00;00;00;00 - 00;00;31;19 Unknown Tonight, Doug Ford kills whatever remains of his fiscal restraint. I read that already tonight. Doug Ford kills whatever remnants of fiscal responsibility he has and orders up a private jet. It's April 17th, and this is the Ezra Levant show. Hey, it's great to be back at the studio. Yesterday, I was in Ottawa with our dear friend Sheila Gunn Read, our chief reporter who was invited to, testify before a House of Commons committee on media. 00;00;31;19 - 00;00;58;22 Unknown And she did such a good job. I'm glad we were able to show you so much of it yesterday. You know, I've just been thinking about that nonstop since yesterday. And. And what it means, not just for Rebel News and the Independent Press Gallery and Sheila, but just the idea of freedom based media. And for Sheila to go there with such a strong presentation, to be invited there by the committee and even the Bloc Québécois, the attempts to attack her. 00;00;58;24 - 00;01;28;02 Unknown She had it herself so well. And what a contrast to the panhandler media there. Who? And you could say as you panhandle, you're always asking for donations. Well, yeah, voluntary donations from people who want to support us, not shaking down governments for subsidies and take it from your pocket attacks, then. I was so proud of the contrast between Sheila and her message and her dignity, and the beggar journalists there who really only care about getting free money. 00;01;28;02 - 00;01;50;00 Unknown And that one from the Canadian Media Guild who's calling for censorship of critics. And, you know, I don't mean to rehash what I said yesterday, but I've been thinking about it a lot, and I hope you're as proud of Sheila and, frankly, of our freedom journalism as I am. Okay. Well, one of the things that happens when you're independent and don't take any government money is you're beholden to no one. 00;01;50;00 - 00;02;15;00 Unknown If there is a state broadcast or owned by the province of Ontario, for those of you outside Ontario, you probably don't know that there's something called TVO, TVO, Ontario and a French version of it too that are like the federal government CBC. Can you imagine that? An extra layer of government broadcasters. So obviously they would be careful about criticizing Doug Ford, because that's where the money comes from. 00;02;15;00 - 00;02;38;28 Unknown Of course, we take no money from any government, so we'll call it like we see it. And I think the first thing to note is that the province of Ontario has become a have not province. Can you believe it? The mighty industrial heartland, of steel mills and auto factories. Well, those industries in particular in retreat. The whole country is actually in a recession that has been hidden by mass immigration. 00;02;38;28 - 00;03;06;02 Unknown What I mean is that on a per capita basis, our income is declining, we're getting poorer. But by bringing in a million foreigners every year, it just juices the overall stats. So we're each getting a smaller slice. The pie is sort of the same size, but just because the mass immigration. But Ontario is in decline and I just I don't just mean in terms of crime and wokeness and schools. 00;03;06;02 - 00;03;30;14 Unknown Apparently some schools only have 50% attendance, and that's normal. But the loss of the industrial sector I mentioned steel, you might remember I went up to the the steel mills in su Sainte Marie just shutting down. And part of it is Donald Trump's tariffs. But this it's been a 30 year decline in heavy industry in Canada. The auto sector again 30 year decline. 00;03;30;17 - 00;03;54;29 Unknown Donald Trump and his trade to his Commerce secretary Howard Lutton. They have said, look, they want those factories in America, not in Canada. In Mexico, it's a tough one. It's a tough one to fight. I'm not blaming anyone, certainly. I'm just noting that Ontario is doing poorly. The province spent massively on electric vehicle batteries. Just a crazy thing for the government to get into. 00;03;55;01 - 00;04;16;08 Unknown And now Doug Ford himself has this wacky approach to the trade war with the United States. You're not going to win a trade war. Maybe you can win a trade negotiation, but not if you're trying to embarrass the US president every day. Anyways, that's the backdrop. Ontario is not doing well economically. The cost of living for young people is so high. 00;04;16;14 - 00;04;38;09 Unknown It's literally having an effect on the marriage rate and the child birth rate. If you can't get married and can't start a family because you can't afford a house, that is a civilizational level damage that the poverty is doing, and that's what's happening in Ontario. So with that is the backdrop, the crime wave, the taxes, the wokeness, the brokenness. 00;04;38;12 - 00;05;02;04 Unknown Doug Ford announces, well, he just announced and it's leaked that he's getting himself a new jet. And not just any jet, a luxury intercontinental jet that I could understand a plane for hopping around Ontario, I really could, but this is a luxury product. The kind of thing that maybe a rock star would have. It's a challenger 650. 00;05;02;08 - 00;05;25;18 Unknown It's built with the kind of range to fly to London, England. It's not for puddle jumping around Ontario. Now, I understand the Jets are not just for status, they are a tool for super busy executives. I absolutely get that. I mean, for example, they're not bound by commercial schedules. They go when you're ready to go, and that means that you can have meetings. 00;05;25;21 - 00;05;43;20 Unknown And as soon as the meeting is done, you can go to the next meeting. You don't have to worry about being late or early for a flight. For people who are talking about confidential business, which would include the Premier, they're secure. You can go straight to, you know, they have a very private, lounge, but you're not waiting there long. 00;05;43;20 - 00;06;01;14 Unknown You get on the plane and you're not sitting next to strangers. Hey, by the way, I don't know if you saw this, but I got on the plane coming back from Ottawa yesterday, and who sat down next to me, but. But Michael Moore, the Chinese spy. Take a look at this selfie I took. I said, can I take a selfie with you? 00;06;01;14 - 00;06;18;03 Unknown He didn't know who it was. He said, yes. He said, what do you do in Ottawa? I said, I run Rebel News. He went silent. And for the rest, that's that's the Chinese spy. The guy who flipped from conservative to liberal. Anyways, sorry for that, but my point is, you never know who you're sitting next to on a plane. 00;06;18;10 - 00;06;43;08 Unknown So if you're the premier or a fantasy executive, you can't speak confidentially. So there is a business case for Jets. And they're not just for rock stars and sports heroes, they are for busy people who use them as a tool. Time is money. I'm not sure if that really applies to the Premier. He's not like an executive who has to have a torrential schedule. 00;06;43;08 - 00;07;04;29 Unknown I just don't think he is. And the giveaway is the luxury international part. If you really are flying around Ontario, I think that's good for the Premier to do. You don't need a 4000 nautical mile luxury jet for that. You just don't. And the the entitlement and the of course I need it ness of this is so gross. 00;07;04;29 - 00;07;26;21 Unknown And I remember the Doug Ford won election on the back of his late brother Rob Ford. It was Rob Ford who made the city and the province of Ontario, and indeed the whole country, fall in love with his attack on what he called the gravy train. Let me show you. I'm not going to play the whole thing, but I'm going to play a few minutes of it. 00;07;26;23 - 00;07;54;14 Unknown One of the most powerful, endearing videos I have ever seen on the late Rob Ford. And I don't care what city you're in, Torontonians will instantly feel nostalgic. But if you're in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal, watch this guy. This was when Rob Ford was a city councilor. He wasn't the mayor yet, and he was showing what he means by the gravy train, making a list of all the freebies and perks and the little thefts that city councilors get. 00;07;54;16 - 00;08;21;02 Unknown I shouldn't say that because it was all legal. That was what was so gross about look at Rob Ford and remember why everyone loved Rob. Take a look. Rob Ford, what a great man. May he rest in peace. I'm so sorry he's gone. Rob Ford should have been the premier, not his slick brother, Doug Ford. Who who won on Rob's reputation falsely. 00;08;21;05 - 00;08;48;21 Unknown You want to see what Doug Ford reminds me of this pastor? A Christian pastor spending tens of millions of dollars on a private jet. Have you ever seen this clip before? Now? I tweeted a version of that, but there's a longer one that's even crazier if you want to get that long one. Yeah, that's Doug Ford. By the way, Doug Ford was not always like this. 00;08;48;21 - 00;09;20;11 Unknown He had more of Rob in him before. Here's Doug Ford boasting about not using the Premier's plane. Take a look. Yeah, that was a long, long time ago. I mentioned how, some executives use business jets. Not for status, but for, productivity. And Walmart is famous for that. Walmart has actually a quite a large jet fleet. It's not just for their C-suite people CFO, CEO, it's for busy executives. 00;09;20;11 - 00;09;49;13 Unknown And again, it's not for status. These executives are often required to share a hotel room with other executives. That's how cost conscious Walmart is. They use the jet so they can hop one, two, three, maybe even four cities in one day, as opposed to one city because you're going to the airport, you're waiting around, etc.. You know, Walmart has this whole way of getting regional managers to stop by every Walmart, I don't know, once a week or something. 00;09;49;13 - 00;10;17;13 Unknown So it's it's a way of really staying connected. That is not what Ford is doing. Doug Ford is not up at Attawapiskat and up at, you know, Sudbury. And he's not doing that every week, which is what Walmart does. He's not barnstorming the province. This is all about status, not productivity. He could use a small plane, especially one that gets into smaller centers that I think I would support. 00;10;17;15 - 00;10;40;17 Unknown And he's done that before actually. I will eat my hat if this is not abused. This is I'm so certain about Doug Ford being in a class of people, hanging out with people who are wealthier than him because they've made the money in the private sector, and they have private jets. And he's also he's hanging out with his best buddy, Mark Carney, who flies in private jets only. 00;10;40;19 - 00;11;01;07 Unknown And I think he's feeling jealous. And I think he not only wants to travel in luxury style within Ontario, but I am certain I bet my hat that he's going to use this for his friends and his families and his donors, and to go up to the lake and you'll say, oh, the police say I needed to fly in the Intercontinental jet for security. 00;11;01;10 - 00;11;27;08 Unknown He's done private flights before, but look at this one. Check out this plane he was in. This was the OPP. This was a police airplane. He used to fly to Windsor. Take a look at that. That is not a luxury aircraft. It's probably comfy, but it's not big enough that you can stand in and walk around. It's not the kind of thing that you're drinking champagne with your buddies and and taking selfies. 00;11;27;08 - 00;11;47;03 Unknown That is a working plane. And he used that to fly to Windsor, which is a pretty big city. And you could fly from Toronto to Windsor on a commercial jet. But I can understand the case for flying in that private aircraft again, at least when the premier's when he comes back when he's ready, he avoids waiting. And, you know, I, I would support that. 00;11;47;05 - 00;12;14;09 Unknown But do you see the difference between that propeller driven opp as the Ontario Provincial Police aircraft of Windsor and the luxury jet. He's blind? I don't have a problem with the little propeller plane. It probably saves him an hour on each side and he's not flying it to Vegas. I can assure you. You know, Doug Ford has been thinking about upgrading at the, government's expense for a while. 00;12;14;11 - 00;12;36;24 Unknown Here he is. Let me read you this story. Bonnie Crombie rejects Doug Ford's claim. She flies on private jet. Everybody the developer. So this was a sparring match where Doug Ford was accusing his political rival of flying private. I think Ford has some kind of inferiority complex, said a developer who calls Connery a friend. Oh, isn't that the truth? 00;12;36;24 - 00;12;57;04 Unknown Let me read just a little bit. The premier took a shot at Bonnie Crombie in question period, alleging the newly elected leader has been, quote, too busy flying around on the private jet of her buddy, the developer, that everyone knows who the developer is. Yeah, I think Doug Ford is the king of the developers. I got nothing against developers. 00;12;57;04 - 00;13;19;11 Unknown They are incredibly important in the economy, and they earn their money. I think Doug Ford wants his own jet as opposed to just bumming the rides off his friends. You know, the crazy thing is, Doug Ford thinks he can become prime minister. He's repeatedly said that Mark Carney is his best buddy. He totally supports Mark Carney throughout the federal election. 00;13;19;11 - 00;13;45;16 Unknown He didn't just not campaign with Pierre Poilievre. He actively and regularly undermined and attacked Pierre Poilievre, creating a psychology, a group psychology of of can't win. Look, even Doug Ford is attacking him from within. It was nonstop. And by the way, it still continues. And I think Doug Ford constantly provokes Trump. Which is a bizarre thing to do in doing trade negotiations. 00;13;45;16 - 00;14;10;01 Unknown I think he's trying to precipitate a reaction from Trump so he can be Captain Canada. Just like Mark Carney is. Doug Ford is awful. And I think if Rob Ford was around, I think he would be appalled at what his brother has become. Hey, by the way, my friend David Menzies is really working on this issue. We've got a petition at Stop the Gravy plane.com. 00;14;10;01 - 00;14;47;07 Unknown Feel free to go over and sign it. Hey, stay with us. More on this with the Taxpayers Federation. 00;14;47;10 - 00;14;51;01 Unknown Ready. 00;14;51;04 - 00;15;10;16 Unknown Hey. Welcome back. I mentioned Sheila in Parliament, and some of you mentioned it, too. Here's letters from Sarah. It's Leno who says, well done, Sheila Gun Reid for representing the people with transparency and truth, even though they couldn't answer during the end and cut her off, speaks for itself that they were afraid of the truth. Yeah, it was so weird. 00;15;10;16 - 00;15;32;15 Unknown They kept having audio issues. When Sheila started to speak, I was listening to the exact same interpreters in my earpiece and it was the same exact system. I didn't hear a problem. And it's funny how they only had a problem when Sheila was speaking. They were trying to cut her off. Russ Dowd's well says this is likely the most important issue for the survival of this country. 00;15;32;18 - 00;15;52;14 Unknown Sheila has explained this with great clarity. It needs to become viral. This article needs to be viewed by every Canadian. I'm glad you feel that way. I mean, I'm proud of Sheila and Rebel News and the Independent Press Gallery, but it's more than that is bigger than that. This is about can you even trust your journalists if they're on the payroll of the government? 00;15;52;18 - 00;16;15;23 Unknown I don't think you can. And that one super gross Canadian Media Guild journalist wasn't just calling for money, but calling for the censorship of rivals. It was there all. And you can see with your eyes. Joe Citizen, 74 to 63, says CBC doesn't even allow taxpayers to post comments on the YouTube channel, despite our generous funding. Isn't that interesting? 00;16;15;23 - 00;16;36;10 Unknown I mean, I occasionally go to CBC YouTube, but I don't recall seeing that. I totally believe you, by the way. Yeah. They hate when mere citizens have something to say. Remember, they're aiming just for one viewer, Mark Carney. As long as they please him, they know they're fine. We have to listen to all our viewers because we're viewer supported and it shows. 00;16;36;12 - 00;17;02;21 Unknown That's our show for the day. Until next week. Boy, the week went by quickly for me at least from all of us here to you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom. Hello my friends. Doug Ford got elected because his brother Rob was known as a taxpayer's advocate. Well, so gross. Today, Doug Ford announced he's buying a $30 million private jet for his own use. 00;17;02;21 - 00;17;20;16 Unknown So? So gross. We'll take you through all the details, but first, let me invite you to get the video version of this podcast, and I want you to see a few videos. 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