Ezra Levante examines how mass immigration—like Ireland’s 500-man refugee camp near schools or Canada’s covert military ties with China’s PLAN, exposed in The China Files—reshapes politics, citing red flags like Melanie Joli’s secret Beijing trip and Chinese state media mocking Canada’s trade policies. Meanwhile, U.S. Democrats sideline Jewish candidates while protesters, possibly backed by Iran, disrupt Netanyahu’s Congress address, revealing deeper electoral and security vulnerabilities. Levante warns: unchecked migration and opaque foreign deals risk eroding sovereignty for short-term gains. [Automatically generated summary]
But one of the things I want to tell you we're doing is talking to our friend Andy Lee, who has some strange news about Melanie Joli's trip to China.
Did you know that our foreign minister, Melanie Jolie, went to China on a secret trip?
It was not announced.
The Chinese announced it.
Isn't that weird?
We'll talk to her about that.
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All right, here's today's broadcast.
Tonight, I'll tell you what I think the most interesting stories of the day in the week are.
It's July 24th, and this is the Ezra Levance show.
Shame on you you censorious bug.
Oh, hi everybody It's great to be back in the chair.
You know, I've done a fair bit of traveling in recent months.
NGOs and Equality Advocacy00:10:28
You might recall I went to Geneva a few weeks ago.
That was actually, I guess, a month and a half ago now.
It was for the negotiations by the World Health Organization countries to sign a global pandemic treaty.
I thought that was an interesting place to go to see what kind of energy was left in the contrarian side of things, people who were worried about the pandemic lockdowns.
Let me tell you, as you know, from my reports there, the energy on the World Health Organization side of things.
They've got the energy, they've got the patience, they've got the money.
Teresa Tam was there.
I tell you this because it was explaining why I took two days to go to Geneva, a city I had never been to before, because decisions were being made there that affect us here at home.
It's the reason we also go to the Davos World Economic Forum meeting.
We're going to be there again in January.
Sometimes I worry that I traveled too much abroad, but as long as I have a Canadian angle in mind, I think it's worthwhile.
I say this because, as you know, last week I was in Ireland for only about 60 hours all combined, but that was enough for me to visit three different places and watch the resistance, I'll call it, to mass immigration in Kulak, the neighborhood in Dublin where an old paint building, old paint factory is going to be transformed into a 500-man refugee camp,
to Newtown Mount Kennedy in a small town where there are men behind sort of a steel cage.
And then finally, in the little village of Dundrum, where a town of it's not even a town, 175, 200 people is going to have a 280-person refugee camp.
What I learned from there, besides how wonderful Ireland is and what a lovely place it is, and how charming it is and picturesque, is that there is a fighting spirit in the Irish that I have not seen anywhere else.
Over the last year, I have traveled to, well, last year, I went to Marseille, France for two days to look at the race riots by North African Muslim migrants to France.
And you might recall this guy who said France colonized Algeria.
Now he was here to return the favor.
Remember this guy I just bumped into on the streets?
And the colonization of the people, and we will colonize it.
until the end of the day.
There will be no justice.
We have to have equality between people.
We have to have equality.
We have to respect religions, and we have to respect Muslims.
Because Muslims are not respected here.
And we see terrorists in the terrorists.
Well, we've reported on the migrant crisis in many places in the United Kingdom, in the Netherlands.
But when I went to Ireland last week, I saw something I have not seen before, which is a serious protest by the Indigenous population against mass immigration.
I haven't seen that in France.
I haven't seen that in the Netherlands.
I haven't seen that in the UK.
I see people sort of generally protesting against the political system, but to block a proposed refugee camp, to have an attempt to burn it down, to be willing to go toe-to-toe with riot cops.
Have you seen that anywhere else in the world?
I have not.
Now, I am not for violence.
I don't think that violence is a way to solve problems in a liberal democracy.
But I can also understand why there's violence when the central government in Ireland is forcing it down the throats of communities.
No negotiation, no compromise, no consultation, no permission.
They literally announce these things, and the local population has to take that.
It's funny because I saw this speech by Malachi Steenson.
I was not there when he gave it, but I saw this online rather.
He was a newly elected city councillor in Dublin.
You might recall we bumped into him in May just on the street at an anti-immigration protest.
Here's me meeting Malachi Steenson.
I had no idea he was a politician.
He was just walking in the parade, and I struck up a quick conversation with him.
Remember Malachy?
The reason was this was a place where, if I'm not mistaken, a young child was stabbed.
If it's the incident I'm thinking about, three young children.
Tell me the details.
Three young children coming out of a crash along with our care worker were attacked by an Algerian migrant.
But that was just in the last few months, wasn't it?
In January.
And is that what led to some of the riots?
Well, sorry, it was last when did that happen, Garden?
So three kids were stabbed.
The so-called riots.
So, got it.
I'm just describing them bluntly.
So that was where it happened, which is why there was a moment of silence.
What's your name?
Malachi Steenson.
And are you from Dublin?
I am, yes.
I'm one of the key people involved.
Now, I was just asking myself the question: what comes from this?
There's plenty of Irish who are upset by this, but where's the political party that would support our position?
Some of them are shifting to our position.
Like which ones?
There will be a number of independents standing in the European and local elections right across this country.
There are political parties like IFP and National Party who support us.
The mainstream political parties are totally out of touch with the ordinary people in this country.
That was shown very clearly in the two most recent referendums.
Well, he actually won his local election.
He's now a city councillor in Dublin and he's against mass immigration.
Here's his speech from that Kulak neighborhood in Dublin where they're proposing this 500-person refugee camp in an old paint factory.
Here he's his turn of phrase here is not something I've ever heard before.
Here in Canada, in the United States, in the UK, and places like that, people always say there is no place for violence.
Period.
But Malachi, I think it was a very Irish way of thinking where he said there's, I mean, well, here, I'll let you see it himself.
He basically said, there is a time and place for violence.
This isn't it.
Here, take a look at his exact wording.
They called us fascists, they called us far right, they called us everything that they called.
They thought it would demean us, they thought it would stop us, it didn't.
And what's happening here today is being replicated not just around this city and in working class communities particularly.
It's been reflected all over this country.
Two weeks ago, the government came to us with an easy referendum they thought.
As soon as they announced the referendum, we told them they lost it.
We told them we would beat them.
The referendum a number of weeks ago wasn't about mothers solely, it was about government policy.
We told them we would make the next election about immigration.
We told them we would make the referendum about immigration.
The only issue in this country is immigration.
All of the problems we have, whether it's the health service, the housing problems, all stem from increasing the population from three and a half million to over five million.
They shifted people in tents out of Mount Street last week for a photo opportunity.
They complained when they got to the mountains because there was no Wi-Fi and they made their way back with the help of the usual NGOs.
In the elections coming up, there are many people standing in working class communities.
It's important that every candidate that stands for Dublin City Council particularly is elected.
We need to have a majority in that council in order to make any impact.
We need to take control of it.
Last week, we launched an initiative telling people, asking people to fly a tricolour this week.
5,000 in the chat, folks.
Overwhelming.
Please keep sharing.
Thank you so much.
And none of them European flags, none of the LGBT rags, or none of the other things that all of these leftist NGOs bring to protest.
The flag that they don't bring, is their own flag.
Hear, hear.
We're insulting the flag that we were using for political means.
We are using it for political means.
It's our flag and we're taking it back from them.
It's important that we take back this nation from those who seek to destroy it.
It doesn't matter whether Leopard Lapto walks off the page on simple signs they say it is no different.
They're yesterday's men.
We are the new nationalist movement emerging in this country and it is building up rapidly.
None of those NGOs could get a crowd like this at any of their rallies.
The only people who go to their rallies are people in the political system.
They're people who work for NGOs and by and large it's their job to go to these protests.
This is the first time in the history of this country that a genuine working class movement has emerged.
Ordinary decent people who want to get on with their lives, who want to rear their families, want to look after their kids.
That's all we want.
And that's what we will be taking.
We are taking back this nation from the globalists, from the political and NGO class who seek its destruction.
We are the people and we have risen.
And the crappies, the crappies won't be lying down again.
Thank you.
Clash Between Trust Cultures00:11:39
And I think there's a little flicker there because remember, whereas we have not had violence in Canada in generations.
I mean, we were born peacefully.
The last war Canada really had on the ground was the War of 1812, where we sacked the White House.
But that wasn't even a Canadian war.
We were part of the British Empire.
We have never had violent solutions to problems in Canada, but in Ireland they have.
They had a full-out revolution just over a century ago.
And of course, the story of Ireland is resistance and rebellion against many people who would seek to rule over them.
So when Malachi Steenson said there's no place for violence yet, it's shocking to my Canadian ears to hear it.
And I don't think what he was saying was menacing.
I think he meant, he says, folks, we shouldn't be violent yet.
But it's a reminder that in Ireland, they have sometimes actually solved problems through armed resistance.
I mean, you can like it or lump it, you can take it or leave it.
But I think that of all my travels on the migration file, and I'm not the only one who's traveled, as you know, Alexa and Lincoln went down to the Mexico border.
Remember this?
Mexico.
Ecuador?
Ecuador.
Familia?
I've had hundreds, and I'm not kidding, hundreds of people show up at my house.
The thing was, we're out here chasing aliens.
You know, we're out here patrolling the border.
You'd have to answer all your sensors and you go out there and be looking for stuff.
There's a whole category of people that aren't even being touched right now.
They just went right through.
And earlier, if you might recall, we sent David Menzies to Mexico itself for part of the caravans.
Well, it's a blistering Saturday afternoon, and the migrant caravan has pulled over for a pit stop here at the crossing of Isla.
They're going to the town of Isla, which is still further on.
We're about an hour away from the town they were last in for an overnight stay.
Now, as you can see, you can't be picky about what kind of transport you want.
Here's a huge transport truck, but instead of goods, it is packed full of migrants.
Any ride is better than no ride, given that the alternative is just walking hundreds and hundreds of kilometers yet to go until the U.S. border.
We're going to try to find if we can speak to some other people here.
We've already tried to speak with the Mexican human rights people that are following this caravan route.
They won't talk to us for whatever reason, but maybe someone else will.
Of course, we cover the Wroxham Road story.
We've covered it for years.
Remember this?
So all of these places where we cover mass immigration, all around the world, I have to tell you that Ireland is unique, at least to me, and I'm just one guy traveling around.
Ireland is the place where they're pushing back in a way I haven't seen anywhere else.
And that story from Dundrum, which is an interesting name, where the local hotel is being turned into a refugee camp.
That sort of thing is happening here in Canada.
Dozens, maybe hundreds of hotels in Canada have been turned into urban refugee camps.
And by the way, they have bought a convent or they're buying a convent in Ottawa for the same purpose.
So they're actually doing many of the same things they're doing in Ireland.
They're not forcing it on small towns in the same way.
And we just shrug and roll our eyes and say, oh, what can you do?
That's the difference.
That's what I found so fascinating in Ireland.
So that's my report.
By the way, today I was invited on Dan Wooten's broadcast in the UK to talk about it.
Here's 30 seconds of that.
Feels like dark times that your people are killing each other over something that we feel we should have control of.
Like we don't want this country to be flooded with thousands, hundreds of thousands of undocumented males.
Like you keep saying women and children.
It's not.
We have the videos.
Everybody has videos, thousands upon thousands of videos.
It's lies upon lies upon lies, and people are waking up going, like, there's something wrong.
It's a sinister feeling the Irish people have.
And that's what's causing people to show up.
Such powerful words.
And also, Ezra, you spoke to a local Irish woman who was protesting who also reflected that sort of anxiety.
Thanks for coming over.
I really appreciate it.
We have obviously nobody to speak on our behalf, except for we've won local media.
But I want to know what the plan is.
Bringing all these men into Ireland, young single men, putting them in a tent.
What is the plan?
And Ezra, how astonishing that it's you and it's Rebel News, a brilliant Canadian independent outlet that is giving a voice to the ordinary people of Ireland because the MSM and both the United Kingdom and Ireland has become so corrupt.
You know, I've traveled to probably half a dozen countries to see how mass migration is handled.
I've been to the Netherlands.
I've been to France.
Of course, I've been to the UK.
I have to say, Dan, that the Irish are the first community I've seen push back en masse.
That city councillor you showed a moment ago, Glenn Moore, he's an elected city councillor.
When he attended at a protest, he was pepper sprayed by police, but he didn't bend the knee.
Let me just tell you a really quick story about that place.
You probably saw those tall concrete blocks.
There is an abandoned paint factory in Dublin that's huge and it's empty.
And the government suddenly decided they're going to put in at least 500, but maybe many more, single military aged migrant men there.
Just put them in the factory and turn it into, I don't know, like an urban refugee camp, except for right across the street is a kids' play place and a kids' movie theater and a Burger King.
And the local community is saying, what are you doing?
You're putting 500 single men right across the street from basically playgrounds.
And that neighborhood called Kulak is a lower income neighborhood.
So they're already deprived of services.
They don't have a lot.
And the government has just announced, ta-da, fait accompli, 500 men moving into that neighborhood.
So there have been daily protests.
Some local Irish youths threw a couple of bottles at police.
So boom, in come the riot cops pepper spraying and beating everybody.
But the Irish don't bend the knee and they've come back again.
And again, one more anecdote.
I visited a tiny village called Dundrum.
About 180,200 people live there, very small.
And there's a beautiful country hotel.
Dan, the government has struck a deal with that hotel to stop using it as a hotel, kill the tourism in that little village, and to bring in 280 single military-edge migrant men.
So the town has less than 200 people.
It's a village.
But the government has announced it's bringing in 280 migrant men.
There's no consultation.
There's no engagement.
There's no appeal.
There's no discussion.
It's just in one fell swoop, they will end centuries of Irish life in Dundrum.
And this is happening all over Ireland.
But I've mentioned I've studied this issue in half a dozen countries.
Ireland is the first place I've seen fighting back in the way they are.
And it's very interesting to see.
And I bet you feel that way as a Brit.
You're a lot closer to it.
Indeed.
And what was great is that you also tracked down some of these migrants.
And while they didn't answer, I think part of the issue, they need to be given a chance to have a say.
So this is what happened there.
Aren't refugees usually women and children?
Did you guys destroy your documents before you came over?
I hear that happens a lot.
The people get on a plane, but then they shred their documents.
Did you guys do that?
And what sort of behavior are these migrants bringing to Ireland?
Not those specific men, I should point out.
But you've posted this really shocking video of a woman in a supermarket who was horrified when a migrant started to take pictures of her children.
What are you doing taking pictures of my children?
Sorry, sorry.
What are you doing taking pictures of my child?
Just for me.
He's got to be taking pictures of my child.
He's actually taking a picture of my child.
Yeah, he's actually taking a picture of my child.
He'll be taking pictures of me.
He'll be taking pictures of my child.
And I mean, this is happening every day, Ezra.
These sorts of things.
You know, taking pictures is the least of it.
As we know from the UK, whether it's in Rochdale or Telford or Rotherham, things can get much worse.
And these grooming gangs that typically are foreign nationals come in and target what used to be a high-trust society.
Imagine a small town in rural Ireland.
Everyone knows everyone.
You know what I mean by a high-trust society?
Everyone looks out for each other.
When we were in Dundrum, you know, people said, who are you?
What are you doing taking pictures?
Because we were filming the street and even just filming the street.
Locals said, who are you?
And, you know, that might seem, you know, suspicious or paranoid, but that's how a town looks after itself.
You bring in hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of foreigners who come from a low-trust society where women are not allowed out on the streets precisely because they'll be taken advantage of, where kids don't play out in the streets precisely because there are marauders.
What we see is a clash between immigrants from a low-trust society being dumped.
And I say dumped because they're just planting hundreds of them in this town of Dundrum.
And the Irish, I think, are being erased.
And I say that because they're the indigenous people of their land.
The Irish never colonized anyone.
The Irish didn't move there.
The Irish never took slaves.
In fact, they themselves were taken as slaves by the Barbary pilots, pirates.
So here you've got the local Indigenous community that's been there for thousands of years.
Clash Inside, Change Outside00:02:23
And they're saying, what is happening to us?
And I don't understand why the Irish government, including nationalists like Sinn Féin, who I thought were so Ireland for the Irish, why is everyone trying to destroy the Irish nature of that country?
That I do not understand, Dan.
So I continue to be animated by this battle over mass immigration.
And it's not just a question of immigration in itself.
It's when you bring in millions of people to your own country and you naturalize them and make them citizens, they soon get a right to vote.
And you can see that in Canada, not quite the same extent in the U.S., I don't think.
I think we're more hurtling down that road.
But check out these scenes in Washington, D.C., where Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, was addressing Congress.
By the way, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris boycotted the event.
They claim they had other engagements.
Absolutely astonishing.
But look at the mad crowds on the streets, the absolute craziness.
Some of them are woke, hardcore left-wing Americans, but a lot of these folks are newcomers.
When you bring mass migration into a country, you change the electorate.
Take a look at what was going on outside while Netanyahu was giving a speech inside.
As we now know, Iran is financing a lot of these actions within the United States.
Some crazy, super gross things.
They dumped crickets and worms and bugs in the Watergate Hotel where Netanyahu, who is staying.
Kamala Harris's Unpopularity00:04:34
Take a look at this.
Super gross.
Well, the grossness is inside the House.
Here's Rashida Tlaib holding up a little sign that says war criminal.
Really, when you have mass migration of people from anti-Semitic countries, Islamist countries, whether it's Ilhan, Omar, or others, it will start to animate the political party inside.
Take a look at her.
Kamala Harris is going to be the candidate, as you know, for the Democrats running in the next campaign.
And as you know, she received no primary votes.
She dropped out of the primary.
She won no delegates.
She was polling at like 1%.
And she was appointed expressly by Joe Biden as a DEI running mate, a diversity candidate.
Because she was a woman of color.
That was her sole credential.
She had no popular support.
She was actually deeply unpopular within the Democratic Party for a number of reasons.
I don't know if you recall, but she was actually just torn to ribbons by Tulsi Gabbard in one of the primary debates.
Remember this?
I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately, negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today.
Now, Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence.
She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
And she fought to keep tax bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
She's incredibly unlikable, Kamala Harris, especially that cackling laugh.
I don't know if you remember, but a couple years ago, we found a great impersonator, an impressionist named Estee Paltiel, who did a bunch of videos for us, who just nailed that cackle.
remember this?
Well, who's laughing now?
Well, she is, unfortunately.
And one of the things I saw about who would be Kamala Harris's running mate was a discussion of the possibility of, I think he's the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who obviously, if you're from Pennsylvania, you're going to probably win the state of Pennsylvania, which is one of those battleground states, really Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio.
If you win those states, you've won the election because most of the rest of the country is so Republican or so Democrat, it's not going to change.
I saw this incredible comment by Democratic activists that Josh Shapiro is a non-starter because he's a Jew.
Now, there's been a Jew, an old Democratic senator named Lieberman actually ran on the Democratic ticket a few years back.
It's not controversial to have Jews in public life, especially in big cities.
Jewish mayors are very common, the occasional Jewish governor.
But imagine so much anti-Semitism within the Democratic Party that even the fact that a candidate is Jewish would disqualify him.
I'm a little bit worried about Kamala Harris.
If you would have asked me about that a year ago, I would have said she's incredibly unlikable.
She is terrible at communicating.
She is terrible to her own staff and has a very high turnover.
But I don't think any of that is relevant because if you remember in the last election, Joe Biden essentially campaigned from a bunker.
He didn't have big rallies.
He didn't leave the House.
He claimed it was because of COVID.
We now know it was probably because of his cognitive decline.
Don't think they won't do the same exact thing with Kamala Harris.
Keep her in a box, have scripted pre-recorded messages, nothing off the cuff, only interviews with very friendly media.
They're going to keep her under control the same way that they did with Joe Biden.
And they'll just rely on the media repeaters to promote her.
Kamala Harris Concerns00:16:11
And I think it's already working.
A week ago, when Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt, it was an exhilarating moment, especially that ultra-patriotic image of him with his fist up under the flag.
That was an incredible moment.
Momentum shifted, and so did the polls.
That is gone.
I think the energy has shifted back from the Republicans to the Democrats.
The Democrats who were despondent over the obvious decline of Joe Biden are now exhilarated that he's gone.
They don't like Kamala Harris, but they know that they won't have the same problems they would have had with Biden.
And I think it's going to be a brutal battle.
And I think the entire world turns on it.
So there's a lot cooking.
There's a lot going on.
And we'll do our best to cover it.
I want to point out one more thing today before we get to our guest.
And it was yesterday, an alumnus of Rebel News, you know who I'm talking about, Kian Betchy, had a bit of a scoop, and it was pretty exciting to watch.
Let me give you a bit of a teaser.
Here's Kian announcing his scoop on the internet yesterday.
Sorry, sorry.
I'll just ask you super quickly.
Your minister said going on vacation.
No, don't put your hands on me.
I'm going to put your hands on me.
More than any political leader on the face of the earth, Justin Trudeau carefully manages his media appearances.
Who's allowed access to him?
Who can get into press conferences?
Who he'll arrest if they get too close?
Who he'll sit down for an interview with?
You had your media advance call the RCMP because I was going to ask questions that you didn't want.
I wasn't the CBC, I wasn't CTV, I wasn't global news.
Following his catastrophic by-election loss in Toronto, the Prime Minister has gone into hiding.
He refuses to call a caucus meeting, and his administration is hanging on by a thread.
Sure, thank you.
Are you looking for a replacement right now?
No, I am absolutely not.
I am running in the next election.
Are you concerned at all about your poll numbers?
No, I am not.
What causes you to not be concerned?
After reviewing open source information and discerning the whereabouts of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plane, we realized he was in hiding in Tofino.
The mainstream media was calling it a vacation, but we knew where he was, and we knew that this was the only opportunity we'd have to get questions answered.
Mark Collins said that going on a road trip is equivalent to setting the world on fire.
You can take a summer fun-time vacation where you're locked in a car for 10 consecutive days, non-stop with no bathroom breaks, and the conservatives have a plan for you to have that summertime fun and the cost?
Give up the future of the planet.
You chartered a government jet to here, Tofino.
I'm not going to do the math on how much carbon that burnt.
Well, he managed to think to figure out where Trudeau was likely having his vacation, his annual trip to Tofino.
And he booked a flight there, and he and another journalist, very low-key, they didn't have big cameras, they just had their cell phones, basically walked the beaches of Tofino until they found Trudeau.
And they walked up to Trudeau, and Kian put his questions.
And here's a clip that Kian put up today of his first moments of the encounter when Trudeau got a little bit handsy with him and the RCMP started to swarm.
Here's how that looked.
Good, thank you.
Have a good time today.
Yeah, beautiful.
Are you enjoying your time on vacation?
I am, yeah.
You have a good time on vacation, sir.
I'm happy to speak with you because actually that's the first time we've been able to speak with you because the government is so excited.
That's enough.
That's enough.
I see you.
Okay.
Going on to charter cover, Mr. Holly.
Well, Kian does pretty well keeping calm in a crisis moment.
And I guess Trudeau didn't really know who he was.
I think if it had been me there or David Menzies, I think Trudeau would have hated us and let the RCMP do their work.
But I don't think he quite recognized Kian Becksty, even though in the past he had had Kian arrested.
And so in the moment, Trudeau made the decision that it was probably better to do a few minutes of chatter with Kian Bexy than to have the final images of that encounter being Trudeau getting hands in the RCMP arresting him.
So Kian got 10 minutes with the Prime Minister, and we're going to have Kian on the show tomorrow to talk about it because I got to tell you, it was a great act of adventurous citizen journalism.
And I think it was a home run, so he'll be on the show tomorrow.
And as you know, I work more days a week than the vast majority of Canadians.
We've actually taken hundreds of vacation days last year.
Sorry.
You can do the math.
Glenn McGregor did the math last year, pointed out how many days I work as prime minister, and it's equivalent of working every single day of the week and Saturday and not taking any day off, not any bank holidays, not two weeks of vacation, nothing.
I work incredibly hard, and I get to be dad with my kids with nothing else going on for 10 minutes.
Anyways, I just wanted to talk about a few things, whether it was foreign migration, the visit of Netanyahu to Washington, D.C., or how Kamala Harris suddenly has the energy and the support of the party.
Just being selected by basically the donors and the high-ranking party members, there was no grassroots democracy.
There was no vote.
It's astonishing.
And the media has normalized that.
Just an amazing, amazing time in politics.
Stay with us.
In a moment, we'll have our friend Andy Lee talking about where on earth Melanie Joli is.
Stay with us for that.
Hey, I don't know if you remember, but a couple of years ago, I had the largest scoop of my life.
It was sort of an accidental scoop, but hey, if you work at things for a long time, you do get a little bit of luck.
The story I'm talking about, I called at the time the China Files.
And I had seen some story on the Russian propaganda website called Sputnik that claimed Canada had sent a military attaché to attend the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Navy called the People's Liberation Army Navy.
And this was when they were holding two Canadians hostage.
I couldn't find any evidence of it anywhere else.
And I wasn't going to believe a Russian PR website.
So I submitted an access to information request to the Canadian government.
They sent me an answer, but instead of redacting, my question, just to be clear, was tell me about all contacts between the Canadian government and the People's Liberation Army.
They sent me a bunch of pages, but instead of blacking out all the confidential answers, they simply grayed them out.
As in, I could see everything.
In fact, more than that, what they would have blacked out sort of directed my eyes to what they were most sensitive about.
It was astonishing to learn of all the ways the Canadian government was actively cooperating with China's army, including training their officers in Canada at Canadian military bases in things like winter warfare.
Absolutely astonishing, greatest scoop of my life.
But like I say, it sort of landed in my lap accidentally.
Someone in the Department of Defense, either accidentally or maybe even on purpose, wanted to get the word out of how close Canada was to the Chinese.
Well, that was a story I did a couple years ago.
And it was about a sneaky, and it started, as I mentioned, about a sneaky meeting where a Canadian military officer was sneakily and secretly sent to China.
And were it not for the Russians ratting him out, I wouldn't have learned.
Anyways, fast forward to now, did you know that Canada's foreign minister, Melanie Zhou Li, went to China secretly last week?
I didn't know that.
That's the whole thing about it being a secret.
We were told about that.
We learned about that, not by our own government, but by the Chinese government that thought that they would reveal it and in so doing humiliate Canada even more.
Joining us now to talk about this is one of our friends who's an excellent independent citizen journalist who occasionally writes some deeply researched stuff for us too on the subject of Chinese interference.
You know who I'm talking about, our friend Andy Li.
Andy, it's great to see you again.
What a crazy thing for a secret trip from Melanie Joli to China and only to be embarrassed by them.
What do you make of the whole thing?
It wasn't so secret in retrospect, actually.
I went back to find out when the stage was set for this.
So she was actually in Munich in February at a security conference, and she did meet with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, back then.
And according to that article, there were indications that they were setting up later meetings down the road.
So this was probably something that was discussed there and set up quite a long time ago, but not publicized for obvious reasons with relations between China and Canada being what they were.
And no doubt at that time, that article did say that she was requested to stop hyping up the China threat.
And that, of course, would have been right in the middle of Hoague Foreign Interference Commission meetings and hearings and things like that.
So we found another article on her visit to China, not as flattering as a take as we were maybe led to believe.
So yeah, this article came out.
I found it on WeChat.
It looked like it was from an anonymous blogger and very unflattering take on the visit.
You know, again, asking us to stop hyping up the China threat, calling us the loyal dog of the United States.
They also said that Canada is, you know, making dog food and bringing dog food to the U.S. and that they're going to upgrade the sticks that they used to beat dogs with.
And that, of course, is a reference to sometimes how dogs are killed in China.
They are beat with pipes and then eaten.
So very, very unflattering overall article.
Also brought up the EV tariffs, which is something that we're floating around.
That's electric vehicles.
So China, of course, has been mass producing electric vehicles.
What's the EV tariff issue?
Well, I mean, obviously they don't want them.
We're looking at other countries that are putting in very, very significant tariffs on electric vehicles to protect their own domestic industries and try to wean ourselves off of our reliance in China, which has got us, you know, basically nowhere but in trouble.
The article also does point out that we have a multi-billion dollar trade deficit with China, which is true.
You know, we normalized relations with China during the Pierre Elliott Trudeau era in 1978.
We had a massive trade surplus with China at that time, of course, being more developed.
And since then, we've seen that grow to a bigger and bigger deficit.
So putting stricter trade controls and tariffs in place is one of those tools where we can try to regulate our own markets a little bit better and reduce reliance on China, especially given that the government under Xi Jinping's rule has taken a definite turn, one that we were not seeing, hoping to see happen.
We were hoping to see, and this is Deng Diaoping's plan, was that China would start to open up.
But that, of course, hasn't happened, right?
And every inch that we've given them, they've taken a mile and ran with it.
So not exactly inaccurate, that they do hold quite a bit of power over us.
And they are definitely, we are probably a little bit more reliant on China right now than we should be.
And, you know, they have many, many, many different options to look for.
You know, should we get into some sort of a trade skiff or something like that?
Yeah.
Well, let me start there for a second because you've said so many things.
And I wouldn't mind just unpacking some of them.
EV imports are electric vehicles.
Of course, there's Tesla, which dominates the North American market.
One of the things that I've really learned about Tesla over the past year or so is: sure, it's a car company, but it really is a tech company.
All those cameras on every Tesla that goes into their database, they're collecting endless data on all their users, their habits, their travels, the way they drive.
It's the basis upon which they've built the autopilot where the car drives itself.
And the thing is, if a car is controlled electronically, it can be shut down electronically.
Theoretically, Tesla could turn off a car, could control a particular car.
There's an enormous amount of power in who controls the tech side of a car.
I think that has got to be at least as big an issue for Chinese electric vehicle imports as just the sheer competitive threat of them dumping cars in Canada beneath market prices.
I would not want to drive around in a car that's recording everything I do, that's studying me, and that maybe if I say the wrong thing on Twitter, the Chinese government pushes a button and I can't drive my car anymore.
Yeah, it's not, I mean, it sounds far out there, but it's really not that far out there, right?
I mean, we know that any conflicts in the future are going to be fought, not, you know, probably not with traditional weaponry.
They're going to be fought technologically.
And so, yeah, this is something that's been in the news: is, you know, we've got these self-driving Chinese cars who are, you know, zipping around the United States, mapping out neighborhoods and things like that.
So, you know, what are they doing?
What sort of information are they capturing?
Is anybody noting where they're going, what areas they're surveilling and things like that?
How this information is being relayed back to the government, what it could be used for.
Could it be used for national security purposes or to diminish the United States' national security?
Certainly it could.
And yeah, you know, are they able to control our mode of transportation down the road?
And it's not that far out there.
It's definitely something to be worth thinking of.
And of course, we don't get that sort of reciprocity.
We certainly don't get to go test drive our vehicles in China.
And that's, you know, the whole sort of crux of this issue is that when you're looking at a reliable trade partner, it's a reciprocal relationship, right?
But that's not the kind of relationship we have.
And David Mulroney had a, you know, he had a great tweet the other day that I commented on.
And it's just like, you know, we can't any longer treat China as being a normal country, right?
Because they're not a normal country, because we can't have normal relations with a country when we don't have that sort of mutual respect and reciprocity.
Yeah.
You know, I was thinking about the EV electric vehicles and how they scan everything.
We've got little drone cameras, drones with cameras in them that we use at Rebel News occasionally.
DJI is the name of a leading brand of drones, but there's a lot of other brands.
And most of them are Chinese companies.
And the thing about a drone is all the video and all the data, in the case of DJI at least, it all goes back to the company.
And there's some real reasons for that.
It stops you from flying near an airport.
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There's limits on your drone that are imposed on your drone by DJI.
But my point is, every single drone flown in North America and Canada, that data, what it sees, is being held by a Chinese company.
I think it's sort of terrifying.
But let's get back to Melanie Jolie for a bit.
I don't regard her as a serious cabinet minister.
I don't think she's particularly well informed.
When Canada sent a warship down to Cuba, she didn't know about it.
She didn't know it was docking there the same time the Russians were there with their submarine.
She was asked in real time on TV about it, and she sort of pled ignorance.
Here's that embarrassing moment.
A look.
Okay, a lot of this is being driven by Russia.
I mean, obviously, China as well, but Russia would be the primary player as one of the eight Arctic nations.
There is this strange thing happening in Cuba, Minister, that I'm wondering if you can help me understand.
The HMCS Margaret Brooke, which is a patrol vessel from Canada, gone to Havana for three days starting tomorrow to celebrate Canada-Cuba bilateral relations.
And there's some eyebrows being raised because it's in port at the same time that Russian military vessels, including nuclear-powered submarines, are there.
Why would Canada have a Canadian ship in a Cuban port at the same time as Russian military vessels are there?
Listen, this is something that I have to look much more closer to.
This is an information that is news to me because the Minister of Defense also works with CAF and DD on this very issue.
But of course, we'll look into this and get back.
So I don't think she's well briefed.
I don't think she's particularly interested in foreign affairs.
I think she just reads what her media briefers tell her to read.
So when she went to China, I really do believe the theory that she was brought there is a dressing down.
Can I read that thing that you found in Chinese on the internet?
I'd love you to talk a little more about it.
So this is what you discovered by searching around on that social media site called WeChat, which is like a Chinese Twitter.
And you translate it as she was called to Beijing to be, quote, reprimanded.
Quote, the Trudeau government has become the loyal dog of the United States.
And you mentioned a stick to beat her with.
So it sounds like she was being brought to China to be criticized, to get a dressing down, to almost to be disciplined as if she works for China, as if she should be more loyal to China.
Like it's sort of weird to me that she would go there to be humiliated.
I mean, you say it wasn't really a secret, but the Chinese revealed it too, which has got to be embarrassing.
Why would Melanie Jolie go to China?
I know why the Chinese would want her there to humiliate her and give her a stern lecture, but what's in, why would Canada send her there?
That's a very good question because I don't see anything that was gained geopolitically by this meeting.
It didn't seem to thaw relations at all.
It did seem to maybe create more of a rift, especially the way that the mission was carried out.
It was carried out in a very, you know, sort of, you're right, a hush, you know, shush-shush, non-diplomatic, non-official manner.
Aside from her meeting with Yang Wang Yi, and that's on CCTV.
It's online.
And that's China Central Television, of course, and that answers to the state propaganda department.
So that's online.
And you can see those discussions, and they're very uncomfortable, and she looks very uncomfortable.
So why was she sent?
Was this just a sizing up of each other?
You know, maybe they want to get a better understanding of some of the new laws that we're putting in place.
We're looking, well, we've passed a bill that will give us a foreign agent registry act, right?
And that's something that we're putting into place.
So no doubt that came up.
They're obviously very upset about the hearings.
This is something that gets parroted time and time again: they're hyping up the China threat and that we don't interfere in other people's internal matters and things like that.
We, of course, know that that's completely untrue, and there's good hard evidence otherwise that they've been working actively to interfere in our internal matters and our elections, among other things.
So that's the big question is why did they send Jolie there, right, to get a dressing down and what was gained for it?
And what else did she do there?
We don't know.
We only know of this one meeting.
She was there for several days.
So I'm trying to figure out what else she got up to, but I haven't seen anything yet, but I will keep looking to see what other meetings take place.
And the reason that I bring this up is that the last time Melanie Zholi was in China, And this is very, very important and something that was never brought up in the media and something that was kept very, very hush, hush is that she was sent on a trade mission with John McCallum to China.
This was in 2018.
And during that meeting, they quietly met with Zhang Bin, who was the leader of the China Cultural Industry Association.
And that, of course, was the association that donated money to the Trudeau Foundation that was later returned.
So she did that meeting.
It was not well publicized.
There was no press about it.
This was just something that we happened to come upon.
And we were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.
You know, we had all these hearings and these committee meetings about the Trudeau Foundation and that very controversial donation, which was, you know, eventually returned because it was supposed to be being reimbursed by the Chinese government.
We still don't really know exactly what happened there, but we do know because there's a meeting that Melanie Joli met with one of the men who initiated the donation in China.
And nobody said anything during the hearings.
So you have to wonder what else she was up to while she was there, given that I'm not going to say she's lied about it, but this was never uncovered.
And it would have been interesting information, I'm sure, to learn that maybe when we were told that there was no influence bought from this donation, well, maybe that wasn't exactly correct.
You know, maybe she's there on a fundraising trip right now.
I mean, maybe she is compromised in some way because of what she would have said six years ago in that fundraiser.
I mean, that's the thing about China is they have a total approach to espionage, industrial espionage, political espionage, just general information gathering.
I think they're into big data.
They hoover up everything they can.
I mean, I think that the liberals, especially six years ago, if that's when you're saying Melanie Joli went to China and met with this fundraiser, every word she would have said would have been recorded.
Of course.
Everything she did would have been noted.
And it would not surprise me, given the liberal mindset in 2018, when they were still high in the polls and they were still confident and they were still in their first term.
Remember, that was when they could do no wrong.
It would not surprise me if Melanie Joli said some things, made some promises that would have trapped her.
And I have no basis for this other than the liberals are arrogant and they hoovered up as much money from China as they could.
And the 2019 election and the 2021 election were the ones that were compromised.
So 2018, they would have been working her.
They would have been trying to, in some way, break her, conflict her, compromise her.
I bet they had, was she, did she go, was she the foreign minister back in 2018 or did she go in a different capacity?
No, she was there, I believe, she was Minister of Heritage at the time.
There's no reason to go.
No, I mean, the Minister of Heritage does not need to go to China, but if you're there on behalf of a fundraising errand for the Liberal Party, I bet they'd have something on her.
Well, I think it was a little bit of a reciprocal relationship.
You know what?
You know, we introduced you to this guy.
He offered some money to the Trudeau Foundation.
This is our cultural association.
Down the road, you return the favor, right?
So it looks like down the road, the favor was returned.
They went down there, signed partnership agreements, you know, to, you know, with their media associations and things like that.
Obviously, that was probably in hindsight a very, very bad move, knowing what we know now more, given the recent reports.
And we know that a lot of these cultural associations and media associations are really operated, you know, behind the scenes by the Chinese government, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, also known as the United Front.
So, you know, they were kind of reeled in.
But so, I mean, that's why I have serious questions as to what Zhou Li was seriously up to, because, I mean, probably the appropriate thing to do when the Trudeau Foundation was under that tremendous amount of scrutiny for that donation and that donation was being returned, and everybody was looking for answers.
We even had Justin Trudeau's brother pulled up in committee hearings.
Probably somebody should have said down the road, well, hey, guess what?
We actually met this guy in China later on, right?
And those meetings are so important because everybody talks about combating foreign interference.
Well, here it is right in front of our face.
Nobody's being honest about how it's executed.
So how did this deal go down?
When did you meet him?
Who approached who?
Right?
How do we understand how this works and how do you fight it honestly, earnestly, if you really want to fight it?
And I have serious doubts as to whether they really want to fight it at all.
If you're not honest about how these meetings take place, right?
How do these introductions happen?
If you've been compromised and they have dirt on you, you're still an asset for the other side.
I really think the liberals have compromised themselves and the government.
We'll have to, maybe I'll have to do another access to information and maybe someone on the inside will forget to redact the response to me.
Andy, it's great to catch up with you.
I love following you on Twitter.
I want to encourage everyone to do the same and to see you on Twitter.
Your Twitter handle is RealAndy Lee Show.
And it's no surprise to me that you have 150,000 followers, which is very large for an independent journalist.
It's because of the original digging you do, including in Chinese language sources.
It's always a delight to see you.
Come back anytime.
Keep up the great work, my friend.
Yeah, thank you.
And if I might just add one more thing quickly, I know a lot of people are talking about, well, it's just a WeChat opinion piece.
And it is an opinion piece.
But the author is, he's a Chao Yunhee.
And so, like I said, he was a former People's Liberation Army naval officer.
And he's also promoted by, there's a China Association for Science and Technology.
So I went and filmed this anonymous WeChat blog.
And here he is.
And so he's promoted as one of the 100 accounts to follow under this government initiative.
So, you know, he has a certain amount of endorsement, obviously clout within the Chinese government.
He's one of only 100 accounts named out of 1.4 billion Chinese people.
So to just sort of discount his opinion on the, you know, the disastrous Joe Lee trip is a little bit premature, I think, because obviously, and he is a Chinese Communist Party member.
So, you know, is this representative of how they actually really felt?
And is this, well, he certainly has influence in China, obviously, and is a man of status.
And, you know, that post has been viewed, I think, a hundred and over a hundred thousand times now.
So people are certainly absorbing that information.
So this is our image on the world stage.
This is our image in China.
And it is important.
This would be akin to one of our generals writing, you know, our retired generals writing a similar unflattering piece, which just wouldn't happen.
It's absolutely an official comment.
If he is listed as 100 accounts to follow, that list is not generated with anything other than China's national interests in mind.
And China is mocking us.
They're laughing at us.
And Trudeau is just taking it because he is as compromised now as he ever was.
Well, keep in touch, Andy.
Great to see you again.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
And it's good to see you again.
Well, it's our pleasure.
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Your letters to me about the Ireland trip.
65P Baker says these countries have to come together and send these people right back where they came from.
God bless Ireland.
Well, that's the thing.
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And especially when I was in that town called Newtown Mount Kennedy, they said these folks were just walking over from the UK.
And I thought, walking over, but remember the map.
Ireland is an island.
But the top part of the island is called Northern Ireland.
And it's actually part of the United Kingdom.
The full name of that country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
So these fake refugees get on a boat in France, sail across the English Channel, get to stay in the UK.
They make their way to Northern Ireland, and then they just walk across the border into Ireland.
And as they said, they've got all this British slang.
Hey, Gov, how you doing, bruv?
Like, they're talking like British downtown slang in London.
They're not coming from Pakistan or Somalia or Nigeria or Palestine directly to Ireland.
Of course not.
There are no direct flights from those places.
So they are absolutely fake.
And that's the thing.
No one believes it for a second.
There are some Ukrainian refugees there, and they're a handful in their own way.
But I don't think anyone thinks the Ukrainians are faking the Russian invasion.
And it's typically Ukrainian families.
And from the reports I see, they're typically not engaged in some of the anti-social conduct that some of these other migrants are.
It's just incredible.
Another letter from NormalGuy Crazy World who says, our governments have sold us out to the highest bidder.
That's exactly what I've detected.
I mean, that hotel in the small town, the village of Dundrum, I don't know how much money they were paid to turn themselves into a refugee camp, but it must have been a lot.
Too much for him to resist.
We have the same sort of thing in Canada, too.
But instead of hotels who are on the payroll, too, you have dozens of fake colleges basically selling immigration papers in the form of tuition.
They're fake schools with fake BS degrees, and they basically charge you 10 or 20 grand to enroll, get a student visa once you have your acceptance there.
And it's just a way of getting people into this country.
It's a fake thing.
It's all about money, but they're selling out the country from the rest of us.
They're selling Canada out for a few pieces of silver.
I hate it.
It's going on in Ireland and around the world, too.
So show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night.