Ezra Levant examines Donald Trump’s long-standing fixation on Greenland, where the U.S. established Thule Air Base in 1940 during WWII and still operates despite Denmark’s nominal control—now mocking its $10B military budget and dog-sled "defense." Trump’s past rhetoric and unilateral actions, like seizing Russian-linked oil tankers, hint at possible aggressive moves to secure Arctic dominance. Meanwhile, Ontario’s Learn, Disrupt, Rebuild curriculum embeds divisive social justice training, including Islamophobia framing for kids, while ignoring anti-Semitism’s rise—like the murder of Aksa Parvez—and extremist Islam critiques. Funded by activist groups like NCCM (a Muslim Brotherhood-linked outfit with $750K+ in Ontario grants), the push risks indoctrination over education, with Catholic boards now caught in ideological crossfire. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello my friends, is Donald Trump really going to invade Greenland?
Well here's a secret.
America already did in 1940 and they never left.
I'll tell you a little bit of America's history with Greenland and if they're going to quote invade again I'll give you my thoughts on it based on reading the art of the deal.
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Tonight, is Donald Trump really going to invade Greenland?
It's January 7th and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Oh, hi, I want to talk to you about Greenland, but before, I've just got to tell you some breaking news.
Chrystia Freeland has announced that she will indeed be resigning from the Canadian Parliament this Friday, January 9th, instead of weeks into the future, which she said a few days ago.
The reason she's resigning is because almost the entire political spectrum, other than the CBC, has criticized her for a conflict of interest.
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Namely, while she is Mark Carney's envoy on Ukraine, she accepted a job secretly from Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, to be his special envoy, too.
She got the offer on December 22nd.
She told Mark Carney about it on December 24th, which was fairly quick.
But on December 27th, they kept it a secret that she was hired by Ukraine as they were involved with shipping another $2.5 billion in foreign aid from Canada to Ukraine when Christia Freeland was on both sides of the deal.
She was Mark Carney's point person on Ukraine while working for Ukraine and facilitating a $2.5 billion gift.
No wonder they kept it a secret.
We only heard about it when Vladimir Zelensky tweeted about it.
Just outrageous conflict of interest, corruption.
I'm glad she's gone.
Let her be corrupt in someone else's country.
So gross.
Anyways, I want to talk to you about Greenland.
Donald Trump has wanted Greenland for a long time, and it's not that crazy an idea.
I mean, think about it.
Have you heard of the Louisiana Purchase?
That's an American thing.
In 1803, a lot of land was bought from France.
Remember, this was the age of empires.
And more recently, remember, Russia used to own Alaska.
In fact, there's still some Russian-style churches up there in Alaska for those who went on the Rebel News cruise.
It was bought in 1867 from Russia, and it was considered a foolish expenditure of money.
They called it, the Secretary of State at the time was William Seward.
They call it Seward's folly to buy Alaska.
It was just for a number of millions of dollars, which of course would be 10 or 20 times that today.
But what a bargain, the trillions of dollars of mineral wealth there.
Plus, don't even get started on the military and strategic purpose there.
There were other purchases of land too, from Mexico.
And did you know that the United States even bought the Philippines in the late 1800s?
For 20 million bucks, they just bought the Philippines from Spain.
Canada has done this too.
A little bit different, but Canada bought Rupert's land, which was basically the vast expanse of the Northern Shield, 1.5 million square miles, bought for a song in 1869 from the Hudson's Bay Company that owned it.
Isn't that funny?
Canada bought the land from a company.
The U.S. even bought land from Denmark itself before Denmark controls and owns Greenland.
But the U.S. bought, I don't know if you know about those little islands in the Caribbean.
Again, that's a place we went to on a rebel cruise once.
The Virgin Islands in the Caribbean were Danish.
So the idea of buying territory or swapping territory is not unheard of.
It's not just discovering it or conquering it.
Countries buy and sell land.
Now, Rebel News sent reporters to Greenland in 2019 when Trump last mused about it.
I want to show you some of those videos.
They're sort of fun to watch.
It was very bleak out there.
It reminded me of when we sent a journalist up to Nunavut, Kaluit, I think it was.
Here's Jessica Svietonevsky, our reporter at the time.
I guess it's seven years ago now in Greenland.
a look.
Would you ever want an American passport?
If I can use it all around the world.
Yes.
Would you ever want an American passport?
Yeah.
It'd be easier to get around, right?
Yes.
Would you want one?
Yes, I agree.
Would you ever want an American passport?
Uh...
No, I guess I'm happy right here where I am here in Greenland.
Do you want an American passport?
Oh, I don't know.
It's just many people think Trump is a person that does his way like unpredictable.
But he's not.
Would you want an American passport?
Yeah.
Do you want to make Greenland great again?
Yes, make Greenland great again.
Make Greenland great again.
Some people, you know, were warm to the idea, others weren't.
Seward himself looked into buying Greenland 150 years ago.
Nothing happened.
It would have been quite something for him to buy up more land.
In World War II, I mentioned that Denmark owns and controls Greenland.
In World War II, Denmark fell to the Nazis.
And I should say, just I should just tell you a neat little thing about Denmark.
They saved all their Jews.
There were a few thousand Jews in Denmark, not that many, but it was so offensive to the Danes that the Nazis wanted to kill them.
They sneaked them across the water into Sweden and saved them.
It's a remarkable story.
But like I say, Denmark did fall to the Nazis.
So the U.S. stepped into Greenland because it was a Danish territory and they didn't want it falling to the Nazis.
And it was an important base of operations, the North Atlantic, for the Allies.
After the Second World War, U.S. President Truman offered the Danes $100 million in gold to buy Greenland.
Isn't that incredible?
$100 million, gold.
That's just quite a touch, isn't it?
It was rejected.
But the U.S. had an enormous presence there during the Second World War.
And they've been there ever since.
In fact, it was an important station during the Cold War for all sorts of bombers.
It was called Thule Air Base.
Thule, is how it's spelled, but I think it's pronounced Thule, T-H-U-L-E airbase.
Used to have 6,000 Americans stationed there during the Cold War.
Talk about putting the cold in the Cold War.
Now it's been renamed, I don't know if I'm pronouncing this right again, the Pitofix Space Base, which sounds pretty cool, but it's really just a Tule Airbase again.
Just only 150 Americans now.
They call it Space Base, I think, because really that is where you're going to detect ICBM's intercontinental ballistic missiles coming over from Russia.
If you look at the map, normally we look at the map where the equator is the middle and things are distorted at the top and at the bottom, the two poles, because normally we don't care about that when we're looking at the map.
If you look at a round globe from the top, or look at this map here, you can see how incredibly strategic Greenland is.
It is an enormous buffer of land between Russia and North America.
And in fact, where it's situated is nearer to where most of the Russian ICBM bases are.
So it's a very important place if your goal is to shoot down rockets.
And I don't know if you remember a few weeks ago, a few months ago now, Donald Trump talked about the golden dome instead of the iron dome that Israel has.
He talked about an anti-missile system that Trump wanted to design to knock down missiles.
I think that's one of the reasons why Trump is so focused on Greenland and why it's called the space base.
I think Trump wants to build a whole battery of anti-nuclear missile, anti-missiles, on Greenland.
And if you look at the map, there's no other place to put it.
It is a largely uninhabited place.
It was run by America, saved by America during the Second World War.
You had an enormous population of American soldiers there throughout the Cold War.
America has made an offer on it before.
I think Trump really believes in it.
Now, there has not been an outright threat by Trump to seize the country.
It's not a country, to seize the territory.
But there has been a careful ambiguity in the language.
Carolyn Leavitt, Trump's spokesman, Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff, they both said things that didn't say Trump would invade Greenland, but didn't say he wouldn't either.
They had sort of a strategic ambiguity.
Here, take a look at how that sounded.
Can you rule out that the U.S. is ever going to try to take Greenland by force?
Well, let me go back a step.
The president has been clear for months now.
So I know you're treating this as breaking news.
The president has been clear for months now that the United States should be the nation that has Greenland as part of our overall security apparatus.
Right, but your wife posted that like hours after the Venezuela operation.
That's why it's newly relevant.
No, no, and I'll talk with you about it for an hour.
I think it's a really important conversation up.
I just wanted to reset, Jake, by making clear that it's been the formal position of the U.S. government since the beginning of this administration.
Frankly, going back into the previous Trump administration, that Greenland should be part of the United States.
The president has been very clear about that.
That is the formal position of the U.S. government.
Right, but can you say that military action against Greenland is off the table?
It wouldn't be military action against Greenland.
Greenland has a population of 30,000 people, Jake.
The real question is, by what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland?
What is the basis of their territorial claim?
What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?
The United States is the power of NATO.
For the United States to secure the Arctic region to protect and defend NATO and NATO interests, obviously, Greenland should be part of the United States.
And so that's a conversation that we're going to have as a country.
That's a process we're going to have as a new community of nations.
So you cannot take it off the table that the U.S. would use military force to seize Greenland.
You can't.
I understand.
Jake, I understand you're trying very hard to, which again is your job.
I respect it.
It's great to get exactly the headline, right?
That catchy headline.
I'm trying to get an answer that says Miller refuses to rule out the United States should have Greenland as part of the United States.
There's no need to even think or talk about this in the context that you're asking of a military operation.
Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily.
That's really audacious, which is, of course, Trump's middle name.
And it has offended NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Remember what NATO is about.
It's all for one-on-one for all.
Article 5 of NATO says if any country is attacked, it's like all countries are attacked.
And what happens if the United States takes territory from another NATO country, namely Greenland, which belongs to Denmark?
It's quite incredible.
And I think it is a real challenge to NATO.
And a variety of NATO countries put out a statement.
It's very interesting.
They said they take Trump seriously on defense, but they won't accept the violation of sovereignty.
Some say it would be the end of NATO if Trump took Greenland.
And I got to tell you, it would be hard to imagine otherwise.
I mean, how could Denmark itself remain in?
And if Denmark left, probably other countries too would leave.
But I have a theory on this.
And it's because I've read the book The Art of the Deal.
That was Trump's semi-autobiographical book about how he does business.
And it's a very interesting book.
It's worth reading for its own sake.
But I think it really, I mean, Trump, I think, is quite candid in that book.
And one of the things he talks about is that he, in negotiations, takes an outrageous position that he knows is outrageous to redefine where a normal outcome would be.
So if the answer is, can we have it?
No, you can't.
Can we buy it?
No, you can't.
That's a normal conversation.
But if it's, I'm going to take it, and you just saw me take out Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela.
So like if you say something so outrageous, we're going to invade and we're going to just take it.
And what are you going to do?
You can then abandon that position.
And now a more moderate position is, okay, well, you'll just sign a 100-year lease and we have access to it.
I don't know what the normal outcome would be after that audacious stuff.
So that's Trump's art of the deal.
He says he does that.
Could that be what's going on here?
I think so.
The U.S., like I say, has a base there and really could do what it wants.
Denmark is a pretty small country with a pretty small military.
And And I really don't think that they would be able to stop America in any way, but neither can they do what America wants to be done, which is to have a serious military up there, not just to stop Russian ICBMs, but there's Russian ships and Chinese ships.
Everyone's poking around up there.
I think some of this is Trump wanting to make history also, whether it was Panama and the Panama Canal or reshaping Latin America with the Monroe Doctrine that he's now calling the Don Row Drocton.
I think Donald Trump is in a very unusual place for a president because he was shot at, hit but not killed, because the Democrats did all the lawfare on him, trying to put him in jail, and because he won in a miraculous way, I think he really thinks that it's a historic presidency and he measures every day by the minute.
And I think he's trying to do so many things, and I think he is looking for a legacy.
People point out that he values a state dinner with the King of England and he values being nominated for the Nobel Prize.
I think he does.
I think he wants to go down as a historic president.
And just like buying Alaska was historic and the Louisiana Purchase, and all these things are taught in history books.
And Seward's folly is now Seward's genius.
I think Trump wants to do that.
I think he wants to make some history.
I think a lot of it is very genuine.
And there's no way that Denmark can do the proper job.
I looked it up.
Denmark's military budget is about $10 billion a year U.S.
I think that's like, what, 1% of the U.S. military budget?
There's just no way that Denmark can lift the load.
Trump made a joke about the Danish increase in military spending in Greenland that they added one dog sled here.
Take a look at this.
He said this on Air Force One the other day.
I will say this about Greenland.
We need Greenland from a national security situation.
It's so strategic.
Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place.
We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security.
And Denmark is not going to be able to do it, I can tell you.
You know what Denmark did recently to boost up security in Greenland?
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They added one more dog sled.
It's true.
By the way, being on dog sleds is a legitimate way to patrol Greenland itself.
We have, we call them Rangers in Canada, and they are on sleds also, but it's not enough.
I think that was Trump's point is, yeah, it's good to have the patrols on the snow on the dog sled.
That's a good way to do it.
But we're in the age of missiles and anti-missiles, and it's just not enough to have that old-fashioned approach.
Isn't it a fact that Trump is showing that Europe at the end of the day is a lot of talk, but can't actually do anything major, strategic, historic?
Isn't he proving that?
Not on Russia, for example.
Mark Carney flew to Paris to go to what was called the Coalition of the Willing.
These are people willing to put in money to help rebuild Ukraine.
And all these European leaders were there.
And there was a couple of Americans there too, Jared Kushner and Trump's negotiator.
But none of it makes sense without American money and American military might.
So you have all these, it's like Snow White and the Seven Doors.
You have all these little countries putting up press releases and going to these fancy meetings.
But it's really, is America in or not?
That's how this whole thing turns.
On Russia, on the Middle East, you know, Ireland and Canada and Spain put out statements saying they recognize a Palestinian state.
Okay, so you're virtue signaling to your Islamist immigration.
Got it.
But no one cares.
No one in the region cares other than Hamas, which put out a thank you letter.
Israel doesn't care what Canada has to say or what Ireland has to say, no disrespect to either country.
But as they say, you and what army?
Canada, Spain, Norway, Ireland, the countries that had so much to say about the Middle East, none of them were involved in getting the ceasefire done, getting the hostages back or anything.
It's just America.
We really are in a unipolar world.
Now, Russia and China would say, no, no, we're serious superpowers too.
Yeah, maybe.
But we saw how Chinese and Russian air defense worked in Caracas the other day.
It didn't.
Boy, they don't do a lot, but they sure talk a lot.
Mark Carney, in particular, loves that system of international relations, meetings, and the rules-based international order.
He loves flying around.
But I think that Trump has just decided, and I think the reaction to his raid in Caracas and the fact that he pulled off such a military feat, I think he's just decided he wants to be the boss.
Not Ursula van der Leyen.
Yeah, I don't know who that is either, some European Union, but not some, you know, weak, powerless, impotent, but noisy European politician.
And I don't know if you saw this.
This morning, the United States military raided and seized two tankers that were involved in selling Iranian and Venezuelan oil contrary to sanctions.
Now, the Russians didn't like this, so they renamed one of the oil tankers, gave it a Russian name, and put it under a Russian flag.
And they said they were dispatching a Russian submarine to protect it.
Americans didn't care.
Trump didn't care.
He still raided and seized both tankers anyway.
And, you know, he was basically knows in his bones that he is the strongest military in the world.
And Russia is not going to start a war with America over some tanker shipping sanctioned oil.
I think Trump is discovering how powerful the U.S. military is, and he can do what he wants with it.
And who's going to stop him?
You and what army?
I think that that's unsettling to the littler powers like Denmark, even like Canada and the United Kingdom, because we always thought we were, you know, America was Batman and we're Robin.
We may be the junior partner, but we're best friends.
I like that line that Wob Canoe once said.
We're not going to be your 51st state, but we'll be your number one friend.
I thought that was a really sweet line.
But Canada, you know, there are some people who, for opportunistic reasons, want to whip up Canadian fear of being militarily invaded.
I don't think that's going to happen, but it'll sell some Toronto stars and it'll worry enough boomers that I think Mark Carney will go up in the polls, at least in Ontario.
But I try and think about how Canada can deal with Trump.
And you've heard me say this before.
We're not going to beat Trump on a one-on-one economic negotiation.
How could we possibly?
They outgun us more than 10 to 1.
They could take our steel industry and our auto industry if they wanted to, and it looks like Trump wants to.
You can't beat him on a head-on battle.
But what if Canada were to try something, I'm calling it asymmetrical?
And hear me out, and you're not going to like this.
But what if Canada said to Donald Trump, look, we're not going to be a 51st state.
You already have access to our oil sands through our Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, so you have full access there.
You have preferential access, in fact.
But what if Canada offered Donald Trump a joint base in our north, in our Arctic, up in Innevik or even further north?
That's an asymmetrical arrangement that might help us with trade.
And if it was a joint base for both American and Canadian soldiers to train together, to work together, a recognition that we don't have the budget, the technology, the equipment on our own, but we could work with the Americans as we've worked with them for the better part of a century.
And before you say, oh, that's a violation of our sovereignty, American military train in Canada, or at least they used to.
For example, during Operation Maple Flag, that was the exercise of sort of the top gun for NATO countries before we had to shut it down in Alberta because we didn't have planes that worked anymore.
Canada, U.S. through NORAD both defend the North together.
As I mentioned the other day, it was American jets that scrambled when there was a problem over a BC airport with an unidentified plane.
The Americans are protecting us right now by having a northern base, a joint base, Canadian forces base, and a U.S. base, call it a space base.
I think you could give Trump that feeling he wants of expanding and domination, give him that feeling.
And it'll be true, by the way, to have an American base up there.
Give him something that's asymmetrical, that's different than a concession on trade.
And by the way, keep us all safer too.
What do you think of that?
And before you say, oh, that's selling out our sovereignty, remember that there are U.S. military bases in the United Kingdom, in Italy, in Turkey, in countries all around the world.
It's not a sign of enmity.
It's sort of the opposite.
It's a sign of friendship.
And that's a qualitative thing that I think America doesn't get from Canada right now.
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They just get, you know, passive-aggressive jabs.
Anyways, is Donald Trump going to militarily invade Greenland?
Well, the answer is that already happened in 1940 when America saved Greenland from the Nazis.
Americans just never left.
We'll see what happens, but it is sort of fun to watch those European politicians panic, isn't it?
Stay with us for more.
Well, there's a saying attributed to the Jesuits, give me a child until he is seven and I'll give you the man.
As in those early formative years of our lives, so much of our mind is shaped, and that's why teachers are in such an important position of trust.
And these days, you often have both mom and dad working.
So really, who's looking after the child and who has time to look over homework?
The teachers' unions are amongst the most radical places around.
And I have in front of me a story published in True North by our friend Melanie Bennett.
The headline is, Ontario School Board embeds Islamophobia lessons while neglecting anti-Semitism.
Freedom of information documents reveal a stark double standard inside the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board where Islamophobia is woven deeply into the curriculum.
And joining us now to talk about this very interesting investigation is Melanie Bennett.
Melanie, nice to see you again.
Hi, thanks for having me on again.
You know, there's so much in this, and I want to recommend all our viewers check it out.
It's on the Juno News website.
You work for True North.
The first thing I saw on the very first page of your story was sort of the motto of this learning goals.
And you tell me if this is the motto of the whole school board, but it's three words, learn, disrupt, build.
And I understand learn, and I understand build, but I'm thinking disrupt, you're teaching children.
But that's just a tip of the hat to the fact that teachers' unions really are radical Marxist organizations designed not only to enrich their members, which we can understand, but to proselytize to other people's kids, to disrupt what?
To disrupt what parents might think, to disrupt what the community might think.
I think one of the most radical things in your entire story is that three-word motto.
Yeah, the Learn, Disrupt, Rebuild is essentially this is unique to the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board, but it's essentially a set of teacher training resources.
And when I say a set, I mean a very broad set.
It contains hundreds and hundreds of teacher resource materials to embed social justice education within classes like art, literacy, geography, history, you name it.
It's how to embed, you know, this intersectional social justice within the education system.
And it's, I haven't seen this particular approach at other school boards.
So this is very Hamilton Wentworth District School Board orientated.
And the interesting thing about Learn, Disrupt, Rebuild is it's been going on for several years, but in the last few years, they added on to it and they added this Islamophobia training.
And it goes pretty much from primary to, I haven't seen any secondary, but certainly primary level, elementary level.
And yeah, it's essentially treating religion as race.
Yeah, I mean, it's really incredible.
Canada has had an anti-Semitic crime wave for the last two years.
And I mean actual crimes, trespass, mischief, uttering threats, vandalism.
And we see it every weekend when pro-Hamas mobs, almost always foreign, foreign-directed, scream at Jews in my own neighborhood in Toronto.
And but what the schools are teaching is not anti-Semitism, but Islamophobia, when in fact it's overwhelming the amount of anti-Semitism, but the focus in the schools is Islamophobia.
And they have all sorts of lesson plans.
I'm just going to read one from page six of your story.
At least that's a page count when I print it out.
This is one of the projects, this is one of the thought experiments the kids have.
A group of kids see Wahaj's grandmother bring him his lunch.
They tease her and call her Ninja Lady because she wears a burqa, a veil that covers her face.
Well, if you're a kid, a Canadian kid from almost any background, and you see someone covered head to toe, I'm talking full, not just a head wrap like a hijab, but the actual face-obscuring black cloth, that is not normal.
That's not normal in most parts of the world.
In fact, it's banned in many Muslim countries.
And I'm not surprised that a kid would say that looks like a ninja.
Not even in a hateful way, just this is such an astonishing sight to see.
But that is taught as Islamophobia.
You cannot have a reaction to someone dressed, by the way, not even a second's thought to how women are treated and what it means that a woman cannot feel sunlight on her face and a woman has to be living in such a subordinate condition.
That's just one of 100 examples in your story of what is being taught to children of tender years.
Yeah, it seems to be a normalization of the introduction of religion into the education system, which is actually supposed to be secular.
And even though the Learn, Disrupt, Rebuild teacher resource package has hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lessons, as far as I can tell, Islam is the only one treated in this particular intersectional social justice way.
Like you don't see this for Judaism, you don't see it for Christianity, you don't see it for Hinduism or anything else.
Although there's a slight mention of those within the Islamophobia documents, I guess, comparing them.
But they're really treating religion as a racial category to kind of fit it into the diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is how education is sort of being transformed, right?
So I have some concerns about that, about some of the aspects of religion being normalized within education when Canada's typically been a Christian country.
And those are being downplayed all the time.
I have so many stories, even just this Christmas, about how you can't talk about Christmas.
We have winter concerts.
We're downplaying Christmas and elevating other religions.
And Islam seems to be the one that's taking the lead in this.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just want to give one more example from that same sort of lesson set that you show there.
Fatima's friend tells her that she looks prettier when she does not wear a hijab.
Now, that's an opinion, and it may be true.
And the thing about opinions is they're not really true or false.
They're honest or not, they're reasonable or not.
If someone is wearing a hijab and it obscures how they look, I mean, it obscures hair, and hair is a source of beauty in the Western tradition.
And the official answer to that is Islamophobia.
By treating Fatima's decision to wear a hijab a fashion, her friend is not respecting Fatima's beliefs.
Of course, I'm old enough to remember the case of Aksa Parvez, a Pakistani teenage girl who didn't want to wear her hijab, and so she was murdered by her father and her brother in a shocking case of an honor killing.
So, you know, it may be Fatima's decision as a child to wear hijab, or it may be the kind of pressure that Aksa Parvez faced, but either way, someone is allowed to have an opinion that people look better without hijabs on.
This is such brainwashing, and I absolutely see it being forced by these.
And when I say communist teachers' unions, they are communist.
They may be race Marxists and gender Marxists and trans Marxists, but it's a form of Marxism.
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Yeah, that's kind of the issue.
And I would agree with you.
I think there's a lot of extremism within the education system.
A lot of it certainly is coming from the unions, from what I can tell.
But we're not, the issue with turning this into DEI, a race category and all this stuff, is that we're going to struggle to be able to criticize this and keep the education system secular.
And there are issues within Islam, some fundamentalism, extremist issues, and they tend to be overlooked.
They tend to be ignored or whitewashed.
Another story that I had not too long ago was how the Ontario curriculum in world religions includes a teacher prompt about jihad being a personal struggle and a misunderstood concept, but never ever discussing any of the fundamentalist or extremist outcomes of some of that, you know, terrorist attacks.
So it feels like there's a whitewashing here by implementing it within diversity, equity, and inclusion pipelines.
And that does, I worry about that because any sniff of anything fundamentalist from other religion, particularly Christian religion, is definitely pounced upon by the very same unions that you are discussing now.
Now, who's in charge of this?
I can imagine that there's the school board, but above the school board is the provincial minister of education.
And has there been any indication that, I mean, we have an allegedly conservative government in Ontario, but I don't think they are.
I can't think of any measurement by which you could call them conservative.
They don't even affiliate with their federal conservative cousins.
Doug Ford spent the election undermining Pierre Polyev, praising Mark Carney as his best friend.
It's sort of gross.
Has there been any reaction to this or other examples like this by the so-called conservative?
Yeah, go ahead.
I know.
So, Paul Calandra is our education minister right now.
And although he does talk tough about indoctrination, he will touch the issue at times, but he doesn't really give very clear answers.
Now, a lot of the driving factor behind this is in the Ministry of Education.
We have an education equity secretariat, which can be responsible for certain things.
In this case, this is a board-driven initiative.
So, it was a program, Learn Disrupt Rebuild, is a program that was paid for by a consultant.
It was a package delivered to this board.
They were in charge of this.
It doesn't come from the ministry, but I'm not seeing any signal from the Minister of Education to actually tackle the ideological elements within education.
So, I would like to.
Whenever I write a story, I constantly am asking the Ministry of Education what their views are, if they support these sorts of things.
And I would love to get some answers from them on that, actually.
Now, across Canada, there are Catholic school boards that presumably or perhaps historically taught a Catholic point of view.
And this was an interesting constitutional concession when you had two founding nations.
You know, Catholic education was hardwired into Canada's historical constitution going back 250 years.
Are the so-called Catholic school boards in Ontario going down this Islamist path too?
Is this the same kind of learn, disrupt, rebuild ideology infecting what should be Catholic schools?
So, I actually, the reason I've got these documents is because this year I started putting an awful lot of access to information requests to a whole bunch of school boards, both Catholic and public, to try to find out what their diversity, equity, and inclusion training was.
And I have seen a little bit from the Catholic board.
I think it was actually the Halton Catholic Board.
And I don't remember any Islamophobia documents in there.
So, I can't really say on that behalf.
What I can say is that the Catholic boards do seem to be doing similar ideological training in other areas, and that could be, you know, gender ideology, could also be decolonial stuff.
So, they are engaging in that because, again, I'll just point out that the Ministry of Education's Equity Secretariat does demand this.
The education system is aligning itself more and more with social justice education rather than necessarily knowledge-building education, you know, the ABCs, one, two, threes.
So, you will see it.
And as soon as I know more information on that, I will be publishing everything that I find out, and that includes the Catholic boards.
But in terms of Islam and Islamophobia, I can't think of anything off the top of my head that's of any particular concern with the Catholic boards.
The fact that you say a so-called conservative government has an equity secretariat right there.
I mean, all sorts of alarm bells should be going off.
You know, I remember a few years ago, there was a schoolgirl who wore a hijab who had a press conference, and all the national media were in attendance.
And she said she was walking to school, and a man accosted her with scissors, she said, and cut her hijab.
It was such a preposterous story.
And I remember she said it was an Asian man.
And I thought, did an Asian man just happen to have scissors on him and go up to a girl walking to school in the morning with a hijab and carefully cut the hijab in a way that didn't poke or injure the girl?
And I thought that is BS.
And I thought to myself, I bet she was coached to say a Caucasian male, but that's sort of a grown-up word.
And so she was a young girl and she said an Asian male.
But that was just one of a hundred things that were so weird about this story.
But it was like a national story.
Trudeau himself tweeted about it, but within days, it just sort of melted away.
And the police, they didn't come out and call it a hoax.
They said, we now have information that leads us to drop the investment.
Like, it was a lie.
It was a Justice Smollette hoax.
And it's because this supply and demand, there is such a demand for proof of Islamophobia.
But there's no supply.
You know, despite everything, Canada has accepted the mass immigration of Muslim people, including some who dress up like yes, like ninjas.
And there just isn't the hate crime wave.
Canadians are not easily riled like that.
And so you saw this liar and her wicked family concocting a hoax to smear, in that case, the Asian community.
I should tell you, Melanie, that that tweet from Justin Trudeau remains up to this day that he has not taken down the lies.
So frankly, mission accomplished.
That's how this whole thing feels to me, is that there isn't a wave of anti-Islamic Islamophobia or discrimination in Canada.
There just isn't, especially proportionately.
But this is designed to just see Smollett it.
This whole thing is a hoax.
Yeah, I can add to that actually, which is slightly, it's not really to do with the Lord Disruptory Bill, but the National Council for Canadian Muslims is very involved in developing Islamophobia, anti-Islamophobia strategies and action plans for numerous school boards in Ontario and also recently Manitoba.
And at the Durham District School Board recently, they just released another one.
And within it, they have a dedicated, I guess you could call it like a snitch line.
So it's training on how to perceive things as Islamophobia and then teaching kids how then to report this with the NCCM.
So it does feel like there's not enough supply.
And so you need to find more complaints, right?
So we need to up the amount of complaints because when you compare it to the number of incidents against Jews in this country since the October 7th Hamas attacks, they're massive.
And I can't help but think if that's a reason why they need snitch lines in these anti-Islamophobia strategies.
Yeah, you know what?
I occasionally check out a Canadian government website that lets you search grants by any keyword, including the, I think you mentioned the NCCM, the National Council of Canadian Muslims, which is a Muslim Brotherhood front group.
And they receive tens of millions of dollars cumulatively to generate this stuff, to generate these curriculums and inject them straight into the school boards.
By the way, so do the trans movement, and so does various, pretty much if there's an activist group out there, you can bet they're getting grants from the federal government to create this fake reality that we're living in some horrific war of all against all.
Canada's a pretty good place.
I think we've had some real problems over the last two years.
We've turned a blind eye to professional agitators, but there's not an anti-trans crime wave.
There's not an anti-Muslim crime wave in Canada, despite the government attempts to fake one.
Is there any end to this?
I mean, I can imagine once this stuff is in the curriculum, you'd have to dynamite it to get it out.
Yeah, that's a really difficult question because these things are not only embedded, but they're increasingly so.
It's becoming a larger and larger priority to transform education for social justice.
And this involves the Ontario Human Rights Commission, obviously the Ministry of Education, the teachers' unions, the teachers' colleges, as in the universities, the Ontario College of Teachers, which regulates teachers.
So there are many, and also the activists involved with education.
You mentioned NCCM receiving money.
I did a calculation of grants and lobbying databases, and I calculated that NCCM received over $750,000 from the Ministry of Education here in Ontario to develop these anti-Islamophobia strategies.
And this is since 2018, the calculation.
So, you know, there is a lot of interest in maintaining the social justice element of education.
So it's going to be very, very difficult to get it out.
And I think that would require a lot of repealing of a lot of these things.
And I certainly would like to see it.
I would like to see it start with the Ministry of Education with Paul Calandra, possibly even talking about getting rid of the Education Equity Secretariat, which actually has only been in place since 2017.
It's brand new, and most people don't even know about it.
You know what?
The only thing I can say about Doug Ford is that the two alternative parties in Ontario are probably worse.
That's how bad it is.
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I'm really glad for your story.
And it can be read.
It was published just a couple of days on junonews.com.
Melanie Bennett, great to see you again.
Please come back on when you have another scoop like this one.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, there she is.
Melanie Bennett writing for True North in Juneau News.
Stay with us.
Your letters to me next.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
Dan Amack says, Vladimir put out the statement so that Freeland couldn't pocket the funds herself.
Oh, I think you were very wrong on that.
I think that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
So is Russia, by the way.
But you pour $100 billion in to a country like that.
There's so much money sloshing around.
Everyone there is on the take.
I mean, not everyone, but it is just shocking.
I have no evidence that Christia Freeland has some sort of commission or back channel pay, but it would not surprise me one bit.
Mark Warrenchuck says, is the World Economic Forum still a conspiracy?
Well, it is a conspiracy in terms of people conspiring together.
And Mark Carney is going this year.
I think Christia Freeland will be back.
Believe it or not, Donald Trump is speaking this year.
He's spoken there before, and he typically goes there to sort of lay down the law.
And the funny thing is the World Economic Forum welcomes Donald Trump because they're not just ideologues, they're investors too.
I don't know if you saw this, but in the last 24 hours, Donald Trump made a startling announcement.
He's banning large corporations from buying up homes.
I don't know if you know this, but there are some huge companies, including BlackRock, that buy up thousands and thousands and thousands of American homes and then rent them out.
And they just inject so much capital into the U.S. real estate market that it raises prices and it distorts the market.
And you could say, well, that's capitalism.
Well, today Donald Trump said that's not allowed anymore.
In fact, I saw the stock price of some of these mega companies plummet today because their whole business model is Donald Trump says he's going to block it.
So my point of saying that is that Donald Trump is going to Davos and they care about ideology, but they also care about getting rich over there.
Larry Fink is really one of the bosses.
Larry Fink is the head of BlackRock.
He's one of the bosses of the World Economic Forum.
So they hate Trump ideologically, but they want to get rich and America is the place to do it.
They're obsessed with tech and AI and that's an American thing.
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So I don't know.
We'll see how it goes.
But I think Trump is going to be fairly well received there.
Not ideologically, but everyone wants some of that American money.
Another letter from Annette Gignak Gignac, who says, we never did find out where our $400 million went with the SDTC scandal.
You know, I got to tell you, I don't know where the SDTC scandal is without looking it up.
I just read your letters live and I respond to them.
But a $400 million scandal in Canada these days is almost a small scandal.
I mean, the amount of money that the Ontario and federal governments gave to different electric vehicle battery companies is literally 100 times that amount.
It's about $50 billion.
I hate to say it, that we're in a situation in Canada where a $400 million corruption is now considered minor.
That's how bad things are.
Imagine the day under Stephen Harper when a $16 orange juice is recent enough for a cabinet minister to resign.
Well, that's our show for the day.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.