EZRA LEVANT ｜ Another wrinkle in the infamous Busty Lemieux saga
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Summary
Although the Halton District School Board would prefer that the Busty Lemieux saga would simply go away, alas and alack, this whale of a tale regarding that shop teacher with the enormous fake breasts is still garnering attention the world over. Well, we ve got the scoop and talk about the nightmare before Christmas.
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Tonight, what's the latest regarding shop teacher Busty Lemieux?
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Well, we've got the scoop and talk about the nightmare before Christmas.
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It's Tuesday, December 20th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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Although the woke joke Halton District School Board would prefer that the Busty Lemieux saga
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would simply go away, alas and alack, this whale of a tale regarding that shop teacher
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with the enormous fake breasts is still garnering attention the world over.
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Indeed, this sordid saga has been covered by international media,
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ranging from Fox News in the U.S. to the Daily Mail in the U.K.
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And little wonder, because at the end of the day, the HDSB's commitment to wokeness
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has made this school board an international laughingstock.
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And yet, even at this late date, the HDSB refuses to do the right thing.
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Like, for starters, telling Mr. Lemieux that if he insists on dressing like, you know,
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a drag queen, could he kindly dress appropriately?
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Like, can he find a blouse that doesn't get penetrated by those enormous fake nipples,
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which are attached to those enormous fake Z-cup breasts?
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As well, why won't the HDSB launch an investigation regarding whether Mr. Lemieux is a prankster
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Everybody knows that this is not a genuine male-to-female transition.
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Trans people want to blend in with those of the other sex,
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not put themselves on display as if they were gross caricatures of the other sex.
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But to even ask questions regarding Lemieux's motive is what?
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An act of transphobia, at least in the view of the HDSB?
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Indeed, it appears as though the HDSB thinks the real solution to this sordid saga
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Case in point, I was recently sent a letter by the HDSB.
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It states that I have been banned for life from attending its headquarters
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as well as any HDSB properties or schools in Halton Region.
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You know, I'm having a flashback to 1987 when WWF Commissioner Jack Tunney
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did precisely that to wrestling referee Danny Davis.
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But the only thing different here is that referee Danny Davis was a corrupt referee,
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whereas reporter David Menzies is just a journalist asking a few tough questions,
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questions that the HDSB educrats don't want to hear.
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And it's not just me that the HDSB is trying to muzzle and censor.
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Students were recently warned not to take pictures or videos of Lemieux,
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and if they did so, they would face suspension.
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Thankfully, this threat hasn't stopped some brave students from recording Busty Lemieux and his shenanigans.
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And one video that was recently shot is most interesting indeed.
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Everybody knows that smoking it a little louder, too.
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The kid is vaping away right next to Busty Lemieux,
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and Lemieux is doing nothing to lay down the law.
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Then again, we've heard his classes are disasters these days.
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None of the students respect this wannabe drag queen.
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The kids aren't learning anything, and they're all doing their own thing.
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By the way, when it comes to the rules, forget about the Ministry of Education.
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Busty Lemieux continues to violate every workshop etiquette rule in the book.
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Long-sleeved shirts, jewelry, no hairnet, and so on and so forth.
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Lemieux is allegedly a trans individual, and we should all know by now,
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As well, it should be noted that the HDSB is now reassigning Busty Lemieux to other schools in the district.
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While he started the school year at Oakville Trafalgar High School back in September,
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he was recently dispatched to Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School in Burlington.
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Now, check out this little video that shows Busty Lemieux hobbling along a school hallway
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with the help of crutches while wearing a boot cast on his right foot.
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Now, why is the HDSB playing whack-a-mole with the Busty one?
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Is it to take the heat off Oakville Trafalgar High School?
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You see, folks, in the last several weeks, this school has been the frequent target of numerous bomb threats,
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all of which were proven to be thankfully bogus.
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Alas, I suspect it is only a matter of time before Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School
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As well, one wonders how Lemieux presumably hurt his foot.
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After all, in late October, Lemieux went parachuting with an individual named Voodoo.
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the conservative porn star skydiver, end quote.
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I thought there was a photo ban regarding this publicity prostitute.
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So, do you get the feeling, folks, that Busty Lemieux never even asked for such a photo ban,
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but this was self-generated by the HDSB, you know, to make this story go away?
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Another development in recent weeks was that the HDSB took delivery of a staff report,
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which looked at the possibility of implementing a dress code for its teachers.
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The answer, well, staff said it's impossible to do so due to potential liability.
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There's even, if you can believe it, a Halloween costume dress code.
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In fact, this recommendation against a dress code for staffers is absolute rubbish,
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according to respected labor lawyers Howard Leavitt and Peter Carey.
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Writing in the Financial Post recently, Leavitt and Carey stated the following,
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Why, then, is the Halton District School Board allowing this garish,
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sexualized, hyperbolic, provocative, in short, completely inappropriate attire.
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One has to conjure that they are a victim of wokeness.
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Because the teacher in question has self-identified as transgendered,
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If any of us went to work in costume or barefoot and generally unkempt,
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we would reasonably expect to be sent home, if not fired.
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If we argued that we did so as a presentation of a particular identity or even gender identity,
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it would be no different as that is not a defense, contrary to what Halton would have you believe.
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Let's be clear, the Halton District School Board has the legal ability to insist that their teachers wear appropriate attire to school.
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Not to do so actually creates a precedent and legally opens the door for further abuses.
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The Halton District School Board is failing its students and its teachers in not dealing with such outrageous conduct.
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But apparently the HDSB educrats know better than Canada's top labor lawyers.
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And while wokeness is driving the agenda, it is only up until a certain point,
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oh, sure, the HDSB educrats, they're all down with that radical transgender revolution.
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But only when students have to put up with such a freak show.
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when someone comes to their doorstep dressed in an identical fashion to Bussie Lemieux,
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well, that's a little too, you know, vulgar for them.
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And so it is that the HDSB trustees and staff literally, and I mean literally, run away.
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And who is going to answer this lady's questions?
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They can't handle a birthing person like me asking them questions.
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I'm getting so nervous my uterus is about to fall out.
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Why is he not restricted to only the shopper while we deal with this situation?
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Why is he subbing in grade 10 math and grade 10 science with 15-year-olds?
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While the HDSB continues to come across as a laughingstock the world over, here's something
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What if he suffers from autogenophilia, which is defined as a male's propensity to be sexually
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While there is much speculation online that Lemieux is pranking the school board because he is allegedly
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anti-woke, I've got to be honest, folks, I'm not so sure about that anymore.
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Check out this photo that dates back before the current school year when Lemieux started
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This pic was snapped at a Burlington theater that was hosting a dance recital for little
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Yet Lemieux allegedly snuck in during intermission and plopped himself in a front row seat.
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Allegedly, he was in a state of arousal as he watched the little dancers.
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Unsurprisingly, many parents began talking amongst themselves, asking, who is this parent?
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And given Lemieux did not have a daughter at this recital, well, he was eventually asked
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But how creepy, how gross is this, that a mature single male dresses up as a caricature of a
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female and then sneaks into a private venue to watch little girls dance and is apparently
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So, no, I don't believe that pranking the board is Lemieux's unspoken strategy.
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Yet we live in a woke climate where perversion is merely an expression of diversity and where
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one of the mantras espoused by the progressives is, if it's trans, it's good.
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And that means the HDSB strangled by its own political correctness boa constrictor is powerless
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By the way, I did reach out to trustee Dr. Margot Shuttleworth.
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She's the one who's always banging her gavel, telling me I'm out of order with my questions.
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Well, at least during the days in which I was allowed to go to the HDSB meetings as opposed
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to being threatened for arrest for trespassing, that's the current situation.
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Just curious, why isn't the HDSB investigating Lemieux for sexual perversity that perhaps he
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Yeah, so, I mean, we've been sent photos of him going to a dance recital involving little
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He snuck in at intermission, evidently, in his costume.
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And this has got many people wondering why the HDSB hasn't even investigated if this is
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either perversity or perhaps he's pranking the school board.
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Have these questions been addressed, Dr. Shuttleworth?
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So, Mr. Menzies, I'm not sure as to what it is you're asking me.
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There are certain things I can't disclose due to confidentiality issues around staffing.
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However, there are investigations that are going and we are always asking questions of
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No, no, but the question is, if you are taking it, it would seem, on face value that this is
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But if you look at people in the transgender community, they tend to blend in with the opposite
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They're not, you know, becoming a grotesque caricature of a female.
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And so, you know, the question arises, why won't you investigate if this is someone who
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is suffering from a sexual perversion and he's in front of minors?
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So, again, as I said, Mr. Menzies, I know you're quite aware of privacy issues as far as around
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I am answering you as much as I can, but just know that all the information that we're getting,
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Well, we have filed an FOI request and your board wants $4,000 almost in order to hand
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over the information regarding the files on Lemieux.
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I have no idea why the cost would be that much.
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It's not like someone's going down into a library.
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So, again, Mr. Menzies, that sort of thing is out of my purview.
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That's something that you're discussing with staff.
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I don't know what's happened as far as that's concerned, but, again, I think with those
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sort of questions, you might want to get in touch with Heather Francie at the board.
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She'll be the one who'll be able to give you more information regarding those issues.
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Oh, she never, that's your director of communications who never communicates, I'm afraid.
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And as you know, for some reason, I guess asking impolite questions, I am banned from Halton
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District School Board, property, your headquarters, your schools, with the threat of a trespass
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Is this all about shutting down media that ask, oh, I don't know, impolite questions of this
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I do know that there was concerns as to your intent.
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So, anything that we have done has been completely above board.
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And, again, as I said, I'm happy to continue using the information that I have to find ways
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That's all I can really tell you right now, Mr. Menzies.
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So, in other words, the Halton District School Board is all down with radical transgenderism
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But when it's brought to your boardroom, you're not so down with radical transgenderism, are you?
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You're now making inferences into what I am thinking, which is untrue and unfounded.
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So, you know, I would really appreciate that if you're going to make statements that they're
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I mean, you seem to be offended by the idea of these giant Zed cup fake breasts at your boardroom,
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but you have no problem with them at the school.
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You have no problem with Lemieux violating every shop etiquette rule in the book, jewelry,
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You have no problem, it would seem, with a student vaping in his class, of which we have
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Is it one standard for regular people and another standard for transgendered so-called people?
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Again, sir, so you currently are making assumptions, so not knowing what is actually happening.
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So, as I said, if you want to research the fact that you're looking at, then maybe you
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How is that an assumption if we have photographic evidence of a child in violation of the Smoke
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Right, so, but you're saying that there are no investigations and there are, so...
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Is it the child smoking or is it the teacher that allowed it to happen right beside him?
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Again, you're now getting into that personal information that I'm unable to disclose to
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I can just tell you that there are investigations that are being looked into.
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It's, I mean, this Oakville Trafalgar High School and this school board that you are
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a member of, you've become a laughingstock the world over, and...
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You know what, Mr. Nancy, I'm really, really sorry, but I'm actually in the middle of a
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meeting right now, so if you want to connect at some later time, I might have more time
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Okay, I'm used to that treatment from your school board, and I guess I'm banned for life.
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Is that it, in terms of attending board meetings?
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So, again, I would check that as far as documentation is concerned.
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As I said, if you want to organize a time to speak, we can set that up in the future.
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Yeah, folks, I know Dr. Shuttleworth thinks of herself as the Khaleesi of the HDSB, but
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it might come as a shock to her that she does not outrank the Minister of Education, Stephen
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And yesterday, Minister Lecce said that the HDSB has not upheld expected professionalism
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In an iPolitics story, Lecce states the following, quote,
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I do continue to believe that the Halton District School Board, which is the employer, has an
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obligation to ensure that these classrooms are safe and respectful places to work.
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Teachers need to uphold, as I've noted, the highest professional standards when they're
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in front of children, and so I do not believe the Board of Administration has done so to date.
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Many families and communities have expressed concern with the management of this issue,
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and so we reaffirm our expectation with the school boards as employers that they act in
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the interest of children and they listen to the voices of families of the kids themselves
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at various schools and parents who want their kids to go to school focused on learning and
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not have to deal with threats of violence, lockdowns, or incidents that are very distracting
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Are you listening, Dr. Shuttleworth, someone who I've been told allegedly identifies as being
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a horse-toothed jackass? And how about you, HDSB Director of Education Courtesan, is he, him?
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Are you listening, Mr. He, Him? Again, to repeat the reminder issued via Minister Lecce yesterday,
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you are supposed to act in the interest of children and families. Capisce?
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By the way, when it comes to families, these are also people who identify as taxpayers. In other words,
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the people who pay your salaries. A publicly funded school board is not some private club dedicated
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to nonsensical wokeness. And you entitled educrats are not supposed to be the champion of a man who just
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might very well be a sexual pervert. And you're doing all this entirely because of ideology
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that resembles, oh, I don't know, Marxism. It's so far left. In the days ahead, we will see if the HDSB
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even gives Minister Lecce the courtesy of a response. Or, hey, maybe they'll call the cops on Lecce. I mean,
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we all know how sensitive the school board geniuses are when it comes to criticism.
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But as always, hope abounds. For starters, we are crowdfunding the $4,000 fee the HDSB is demanding
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we pay in order to fulfill our Freedom of Information requests. We want to see all the files pertaining to
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Lemieux. We want to see what the HDSB is hiding from parents. If you'd like to chip in to help us
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out, please go to protectthestudents.ca. As well, in response to the circus sideshow that is the
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Busty Lemieux fiasco, a group of parents in Halton have formed an organization called Students First
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Ontario. This group has a four-pronged mission statement. Number one, students' interests must
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come first. Two, parents' voices matter. Three, teachers must act and dress professionally. And
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four, a commitment to open inquiry, transparency, and accountability in education. Yeah, I know.
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What a bunch of radicals, right? Anyway, I did speak with the organizer, Selena Close,
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and she told me that there are now some 300 parents who are part of this group. As well,
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the organization has retained a lawyer. So if the HDSB wants to play hardball, and they want to go
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all in when it comes to protecting someone who might very well be a sexual pervert, then so be it.
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The HDSB, in the months ahead, can tell it to the judge. It looks like finally Mama Bear
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has woken up. And you want to know something? She is mightily pissed off.
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Folks, are you feeling a little overwhelmed, and for that matter, a little overtaxed these days?
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Well, it's for good reason. After all, according to the Fraser Institute, did you know that when you add up
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income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and all the other taxes, the average Canadian family pays
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43% of its budget to taxes? 43%. And this probably won't shock you either. There are more tax increases
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coming our way in 2023, such as payroll taxes, such as the mandatory Canada Pension Plan and
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employment insurance payments. As well, there will be a carbon tax hike, because you know, we have to do
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our part to save the planet. Oh, and if you're thinking about going into a drunken stupor to forget
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about all of this taxation, I hate to break it to you folks, but liquor taxes, they're heading up next
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year, too. Unbelievable. Talk about death by a thousand cuts. And joining me now with more on the
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fiscal misery that will be heading our way in the days ahead is Franco Teresano, the federal director
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of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which has just released a report entitled 2023 New Year's Taxpayers.
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Hey there, Franco. Welcome to the Ezra Levent Show. Thanks for having me on. It's always a pleasure,
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my friend. Okay, so we have all sorts of taxes going up in the new year. And it's a safe bet that
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inflation will continue in 2023. And of course, we can expect more interest rates to occur. Franco,
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given all of this dire economic news, shouldn't the federal government be cutting taxes as opposed to
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amping them up? Well, you would think so. But you'd be wrong. Because in 2023, the Trudeau government is
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giving us the gift of five, five federal tax hikes. Okay, CPP tax, up. EI tax, up. The carbon tax,
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up. Alcohol taxes, you guessed it, up. And the government is also imposing a second carbon tax
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through fuel regulations in 2023. So more pain coming to Canadians from our federal government.
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And you know, Franco, given the economy that we're in, as I mentioned, inflation, every time I go to
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the grocery store, I pick up a basket of groceries. I go, that's about 50 bucks and it's $119 when I
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check it out. Given the interest rates, there's still more hikes to come. I'm absolutely sure about
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that. Even if these tax increases were for, you know, things of merit, couldn't the government back
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away saying, we believe in, say, a carbon tax, we believe in, you know, our war on pollution,
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as they call it, but now is not the right time because of all of this, you know, economic misery
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going around. I mean, Franco, I met a person the other day, fully employed in Toronto. He went to the
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food bank for the first time last week to help him make ends meet. Why can't they lay off on the
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accelerator and give common Canadians a break? Well, it should have been a no brainer, a no
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brainer. And I can't believe we have to say this out loud with our mouth, but it should have been a
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no brainer for the federal government at the very least, when governments were locking down businesses,
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when people were losing their job, when people were taking pay cuts, when small businesses were
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worried that their savings wouldn't keep the lights on. It should have been a no brainer for
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the federal government to at the very least not raise taxes. But we have seen taxes since the
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beginning of COVID-19 or tax hikes. We have seen tax hikes as inflation has run rampant. And this year,
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let's look at the payroll tax hikes that's going to be happening in 2023. Let's talk about the war
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on work. Okay. So in 2023, if you're making $67,000 or more, you're going to be paying an extra about
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300 bucks through the CPP and EI tax increases. Okay. An extra $300. That means a lot to people
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like that's going to be a lot of pain, but even that increase downplays the actual pain from those
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two payroll taxes. In 2023, if you're making $67,000 or more in total, you're going to be paying
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about $4,700 to the government through payroll taxes, while your employer will have to cough up
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an extra $5,100 to the government through those payroll taxes. And David, we're not talking about
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fat cats here. We're talking about people making $67,000 or more. That's a ton of pain.
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Oh, no, you're absolutely right about that, Franco. And you know, I hearken back to the late,
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great mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, I thought he had one of the best election slogans of all time for
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that matter, namely respect for taxpayers. And what he meant, Franco, is that it, it wasn't a revenue
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problem that governments have. It's a spending problem. In other words, they're spending our
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tax dollars on so many crazy things. I mean, Justin Trudeau has been flying around the world recently,
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giving hundreds of millions of dollars to whatever cause he finds worthy. Why? Why is the federal
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government funding the mainstream media to the tune of more than $600 million a year? And of course,
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twas ever thus, more than a billion a year for the CBC? I mean, surely, this is where the government
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can make cuts so that they are beholden to the stakeholders, i.e. you and I and all our viewers,
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the taxpayers of this nation. Oh, let's let's talk about all the waste. Okay, let's get even
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further. I mean, this isn't this is just really the tip of the iceberg of the waste. But this will
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boil your blood. Are you ready for it? Okay, here we go. So someone in the government, who was it?
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The governor general says it wasn't her. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won't say who it was.
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Someone in the government billed taxpayers $6,000 a night for a single hotel room during the Queen's
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funeral. $6,000 per night. Okay, now let's talk about the governor general. Her and her entourage
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spent nearly six figures on fancy airplane food during a week-long trip to the Middle East.
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Six figures, nearly six figures. They enjoyed beef wellington. They enjoyed beef carpaccio.
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They enjoyed pork stuffed tenderloin. What value did taxpayers get? The entire trip ended up costing more
00:33:14.380
than a million dollars. One week, more than $1 million. The list goes on and on and on. The federal
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government spent $8,000 on a sex toy show in Germany. Yeah, you heard that right. And David,
00:33:28.100
you know, maybe I'm a little old fashioned. But if the Germans want to have their own sex toy
00:33:32.580
extravaganzas, let them pay for it themselves. Okay, and that's the little things. But the government,
00:33:38.420
the government is also getting the big things wrong. The federal government gave 300,000 federal
00:33:44.160
government employees a pay raise during the pandemic while their neighbors in the private
00:33:49.360
sector were losing their job while they were losing their business. And then there's so many different
00:33:54.580
examples of corporate welfare, right? The hundreds and millions of dollars given to the Ford Motor
00:33:59.120
Company or Bombardier, right? That's not helping Canadians. That's just corporate welfare. So you're
00:34:05.540
absolutely right. The fact is that the government wastes so much money and Canadians are paying too much
00:34:11.080
tax because the government wastes too much money. You know, it's outrageous. And we should touch upon
00:34:16.980
the double standard here, Franco. In the beginning of your answer, you were talking about all the money
00:34:22.600
that the government was spending on flights, on meals, on hotel rooms. And believe me, they weren't
00:34:29.660
staying at the Motel 6. That's quite evident when you're paying those kind of rates. And yet I think
00:34:35.780
back to yesterday, poor Miss Bev Oda, she lost her political career over a $16 glass of orange juice.
00:34:43.680
That was front page news. But all of these latest egregious spending sprees, this government seems to
00:34:51.740
be made of Teflon. They seem to get a pass. Or maybe that's directly related, Franco, to the fact that
00:34:58.420
they're propping up the mainstream media with our tax dollars. So you kind of go easy when it comes to
00:35:04.620
blowing the whistle on your sugar daddy, I guess. Well, let's talk about the CBC for a second, right?
00:35:10.280
More than a billion dollars every single year from the taxpayer. But you want to hear what really
00:35:14.820
boils my blood in some recent findings? The CBC handed out $51 million in bonuses and pay raises
00:35:23.360
during the pandemic. $51 million in bonuses and raises during the pandemic. The fiscal update
00:35:28.760
is giving this CBC an extra $42 million to cope with the pandemic. What do you mean cope with the
00:35:36.400
pandemic? They just had enough money lying around to handle $51 million in bonuses and raises. But the gravy
00:35:42.760
train doesn't stop there when it comes to crown corporations in Ottawa. Let's talk about the Bank of
00:35:48.060
Canada. They have one job. One job. Keep inflation low around 2%. They completely failed to do their job.
00:35:55.220
So what did the Bank of Canada do during the pandemic? They handed out $45 million in bonuses
00:36:00.980
and raises. Isn't that something? Isn't that a way to hold your organization accountable? That when you
00:36:07.260
fail, when you increase prices of gasoline and ground beef on Canadians, you go out and you give $45
00:36:14.900
million worth of bonuses and raises. So, Franco, what you're saying when it comes to the federal
00:36:19.420
government and federal institutions, you fail upwards here. You get things wrong. You make a
00:36:27.620
mockery of the policy and you're still going to get a bonus. This is incredible to me to begin with.
00:36:35.300
Why is there such a culture of entitlement, Franco? It used to be you made a sacrifice. I'm talking many
00:36:42.800
decades ago, of course, when you went into public service, you were doing just that. You were giving a
00:36:48.240
service to the public. You weren't going to, you know, get a double digit wage increases and a gold
00:36:55.540
plated pension. You're making a sacrifice for your province or for your country. It's not that anymore,
00:37:01.480
is it? Because it looks like from what you're saying, even when you're incompetent in the job,
00:37:07.140
you're going to keep it. And what's more, you're going to get a raise and a bonus.
00:37:10.380
Well, it certainly feels, at least, that public servants are really public servants in name only,
00:37:17.120
right? Doesn't it feel like it's really us working for them sometimes, especially what happened during
00:37:24.040
pandemics and lockdowns, right? The tale of two downturns during the pandemic where people in the
00:37:28.860
private sector absolutely took it on the chin, lost their job, took pay cuts, maybe even lost their
00:37:34.180
business while people behind the golden government gates benefited financially. Politicians, three
00:37:42.020
pay raises during the pandemic. We talk about the bonuses, the pay raises for CBC, for the Bank of
00:37:48.320
Canada. There's other crown corporations that were giving themselves bonuses and pay raises as well.
00:37:52.980
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, tens of millions of dollars, bonuses, pay raises,
00:37:58.560
when people couldn't afford to buy homes. The Destination Canada, the crown corporation that
00:38:04.120
tasked with marketing Canada's tourism industry, were giving themselves bonuses and raises while
00:38:11.500
people weren't allowed to come to Canada. I mean, there's reason people are frustrated. People have
00:38:15.900
every right to be frustrated. And now, 2023, the year of the tax hike, we're losing more money because
00:38:22.740
of CPP tax, EI tax, carbon tax, second carbon tax. And if all that drives you to drink, well, too bad,
00:38:29.420
because the Trudeau government's taking more money from your pocket there as well. Every time you go get
00:38:33.780
that bottle of wine, that case of Keith's, or every time you just want to get some rum to enjoy with
00:38:38.920
your Coke, the government is taking more money from you there as well. It's absolutely incredible.
00:38:44.360
And what you say is so true. I mean, what we've seen the last two years, Franco, I think that the
00:38:48.980
phrase, we're all in this together, that has superseded the check is in the mail as the greatest lie
00:38:55.460
uttered in the history of mankind. Last question, I guess, Franco, I'm personally a fan of tax cuts,
00:39:02.100
reduce taxation, because if I have a little more green in my genes, so to speak, maybe what I'm
00:39:07.660
going to do is buy that big appliance or go to the local tailors and buy that new suit that I've had
00:39:14.200
my eye on. One thing I won't be doing with that money is sending a check off to Berlin for some
00:39:19.420
German sex toy show. I can guarantee you that. So I think it's win-win. I'm going to do better.
00:39:25.380
The local merchants are going to do better. What say you, my friend?
00:39:30.180
Cut taxes down. Stop wasting so much money. Start cutting taxes. And the government could do it if
00:39:35.860
it wasn't just spending money like crazy. Let me give you an example, okay? Back in April,
00:39:40.940
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said she would spend $452 billion in this year's budget.
00:39:46.720
Fast forward to the mid-year budget update seven months later, and now Freeland says she's going
00:39:51.380
to spend $472 billion. Did you catch that? In seven months, somehow, Freeland is on track to spend
00:39:59.900
$20 billion over budget. $20 billion over her big spending budget. Now, let me put that into
00:40:06.500
perspective for you. If Freeland just kept to her own spending in her own budget, there'd be enough
00:40:12.380
money left over to cut the sales tax from 5% to 3% and still lower the deficit.
00:40:17.220
But Franco, didn't you hear? Freeland is keeping an eye on her own budget. I think she canceled her
00:40:24.340
Disney Plus subscription. I guess that's part and parcel of how the budget will balance itself,
00:40:31.300
I imagine. Oh, well. Well, Franco, regardless of the misery that awaits in the new year,
00:40:37.700
I do want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. You're doing great work there,
00:40:43.380
and thank you for being that watchdog in Ottawa that we so desperately need when it comes to
00:40:49.880
out-of-control spending. Thank you so much, Franco. Thanks for having me on. You got it.
00:40:55.960
And that was Franco Teresano, the Director of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation. Folks,
00:41:01.060
keep it here. More of the Ezreal Event Show to come right after this.
00:41:04.720
Well, folks, tons of feedback about my monologue on Friday's Ezreal Event Show. I discussed the issue
00:41:22.340
of that Irish teacher, a teacher who is behind bars right now. How did his trouble start? Well,
00:41:28.460
it goes back to his school. There was a student transitioning, and this teacher refused to refer
00:41:35.120
to him as they instead of him. And eventually, well, he's now behind bars. Unbelievable. In any event,
00:41:45.240
lots of mail to get to on this. Discus Meniscus writes, this isn't about respecting someone's hurt
00:41:52.300
feelings. It's about power. You are absolutely right, my friend. And you know, the funny thing about
00:41:58.100
power. When strong men and strong women are empowered, they don't act as bullies. You know
00:42:05.180
who acts as the bullies, folks? It's the weak men and women that are given power. Those people
00:42:11.520
are the problem. Conscious Conservatives writes, this is beyond chilling. What Jordan Peterson predicted
00:42:20.380
on the steps of U of T four years ago has become reality. You know, you're absolutely right. And I think
00:42:26.480
it was more than four years ago. I think it was around 2016, if memory serves. But Jordan Peterson
00:42:32.000
was taking a stand against compelled speech. And when you think of it, folks, I think compelled speech
00:42:39.800
might even be worse than censorship. I mean, censorship, you are prevented from reading or
00:42:45.760
seeing a certain thing. Compelled speech is you will say this or else. And in some cases,
00:42:51.860
the or else means going to prison. Unbelievable. James Cagney writes, Franz Jaguslater was a brave man
00:43:00.040
from Austria who simply needed to swear an oath to Hitler. But he would not because loyalty to that
00:43:07.820
regime would be to deny objective truth of the sacredness of humanity. He was jailed and finally
00:43:16.460
executed for this act. He was an ordinary farmer. This Irishman is another ordinary man who is standing
00:43:24.280
up for objective truth. Why not just say them for he or she so easy? Or is it? The Irish, however,
00:43:35.120
do have a weapon, the hunger strike. Nothing scares authorities in Ireland more than this. It is
00:43:42.020
unfortunate, but may be necessary. Well, I don't know if Mr. Burke is going to go on a hunger strike.
00:43:49.720
What I would like to see is that the rest of us, and I am talking 99.9999% of the planet that don't
00:43:59.880
really believe in this gender identity and pronoun nonsense. Why don't we just stand up? Why don't we
00:44:09.060
just collectively say the emperor has no clothes? Or is that too a thought crime in certain circles
00:44:17.220
these days? Absolutely unbelievable. Well, folks, that wraps up the Ezra Levent Show. Thank you so
00:44:22.980
much for joining me. The Big Boss Man will be back in this chair tomorrow. In the meantime, as always,
00:44:44.480
Hey, guys. Katie Davis Court here for Rebel News. I'm in El Paso at the U.S. southern border wall,
00:44:58.000
and I'm going to show you guys how easy it is to illegally enter into the United States. The
00:45:04.280
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here in El Paso. But here we are in El Paso at the U.S. southern border. It's wide open. And let's
00:45:29.700
take a look. We have the border wall behind us with the real Grand River in between and then a
00:45:35.120
fencing that is wide open. But let me show you something.
00:45:41.280
If you look over here at the border wall, there is a grate that has been removed, and the legal
00:45:56.760
immigrants are easily coming through that grate. It's not secured. But they actually don't even
00:46:02.400
have to go down and cross the Rio Grande River. They can come along the wall right here and enter
00:46:09.200
through this hole in this fence, and boom, you are in the United States. And that is what we saw
00:46:15.920
earlier today when we drove along the freeway. We saw a group of children standing alongside the
00:46:21.760
highway who just illegally entered this way into the United States. So take a look at that footage.
00:46:26.800
Don't listen. Hey, get back, man. This is a fact. Please. Try it properly. Get back.
00:46:48.800
We have been here for about two days traveling along the highway, and we see illegal immigrants waiting,
00:47:14.560
waiting on the side of the border to illegally enter into the United States. And earlier today,
00:47:19.600
when we got here, we saw a group of illegal immigrant children on the highway who just entered
00:47:24.880
through here. So the borders, they are wide open. Something needs to be done about this. This is an
00:47:32.000
invasion. Even if Title 42 is halted, it's not going to make much of a difference because the invasion is
00:47:38.560
happening, even with it being in place. I'm Katie Davis-Gart for Rebel News. If you enjoyed our
00:47:43.520
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00:47:55.040
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00:48:00.800
Thank you, guys. Oh, and look right here. Look right here. We got a group of illegal immigrants with their
00:48:13.840
They're passing by, so I guess we will see where they're headed.