EZRA LEVANT ｜ It has been 933 days since China kidnapped two Canadian citizens, and Justin Trudeau is more pro-China than ever
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Do you know who the leader of Canada's majority in the Senate is? And if you don't know, why not? It's not that odd, but it's not good either. And I'll tell you why you should know.
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Hello my Rebels, I've got a crazy story for you today, but I'm going to start with a question
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and it's, I'm not going to call it a trivia question because it's not a trivial thing.
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Can you name the leader of Canada's majority in the Senate, our version of Chuck Schumer?
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You probably know who Chuck Schumer is, do you know who Trudeau's leader in the Senate
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I'll tell you who he is and I'll tell you what he's saying and it's not good.
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Tonight, it has been 933 days since China kidnapped two Canadian citizens and Justin Trudeau
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It's June 30th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody
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Do you know who the leader of the Canadian Senate is?
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I think it would be like asking Canadians to name judges on the Supreme Court as in, these
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people have real power over us, the courts especially.
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And yet I'm quite sure we know more about the U.S. counterparts than our own Canadian institutions.
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You probably know that Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House in Congress.
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Can you name the Speaker of the House of Commons in Canada?
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You've probably heard of Chuck Schumer, the majority leader of the Senate.
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I bet you've heard of Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court judge.
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I think the answer is we don't have the same political accountability that they do in the
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Every Supreme Court judge down there is subjected to tremendous scrutiny before they're confirmed.
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And by the way, they're not all confirmed, which is incredible that the president can
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It's a phone call by the prime minister and whoever makes the decisions, probably not Trudeau,
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probably someone besides Trudeau, we'll never know.
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They're appointed for life in Canada at age 75.
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They don't have as much power as an MP in Canada, but they do have some power.
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They can amend bills, introduce bills, slow bills down, really gum things up.
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Canadian senators are actually treated like a big deal in other countries that don't know
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how much of a joke our own Senate can be, especially the United States.
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If you're a U.S. senator, there are only 100 of you in a country of about a third of a billion
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I'd have to check, but I don't think a Canadian prime minister ever came from our Senate.
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So some political boob from Canada shows up in the States with a business card that says
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I'm trying to remember which Canadian senator told me about that, but he really chuckled
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about the red carpet treatment he got more in the U.S. than Canada itself, where we know
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But I blame the media mainly for not properly scrutinizing our Supreme Court and our Senate.
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They don't criticize the Senate for the same reason they don't criticize anything in the
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Most journalists are bought by Trudeau through the CBC or rented through the newspaper bailout.
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And of course, prime ministers have a habit of making occasional Senate appointments from
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All you have to do is appoint one journalist every few years, and that's enough to keep
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another hundred journalists well-trained, aiming to please you, looking for that lifelong
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And on the Supreme Court side, because judges are appointed without scrutiny, we miss an
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opportunity to look into them, to get to know them.
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And because Canadian judges are so uniformly leftist and radically activist, why would journalists
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They simply do through court rulings that which elected politicians are too squeamish to do
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The worst decisions in Canada are made by the courts, precisely because the elected politicians
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Remember, it was a judge, Beverly McLaughlin, who first denounced Canada as a genocidal nation.
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Just one of a string of atrocious things from Beverly McLaughlin.
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I should point out that she retired from our Supreme Court, but she's taken a job, if you
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And she remains on it to this day, despite China turning Hong Kong into a little outpost
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of its dictatorship, arresting Democratic opposition leaders, arresting newspaper editors, shutting
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Beverly McLaughlin condemned Canada as genocidal.
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But she hasn't said as much about China itself.
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Either what they did in Xinjiang to the Muslim Uyghur minority, or what they're doing in real
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Is communist China just a place she really admires?
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There's a level of admiration I actually have for China.
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But my point is, McLaughlin said it, and then Trudeau said it.
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He says we're actually still committing a genocide, present tense.
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And the thing is, once your own country's leaders, the top judge, the prime minister, denounce
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your own country as a genocidal regime, how can you really object when other countries throw
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Canada has been shifting the blame since the remains of 215 indigenous children were found
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When will systemic measures against racism be adopted?
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Here, listen to their official message from Beijing.
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Not long ago, the remains of 215 indigenous Canadian children were discovered at the site
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We noted that despite calling the discovery heartbreaking and shameful, the Canadian government tried
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to shirk its responsibility, citing that relevant investigations are rejected by the Catholic
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Church, and said it hopes the Church will assume the responsibility.
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Such crocodile tears exposed the hypocrisy of the Canadian government and lack of sincerity
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and courage in the face of its own notorious human rights record.
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Now, we'd like to ask the Canadian side, when will it start an investigation?
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When will it rule out systemic measures to end racial discrimination?
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If Justin Trudeau regularly says Canada is racist, Canadians are racist, Sir John A.
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Macdonald was racist, that Canada committed a racist genocide.
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He says all these things are ongoing too, by the way.
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In fact, they're so bad, we need to censor our internet, because Canadians are so racist,
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Can you really blame a foreign dictator for throwing that back in our face?
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But back to my point, do you know who the leader of our Senate is?
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Our version of Chuck Schumer, the leader of the majority in the Canadian Senate.
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Well, it's this guy, Senator Yuen Pa Wu, appointed by Justin Trudeau to the Senate.
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So, of course, he's a Trudeau man through and through.
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But you know what Trudeau did in the Senate, right?
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He renamed his senators the Independent Senators Group, so they don't call themselves liberals.
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The fact that Canada's media report them as independent shows how weak the media is,
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But did you know that Senator Yuen Pa Wu is the head of the biggest party in the Senate,
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They call themselves the Independent Senate Group, but it's the liberals.
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I don't think one in a thousand Canadians know that.
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They don't even know who he is, let alone that he's a boss.
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You know, I checked, and it's been 933 days as of today that China kidnapped two Canadians,
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I think we can stop pretending that the Wuhan virus was naturally occurring now.
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I mean, now that Trump is gone, even Hollywood liberals are stating the obvious.
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Like, there's a chance that this was created in a lab.
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Well, if there's evidence, I'd love to hear it.
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There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China.
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Is China worse than how it treats its own people, or is it worse than how it treats the rest of the world?
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No matter what your measure is, China is atrocious.
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Corruption, military threats, environmental pollution, civil liberties being crushed, racism, whatever.
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It's tough to say what the worst part of it is.
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When Pao Wu said in the Senate very recently, he is our majority leader in our Senate.
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Well, as political theorists will remind us, there are two kinds of state legitimacy.
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There's input legitimacy and there's output legitimacy.
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In the West, we tend to place much more emphasis on input legitimacy, which is essentially about how we select our representatives.
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Hence, our focus, rightly so, on free and fair elections.
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But in practice, citizens also confer legitimacy to the governments based on the results that are produced by that government.
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Now, like most of you, I was brought up in the orthodoxy that input democracy through free and fair elections will in the long run outperform
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because citizens can always vote out a government that has not performed and in that way seek to improve outputs by changing the inputs.
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But we are learning the hard way that democratic elections and changes in government over decades have not consistently produced better outcomes for citizens in many industrialized economies.
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Sure, there has been economic growth, but income and wealth inequality have increased, with stagnating median incomes and growing societal tension.
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That is the reason for what is now widely observed to be the problem of a democratic deficit in some Western industrialized economies
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and the rise of populist leaders who have illiberal instincts, but nevertheless command much support through democratic elections.
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I much prefer the vagaries of democratic choice to the certainty of authoritarian rule.
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But we cannot be smug about our preference for input legitimacy as the only way to validate state power.
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And we cannot deny that the Chinese state has its own claim to a kind of legitimacy, even if we don't like it.
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I mean, that's exactly what Beijing itself says.
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It's just weird hearing it in stereo from this year, from Beijing, and this year from the Canadian Senate.
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That's Trudeau's majority leader in Canada's Senate.
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Senator warns China might not free Spavor and Kovrig in Meng deal if Canada does not, if Canada not part of effort.
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So, he's warning us, we have to do what China says, we have to pay the political ransom.
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Mr. Wu has previously played a role in back-channel diplomacy between Canada and China,
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and says he wants to do what he can to help bring about the release of Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor.
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I am plugged into the discussions around these issues.
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He said there is a risk a future U.S. deal to free Ms. Meng could be misinterpreted on the Chinese side
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as a problem that was resolved purely by D.C. and Beijing without Canada.
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The resolution of the Meng-Wanzhou issue may not, I am really sad to say,
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may not facilitate a resolution of the Spavor-Kovrig issue, Mr. Wu told a Carleton University webinar last week.
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So, hang on, he's not an ambassador, he's not with the foreign ministry, he's not a diplomat.
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He gives Beijing speeches almost verbatim in the Canadian Senate,
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and he's doing back-channel diplomacy with China about the hostages, back-channel diplomacy.
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He's telling us what China's going to do to us if we don't capitulate.
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This is an editorial cartoon published by Xinhua.
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Xinhua is in China, it's a propaganda agency, their focus is on Chinese things.
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Who told them that it would be politically useful for them to do a cartoon in English
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targeting Trudeau on the Indian residential school issue right now?
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I guess I'm wondering which came first, Senator Wu or Xinhua?
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Hmm, how can this man be in the Canadian Senate at all?
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But how is it that he is Trudeau's majority leader in the Senate?
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And the man all the other liberal senators follow.
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Well, even the CBC state broadcaster thinks maybe he's just a bit over the top.
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In a provocative speech in the Upper House on Monday, Independent Senators Group leader,
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Senator Yuan, Pao Wu, said Canada should avoid criticizing China for its human rights abuses
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against Uyghur Muslims because our country has mistreated indigenous peoples.
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Echoing an argument made by Chinese officials of the UN last week, Wu said China's policy
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toward the Muslim minority in Xinjiang province is similar to the colonialism directed at indigenous
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peoples in this country and that condemning the Asian country in harsh terms would be gratuitous
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Yeah, guys, when the CBC says you're a bit too into Beijing, it's time to rethink things
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Real question, why do we even have diplomatic relations with China?
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Not with Kovrig and Spay War, but with anything?
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China blocks Canadian move to set up World Trade Organization probe into serious negative
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China suspended imports of canola seeds from two firms in March 2019, while also making
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shipments from other Canadian firms subject to enhanced inspections.
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But at Monday's meeting, the World Trade Organization dispute settlement body, China blocked
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Canada's first request to establish a panel to investigate the restrictions.
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Hong Kong is shutting down the last vestiges of freedom for media and politicians.
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Chinese censorship founded Australian University Rights Group.
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High numbers of Chinese students at Australian universities have created an environment of
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self-censorship with lecturers avoiding criticism of Beijing and Chinese students staying silent
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in fear of harassment, Human Rights Watch said.
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Chinese Communist Party agents had access to private information of New Brunswick students
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Confucius Institutes, if you don't know, are Chinese propaganda ministries on campuses
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They're in Canadian universities to recruit kids, propagandize students.
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I mean, those two Michaels have been kept hostage for 933 days.
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Why weren't these Confucius Institutes kicked out 932 days ago?
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All these ambassadors and diplomats and military attachés and spies, why weren't they kicked
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Why Chinese nationals in our institutions like that virus lab in Winnipeg?
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Why are the liberals covering up the facts about that?
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There's a level of admiration I actually have for China.
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Well, I tell you, sometimes avalanches come quite quickly from a single flake of snow.
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I remember it wasn't long ago when the city of Victoria had a sneaky decision to remove
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the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald from their town.
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The decision was done in a sneaky way, and the attempt to remove it without anyone seeing
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But our friend Aaron Gunn found out about it, and he brought this shocking video coverage
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Right behind me, a statue of our first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, is being torn down.
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This follows the order given by Mayor Lisa Helps and her cronies on City Council to tear
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down this piece of our history without public consultation and without public debate.
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And they're doing it early in the morning, purposely denying supporters of Canada's founding father
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the opportunity to gather in his defense later today.
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Is this the kind of society we want to live in?
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One that tears down our past instead of building our future?
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One that uses our history to divide us rather than bring us together?
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Does the city of Victoria, named after Britain's Imperial Queen, have to be renamed?
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Must we judge all our historical figures based solely on their faults and not their accomplishments,
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viewing their actions and beliefs through the lens of our century and not their own?
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The architect of confederation and visionary behind Canada's National Railway,
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Sir John A. certainly was not a perfect Prime Minister, but he was probably our most important
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and is ranked consistently by historians as one of Canada's greatest leaders.
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His statue is a tribute not only to him, but to the nation of which he helped give birth.
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A nation that would serve the world for the next 150 years, however imperfectly,
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as a force for good, as a force for tolerance and a force for freedom.
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This October, there are municipal elections here in Victoria.
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It's time to elect a new mayor and council that respects Victoria's past,
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That was shocking back then, but now a week doesn't go by when some statue is taken down,
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I don't quite know yet what will replace it, but Canada is being cancelled.
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And the man who recorded that first incident of a Sir John A. statue being taken down, Aaron Gunn,
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Aaron, you're an independent journalist, and I commend you for ringing the alarm bell early.
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They're talking about renaming streets in Toronto.
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You know, they've already purged Sir John A. Macdonald from the $10 bill.
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I'm worried they're literally cancelling Canada, our history, and frankly, a lot of our people.
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You saw it, or at least I saw it coming a couple years ago.
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And it's the kind of thing where something that would have been satire five years ago
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is now our new reality that we're forced to live in.
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We have a prime minister who slanders and degrades his own country.
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We have a premier here in B.C. that does the same thing.
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And I think Canadians need to wake up to the fact that this is happening and that it's dangerous,
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because if we start tearing down our shared history and our shared culture,
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that's what really holds us together as a country.
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Well, and you can't judge the past through the morality of the present.
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Otherwise, every culture in society will fail, even Jesus, even Moses.
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I mean, we are built on the past, and that's not to say we can't get better.
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And by the way, imagine a generation from now what they'll say about certain things that we do now.
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Let me show you a short-term consequence of this.
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I mean, it went very quick from Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin saying that Canada was a genocide state
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Now the Chinese government is saying that about us.
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When we raise concerns about the real concentration camps and labor camps and internment camps
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in the Xinjiang region of China, they're clapping back at us saying,
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hey, you yourself say you've committed genocide.
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I think, frankly, Trudeau put that on himself and he put it on the rest of us.
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Yeah, I don't think it'd be hard-pressed to find another case in world history
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where a country has so viciously attacked itself with these repeated rounds of self-flagellation
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We continue to draw bizarrely false equivalencies with some of the mistakes we made in our past
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with the truly horrific things that have happened in world history.
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You know, talk about the cultural revolution in China, the Holocaust, all these other real genocides that have happened.
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And look, here in British Columbia and again in Edmonton today, they're lighting churches on fire.
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They've burned down five churches to the ground, and there's been barely a word from our politicians.
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You think it's maybe time that we acknowledge and point out the obvious,
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that we have a serious problem with the radical left in this country?
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You know, the irony there, we were talking about it on the show the other day,
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Trudeau has introduced an anti-hate speech bill that's really targeting social media.
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Like it says right in there, it's focused on the Internet.
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And we've heard from Stephen Gilboa, he's going to focus on Facebook and YouTube.
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But we have real hate crimes, real arson against real property.
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And these are the center of a lot of these communities.
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The church is not just a religious place, it's a community center, it's for life cycle events.
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You've got this crime wave across the country of real crime, not a peep from the federal government,
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but they're going after mean tweets on Facebook.
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You know, the good news, Aaron, there is a little bit of good news,
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is that severely normal Canadians aren't buying it.
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I've seen a poll, most Canadians don't want to cancel Canada Day.
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We talk to people all the time, what we call them streeters, we just do man on the street interviews.
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I find that new immigrants to Canada, they love Canada, that's why they came here.
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They just came here from somewhere presumably not as good.
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So they're not into this disparaged Canada thing.
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So I think the hope, as Orwell would say, is with the proles.
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It's the luxury class that has the time and money to sit around and engage in these, you know, abstract debates about a perfect utopia.
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I think they're the ones who hate Canada the most.
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I think severely normal people realize we're in one of the best countries.
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I don't think you could ask any of these critics, so where would you rather live?
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I don't think any of them actually know of a place they'd rather go.
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Yeah, I don't know if there's another place they would rather go in the world or at another point in history.
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This is a country that we can all be proud of, that we should all be flying the flag proudly on Canada Day.
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But I think it is important to note that there are some of these people that you mentioned, Ezra, that have all this time on their hands that are completely deluded with reality and jumping on this bandwagon.
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But I think there is another group of people, an even smaller group of people, that know exactly what they're doing, that are purposely undermining the history and institutions and the stories we tell ourselves in this country, because they want to almost soften the ground before they make their push to really radically transform and tear down our institutions.
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They know they're taking things out of context, but they're doing so with a political purpose.
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And I think that makes them all the more dangerous.
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I remember when I was a younger man, how the Liberal Party co-opted the symbols of patriotism.
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I mean, you can go back two generations to when the flag, the country's flag, they called it the Pearson pennant because it so resembled the liberal colors.
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And under the Chrétien administration, the flag was sort of proof of liberal largesse.
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The sponsorship scandal in Quebec was basically the federal government flooding money into the province to buy the hearts and minds of Quebecers so they didn't vote to separate.
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And where you saw a Canadian flag, you saw money vote liberal.
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You know, as a right winger growing up in Alberta, I resented the fact they were co-opting the symbols of patriotism.
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But it was, you got to admit, it's pretty smart.
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Here we are, not too many years later, and Justin Trudeau is commanding that the federal, you know, the flag on the peace tower of parliament fly at half mast.
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Well, the Liberal Party itself sounds like it's rejecting at least the symbols of Canada, if not Canada itself.
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I just find it remarkable because when I was growing up, it irked me as a conservative.
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Hey, why do the liberals always get the symbols of the country?
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Now the liberals are just saying, no, no, you can have that stupid maple leaf flag.
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I wonder what Pierre Trudeau himself would say about it.
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Yeah, they're trying, they're seemingly content with branding themselves as the un-Canadian party.
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I think this is a big opening for someone else or the conservative party to step up and offer an alternative, which they really need to do.
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But yeah, I think there's, look, there's a group of people within the Liberal Party, a large group of people, and in the political left more generally, that basically want the country's history to start in 1970 or whenever Pierre Trudeau was first elected.
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And I think everything else before that has to be recanted and apologized for.
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And I think that's outrageous because, I mean, this country, this is a country that was formed in the battlefields of Vimy Ridge on the beaches of Juneau that came together in confederation through process of negotiation and compromise, unlike probably any other country in the world.
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That has always been at the forefront of the pack.
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Did it act in the 1800s like a country in the 1800s?
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But I think this attempt, as you said, to continue to undermine this country and its symbols is dangerous.
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And there should be political consequences and backlash to it.
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But if no one else is stepping up at the plate and offering an alternative, there won't be, unfortunately.
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And I love following you on Twitter, for example.
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You're really fighting the fight, for example, on this crime wave of churches being burned.
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Let me ask you, you know, don't give anything away confidential.
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I know you're a man with your own timing and things like that.
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I just love seeing you do your independent journalism.
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It was you who caught that Sir John A. statue coming down.
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What should we be looking for from Aaron Gunn in the rest of the year?
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Yeah, we got, we're just wrapping up filming on season two of Politics Explained, which is the online show that I produce.
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So that'll be released over the course of the summer.
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And of course, there are still people encouraging me to jump into politics here provincially for the leadership of the confusingly named B.C. Liberal Party.
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It's the right leading party here in British Columbia.
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We're going to have a little announcement on it on Canada Day.
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But we're going to make a final decision over the course of the summer on that front as well.
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Whatever it is, I'm sure we'll want to cover it.
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And you have a rare courage and independent streak, which, my God, we need that in Canada more than ever.
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Take care, my friend, and please stay in touch.
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And he says he's got an announcement coming up as soon as tomorrow.
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Dave writes, Ben, another up-and-coming liberal light.
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I mean, I think he's probably just in a bunker mentality.
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Obviously, the Conservative Party, the UCP of Alberta, is behind in the polls.
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It's behind Rachel Notley, the socialist destroyer.
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They were so good on the lockdown for, like, the first half, and now they're terrible.
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So they've just, I think they've gone into a bunker mentality.
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But I think once those American Republicans, the senator and the former governor weighed in,
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They have a year or two before the next election.
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Jeff writes, Ben Harper, young man, you've just shown the rest of us low-class Canadians
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You know, I think that's what bugged me about him.
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Like, literally, I was a teenager when I met him.
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In fact, I still call her Lorene Teske sometimes, her maiden name.
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I knew both Stephen Harper and Lorene before they were married.
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And they were sort of this young couple in the reform party.
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And I'm a few years younger than them both, but not too much younger.
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And I don't know if they used the word low-class, but that's what they meant.
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But she was a country girl, and she shot a gun, and she rode a motorcycle.
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And she was a little bit of a tomboy, even, I'd say.
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But she wasn't like a fancy-pants, you know, urban, lefty progressive.
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So to have Ben Harper use the language that was used against his own parents, extremist, low-class, who the hell are you?
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You think you're going to get some pass from the fancy people if you denounce me?
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You think suddenly they're going to call you classy?
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You think suddenly they're going to let you get a cool kids' club pass?
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I mean, I don't care that he disagrees with me.
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But it was his choice of epithets that were super gross.
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Richard writes, right on answer, I really enjoyed this show.
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Yeah, well, listen, I just, it irked me because I have a family tie there.
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I knew, I haven't talked to Stephen Harper in a while.
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And once in a while, I chat with Lorene on Twitter.
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But, I don't know, just sort of, there was something there that didn't feel disloyal to me
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and felt disloyal to his own family, if you get my meaning.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.
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