Censorship for a freer society： From Canada to Germany, governments want silence and control
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Angela Merkel says that for society to remain free, it must oppose freedom. What does that mean, and why does she think this is a good idea? Ezra takes you through a clip of her remarks, and explains why he thinks it s a bad idea.
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Hello, my friends. Thanks for joining us today. I take you through a video from Angela Merkel,
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which I found a little bit scary. Probably made a little bit scarier by the fact that
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she was saying it in German while pounding a desk with her hand. She was talking about removing our,
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not our civil liberties, but German civil liberties, saying that freedom requires you
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to be less free. I didn't quite understand it, so instead of trying to describe it,
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I'll show it to you. I'll play the video for you now. The thing is, you're listening on a
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podcast, and that's fine. Actually, it won't work now that I realize it, because we have an
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on-screen translation. We translate her German into English. I think you'll get the gist of it,
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so please listen to the show. You'll get it, because I explain it. But this is one of those
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instances where I really think having a video version of the podcast is better. And you can
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get that for eight bucks a month by going to premium.rebelnews.com. So please listen to the
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podcast. You will understand it, because I explain it. But I think you've got to see her
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pounding the desk, and you've got to see the translation simultaneously. And you can get
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that at premium.rebelnews.com. Okay, here's the podcast.
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Tonight, Angela Merkel says that for society to remain free, it must oppose freedom? What does
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that mean? It's November 29th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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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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I saw this video clip of a speech by Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany. It's almost two minutes
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long, but I want to show it to you. Can I give you a few thoughts before you watch it, though?
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It involves some rhetorical trickery, deliberately muddy wording. Listen to what she says, and as she
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says it, imagine what you would think if this were said by, say, I don't know, Vladimir Putin of
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Russia or Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela or maybe some Chinese foreign affairs spokesman. The word
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tricks to hide what she's really doing. Second, and I'm sorry, I just couldn't help thinking of
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this myself. Look at the arm pounding a bit. I mean, this is Adolf Hitler, and I'm obviously not
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comparing Merkel to Hitler. That's not fair. She's not a Nazi, obviously. I'm not saying that,
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but shouting and banging a podium, arms like this, like that. Watch her do that. I'm sorry.
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There was something in how she delivered these remarks that made me think of that. Maybe that's
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mean, but that's what my mind did. Someone pounding a podium, shouting in German while saying that for
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the good of society, we have to restrict freedom. I'm sorry, that's where my mind went. Okay,
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without further preliminaries, here's her remarks.
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they begin there, where the hatred of other people is lost.
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And we have to be against them and we have to be in this house.
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Because otherwise, this society is not what they believe.
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Now, she starts by saying that people who express an opinion
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She says that free speech will end in Germany if feelings are involved.
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if she feels that you are spreading an emotion of hate,
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and if she feels that someone else has their feelings or dignity heard.
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You might not speak your speech with those feelings of hate,
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but if someone else feels them when they hear you, you're in trouble.
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And of course, how someone feels isn't within your control.
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but part of being a grown-up is to control our emotional reaction to things,
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not to lash out at people who make a political point we disagree with,
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I mean, didn't Merkel just say we have to live with our ideas being contradicted
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and she's going to decide whose feelings are hurt legally
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There's no such thing as a human right not to be offended.
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It's a counterfeit human right not to be offended.
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What that really is, is the power to silence someone else.
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she will oppose free speech in order to protect a free society.
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In order to protect freedom, we have to destroy freedom.
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denen muss sie einfach sagen, wer seine Meinung sagt.
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Und wenn sie pronunciert ist, der muss damit leben,
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Und die beginnen da, wo gehetzt wird, da wo Hass verbreitet wird.
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Die beginnen da, wo die Bürger anderer Menschen verletzt wird.
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Und dagegen werden und müssen wir uns stellen in diesem Hause.
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Und das werden wir auch hinbekommen, meine Damen und Herren.
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Denn sonst ist diese Gesellschaft nicht mehr das, was sie entscheidet.
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Look, Merkel's policies are not just undermining Germany.
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So by bringing in millions of Muslim migrants to Germany,
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she's also doing so to every other European country
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That's a European Zone of more than a dozen countries.
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because this is so obviously a psychological projection on her part.
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In that way, she's definitely the opposite of Hitler.
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where she says Germany is in no position to criticize ISIS.
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She said this because Germany itself has done bad things in the past,
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including to ISIS terrorists, opening the borders,
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even to those who hate Germany and the Western freedom.
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her personal way of making Germany pay a price for past deeds.
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at so dramatic and gruselous Auseinandersetzings,
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and we should be very careful when something bad happens.
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Germany has no leg to stand on its haughty arrogance to criticize ISIS.
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the most punitive restrictions on free speech and the Internet
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in all of Europe other than Belarus and Putin's Russia.
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But let us not think that such government censorship exists only in faraway lands.
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I see in the news today that Quebec's Court of Appeal has ordered a comedian
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to pay a huge fine for telling mean jokes about someone.
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They were making someone who was making fun of someone who was handicapped.
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He's a disabled boy who became a bit of a celebrity.
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And I mention that because if you're a private person, you're a private person.
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And maybe you have some right not to be picked on by some public person, maybe.
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But if you enter the public arena as a bit of a celebrity,
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I think you do open yourself up to public commentary, including unfair commentary,
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A judge on Thursday rejected part of the appeal of a comedian
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Comedian Mike Ward must pay $35,000 to Jeremy Gabriel because of a joke, he told, that shows
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A panel of appellate court judges upheld part of a ruling against Ward handed down in January 2019.
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So this has been going on for nine, almost 10 years.
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He told a joke 10 years ago and he's still in court over it.
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I can assure you the $42,000 in fines he's paying is a sliver of his legal fees.
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And it would be understandable if people didn't want to patronize Mike Ward,
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if comedy clubs didn't want to let him perform anymore because 10 years ago he told a mean joke.
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Can you imagine running a comedy club if that was how you vetted your talent?
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I get it if a radio or TV station didn't want to invite him on anymore.
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As we said yesterday about Sacha Baron Cohen, is a racist joke still allowed if it's funny?
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Or is the rule only a person of that race gets to make a joke even if it's not funny?
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Because there are disabled comedians who make fun of their own disabilities all the time.
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Or is the rule that no disability jokes are allowed at all?
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How about we each get to make up our own minds about that?
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Of course, here in Canada, we here at The Rebel are often in the crosshairs of censors ourselves.
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As you know, we spent six months fighting against an illegal investigation of Sheila Gunn-Reed
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and her book Stop Notley by this guy, Lauren Gibson, Rachel Notley's hand-picked elections commissioner.
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There are so many media party stories about how outrageous it is that Jason Kenney just fired Gibson.
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I haven't seen a single such story refer to him hiring private investigators
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to hunt Sheila Gunn-Reed for six months over her book.
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Just a reminder on that, they demanded to see Sheila's editorial notes for her book.
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The area that I can't stick off yet is just the part about the planning of when it was to be made available.
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And I'm going to see that through things like, you know, either a contract or some type of briefing note
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or, you know, a schedule or, you know, emails or something like that saying,
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yeah, this is, you know, this is when I'm starting before even a statement from you.
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This is when I, this is when I started writing the book.
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You know, this is when, you know, it was fine to be, you know, the Susan or whatever
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when we were thinking of releasing the book, whatever.
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That's an audio recording of one of the ex-cops hired as a private investigator to go after Sheila.
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And this same ex-cop, Branders' name, warned Sheila that if she did not give up her emails and editorial notes,
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Yeah, I mean, we have that, Sheila, where people don't cooperate
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and then they get, you know, they get obstruction, you know, the offense for obstruction can be pretty severe.
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You know, there's, you know, I hope rather it not come to that.
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I think it's something that we can be cleared up pretty, pretty easily.
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As you may know, we spend tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers fighting these thugs.
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And when they finally dropped their case last month, Gibson had the temerity to say that Sheila was lucky.
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Fortunately for Sheila Gunn-Reed, my office is only able to enforce the legislation as it could.
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Now, yesterday, Notley had the chutzpah to ask Jason Kenney about Gibson being fired.
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And here's the question and the answer in question period.
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Mr. Speaker, the Premier doesn't appear to understand what it is I am talking about.
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Yesterday, justice lawyers told the court that the government is going to rewrite these laws
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likely to the satisfaction of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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as well as other corporate foreign-funded third parties supporting them.
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You know, this government claims to be fighting against foreign-funded interests,
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just apparently not the ones who support this Premier.
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Premier, why do you support foreign-funded interests that support only you?
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Mr. Speaker, not only have they not read the platform, they refuse to listen to the answer,
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which is that we will act for the first time in Alberta political history
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to make it illegal for foreign interests to interfere in our politics
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by contributing to the so-called political action committees that the NDP created in their legislation.
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There are other issues before the court dealing with the constitutionally protected freedom of expression.
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For example, we don't believe people should be prosecuted for publishing books, Mr. Speaker,
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and we'll stand with Charter Rights for Freedom of Expression.
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And I'm glad Jason Kenney knows about that book investigation.
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And I'm glad that Jason Kenney implied, at least,
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that the law under which Sheila was investigated was unconstitutional.
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Jason Kenney's own justice minister, a red Tory named Doug Schweitzer,
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insisting that that law is, in fact, constitutional.
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But Doug Schweitzer is still fighting Gibson's old battles for him,
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But maybe we can strengthen our own freedom of speech here in Canada, too?
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That was footage from Toronto's York University.
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A Jewish students group had brought speakers from Israel.
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They were part of the Israel Defense Forces, but it's mandatory conscription there.
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And some people do their service by traveling around the world, making a good impression for Israel.
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They were visiting the Jewish students, but that was deemed unacceptable by radical groups at York, which are very numerous.
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And so what started as a protest turned into almost a mini-riot.
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Fisticuffs broke out, but perhaps more shockingly than just a tussle, chants of back-to-the-ovens and other clearly anti-Semitic,
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I don't know if I would say the phrase, threats of violence, but certainly calls for hatred and even death to Jews in general.
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Joining us now in studio to talk about this is our friend Tarek Fata, who has written about this mini-riot in the Toronto Sun.
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Tarek, it's great to see you here. Thanks for being here.
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It's been a while since we've seen you. You're always fighting the good fight.
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What do you think we should make of this tussle?
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Like student politics, I like rambunctious politics, but did this go too far?
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I think what the West is missing in its approach to anti-Semitism is the language.
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The centuries of Christian teaching about Jews, which does not apply in the case of anti-Semitism,
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if you use the word, that gets generated by, say, people with backgrounds in Pakistan, Iran, or Turkey.
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I would say that Christianity, at least that I know in the 21st century, is overwhelmingly pro-Semitic, pro-Jewish.
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That's the outcome, the positive outcome of a sacrifice made by close to 50, 60 million people.
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Now, in Pakistan, obviously, that's a country that's more than 90% Muslim.
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So, obviously, they're not being guided by any Christian interpretation.
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Its source is a term called Yehud-Wu-Hanud, the Jew and the Hindu.
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And the essence of Pakistan's formation was its destiny, as guided by Sharia law, to wipe out Hinduism from the face of this earth.
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And, of course, we can't do that without eliminating the Jews.
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And so, the whole theory about the resurrection of Jesus Christ coming to Jerusalem,
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sending an army to destroy all the Christians of Europe, and sending one detachment to India.
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Really? So, how long or how old is the Islamic war against India?
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We've been invading India since the year 711, when the Berbers entered Spain at the same time,
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of which Gibraltar is the name, Jabal al-Tariq, Tariq bin Ziyad, the Berber general who entered Spain and then didn't,
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in fact, the final liberation, if I would say, of Spain took place in the 14…
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But India's first attack on India was by an Arab general, a 17-year-old guy, who came…
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to get hold of the descendants of the Prophet's family, who found refuge in India.
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So, India as itself also tries to hide this fact, because that is now Pakistan.
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So, let's bring that back to Toronto in 2019. You know, I learned so much about Islam from you, but also, you're big in India.
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We've shown our folks before that you have television shows in India that have many, many millions of viewers.
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We can't even imagine… I mean, India's a country with more than a billion people, and you speak bluntly about these things.
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I simply state that there are two Islams. One is Allah's Islam, and the other is Mullah's Islam. We, as Muslims, have to make a choice.
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And Allah, of course, is the Muslim God, and Mullah's are like the…
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Mullah is the people who generated Sharia law. For example, the Quran doesn't state anywhere that Muhammad slaughtered 700 Jews. There is no Jewish source to that story. But 150 years after that,
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Muhammad's death, to generate attack and hatred against Jews, a story was developed that Muhammad himself killed Jews. Therefore, it is a duty to kill Jews.
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I, you know, I'm not a master of the Quran. I assume that that story was in the original work.
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No, no, no. It's not there. For example, 17 times a day, Muslims go to pray, and a prayer includes Surah Fatiha.
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This is the first page of the Quran as it is collated today. It wasn't as such in the early days.
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And it says that God show me the straight path, not the path of those who have rejected or cursed, nor those who have been led astray.
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This could be pedophiles. This could be murderers. This could be smugglers or wife beaters. You could attach anything to it.
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Right. But a hundred years after the Quran was revealed, some guy said, aha, so who are these guys that God has cursed?
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And of course, you had a mullah who said, oh, who else but the Jews? So every Quran today, every sermon in Canada, 17 times a day addresses and says, show me the right path, not the path on which God you have cursed or you have showered your wrath on them who are the Jews.
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Now, if you cannot combat that, you can't combat Jew hatred as against anti-Semitism.
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Well, here's the thing. I mean, it was quite shocking to see this scuffle and to have it overlaid with these anti-Semitic phrases.
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But I looked at political leaders who, if the shoe were on the other foot, if, I mean, I don't even think it's ever happened that there's been an anti-Muslim riot in Canada.
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And I don't think that's ever happened. But if, God forbid, it were to happen, Justin Trudeau, John Tory, Doug Ford, every media would, that's all they would talk about.
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Here they quickly, I mean, they said, oh, we don't like this, but they wouldn't name the problem. They wouldn't name it, would they?
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Of the three, two of them explicitly condemned anti-Semitism, the mayor. However, between Trudeau and Tory is hypocrisy.
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Because Mr. Trudeau, Prime Minister Trudeau himself has participated in the prayers in which the Imam has said, oh, God, show us the right path, not the path in which Jews have been cursed.
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And Mayor Tory is guided by the same mullahs who do this. So, he has visited mosques, has associated with radical Imams.
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I mean, you know, I hosted a show with him and he would never believe me when I would say, this is disaster.
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Because a religious scholar who's saying that, no, no, no, no, he has nothing to do anything wrong with Jews, he's lying, because here's the text.
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And the call to prayer in City Hall, in the prayers in which Jews are cursed, was done in City Hall, under the mayorship of his worship, John Tory.
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So, that's why I say both of them are being hypocritical. You cannot be against anti-Semitism while tolerating it if it came from a non-traditional source.
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They always focus on anti-Semitism as if it comes from white supremacists or KKK or white nationalists or whatever is the current term for that.
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They will never, ever, for even dare to say for a minute that called the Imams and said, well, obviously it's not the Koran.
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Why don't you say explicitly that this doesn't refer to Jews?
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You know what? I grew up west of Calgary in the 70s and 80s, and I went to a country school.
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I remember there were 400 kids in the school. My sister and I were the only two Jews.
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There were two black kids who were adopted and two Chinese kids.
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And that's it, in a school of 400 country folks.
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And you would think, oh, my God, that must have been terrible. The opposite, Derek.
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It was friendly all the time. At most, it was, can you explain your holiday?
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In fact, it maybe had to be on my toes because everyone was always saying, well, what's the Jewish version of this or that?
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Like, I had to know my answers because I was the only Jew they met.
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My point is, I never experienced anti-Semitism growing up outside of Calgary, southern Alberta, rednecks.
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I never saw that. I went to university in the 80s and early 90s, and it really wasn't that way.
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This harsh, physical, brutal anti-Semitism at York.
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Even the Jewish community is not equipped to understand what's happening.
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I think I would give them benefit of doubt because there are no courses in Islamic theology in Israel or any Jewish school or at any Jewish university.
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So, what's happening is that Western society evolved after the Second World War as understanding that human civilization can never, ever, ever use race to eliminate a people.
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However, a large segment of the population that was under colonial rule, whether they were Egypt or whether, well, to a certain degree, Turkey at that time was not that bad.
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Turkey, in fact, during the Caliphate opened its doors to Jews that were expelled from Spain.
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This is primarily, and I wouldn't even say Arab, it is coming from the Indian subcontinent which is the only Muslims who refuse to acknowledge their own heritage.
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In Iran, everybody celebrates Nauros, which is a Zoroastrian festival of the New Year.
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You know, as much as I hate Erdogan, he's at least using a Turkish word for his name.
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In Indonesia, the grandson of the President is called Narendra, which is Indian Prime Minister's name.
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Everybody is comfortable except Muslims of the Indian Pakistani subcontinent who refuse to ever name their children after Indian names.
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They take Tamurlan's name, the worst killer of all time.
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The world population dropped by 3% as a result of that.
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Yeah, he was one of the Tsarnia brothers, was named Tamerlane Tsarnia.
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Tarek is actually a Sanskrit word, Tarek, which is root word to star, sitara.
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However, in his mind, Tarek was the man who invaded Spain.
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So, we have a situation where we created a country of now about 200 million people who have no identity of their own.
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They have outlet their own mother tongue and adopted in a hierarchy of languages Urdu considered Islamic, butchered their own people in Bengal and Balochistan and now are the main suppliers of international terror.
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In Pakistan, it's going to be the other way around.
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Because the people are indoctrinated into believing that it is a religious duty to eliminate Hindus and obliterate Jews.
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That's very depressing because I know Pakistan remains a large source of migrants to Canada.
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Most of the Islamic groups, the NCCM, Pakistani, ICNA, Pakistani, MSA, Pakistani.
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These are all the different Muslim lobby groups here in Canada.
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In Canada, you think, have you ever run into a Turk or a Kurdish fellow or an Iranian against any...
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I was with the Iranian demonstration outside the anti-mullah rallies that took place at North York at the Mel Lastman Center.
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100% of them are sick and tired of the Ayatollahs.
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And there was no Muslim organization to support them.
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Well, I tell you, you've made me a little bit more depressed.
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Well, demographically speaking, they're growing.
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How can the future be ours when it looks like it's theirs?
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I've been working on trying to open eyes for the last 50 years.
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I believe in the Hindu book, Gita, that says never have expectations.
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I don't, I don't have the right to be, to expect any result of what I do.
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And there are countless people like me doing it.
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They're all, they're giving their lives for this.
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We are taking our mayors and prime ministers into mosques and positioning them as holy men.
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Why do you have to wear something to look holy?
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I'd like the mayor's mullahs to clear my snow, then I'd believe that he's a Muslim.
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Because my definition of Muslim is someone who clears the neighbor's snow.
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The rest is all, you know, too medieval for me to follow.
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Because I know that horses don't fly, fires don't speak and monkeys don't have heads cut off from somebody else.
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Well, you're one of my favorite people and I love how you fight.
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You told me as you came in you just had a big milestone birthday.
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I couldn't believe when you said you were 70 because you got the energy of a 50-year-old.
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You got a fighting spirit and you got a great, you're a happy warrior.
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Tarek Fata whose column runs in the Toronto Sun and we're very glad that it does.
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His TV show Fata Kafatwa, if I'm saying that right, has absolutely millions of views.
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In some ways he's probably the most popular Canadian outside of our own shores.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Sam writes, so Borat is telling us how to think now.
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Well, listen, it's like what I said about that Quebec comedian, Mike Ward I think is
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I happen to think Sacha Baron Cohen is pretty funny most of the time.
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And I laugh at some of his jokes that are the most cringy, including the anti-Semitic
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And maybe I can laugh about it because I know he's Jewish and I think they're actually
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It's just a bit of chutzpah for him to now be the joke police when he broke more joke
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Brendan writes, this guy literally made millions defaming people including the entire country
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He played a character who sang a song about throwing Jews down the well which encouraged
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the only two people around the world to joke about anti-Semitism.
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It's very rare a comedian who gets big and rich who stays edgy.
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I will give credit to Bill Maher on that HBO show because he actually is a free speech
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absolutist even though he's very wealthy and successful.
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But you can seriously count people like that on one hand's fingers.
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On my interview with Andrew Lawton about increasing the carbon tax, Dave writes, what climate crisis?
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As I said the other day, even if you accept the UN's numbers, which I don't.
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And even if you accept that a warming Earth is bad, and I don't.
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The UN says even if we do all the things that the countries have promised to do under the Paris Accords,
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and even if we do more, it won't stop global warming from happening.
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Over the course of the next 80 years, instead of raising by 3.2 degrees Celsius,
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It's not even measurable on a thermometer, but it'll cost several trillion dollars a year.
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On the topic of Alberta separation, Steve writes,
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no one in Ontario takes Alberta separation seriously, even my own relatives.
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What if we could get Donald Trump to publicly state a province of Canada was asking if they could join America?
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It surely would spark immediate action rather than the slow, painful path we are on.
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And we had two Wexit town hall meetings in Alberta a week or two ago.
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And in both places, I said, look, Quebec had Charles de Gaulle.
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Remember, he came to Quebec and said, vive Quebec, vive Quebec Libre.
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And that sort of lit a flame in Quebec because there was endorsement of Quebec as a French place
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If Trump were even just to tweet about it, just in the manner that he tweeted about Greenland.
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Oh, that would get things moving in Canada, too.
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I'm actually headed to Calgary for the UCP convention.
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Jason Kenney no longer has a fatwa against rebel reporters.
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And so is our new reporter, Abigail Hammond, who's doing just such a great job.
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But let me end with a little video that Abigail did on the streets of Toronto.
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It's about, I don't know, it's more than five minutes long, so you can say goodbye to me now.
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If you haven't seen Abigail's work yet, can I show you?
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She went downtown Toronto with a map of Canada without the names of the provinces on it,
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Here, let me say goodbye to you now, but enjoy Abigail Hammond's video from Toronto.
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I went to downtown Toronto, to Yonge and Dundas Square,
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to ask Torontonians what they know about Alberta in light of Western Separatism gaining ground.
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After all, is it any wonder that some Albertans want to leave Canada
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when their own countrymen can't even find them on the map?
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Can you point out where Alberta is on this map?
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Can you point out to me where Alberta is on this map?
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You know, you're asking somebody who's not really from here, but I believe it's that one.
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But yeah, I should know, I was in Edmonton during the week.
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Can you tell me what the capital of Alberta is?
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Can you tell me what the capital of Alberta is?
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Can you tell me what the capital of Alberta is?
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Can you tell me what the capital is of Alberta?
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Do you know anything about the Albertan people?
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Everybody speaks very positively about Alberta.
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They were angry this past election with Trudeau.
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The problem right now is there's a lot of lost jobs because of the Kill Pipeline projects
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So, a lot of Albertans are feeling hurt by this and, you know, they want solutions.
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Do you think they can come to solutions with the Canadian government?
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If Trudeau's willing to work with them, I know after seeing the results of the past election,
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he said that he was willing to invest in the people of Alberta.
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Like, my father, his co-workers moving to Alberta, believing, like, there is a future there.
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And once they get there, they, they find themselves, like, unemployed, um, you know, high expenses.
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Do you know anything about the Albertan people?
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What do you think they should do in light of the current problems, the loss of jobs due
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to things like the carbon tax and killed pipeline projects?
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If Albertans wanted to secede from Canada, would you support them?
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A unified country is probably the best way to go.
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I know they have quite a lot in terms of natural resources, but, yeah, probably not a great idea.
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You know, judging by how Quebec tried and couldn't, Alberta would not be able to.
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Right now, I don't think Trudeau is really willing to work with them.
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I'm not the biggest fan of Trudeau, though, so I don't know.
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The government should come, compromise with them.
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I don't think the threat of seceding is going to move the Canadian government to do anything.
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It's up to them to make their own decisions, I guess, since I'm a Torontonian.
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That being said, I wouldn't advise it, because why would you isolate yourself right like that in the middle of a country?
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It will leave them economically more vulnerable than they might be right now.
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You know, I mean, we've had that question with Quebec, and I almost think that Quebec has a more valid reason.
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Do you think they could become the 51st state of the US?
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I think that would be awful if that was the case.
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That would be virtually impossible, considering who is in power in the US right now.
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You don't think it could become, like, the 51st state or something like that?