Ezra Levant grills Larry Fink over BlackRock’s $130K payment to Rebel News for voter ads, accusing him of authoritarian DEI/ESG policies and dodging accountability. In Epping, UK, he highlights migrant hotel protests—police inaction amid sexual assault claims—while confronting anti-Semite Justin Barrett, who refused dialogue, calling Levant a "Jew" and citing historical blood libel tropes. Levant also exposes Brookfield IOM’s tax avoidance schemes, questioning Mark Carney’s alleged Bermuda-based fund misrepresentation to evade Canadian taxes, and criticizes CBC’s Rosemary Barton for defamation without rebuttal. Alberta Premier Dan Kelly clarifies carbon tax deadlines (April 2024) and pipeline agreements (2040), citing $10B+ tech investments since 2007, while hinting at Trudeau’s potential shift on oil/gas amid global energy instability, suggesting conservative activism can still force policy changes despite media hostility. [Automatically generated summary]
Are you going to change it all in light of the U.S. presidency?
How has Donald Trump, have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected?
Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump?
Why are you running away from simple questions?
Just answer a question.
Have you talked to President Trump yet?
Why are your bodyguards pushing away journalists, Mr. Fink?
They're simple questions.
Is it that hard to answer a question that you need bodyguards?
Which makes more money for you, war in Ukraine or peace in Ukraine?
Ezra Levance, my name, Mr. Fink.
Did you just take a photo of you?
Am I supposed to be scared?
Is that a threat, Mr. Fink?
Are you used to bullying your way through life?
Don't push me.
When was the last time you answered a question that you didn't know was coming?
Why are you so unaccountable?
Isn't that what you love about the World Economic Forum?
You control everything.
Why do you think you deserve so much power?
Which of your former directors do you want to run Canada, Mark Carney or Christia Freeland?
Good name.
Don't push me, bro.
What?
What are you getting violent for, man?
What's with taking photos of journalists who ask you prickly questions?
Who's more powerful, you or President Trump?
Why do you think you're so disliked around the world?
Why are so many U.S. states divesting from your ESG schemes?
Why are you putting your ideology ahead of your investors with ESG, Mr. Fink?
Isn't that being disloyal to shareholders, putting your ideology ahead of rate of return?
Why do you think you're above accountability?
Is it because you're rich?
I just feel like walking with him now because his big scary bodyguards.
And I don't know, Ezra, I just want to make it clear I will not kill myself.
I have no suicidal thoughts either.
Mr. Fink's taking pictures of me and Abiyamini.
I think that's meant to intimidate.
It's a little weird, though.
It feels a little thin-skinned.
Do you think you're above questions?
Like, why don't you even answer?
Surely you have the answers.
Why do you think BlackRock has become so hated, one of the world's most reviled brands?
Do you take any responsibility for that?
I think the epitome of what's going on.
And what I mean by that is, if a mom, and I presume your grandma, feels that it's time to take to the streets, which I'm just going to guess.
I'm guessing you're not a regular protest goer.
That's just a guess.
No, no, no.
So the fact that you feel compelled to do this tells me that the UK things have gotten serious and things are different now.
You know, they're rubbing things all out the shops in Epping.
You don't feel safe.
Like people have got a lovely market on a Monday.
They come down the market, and it's just, it's just not.
One of them was charged with sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
Do you need more evidence than that?
So has the American president.
And is he behind bars?
I would like to ask the people who are on the other side of the fence why they're here supporting people like this when predominantly they're women as well and their culture doesn't belong here.
It's not about being racist or far right.
I am far from racist.
This is about a whole nother level of women feeling safe here to go out during the day, not just the night and just be able to do that rather than concerned about who is lurking around the next corner.
We won't stop until they've gone, literally.
There's a mountain of a man back there.
He asked me to move.
I don't think he gets told the word no too often.
There are some residents here who have popped out to see all the excitement.
And I've had a bit of a chat with some of them.
People even who don't show up at the protest today have expressed their opposition to a migrant hotel right in the heart of their community, right near their schools.
As I mentioned, in addition to actual sexual crimes like the rape of the 14-year-old girl, they're just being creepiness, like migrant men hanging out at playgrounds taking photographs of young children.
And in that case, the police said, well, what is there that we can do?
Hi, everybody.
I'm in the kettling area for the group that has come in from London.
And there's hundreds of them.
I don't know how many, but it's several hundred.
If you told me there were 500 people here, I'd believe you.
It rivals in numbers the people we've seen outside.
But quite soon after I arrived here, the Antifa Marshals came to block our camera.
You can see this bloke in front of me here.
And even right now, he's trying to block the camera shot.
It may be easier if you stepped out there to do your thing because I think that's what I was trying to do.
Yeah.
So that's all it's entirely up to you, but I don't think he's going to stop doing what he's doing unless you get it.
That's part of the story in a way, isn't it?
Thanks for coming over.
I appreciate that.
So what's interesting is that the Antifa side, the pro-Hamas side, the anti-Semitic side, they have what they call marshals.
And it just goes to the professional activism of the other side.
What we saw earlier today on the Epping side was grassroots.
It was ordinary people from Epping.
And there was no particular organizer.
There was nothing being funded.
It was all authentic.
Here you have real Antifa activists.
We're going to start by implementing rules.
This is for my safety.
This is not your public security.
This is for my safety.
Yeah, but he can't be.
This is for my safety.
It's not your business.
So that guy seems to know you.
Who are you?
Are you famous?
No, I don't.
I do recognize you.
What did the cops say?
I don't talk to the Jews.
You don't talk to the Jews?
Well, most of our viewers are non-Jewish.
Well, you are.
So I don't talk to Jews.
Okay, well, talk through me to my Christian viewers.
I'm not talking to Jews.
Well, I think that's a very rude thing to say.
I'm not concerned as to whether it's a rude thing to say.
I mean, it's un-Christian, actually.
That's absolutely ridiculous that it's un-Christian.
I came to you just to ask you.
You crucified our Lord Jesus Christ.
I wasn't there, brother.
And then you're telling me his blood be upon us and upon our children.
I think you're a discredit to this movement.
I think you're a Jew, and I think you should go away.
I think you're a Jew, and I think you should go away.
I think you're MI6 sent here to undermine the credibility of this program.
I think you're a Jew, and I think you should go away.
This is like another...
You know what?
You're so disreputable that I think that your net effect is to discredit the anti-immigration movement.
The reason that you should go away is because you're a Jew.
Like, that's so extreme.
What's your name?
It's not at all extreme.
What's your name?
Justin Barrett.
Well, Justin Barrett, I think you're an embarrassment to Ireland.
No, I don't give a damn what Jews think of me.
You're shaking.
Your face is shaking.
You look very stressed right now.
No, I know, I know.
Well, I don't like being around Jews.
I mean, this is a bad feeling.
Well, you know, I'm very sorry that you're so hateful.
And I'm worried that.
I didn't say I hated you.
I said I don't like being around you.
Well, that's the same thing.
You know, I'm not going to do that.
Go be Jewish somewhere else.
You know, I'm being a friend of the Irish.
Go and be Jewish somewhere.
You're a black mark on the Jews have never been a friend to anybody except other Jews.
I think you've got some shortman issues going on here.
Jews have never been a friend.
Respectable.
Okay.
That's an Irishman that you're talking to.
Don't fucking talk to him that way.
In which way?
What offended you?
You're fucking trying to upset him.
The opposite.
The opposite, I wanted to find out what the cops...
He said a bunch of outrageous things.
Why was outrageous?
You're anti-Semitic.
Out of nowhere.
I just came here to talk to you.
I'm not anti-Semitic out there.
Oh, my God.
You're 2,000 years.
You're shaking me.
You're shaking.
2,000 years.
All five-foot-nothing of you is shaking like a leaf.
I'm not.
Don't know.
It's so disrespectful.
The guy was smearing me in a racist tone.
It's just out of control.
I think you guys are little wannabe brown shirts.
You just wanna be brown shirts.
There's no problem with wearing a brown shirt.
Absolutely not.
Well, you're a disgrace.
What's wrong with National Socialism?
Oh, my God.
Socialism knew how to deal with people like you.
You know what?
You've got to be a Fed.
You've got to be with the black and town.
It's always been.
You're MI6.
Fed, Fed, Fed.
You're an MI6.
Fed, Fed, Fed, Jackie.
Jewish.
Jew, go away, Jew.
It's like you're only a go be Jewish somewhere.
No, it's so over the top.
It's so disreputable.
It's got to be.
This is about immigration, not Jews.
The Irish people can't get homes.
They can't get hostel beds.
Tommy Robinson's Struggle00:08:40
This has to come to an end.
Nationalism is not racism.
Hill does island belong to him.
This government doesn't care for our own people.
They care for the other people.
You need to look after the Irish people first.
Wouldn't you know it?
There it is.
There's a hammer and sickle flag.
The revolution.
They don't have a lot of Irish flags.
The government's here, like many Russian governments, only speak to, only listen to the NGOs.
Bring Ireland back to the way it lies man, because we're losing our closure on history.
There's nothing to hear from me.
Who's team?
I'm team!
Who's team?
I'm team!
I'm team!
I don't know if you can hear me over the noise of the crowd.
I am standing in the heart of Dublin.
We're literally right at the front where in a number of minutes, a variety of speakers will address the crowd.
People are struggling with the bills, the rents, the mortgages.
People can't get boy in this country anymore.
And we've had enough of it.
And the people in Leicester House are just not listening.
What's our mission for Orlando?
It's an Ireland reborn, an Ireland united, and an Ireland that is free.
So, Tommy, you're not coming out of the court.
What has happened?
Only accredited journalists, when they say accredited, only government-supported journalists were allowed to report in the second half of the trial, which means no one, I guess, out here, because you're not going to heard it from the mainstream media.
Because I've looked through the mainstream media's reporting on the case this morning, it's insane.
It's fucking insane.
All the unlawful stuff they've done, all the illegal stuff they've done, and not one part of it has been reported on.
It's mad.
Which is the need for people like Ezra and other people who have flown over from Canada to come and report on this.
Unfortunately, he's been gagged today from when we went back in.
No one else other than the government control, which what is that?
That's communism, though.
Only government-controlled media are allowed to report on what's going on inside the courtroom.
And it's meant to be about fair and open justice for people to understand.
The reason why we need citizen journalists is because these fucking frauds don't report.
We've seen that by the reporting this morning.
We've seen that.
But an officer has accepted this afternoon, which you wouldn't have heard, that he held me unlawfully because he was supposed to have done certain things that he didn't do.
And then there were three different things that he was lawfully had to do that he didn't do in order to detain me under Terrorism Act.
It's not like we're stopping you for a quick check in your car.
We're nicking you for terrorism.
We're using terrorism legislation to detain you and pump around the whole world that you're being charged under the Terrorism Act.
You better make sure your shit's in order.
And none of it's in order.
The reason for detaining me wasn't in order.
They just made it up like it went along.
What we then found out is they made up stuff today that's not in their statements.
Do you know how many times we've asked them for disclosure?
And they've refused it.
So we've gone back saying, what did you do for an hour and a half?
Because they detained me.
There was a 40-minute gap.
Then there's another hour and a half gap.
What were you doing in that time?
From stopping me originally, what was going on?
We know what was going on.
It was going up the ladder to the top.
Yeah?
And they were making decisions.
But they didn't make any notice.
And even though we asked them, what were you doing?
They refused to answer.
And then today, we were taking information from other organizations.
Well, we've asked you that multiple times.
You have to give us disclosure, which they haven't given.
They didn't give.
So now there's been another application to make the judge aware.
We've asked all this information.
Then they've brought shit up today in court where there's no evidence of it.
There's no paperwork trial.
There's no email trial.
There's nothing.
And then he started making up.
Do you know what his reason was?
Islamophobia.
Islamophobia.
Islam.
What even is Islamophobia?
They're taking it from the Labour government's Islamophobia bill.
You talk about Islam.
We're going to nick you onto terrorism.
That's it.
Hello!
Hello, and welcome to the hundreds of thousands of you stretching for miles in this great city.
And hello to the millions more watching online around the world.
That's part of the story, isn't it?
The establishment media, the regime media, the legacy media, the government media.
They haven't mentioned this rally.
They want to pretend it doesn't even exist.
Well, it exists.
You exist.
Even if the media party pretends you don't.
And if the only source of news we have was the regime media, that would be a problem.
But across the United Kingdom and in my country of Canada and around the world, a new generation of citizen journalists is arising to tell the other side of the story.
Whether it's the Canadian truckers or the Dutch farmers or now the mothers and grandmothers protesting outside Britain's dangerous migrant hotels.
Just as establishment politicians have failed to loyally serve the people, establishment journalists have failed to honestly tell us about our world.
But here's the good news.
Each of you can be a journalist.
If you have a cell phone with a video camera, you can be a journalist.
If you have an X account, you can be a journalist.
To fill in the blanks left by the media party, our host today, Tommy Robinson, is in fact Britain's leading journalist.
And the response from the regime to simply call everyone a racist, it just doesn't seem to work anymore, does it?
And more people will watch this rally online than watch all of the official TV news stations and newspapers in the UK combined.
It's not easy being a dissident these days, though.
Police will find a way to arrest you.
Even just for a post on social media, 30 people a day across the UK are arrested for mean tweets.
Some of them, like the mother Lucy Connolly, are sent to prison for their words.
This in the country that gave us the Magna Carta and set the standard for free speech.
That's why there are so many people around the world watching, because we're worried about Great Britain.
We love you.
You're the place that taught us about responsible government and freedom.
And you're losing both, and it's painful to watch.
The British people are slow to anger.
They're polite.
They believe in keeping calm and carrying on.
They believe in a stiff upper lip.
As Kipling said in his poem, The Beginnings, hating is not in the blood of the English, but even the English have had enough.
Some people want to ban Tommy Robinson, to silence him, to jail him, perhaps even worse.
I don't think he can get a fair trial anymore in the UK courts.
He's become the official scapegoat, the official enemy of the state.
And yet he keeps going, warning his fellow countrymen.
The best time to have heeded Tommy's warnings was 15 years ago.
But the second best time is right now.
And I think that's actually happening.
Mainstream politicians and journalists are now talking about stopping immigration and even mass deportations and re-migration.
Politicians who used to support censorship like the Online Safety Act are now talking about freedom.
They now carefully and modestly support the things that they used to condemn when Tommy Robinson said them.
And we noticed that.
Tommy was just ahead of his time.
That is my hope today.
That the ideas that were censored, the debates that were forbidden, the news that was covered up, the marginalization of patriotic citizens, the bizarre preference for foreign people and foreign ideas over national ideas, my hope is that era finally comes to an end.
And when the British people look back, when you take back your country, you will be able to say you were there.
You were there at a turning point.
You were there when the people decided in their millions to no longer be afraid to love their country.
Good luck, and keep fighting for freedom.
There's ideological reasons or practical reasons or political reasons for that, not just personal ambition and frustration and greed.
And that's what Chris D'Entremont did.
Turning Point Vote00:04:54
We're here in Yarmouth trying to find the guy.
And right over there in Lubbet Plaza is his office.
Let's go in and see if he's there.
I have a hunch he's not going to talk to us, but we may as well try.
Let's go take a look.
Chris Dantremont, Member of Parliament for West Nova.
And here's the sign taped to the door.
Office hours, Monday to Thursday, 10 to 4.
Please note, in-person service is available by appointment only.
And it's completely locked.
He's hiding from his own people.
I don't blame him.
All right, well, I'm filming.
Hi, I'm Andrew LeBan.
How are you?
How are you?
I'm great.
I was just looking at the sign.
says it's closed with no appointment.
Is Mr. Dr. Martin not doing any?
Is he in Ottawa?
How's it been these last couple of weeks?
Yeah.
What do people say?
Well, just go on social media and see what people are doing.
Is it tough?
It's tough.
I'm sorry to hear that.
How would you say it's going?
I'm like about 50-50.
I think she ran away.
And she closed the door.
I think I scared her off.
Huh.
She seemed pretty friendly, though.
That's that Nova Scotia way.
Well, as you can see, I went in to see Chris D'Antremont.
The office was locked, and there was a sign saying by appointment only.
I had a brief but friendly chat with the lady in there who says it's been a hassle.
Look, obviously, I don't blame the staff for the decision obviously done by the boss.
I'm sure that Chris D'Antremont did not consult anybody other than maybe his close family and his investment manager.
There's no way he would have talked to the local people here.
They voted for him several times as a conservative.
Have you heard that the local MP for these parts, Chris Dontremont, switched from liberals to conserve to liberal?
Yeah, he did.
And what do you make of that?
What a coward.
I don't know.
Like, how do you switch sides that easily and that quickly?
I don't know.
It doesn't make sense to me, especially when the vote was so close here, but now the entire province is pretty much liberal.
So, I don't know.
I think it was a coward weak move.
Just doesn't seem sensible to me.
I think that he already had that in mind.
So, for the people that were supporting him, Dan, I don't think that was right.
No.
Is it true that 88-year-old Leslie Commons of Belgravia Road in the Isle of Man, fella whose home we're going to right now, is it true that he is the boss of Brookfield IOM?
Can that really be true?
Or is this just a legal fiction set up by Mark Carney and his tricky lawyers to avoid paying taxes in Canada?
You'll remember this was around the time that Mark Carney voted to move the headquarters of Brookfield out of Canada to the United States again for tax reasons.
Let's find out.
And by the way, I'm going to be super friendly to Mr. Commons because my guess is he's just a fella who earns some pocket money by being a straw man placeholder in Mark Carney's filings.
It's Mark Carney and the lawyers who crafted all this.
They just needed some guy, and they found 88-year-old Mr. Commons.
Let's see if we can find him.
Well, we found it.
Planes, trains, and automobiles, half a continent away.
We found the head office for Brookfield IOM, Brookfield Isle of Man.
It's a foreign shell company set up by Mark Carney two and a half years ago when he was the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management.
It was renewed in 2023 and again in December 2024.
That's it.
Hi.
I'm Ezra, are you, are you, is Mr. Commons in?
I have no idea.
Can I ask what you're doing, guys?
I came here from Canada to, because the Canadian Prime Minister has an office here.
And it's registered to Mr. Commons.
Do you know who he is, Leslie Commons?
He's my landlord, yeah.
He's your landlord.
Rosemary Barton's Red Herring00:15:35
I don't know if he's in or not.
Oh, okay.
So I pushed the button and so he's the landlord.
Yeah, I pushed the button there because there's a political story.
I just wanted to ask him some questions about it, but you don't know if he's in.
I've just come back and I'm going on holiday this afternoon.
So if he hasn't answered his bell, then I presume either he's not in the land.
Yeah, I pushed the button three times and yeah.
So he's the landlord.
But does he also live here?
Sometimes.
Yeah.
Not all year round.
Right.
Do you know where he goes when he's not here?
Like, is he in town now?
I saw him last week, but I don't know if he's around.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, thanks very much.
And I just talk, I'm not talking about you and don't worry about it.
We're just talking about the Prime Minister of Canada.
He's just because she ain't camera at the building on the line.
Yeah, well, I'm not in the film at the moment.
We'll blur your face.
Okay.
Okay, that's a good idea.
Thank you.
In closing here, are you guys going to give up?
Is now this, hey, you know, the Liberals won.
What is the battle cry for the Canadian patriot?
Because I just have such respect for you guys.
Because even though that, you know, people in California say, Charlie, it's so bad here.
I said, no, no, no.
Go to Ontario.
Go to Toronto.
Go to Ottawa.
Are you going to give up?
One minute remaining, Ezra.
No, I love this.
Is my home.
I mean, for generations, my family being here.
This is my country.
I'm not going to give it up without a fight.
We fought during the COVID lockdowns, which were extreme up here.
Remember the Canadian truckers?
They came and they broke the fever and they set an example for the world.
And remember, no politicians supported them.
They didn't have a big super PAC behind them.
It was grassroots people saying enough is enough.
That inspires me, those truckers.
So we're going to keep fighting.
And again, I'm a glass half-full guy.
The Conservative leader of Canada got the highest vote that his party has received in a generation.
I think that he'll break through next time.
He's got a conservative working-class coalition, including young people.
It's pretty unique around the world.
I think it can win.
And I would just say to our American friends, don't give up on us.
Don't annex us.
You don't need to.
You already have a free trade agreement that'll give you all the oil and gas and minerals you can buy.
So you don't need to annex us.
That spooked Canadians.
That's frankly a reason why the Liberals eked out a win.
But let's get back to being best friends.
You can be Batman and we'll be Robin.
We're the junior partner in the friendship.
But let's be best friends again is what I have to say.
Ezra, God bless you, my friend.
Hope to see you soon.
It's a depressing picture from my view, but your optimism and positivity is remarkable and noteworthy.
Thank you.
Thanks, Charlie.
Search Rebel News for Canada and you will see clearest day Eswale Van as the owner of both of those companies.
It's owned by Rebels.
Oh, sorry, sorry.
The truck is for Canada, which is owned by you, which is separate from Rebel News, which is also owned by you.
Control your emotions.
So, Ed, I'm not just.
You're out of control.
Speaking quietly doesn't make your things any less.
You're completely out of control emotions.
And your facts are completely wrong.
What's your name?
What's your name?
You're suddenly shy.
No, I'm Googling.
You're Googling your name?
Tell us who you are, tough guy.
Stuart Benson, Hill Times.
Well, you're a disgrace to the Hill Times.
And your facts are wrong.
You're a disgrace to journalism, buddy.
That's not things.
I can do the job of one of me to do the same job.
You literally need five reporters to do it.
So am I just race source and all of the people you needed to do the job I do by myself?
You just shot, control your emotions.
I'm controlling them.
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I wonder where that would fit.
Well, I guess it would be what.
TYJOK4.
I wonder what that post-looks.
Well, you certainly got a tiger punch.
Let's go check out For Canada.
I wonder who they are.
Am I not, am I talking too loud now?
No, you just, you don't understand.
You don't even understand what you're looking at.
What work are you doing?
With nothing in front of you.
Yes, yes.
It's the really exceptional work you're doing.
Okay, there's a bus.
Thank you.
What are you going to do?
Okay.
Come here, give me a comment, but what is that?
I had a heart to heart with Mr. Cornell.
And I think we found common ground.
Well, I'm kidding around.
We don't have.
I don't know what is these.
Yesterday, I think the independent journalists were a little bit too independent.
And the regime journalists are too friendly with the regime.
And I've seen a full work press by regime journalists over the last 24 hours to bring in limits to what independent journalists can do.
You mean third-party advertisers, that's right?
Can you talk about the $180,000 we're spending to do advertising voter contact both through 4 Canada and into Rebel News Network Limited?
I see you're wrong on that.
And that's what concerns me, is that 4 Canada is a different group that was registered.
It's paid $130,000 to Rebel News Network Limited.
Is that not true?
You're getting your facts wrong, Justin.
I want to make sure you're careful.
We were actually talking about the CBC who want us out of here.
The CBC want us kicked out.
We're not leaving.
The CBC were outraged that Mr. Carney didn't let us in.
The CBC had four questions yesterday.
Rebel News had four questions yesterday.
The CBC thinks that's normal and it's abnormal leaving it.
I was talking to you about your authentication asking questions or was it about the incident here right now for yourself?
It was about neither.
It was actually about, what's his name?
The ball down the CBC?
Maybe Todd Coffer.
Yeah.
I mean, Cochrane wanted me kicked out.
I ain't leaving.
Cochrane's really thin-skinned.
Talk to Rosemary Martin too.
I invited her to a challenge, and she declined.
But that had nothing to do with it.
Anyways, I want to get back to the journalist mute, but it's a pleasure to be in the center of the attention.
I want to give a shout out to my fellow independent journalist, Kim Beckschi, proud alumnus of Rebel News.
Ailey's not associated with us, but I admire his independence.
And I would like to encourage everyone who's watching: you can be a journalist.
If you've got a phone, you're a journalist.
If you've got a Facebook page, you're a journalist.
Yes, it is, Judy.
In fact, independent journalists hire and unrefuse offered.
I don't know.
You're a government journalist.
Every single one of you.
No, he's not a journalist.
No, no, no.
If you get the government subsidy, you're a government journalist.
I'm not a government journalist.
Who do you work for, sir?
I want to get in your friend.
Canadian Press gets massive grants from the government.
You're literally wearing on the Brom Glengarry.
Because I follow the liberals.
So, sir, may I like to face it?
Sir, may I ask you to get you to the point?
What do you think about the third-party advertisers that are supporting?
Only your own media can ask you for that.
Come on, do run away.
Why don't you answer his question?
What was this question?
Let's be careful.
I actually didn't hear the question.
I'm flattered to be here.
Let me just say this.
I think that journalism needs to be democratized.
And I think it's sort of creepy that the enemies of Rebel News in the press gallery stop us from asking questions of politicians 99% of the time.
Once every four years, we're allowed to put a couple of questions to these high priests of politics.
And there's a total freak out from the press gallery.
Like, seriously, it's like leaping 15 minutes every four-year season.
We're allowed to be a little bit more.
What did you tell me?
Can you go here scrum now?
We want to watch the start of the debate.
Thanks very much.
Thank you.
Play the tape.
So you can see, I arrive, and there's a CBC guest.
Okay, stop right there.
So that was a guest getting off the panel.
And you can see someone in a red shirt or sweater puttering with Rosemary Barton's earpiece or something.
So you could see that that first guest who was just leaving the CBC panel, he was in the shot where I am now.
He casually said hi to me.
You can see there's a producer in red who's puttering around in the shot.
They're all clearly on a break.
And I introduced myself immediately and said why I was there.
Here, watch a little bit more.
Yeah, how you doing?
How are you doing?
I'm live on the air.
Okay, well, come to the report.
I'm live on the air.
I don't interrupt your broadcast.
I mean, I should not interrupt mine.
Okay, stop for a second.
He said they're live on the air.
Is that true?
Do you see the guy in the red sweater with the hat on puttering with Rosemary Barton's equipment?
Was this really on air?
This was happening before I approached.
This is why I approached.
I could see that they were not on air at all.
Maybe they were about to be, but not in any way that that guy in the red vest took seriously.
You'll see that he was there before I arrived, while I was there, and after I was gone, was he scrambling?
Were they talking at all?
No, they weren't.
Here, keep playing some more.
I think we have to correct something you said.
Did you see the challenge?
Okay, stop it right there.
So I didn't go to talk to Rosemary Barton.
I mean, she lied about us in other ways, but I really went because David Cochran had this whole day-long vendetta against us.
Rosemary Barton stood up instead of doing whatever she was going to do and squared up with me and called security to have me thrown out.
All right.
In fact, you can see I step down and start to leave.
I'm only a few seconds away from leaving.
But these people were not on air.
They were not trying to make a broadcast.
They were not in any rush at all.
The fella in the red sweater kept doing what he was doing, but Rose McBarton was quite aggressive, or at least tried to get the security to be aggressive, but you know, I left soon enough.
Here, take a look.
All right.
Well, David, I'd like to come back on and reflect some of your errors about Rebel News.
Yeah, that's cool.
See you later.
Have a good day.
Who can I talk to about this?
Me?
Go into the meeting room, Israel.
Like, I know you're gonna...
I'm doing a show.
I know you brought your podcast.
Is there someone I can talk to?
Is there someone else talking about it?
So stop there.
So by now, I'm out of the shot.
The guy in the red sweater is still there doing, I'm not sure what he was doing, but he was still doing it.
They're obviously not live.
None of them are live.
None of them are being broadcast.
And I've stepped away because, frankly, I don't want to, you know, put the security in a pickle.
They were commanded by Rosemary Barton to shoot me away.
But I'm still asking, is there anyone I can talk to?
I mean, they had talked about us all day and said some very particular false facts about us.
They defamed us.
And I waited till there was a moment to talk to me.
I mean, normally you reach out to someone you're going to attack in journalism, just to make sure you get your facts straight.
They didn't do that.
I positively said, hey, is there anyone I can talk to?
Can I come on the show?
You said some defamatory things.
I'd like to rebut them even for a few minutes.
And all they said was, we're busy.
Go away.
Go away.
Bruce McBarton really felt like chiming in for some reason.
I think she's got a bit of a...
She hates rebel news, but I made a gentle crack about the two of us.
I had challenged her, the two of us, to have a public fitness contest.
I don't think she liked that very much.
Anyway, I'll keep playing the rest of the tape.
David's in charge.
But is there like a producer or a lawyer or something?
So stop there again.
Rosemary Barton literally pivoted in her seat, spun around, because she still wanted to argue, bargie with me.
These are not people who were on air.
These are not people who were busy.
These are people who were still puttering in some break.
The guy in the red jacket is still there.
The reason I tell you all this is twofold.
To let you know just how unprofessional they are in terms of getting the other side of the story.
All day they had been attacking and smearing and lying about rebel news.
But they never once reached out to us to check a fact or invite us on for some right of reply, never once.
So I calmly waited till I could see they were not on air to ask for that opportunity.
I didn't raise my voice.
I didn't swear.
I didn't shout.
I didn't call security.
I just said, can I come on the show?
Who do I talk to?
Is there a producer?
Is there a lawyer?
Thank you, Minister, for agreeing to accredit Rebel News.
I very much appreciate your dedication to freedom of the press.
I have a question about the ostrich farm.
Now, don't worry, I'm not going to ask about the lawsuit because I don't want you to talk about anything that are before the courts.
But there was a letter, and I notice in the statement you talk about Canada-U.S. cooperation.
I know that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., your U.S. counterpart, has written saying he thinks that there's some medical research value in these ostriches because they had avian flu, but then have recovered and they're now immune.
In fact, he's offered to do the research and even to pay for it.
It seems to me that we need allies around Trump's cabinet table.
And if you could throw him a bone and say, sure, Secretary Kennedy, you can study these birds.
It's certainly no skin off Canada's nose.
And don't you think it would be helpful to have an ally in Trump's cabinet when we're doing our trade negotiations?
Why We Left Question Period00:13:48
That's my question.
Don't you think it would be helpful to have a friend?
Next reporter.
Merci.
Oh, you're not going to answer, Minister?
I don't understand.
Did I do something wrong?
Next question.
Thank you.
Minister, did I miss an answer?
I don't get it.
Okay, I'll sit down.
I guess it's question period, not answer period.
Merci Bouco.
I'm going to read some questions to you because the spokesman refuses to talk to me, so I'm going to put some questions to you, okay?
And feel free to answer any of the ones that you feel comfortable with.
Can I ask you who did the shooting?
How many people did the shooting, and where did they come from?
Were they police?
Were they from the local gun club?
Were they military?
Do you know who did the shooting?
Pardon me?
What's that?
Oh, I'd be extremely grateful if you would.
She just said she's going to get the team leader to talk to me.
Thank you very much.
I would love to talk to the team leader.
Wow, I did not expect that reply because I just heard from the police liaison team that the spokesman, who I think his name is Chris Clark, refuses to talk to me even on speakerphone.
So I would love to talk to the team leader.
Thank you very much, officer.
I got a question for you.
Do you think the team leader is actually going to talk to me?
Well, here's, I'm surprised that she didn't just roll up her window right away, but I'm a bit of a pessimist after everything that's happened here, Chris, and I don't think the team leader is going to talk to me.
That's okay.
I'm going to ask my questions nonetheless.
I know you would too.
All right, well, we'll wait a bit.
If I was a betting man, I would bet that the team leader will not present.
And if he does, it'll just be to say, I got nothing to say to you.
Well, did the staff sergeant not speak to you the first time?
Yeah, one of the only people that it was right here, I believe, before I got here.
Yeah, and I thought it was actually a very fair interview.
I asked questions that I thought were real.
They weren't attack questions.
And I thought he answered probably half of them pretty well.
Well, those were the only answers that I've seen anyone give about anything really on the record.
Do you follow what the CFIA is doing to see if there's anything that might be on its own illegal, or are you just sort of, like you say, it's a CFIA operation and you don't really get involved?
Like, because that seems to me that that is mischief.
That is beyond the scope of a search warrant.
That's political.
That's sneaky.
And I don't know if the RCMP would abide that.
Are you making sure that they don't take liberties, or is that just not part of your mandate here?
Well, I think you need to look at the contents of the search warrant because that may very well be part of it.
I can't say.
So that's something to look into.
You know, as indicated, we're here to enforce the law.
So certainly if we were to witness an offense, then we would need to take action.
Yeah, and I was saying to one of the police liaison officers, I said, look, in darkness, you know, theories and conspiracy theories flourish.
Like, look, You especially if you expect transparency from your police.
A shocking international incident happened here yesterday, and there are legitimate questions in the public interest.
And the idea that the cops would talk to me quite candidly a few weeks ago, but today, after the massacre, they won't talk to me, is upside down.
And I think it's part of a new strategy of provocation that I've seen them deploy against different people here.
We'll see.
She said she's going to get the team leader.
I'm a skeptic, but I'm willing to wait.
We'll have to speak to Chris Clark, yeah, he's back in Surrey by email or by phone.
Okay, so the team leader refused to come.
You'll have to speak to Chris Clark.
What would Chris Clark in Surrey know what the team leader just said to you?
What do the team leaders say?
All right, I'm going to continue reading my questions if you don't mind.
So, some oh, you're rolling up the window.
You're bravely rolling up the window.
I knew it.
I knew it.
All right, it's 1:24.
I tell you that because we've only got about one hour left before we've got to fly.
I just went into 73 Front Street.
I went into the Winner's Edge bike shop and I talked to the friendliest fella.
You know, there's actually a Bermudian accent, and I think it's lovely.
This is an amazing island that has an interesting ethnic mix as well.
I think there's almost a Bermudian ethnicity-part African-American, part white, part Portuguese, part indigenous.
Anyways, don't get me started on these lovely Bermudians.
I went in there, and the friendly fella said he's got nothing to do with Brookfield Asset Management.
He just runs a bike shop, but he heard for the first time about Brookfield when CTV published a picture of their front edifice.
He said that was the first time he heard about it.
I asked him, Had any journalist ever popped by?
He said, No, of course not.
Yeah, I got a question for you.
It's not really about bikes.
I'm from Canada, and I don't know if you heard, but we got a new prime minister, and 73 Front Street is the address of one of his companies.
And it's obviously not this bike shop.
Yeah.
Has any other reporter come by asking about that?
No.
Not a single reporter's.
Have you ever heard of this before?
Yeah, we saw an article about it in the CTV.
Oh, really?
What did you think of that article?
Yeah.
Not much about it.
I don't think they purchased a bike shop in their building.
Yeah.
So there is something else going on?
Like there's offices upstairs?
Yeah.
How would I get there?
Like, is there a stairs?
You would have to go.
Yeah, so you got the door, then you go, there's a little alleyway on the left on the left side.
Yeah.
And then there's a door there.
I'm not sure if it's key card.
It might be a key card.
Okay.
Have you ever met anyone from Brookfield Asset Management?
No.
No?
Have you ever heard of it other than that CTB article?
Like here, I mean, the building, the building over that's getting built, yeah.
Oh, they're building a building?
Yeah.
Okay.
That building that's going up right there, that's Brookfield's building.
All right.
Well, thanks very much for telling me.
You're welcome.
Okay, cheers.
Congratulations, sir.
You too.
Good luck with your recording.
Thank you.
Why would anyone seek to investigate Mark Carney's $25 billion tax evasion?
That's not in the public interest.
So he said he hadn't heard about any of that.
He didn't even know Mark Carney.
But he did say that above is a Brookfield Asset Management address.
And he told me to go around the corner where it says 73 and see if I can buzz my way in.
So I'll do that.
He said one more thing on my way out.
He said that this construction over there is a Brookfield Asset Management Construction.
And I looked that up, and indeed it is.
And Brookfield is being sued by shareholders in a company called Argo who claim that Brookfield did not properly disclose important information in the shareholders battle.
I'm not going to get too deep into it, but the point is Brookfield is building an asset here, but it's not their environmental sustainable project.
That's not a $25 billion building.
That's just an office building because I guess they're tired of being above the bicycle shop.
So there is a presence of Brookfield Asset Management, or at least there will be when that's done.
For now, 73 Front Street is just a bike shop and some offices above.
I say again, here's the scam.
If you're wondering why we're here and what the problem is, it's this.
Mark Carney was the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management.
He personally chaired two progressive environmentalist funds that were all about solar panels and wind turbines.
Fair enough.
I really don't care about that.
What I care about is that he lied.
He said this is the principal executive offices of those $25 billion in managed asset funds so that he could avoid paying taxes in Canada.
He lied when he said that's the principal executive offices.
Do you think that you've got $25 billion worth of managers and builders and executives for wind turbines and solar panels up there?
I can promise you they don't.
And that's the problem.
It's bad enough if Mark Carney was hiding his company's assets and income from Canadian taxes.
But to lie about it, to lie about it and to keep holding on to $6.8 million worth of stock options, pretending he doesn't still have a stake in it, and then make you pay all of his taxes.
What a hypocrite we've got as a prime minister.
All right, it's 128.
I'm going to go around to see if we can ring the doorbell and find this corporate headquarters.
What a laugh.
All right, so far I don't see it.
I see Bismont, Hamilton Legal, Harney's.
I see Christian and Company.
I don't know what these things are, but I don't see Brookfield.
So I'm glad to know that there are some Brookfield people here in Bermuda.
It's not just a P.O. box, but is it really the principal executive office for the various funds?
I find that hard to believe.
I have no comment and I can't help you.
Can you tell me what you do here?
No.
What's your name?
No.
Sorry.
Okay.
Well, you be polite to talk to me at all.
That's more than Mark Carney himself has done.
So I won't impose upon you.
But I would, perhaps I can take you up on your offer of those corporate spokesmen.
All right, if you can wait for one minute, I will.
I'll see if I can find the information.
Thank you.
I wasn't what I thought.
No, well, you're so helpful.
Suzanne Fleming, 21241.
Okay, well, thanks for your help.
You know, you were very courteous, and I know we sort of surprised you here.
It is a bit of a surprise.
Yeah.
But good luck.
Thank you.
It's a lovely place.
Just have you been here for a long time?
Yeah, I've been here for a while.
Could you get a chance to get out to the beaches before you leave, please do?
Thank you.
Thanks for being friendly.
Cheers.
See you here.
Well, our friend here was very helpful.
He gave us Susan Fleming's phone number in New York, looks like.
I'll give Susan Fleming a call.
I am a little bit skeptical that she'll answer our questions, but you never know.
We'll give her a try.
We'll let this fellow go.
Well, I think things go pretty easy-peasy here in Bermuda.
It's not part of the Caribbean.
It's further north.
It's in the Atlantic, but they have that friendly, easygoing style to them.
So we did go up to Brookfield on the fifth floor, and they opened the door and had a very brief chat with us, but they were certainly friendly.
In fact, they gave us some recommendations to go to hit the beaches afterwards.
Brookfield indeed does have a handful of people up there.
They do have one floor in this very small building.
But I can tell you just from peering around the corner, this is not the executive offices.
It's full of a handful of probably clerks or form filler outers just to keep the technical formalities legal.
Brookfield Renewable Partners and these other companies do business around the world.
The reason why they have this office here in the tourist section of Bermuda is so they can avoid paying taxes in Canada.
That's what's so crazy.
Mark Carney made the decision as the chairman of Brookfield that he would rather hide money here in Bermuda than pay taxes back home.
Pepper Sprayed Protesters00:02:57
And he's still doing it with his own stock options.
Back in Canada after a momentous day in Dublin.
Holy smokes, that was madness.
It's October 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
The protest
turned, not peaceful.
Horses stormed in.
Firecrackers were shot in response.
The police have deployed their riot brigades.
I've been hit with pepper spray.
I'm not opening my right eye because my face has pepper spray on it.
I would estimate 100 riot police in response.
They charged everyone, pepper spraying everyone, including journalists like myself, indiscriminately.
There are women and children in this protest.
They were pepper sprayed as well.
I've never been pepper sprayed before.
It's quite painful.
And more than that, it's disabling.
You can't see, and so you can't really react.
I'm being guided around by my videographer, Lincoln Jay.
Thank you, Lincoln.
An incredible show of force by the Irish police defending the migrants against Irish citizens.
Many of the protesters here would wonder when the Gardaí will protect Irish citizens from the refugees.
All right, so I got pepper sprayed to the face.
I'll stop being such a big baby.
I want to let you know I'm crying from the pepper, not from sorrow.
But it's quite a violent response from the Gardee.
Now, in fairness to them, there were some protesters who threw some projectiles at them, and there were three men on horses that stomped on some pylons.
But holy smokes, did the police respond with overwhelming force.
Like I say, probably 100 police in full riot gear.
They had attack dogs, pepper spraying everyone in the face indiscriminately.
You can see helicopters overhead.
Pipeline Promises and Carbon Taxes00:07:08
I don't know if there's even a way out.
I've got a fair bit of pain from the pepper.
I do not know where the front line is.
My goal is just to sort of rinse my eyes.
There's no political party in the Irish Parliament or the Senate that represents these people.
There's no mainstream media organization that represents these people.
Hi, Premier Ezra Levant from Rebel News.
The first deadline in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, is April, where the duty is on Alberta to jack up carbon taxes.
And the last date in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, correct me if I'm not, is 2040.
That's when this pipeline, you know, that's sort of the end date.
It can't be any later than that.
In terms of building trust with the anti-oil liberals, they're asking Alberta to raise carbon taxes now for a promise of an oil pipeline years or even more than a decade in the future.
Does that really build trust?
Well, you have to start somewhere.
And one thing I would say is that we did have the Supreme Court of Canada rule on the federal government's ability to set a price on emissions.
So the Supreme Court has ruled on that.
It's part of the reason why we negotiated a stringency agreement that would have seen the carbon tax price go up to $170 a barrel by 2030.
We've demonstrated, and I think the Prime Minister agrees, that's too high too fast.
So that's why we understand that there was always going to be a negotiation around that.
We froze the carbon tax at $95 pending consultation with the industry and greater work with the Prime Minister.
But remember, Alberta was the first to have an industrial carbon price.
They did in 2010.
We implemented that in 2007.
It's generated revenues that have allowed us to invest billions of dollars in new technologies, including carbon capture.
So there is a commitment on the part of the industry to have a carbon price, and we did do some consultation on that.
We're just glad that we have the means to manage it our way in Alberta under our tier program.
And you'll see, as of April 1st, and no, that wasn't a joke.
April 1st is going to be the date that we have an agreement on that front.
When it comes to the building of a bitumen pipeline to Asian markets to the BC coast, if you read the MOU, those two things have to happen in tandem.
We have to see the Pathways project proceeding at the same time as an agreement to build that.
One is dependent on the other.
I don't know that the Prime Minister would have agreed to a new bitumen pipeline without Pathways, and we wouldn't have agreed to Pathways without a new bitumen pipeline.
So they are going to be staged.
They are going to go on together.
We've already had a meeting with Pathways about how we're going to do that.
That will require a trilateral negotiation as well.
But I'm very hopeful.
Since we have used carbon capture technology before for enhanced oil recovery, that's another part of this announcement: that CO2 will be able to be used for enhanced oil recovery, which should allow us to generate more revenue.
So I would say that you don't always get 100% of what you want, but we addressed seven out of the nine bad laws that I put on the table to, I think, what will be the satisfaction of Albertans.
And I think that this will allow us to see some substantial investments.
I mean, that's the thing about a peace deal.
You have to make it with an enemy.
So I suppose the fact that for a decade, his Glasgow financial alliance for Net Zero was about putting a capital strike on the oil and gas sector.
Just a couple weeks ago, he was asked about pipelines and he said, boring.
So is there anything?
I mean, after a lifetime of attacking the oil patch, he was even interrogated by the U.S. Congress for an attempt to capital strike their oil companies.
Is there anything the Prime Minister has said to you in private that you could share with us that would signal that his lifetime's work of attacking carbon-based fuels will somehow be put to the side?
Like, I think he's just a slightly smarter version of Stephen Gilbo.
I think he hates the oil patch as his life's work.
Is there anything he's said to you that make you believe that maybe he can be turned on this?
Well, I'll start by saying my joke has been that I would love for pipelines to be boring again.
I would love for no matter what party is in power, what level of government, that there wasn't sort of an overwrought response anytime anyone talked about building a pipeline.
It's actually quite remarkable that we're talking about expanding uranium mines, building nuclear power plants, building new transmission lines through pristine areas, massive new mining projects, and not one of them has raised any ire on the part of any environmental group or anyone in the media, but there has been all of this ire raised around a pipeline.
So I hope that we can make pipelines boring again because it's just a way to get our product to the consumers who need it.
I would say that, as you know, I was not a huge champion of carbon capture technology when I was in politics the first time.
I wasn't.
But I've seen with the passage of time the investments being made and the fact that the technology works and we're getting better and better at it and you can create a product out of it, including so that you can enhance oil recovery.
I changed my mind.
And so I would say that the Prime Minister, maybe in the past 10 years, it looked like wind and solar and batteries were going to be the ability to power industrial economies.
I think the world discovered that's not true with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the instability in the Middle East.
Everyone is having to recalibrate and rethink that.
I was recently in the Middle East, and the conversation around the table now was talking about natural gas as a foundational fuel, not a transition fuel.
So I think that demonstrates that there is a global understanding of how important it is to have reliable electricity.
And so I have to just give the Prime Minister credit for perhaps he's recalibrating his own thinking on this.
It certainly seems to be in the agreement that we signed, but we will trust, but we will verify.
We will make sure that he lives up to the commitments in this agreement that we had.
And we have to proceed somewhere with a measure of good faith.
I can tell you 100% that the former prime minister would never have moved this far on these issues.
We tried for three years, we got nowhere.
And in my very first meeting with the prime minister, I said to him, you know, the way that we can get to an agreement is just orienting around the 2050 target.
Our industry is there.
We think it's achievable with technology.
And you'll see in the context of this MOU that the interim targets are gone.
And so that's what we're going to move forward on.
And we'll see as we meet these milestones whether I'm correct or whether your skepticism is correct.