Ezra Levant examines two violent cases—DeCarlos Brown Jr.’s 2023 murder of Ukrainian refugee Irina Zarutska and Taron Simard’s fatal stabbing spree in Manitoba—accusing the left of ignoring minority crime unless it fits liberal narratives, like CBC’s extensive George Floyd coverage versus Zarutska’s. He criticizes racial collectivism, DEI policies, and Justin Trudeau’s mass immigration for allegedly fostering division, citing historical counterexamples to racialized reparations. Levant also questions politically driven prosecutions in the Freedom Convoy, where truckers like Chaba Vizzi face delayed charges amid claims of police misconduct, while systemic crime issues persist, leaving young Canadians priced out of housing, marriage, and family due to economic collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
If you only consume mainstream media, you will not have heard about the case of the beautiful Ukrainian refugee murdered on a North Carolina train.
I want to talk to you about that and related to a terrible stabbing in Manitoba.
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Tonight, it's very hard to talk about race and crime, but sometimes I think we have to.
Let me give you two examples.
It's September 8th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Racism is wrong for a few reasons.
It denies that each of us carries within us a spark of God.
It denies people their own identity and personality, replacing it with a collective blame.
I think it can sometimes enable the racist to scapegoat his own flaws and failures on others as a group.
One of the problems with mass immigration, which we have in Canada right now, truly insane numbers, 10 times what the country can possibly absorb, is that it creates racism where I don't think any existed before.
I think Canadians were very tolerant, very hospitable, very friendly towards newcomers until it was turned into a hurricane, wrecking so many of the things that made Canada a great place to live.
Let me say more plainly: by mass migration, that has caused so many problems that it has created animosity between peoples.
And race has been a shorthand for it since the vast majority of migrants are visible minorities.
I blame Justin Trudeau for the racism in Canada today.
That's what I'm saying.
He caused it.
Now, I prefer not to take race into account for things.
I prefer to be race-blind, make race-blind decisions in life.
The classic statue of justice, being that blindfolded woman holding a scale, I think the point there is just way the relevant factors in this dispute do not bring race or other things into it.
That's the whole blind justice thing.
But here's the point: that colorblindness, that Martin Luther King approach to race, it's gone.
It's been gone for a generation, and it was the left that removed it.
The sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, Sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream.
My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I remember seeing a wonderful clip on 60 Minutes some years ago.
Tell me a Hollywood star who would say this today.
Black History Month you find ridiculous.
Why?
You're going to relegate my history to a month?
Oh, come on.
What do you do with yours?
Which month is life history month?
Well, come on.
Tell me.
Well, damn, I'm Jewish.
Okay.
Which month is Jewish history month?
There isn't one.
Oh.
Oh, why not?
Yeah.
Do you want one?
No, no, no.
I don't either.
I don't want a Black History Month.
Black history is American history.
How are we going to get rid of racism and stop talking about it?
I'm going to stop calling you a white man.
Yeah.
And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
I know you as Mike Wallace.
You know me as Morgan Freeman.
You want to say what I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.
You know what I'm saying?
I think the world really was becoming race blind more and more, at least America was, until the turn of the century.
And weirdly, it was Barack Obama whose election proved that America was beyond race.
It was Obama who chose not to bury it as an issue, but to weaponize it.
Think about it.
Obama won not once, but twice in a row.
He won an enormous number of white votes, obviously.
He did something in America that has never been done in the UK or France or Italy or Germany or China or Russia.
He won a popular vote as a minority.
But instead of using that as proof that race no longer divided America, he wielded it as a weapon through the Black Lives Matter street riots and extreme political moments like the death of George Floyd.
Obama did not heal wounds.
He poured salt into them for his own political benefit.
I tell you all this to say that I preferred the race-blind days.
I preferred the 80s and 90s where people were working on harmony, not division.
But those are long gone.
Now we're in extremely racial days.
DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, it's in full flight in Canada.
I mean, the new medical school, this university used to be called Ryerson.
Now they call it TMU, Toronto Metropolitan University.
They're starting a new medical school there, and it is explicitly a racial quota medical school, a DEI school.
I just hope people don't DIE because of it, but they will.
Just like people have died in a variety of recent plane crashes by DEI female pilots who were promoted not for their skill, but to make a political point.
I don't care about the race of my doctor if they're the best at doctoring.
What I've been saying for the past five minutes is that I don't want to talk about race.
It's not the Canadian way.
When I grew up, there was a societal effort to get to equality before the law.
But the left decided to use race as a stand-in for class in their Marxist worldview.
They deployed cultural Marxism, where other characteristics were forced into the oppressor-oppressor template.
So it wasn't oppressive capitalists wearing top hats versus the oppressed workers anymore.
It was oppressive men versus oppressed women in radical feminism.
It was oppressive white people versus oppressed minorities in racial Marxism, etc.
It was a new way to radicalize people, to divide them, to conquer them.
Saying this reminds me of the speech excerpt by Catherine Burbel Singh, a teacher in the United Kingdom with an almost completely minority race school.
Here she is saying that slavery was not a racial thing, and it was not a white thing.
It was a people thing, an everyone thing.
That slavery was not about race.
And that's important.
It was not about race.
The only reason we think it's about race is because philosophers like David Hume in the 18th century ranked human beings and put Africans at the bottom, saying that they had no souls.
The Enlightenment imposed the concept of race on a practice that had been going on for centuries in order to justify that practice.
And why did they have to justify it?
And this is the point.
Because people in the West began to question slavery's moral validity.
The fact is that people of all colors own slaves, both as part of the Atlantic slave trade and outside of it.
In the United States and Caribbean, black people, black people, owned thousands of black slaves, and so did the Native Americans.
Nearly 20,000 of the Native Americans, five civilized tribes, sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War, fighting to keep slavery alive.
28% of the black population who were free in New Orleans pledged their support to the Confederacy.
All of the 13 southern states of the Confederacy had substantial numbers of black slave owners.
There were more than 250,000 free blacks, and nearly 4,000 of them were slave masters who owned more than 20,000 slaves.
The practice of slavery was legal, after all.
We need to remember that governments did not own slaves.
Slave owners did.
In fact, the U.S. government fought a war to end slavery.
How much should the descendants of the 400,000 Union soldiers who lost their lives fighting to free the slaves pay to the descendants of the slaves they freed?
It's bizarre to suggest that human beings should inherit the outrage of the deeds of their parents.
Should the child of a mass murderer be sent to prison because of his father's crime?
No.
In America, in the Maine, it was the Democrats who owned slaves and the Democrats who in the Maine passed and enforced Jim Crow laws.
It was also the Democrats who founded the Ku Klux Klan.
Should the current Democratic Party be held responsible for this?
No.
We do not inherit the sins of our fathers.
Here's the great Thomas Sowell making similar points.
Slavery has been a universal institution for thousands of years, as far back as you can trace human history.
And what we're looking at is if slavery is something that happened to one race of people in one country, when in fact the spread of it was around the world.
In 1776, which is when Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nation, as well as when the United States got started, he said that Western Europe is the only place in the world where there is no slavery.
And even the Western Europeans had vast numbers of slaves in the Western Hemisphere, but not in Western Europe itself.
And so if you're going to have reparations for slavery, it's going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth.
Because the number of whites, for example, who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that put together.
But nobody is going to North Africa to ask for reparations because nobody is going to be fool enough to give it to them.
You know, the Bible, the Koran, they're full of stories about slaves.
It was accepted.
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It was normal.
It wasn't racial.
There was racism in every place in the world.
And I think of all this because of two racial crimes in the past week.
Absolutely shocking crimes.
The first, a mass stabbing in Manitoba.
Now I had a sinking feeling in my bones about what happened when I first heard about the mass killing, or stabbing rather.
And I also knew that if I was right about what was going on, the story would soon be buried out of the news cycle immediately.
Did you hear about it even?
Let me read a story from Global News.
This is how they covered it.
And this was pretty much the last they'll say about it.
Man who killed sister in Manitoba mass stabbing was out on bail.
Court records.
How terrible is that?
So sad, so infuriating.
Let me read a bit.
The man police say killed his sister and attacked several others with a knife on Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba was out on bail.
Court records show 26-year-old Taron Simard was charged with assault with a weapon and mischief for alleged offenses that happened June 8th.
The records show a Winnipeg court granted his release June 12th with various conditions, including a curfew and an order not to use drugs or alcohol or possess weapons.
RCMP says Simard stabbed eight people at two homes on the First Nation northeast of Winnipeg on Thursday.
His 18-year-old sister died and the others are in hospital.
Bounties say Simard fled in a stolen vehicle and died in a highway crash with an RCMP cruiser.
Absolutely shocking and horrible.
He killed his own sister.
Have you heard about this concept missing and murdered Indigenous women?
It's a phrase used so often that it has its own acronym, M-M-I-W.
And it's true, Indigenous women are missing and murdered, but the RCMP has studied the phenomenon exhaustively.
Go online and Google it and read their extremely detailed reports.
The first thing you'll learn is that far from ignoring these murders, police investigate them thoroughly and they lay charges at the same rate as they do with white women.
But let me quote from one of those painful RCMP reports.
I mean, they have them every year, but here's one.
Look at this chart.
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, they're comparing the stats here.
In both white women and Aboriginal women, most homicide victims knew their murderers.
You probably could guess that.
And that's horrible, isn't it?
But in the case of Indigenous women, 41% of murder victims, 41% were killed by their spouses.
29% is the stat for white women.
Other family members, it's about equal, 23, 24%.
Fewer than 10% of women are murdered by complete strangers.
Same with both white and Indigenous women.
And let me read this terrible note to you.
Again, I'm just telling you about the stats of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
This heading is previous history of family violence.
In cases of homicide where the offender and the victim are in a familial relationship, investigators are asked to note on the homicide survey whether they were aware of any previous history of violence between the two.
More often, they cited a known history of previous family violence, which may or may not have been reported to police, between Aboriginal female victims and their offenders than their non-Aboriginal female counterparts, 62% compared to 43%.
Why am I telling you that?
I'm telling you that most, most Indigenous murder victims are killed at the hands of someone they know, including their family.
And I'm telling you that because the solution to this, by guilty white liberal politicians and judges, when an Indigenous man is arrested for violence against women, including against their own family members, the white liberal solution is to let them out on bail or an extremely short sentence.
Anything else would be racist, you see.
Sure, but by releasing them back into the community, they put the women at risk of violence again.
62% of murdered Indigenous women were attacked before by the same man.
Do you see my point about the do-gooders who want to reduce sentences for Indigenous criminals based on race?
Which literally every judge in Canada is commanded to do now since the Glad You court case.
And now liberals are proposing to do that with every single black criminal that's part of the Liberal Party's black justice plan.
They're not just politicizing and weaponizing racism.
They are legalizing it.
They're putting it into the legal system.
They would say to do otherwise is to be harsh to minority criminals.
Yes, I suppose.
And it would be kind to their victims, though, like Tyrone Simard's sister.
Who do you choose?
In the U.S., the media prefers to focus on police brutality, such as the case of George Floyd.
But a shocking murder happened in a North Carolina train just a couple days ago.
A Ukrainian refugee who fled the war there gets on the train and a serial criminal sits down behind her, complete stranger, completely random, unprovoked, and he just takes out a knife and murders her.
Watch this video.
Obviously, the killing part is not shown here, but look at him dripping blood on the floor afterwards.
And other people on the train don't seem to know.
It's so shocking.
If you don't want to see that, close your eyes for the next minute.
Woman's name
was Irina Zarutska, who happens to be beautiful and white.
And the accused murderer was DeCarlos Brown Jr., repeat offender, repeatedly bailed, arrested countless times, happens to be black.
Have you heard about this shocking murder?
I mean, Ukraine is in the news these days a lot.
A Ukrainian refugee murdered in America.
I think that meets the test for shocking news, but the racial angle is too unpleasant for the leftist narrative and too contrary to how liberals view the world.
Do you doubt that if a black woman were murdered by a white man, that it would be front page news on the New York Times?
Here's Donald Trump on the news.
I've made clear Attorney General Pam Bonnie is working really hard that we must get answers about the causes of these repeated attacks, and we're working very, very hard on that.
The Trump administration will have no tolerance for terrorism or political violence, and that includes hate crimes against Christians, Jews, or anybody else.
We're not going to allow.
And there was also a horrible killing recently in Charlotte, where I talked about it, and so many others.
And we're going to get to the end of it.
And, you know, when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions.
And the actions that we take are nothing.
This cashless bail started a wave in our country where a killer kills somebody and that's out on the street by the afternoon, in many cases going out and killing again.
Now, this is all American.
So maybe Canadian news might not have an interest in reporting it, though.
I think it's newsworthy.
But then I typed in the words George Floyd in quotes in the CBC website.
And the CBC apparently, and I find this a little bit hard to believe, but actually completely plausible.
10,000 stories about George Floyd on the CBC.
10,000.
Now, I want justice to be blind.
I don't want to prejudge people based on race.
I don't want to weaponize race.
I don't want to fall into the collectivist mindset of condemning some people or rewarding some people based on skin color, based on a collective decision.
Oh, I don't know you, but I know people like you, so I'm going to judge you as a collective punishment or something.
I don't want to dredge up past quarrels to be resolved today with some reverse racism either.
But the left has done all these things in America and in Canada, too.
Donald Trump is actually trying to undo DEI policies in his country.
I mean, good luck.
They're deeply entrenched up here, too.
And the place they're entrenched the most deeply, I hate to say it, is in the mind of young people.
Stay with us for more.
Well, it is not just custom.
It is a charter right to a speedy trial.
And there's a reason for that.
If you are accused by the state of an offense, you're stressed out by it.
You have to hire lawyers.
Your life is disrupted.
You may even be in custody.
And more than that, there's the stigma that you are accused.
So you must have done something.
Knowing this, our charter framers have a right to a speedy trial.
And typically, in a criminal court setting in a place like Ontario, that means within two or three years at the most, your matter must go to trial.
Now, if you, as the suspect, the defendant, the accused, are the one responsible for endless delays, the judge will say, oh, no, you can't delay your way out of it.
But if the delays are in the hands of the prosecution, well, then that's their problem.
And you know, since COVID times, there has been a huge backlog still to this day because the courts essentially shut down other than for the most emergency matters.
And so you have to wonder: is it a high priority for the public to see old tickets and old trucker convoy prosecutions proceed, or should we put those aside and deal with more critical matters?
Well, you know, the answer to that in Ontario, at least, Doug Ford, the premier, has decided that pursuing Tamara Leach is the most important thing on the public docket.
We were not in Ottawa court today, and neither was Tamara Leach, but there were some very interesting matters.
And I'd like to introduce you to an online commentator and streamer and Twitterer.
His name is Jean Villeneuve.
He goes by Wright Blend online, and he joins us now.
I can see that telltale Ottawa courthouse behind him.
I'm going to call you John, although I love the nickname Wright Blend.
John, tell us a little bit about what was going on in the court today, reminding that it's three and a half years since the convoy.
Yeah, absolutely.
It has been quite a long time for Mr. Chaba, who's waiting to go to trial.
He's not going to trial just yet.
These are the pretrial motions that are now in process.
And it was a pretty eventful day.
We also had another Freedom Convoy matter, Mr. Robert Dennell, who was actually having his case stayed.
There were some arguments or points made by the judge about the delays in his trial being the fault of the Crown.
And I have that on good authority.
I wasn't personally in the room for Mr. Denell's case as it coincided with Chaba's proceeding, but it's certainly good news to be shared today.
And for Mr. Chaba, he has a long road ahead in this.
As you know, he's almost three years into this now, and there are certainly more important matters for the court to be spending its precious time on rather than a man who parked a truck and honked a horn in Ottawa.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, the fact that there are so many trucker cases in this Ottawa courthouse that you can't even cover them all because they're at the same time.
That goes to my point about it's incredible to me that three and a half years later, the government thinks this is the best way to use resources.
Ottawa has a crime wave, but they're focusing on getting each last trucker.
It's incredible.
Let's just talk briefly about Robert Dennell.
So he was a protester.
From a colleague you had in his room, basically the judge went through and said delay after delay was on the fault of the prosecution.
And he said, you're free to go.
And happy birthday.
Apparently, it was the birthday of Robert Denell.
So that is a very happy birthday, President, isn't it?
Absolutely.
And my sources were very clear to indicate that the judge spent particular time putting notice on the crown that they were responsible for these delays and that this is basically not acceptable.
As you said, we have a right to speedy trial and then staying the proceeding.
And as he was on his way out the door, the judge said, it is your birthday today.
Happy birthday and you're free to go.
So they were very clear that the judge spent quite a lot of time highlighting just how long this has taken and how it was the fault of the crown to get here.
You know, and I got to say, I don't know the details of Mr. Dennell's case, but even being put through the ringer for three and a half years, the process is the punishment.
Now, the case that you sat in on, it's a freedom trucker, and I hope I'm saying it right, Chaba Vizzi.
And it's not surprising to me to learn that he's from a former communist country, namely Romania, which had one of the most repressive communist regimes.
It was my observation during the trucker convoy and during other COVID protests, I heard a disproportionate number of Eastern European accents wherever I went.
People from the former Soviet Union, people from Poland, people from Romania.
These were people who were not freed until, I suppose, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, or at least their parents were.
So they're one or two generations closer to tyranny than most of us.
In fact, most of us who grew up in Canada don't even know what tyranny is like.
So it doesn't surprise me that an anti- or someone who grew up under a communist system would defy the government in Canada when it comes to lockdowns.
Yeah, absolutely.
I was just going to mention that myself.
I'm glad that you brought it up.
During the convoy, I personally noticed quite a few different Romanian and Eastern European flags, and I came to the same conclusions that you did.
These are people who are intimately familiar, either directly or through their parents or grandparents, with how these things tend to go.
And my thinking is that they saw the path our country was on and is still on and were alarmed by it and decided to stand up to it.
And I think that they were more willing to do that because they understand the consequences of inaction.
Things, if you don't act, then you're going to spend the rest of your life regretting it.
I think so.
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And they did it peacefully.
They did it with numbers and they provided a voice for their entire community and for all Canadians.
And they joined the large group of people who had come to gather in Ottawa to tell our government, to tell Justin Trudeau, that enough was enough and it's time to give us our rights and freedoms back.
You know, you have to go quite far to motivate a lot of Canadians to get to that point.
And it's a stark reminder of how bad things were at that time.
Small businesses being shut down, large businesses being allowed to continue and to operate, everyone losing their livelihoods, forcing the vaccine.
It was a terrible time.
And I'm just so glad that people like Chaba were able to come to Ottawa and to be part of this movement to liberate our country.
Let me read from one of your tweets today.
You said, after years of government overreach, Chaba Vizzi decided to take a stand and join fellow truckers in Ottawa.
And you said thousands of people expressed gratitude to him on the streets of Ottawa.
He promised them that he would never leave until freedom was restored.
He kept that promise and even endured a beating from police while doing so.
He's charged with mischief, disobeying a court order, and resisting arrest.
So tell me what facts you heard.
And I'm not sure if it was a pre-trial hearing or what exactly was going on.
It was, but it's a defense motion.
Do we know what the facts are?
Like, was he beaten up when they say he's charged with resisting arrest?
It could be, but could be that's just how the police frame beating the tar out of a guy because that's what they did during the trucker convoy.
Yeah, his case was the most egregious case of police brutality that I can bring to my mind.
I think most of your viewers will be familiar with the infamous video of him in that square at Metcalf and Metcalf in Wellington being held down by a group of police officers while another flew his knee into him repeatedly.
I know Chaba had made statements in the past in documentaries and such saying that he was quite injured from that.
And I can imagine he was if you just remember that visceral video.
Now, the charges, as I'm hearing from another reliable source, same one who was in the court this morning, I was about an hour late.
They said that two of the charges were withdrawn by the Crown, I believe.
So I'll have to double check on that, but it seems pretty reliable.
But right now, what's happening is defense counsel Diane Magus, who also represents Chris Barber in his trial, made a defense motion to say basically that his charter section 8 and 9 rights, his right to not have an unreasonable search and seizure and not to be unduly arrested were violated.
And it basically, from my understanding, stems around the incidents of how they obtained his name, at which point they got his documents, the questions about his truck.
And in the order in which that was done, there may have been some issues with note-taking.
A lot of the afternoon testimony from a police officer was about that, was about duty notes and investigative actions and what they call hot notes from the where one group of police officers takes custody of another person in a large event of arrest, like we saw during the public order arrests at the Freedom Convoy.
And basically the summary of that is the notes were terrible.
It seems that whenever a detail that would have been convenient to the defense was asked about the officer's memory was maybe not so great, but all of a sudden he could remember the exact, I'll just, this is hyperbole, but he could recall what he had for lunch that day, but he can't recall this or that, right?
When it's not convenient to the Crown or the police.
Well, I remember that video of the cop just going after the guy with his knee.
And I think a lot of people saw that and they felt sick to their stomach and they thought, what the heck is happening in Canada?
I'm glad he's got a lawyer.
I don't know Diane Magus well, but I know she is defending Chris Barber, who is the co-defendant with Tamara Lee.
So I've seen her in action.
And I think she's a fairly seasoned lawyer.
I don't know her.
I haven't interacted with her.
It's interesting to me that the cops are pressing so hard on this.
And it makes me think maybe they're going by that aphorism: the best defense is a good offense.
So this guy, Chabovizzi, probably has a claim against the police for false arrest, for police brutality.
So maybe they're trying to muddy the waters by saying, no, You're the one who kept hitting that officer's knee with your back or something.
Like, I shouldn't laugh.
It's not funny at all.
But the fact that they're going so hard against him suggests that, you know, maybe they're after justice or maybe they're after the opposite.
Maybe they're after pushing him on his back feet.
Because that guy, judging by that video, he's got a hell of a lawsuit against the police.
But if they convict him, then I can't imagine his police brutality lawsuit winning.
But if he's acquitted, they're in some trouble.
I think this is a strategic prosecution because if they can get a conviction on him, then he's got no, his police brutality claim gets weaker.
Let me ask you a question, John.
Is this continuing tomorrow or when?
Do you know when the next court date is?
I really am glad that you're there and that your friend is there.
We sometimes send a reporter to Ottawa, too.
I got to say, I'm glad you were there because we couldn't be there today.
Does this continue tomorrow or what's going forward?
Yes, it continues tomorrow.
The day ended a little bit early.
It seems that we're well ahead of schedule.
I'd just like to quickly mention that the witness that we heard from in the afternoon, Detective Dio, I think it is, Andia.
Can't really say that name properly, but he wasn't originally going to testify.
But Diane Magus successfully argued to the judge that he should be to testify and that she should be allowed to ask leading questions of him.
So we're in a vordure right now, and ultimately the judge agreed with Miss Magus and compelled the officer to testify and allowed Miss Magus to ask leading questions in her chief.
As you know, that's not typically in chief.
You can't do that.
So she was able to do that because it would have otherwise damaged her defense.
And right now, again, we're going through a preliminary pretrial motion of a charter issue here, of a few charter issues.
Going forward, there's going to be court tomorrow.
We're done with that witness, that detective, and we're moving on to arguments tomorrow.
And that's what's on top.
Well, this is very interesting.
And I have heard of the name Chaba Vizzi.
I haven't followed the case.
I'm glad that we caught up with you, John.
And thank you for telling us what you saw and what you heard from your friend.
And I'm sympathetic to this man.
First of all, three and a half years later, really, this is a high priority for the government of Doug Ford.
That's very disappointing.
But the more I think about it, and now that you remind me, this is the guy who got the daylights beat out of him by police, I think they're trying to make a point.
How dare you raise your head?
You know, I think this is a political prosecution, and I think the police are covering their behinds.
John Villeneuve, aka Wright Blend, thanks for joining us today.
I appreciate you jamming us in and setting up the camera.
You did a great job, by the way.
It's crystal clear.
Thanks very much.
Thanks for having me.
All right, there he is.
John Villeneuve, you can follow him on Twitter or X, as it's now known, at Wright Blend.
Stay with us.
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Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me on temporary foreign workers.
SG says, maybe it is more accurate to say that Eby wants to be seen as opposing cheap foreign labor, but he still wants it very much, just like Carney.
It's not going to get cut off.
This is comparable to Eby saying he wants to help reduce drug crime, violent crime, crime against women, crime against children, build ferries in Canada, and so on.
It's very insincere and not backed up by action.
You're right.
I don't believe him.
But the fact that he, as a new Democrat premier, feels the need to at least say it says that maybe he can see which way the wind is blowing.
So far, not Mark Carney.
ICU Boo says axing it isn't enough.
Small Business vs. Big Corporations00:01:48
Deportation needs to happen.
Well, that's the thing.
I mean, I think there are 5 million people in Canada who have overstayed either their work visa or their student visa or they're fake refugees.
I think if you mass deported them, even if you only made a dent in that, first of all, you would send a signal, no more people coming here.
Like there is literally zero people sneaking across the Mexican border into the States now.
So first of all, stop the digging.
Second of all, mass deportations.
Do not let more people simply walk across the border into Canada from New York at the, it's not called Wroxham Road anymore, but there's a crossing there.
Controller Feek says young Canadians need to start their own small business and not rely on corporations.
Well, listen, a corporation just means it's a legal structure for a company.
A small business is often a corporation.
Some big corporations do not use foreign workers.
I don't think Costco does.
They pay living wages.
And I'm not a communist.
I'm not a class warrior.
But I think maybe things are out of joint.
And I think if the fulcrum moved a little bit more away from these big international companies driving down wages and it moved a little bit more towards workers, I would be fine by that.
I don't like what's going to happen to our country when young people can't afford to buy a house, can't afford to get married, can't afford to have kids.
I don't care about the profits of Tim Hortons.
They're not even Canadians anyways.
They used to be a long time ago.
Now they're owned by a Brazilian hedge fund company.
I mean, to heck with them.
It's tough times.
And I wish that Pierre Polly talked about this a year ago or six months ago.
Maybe he'd be prime minister now if he had.
That's our news for today.
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