525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant
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What is the battle over Tommy Robinson about?
There's a battle between Tommy Robinson and the government of the United Kingdom over what is true.
They've got Tommy in isolation.
That's their strategy. Do you know how he's doing? He's deteriorating. That's another thing about being in jail I've learned from Tommy Robinson is you are at the mercy of these guards.
How would you describe the World Economic Forum?
When I go to the UK, I see what our future will be five years down the road if we don't change course. Let me tell you what's terrifying about that.
How is Tommy Robinson being treated in prison?
Hello, everybody. I'm sitting here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada today, and my guest is Ezra Levant, and Ezra Levant is the perpetrator of Rebel News, which was an early adopter of social media technology on the news front, one of Canada's earliest adopters, and really one of the earliest adopters in the world, and he's been rabble-rousing for decades. like a good depends on how you count it but 10 to 15 years and we first came to each other's attention when i was participating in a free speech debacle at the university of toronto just after my comments about canada's infamous bill c-16 my well-reasoned comments i might add uh came to wide public attention and caused a furor that never ended and uh
Rebel News backed me in that enterprise and helped publicize what was happening and supported my research financially for a year or so at the University of Toronto when the federal government decided that I wasn't worth supporting anymore despite my stellar research background and unbroken history of previous funding. Anyways, I got a chance to talk to Ezra and so we did a bit of walking down memory lane talking about, well, the strange situation that obtains in Canada, not least with regard to the new likely liberal leader, Mark Carney. We talked about the WEF and their machinations. We talked a fair bit about Tommy Robinson, a political prisoner in the UK. I did two interviews with him, and Ezra worked.
Tommy Robinson was a journalist working for Rebel News for a good while. And we talked a lot about Tommy, who's in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison in the UK for a civil crime, which was distributing a film called Silenced, which is probably the most well-watched documentary that the UK has ever produced. So that gag order didn't work very well. We talked a fair bit about Australia. We talked about the political situation in Canada and the UK. We talked about the trucker convoy and about the transformation of the news media from the corrupt government-funded legacy media in Canada, say, exemplified by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the CBC, and the rise of the new media, apart from wandering down memory lane.
And so, oh, I should mention something too. Even though Ezra was too shy to mention it during the podcast, which is not something that you'd normally say about Ezra Levant, too shy, he's got a new book coming out too, which is called Deal of the Century, The America First Plan for Canada's Oil Sands. And so, well, keep an eye out for that because there's a lot of oil in the oil sands and there's every reason to use it. despite the myriad of reasons that were force fed about not using it. And so, you know, Ezra's a battler for the Alberta economy and for Western energy independence and the utility of being grateful, let's say, for the fossil fuel industry that stops us from
What experiences has Ezra Levant had with the World Economic Forum?
freezing to death in Winnipeg, for example, in the middle of the winter when it's minus 30 and everyone's warm. And so that's deal of the century, the America first plan for Canada's oil sands. In any case, join me today for my discussion with Ezra Levat, head of Rebel News. They also, by the way, did a lot to publicize the trucker's convoy. Looking forward to it. So we have lots to talk about today. We can talk about our mutual friend, Tommy Robinson, and whatever the hell is going on in the UK. We can talk about the WF, because I know you've sent journalists there and been there yourself. We can talk about the stunningly dismal state of the political situation in Canada. But I think I want to start with two other things. I want to remember how we met.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the battle over Tommy Robinson about?
0:00–0:37
2
How is Tommy Robinson being treated in prison?
0:37–3:55
3
What experiences has Ezra Levant had with the World Economic Forum?
3:55–10:54
4
How did Jordan Peterson and Ezra Levant first meet?
10:54–20:39
5
What are the implications of censorship on social media?
20:39–25:02
6
How does government funding affect media integrity?
25:02–31:46
7
What is the future of free speech in Canada?
31:46–59:23
8
What can we learn from Tommy Robinson's case?
59:23–1:38:13