{"id":1279026,"date":"2022-02-07T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279026"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:41:11","slug":"exclusive-ezra-levant-freedom-convoy-is-canadas-most-important-political-event-in-my-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ezra-levant-freedom-convoy-is-canadas-most-important-political-event-in-my-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Ezra Levant: Freedom Convoy Is Canada&#039;s &#039;Most Important Political&#039; Event &#039;in My Lifetime&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-ezra-levant-freedom-convoy-is-canadas-most-important-political-event-in-my-lifetime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ezra Levant, founder and owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/\">Rebel News<\/a>, described the ongoing Freedom Convoy in Canada as the most significant political event he had observed in his lifetime across the Great White North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis past ten days is the most freedom-oriented public expression of national identity I\u2019ve ever seen in this country,\u201d Levant declared on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Sunday<\/em> with host Joel Pollak. \u201d The word \u2018freedom,\u2019 people of all racial and religious backgrounds, new Canadians, old-stock Canadians, all saying it together. Whether they\u2019re vaxxed or unvaxxed, people are saying, \u2018Enough.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Levant responded to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau frequent denigrations of his political detractors as bigots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018When Trudeau says, \u2018Oh, those truckers are just racists,\u2019 it\u2019s laughable,\u201d Levant remarked, \u201cbecause so many of them are visible minorities, new Canadians, whatever \u2014 and that\u2019s an other thing \u2014&nbsp;the normal weapons that work against&nbsp;the Conservative Party in Canada \u2014&nbsp;\u2018you\u2019re racist, you\u2019re transphobic, you\u2019re alt-right\u2019&nbsp;\u2014 they seem to be bouncing off this convoy, partly because it\u2019s so ethnically diverse, but mainly because literally one million Canadians have some first-hand experience with it. They saw it. They cheered it. They were in it, [or] they know someone who was, so it\u2019s a tremendous clash of two narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canadians are rejecting derisions of the trucker convoy demonstrations across the country as \u201cracist,\u201d Levant observed. He said there is \u201ctoo much information\u201d demonstrating the reality of the demonstrators\u2019 conduct and philosophy for news media and politicians to overcome with dishonest narratives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19788098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Image-from-iOS-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19788098 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-from-iOS-8-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"A sign of the times on the streets of Vancouver (Ethan Letkeman\/Breitbart News)\" width=\"990\" height=\"743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A sign of the times on the streets of Vancouver (Ethan Letkeman\/Breitbart News)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Levant stated, \u201cThis Trudeau narrative and the Media Party repeaters saying, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re just racist, sexist, January-6-Trump crazies, [and] were violent.\u2019 That\u2019s a very powerful message when it\u2019s&nbsp;magnified by every mainstream media organization. But when you have a million people who saw things with their own eyes, and who see the videos of the Sikh truckers dancing the Bhangra, or the cowboys on horseback, there\u2019s too much information that\u2019s coming first-hand for the typical spears to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19788170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Image-from-iOS-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19788170 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-from-iOS-9-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"A message for the legacy media in Vancouver (Ethan Letkeman\/Breitbart News)\" width=\"990\" height=\"743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Time\u2019s up: A message for the legacy media in Vancouver (Ethan Letkeman\/Breitbart News)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/31\/justin-trudeau-on-dodging-tinfoil-hat-truckers-i-talk-to-protesters-i-agree-with-like-blm\/\">characterized<\/a> trucker protesters and supportive demonstrators as \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d wearers of \u201ctinfoil hats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/07\/justin-trudeau-canadians-protesting-me-are-anti-vaxxer-mobs-racist-mysoginistic\/\">denigrated<\/a>&nbsp;Canadian citizens politically opposed to him, sneering at members of \u201canti-vaxxer mobs\u201d&nbsp;who are \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cmisogynistic,\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t believe in science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Breitbart News Sunday broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Levant, founder and owner of Rebel News, described the ongoing Freedom Convoy in Canada as the most significant political event he had observed in his lifetime across the Great &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}