DAVID MENZIES ｜ Is this the most pointless strike in the history of industrial action？
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The strike by the employees of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario might be the dumbest strike in the history of strikes. Could the strike by 9,000 employees at the LCBO be the most stupid strike in history?
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tonight why the strike by the employees of the liquor control board of ontario
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might be the dumbest strike in the history of strikes it's tuesday july 9th 2024 i'm
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could the strike by the 9 000 employees at the liquor control board of ontario
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be the most stupid strike in the history of strikes sure looks that way to me if you happen
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to reside in the province of ontario and you are hoping to pick up a bottle at the local lcbo outlet
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well you are sort of out of luck but certainly not completely out of luck i say sort of because
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while you can't shop in a government owned and operated lcbo store for at least the next two
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weeks that's not to say you're going to be denied purchasing alcohol outright there's the privately
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owned beer store chain after all there are independent wine shops there are those grocery
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stores that have already been granted licenses to sell beer and wine and get this a consumer can
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simply go online and order anything they so desire from the lcbo's own website and you know when the
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strike ends i just wonder how many customers will go back to bricks and mortar lcbo stores once they
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discover the convenience of online liquor shopping that definitely won't bode well for lcbo job security
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will it now but the point is so much for the union holding consumers hostage here with this strike
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with all the aforementioned options a long hot dry summer well it just ain't gonna happen
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and i'll tell you another reason this strike is resoundingly stupid most strike mandates are driven by
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demands for better wages and benefits and working conditions but this strike is being driven by
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a desire to change government policy last week the lcbo said in a statement that the union that
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represents lcbo workers that would be the ontario public sector employees union made it clear numerous
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times at the bargaining table that workers would go out on strike to force the government to change course
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vis-a-vis freeing up alcohol sales in ontario opsu especially wants the ford pc's to reverse their
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decision to expand the sale of ready-to-drink beverages like coolers and seltzers in grocery and convenience
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stores oh my god seltzers and coolers and grocery and convenience stores that's got to be the end of the world
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right i think i see the four horsemen of the apocalypse galloping toward ontario given that there's no way
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in hell ontarians are addled enough to buy coolers and seltzers in a non-government run liquor store
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now granted the premier has earned the nickname flip-flop ford for reversing so many decisions on so many
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numerous occasions but i don't think ontario's chief cherry cheesecake eating enthusiast is going
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to cave in on this file especially given i reckon there is almost zero public sympathy for lcbo workers
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who earn far more than other retail workers and especially since there is enormous pent-up demand
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for freeing up liquor sales in ontario we're not even into the first full week of this strike and
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this is a loser for the union and a win for the government and while i have no idea how long this
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strike will last i'm going to give opsu seven figures worth of free consulting advice which is to say hey
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guys bend the knee asap and order your members back to work in fact as far as i'm concerned the ford pcs
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are not going far enough on this file obviously the lcbo will be downsized in the years to come
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but it won't disappear entirely like liquor control boards did in alberta and saskatchewan
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and that's really a pity indeed as the lcbo rank and file are on the picket lines we need to ask
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bigger questions about the very role of government when it comes to retailing alcohol such as why the
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heck is government in the booze business to begin with it's truly a perverse thing isn't it especially
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for those who want less government in their lives sure there is a role for government when it comes to
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running certain institutions the armed forces come to mind but liquor stores really shouldn't the role
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of government here to be regulating and taxing as opposed to retailing alcoholic beverages in fact
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the decades-old justification of government running a liquor monopoly and for that matter a lottery ticket
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monopoly too is based on that slice of ideology known as social responsibility what that catchphrase
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boils down to is that the private sector only cares about profits you see private liquor stores just want
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to sell as much booze as possible damn the consequences all private sector liquor store operators want to
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do is move the merchandise and the next thing you know you'll have 12 year old kids guzzling down
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colt 45 in the parking lot but government on the other hand well government is more compassionate
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and caring and yes more socially responsible the government would rather turn down a sale of liquor
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if that hooch was destined to be consumed by a minor oh won't somebody please think of the children
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oh really well folks i put that social responsibility nonsense to the test more than a decade ago when i was
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working at the sun news network we proved it to be a complete fallacy here's the deal we had a 14 year
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old boy clad in a burka walk into three different lcbo stores whereupon he bought three bottles of hard
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liquor no questions asked completely unchallenged here check it out we're going to see if we can
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buy a bottle of hooch or if the lcbo is going to live up to their socially responsible mandate of challenge
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and we're going to find out what happens right now
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so uh no challenging reviews there right no not even a little book well there you have it folks
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three out of three times a 14 year old boy wearing a burka was able to buy booze id and identity
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unchecked and you know something that goes actually against the lcbo's own policy when it comes to face
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coverings be it a motorcycle helmet a halloween mask or a burka or any cab in fact here's the policy in
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writing folks in order for staff to comply with the law and the lcbo's check 25 program that's a
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program folks where if you look under 25 your identification is automatically checked they must
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first assess a customer's apparent age this must be done by looking at the customer's face in full
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should the face be covered staff are required to ask the customer to remove the covering well it was
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quite the bombshell story at the time and in a follow-up story the toronto sun reported ali vitnuski
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a spokesman for finance minister dwight duncan who then oversaw the lcbo said that the lcbo has a policy
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that demands age verification for any client who appears to be under 25 years old and said there's also an lcbo
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policy in place to deal with face coverings whether it's a niqab burka mask or costume namely
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that face covering has to be removed and the age of the purchaser has to be verified with valid
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government issued id but as you saw none of that was done in our test and equally important was this
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did any of those staffers at any of those three lcbo stores caught breaking the law get reprimanded did
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any of those lcbo stores get shut down for a week or three as a penalty absolutely not the government
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just shrugged its shoulders and essentially said hey stuff happens and we'll try to do better next time
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now do you think the operator of say a corner store who sold a pack of cigarettes to a minor
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would be treated with such kid gloves and given such clemency and not a chance we're talking severe
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fines and if that was a repeat violation the store owner would likely lose his license to sell tobacco
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an economic death sentence talk about a double standard talk about do as i say not as i do
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social responsibility aside there is another humongous lie when it comes to justifying
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government-run liquor monopolies namely that such a liquor monopoly is a cash cow nothing could be
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further from the truth that's because in a privatized system the government is still collecting taxation
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that revenue stream never evaporates so the idea that things like the oh i don't know the health
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care system is going to crumble without the lcbo in place is absolute poppycock in fact in recent years
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in ontario the lcbo has been spending enormous amounts of money on what are effectively kaj mahal liquor
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temples the likes of which one would never see in a privatized and competitive liquor retailing
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environment this is both irresponsible and a slap in the face to all ontarian taxpayers
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indeed check out the stats according to statistics canada as of april 1st 2023 the government of alberta earned
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a per capita return of 177 dollars and 62 cents via its sale of liquor in the province's fully privatized
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retail setup in ontario the lcbo's per capita return to the province is just 166 dollars and 91 cents or
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about 11 dollars lower per person uh looks like that cash cow really needs to be put out to pasture
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in ontario me thinks and here's another reason why the union lashing out against opening up the liquor
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marketplace does not make any sense whatsoever that's because in the province of ontario when it
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comes to liquor sales all ontarians are equal but some ontarians are more equal than others case in
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point for decades now there have been more than 400 so-called lcbo agency stores in the province
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these agency stores are part of a convenience store or a gas station and are situated in small markets that
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cannot sustain a full-fledged lcbo store but wait a minute how is it that someone can buy booze at a
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convenience store in tiny quarter lakes or cameron but that the people of say toronto ottawa hamilton london
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and windsor well obviously those folks are too immature to do likewise does this make sense to anyone
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so to recap the strike is destined for failure the union does not hold a hammer here and public opinion
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is not on the side of the strikers and the government is not going to back down look i get that the head
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honchos at opsu need something to do now that there's no longer a pro-hamas encampment operating at the
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university of toronto which was another lost cause of course for opsu but opsu is trying to put the brakes
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on progress here that never works but i will say this though folks with all 677 lcbo stores locked down
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there is at least one silver lining here namely shoplifting which allegedly cost the lcbo tens of
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millions of dollars annually will be reduced to zero as long as those picket lines remain active
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at least that's something beleaguered ontario taxpayers can raise a toast to this summer
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the public sector union that represents liquor store workers is out of control indeed the blame for
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this strike lay squarely at the feet of opsu as opposed to the rank and file frontline workers the union is
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flexing its ideological muscles it is less concerned about improving wages and benefits of its members
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and more concerned with reversing government policy that gives consumers more choice but a bigger
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question arises why is the government even in the booze retailing business to begin with the role of
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government is to tax and regulate liquor not to sell the stuff please go to our new website sell the lcbo.com
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that's sell the lcbo.com it's high time to put this government-run liquor monopoly out to pasture once and for all
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adam so is here for rebel news and i'm on location in calgary at mp jasraj singhalan's stampede breakfast folks
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i gotta break it to you if you didn't already know justin trudeau isn't particularly popular right now he's
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so unpopular in fact that he decided not to attend this year's calgary stampede at all i suspect he
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understands the type of reception he would get after attacking alberta and alberta's industries
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for so long someone who is here on the other hand and who was joining virtually all the other
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politicians from all levels of government to state their case as to why they deserve your vote
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is pierre paulieva now we likely won't get a chance to talk with him he tends to jump in and out of
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these things pretty quick but we're certainly going to speak to some elected officials both
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on the provincial and federal level and see why they believe pierre paulieva is the person
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to be the next prime minister and is the person to lead this country moving forward i do of course feel
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like i'm a bit of the warm up act because i know that we've got a very very special guest in the
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audience today so let's give a warm stampede welcome to pierre paulieva the leader of the
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what a crowd thank you so much for being here and of course we're so honored we have
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colleagues from the conservative common sense conservative party
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speaking of the canadian dream we know after nine years of justin trudeau it's gone
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where powerful paychecks where if you put in hard work you could afford a home have a powerful
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paycheck run a business and see safe communities for your kids that have all gone away after nine
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years of justin trudeau's high inflationary spending high interest rates his carbon tax scam
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but it wasn't like this before justin trudeau and it won't be like that after he's gone
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because under a common sense conservative government led by the honorable pierre paulieva
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we're going to bring home that canadian dream again by axing the tax building the homes fixing
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i'm honored to introduce our common sense conservative leader and the next prime minister of canada the
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thank you jazz anna and i are honored to be back to celebrate the greatest outdoor show on earth with
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and thank you to all the volunteers who helped make this possible we have pancakes we have coffee
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we even have some turkey which we sourced right from parliament hill so make sure to enjoy it
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i haven't seen justin trudeau around i think he's hiding under a rock
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he's hiding from his caucus he's hiding from calgarians he's hiding from all canadians
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and that's okay because in not too long we're going to buy him a one-way ticket and we're going to bring
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home the country that we knew and love very happy now to be joined by jazz reg singhalan the host of
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this incredible stampede breakfast event we just saw pierre paulieva speak here i suppose my question
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for you is why do you believe that pierre paulieva is the best prime minister to ensure that alberta
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and calgary have a spot at the table in ottawa this is a really loaded question because i can go on forever but
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after nine years of justin trudeau and uh jikmeet singh canada is broken it's clear to see the
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reason why i stood behind pierre paulieva from day one when he was running for leader
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is because he's a born and raised albertan and calgarian and he knows that without alberta canada
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cannot prosper do you believe that under pierre paulieva leadership alberta will actually have a seat
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at the table in ottawa yeah i think we have a so much better chance i mean we do we have a government
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right now with uh with trudeau that is just antagonistic towards alberta we just see it
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every day and it's so disheartening and i think under uh pierre paulieva with the conservative
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government we definitely have a better chance of being at the table being listened to and being
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respected well certainly i've had some conversations with mr paulieva and certainly he understands some
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of the challenges we're facing regarding uh crime and social and civil disorder not just here in alberta
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but right across the country i know that he's uh listening and certainly um he's somebody that is
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willing to make those changes to make canada and and quite frankly alberta a safer place he's a
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south alberta boy he's from southern calgary we we all have a very he and i have a very similar
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experience i grew up in mindapore he grew up in shaughnessy and his message from coast to coast has been
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to axe attacks build the homes fix the budget stop the crime and it resonates irrespective of geography
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and language you saw his multi-day tour through quebec where he met amazing people who want the same
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things we want out here in the west they want the opportunity to dream big things to be free
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to own a home and live their lives crime-free these things are common sense ideas that are
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resonating nationwide and i think he's been an incredible communicator with an incredible work
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ethic that has built a consensus in this country that not only is it time for change it's time for
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the kind of change that only peer polyev can deliver absolutely when we know that from our experiences with
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the federal conservative party and our relationship with them we've worked very collaborative collaboratively
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and closely in any number of areas with the federal conservative party on various initiatives they're
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the only government they're the only uh members of parliament who will actually listen to alberta's needs
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we know that because we're confident in the collaboration that we're at we're having with them
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and the success that we're having in advancing our joint provincial federal initiatives to ottawa oh
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he's a thousand percent for sure the man of course he's going to be the right person to be prime
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minister of canada and he has deep roots in alberta he knows alberta his mom lives here and uh i think
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he's really demonstrated affection for our province for our city look he's here he was flipping pancakes and
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serving constituents for just raj holland and he's he's available he's available to everybody and you know
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he speaks our language he gets it he knows what alberta needs to really have our voices reflected
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at the federal level it's incredibly important very happy now to be joined by maria the president and ceo of
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mackamee college effectively serving as host to this incredible event part of the reason that i wanted to
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talk to you is uh as we heard there's sort of an applied politics uh a session training opportunity that
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you guys are bringing in now they say that if you don't do politics politics will be done to you so how important
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is it to have people who are active and engaged in advocating for western values right across
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this country well i think it's just really important to get involved so i was born in a
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communist country and we were told that you should never get involved in politics because you went on
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the backlash of whatever party being in canada we have this beautiful freedom that you can get involved
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you can vote you can become an mla you can get engaged you can talk to your local constituents i think
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it's so important to just get engaged and speak for the values that you want to see in canada
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canada for me is a land of opportunity alberta expands that so much more and we just love the fact
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that the community gets together and so with our applied politics program we're just hoping to
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bring people on to have people understand this is a career option for them and our paul applied
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politics program is going to be the first of its kind so normally we do a four-year political science
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degree this is going to be a two-year diploma that's really focused on how do i get engaged in
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government in roles and responsibilities that can actually impact change and just be aware of what
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options are available to you our common sense plan is to axe the carbon tax to lower the cost of gas
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heat and groceries it is to build the homes by clearing away the bureaucracy to have the fastest
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building permits so that our young people can put roof overhead it is to fix the budget by capping
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spending and cutting waste to bring down interest rates inflation and income taxes it is to stop the
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crime by bringing in jail not bail for repeat violent offenders treatment not decriminalized and
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subsidized drugs to bring our loved ones home drug free hey guys we refuse to accept government funds in
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using the code adam10 stay clear there is a huge difference between common sense pierre pauliev
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and justin trudeau who's completely broken canada there's a big difference i'm an immigrant to
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this country i know and our party knows the importance of immigration to this country we
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cannot fall behind and our gdp for capital will suffer we don't have the proper workforce now what
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what do you think it is that is typical of federal politics where during elections with past leaders
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all the right things are being said there's the right sentiment but with elections being decided by the
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time that that toronto threshold is crossed what makes pierre pauliev different you know i think just
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the conservative principles you know he's we have good conservative mps here in alberta and we just
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need to have their voice represented at the table with the federal government and they're just not
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right now because uh the current prime minister is just not listening and he doesn't care and again
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just so antagonistic towards alberta and and our values is what we need now do you feel like the sort
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of top-down mentality of of feds who take crime seriously would impact alberta crime as well like is it
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critical not only to have you trying to tackle crime here but have the feds on the same page look
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i've been very public about this the soft on crime policies by the federal government the current federal
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government have been an abject failure and we've seen cities right across this country become less
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safe because of those policies and those changes to the criminal code you know i know they were hoping
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that c48 was going to be the the magic pill to make things a lot safer in canada but certainly the
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data that i've received from the justice minister that it really has not been the case so my position
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as i've stated even a year ago will not have changed and that c75 needs to be repealed and that's
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certainly what i'd be advocating uh to uh pierre paulio if and when he becomes the prince you know
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what i see in my leader is a guy who spends time listening to every last person that comes to every one
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of his events and when he listens to the desperation the pain the fear that everyday people are encountering
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because of justin trudeau's horrible decisions uh it is a motivating feature not just for him but from
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the top down through every part of our party so we have a focus to deliver real and meaningful change
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to people who need it desperately you look at the cry the price of this carbon tax on everyday life
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and it is devastating them you look at the mortgage meltdown on the way 900 billion dollars of mortgage
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default on the horizon because of reckless economic policies by justin trudeau and jagmeet singh
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polio has complete focus on the families that are being impacted by this so i don't think there's
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ever a time to to to to let up on the gas it's always a time to keep focused to keep working hard
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one day at a time to be smart and to be disciplined that the number one issue that comes up in the
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community is crime soft on crime initiatives from the federal government the challenges and the
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obstacles and the burdens that we have in accessing uh justice and making sure that the the criminal code
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and the federal jurisdiction is uh is strengthened uh we've lobbied since the day that i became
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minister to make sure that the federal government knows and is well aware of all of the uh issues on
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soft on crime issues the catch and release program and the various other things that we're seeing in
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the news and in the media all the time and it's been radio silence which tells you exactly what the
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trudeau government's position is going to be when it comes to being tough on crime and making sure that
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serious and repeat offenders pay for what they do what makes him different we've had past conservative
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leaders leading up to the election saying all the right things but then right around election time
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the elections decided by the time you cross that toronto voting line and sometimes we see a last
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minute pivot why do you think pierre polio is different i think anybody who has met pierre or has
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followed him or has really spent a lot of time hearing his message he never waivers for message
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he has resolved he's committed i've i've heard him speak at least a dozen times and i've never left
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any session where he's been at thinking okay this guy well let me just rephrase that every time i've
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heard him speak it's he's convinced me more than ever that he is he's gonna walk the talk and by scanning
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the shipping containers and securing the borders to keep illegal drugs and guns from coming in and stolen
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cars from going out all while all while we protect your right to hunt and sports shoot with your
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lawfully acquired firearms axe the tax build the homes fix the budget and stop the crime when i say bring
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it home i mean bring home powerful paychecks by repatriating our industry and supporting canadian
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oil and gas yeah and i think the the number one thing is to listen and to meet and have those
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open discussions again we just haven't seen that we've seen the federal government trying to go
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around behind the provincial government's back all the time and just having those open discussions up
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front and dealing with alberta directly i think that'll be the biggest thing right off the start i'm a
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i'm a simple police officer but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that you can't just print
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money and that's certainly what this this federal government has been doing and this is why you're
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seeing costs go up this is why you're seeing inflation go up this is why you're seeing people
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struggling on a daily basis and you know certainly as a province we're doing what we can but the
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federal government especially the federal liberal government needs to take responsibility here and
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quite frankly for them to survive they're going to need to change their policies final question for you
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if you don't mind what is one thing you'd like to see peer poly do right away as prime minister to
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benefit western canada alberta help heal those relations because clearly they're not healthy right
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now get jagmeet singh to pull his support stop uh putting his pension ahead of canadian interest
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that's what we can we're going to keep on pressuring to do so that we can call a carbon tax election
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so that canadians can decide whether they want to keep this scam of a carbon tax or they want a common
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sense conservative government that will axe attacks build the homes fix the budget and stop the crime
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and bring home common sense to this country once again none of this would have been a problem if we
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had a strong conservative government led by prime minister pierr poly of in ottawa none of this would
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be a problem the trudeau singh ndp liberal coalition are obsessed with dividing canadians on every metric
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by region by demography by workers against business owners by by religion by language they are focused
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on politics of division because they think that's their path to victory they're tearing this country
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down and our plan is to unite the country for freedom to unite it on the basis of the rule of law and the
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things that every canadian wants including the prosperity of alberta which is great for the country
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of canada well one of the biggest things that i think we need to talk about is canadian unity right
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the federal government currently today has been extremely divisive in terms of plotting one province
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against another uh working uh in in various uh silos and whatnot we know that from our experience
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recently with the carbon tax exemptions that only impact a very select certain set of canadians and
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what we're saying here is that we need to make sure that the uh unity in this country is re-established
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and whatnot i also want to see pierre uh hopefully as the new prime minister work on the issue of crime we
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know what the issues are we know that every single province in the country is grappling with these
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issues and we know what needs to be done and so this is not a very difficult formula to solve we've
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given them the answers and it's just once again radio silence we're hoping that a new conservative
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government will address those issues immediately so that we can turn the tide on crime in this province
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i mean bringing home manufacturing forestry agriculture by clearing the red tape and the taxes so
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that we can make stuff here in canada i mean a bring it home tax cut so that you bring more home of your
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paycheck so that we lower the tax burden on work investment and making stuff that we simplify and
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cut the bureaucracy and that we cut back on corporate welfare and tax overseas tax havens so that our
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working poor pay less tax here at home this is the bring it home tax cut but bring it home
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doesn't just mean that it also means the country we love the country we knew before justin trudeau
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where we were united where we were proud where our flag flew at the top of the flagpole where everyone
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was inspired to unite around what we had in common rather than to divide by all the many things that
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separate us we need a government that unites our people around our common values common history common
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sense the common sense of the common people united for our common home your home my home our home let's
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well a great deal of optimism folks believing that airport can exactly be a different leader a leader
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that represents alberta at that table in ottawa a lot of support here quite evidently evidenced by the
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fact that 18 000 breakfasts and counting were served at this stampede breakfast organizer saying that this
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was something of a record for them so clearly a sentiment of strong support in calgary for
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pierre paulieva as always i want to thank you all so much for tuning in for rebel news i'm adam sos
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the common sense of the common people united for our common home your home my home our home let's bring it home