Alberta's new law fights back against railroad blockades, but why? They don't enforce existing laws now
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Why should others go to jail when you re a biggest carbon consumer? Why should they get away with crimes when you won t give them a chance to clear their name? Ezra Levant explains it all on this week s Ezra Levant Show.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I tell you about Bill 1 in Alberta. That's Jason Kenney's bill to fight
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back against the railway blockades. But I was really excited about it when I read it. I got
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to say, it's a little bit lame. I'll show you why. Hey, before I get out of the way, can you do me a
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Tonight, Alberta introduces a law to fight back against railroad blockades, but
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what's the point if they're not enforcing existing laws? It's February 26th, and this
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
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Tech Resources canceled their $20 billion oil sands mine. Can you blame them? Let me put
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it another way. Would you personally invest, say, $20,000 in an oil sands mine in Alberta under
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Trudeau and his RCMP? We showed you on Monday what the company said. They said Canada is just
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too risky politically, which is insane given that other countries that Tech Resources feels
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comfortable operating in, including Latin American countries that are going through violent
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uprisings. Tech isn't pulling out of those jurisdictions. Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster
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and other media party bailout media types are emphasizing that it was Tech Resources that
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made the decision, not Trudeau. Trying to remove Trudeau is a blameworthy party, but Tech has
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been ready to go for 11 years. Just over the weekend, the last of the Indian bands in the
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neighborhood signed up for all systems go. It was green lights all the way. Until these
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railroad blockades, and more importantly, Trudeau's refusal to do anything about them. There will
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always be crime in society. There will always be protests. That's fine. We have ways to deal
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with those things. Police fight crime. Protests are fine if they're peaceful. But Trudeau ordered
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his politicized police to stand out. That's why Tech Resources said, see you later. Yesterday,
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Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta, gave more information that wasn't in Tech's official
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letter. He had been speaking with the president of Tech. Kenney revealed that the company was told
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that Trudeau wasn't going to approve their mind. Trudeau was going to delay it. That's how a coward
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cancels something. What's the cost of delaying a $20 billion project by a year or five? What if the
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delay is interminable? Trudeau pretends he's going to build the Trans Mountain Pipeline one of these
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days. Funny how that keeps getting kicked down the road. It'll never be built under Trudeau. Tech
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isn't dumb. They've dealt with authoritarian rulers before. They know what it's like. They're out.
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One more thing Kenney said was that it was specifically Trudeau's refusal to uphold the
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rule of law that was on Tech's board's mind when they decided to bail. Canada is lawless now.
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Not just for companies wanting to invest $20 billion in a project, but for everyone. Here's
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Toronto's Union Station. That's the most important train station in Toronto, probably in the country.
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It connects via rail and commuter trains and all the subway trains in the city. You can see
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here it's shut down because of a handful of low energy, low commitment thugs being ushered around
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by the usual left-wing suspects. It would take police, what, 20 minutes to clear them out? But
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Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor John Tory all choose to bend the knee to the
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mob because each of those political leaders has a police force. Trudeau's corrupted RCMP that he has
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tamed so well that they won't investigate him for corruption in the SNC-Lavalin matter. Doug Ford has
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his OPP, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the mayor of Toronto has the Toronto Police Service.
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5,000 cops. That's a small army. Billion dollar budget. Any of those three police forces, let alone
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the railroad police, which actually work for the railroads, obviously have existing authority and
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existing laws to clear off blockades. Mischief and trespass being the two most obvious criminal
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offenses here. But all three political leaders, Trudeau, Ford, and Tory, ordered their cops to stand
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down. So tech resources stood down too. As I showed you yesterday, it fell to some good old Alberta
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boys to simply walk up to one of the blockades and just simply dismantle it.
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Workers, cleaning up the mess. Hard-working, auto-patch workers, cleaning up the mess. That's right.
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No, it's infringing on my country's train tracks.
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I could watch that all day. The bad guys folded like a tent in the face of just a few
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regular guys. Police would have cleared it in a second had they wanted to. I mean,
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the thugs are obviously cowards. They usually have their faces hidden with masks. That's typically a
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giveaway about the moral character of the people involved. Now, in Alberta, there is no provincial
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police force. It's city police forces like in Edmonton and Calgary. And of course, the railroads have
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their policemen. And then there's the RCMP, which is contracted to the province of Alberta to police the
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rest. And that's one of your problems. Because as you know, Trudeau's hand-picked gender quota hire,
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Brenda Luckey, is the boss of the RCMP. I show you this hugging picture, not only because it's gross
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that Trudeau greets the head of the RCMP this way. It's his typical physical dominance move that he uses
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on women. But remember, this hug was on Canada Day last year when the Jody Wilson-Raybould fiasco was in
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full flight. So it was gross for Trudeau to treat the RCMP commissioner that way.
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And it was even more gross for her to abide it. Yeah, no wonder there's no investigation into Trudeau's
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interference with the prosecutor. So much for Trudeau's RCMP. And I'm going to call it that from
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now on because it's not our RCMP. It's his now. His police are political now. That's too bad.
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Maybe Alberta should start the Northwest Mounted Police. I bet Saskatchewan would sign up for that too.
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But look, the canceled mine is in Alberta. So what's Alberta going to do about it?
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Well, Jason Kenney introduced a bill called Bill 1, the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act. I like the
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sound of that. Let me read a bit of it for you. It's very short, very, very short bill. It's really
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just three pages long. One page is definitions and two pages are the meat of the law. I'm going to read
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at least half of it. Ready? Definitions. In this act, essential infrastructure means any of the
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following. A controlled area, installation, manufacturing plant, marketing plant, pipeline,
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processing plant, refinery, road or road allowance as defined in the pipeline act.
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A heavy oil site, mine, oil production site, oil, sand site, pit, private utility, privately owned
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development, quarry, storm drainage system, telecommunication line, transmission line,
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waste management facility, wastewater system, watercourse or waterworks system as defined in
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the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. Now, I'm not going to go through the whole list.
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It's very verbose, isn't it? Like, they're just listing everything. I'm not going to read it word
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for word because the language is a little legalistic. So I'm just going to sum it up as we scroll through
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it. Highways, urban rail transit like LRTs, train tracks, hydroelectric dams, agriculture, electrical
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equipment, natural gas equipment, coal plants, oil sands, radio equipment. So it's everything, right?
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They're calling that essential infrastructure. And let me quote,
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quote, the land on which essential infrastructure is located and any land used in connection with
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the essential infrastructure is deemed to be part of the essential infrastructure. So I'm one-third
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done reading the law already. That's what's covered, the definitions. So here's what's prohibited. This is
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the meat of the law. No person shall, without lawful right, justification or excuse, willfully enter on
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any essential infrastructure. So you're not even allowed to enter it. No person shall, without lawful
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right, justification or excuse, willfully damage or destroy any essential infrastructure. So you're
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not allowed on it. You're not allowed to destroy it. And then, no person shall, without lawful right,
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justification or excuse, willfully obstruct, interrupt or interfere with the construction, maintenance,
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use or operation of any essential infrastructure in a manner that renders the essential infrastructure
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dangerous, useless, inoperative or ineffective. So you can't meddle. You can't sabotage.
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Now, let me stop there. Obviously, this is already covered under existing laws, both civil and criminal.
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Trespass being an obvious one, mischief, and some other economic interference laws. I like part four of
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the law, though. Let me read it. No person shall aid, counsel or direct another person to commit an offense
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under the sections I read, whether or not the other person actually commits the offense.
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So they're targeting the environmental bosses back in Toronto and Vancouver and San Francisco
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and Amsterdam. I like that part. Part three is the penalties. And I have to tell you, they are pitiful.
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Let me read. A person who contravenes section two is guilty of an offense and liable,
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in the case of an individual, for a first offense to a fine not less than a thousand bucks and not
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exceeding 10,000 bucks, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both a fine and
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imprisonment. And for a second or subsequent offense in relation to the same premises to a fine of not
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less than a thousand bucks again and not exceeding 25,000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
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six months or to both. A thousand dollar fine for breaking and entering for sabotage, a thousand bucks.
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Greenpeace activists will raise that in 60 seconds online. A thousand bucks. I've had traffic
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tickets almost that high. Let me read some more. In the case of a corporation to a fine not less than
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10,000 and not exceeding 200,000. A $10,000 fine for Greenpeace and not more than 200,000 no matter
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what they do, really? So you shut down a railway line for just one day and you've done literally
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millions of dollars in damage and Greenpeace's fine 10 grand, maybe a maximum of 200 grand.
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What a bargain. They'll make millions off it. I like that a corporation's directors would be held
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liable under this law, but again, they already are. Let me read this. Where a corporation commits
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an offense under subsection one, any officer, director, or agent of the corporation who directed,
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authorized, assented to, acquiesced in, or participated in, the commission of the offense
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is guilty of that offense and liable to the penalty provided for the offense, whether or not
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the corporation has been prosecuted for or convicted of that offense. Yeah, big deal.
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Here's a small point. Each day that a contravention continues constitutes a separate offense. All right,
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so Greenpeace could be fined 10 grand per day. One last part. Arrest without warrant. A peace officer
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may arrest, without a warrant, any person the peace officer finds contravening Section 2, 1, 2, or 3.
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But right there, that's the problem, isn't it? Who's going to arrest anyone? The RCMP?
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What? What? What, maybe these officers right here?
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They're not going to arrest anyone under the current laws.
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You think they're going to arrest? Or is it the Edmonton police that we're counting on here?
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They literally held back traffic to assist environmental extremists shutting down roads.
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Just a few months ago, in Edmonton, the police helped the protesters.
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What exactly is new here, other than it's another piece of paper?
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You saw the police trying to hand a piece of paper to the criminals.
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I took you through the court order, ordering the blockaders out of the coastal gas link pipeline
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This was an order repeating the earlier order and ordering the police to follow the order.
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The protesters just laughed. And so did Brenda Luckey, Trudeau's girl on the job.
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So what? So we'll have some more impotent court rulings, some more papers you can hand out.
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But how? If the police won't enforce them, what use is another law that the police won't enforce?
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Right now, as I say, there are enough laws afoot to stop these blockaders in a day.
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But neither the police nor the prosecutors will lift a finger.
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I see Jason Kenney's useless justice minister, Doug Schweitzer, the red Tory.
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He tweeted about the new law yesterday. Let me read it.
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We will not be held economic hostage by illegal blockades.
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Doug Schweitzer, the red Tory, he runs the largest law firm in Alberta.
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It's called the Justice Department. Hundreds of lawyers. It's packed with prosecutors.
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Why hasn't he prosecuted the blockaders under the laws of trespass or mischief?
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What's stopping him from doing so now? His actual title is Attorney General.
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He can be the prosecutor himself. Why isn't he the coward? What's holding him back? He loves to tweet.
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Oh, he's good at that. But his title is not the Tweeter General. It's the Attorney General.
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So why won't he prosecute? What a lazy liberal.
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I would. I would. But I'm not the Attorney General.
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You know, I did a video a few months back on how another jurisdiction is taking on eco-extremists.
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They have a bill against what they call riot boosting, which is just what it sounds like.
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The law has been reintroduced into the South Dakota legislature.
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Here's a clip from my earlier video that I think Jason Kenney's office should watch in full
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and read the legislation in full because Doug Schweitzer clearly doesn't want to be effective.
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Here's what I told you about their bill before and how it allows guys like me and you to do
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what cowardly politicians won't. Take a look. The plaintiff in an action for riot boosting may
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recover both special and general damages, reasonable attorney's fees, disbursements,
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other reasonable expenses incurred from prosecuting the action, and punitive damages.
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A defendant who solicits or compensates any other person to commit an unlawful act or to be arrested
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is subject to three times the sum that would compensate for the detriment caused.
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So if you do a million bucks worth of damage to a pipeline, get ready to pay triple that.
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That was me a few months ago. Did you see that?
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You can see the original version of the bill here. It's very brief, too. This is from South
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Dakota's legislature. It allows private parties to sue for damages. That's what I meant by I would
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do it, but I can't under our law. In South Dakota, if this bill passes, you won't have to wait for a lazy
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red Tory like Doug Schweitzer or for Trudeau's politicized RCMP to take action.
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You can take action. And my favorite part about South Dakota's law is that the eco-extremists you sue
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as a private person, you can sue them for your damages times three. So let's say you have a
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company that lost $100,000 because of the rail blockade. Let's say you lost a million dollars.
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I don't know how much Via Rail has lost, $10 million. So you can sue for triple your loss
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as a private company, as a private person. You don't have to wait for a lazy prosecutor.
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That power is not in Alberta's new law. Alberta's new law really just restates what's in the old laws
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with laughably small fines. $1,000? The Tides Foundation alone has poured tens of millions of
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dollars into the fight against the oil sounds. $1,000? Canadian mini dollars. So like $650 US.
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This law is a joke, just like Doug Schweitzer. Yeah, no. This law isn't a fix. It's a placebo.
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It's a fake. This law could have been drafted by Justin Trudeau himself. It will be as useless as he is.
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Well, yesterday I showed you a video that you may not have caught when it made its debut on our YouTube
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page. It's the video of Sheila Gunn-Reed talking to Zach Solomon Lamora, a man with three interesting
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names who demolished, demolished is too heavy a word. He unpacked and threw in the garbage
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an illegal blockade on a railway track near Edmonton. He was hit in the face by a mass
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protester. Police did nothing. We're helping Zach fight back by suing the mass protester,
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who we only know now as John Doe. Anyways, that was a very rare act of bravery and citizen
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self-respect. I think the dominant story over the last two weeks has been the opposite, mainly of
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police standing down. If anything, police shooing away real men like Zachary Solomon Lamora,
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and basically police not enforcing the law. They're called law enforcement officers for a
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reason, but I guess some laws are for some people and not for others. Joining us now live in studio
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is our reporter, one of several who's been on the scene of these blockades, our friend,
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Keen Bexley. Keen, great to see you back here at our world headquarters. Good to be here.
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You've been traveling around these blockades. So has Sheila Gunn-Reed, who talked to Zach Solomon
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Lamora, and so has David Menzies here in Ontario. I think that goes to the point that this truly is a
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national crisis. Yeah, absolutely. It's blockades across the country, from Vancouver, from the ports,
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to railways, to the roads in Vancouver, to railways in Alberta, to railways in Quebec. We're at the point
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today where Quebec now says they have four days left of propane. I mean, good on them. They're going
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to go green, and the country's suffering. I mean, there's huge problems across the board in Canada
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right now, from the Trudeau government being unable to respond to a few crises, namely the coronavirus
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and these blockades. One story I did just this week was in Vancouver, where these blockaders block
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the port of Vancouver, which imports and handles 30,000 metric tons of medical supplies a year.
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And this is at a point in Canada where simple surgical masks, like these N95 masks that lots
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of people are using to stop the spread of the coronavirus in communities that they live in,
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they're costing like $150 for a case of two or three of them. So it's unbelievable that the Trudeau
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government is unable to move and deal with some of these crises that are going to get exponentially
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worse in the few days ahead. Here, let's play a quick clip from your Vancouver report. Let's take a look.
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You know, Keena, I'm all for protests. In fact, I've protested a few things in my day.
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And I actually think that a degree of civil disobedience, I think it's okay to cause a
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minor hassle here or there. I get it. But there's a huge difference between a slightly inconvenient
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political protest. And I think, frankly, those are a way to blow off steam in a democracy. I'm not
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going to be too harsh on those. But that's extremely different from masked men putting blocks on
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railways that could derail them, are designed to derail them. And those aren't protests. They're not
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even saying anything. That's eco-terrorism. Take a look at this footage that I saw just today. And this is
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The Mohawk warriors here were adamant that no train should pass.
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I'm sorry, that's eco-terrorism. And I know that there are at least three police
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forces that should respond. Every railway, CNN and CP, have their own railway police. They have the
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powers of a police officer. They work for the police, the railway. Number two, the Ontario Provincial Police.
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Number three, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. And finally, if there's a local police authority in any
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town. So that's three and maybe four police forces, each of whom has sufficient legislative statutory
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and common law power to make arrests, to clear the tracks. And they are choosing not to.
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There's one police department in this country that is sort of bucking that trend. And it is the Vancouver Police Department.
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And I have to give them some credit for doing that. There's been two road blockades outside of the Metro Port Authority.
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It's at Clark and Hastings. And in each instance, it's taken some time, about 24 hours in each case.
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But they've ended up with about six arrests both times and charges. While they haven't been laid yet, I spoke with the media liaison
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at the Vancouver Police Department and they say they have six months to press those charges. So they might come, they might not.
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I don't know. But they are at least arresting people within 24 hours. That's not the case anywhere else in the country.
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Yeah. What we saw in the case of Zachary Solomon Lamoureux is that the police often stand by and even try
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and dissuade the citizen heroes, which I find grotesque. Here's the thing.
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Zachary Solomon Lamoureux was peaceful, as were the other Good Samaritans. I know some of their names.
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I think they should be heroes. Guy Simpson is one of them, for example. Chase Chomey.
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Ordinary guys who did an extraordinary thing in a moment of crisis. They kept their cool, they moved the crap off the tracks.
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Problem solved. But I think one day, an ordinary citizen won't be so friendly, won't be so peaceful, won't be so Good Samaritan-ish.
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And might throw a punch. Or use a stick to hit. Or, God forbid, a gun. Or just drive over a road barrier and drive on someone.
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And I don't want that to happen. And I wouldn't support it if it happened. But I could understand it if it happened.
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Because as part of a community, as part of a country, there's a social contract.
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We give the monopoly of violence to the government, to the police, and we expect them to protect us all.
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And if they sit in their police cars having a cup of coffee instead of enforcing the law, why not?
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If it's the rule of the jungle, if it's the law of the jungle, why not?
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Well, and if something like that happens, and we're seeing that violence is possibly escalating already,
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the Premier of Quebec says that the blockaders south of Montreal have AK-47s possibly.
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Something is going to happen. And if and when it probably does, the blame will lie solely at the feet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
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who has egged these protesters on and said that their cause is righteous to some degree,
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and then turned on a dime the next day once he realized that Andrew Scheer was pulling higher than him somehow,
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and said, okay, now this is too much, this is too much.
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But that kind of pussyfooting around is not something that the leader of this country should be doing.
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And the consequences of that violence are his responsibility to bear.
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You know, one of the busiest train stations in the country is called Union Station.
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You've got Via Rail. You've got commuter rail from around Ontario.
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You've got the Toronto subway that goes through. It's a very busy place.
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That's why it's called Union Station. It's where all the lines unite.
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It would be like, I don't know, Piccadilly Station in London.
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And to shut that down causes so many thousands of domino effects, paralyzing other subway lines, other train lines.
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And part of me chuckles because Torontonians voted for the Liberals and Quebecers,
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where propane's about to run out, voted for the Liberals on the block.
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But I shouldn't chuckle. I mean, there's an irony, I suppose.
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I'm laughing at the irony. I'm laughing at the absurdity of those people who wanted Trudeau and his approach
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OK, fine. Do without propane in this cold winter.
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OK, fine. Do without diesel-powered trains and live your creed.
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I actually don't want harm to come to them because some people will be devastated by this.
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Other people will miss a doctor's appointment over it.
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It's just incredible to me that the protest left has turned against their political base.
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Normally they just dump the pain on Alberta and let Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal have the moral preening.
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Now they're making Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal pay a price.
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And it's funny because it doesn't work in Alberta.
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We saw that it got broken up within just a few hours of them blockading.
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And, you know, I was speaking with someone who was so angry in Calgary
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that they wanted to go blockade a railway track in Calgary just to prove the point that anyone can do it.
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And then he thought better of it and he thought, you know, I don't want to hurt my own people.
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If he could have done it to, you know, the folks in Ontario and Quebec, maybe he would have done something like that.
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But it doesn't make sense for these people to be hurting their own.
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Yeah. Well, thanks for covering it out and about.
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I know David is going out right now to cover the Union Station blockade.
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I know Sheila has covered it in northern Alberta and you're flying around.
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I don't think most of the protesters are on the level of the eco-terrorists we showed there in Ontario.
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They're typically low information liberals who just got an email.
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They don't know what's in this pipeline or that.
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They don't know anything other than this is really woke.
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I think most of them are just useful idiots as Lennon would say.
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But a few of them, the hardcore leaders, I think they're the problem and they're the ones to watch.
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I applaud the Vancouver Police Department for doing what they're doing and actually arresting these folks.
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And that's, at the end of the day, the only thing that's going to solve this problem.
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Some people on the liberal side of the spectrum, the lefty woke media, say you can't arrest your way out of this situation.
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Well, if it was Justin Trudeau's father, he would say just watch me.
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And I think that this is something that we just need to see some leadership on.
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On my monologue yesterday about Trump's speech in India, Selina writes,
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Trump is literally having a Trump rally in India.
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It was a Trump rally for sure, but it was also a Modi rally.
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Obviously, I only showed you what Trump said in English.
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Modi gave quite a talk too in, I think it was Hindi.
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This is why they love Trump and laughed at Canada.
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They watched Trudeau dance around like an idiot and show off his socks.
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Well, I'm going to have one slight variation on your comment.
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You know, why did so many countries around the world, at least the people in those countries, seem to prefer Barack Obama to Donald Trump?
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You know, I think I showed you his speech years ago in Poland.
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But in many countries, Trump is less popular and America is less popular than it was under Obama.
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The thing is, Trump makes demands on world countries.
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To NATO countries, he says, pay more of the military cost of NATO.
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To China, he gets into trade wars and extracts concessions from them.
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So, there's this one moment, I can't remember if I showed it yesterday, when Donald Trump says, I love Prime Minister Modi.
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And then he sort of realizes how he sounds and he says, but he's a really tough negotiator.
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Because he knows that people loved Obama because Obama was a weak negotiator.
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Iran loved Obama because Obama gave it all away.
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Cuba loved Obama because Obama gave it all away.
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Canada loved Obama because Obama made no demands on Canada.
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The countries that hate Trump hate him because he's standing up for America's interests and making them pay the price, militarily or trade-wise.
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Strong countries like Donald Trump, sure, if they're strong allies.
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But a lot of countries hate America because it's asserting itself.
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Charles writes, after watching the Namaste Trump rally, I started seeing all the comments about Trudeau's visit.
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I didn't think I could feel any worse for Canadians.
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The fancy pants, diplomatic, bureaucratic, politically correct left says, oh, diplomacy is such a delicate art.
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You have to understand that cowboys like Ronald Reagan, who brought down the Berlin Wall.
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Or Stephen Harper, who stood up to Vladimir Putin.
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Or Donald Trump, who's making China bend the knee.
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You have to understand that foreign policy is not about brutes like that.
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It's about sophisticated people like Obama and Trudeau.
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Donald Trump's tweets accomplish more diplomacy than anything Trudeau has done in his pitiful vote-buying tour for the UN Security Council.
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He can't run Canada, and he wants to run the world.
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Folks, on that note, I'll say goodbye for today.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, goodnight, and keep fighting for freedom.
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