EZRA LEVANT ο½ Best Of Election Coverage
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Summary
A special Labor Day edition of the Ezra Levenant show, featuring a look at some of our best reporting on the election so far, and a look ahead to what's likely to happen in the next election. Ezra's opening remarks include: Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer? I know, I know. There's 8500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer?
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Hello, my Rebels. Today is a special Labor Day edition. I'll have some opening remarks about
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the election, but then we'll throw to a compilation of some of our best reports of the federal
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election so far. It really is worth getting the video version of the podcast, especially for these
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in-the-field reports. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com, and you know what? I'll give you a free promo code.
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If you type in election, you'll get it for free, a one-month free trial, and my hope is you'll like
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it enough that you'll keep paying to subscribe after that. It's only eight bucks a month after
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that. All right, here it is, the best of our election coverage so far.
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Tonight, a recap of the election so far. It's September 6th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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Hello, my friends. It's Labor Day, and it's also the middle of the Canadian federal election,
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election that Justin Trudeau did opportunistically, because it hasn't even been two years since the
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last election. I think he thought he could sneak through. After all, so many Canadian governments
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were, incumbents were re-elected. The provincial parties that went to the polls during the pandemic
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were re-elected. That started to stumble when there was an election loss in Atlantic Canada,
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and the Conservatives beat the Liberals. And I think things have been going very poorly
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for Justin Trudeau. I don't want to give too much credit to the media party,
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because they don't deserve much credit. But there's actually been a few moments when
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media party journalists, even the odd CBC journalist,
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has asked critical questions of Justin Trudeau. I never thought I'd live long enough to see it.
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And there's protesters on the ground for Trudeau. I think there always would be,
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and Trudeau thinks that'll help him, but I don't know if it's helping him. I think it's sort of a
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reminder that there's a lot of anger and rage against the government. And when people see some
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people heckling and protesting, it validates their own. Because if the only way you perceive
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the world is through the media, and everything's happy-happy, you think, oh, maybe I'm the weird
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one for being upset about things. But when you see hecklers, some of them are quite rude, by the way,
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it gives you a license to think, well, maybe it's not all happy times. Every poll I have seen for the
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past week has put the liberals behind from as little as one point to, I don't know, seven or
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eight points. There's still, you know, a couple weeks is still an eternity in politics. But it
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looks like Trudeau is extremely unlikely to get the majority he thought he would. And he might not
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even have the minority government. It might be Aaron O'Toole with a minority. Anyways, it's very
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interesting. I'm depressed in that between Aaron O'Toole and Justin Trudeau, I can find no meaningful
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policy differences. The latest is an announcement by Aaron O'Toole en français in the French debate
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last week, that he will keep in place Justin Trudeau's assault rifle ban. All right. I mean,
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it's not a huge issue for me, but there's a lot of conservative, I mean, I think it's an important
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issue. It's, I wouldn't put it in my top three right now. I think the lockdowns, the pandemic,
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freedom of speech is an issue. But the reason I think that's an important issue is it shows that
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Aaron O'Toole will sell out anyone and anything just for momentary, momentarily pleasing the center
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of the universe and the media and Quebec. And reasonable firearms legislation has been part of
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the Conservative Party platform for 25 years or more since Alan Rock first brought in his gun registry.
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And just to throw that away in a heated moment in Quebec to try and suck up to them shows you can't
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trust anything Aaron O'Toole says. He's with Trudeau on the carbon tax. He's with Trudeau on open
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borders migration. He hasn't said a word against the lockdown. He hasn't said a word against the deep
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internet regulation that's coming. And now he's in favor of an assault weapon ban. I really don't know
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the difference between Trudeau and O'Toole, do you? That said, we've been doing great, great reporting
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across this country. So many of our reporters, 17 different reporters in the field from coast to
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coast and even up to the Arctic. So today's show is going to be a collection of excerpts from the best
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of Rebel News reporting on the election so far. I'm going to say goodbye to you now, but enjoy these
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clips from our reporters in the election so far.
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Thank you all again, but also thank you all again for stopping us.
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You know, that's been the story of this past year.
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Canadians stepping up during an incredibly difficult time.
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Let's give a huge round of applause for her amazing Canadians around.
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Because you know, this year has been difficult.
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They're stepping up to get vaccinated, to keep each other safe.
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no media questions at all no media questions we waited gee i don't know at least two hours
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and will not answer any questions by the media just loves his cheerleaders
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the trudeau cheerleaders look at them all they love it
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trudeau had people waiting out here for i don't in excess of two hours oh wow yeah what did you
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think of his brief appearance well it was typical rhetoric from him he said nothing and
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kind of just pumped himself up more than anything so and i thought it was interesting when he said
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it's a good time for us to listen to everyone's opinions and take everyone's ideas into account
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which is obviously the total opposite of what he's been doing through his whole
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well one and a half terms as prime minister so it's it's pretty ironic
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were you impressed with trudeau's speech there yeah i was what about his policy is the mode the
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thing that compels you to support him i like a lot of his policies
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we're going to pass the last question in presence with rebel news
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yes hello my name is alexa for rebel news in fact my question today is to know your position
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regarding the vaccine at the federal level but also provincial because we know very well
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that in quΓ©bec the measures should be in place by the 1st september and that the rights
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of certain people will be brimed on the level of measures plisier in fact
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des emplacements and establishments plaisir for certain people and also
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at the federal level we know that on the level of transports aΓ©riens and
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on the level of trains that the rights also will be brimed what is your position
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in relation to that you m'envoyer sincerely dΓ©solΓ©e madame because
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that being that your question appears all at that reasonable I maintain the
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policy to not respond to questions rebel news and what is your question in
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suivi pardon en suivi ben Γ§a va Γͺtre la mΓͺme rΓ©ponse en suivi oui en suivi
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ben en fait moi je m'intΓ©ressais aussi Γ savoir quelle Γ©tait votre position par
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rapport au niveau libΓ©ral d'encourager la censure de l'internet encore une fois je dois Γ regret
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vous indiquer que je continue Γ ne pas rΓ©pondre aux questions de rebel news
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so they refuse to answer the end the question of rebel news you just saw it
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straight up I asked two simple questions really fair enough about the vaccine
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passport at federal and provincial and about the censorship and federal about
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the internet and they refuse both of my questions so it's simple people refuse to answer to my
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question are in the side of the government right now so they choose who have the answer who can ask
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the question and this is actually a censorship of which media can have the answer or not so I will
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never have my answer because they don't want to answer to me this is the party Bloc QuΓ©bΓ©cois
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it's just interesting to know why you refuse to answer to my questions monsieur it's just simple questions
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I think there are a lot of people who try to answer to some questions you are in the electoral camp
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so we will have to ask you to leave, please, sir.
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My understanding is that we need to ask you to leave, sir.
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As this woman was yelling vaccine-related concerns,
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because otherwise YouTube will delete our channel.
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As you try to raise your concerns, the liberal party members, they form the blockade in front
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of you. And as you were trying to ask questions, they were raising their voices, they were
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cheering and clapping. As more you raise your voice, the more they cheered and clapped.
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I came from Turkey and this is the same thing the Turkish president's bodyguards do to protesters.
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They yell at them so that they don't raise their concerns, so they won't be heard.
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This is in fact a tactic that is regularly employed by Turkish president's army of bodyguards towards protesters.
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In any event, as I was waiting for the prime minister to come back to his bus for departure,
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a group of indigenous rights protesters showed up who challenged Trudeau's legitimacy.
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If the prime minister cannot do anything, that would be helpful!
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These cops do not get to tell us where we stand!
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And that patch on you, that static police pack, is illegitimate!
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This is a reminder because I don't know what these cops are going to do next to me!
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But I just want to remind you that Justin Trudeau is in this bus right here!
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All we are doing is standing in front of this bus!
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Just give us a few words about what he's doing here!
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And if he's paying attention to the old road blogging!
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Instead, he just looked away and hid inside the bus for half an hour!
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Because their spirits have been rid of their bodies!
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But from what we see in the media, that this is a progressive and tolerant leader who pays
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Where he laid those flowers and that teddy bear!
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Just carrying on that legacy of Papa Trudeau, of assimilation and genocide,
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So as you know, I was in the middle of starting a party when Trudeau did his vanity election call
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And so we had some quick decisions to make about sort of, you know what to do, right?
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And so I decided that I would run here in Banff Airdrie for several reasons
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One, I felt that I'd like to make sure that our movement had an anchor point in the West
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And also because, in all honesty, the MP in this riding, Blake Richards, he's the whip of the party
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He's, you know, carrying O'Toole's water out here
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He's doing all the dirty work for O'Toole out here
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If anybody in Alberta deserves to be targeted first and foremost, it's this guy
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We want to make sure, you know, I'm pulling a lot of support in other areas
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But I didn't really want to go against an MP that's, you know, doing a better job
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I wanted to go against someone who symbolically represents the, you know, the rotten leadership of this party
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And so, can you maybe first off, I know people are wondering, talk about, has there been hang-ups?
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You maybe mentioned that you thought your federal party would be well underway by now
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Has there been sort of institutional hang-ups preventing that from taking place?
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Well, it is true that Elections Canada has not yet approved the party
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But it's not soon enough to run candidates under that banner in this election
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It has to be approved prior to writ day to do that
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So, it is what it is, but we're not, I mean, I'm not a type of guy that just sits around and twiddles my thumbs
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We're going to be running some candidates as independents under our banner
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And stay tuned for more announcements to come in the days and weeks to come
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Wonderful, and one of the things that we think we really need to emphasize during this election
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We were just attempting to attend a Justin Trudeau event
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What sort of guarantees can we have from you or anyone running under the banner of your party
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About politicians answering actual questions from independent and non-bought-off media?
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Well, most of the media that I do is with independent media
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Although the CBC was here tonight and I did an interview with them
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My general rule is to do interviews when I'm asked
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Unless it's on a frivolous subject or things like that
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So, I don't think I've ever declined a rebel interview or, you know, an independent media interview
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And I can let you know that we just left a Justin Trudeau event
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They maybe had about one-tenth of your attendance
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And if you have any updates, please be sure to let us know
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Of whether a person who is loved and respected by the people
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And I'd come here once to the Calgary Stampede on vacation in 2010
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And thought, man, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life
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I'm going to be on the other side of that fence
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Got involved with a whole bunch of rodeo boards
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And it's not just the mechanics of riding a horse, Adam
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Do you see some of those values echoed in the Maverick Party?
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So, again, the Maverick Party being exclusively Western
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And it caters to both urban Westerners and rural Westerners
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It was just a natural fit of those Western values
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So, in the past, you were a Conservative Party of Canada supporter
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I told myself I'm not going to put my head in the sand
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Because I thought that they were going to be the best ones
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But then I said, okay, I'm going to stick with them
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That he insists he doesn't want to call a carbon tax
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Oil and gas, aviation, agriculture, and tourism
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And all four of them get super hit by a carbon tax
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That was the straw that broke the camel's back, if you will
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And I'd been reading up about the Maverick Party
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And then I told myself, well, I could keep complaining
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And being angry at both Justin Trudeau and Aaron O'Toole
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I just wanted to ask you as well about Banff Airdrie
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But it's going to be a spot to watch in this election
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You're likely where Derek Sloan has announced that he's running here
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Blake Richards, the party whip for the Conservatives
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That's a little hesitant towards what's happened with the O'Toole Conservatives
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Like I look at this writing and it covers a core part of Alberta, right?
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So it runs from the BC border all the way to East Airdrie
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Two of the biggest ones being oil and gas and agriculture
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Now, the Maverick party is the only party that is exclusively Western
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And everyone else running is either a Federalist or an independent hoping to be a Federalist
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Is, again, I'm not one to character trash any of my competitors
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But I could clearly point out policy and position differences
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And to your point, when you talked about Blake Richards being the chief whip of Aaron O'Toole
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And also, his job is to go after all the other Western CPC MPs and say
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You know what? You need to vote for Aaron O'Toole's policies
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Even the Conservative voter in Ontario and Quebec
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Someone's convinced them that a carbon tax will save the planet
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And all it's going to do is cripple our industries
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So, if they decide that Canada is uncompetitive and Alberta is uncompetitive
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1.6%, less than 1.6% of the GHG emissions in the world
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Hey, Prime Minister Trudeau, why are you supporting somebody that supports the Iranian regime?
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Mr. Trudeau, why are you supporting a candidate here, Majid Johari, that supports the Iranian regime?
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Mr. Trudeau, what do you have to say about our disgrace in Afghanistan?
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Mr. Trudeau, why do you support a candidate who associates with somebody who is under CSIS investigation?
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Who has been described as a threat to national security?
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Mr. Trudeau, I can reach over if I want, I'm in a public place
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Mr. Trudeau, I'm a police officer, I'm a police officer
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Mr. Trudeau, what's your name and badge number?
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Mr. Trudeau, I'm not getting into that right now
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Mr. Trudeau, I'm in a public place and I'm not moving, okay?
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Why have you called this election, Mr. Trudeau?
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Mr. Trudeau, why won't you answer the questions?
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Why do you support the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world?
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We had a meeting when this tragedy was happening
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You promised to me we go on the bottom line of it
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Why are you dealing with the regime of the terrorist regime of Iran?
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Why are we dealing with the terrorist regime of Iran?
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Did you promise we go to the bottom line of it?
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Is the bottom line of it to get the money from Iran?
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No, the bottom line is to get justice for the families
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And you try to get negotiated and close on the friend with Iran
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And I know how much you were hurting for your loss
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We have to do the criminal investigation in Canada
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Why we go to the Ukraine for a criminal investigation?
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We have enough evidence as the Ukraine and the Canada
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And we will continue to make sure that you get justice