Ezra Levant praises Britain’s historical empire while condemning Rishi Sunak’s "gazillionaire" leadership and globalist policies—open borders, net zero extremism, and GDP obsession—mirroring Justin Trudeau’s. Labour’s Kier Starmer aligns with Davos over Westminster, with pro-Hamas factions and Muslim Vote’s sectarian rise in Ilford North. Nigel Farage’s GB News entry contrasts Sunak’s robotic style, rallying young voters against de-banking and broken net migration pledges (4.3M arrivals since 2019). Farage’s anti-net zero stance joins a global populist backlash against figures like Trump and Milei. Meanwhile, Levant warns of NAPAPI—a Canada-U.S.-Mexico pandemic plan expanding vaccine mandates and WHO-style governance—centralizing power in unelected agencies like Public Health Canada, echoing COVID-era overreach by officials such as Teresa Tam. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, Nigel Farage is back in the United Kingdom, and politics there are getting pretty exciting.
It's June 27th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
You know, I'm interested in the UK.
Our friend Tommy Robinson is from the UK.
That's actually what started getting me interested in the UK.
I had been there only, I think, twice in my entire life until we hired this firebrand in the UK.
And I would go over there to meet him and to learn about what's going on and to hire lawyers because Tommy was always in trouble.
And I sort of fell in love with the country.
I could see the roots of our own country over there, and I could see amazing things.
I mean, the UK today, it is Great Britain.
It really is great.
But it is the legacy of the greatest empire the world has ever seen.
I mean, you could say that the Mongols were great and the Romans were great, and both of those things are true.
But I think the British Empire was the greatest empire, the largest, richest, most powerful empire that ever existed in history.
And although the empire has been dismembered, much of the greatness remains, and there's so many things about that country to admire, I believe.
But their politics has been atrocious.
They have a nominally conservative government, has been for 14 years, called the Tories as well.
But there is nothing Justin Trudeau has done that they have not done as Tories.
They've brought in transgender extremism.
They are deeply committed to net zero environmental extremism.
They have open borders similar in scale to that we do.
And of course, they have little dinghies and boats sailing over from France claiming asylum, even though obviously France is a free and safe country.
There are so many appalling things in the UK.
And what irks me about it, it was all done in the name of the Conservative Party, name of the Tory Party.
And so that party's name is mud.
But what are you going to do about it?
Because the leading opposition party is the Labour Party that on each of the issues I just mentioned is worse and far worse and worse on it on, and some things are spectacularly worse.
And they would be very troubling, for example, from the point of view of aligning the UK more with the Hamas Islamic extremism.
So what's a freedom-oriented nationalist populist voter to do?
What's someone to do if the Tories have had open borders for 14 years and Labor will obviously continue?
Who are you going to vote for?
What can you do?
I saw a poll, I mentioned it to you before, that, and it was just one poll, and it may have been a rogue poll, but that only 1% of young people in the UK plan to vote Tory.
1%, even if that was off and it was 5%.
Imagine how disheartening it is.
And that's for a lot of the same reason that here is in Canada.
Young people cannot afford a home.
If you think prices are expensive in Toronto, try London.
And the reason for that is the millions of mass migrants who have come.
And I think there's another reason.
The Tories installed their new leader.
He has never been voted on by grassroots members of the party.
It was sort of like a palace coup.
And so Rishi Sunak, a gazillionaire, is the leader of the party, but he has the feeling sometimes of being like a globalist banker who doesn't understand anything real.
It just talks about GDP.
And I understand why GDP is important, but I think it's important to an ordinary person to earn money, not, well, if we just, you know, reduce services and bring in more migrants, we can get the GDP to grow by 0.0.
Like he's a technical technocrat who has all the humanity of an artificial intelligence.
Like I feel when I'm watching Rishi Sunak that I'm watching an AI creation of a person.
Here's an old clip of him showing just how privileged and out of touch he is where he says I have friends who are aristocrats.
I have friends who are upper class.
I have friends who are lower class, working class.
Oh, not them.
Take a look at this.
Friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class.
I have friends who are working class, but not working class, but I mix and match.
He's just so disconnected from people.
And some of the funniest ads in this campaign have been him in normal situations being so awkward, like going to soccer or football, as they call it.
Here's a clip of that.
I mean, these are political ads criticizing him, but it's tapping into something about him, which is he is so unlikable and unrelatable.
But what are you going to do about it?
Here's how his opposition depicts him.
Is he looking forward to all the football?
Not so much my bad.
Well, you don't get people in you.
Yeah, but that's because you guys aren't in it.
Well, get people out.
You know, there'll be people coming.
It'll be good summer to support England.
I'm all right.
How are you?
Yeah, that's right.
Rishi, what's your name?
Dean.
Dean, how are you?
Hungry?
Well, we're getting sick of breakfast.
And then.
Would you like sausages?
I used to be just a peach.
Some toast?
Perfect.
A couple of eggs?
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Now, you've been here before, have you?
I have, yeah.
Yeah, it's a great place, isn't it?
Yes, it's a superb job.
Right, there's that.
That's a country.
Let me get we're not working the economy out.
Well, that is exactly what I'm trying to do.
Exactly what I'm trying to do.
It is for business.
Do you work in a business?
Do you want somebody?
No, I'm homeless.
I'm actually a homeless person at a minute, but I'm interested in this.
Rishi talks tough about immigration, but more boats come every day.
Rishi has been an endorser of net zero.
Minecraft Mayhem00:05:02
The United Kingdom has been a very bellicose point of view in the Ukraine-Russia war.
And according to several diplomats who were there, it was the UK that scotched a peace deal that could have been had over a year ago.
One of the traditions of the British Conservative Party is a strong military.
For years, the British had a mighty military.
I mean, for centuries, they had the most powerful navy in the world.
They've practically been demilitarized, although they talk very butch about the war with Ukraine and Russia.
They have demilitarized themselves.
It's a surveillance state now.
There's closed-circuit TV everywhere, and not just for fighting crime, but for fighting against environmental crimes.
They have something there called ULES, ultra-low-emission zones, or 15-minute cities, where they have these cameras that spy on cars driving where they're not supposed to drive.
By the way, it's led to an underground phenomenon called blade runners.
People who are masked sort of sneak out with a metal saw, a hacksaw, and cut down these ULES surveillance cameras.
It's quite something.
And of course, the Conservatives were very strong into lockdownism, although, of course, they cheated themselves.
So my point is, the United Kingdom's Tory Party was utterly uninspiring.
The opposite of Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party in Canada.
Labor is awful, and they will be worse if they win.
Here's an example of Kier Starmer, the Labour leader.
When he was asked, which do you prefer, Westminster, which is what they call their houses of parliament, or Davos, as in the World Economic Forum?
Like any politician should know what to say.
Well, he answered with his heart.
Let's just ask you quickly.
You have to choose now between Davos or Westminster.
Davos.
Why?
Because Westminster is too constrained.
And, you know, it's closed and we're not having meaning.
Once you get out of Westminster, whether it's Davos or anywhere else, you actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future.
Westminster, just a tribal shouting place.
By the way, there are forces pulling Keir Starmer's Labour Party even further to the left.
There are Islamic groups.
George Galloway has a pro-Hamas, pro-Gaza political party that's stripping away voters from the left of the Labour Party.
There were candidates in recent council elections who campaigned with Palestinian flags and they won.
It's totally demoralizing.
And then in comes Nigel Farage out of nowhere.
The election had actually started and he said, no, I'm just going to be a journalist on GB News.
No, he decided to jump in.
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UKIP party, the UK Independence Party, he was the guy who led the campaign to get the UK out of the European Union to save the pound as opposed to the Euro and get it out of the European Union.
He was the guy who, for his politics, was de-banked.
A bank called Coots Bank wrote to him and said, we refuse to have your business.
And then they lied about it and he fought them and he struck a blow for ordinary people not being de-banked.
He's made a personal project to go out into the English Channel on boats and film those bogus refugees in their boats streaming over to the UK every day.
He has been on these issues, but more importantly, he's a normal human being.
He's fun even.
He's goofy in a way that he owns whatever goofiness is.
I mean, take a look at this.
This is one of my favorite little ads he has.
You know, the rapper from Detroit Eminem, here's the most unrapped undetroit guy imaginable, Nigel Farage, having a little bit of fun at his own expense.
take a look.
How's he not likable?
And And I think there's this whole team of young voters who think he's so much fun as opposed to Rishi Sunak the robot.
There's a kid's video game called Minecraft, and they had some deep fakes of Nigel Farage playing Minecraft and taking on the other party leaders.
It may sound obscure, but it's just so goofy and it shows how he's connecting with young people.
Like I say, only 1% of young people care about Rishi Sunak's conservatives.
Here's that Minecraft bid.
Hello, chat.
So today I had the brilliant idea of joining Rishi's Minecraft server while he was offline just to have a bit of fun and mess with him.
So after exploring the world for a bit, I've actually stumbled upon his house.
So naturally, I filled it to the brim with TNT.
And for everyone's information, there were absolutely no trace of Sky TV services in or around the house.
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Wait, what does this say?
Nigel, if this is you, do not grieve my house.
Well, sorry, Rishi.
I think you can agree.
It's too late for that, my friend.
Anyway, let's get to it, shall we?
Right, 3-2-1.
Okay, let's get out of here.
And just for good measure, I'm going to blame it on care.
And what I like best about Nigel Farage is he's used to fighting back against the media.
His chief opponents for 30 years have been the media.
So when they criticise him for taking a hard line on immigration, he doesn't get scared.
He claps back.
Look at this brilliant way of handling it.
Because of the numbers that came in under Labour, because of the growing sense of frustration in this country, of the effect it has on the lives and the quality of life of ordinary people, you guys promised us in the 2010 manifesto, 2015 manifesto, 2017 manifesto, that net migration will be tens of thousands a year, right?
In 2019, you won a massive majority from people who wanted lower numbers.
So far, since you've been in power, net migration has been 4.3 million.
It dwarfs even what happened during the Labour years.
And I do genuinely believe this is the single most important question in the election.
Do you know we have to build one new dwelling every two minutes in this country just to cope with the sheer increase in numbers?
This is not because of migrants.
It is, of course.
It is not because of migrants.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Successive, successive governments have failed to build housing.
That's what it is.
If you don't have any sex, government have failed to build houses.
And what we do is let's blame the immigrants.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Ludicrous.
Ludicrous.
Okay, you've had your say.
I'm going to move on.
Unless you know how many people are coming, how do you?
Nigel, you've had your say.
Given that your 2010 manifesto, your 2015 manifesto, your 2017 manifesto said you've reduced net migration to tens of thousands, your 2019 manifesto said immigration would massively reduce and that net 4.3 million people have come into the country since that time.
Why on earth should anybody believe the fifth manifesto that promises cuts to net migration?
Because of the record of this Prime Minister.
So we've had five figures out today that show that visa applications have fallen by 30% and the OBR's own forecasts say that we will halve immigration by next summer.
That's the trajectory we are on and we will give Parliament the chance to set an annual cap on family and work visas.
That will be enshrined, a legal cap and that is what we are offering.
That's why you can have confidence that those numbers have come down.
They're projected to come down and the only alternative you have in this election is that or what the Labour Party have on offer.
Nigel is a Labour enabler.
He is enabling Arage.
No target and no plan.
I need to take Nigel Farage to come back.
I don't believe a single word that you say.
You've deceived us with the last four manifestos.
I don't believe you in the fifth.
And as for being a Labour enabler, we are now ahead of you in the national.
He's very delicately talking about not just the numbers of immigration, but the kinds of immigration, including these pro-Gaza, pro-Hamas candidates.
He uses the word sectarian, but take a look.
I think he handles this masterfully.
It would seem that there are now people prepared to stand who really want for their vote to be entirely on Muslim issues.
In fact, a website launched this week just called Muslim Vote.
You know, why we have to get together as a Muslim community.
And of course, top of their list isn't the National Health Service.
It isn't dentistry.
It isn't the boats crossing the channel or anything like that.
Top of their list is Gaza.
And I think we're witnessing the beginning for the first time ever in this country.
And you can see the website on your screen.
Putting Muslim misuse at the forefront, a united force of four million of us acting in unison.
This, folks, is the beginning of sectarian politics.
We've never seen the like of it.
Yes, of course.
We've seen it in modern times in Northern Ireland.
Thank goodness.
That has been quelled to a very large degree.
This is the beginning, in my opinion, of sectarian politics in this country.
I find it troubling.
I find it worrying.
And we're streeting.
He may find it troubling and worrying because looking at his Ilford North constituency, at the time of the last census in 2021, nearly 25% of his constituency was Muslim.
That figure will now be several points higher over the course of the last couple of years.
And already, somebody has come forward to say they will stand against streeting in that constituency on a Muslim ticket.
And I just wonder, I just wonder, is there time for these forces to gather ahead of the next general election?
And if not ahead of the next general election, I'd be very surprised if that wasn't the case for the general election.
The other day, we showed you some of his talk in a pub about net zero.
Here's a little bit of that.
Now, of course, you'd have thought with Brexit, now we're in control, it'll be less of a threat, but it's not.
And that's because of the whole net zero agenda that's being pursued.
Boris went absolutely full pelt for it.
Labor are still on that track.
The Tories are now saying, well, we won't do it all tomorrow.
We wait till the day after.
And frankly, the whole thing is about charging us more money.
The whole thing is about controlling our life and our behaviours.
And in terms of the environment, it makes absolutely almost no difference whatsoever.
So look, you know, bikers want the freedom to ride their bikes and pursue their hobby.
They should be allowed to do that without interference.
I do worry that with a Labour government, which we're going to get, I mean, think about ULES, think about all the different things that have been done, low-traffic neighbourhoods, etc.
I suspect for bikers, it's going to be difficult under a Starmer government.
And so what you're going to need is a voice of opposition standing up and saying, you know, please leave these people alone.
Opinion polls are very encouraging.
I say again, Nigel Farage only jumped into this campaign after it started.
Like Election Day is July 4th, just like a week or so away.
But Nigel is already tied in the polls with the Conservative Party, one of the oldest political parties in the free world.
Now, he's not going to get the same number of seats because they have the same first past the post system that we do here in Canada.
So Nigel Farage will likely win his own seat in a tourist community called Clacton on Sea.
He may win half a dozen other seats, but it'll be a toehold that he'll be able to bash away.
And it's incredible to get him in parliament.
Not just because he's a great advocate, but he's normalizing discussion of ideas that are rejected by their uni party over there.
He's normalizing, rejecting net zero energy.
And he actually used the phrase net zero immigration the other day, which I loved.
I think Nigel Farage is part of a global wave where the pendulum is swinging back.
Whether it's Donald Trump's chances this fall, Pierre Polyev in Canada, what's happening in Ireland, in Argentina with Javier Millé, in El Salvador with Naeb Bukele, in Germany, in France, in Hungary.
People are sick of the Justin Trudeau style, Joe Biden-style, Rishi Sunak-style globalist socialism.
I'm excited for Nigel Farage.
He will not be the prime minister of England on July 4th, and he most likely will not be the opposition leader either.
But he will be the leader of a movement of opposition that will shock people with the number of votes it gets, and that will finally allow Brits to have a discussion about what it means to be patriotic, what it means to be in control of your borders, and what it means to stare down an establishment and be on the side of the people.
I'm very excited about it, and I wanted to tell you my thoughts.
Well, you might remember a couple of weeks ago, I went to Geneva, Switzerland.
Very interesting city, over a century of diplomacy in that place.
But diplomacy, which I think once meant going to fight for your country's interests abroad, now has taken over a new meaning.
Diplomats themselves have their own agendas.
Places like the United Nations have their own point of view that they impose on their member countries.
It's not like a member of the French palace sending a memo to the Ottoman Turk advocating for itself.
It's not a place of national interest.
There is now a globalist interest.
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And that's what I was studying at the Geneva Get Together of the World Health Organization, where they were working on the global pandemic treaty.
They want to proceduralize, normalize, codify the kind of lockdowns that happened hodgepodge last time.
They want to make them into an international treaty that could theoretically become binding law upon its member states.
That is a perpetual machine, these annual gatherings of the UN.
They've been doing it, for example, for decades with their global warming treaties.
But I tell you, it seems that I didn't have to fly so far to find a kind of pandemic treaty.
If I'm understanding the latest story from True North by their journalist Cosmo Jurgen, let me read for you the headline: it's vaccine mandates, border measures, part of updated North American flu pandemic plan.
Really?
Joining me now to talk about this is the author Cosmo Jurgis.
It's my pleasure to have you.
I don't understand what is the North American flu pandemic plan.
Is it a plan?
Is it a treaty?
Is it binding?
Tell me more about it, because this, frankly, is the first I've heard of it, and I need you to educate me.
Right.
So it's a trilateral agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
And it's actually been in existence since 2007.
But it's been updated this year, actually, this month in June, because in 2021, these countries got together and decided that they need to put into place what they learned from the COVID-19 pandemic into work.
And this agreement is quite sweeping.
It actually moves away from the original plan, which was actually only about avian flu, so bird flu.
But this extends to all sorts of public health emergencies and even further, like radiological nuclear events.
It's a sweeping agreement that dictates how these countries will respond to these incidents.
And it involves some of the highest ministries in all of these countries, including Canada's public health agency, Global Affairs Canada, and Public Safety Canada.
The first sentence in your story is certainly eye-catching.
Vaccine mandates, border measures, and travel restrictions are on the table as part of an updated human animal influenza pandemic agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
That is a list of disasters.
Those were the worst things about the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Vaccine mandates, abusive, widely now debunked medically, and the civil liberties aspect of it a disaster.
Border measures, I presume that would include things like the spyware app, ArriveCan, and then travel restrictions.
Well, we all know that the unjabbed were banned from flying even within their own country.
You just listed some of the worst parts of COVID-19, and you're saying, to use your phrase, those are on the table now in this three-party deal.
What does that mean on the table?
Is it part of a treaty, or is some country proposing it?
How would these things be codified?
Right.
So it's an emergency response coordination group.
And they essentially it's very shadowy.
It's not transparent, but they have a governance structure that is picked by these agencies from all of these governments and they staff it.
And when there's an emergency, it triggers a sort of a process.
And that can include discussing things like border measures, travel restrictions, vaccine mandates, but they can also force private groups, companies, parts of critical infrastructure and supply chains to also implement measures based on their dictators.
So it's quite crazy.
And you were right to point out at the beginning that we're entering into this international pandemic treaty with the WHO.
And I see this particular agreement, the North American continental one, as an expansion of that.
We're really trending towards these centralized international bodies dictating what sovereign nations can and can't do when responding to emergencies, whether real or not.
You know, I did not know there were so many public health officers in Canada until the pandemic.
Why would I know that?
Why would that be of interest to me?
There was Teresa Tam, and some of the provincial and bigger cities had them.
I mean, Eileen De Villa in Toronto is the name of one, for example, Bonnie Henry in BC.
But every health region, every small town, like there are hundreds of these people in Canada, and they're typically making more than a rock star doctor would.
That's the crazy thing.
I hate when people say, Teresa Tam, Canada's top doctor.
What?
Top doctor how?
Best doctor, best results medically, best patient reviews, most advanced.
No, she's not a top doctor.
She's a government doctor.
She hasn't even had a patient in years.
And all these hundreds of busy beavers who were a disaster during COVID, what are they doing now?
They are still employed now.
Like they haven't gone, they're still there.
They're lurking.
But while you and I move on with our lives, they're preparing for their next amazing time.
I think if you were to ask a public health officer, was the COVID-19 the best time of your life or the worst time of your life?
I think 95% of them would say that was my time to shine.
That was when I was on TV every day.
That's when I got to make decisions that I thought only politicians elected by the people could make.
That's when I got to, you know, make up things that sounded science-y.
Like, I think there is a group of people who loved the lockdowns and would do anything to get back to that state of affairs.
And the rest of us are their victims.
We're trying to move on with our lives, and they're looking forward to the next one.
That's what I get from reading your article.
No, absolutely.
And these people got awards, you know, the Order of Canada, they got provincial orders here in British Columbia.
Bonnie Henry had a documentary made about her.
They're like superstars.
They see themselves as celebrities.
And I think it's important to point out that these agreements, these international agreements, work in such a way that they spread out responsibility among decision makers and actually make it cloudy and try to confuse people because they're not transparent.
And that way they're not held accountable.
So you can't point to a specific person because they can just pass on the buck to somebody else.
And then by the end of the day, there's nobody willing or able to actually hold these people accountable.
And it's funny, they mention they want to learn from what the COVID-19 pandemic was and how it turned out.
But they're not trying to learn their mistakes or how they clamp down on freedoms or how they should have gone a little bit easier, not putting prohibiting kids from attending school and affecting their mental health.
They're trying to learn how to do it better, how they can do it more efficiently.
I just want to say the name of this initiative because it's got a big acronym.
The name of this is the North American Preparedness for Animal and Human Pandemics Initiative.
And the acronym is NAPAPI, if I'm saying that right.
I bet you not one in a thousand Canadians know what that is.
I bet you not one in a hundred elected officials know what that is.
It seems reading your article that it's almost sort of like a club of people in Canada, U.S., and Mexico have sort of decided this is how we're going to do it.
I haven't seen this debated in Parliament.
I haven't heard of some bill being introduced to make this legal.
It just looks like these people are doing this because they can.
They're still on the payroll and they love power.
That's how it looks to me.
Yeah, and I just stumbled across this looking through Government of Canada documents that they publish on a weekly basis.
There was no real big press release.
There was no meeting convened to announce this with whoever's involved.
It was just put out there that in June they've updated this agreement that originally targeted avian flu to expand to all sorts of things.
And you're right, there needs to be a debate about this.
We need to have our politicians question why we're in this agreement in the first place and who decided to expand it to include almost any sort of emergency and to give it the powers to potentially dictate our lives again like they did in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Well, Cosmo, we're grateful to you for unearthing this and trying to explain it.
The article once more is called Vaccine Mandates, Border Measures, Part of Updated North American Flu Pandemic Plan.
The author is Cosmo Gerja, and the platform is our friends at TrueNorth.
Keep up the great work.
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