 years, the neutrality of Ukraine, the demilitarization of Ukraine, and some sort of ethnic self-determination for the Russian population there.
Maybe that's unacceptable and outrageous.
And maybe that's a violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.
And maybe it's unacceptable.
But for 20 years, Putin has demanded it.
And for 20 years, NATO has opposed it.
I've just never seen so many people so eager for a war.
The same people who call for a ceasefire in Gaza every week, they're insisting on a bloody war in Europe.
Focus On People Needs00:10:57
But it's a bit unseemly, I think, Given that it's someone else's citizens doing the dying.
Stay with us for more.
You know, I think you know all the rebels.
One of our newer rebels named Robert Kratzik is in Lethbridge again.
He's following up on the trials of the so-called Coots Four, two of whom took a plea deal a few months ago, two of whom are on trial.
So I think Robert is the newest rebel.
I was going to say the littlest rebel, but he's actually the biggest rebel if you've ever seen him.
I really recommend you follow his work if you're interested in that.
That's still a trucker trial, if you can believe it.
Our website's truckertrial.com, by the way.
So Robert, until recently, I would call him our newest rebel, but we have a rebel who's been working sort of in the background of it.
She's done a few videos, but she's just cranking out the videos every day now.
And I think she's doing a great job.
So she, I would say, is the newest rebel street journalist.
And she's getting a ton of practice.
And I think she's doing a really good job.
And she's about, I don't know, 30 years younger than me.
So she can really connect, I think, with young people.
And I put it to you: the young people are amongst the most skeptical of Justin Trudeau and certainly of Joe Biden.
And it's a real pleasure to watch a rebel take flight.
So let me show you a fun little streeter's video that Sarah Stock published the other day.
And I expect that you'll see a lot more of her because she'll be doing videos every day.
So here's Sarah Stock asking Torontonians to sum up Justin Trudeau in one word.
Take a look.
Sarah Stock for Rebel News.
We're at Woodbine Beach in Toronto.
Now, Toronto is known to be a liberal stronghold, and it's also Canada's largest city when it comes to population size.
So that means that Trudeau has managed to win these past two elections by getting the Toronto vote.
He's less popular than ever right now with his approval ratings being only at 28% as of April 2024.
Let's go talk to some people in real life and see what they have to say about Trudeau.
Could you describe Justin Trudeau in one word?
Oh.
Just one word?
Just first one that comes to mind.
Past due.
Time to go.
Selfish.
Dummy.
Dummy?
I like his father.
I don't like him, huh?
I love this father.
Pierre was good.
Justin Tudeau don't know what to do, man.
He's out to lunch.
Justin Trudeau is a very good leader.
I like Justin Trudeau.
And Canadian government policy and everything.
I like Todo.
Liberal.
Well-intentioned.
Reasonable man.
Reasonable man?
Yeah, sure.
Why not?
Annoying.
Okay, head.
Competent.
Could you describe Justin Trudeau in one word?
No.
No?
Honestly, I'm sorry, but I don't think I can comment very well.
I can't, but thank you.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm sorry, I don't know.
Misinformed.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
Why?
He's a crook.
He's a gangster.
He stole everybody's money.
Eccentric.
Eccentric, really?
Why?
Because I feel like with the cannabis legalization and everything, he was really aiming for the younger voters, the younger generations and such.
Floofy.
Floofy.
I like that.
Floofy.
He's just kind of a floofy-haired idiot.
Disgraceful.
Disgraceful.
Why do you think so?
I just think he's a globalist and he's not looking out for Canada's best interests.
Disappointing.
Disappointing?
Yeah.
Too naive.
Too naive.
Yeah.
What do you think?
Actually, I don't know much about him.
Too gentle?
I think he's okay.
He legalized marijuana.
That was like, what, like eight years ago?
What has he done since then that you like?
Nothing really.
He's taxed us to death.
Yoga practitioner.
Practitioner?
Oh.
You want yoga practitioner?
He does yoga.
Oh, he does?
I had no idea.
He's a bit of a dick.
I mean, yeah, I don't know.
Confused?
Probably.
Irresponsible.
Irresponsible.
Loser.
Loser?
Yeah.
Why?
Why not?
Everything he does is just doesn't make sense.
It's not for our people.
Controversial.
I liked him initially, like, you know, when eight years ago, I voted for him and, you know, now I have a little bit of regret.
But, you know, I just wish he would listen to the people more.
Who are you going to get to replace him?
And I haven't heard of anybody who is that I want to replace him or that I even want him.
He's had his sunny ways and sunny days.
And I think for the liberals or for people that agree with this type of politics, they probably had enough of him.
Well, I mean, the selfishness of him trying to pat his own pockets allowed people to suffer in this way.
He's not a good politician at all, man.
I don't think he's good at politics.
I like Tudu.
Why?
He's a young man and his policy is very good.
It's a very good policy.
He liked that father.
He's like father.
Well, I think the convoy, he wanted to do the right thing, and it's just everything is so complicated, and we live in such divisive times.
And I think when you're trying to please everybody, you end up disappointing a whole lot of people.
And I wouldn't want to be, I wouldn't want the job, but I wouldn't want Pierre Polly ever to have the job either.
Who would you want to have the job?
No one, none of the options, none of the above.
I like Jagmeet Singh, but that'll never happen in my lifetime.
He's raised taxes astronomically that people can't afford to live and put gas in their car.
Many of his policies are absolutely brutal.
The middle class, you go down Queen Street today, and one block, you'll find five four-lease buildings.
These are restaurants who have gone, lost everything.
All of them.
And he's supposed to be for the middle class?
I don't think so.
Who would want to come here?
Zero.
There are going to be no new money coming to this country from outside of the country.
So the only way to make more money is to tax it from the people who already tax too much.
No, that's everything that he's doing is still corrupt.
And Canada is no candidate.
And why am I actually leaving Canada?
You are, where are you going?
In the south of the Caribbean.
Oh, that sounds nice.
You don't live here anymore.
How can you live here anymore?
What's your problems with Kando?
Like, what has Trudeau done to Canada?
Well, we have no rights anymore.
We have no right to protest.
We have no right to say anything.
And apparently now with the CBC, if you say anything bad against the government, you're going to be attacked, you know?
What's that?
That's not Canada.
I feel like he should focus more on us rather than the outside, like the conservatives have been.
What do you mean he's focusing on the outside, like sending money overseas?
Money overseas, like focusing on the outside world rather than being like, hey, our people need help.
Maybe we should focus more on them than on others.
He walks in, everyone hates him.
It's true.
I mean, I don't think you're going to find anyone who thinks that he's a good man.
What about things like, I know a lot of people complain about immigration because we've just had such a big wave of immigration recently.
Do you see that as a good or bad thing?
I feel like it should be motivation for the Canadians who are jobless to be like, hey, if the immigrants can get a job, why can't I get a job?
I'm blown away that he survived the blackface scandal.
He honors Nazis in parliament.
I don't know why we should take him very seriously.
The only thing worse for him, the only thing worse than him for Canada is a Polyev government.
It's the only reason he's been in power for as long as he's been in, because there's no credible opposition.
That's all.
Where does the, if he wins again, where do you see the future of Canada?
Oh, I mean, Canada's just going to continue declining, right?
The RCMP says so.
The OCED says so.
Like, Canada's just in a tailspin, and it's not going to stop.
It's not going to stop with Trudeau.
It's not going to stop with Polyev.
It's not going to stop with Singh.
The capitalist class is sending us into a downward spiral.
You guys probably aren't going to use that last part.
We'll put it in.
No, it's just disappointing, right?
I mean, we had so much hope.
He had that friendship with Obama, and then he just went total on the left, It's created a lot of problems.
Yeah, like with the economy or with what?
When are you talking about these problems?
It trickles down to the economy, but it's a lot of sort of like with this whole whole woke agenda that's sort of really, you know, unfortunately the backlash is people are going to vote far right, which is not good either.
He's not a serious person.
He never was a serious person.
He's a front man for capital so that they can continue to bamboozle us while they extract as much wealth as they can out of the society and then f pitch us all overboard.
That's their obvious strategy.
They're all in it together and they're going to continue acting that way as long as we keep voting for these dim-witted loser capitalists.
Do you think that he'll be taken out of power in this next election?
Absolutely.
I believe he will.
I'm praying he'll be the, he'll go and hopefully he'll be happy that he's going.
But he's loved by the upper elite and hated by the people like on the street now.
Go ask those people who lost everything.
He seems to have an idea of what people need.
It seems like it, but then as soon as he starts talking, he starts talking about something completely different than what was asked.
So it's like, I feel like he kind of knows what's going on, but then just totally gets confused or lost with how to go about it.
You say he's not for our people.
And who's he for?
Who's he working for?
Himself.
Yeah, he wants those votes.
Taking care of us.
What about the money?
What's he using that for?
All our tax dollars.
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Definitely not us.
I try not to get into politics too much with people because it clashes so much.
But yeah, pretty divisive.
But I'd say everywhere politically right now is very divisive.
A lot of issues are kind of black and white when they shouldn't be, and there should be a lot more conversation between people.
That's how I feel.
Hey, can I show you a video that Pierre Polyev's campaign just dropped?
I got the chills from this.
This, at least for me, was very powerful.
What do you think?
Take a look.
It's time for a change in this country, my friends.
A real change.
A real change.
It's time for a change in this country, my friends.
The real team!
Real team!
Realty!
Real team!
Just the other day, I was downtown, but as that video shows, this could be any city.
I happen to be in Toronto.
There's a major road called the Gardner Expressway.
Really, it's the main road in and out of downtown Toronto, and it's crumbling.
Like you can see exposed rebar concrete chunks.
I'm scared.
It's an elevated highway, is what I'm saying.
It's like the whole thing is a bridge, and then it goes, the off-ramps go down.
It's crumbling, like chunks of it.
But even crazier, underneath this elevated highway are countless tents of homeless people.
And we're going to go down and investigate them.
And I want to do this investigation in other cities too, because this isn't just a Toronto thing.
It's an Ottawa thing.
It's a Vancouver thing.
It's a Montreal thing.
And crazy enough, it's even come to smaller towns.
And are these homeless people, regular homeless?
Are these people who are getting legalized drugs?
Are these foreign migrants who have no place to stay?
Are the foreign migrants in the homeless shelters forcing out Canadian?
I want to learn more about it.
I want to be careful that our reporters don't get into trouble.
But being down at this Gardner Expressway the other day, I hadn't been down there in a while.
I was shocked.
I thought, this feels like I'm in Skid Row or something in Los Angeles or in decrepit Portland.
No, it's Canada too.
And I say all of this because whenever I see Justin Trudeau announcing another $5 billion for the war in Ukraine, and I don't understand the path to peace or the path to victory, if there is even one, all I can think about is how about instead of giving foreign aid, how about instead of trying to be a hero in other countries, how about fix a few things here?
I don't know if you saw the news, Calgary had a huge water main break, and it's been more than a week now.
And they have water limitation rules, and I don't even know where it's going to end.
And now politicians are talking about making this a semi-permanent water ration.
Like it's, it feels like a third world country.
And my point is, our politicians are so good at in Calgary, for example, declaring a climate emergency, climate emergency.
Our city counselors in every city in this country are so good at banning single-use cutlery or banning single-use plastic bags.
They're experts at that student union level BS, but they can't build a road and they can't maintain a water main.
And I saw a tweet today by Dean Skarako showing that just atrocious public art.
Politicians using tax dollars for public art has got to be banned somewhere.
Calgary really knows how to do the climate emergency and atrocious public art, but it's not so good at, you know, doing basic stuff like water mains.