Ezra Levant marks the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre—live-streamed atrocities including civilian executions and arson—while exposing Canada’s role in funding the group via UNRWA’s $500M+ budget, despite its schools hosting Hamas tunnels and teachers moonlighting as terrorists. Protests in Toronto and Montreal celebrated the attacks with genocidal chants like "From the river to the sea," fueled by alleged Iranian operatives (700 reported) and foreign-backed hate camps on university grounds, yet face zero prosecutions. Meanwhile, BC’s conservative surge—led by John Rustad—condemns such celebrations, demanding federal action against groups like Sammy Dune, though provincial limits on deportations persist. Canada’s complicity in Hamas’ rise, from UNRWA to political silence, risks normalizing terror under the guise of humanitarian aid. [Automatically generated summary]
It's the anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7th.
I'll take you through what happened on that day quickly, but more to focus what's happening here in Canada as the Islamists have made this a front line in that war.
That's ahead.
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It's been one year since the horrific Hamas terrorist attack.
Where do we stand?
It's October 7th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
shame on you you censorious bug i remember exactly where i was and what i first saw of the horrific terrorist attack on southern israel on october 7th last year I was actually out with my family, and I just saw a tweet on my phone by the supreme leader of Iran, Khomeini is his name.
And it was a video, this one.
And it said, God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the resistant forces throughout the region.
Al-Aqsa Storm.
Now, I didn't, I just looked at it briefly.
I saw these people running in a desert.
I didn't understand what I was looking at.
I didn't understand what it showed.
Those were teenagers at a dance party in the desert running.
They were being hunted and murdered by terrorists, boys and girls dancing.
I didn't understand the tweet.
I just glanced at it.
I ignored it.
And then I saw the horrific massacre, the worst massacre of Jews since the Nazis in the Holocaust.
But with an important difference, the Nazis actually hid their crimes.
They created propaganda videos suggesting that the concentration camps weren't actually death camps.
Hamas live-streamed theirs.
They actually, when they were committing the massacres, they turned on the family Facebook webcam and broadcast the massacre of families to those families' friends on Facebook.
They live streamed it.
They were delighted and they wanted to boast of what they were doing.
And by the way, it wasn't just Hamas.
It was civilians from Gaza who accompanied them as part of the massacre.
It was a pogrom of the worst variety.
Let me show you a series of tweets of the worst of it.
Now, I want to tell you what you're about to see is so atrocious, I can barely stand them myself.
So, if you have a weak stomach, turn away for the next minute.
This is a list of some of the atrocities compiled by the Twitter account Hamas Atrocities.
You can see Israeli civilians, men, women, children, babies murdered, gagged and tied, and then murdered, burned alive, women kidnapped for rape, civilians who came in from Gaza for the LARC.
They weren't officially terrorists, they just wanted to be part of the murder and rape.
A baby murdered in its crib.
Not just Jews, mainly Jews, but anyone they found, including foreign workers.
The sexual perversity of the attackers, it's like when the Islamic state terrorists attacked the music hall in Paris called the Batta clan.
They cut off the genitals of the men and stuffed them in their mouths in the Bata clan.
It was so horrific, the images from inside that Paris music hall were banned.
There's something perverse and horrific about it, but where does it come from?
It comes from the concept of rape slaves, which is in the Quran.
In a war, you can take women, enemy women, as your rape slave.
And they do.
And they did.
And they are.
What exactly is Gaza, the place from which this terrorist attack came?
Gaza has not had a single Jew in it since 2005.
Israel used to run it as a kind of territory, but then Israel pulled out, pulled out its military, and there were Israeli citizens there, mainly farmers.
Every one of them was forcibly removed.
They were pulled out of Gaza, and in 2005, it was given to the Palestinians.
There have been no Israeli soldiers from 2005 until last year.
They had one election, and Hamas won, and then they immediately made sure there were never any more elections.
It's been a Hamas dictatorship.
Sharia law is their constitution, but I think terrorism is really more their aim.
The Hamas Charter, which includes the call to kill Jews.
Who has funded Gaza?
Well, they are the most funded people in the world.
No one in Gaza has been a refugee in more than 75 years.
That's when the state of Israel was created.
Gaza is its own place, but the UN Relief Works Agency, in the name of refugees, has poured hundreds of millions of dollars in there, much of it coming from Canada.
These terrorists have been funded by Canada.
We were complicit to it.
We actually ramped up our spending on them after October 7th.
When I say we, you and I paid for it, but it was Trudeau's decision.
Hundreds of staff at the UN Relief Works Agency, hundreds of UN staff were involved in this terrorist attack on Israel.
UN schools contained portals to the underground tunnels.
Teachers moonlighted as Hamas terrorists.
It's extraordinary that we have funded, we in the West have funded the terrorists.
By the way, if you go to the great Arab cities, and there are great Arab cities, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, you can see what Arabs can do in the 20th and 21st centuries.
You can see astounding architecture, the tallest building in the world in Dubai.
You can see commerce, prosperity, peace, and harmony.
It's true there's a lot of expats in those places, but the leaders and the citizens are Arab.
And that's what Gaza could have been.
It could have been a glorious tourist destination on the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.
It could have been a gateway to the Arab world, a bridge between the Arab world and Israel and the West.
In places like Abu Dhabi and Dubai, there are no protests for Hamas.
There are no terrorist marches.
Those are banned.
Gaza could have been a Palestinian state had they wanted it to be.
They could have been Dubai on the Mediterranean had they wanted it.
They had everything.
There were no foreigners, no Jews there to get in the way.
But instead, their dictators decided to make violence their project, not a state.
They dug tunnels, spending billions of dollars.
19 years of hateful schooling, teaching anti-Semitism.
An entire generation going through school, learning that the Jews ought to be murdered.
That's Canada's legacy, actually.
Harper ended funding those schools.
Trudeau restarted it, and then Ahmed Hassan ramped it up.
October 7th was a shocking day, and I felt a stab in my heart as I saw the atrocious pogroms, the mass rape and murder.
I really felt like never again.
The motto after the Holocaust had been, well, had been proven that it was worthless, and it was happening again.
What's so astonishing to me is that this is regarded by so many people as the greatest day for the Palestinian movement.
Not a day of independence, not a day of achievement, not a day of building the world's tallest tower or a peace accord like the Abraham Accords.
Not a day for that, a day of murder and rape and torture and wildness was to this day considered the greatest day in the Palestinian calendar.
I saw some people compare it to a jail break, but Gaza was not in jail.
All the prison guards, if you want to call them that, left in 2005.
Gaza could have been anything.
It was independent.
It had rivers of money flowing into it.
But they decided to turn it into a terror camp instead.
There are literally dozens of Arab and Muslim countries in the world.
But there's a reason why not one of them will take Palestinian refugees.
They are so inculcated in hate and violence, they're not wanted in Dubai or Abu Dhabi or Saudi Arabia.
When Palestinians, including the terrorists, are allowed into other countries, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, they cause civil wars wherever they go.
They really are the new Nazis, Hamas.
Imagine who in the West would support that, and then who would support them coming into our country, like Justin Trudeau.
Well, we know who would support it.
Footage from the weekend in Toronto shows a shocking gathering, thousands, possibly tens of thousands in Toronto celebrating that darkest day, celebrating the rape and murder.
Take a look at this clip.
Similar crowds in Montreal.
As I speak, there are rallies across the country.
My observation of the Canadian protests are that they're mainly foreigners, many of them let in in the last nine years by Trudeau.
My estimate is that 90% of the people at these hate marches, they're newcomers to Canada.
You can detect it in their thick accents.
Many of them are not yet Canadian, but some of them are.
With every passing day, more of them are naturalized into citizens.
They're organized and financed by foreign governments like Iran.
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That's not speculation.
Global news reported there are 700 Iranian agents.
It's also woke white Canadians, though, anti-Semites like Fred Hahn, the president of the big CUPE union here in Ontario.
Universities are the worst because these woke ideas of oppressed and oppressor classes where any Jew is considered an oppressor and thus is fair game to be murdered and raped.
That's an idea only a PhD could be stupid enough to believe.
Our universities are the worst and have allowed hate camps to last for weeks or even months, but politicians are just as scared.
So we see the double standard of policing.
There was one moment where an alleged Nazi flag was shown at the Trucker Convoy.
The only person who saw it was a prime minister's office photographer.
No one else saw it.
It was only posed for that moment.
And we heard about it for months in the media.
Actual Nazi flags are frequent at these Hamas hate marches along with flags of banned terrorist groups.
The media couldn't be less interested and neither could the government.
Some Canadians try and whitewash what's going on.
You know, not just Canadians.
I don't know if you remember when I bumped into that code pink lady in New York City a few weeks ago.
I asked her, how can you support a movement with mottos like, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free?
And there is only one solution, intifada revolution.
That means exterminating every Jew between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, killing every Jew in Israel.
And the second one means a global pogrom.
Intifada is an anti-Semitic riot.
And I asked her what it meant.
And here's her bizarre answer.
Just listen.
What do you think about some of the mottos I've heard chanted at Columbia and in Canada?
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
What do you think of that chant?
I think that is the dream that the Israelis will become Jewish and practice their religion and that everyone in the land of Palestine will be free.
I don't think that's what it means.
I think it means to remove the Jews from Israel.
I don't think that's what it means.
And how about there is only one solution, Intifada Revolution?
What do you think that means?
I don't know what I don't.
You don't know what Intifada means?
You're a peace activist.
You don't know what you're here protesting against Israel.
I know what Intifada means in the sense in Islam.
And what does it mean?
It's an internal practice.
I don't think it is.
I think you're confusing that with jihad.
Am I a Muslim here?
No.
I don't really feel like this Muslim.
Okay, I'm more schooled in being Jewish than being Muslim, so I'm not, I can't really talk about it.
She knows that an intifada revolution, she knows exactly what that means.
She's not stupid.
You can't be in the war movement and anti-war movement and study Palestine without knowing what an intifada is.
She was lying because she didn't want to admit that it meant genocide against the Jews, because she still has some Western civilization in her blood.
She knows how bad that would look, so she's pretending not to know what that means.
But that compunction does not exist with the 90% of the protesters who know exactly what it means.
They're only too happy to say so.
It's not just chants in the streets calling for death to the Jews.
Chants and Beyond00:12:04
Terrorism has come here too.
Countless charges over the last year.
The media doing their best to downplay it.
Just the other day, youth targeting a synagogue in Montreal with a terrorist attack let out on bail.
Those accused terrorists let out on bail, unlike the truckers, to marry 49 days in prison.
Low-level crimes all the time, trespass, uttering threats, vandalism, mischief.
It happens so often.
It's changed the nature of the country.
It's now the new normal.
And so much of it being masks.
I hate the COVID times for normalizing masks.
Masks, if you're not wearing a mask as a welder, if you're wearing a mask and if it's not minus 40 degrees, or if you're wearing a mask, it's because you're hiding your identity like a bank robber.
You know, there's a criminal code provision that if you take part in a riot with a mask on, that's up to 10 years in prison.
I think we ought to bring that law back.
And by back, I mean use it.
It's already on the books.
It's not just the minor crimes of uttering thefts, vandalism, trespass.
It's the major crimes too.
Shooting of schools, arson against synagogues and buses so frequently that it's not even reported anymore.
And when it is, authorities, even including some Jewish groups, trying to downplay it and say, oh, no, no, don't you worry about him.
You know, James Q. Wilson's broken windows theory.
It was about graffiti in New York, really.
He said graffiti isn't just a minor crime.
It's a signal.
It teaches people.
Graffiti signals that no one's watching, that no one cares.
It signals what you can get away with.
It signals that this is a low trust, low-security area, which is why James Q. Wilson's theory that Rudy Giuliani used to clean up New York was fight the small stuff, the turnstile jumping in the subways, the jaywalking, the graffiti.
Fight the small stuff so people know they're not alone, they know that we're watching and we care, and you can't get away with it.
We have allowed the broken windows theory to happen, but not just with graffiti, with raw, vicious anti-Semitism.
And everyone knows that that's okay, and everyone sees it.
That is the new normal.
So don't you ever allow a politician to say this is not who we are.
That's exactly who we are because we've chosen to be that.
People are learning.
People aren't stupid.
They can see the new rules.
Just over the weekend, a parliamentary police officer told someone that he was not allowed to go on Parliament Hill if he didn't support the Palestinians.
Take a look at this.
Yeah, that was before you admitted being against this cause.
Regular said he was against this cause.
Yeah, he did.
He said he's not a supporter of Palestine and doesn't recognize Palestine as a story.
I didn't say that I didn't.
Do we want to rewind the video and see?
Well, there's no audio and a lot of people.
So you set up camera.
You said it to me.
My colleague understood.
My colleague understood.
Yeah, I said you accept Palestine as a state.
That doesn't mean I'm an anti-Halesteem.
You said you don't support Palestine.
I don't recognize Cal Son as he's here, so no problem, but you can go on the other side.
He told me if I were to take his shirt off, I could come in.
Well, that was before you changed your story to...
I don't support Palestine.
I don't recognize Palestine as a state.
But I'm not waiting in the state.
I'm not explanatory.
Hold on.
Then at the end, right before I left, I said, you are not to go on that side.
Right?
No, this is a clear free speech.
Infringement free speech.
No, I'm not.
Yeah, this is tyrannical.
You can believe that if you wish.
Other side.
So be on this side, do you need to declare your support for Palestine?
Is that a prerequisite to be over here?
Well, you declare that you're against it.
No, he never declared he was against the city.
No, he didn't.
I'm sorry, you didn't.
I mean, no, he didn't power the shirt and you're not saying he doesn't recognize Palestine is not declaring against Palestine.
You guys are gross.
Are you speaking to him?
I'm speaking to myself.
I think you're not alone.
Have you said anything to you?
No, but I'm calling it right now.
You are an infringement of free speech over here.
We're the real Palestine administration force.
Okay, cool.
Okay, cool.
Before we go, you can share your message.
You can go on the other side.
Right, so do you have to show your support to Palestine?
No, you've just proven to me and said very clearly you are against Palestine.
So I'm not allowed in certain public areas if I have certain political right now today?
No.
You banned that's a congregation with you in this public area.
So a Jew can't go there, but the pro-Hamas thugs waving Hezbollah flags there.
Welcome.
Police don't act.
And when I asked the Ontario Solicitor General about it, he made an excuse.
This is Solicitor General of Ontario Kirzner.
I said, why are you not using criminal code provisions on these protesters?
I'm not even talking about hate speech or censorship.
There's a law, for example, in the criminal code, you're not allowed to beset a place of worship to disrupt it.
That's a clear criminal code provision.
And synagogues have been surrounded and hounded.
I asked him about that, listened to his pitiful non-answers.
How come there were no charges under Section 176.2 of the criminal code besetting a house of worship when all those protesters were outside the Bayat Synagogue in Thornhill?
Well, that's a question that you're going to have to ask the York Regional Police or the Attorney General.
I'm here because I'm not going to see my community intimidated.
I speak out all the time in support of our Jewish community.
I'm not afraid to wear my kippah.
I'm not afraid to go to synagogue every Sabbath, every Shabbat.
And I'm going to do everything that I can to stand up for our inherent right to live safely in our own homes and communities.
And I'm not going to stop.
Everything short of prosecuting them, though, right?
I mean, the U of T remains encamped with an illegal encampment.
You're very good on Twitter, but have you actually done any prosecutions?
Well, again, this is something that you have to speak to the Attorney General.
He's your colleague.
You're in the government.
Why shouldn't you?
You're on the inside.
No, what I can tell you is I'm working every day to that our legislation, that our regulations are adhered to.
I'm standing up with my community.
I've been 34 weeks almost every single week to the rally of Bathurst and Shepherd in support of remembering the hostages who have been held against their will in captivity in Gaza.
And it's not acceptable.
And that's exactly what I'm saying.
It obviously is acceptable since you're not prosecuting it.
You have condoned it.
You've created a new normal where people can engage in low-level, permanent, anti-Semitic crimes, assault, threats, mischief, because you guys don't prosecute.
But there you are on Twitter, though, so congrats for that.
It's important that the Jewish community sees a person from their own community in the Ontario legislature standing up against hate every single day, who has the support of a premier who has called it out.
Where are the other levels of government today who exercise the same voice that Premier Ford does, that we will not accept anti-Semitism and have accepted it?
Where's the prosecution?
Again, this is something you could ask Minister Varani.
You can ask the Prime Minister.
The province, the province prosecutes.
The province prosecutes.
Better save your boss.
They won't arrest, charge, or prosecute real crimes, but boy, they'll arrest our David Menzies the first time for asking questions of pro-Hamas marchers who were blocking off a street.
Remember this?
We just want you to watch the project.
Excuse me.
Hey, hey, that's my guy.
That's my guy.
Stop.
Stop.
Let's take you after you.
Why don't you take care of that?
Stay back, guys.
Stay back.
Hey, stay back.
The second time, David was covering a pro-Israel march, and the Hamas people showed up to counter-heckle the event.
If I'm going to be under arrest, get your hands off.
Okay, then I'll.
Put your hands behind your back.
Put your hands behind your back.
Refusing to peel the wagon, Mr. Men. Efren, are you catching this?
Once again, you can have a good vote, Rob Chengdu, Mr. Speaker.
In the streets of England, I hate the Marxists under arrest for refusing to leave primitive.
It's a public plateau.
And by the way, that praying in the streets business, there's almost 100 mosques in Toronto when protesters, including many secular whites, get down on their knees to pray in the middle of a downtown street.
That's not about prayer.
You can pray in a mosque.
If you must, you can pray in a park or I suppose or a sidewalk.
When you're praying to block a downtown, it's not about prayer.
It's about dominating the public square.
So much for the separation of mosque and state.
So what do we do a year into this?
Well, I think the first rule of holes is to stop digging.
And I don't think there's any way around it.
That means stop immigration.
I'm sorry, you can't bring people here by the million from countries where anti-Semitism is normal and violence is normal, let alone where it's taught and promoted, like Gaza.
You can't bring those people here and expect them to give up their deeply seated beliefs.
You have to stop immigration.
And I think you have to deport the foreign agitators.
I think you simply have to kick out those who have no tenure here.
And frankly, some of the others have to be denaturalized.
We don't need to destroy our freedom of speech.
I want to resist the urge to ban their words.
Because first of all, I think that would be used against us.
Look at Arif Virani and Ahmed Hassan and Laith Maroof and Birjou Datani.
I've just listed four anti-Semites in the Liberal government who would love to bring in hate speech rules.
They all believe in C63, the new Online Harms Act, because they want to silence people like you and me.
I'm not saying we get into the censorship business.
But how about the banning uttering death threats, trespass, mischief, shooting, Molotov cocktails, blocking streets?
How about we start there?
And how about we start with the foreign nationals who have no right to be here, who are privileged guests attending our universities and being temporary foreign workers?
If they go to a hate march, get out of this country and go back to where you came from and have your marches there.
By the way, it's folly of the official Jewish organizations to support C63.
Don't they see it'll be used against them?
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I think the most important thing we have to do now is reclaim Canada.
No one ever asked us if we were okay importing these hateful thugs.
We are not okay with these hateful thugs.
Nobody wants them here, including most new immigrants.
Get out.
The only people who want those thugs here are those who benefit from them.
Their money and their votes.
We really have to turn things around quickly.
And when Pierre Pollyad becomes prime minister, we have to keep on him.
He will be pressed and he will be tempted to allow them to stay.
And even more, we have to deport the promoters of violence.
And in the meantime, we have to support those premiers who are speaking out against immigration, whether it's Francois Legault or Danielle Smith or exciting news out of Vancouver today from John Rustad, the Conservative leader.
I'll tell you more about that in a moment.
Stay with us.
More ahead.
Columbia has an election.
It's coming up so quickly, October 19th.
You know, there's a lot of things cooking in this country.
I think the federal politics seem to dominate.
Of course, foreign affairs are too, but holy mackerel are things exciting in BC.
Would it ask me a year ago?
I would have doubted it.
Joining us now to tell us all about it is our West Coast Bureau Chief, Drea Humphrey.
Drea, how are you doing out there?
I'm doing good.
I'm a little bit on pins and needles because you said it a year ago.
We wouldn't have guessed what we are seeing just ahead of the October 19th election, but I'm excited.
I'm excited to see what's about to happen.
For folks outside BC, just give us a 60-second explainer.
How did this BC Conservative Party, which was really just a relic of history, how did we get so much life inside it?
Now they're neck and neck with the incumbent NDP in the polls.
Just give me a minute of history for our viewers who maybe weren't following it.
Well, absolutely.
So I believe like BC hasn't seen like an actual full conservative sort of leadership since way back in the 1950s.
And the Conservative Party for many years has not, you know, ran a full slate of candidates or anything like that.
They've kind of just ran a couple of people here.
I think the last time they had an official seat was about 12 or 13 years ago.
So it's really been a dormant party.
Rebel News actually was there.
I covered when they started to rebrand themselves.
They had some sort of new leadership back in 2022.
And I was there with my boots on the ground when they started to actually run, you know, serious candidates.
They were trying in 2022 in by-elections.
And, you know, it got to the point where when the former premier John Horgan retired from the Lankford riding, the candidate that the Conservative Party put there, his name is Mike Harris.
He actually did pretty good.
He didn't win.
It's an NDP riding, but he did surprisingly well.
And I think that that was the first moment where it went, okay, well, you know, maybe something is about to happen there.
But the real magic, I think, for the party began when the BC United Party, and if you've been following BC politics, you know that they actually quit the race.
So that was the official opposition party, which had over 20 seats in the legislature.
They actually canceled.
They started engaging in cancel culture due to pressure from the left.
And this was the only voting party that had a chance to ever form government, you know, in the last election.
If you were a conservative, that was supposed to be the home for you.
And it was a coalition party where, you know, it might have some liberals and things like that too.
So for them to start engaging in cancel culture against things like freedom of speech, we saw that when they booted documentarian Aaron Gunn, who's actually running federally now in Powell River, he'll be one of their candidates for the federal election.
They booted him out of the leadership race.
That was a big deal.
And then they booted now Conservative Party BC leader John Rust.
And boy, was this a mistake.
Kevin Falcon, leader of BC United, booted him out of that party on his birthday because he refused to apologize for retweeting a tweet from former founder, co-founder of Greenpeace.
He retweeted his tweet that didn't align with climate alarmism and got the boot.
And eventually, you know, the momentum started picking.
They picked up John Rusted.
He became the leader.
People started crossing the floor.
And they went to the grassroots.
They started talking about things like SOGI.
They started talking about, you know, the high cost of living.
And they really, really shed light on our opiate crisis and how it's been handled with our ridiculous safer supply agenda that's only correlated with way more overdoses.
So there's been a lot of things.
And the conservative name, as you know, federally is doing much better too.
So that helped them as well.
Isn't that crazy?
I think I know the Greenpeace leader you're referring to, Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, who's actually a scientist, and he's a little bit skeptical about the Greenpeace political agenda.
Retweeting him is not a radical act.
It's sort of a common sense act.
Isn't it funny how things work out?
The guy that was canceled by the old BC Unity Party, which is sort of like, I think I would, it's fair to call it the remnants of the old Liberal Party.
Anyhow, they used to be called BC Liberals until recently they wanted to de-brand themselves from the federal liberals.
Well, I don't blame them.
And I think you're right.
Pierre Polyev's success with the name conservatives.
Probably, you know, people know, okay, I know what conservative means.
And John Rustad's done a good job.
I like his style.
And I think he's fairly courageous.
I mean, I think he's becoming a little more careful now that he's got a real chance of winning.
Politicians are like that sometimes.
What are the top issues you think?
You mentioned the NDB government's drug policy, which sounds like an obscure thing, but if you know Vancouver and not just Vancouver, a lot of other cities too, holy moly, are there tent cities and what used to be restricted to the downtown East Side or Hastings Street, if I'm not mistaken.
That phenomenon is now in so many places.
It is a huge issue.
And that is really the number one thing I associate with the Premier David E.B., am I right?
Absolutely.
Like I said, opioid crisis, mental health crisis seems to be at an all-time high.
They've been in power for seven years.
It's only getting worse.
And the methods that they've used to try to address it are literally, you can't, you have to live here to believe it's true.
Like they're putting free crack pipes and instructions on how to do drugs and vending machines outside of emergency rooms.
I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
I love when I interviewed the conservative candidate for Nanaimo, Gwen O'Mahony, actually a former NDP MLA.
And she says, drug addicts know how to use drugs.
So who are they teaching?
Kids could go up there.
Who are you teaching with these cartoons about how to use drugs?
So they had stuff like that.
Dr. Bonnie Henry, our public health officer, she put out a recommendation on how to improve the safer supply sort of agenda that they've done.
And she wanted or suggested that they start exploring actually having these hard drugs be available for sale in stores without any professional interacting with the person.
So it's just, it's nuts out here.
So that has been a big issue.
And we're actually seeing some flip-flopping.
That's sort of the nickname that the conservatives have given Premier or incumbent Premier David Eby is flip-flopping Eby because he's actually in some ways becoming more conservative-like.
For example, he's now saying he will implement involuntary care for those who are a harm, a threat to themselves, threat to others, or they're so hooked on drugs they can't make proper decisions.
There have been many families in particular, parents who have lost their children to overdoses that have been begging for that.
That is something the Conservatives said they were going to do now.
You see Evie saying they're going to do it shortly after a 13-year-old girl, Brianna McDonald, overdosed and died in an Abbotsford homeless encampment.
Her parents had tried to get her the help, and boy, would they have loved to have been able to get her help involuntarily?
So we're seeing shifts on things like that.
We're also seeing a shift on Evie, of all people, shifting on his stance with the carbon tax.
Wow, I was going to ask you about that.
It's almost like now that he's fearing voters again, now that he doesn't have a 20-point lead, he actually has to care about what ordinary people say.
So he's going a little wobbly on his drug-pushing strategy.
Tell me about him on carbon tax, because I've always thought BC is the most environmentalist province in the country.
Tell me what's going on there, because I think he's getting afraid of it.
Absolutely.
It's looking like fear.
So if you recall, Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev, federal, went around on that campaign to axe the tax.
He was trying to have Trudeau's hike be stopped, and he invited all of the premiers to join in, and most of them did join in.
Do you think our premier did?
No.
He made it very clear his position by not joining all the other premiers.
And in fact, he actually mocked Pierre Polyev.
He said something along the lines with a smug smile on his face.
I don't live in the Polyev bologna factory.
That sounds delicious.
Yeah, I know.
Well, and then Polyev hit back and saying, well, your citizens can't even afford baloney right now.
But my point is, he actually stuck his neck out and mocked Polyev.
And now we see, of course, the BC Conservatives are saying, we will cancel our own carbon tax because we were the first to implement it and we have our own.
And now Evie is saying he's going to go ahead and cancel that all of a sudden.
Wow.
I tell you, I'm so glad you're giving us this briefing because sometimes we get so wrapped up about other parts of Canada and sometimes BC.
And I know BC feels a million miles away from Ottawa and the masters of the universe, but there's a real awakening going on, it sounds like, and everyone in Canada should pay attention to it.
I know there's other things cooking in the country, but I'm delighted to hear your reports.
I also saw something just a couple of hours ago.
This is a statement that John Rustad, the leader of the Conservative Party, put out.
And I'm just going to read a little bit of it straight from my phone.
John Rustad denounces celebrations of terrorist acts, calls for strong action against those glorifying genocidal groups.
And there's a group in Vancouver called Sammy Dune, which is labeled as an official terrorist group in other countries, but it acts with impunity in Canada.
Let me just read the very last sentence in his release.
He condemns the hateful marches, but here's what he says.
He says, Rustad condemned those who were taken to the streets to glorify groups responsible for horrific acts of terrorism, calling for strong and immediate action.
And here's what he said, especially for non-citizens who participate in such acts of hatred.
And he's saying, if you are not a citizen, if you are here as a guest, and if you, instead of being a guest worker or a guest student, if you think you're here to whip up anti-Semitism, go home.
And I see a CBC reporter wrote back: provincial leaders have no influence on someone's legal status in Canada, so I'm confused as to what he's going to do.
That's what Katie DeRose of the CBC says.
Well, let me tell you, provincial prosecutors prosecute the vast majority of crimes, so the provinces do have a say.
But here's John Rustad replied directly to that CBC reporter and said, I'm going to demand that our federal government revoke the visas of people who promote terrorist organizations.
And that just feels so eminently reasonable.
I know a lot of people in BC are new immigrants, particularly the Chinese community, the South Asian community.
There's a lot of immigrants in Vancouver, but 99% of them, I bet, would support what John Rustad is saying here.
Those folks came to Canada for a better place, not to bring out terrorist hate here.
That is something new and atrocious.
I'm thrilled with this announcement by Rustad.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I saw that today as well, and I was looking at it.
And he actually has taken quite a stand speaking out against anti-Semitism.
So have some of his candidates.
In the contrast, you might have noticed that not too long ago, MLA Selena Robinson actually left his party, the NDP, or she said, I'm not going to continue.
She went on to be an independent because she says there's so much anti-Semitism happening against Jews inside of the NDP party.
So there is a real difference there.
But you're absolutely right.
The condoning that's happening, and I'm glad that you brought up Samadong because they are the ones that are really behind most of the protests that are happening here.
And maybe I can throw to a video you guys can show your views because this actually, I'm going to mention it in an upcoming report I'm working on, but this is quite shocking.
This is Charlotte Cates.
She's an international coordinator for Samadong.
So she's been involved in many of the protests.
And this is her recently celebrating the sort of the one-year anniversary of October 7th in Madrid.
So we see the fascist newspaper saying we are here to celebrate the 7th of October.
Well, yes, we are here to celebrate the 7th of October.
Well, thank you for sharing that clip with us.
You know, Stephen Harper actually passed a law making it against the law to glorify a terrorist group.
The Liberals repealed that right away, and you can see why they love these radical groups.
In fact, it's sort of shocking to me how many times the Liberals choose the terrorist side, whether it's funding the UN Relief Works Agency, which is basically a middleman to give cash to Hamas, or appointing Burju Datani to the head of the Human Rights Commission, who wrote a paper on how terrorism works.
I mean, the Liberals should be given no benefit of the doubt.
I truly believe they're on the wrong side of this civilizational battle.
Well, I'm really excited.
And is the debate coming?
When's the debate coming up?
Have they had it yet?
Well, I don't know when this is going to air, but it's Tuesday tomorrow as we're filming.
And Sheila Ganrid is going to join me in hosting a debate.
Live Stream Excitement00:02:25
So you guys can all tune in.
I think we're starting about an hour before.
Correct me if I'm wrong, producer.
So I think it's going to start around 5:30 PST time.
If you go to the website, bcdecides.com, we already have more information there.
But join us on the live stream.
We're going to have some special guests.
We're going to watch it together.
You know, I'm going to try not to vomit when I hear Evie say some things.
There's a real smear campaign happening, so I'll talk about that tomorrow as well.
So join us.
Great.
Well, this will air tonight, Monday night, so perfect timing.
I'm excited about the live stream for folks in Alberta.
That'll be 6.30 p.m. start.
For folks out here in Toronto, 8.30 start, but that's perfect.
BCDecides.com.
That's our website where you can find the live stream.
Dre, I'm really excited about the BC election.
I'm really glad you're out there for it.
Me too.
Thank you.
Okay, take care, my friend.
Nice to see you on the weekend, by the way, at the Rebel News Live event in Calgary.
That was great to have you.
That's great.
Okay.
Stay with us.
More ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me, Long Arm Supply, says, thank you to Billboard Chris for all his sacrifices to protect our kids.
I'm 100% in support of Danielle Smith.
She's the most sensible premier we've had in years.
You know, I was delighted to have her attend and be part of a fireside chat with me at the Rebel News Live Conference in Calgary on Saturday.
I thought it was the highlight of the conference, and we're going to release that video to Rebel News Plus subscribers so you can see it.
I think you'll get a kick out of it.
Boo Is Who Is says, I first saw Chris speak at a Leslie Lewis leadership event a few years ago, and he was shouting and wouldn't sit down.
At the time, I was like, what is wrong with this guy?
Years later, now I know why he was shouting.
God bless Billboard Chris for being the canary in the coal mine.
Yeah, I've never seen him shout, but I don't dispute what you're saying.
I don't know what he was shouting about.
What I see him do is actually lower the energy level by using simple concepts.
I love his basic concepts on his billboards.
No one's born in the wrong body.
That's so simple.
Everyone can agree to him.
Dave Allen Bonner says, wish Doug Ford had a backbone.
Oh, don't get me started.
I think he really is one of the worst premiers in this country.
I suppose he's better than David Eby, but just by a sniff.