508. Anti-Semitism and the Fall of Trudeau's Canada | Terry Glavin
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Hey, everybody. I had a chance today to sit down and speak in person with Terry Glavin, who's one of Canada's premier journalists. And I've been following his work for quite a long time, as has many Canadians. But there was a particular reason for talking to him now, and that was that he penned a piece called for barry weiss and the free press i've had dealings with barry complex dealings with barry for quite a long time and i read terry's piece on the rise of anti-semitism and all of the associated what would you say pathological political and quasi-political movements that accompany by necessity, a rise in antisemitism. He detailed that out quite extensively in this Free Press article, which is notable not only for its description of a relatively radically transformed Canada on the social front, on the political front, the ethical front, but also because Terry was pointing to a phenomenon, the rise of antisemitism in the West in general after the atrocities of October 7th.
And so not only is it a detailed analysis of something particular that's happening in a particular place and country, Canada, it's also a broader description of a movement that threatens the integrity of the West in a fundamental way, much more broadly. And so I was very interested in the article. And when I read it, I thought I should really talk to Terry and maybe to Barry on my podcast. Four hours later, Barry Weiss wrote to me and said, you should talk to Terry Glavin about his recent article. And I thought, well, she thinks so too. And so, well, so we did that. And Terry probably made me more pessimistic about Canada's future than I was, which is really saying something because after nine years of the unmitigated catastrophic disaster of the Trudeau administration, I was already plenty pessimistic. But he detailed out, for example, the pernicious effect of the Chinese Communist Party on the political situation federally in Canada.
And I was less cognizant of the depth of that than I was after the podcast. So you can listen and weep if you're Canadian. But, you know, again, that is also something with international implications, because it's not as if the Chinese are only... producing their machinations to the detriment of the West in Canada. It's a threat to the West in general. And so Canada is a strange canary in the coal mine. We talked about, well, the pro-Hamas protesters in Canada, the absolute devastation of Canadian universities, the terror that Canadian Jews are feeling, tiny minority of Canada's population, much smaller, by the way, than the Muslim population, which is relevant in this instance, given what's happened in Palestine.
We talked about, well, our sorrow as older Canadians to see our country descend into this kind of 1930s-like Kristallnacht demonstrating that characterized Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver and Calgary and things we never saw, never thought would happen in Canada, and the threats to Canada's integrity economically, politically and ethically in general. Terry's Substack is available at The Real Story on the Substack site, and that's something that should be of substantial interest, well, not only to Canadians, but to people in general. So check that out. And, well, welcome to a relatively dismal discussion of the situation in Canada, and by implication, the rest of the West. Well, as you know, I reached out to you for a variety of reasons.
But the most compelling, I would say, and immediate was the article that you just wrote in the Free Press, which is, I would say, a rather damning screed, all things considered. And I'm very interested in that particular issue. And I'm very much looking forward to discussing that with you and the sorry state of Canada in general. So maybe you could start by just outlining, well, how... What article I'm referring to and why you wrote it, and then let's go into the content of the article.
Well, it is essentially an investigation of the state of anti-Semitism in Canada. And I spent quite a bit of time and effort on this, 16 in-depth interviews, maybe another 16 interviews. not so in-depth interviews, a lot of research, a lot of time and trouble trying to get this sorted.
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