Charlie Kirk's Advocacy for Canadian Free Speech and Rebel News

Showing 30 Canada videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Charlie Kirk followed Canada closely despite his America First politics, largely through his ongoing relationship with Rebel News founder Ezra Levant. Levant recounted his own arrest by Toronto police while photographing a pro-Hamas demonstration in a Jewish neighborhood, describing it as the sixth arrest of a Rebel News journalist in 2024 alone and using the incident to warn Americans about the erosion of free speech protections under increasingly aggressive Canadian policing. Kirk regularly invited Levant onto his show following major Canadian political developments, including Mark Carney's election victory, offering a platform specifically intended to check in on Canadian conservatives during difficult political moments.

In one of his final conversations with Kirk, recounted by Levant after the assassination, Kirk pressed him on whether Canadian patriots would give up following the Liberal Party's win — a question Levant said he had continued reflecting on since Kirk's death as a kind of final charge. Kirk's broader assessment of Canada was blunt in campus remarks: he described the country as having "fallen," in a discussion that also touched on feminism, reparations, and gun rights, using Canada as a cautionary example of what he considered the consequences of unchecked progressive governance in a historically similar Western democracy.