Ezra Levant, Western Independence advocate and former Reform Party Student Society leader, argues Alberta’s sovereignty movement gains momentum amid economic frustration—housing costs and anti-oil policies like Trudeau’s net-zero lobbying—while CBC and government-funded media weaponize propaganda against the upcoming 2026 referendum. Sue Ann Levy slams Netflix’s one-sided Rob Ford documentary, calling it "trash" for ignoring his redemption and allies while exploiting his vulnerabilities. Rebel News fights for G7 accreditation in Calgary, covering Trump’s surprise early departure from Canonascus and Modi’s arrival, contrasting Alberta’s pro-Trump energy with Khalistani protests. Levant’s push for independence reflects a broader Western disillusionment with Canada’s perceived betrayal of regional values. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, you'll hear what Ezra had to say from our town hall on Western separation in Red Deer over the weekend.
Then, journalist Sue Ann Levy takes down Netflix's unfair and one-sided documentary about troubled Toronto mayor, the dearly departed Rob Ford.
It is June 19th, 2025.
I'm Sheila Gunnreid.
But yes, you are watching the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Welcome to the Ezra LeVant Show.
I'm Sheila Gunnreid filling in while Ezra is away.
Don't worry, he hasn't been canceled, arrested, or roped into some sort of CBC smear job.
He's actually on the Rebel News cruise this week, sailing international waters off the coast of Alaska and British Columbia with a bunch of freedom-loving Canadians.
Frankly, it's the safest place to be under Mark Carney's government.
But while Ezra's working the starboard side of the free speech fight, I'm here at the helm with a stacked show.
First, we're going to take you back to Red Deer for a powerful clip from Ezra's address at our Rebel News Live Western Independence Town Hall.
It was a nearly sold-out crowd in some places, I think, standing room only.
And Ezra delivered a message about the future of the West and why it is time to stand up to Ottawa Now.
Then I'll be joined by journalist and author Sue Ann Levy to break down Netflix's so-called documentary about former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
Let's be honest, it's less about telling the truth and more about dragging his name through the mud one more time.
But Sue Ann knew Rob.
She covered his career.
And tonight, she's setting the record straight.
All that and more coming up right here on The Ezra Levant Show.
My name is Ezra Levant, and I'm the founder of the Rebel News Network, which is a team of more than 30 people dedicated to telling the other side of the story.
Setting the Record Straight00:11:23
And that's what we're here to do today.
You know, I grew up in Alberta.
I went to school in Calgary and then to law school in Edmonton.
And I grew up when Preston Manning was trying to fix Canada from within.
He named the party the Reform Party.
And his motto was the West Wants In.
And he had a thesis, which was instead of trying to leave, can we fix it and put that same energy into adjusting the structures and fixing the problems that was pushing Alberta out?
And he gave his life to that project.
And millions of people followed him.
I was the head of the Reform Party Student Society at the University of Calgary more than 30 years ago.
And here we are today.
And did we move the ball forward?
Did we fix anything or have all those essential problems remain the same despite his good faith efforts?
And despite, for example, the nine years that an Albertan, Stephen Harper, was the prime minister.
Are things fundamentally different with how Alberta and the West are represented, not just politically, but culturally and financially?
Is anything actually different or are things the same or worse?
Well, we're going to talk about those things today.
We've got a great day set up.
If you've seen the agenda, we have excellent speakers.
We have panels.
And to me, the highlight of the day is going to be a featured debate between two Albertans who love this place very much.
I'll introduce them more properly later.
On the one hand, Keith Wilson, the lawyer for the Freedom Convoy.
And on the other hand, David Legg, the man who was deputized to go out to the world's financial markets after Rachel Notley was kicked out to tell them that Alberta is back.
Come and invest again.
That's David Legg.
These two men who I've known for more than 30 years love this province very much and have two very different strategies for how to achieve Alberta's goals.
Keith Wilson will be making the case for independence.
David Legg will be making the case for fixing the country from within.
I really think that's going to be an illuminating debate.
And I can't think of two better people, evenly matched in their love of this place and their smarts.
That's going to be, to me, an amazing debate.
So thank you for coming.
You know, last week I was in County Cork, Ireland, and I was wearing my shirt that said rebel.
And I didn't really know that when you wear the word rebel in Ireland, it's got a little bit of a different meaning.
And County Cork, their motto is the rebel county.
I tell you, I had a lot of conversations and people were so disappointed to learn that, no, I'm not Irish.
But I learned things in Ireland.
I try and learn things from wherever I travel for Rebel about how other battles are fought and won and lost.
And can we learn from them here at home?
And one of the things that I think I've learned is that you don't get what you don't ask for.
And power is really rarely given.
It's almost always taken.
And I think that from my own point of view, having grown up in Alberta, went to school west of Calgary and then spent the first third of my life in this province, the first half of my life, is that I think that Albertans generally love Canada.
Canada's our home.
We grew up in Canada.
And the Canada that we loved was the Canada that respected the things that we loved.
Patriotism, standing up to tyranny, freedom, the pioneer spirit.
And so if I were to compare any independence movement in Alberta to those around the world, I would say ours in Alberta and the West is not motivated by rage or anger so much as disappointment and resignation and the realization that we tried so hard and we sent our best and we went with an open hand and we were slapped away and we were mocked.
I was Preston Manning's assistant and I'll never forget the way he was derided personally.
He was mocked.
Of course he was called a racist.
That's just the standard playbook of the mainstream media and the mainstream political media industrial complex.
But I think what I'm sensing is it's like that movie Groundhog Day, just over and over and over again.
And how many times, how many generations of Albertans would say, it's not fair, can we fix it?
Before people say, it ain't fixing.
We're knocking on the door so much, but our knuckles are bloody.
It's a different spirit of rebellion than, let's say, a violent rebellion that you might have seen in Cork 100 odd years ago.
It's a rebellion of steely determination, I think.
And our job as Rebel News is to tell the story honestly.
Because what I'm seeing already is that Central Canada and the voices of the media industrial complex will be condescending, will be abusive, will be accusatory, will be contemptuous of Alberta's goals and ambitions in a way that they have not been for Quebec's demands.
Whenever Quebec asks for something, there's a good cop-bad cop dynamic with a Quebecer in Quebec negotiating with a Quebecer in Ottawa how best to handle Quebec.
And it's an inside job.
It's a stitch-up.
And that's just how it is.
Quebec has three out of nine seats on the Supreme Court, which is disproportionate.
Quebec has different constitutional deals.
Quebec has different financial deals.
And all of that is with the approval of the Central Canadian elite because it's all paid for by Alberta.
Why wouldn't it have the approval of Toronto and Ottawa?
We're going to cover this referendum campaign more honestly and more fairly than any other media, certainly based in Eastern Canada, because that's our style.
We tell the other side of the story.
There are some other independent media in Canada, and I'm delighted that friendly competitors of Rebel News have joined us today.
My friends at Juneau and Counter Signal and Western Standard are all here today, and I trust them because the media organizations I've just listed have a few things in common.
But the most important, I put it to you, is that none of us are funded by the government.
And how can you possibly be free to speak freely if you are a news organization whose primary source of funding is the government?
Now, by the way, I should tell you: if you remember when you signed up on our ticket page, there were several different prices.
There was an early bird price, and I think there was a student price.
And I don't know if you saw it, but we had a mainstream media price.
Did you see that?
it was a thousand dollars now a reporter from the daily telegraph in london emailed me and said can i get a ticket And I said, The Daily Telegraph, I love you guys.
I'm going to give you a 10% discount.
It's, but don't tell anyone it's just for friends.
He said, Oh, that's nice, thanks.
And then he wrote back and he said, he was shocked by it.
And I said, Look, you're the Daily Telegraph.
Your owner literally lives in a castle on a private island.
He can chip in.
I don't think he's here.
If he's here, he's undercover.
The Washington Post, which is owned by the world's second richest man, Jeffrey Bezos, I think they just sneaked in under a regular ticket price.
But that's okay.
Hopefully, they'll report honestly and accurately what they see here today.
But the fact that the Daily Telegraph of London and that the Washington Post of Washington have come here to this modest gathering of severely normal people, I think tells you something.
That even if other parts of Canada have their head in the sand, the world realizes that what's cooking in Alberta is enormously important.
And I'm not sure if the rest of Canada has wrapped their mind around what's coming yet.
It is a fact that there will be a sovereignty referendum next year.
is going to happen.
Premier Daniel Smith has used Jason Kenney's Potemkin Law.
Jason Kenney brought in fake legislation to permit referendums and citizens' initiatives and recalls.
I call them fake because the level of signatures required was so enormously high, in some cases, it would be higher than the number of people who actually voted.
It was designed as a placebo, a trick.
Throw some red meat to those rural folks.
They'll love this.
And if you read the fine print, you'll realize that it was a trick.
But Daniel Smith took that legislation and said, oh, well, the legislation is already passed.
We'll just adjust these insane numbers.
Now, all that's needed is 177,000 signatures to be collected over a 120-day period.
That's one-tenth of the number who actually voted, not of who could vote.
177,000 names in 120 days.
Absolutely doable.
This referendum will happen.
And I think it's going to catch a lot of people unprepared.
I think there's a real chance that the referendum could pass.
And suddenly there's going to be a panic.
Sovereignty Association Debate00:12:34
You know, I thought a lot about Donald Trump's attempt to woo Canada by tweeting, we cherish you.
He used that word cherish, didn't he?
And I thought it was sort of funny.
But I immediately thought, when was the last time any Canadian prime minister actually said to Alberta, we cherish you?
I mean, I don't know if Donald Trump means it, but he said it, which is more than anything Mark Carney or Justin Trudeau or the rest of them have ever said.
And Donald Trump's comments, which I think unfortunately scared a million Ontario centrists into the loving arms of Mark Carney, Donald Trump's comments, which I think helped install a Liberal prime minister, I think they hit people's ears a different way depending on where they were in their minds and their hearts.
Here's what I mean.
And those of you who were in our, who here was in our Calgary rally or Edmonton rally last month, some folks here.
So I use this analogy there.
Forgive me for saying it again, but I think it fits.
Saying to another country, hey, come join us as a 51st state, it's like saying to someone who's married already, ditch that guy and come with me.
Like it's sort of shocking in a way.
It's like that old movie from 30 years ago, Indecent Proposal, where Woody Harrelson was offered a million dollars or whatever if his wife slept with a rich businessman.
An indecent proposal, to be sure.
How dare you offer a proposal of marriage?
I'm happily married.
Okay, stop right there.
Hang on a second.
You said happily married.
And that's the difference, isn't it?
For all of those people in Canada who are happily married to Canada, who find Canada the way it is great.
They find it emotionally fulfilling, who find it a source of respect, and it would have come across as an indecent proposal.
But what if you were so unhappy in your current relationship that you were looking for a way out?
Maybe you were contemplating a divorce and some swaggering guy said, Hey, want to join me?
I think it lands on the ear a little bit differently if you loved Canada deeply and emotionally, or if those ties that bind have been frayed with abuse over the last generation.
If you look at the people in Canada who told pollsters they were most open to Donald Trump's indecent proposal, they were people in the West more than in the East.
They were young more than old.
They were men more than women.
They were people who realized they can't get a fair shake.
They were people who can't buy a home, can't afford a home, who maybe would have got a six-figure job in the oil patch, but now they have someone as prime minister who talks about transitioning off oil, who talks, who for a decade before he became prime minister, was the chairman of something called the Global Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
Basically, his full-time lobbying job was to disparage the oil sands and to attack carbon as if some element on the periodic table was some sort of moral enemy.
So now what do we have?
Another four years of this, another four years where he'll play games with, if there's a national consensus, we'll allow you to build a pipeline.
That's not what the Constitution says.
The Constitution doesn't talk about a national consensus.
The Constitution doesn't allow the prime minister to pick and choose.
Either it's lawful or if it's not.
How many more years do you propose to go around this merry-go-round?
I was Preston Manning's youth guy at U of C 30 plus years ago.
Will my own kids or grandkids be saying the same things the West wants in?
I don't know.
What I learned from Ted Byfield, the first news outlet that I worked for, is to respect Albertans who are working through these issues, to treat them as people who are trying to find the way forward in good faith.
Don't be contemptuous.
Don't be condescending.
Do not mock.
Do not talk down.
Do not deride.
I think that was the number one thing Ted Bifield's Alberta report did for the Reform Party.
He showed it respect, even if it was amateurish, even if it was not as intellectually, didn't have the same pedigree as PhDs, PhDs from some Montreal university.
If people in Alberta felt a sense of alienation, give them respect, the respect of listening to them.
Report on what they say accurately.
Platform those people, even if they don't, they're not part of your clique, if they're not part of your club.
From time to time, I watch CBC's at-issue panel, which is all the political diversity from A to B. You know, I mean, it's got Chantali Bear, Althea Raj, and Andrew Coyne, who, by the way, every year start to physically resemble each other more and more.
I mean, Rosemary Barton is in Ottawa.
Chantali Bear's in Montreal.
So is Althea Raj.
Andrew Coyne's in Toronto.
They're all related either by marriage or Althea wrote the biography for Trudeau.
Like, it's just so incestuous.
And it's just this little group of people who all know each other, none of them who, you know, to go west of Toronto, it would be like an old-timey map that said, here be dragons.
Like they just, they don't even know what's west of Toronto.
That is, they call that a political debate.
Rebel News, our point of view, and I learned this from Ted, was listen to people, even if they're a little bit rough around the edges.
If they're speaking from the heart, give them the perspective of reporting what's going on.
If we can, this is about 600 plus people who have come in, thank you, spent about 50 bucks, coming to set aside an entire day to talk about an issue.
And I tell you, there have been thousands of Albertans who have had meetings.
And we were in Regina a few weeks ago.
500 people came out in Regina, Saskatchewan.
There is something going on that maybe they don't detect at the CBC headquarters.
And Rebel News will host this debate and we will do it fairly.
I'm very excited about the day ahead.
We've got speeches.
We've got panels, including a media panel.
I told you about the great debate.
We have a little bit of a kind of trade show at the back.
Please make sure you check out the vendors here today.
And I think the further you can look into the future, the sharper your decisions today will be.
Realize that the referendum is coming.
It's a fact, even if Andrew Coyne doesn't like it.
Realize that when Central Canada finally wakes up to the fact that the milk cow of Confederation might find Donald Trump's offer enticing, or if not, Donald Trump maybe just wants to be single for a bit.
And one of the things I think our panelists will discuss are the differences between being independent, between having some sort of sovereignty association, becoming a 51st state.
There's different ways this can go.
And by the way, why is it okay for Quebec to figure these things out?
Sovereignty association, have a passport and a currency.
There's so many questions that can be debated.
Why is Quebec allowed to debate that?
But no one in Alberta is.
If I were to look ahead, if I were to look ahead, I would say that Central Canada is going to wake up startled one day and realize that that referendum is coming.
And they're going to realize that they're late to the game, and they're going to reach into their bag of tricks for what they normally do.
They're going to try and cancel and defame and deplatform and demonize and denormalize and defund and alienate and smear anyone who says we can do better than this current arrangement.
It's going to be like the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom just over a decade ago.
I don't know if you know this, but the establishment campaign against Brexit, which was a referendum separating from the European Union, everyone was for the European Union.
Everyone was for Remain except the people.
So the official campaign to remain, they literally internally used the name Project Fear, Project Fear.
And they did in fact say anyone who would vote to leave the European Union was a racist, was far right, as they say over there.
Do you doubt that's coming?
Do you doubt that the government-funded state media, and I'm not just talking about CBC, I'm talking about every newspaper in this country that takes Trudeau's subsidy.
Do you doubt that they will be weaponized against the referendum just as they were weaponized short years ago in the COVID propaganda?
Do you remember how uniform the regime media was during the lockdowns?
Not a peep of dissent.
That's what money does.
And imagine the amount of money that will be spent by the government stopping the goose that lays the golden eggs from leaving.
So understand what's coming and look at how it's been done in other jurisdictions.
Learn from those places.
That's what I want to do today.
I want to learn.
I want to listen to the different points of view.
I want to go straight to the horse's mouth.
I want to hear it from the horse himself.
I don't want to get my news through the CBC.
I don't want to figure things out with the coaching of that regime panel of Andrew Coyne and all those.
I want to get to know the people directly.
And I want our team of journalists, led by Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter.
And we have several other of our reporters here today, including Sidney Fazzard and Angelica Toy.
I pledge to you that we will cover these events.
We'll cover them fairly.
We'll cover them in a spirit of good faith.
We will not mock or deride.
And it is my goal that in a year's time, when the referendum is happening, when this whole movement is moving, that you will regard Rebel News as a trustworthy source of information and advice on how to proceed.
Welcome to our day-long conference.
Thank you for being here.
I've seen the new Netflix documentary on former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
If you consume the mainstream media in Toronto, it's described as worth a watch.
They say a Rob Ford documentary just dropped on Netflix.
Here's what people are saying.
Why Ford Docs Fall Short00:04:05
Now, someone I know and trust does not describe it as worth a watch.
She describes it as Netflix trash that made her want to cry, and it sourced the vipers who drove Rob Ford into an early grave.
Joining me now to discuss Netflix's trashy documentary and her recent op-ed in Juneau News is Sue Ann Levy.
Sue Anne, thanks for coming on the show as I fill in for Ezra over the next few days.
Tell us, you watched the documentary so we don't have to break it down for us.
Well, I forced myself to because I knew it was coming and then I saw it on my own Netflix screen being promoted and I forced myself to watch it last night and it was every bit as bad as I expected it would be.
The director/slash producer who is from England basically pulled all the most sensational clips of his time in office and interviewed all the people who, like you said, drove him, helped drive him to an early grave, who harassed him, stalked him, mocked him, and just treated him like dirt.
And there was actually no attempt made from the looks of it to talk to people who actually thought he'd done a good job for the time he was, you know, before all the, I guess the wheels fell off the bus, and to talk to people who had some empathy and compassion for him.
And I don't mean necessarily myself, but anybody who was right of center, who had been with him and watched him for years upon years, would have a slightly different view.
Yeah, they sourced a bunch of journalists who mocked him regularly, Katie Simpson, and even people who stabbed him in the back, like Mark Toey.
It was just the most bizarre bunch of nonsense.
And they never once told the story of the redemption arc, because really he had a bit of a redemption arc.
He swept into City Hall, caused a bunch of chaos.
His scandals broke.
In the end, he owned them.
And then he did his best to get clean and live out the rest of his days as best he could.
But that part is left right out of it.
Totally.
And the part before he became mayor, because I knew him from the mid-2000s and the efforts he made as counselor to expose the rot and waste at City Hall was never ever brought up.
He just didn't walk into the mayor's chair.
He had had a history, a track record of trying to deal with the gravy train.
And he thought that by becoming mayor, he, of course, would have far more influence.
And, you know, he had a good year and he had really good people surrounding him.
I saw a clip of, for example, Doug Holliday.
And they never, I don't know if they ever attempted to talk to him because he helped try to keep the wheels on the bus.
And, you know, like I say in my piece, his heart was in the right place.
He had demons.
Who doesn't in this life?
And I will also add that these are the very people, the people who are quoted in this trashy documentary, who would be the first to wring their hands about allowing drug addicts, crack addicts in particular, to roam the streets of Toronto, to get shot up or allowed to smoke at safe injection sites, who have fought reciprocally to keep these drug enabling sites going in Toronto.
Embodiment Of Controversy00:11:24
And these are the very same people who speak out constantly about bullying.
They should all look in the mirror.
They should all be ashamed of themselves for what they said on this documentary.
You know, that's an excellent point.
One I was going to make to you is, you know, these are the same people who advocate for supervised injection sites, supervised inhalation sites, compassion for the addict.
And actually, I believe in compassion for the addict.
I don't want to compassion them right into the grave.
And it seems as though, in the absence of all of this, whatever their personal beefs were, political beefs were, with Rob Ford, there's zero respect or compassion shown for the family he left behind in any of this.
No, and I was asked, I was watching the documentary last night.
Thought, well, you know, it's nine years ago.
His daughter must be in her late teens.
His son must be a teenager as well.
You know, I've kind of really lost touch with the family, but you know, I do know that Doug Ford was approached about speaking and he said no.
Thankfully, he begged off.
But, you know, why?
What was the purpose of all of this?
The man is deceased.
Let him rest in peace.
Yeah, I, you know, one of the most heartbreaking things for me in all of this was, I think, little Doug Ford, Rob's son, on his lawn.
I think he was in his pajamas, talking to reporters, I think, after his father passed.
And I thought, what are you doing at this kid's house?
You know, get out of there.
But they never had any appropriate boundaries with Rob's family whatsoever.
I'll never forget.
I think it was Daniel Dale peeping over the back fence like an absolute total weirdo.
In a normal country, that would have ended somebody's career.
Instead, he's gone on to even bigger and better voyeuristic things.
Yes, exactly.
Working for CNN and, you know, doing his fact finding, which is the biggest joke ever, but in the States, but Katie Simpson as well.
Her reward for mocking and harassing this guy and treating him like dirt was to get a plum appointment in the U.S.
So, you know, there is no justice.
And yes, they were very, very intrusive.
I can only imagine, Sheila, if I, during my journalism career, had shown up in somebody's backyard, my God, people would have been going crazy in the left-wing media, of course.
These people really did make a career on Rob Ford and exploiting Rob Ford's troubles and the troubles of his family to make a career.
Robin Doolittle wrote a book, as you rightly point out in your piece to line her pockets on the misery of the Ford family, Katie Simpson, as you said.
I think Mark Toohy wrote a book too.
The narcissistic opus about how he tried to help him.
I mean, yeah, these people are shameless, absolutely shameless.
Now, when I did my book Underdog in 2016, I felt it really important to do a chapter to set the record straight.
And my publisher said it was one of the best chapters ever written about Rob Ford because I showed some empathy and compassion towards him.
And that's the only reason I say that.
So who's missing from this documentary?
You knew Rob Ford back then.
Who could have provided at least the remotest sense of balance in all of this?
Anyone that I worked with at the sun who covered City Hall.
And not, like I said, it could have been me.
It could have been others who were at the City Hall Bureau during Rob Ford's time.
I even saw some of them on the videos.
It could have been somebody who was on council who supported him.
His closest allies like Doug Holiday, like Kay Soates.
I mean, these people did experience the craziness, but they also knew that, like I said, his heart was in the right place.
And when you look at Toronto now, post-Rob Ford, it's a mess.
It's a train wreck.
I don't think Olivia Chow could do worse if she tried.
I saw a clip of her today where she's bragging about Toronto being the fastest growing city in North America.
That's a problem, sister, that everybody is landing at Pearson and claiming refugee status, and then you don't have a place to put them, and you don't have roads for them to drive on and houses and hospitals for them to have.
I mean, I just look at the mess since Rob Ford, sure, he had his problems, but he did his best to keep the city of Toronto be the best that it could possibly be.
I think he, as you say, his heart was in the right place.
Well, he tried to stop the waste and mismanagement and the corruption at City Hall.
And the left, of course, did not like that one bit.
And he had an affinity, as I say in my column, to the common man.
And he had no problem going and knocking on people's doors and trying to help them.
You know, sometimes we said, well, you're, you know, you're a mayor.
You shouldn't be doing that.
There are other people to do it.
But frankly, a number of the counselors did not respond, were not retail politicians, didn't care about their constituents, just cared about getting re-elected.
And, you know, it was just a totally different person.
I think they were very jealous of him, very upset that he was upsetting the apple cart.
Does it sound a little bit like what's going on south of the border?
Because it reminds me very much.
But I'm telling you, Sheila, when I watched that video last night, I was sickened.
It reminded me of all the awful, awful things that happened over his time in office.
I remember them being so, I don't know what the right word is, thrilled, I guess maybe it is, that he was dying.
I remember that.
Just the grave dancing before he was in it.
Adam Vaughan was the most despicable character.
And, you know, thankfully, he wasn't in this video, but he, I mean, he used to mock Rob Ford and he was vicious.
And then the day of his funeral, he walked into the church and walked up to the front row like he was his best friend.
Sick.
And I wrote a scathing column about that.
And he was forced to go on radio and defend himself.
I mean, it was just disgusting.
It was disgusting the way they all treated him.
I have two favorite Rob Ford memories, and none of them are of his drama.
It was Rob Ford, once he got to City Hall in the mayor's chair, going through the list of things like the cards and the freebies that all the politicians get around there and laying it bare.
This is what they're getting while they want more money, while they want more raises, while they want to pad their expense accounts.
And I thought, you know, I've never seen this before.
They're all getting it.
They all have access to the same camera that Rob Ford has.
Nobody's ever told the truth about what they were getting.
And then my second one is CBC Radio called him when he was coaching football and he took the phone call, like the interview from CBC Radio.
And then one of the hosts said, you know, you sound like you're distracted, like you don't want to have this interview.
And he said, I'm coaching football, like right now.
And they were sort of taken aback.
But for me, that embodies who Rob Ford really was.
Constantly giving back to the community, trying to do as many things and talk to as many people as possible while exposing the rot.
My favorite was the night he won.
I was commenting on CBC Radio, which quickly ended as everybody in the media got more woke.
But in 2010, I was asked to comment.
I was in the studio and I literally, literally, the hosts and the other commenters who were all, you know, left-wing legacy media turned white.
And I'm sitting there going, I mean, not knowing what was to come because they were not, they were not going to let him govern, like, you know, allow him to pursue his.
maritalty.
They were not going to let him.
And even though he had those addictions, they broke him down.
They really, really broke him down.
Yeah.
Just imagine the stress that he was under every single day.
I know how they would treat me.
Oh, for sure.
They were always watching, but I'm a strong person.
I don't have addictions.
So I was able to handle.
But I know somebody has an addictive personality and they, you know, and they really care.
Like, not that I didn't care, but, you know, he, they knew, they knew they were targeting somebody who was vulnerable and they were just waiting like a bunch of vultures to get him.
And you know, one of the worst people works for Olivia Chow now, Adam Chalef Freudenthaler.
That guy was a vile, vile person.
He took him to court and now he's one of her advisors.
So you can see where they all end up.
If you could describe Rob Ford to someone who had never met him in a sentence, Sue Anne, how would you?
Well, it wouldn't be like Katie Simpson or Robin Doolittle in the film.
I would say that he was a bear of a man who cared tremendously about the little guy.
And he wasn't the least bit homophobic.
He was so kind to my wife and I.
And I met her during the time he, just before he came into office.
And he was so kind to us.
So, you know, the left-wing media did a real number on him about that as well.
So, you know, curse to them.
I hope karma, you know, I hope there is some karma in this light at some point.
As long as they remain awful, you and I have job security.
And so I try to try to look at the glass being half full.
That's very true, Sheila.
But they're ruining a lot of lives along the way.
Sue Anne, how do people find the very important journalism that you do, which serves as a counterbalance to the vitriol nonsense and misinformation of the mainstream?
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Go on Juno News.
And I'm featured on there.
My columns are featured on there.
Might have to sign up for a subscription, but Sheila, it's well worth it.
Just like Rebel is.
Well worth it.
Absolutely.
Sue Ann, thanks so much.
Thanks for coming on the show.
And thank you so much for doing your best to set the record straight on Rob Ford.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Now, normally we close the show on your letters to Ezra, but I'm not Ezra and I don't have any letters to him today.
But I thought I would close the show out on some of our independent journalism from on the ground in and around Cananascus and Banff for the G7.
You can see all of our coverage at g7reports.com and you can also see our legal battle and support our legal battle to get accredited officially through the Global Affairs Department of the Government of Canada, who were definitely ragging the puck, as they say, to run out the clock to see if they had to accredit us at all at letusreport.com.
Now, not all of the action was in Banff or Cananascus.
In fact, very little of the action at all was at the media center in Banff, and I think that's how Global Affairs wanted it.
But that doesn't mean that we weren't doing journalism.
So I want to show you this report from my friends and colleagues, Sid Fizard and Angelica Toy, where they were at the airport to watch the president and leader of the free world, Donald Trump, land in Calgary on his way to the G7.
So we'll close the show with that.
And as my friend Ezra Levant always says, keep fighting for freedom.
City Vizard for Rebel News here in Calgary, Alberta, at Calgary's International Airport.
Now, President Donald Trump, you saw landed last night here in Alberta, greeted by Premier Danielle Smith before making his way to the Canonascus summit.
Now, we got word that today, President Donald Trump is actually going to be making an early departure from the Canonascus summit.
He's expected to be back here tonight.
And just like yesterday, there's a crowd of supporters and fans and people who are just generally interested in super heavy-powered aircraft that have come here to take a look at President Donald Trump's departure.
What's brought you to the airport today?
To see Trump.
I just want to see the Modiji right now.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
He's on the other side, eh?
I know they're not allowing us to go over there because then we really love to see him.
And definitely we want to see all over there.
I never saw that jet like that.
So I'm happy.
I'm lucky I'm here to see all of them.
So basically, I just got the news that the Prime Minister of India is landing right now and probably is going to take off from here.
So I just came here to watch him.
It's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch him.
So yeah, we're just taking a look at all of the equipment and Air Force One.
And yeah, it's a beautiful evening.
Why not?
Just to see what's going on.
It's a big day for Calgary and hopefully get a glimpse in an hour or two of Mr. Trump.
Actually, come to check out Starz for one and obviously the Marine Corps Ospreys.
So there's pretty impressive machines, eh?
Yeah, very.
I'm a low-hour commercial helicopter pilot, so that's my dream right there, stars.
So yeah, I love seeing them out, absolutely.
And then again, with the Marines and the U.S. military stuff, you can't beat that.
Well, to come to see Trump.
Yeah, yeah.
You're a big fan of Trump, eh?
Oh, yes.
I wish we had in Canada Trump.
What do you make of President Trump's visit to Canada?
First visit since he became president again.
He's been quiet.
Haven't heard any bad things?
Fine.
That's really amazing, actually.
We never thought that he would be coming to Calgary, actually.
And the G7 summit happening in Calgary as well, like in Alberta.
It's an honor, I think.
So, yeah.
Well, it seemed to go well today based on the reports.
So hopefully they're going to get along and pull together a deal, but time will tell.
Well, and you also heard, I imagine, there's the Khalistani protests that have been happening.
What do you make of that?
I can't say anything, any words about them, so what can I say?
One thing that, you know, separate protests happen in every country, but they're part of our country, you know.
In our country, they're known as the warriors.
So I believe that everyone should be together and not causing separation.
That's the only thing we can see.
All together, right?
We don't want any separation, anything else.
We want to leave united.
I'll hurry comments on that actually, but then they have to protest, they have to protest.
Like they are headers for Trump as well, and they're headers for Modi as well.
So we can't help it.
I'll be honest, no nationalist has an issue with our prime minister.
I mean, hence, that's why Mark Carney came to the point.
You invited him too.
He's the best prime minister, and that's why Mark Henry is also inviting me, right?
And I want a better relationship between Canada and India because what we need right now, I'm not focusing anything else, like what they are doing, what they want to do.
We want a good relationship.
And what do you make of the relationship between President Trump and Prime Minister Kearney?
Before, during his campaign, you know, our relationship with the states is over.
Now they've basically taken over the Calgary airport.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
I think Kearney's kind of an idiot.
And I mean, maybe the relationship can be good.
I don't know.
We'll see.
Well, there's probably more to it than them having a good time.
I would think that they might not be best of friends.
And who knows why he left.
We'll see.
Well, and speaking of which, we saw that when he arrived, Premier Danielle Smith was on the tarmac to greet him.
Prime Minister Kearney wasn't there.
Do you think that's the right move?
Well, it certainly is for Danielle and good for Alberta.
So what's the most beneficial thing that you think that President Trump has done?
Well, he's a business leader, right?
And every good country needs a good business leader.
He may not have the greatest reputation.
And I would agree with that.
But he's a businessman.
He's doing the right thing.
Number one.
Number one.
We need in Canada for him.
Let me know in the comments what you think about President Donald Trump's attendance here at the Canon Askis G7 Summit.