Ezra Levant condemns Hamas’ February 20th release of hostage remains—including infants—as a "grotesque celebration," exposing torture and murder during October 7th’s attacks, where over 1,000 Israelis died and 200 were seized. He argues Gazans lack distinction from Hamas due to decades of indoctrination, while Canada faces lawsuits from Gazan families over delayed visas and a $40B SNC Lavalin-led monorail boondoggle amid soaring debt. CBC’s proposed $2.5B funding raise sparks skepticism over "disinformation" claims, contrasting with Musk’s U.S. accountability push. Levant warns of escalating globalist threats, urging financial readiness through Rebel News’ merchandise and Rocklink’s strategies. [Automatically generated summary]
It's the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza handing back the caskets of the little babies that they kidnapped a year and a half ago, kidnapped, tortured, and then killed.
And they handed them back to Israel in a grotesque macabre celebration.
I want to talk to you a bit about that.
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Tonight, Hamas sends the remains of hostages back to Israel in the most depraved sight I've ever seen.
It's February 20th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Most of the people who invaded southern Israel on October 7th, 2023 were not officially with the Hamas terrorist group.
Civilian War Criminals00:09:53
They were civilians in Gaza who actually just came along for the murder and the rape and the torture and the kidnapping.
More than a thousand Jews and non-Jewish Israelis too were murdered that day, thousands more wounded.
But the greatest achievement of Hamas, according to them and according to Iran's Ayatollahs, was the seizure, the kidnapping of more than 200 hostages, especially young people, who were dancing at an outdoor dance party in southern Israel.
You might remember that.
Suddenly, terrorists came on ultralight aircraft.
By the time the young people knew what was going on, disaster had come.
It was the highest death toll of Jews since the Holocaust itself.
In the Holocaust, the Nazis actually tried to conceal the degree of their torture and violence, not only from their own German people, many of whom still had humanity in their blood and Christianity in their hearts, and even if they didn't particularly like Jews, they would have found the mass murder and torture of Jews repugnant.
Hitler hid his crimes from his own people and, of course, from the world.
By the way, he did so with the assistance of the Red Cross back then.
But not the Palestinian Nazis.
They bragged about it.
They cheered about it in real time.
They live streamed their butchery.
They phoned back to Gaza to tell their friends and family that they had killed Jews, raped Jews, tortured Jews.
They were exultant.
But of course, the kidnapping was especially valuable for several reasons, because they were human shields.
Now, Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.
Almost every school or hospital in Gaza sits on top of a Hamas base.
Hamas wins either way that way.
Either the Israelis don't attack them because they don't want to hurt civilians, or the Israelis do attack them, and Hamas wins a PR victory against Israel.
The war crime, legally, is on the terrorists, of course, but tell that to the CBC or the BBC or TikTok's propaganda mill.
Gazan civilians are effective as hostages, as human shields.
But Israeli hostages, well, that's something altogether different.
Israel would be extra sensitive about accidentally killing them.
And of course, they are the bargaining chip that Hamas uses for anything and everything, getting a ceasefire, releasing Hamas terrorists from Israeli prisons, whatever.
Hamas worships death.
Israel cherishes life.
That's what the phrase Lechaim means to life.
It's the opposite for Hamas, a veritable death cult.
There were many awful images of that day, but amongst the worst was this one of a horrified mother and her two little babies being stolen.
They were infants.
It was horrific.
That is what every Palestinian protester the past 16 months has been cheering for.
Well, yesterday, Hamas released that mother and those two babies and another aged man released them dead.
They were murdered by Hamas.
And Hamas bargained with their corpses to get back from Israel more terrorists who were in prison.
Hamas tortured and killed the beautiful young family.
They tortured and killed the babies.
And then when they gave them back, they turned it into a festival, a public day of celebration.
Watch these various clips.
It was a festival, upbeat music, a formal, official celebration, a happy day.
They invited children en masse, and everyone put on their uniforms and masks and guns.
These terrorists who normally hide in civilian clothes, they were bravely wearing the uniforms and bore their weapons openly, knowing that Israel wouldn't attack them then.
The caskets, by the way, were locked.
They had to be drilled open.
They had to be searched for explosives first.
The Red Cross was there to assist with the handover.
The Red Cross that has not has a single word to say about these hostages, that has not even tried to visit them or help them or bring them food or medical care in the last year and a half.
What a spectacular production it was, an expensive media-savvy production, paid for by the NGOs, including UNRWA.
That's a UN agency that Trudeau has given tens of millions of our taxpayers' dollars to.
I saw a poignant tweet that said, even in Nazi Germany, there were righteous Gentiles who hid Jews from the Nazis, who protected Jews.
Not so in Gaza, not one.
Some Israeli hostages were kept in underground tunnels, again, built by Western aid money.
But many others were kept in civilian homes.
There really is no meaningful distinction between Gazans and Hamas.
Hamas has seen to that.
20 years of propaganda and indoctrination, 20 years of brainwashing their youth.
It would be like if Hitler had survived and lived and continued on.
What would German youth have been like in the 1950s and 1960s if Hitler had continued on with his Nazi regime, including with modern technology of indoctrination?
Imagine Germany with 20 years of that.
That's Gaza today.
Oh, by the way, the only starving people were the hostages, not the Gazans, so much for a famine, as the propagandist said.
Trump was sickened by the images.
He said he would support literally anything Israel does in response.
As far as I'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time.
I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out.
I'd say they ought to be returned by 12 o'clock on Saturday.
And if they're not returned, all of them, not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two.
Saturday at 12 o'clock.
And after that, I would say all hell is going to break out.
It'll be interesting to see what Israel does do.
But it will be uninteresting to see the world's response to it.
It'll be exactly what we've seen these past 16 months.
No interest in the mainstream media about the new Nazis and what they've just done, but exquisite interest in what Israel does in return.
Every one of these terrorists who takes off their uniforms and then calls themselves a civilian again.
Oh, and there's some Canadian news.
Did you see this?
It's a story in the Toronto Star.
Gazan families sue Canada for visa application delays.
The families represent 53 people who have applied for visas under a special temporary resident program for Palestinians with family in Gaza.
Let me read a little bit.
11 families from Gaza are taking the Canadian government to court for prolonging their quote exposure to life-threatening and inhumane conditions, unquote, by delaying application processing under a program meant to offer relief from the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The families represent 53 people, including 27 babies and children, who have applied for visas under the Temporary Resident Pathway for Palestinian Extended Family in Gaza program, launched in January 2024.
Yeah, no, no, no.
We have to send them all back.
Not just the Gazans who we are insanely taking, but so many who we have already taken and who would murder our Canadian babies too if they ever get the chance.
And I'm afraid if we continue on this path, they just might get the chance.
Stay with us for more.
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Whenever I think of monorails, I think of Disneyland, which has a monorail, and I think of a bunch of futuristic ideas from the 1950s of what the future would look like.
Flying cars and monorails, they never really seem to work, do they?
It's one of my favorite episodes in The Simpsons, where a monorail salesman comes by, teases the good people of Springfield, and when they start asking too many questions, he says, No, no, this is more a Shelbyville kind of idea.
And of course, the rivalry makes the Springfielders buy the monorail.
Here's a refresher of that really funny segment.
Please.
You know, a town with money is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel.
No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it.
Mule.
The name's Lanley, Lyle Lanley.
And I come before you good people tonight with an idea.
Probably the greatest.
Oh, it's not for you.
It's more of a Shelbyville idea.
Now, wait just a minute.
We're twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville.
Just tell us your idea and we'll vote for it.
All right.
I tell you what I'll do.
I'll show you my idea.
I give you the Springfield Monorail!
All aboard!
Stop it, Dad!
I'm trying my best.
The lever you have called Branks is not in service.
Please make a note of it.
Well, just days before he's supposed to retire, Justin Trudeau popped up.
And not as the monorail salesman, he didn't need to have Parliament or anyone agree.
He just announced that he was going to build a high-speed monorail down eastern Canada that will cost up to $40 billion.
He was so proud of himself.
Take a look at this astonishing spending.
Today, I'm announcing the launch of Alto, the largest infrastructure project in Canadian history.
A high-speed rail network between Quebec City and Toronto with stops in Troirivière, Laval, Montreal, Ottawa, and Peterborough.
It'll span 1,000 kilometers with 100% electric trains that will reach speeds of 300 kilometers an hour.
A reliable, efficient, high-speed rail network will be a game changer for Canadians, slashing travel times by half, getting you from Toronto to Montreal in three hours.
It'll stimulate our economy, strengthen the bonds between cities and our two most populous provinces, and reduce costs for businesses while improving their productivity and competitiveness.
He said he's going to spend about $4 billion now, but in total, it'll be a $40 billion white elephant.
This is to distract from the earlier $40 billion white elephant of electric vehicle batteries.
Joining us now to talk about this spectacular and bizarre fiasco is our friend Franco Terrazano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Franco.
It really is the worst of all worlds.
And the fact that he just announces this with no democratic legitimacy while Parliament is dissolved and he's got days left in his mandate, it's the strangest banana republic kind of thing I've ever seen.
Well, can someone just take away his credit card?
Like, please?
Like, you have a lame duck, prime minister, who, as you said, is like days, weeks away from leaving the job.
And now he's announcing that he's going to take Canada billions of dollars more into debt, right?
You mentioned that $4 billion figure being thrown around there.
That's just for the development phase.
That's just for the planning, right?
Like, this is going to be a spectacular taxpayer boondoggle, and the costs are going to be astronomical, right?
I also heard you mention $40 billion, maybe the total cost to taxpayers of the total development, but I've heard even higher costs.
Right.
When Transport Canada initially looked at this, they estimated that the cost could be as much as $80 billion.
Oh, my God.
And like, here's a question, Ezra.
How is the government going to pay for this?
Right?
More than a trillion dollars in debt.
Interest charges costing taxpayers a billion dollars a week.
Like, have they gone mad?
You know, they already have a government-owned train called Via Rail that's losing billions that is not on time.
It's very poorly rated in terms of customer satisfaction.
And so they want to double down on trains.
It reminds me of California.
And I think in some ways, Justin Trudeau sort of sees himself as a younger, dumber version of Gavin Newsom, the governor down there.
And California has spent tens of billions of dollars on their high-speed rail monorail, which has not, it's not anywhere near being done.
There was recently a picture that the train company itself published of a one-kilometer stretch in the middle of nowhere, connected to nothing.
They were so proud of this one-kilometer stretch that they put out a tweet about it.
That is our destiny, government-funded monorails.
It doesn't make sense in California, which is a very high population density place.
It certainly doesn't make sense in Canada.
It doesn't make sense financially.
It doesn't make sense logistically.
It doesn't make sense even in terms of you're already going to, you already have a railway that's broken.
But one thing that absolutely did make sense to me, Franco, is I saw that SNC Lavalan was one of the consortium.
They have a new name now.
Apparently, they've changed their name just like convicted criminals sometimes change their name to get away from their sordid past.
Apparently, SNC Lavaland is part of this gig.
What do you think about that?
Well, it doesn't really matter who's a part of this gig, right?
What really matters is that taxpayers shouldn't be a part of this gig.
Exactly.
Look, if an actual company wants to build a high-speed rail, fill your boots.
Why are taxpayers doing this, right?
Like, think about this in two ways.
Number one, why are taxpayers in every other part of the country not living in Toronto to the Quebec City corridor?
Why are they paying for this?
Right.
Or think about it this way.
Like, who's really going to use this high-speed rail?
Like, you know, you're still going to have to fork over, what, $100 plus dollars to get on this?
This is going to be like business people, right?
So you have taxpayers subsidizing those folks to take a high-speed rail.
Like, no, thank you.
And I'm glad you brought up Via Rail because it just brings into picture the pure government incompetence.
Government is not a business.
Government should get out of the business of business.
I mean, come on.
We're already losing hundreds of millions of dollars every single year failing to run the current government train company that is Via Rail.
In fact, over the last five years, the government, taxpayers, have had to dump $1.8 billion to Via Rail just to cover its operating losses, right?
So look at this high-speed rail boondoggle, right?
About $4 billion just for planning.
The total cost could be as much as $80 billion.
Well, I mean, if you look at recent history and you look at the absolute shenanigans going at Via Rail, who's to say the cost isn't going to be even higher than that?
Yeah.
And we're so broken right now financially.
And I'm thinking that this would crowd out Air Canada, Porter, any airlines, any bus companies right now.
It would drive them out of business.
It's just a bizarre.
I mean, Justin Trudeau doesn't think there's a business case for private sector companies to sell liquefied natural gas to our allies like Japan.
But apparently he's such a wonderful entrepreneur and train tycoon that he says this is the future monorails.
Unbelievable, but completely believable.
Hey, while I got you, I want to talk about, I mean, there's just little implosions every day from this illegitimate government.
I say illegitimate because it has no mandate, because it's hiding from a non-confidence vote.
Trudeau is the lamest of lame ducks.
But let me read from your latest press release, Franco.
It's by our friend Chris Sims, who works with you.
She's wonderful.
CBC doesn't deserve more money from taxpayers.
Let me just read the headline.
Minister recommends nearly doubling CBC funding and reducing CBC accountability.
Now, this is where it gets scary.
It's one thing to slosh more money at them, but you guys have decoded that they're doing it in a way to make it hard for a future polyov government, if he were to win, to claw this back.
Tell me about that.
CBC does not belong to the Liberals.
It does not belong to the Conservatives.
And it does not belong to any other political parties.
It belongs to the Canadian people.
And this is why to be able to give CBC Razo Canada the means to fulfill its mandate, I propose that it be financed directly in the legislation instead of in the budget through statutory appropriation.
Statutory appropriation should be based on the demographic reality.
And I mean by that, a per capita funding based formula.
The average funding for a public broadcaster in a G7 country is $62 per person per year.
In Canada, we're second to last with $33 per year per person.
We're closer to the United States than to any other country of the G7 country.
And I don't think that we want the United States to be our reference.
I think we need to aim closer to the middle ground, which is $62 per year per person.
With predictable, stable funding based on a per capita formula, there's no reason why people would need to pay to be subscribed to one or the other platforms of the CBC.
And this is why with this change in how the public broadcaster is being financially supported, I'm also proposing that all platforms be made free and accessible to all Canadians who shouldn't have to pay twice for the service.
The advertisement, the advertising or the search for advertising revenue is incompatible with the information mission of the CB Serazo Canada.
And by giving it sustainable and predictable public funding, I'm proposing that there is no longer any advertisement on anything related to news or public affairs on any of the platforms of the CBC, whether it's television, radio, or online platforms.
This would also free up advertisement dollars for the private sector.
Well, what they're really doing is ducking accountability, right?
So how the government essentially funds these different crown corporations is you have a normal budget process, right?
You budget, and then politicians or elected representatives are supposed to vote yay or nay, right?
That's why we pay these politicians so much money, too much money, to vote yes or no on spending.
But what the minister is proposing is to remove the CBC's funding from the normal budget process to put it into law and essentially just guarantee the CBC gets a certain amount of funding every single year, okay?
Completely ducking accountability.
It's really quite gross.
Now, the other part that really makes my stomach turn is: look, we just had what, a year, year and a half, two years of huge criticism, public criticism of how the CBCs are wasting our money.
And did the government, did the minister listen?
No.
What did the government come up with?
Well, let's nearly double the costs of the CBC to taxpayers, okay?
What Minister Saint-Ange is recommending here would nearly double the cost of the CBC to about $2.5 billion every single year.
$2.5 billion a year.
Ezra, let's just put that into perspective, okay?
That money would cover the annual grocery bill for like 150,000 Canadian families.
Yeah.
You know, I'm so jealous of this doge Department of Government Efficiency that Elon Musk and his group of young geniuses, as Trump calls them, are doing.
I mean, every day they're finding billions of dollars in waste and just cutting it with the full support of the president.
I'm watching that down in the States.
I'm watching the private sector investment, like the head of SoftBank or the Japanese prime minister saying they're going to invest hundreds of billions, even a trillion dollars in America.
Trump's not using taxpayers' money for these investments.
Private companies and foreigners are doing it.
He's cutting tax.
We are doing the exact opposite.
In the two stories we've talked about today, Trudeau is, quote, investing our taxpayers' money.
That's not an investment.
And then he's spending it on the CBC.
Let me play a clip for you of Pascal Saint Ange saying what this is really about, Franco.
It's not about journalism.
It's about propaganda.
Here she is saying it's about fighting, quote, disinformation.
Take a look.
Enshrine in the law.
Enshrined in law, the role that Cibicerado Canada plays in the fight against disinformation to support the public, especially in the current context.
And this refers directly to some of the recommendations that were made by the Foreign Interference Commission, which repeated how important it is that Canadians can rely on Canadian sources of information to be more resilient and to understand the patterns that other countries use to disseminate propaganda or disinformation to influence how we live together and our political context.
Why Tommy Buttonholed Nigel Farage00:06:08
And this is why I propose to anchor in Cibicerado Canada's mandate its role in helping the Canadian population fight against disinformation and understand fact-based information.
These are the worst of days.
You'd think there would be some sense of, you know, some self-consciousness by the government that they have no more democratic mandate.
They're on borrowed time.
But they're just, it's sort of like they know the party is over at midnight and they're just going around drinking every bottle of booze, racking up the credit card, trashing the house.
They know the party's going to be over extremely soon.
And instead of showing any sense of responsibility, they're just saying have a total, total blowout, trash the hotel room like a rock star and leave the bill for someone else.
It really feels like the last days of Rome and this is Caligula or Nero or something.
Well, you know, the good news, though, is that I think Canadians are just sick and tired, right?
Sick and tired of the tax hike, sick and tired of the government wasting our money.
I mean, look, another thing that the CBC today, sorry, the minister, I should say, didn't even mention was the CBC bonuses.
Right.
Right?
Almost like everyone in the House of Commons agrees that the CBC bonuses are so out of hand.
In fact, 70% of Canadians disagree with the CBC's taxpayer funded bonuses.
And yet, not a mention of it.
Like, this is what is getting so crazy.
You know what I mean?
And just to kind of go back to what's going on with Canada and the United States, look, I think people should be worried of a potential tariff war, okay?
Tariffs are just taxes.
But guess what?
While Mr. Trump is musing about a 25% tariff, Trudeau and the government is still set to increase the carbon tax on Canadians by nearly 20% on April 1.
He's going to do more damage on April 1st than Trump's threats would do if he followed through them.
You're exactly right.
Well, Franco, let me close.
As I said before, when we first talked about Doge, if, God willing, there's a change in government later this year.
I certainly hope that our country engages in the same kind of deep forensic accountability on all our spending.
And it's being, in the States, it's being led by Elon Musk, who I don't think knows government that well, but he knows tech and systems, and he's got a great team of activists.
And I've been trying to think who would that be in Canada.
Do we have an Elon Musk type character?
And I don't think we do.
But what we do have are a group of independent, non-partisan people who do not take government money and whose entire raison d'être is finding waste.
And they happen to be called the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
I think I'm looking at someone who, God willing, would be invited to do a short tour of duty, not to join the government, because I know you couldn't stand for that.
That would be like oil and water.
But a one-year tour duty to dive deep into the dungeons of government, into the bowels of government, the stalactites and the stalagmites in the caves of government, and cut billions of dollars of spending.
And you would be left with the thanks of a grateful nation.
Franco, you're the man.
Well, you know what, Ezra?
The homework is done.
Now we just need to find some politicians with the will and spine to do the right thing and cut, cut, cut.
Yeah, from your mouth the gods.
Here's Franco Terrazano, one of the good guys.
He's the boss at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Keep up the great work, my friend.
Thanks, Ezra.
All right.
You know, I'm serious that he should be appointed to doge in Canada.
I wouldn't trust many people for that because you need to be nonpartisan and you need to have a nose for finding waste.
He really is a top pick for me.
Stay with us more ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me on the United Kingdom.
Cheryl Otterbein says, glad to hear there's ARK to battle the WEF.
Yeah, I mean, there were about 4,000 people at Jordan Peterson's Get Together.
It's not just Jordan Peterson.
It's a lot of thinkers on the freedom side of things.
As someone who's attended both the WEF, at least on the outside, and ARC, I think the number one difference is ARC is so idea-centric and even, I'd say, even a little academic, whereas the World Economic Forum is extremely corporate.
It's all about sponsorships and big money.
It's totally being captured that way, which is how Klaus Schwab likes it.
He's a billionaire.
I hear he grosses $300 million every year at that conference.
Someone called Canada First says, I don't want to hear from Nigel until Tommy is free.
I'll be waiting for orders from Tommy.
You know, just today, I saw an interesting clip from Vicki Richter, who works for Urban Scoop.
That's Tommy's website, who actually buttonholed Nigel Farage for about a minute in, I think it was in Washington.
Here, take a look at this.
Hello, Mr. Farage.
And Mr. Farage, I'm from the UK.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Hey, Mr. Farage.
It's always an honor to see you.
If they see it, I might want it.
What can I do?
Thank you so much.
Mr. Farage, I'm from the UK.
Hello, I have a question for you.
Rupert Lowe says you don't have to hate Tommy Robinson because he's exposing a lot of grooming gangs.
What's your point on that?
Because you're questioning sometimes his criminal record on TV.
Well, he's got a very long criminal record.
I don't hate him.
And by the way, he shouldn't be, whatever I think of him, he shouldn't be in solitary confinement.
I hear he's in very bad conditions.
And that's not right.
Yeah, he doesn't allow to see his ex-wife and ex-wife and yeah, that's not right.
Thank you.
I thought that was interesting, a tiny bit of progress.
Joe King says, Badenock, that's the conservative leader, is no solution to anything.
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She still hasn't realized the Ukraine war is an American war.
Russia was just dragged in by the U.S. greed for its rare earth resources.
So much political ignorance and denial, these people make me vomit.
I'm not sure.
I mean, there's different points of view about what the cause of the war is.
But what's interesting to me is that in the last week or so, Donald Trump has essentially said to the UK, but much more so to smaller European powers who are very much for keeping the fight going.
He basically said, you and what army?
By which I mean, you know, how do you win without the United States?
You can be very bellicose and call for others to go and fight, but how does that work when you're fighting against Russia, a nuclear-armed power with a massive conventional military?
I think Trump, you can agree with him on this or not, but he's basically, I think, calling the bluff of European leaders who know they want to fight, but don't really know how that's going to work other than America will do it, perhaps.
Well, that's today's show.
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