CAUGHT! Liberal cabinet minister LeBlanc took free flights on lobbyist’s corporate jet
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A liberal cabinet minister is caught taking free flights on a lobbyist s corporate jet. And why should others go to jail when you can't take a $200,000 vacation from a billionaire who does hundreds of millions of dollars in business with the federal government?
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Hello, my rebels. Today's show is about Dominique LeBlanc.
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He is, I wouldn't say rented by the Irving family in New Brunswick.
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And he lives like it. He takes private jets all the time.
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We have some news about his grift and that of his boss, Justin Trudeau.
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I mean, how do you spend $142,000 of taxpayers' money on food and drinks in one flight?
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You heard me right. We'll talk a bit about that.
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Tonight, a liberal cabinet minister is caught taking free flights on a lobbyist's corporate jet.
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It's July 16th, and this is The Ezra LeVance 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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They were out of power for a decade under Stephen Harper, and boy, that's a lot of pent-up entitlements.
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Of course, they're enriching themselves on the taxpayers' expense full tilt.
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But they're also erasing any ethical lines about private payoffs they can take from connected lobbies.
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I mean, when Justin Trudeau hired two Filipino nannies and put them on the government payroll, it was really gross.
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I mean, why can't he pay for his own nannies or daycare or whatever like the rest of us do?
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Like, maybe there's some Hollywood celebrity with a different nanny for each child.
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I think that's a form of stealing, in a way, but at least we saw it.
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And at least the only grift was the hundred grand or whatever it's going to cost per year for the two nannies.
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But what about when Justin Trudeau takes payoffs secretly from corporate lobbyists?
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Like when he took a free vacation from the Aga Khan, the billionaire who owns a private island in the Bahamas.
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But if he's giving a 200 grand gift to Trudeau.
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If you read the Ethics Commissioner's report, Sophie Trudeau, Justin's gold-digging social climber wife, she literally called up the Aga Khan's daughter, Princess Zara, and asked if she could go there and bring her girlfriends.
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And when the princess said, well, actually, you know, we're not going to be there, Sophie Trudeau said, she said, no problem.
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So could they go and use the Aga Khan's property, even though the Aga Khan and the princess were not there?
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Holy cow, what a low-rent, gross gold-digger Sophie is.
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But the point isn't the 200 grand free vacation.
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The point isn't how gross a gold-digger Justin and Sophie are, how cheap they are, the kind of grifters they are.
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The point is, if the Aga Khan and his daughter, Princess Zara, agreed to give the Trudeaus a free $200,000 vacation on their private island, the use of their private staff, the private helicopter to get there,
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well, obviously, they were expecting to get something in return much more valuable than 200 grand.
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And that's why the ethics commissioner found that Trudeau broke the law, the first sitting prime minister in history, to be convicted of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act.
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Because you can't take a 200 grand free vacation from a lobbyist who does hundreds of millions of dollars in business with the federal government because that's a bribe, or at least it sure looks like one.
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And the ethics commissioner said Trudeau lied to her when he claimed he was, oh, long-time personal friends with the Aga Khan and the princess.
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That was a lie, she said. Trudeau actually hadn't spoken to the Aga Khan in about 30 years other than a quick hello at his dad's funeral.
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I'm a lot more worried about secret gifts like that than I am about the public grifting, like putting his own nannies on the payroll.
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And you know that Trudeau had a guilty mind about that billionaire island because of the lengths to which he went to keep the vacation secret,
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and then the lengths to which he went to lie about it afterwards, which brings me to the news of the day.
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I read about this news in Black Locks, which is a small independent news website based in Ottawa,
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one of the few media in this country that's not on the take for Trudeau's bailout.
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Intergovernmental affairs minister Dominique LeBlanc used a federal contractor's private plane to attend medical checkups.
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LeBlanc, in a filing with the Commissioner of Ethics, said he traveled with his wife.
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A New Brunswick judge aboard a J.D. Irving limited corporate jet.
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The personal travel was pre-approved by the Commissioner for a medical consultation as per advice from the treating doctor, wrote LeBlanc.
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LeBlanc's wife is Provincial Court Judge Jolaine Richard of Moncton.
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The minister last April 26 took medical leave from Cabinet for treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,
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but is seeking a seventh term as MP for Beaus-Azur, New Brunswick.
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See, the rest of us have to wait in line for medical care.
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Seamus O'Regan, probably the dumbest cabinet minister other than Miriam Monsef.
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See, aristocrats don't wait in line for health care in New Brunswick.
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They go to the front of the line in Montreal, which has better hospitals than New Brunswick does.
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And they go there by private jet, even if the private jet is furnished by the Irving family,
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which has countless contracts with the Canadian government, including for, you know, shipbuilding.
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But, hey, if Trudeau can take a free flight and a free vacation, if he's defiant about that,
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that sets the precedent, sets the mood, sets the tone for the rest of the people in his wedding party.
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So why wouldn't Dominic LeBlanc take a free jet flight?
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What would the cost of that have been had he paid for it himself?
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But the thing is, Dominic LeBlanc already promised that he wouldn't deal with the Irvings if he were in cabinet.
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The minister, that's Dominic LeBlanc, in a declaration under the Conflict of Interest Act,
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said he used the Irving jet for a return flight from Moncton to Montreal on June 13th.
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The public declaration of travel was disclosed yesterday.
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LeBlanc has named Irving's CEO as a personal friend.
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Under a conflict of interest screen in 2016, he pledged to abstain from any matter or issue
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involving J.D. Irving Ltd. Irving companies that include numerous federally regulated industries.
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Under a July 12, 2016 agreement with the Commissioner of Ethics,
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LeBlanc pledged to undertake to recuse myself and inform the Ethics Commissioner within 60 days of any Irving matter.
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Oh, well, maybe he'll just pay a $50 fine or whatever it is.
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The Commissioner of Ethics, in a separate decision last September 12,
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found LeBlanc in breach of the Act over the awarding of a $24 million commercial fishing license
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The lucrative surf clam license given to Five Nations Clam Company was canceled last August 16.
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Investigators determined LeBlanc and cousin Gilles Theriault privately discussed company business
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To me, that's the bigger risk with the LeBranos.
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He's crooked timber, this Dominic LeBlanc, just like his boss.
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appointed to five of six recent New Brunswick judicial vacancies.
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I mean, look, putting your nannies on the government payroll is really gross.
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But what about literally placing your family in positions of judicial power to rule over the province
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I mean, there's the job for life aspect of being a judge.
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There's the huge financial benefit of being a judge.
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But that's not the biggest problem with this corruption.
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He's so bad he was convicted of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act.
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We know that crooked Gerald Butts from the wedding picture there,
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he billed taxpayers $127,000 just to move down the highway to work for Trudeau in Ottawa.
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LeBlanc has been flying on the Irvings corporate jet for decades.
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Under Jean Chrétien, it was so gross so often.
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He surely racked up millions of dollars in free flights.
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It was so bad that even Jean Chrétien's ethics commissioner, if you can even believe there
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was such a thing, was so alarmed that he asked one of LeBlanc's staff to recuse himself from
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Yet telling a New Brunswick politician to have nothing to do with the Irvings is like saying,
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go on Facebook, but don't have anything to do with Mark Zuckerberg.
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Which made me laugh when I saw this tweet today from Justin Trudeau.
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Flying can be expensive and stressful, guys, and you deserve to be treated with respect
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if your flight is overbooked, delayed, or something happens to your bags, guys.
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That's why we've implemented clear and fair passenger rights, and they come into effect
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Hey, when was the last time Justin Trudeau flew commercial?
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I bet he hasn't paid for a flight this century.
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It's not just that he takes illegal free flights like he did from the Aga Khan, and that his
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It's that when Trudeau himself flies on the private government jet we give him, he spends
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tens of thousands of dollars per flight on wine, liquor, exotic food.
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As Sheila Gunn-Reed showed a while back, Trudeau racked up $384,000 in food and booze in just
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Some of those flights he spent more than $140,000.
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Then again, this is the same prime minister who specifically requests specialty vodkas.
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You know, he doesn't drink normal vodka that mere citizens might drink if they were paying
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You're paying for him to have some weird elite vodka.
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Trudeau was the same moron who, when he went to India last year, he literally brought his
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own Indian chef with him from Canada because apparently you can't get good Indian food in
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There are a hundred reasons why Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister in a generation.
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He's a walking international diplomatic incident.
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But being corrupt, being a labrano, being a grifter, that's got to be one of the most
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Will you condemn the Antifa attack in Washington over the weekend?
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Antifa firebombed a facility in Tacoma over the weekend.
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Will you condemn Antifa for the attack in Washington?
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We're wondering if you'll condemn the Antifa attack against an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington
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Do you condemn Antifa for their violent actions against American law enforcement?
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Okay, so now you're getting in the way of me walking.
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What I'm condemning is a lack of journalistic integrity.
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You're not respecting my physical space right now.
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Antifa didn't respect the integrity of that building.
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Sir, asking one more time to please scoot over.
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Well, that's our friend Kian Bexty in the halls of Congress.
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You know, I suppose it's what they say is true.
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He's just a visitor, but he's asking more accountability questions, doing more real journalism in the
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space of one hour in Congress than CNN has done all year, grilling starlet congressmen
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like Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others with questions that they don't seem
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And joining us now at Wiseguide from Washington, D.C., is Kian Bexty.
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It was a fun couple of days here in Washington.
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Well, your videos have had more than one million views in the last 24 hours, both on Twitter,
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I see they've been shared widely by American news sources.
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It was on Fox News' Tucker Carlson last night, The Daily Wire.
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And even the Trump war room picked up one of your videos and retweeted it, which got an
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And I just keep shaking my head because why is it?
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But I'm surprised that in the entire United States of America, there are no journalists
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doing that kind of accountability questioning of the left.
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We see that of leftist journalists to conservatives and Republicans.
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But I don't know why we don't see that to the stars of the new left like you were doing.
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You can see there's definitely the appetite for journalism, this sort of candid interview
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Of course, the one congresswoman said it was a lack of journalistic ethics or something
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along those lines to ask for questions in the hallway.
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So I basically waited outside of a committee room where I knew Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and
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a few other Democrats were going to go to eventually grill Kellyanne Conway.
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Kellyanne Conway, of course, snubbed them, as she has every right to do, being a part of
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And so they pretty much adjourned that committee meeting right after they all appeared.
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And of course, I was asking some Republicans questions, too.
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But I was hanging out by the Democrat door and their staffers poke their heads out and
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poke their heads out, go back in, poke their heads out, go back in.
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And everyone except for AOC and Ilhan Omar and Presley, I think, all stayed in the room
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for like half an hour longer than they were supposed to.
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In fact, they actually delayed the press conference that everyone was watching yesterday.
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They delayed it by almost half an hour because they were so scared to leave that room and be
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Now, of course, the mainstream media was parked outside the room waiting to ask some questions,
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But after about 20 minutes, they all packed up and left.
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Or maybe they had to get to the press conference.
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I stayed standing in the corner and I sort of hid a little bit so that they would think
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And right when I did that, of course, AOC and Ilhan Omar both left together to get into
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an SUV, which is when there's that one video of them getting into that SUV when Ilhan Omar
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starts laughing when I asked her if she will tell Americans, and Antifa in particular, not
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We'll show a quick clip of that, getting into the SUV and then laughing about your terrorism
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Will you tell Americans not to be violent anymore?
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I can't say I'm surprised that the politicians were hiding from me.
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Rachel Notley delayed an event by an hour to avoid your questioning.
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But I have to say, I mean, I've been to Washington, D.C. a number of times, including to meet conservative
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And aside from Fox News, which is very large and powerful, there's smaller conservative
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There's OAN, there's the blaze, which is merged with CRTV.
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There's the website-based media like the Daily Caller, which has a huge office in Washington.
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There's just so many conservative journalists, conservative activists.
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I'm truly boggled by the fact that no one just walks up to these congressmen who are very available,
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it seems to me, and just puts questions to them.
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I find it unusual that we're doing this from Canada.
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And of course, Canadians care about those things, too.
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I'm just scratching my head because I thought they had a more robust media culture down there
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I just, I feel like the conservative media are sleeping down there.
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Well, I'll tell you my experience that I've had here so far.
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It is much easier to get access to politicians here because the press gallery, if one exists here,
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doesn't have the same iron fist as the one in Ottawa does because, of course,
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the invest-Jewish relationship between the prime minister's office and the press gallery in Canada.
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So in Canada, if you go to Parliament Hill to get in, the security officers will say,
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Do you have authorization to be in this building?
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Whereas you go to Congress and you put your backpack through a metal detector and then, boom,
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you're standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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So it is much easier to do it, which makes me wonder why there are more people doing it.
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I can understand why there are less people doing it in Canada because it's a very hard thing to cover the prime minister
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when the prime minister doesn't want you to cover him.
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Justin Trudeau has absolute authority over who can and cannot be in press conferences.
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So I don't know why the Daily Caller doesn't do this.
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I'm a small stasher and not very intimidating, I like to think.
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But, of course, these women, these congresswomen that I was interviewing, they weren't happy that I was doing it.
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They were probably hoping for more puffball questions like what CNN and MSNBC tend to ask them.
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Yeah, I mean, I should point out that, I mean, obviously I watch all your work.
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And even your toughest questions, they're just sort of standard questions for journalists on the left from CNN or MSNBC in the States,
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So those are standard questions when put to a conservative.
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You never physically touch anyone or block anyone.
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It's just that you ask questions that are slightly uncomfortable.
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Although, really, how uncomfortable should it be when you're asking someone to denounce a terrorist group?
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The fact that they don't answer it is what makes it cringeworthy and stressful.
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Yeah, I like what you were telling me yesterday.
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You were giving me some advice, telling me to ask them to blink twice if they would disavow Antifa because they're silent, right?
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It's either if they did answer, they would have to lie.
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Or if they did answer and tell the truth, they would lose a huge part of their activist faith.
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I mean, who is going through the doors, going to the doors in Minneapolis, knocking on doors, panting on pamphlet for Ilhan Omar?
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The overlap, I think, between her activist faith and Antifa is huge.
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The Venn diagram is basically a circle, I think.
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So if Ilhan Omar particularly was to denounce Antifa, she would be alienating a huge part of her support base, which has helped her get accepted with everyday Minnesotans outside the First Amendment community.
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We're having a little bit of a Skype issue, but I think we got your message.
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I want to close by showing an interview you did with Ilhan Omar a couple of weeks ago now when news broke that, according to forms and documents she had filed with the Minnesota state government,
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apparently looks like she illegally married her brother.
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I think it was a sham marriage for legal fraud, for immigration or tax reasons.
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So I'll show that because, again, what struck me about this video was just how open and available Ilhan Omar was,
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who's in the news so much, for just literally anyone to walk up to her.
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And you had her for almost two full minutes. So, Kian, I'll say good luck and goodbye now and keep it up.
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And we'll see, of course, on this side of the 49th parallel soon enough because we have 338 MPs we need to hold to account up here, too.
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But let me close by saying keep up the fight and let me close by showing that video of you and Ilhan Omar a couple of weeks ago.
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Ilhan, if I could get a moment of your time, if I could get a moment of your time.
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Could you tell me why you filed illegal tax returns in 2014 and 2015?
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Can you tell me definitively or not, is Ahmad Elsie your brother?
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Is he your brother in the middle of the legislative briefing?
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Can you tell me definitively, yes or no, is he your brother?
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Why did you refer to him as your child's uncle on Instagram?
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And why did you lie on court documents saying that you hadn't seen him since 2011,
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when in fact you'd been talking to him all the time on Instagram?
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Why are you so afraid to answer these questions?
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How can anyone take you credibly on the student loan tax file
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And how can you call for Donald Trump's tax filings
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And why are you scared to answer the questions?
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So that you can go on Instagram and talk to your brother?
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I heard Trump say that he's working on a deal with China
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and it will greatly benefit the American farmers.
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We need a leader who will push back on the bullying.
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I haven't seen Andrew Scheer get tough on anyone ever
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Obviously, we're interested in American things,