Conservative Party “has lost its nerve,” this time caving to left-wing mob on global warming
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Lisa Raitt collapsed on Twitter over the weekend, saying essentially, You know what, I will never criticize the theory of man-made global warming again. And don t bug me anymore. And don't bug someone else.
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Hello, my rebels. Today's podcast is about Lisa Raitt, the deputy leader and justice critic of
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the opposition conservatives, second only to Andrew Scheer. And over the weekend, she did
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something just incredible. She collapsed on Twitter saying essentially, you know what, I will
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never criticize the theory of man-made global warming again. I'm so sorry I ever did. And don't
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bug me anymore, okay? Bug someone else. That's barely a paraphrase there. And the reaction to
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that and the demoralizing effect of that is incredible. I'll take you through it in a
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Tonight, the federal conservative party panics and bows to a left-wing mob, this time on global
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warming. It's June 10th, 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 of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody
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I saw the most curious tweet on Saturday morning. It's by Lisa Raitt, the deputy leader of the
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conservative party and also the party's justice critics. So number two in the party after Andrew
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Scheer. I don't follow Lisa Raitt on Twitter, so I didn't come across it myself, but rather
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I came across it because it was retweeted and republished and replied to by countless
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liberals. Here, let me read it to you to show you why.
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Well, I've learned my lesson in tweeting anything about climate change. I'm going to be transparent
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and let you know I'm deleting the earlier tweets. I'm not the one to fight with on this because
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like most, I believe that emissions cause climate change and we should reduce emissions.
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And I don't know if you can see those little numbers at the bottom there. 1.3,000 people
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replied to it. A couple hundred people retweeted it. That's republishing it. And just under 2,000
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people liked it. It's a pretty busy tweet. I'm looking at who liked it and who replied to it.
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And what they said is most illuminating. Here's one of the first replies, hundreds of likes on this
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reply. It's by Peggy, whose biography includes the motto, I stand with Trudeau. And Peggy says,
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Lisa, you and your leader are really misguided if you think relying on fossil fuels and creating a
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national energy corridor will win you votes. It will in Alberta. Yuck. The rest of us want real
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progress on climate change, especially the young. And Peggy would know because she looks like a
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spring chicken. Now here's someone who appears to be a conservative. She's worried now. She doesn't
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know what to make of Lisa Raitt's public self-abnegation, this self-denunciation. Here's what
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she said. But you'll repeal the carbon tax if the Conservative Party of Canada takes government
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in October. Yes, as promised. Yes. To be clear, my vote will depend on that. It's a deal breaker.
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John Groves, a Conservative citizen pundit, had a few replies of his own. He said,
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emissions went down under your government, he said to Lisa Raitt. They've gone up under Trudeau's
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government. The numbers back it up. McKenna lies about this daily. Your party doesn't even know how
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to call her on that lie or point out your performance. You are really bad at playing this game. Stop.
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And he said, seriously, why on earth do you guys think you can play this game? The climate change
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game is a game invented by liberals. They make the rules. They control the rules. They change the rules
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whenever they want. And they own the referees. It's a rigged game. Stop playing. I'm sympathetic
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to that. Here's Daryl King, another active citizen pundit who's conservative. He says,
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question isn't whether climate changes or even if humanity has some minor role in such changes.
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The question is, are we going to stand meekly by while climate socialism is imposed on free people,
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knowing it will have zero effect on climate and cause great harm to liberty and property?
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That's a great point right there. But here's my favorite. Actually, my least favorite.
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And it's by the new leader of the Liberal Party of the province of New Brunswick.
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I didn't know he was a leader until I saw this tweet. You'll remember who I'm talking about,
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Kevin Vickers. He was the brave sergeant at arms in the House of Commons that fateful day five years
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ago when an ISIS terrorist attacked Parliament Hill in a blaze of gunfire murdered Constable,
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excuse me, Corporal Nathan Cirillo. Vickers, as you may recall, went to get his own handgun
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to engage the terrorist. He was later appointed as ambassador to Ireland. And that gig is over.
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So he came back to Canada and in what I would call a step down, a disappointing career move,
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that great Kevin Vickers has decided to become a liberal politician, the leader of the New Brunswick
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liberals. That is disappointing to me, at least. Why do nonpartisan civil servants always turn out
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to be political lefties? Who knows? Maybe one day he'll be Premier of New Brunswick and maybe he'll
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be a great Premier. I don't know. But for now, I just look at him as a guy who should have retired at
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the top of his game, hero of the terrorist attack, tour of duty, as an ambassador to a great country.
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So gross how all these nonpartisan civil servants always are liberals underneath it. Anyways,
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what a weird note to end his career on. But anyways, look at what he's doing now. Here's what he said.
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As the liberal leader, he said, proud of you, Lisa.
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Great courage, leadership. This is not about us. It is about our children and grandchildren.
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Proud of you? When your partisan opponents are proud of you, here's a little tip. They're not
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actually proud of you. They want you to lose. What they really are is delighted that you're undoing
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yourself. You're embarrassing yourself so they don't have to do the heavy lifting. They're happy
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to see you confess to things they'd probably never be able to credibly accuse you of on their own.
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It's a version of when Gerald Butts tweeted about how upset he was during the Ontario Provincial Tory
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leadership race a year and a half ago, when Doug Ford and then all the other leadership candidates
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came out against the carbon tax, throwing out the red Tory Patrick Brown's policy. Gerald Butts was
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actually really upset by that. Why would that be? Why wouldn't Gerald Butts want a clear
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delineation between his liberals and the Tories on carbon tax? Especially if he was so sure
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that the carbon tax was a great idea. Why wouldn't he want his opponents to make the disastrous
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mistake of opposing the carbon tax? Well, of course, because in fact, nobody likes the carbon
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tax. And Gerald Butts knows that. And it wasn't a disastrous mistake by Doug Ford. It was actually
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one of the keys to Ford winning a huge majority and almost wiping out the liberals altogether.
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Butts was upset because the false impression that had been created until then, that everybody
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supports a carbon tax. Even conservatives like Preston Manning and Michael Chong and Patrick
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Brown. So look, grassroots conservatives, there's no point in objecting to this, grassroots taxpayers.
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There's no political party that will be your home if you don't like this tax. So stop fighting against
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it. In fact, be a loyal conservative like Patrick Brown and support this monstrous tax. Well, that
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Why do you think leftists keep saying the laughable line that 97% of scientists agree with
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them? It's to make it socially unacceptable to disagree with them. It's much harder than debating
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on the facts. So Gerald Butts hated the fact that the opposition party actually came to oppose
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them back in Ontario. And so Vickers' point here is, thanks, Lisa Raitt. We're proud of you
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for agreeing with us and removing from Canadians any alternative political vehicle. Thank you for
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removing an issue from contention in the election. Because obviously, it would solidify their
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authority. I mean, how many times will Lisa Raitt's capitulations be used by the liberals in
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campaign ads? Of course Vickers is exciting. Hey, guys, you're unconservative if you're a global
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warming skeptic. Andrew Scheer's handpicked lieutenant says so. Here's a left-wing pressure group
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that was set up to oppose Jason Kenney and the oil patch. Just gleeful over Lisa Raitt.
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They were delighted. Here's what they said. Lisa Raitt, trending for all the wrong reasons today.
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Another bad day for the Scheer team. They were thrilled by Lisa Raitt. So what exactly did Lisa
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Raitt say in the first place that she was bullied into deleting and then groveling about? Here,
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her opponents kept screenshots of the original offenses because that way they can get the best of both
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worlds. They can use these to mock Lisa Raitt to environmentalist voters and they can use her
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renunciation to mock her to conservative voters. You never win anyone over, by the way, by doing this.
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Do you think that any Green Party or any Liberal Party voters are suddenly going to vote conservative
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because Lisa Raitt embarrassed herself like this? Here's what she was groveling over.
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This is a screenshot of what she deleted, just to be clear. She was reading a little tweet, a note
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by an accomplished global warming scientist himself, Ross McKittrick. International reputation,
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well known for debunking Al Gore's hockey stick graph that purports to show that global warming and carbon
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dioxide have been steady, steady, steady, steady, steady, steady, and then suddenly shot up on a
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graph that's shaped like a sideways hockey stick. So McKittrick proved that was a laughable, unscientific
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fake, you know. Everything was fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, then boom. So McKittrick is smart,
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he's well regarded, and he's a critic of the theory of man-made global warming. And as you can see in that
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tweet there, he says, which is very interesting, put it back up on the screen just for a moment.
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He said that the government's latest statement on global warming, do you see it there? It says it's not
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what you might expect from the alarmist media coverage. Instead, it's measured, rooted in data, and
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interesting. So you can even say that's a bit of a backhanded compliment to Trudeau and his government.
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And Lisa Raitt simply retweeted Ross McKittrick saying it's not as bad as the media says, and she adds
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lots to read in this thread. In some, data don't lie. Now, I'm not going to take you through all
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of what Ross McKittrick said, but it's moderate and thoughtful and scholarly, and just for saying
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read what this guy is saying, she takes down her tweets and issues a self-denunciation, and by the
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way, says, don't argue with me, argue with other people. She basically throws anyone else who's a
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skeptic under the bus. There was one more tweet by her, and this was the one that surely irritated the
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left. She says, bottom line is there's no solid connection between climate change and the major
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indicators of extreme weather, despite Trudeau's claims. To the contrary, the continual claim of
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such a link is misinformation employed for political and rhetorical purposes. And you can't
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quite see it there, but she was actually quoting from an article in the Financial Post. Oh my God,
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well, you can't do that. I mean, obviously, that quote is true. How could it not be true?
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Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna literally blame fires that were started by
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arson. They blame arson on global warming. By the way, you'll note that tweet by rate doesn't
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even question that global warming is happening. It just says there's no proven link between weather
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on any given day and global warming, which is pretty obvious. I mean, we're pretending to
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believe in science here, right? I mean, we don't actually believe that if you throw a virgin into
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a volcano, you'll change the weather or something, right? I mean, please tell me that Catherine
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McKenna and Justin Trudeau aren't actually saying that if you pay me a carbon tax today,
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I'll guarantee to change the weather tomorrow. I mean, please tell me you don't believe that.
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Well, actually, as you know, Catherine McKenna sort of does believe that. She calls herself
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the minister responsible for weather. She really, really says that. What's my point today? My point
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is that the conservatives have lost their nerve again. We know that people in both Canada and the
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United States simply don't care about global warming. It's way down the list there. If you
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ask them unprompted what they care about, if you say, if you lead them and say, do you care about
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global warming, they'll all nod along so as not to seem unfashionable. But no one brings up global
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warming unprompted. That's not a normal thing people worry about. Even liberal MPs in Ontario say no one
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cares. And they're begging Catherine McKenna to give it a rest. They actually say that the economy
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and unlimited immigration are the two top issues. So you would think that fighting back on global
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warming, especially the carbon tax, would be a good issue for the conservatives. I mean, no global
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warming fanatic would ever consider voting Tory to begin with. So why not irritate them a little bit,
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but win over the countless Canadians who either don't care or are actually sick of these jet
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setting hypocrites telling us how much they care about reducing your carbon footprint, but we have
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to pay more from their private jets. They tell us how much they care. How about speaking out with
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some courage about the hypocrites? It worked for Doug Ford, didn't it? It just worked in Australia
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where the conservative leaning party, ironically called the Liberals, the anti-carbon tax party came from
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behind on one. That's why the liberal leader in New Brunswick, Kevin Vickers, is excited by Lisa
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Raitt's collapse here. But my point is, whenever you blink like this, whenever you score a goal in
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your own net, whenever you give up an unforced error, whenever you give something away to your
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political opponents for free and renounce yourself, denounce yourself, denounce everyone who is on your team
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and who hasn't yet caved in in the same humiliating way, what you do is you demoralize your base
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and you thrill your opponents. Read her tweet again. Look at this. Well, I've learned my lesson
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in tweeting anything about climate change. Huh. I'm going to be transparent and let you know I'm
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deleting the earlier tweets. I'm not the one to fight with on this. As in fight with my colleagues or
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any losers out there still holding the line. I'm not the one to fight with on this. Because like
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most, I believe the emissions cause climate change and we should reduce emissions. Okay. So anyone who
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hasn't caved in is now the enemy. So Lisa Raitt says she's learned her lesson. And this will be put in
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the face of any conservative MP across the country, including from Alberta, of course. And what are they
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going to do? Contradict publicly the deputy leader? Oh, don't talk to me about it. Why don't you talk
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to those Alberta MPs? Yeah, don't fight with me. And you're an Alberta MP. You're going to contradict
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your deputy leader? Have you learned your lesson yet? Why are you still saying what Lisa Raitt has
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disavowed? Do you believe? I mean, believe like a belief system, like a faith, like a religion. Do you
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believe in your heart that emissions cause climate change? You need to believe people. This isn't science
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anymore. How deep is your belief? Will you renounce the evidence of your lying eyes that arson is
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caused by people and that it's always been warm in the winter, warm in the summer? Will you renounce
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what your lying eyes tell you? And we'll go with your belief, like Lisa Raitt has gone with her belief
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here. Yeah, not a way to win an election. But really no different than the conservative party losing
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their nerve on half a dozen other issues recently, including free speech, which they no longer seem to be
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concerned about based on their conduct in recent weeks. And all of this losing, all this surrendering
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before the election campaign even begins. Stay with us for more.
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The intensity of this four months is quite unprecedented for a bill proposed by the government to have this
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intensity of discussion. So I would say that while we will continue to do the communication and
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explanation, there is very little merit to be gained to delay the bill. It will just cause
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In what some are calling the largest protests ever in Hong Kong, by some reports, more than one
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million citizens taking to the streets out of a total population of just seven and a half million to have
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one million adults out. I've never heard of a protest so large. But as you can see, Carrie Lam,
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the chief executive of Hong Kong, seems dead set on plowing forward with a bill, a bill, a law if it's
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enacted that would allow the extradition of people from Hong Kong to mainland communist China, which would,
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of course, put the liberties of Hong Kong at even greater risk than they are now. Well, there's one man who
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knows more about this subject than anyone else I know. In fact, he wrote the book called The Coming
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Collapse of China. His name is Gordon Chang. You can follow him on Twitter at Gordon G Chang. And he joins us
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now via Skype. Gordon, great to see you again. What do you make of these protests? They looked enormous.
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I can't believe literally one seventh of the population. That's got to be like a quarter of
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the adults in that in that city came out to protest. That's amazing. It is amazing. And it was whole
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families and people who have never protested before. People did this because there's a thought that this
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is really Hong Kong's last stand. Beijing had promised autonomy for Hong Kong for 50 years, starting in
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1997, when the city was handed back, as they say, from Britain to China. And really right now, what
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we're seeing are people just understanding that if they don't take a stand, then clearly Beijing will
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just control the city completely. Carrie Lam, the chief executive, says she's doing this on her own,
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not on instructions from Beijing. But that's not to be believed. So right now, we're in a little bit
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of a standoff. Carrie Lam has the votes in LegCo, the legislature, to be able to push this through.
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We'll just find out what the people of Hong Kong are made of and what they're going to do next.
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Yeah. I mean, I remember back in 1997, when the handover from the United Kingdom to China happened,
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and it was a very Canadian story, Gordon, because a lot of Hong Kong citizens were granted Canadian
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passports as sort of a safety valve. The promise was, if I recall the motto, one country, two systems.
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And that meant a different economic system. And everyone thinks of Hong Kong as perhaps the most
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capitalistic place in the world. Well, the rest of China's caught up a bit on the capitalism side. But
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the more important system was the rule of law, the independent judiciary, the freedoms. I think that
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China's becoming more capitalist, but they're trying to make Hong Kong less civilly free.
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What do you think happened to one country, two systems?
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Well, one country, two systems is in real danger. Because in China itself, you have Xi Jinping,
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the ruler, really believing in a state-dominated economy. So he's pushing China back to something
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that Mao Zedong would be more familiar with. Also, you know, we speak of China being authoritarian,
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but it's really becoming semi-totalitarian and probably on its road to full totalitarianism with
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the social credit system, with much more censorship, with all the rest of it. So China is moving in
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directions that no one except Xi Jinping really wants to see. At this particular time, you know,
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as businesses look at Hong Kong and the business community, it's not just dissidents who are against
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the extradition bill. It's also businesses, because they realize that they're at risk as well.
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I think that we could see some of them actually go return to the United States, for instance,
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in the financial sector, but also, you know, regional headquarters going to Singapore, maybe Taipei,
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Tokyo, because businesses understand that they just cannot live in an environment where you've got
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Beijing being able to pick people off the streets of Hong Kong.
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Yeah, it's incredible. I mean, Hong Kong is such an amazing city. I know you surely know it intimately.
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Last time I was there, I remember landing at the airport, and there were all these signs
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against corruption. And I thought, this is one of the ways Hong Kong, and this is my amateur analysis,
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I thought, this is one of the ways Hong Kong is trying to distinguish itself from mainland corrupt
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communist China. They're trying to say, we're not like them. We are clean, rule of law, independent
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courts. At least, like, there was interesting pro-freedom, pro-rule of law posters at the airport.
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I just have never seen that sort of thing before. And you're right, it's, yes, of course, freedom.
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But all that money, all those Wheeler dealers, all that regional trading stuff,
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that can't happen without freedom, too. So it's not just personal freedoms, it's economic freedom.
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The whole miracle of Hong Kong is at risk here. Am I being too melodramatic? I mean, it's just such
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an amazing city. Would Xi Jinping kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Like, it's the most amazing
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city in the world, really, on par with a London or a New York, but in its own way. Would they kill it?
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I think Xi Jinping actually would. I mean, he doesn't want to, of course. But for him,
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control is more important than anything else. So he will kill off Hong Kong if he needs to do that
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in order to control it. You know, I was there just a couple of weeks ago with my wife, Lydia.
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And, you know, everything that you just said about Hong Kong is certainly true. And there really is,
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you know, there, the fear that things are going to go very bad, badly, if the extradition bill goes
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through. You know, we talk about what happened on Sunday. But if we go back to April, there was,
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you know, the organizers of these events were thinking, well, they couldn't really get anybody
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out on the streets for this. But they actually held a demonstration, and they got 130,000 people
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onto the streets in April. And that's why they decided to go ahead with yesterday's event. And,
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you know, even though people were expecting a big crowd, nobody expected, you know, more than a
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million people. The organizers say 1,030,000 people showed up. That is just astounding.
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Yeah. Well, I have a question for you. I remember a few years back, first of all,
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it's quite something to watch a protest of a million people in Hong Kong. The, I'm not going
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to say politeness, but the orderliness, and there were no riots, there was no, I mean,
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I understand there's a handful of arrests, but you have a million people, you're going to have
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anything happen anyway. Just, I've never seen such a law abiding, unified, like talk about a
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sense of harmony and communal identity. It was quite amazing to me to see that. I don't think
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you could have a million people in Washington, DC or Paris, France in such an orderly way. In fact,
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we know you can't. What happened the last time with the umbrella protests? And, and could it,
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could they win? Like, could they make Carrie Lam blink? Well, that's a great question. And if you
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go back to 2003, which is sort of the analog, where the government, Tung Chi Wah, who was chief
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executive at the time, wanted to push through what's called article 23 legislation or national
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security law. And he couldn't do it because in LegCo, the legislative council, you had a group of sort
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of legislators in the middle who decided to defect from the government and side with the Democrats.
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This time, that's probably not going to happen. But, you know, when you have a million people in
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the streets, anything can happen. And so I tend to have a little bit of optimism, but, you know,
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when you count votes in LegCo, it doesn't look good. And so most people suspect that the extradition
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bill will go through before the current legislative session is over next month.
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Wow. It sure is happening quickly. If you, I mean, that's measured in weeks. Sounds like it.
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I've seen news lately about how Hong Kong's, when you mentioned Singapore, Hong Kong's woes could
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become an economic benefit to other regional capitals. You mentioned some of them. Of course,
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there's the people themselves, like the ordinary rank and file Hong Kongers. I don't, I mean,
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I don't think Singapore could take a hundred thousand people from Hong Kong. I don't know.
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Maybe they would. Is any of this related in some way to Donald Trump and his trade battle with China?
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I'm not trying to make a stretch here. I'm just saying, is that adding pressure to Xi Jinping?
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Is that part of this? I'm just so curious because things are happening between China and America
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that we haven't seen in decades. Yeah, that's, that's a great question. You know, I tend to think
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that, you know, certainly President Trump is pressing the Chinese on trade and intellectual property
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theft. And that, those are different issues, of course. But for Xi Jinping right now, you got to
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remember the guys in battle. He's not only got Trump pressing him. And in senior circles in Beijing,
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the question's being asked, like, who lost America? And the answer, of course, is Xi Jinping.
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And all, because Xi Jinping is so powerful, he has taken responsibility from senior leaders. It's no
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longer a consensual system. So that means he is really nobody else to blame for the problems with
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the United States. Well, you add on to this, it's his policies that are causing the reaction in Hong
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Kong. So this is something else for people to blame Xi Jinping for. And, you know, you have restiveness
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around the center, the periphery of China. So, you know, I think that Xi Jinping at this particular
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moment does not need another crisis on his agenda. And he's getting one.
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You know, I got to tell you, Gordon, I have an emotional reaction when I see a million people
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standing up for liberty, because I wish that we in North America were not as complacent. Maybe we're
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not in the same jeopardy. But to see a million people united in purpose, and we see the police
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pushing some young men and women around here, I'm showing this on the screen as we talk, Gordon,
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I really feel affectionate towards them, because, of course, they've learned from the lack of it.
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And they've learned from observing their neighbors in the rest of mainland China,
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the heavy price of not having freedom. Of course, Tiananmen Square would be still deep in their
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memory, even though it's been decades now. I don't know. Is anyone coming to their aid?
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I see Chris Patton, the last British governor, has weighed in a little bit. I don't know how much
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moral authority has. Have foreign leaders spoken out? I don't see anything yet from Justin Trudeau or
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Chrystia Freeland of our country. Has anyone from the State Department speak? Has the Queen? I think
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there's still affection in Hong Kong for the British years. Has there been any moral support
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from around the world for these one million brave protesters? There is moral support on the extradition
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bill. And clearly, there's one country that does have a direct interest, and that is Britain,
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because of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. It does give Britain some rights to comment on this.
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Now, Beijing says that the Sino-British declaration is of no force. But this is another example of
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Beijing signing an agreement and then repudiating its own obligations. But clearly, Britain needs to
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speak out more forthrightly. The United States, of course, needs to do that. And yes, Trudeau would be
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good to do that, because I know that Canada is involved in the Meng Wanzhou-Huawei extradition matter.
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But, you know, right now, I think Canadians have to understand that they're in a long-term struggle
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with China. There's no appeasing Xi Jinping. And this is a match for the rest of the world where we
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just don't have the choice of losing, because this is where he's attacks our societies. So we're all very
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much got an interest with the people in Hong Kong. Yeah. You know, I know it'll never happen, but I have this
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secret wish, the Queen Elizabeth, who has spent so much of her life as the monarch of Hong Kong. I just
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have a wish that she would, in a quiet, dignified way, indicate her support, which I'm sure she feels
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for the citizens of Hong Kong. And of course, Donald the Strong, which is one of the nicknames they have
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in Beijing for Donald Trump. Those two people, just through some moral suasion, I think that their help
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is needed now. Who knows? Maybe if we tweet this interview to the president, he might retweet it.
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There's always a hope for that, Gordon. Well, thanks, Ezra. That's a great suggestion. I mean,
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we do need to talk to our leaders to draw the connections between the common interests that we
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have as victims of China, and of course, the people in Hong Kong who are directly affected,
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you know, this very day. Yeah. Well, our hearts are with them. I thank you for bringing some of the
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background, the history, and the politics behind it. Gordon, we always rely on you because I know of
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no one who is as better briefed, as well briefed on you, and who cares about freedom in China as you
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do. I'm in your debt. It's great to see you again. Let me just give one more shout out to your book,
00:30:49.320
very prescient, called The Coming Collapse of China. And we'll have a link to Amazon in the
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description if folks want to get that. And of course, people can follow you at Gordon G. Chang on Twitter.
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Great to see you, my friend. Thanks for taking the time.
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All right. There you have it. Well, we'll keep an eye on that situation
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in the weeks ahead. Sounds like it'll move quite quickly. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
00:31:23.480
Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about YouTube demonetizing and silencing thousands of
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independent content creators, including Stephen Crowder. David writes, Carlos Maza planned this and
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YouTube just needed an excuse. Oh, absolutely. And by the way, Carlos Maza, a writer for Vox,
00:31:41.940
formerly a Democrat activist at Media Matters, he didn't do this on his own. Don't tell me a company
00:31:47.640
owned by Comcast does this kind of corporate meddling. Let's a junior staffer do this kind
00:31:55.620
of corporate meddling on his own. He's a savvy, experienced writer, absolutely operating with
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the approval of his managers. You don't go after a rival company. You don't go after YouTube with
00:32:08.440
the approval of Comcast high ups. Don't kid yourself. John writes,
00:32:13.100
Haven't thought a lot about corporate censorship. Sounds like Comcast is a big player in the
00:32:17.920
censorship of conservative thought. Yeah, well, I was just pointing out that Comcast is huge. I think
00:32:22.240
it's like the second largest media company in America. But it's no different up here.
00:32:28.580
Rogers and all the other telcos, they're happy to have a cozy oligopoly, a handful of tycoons,
00:32:35.840
lots of corporate cronyism, corporate, you know, links. There's no true independent
00:32:42.120
telecommunications companies in Canada. They're so heavily regulated. Their cell phone business,
00:32:47.760
their cable business, that if they also happen to own content journalism, don't think for one second
00:32:53.840
they wouldn't throw that journalism under the bus to get a better deal for a cable rate or a cell phone
00:32:59.580
rate. Through the cell phone and cable regulation of Canadian media companies, every word they say is
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regulated too. And that's before you even introduce the $600 million bailout. Bruce writes,
00:33:13.120
Ezra's monologue and David's videos show that we really are headed, heading towards the UK's condition.
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I know you're talking about a variety of things regarding censorship, the politicization of police,
00:33:24.200
and frankly, even Islam. I've been thinking about that viral video David did at the Al-Quds Day
00:33:29.640
March. That's the artificial Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran holiday that is in Toronto and cities around
00:33:37.700
the world. You saw that guy. I think he was from Pakistan, judging from the accent. And he was saying,
00:33:43.400
yeah, absolutely, Sharia law would kill gays. And David said, do you want Sharia law? I said,
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it's not even do I want it. It's coming. We're going to be a majority in 2060. It's coming. And
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absolutely, that's the punishment for being gay. That was fine. Police were right there. No problem
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with it. Compare that light touch to police investigating any politically incorrect comment
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on the right that doesn't even come close to that kind of threat of violence. So yeah,
00:34:13.000
the kind of political selective policing you see in the UK, I believe it's coming here. I believe it's
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already got a toehold here, and I think it's only going to get worse. Well, folks, that's the show
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for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
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good night, and keep fighting for freedom while you still can.