EZRA LEVANT ｜ A tale of two conservative parties — one a winner, one a loser
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A tale of two conservative parties: One is a winner, and one is a loser. And why is it that the Conservative Party of Canada is winning, and the Republican Party of America is losing? Ezra takes a look at why.
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Hello, my rebels. Today I compare the state of affairs of two conservative parties in North
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America. The Conservative Party of Canada, which does not hold the Prime Minister's office or the
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House of Commons or the Senate, and the Republican Party of America, which does not hold the White
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House or the House of Representatives or the Senate. And yet one party, if the election were
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held again today, would do just as poorly as last time, if not worse. And the other party,
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the Americans, is set for the largest midterm victory in 40 years, if polls are accurate. Why?
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And how can we get some of that up here? Well, I'll give you my thoughts. That's next. First,
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Tonight, a tale of two conservative parties. One's a winner, one's a loser. It's November 18th,
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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 of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody
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Yesterday, we talked about Senator Denise Banners and her petition to have an early leadership
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review of Aaron O'Toole, the leader of the conservative party who lost the last election.
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He lost votes and he lost seats, and what's the most frustrating to me is that he did so
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while throwing out every conservative policy he had campaigned on in the leadership contest
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just a few months earlier. He literally signed a written promise not to raise taxes, including
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the carbon tax. Then he proposed a carbon tax, but thinks that by calling it a
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levy instead of a tax, we won't notice? Yeah, no. You know, if you literally type the word
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levy into any online dictionary, they give you the definition of tax. He also said he'd defund
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the CBC. That was a lie. He abandoned it after he won the leadership. He said he'd fight against
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canceled culture. That's what he said when he was running for leader. But in fact, he's canceled
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more people than any other politician in Canada except Justin Trudeau. So my point is, at least
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if Aaron O'Toole had lost while actually campaigning valiantly as a conservative, at least we'd have
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some measure of how popular or successful conservative ideas are in Canada. But he didn't do that.
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In fact, I think he's muddied the waters about what the word conservative even means anymore,
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and he certainly proved that he'd say anything or do anything for momentary advantage. He's got no
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policy. I think he burnt his personal character. Not only did he lose, but I don't think he's going
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to win next time. I think the cake is baked. Look at this. It's a tweet from CP24. O'Toole warns
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more expulsions in store for any MP who challenges his leadership. The beatings will continue until
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morale improves. I don't think that usually works. See, the thing is, in our system in Canada,
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you win the right to be prime minister by having the most MPs. So promising to throw out any MPs from
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your caucus who aren't 100% obedient to you. Now, I'm sure that is scary for some MPs. I mean,
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you work for a guy like that, he could end your political career, especially when he says you
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must absolutely support his policy about faces. You got to support him in the flip and the flop.
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And if you're not, you'll be fired. I mean, seriously, imagine being a cowardly Alberta
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conservative MP and agreeing to simply parrot his pro-carbon tax line and just swallowing it.
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You've opposed the carbon tax for a generation. You ran and won on that platform under Stephen Harper.
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Aaron O'Toole himself did as a cabinet member under Harper. But now Aaron O'Toole thinks in some
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weird 3D chess game that he's gonna win election by being pro-carbon tax. But then he put that
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question to the party at their policy conference and they voted against it. They voted against the
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carbon tax and he simply said he didn't care. He didn't care. He was going to ignore them. I mean,
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imagine calling that man, you're a great leader and being obedient to him and just saying how much
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you love him in the carbon tax. Look, I am not calling for a civil war in the conservative party,
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but when a leader loses an election, you have a gut check moment. You check your course.
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And that's not asking just the terrified members of his own caucus if they will do some compelled,
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showy act of loyalty to him. By a gut check, I don't mean asking his shadow cabinet if they like
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him. He just appointed them to that. You ask the owners of the party, namely thousands of party
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members, which is all Senator Batters is asking for, which is what truly terrifies Aaron O'Toole,
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because he knows he has betrayed them morally. And even if he hasn't, the party only has one job,
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win an election, and Aaron O'Toole didn't win the election. So that's Canada's so-called
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conservative party. Of course, the media party, which is an auxiliary of the liberal party,
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is feasting on this disarray. And I suppose we are too, a little bit, but that's because we want a
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leadership check if party members support Aaron O'Toole. I mean, I guess that's fine. I
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won't support him. But if no one else in the party wants to step up, that's fine. And he has
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the undisputed heavyweight title in the tiny little conservative party. But if party members
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know he's a loser who lost and is likely to lose again, maybe they want to pull off the bench quickly
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and get someone new in there. I'm not saying there won't be any pain, but I'm saying get the pain
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out of the way as early as possible, as long a time in advance of the next election as possible,
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especially before O'Toole continues to smash and expel every principal conservative left in the
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place, before he deplatforms Leslie and Lewis even from caucus, before he abandons whatever
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conservative values remain. I can't even name what remains. And if he's truly the best the party can
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come up with, then so be it. That's why I want a leadership review, and I want it early. Now,
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the CBC just loves to see trauma in the conservatives, and they like Aaron O'Toole
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because he's a proven loser, and he is one at a time doing their job for them,
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getting rid of the true conservatives, the Derek Sloans, the Leslie Lewis's. They love
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the cannibalism on the right. So that's that. Look, I haven't seen any new opinion polls out yet,
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but they probably aren't fresh enough to capture the latest battle. But it is a certainty
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that the conservative party will fall in the polls. I mean, who would support a political
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party that doesn't support itself, that has to sort out its own business? So that's Canada.
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What a shame. It's tough up here. You know, the House of Commons is run by liberals. The Senate is
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run by liberals. The media is not just run by liberals. It's funded by liberals. The culture
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is liberal. Everything is liberal in Canada. It's tough. But how about the United States of America? I mean,
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the White House is occupied by Democrats. So are both houses of Congress, the House of Representatives
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and the Senate. The media is overwhelmingly liberal. All the big newspapers, the New York Times,
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the Washington Post, the LA Times, etc. All the TV networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, plus the news networks, CNN,
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MSNBC. There's just Fox News, which is a sliver of the audience of the big networks, and some websites.
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And then, of course, there's all of Hollywood, from the old studios to the new ones, Amazon Prime Video,
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Netflix. All of it's so liberal, so left-wing. That's where the Obamas are making their money now.
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I mean, they're explicitly pro-Democrat. And yet, while Canada's conservatives appear doomed,
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and if an election were held again today, they surely would do no better than they did
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in October. Look at this from the United States. Look at this. This is a poll
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from the Washington Post. That's owned by Amazon. It's owned by Jeff Bezos. It's
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pro-Democrat. So this is not some right-wing fantasy poll. This is the most establishment
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liberal newspaper in America commissioning this poll. And take a look at it, would you?
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It's a very simple headline. Economic discontent, criticisms of Biden lift the GOP, that's the
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Republicans, to a record early advantage. Record. Republican congressional candidates hold their
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largest lead in midterm election vote preferences in ABC News, Washington Post polls, dating back
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40 years, underscoring profound challenges for Democrats hoping to retain their slim majorities
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in Congress next year. While a year is a lifetime in politics, the Democratic Party's difficulties
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are deep. They include soaring economic discontent, a president who's fallen 12 percentage points
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underwater in job approval, and a broad sense that the party is out of touch with the concerns of
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most Americans. 62% say so. And just look at that graph. Holy cow. 51% for the Republicans.
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They have never been at that level. Look at the chart. Going back 40 years.
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Now, I'm talking about what they call the midterm elections there.
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They haven't been at that level since this chart begins in 1981. This is going to be a once-in-a-generation
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pendulum swing from the left to the right. That's what this says. Now, I'm not saying nothing could
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stop it. I mean, vote fraud could stop it, for example. It's not who casts the ballots. It's
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who counts them. But we just saw a sneak preview of what could really happen in the state of
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Virginia, where Republicans held the governor's mansion for just four out of the last 20 years.
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Like, that's a Democrat state. The Democrats were considered a double-digit shoe-in.
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I think Biden won the state by 10% in 2020. And yet a Republican won, despite media smears,
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said he was a racist. He won against the former chairman of the Democratic Party and all of his
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fundraising prowess. I think the swing is coming. Part of that is because of the American system.
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Like I say, every two years, Congress is up for re-election. Every six years, the Senate is, but
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they're staggered. So every two years, one-third of the Senate is up for grabs.
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So while Joe Biden himself is not on the ballot next year, the Congress and one-third of the
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Senate are. And with them, the ability for Biden to get many things done. Now, the president still
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has great power as the executive. He can appoint people a cabinet. He can appoint judges. He can
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launch wars. He can conduct money policy. He can appease China and hand Afghanistan to it. He can let
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China devour Taiwan. He can keep the border with Mexico open. Joe Biden, or whoever is really running
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the show, will have enormous power and the power to do terrible things until his very last minute in
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office. Just look at how they have weaponized the Department of Justice against PTA moms. But the
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ability to pass so many laws and budgets will be limited by the Republican Party if they're able to
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take back one or both houses of Congress. And the more radical nominees of Biden can be stalled or
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blocked too. Like this. And I show you this because this is amazing. And because it shows that the
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Democrats are so truly out of step with Americans. And this is going to be a splash of cold water in
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their face when people reject this radicalism in a year. But also, listen, watch this woman I'm going
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to show you. But realize we have people just as radical as this in Canada. And yet we have no
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confirmation hearings like the Americans do. So our Stephen Gilboa, for example, currently our
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environment minister, he used to be the censorship minister. He's a convicted criminal, you know,
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right? He's a former Greenpeace radical extremist. He would never be confirmed by the U.S. system,
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including by many moderate Democrats. You put a convicted criminal up, it just wouldn't pass. But in our
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system, Trudeau just names him and it's done. Same with our judges. But look at this woman,
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Biden's nominee to run the banking regulator. She's from the former Soviet Union. Yeah, and it shows.
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Listen to her talking about abolishing private banks and making it so you can only have a bank account
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with the government. That is Soviet. Imagine what would it be like if instead of being just a public
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option for deposit banking, this would be actually the full transition. In other words,
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there will be no more private bank deposit accounts and all of the deposit accounts will be held
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directly at the Fed. And there are very interesting implications from that thought experiment,
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for example, with the much more direct and proactive tools of monetary policy like helicopter money,
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which is considered radical, primarily because economists really do not know how to manage the
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issue of what will happen in the inflationary environment when the central bank needs to contract
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the supply of money. How is it politically feasible for the central bank to effectively take money away
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Holy moly. Now, I don't know if she will actually make it through their system,
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but they actually have a system that can stop things like this. And because moderate Democrats
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are actually a thing. And because Republicans, or at least some of them,
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will try to block her because she is Coray Zay. But
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mainly because Republicans, or at least some of them, actually still think of themselves as a
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party with a conservative identity. Not all Republicans do. Some are rhinos, Republicans in
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name only, but enough to. I mean, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, the governor, Rand Paul, the senator,
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Thomas Massey, the congressman. There are enough people like that. And even though their party does
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have its sellouts, like Aaron O'Toole is a sellout, there is not the same absolute discipline over
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party members that Aaron O'Toole has. So you can't just kick someone out of the Republican Party,
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like you can't kick someone out of the conservative party. I suppose you could kick someone
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out of your caucus just as weak. Republicans, quote, censured one of their own. But
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it would be madness to drive someone out of your party when every vote counts, when you got a 50-50
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Senate. I put it to you that one reason the Republicans are doing so well is because Joe
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Biden and the squads, like the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes, and the bank Caesars, who we just saw,
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and the radicals and the Democrats, they're turning people off. I mean, the world is getting worse,
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and Americans can sense it. The pandemic is not over. Foreign affairs are a shambles. Inflation
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is rampant. Gasoline is skyrocketing in the pumps. Same thing in Canada on all fronts, though.
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Except down in America, Republicans offer an alternative to it. At least some do.
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Up here, what alternative has Aaron O'Toole offered? On anything. Okay, I got it. He's offering a
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carbon levy instead of a carbon tax. Tell me the difference on any important subject between
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O'Toole and Trudeau. I wish just once a conservative would run as a conservative,
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not even as a radical, as a sensible, calm Reagan conservative, just to try it.
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Don't do what the CBC tells you to do. Ron DeSantis doesn't do what CNN tells them to do.
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Just be yourself. Just be conservative. Just give it a shot. At least if you lose that way,
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you know you tried. We don't actually know what would have happened if a true conservative
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had run in the last election, because none did. Stay with us for more.
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There you go, mate. Good to see you. I'm happy to see someone here that police probably like less
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than me. Welcome to Melbourne. Yeah, it's good to be here. I got down at the seven o'clock flight
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out of Sydney. I arrived in Melbourne this morning. The rain was coming down vertical.
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The pilot said it's about nine degrees outside. Global warming. It's nice and cold here today.
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I'm glad I bought a warm jacket, they told me. So how do you feel about the crowd today?
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It's just incredible. I can't, from the stage, I can't see the back of the crowd to the left,
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to the right or in front of me. There must be tens of thousands of people here. You'll probably
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hear it on the ABC tonight. If they report it, there was a hundred people and two dogs.
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Are we the two dogs? That's right. The rest of the world, their eyes are on Melbourne at the
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moment. What is your message to them? The message has been, people are not going to put up with
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this bullshit anymore. People, this is the most locked down city in the world. It's the most
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depressed city in the world. The science shows there is no cause for this. People are going to
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stand up for their rights. Remember, there's places like Florida, places like Texas, that these
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mandates have been thrown out and made illegal. We've got to end this discrimination. We've got
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to protect the kids. And really, I think we need a complete change in the political scene.
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Both the major political parties have showed they can't be trusted. How could you give someone like
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Daniel Andrews more power after what he's done?
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Well, that was our own Avi Yamini at an incredible protest outside the state of Victoria's legislature
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in the city of Melbourne. As you may have heard, even though we're on the opposite side of the world
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here, the socialist premier of the state of Victoria was passing or trying to pass a bill to give him
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permanent emergency powers akin to an authoritarian dictator. That may sound shocking to you, but it
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shouldn't be surprising. This is the same premier who traveled to China and publicly signed a treaty
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with the Communist Party of China, although he kept the terms of the treaty secret from Australians.
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It had to be set aside by the prime minister as beyond the power of a state premier, just an absolute
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incredible, incredible socialist activist premier. Well, these protests outside the legislature got bigger
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and bigger and they never went away and they stayed overnight and opposition grew. So how did it end?
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Joining us now via Skype from Melbourne, Australia is our friend and chief Australia correspondent
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Avi Yamini. Avi, great to see you. You were out there
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every day amongst the protesters. Is it over? Did it end? What happened?
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No, it's certainly not over yet. It was supposed to be voted on yesterday. Well, as long as the
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government, as long as Andrews had the numbers, he was urgently going to push it through. That's what
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they were saying. They were telling the world, they were telling Victorians that this is such an
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important piece of legislation and it must pass now. But when one of his former ministers has crossed the
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floor and shown his vaccination papers, he hasn't voted in a while, when he said, I'm actually going to
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oppose it, suddenly the Andrews government and what I'm calling their three stooges, the far left wing
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alliance of the Greens, Animal Justice and Fiona Patton, they all voted to now delay this urgent vote.
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Obviously, they're trying to scramble and get the numbers. I can't tell you what's going to happen.
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You know, it's certainly not going to pass the way they expected and wanted it to pass, which is absolute
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power to the premier. It is some of the scariest legislation I've ever seen. And as a Victorian and
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as an enemy of the state, I was slightly fearful of it. So it's certainly we're in a much better
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position. It would have been great for it to be voted on yesterday and to to kill that bill
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right there dead in its tracks. But the bill, the vote could happen today. Or there's one more week
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of Parliament sitting before the end of the year, which makes it so much more interesting, because
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if he doesn't get that bill passed, there's no way they're going to give him another extension on the
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state of emergency, which then means on December 16, the government loses the ability, loses all power
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power to enforce any COVID restrictions or any rules, any mandates. How that to me, that sounds like
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Well, I tell you, the stakes couldn't be higher. So what I think I'm gathering from those parliamentary
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intrigues is that it was set to pass with a coalition of Dan Andrews and these three left wing, I think
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they're called crossbenchers down there, like sort of independents. But one guy who used to be an ally
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of Dan Andrews, one politician made the difference and said, I'm not going to support it. So the math
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was off. And so they didn't force the issue and they backed off. Did I get that right? One man,
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Well, it's the most unlikely, but when you really think about it, it was the most likely, just no one
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thought about it. I was having this discussion yesterday because what was interesting was the
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first time I heard this man's name in the conversation were these protesters outside
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parliament a few days ago. So the only people who thought about it were these protesters that have
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been defamed and called all sorts of names the last few weeks. But none of the mainstream,
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none of the politicians, none of the people doing, crunching the numbers, no one making
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educated guesses or predictions picked up on the fact that Adam Somnurek, who has for a while now
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been at odds with Daniel Andrews. No one thought that he would come in and cross the floor like that.
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Well, it's very interesting. And I know that some of these names are not familiar to people outside
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of Australia, but the point is one man made a difference. It's very historic in its feeling. It's very
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biblical almost. And as you point out, it's not dead yet. Although your petition,
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killthebill.com.au, has well over 100,000 signatures. That's large anywhere. But for a
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country the size of Australia, about 25 million folks, if I'm not mistaken. I think that's got to
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be one of the largest petitions in recent history. Well, I think even more so that the fact that this
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is not an Australian issue, this is a Victorian, I think it's a worldwide issue, but it is a Victorian
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petition. So you're talking about, I don't know, 6 million people. It is huge. And, you know,
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whether we actually have to go and deliver it to the governor, now I'm so much more confident
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knowing we have over 100,000 signatures. But even if the bill does die, I think it's important for
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every single one of those 100,000 people plus who signed it to know that they changed the
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conversation. Because everywhere I've been, many of the points that we bring up in that petition for
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the very first time have become now mainstream talking points when arguing about it. So I'm really
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proud about what we did and each and every person that helped bring that to that level.
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So it's not just the number of people who signed it, it's the education of the process of the petition
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spread the news about it. Give our people just one or two points about what is in this bill that was
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of such biblical proportions that caused this one man to come back and cast his, or and threaten to
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cast his vote against us. Give us just one or two details. I've said the word like a permanent
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I'll give you an example. Essentially, the premier himself can declare a pandemic
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at his own will. There doesn't even have to be a disease. Now, with that, he ultimately holds all the
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power. They tried to pretend that there's oversights by committees that, that he chooses. So obviously,
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if he doesn't like what the committee says, he just has to bring somebody else in. It also says in
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there, and this was one of the sweeteners that he was trying to produce as transparency, saying,
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from now on, we will publish the health advice, because until now, they've refused to do so. And
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to be, our lawsuit in the Supreme Court was one of the first, was the first and last time that we've
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actually put up any of their health advisors on the stand to give testimony about what the advice was.
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But aside from that, they've never published any health advice that justifies the most, the longest,
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most brutal lockdown in the world. He says, we're going to publish it, but it doesn't say that he
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has to. It changes and he can say, no problem, I publish it. But I, I, as the man holding all the
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power that can decide anything, has the final say. And the final say included going, jailing people for
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up to two years for breaching health orders. So at that, and that it is, it is so broad that
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really, if, if, if it was to be enacted, he would essentially have the power of targeting. And part of
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that bill was targeting people on political, on their political view. So the premier of Victoria, who I
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know for certain doesn't appreciate the work we do at rebel news would be able to target me because of
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his perceived views of, of what I stand for. And, um, essentially jail without trial or due process.
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And there was no real, um, right to judicial review. It meant that if you wanted to have that
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reviewed, it had to be reviewed. Another bureaucrat that he chooses. It was outrageous. And this was
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the first time in a long time where all sides of politics and you had all the law institutes and
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the majority of the legal fraternity standing up. And if anyone knows anything about the legal
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fraternity here in Victoria, they're quite, um, liberal, they're quite, um, um, they're allies of
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the labor government usually. And they came out pretty strong about this because even they could
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see that this was nothing to do with health. This was an attack on our civil liberties. He,
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he claimed it was about future pandemics, but I promise you if that piece of legislation had passed
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tomorrow, today, Mr. Andrews would have declared that pandemic.
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Wow. You know, it's, there's so much in there and I'm just chuckling. Um, I don't know why they're
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not publishing their health advice now. That's supposed to be some sort of gift or something
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they might do. It just boggles the mind that they're not publishing it now. But then again,
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I realized that in Canada, we don't have any disclosure of that either. We're all living
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in authoritarian times. Avi, it's great to see you again and have you on the program.
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We watch your videos and we're delighted by your reporting. I truly believe that Australia
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and in particular, the city of Melbourne and the state of Victoria are the center of the bullseye
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for the globalist authoritarian attack that's using the pandemic opportunistically to seize power.
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And I really, really believe that your reporting more than anyone else in Australia is shining a
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light of scrutiny on it. And I think you've really made a difference. I think Australians believe that
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too, the way they're responding to you. So keep up the great work and thanks for being such a
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important part of the team. Thanks. Thanks again, Ezra. Thanks for having me on. There you have it.
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Avi Yamini, Chief Australia correspondent coming to us from Melbourne. Stay with us more ahead.
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Hey, welcome back. Your viewer feedback. Jerome Hawke says,
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I suspended my meager monthly donations to the conservative party many months ago.
00:30:19.440
I await the cleanup of the mess they're currently in. The fundraisers are not pleased with me.
00:30:25.160
Tough. Yeah. You know, I think it's a kind of false advertising for the conservative. I get
00:30:30.940
conservative party fundraising emails. I don't understand why I literally have not been a party
00:30:35.760
member in more than 10 years. I have not given them a donation in more than 10 years, but they
00:30:40.100
still try and get money from me. And that's fine. I like to read them. But I think they're false
00:30:44.360
advertising. They're very rebel in their style. They're very action oriented. They're well written
00:30:51.380
and sharp. I wish those email writers, those fundraisers for the conservative party were actually
00:30:56.440
MPs because they pretend to be rock ribbed, red blooded conservatives when they email or phone you.
00:31:03.660
They don't actually keep their promise. They say they're against cancel culture. They say they're
00:31:09.340
against the CBC and the media party. They say they're against high taxes, but they're not against any
00:31:14.880
of those things. I think giving money to the conservative party of Canada, I mean, listen,
00:31:20.680
if it makes you feel better, do it, but I don't think you should do it. I think you're rewarding
00:31:24.780
a wolf in sheep's clothing. I think they are no different than the liberals.
00:31:31.120
Bruce Atchison says, remember the end of Animal Farm. The liberals and conservatives look too much
00:31:37.680
alike. We peer through the window, but we can't tell if Trudeau is O'Toole and O'Toole is Trudeau.
00:31:43.160
Those glorious promises of the 2019 leadership debate are now painful lies. That's exactly,
00:31:48.920
that's a great analogy. I love that book, Animal Farm. And what's incredible is how quickly
00:31:56.020
O'Toole just did 180 degree change on everything. He's a liar. I'm sorry. It's just a liar. I mean,
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I know every politician has to lie at least a little bit, but don't lie about everything and
00:32:06.780
don't lie to your base and then expect them to support you. He's terrified of confronting his base.
00:32:12.000
That's all Denny's batters wants is for him to have an accountability moment. He doesn't want that.
00:32:18.260
Kirk Woken says, I told the conservative party this time I wasn't supporting them because I
00:32:23.700
wanted to vote for a conservative. Isn't that the truth? Look, I don't know if there's anyone waiting
00:32:28.980
in the wings. I don't know why Pierre Polyev hasn't thrown his hat in. I thought he would last time.
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I hope he does. There may be other people in the party. Maybe Leslie Lewis. I don't know.
00:32:38.400
Obviously, O'Toole regards her as a rival, given that he didn't appoint her to shadow cabinet. I
00:32:43.780
really do think he will fire her one day. But listen, if Erin O'Toole is truly the best the
00:32:49.560
Canadian conservative movement has to offer, a country of 38 million people, if he's the best
00:32:54.820
the conservative party has, so be it. But we won't actually know unless we ask the members, will we?
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Well, that's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
00:33:06.540
Highquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with
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a video by Adam Sose of our Calgary team about that city's ridiculous climate emergency, climate
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emergency, the first order of business declared by the new mayor. Oh, by the way, in the middle of a
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snowfall. Here's Adam. Take a look. Welcome to Alberta, strong and free. Home of big clear skies
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with lush forests that cascade through the foothills of rising Rocky Mountains. Nature and wilderness
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as far as the eye can see. Peppered by glacial lakes and crystal clear water.
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Culturally rich, vibrant, modern cities with big town amenities and a small town feel.
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The city of Calgary sits nestled. Calgary City Council has declared a climate emergency.
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People from around the world come to Alberta and come to Calgary because it is beautiful
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and it is clean. We are not facing a climate emergency, plain and simple. If you agree,
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go to NoClimateEmergency.com now, sign our petition and click a link to send G.O.T. Gondek a message.
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Adam Sose here for Rebel News. And Calgary, as you've heard, is in apparently a state of climate
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emergency, whatever that may mean. City councillors voted 13 to 2 in favour of declaring a state of
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emergency in this city. During debates, there was some minor contention over the use of the word
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emergency and what that means. But City Council wasn't about to let facts and definitions get in
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the way of jumping on board this climate hysteria. Listen, we have been going through cycles of
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emergency because of COVID-19 for the past two years. Now they've added yet another element of
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crises and emergencies for us to be panicked over and to live in fear of. Your new City Council will
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make a commitment to climate action because we can and we must. Sadly, it isn't as though G.O.T.
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Gondek is doing this to Calgarians. She campaigned on a platform of one day declaring a climate emergency
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in the city. Sadly, we are doing this to ourselves, or at least our fellow voters are doing it to us.
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It's come to the point where they have adopted the climate hysteria so integrally that they are
00:35:47.880
actually comforted by authorities declaring a state of emergency. But the word emergency caused
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concern for a number of councillors, including Sonia Sharp, who said the word is too charged,
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but the word was not changed. In our first No Climate Emergency.com video, we talked about how
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the media in Hollywood are complicit in exasperating fear surrounding climate change. We also talked
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about how these policies do very little to help the environment, but do a lot to help politicians in
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patting themselves on the back, and a lot to help them encourage further increased taxes, all in the
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name of the environment. We have also seen the economic and mental health impacts caused by
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these types of policies, and the perpetual state of fear that people are living in.
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Well, Ian, I spoke with the Calgary Construction Association, and they say that they want to be a
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part of Calgary's climate-conscious future, as construction and buildings are responsible for 60%
00:36:45.600
of the city's carbon footprint. And he also says that Calgary has the potential to be a climate
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leader in sustainable construction. It says there needs to be a two-pronged approach to build in a
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way that doesn't contribute to climate change. One, renovate and improve existing and aging buildings to
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make them more efficient. The other is to make sure that any new construction uses sustainable materials
00:37:06.220
and energy-efficient design. Despite all of these factors, Jyoti and company are so eager to spearhead
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their new great leap forward, that despite a lack of sufficient technology and resources, they want us
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transitioning off of fossil fuels. The reality is that we are not ready to do that yet, and the world is going to
00:37:29.820
continue to need oil. Importing oil from overseas OPEC oil is not good for the environment, and it's certainly not good for our economy.
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So until we are ready to embrace these technologies, and until these technologies are in fact viable
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and can compete on the open market, they in reality simply will not work.
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From the initial five founder members, today OPEC has grown to include 13 sovereign nations on three continents.
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Together, these countries hold 80% of the world's proven oil reserves,
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and provide around 40% of global crude oil production.
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You know, in China, Mao Zedong also worked towards a great leap forward. I think we all know how that went,
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though maybe some of these people don't. When we don't learn from history, it is doomed to repeat itself.
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Under Mao Zedong, with their great leap forward, they attempted over the course of five years to rapidly
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industrialize a country that had inadequate technology and whose ways of life were not yet
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compatible with industrialization. The consequence of that policy was that millions of people died.
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Listen, I am hopeful that our politicians aren't quite so dramatic as Mao Zedong. I'm hoping they
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don't shut off the oil and count on sunless solar panels and frozen over wind turbines to get us through
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the winter. But if history has taught us anything, hoping on politicians is not good policy.
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We must work together to ensure it is no longer free to pollute anywhere in the world.
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Simply put, we cannot transition to technology that does not yet exist, or at least doesn't exist,
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on a level that can keep us going through Canadian winters. Furthermore, unethical oil does nothing to
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help the environment and nothing to help Canadians. We need politicians who are actually willing to
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stand up to this climate hysteria, not simply those who go along to make new friends by agreeing to
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carbon taxes and Paris Accords. We need people who will stand up in principle. And I'm going to take
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it a step further. We need politicians who, instead of signing up for these meaningless symbolic gestures,
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get this, do something to actually help the environment. I want to thank you all for tuning in.
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Go to NoClimateEmergency.com. There you will be able to click a button and send an email directly to
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Gioti Gondek. You'll also be able to sign our petition saying that there is no climate emergency in Calgary.