Ezra Levant critiques Donald Trump’s push to label Nigeria a "country of particular concern" over Christian persecution, despite its Sharia-enforced blasphemy laws targeting Muslims and atheists, while questioning the efficacy of U.S. military intervention amid Nigeria’s $1T economy and internal divisions. He contrasts this with Canada’s municipal left—like Montreal’s Soraya Martinez-Ferrada, who prioritizes prayer rights over garbage and safety—while Calgary’s conservatives deliver tangible results. The episode warns that Canada’s progressive shift risks entrenching policies like Quebec City’s $19B tramway, ignored public opinion, and rising anti-Semitism among new immigrant groups, urging conservatives to focus on local battles where daily life hangs in the balance. [Automatically generated summary]
Donald Trump suddenly takes Nigeria and puts it to the top of his agenda.
Why?
Because they are allowing Islamic terrorism against Christians.
And Trump says he's got to stop that.
If Nigeria doesn't stop it, Trump will.
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Tonight, Donald Trump does something I've never seen before.
He speaks out in defense of Christians who are being killed in Nigeria.
It's November 3rd, and this is the As for Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Donald Trump did something amazing for Christians.
I've recently been butting heads with some online Nazis.
I'm not saying that as an insult.
I'm saying that to describe who they are and what they are.
I mean, here's Nick Fuentes, the toast of people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.
I told my parents, I'm like, Mom, Dad, the Holocaust didn't happen.
And they were like, we did not raise you this way.
I remember going home from college and my second semester.
You know, I got home in the spring and I was like, mom, dad, Hitler was awesome.
Hitler was right.
And the Holocaust didn't happen.
And my parents were like, we cannot believe what you are saying.
We did not raise you like this.
I'm like, I can't believe you're not being chill about this.
I was like, shocked because my parents aren't even that political.
I mean, my parents are like vaguely conservative, you know, like boomers are.
And I thought they'd be down to fuck about it.
I was like, yeah, guys, guess what?
You're never going to believe what I discovered.
And they were so not cool about it.
They were pissed.
There is an occult element at the high levels of society and specifically among the Jews.
So many of the people that are perpetrating the lies and the destruction on the country are evildoers.
They are people that worship false gods.
They are people that practice magic or rituals or whatever.
And more than anything, those people need to be, when we take power, they need to be given the death penalty.
Straight up.
And I'm far more concerned about that than I am about even non-white people or mass migration.
These people that are communing with demons and engaging in this sort of witchcraft and stuff, and these people that are suppressing the name Christ and suppressing Christianity, they must be absolutely annihilated when we take power.
This is God's country.
This is Jesus' country.
This is not the domain of atheists or devil worshipers or perfidious Jews.
This is Christ's country.
Why don't you and Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin and Laura Loomer, you unlikable, despicable pieces of shit, why don't you get the fuck out of America and go to Israel, which we all know you love so much.
Do us all a favor.
Otherwise, you better get on board.
Because whether you like it or not, this country is done.
We are done with the Jewish oligarchy.
We are done with the slavish surrender to Israel, the wars, the foreign aid, the policing of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust religion and propaganda.
You know it.
I know it.
The young people in this country, the next generation, God bless them, on the left and the right, they know that you are full of shit.
They're finished.
He also says he supports Joseph Stalin.
So it's like mid-December, mid-late December.
It's actually funny.
It was December 18th, I remember, because that's an important date to me.
And it's Joseph Stalin's birthday.
I'm a fan.
You're a fan of Stalin's?
Oh, he's an admirer.
But we don't need to go into that, I guess.
Let's get back to this.
We'll circle back to that.
So I really don't think you could call him conservative or liberal.
And I'm not sure if he's right or left.
I think he's just a general troll who says whatever he thinks will give him another burst of publicity.
And I suppose I'm giving him his publicity too.
The only unifying theme in what he says, I think, is that he hates the Jews.
I just don't think it's enough of a philosophical worldview.
But one of the things that Fuentes says is that he's Christian.
I don't believe that he is.
And I don't believe that he actually thinks he is.
I think it's just a prop in two ways.
I think, first of all, it's just his way to distinguish himself from the Jews that he hates.
And he hates other minorities too.
Of course, he once said that race mixing is as degenerate as having sex with an animal.
Would you say that me having sex with my dog is the same thing as me having sex with a black man?
No.
But they're both, they would both be degenerate.
Nigerian Atrocities and Aid Threat00:11:15
Oh, and this?
Well, that's a little bit, you know, that's a little bit harsh.
Well, could be seen as harsh, could be seen as disrespectful.
Yeah, I don't think Christians believe in that kind of thing.
I think Christians believe that every person has the spark of God in them in their humanity.
I think Christians believe in the sanctity of life and that every human being has dignity and everyone can be saved, even if they're a sinner, even if they've done terrible things.
Every time I travel to some place far away, I don't know about you, but I'm grateful when I go somewhere that the Christian missionaries had been there first.
I mean, whatever else you might say about Central America and South America, aren't you glad that they're Christian?
How about Polynesia, all the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and the Philippines?
Aren't you glad that half of Nigeria is Christian?
I sure am.
Don't you wish that Syria and Iraq and Lebanon and Egypt and Turkey were still Christian?
I do.
And every country I've just listed is non-white.
That's my point.
Imagine thinking that Nick Fuentes or his racist followers are somehow Christian, let alone pro-American.
But I mentioned Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa.
It's almost exactly half Muslim, half Christian.
And there's constant terror attacks against the Christian side from the Muslim side.
You've heard of a terrorist group called Boko Haram before, perhaps.
It actually uses the same flag as ISIS, so that tells you all you need to know.
They're butchers.
They commit horrific atrocities.
Often they'll kidnap every girl from a village or from a girls' school, and they'll convert them all to Islam using the threat of raping them all or killing them all.
Just horrific barbarity.
There's a reason it's considered a terrorist group in many countries, not just in the West, but even in China, if you can believe it, Boko Haram is a terrorist group.
The thing is, it's a festering wound in Nigeria, and it's not getting fixed.
And Trump, well, he's in the mood to fix things, isn't he?
I mean, it seems like every month he announces a negotiated solution to another war around the world about which the mainstream media before then didn't care and probably didn't even know about.
But Trump somehow goes in and knocks some heads together and gets a solution, often using the threat of U.S. military power, but more, I think, U.S. economic power.
And the thing is, that unfortunately doesn't work with Islamic jihadists now, does it?
They're not really interested in a trade deal or redrawing a few lines on a map.
They believe in martyrdom to serve their supremacist vision.
Any agreement they make is just a temporary truce from which to strengthen their next attack.
That's why I'm pessimistic about the Gaza deal at the end of the day.
It actually presumes Hamas will remove itself from Gaza.
I don't think they will.
But back to Nigeria.
On Friday, Donald Trump wrote this.
He said, Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria.
Thousands of Christians are being killed.
Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.
I am hereby making Nigeria a country of particular concern.
But that is the least of it.
When Christians or any such group is slaughtered, like is happening in Nigeria, 3,100 versus 4,476 worldwide, something must be done.
I am asking Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, to immediately look into this matter and report back to me.
The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria and numerous other countries.
We stand ready, willing, and able to save our great Christian population around the world.
Donald J. Trump.
Very interesting.
I love how he phrases things sometimes, our great Christian population around the world.
Well, I suppose he didn't get the reaction he wanted from Nigeria, though, in fairness to the Nigerians, I think it was the weekend already when he put that social media post out.
But Trump posted this on Saturday, just 26 hours later.
Let me read this to you, and that's the last of the reading I'll do.
He said, if the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns ablazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.
I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.
If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians.
Warning, the Nigerian government better move fast.
Yeah, that's quite something to write, isn't it?
Tell me any other world leader who would communicate like this, strike that.
Tell me any other world leader who would communicate like this and have the ability to actually follow through.
I mean, talk is cheap, right?
But Trump gets to the point in a few sentences.
It's diplomacy like we've never seen it before.
And you better believe he means it.
And now the Secretary of War, as you know, that's the new title for the Defense Secretary.
He wrote back to Trump online saying simply, yes, sir, the killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria and anywhere must end immediately.
The Department of War is preparing for action.
Either the Nigerian government protects Christians or we will kill the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.
Now, I'm guessing that the Nigerian government is happy to comply.
I'm no expert in Nigeria, but I think they genuinely have problems with Islamic jihadists, and they're not so much permitting it as they're simply unable to fight back conclusively.
Here's what the Nigerian government said on Saturday after this flurry of social media.
The Nigerian government on Saturday vowed to keep fighting violent extremism and said it hoped Washington would remain a close ally after President Donald Trump added the West African nation to a U.S. watch list over what he said were threats to Christianity.
Quote, the federal government of Nigeria will continue to defend all citizens, irrespective of race, creed, or religion.
Like America, Nigeria has no option but to celebrate the diversity that is our greatest strength, its Minister of Foreign Affairs said in the statement.
I think that might be a way of them saying, look, we've got more than 100 million Muslims here, boss, and 12 of our states, 12 states in Nigeria, like provinces, are governed by Sharia law.
Did you know that?
I mean, they really do, like in the Quran.
Let me read a few lines from this Council of Foreign Relations essay.
Inhumane Sharia punishments, including flogging, amputations, and stoning, have long embarrassed the federal government of Nigeria.
That is happening now with the 121th prison sentence handed down by a Kano Sharia court to a 13-year-old boy, Omer Farouk, and the death sentence handed down by the same court, again for blasphemy on a 22-year-old musician, Yahya Sharif, for a song he shared on social media.
A third, Mubarak Bala, a self-proclaimed atheist, has disappeared in police custody.
These cases have attracted attention in the international press and in Nigeria.
Let me point out that all of the people who were arrested, prosecuted, charged, convicted, sentenced in that story I just quoted, they're Muslim themselves.
The Sharia law in Nigerian provinces applies to the Muslims in those provinces.
So all the people who were in trouble I just listed are actually Muslims or atheists or moderate Muslims being just massacred by the government.
What do you do?
I mean, that's not a terrorist attack.
That's their legal system.
Do you see the pickle Nigeria is in?
So, yeah.
I have no idea how you can run a country of nearly a quarter of a billion people, half Muslim, half Christian, 12 Sharia provinces, oh, and an annual GDP of only around $1,000 per person.
I don't know how you do it.
But I do know this.
If there's something that can be done and isn't being done now, Trump will find it and do it.
Or more likely pressure the Nigerians into doing it.
They don't want to be marginalized like South Africa is Trump calling them out for their anti-white racism.
I don't know if you saw that story.
I mentioned it in passing the other day.
Amazing news last week.
Quote, U.S. to drop refugee intake to 7,500, down from more than 100,000 under Biden.
The vast majority of those being accepted during the fiscal year were white South Africans and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination, a White House memo says.
Now, Nigeria is not as belligerent as South Africa is, at least I don't think it is.
I'm riveted by all of this.
I mean, will Trump and the Pentagon start doing what they're doing off the coast of Venezuela?
I don't know if you've been following what the U.S. Navy is targeting individual boats from drug smugglers and just blowing them up in open waters.
It's very dramatic.
I mean, in a way, you've got an aircraft carrier and major naval assets just taking out these little speedboats.
It's sort of like shooting fish in a barrel.
Would Trump and the Pentagon do similar in-and-out special forces raids on Boko Haram headquarters in Nigeria?
Nigeria's a big country.
Maybe the Nigerians would want the help.
Maybe U.S. technology ranging from wiretapping to satellite and drone imagery to special equipment, even drones.
Maybe the U.S. can simply do technologically what the Nigerians can't do.
That's my guess.
I mean, have you ever heard of the Nigerian army before?
I'm not saying it's got nothing, but it obviously would be no match for the technology of the U.S. military.
Maybe a few days' worth of raids and missiles and drones can dramatically degrade Boko Haram.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
Nigeria is so massive, though, it's not like Gaza.
It's huge.
I don't know about any of those details.
I just not going to pretend I'm a Nigeria expert, but I do know this.
In one fell swoop, Donald Trump just did more for actual Christians than any of the online Nazis who claim to be motivated by Christianity, though not a Christianity I think many of us would recognize.
Even if Trump doesn't in the end make a substantial difference in Nigeria, he's already made an enormous moral difference, a symbolic difference, hasn't he?
He's normalized caring about Christians.
He's normalized talking about anti-Christian persecution, and he's normalizing deploying the U.S. military to defend Christians around the world.
And why not?
For decades, it seems like the Pentagon's mission has been to help Muslims.
I mean, think about all the wars America's had in Kuwait, in Iraq, in Libya, in Somalia, in Qatar, in Afghanistan, and even in Kosovo, like for a generation.
Trillions of dollars, thousands of lives to fix Muslim countries.
Why not spend some of that firepower actually helping Christians around the world who need it?
Whether it's in the form of refugee status for those Boer farmers of South Africa or helping Christians in Nigeria.
Quebec's Wacky Far Left00:15:23
I got to say, I like it.
Do you?
Stay with us for more.
Hey, welcome back.
You know, last time we did something Rebel News we've never done before.
We did a completely French live stream.
Alexa Lavoie was in the chair.
Guillaume Roi was helping.
We were covering the municipal elections in the province of Quebec.
We had thousands of viewers.
Isn't that amazing?
Rebel news.
Born in English Canada, I'm originally an Albertan myself, having that Western flavor, but now we flew the flag for almost four hours in Francais.
Here's a little bit of a conversation about that earlier on today's English language live stream.
Take a look.
Yes, well, speaking of Alexa, she did fantastic work covering the Montreal mayoral election.
We have a new mayor in Montreal, originally from Chile, Martinez Ferrara.
So let's get to the crux of the matter, Alexa.
Who is this woman?
What does she stand for?
Is this good news or bad?
But first of all, she is a former Trudeau cabinet.
She was the MP in Oshlaga.
She also been a minister.
The thing is, she has been the MP for Oshlaga.
And during the time she was the MP for this riding, Oshlaga went down, down.
Homelessness just increased, safety in the street when really, really bad garbages everywhere, dirty, unsafe area.
And now she is the new mayor.
And I find that pretty funny when we hear the mainstream media saying, oh, we might have a center-right mayor.
What is center-right about her?
Nothing.
First of all, she, okay, the only thing that I would say that at the beginning I was like, okay, great, something great.
She was talking about the cycle lane that we might have to do something about it because there is some of the cycle lane that are blocking streets, traffic, ambulance.
It's just not doing well.
And then during the debate, she says, oh, but we will not remove cycle lanes.
We just like, you know, make sure that everything is in harmony with the rest of the place.
I'm just like, okay, you changed your mind already, so it's not looking that well.
Also, I want to play a clip of Soraya Martinez and Le Craboin.
Le Craboin is actually the one following the track of Valerie Plante, the same party, talking about the street prayer.
And I want you to see how she reacted about it.
...de réflexion sur la laïcité qui a publié son rapport.
Et on veut laisser aux villes le soin de légiférer les prières publiques.
Doit-on légiférer, oui ou non, les prières publiques à Montréal, M. Rabouin?
Écoutez, moi, j'entends beaucoup plus parler de gens qui dorment dans la rue que de gens qui prient dans la rue.
On peut aller dans les espaces publics qui nous appartiennent à tous.
On doit bien les partager.
Et je pense qu'il faut respecter la Charte des libertés de tout le monde.
Donc, sinon, vous entendez là-dessus, les deux, vous avez la même vision là-dessus.
Alexa, je ne comprends pas son réponse.
Is she for or against removing people blocking streets?
She's not.
She's not for.
She said that we need to respect the Charter of Rights and Freedom for everybody.
I actually agree that we need to respect the Charter of Right and Freedom.
But when it comes to blocking streets, harassing intimidation of people, just being in the same park or around those street prayers, when we are seeing like hateful slogan and chant, when we are seeing what is happening, this is not being a peaceful protest.
And it seems like, but first of all, on her political platform, she literally says that she is going to fight Islamophobia in Montreal, but she never really mentioned the rise of anti-Semitism that we are seeing in Montreal.
Again, this is another proof that I'm not really sure that nothing will change in Montreal.
There is another clip that I want to show you.
That is back in 2023 when her and Gilbo came in front of the Conservative Convention in Quebec City.
And just look at how she expresses herself about conservatism.
Ce qui est inquiétant actuellement, et on le voit partout dans le monde, c'est la montée de l'extrême droite et la radicalisation du Parti conservateur et avec un chef à la tête qui en fait lui-même cette importation de cette politique américaine ici au Canada.
Puis actuellement, ce qui est inquiétant, c'est de voir que dans le Congrès conservateur aujourd'hui, on voit, par exemple, la coalition pro-vie, on voit le lobby des armes à feu.
we see a group that crops in the climate change, and it's a dangerous danger for Quebecois.
How do you react to that?
Do you believe that this is center-right?
No, well, and I want to get to Sheila Gunread, but I think maybe Quebec is so into the wacky far left that, believe it or not, that is a center-right viewpoint, especially when you have members of Antifa running for office.
But you know, Sheila, let's take a comment on that first clip.
This is a part of an odious trend that is spreading in Canada: this idea that you have a constitutional right to pray.
That's what the city of Toronto says, that's what the police chief says.
You do.
You do.
You do not have a right to block streets, create an unsafe situation.
When I got back to the City of Toronto media relations person on that, the only response I received is: we stand by our original statement.
So, really, is this what she's complaining about when she refers to Islamophobia?
You don't want people, you know, blocking a major thoroughfare if there's an ambulance trying to get to hospital.
Yeah, this is stuff that could easily be addressed with having the police enforce the existing traffic bylaws.
You don't need to infringe on everybody's constitutional rights.
Like you, I believe that people have a right to public prayer, but having a cadre of people blocking the streets in prayer in front of the cathedral seems like something that you already have the existing laws to deal with.
My concern is that we have now another liberal cabinet minister in charge of Montreal.
Remember Denis Codaire?
He was mayor there, I think, until 20, I want to say 2017.
He was a liberal cabinet minister.
And then you had Valerie Plant for eight years, and now we've got this new one.
And all three of them are radical environmentalists.
Like Denis Codaire was anti-pipeline.
Valerie Plant was even worse.
And this one is just as bad because when she was the Minister of Tourism for some reason, she was going around announcing grants for environmental transition for Quebec businesses.
You think that she is going to be the voice of yes for a west-to-east pipeline?
Absolutely not.
If it has to go through Montreal, she's going to say no.
Alexia, you would get some real winners.
Sheila just gave a nice shopping list.
I'm old enough to remember Jean Drapeau, the mayor of Montreal.
His famous quote of all was that the Olympics could no easier run a deficit than a man could give birth to a baby.
And there's a fantastic Duncan McPherson cartoon, the Toronto Star.
It's Mayor DeProt in the 100-meter dash with a baby carriage with triples in it, and he is nine months pregnant.
So that's how that.
But what is it about municipal politics in Montreal where I would call them not ready for prime time players seem to excel, seem to get elected all the time?
So they get elected and they are not doing what the mayor should do.
That means take care of the garbage, make sure the roads are okay and the streets are safe.
Now what we are seeing, streets are dirty, smell bad, criminality is in rise.
The street look like if I'm actually driving in Gaza, as bad it is.
There is empty constriction sites everywhere around the city.
Actually, they say that there is more than 1,700 constriction site that has nobody working on it in Montreal.
That is outrageous.
That costs a lot, taxpayers, just to have that standing over there.
And we have cycle lane just growing everywhere.
They are removing parking lots everywhere.
And they think that people would just turn themselves into collective transport when, in fact, just right now, recently on the Saturday, the Metro went on strike.
So there were no options for people to just, you know, drive around or just like move to a place, to another place.
And this is one of the problems with Montreal.
Montreal is actually not in good shape.
It's not going to be better anytime soon.
And what we are seeing is quite big city that is actually following the same track.
I'm going to talk about that a little bit later.
But just as an example, I recently released a story of one of the candidates of Transition Montreal.
Transition Montreal has Craig Sauve as the main leader.
You remember Craig Sauvé during the by-election, he was running for the NDP with Jack Min Singh with the Palestinian flag on his pamphlet.
So one of his candidates, and then Tifa, first of all, with the tattoo of Bella Chow on his neck, literally on his X called for killing politicians and transphobe.
So literally, say, if a politician updates his platform to include the word woke, I should be entitled to kill him and receive a medal for it.
Another one was, you know, it's always trans who are being thrown under the bus.
Go and kill your transphobe local.
So it's all things like that.
And so one of the mainstream actually, I would say take back my story, but some people say that they stole my story because they never sent it to me.
Yes.
Literally had the leader, Craig Sauvé, for an interview.
And Craig Sauvé said that, but you need to understand the context, you know, it's jokes and it's really colorful statement.
And, you know, there's nothing really hateful on this.
But literally, what he did is incitement of a threat and murder.
This wasn't a joke.
I looked carefully at all the publication on X and he called for killing mainly conservative, like people who are not aligned in the same political sphere as him.
And you know what?
It got 9 point something percent of the vote.
Good lord.
That's not fringe.
That's better than the NDP in some writings federally.
And it's for sure better than the liberals get in some Alberta writings.
And especially odious to say those things after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
And yet they stood by their candidate.
I want to check the clip because I think our producer have the clip of the interview.
I think it's worth it that people see what happened.
Yeah, they're not apologizing.
They're doubling down.
They're not turning down the heat.
I mean, it was just last month, Sheila, when I was covering a trans counter demonstration in which the transgenders I interviewed said, yes, the use of violence, including lethal force, is an appropriate response if you're offended.
But, you know, Sheila, in the big picture, what Alexa said about Montreal, it's true about Toronto.
With the exception of four years, I've lived here all my life.
Right now, I have never seen the city look to be in such a shambles.
I'm talking graffiti, litter, tent cities, homelessness, food bank usage.
It's just, and the crime.
We have a crime wave, which was unheard of.
So Toronto was lost.
Montreal is clearly lost with this mayor.
I think all eyes right now in terms of municipal politics is on New York City.
Tomorrow is their election.
If Mamdani gets in, I think that's the beginning of the end for one of the great cities on the planet.
Planet, what do you ladies have to say about that?
I think it's just a little bit of the example of what's coming to us.
If New York City is electing Mandani, I think New York would just turn into a communist place.
And I'm scared that we will see also a civil war because what Mandani said that is not going to work with ICE.
New York has the biggest population of illegal immigrants being housed over there.
Municipal Politics and Projections00:12:48
If now we see Donald Trump with ICE fighting the mayor of New York, I don't know how this is going to end well.
I don't think it's going to end well.
And hello, Montreal is just nearby New York.
I don't want to see another flooding of illegals inside of our province because we cannot, we just count.
So, Sheila, what say you?
In other words, what are real estate prices like in Alberta right now?
Well, I'm moving.
I listen to these horrors and it's crazy.
Like, it's hard to believe that Giuliani was ever the mayor of what is now New York City.
Like, it's hard to believe that there was a Republican mayor and not like a million years ago, but like a generation ago.
But I feel like things are changing here in the West.
Edmonton is write-off, like, who cares?
But like, Calgary, their actual conservative candidate only lost because of a vote split.
The overwhelming number of votes that were cast were for two conservative candidates.
And Farkas, the new mayor in Calgary, considers himself center-right.
And the conservative political municipal party there, I think they control the council there.
So we've swung all the way back the other way from Gondeck to conservatives making a real difference municipally.
And I think it's because we look at places like Toronto, Montreal, New York, and say, you know what?
No, thank you.
No, thank you very much.
Well, you know, in the big picture, we have to ask ourselves, I mean, I really believe maybe this is an exaggeration, but I think we are one more federal election away from saying this country is done, put a fork in it, meaning that if the liberals under Carney get re-elected, and who knows what's going to happen tomorrow, what budget day, in the aftermath, if that triggers an election, I would argue whoever the conservative prime minister is who takes over,
you've got generations of fixing to be done.
I don't even know where you begin.
But, you know, Sheila, Alexa, do we come to the realization with the way the electorate is voting in all levels, municipal, provincially, federally, that this country, for whatever reason, has just swung so left, maybe it's indoctrination, maybe it's the education system, maybe it's the government-funded media, that the idea of a strong conservative leader, it's becoming more and more an afterthought.
But as I always say, Quebec, it's actually, everybody says, you know, it's based on capitalism.
No, Quebec is mainly socialism.
Why?
Because same if we have a sort of capitalism, the government is intervening on companies, big companies.
They have like the main decision ruling over them.
And this is since, as we know, like after the, how do you call it, I just have it in French, like the dark revolution, quiet revolution when the church backtracked and the church was removed mainly from the government.
Afterwards, people had stigma of being really with conservative, really radical conservative like values.
And people now really push out all religion from their life.
It's why Quebec is really strongly secular.
And now they say we will remove church, but they are letting other religion come in our life.
And now you are seeing a strong opposition because they say, why would we put like the church back to let other religion come in and deciding for our life?
But it's really sad because Quebec City, it's sad because the rest of Canada is not following Quebec City, that is the capital, not Montreal.
And Quebec is really in bad shape too.
We have like a mayor that is called Bruno Marchand.
And what he wants to do is to destroy Quebec City by constricting a tramway, a tramway that will cost billions of dollars that nobody wants.
Literally, the polls and the survey are showing that Quebecers don't want it, but he is doing it anyway.
And now we will have billions of dollars as burden to pay with more taxes.
And they recently just increased taxes.
And even the mayor of Quebec wanted to put the tax on the gas.
And the CAC, Francois Lego had to say, no, you're not going to add like another tax on gas.
Like you can't do that.
That's almost a Christmas miracle.
Yeah, exactly.
It's what they do.
It's just they are increasing, increasing the taxes.
They know that the problem with traffic is mainly because, first of all, you block all the road with cycle lane.
You know that we have two bridges.
By the way, we have two bridges near one to each other.
One is not really stable anymore.
The other one is almost like at the end of his life.
And they say, we need another one.
We need the third link.
You always heard that, third link, third link.
The federal is talking about the third link.
It's because Quebec, if we don't have another link in between the south and the north, people will need to drive one hour and a half, take a bridge and come back one hour and a half because we will not have any road to cross the St. Laurent River.
And the mayor of Quebec, instead of saying, we need a third link, this is what is the most important one.
No, he wants a tramway and he's traveling in different countries to look into what they are doing as tram and everything.
And he's spending like taxpayer money.
It's always like in media shows and he's charging taxpayer for like all his traveling.
And I think if we look at spending, I think La Bon that was there like four years ago, his whole spending was like $1,000.
Him, it's more than $100,000.
So it's increasingly like way more.
And you know what?
He has been elected strongly.
So, Sheila, what do you make of what's going on across Canada?
As Alexa said, it's a billion-dollar tramway that is unneeded, not wanted, and is too costly.
We see this everywhere.
Little tiny township, we did a story last month, 13,000 permanent residents.
The mayor is going ahead with a $50 million administration center.
Little Chatham, Ontario, same deal.
And you talk to the vast majority of people.
They don't want it.
It's just all about, is it a vanity trip with these politicians?
They want that big ribbon cutting ceremony with the giant scissors and whether or not it's a white elephant, they don't care.
I think conservatives don't pay close enough attention to municipal politics.
I've been saying this for years.
Because those are the politics that affect you most and affect you first.
Municipal politics is not just about your garbage pickup.
It is about that, but it's not just about that.
And it's not just about the stupid pothole at the end of your driveway that knocks your earrings out of your ear every time you hit it.
The municipal governments go way beyond their scope all the time.
For example, Calgary, Calgary under Gondeck declared a climate emergency, which then paved the way for a $19 billion climate plan in Calgary.
Okay.
And then if we wonder why our kids are being taught all sorts of crazy things, but they can't do math, look at the school boards.
That's a municipal political issue.
It affects us most.
It's pernicious.
It goes out of its way to be unaccountable to you in ways that the federal government could not even get away with.
Kicking you out, cutting off the live stream.
But the good news is, if you get organized, you can make a real change at the municipal level.
We just saw it happen in Calgary.
You can flip a school board lickety split if you really get organized.
But the problem is conservatives, and I'm the problem too.
We look at the provincial stuff.
We look at the federal stuff because we look at Mark Carney and he's gallivanting all over the world and he's causing inflation and he's spending like crazy and he is fighting with the Americans and costing us jobs.
We look at that and we think, okay, the house is burning down.
But you know what?
The hydrant is closer to home.
And so I think conservatives really have to consider their absence during municipal elections because they can really make a difference.
And can I just add on this?
What I actually saw, it's the left at the municipal level, they are really well organized.
And they are really motivated.
And they are going out and they are going to vote.
And they know that they have where they can have the most power, it's at the municipal level to actually do what they want to do.
But the conservative and center-right, they are divisive, like they are divided.
They are divided in multiple parties.
They don't agree with like stupid little things when they can actually coordinate their thoughts and idea and maybe find like a common ground.
No, instead of that, they say, no, I would not agree with that.
All the vote is being divided in multiple parties.
And what we are seeing is like the left know that for countering the center-right or the right-wing conservative, they have to all vote for the main party that will make them win.
Well, I feel pretty good about doing our work en français because there are people in Quebec who believe in freedom.
And I know that in large part because of the work that Alexa has done.
Hey, here's some letters from you to me.
The first letter is from High M9Q, who says, in regards to the possibility of a general strike in Alberta, he says, hi there, it will not go well for the unions.
Albertans are fed up with public service unions.
We will put up with pain to break these unions.
I think some Albertans will, it's the least unionized country, a province in the country, if I'm not mistaken.
And of course, government sector unions, especially ones getting double-digit raises, don't have a lot of sympathy.
And the idea that some private sector worker, a plumber, an electrician, an oil sands guy, a truck driver, is going to say, yeah, I'm not going to work today because some teacher who he just got a double digit raise doesn't like the notwithstanding clause being, I just don't see it.
I just don't see it.
I think Lauren Gunter's right that even if they're hot now, by the time some, like it's just, it's going to fade away.
It's not going to happen.
I don't think it will at least.
Boron 555 says they are hired guns to talking about the woke right.
They are hired guns to destroy the conservative movement, which is the final stand against the Islamist takeover.
Why We Don't Support Maduro00:02:38
They are paid to do so.
You know, I think the most important thing I have to get through my head is that just because someone says they're right-wing or Republican doesn't mean they are.
If they say they support Vladimir, sorry, Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, if they say that Hitler was the good guy in World War II and Churchill was the bad guy, if they say that Stalin was a good guy, and these are all things that Nick Fuentes and actually incredibly Tucker Carlson is saying, at a certain point in time, you don't have to pretend that they're on your side anymore because they're telling you they're not.
And I think there's a word for that that's entryists or just underminers or double agents.
Sorry, if you do as, I mean, I used to really look up to Tucker, but the other night he said, we've got to support Nicolas Maduro, the tyrant dictator of Venezuela, because he doesn't allow sex change surgeries.
That was his, I kid you not here, take a look.
So the question is, why?
Why are we doing this?
Why are we so opposed to Nicolas Maduro?
So if you ask someone on the street, random person, why are we against Nicolas Maduro?
The answer you're going to get is who's Nicolas Maduro.
But if you find someone in South Florida, for example, who knows who Nicolas Maduro is, who can identify where Venezuela is on a map, that person will almost certainly say, well, because he's a communist or a socialist.
He's exceedingly left-wing.
And that is true.
Nicolas Maduro and his government are very left-wing on economics, not on social policy, by the way, which is kind of interesting.
In Venezuela, gay marriage is banned.
Abortion is banned.
Sex changes for transgenderism are banned.
It's one of the very few countries in the entire hemisphere with those policies.
It is on social policy, not defending the regime, just saying one of the most conservative countries in North or South or Central America.
Only El Salvador really comes close, which is much smaller, of course.
And by the way, the U.S.-backed opposition leader who would take Maduro's place if he were taken out is, of course, pretty eager to get gay marriage in Venezuela.
So to those of you who thought this whole project was globo homo, not crazy actually.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't, I don't think, I didn't see that coming, but I don't think we have to call someone who supports Maduro.
I don't think we have to call him right-wing anymore.
I don't think we have to support someone who says Churchill was the bad guy.
We don't have to say that's right-wing anymore.
Saul Chuck West says, nope, Canadians have bigger problems than American podcasters.
Well, that's another thing.
Why We Left Right-Wing00:01:16
I'm extremely online, so I follow this stuff closely.
But to be honest, we don't have the same movement in Canada to Nazify our politics.
We have it in the form of new immigrants to Canada who have brought with them their anti-Semitism from the Middle East.
Absolutely.
I've seen more Nazism on our streets in the last two years than my whole life combined.
But it's not from the Nick Fuentes of the world.
It's from people who came here from Algeria or Afghanistan or Pakistan or Bangladesh.
It's crazy, though.
I'm not going to spend too much more time on it.
I just felt like I had a few things to say, and I'm glad you let me say it.
By the way, I'm off tonight to the UK.
Tommy Robinson will have his judgment issued under the Terrorism Act.
You'll recall he refused to give police the PIN password to his cell phone without a warrant.
So they charged him under the Terrorism Act for not giving him his phone.
There was a trial a couple weeks ago, and tomorrow is the result.
I'll have that for you live.
If you're on the Eastern Standard Time, I'll have that news for you at 5 a.m.
I'll be getting up early.
I'm flying through the night, but I'll have more for you tomorrow.