Ezra Levant and guests at Rebel Roundup warn Canada’s 2025 immigration surge—nearly 1M newcomers, mostly low-skill workers—is straining wages, housing (e.g., Montreal’s overcrowded basements), and social services amid rising crime and terrorism, with 488% more terror-related charges since 2023. They critique police inaction against pro-Hamas threats while targeting critics of Islam, link unrest to Trudeau’s LNG export bans, and expose Alberta’s $9T oil reserves being underutilized despite $55B annual GDP losses. The debate on Alberta separatism contrasts with Quebec’s fading movement, exposing hypocrisy in "elbows-up" Canadianism while pipelines like Energy East remain blocked. [Automatically generated summary]
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You have tuned into the Rebel News live stream on this, a Monday, June 2nd, 2025.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host.
Well, let me tell you a bit about my co-host, shall I?
Folks, do you know that today is National Leave Work Early Day?
My co-host does not celebrate this day because, well, she's not employed by the federal government.
She is the she-devil with the Nordique sweater.
She is the Khalesi of Quebec.
She is the lovely Alexa Lavoie.
Hey, how you doing there, Alexa?
Good, but you're so crazy.
What?
No, at Rebel News, we are working really, really, really hard.
So I know.
I never leave early.
Yeah, as do we all.
I mean, you know, imagine that leaving early.
I can't remember the last time I left early.
Actually, I do.
It was to get on a transatlantic flight to cover something on the other side of the world.
So it's just amazing the dichotomy between, you know, the federal civil service, which under Trudeau grew exponentially, and the real world, which ain't growing all that much.
In fact, ominous signs we're heading for a recession, but I digress.
So Alexa, what is it that we're hoping to do here in this next hour?
We will touch a little bit of everything that is in the news right now.
I want to apologize right now because I'm in the cafe, so I am the substitute today, and I was not supposed.
So if it's a little bit noisy, I apologize in advance.
But we are here to speak about multiple topics.
And if you want to send us a super chat, please feel free to send us, same if it's just like a small comment through YouTube or Rumble.
That help us to keep the light on at Rebel News and to continue to inform you on the other side of the story.
So yeah, so today we'll be speaking about, I think we have a pretty packed schedule to speak about.
Fantastic.
And I'm glad you explained that was a cafe.
I thought you just dropped 80 grand on home renovations there, but some of us are doing well.
Well, you know, Alexa, we talked about how the federal civil service is growing, but you know what else is growing?
The number of immigrants to Canada, despite promises to the contrary.
Now, I remember when the Conservatives under Pierre Poly of last year raised this, they were labeled as racist.
And then the likes of Sean Fraser went, yeah, you know what?
Maybe there are too many people coming into our Dominion.
But Alexa, look at this.
In the first quarter of this year, more than 800,000 immigrants coming into Canada.
I thought the government was going to do something to nip this in the bud.
And we should point out, Alexa, here's the big issue, at least as far as I'm concerned.
And I speak to people in the communities where these immigrants are coming from, like our Indian source, Tim Smith.
These are not doctors and engineers and lawyers.
These are low-skill minimum wage people that are typically being hired in the service sector, particularly food service.
And the end result is a downward pressure on wages, A, and B, the likes of students who want to get a part-time job or a summer job get into the labor market.
They can't.
I came across one student last week.
She put out 60 resumes, 60, zero replies.
Alexa, how do you make sense of this madness?
I do not see any upside for us.
Or is this all part of the agenda of by the end of the century, which is less than 75 years away, making Canada's population 100 million?
But this is what the Liberals want.
And don't forget about Mark Wiseman that actually want Canada to reach 100 million by 2050, I think.
No, 200.
No, 2000.
Sorry.
But this is the thing.
We are receiving a lot of immigrants.
And right now, what I'm able to see on Reddit, it's a lot of people, young age, starting their life and trying to get a job during the summer.
And they cannot find any job.
And it's something that I see all the time.
And so this is reality.
Most of the students can't find a job if it's during the summer and even if it's just part-time during that they are studying because life costs a lot and a lot of people have a really hard time to afford their apartment, especially in Montreal.
And listen to that.
Montreal and Quebec right now is the, I think, the cheapest place where you can actually still rent apartment.
So I cannot imagine the rest of the country.
And then you have incidents, Alexa, and this has been reported in Brampton, a basement being rented by maybe 12, 15, 20 people.
I can't imagine that's very fun.
But, you know, I think you're on to something about the unspoken strategy, I think, of the federal government of flooding our country with newcomers.
And I think it's simply this.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, every four years, what we ask in return for letting you into the country and pursuing the Canadian promise is that you vote Team Red.
It's exactly the same as what Biden did as the president for the last four years in America, allowing anywhere between 12 to 20 million illegals from the southern border of the U.S. into the United States.
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
You're here.
You're not going to be deported.
Pursue the American dream.
And every four years, vote for Team Blue.
I think it is a purposeful attempt in terms of both the Democrats in the U.S. and the Liberals in Canada to change the demographics so that they are in power essentially for life.
I see two sides of the story here.
And I will explain.
First of all, there is a difference in between immigrants that are arriving here in an illegal way or by refugees or other way.
And there is the legal one.
And there is a lot of legal immigrants who are voting conservative.
And I would say also an immigrant, most of the time is when they just arrive in Canada, they will continue to vote for liberals.
But the second generation, sometimes they can vote liberal, but sometimes they can vote also conservative.
What I see on this, I'm seeing the agenda, the sustainable goal, who are specifically that we should do equity and diversity and inclusion.
And what I'm seeing right now, they want to make sure that the wealth is at the same level across the planet.
And we are seeing more and more immigrants coming to the rich country.
So, and more and more poor countries are now getting richer because we are sending overseas a lot of money to those countries.
So we are just doing almost I have a hard time with this word.
Maybe you can help me.
Homo genius, like putting everybody in the same level of wealth across the planet.
This is something that I'm seeing, but also I'm saying also a demographic change.
And of course, a big majority of them will always be loyal to the people who let them here.
And you know, Alexa, two points on this as well to finish this segment.
One is it's the distribution of all these hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
We are the second biggest country in the world.
We have a huge land mass.
I think it's something like more than 80% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
So Canada is really this long, you know, kind of a snake of a country.
I don't mean that in terms of what snakes stand for.
I mean it's like a strip of people along the southern border.
But we know that the lion's share of these immigrants, they're going to three places, aren't they?
Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, which are already in many respects bursting at the seams in terms of, you know, whether it's social services, whether it's commuting, whether it's house prices.
So, I mean, if you want to, you know, not that I agree with this, but if you want to get to some kind of population target, why are people being allowed to go to cities that are already in certain respects overpopulated?
I mean, I don't know about Montreal, Alexa, to drive eight kilometers in Toronto, you're looking at maybe an hour of commuting.
The traffic does not move here.
So that's one thing.
And secondly, if there's anybody watching going, well, it's easy for you for you two Lily White born in Canada Canadians to say this, you're racist.
No, I mentioned my Indian source, Tim Smith.
He was originally born in India.
And people in those communities that have legally immigrated to Canada and brought with them a skill set, they are not happy with this either, whether we're talking Canada or the US, because they see their way of their way of life rather degradating thanks to this influx of people who I said before, low wage, low skills.
What are your thoughts, Alexa?
It's what I'm saying.
Most of the legal immigrants who actually apply came here and passed the long processes to come here legally.
Most of them, they are against what is going on.
They are against and they are denouncing it and they are saying, expose it, as you saw with your source.
The only problem is like now we are receiving them.
We do not have the capacity to receive them.
And right now, we are just creating chaos in our street.
We saw the crime rate is just increasing.
The food bank is just collapsing.
Our services is collapsing too.
So at one point, what will happen in those big cities?
Because right now I don't feel even safe in Montreal anymore.
100%.
As far as I'm concerned, the only possible excuse for the Mark Carney liberals is, hey, listen, parliament hasn't sat for about five months.
Okay, I'll give you that.
Now that you are back to work, do something about this.
Put the brakes on.
That's what you said during the election campaign.
You had made agreement that complaining about mass immigration is not racist.
It is an actual matter of fact.
So the burden for them before they break for the summer, Alexa, is to put the brakes on this as far as I'm concerned.
And by the way, did you see Melanie Jolie was mentioning we grow our GDP by 2.2%, but you let in 800,000 newcomers.
So that means that our growth low down from about 1.5% per capita, per person.
Oh, I'd like to see the analysis behind that.
You know, when it comes to Melanie Jolie, no wonder Prime Minister Carney did the shoe, shoo girl the other day.
I mean, if she's spouting nonsense like that, no one's got time for that, right?
But going stateside, Alexa, a horrible event on the weekend in Boulder, Colorado.
There was a pro-Israel rally.
Maybe I shouldn't even say it was pro-Israel.
It was people saying, free the hostages.
Alexa's Concerns About Security Lapses00:13:15
I mean, this is not a politicized thing.
These are people that are still captive by Hamas, still over 50, I believe.
I also believe more than half of those hostages are dead, according to intelligence reports.
And lo and behold, there was some kind of attack involving fire.
I've read Molotov cocktails flown.
I've read some kind of a homemade flamethrower.
Wonder how you do that.
But a couple of points.
We see something here from Disclose TV.
The Boulder police chief saying, quote, we're not calling it a terror attack at this point.
That would be irresponsible, way too early to speculate motive.
Really?
Really?
I mean, let's, do we have a clip of that, guys?
Okay, let's see the chief in his own words.
FBI is already calling it a targeted terror attack.
Would you also refer to it as a terror attack?
So I've been in contact with our local FBI multiple times.
We are in contact with them here.
We are not calling it a terror attack at this point.
Again, it's way too early to speculate motive.
You know, I know there's a lot out there on social media, but I ask people just to give us a little bit of patience while we work through a really complex scene.
A lot of witnesses were here.
We've taken them to another location to debrief them and interview them.
As we do that, I think the picture will become more clear.
But it would be irresponsible for me to speculate on motive this early on.
We're only a couple hours into this thing.
Yeah, sure.
It could have been the Santa Claus parade or the St. Patrick's Day parade.
The guy would have been similarly motivated to severely burn, I believe, at least five attendees.
Alexa, I think this is the problem with political correctness, now rebranded as wokeness, that you cannot speak the truth anymore if the truth means that some people are going to suffer from hurt feelings.
That's not freedom of speech.
That's censorship.
But I think at this moment, political correctness, I think it's the time to put that aside and call the things that it is and what we witness since more than a year and a half.
And the increase, I don't know if you saw, but the RCMP have issued a warning of 488% increase in terrorism-related charges here in Canada since a year.
So if we are not starting calling it as what it is, we will face a wall sooner than we think.
Yes, and I should point out, I don't have his surname, but the attacker, the suspect who's been arrested, his first name is Mohammed, and he allegedly yelled, free, free Palestine.
I don't know, Alexa, sounds a little terroristy to me.
What about you?
But I will say that, what do you need more for going forward and saying, oh, it is or is it not a terrorist attack?
That was literally the definition of a terrorist act.
You are calling for free, free Palestine.
And afterwards, you are attacking someone with, I think it was Morotov cocktail.
So what do you need more as a proof?
Literally.
100%.
And to bring it into context in terms of it being a Canadian story, I was very, you know, perversely amused, I guess is the word, when I saw the Toronto police issue a statement, quote, we are aware of the attack in Boulder, Colorado, and are monitoring the situation closely.
Oh, really?
I say this, Alexa, because just a week ago Sunday, Ezra and I and other members of the team were out covering the walk with Israel.
Over 56,000 people participated.
And I don't know if we have footage of this, but I came up to one of the pro-Hamas demonstrators who was blocked off by a wall of police.
And he had what I pray is a replica hand grenade.
But, you know, we don't know.
Anyways, I said to the police officers who were like an arm's length away from this man, Officer, are you not concerned?
Aren't you going to check that to see if it's real?
Remember, this is right in front of thousands and thousands of pro-Israel marchers walking by.
If, God forbid, that was a real grenade, Alexa.
There could have been incredible carnage.
There could have been a dozen people killed.
And yet the police didn't seem to give a rodent's rectum.
There's the photo, Alexa.
Check it out.
There's the grenade.
There's the police, of which there were many.
In fact, the police that day outnumbered the people I like to call the Hamasholes.
But no big deal there.
I'm telling you, Alexa, if you tried to get on an airplane at Pearson or at your airport, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, with that, even if it's a toy, you aren't getting on your flight.
In fact, you might be pushing the envelope whether you're going to get arrested.
And absolutely nothing was done.
So what are the police saying when they say we're aware of the situation and monitoring closely when you saw a potential situation right in front of your eyes, you did nothing.
Why?
Because you might offend the mob.
That's what's driving law enforcement in Canada these days.
But you saw, like just here in Monterey Treal, those protesters have the bomb belt, like the smoke bomb belt.
They are walking into the street.
We don't know if it's smoke bomb or something else, but they are just walking with it and nobody asked them to remove it.
Same if smoke bomb in public is not supposed to be legal, but it seems like, hey, one law for thee, one law for me.
And this is a reality right now.
And by the way, Donald Trump did react to it on his truth shown.
He wrote that it will not, that this attack will not be tolerated in the United States of America.
And he said that, of course, he called out Biden's ridiculous open border policy.
And that he say it must go out under Trump policy.
So act of terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
This is yet another example of why we must keep our borders secure.
And by the way, they were warning that Canada will be a threat to the United States just because of what we are seeing right now.
And our authority are not doing anything for stopping it.
So I'm pretty sure that soon they will do something to stop and to check every single person crossing into the U.S.
And I would not be surprised at that.
And you know, Alexa, as you were speaking, our team put up Donald Trump's tweet, or I mean, his true social posting regarding this person.
Evidently, he is an illegal that came in through Joe Biden's open doors policy at the border.
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You know, this begs the question, Alexa.
When he's arrested, detained, and maybe even sent back to God knows where he came from, do you think some Democrats are going to fly over and give him comfort and stand in solidarity regarding his legal and constitutional rights?
That is to say, if he isn't incarcerated in the U.S.
But again, it's absolutely shocking.
It goes to what we were speaking in the first block, that when you have an irresponsible immigration system, when you have open borders, you don't know who's coming into the country.
In fact, Alexa, if I was running a terrorist organization, I think it would be irresponsible of me not to have agents go in because if they're being treated with kid gloves as opposed to being stopped at the border, why wouldn't you take advantage of that incredible lapse of security?
I'm actually flabbergasted when we are seeing what is going on and the multiple terrorists who have been arrested so far, and seeing what happened in multiple places in Canada, and seeing that the Jewish community are living in fear and seeing the Israeli government issuing a level two safety warning for the people traveling or living in Canada who are Israeli and Jewish,
to hide any signs that they carry.
Where are we?
Are we in Canada or are we somewhere else?
Because it's something that I do not understand right now.
Me neither, Alexa.
And we know from the stats that the Toronto police itself released.
Jews in Toronto comprise less than 4% of the population, but they are targets of more than 40% of the hate crimes.
It's completely disproportional.
And when you have police, and it happens in Montreal, we've seen it there, when you see them turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to chance for genocide, which is contrary to section 319 of the criminal code, when you see them turning a blind eye to people displaying swastikas, dressing up as Sinoir, the terrorist mastermind of October 7th, 2023, what do you expect?
The mob is further going to push the envelope.
And I say, Alexa, if we crack down on this on day one, some 20 months ago, I don't think this would be a thing.
But instead, cracking down?
Are you kidding?
In Toronto, the cops deliver the Hamasols coffee and tin bits on cold days.
It's outrageous.
And by the way, imagine for a moment that the situation is reversed.
Oh, yeah.
Would you see the public outrage and all the media covering that and all the politicians getting crazy about it?
You know, Alexa, if I would say this, I wonder if somebody will ever put it to the test.
I would advise no, because I think I know how that story ends.
If a couple of people showed up to a mosque for a peaceful demonstration, you're going to be taken down in a New York second.
I am telling you that.
And I am comparing apples with apples because in the GTA, we have seen the pro-Hamas people target Jewish synagogues with all kinds of horrible and hateful rhetoric.
We have seen them target Jewish schools.
And nothing seems to get done.
But I'll tell you, you do that in front of a mosque, you're going to be in the cooler in no time at all.
Again, the double standard and the selective law enforcement in our dominion right now on this issue, Alexa.
And there is also like the fact that you do not do a protest in front of a place of worship.
You do not do that.
So the fact that they are daring of doing it, stopping people from going to the synagogue and just trying to be in peace, that just show how devil they are.
Yeah, but you know what, Alexa?
Shame on you.
You got to get your priorities in order.
I mean, the Toronto police, they all got together recently.
Oh, not to contem the hate in our streets, but rather, yeah, you guessed it, raise the pride flag.
Pride Flag Controversy00:03:53
Oh, I'm sorry.
The pride progress flag.
It keeps evolving.
Yeah, there you go.
You got the triangle.
You got the little purple flirple.
I think that's for intersex, whatever that means.
By the way, I want to talk about that so-called pride progress flag.
There's Chief Myron Demkew, by the way, saying all the right things.
Worst police chief in Toronto's history.
And given that Bill Blair was a chief once upon a time, that's saying something.
But you know, I'm very curious.
You see the stripes that are black and brown.
And that is supposedly to include brown people and black people.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Sergeant Rob Chevalier is there.
I know this guy.
He calls his niece a nibbling because he's unsure if his niece is male or female.
I swear to God, I'm not making it.
A nibbling sounds like a brand of licorice.
But the point I'm getting at, Alexa, is I thought that flag was all about sexual orientation and gender identification.
What does race have to do with it?
And why are they obsessed about two groups on the racial spectrum, brown people and black people?
Can you make sense of this?
No, I don't.
And by the way, at the beginning of all this, it was just LGB and it was nothing else.
And now we are just putting like a melting pot of everything in one flag.
So at the end of the day, it's just like, it's just because they want to get more and more and more people, like more and more inclusive, for having more and more people to stand up for them.
Because at the end of the day, why would you do that?
Because LGB was actually for sexual preference.
And everything went well.
I grew up in those communities and everything was going well and everybody like was able to live a normal life with everybody.
And I didn't see that much hate when I was young.
And now we are seeing that more and more people are intolerant, reticent, and there is more and more backlash.
And instead of reflecting on why are we seeing this, instead of like questioning maybe what are you doing right now to create this phenomenon, no, for them, it's not them the problem.
It's the others.
Well, you know, Alexa, my issue is this seeming obsession with this tiny splinter group of society.
By that, I mean Pride used to be Pride Day, June 1st.
Then it became Pride Week.
Then it was Pride Month.
Now it's Pride season, coincidentally the summertime, because you know what?
When you go naked illegally, not good in January or February, shrinkage and all.
You know what I'm saying?
But anyways, the point is, I would like to see this kind of obsession with celebrating a certain community in November, i.e. the veterans and the war dead.
We spend, you know, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
We have a celebration.
We have a ceremony rather, and we move on.
But this, you know, it's almost like a fetish of every day, every week, every month, at least in the summertime, has to do with pride.
You know what, Alexa?
I'm sorry, it is fittish.
It is fittish.
Why?
Because they are bringing the puppy play in this.
Fittish Flag Frenzy00:05:17
So if it's not fittish at one point, when you get into that flag, the puppy play?
Why?
Yeah.
Yeah, you know what?
I wouldn't be surprised if certain cities in Toronto, if you put a vote to people, hey, do you want to make the Canadian flag embrace the pride colors, have that rainbow Canadian flag all year round?
I think it might be 50-50, Alexa.
It's just gone crazy.
And by the way, getting back to two-tier policing and selective law enforcement, I think we have a video from Karim Asaad.
She's the lawyer and political satirist.
We often bump into her during these demonstrations because, you know, the, well, the mainstream media, they'd rather not get their hands dirty with this sort of stuff and it doesn't fit their narrative.
But let's see what Karim discovered regarding a, well, a tug of war over an Israeli flag at the corner of Young and Dundas.
check it out.
Don't take that.
I don't know why you hit me.
Now listen, guys.
Oh, you know, Doc is not a cause of me.
Where you're causing a disturbance with this type of behavior.
I was trying to protect you, and you hit me with your son.
Oh, okay, Alexa.
According to my scorecard, I see at least three crimes there, assault, theft, vandalism.
And yet you're telling me there were no police officers at the busiest intersection in Toronto, right in front of the Eden Center.
Now, imagine, because I can tell you this, when you go to these pro-Hamas demonstrations, seeing a Canadian flag on display is like citing a unicorn.
It's Palestinian flags.
I tell you, Alexa, if anyone did that to a Palestinian flag, you are in the paddy wagon with handcuffs on.
Again, can you explain what the police are thinking, what the agenda is in this despicable two-tier law enforcement?
But first of all, you know that it seems that in Canada, Islam are really, how I can describe that.
They are protected more than every other faith in Canada.
First of all, because they don't want to be labeled as racist.
They don't want to be labeled as Islamophone.
And now we are seeing them that we cannot criticize them.
We cannot speak against them.
We cannot do anything against or criticizing or anything.
So right now, what we are seeing is like they can attack Christian or Jewish, but in return, nobody can criticize them or point out what they are doing.
And again, I wonder how many of these people at these pro-Hamas rallies are even Canadian citizens.
I know last month I did a story of a guy getting sanctuary at a Toronto mosque.
He's from Yemen.
He's here on refugee status.
He was allegedly intercepted at the airport for wanting to go back to Yemen and join a terrorist organization.
Alexa, the funny thing is, you know, explain this to me.
Connect the dots for me if you can.
If you're claiming refugee status, so I'm fleeing Amen.
Oh, but you know what?
I go back every once in a while for, oh, maybe holidays, maybe a little shopping, maybe a little terrorism.
I mean, isn't your case disqualified right there?
Because supposedly we're harboring this individual because it is threatening to his life to stay in his home country.
This is crazy.
Well, first of all, from my personal opinion, if you claim a refugee status because you are being persecuted from home by the government and by the religion or by whatever it is, you should not have the right to return in your country.
If you are claiming, if we are welcoming you here, and if we are welcoming you here, you need also to put all the conflicts from overseas or from your country in a small box and you put it away because we don't see, we don't want to see all those conflicts in our streets.
Alberta Independence Debate00:04:42
Well, on the plus side, Alexa, at least the Liberals didn't cut this guy a $10.5 million check for suffering from hurt feelings and insensitive comments.
You know, Alexa, I think we're overdue for an ad break and my earpiece, hello super producers, is not working anymore.
So I'm doing a lot of lip reading.
Boy, it's difficult, let me tell you.
So let's cut to an ad break and we'll come back about, well, this might be a subject up your alley, Alexa.
Separatism, not in Quebec, but in Alberta.
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What do you think about Alberta trying to get a better deal within Canada?
Do you think Alberta should have the right to vote in a referendum to separate the same way Quebec did?
There's a lot of things to talk about.
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Separation Debates & Standards00:15:30
And what he was saying is like the name of the Colorado terrorist suspect is Mohamed Solomon.
He is from Egypt and would like to see more Alexa on Rebel Roundup.
Thank you.
I'm doing it time to time and I'm getting my English a little bit better every day for being able to do some live.
But yes, he's from Egypt and I'm not really surprised.
I don't know if you saw recently David, but you remember the man in Montreal.
His name is Ziad Moafi.
He was caught doing death threat on tape and he was again doing some death threat to some Jewish people in Montreal and he got arrested.
Oh, it's the Christmas miracle.
And he was crying when he got arrested.
Oh, geez.
You know, these wannabe jihadis we have here, they really are.
I mean, I've gone to a couple of court hearings.
There was one involving a guy in Toronto and he actually brought his mother to court and was trying to hide behind her.
And as I was scrumming them outside the court, they went running to the police department, 52 division.
And we waited around for them.
They never came out.
But by the way, I want to thank the viewer for the super chat.
And like, what more do you need?
I mean, this is an illegal from Egypt who is chanting free, free Palestine.
And the Boulder Colorado police chief is going, well, let's not jump to any conclusions, shall we?
I mean, for goodness sakes.
But anyway.
Why I spoke about Ziad Moafi because apparently he's also from Egypt.
So it's pretty funny.
Unbelievable.
But yes, now speaking of Red Deer, One thing that is a rising issue these days, and I think it's real, I really do, and that is the idea of Alberta separatism.
You know, Alexa, I think you bring a unique perspective to this because we saw in 1980 and then in 1995 referenda in Quebec about separating or, well, there was one kind of nebulous question, sovereignty and association, which I kind of interpreted as, yeah, we want to be our separate nation, but we want to keep our fingers in the till, if you know what I mean, and keep getting transfer payments.
So, I mean, pick a lane for goodness sake.
I would say, Alexa, that in 2025 in Quebec, I don't think a separation mandate could succeed.
I think there's been so many demographic changes in your province that if you couldn't do it in 1980 and 1995, I don't think there's any hope of it happening in 2025 or beyond.
But Alberta, that's a horse of a different color, I would say.
And I completely understand the cause for separation.
The fact that you've got trillions of dollars of mineral wealth purposely trapped underground by succeeding liberal governments and hurting your livelihood.
And yet you're still the, you know, you're still cutting checks via transfer payments to the rest of Canada.
So I guess, you tell me, does Alberta have a case for separation?
And am I right in my premise that separation is deader than disco in Quebec?
I would say that they have all the rights and all the reason why they want to separate, why they need like the rest of the country.
They are the most richest province in Canada.
And I will say in Quebec, I think the separation movement is about maybe 30% or maybe less than that.
So it's not there at all.
And we know that we are going to an election in 2026.
I think it's at the end of the year or maybe it's next year.
I need to check that.
But we are going to an election pretty soon.
And we know that Console Lagoon is decreasing in the poll.
And now we are seeing the Parti Québécois in the Parthians Québécois.
It's the separatist party.
And we know that they want to run another referendum on the sovereignty.
But the thing is, they don't have the support.
They don't have people will vote for them, but they are not in favor of the separation.
It's really crazy in Quebec.
You're voting for a party who the first, the first mandate, what they want is to run a referendum, but you don't want it.
So why are you voting for them?
So anyway, Quebecer are on the on not really understandable, but the thing is, I will say I do not understand them.
But the thing is, we are sitting in Quebec in the most unexploited reserve of natural gas.
We have a lot of oil.
We have a lot of critical mineral.
And all this is not exploited.
So I can understand that Alberta is seeing like Quebec receiving a big part of the equalization payment without extracting their own resources, what can make a huge difference for Canada and for other provinces.
We are not doing our part, and I'm sorry for that.
And I can understand that they are done being screwed by the rest of the country.
Yeah, and you know, what I find just exasperating to understand, Alexa, is that the Quebec government, of course, is saying, no, we're going to be an oil-free province, an oil-free zone due to climate change.
No, you're bringing in oil from Saudi Arabia.
Is that correct?
Not anymore.
Not anymore.
Oh, that's ended?
Now 100% of our oil is coming from U.S., but it's because Alberta oil is coming from, it passed by the U.S.
So now we have maybe 50-50% or something like that.
But we ended, I think, it's what I actually found on the Quebec government, that now it's mainly U.S. and Alberta.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Because I was just, I know at one point Quebec was heavily reliant on Saudi oil.
And our beloved boss man, Ezra Levant, he wrote many years ago a great book called Ethical Oil.
And he was making the case for Alberta oil in terms of environmental standards, in terms of labor standards, things that do not exist in so many nations in the Middle East.
So why would you be adverse to having something ethically and domestically produced and yet bringing in oil from countries that, let's face it, are quasi-dictatorships where human rights is not really a thing.
So at least Quebec has changed its ways that way.
But nevertheless, my argument stands for Albertans who have trillions of dollars of oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, and they can't get it to market because you have Trudeau saying to the leaders of Germany, Japan, Greece, there's no business case to sell you two-thirds of a trillion dollars of liquefied natural gas.
I mean, Alexa, can you think of any energy-producing nation in the entire world that puts the brakes on its own production like Canada does?
It's ridiculous because listen, we are bringing oil and gas from other provinces and from other countries when we are sitting on it.
Yes.
We are currently sitting on it and we are not exploiting it because we are saying, oh, we need to be so green.
We need to reduce our emission.
I'm just like, come on, we can help the whole world to decrease their emission by extracting our own resources that is ethically better for the planet.
And you know, Alexa, I remember back in early April, Lincoln Jay and I went to a Pierre Polyev press conference and then a rally in St. John, New Brunswick.
And Mr. Polyev made a really profound point that St. John, New Brunswick, the port, that was going to be the final destination for the Energy East pipeline.
Translation, 1.2 million barrels of oil per day would be coming into the port of St. John, getting on tankers and going, guess where?
Europe, not the U.S.
And so talk about win-win.
Exploiting our energy wealth in the West and B, going after new markets, not being reliant and dependent on the U.S. market, but it's dead.
And well, as you saw from most of Atlantic Canada, they still voted liberal, elbows up, whatever the hell that means.
I just think this is madness.
But it'll be interesting at this Red Deer conference because I think we have something in the works.
We might have a three-way debate.
The case for separation, the case for staying in Canada, and the case for becoming a 51st state.
And that's not Canada, that is Alberta.
And I'll tell you, if I'm President Trump, I don't want all of Canada, Alexa.
I want Alberta and I want Saskatchewan as the 51st and 52nd states.
That's where the mineral wealth is.
And secondly, for life, those will be Republican electoral college votes.
If you're going to bring in most of left-wing Canada as part of that 51st state, be careful what you wish for, because I would argue with the mindset we have in Canada right now, most people would vote Democrat.
And do you really see the U.S. having like a French province that they need to deal with?
And they have like the bill one-on-one that actually say that our official language is French.
So I'm sorry, I'm staying.
Well, you know what?
Maybe they think Quebec is like Louisiana and once a year they have a big Mardi Gas parade and there's all these floats and gals are going topless if you toss the beads.
But I don't think that happens in your neck of the woods, unfortunately.
I don't want to see that.
I'm sorry.
Well, at least not if it's not Pride Month, then you know anything goes.
But I would say like the most crazy thing that is happening where people are doing all kind of like stupid things, it's mainly in Quebec, I would say.
So people are looking at like Quebecer like, what the heck they are doing?
But you know, tell me, Alexa, and I'm asking you to make a hunch, a gut feeling here, if a referendum was conducted in Alberta right now, because I can tell you, I began my career in Alberta back in 1985, and I love the province.
And I found, by the way, of all the provinces in our Confederation, Alberta is easily the most American.
So I could see openness to being that 51st state.
But I wonder how it would go.
And I have to tell you, if the alternative was endless liberal federal governments putting the brakes on Alberta resource development, call me a traitor, call me a non-patriotic Canadian.
I would have to vote for separation because Confederacy is not working for Alberta right now.
Yeah, it also depends if the federal will recognize the result.
Because I don't know if you remember, but in 1995, I think it was Jean-Cretien who had like a hard time to say if he will recognize or not, because for him, the question was really important, which kind of question you are asking for the referendum.
But also when you see that, example, for us, he passed of 0.1, I think, I think it was 49 point something and 50 and point something, that was half enough.
And a lot of people were saying that this is not enough, a strong mandate to decide to separate.
Same if it's like you get 50% or 51%.
A lot of people were saying like, oh, but you need to have at least 70 and more, like, you know, to have like really a strong mandate to say, okay, we are, we will separate.
So it depends also on the other politicians at the federal level if they will recognize the result, if they will agree with that, because you need the agreement from the federal to decide to separate too.
But Alexa, I don't understand the basis for that, that 50% plus one is not valid, given that as we just saw in our federal election, it is first past the post, sometimes with indeed 50% plus one.
I think there was a recount and the Liberals got in, I think in your neck of the woods, with one single solitary vote.
So if 50% plus one is not good enough for a province to say we want a separation mandate, then why is it good enough to elect a member of parliament?
I would say like, come on, I'm just stating some people in, you know, what they were saying in Quebec.
Yes.
But I would say that I agree with you when it comes to the election at the federal level, when we saw maybe 12 vote or maybe like two vote of difference that if we are recounting again, maybe we will have another result, you know.
And so the thing is, 50% is supposed to be the mandate.
When you get 50 plus one, it's supposed to be you win or you lose.
So I don't see the difference in between why it's good for a politician to be elected in a riding and not for a country who wants to separate.
100%.
Yet again, the double standard.
Double Standard Debate00:07:40
And if we didn't have double standards in this country, Alexa, we would have no standards at all.
You know what?
I see we have three minutes left.
So why don't we go to our old friend, now a member of parliament himself, that would be Andrew Layton.
He made a fantastic, I think, speech in the House of Commons.
Why don't we run to an excerpt of that and sort of make sense of what he was saying?
This is what I will do as a member of parliament.
So I do not take the fairweather patriots, those with their newfound celebration of Canadianism, with their flags still creased and wrapped in plastic practically, as they seek to lecture Canadians on what it means to be an elbows up Canadian.
Mr. Speaker, I will always and have always waved the Canadian flag proudly, and I will not stand by while those who were denigrating people who did that years ago claim to have the moral high ground on what it means to be a Canadian now.
This is a chamber.
You know what, Alexa?
And when Andrew Lawton says years ago, not that many years ago, we're talking 2022, where the Freedom Convoy, they wrapped themselves in the Canadian flag and the leftist elites heaped scorn upon them.
And I spoke to, I mean, one of the symbols of the Freedom Convoy all over Canada was the pickup truck with a hockey stick coming out of the bed with a Canadian flag.
And I would interview the drivers of these trucks and they all said the same thing to me, Alexa, that back then in 2022, that not a day would go by where somebody would pass them on the road, the window down, giving the raised middle finger, you know, dropping an F-bomb.
Oh, suddenly, red and white, it's in vogue again.
It's the new fashion.
Elbows up, Mark Carney, the second coming of Captain Canuck.
I mean, this is unbelievable to me, Alexa.
Yeah, and probably like if you look at the people who are doing elbows up today, they were all against the Freedom Convoy.
People, the same people who raised their flag to get their basic freedom back and to be able to feed their family and to be able to be a proud Canadian.
And those people were beaten up by the police.
They were getting slammed, their truck was being destroyed, their window were smashed, some people were dragged on the ground in the snow.
A woman was trampled by a horse.
I got shot in the legs.
What do you expect more?
It's just terrible to see the double standard again of those people who are raising their flag of elbows up, but they never been really proud to be Canadian and that suddenly, just because it's Donald Trump now oh suddenly, they have like the sentiment to be a Canadian do.
Do they know really what it is to be a Canadian?
Probably, if you ask them, they probably don't know what it is to be a Canadian.
And Alexa, I'd go even further.
What year was it?
I think 2016 or 2017.
Remember, for months and months on end, the Trudeau liberals did not raise the Canadian flag.
Remember that at federal buildings in Parliament Hill.
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Um they uh, I believe one year they canceled Dominion Day, aka Canada Day celebrations.
And these are the same liberals, minus the leader, who are now saying, hey, it's cool to wave the the, the red and white flag.
I i'm just baffled by it and I am stunned how many people in our country, going back to april 28th, bought into this ridiculous narrative that Carney was the superhero to save us, whereas more and more we find out about uh, this man uh, talk about the ultimate bait and switch.
Eh imagine like, do you remember when, uh the freedom convoy, they put the Canadian flag on Terry Fox?
Yes, that that was truly what it is to be Canadian, Terry fox and and and the Canadian flag.
Imagine, if they are doing that today.
They probably will not be outraged as they did with this freedom convoy.
So yeah, we are seeing, like today, a really uh, double standard hypocrisy from uh those uh woke leftist people believe in we.
We can be Canadian when only we want to Be, and I find that pretty sad.
And General Alexa, I'm glad you brought up the Terry Fox statue because I want to make something very clear.
I never got out to the very first weekend of the Freedom Convoy.
I was just recovering from an illness, but I was listening to the radio on the Saturday of the first day, and I was listening to 680 News here in Toronto.
And the reporter reported that the Freedom Convoy members had vandalized the Terry Fox statue.
And I remember putting my head into my hands, and I go, oh, you dummies, how could you do that?
And then I learned the so-called vandalization was making a cape of the Canadian flag around the Terry Fox statue.
And if you're going to argue that that qualifies as vandalism, okay, then why pray tell during the Pride March in Ottawa, the Terry Fox statue is routinely draped in rainbow flags.
Is that vandalism too?
And when we are seeing all those statues being vandalized, really vandalized by those anti-Israel who are painting and putting all kind of like stuff on those statues, really important statue, but there is no public outrage regarding that.
So again, it just shows like how a certain part of the population have the rights to express themselves and the other one can't because it's just for them is inappropriate and it's inappropriate views and they are extremists.
They are extremists because they are carrying Canadian flag.
It is just incredible.
And that is a great point.
When you look at statues of say Sir John A. MacDonald being routinely vandalized, the role of government and law enforcement is not to press charges of vandalism, but it's to either dismantle the statue and put it away in some warehouse, or as we've seen in Ontario for the last five years, putting Sir John at Queen's Park in a wooden coffin.
Can you imagine for five years?
That coffin's coming down this summer.
Dairy and Health Care Strain00:07:34
I'm not sure which day, but it'll be most interesting to see when the thugs of Antifa or Black Lives Matter or more recently the Hamasholes come out to denigrate it.
Let's see if these people are charged because that's the way you deal with it, not canceling our own history.
Well, Alexa, I see we're just five minutes over time.
We have a super chat.
Oh, well, we always put the brakes on for that.
So we have Albertadon, $5.
Thank you very much.
So Quebec got 15 billions of dollars from Alberta last year and banned pipelines.
Did Carney put in a law to protect Quebec dairy?
No migrant should be able to sponsor a relative until he hasn't received benefits for three years.
Is it benefits or benefits?
There is a lot to unfold in this super chat.
I will say yes, Quebec received about 15 billion dollars from the equalization payment.
And yes, it's true.
They are banning pipelines.
But I will say to every Canadian right now, Francois Lagoux is saying that he's looking into a partnership to build pipeline here in Quebec.
But the thing is, Francois Lagou do not have a long time left in front of him.
If the PQ is winning, your pipeline will disappear in a second because they are anti-pipeline.
For the second one, did Carney put in a law to protect Quebec dairy?
We know that we have a cartel for the dairy in Quebec.
So everybody knows it's not something that is hidden.
And of course, they will continue to protect those cartels, that's for sure, because it's too costly politically to talk about it or to address that cartel.
Yeah, you're right, Alexa.
Talking about the supply management system in Canada, which is not just dairy, but also turkey, eggs, and chicken, that is what they call in politics a third rail issue.
In other words, you stand on that rail, you're going to get electrocuted.
So none of the major parties, except in fairness, Maxine Bernier of the People's Party, has taken a stance saying supply management has to go.
And make no mistake, this is a huge issue with the Trump government.
The idea that with some tariffs, when you look at dairy, as much as 300%.
So Mr. Carney's going to have to do a balancing act.
On one hand, he can't alienate the liberal base, especially in Quebec, in terms of tampering with supply management.
But how do you explain that certain dairy products are subject to a 300% tariff coming in from the U.S. to Canada?
I think that emboldens Mr. Trump's argument.
So interesting days ahead.
And by the way, the last point, and I want to address that, but it's true that if immigrants are coming in Canada and they cannot touch any benefit, any health care, any support from the government for a period of time until they get their citizenship or they get approved,
I think if they don't get anything and they need to pay for everything that they need, that will actually maybe reverse the number of immigrants that we are receiving.
I think it's in Sweden.
Is it in Sweden that right now they pass a law saying that you can't touch any funding from the government or health care or any services until you get approved or something like that?
Anyway, I think it's something that maybe Canada should maybe look into it because right now people who are arriving, they are there, they are waiting for being heard.
Sometimes it would take three, five years, something maybe more than that, and they get already free everything.
And who would not want to benefit from that?
You know, that is a great point in terms of our first block subject, Alexa, in terms of the amount of immigrants coming in, over 800,000 in the first quarter of this year alone.
The strain on our health care system.
And we all have stories.
I mean, last year I needed an MRI.
I had to wait, I think it was 11 months.
I got an earlier appointment only because of cancellation.
But what do you think that's going to do to wait times, right?
I mean, it's, and already we're throwing so much money at health care.
And me, I'd like a two-tier healthcare system because really, in terms of if you can pay for immediate treatment, what's wrong with that?
That's how it's done in Germany.
That's how it's done in France.
It works there.
But that, like supply management, that's a third rail issue.
It never gets discussed.
So that for me and you, if we need an MRI, we're waiting almost a year.
But if you're a member of the Toronto May-Belief, so the Toronto Blue Jays, you get it the very next day.
Funny how that works out, right?
I thought we were all equal.
But as George Orwell said, all animals are equal.
Some animals more equal than others, I suppose.
But it's really sad because I need to bring something personal of my life.
But my mom, at one point, she needed a really vital surgery.
And at one point, she was suffering so much and she was losing so much weight that she was looking into MAID because she was like, I can't continue like that.
And finally, she got the surgery.
But imagine how many people are in that situation and are looking at MAID instead of like waiting for surgery that they need.
You know, I'm sorry to hear that, but you make an excellent point.
The federal government solution, part of their solution, is MAID.
Unburden yourself from the system.
You know, lessen the line by people opting out as in forever opting out.
It's shocking.
Because like I said, Alexa, if your mother played center for the Montreal Canadians, she is getting, you know, gold-plated health care the very next day.
And it's a shame our system is in that state.
But we really must run.
Alexa, I want to thank you.
But I want to thank you to Fred Law for the $5, for the thank you, Rebecca News.
Thank you for your super chat.
Fred Law, thank you very much.
No relation to Loblaw, I hope.
I don't think so.
Well, Alexa, thank you so much for coming off the bench and filling in for Sheila Gunnread.
And thank you to all our viewers who made a super chat.
That's how we keep the lights on here.
I believe it is Sheila and Lise tomorrow.
So in the meantime, as always, stay safe and stay sane.
Why Leave Trillion-Dollar Oil In the Ground?00:00:56
Why tie the issue of getting a commitment for an oil pipeline to national unity?
Well, you have to understand just how damaged Alberta is by the fact that we didn't get pipelines built.
If we had built Northern Gateway, if we'd built Keystone and we'd built Energy East, we'd have 2.5 million barrels more per day of production, which is $55 billion a year worth of GDP value, which is worth $17 billion to my government alone and about an equal amount to the federal government.
So this is not just an ideological argument.
It's not just a minor disagreement.
Oil is by far the most valuable export for Canada.
Any of the projects that you have, that you will see on the ultimate list, I will tell you that a bitumen pipeline will be by far the greatest benefit to all of Canada.
That's why we're going to continue to push for it because it's just, it's a good project.
It's good for our country.
There's $9 trillion worth of value in discoverable and achievable reserves right now.