Ezra Levant dismisses polls suggesting Canadians might join the EU merely to spite Trump as a hollow hypothetical, contrasting this with his recent observations of Irish farmer and trucker protests against carbon taxes and high fuel prices. He argues the Irish government acts as a puppet for globalist interests like the World Economic Forum, noting Garda police sympathy for demonstrators while politicians employ condescending rhetoric. Levant highlights specific grievances, such as farmers paying double for diesel compared to Canada and a GoFundMe raising over 37,000 euros, while criticizing biased media coverage. Ultimately, he contends that sovereignty-eroding EU structures and binding laws reveal a dangerous disconnect between elites and citizens, urging support for independent outlets like Rebel News Plus. [Automatically generated summary]
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Canadians Want EU Membership00:02:04
Hello, my friends.
A couple of polls I want to show you.
One of them, the second poll in a row, shows Canadians are interested in joining the European Union.
I don't really believe it because I don't think Canadians know what they'd be getting into.
The second poll shows different issues, including the three issues where the Conservatives beat the Liberals.
I'll take you through both polls and give you my thoughts on them.
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Tonight, a new poll says most Canadians would want to join the European Union.
They would literally join a foreign empire if it meant they disparaged Donald Trump.
It's April 13th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious thug.
Hi there, it's great to be back from Ireland.
Highway Blockades and Policing00:04:23
We were only on the ground for a day and a half, but oh my gosh, did we ever see a lot?
I hope you've been going to our special website, the truthaboutirland.com.
We have so many videos.
I think we made like 20 videos in the day and a half we were there.
You know, I love going to the United Kingdom and to Ireland and other places to see what I think is our future, but I always am cognizant of the fact that I've got to get back here because, of course, Canada is where we live and it's the battles that we fight, but I think I learn.
About how to fight censorship and how to fight against undemocratic regimes by studying the UK and Ireland.
And I hope you feel the same way too.
So please go to the truthaboutiron.com to see.
That's our compilation page.
I think we really did see a lot.
And I just couldn't help but see so many similarities between the Canadian trucker convoy from 2022 and the farmers, especially in Coots, Alberta, and what's going on in Ireland.
It just feels so similar.
The demographics, the politics, the You know, standoff with police, the politicians panicking.
It really felt like deja vu.
But this was almost uniquely about fuel prices.
I asked everyone, I said, why are you here?
And only one or two people gave it an answer that wasn't fuel prices first.
They always said fuel prices, and then maybe they would say there was a secondary issue.
But that's what it was.
This was the purest rebellion against really carbon taxes I've ever seen.
It's not just diesel and what they call petrol, gasoline, and Home heating and anything with carbon in it.
It's just insanely expensive.
And prices there are about double what they are here in Canada.
We rented a car and filled it up, and Efron, who was with me, was just shocked at how much it was.
Really similar vibe in how the police and politicians don't know what to do when they lose the consent of the governed.
Policing by consent is very important to the West.
It's the difference between being in a liberal democracy and being in a police state.
The police, there's no way in the West that the police could enforce the law if the population didn't support that law.
There's just simply not enough of them and they're not brutal enough.
The only way you can do that is if you run a genuine police state.
So, that policing by consent is a theory that was expanded on by Sir Robert Peel in the UK over 100 years ago.
And that's really our light touch policing that we've enjoyed ever since.
And what do you do if you're a police officer who, you know, everyone in the country is standing up together and they're not doing They're like blocking roads and things like that.
What do you do if you're the police?
There's no way you can enforce this on a country of 5 million people if you're a few thousand.
And by the way, a lot of your own pain comes from high gas prices.
Anyways, it was very interesting.
And.
In terms of actual police, I mean, Dublin's a big city, but so much of Ireland is small towns and villages where they would know the police, or as they call them, the Garda, singular, or Gardee.
It's what they call police in plural.
Very interesting.
I just want to tell you one more little anecdote, which I got a kick out of.
So we were trying to get down to the south of Ireland.
You could drive across the country in less than half a day, but there were all these blockades on all these major highways and usually the on ramp to the highway.
And we kept on being rerouted by our.
Google Maps because oh, this was closed and it would add another half hour, add another half hour.
And I was worried we weren't never going to get to where we were going.
So we talked, stopped, and talked to some of the uh farmers who were blocking one road and we interviewed them actually.
And then afterwards, we said, Look, fellas, we're trying to get to Cork, can we get on the highway?
So they removed the blockade and we got on the highway and then they moved the blockade back in.
So we were the only car on the highway, and this was a major, major road.
It was in fact larger than the Trans Canada Highway in terms of the number of lanes, like this was a big.
Highway, and we were the only car on it.
Actually, we saw one other car in half an hour.
It was sort of like those apocalyptic movies where you're the last man alive and you have the highway to yourself, except for in those, there's often abandoned cars.
This was just an empty highway for half an hour.
It was sort of a fun little story, but I thought I'd share it with you.
Foreign Laws in Canadian Parliament00:14:42
I'm glad I'm back though because I have unbreakable commitments in Canada, but I should tell you, we are sending Efron Monsanto, our head of video who was there with me, and Alexa Lavoie.
We're sending them tonight.
For a couple of days, because the story is still going on.
I'll show you a little bit, a few more videos later.
The government has sort of blinked, but that's only encouraged the protesters more.
I think there's going to be a vote of non confidence imminently.
It looks like the government's going to squeak through.
But in a way, that's good because it just makes the contradiction starker.
I mean, the Marxists say the worse, the better.
I usually don't agree with that.
But if the problem is condescending, out of touch politicians, the fact that they are being even more abusive and even more condescending and even more defiant.
Well, that will make their fall sooner and harder than had they been more reasonable.
I'm not joking when I say, what if they are using Justin Trudeau as an advisor?
And you think, oh, that's impossible.
Well, they all hang out at the World Economic Forum together.
Justin Trudeau spoke there all the time.
And the current prime minister and foreign minister, who are sort of sharing government in a coalition, they're big world economic followers too.
And all of Dublin really thinks of itself as a European project, not just an Irish project.
Like I said in one video, they need a Nigel Farage to really represent the sovereign national interests of Ireland.
You know, it's funny because the coalition government both are center left parties, the opposition is a far left party.
There's no one, and they're all for mass immigration.
There's no one standing up for Ireland.
It's so weird.
By the way, in Hungary, Viktor Orban finally lost after 15 years of being prime minister, but I'm pleased to say his successor maintains many of the key policies of Hungary, including.
Very strict rules on immigration and refugees.
In fact, the successor actually originally came from Orban's own party.
So that's better news than I had thought.
Anyways, back to Canada.
Let me talk about Canada.
I just want to explain where I was over the weekend.
I saw the dumbest poll.
It's so dumb.
It's the second one I saw in a row.
The first one follows, it was by Spark Advocacy, which is a liberal backed group.
So you can see they have a bit of an agenda.
Mark Carney is trying to denigrate Canada as a North American country, trying to denigrate our ties to the United States, his pivot towards China, his talk about a new world order, calling China a strategic partner.
It's crazy stuff.
He's trying to undo our ties with America.
And here he is saying that Canada is the most European country around that's not in Europe.
Most European of the non European nations.
That's not necessarily a comment about the historical makeup of the country, but it's the relative value set, the value on liberty, the value on democracy, the importance of solidarity.
We have similar social welfare systems, the importance we put on sustainability.
Our ability to mutualize, in other words, to work with others and protect our belief in a rules based international system, which the footprint of that is shrinking, but it's not immaterial, and we're helping to build that with Europe.
So, and the way we see it, if I could frame it, final comment, and this could be a bigger discussion at the right point.
Europe, part of what Europe is focused on as members of the European Union is a so called ever closer union.
We're looking for a closer partnership with that union.
So, yes, we cooperate much more clearly and broadly to our mutual benefit, but not as a member, but along that continuum, that start stance.
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what that means.
Kearney himself, though, has a British passport and an Irish passport, mainly for tax dodging purposes.
He's got these little weird quirks.
Like, I don't know if he's doing this anymore, but for the first few months as prime minister, he would write his tweets or his staff would with British spellings, like adding.
Like with S's instead of Z's and O's, where like he was, he had a Brit doing his communications.
And I think that was his way of saying, I'm better than you.
I'm better than Trump.
I'm British in nature.
I mean, he has a home in the UK.
None of his family live in Canada.
They're either in New York or in London.
He's sort of like Michael Ignatieff in a way, if Ignatieff had become a billionaire off of China.
But back to the poll that asked Canadians, Do you want to join the European Union?
I actually don't think Canadians really know that much about the European Union because it doesn't affect us.
We're not in it.
The European Union started off as a common market to try and get trade barriers down on the continent, which is not a bad idea.
Then it expanded to borderless travel.
And, you know, that really makes it convenient.
If you're, especially, remember how small most European countries are.
In Canada, you go for a drive from Calgary to Vancouver, that's 10 hours to go for a drive from Toronto to Montreal.
It's a very big country.
But in Europe, you drive for a few hours, you're probably in a different country.
So it makes sense to have seamless travel within the European Union and mobility of labor.
And it's very convenient.
It saves red tape because a border is about red tape.
But what if you let in millions of people from strange and faraway lands and now they have freedom of mobility?
And of course, the European Union decided they wanted a single currency called the euro.
Which can really hamper some countries, like poorer countries.
And it started to become much more than just low tariffs, easy travel.
It became a kind of country in itself, a super country, a super state.
The United Nations is much bigger, but of course, the United Nations doesn't pass actual laws that are binding in all countries in the world, but the European Union does.
To me, the most outrageous part of the European Union is they have something called the European Parliament.
It really is a parliament, and they have votes for European MPs.
They're called MEPs, members of the European Parliament.
They have elections, they sit in a parliament in Brussels, Belgium, and they write laws that lay on top of Every country that's in the EU, and they are binding laws.
And what's crazy about this parliament, as you can probably guess, is the United Kingdom is a country of, I don't know, about 60 million people, and it has its own parliament, an ancient parliament that passes its own laws.
But now, or when it was under the European Union, it was part of this European parliament also.
And so they had only 73 seats in the European parliament that had 751 seats.
Imagine.
A parliament with 751 people, but the UK only had 10% of the seats.
So, this parliament of foreigners could pass a law, every single British MP could object.
So, what it would become law in the UK, and not just that on the courts, they have something called the European Convention on Human Rights, which is basically the refugee machine.
And to this day, the United Kingdom still obeys the European Convention on Human Rights, even though it's out of the EU.
It's crazy.
So, the European Union was a terrible thing, Brexit.
Really was an amazing act of the Brits from pulling out.
But here's the poll I'm talking about.
My point was just to give you a reminder of what the European Union was, because I think most people who said, Yeah, I want to join the European Union, they don't realize how insane that is.
Imagine Canada being subjected to every law written here, but also every law written overseas.
That's crazy.
Anyways, here's the poll by Nanos, the pollster.
And I'll just show you the top line here 56% like the idea, 32% don't.
I bet most don't know what it even is, other than thinking it's an anti American club, the European Union.
I'm shocked that British Columbia is the most interested province in joining the EU.
It's the furthest away.
64% say it.
In Ontario, 60%.
I'm showing you the numbers here 60% of Ontarians like the idea, which is double those who are opposed.
Alberta stats are buried with two other prairie provinces, but it's 48% for joining, 40% against.
So it's the lowest in the land, but they still suggest they want to be part of it.
Now, I think.
This is such a goofy question and it's such an impossibility that I think it's like asking people a poll about Bigfoot or UFOs.
It's purely hypothetical.
It's just for banter, just for laughs.
It's not asking people a real question like, are you satisfied with garbage pickup in your neighborhood?
Or how is crime in your neighborhood?
Or should we raise the GST?
Those are real questions that people probably think about and probably give you a serious answer.
If you ask people, would you like to join the European Union?
It's clearly a joke.
And so people would answer unseriously or without a lot of information.
And I think that's the purpose of this BS poll.
I think it's a hypothetical exercise, the subtext of which is to embarrass Trump.
So if you're mad at Trump, you say, Yeah, I want to join Europe.
I want to get out of this whole America thing.
I think the sole purpose of most European political identities is just to spurn America and, in particular, Donald Trump.
I saw the other day this call for a post American NATO.
And I was thinking, What is NATO?
Without the US.
I mean, there was some British diplomat who, you know, 75 years ago said the purpose of NATO was to keep the Germans down, the Russians out, and the Americans in.
I'm not sure if you can do any of that without America.
I mean, there's just not a lot of there there without America.
I mean, America spends more than all NATO countries combined.
Anyways, I want to show you this.
And while I'm on the subject, I want to show you this incredible tweet.
By the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer.
He's talking about the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
That's that very narrow passageway where oil ships go.
So that's the real sticking question right now are there mines there?
Is Iran going to sink some oil tankers or whatever?
So here's what Keir Starmer had to say.
Remember, he's refused to send any warships or other military might.
He says it's illegal to fight with Iran.
Okay.
So here's what he tweeted today.
He said, The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply damaging.
Getting global shipping moving is vital to ease cost of living pressures.
That's funny.
I thought he was for carbon reduction and net zero.
Here's the key part.
The UK has convened more than 40 nations who share our aim to restore freedom of navigation.
This week, the UK and France will co host a summit to advance work on a coordinated, independent, multinational plan to safeguard international shipping.
When the conflict ends.
So, you will safeguard shipping when they're already safe.
You will safeguard international shipping when the conflict ends.
I'm quoting word for word.
We will defend the ships when they don't need defending.
When the battle's over, we will do battle.
What?
That is just so perfect.
That's so on brand for NATO in 2026.
That is, I think, what most Canadians really want just a way to dunk on the US.
That's what this poll about the European Union is.
But hang on, what about if you were actually to join the European Union?
Like I described before, you would lose sovereignty.
You would lose a lot of money.
You would have open borders with 20 plus countries in Europe.
You would have that parliament in Belgium passing laws that apply here in Canada.
I mean, how unfaithful could you be?
How disloyal?
I mean, really, you would swap out a parliament in Belgium for the one we've had in Canada for more than a century.
And yet, that's totally cool.
Mark Carney himself suggests that.
But if you're an Albertan who wants to look at independence, that's odious.
Got it?
Do you understand?
So, if you want to be a minority partner in the European project and have a European parliament and European court, that's so cool.
But if you're an Albertan who thinks, well, maybe if we are independent, we can get our oil produced, that's disloyal.
Hey, let me show you the latest Canadian polls.
Forget about the EU for a moment.
This is from David Coletto.
I like this chart.
Coletto's with Abacus Research.
I think he's Pretty accurate.
This shows where the liberals beat the conservatives and vice versa.
It's a poll issue by issue.
And you can see if Trump is the issue, the liberals win 61% to 20%.
That's basically what happened in the last election.
They got rid of their main liability, the carbon tax.
And then they said, we're meaner and madder at Trump than you are.
And they won.
In fact, the liberals are so focused on that issue of hating Trump, it's more important to them than anything except for the environment.
Which I don't really think makes people vote based on the environment anymore.
The conservatives, if you look at that chart, conservatives do lead on three issues that I think are really big ones.
On the cost of living, conservatives have a slight lead 43% to 39%.
I think that's very good.
That shows that despite Mark Carney's look and feel as I'm a banker who knows how the world works, people don't trust him more than they trust Pierre Pauly to get the cost of living down.
The next stat is 55% to 38%.
For crime, and I think that's so true.
And I think both of those are related to the next one a whopping 61% of Canadians trust the conservatives on immigration compared to 25% for the liberals.
And I put it to you that immigration leads to crime and cost of living issues.
And to me, this is so obviously the roadmap for Pierre Poly, I have to get back on track to take bold, controversial stands on immigration, crime, and the cost of living in that order.
Truckers vs Out of Touch Politicians00:17:41
To switch the subject back to winning terrain.
I think this is clear that Polyev will never win if the question is Trump.
If the question is a million migrants a year, Polyev will win every time.
The media will freak out about it.
They'll call him racist, of course, but he'll win.
By the way, David Coletto says the liberals only lead by 6%.
Don't believe the regime media hype on your TV who say that it's just going to be a trance.
I mean, I think that Mark Carney would win an election.
Tonight, there are three by elections.
I think they'll win two, maybe three of them.
But it'll be interesting if they don't win Quebec.
But these polls show two different futures, don't they?
The Mark Carney future is based on performative Trump hating, like teenagers having a tantrum.
They're showing off just how deliciously, how exquisitely they hate Trump.
The other path, the polyam path, the conservative path, is getting back to basics, get the cost of living down, cut down on crime, get immigration down.
That sounds like Trump's agenda, too, and that's why it's hard.
For Polly, how can he say these Trumpy things like cut immigration, get tough on crime, reduce the cost of living?
How do you say Trumpy things without sounding like Trump?
That's the hard part.
But things get worse every day in Canada.
Maybe that's why Ontario and other folks want to join the European Union.
But for Albertans, I think news like this is why independence looks so appealing.
Stay with us more ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Like I said, I was only in Ireland for a day and a half.
And I mean, it's a bit of a journey there and back, but I've got to do stuff in Canada.
But my colleagues, Alexa Lavoie and Efron Monsanto, are flying out tonight.
So they're landing tomorrow, and there's so much going on vote and nonconfidence, more street protests than ever.
Some politicians are finding a spine, independent politicians.
And I don't know, I really wish I could be there, but I can't.
But two of my colleagues will be there, and they'll continue to post their videos to our special compilation page called.
The truth about Ireland.com.
Let me, in fact, we saw, we showed you some of our trip to Ireland the other day, but we've posted probably about 10 more videos since then.
Without further ado, let me show you some of the vids that we collected over there and tell me if this doesn't really, really feel like the trucker convoy.
Oh, it sure does to me.
Take a look.
Oh, I don't mind one bit.
My name's Ezra.
What's your name?
Larissa.
Danielle.
Dylan.
Are you guys a farming family?
No, actually.
Why are you here?
To support.
Yeah.
More of support.
And whose rig is this?
Well, it's the lad I woke up for.
We are out here since Tuesday morning to come out, and as we said, we're not leaving until we get what we want.
So you're sleeping here?
Yeah.
Wow.
And how have the.
Let me ask first, how have the police treated you?
Are all three of you staying here?
No, we just came up this morning to see what the crack was.
Whereabouts are you coming in from?
Monhun.
Monhun.
How far away is that?
An hour.
An hour, yeah.
Why would you come an hour?
Just out of solidarity?
Yeah, the truth be told, I love the community.
I love the spirit.
The town that I'm from is small enough and there's a big farming population.
And obviously, Ireland's a very agricultural area, obviously.
But the reason that I personally wanted to come up here is because I know people who are personally affected from the whole crisis.
I know people who are farmers.
Although my family aren't farmers, I know people who are, obviously.
And so I decided to come up to kind of just be here.
To support and to just kind of see what was going on.
So you say you work for the family that has this tractor.
How has the fuel crisis affected the farm that you work on?
Well, the fuel crisis is crippling our sector and the haulage sector, and even the coaches, the bus drivers.
It's affecting everyone, but it's affecting us long enough now at this stage where we're losing money when we go out to work because the price of diesel is so expensive.
We are paying, for 3,000 litres of diesel, 4,500 euro, where we used to only pay about 2,500 euro.
So our diesel bill in the space of a couple of months has nearly doubled.
So, how long, like, That much diesel, how long would that last you?
Like, how often do you have to fill up?
Well, it depends on how busy we are, but I'll put it to you this way these tractors, when you're working them, they're burning anywhere from the region of about 35 to 50 litres of diesel an hour.
And what exactly, what kind of crops do you have?
Well, we don't have as crops, like, we're contracting, so we go around to farmers and we cut their silage, we spread their slurry, we do all that work for them.
But as I say, this whole thing is crippling our industry.
It's crippling the hauliers.
Well, and that's because you guys, farmers get slightly discounted diesel, right?
Because it's the green, it's the farmer's diesel?
Because we're burning so much, we have to, like.
So it's even worse for the truckers, is it?
The truckers will be worse, and the truckers are using white diesel.
We're using green diesel for agricultural use, and these all have to go on white diesel because they are on the public roads.
Now, normally you park a tractor on this street, you're going to get a ticket.
Can I ask you how the police have been in their interactions with you?
Oh, the police are 100% on our side.
There has been no issues with guards since we came here Tuesday morning.
So, no traffic tickets?
No, not one.
And yesterday there was a GoFundMe page set up by the public, like the people of Dublin.
They set it up of their own regard.
They took it upon themselves to start getting money together for us to pay for hotel rooms, to pay for food, to pay for any fines that lads might get for parking somewhere.
And the last I heard yesterday was there was four.
37,000 euro in this GoFundMe and still growing.
Well, that's amazing.
Sounds like you have a lot of solidarity and support on the ground, but the more I learn about Ireland, the more I think that your political class is out of touch with grassroots people.
And I saw some statements by Simon Harris, who used extremely rough language for the protesters, and I saw there were some military vehicles.
Would you think the politicians are going to blink?
Because they're very proud.
They don't like to change course or admit they're wrong.
No, they don't.
But what we are doing here today is we have the entire county of Dublin.
On lockdown.
We have 29 or 30 protests all over Ireland, blocking major ports, major cities, especially here today.
There's Dublin buses, a fleet of 880 buses, and we have every single one of them off the road here on Wednesday morning with 100 men.
So, how is this going to end, or how do you want it to end?
Well, we want a reduction in tax on diesel because the government is getting 60% of the price of diesel at the pump.
And is that just, are they greedy or is it an environmentalist thing or why are they doing that?
Oh, it's pure greed.
It is pure greed because they're getting their 60% tax on the diesel and the petrol and the home heating oil.
And the other 40% is enough to cover taking our oil out of the North Sea, buying it, importing it, refining it, selling it to the petrol stations and the four corners.
Doing all the work.
The entire supply, the government are getting more than the entire fuel supply chain.
Isn't that incredible?
Well, listen, thanks for talking with me.
Sorry to sort of crowd you in your space here, but I wish you good luck.
And, you know, in Canada, we had a trucker convoy a few years back, and the government sort of panicked and they invoked a form of martial law.
I'm praying that doesn't happen here, but I think you guys certainly have the public on your side, so we're rooting for you.
Oh, yeah, we have loads of support.
And, like, what you see here, this isn't, this is nothing compared to what's happening outside the city.
Every major road that's leading into this city is completely at a standstill.
The thing is, I don't think the government actually can impose anything at the moment because there is so much pressure from not only what you're looking at here, but as Dylan said, everywhere all over the country.
Everyone is fighting for this because it's not just affecting the people here today or the people anywhere else in this country.
It's affecting every person you see anyone with a car, anyone who drives to work, even.
Like even commuters, because obviously Dublin is the capital, it has the most job opportunities for like.
This area, at least.
So, everybody is affected by that, and so people are backing it because they know backing this will do them nothing but good.
They don't care about their people, they care about the salaries.
That's, I couldn't say it any better myself now, in fairness.
The government at the moment, they're upset and they're angry and they're threatening all these things, but it's not going to happen because they realise if they start, you know, hitting it hard and they say, oh, you can't do this, we need to actually start physically pushing you on, people are going to get back at them and people are going to go from here straight to the dog.
And that's the truth of it because they know that, because they know with the crowds that are out in the country at the moment.
If the government push back and they're aggressive with people, or they start, you know, with that speech that was made, obviously, as you said, there was very negative language used, there was very negative terminology, and it upset me personally.
Like, as I said, I'm not a farmer, but to read that and to see that being said about, you know, people who are literally just sitting here trying to do their job, trying to work like anybody else in the city, in any country ever, trying to work, and to see them being called all these names and got.
Getting told that you know it's all of these things that it's not, it hurts everybody trying to keep their own businesses alive.
Yeah, I'll give you a great example.
This tractor I'm sitting in here now, when we bought this tractor, we had to pay tax on the money we used to buy the tractor.
The tractor came, we paid for it, and then we had to pay tax on it.
We're paying tax to put tyres in the tractor, we're paying tax to put diesel in the tractor, we're paying tax to put AdBlue, engine oil, gearbox oil, we're paying tax on the window to drive these on the roads legally.
Everything you see here today is being taxed.
We're being taxed into extinction.
That's the only way I can put it.
Well, I'm delighted to talk with you, and we're going to put this on our channel, which is.
We're based in Canada, but we have a solid following here in Ireland.
But really, I want the whole world to see.
I mean, Irish people should know what's going on, but I think the rest of the world should see what's going on, too, because I think it's really important.
And it's very exciting that you guys are standing up for things.
So good luck, and thanks for your time.
Even open the envelope that was sent to him.
So we're going to have to move on the choice.
What's that?
Hey, let me just step down and I'll shake your hand so I don't fall.
That's another great man.
All right, I'll talk to him right away.
Thanks, guys.
All right, see you later.
What brings you out here today?
Well, I came out to support all of the truckers and the farmers and the people protesting here, you know, who've taken time out of their day.
Actually, not a day, the past week.
To bring this thing to a head, and I hope that there's success with them in government, you know, in bringing things to a close.
I think what's happened is we had the Greens in government in Ireland for a good few years, and the Greens' tail is still wagging the government donkey.
So, do you think there's an environmentalist reason behind these fuel taxes?
Yeah, it's environmental.
The whole energy policy is connected with the environmental issue, and, you know, the Carbon emissions and CO2, you know.
So when you.
Ireland is responsible for a sliver of a fraction of a tiny.
It's not even a blip.
China in one day makes more emissions.
The whole thing is a joke because when you consider that CO2 is only 0.04% of the gas in the atmosphere, and yet, and that's only the man made portion of it, it's really ridiculous to think that the whole climate, earthly climate, is going to change so significantly.
Now, I know, and we can see that global climate is changing, but it's not a result of CO2.
It's other, let's say.
And Ireland can't fix it.
I mean, it can't be on these farmers and truckers to pay the price, as if taxes changed the weather.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like taking your clothes off to give to somebody else to freeze to death.
That's the way I see it.
Now, while we do support people around the world financially, our government has gone mad.
Look at this we have people here in Ireland on the streets, and the government are supporting mass migration into the country.
And supporting them financially with housing and all kinds of things to the exclusion of their own people.
It feels like it's more than just a policy, it feels like an obsession.
And like it's so much.
I mean, it's ten times more than it should be.
It's fascism.
It's sit down, shut your mouth, and pay the bill.
That's what it is.
It's fashion.
Sit down, shut your mouth, and pay the bill.
And it's our government imposter Irish men.
Who are they trying to impress?
The Prime Minister, the Taoiseach, and the Foreign Minister, the Tanish, if I'm saying those right.
Who are they trying to impress by doing this?
Because I don't think it's impressing the Irish people.
They really have, I mean, this is a gross insult to the members of the Cabinet, the so called Irish government.
They really like.
For me, the Gestapo, the Irish local Gestapo for von der Lying in Europe.
Oh, so they see themselves as part of the European Union project.
Oh, yeah, they're now globalists running this country.
They've been selling us out.
And immigration is very important to the EU, isn't it?
The way they're going after Hungary.
Yeah, well, it's been a policy that's been ongoing for many, many years, and it was really introduced by, let's say, one of the forerunners of this policy of mass migration into Europe was.
The banker, he was an Irishman, Fine Gael, one of our parliamentary parties, Sutherland, Peter Sutherland.
He was one of the main architects of this, you know, and he then became a member of the, not the World Bank, the Goldman Sachs.
Right, so you can see all the connections.
But the government, especially Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, have been actively selling out the country for the past 10 to 15 years or more.
Is it too late to stop it though?
Sometimes things go so far that the momentum is lost, the demographics have shifted.
Can Ireland make a comeback?
Can it fix these things?
Let's hope we can make a comeback.
What we need is a conservative movement in Ireland.
But why isn't there one?
I mean, there's a little one, but it's not, I don't see a part.
Like in the UK, you've got Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whatever his flaws, he's filling that space, he's meeting that demand.
Is there an equivalent here in Ireland?
There isn't yet, I don't think there is yet, but there is a growing, let's say, aspiration towards it.
Our main problem here in Ireland is unlike most of the other European countries, we have the worst media in the world.
I think it's true.
We have absolutely.
Well, first of all, most of our TV, radio, and print media are supported by the government.
Yet they have advertisements and papers that are probably 25, 30, maybe 100,000 euro in a single paper.
That's money that the newspapers aren't going to turn away very easily.
As far as the broadcasting is concerned, there's money, you know, backdoor channels there to the broadcasters.
Well, I mean, RTE probably is such a dominant player in this small market, isn't it?
I haven't watched RTE since my mother passed, Lord Rester, about four years ago.
You know, she used to throw rubber sponge.
My brother bought a rubber sponge for my mother, 98 years of age, to throw at the television when the politicians were on.
But nobody in our family watches RTE.
Or any of that, you know.
Well, Rebel News is a group of citizen journalists, as you know, because I know you're a supporter, thank you.
And it's a few people, like Philip Dwyer, I know sometimes live streams, but it's a small number.
I mean, the Irish are, if I may, naturally creative and expressive.
Undemocratic Media Dominance00:03:41
There's the gift of the Blarney, you know, gift of the Gab.
I mean, historically, Irish have been poets and songwriters.
Where are the talkers for the freedom movement?
I think they are here, but they have yet to come to the surface because there is such a weight of oppression against anybody speaking out against the government in Ireland that the media automatically brand them as subversive.
And in a demeaning way, they become a target for a government.
Even this protest, I saw one of the cabinet ministers saying, This is Tommy Robinson from England manipulating you, which is so absurd.
That guy's a buffoon.
Well, I happen to like him, but put that aside, he is not what made all these farmers bring their tractor.
Oh, you mean the cabinet minister?
I mean the cabinet minister.
No, no, Tommy Robinson, I support him because he is trying to protect the interests of the people of Britain.
I agree, but he's not the guy who organized this.
Like, it's such an absurd thing to deny agency.
Every farmer here that I've spoken to knows exactly why they're here.
And for the government to say, no, you don't, you're just a dupe, a puppet that's being manipulated by foreign interests, that's so condescending.
Whoever said that, he is an uneducated, uninformed individual.
Well, the cabinet has said that.
Half the media has repeated that.
They have to say it because they have to say that for their lackeys in Europe.
They're the bootlickers here.
They're the bootlickers licking the boots of the European.
Von der Leyen and all the rest of them.
Well, how's it going to end?
Because I thought yesterday there was going to be a meeting between some of the protest leaders and the cabinet that seems to have fallen through.
We were traveling around a bit yesterday.
The men we saw at Blockade say they're adamant they're not going to leave.
It really is shutting down a lot of the country.
How's this going to end?
Well, I hope it doesn't end like what Trudeau did in Canada.
You know, I hope that, you know, even the wards that Our so called imposter prime minister said last week or during the week, it sounded like a book, a leaf out of Trudeau's book.
Sorry, go ahead.
I can't exactly say how it will end, but you know.
You know, there's a deputy commissioner of the Gardee.
She's a Canadian woman, which is very strange to me.
And she was talking very tough about, quote, enforcement, which is, I think, code for arresting people en masse, like they did in Canada.
Now, the street level police seem to be having none of it.
I don't know, there's a lot of tough talk, but so far I haven't seen a crackdown, thank God.
No, hopefully that will never happen.
Hopefully the government, so called government, will get sense.
I don't think these guys even made the past play school, in my opinion, intellectually, the way they operate, you know.
But they won the election.
I mean, they won the election.
And they kept Maria Steen off the ballot for president.
You know, I feel like they've rigged the system.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, there were 200,000 people who spoiled their ballot in the presidential.
And I know the presidential position is largely symbolic, but the fact that the insiders colluded to keep out.
An alternative choice, that's so undemocratic.
And I don't know, it would frustrate me if I was Irish.
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Yeah, it's just you'll do what we say.
But the mouthpieces of the government are all the Irish media.
And that's why a lot of the Irish people who are historically being trustworthy of the Irish media, maybe going back 15, maybe 20 years or more, but hopefully that's being eroded.
Because you can see, if you listen to the Irish, especially broadcasters, being interviewed, sorry, interviewing politicians or personalities connected with anything politically, you can hear in the intonation of their voices which side of the game they're on, the prejudice and the bias that comes out in the way they ask the questions and the way they don't let the answers,
the people respond in a way that they want to respond.
So we really have, I see a lot of comments on your your channel, you know, Rebel News channel about support from Ireland to Canada and back from Canada to Ireland.
And I think it's really, we're all in it together.
At the end of the day, if Canada and America falls, the world is gone.
Because, you know, it's really such a difficult position that we're in.
But we have illegitimate government here in Ireland.
We do not have real government.
We have puppet government from EU, von der Leyen, all the WEF, globalist interests, you know.
Davos, all of the secret interests.
Well, yeah, we go to Davos every January to poke around the best we can.
Well, listen, it's great to connect with you.
Can you tell me your name one more time?
I apologize.
Liam.
Liam.
Nice to talk with you again, Liam.
And thank you for all that you guys do over there in Canada and for what you're doing here in Europe.
Well, it's our pleasure, and we enjoy visiting Ireland and we wish Ireland a free future, freedom and justice and prosperity and peace.
And the same back to all the guys in Canada.
and all the men and women in Canada.
Thanks, Slim.
Take care.
Cheers.
Well, it's pretty fun over there, and I was getting such trucker convoy vibes.
Anyways, let me read you some letters on Ireland.
Cranabitha says, Good man, Ezra, you and Rebel News are always welcome here.
You know, I really feel that way.
Ireland is so friendly, partly because it's Irish and it's small and it feels cozy, almost like an extended family than a country.
But no, we were beautifully received.
There was one moment where we were standing right on, I think it's called O'Connell Street, right in the heart of Dublin, and one guy came up and wanted a selfie, and then another person did, and then I think.
Third, like they were just random people who just there was such a density of rebel news support because there really is so few independent media there.
When rebel news comes to town, and some of our videos are getting hundreds of thousands of views, everyone who's involved in the protest sees the video.
So it's pretty crazy.
I think per square mile, um, rebel news might even be stronger in Dublin than it is in Toronto or Calgary.
It was pretty amazing.
Uh, Chris I5 says, Not a single word on the BBC here in the UK.
I hope we start doing this here.
Well done, the Irish farmers.
Yeah, I mean, there have been protests in the UK specifically focused on migrant hotels.
There were some amazing protests a few months back.
This is very specific to fuel prices and a stupid decision by the Irish government to put massive taxes on top of high fuel prices.
And that's why it's farmer led, which I think really shows the character of it.
It's very interesting.
Ben R. Tomahawk says What's disgusting is Irish police.
They are telling the citizens they can't travel in their own country, telling people they can't support these brave folks is unconscionable.
You know, I think the Irish police, or the Gardee as they're called, most of them are probably conservative and they don't like the government and they don't like taxes, but they are loyal and they follow orders.
The question is what if the orders are to use violence against peaceful protesters?
I don't know if they'll all comply.
I think that's backfiring on the government, by the way, especially their threat to use the military.
Ireland is sort of independent and sort of neutral.
I mean, it does have a military, but.
It doesn't like it's not running around the world going to war and to use the military against its own people.
I think that crossed the political line in iron.
That's what I think.
Deathman says this is why NATO doesn't want to help the US.
They want gas prices so high to help push for their clean, green energy nonsense.
Liberal governments are becoming more authoritarian to its people and not looking to their people's best interest.
Carbon taxes are crazy and they can be repealed.
It was done in Canada on the retail side, it was done in Australia.
I think they're going to be repealed in Ireland.
No one wants food taxed or fuel taxed.
Those are the basic stuff of life.
And any politician who wants a fuel tax or a food tax is really saying they don't like people.
Like, of all the things to tax, that's what you're taxing.
It's outrageous.
And I love watching the Irish push back.
So I'll be here in Canada, but let's all watch Ephron and Alexa do their work overseas.
Well, that's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.