Ezra Levant accuses The National Post of rejecting his full-page ad, "Mass Immigration is on the Ballot", citing compliance concerns over claims like foreign workers depressing wages and migrant-linked crime—echoing Nigel Farage’s UK policies. He highlights police failures during pro-Hamas protests, including journalist Natasha Graham’s assault in Montreal while covering a march, and her PTSD after being charged despite no action against officers. Crowdfunding her defense via SaveNatasha.com, Levant ties media censorship to broader fears of Canada’s rapid demographic shift under Liberal economic plans like Mark Carney’s Century Initiative, which targets 100 million immigrants. With York Centre polls tightening (Conservatives at 40%, Liberals 43%), he warns of a "psyop" to undermine voter confidence, framing immigration as the decisive election issue. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, no one voted for more immigration, so why can't we vote against it?
It's April 24th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
It's just four days until election day.
I voted in the riding of York Center four months ago.
That was going to be a slam dunk to get rid of Yaara Sachs, the self-hating Jew who embraced the Palestinian terrorist Mahmoud Abbas.
I still think she's going to lose to Roman Baber, the former provincial PC who was booted out of Doug Ford's party because he very carefully and very politely questioned COVID mania.
But now it's going to be very close.
I'm pleased to say that our third party group for Canada has deployed the truck in that neighborhood.
And just today I did a robo-call, a personal message I recorded and sent to the entire riding by phone.
Hopefully that will make a dent.
It's close though, but I don't think it's as bleak as the media makes it out to be.
There really is an information operation going on right now.
Did you see this story in the Globe and Mail headline?
Polyev may lose his Ottawa area riding as liberals poised to sweep the region.
Really?
Is that true?
I mean, Polyev has been MP there for ages.
He probably knows everybody.
Last election, he won by 20%.
I checked, and that district, Carl Carlton, has voted conservative every single time since Confederation, with the exception of a two-year Liberal MP in the 60s.
Sir John A. McDonald was an MP there once.
I'm not saying that can't change, but you tell me what you think of this.
Let me quote from this story.
Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is at risk of losing his Ottawa area riding as the party scrambles to send in volunteers to save the seat he has held since 2004.
Two federal and two provincial conservative sources say.
Provincial?
I'll come back to that.
The Globe is not identifying the Conservative sources, two of whom are from the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, because they were not authorized to discuss the Conservative campaign or internal polling, really.
So, the Ontario PCs, you mean Doug Ford, who has been publicly undermining Pierre Polyev for weeks.
Is that a news story?
Oh, and what a surprise, the Toronto Star is running the identical story, and they put four reporters on the case.
Four, you can see for yourself.
Let me read a little bit from their story: Conservatives pour resources into Pierre Polyev's riding amid fears of a tight race.
The federal conservatives are funneling resources into Pierre Polyev's local campaign, shoring up volunteer support in the leaders' Ottawa-area riding over concerns that winning a seat is not guaranteed.
The star has learned.
It's not guaranteed, says the star, for reporters to tell you that little truth.
Yeah, no win is guaranteed.
It's a democratic election.
But look at this from way down in the story.
This is the ninth paragraph down.
The Signal, the Star's polling aggregator, has listed Carlton as a safe seat for the Conservatives.
What?
But they wrote the story anyways.
They just buried the truth of it nine paragraphs down.
So, why would the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star go so huge on this rumor?
It's not even a rumor, it's an accusation, it's a speculation from anonymous sources in bad faith.
I mean, the Ontario Tories have, for some reason, tried to destabilize Pierre Polyev since the beginning.
This story even contradicts the Star's own polling analysis.
What are they doing here?
Well, they're doing it to demoralize conservative voters, of course.
If Pierre Polyev will lose, what's the point in continuing?
If the polls are so huge for Mark Carney, what's the point?
Why even bother to vote?
Be downbeat, stop campaigning, stop door knocking, just give up.
It's a psyop, a psychological operation.
Of course, the regime media couldn't be happier to participate.
They understand what's going on, which is interesting because every single poll I've seen is narrowing.
Remember the other day I showed you the latest 10 polls.
Well, let me show you the three polls that came out yesterday.
You can see for yourself, Wikipedia, I always have to double-check Wikipedia, but for things like this, they're useful.
They have every single poll just aggregated.
And you can see that Nanos and Mainstream and an innovative research group, they had three polls, those three companies yesterday.
Nanos and Mainstream both show pretty much the same: conservatives at 40 and liberals at 43.
And Innovative Research Group actually puts the two parties in a tie at 38% each.
That's quite a difference from 43 for the Liberals.
Innovative Research Group is also a bit different in that it puts the NDP at 12%, which is higher than most other pollsters do.
These polls are within the margin of error now.
The difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals is close enough that the polls are essentially tied.
It's the closest things have been in a month.
This is a chart of all the polls every single one.
It's the first time you can see that the gray band of confidence is touching.
This is statistical tie.
First time in a month.
And the trend, as you can see over the past week or so, is towards the conservatives.
It has been for more than a week.
You could call that momentum.
And we still have four days to go.
Now, I'm not getting ahead of myself.
I'm still pessimistic.
But it's clear that Mark Carney peaked too soon.
And it's clear the media is doing everything they possibly can to prop up Carney and knife Poly Advan the back.
Anyways, let me tell you another story.
As you know, I started a third-party group called For Canon.
I've registered with Elections Canada.
We've made tons of ads and memes and videos and radio ads and mainly the billboard truck.
That's the big thing we've used.
And those robocalls I mentioned.
We try to get the best bang for the buck.
So we had ads in Western Standard and Juno and Counter Signal.
And I'm forgetting some.
We did a ton of stuff radio.
And my rule of thumb that I said when we launched this was that I didn't want to just copy what Pierre Polly was doing.
Charges Filed Against Montreal Leader00:15:19
What's the point of that?
I wanted to talk about things that even he wouldn't or couldn't.
And obviously the biggest taboo in Canadian politics, transgenderism is one of them, but talking honestly about immigration is another one.
So for our final hurrah, on Saturday, two days from now, we contacted the National Post newspaper and got a quote for a full page, full cover ad to be run nationwide in all their editions in their front section.
I was very excited about it.
With tax, it was low five figures.
That's a lot of dough to spend on one ad, but we thought it was worth it.
And I was very excited about it.
And I thought, well, let's talk about immigration.
It's on everybody's mind.
But still, few politicians are willing to talk candidly about it.
It is a global issue, by the way.
Just today, Nigel Farage, who's actually in first place in most UK polls, he came out with a pretty tough immigration platform that's quite bracing.
Here, let me show you just a minute or two of it.
We will appoint, we will demand, this government does the same, that there is a minister for deportations.
It will be part of the Home Office, but it'll be a separate department within it.
We will need to recruit new people, as much of the evidence is that those that currently work in the Home Office would willfully obstruct policy if we won the next general election.
But somebody somewhere in government needs to be held accountable.
And you know, you've only got to go back 20 years to the last Labour government, and they were deporting tens of thousands of people a year who were here illegally.
When Blunkett was home secretary, if you came illegally, you know, you didn't touch the sides.
You were sent back.
So what I'm calling for isn't actually anything particularly radical.
It's actually just common sense.
It's what most countries in the world do.
You want to go and live there.
You want to go and settle there.
You have to meet a set of criteria.
And that country chooses.
Are you the right person or are you not?
So that's the UK.
And on Saturday, there's going to be a huge rally against mass immigration in Ireland.
And of course, it's a big issue in France and Germany and Austria and the Netherlands.
And of course, it was the single most important campaign promise that Donald Trump made that put him over the top in the United States.
So why can't we talk about it here too?
So that's what we decided here.
We made an ad about immigration entitled, Mass Immigration is on the Ballot.
The Canada we know is being obliterated by mass immigration.
I'll read the ad.
A million foreign workers drive down wages, taking entry-level jobs away from Canadians.
A million foreign students pay cash to fake diploma mills and never leave.
Housing prices, hospital waiting lines, even traffic.
We're in a crime wave as foreign gangs pillage our high trust society.
Anti-Semitic hate marches, Mark Carney plans to bring in thousands more migrants from Gaza.
No one voted for mass immigration.
But on Monday, you can vote against it.
And then we had the required information for For Canada.
I like that ad.
It's not perfect, but it's a good ad, I think.
Get people talking a bit.
So we sent it in, assuming it would be good to go.
While we were finishing up with the pictures, we sent in all the words to their compliance lawyers.
And we received a letter back.
Let me read that to you.
And I'm not going to tell you who sent it to us.
I don't want to embarrass anyone in particular, but let me show you the letter we got from Postmedia's lawyers.
Based on Postmedia's political advertising business rules and approval process, this ad would likely be rejected for several reasons.
Content analysis.
False accusations.
The ad makes several claims that could be considered false or misleading, such as foreign workers driving down wages and foreign students attending fake diploma meals.
Exploitation of fear.
The ad exploits fear by linking immigration to crime waves and anti-Semitic hate marches.
Targeting specific groups.
The ad targets specific groups, foreign workers, foreign students, migrants from Gaza, in a negative manner, which is against the guidelines.
Comparative advertising.
The ad indirectly compares the impact of foreign workers and students to Canadians, which is not allowed.
Not allowed, says who.
Labeling and compliance, labeling.
The ad does include the required labels, paid political advertisement, and authorized by ForCanada.
Compliance checklist.
The ad fails to meet several items on the compliance checklist, including fact-based opinions and avoiding prohibited content.
Conclusion.
Given the above points, the ad does not comply with PostMedia's rules and regulations and would likely be rejected.
So this was, we showed them the preliminary version.
Now, first of all, I've read this letter a few times now.
I think it was generated by artificial intelligence, by some AI engine, because it's just too weird.
Now, the salesman claims he wanted the sale, and I went back and forth with him a bit.
I offered to footnote all the claims by citing authoritative sources, including the National Post itself or Statistics Canada.
I insisted that the ad was an opinion, and I could add a few wiggle words in there to emphasize that it was an opinion, but we went back and forth a little bit, and it was clear that the Post lawyers, or the AI pretending to be a lawyer, wasn't allowing it.
I mean, they say it's, quote, not allowed to compare the impact of foreign workers to Canadians.
Why is that not allowed?
Says who?
They say it, quote, could be considered false that foreign workers drive down wages.
I mean, I suppose someone could think that, but the whole point of temporary foreign workers is to lower wages for employers who claim they can't get Canadians to work at Tim Hortons or McDonald's at those low rates.
That's literally the purpose of the program is to bring in cheaper labor.
I mean, I offered to show the National Post lawyers or their AI lawyer studies by economists that prove it.
There are plenty.
The whole point of temporary foreign workers is to get cheap labor.
The lawyers said to me, quote, the ad exploits fear by linking immigration to crime waves and anti-Semitic hate marches, but I have attended several of those hate marches and our reporters collectively have probably been to 20 or 30.
And almost all of the organizers, they are new migrants.
They just are.
And as to crime, it is well reported that foreign gangs are behind much of the current crime wave, including car theft in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, and drugs.
If I can't say that, I'm really stopped from talking about the issue altogether, aren't I?
Now, I really like the National Post, by the way.
I like them editorially.
Frankly, that was one of the reasons I wanted to buy an ad from them to support them a bit.
We did contact the Globe and Mail 2, by the way, but they wanted nearly $100,000 for an ad with them.
That was a deal bakery for us, but I'm just going to guess they would ban our ad too.
What is with censorship in Canada these days?
Censored from the debates commission, censorship from press conferences, censored on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, and now censored from even buying ads for thousands of dollars because the ad mentions migrants in Gaza.
Who says that's illegal?
A lawyer?
I don't even know if that was a real lawyer.
It felt like an AI answering as a lawyer.
Based on what?
Does the National Post ownership, do their editors, do their publishers, even know what's being rejected by their lawyers?
Does the Post lawyer even read the post?
If Pierre Polyev wins the election on Monday, which is possible, perhaps we'll get a little bit more press freedom in Canada.
Perhaps we'll have a chance to rein in mass immigration a bit.
But if Mark Carney wins on Monday, we'll have a lot less press freedom.
Of that, you can be sure.
And you will have a lot more immigration.
You just won't be able to talk about it.
Not even in a paid ad in the National Post.
Stay with us for more.
It's tough being an independent journalist.
It's especially tough being an independent journalist on the streets, like a citizen journalist.
And the toughest of all is when you try to cover the pro-Hamas hate marches in this country, particularly in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.
In those cities, police turn a blind eye to low-level crimes by the Hamas protesters, whether it's trespass or blocking streets or vandalism or mischief, the kind of things they actually declared a martial law emergency over when the truckers did it.
They've been practiced to turn a blind eye to when Hamas does it.
But those same police crack down on citizen journalists.
We know this firsthand.
Our friend David Menzies was arrested five times last year.
I myself was arrested merely because the police said I was causing a disturbance because the pro-Hamas people were disturbed by my presence.
Well, if you think it's bad if you're with Rebel News, imagine being a citizen journalist operating on your own without crowdfunding, without a lawyer, without a team.
Well, you could be in great jeopardy.
And that's exactly what happened to Natasha Graham a couple of weeks ago.
She was covering a pro-Hamas hate march in the city of Montreal.
Our friend Alexa Lavois was there too.
a look at what happened to Natasha Graham
absolutely brutal absolute police brutality
Three thuggish men pounding a woman on the sidewalk, and you can hear our Alexa Lavois saying, That's a woman, that's an independent reporter.
Incredibly, that police brutality has not caused charges or an internal affairs investigation against the police.
The opposite, that citizen journalist, Natasha Graham herself, has been charged with two offenses by the police.
She joins us now from Montreal.
Natasha, I am, I've watched those videos.
It's the third time I've seen them now.
And I'm filled with anger and disgust at how the Montreal police act and the jeering and the cheering of the crowds as they arrest you.
It really doesn't feel like Canada anymore, does it?
No, it's hard.
It's hard to watch from my end.
I have a traumatic brain injury, and I have been, well, I've been diagnosed with that.
I've been diagnosed with PTSD.
I've been diagnosed with numerous soft tissue injuries.
And I'm grateful, you know, to be alive.
It was horrific.
What exactly has been going on with you and the protesters?
It feels like they hate you the same way they hate Alexa Lavoisier.
Are you a regular reporter on this circuit like Alexa?
I began reporting on and documenting the in-person events in August of 2024 because I had previously been doing kind of OSINT-style viewing of their own social media accounts.
But the thing people need to understand is that the leaders of these hate marches tend to cherry-pick the pieces they put up, the recordings they put up.
And so I thought it was important to see in person with my own eyes what was going on.
And I had the first time I attended one of these protests, it was an homage to Ismail Hanaya, who was a Hamas leader of the political side of Hamas.
And I filmed an eight-minute, more than eight-minute actually, video of Iyad Abu Hamid, who is one of the leaders of Montreal for Palestine.
And it went viral to the point where politicians were reposting it, not with credit to me, unfortunately, but even Anthony House Father reposted this viral video.
So that basically put me on the radar of the jihadis.
And since then, I have received threats.
I have been physically assaulted more times than I can count.
I have filed charges against one of the leaders of Montreal for Palestine because I was a swarmed and assaulted on the anniversary of October 7th when I was documenting their hate rally at Place des Arts.
So, yeah, I've been consistently assaulted.
But what happened on October 7th, because I've been to, I've been to six at length, and then I've been to, like, gone to the Roddick Gates at McGill and kind of just in and out quickly to other events.
But what happened on October 7th on the anniversary was that I kept asking the police for assistance.
Police Insults Pained00:12:26
And one of the police officers said to me, meaning, oh, she's like rebel news.
And so that's my kind of insult.
Or they think that any citizen journalist must be rebel news.
I've seen that.
Well, they kept insisting that I was rebel news.
And this is also what happened when I was manhandled by the three police officers: they kept repeating to me, you're rebel news, you're rebel news.
You're creating an event.
And I kept saying, I am not rebel news.
I've never worked for rebel news.
But they really had this narrative in their mind.
And the narrative of the police officers is provably demonstrably false.
I have footage, and Alexa, thank goodness she was there nearby because she had the 360 camera, which shows exactly what happened because my camera was covered by the police officer, Simone Fautsier, who initially applied the physical force to me and grabbed one of my arms before the second police officer grabbed my other arm.
They began pulling me in different directions.
But he was very preoccupied with this narrative.
And because it was inaccurate, it was difficult to understand directives because I was following the directives to stay out of the protest, as I always have, not to go into the protest.
But the pro-Hamas jihadis mob anybody who is recording them.
So then you need to try and evade them by moving away.
And then if you go onto the road a little bit, then you're mobbed there, surrounded and hit.
And then if you move back onto the sidewalk, they mob you there.
At one point, Alexa and I were pressed up against a building wall.
And it's just, it's impossible for me to understand why the police are not protecting any free citizen who wishes to document what's happening on our streets.
This is very important that the public see this.
I have only seen Guillaume and Alexa from Rebel documenting these events and other independent journalists in Ottawa.
In Montreal, I've only ever seen them.
I don't know where the journalists are.
I don't know why they are not documenting these events.
Perhaps they're afraid too.
Perhaps they also get assaulted.
I can't say.
I think that's a very real factor.
It's funny because when Rebel News went to Montreal en masse during the lockdowns, no independent journalists were on that beat.
In fact, police were startled to see us out documenting the curfew.
They had never seen journalists show any curiosity before.
You know, when I was in Montreal last week for the leaders' debates, I had lunch with a prominent lawyer who told me something I didn't know.
He said that there was a class action against the city for over-policing these riots, these protests, and that the mayor paid $25 million, that the mayor ordered the police to pay $25 million to settle this class action.
It was a bogus class action.
It was those Hamas protesters suing the cops, saying the cops were too tough on them.
And it was basically money laundering so the mayor of Montreal could give all those people 25 million bucks.
But imagine what the lesson the police took from that.
The police took the lesson.
The mayor is on the side of the Hamas protesters.
And if police dare lift a finger against the Hamas protesters, there could be another lawsuit.
So best be violent with citizen journalists like Alexa Lavoie or Natasha Graham because no harm can come from that.
But I want to tell you what we're going to do.
It pains me, obviously not physically, but it pains me my spirit to see you being treated this way.
And you are not a rebel news journalist.
And that's a very strange thing that the police regard any independent-minded person as a rebel news journalist.
In a way, it's a compliment to us.
But I want to make sure you have help because I know that for 99% of people to be faced with a legal process, especially a criminal charge, is terrifying and costly.
And I know that normal people don't sometimes even know what to do.
So I'm pleased to say that Alexa and I have talked with you and have taken a few steps to set you up with a lawyer.
And I would like to confirm with you our intentions to crowdfund the cost of that lawyer at savenatasha.com because I want to remove from you the stress of the finances and I want to remove from you the stress of, well, how do I do it?
The lawyer you're using, I believe, is a lawyer that worked with Alexa before, and he comes highly recommended.
I haven't worked with him myself, but he's been recommended by an excellent lawyer.
So I would like to let you know that we can at least remove that piece from the equation.
And I know that that's not a total solution.
That's not security guards when you're on the street.
That's not a political solution.
It's not those things.
But at least it's one piece of the puzzle.
We deal with this all the time with Alexa, by the way.
We need lawyers for her.
We have bodyguards for her sometimes.
But for now, I would like to commit to you that we will work with you and your lawyer to take care of the costs of your prosecution.
And I'm actually optimistic.
I think that video was so brutal that I think and your infraction was so made up and exaggerated by the cops.
I don't even know what they could possibly have charged you with, that I'm pretty sure that this will be, if I had to guess, I think it'll be resolved even before trial.
But you need a good lawyer to do that.
So we're happy to crowdfund that.
I am extremely grateful.
And I wanted to say because the amount of support I received after was really moving.
You know, you reached out and Alexa reached out and Rebel News and Mark Stein wrote an article.
Joe Warmington reached out.
Many independent, like Viva Fry and David Creighton.
And it's just been overwhelming.
And then from everybody who's reached out to me, and I had wanted to do an interview with you closer to the time after it happened and so that people weren't confused.
But I was so bereft.
I was in physical pain and I was traumatized.
I still am.
And I couldn't, I was incapable.
I was literally incapable of doing an interview.
So I apologize.
Don't apologize.
You know, that we all see.
It's all confusion to people.
You know, we all saw what was done to you and we were all appalled by that.
The least we can do is to help you with a lawyer.
If I was there right now, it looks like you could use a little bit of a hug.
I would give you a hug if I were there.
And I know Alexa has been a moral supporter of you.
And I'm sure she has hugged you because you two see each other.
So please keep your spirits high.
Don't let them grind you down.
Know that you have some, you've just listed some excellent people to have on your side.
We'll crowdfund the legals.
And I hope this doesn't stop you from doing an important thing.
You are correct.
The Montreal Gazette, Le Journal de Montreal, Le Presse, Le Doil, all these newspapers are failing to cover this important beat because they're either afraid or politically correct or they're afraid of the police or they're being ordered by some political boss not to do the work you're doing.
And they're trying to stop you from doing it.
I hope you continue.
And I promise you that we've got your back.
When I'm feeling, when I've recovered, I'll resume.
But I did want to correct one thing in Alexa's excellent 22-minute report that she did.
At one point, she said I was fearless.
And I'm not fearless.
I am fearful because I think these people are dangerous, but I'm tenacious because I love Canada and I want children to have the Canadian dream.
And I'm doing everything I can possible to try and show the Canadian people what is happening on our streets.
And I'll continue doing that.
And I'm not going to be cowed by jihadis who cheer while a woman is physically assaulted on concrete steps.
I won't be cowed as they yell Allahu Akbar when they see this.
If I saw this happening to one of the women who attends the protest, I would have been horrified and appalled and shocked.
I would not have been cheering and laughing and returning to the sight of it and raising a finger, which is what that's a terrorist signal and bragging about it on social media.
It's just despicable behavior.
So I won't be cowed, but I do need to recover.
And physically, you know, I had a medical appointment today.
I have a neurology follow-up.
I'm not physically well yet.
But removing the stress of the legal is unbelievably generous and very appreciated because I've obviously never been criminally charged.
And I was in shock when I was told that I was being charged with assault.
I was in shock.
I'm still stupefied.
Well, you've spoken very passionately and very movingly.
And our viewers are to thank.
I mean, Rebel News is just sort of the organizer.
The support comes from our viewers.
So I know that hundreds, maybe even thousands of our viewers will respond to your call.
And we'll keep in touch with you.
And I hope you have a full and speedy recovery.
And you're very touching.
The way you've described what you've seen is heartbreaking.
And I'm very glad that Alexa is sometimes there with you as a supportive ally.
And perhaps in the future, we can do some more things to help you.
I want to take that one step at a time.
We sometimes send Alexa with physical bodyguards.
And maybe that's something we could talk about in the future.
You are not a rebel employee.
We just like you and Alexa sees you.
But for now, we'll take the legal piece and perhaps in the future, because the idea that you would be physically vulnerable to these people again pains me.
So let's, when you're back in action, be in touch either directly or through Alexa, and maybe we can talk about a few more things because it is appalling to me.
And I am sure my viewers agree that you are being physically attacked this way.
And the Hamas side are laughing and jeering.
That is not the candidate that I know.
But let's take things one day at a time.
Your health is the most important thing.
And we've got the legals covered.
Folks, if you want to help, Natasha, go to savenatasha.com and we will cover her legal defense.
Good luck, my friend, and thank you for being so brave.
Thank you, Ezra.
Thank you.
All right, there you have it.
SaveNatasha.com.
Stay with us.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
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The first one is from James Turncliffe, who says, the only liberal with a brain, Mr. LaDrew.
I love Stephen LaDrux, but you know what?
These days, he's to the right of the liberals.
He has not moved his ideology in the last 20 years.
The party has moved.
And in a way, it was brilliant.
The liberals and the NDP are indistinguishable, which is one of the reasons why the NDP's vote has fallen in half.
Almost all the polls say that the NDP is going to be in single digits because they are all voting for Mark Carney.
Maybe it was smart of them to move the party to the left so hard.
Next letter is from Trevor W., who says, they are deflating.
Carney's spending is simply insane and reckless.
Well, I mean, that's certainly going to get young people to vote because people know that debt and spending is not helping with anything.
But what about boomers and seniors, people who are in the sunset chapter of their life?
What do they care about debt and spending?
They aren't going to be troubled by it.
They have their house paid off.
If anything, rising housing prices increase the size of their nest egg.
They really don't have a lot of income, so they're not worried about taxes.
I think that the disastrous economic plans of Mark Carney won't make that big of a dent in his support from older voters.
John II says, my guess for any liberal support, baffled as I may be, is that NDP block and green support seems to have collapsed and gone over to the Liberals.
I expect that it's either strategic voting or that the NDP, Green, and Bloc have voted with the Liberals too many times for the left-leaning voters to see much of a difference between them.
I think there is an absolute amount of truth there.
That's absolutely right.
In fact, I would say a little bit more than that.
Would say when Justin Trudeau was the liberal leader and at the party's absolute low, and Pierre Polyev was at its absolute high, and I'd say this was, oh, over Christmas, let's say.
Some of that might have been a mirage in that if an election was called, some of the vote that was parked with the NDP might well have gone over to the liberals because liberals are holding their nose to having anybody but the conservatives vote.
I say again, I said this the other day, the absolute highest heights that Pierre Polyev's conservatives got in polling over the last two years was in the low 40s.
There might have been one or two odd polls to put them at like 44 or 45, but that was just when the liberals were in their absolute meltdown mode.
So the conservatives are actually performing around optimal.
Like, I mean, we've seen some polls showing them at 38 and 40.
If they get those numbers up 41, 42 by election day, that's pretty much the Conservative Party's maximum in this country.
We live in a center-left country, and I am as frustrated about it as you are.
It was only because Trudeau was so hated and so long in the tooth in the carbon tax that Pierre Polyev had that lead.
But boy, I hope Polyev wins.
And people say sometimes, Ezra, don't you want Mark Carney to win?
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Isn't that better for Rebel News because you'll have more to fight against?
Are you kidding me?
This country will be wrecked by Mark Carney.
I deeply want him to lose, and I deeply want Polyev to win.
I don't agree with everything Polyev says.
He's not strong enough on many issues for me, whether it's immigration or dealing with the CBC.
But he is so much better than the alternative.
And I am afraid that Canada would not recover from another turn of the Liberals, not economically.
And not, I mean, he literally hired the head of the Century Initiative, who wants to bring 100 million people to Canada in our lifetimes.
That is unrecoverable.
Sorry to be such a downer, but your letter is right.
That's our show for today.
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