DAVID MENZIES ｜ The Media Party sends an open letter to Justin Trudeau
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The Media Party has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Folks, you are not going to believe the hypocrisy and the double standards that are found in that letter, and the hypocrisy behind the hypocrisy in the letter.
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Tonight, the media party has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Folks, you are not going to believe the hypocrisy and the double standards that are found in
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that letter. It's Thursday, September 8th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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Well, that was one humdinger of an open letter that was published the other day by members
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of the media party. It's a joint letter, actually, signed by 48, count them, 48 media organizations
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and associations. It was sent to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, and other political
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leaders. And the letter, quote, demands action on the growing harassment and abuse of journalists
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in Canada, end quote. Oh my, it would seem that the media watchdogs who now exist as lapdogs
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are in a most disagreeable mood, despite being very well taken care of by their kennel master,
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Justin Trudeau. Then again, I suppose even the tiniest and most domesticated chihuahua might
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yelp out a bark or two if it's pissed off, right? So how about we dissect this missive, shall we?
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It begins, quote, Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, end quote. Well, of course Justin is dear. He's the media
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party's sugar daddy. More than a billion annually for the vastly unwatched CBC. More than 600 million
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annually to the rest of the mainstream media because these outlets can't seem to sell subscriptions and
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advertising in sufficient volume to stay afloat. And gee, I wonder why that would be. Needless to say,
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sucking from the government teat is immoral and unethical. Simply put, how can you objectively
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cover the latest scandals erupting in this liberal government when you are also receiving payola
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from Prime Minister Blackface himself? But I digress because the media mutts are barking mad.
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Apparently, the practice of journalism these days is getting increasingly dangerous. Oh, you don't say.
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Right. And apparently, Master Trudeau is not protecting his minions as he should be in these
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uber-violent times. Yes, first they want bucks. Now they want bodyguards and even a dash of
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Big Brother to, you know, monitor things. You see, not a week goes by in Canada in which a journalist
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isn't slaughtered in the course of duty. Okay, not slaughtered, would you believe, beaten to a pulp.
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Um, how about slapped on the wrist? Um, harsh language, anyone? Yes, it's F-bombs and mean tweets
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that the sluggos and the MSM are enduring. And this will not be tolerated. These are special
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people after all, folks. Anyway, the letter goes on to state, quote, we are writing in relation to the
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increasing and alarming online hate and harassment targeting journalists and journalism as a
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profession. This is a global problem, which threatens not only the safety and well-being
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of journalists, but the proper functioning of democracy itself. Many countries are now working
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on plans to fight back. We are calling on Canadian police and policymakers to do the same.
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For the most part, these attacks are aimed at racialized and female journalists who are
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experiencing an increasing number of targeted vile threats of violence, end quote. Is that true,
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by the way, racialized and female journalists are receiving the brunt of this harassment? Or is this
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yet more critical race theory being jammed down our throats? The letter goes on, quote, we are asking
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police forces to take several immediate steps to address the current incidents and to work with
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our organizations to combat abuse of journalists and all victims of online hate and harassment, end quote.
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So if you read between the lines here, folks, these journalists and journalism organizations are calling
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for censorship. They are calling for a further enhancement of what is already a society resembling a police
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state. That's an odd thing for those in the press to clamor for, wouldn't you say? Oh, and be careful what you
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wish for, guys. The Trudeau liberals are already hell-bent on censoring the Internet as is. Me thinks some of the
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signatories to this letter might not like the final result. The open letter drones on, quote,
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first, many of the threatening emails use similar language, the language commonly used by domestic
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extremist groups, end quote. Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop the clock. Who are the so-called domestic extremist
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groups? They are not identified in the open letter. What a reckless use of language by these scribes.
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You see, the way journalism works is that you make a statement and then you back it up with a fact or an
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example. So again, who are these domestic terrorist groups? I think they are referring to the freedom
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convoys of the last several months. Yeah, that was one hell of a terrorist group on Wellington Street in
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Ottawa, wasn't it? Especially if one believes bouncy castles and hot tubs are weapons of mass destruction.
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Oh, by the way, isn't it interesting how the media loaves phantom domestic extremist groups, but
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they really kind of dig international terrorist groups. Case in point, our homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist
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Omar Khadr, he killed an American ally and partially blinded another. So we locked them up for life,
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of course. Oh, no, we didn't do that. Justin Trudeau, who never met a jihadi he didn't adore,
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cut little Omar a check for 10.5 million because this murderer had his feelings hurt. Please find me
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the doofus who coined the phrase, crime does not pay. The online letter at points gets comical,
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folks. Check out this line, quote, on several occasions, journalists from our organizations
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have experienced difficulty reporting incidents of harassment to police, waiting hours on the phone,
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and in some cases being treated insensitively or dismissively by officers, end quote. Oh my God in
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heaven, these reporters were put on hold and they were treated in an insensitive fashion? Gee, it really
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is a war zone out there for these scribes, I'll tell you. Then come the demands, which can be summed up
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as follows. They essentially want a thought police force, one that will take action on, quote,
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journalists who have become targets of hate and harassment, end quote. And this will, quote,
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protect journalists and thus democracy, end quote. Oh, please guys, get over yourselves. Taxpayer funded
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journalists receiving nasty tweets is akin to an attack on democracy? Surely an insurrection. And
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besides, have these sluggos ever heard the rhyme that begins with sticks and stones may break my bones?
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Aside from the usual suspects, such as the CBC and Torstar, the latter being more concerned with running
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its online casino other than publishing newspapers these days, well, there are notable signatories to
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this open letter. For example, there's Canada Land, which despite its moniker is not a theme park,
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although it can resemble a house of horrors at times, and the Canadian Association of Black
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Journalists. Now, I didn't even know this organization existed. And I wonder what their
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position is on their benefactor's habit of, you know, donning black face. And of course,
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there's the media party's very own beloved union, Unifor, aka the resistance. Say guys, how's
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Unifor's former president, Jerry Diaz, doing? You remember Jerry, don't you folks? He allegedly accepted
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$50,000 from a supplier of COVID-19 rapid test kits. And then he promptly put himself into a mental
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hospital because he's not a fraudster, you see. He's sick or the devil made him do it or something
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like that. Now, to gin up the crimes against humanity narrative against members of the media
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party, check out this recent column in the Toronto Star headlined, quote, death threats,
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racist taunts, vows of violence inside the increasingly personal attacks targeting Canadian
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female journalists, end quote. Oh my, that sounds serious. But wait a minute. This must be a misprint.
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This column was allegedly written by Grant LaFleche. Surely this is not the same Grant LaFleche who
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maliciously defamed Alicia Herter of St. Catherine's last year. Alicia, you see, figured out a way to
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keep her salon open within the COVID rules at the time by reinventing her salon as a film production
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studio. Well, Grant LaFleche and all the other COVID Karens out there, they lost their minds over
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Alicia's ingenuity. But LaFleche went a wee bit too far. You see, he wrote that Alicia was part of a group
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calling for, quote, the firing, arrest and even beheading, end quote, of Dr. Mustafa Herji, the acting
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medical officer of health for Niagara region. Just one hitch. Alicia made no such death threats.
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And thanks in part to LaFleche's hit piece, she became the target of death threats. Check it out.
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You should be the one beheaded because you're damn stupid not to understand that we're going
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through a pandemic. And this is bloody ridiculous that people like you are the ones that are causing
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the problem. Get a life. Stay home. Wear a mask. Be so short distance. Stop being a jackass.
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So there you have it. This woman thinks that you should be beheaded. You've reached out to police,
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I understand, Alicia, as well you should. What's been the reaction? The police tell me that because
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it's cyber and because these most of these people's threats to burn down my building and do all that,
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it's cyber. Even though I found their identities, the police say because it's cyber, there's nothing
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concrete they can go after. But the minute I shared that meme, there's something concrete enough that
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the next time they reached out to me was to ask me about the meme that I shared. But they aren't
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reaching out to me about any of the threats on my person or my child or my house. It's really interesting.
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Listen, I'm just doing a story on chrome barbering and I came across some of your pieces and there
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was one in which the story is kind of implicating Alicia Herter in terms of giving a death threat
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Sorry to not do that, Mr. President. I don't really have any comment for you.
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Oh, okay. It's your story though, isn't it? I mean, I'll read it to you. It says,
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You don't have to read too much the story, Mr. Menzi. The story does not implicate Ms. Herter
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in anything other than the post that she made. You're well aware of that.
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Well, did she make a post? Sir, didn't she make a post advocating for violence or death?
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Yeah. So Grant LaFleche decrying a personal attack against females is kind of like a fox mourning the
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passing of those birds who once upon a time resided in the chicken coop. One of the birthing persons LaFleche
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holds up as an example of being attacked is Rachel Gilmore of Global TV. Rachel Gilmore was the subject
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of some mean tweets. And this is apparently akin to journalism's day of infamy. Just ask Rachel.
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Now, make no mistake. Does Rachel Gilmore deserve online nastiness and threats? Of course not.
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And anonymous threats from social media trolls. Those are wicked and it's cowardly.
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But I get the idea that Gilmore, who I had never heard of before, is almost thankful for this barrage
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given that she is milking it for all that it's worth in terms of raising her profile. By the way,
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folks, for a laugh, check out the Rachel Gilmore parody account called Raquel Crymore. Here's a beauty.
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Quote, anyone else feel we should get medals when we get boosted? We are, after all,
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saving the people of the world when we do. So a little recognition would be great. I'd love to add
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that to my Tinder profile. End quote. This was surely posted in response to the tweet the real Gilmore
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had pinned on her Twitter account. She's wearing a tank top and displaying a part of her arm where she
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was most recently jabbed. Who does that? Who posts their medical history online? What sort of vapid and
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vacuous person thinks that getting jabbed is some sort of an accomplishment? Well, two things to be
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grateful for. Rachel didn't experience a wardrobe malfunction and she wasn't posting the results
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of her most recent pap smear test. Thank goodness. Oh, another thing to be thankful for, the parody of
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Rachel's medical virtue signaling. It seems to have done the trick when it comes to getting that
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dumbass tweet unpinned. But at the end of the day, despite the bluster of this drama queen supreme,
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she's never actually been physically harmed. As a reporter, she should know that social media,
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it's not the real world. It is a biosphere of the bizarre. It is populated by trolls whose bark
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is worse than their bite. So can we move on from Rachel Gilmore's day of infamy already?
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Andy Warhol once said that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. I think Raquel Crymore,
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or I mean Rachel Gilmore, is now at the 14 minute 59 second mark of her fame. Hopefully she'll just go
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back to, you know, tweeting photos of extreme weather as proof of climate change. Oh, by the way, I don't
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want to give you the wrong idea that there's no such thing as actual physical brute force violence being
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carried out against Canadian journalists. Because there is. And yes, we have video evidence. I speak
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of my colleagues and yours truly. Over the years, we have been repeatedly physically assaulted simply
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for doing our jobs. How about what happened to my beloved colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed at an Edmonton
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Women's March, no less, back in 2017? Check out how a worm of a man named Dion Buse sucker punched Sheila
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Okay, so wouldn't you say that it would be feminine? No, no, no, I'm just asking you a question. Do I seem
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unreasonable to you? Because they seem really pleasant. I think, am I coming across as pleasant
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right now? Yeah, absolutely. We're just trying to have a conversation here. I'm having, I'm trying to have a
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conversation with you. Go away. Get out of my fucking face. I will break your camera. You do not have the
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right to. Whoa. You don't have the right to film me everywhere you go. Was there a media outcry about
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that assault? Nope. Crickets. Actually, the CBC would later publish a glowing puff piece about Dion
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and his Edmonton guitar business. By the way, Dion Buse now goes by the name Dion James. Gee, I wonder why
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that is. But keep in mind, if you are in the market for a handcrafted guitar, you might want to steer
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clear of this guy's shop, given that he is a misogynist after all. And how about my colleague
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Drea Humphrey? She was covering the prime minister visiting B.C. during last year's election campaign.
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Even though she was outside practicing journalism, she was somehow deemed to be a threat and was actually
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picked up by some Trudeau hired goon and moved aside as if she were a little China doll. Check
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it out. You talked about Canada's last wrongs, the past things they haven't done right. When will you
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speak out about the 20 vandalized churches? They're burning churches and vandalizing them and you're not
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calling it a hate crime. Here's the deal, folks. Law enforcement can't really get handsy with a person
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unless that person is under arrest. Another thing, did the signatories of the open letter freak out
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about this incident, especially since they are so concerned about female and racialized journalists
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being attacked? Because it doesn't get more female and more racialized than Drea Humphrey,
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a black woman with indigenous heritage. But suddenly identity politics, well, they go out the window
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when it comes to Drea Humphrey, not because of what she looks like, but due to her thoughts and her
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reporting. Drea is not down with the woke revolution, so it's a matter of nothing to see here, folks.
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Move along. Move along. Then there's what happened to Alexa Lavoie in Ottawa last February when some
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trigger-happy cop thought it would be a good idea to shoot some sort of canister at Alexa's thigh.
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Thank God it was her thigh, not her head, for I fear we would be speaking of Alexa in the past tense
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had that been the case. Check out this disturbing footage.
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Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing?
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Hold him. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
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Now the day after I attended a press conference
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is not a state-approved and state-funded journalist.
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And of course, no outcry from the 48 signatories
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but I have assembled a highlight reel or rather
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Oh, you're a tough guy behind that mask, aren't you?
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Now, folks, they say Hogtown is going to the dogs
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under the testosterone challenge, Mayor Tory, these days.
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You know I have the right to actually smash that camera?
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Do you have the right to smash that camera by law?
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bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh MON.
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Then there was my encounter with the trans grifter known as Jonathan Jessica Yaneve Simpson and its mother.
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here's some footage of just one of the five blows delivered to my head and shoulders via a steel cane
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you're not going to go closer look and that hey hey don't you touch me don't you touch me you're
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not going to go closer get away don't you you better not you better not no you make contact
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you're going to go to jail you are going to go away i know hey don't touch me you're going to jail
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jonathan why do you take why do you send sexually explicit messages to young girls
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but folks i've saved the worst for last it's the worst because this assault came at the hands of
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law enforcement the very people who are sworn to protect us i speak of what happened to me last
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december as i stood on a sidewalk in downtown toronto to hopefully pose a question to the prime minister
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the context was this trudeau at the time was telling canadians not to get together with friends and
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family at christmas time due to covet yet he threw a fundraising dinner for himself at a jam-packed
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restaurant we were not permitted inside the eatery like the state appointed and approved mainstream
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media so ace cameraman lincoln jay and i we waited outside our goal was to ask mr trudeau about the
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apparent double standard in terms of christmas time get-togethers everybody there knew who we were
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my rebel news mike flash was on display everyone knew we posed absolutely no threat whatsoever to the
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prime minister but check out what happened to me at the hands of justin's royal canadian mounted
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henchman huh look around huh look around huh yeah you'd like to see that i wouldn't like to see that at all
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what are you doing get off me hey i can hey this is assault i'm on a side what is this i'm on a sidewalk
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you know folks i received the three c's thanks to that assault that night
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cuts a concussion and covet no i do not exaggerate because a few days later after years of not claiming
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a single sick day here at rebel news i was diagnosed with the coronavirus and that's because it turned out
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that half of these pigs that's right i called them pigs were covet positive and where was the outcry
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by journalism incorporated where was the open letter denouncing this behavior oh actually quite the
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opposite occurred most of the mainstream media avoided this story but some were actually gleeful
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about the physical assault let me present an excerpt of ezra levant's superb monologue from december 19
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it's shocking actually okay so forget the smears by that editor who frankly i've never heard of
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um put aside the smears she she actually did say that it looked bloody awful but not david aiken
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uh he was trying to turn her around on this he said google david menzies and arrest this is how
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he pays his bills what so david aiken is saying that david menzies wanted this for for profit
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that this is what david menzies does for for money that david menzies expected this wanted this planned
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this provoked this and by the way david aiken is still suggesting that david menzies was arrested
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menzies was not arrested he was mugged by the police not arrested by them not charged by them
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show you another tweet here another journalist alan fryer chimed in and said to david aiken
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shouldn't matter david this should not happen in canada so alan fryer's saying there's doesn't
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matter what david menzies was going to ask but aiken doubles down he says like i said i'm i'm curious
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the only journalist in scare quotes i've seen treated this way in 20 years of covering political
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leaders as menzies it's his shtick fundraising theater he gets arrested all the time
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will i say again that he wasn't arrested last night and a better journalist would have known
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that than david aiken now to tell you the truth folks those david aiken tweets i found hurtful to me
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that's because 10 years ago david and i worked at sun news together i was frequently a guest on his
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show we were colleagues indeed i would consider him to be a friend but to defame me this way to put
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journalist in scare quotes as if to suggest that i'm not a journalist despite having a degree in
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journalism and working for almost four decades straight as a journalist what's the deal with
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that and another thing if i was a frequent guest on david sun news show back in the day and he thought
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i wasn't a journalist then why the hell was i a guest on those shows all those times in the first place
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doesn't make sense but that's the thing isn't it sun news did not receive government funding oh on the
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contrary the network was denied a license by the crtc that would have allowed it to continue broadcasting
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not the right ideology you see so the government in the sense killed it but david aiken landed at global
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news which is now a recipient of filthy lucre courtesy of the justin truder liberals tell me folks would you
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a colleague would you throw a friend under the bus as a way of virtue signaling to your sugar daddy
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because that's exactly what david aiken did doesn't make me mad it kind of makes me sad bottom line
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forgive me if i take that open ladder by the mainstream media types with a shovel full of salt
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because it all boils down to this folks if you hurt the feelings of a government funded left of center
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media party journalist by a nasty name calling either online or in the field that is unforgivable
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and violators must be punished however should a right of center independent journalists get physically
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assaulted well keep up the good work i simply cannot believe what's happened to my profession
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folks remember once upon a time when ontario premier doug ford was
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so against a carbon tax that he actually took the federal government to the supreme court over the
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issue and why wouldn't he ontario is a manufacturing province after all a carbon tax is poisonous when
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it comes to industry alas ford was unsuccessful in his court challenge against the feds but get a load of
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this in the aftermath the progressive conservatives have concocted their own made in ontario carbon tax
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what the hell how can this be and in order to shed light on this disturbing situation is jim carahalios
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the leader of the new blue party of ontario hi jim how you doing there good and thank you dave for having
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me so we can get to the bottom of this and correct some of the history that's been reinvented or rewritten
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by the ford pc government yeah in fact jim that's important uh because speaking of history one of the
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campaign slogans from 2018 that the pcs used was ontario open for business why would this party now be pro
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carbon tax which of course is anti-business well they claim they're not and when i was running in
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the last election and belinda was running even the candidates we were running against were saying oh
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we're not we're not for the carbon tax and yet let's go back doug ford wins the pc leadership on
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ax the carbon tax promise he comes in he gets rid of cap and trade it was probably
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the last good thing he did well maybe slashing toronto city council two good things he did in the
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first five minutes he was in office and then it all went south from there but he got rid of cap and
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trade and he replaced one carbon tax in ontario with two dave and he spent 200 million dollars
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in court telling everyone that he was fighting this cash grab the justin trudeau carbon tax but before
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the supreme court ruled he cut a deal with justin before he even got the decision from the supreme court
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he cut a deal with trudeau and it was reported in even the mainstream media that trudeau had signed
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off on doug ford's industrial carbon tax and so now in ontario we have two carbon taxes we have trudeau's
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consumer carbon tax and we have doug ford's industrial carbon tax and to make matters worse
00:33:40.540
i wrote an op-ed three years ago that surprisingly dave the the financial post wrote it and you know back
00:33:47.500
then we were still hoping that maybe the ford government would turn things around we said hey
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your approach in court is wrong you're throwing the argument in court you've got three legal tests
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you're conceding two of them they didn't care they stuck with the same legal approach which was to
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throw the case in court he knew he was going to lose because they didn't try and he introduces
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industrial carbon tax before that supreme court decision came out on a nice little handshake sweetheart
00:34:13.660
deal with justin trudeau well first of all jim why in the world is an ontario conservative allegedly
00:34:20.460
premier doug ford getting into sweetheart deals with uh prime minister justin trudeau in the first place
00:34:27.660
well we're going to go on five years of seeing that with the exception of maybe two or three months
00:34:31.900
in the beginning when he got rid of cap and trade but something happened and what happened is we're
00:34:37.180
seeing the real doug ford and we're seeing the real ontario pc party they are a wing of the justin
00:34:42.140
trudeau federal liberal party and the first writing on the wall before covet before we had
00:34:47.260
lockdowns was the capitulation on the carbon tax and so the real shame here dave is you know he's got
00:34:55.340
people out there like ministers and mpps rewriting history saying well we were forced into it from
00:35:01.020
justin trudeau we lost the supreme court case so we might as well tax ontarians and industry through the
00:35:06.700
roof since we threw the case in court but the real shame here dave is let's say we get a pierre paulie
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of prime minister one day because he's going to win the leadership let's say we get a conservative
00:35:18.620
government one day federally and let's say they keep their commitment to ax the carbon tax i know i'm
00:35:24.460
counting on a lot dave maybe i'm being too optimistic but let's just say
00:35:28.940
if they get rid of that federal carbon tax we're going to still be stuck in ontario with an industrial
00:35:33.740
carbon tax at the provincial level that the federal government sometime in the future is
00:35:39.100
not going to be able to get away with so pierre paulie of instead of endorsing doug ford congratulating
00:35:44.060
doug ford on a majority government should be pushing doug ford to get rid of his industrial
00:35:49.260
carbon tax and let justin trudeau do the tax and spend policies but this pc government they're exactly
00:35:55.500
like the justin trudeau government and the liberal party and they love the tax and spend
00:35:59.580
absolutely baffling and almost unbelievable jim and yet i saw in the popular press uh ontario
00:36:06.300
environment minister david pacini says i'm no fan of the carbon tax but he said the government has
00:36:13.420
no choice they have to put this carbon tax in it was for reasons i couldn't understand jim can you
00:36:21.180
explain what he means by the government having no choice and is that really a genuine argument when it
00:36:27.500
comes to this carbon tax in ontario well they're very good at theater the pc government they love
00:36:32.780
the theater and they get the talking points but one thing you can count on whether it's lockdowns
00:36:36.860
whether it's the ontario sex ed curriculum whether it's on critical race theory or whether it's the
00:36:42.540
carbon tax that everything they say every statement they put out is deceptive and hiding the truth of
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what's really going on and that's not true that they had no choice number one they had a choice
00:36:53.100
to properly fight trudeau's carbon tax in court it was the federal government impeding on provincial
00:36:59.740
jurisdiction there was a three-part test do you know what they did in court dave i sat there and i
00:37:04.620
read the the over 100 page submission from the ontario lawyers that were tasked with it from the pc
00:37:10.780
government right from the premier's office they conceded that carbon pricing is the only way
00:37:17.420
to regulate emissions and it must be done to reduce emissions in canada because there was a matter of
00:37:22.940
national emergency and they conceded that carbon pricing was the only way to do it so what they
00:37:28.540
did was in three stages of the test they conceded the first two they said to the court yeah justin's
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right on part one and two of the test the only difference they had to disagree with in court was
00:37:40.140
to say to the judge we're fine with carbon pricing but we just don't like justin's carbon price we want
00:37:46.300
to set our own that's a bit lower if you go to court on that argument dave you're going to lose
00:37:51.660
you've already said that everything that justin's doing is a good idea it's necessary it's needed
00:37:57.020
it's a matter of national liberty so they threw the court case and they knew they were going to lose
00:38:01.660
but they did 200 million dollars worth of theater to tell doug ford's voters that he was fighting it
00:38:07.020
in court and then like i said before the supreme court ruled they cut the deal with trudeau to put
00:38:11.900
in an industrial carbon tax and then even after the supreme court ruled and they threw the case
00:38:17.260
he still has a choice he could say no to trudeau we are not putting an industrial carbon tax in ontario
00:38:24.460
if you want to tax people because the the supreme court has given you the green light even though the
00:38:30.460
conservatives threw the case then you got to do it justin and he should be supporting the conservative
00:38:36.300
party or max bernier in the ppc in the political fight to axe the carbon tax that's the proper
00:38:42.780
principled approach to this so that one day when the liberals are defeated federally we can get rid
00:38:48.380
of the carbon tax across the board instead doug ford has made it harder to get rid of the carbon
00:38:53.180
tax because now we have trudeau's consumer carbon tax and we've got the ford pc's industrial carbon tax
00:38:59.900
two carbon taxes instead of one and if we ever get rid of it at the federal level we'll need a
00:39:05.260
provincial government to get rid of it at the provincial level he's made it worse dave unbelievable it is
00:39:10.780
truly the worst of both worlds uh jim and you know that's disturbing too the fact that they would
00:39:15.820
have spent 200 million dollars on political street theater uh to use your words jim it reminds me of
00:39:22.380
many years ago it was when the liberals were running the province and um again for political street
00:39:28.300
theater and it was a a very popular thing to do but it was a no-hoper the transport minister uh going
00:39:35.500
to court against uh the 407 electronic highway to get out of that contract um and the government's
00:39:43.020
own lawyers saying no the contracts aren't glad until 2098 you cannot do it they did it anyways they
00:39:50.060
lost and it was all about spending money to make them look good this is what this reminds me of but
00:39:54.700
jim when we get down to the nitty-gritty numbers the current tax as i understand it forty dollars per ton
00:40:00.860
today that's going up to sixty five dollars in 2024 so less than a year and a half away by 2031
00:40:09.660
one hundred and seventy dollars a ton up from as i said earlier the current price of forty dollars a
00:40:16.060
ton jim what does this mean for the average ontario consumer because people can say well it's a carbon tax
00:40:25.020
to industry but we all know when their costs go up industry is certainly going to pass these costs
00:40:31.180
along are they not well industry that's exactly right the industry doesn't care it's not like
00:40:36.700
they're making industry pay for it with no impact on the consumer the guys in the c-suite are just
00:40:41.740
going to pass the tax down to the consumer raise their prices we see it at the gas pumps and we're
00:40:47.660
going to see it in other prices ontarians are already suffering with inflation because of the
00:40:52.860
tax and spend policies of justin trudeau and doug ford and the impact of repeat lockdowns and
00:40:58.060
all the other mismanagement we're seeing federally and provincially with governments walking hand in
00:41:03.580
hand and what they're doing trudeau and ford and now this carbon tax as it goes up people are going
00:41:08.700
to be hit even more even harder and affordability is going to get worse and what is necessary who would
00:41:15.340
have thought dave that we've got a pc government who replaced one carbon tax with two like can you it's
00:41:20.540
it's so it's ridiculous and then the industry dave like you said they're fine with it because if they
00:41:26.460
hire the right lobbyists they're going to get the shell game back with a subsidy half a billion dollars
00:41:32.780
a few million dollars and they'll get the subsidy back from the ford pc government but the consumer
00:41:38.540
at the bottom is not going to get any relief their prices are going to keep going up and government
00:41:44.060
spending is going to keep going up and that's the real tragedy here well you know jim that reminds you
00:41:48.380
of the other 2018 campaign slogan remember for the people this sure doesn't sound like it's for any
00:41:55.260
person that i know living in this province and you know again jim i don't i'm having a hard time
00:42:02.460
connecting the dots in terms of finding out how the ford government thinks this is a political win
00:42:09.500
thinks this is popular i go back five years ago when sneaky patrick brown was the leader of the pc party of
00:42:14.940
ontario um he threw uh social conservatives under the bus by saying he'd get rid of the radical sex
00:42:20.860
ed curriculum uh only to backstab that community by saying no it's perfectly fine and then he threw
00:42:27.740
the fiscal conservatives under the bus i believe his first speech after becoming leader at the canadian
00:42:32.380
club he said that they were he would he would be responsible for a maiden ontario carbon tax and jim
00:42:39.100
the room you could hear a pin drop and finally somebody from the peanut gallery went no so that
00:42:46.140
was he was the architect i think of his own demise was once there were no more conservatives to throw
00:42:51.500
under the bus the conservative party threw sneaky patrick under the bus so again jim i come back to
00:42:57.340
how does the ford government thinks this is a good idea when it comes to the people of the province who
00:43:03.420
ultimately elect these uh ministers so what we're seeing with what you just described because after
00:43:10.540
patrick brown made that announcement we i started the acts the carbon tax campaign doug ford campaign
00:43:15.740
on that for leader pierre paulia's campaigning on that and trying to bridge off of it running for
00:43:20.540
federal leader but what we've seen with the ontario pc party is at its core they can't shake their liberal
00:43:27.340
values and their love for justin trudeau they can't so what they've done with doug ford is let's just
00:43:32.300
change the rhetoric let's lie let's tell people that we're against the carbon tax we've got no other
00:43:37.580
choice we're just powerless all we are is the government all we are all i am is the premier
00:43:43.420
of ontario and they've been running on that script for just over four years and it falls on us dave at
00:43:49.980
the new blue party to get the truth out because global news is not going to ask the right questions
00:43:54.780
and they're not going to call me for comment and they're not going to call anyone that's going to set
00:43:58.460
the record straight and thanks to you dave for giving me the opportunity to talk about it
00:44:02.060
it falls on us and sooner or later it's going to run out for the doug ford pcs there's only so long
00:44:08.220
that you can conceal what you're really doing and our job at the new blue party is to keep moving
00:44:13.420
forward and keep exposing what's really going on and what they're really putting in place not the
00:44:19.100
rhetoric that they're doing to satisfy conservative voters and distract them quite frankly you know and
00:44:24.540
i think the real tragedy here jim is that um well certainly if the new blue party were to come to
00:44:29.820
power i know you would access tax right off the bat but when it comes to the other major parties
00:44:34.940
whether it's the liberals or the new democrats they're not going to access tax you know we expect
00:44:41.020
the conservatives to act differently but it's like the uh the tagline for the old abc detergent ad
00:44:48.460
can you tell the difference i can't tell the difference i don't know how we got here it's very disturbing
00:44:54.620
and you know it it reminds me of the uh lyric from the famous who song jim meet the new boss same as
00:45:03.500
the old boss jim last word goes to you well there was hope with the pcs and even those that thought you
00:45:12.220
know they're not very good on social issues they don't really have a backbone but fiscally they're
00:45:16.220
going to take care of business and doug ford kept campaigning on acts the carbon tax for leader he did
00:45:21.660
it in 2018 in the general election and he got more votes than any other party and premier in ontario's
00:45:27.900
history 2.3 million votes and it was largely on the back of that acts the carbon tax promise the campaign
00:45:33.340
that we led and the pcs tried to destroy me and my family in court and then what did we see we saw
00:45:41.500
this pc government and this ontario pc party they're fine with vote rigging inside their party and even on
00:45:48.780
fiscal issues they are just in lockstep with the justin trudeau liberals and we don't have to wait
00:45:55.100
to get to government dave the new blue party's got a lot of work to do every day and we're going to keep
00:45:58.460
moving forward and hold them to account and let them know they can't get away with these mainstream
00:46:02.860
media lies that they're feeding global news and the others we're going to let ontarians know and thank
00:46:07.740
you to you dave for having me on to remind people because everything old becomes new again and an op-ed
00:46:13.340
from three years ago that i wrote is still going to be around and and the acts the carbon tax narrative is still
00:46:18.220
going to be around because it's a principle that conservatives depend on and the new blue party
00:46:22.300
is going to be there for right of center voters well jim i think i speak for a lot of our audience when
00:46:27.340
i say thank you for being the watchdog when it comes to these shenanigans it looks like the media party
00:46:33.420
they've morphed into government approved and funded lapdogs and i want to thank you for speaking the truth
00:46:41.340
and uh keep your eye on this government uh right now i think i probably speak for most of my audience
00:46:47.980
again when i say i feel like i've been a victim of bait and switch here jim i thought conservatives
00:46:55.340
were against carbon taxes uh i thought uh doug ford meant it when he said open for business um but this
00:47:03.180
looks like monkey business to me my friend and uh like i said please keep us appraised of any more
00:47:08.780
shenanigans going on with this government well thanks dave for having me and we're on it every
00:47:14.220
day dave working hard thank you so much and folks that was jim carahalios the leader of the new blue
00:47:21.340
party of ontario keep it here more of the ezreal event show to come right after this
00:47:37.660
well folks lots of feedback regarding ezra's monologue last night on europe going into energy
00:47:45.180
conservation mode aka rationing because well russia is not going to play ball when the gales of november
00:47:53.740
come early f torres 59 writes i very much doubt the queen of the eu will follow these mandates well
00:48:02.860
that is the thing uh it's always one law for the one law for me when you are an elitist be it patrick
00:48:11.660
brown in the kingdom of brampton or claude schwab uh over at the world economic forum they always make
00:48:18.780
sure they are well taken care of when the rest of us are not camcom writes have the power and
00:48:26.860
communications companies cut their services off first uh you know that's interesting uh if it if
00:48:34.220
you're talking about mainstream media i think that is one so-called luxury we can get along with just
00:48:42.300
fine without in fact it might even improve many people's lives canadian rumble guy writes to make
00:48:49.900
a long story short they want us living in caves and eating bugs that's the future they want you know
00:48:57.420
it does seem that way doesn't it i mean they want to transform it would appear the first world into the
00:49:03.580
third world instead of lifting up the third world to first world standards and for all those people
00:49:10.780
in europe who laughed at donald trump years ago when he warned them don't be dependent on russian energy
00:49:19.260
well who's laughing now well that wraps up tonight's edition of the ezreal event show thank you so much
00:49:26.940
for tuning in i believe my colleague sheila gun reid she'll be hosting for ezra tomorrow in the
00:49:33.180
meantime have a good night and as always stay sane all right jason so for people who are not familiar
00:49:39.900
with yourself or even your party let us know a little bit about what the bc libertarians stand for
00:49:46.220
that's a good question the frequently the frequent answer to uh what's what's a libertarian are are you
00:49:52.780
liberals the answer is actually libertarians are the original liberals they're classic liberals
00:49:57.980
but a libertarian stands for the charter of rights and freedoms this is it we stand for everything that
00:50:04.140
charter stands for guaranteed by the supreme court of canada we stand for uh your free uncoursed choice
00:50:12.140
and we stand for the principle of non-aggression meaning it's my body my choice you cannot force me to
00:50:18.140
make a decision against my will that seems to have worked well throughout history and it's gone poorly
00:50:23.900
when that principle has been broken well we've seen it broken many times over the last two years
00:50:29.340
so how does uh what your party stands for translate into why you decided to run in this by-election
00:50:38.540
i chose to run in this by-election because in 2020 i saw that unprecedented restrictions would learn
00:50:46.380
lead to unprecedented harm and i was concerned that this would the the restrictions would lead to
00:50:52.380
more harm than good how'd i do unfortunately i don't take any joy or any pride in that and i wish
00:50:59.180
that i was wrong in 2020 i i i called for a an evidence-based return to normal here we are today in 2022
00:51:09.500
two and a half years after two weeks to flatten the curve and our government has made the decision
00:51:16.300
to impose orders and mandates that have led to the very thing that they were trying to prevent
00:51:23.580
hospital overwhelm we have hospitals that are absolutely in a state of chaos at the moment we
00:51:30.940
have uh rising hospital wait times we have ambulances people are waiting five i just talked to a lady right
00:51:36.700
now she said she waited five hours i read a story the other day that people are waiting 12 hours sometimes
00:51:42.060
the ambulance isn't even coming to pick them up so we have this hospital overwhelm increasing wait times
00:51:48.860
we have we have babies dying a recent story out in barry baby just died waiting um so you're absolutely
00:51:56.380
right what would you be able to do uh as a voice if you were elected in these areas well two things that
00:52:04.540
myself and the bc libertarians stand for uh one we are calling for uh an immediate reconsideration of
00:52:12.700
the health worker injection mandate because one of the main reasons why there is an understaffing
00:52:20.460
at the hospitals and hospital worker burnout is because our province has made the decision to fire
00:52:28.380
the people they've previously lauded as heroes our frontline workers so we are calling to rehire our
00:52:35.580
heroes that's a slogan i i chose from one of the parties at one of the other advocacy groups so that's
00:52:41.340
what we're calling for let our health workers go back to work and and get to the job of caring for
00:52:47.980
people in our community particularly in my community all communities um because i we have an elderly
00:52:53.980
community in south surrey they need that care please let our health care workers go back to work
00:52:58.780
please secondly we want to put an end to the bc health care monopoly british columbia is one of the
00:53:06.620
only places in western civilization where it is prohibited for you to pay for private private medical
00:53:15.260
health care we believe that you should have a free choice you should have a choice to pick between
00:53:20.540
public health care and private whether or not you pay out of your pocket or whether you choose
00:53:25.180
medical or you have private medical insurance that choice itself deep deep prohibiting decriminalizing
00:53:32.300
i guess paying for private medical would alleviate the the wait list and release the burden on the
00:53:39.260
healthcare system so that's why we stand for that free choice we we stand for uh eliminating the bc
00:53:47.100
government healthcare monopoly what is something specific maybe an issue or concern that you think
00:53:52.540
relates to people in south surrey specifically where you're riding well it doesn't relate specifically
00:54:00.940
to south surrey i think this is a concern for everyone in all communities across canada and it is the
00:54:06.300
rapid rising cost of living particularly for families and people on a fixed income this is a real concern
00:54:15.180
this is a real issue that arose because our current government federal is chosen to print a crazy
00:54:21.660
amount of money i know that's not specific to this community but is it is greatly affecting us the
00:54:26.380
the cost of housing the cost of food the cost of fuel um i stand for i stand for the repealing of
00:54:34.300
the carbon tax uh the government cannot balance the checkbook how can we expect them to fix the
00:54:40.780
environment without with a tax i think that's ridiculous i stand for uh repealing uh the the liquor
00:54:48.060
taxes i think most people be very very disappointed to know that more than half the price of their adult
00:54:54.860
beverage is going back into the government coffers and what are we seeing for these things so i'm standing
00:55:01.100
for essentially basic human rights basic dignity i'm standing for uh i'm standing for the uh something
00:55:12.140
that i'm standing for lowering the cost of living through something that is controllable that is
00:55:16.780
manageable that is lowering our taxes that are going away for services that we're not getting in
00:55:23.180
return many people believe that so our community is very very concerned about this cost of living we're
00:55:29.820
very very concerned about the travel restrictions we're concerned about mandates that are affecting
00:55:35.420
hospital wait times i'm i'm calling for a basic fundamental evidence-based return to sanity our
00:55:42.940
government has is continuing with orders and policies and mandates uh expecting different results
00:55:51.820
it's two and a half years later it's time to return to sanity all right uh in the description box below
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you'll see see links with more information about this upcoming race but let people know where they
00:56:03.740
can go to find out more information about yourself well you can go to libertarian.bc.ca uh there's a
00:56:10.220
by-election page where you can read me read more about me read more about the platform please connect
00:56:15.500
with me send me a message i would like to know your concerns if you live in south surrey connect with me
00:56:21.180
i want to know what your top concern is i want to know uh what i can do to help you in this community