EZRA LEVANT： CBC’s ombudsman criticizes their journalists for smearing conservatives as 'far-right conspiracy theorists'
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The CBC rebukes itself for labeling its enemies far-right conspiracy theories It s quite something. We ll also have an update from the streets of Israel where our reporter Avi Amini is covering the war, and finally, a lengthy letter from Maxime Bernier that touches on our show yesterday. That s all ahead.
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Hello, my friends. Today's show, we're going to talk about the CBC rebuking itself for labeling
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its enemies far-right conspiracy theories. It's quite something. We'll also have an update from
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the streets of Israel, where our reporter Avi Amini is covering the war. And finally,
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a lengthy letter from Maxime Bernier that touches on our show yesterday. That's all ahead. But first,
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Tonight, the CBC's own ombudsman criticizes their journalists for smearing conservatives as
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far-right conspiracy theorists. It's October 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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You're ready for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!
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You know, we hear a lot about the phrase misinformation, disinformation, fact-checkers.
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You almost always hear those words from governments or government-affiliated media.
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That's another way of saying we are the arbiters of what's right. You aren't. And if we have a
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difference of opinion, you're the one who's wrong. And it's science because we fact-check you.
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It's been such a revelation for those who didn't know, or a confirmation for those who did know,
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to watch the government-affiliated, government-bailed-out media commit the most disinformation
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about the war in the Middle East. For example, they refuse to say the word terrorist when describing
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the Hamas terrorist group. But it's not a matter of opinion. They do terrorist things. It is their
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modus operandi, but more to the point, they are legally designated a terrorist group on the official
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list published by the government of Canada. That list is there for a reason, because if something
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is deemed a terrorist organization, the criminal code applies to certain support for it. If you
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fundraise, if you support in other ways, if you travel to help them, those are all crimes that only
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apply to registered listed terrorist groups like Hamas. Isn't it funny then? And that's the one group
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they won't say it about. They also, and this is in a CBC memo instructing their reporters not to say
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terrorists, they won't say that Gaza, from where Hamas launches its attacks on Israel, Gaza was
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de-occupied by Israel in 2005. It's been almost 20 years since the last Israelis set foot there.
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Not only did they move all the Israeli citizens out, they literally dug up the graveyards to remove
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the remains of the Jews in the cemetery back to Israel, because they knew Hamas would desecrate it.
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There was not a single Jew in Gaza. It's what Hitler would call Judenrein, Jew clean, Jew free.
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And yet, instead of turning it into their own Arabian version of, I don't know, Arabia is Dubai.
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Instead of a Dubai or a Singapore or a Hong Kong, I mean, think about it, a city of two million on
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the Mediterranean coast, near Israel, across the sea from Greece, Italy, instead of turning that into
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an amazing place, they turned it into a terrorist base camp. But the CBC will not let reporters let
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you know that. I saw this incredible phrasing in a series of CBC headlines, tweets, and
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articles. They said that some people, quote, died in the conflict, as if they were just using that
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passive anonymous voice. They later made a fake correction, claiming the only reason they said
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that, because all the facts were not out yet, but that's a lie. I saw yesterday, Global News,
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British Columbia, said that today was Hamas's, quote, day of action. But Hamas never said that.
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I went back and I re-watched the announcement, translated from Arabic, that Hamas made. And
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today, indeed, was a day, depending on how you translate it, a day of rage or a day of
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jihad. But Global News changed that. It wasn't an accident. They literally changed it to day
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of action, because it sounds less terrorist-y than what they actually said. I say again, these
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journalists who were the first to call you factually wrong, first to fact-check you, to say you're a
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conspiracy theorist, that you're trading in misinformation, which is mistaken information,
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or disinformation, which is saying things incorrectly on purpose. They are the ones who did
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that. It is not an accident to change a translation. It's not an accident to order everyone in your
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company not to use the word terrorist. That is dictionary definition disinformation. Here's an
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interesting tweet I saw. The CBC does call some people terrorists. They love calling the Proud Boys
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terrorists. I don't think the Proud Boys have—I think they had one meeting in Canada. It's just
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a bunch of good boys who like drinking beer. They haven't engaged in terrorism. But the CBC will call
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their—them terrorists. They'll certainly call the January 6th Meanderers terrorists, but not actual
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terrorists. Which brings me to a story I saw the other day in Black Locks. You know what Black Locks
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is. It's one of the few independent media companies left in this country. Like us, they don't take any
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money from Trudeau. Here's their headline, Drop the Labels, CBC told. Oh, told by whom? The CBC should
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rethink news coverage that disparages cabinet critics as extreme or disreputable, warns the network
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ombudsman. The advisory follows a 2021 attempt by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to act as a
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political fact-checker. I will take this opportunity to stress to programmers at CBC they assume a great
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responsibility when they choose to use terms such as misinformation and disinformation in their stories,
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wrote ombudsman Jack Nagler. When they do so, they had better be right, because if it turns out down
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the road the information proved to be correct, they can do great damage to their reputation, unquote.
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Well, that's the thing. They don't care. They know that's their mission. They are on a mission for their
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paymaster, Justin Trudeau, and their own ideology. Damage to their reputation. What do they care? They get
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paid whether or not they have a reputation. They take $1.5 billion a year from our tax dollars. I'll keep
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going. CBC News should reconsider use of the term far-right in stories, added Nagler. Simple presentation of facts
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is preferable, so, quote, readers can judge for themselves who is reasonable and who is extreme, rather than
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declaring it for them. Wouldn't that be something if the CBC let you make up your own mind?
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Labels should be employed with great caution, Nagler wrote in a notice theory or conspiracy theory.
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Sometimes it would be safer to say there is no evidence for something rather than proclaiming
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it to be false. Yeah, I think that's right. The ombudsman's comments followed complaints over an
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August 2022 story by CBC Montreal reporter Jonathan Montpetit. The online article was
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headlined, Canada's convoy movement waved the Dutch flag. Then conspiracy theory swirled about fertilizer
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and bugs. It reported a document, quote, deliberate attempts to sow confusion about government policies by
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far-right media and conservative politicians. I'll just read a little bit more. The article named
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conservative MP Cheryl Gallant, Alberta Transport Minister Devin Drieschen, the Toronto Sun, the
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Western Standard, Rebel News Network, Farmers Forum, and the website Counter Signal. Look at this.
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None were asked for comment. Quote, didn't the CBC have an obligation to go interview people who
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support the convoy? Wrote ombudsman Nagler. Oh my God, if he keeps talking like that, I think he's going to get
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fired. The notice on labels followed Facebook Canada's naming of CBC News as a fact checker
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during the 2021 election. The network's French language service, Radio Canada, was to comment
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on the integrity of other media's campaign coverage. Do you get that? So the CBC would decide whether or
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not a story would get promoted or hidden on Facebook. They got paid to do that. Quote, when a fact checker
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rates a piece of content as false, we significantly reduce its distribution so that fewer people can
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see it. Facebook wrote in its 2021 Canadian election integrity initiative, we notify people who try to
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share the content or previously shared it, that the information is false. And we apply a warning label
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that links to the fact checker's article disproving the claim, unquote. So the CBC can censor their
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competition. Translation, Trudeau's CBC, Trudeau's state broadcaster can censor his critics. I'll read
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a little more. Catherine Tate, CEO of the CBC, in 2019 testimony of the Commons Heritage Committee,
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described the Crown broadcaster as a beacon for truth in a stormy sea of disinformation.
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Quote, how do you, how do we protect and defend our citizenry from this unbelievable tsunami
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of disinformation? In a sense, we become a beacon for truth, said Tate. We need the public to feel
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safe that we are a beacon for that truth. You know, every once in a while, I don't get it a lot now,
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but sometimes people say, Ezra, you should change the name of Rebel News. I don't like Rebel.
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Sounds wrong. You should go for truth news. You know, I appreciate people trying to help us out.
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We're not changing our name. I'll just give you the short answer there. But the longer answer is,
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look, if you got to say you're the truth news, that suggests that you aren't. It's like Justin
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Trudeau professing he's such a feminist. Yeah, we, most people who respect women don't go around
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telling everybody how much they respect women. It's probably him just getting out in front of his
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disrespect to them. But more to the point, I don't believe that we have a monopoly on truth.
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We like to tell the other side of the story and we have a motto, follow the facts wherever they
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lead. But I'm not saying that every single thing we say is correct. We make corrections from time to
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time. And a lot of the things we say are a point of view that we think is reasonable, but other
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people can hold an other reasonable or even an unreasonable point of view. I would never call
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our company truth news because I don't think I'm audacious enough to think that we are the only
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ones with the truth. But that is what the CBC just said. The CEO said, we are a beacon of truth.
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That beacon of truth that's being lying to you for the past week refuses to call Hamas terrorists
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and covers up disinformation wise, the truth of how Canadian murder victims of the terrorist group
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were killed. You know, it reminds me of one of Trudeau's buddies, Jacinda Ardern. Do you remember her
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early in the pandemic saying she's your one source source of truth? Remember this atrocious clip?
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We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as a source
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of that information. You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health.
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For that information, do feel free to visit at any time to clarify any rumor you may hear,
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COVID-19.govt.nz. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source
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of truth. We will provide information frequently. We will share everything we can, everything else you
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see, a grain of salt. Yeah, just unbelievable. Gee, I can't imagine why New Zealanders got sick of her.
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Here's the story that the ombudsman was criticizing originally. It's still on the website, which is
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incredible. It has not been corrected. It has not been taken down. What's the point of an ombudsman
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trashing a piece of journalism saying it's absolutely unethical? And then the CBC thing,
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thanks very much for your opinion. We're just going to keep it. Thank you very little.
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Let me read a little bit of it because Rebel News makes an appearance. Canada's convoy movement
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waved the Dutch flag. Then conspiracy theories swirled about fertilizer and bugs. Now, right away,
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you know that those are not conspiracy theories. If you watch our show, you know that there is a war
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on nitrogen. It's so bizarre. They, it's like they're trying to take elements out of the periodic
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table. You just can't. I mean, they have a war on carbon, which is bizarre. They want a war on
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nitrogen. Trudeau says so. And Holland has proceeded down that right route. Let me, let me get right into
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the article here. Far right media, conservative politicians stoking misinformation about an early
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plan to cut emissions. Far right. Hey, I got a question for you. Have you ever, I mean, think back,
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you've been watching the CBC for a while, likely. Have you ever heard them call anyone far left?
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And by the way, who's to say we're far right? What does that mean these days? If you ask me what we
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stand for, we stand for civil liberties and privacy and peace. Is that far right?
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Let me read a little bit of a passage from it to you. This is a little bit down in the story.
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Soon after, far right media outlets in Canada seized on the Dutch protests to promote conspiracy
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theories that reinforced anti-government ideologies. Many of these sites had already been sowing
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misinformation about food supply issues. So no facts are given. They're calling, uh, conservatives
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far right. They're saying they've sown conspiracy theories. No evidence given on that. They're just
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telling you. The Western Standard, a conservative publication based in Calgary, amplified in July,
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a conspiracy theory that claimed fires were being deliberately set at farms around the world to
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make populations more dependent on governments. The column, which was shared more than 450 times on
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Facebook to accounts totaling 136,000 followers, suggested that Global Plot was the real reason
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behind Ottawa's decision to help fund a cricket processing plant in London, Ontario, even though
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the facility mostly produces pet food. Let's stop there. We've done stories on that same thing.
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Hey guys, don't worry about the fact that they are making insect food for humans because
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mostly it's for pets. So if you say it's a food plant for people, that's a conspiracy theory because
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a lot of it's for your pets. No, that's not, that doesn't make it a conspiracy theory. Uh, it is a,
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an interesting fact that not all the food is for people, but it's not a conspiracy theory. Let me read a
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little bit more. I mean, my point there is that there's no fact checking here. It's just opinion.
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They're wrong. It's a conspiracy theory. But again, what is the Western Standard? I know those guys
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pretty well. How are they far right? Or hang on, are they far right or are they conservative? Because
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they said a bunch of far right media and then they called them conservative. Are they saying
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conservative equals far right? And I'll read some more from this bizarre article that in itself is
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disinformation. In the days that followed, Canada's far right media pushed more disinformation to
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their readers. Rebel News, for instance, claimed the Dutch government had pandered to the radical
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demands of the World Economic Forum. Okay. Of course we said that. And then look at what they did. Echoing
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a popular conspiracy theory that maintains the Swiss think tank is secretly forcing governments around
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the world to adopt left-wing policies. Hang on, hang on, hang on. I have never said that in my life.
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You've heard me talk about the World Economic Forum a hundred times. I don't see. How would they even
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force? Like, what does that even mean? But you'll notice we didn't say that. We said the government is
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pandering to them. That means doing things that they want that they shouldn't. As in the Canadian
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government, the Dutch government are doing things the World Economic Forum likes. You know what the word
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pandering means. I didn't say the World Economic Forum is forcing that. So you see what he said.
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He said, we echo a conspiracy theory of forcing. But we didn't echo. Echo is to repeat it. We didn't
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repeat it. He's lying. His fact check is factually inaccurate. I'll keep reading. Another far-right
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publication, The Counter Signal, recirculated the comments of a former far-right Dutch politician. Boy, he's
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laid in a lot of people far-right with no proof, no evidence. He's just saying it and you've got to
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believe it. Who falsely claimed the goal of the Dutch climate plan was to confiscate the farmer's land
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and then give it to the immigrants. Well, how do you know what the goal is? Different people can have
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different goals. That's a matter of opinion, not a matter of fact. And we never echoed or repeated
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or agreed with any of these weird claims. I can't speak for the Counter Signal and the Western Standard.
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But that line about the World Economic Forum secretly forcing people, that is disinformation
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from the CBC. You know, this is called a straw man argument. Have you ever heard that logical fallacy?
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We did not repeat a conspiracy theory. We didn't. So they said we echoed one, which is not true.
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Echoing is repeating. They just put in what they sort of wished we could say, wished we had said,
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so they could rebut us. But we didn't say it. They couldn't rebut what we said. We said they're
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pandering. They couldn't rebut that. That's true, or at least it's an opinion. So they put a straw man
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argument. Oh, this is sort of like that other thing that I saw somewhere that they're secretly
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forcing you. That's a straw man argument. Oh, and by the way, the leader of Holland,
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Holland, Mark Rutte, is a World Economic Forum member. And by the way, Klaus Schwab boasts
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about penetrating the cabinets. Remember this clip?
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We are very proud of now the young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina
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and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets. The idea that the CBC would fact check anyone
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is a laugh. I mean, they're called Proud Boys terrorists, but call Hamas militants at worst.
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That's the era we're in right now. And I believe that in the next election, fact checking will be
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the way that Justin Trudeau, not just Facebook, but Justin Trudeau orders internet sites like ours
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to be downranked, to be hidden. I've told you before about C11, which is now law. C11 gives Trudeau's
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CRTC the power to order any broadcaster, even online, like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok,
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Instagram, the power to order them to alter the discoverability of the news. That's the word right
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there in the law. In the past, it was just Facebook who you saw that would boost or throttle posts
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based on the CBC's fact checks of us. What a laugh. But now the government itself has the power to do
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that under Bill C11. I used to think that in some way the government would prosecute us or try to
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jail us or try and get a court order against us in some way. But I realized that's far too messy
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and it gives us far too many chances to beat them. No, what I think is going to happen is under C11
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and other internet censorship laws, Justin Trudeau will simply tell YouTube, Facebook, Twitter,
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et cetera, et cetera, to hide us just for discoverability algorithm reasons, to promote
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trusted news sources. He won't ban us. He'll just make it so no one sees us.
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Stay with us. Up next, the latest from Avi Yemini in Israel.
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Yeah, is there another long day here in Israel? Well, we're staying in Jerusalem because I think it's
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the safest place as they don't tend to target it with the rockets for a number of reasons. One,
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because 40% of the population here are Arabs. And secondly, there are a lot of sites they don't
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want to hit. But we head to the south and you can feel it immediately. It's a war zone. It's a war
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zone and I can't believe it. You know, for all the years that I've visited Israel, I've never seen
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the war zone inside the borders of Israel. And it was evident as we were reporting, we head towards
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BRM, which we tried to get in to show the world what, you know, the tragedy, the massacre that
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unfolded there, the aftermath of it, where people ironically went to celebrate a peace
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party close to the Gaza border. I think it's only a couple of Ks from the Gaza border.
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And we saw what unfolded there, Hamas coming in with paragliders and just massacred, butchering
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people, hundreds of people, raping him, kidnapping him, taking him back to Gaza. And as we got to the
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checkpoint to get in, you know, as we're waiting for permission, which we're still working on to
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actually go in there through our contacts. We interviewed a, I was interviewing a man there
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that's part of a civilian group that are, they've actually been part of the protest movement
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in the last couple of years, fighting the government. And he was explaining how, even though
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the left and right were so divided, which is this thing that we were talking about yesterday.
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Um, and he's very much from the left, anti the government. They've now taken that protest
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movement and they've, um, used that to try helping in their way, um, with the on the ground
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operations of, you know, helping civilians, helping people get out, uh, whatever it is, there's
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a whole range of things. Most of the guys are ex-military and a lot of them are, you know,
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high ranking officers. But anyways, while he was telling me what, what they're doing and,
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and what they're about and the history. And suddenly we hear a loud bang and it was a drone,
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not far, probably again, 150 meters from us, um, hit a, hit a targeting military, um, military
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personnel. Slightly shaken from the explosion, we waited a few moments until it seemed like
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the threat had passed and continued our interview. When suddenly shooting began.
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gunfire, gunfire, gunfire, gunfire. Gunfire. As we were trying to figure out what was happening
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ahead, I noticed a drone above and bolted for the bomb shelter nearby.
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from a shelter to actually get in there in time.
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and it does not look like it's settling down anytime soon.
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Inside that exclusion zone, 150 meters, like I said,
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from where we were, and as we're trying to figure out
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what was going on, and it seemed like the threat had passed,
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we just continued our interview, and then gunfire from the same space.
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And as that was unfolding, I look up and I can see a drone coming towards us,
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and we head straight to the bomb shelter, which was just a couple of meters from us,
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which unlike yesterday, yesterday when we heard the bangs,
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So in this case, we happened to be a couple of meters from a bomb shelter,
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and we got straight in there, took cover, waited for it to pass,
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and we could hear probably a minute or two later,
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forces in the fields across had, it seemed like, shot it down.
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But it really brought home the fact that we're in the middle of a war zone,
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trying to tell the truth, trying to show the world what's happening,
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but we've ordered body armor because it is scary.
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I'm not going to pretend like it's not scary, especially a drone.
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You know, rockets are one thing as scary as they are,
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but this drone where they've obviously got a camera on there,
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and they're looking for targets, and we're right there.
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So I don't know if there wasn't a bomb shelter,
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if we would have become the next target, don't know.
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So we have an ordered body armor, which is coming from America on Sunday,
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and I urge everyone to help us, whoever's interested, that likes
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and believes in our mission to head over to thetruthaboutthewar.com
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and chuck in a couple of bucks to help us cover them there.
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Not cheap, it costs us thousands of dollars just to cover that side of it,
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which is just one of the many expenses involved in this mission.
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But I think this mission is already a couple of days in,
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the ground incursion into Gaza is likely to start.
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but hopefully we'll have that little bit of protection
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to make ourselves and our families a little bit more comfortable
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with what we're doing, but I believe what we're doing is right.
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We thought that obviously Hamas called for a day of action,
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which is their terminology for jihad, for attacks.
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It seems that their calls for some reason didn't pan out here.
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So we actually headed to the old city of Jerusalem to see what,
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because usually that's where it would really kick off if it would kick off.
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And I've never seen the old city of Jerusalem so quiet.
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I believe that from what I understand that the groups that come,
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so we were expecting them to come out of Al-Aqsa Mosque
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That's traditionally what happens, but there wasn't anyone out there.
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I believe there's two factors that probably played a part in that.
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One is the fact that the city is so quiet that anyone there is there to cause trouble
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and it would be quite easy for police to manage.
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It was clear that they were expecting trouble or they were preparing for the worst.
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They were not willing to be taken off guard once again.
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But I also understand the other reason why people believe that there were no rights today
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is because of the heavy response over the last couple of days.
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a tactical decision was taken that a pizza shop that had made a meme
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mocking the kidnapped mother, they demolished the shop.
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It's possible in a couple of years that a person will go to the Supreme Court here
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when this war is all said and done and they may even potentially win.
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But I think from what I understand, the tactical decision to do that is to send a message
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So you have the Israeli Arabs and you also have within the East Jerusalem,
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you have the Palestinians there that, like in this case, could riot,
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could spark up another front, sending them a message that we're not messing around now.
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This is not a time to open another front because we are going to come down harder
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We've come back here and here I am talking to you.
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We do it all again and hopefully on Sunday those vests arrive.
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and I want to thank everyone that's helping us make this happen
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because without you, the viewers, I can't be here.
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but just knowing that we have you guys at home there supporting us
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And by the way, we hope to have a bulletproof vest for him and Benji
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It was hard to find one, as you can probably imagine.
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Anyways, as you know, I did my show the other day on Maxime Bernier.
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because I wanted to talk to him about these things.
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But he said he didn't want to, but he sent me a private message.
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And I asked him if I could read it on the show.
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So let me read to you Maxime Bernier's response
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Hi, Anesra, I think you misunderstand my statement.
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calling for murdering Palestinians at hate rallies.
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So I'm talking about those who are bringing this conflict here,
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Well, my reaction is, then why didn't he say so?
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Because he was conflating the murderers and the victims in his statements.
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but it doesn't take too long for this to change,
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as we saw with Ukraine or with Iraq and Afghanistan 20 years ago.
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Hey, Canada, can you help us with troops or money or anything?
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I think Israel's been around for about 75 years.
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I abhor all forms of violence against civilians,
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there are atrocities committed almost every day somewhere in the world,
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or is pressuring me to show empathy and take side in a foreign conflict,
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even though there are surely some Canadians who came from these areas.
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but this is not just some run-of-the-mill moment.
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and the fact that it is shaping foreign affairs
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and frankly causing roiling our institutions in the country.
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the Air Canada pilot who supports Hamas terrorists,
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the Toronto police who support Hamas terrorists.
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I would stop commenting with thoughts and prayers
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every time something horrible happens in another country,
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to see who is the fastest to tweet in the strongest words.
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when I said nothing after the Christchurch massacre,
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to push his narrative about Islamophobia and white supremacy.
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I don't see any reason to change this rule now.
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My only concern is to keep Canada out of this conflict.
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about who is good, bad, really, really bad, why,
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I'm telling you that the crisis is here in Canada
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when you have thousands of pro-Hamas people rallying
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shouting intifada, which means race, riots, pogrom,
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When you have Jewish kids being threatened in Toronto
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and if I was worried about being shoved off the map
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that he will reduce immigration by a single number.