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EZRA LEVANT | Special interview with the 2025 Rebel News Viewers’ Choice winner
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Ezra Levant
Tonight, a feature interview with your winner in the Viewer's Choice Award. It's December 22nd and this is the Ezra Leban Show. Shame on you, you censorious thug. Well, as you may know, every year we have an internal staff meeting and I give out awards to people at Rebel News called the Rebbe's. It's sort of fun, I won't lie. It's a little bit of a knockoff of the Dundees, which is at Dunder Mifflin in the fictitious comedy the Office. But people take the Rebbies pretty seriously. I mean, hardest worker, most valuable player. I mean these are awards that people really value. And I think people look up to the within our company at the Rebbe Award winners. You know, we have a variety. It's not just for people who are on tv. For example, our truck driver, he won a Rebbe and wouldn't you agree with me that he was quite brave some of the situations he went into? So yeah, that's a Rebbe winner. But I make the decisions for all the Rebbes except for one, and that one goes to you, our viewers. And we have a voting system that's actually pretty good. I think it's more secure than the elections Canada system. You have to log in, you're only allowed to vote once and thousands of people vote. And we have all our on screen talent except for me. I take myself off, I like to think, oh, it's because I would win for sure. Or is it because I'm afraid I would lose? I don't know. But I'm not on the ballot. But all of our talent is. And it is so much fun to watch the voting day after day. And for the first few years, I should tell you, Avi Yamini, I mean a few years ago he would just crush it. And my theory for that is he had all of Australia voting for him. Right. Whereas our Canadian talent, well, they were competing 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 reporters for the Canadian vote. So I think Avi had a leg up. Plus, let's be honest, he did amazing journalism during the lockdowns from Melbourne, one of the most locked down cities in the world. Well, anyways, the pendulum has swum back to North America. In third place this year was Avi. He did a great job as always. In second place, our friend David, the Menzoid Menz. He's very brave. He's always out there and in first place and I gotta say, it wasn't even close. It was very close between second, third and fourth. Sheila was in fourth, very close. Between those. In fact, just. I think only about 11 votes out of thousands separated those two. It was actually quite stunning to see how close they were, but miles ahead, and I think you can probably guess why. Our Rebbe Award winner for the Viewer's Choice Award in 2025 is our friend Drea Humphrey, our BC Bureau Chief, who joins us now via Zoom. Drea, congratulations again on winning the People's Choice Award. How much fun is that?
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Drea Humphrey
You know, it's so much fun. I just look at my colleagues as Canadian heroes, and sometimes I'm just so humbled to be working beside them. So to win the Viewer's Choice, the hearts of the people, it just means so much to me.
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Ezra Levant
I had a sneaking suspicion you were gonna win, and I'll tell you why. Because I visited you when you were at the ostrich farm. I visited twice. It was only that briefly. I didn't even stay overnight. I just came in and I got sort of the vibe of the place. And I talked to the families and I talked, and I saw the connection that you had with people there, the trust and the admiration they had for you and the gratitude that you were telling their story to the world. And I don't know if you know that. Second only to Tamara Leach and her battle in court, your stories about the ostrich farm were the second biggest story in rebel News in all of 2025. And it was a global story. I was far away. I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and someone said, what's up with those ostriches? And I think that especially in those early days, it was your coverage that really told the story to the world.
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Drea Humphrey
Wow, that is shocking. I did know it reached, you know, international levels. I had people telling me they heard, you know, family talking about it in Germany, and also, I think it was Hong Kong. A lot of people were like, I didn't even know there were ostriches in Canada. I must admit, I was one of those people early last year going, wow, we have a massive ostrich farm. That's interesting. But I think what really was, was the unifier here is that everybody likes animals. At the very least, we know that if you are sick months or you were sick months ago, you're not sick now. And so it was something that was nonpartisan. It was something that was just very straightforward, where people were going, well, wait a second. Why aren't you testing these birds? But it became a concern to me journalistically, even before it had gotten to, you know, the lengthy court battles and all of that as well, because I've seen this pattern where there is more government control on our farms. And the farmers who are the experts, especially ostrich farmers, they're certainly the experts, are just not having any say.
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Ezra Levant
You know, a few things struck me right away when I went out to visit. I immediately got the same vibe. I'm using that word vibe a lot. That same feeling, that same group feeling that I had when I was in Ottawa for a couple for the trucker convoy in 2022. You could feel that people came from different walks of life on their own. No one coordinated. There was no official political party or corporation. I mean, it was. This was grassroots, authentic people saying, something is awry here, something is amiss. So I had that real people versus the system feeling. And the second thing, and I suppose it's related, is that it echoed the insanity, the public health nonsense that we all live through as humans. So when we had stupid rules that were enforced by heartless Kafkaesque bureaucrats like six feet of separation. I remember watching a video where someone took a tape measure between two barbershop chairs and it was like 2 inches short so they wouldn't let the barbershop pretend science and that they were using as a sledgehammer. I had that same feeling at the ostrich farm. Public health experts with their white lab coats and clipboards who were saying things that any common sense normal person would say, you are crazy. But the crazy people were running the place.
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Drea Humphrey
Absolutely. I mean, they showed up not even wearing ppe. It's like they themselves forgot to keep up the show. And then the next days and moving forward, you had the cops, you know, leaning on the fence. Nobody was scared of those birds. Everybody knew those birds were healthy. You know, North America and beyond included. And it's. BC gets hit the hardest. BC is an interesting place right now, especially to be a journalist telling the other side of the story. I mean, we have mass callings happening here more than any other province. So this is definitely a BC issue, but it is concerning across the country.
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Ezra Levant
Can I share with you one more thing? That was a commonality for me. It was the police. And, and you mentioned, you mentioned that already. I don't know how many police, and I don't know if we'll ever be able to find out exactly how many police were rotated through there because they were there for weeks. That was by far the largest police operation in British Columbia, which, by the way, could probably use some help on other real crimes. And they were at the, you know, they were the servants of these Public health bureaucrats.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Yeah.
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Ezra Levant
The police were not in charge of themselves. They were like auxiliaries to the health cops. And for a while they were sort of friendly, but then they became a little bit, I'm not going to say abusive, but taunting and provocative. I don't think the police handled themselves creditably. And there was so much effort and expense going to stop journalism. The anti drone system, building these massive walls out of hay bales, none of it made sense from a health point of view. It was all about stopping journalism. When you were spending what's got to have been millions of dollars to stop journalism, you're giving it away. You're doing something that you're ashamed of. If you're not ashamed of it, why are you going to such lengths to hide it? And for the police to be politicized by that, that's something. All these things were resonating through this story, at least for me.
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Drea Humphrey
Well, I think you're right. Will we ever get to the answer to these things? Of course. I'm working very hard on doing that. But I just did a report after MP Scott Anderson with the Conservatives did an order paper in question saying how much money, how much tax dollars were spent on this by the cfia? Every penny, he wanted to know. And also the rcmp. And of course they, they hid the numbers as best they could. They only told us close to a million. They did not tell us anything about 6 salary, overtime, you know, the cost for the marksman or anything like that. But perhaps we could have put things together if we had known how much they paid for salary and overtime. But it's in the millions, clearly. Staying there for close to 50 days, the RCMP absolutely became an arm of the CFIA in many ways. I remember being shocked when I found out that. I don't know why I didn't know this, but the bureaucrats were the ones who were telling the RCMP to do the arrests. And we know that because when the neighbor was saying, can I please get onto my property without being treated like a criminal, that neighbor was texted by the RCMP liaison saying, hey, just make sure you email the CFIA before you walk on your own property because we don't want them to authorize your arrest as well. It was like, I cannot believe this. And you mentioned the other crimes that they could be dealing with. I mean, these officers, I would say anywhere from 60 to 100 per day, depending on, you know, what level of stage of this, this whole standoff was. These officers came from all across bc. I know that for sure. Including Surrey, where just this year alone we've had over 100 extortion cases where people. Most of those are gun violence, illegal gun owner violence, where they're just blasting up businesses and houses. And you're going to tell me you're going to send officers to stand at a farm so that the farmers, what, don't feed their animals? Like, it was insane.
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Ezra Levant
Yeah. You know, I remember I was driving home. I was driving from the ostrich farm down to the airport, and I saw this 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of this caravan of cops coming in. I thought, oh, is the raid going on? No, they were just changing shifts. There was like, they. I don't know if they had two or three shifts a day, but. And they were all staying in hotels and they were all getting overtime and per diems and meals and like, it was the largest logistical operation the police had in the province. You know what? I could tell it was wearing on some of the cops because they deployed the chaplain. And the chaplain, of course, is a religious cleric who is there generally to help through stressful situations, to help with morale, to help, you know, just to help when the guys and gals are down in the dumps. They must have had a psychologically hard time going to war against a farm if they needed to call in the chaplain. What do you think?
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Drea Humphrey
My understanding of why the chaplain was called was because there. There had been a supporter who passed away named Tom, and he passed away on the property, which of course was devastating for everybody there. And Tom was living there every day. He was an elderly man and he passed away. And so I understand they brought the chaplain for that reason. But after they slaughtered the birds, the farmers were asking for the chaplain to return. They were actually begging for someone to come there and deal with the trauma that was happening after that traumatic night of going through, I don't know, 600 to a thousand gunshots, riddling the devastation and seeing what took place of these healthy animals that everybody had come to support. And it was nothing. And they kept saying, I don't understand why you guys, like, we really, really need this. And they wouldn't do that.
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Ezra Levant
Thank you, by the way, for clarifying. I think I misunderstood the chaplain's presence, but you've cleared that up for me. I appreciate that. Now, of course, the birds are gone, but the story still remains to be fully told. Now Rebel News is commissioning a documentary. Tell us a little bit about that. And I know there's some folks who have been following every bit of this story. They'll Want to know more about it, including how they can support it. Just give us a 2 minutes on the documentary we're planning and then I want to ask you about what's going on in B.C. politics in general because it's sort of crazy out there now. But tell me before we do that a little bit more about the documentary. What's it called?
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Drea Humphrey
Well, the documentary, we haven't launched the full name yet so you can find out all the information@osstrichfarmdocumentary.com and we actually have something exciting to come about the name, so. But what I want.
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Ezra Levant
Don't give it away now then. So I didn't mean to make you give a spoiler. No, no. Good. Hold back the secret till it's ready.
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Drea Humphrey
Yes, no worries. But I just want to take everybody back to that next morning and even myself, you know, it's a long drive for me to go home. So my plan was I was going to, you know, stick around and just kind of, you know, see what was going on with the people. It was so. I've never seen or felt anything like it. It was just so gut wrenching to look at those empty fields and to know what happened. And so what I'm getting at is I felt so angry and it wasn't even my animals. And so I, I keep saying this hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned because I did everything I could to get the story out, to get the truth out, to get that there was no scientific reason, there was no risk to kill these animals. So now I want to get my revenge. And I know many are in support of avenging the ostriches and what's happened. And so we, myself and Sid Fitzard, who's going to help me produce this, we're going to do that together. We are already working very hard. So you're going to see some stuff that you didn't see because let's face it, it was just nonstop. So we couldn't get everything out. You're also going to see, obviously the fruits of our investigation into the cfia, into the policy of what went wrong. Not just here, here, but what's been happening for decades to farms that don't stand up against the state when it comes to this stuff. We're really going to go really hard on these issues. We can't do any of that without you. We've already obtained a very important interview to that that I think people might have thought we wouldn't have been able to get. So we're already rolling on that. And again, nothing is possible without you guys. So ostrich farm documentary is how you can keep us going. We've already traveled for it. We're going to continue to do so into the new year.
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Ezra Levant
So I think that's going to be. A lot of people are going to want to watch that. Hey, let me just. Before we move on, I want to talk about other B.C. things, but you know, I had one very small question that I could put to the federal health minister. This whole operation was under the jurisdiction of the health department. And the new health minister, Marjorie Michel is her name, was in Alberta at a joint event with the Alberta government. And although the federal government never accredits us as journalists, the Alberta government does. So I called up my friends in Alberta and I said, look, can I come to Calgary? I'd like to put a question to the federal health minister. And they checked and we got it cleared. So I went to this press conference. Normally Rebel News is kicked out by the liberals and, and I got in line early and I put what I thought was a friendly question. Frankly, it was a softball question. And before I asked it, I even said something nice about the liberals. I said, thanks for accrediting me. I thought it was a good question. But the way they non answered was so start. I didn't even know what was going on. At first I thought maybe I had a translation problem because she's French is her native language. Let me show the video of me asking what I thought was a good question and the non response, by the way, the non response was so shocking. This video got 1 million views on X. Take a look. Thank you, Minister, for agreeing to accredit Rebel News. I very much appreciate your dedication to freedom of the press. I have a question about the ostrich farm. Now, don't worry, I'm not going to ask about the lawsuit because I don't want you to talk about anything that are before the courts. But there was a letter and I noticed in the statement you talk about Canada, U.S. cooperation. I know that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Your U.S. counterpart, has written saying he thinks that there's some medical research value in these ostriches because they had avian flu but then have recovered and they're now immune. In fact, he's offered to do the research and even to pay for. Seems to me that we need allies around Trump's cabinet table and if you could throw him a bone and say, sure, Secretary Kennedy, you can study these birds. It's sort of no skin off Canada's nose and don't you think it would be helpful to have an ally in Trump's cabinet when we're doing our trade negotiations? That's my question. Don't you think it would be helpful to have a friend. Next reporter. Merci. Oh, you're not, you're not going to answer, Minister? Merci. I don't understand. Did I do something wrong? Next question.
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Unidentified Commentator or Analyst
Thank you.
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Ezra Levant
Minister. Did I miss an answer? I don't get it. Okay, I'll sit down. I guess it's question period, not answer period. Now look, I'm not saying that I'm an important person and then I must be answered to you, but if you accredit me at a press conference and know I'm coming and you get a simple, straightforward question like that, I think it behooves a cabinet minister of a democratic country to say something, even to say I can't answer or let me think about it or I'll get back, like just to say something, but just to stay there, stunned and refusing to say a word to me. That summed up everything, the haughty attitude. We don't have to answer, who are you? You're just some grubby person. Leave it, leave the thinking to us. And you just go like, it was so high handed. It was a really weird moment. What did you think of that?
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Drea Humphrey
Well, you had asked that question like Mr. Rogers.
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Ezra Levant
Yeah, that's right.
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Drea Humphrey
You couldn't have asked it any friendlier. And you laid the groundwork. You said something so that she couldn't say, oh, this matters before the courts. And you gave her a very clear path on what you were asking. You know, during this time, why don't we have a friend, an ally over this situation? And you were snubbed. That means the people were snubbed. Your question was valid. It's something the public wants to hear. Even non liberals want to hear it. And she's snubbing it so it makes her feel horrible. I can't help but be reminded of the smugness of Jagmeet Singh during the election debate where I did the same thing. I laid out the facts. I asked a very valid question that many Canadians, including some from his own own, you know, his own following that say they stand against hate, might want to know the answer to. And so when you take that arrogant, entitled, you know, stature that they've been getting away with, it's not flying as easy anymore because I don't think they realize how strong the independent news voice is and how many people are waiting to hear what answers they're going to get to our question.
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Ezra Levant
Yeah. You know, you make me remember that, of course, you got a lot of votes for the ostrich story, but you had, in the same manner, a very successful question to Jagmeet Singh that, like me, you got no answer. But like my non answer, your non answer actually revealed quite a bit. Let's just watch that moment. And by the way, I was there. I was just a few feet away from you. And one thing that the official microphone did not pick up was the booing and the heckling by rival journalists for the regime media. It was just shocking to me that other journalists would be booing you. Here's your question to Jagmeet Singh and his disgraceful non answer. Take a look.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Hello, Mr. Singh. Drea Humphrey with Google News. Your party takes great pride in standing against hate such as white supremacy, Islamophobia and all.
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Ezra Levant
Sorry, I didn't get your outlet.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.
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Ezra Levant
Okay.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Your party.
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Ezra Levant
You know, I'm gonna go with this. All right.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Can I speak?
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Drea Humphrey
Yeah, you can.
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Ezra Levant
I'm just gonna say. You know where I'm gonna go with it, though?
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Drea Humphrey
Wow.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Your party takes pride in standing against hate such as white supremacy, Islamophobia and online hate speech, yet you stay silent about ongoing attacks against Christians Even after Conservative MP Jamil Giovanni's order paper question revealed that over 200 churches have been targeted by arson and vandalism since claims of remains being discovered at former residential school swept the nation in 2021. These claims have been disproven by bands that excavated and remain unproven by those that have not. Will you condemn the rise in acts of hate against Christians today and explain what your party will do moving forward to keep Christians safe from hate in Canada?
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Ezra Levant
Again, thank you, but I'm not going to respond to an organization that promotes misinformation and disinformation like Rebel News. So, no, I'm not going to respond to your question.
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Drea Humphrey
Wow. What she said had no misinformation in it.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Perhaps you didn't hear me. Over 200 Christian places of worship have been attacked in Canada since 2021. Many served first nations communities. Many were historic, and they diverted police and resources and put others at risk. What do you say to Canadians who see your refusal to answer, especially from one of the few media outlets here that are not funded by the state, as proof that a vote for you is a vote for a dangerous radical party that gaslights the public into thinking it stands against hate when its silence is instead emboldening.
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Ezra Levant
Christophobia your question is another example of why I don't respond to agencies like Rebel News that promote misinformation and disinformation. I was so proud of your dignity there and it was so cringe. The non answer. What made it worse, if I may, was when RoseMary Barton, the CBC pundit, was watching and she thought she would give an answer that Jagmeet Singh couldn't by saying, you were wrong about the buried graves. Here's Rosemary Barton, trafficking in misinformation. Take a quick look.
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Unidentified Commentator or Analyst
I think we have to sort of address the elephant in the room. How are these people chosen to answer these questions? And I don't know if either one of you have an answer for that, but I think there will be people at home saying some of these seem like odd questions, some of them aren't getting answered. How come we've heard so often from this one particular outlet? Any idea what's going on? There's three right wing, very right wing media, we can call them media websites that are present in there. They get in line to ask a question like anybody else. Their accreditation has been approved by the Commission of Debates and so they get the right to stand in line and ask a question that they choose to ask. In this case, you saw Mr. Singh and this has been his position for some time to refuse to answer questions. Rebel News in particular, traffics and misinformation, facts, lack of facts. And as you heard in that question, which was woven with some truth and some things that weren't true, yes, there have been burnings of Christian Catholic churches. Yes, there have been remains of indigenous children found in various places around the country which she misrepresented. We'll see if Mr. Poiliev gets any questions from right wing organizations. I would suspect no. Okay. All right, let's have a listen.
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Ezra Levant
Yeah. She later had to make a correction. You were right. I don't know. I think that, that in both cases, my question, your question, we didn't get an actual answer, but what we did get, I think spoke volumes.
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Drea Humphrey
Absolutely. Again, the people just want to know the answers to these questions. And when they see this, they go, oh my gosh, who's Rebel News? Why didn't they answer that question? It actually makes them start to critically think, like, what is going on here? So it definitely does them a disservice.
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Ezra Levant
Well, I was so proud of our whole Rebel team there. It was such an important moment. And by the way, some credit belongs to our lawyers who had to sort of blast our way in. We had to go to court twice in 2019 and then again in 2021, beat them twice so that by 2025 they no longer tried to bar us. It was quite an incredible. I had a lot of fun too, hanging out with you guys. It was, it was fun journalistically because we were like a team, but it was also frustrating. Hey, let me switch gears. I want to ask you one more thing about British Columbia and I love British Columbia, but I'm far away here in Toronto and B.C. is sometimes its own world. It doesn't pay so much attention to Toronto and vice versa. So help us understand what's going on with. We know the NDP, they're atrocious as always. What's up with the B.C. conservatives? The. The one B.C. there's all these splinters. Help me understand. Is it a disaster?
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Drea Humphrey
It is a disaster. It is a disaster. And of course I read some of the comments about people who said they were voting for me. Of course a lot was because of the ostrich, but a lot of them were also talking about some of the stuff with my coverage of one BC and them going out at the universities and things like this. So much has been happening in British Columbia. And they also mentioned the coverage on the land grab threat.
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Ezra Levant
Right.
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Drea Humphrey
So this is something that I've been sort of speaking to journalistically for close to when I first started. But to see it unravel in real time and actually to see that was already in place is quite shocking. So politically, I mean, where do you start? So we, we had the election, let's not forget where it was almost a tie between, between the, the rising star BC Conservatives. They went from nothing to almost winning the government for the first time, I think in 100 years or something like that. And then, you know, we just saw one by one, sort of first it was their more conservative MLAs getting kicked out or leaving. And that was of course Dallas Brody and, and then Tara Armstrong and Jordan Keeley. And then we saw sort of the ones that were quite leftists get kicked out of the party more recently. So they are kind of. The Conservative Party has been losing confidence in the people to the point that their own MLAs, you know, wanted John Rustad out. I think I was the first journalist, I suppose, on the Conservative side to do a critical piece of John Rusted months ago after the AGM and the shenanigans that took place there. I sort of exposed some things that certainly seemed unethical there. So John rested. So Trevor Halford is in. He seems to be doing good as an Interim leader for now. But who the heck is going to be the next leader then? You have the splinter party or you had the splinter party or I don't know if we still have the splinter party. That is 1 BC and so that was led by Dallas Brody and side by side with Tara Armstrong. And they were making some big moves in the sense that you had this two, two person party, but they were making noise and they were speaking to issues that British Columbians actually care about and are tired of being called racist about. And that of course was them exposing the false 215 claim and starting off with that. And then when the land grab came, well, who had the respect on that conversation? And let's remind you that Kamloops, where that false claim came from, well the whole city of Kamloops is being claimed for aboriginal title as well. It's not just part of Richmond, it's the entire city of Kamloops. So they became an authority in that for many people building trusts who didn't want to be called racist to be concerned about what's happening with their land. And then they dropped that documentary. They dropped that making a killing documentary.
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Ezra Levant
Right.
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Drea Humphrey
And it went viral. Millions of views on X last I checked, I think 400,000 views on YouTube. And so they were doing as good as you could as a two person breakaway party. And then boom, overnight last weekend they completely imploded. And so I've done a report with a timeline. I was up at like one in the morning looking at their text fights going off and I was like, oh my gosh, what is happening? And of course I did a sit down with Dallas Brody who was abruptly kicked out by her own board out of the party. And then she's been fighting to get the party back. And now I'm about to do a report about how she did get the party back. And it's just her. So it is a mess, a messy way to end the year for the Conservatives. And there's rumors that. And why wouldn't there be that there might be a snap election by the NDP? David E.B. saying no, that's not happening. But there's still rumors swirling that it.
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Ezra Levant
Would be very strategically smart while the opposition is so fractured, fighting itself. You know, there's an old saying, while two argue, a third grabs the hat. I don't know. Of course, of course, you know, it's, you know, you can chuckle at politicians, but British Columbians who have to live there under this shenanigans. I want to point out something the Wall Street Journal is one of the most prestigious newspapers in America. The New York Times, I think is probably the most prestigious, if you can measure such things. But the Wall Street Journal is a very large readership and it's a very large business leadership. Pretty much, if you're a serious businessman in America. You read the Wall Street Journal and they had a significant report saying that British Columbia is a risky place now because of the land title issue you referred to. Because the question of indigenous sovereignty and indigenous title is a live issue. The Wall Street Journal has told its, I don't know, 1 million subscribers, like 2 million readers to watch out for that province. That has got to be devastating. I mean, you know, when, when international companies talk about investing, they measure the local risk. That's why they wouldn't likely go to a place like, I don't know, Kazakhstan. But crazy enough, Kazakhstan is probably a safer investment now than bc. What do you make of the fact that the story is spreading and that the whole world is talking about this?
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Drea Humphrey
This is so sad. BC is such a beautiful place with so much to it as you know, many people have come here because it's beautiful British Columbia and this is absolutely a huge risk. We're hearing of realtors who are saying people were wanting them to look for homes and they're like no more. They were wanting them to sell their homes and they're also like no more. We hear these concerns of, you know, getting a new mortgage. The NDP government has come out now and said, okay, well we're looking at least for the chunk of people in Richmond to give them financing so that they could at least have financing. Well, that's not a sustainable thing if this keeps happening, which, you know, maybe it already is keep happening. Because I take you back to Kamloops again. We just found out about that after the Cowichan for six his Canada case, and that's a decade old case, so we don't even know if these cases are already happening. There's parts of Port Coquitlam up for grabs. So far it doesn't look like private, but of course, who wants to do business in British Columbia? Who wants to do any type of real estate in these particular areas? Especially where it's happening? What does it mean for anybody? We don't know. And again, British Columbia is the first, the most extreme jurisdiction in the world to have taken that aspirational UN framework for indigenous rights. They ignored the UN's human rights, which would have include all of us. And they took the UN's idea of what indigenous rights is which includes that they should have access to any land that they ever walked on, pretty much if they say they did and they made that law binding and they have a commitment to make all of our laws align here. So we're not just seeing this in land, we're seeing this in our conservation. They're starting to say that, you know, before, if you would dig in a development and you would find something that was ancient, you would have to give it, you know, over to the first nations to have a look at. Okay, fair enough. Now they're trying to make it so that they could just say, hey, no, you can't do a development in there because we may have something under the ground there. So this is popping up in a very big way and this is going to be a very big issue for 2026. You just wait and see.
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Ezra Levant
I believe you. You know, I sometimes call Alberta a good ideas laboratory, whether it's for tax reform or property rights or there's a lot of freedom oriented ideas that come from Alberta. But I think it's fair to say, and I say this with a heavy heart, that B.C. is sometimes a bad ideas laboratory. For example, the hard drugs that are, you know, the safe supply. That idea has really progressed there. The eco extremism. We've just been talking about indigenous title, even the transgenderism in schools. It often gets started earliest in B.C. and it goes wackiest. It's part of the wacky left coast. And you're right, it's so beautiful and there's so many wonderful things. I think BC is. I mean, I love every province, but I think BC is probably the most beautiful. And it's just a shame that it has some of the worst politics. I'm glad you're out there. I'm glad you're. Whether it's the ostrich issue or the indigenous land title, or watching as Francis Widdowson, the professor, tries to speak at a university. You're there and I want you to make me a promise that you're going to stay safe in 2026. As you know, we provide security for your colleague in Montreal, Alexa Lavoie. They've got a bad case of antifa out there. I know that once or twice you've been, you know, crowded and rushed by antifa and we've had security for you before when you covered Jonathan Yaniv, the trans extremist. I want you to promise me that you're going to stay safe in 2026 and that if you need security, better to ask and not need it. Than the opposite, because I'm a little bit worried because you're so successful and you're starting to get recognized. Before we turn the cameras on, you were telling me that you got recognized to the store in a really fun way.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Somebody bought us meat.
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Drea Humphrey
Our family meat. That's like the best gift ever. Steaks.
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Ezra Levant
Yeah. Isn't that wonderful? You know what? When people buy you a gift just because they love your work, and there's a hundred of those, but for every hundred like that, there's one hater. And I don't mean to be negative, and I'm not trying to end on a down note. It's just I want you to be safe because your reputation has grown so much, your profile has grown so much because of the stories we've been talking about. And I just want you to stay safe out there because we're in a little bit of a different world now. And I have this talk with Alexa and with David because that's the world we're in. So I want you to stay safe and keep doing your great journalism, and we will provide you with security. Our viewers, they love to provide security because that's the best thing they can do as a gift. As their gift to us is to help keep you safe. Last word to you, Drea.
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Drea Humphrey
Well, thank you so much. You guys always keep me safe. And you're still protecting me from univ. Even in my own home, you've got security up. I don't know if you forgot, but you're keeping me very safe, and you always do. And thank you to all of our viewers who do donate at Journalist Defense Fund to make that possible. And thank you to God for keeping me safe so far.
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Ezra Levant
Right on. Well, happy Christmas to you and your family. And I just want to say I mentioned this before.
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Unidentified Commentator or Analyst
Happy New Year.
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Drea Humphrey
I should have said that to everybody.
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Ezra Levant
No problem. You took your family with you to the ostrich farm. We got you an RV because you're a mom. You're a busy mom with a busy life. And the only way you were able to spend weeks out there was to incredibly take your family with you. And I thought it was sort of wonderful, and I really enjoyed seeing it. And thanks to your whole family for lending so much of you to us. Have a great year, my friend. Keep up the great work. And congratulations on winning the Viewer's Choice Award. Very much. Well deserved.
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Drea Humphrey
Thank you so much, everybody. Happy New Year. Love you all. You too, Ezra.
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Ezra Levant
Thank you, Drea. See you later. Well, there she is. Drea Humphrey. Boy, what a great year she's had, and only bigger things to come. Well, that's our show for the day. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom. Thanks, Drea.
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Unidentified Rebel News Reporter
Thank you.
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Drea Humphrey
I sent you an email. It's not a rush, but I just want to make sure you saw it.