Ezra Levant
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549 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Apr
Ezra Levant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we're lucky that we're right next to America. Not only do we benefit economically, but a lot of their cultural discussions wash over into us. And I think—I mean, look what Trump has done on transgenderism in sports. He's just ended with a stroke of a pen. Gender-affirming care, too. Even small things like saying we're done with paper straws. I mean, I know that sounds small, but—
But what does it say about a country that abides that stupid rule that no one likes, but we just abided it. We just accepted it. What does it say about the nature of the character of 40 million Canadians? It says that we're willing to virtue signal at our own expense. And we saw that during the pandemic and the lockdowns when things went so hard in Canada. Yeah, that's for sure.
And it was an opportunity for people to... I'll show my righteousness by being a... a voluntary self-appointed enforcer.
The mask patrols who would come up to you and give you— Here's the thing, and I know the pandemic's gone now, but this said something about our character. We could have another one. Yeah. If you actually were worried about the virus, and you saw someone without a mask, you would walk away, you would run away, you would take your children and run.
If someone with Ebola came into the mall without a mask, you wouldn't go up to them and say, hey, put on your mask. Well, you would if you were sacrificing yourself for the good of the planet. But there was an opportunity to... Be more virtuous than that person. But you have the point.
I think this is what... I watched so many of those videos, and I myself was a bit of a mask not wearing a dissident. So I had a lot of encounters. And here's... It wasn't even virtue signaling. It was... I'm worried that if I didn't wear a mask, the rules would come down on me. There would be some consequence on me.
So if you're not wearing a mask and no consequences are happening to you, the world is out of joint.
I must... fill the gap and be the consequence to you to justify my cowardice. So it's not so much that I'm better than you. It's, oh my God, you're getting away with it and I didn't think I could. I better stop you from getting away with it because otherwise what's my excuse for being so submissive?
I got to tell you one last story. I know where time is of the essence. Do you know what the Amish are? Have you heard of the Amish? Oh, yeah. They're Christian from Europe. They speak German amongst themselves. They're like the Mennonites in Alberta. Yeah. They're very old-fashioned. They don't use modern technology at all. They don't drive. They don't have electricity.
They don't have smartphones. They're farmers, very poor, and they keep to themselves. And they're pacifists. That's another thing you know about them. They do not want to engage in any disobedience. They keep to themselves. They're reclusive. There's a lot of them in Pennsylvania, and there's a lot of them in Ontario.
We heard about this from a friend of the Amish, that the Amish used to go back and forth between Ontario and the U.S. to visit the other colonies down there for dates, for family events. So every time the Amish would come back across the border into Canada during the pandemic, there was a border officer who would say— have you downloaded the Arrive Can app on your smartphone? Right, right.
Now, for your American viewers, they don't know what Arrive Can is. It's a mandatory app, sort of spyware, that you have to give all your health details, all your vax details. You have to put it in this app on your phone, or you get a $6,000 fine. So the Amish, they don't know what download or app— they know what a smartphone is, they just don't have them— arrive, Ken.
So they would go, every time they would come back to Canada, every single person, including children, would get a $6,000 fine. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. But they're not on the internet. They're not on phones or faxes. They're really cut off. So years go by, and an Amish goes to the bank to get a loan for some livestock, and
And pledges the farm as the security. And the banker types in and says, I'm sorry, I can't give you the loan. There's a lien against your farm. Oh, yeah. And then another Amish passes away, wants to bequeath the farm to his son. Can't. There's a lien on it. You've got to sell the farm to pay the lien. Soon the whole community does this. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in tickets.
Now, it was a miracle we found out about this because they don't know what rebel news is. They don't follow the internet or watch TV. A friendly non-Amish neighbor heard them talking about this and heard it. So we helped, there's a charity called the Democracy Fund. I know you've spoken at one of the events before.
The Democracy Fund has dispatched lawyers to help the Amish and to crack open these cases again and redo them. And basically, these were trials in absentia. The Amish were not there. And we're having some success at—it's hard to crack open a case once it's guilty.
Oh, yeah. But just stop for one second. The Amish, they're not hidden. They wear the black hats, and they're unique. They almost look like Orthodox Jews in a way.
And in Canada, they go on horse and carriage. Yeah. You know an Amish when you see it. And you can probably detect that they're not smartphone friendly. Yeah. How many people in the Canadian bureaucracy would have been involved from that first border agent to his manager, to his manager, to the court, to the prosecutor, to the judge, and then to convict? But I have never heard of a lien procedure.
being put on, liens on all their farms. Well, that's what would happen if you didn't pay the tickets. I haven't met anyone else in the country who has had that happen to them. Oh, I see. Oh, okay. For an Arrive Can app. Yes, that is the ultimate way that the government gets their money. I've just never heard of that in the country. How many people were involved from that first...
But not one person... There must have been 100 people involved. Not one person said... What the hell are we doing? What are we doing? Not one person. Not one person. Now, I'm not saying that's Canada only. I bet stupid things happen in America, too. In fact, the Amish were persecuted in America. That's why they became politicized under the Biden administration.
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