Ezra Levant

Well, I tell you, first of all, thanks for having me on the show.

Second of all, I've become such an Ireland fanboy.

I've been there nine times over the last two years.

And it's a small country, only 5 million people.

You can drive across the whole island in less than a day.

So they have a real communal connectedness.

It's almost like everyone knows a cousin somewhere.

And the reason I mention that is it's almost as if the whole country has collectively over their dining room table decided that

enough is enough.

And it's sort of incredible because all across the country, ordinary farmers and truckers, it's almost like a spontaneous movement because, you know, they're not represented in parliament, either by the government or the official opposition, but just grassroots, ordinary Irish farmers and truckers have started blocking roads and blocking other key infrastructure, slowing the whole country down to a crawl and

But here's the incredible thing.

The people who are inconvenienced by it

They're supportive of it.

Most Irish support, I'd almost call it a national strike.

And we were on the highways and it was extremely inconvenient.

And we would stop and chat with the people blocking the roads.

None of them have ever been to a protest before in their lives.

They're all wearing their working clothes, like farmers dressed in their high-vis vests.

And it's the realest people you've ever met.

I asked every one of them two questions.