Rebel News Podcast - August 25, 2020


Erin O’Toole beats Peter MacKay for the Tory leadership — and Leslyn Lewis has a strikingly strong finish


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

176.46706

Word Count

5,870

Sentence Count

441

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Aaron O'Toole beats Peter McKay for the Tory leadership, and Leslyn Lewis has a strikingly strong finish. Ezra goes through the results of last night's vote, and gives some interesting stats from how the vote went.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I go through the election night of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:00:05.220 I don't know if you saw it, but last night, Sheila Gunn-Reed and I had an eight-hour live stream.
00:00:09.680 Don't worry, this podcast is a fraction of that. I'll distill down my greatest wisdom for you,
00:00:15.760 and I'll play a few clips from it, and I'll give you some interesting stats from how the vote went.
00:00:20.360 Anyways, that's all I had, but first let me invite you to become a Rebel News Plus subscriber.
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00:00:33.260 Okay, here's the podcast.
00:00:41.060 Tonight, Aaron O'Toole beats Peter McKay for the Tory leadership,
00:00:53.140 and Leslyn Lewis has a strikingly strong finish.
00:00:56.160 It's August 24th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:00.960 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:04.660 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:08.720 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
00:01:12.260 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:14.600 I was really worried that Peter McKay was going to win the Conservative Party's leadership contest last night.
00:01:24.160 He had the biggest name recognition of the four candidates.
00:01:27.120 He claimed to have the biggest budget.
00:01:28.840 He had the most endorsements from party poobahs, including from MPs and senators.
00:01:34.020 His French wasn't great, but it was better than zero.
00:01:36.240 I thought that McKay would simply buy his way to the front
00:01:39.600 because the rules for the party make it possible to game the system.
00:01:43.760 As in, you know, there are 338 different electoral districts in Canada.
00:01:48.200 It used to be called ridings.
00:01:50.260 So in the Tory leadership voting system,
00:01:52.380 every one of those districts has 100 points up for grabs.
00:01:56.080 All right.
00:01:57.100 But the number of points you get in any given district
00:01:59.740 is proportionate to the votes you received in that district.
00:02:03.520 But here's the wrinkle.
00:02:06.420 There are plenty of ridings in Canada,
00:02:08.080 like, I'm going to pick one,
00:02:09.780 Gaspésie, Les Îles de la Madeleine.
00:02:12.480 How's my French?
00:02:13.480 That's in Quebec.
00:02:15.040 They have almost no Conservative Party members there.
00:02:18.280 In fact, last night, a grand total of 33 people
00:02:23.540 in that whole riding voted in the race.
00:02:26.540 In Rosemont, Le Petit Patrie,
00:02:29.440 just 37 members voted.
00:02:31.060 And in Bourassa, Quebec, I'm not even kidding,
00:02:34.900 there were only 28 people in the Conservative Party there who voted.
00:02:39.880 If you look at Bourassa,
00:02:41.040 Derek Sloan actually got, I think, 10 out of those 33 votes or something.
00:02:44.300 But since he was the first candidate eliminated,
00:02:46.300 his votes were reapportioned to their second candidate
00:02:48.600 and then again in the third round.
00:02:49.900 So when it ended, the riding of Bourassa
00:02:51.880 gave 65 points to Aaron O'Toole
00:02:56.240 and 34 points to Peter McKay.
00:02:59.700 O'Toole earned 65 points
00:03:01.380 and he literally had only
00:03:03.140 eight people vote in the first round
00:03:06.240 saying, Aaron's my guy.
00:03:07.380 Eight people voting, 65 points.
00:03:09.960 Now, swing to the other end of things,
00:03:11.200 Alberta ridings.
00:03:12.640 Calgary, Signal Hill.
00:03:14.020 1,697 members voted.
00:03:16.880 The amazing riding of Foothills, Alberta.
00:03:18.800 2,079 voters last night.
00:03:22.360 So, Leslyn Lewis got 566 votes there.
00:03:28.280 But just 27 points in the first round.
00:03:30.240 So compare that to the 65 points
00:03:32.660 that Aaron O'Toole got for what?
00:03:34.440 Like eight votes in Bourassa?
00:03:35.800 I'm not sure if you're seeing my point, but it's this.
00:03:38.220 If you're a Conservative Party member,
00:03:41.060 your vote depends on where you live.
00:03:43.600 It could count for almost the equal
00:03:46.740 of 50 other Conservative Party members,
00:03:49.760 depending on where you live.
00:03:51.440 If you're a Conservative in Bourassa,
00:03:53.940 your vote counts 50 times more
00:03:56.940 than if you're in Foothills, Alberta.
00:04:00.280 That's a wrinkle.
00:04:02.340 You could call it a flaw or even a trick.
00:04:04.340 It's how Andrew Scheer won last time
00:04:06.340 because he focused his energy on wooing
00:04:08.720 those tiny membership Quebec ridings,
00:04:11.200 which he won by promising the Quebec Dairy Cartel
00:04:14.360 to do that he would do their bidding.
00:04:16.660 So instead of wasting time
00:04:17.620 trying to persuade 1,000 people in Foothills,
00:04:20.220 he spent his time, you know,
00:04:21.540 selling 10 memberships in Bourassa kind of thing.
00:04:24.720 So I thought Peter McKay was doing
00:04:26.520 with all his money, but he wasn't.
00:04:28.980 He was just busy counting his victory
00:04:30.660 before the battle was even fought.
00:04:32.760 Here's our own Kian Bexte
00:04:33.920 trying to ask him a basic question.
00:04:36.560 He kept running away,
00:04:37.940 and then he finally told Kian
00:04:39.180 that running away wasn't actually running away.
00:04:41.540 It was just what you do
00:04:43.180 when you're winning so much.
00:04:44.560 He can't even believe him was winning.
00:04:46.300 He was winning,
00:04:47.140 and that's what running away was.
00:04:48.980 It was winning.
00:04:50.020 You dismissed the anger in Alberta
00:04:52.920 by calling Jason Kenney an angry man.
00:04:55.520 Will you apologize for that?
00:04:56.780 Will you apologize for calling Jason Kenney an angry man?
00:05:05.240 How come you don't attend media by all the ladies?
00:05:07.300 I was on the phone, and they didn't select me.
00:05:08.900 Oh my God, you were so busy.
00:05:10.860 You couldn't get to the previously scheduled media.
00:05:13.940 Peter McKay, you sort of look like a coward right now.
00:05:16.580 Yeah, I don't think so.
00:05:18.940 It's called winning.
00:05:20.160 Excuse me.
00:05:20.580 Yeah, no, I think the big winner last night
00:05:22.580 was obviously Erin O'Toole.
00:05:24.520 Leslyn Lewis was a huge winner,
00:05:26.120 coming in a strong third.
00:05:27.920 In fact, there was a moment
00:05:29.020 where Leslyn Lewis had the most votes
00:05:31.800 of any of the candidates.
00:05:34.600 But alas, they were in the wrong part of the country,
00:05:37.440 so she was eliminated.
00:05:39.080 If I recall, she actually won
00:05:40.280 the province of Saskatchewan.
00:05:41.640 Isn't that funny?
00:05:42.620 A bit off narrative for the liberal media,
00:05:44.400 isn't it?
00:05:44.620 A black woman, Jamaican-Canadian,
00:05:47.040 lawyer, PhD from Toronto,
00:05:49.520 winning the hearts and minds
00:05:50.600 of the big farm province in the West.
00:05:52.720 Only a CBC liberal would find that surprising.
00:05:55.200 They project their own closed-mindedness
00:05:57.480 on other people.
00:05:58.440 If my research is right,
00:06:00.500 CBC's flagship political show
00:06:02.040 spent a grand total of one minute and 45 seconds
00:06:05.040 talking about Leslyn Lewis during the entire race.
00:06:07.960 They can't stop gushing about Kamala Harris,
00:06:10.360 the Democratic VP nominee in a foreign country.
00:06:13.140 Oh my God, they love her,
00:06:14.480 but they won't say a peep about Leslyn Lewis
00:06:16.200 because she's a conservative,
00:06:17.980 so they despise her.
00:06:20.380 Rosemary Barton, the disgraced CBC TV host,
00:06:22.780 actually filed a nuisance suit
00:06:24.300 against the Conservative Party
00:06:25.720 during the last election, you'll recall.
00:06:27.480 So in some bizarre practical joke,
00:06:30.060 she, of all the thousands of CBCers,
00:06:32.860 was assigned to be the host of their coverage
00:06:35.180 of the Conservative Party leadership last night.
00:06:37.280 Seriously, as a neutral interviewer,
00:06:39.840 not, okay, we're going to talk to Rosemary Barton,
00:06:42.200 the plaintiff who filed the lawsuit,
00:06:43.440 what do you think of this party you're suing?
00:06:45.080 No, no, no, she was the moderator.
00:06:48.080 Anyways, in a rare moment of honesty,
00:06:50.900 she confessed that she basically tried
00:06:52.580 to hide Leslyn Lewis from the public,
00:06:54.500 to pretend she didn't exist.
00:06:56.140 She was trying to interfere with the news,
00:06:58.420 not report the news.
00:06:59.860 To sort of establishment conservatives,
00:07:02.400 if there is such a thing,
00:07:04.260 who probably didn't get enough, you know,
00:07:06.740 media coverage as a candidate,
00:07:08.680 in spite of all those things,
00:07:10.060 and was not perceived as a proctor,
00:07:13.060 managed to raise that much money
00:07:15.300 and gain this much support in the first ballot.
00:07:17.880 Yeah, it's so funny over there at the woke network.
00:07:20.500 There was this moment last night
00:07:21.620 where this ultra-feminist, Rosemary Barton,
00:07:24.780 who got ahead in life through affirmative action,
00:07:27.060 she was so excited about having three other women
00:07:29.720 on her panel that she tweeted that.
00:07:32.000 And oh, oh, the entire politically correct brigade
00:07:35.340 just unloaded on her.
00:07:37.300 You'd think they would praise her.
00:07:38.440 No, no, no.
00:07:39.220 They were pointing out, obviously,
00:07:40.560 that, yeah, they were all women.
00:07:41.820 Okay, congratulations.
00:07:43.820 But they're all white women.
00:07:45.300 How racist of her.
00:07:47.340 See, that's the thing about the woke Olympics.
00:07:48.980 You think you're a gold medalist?
00:07:50.580 There's always someone woker.
00:07:53.140 If you had four black women on the panel,
00:07:55.620 well, okay, that's pretty woke.
00:07:57.840 Well, then a trans woman could come along
00:08:01.340 and outwoke them.
00:08:02.860 That's the thing with judging yourself
00:08:04.120 and others based on irrelevant criteria
00:08:06.140 like sex and race is,
00:08:08.340 it's never enough.
00:08:10.440 Last night, Sheila and I did our show
00:08:12.120 and Key and Bexley had some cameos in the show.
00:08:15.420 And we had about 100,000 people tune in,
00:08:19.040 according to YouTube.
00:08:21.060 100,000, can you believe it?
00:08:23.500 And like the CBC,
00:08:25.320 we didn't charge you $1.5 billion to do it.
00:08:27.620 And we didn't do a racial analysis
00:08:29.240 or a gender analysis of the people on our show.
00:08:31.660 It's just me and Sheila and Keya.
00:08:32.700 By comparison, look at the like-to-dislike ratio
00:08:36.580 on the CBC's broadcast.
00:08:40.300 It was hated, partly because the CBC hates conservatives,
00:08:43.500 so conservatives who would have been most of the viewers
00:08:45.560 and just hate them back.
00:08:46.700 But it's also because the CBC just refused
00:08:48.700 to allow any viewer comments all night.
00:08:51.800 They shut down the comment section.
00:08:53.300 Isn't that odd?
00:08:53.900 Same thing even weirder on the Conservative Party of Canada's
00:08:57.240 own live stream of their own event.
00:08:59.240 Why would you shut down comments?
00:09:00.680 I don't get it.
00:09:01.500 I don't get why conservatives wouldn't want to let conservatives
00:09:04.920 chat about the Conservative Party on a Conservative website.
00:09:07.620 Unless maybe they don't actually want to hear
00:09:09.180 from the grassroots either.
00:09:11.420 So I thought McCabe was going to win the thing.
00:09:12.880 I'm so glad he didn't.
00:09:14.400 It would have alienated entire wings of the party,
00:09:17.120 shrinking the party greatly,
00:09:18.700 reducing its energy and passion,
00:09:20.160 and all for the fool's errand of trying to win over Liberal voters
00:09:23.440 who are pretty much just fine with Trudeau.
00:09:25.940 Thank you very little.
00:09:27.420 I liked Eric Sloan.
00:09:28.480 I interviewed him three or four times in the campaign.
00:09:30.500 I thought he was a master of Conservative policy.
00:09:33.160 I hope he's given an important position
00:09:34.780 in O'Toole's shadow cabinet.
00:09:37.480 Andrew Scheer famously marginalized
00:09:40.120 and blackballed his former leadership rivals,
00:09:43.260 which is one of the reasons why the PPC party split off,
00:09:46.920 along with a lot of energy.
00:09:48.300 I hope O'Toole isn't bitter like Andrew Scheer was.
00:09:52.300 I hope he doesn't make the same mistake.
00:09:53.960 Lesley Lewis is not an MP yet.
00:09:57.180 And I'm not sure if getting her into Parliament right away
00:09:59.380 is the best use of her talents and energy and time,
00:10:02.280 especially when Parliament is so reduced in scope and function.
00:10:06.760 Maybe she can find another position with the Conservatives
00:10:08.960 to continue to expand the party, not shrink it.
00:10:12.460 And of course she should run in the next election,
00:10:15.040 but in a safe riding, I would think,
00:10:16.540 not a long shot riding.
00:10:18.440 She wouldn't want to run in Saskatchewan,
00:10:20.080 probably not.
00:10:20.580 Her life's in Toronto,
00:10:21.480 but I bet she could win any riding in Saskatchewan,
00:10:25.420 don't you think?
00:10:26.720 Maybe Andrew Scheer should retire and step aside for her.
00:10:30.280 He's already got a huge pension.
00:10:32.320 Why wouldn't he?
00:10:33.200 What's left for him to do?
00:10:34.520 And as to O'Toole himself,
00:10:37.220 well, we'll see quickly enough.
00:10:39.300 Remember, he was the thin-skinned complainer of the candidates
00:10:42.560 who claimed to the party's secret committee
00:10:44.940 to get his rival, Jim Carahalios, kicked out of the race.
00:10:48.260 That's not really a conservative move.
00:10:50.160 It's not really a free speech move.
00:10:51.580 It's more a cancel culture move.
00:10:53.820 O'Toole's campaign chairman,
00:10:55.080 Waleed Solomon, likes to sue people who criticize him.
00:10:57.420 I'm not sure how that squares with O'Toole's newfound belief in free speech.
00:11:01.400 O'Toole himself avoided speaking with Rebel News for the longest time
00:11:05.800 until he just sort of gave up running.
00:11:09.100 He was not willing to descend to Peter McKay's level of hiding
00:11:11.940 in the bathroom when Keehan walked by.
00:11:14.500 My point is, hopefully,
00:11:15.720 this new conservative version of Aaron O'Toole is here to stay.
00:11:19.880 And I say that because the aforementioned Waleed Solomon
00:11:22.120 was also the campaign chairman for Sneaky Patrick Brown
00:11:25.520 when he ran for the leadership of the provincial PCs out here.
00:11:28.940 Brown promised the right that he was really a conservative,
00:11:32.700 both fiscal and social.
00:11:34.220 But as soon as he won, he abandoned both of those points of view
00:11:36.880 and became a carbon tax-loving liberal libertine, as we all now know.
00:11:41.580 I hope that's not Waleed Solomon's plan for Aaron O'Toole
00:11:44.260 to take the votes of conservatives,
00:11:46.260 including the second choice votes of Leslie and Lewis,
00:11:49.140 just to win, but then tack back to the left after it's done.
00:11:53.600 We'll see.
00:11:54.360 I know what the CBC wants.
00:11:55.760 They want a lapdog like Andrew Scheer was.
00:11:57.680 They want someone who's afraid to buck the media party's narrative.
00:12:01.340 They'll want someone who's just a Me Too repeater
00:12:03.480 of the conventional wisdom on everything from immigration levels
00:12:06.140 to global warming to the pandemic.
00:12:08.760 Look, I'm going to be hopeful for now.
00:12:10.280 The party dodged a big bullet by not voting for Peter McKay,
00:12:14.100 and Aaron O'Toole is saying the right things.
00:12:16.380 Here's an excerpt from his speech last night.
00:12:18.180 The world still needs more Canada.
00:12:20.840 It just needs less Justin Trudeau.
00:12:22.940 Why should I be that leader?
00:12:26.600 Because I believe that whether you are black, white, brown,
00:12:29.740 or from any race or creed,
00:12:32.320 whether you are LGBT or straight,
00:12:34.820 whether you are an Indigenous Canadian,
00:12:37.060 or have joined the Canadian family three weeks ago,
00:12:40.240 or three generations ago,
00:12:41.880 whether you are doing well or barely getting by,
00:12:46.380 whether you worship on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, or not at all,
00:12:51.240 you are an important part of Canada,
00:12:53.760 and you have a home in the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:12:57.980 Maybe you have voted for a different party your whole life
00:13:01.820 or have never voted at all.
00:13:04.760 Maybe you feel that as a union member,
00:13:07.140 you should not vote for our party.
00:13:09.160 Maybe you feel let down repeatedly by politicians.
00:13:13.220 Maybe your family came to Canada for better,
00:13:16.020 but you are still waiting for fair treatment.
00:13:19.260 Maybe you run a small business and work all day
00:13:22.180 only to be called a tax cheat by your own government.
00:13:26.580 It is time for many Liberal and NDP voters
00:13:29.760 to socially distance themselves from those out-of-touch parties.
00:13:35.220 It is time for more Canadians
00:13:37.360 to look at the Conservative Party again.
00:13:40.640 If you want the opportunity to work hard
00:13:43.220 to provide for your family,
00:13:45.060 you should be voting Conservative.
00:13:46.680 If you want to stop insiders from getting ahead
00:13:50.800 while you are falling back,
00:13:53.020 you should be voting Conservative.
00:13:55.960 If you are proud of what we produce in this country,
00:13:59.500 whether it's the resources in the ground
00:14:01.320 or the ideas in our heads,
00:14:04.080 you should be voting Conservative.
00:14:06.200 And if you believe deeply, like I do,
00:14:09.880 that you need an ethical government
00:14:11.940 and that we need to give the ethics commissioner a break,
00:14:15.460 you should be voting Conservative.
00:14:19.360 That's not bad.
00:14:20.540 Good place to start.
00:14:21.580 Look, he's not a rock star, okay?
00:14:23.420 He was a Harper cabinet minister
00:14:25.720 whose name you probably forgot.
00:14:28.500 He came in third in the race
00:14:32.860 to replace Stephen Harper last time.
00:14:34.720 He lost to Scheer and Maxime Bernier.
00:14:37.660 So he's the party's second, third, fourth, or fifth choice.
00:14:42.540 All right, fine.
00:14:43.900 Fine.
00:14:44.280 It's not your first-round draft pick.
00:14:47.220 But he's better than Trudeau.
00:14:48.740 I would take the 10th-round draft pick
00:14:50.640 if he's a Conservative instead of Trudeau.
00:14:53.240 Our job here at Rebel News remains the same.
00:14:55.620 Tell the other side of the story.
00:14:56.980 Tell the Conservative side of the story.
00:14:58.580 We'll call it like we see it.
00:14:59.960 We'll be fair and we'll be hopeful
00:15:01.020 if O'Toole backslides,
00:15:02.620 if he pulls a Patrick Brown,
00:15:04.340 we'll be here to let you know.
00:15:06.340 But for now, as flawed as he is,
00:15:08.540 Aaron O'Toole is the best chance
00:15:10.720 of beating Justin Trudeau in the next election.
00:15:12.620 It is our job to make sure
00:15:14.600 that if he gets there,
00:15:16.780 he gets there as a Conservative.
00:15:20.240 Stay with us for more.
00:15:21.340 So it doesn't matter what kind of Conservative you are.
00:15:36.380 Our party needs all of you.
00:15:37.960 And we need you to go out
00:15:39.400 and find more people who share our beliefs.
00:15:42.080 Please, stay involved.
00:15:44.240 Be bold.
00:15:45.040 Think.
00:15:45.860 Challenge the mainstream media.
00:15:47.460 Don't take their narrative as fact.
00:15:49.620 Check out smart, independent, objective organizations
00:15:53.100 that are growing all the time,
00:15:54.920 like the Postmillennial or True North.
00:15:57.460 There are other places to get information.
00:16:00.040 Let's stop being the silent majority.
00:16:01.980 Well, there's a clip of Andrew Scheer,
00:16:04.260 the outgoing party leader,
00:16:05.880 giving a shout out to independent media,
00:16:08.060 in particular our friends at Postmillennial and True North.
00:16:11.380 I see a tiny bit of an omission there for Rebel News,
00:16:14.260 but I can't blame the lad.
00:16:15.800 We've certainly had our share of criticism of him over the years.
00:16:19.220 I just wish that he himself would have lived
00:16:21.800 a little bit more by that creed.
00:16:23.900 I found that he was far too deferential to the media party
00:16:27.720 and to the CBC in particular,
00:16:29.420 even after, shockingly, in the last election,
00:16:33.080 the CBC literally sued the Conservative Party,
00:16:37.060 and no one less than Rosemary Barton,
00:16:38.960 their chief political reporter,
00:16:41.260 was a named plaintiff.
00:16:42.640 How do you even talk to that reporter again
00:16:46.040 after she sued you?
00:16:48.220 Are you not worried it'll be used in evidence?
00:16:50.200 I wish that Andrew Scheer's sudden love for independent media
00:16:54.960 had been a staple of his strategy the whole time.
00:16:59.040 Maybe he would be the prime minister now
00:17:01.440 instead of just another backbencher.
00:17:03.100 Well, one guy who caught the move and the mood squarely
00:17:07.860 and who, in fact, gives credit to independent media
00:17:12.420 for Aaron O'Toole's success last night
00:17:14.760 is our friend Spencer Fernando,
00:17:17.240 an independent columnist and commentator
00:17:19.140 from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
00:17:21.400 You can see all his stuff at spencerfernando.com.
00:17:24.500 He joins us now by Skype.
00:17:25.660 Great to see you again.
00:17:27.340 Did you stay up last night as late as I did
00:17:29.980 to get their last results,
00:17:31.580 or did you just call it quits at around midnight?
00:17:34.920 No, no, I stayed up.
00:17:36.240 I wrote about it when the final results came in.
00:17:39.300 So, yeah, a little bit of a delay.
00:17:41.240 It was kind of funny to see constantly,
00:17:43.300 oh, 15 minutes away, 15 minutes away.
00:17:45.260 Oh, just wait another 15.
00:17:46.720 Oh, just another 15 minutes.
00:17:48.040 But then the results finally did come in.
00:17:50.820 That's right.
00:17:51.240 We were, I think, on the air for almost eight hours straight.
00:17:55.420 We were doing our share of tap dancing to fill the time.
00:17:57.860 Can I read the title of your essay on it?
00:18:00.620 Because I think you nailed it.
00:18:02.560 You can see this at spencerfernando.com.
00:18:05.120 And by the way, if you're not a supporter of Spencer,
00:18:06.960 may I encourage you to sign up?
00:18:08.900 You'll get his stuff emailed to you directly,
00:18:10.780 so you don't even have to remember to surf on over there.
00:18:12.720 Here's what Spencer wrote.
00:18:14.060 He said, Aaron O'Toole's big win and strong showing by Lewis and Sloan
00:18:19.980 shows conservatives decisively rejected the media elites
00:18:23.700 and embraced independent media.
00:18:26.780 I think you're right on that.
00:18:28.320 You put some evidence in your essay.
00:18:30.640 What are some examples of how O'Toole and Lewis and Sloan
00:18:34.700 used independent media,
00:18:36.300 whereas McKay really relied on the mainstream media?
00:18:38.960 Yeah, well, it's interesting.
00:18:41.660 I think you could kind of see the trend beginning
00:18:43.780 even before the race really got going
00:18:45.880 when the media really tried to push Jean Charest.
00:18:49.300 You saw some articles in the establishment press.
00:18:51.420 Oh, Jean Charest really understands conservatives.
00:18:53.820 And the response on social media was people were saying,
00:18:56.840 like, what are you talking about?
00:18:57.940 Jean Charest is not really a conservative anymore
00:19:00.320 in the way that most people in the party would see it.
00:19:02.940 And so he dropped out.
00:19:04.140 So that showed that the media already had a pretty bad grasp
00:19:06.780 of what was going on.
00:19:07.700 And then they started pushing Peter McKay.
00:19:09.880 Oh, he was inevitable.
00:19:11.000 He was the frontrunner the entire time.
00:19:12.880 No one could beat him.
00:19:14.060 He got endorsed by the Toronto Star.
00:19:16.160 But if you look during the campaign,
00:19:17.440 I mean, you saw Aaron O'Toole.
00:19:19.260 He reached out to independent media quite a lot.
00:19:21.800 He would speak to True North.
00:19:24.000 I know Leslie Lewis and Derek Sloan
00:19:25.700 did interviews with you and with the Rebel.
00:19:28.960 And Peter McKay, I mean,
00:19:30.140 he literally ran away from the Rebel, right?
00:19:32.060 I mean, he ran away from, you know,
00:19:34.060 people trying to talk to him.
00:19:35.540 And then it was really interesting at the end.
00:19:38.320 He tried to cast it as kind of a move that was,
00:19:40.980 I guess, out of respect to his opponent.
00:19:43.800 But when you had all four candidates
00:19:45.860 who were going to do the independent press gallery debate,
00:19:50.300 and then Leslie Lewis had to drop out
00:19:51.760 at the last minute because of illness.
00:19:53.680 And then McKay dropped out.
00:19:54.720 And he kind of said like,
00:19:55.680 oh, it's just out of respect to Leslie Lewis.
00:19:57.700 But I think a lot of people saw that
00:19:59.280 as him kind of trying to torpedo the event.
00:20:02.080 You know, whether that's fair or not,
00:20:03.320 that's the perception a lot of people had.
00:20:05.280 So he seemed like he really,
00:20:07.300 he and his campaign really kind of bet on the idea
00:20:11.120 that independent media didn't mean anything.
00:20:14.000 It didn't really have any influence.
00:20:15.800 And the traditional media was still
00:20:17.380 where all the power was.
00:20:18.560 And as we saw last night,
00:20:20.340 that bet did not work out too well for him.
00:20:22.400 Yeah.
00:20:22.660 I remember that night
00:20:23.920 when the independent press gallery,
00:20:25.880 that's Candace Malcolm's alternative press gallery.
00:20:28.080 I think you're a member of it, Spencer,
00:20:29.760 if I'm not mistaken.
00:20:30.440 We are here too.
00:20:32.380 It was sort of their coming out party.
00:20:34.120 They really put a lot of effort
00:20:35.500 and expense in this thing.
00:20:36.760 And they were very proud
00:20:37.580 that all four candidates were there.
00:20:40.360 And Leslie Lewis, let's take her at a word.
00:20:41.880 She said she had an earache or something.
00:20:44.200 I'm not going to dispute it.
00:20:45.740 But for Peter McKay to,
00:20:47.640 you know, opportunistically say,
00:20:49.660 oh, out of solidarity with her earache,
00:20:52.080 we're not coming.
00:20:52.960 And by the way,
00:20:53.480 Leslie Lewis's campaign manager
00:20:55.000 came down to the event
00:20:56.300 to say, look,
00:20:57.220 I wish we were here.
00:20:58.960 I'm here.
00:21:00.100 We don't want this fake solidarity
00:21:01.800 from Peter McKay.
00:21:02.760 I think it stunned a lot of people
00:21:05.080 at how high handed Peter McKay was.
00:21:08.100 I think it hurt Candace Malcolm's feelings a little bit.
00:21:10.680 I can't speak for her.
00:21:11.960 And she would probably never admit it.
00:21:13.680 But this was the great one.
00:21:15.840 I shouldn't say that.
00:21:17.000 She's strong.
00:21:17.660 She doesn't care what Peter McKay says.
00:21:19.300 But this was going to be the flagship
00:21:20.640 of the independent press gallery.
00:21:22.880 And it was Peter McKay
00:21:23.820 who tried to wreck it.
00:21:25.500 Now, it went on to be a great success.
00:21:27.860 Andrew Lawton did a great job
00:21:29.260 interviewing Aaron O'Toole
00:21:31.280 and Derek Sloan.
00:21:33.120 But what I think a lot of conservative
00:21:34.880 grassroots took away from that is
00:21:36.520 Peter McKay looks down on
00:21:39.000 unofficial things,
00:21:40.760 grassroots things,
00:21:42.280 populist things.
00:21:43.240 He would never bail
00:21:44.740 at the last minute on the CBC.
00:21:46.840 He would never come up
00:21:47.860 with such a cockamamie excuse
00:21:49.240 for the Globe and Mail.
00:21:50.560 But for merely the 50 journalists
00:21:53.300 in the independent press gallery,
00:21:54.620 including you and me, Spencer,
00:21:56.240 oh, fine, he'll come up
00:21:57.140 with some excuse you don't like it.
00:21:58.660 Tough luck.
00:21:59.060 I don't like you.
00:21:59.720 And here's why that's important, Spencer,
00:22:03.800 because no one won this thing
00:22:05.400 on the first ballot.
00:22:06.200 So you've got to be friendly enough
00:22:08.500 to the grassroots
00:22:09.580 that they'll make you
00:22:11.180 your number two or three choice.
00:22:12.540 And I think it was high-handed moves
00:22:14.520 like that that did him in
00:22:16.680 when it came to that transferable vote.
00:22:20.920 Yeah, I agree.
00:22:21.760 And what's interesting is,
00:22:22.820 you know, Aaron O'Toole
00:22:23.480 is not really a super right-wing person.
00:22:26.380 But what he did was very smart.
00:22:27.600 I think he realized
00:22:28.280 that the Conservative Party,
00:22:29.520 just like any large political party,
00:22:31.580 is a coalition of different interests.
00:22:33.440 And so, you know,
00:22:34.520 there was the time
00:22:35.100 when Derek Sloan
00:22:36.160 talked about Theresa Tam
00:22:37.340 and he saw some of the
00:22:38.220 Conservative Ontario caucus
00:22:39.420 wanted to kick him out.
00:22:41.600 And according to reports
00:22:42.860 at the time,
00:22:43.940 one of the only people
00:22:45.120 in the Ontario Conservative caucus
00:22:46.560 actually advocating
00:22:47.780 to keep Sloan in
00:22:49.320 was Aaron O'Toole.
00:22:51.100 So whether that was principle
00:22:52.540 or strategy,
00:22:53.320 I mean,
00:22:53.520 it was a smart move by him.
00:22:55.240 He also,
00:22:55.980 and by reaching out
00:22:56.700 to independent media,
00:22:58.020 I think he reached out
00:22:58.820 to the Conservative base
00:22:59.840 in a way that,
00:23:01.160 you know,
00:23:01.460 centrist candidates
00:23:02.240 often don't.
00:23:03.040 So,
00:23:03.540 and it worked out well for him.
00:23:04.880 I mean,
00:23:05.080 if you look on the final ballot,
00:23:07.100 he got,
00:23:08.600 I think,
00:23:08.940 what was it,
00:23:09.340 60,
00:23:09.940 something,
00:23:10.260 around 60,
00:23:10.940 70%
00:23:11.540 of Les and Lewis'
00:23:12.900 votes.
00:23:14.260 I mean,
00:23:14.460 McKay got almost nothing
00:23:15.780 from Les Lewis' support
00:23:18.240 and much of her support
00:23:19.140 was,
00:23:19.480 of course,
00:23:20.280 hers and Sloan
00:23:21.320 from the first ballot.
00:23:22.420 So,
00:23:23.400 I mean,
00:23:23.780 McKay,
00:23:24.240 he needed to get
00:23:25.320 at least 40%
00:23:26.620 on the first ballot,
00:23:27.400 didn't even get close.
00:23:28.560 And he was just never,
00:23:29.840 never as strong
00:23:30.680 as much of the media
00:23:31.520 portrayed him.
00:23:32.500 Yeah.
00:23:32.740 I was worried
00:23:33.760 because,
00:23:34.360 of course,
00:23:34.600 he came across
00:23:35.440 as so overconfident
00:23:36.600 and either a guy
00:23:37.780 is totally bluffing,
00:23:39.240 which is possible,
00:23:40.020 or he knows something
00:23:41.220 we don't know.
00:23:42.160 I assumed
00:23:42.860 it was the latter.
00:23:44.420 I assumed
00:23:45.160 that he had
00:23:46.260 so many organizers
00:23:48.280 in small population ridings.
00:23:50.540 As you know,
00:23:50.880 that point system
00:23:51.700 favors,
00:23:52.980 like,
00:23:53.160 say,
00:23:53.300 the riding of Bourassa,
00:23:54.760 which has less than 50 voters,
00:23:57.880 compared to the riding
00:23:58.780 of Foothills,
00:23:59.740 Alberta,
00:24:00.220 2,000 voters.
00:24:01.200 So I thought,
00:24:01.720 okay,
00:24:01.980 Peter McKay
00:24:02.600 is strong in places
00:24:04.060 where we don't even know about,
00:24:05.880 and that's why
00:24:06.640 he's acting so cocky.
00:24:08.120 No,
00:24:08.640 I think he was just
00:24:09.560 believing his own spin
00:24:10.520 that he was,
00:24:11.720 that this was his destiny.
00:24:12.880 I noticed that
00:24:14.800 Derek Sloan,
00:24:16.420 who did well,
00:24:17.200 but I mean,
00:24:17.680 he clearly was in fourth,
00:24:19.500 and Lesley Lewis
00:24:20.140 was clearly in third,
00:24:21.680 he gave a big shout out
00:24:23.320 before last night,
00:24:24.380 thanking almost name by name
00:24:26.420 every independent journalist
00:24:27.660 he spoke with.
00:24:29.260 I thought that was
00:24:30.140 pretty classy.
00:24:31.620 And Lesley Lewis
00:24:32.580 made a point of saying,
00:24:33.700 I'll talk to anyone
00:24:34.760 in this coalition.
00:24:35.880 I think you're right.
00:24:37.160 And even,
00:24:38.160 like,
00:24:38.280 what's the harm
00:24:39.080 in talking to
00:24:40.100 different media?
00:24:41.120 If you're scared
00:24:42.420 of a question,
00:24:43.880 that's probably a problem
00:24:44.940 you need to fix anyway,
00:24:46.280 so it's unrelated
00:24:46.840 to the particular journalist.
00:24:48.600 If you think Rebel News
00:24:49.640 or Spencer Fernando
00:24:50.620 are too tough,
00:24:52.100 well,
00:24:52.260 wait till you get a load
00:24:53.240 of Vladimir Putin
00:24:54.160 or Donald Trump.
00:24:55.160 Like,
00:24:55.280 if you want to be
00:24:55.780 prime minister,
00:24:56.840 dealing with independent
00:24:57.840 conservative journalists
00:24:58.720 is not your toughest
00:24:59.520 problem in the world.
00:25:00.600 I think it looked good
00:25:01.720 on Derek Sloan,
00:25:03.140 Lesley Lewis,
00:25:03.820 and eventually Aaron O'Toole
00:25:05.180 when he warmed up
00:25:05.900 to us too,
00:25:06.920 to talk to us.
00:25:07.700 I mean,
00:25:07.960 where's the harm?
00:25:08.940 It shows that he means it
00:25:10.140 when he's for free speech.
00:25:12.620 Yeah,
00:25:13.080 and I think your point
00:25:13.680 about McKay being overconfident,
00:25:15.200 I think that's a good point
00:25:16.140 because I think
00:25:17.280 if you look at,
00:25:18.080 let's imagine a world
00:25:19.080 without independent media.
00:25:20.480 So McKay would have
00:25:21.120 seemed very confident.
00:25:23.240 The media would have
00:25:24.040 said nice things about him,
00:25:25.020 would have portrayed him
00:25:25.640 as the frontrunner,
00:25:26.620 and that would have
00:25:27.480 demoralized everybody else.
00:25:29.020 So that's,
00:25:29.500 I think that's often
00:25:30.140 how candidates,
00:25:31.260 establishment candidates win
00:25:32.560 is first the illusion
00:25:34.420 is created
00:25:35.000 that they're unbeatable,
00:25:36.180 and then the illusion
00:25:36.900 becomes reality,
00:25:37.820 right?
00:25:38.120 People just kind of
00:25:38.780 give up and say,
00:25:39.500 oh, well,
00:25:40.120 they're getting all
00:25:40.680 the endorsements,
00:25:41.620 the media's really
00:25:42.720 in the tank for them,
00:25:44.260 there's no way to beat them.
00:25:46.040 But with independent media,
00:25:47.180 I think it becomes
00:25:47.880 very different.
00:25:49.060 People realize,
00:25:50.200 okay, well,
00:25:50.660 that narrative is one
00:25:51.920 that exists,
00:25:52.400 but it's not the only one.
00:25:53.880 There's clearly a lot
00:25:54.680 of people who disagree with it.
00:25:56.160 There is an actual fight
00:25:57.260 and a contest.
00:25:58.620 So I think McKay
00:25:59.220 was operating in a way
00:26:00.940 that probably would have won
00:26:02.580 even four or five years ago,
00:26:04.740 but it's a very
00:26:05.420 different world now.
00:26:06.220 He has to actually,
00:26:07.400 he had to,
00:26:08.060 you know,
00:26:08.680 explain his positions.
00:26:09.820 He had to reach out
00:26:10.520 to more people.
00:26:11.680 He had to prove
00:26:12.400 that he was the frontrunner,
00:26:13.360 not just act like it.
00:26:14.420 And the whole house of cards
00:26:15.940 really came falling down for him.
00:26:17.580 Yeah.
00:26:18.100 You know,
00:26:18.460 I was thinking about
00:26:19.400 when you mentioned
00:26:20.060 that there's a media narrative
00:26:21.580 and it becomes
00:26:22.220 a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:26:25.060 I want to do
00:26:25.800 some more poking around,
00:26:26.700 but I think that
00:26:27.380 the CBC political channel,
00:26:29.540 CBC Power and Politics
00:26:30.620 or whatever,
00:26:31.000 I think they spent
00:26:32.680 a grand total
00:26:33.500 of a minute
00:26:34.000 and 45 seconds
00:26:35.080 on Lesley Lewis
00:26:36.060 the whole campaign.
00:26:37.120 I could be wrong.
00:26:37.780 Maybe I've missed something.
00:26:38.660 I'm still poking around.
00:26:41.900 Compared to their obsession
00:26:43.280 with Kamala Harris,
00:26:45.220 the vice presidential pick
00:26:46.700 in a foreign country.
00:26:47.980 So the CDC can't wait
00:26:49.780 to give you an hour
00:26:51.140 long backgrounder
00:26:52.320 on Kamala Harris,
00:26:53.260 but a minute
00:26:53.880 and 45 seconds
00:26:54.820 for Lesley Lewis.
00:26:55.860 And I can't help
00:26:56.760 but think
00:26:57.280 if they were
00:26:58.180 at least neutral
00:26:58.980 and treated her properly
00:27:00.820 instead of trying
00:27:01.440 to dismiss her
00:27:02.200 as an anomaly,
00:27:05.740 she might have
00:27:06.380 even done better.
00:27:07.420 I mean,
00:27:07.700 I don't think
00:27:08.940 conservative voters
00:27:09.620 look to the CBC
00:27:10.500 on how to cast a ballot.
00:27:13.300 But I think that
00:27:14.380 the media
00:27:15.600 doesn't just measure reality.
00:27:17.400 It tries to shape reality
00:27:19.420 and that's why
00:27:20.000 they hate independents
00:27:21.020 correcting them.
00:27:21.620 Last word to you, Spencer.
00:27:23.800 Yeah, I think
00:27:24.520 that's very true
00:27:25.180 and I think
00:27:25.860 if you look at
00:27:26.520 what's happening,
00:27:27.240 it's the establishment media.
00:27:28.460 They're getting angrier
00:27:29.440 and angrier
00:27:30.180 because they're losing
00:27:31.380 control of the narrative.
00:27:32.720 I mean,
00:27:32.900 they've got the narrative,
00:27:33.700 oh, the conservatives
00:27:34.260 are an exclusionary party.
00:27:37.200 They always call
00:27:38.280 conservatives racist.
00:27:39.880 Well, some of the most
00:27:40.680 right-wing areas
00:27:41.820 of the country
00:27:42.820 in the most right-wing provinces
00:27:44.180 voted for Lesley Lewis
00:27:45.800 by the biggest numbers, right?
00:27:47.640 So that doesn't at all
00:27:48.660 fit the media narrative.
00:27:49.740 So often they just
00:27:50.500 choose to ignore it.
00:27:51.380 Oh, you know,
00:27:51.760 that just didn't happen.
00:27:52.700 We're just not really
00:27:53.240 going to cover that.
00:27:53.900 That wasn't really a thing.
00:27:55.260 And then in the next election,
00:27:56.200 they'll go back
00:27:56.660 to the same lies
00:27:57.460 that they always spread.
00:27:58.260 And so I think
00:27:59.340 this is, you know,
00:27:59.940 for people who are
00:28:00.580 watching this and saying,
00:28:01.580 you know,
00:28:02.060 I'm tired of what
00:28:02.700 the media is doing.
00:28:03.780 Well, there is an
00:28:04.420 alternative growing.
00:28:05.560 It's you guys, myself,
00:28:07.200 you know,
00:28:07.380 all the other folks
00:28:08.020 we've been talking about.
00:28:09.240 And our power is growing.
00:28:10.780 It is increasing
00:28:11.420 and our influence is increasing.
00:28:12.820 So I think people
00:28:13.820 should keep supporting us.
00:28:15.160 Yeah, well, right on.
00:28:15.980 Well, we're so thrilled
00:28:17.000 with what you're doing
00:28:17.780 in Winnipeg.
00:28:18.980 I follow you.
00:28:19.580 I know my father
00:28:20.220 is a fan of yours.
00:28:21.300 He forwards me your stuff.
00:28:22.600 Appreciate it.
00:28:22.800 I get them.
00:28:23.480 I get your stuff already,
00:28:24.440 but my dad sends it to me
00:28:25.540 to make sure.
00:28:26.920 And Spencer,
00:28:27.800 you keep up the great work
00:28:28.740 out west
00:28:29.200 and we'll hold the fort out here.
00:28:31.660 All right.
00:28:31.980 Take care.
00:28:32.320 All right.
00:28:32.520 There you have it.
00:28:33.200 Spencer Fernando.
00:28:34.820 And you should check out
00:28:35.660 SpencerFernando.com.
00:28:37.880 Stay with us.
00:28:38.360 Hey, welcome back
00:28:51.180 on my monologue Friday.
00:28:52.200 Paul writes,
00:28:53.120 the numbers don't add up.
00:28:54.280 Why vaccinate everyone
00:28:55.260 when 99.74% survive
00:28:57.400 or never have symptoms?
00:28:58.800 That's like evacuating Canada
00:29:00.260 because of a house fire
00:29:01.220 in Winnipeg.
00:29:02.320 You know,
00:29:02.960 I look at the stats every day
00:29:04.280 because they're endlessly interesting.
00:29:05.960 And it's not just here in Canada.
00:29:07.900 I was looking at the stats
00:29:08.680 in the UK.
00:29:09.320 There were no deaths
00:29:10.060 in the entire United Kingdom
00:29:11.860 last year.
00:29:12.880 That's incredible.
00:29:13.840 Sorry,
00:29:14.460 last year,
00:29:15.200 yesterday.
00:29:16.140 That is a huge country,
00:29:17.440 over 60 million people.
00:29:18.920 No deaths.
00:29:19.760 And they're in such a lockdown.
00:29:21.200 And I'm looking at the stats
00:29:22.240 in Victoria, Australia.
00:29:23.700 You can find them very easily.
00:29:25.580 A lot of jurisdictions
00:29:26.940 are very easy to find stats.
00:29:29.500 And it's just,
00:29:31.260 I mean,
00:29:31.640 I was in Vancouver Island
00:29:32.600 a couple of weeks ago.
00:29:34.200 There's no one in the hospital
00:29:35.580 for the virus
00:29:36.320 in the entire island.
00:29:37.520 I think I told you
00:29:38.120 that stat yesterday
00:29:38.980 when I was on the live stream
00:29:41.600 at night.
00:29:44.580 The stats are out there.
00:29:46.980 You can obfuscate.
00:29:48.500 You can try and keep people
00:29:49.620 afraid by wearing masks.
00:29:51.440 But thank God
00:29:52.480 the pandemic's
00:29:53.740 over.
00:29:57.260 Valerie writes,
00:29:57.880 isn't the Amazon Journal
00:29:58.600 part of Post Media?
00:30:00.860 Yes,
00:30:01.260 absolutely they are.
00:30:02.220 And I don't know
00:30:02.780 what's going on
00:30:03.240 at Post Media.
00:30:03.780 I mean,
00:30:04.740 it's a large company
00:30:05.860 and so they have
00:30:06.380 a lot of different
00:30:06.900 decision makers
00:30:07.580 and editors and reporters.
00:30:09.040 But it can't help
00:30:09.940 but be on the mind
00:30:10.620 of everyone who works
00:30:11.420 here that they get
00:30:11.900 $140,000
00:30:13.020 each week
00:30:14.920 from Justin Trudeau.
00:30:16.620 So maybe
00:30:17.040 don't really take
00:30:18.140 a conservative point of view.
00:30:19.120 Don't poke too hard
00:30:20.040 at Trudeau.
00:30:21.300 And
00:30:21.660 I don't think
00:30:22.980 they're even directed
00:30:23.680 to be that way.
00:30:24.340 I think that's just
00:30:24.880 the narrative.
00:30:26.280 So the narrative is,
00:30:27.560 oh, masks,
00:30:28.180 good.
00:30:28.820 Edmonton,
00:30:29.320 crisis.
00:30:29.860 No,
00:30:30.580 there's only,
00:30:31.940 I think it was
00:30:32.940 five and then
00:30:33.800 six of them,
00:30:34.700 five of them,
00:30:35.180 four people in the ICU
00:30:36.260 in all of Edmonton.
00:30:38.340 It's just over, folks.
00:30:40.360 It's over.
00:30:42.520 Marilyn writes,
00:30:43.200 thank you for the truth.
00:30:43.940 I have suspected
00:30:44.440 media have falsely
00:30:45.220 reported for three months now.
00:30:46.680 I quit watching news
00:30:47.640 and reading the newspapers.
00:30:48.800 Time to open up
00:30:49.380 the country without masks.
00:30:51.880 You know,
00:30:52.460 I was talking to the missus
00:30:54.280 about a sports
00:30:55.380 camp.
00:30:57.180 And
00:30:57.440 the first day
00:30:58.800 of the sports camp,
00:30:59.500 the coaches
00:31:00.540 were very strict
00:31:01.580 on their face masks
00:31:03.120 and the kids
00:31:03.780 were strict.
00:31:04.380 But of course,
00:31:04.740 you don't really wear
00:31:05.280 face masks
00:31:06.080 when you're doing sports.
00:31:06.860 So the kids
00:31:07.320 had them off.
00:31:08.280 And then by the end
00:31:09.280 of the first day,
00:31:10.400 the coaches had them off
00:31:11.360 and by the second day,
00:31:12.400 they weren't really wearing them.
00:31:13.580 And you know why?
00:31:15.140 Because it's so ridiculous
00:31:16.300 to wear masks
00:31:17.320 when you're doing
00:31:17.900 soccer camp or whatever.
00:31:19.320 But second of all,
00:31:21.400 the moms and dads
00:31:22.480 who are really,
00:31:23.300 really,
00:31:23.640 really nervous
00:31:24.640 and afraid,
00:31:26.960 they're not sending
00:31:28.040 their kids out.
00:31:29.500 So why would you
00:31:30.840 wear a mask,
00:31:31.600 which is sort of
00:31:32.140 ridiculous when you're
00:31:32.880 playing soccer,
00:31:34.880 when the paranoid
00:31:36.280 kid's parents,
00:31:38.180 or the kid's
00:31:39.020 paranoid parents
00:31:39.740 is a better way
00:31:40.320 to say it,
00:31:41.620 they're not letting
00:31:42.580 their kid out
00:31:43.040 of the house anyways.
00:31:44.420 So how about
00:31:44.860 everyone just does
00:31:45.680 what they're comfy with?
00:31:46.880 If you're really scared,
00:31:47.880 stay at your home.
00:31:49.040 If you're not scared,
00:31:50.820 go out.
00:31:51.500 If you're sort of scared,
00:31:52.660 wear a mask.
00:31:53.620 Fill your boots.
00:31:54.180 I don't give you
00:31:54.620 to wear a mask.
00:31:56.160 Just don't force
00:31:57.300 everybody to share
00:31:58.620 your paranoia.
00:32:00.200 Oh, boy.
00:32:01.560 Well, anyhow,
00:32:02.600 how do you feel
00:32:03.240 about Aaron O'Toole?
00:32:04.120 Are you hopeful?
00:32:06.380 Do you think he's
00:32:07.280 going to pull
00:32:07.600 Patrick Brown?
00:32:08.900 Do you think he's
00:32:09.400 just going to muddle
00:32:10.200 along?
00:32:11.580 I want to be hopeful.
00:32:12.740 I want to be optimistic.
00:32:14.740 I'm sick of losing.
00:32:15.860 Andrew Scheer
00:32:17.860 snatched defeat
00:32:19.720 from the jaws of victory.
00:32:20.720 I hope Aaron O'Toole
00:32:21.320 won't also.
00:32:22.920 We'll find out
00:32:23.500 in the weeks
00:32:24.140 and months ahead,
00:32:24.780 won't we?
00:32:25.920 Until tomorrow,
00:32:26.720 on behalf of all of us
00:32:27.560 here at Rebel World
00:32:28.260 Hank Wars,
00:32:28.780 to you at home,
00:32:29.360 good night.
00:32:30.420 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:32:45.860 We'll be right back.