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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.
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Remember how the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa was demonized by the government and the mainstream media?
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It was all a bunch of ludicrous propaganda, of course.
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But Alexa Lavois recently went to Ottawa to cover a Freedom Convoy counter-protest
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staged by the usual suspects, you know, the spirit unicorn soy boy soldiers and the Antifa types.
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And wow, talk about a basket full of deplorables.
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Alexa will join me to sort out who's who in the Ottawa Zoo.
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And hey, folks, we recently added a new premium content show.
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Well, just to ensure that there are no misunderstandings,
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the show's co-hosts, Catherine Krasinowski and Natasha Biazzi,
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding our visit to a Trudeau photo op last Friday
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that took place at a Toronto Ukrainian Catholic church.
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Alas and alack, independent journalists were not allowed to go into the church.
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Indeed, some of the parishioners who were deemed to be not liberal enough
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As for the PM speech, it was all about democratic slippage, emboldening Vladimir Putin.
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No, seriously, at least on the plus side, I didn't get manhandled by Justin's RCMP goon squad this time.
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So, hey, Alexa, for urban news, I'm in the city hall where counter-protests just happened.
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We are still the Saturday, 5th of March, and it's two weeks after the convoy left.
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But they are protesting against the convoy, saying that they are full of white supremacists,
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racists, misogynists, and other names that I will not tell now.
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But I'm coming here to see their point of view, what they have to say to me,
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I'm wondering, what is the protest about today?
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This is a reaction to the occupation of Ottawa a couple of weeks ago by the truckers,
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and this is to show solidarity with the community and emphasize love and not hate.
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And what is the damage that the convoy have caused in your life?
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Well, I live downtown, so I heard a lot of noise.
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I had people yelling at me from trucks as they drove by.
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Nothing like what's going on in Ukraine right now, but I did feel under siege.
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So you don't understand that 20% of the population...
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This is the people who had to survive the occupation by the far-right convoy of difficult people.
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Many of them were traumatized, especially the people living downtown.
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That maybe seeing the Canadian flag doesn't make you nervous again,
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because we had three weeks of the Canadian flag in trucks, meaning there's bullies coming.
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You call the convoy the left-extreme, the left-wing, white?
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I realize that not all of them were Nazis, because, you know, only several of them had Nazi flags.
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I realize not all of them were white nationalists, because only several of them had white nationalist flags.
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Um, yes, this was a very ultra-right conservative protest of, yes, anti-vaxxers who had their rights to, you know, to protest.
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And we lived in a city where people took over downtown to tell us,
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It's an oppressive Illuminati conspiracy theory nonsense.
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If they ever come back and brag that they were part of this convoy, they have enemies for life.
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Do you think that some of the people just right here are Nazi and white supremacists as well?
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But what is your authority on me for asking me to leave to a public space?
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I think all of us are feeling pretty uncomfortable, so it would be great if you'd leave.
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Yeah, but I'm just asking, like, what is going on here?
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Maybe just take a break and let everybody cool off.
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People are feeling a bit harassed, so maybe just take a break.
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I've never been feeling harassed nowhere else than here.
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But people are telling you how they feel about it, right?
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Well, so much for that advertised theme of, quote, emphasize love, not hate, end quote,
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because the love kind of evaporated as soon as the questions got a little prickly.
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And that, of course, justified these twits to label Alexa Lavoie as a Nazi.
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And joining me now is our Quebec-based lioness herself, Alexa Lavoie.
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You know, Alexa, that video was really something, but I have to say I wasn't really surprised.
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I've had the misfortune of interviewing members of the lunatic left, too.
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And I'm always stunned that when these loons are challenged on their viewpoints, they get so easily triggered
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and they quickly, you know, deferred to F-bombs and intimidation tactics and even outright violence.
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Because they claim to be all about love, don't they?
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They claim about love and being like, here is like no hate zone, nothing.
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But what I saw so far is like, they say that the convoy, the Freedom Convoy people were harassing them.
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But I was there for not even like 10 minutes that I've been harassing myself by them, putting some paper in my face,
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And as much violence and hate against us, I was like, what did I do so far?
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Just asking questions to understand what is going on here at the City Hall, because he had like a big protest.
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And, you know, Alexa, these Antifa types, these so easily triggered leftists,
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they always get a free pass by the mainstream media.
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And yet, just look at how the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa for the three weeks plus it was there.
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These were white supremacists, Nazis, you name it.
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And yet, you spent more time than anyone at this company in Ottawa covering the Freedom Convoy protest.
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So, you know, it's why I'm going to do, I'm actually doing a video about the Nazi flag and the Confederation flag that we saw so far on the ground.
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But it's what I was saying, like, first impression on the first day of the Freedom Convoy,
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Oh, surprisingly, we saw one Confederation flag and one Nazi flag that we didn't see for the 21 next day of the Freedom Convoy.
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Only the first day of the Freedom Convoy was, oh, we just saw it for a couple of, maybe one hour for the Confederation flag and maybe a couple of minutes for the Nazi flag.
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All truckers, all supporters were like, they were not part of us.
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But same if everybody was saying it, nobody wanted to show that and say, oh, maybe it was part of better people or maybe they were there for discredit the movement.
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And no, they were like, oh, because we saw one flag, we will categorize the thousands and thousands and thousands of people that were there.
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I saw people walking around the streets of downtown Ottawa that were part of the convoy with garbage bags picking up litter.
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And on the subject of that Nazi flag, you know, I'm not one to subscribe to conspiracy theorists,
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but a lot of people have speculated if this was some Photoshop thing or maybe this was something that the anti-convoy people did.
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They dressed up pretending to be part of the convoy and waved the Nazi flag so as to discredit the convoy.
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I'm wondering, Alexa, because I know there's one media organization out there that's put out a reward.
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I think it's for $6,500 for the identity of that person holding the swastika.
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So the men who were carrying the Confederation flag was completely masked with sunglasses.
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And it was really difficult to see his identity.
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And for the Nazi flag had been just shown a couple of minutes on the side of a hotel and it disappeared afterwards.
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And especially, oh, the Nazi flag was on the side of a hotel where the headquarter of the police was on the same hotel, but no police saw it.
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And you'd think there'd be a, even if he had some friends, you'd think somebody would rat him out for that $6,500 paycheck.
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But, you know, Alexa, getting back to these protesters, the counter protests, you know, it's perverse.
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They are depicting themselves as though they're victims.
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You know, they heard horn honking for such a long time.
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Alexa, could you imagine somebody in Ukraine looking at some of those stories about the post-convoy stress disorder they're suffering because some trucks were honking their horns when the people in Ukraine are getting their houses shelled by an invading Russian army?
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Or is it just those select members on the far left?
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I just, I just see, because I ask, I say, what is the damage of your life, like, from the convoy?
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Some people were like, I was smelling like gas and throw from the truck and I was disturbing by the sound.
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And I was like, OK, hopefully you don't live like in a country as India, where I've been there two times.
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And you don't just smell the gas, you smell all other kind of smell.
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I was there like four months and I was not really bothered by the smell.
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And everyone, like, they were bringing the sound when we know that an injunction had been like put in place for 10 days on the 23 days.
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And after the injunction, people were more like aware of the noise.
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So they were not honking as much as the beginning.
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I think at the beginning is what, again, what I was saying, the first impression to pass a message.
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I think it's why the people were honking much at the beginning.
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It was not as noisy as the first day that the convoy arrived on scene.
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No, we were staying in downtown Ottawa hotels and it just sort of, you know, blended into the background noise.
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But, you know, Alexa, one last thing I want to talk to you about, those demonstrators who so easily fall into the mindset of calling you nasty names, walking in front of you, causing interference, threatening physical violence.
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To me, Alexa, that means you've won the debate without even asking a single question.
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If their arguments are so fragile that they get so easily triggered by your questions that they result to goon tactics, well, they don't have much of an argument of substance to begin with.
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I don't think they have any argument to give to me because I was like, I just ask you a simple question.
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You have the chance to explain me and to make your voice heard.
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I'm asking you a question and you are not able to answer properly my question.
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And some of my question was like, where do you take your information come from for the convoy that you say that they were Nazi and white supremacists and white nationalists?
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Can you tell me where your information come from?
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And they were just repeating me the same thing.
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And I was like, OK, you just don't want to collaborate with me.
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And you don't like if you had at least like a really good information that's come from good sources.
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And we can like chat around it and we can have different point of view.
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But we can actually reach the middle and like, you know, I can see your point.
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You can see what I tried to ask you for question.
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They're adults, but they act like elementary school children.
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Before we depart, Alexa, I'm sure our audience wants to know what the heck is happening with the investigation,
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if there is one, regarding you being shot at point blank range by some sort of a canister that a police officer shot you.
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I know it caused you tremendous grief and pain.
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But had that canister hit your head, we might not be even having this conversation today.
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I know Interim Chief Bell is hot on the trail of those who said nasty words to the members of the mainstream media.
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But has there been an investigation opened on your brutal assault, Alexa?
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So the complaint I've been giving to the police and it's SIU.
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But the SIU is not for the RCMP and it appears that it's probably an RCMP member who did that.
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So my folder has been transferred to the RCMP investigation.
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So at this point is what I know so far about it.
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Nobody reached to me to know my version of the story.
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But at least I write my version on the complaint.
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So they probably have it on their hand on the paper.
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But yeah, the investigation right now, the complaint has been put in place.
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It sounds like right now it's paralysis by analysis, but we are not going to let this lie.
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Nobody deserved that kind of hellacious treatment.
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Alexa, thank you for being so brave to wander into that mass gathering of lunatics.
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And you handled yourself so terrifically by not kowtowing to any of their fear tactics.
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And folks, that was Alexa Lavoie from Quebec City.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Hey folks, I'm pleased to tell you that if you are a Rebel News Premium Content subscriber,
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And as they used to say back in the vaudeville days, Misunderstood, it's a show that's all about
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a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.
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Actually, the show has nothing to do with what I just said.
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So to make sure that we are not misunderstanding anything about Misunderstood, well, who better
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than to bring on to the show the two co-hosts of Misunderstood, namely Natasha Biazzi and Catherine
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Ladies, thank you so much for coming on the show.
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And your show was just, I think it just launched last month.
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What in blue blazes is Misunderstood all about?
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Misunderstood is about pop culture, politics, and conservatism all in one fun little pink
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We feel like the left has kind of overtaken the culture war and they've done a very good
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And so we kind of wanted to bring that to Canada, create a space for like young women in Canada
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to feel like they can connect with, you know, pop culture with a conservative POV.
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You know, it's very interesting, ladies, because I think you're right.
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When it comes to pop culture, that has been co-opted by the left.
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I mean, Hollywood, professional sports, everywhere you look, even the comic book industry, it's
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I mean, I know, Natasha, we spoke about this the other day on the live stream that so much
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of society, from education to law enforcement, the justice system, you name it, has a, I would
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And is it all about indoctrinating people, young people, that is, not how to think, but
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I think part of it, maybe too, is that so many of these artists and left-wing people,
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like art is such an emotional thing and their emotions, I think like the left really plays
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at people's emotions and that's why they're able to kind of capture them and indoctrinate
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them a little easier because, you know, your heart, your heart speaks, you know, like you're
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We talked about this on an episode we did a few weeks ago.
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It was feelings don't care about your facts and it was all about, and it kind of opened
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my eyes because we all, we've all heard the term facts don't care about your feelings.
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When you flip it, people don't want to be yelled at about statistics.
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Sometimes they want an emotional answer to something that's an emotional problem.
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So when you're just like, oh yeah, but like the facts, the facts, like what really happened?
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And we're trying to gently bring people to not our side, but to open their own eyes so that
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they can look at the world and be, think critically about what's going on around them.
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And here's the thing, Catherine, can we have these honest discussions anymore with all the
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I remember classical liberals of half a century ago, they argued about things like freedom of
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I think people are letting their emotions rule them.
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I think that, I think that's a thousand percent it.
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I think it's just like a arms race about who can be the most offended and we've taken it way
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And so, and this isn't something else we've talked about on the show.
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If the left keeps canceling people, we're going to have more people on the right because
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they're all going to be canceled and like as the needle moves far and far more left,
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we're going to have a bigger group on our side.
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So we're like, go ahead, like cancel whoever you want because we-
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Like when you get canceled, come to the left or sorry, come to the right because we're
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happy to have you and we'll have conversations with you.
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And hopefully we won't be bigots like they are on the left and just be like, oh, you said
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You know, what I'm building on that, ladies, I think if we jump into the hot tub time machine
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and go back 50 or 60 years ago, if you looked at it, you know, the hippies were the cool
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ones on campus, the ones protesting the Vietnam War, you know, requesting more civil rights.
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And right now I would make the argument that if you are rebellious, you are right of center
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And attaching that to what we've seen the last two years with the pandemic, what I see
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in terms of the indoctrination is that if there's one demographic that is all in with
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what big government and big bureaucrats and big medicine are telling us, it's the younger
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They are masked up even when, even in places they don't have to be masked up.
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And I'm just wondering, geez, half a century ago, you were the rebels on campus.
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Yeah, I think we talked about this earlier on the live stream.
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I think social media's really had a big impact on people because there's so much social pressure
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Um, so it's like, if you post something, let's say in favor of rebel news and your left wing
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friends see that or someone else or an employer, they're going to pounce on you and your reputation
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And there's like, we talk about cancel culture and stuff.
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And I think that's why people are so scared to swim upstream.
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I think, um, something that brought me to Christianity actually pretty recently was I found that these
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pastors who are getting thrown in jail, they're like so rock and roll.
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And I was like, I didn't realize Christianity was so freaking bad ass.
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And it used to be musicians who were saying, you know, be yourself, be authentic, whatever.
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But they're now telling you, get mad, get vaxxed, mask up.
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And I'm seeing more of a rebellious nature that speaks to my rebellious spirit coming
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I mean, just look at, you know, from several weeks ago, Neil Young trying to de-platform
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When you look at the Pawlowskis, they are, you know, the bad ass, kick ass freedom fighters.
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And yet when we look at the role of government, I think last year, ladies, the most overlooked,
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underreported story was all the Catholic churches that had been burned or vandalized or defaced
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It was not only was it a non-story, but you had, I think it was Gerald Butt saying, oh,
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Could you imagine if those had been, say, mosques or Hindu or Sikh temples?
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I mean, I think there'd be a Royal Inquiry launch right now.
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Like, no place of worship should be burned down.
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I even had people on my personal Instagram when I posted about, like, I was like, hey,
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And people were like, yeah, but, you know, after everything the Catholic church has done,
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I think there is a clear attack on the Christian church in Canada.
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It's effectively censoring and silencing pastors from speaking, like, a biblical truth about marriage
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Like, there's definitely a clear focus, I think, to, I don't know if it's to eradicate
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the church, but there's something happening there for sure.
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Tell me, we have lived through two years like no other.
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This pandemic, I think really the real virus was about overbearing government control as
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opposed to something that was wiping out the population.
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Tell me, when you look back at the last two years, and my goodness, there's so many examples
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What do you think were the most egregious acts by government, by health authorities,
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by bureaucracies in terms of stifling our rights and freedoms, ladies?
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I think now I was going to say masking children, I think is the worst.
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It's, I mean, the effect the pandemic's had on kids is evil.
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I mean, their scrades are in, like, in the garbage can.
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And, you know, what's really, I find, equally disturbing in Ontario as of March 1st, the
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Come March 21st, the mask mandate is cancelled.
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And yet, you see businesses that are no longer under the tyranny of government, ladies, and
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they're saying, no, you want to take a seat in our restaurant?
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You're still going to show me your medical history in terms of Vax Pass.
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And I bet you, come the 21st, there's going to be businesses that say, I still want you
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Well, I think it's going to be interesting when, when I'm questioned in public, when I'm
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not wearing a mask, people often say, well, it's a bylaw.
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So when it's no longer a bylaw, what's the excuse?
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And when it's like, well, okay, Dr. Kieran Moore, the chief medical officer for Ontario
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saying you don't need to wear a mask anymore, like, trust the science is out the window
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And I think it's up to a business, like, again, as a conservative, I think the business
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Well, listen, I, uh, we're almost out of race track here, ladies.
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Is there anything I neglected to ask you about that you think would be very relevant to future
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I just think it's really important to care about culture.
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I know that like the news and politics is really important, but if you don't, if you
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don't try to win back the culture wars, like you can't win young people over and young people
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Like our, our vote matters and what we think matters because like we've talked about on
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our show, like we're future lawyers, politicians.
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And if you don't capture us while we're young and impressionable, like this country is going
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Um, and you know, allow young people to have a voice to talk about Kim Kardashian because
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I've enjoyed the episodes you've aired so much so far.
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Nat and Kat, as they're known as here at Rebel News, they're witty.
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If only they drove standard, then they'd be perfect females.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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On Friday afternoon, all were welcome to attend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's whiz-bang
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photo-op session at a Toronto Ukrainian Catholic church.
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You see, while the Justin Trudeau liberals can't stop talking about diversity and inclusion,
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there's precious little tolerance for, well, diversity of opinions.
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And there's pretty much zero tolerance for espousing critical views pertaining to this
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Trudeau desperately wants to be seen as a strong man.
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But the truth is, he's got very thin skin and an ego that's so easily bruised.
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How else do you explain the fact that F Trudeau flags are apparently banned from being displayed
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They're saying that F Trudeau flags are not allowed on the Hill.
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So, just like the rules for this flag, they're going to have to have to have to have to have
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You know, all things considered, we've had it worse than that.
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So, I guess they're saying that, um, that, uh, this is a...
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They're saying this sign is not allowed anymore.
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In any event, we visited St. Demetrius the Great Martyr Ukrainian Catholic Church in West
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End Toronto back on Friday to see what the PM had to say and knock me down with a feather.
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We yet again discovered that the only media allowed inside a Trudeau presser were those
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journalists who are state-funded trained SEALs, you know, members of the CBC and CTV and the like.
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Justin knows full well that when it comes to media coverage, it's a prudent strategy to have
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the scribes dependent upon federal government funding.
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So, it is the Canadian mainstream media these days is a real-life Ministry of Truth, an Orwellian
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journalistic version of the sinkhole, albeit sacred cow, that is SNC-Lavalin.
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Now, guarding the entrance was a pair of presumably undercover Mounties.
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I say presumably, folks, because the RCMP, well, these members of law enforcement don't tend
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to identify themselves, nor do they provide badge numbers these days.
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So, let's just call this power couple, oh, I don't know, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Do-Right.
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And the Do-Right's quickly informed us we were media non grata.
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Because, no, I just, I don't feel comfortable with you having this this close to me.
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That's odd because your fellow henchman roughed me up in December.
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So, in other words, CTV, CBC, it's only state-funded media that can come in here.
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Well, I'm trying to do my job, which is a report.
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And so, why can CTV and CBC, there's their van right there.
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First of all, media's already in, and doors are now closed.
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Unfortunately, you're not on the list, and that's all I can tell you.
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Well, the event isn't scheduled for, is it 20 o'clock, I believe?
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And Justin Trudeau is always late, so what differences make of the going?
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I'm not sure what you're not understanding, sir.
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Well, I'm not understanding, because the event hasn't started.
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Well, if there's not a problem with us getting in, or not interrupting anything, what's the issue then?
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The issue is, you're not on the list, and the doors are now closed.
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So, it was that we were banished from going inside the church, and as we discovered just moments later,
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we were also banned from standing outside the church, too, under threat of being arrested for trespassing?
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Are you going to be trespassing while you're here, sir?
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Oh, you're going to beat me up like you did in December?
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Yeah, we're media, and we're covering the event.
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And, again, he doesn't give his name, his badge number.
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Are we still living in Canada, or are we in North Korea?
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Astute viewers of Rebel News might recall what happened to me at the hands of Trudeau's
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Royal Canadian Mounted Henchmen back in December.
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Namely, I was physically manhandled for the egregious crime of standing on a public sidewalk.
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Once ensconced in that Ukrainian Catholic Church, Justin bemoaned that the so-called slippage
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in democratic values is what has emboldened Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.
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This is the guy who invoked the Emergencies Act for shutting down a peaceful protest.
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Sorry, Trudeau, but when it comes to slippage, you're more slippery than a German bobsled team
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In any event, you had plenty to say about our tone-deaf and uber-hypocritical Prime Minister.
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Castro making an appearance at a church while not too long ago he was happy to ignore the
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Oh, indeed, and I should point out, there were counter-protesters outside the church,
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and some of them were congregants of that church.
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Well, one demonstrator said the priests determined they weren't left-wing enough,
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and God forbid that Trudeau should be asked an impolite question.
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Never in my life have I seen a prime minister use goons with no badge numbers and no names.
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Well, I think it's the law of the land too, Dan.
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But then again, by his actions, Justin Trudeau fancies himself above the law.
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So little wonder, really, that the Royal Canadian Mounted Henchmen think likewise.
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Poor Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto probably has to be exorcised from demons after he left.
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But if anyone knows an exorcist out there that wants to take on such a Herculean challenge,
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I'm gung-ho to cover that event, even if it turns out to be scarier than that 1973 horror classic.
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It took a few seconds of the footage for me to understand that it was invite-only.
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Find better things to cover and stop acting like my teenage daughter when she doesn't get her way.
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Well, actually, Mr. Deft, it's not a non-story at all.
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The fact that Justin only allows the state-funded trained seals of the mainstream media inside a church to cover his photo op
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is an appalling restriction when it comes to freedom of the press.
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Assuming you support the very concept of a free press, that is.
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And by the way, tell your daughter I'm on her side.
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You know, just imagine a leader of a Western democratic country proclaiming his love for the basic dictatorship that is China,
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Trudeau visiting a Ukrainian church in Toronto or hobnobbing with leaders in Europe
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has nothing at all to do with the PM doing anything of value regarding the Ukrainian invasion.
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Justin just seems to want to look like he's doing something sincere when it comes to ending the bloodshed.
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Well, it's gratification from the Ukrainian-Canadian community via the ballot box.
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Well, sorry, Mr. Prime Minister, I happen to know a lot of people of Ukrainian descent.
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And they sure aren't buying what you're selling.
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Which is to say, sir, so many of them originally emigrated to Canada to flee tyranny.
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And they can spot a tyrant in the making from a kilometre away.
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.