Ezra Levant’s July 1, 2024, episode features David Menzies warning of the LGGBDTTTIIQQAAPP movement’s shift from acceptance to ideological enforcement, like Toronto Police allowing gender-affirming items (e.g., dildos) despite weapon risks. He highlights Rexall Pharmacy’s forced Pride-themed clothing demand, corporate hypocrisy, and a smashing at the Pride of Israel synagogue with no police action—contrasting it with coverage of mosque attacks. Menzies ties this to Trudeau’s immigration policies, arguing unchecked ideological pressure and mass migration fuel systemic bias, demanding deportations of violent offenders as a solution. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, we live in a day and age of compelled speech, but can you imagine having to wear compelled clothing to show support for a particular ideology?
You aren't going to believe this story, folks.
It's Monday, July 1st, 2024, Dominion Day.
I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
For decades now, members of the LGGBDTTTIIQQAAPP community have campaigned for tolerance and acceptance.
Oh, and by the way, folks, that preceding 15-letter initialism, that's not my doing.
That's how the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario would like you all to describe the spirit unicorn set.
Then again, that's from seven years ago, so I'm betting that the Teachers Federation has probably added a letter or three.
I'd like to buy 12 O's, please.
Anyway, as I was saying, the Alpha Getty community has campaigned tirelessly for tolerance and acceptance.
And I would say that all those battles have been fought and won.
For example, you cannot legally discriminate against members of the LGGBD TTTIIQQAAPP community.
As well, same-sex marriage has been legal in Ontario since 2003 and was made legal in the rest of Canada as of 2005.
But it would seem we're now at a point in which it's no longer about tolerance and acceptance anymore.
Rather, these days, it's all about approval and affirmation.
And if you do not comply, if you do not stand upon an apple box and give a rousing standing ovation for the spirit unicorn community, well, then you're clearly a bigot or a hater, a homophobe, a transphobe, and so on and so forth.
Indeed, the pendulum has swung so much that a specific subsection of the LGGBD TTTIIQQAAPP community, namely transgenders, don't have equal rights, but rather special rights.
We now have men pretending to be females destroying women's sports in the process.
We also have these gender bender grifters invading female shelters and female prisons.
This nonsense is sold to the masses via the unholy trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion, when what it really is, is garden variety misogyny to appease those who might indeed be mentally ill.
The Toronto Police Service, meanwhile, now bends over backwards in terms of providing special rights for the transgenders.
If a trans man, which is to say a woman who is pretending to be a man, is arrested and during the pat down, it is discovered that she has a dildo in her undergarments.
Well, she is allowed to keep this thingy that could later be weaponized.
Because that's not a sex toy, you see, but rather it's a gender-affirming article.
Alas, we have also witnessed men playing against and physically injuring women in contact sports ranging from rugby to boxing.
Public safety is no longer our prime directive when it comes to kowtowing to the club spirit unicorn.
It's all about appeasement, consequences, be damned.
In fact, in Toronto, it actually pays to be a transgender.
Do you know the Toronto police has a gay cop, Officer Chevalier, who drives a special transgender police cruiser to give transgenders free rides?
No, I'm not making this up.
So they asked me to reach out to the victim and make sure she's safe and take her home.
He drove me home in the fabulous Pride SUV.
And as he was driving me home, we reached a stoplight and then an individual in a pickup truck came up to us.
Transgender cop car.
Look at that.
Are you guys cops or you just identify as cops?
What are you doing here?
That's none of your business.
And I'm hands-free.
So there's nothing you can do.
I'm just asking you a question, Sergeant.
Are you cops or you identify as cops?
Yeah, your tax dollar's hard at work yet again.
And golly, how my heart breaks for Toronto's taxicab drivers.
First they had to deal with Uber.
Now it's the Toronto Police Service Trans Express.
But speaking of Chevalier, here's another element when it comes to Uber accommodation.
The loony left is actually trying to change our language.
They are obsessed with pronouns.
You know, he, him, she, her, they, them.
And then there's XE and X-E-M.
X-E-M, that kind of sounds like a satellite radio network to me.
There's also S-I-E and H-I-R.
And what the devil is a Z-E and a Z-I-R?
Look, I don't even know how to pronounce these pronouns.
That's why I'm spelling them.
Indeed, a Z-I-R kind of sounds like a trim level for those high-end Camaros GM used to manufacture.
Or was that the Z28 or the ZL1?
Oh, it's so confusing, isn't it?
And what's more, the Rainbow people are now inventing words.
In Officer Chevalier's case, it is a descriptor for his niece who might be his nephew.
My previous niece has come out as non-binary.
That's why I call her my previous niece because niece is no longer appropriate.
So the two of us sort of put our heads together, did some research, and we came up with the word nibbling, which if you Google it, you may or may not find that it's a non-binary way to call your niece or nephew.
Compelled Clothing Controversy00:14:10
Can you believe this guy has access to deadly force?
He yikes.
But the point is, if you happen upon 300-pound bearded Bubba with male wedding tackle firmly affixed, and he says he's a she, well, you damn well better call him that or else, indeed, being forced to call a dude a chick and a niece a nibbling, it's all part and parcel of what Dr. Jordan Peterson refers to as compelled speech.
And if one does not bend the knee to the loony left in this regard, there might indeed be hell to pay given that we now reside in a realm lorded over by cancel culture in which the tyranny of the minority is strictly enforced.
This is not conjecture, by the way, folks.
Do you recall what happened to the former president of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2017 when he went on Tucker Carlson's dearly departed show on Fox to defend this initialism and ironically make the case that Canada is a bastion of free speech?
Well, check out the clip that ended Stephen LaDrew's career at Bell Media moments after this segment ended.
And this is meaningful because teachers are being taught this.
Kids will be taught it.
And I think I have a right to non-judgmentally ask what they're talking about.
So, for example, what's Two Spirit?
Well, Two Spirit sounds like there's someone they don't know whether they're, you know, fish or foul.
They don't know whether they're frick or frack.
So they're clearly confused.
And, you know, again, if you're confused, what better place to go than to be at school?
Oh, poor LaDrew.
You see, you can't call people who are clearly confused as being clearly confused.
And so it was that LaDrew was labeled as a two-spirit phobic and was promptly shown the door at Bell Media.
Nice.
So you might ask, what is new on the rainbow front when it comes to compelled speech?
Well, I'm glad you asked because it looks like we have moved beyond compelled speech to compelled clothing.
Oh, yes, case in point, consider the curious incident that occurred at the Rexall Pharmacy located in Little Brighton, Ontario.
Here's a skinny.
Rebel News was recently contacted by employees working at this Rexall who were quite miffed that the store's manager, Cindy Wilson, allegedly demanded that they wear rainbow-themed multicolor apparel during the week of June 17th to June 21st in order to celebrate and/or promote Pride Month.
Wilson allegedly told her employees the following: you do not have to agree with Pride, but you must show support for Pride, end quote.
What the hell?
Methinks that in the world of dystopian science fiction, Miss Wilson would be an astute hire down at the Ministry of Truth.
In any event, I was told there are devout Christians and Muslims who work at this store.
And needless to say, they were not exactly gung-ho with this mandated dress code.
The employees I spoke with, I should mention, did not want to be named nor come on camera for fear of reprisals or even termination.
Case in point, the aforementioned Mr. LaDrew, yet Wilson was allegedly adamant that staffers had to rainbow up when it came to their work apparel.
Of course, there are two sides to every story.
So I recently reached out to Cindy Wilson to get her take.
Oh, it was a very brief interview indeed.
Check it out.
Wait while I transfer your call.
Interesting.
Wilson isn't such a haberdashery hun when someone who isn't a subordinate starts asking questions now, is she?
Moving on, I sent an email twice to Rexall's media relations department.
I also followed up with a phone call.
More than a week later, there's been no response whatsoever, not even an acknowledgement of my questions.
For what it's worth, here were my queries.
Number one, is this clothing mandate of Rexall employees being forced to wear multicolored apparel a Rexall corporate initiative?
Two, do individual Rexall store managers have the power to order their employees to wear apparel that support political/slash ideological causes?
And three, according to my sources, Cindy went out of her way today, Friday, June 21st, to tell employees not to wear multicolored apparel.
This was supposedly due to Rexall representatives from head office visiting the Brighton store.
If this allegation is indeed true, can I assume that Cindy's apparel demands prior to Friday were not in compliance with Rexall head office policy?
And like I said, folks, crickets.
Rexall is apparently another example of a corporate entity with a media relations department whose media relations staffers do not relate to members of the media.
So really, why bother having such doofuses on the payroll in the first place?
Baffling.
From what I can gather, it would seem that this rainbow-hued rule in Brighton was indeed a Cindy Wilson initiative, not a Rexall corporate mandate.
I say this because I have visited several Rexall pharmacies in the Greater Toronto Area, and the result was literally uniform, which is to say, Rexall retail staff members were wearing non-rainbow colored polo shirts emblazoned with the Rexall logo, while the pharmacists were wearing plain white lab coats, not a spirit unicorn motif to be seen on their apparel whatsoever.
By the way, folks, in the Department of Perverse Irony, as I referenced in my queries to Rexall's media relations department, according to my sources, Wilson went out of her way on Friday, June 21st to desperately tell her employees not to wear multicolored apparel.
You see, Wilson was under the belief that some head honchos from Rexall's corporate Mississauga head office might be swinging by the Brighton store for whatever reason.
Thus, Wilson allegedly told employees to wear their normal uniforms.
Now, if this anecdote is true, and I believe it is, what does that say about the Rainbow Apparel Initiative?
To me, it says when the cat's away, the mice shall play.
In other words, when Wilson's bosses are not around, it is only then that she'll exceed her mandate as a manager by insisting that her staff follow her ideology.
But get this, in the Department of Perverse Irony, those Rexall poobas never did go to Brighton that day.
So Wilson essentially had a panic attack, all for nothing, it would appear.
Bottom line, Rexall clearly has a uniform standard that employees must adhere to, but apparently for political/slash ideological reasons, Wilson tried to bully her staffers into embracing clothing that many did not want to wear.
And by all accounts, nobody at head office was mandating Rexall employees to wear such clothing.
Oh, and one more thing, folks, and this is downright surreal.
While Cindy Wilson was enforcing her rainbow apparel initiative, guess who was not wearing multicolored apparel when she happened to be in the store?
Well, that would be none other than, drumroll, please, Cindy Wilson.
What a hypocrite.
And yet another example of somebody in charge who conducts herself via the mantra of, do as I say, not as I do.
You know, it's such a shame Cindy Wilson will not take my calls because I really have one pertinent question for her, namely, Miss Wilson, What in blue hell were you thinking?
Ezra Levant standing in front of the Pride of Israel synagogue in North Toronto.
It's ironic, today is Pride Parade Day in Toronto, and the Toronto Police have tweeted out a bunch of tweets celebrating Pride.
I think this synagogue was named before Pride took on its current connotations.
I think we should tell the Toronto Police that this is a gay synagogue, so maybe they'd give a damn.
I don't know if you can see, but its windows were absolutely smashed.
I'm told this happened in the wee hours this morning.
You can see broken glass everywhere.
The door is open to the synagogue.
Just open.
There's one police officer who was here taking pictures.
No one else is here.
I see rocks in there.
don't know if those rocks were used to smash things or not I'm not gonna go inside because well I just I'm not gonna go inside Where is everybody?
Where's the police?
I mean, they took some pictures.
Thanks very little.
Where's the local MP, Yaara Sachs, who's Jewish herself, as the name suggests?
I don't think she gives a damn.
In fact, you might recall a few months ago, she flew to meet the head of the PLO and gave him a loving handshake and smiled for his selfie with him.
Where's Justin Trudeau?
He's probably sleeping off his hangover from his party last night.
He doesn't give a damn about Jews.
Or more accurately, he knows that there's 400,000 Jews in Canada and about 2 million Muslims in Canada, and he can do the math.
The future, under our mass immigration Canada, the future is pro-Hamas.
The future is more anti-Semitic violence like this.
It doesn't even make the news.
I don't see any other reporters here, even though this has been on Twitter for hours.
We have a problem in Canada with two-tier policing.
If this were a mosque or a gay synagogue, if Pride of Israel really was a gay synagogue, oh, this would be huge news.
Trudeau would have a press conference, but it's just the Jews, so who gives a damn?
And the reason we have two-tier policing is because with mass immigration to Canada, it's dangerous politically if you stand up to the pro-Hamas thugs.
That's why they're allowed to have an encampment at University of Toronto and at McGill.
That's why the police chief here in Toronto is actually threatening people like me who criticize Hamas, but doing nothing about the nine-month violent crime wave that's been going on.
I'm not even talking about loosey-goosey hate crimes.
I'm talking about smash, vandalism, mischief, trespass, uttering threats, even the shooting of the girls' school a few months ago.
Yaara Sachs didn't even bother going there.
I say Yaara Sachs because she is Trudeau's liberal MP in this district, and even she knows better than to stand up for the Jews.
She'll be disciplined by the liberal Hamas caucus.
You might remember that Anthony Housefather, a liberal MP from Montreal, spoke out against anti-Semitism in Canada, and Trudeau promised to appoint him some special caucus anti-Semitism fighter or something.
And the Muslim faction within the caucus vetoed that.
So we have a deep problem in Canada.
The problem is political.
The problem is violent.
And the problem will never be solved as long as we have mass immigration.
The only thing that will stop this problem from getting worse is stopping mass immigration.
And the only thing that will fix this problem and make it better is deporting foreign, violent anti-Semites.
This is difficult for the Jewish community to understand because for years the Jewish community has been soft on mass immigration and has parroted the language of state multiculturalism.
And all that's done is brought in people who smash Jewish synagogues and politicians who turn a blind eye.
Rebel News will follow the story as we always do, even though there's not a mainstream journalist in sight.