Ezra Levant welcomes Tommy Robinson to Canada for his first speaking tour (June 18–30), despite past legal battles—including a UK contempt arrest, solitary confinement, and £60,000 crowdfunded for his defense. Robinson’s recent Twitter reinstatement by Elon Musk revived his platform, fueling a 10,000–20,000-strong London march with Alexa Lavoisier. Levant critiques "lawfare" against dissenters, like the UK’s £1.6M bankruptcy claim targeting activists, and plans a July 27 Trafalgar Square rally. Meanwhile, he reports on Tamara Leach’s Ottawa trial (via truckertrial.com) and Alberta’s Senate elections, where conservative influence could defy Trudeau’s appointments, linking free speech, corruption, and political resistance. [Automatically generated summary]
Tommy Robinson, our friend and former employee and current activist and journalist, has arrived in Canada.
I didn't think it would be possible.
And we're putting on a tour with him.
You'll get all the details and more in today's show.
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All right, here's today's broadcast in podcast form tonight.
I never thought it could happen.
Tommy Robinson is in Canada and he's going on a speaking tour with Rebel News.
It's June 18th, and this is The Adventure.
You have your freedom!
Shame on you, you censorious thug!
I didn't think he could travel here.
I don't know what restrictions are on him, but I know he's had a lot of challenges with court cases before.
But yesterday, Tommy Robinson arrived in Canada.
Here's a video he filmed with our reporter Alexa Lavoie, who was there to greet him when he landed at Montreal's International Airport.
I'm in Canada, yeah, where I didn't think I'd get into Canada.
And I got in, I haven't even booked a hotel, sorting out now.
And I'm here and I want to see as many of you as possible.
So I'm here with Rebel Media and I'm going to be in Calgary, June 24th, Edmonton, June 25th, Toronto, June 30th.
I'm looking forward to it.
You know what?
It might be the only time I'm ever allowed into Canada.
Yeah, so let's make some noise.
Let's make some noise.
And it's at TommyTour.ca.
You can go on there, find out all the details, get your tickets.
I want to see as many of you as possible.
Let's go.
Well, I think that's great.
And he's here for a couple of weeks.
He's here because he has some scheduled podcast interviews to do.
I'll let him announce those on his own timing.
But he's got some time and he has teamed up with us.
It's no surprise.
We used to be the company he worked with.
We're going to put on some speaking events across Canada: Calgary, then Edmonton, then Toronto.
And I suppose there's a chance we could add a few more, but hopefully those locations are close enough to you that if you want to come, you can make it.
To find out the details, including the exact dates and locations and prices, go to tommytour.ca.
I'm excited about this, but I also realize that many Rebel News viewers who have joined us in the last few years, especially since the pandemic, may not know who Tommy Robinson is.
He was a pretty big part of our show in 2018, 19, and even 2020.
Tommy Robinson & the Sikhs00:03:23
He actually worked for Rebel News.
His story is interesting, but it's also hard to know the truth about Tommy Robinson.
Who is he?
I first tried to answer that question 10 years ago when I was at the Sun News Network.
And if you Google him and if you see what the search engines put as the first responses, if you read his Wikipedia page, you will be terrified of him.
And in fact, I was.
For example, I'm Jewish.
I don't want to hang out with someone who hates Jews, who's anti-Semitic.
I don't want to hang out with someone who hates other races either, by the way.
And there's this wall of anti-Tommy propaganda out there that's very difficult to get through.
I remember about 10 years ago when I first convinced him to come on for an interview at Sun News.
The very first question I asked him, and I suppose it sounded sort of stupid or sort of rude, but I felt I just had to ask him, are you racist?
And he didn't take it personally.
He knew I was asking because I wanted to know the truth because I had finally had him instead of just what the propaganda said.
And he told me no.
He was just contrary to the establishment on a number of things.
And actually, one of his most worrying things to him was the Islamification of public life, not Muslims.
In fact, it's always interesting to me how many friends Tommy has who are Muslim or who are minorities of any sort.
The first time I ever met him, he was with his best friend from childhood, who is black.
His two buddies that he first bought a car with are Muslim.
Here's Tommy at a Sikh event.
I think this is in Manchester, shortly after a terrorist attack there.
Tommy and the Sikhs are thick as thieves.
Take a look at this.
We're in Birmingham where we've come to this temple where they're having a little demonstration to get together to show that Sikhs stand against what happened in Manchester.
So many times the Sikh community are wrongly identified as problematic by uneducated people.
So across the country, Sikhs, I've spent the last six, seven years forming relationships with Sikhs across the country, and we couldn't ask and no one could ask for a better minority group, a more loyal, more patriotic, more hardworking group of people.
So the fact that after September 11th, Sikhs were killed, after the Lee Rigby killing, a Sikh was murdered in a horrific attack in response to it.
So by morons.
So yeah, I think if I've got any sort of platform, I want to show the great side of the Sikh community where they stand on all of these issues.
They've been fighting against Islamic extremism throughout their whole history of their religion, of their community.
I've read a couple of Tommy's books, and one of them is very autobiographical, and it tells how he went from being a pretty regular guy to activated politically.
It was when British veterans were coming home from, I think it was Afghanistan, and they were marching through his hometown of Luton.
And you have returning soldiers.
I mean, what's the tradition?
A ticker tape parade in New York?
What would be the tradition in the UK?
I'm sure it would be something similar.
But he was shocked at the abuse that was hurled at these soldiers by certain Muslim extremists in his hometown.
He was appalled.
He couldn't believe it.
And he set up something called the English Defense League or EDL.
Grooming Undercover00:09:46
And at first, they were very shy about this.
They would hide their identities.
But then he was very explicit about it.
And he was also explicit about what he was not.
He was not a racist.
He was against Nazis.
In fact, he burned a swastika to demonstrate that.
But the EDL or the English Defense League had the problem that a lot of right-of-center groups have is entryists coming in either as bad faith agents, provocateurs organized by a government to discredit them or actual entryists who want to take it over.
And it was because of that that Tommy shut down the EDL because there were people, whether they were police informants or true bad dudes, who were taking it into a racist direction.
And he sort of had a second issue that was related to the first.
And it's something we've talked about on Rebel News before, and it's shocking if you haven't heard of it.
In the United Kingdom, they have a phenomenon, and it's a terrible phrase, but I'm just going to say it, of rape gangs.
They sometimes call them grooming gangs.
And, you know, we're used to the concept of a rape as something that happens in an opportunistic moment, in a shocking manner.
Someone's pulled into an alley, God forbid, and raped, and then the marauder runs off.
I think that's what a typical person in Canada, the United States, would call a rape, a one-time violent crime of opportunity, perhaps, or a stalker, perhaps.
In the United Kingdom, it's not that way.
In the United Kingdom, there are these gangs, but they're not sort of street toughs.
They come across the opposite way.
They trick and entrap young girls as young as 11 in one case that I wrote about.
They would say to a young girl, would you like some candy?
Would you like some cigarettes?
Would you like some alcohol?
Have a sip.
Okay, now that you had some alcohol, would you like a real boyfriend?
And some of these girls are very, very young.
Would you like to ride in my car?
I gave you some drugs.
I gave you some alcohol.
Now send me a nude selfie.
Okay, now I have the nude selfie.
I'm going to blackmail you.
I'm going to show this to your mother and your father.
I'm going to publish this online unless you have sex with me and repeatedly and all of the other members in the grooming gang.
So what they do is they trick and entrap and bribe and extort young girls, not just to be raped once, but every night for years.
I know that sounds astonishing.
One particular shocking instance of this was in the city of Rotherham, about a quarter million people.
And over the course of a number of years, 1,300, actually I've seen reports of 1,400, 1,500, 1,300 young girls were raped, and not once, hundreds of times.
And obviously that showed up very quickly.
Social services, hospitals, social workers.
You know, it wasn't long before police, politicians, the media all heard about it.
But everyone was either in on it or they observed what Majid Nawaz, the Pakistani-born Muslim progressive activist in the UK said.
All the men who were in these rape gangs had something in common, or at least 80% of them had something in common.
They were Pakistani-born Muslim men.
And the targets of their rapes were white girls, often lower class.
Here's Majid Nawaz saying what really the rest of us are too afraid to say.
For too long in this country, we, media, the establishment, society, the chattering classes, the liberal elite, whatever term you want to use, have ignored the issue of grooming gangs of young, vulnerable teenage girls who have been victimized, drugged, and raped and abused.
Whether it's the Rotherham case or all the other cases that were replicated across the country, it is both the conclusion of the prosecutor in the Rotherham case, British Pakistani Muslim Nazir Afzal, or indeed the official inquiry into why it took so long for these young, vulnerable, underage girls to get justice.
Both of those concluded that fears of racism prevented us from coming to the defense of vulnerable underage girls.
Fears of racism meaning that the state was scared that it would be accused of being racist if it rightly arrested and prosecuted British Pakistani, largely, British Pakistani Muslim men in their abuse of underage white teenage girls.
And so from fear of appearing racist, there was a silence across the country as multiple cases of grooming gangs emerged up and down the country, as evidenced now due to multiple prosecutions, successful prosecutions, but sadly and unfortunately too late.
If we hadn't all been silent, if we had all addressed this issue head-on when it needed to be addressed, when it was time to address it, then the void would not have emerged for the populist agitators to fill that gap and become popular, actually, as a result of addressing what is a legitimate issue.
They ended up hijacking what should have been the concern of every right-minded citizen in this country.
I just wish, I wish that those young girls had seen justice served for them as fast as the judge served Tommy Robinson justice in this case.
Because in this case, it's very easy for us to pick on the bogeyman.
But actually, the truth is that our silence over decades in this country is the real bogeyman.
And that's the real thing we should despise, our own cowardice in the face of grooming of young girls up and down this country and our conspiracy of silence.
So Tommy Robinson, being a working class lad from one of these northern towns, he saw this in his own community.
In fact, a member of his extended family was a victim.
And he started speaking out against these rape gangs, these grooming gangs, when everyone else was too terrified to talk about it.
By the way, the Rotherham case, there was finally a commission of inquiry.
And if you read that commission of inquiry, they say again and again, people knew this massacre of young women were happening, but everyone was too afraid of being called racist.
So they turned a blind eye.
Well, it wasn't just in Rotherham, it was all across the UK, and this became a focus of Tommy Robinson.
Not just English pride in standing up for soldiers, but pushing back against these rape gangs.
I came to know him on these things, and I realized that he was drawing a distinction between individual Muslims who are people and should be treated with respect as any people would, and the ideology of political Islam or Islamism.
Anyhow, when rebel news started, we hired Tommy to be our UK reporter.
And this is when we weren't really traveling a lot yet and didn't really know what we were doing yet.
And Tommy was over there and he started getting these viral hits because he was saying things that no one else in the UK would say.
He happened to be on the scene, for example, moments after an Islamic terrorist hurtled down Westminster Bridge, mowing down people in his car.
Here's this astonishing clip by Tommy Robinson moments after that terrorist attack.
And watch how the other media react to him and his response to them.
This video went super viral, about 20 million views in various formats.
And it really made Tommy as a journalist and commentator.
Take a look.
As I said, as we're walking around here, we've gone past young people, young girls with blankets over them from the shock.
This isn't a shock to me.
I don't understand people who are surprised by this.
We've had 12 suspected terrorist attacks planned last year.
If they would have been successful, you'd have seen shopping centers, you'd have seen aeroplanes, you'd have seen nightclubs, you'd have seen a war zone on our streets, similar to this, every single month.
Then and only then might people realize we are at war.
We're in war already.
We have over 3,000 Muslims who are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Every week, a cost of £9 billion a year.
We're following and waiting for them to do this.
We have had 450 ISIS fighters been allowed to return to our country.
They've gone and fought for ISIS.
They've been in training camps.
They've been beheading people.
They've been raping people and they're walking the streets of our capital city.
They're living with us.
Our government have failed us.
Don't come out and act all strong on this, Home Secretary, Theresa May, because you haven't been strong.
You've been weak.
You've shown cowardice.
Okay?
Very quick to label this as a foreign terrorist.
Because my head is not up my arse.
My head is not up my arse.
This is an Islamic jihad attack.
The man that done this would have either been radicalized in a prison or he would have been radicalised on the streets of the UK with full knowledge of our government and our security services.
They will know who he is.
Yeah, mate.
I have information that shows there was four terrorist attacks last week in France.
Four in France.
There was 12 planned last year.
Driving your car like this man has done is exactly what the Inspire magazine, which is Al-Qaeda's magazine, which was downloaded by 50,000 British Muslims last year.
50,000 British Muslims downloaded a terrorist manual in our country.
50,000, not 10, not 20.
Leaders Want to Invite More00:02:37
50,000 people who want to see exactly what you see there.
That's what they want.
They want war.
They want death.
They want destruction.
And we keep on pandering like you just come up to me saying it's got nothing to do with Islam.
It's got everything to do with Islam.
I'm simply asking how you're over the political.
I'm on the reality.
This is the reality.
The reality is this is a war.
These people are waging war on us for time.
This has gone on for 1,400 years.
This is nothing new.
And the whole time while this goes goes on, police leaders or political leaders want to invite more.
They want to invite more.
Well, back then, Tommy had a reputation as the former boss of the EDL.
And he had had some scuffles with the law, but he took to journalism like a fish to water.
And soon his videos were getting millions of views.
And his social media accounts, especially on Facebook, were the most engaged with social media accounts in the entire United Kingdom.
Tommy Robinson on Facebook had more engagement than either the prime minister or the leader of the opposition.
He was huge.
And in response to this, because he was the only person in the media or in politics talking about these issues, there were actually parliamentary hearings talking about him by name.
In fact, I remember one case when Google's head of counterterrorism was summoned before the British Parliament and they asked him, why aren't you banning Tommy Robinson?
Take a look at this craziness.
How do you feel about hosting Tommy Robinson on YouTube?
Yeah, I mean, obviously, I find his point of view on the world abhorrent.
And I think it's a very difficult call.
I presume he's looked at the policies and tried to ensure that any videos on YouTube don't contravene the policies and our reviewers have taken that view at the moment.
They'll keep it under review.
And that's very different from the video content he's used on other platforms, which is why he's been banned elsewhere.
We have to look across instances like that and check that we think that the policies are in the right place because there is a responsibility here that balances freedom of speech versus stopping hate speech and incitement to violence.
And I know, I think in this case, I'm not personally that close to it, but I think in this case, we've had one political leader saying you absolutely should take this off YouTube and another political leader saying you absolutely must leave it up there.
His videos on YouTube don't get monetized by advertising.
They don't get access to the tools other creators have.
But, you know, from a journalistic point of view, from a public interest point of view, understanding what kind of views are out there, maybe that is useful.
And so that's where we're trying to make sure that our policy is in the right place.
But does that make you think the fact that he's able to be on there when he's been banned elsewhere that your policies are wrong?
Solitary Confinement Contempt00:09:41
It gives you pause for thought all the time when you're dealing with these challenging cases.
I think in his instance, as I understand it, the videos are different on different platforms.
But I think, you know, it's absolutely an area that's under very close review all the time.
Well, it wasn't hard to twist the arm of social media companies to ban people on the right.
They were all doing it.
And soon enough, Tommy had all of his social media turned off, including Twitter.
So the slanders would mount against him and he couldn't fight back.
Not just that, but when he tried to, he was arrested.
Tommy worked for Rebel News and then we parted ways.
And about 90 days after he left us, he was arrested for contempt of court for this video.
And you show me where the contempt of court is.
This was a rape gang that had been on trial.
The trial was over and the verdict was going to be delivered.
So the trial was all over.
And Tommy was simply asking the accused rapists as they were going into court, how do you feel about your verdict?
Take a look at what Tommy asked the men.
How are you feeling?
How are you feeling about your verdict?
How you feeling about your verdict?
How you feeling about your verdict?
What verdict?
How you feeling about the verdict?
You've got your prison bag, have you?
Yeah, look at you.
You've got your bags for you?
You've got your bags for you?
How are you feeling about the verdict?
You've got no guilt.
Is there any guilt?
Is there any guilt, mate?
It's the devil.
For that, he was arrested by half a dozen cops, put in the back of a truck, whisked away to a trial that took less than 10 minutes.
Tommy himself never spoke a word, and he was sent to prison.
He was sent to prison that day and later put in solitary confinement.
Watch that astonishing arrest.
I've been arrested for pretext.
I've been arrested for breach of the peace.
You've all watched this.
You've all watched the piece of peace.
Can you get me a slister, can you get me a slister?
Can you just turn off your light feet please?
Just turn off your light feet please.
Do you understand what the stuff can do?
No, can you explain it again?
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
What does that mean, obviously?
What does that mean?
I've told the police that the verdict is paid for.
No, sorry.
I've been on the side.
George, that's the information I've got.
I'm inciting you with video.
How have I writing him?
This is free speech.
This is where we're at.
We're not even allowed to.
Look at this.
Look how many people are doing this.
Why would you do this?
More people.
More people now than ever.
This is ridiculous.
Let's do you feel right when you're doing it.
I haven't said a word.
In fact, someone laid their hand and assaulted me outside court.
Other people have threatened me about my mother, and here I am being arrested for saying nothing.
I'm threatened to behead that nothing.
What are they arresting you for, Tommy?
Breach of the peace.
Apparently, I'm inciting on my video.
Can you please, George, get me a solicitor?
Yep, so I've got gravity.
I'm going to suspend his sentence yourself.
Yeah, that's really just nothing wrong.
As I mentioned, by that point, Tommy was not working for us anymore, so I didn't have the authority to jump into high gear.
It took me about a month to get the permission and authority of his family to intervene on his behalf, to crowdfund lawyers to get him out of prison.
By the time we managed to get him out, we realized what a month and a half in solitary confinement had done to him.
Take a look at this when he finally got out of prison.
And here he is now.
Yeah, the camera's pointing this way.
They've been very insistent that I'm not.
Hey, Tommy.
How are you doing, man?
You're right.
I'm doing great.
Look at you.
I know, man.
First up, hairdressers.
Yeah, I know.
Have your fun with your memes.
Tommy, it's great to see you.
You're in better health than you were last time.
We visited you a few times.
Say a few words to your supporters who have been rooting for you these past 66 days.
Yep.
I'd say it's been.
I've enjoyed reading the support and hearing the support.
For me, the main thing for this would be an embarrassment to the British government, an embarrassment to the judiciary.
In the judge's words, so let's pretend I did commit contempt court, which I did.
In her words, it was unintentional.
So something that was unintentional, something that was unintentional that had zero effect on a trial, would result in a man, a journalist, being put in prison, spending two and a half months in solitary confinement in Ombud.
And this is the crazy thing.
I walked into Belmarsh prison and walked out without seeing another prisoner.
But in a way, that was good because- It's good for my safety.
...in Lonely, they would have killed you if they could.
No, they would have done, yeah.
Essentially, the governor here has done...
I don't have a negative word to say about Belmarsh Christmas or any of the sides.
Other than the insanity that you were in here at the beginning.
Other than the insanity, and by putting me at the Old Bailey, they knew they'd get me in Belmarsh.
So then they can get me on solitary on isolation.
Whereas if they would have put it in the second biggest court in the land, which was Winchester, I'd have gone to the Cat B local in Winchester, I'd have been fine.
There's no Muslims in the jail.
But essentially, I'm old, look, I'm mess, so have your fun with it.
And it's ginger, so I look like a little cowardly convert coming out of jail.
Well, they retried Tommy and they sent him back to prison, and I started going over there from time to time to do prison welfare checks.
Here's an example of my visit to the UK.
I just left HMP Belmarsh, the high security prison on the east end of London, where Tommy Robinson is serving out his nine-month sentence for contempt of court.
The good news is in five seconds, I could tell that Tommy is healthy.
He's healthy physically and he's healthy psychologically.
And that's important to say.
That might sound obvious.
It is not at all obvious because he wasn't okay in HMP only.
He just wasn't.
He was half-starved.
He lost 40 pounds, three stone, as they say in the UK, in his 10 weeks of incarceration.
He was absolutely shell-shocked and stressed from being put in solitary confinement for 23 and a half hours a day, no exercise, no human contact, not even a TV to give him a voice.
And then in the half hour, a day he was let out of that box, it was to be in like a thunderdome where he was shouted and screamed at by the other prisoners for half an hour.
So 23 and a half hours a day of silence, sensory deprivation, and then half an hour a day of absolute abuse.
That is a dictionary definition of torture, both on the physical side, starving him, and on the mental health, psychological side.
Let me contrast that to his treatment at Belmarsh, where he I asked him how he's eating.
He says that the food that they give him is fine.
It's great to see him laugh.
I know that's something we take for granted on the outside.
I don't think there's a lot of laughter in prison, especially like Belmarsh, especially an isolation unit.
What they did to you was a form of physical and psychological abuse.
Yeah, so I haven't had a conversation with anyone for two and a half months.
I haven't seen anyone.
So other than one hour, twice where I saw my wife and children.
For one hour only?
Yeah.
Where do us get more time than that?
I don't know, it's just...
I heard that in prison you had constant threats.
Is that true?
So what's going on?
I had threats every day.
You know this heat that we've had here?
I couldn't have my cell windows open because they would be spat through or shit put through them.
Oh my God.
And so I had my windows shut all the time.
And then at the same time as that, I had just threats from everywhere.
And then at the same time as that, I had the police visiting my mother and my wife to tell them that there's intelligence, there's going to be acid attacks on them.
Now, I don't know if, you know how bad it is for me.
I don't even feel.
I don't believe they're intel.
I think all of this and the timing for all of it is so I'm on solitary confinement and this is happening outside which I can't deal with.
But when I do get a chance to ring home, I find out the police are at my house and my wife's crying and they're scared.
And is there really Intel saying that?
And everything they've done.
Do you know why they moved you to a more dangerous prison?
They moved me from H ⁇ P Hole, which was a 7% Muslim population, to the most densely Muslim populated prison in the country.
Did they give you a reason?
No, they give no reason, but then what they, I know why they did it, because what they then did is they used the excuse of my safety, which when I got there, they put me straight on solitary confinement.
They locked me straight away, which was 23 and a half hours a day, locked in a room in a blue mat.
And then for 30 minutes a day, they opened the door and you walk into a cage this size, small, and you walk around the cage on your own, and then they open the door and lock you back in.
Like an animal.
And you know if every prisoner had that, if that was the sentence for prisoners, it was the fact that every other prisoner's cell door opens at 8 o'clock in the morning and they're out of their cell working, having football, playing pool, and then they get locked up at 6 o'clock at night.
Press Confronted Police Force00:04:44
And I think, I haven't done anything.
Well, Tommy has had various brushes with the law, but he's had various successes too.
It's obvious that he is being treated as an enemy of the state.
Here's an example.
Last year, there was a pro-Israel march against anti-Semitism in London, and Tommy has always been pro-Israel and anti-Islamist.
Tommy showed up as a working journalist, but one of the far left-wing organisers of this march demanded that police arrest him.
And they did, just because one guy said so.
Look at that atrocious event.
You're trying to invent my family.
Don't be so stupid then.
Get a break.
You asked me to keep my address on all these cameras.
You're creating a problem.
You purposely do it.
I'm not.
You dispersed from the air.
Yes, city of London.
Royal bands are not.
No freedom of press.
Do you believe in freedom of press?
Lambda, the farmers, but not included.
Okay, that's it.
Okay, can I reply to that quickly?
This notice is now for 24 hours.
So you must leave the locality.
Officer, can I reply to that please?
Always, you need to go right down King Street to the Wave Cayborn Train Station.
And the grounds of this is your presence is likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress to attendees at the march.
This was the Metropolitan Police Force yesterday.
The right of the press to freely report on protest is no less important than the right to the protest itself.
They should be able to do so without facing intimidation and aggression, officer.
Officers spoke with a journalist and their team following the incident.
I'm a member of the press.
I'm at work, yeah?
Is anyone here caused alarm and distress by my presence here?
Ladies, everyone's Jewish here.
There's no one who's causing alarm to distress.
No one has come up to you and said anything about me.
You are working under the orders of Sadiq Khan and Mark Rowley.
Mark Rowley is an apologist for Hamas.
They're apologists for jihad.
And the British public are fed up of your writing.
Lisa.
I refuse you request, but I understand why.
Officer, I'm here to do my job.
So you're just doing your job.
I heard that.
I heard that about 1970s.
I heard that about the morning.
I heard this saying you're not.
I'm doing my job.
Like you look.
I'm just here to do my job.
That's my cameraman.
I'm at work.
Do you think a member of the press should be arrested for doing their job?
No.
I'm glad the journalists are saying that.
So Stephen, this is your only German.
Stephen, listen, this is your dispersal notice.
You're still not to leave the place.
You imitate this offering enough.
No.
Officer, you're embarrassing too.
Your embarrassment, this is an embarrassment.
Take that as a no.
It's an embarrassment to the police.
Political police!
Take your hands off him!
Take your hands off him!
He's got nothing wrong!
He's got nothing wrong!
Tommy was literally pepper sprayed in the face while handcuffed and banned from going into London for half a year just because some left-wing organizer didn't want it.
Tommy appealed that in court and won.
Here's our friend Sheila Gunnreid reporting on that victory.
Tommy, reaction to the verdict today?
I'm thrilled, yeah?
I'm thrilled, but I'm still angry.
I'm shocked, actually, that you won in court.
So am I. I'm shocked.
I don't think they had anywhere they could go on it because it was so blatant and the world watched the video of it.
But I'm still angry with what they've been allowed to do.
I'm still angry that my rights and my freedoms have been taken from me for six months.
I'm still angry that the public have had to support a case to the tune of £60,000.
This has cost £60,000, yeah?
How?
Why?
Why was I in court in the first place?
Who should be in court?
The officer who attacked me?
The officer who gave the full order?
The officers who admitted changing the forms?
They should be in court.
Someone should face punishment for what's happened.
But I feel I am happy.
I am happy.
I just still think that I still think I know they're going to do this again.
They're just going to be more careful with the paperwork.
Well, it's a weapon they use.
Lawfare is a weapon.
They use the judiciary, they use the police to silence you, to harass you.
As I said, this is probably the seventh or eighth time I've been in court on this case.
Just on this case.
Your time's taken up, your energy's taken up.
You're continually fighting the system.
And they throw it all at you.
It comes at you from everywhere.
So I am happy.
I am happy.
I'm a bit overwhelmed because I just didn't expect a judge to ever side me.
There was no jury in there as a judge.
So I'm glad we found a judge who stood on truth.
Because I've been in some of these court cases before where I think, well, we won that.
And then I end up getting convicted.
So yeah, I'm happy.
You're an embarrassment for the Met.
A total embarrassment for them.
Their behavior was an embarrassment.
Their actions were behaviour.
The fact they've gone through this case is an embarrassment.
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Well, with Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson was born again on Twitter, where he now has more than half a million followers.
Not only does he have a platform now, but he's sort of been re-normalized.
Banning someone from the public square doesn't just silence them.
It's sort of a mark, a stigma on them that they've done something morally wrong.
Even though when you're banned from social media, you don't have a trial.
Well, putting Tommy back on social media has not only given him a big following again, but given him the credibility that he is part of the political conversation.
And just a few weeks ago, Tommy led a massive march in central London.
And I don't know, 10 or 20,000 people were there, including our own Alexa Lavoisier.
Take a look at this.
Thank you, Madison.
But Eno Musk hasn't just given me a voice.
Citizen journalism is the answer to the corrupt media.
Okay?
Suddenly sent him a message saying, but we want today to be the start.
We want to get planning.
You see all the people there.
The Mayor Two C's, the Lawrence Foxes, the Cavan Robinsons, the Cole Benjamin, all of them people.
A movement needs to be formed out of all of them sitting down together.
Everyone who sees this country under attack, everyone who wants to solve it, they don't have to agree with every part of each person's politics.
Just agree on the principal points.
Freedom of speech.
Stop sexualization of children.
Stop foreign.
Stop wars.
We don't want to go to war, okay?
Not for some globalist bullshit agenda.
Tommy is making movies.
He's doing journalism.
He's a political activist and he's tapping into a hunger in the UK, a hunger for change.
The same hunger that Nigel Farage is tapping into as the leader of the new Reform UK party that's upending the Tories.
I think Tommy's a very interesting guy.
He's an interesting storyteller, but he's an interesting story in himself, his own life.
And I think his life and what's been done to him is a warning for us here in Canada too, of what could happen if we let go of our freedom of speech and if Islamification is something we can't talk about.
So if you are interested in meeting Tommy, go to TommyTour.ca.
We're going to be taking him across Canada.
Stay with us.
More ahead.
Well, our friend Alex Lavoie didn't just record that very short Welcome to Montreal video.
She had a bit of an interview with Tommy, and here's how that went.
Alexander LaBoeau for Red Bull News, and I'm currently at the Montreal Airport.
Why?
Because Tommy Robinson is supposed to arrive in a couple of minutes.
We don't know yet if the security would let him through, but we also, because we have a special event with him in Toronto and Calgary.
You can right now purchase your ticket.
The general admission will be $50.
And if you want a VIP with a full meal and hear from him and meet privately with him, it's a VIP ticket.
You can purchase that at TommyTour.ca.
We are here.
We want to speak with him.
We want to have his first impression.
It is terrific to see what's going on in Canada.
If you are a criminal and you want to come in Canada, it's easy.
You just walk through the border and they will welcome you with open arms.
They will give you everything that you want.
But for someone like Tommy Robinson, who is a journalist and activist, who is shedding light on different topics, and of course is politically incorrect in the view of the government because it is not following the same narrative like him and Evie Mini.
When they try to go to other countries, they try to block them and they try to stop them to come.
Why?
Just because of their view and their opinion.
This is just crazy.
We will see if the security would let him through.
I know now he's still on the plane, but we will know in a couple of minutes.
But I say it to you.
We want his first impression, but we want you to go over TommyTour.ca, purchase your ticket.
It's probably the only time in your life and his life that you will have the chance to meet with him.
So go to TommyTour.ca, purchase your ticket, and if you want more, don't forget the VIP one give you more time with him and the chance to speak with him one-on-one.
So we are currently waiting, but what we know so far, Tommy has been stopped right now and is currently at the immigration.
We are hoping for the best.
So finger cross.
You good?
I'm very happy.
Good, so am I.
Oh my God.
just not getting in I was like it's good So for what?
Three hours and a half in the immigration.
And so did they say anything to you?
Just asked what I'm doing here, who I'm visiting.
It's good.
Were you scared?
Yeah, of course.
I never thought I was getting in.
Is it your first time?
First time in Canada.
Oh, my God.
Welcome.
I didn't even get in Mexico.
I landed to go to Mexico and they didn't let me in.
But that was the British again.
Yeah, I mean.
So you flew from Copenhagen?
I flew straight from Copenhagen because I was there for work.
Okay.
So what are you going to do here in Canada?
I'm happy to be in Canada.
Do you know people from Canada have supported me for years?
Ezra Levant's Rebel Media put me on my path of journalism, which I'm very grateful for.
So I'm here to, I'm going to hook up with Ezra.
I believe we're doing Calgary.
We're going to be in Calgary, June 24th, Edmonton, June 25th, and Toronto, June the 30th.
I've got a few other people on the sea.
Gad Sad, Tammy Peterson.
I'm blessed.
I'm happy.
I never know the whole time flying it.
I didn't expect to get in.
So I'll say, I didn't even book a hotel.
I've got to sort it out now.
Because I didn't book it because I thought it was no point because I might not get through.
But I'm happy.
I'm tired, but I'm happy.
I'm happy to be here.
And you have an event that's coming up in Glenn?
Well, in England, July 27th.
It's going to be massive.
It's going to be massive.
But do you know, I just found out, they've just given me a court date today.
I just heard you.
They're trying to send me back to jail.
For a film that I made four years ago.
I made a film four years ago that was released in America 18 months ago.
So when I made the film, it exposed corruption of the government, of the local council and the judiciary, and they gave me an injunction preventing me from ever showing anyone it.
And I didn't show anyone it because I'd go to jail.
And it was released in America.
It was leaked in America 18 months ago.
I want to heard you because you didn't heard it from a lawyer of the court itself.
I want you to tell us all you learn about it.
Yes, I haven't heard it from the court.
I haven't heard it from anyone.
I've heard it from a far-left NGO organisation who operate to attack people like me and they're the ones that have put out breaking news, Tommy Robinson's in court July 27th.
First I know of it.
First I know of it, which shows that they are working alongside the judiciary to attack people and to silence people.
It's on July 29th.
It's my court date.
Two days after you?
Two days after the event.
Yeah, two days after the event.
I haven't been in the country for weeks.
Since June the 1st, I haven't been in the UK.
So maybe they were trying to get me in court before.
I don't know.
I haven't been there.
Wow.
So I've been away.
I've been in Spain.
I've been in Denmark and now I'm here.
Now I'm here for a few weeks.
Come on, Canada.
So Tommy is going to be with us for multiple events.
You can have your ticket.
I invite you to purchase it at TommyTour.ca.
You can have just the general ticket, but you can buy your VIP to spend time with this fella and have like a meal with him to learn about him.
I think it's, first of all, it's his first time and it's probably your last time.
It probably is my last time, yeah.
I'm surprised I'm here.
So that's why I said it.
It's probably the last time I'll ever be allowed in Canada.
So I'm happy.
And do you know why I'm happy?
Because a lot of people have supported me and I have messages all the time.
I had people, three different Canadians just in the last two days messaging me saying, come to Canada, come to Canada.
So I'm happy to be here.
I'm happy to hopefully get to meet some of the people that have supported me for the years of my journalism with Ezra, the years of my work.
And I want to see Canada.
So come on.
And by the way, we had one of our journalists, A.V. Emini, that was blocked in New Zealand in the past.
And I was getting really worried because it's been like three hours and a half.
And I was like, I'm worried it will not get through.
But I want just a quick word about the censorship that you experience.
Not just in England.
I think it's a little bit where you go.
Do you call it censorship?
There's a mixture of censorship and lawfares.
They're not just happy with silencing people anymore.
They want to destroy them, financially bankrupt them.
That's what they've done to me.
The film that I released is about the court case where they bankrupt me for £1.6 million.
My film and my covert recordings prove the entire case is fraudulent.
It proves hands down.
That's why they give me an injunction, not let me show the public here.
But then they were unhappy because it got released in America.
And then look at the timing, yeah.
We have our event on June the 1st.
It goes very successfully, 10, 20, 30,000 people there.
We've organized another event, which is going to be the biggest gathering of patriots that Britain's ever seen.
We're going to fill Trafalgar Square.
I think a million people will probably be watching it live.
The whole world's going to have their eyes on London on the 27th of July.
And then bang, they come and dig up a case.
They dig up a film that was released 18 months ago and they'll give me two years.
They send me to the High Court of London.
No jury.
I don't get a jury for this case.
So I'm up before a judge.
But anyway, I'll stop.
That's the negativity.
The positivity is I'm in Canada.
Yo, I'm here.
So let's go.
Tommy Tour.ca right now.
I look forward to seeing you.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
Chuck O'Malk says, why do journalists need qualifications but not politicians?
Oh my gosh, that's such a great question.
It's obviously about the court case for the qualified Canadian journalism organization.
And this is one of the things I was, well, I say to anyone who listened to me, imagine the chutzpah of politicians saying, we're going to vet journalists.
We're going to see if journalists are up to stuff.
It doesn't work that way.
It's the opposite.
Journalists and all of us get to scrutinize politicians because they're the ones who hold power in trust for us.
We don't have to prove anything to politicians.
They have to prove everything to us.
But that's a great point.
Tara Fox says, you'd think independent media would be considered more viable news than state-funded media.
Well, viable, if you mean economically viable, getting free cash from Trudeau sort of guarantees you're viable as a financial success, even if you've lost all your viewers.
That's what's so incredible about the CBC.
I'm not sure if you've been following our reports on this, but year after year, the CBC's viewership falls.
How is that possible?
They get more money than ever.
The population of Canada is larger than ever.
How are they falling?
Well, it doesn't matter to them as long as they please one particular viewer.
Angel of a Million Years says, please interview Tamara and the truckers weekly and encourage them to run for office at all levels.
Well, I mean, we love Tamara Leach, if that's who you're talking about.
And we'll certainly interview her when, or I don't think that she would really give interviews about her trial when that resumes.
So, you know, we'll talk about her case, but I don't think we're going to talk to her about the trial until the trial is over.
We wouldn't want to prejudice her case.
As you know, when her trial is on in Ottawa, we have Robert Kratzyk, our court reporter, cover it every day.
He attended literally every single day of court.
Right now, he's in Coots, sorry, in Lethbridge, Alberta, for the trial of two of the Couts IV.
And he's doing those reports every day.
If you haven't seen them, you can see them at truckertrial.com.
We love Tamara Leach.
We support her in everything she does.
We even published her book, as you may know.
And we'll certainly, if she has any news to say, we'll certainly be there to report it.
And like I say, we will be there to report on her court case.
I do hope that she remains in the public sphere.
But I have to say, she's a real person.
She's got a husband and kids.
I think she's a grandma.
And, you know, she may not want to run for public office.
You may want her to, but it'll be interesting to see what she does.
It's clear that she does well in the public sphere and has really taken a personal approach to everyone who reaches out to her.
That's a little bit different than running for public office.
But you could be right.
You know, I sometimes try and convince people to run for the Senate in Alberta.
For those of you in the nine other unlucky provinces, every once in a while, the province of Alberta actually has a Senate election.
Now, Justin Trudeau appoints whoever he wants.
He doesn't respect elections.
But when the next conservative prime minister takes office, and if there is an opening during his term, it has been the tradition, I mean, Stephen Harper did it, of appointing elected senators.
Don't you think that would be a good thing for Tamara elites to run for?