Erin O’Toole goes full cancel culture, fires MP Derek Sloan
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Aaron O'Toole goes full cancel culture and fires an MP without even talking to him because leftist on Twitter told him to. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer? Why should anyone else go to prison when you won't give them an answer?
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I'll tell you the sorry tale of Aaron O'Toole acting like a good liberal.
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How do I know he's acting like a good liberal? Because Justin Trudeau has praised him.
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Tonight, Aaron O'Toole goes full cancel culture and fires an MP without even talking to him
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because leftists on Twitter told him to. It's January 19th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
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Today is the ninth day in a row that Aaron O'Toole, the leader of the Conservative Party,
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has read word for word from the Liberal Party's script for him. He has said nine days running now
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that he doesn't tolerate the far right or things that are Trump-like. He has no room for racist or
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sexist or anti-gay people. He's done emotional Facebook posts about this. His communication staff
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have been busy giving off-the-record interviews to liberal media across the country about him.
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Nine days of talking about racism in the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party. Can't believe their luck.
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They're the ones with the leader who has done blackface more times than he can remember.
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They're the ones who sacked the first Indigenous justice minister in history for the sin of being
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too ethical because Jody Wilson-Raybould didn't want to go along with Trudeau's corrupt scheme for
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SNC-Lavalin and let them off the hook for a criminal prosecution for corruption. Seriously,
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they fired her for being too honest. I don't think it was because she was Indigenous. Trudeau probably
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would have fired anyone who got in his way. But it's just another proof point that all this talk
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about Trudeau being a feminist, being pro-Indigenous, whatever, it's just spin. I mean,
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that feminist stuff? This is the guy who sexually assaulted a female reporter in Creston, BC named
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Rose Knight. And he just said, well, you know, she experienced it differently. That's exactly what
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Harvey Weinstein's defense was. Take a listen. Like I said, I've been working very hard to try and
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piece it together. And even when the original editorial came out at the time,
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I was fairly confident. I was very confident that I hadn't acted in a way that I felt was in any way
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inappropriate. But like I said, part of the lesson that we all have to learn through this
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is respecting that the same interactions can be felt very differently by different people going
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through them. I don't think anyone believes Trudeau on race anymore either. I mean, when he's off script,
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he shows his contempt for actual Indigenous people. Here's some people from an Indian band up north
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with poisoned water trying to ask a question at a fancy donor's reception. Trudeau laughed in their
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faces as they were ushered out. Remember this? That we invest in the middle class and in people
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working hard to join it. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you.
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Thank you for being here. Thank you very much for your donation tonight. I really appreciate the
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donation to the Liberal Party of Canada. And as we know, the Liberal Party is filled with different
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perspectives and different opinions and we respect them all. And our commitment to reconciliation
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continues to be strong and committed and we will continue to engage. Thank you, sir, for your
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donation to the Liberal Party of Canada. I really appreciate you being here tonight. Thank you for
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being here. That is why we are moving forward on reconciliation in a real and tangible way.
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Thank you, sir. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for highlighting how important reconciliation
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is. Thank you for being here tonight, sir. Thank you very much for your donation to the Liberal Party.
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And don't forget this shocking confession before he was even Prime Minister that he deliberately set
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out to humiliate Senator Patrick Brazeau by using his Indigenous heritage against him.
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You know, the side bets sort of happened almost organically. Pat sent me an email. He said,
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let's make it, sent me a tweet. Let's make it interesting. Let's put, put some, you know,
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some pride on the, on the line. The loser will wear a, uh, uh, uh, the opposing party's, uh, jersey for,
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for a day or for a week. I said, okay, you know, that's, that's something we can do, but it doesn't
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quite seem to the level of, you know, the, the event we're doing. I mean, any, after any playoff game,
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you have an opposing mayor wearing a jersey. So I said, you know, we're both known for our long hair
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on the hill. Uh, let's, let's say the loser gets a haircut. Um, he resisted back a little bit,
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you know, pointing out that hair has a cultural significance for first nations peoples. And I
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said, uh, I know that's why I proposed it. When a warrior cuts his hair, it's a sign of shame. So
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it's, uh, it's very apropos. So yeah, Trudeau is a racist. I've just given you the proof.
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Aaron O'Toole is not racist and neither is the conservative party, but for some reason it was
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O'Toole who spent the last nine days talking about racism. And instead of a dozen pressing issues,
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he should be talking about relating to the overlapping crises we're in. Imagine that lack
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of discipline to talk for nine days about racism in your own party rather than, you know,
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oppose Justin Trudeau's liberal government. That's O'Toole's official job description. It's
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his job title, leader of the official opposition. Has he done that? Well, nine days just promised to be
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a month because bizarrely last night O'Toole announced that he was firing Derek Sloan,
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a popular conservative MP and a former rival to O'Toole in last year's leadership race. I say
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Sloan is popular because he was well-received in the conservative party leadership race.
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He obviously didn't win, but he raised a lot of money. That's one measure of popularity.
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I think he won every policy debate. And he ended respectably in terms of vote count.
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The liberals and the media hated him, but like I say, that's their job. It's a good sign.
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Sloan criticized Trudeau on the issues of the day, including the hapless leadership of Theresa Tam,
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the public health officer who once daydreamed about locking up Canadians in internment camps
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I think the public has to know this is one of the worst case scenarios in terms of an
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infectious disease outbreak in that their cooperation is sought. If there are people
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who are non-compliant, there are definitely laws and public health powers that can quarantine people
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in mandatory settings. It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their arms,
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have police and other setups to ensure quarantine is undertaken.
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Sloan's criticism of Tam was very specific. One of his criticisms was that Tam worked
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for the United Nations World Health Organization, which, as you may know, is controlled by China
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at the same time as she was purporting to work as Canada's public health officer. But those two
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things are in conflict. China's view and the UN's view is not Canada's view, at least not all the time.
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Here's the World Health Organization tweet from almost exactly a year ago. Look at this.
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Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence
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of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus 2019 identified in Wuhan, China.
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Well, now, that's not just false. It was a lie from China propagated by the World Health Organization.
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But Theresa Tam worked for them while working for Canada. So obviously, she couldn't criticize her
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boss at the World Health Organization, who signs her paycheck there. Seriously, was there any other
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country in the world, besides China, I guess, that allowed their country's own public health officer
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to work for the China-controlled World Health Organization while purporting to represent our own
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national interests too? That's nuts. And no, don't tell me that's racist. It's not.
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China is a country. You can criticize it without being racist. And by the way,
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Derek Sloan's own family, they're visible minorities. That man is not a racist. So
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here's what happened. When Sloan ran for party leader, he raised money online like all the
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candidates do. And the party takes a cut of all the sales of the Conservative Party of Canada
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from all the leadership candidates, I should tell you. And they process the names, the party did,
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because remember, these candidates weren't just raising money for themselves. They were selling
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party memberships. And Sloan raised 1.3 million bucks in donations and memberships. That's pretty
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huge. But amongst that pile of donations, 1.3 million, was a $131 donation from a guy named
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Frederick P. Fromm. Have you heard of Frederick P. Fromm? Of course you haven't. No one has. He's just a guy.
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One of what? I don't know. 10,000 donors to Sloan? And like I say, he signed up through Sloan's
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website. But it was a membership of the Conservative Party itself that was in question. That's why you're
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supporting Sloan, to be the leader of the party. All the leadership candidates were selling the same
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thing. Conservative Party memberships, Conservative Party donations. All of them were offering the tax
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credit of the Conservative Party. If I understand the rules right, I think I do. So no one knew who
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Frederick P. Fromm was. And who cares? No party, no candidate vets the identity of the hundreds of
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thousands of donors who contribute online to Canadian parties. It's just not done. How could
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it be? And by the way, for years now, there's been a limit around $1,200. It's not like there's
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$100,000 donors that you woo. I mean, everyone's a small fish these days. Well, the Left Wing Broadband
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Institute, which publishes a propaganda website called Press Progress, they found that tidbit
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about Frederick P. Fromm, presumably, from Elections Canada's disclosure of political
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donations. And they made a big fuss about it. But like I said, how big a fuss is it anyways?
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Sloan doesn't endorse the 10,000 people who donated to him. He didn't know them all. I doubt he knows
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there's more than 1,000 of them. When Sloan was asked about it and told who Frederick P. Fromm
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really is, that he's actually better known as Paul Fromm, a well-known racist, well, Sloan immediately
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asked the party to refund the money to Fromm. Okay. But look at Aaron O'Toole's reaction. He took a
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non-story from a bad-faith left-wing political attack site, and he approved of the story. He
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normalized it. He accepted its premise and granted it legitimacy as a real news story. It wasn't.
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But when the person who should be the goalie pushing back, or really just ignore it, I mean,
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let some cranks on Twitter have it, when the leader of the party accepts it as a problem, how can the
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media, including left-wing attack sites, not proceed with enthusiasm? O'Toole should have
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ignored the non-story. That's what liberals would have done. I posted the other day this tweet from
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liberal MP in Toronto named Adam Vaughn. I saved it because he deleted it. It was a really weird tweet,
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really creepy, about Catholics being pedophiles or something, just bigotry, apropos of nothing.
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Vaughn hates Catholics, and he doesn't feel shy about publicizing his feelings. You know,
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if your party leader puts on blackface and gropes women and gets away with it, it sort of sends a
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message to the rest of the team of what's acceptable. So after loving and promoting that
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tweet against Catholics for a few days, he just deleted it. No apology, no retraction, no
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humiliation, no Trudeau groveling or saying, I swear I'm not a bigot. In fact, when Vaughn finally
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deleted the tweet, he implied it was unfair that he had to because people were reacting wrong to it,
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not a drop of penance because they're liberals. But more importantly, because they didn't make a
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fuss about it, O'Toole, on the other hand, took the ball from press progress and then ran so hard
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towards their own net to score. O'Toole took the issue and made it his issue. He kicked it up. He
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escalated it. Trudeau is much smarter than that. O'Toole went online, which he thinks is real life,
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Derek Sloan's acceptance of a donation from a well-known white supremacist is far worse than a
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gross error of judgment or failure of due diligence. Really? Is F.P. Fromm well known? If so, why didn't
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the Conservative Party of Canada itself catch it? They sold him their membership. They processed all
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this. They took a cut of his donation, apparently. Worse than the gross error of judgment? What's worse
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than that? What's Aaron O'Toole saying? Well, he's saying that he was going to fire Sloan. He was going
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to kick him out of the caucus. He wouldn't let him run again. And then he ended with a slur implying
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that Sloan himself was racist and had no place in the party. But according to Sloan, not only did he
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and his volunteers have no clue about who this Frederick P. Fromm was, but when things hit the fan, O'Toole
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did not even have the courtesy to pick up the phone to call him before firing him. Earlier today,
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Aaron O'Toole made a statement to Press Progress that he would conduct a public undertaking
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to find out what happened. Yet neither Aaron O'Toole nor anyone on the team made any effort to contact me.
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Wow. Derek Sloan is going to fight this, he says. So this story will continue to explode for days
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of about weeks. I'd be mad if I were Derek Sloan too. O'Toole essentially called Sloan a sneaky racist
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when Sloan's explanation is much more plausible. It's a small donation, one of thousands. No one
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knew the name. He refunded immediately once he knew. And O'Toole has plenty of time to talk to left-wing
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hate sites, but he never even had the courtesy to call Sloan. And in fact, he called Sloan a racist.
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I think that's the meaning of the last sentence in this statement. Yeah, I don't think that's a
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winning argument against Derek Sloan. All of this is self-inflicted over nothing. And it sets a new
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precedent. If some left-wing troll finds something that's, you know, the hypersensitive Twitter crowd
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is mad about for 90 seconds, apparently Aaron O'Toole will drop everything he's doing and denounce
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his own team, set up a circular firing squad. He's so easy to manipulate. I didn't see that coming.
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If O'Toole doesn't like Derek Sloan, all right, that's fine. But when you're the leader of a
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party of 121 MPs and 20 senators, his big team, you're going to have a lot of people you don't
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like very much. And part of your job is to forge them together as a team. But it's weird because
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O'Toole posted social media comments during the campaign implying that he wasn't in support of
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canceling Sloan in particular. He mentioned Sloan by name. And of course, he specifically
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campaigned against cancel culture itself. So even if you don't like Sloan, you've got to be appalled
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by the way in which he was treated, not even the courtesy of a phone call by the leader. Why is O'Toole
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and his staff so attuned to pleasing their enemies? I don't get it. It will not win a single vote over
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from the left. But boy, will it demoralize the party. And even if Sloan has his share of enemies
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in the party, he surely has enough friends or people who respect him, who will chafe at the
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unfairness with which he's being dispatched. A good test to always ask yourself is this.
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What does the Liberal Party think? What does the media party say about you? If they're pleased with
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you, maybe it's a sign you're not doing it right. You want the liberals to be unhappy with you.
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That's a sign you're winning. Here's Trudeau today, though. Trudeau pleased to see O'Toole attempt
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to oust Sloan from caucus over donation. It's true. The left is loving it. Take a listen.
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In the wake of what we see in the United States from the infiltration or the active presence of
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fringe or extremist or violent or unacceptable or intolerant elements. And that's something that
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we constantly need to work towards as all politicians in Canada, which is incidentally
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why the Liberal Party has been calling for Aaron O'Toole to remove Derek Sloan from caucus for many,
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many months now, following a number of unacceptable comments that he has made. We are pleased that
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Aaron O'Toole has finally decided to take leadership. We'll see how that unfolds.
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In our staff meeting here at Rebel News this morning, we talked a bit about this. And frankly,
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I said to our team, I don't even like calling them the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Because it feels like false advertising, just like saying the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
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is false advertising when they don't lift a finger during the lockdown. I mean, if they are the
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Conservative Party of Canada, where's the conservative part? I call them the party that stands for nothing.
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Hmm. And if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. Stay with us for more on this with Spencer Fernando.
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Well, I should tell you, without disclosing any confidence, that today I spoke very briefly on the
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phone with Derek Sloan himself. I invited him to come on the show to make his case. He gave me a very
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thoughtful answer. He said he wants to make the case in the proper processes and that he will decline
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to talk to us for now out of respect for the processes. He didn't use those exact words, but that
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was his meaning. And I took two things from that. First of all, I always enjoy my conversations with
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him. We interviewed him several times during the leadership race. And the second thing I took from
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that, perhaps most obviously, is that he doesn't want to burn down the joint. He didn't pick this fight
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with the Conservative Party. And it sounds like he wants to try and stay in the fold. He's not
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torching the place on his way out. He's not fighting back wildly. I mean, it is true he put out a statement
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with his position yesterday, which I think was incredibly important to rebut the slanders against
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him. But he right now wants to work within the party system. The question is, how can Aaron O'Toole
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back down without losing faith? Joining us now via Skype from Winnipeg is our favorite Winnipegger,
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Spencer Fernando, the boss of spencerfernando.com. Not only one of the most thoughtful pundits out
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there, but frankly, in terms of quick news, breaking news, you know you can go to spencerfernando.com
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and he's going to have the news faster than just about anyone else. I really find that valuable.
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Well, thanks for being here. You were all over this story. What do you make of the fact that,
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I mean, it's a tiny little tidbit, but it sounds to me like Derek Sloan isn't looking to blow the
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place up. He's not leaving in a pout. He wants to stay. I find that interesting.
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Yeah, well, I think he's looking what happens to most other people when they get pushed out of a party
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and then they try to run as an independent. They generally lose. I mean, Jody Wilson-Raybould was an
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exception to that, but she had such a high national profile and she's a very good politician,
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right? So she was able to survive that, but I mean, Jane Philpott didn't. We saw what happened
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even with Maxine Bernier started his own party, but couldn't win his own seat. So I think he's
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probably looking at that and saying, well, if he wants to stay in politics, his best chance is to
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I think you're right just from a pragmatic point of view. And of course, every politician
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wants to win. They want to be reelected, not just because it's a pretty good job,
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you know, financially, the perks, the status. But I think he actually wants, he has a message. I mean,
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I thought he was by far the most detailed in terms of policy of the leadership candidates. And by the way,
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I think it's absolutely fine to disagree with him or even to dislike him. But I think my main beef with
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how Aaron O'Toole has handled this is that it's so obviously what some of my British friends would
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call a stitch up. Like it was not, he didn't actually willfully engage with a white supremacist.
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There's no way he knew the identity of Frederick P. Fromm, that that was actually Paul Fromm.
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It was a small donation made to the party. The party accepted its cut, gave the guy a membership.
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No one knew who Frederick P. Fromm was. And to throw him out without even talking to him and to
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denounce him publicly, I think that even people who don't like Derek Sloan have got to be thinking,
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whoa, that is bad practice. That's unfair. And if that's your new standard, get ready to lose a
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dozen MPs when something bad is found on one of their minor donors too.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm seeing a lot of people say that. And in many ways, that's kind of my thoughts.
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I'm not a huge fan of Sloan's views on the LGBT community, for example. But this is obviously,
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I mean, they're obviously trying to screw him over, right? Because if you look at what the party's
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doing to him, I mean, let's look at when he was in trouble before, right? With what he said about
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Teresa Tam, and then when he was criticized for his social conservative views. Well, what was Aaron O'Toole
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doing when that happened? Aaron O'Toole was putting out ads saying, I'm the only person who's
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defending Derek Sloan. I'm standing with him. He was trying to win the leadership,
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right? So when Sloan was in trouble for other things, O'Toole was very glad to be seen as
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Derek Sloan's best friend. Oh, yeah, I'm standing with him. I'm keeping him in the party. I'm not
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going to let him get pushed out. And then all of a sudden, this thing, I mean, come on.
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He got, what, like 13,000 donations or a whole bunch of donations. There's no way they're looking
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at every one of them. The conservative party accepted it. And now we're seeing people, it
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looks like on Twitter, talking about how it looks like Fromm might actually be a current member of
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the party. You know, he might be registered to go to their convention. So nobody in the party saw a
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problem with any of this. Nobody recognized the name. But oh, all of a sudden, now Derek Sloan's got
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to go because look what we found out. And it's, I think what bothers people is, you know, Aaron O'Toole,
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if you really want it to be credible, there's things he could have, he could say, I don't like
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Derek Sloan's views on certain issues. I don't think he fits in the party. But at least have the guts to
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just be honest and say that. But to try to screw somebody over in this way, I think it just looks
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gross to people. Well, yeah. And because there's a, you know, the whole idea of law, one of the first
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things they taught us in law school was his Latin phrase stare decisis, which means stand by the
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precedent. Another way of saying that is everybody should know the law so they have some safety
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security. What are the rules? You got to know the rules if you want to play a game. And to bring in
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a new crazy rule that if some anonymous guy donates, like Paul Fromm didn't walk up to Derek
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Sloan and say, here's 131 bucks. He went on the website, typed in the credit card number, and it was
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processed immediately, I'm sure. So it's like someone on Twitter, if you retweet someone on
00:24:27.080
Twitter, I mean, maybe you should be careful, I don't know. But if five years ago, that guy said
00:24:31.560
something kooky, to hang that around your neck, like it's so remote from Derek Sloan willfully doing
00:24:41.700
something white supremacist. And by the way, I should point out that Sloan's wife and kids are visible
00:24:46.300
minorities. The guy clearly is not a racist. I mean, his own family is of minority background.
00:24:55.020
I guess my point about stare decisis and knowing the rules is this feels like a whimsical rule. And
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now everyone in the caucus is probably saying, well, am I going to be thrown under the bus next
00:25:03.820
by some troll digging up someone who donated me five years ago? I mean, it just feels capricious.
00:25:10.740
And it's like an invitation to press progress and the NDP and the liberals to dig up fake scandals,
00:25:18.160
because now that's how low Aaron O'Toole's standards are for sacking someone.
00:25:23.840
Yeah. And to go after someone in this way, too, I mean, it's one thing to say, oh, I think he's too
00:25:27.820
socially conservative or he's not a team player. And then you, I mean, you shouldn't push someone out
00:25:32.280
for that, but you could make the argument, right? So he pushes him out for that. Okay. And Derek Sloan's
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political career on the conservatives ends because he's too socially conservative or whatever.
00:25:41.940
That's not going to destroy Derek Sloan forever. Right. But to push someone out on an issue where
00:25:47.500
you're saying, oh, look, they accepted a neo-Nazi donation, right? That's, that's, you know,
00:25:52.600
the kind of thing that that follows someone around for the rest of their life. People look that up on
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the internet. Oh, Derek Sloan, what's he about? Oh, he got kicked out of the conservative party for
00:26:00.160
accepting a neo-Nazi support. So when you're willing to destroy somebody in that way, and when it's so
00:26:06.260
obviously dishonest, I think that's pretty disgusting. And I think your point about other
00:26:10.680
conservative MPs, I'm sure last night, a whole bunch of conservative MPs were calling up their
00:26:16.460
EDA saying, hey guys, you want to send me a list of everybody who's donated in the past few years?
00:26:21.280
I just want to take a look and see what names are on there. And a lot of them must be saying,
00:26:24.980
you know, if I get in trouble, what, is there going to be a bad press progress article about other
00:26:28.720
MPs? And then Aaron O'Toole's going to say, well, see you later, your career's over. I think a lot of
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might be having some second thoughts about this. Yeah. You know, I got a question for you. I mean,
00:26:37.460
you mentioned, and I've just been thinking about this since you mentioned a minute ago,
00:26:40.700
during the leadership campaign, Aaron O'Toole made some good noises about fighting against
00:26:45.220
cancel culture. I remember when he stood up for Derek Sloan, I was a little bit impressed, I admit.
00:26:50.360
He had a whole bunch of social media posts during the campaign about, he specifically used that phrase,
00:26:56.400
cancel culture, which is something that conservatives, it's like, he was really signaling,
00:27:00.520
hey guys, I'm for free speech, I'm for fighting back against wokeness. He did an interview during
00:27:07.420
the campaign with Andrew Lawton, where he discussed this issue. He even talked to our rebel reporter,
00:27:14.060
Kian Bexte, sort of ending the boycott. So I had some good vibes there. And I mean, forget about us,
00:27:21.480
take rebel news out of the picture for a minute. Just on his own terms, Aaron O'Toole really laid down
00:27:27.500
a good track record of, or a paper record of supporting free speech and not bowing into
00:27:34.140
cancel culture. And wham! In the last nine days, that has gone out the door so hard.
00:27:40.880
And I'm wondering, is this the same guy? Did he mean it? Did he even write those things? Was that
00:27:46.560
just a way to get the leadership and now he's pivoting to the center? Like I'm trying, I have
00:27:51.900
whiplash, reconciling his repeated calls to fight against cancel culture with what I think can only
00:27:59.160
be called cancel culture. Help me unscramble that omelet, Spencer.
00:28:04.600
Yeah, well, generally the most simple explanation I think is the right one. Not in every case, of course,
00:28:09.300
but often. And the most simple explanation here is that he's doing whatever serves his immediate
00:28:14.380
political interests, right? So he ran for the leadership previously and lost, came in third.
00:28:21.200
He ran as a moderate conservative then, didn't win. He ran the second time. And it really looks
00:28:26.300
like basically what he did is it's as if he just researched all the keywords that he felt would
00:28:30.440
trigger conservatives into supporting him and then said that over and over again. And it worked. I mean,
00:28:34.900
he did win, right? I mean, even people like me were saying, oh, this looks pretty good for O'Toole.
00:28:38.460
Uh, and then, so that served his interest then as did helping Derek Sloan. Uh, but now his interest
00:28:44.920
he feels is served in not doing that stuff and being against Derek Sloan. So that's what he's
00:28:49.540
doing. So that seems kind of like the explanation to me. The problem is, you know, he may feel he's
00:28:54.140
going to gain some votes for that, but I think conservatives are looking at this and saying,
00:28:57.240
were we supposed to believe you the first time you ran or the second time you ran, or now when
00:29:03.400
you're presenting a different face, you know, what is real? And if you won't stand up for,
00:29:07.740
you know, your own people when they get in trouble, uh, are you going to stand up for
00:29:10.920
conservatives or stand up for what conservatives believe? I mean, we see all this stuff with
00:29:15.000
lockdowns, with, uh, the expansion of government power and authority far beyond what people really
00:29:20.200
expect it would be happening with social media censorship, uh, you know, free speech and the
00:29:25.240
conservative party doesn't seem to have much to say about that all of a sudden. So I think a lot
00:29:28.840
of people are wondering, you know, what's, what's really going on here? Well, yeah, I mean,
00:29:32.600
it's been nine days in a row that the party's been talking about its own navel, you know,
00:29:38.640
navel gazing, uh, very destructively nine days that we could have been talking about the lockdown.
00:29:44.340
If you believe in vaccines, how poorly Trudeau is distributing them, big tech censorship,
00:29:50.620
Keystone Excel, the last few, like there's a lot of things to talk about, but instead of the parties
00:29:54.640
having this bonfire, I have a prediction and I'd like your thoughts on this. If you agree or disagree,
00:29:59.700
I think that this is demoralizing to the party base. Um, even, even those who didn't like Derek
00:30:07.640
Sloan, because it feels cancel culture, it feels giving into the media. The last time I checked the,
00:30:13.000
uh, opinion poll aggregator, uh, that I go to, the conservatives were around 30, 31%. So enough
00:30:21.300
for a respectable showing, but certainly not going to win. I fear that this nine day bonfire that's going
00:30:28.560
to continue because Sloan's fighting this. I think it's going to take 5% off the Tory vote and it's
00:30:35.700
not necessarily going to go to the liberals. It's just Tories who are saying, yeah, I don't care
00:30:39.420
anymore. I'm not motivated anymore. And by the way, if the conservatives can't get their own house
00:30:44.020
together, how could they get our country together? I think that far from being a vote winner that O'Toole
00:30:51.100
thinks maybe some liberals are going to come running to support him. I think this is going to be
00:30:55.340
his own version of the people's party shaving off some votes to his right. And there, I don't think
00:31:02.380
the people's party is a, is a force right now, but this has the same demoralizing splittist feeling.
00:31:08.500
That's my, uh, hypothesis, that's my prediction, a loss of several points in the next opinion poll.
00:31:14.180
What do you think of that prediction? Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth to that. Uh, I think the
00:31:19.360
issue that O'Toole faces is, you know, one that Trudeau will always be able to be more progressive
00:31:25.920
than him, right? So if O'Toole keeps moving towards the center, well, Trudeau will move more to the
00:31:30.800
left and the center will thus change, right? So O'Toole will keep chasing Trudeau to the center
00:31:35.320
and the center will keep moving to the left and Trudeau will always be able to do that more.
00:31:39.900
And, you know, I know people don't like hearing this. It sounds superficial, but Trudeau is also
00:31:43.380
always going to be more photogenic than Aaron O'Toole, right? So if you have two people competing
00:31:48.300
to be the most progressive, well, the guy who looks better on TV, it's probably going to have
00:31:52.600
a better chance. And then again, conservatives, they may not have really another party to go to.
00:31:57.400
Yes, they can go to the PC. Uh, they're not going to probably win too many seats. We'll see what
00:32:01.400
happens. Things could change, but it's the issue of staying home. And we saw this with the liberals
00:32:05.760
back when Stephen Harper was winning, you know, the conservative vote from the first,
00:32:10.340
I guess the first minority they won to their majority didn't really change all that much,
00:32:15.620
but the liberal vote collapsed, especially under the Fandian and the Michael Gnadev. So
00:32:19.800
it's not just about, you know, are you adding votes or losing votes to another party? A lot of
00:32:25.360
conservatives would just say, you know what, all these parties seem like they're the same. Maybe
00:32:28.800
I'll stay home and see if it changes next time. So I think that's a big threat for the conservatives.
00:32:33.380
Well, more and more, I think keeping the flame of these ideas alive falls to independent voices
00:32:39.340
outside the party structure, including yours, Spencer. It's always great to catch up with
00:32:43.260
you via Skype. I highly recommend to all my friends, spencerfernando.com, based in Winnipeg,
00:32:49.400
a Western view, a conservative view, thoughtful, very thoughtful view. And like I said earlier,
00:32:54.740
one of the fastest to catch the news headlines and give a thoughtful analysis. Great to see you.
00:32:59.960
Thanks for being here. All right. Appreciate it. All right. There you have it,
00:33:04.360
Hey, welcome back to my show last night. George writes, Alberta should become an American state.
00:33:21.320
Then there would be no border issue. Hey, we could also stop financing Trudeau and Quebec socialist
00:33:26.500
programs and keep more of the profits. A win, win, win. Yeah. Imagine what Biden would do,
00:33:31.780
a state of Alberta, but it would have more rights than it has as a province in Canada.
00:33:37.520
See the rights. It's horrible that no one can protest peacefully. Taking that right away. It's
00:33:43.180
not a protest if you follow all the rules you don't agree with. I was very angry at Torrey's
00:33:48.100
friend comment when I saw it a couple of weeks ago. You know what? I think that protests should be
00:33:53.600
peaceful. Those protests over the weekend were peaceful. The fact that police said, okay, time's up,
00:33:59.980
move on. Sorry. That's not how we roll in Canada. Police don't make that decision.
00:34:05.660
Gilly writes, the images seem like scenes from a movie. How can this be real? How can this happen
00:34:10.400
in Canada? How could we all turn on each other so quickly and easily? That's the part I hate the
00:34:14.660
most about the lockdown is it pits shopkeepers against customers, pits people against each other
00:34:20.160
on the street. Masks are now a source of quarrels. Police are being turned into versions of the
00:34:26.780
Stasi secret police. Police actually busting into private homes. That's the worst thing that's
00:34:31.860
being done to us. Well, we'll fight back with civil liberties lawyers. You know we will.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Roman Wolf Headquarters, to you at home,