Ezra Levant compares today’s global protests in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and Nicaragua to the fall of the Soviet Union, calling it a "Berlin Wall moment" without major conflict. He criticizes Canada’s economic mismanagement—$6B wasted on EVs—and mocks symbolic foreign policy moves like Greenland’s consulate while defending Alberta separatist Danielle Smith against CBC attacks via figures like Stéphane Dion. A Sherbrooke man charged for wearing a pro-life sandwich board highlights censorship, with JCCF lawyer Olivier Seguin fighting back under Canada’s Charter. Listeners debate Treaty 6’s legitimacy and Indigenous claims, while Gary Dee and Peter Mai clash over U.S. sanctions’ role in Cuba’s collapse, predicting a regime shift led by exiles—possibly forcing its dictator to flee like Assad. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, I've been thinking about it and I feel exhilarated.
Look, there's problems everywhere, but I feel like we are living in an echo of the Berlin Wall falling.
When I look at Venezuela and Cuba and Iran and Nicaragua and all these places, I think that we are having another Berlin Wall moment.
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Tonight, I really feel like we're living through another Berlin Wall moment, or we're about to.
It's February 9th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
You know, I'm old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I was in my late teens, and it was a very meaningful event for me.
I really feel like, well, as Francis Fukuyama said, it was the end of history, like this ancient, permanent, diabolical enemy of freedom in the West, the Soviet Union, fell apart without a shot being fired.
And it was true what we had said the whole time, that the Russian people and the others dominated by the Soviets and other countries that are now independent from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Stans, Ukraine itself, of course, that all these countries yearned to be free, not only from the Soviet Union, but the individual people therein.
So it was such an important and wonderful event.
Of course, that wasn't the only diabolical enemy that the West and freedom had.
Waiting in the wings was, of course, radical Islam.
And there was a, I don't know, about a decade where we had this post-Cold War euphoria in the West until 9-11 came and reminded us that we were not done and that the nature of man was not changed.
Rebel News is Canadian.
I mean, we have our little team in Melbourne, Australia, Abbeyamini.
But, you know, we care mainly about what happens in our home here in Canada.
We have the country covered from British Columbia all the way to Quebec, and we travel around to the places we're not based.
Mark Carney's Warning00:12:40
So we're doing important work in Canada, but our themes are global.
Wouldn't you say, for example, COVID?
We cared very much about freedom from being forcibly jabbed.
The freedom to criticize controversial medical science.
We started the Fight Defense Legal Project in Canada, but we actually expanded it to the UK and Australia.
We care about freedom of speech, not just here in Canada, but around the world, because it's all linked, I think, especially when it comes to social media platforms being censored.
For a decade, we've cared about Tommy Robinson, and I think the Rebel News deserves some of the credit or the blame, depending on your position, for making him a household term amongst freedom fighters around the world.
There was a time when no one reported on his situation.
No one cared about him, but we did.
And of course, mass immigration is one of our key themes that we look to places like the Netherlands and France and the UK and Ireland to help understand what's going on here.
So we've always been global in our outlook, not because we consider ourselves globalists, sort of the opposite.
We just see that there are patterns, and if there's something we can learn from another country, it's very valuable.
I think Canada right now is in desperate straits, and I didn't think it would be.
I thought that by now Pierre Polly would be entering his second year as prime minister, and we would be demolishing so much of the welfare state, the government state, the censorship state.
But in fact, we're not.
Canada is economically staggering.
Now, very authoritative sources are admitting what we all know: that on an individual basis, Canada is in recession.
There's boondoggles of staggering size.
The other day, Stellantis sold its share in the electric vehicle scandal for $100, tens of billions of dollars flushed away by our politicians thinking that they were some sort of entrepreneurial geniuses.
They all thought they were Elon Musk, didn't they?
Mark Carney has pretty much abandoned any domestic work that gets beneath him.
He finds it boring and he doesn't like being held accountable.
As the chairman of Brookfield, he was never held accountable.
He was on the board of Brookfield, understand.
He wasn't the CEO.
So those who actually did whatever work Brookfield did, like the CEO and the actual operation managers, they would show up at the quarterly board meetings and be grilled by the board.
What about this?
What about this problem?
What about this opportunity?
Not Mark Carney.
He was never a hands-on doer.
So the idea that he must submit himself to the indignities of question period is completely new to him.
And he prefers to keep up his old travel circuit.
I mean, that one week to me summed up Mark Carney better than anything else when he went to China and the World Economic Forum and Qatar, three places that are hostile to freedom, but that are part of the fashionable circuit instead of going to explain to Canadian auto workers why he's going to bring in 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles here.
It's just he prefers that fancy five-star jet-set travel circuit.
Now, by the way, that's not going to work.
Even if his plans to double the amount of trade with non-U.S. countries happens, and it's not going to happen, by the way.
I mean, look, he went to China and what did he get?
He agreed to buy their cars.
That's not the trade he was supposed to go and work on.
Even Stephen Harper, who's become a bit of an anti-Trump activist in his old age, even he says after criticizing Trump that we are eternally going to be part of the United States economy by virtue of our geography.
Here's Harper just about a week ago or so saying that despite all his criticisms of Trump and America, you cannot get off America if you are Canada.
You just can't.
Here's Harper saying so.
In terms of the advice I'll give him, the advice I'll give the country, you know, our desire as Canadians that we desire we've had now for decades to be strong and beside the United States, you know, whenever we can be, that really is hinged on us believing that the United States is a friend.
Not that the United States wants to conquer or annex Canada.
But if the United States actually threatens the sovereignty and independence of Canada, Mr. Polyev will be forced to take a very different approach to Canada's place in the world.
As Mr. Trump said, forced economically to join the United States.
I just don't think that's an agenda.
But if it is, if it were to be, then Pierre Polyev, and frankly, our entire country has a lot of thinking to do about where it goes from there.
Well, of course, Mark Carney would rather jet set around and pose for selfies like his foreign minister did in Greenland in front of the Canadian Greenland Consulate.
I don't know if you saw a picture of it.
It's like a little tiny house.
I know what consulates are there to handle trade and travel.
For example, if you have a passport issue or if you are a Canadian living in Greenland and you need help with something Canadian, you know how many Canadians there are living in Greenland?
I looked it up.
Greenland has a census and there are 16.
There are 16 Canadians in Greenland.
So setting up that consulate was not for trade and was not for tourism.
It was just a little poke in the eye of Donald Trump.
I wish that Mark Carney would do what he promised he would do, the elbows up promise he made in 2025, which was to be the Trump whisperer.
He said he knows how the real world actually works.
Well, he hasn't shown it yet.
So that's a big problem.
Crime is off the hook.
I mean, especially in Toronto.
I don't know if you saw that scandalous press conference where two police forces were riven by corruption, actual police officers charged with corruption, and both police chiefs, you know, ruled themselves clean and each other clean, if they do say so themselves.
They investigated themselves and everything's fine.
It's pretty gross.
It's pretty banana republicish, but you want to see something that shouts Banana Republic.
Look at this video published a couple of days ago by the Surrey police.
Just watch every word of this and just think it over and think about our new country that we have.
Just take a look at this video.
Have you been asked to help others extort people for money?
Have you been offered money to shoot at a house or business or send threatening messages to people?
Don't take the bait.
You are being offered a small sum of money to take enormous risks that can harm you, your family, and everyday hardworking people.
This is not why you came to Canada.
You came to go to school, to find a better life, to be one of the first in your family to start something new.
You did not come here to become a criminal.
For many of you, your family or temple sponsored you to be here.
Committing these crimes isn't worth the dishonor, the shame, and disappointment you would bring to those who have given so much for you to be here.
Don't risk being arrested, jailed, and removed from Canada.
If you need help or you have confidential information, call our Surrey extortion tip line at 236-485-5149.
There is a reward fund of $250,000 available for information that helps us stop extortions in Surrey.
Yeah, we've got a bit of a crisis in Canada, but you wouldn't know it by our jet-setting leaders.
Our foreign affairs are a mess.
I mean, I mentioned Anita Anand showboating in Greenland the other day.
By the way, that's all settled.
Trump got his deal with Greenland and Denmark and NATO.
It's sort of over.
We're sort of like the guy who had an interesting point to make in the conversation an hour ago, but we couldn't interject then.
And now the conversation has moved on, but we've got that point we want to make.
Anyways, that's Anita Anand and Mark Carney and our consulate in Greenland.
It would have been cool a month ago.
Now it's just sort of pitiful.
Speaking of pitiful, look at this statement by our foreign minister, Anita Anand.
Jimmy Lai is one of the most famous Hong Kong freedom activists, publisher, journalists, and he has been sentenced to prison.
A classic, you know, the worst, it would be the worst case of human rights abuses in terms of violating political freedom.
And here's what Anita Anand says.
We're disappointed.
Not we strongly condemn.
They don't condemn anything.
They're just, you know, we're a little disappointed.
Hey, how are your chicken fajitas?
Well, I was a little disappointed.
It was a little bit cold and wasn't the portion size.
Are you a little disappointed?
Yeah, my chicken.
You're disappointed.
That's all you got.
Hey, welcome to the new world order, as Mark Carney said, with China at the center.
The mainstream media is a mess.
And not just in Canada.
I just want to show you this headline from Sky News, which is allegedly a private media company.
I don't know if you saw, but Japan's new prime minister, who I think is sort of awesome, she looks up to Margaret Thatcher.
She's very conservative.
She had a great meeting with Donald Trump.
She's taking a hard line against immigration, which is so necessary to save Japan as the awesome country that it is.
Look at this headline in Sky News.
Japan's ultra-conservative prime minister set to seize more power.
Exit poll shows.
She's not ultra-conservative.
She just wants to keep Japan Japanese like it has always done.
And she wants to meet the China threat by getting rid of the taboo that Japan can't really have an army, which has been the taboo for about 80 years since World War II.
But she won the elections, and actually, young Japanese supported her very much, over 70%.
Sane Takaichi's coalition is predicted to win between 302 and 366 of the 465 seats in the lower house.
So she's massively popular by the center and the right.
And to win that much of a majority, you've got to be pretty much universally loved.
But she's called an ultra-conservative, and she didn't win an election.
She seized power.
You know, she's a young woman, relatively young, as prime ministers go.
If she were on the left, she would be feted.
She would be on the front page of every magazine, but Sky News calls her an ultra-conservative, who seized power.
Seizing power is what dictators do.
They never use that language for dictators in real life, though.
Canada's media are full-time propagandists, too.
I mean, right now, they are focusing their hatred on Danielle Smith.
And they interviewed Stéphane Dion, which is a real throwback to people here who you've got to be over 40, over 50 probably, even remember who he is.
He was the liberal candidate in 2008 who ran, first ran on the carbon tax.
He called it the green shift.
And he was maybe a little too honest about it.
He was saying, we're doing this to punish people so they change their behavior.
That was the shift part.
If we tax regular cars but not electric cars, that'll shift you into buying the electric car.
If we tax you for making your house warm in the winter instead of cold in the winter, we'll shift your behavior.
So the whole thing was about psychological nudging and making life too expensive.
He didn't make the right choices.
That was what the green shift was.
It was strikingly honest, which is why Stéphane Dion got absolutely ground to bits.
And that's who the CBC has on to condemn Alberta's separatism and to imply that Danielle Smith is the cause of it.
This is the guy who tried to teach Canadians to hate oil and gas and that he was going to bully you into stop using it.
And he thinks that Danielle Smith is the cause of Western separatist sentiment.
Take a look.
Put your country before your party, please.
That would be my reaction.
I have no patience for separatist blackmail.
It's a mess.
And she needs to clarify what that means for Albertans and Canadians, the suspicions she has created herself.
What a mess.
What a mess.
But despite all this, and I'm telling you that was on my radar today, despite all that, I am exhilarated.
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I feel like it's the Berlin Wall moment because although I've never been to Venezuela, never been to Iran, never been to Cuba, I think about those places.
And in the case of Iran, I've thought about it for almost 50 years.
Ever since the Ayatollah came back and put every woman there in a handmaid's tail type outfit.
The left has sort of thought about it.
They've generally propped it up because they see it as a counterweight to America.
I've never been to Cuba.
I never would.
I understand that some people go there for a super cheap vacation.
Well, you know what?
I bet you a North Korean vacation is even cheaper.
Don't go to vacation in a prison.
It's just not the ethical thing to do.
But I'm exhilarated about what's happening because I think we have a Berlin Wall moment all across the Americas and now in Iran, too.
I mean, I just can't get over what happened early in the new year when Venezuela, a two-hour operation to arrest Nicolas Maduro has had a domino effect without costing a single American life.
And by the way, in terms of money, real wars and invasions typically cost billions, maybe even trillions.
I'm not saying the operation to get Maduro was cheap.
It was probably tens of millions of dollars or even more.
But there's no mass force.
There's no GIs occupying like they tried to do in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Afghanistan and Iraq fell very quickly, no surprise.
The West has modern weapons and well-trained soldiers.
But try holding Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's the novelty and what's happened in Venezuela is that Trump has basically dragooned and deputized Maduro's henchmen and said, if you don't want to be arrested or killed, you will rule Venezuela, but with our goals.
Economic security, stopping the drugs, economic freedom, and stop with your political repression.
I mean, he has basically seized, it's like in a mafia gang war, knocking out the head of another family and saying, you work for me now.
I mean, if you're going to try and out-gangster Trump, he'll out-gangster you in his case with aircraft carriers and modern weapons.
I think what's going on in Venezuela is incredible.
It's incredible.
He is freeing the country.
You know, there's this very unusual looking building in the heart of Caracas.
I think it was originally designed to be a shopping center.
I mean, trying to pronounce it Elikoid or something.
It's like a helix.
I think that's the root of the word.
It's this strange-looking building that was never actually a shopping center.
It was where the secret police are.
And it was the torture chambers.
And it's this iconic building in the heart of Caracas.
Imagine having a building, a very unique-looking building in your capital city.
That's the torture chamber.
And everybody knew it.
I mean, New York City, you've got, you know, Statue of Liberty.
You've got, you had the World Trade Center.
Now you have the Freedom Tower.
Imagine one of the best known edifices in your city is the torture chambers.
Well, as you know, Trump has demanded that all the political prisoners were released from the Helikoid, if I'm saying that right.
It's not perfect.
I mean, some gangs seized one of the freedom fighters, and there's certainly some problems, but oh my God, is it ever going well considering there are no American boots on the ground?
Well, there's some diplomats and some CIA, but they've actually got Maduro's old gang working for Trump, which brings us to Cuba.
I'm so glad we sent Alexa and Efron down there when we did.
Did you see the news?
That they have run out of oil and things made from oil because the United States is actually enforcing the embargo.
They've stopped ships from Venezuela.
Well, they stopped the Venezuelan oil.
They managed to convince Mexico to stop the oil.
So they've officially run out.
And today, the Canadian airlines that are such a lifeline for hard currency to Cuba have all announced that they're not flying there anymore because there's no jet fuel to refuel them to send them back.
I mean, I suppose it's possible that some jets could fly there with like ultra-long range planes, but I don't know if it's even if you can even land an ultra-long range jet with a full fuel tank.
I think you sort of blow off the fuel.
My point is, I don't even think it's technical, technically possible for Air Canada, WestJet, Sunwing, Air Transat to keep flying to Cuba.
They basically grounded all what's a non-essential journey.
I mean, the whole country is cut off.
I suppose you could still get there by sailboat.
Last I heard, there was about 6,000 Canadians stranded in Cuba, and I don't know how they're getting home at all.
I mean, if you're still in Cuba now, first of all, you were obviously ignoring the warnings, not just the warnings in the news, but the warnings that get out of Cuba.
It's very dangerous.
Things are touch and go.
And many people did follow the warnings.
So hotels were largely empty.
I understand that they are now consolidating where these guests are and putting them in one or two hotels.
Because by the way, a lot of the staff can't get to the hotels because they would get there by car, bus, or truck.
So it's an absolute disaster.
And you know what?
I don't feel that bad for the Canadians trapped over there.
Like I say, they were vacationing on a prison island.
And, you know, I just been watching these videos on TikTok of the meager food served in these resorts.
And however meager it is, that is fine dining.
That is eating like a king compared to how ordinary Cubans must live.
So it's sort of amazing.
There is some humanitarian aid getting in.
I saw Mexico sent some.
It's going to be stolen by the regime, just like when aid went into Gaza.
It was stolen by Hamas.
It didn't go to ordinary people.
When this aid goes into Cuba, it's going to be stolen by the regime and the people who support the regime, the police, other officials.
It's not going to go to ordinary people.
Canada has propped up Cuba for decades, not just morally and politically and diplomatically, but these endless flights.
And I got to tell you, I'm glad they're over.
I look forward to them resuming when Cuba is free, don't you?
So Venezuela, a huge win.
I got to say, I think Cuba could be free within a week.
Within a week.
They're out of oil and gas.
Their government is telling them to farm, to eat things that are local.
I mean, it's really sent them back a century.
It has set communism has set Cuba back a century.
And of course, Iran could be next.
There is a massive U.S. force in the region.
Hundreds of flights from those enormous C-17 and C-5 transport jets.
Who knows what they're bringing over?
They're men, materiel, equipment.
I don't know.
But fighters and bombers are being relocated into the region.
A lot of anti-missiles.
I mean, I suppose it's possible that a deal can still be made, but I don't think so.
I think that the die is cast.
They're just waiting for the right timing.
I actually thought they might launch the invasion during the Super Bowl.
I think Venezuela is an amazing experiment in regime change without occupying the country underneath.
I think Cuba will be even easier.
There is zero support in the country for the regime outside of the regime itself.
And there is enormous support for change in Florida.
The second Diaz-Canal, their dictator, is out of there.
I think they've saved just enough jet fuel for him to fly to Moscow.
The second he's gone, you're going to have a flotilla, an armada of Cuban Americans coming over to rescue and rebuild that country.
So Venezuela is going well.
Cuba is about to go amazing, I predict it.
And Iran's going to be very interesting.
Maybe the Shah, maybe his son will be the new leader.
I don't know.
It's the most interesting because it's a huge country, 90 million souls with very interesting borders.
I mean, whether it's Turkey or Iraq.
I mean, it is an ancient civilization that I think has been hijacked for a generation.
And because it was extremist Islamic clerics running it, believe it or not, young people in Iran are the most secular in the region.
They just hate what religion has been to them for 50 years.
You take all these things together, and yeah, we've got problems.
We've got problems in Canada, bad problems.
But I feel like that we are just like that moment in 1989.
I think that the Berlin Wall is falling.
It's not one big Berlin Wall, but in Venezuela, in Cuba, I think maybe in Nicaragua to come soon, Colombia is obeying Trump's demands for change.
And imagine if Iran, the regional enemy, were to fall and be replaced with something democratic.
Yes, of course, Canada is my home, but can I not celebrate the liberation and the imminent liberation of tens of millions of people and so bloodlessly so far?
May it stay that way.
Adverts on Sandwich Boards00:10:35
Stay with us, more ahead.
Well, everyone gets their advertising, their information online these days.
If you look at two competing graphs, you'll see that the newspaper industry and to a larger extent the radio industry and the TV industry, ad sales have plummeted, while at the exact same time, those ad revenues have been sopped up by Facebook, Google, and other online giants.
The point is, people simply get their information online.
These days, that often means on their phone.
So it's interesting to see people try low-tech to get ahead.
And by that, today, I'm referring to sandwich boards.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Literally placards that are worn on your front and on your back.
You used to see them in the Great Depression.
Men would say, willing to work for X amount of money, we'll work for food.
In recent years, our friend Billboard Chris Elston has used those sandwich boards to great effect.
There's something startling about seeing a man with a friendly face in a public place with a message you can very quickly read, and he's standing there ready to engage with you.
I sort of think it's a refreshing throwback to the pre-digital age.
And as Billboard Chris shows us, people just can't help coming up to have a real interaction, not an online interaction.
Well, Billboard Chris is probably the most famous billboard user, hence his nickname, but he's not the only one.
In fact, in Quebec, a man has been wearing a simple billboard that says prion pour la faint de la vaux temo.
And forgive my French accent, which basically means let us pray for the end of abortion.
It's not a sales pitch any more than Billboard Chris's sandwich boards are a sales pitch.
But this man was arrested and charged with violating laws about business advertising.
Do you think he's advertising a business or do you think this is protected free speech?
Well, the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms has weighed in.
They believe it's a case of freedom of speech.
And they have dispatched a lawyer to help the man in Quebec.
Joining us now to talk about this is Glenn Blackett, a lawyer with the JCCF.
Glenn, welcome to the show.
Nice to see you.
Thanks very much.
Nice seeing you.
So tell me a little bit about this man.
I suppose in some ways it's completely unimportant who he is, although I am curious.
It could be any of us, and the message could be any political message.
It could be a pro-life message.
It could be a pro-choice message, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine.
Political speech is protected in Canada.
And the fact that this man has been charged, I think, should be concerned to everyone, not just pro-lifers.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Him and a group of other pro-lifers were out protesting with sandwich boards.
And first he was warned.
He went and he checked the bylaws to see whether or not he was in violation of them, decided he wasn't in violation of them, and so continued to protest.
And then eventually he was charged.
So what exactly did the police do to him?
Did they take him into custody?
Did they handcuff him or did they just give him a ticket?
How bad was it?
Were the police really rough with him or did they just were they more like bureaucrats and red tape mongers?
Yeah, the latter.
Citation and a warning to the rest of his group as well.
So, you know, basically a threat of financial penalties for him and for the other people in his group.
And that was enough to cool their enthusiasm for the protest.
And so notwithstanding that it was supposed to be 40 days for life protests, they decided to terminate it at 39 because they didn't all want to shoulder the same financial burden that he did.
What is that financial burden?
I know that during the COVID era, the government tried to ratchet the number up to such a shocking number that it would act as a deterrent that people would start to chatter about it.
I mean, there were fines of $5,000 plus for things that were effectively parking tickets, the same provincial offenses.
What is the fine in this case?
I'm afraid I don't know that.
Okay.
You know, and I guess it's enough, though, to dissuade the other protesters from doing it.
Now, there are some limits on commercial and corporate speech, and maybe I'm not as comfortable with them as other people are.
I mean, I know that they've been used in the past to stop cigarette and alcohol advertising, and I can understand perhaps protecting minors from that, but there's a lot of censorship of corporate speech that goes far beyond minors.
We have in Canada censorship of what the left calls greenwashing.
So if the oil companies say that they have reduced carbon footprint, the Liberals actually made that illegal, a kind of false advertising claim.
What was the underlying law made for?
I mean, when they tried to charge this fella with an offense, a bylaw that he was selling or advertising a service, tell me about that underlying law.
What is it and why do we have it in Canada?
Well, I mean, it's a municipal bylaw.
So it's passed by just the city of Sherbrooke.
And so theoretically, it's something within their jurisdiction.
Things like littering and business licenses and public thoroughfares, that kind of stuff, public safety.
Those are some primary legitimate objectives for a city to be pursuing.
So I believe it's called bylaw number one.
And it covers a bunch of different stuff.
But one of the things it covers under this particular provision is various commercial activities that it prohibits.
And in particular, it prohibits basically solicitation in a public place.
And in particular, there's a section for sandwich boards.
And so it just says you can't be basically wearing a sandwich board if you're trying to advertise some product or solicit somehow.
You know, it's funny because his billboard was so benign in an era of shocking comments and dramatic statements.
Let us pray for the end of abortion is a very modest.
It's not rude.
It's not shocking.
It's not the kind of thing that we would see on social media, which is often quite ramped up and emotional.
It's as vanilla.
And by the way, our friend Billboard Chris, his comments are very benign as well.
No child is born in the wrong body.
I mean, almost impossible to debate.
And that's sort of his point: he wants a debate.
Was that the style of this man, Brian Jenkins?
Did he sort of wear that to encourage a debate?
Was he trying to spark a debate?
I'm just curious what his motivations are.
And again, I don't think that should be relevant to his right to do that.
If he wanted to spark a debate, I think that's actually him doing his duty as a citizen.
Yeah, as I understand it, he was, you know, he was interested in advocating for his message.
And it's, as you say, it's quite a benign message.
But nowadays, it seems to be that what appears to be quite benign to traditional Canadians has become radical, ultra-right-wing mega sort of hate or something.
So I think the problem, we suspect that the reason that he was charged was because the content of his sign was a pro-life message, a Christian message as well.
So yeah, I mean, he was just looking to spread his message and I'm sure interact with whatever members of the public he could engage.
So you guys have deputized a lawyer, Olivier Segwin, I believe is his name, to represent Mr. Jenkins out there in Sherbrooke.
Has there been a response from the city?
I mean, sometimes a police officer will make a decision that if it causes a backlash, like in this case, a legal constitutional challenge, maybe the city might back down and say, oh, we don't want the fight.
You're fine.
You can do that.
Have you had any response from the city, including maybe just saying, well, this was the error of a particular cop?
Not yet.
I mean, what's interesting is that the police officer first came up and warned the defendant here a few days before he was eventually charged.
And the defendant pointed out or went to the library, like I said, and decided to look at the bylaw to see whether or not it applied to him and found that it didn't because he wasn't advertising for a business.
And so when the cop came back next time, he told the police officer that the bylaw didn't apply.
He tried to explain it to the police officer.
The police officer's comment was, eh, tell it to the court.
Wasn't concerned about interpreting the law to see whether or not it applied to him.
So that was the police officer's response.
Basically, what's happened so far is I believe there's been a dispute note filed or something to that effect.
And then the next step will be a court date, whether or not the crown decides to proceed with the charges or not.
We'll find out.
Well, in a way, I hope they do.
And in a way, I think the cop is right.
Let a judge decide.
And hopefully, the judges in Quebec still remember the Charter of Rights and its freedom of expression.
We'll find out soon enough.
Glenn Blackhead of the JCCF, thanks for taking the time with us today.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Thanks for having me on.
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letters to me next hey welcome back Your letters to me.
Here's one on the Indian treaty I went through, Treaty 6.
Mick Am Kay says, In Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the treaties are written records of how First Nations ceded the land, mineral and water rights, and for what?
First Nations in BC should claim land title to Eebe's property.
In Ottawa, they should claim land title to all government buildings, Parliament building included, where the corruption hive is these days.
The main point I wanted to talk about is that anywhere where those treaties have been signed, it's such an abject treaty.
Like the word surrender is in there.
That's all you need to know.
That for people to wield that as some sort of weapon for Indigenous title or stopping Alberta independence is such a long shot.
They should really read the treaties.
The problem is where there is no treaties, where there's a vagueness or a void, our radical courts are filling it in.
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I mean, I'm 53, and I remember when I was in law school, I started to see that radicalism seep into the profession, but it was just students and professors.
Now it's all the way to the very top.
I mean, don't forget that Beverly McLaughlin, the former Chief Justice of our Supreme Court herself, said that Canada is an active genocide country.
Not even past tense, current tense, just outrageous.
Debbie Barrett says, I hardly doubt that the brilliant minds that are running Albert Independence Movement haven't already looked into this or they wouldn't be wasting their time.
Yeah, you know, one of my favorite guys to follow on Alberta Independence is Keith Wilson.
He was also the lawyer for the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
And I know that he has gone deep on these treaties as well.
I just wanted to show you.
I wanted to show you.
When was the last time you read the treaty?
I haven't read them in years, and I was glad to reread them.
On our Cuba mission, I got three letters for you.
Gary Dee says, The Cuban government is very careful not to frighten tourists.
I found that even outside resorts, all are very respectful, will engage in conversation, and generally will not harass if one shows not interest to engage.
Tourism is Cuba's bread and butter.
A lot of truth there, but now that's over.
The airlines have announced they're not flying in because there's no jet fuel to fly them out.
And with all the craziness that's going on, I think tourism was really down also.
Like I say, all these people down there who were doing TikTok videos, they showed basically empty resorts.
Donna Buck says Cuba is in dire straits.
It is in because of what?
U.S. sanctions.
That's what has caused all the misery you see there.
The U.S. sanctions that are really being tightened by Trump are forcing the issue.
But that place has been run by communists for, I don't know, what's the math on that?
65 years plus.
And it looks like a war zone.
It really looks like a war.
Yeah, you can't put that on Trump.
It really looks as poor as Haiti, which is the poorest place I've ever been in my life.
It really reminded me of Port-au-Prince Haiti, looking at the videos that our team did.
Peter Mai says, by the way, you're right.
The sanctions, sanctions do have a deleterious effect on the poorest people.
As I said earlier, the regime, if there's any humanitarian aid, the regime is going to steal it from themselves.
You're right.
But I think this is the only way to end it instead of having it drag on for another 60 years.
The people there are so ready for change.
You saw that in our video.
Peter Mais says: The concern I have now for Alexa is that now the Cuban government knows about her, she'll never ever be able to go back, even on vacation, if Cuba one day becomes again a place to go on vacation.
Well, she and Efron were both aware of the risks.
You're right.
They wouldn't likely be allowed back in now.
And like I say, they can't get back in now.
There's no flights from Canada.
But I truly, truly in my heart, believe that a bloodless revolution or relatively bloodless revolution is coming so soon.
It could even come before the Iran conflagration.
And just like Bashar Assad flew from Damascus to Moscow, don't be surprised if the dictator in Havana flies to Moscow and just the regime melts away and you have all that energetic, hopeful, wealthy, capitalist, entrepreneurial, freedom-loving Cubans from Florida come just to re like it's just going to be such a homecoming.
And I think it's going to be wonderful.
And I will go to Cuba when it's free.
And I think Alexa and Efron will, I think we all will.
I've never gone there in my life because I didn't want to go to a prison for vacation, even though it's $100 cheaper than going to Mexico, let's say.
But I think that Cuba will be free.
And Alexa and Efron will go back and they will be greeted warmly.
That's our show for the day.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.