EZRA LEVANT ｜ It's election night!
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Summary
It's election day, and Ezra has some thoughts about who might win, who's going to win, and what difference it'll make. He also talks about how politicians flout the rules to get their message out there.
Transcript
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Hello, my friends. It's election day. I've got some thoughts about who might win, who's going to win, and what difference it'll make.
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And I'll tell you that the five parties that are, quote, the official parties, there's really no difference amongst them on the key issues of our day.
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The only party that's really dissenting wasn't allowed in the leaders' debates and wasn't even on most TV, you know, clips and, you know, was called other by the pollsters.
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Just like they tried to keep us out of the debates, too.
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I'll do a recap of where our reporters were over the last month, and I'll invite you to watch our live show tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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We'll be on TV for about five hours straight going through the results of the night.
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Anyways, that's what today's show is about. Let me close by inviting you to watch us on election night from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern time.
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It's September 20th, and you're watching 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 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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It's the election already. What a terrible campaign.
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Trudeau thought it would be to his advantage to move quickly.
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I thought it was a little bit whiny of the opposition parties to complain about that at such length,
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but I think that actually resonated a little bit with voters, so perhaps I was wrong, and they were right to complain.
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I don't think it ever looks strong to complain about an election, the idea being we always want to hold the government to account.
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But I think people said if you—I think it was part of the hypocrisy of the pandemic.
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Everyone's in a lockdown, but politicians who are going to the polls two years early think the lockdown doesn't apply to them.
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I think the most acute example of that was when Justin Trudeau took his campaign right into the heart of a hospital itself.
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You can see the pictures that he tweeted about him.
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Now, you and I can't go into that hospital even if we have friends or family in the hospital.
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I know. I went to a hospital once during COVID.
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But Trudeau gets the rules suspended for him, and worse, the entire press cohort that traveled with them,
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and none of them thought it was a problem because all of them know the rules are for the little people.
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So if you can go into a hospital for your political advantage,
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the whole thing is about who the rulers are and who the ruled are.
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So over the past few days, Aaron O'Toole, the leader of the Conservative Party,
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has tweeted all these pictures of him and his personal family, his wife and kids, wearing masks.
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O'Toole himself got COVID and recovered from it naturally, so he's natural immunity.
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Why are they wearing masks when they live together?
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Surely they don't wear those masks in the house.
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And again, it's that they're showing what they want you to consume.
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So in a way, that's similar to Trudeau flouting the rules or using the rules just as a prop.
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I'm not saying that O'Toole himself went into a hospital also,
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but they're using the rules as a prop, as a device, as a distraction.
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Now, Rebel News covered the heck out of this campaign.
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We were all across the country, as far known as the Yukon, where our reporter Mocha went to the Yukon
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to talk about a Conservative Party candidate who was fired on the eve of the election
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because he was worried about a two-tiered society with people who were forced to get vaccines.
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By the way, this Conservative candidate who was fired came within 153 votes of winning last time.
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Imagine throwing him out because he wasn't enough of a cheerleader for forced vaccines.
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Aaron O'Toole's Conservative Party terminated a candidate who had high chances of winning in his riding.
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Jonas J. Smith is now running as an independent for the riding of the Yukon
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after he dared to share his opinion on vaccine mandates.
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I went to Whitehorse, Yukon, to ask him what happened.
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Well, long story short, I got a message from a senior member of the Conservative Party central campaign team
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We had a phone call, exchanged some pleasantries, talked about the campaign a little bit,
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and the conversation quickly turned to some public comments I made on government COVID response.
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Well, that's the furthest north our campaign went.
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Here's Drea trying to put a question to Justin Trudeau.
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And Trudeau's personal security, they were fine with people taking selfies with him,
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but when Drea asked a tough question, they grabbed her like a ragdoll and threw her away.
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You talked about Canada's last wrongs, the past things they haven't done right.
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When will you speak out about the 20 vandalized churches?
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They're burning churches and vandalizing them, and you're not calling it a hate crime.
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Politicians don't seem to like questions, do they?
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Politicians of all stripes, here's Tamara Ugolini in her hometown of Coburg, Ontario,
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going to a restaurant she used to work at, trying to put a simple question.
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I won't show you the whole thing, but this is a moment of Tamara doing great journalism in Ontario.
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We waited, gee, I don't know, at least two hours, and will not answer any questions by the media.
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One of my favorite moments was just this weekend, where Alexa Lavoie, one of the newest rebels,
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tracked down the man running against Maxime Bernier, the conservative MP,
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who was hanging out at a golf and country club, just by himself, hiding, I think.
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First thing he said was, I don't give you permission to film me.
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But the second thing he said is, he refuses to be in the same room as someone who's not vaccinated.
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Hello, Mr. Lehou, excusez-moi de vous déranger.
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Je me demandais aujourd'hui, je voulais savoir pourquoi vous avez refusé de débattre avec M. Bernier.
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Non, mais vous avez refusé d'être dans la même salle.
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Moi, depuis facilement plus d'un mois et demi, je me promène partout sur le territoire.
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Je suis même allé visiter plusieurs personnes dans des résidences de personnes âgées.
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C'est sûr que je peux rencontrer des gens qui ne le sont pas, mais je respecte les mesures.
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Je n'ai aucunement refusé en fait qu'on trouve de voyer.
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Mais je voulais savoir, en fait, est-ce que vous pensez que les non-vaccinés ne devraient pas prendre part à la démocratie
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puisqu'il ne faudrait pas débattre avec les gens qui sont non-vaccinés?
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J'étais à la Chambre de commerce de façon virtuelle avec la Chambre de commerce de Saint-Georges.
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On l'a débattu pendant une heure et demie ce midi, de 11h30 à midi, à une heure.
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Est-ce que vous trouvez ça anormal de ne pas débattre dans la même salle qu'avec les personnes?
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Quand je regarde, madame, je ne veux pas qu'on ne s'obtiendra pas longtemps là -dessus.
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Mais ceux qui ne le sont pas, pourquoi je me pousserais à me coller après eux?
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Speaking of Alexa, she did a great job in the leaders' debates.
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As you know, for the second election in a row, Trudeau's hand-picked debates commission kicked out Rebel News.
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Now, when they did it in 2019, I thought it was a miracle that the federal court gave us a court order letting us back in.
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Trudeau's debates commission had two years to prepare to keep us out again.
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They hired a massive law firm, Borden, Ladner & Gervais, extremely expensive.
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I estimate they spent about a million and a half bucks designing a system to keep us out.
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Their rejection letters were incredibly long and detailed.
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When we sued them this year, I think you might have recalled me saying, they had seven lawyers in court.
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Four lawyers and an articling student for the debates commission and two more lawyers for Justice Canada.
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We had one lawyer, Chad Williamson, bit of a cowboy from Calgary, and the federal court sided with us again,
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ordering the debates commission to allow 11 of our journalists in.
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We managed to get more questions asked than any other media outlet.
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Here's a chart written by some stalkers of ours at Canada Land.
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They're obsessed with us, this one guy, Jonathan Goldsby.
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But I like the fact that his obsession, in this case, documents just how active we were.
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This chart shows that Rebel News asked more questions than any other media outlet.
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Now, that just goes to our ability to ask, but what did we ask?
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Well, we asked thoughtful questions about the vaccine, about natural immunity, about studies out of Israel.
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Real questions, they were not answered, though.
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And in fact, several of the politicians just simply refused to talk to us.
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I want to show you what I regard as the best question asked in the entire series of debates.
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It was by Alexa Lavoie, and we're going to show it to you as she asked it in French with our English translation.
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I'm going to play the whole thing, including Trudeau's answer and including Alexa's little rebuttal to that.
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Bonjour, M. Trudeau, Alexandre pour Rebel News.
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Donc, M. Trudeau, je vais revenir rapidement sur ce qui s'est passé hier.
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Vous avez déabolisé l'un des rares médias qui ne reçoit pas d'argent du gouvernement.
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Vous avez exprimé votre opinion en disant que nous propageons la désinformation.
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Si c'était vrai et si c'était le cas, la Cour fédérale ne nous aurait pas permis d'être ici aujourd'hui.
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Je suis moi-même scientifique et je me base sur les faits.
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L'Israël est l'un des pays les plus vaccinés au monde.
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Ils sont rendus maintenant à leur quatrième rappel de vaccin.
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Ils ne considèrent plus que ceux qui ont reçu deux doses de vaccin sont pleinement vaccinés.
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Ma question est, plusieurs Canadiens ne désirent pas avoir un rappel de vaccin.
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Allez-vous leur enlever leurs privilèges reliés au passeport vaccinal?
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Et aurez-vous l'obligence de répondre à ma question en tant que premier ministre?
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J'ai partagé ma perspective sur ton organisation hier soir.
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It's the question of the hour that's being discussed in Israel, in the Centers for Disease Control, at the FDA.
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Should it be counted in these vaccine passports, given that it's more effective, according to certain studies, than the vaccines themselves?
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It's a genuine question that millions of Canadians are very curious about.
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Everyone who has had COVID and recovered from it, if that recovery, their natural immunity, is stronger than the vaccine, wouldn't that be great to know?
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And shouldn't that count against the vaccine passport?
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Erin O'Toole answered a different question, not one that we asked.
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And actually, Annamie Paul of the Fringe Green Party answered David Menzies fairly well.
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But I want to show you, when Jagmeet Singh did not answer our question twice in a row,
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I want to show you Catherine Krozanowski and Sheila Gunnery, two of our journalists that asked back-to-back questions.
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Before you tell me that you're not going to answer my question, I just want to say that I'm not here representing myself or my company.
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I'm here representing millions of Canadians who have real questions for you, like the one my colleague Alexa just asked.
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Is your message to them that they are second-class citizens?
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You're saying the polls show that your party is between 15% and 20%.
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No party here on the stage tonight is even close to representing a majority of Canadians.
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Yet when Conservative journalists like me ask you fair questions on behalf of Canadians, you insult us and refuse to answer a single word.
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You are like a child putting your hands over your ears.
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Do you really think you can become Prime Minister by trying to freeze out any Canadian who disagrees with you?
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In your own riding, you only got 38% of the vote.
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Is this how you treat the other 62% of people who disagree with you?
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Remember, this is twice now they tried to ban us.
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And even when we're in, they didn't want to talk to us.
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Even though our question was very substantive about the vaccine, a question no one else in the bailout media would ask, they simply refused it.
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I have no idea what beef anyone could have with Alexa or Catherine.
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And the thing is, part of your job as a government official is to answer questions, even if you don't particularly like the journalist who's putting the questions.
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If it's a question in the public interest, on a matter of public policy, at a government-run debate, which is absurd in itself, answer it.
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And I want to say, it is not just the coward Trudeau and the coward Jack Mead Singer and the cowardly leader of the bloc.
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Look, the Erin O'Toole campaign all the way down kept our reporters out, too.
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You saw that one conservative candidate in Bose demand that Alexa not film anything.
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Here's Alexa trying to talk to Erin O'Toole and a senior O'Toole staffer named Corey Hahn giving her the bums rush for no reason at all.
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Are you going to come with me or do I have to get someone to help us out?
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Yeah, but I want you to say that is not true what you're saying.
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Corey Hahn and Erin O'Toole are a disgrace, and they tried that again with David Menz.
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He's just yesterday literally telling David to stand on a busy street because asking questions is disruptive.
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Like, I'm not going to, we're not going to do this.
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You just, your outlet, and you also continually disrupt our events, so I'm asking you to leave.
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My outlet, 13 months ago, Erin O'Toole had nothing but time for us.
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Does Erin O'Toole regret moving the party further left, stiffing Rebel News, stiffing Jordan Peterson?
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So, you're welcome to the sidewalk across the street.
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We have an event to start, and I'm asking you to leave.
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And Erin O'Toole is too cowardly to come out of a bus.
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On Monday, he will be, so I'm asking you to leave.
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This is not, this is public property, the berm.
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This is what we've been told is the property to the curb.
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We have the, we have the, the, the event manager.
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I'm pulled to the curb, and I'd be careful there.
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David, Sheila, Catherine, Alexa, there's nothing wrong with these people.
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The political class, the insider's club didn't want to let them in at all,
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And, and I think it's a premonition of how you will be treated if you're not part of this insider's club.
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I wish he would have gone to court to sue to get in.
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I mean, my God, if Annamie Paul of the Green Party, which is at, what, 2% and the polls can get in,
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why not Maxime Bernier, who polled as high as 12% during this campaign?
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I think perhaps the worst part of the campaign, not surprisingly,
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was from our authoritarian, Castro-loving, Chinese Communist Party-loving Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau,
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who on so many occasions demonized people who, for medical reasons or reasons of conscience,
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are just, they're already immune naturally, don't want the vaccine.
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This is just the other day talking about how the vaccine passport is your reward for complying with the government,
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as if you don't have rights anymore, and it's only what the government happens to throw your way,
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and a bizarre implication that his vaccine won't protect him.
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You need to take your vaccine for his vaccine to work.
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There's just an authoritarian dividing us and setting up a kind of medical apartheid.
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We're paying for the provincial vaccine passports to make sure that when someone comes into a restaurant,
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they'll know they won't be sitting beside a table of people who are unvaccinated.
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When you go into a gym, when you go to a movie theater,
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you need to know that if you've done the right things, you get to be safe.
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You get to be rewarded for having done the right things.
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And those people who still hesitate, who still resist,
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well, they won't get to enjoy the same things that those who've done their part for others.
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That's atrocious, and it is and it should be the leading issue in this debate,
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except for it was not the leading issue in the debates because all of the five parties agree on it.
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There was this really weird video taken before the English language debate
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where all five of the official party leaders stood with some distance between them
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that they normally don't do, and they all read from literally the same ad script saying,
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I'm not against people choosing to get vaccinated, but that's not the issue.
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The issue is, are you forced to get vaccinated?
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Even if you have a medical or a conscience objection, all five of them were in total unanimity.
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For our kids, for our communities, for our economy.
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Vaccines are the best way for you to protect yourself, your family, and your community.
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Pour vous protéger vous-même, pour protéger les plus fragiles d'entre nous,
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pour protéger l'ensemble de la population, le meilleur moyen connu demeure le vaccin.
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S'il vous plaît, soyez responsable, soyez solidaires, faites-vous vacciner.
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We all agree getting vaccinated is the way forward.
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We're all in agreement this is not a partisan issue.
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So what do you do if you don't have a single political option other than the establishment
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five parties who are, you know, exactly the same?
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Well, people coalesced under Maxime Bernier's People Party.
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Now, I don't think that they're going to punch through in any one riding, because that's
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If you come in second in every riding in the country, but not first in any, you don't
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And I think the PPC is going to have a lot of second and a ton of third place finishes.
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But I just don't think it's going to punch through.
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I don't know what's going to happen in both Quebec.
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I know that Chelsea Hillier, the daughter of Randy Hillier, is running a strong campaign.
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But it's a sign that people want a true alternative.
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We were kept out of the debates, other than the fact that we sued to get him.
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So I think the us versus them, the divide in society is greater than ever.
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Here's an actual tweet from Elections Canada saying, you have to wear a mask when you go
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And actually, the landlord of the building in which you vote can ban you if you don't
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Gee, I wonder what party that discriminates against.
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People are asking me, a lot of people say, Ezra, what's your prediction?
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Do you think it's going to be a majority, a minority, liberal minority, conservative minority?
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I think the answer is, it pretty much doesn't matter.
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I think the two choices we're looking at are a, I think it's most likely going to be a liberal
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But how is that different than a liberal majority, given that on all the important matters, the
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parties are in lockstep, from vaccine passports, to open borders migration, to the carbon tax,
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to phasing out the oil sands in Alberta, to, like, really, is there anything different
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other than Erin O'Toole didn't dress up in blackface?
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Here's a new blackface photo that I don't think anyone had seen before.
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I saw this published in the Daily Mail of London, UK today.
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You might know that London, UK is not in Canada.
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Earlier today, I checked, and so far, not a mention of it on CBC or Global or other Canadian
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I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that Trudeau has paid hundreds of millions
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of dollars in payments to Canada's media, but they didn't pay the Daily Mail of the UK.
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My point is that on the key issues of our age, on the lockdown, on the vaccine passport,
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does it really matter if it's a liberal majority, a liberal minority, a Trudeau, a conservative
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Does it really make a difference on these key issues, given that they're all in lockstep
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I think Rebel News fought a great campaign, and by fought, I mean fighting our way in,
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attempting to get in, and showing the censorship mentality of all the parties.
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And the issues that we've been talking about, we've become even more pressing, not just the
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lockdowns and the vaccine passports, but remember, before Trudeau called the election, he was
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preparing a series of bills that would censor the internet, and he made it crystal clear in
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recent weeks that he thinks Rebel News is a source of disinformation.
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In fact, that was his answer to Tamara Ugolini on the first night of the debate.
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We've never been cited even by YouTube or Facebook for promoting some lie about the
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In fact, Trudeau's campaign was called on the carpet by Twitter for manipulating a video.
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Just to refresh, remember, here's Tamara and the Prime Minister denouncing us.
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Listen to the Prime Minister's denunciation of us, and think to yourself, if and when he
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brings in his censorship law, who do you think his first target's going to be?
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Mr. Trudeau, the only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the
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federal court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not
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This is the second election in a row that the court has overturned your government.
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Do you still insist on being able to make that decision, and why?
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First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by the press gallery and the consortium
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of networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism and the important information
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The reality is organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation
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on the science around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic
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and be there for each other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate
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anger and lack of understanding of basic science.
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And quite frankly, your, I won't call it a media organization, your group of individuals need
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to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.
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And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision
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we take about the kind of country we want to see.
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And I salute all extraordinary, hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what
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they do and ask me tough questions every day, but make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians
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from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do.
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You might think that the conservatives would oppose that, but let me play for you a video of Alain Reyes,
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the conservative critic, Aaron O'Toole's critic for the Heritage Minister.
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Here he is in Parliament a few months back saying he personally supports cracking down on YouTube channels
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that engage in fake news, which, as we can see, is rebel news.
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They hate rebel news over at the Conservative Party.
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Here's the conservative critic saying, yeah, we're all about censorship too.
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There's nothing in this bill that allows for the regulation of social media or platforms like YouTube.
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And it's clear we would have liked to have seen this in the bill.
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The minister even says we have to find a way of preventing hate speech, conspiracy theories and fake news that's shared.
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But right now in the bill, unfortunately, we won't even be able to amend it in that aspect.
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In fact, I really think that it's about insiders and outsiders now.
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I don't think it's right wing, left wing in the way it was before.
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I think that the political class wants to wage war one region against the other.
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But I think it's about the people versus the state, about authoritarians versus people who believe in liberty.
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If I look at rebel news as a microcosm of Canada, I see the people who in the past would have called themselves left wing,
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but who don't believe in having medical procedures forced on them, sort of pro-choice people,
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are flocking to rebel news because we're the only other side of the story.
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The reason Maxime Bernier is doing well is because he's the other side of the story.
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So our mission becomes even more important in the months ahead.
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And I don't think this election is actually going to change things that much.
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Let me show you a little teaser from our friend Avi Yamini.
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And then I'm going to show you a quick, a longer clip.
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Avi Yamini here for Rebel News in Melbourne, Australia.
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We're outside the CFMEU headquarters where thousands of members are gathering to protest the health tyranny here in Victoria.
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Barely a couple of police is blocking the road.
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I suspect they are a little bit concerned about taking on this lot.
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We're here all day to bring you the exclusive story to rebelnews.com.au.
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That's Avi, who was outside an office, the headquarters, of a major trade union in Melbourne, Australia.
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And by trade union, I mean construction workers, guys who work hard outside construction sites.
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Their union boss, John Setka, I've never heard of the union before, the union boss,
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did a deal with the government saying, yeah, we will force our guys to take the vax.
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And so out front of the labor union HQ, more than a thousand construction workers came to protest against their union boss agreeing to the jab.
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And then finally, John Setka and his number two came down wearing their mask and trying to talk into the bullhorn back.
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That mask theater shows what side's really a flag to show what side you're on.
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Now, I'm going to play for you about 15 minutes.
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We're not having a guest today because at 8 p.m.
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So instead of having an interview now that will be stale dated because the election results are coming out,
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tune in on YouTube, 8 p.m. till 1 a.m. Eastern time.
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We'll have Sheila co-hosting and a ton of great guests.
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But let me leave you with this because there's a flicker of hope here.
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And maybe we'll put a link to his website on this page because I want to give him credit for this video.
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So outside, a thousand union members, and they had stacks of bottled water and Coke because they weren't going anywhere.
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And I mention that because they used those as projectiles later in the video.
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They're demanding their union boss be accountable to them.
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And remember, these are folks who haven't had any accountability in the media, in politics, in the legislatures.
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And finally, they're there with their union boss who sold them out.
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Sold them out that they would all take the jab.
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And a thousand men said, we're not taking the jab.
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You'll listen to them saying, if there's any all-vaxxed construction site, they'll have a rogue picket.
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As in, the unvaxxed construction workers will picket the all-vaxxed.
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There's this beautiful scene where a guy talks about fighting communism.
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And all the labor union members chant, freedom, freedom.
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There's also some very colorful chants of how they describe their sellout boss.
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The whole thing ends when the sellout boss goes back in the building and the mob tries to go in.
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The funny thing is the boss of the union put out a press release saying, oh, those were neo-Nazi activists.
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Yeah, you'll see in this 15-minute clip, every one of them was a union member, construction members who were sick of their boss selling out.
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And I found this inspirational and encouraging.
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And it just says, if someone steps forward, maybe others will join.
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And let me leave you with 15 minutes of video from Real Rakhshan in Australia, outside the Trade Labor Union headquarters.
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Real Rakhshan is a production of Real Rakhshan.
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Real Rakhshan is a production of Real Rakhshan.
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Real Rakhshan is a production of Real Rakhshan.
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Calm down, calm down, calm down, please everyone calm down, come on, we've come out, hey I've
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come out, I'm not scared to front anyone, I've come out, alright, can you at least give
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me the respect to let me talk, please, please, if you let me talk you can ask whatever questions
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you like, please, please, if you let me talk you can ask whatever questions you like, please
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I'll answer any questions, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I,
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can I ask them, let me talk and whether you agree with me or not you can ask any questions
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you like, but please, everyone stay calm, alright, okay, we're not the enemy, I don't know what
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all I've asked, hey, all I'm asking is for you to let me have a say, after that
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Can I finish? Can I finish, can I finish, can I finish, will you just let me have a say?
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Hey, yous have asked for me to come out, I've come out, right? Can you please let me have a say?
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If you don't want me to talk, I'll go back inside. I prefer to be out here and answer any questions, alright?
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I have never ever, hey, I have never ever said I support mandatory vaccination, never ever!
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Oh shit! Oh shit! You're a gutless cunt! You're a gutless cunt!
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I've come out here to address CFU members, no one else.
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If someone else has got an opinion, that's not a CFU member,
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then you go to whatever organisation you belong to.
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I will address the concerns I've seen in CFU members.
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We are one, we are one, we are one, we are one, we are one, we are one, we are one, we are one, we are one,
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Are you actually going to let me talk or are you just going to just share it over the top of me?
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My question is, when the VAC passport, the green card comes in,
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when the green pass comes in and you have to have a green pass to get on a job,
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when we picket those fucking jobs, and we will picket those jobs,
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when we picket those jobs, who's going to be the scabs?
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The CFMEU members who crossed the picket line or us?
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Number one, number one, we are not scabs, alright?
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So I'll review the element that we're scabs, alright?
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Hey, don't call me a scab. I've done jail for this union, alright?
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Do you know what? We have tried to keep CFMEU members working since April of last year.
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The stuff that we have done to keep everyone working and keep our industry working.
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And what about now, John? And what about now, John? What about now?
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We did not shut it down to 25%. I did not maintain vaccinations, alright?
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Hey, why can't you say something? I've never met the bloke, I don't even know him.
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So stop calling Dan my mate. I've never met the bloke.
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You're fucking sucking, you cock, you fucking idiot!
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You're fucking seller, John! You're a fucking seller!
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You're not the union! You! You are a seller! Not the union! You are a seller!
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I can tell you how much I can tell you how much I can tell you how much I can tell you how many bros.
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I'm not moving, bro. I'm moving. I'm moving. I'm moving.
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You know where I stand before you told me at the rally?
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So you want us to shut the whole movement down?
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I remember as a kid growing up the demonstration takes fighting for our freedom in Croatia.
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If we don't win, if we don't win, we'll come back overseas where we fucking came from!