Best of 2019, election edition： The year of court-ordered journalism
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Rachel Notley has been Prime Minister of Alberta since she was elected in 2015. She s been in office for four years, and in that time, Alberta s economy has been in freefall. Her government s failed to deliver on its promises and failed to fulfill its promises, and her record has been marked by scandals, bankruptcies, repossessions, broken families, and all the sucking up to Trudeau. Now it s time to elect a new Prime Minister.
Transcript
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Tonight, highlights from some of the Rebels' best election coverage in 2019.
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It's January 1st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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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 publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Wildrose Country heads to the polls April 16th, 2019.
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The sleaziness of which I don't think we've ever really seen before in Alberta politics.
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I am optimistic, but first, we need to stop Notley.
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We need to stop her attacks on our education system.
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We need to stop her name-calling and belittling of normal people.
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We need to stop her attacks on our energy sector.
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We need to stop her attacks on who and what Alberta is.
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And we cannot trust the mainstream media to give an accurate record of the destruction that has transpired in Alberta under Rachel Notley's watch these past four years.
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The thousands upon thousands of job losses, the bankruptcies, the billions and billions in investment dollars that have fled for greener pastures, the repossessions, the broken families, all the sucking up to Trudeau.
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And I know that we can't trust them because the mainstream media didn't tell you the truth about Notley and her gang of destroyers back in 2015.
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That's why I wrote my best-selling book, The Destroyers, documenting who and what the NDP are.
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And in that book, I accurately predicted the destruction that was to come.
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So, I'm excited to tell you that I've written another book.
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It's an easy, sometimes fun, sometimes sad read.
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But it's an important read, jam-packed with all the facts you need.
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It's 25,000 words most Albertans have never heard before.
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Because the mainstream media hasn't really covered Rachel Notley's true scandals.
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And because I wanted this book in the hands of as many Albertans as possible before the election is done.
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Because Albertans deserve the information the mainstream media is unwilling to give them.
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Just $4.99 for the e-book version and just $9.99 for a paperback.
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I think this will be my third best-seller after The Destroyers and The Case Against David Suzuki.
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Because I think people are really hungry for the truth.
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Now, to get your copy of the book today, it's easy.
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But you can do something else to help us spread the word of this very important new book.
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You know that at The Rebel, we are proudly independent.
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I don't have a big corporate sponsor or a deep-pocketed backer.
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So my marketing campaign for the book really relies on you and your help.
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Like everything else we do around here, to be honest with you.
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You can get a bright orange book lawn sign that is emblazoned with StopNotley.com on it
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to let people know about the book and how they can get it.
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Now, I'll show you what Ford said and I'll let you be the judge for yourself if she's
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Now, for context, she was talking about terror attacks here.
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When the perpetrator is an Islamist, the denunciations are intermingled with breathless assurances
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that they do not represent Islam and that Islam is a religion of peace, etc.
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When the terrorists are white supremacists, that kind of soul-searching or attempts to
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understand the sources of their radicalization or their perverse moral reasoning is beyond
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I'm somehow saddened by the demographic replacement of white peoples in their homelands.
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It's clear that it will not be a peaceful transition.
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Ford immediately resigned, saying that she didn't want to become a distraction in the campaign
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and the NDP, they claimed their very first head of the campaign.
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When Rachel Notley then was asked about Ford at her campaign kickoff,
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Like all Albertans, I was utterly shocked to hear of the comments that that candidate,
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who was, of course, a star candidate for the UCP, made.
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And let me just say this, I personally do not believe that Jason Kenney is racist, but I
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do believe that the UCP as a party has a problem with racism.
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You know, at least Hillary Clinton waited until her campaign was nearly over before she nuked
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it and called Trump supporters and conservatives unwarranted names.
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My Calgary-based colleague Kian Bexy and I have also been touring around the province a little bit,
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delivering some of our beautiful orange stopnotley.com yard signs to promote the book.
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We even paid Elections Alberta a little bit of a visit with our signs too and to cap off a very exciting seven days.
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Today is the day that my big, beautiful stopnotley billboard went up along the side of Highway 2 south of Leduc to promote my new book and the billboard is authorized by me.
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And I'm so excited because the billboard behind me will get 1.3 million impressions every single month.
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Kian and I have been having so much fun with this provincial election and promoting my new book that it really should be illegal.
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And I am sure some busybody crybaby NDP activist tattletale would think it should be illegal too.
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I predict within the next 24 to 36 hours, some book-burning censor will call my new acquaintances at the Elections Commissioner and at Elections Alberta to report my billboard,
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my marketing campaign for my new book as some sort of breach of elections law.
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Now, I just want to make a quick observation while we're talking about the mailers.
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The endorsements from the firefighters and now the NDP signage.
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They were once orange, but they're all weirdly blue these days.
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Almost just like the United Conservative Party signs, just a little lighter shade of blue.
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This is a pretty transparent admission by the NDP of just how toxic the NDP brand really is these days.
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Even to their own supporters, looks like the best the NDP are hoping for is confusing people into voting for them
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because people actually choosing to vote for them just seems so darn unlikely.
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When I went up to Edmonton to cover the GSA rally, David Agin happened to be there.
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GSAs were under his purview as Minister of Education.
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And I wanted to ask him if he felt responsible for the damage that he has done to Alberta throughout his time as an NDP minister.
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Minister Agin, do you feel responsible for making an entire generation...
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So are you partly responsible for the 40% of Grade 9 students who failed math?
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Minister Agin, can you tell me why you posed next to a bunch of children flagging the ISIS symbol?
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I'm clear, well, maybe next step, next election, you could work on disability stuff.
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Can you tell me why one of your staffers just tried to lift my camera off my shoulder?
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Do you feel at all responsible for the 40% of Grade 9 math students who failed under your watch?
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Did you enjoy the billboard on the side of Highway 2?
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Now, even though his thugs tried to keep me away from him by surrounding him and letting him get away, and even a staff member tried to make sure that I knew he wasn't going to be answering any questions, even though he was in a public space, and he would have gladly answered any questions from Global News or CBC.
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Would you mind if I asked you a quick question?
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I'm wondering if you can tell me, do you regret running as a communist?
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Do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity know that you're a communist?
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Do you think it should be treasonous to run as a communist during the Cold War?
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I think that you should be registered as a third party because you're not an actual media outlet, so I'm not talking to you.
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So you don't want to tell the residents of Calgary Varsity why you ran as a communist candidate?
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It's not on a public, not on a sidewalk when I've told you I'm not talking to you.
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You're a public figure and a communist who wants to represent Albertans.
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You're calling the police because I'm asking you why you're a communist.
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She was actually a communist candidate back in the 1900s during the Cold War.
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And I thought that I could ask her some questions about her candidacy.
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And then she said I was harassing her and called you.
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It was an interaction that was less than five minutes, I would imagine.
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Based on even the information that she's told us there's nothing criminal, I mean, we've
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only, we've got to talk to her, talk to you, right?
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We're just trying to figure out what's going on here.
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I mean, obviously, if you are following her, right, it could potentially be construed as
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I'm not charging her or arresting her or anything like that today, right?
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I'm going to see if she regrets being a communist.
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I'm going to see if she regrets calling the secret police on a reporter.
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And I'm going to see what the everyday Calgary Varsity resident thinks about having a communist
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Do you feel like you should redistribute that to the proletariat?
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I want to acknowledge also something that's come up about my youth.
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And I want to assure you that I am not a communist.
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Four decades ago, when I was a young student, I was a member.
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I will say that both Jason Kenney and the Communist Party agree and have publicly stated
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Anne, do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity accept your apology?
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Anne, do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity accept your apology?
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I frankly can't believe it that Anne McGrath actually apologized for running as a communist
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I don't think that she would have been driven to apologize if it wasn't for the rebels' coverage
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I don't also think that the residents of Calgary Varsity are ready to accept that apology.
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As you can see right behind me, the billboard is here.
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It was a quick turnaround, and we're just down the road from Anne McGrath's campaign
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We're going to drive this bad boy around Anne McGrath's constituency to make sure that
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her constituents know that Anne McGrath in 1984 deemed it a good idea to run under the
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She's tried to censor us at every turn, but she can't censor this.
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I'm standing outside of a house in Calgary that has been vandalized because it has a stop
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It's a daycare for children run by a Filipino immigrant.
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And as you can see behind me, it says racist on a fence behind me.
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Someone just texted me a picture of it, actually, as a bus drove by.
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You'd think Rachel Notley would have better things to do, but she's still trying to get
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Voters are going to throw Notley and her NDP destroyers out of office today.
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But Notley's hand-picked election staff have just filed a flurry of new complaints against
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It's also obviously illegal, but they're doing it anyways.
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So until Jason Kenney actually fires them, they will still be working away within the government
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I mean, they've been peppering us with crazy letters, but I'm going to show you just one,
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Remember back in January, I showed you this letter from Notley's hand-picked elections
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commissioner, a highly partisan activist named Lauren Gibson.
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He put us at the Rebel on trial without even letting us know.
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He convicted us in secret and told us about it afterwards in this letter.
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But look at that first sentence there back in January.
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I write in relation to an investigation undertaken by my office regarding a complaint from Elections
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So Elections Alberta are the folks who run the elections.
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And this guy, the elections commissioner, is the guy who just convicted us in a secret trial.
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And they were talking about this billboard that we had put up last year.
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Well, as you might remember, we asked for a copy of the complaint that we were convicted
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Now, it's dated March 18th, but obviously that was backdated since I didn't receive it
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About that billboard that we had up last year, that the elections commissioner said this complaint
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was the basis for their secret trial in January, but I just got this.
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So how can you file a complaint after a trial is over?
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When the trial was supposed to be based on this.
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And why did the elections commissioner have showed you?
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You don't convict someone and then file the complaint about them.
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But what happened right before the letter was sent?
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Just Sheila Gunn-Reed's new book called Stop Notly was released on Amazon and became an instant
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Is there a particular result that has come through?
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It looks like, it sounds like Jason Kenney is appearing here.
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Everyone's focused on one point on the other side of the room.
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And yes, Jason Kenney is still the premier of Alberta and Rachel Notley is not.
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David Menzies for the Rebel News here in Whitby, Ontario.
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This is the venue for a press conference that's going to take place headed up by the Conservative
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I have no idea what he's going to announce as part of his party's platform.
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It is exactly three weeks before the federal election on October 21st.
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If the polls are correct, this is a neck and neck horse race.
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So I'm going to go into the press conference and find out what the leader has to say today.
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As this is not a public event and you're not accredited media, so we're going to ask you to leave, please.
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You're not accredited media, so we're going to ask you to leave, please.
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Well, you keep saying that, but why am I not accredited media?
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I'm not doing an interview right here right now.
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You can get in touch with the press office and learn more about our...
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Is this the Andrew Scheer event or the Justin Trudeau event?
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Mr. Menzies, I'm going to ask you to leave, please.
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Well, because I want to ask him questions from Andrew Scheer,
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I see on the TV all the time people saying they can set up and ask questions.
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And here they're saying I can't even enter the damn thing.
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He asked him three times, so he doesn't want him or not.
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Is there anyone going to be in solidarity with me?
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You know, I hope whatever Mr. Scheer's announcement is, it isn't going to get eclipsed by the sidebar
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story of all the media covering this physical removal of a journalist.
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But I want to remain here because I'm going to try to ask Mr. Scheer directly why, you know,
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the muscle is strong-arming us out of a press event.
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I'll stay right here because I don't want to miss him.
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And the building is ours and so if you're not a member, I have to respectfully ask.
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Well, I see dozens of media members right behind the glass.
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This is the Ability Center and for security reasons, I have to ask the respect for it.
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We have strict protocols that this premises is for members only or invited guests when we
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Either you leave by yourself or we'll have to call the police staff to escort you out.
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Well, if you feel you want to do that, sir, you know, somehow I'm a criminal, somehow
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I'm a security threat that you would call the real police to throw me out.
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No, I cannot indulge or get into anything further than what I just told you.
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Sir, you have to leave from this premises and now you're going to have to leave.
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I have to, again, please respectfully ask that you leave.
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Because if you don't, these people will have to escort you from our building.
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You know, I don't know if I'm in Canada right now or North Korea.
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You know, and it's no offense to you officers here, but, I mean, you have.
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You know, my grandfather fought five years in the Second World War to preserve our freedoms,
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Andrew Scheer and his conservative lackeys actually called the police on me and had me
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As you can see in the back, there is the Team Scheer big blue bus.
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So I'm on a public sidewalk about 120 meters away from the bus.
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I'm going to see if I can shout out some questions to Andrew Scheer, see if he'll have
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Some of the questions I think should be, when did he start taking censorship lessons from
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And why is it that the likes of the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the CBC, the so-called
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mean girls of the media party, they're welcome to these events with a red carpet.
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But a conservative leading journalist, has the police frog march him out?
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And does he indeed believe in freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of expression?
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But I would say that his actions indicate otherwise.
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In any event, I'm going to attempt to ask those questions to Mr. Scheer before he leaves
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And assuming I don't get arrested, let's see what happens.
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I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I am, I'm just trying to get a, an answer.
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I know I'm not part of Jerry Diaz's uniform union, but it'd be nice if you gentlemen,
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So, uh, these are your tax dollars, uh, hard at work folks.
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Um, the RCMP being used to, um, shut down, uh, the practice of journalism, at least to
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those journalists, uh, who have the temerity to ask impolite questions.
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So I guess the, uh, thought police, if you will, has been called in.
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Again, I'm not, I'm not going to criticize the, uh, Durham regional police here.
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They're just acting on, um, I presume 9-1-1 calls from the conservative party.
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So, um, they're mulling it over, I guess, right now to find out, um, what they're going
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to charge me with, I overheard, uh, obstruction of justice.
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Gee, that, that, that kind of sounds SNC-Lavalin-like, doesn't it, folks?
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And, um, I'll continue, uh, dispatching here at the Ability Center in Whitby, where I am
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only trying to do my job, which is practicing journalism.
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We were just at a presser with Catherine McKenna.
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You're asked three very sympathetic questions to the government today.
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Mike, what is your message to those like this gentleman here and people who will never
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When you hear the President of the United States say what he said recently about why
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How difficult is it to combat the mudding of the waters when you have people advocating?
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When I speak to conservative supporters, or at least those who claim to be, they say
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When you talk to constituents, what are they saying about the carbon tax?
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Do they understand what the carbon tax is and who initially came up with it?
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So residents of Ottawa Centre are supportive of our action on climate change, including
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And to be clear, we put a price on pollution and we're giving the money back to people.
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My CTV colleague here brought up the President.
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The President said that he was surprised that Justin Trudeau...
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Have you ever asked a critical question of a politician in your life?
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I just want to know because the questions you asked were pretty lapdog style.
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Next time when you show up to an event like this, be a professional.
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You asked three questions that were both very...
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No, no, you wouldn't even know what a professional is.
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This Monday is the only English language debate that Justin Trudeau will participate in this election.
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But his hand-picked debate commission has banned our Rebel News reporters and other conservative media from even attending the debate.
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Our journalists, Kian Bexty and David Menzies, each applied.
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I personally wrote to the gatekeepers myself weeks ago.
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But only today, right before the weekend, and the debate itself is on Monday, did they have the Kurdish seat even right back.
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We don't need special permission to cover the only debate the Prime Minister deigns to participate in in English.
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We're not applying to be one of the debate moderators who were selected by Trudeau's hand-picked debate commission precisely because of their history of being soft on Trudeau.
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They're all left-leaning advocates, including the CBC's Rosemary Barton, seen here taking a selfie with Trudeau and Althea Raj, seen here taking a selfie with Trudeau and Chantali Baer, who was the Trudeau scholar at the Trudeau Foundation.
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And now all these Trudeau advocates are going to grill Trudeau.
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Now, we know we'd never be allowed to actually ask Trudeau a question in the debate.
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We might ask something tough, but this ban means we won't even be allowed in the building at all.
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We won't even be allowed in the big holding room with hundreds of other reporters.
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Not by a political party, by the government, the government itself.
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Well, you can see the one-line explanation offered by the government press gallery.
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It is our view that your organization is actively involved in advocacy.
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That we have a point of view, but so do all the journalists on that panel.
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And like I've told you before, these same gatekeepers personally approved journalists from Xinhua, the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda organ.
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They'll let anyone in unless you're a conservative.
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And the arrogance of them telling us we're advocates, they're Unifor journalists and members of other journalism unions who have literally set up partisan campaign groups, super PACs, registered with election candidate to campaign in support of Justin Trudeau.
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They've done this to Andrew Lawton, also the young journalist from True North.
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They're keeping out anyone who leans conservative.
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So, both True North and Rebel News have decided to seek an emergency court injunction on Monday morning to stop Trudeau's hand-picked debates commission from keeping us out of the building.
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They're going to work all weekend to get ready.
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The emergency application is on Monday in federal court in Toronto.
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I'll be there personally, as will more of our team.
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I'd appreciate the moral support, but I actually need your help.
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In order to get this law firm to go on an emergency basis to work all weekend, I had to send them a retainer of $10,000.
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I know that sounds high, but it's two lawyers and their staff all weekend, and it's a big application on Monday.
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Remember, the government has unlimited lawyers on their side, paid for by your tax dollars.
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It's about making the election campaign more fair, more democratic, more meaningful.
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And it's about Justin Trudeau's bizarre war on journalists that he seems to be getting away with during this campaign,
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Mr. Trudeau, since your multiple use of blackface became an international scandal,
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Canada's international reputation has been irreparably harmed.
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Have you reached out to any African leaders or any leaders from the Middle East to apologize for your conduct?
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Canada will continue to engage in a positive, constructive way around the world,
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standing up for human rights, engaging with leaders right around the world,
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because we know that promoting our values and prosperity for everyone around the world
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is good for Canadians and creates better opportunities for everyone.
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Have you spoken to any African leaders or leaders from the Middle East to apologize for your personal conduct?
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Ikean RNN, have you, your campaign, or any other agents secured non-disclosure agreements from anyone
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Follow-up, the 2001 yearbook from West Point Grey Academy says that you and convicted sex offender
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Christopher Ingvoldson made a young student's, quote,
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life at WPGA a lot more interesting slash amusing, end quote.
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Mr. Prime Minister, you left West Point Grey Academy in the middle of a term, which is highly unusual.
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It was a law firm that made this announcement, which is also highly unusual.
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Sir, can you tell us the real reason why you left so abruptly?
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And did it involve any kind of sexual misconduct at the school?
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I wrote three pages on that in my autobiography, and it involved absolutely nothing of the sort of the rumors that you're trying to spread.
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Even so, Mr. Prime Minister, a follow-up question.
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Why did so many teenage girls write so passionately about you in the yearbook?
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Was there any connection to having a relationship with these girls or their mothers?
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Mr. Scheer, only 6% of Canadians indicate they want to see immigration increased.
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Yet you are on board with the Trudeau Liberals plan to increase immigration to 350,000 migrants per year.
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I will ensure that our targets respond directly to the needs of our economy and our population.
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Sir, I'm curious how you came to that number of 350,000.
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Many of these migrants are, of course, family reunification cases.
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They're not going to contribute to the economy.
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I'm just wondering, again, how did you come to this number?
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And are you just afraid to dispute Justin Trudeau when it comes to immigration numbers?
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Justin Trudeau's platform says that he will ban certain speech on the Internet,
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especially speech that is deemed, quote, hurtful.
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I'm wondering why you haven't been more vocal about any opposition to that,
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if you are opposed to that, given your primary campaign.
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You talk so much about free speech on university campuses.
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Elizabeth May told me earlier today, and I think she spoke in the other debate recently,
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that she wants the Alberta oil sands offline in a decade.
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What's the date that you want the Alberta oil sands offline?
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Or are you just going to pass on the question for...
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how do you have the moral authority to take the Alberta oil sands offline,
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given Alberta most just recently rejected your party
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in the largest democratic mandate that the province has ever seen?
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I'm not going to answer your question, but thanks.
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Ms. May, in 2015, you stated that convicted terrorist Omar Khadar
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had more class than the entire effing conservative cabinet
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Do you still believe in 2019 that this convicted terrorist
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has more class than the entire conservative party under Andrew Scheer?
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Do you understand the concept of it being ridiculous with lots of humor?
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If this was an attempt at humor, a supplemental question,
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...and the fatherless children of Christopher Speer, his murder victim,
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My question revolves around what you told me earlier today.
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You said you want to take the Alberta oil sands offline within a decade.
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I'm wondering how you have the moral authority to do that
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when your party isn't polling competitively in any riding in Alberta whatsoever.
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If you'd paid any attention to our platform since May, you would have known that.
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Our plan is a phasing out of dependence on fossil fuels
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with a particular focus on a just transition for workers.
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We're very concerned about workers in the fossil fuel sector.
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And the question of what we do next, framed as moral authority,
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has something to do with whether our generation has the moral authority
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to end human civilization within a lifetime of our children.
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Do you think that the Alberta oil sands are going to end civilization?
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I do. I have a Bachelor of Science in Energy Sciences and Energy Economics.
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My question revolves around journalism in Canada.
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but they weren't going to be let in, myself included.
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We had to apply for an emergency court injunction
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What does that say about the state of journalism in Canada
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and the contempt that the prime minister currently has for journalists?
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My question is about the $600 million media bailout.
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But I'm wondering if you think, has that bailout compromised the coverage of this election?
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First of all, as you know, we won't give that money to traditional media.
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I think it is not the role of the government to bail out media.
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I think the media must be independent from the government,
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But for us, we want to be sure that our media will be independent.
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My follow-up on a separate topic is in regards to national defence.
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None of the debates that, the several debates that the prime minister has participated in,
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Mr. Bernier, Mr. Scheer did a press conference a few days ago
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at the infamous Roxham Road crossing into Canada.
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He spoke about things like hiring extra border guards,
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tightening the safe third country agreement with the U.S.
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And I think a lot of people who want more border security would applaud those.
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However, he didn't go as far as suggesting to build a wall or a fence.
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I'm curious, what is your position in that regard,
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in terms of tightening up border security via a physical impediment
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to these illegal immigrants coming into Canada?
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First of all, as you know, 45,000 of them crossed our border for the last two years.
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And Mr. Bernier, a second question on a different subject.
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As you know, the only reason why I am here, my colleague Kian Bexsey is here,
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my friend Andrew Lawton with True North is here,
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is due to a federal court order that we got at the 11th hour on Monday.
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You, sir, were the only federal leader to tweet out your congratulations to that.
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I am curious, why do you think the other federal leaders didn't have any comment to make
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about really a groundbreaking judgment when it comes to freedom of the press?
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It's very sad that they are not fighting for freedom of the press.