Ezra Levant critiques Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s crime rhetoric, exposing his victim-blaming stance while defending Jeremy McDonald—charged for injuring a home invader—and warning-shot cases. Ford’s calls for deportations (e.g., Hamas protesters, food bank fraudsters) clash with his government’s LCBO shoplifting policies and stalled legal reforms despite judicial appointments. Federal bureaucracy costs surged 77% since 2016, with salaries hitting $172K by 2029, while services decline for half of Canadians. Listener letters—like a Scottish girl’s axe defense or Montreal pool harassment—highlight systemic failures, suggesting Ford’s approach masks deeper issues of police demoralization and government neglect over public safety. [Automatically generated summary]
There's so much crime in Ontario that the Premier keeps talking about how he stands with the victims.
Really?
But it's his own government that prosecutes those victims for engaging in self-defense.
I'll show you a few examples of Doug Ford doing this, but it's not just Doug Ford.
This happens across the country.
And I'll also give you some tips for how we could change this and how it doesn't take us, we don't need to wait for the federal government to change our laws.
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Lcbo Theft Debate00:13:59
Politicians who cause a disaster talking about their own disaster in the third person, like they're just outside observers.
It's August 28th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
There's a massive crime problem across Canada.
Very acute crimes, violent crimes, but also slow-burning, low-level crimes that we've just come to accept.
It really is terrible.
It's worst in the big cities.
Vancouver's downtown East Side has never been this bad.
But Ontario is particularly bad, especially Toronto.
And you may recall about a week or two ago in the town of Lindsay, Ontario, which is about 90 minutes outside Toronto, a man was sleeping at 3 a.m. when a criminal, a serial criminal, out on bail, broke in at 3 a.m.
The homeowner was sleeping.
He woke up.
An altercation ensued and the intruder was injured.
Police came, arrested the intruder, yes, but also arrested the homeowner and charged him with serious forms of assault.
A man defending his own home at 3 a.m.
Just outrageous.
The police won't protect you, and yet they won't let you protect yourself.
It was an international story, really, and it was certainly covered coast to coast.
And the Premier of Ontario, who has presided over this province for seven full years, who has more skin in the game politically than anyone else, who appoints the judges of the provincial court, who is the political boss of the police and the prosecutors.
Doug Ford had the temerity to say he totally stands with the homeowner, Jeremy McDonald.
And boy, is he on side of the little guy and opposed to the criminal.
Here's his press conference about that.
Everyone hear about the story in Lindsay.
So this criminal that's wanted by the police breaks into this guy's house.
This guy gives him a beating, and this guy gets charged.
Like, and the other guy gets charged.
But, like, something is broken.
I know someone breaks into my house or someone else's, you're going to fight for your life.
This guy has a weapon.
You're going to use any force you possibly can to protect your family.
I'm telling you, I know everyone would.
I'd be scared to break into Kevon's.
Look at that.
He's like a linebacker.
He beat the living crap out of the guy, as he should.
Because, no, enough's enough here.
Violence and breaking the people's homes, putting guns at their heads.
And guess what?
Some bleeding heart judge, little Johnny, he didn't have a good upbringing.
So we're going to let him out on bail five more times because he's on his fist, you know, being let out on bail five times, just to go do the same thing the next day.
I'll tell you one thing: I get more calls than anyone in the country.
People are done with this.
They're absolutely done.
They're finished.
You should be able to protect your family when someone's going in there to harm your family and your kids.
You should use all resources you possibly can to protect your family.
And maybe these criminals will think twice about breaking into someone's home.
We've got to get tough on this crime.
People are fed up.
And I'm wishing all the best for our friend in Lindsay.
I don't know who it was, but people are at their peak with this violence.
I mean, with the violence, but the criminality and they're just at their wits' end that the judges keep letting people out on jail out on bail.
So we're going to hold these guys accountable.
And I will be all over the prime minister about bail reform.
Yeah, no, of all the people in Ontario who get to weigh in in support of Jeremy McDonald, Doug Ford is not one of them.
Doug Ford is more responsible than anyone in the province other than the criminal himself.
It's Doug Ford who appoints the judges of the provincial court and who has obviously adopted the policy that he will prosecute anyone who dares to defend themselves.
How dare he pretend he's not deeply culpable for this?
But it's incredible.
It's not Mark Carney's prosecutors that are doing the charging.
It's Doug Ford's.
This comes after a video a few months ago of Doug Ford literally talking about the castle doctrine.
A man's home is his castle and you better not go in there.
He said that, but of course he did nothing.
Take a look at that old video.
Did you hear about the guy that these thugs came up, you know, ready to steal his car?
They're all in their masks and everything.
So I guess he was a hunter or something.
He shot up in the air.
I don't recommend that, by the way.
But he gets charged.
I got to find out this guy's name and number and I'm going to hold a fundraiser for lawyer fees for him.
He should get a medal for standing up.
It's like down in the U.S., we should have the castle law.
Someone breaks into your house, and I know any of these people here, someone breaks in your house and they're coming after your kids and you're coming after your spouse, you're going to fight like you've never fought before.
You're going to use anything that you have, be it weapons, baseball bats, knives, you're protecting your family.
These thugs shouldn't be coming in there.
Now, it's true that in Canada, we have one national or federal criminal code.
There are provincial offenses, but the heavy-duty stuff is done by Parliament.
So it's true.
A deep amendment to the way we handle that part of criminal law, self-defense, would have to be done through Mark Carney's parliament.
And of course, Doug Ford says he's best buddies with Carney.
But Doug Ford doesn't have to wait for Parliament to make that law before he can change the policy on what police and prosecutors do.
Let me give you the example.
Justin Trudeau legalized marijuana, but for probably about 20 years before that, criminalized marijuana.
It was in the criminal code.
It was against the law, but it was the policy, it was the discretion of most police forces and most prosecutors not to prosecute possession of small amounts of marijuana.
If you were a big dealer and had a lot, they might go after you.
But if you were just an ordinary person with a personal supply, it was pretty much guaranteed you wouldn't be charged.
Again, that's a political decision taken by police commissioners, mayors, premiers, and prosecutors not to go after that.
Doug Ford, if he truly believed in the Castle Doctrine, could simply have instructed his attorney general, do not prosecute those.
He could have instructed his solicitor general to have police forces not do it.
But he had the worst of all worlds.
He had his police and prosecutors go after anyone who dares to defend themselves while he goes on TV pretending he's with the victim here.
It's unacceptable, but then this isn't the first time Doug Ford has one law for himself and one for others.
Remember when someone tried to steal a car from Doug Ford's own property?
Now, I'm going to tell you a story.
Probably get in trouble for this.
Do you want to hear about stupid criminals?
Have you ever seen that show about stupid criminals out there?
So four thugs come racing down my street, masks on, ready to take the car out of the driveway.
Surprise, surprise, at 12:30, the two police cars are there.
The chase is on.
So they chase him.
One guy runs out, takes off, they capture him, and they catch these other guys.
But just imagine all the unfortunate people that don't have security there at their house with masks on, and they have all the tools ready to break in and everything.
You know, and guess what's going to happen?
They're going to be back out.
Why don't you guys come over for a barbecue tonight?
You know, I'll take care of you better than the police.
And thank God the police got you.
And I never did.
Anyways, that's my rant.
I'm sick and tired of the weak justice system that we have.
They have to get a backbone.
And we start, we need to start throwing these people in jail.
This is turning into a lawless society.
That's my rant.
And that's it.
I think he's trying to show how relatable he is that he himself had a car stolen, but it's actually the opposite.
I don't think telling that story is the win he thinks it is because it shows that he has a second higher standard.
He wasn't robbed because he's got a police escort all the time.
Police park at his house.
He's showing how cocooned he is, how insulated he is from the life that other people lead.
Well, now there's a new case.
I don't know if you saw, but there were recent thefts from the L CBO.
That's the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the official government liquor store.
A group of people, they look like migrants, but you can't say for sure.
Just robbed the place blind.
They were filmed and they didn't care.
They didn't even cover their faces.
Here's the video.
By the way, there's a lot.
So there's a lot of videos like this.
This one got the Premier's ire again.
Okay, so here's my little crime rant of the day.
I don't know if you've ever did you see these characters on the news last night that went into the LCBO up in Kitchener.
They're brazen bunch of crooks.
You know, I have all the confidence in the world in the water police services, Waterloo Police Services, the chief, he's a champion, the chief.
We got to catch these guys and throw them in jail.
They just do not care.
They go in there, they start loading up, loading up, and loading up.
And you know what's ironic?
It's the taxpayers' money, the LCBO.
And so they're stealing off the taxpayers.
But I have confidence they're going to be caught and the judges have to keep these guys in bail.
Or the other one, did you see the gangsters going into the mall there and smashing people's jewelry right in broad daylight and just hammering away at it?
It's out of control.
And I love the one, I think it was a year ago, when the guy in the LCBO, just a customer, he stood up and held him accountable.
I'd love to meet that guy one day.
He gave him a couple of slugs on the head.
They deserve a slug in the head every once in a while.
So he thinks that people should slug them.
Really?
There's so many layers here.
The first one is that the L CBO actually, as I mentioned, is a crown agency.
It is owned by the government run by Doug Ford.
And yet the LCBO has an explicit policy: do not stop shoplifters.
That's a policy.
It costs tens of millions of dollars a year.
You go into any store, you don't know what's going to happen.
If you're a shoplifter, they might fight back, they might not.
But if you go into the LCBO, the liquor board, you can bet that they will not stop you at all.
You can steal the most valuable liquors and they'll let you walk right out.
That's on Doug Ford.
Who else would it be on?
He said that bystanders should slug them.
Really?
But then they would be charged, just like Jeremy McDonald was charged.
Jeremy McDonald fought back against a home invader.
Doug Ford charged him.
Doug Ford's giving advice to bystanders to slug these criminals.
Doesn't he know that his police and his prosecutors would go after them?
They'd probably be sued also in civil court.
Hey, I got an idea.
It's crazy.
How about actually enforce the law?
How about actually running the LCBO as if the province owned it, which it does?
There's more every day, like this jewelry store robbery.
Did you see this?
Ford talked
about that too, but again, as if he was an outsider, as if he was a pundit or a third-party observer, as opposed to the key architect of the Ontario Of 2025.
And then there was this case of an attempted rape kidnapping in Peel region, which is adjacent to Toronto.
I've been talking to you about Ontario cases, but it's the same in Quebec and British Columbia and Alberta and pretty much every province now to a degree.
Seven years of this.
But there's a glimmer of hope out there.
Enforcing Law and Morality00:07:38
Even a weakened and politically correct and woke and demoralized police could handle any of these things.
They really could.
In fact, if they were asked to actually stop crime and fight crime, I think it would remoralize the police.
Right now, the police are told to let criminals go all the time.
It's got to be deeply unsatisfying to be a cop in 2025.
You can see in the United States that when Donald Trump has invited police to actually enforce the law and invited the border police to do so, they do so with gusto when he's remoralized their military.
People sign up in huge numbers.
U.S. deportations of criminal migrants.
This has caused the U.S. border police, other police, FBI, ICE.
They're actually being respected and being allowed to do their job.
In the United States, the shock of the government actually defending itself has had a salutary effect itself.
There are five times as many voluntary deportations from the U.S. as there are enforced deportations.
Let me say that in plain numbers.
Since Donald Trump took office, about 1.5 million people have left the country.
300,000 have been deported by police, but the rest have self-deported.
Why would you do that?
Well, you realize that the United States is no longer a pushover, and you realize that if you don't go, bad things could happen to you.
You could be arrested.
You could be prosecuted.
If you're a criminal and you know that Joe Biden wouldn't go after you, well, you know, Donald Trump will.
And what's the outcome for you?
I don't know if you remember, but early days in Trump's enforcement of border law, he made a big show about taking gang members.
There were a lot of Mexican and Latin American gangs like MS-13.
And he would put them on a plane.
And I don't know if you remember, this was sort of incredible.
He flew them down to this Supermax terrorist holding facility in El Salvador.
El Salvador used to be one of the most violent countries in the world.
And then they elected Naib Bukele as their leader.
And he built this huge prison and basically took the army and smashed the gangs and put them all in this supermax prison.
And he said he made a deal with Trump to take the worst to the worst, the MS-13, these deported criminals.
And this was produced like a Hollywood movie.
As you can see here, it was sort of a it felt like a Hollywood movie.
It was shot professionally.
Why would they do that?
Because they wanted to show that they were keeping their promise to voters, but much more importantly, they were showing traffickers, gang members, what would happen to them.
It wasn't the Joe Biden government anymore.
It was the Trump government.
And if you don't want to end up in that Supermax prison in El Salvador, get out of America.
Five times as many people voluntarily left than were left by police escort.
They've actually built something called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida.
Same reason.
Why would they call it that?
Why would they make it sound as awful as possible?
Because they want to change the perception that crime gets away with it.
What I'm saying is, Ontario and indeed any part of Canada could actually do that now.
Donald Trump cleaned up Washington, D.C., one of the most crime-ridden cities in America, in a week.
They cleared 37 homeless encampments.
They simply are policing and enforcing the law.
It's how Rudy Giuliani broke the back of crime in New York City in the 80s.
Here are possible things a real leader would do other than doing what Doug Ford does, just pretending to commiserate with the victims while actually continuing their victimization.
Like I said, the first thing you could do is change the castle law policy de facto by just saying, I'm no longer going to prosecute anyone who defends their property from a home invader.
Just by saying that, I think he would make home invasion robberies fall, don't you think?
And if he really cared, he could talk to his dear friend Mark Carney to make the changes in law in Parliament.
He could do what Rudy Giuliani did when he cleaned up New York and what Trump is doing in Washington, D.C., taking the broken windows approach to policing.
I don't know if you've heard of that theory.
I've talked about it before.
James Q. Wilson, an American scholar, noted that if there was a building and none of the windows were broken, it was fine.
But if a single window was broken, and if it wasn't patched up right away, soon every window in that building would be broken.
And it was done with cars as well.
If a car was parked there, nothing would happen to it.
But if you smashed a window in the car and no one cleaned it up, soon the car would be stripped down to the bone.
The message being people look and see what kind of a place they're in.
Are people watching?
Does anyone care?
And the answer is if you don't take care of the small stuff, it soon turns into big stuff.
In New York City, they would prosecute people for jaywalking, for jumping over the affair in the subway system without paying for it.
By enforcing the law, you set a new culture that laws are to be abided, not as in Canada now, where there's crimes and you just take out your phone and film it.
Enforce the small things so people know you're watching.
And one of the things that's not so small, but I think every single Canadian has seen 100 images of this in the last two years, is foreign nationals committing lawless, hateful conduct in our streets.
I'm talking mainly about the weekly Hamas protests across this country.
And I don't mean peaceful protests.
I mean breaking the law, harassment, blocking roads, blocking synagogues and churches, assaults, threats, mischief, vandalism.
We can all see that the police have been instructed to abide this.
Don't you think that sends a broader message that anything goes in Canada?
If you crack down on the lawlessness and deport foreign criminals, soon this country will be safer immediately.
Enforce non-criminal norms too.
Let me give you an example.
In food banks across Canada, foreign nationals who are here as temporary foreign workers or international students, they realize that we're suckers because they're from a low-trust society and we're a high-trust society.
You can't have food banks in a low-trust society.
People come and just take everything.
That's come to Canada now.
If you are a foreign national and you go to a food bank to get free stuff, you should be kicked out of Canada.
I mean, it's food bank fraud or other things that are just gross, like pooping on the shore in lakes.
I know that sounds crazy, but it's a bit of an epidemic here in Ontario.
These are all things well within the power of any politician, certainly a premier, but even of a mayor.
If you want to really get serious, I think you call for a moratorium on immigration.
You call for a repeal of Justin Trudeau's pro-crime laws, his bail laws, the ending of Stephen Harper's three strikes are out laws, minimum sentences.
But no.
Government In The Pipeline Business00:05:57
In Ontario, just like in Ottawa, we have a fake tough guy giving terrible legal advice to victims, don't we?
Stay with us more ahead.
Hey, everybody.
Remember I showed you the other day, Tim Hodgson, that's Mark Carney's new energy minister in Berlin, talking about getting energy to Europe, but admitting there's no way that's going to happen at the soonest in five years.
simply because the Trudeau liberals killed pipeline and tanker projects.
Well, today he's on TV talking about the one pipeline that was built and that was built at a staggering cost to the public.
It was owned by Kinder Morgan, which is a private company, an American company.
They wanted to simply expand an existing pipeline, the Trans Mountain Pipeline, just like it sounds.
It goes from Alberta over the mountains and into Vancouver.
It's actually, it was built, I don't know, 75 years ago.
So twinning it was the smart move.
You didn't have to dig up new land.
You didn't have to go over virgin territory or negotiate anew with Indian Man.
It was a great idea.
But the Trudeau Liberals killed it.
And when they threatened, were threatened with a huge lawsuit by Kinder Morgan.
They agreed to pay out Kinder Morgan by paying an astonishing amount of money to buy the dead pipeline, which then they took years to complete, but it's actually done.
About four times more expensive than the original private sector version, but it's done.
Trouble is there's barely any oil in it because of regulatory reasons.
Well, Tim Hodgson was asked about that today.
Here's his answer.
Well, the federal government threw cold water on the suggestion from the CEO of Transmountain that Ottawa prioritize optimizing the capacity of the government-owned pipeline before greenlighting new major pipeline projects.
I don't think that's a project of national interest.
So I'm not going to jump in front of that.
If there's a case to be made for optimization, they will make that case and we'll consider it through the normal course.
Using the pipeline is up in the air.
It's not necessary in the national interest to use it.
So they built the pipeline and there is some oil in it.
I won't deny it.
But optimizing it, that is filling it up.
It's not in the national interest.
Could they be more blatant?
These people do not want the oil industry.
Joining us now to talk about it is someone who has a lot to say about tax dollars being used for government-funded white elephants.
It's our friend Franco Terrazano, the boss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Franco, am I misunderstanding what's going on here?
Well, I think the government is misunderstanding its own role in society, okay?
The government should not be in the business of business, right?
The government should not be in the pipeline business.
In fact, the problem isn't that there isn't an economic case for more oil and gas development, more resource extraction here in Canada.
There is an economic case.
The problem is governments getting in the way, governments throwing up roadblocks and governments chasing away investment in Canada for years, okay?
Bill C-69, the no more pipelines law, the discriminatory tanker ban on the West Coast, rejecting the Northern Gateway pipeline, politicians chasing away the private company when it wanted to spend billions of its own dollars to twin that transnational, transmountain pipeline, sorry.
Or how about this?
The government moving the regulatory goalposts on the Energy Ease pipeline.
Okay, so it's not an economic issue, so to speak.
It's not a free market issue, so to speak.
It's a government issue where you have these politicians and bureaucrats who want to run around, pretend like they're investment banker with Canadian taxpayers' dollars.
Look, the government should get out of the business of business.
The government should remove all of these regulatory burdens and let the business community do what it does best.
Get our Canadian neighbors back to work.
You know, Franco, you're so right.
I don't know what the government is doing in the pipeline business.
That really smacks of 1980s-style national energy program, total disaster.
But just a couple days ago, this same energy minister was in Berlin.
In fact, for all I know, that's where he was doing the Zoom call from.
And he was saying, oh, we're going to sell so much energy to Germany.
We're going to get you off that Russian energy because they buy a lot from there.
The German press were saying, well, how's that going to work?
Because you keep killing pipelines.
It was sort of an awkward moment.
Here he is with a pipeline that is built, built by taxpayer money because they screwed up the private sector deal.
And he will not fill it.
There is a pipeline, but they will not use it.
I think that is insane, Franco.
And since when is it a political decision if selling oil is in the national interest or not?
Do we need the government's political permission to sell anything?
What do they get to decide is important work and what's not important work?
This really feels like a centrally planned economy and it's not going well.
Well, hey, it's a good point to bring up the old fact of life.
You are not the government and the government is not you, right?
Like, look, I don't want these politicians and bureaucrats determining what is in the national interest.
I mean, at the end of the day, right, it's kind of ironic to now hear the government talk about selling our natural resources to other countries when you look at the fact that we've lost, what, hundreds of billions of dollars since 2015 because of stalled and canceled natural resource projects here in Canada.
Central Planning Failures00:06:20
I mean, look, Canada should be the envy of the world, okay?
We have highly talented, highly educated workforce.
We have abundant natural resources, diverse natural resources from coast to coast to coast, right?
Like we have every opportunity here in Canada to be the freest, most prosperous country in the world.
And what is the problem standing in our way?
It's government.
It's government bureaucrats.
It's politicians who think they know how you should live your life better than you do.
Okay.
We got to get these government bureaucrats out of the way.
And we have to be able to have job creators actually build and develop our natural resources.
Hey, Franco, I saw a tweet that you made today, and I just got to show it to you.
I want you to talk about it.
It's just incredible.
Let me read it and then you can just tee off from there.
New PBO report.
That's parliamentary budget officer, right?
So the new parliamentary report should be a huge wake-up call, rein in the out-of-control bureaucracy costs.
And then here's, I almost couldn't believe this.
The federal bureaucracy cost taxpayers $71 billion last year.
That's a 77% increase since 2016.
But here's the part that actually shocked me.
Total compensation per full-time bureaucrat will hit $172,000 by 2029.
That is what doctors make.
That's more than what a lot of family doctors make.
The average full-time bureaucrat in just four years will make close to $200,000.
How can that be right?
You know, they call themselves public servants, right?
But who's really serving who here, right?
Who's really serving who?
I mean, Ezra, you really summed it up very well there.
I mean, number one, the cost of the federal bureaucracy has gone up 77%.
Are you getting anywhere close to 77% better services from the federal government since 2016?
Unless you're collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck, the answer to that question is a big fat no, right?
I mean, look, half of Canadians, according to a poll that we commissioned from Leger, say that services have gotten worse since 2016.
And, you know, this all goes back to the idea of the government rewarding itself for failure with our tax dollars, okay?
Ezra, this is what really just turns my stomach upside down.
The federal government has rubber stamped $1.5 billion in bonuses since 2015.
Government departments can barely meet half of their own performance targets every year.
Okay.
That's like you write a test, you get a D, and then you give yourself an $18,000 bonus check.
But there's some other crazy examples, okay?
Arrive scam, right?
That app went from 80 grand to 60 million.
Government executives working on Arrive scam took $340,000 in bonuses.
How about the Bank of Canada?
One job, keep inflation low and around 2%.
Inflation reached a 40-year high.
Canadians couldn't afford groceries.
And Bank of Canada bureaucrats printed up $20 million in bonus checks.
It's unbelievable.
And, you know, the premise that Mark Carney was a master economist and banker and would reign this in.
I don't know.
I'm terrified of what's going on.
I just can't get over $172,000.
And, you know, there's still a lot of federal public servants, and I use that word with an asterisk, who are working from home.
You know, the rest of us returned to work years ago.
I just, 172, is that the average?
Is that what they said?
Total compensation per full-time bureaucrat.
That would be total compensation per bureaucrat, right?
So essentially, the average full-time federal bureaucrat, their total compensation will be about $172,000 by 2029.
And remember, that's because salary is the tip of the iceberg when you're talking about a government bureaucrat, right?
There's a whole bunch of other perks like bonuses and then the pension, right?
The pension, the platinum taxpayer-funded pension that like you really only get nowadays if you're a government bureaucrat or really a politician.
I think that's the single worst piece of news I've seen in a month.
How can the rest of us live?
I mean, I'm here in Toronto and I'm doing okay, I suppose, but we have a lot of young people here and they're working hard in this expensive city and it's tough to save up to buy a home and groceries are expensive and they are paying taxes so the government can live large.
When you're making $172 a year, the average bureaucrat, you are insulated from the consequences of running a massive debt-ridden taxing government.
You're just insulated because they'll just pay their own people to be immune to it, while severely normal people, ordinary people, have to bear the burden.
I hate that statistic.
I'm deeply troubled by it.
And I haven't seen it in headlines.
Have you seen that reported widely?
Well, it just came out today, right?
This is fresh off the press, so we'll see how much pickup it gets.
But Ezra, you know what?
It also really makes me upset too, right?
Because these bureaucrats are shielded behind the golden gates of government, right?
It's really a tale of two Canadas, right?
Tons of private sector pain over the last handful of years while there's been so much financial gain within government, right?
It's really the story of the makers versus the takers, the taxpayers versus the tax consumers, right?
And it's not just the compensation, the pay.
It's also just the size of the federal bureaucracy, where today you're now paying for 99,000 more federal paper pushers than you were back in 2016.
Like no wonder the cost of the bureaucracy has gone up 77% since 2016.
It's unbearable.
It's just too much.
Well, Franco, I'm glad you're out there fighting like heck every day.
Taxpayers Federation, one of the good guys.
Thanks for joining us today, as you do from time to time.
Great to catch up.
Hey, thanks, Ezra.
And hey, sorry for being a bit of a rain cloud today.
No, I mean, we've got to know.
That is the single worst fact I have seen in a month.
But you need to know it.
You simply need to know it.
Thank you, Franco.
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All right, there he is.
Franco Terrazano, the boss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Stay with us.
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Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
Torcadian says of this Scottish girl who was wielding an axe.
This young girl is scared.
When you've been the prey of a predator, you fight back.
The adult state have failed her.
You know, we've learned a lot more about the migrant since I did that story.
He's from Bulgaria, but he's there as a refugee.
He's in free housing, and he has endless Instagram pictures of himself being a mafia tough guy.
In fact, he's got a tattoo on the back of his neck of an AK-47.
This guy is a thug.
It's incredible what the Brits have allowed to happen to themselves.
Saturny says, in Montreal last summer, they had problems with immigrant men lurking around the public pools, taking pictures and harassing women.
I know our Alexa Lavois is covering those stories that have generally been covered up by the mainstream press.
Sandy Flixier says tolerance is overrated.
You know, it's a tricky one.
If you're too tolerant, you're tolerating intolerance.
If you allow people in our freedom to organize to destroy our country, are you really being tolerant?
I think we've bent over so far that our backbone is shattering.
I don't know.
I hope the pendulum swings back before it's too late.