Ezra Levant Breaks Down Mark Carney’s Davos Speech — and Confronts Justin Trudeau on the Street

Summary

Podcast Summary: Ezra Levant Breaks Down Mark Carney’s Davos Speech — and Confronts Justin Trudeau on the Street

Podcast: Rebel News Podcast
Host: Ezra Levant
Episode Date: January 21, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Ezra Levant Show, recorded from an Airbnb in Switzerland during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, centers on two major threads:

• A critical analysis of Mark Carney’s “New World Order” speech at the WEF, especially his remarks on Canada’s shifting alliances and embrace of China.
• On-the-ground confrontations with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) regarding censorship, transparency, and Canadian politics.
  The episode closes in Alberta, where Sheila Gunn Reid reports from a petition signing event for an Alberta independence referendum.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. On-the-Ground Reporting at Davos

• Setting & Context: Rebel News journalists are on-site at the WEF in Davos, highlighting the difference in press freedom there compared to Canada.
  • Police presence is heavy but does not interfere with journalists questioning politicians, unlike in Canada.
  • “In Canada, police are used for political purposes. … When our reporters ask questions … they're at the very least arrested, sometimes roughed up a bit and sometimes taken to jail.” — Ezra Levant [01:17]

2. Mark Carney’s “New World Order” Speech

• Carney’s Shift Toward China: Carney frames Canada’s future in partnership with China, despite previously labeling it a security threat.
  • “I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the New World Order.” — Mark Carney [05:22]
  • Carney now advocates a “strategic partnership” with China, claiming “there are very clear guardrails in that relationship,” but sees huge economic opportunity. [08:44]
• Canada’s Realignment:
  • Levant critiques Carney's proposal to realign Canada away from the U.S. and toward China on the basis of Trump’s unpredictability:
    “You want to completely realign Canada's orbit towards China and an authoritarian dictatorship because you're offended by Trump. Just incredible.” — Ezra Levant [06:39]
• Critique of Carney’s Approach:
  • Levant argues Canada cannot “redraw trading patterns” to move away from U.S. dependence simply by will, and regards Carney’s comments as “naive.”
  • “China could have written his speech, … it’s such a naive speech. The result … would be to throw things into China’s jackpot.” — Ezra Levant [11:33]
• Highlight on Economic Policy:
  • Levant questions Carney’s order of 49,000 China-made EVs, pointing out the contradiction for Canadian jobs.
  • “How is buying 49,000 made in China electric vehicles … helping our auto industry?” — Ezra Levant [12:53]

Notable Quotes from Mark Carney

• “The old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.” [07:20]
• “We can give ourselves far more than any foreign country can take away." [13:58]
• On globalism: “So it won’t be global, it won’t cover the globe, but it will be more powerful.” [15:49]

3. Street Confrontation with Justin Trudeau

• Trudeau’s Evasive Answers: Trudeau generally avoids direct responses during on-the-street questioning but momentarily engages with Levant and Menzies.
  • “It's good to see you, Ezra. It's been a long time. How you been?” — Justin Trudeau [18:36]
  • Trudeau is pressed on taxpayer funding, the Emergencies Act (“martial law”), Alberta separatism, and censorship bills.
• Debate Over Press Freedom and Censorship:
  • “You don't believe in free speech. C63 and all your other bills are about squelching people who you disagree with as well.” — David Menzies [19:58]
  • Trudeau counters, encouraging “dialogue … grounded in facts and reality,” and accuses Rebel News of spreading “misinformation and disinformation.” [19:12]
• Memorable Exchanges:
  • “You spoke at me for five minutes. You didn't answer any questions.” — David Menzies [20:47]
  • “Davos is about connecting with people and talking about how we can continue to put people's success at the center of everything we do.” — Justin Trudeau [21:02]

4. Exchange with Eric Schmidt (ex-Google CEO)

• Focus on Censorship:
  • David Menzies confronts Schmidt over his public writings about internet censorship and “spell check for hate.”
  • Schmidt refuses to engage, accuses Menzies of harassment.
  • “No, I do not [have an obligation to talk to the public]. And I certainly do not have an obligation to talk to you.” — Eric Schmidt [23:55]
  • “You’re the one who fired the starter pistol for censorship in the whole industry.” — David Menzies [23:58]
  • Schmidt: “My God. And you need to stop blocking me.” [25:06]
  • Exchanges grow heated, with Schmidt repeatedly demanding to be left alone.

5. Alberta Independence Referendum Event

• Sheila Gunn Reid reports from a packed petition signing event in Drayton Valley, Alberta.
  • Attendees express support for Alberta’s independence and dissatisfaction with the federal government.
  • Key grievances: Loss of local control, perceived financial injustice, and concerns over federal mismanagement.
  • “It’s been a bad relationship with Ottawa for too long and I have young kids and I feel like this is the only way that we can have real freedom.” — Petition Signer [28:20]
  • Mark Carney’s “New World Order” rhetoric cited as fueling discontent.
  • “When I watched that [Carney] video, it gave me shivers … it felt demonic to me. … It seems very dictatorship-like.” — Petition Signer [33:14]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “In Canada, police are used for other purposes. … When our reporters ask questions … they're at the very least arrested...” — Ezra Levant [00:56]
• “We have penetrated the cabinets.” — Klaus Schwab, invoked by Levant [02:20]
• “You want to completely realign Canada's orbit towards China and an authoritarian dictatorship because you're offended by Trump. Just incredible.” — Ezra Levant [06:39]
• “The old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.” — Mark Carney [07:20]
• “How is buying 49,000 made in China electric vehicles … helping our auto industry?” — Ezra Levant [12:53]
• “You don't believe in free speech. C63 and all your other bills are about squelching people who you disagree with as well.” — David Menzies [19:58]
• “You’re the one who fired the starter pistol for censorship in the whole industry.” — David Menzies [23:58]
• “Well, when I watched that [Carney] video, it gave me shivers … it felt demonic to me.” — Petition Signer [33:14]

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Timestamps: Important Segments

• [00:37] — Ezra Levant on reporting in Davos, police differences
• [05:22] — Mark Carney on the “New World Order”
• [07:20] — Carney: “The old order is not coming back.”
• [13:58] — Carney on Canadian sovereignty and economic resilience
• [18:09] — Street confrontation: Rebel News vs. Justin Trudeau
• [21:02] — Trudeau on the purpose of Davos
• [23:33] — Confrontation with Eric Schmidt (Google censorship)
• [27:02] — Sheila Gunn Reid: Alberta independence petition event
• [28:20, 30:59, 33:14] — Petition signers articulate their motivations and concerns

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Tone & Language

• The episode’s tone is combative, skeptical of political and corporate elites, and vigilant regarding government overreach and censorship.
• Levant and guests speak in direct, colloquial language, often using strong, emotionally charged descriptors (e.g., “gaslighting,” “demonic,” “dictatorship-like”).

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Summary for New Listeners

In this packed episode, Ezra Levant and his Rebel News team offer unfiltered, critical coverage from the World Economic Forum. Levant dissects Mark Carney’s controversial push for a Canadian “New World Order” partnership with China, calls out what he sees as naive and dangerous economic policies, and spotlights how Canadian left-leaning elites are directing the country against its traditional alliances.
On the street in Davos, they confront Justin Trudeau about censorship, transparency, and the Emergencies Act, with Trudeau offering only partial engagement.
The team also grills former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about his history of supporting tech censorship, culminating in a tense showdown.
The episode closes with a report from Alberta, where grassroots calls for independence are growing, fueled in part by disillusionment with Ottawa’s direction and Carney’s globalist pronouncements.

Listeners can expect an episode that is equal parts investigative, polemical, and rooted in on-the-ground activism.

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For those who haven't listened:
This summary captures the high-energy, adversarial approach of Rebel News as they challenge Canadian and global leaders on sovereignty, alliances, and free speech—offering an inside look at political showdowns from the world’s power centers to local grassroots movements.

Transcript

[Ezra Levant]

Foreign. Tonight, big news from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It's January 20th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

[David Menzies]

Shame on you, you Censori.

[Ezra Levant]

Oh, hi, everybody. I'm filming this on my selfie stick. As you can see, we're in the Airbnb in Switzerland. There's ABHI Amini, Benji Chung and Lincoln J. Busy editing today's videos. I'm not going to interrupt them, although my voice is probably distracting them. They're pretty locked in on what they're doing. We spent the entire day in Davos running around chasing vvips, and, boy, did we ever catch them, I tell you. Justin Trudeau himself, we bumped into him and in his new squeeze, the rock star Katy Perry. They were just walking down the promenade like nothing. And that's fine. But you see, if they were in Canada and we approached them, police would stop us from asking questions. Obviously, I want police to stop anyone from harming a politician. I don't believe in violence at all, but in Canada, police are used for other purposes. They're used for political purposes. And as you know, when our reporters ask questions of Justin Trudeau or Christy Freeland or any number of other high officials, they're at the very least arrested, sometimes roughed up a bit and sometimes taken to jail. I myself was taken to jail briefly for a political offense. It's very different here in Switzerland, which is very interesting to me. There are police everywhere with serious weapons, I should tell you. And there's even military out to protect the Davos World Economic Forum, but they do not lift a finger if you're just scrumming a politician. And I think Justin Trudeau forgot that. I'll show you the video of the interaction we had. Trudeau alternated giving me the silent treatment, gaslighting me by lying about something, or in a few cases, actually giving some sort of an answer. I'll come to that video in a moment, but first I want to talk about the speech that Mark Carney gave it, the World Economic Forum. Isn't it funny that Mark Carney, Christie Freeland, Justin Trudeau, they were all here in Davos, as so many other Canadian politicians were. I actually bumped into Francois Philippe Champagne. These are all World Economic Forum young leaders are all trained and groomed here at this socialist globalist convention. It's quite crazy when you think about it. There's so many conspiracies out there about, well, who controls the world? Is it the Freemasons? Is it the Jews? Is it? Well, I have to tell you, just from observation and their own confession, the World Economic Forum, they control a lot of things. Or as Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, says, we have penetrated the cabinets. Remember what he said, that what we are very proud of now as a young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know that half of this cabinet, or even more half of this cabinet are for our actually young Nobel leaders of the verdict reform. Well, Klaus Schwab is gone, but his successor is even worse. It's Larry Fink, the boss of the $20 trillion asset management company BlackRock. It's incredible. And I have to say, actually, this year's conference of the World Economic Forum is the largest ever, not just in terms of delegates who are attending, but in terms of speakers. And listen, I have to give them credit. Donald Trump himself is coming. Javier Milei, Volodymyr Zelensky, of course, is coming. There are so many politicians, world leaders, NGOs, business people. They've actually never been stronger, which is terrifying to me. Now, I hope and I think that Donald Trump is coming to lay down the law a little bit. When he spoke to the World Economic Forum in his first term, he basically came to counter signal their messages on everything from freedom to the free market to American sovereignty. So maybe he'll be doing a bit of that.

[Interviewer/Host]

I don't know.

[Ezra Levant]

I have to say, one of the things on the minds and on the lips of delegates the past couple days has been Trump's diplomacy and maybe his lack thereof in regards to Greenland and Denmark. I even saw a US Senator named Chris Goons here who was blasting the president in public. I mean, normally foreign policy disputes are handled within a country, but the Democrats and even some wobbly Republicans don't like what Trump is doing and are not afraid to share that with the world. It's really a fascinating thing to observe, but I want to show you Mark Carney's speech because remember, Carney just spent a few days on his World Anti American tour. I think that's the fairest way to describe it. He went to Communist China and announced a New World Order. That clip is just incredible.

[Mark Carney]

I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the New World Order.

[Ezra Levant]

He's not only starting an investment and trade relationship with Communist China, he's starting a police relationship, a security relationship, and says that we have a geopolitical agreement and partnership with China. Anita and Ann simply announced that we have a new foreign policy. Just announced it. No election over it, no vote, no debate. I mean, this is the party and this is the man, Mark Carney, who just a year ago said China is the number one security threat to Canada. Here he is saying it, Mr. Carney.

[Mark Carney]

Well, we're in a security section, I think we didn't have a chance to talk about anything internationally. I think the biggest security threat to Canada is China.

[David Menzies]

Yeah.

[Ezra Levant]

Now he's signing up for a Chinese dominated new world order. He's basically choosing the Chinese orbit rather than the American bloc. And I know why he would say it. In fact, that was the subject of his speech today. He would say that the United States is behaving rather brutally. And some of the networks and systems and treaties and NGOs and friendly rules that have been evolving over the last 80 years since the end of the Second World War, well, they don't really count anymore. Now it's just raw power. Okay, there's some truth to that. But his remedy is so therefore, let us choose China. Listen, I know things aren't going smoothly with the United States right now and in particular with Donald Trump. But Trump has gone in exactly three years. In fact, today, if I'm not mistaken, is the anniversary of his inauguration. He's only got three years left. And you want to completely realign Canada's orbit towards China and an authoritarian dictatorship because you're offended by Trump. Just incredible. Here, let me show you a few excerpts from Carney's speech. I'll just play a few minutes of these.

[Mark Carney]

We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation. It calls for honesty about the world as it is. We are taking the sign out of the window. We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers. The countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and a most to gain from genuine cooperation. The powerful have their power. We have something too. The capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together. That is Canada's path. We choose it openly and confidently. And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.

[Interviewer/Host]

But you've just been to the other great power, to China, and I think people very intrigued by seeing that meeting. And some people say kind of that's a mistake, really, because you know you're going to make Yourself more dependent on China. They're not that benign either. The US will be very annoyed. What's the defense of what you're doing and what do you hope to get out of it?

[Mark Carney]

Well, the first thing is to say it's not a defense, it's an. I know the way you frame the question, but it's offense. It's building out. It's something positive as opposed to against. Were for something as opposed to being against. The second is there are very clear guardrails in that relationship. I spoke of calibration of relationships in my remarks. That's what I mean by it. But within those clear guardrails are huge opportunities in energy, both clean and conventional, obviously in motor vehicles, in agriculture, in financial services, all of which is mutually beneficial. So it's additive. And look, it's the second largest economy and it's our second largest trading partner. We should have a strategic partnership with them in that within those guardrails. And that's what we've achieved.

[Interviewer/Host]

And it is an interesting reversal though because I think certainly during the Biden administration there was this sense that the Western world was trying to decouple from China or de risk at least. And is now in this new world that really going to go into reverse and de risking from China because there are other risks is less of a thing.

[Mark Carney]

You need again, many in this room, this is their livelihood. You need a web of connections. And to miss out in that web, some of the largest ones, United States, we already have that. China, India, Mercosur, European Union, that's a mistake. That's not managing your relationships properly, that makes you stronger, makes you more resilient. And then on top of that, I'll give you again, I'll appeal since it's in the headlines, to the Nordics. Nordics plus Canada, it's 20% of global GDP. It's not the first thing people would realize. But that relationship, which is deepening for security reasons because we're like minded, those are the types of partnerships that I think we'll see more of.

[Ezra Levant]

You know, Carney speaks in an extremely boring way and he uses boring language. I mean, I just sort of have a checklist. It's almost like you're playing Mark Carney bingo. Does he say transformative? Does he say catalyzed? I mean, he has his own buzzwords, just the same way Justin Trudeau did too. My point is that you can say things in a boring and you know, MBA kind of way that are still extremely radical. And he's basically saying we little countries should band together and stop the big countries. Except he doesn't really say that. He says we little countries in the west should band together against America. Not band together against anyone, not band together against everyone, but band together against China. Let's push back against America was basically his message. And we've talked before about how overwhelming America is in terms of foreign trade. For Canada, it's like 80% of our experts and China is way down there, basically tied with Japan and just ahead of the uk. You simply cannot artificially redraw trading patterns given that we are adjacent to the United States. You may want to, you may even think you're morally correct to do so, but that's just not reality. And saying that you're going to go your own way in terms of the military, that's just a pipe dream. I mean, we barely have any tanks or aircraft that even work. Whenever there's a threat in Canadian airspace, it's a US based fighter jet that responds. That's not some future tense. That's right now we have no defense over our north. And that's one of the reasons why Trump is bellicose both towards Canada and towards Greenland. My point is Mark Carney, who's never actually done things, he was a consultant, he was at Goldman Sachs, he was at the bank of Canada, bank of England. I challenge you to tell me what those duties are without googling them. And then he was a chairman, not a hands on executive, a chairman of an asset management company who just sort of went to conferences. The guy is a good theoretician. But there is no way, even if you're morally right, that you can simply say we're not going to be in the American orbit anymore. It just doesn't work that way. China could have written his speech, I tell you, because it's such a naive speech, the result of which if you were to follow it, would be to throw things into China's jackpot. I mean, is there anything more clear than the 49,000 Chinese made electric vehicles that Carney just unilaterally ordered into Canada to the surprise and dismay of Doug Ford, the premier of the province where there actually are car factories? And that's the thing. Carney is saying he's doing this to improve Canada's position in Canadian jobs. Canadian investment in Canada. How is buying 49,000 made in China electric vehicles? How is that helping our auto industry? How is that helping investment here? It's just this doesn't make any sense. But you know, things really don't have to make sense. For Mark Carney, as long as he's whipping up anti Americanism, he'll be fine in the next election. Here's a few more clips from his speech today.

[Interviewer/Host]

Sovereignty now is the ability to withstand pressure. Isn't Canada almost uniquely vulnerable to pressure because of the extent of your trade dependence on the United States?

[Mark Carney]

Well, the proof is that we have been implementing able to withstand the pressure and there has been considerable pressure. I'll give you a couple of facts. We've actually created more jobs since the tariffs were put on than the United States in absolute number. Economy is growing at the second fastest rate within the G7. That's not there. There are pockets of extreme pressure without question in Canada. But headline we're reacting. The second thing, and it's a fundamental point is is the recognition that we can give ourselves far more than any foreign country can take away. There's lots of efficiencies in having one Canadian market, the trillion dollars of domestic investment and building these partnerships abroad, all of which are bigger returns than what's been lost. That's not to say we would rather not lose it, but we can withstand the pressure and we are.

[Interviewer/Host]

And I was interested that you said basically the old world's not coming back so you're not seeing this as a period where you just have to get through a normalcy will return.

[Mark Carney]

I think the that is what that is our view and we, we regret it, but we're not going to sit around and mourn it. We're, we're acting and we're acting in a way both it's in our interests, but we believe in a way with others that's building imperfectly in steps a new system.

[Interviewer/Host]

President Trump and a lot of people who agree with him condemn globalism a lot. And I suspect, you know, you would be the kind of epitome of a globalist. You know, you worked for Goldman Sachs. I believe you were a central banker. You know, you're comfortable and lived in several countries. Is globalism first of all, Is it a thing and is it over?

[Mark Carney]

I think, well, look, understanding how the world works, having appreciation for other cultures, understanding the connections and being able to or at least appreciating ways that how we connect, whether it's through technology, trade, investment, culture can enrich our lives and that's a good thing and also help solve problems. Being detached from where you live and the broader needs of society. There is an epithet for that. I don't know that the G word is the one. There's certainly what we're finding to go back to the points I was making is that there are a number of like minded countries that want to work through, through partnership to achieve those goals for their citizens and for the world more broadly. The call is for more to recognize what's really going on right now and to pool their resources to the benefit of citizens. So it won't be global, it won't cover the globe, but it will be more powerful.

[Ezra Levant]

Yeah, of course he got applause. Because listen, the average person at this conference is reflexively socialist and globalist, Hates Donald Trump, despises Elon Musk, and Mark Carney is their ideal. I mean, here's a man who has three passports who says Canada is the most European of the countries, who repeatedly sides with dictators against America. I mean, it was just the other day I mentioned that Lula, the President of Brazil who hates America, said that in his phone call with Mark Carney. They both agree to counter Trump's arctic vision. And now Carney agrees with China on that, too. The opposite of being pro Trump is not being pro China. You can be as skeptical of Trump as you like without being pro China, not Mark Carney. Anyways, those are my thoughts on his speech. We'll be back on the streets of Davos tomorrow. Now, and I shouldn't have made you wait this long. Now, here's my interview with Justin Trudeau. What do you think of this.

[David Menzies]

Mr. Trudeau? What are you doing here at Davos?

[Justin Trudeau]

No comment.

[David Menzies]

How come you never comment? This is the spirit of dialogue is the name of the conference. How come you won't dialogue? Prime Minister Trudeau, you're not getting into.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

The spirit of dialogue here. Look at that.

[David Menzies]

Who paid for you to come here? Was it taxpayers? What do you make of the Federal Court of Appeal upholding the ruling that your martial law was illegal? They said you violated.

[Justin Trudeau]

It's good to see you, Ezra. It's been a long time. How you been? How you been keeping pretty well.

[David Menzies]

But you didn't speak to me.

[Justin Trudeau]

I'm worried about you.

[David Menzies]

I don't think you have.

[Justin Trudeau]

You stopped speaking to me after the boxing match. I never heard from you again.

[David Menzies]

That's not true. Every time we tried to come into contact with you, you had us arrested.

[Justin Trudeau]

I never had you arrested.

[David Menzies]

You beat up my colleague David Menzies. Your partner. Your personal bodyguards beat up David Menzies?

[Justin Trudeau]

Rcmp. The official police of Canada that you're speaking against.

[Ezra Levant]

Yeah.

[David Menzies]

I think you.

[Justin Trudeau]

You're not going to trust our institutions, Ezra. There's a problem there.

[David Menzies]

I think our institutions have been weakened by you to be quite candid that.

[Justin Trudeau]

That is your right to believe that and to feel that. And that's certainly something that you've. You've continued to spread. People. People not trusting our institutions at certain skepticism is important, but spreading of misinformation and disinformation is just. You have responsibility. I think you know that, Ezra. But you know you've got a good little gig coming on. You've paid for all these people to come to Davos. You know, I encourage you to continue to ask questions and challenge people, but to try and do it in a way that is grounded in facts and reality.

[Ezra Levant]

You've.

[David Menzies]

You've introduced more censorship.

[Justin Trudeau]

Thank you very much.

[David Menzies]

A conversation is not you lecturing me. A conversation is a back and forth, not you just lecturing people.

[Justin Trudeau]

You misunderstood your time lecturing and haranguing people and creating outrage. There's no need to.

[David Menzies]

You introduced more censorship bills than any other kind of bill. You don't believe in free speech. C63 and all your other bills are about squelching people who you disagree with as well.

[Justin Trudeau]

You continue to make your. Your points and you're more than welcome.

[David Menzies]

To so so far, but not if.

[Justin Trudeau]

You get your way, Ezra. I think you know that.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Feel like you owe the Canadians an.

[Justin Trudeau]

Apology for a good day, sir?

[Interviewer/Assistant]

I feel like you owe the world an apology for your behavior during COVID.

[Justin Trudeau]

Have a good day, sir.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Is it bizarre not being able to me. Please don't knock into me.

[Justin Trudeau]

Appreciate the respect.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Well, your security was just pushing us around before.

[David Menzies]

Of course you still give selfies. You got to hand them. Hand them that. You won't talk to reporters, but he'll do. He'll do a selfie.

[Justin Trudeau]

I just spoke with you for five minutes.

[David Menzies]

You spoke at me for five minutes. You didn't answer any questions. You spoke at me, which is your style, isn't it? You don't do well with dissent. Are you going into any meetings here?

[Justin Trudeau]

Davos is about meetings. Davos is about connecting with people and talking about how we can continue to put people's success at the center of everything we do.

[David Menzies]

Are you going to meet up with Mark Carney when he arrives?

[Justin Trudeau]

I have always happy to speak with any leaders, including.

[David Menzies]

And how do you think he's doing?

[Justin Trudeau]

I think he's doing great.

[David Menzies]

Are you worried about the rift with the United States?

[Justin Trudeau]

I think everyone is worried about an increasing polarization around the world.

[David Menzies]

Do you feel that his visit to China was successful?

[Justin Trudeau]

I think there's a lot of work to do around the world. But it's good that we continue to engage with friends, allies and potential challenges around the world.

[David Menzies]

How do you feel about the looming referendum for separatism in Alberta? Have you followed the separatist movement in Alberta?

[Justin Trudeau]

Very familiar with all the various challenges in Canada. And we'll continue to trust Canadians thoughtfulness and unity.

[David Menzies]

Would you be part of a no campaign on that? Would you weigh in on that campaign?

[Ezra Levant]

Well, that's the show for the day. What do you think of that? We're going to be in Davos for a couple more days. We're going to have a special Zoom Town hall on Thursday. And if you can help cover our cost, you can see we're sharing an Airbnb here. And the reason we're at one town over, we're in a town called Klosters, because Davos is completely booked up. Even this Airbnb, where the lads are working together on the table, even this is thousands of dollars a night. I'm so embarrassed to tell you that they jacked the price up tenfold just during the week of Davos. And it goes back down to normal, before and after. But this one week a year, the entire community basically makes a year's worth of income. Anyways, crazy times. Go to wefreports.com if you want to help us cover these costs. I tell you one thing, I don't want to give it away, but we have a video coming that is 10 times crazier than that Justin Trudeau interview. You'll watch it and you'll agree with me. All right, that's it for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of us at Rebel News, to you at home, Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

[David Menzies]

What do you think of the sparring match between the US Embassy and Europe over censorship?

[Eric Schmidt]

No questions.

[David Menzies]

You're the one who came up with a memo about a spell check for hate. Remember that memo you wrote in an article about 10 years ago?

[Eric Schmidt]

You should just stop interviewing me.

[David Menzies]

I know, but you, you're a censor by nature. You're the guy who came up with the whole plan.

[Eric Schmidt]

I think you're being offensive.

[David Menzies]

Does that mean I should be censored, though?

[Eric Schmidt]

No, I didn't say that. I think you're being offensive. I think you should stop.

[David Menzies]

Well, don't you think you have an obligation to talk to the public?

[Eric Schmidt]

No, I do not. And I certainly do not have an obligation to talk to you.

[David Menzies]

You're the one who fired the starter pistol for censorship in the whole industry.

[Eric Schmidt]

Wow. Amazing that you know this.

[David Menzies]

Well, I read the article?

[Eric Schmidt]

Really? You did? What article?

[David Menzies]

It was either in the Times or the Post.

[Eric Schmidt]

How interesting.

[David Menzies]

You talked about a spell check for hate.

[Eric Schmidt]

Now we're you're doing is you're having fun at my expense.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

The wet theme is.

[Eric Schmidt]

My God. My God, what a problem.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

It's a spirit in dialogue.

[Eric Schmidt]

My God. Way amazing. You're not in control against me.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Is this a spirit of dialogue? Is this a spirit of dialogue?

[Eric Schmidt]

I'm not interested in a dialogue with you.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

But that's the entire thing.

[Eric Schmidt]

You are now harassing me.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Do you want to have dialogue?

[Eric Schmidt]

Harassment is illegal in Europe. Why don't you let me get to you?

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Do you want me to go to jail for talking to you?

[Eric Schmidt]

No, I actually would like you to leave me alone.

[David Menzies]

Well, you won't leave us alone. You're the one who started the whole censorship war.

[Eric Schmidt]

I can assure you that you're just wrong and I suggest that you stop.

[David Menzies]

Well, and as a man, you can say that. But you were the boss of Google who brought in a wave of censorship, particularly targeting conservatives and Trump supporters.

[Ezra Levant]

Really?

[David Menzies]

Really.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

Wow.

[David Menzies]

No.

[Eric Schmidt]

Amazing how guilty I am according to you. My God. And you need to stop blocking me.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Why are you pushing?

[Eric Schmidt]

Because you're pushing me and we have it on camera.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Does it make you really angry in.

[Ezra Levant]

Real life to have to face people facing you?

[Eric Schmidt]

No, not at all.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

You seem super triggered.

[Eric Schmidt]

Super triggered because you won't leave me alone. It's called harassment.

[David Menzies]

Do you think he should be banned from YouTube for his conduct here?

[Eric Schmidt]

I do not speak for YouTube. Bye, guys.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

That was great dialogue.

[David Menzies]

I've never seen such a man lose his control. He's lost his emotional self control. That was Eric Schmidt. He was a senior executive at Google. And I remember he wrote. It wasn't just a memo. It was a lengthy article either in the New York Times or the Washington Post, a very prestigious paper. He talked about how censorship should be built into the Internet. Like spell check. Is he called it a spell check for hate or for emotions that the. That the Internet should correct you in real time? And that's what I was asking him about. I've never seen him answer that. Especially in the recent milieu of the US State Department basically going to war over European censors. He's clearly on the European censors side of things.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Have you calmed down from the crash?

[David Menzies]

Out.

[Interviewer/Assistant]

Are you feeling better? Are you feeling better, sir? Are you feeling better? Do you want to go back to censorship online?

[Eric Schmidt]

Why don't you guys just shut up?

[Interviewer/Assistant]

This is exactly why we're here in Davos, 2026 again for another year. We're catching these people out for what they've done and what they plan to do to us. And none of this is possible without your help. Make sure to go to wefreports.com if you support this kind of real journalism on the streets of Davos, please consider chipping in to help us cover the costs.

[Ezra Levant]

Thanks.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

Sheila Gun Reed for Rebel News. It's Friday night. I am here in Drayton Valley, Alberta, population about 8,000. And I'm at the McKenzie Conference Center. Y this is a petition signing location for the referendum on independence. And the event tonight includes speakers and it doesn't start for about an hour and people are filing in. They're starting to end up outside the doors. But we're going to go inside and ask these people a few questions perhaps why are you signing the petition? Do you have a message for people who say that Alberta cannot leave? And maybe a message for Mark Carney who introduced a new world order today? Let's go check it out.

[Petition Signer 1]

This is so incredibly exciting.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

And the part that excites me the most is not even the numbers. It's who is showing up to sign for these petitions.

[Petition Signer 1]

I have passed so many moms with kids in tow.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

It is absolutely inspiring.

[Petition Signer 2]

So, Alberta, keep it going.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

Why do you support independence?

[Petition Signer 2]

It's been a bad relationship with Ottawa for too long and I have young kids and I feel like this is the only way that we can have real freedom. For me, it's more to do with the immorality that we have in our country. And I just want to see us go to a place where we're, you know, focused on our home, our family, our children, both in the womb and to old age and protecting life and liberty. So, yeah, so we can be in control of our own freedom. And not only the freedom, but to not be held down by the federal government that has done it to us for 50 years.

[Petition Signer 1]

My hope and prayer is for my descendants. I may not live long enough to see the benefit of the separation of this province, hopefully western Canada. But I believe this is going to be so beneficial to our young people, we're going to be able to save our funds from idiots that send it across the ocean to. We don't even know the countries and what is being done with it. Whereas we could do so much for our people. Our children need to go to university, but we can't afford it. And if we were to keep our money in our country, we could send our kids to Schools, universities, and be able to benefit with more doctors, more nurses, more hospitals. Just think, $70 billion billion dollars goes to Ottawa and we can't even get a hospital bed. A friend of mine who's 83 years old broke her ankle. They had to stay in a hotel in Red Deer because there was no beds in the hospital. If we had the money, we could either build new hospitals or build onto the old ones to have more beds. So I'm really, really. I don't even know how to say how strongly I believe in separation.

[Petition Signer 2]

We've been taking a lot of crap from Canada for a long time and it's not working. So I just want to be able to work the next day. And I'm tired of giving my money away.

[Petition Signer 1]

My father was born in 1908. He was not a highly educated person, but all my life I always heard him say that the country should separate from the Manitoba, Ontario border because the east did not care what happened in the West. And it's becoming more and more true.

[Petition Signer 2]

There's, you know, a lot given and none really coming back. So there's kind of just a huge division in that sense. We want a little bit more equality over here. Yeah, that's.

[Petition Signer 1]

That's the big thing is equality, I think. Yeah.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

So what do you say to the people who say, like, it can't be done, it's just too much work, it's going to be too hard.

[Petition Signer 1]

Well, when you think of it like that way, then of course there's going to be a problem. But like, I mean, one, if you can change the, you know, one person's opinion or one view, like, that makes the world of difference to, like, us people like, you know what I mean? It only takes one person sometimes.

[Petition Signer 2]

So when you get a group of people this big, anything can happen. It's just a legal route to get out of Canada. And that's what we're pursuing. And I feel like it's 100 possible. If God desires it, it will happen. We can accomplish anything when we stand together. And this has been so wrong for so many years that it has to be corrected. And I think it's past the point of return right now, the way things are going. If you don't try, you won't know. So I don't believe that it will be impossible. I think once we can see by the grassroots that it's is just growing and growing. So once the wheels start moving, I think it'll become more and more apparent. I think Canada, the government in Ottawa is going to be in A mad panic when they see just what kind of turnout we're getting in all these towns and cities in Alberta.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

Why do you think Quebec is allowed to talk about independence but Alberta's not?

[Petition Signer 2]

Alberta's treated like the, basically the, the bad stepchild that we're not quite as equal as some provinces. It's a pretty one way street. Anything over east counts, but not us. So it's been like that for far too long.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

Yeah, way too long. Now Mark Carney said yesterday that, you know, that Canada is joining a New World Order.

[Mark Carney]

And I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the New World Order.

[Petition Signer 2]

Well, when I watched that video, it gave me shivers the way he said it. It just felt demonic to me. It was just way out of place and I didn't like it at all. So that's just going to ramp this up, I feel. I really don't like the way that they're always talking about the New World Order. It seems very dictatorship, like so you know, bringing in like the digital currencies and all of that. It just feels like they want total control of us. So coming from, you know, them saying we're a free country, it's not feeling very free anymore.

[Petition Signer 1]

No, no. And it's going back to like almost like the COVID years where they're, they're trying to be like, kind of like not really Marcus, but in a sense like they, they want control over you. Like they want to know all your moves and they want to kind of have control of our assets and like, it's just, I don't know, it doesn't sit well with us at the end of the day.

[Petition Signer 2]

Obviously been, been going on for a long time their plans with the World Economic Forum and they've just, yeah, basically dropped, dropped the veil. And yeah, we're, we're seeing that he's probably pretty beholden to China and we're. Yeah, I don't want to be a part of some sort of Chinese state, so.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

Yeah.

[Petition Signer 2]

And I kind of value freedom too much for that.

[Sheila Gunn Reid]

So we've been here for about an hour at Drayton Valley. The room inside is packed. People are listening to speakers. But also people are still coming. The parking lot is busy. People are coming, signing the petition and leaving. And they're sending a pretty clear message that it's not a bunch of old angry Albertans. It's young people, older people, grandparents. And they're all here because they want something different. And the thing that's different that they want is a different kind of relationship with Canada from the outside. For Rebel News here in Drayton Valley, I'm Sheila Gunn Reid.