Ezra Levant reveals a government-funded focus group claiming 100% of Canadians oppose mass immigration, criticizing Canada’s 2024 targets of 485,000 permanent residents, $20B in foreign student tuition, and exploited low-wage labor. Ireland’s 96% asylum seeker surge—including unvetted single men from Somalia or Nigeria—faces scrutiny over "white guilt" and lack of transparency, while evicted locals protest nearby camps. Meanwhile, Toronto Police’s contradictory statements on a Jewish school arson, including delayed hate crime unit involvement and no arrests despite surveillance footage, fuel suspicions of a cover-up amid rising anti-Semitic incidents, suggesting systemic downplaying of hate crimes in Canada. [Automatically generated summary]
An enormous focus group paid for by your tax dollars shows that everyone consulted wants less immigration in Canada.
Every single person the government asked.
It's incredible.
I have all the details for you.
Then we'll check in on what's cooking in Ireland with our friend Fatima Gunning.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, 100% of participants in a liberal government focus group tell them immigration is too high.
It's July 30th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Amazing story in the independent news outlet called Black Locks.
Like Rebel News, they don't take any money from the government, by the way.
Here's a story they ran today.
Very interesting.
Headline, feds take wrong direction.
Focus Groups Reveal Truth00:03:16
100% of people questioned in Privy Council focus group research say cabinet is headed in the wrong direction on immigration records show.
Researchers acknowledged universal opposition to record high immigration levels.
Quote, asked whether they felt the government of Canada was on the right or wrong track when it came to managing the immigration system, all believed it was headed in the wrong direction, said a Privy Council report.
It was strongly believed the rate of immigration needed to be temporarily stabilized, added researchers.
Now I obviously didn't sit in on the focus groups in question but I I think I know a bit about how they work.
A focus group is a kind of deep opinion poll, deep but not wide.
What I mean by that is an opinion poll, ask, ask hundreds or even thousands of people a few questions.
The idea is to get a wide enough, a large enough sample that statistically the group you select is likely to represent a larger population.
So when a poll says 43 percent of people will vote conservative and 23 percent will vote liberal, they obviously haven't spoken to every Canadian.
They probably spoke to one or two thousand people spread out across the country and then they extrapolated from that statistically that's a poll, it's called a census.
When you ask literally every single human, a question that's extremely expensive and hard to get cooperation.
That's why the The government only does it once every five years or so.
But a focus group is sort of the opposite.
It's a smaller group of people who usually show up in person in return for money and maybe a meal.
And typically, they're not just asked a question one-on-one.
The group itself has a group conversation.
The group conversation is led by a pollster to make sure it doesn't go too far off track.
And there's a note taker, but it's interactive amongst the group.
Not too big a group, right?
Because you want everyone to be involved.
No more than, I don't even think there'd be more than 10 people.
Sometimes they're videotaped for later review.
Anyways, you want to recreate the kind of natural banter that normal people would have, say, at the office water cooler or even at a dinner party, for example.
Focus groups are often done in a variety of cities to take into account different sensibilities.
You're going to have some demographic diversity in there too, mixing up the ages, sex, race, economic level.
If it were just, say, college students, you'd get a very different result than coal miners.
So there's a bit of a mix, but the idea is to have the people talk amongst themselves.
These can be very expensive studies to do, but they can yield some really interesting information about how people really think about subjects because you're not just forcing people to answer a yes-no question that a pollster would write.
In a way, the focus group lets the participants write their own questions and then answer them.
Anyway, you probably know all that.
Oh, by the way, this focus group costs nearly a million dollars in your tax money.
Let me quote.
Findings were based on focus groups nationwide.
The research was commissioned under an $814,714 contract with the Strategic Council, a Toronto pollster.
Village Perspectives on Immigration00:15:48
Oh my God, they're getting rich off this liberal government.
So look at that first point again.
Asked whether they felt the government of Canada was on the right or wrong track when it came to managing the immigration system, all believed it was headed in the wrong direction.
All.
They all did.
Every man, every woman, every old person, every young person, every old stock Canadian, every new immigrant, everyone, literally everyone said that.
So this report says, and frankly, it's not hard to see why.
Let me keep reading a little bit.
These latest statistics surprised even me, and I think I follow this issue closely.
Cabinet's current immigration levels plan sets quotas at 485,000 people this year, another half a million next year, and half a million more in 2026.
The quotas do not include an additional 1,040,000 foreign students and 766,000 migrant workers led into Canada last year.
A million foreign students.
There are not a million Canadian students in Canada.
But in a way, there's not a million foreign students either.
That's sort of lying to yourself, which you should never do.
Most of those foreign students, they're not at U of T or UBC or Dalhousie or another real university.
Most of them have signed up for fake diploma mills where a fake college is set up, charges enormous tuition, but what they're really selling is a student visa to get in the country.
So a million people who could not legally immigrate here come here for a student visa for fake degrees.
Some of them no doubt are real students, but not a million of them.
That's a million people who paid a fake college $10,000 or $20,000 in tuition.
Just think about that.
A million times $20,000.
That's $20 billion.
They're getting rich out of selling out our country.
$20,000 for tuition, maybe.
Probably paid the same to an immigration consultant, probably an immigration consultant affiliated with the college.
So once they come here, they're not going home.
They didn't pay the money for a student diploma.
And then there's the so-called temporary workers on top of that.
Why are we bringing in 766,000 people to work at every Tim Hortons and McDonald's drive-thru and every 7-Eleven in the country?
Why can't young Canadians have those jobs?
The obvious answer is that Tim Hortons and the rest of them want to pay very, very low wages to these foreign workers beneath what they would pay Canadians.
These foreign workers drive down wages and take jobs that Canadian citizens wouldn't or couldn't take or aren't invited to take at those low wages.
But what if companies doing business in Canada had to actually employ Canadian citizens?
Well, maybe your Tim Hortons coffee would be 25 cents a cup higher, but we'd have jobs for young people.
And of course, with 766,000 fewer people in the housing market, young people could probably afford to move out of their parents and get their own house if we had 766,000 fewer foreign workers.
Of course, every single person in the focus group objected to this.
Of course, every single one knows that this country is changing in ways we were never asked.
We were never consulted.
We were never even told about.
I mean, did you know the numbers were so staggeringly large?
I guarantee you, 99% of Canadians do not know the numbers.
Here's our Sarah Stock asking some questions of people on the street.
Is there a cap you would put on the amount of people who could come in per year?
No.
No cap?
Well, I would think let it happen naturally or let it evolve naturally.
I've been to countries where people are living in absolute misery.
And it's our fault.
It's the Western world's fault.
It's just if government take them.
Maybe, yeah, but I don't think so.
You don't think so?
I feel like it's too much.
Probably not, to be honest with you.
I don't think we have the infrastructure for it.
Just need to be able to absorb people as they come, I suppose, you know?
I think, you know, we need to have systems in place.
And I think, you know, we're Canada and we are a country of immigrants.
And so I think we just need to keep those doors open.
It's like if you invited someone to your house for dinner, right?
And they come to your house for dinner and they look around and they go, hey, you know what?
I'm staying and you're paying.
And I'm forcing you to pay and I'm going to live in your house.
Let me read you a little bit more about the focus group.
I mean, you paid for it.
You should at least learn what it said.
Quote, several expressed the view that the rate of immigration had been too high in recent years and that action needed to be taken to temporarily reduce the number of people coming to Canada, including refugees and those seeking asylum, said the Privy Council report, continuous qualitative data collection of Canadians' views.
It was felt that the current capacity of infrastructure and vital services could not accommodate further increases to the population, and that a priority needed to be placed on supporting those already living in Canada.
People are pretty sick of fake refugees.
I think we're all feeling like suckers now, like we've been duped, like we've been too hospitable, people who are taking advantage.
I think this is a very interesting story.
I just keep coming back to that data point.
Every single person felt enough was enough.
Everyone, 100%.
Does that include Pier Polyev?
Will the Conservative Party leader start to speak for this massive, massive group of Canadians for all Canadians?
I sure hope so.
Stay with us for more.
Well, I never thought I would be so interested in Ireland.
It's a small country, half a world away, barely 5 million souls.
Of course, there are many Irish people in North America.
But I never thought I would go to Ireland itself.
I went to the UK quite a bit to follow the case of Tommy Robinson.
He's actually half Irish, but he, of course, is affiliated with all things British.
He even started something called the English Defence League.
So really, I had no knowledge about anything going on on the Emerald Island until I started paying attention to some of the most extreme immigration policies I've seen anywhere in the world.
And I know Canada is out of control, but they do something really weird in Ireland that I've never seen anywhere else.
They just announce without consultation that they're going to take over a town or a village.
And for example, in the little town, the village of Dundrum, 175 Souls, the government just announced they have done a deal with a local hotel to shut it down as a hotel and turn it into a refugee camp.
280 refugees in a village of 175 people.
Just announcing it, fait accompli, ta-da, no consultation, no compromise, no planning or zoning rules, just absolutely astonishing.
It's almost as if it's designed to irritate and undermine local local sovereignty, local will.
I mean, in the case of Dundrum, that tiny village, more than doubling the population, a village with centuries of history, just absolutely incredible to me.
So I've been to Ireland twice now, and I hope to go back, but it is a long journey.
And of course, my main duties are here in Canada, which is what we cover mainly.
But I'm lucky enough to have made some friends with one of the most important independent media companies in Ireland called GRIPT, G-R-I-P-T.
And you can follow them on their website, gripped.ie.
And I really like their style.
I would say they're a little bit more calm and a little less antagonistic than Rebel News.
And I think that's their secret sauce: they found the sweet spot where they can challenge authority and challenge the establishment, but still be polite enough company that they get into the press gallery, that they get into press conferences and put questions to cabinet ministers.
Let me start.
We're about to have a great catch-up chat with Fatima Gunning, one of their reporters.
But since I've mentioned the village of Dundrum, let me show you a three-minute video, an exchange between another GRIP reporter called Ben Scallon and a cabinet minister of the Irish government about this little village of Dundrum.
And when we come back on the other side, we're going to talk to Fatima about that and all things Irish.
Here, take a look.
Minister, we've heard that there's the village of Dundrum in County Tipperary where the population of the town is about 165 people and there are plans to move more asylum seekers than the local population.
Do you understand why some locals would say that's just an absurd situation and that this situation is out of control?
Well, first of all, I haven't heard about that particular instance, but I do know that Minister of Garminist Parker does communicate and consult with local communities.
And I'm sure that work is ongoing as we speak at the minute.
I'm not familiar with that particular case.
But in general, would you say that it's sustainable that we do have villages around the country, not just Dundrum, but other places where the government is talking about or has moved more asylum seekers into the local area than there are locals, such as in Lisdie, and Varna and other places like that?
Well, can I just say that in the majority of cases where people come into an area and they...
Keep us all on our toes, I suppose.
In many cases where people have moved into an area, the locals are there and they welcome them and they integrate in.
And I've seen that on many occasions myself.
For example, I'm sorry, Minister.
That's not really the question.
I mean, of course, that's true.
That's a separate issue to what I'm asking about, which is again the volume of asylum seekers that are being moved specifically into some rural areas.
Obviously, as the Minister for Rural Development, if there's a large influx of people to a very small town, is that sustainable long-term is what I'm asking you.
Do you understand why some people would have concerns about that?
Yeah, well, I do understand that people have concerns, but I can give you one very good example.
And Listu Invarna is a very good example.
I've been down there a number of times myself.
There was a lot of people moved into that area and they have integrated exceptionally well.
They're working in the local community, they're working in the local community centre.
I've been to visit them myself, and that's a town where it has made a difference.
In fact, the war plans to move some Ukrainians out of a particular area into another area.
And I actually got calls from local people saying, please don't move them.
These people are making a contribution.
So I think there's concerns initially, and I understand why people have concerns, but when they get to know the people and they can see that they're making a contribution and they want to make a contribution in this country, I think that's what we need to do.
And they can see the difference on the ground.
So it's important that we don't have preconceived ideas about who's coming into our country.
A lot of these people are very genuine, honest people.
They want to be here.
They want to contribute.
They want to work.
Well, that's Gripps Ben Scallon asking Heather Humphreys about the little town of Dundrum that's about to have its population more than doubled.
She says, basically, look, the Irish way is to be hospitable and welcoming.
And she says that it has worked in other cases.
She refers to the Ukrainians.
Ireland took an incredible 100,000 Ukrainians at the beginning of the war.
And just to put that in scale, that would be like 1 million Ukrainians coming to Canada.
Just an enormous amount.
But there were some cultural and economic compatibilities.
Some of them spoke English.
They're Christian.
They have a certain economic and skills background.
And it is true.
I found many Irish people were positive about Ukrainians.
But what's been planned for Dundrum and Kulak and other places is not for these families brought over from Ukraine who could genuinely be called refugees, but rather asylum seekers, almost all the military aged men from places like Somalia or Nigeria or places where there's really very little cultural compatibility, no economic compatibility, very little English skills.
And I think that that minister was conflating the two.
In the end, I don't think she answered the question at all.
How do you feel about putting 280 migrants in a town of 175?
Very interesting days, but let us now talk to our friend Fatima Gunning, a colleague of Ben Scallon's at Grip.
Fatima, great to see you again.
I had the pleasure of bumping into you when I was in Ireland last time.
There's so much going on.
Why don't you sort of do a scan of the country for us?
I just wanted to show that video from Ben because it was about the very village that I myself had visited.
Tell me what's cooking in terms of immigration, crime, other issues that are causing Ireland to convulse.
Well, I suppose even though, as I said before, the vast majority of Irish people surveyed said that they think that the government has taken in far too many refugees and asylum seekers, the government is going ahead and essentially leaving the situation as it is.
I mean, you'll see Minister for Justice Helen McEntee do things like she'll add countries to this safe country list, which is supposed to mean that people coming there seeking asylum have their applications expedited because, you know, if you're coming from somewhere like South Africa where there's no war, you're probably less likely to actually be a victim of some kind of persecution.
So she'll do things like that.
And, you know, skeptics might say that that is in some way to placate the public.
But then you'll see figures coming out.
Like, for example, compared to this time last year, there's been a 96% increase in the number of asylum seekers coming to Ireland.
So despite these kind of, you know, token moves to make it more difficult or to speed up processing times, implement deportations, the numbers we see coming are getting bigger and they're getting substantially bigger.
So you kind of have to ask yourself if what the government is doing is actually making any difference.
And I suppose just to the point of Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys saying, she's insisting there that Minister for Integration, Roderick O'Gorman, that he does communicate with locals when setting up these asylum seeker accommodation facilities.
I have spoken, Ben has spoken, anyone agreed to spoken to a lot of people in Wicklow, in Tipperary, where that is, in county after county after county, who say that they were not in fact consulted.
Usually, in a lot of cases, what happens is, and I think this is also the case in Coolock, also in the nearby area of Santry, is that contracts will go out for catering, let's say, or for some kind of works that they need to improve the facility.
And through those contracts, words will slip out, word will slip out that, oh, there's some movement going on here.
Why are they suddenly renovating this derelict building?
And that's how people find out that there's an asylum seeker proposal.
It's not because the government are being transparent.
Why Consultation Matters00:05:36
It's the most astonishing thing I've ever seen.
If you want to build a skyscraper, if you want to build a mall, if you want to build a parking lot, in every country in the Western world, there's some municipal planning.
What will it do for traffic?
What will it do for safety?
What will it do for congestion?
Do we have enough resources?
If we're moving a bunch of people here, do we have enough doctors?
Like there's so much planning and this whole field of municipal law and zoning has grown around how you handle building new things.
And the idea that you would just plunk 280 people in a village of 175 with no planning, no notice.
When I was down in Dundrum, the owner of the hotel that had done the deal with the government sped by in his car.
He's never spoken to the public at all.
He's never done a media interview at all.
The contract he has is a secret.
It's never been revealed.
He has attended no town hall meetings.
Normally, when there's a developer of a shopping center of a project, they go to a town hall and basically get pummeled with questions for hours and they make a bunch of promises to get back to the people.
None of that has happened here.
And it's all a secret and it's being issued from the very top down.
I have never seen anything like it in any country in the world where I've been following mass immigration.
Ireland is unique in how rough they are with their own people.
I don't understand that, Fatima, because in my mind, Irish are rebellious, they're independent-spirited.
There's that nickname, the fighting Irish.
Like the Irish are a stiff-necked people.
And here you have governments basically say, be submissive.
Your job is to agree.
They're not consultations.
They're one-way edicts.
I've just never seen anything like that anywhere in the world, Fatima.
Right.
And then the government is saying continuously that people don't have a right to veto who comes into their neighborhood.
So they're saying that, you know, we have a Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, who up until five minutes ago was basically in lockstep with the government.
She's the leader of the opposition party, although you probably need to do a bit of reading to figure that out if you look at their policies.
She has said that there needs to be more consultation, but that people don't have a veto.
So it's basically like, okay, we'll tell you what we're going to do, and you don't have a right to say no.
So I don't know, we're going to tell you what we're going to do, and you're just going to accept it.
So I don't really understand why that's a consultation.
You know, if you look at people trying to build housing estates or whatever, like you do have the right to object.
And then if the council finds in your favor, if the council accepts your concerns about that planning application, that will be turned down and it can be turned down multiple times, even if the proposed developer appeals it.
So this is obviously not the case with these asylum seekers.
So I don't really understand how it is a consultation at all.
Yeah, it's just incredible to me.
And I think, I mean, it's tough to talk about these things without being called politically incorrect.
But when I was in Dundrum, we saw some Ukrainians at that hotel now.
But when I spoke to the protesters at the front gate, they actually said that the Ukrainians are assimilating well.
They're active in the schools and in the community.
I actually didn't hear any objection to them.
I think they were scared of the idea of hundreds of single military-aged men from countries of violence who were clearly bogus.
Like when I saw you at a small town called Newtown Mount Kennedy, where I encountered some of the men, and they had all walked over from Northern Ireland into Ireland proper.
So they weren't flying in from Somalia or Gaza or wherever they said they came from.
They came through a series of countries, the last one of which was the UK, and then into Ireland.
So of course everyone knows they're bogus refugees.
You're not in danger if you're coming from the UK.
You're not in danger if you pass through France.
Whereas I think everyone knows in their bones something bad is going on in Ukraine.
And we can say, well, the young able-bodied men perhaps should be in Ukraine fighting.
But I think people understand in their gut, okay, if you're a family from Ukraine, it's because there's a war.
But if you're a single guy from Somalia, for example, you know, Somalia is not a great place, but you did not come from Somalia to Dublin.
You went through a lot of safe places first, so everyone knows instinctively it's BS.
What do you think of that?
Well, yeah, I mean, there's no direct flights between Dublin and Somalia.
I don't think Reiner or Erlingus are planning to go there anytime soon.
But yeah, like I've spoken to asylum seekers outside, particularly this place called Crook's Ling, which is in a rural part of, it's kind of on the borders of South County Dublin, a little bit of County Wicklow, very sparsely populated, not much going on there, but a very beautiful area.
And yeah, some of those guys, like African-looking guys, have British accents.
So I'm like, where did you get your British accent?
You must have been in the UK for a couple of years before you decided to come to Ireland and claim asylum from, you know, the war-torn region of the United Kingdom, as it were.
And funnily enough, I was actually up there yesterday visiting a family of four.
Irish Nationals vs. Refugee Camps00:07:57
It's an Irish man, his wife, I think that lady is from Eastern Europe and their two kids who are being evicted.
They have been evicted actually from a log cabin they put on land that is owned by the family because South Dublin County Council say that they, you know, they didn't apply for planning permission before they erected that structure.
So Irish nationals, they're being kicked out because they didn't go through the planning rules.
But these pop-up refugee camps aren't even subject to the planning rules.
That's astonishing.
Right.
And that particular family's home is a five-minute drive from the former nursing home, Crooksling, where hundreds of single male asylum seekers are being occupied now.
You know, and obviously planning laws have been, certain aspects of planning laws have been abandoned in order to let that happen.
So the government seems very, very, you know, happy enough to evict Irish families into homelessness.
Yet they say that housing asylum applicants, many of whom are economic migrants who are taking advantage of the asylum system, we know that.
Apparently, that's an emergency, but housing homeless Irish families is not.
You know, what I don't get is the Irish guilt about this, because I know in the United States, there's the overhang of slavery and the Jim Crow laws.
And there is an expiation of that guilt through, you know, certain racial set-asides or quotas or affirmative action, whatever.
I mean, Abraham Lincoln himself talked about how sort of cosmic justice required that any money made at the hand of a slave should be, you know, that it was burnt up by the Civil War.
I mean, if you read his second inaugural address, you can see that the moral guilt of slavery weighed heavily on Abraham Lincoln's mind.
Other countries, the United Kingdom, had colonies around the world.
And I would argue that those colonies benefited immensely from the rule of law and peace and the English language and free market economics.
We can have that debate, but none of those things apply to Ireland.
Ireland enslaved no one.
Ireland colonized no one.
Ireland displaced no one.
The Irish are the original people there.
If they were in Canada, they would be called First Nations.
If they were in Australia, they would be called Aborigines or Indigenous people.
I don't understand why Indigenous people on the land in Ireland are being kicked off their land for zoning reasons, why obvious fortune seekers who are like, I just don't think anyone in Ireland actually thinks that these IPAs, as they're called, these asylum seekers, are legit.
I just don't, I mean, everyone knows they just walked over from Northern Ireland.
I just don't get why Ireland is being taken as suckers here.
That's what I don't get, is where this white guilt comes from in a country that is nothing to be guilty for.
I am so puzzled by that, Fatima.
Well, I think that, you know, over the past couple of years, these kind of buzzwords like racist and far-right have been used to demonize anyone who even asks about this, even like mixed race people like myself or people who are themselves immigrants from Eastern Europe, could be South America, Africa, wherever they're from, people who have come here to work hard and try and like make a better life for themselves and their families.
Those kind of people have been dismissed and tarred as racists.
There are also people like, I'll give you an example of a lady.
Her name is Dr. Yvonne Joseph.
She has been appointed as a racism czar.
So she's been given a bunch of taxpayers money to isolate instances where Irish people are racist and essentially, you know, train Irish people not to be racist like you would train a dog not to piss in your house, excuse my language.
So you have situations like that.
And then also the government does this thing and you'll have seen Minister Heather Humphreys do it in the clip you played a couple of minutes ago.
But they continually conflate these refugees and asylum seekers, people who are economic migrants taking advantage of the asylum system.
They continuously conflate those people with people who have come here seeking work.
So people who have actually come and are actually paying their taxes, integrating, doing their best to speak English or whatever.
They're continually conflating those people, saying like, oh, yeah, but if you capped the number of migrants coming in, suddenly the hospitals wouldn't work anymore because there's so many Indian nurses.
It's like, well, we're not talking about Indian nurses when we talk about asylum seekers.
That's a completely different demographic.
Yeah, I mean, you we met up at Newtown Mount Kennedy, which is basically an urban refugee camp.
They built a 10-foot steel wall around it, not to protect the migrants, but to stop the Irish from looking in to see what's going on.
My understanding is that is a 100% male camp, that there are no women in there.
Is that your understanding as well?
Yeah, there's no women in there.
Like a lot of those camps are 100% male, single male.
And, you know, in Dundrum, as you may have mentioned, originally it was occupied by Ukrainians.
And like, you know, in fairness to the Ukrainians, like a lot of them are women and children.
I mean, there have been issues raised regarding the amount of Ukrainians taken in.
It's at least 107,000.
And also, I think within the first year of their accommodation, something like 750 million euros was paid for their social welfare.
Like they were getting pretty much the same job seekers' allowance as an Irish person would get.
So that was causing some controversy that you're getting like, you know, 120, 130 euros a week, and you also have your accommodation paid for in a lot of cases.
So a lot of people were kind of questioning whether that was fair because, you know, Ukraine is a pretty large country.
So it's like, well, why do they need to come from the east of Ukraine all the way to Ireland when they possibly could be settled safely in another part of Ukraine?
So yeah, there are people who are also kind of questioning the amount of Ukrainians coming in and also like, you know, whether the ones here are actually from the areas of Ukraine that are affected by the war.
But like be that as it may, yeah, like some of the centers are initially sold as being for Ukrainians, women and children, maybe families, which is it's a softer sell.
It's a much softer sell to say that these people are families, that the kids need to go to school, X, Y, and Z, than to say, well, we're going to move in like 65 single men.
None of them are vetted.
We don't know.
So a lot of them have come in with no passports.
We don't actually know where they are from.
We don't know what they have done.
If they have criminal records, we just don't know that.
So I think in some ways the Ukrainian card has been played to kind of pull the wall over the people's eyes a little bit.
I think so.
And anyone who shreds their documents upon coming across the border, that's such a sign of bad faith.
And in my mind, in my gut, that should be an automatic deportation right there.
Because obviously they're coming to trick.
In law, if you lose a document that you ought to have had, the courts often make an adverse inference.
That is, if you lost, if you say, though, the dog ate my homework, Your Honor, quite often the court will say, well, we're not going to give you the benefit of the doubt of this because this is on you.
We're going to assume the worst.
That's called an adverse inference in law.
And I think any migrant who, quote, loses their passport that they needed to get to fly into Dublin or to cross over from Northern Ireland.
I think we can make an adverse inference that they're tricksters, that their document does not show what they purported to show.
I just, it breaks my heart.
And I met so many wonderful people.
I hope to go back to Ireland.
It's not a quick journey from Canada.
And of course, we have our work here, but it's so great to catch up with you.
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more ahead that I recorded today.
I woke up in the morning and another day, another Jewish institution being attacked.
A Jewish day school not far away from us here, torched and had windows smashed.
And then police lied about it.
Here, take a look at the video.
I'll see you tomorrow, everybody.
Toronto police claim that the man who set fire to the Jewish school was just a homeless man sleeping in a shed out back, and it wasn't an anti-Semitic hate crime.
But a neighbor gave us surveillance footage showing something very different.
It shows a man arriving at the school at 3.05 a.m. and carefully checking to see if he was being followed.
Then he walks briskly to the school carrying bags of supplies.
Minutes later, the school is on fire.
According to the neighbor, that was the first time the man had been there.
He had never slept in the shed, not on that night or any other.
As for Levant here, I am back at the Leo Beck Day School several hours after I broke the news that the school had its window smashed and was torched in an obvious anti-Semitic hate crime incident one day after Jewish school buses several miles away for another Jewish school were torched.
The commonality between these two incidents is that the media has tried to bury them and police have said next to nothing.
Yesterday, both CTV and City News said that the school bus caught fire at 5 a.m.
As you know, parked school buses do.
Of course, that's not true.
I went there and I bumped into the owner of the school bus who said it was obviously arson.
A bizarre report by CTV said that the bus had been parked there for 15 years.
The owner of the school bus told us it was used every school day.
Just a weird cover-up.
And then this morning I come to the school and let me just show you a little bit of what I filmed when I was first on the scene, really.
Arson.
The window smashed.
You can see the charred remains behind it.
That's a plate glass window.
Absolutely shattered.
There's a bit of a cleanup crew here.
There's a private security guard down there, but no one else is here.
Police aren't here.
They're busy doing something more important.
This is a prominent and large Jewish day school for young kids.
Had it been during the school year, God forbid, kids would have been hurt by the attack and they would certainly be startled and stunned to come to school.
I wasn't the first human on the scene.
There was some cleanup crews and the CEO of the school was sitting by dejectedly.
And I walked right up to the smashed window and I did my report and I left and the video went viral.
But then I saw the most bizarre tweet by the Toronto police.
And let me read it to you now.
We understand there is concern about a fire that occurred last night at Leo Beck Day School.
At 3.46 a.m., police responded to a call reporting a fire in an exterior storage shed being used by an underhoused individual for shelter.
Toronto Fire Services extinguished the fire.
The cause of the fire is undetermined with no suspicious circumstances.
It just caught fire, guys.
You know, spontaneous conflagrations.
It just happens all the time.
The hate crime unit has been consulted and there is no evidence that this incident was motivated by hate.
The investigation is ongoing.
Well, hang on, hang on.
So the investigation is ongoing or there's no evidence.
You can't really say both.
So you say there was no hate crime, but then you say the hate crimes was investigating.
Then you say they found no evidence, but you say they're still investigating.
What a bizarre cover-up.
And even weirder was how quickly the liberal MP who has on so many occasions let down her own community by selling them out to, well, basically Justin Trudeau's agenda.
Look at this bizarre tweet by Yaara Sachs.
A devastating news cycle of arson and vandalism.
Incidents at Jewish schools, property, and neighborhoods, including now at Leo Beck Day School, reminds us that the community is not and does not feel safe in the face of rising anti-Semitism.
Thank you, Toronto Police, for your continued work.
Hang on.
Which is it?
Is it anti-Semitism or not?
Was it a hate crime or arson or not?
You guys have to get your alibis straight.
You guys should confer with each other before lying to the public.
So I saw this bizarre cover-up.
I saw police announcing it's not anti-Semitism before their investigation is finished.
And I came back because I know a few things because I know this school fairly well.
I know, for example, that it has fairly high security.
And I know it's absolutely absurd to say that a homeless person, they won't even use that word, accidentally set the place on fire, which included smashing very high-strength plexiglass windows.
It is very hard to break a glass window like that.
That's tempered glass.
And to smash three of them in a row, accidentally, a homeless person, it is obviously a fake example, a fake excuse.
Now, here's the amazing thing.
I came back here right away when I saw the police cover-up.
And a man walked forward and said, hey, I saw your report this morning.
I said, really?
He said, yes.
He said to me, I think it might have been a homeless person.
I said, well, why would that be the case?
Why would you say that?
He said, because I saw him on my house closed-circuit TV, my house security cam.
Now, this neighbor didn't want to be on camera or use his name, but he allowed me to chat with him recording his voice.
Here's a little bit of how that conversation went.
So I just looked at your home security camera footage, and it shows a guy.
Had you seen him before?
So now we know a guy did it, but was he homeless or was he an anti-Semitic hate criminal?
Have you seen him before?
I know.
That's the first time 24 hours ago.
I just know.
So you had never seen that guy here in weeks or months?
I have not.
No.
Okay, so now I'm a little skeptical that he was homeless if he was just there one night only.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
The hours he operates are pretty late, and I'm not awake to see him, so I can't comment on that.
Now, it does show a man moving things into position.
But is it an anti-Semitic attack or is it a homeless person?
This may be the storage shed that they're referring to.
In fact, looking at this, this looks like it could have been a plastic prefab storage shed, the kind of thing that you might find at a Costco or a Walmart.
And this wooden pallet may have been the floor of the storage shed.
So there may in fact have been a storage shed here.
It certainly wouldn't have been that door.
I know from experience that door is well secured and it goes downstairs into the school.
So this may be the remains of the storage shed.
But what does a fire in a storage shed, which is a plausible explanation, have to do with then standing up and smashing a series of plate glass windows?
And how can the police be so quick to rule things out?
To say it was not a hate incident, but all at the same time say they're still investigating.
Well, which is it?
You've ruled it out, but you're not done your investigation?
And if it was an underhoused man who obviously committed arson and other offenses to property, why has he not been arrested as far as we know?
Why has he not been charged as far as we know?
What was his name?
Did he really just come this one day?
Because remember, we spoke to the neighbor who said he had never seen this person before.
And he was bringing bags of stuff.
So we've seen the closed circuit TV from the neighbor's place.
But look, one, two, three, at least three surveillance cameras at the school itself would have been on this shed, if indeed this was a shed.
I think it behooves the Toronto Police and this school to release that footage.
Was this just a random act by a hobo or was this an anti-Semitic attack?
We've seen the neighbors footage.
I want to see what's in those cameras.
And if the Toronto police is ruling out a hate incident before they've even finished their investigation, it shows the whole thing is a cover-up.
I don't doubt that this could have been a shed.
And I don't doubt it was set on fire.
And I don't doubt it was set on fire by a man last night caught on tape by the neighbor.
The question is, was he indeed a random homeless person lighting it on fire?
Or was he an anti-Semitic hate criminal?
Because he didn't just let it on fire.
He smashed all those windows.
Where is he?
Did police arrest him?
What's his name?
Has he been charged with crimes before?
Why do we not know that information?
I don't trust the Toronto Police.
Do you?
I think that the police are covering up.
I think Yaara Sachs, who was instant to reply to the police, wants this to go away.
Canada is in the middle of an anti-Semitic crime wave.
They're hitting Jewish schools every week, Jewish synagogues every week, so often that they no longer make news.
But it's not because they're not newsworthy.
It's because the mainstream media, the police, and the politicians would rather have this inconvenient story go away.
The Toronto police are a disgrace for declaring this a non-incident while it's still being investigated.
And Ya'ara Sachs is a double disgrace after her betrayal of the Jewish community to approve of the Toronto Police whitewashing this incident.
This was an attack on a Jewish school.
I do not believe that there was no anti-Semitic hate involved.
I do not believe that a random homeless person attacked and smashed a high-security Jewish school.