Ezra Levant examines the UK’s alarming crackdown on dissent, including a two-year prison sentence for gesticulating at police and Chelsea Russell’s curfew for posting "hurtful" lyrics. Lawrence Fox reveals government/media targeting of peaceful activists like him, despite 200K rally attendees, while exposing Labour councillor Ricky Jones’ violent rhetoric. Fox warns that speech policing risks authoritarianism, mirroring concerns about Biden’s U.S. trends, as Levant ties the UK’s shift to broader threats against liberal democracy and free expression. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, the United Kingdom starts jailing political protesters, including two years in prison for a man who gesticulated at police.
It's August 8th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
shame on you you censorious bug you know for centuries the united kingdom had a respect for civil liberties A lot of key philosophers of freedom come from the UK.
The greatest philosophical tract about freedom of speech, Areopagitica, it's a strange word, but that's what it was called, is from the UK.
They were the source of literature and debate and mother of all parliaments.
But in recent decades, there's been a bit of a police state undercurrent.
I discovered by getting to know some of the football or soccer lads that there's something called anti-social behavior orders, where if any people were threatening to become unruly, they could be issued an order to disperse, kicked out of a pub, kicked out of a soccer stadium, not having done anything yet.
It was an attempt to deal with the phenomenon of football hooliganism, but the way they did so really undermined a lot of freedom of association, freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech.
I don't know, maybe it was acceptable if it was just on the football lads, but those same football lads have a political expression too.
The UK also, probably per capita, has the most spy cameras anywhere in the world, other than maybe communist China.
And there's a real surveillance culture there tied right into police and, of course, these anti-social behavior orders.
They have things called non-crime hate incidents.
And that's, of course, if you do something on Facebook or Twitter or say something that's not really a crime, the police will still come to your house.
You saw that clip we had of Konstantin Kissing the other day talking about comparing the number of people arrested in Vladimir Putin's Russia for saying something on the internet versus in the UK.
Remember this clip?
In Russia last year, 400 people were arrested for things that they said on social media.
400 people in Russia.
Obviously, this country is very different.
How many people do you think were arrested in Britain for things they said on social media last year?
Go on.
Take a guess.
I have no idea.
3,300.
Really?
Arrested for what they said on social media.
Really?
What sort of things get you arrested?
Well, one example I give in my show is there was a young woman from Liverpool called Chelsea Russell.
Her friend was killed in a car crash, a 19-year-old woman.
And she posted the lyrics of his favorite song on her Instagram, the lyrics.
And there was a rap song, so the lyrics contain several instances of the n-word.
Okay.
She was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, given 500 hours of community service and a fine, tagged, and for a year she was under 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew.
My goodness.
In Britain.
In Britain, in 2018.
Well, as we saw yesterday, the police have positively said they have officers scouring the internet for hurty words.
Add to that the concept of the 15-minute cities where you're being spied on not just for your non-crime hate incidents, but did you use too much carbon?
Are you driving further than you're allowed to do?
And just general life, I think in some ways it's even more heavily regulated than in Canada.
There's something over there called Ofcom, which is their version of our CRTC, the TV and radio regulator.
And it's a pain in the neck in Canada, believe you me, they're what killed Sun News Network.
But over there in the UK, you can complain about any particular show, about any particular TV interview, if you thought it was fair or not fair enough.
And they'll literally have a government investigation into literally a particular interview.
And they'll make orders to the TBC.
It's really crazy.
Still on the TV beat.
They have a license fee that pays for the BBC.
In Canada, the CBC just scoops it right out of the taxes.
But in the UK, you have to pay a license fee and there's vans.
I'm not making this up.
Vans that drive around trying to detect if you're accessing the BBC television but not paying your license fee.
People have actually been prosecuted for that.
I just, I don't even know how they do it in the age of the internet, but they do.
The UK used to have a very light touch.
It was said that a law-abiding Brit could go his entire life without having any touch point with a police officer.
Well, that's over now.
Orwell detected some of this in the DNA of the United Kingdom when he wrote his books, including 1994, which was written more than 70 years ago.
Well, now the UK's gone nuts.
They were bad enough under the Rishi Sunak half-conservatives, but they're just nuts today.
As we saw in yesterday's clip, merely insulting people that could cause feelings of hatred.
That's now an arrestable crime.
I suppose we have something like that in Canada too.
They were threatening to charge our truck with creating bad feelings or something.
They're talking about having a standing army.
They don't mean actual military soldiers, but a standing army policing protests.
And they're literally talking about banning social media or at least just, you know, two weeks to flatten the curve.
They've gone nuts.
They've gone absolutely nuts.
And they've all gone nuts together by altogether.
I mean, the entire establishment.
And I don't know.
I don't think it's done yet.
And I think it's just getting started.
Here's a guy I think they're going to arrest.
It's my feature interview today with Lawrence Fox.
Take a look.
Well, when we started Rebel News nine years ago, we were very focused on Canada.
Made sense.
We were all Canadians.
But at Sun News, previously, I had gotten to know a little bit through interviews Tommy Robinson.
It was difficult to reach out to him because I was scared.
Everything I could find about the guy online said that he was racist and even anti-Semitic.
And that didn't sit well with me.
So the very first question I asked him in my first interview back on Sun News was, are you a racist?
And I sort of knew he wasn't, but I just thought I'd better check.
Well, here we are 10 years later.
I know for a fact he's not racist.
In fact, first time I ever met the lad, when we hired him at Rebel News, he came in with his best friend since childhood who happened to be black.
That's how it is when you're from Luton Town, one of the most racially diverse places in the UK.
We've been following Tommy, his crusade against child rape gangs in the UK, how his journalism has brought upon him censorship.
Britain's Authoritarian Slide00:03:11
And we've covered his last two mega rallies in London.
Alexis Lavois represented us on June 1st and July 27th.
One of the men who shared the stage with Tommy Robinson is our guest today.
His name is Lawrence Fox.
He's an actor.
He's a journalist.
He's a political activist.
And I have to say, he could be targeted by the government in the UK for their extreme attempts to stop people from criticizing government policy on many of these issues.
Joining us now is Lawrence Fox.
Lawrence, great to see you again.
Thanks for taking the time.
Thanks for having me, Ezra.
I think you're right.
I am, I'm according, well, the Times did a hit piece.
Well, it was written by Hope Not Hate that, well, Hate Not Hope is what they should be called.
And I think I'm number two on the government's hit list at the moment.
Yeah.
I believe that because you have a devil-may care attitude.
I mean, there's something about your style I get a real kick of.
I mean, even tiny things like smoking in an interview.
By the way, I love it.
But I think you're the kind of person that the government would love to arrest because you're a kind of lightning rod and you have rivals and you have people who are mad at you anyway.
So if they arrested you, they would get a lot of people who would cheer that.
And, you know, you're an indigenous Brit, so you have no race card to play in the game of politically correct poker.
And they've arrested you before, haven't they, over COVID matters.
Am I right?
They didn't arrest me over COVID.
They arrested me over EU letters.
And they just, I think they just stopped.
They stopped the investigation nine months.
They took all of my devices, my kids' devices, everything.
They not locked me up in a cell for a day.
And they just, you know, the police like to intimidate and harass and bully in Britain, certainly the Met police.
So I'd left London.
I didn't feel safe in London.
So I've moved to somewhere very far away, which was good.
Just for our Canadian viewers, ULAS stands for ultra-low emission zones, or as they're sometimes called here, 15-minute cities.
In the UK, they have all these spy cameras.
And you also have people called Blade Runners who sneak out at night with buzzsaws, hacksaws, and bring them down.
It's quite dramatic.
And yeah, Lawrence, I want to talk about the current craziness in the UK.
You were there on June 1st and July 27th at these massive, peaceful, patriotic rallies, family rallies, no violence, lots of, I'd call it a festival feeling even.
Tons of flags.
And from that to the darkness we've seen over the last few days, rioting, arson.
You see, you know, I really believe you have two-tier policing in the UK.
You can almost guarantee that if it is an Indigenous Brit who's getting into Fistie Cups, he's going to be arrested and there'll be a big press release about it.
But if there is a newcomer, if there's a Muslim activist, the Muslim Defense League, police will say, oh, well, we've talked to the community and they're going to manage themselves.
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I really have never seen such a bifurcation, such a dichotomy in policing.
It's almost as if they really do check the color of your skin before they decide what to do with you.
They do.
And it's incredibly terrifying, actually, because it's happened so, I mean, look, we've all been seeing what's happening across the West as the West breathes its last breaths.
But what's that Hemingway line from the Sun Also Rises about going bankrupt that Victor Davis Sampson says all the time?
You go bankrupt slowly and then very, very quickly.
And Britain has gone bankrupt very, very quickly into an authoritarian state, not dissimilar from what Joe Biden did in terms of the US situation.
So Keir Stong had presented himself as a very sort of, you know, I'm a very normal guy.
And I just, everything's normal and don't worry, nothing's going to be too serious.
And then the minute he gets into power, he turns into an absolute authoritarian despot straight away.
And he's not a man of courage and he's not a man of conviction, but he is a man of the law.
He has a long, long history as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service.
So we're being run by a lawyer.
And America might be run by a lawyer soon if Kamala Harris or want to be lawyer if Kamala Harris gets in.
It's terrifying.
It's the first time I'm being contacted daily by people who are absolutely terrified.
And, you know, middle of the road people, because we're policing what people say.
And that's a very, very dangerous road to go down.
You know, it's crazy because listen, everyone can use harsh language.
The police went to extreme lengths over the last 10 months.
Whenever they heard Ala Akbar or Jihad or globalize the Intifada or from the river to the sea, they turned themselves into pretzels saying, no, no, no, you have to understand in the right context, that's a peaceful jihad they mean.
It means a struggle with themselves.
You know, there was no words from the Islamist left that would arouse the police to action for a hate crime and a thought crime.
And by the way, I myself don't support thought crimes.
I mean, there were enough real crimes being committed.
You don't have to go after a verbal crime.
But with, let me give you an example.
Here's a lad, he's in his 50s from the UK jurisdiction of Cleveland.
It's not just Cleveland, Ohio.
There's a Cleveland in the UK.
Their Twitter feed is posting all the people they've arrested.
And I don't know how this works, Lawrence.
They were only arrested a day or two ago.
They've already been tried, convicted, and sentenced.
Here in Canada, there would be weeks or months.
They would have police document disclosure.
They would hire a lawyer and they would like, I've just never heard of these drumhead trials.
But this one guy, they jailed him for 26 months, more than two years, for shouting at and gesticulating.
That means waving your arms at police.
How is that even a crime?
There are rape gang members in the UK who have raped dozens of girls hundreds of times who get a quicker sentence than the great gesticulator.
I find it shocking.
Yeah, I do too.
It's an attempt by the police and by the Crown Prosecution Service and their regime to look like they're tough on crime.
But the problem is the UK prison system is hugely overcrowded anyway.
The murderer, the machete murderer, of a young man who was convicted, is being released after only six months to make space for these gesticulators.
And Parliament is sat silent.
So Parliament hasn't even been recalled.
This is, I mean, anyone who, I thought during COVID, things were bad, you know, in terms of government overreach.
And I thought that the Conservatives didn't in any way try and conserve anything like individual liberty.
But these summary trials and convictions and sentences are a sign of what is to come once we open the doors to policing political opinion and policing people's views.
And Cleveland police sort of are so thrilled about all this stuff.
While the families of the three girls massacred last week, which has sparked these current disturbances, they're going to have to wait till January for justice for their daughters and the 11 maimed by this psychopath.
They're going to have to wait till January.
So the one thing that keeps liberal democracy functioning is the idea that the law and justice is blind and that it will be applied equally to all.
It's foundational cornerstone wrong with freedom of speech to liberal democracy.
And we've just seen it decimated, utterly, utterly decimated in about the shortest period of time ever.
And you listen to Keir Starmer's speech.
He gave a speech about this.
And I was thinking he's going to try and modify people.
He's going to try and bring people back together, but he doubled down.
And so there's nothing worse than a weak, weak authoritarian, a cowardly, afraid authoritarian, of which he is one.
He'd probably jail me for saying that.
Well, I don't, I wish it doesn't happen.
I hope it doesn't happen.
But I'm sorry to say it.
I think they will arrest you.
The number of times from the prime minister on down to the head of public prosecutions to Rowley himself, of the Met Police and all other police that I've seen online, it's universal.
They're not just going after actual rioters.
They went after the great gesticulator.
I mean, God forbid you're a mime or you're using sign language.
That's a crime now.
But you have a big following online.
Tommy Robinson, obviously.
I'm surprised they haven't dropped special forces down to arrest him.
I mean, I bet you MI6 has more people tracking Tommy Robinson than any jihadist right now.
I'm surprised they haven't arrested him yet.
They have so emphasized people on Twitter and Twitter in particular, because they hate Elon Musk.
Elon Musk used some of the language that you and Tommy Robinson have used, the phrase two-tier cure, Kirbing Kirstarma, the prime minister, two-tier Kirbing, two-tier justice, two-tier policing, obviously two-tier media.
I think Elon Musk, I mean, he's a big and powerful guy, and maybe he knows what he's doing.
We've seen him fight with other politicians before, like in Brazil, he took on a crusading judge and Nicholas Maduro.
But those are sort of small potatoes compared to taking on the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is still a great, powerful country.
And I think that they would arrest Elon Musk if they could.
Good luck.
They're the most incompetent bunch of people in the world.
The police have become the Stasi in the UK.
I mean, I'm yet to find out what my local police force is like.
No one's come to visit me yet, which is a relief.
But no, no, the police, I think that what Elon Musk has done, which is so dangerous, is that he's given a voice to all of those people that feel and have felt for many, many years that there is no fairness in the society that we live in.
That, as you quite rightly say, minority groups, they will turn themselves in into tie themselves in knots trying to explain why from the river to the sea doesn't mean the complete obliteration of the Jews.
They'll say, oh, no, it's just like a nice song or, you know, Houthis, Houthis Make Us Proud, turn another ship around.
No, that's not about missiling civil, you know, merchant babies and attacking people and injuring sailors.
It's just a song.
It's a protest song.
They've turned themselves, tied themselves in knots for this for years.
And what Elon Musk has done, actually, you know, you can say whatever you want about him.
He has incredible instincts and he knew straight away that something big was happening in the UK.
We all in the UK knew that something big was going to happen because, you know, the Conservative government let us down so dreadfully that in the United Kingdom, we just give the other team a go.
That's what happens.
So they go, well, just give Labor a go.
But Labor, we're already bearing the fruits now of what bled in 97, certainly with Ofcom, which is what they want to use to shut us down, to shut Twitter down.
If they do, they will be making again another dreadful mistake.
Because if you do not deal with the causation of the problem and you only deal with the symptoms of the problem, the symptoms being the current disturbances in the United Kingdom, they're going to get worse.
And that's just logical.
And that, you know, someone would say, oh, that's hate speech or incitement.
It's not.
It's just pointing out the logical conclusion of not dealing with causation.
And the causation is that our border has been open.
And we're not a big country like America.
And, you know, America's got major problems absorbing the 10 to 12, 15 million migrants that they've witnessed in the last 10 years.
We are absorbing a million a year, pretty much.
But our public services are not improving.
People's lives are not getting better.
You know, people are being that the central hotel in many, many towns in Great Britain where people will go for tourists is now housing migrants who are paid for.
It's free.
They then leave the hotels and because of cultural reasons, they go to local schools.
They follow young girls home from local schools.
There are many, many, many examples.
As you say, this stuff, when it becomes more entrenched, leads to child rape gangs.
And the British public are absolutely sick to death of it.
And Elon Musk has given them a voice.
And the problem with that voice is it's enormous.
And the government have absolutely no idea what to do with it.
Because as you said, this rally on the 1st and rally on the 27th, the rally on the 27th had 100,000 people.
The rally on the first had 20,000 people.
And the next rally that we're organizing, which we're currently in the process of organizing, will be attended by millions.
And the government will have no idea what to do.
I remember the June 1st rally.
We had Alexa Lavoister over there.
She actually had a brief message on the stage.
900,000 people were watching concurrently live on Twitter.
That was larger than any broadcast of BBC or any other channel at the time.
I saw some stats that Tommy Robinson alone is having 50 million views on his tweets while he was just on a family vacation the other day.
That's exactly the thing.
It's very interesting.
I mean, the UK has a very vibrant newspaper culture.
Fleet Street is a phrase that, you know, it's rambunctious, the tabloid culture, the aggressive competition amongst the tabs is famous.
I mean, and they do extraordinary things to get a scoop over their rivals.
The phone hacking scandal from a while back.
These people compete fiercely, and yet they all had identical front pages.
All of them, the same photograph of an anti-racist protest, almost word for word, the same headline.
I've never seen bloodthirsty rivals public.
Like, did they get a memo or something?
And I don't know.
I just, the unanimity of the entire establishment, including the Daily Mail, which I enjoy reading because it's scrappy and populist and sometimes conservative.
Like, I don't think there's a single outlet that certainly not a newspaper that is even giving airtime to the other side.
And I don't know.
I think people, I think that's why Twitter X is so important to this whole thing.
If it were gone, no one would know what's going on.
You couldn't organize huge rallies and things like the rape gangs would be covered up again as they were by the legacy media.
Yes, as someone quite rightly pointed out earlier today on the media that the last time every single front page of every single bought and paid for dynamic legacy media channel was the same was during the cold season of 2020.
So this is definitely paid for by the government.
The hit piece done on myself and, you know, you look at Nigel Farage and he's desperately trying to run away from this situation because he's not, because he's mainly self-serving, it would be his biggest problem.
But even he, the Times ran an entire piece labeling us as the people that are responsible for inciting violence in the United Kingdom.
Not one of us has mentioned violence ever.
Every single one of us has condoned it.
So the narrative that the media are trying to spin, which is very worryingly uniform, I think this idea of the great British press, you know, going out of the schools, Milly Dowler being a really important example, actually, that's the media of yesteryear.
Whereas Vestia now, that's what the British media is.
And the British media are in collusion with the government.
So you have the military industrial complex and then you have the government media complex.
And the media complex, the government media complex in the United Kingdom, as it was across the West during COVID, is absolutely entrenched.
And I don't even know who they're talking to anymore because I have not met a 16-year-old.
My son is 16.
So I've not met a single one of his friends who has ever, I mean, a lot of them have never heard of the BBC.
But these new, you know, the phone companies are also sort of slightly colluding these news notification apps.
They're telling you, my youngest son said to me something, he said, you know, what's going on with all the far-right people?
And he said, he's not really picked it up, but he's getting shoved this narrative all the time.
And I'm like, the far-right people are the people saying protest peacefully in the main.
There are some far-right people, which we don't like.
And then it's actually the authoritarian censorious left, which take every tragedy, like the death of three young innocent children, at the hands of a man we know nothing about at the moment.
And they turn it around to use it as an opportunity for a greater power grab on our speech.
And I think it's an absolute tragedy, actually.
And we should all wake up because if we don't, this is the very, very beginning of what is going as what has been played up many times before across the globe with many, many deaf people.
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Yeah.
I want to show a video clip.
It's very interesting.
It's of a Labour Party counselor, local counselor.
His name is Ricky Jones.
And he was at one of these government approved anti-hate rallies.
And he took the microphone.
And I'm going to play the clip and I'm going to show the lady standing right next to him, by the way, is wearing an Amnesty International vest.
And you can see there's no British flag.
So you can see Palestinian flags.
You can see smash fascism and racism, sort of the pre-fab flag.
So this is an official sanctioned event.
He is with the Labour Party.
You're going to hear him talking about how he expresses his anti-hate.
But besides the shocking video I'm going to show you, this is an official gathering.
There were other media there.
It's only because this went viral on X that anyone said, whoa, this guy went too far.
This is how they are.
And when the regime media sees this, they just turn a blind eye.
This only came to light because of social media.
Here, play the clip.
Take a look.
We've got children and women using those trains to steal in the summer religious.
They are disgusting knocking and we need to cut all their throats and get rid of the way.
So the biggest applause line he got was when he said we need to cut all their throats.
And I can't, I couldn't quite make it out if in his list of hated people, if Zionists was on the list.
I know it has been for some of the other anti-hate rallies.
That wasn't a rogue statement.
That guy was not out of sync with his movement.
He was a leader of it.
That's what finally got people around him to cheer and applaud.
We have to cut their throats, he said.
Now, he actually later today was grudgingly arrested by the authorities, but he was an authority.
And that is how they feel.
You saw it.
They applauded this guy.
This wasn't said in the dark by some nobody.
That's a Labour city councillor.
Yeah, it's, I mean, look, can I start by saying it gives me absolutely no joy because I think that what pathetic little weasels like that do is they play to the crowd.
So I don't think that he really meant what he said.
But according to Tutik here, we live in a one-tier justice system in the United Kingdom.
So that is incitement to mass murder.
And therefore, according to the Home Office statistics, sorry, Home Office sentencing guidelines, he's facing seven years in jail.
And myself and the Bad Law Project, which I run as part of the suite of things that we do to try and stop this country falling to pieces, we are going to make sure that this guy is absolutely put right in jail for the longest period of time.
Again, I say it with sadness that we are policing speech.
I don't think speech should be policed.
I do think incitement to violence is a bad thing, but I think it needs to be looked at in the right way.
If it hadn't been for X, if it hadn't been social media, he would not have faced any tension up the left.
Well, Lawrence, here's the question.
I mean, Tommy Robinson, I think, is the number one targeted guy, even though I have, I mean, I've known him for 10 years.
I've watched him.
He's always talked about being peaceful, not just for ethical reasons, but for practical reasons.
If, quote, our side gets violent, it'll be used against us forever in a way that violence on the left is forgiven.
Let me ask you, how is this going to end?
Is this new level of tyranny going to be the new normal in the UK, or will Brits rise up?
Well, we've already seen that Brits are fed up with our marches and with our celebrations.
You quite rightly label them as celebrations.
They were celebrations of the things that make Britain great, which seemed to upset the establishment.
It was no accident, I think, that after the 1st of June, that Nigel Varage out of nowhere announced that he was going to stand as an MP for Clackton.
This was not planned.
I know all of the people inside that party, he saw the sheer volume of people that are standing up against this stuff.
The 27th was enormous.
We're going to put people on the streets in their millions, but we have to do it, as you quite rightly point out.
We have to do it peacefully and well organized.
And the key to that is good communication with the police and well-stewarded.
These snap protests are difficult for the police.
And I understand people's anger, but I think Keir Stava thinks yesterday in the front pages of all these lying newspapers think that yesterday was a victory for them.
And I really sense that they need to think again because these resentments run so deep that they run deep over 30 years.
One of the reasons I left London was because London is unrecognizable as a British city.
The only thing that makes London London is the architecture.
You drive out from London to where I live now, and it is not in any way remotely British.
You are lucky to see a single British person.
And they are building and building and building these high-rise little rabbit hutches that they're going to stick in the immigrant population who is going to prop up our economy in a fake way.
And the British people, those that don't live in London, don't live in the cities, which are where these problems are arising.
They will rise up because they have a home to protect.
And as I say at these rallies, every single time I speak at these rallies, I say, this is our home.
We have nowhere else to go.
Uncontrolled immigration and the multicultural utopian experiment has utterly failed.
And if you have a different ideology to ours, we cannot have regressive ideologies on the streets of this country.
If you have different ideologies to ours, go and find a country where it's tolerated.
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All right, we'll leave it there.
Lawrence Fox, actor, journalist, politician, broadcaster, and public speaker at big rallies.
I'll try and make it myself to the next one.
We always have a rebel journalist there.
Take care, stay safe, and we'll look forward to news from you.
See you later.
Right on.
There you have it.
Lawrence Fox, stay with us.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
Deshan Chathura says, I hope nothing goes wrong for the driver.
You're talking about that car in Toronto that was swarmed and then he drove away.
He didn't drive over people.
He bumped someone, sure.
You say, I hope nothing goes wrong for the driver.
Something happens.
He should sue the police for not taking action against the morons who block the street.
Well, hey, welcome to Toronto and welcome to Canada in 2024.
There is a national crime wave.
Obviously, it's worse in the big cities like Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, but it's everywhere.
I'm Alif says, I am so tired of leaders that do nothing but attend parties and summits.
Me too.
And I don't know exactly what you're writing about.
It could apply to almost everyone.
In the last little week or two, though, you had Justin Trudeau jetting with his family to Tofino for a luxury surfing vacation while the town of Jasper goes up in flames.
You have, oh, what's his name?
Mark Holland, the health minister who scolded Canadians about going on car trips with their family, jets to the Olympics with his own family.
I have no problem with people taking holidays.
Sometimes I think if Trudeau took more holidays, he would do less damage to the country.
But these are the people who scold you for using too much carbon yourself.
I don't know.
I think that when it comes to actual problems in the country, a lot of leftists in particular don't know how to actually do anything.
Like I've been just absolutely stupefied to watch how the city of Calgary, which is a city of doers, it's a city of science and technology and action and entrepreneurship and problem solving.
How that useless city hall, half of whom were elected for demographic tokenistic reasons, doesn't know how to fix a water main.
It's been months now.
But they're very good at making declarations and having very important conferences.
Scurvy Dog says, as a Canadian who has traveled the world, I will say I now feel more comfortable in Detroit than Toronto.
I just spent three weeks in the U.S. and really noticed our homelessness and drug issues when I came home.
Canada has become a disgrace.
I can't actually disagree with you there.
I probably would have two or three years ago, but everywhere you go, and it's not just big cities for this one, it's smaller cities too.
You have homeless living by the side of the road under an overpass.
I really feel like things have taken a dark turn just in the last couple of years.
I think Pierre Polyev has to start speaking more firmly about immigration, stopping the insanity.
We're at 2 million people a year.
A blink of an eye ago, it was a fraction of that.
You know, here's a stat I told you the other day: 766,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada.
Total number of unemployed people between 15 and 24 Canadian citizens, 350,000.
So you literally could wipe out youth unemployment if you removed this unfairly low-cost foreign labor force.
Now, I'm not saying that every single kid would naturally fit into temporary foreign workers, but don't tell me Canadian kids can't work at Tim Hortons.
And if Tim Hortons has to pay an extra dollar an hour for Canadian kids, that's a price I'm willing to have them pay.