EZRA LEVANT ｜ Giorgia Meloni's win in Italy sets off the left, while Pierre Poilievre is on the rise in Canada
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Our friend Manny Montenegro joins us live via Skype from Ottawa to talk about the new Prime Minister of Italy, Giudice Maloney, and why she's not Justin Trudeau's choice for the next prime minister of Canada.
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Tonight, Italy has a new prime minister that the liberals all hate. And can Pierre Paulyev win?
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It's a feature interview with our friend Manny Montenegrino. It's September 29th,
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There's a lot going on in the world, a lot going on here in Canada. One of my favorite guys to talk
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to. He's got a very clever mind. He's a great analyst. He's got a legal way of thinking, but
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he's also very political. You know, he's been a lawyer to political leaders, including
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former prime minister Stephen Harper. I love talking to Manny Montenegrino. He's the boss of
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ThinkSharp in Ottawa. But I always have to make sure we take our time because there's so much we cover.
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We can't just fit it in, the 15-minute interview. So today, what a delight to have for our entire
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show, my friend Manny Montenegrino, joining us live via Skype from Ottawa. Manny, great to see you
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again. Great to be with you, Ezra, as always. Well, I love it when you come on the show, and I thank you
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for your time. I want to talk about something that's close to my heart as a super fan of Italy. You know,
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I was born Jewish. I like being Jewish. But if I had to be any other background, I would want to be
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Italian. I love the country, the people, the food, the music, everything. And God bless the Italians
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who have shaped the world in so many ways. And Italy just elected its first female prime minister,
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Georgia Maloney. And I don't know that much about her, but I like what I see. Italy's a G7 country.
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They're a NATO ally. There's a million and a half or more Italian Canadians. Like, Italy and Canada
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are friends. But Manny, Justin Trudeau refuses to issue even the most perfunctory congratulations to
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her winning. Like, she's a female leader. You'd think that would be his bailiwick, but he is treating
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her. He's ghosting her. He's giving her the cold shoulder. I find that shocking. Yeah, no, so do I.
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I mean, I'm extremely disappointed. But it tells you the true nature of who Justin Trudeau is.
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He is a very vindictive, divisive human being. If you do not align with his personal principles,
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you do not exist. He will ghost you. He will completely ignore you. And Ezra, we've seen this
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for years with this guy, this vindictive, hateful prime minister. Black Lives Matter. Now, remember
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that protest. This was during a pandemic where people, we weren't even allowed out. It was the
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worst of times during this pandemic. He sat there, went and met with him. Forget the health rules,
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forget everything. He's aligned with that value. He knelt with him. And that's who, if you are on
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Justin Trudeau's bandwidth, you are going to get royal treatment. Now, compare that with the
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truckers, who he once called, only a year and a half ago, he called truckers essential workers.
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These are our heroes. We need them. We love them. They're bringing our food and everything to us.
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And then a year later, because they wanted to stop this very vindictive policy. Imagine putting in a new
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health policy for COVID when we were at the tail end and about to release it all. He puts this
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vindictive policy and he wouldn't meet with them for a second. That tells you who he is. Now, the new
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Italian PM is very oppressive. She's basically going back to core values. And, you know, Italy has
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done a lot in the years being progressive and moving on to its progressive values. And it hasn't worked
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well. I mean, it works well with elites, but not to the people on the street, Italians. And so, yeah,
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we have a change in government. She's a wonderful woman. I mean, I mean, again, the fact that Trudeau
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will not say anything about her goes, goes back to his, I will call him a, a, a huge misogynist.
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Why would I, why would I say that? Not because, because of facts. You might recall that he sexually
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assaulted Rose Knight, the reporter. Right. I mean, that was, that was admitted.
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And then he said that she experienced it differently. Right. Like she had an awful, he had an awful
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excuse for it. Yeah, of course, but he did. He sexually, and then the second thing, which
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was, I mean, I, I, I take, um, I kind of look at who our attorney generals are and, uh, uh,
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Judy, Jody Wilson-Roybo was an impressive attorney general, uh, a female indigenous woman. He
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just kicked you to the curb, very misogynist in his treatment, as well as he was with Philippot.
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And then we, we, we know about his misogyny. If, if women do not agree with him, then boom, he,
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they're done. So we've seen that, um, he talks the talk about women in policies, the whole liberal
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world, Hillary Clinton, everybody should be applauding that we finally have a PM, a PM and a, a
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female PM in a G seven country, but no, you know, just diplomatic protocol. Like the whole idea of
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having diplomats is that you still deal with each other, talk to each other, even if there's
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tensions. I mean, for heaven's sakes, um, we have diplomats in, in, in communist regimes like China.
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We, like, we actually never stopped dealing with China when they took those Canadians to Michael's
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hostage. If Trudeau will continue to do business with China when they were holding our hostage,
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but he won't even say congratulations. He wouldn't even say congratulations to the Italian people
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on a successful election. Like he just won't say anything. And I checked, I checked Trudeau's
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Twitter feed, the foreign affairs, Twitter feed, Melanie Jolie's Twitter feed, like not even
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acknowledging it. That's just pouty. And listen, this is a guy Trudeau who gave a beautiful eulogy
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for Fidel Castro, but he can't say a word about our G seven NATO ally, not even a perfunctory
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congratulations. I look forward to working with you though. We may have our differences. Our
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friendships are greater, like whatever. He won't even say that. He's like a pouty child. He's like a
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pouty teenager. Well, I think the biggest threat to a progressive, vacuous, um, you know, liberal
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that is all virtue signaling is a woman with conservative values that is well-spoken. And,
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and, and, and those are the biggest threats because, uh, very powerful. She's very powerful. You know,
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let's forget about the personalities. Let's just look at what's happened in Italy. I
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have a friend that just came back from Italy. Italians are paying a thousand euros for hydro per
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month. Their pension is a thousand 300 per month. Like, can we at least give the people of Italy
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some credit? They're saying we can't do this. We can't get on this road of progressism because we
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are literally dying. We are not going to survive the next tranche of these wonderful little experiments.
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that these millionaires and billionaires, uh, contrived. So it's fair that they're saying,
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well, we've had enough. I mean, Italians say, Hey, you know what? I mean, Italians are,
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you know, you can push them around a lot, but there's a point in time where they say, okay, basta,
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basta. And, uh, you know, and they say enough. And, and, and, and so where you have the Italian people
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saying, we can't, I mean, you look at, you look at the whole, the whole culture is under attack.
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I mean, we, as Canadians have to respect every other culture, except the Canadian culture.
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Italians have to respect, respect every other culture, except the Italian culture. And I tell
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you, the Italian culture is a pretty damn good culture. It's got a lot. And to see it be, you know,
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dismantled daily, uh, you know, Canada's culture is a wonderful culture, but we're only been around
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a hundred years or so, uh, to sit there and see the progressives destroying the family, you know,
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deal la familia, uh, you know, uh, uh, when, when you go after country, um, uh, families,
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I mean, families are important to Italians to sit there and say only five people can get together
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for Christmas on an arbitrary decision. The Italian family was under assault. So, you know,
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I mean, it's inevitable that they're going to ask for a new government and it's, it's nothing,
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you know, untoward many made me think of two videos I've watched recently by Georgia Maloney.
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The first one is where she talks about her values and her identity as a mother, as a wife,
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as a Christian, as an Italian. And I thought this kind of strong patriotic talk would have really
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resonated. Now, the left called that fascism, but they denounce everything as fascism. Here,
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watch Georgia Maloney really go through who she thinks she is and by expansion who she thinks Italians are.
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Look at this video. I thought it was beautiful.
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At the moment, there's what we do today. Why the family is a enemy?
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There is a unique answer to all these questions.
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Because everything that we define in this time is a enemy?
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Why would it be that we would not have an identity and that we would only be
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And then it's under attack to the national identity, it's under attack to the
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identity of religion, it's under attack to the identity of gender, it's under attack to the identity of
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family. I don't need to be Italian, Christian, mother, Christian...
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No, I need to be a citizen X, a gener X, a genitore 1 and 2, I need to be a number.
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Because if I'm only one number, when I don't get any identity, when I don't get any
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and you say, well, I'll be the perfect schiave in balia of the great financial speculation, the perfect consumator.
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And this is the reason for which today we are afraid.
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This is the reason for which today we are afraid.
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We don't want to be numbers, we will defend the value of human being, of every single human being,
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because each one of us has a unique and unique code and repetitive.
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We will defend ourselves, the Father and the family, who make so much shit to anyone.
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because we will never be schiave and simple consumers in balia of the financial speculation.
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But let me show you another video that goes to what you were talking about about poverty
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and how, you know, in many ways, Italy has not kept pace economically.
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And talk about how Italy's energy plans were stifled by European Union bosses.
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I could see why someone who feels like they didn't benefit from the last 20 years of globalism,
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Take a listen to Giorgia Maloney talk about the economy.
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Emanuel Macron ci ha definiti vomitevoli, shinichi, irresponsabili.
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E qui la stampa italiana a dire eh, hai visto che ha detto Macron che siamo irresponsabili.
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Irresponsabili Emanuel Macron sono quelli che hanno bombardato la Libia perché gli dava fastidio
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che l'Italia avesse un rapporto privilegiato in campo energetico con Gheddafi, esponendoci
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I cinici Emanuel Macron sono i francesi che mandano la Gendarmerie a rispedire indietro qualunque
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immigrato tenti di passare il confine a 20 miglia.
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Ma soprattutto, perché le cose vanno raccontate come si deve, vomitevole è chi come la Francia continua
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a sfruttare l'Africa stampando moneta per 14 nazioni africane sulle quali applica il signoraggio,
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facendo lavorare bambini nelle miniere, estraendo materie prime, come accade in Niger, dove la
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Francia estrae il 30% dell'uranio che gli serve a far camminare le centrali nucleari e
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Non ci venire a fare lezioni, Macron, perché l'Africa scappa da voi.
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E la soluzione non è spostare gli africani in Europa, è liberare l'Africa da certi europei.
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So that's a, you know what, she's attractive, she's energetic, she's passionate, she's patriotic,
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she's a fighter, not a wishy-washy woman, I think she's a hell of a presence.
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And, I don't know, but she's not, you know, a caricature.
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In her first day on the job she gave a shout out to Ukraine.
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So she's not some pro-Putin activist as someone accuser of.
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I think she's very interesting, I'd like to learn more about her.
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Yeah, you know, you forgot to add on your list.
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You know, Italian mothers, when you go too hard against who they are, their identity,
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you get a little bit of a fight back, and we should be getting a little bit of a fight back from all mothers.
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So she doesn't like to be that role, which in some people is the greatest role a woman can achieve,
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I mean, there's nothing greater that you can do than to create life.
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And to sit there and be demeaned, some mothers don't like that.
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And she seems to be one of those mothers that doesn't like that.
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You know, I'm enjoying getting to know her through her speeches, but let me show you something funny.
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I mean, I'm on Twitter, I use it to express myself, but I also use it to search things.
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You can search by video, you can search by image.
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If you go to Twitter.com and search for just the word Georgia Meloni and search for videos,
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I just tried it before we came on the show here.
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Twitter is banning the entire world from searching for Georgia Meloni videos.
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But I shouldn't be shocked if they kicked off Donald Trump.
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Of course they're going to kick off a foreign leader.
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I find that outrageous, but completely predictable.
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And no, the most anti-democratic people are the people on the left are liberals.
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Listen, I have, I, I, Trudeau has policies that I don't agree with.
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I mean, you look what's happening with in the United States.
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You know, they're going after Trump, like using all the full force of the law.
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And, and so, so they don't like the, and because the ideas are sound.
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What made a lot of these countries great are the values that she's now reinstating.
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I mean, when I came to Canada, it was God, country, family.
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You know, in 1959, we, we, it wasn't a, you know, we felt that we were a little more family Italians, but Canadian families were pretty, pretty, had a strong resolve.
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So, you know, Canada was not much different from a value system than, than Italy when I, when we immigrated in 59.
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The, the identity of the, so instead of being identified to these core values, now you must identify with these liberal values that unfortunately can't meet the test of time.
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I mean, if, if you were a feminist and you said, you know, only women should have the, you know, the, you know, on their, on, on, on their persons.
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I mean, we've, you know, so, so their values, unfortunately don't endure and because they don't endure, they're always in crisis.
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You know, I was going to ask you when you talked about Trudeau's vendettas, I know why he had a vendetta against the truckers.
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They, they caused people to wake up to the fact that not everyone was going on.
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It was, it was actually a very transformative moment.
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So I know why he has that vendetta, but I was thinking, why does he have a vendetta against Maloney?
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I'm sure he knows very little about her, but I don't think it's so much personal as he just despises all those things you listed.
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He's a globalist who believes in shutting down carbon, shutting down nitrogen.
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And she's a real person who cares about the poor.
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But not only that, Ezra, what's most important to a misogynist, misogynist like Trudeau, and I can prove if I were in a court and I had 12 jury members, I could prove that he's a misogynist.
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But most importantly to a misogynist liberal is those strong values, great oratory skills wrapped up in a woman is what destroys them the most.
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I mean, we can go back as far as Margaret Thatcher.
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Like, what they didn't like about her, the liberals, is that she's a woman.
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You can go after a man that has conservative values.
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It's pretty hard to use those tried and true lies against a woman.
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So they basically, the only thing they can do to stop her is to obliterate her and pretend she doesn't exist.
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Because, I mean, the very first, had he been a man and had he been saying the exact same words that she's been saying,
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they would then run up a few women saying, oh, he sexually assaulted me, he did this, and they would destroy him.
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Any woman, you know, and I assure you it's going to happen.
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The first, you know, in Canada, we had our first female prime minister was a conservative.
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America, their first female prime minister, president, will be a woman.
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And it will be a powerful person because they cannot be attacked using the same, you know, tried and true.
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Or, you know, so that's why she it's really the nature that the fact that she's a woman that that is saying these exact words.
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You mentioned Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott.
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He really doesn't do well with women who don't obey him.
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I remember the last time he had a pout over a foreign leader being elected was Jair Bolsonaro.
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And now Brazil doesn't have the same close ties with Canada that Italy does.
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We didn't have the same immigration from Brazil.
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It's we just don't have some of the similarities.
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It's a very large country economically, population wise resources to have that kind of a pout about major countries.
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I think this clip is from the G20 where Trudeau is looking around for anyone to make eye contact with him.
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And he sits down to Bolsonaro and Bolsonaro couldn't care less about Trudeau.
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Trudeau wanted to shake his hand and be cool when the cameras were on, but he wouldn't even send him a letter of congratulations.
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This first one is a montage put together by the Media Resource Center in the States,
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which is just different American TV hosts using almost the identical language to denounce Maloney.
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And I tell you, Manny, not a single one of these journalists had even heard the name Maloney the day before.
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But now they're so certain she's a neo-fascist.
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It was like they were reading from the same press release.
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Take a look at this two minutes of hate against Georgia Maloney.
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Voters in Italy tomorrow appear poised to make a hard right turn.
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The woman expected to become prime minister leads a party with roots in neo-fascism.
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The hallmarks of Italian fascism like this motto.
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A far-right political party whose roots go back to post-World War II neo-fascists.
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Far-right political party whose roots go back to post-World War II neo-fascists.
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Roots in Italy's 20th century neo-fascist movement.
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Maloney herself was a hardcore neo-fascist militant.
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Stunning because of Italy's disastrous history the last time a hard right party rose to power.
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The most far-right government in that country since Mussolini.
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A red flag, if there ever was one, says Edith Brook, a renowned poet and Holocaust survivor.
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Italy about to see the country's most right-wing government since World War II.
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Maloney's win will probably send alarm bells throughout Europe.
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You know, it's alarming to a lot of people around Europe.
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Italy is revered for its history, but not all of that history is beautiful.
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And many fear that one particularly ugly chapter could soon repeat itself.
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Someone who actually knows Georgia Maloney, who fought against her in politics, is an Italian politician by the name of Renzi.
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And CNN thought, oh, this is going to be great.
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But personally, frankly speaking, I was against Georgia Maloney.
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So, I'm not the best friend that we grew up together in politics.
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But we were, we are, and we'll be rivals always.
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At the same time, I think that is not a danger for Italian democracy.
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But the ideas are now there is a risk of fascism in Italy is absolutely a fake news.
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She won election, particularly because populism a lot of times won in Italy.
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So, they were hoping that he would say, oh, she's a fascist.
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Now, you would think that would be so instructive to the fake news media.
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Here you have her biggest opponent, a liberal in the Italian parliament, who says nothing.
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You would think that someone like Trudeau, someone like the fake news media, would say,
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well, that person is probably the most credible person about her personality.
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And we should give him the greatest weight because he's saying nothing but complimentary stuff about her.
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And she's nowhere near what the media or Trudeau is trying to do.
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And you would think that they would at least listen to somebody who's been on the ground, a liberal like them, and saying, you know what?
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She just has different values than I do, which is fine.
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I mean, this is what democracy, what I don't understand about the new liberal is they just hate the concept of democracy.
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Canada does very well when it has two different ideas to pick from, when the electric has two different ideas.
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I mean, you look at Cuba, you look at China, they don't do very well when they have nobody to pick from.
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So if liberalism works when conservatism fails, conservatism works when liberalism fails.
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And if you keep pushing that stone, we become a great country.
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To sit there and to demonize one half of the population, one half the ideas, it is just repugnant.
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Well, listen, I find Italy very interesting as a country.
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There's so many things to like about it, but I'm going to study their politics more closely
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if I can, if I'm ever allowed to search for videos from Giorgia Maloney.
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The Montenegro family might have to immigrate back to Italy.
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I mean, I introduced you as someone who knows law and politics here in Canada.
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You were the lawyer to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, for example.
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And we learn a lot about Trudeau and the media censorship through what's happened there.
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But I want to get back to Canada because that's where we both live and that's the country we love.
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I am cautiously optimistic about the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Polyev.
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And we haven't had you on since he became leader of the party.
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And I must say he won with a great majority on the first ballot, 68 percent and change on a ranked ballot, first ballot there that really took the air out of the balloon for those who would say, oh, the party's divided.
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And he won in almost every single district in the country.
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I think he won more than ninety nine percent of the district.
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Why don't you riff on Pierre Polyev for a while?
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I can tell you that he is extremely impressive, extremely knowledgeable.
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And there's one thing that Pierre I obviously Stephen Harper, in my opinion, was the best prime minister we ever had.
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And the reason why Pierre will do better is he's from a different age group who understands the media a lot more than we did 20 years ago or 15 years ago.
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We now know that the media acts very much like the enemy to conservatism, the enemy to idea.
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I mean, we just gave some examples where you can't even get a video of the newly elected PM, where the media simply creates a narrative for the liberals.
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And unless you understand and meet it, we don't do well.
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And that is the most impressive part about him is he understands that the media are not the friend.
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He would otherwise be the poster boy for the Liberal Party.
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Not because of his ideology, but because of what liberals always put forward.
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They always put forward concepts like a single mom, immigrants, refugees.
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Well, Pierre Polliver is an adopted child from a single mom.
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His parents that adopted him, God bless him, probably two wonderful people because they raised a wonderful boy, were teachers.
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Now, plus he married this wonderful woman from Venezuela.
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Just a lot of spunk and a lot of determination and a lot of love and a lot of openness in her heart.
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And here she is, an immigrant, a refugee, you know, marrying an adopted child that was raised by two teachers.
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That would be the poster person of of the Liberal Party.
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They would say, oh, my God, that's every he's everything we wanted.
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What they really choose all the time are the swamp are the millionaires.
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I mean, he hasn't worked a day in his life before he became a politician.
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So much privilege that he wore blackface five times or too many times to count.
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I mean, nothing but swamp and privilege like his whole 50 years of being.
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It is it is it is quite funny because you would think that if you just look on paper.
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Pierre should be getting 90 percent of the liberal votes if the liberals believed in the values that they talk about.
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You know, I think you zoomed in on two of his great strengths.
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One is he knows the media in twenty twenty two is not neutral.
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And more importantly, he knew he knows he can't win them over.
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If they're smiling at him, it's the smile of a crocodile.
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I think we should talk a little more about that.
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But the second thing and this is what hit me when I was there on that leadership night because I had read I'd seen little snippets of his wife.
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I had never really heard her give a speech and she can give a speech.
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Let me just play a little clip of her election night speech.
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I was born in Caracas, Venezuela and my family immigrated to Canada in 1995 in a working class neighborhood in the east end of Montreal.
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My father, he went from wearing business suits and managing a bank to jumping on the back of a pickup truck to collect fruits and vegetables because that's what he had to do to feed his family.
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The Galinda family present here tonight taught us hard work and that there is no greater dignity than to provide for your own family.
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Manny, you know, I don't want to pick on Sophie Trudeau because that's the spouse of a PM.
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She was touted as as, you know, a media personality in her own right.
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But very quickly, they pulled her out of the public sphere.
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is going to be a significant part of the campaign to reach out to new Canadians.
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I think she would probably be described as a visible minority.
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You know, I think that she will be a secret weapon and she will be deployed and I think she will have great success.
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And by the way, all of a sudden, Justin Trudeau looks not old, but let's just say he doesn't look young anymore.
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And, you know, Polyev and his wife are half a generation younger and they feel younger.
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The difference between the two wives, in my opinion, and it goes down to the difference between conservatism and liberalism.
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You when you listen to Pierre's wife speak, you see the true core values.
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And she, when she speaks, there's authenticity and credibility to her words.
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When you hear Sophie speak, it's kind of like a stage actress talking about things.
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And, you know, there isn't any veritas, there isn't any gravitas to her words.
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They're just words that are vacuous because if she truly believes in what she said, she could not be married to a man that has been fundamentally racist.
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You know, I can give you and I think we did a show on his racism, but his black face, you know, likening me immigrant from Italy to ISIS warriors that come back after killing.
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A little heckling out here, so appreciate you coming.
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I just want to know how your stance on ISIS is going to help Canadians in any way.
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I need to know how you're going to protect future Canadians like my young daughter and, you know, 10, 15, 20 years from now when you're letting people in with an ideology that just does not conform to what we're doing here.
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So, you know, I'd really like to know your take on things.
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No, I think that gives me an opportunity to talk about, first of all, the fact that one of the reasons Canada is successful as a country is because we have been open to people fleeing persecution, fleeing war zones, looking for a better life for themselves and their kids.
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That's been the story of this country from the time the first European settlers came to be received by Indigenous people.
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People were fleeing conflict, poverty, difficult situations, and came to Canada to build a better life for themselves.
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And successive waves of people have in every different time, every different wave.
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And when we welcomed in waves of refugees, whether it was the Ismaili refugees in the early 70s, whether it was the Vietnamese boat people in the early 80s,
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whether it was people fleeing the devastation of the Second World War from Southern Europe in the 50s and 60s,
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the Italian communities, the Greek communities, the Portuguese communities, and others.
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And there is a sense at one point that, okay, maybe now that's enough.
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Maybe we have just about all the diversity we can handle and we shouldn't have any more.
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Well, I can tell you, when Italian families settled in Montreal in the post-war years,
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they faced terrible discrimination and people who pushed back at them and said,
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No, no, no. You don't belong here. You don't speak English or French.
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Every wave of immigration has faced pushback because of how they dressed or how they sounded or what their belief was, what their religion was.
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And every wave of immigration has led to Canada being a better, stronger, more resilient, richer country.
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Well, they're not weird. I will never, you know, there's a line in The Godfather for the Italians that are watching.
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And The Godfather, they're from my home village, so we have a dialect.
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And when he made that parallel to my father, you know, it brings me to tears.
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This man that gave up his land, his language, his culture, because his family was dying in Italy after the war, gave up everything, came here, worked hard, broke his back in construction,
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raised five beautiful boys, always contributed to society, never even saw the shade of the law, and loved Canadian values.
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To liken him to an ISIS fighter who went and tried to kill Canadian troops and come home is something I will never forget.
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This man is racist. Trudeau has no concept what values are, what people are.
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He just judges them by either their skin color, or they came from a different place, so they must be the same person.
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When you listen to Sophie, I sit there and go, nothing she says is true, because why are you married to a racist?
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Look, he sexually assaulted a woman and basically blamed the reporter that she didn't quite understand that that wasn't sexual assault.
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So Sophie has to deal with a lot of things, but that's the liberal way.
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You basically have to deal with things that you say you believe, but you really don't believe.
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But you see the veritas from Pierre's wife, when she speaks, you know she's telling the truth.
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I remember when Stockwell Day became the new leader of what was then called the Canadian Alliance.
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And he had some pizzazz and he was a bit of a media sensation.
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And Jean Chrétien, being a wise old hound, thought, let's go to the election quick.
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If memory serves, he added, I don't know, six or so seats to the count.
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But Chrétien moving fast certainly wobbled Stockwell Day.
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Do you think that Justin Trudeau and his brain trust are saying we got to move quick before Pierre Pauliev defines himself?
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We got to move quick before the economy goes into a recession?
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I mean, he's probably getting advice because it's going to get worse and worse because we're going to see the strength of Pierre.
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The only difference is nobody knew who Stockwell Day was when Stock had a run at it.
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The media defined the politician back in the day.
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I mean, I can't tell you how many, you know, David Dukes were described as conservative leaders.
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I mean, you know the story with Preston Manning.
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And I remember reading the Globe and Mail headlines.
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And here I am, an immigrant, an Italian, a managing partner of a national law firm sitting behind Jean Chrétien's desk.
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And I knew, you know, the kind of spider senses.
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They can't do it with Pierre, because Pierre has been around a long time.
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And Pierre, but also Pierre knows that how to fight the media.
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Instead, you know, kind of like DeSantis in Florida, he understands the media.
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And in the moment, see, you know, Ezra, I'm a lawyer.
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I practiced in a big law firm for a long, long time.
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I had to get a law degree, which was pretty hard.
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And it's hard to be a lawyer because credibility is very important.
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The media, the general media, there's no requirement, no test.
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And the credibility for the media, now this is a profound statement, only exists because others give them credibility.
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And if you, once you strip away that, that gracious granting of credibility, these people are pretty base and pretty normal and pretty, pretty unimpressive.
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I've known a lot of media journalists who, if you take away the clout that they have in front of the national TV, these are not impressive human beings or really impressive thinking.
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There are, of course, there are a few exceptions, but they aren't.
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And if we get to understand that and what's happened in social media, everybody's starting to see it.
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I mean, they're starting to see, boy, this guy's embarrassing.
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Well, before, if we didn't know X, Y, Z, that person was a profound thinker, that media.
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So, so, so, so really, the moment we strip away the credibility from these people that are building a narrative that is not reported in news.
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I mean, in my opinion, the media have the greatest job.
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And, you know, they have probably the most important institution in a free democracy.
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But when they start driving a narrative, I mean, they're already lining up against this female Italian PM.
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I mean, wait a minute, you haven't even done any due diligence.
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We're lining up, we're lining up, you know, and we're seeing, we're seeing.
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So, the moment you stop giving these people credibility and you question them, like Trump started questioning, when he started questioning, they folded.
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DeSantis started questioning, where are you getting that premise from?
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Once you start removing the credibility that they get by nature that we're a polite society, we don't want to sit there and be unpolite.
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You know, let me add two things to what you just said.
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The first is, on his leadership election night, his campaign manager, Jenny Byrne, came up to us and said,
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just so you know, Pierre Polyev's not going to be doing any interviews tonight with any media.
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I like the fact that she could go over to say that.
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But I thought that was an excellent move because she knew that she could craft the message that he wanted to get out there.
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Like he just does like a three minutes on that or five minutes on that.
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I mean, he's just he's got a certain he's a good talker.
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And he knows he can get hundreds of thousands of views that he controls on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube.
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He doesn't have to submit to the CBC to get the word out.
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I'm amazed of President Trump, who probably was the greatest Twitter user out there.
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So his major skill is understanding energy and media and so on.
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He was getting out more messages than than the trillion dollar, you know, legacy media out there.
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That's why he's off Twitter, because it was so effective.
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I think Pierre understands that, you know, I mean, I look at my kids.
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I mean, I'm still stuck on CBC nightly news because I'm old.
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I mean, they get their news from somewhere else.
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You know, and my kids aren't even I mean, they're they're old now.
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But but so think about that next generation underneath the 20 year olds.
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They're not getting anything from the legacy media.
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And because your influence less and less, they've become more militant in their narrative more and more just to keep that last, you know, 60 year olds, you know, watching, you know, subscribing to their views.
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And the the once entrenched legacy media doesn't have a stranglehold on what is the truth.
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And it's interesting to talk about Pierre Pauly of Maloney.
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The polls showed that she was destined to win and the polls were correct.
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I think that the polls are showing that Pierre Pauly of is a real chance.
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Do you think he will win if you had to make a prediction today?
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Will Pierre Pauly of beat Justin Trudeau in the next election?
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And the reason why I say that it doesn't have to do with Pierre Pauly of Maloney.
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I mean, you know, like we're looking like I cannot believe like like Ezra, this runs deeply with me.
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I cannot believe that Canada's health care system is collapsing.
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We basically, you know, we're almost third world in our health care.
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I cannot believe that we can't afford to fill it up our tanks.
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I cannot like the average Canadian is saying, what price do we pay for for Trudeau's vanity projects?
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But but the average Canadian is we're taking like, you know, they are food prices are going up.
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You know, the liberals have done a job of destroying the the oil sands and oil industry in Canada.
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I mean, think about if we had a different mindset and we said, you know what?
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Oil is like there are there are eight billion people on this planet.
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One billion has decided, which is why I call the basic, you know, the white colonial countries have decided, well, we've had enough with fossil fuels.
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But there are about seven billion people on the planet, China, India, Africa.
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Our mortality rate, our our our lifespan is 56, 60 years old.
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We kind of want to be with where you were and fossil fuels are doing it.
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So the most racist thing, in my opinion, most greatest racist movement that there is in the world today is the global warming narrative.
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So imagine if Canada and not Russia, Saudi Arabia and other oil produced nations produce oil.
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You know, very environmentally sound ethically and all that.
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But we wouldn't have Saudi Arabia's putting a billion dollars to compete with the PGA.
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So, I mean, like Canada would actually have we would have a decent pension for elders.
00:53:07.900
They're starting to say, like, so it's not a Pierre Polivar or a Justin.
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It's like, can you give me back some of my life that I want to enjoy a bit?
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I'm prepared to be progressive and help people, but not to the extent that puts me to my knees.
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And the conversations are always so wide ranging.
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A little bit of politics, a little bit of law, a little bit of history, a little bit of geography.
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I haven't been able to leave the country in three years, but I'll hopefully have a chance.
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Well, it's always great to catch up with Manny.
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I'm excited by Georgia Maloney because it tells me that it is possible for a thoughtful conservative populist to win in Europe, despite censorship from social media giants.
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I know that in France, Facebook and Twitter and others have really worked hard to prop up Emmanuel Macron.
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They've tried that in other parts of Europe, too.
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I'm glad to see some parts can punch through because, boy, the stranglehold of communication these days is powerful.
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Of course, Justin Trudeau wants to throttle our Internet here, too.
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And of course, Pierre Polyev's greatest opponent is not the Liberal Party.
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It was the media party and they are out for blood.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:55:07.900
I'm on location at 3rd and Yesler in downtown Seattle.
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A shooting just occurred while I was one block away walking.
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And so I came to investigate what was going on.
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So I thought it would be a good time to ask what's going on in Seattle.
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Ask the public about if we have a public safety crisis and if we need to refund the police department.
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Police are looking for the person who shot a man in Pioneer Square, that man in critical condition at this point.
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If the mayor was here, what would you say to him?
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They need to get the homeless and get help for these people.
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And give them the option to either get help or send them away.
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There was a shooting that just occurred in broad daylight at 2 p.m.
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There's many things that happen here in broad daylight.
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I was walking down to the light rail on the elevator two months ago and I was attacked and I didn't do anything.
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Do you think that we have a public safety crisis in the city?
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Do you think we need to refund the police department?
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I think there's a stigma behind that whole defund the police.
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It means abolish the police and that's not what we should be doing.
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If that's just what it meant, then maybe it would be useful, but it's not.
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I think they're getting that figured out right now.
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They have defended them by more than 50 million.
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We don't have enough officers to even respond to normal calls.
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If city council was here right now, what would you say to them?
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What are your thoughts on them still not having open meetings to the public?
00:58:08.900
They're still claiming COVID and no one can address their concerns.
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Now this unfortunately has become Seattle's new normal following the defund the police movement in 2020.
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Just last month, the city recorded the highest number of fatal shootings in recent history.
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But the majority of city officials still refuse to acknowledge that their decisions created a severe public safety crisis.
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In 2020, city council proposed to defund the Seattle Police Department by more than 50%.
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And their war against police created a significant staffing crisis where more than 400 well-trained officers left the department since 2020.
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While Seattle's new mayor, Bruce Harrell, has been an advocate to restore public safety and there are plans in place to try to restore staffing levels with incentives,
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the majority of city council refuses to publicly acknowledge that their decision to defund the police severely impacted the community.
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In fact, some council members, such as Marxist Kishama Sawant, would still like to see police abolition despite the city hanging on by a thread.
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If you attempt again to overturn the Amazon tax, working people will go all out in the thousands to defeat you.
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Because you see, we are fighting for far more than this tax.
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We are preparing the ground for a different kind of society.
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And if you, Jeff Bezos, want to drive that process forward by lashing out against us in our modest demands, then so be it.
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Because we are coming for you and your rotten system.
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We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism, this police state.
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We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy and equality.