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EZRA LEVANT | Self-inflicted collapse: Why Western cities now resemble post-war ruins
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Tonight on The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra looks at a troubling trend across the West, where cities increasingly resemble war zones without war—and why some activists are cheering it on. Across Western cities, a familiar and troubling picture is coming into focus: filthy fountains, graffiti-covered statues, tent encampments in public parks, open-air drug use, and garbage piling up. What was once unthinkable is now being framed by some as progress.
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Ezra Levant
Hello, my friends. Have you seen what Donald Trump is doing to Washington, D.C. i mean, the physical city? He's making it beautiful. And I mean beautiful. I'll show you the pictures and tell you the story. I really want you to see it, not just hear me talk about it. I want to show you the fountains. I want to show you the Lincoln Reflecting pool. So I want you to have the video version of this podcast, which you can get at Rebel News. Plus, Tonight, Donald Trump tries to make Washington, D.C. pretty again. It's May 28, and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious.
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Keith Wilson
Bu.
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Ezra Levant
You know, I got to show you something before I get into the main topic today. Did you see the video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Trump administration's Health and Human Services secretary? Did you see him handling the snakes? Just that were in the outside yard of another Trump administration official? Just out of nowhere, there were some snakes, and RFK Jr thought he would go in and grab them with his hands and remove them. It's a crazy video. Take a look. So what are they? Well, they were having sex, Tom.
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
So what were they?
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Reporter/Interviewer
Moccasins.
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
They're not moccasins.
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Reporter/Interviewer
Huh?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
They're not moccasins.
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Ezra Levant
That is not the only time that RFK Jr. Has handled snakes. Here's a crazier video of him catching a rattlesnake. What is with this guy?
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Jason Kenney
Hold on, guys.
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Keith Wilson
I'll be back in a flash.
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Jason Kenney
That. I don't want to touch him.
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Ezra Levant
He reminds me a little bit of Steve Irwin, sort of the Crocodile Dundee guy. I hope he doesn't get hurt. He obviously knows what he's doing. Anyhow, only in America. Speaking of America, do you know where this image is from? Where's that? You can see Free Palestine, Free Gaza, and that red triangle, which is the terrorist symbol that the Hamas terrorist group uses, as in, we are killing this target. It's like they're targeting symbol. Do you know where that's from? I mean, that's obviously supposed to be a fountain. It's not functioning. It's pretty dirty and gross. Where is it? The answer is obviously it's everywhere. I mean, most cities in the west are like this. They allow their greatest symbols to be dirtied either by falling into disrepair and neglect or being occupied by migrants or homeless people or drug addicts or political radicals. They can either fall into disrepair or they can be actively disrepaired, as the graffiti in this case shows. Either way, it's depressing. It's a sign, isn't it? That we live in the ruins of a superior society that is now gone. It's a little bit like that scene in Planet of the Apes where Charlton Heston realizes where he is. Now, I'll tell you where those photos are from in a moment, but let me show you a few more. I mean, that fountain was decorative, but look at this image. You might know this as the dilapidated Central Railway Station in Detroit, Michigan. Sort of a symbol of the whole city. Can you imagine? Here's another. This is Pripyat, the city right next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant. At least they have an excuse there was a nuclear accident, an explosion in the reactor core. What's Detroit's excuse? A few years ago, I visited Hiroshima in Japan. That's one of the two cities that were actually nuked by America. And the city's completely rebuilt. It's all modern, it's immaculately clean. It's a hive of activity. That one building has been preserved in the state it was after the bomb went off as part of the memorial. There's a very impressive memorial and museum in that city. And that one building is kept the same, but everything around it has been rebuilt. It's beautiful now. And safe too, obviously. In fact, it's safer than Detroit, which is kind of incredible because a nuclear bomb did not go off in Detroit, and yet it is more dangerous and in greater disrepair than Hiroshima. China, Just amazing. What about. What about Canada, though? For years, the cowards of the Ontario legislature kept the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald covered in a wooden coffin so as not to offend anyone. I'm serious. In the same city, Young Dundas Square, sort of Toronto's weak attempt to copy New York's Times Square. Olivia Chao renamed that square Sankofa Square because radicals claim that Dundas and young Dundas was for the abolition of slavery. But he wasn't fast enough in his political steps to abolish slavery. So they renamed the whole square Sankofa Square after an African tribe that. It turns out they were absolutely engaged in slavery themselves. They captured fellow blacks and sold them to slave traders. So it is literally named after a slave trading tribe. Now, as opposed to an abolitionist. It's a form of defacement, isn't it? By the way, young Dundee Square is unsafe. It's overrun with drug addicts and petty criminals. Sometimes worse. Of course, it's not just Toronto. Here they are removing the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald from the City hall in Victoria. I'm surprised they haven't renamed Victoria itself. It's named after the Greatest colonizer in the world. The Empress of the British Empire, Victoria. It wouldn't surprise me if they rename it pretty soon. And here they are in Winnipeg tearing down Queen Victoria's statue itself. I mean, these are all related things. Letting buildings fall into disrepair, letting statues fall into disrepair, or positively proactively tearing them down. I mean, that's what the Taliban does, don't they? They destroy statues. And for the same reason, to repudiate the past, to level it down to zero, to make you forget it, to turn it into a rumor. You know, not too long ago, they vandalized the statue of Sir Winston Churchill right across from the UK Parliament. Our friend Meyer Tusi went out to scrub the graffiti off. Good for him. One of the few places in the world I visited where not only are they cleaning things up, they're trying to rebuild the city in a glorious traditional aesthetic is Budapest, Hungary, under Viktor Orban, who until very recently was Hungary's long serving prime minister. He made this a big focus. It was actually thrilling and so exciting to walk through the city. Such a every building being built in that beautiful imperial style. Such a symbol of Hungary's national self confidence and cultural self confidence and a love for their own history, not a hatred for it. Not condemning yourself like Trudeau did to us every month. The guy who said we're an illegitimate country, a genocidal country. You know, you say that sort of thing long enough, talk about land acknowledgments and how we stole the land. You say that long enough and someone's going to take you up on it, like a court, for example. Of course, Canada is in decay just like the rest of the Western world. But look at this. Donald Trump, he cleaned up. You know the huge reflecting pool outside the Lincoln Memorial? Donald Trump cleaned it up, fixed it up, it's beautiful. Now he's beautifying the whole city. He's doing the same thing. He's building a mighty ballroom at the White House. Private money, not government money, by the way. And that's what those images were that I showed you at the beginning. There was this fountain that he cleaned up. Look at the before and after pictures here. Also, like he's just tidying up the city. Look at these beauties. And I'm also, I suppose, talking about the National Guard there. It's beautiful to see them making Washington D.C. safe, rather than the murder capital it once was. It's showing respect for the city and respect for the people and self respect. Here's what I showed you before, contrasted with how it was until Trump fixed it. Here's another shot. You know, you don't need to have a glorious imperial style fountains like you might see in ancient Rome or whatever. You don't need statues and grand edifices. You can have more simple things. You can just keep them clean. You can keep them clean from graffiti. You can arrest people and punish them for defiling the things that belong to everyone. You can move drug addicts and homeless people along for their own sake as well as for your self respect. It's about glorifying the nation, the city, the people. It's about something bigger than any one of us. It's about feeling pride in the community and your neighbors and your joint commitment to living together. That's why antifa and Hamas and the woke left want to tear down and destroy, want to vandalize, want to defile. When was the last time you saw right wing graffiti on a statue? Like you saw that Free Palestine graffiti? Have you ever seen that? In fact, you know, they want to tear down the cultural glue that binds us together. They want to replace it with their own thing. They want to tear down anything that's beautiful. Sometimes they build the ugliest things in the world. Have you seen the new Barack Obama presidential library? You know, every president, when they are done, they set up a library which their papers are there and it's a place of study and meetings and it really embodies the spirit of the person there. Look at Barack Obama's extremely ugly presidential library. I mean, a scientist could not make anything more ugly. It's like someone compared it to a World War II anti aircraft bunker. Just incredible. How different from Trump, who's taken the opportunity of the 250th anniversary of US independence to reassert that the public square should reflect the best ideals of the public, not to be an encampment for drug users. Here in Canada though our courts have just declared that homelessness is a civil right. Yeah, we deserve what we get, don't we? Stay with us. I've got a few interesting things ahead. Hey, welcome back. You know our friend Keith Wilson, who talks to us so much about Alberta independence, especially from a legal point of view. He, he recently debated Jason Kenney, the former premier of Alberta, who was run out of town by his own party for not standing up for the province. They had a debate courtesy of the Aristotle foundation in Calgary. Here, take a look. Here's some excerpts from that very interesting clash of ideas.
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Keith Wilson
Let me share with you why it is that I believe Alberta should become independent and why I'm doing what I'm doing and speaking in favor of it, not just here but everywhere else, is that when I look at the situation we have today in Alberta, I look at our history and I look at our place in Canada, in North America and in the world. And when I look at the resources that we're blessed with, the people that we're blessed with, the culture that we're blessed with, I conclude that by every single objective measure that I can think of, and I've asked myself and reflected on this a lot, is will my kids, will my grandkids and will my neighbors be better off in an independent Alberta or by staying in Canada? And every time I run that calculation, I always come back to the same conclusion.
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Jason Kenney
So
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Keith Wilson
that's one vision. The other thing that I see is the path that Canada is on. Frankly, it's dark in my view. We see reckless spending. The Trudeau and Carney governments have racked up more debt than every other government combined. We're talking about debt servicing hitting $80 billion. We have policies, two tier justice, system, out of control immigration. We have policies coming from Ottawa that frankly are authoritarian in nature, especially when you look at their censorship. And I see the plight of the younger generation. I see how they're choosing not to have children because they can't afford it or they feel they can't, they can't afford housing. This is serious situation. I'm seeing the inflation, how all those workers I saw when I was walking over doing construction, how each month their money becomes worth less. And I go, holy smokes, this is not good. We have a choice. I think some of the things that Jason and I agree on is that there's serious problems in Canada. We might disagree on what the specific problems are or whether certain issues are in fact a problem.
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Jason Kenney
Probably not.
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Keith Wilson
But what I'm going to suggest to you is that the challenge, I believe Jason has, respectfully and those who are federalists is they have no plan. There's just simply no way in our constitutional framework, the way Canada is structured democratically for Canada to be fixed. We've had the Meech Lake failed, Charlottetown failed equalization referendum passed by then Premier Kennedy and Ottawa didn't even pick up the phone. So we have a constitutional amendment formula that's impossible to meet. It's only going to be amended if we propose something that Quebec sees as not in its interest. And I don't begrudge them for that. They've got the power, they may as well use it. So I just do not see any pathway forward where the legitimate concerns and the disconnect between Alberta and Central Canada and even some of the other provinces can be mended. I see no, no one has yet from the federalist side offered any viable plan to, to change things. What's unique about Canada is we have the 1998 Quebec succession reference case where the court, the Supreme Court of Canada laid out a legal pathway for a province to vote on a referendum on a clear question and a clear majority to create a binding obligation, positive legal duty for good faith negotiations for the people in that province to have exercised their political free will and their right to self determination. What a Canadian thing, eh? Now, so when I look at all of the challenges and all of the tactics and the efforts that have been made, you know, we, we had. The west wants in. You know, we've tried loyalty, we've tried patience, we've tried to reform the Alberta. We helped elect Brian Mulroney, we created the reform movement, the west helped elect Stephen Harper and we sent Jason Kenney to Ottawa as part of that project. And we're told send the right people, make the right arguments, build the right condition and the right coalitions and confederation will work. Well, it's been proven wrong time and time again.
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Jason Kenney
So
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Keith Wilson
we have so much going for us. You know, we have the third largest reserve of oil in the world. We have a young entrepreneurial workforce. 90% of our trade is with the largest economy in the world that is right on our border closest to us. We've all seen countries from far afield come with gifts to President Trump to try and get a little bit of access to that market. And what an opportunity. Meanwhile, we have Prime Minister Carney saying our relationship with the United States has come to an end or something to that effect and let's embrace Europe. So we've got so much going for us. We have a larger economy than New Zealand, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Kuwait, Qatar, Iceland, Luxembourg and I could keep going over 100 sovereign nations. We have a situation where we've contributed over $700 billion in net fiscal transfers to Ottawa. And Alberta receives roughly 65 cents back from Ottawa for every dollar we spend or send to them. And we have a diversified economy. It's not all just oil and gas. We're blessed with that third largest reserve of oil and gas in the world. So my conclusion is that Canada is no longer an optimal size of governance, but Alberta is. We have what it takes to go on our own. And I'm not talking about carving out Alberta and bringing in Dollies and trucks and moving it away. We can continue to have excellent neighbors in Canada, but we'll be able to negotiate with them from a position of strength. And we will be able to move away from effectively being a colony of Ottawa that dictates to us and causes us to say, sir, please, may I work a little bit harder so I can give you more. And that's the situation we've been in. And the MOU is a manifestation of that. So my view is the right thing for the future to follow the legal pathway, a legal process for Alberta to become independent and redefine its relationship with Canada. Thank you.
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Jason Kenney
In fact, I believe Alberta is the most Canadian of provinces because we have been by far the biggest recipients and I would say beneficiaries of interprovincial migration. More people in Alberta who have been born in other provinces than is the case in any other part of Canada, and indeed nearly half of people in this province are born elsewhere. They're Albertans by choice and not chance. And for so many of those Albertans, their primary loyalty, while they love Alberta and are proud of it and want it to thrive and prosper, their primary loyalty is to our country, to Canada. We worked constructively within the federation to elect a national government that agreed with us on these things. Quite frankly, we did that even during the Kratien years with very few MPs from Alberta. The Krachen government, let us not forget, approved and incentive all of the major oil sands projects which took our oil production from less than 2 million barrels a day to 5 and a half million barrels a day. Today I continued to fight as Premier to ensure the completion of the Trans Mountain expansion which has been a game changer for our products and our exports, in creating coalitions across the federation to challenge the unconstitutionality of the Federal Impact Assessment Act, Bill C69. And we won at the Supreme Court of Canada on that. We won in our constitutional challenge against the federal plastics ban. We won in our challenge of the Emergencies act at the Federal court. And a trifecta of winning on those issues. We've won the battle of public opinion in the rest of Canada about the need for increased oil and gas production and pipelines. Super majorities in every province, including British Columbia and Quebec support pipelines, LNG and increased energy production. And our current Premier has won in this memorandum of understanding in a commitment of the federal government to build another west coast pipeline, to repeal the emissions cap, to repeal the clean electricity standard. We won in getting elimination of the retail carbon tax. We won in getting Equivalency agreements for methane regulations, reducing the cost. On Alberta industry, we won in getting a commitment to accelerated approvals. We're going to win with TMX optimization, which will be another three or four hundred thousand barrels a day of coastal exports. I believe if we put our shoulder to the wheel, we'll win with a version of Keystone XL to increase shipments to the United States.
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Ezra Levant
30 seconds.
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Jason Kenney
And so I think we as Canadians need to take yes for an answer.
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Keith Wilson
Canada's institutions, with all due respect, are corrupt. And we've all witnessed it. We've all witnessed it. And it's tragic and it's sad. And you know whose hearts bleed the most when they see it? The veterans. Because that's not what they fought for. That's not what they fought for at all. The Canada that exists today is not the Canada they fought for. And the reality is, you know, bankruptcy in 1936. Alberta ain't going bankrupt. Ottawa is. We need to separate from them. When you're told to be careful about what you tear down that fence, the truth of the matter, the sad truth of the matter is that fence that Mr. Kenney describes is laying on the ground rotting, and we need to build a new one for us. I don't think, and I have not thought for a long time that four more seats in the House of Commons would solve the problem that faces the future of our province and the future for our kids and grandkids. I've come to the conclusion that the problem's much deeper in Canada, that the structure of confederation is a failed experiment. And what I mean by that is I think Canada is too large to be an optimal unit of government. We have regionally diverse economies, we have regionally diverse cultures. Have you met somebody from Vancouver island and then met someone from Newfoundland and then met in Albertan in between? It's my view that it's not an optimal size and it's not a matter of reallocating seats. Our economies are different, our cultures are different. Albertans, in my view, have a very unique culture. We have a hard working culture. We don't want governments to tell us what to do. We want governments to get out of the way. We want to take risk. And so I think tweaking representation doesn't solve it. It's not an optimal size, but Alberta is. We are an absolutely optimal size. When you look at our geography, our land mass, what we're blessed with, our people, our diversified economy, our access to markets. So I just think every time I look at this, the conclusion I come to is Alberta needs to exercise a legal pathway to independence. We have to convince Ottawa not to do something and they don't care what we think. $200 million for a spaceport. That's a gravel pad Phoenix pay system. They can't even figure out how to pay employees and now they want to spend 44.2 billion building a new system. There's no accountability. Our voice doesn't matter when Alberta's independent. If our politicians are misusing our tax dollars, if they're behaving recklessly and carelessly and spending $200 million on a spaceport, we can fire them. Albertans who are concerned and support independence understand we're at an existential moment. They understand that this is a rare moment in time of convergence of opportunity and convergence of threat. If we're not successful with independence, we know there's likely to be a split in the UCP and the NDP is likely to be the next government. That's just a reality. So that's why I and many others are going to work really, really hard to convince those who are not yet ready to support independence that now is the time it's absolutely viable. Respectfully, all the other side's got is fear. They have no plan. It's always go back and ask for more. Be patient. Patience is not a solution to the opportunity that's before us. Okay, thank you, Keith.
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Jason Kenney
Let's be true to those, to the memory of those people who we honor on Memorial Drive on Remembrance Week. Let's remember that they lie under those maple leaves in foreign soil. Let's not be so quick to diminish the sacrifices of those generations of proud Albertans, also proud Canadians, who have built one of the most prosperous, generous and thoughtful places on the face of the earth. We owe it to them, just as we owe it to the future, to build this province and this country, a strong Alberta, in a strong Canada.
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Keith Wilson
What you're hearing is no plan. What you're hearing is fear. And what you're hearing is emotion. Those veterans that died did not fight for the values that Ottawa seeking to impose on us. The censorship. And literally trampling on our rights. So 1 trillion in investment has left. I am confident, as are people in the investment community, that I speak with, that if Alberta moves towards independence, they know they won't have the obstacle of Bill C69, net zero and all of this other ideological extremist policy imposed on us by Ottawa. And we won't have to convince Ottawa to change the law. We'll be able to do it ourselves.
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Jason Kenney
It is virtually impossible to amend the Constitution of Canada. But you can't separate without amending the Constitution of Canada, which is a paradox unless you go down this road of the unilateral Declaration of independence. And as I say, what happens the next day when Ottawa cancels your passport? Good luck.
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Ezra Levant
Hey, welcome back. I want to show you a very short story. It's just. It was of interest to me because very close to my house a 14 year old girl went missing and a lot of people went looking for her. And was she kidnapped? Did she run away? We took our billboard truck and we put a picture on the side and a phone number just to help spread the awareness that she was missing in case anyone saw her. She was gone for two weeks. I hate to say it, I feared for the worst. And some atrocious people were tearing down posters to find her because she was a Jewish girl. Could you imagine that? Politicizing that? Well, here's my little report from the scene today when police announced that she had been found.
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Ezra Levant (Field Reporter)
Ezra Levant here for Rebel News. I'm at Earl Bales park, which is a very large urban park in the heart of north Toronto where a few days ago a 14 year old girl named Esther or Esty went missing. And soon there was calls for her to be found. People had search parties. Police actually set up a command center here in the park and days turned into many days and I think people were. Were terrified that the worst was at hand. Rebel News actually deployed our billboard truck as part of the effort having her picture and name and phone numbers to call. Frankly, some people had given up hope and others took advantage for an anti Semitic crusade. It was absolutely shocking. There were posters, missing child, you know, if you see her, call this number. Nothing to do with politics. A 14 year old girl gone missing and. And who knows what happened to her. Anti Semitic activists around town started tearing down those posters as some sort of political statement. Was absolutely disgusting and outrageous. A sign of how things are in Canada in 26, 2026. Anyways, amazing news. Almost miraculous. Today police announced that Esti has been found in a matter of minutes. We expect to have a press conference here and we'll have that story for you.
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
It's with great relief that I can confirm that Esther was located by members of the Toronto Police Service earlier this afternoon. As the initial reports informed you, she appears to be in good physical health. That said, as you'd expect, she has been taken to hospital to be examined both physically as well as for medical staff to assess what emotional toll the situation may have caused her. I can advise that she was located in a home here in Toronto. Our investigation will now turn to whether or not there is any evidence of criminality associated to her prolonged disappearance. It is for this reason, along with Esther's and her family's obvious right to privacy, that I will not be able to comment further at this time.
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Reporter/Interviewer
We understand she was with an adult male who owned a house in Rexdale.
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
So not commenting on that now, as you'll appreciate, and as I said, the next phase of the investigation is was there any criminality related to her prolonged disappearance?
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Reporter/Interviewer
Has anyone been charged, anyone arrested at this point?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
Not at this point.
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Reporter/Interviewer
Who was at the home?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
We're not commenting on that. I can tell you investigators are actively looking into that. Who resided in the home? What are they all about? That is happening as we speak right now.
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Ezra Levant (Field Reporter)
Did she know the people in the house before this?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
I don't know.
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Reporter/Interviewer
Did she know that people were looking for her?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
I don't know. Don't have that information. Like I said, folks, this is really the earliest stages of this, the investigation. The next phase of the investigation is just starting.
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Ezra Levant (Field Reporter)
Is there any indication of politics or anti Semitism behind this?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
I have no information to suggest that.
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Ezra Levant
What do you.
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Ezra Levant (Field Reporter)
What are your comments on people pulling down posters that announced she was missing and. And asked people to call police? What do you make of that?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
I mean, I can't think of anything more unethical than that type of behavior. It's absolutely ridiculous. Anyone that would make any effort to disrupt our attempts to locate Esther, nobody can ever justify that.
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Ezra Levant (Field Reporter)
Are there any lessons that you've learned that you might apply the next time, or do you feel that everything went sort of by plan?
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Toronto Police Spokesperson
Well, these things are obviously very fluid and dynamic. I am very proud of the investigative efforts undertaken in situations like this. We will always take away what we've learned. We will debrief this and we will assess. Are there things that we could do better next time around. But I want to reiterate, we put everything we had into this investigation, and we're just so relieved that we've located her.
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Reporter/Interviewer
Thousands of people came out to help from all walks of life, not just from our community, but from the entire community. People as far as Hamilton, people as far as Ms. Saga. We had old people, young people, children, wherever they could post, wherever they could spread the word. Everybody was willing to do what they needed to do to bring a child home, regardless of whether they knew Esther or not.
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Ezra Levant (Field Reporter)
Well, we just finished a police press conference here in North York in North Toronto in Earl Bales park where the command post had been set up for these past two weeks. Esther, a 14 year old girl found far away from here, found in someone's home. Now the police didn't have a lot of details. They say that the investigation is ongoing. I asked if there was any politics or even anti Semitism involved, alluding to possibly kidnapping. There was no information. Apparently she's in, she appears to be in good enough health although she's at a hospital being checked both physically and for the psychological trauma of whatever she been through for two weeks. Not a lot of information from the police other than she's been found. The fact that things are not yet being fully disclosed suggests there may be some criminality here. Again the police very tight lipped if I had to say the purpose of today's conference. It was one purpose, just to let people know she was found alive. She's recuperating in hospital and the search is over. But the police matters sound like they are not over. I'm proud of the community. It sounds like thousands of people participated in looking for her. There was a $25,000 reward that was put up by private citizens. And I want to say thanks to our own Rebel News truck driver who drove a billboard truck around with her picture and the phone numbers to call for a number of days. The police did not say how she was finally found. It sounds like something that's still in confidence because police are still investigating. Anyways, it's very good that this story has a happy ending. It's not unthinkable that after a two week absence the worst could have happened. Thank God that wasn't the case. Here for Rebel News in Earl Bales park in North York Toronto, I'm Ezra Levance.
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Ezra Levant
Well let me read your letters to me on Alberta. Doug Gary says I still haven't heard one good reason for Alberta to stay in Canada. And that's the question I'll be asking federal politicians when they come to Alberta this summer. And they better have a good answer or don't even show up in Alberta. Well, you know, so many of the federalist arguments sound like this. Know your place. John says Alberta and Minnesota should change places. Well you know, actually Rebel News sponsored a poll a few months ago and most Albertans do not want to join the United States. I think they just want to be masters of their own house. You know, Maitre chez nous, that's actually a phrase that Quebec used, wasn't it? And, and there's a point there. I don't know if you saw Avi Lewis, the new head of the ndp. He was saying, quebec separatism, that's classy, that's okay. Alberta separatism, that's bad. Here's a clip of that.
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Reporter/Interviewer
According to that, the NDP would recognize
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Jason Kenney
50 we have a position.
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Political Commentator
The Sherbrooke Declaration on the question of sovereignty in Quebec. The sovereignty. The separation movement in Alberta has no point of comparison with the historic sovereignty movement in Quebec. This is a mega aligned, potentially funded, disruptive movement that has been really thrown into national prominence by Danielle Smith addressing this question that a portion of her base, a small minority of Albertans, the vast majority of whom want to stay in Canada, don't want to have a referendum that will rip the country apart. It's not the same thing. And there's. There, there isn't. There isn't the history. This is a. I think this is a flash that's been driven by an extreme portion of Danielle's base and she's got a big problem on her hands. She tried to have a question for a question and it's going nowhere. Nobody's happy. But this is an internal Alberta problem right now. And I don't believe that there will ever be a referendum. The court has already decided that you can't just proceed to rip the country apart when you haven't dealt with the underlying issue of the land and indigenous rights and title. So I don't. What I'm saying very clearly, and I'll say it in English just to be perfectly clear, is the margin of victory in an Alberta referendum is irrelevant right now because I don't believe there will be a referendum.
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Ezra Levant
Last letter from Brenda, who says the Pathways Project is a green scam that will line Carney's wallet. Albertas do not want it. The Pathways Project is this idea of carbon capture and piping it and storing it. That's ridiculous.
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Reporter/Interviewer
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Ezra Levant
It's a make work, busy work project that just imposes a massive cost on the oil industry. There's no other oil producer that does it. There's no market for carbon dioxide. It's fake. It's Enron accounting. And Mark Carney deeply believes in it. Well, that's our show for the day. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World headquarters. See you at home. Good night. And keep fighting for freedom.
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Jason Kenney
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