Ezra Levant critiques Liberal cabinet ministers—Anita Anand’s "full Hamas" framing of Gaza, David Lametti’s $400K salary for virtual meetings, Steven Guilbeault’s pipeline lies amid Alberta’s underused capacity, and Gregor Robertson’s incoherent Vancouver housing logic—while exposing Mark Carney’s year-long budget delay since April 2024. Taxpayers Federation’s Franco Terrazano calls it unprecedented, warns debt may exceed $225B projections, and demands lower taxes to attract investment. Levant questions new finance minister François-Philippe Champagne’s past ties to Chinese loans and $30B battery factory subsidies, suggesting Alberta’s independence could curb federal overreach while keeping economic links intact. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, Mark Carney's government is off to a disastrous start.
It's May 15th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
I'm back in Toronto at our world headquarters, and I keep thinking about the question that I heard when I was in Alberta this week.
And it's this.
If Alberta were not part of Canada right now, would it agree to join Canada on the current terms?
As in, if Alberta were independent, would it give up its independence and join as a province in a country where there are more federal cabinet ministers from the city of Brampton than the entire provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan combined?
Where the key national financial program, Equalization, hoovers up billions of dollars from Alberta, from workers there as a gift to less industrious workers in other provinces, and yet where the workers who earn that money, typically in oil and gas, are constantly demonized, not celebrated.
Their jobs are threatened.
They're told to transition to non-existent green jobs and to pay for those green jobs in Ontario and Quebec through investments of their tax dollars in foreign corporations like those electric vehicle schemes that the private sector obviously doesn't want to invest in, but Trudeau and Carney do.
And that's just the money stuff.
The disrespect, the constant demonization and ridicule.
It really reminds me of a few lines from the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
I don't know if you've ever read it.
It's a list of complaints about the king.
He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world.
What's that other than blocking our tankers and pipelines?
For imposing taxes on us without our consent.
There's a ton of overlap, isn't there?
But I think it's more than just things you can count.
More than just tangible things.
It's soft things, emotional things, the kind of ties that bind people together into a meaningful nation with common loyalty and common destiny.
I think a lot of people in politics, a lot of the institutions in the country, I think they just hate the West.
The regime media certainly does.
It always made me chuckle when Donald Trump would talk about making Canada a cherished 51st state.
I shouldn't laugh.
It was talk like that that gave Carney the election by spooking boomers in central Canada into the liberals.
But when was the last time any institution of power in this country, media, University of Toronto, Royal Bank, ever spoke about cherishing Alberta?
They just don't use that language.
They do for Quebec.
They talk about how much they cherish Quebec, but never the West.
But not just the West.
How about Sir John A. MacDonald?
How about any of our traditions, our values, our history, our true stories?
Not the false slander that we're a genocidal country.
I mean, I can think of about 15 billion reasons a year why Alberta wouldn't want to join Canada if it were independent, but I don't know if a lot of other parts would too.
Would you?
We're losing our freedom of speech.
Our Canadian dollar is like the peso.
We get poor and we don't even see it.
Our economy is in a recession on a per capita basis.
No young people can afford to buy homes in the big cities, so they can't afford to start a family.
Our streets are choked with foreign migrants, some of whom turn to crime and some of whom turn to advocacy for terrorism, celebrating terrorism, all under the approving eye of government and police.
Yeah, if Alberta is the first province to leave, I promise you it will not be the last.
One of the things we talked about in our Western town halls was mottos for a separatist movement.
In 1995, Quebec's official motto for the separatist side was in French, yes and it becomes possible.
It's in vote yes and it becomes possible.
It being whatever you want it to be.
You could tweak that.
Anything is possible.
That could have been Canada's motto, you know, but no one would believe that now.
Or how about this for a motto?
We can do so much better.
Don't you think that's true for Albertans?
We can do so much better.
And if you're in Ontario or Quebec or Atlantic or BC or the North, don't you think that you could do so much better than the Liberals and our system?
Mark Carney, the slippery banker who seems to have a problem telling the truth and gets hostile whenever a journalist asks him a real question, which is pretty rare.
We'll talk later in the show today with Franco Terrazano about the fact that Canada hasn't had a budget in over a year, and we likely won't get one this year either.
Oh, I thought Carney was a master of all things dollars and cents.
But look at this.
Let me show you four little vignettes, all from the same day.
You tell me whether or not you're from Alberta.
Don't you think you could do so much better?
Let's start with the Hamas wing of the Liberal Party, Anita Anand, now the foreign minister, who goes full Hamas, just full anti-Semitic here.
Take a look.
Israel's blocking food and aid to Gaza.
What do you think of that decision?
And is the Canadian government doing anything to stop that?
We do not allow the continued use of food as a political tool.
The Prime Minister has been very clear about that.
Over 50,000 people have died as a result of the aggression caused against the Palestinian and the Gazan people in Palestine.
And using food as a political tool is simply unacceptable.
And we need to continue to work towards a ceasefire.
We need to ensure that we have a two-state solution and Canada will continue to maintain that position.
So it's Israel that's the aggressor.
So Gaza is now Palestine.
So Israel is the one using food as a weapon, not a word about the hostages, not a word about terrorism, not a word about how Hamas takes the food aid and sells it.
Or look at this guy.
He's ready to work from home 20 hours a week for sure for nearly $400,000 a year.
Take a look at this guy.
You decided not to run again, Mr. Dennis, because you wanted to spend more time with your family, and you said when you're coming back again, that you worked out a deal with Mr. Carney, that you're able to have a little bit more work-life balance.
How does that drive with your new role?
Well, I expect what you're going to see is when the House of Commons is not sitting, given the nature of the portfolio, a lot of the stakeholders we have are less interested in having you attend groundbreakings, the openings of new buildings that you may have funded, and are quite accustomed to having meetings virtually.
So, I anticipate during constituency weeks I'm going to be based in my hometown a little more than I was before.
There may be an opportunity, depending on what's going on in the House, to avail myself, not all the time, of course, but once in a while, of the virtual abilities to participate in the House of Commons proceedings.
So, we're going to figure some of this out as we go.
I'm very proud to have the support of my family to come back.
My kids in particular are very excited, even though the little guy is only three years old.
My daughter at nine has a better understanding.
And it's going to take work on my part.
Yeah, talk about failing upward.
He thinks his job as justice minister is to do groundbreaking for buildings, opening buildings, cutting ribbons.
He's the Attorney General and Justice Minister.
He wants to work from home.
What a lazy, entitled loser.
Don't you think the Liberal Party needs about a decade in the wilderness to get over themselves?
Or this guy, he's back at the Heritage Department where he's in charge of censorship and media subsidies, but he thought he'd freestyle a little and announce no new pipelines will be allowed.
Premier Smith says that she's still concerned that you're part of the cabinet and also the new selection of Mr. Loosen as our Prime Minister.
She says it's too close of a tie to you.
What do you say in response to that?
I think we will have to agree to disagree with Premier Smith.
We think that protecting the environment, fighting climate change is important.
Lots of Canadians believe that as well.
It was a central element of our platform, and we will make good on our commitments.
The Prime Minister last night on TV seemed to open the door to potentially changing the emissions cap or the IAA to get projects built.
What do you think of what he said?
These are important conversations that we will need to have in the coming weeks.
Premier Smith is saying that you're anti-pipeline still.
What do you say in response to her concerns just broadly about the cabinet?
And how do you deal with national unity?
How do you address that, Renault?
So on pipelines, people should remember that we bought a pipeline, Transmountain, and that is only used right now about 40% capacity.
So I think before we start talking about building an entire new pipeline, maybe we should maximize the use of existing infrastructure.
And the Canadian Energy Regulator, as well as the International Energy Agency, are telling us that probably by 2028, 2029, demand for oil will peak globally, and it will also peak in Canada.
So as far as I know, there are no investors right now.
There are no companies that are saying that they want to build an East-West pipeline.
And as you know, these things are built by companies, not governments.
Are you against the construction of pipelines in Canada?
What I'm saying is that we already have an infrastructure in place that's not even at 50% capacity.
So before we think about building new infrastructure, we should maximize the use of what already exists.
And as I said to your colleague, the Canadian Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency...
Yes, but the Prime Minister is saying, well, let's build pipelines.
And you're pushing the brake on that.
Well, what I'm saying is that the international and Canadian energy agencies are saying that demand for oil will peak by 2028, 2029.
And there's no developer who's interested in building an S-2 East-West pipeline at this time.
Now, he's lying.
The Transmountain pipeline is almost full, 80% full.
But who cares?
It's not a thoughtful debate or decision.
It's an ideological one.
He hates the West.
You know, if you don't buy his 40% full stat, he's got 10 others that he'll make up.
He says there's no demand for oil.
It's a lie, of course.
Japan, Germany, Korea, even Ukraine have all asked us for our energy instead of Russia's.
It was Trudeau who said there's no business case for it.
He's lying.
Guibot is right about there being no investors now, though.
Would you invest in Canadian pipelines with that kook, convicted criminal, by the way, in charge?
Is he in charge?
I mean, is he, he's the heritage minister now.
Is he still in charge of pipelines?
Is Mark Carney in charge?
Who's in charge?
Last video, this is quite something.
Affordable housing.
Do you think that we need to deliver more supply?
Make sure the market is stable.
It's a huge part of our economy.
We need to be delivering more affordable housing.
The government of Canada has not been building affordable housing since the 90s, and we've created a huge shortage across Canada.
That's where the big need is right now.
And I'm very encouraged that the Prime Minister and our commitment right now in government is to double construction and focus on the affordable side of it.
Did you get that?
Is he saying he wants housing prices to come down or not?
I mean, it's pretty much a yes or no answer.
Are housing prices too high?
I think anyone under 40 would probably say they are.
What does he say?
Watch it one more time and try to understand it.
Affordable housing is a good idea.
Do you think to go down?
No, I think that we need to deliver more supply.
Make sure the market is stable.
It's a huge part of our economy.
We need to be delivering more affordable housing.
The government of Canada has not been building affordable housing since the 90s.
And we've created a huge shortage across Canada.
That's where the big need is right now.
And I'm very encouraged that the Prime Minister and our commitment right now in government is to double construction and focus on the affordable side of it.
What?
What does that even mean?
I think he might be even dumber than Trudeau.
Matt spoke, asked him a question that I think a bright eight-year-old might ask.
How do you make something more affordable without reducing its price?
I think there'd be kids in grade school who would ask Gregor Robertson that question.
And the answer, here's the answer, you can see to build them at scale.
At scale is just a jargony way of saying lots.
So build lots of affordable houses, but don't reduce the price.
What?
What?
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But I'm here to say it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter that they don't make sense.
It doesn't matter that their facts are wrong.
It doesn't matter that they're incoherent.
They're going to do what they're going to do anyways, and their plan will fail to fix the problem, but it'll succeed in spending money and making them important and giving big contracts to their friends.
I mean, Gregor Robertson presided over the decline and decay of Vancouver, a toxic combination of hard drugs and crime on the one hand and the unaffordable housing on the other.
But he's a great success, so much so that Mark Carney put him in cabinet, didn't he?
I showed you four cabinet ministers, four disastrous comments in one day.
And Carney himself won't bring in a budget for almost a year.
And Parliament hasn't sat in months.
Yeah, if you could separate from Canada somehow, would you?
Stay with us for more.
You know, there was something funny that happened yesterday.
Mark Carney had another one of those Trump-like signing ceremonies.
You know, Trump gets these executive orders and he signs them in thick felt marker and he talks about them for a moment.
It's become his signature move for executive orders.
You know, we don't have that kind of thing in Canada.
We do have executive orders, but they're not signed by the Prime Minister.
They're signed by the Governor General.
And it's just not what we do in our system to have the prime minister as if he's the head of state.
He's not.
He's the head of government.
There's a bit of a distinction there.
It's the king's delegate, the governor general.
So, my point is: when you see, and he's done this several times now, including when he quote repealed the carbon tax, of course, he didn't repeal it at all.
He just reduced the rate temporarily to zero.
He also had one of these ceremonies, very Trump-like, but sort of fake in that way.
And there's something else that I think is sort of fake about what's going on.
Parliament hasn't sat in months, and it doesn't seem to be in any hurry to sit again.
And here's the craziest part: Canada, as we careen through economic crises, immigration crises, affordability crises, tax crises, we have not had a budget.
The government of Canada has not had a budget since April of 2024, more than a year ago.
But hey, if Mark Carney has some more of these theatrical signing ceremonies, I guess that's all we need joining us now to talk about this and other related matters is our favorite tax fighter, our friend Franco Terrazano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
You know, the Liberals have always been masters of optics and visuals, but at the end of the day, sometimes you actually have to govern.
You have to have parliament called, you have to debate, you have to vote.
And the basic document of any government, in some ways, the most important one, is the budget, because from there, all things flow, whether it's taxes or spending.
Has Canada ever gone this long without a budget before, Franco?
Well, unfortunately, yeah, right, because the Trudeau government didn't put in a budget in 2020.
So this isn't the first time that we've seen the Liberal government not bring in a budget, but this is really a big deal, right?
Okay, for a number of reasons.
Number one, it's look, it's democracy 101 that a government tables a budget, right?
They're spending hundreds of billions of dollars of our money.
A budget is probably the biggest time of the year where Canadians, where taxpayers, can actually look into the state of our finances, but then also hold the government accountable on its spending plans.
Hey, Ezra, not to mention members of parliament who are supposed to be our elected representatives, who are supposed to be voting on spending and tax bills.
Well, how in the world are they going to make an informed decision if the government won't even release what the state of our finances are?
You know, I thought you were going to go in a slightly different direction when you mentioned the MPs, because here's one thing I know: every April Fool's Day, the MPs automatically get a raise in pay.
And I have to tell you, Franco, if they didn't get that raise in pay until they did their work and got a budget, we would have had that budget yesterday.
And so they certainly took care of themselves first.
Do we know when Parliament is set to resume?
I see here that it'll be some weeks yet still, but the new finance minister, Francois Felice Champagne, says we won't have a budget.
We'll have a fall economic update, but we're still in the spring, Franco.
Yeah.
And then all of a sudden, fall turns into what, December?
Yeah, that's what it was a couple years ago.
Like, look, okay, first of all, fall economic statement isn't a budget.
Right.
Right?
It's supposed to be a budget update.
Well, what are you updating on if you don't have a budget?
But let's also go back to two things.
Number one, I'm glad you brought up the pay raises, okay?
So what is it?
Middle of May now, and these members of parliament haven't been in the House of Commons all year.
They just took another pay raise April 1 for what?
For being at home for about half a year?
Come on.
Not to mention, like, folks, the finance minister's one job is to table a budget.
That's his job.
I bet you next, I guess, that's it, right?
Ezra, I bet you next year we're having this conversation.
And guess who's going to get another pay raise?
Probably the finance minister.
But hey, Ezra, can I dive into the real heart of the issue here?
Okay, Kearney ran on this notion of being the credible numbers guy, right?
The math guy, the financial wizard.
Well, how can you be credible as a financial wizard if you can't even be bothered to put together a budget?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I was reading your essay this morning on your website, which is a great website.
The essay, you called it, I'd call it a press release, I guess.
Taxpayers Deserve a Federal Budget.
And I sort of forgot these details.
Let me just quote a line from your piece today.
You said, Carney plans to add an extra $225 billion to the debt over the next four years, according to his election platform.
For comparison, the Trudeau government planned on increasing the debt by $131 billion over those years, according to the most recent fall economic statement.
So Mark Carney is spending 50% more in terms of the debt.
He's going into debt 50% deeper.
And like you say, this is the guy who was supposed to bring, you know, it was Trudeau who said the childish thing, budgets balance themselves, who said the naive thing, I don't think about monetary policy, who said the foolish thing, you know, we'll build the economy from the heart out.
But it's Carney who's blowing up the debt.
Carney's thinking Justin Trudeau.
It's making me pine for the days of Justin Trudeau.
Well, I bet you weren't, you didn't think you were going to say that today.
But look, turns out we learned that budgets don't balance themselves.
And I guess budgets don't write themselves either.
Look, it took, what, Trudeau, 10 years to double the debt, right?
So in all of the 100-plus years that Canada's been around, you had prime ministers, all of them, rack up $600 billion of debt.
Trudeau comes in and he doubles it.
And, you know, if that wasn't bad enough, well, now we have Carney who wants to add about $100 billion more of debt than what even Trudeau was planning to do.
Okay.
You know, the banker was supposed to be better with the numbers than the drama teacher, but it's not looking that way anymore.
Yeah, boy.
Hey, I got a question for you.
I mean, it's too early to, and I know your specialty is the numbers as opposed to the politics.
You guys are very nonpartisan, and it's important that you remain that way.
But I think we can all acknowledge the NDP over the last few years have been a force for increased spending.
Whenever they cut a deal with Trudeau, it was in return for some spending shenanigans.
Do you see the same sort of pressure, whether it's from the Block Quibaquis or the NDP, to make extra demands of the liberals for some sort of working majority?
Maybe this is outside your Bailey wig, but I thought I'd ask.
No, I think it's a fair question.
I mean, look, whenever you have a minority government, they're going to have to find a dance partner, right?
So unless they're going to try to get the conservatives on board with some tax cuts, maybe some spending reductions, like, I don't know how likely that is.
But if they're looking for the NDP or the block, yeah, I think everyone should worry that the spending and the debt's going to go even higher than the $225 billion of debt that Carney was running on during the election.
So I think that's a very fair thing to be worried about.
Absolutely.
Because as you mentioned, I mean, look, the NDP, you know, as crazy as the Liberal government has been, the NDP hasn't seen a type of dollar that they don't want to tax away or a new spending program that they don't like.
You know, I want to ask you one more thing.
I don't know if you saw my videos, but over the last few weeks, I've been going to some of these tax havens where Mark Carney stashed Brookfield Asset Management corporate shells.
Went to the Isle of Man.
I went to Bermuda.
And it's clear what's going on there.
And I think Brookfield would say that it's perfectly legal what they're doing, namely they're just being smart tax avoiders, not evaders, and they're complying with all the laws.
That's what they would say.
But, you know, I think there's something, even if it's not illegal, something weird or even unethical about the same prime minister setting up ways to avoid Canadian taxes, who is the imposer and collector.
And he's the guy enforcing the Canadian taxes that he himself evades.
And he's evading them to this day, Franco, because he still has $6.8 million with a Brookfield stock options.
And we all know that he's put it behind a blind trust, but he knows what he put in there.
It was just a few weeks ago.
I don't know what to make of this.
I'm trying to, like, I don't want to condemn people for being smart tax planners, but there's something weird about the prime minister collecting different taxes from you than he pays himself.
Do you have any thoughts on that?
Well, look, my thoughts on this is that there's two fundamental problems with Canada's tax system, okay?
There's two fundamental problems as I see it and where the government has to address it.
Number one, taxes are just outrageously high, right?
And that's across all levels of government.
Essentially, folks, take your paycheck, rip it in half, because that's the tax man's, okay?
So number one, taxes are just way too high.
And look, if you want to attract businesses, you want to attract investment, you want to bring in the tax dollars that way, well, we're going to have to lower taxes.
Like we're less competitive than the United States on both businesses and income taxes.
So Canadians are paying way too much tax because government spending and debt has become out of control.
The second issue that I see with Canada's tax system is that it's way too complex.
Right?
Like, look, like you, you essentially like need an army of lawyers and accountants to navigate the income tax system.
Like, let's just cut the number of taxes, cut the overall tax rates, and let's actually make it that normal Canadians can figure out this dysfunctional tax system.
Yeah.
You know, there's certain things about Bermuda and the Isle of Man that I wouldn't want Canada to be like.
I think they turned a bit of a blind eye sometimes to money laundering or other things that we might find questionable.
But wouldn't it be something if Canada were a jurisdiction that people wanted to put their money into because we had such modest taxes?
We're going in all the wrong directions with taxes and with that.
Franco, I'm so glad you're out there to be a watchdog and keep an eye on things.
We're going to need it more than ever.
Let me just throw one more question at you.
Just give me 30 seconds.
Francois-Philippe Champagne, we got to know him at Rebel News because he was the guy who took a mortgage from a Chinese government bank.
There are hundreds of companies you could get a mortgage from in the private sector in the West.
But he chose from the Chinese Communist Party Bank, which was so crazy.
And he did that when he was the foreign minister.
That really put a big question mark next to his name for me.
Like, what on earth?
What do you know about him in terms of being a finance minister?
I would not have pegged him as a finance minister.
Maybe I don't know why they chose him.
Maybe they think he's safe hands.
I don't know.
What do you know about him from a finance point of view as opposed to a foreign affairs point of view?
Well, I'm worried because I believe he was the minister, at least around the cabinet table, right?
When they're announcing the billions of dollars in corporate welfare to the multinational corporations to build those battery factories in what, southwestern Ontario and Quebec?
Right.
You're talking about what the government put taxpayers on the hook for about $30 billion in corporate welfare to what, Volkswagen, Stellantis, you had North Bolt and Honda.
And I believe if he wasn't the industry minister, he was right around the cabinet table for all that.
So that's what I'm really worried given Canada's like, what, $1.3 trillion debt right now.
Yeah, wow.
All right, Franco.
Well, thanks for spending some time with us.
Keep at it and we'll stay in touch in the weeks and months ahead.
Hey, thank you so much.
All right, there he is.
Franco Terrazano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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Stay with us.
More ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
PD says, Albertans forced to pay for the pizza, but never allowed to choose the toppings.
Done with being kicked by the East.
Yeah, a lot of it is emotional and respect.
I mean, there's something, you know, the Jewish word chutzpah, what's a definition, a working definition of chutzpah.
You know, the guy who killed his parents and then asked the court for mercy because he's an orphan.
That's chutzpah.
It means audacity, over-the-top audacity.
Imagine the audacity of saying, hey, Team Canada, hey, we're against unfair trade barriers.
Hey, we're against tariffs, and we're all together as Canadians.
Except for you, Albertans, you can't build a pipeline.
That's not even a tariff, at least a tariff you can pay to get through.
We're just banning it.
Would they do that to any other province?
Another letter from Trump Vance 2024.
If Alberta does not become independent, it will also be conquered by Islam.
Quebec and Ontario are already under the control of Islam.
Well, there's certainly the Islamification of certain parts of society.
The part that concerns me the most is the radical pro-Hamas elements on the street.
I note that in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, where Donald Trump has visited the past few days, there are no street protests in favor of Hamas.
In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups like that are banned in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
About two years ago, we took a trip.
We called it the Abraham Accords trip.
We took a few dozen of our most keen supporters.
We went to Israel and then we went to the United Arab Emirates to see if the peace deal was for real.
And it was.
And thankfully, it managed to survive not only the October 7th terrorist attack in 2023, but Joe Biden's term.
And I'm hoping that we see the expansion of that peace accord.
I think it's true to say that there is more Islamic radicalism on the streets of London, Montreal, and Toronto than there is on the streets of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Riyadh.
Stanley McNamee says, I talked to one of the CEOs of one of the largest mining corporations in Alberta, and he told me that he is hoping Alberta will become independent.
He said there would be hundreds of billions of dollars invested in Alberta in the mining sector.
He sees it as the best thing that would ever happen to Alberta.
I think there would be a short period of discombobulation.
But look, when you say separate, I think that word implies like you would sort of break off like a chunk of an iceberg and go out to sea.
Nothing would actually separate.
You would just replace one committee of distant and partisan politicians with another committee of local politicians who are hopefully more in tune with you and share common values and don't think of you as a golden goose whose eggs must be stolen.
I think that if Alberta woke up one day and it were an independent jurisdiction, more would stay the same than would change.
The friendly relations between friends, family, businesses, tourism, economics would largely continue.
Just there would be less abuse and Alberta wouldn't be taken for granted anymore.
Well, that's the show for today.
Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.