DAILY Roundup ｜ VanCity cop laughs at assault, Carbon tax goes up (again), TO legalizing hard drugs
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It's National Film Score Day, and we're celebrating it by listening to the Hans Zimmer score from The Dark Knight Rises. Plus, Justin Trudeau's carbon tax is back in the news, and there's a new minister dedicated to climate change.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, you have tuned into the Daily Roundup on this
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a Monday, April 3rd, 2023. I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little
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bit about my co-host. Folks, do you know that today is National Film Score Day and when my co-host wants
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to get inspired, she puts on her Batgirl costume and listens to the Hans Zimmer score from The Dark
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Knight Rises. Look out! She is the She-Devil with a slingshot. She is the Khaleesi of the greater
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Coburg area. She is Tamara Ugolini. How you doing there, Tamara? Such a missed opportunity. I could
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have wore my son's Bat costume mask over my eyes today. Wouldn't have that been a fun way to kick
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off our Daily Roundup. I bet you could rock that costume, Tamara. But yeah, I mean, I'll tell you,
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you know, there is some great film scores out there and I actually bought that soundtrack from
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The Dark Knight Rises because that is absolutely fantastic music, especially when it's put to a
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Batman theme. So anyways, I hope, however you celebrate National Film Score Day, I hope you
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have a great day at it. I hope you celebrate it with the windows down. Wow, packed agenda as always,
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and we have to have a hard end at two o'clock and I think this is when you step in and tell the folks
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out there what it is we are ostensibly trying to do here. Yeah, lots of news to cover today on this
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Manic Monday. So you are watching our Daily Roundup and for all of our viewers at home,
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it's a chance for us to bring you some commentary live and have you also engage back with us. So we
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Rumble or Odyssey and where you can engage with us using a super chat or a hyper chat because we want to get
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some of your feedback on some of the hot topics that we are going to delve into today. And the first
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of which is going to be the climate alarmism. And namely here in Canada, how our cost on how we're
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supposed to offset carbon footprint and carbon output is just going up. So the taxpayers are really
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bearing the weight of the financial strain for government carbon related policies thanks to the
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Justin Trudeau liberals and their climate alarmism. So we have an actual minister dedicated. He's the
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environmental minister, but he's also now the minister of climate change. They're not questioning
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like it's very clear the science they say that the climate is in fact changing and we need a minister
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dedicated to addressing this. And so we have the Honourable Stephen Gilbeau. He has recently been,
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I guess, David, how do you put it, called out by some mainstream media journalists about how the
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carbon tax, which is not an April Fool's Day joke, it did just go up on April the 1st amid record inflation
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and an inability for Canadians to feed their families and heat their homes. We are facing a
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looming recession. But nonetheless, the liberals went ahead with not only giving themselves a pay
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raise on April 1st, but also simultaneously hiking up the carbon tax. And we have a little video of him
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getting some pushback from a journalist on who the ones that are being harmed primarily by this tax hike
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really are. Minister, respectfully, I'm looking at the PBO's report right now, and he goes through
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each quintile of the income brackets. In Alberta, each and every quintile will see a net loss. In
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Saskatchewan, all but the very lowest income. And the same in Manitoba. So I take your point that it is
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progressive. But in those instances, in those provinces, it's only those at the lowest part of the
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income scale that will see any net benefit. Everybody else, and certainly those in the second
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income bracket are not exactly the richest of Canadians. And once again, when your government
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said what this program was intended to accomplish, it made a promise to Canadians that they wouldn't
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be out of pocket for it. If a majority of Canadians are, and I'm not debating the merits of carbon
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pricing in this. I'm just trying to ask you if you understand why there are Canadians right now who are
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facing such tough financial times, who are saying, can you put a pause on this? Can you help us out?
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Because it isn't like the rebates are covering at all.
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Well, we're doing a number of other things, Vashi, to help Canadians and to support Canadians
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through the transition to a lower carbon future. Like a program to help people to get off home
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eating oil, which is much more expensive, much more polluting than using heat pumps, for example.
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So we're working with a number of jurisdictions across the country to do that. And as you said in the
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introduction about the parliamentary budget officer, I mean, he acknowledges that he doesn't take into
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account the cost of the impacts of climate change. And let me give you just one example. Summer of 2021,
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in British Columbia, the overall economic impact of natural catastrophes, that year alone,
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in British Columbia alone, 17 billion dollars. This is a bill that all Canadians are paying.
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And that's one year, one jurisdiction in Canada. I get all that, and I'm not negating it, but that
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isn't what you told Canadians carbon pricing would be. You didn't say it's going to cost you, but we'll
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do all this other stuff to help you. You said our rebates will cover you. We have said that the rebates
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would help the people most in need in Canada. And that's exactly what the system is doing.
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Well, well, first of all, Tamara, you know, to get back to what you were saying earlier,
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before we ran the clip. Yeah, I do love that virtue signaling. It was t'was ever thus,
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it was the Ministry of the Environment. Now it's the Ministry of the Environment and climate change. So
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even on a title, even in a bureaucratic department, the Liberals can't help but do some virtue
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signaling. And, you know, it makes my heart bleed that, oh, I don't know, 120 million years ago that
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there wasn't a stegosaurus or a triceratops named Minister of Climate Change. So they could have,
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you know, helped the dinosaurs walk through that really big incident of climate change. But I digress.
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So I guess what I'm seeing here is that Minister Gibault has committed the greatest sin of all
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when you're part of Blackface's Liberal cabinet, which is he's told the truth. He is saying
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households will pay more. And correct me if I'm wrong, Tamara, but I thought those little checks we
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get in the mail every quarter or every half year or however the frequency is, I thought that
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was to more than cover the price of the pump, what we're paying in home heating oil, etc. But
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good golly, leave it to a convicted criminal, Gibault, to actually tell the truth. What do you make of this?
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Yeah, you know, that was under the guise of, they were sweet-talking this program, was that you would
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pay more now, but it was like an investment, right? So you would be reimbursed and then some,
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the green energy is all about an investment. It's going to be so lucrative and we're going to gain
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money and you just have to upfront billions of dollars and then we're going to somehow get it all
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back in this magical, mysterious world of the green economy. What I really liked and wanted to point out
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here that Gibault talks about is the idea of a heat pump and replacing your oil. I don't know if he's
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just mincing his words and he's not quite sure what a heat pump is, but maybe a heat pump would work in
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British Columbia or some of those southern states. But here in the really trepid temperatures of Ontario,
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Alberta, the places near the north, a heat pump has a sweet spot of efficiency in and around minus 5,
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maybe minus 8, minus 10, up until about plus 5 and plus 10. After that, they are completely useless.
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So there is maybe two months out of the 12 months of the year that a heat pump could be efficiently
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utilized. And to say that that's a suitable replacement for something like oil, these people have no idea
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what they're actually talking about. And that just continues to go on and on and on for it seems like
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for forever. And now they're completely decimating Canadians at the banks and their ability to heat their
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homes and their ability to feed their families and telling us to, well, just use your heat pump. Whereas, you know,
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right now is maybe the sweet spot where the heat pump would be useful. And every other season throughout
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Unbelievable. I mean, could you imagine our beloved colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who lives somewhere in the
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hinterland north of Edmonton? And even last month in March, there were days minus 30, minus 32, just
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recently minus 16. That's called a warming trend. So this heat pump you speak of, Tamara, wouldn't work under
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those climatic conditions. So I guess, well, maybe Mr. Guibo, he didn't finish the sentence,
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if you live in an area that gets temperatures colder than minus eight, please put on some extra
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sweaters. Hey, if you've got dogs, bring the dogs into the house and, you know, get close to them.
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You know, the name of the band, Three Dog Night, Tamara, that was all about surviving harsh climates.
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You know, in the north, if it's a really cold night, you bring in a dog. If it's excruciatingly
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cold, you bring in a second dog. But the worst kind of cold is a three dog night. So buy some dogs
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and lie with them on those really cold nights if you're depending on a heat pump. Unbelievable. And
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I just want to know what other liberals are saying, because Guibo has basically admitted
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that we are getting hosed in terms of compensation for these carbon taxes.
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And I do believe we do have another clip, Tamara, of, well, Blackface, yet again, he's sticking to the
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script, uh, promoting the lie that the carbon tax, uh, will raise the cost of living for Canadians, but
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put money back into your pockets, uh, does not compute. Let's hear Blackface explain it to us all.
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The parliamentary budget officer says most people will be paying thousands of dollars more in carbon
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tax than they will get in rebates. Why do you continue to claim that most people will come out ahead?
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Uh, first of all, uh, everybody knows that we have to fight climate change.
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But more than just fighting climate change, we have to prepare, uh, and invest in innovating for
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the future. And the best way to do that is to ensure that there is a price on pollution. And that's
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exactly what we did. We did it at the federal level, uh, imposing it on the provinces that didn't have
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one. But here in Quebec, it's been a long time that you've always had a price on pollution, that
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you've had a price on pollution. So the federal backstop and program doesn't apply in Quebec.
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So families in Quebec haven't seen, uh, any shift in the carbon price, uh, as of April 1st, as they
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did elsewhere across the country. But elsewhere across the country, where we bring in the price on
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pollution under the federal backstop, we also bring in a climate action incentive that right now more
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than compensates for the added costs of, uh, the, the carbon tax. And this is what conservatives continue
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to mislead Canadians about. We're fighting climate change at the same time as the climate action
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incentive comes into people's bank accounts four times a year, hundreds of dollars to help them
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as they make choices that are better for their family and better for the environment.
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Conservatives still think we don't have to do anything to fight climate change.
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Well, I've got droughts and wildfires and, and increased hurricanes that prove them wrong about that.
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Canadians right across the country know we have to fight climate change. We have to do it in a way
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that stays affordable for people. And that's exactly what we will continue to do.
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Oh my goodness. There's so much to, um, you know, analyze there. First of all, I, once again,
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it's too bad to see the prime minister, uh, blackface, uh, confusing, uh, climate and weather.
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Uh, again, I mean, drought, wildfires, uh, oh no, planet earth has never experienced that in its, um,
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multi-billion dollar, uh, multi-billion year history. But I want to go back to the first thing he said,
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Tamara, which was everyone knows we have to fight climate change. Oh, really? Everyone like, um,
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so admires in terms of getting things done. The last I saw, uh, Tamara, they weren't fighting
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climate change, but they were adding hundreds of new coal generation plants every year. And remember,
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this is the, uh, dictatorship he so admires and probably the number one polluter in terms of
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countries in the world. So right from the beginning to the end, this guy would, you know,
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had all the ethics of a flim flam man and trying to explain why we common Canadians are paying more
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on everything because of this useless carbon tax. Well, and the question clearly says Canadians are
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going to spend thousands more. And then he responds with, well, you'll receive a few hundred,
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some hundreds into your bank account over the next year. Well, you shell out thousands at the pumps,
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at the grocery store, uh, to your utility companies. The cost is just insane. And what this government
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never seems to mention is how unsustainable lithium drilling or mining is the oil. They there's,
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you know, the issue, the ethical issue with child labor, slave labor, unregulated work place
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issues in third world countries with mining lithium. And then of course you have your oil and gas sector,
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which is primarily hard working trained men who are paid well, who are professionals in their field,
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who are out there doing difficult, a difficult job they signed up for. These aren't child slaves
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heading out to a mine in the middle of, you know, a mud pit. Um, so, so they're completely missing the bar
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on where these energy sources are coming from at their source. And none of this can be seen as
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sustainable in the long run. Uh, solar panels, wind energy, your heat pump that Gibbo thinks will
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somehow replace oil. Um, they all run on electricity and they all have a lifespan and their lifespan is
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usually around 20 to 25 years. So we put up all this upfront cost. And then by the time we get the
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return on that investment in approximately 20 years, the product is no longer any good. So at that point,
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what do we do? No. And, and you know, Tamara, you raise a good point. Uh, these types are all about the
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EV, the electric vehicle revolution. Um, the biggest virtue signal of all would be the state of California.
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I think it's by 2030 or 2035. I can't remember. Uh, that's when they will ban the sale of, uh,
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fossil fuel vehicles in California. Funny thing is, uh, Tamara. We're not far off.
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Oh, and that's nothing. It'll be here before you know it. But right now, California has the deal
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with roving brownouts and blackouts. Okay. They have one nuclear plant left. It has two reactors
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within the next two years. Both those reactors are going offline. There are no plans to build new
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nuclear reactors in California. So imagine taking the inventory of fossil fuel cars in California right
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now, which is about 14.2 million vehicles, making them eventually all EVs to a state that is already
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unable to cope with electricity demands. And you can export that model to other jurisdictions,
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including right here in Ontario. When you talk about a complete replacement, this is madness,
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uh, Tamara. Um, I, I think, you know, if that legislation goes through, um, I, if I was a Californian or
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in any region where there is a threat of brownouts and blackouts, I'm investing, I'm going into deep
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debt to buy some good old gas burning cars because that Tesla that you just bought or any of those
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other electrical vehicles, which are typically more than twice the price of the carbon version.
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Well, you're going to see those turn into very expensive paperweights, but they don't tell you
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about that. It's full speed ahead. And one last point on that, Tamara, you think at least they would
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lead by example. When I see Blackface go visiting, uh, with his eight vehicle motorcade, they are
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typically big eight cylinder Chevy Suburbans and Ford Expeditions. Um, no EV vehicles there, no plug-in
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hybrids, no even basic hybrids, all fossil fuel burning vehicles, which they let idle.
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By the way, while, uh, Blackface is doing his speech indoors. Um, you know, again, Tamara,
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we see do as I say, not as I do, don't we? That's right. And I, I heard on the radio on
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Saturday and I was just trying to quickly pull up an article. I can't seem to, uh, to get one up here,
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but I think it's General Motors is pivoting to exclusively manufacture electric vehicles by the
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year 2028. This is five years from now. And we, I think we'll see, we will have a difficult time
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purchasing vehicles that run on traditional fossil fuels at this point. And I, for one,
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do not want an electric vehicle that, you know, can just spontaneously combust needs to stop every
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so often at charging stations for half an hour, 45 minutes, plus, plus, plus, uh, has this inefficient
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battery that will die in the middle of our harsh, cold weather, winter conditions.
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This is absolute absurdity. Um, and I'm going, shoot, we better try to invest in some sort of
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better fossil fuel burning vehicle by, you know, 2027 so that we can hopefully have the longevity
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of a fossil burner while our government attempts to pivot to these electric vehicles for the next,
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however many years they push it before they realize that it's going to be a failed endeavor
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and a failed investment. This is absolutely insane. I don't know how, you know, these,
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these companies must be being incentivized by the billions, by the government and other stakeholders
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to push this because it does not make any sort of economic or, um, efficient sense to do so.
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Oh, but Tamara, well, first of all, uh, 2028, that's a new date for me. I thought
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their original statement was 2030, but maybe they're so gung ho. They're pushing it.
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That's incredible. Um, no, when it comes to General Motors, Tamara, we need only look back on recent
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history. This is a company, um, that has been bailed out by the taxpayer, not once, but twice.
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So General Motors can roll the dice. And that's what this is. If you're talking about only offering
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electric cars in just five years time, that is a humongous roll of the dice. And if General Motors
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fails, guess what, Tamara, you and I, and all of the members of our audience, both north and south of
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the border, we're going to bail them out a third time because GM is too big to fail. Remember that?
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So they, um, they're like the high wire artists operating with a safety net below. Um, when you
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do that, you can take more risks because if you fall off the high wire, uh, you're going to be safe.
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If there's no net there, uh, you're going to die. And GM has been mollycoddled by governments for
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decades. So that's why they can do something outrageous like that. But, and I got to tell you,
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uh, uh, Tamara, Lincoln, Jay, and I back in December, as you may know, we went out, uh, to the plant,
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the Cammy plant in, uh, Southern Ontario, uh, where GM is making a huge investment for electrical,
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um, basically work trucks. We were invited by GM to come there, which was great. Um,
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but once, uh, Blackface got a look at who was on the list for media, we were told to leave the
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property or be charged with trespassing. Unbelievable. Uh, I think, uh, uh, Mr. Producer Efron has got the,
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uh, uh, video proof there. That's the security guard telling us to, uh, he went from, uh, welcome to the
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Cammy plant to, you better beat it or else we're calling the cops. Unbelievable, but it's too bad
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because what I just said in the last couple of minutes, those were part of my hard questions that
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no one in the media that did get in that day would dare ask. And also you got to wonder, um, last month
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there was that announcement, Tamara, of a Volkswagen plant being set up in Southern Ontario. Um, I think
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it's 7.1, 7.3 billion, lots of jobs. I'm happy about that. But when the question came to how much
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did the federal government and the province of Ontario, uh, put into that plant, what were we
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told? Oh, uh, that's confidential information. That's competitive information. Hey, listen,
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the federal government and the, uh, and the province of Ontario government were private corporations.
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I get that. It's none of our business, but we are the shareholders. We are the stakeholders.
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I just wonder how much of that 7 plus billion for the Volkswagen, uh, electric battery manufacturing
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plant is coming right out of taxpayer dollars. Uh, Tamara, do you, do you want to harbor a guess?
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Well, I, I, I want to actually issue a clarification because that's what I was talking about. That's what I
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was referring to, uh, referring to not General Motors, but this, this new plant that is being
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opened by Volkswagen, um, to solely manufacture their golf, which will be solely electric battery
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powered. And so, sorry, um, I was, uh, a little bit misinformed there at the beginning, but that is
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what I was referring to by 2028, that there will be no, they will not be manufacturing the Volkswagen
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Gulf at Gulf as a fossil fuel guzzler, um, from that point forward. And, uh, and yeah, it's clear,
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like I said, that the government, their, their subsidies and the stakeholders involved here,
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that they're pushing the funding on these initiatives without fully thinking through how
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this is going to function on the ground. We don't have the infrastructure for the charging station.
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Sheila has done numerous reports, order paper questions, access to information requests on
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this. We see that, you know, especially in the Northern countries where batteries of this
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caliber are not going to be able to withstand those harsh cold temperatures. There just isn't
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the infrastructure there to withstand any of this. We know that there are safety concerns with electric
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vehicles. Um, fossil fuels seem to be working really well thus far. And as long as our
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government stops taxing the bejesus out of us on them, uh, they're pretty cost effective.
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And if we can, you know, filter out this bureaucracy that's generating so many funds on top of the cost
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of the fuel, then that brings it down even more. And you have, you know, leader of the opposition,
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uh, Pierre Polyev really pointing out once again, the, uh, hypocrisy of the bureaucracy with his,
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this April fool's day joke, which actually is just a joke on struggling Canadians who can't afford,
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as I've mentioned, to heat their homes or feed their families. They're going to be paying more
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at the pumps, which is just going to further translate into increased costs at the grocery
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store for the transportation of all of your goods and services. Everything is going to continue to
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inflate because of this tax. We have world hunger. Um, we have so many global issues that could be
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easily remedied by these billions of dollars. And yet our government tells us that we need to get
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taxed more to save, to fight climate change. I'd like to know how tax helps the earth at the end of
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the day, right? It boils down to that a hundred percent. And, um, I just want to also state here,
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uh, Tamara, if there was a business case for these electrical vehicles, then why does government have
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to come in with these huge subsidies? And the answer is the business case for the vast majority
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of Canadians who are not stinking rich. These are too expensive. You're looking at six figure vehicles
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in order to liken it to Tamara, uh, back in, I remember, um, let's around 1977, you saw the first,
00:27:14.420
um, push for VCRs on the market back when there was a beta max and VHS and, and that war. And in
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seventies dollars, I remember you had to pay in the neighborhood of $1,600 for a VCR. Can you imagine that?
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So if you want to be a trailblazer, you are going to pay a huge price. We are in the infancy
00:27:39.220
of EV vehicles. Um, I'll give you a perfect example of the Ford F-150 Lightning, which is an
00:27:45.300
all electric Ford F-150 pickup truck. I remember seeing this reported in car and driver. So these
00:27:50.900
are us numbers, 69,000 us is the truck, but get a load of this. And I've never seen this ratio before
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in my life. The dealer markup, $73,000 more than the actual truck itself. So in other words, Tamara,
00:28:09.620
you could buy two top of the line fuel burning F-150s for the price of one, uh, Ford 150 Lightning EV.
00:28:19.780
Um, that, that's not smart. Who, who would, who wouldn't, and also in the early goings of
00:28:26.100
electrification, um, you want to track record for that vehicle of at least a few model years
00:28:32.420
so they can iron out all the bugs. So, you know, it, it's not a good gamble by the manufacturers
00:28:39.060
and God forbid consumers going into debt to buy one of these EVs, not a good move.
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And I was going to say the reliability of fossil fuel manufactured vehicle is going to be far
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superior than anything you're going to, to get with these, uh, electric vehicles. But I think
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Now, we have an absolutely crazy story coming out of Vancouver from this past weekend. I guess it was
00:31:39.220
Trans Visibility Day because there's a lack of visibility there, apparently. But an activist who
00:31:49.380
really is trying to uphold the fact that children and adolescents cannot consent to some of this
00:31:58.340
very aggressive treatment in terms of medical transitioning. And we've seen this, the indoctrination
00:32:08.020
happening at the school level and arguably all throughout our society. But Billboard Chris has
00:32:15.780
been a really big name in denouncing gender ideology and specifically as it targets youth,
00:32:23.220
minors and younger children, younger and younger children. And just this past weekend at a protest,
00:32:30.020
he was assaulted by, you know, that crowd that says love is louder. I think is their mantra and
00:32:37.540
inclusivity and tolerance. And love trumps hate, right? Yeah, love is louder. I think it's love is
00:32:45.780
louder than hate. And so we're going to show you some clips, first and foremost, so that you can see
00:32:51.300
for yourself what happened here in Vancouver over the weekend. And then we're going to tell you what
00:32:57.460
Rebel has is going to be doing about it. So first, I think we have the first clip where Billboard
00:33:05.540
Chris has been assaulted and the police have been called in, you know, to keep the peace,
00:33:10.900
I think is what their duties are supposed to be in a situation like this and potentially
00:33:16.180
make arrests while they investigate a situation where an assault has taken place.
00:33:21.940
And this was kind of the response that the Vancouver Police Department met Chris with.
00:33:28.100
Listen, I love the police. My brother's a police officer. I respect law and order. I respect our
00:33:38.900
Charter of Rights and Freedoms. And I'm not trying to be a jerk to you earlier today. I don't think a
00:33:44.660
lot of you understand what I'm actually representing and the seriousness of this situation.
00:33:49.940
But it is what it is, I guess. I just, this is Canada and people shouldn't be allowed to
00:33:57.860
assault people without consequence, you know? I agree, Chris, but the thing is, right,
00:34:03.220
when we get into people's faces and they get into our faces, it doesn't really matter who does the
00:34:09.060
first push. It's considered a consensual fight. And maybe that's something you should...
00:34:13.140
I didn't, no, no, you, that's, I didn't get into people's faces. I was here for...
00:34:19.860
You weren't here. You weren't even here. I was...
00:34:24.180
I came and walked, I came out, I came over to your car.
00:34:32.980
Are you kidding me? I'd walked, I'd been walking away from them.
00:34:36.980
To do an interview with him. They came close. I walked away again to do the interview with him.
00:34:41.940
What I'm saying is at this point, maybe you should ask your brother what a consensual fight is, right?
00:34:46.980
Oh my gosh, this is unbelievable. I walked away from them three times.
00:34:51.380
They were surrounding me. You all were doing nothing.
00:34:54.420
A man yelled at my, a man yelled in my ear from inches away,
00:34:58.500
and I tried to get out of this situation where they're surrounding me while you guys do nothing,
00:35:29.860
Do you even know what, like, why are you behaving like this?
00:35:33.460
Do you think I'm evil or something for having this position? Like, what's your problem?
00:35:36.500
Yeah, you were females, and this should be an issue for you.
00:35:41.220
Excuse me, this has nothing to do with you, okay?
00:35:43.940
I'm a female, it has nothing to do with me, this trans thing. No, no, nothing to do with women.
00:35:50.660
I'm talking to somebody else about something, okay?
00:35:53.220
Oh, it doesn't, these conversations are pointless right now. You're trying to,
00:35:56.900
now you're trying to insinuate that that was a mutual thing, like, my gosh, mutual thing.
00:36:01.060
I'd walked away from the crowd three times, they kept following me, then they surrounded me from
00:36:04.900
all sides, started yelling in my ear from inches away, while you all did nothing.
00:36:10.100
And then when I can't even get out of that surrounding, and I get punched in the face,
00:36:17.140
I get pulled, you're telling me that's a mutual engagement?
00:36:25.860
You have the right not to be here either, right?
00:36:28.580
It's incredible. And I have the right to be here.
00:36:33.140
Have you read this thing called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
00:36:43.700
Oh my God. Tamara, imagine, God forbid, you were ever being assaulted out west,
00:36:49.700
and that police officer comes to the scene of the crime.
00:36:56.500
She, as Billboard Chris said, three times he walked away, and they followed him,
00:37:02.820
they surrounded him. We've got some more footage coming up, folks, and you'll see just how bad it
00:37:08.180
was. And he got slugged with a haymaker and officer, what is her name? Buckman, I believe.
00:37:19.300
Yeah, who cannot suppress that Chrystia Freeland, Cheshire Cat grin. I don't know what she finds
00:37:26.740
so amusing about it. She called it, correct me if I'm wrong, a consensual fight. That was a mugging.
00:37:34.660
Well, why don't we show the actual assaults here?
00:37:37.300
Because that was kind of the aftermath. So let's show you, and I think this was actually the second
00:37:42.580
assault. So this is after the police have already arrived, and they're supposed to probably prevent
00:37:47.060
further assaults from happening. But nonetheless, this is what happened.
00:37:55.060
Oh, and I'm hearing that this may be actually the first assault. And it's so hard to keep track
00:37:59.540
of because there were so many assaults, and it's only the citizen journalists who are documenting
00:38:04.100
this, and it's happening in real time. And so we do have a space where you're going to be able to
00:38:10.340
learn more and find the facts and the series of events and how this unfolded. But I think this is,
00:38:19.380
Why do you think that they're getting that kind of representation? I mean, it's clearly was
00:38:32.900
I don't know what to say. I guess these police officers are mostly indoctrinated as well.
00:38:40.660
I think they're afraid that if they do anything to actually keep law and order,
00:38:46.020
that they'll end up being on the end of this verbal abuse.
00:38:50.980
So it's just cowardice from everybody all around.
00:39:15.220
so yeah yeah so this is the second assault because the police are already there so they
00:39:24.220
were called after the first assault and that's when the interaction started with this officer
00:39:29.220
frederick bachman and i hope i'm pronouncing both the first and last name correctly um
00:39:34.700
but we actually have i i shared in the uh the producer's chat here there's some zoomed in
00:39:41.980
footage that i wonder if we could just pull up of her face as this second assault is taking place
00:39:47.780
you mean his face no the sorry the officer's face oh i see in fact a female there so you see her in
00:39:54.180
the background there so she's been circled and then um there's another photo that they you know
00:39:59.260
you can see that she's like looking on with gleeful bliss almost um it's really really strange that
00:40:07.220
the officers just you know they just stood idly by they were looking on um unbelievable and and they
00:40:17.540
they fail to act until the situation escalates so their job in my opinion is to prevent something
00:40:23.880
like that from happening so when you see someone who's just standing there and billboard chris you
00:40:27.480
know he has these signs and i think the front said like children can't consent and on the back he's
00:40:32.460
wearing a dad with the noun and the just the dictionary a definition of what a dad is or a
00:40:38.080
man maybe i'm not clear on what ones he was wearing that day but those are kind of his usual mo um and
00:40:44.800
so as soon as you see someone like that being swarmed by an angry aggressive mob as police your job
00:40:52.020
is to intervene and to keep that peace and to prevent that situation from escalating and that group i don't
00:40:58.580
know how many officers were there 10 15 of them stood idly by until violence occurred and then
00:41:04.460
they kind of get in there except for that one officer who's sort of the main i would say villain
00:41:09.700
but they say victim in this entire unfolding uh she just stood there and smirked and smiled and then
00:41:16.300
stood back and let the rest of the police officers go in and and handle the situation um this seems more
00:41:22.520
to me like some sort of diversity higher than anyone who's actually competent fit in their duty and role
00:41:27.800
i think you're right tamara so the question arises uh given that a crime was committed on camera no
00:41:34.040
less several cameras for that matter and charges were not pressed um was that the law enforcement
00:41:41.520
uh officer was that her buying into uh the trend side of the argument and therefore she's biased or
00:41:51.300
is it they're higher ups uh you know is it the chief is it the politicians above the police that are
00:41:58.560
pulling the strings that hey when it's a transgender protest uh go easy on the trans people you know
00:42:05.600
they're such lovable cuddly uh creatures and uh we we don't want to give them any agro you know i'll tell
00:42:13.360
you uh tamara it clearly shows that video it was not a consensual fight uh he got ambushed uh by that
00:42:20.680
thing and it also shows you know if you are continually dropping f-bombs if you are resorting
00:42:30.800
to violence in a debate well you know what you really don't have much of a position do you
00:42:36.120
because if that's what your counter argument boils down to you've lost you've automatically lost once
00:42:43.240
you start you know swearing repeatedly and being violent forget it and i gotta tell you too tamara this
00:42:50.040
just shows you how wrong we were when we go back 50 or 60 years ago when we started shutting down
00:42:56.740
the mental institutions in our country the idea was you know there's all kinds of new pharmaceuticals
00:43:03.080
if these people just take their pills they'll be okay well 50 or 60 years ago that uh blonde haired
00:43:10.540
thing would have been in a mental asylum what you know what i know that the cops know it but having
00:43:18.620
said all that there is no excuse for this dereliction of duty that was disgraceful
00:43:24.500
well and that's exactly why we've just launched an immediate petition campaign at fire officer
00:43:33.100
bachman.com so it's b a sorry uh the actual spelling i think is b u c h m a n n so fire officer bachman.com
00:43:47.120
and um and and have the police really investigate this situation um because the way that this officer
00:43:57.240
conducted themselves the way that all of those officers conducted themselves they're now putting
00:44:01.200
out their twitter feed is blown up ever since this incident they're now saying that they are
00:44:06.580
investigating and looking for these individuals they had them right there they had the the people
00:44:13.880
involved the assaults all took place in front of the police officer's eyes they had them there they
00:44:19.560
didn't place any arrests and they say now that they're investigating because of the citizen
00:44:25.040
journalists on social media and the amount of backlash that they have received for not taking
00:44:31.480
any action in the moment while this was all unfolding before their eyes um so you can head over
00:44:38.500
to fire officer bachman.com and at that special website as well our reporter drea humphrey is
00:44:45.980
investigating further both and both she'll be interviewing uh billboard chris but she's also found
00:44:52.320
the mother who was um a complainant i believe and again the details will come out as drea continues
00:45:00.620
her wonderful investigative reporting on the subject but uh this officer has been the recipient of
00:45:07.680
previous misconduct allegations so she this isn't a new thing for this officer to act out out of uh
00:45:17.020
act in a way that is not professional or becoming of a police officer she has other um misconducts
00:45:24.740
against her and drea is going to be researching that further and so you can find all those reports as we
00:45:32.940
investigate and launch them at fire officer bachman.com um and and the other thing i want to note here too
00:45:40.380
is that these two activists that were in the face of billboard chris yelling obscenities at him
00:45:46.880
in his you know inches from his face yeah and are you know oh we're inclusive and loving and love is louder
00:45:53.520
than hate and we must denounce hate and and intolerance um these are men identifying as women
00:46:01.820
yep so i think i don't know i can't recall where the publication came from but there was a mainstream
00:46:07.820
media article about this and they said um you know conservative activist gets into an altercation with
00:46:16.060
you know uh rights a woman's rights ad advocates like alluding to the fact that that he hit a woman
00:46:22.520
they call that the the transgender uh person a woman's rights activist that's not a woman's rights
00:46:29.220
activist that's a misogynist right yeah and so and so he wants this article and i'm trying to find it
00:46:36.160
here um looking through his twitter page but anyway maybe um well you look um tamara uh i think this is
00:46:43.180
yet again another example about so-called trans rights it's not about equality it's about having
00:46:50.040
special rights and i think the message the police are sending here is if you want to get violent if you
00:46:56.020
want to get handsy uh just wrap yourself in the rainbow flag or the trans flag or the pride progress
00:47:04.100
flag that's the one with that uh rectangle the i think they call it the bipoc vagina um just put those
00:47:12.320
flags around your body and you've got free lease uh to carry out mayhem and i'll tell you something
00:47:18.680
uh tamara the um this is not new to me i'm gonna i'm not gonna go take a deep dive on this but back
00:47:28.260
in september 2019 i had my own encounter out in the vancouver area for a notorious transgender grifter
00:47:36.180
and it was caught on camera that he struck me with a metal cane on my head and shoulders five times
00:47:45.060
and when the rcmp came it boiled down to this um they were doing everything they could not to press
00:47:52.700
charges i said listen this is garden variety assault i let them see the video and the conversation i had
00:47:58.940
with one of the officers tamara was well if we charge him we have to charge you i go charge me for
00:48:05.620
what well mischief mischief i'm just practicing journalism in a public place what are you talking
00:48:12.740
about mischief so that's the way it was it was almost like i felt like i was a contestant on let's
00:48:18.540
make a deal they had no desire whatsoever to charge this person um because in terms of political
00:48:27.300
correctness in terms of wokeness you know the the gender politics didn't add up tamara you know the bad
00:48:35.200
guy was the like i said the trans grifter uh not vice versa i can tell you this much i bet you
00:48:41.340
as a uh male white heterosexual if the roles were um reversed if i was the one smashing the
00:48:49.180
transgender grifter over the head with a steel object oh what do you want to bet i might still
00:48:53.740
be in jail right now what a disgrace yeah absolutely and i think that's where the new york post
00:48:59.980
they may have corrected the article since this time but there was a tweet that um billboard chris put out
00:49:05.480
um saying that in the article they were saying that he pushed a woman away at her throat and he
00:49:12.780
he clarifies and he says i placed a hand on his chest as he continued to crowd my space making it
00:49:19.740
impossible for me to move screaming inches from my ear so yeah you see this is not very ladylike
00:49:25.400
everyone these are men identifying as women who are acting as men right they're getting he's getting
00:49:33.860
aggressive and he's getting handsy with another man this isn't ladylike behavior tamara i've got to
00:49:42.780
reel you in a little here i think you just twice committed a hate crime you said ladylike behavior
00:49:48.080
in this day and age of the slut walk oh you don't call these people ladies they lose their marbles um
00:49:55.380
that has something to do with hierarchy or civility or something else they hate um but look at that
00:50:02.100
creature i mean come on what concerns me is the pointy ends of these little flags right like why
00:50:08.600
the police aren't intervening here when these people have sharp objects who are clearly suffering
00:50:14.800
from some mental illness and serious aggression um this could have gone a lot worse than it did like
00:50:22.880
i mean it's it's bad enough as it is but it could have been a lot worse and the vancouver pd as a
00:50:28.060
result of what's happened here are now claiming the victim they say that the um the criticisms that
00:50:36.400
this officer has faced on twitter is just unacceptable and they're they're completely spinning
00:50:42.620
right there's a complete reversal here of the natural order as per usual where they're claiming
00:50:49.520
to have been the victims in this situation always not the people who were actually assaulted
00:50:54.820
tamara i don't know if you've ever experienced this but basically one of their
00:50:59.580
schticks for lack of a better word they surround you they wrap you in their flags you're just trying
00:51:06.920
to move and if your foot even touches their foot they scream they fall down they call for law
00:51:15.880
enforcement i've been assaulted it it is unbelievable uh but and by the way um because i did see an
00:51:23.360
anti-fascist flag there you see increasingly people with the antifa movement which is really all about
00:51:30.580
fascism with their tactics and methods um they are now wrapping themselves in the rainbow flag so
00:51:37.580
yes there you go you see that picture anti-fascist so it's almost like the middle finger oh yeah always
00:51:45.000
and again that's how you want to have a debate you know if you're doing the middle finger profanity
00:51:52.300
throwing haymakers you've already lost but what i was about to say is that antifa is increasingly
00:51:57.920
wrapping themselves in these rainbow flags and sort of um you know getting a get out of jail free card
00:52:05.280
by doing so yeah absolutely and i mean what do our viewers think anyone who's tuning in on the live
00:52:12.460
stream uh do you have any opinions on this any thoughts um do you agree that this officer should be
00:52:19.060
you know investigated and and potentially fired um are are they right to be claiming the victim here
00:52:26.000
uh what should should have happened in the moment you know should they have taken action as police are
00:52:32.080
hired by the public right let's not forget that these are taxpayer funded employees of ours meant to
00:52:39.240
ensure our public safety and keep our peace um should they have intervened sooner should there have been
00:52:46.840
some arrests made in the field let us know in the comments below i think we'll go to a quick ad break
00:52:51.780
before we come back to hopefully some chats and then if not we will uh touch quickly on the toronto
00:52:58.340
mayoral race and how they are moving to decriminalize illicit drugs for children shameful for children
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support so tamara please tell me my eyes are playing tricks on me or that this is a april fool's
00:54:12.060
day joke two days past its best before date but toronto demanding decriminalization of fentanyl and meth
00:54:20.920
for kids oh my gosh i wish it were an april fool's day joke actually this was this first came out on
00:54:27.520
march 31st so it's a couple days old that was on friday um so yeah the the city of toronto the
00:54:34.260
first uh sentence reads here has released its sweeping plan to decriminalize all hard drugs
00:54:40.260
including fentanyl and crack cocaine for any age and the sweeping plan you can check it out for
00:54:44.840
yourself there with the hyperlink toronto's request is even more lenient than the decriminalization
00:54:50.500
order granted to the entire province of british columbia by prime minister justin trudeau earlier this year
00:54:56.400
the city is asking that the federal government grant a health canada exemption for all drugs
00:55:02.120
extending even to children unbelievable in british columbia's case they granted the exemption only
00:55:08.700
applied to adults but uh toronto wants it to include all people including youth because criminalization
00:55:16.180
does not effectively deter youth substance use the data show that youth in toronto between the ages of 12
00:55:22.200
and 17 use unregulated i.e illegal drugs and are vulnerable to the same harms associated with
00:55:30.560
criminalization as adults uh this exemption does not apply to child care facilities airports or schools
00:55:38.240
right because those places need to be safe and we need to not promote the use of illicit drugs in those
00:55:45.040
facilities um but nonetheless this is just more woke bogus policy attorney pushed forward by the city
00:55:53.820
of toronto i guess because they don't really have a mayor and so the mayor the official uh candidacy i
00:55:59.720
think it is kicks off today there david yeah no there's the first day to register for mayor and i think
00:56:04.800
you're right uh when the cat's away the rats will play and you know tamara it is unbelievable i mean like
00:56:10.640
why just um fentanyl and meth um if you're a drunk driver you've lost your license maybe had a serious
00:56:16.940
accident maybe you killed somebody so you don't have access to your car anymore why don't we reach
00:56:21.120
out to that alcoholic staying at home and bring him a bourbon and scotch so uh he doesn't uh get a
00:56:27.740
case of withdrawal you know tamara uh a week ago friday i was attending it was a business association
00:56:34.420
dinner out in scarborough uh alberta premier danielle smith was being uh given an award and i won't go
00:56:41.880
too deep into the details but in her acceptance speech she talked about how alberta is serving as
00:56:47.940
a model for the rest of canada and indeed dare i say the world in terms of dealing with those addicted
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to these hard drugs and essentially you know the police go over and they say listen you have a choice
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you can go into rehabilitation or you can go to jail so they almost always choose rehabilitation
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when they're there they are put in to facilities that look like college dormitories and um they are
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they live in a communal basis um they're taught once again because you have to introduce for some of
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these people they've been so debilitated for so long uh they can't function alone so you teach them
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how to cook how to shop and half the day is spent you know doing chores uh the other half of the day
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is spent um you know taking seminars uh taking those programs that are designed to get you off
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these horrible drugs that when used as directed are going to end your life that's how we should be
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taking care of this issue not facilitating more consumption because otherwise you know it's a
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really a tale of two cities you can have the alberta model or you can go to vancouver and you can go to
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certain parts of the of the downtown area that look like the set for the walking dead they are dangerous
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places i side with the alberta model yep i side with the fact that this is further enabling an issue
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and we can see that through harm reduction policies that there isn't very much harm that's actually
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being reduced we have more overdoses more use of illicit drugs than ever before in the places where
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these progressive policies have been welcomed and taken up by uh government officials and um and again
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it's taxpayers footing the bill to give drugs to addicts instead of getting them the help and the
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mental health supports that they need right it's not just drug addiction i will fully acknowledge that
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there is a whole litany of mental health issues usually stemming from childhood trauma that takes place
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and is the precursor to addiction and we need to be addressing and facilitating mental health supports
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and and support for that child dealing with and addressing that childhood trauma that stems as
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and turns into the need and the the feelings of utilizing drugs and addiction if we spent the
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billions of dollars that we're giving to big pharma to fund use of illicit drugs and giving them to
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children on the streets if we switched and we put that money over into mental health supports that
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we're actually providing tangible resources to individuals who need that sort of care then i think
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you're going to be looking at a much cleaner more functioning societal fabric outcome at the end of the day
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than just enabling drug addiction and letting people spiral out of control with their addictions
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under the guise of being progressive and and and humane right this is sold to the public as those things
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meanwhile you're ignoring the root of the issue and you're just enabling an addict to destroy their
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lives and everyone around them no uh you're 100 right tamara and when we add the age equation to this
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correct me if i'm wrong but isn't this child abuse i mean you know if if a mom pa convenience store
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sells a pack of cigarettes to somebody who's just even a few months under the age majority uh they're going to
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get heavily fined eventually lose their liquor license you know you can go to a liquor control
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board of ontario store and if you have somebody who's a minor even uh holding um a bottle for you
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to bring to the cash register um that's not allowed right so there's all this you know regulation out
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there in terms of you know protecting minors from things like liquor tobacco but when when it comes
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to these hardcore fentanyl are you kidding me i mean right tamara like i said in my book that is child
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abuse by the state absolutely yeah and you bring up a good point there on the tobacco you know i remember
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as a kid my mom sending me the corner store i go pick up a you know here's five dollars at the time
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right that's how much they were maybe even less go pick me up a pack of cigarettes and she had to send
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me with a note and sometimes they had to call and that was you know in very early on in the uh would
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have been the early 90s and uh the convenience store used to give me a pack of cigarettes but you know
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fast track five ten years afterward you couldn't go into a convenience store and purchase a pack of
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smokes if you didn't have id to show on you for the life of you and um and now we're just going to be
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giving those minors fentanyl i mean wow we've really come full circle haven't we oh you know
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tamara it's worse than you say because the government i know ontario does this i'm sure the
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other provinces do they stage sting operations so they get somebody who looks that like they're older
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than um 18 but in reality they're 16 or 17 and basically if the shop owner doesn't ask for
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government photo id uh they're fined and and i think it's three strikes and you're out eventually
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you lose your tobacco license which for a variety store that's an economic death sentence so yeah and
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by the way you are right i remember you know back in the uh late 60s early 70s for my grandparents
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we lived on lawrence avenue i'd go to the variety store with a two dollar bill remember those uh once
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one time kids there was no such thing as a toonie there was a pink two dollar bill and a handwritten
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note you know uh please give david a pack of craven a king size i even remember the brand right
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oh my god if you were to do that today like i said you risk losing your license but apparently
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a meth fentanyl for children because the government is the drug dealer that's okay this is despicable
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yeah i agree well and i wanted to go back to this true north article quickly because at the very
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last sentence um it says at the same time toronto has moved to introduce a pilot program to allow
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drinking in public parks so get this david we have alcohol we have fentanyl and we have meth and we
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minors what could possibly go wrong yeah i mean you know if if it's someone in a park having a picnic
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and they're responsible i mean you see this in europe all over the place there really isn't a problem
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but as you know tamara many of toronto's parks and with the warmer weather coming you'll see uh as sure as
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mosquitoes and flies become part of the the fabric you're going to see these tent cities pop up
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and um yeah you can i can see liquor uh binging going on there and you're right uh a mentally ill
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person who has an access who has access to um oh big dangerous dogs um what could possibly go wrong
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especially after they're drugged up or liquored up it unbelievable it truly is in this pilot program
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yeah let's well i guess we'll wait and see how it turns out depending on who the new mayor of toronto will
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be uh i assume will be a big part of whether or not these projects go forward you know tamara it is
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fascinating who the mayor is going to be the field gets more crowded with every passing day and you
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know when you look at all the vote splitting that might happen conceivably somebody might become mayor
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with a single digit percentage in other words nine percent of the vote and you're carried in i mean
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not really a mandate to boast about is it no definitely not but there's a couple contenders and
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have you been following it you've probably been following it closer than i have i know that
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you know ben bankus uh the comedian is running chris sky the freedom fighter um he's running and then
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that there was a latest one a former police chief um what is his name yes thank you yes yeah you know
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oh go ahead if someone like him were to be elected i would assume that pilot projects such as this would
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not move forward yeah um i want a tough on crime mayor for sure and i do love ben bankus for proving
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my theory correct whenever he's making a video statement he's waving the trans flag it's kind of like
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you know standing behind uh superman's cape of invulnerability you know that no matter and he's
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not even talking about trans issues he's just waving it as though it's a magic wand to protect them
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from any criticism because if you take issue with any of ben bankus's platforms well uh you are
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obviously a transphobe and there can be nothing worse that's right if you haven't seen some of his
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comedic relief i highly recommend because it's uh it's pretty funny um but nonetheless we are at 207
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now so we are going to say goodbye to our viewers at home but i think it will be myself and david or
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maybe even ezra back same time and place tomorrow yes so it is be sure to stay tuned tamara ugolini and
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the big boss man himself ezra levant uh lincoln and i will be how shall i put this on assignment
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and that and we really are mission specialist right so we'll be somewhere in the uh greater
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toronto area doing some form of journalism and if it pays off it's going to be a whopper of a story
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and that's all i'm going to say about that so thanks again to uh super producers efren and olivia
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thank you tamara for your time thank you for all the viewers that watched us and as we said
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come here uh at um one o'clock eastern tomorrow tuesday and you'll get more of tamara ugolini and
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the always brilliant ezra event as always stay safe and stay sane uh less than a week after the safe
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third country agreement was amended eight people died attempting to cross the border by boat are you
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concerned that the changes you made to the safe third country agreements are going to encourage riskier
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crossings of course uh the tragedy uh is immeasurable uh we think of the families uh and the uh
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extraordinarily difficult moments that were the last for these families including uh young kids
01:07:55.320
we can't even imagine what they're going through we need to be there to support uh families and folks
01:08:02.360
like them but i i want us to be very very careful about jumping to conclusions this was a
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horrific story uh and there is a proper investigation going on we need to understand
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all the facts involved uh before we draw conclusions but we do need to make sure we're
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doing everything we can and continuing to do everything we can to remain an open and welcoming
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country with a rigorous and well-applied immigration system that also protects the
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most vulnerable that's what we'll continue to do