Ezra Levant exposes police inaction as pro-Hamas thugs—including a flagpole-wielding assailant—attacked Rebel journalists like Alexa Lavoie while officers ignored violations, despite 12 witnesses and video. He demands charges against the serial criminal, offers an $180 bounty for his identity, and slams Canada’s "two-tier policing," contrasting it with arrests of journalists asking questions. Levant ties this to broader concerns: Trudeau’s climate-focused policies alienating businesses like Shopify, Ukraine’s stalled peace deal blamed on Boris Johnson and U.S. influence, and Biden’s risky ATACMS approval escalating tensions with Russia. The episode culminates in a defiant vow—"We will win and they will lose"—as Rebel News fights back against what it sees as systemic bias and foreign interference undermining free speech and national sovereignty. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, boy, we've been busy at Rebel News.
I'll give you an update.
It's November 19th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you sensorism bug.
Still reeling from the weekend, in specific, when about a dozen of us went in solidarity with David Menzies to this intersection in North Toronto.
It's in a Jewish neighborhood.
In fact, I live just about a mile away.
It's in a Jewish shopping mall.
You might even recognize that shopping mall because we've done streeters there before about the local member of parliament, Yaara Sachs, a Jewish MP who went to visit a terrorist leader at Justin Trudeau's instructions.
It's just really bizarre.
Anyways, every week there's been this pro-Israel, pro-Canada rally at that Jewish corner.
But in the last month, the pro-Hamas side has come into the Jewish community to antagonize, to shout, to call for genocide and intifada.
And I don't like it one bit.
I think that foreign nationals who participate in hate marches should be deported.
If they're Canadian citizens, I grudgingly acknowledge that they have freedom of speech just like I do, but that doesn't go so far as uttering death threats, committing mischief, vandalism, and of course assault.
What bothered me the most, though, was when our reporter, David Menzies, went to ask these pro-Hamas counter-protesters some questions, and police arrested him, slammed him on the hood of the car, handcuffed him, and took him away.
They charged him, but later dropped the charges.
Here's a quick repeat of how that looked.
Come on, enforce the law.
Obey your oath, officer.
Obey your oath.
Yeah.
What am I doing?
What am I doing here?
Yeah, I don't stand for that.
So a dozen of us went in solidarity.
Well, we all wore Panama hats.
Mine was way too small.
I just ordered them on Amazon.
They were tiny.
I guess they were like kids' costumes or something.
So it looked sort of goofy wearing the hat.
But the point was we were all in solidarity with David.
So we had about, I think it was 12 or maybe even more rebels there.
A lot of rebel viewers from the Toronto area came.
And we went there to make the point that if you're going to arrest journalists for doing journalism, you're going to have to arrest us all.
Here's that key moment where the cops basically said, if you go over there, we'll arrest you.
And I said, well, then you'll have to arrest us.
And they blinked.
Here's just a moment of that tense moment.
Now, I understand.
I've just been told that you plan to arrest me and everyone on my team if we cross the street.
Is that true?
I can tell you what's happening.
We have a media area set up for all of you because that's over there.
The media area is called Canada.
I understand that, sir.
But last time when you were over here, you're inciting this crowd.
If you're not true, and I've never been here before.
I have not incited anybody.
This is what happened to Rebel News last time, okay?
So you're blackballing Rebel News.
I'm not blackballing Rebel News.
What I'm saying is we have an area we have to facilitate it for you.
If you can accept that, you can accept it.
I don't.
Well, that's up to you.
That's up to you.
So who will you arrest if we go over?
I'm not arresting anybody.
I'll just see.
We'll just see what happens.
Over 16,000.
The police say I'm not allowed to do journalism over here.
The police say that I have to go to the free speech zone.
The police say that I'm not allowed to ask questions after I've asked my first question.
But the police are not my editor-in-chief.
I'm my own person.
I'm a Canadian.
And fellas, I'm going to tell you what I told your boss on the other side.
I'm going to stay two feet away from them.
I'm not going to put the microphone any closer than this to them, so I'm not going to get anyone's grill.
I'm not going to touch anyone.
I'm not going to threaten anyone, but I am going to do journalism.
And I would ask that if you arrest me, that you not commit violence on me.
Just simply touch me on the shoulder.
No need for handcuffs or to throw me on the trunk of a car like you did to David last time.
Any questions for me before I go in?
No?
No?
I can give you a hat later on as a souvenir of this momentous day.
A Jew is not a Zionist.
A Zionist is not a Jew.
Zionism is in Norway.
It's a portal representing Judaism.
Hi, what's your name?
I'm going to ask you to please move back.
We have a lot of equipment here.
So please can you just move back?
Can you please move back?
That's a salt.
No, no, no.
You're in my space.
My personal space.
No, you came up.
I am the same.
Who are you?
What's your name?
Are you a Canadian citizen?
Are you a Canadian citizen?
What's your name?
What's your name?
Thank you very much.
Get your guys to move me back.
Thank you very much for mine.
Let's just go to the sidewalk.
Go to the sidewalk.
There you go.
Hold on.
We're not going to fall around.
Why is that?
Because we want everybody to stand up on that side.
I know what you want.
And I actually think that's probably wise from your point of view.
It's the path of least resistance.
But I do have certain rights as a citizen and as a journalist.
Just letting you know I'm recording now too.
We're recording you too, Gavin.
Thanks very much.
So it was mission accomplished in terms of David Menzies.
He got to do his journalism.
We supplemented that.
And I think it was our strength in numbers that caused the police to back down.
There have got to be at least 50 cops who were right there.
And one of the pro-Hamas protesters sort of meandered through the police barrier and hit Alexa Lavoie, who had come in from Montreal, hit her with a flagpole.
And we got it from two different angles.
There were so many cameras there.
We got it from the angle of Alexa's own camera and another camera.
And you can see this guy hitting her.
Take a look.
Shut up.
She didn't have space.
She's not moving.
No!
No, I did not see her.
No, I did nothing.
Stay right here.
He pushed me.
Stay right here.
He pushed me, Bjorn.
Have it on camera.
He pushed me.
He pushed me, Biernadi.
Have it on camera.
This guy on the street.
Officers, you witnessed my colleague getting physically assaulted.
She's female.
The perpetrator's male.
Why are there no charges?
So in the streets of our Dominion, if you're chanting genocide, if you're part of the pro-Hamas crowd, a female citizen can be assaulted and you won't charge them?
I think what we saw is that your camera lady had the camera right in his face.
He has his person on space too.
We gotta respect that.
Because if I'm too close, I cannot cap.
Well, then he needs his space as well.
I think he needs like a serious therapy of violence.
That's your opinion.
Officer, we back the blue, but we're just asking you to uphold your oath.
I just said what I had to.
Got nothing more to say.
So if a camera gets too close, it is acceptable for a man to hit a woman in Toronto?
I don't believe he hit her.
He just pushed her away.
Immediately, we saw what was going on.
We immediately brought it to the attention of a cop who didn't care.
And I was furious when he said he had better things to do than look at the 30-second clip.
Here's me shouting at him.
I was very mad and I lost my temper.
And I don't regret it.
I don't regret calling this cop a coward either.
I mean, what do you call a cop who literally doesn't lift a finger when a woman has been hit with a weapon, by the way?
A flagpole is a weapon.
And Alexa was not injured, but that's not the point.
You don't hit someone with a flagpole, especially a woman.
And the cops were right there, and this cop didn't care.
I was furious.
Take a clip of me telling the cop how angry I was.
He hit me.
Did you have it on chase?
I did.
Like some people everywhere.
I don't know whether she has it dipped or not.
Well, she says she did.
Will you look at it?
Will you look at it?
No, I don't need to see anything now.
I've got other.
Really more pressing.
Yeah, it's the first assault of the day.
I know arresting David may sound more pressing, but it's not actually.
So she's got the tape.
Will you look at it?
No.
So she was just assaulted.
You've got 50 cops here stopping our journalism.
So why won't you look at it?
I don't want to.
But I said, I've got other priorities to attend to.
What are you doing?
You're standing around.
What's a higher priority?
Okay, I said what I had to say.
You got my comment.
I'll move on.
Well, can we, who do we talk to if we don't look like assaults on the city street?
So seriously, who do we talk to?
Why are you running away?
Why are you running away?
You're getting in my face now, sir.
Are you going to arrest me?
If I have to.
So, she was assaulted.
You're not going to arrest the guy who assaulted her.
You're going to arrest me for asking you questions about an assault.
I think it could be interpreted both ways.
You just saw an assault, and you're saying you're going to arrest me instead of the man who assaulted her.
It could be interpreted that she assaulted him by getting in his business.
Well, why don't you look at the video then?
Why don't you look at the video?
We will in good time, right?
You're lying again.
We've got other things to do, right?
Like what?
I said what I had to say.
That's the end of it.
What a coward you are, sir.
I think you know that.
That's your opinion.
You saw a woman get assaulted.
You refuse to look at the evidence.
You've heard what he said to you.
I know, and he's a coward, isn't he?
Her the first time.
I sure did.
Her the second time.
And I sure did.
Okay.
So if she wants to deal with this, it's not the time and place right now.
Well, what is the time and place?
When we sorted everything out.
If this are you sorting out, she's not even looking at it.
I'll be happy to take one from you.
Okay now?
Officer Jacket.
But what are you doing instead?
She was assaulted.
Okay, let's go.
Okay, and that's fine.
And if she was assaulted, listen, we're going to look at the videotape.
We're going to investigate it.
If you want to take a report, we'll take a report for it.
But I didn't see it.
I can't speak to it by the way.
Well, he saw it.
We have video on it, and we'll investigate it and we'll make him arrest these people.
All right, I'm going to hold you to that.
Of course, of course.
And I recommend he's not on the file.
He doesn't give a shit.
Okay.
There's no need to spit the venom.
Like I said, if she was assaulted, all the cameras were on.
We will see that assault.
An investigation will be commenced on it, and an arrest will be made.
Thank you.
And we're going to follow up on that.
No problem.
And you know what?
Why don't you go do something more important?
Imagine that.
I have more important things to do.
Well, it turns out this guy is a serial abuser, serial criminal.
We're closing in on him.
We don't have his name yet.
We've offered a $180 bounty to anyone who can tell us his name.
But I want to play for you a couple minutes of this guy who we've encountered in different instances.
You'll see him with our chief of video, Efron Monsanto.
You'll see him.
Let me just play for you a montage of this same unhinged guy.
Take a look.
Go to jail.
Don't touch us.
You are racist.
He's a f ⁇ ing Zionist.
You know, f you.
You work with David Mercer and Ezra Officer, are you going to enforce the law?
Well, fuck you.
I want to talk to you.
Don't touch me.
Fuck you.
Don't touch me.
Because you're a f ⁇ .
You're shaking.
I need you to relax.
I need you to relax.
Thank you, officer.
If I'm moving back, you got me.
If you're going to kill me, you're going to be a little bit more time.
I'll put this in your ass.
I want you to relax.
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Don't put your hands on me either.
F ⁇ you.
You.
Yo, shut up.
Don't do too much.
F you.
Okay, I'm recording you too.
You, f you, rebels media.
You f ⁇ ing talk about Palestinian shit.
F you.
What's the rest?
F**k you!
F**k you!
You need to relax.
F**k!
You need to spit out?
This guy is putting his hands on me.
Ribbon's media, right wing media, Israel and...
Don't...
Don't put your hands on me.
Fuck you.
F ⁇ you.
Shut up.
Don't put your hands on me.
Don't put your hands on me.
Go on.
Go from here.
Go from here.
You don't own the sidewalk.
I'm here just to record it.
No, no, no.
You're f ⁇ ing violent.
I'm on the sidewalk.
I'm not here to do anything.
I'm just here to record.
But you can't put your hands on me.
you have to understand that shut up shut up David yeah so I think it's only a matter of time until we find out his name Someone has sent me what they think is his name.
We're not going to publish it until we're more sure.
We are demanding that police charge him with the crime of, I would call that an aggravated assault or assault with a weapon.
We have a petition at findthethug.com.
I hope police do it.
I was so angry at that one cop who said he didn't care, but the more senior cop said he would look into it.
A friend, Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun, contacted police who told him there is an investigation.
Who knows what that even means?
If the police do not charge him, we will ask for a senior officer to review the case.
We will likely apply for a peace bond against him and other things, including a civil suit.
That is, we can sue someone in court ourselves.
And there's some other legal ideas I want to examine a little bit further.
I'm not going to let this stand.
I know that's how it is in Toronto.
I mean, you might remember a few months ago, the Toronto police were asked for their advice on how to stop the car theft crime wave just sweeping through Ontario.
I mean, if you have anything close to a nice car, I drive a 10-year-old jalapeno.
No one's going to steal my car.
But if you have anything close to a new car, and not even a super fancy one, it'll be stolen.
Hundreds stolen a year in Toronto.
Here's the police advice on how to handle that.
They basically say help the robbers so they don't get angry and hurt you.
Take a look.
There's also updated advice for all vehicle owners.
A message echoed by Toronto Police speaking at an Etobicoke safety meeting last month.
Constable Marco Ricciardi had a new message for vehicle owners who keep their fobs in Faraday pouches.
To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door.
Because they're breaking into your home to steal your car.
They don't want anything else.
A lot of them that they're arresting have guns on them, and they're not toy guns.
They're real guns.
They're loaded.
That's why Galinsky says they will be installing the doorstops and taking YPR's advice seriously.
But she'd like more action from police as well.
So if that's how the police deal with criminal criminals, you can better believe they're just as laissez-faire with political criminals, people who hit you for a political reason.
The cops are pretty useless in this town.
I'm not saying individual beat cops are useless, although some of them clearly are.
But they've been ordered to stand down by the mayor, by the premier and his solicitor general.
It's basically a criminal's feast up here.
But I'm not going to accept that when it comes to one of our reporters being hurt.
We played for you the first chunk of this weekend yesterday.
We had 12 cameras going, so there's so much footage.
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We're going to play some more at the end of today's show.
And later on in the week, we're going to publish the whole masterpiece online of what happened on Sunday.
There was so much to show.
But we're busy with other things too.
Today, Alexa is covering the border crossing.
We've had reports from New York City that migrants are already making their way to the Canadian border in anticipation of Donald Trump becoming the president.
And you've heard his borders are.
You've never seen a tougher guy.
He says he's basically going to declare war on the cartels and mass deport millions of foreigners.
Used a clip of him.
His name is Homan.
That's his last name.
I think it's Tom Homan going from memory.
And I think he means business.
Here's a clip of him.
We have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year.
I don't know if that's accurate or not.
Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
What price do you put on our national security?
Is that worth it?
Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?
Of course there is.
Families can be deported together.
Yeah, so let's say you are in the U.S. illegally, either as a criminal or you're there on some status that has not been approved.
And that guy, who's the toughest, he looks like a bulldog, doesn't he?
He says he's going to deport you by the millions.
You could try and hide.
Okay, it could work.
You could voluntarily leave, or you could just walk across the world's largest undefended border into Canada.
So get ready for Wroxham Road times 10.
Wroxham Road, not just in Quebec, but in other parts of our border as well.
I mean, just for one example, the Haitians.
There was a big story in Springfield, Ohio.
We sent reporters down to cover it.
Tens of thousands of Haitians on a special temporary visa in the U.S. If Trump abolishes that, where are they going to go?
They could go back to Haiti, one of the worst countries in the world, or they could go to Montreal, where there's a large Haitian community, and we're suckers up here.
So, yeah, Alexa is going to report on that.
And I don't think Canada is ready.
And I think Trudeau would rather like being the dumping ground of rejected American applicants.
And frankly, he has no opposition to criminals or terrorists coming in the country.
He lets them in en masse.
It's interesting what Trump is doing.
His nominees for different agencies and departments is fascinating.
He wants to appoint really radical names.
Some of them, like that Border Czar, has worked in that field before, but others like Matt Gates, the congressman who appointed him as Attorney General, and other appointments like Tulsa Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence.
They are daring.
They are shocking appointees that are proposed appointees that are causing those institutions to quiver.
I mean, it's a frontal attack on the deep state.
I think a lot of people thought, okay, well, Trump is Trump, but we can manage him.
We'll surround him with a buffer as he was in his first term of people who are undermining him, slow walking his orders, actually having a kind of mutiny full-time.
Well, Trump isn't having that.
He's putting people in position to fight against the deep state, to go to war against these departments if they don't support the Trump vision.
And in fact, some, I keep reading headlines that some lawyers in the Department of Justice are going to preemptively quit, which I would say is only making Matt Gates' job easier.
I don't know if these appointees will be approved and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, but I think that Donald Trump is absolutely deadly serious about taking on the permanent bureaucracy, otherwise known as the deep state.
Eisenhower called it the military-industrial complex, and keeping his promise.
And by the way, having the permanent bureaucracy, the blob, object to Trump and fight against Trump, that only improves Trump's standing in the eyes of his voters who say, oh, yeah, he's keeping his promise.
I say again, Trump is still almost two months away from being sworn in, but it's interesting to see how the world responds.
We talked a little bit about this before, but I'm just embarrassed by Trudeau's own response.
Of course, I'm embarrassed by Trudeau.
Here he is criticizing Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard has been in the U.S. military for more than two decades.
I think her rank is, they call it lieutenant colonel, we'd say lieutenant colonel in Canada.
She is a soldier today.
I think she's with the National Guard.
I forget what unit.
But the U.S. military obviously has no problem with her being an officer in the military.
So all these accusations of her being a Russian asset are about, I mean, they're just complete propaganda.
But here's Trudeau basically saying, well, we can't trust Trump's appointees.
Take a look.
Of course, U.S. nominations are a domestic matter, but they do have implications for Canada.
So I want to ask you about one in particular, Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence.
This is a person who has a long history of defending Vladimir Putin, of justifying the invasion of Ukraine.
Also, lots of questions about her personal relationships, travel, financial relationships.
Is Canada going to be able to continue to have the intelligence relationship that it has with the United States now, both the bilateral and the Five Eyes relationship, continue to be a consumer of U.S. intelligence and trust what's coming in?
Well, I think these questions you're pointing out are questions that are being asked by an awful lot of people in the United States right now.
And they have processes whereby they confirm people, they move forward, they support, they make choices.
And I am sure that the American system will continue to demand the right kinds of answers and how they move forward, particularly when it comes to issues of national security.
When it comes to keeping Canadians safe, when it comes to keeping Americans safe, our countries can't flinch on that.
We have to take these things seriously.
And I know Americans take it very seriously, but sometimes political parties do strange things.
What comes to mind is the fact that the leader of the official opposition in Canada refuses to get top-secret briefings that will allow him to keep his own party and his own members safe.
Sometimes political parties make strange choices, and it's the job of citizens to be asking those questions as to why.
This from the guy who has 11 MPs selected by China in the bosom of his government is just so gross.
Here's Trudeau saying, well, if Trump is backing away from climate extremism, if Trump is going full tilt on fracking and coal and energy, well, if Trump is rejecting climate cultism, that means there's more left for us here in Canada.
And sure, if no one else likes carbon taxes, that means more for us.
Take a look.
I also wanted to ask you what the election of Donald Trump might mean for climate action.
We've seen that Trump is nominated for his energy secretary, a fracking executive, who's on record as saying there is no climate crisis.
Are you worried about where climate action is going with Trump coming in as president, and will you have to do anything differently?
I think we have all seen around the world the impact of climate change, the economic costs of climate change, the impacts on vulnerable populations, the impacts on citizens in the most advanced economies like the poorest economies.
And we need everyone to be doing everything we can, particularly the largest emitters, to reduce those emissions so that we can preserve not just a cleaner future, but an economically successful future.
So yeah, I am worried about the U.S. stepping back on the fight against climate change.
But from a Canadian perspective, we have demonstrated and we have seen that fighting climate change can both help directly with affordability by putting more money in people's pockets with the Canada carbon rebate.
It's creating tremendous opportunity for growth and investment.
We've seen, you know, Canada was number three country in the world for foreign direct investment last year, a lot of it because of clean energy, a lot of it because of environmental leadership and responsibility.
We have the number one EV battery supply chain in the world, according to Bloomberg.
And these are things that we have done because we're harnessing the economic opportunities of climate change.
And if the United States steps back on the kind of innovation and supports that, for example, we have in our tax credits on clean investment, on innovative energy solutions, then more investment will be coming into Canada.
We're already number one in the G20 for per capita for foreign direct investment.
We've seen foreign direct investment increase by 60% since 2015, largely because of our investments in fighting climate change that are attractive to companies around the world.
If people look at the United States as not a place where it's interesting to innovate and fight climate change, people will automatically turn to Canada.
And if Mr. Trump doesn't want to take on the opportunities associated with climate change, Canada will continue to.
Yeah, wow.
Lots of opportunities.
It's just absurd and upside down.
What a difference the people that Trump is surrounding himself with versus our low-information, low-achievement cabinet in Canada.
Here's Trudeau staying on the theme, saying that ordinary Canadians who are struggling, making ends meet, struggling, making their rent, making their groceries, they should put climate alarmism ahead of their own families' prosperity.
Here's a guy who's never had to pay a bill in his whole life.
Look at him telling Canadians to shut up and pay his carbon tax.
The challenge we're facing right now is that the direct pressures on individuals and households, the affordability crisis, being kicked in the teeth by inflation around the world over the past few years, the concerns around the rapid pace of change, the instabilities we're seeing, the shifting geopolitics, the disruptions of the supply chain, have a lot of individual citizens, voters,
families really worried that they're not able to make ends meet.
And it's really, really easy when you're in a short-term survive.
I got to be able to pay the rent this month, I got to be able to buy groceries for my kids, to say, okay, let's put climate change as a slightly lower priority.
And that's something that's instinctive.
When the storm comes, you want to hunker down and just sort of huddle up and wait for it to blow over.
We can't do that around climate change.
And unfortunately, we have an awful lot of political amplification of the kind of narrative that is directly opposed to that.
It's some very, very profitable oil and gas companies and entrenched interests that very much want people to put in opposition affordability and the fight against climate change.
And that's really the challenge we have to take on.
Everyone sort of understands, oh, yes, we need to grow an economy and protect the environment at the same time.
But when it comes to putting dollars in pockets for people, they don't want to hear about, oh, if they just pay a little more for an electric car, then that'll be protecting the environment.
They can't pay a little more for an electric car right now.
There's a sense that affordability is in direct contrast with our moral responsibility to protect the planet.
And that is something that unfortunately people have been amplified and used propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and flat-out lies to scare people into saying, oh, no, no, no, we've got to take care of our household budget and bottom line first and environment second.
And that's one of the things that we've really tried to tackle in Canada because ultimately, even as we talk about global collective action and responsibility, we have a first primary responsibility to citizens in our own countries, because if they're not on board with us stepping up to fight climate change, both at home and around the world, they will withdraw political support from parties that are focused on doing that.
And that's the challenge we have to tackle.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to work, but good luck to him.
By contrast, here's Pierre Polyev pointing out how Donald Trump doesn't need to fight with Justin Trudeau.
He can just call up Canadian businesses and say, look what your own country's doing to you.
Come on down to come on down to the United States.
We're not taxing and destroying and regulating our companies.
Like, I think Polyev is exactly right.
The toughest thing, the worst thing Trump could do to Canada is get on the phone with our top 10 businesses and say, come on down, the water's warm.
Take a look.
First of all, we should be exempt from all these tariffs.
I can't believe that Trudeau signed a trade deal with Trump that leaves open the possibility of a 10% tariff.
I never would have agreed to that.
I can't believe he signed on to a trade deal that keeps the softwood lumber tariffs in place.
Harper got those lifted in 90 days as prime minister.
Trudeau's had nine years and three presidents, and not only are the tariffs back in place, they've been doubled, killing forestry jobs right across British Columbia.
So I'll be fighting for an end to the softwood tariffs and exemption to buy America, like Harper has secured for us.
But more importantly, I'll fight fire with fire.
The Americans have taken a net half trillion dollars of our investment in the last nine years.
We were winning the investment war with the Americans before Trudeau, having more American dollars here than we had there.
Why has the money left?
Why is it pouring out of our country?
Rampant tax increases by the Trudeau NDP Liberal government have pushed money out of our country to the point where American workers now earn $22,000 more than their Canadian counterparts.
I want our money back.
I will be axing the carbon tax, cutting income tax, cutting taxes on investment to bring home those hundreds of billions of dollars and to bring home production and paychecks for our people.
Trump's War on Bureaucracy00:07:03
You know, one of the largest tech companies in Canada is called Shopify.
You might not know that word, although you've probably seen it online.
It's basically a way for ordinary people to sell things on the internet.
It's just a user-friendly way to sell t-shirts or whatever else you're selling.
And it's a huge Canadian success story.
And in the early days of Trudeau's regime, he actually hung out with the entrepreneurs because they were a Canadian success story.
They don't hold it in anymore.
They are shocked by Trudeau's tax grabs.
They're worried about the state of Canadian business.
It would not surprise me if the amazing economic and tech success story of Shopify were to say, you know what, we love Canada and we created our business here, but Canada, well, not Canada, but the Canadian government doesn't love us.
I think they would be the first company that Trump and his tech friends would pick off.
But it's not just business.
I mean, it's not just Trudeau, who's really inconsequential in the rest of the world these days.
Here's Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine saying that with Trump, peace will come sooner.
It's a very interesting thing to say.
I presume he means that peace is a good outcome.
And he is saying peace will come sooner with Trump than had Harris been elected.
I don't know how that's a bad thing.
I don't think it's a bad thing.
I mean, we recently marked the thousand days since Russia invaded Ukraine, and Justin Trudeau and Aaron O'Toole and others took to Twitter talking about being with Ukraine until victory.
What's that victory look like?
Does it look like Ukraine, which is a fraction of the size geographically, economically, militarily, population-wise, defeating Russia, a nuclear-armed power?
I just don't see that military victory happening.
What is victory for Ukraine?
I've always said it's stopping the meat grinder of young Ukrainian men being just chewed up and spat out by this atrocious war.
I wish that there had been that peace deal done shortly after the invasion, but it was scotched by Boris Johnson at the behest of the United States government.
I find that to be shocking and bloodthirsty.
And obviously, I don't support Vladimir Putin, who's an authoritarian.
I don't support the invasion of Ukraine.
But the idea that peace within grasp and it was scotched by Boris Johnson is something that I think he should answer for for the rest of his life.
By the way, I saw this poll.
Most Ukrainians want peace.
So when Trudeau talks about victory, when Aaron O'Toole talks about victory, according to most Ukrainians, victory is getting a peace deal.
How could it not be?
I don't like the idea of Russia expanding and violating territorial sovereignty of others, but Ukraine will not have a military victory over Russia.
In fact, I think right now is the fastest pace that the Russians have been incurring having an incursion into Ukraine since the war started.
Which makes it even more astonishing that Biden just made a decision about two days ago now.
Of course, Biden is what they call a lame duck.
That's the traditional term for a president who will be gone in a couple months, but still is the president until the new president completes the transition and is sworn in.
It's Biden, not Harris.
So Biden, who is deemed by his own party, his own inner circle, to not be mentally well enough, physically well enough to run in the campaign, he is still on paper at least the president of the United States.
And Kamala Harris is still on paper the vice president.
I'm guessing they don't get along very well.
But in this lame duck period, when Donald Trump has the moral authority of just winning a huge blowout in the election, the popular vote, all the swing states, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Congress, the Supreme Court is Republican.
Biden has announced unilaterally that he has now approved the use of long-range, American-made precision weapons called ATACMS is the acronym.
It stands for Army Tactical Missile System.
It's a very, very precise, very long-range ballistic missile, very hard to stop.
It's a very high-tech missile that requires American satellite guidance.
So these weapons are not just American-made.
They require American technical participation to guide them.
And Joe Biden, until this moment, the war has been going on for two and a half years, has refused to allow the use of these very powerful, very high-tech weapons because it would cross lines about America actually, American military personnel, actually attacking within Russia itself.
Of course, American advisors and American trainers have been active in Ukraine, but this would put missiles into Russia proper, fired or assisted by Americans and American personnel.
And Vladimir Putin has said that's a red line for him, that that will change the nuclear decisions on his side, which I find absolutely terrifying.
That might be a proper decision for a president to make.
But during the lame duck period, when there's just 50 days, and who made the decision?
Did Joe Biden himself make that decision?
Did the blob make that decision?
And why in the last few this war has been going on for two and a half years?
I think that the blob, the deep state, is trying to get just the last few.
I mean, they want to use up the weapons, the military-industrial complex, you know, the gravy train is perhaps running out.
I just find it an astonishing and dangerous decision to be made.
And we don't even know who made it.
I think that that is actually really proving that the deep state is real.
And I think that's actually making the case for Trump's rough appointees.
One of his appointees, proposed appointees for defense secretary, like Tulsi Gavard, has spent two decades in the military, was a decorated veteran who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
But he is being called a loose cannon, doesn't have the proper experience.
Pete Hagaseth is his name.
But I think it proves the need for an outsider like him, because obviously the Pentagon is its own blob.
I see that it failed its audit again, doesn't know where hundreds of billions of dollars went.
Whoops, just misplaced it.
I think that Trump really needs to go to war against the permanent bureaucracy because they're at war with him.
There's one more thing that goes to the permanent bureaucracy and the state of American democracy.
Counting Illegal Votes00:02:03
Donald Trump won with a handsome margin.
Donald Trump won the key state of Pennsylvania, partly because of the Amish going to vote against the heavy hand of the U.S. government.
But there's one particular county where there's a battle over a senate, see, a very important battle in Pennsylvania.
And the Democrats who are counting the votes there are still counting and explicitly counting votes that are illegal votes, that they acknowledge are illegal, but they're counting them anyways.
Now, the race is over.
Kamala Harris has conceded.
But the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania is still counting votes, still trying to challenge the winner, and is expressly and admittedly counting votes that are fake or not fake, they're illegal.
Doesn't that sort of give the game away?
Doesn't that sort of prove everything that Donald Trump said, not just about 2024, but about 2020?
I think it's absolutely astonishing.
Anyways, I mean, there's a few other things.
It's just amazing to watch the return of common sense to Washington.
The Democrats, by the way, are so proud they elected their first transgender congressman.
It's a thing.
But a bunch of Republican women congressmen are refusing to let him use the girls' bathrooms here.
Take a look at this.
So if that being a feminist makes me an extremist, I'm totally here for it.
Is this effort in response to Congresswoman McBride coming to Congress?
Yes, and absolutely, and then some.
I'm not going to stand for a man.
You know, if someone with a penis is in the women's locker room, that's not okay.
And I'm a victim of abuse myself.
I'm a rape survivor.
I have PTSD from the abuse I've suffered at the hands of a man.
And I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.
So I'm absolutely 100% going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms.
Why We Stand Firm00:15:10
I will be there fighting you every step of the way.
Yeah, they're having a battle.
And again, I think this is to Trump's benefit.
I mean, having a debate about whether or not a bloke can use a women's change room, a women's private place, a safe space, to use a word of the left.
I think that that is actually one of the reasons why Harris lost and Trump won.
Very interesting.
And I think these ideas will wash over Canada too, even if Trudeau is trying to close his eyes and ears to it.
That's America.
We're covering some of those stories in the field.
As you know, we had Avi Amini crossing America for a full month.
And we've got Alexa Lavois covering from New York and Montreal, the mass exodus to Canada, which I think will come of migrants.
But we are interested in the UK as well.
It was a big day out there.
After the break, we'll talk to my friend Louis Brackpool about a huge farmers' protest in London today.
And after that, stick around because we have part two about our big showdown in the streets of North Toronto against the pro-Hamas gangs and their friends and the police.
So lots ahead after this short break.
Well, Rebel News loves farmers for obvious reasons.
I mean, that's where the food comes from.
And I mean, look at me.
But more seriously, though, if you want to have a happy society, a prosperous society, you have to have plentiful, affordable energy and plentiful, affordable food.
It's very interesting to me that Donald Trump has teamed up with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and one of his focuses is making America healthy again.
He has a pharmaceutical industry part of that policy, but he also talks about healthy food.
We don't really think or talk about that that much, but it's bizarre to me that countries would declare war against their own farmers.
We saw it over the last couple of years in the Netherlands, one of the largest agricultural exporters in the world, even though it's geographically a small country.
There, they were doing so in the name of environmentalism, just the same way as we demonize energy by demonizing carbon, that element of the periodic table.
They were going after nitrogen, which is part of the fertilizers that farms use.
In the UK, the war has been declared against farmers by the new Labor Prime Minister Kier Starmer.
But I don't even think he's pretending that it's a global warming threat.
I think he just doesn't like the fact that farmers are, you know, generally conservative.
They are property owners.
And they just, I think there's a class issue there.
And so he's brought in a policy that farmers will have to pay a 20% inheritance tax before bequeathing the land to their family.
But of course, as you know, farms may be valuable on paper, but farmers are not cash rich.
If you have land that presumably is worth, let's say, a million dollars or a million pounds, you don't have that cash sitting around.
So if you're going to bequeath it to your kids and have to pay 200,000 pounds for the pleasure of doing so, that's basically a way of expropriating your property and making way for developers or other non-far uses.
Today, in the heart of London and Westminster, in the parliamentary precincts, tens of thousands of farmers did something that I don't think they've done in years, perhaps decades.
They converged in the city to say no to Keir Starmer and his war on farms.
You know, I love going over to the UK myself, but I wasn't there.
But one of our alumni, who is a commentator and a journalist in his own right, our friend Lewis Bradpool, was there in the heart of London.
We asked him if he could join us today to give us a bit of an update.
And he said, yes, what a delight to be joined again on screen by our friend Lewis Bradpool.
Julus, great to see you again.
Yeah, you too, Ezra.
Thank you so much for having me on.
Oh, boy, it looked great.
I mean, even British farmers have that classy fashion.
Like, it's just, there's something wonderful about British farmers.
I mean, of course, I love Canadian farmers too.
But, I mean, they've been farming for centuries there.
And this really is a war against farmers.
Tell me a little bit about it.
What do the farmers say is really going on?
So, firstly, farmers are being squeezed in terms of income.
So, I actually have some number crunch for you here.
They've already taken a huge drop of income as it is by nearly 70% currently.
So, the average income from livestock farming is generating around 17.3K annually per year.
To top this off with this inheritance tax, now Rachel Reeves has said, the person who's in charge of this budget and introducing as well this inheritance tax say they only affect that 76 roughly percent of farmers won't be affected by this.
This is actually false.
It'll actually affect over 60% of working farms, despite the government believing that it will only affect just quote unquote the wealthy.
We had recently Jeremy Clarkson as well being there, and of course, taking questions from the media.
As soon as I arrived, I saw Clarkson there in great spirits, despite, of course, the reason why everyone was there.
I even saw a real diverse amount of people there politically.
You saw the leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenock, was there, Ed Davy of the Liberal Democrats, and Nigel Farage being there.
I must say, to put criticism towards this, you had the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the leader of the Conservative Party, all being able to speak and give speeches.
But when Nigel Farage arrived and was in the press box and was talking to the press, he was ready to go on to make a speech and he wasn't allowed, which I thought was very, very odd.
I have a big problem with the establishment because my trust, my cynicism is at an all-time low.
Joining Rebel News as well years ago when COVID was the main topic.
And I remember going to all the protests for you guys.
So my trust in the government is already low as it is.
So seeing these establishment talking heads getting on stage and using it as political opportunism wasn't great.
And obviously the reception from farmers and supporters of the farmers showed that.
But you saw as well a clip that had been going around of Jeremy Clarkson being interviewed by the BBC, Victoria Derbyshire, her name is, where she was probing Mr. Clarkson on, well, where are we going to get the money from to pay for things such as public health services?
And just to put it in perspective, this inheritance tax will only raise around 560 million pounds.
Now someone worked this out online.
That's roughly around 25 hours of funding for the NHS.
25 hours.
So to put that into perspective, billions are being sent to firstly Ukraine and in foreign aid to places like India, where the GDP of India is of course higher than the UK.
Not to mention billions being spent, £8 million a day being spent on housing illegal migrants across the UK and the population increase.
So it's convenient that Victoria Derbyshire doesn't mention any of these things.
You say so many things here, Lewis, and I just want to jump in to catch some more folks up.
By the way, NHS is the National Health Service.
That's the British version of our Medicare system.
I just want to show a quick clip.
You mentioned Jeremy Clarkson.
He's famous.
He's a bit of a TV celebrity in the UK, famous for his automobile reviews.
He's lately set up a farm and sort of done a reality show of farming.
And it's sort of wonderful to watch this guy get a deep respect for farmers and he's set up a country pub.
I just want to play quickly him.
And he's an old hand at media.
Sparring with the BBC was sort of beautiful.
I just want to show that to folks before we get too far away from him.
And here's Jeremy Clarkson.
You may recognize him from various British TV shows.
Most recently, he's really, he's brought a city man's respect to country farming and I appreciate him for that.
It's sort of the opposite of classism.
And I think there's a classism afoot here, an anti-farmer bigotry from the establishment in Westminster.
Here's Clarkson debating the BBC.
Take a look.
So why are you here, Mr. Clarkson?
Well, because I'm here to support farmers.
Right.
Are you angry?
it's difficult to be angry on somebody else's behalf that's like being yes no i'm not angry on someone else's behalf Right.
So it's not about you.
It's not about your farm and the fact that you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax.
Classic BBC there.
Classic.
Yeah, it's not the fact that the fact that I bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax The fact.
You told the Sunday Times in 2021 that's why you bought it.
I've got it.
I've got to do it.
These people.
Sorry?
BBC.
Okay, let's start from the beginning.
I wanted a shoot.
Okay?
That's even worse to the BBC.
I wanted a shoot.
Which comes with the benefit of not having to pay inheritance tax.
Now I do.
But people like me will simply put it in a trust.
And so long as I live for seven years, that's fine.
And as my daughter said, you will live for seven years.
You might be in a deep freeze at the end of it, but you will live for seven years.
But it's incredibly time-consuming to have to do that.
And why should all these people have to do that?
Why should they?
So one of the reasons Rachel Reeves says she brought this in is to stop wealthy people using it as a wealth.
No, that was the only reason she did.
Well, no, the other reason was to raise money for public services.
Well, have you seen it?
Are you listening to this?
Have you tried to get a GP appointment lately?
Yes, I just recently had a heart attack.
Okay, so you know it's tough.
Yes.
So where should they get the money from if it's not from farmers?
From farmers.
With assets.
Okay, do you know how many people pay inheritance tax in this country?
It's 4% of estates.
What?
4% of estates.
4% pay inheritance tax.
96% of the population of the UK does not pay inheritance tax.
After this becomes law, 96% of farmers will.
Where have you got that figure from?
Who here, can I just ask?
Who here is going to be unaffected by these changes?
No one.
Where have you got the 96% figure?
You've got 96%.
Well, the same place that Rachel Reeves does, from the middle of her head.
From the Sixth Form Debating Society that she was no doubt a member of.
Which formed her opinions and yours.
Am I not expressing opinions?
She's literally asking you questions.
You know that, Mr. Clarkson.
So, what is your message to this government?
Please back down, please.
And get the money from where?
Well, they've got 40 billion.
I'll tell you where you go.
Walk into any of the offices around here.
If you don't understand what somebody's job is, fire them.
The civil service.
Civil service is too top.
You know that.
I must get on.
Hey, I want to get back to one more thing you said, Lewis, when you said that Nigel Farage was not allowed on stage.
And that seems odd.
I have some disagreements with Nigel Farage, but the man is a fixture in UK politics.
He's the leader of a party with seats in Westminster.
He led the Brexit Revolution, which is an enormous achievement.
To keep him out, I find quite odd.
And there's some funny things about these farmer protests.
I remember last week, one of the spokesmen was saying this is not a protest.
We're not protesting.
We're just going to have a lobby day in Westminster.
Like, it was like he was trying to de-fang the protests.
Obviously, the protesters were fairly rambunctious.
In Canada, we have something called a National Farmers Union.
It's really just a left-wing group that really is out of touch with ordinary farmers.
Tell me a little bit about the organizers here.
I give them credit for having a ton of people show up.
And the fact that Clarkson spoke so well was wonderful.
But is that why Farage was barred?
Are they actually sort of Nambi-Pamby centrists?
It's actually so spooky you mentioned that farmers' union and speaking about the political infighting within that because it seems to me that it's the same story over here.
We have a national farmers union and they were very much anti-Brexit and that was their main shtick as well.
So I think that that might be to do with it considering that Nigel Farage of course headed the Brexit movement.
But when he arrived, you know, I have my disagreements.
The same with you, Ezra, as well, with Nigel Farage.
But when he arrived, he was greeted very well by farmers and by supporters.
And the press, of course, swarmed him.
I have a clip as well of me capturing the moment that he arrived just at the press box.
And everyone was swarming to try and get either a picture or to speak with him and to ask him questions.
And his, of course, his entourage with other reform MPs turned up with Richard Tice and McMurdo.
And even you had Ben Habib there, who's a big favorite among reform voters and others too.
So I think there's a lot of internal politics.
I don't know the ins and outs, but the NFU is very much, well, considered quite anti-Brexit.
So that could have something to do with that.
Now, here's the theory that I've heard put forward.
I mean, Canada is a vast country.
Like, geographically, we're just enormous, second largest in the world.
Now, much of that is not farmable land, like the Arctic.
There's permafrost.
You could never grow anything up there.
But we still have vast fields in Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, even Ontario.
The UK is geographically a much smaller country.
And you have very high immigration.
I saw recently that actually proportionately, I think you have the largest immigration in the world.
It depends how you measure.
Canada is pretty high too.
And London, the property prices are so high and it's really spreading out.
Pressure on Farmers00:12:36
So the theory I heard was that this would be a way to clear out those old-fashioned right-wing farmers who think that the land should be to grow food instead of the progressives who would build cities and towns and maybe one day towers there.
And at the very least, this inheritance tax would sort of end the farm when the current owner passes on because there's no way the tax could be paid.
And I saw this crazy article in The Guardian that said farmers are hoarding land as if they're keeping it together for some nefarious purpose instead of farming it.
And even Elon Musk from America tweeted that he thought that was Stalinist, which it is.
That's sort of the language used by Stalin when he had the forced collectivization of farms in Russia and Ukraine.
So there is a theory, and I'm not even going to call it a conspiracy theory because they're owning it.
The left is owning it, saying we got to get the land away from the farmers.
This is how we do it.
I don't even think it's about raising money.
As you point out, if they cared about money, they would stop throwing it around on all these other ridiculous things to make farmers pay for health care.
It just doesn't make sense.
This is a war on farmers, on farming, on old-fashioned anything.
And I think it's a land grab.
Is that too extreme a theory?
Nope, not at all.
I think a lot of the farmers that were talking today said the same thing.
When you have a government that says, firstly, oh, we just want farmers to pay their fair share.
And you hear that a lot.
Pay your fair share.
Oh, pay your fair share.
And then they say, okay, what's that going to pay for?
The National Health Service.
And then like people have pointed out very quickly that 25 hours is the funding from this inheritance tax that would pay for the National Health Service.
So clearly, clearly, and you have mouthpieces from the Guardian who are part of the government, who have been paid off by various entities as well, and intertwine with the government in that respect, say things like hoarding land.
I mean, they've given the game away completely.
The mask, the iron curtain is clearly being dropped from what exactly their agenda is.
So no, I think you're totally right.
I think I believe it's a land grab personally because of the language that they use and the pivoting.
And the one minute it's to do with paying their fair share and next minute it's to do with something completely unrelated.
So and you said something perfect about how the government is wastefully spending and just throwing that around on things that could easily pay for the things that they're worried about.
They're worried about hasn't had enough funding.
Excuse me.
So no, it's not a crazy theory at all.
We keep hearing these terms conspiracy theories over the years.
But we even saw Bill Gates coincidentally have a vacation in the UK just the day before the budget.
And, you know, people were going wild.
And he met with the PM, didn't he?
He met with Kieris Tarman and the PM.
Because he's now the largest landowner in America, a farmland owner.
And that gives me the willies because he's against traditional farms.
He's invested in this gross artificial meat, like lab-grown meat.
That stuff makes me gag just to think about it.
And he's an anti-population activist.
Here's a clip we show from time to time.
It startles people of Bill Gates saying he thinks that maybe we should reduce population on the earth by 15%.
So it's more than a billion.
The guy couldn't be plainer.
He's just, I talked earlier about prosperity being food and fuel.
This guy wants to get rid of people instead.
Take a quick look.
Somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
It's been constantly going up.
It's only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all.
So we have to go from rapidly rising to falling and falling all the way to zero.
This equation has four factors, a little bit of multiplication.
So you've got a thing on the left, CO2, that you want to get to zero.
And that's going to be based on the number of people, the services each person's using on average, the energy on average for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy.
So let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero.
Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero.
That's back from high school algebra.
But let's take a look.
First, we've got population.
The world today has 6.8 billion people.
That's headed up to about 9 billion.
Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15%.
But there we see an increase of about 1.3.
Yeah, so what, I mean, maybe that's in their mind.
Maybe it's this weird anti-food agenda, eat the bugs or something.
Maybe it's forced collectivization like in Stalin's time.
I don't know if it's going to work, though, because I think that farmers, people love farmers the same way people love truckers.
And here in Canada, Lewis, you might remember a couple of years ago, it was the truckers that saved us.
It was the truckers that had the convoy.
And just like you had the tractor convoy today at your parliament, we had a trucker convoy at our parliament, honked their horns.
They stuck around a little bit longer.
I think the reason you had all these different disparate groups coming out is because how are you going to be against farmers?
To call farmers greedy, no one believes it.
Like no one believes it.
No one believes that farmers are getting rich.
No one believes that farmers are wasting the land.
I just think that it looks so bad on Kirstarma, but I don't know if he cares.
Like he's doing a hundred things foolishly, but he just won the election.
So I don't know.
Do you think he'll be deterred by any of this?
Well, Rachel Rees has come out and said that despite the protest going ahead, that they're still going ahead with this inheritance attack, heritage tax.
So they're not listening to the people's demands, and that's dangerous.
I thought that the Labour Party was for the working people.
I mean, the last time that farmers descended, I believe, into Westminster because of issues with government policy was during the Tony Blair era.
So there seems to be a strong pattern between Labour harping on about how they care for the working people, the working man and woman, but now they seem to be the party of corporations, the party of mass immigrations and various other issues as well.
If the farmers have their income slashed completely by 70%, and you have suicide rates going up drastically for this particular industry, and yet the government decide to beat and double down on a tax that will kick farmers out of their land and give it up to maybe corporate entities or the like, you bet they're going to be pissed off.
Excuse my language.
So if I do say so, I think now is not the time to be relaxed.
I think the pressure needs to mount from the farmer's end and the organizers.
The pressure needs to continue if they want serious change from this government, because it seems like they're not listening.
They're not listening to the demands of the farmers.
And they're kind of just going on a whim.
They're kind of like the old Trotskyites that are still in debating school, you know, and they're so tunnel-visioned with their ideologies that they can't seem to open up to the ordinary people.
So it's a scary time.
And I hope it doesn't come to any more mounting pressures from the farmers doing anything drastic.
I really hope not.
You know, the British election was on the 4th of July, just four months ago, a little bit, and Starmer won a majority.
And now his numbers have been cut in half.
I mean, he's Trudeau levels in the poll.
I think just 22, 23%.
I saw a picture of Trudeau and Keir Starmer at the G20 summit.
And I thought, look at these two.
They actually have a lot in common.
They believe in censorship.
They jail political opponents.
They think that the answer to changing the weather is raising taxes.
I think there's too many similarities.
I don't know, they're woke.
I can think of a few others, but I suppose the most common one right now is they are despised by the people.
They're ideologues who put their own theories and their own interests ahead of ordinary people.
It's amazing how quickly it's happened in the UK.
Last word to you, Lewis.
What's next?
I mean, I've seen you in the UK at some of the Tommy Robinson political rallies, which are very high energy and very peaceful.
And he's had several of them.
They've got thousands of people out.
Are the farmers going to have another, like, are they going to make this a regular thing or at least a repeated thing?
Or was this their sort of one and done?
It's a good question because a lot of us are scratching our heads thinking, what is next?
Like I mentioned, Rachel Reeves says that she's still going ahead with this budget and inheritance tax scheme.
So we're actually, we don't know.
I hope that the farmers continue their pressure.
But at the minute, it's a case of just keep an eye on what they're saying and what their next move is.
It seems to me that Clarkson, of course, is really taking the leadership role in this, which is great because Clarkson is a very well orator.
He's very good at speaking.
And of course, he's a veteran when it comes to speaking to the media and obviously TV.
So, you know, he fits that role.
Even, strangely, he would fit a good role for a politician, a good politician.
So let's hope something comes from that.
But at the minute, we are kind of scratching our heads and thinking, what is next?
But we hope that infighting stops, considering what's happened with Farage and not being able to speak.
So let's just wait and see.
And hopefully we see some action and see some positive change.
I saw many people from all ages, farmers, supporters of the farmers there, still smiling, still jolly, despite the grim and horrific conditions that the farmers are in.
And I'm hoping to see positive change.
I'm trying to be as optimistic as I can.
Yeah, let's just hope that something will come of this and more people will start turning up to the next protest if it goes ahead.
And let's hope that the government rethink and you turn on this despicable attack on the community that has built and is the backbone of this nation.
Yeah.
Well, I tell you, I really wish I had been there.
I mean, I love the UK.
I love the fighting spirit of working class people.
I've come to understand it a little bit.
I'm a bit of an Anglophile to begin with, I suppose.
I'm really glad you were there, Lewis.
Thanks for taking the time to give us a briefing, an after-action report.
And who knows?
Maybe if they have another farmers protest, if it was to your satisfaction, maybe you would take a camera in there for Rebel News and give us a freelance report like you used to do back in the day for some of the other COVID reports.
It would be great to have you on the streets, even if it was just on a one-off freelance gig for Rebel News again.
I'd love to do that.
That would be good fun.
All right.
Well, there you go.
That's a deal.
Well, there you have it.
Lewis Brackpool, one of our favorite guys, an alumnus of Rebel News.
You can follow him on Twitter or X, as it's now called, at Lewis, L-E-W-I-S underscore Brackpool with an R, Brackpool.
And I really get a kick out of him, and he's fighting for freedom every day in a country that needs more freedom fighters.
Two-Tier Policing Concerns00:16:02
Stay safe, stay strong, my friend.
Thank you so much, Ezra, and you take it easy.
Right on.
Okay, there you have it.
Stay with us.
More ahead.
Well, that's our show for today, but I want to leave you with the sort of part d'eux of our big show down in the streets of North Toronto.
And later this week, we will put the whole thing.
It's just so large, like 12 different camera angles.
So we're really working hard to edit that.
We'll get the whole thing up and we'll post it to the website to the internet to the various channels later on this week.
But let me leave you with the second part of our big showdown.
Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
Good night and keep fighting for freedom.
How you doing?
I don't want to stay on the street too long.
Give me one quick word.
We will win and they will lose.
Right on.
Take care, my friend.
Drive safe.
What do you make of, oh, there's our truck.
Have you seen our truck before?
Five times now.
Yeah, yeah.
It's good to see you.
You're still looking good, man.
Still looking good.
Well, thanks.
You know, I'm glad.
I was worried that we would be arrested again because last Sunday they arrested David Menzies for simply trying to report what the Hamas side was doing.
That's why I'm wearing this hat.
Excellent, excellent.
You know, I still live out the east end there, East of Whitney there, and just let him come in and join it, just participate where I could.
Just happy to be here.
As a Christian, scripture is very clear about people that support Israel and do not support Israel.
I will always support Israel.
Thank you for saying that.
Nice to meet you.
The first thing I want to tell you is that I normally don't wear this hat.
I'm wearing it in solidarity with David Menzies, so don't judge me.
I'm half joking.
The reason we're here and a number of us are wearing these hats is because last week police arrested our reporter for asking tough questions of Hamas.
I feel like policing has been two-tier in this city for the last year.
What's your view?
They've been two what?
Two-tier policing.
One system for the Hamas protests and one system for everyone else.
Yeah, I guess it's hard because I think you have two sides that you have to look at.
I think from my perspective, my experience with the police is that they have been supportive to the Jewish community.
I mean, what I'd like to see, I mean, like, I guess I'm biased.
I'd like to see this being shut down because this was actually a very peaceful, quiet rally until this group came down.
I don't see mobs of Jews going down to the protests downtown.
So I think that in terms of the two-tier policing, I think that they could shut this down and say that this is a peaceful rally.
Stay out of this neighborhood where it's predominantly Jewish.
But this is a residential neighborhood.
There's nothing to protest here other than Jews themselves.
We're actually not protesting here for a year.
We've just been set up in support of the hostages and it's become a protest.
And I think that that's the problem, is to say that why are they allowed to be here protesting something that wasn't even controversial?
We were just here saying, bring back our hostages.
That's what we were standing here for.
I don't think the police would be this gentle if a group of right-wing white proud boys or whatever went into a Muslim community chanting anti-Muslim slogans like they are.
I think, I mean, again, it's hard.
It's unthinkable.
It's unthinkable.
It's hard to say.
I mean, I want to give everybody the benefit of the doubt.
I guess that's the perspective I come from.
I'm here to support Israel.
Again, I see this as not. peaceful.
I see this as not trying to have a conversation.
Again, it's trying to shut us down and trying to keep us quiet.
That's the problem.
Now, you said you don't want to prejudge anybody and you want to have an open mind.
I spoke to maybe five or ten of them over there.
Every single one of them is a foreign national.
How do you feel about inviting people to Canada who come from endemically anti-Semitic countries, in some cases are paid to be anti-Semitic agitators?
We know there's 700 agents of Iran in Canada.
Global News reported that.
Freedom of speech, I believe in it very much too, but at what point do you say if you're a foreign national and you're bringing your vile hatred here, deport.
Again, I don't want to like use words like support, but I think you actually have to know who's coming to Canada.
I think that we should be bringing in people to Canada who are going to support our economy, are going to add value to the country.
I don't care about the economy if someone's a Jew hater.
I mean, if these people are specifically coming here to change our values and to change the way we live in a democratic society, I think that I have a problem with that because I do believe in democracy.
I believe in the way that we live in the West.
I do believe in free speech, but again, there's a difference between free speech and hate speech.
And when I'm hearing hate speech, that's what I have a problem with.
You know, democracy, a high trust society, pluralism, nonviolent solutions to problems, that's the Canadian way.
If you bring in 2 million migrants a year from countries like Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, they don't share those values.
I don't think they're deliberately coming here to colonize.
I think that they just don't integrate or assimilate.
They've brought the worst of Pakistan and Syria and Somalia with them.
Like, I don't think most of those people said, I'm going to, I mean, the 700 paid Iranian agents, sure.
But I think most people who are anti-Semitic in Canada, we just let them in because we never checked.
Again, I don't know enough about the system to comment and I don't, again, I don't want to say anything that's...
I won't put you on the spot.
It's nice talking to you.
Well, you're very colorful today.
Why are you here?
Because I support Israel.
And I want to, actually, the real reason I came early is to support David Menzies.
Wow.
I'm a big fan of his.
What do you think of the fact that he was arrested for asking questions of the Hamas supporters?
It just goes to show that free speech is dead in this country.
And the police are arresting a reporter.
Where's the rest of the media?
Where's any?
Where's CBC?
Where's anyone else here, right?
So why does he get arrested?
He's the only person representing free speech.
Well, today we showed up with, the reason I'm wearing this hat is out of solidarity with David.
Why not?
A lot of us went over there and I think there were too many for the police to arrest us all.
But otherwise, I think they would have arrested us again.
For sure.
For sure.
Keep up the good work, guys.
Thank you.
Nice to see you.
You too.
Thank you for everything you do.
Right on.
We've got a lot of our team here.
We've got Drea and Alexa and David's on the other side.
Oh, David is on the other side.
Okay.
Well the police have decided not to arrest him so far.
Look at that sign.
We stand with David Benzies.
Your sign.
I like your sign.
I like the fact that you're standing with David Benzies.
Thank you very much.
David's here.
I'm going to make sure he says hi to you.
What do you think about police?
On the one hand, they have a very tough job.
On the other hand, the law is clear.
I think we've had an anti-Semitic crime wave for a year, and they're afraid to do anything about it.
I think the police are taking their orders from the mayor and not from probably not even from their own leadership.
Or Myron Dimcu is taking orders from the mayor who is not sympathetic towards us.
Or even Trudeau.
He met with Trudeau privately almost a year ago.
Possibly, yeah.
But I think, I mean, Metro Police, they report to the mayor of the city, do they not?
So that's what they're taking their orders from.
OEVHL is clearly not sympathetic to our cause.
She's sympathetic to the anti-Israel lobby.
And she's directing the police to be a lot more harsh with us than with those guys.
And it's, I don't know, and I'm very disturbed by the double standard in policing.
Is it not a crime when they scream intifada?
Is that not an incitement for violence?
Well, it could be.
I'm not an expert in that area of the law, but I know that there are a lot of other laws the police are ignoring.
Trespass, mischief, assaults, uttering threats.
So even without getting into the hate speech laws, they have turned a blind eye to real crimes, too.
I thought that inciting to violence was against the criminal code.
But I think it's two-tier policing.
Definitely.
And I was told by a friend who's a lawyer that if you're wearing a mask while you're committing an offense against a criminal code.
And half of them over there are wearing masks.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
Thank you.
Tell me why you're here.
Just to get the hostages back home and support my love for Israel and Canada.
What do you make of the protesters on the other side calling for genocide, calling for Intifada?
I just literally heard them five minutes ago calling for a genocide.
Why are the police so gentle with these foreign provocateurs?
I think it's like just a two-tier policing.
It's terrible.
It's in Canada.
It's just disgusting.
So you came here because you got my email.
Where did you come in from?
Oh, just North Air, not far.
Well, thank you for making the journey.
Thank you for what you do.
We'll keep up the fight.
You take care of yourself, buddy.
Why are you here today?
Why are we here today?
This is week number 59.
We just want the hostages home.
We come here together as a community to unite together, to feel a sense of solidarity together.
This has been amazing for our community.
And unfortunately, three weeks ago, the Halloween people over there decided to come and show up and feel that they're doing themselves something where we're here together.
We're dancing.
We're having a good time.
But we want the hostages home and that's it.
Now, why do you think the pro-Hamas side has come into the heart of a Jewish neighborhood to shout anti-Semitic epithets, to call for genocide?
Why did they come into the heart of Jewish Toronto?
There's no embassy here.
There's no government buildings.
It's just apartments and a shopping center.
Why are they here?
They really shouldn't be here.
I don't think they were getting attention downtown.
So now they decided maybe we'll get some attention here.
But at the end of the day, let them go where they want to go, wherever they want to go, but not here.
There's no reason.
I believe in freedom of speech, even for people I disagree with.
But what bugs me is that the police have a double standard.
Last week they arrested our reporter, David Menzies, for asking them questions.
It's like they were doing errands for the pro-Hamas side.
Have you detected a double standard two-tier policing?
I think the police have had a hard time, you know, because they have to break arms with the other side to get them to stop doing something.
So it is unfortunate because of their jobs.
They're here to serve and protect.
And they try to do what they can.
Unfortunately, it's not doing much.
And this should not be allowed.
Hate has no place here, anywhere in this world.
Well, hate's a human emotion.
I don't know if you can outlaw hate, but you can outlaw uttering death threats, mischief, trespass.
There's a lot of actual crimes that I think the police are turning a blind eye to.
Not just hate, but I feel like they're not taking it seriously.
Arson, mischief, vandalism.
I feel like it's all being swept under the carpet because the police are worried if they enforce the law, they might have a little intifada on their hands here.
You know, and at what level?
Who takes the responsibility for that?
No one has.
Is it the mayor?
Maybe it's the mayor.
I mean, like, doesn't she control what happens for the safety and for the public of our community?
And she hasn't been here.
Well, of course not.
She would be on the other side, if at all.
It is a little unfortunate that our city is being run this way because this doesn't belong in our city.
This doesn't belong in Toronto.
It doesn't belong in Canada.
It doesn't belong in the world.
At the end of the day, the world needs no terrorism.
Get rid of it, please.
What do you make of the fact that the pro-Hamas side has targeted the Jewish community, the residential Jewish community, for their hate march?
Well, it's outrageous that they're even allowed to be there.
It should be, it's a violation of the criminal code.
We have the Solicitor General who attends these rallies.
He's not enforcing the law.
It doesn't make any sense.
They should not be allowed to be in the Jewish community at all.
I think I'm slightly more tolerant in terms of free speech, but what bugs me is that they're clearly violating various actual laws, from trespass to mischief to uttering threats to assault.
They assaulted our videographer, Alexa, today, and the police seem to be afraid of enforcing the law.
I think I'm a little more libertarian than you on the speech side, but they hit Alexa, and the first cop said, I'm too busy.
I've got more important things to do.
I'm worried about the two-tier policing.
It's like a two-tier police system.
I've seen David Menzies beat up by the police.
I've seen it happen to other people.
They protect them.
They're giving them a clear bill of health, but they're not enforcing the law.
Well, we had a lot of rebels show up.
That's why I'm wearing this hat.
I normally don't wear this hat, so don't judge me or my fashion sense.
But we're doing it because we want to show David will never, he's not alone.
And there's a lot of people who came today to show solidarity with David.
Absolutely.
No, we have to stand 100% with David.
No question about it.
I do.
Thanks for being here and thank you for your kind words.
Thank you very much.
Cheers.
Salmon, what do you think of the fact that they arrested David Menzies last week?
So, in Canada, we need to respect to free SP.
Unfortunately, arrest of David Mendes is a violation of his Charter of Rights and Freedom.
It is disgusting.
It is unacceptable.
And you can see that.
Don't terrorists sympathize at the other side of the street.
They are free, but police go after David Mendes.
It's shameful.
Tell me again about your flag.
What flag is that?
This is a Lion and Sun flag, and this is a people's flag in Iran.
My origin is Iran.
Iranian people, we stand against those jihadi sympathizers.
We stand with Israel.
We stand with the Canadian value.
And this flag represents freedom.
This flag represents the people of Iran, not the ayatola, not the Hamas supporters.
Protect Freedom00:01:02
Thank you, my friend.
There you have it.
Salmon Seymour.
Look at that.
David Menzies is a journalist.
Stop arresting him.
Protect our freedom.
Brought back censorship.
Embrace open convo and criticism.
Thank you for bringing that sign.
Thanks for having me here.
I'm so glad you're here.
Some people come here every week as a matter of habit, but some people came today just because David was arrested.
Yes, that's right.
This time, five times, I think.
We ran across on the other side, and police, I think they looked at how many there was of us, and they realized it wouldn't be as easy to arrest all of us.
That's right.
Looks like a fair competition today.
Well, thank you for coming and thanks for your sign.
I'm wearing this hat because I'm showing my solidarity with David.