EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada's deepening discontent with Trudeau's out of touch Liberals
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A new poll by Abacus shows Justin Trudeau behind by 15 points in the polls, and a story about how CTV News is trying to handle the pending devastation for their hero, Justin Trudeau, that s ahead.
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hello my friends our last report from dubai but we're not going to talk about dubai or at least
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not that much we're going to talk about a new poll by abacus showing justin trudeau's behind by 15
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points you love to see it also talk about how ctv news is trying to handle the uh pending
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devastation for their hero that's ahead but first let me invite you to become a subscriber to rebel
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i want to talk to you about some exciting news from canada two stories today that i think play
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into each other the first is a poll from abacus data we've talked about them before i know their
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pollster david collett a really good guy i always view their polls with a bit of a note of caution
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because although david is an honest man the company is chaired by a die-hard trudeau liberal
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so that's always made me skeptical of them except as i've said before when abacus or say the new york
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times is critical of the left you know it's really bad because they're always trying to find the best
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in trudeau or joe biden or whatever so when abacus data has bad news for the liberals you can take it to
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the bank um they have a new poll and i want to show you afterwards a story that ctv is doing
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to help shore things up for the boss but let me jump right in here's the poll here you can see it on
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your screen conservatives lead by 15 as federal government disapproval jumps four points holy moly
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if there were an election today pierre pauliev would have a majority government and i don't even
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know if the trudeau liberals would be in second here look at this first chart 41 for the conservatives
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26 for the liberals and what's interesting is that the green party is down to just three percent now
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they've always been fringe but what that tells me is that people are no longer in luxury mode they're
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in recession mode when everyone's doing well you can find problems uh to care about that are sort of
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fake problems because it's a sign of your class so if you're very rich um and you really have no
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worries if it's not a problem to pay for your rent and your groceries and your vacations you have
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everything then just to be fashionable you can say you really really deeply care about global warming
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even though you jet around um but when you're poor and when you can make rent all of a sudden those
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fake issues go away the green party is a fake party uh it's a party for uh elites who are well to do
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and we live in a state in canada right now where we're in a technical recession uh where rent has
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doubled and where most people are one paycheck away from not being able to pay their bills so obviously
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the green party a luxury party a party of the phds and the university said is only down to three percent
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but anyways i want to talk to you more about the liberals because that's what's most interesting
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people are poor they're worried about housing they can't pay taxes by the way environmentalism is all
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about taxes carbon taxes i i had to chuckle i saw today in black locks a story that stephen gilbo
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had an unpaid tax debt for years he was in cabinet and he hadn't paid his taxes he only finally
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caught up on that what a little grifter hey do you think there's any chance he's going to pay his twenty
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thousand dollar uh penalty to rebel news out of his own pocket of course not he's going to take that
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from taxpayers anyways um more of the abacus uh research poll look at this the regional breakdown
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here is just amazing look at british columbia but for the longest time i thought well vancouver is sort
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of like uh san francisco very left-wing very progressive very environmentalist look at i mean obviously that
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would be the liberal stronghold but look at the province 52 percent for the conservatives just 18
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for trudeau that is so shocking to me i really think the turning point for trudeau in bc was jody
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wilson rabel because she was beloved by british columbia and she was what that province thought of itself
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as progressive uh inclusive an indigenous woman uh highly ethical person and the way trudeau chewed
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her out and spat her up chewed her up and spat her out i think that not only offended different groups
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in bc but it was a flash of reality when you suddenly see someone for who they are rather than
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who they pretend to be and i think that was the moment british columbia fell out of love with trudeau
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and of course when you fall out of love after a betrayal it doesn't go back to dispassion
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it goes back to hatred love and hate um can be opposite just like love and nothing can be and i
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think british columbians hate justin trudeau which is incredible because that used to be one of his
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bases um liberals are in third place everywhere west of ontario i find that utterly amazing look at
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that in alberta just 11 percent of albertans support justin trudeau that is that's almost single
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digits that if you ask people how many of them believe in ufos you would probably get a larger
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number the next chart is fascinating too my whole life i've been told well conservatives have a problem
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with the gender gap look at that both men and women prefer the conservatives to trudeau
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more men prefer it than women do but both are in the positive that's incredible young people just hate
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trudeau i think partly because they're disillusioned they see a a cynical um you know fake whether they
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they see when they see it but like i said before the problem is housing uh if you are in your late 20s
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or early 30s and you're starting a family and you're trying to buy a house and you're trying to get ahead
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you are the least likely people in the country to support trudeau because you are in real life if you look at
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the chart here the best demographic for trudeau is university educated people he's still not ahead
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with them he's behind 33 to 35 but if you're university educated that is shorthand for
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you're rich you're privileged you're in the elite not everybody but that's a good shorthand
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and you know if if you are university educated it's much more likely that you own your home
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uh that you have no problems paying for groceries you like virtue signaling because it's a valuable
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thing to you and so you love talking about oh i don't know gendered language here's trudeau
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posting about gendered language at the recent g20 conference did you see this hi what did canada
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contribute okay uh as always canada is a strong voice uh for inclusion of uh gender language uh inclusion of
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indigenous uh reflections uh but all throughout we made sure that countries around the world are
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focused on growing the economy in inclusive ways creating opportunity and prosperity for everyone
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in a more peaceful more secure world respect for the rule of law ambition on fighting climate change
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these are all things that canada pushes for at every summit among others and we will continue to imagine
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going to the g20 that's a meeting of the most serious countries in the world imagine going there
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with the the crisis of affordability in canada and when you ask what you contributed what you achieved
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all you have to say is well we got gendered language in there i i'm he's so out of touch it's really
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sort of sad um and look at the the net effect here 57 of canadians disapprove of trudeau's government
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it's never been this bad and look at this related chart the pool of accessible voters what that means
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is people who would consider voting for you there's some people who would never ever in a million years
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ever consider voting for the conservatives or the liberals but the pool of people who would in the
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the right circumstances consider voting for the party that's what they mean by accessible voters
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and look at that the conservatives have 50 of the country as accessible voters whereas trudeau
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only has 42 so his ceiling is 42 if you got every single voter who could possibly vote for him
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he'd win again but what's the odds of that this is a disaster for trudeau i'm enjoying every second of it
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but you know who is not enjoying it you know who has answered the call to come defend him well of
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course the regime media just check out this story as you see in ctv but it's in other places also
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just a little background as you know a few days ago there was a conservative party convention
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in ottawa and our own alexa lavoie was there and she did a great job here's just a brief clip from that
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where she was interviewing peter mckay here's alexa and peter mckay so you have your opinion about the
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fact that mr trudeau have just decided to shuffle his whole cabinet do you think that this remove
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a little bit of credibility of this party i i do i i think when you have that kind of a wholesale
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shuffle and dismissal of a number of ministers you know the person most responsible for having
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appointed all of those people is basically saying you didn't do a good job and you know i'm moving you
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and so therefore i i think that the message that that sends to canadians if he doesn't have
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confidence in his own people why should we and you know i i think there's growing demand and growing
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discontent in the country for the direction that that this government has led the country our lack of
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resources going to market our high taxes are punishing carbon tax in particular and just a prime minister who
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doesn't come across as serious and you are in politics since so many years you saw under our
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per government now you saw trudeau and maybe now we see under polyeth government and his father when my
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dad was in parliament but you know i think justin trudeau has in fact surpassed his father in terms of
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the division and the derision and the anger and the destructive policies and the diminishing of
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canada's reputation i think he's outdone his father in terms of the damage that he has inflicted on
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canadians you know what it's good to be back at the conservative party convention talking to various mps
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and other party elders there were a few cowardly conservatives who ran away from alexa they didn't
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want to talk to rebel news but as i said to alexa that's uh should be a feather in her cap because i
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like it when politicians are a little bit scared of rebel news because that means we've got tough
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questions for them that they don't expect from the rest of the media and i think alex is doing a great
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job don't you anyways um so coming home from that convention you can imagine you have hundreds actually
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over a thousand consumers at that convention and then they go home so uh airlines sometimes add another
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flight and that was the case coming home from the convention there was an extra west jet flight that
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was almost all not completely all but overwhelmingly conservative party delegates that were coming
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home and west jet loved the business and it was sort of fun because it was you know if you've ever
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flown with a group of people you know it's a lot more fun so just for a lark uh pierre paulio the
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conservative leader made a 45 second comment on the airplane's pa system he uh got permission in advance
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for it he didn't just take the mic and talk and remember this is it wasn't quite a chartered flight
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but it was an extra flight put on for conservative delegates so people liked it they got a real kick
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out of it here it's just 45 seconds long take a listen hello everyone this is pierre paulio happy to
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join you for a wonderful western flight back in my hometown of calvary who's ready for a home you can afford
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who's ready to give a big thank you to the west jet pilots and crew
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this is your captain warning a little bit of turbulence but it will only last about two years
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and when shine we'll have a totally new crew and pilot in charge of the plane we'll pierce through the storm
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safely land in our home the country we know and love your home my home our home let's bring it home
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no big deal and by the way uh politicians of every stripe do this all the time
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uh here's omar al gabra the uh transport minister doing the same thing on some train remember this
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good afternoon uh my name is umar al gabra i am the federal minister of transport uh
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uh it's a pleasure uh joining you here this afternoon today on via i'm on my way to quebec city
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where i'll be making an exciting announcement where we are launching the procurement process for building
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a brand new dedicated line for a high frequency wheel that will connect to quebec city through montreal
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ottawa and toronto it will increase the speed of up to 200 kilometers an hour and increase frequency
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for passengers like yourselves and transform the connection between these cities so i'm really
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excited about this announcement and it's a pleasure being on board with you today i wish you a safe trip
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thank you thank you it's no big deal he's a transport minister you listen to him for a second and then
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you go back to things justin trudeau has done it too um but oh my god talk about a scandal uh the union
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that claims to represent west jet employees uh qp i don't know what they're doing representing west
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that says for a canadian union of public employees these are west jet uh staffers what's that got to
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do with qp they made a huge fuss about him um spoiler alert qp alberta is run by rachel notley's
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husband rachel notley the former ndp premier so this was just a political setup i couldn't help but notice
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that west jet union qp that was going to the mattresses on this it was so outraged by this
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they were the same qp union that didn't bat an eyelash did not oppose in any way the forced
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mandate that west jet employees had to get the jab to be fired so west jets useless union qp didn't lift
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a finger to protect their members from forced vaccinations but boy are they mad now because
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uh the leader of the opposition had a 45 second joke on a special flight that's just so gross but
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listen what are you going to do it's an ndp union making a fuss really who cares but look at this
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grossness this is from ctv news in calgary our reporter tyson fedor is hoping to speak to non-delegates
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aboard the west jet flight from quebec city to calgary that saw pierre paulieu speak on the pa system if you
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were please email him at tyson dot fedora bell media dot ca oh boy this i i smell a pulitzer prize
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here folks i mean this is investigative journalist at his best they don't want to talk to you if you
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liked it they don't want to talk to the vast majority of people on the plane who were conservative
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delegates but if you were on that plane and weren't a conservative ctv is pulling out all the stops we've
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got to talk to you we've got to keep this story going but look ctv is not really news and that story
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that tyson fedora is working on that's really not a news story that's a grant application from ctv
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to justin trudeau for another bailout of the media that's not news ctv's viewers are not saying yeah
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i want to talk to someone who was on that plane and had to listen for 45 seconds to peer paulieu but not
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someone who liked it i want to find someone who didn't like it that's really what this i've waited
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this is incredible news i could hardly with no one saying that this is not being done for the viewers
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of ctv of whom there are fewer and fewer every day this is being done for one viewer his name is
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justin trudeau um i should tell you that ctv news is sort of a fake company i mean it's real uh but it's
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a hobby for its owner ctv is owned by a massive mighty legacy monopoly called bce which stands for bell
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canada as you know bell used to be the telephone monopoly well they're no longer a monopoly but
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they're part of an oligopoly a handful of highly regulated companies that just make billions of
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dollars because they're sort of like public utilities they get all sorts of rules in their favor
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it's one of the reasons why canadians pay the highest cell phone prices in the world canadian cell
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phone bills are literally the highest in the world we pay the most for data we pay the most for roaming
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we pay the most anywhere in the world because we have this oligopoly and that's the business that bce
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is in bell canada they have ctv news but it doesn't make them any money they don't even really care
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about it this morning i read bell canada's quarterly report to shareholders and i did a word search in there
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ctv news isn't mentioned at all actually ctv is mentioned one time the word ctv is mentioned one
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time in passing in a 60 page report to shareholders it is irrelevant even the company doesn't care about
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it they just laid off 1300 staff on the tv and news side they're they're selling or literally shutting down
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nine radio stations they don't care about the news at bell canada the only thing they care about
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is where their money comes from their cell phone and their cable monopoly which is extremely carefully
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regulated by trudeau's hand-picked crtc um you know so ctv news even though it looks very fancy and
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very authoritative it's not about the news and it's not even about making money it's a kind of bargaining chip
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for bell's core business which is cell phone rates and cable rates because they are regulated by
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trudeau and trudeau gives bell canada sweetheart deal so understand this ctv news does not make money
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ctv news is not real news ctv news is bell canada's way of sucking up to trudeau so that their real
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business is charging extortionate cable and cell phones can continue to flow that's if you if you look
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at ctv news through that lens it all starts to make sense so don't look at tyson fedora and this
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fake story about were you on the airplane and upset don't look at this real news company that's not how
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they see themselves they're fluffers for justin trudeau that's the errand that tyson fedora is on
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and it's just one more reason that you should despise the raging media and never trust them stay with us our
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well we're in the home stretch now we've been out of the country for about ten and a half days if my
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math is right an interesting trip following the abraham accords we started in israel toured around
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that country met with some of the architects of that international peace treaty and then we came here
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the united arab emirates were standing in dubai today but earlier we were in abu adabi
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the capital city where we saw some amazing things and my friend sheila gun reid was with us the whole
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time it's both david menzi's avi yamini and others uh it was really fun it was really educational and of
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course we brought along about 40 of our most enthusiastic rebel viewers and so we traveled around
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out of the big tour bus and we heard these speakers and we saw these sites together now we're all headed
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home now and uh but we've seen some interesting things i want to talk about sheila about it sheila
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agreed to see you thanks for giving up 10 days away from home away from your family to hang out
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with me and the 40 rebels i would have missed it for anything well it was very interesting you've come
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to israel before but this is your first time you've been to the united arab emirates and it's a
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dictatorship it's a benign dictatorship it reminds me a bit of singapore and how hong kong used to be
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law you know there's the rule of law in fact some parts of the uae they use the british legal system
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and it's one of the reasons why united ever emirates is succeeding economically as they have adopted many
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western norms but at the end of the day it is a dictatorship but it is a dictatorship that has
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decided to modernize become progressive and to make peace with an eternal enemy the jewish state
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what did you think about what we saw here in the uae you know i had lots of opinions about the things
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that i saw but even this hotel itself where we're staying it serves kosher food and the hotel manager
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is a palestinian christian from bethlehem a woman who's in charge of this hotel and it's like this
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hotel itself is a microcosm of the success of the abraham accords um today we went to see the
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abrahamic friendship center i think we've all called it a different name the entire time that we were here
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but as everyone was sort of poking around we had some free time i ran back to the catholic church just to
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have a few minutes alone and as i was sitting there with my rosary beads in my hand a couple came in
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in islamic garb the woman in full black the man in all white everybody's covered up and they stood there
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in front of the altar looking at the virgin mary and i would like it it's an image that i saw that i
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thought i would never see in my lifetime it was almost disorienting how strange it was but apparently it's
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quite normal now these days here in in dubai and it is directly related to prime minister or prime
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minister trump president trump's philosophy that so much of the economic ties with the middle east
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with the united states must go through jerusalem you know it was amazing you know there are emirates
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bahrain morocco sudan kosovo these are muslim countries that have decided to make peace donald
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trump deserved a nobel peace prize but of course they're too political to give it to him but it was
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quite something to see and you know this abraham family center friendship center i keep forgetting
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what it's exactly called it's enormous it is absolutely gorgeous but one thing that i notice is
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is high security you have to go through airport style security to get in there there's security guards
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security cameras and our tour guide said please don't film me and i thought a lot of people are
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really pleased with what united arab america is doing but there are a lot of people who must
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hate it who must want to destroy it sabotage it maybe even god forbid assassinate the leader of
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this country because if you are such a prominent like everyone in the world has heard about dubai
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and everyone has heard that it's exciting and it's a land of the future and success and it
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and it really is a a wonderful experiment gone right and a lot of people would say i don't want
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them to normalize the jewish state i don't want them to set an example of peace and friendship we
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must stop this so we're excited to see it i mean to see a jewish synagogue in a muslim country is just
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astounding it can't be easy for a muslim leader to do this i don't think it is and i think that it
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dubai itself dispels the idea that um that the muslim culture is incompatible with uh prosperity and
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business and human rights um you know as i said they're the the uh hotel manager here's a woman
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as a woman i never you know felt threatened out on the street i was out pretty late last night
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just wandering around because that was the only time that it was cool enough to go out i i didn't
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have to be all covered up i only had to be covered up when i went to the mosque today um and so for
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other muslim leaders of the world that are poor impoverished um and are spending all their money
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on terrorism and oppressing their people dubai shows that there's another way forward while
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maintaining muslim culture yeah it's very interesting perhaps the most astonishing thing
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i saw in our uae um few days was a holocaust museum now we went to the world's largest holocaust
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museum in israel called yad vashem obviously this one in dubai was sort of mini but it was a real thing
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and it was official and it was proud and it had the blessing of the government
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and it was it was just new so i mean obviously it's not going to be massive and mighty but uh but
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for a muslim country to say not only are we not anti-semites not only are we not holocaust deniers we are
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going to explain and lament the holocaust and teach foreign and domestic people alike and we're good
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and it was but that is stunning to me that a muslim man in a muslim country would set up a museum
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about the holocaust to to teach the truth and the lessons of it unbelievable to me that place blew my
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mind it was the museum of the crossroads of civilization and it's a private museum the things
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we saw there and as a christian seeing a pre-schism bible that's something i could only imagine seeing
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that would be behind the walls somewhere in the vatican hidden away from uh the eyes of the public
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forever just because it's so important and he had it there and he also had an entire section
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dedicated to reminding muslims that the jews have also always been in israel he made it a very a very
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strong point that the jews have all always been there arabs are also there too and it wasn't always
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so contentious as it is now and i i just thought it was fascinating and wonderful his dedication to
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uh telling stories that we don't hear i was talking to kian simoni behind the camera the amount of
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stories that he had of arabs who risked everything to save christians and to save jews during the
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holocaust blew me away but you know like he really was committed to telling those stories because we
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don't hear about that in school at all you know a couple days ago i i talked with joel pollack about
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some of the things we had seen and we were standing in front of a mosque and i didn't feel threatened
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by it i didn't feel hated by it in fact for the first time in my life i felt curious and appreciative
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of the ornate architecture and because the the antagonism the psychological antagonism is being
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removed we were walking on as a group to the burj khalifa that's the tallest building in the world you
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can't go to dubai without seeing that and we were in the mall the rich khalifa is uh rooted in a large
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shopping mall and so we were walking sort of all 40 plus of us through the mall and by the way most
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people in dubai are not emirati citizens they're foreign workers whether they're from london or america
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or whether they're more blue collar workers often from india pakistan thailand philippines whatever
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so one fella comes up to me and says who are you who are you in this march and i told him i said
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we're from canada and we're he said what are you doing i said we're here to look at the abraham
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accords peace between israel and the united like i just in very plain language i answered him and he
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sort of walked alongside he's from pakistan which is not a particularly pro-jewish country
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and and he was asking questions and he didn't have really anything he's just listening listening
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listening and this idea he you could see he was sort of osmosing it because united emirants if
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if the vast majority of people here from other places they're here under sort of a bargain the
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bargain is get with the sheik's program get with the emir's program and build a new society that is
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not hateful not terroristic that is open to all there are some rules for sure you know um i mean
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don't violate those rules don't there i i learned on our way in if you have a if your gender is x on
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your passport you ain't getting into your age do you know i scarce i i think i saw one cop the whole
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time that we were here i was sort of looking to see like what is the police presence at i saw one and
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he wasn't doing policing he was helping a car broken down on the side of the road i saw that guy too and
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you're so right but everyone here knows they're part of a great experiment and it's part of a bargain
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so that i'm i guess i'm prejudging that guy from pakistan but i'm guessing if i were in pakistan
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with 40 pro israel people he might have had something different to say but here in dubai
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he knows that's this is the kind of place where you have to accept other people and i think that they
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this is a crucible i think they're inventing something new here and i think it's actually
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wonderful and as a jew it is such a feeling of healing to go to a muslim country and to be
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welcomed and we we had dinner with a chabad rabbi chabad rabbis are very observant jews and they go to
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far-flung places in the world um to serve remote communities i mean they're the chabad synagogues in new
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york and chicago but they're also you know in the arctic or or in africa so um he said and i
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absolutely believe him he said he is never once and he's visibly jewish because he's got the yarmulke
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and he dresses a certain way he says never once in all his time in dubai and i think he said he's been
00:31:19.200
here for five or six years something never once has he had an anti-semitic action or comment but he
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said when he goes back to new york he does people shout at him like various anti-semitism i mean look
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i'll tell you one thing you don't walk around with the yarmulke in in at night in parts of paris i'll
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tell you that and yet here in this muslim country called uh jubai in the united arab emirates he said
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he's had no problems look i'll put it to you this way there are places in israel that jews can't go
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where they don't permit themselves to go just the interest in the interest of anti-incitement you know
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like the temple mount when we were on the temple mount the religious jews and the secular jews
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needed a police escort um and those were israeli police escort and it wasn't to to stop them from
00:32:07.840
you know being attacked it was to prevent them from praying because praying might incite people
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to inspire violence against them so you know for him to say that i've never felt an anti-semitic moment
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here that that's much different than it is even in parts of israel and in places controlled by the
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palestinians but kian and i you know like i wondered where did all these filipinos go to church um
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because the philippines is a very catholic country there's filipino foreign workers all over the place
00:32:38.560
here and so i googled catholic church near me there's a ton of catholic churches here well-established catholic
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churches um so this really is a place of pluralism yeah it's incredible well we've had an interesting
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time for sure i uh i was away for a long time we were all away for a long time and that's a little
00:32:57.760
bit hard to bear when when we've got stuff cooking back home so i'm grateful the team back home
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for example the team that was covering the tamara leach trial all week when we were here
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the timing was just coincidental that literally the first day of the trial was the day we left on the
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strip but i feel like it's been in good hands with robert crachuk and lincoln jay uh by the
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way when we come back to town boy there's a lot of stuff cooking monday i'll be in lethbridge for
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arthur pavlovsky sentencing tuesday i'll be in calgary on the calgary police service matter i mentioned
00:33:26.640
the other day wednesday derek reimer's prosecution begins in calgary he's the christian pastor who was
00:33:33.200
arrested uh for protesting peacefully outside of drag queen story hour thursday i'm on trial again
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in toronto for my book the labranos elections canada and i are tussling in court so it just
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does not end i'm coming back to a very busy week thank you for your support if you want to hang out
00:33:50.480
with us and i think it was fun so much um we're doing a trip in march which is not that far away
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it's just six months from now we're setting sail out of fort lauderdale for a one-week tour of the
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caribbean uh we're going to the bahamas cayman islands cozumel uh the jamaica because mexico and
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jamaica if i'm pronouncing that right which is um and it's not as far it's not as hard to get to
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fort lauderdale as it is to get to israel to buy it so you know three hour flight from toronto four
00:34:20.160
hour flight from calgary uh it's it's less expensive obviously than this and it's less it's it's not as long
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so and oh and tamara leach coming so you got to be there go to rebelnewscruise.com it's fun i need
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a vacation from this trip but we'll see you there if you can make it that's our story for today sheila
00:34:40.400
great to see you thanks boss from uh here in dubai to you at home on behalf of all of us at rebel news