DAILY ｜ Canada Day： Churches and Statues Vandalized and Burned
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Summary
Ezra Levant's thoughts on Canada Day, Boris Johnson's Canada Day message, and why we should all be on Team America. Also, why Canada should be kicked out of the G7 and why it s better than Team Canada.
Transcript
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Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. How are you doing? It's great to see you again. We were off
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yesterday. It was Canada Day. And I want to tell you that the loveliest Canada Day message I saw
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was not from any Canadian. Certainly not from Justin Trudeau, who I think is ashamed of Canada.
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It was from Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister. Did you see that, Justin?
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I mean, I have my beefs with Boris Johnson. I have been terribly disappointed with him
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on the pandemic and the lockdowns. I think he's been like he's a funny character. He's great
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as a pundit. You know, he he wrote for many years in forget the Spectator, the Telegraph or
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someplace like that. Like he's funny and he's quippy and he's got that crazy hair.
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But he's a terrible manager. He's, I think, morally weak. He just goes one way or the other.
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But he's so damn charming. That's why he has so many mistresses. That's why he manages to to win
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elections. He was the mayor of London. He's the prime minister of the UK. It's his charm. What can
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you say? He's a bit of an idiot. But when he has to be, you know, he's got a great command of the
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English language and he can say beautiful things that suddenly make you hate him less. That's my
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theory. He's a complete BSer. Like, remember when he talked about painting? Can you call
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that one up next? I just want to I'll show you afterwards. Just Justin and I laughed so much
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about this other clip I'm talking about. But yesterday he said something really beautiful
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about Canada. Take a look. Let's play the whole thing. I'm delighted to join your celebration
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of Canada Day. And on this occasion, words like friend and ally feel somehow inadequate.
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Britain and Canada share so much and the affinity between us runs so deep that I prefer to think of
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our two countries as not just friends, but as family. That's why we work hand in glove across the
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world as a combined force for good. Canada is the only country that sits alongside the UK in the
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G7, the G20, NATO, Commonwealth and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance. In some capitals around
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the world, our diplomats actually share the same embassy. All of this is entirely natural because
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we cherish the same freedoms. We stand for the same ideals. And by and large, we believe in the same
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causes. So let's work together even more intensively to build back better after COVID, protect our planet
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from climate change, promote clean and green development across the world, achieve a fantastic
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new free trade agreement as swiftly as possible. Make sure that we do that deal on cheese and stand up
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for freedom, democracy and human rights wherever they're threatened. Thank you.
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How nice was that? I thought, I mean, you don't often hear birthday wishes to include a reference to
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cheese, but I guess it's a big deal. I'm irritated by his climate obsession, his wind turbine obsession.
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But like I say, put that all aside. How are you not going to take that from a guy with messy hair
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and a twinkle in his eye, speaking, you know, obviously a written script for him? But Justin,
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does that not make you feel better? Does that, like that is just plain old nice. Tell you one thing,
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that's more pro-Canada than I've heard from Justin Trudeau, or for that matter, Aaron O'Toole,
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certainly more than Jagmeet Singh. So many people in Ottawa think that the new way to get ahead is to
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hate Canada to actually cancel Canada. Cancel culture has moved from an obscure part of the
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universities to the popular culture, and now even to government itself. You know that shot putter
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in America? Did you see that? That woman who came? Can you put her image up there?
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I mean, what's so brazen about that story is that she is on Team America. She's on the American
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national team. It's not a black team or a white team or a left-handed team or a right-handed team.
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What is the salient characteristic of Team America? It is American. So if you don't like America,
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you should not try out to be on Team America. Maybe there's another country in the world you like
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better. But I can't think, I mean, if I, you know, people who hate Canada, we talked about this on the
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show the other day. A lot of people want to tear down Canada. A lot of people want to tear down America
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and tear down the UK. To them, I say, okay, tell me where you'd rather be. Because it's not good enough
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to say, well, I have this utopian idea, or we'll figure that out afterwards. No, no. You can't tear
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something down without first knowing what you're going to build up. And if you are wearing green hair
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and have pierced your whole self a hundred times over, and you're depressed, and you're living in
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your parents' basement, and you're gender confused, and you're depressed, and your life is a total mess,
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you may not quite be the person to figure out what this new utopia is. As Jordan Peterson says,
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start by cleaning your own room. You want to fix the world? How about clean your own room?
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How many woke, insane people want to rebuild the entire world, but can't get their own act together?
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Am I right on that? Holy moly. Put that picture back up. Thank you for finding it. This is that American
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shot putter. She hates America. She says she can't wait to win in the Olympics so she can
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disparage America. The funny thing is, she started out, there's a twofer picture, there's a picture
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that's on Twitter, don't worry if you can't find it. She used to love America. Her own website
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has pictures of her holding the American flag. Those were older posts until she got some hate
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sponsor. Seriously, she got a sponsorship that has encouraged her to hate America. And not only does
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she do so, but she's changed her look. So she looks like some dystopian creature. Remember we looked at
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that series of, I think the art world would call them, that's just a neutral picture. She looks
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very sporty there. That's her website now, is it? Okay. She purged all the American flags from her,
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her website until like two days ago, had a lot of American flags on. She forgot to purge them
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when she started dissing America. Why are you on activist athlete? So that's her thing. Not best
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athlete. Activist athlete. I guess she's getting on that gravy train. Can you type in a Portuguese
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word in Twitter for me? Antes, A-N-T-E-S, that means before. A de pois. Antes, A-E-T-D-E-P-O-I-S,
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I think. I'm going, I don't know Portuguese. That means before and after. And in the art world,
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there's a diptych. It's two, two pieces of art that you display together. They're part of a theme.
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There was this Twitter account. It's probably taken down for being too mean. It was called
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Antes et Dubois. It was photos of beautiful young people in Brazil from every background. And if you
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know anything about Brazil, you know, it's a very multiracial place. You have indigenous,
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you know, the original peoples of South America. You have descendants of slaves who are freed. You
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have descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese. Obviously, it's a Portuguese speaking place.
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You have migrants. It is a very rich, it's a fascinating place. I've never been, I should
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tell you. I want to go. So you have these beautiful people of every background. They're like 17,
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18, 18, whatever. And then they go to this state university in Brazil and they come out
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crazy dystopian. Can you find there's nothing showing up? You know what? I bet it's being
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just any, all it is, is a series of the day they started this university, how beautiful they look,
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the boys and the girls full of promise. And then like afterwards, how insane they are,
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how weaponized they are against themselves. Just, it's a shame. It's a shame. It makes no sense.
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But if you want to be on Team America, then you should be on Team America. If you hate America,
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why, why did you try so hard to get on the team? Why did you elbow out everyone else who wants to be
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on the American team? If you hate the American team, that's the thing about the Olympics. It's not,
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it's not like the NFL, which is a bunch of different teams and they represent different regions or
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different, whatever. Team America is, you're representing America against the other teams
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in the world. It's so essentially American. And if that's what you hate, don't go.
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Anyways. So it was Canada Day. I think Trudeau actually is like one of these, actually,
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I don't think Trudeau means it. I think Trudeau loves the privileges and the riches and the luxuries
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and the power that come from Canada for him. I think, though, he sees the benefit in stirring up
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racial dissent. You know, I just tweeted two moments ago. Can you look at my tweet from two
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moments ago? I just went online and I checked. You know how many boil water advisories there are
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in Canada right now? Take a guess. 51. There are 51 boil water advisories. Trudeau is fomenting racial
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division in Canada to distract from his own failures. He promised to end drinking water
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advisories on Indian reserves by 2021. In fact, there are 51 boil water advisories on reserves,
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13 new ones last year and four new ones this year already.
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That's, you know what? I should have attached that to when those grassy, grassy narrows reserve
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have mercury poisoning. And they came to his speech and he said, thank you for your donation.
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So if you were Justin Trudeau, it's hard doing real things. It's hard negotiating for vaccines
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against 200 other countries in the world. It's hard fixing drinking water in a northern reserve
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with very poor infrastructure. Those are hard things that you probably need some real world skill.
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And you can't just give a TED talk speech and make that heart symbol and
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and then collect a speaking fee. Like Trudeau's whole life was show up, say some nice words,
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make that heart symbol and grab a check and go. He's never had a protracted problem that he had.
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He couldn't run away from or delegate. Who are you going to delegate?
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Buying vaccines, bidding against Donald Trump, as it was at the time and and Vladimir Putin or whatever.
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So if you're Justin Trudeau, do you really want to solve Indian problems?
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Maybe you actually do, but you've got no clue how.
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I mean, you got that little tattoo on your shoulder. Wasn't that enough?
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Hey, hey, guys, I got the I have the Aboriginal tattoo on my shoulder.
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What, there's still 51 drinking water advisories?
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So, um, I think he's loving it. Now, I'm going to do my whole show on this tonight,
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but I want to show you what happened. The Manitoba legislature yesterday on Canada Day.
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So the Manitoba legislature is what you think it is. It's the seat of power.
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Winnipeg is the largest city. It's the capital city.
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It's by far the most dominant place and powerful place in all of Manitoba.
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It's where Brian Pallister has his office, of course.
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And there's statues there of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth.
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And both were torn down, not in the dead of night, not secretly,
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but rather in the middle of the day, on Canada Day,
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with dozens of police standing by and watching. Take a look.
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Yeah. Um, so there's lots of different shots from different angles.
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I think those are two different statues, right?
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I think the first was Queen Elizabeth. I think the second was Queen Victoria.
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Um, I saw a report on the CBC. The headline was,
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One Arrested. I thought, oh, they arrested one person. That's odd.
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There was a couple dozen people involved. And then I saw, you want to call it the CBC story?
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Um, the guy who was arrested, if I'm reading the news right, was a counter-protester.
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So apparently, and again, the details were sort of sketchy,
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one guy showed up, two statues of Queens, top of the Manitoba legislature.
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At one point after the Queen Victoria statue was pulled down,
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police shocked a man with a stun gun and arrested him while others lobbed objects their way and yelled profanities.
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The circumstances of the arrest remained unclear.
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The crowd on the grounds was largely, largely peaceful, um, prior to the man's arrest,
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in which police pushed a throng back to take him into custody.
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Uh, I'm sorry. It was another report I read, but it had the same general information.
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They took the one counter-protester out, and it sounds like they tasered him.
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Um, there's a picture, I don't know if it was in that CBC story or another one,
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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There's, there's ten foot cops right in that little area.
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I'm guessing that's the guy they, they tasered.
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So, Broaddale, and, and look at the, the brazen confidence of,
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now those are just a few people standing there.
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I don't know if those ones pulled them down, but no one was shy.
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Do you have that clip of Trudeau that we used with Drea the other day,
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where the 16th second one, so, so besides tearing down statues,
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what, did you really think it would stop with John A. MacDonald?
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Did you really think it would stop with city halls tearing down statues?
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If city halls and universities and provinces can tear down statues,
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Not a word against this from, from so many different authorities.
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It's the symbolism that they want to tear down everything those statues represent.
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She represents the entire establishment, the entire structure of our society.
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Churches are even, it's even worse to go after the churches.
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I think we're up to about 20 churches in Canada,
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he literally spends six seconds on the substance
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I also want to talk about the arson and vandalism
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The destruction of places of worship is unacceptable and it must stop.
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but all Canadians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
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thanks very much for telling me I've got a role to play.
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What's my role to play in those 51 drinking water advisories?
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They can find 2 billion a year to give to China,
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but can't scrape together 200 mil to hire engineers to go fix the water
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problems they and previous governments caused by making natives dependent
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I want to let you know that drinking water advisories,
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And how does a boil water advisory help the problem when it's mercury in the water?
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you only get arrested for protesting in Manitoba if it's not against the lockdowns.
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Maxime Bernier was arrested in Manitoba for peacefully talking to supporters.
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That's the leader of a national political party arrested.
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But you have a hundred people pulled down some statues.
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Our own Drea Humphrey and Matt Brevner went to some of these churches in rural BC,
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do we have any clips from that or do you just have the whole thing?
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there's this one guy they talked to who says how much he loved the church.
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there's only one person that Drea interviewed that supports the arson.
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is she straight out of central casting for your middle-aged woke white woman?
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I can say that because like my brother-in-law is,
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I can totally say I'm for burning these churches down.
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if a local Indian band is going to have its church and community center burned down
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everyone got married and buried in that church.
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My thoughts is that it has to do with the Kamloops residential school.
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And so that's what I feel has happened here is my guess.
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I just wanted to interrupt because you heard her say murdered,
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But there's no allegation that they were murdered.
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The allegation is that it's a cemetery where the graves are not properly marked.
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estimated that there are thousands of these grave sites,
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And their estimate is that about 48% of the deaths were from tuberculosis,
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But especially if you're talking about a hundred years ago,
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let's stop talking about the problems of Canada for a minute and talk about the
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about a woman who has a mask exemption because she has asthma.
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And she was on the train and she had an exemption.
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you don't have to show your exemption to anyone.
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And they were two big burly cops and she's a young woman.
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And I guess that offended their masculinity or something.
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There's a young woman on a train in Australia who has a mask exemption,
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but these two thug cops don't know what to do about it.
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I'm going to take your bag outside the railway station.
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You've just taken a young girl's bag off her because she won't present a mask exemption to you.
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The video you're about to watch is probably one of the most egregious abuses of police power in New South Wales in the name of COVID so far.
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Hear the breakdown from a lawyer and then share it far and wide because the mainstream media,
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they're not going to share it and they're certainly not going to break it down for you.
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A young mother in Newcastle, New South Wales was on a train alone when police confronted her for not wearing a mask.
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World public transport, you're supposed to be wearing a mask.
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I'm a single person on a train without a mask on because I have an exemption.
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You are not getting my details and I do not need to give you my mask exemption.
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It was, it was, it was pretty shocking and it was confronting to watch.
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Why didn't you just give him your name and address?
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Well, I was just, I was under the impression that, you know, according to the guidelines,
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The video goes on for a bit and Avi interviews a lawyer who says, actually,
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you do have to give your name and address to police.
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And if you don't state it, they have to tell you it's an offense not to state it to encourage
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So actually it was a very, I learned a lot watching that video.
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I'm not going to play the whole thing because I don't know how many folks are watching in
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I think it's, I forget what time it is in Australia.
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I don't think we have a lot of Australian viewers at this hour because I think it's
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But I would encourage my Australian friends to watch the rest of that video.
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You don't have to divulge your personal and private medical details just to some guy who
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And that, again, is the law in most jurisdictions.
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So these two cops are saying this woman, get off the train.
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Not because she doesn't have a ticket, but because she doesn't have a mask and she says,
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But, um, so they, they grab her bag and say her bag, which she must need.
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That's a tort of theft or, uh, trying to think of the fancy legal terms, detenue or, or
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I don't know what the exact tort would be called.
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Looking at the super chats, Jesus loves all his children.
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Um, I tell you, we have so much news in Australia.
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Oh, and by the way, we're expanding our team in Australia.
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We just brought aboard a, a new writer who's going to help us get written stories from Down
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Under and they're going to be published on Australian time.
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Um, so this is the middle of our work day here in Canada.
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Um, so this is when we're busy, but obviously it makes no sense to publish a bunch of stories
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So, uh, we're hiring folks in Australia to make sure that, um, we're in sync with the
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Um, we have another, uh, video from Australia about a, uh, an Aussie man versus police again
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It's so crazy what people, the power that mask has, because it's a symbol.
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It's, you know, I've already told you that I know a young woman who, uh, I won't give
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It's probably a private story, but she said that she lived in a Muslim land and, um, she
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And when she, when she didn't, that lost her friends.
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She lost friends when she became a teenager and had to wear that and she didn't want to
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She didn't want to wear a mask and she lost friends over it.
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They're not actually afraid she's going to be sick or they get her.
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They're going to be, if, if you were afraid of someone without a mask, you wouldn't go
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up to them and say, I'm afraid that you, in fact, no one even says, I'm afraid you don't
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If I have to wear one, you do follow the rules.
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No one ever actually says, I'm afraid of you because they're not.
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And if they were, they would be running the other direction.
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The senior sergeant, the senior constable, has been killed with it for arriving now.
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You know, I hadn't watched that all the way through until now.
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What's the difference between that and a police state?
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I was just talking about, you know, what is the difference between that and Venezuela and Russia and Iran and China?
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putting a woman in the back of a police truck because she's not wearing a mask.
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And then a woman, I presume to be the wife of the old man, is filming it.
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And then they arrest her too and obviously grab her.
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When if you were to see a video like that from Russia, from Iran, from Venezuela, from China,
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you would have a field day and say, police state, authoritarian, you would be outraged.
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I actually haven't watched this whole video through until then.
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You know, it's 2.30 a.m. there in Melbourne, so I'm not going to call Avi now.
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But my God, that makes me want to contact that.
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But all three people who were victimized there, and I don't know what city that was in.
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I didn't see the police badge, if that was in the state of Victoria or in New South Wales.
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And the reason I'm upset is because there's a juxtaposition of two things.
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Of a police state and a citizenry that's still acting like they're free.
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So if that were in the aforementioned authoritarian countries, the citizens would be conditioned
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to run away, to obey, to be less naive, and to be less critical.
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Because they would know all of those paths would lead to ruin.
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So what you see is the lucky country, Australia, with happy, normal citizens who grew up with
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an expectation of limited, restrained, respectful, community-based policing with the consent of the
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community, like normal policing, who are still thinking they're in some pre-2020 world.
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They're still living and expecting the world to be free.
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And they think that somehow they're protected from what they're seeing just feet away from them.
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The woman thought, there's no way I'm going to be put in the back of a police van.
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The man thought, there's no way I'm going to get in trouble.
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The lady filming and narrating thought, there's no way this is possible.
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I'm going to talk to Avi when we, you know, we have a meeting every day at 5 p.m. Eastern time,
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Avi gets up early in the morning, joins our calls in his PJs.
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But we have a daily call with him, with the whole team,
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And we talk about things, and it's fun, because he's so, he's just as funny in real life.
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Would you say he's just as funny in real life as he is?
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He's got a great attitude, high energy, great nose for news, very courageous, very resourceful.
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And as you know, he's a Rebbe Award winner, you know, Best Builder Award.
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So what I mean by that is when we had our Rebbe Awards, I got that.
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That's you can get celebrities to do little birthday greetings or whatever.
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And one of the things we had was celebrities read the Rebbe Awards for the winners.
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Is it a dumb idea to take people's time to show those?
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I just really like, I got some of them handy here.
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I'm going to send you the, just for Avi, I'm going to send you, I don't know if it's the whole thing,
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It's sort of fun that this John Cleese, and there were some other really good ones there.
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I think we played some of these before, haven't we?
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Now, this is a special message from Ezra Levant,
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And Ezra says, Avi, that you win the Rebel News Award for Best Builder.
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And that's terrific, but I don't understand because later on Ezra says you're a reporter, editor, advocate, and friend.
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So, I don't know what building has got to do with being a reporter, but sometimes I'm not given all the information that I might need.
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But what Ezra says, and I've got to say it's extraordinarily impressive.
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He says that you single-handedly changed the political discussion in Australia.
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It really sounds extraordinary, particularly with Uncle Rupert and his stranglehold,
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and that you gave hope to the little people punished by the lockdown.
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And then Ezra says he's a great reporter, a great editor, a great advocate, and a great friend,
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So, Avi Yemeni, it seems to me that you're a rather remarkable person,
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and you have a good, loyal, and splendid friend in Ezra Levant.
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So, I wish I knew a little bit more about this, but it sounds terrific,
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We need good reporting, good editing now, as we've never needed before.
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And I don't know if you've ever seen my tweets.
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Rupert Murdoch was the first to take them down market, and they all followed him meekly.
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And now, apart from the Financial Times, I do not have a single paper that I basically trust.
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To single-mindedly change the political discussion in Australia, it's extraordinary things we've done.
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Thanks to Ezra Levant for asking me to send this message to Avi.
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And I wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and many, many years of your great reporting.
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I know it was a bit of a tension, and sometimes I do go on those.
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But I was just thinking friendly thoughts of my friend Avi, and I love talking about Rebbe Award winners, including Rebbe Award winner David Menzies, who won for Best Pandemic Reporting.
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I think he deserves it, especially in those early days.
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We'll have to put our heads together, Justin, about what to do for this year's Rebbe's, and for this year's Christmas get-together.
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But back to Avi and that videotape of the three Australians who were all arrested in quick order.
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That those Australians, the reaction they have, let's say you were, I mean, I know people from, our friend Mocha, from Turkey.
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There are elections, there are courts, but I don't think you can trust them that much.
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You can leave, but it, so it's not totalitarian, but it's authoritarian.
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People from authoritarian places are very different when they're out and about.
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If I had to choose one word to describe how they are, it would be afraid.
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I think I've told you before that I have family members who came from the former Soviet Union.
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Some of them came over in the brief period of detente under Jimmy Carter in the late 70s,
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and then others came after the Berlin Wall fell.
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And to hear them describe their lives in the Soviet Union, fear and caution outward.
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You could have some honest and private and truthful conversations with a very small group of people who you trusted,
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but when you went out of your house, you had to put on your public face.
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Never let people know what you're actually thinking.
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If you're upset by something, don't let it show.
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you would never interfere with a cop making an arrest.
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I guess maybe they would do that in the Soviet Union, but they sure wouldn't get close.
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And you would never in a million years try to stop the cops.
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So what you have is a vestige of the old civil liberties loving natural freedom, low stress, high trust lifestyle Australians
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I don't understand the law, but I understand it gives me power to do brutish things to people.
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I used to only do brutish things to other brutes.
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I used to only do brutish things to violent criminals.
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So when I roughed up a violent criminal, no one was that mad because he was a violent criminal
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But now those tough men are going after a grandma who's not wearing a mask.
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Those tough men are going after a asthmatic mum on a train and stealing your backpack.
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Either the world, including Canada, and I'm going to play the Tyler Shandro video next.
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Either the world has to defang these out-of-control police and cut them back down to size.
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And I mean a crime, not a fake crime, not a mask crime, not a church is open crime.
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So either the cops have to change or the people will have to change.
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We'll have to no longer assume that cops are our friends.
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We'll have to no longer assume that there will be a rule of law, that you will be treated reasonably,
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that police will exercise their discretion in a reasonable way.
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We will have to live like people lived in the former Soviet Union.
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Be terrified of cops, run the other way, don't make eye contact.
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Now, I saw a video coming out of Alberta yesterday, out of Calgary, of the disgraced health minister out there, Tyler Shandro.
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The one who was in that Sky Palace party, just for those of you who don't know, there's a skyscraper in Edmonton.
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And a former premier had like a secret apartment built in there, like his luxury apartment.
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And it became a scandal because it was millions of dollars to build this like ultra cool apartment in this tower overlooking the city.
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It was like what, like, I mean, it was really over the top.
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Really, I don't know why we haven't hired a lawyer to do a private prosecution.
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That last scene where all the pigs are drinking liquor and the animals, is it the farmer or is it the pig?
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It's, you know, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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So Tyler Shandro, the hypocrite, the lawbreaker, the scofflaw, the untrustworthy cheater who was there at the Sky Palace drinking $50 a bottle of liquor while ordering police to arrest Christian pastors and lockdown businesses.
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That same corrupt Tyler Shandro was at a Canada Day event yesterday with his kids.
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And some hecklers, who I understand are affiliated with a fringe candidate for mayor out there named Kevin J. Johnson, they started heckling Shandro in the presence of his kids.
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And one of them said to the kids, your dad's a war criminal, which is a dumb thing to say because there's no war going on.
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It's, it's not, I mean, I know what war crimes are, but some of them are, it's not a war crime.
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But look, my view is don't, don't bug children.
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If a politician is with his children, don't, don't engage.
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I acknowledge that there's a blurry line when you're a public person at a public event and you bring your kids along.
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I think it's a dumb thing to say you're a war criminal because he's not involved in a war.
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What he's doing against Albertans may be unlawful, unethical, immoral, unconstitutional, illegal, but it's not a war.
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But putting aside that verbal thing, lock him up, belongs in jail.
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Well, he locked up other people for breaking the health laws, so maybe he does belong in jail.
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I'm not against a heckle, lock him up, you belong in jail.
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I'm not against heckles that are technically inaccurate, like he's a war criminal.
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I just think that sounds goofy, but it's not, shouldn't be against the law to heckle a politician who is being so abusive and such a cheater himself.
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And I just, before I play it, I just want to be clear.
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Now, there are some exceptions where the family is just as political as the, you know, for example, the president and Jill Biden, the first lady.
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Like, I think that Sophie Trudeau in Canada, she's estranged from Justin.
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She really doesn't do any public duties anymore.
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Once a year, she poses for a photo with him, and it's very tense.
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I don't think Sophie Trudeau, you know, when she was doing weird public things, I think she was fair game.
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I think Sophie Trudeau is a private citizen there.
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Like, when was the last time you saw her do anything?
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Like, seriously, once in a blue moon, she pops up in, like, some PR photo.
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But, for example, she did not accompany Justin Trudeau to the G7.
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But you'll notice all the other leaders had their spouses there.
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So Sophie Trudeau, I would say she's estranged from Justin Trudeau.
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I don't think they're divorced, but I think probably they're legally separated.
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I mean, they posed for the out family photo, but I do not think that Sophie Trudeau is a public person anymore.
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I think he'll pressure her to do a campaign event, but maybe not even.
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I think Tyler Shandro's kids and his wife are not public people.
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I'm not against heckling abusive political leaders who themselves have ordered the arrest of, for example, Tim Stevens in front of his beautiful children.
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It's a bit hard for me to feel a tremendous sense of pity for the exact politician who sent people away to prison for weeks because they broke the same law he did at the Sky Palace.
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And he arrested Pastor Tim Stevens in front of his crying children.
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I'm sorry of all the four and a half million people in Alberta to be embarrassed.
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I think Tyler Shandro, it's like you were the one who ordered other families destroyed for breaking some health rule.
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You were the one who ordered other dads to be arrested in front of their crying children.
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I don't recommend, like I say, I don't believe in criticizing people's families or if they're private, personal families.
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But my God, I just don't have any heart left over for Tyler Shandro because I was too busy caring about his victims, including Tim Stevens.
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What do you got to say to all the thousands of businesses you've destroyed, Mr. Shandro?
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What do you got to say to all the Albertans whose lives you've destroyed, Albertans' businesses and lives, with your lives?
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Everyone will be in prison for a very long time.
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But, you know, for them to hear people have, you know, believing some of the misinformation about vaccines has been unfortunate.
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We want them to answer for their actions and what they've done over the past 15 months.
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Now, that guy at the very end, the media says, the mainstream media says he is affiliated with Kevin Johnson, who's a candidate for mayor, who's in jail out there right now.
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That's not a nice thing to say, but that's what Shandro says to Christian pastors.
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So I don't really understand what the problem there is.
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Thousands of businesses you've destroyed and lives you've destroyed.
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And then Shandro says his kids had some anxiety.
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So the media is very sympathetic to Tyler Shandro, which I haven't seen before.
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Can you grab the footage of what Tyler Shandro did to Tim Stevens and his kids?
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I do not want kids to be political footballs or punching bags.
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Have I said that like 10 times in the last 10 minutes?
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But let me show you what Tyler Shandro did to the children of Tim Stevens.
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By the way, Tyler Shandro ordered Pastor Stevens' arrest, not once, but twice.
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Yeah, so of all the people in 4.5 million Albertans to feel sorry for, I just can't muster it for Tyler Shandro.
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But for Tyler Shandro, he's the wicked man who did what we just showed you there to Tim Stevens' crying children twice now.
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I think Tyler Shandro is a disgrace and I think that he should not take his children out to public events anymore
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because I think it's to be expected that millions of Albertans hate Tyler Shandro for what he has done.
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And it is a constitutional right to speak truth to power.
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Section 2B of our Constitution allows us freedom of speech expression.
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I sometimes say there's no human right not to be offended.
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That's a counterfeit human right not to be offended.
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That's a power of the state to order you not to say something.
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And again, they didn't have that right in the former Soviet Union.
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You couldn't push back against the state here in Canada and in America, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in other parts of the Anglosphere.
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Very luckily, we do have a right to be offended.
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And of the 4.5 million Albertans who have been punished these last year and a half by Tyler Shandro,
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it's actually their constitutional right to be offended by that cabinet minister, that politician, that cheating Sky Palace lawbreaker.
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So my advice, father to father, is don't take your kids with you.
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Because now you know, a little reminder of how much you're hated.
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I think it's fair that he's hated because he's done things that we should hate.
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We should hate a man who orders pastors to be locked up.
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Whether it's Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, or Tyler Shandro.
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By the way, when that was filmed, Tim Stevens was still in prison on Canada Day when the lockdown was allegedly lifted.
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I regard myself as a public person, but my family is not public.
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So dad to dad, my advice to you, Tyler, is don't go out in public with your kids.
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And by in public, I mean, you can go out on the street.
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But, you know, maybe keep wearing your face mask so people don't recognize you.
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Maybe have your wife take the kids out just for a while so people can get over what you've done.
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And by a while, you know, just for two weeks to flatten the curve.
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So just give it two weeks to flatten the curve.
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And then, you know, maybe two weeks will extend a little bit.
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But yeah, you've been holed up in the Sky Palace.
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You've been only reading what your staff have shown you.
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You don't realize what you've done because you were surrounded by the lockdown class.
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Everyone you interacted with thought you were doing amazing.
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Your staff loves you and staff always tell you the truth.
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But they're lockdownists, so they love that of what you did.
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And you worked in a building that, you know, was staffed by government unions in a town, Edmonton, government unions.
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Or if they lost the work, they didn't lose the pay.
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So Tyler Shandro, for a year and a half, you've been living in a fake bubble, a sky palace, if you will,
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where you're up on high looking down at the little ants below.
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And you're up there drinking only a $50 bottle of booze.
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Laughing at the people down below who you're having arrested for getting together like you were up in the sky palace.
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So you finally come down from the sky palace and you walk out amongst the people.
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They were going to throw rose petals at your feet.
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But you destroyed thousands of businesses and thousands of lives.
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You actually, statistically, you caused many deaths.
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Because the lockdown itself caused many deaths through suicide and drug addiction.
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And of course, the punishments that poverty brings life.
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So, Tyler, I just don't think this is going to stop.
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So my advice to you is keep your kids out of it.
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Just keep ordering delivery, whatever fancy waiters you guys have working there.
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But if you come down expecting the little people to love you,
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And, you know, looking at the names you were called.
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You're just going to keep hearing that for a long time.
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What, do you think you're going to, you think you've got a future?
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You think you're going to be Premier of Alberta one day or something?
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I don't like the fact that someone had your children as collateral damage
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But every word that was said for you to hear, I'm completely fine with.
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And frankly, if he has to go to jail for breaking the health rules,
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I should look into a private prosecution for that.
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I mean, seriously, why does that Sky Palace get a pass?
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Let me just see if there's any more super chats there.
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Wow, arresting people for not wearing a mask outside.
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The mask is a muzzle and it keeps the scam going.
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Not okay to bully online, but it is okay to bully in person.
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I don't know if you're referring to Tyler Shandro or the cops, the arrest.
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But I think what that heckler in Calgary did to Tyler Shandro was not bullying.
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The only problem I have is that the kids were involved.
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So Tyler Shandro's got to leave his kids at home if he goes out somewhere where he's going
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I'm going to go in depth about the Winnipeg toppling of the statues.