EZRA LEVANT ｜ Green Party leader Annamie Paul under attack by own party
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What's the deal with the Green Party of Canada? Is it a scandal, infighting, internal strife, or something else entirely? Or is it all a little bit of all of the above? And why are so many greens turning red with rage regarding it?
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tonight what's the deal with the green party of canada i'm david menzies this is friday
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july 23rd 2021 and this is the ezra levent show why should others go to jail when you're a biggest
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carbon consumer i know there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i
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have to say to the government but why i publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so
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as kermit the frog once crooned it's not easy being green just ask enemy paul the leader of the
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federal green party well for now at least enemy is under attack these days which isn't unusual when
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it comes to the blood sport that is politics it's just that the attacks are coming from within her
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own party mutiny style gee when was the last time we saw these sorts of shenanigans unfold in canadian
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politics actually i think it was back in january 2018 remember when crybaby patrick brown was ousted
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as leader of the ontario progressive conservative party well the party had no choice really other
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than to stage a palace coup after all brown had thrown social conservatives under the bus and then
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he threw fiscal conservatives under the bus and when there were no more conservatives to be thrown
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under the bus well guess what brown himself was thrown under the old greyhound by his own colleagues
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oh and then there were those allegations of sexual misconduct a couple hours ago i learned about
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troubling allegations about my conduct and character and i'm here tonight to address them
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first i want to say these allegations are false categorically untrue every one of them i will
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defend myself as hard as i can with all means at my disposal it's never okay it's never okay for
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anyone to feel they've been a victim of sexual harassment or feel threatened in any way let me make
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this clear a safe and respectful society is what we expect and deserve and no one appreciates that more
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than i do i've got two younger sisters who are my best friends i've grown up in a family that has taught
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me good values yeah right what followed next was this jabroni making a hasty retreat out of the rear
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stairwell of queen's park and into a salt-covered minivan it was a scene somewhat reminiscent of
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cersei's walk of shame in game of thrones now like i said tossing that narcissist brown upon the scrap heap
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of obsolescence was a necessity if the pcs wanted to actually win the 2018 election that is brown after all
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was a disaster in the making but enough about that lying liar loser because at a press conference last
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monday in toronto green party leader annie paul told reporters she hopes that those in the party who do
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not like her leadership will wait until quote a more appropriate time end quote in which to challenge
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her quote we see that we have candidates that are ready to get going and none of us need this
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distraction so i'm certainly hoping that this is the end of this end quote indeed according to media
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reports the green party's governing body was planning on holding a confidence vote on paul's leadership
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this would also entail reviewing her membership in the party but those plans were cancelled no doubt
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due to the looming federal election that seems very likely sometime in september and make no mistake
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this was not a complete victory for paul the green party executive fired the staff in paul's office
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and it did not release any funding to support her writing campaign gee what a fascinating election strategy
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yet the question is why why the acrimony why the infighting why this seeming hate on for miss paul
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now i did reach out to annie paul for an interview unfortunately she declined that's too bad
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especially since the unspoken reason why so many greens are turning red with rage
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regarding miss paul has everything to do with her opinions regarding midi's policy
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oh yes when tensions were hitting a boiling point with israel and hamas back in may
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paul issued a statement calling for a de-escalation and a return to dialogue that sounds rational but
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not to the progressive israel haters in the green party of which there appears to be many indeed
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there are also rumblings of full-out anti-semitism within the party and i think this hate really
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ramped up when word got out that enemy paul is wait for it jewish you know i bet many people
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green party members included had no idea about enemy paul's faith after all being female and black
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enemy was well on her way toward a royal flush in the identity politics card game but her being jewish
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and pro-israel ouch that's a bit of a setback isn't it well at least in the eyes of the uber
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progressives who make up the green party rank and file in fact green party frederickton mp jennica
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atwin bolted from the green party for the liberals last month saying that paul's statement regarding
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recent conflicts in the middle east were quote totally inadequate end quote i think atwin wanted
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miss paul to you know channel the el could slogan of from the river to the sea palestine will be free
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in other words wipe israel off the face of the planet i'm certain that would be a more adequate
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statement in the eyes of miss atwin yet not only does there appear to be a heap and helping of
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anti-semitism in the dna of the green party but there's also widespread speculation that former
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green party leader elizabeth may has not as the saying goes left the building that she is still a force
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behind the scenes ala that man behind the curtain in the wonderful wizard of oz now full disclosure i
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have zero evidence to prove that miss may is an anti-semite but i do have evidence to support that
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she has a thing for radical islam do you recall her outrageous rant in 2015 regarding canada's very
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own homegrown terrorist omar cotter oh it's one for the ages all right do you guys ever wake up
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with old theme songs from former black and white tv shows that you never thought your kids would ever
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see and they're running through your head like every now and then i wake up thinking about lisa you've
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got to wait lisa i wake up thinking about a horse is a horse of course of course this morning i wake up
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thinking this why am i thinking this do you guys wonder please hang on
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do you guys remember the theme song welcome back who knew cotter was spelled k-h-a-d-r welcome back
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omer cotter it matters to say it welcome back omer cotter you're home
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there's a lot unusual about your speech list but we're going to take off
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omer cotter you've got more class than the whole cabinet thank you can you believe that
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in may's view a murderer and an islamist terrorist has more effing class than the entire stephen
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harper cabinet so if liz is going to bat for an odious individual who surely fantasizes about
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israel being wiped off the map i think we can we might have a clear understanding of liz's
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mid-east policy oh but manzoid i can hear you yelling miss may was drunk as a skunk when she
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made those pro omar cotter statements perhaps but two years ago i asked her about those comments
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during a press conference after a federal leadership debate check it out
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miss may david menzies with rebel news miss may in 2015 you stated that convicted terrorist
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omar cotter had more class than the entire effing conservative cabinet under stephen harper do you
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still believe in 2019 that this convicted terrorist has more class than the entire conservative party
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under andrew sheer have you ever been to a press gallery dinner do you understand the concept
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of it being ridiculous with lots of humor i'm sorry that's not a real question oh sorry if this
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was an attempt at humor supplemental question do you think that the widow and the fatherless children
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and the fatherless children of christopher speer his murder victim do you think they found that funny
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miss may well she looked pretty sober to me that night and she doubled down on her pro
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omar comments what a nut now i would reach out to miss may for clarification but these days she's
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giving me the silent treatment last time i saw may she was in vancouver in october of 2019 check out
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the interaction oh miss may how you doing david menzies i i i got to ask you what happened on monday
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like if if climate change is such a big issue why is your party only three seats
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you're not on route to your uh dodge viper are you
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now to be fair may had her noise out of joint that day you see greta tunberg was in town
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to address a few thousand cultists about global warming or climate change or extinction or something
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so you can imagine how green with envy liz was given that this teenage weirdo from sweden
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was stealing all of liz's green thunder how dare you in any event just imagine you are anime paul
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trying to make a credible run at picking up seats for the green party and you have to contend with
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crazy liz doing backroom deals and green party members who are seemingly more concerned with the
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plight of hamas than they are with the environment oh and lest we forget and i had indeed forgotten
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there's former green party candidate monica schaefer marvelous monica ran for the green party in
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alberta's yellowhead writing in 2006 8 and 11 she's skilled with the violin we understand but
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what a bummer it was later discovered that monica is a holocaust denier can you believe it a holocaust
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denier somehow being attracted to the green party well knock me over with a feather by the way enemy paul
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has found out that she has few friends outside the green party too for example the other day the
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justin trudeau liberals held a national anti-semitism summit first enemy was not allowed to attend
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the optics were pretty putrid regarding that snub so the liberals reverse course well sort of
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check out enemy's tweet on the ground rules of her being permitted to attend the summit quote
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the government just sent a link for today's anti-semitism summit i can observe but i can't
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speak reason to ensure the summit remains a space where community members can express their opinions
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and ideas i am jewish this is my community then again why would justin trudeau want a bonafide black
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female to ascend to attend such a summit after all doesn't he already have both of those bases
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covered off justin identifies as a feminist even though there are plenty of females out there who
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would take issue with that descriptor as for skin tone justin merely has to tiptoe over to the trick
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tickle trunk and get reunited with that jar of blackface makeup so in a sense there was kind of
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sort of already a black female attending that summit wasn't there but now this justin looks like the
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mutiny against annie paul is back on big time the green party is taking her to court the party wants
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to overturn the arbitration that canceled the confidence vote and membership review it sounds
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so surreal so incredible that on the eve of an election a party leader's biggest battle would appear
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to be with members of our own party rather than with other political parties we just had to see
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this lawsuit for ourselves so yesterday our lawyers sent a process server to acquire a copy of these
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documents which were filed wednesday in toronto in the ontario superior court of justice and these
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documents are nothing short of fascinating given that they clearly show miss paul the leader of the
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green party of canada is not only being sued by the green party of canada but also the party's
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fundraising arm the green party fund of canada these documents clearly indicate that the green party and
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the green party fund are jointly seeking to overturn an impartial arbiters decision arguing he exceeded his
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authority in require in requiring party executives to cancel their non-confidence vote against paul
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as well as well as a review of her party membership what's more the documents state that paul's employment
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contract was with the green fund a separate legal intended entity that controls the party finances as
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opposed to the green party therefore the suit argues that the arbitrator erred in law because he had
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no authority to impose a contract on the party itself bottom line the documents clearly indicate that the
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green party is at war with itself it's kind of like what would have been the case in ontario during the
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2018 election campaign if patrick brown was allowed to remain on as leader of the pc party the only difference
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is being that brown deserved to be ousted given his actions prove that he was really a closet liberal
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whereas in my opinion enemy paul does not deserve to be removed given that her only sin is that she is
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simply too pro-israel she is you know just a little too jewy if she really wanted to curry favor with her party
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she would reimagine herself as an israel hating atheist promoting the bds movement oh the progressives
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just love those kind of cats but turmoil aside my open question to miss paul is simply this
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why would you even want to lead this pathetic band of anti-semitic scoundrels in the first place
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why do you want to be the leader of a party that still seems to be beholden to crazy elizabeth may
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and where is miss may in all of this drama well yesterday was the official launch of enemy's
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campaign in toronto and she put on a brave face given all the theatrics and distractions
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and a ctv report elizabeth may had this to say quote our leader is enemy paul and only our members have
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authority to call that into question end quote wow what an endorsement day oh well let's look on
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the bright side at least crazy liz didn't put forth the idea that omer cotter should be the new leader of
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the green party and don't think that's so outrageous i think at this stage cotter would actually have more
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support than paul in terms of what the green party rank and file have to say i mean at least little
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omar is on the right side of progressive policy at least regarding israel as for miss paul i would
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move on from this grotesque dumpster fire in a heartbeat the green party simply doesn't deserve
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miss paul rather than the other way around or put another way to paraphrase elizabeth may herself
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circa 2015 anime paul you have more effing class than the entire green party combined
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well as an increasing number of businesses are requiring staff and clients to get
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double vaccinated the fearless boxing club in toronto makes for a horse of a different color
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which is to say if you have been vaccinated for covid 19 you are persona non grata at this fitness
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facility that's right if you've been double vaxxed you'll have to go elsewhere if you plan on
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floating like a butterfly and or stinging like a bee and i'm joined now by andrew lawton of true north
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who recently penned a story about a business that would seem to be unique when it comes to its
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vaccination policy welcome to the ezra levant show andrew hey it's good to be with you david
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it's always a pleasure my friend so andrew the first question is obvious why does the gym's co-founder
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mohammed abedin want vaccinated people to steer clear of his gym well the reason he gives i must
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admit i don't find the most convincing he says here and i'm just going to read it for the safety of
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our members the fearless boxing club will no longer be accepting those who received the experimental
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covid vaccine our current members include doctors nurses teachers parents and many youth
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who feel safer waiting until more research is done on the side effects being discovered right now
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so i don't think the concern is coming from the health effects of working out in the vicinity of
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the vaccinated it may well be i i'm not seeing any evidence that you having the vaccine can give
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someone else secondhand vaccination but it does seem like it's thumbing the nose that all of these
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people a lot of gyms in particular who have been saying for the last couple of weeks that they have
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a right to make sure that only the vaccinated work out he's saying all right well two can play this game
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yeah i i think you're right about that andrew and you know i mean i on one hand i love the cheekiness
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of this policy i mean it's um really flying in the face of the uh demographic i like to call the
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covid karens that you know want you double vaxxed triple masked socially distancing till the end of time
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yet at the same by the same token um i don't see what the health risk would be in going to a gym
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where there are vaccinated people and the other thing andrew um when it comes to vaccination
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right across the board i'm not pro vax i'm not anti-vax i'm all about vax choice if you want to
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get the jabs get the jabs if you don't don't um do you think maybe this is a stunt to generate publicity
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because he's sure getting it yeah he is i mean i had never heard of the gym before now i have so in
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that sense mission accomplished although there is a bit of a protest history with this gym in
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particular because it was born during the pandemic so this gym opened for the first time when every
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other gym in ontario was ordered to be closed so i do think there is a contrarian streak that's running
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throughout it and i also think that people have a right to make their own decisions about whether to
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get vaccinated or not and the whole point here that i've been making throughout the pandemic is that
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people need to be able to assess their own risk level their own tolerance to that risk level and
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make a decision that's right for them and the problem with all of the uh those people pushing
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for vaccine passports and vaccine mandates now is that they're trying to eliminate that individual
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responsibility component so i i do i do think when we're talking about this i don't like the race to
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the bottom of it i don't like this idea of a paralleled society where we have the the gym for only the
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vaccinated people the gym for the unvaccinated people and if you're partially vaccinated i guess
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you just have to work out in the street or something i i don't think we're getting any
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better off as a society when we do that but if it is a stunt if it is just about kind of that as you
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said cheekiness then i think it was a very well-placed one you know and maybe it was motivated by uh
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well you know you refer in your story uh andrew to um i think it's canada's biggest fitness chain
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good life fitness based right in your city of london ontario and they've got an optional
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vaccination policy which i think is good but you know several days ago gerald butts uh aka justin
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trudeau's puppet master weighed in on social media saying good life you're going to regret this and i
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thought how outrageous and how inappropriate for the prime minister's right-hand man to uh condemn a
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business for basically following the law and maybe uh this is what motivated uh this kind of uh you
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know um anti-vax policy in terms of those who have gotten the vaccination at fearless but what were your
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thoughts on that in terms of the political class along the lines of uh gerald butt uh condemning a
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company like good life for simply following the law well i actually want to make a slight correction
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to how you characterize good life's policy because you'd said i think that good life has an optional
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vaccine policy in reality good life has no policy whatsoever on vaccine so okay if you want to go to
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the gym doesn't matter if you are vaccinated or not they have no policy whatsoever and how this
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controversy if you can even call it that came about is someone asked the company on twitter hey
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do you need to be vaccinated to work out there and they said no we have no policy that requires
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vaccination and this became this uh this tweet that subjected them to the cancel mob of people like
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bruce arthur at the toronto star people like gerald butts accusing them of being anti-vax accusing them
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of being reckless with their members health people threatening to cancel and you're right they just were
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following the law which is to say that we are not as a business going to start checking vaccine papers
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when you show up to do a few lines uh not a few lines i don't know if they do that a good life
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i was gonna say a few laps in the pool or do a few kilometers on the treadmill or something like
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that and and now we are in this era where the absence of a requirement is seen as being a protest
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against the direction that a lot of these people are pushing for which is a very dangerous direction
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to say mandating a vaccine for aspect accessing many aspects of civil society you know and i think
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you're right andrew and the protests work both ways i mean you spoke about in your story a trono lawyer
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he had set up a website to promote businesses that required vaccinations and then uh the project was
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scuttled uh within weeks less than a week later it didn't even last a week before uh people started
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to realize hey they actually don't like businesses telling them uh what they have to do or not do as far
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as medical treatment is concerned yeah and you know this is going to be an interesting thing that plays out
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i think andrew in the the weeks and months ahead because i i spoke to the owner of the moonshine
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cafe in oakville ontario uh last week he um was getting publicity one of the headlines kind of creative
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no jabs no tabs basically if you don't have your double vaccination uh you cannot get a seat at his
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restaurant uh when i spoke to him he said all his regulars when they were all thumbs up they thought it
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was a great idea but wow the deluge on social media and then there was going to be a demonstration
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outside his restaurant uh a week ago um and on saturday and then he promptly changed the policy to
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it's vaccination optional so i think you know depending on who your clientele is it might not be
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financially beneficial to demand anything well i mean why would you wade into it and and one of the
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big frustrations i had when that website in toronto came up there was a a business in toronto a restaurant
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called chanticleer which was one of the first to say yes we want to require vaccinations if you want
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to seat inside you can sit out on the street if you want to eat your food but if you want to seat inside
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you've got to be fully vaccinated and the owner of that restaurant was interviewed by cbc and he was
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quite mad that the government didn't require vaccines so he had to that was his belief and i was thinking
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well wait you're angry that you have a choice as a business owner you're angry that you as an individual
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citizen have autonomy to make a decision for yourself they want the government to make the decision for
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them so they don't have to deal with the consequences of consumers or possible consumers who
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don't like these policies you know isn't that fascinating because i see the people who uh lust for
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mandatory vaccination program andrew being on the left side of the political spectrum and you know that
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for decades when it came to the abortion debate what was the phrase uh my body my choice well what
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happened to choices when it comes to an injection of an experimental vaccine going into your body suddenly
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that is not a uh a current thing to uh uh to to popularize no and let me say here i i am not at all
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anti-vaccination but the whole point is people i believe have a right to make the choice and if an
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individual wants to get vaccinated feels safer when they're vaccinated absolutely they should not be
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condemned or chastised for doing that and the problem that i have is that now you have all of these
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people who for years have been saying about any number of issues this is my choice telling people
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no no you have to get vaccinated or effectively saying you have to because we're going to say you
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can't do all of these other things like go to a concert or go to a restaurant if you don't and the reality
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is when they start to call for government to make those determinations we move into a very dark
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territory which is why we're seeing so much backlash by the way in europe places like france italy even
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greece to some extent of people who are by and large happy to get vaccinated but once the government
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requires it they say well this is not what a free country is about no you're 100 right and also
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andrew where do we draw the line when it comes to this potential slippery slope which is to say
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if i was running a gym if i was the greeter at a restaurant um i ask have you been double vaccinated
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okay uh by the way um what is your history in terms of uh sexually transmitted diseases sir can you please
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let me know about that um i thought our medical histories are things that are private yeah i was
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trying to come back into canada a few months back from the united states and i had to get a pcr test and
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some of these american clinics uh to get the simplest thing done will ask you a million and a half
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questions they like go through the entire medical history of oh you know did you have a great great
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great great grandparent who had you know uh you know dysentery on his way to the oregon trail or
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something like that and at a certain point you will have to wonder if going into a restaurant will
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become an actuarial calculation where to get in there you know talking about okay yeah you've got
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the covid vaccine how about measles mumps rubella you up to date on that have you gotten your
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Gardasil vaccine no well okay you're sitting at the back sir and there's an absurdity to this but
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at the same time not that much because we have been told by all of the so-called experts that
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this is going to be something that we just have to live with pfizer's talking about annual booster
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shots we know that all of the discussion once covid ends will switch to future uh pandemic so the
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infrastructure that's set up now is very important because it's going to outlast this particular virus
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yeah no i think you're right andrew and uh i mean in closing because we're just running out of
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uh racetrack here andrew uh i think maybe the ultimate beneficiaries of these vaccination policies
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will be oh i don't know uh the food delivery services and the home gym equipment manufacturers
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i think i'm going to become a hermit and i think i'm never i mean i already was one so the pandemic was
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less less tough on me than on some other people but no i mean with all of these things you're right
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the big winners are uber eats and amazon prime that's right well andrew it was a great piece
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and thank you so much for joining me my friend anytime david there you go and that was andrew
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lawton from london ontario keep it here more of the as relevant show to come right after this
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hey folks thanks so much for watching the big boss man ezra levant he'll be back here on monday