EZRA LEVANT ｜ It’s so disillusioning to see people like a former Governor General and a former Supreme Court judge soil themselves
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Former Governor General David Johnston and former Supreme Court Justice Mary Simon were appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They were both chosen by the Prime Minister's Office, which is run by the Deep State. They are part of the permanent ruling class.
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Tonight, it's so disillusioning to see people like a former governor general
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and a former Supreme Court judge soil themselves. Sad, actually. It's May 25th,
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Hey, we're in our boardroom again. We will be in the new studio soon. I am watching it come
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together. It's extremely exciting. I can hardly wait to show it to you, but you've just got to
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wait one or two more days. I'm very excited. I'll send you an email about it. I know I've been saying
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that for a few days now to explain why we're in the boardroom, but it's a great reason. Anyways,
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I mentioned this the other day that David Johnston looks like he'd want a governor general to look
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central casting. And in his own way, he was fine. I mean, as far as we know, there were no scandals
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or personal abuses like there have been under Justin Trudeau's nominees. Julie Payette, famous for her
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temper tantrums and abuse of staff. At least that's Trudeau's side of the story. He was constantly
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leaking against her. We never really heard Julie Payette's side of the story herself as she was
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driven out, which is odd because in a way she was Trudeau's boss, but he fired her. Then Trudeau
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appointed Mary Simon, who apparently thinks she's a queen, not a governor general. David Johnston didn't
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do that sort of thing that we know of, or maybe he was just more skilled and experienced at how to work
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the expense account machinery so as not to set off alarms. Maybe he's just slicker than Simon and
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Payette. After all, Johnston has spent his entire life in one bureaucracy or another, including as the
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head of a university. He probably is an expert at working systems. He really is the deep state in a
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person when you think about it. Appointed to high offices by both conservative and liberal parties,
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he's the permanent ruling class, though he himself has never been elected to anything.
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I told you before that he is a vicious partisan, though, even though he looks like a harmless
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grandfather. In 2019, he banned Rebel News and our friends at True North from attending the national
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leaders debates. The federal court smacked him down hard. A good man, a law-abiding man, or man
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who believed in the rule of law, would have obeyed the court. But not Johnston. In 2021, he did the exact
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same thing again. His boss, Trudeau, demanded it. So Johnston banned Rebel News from attending the
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election debates despite the 2019 court ruling. In 2021, the court smashed him down again.
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Just because he looks like a friendly grandfather doesn't mean he is not a vicious bastard who will
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do whatever he thinks will benefit him and his masters. And these days, that's not just the
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Canadian deep state, but the Chinese one. I still marvel at the fact that he sent his daughters to
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university in China. You do not get a better liberal education, classical education in China than you do at
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Harvard or Yale or Stanford or Oxford or Cambridge or the Sorbonne or even U of T or Queens or McGill or any
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of the schools that David Johnson could have sent his rich and powerful and connected children to. He sent
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them to China. You can't speak freely in China. Education is more by rote. It's about obedience.
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You are there with politically selected students. It's a monoculture. It's not the diversity of the
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Western university. The children of Communist Party bosses are who you're mingling with. David Johnston did
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not send his children to Chinese universities to learn. He would have sent them to McGill or Queens or
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Harvard for that. He sent them to Chinese universities to connect with the Communist Party youth. He is deeply
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into China. And he has brought China deeply into Canada, welcoming their propaganda agency right into
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the university over which he presided. Like Justin Trudeau and Alexander Trudeau, he is the Chinese
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asset. Imagine having him try and find the Chinese asset. It really is quite astonishing. I don't know if
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you remember our former foreign minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, who took out a mortgage, as millions of
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Canadians have, from a bank. That's what Canadians do. Owned by the Chinese government? Who does that?
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We've got lots of great banks in Canada. Take your pick. I mean, great banks. They're all atrocious. But
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anyone can get a bank loan in Canada. Royal Bank, TD Bank, Scotiabank. There are credit unions. There are
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alternative lenders. Who literally chooses to get a mortgage from a bank owned by the Chinese dictatorship?
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Who does that? And then keeps that loan even as becomes foreign minister. Can you imagine that's
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how it was and how it still is? Again, I recommend to you the Twitter citizen journalist Andy Lee,
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who through simple Google searches has shown half the Trudeau family and half the Trudeau cabinet
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at various functions by the Chinese government. I'm not talking about ethnic Chinese Canadian things.
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That's great. That's fine. Chinese Canadians aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the
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dictatorship itself. The Chinese Communist Party, they were all in bed with it. All of them.
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Even the media party is starting to think things are a bit weird. Look at this story in CTV.
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Why does Canada have a disproportionately high number of Chinese diplomats?
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As former Governor General David Johnson prepares to release his report on Foreign Interference Tuesday,
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this was written right before that. New data provided by Global Affairs Canada sheds light
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on the breadth of China's diplomatic presence. Isn't that strange? Look a little bit further
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down. There are 176 Chinese nationals with diplomatic credentials in Canada. China has the second largest
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diplomatic presence in Canada after the United States, which is 294 representatives. The UK has 44
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accredited representatives in Canada, while Japan has 73. The number of Chinese diplomats, consuls,
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and attachés south of the 49th parallel is almost identical to the number north of it. The most recent
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data from 2020 shows that the U.S. accredited 178 Chinese nationals, just two more than the current
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Canadian numbers. It's a surprising statistic given that the population in the U.S. is 10 times
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the size of Canada. That is crazy. Or is it? Why would China do that?
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Because they think there's a lot of good things here to be mined. They're colonizing us. And I don't
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mean that in terms of immigration, although China is consistently in the top one or two or three
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countries from which immigrants come to Canada. 100,000 Chinese students are here too. And I say
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again, they are the sons and daughters of the Communist Party elite. They're not random Chinese
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citizens. When I say colonizing, I do not mean immigration in this case. I mean, they are converting
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our machinery of state, our politicians, our bureaucrats, and our deep state into their colony.
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That's my point about the Trudeau family being the Chinese assets. Why do you need a Chinese spy when
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Trudeau will be the man for you? I mean, do you remember this humiliating moment when Melanie Jolie
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was face to face with Michael Chong, the conservative MP who was targeted for punishment by the Chinese
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Communist Party? And they kept that a secret from him. And he complained about it very passionately.
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And she literally looked him in the eye and said she didn't really want to do anything in response
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You are, you have given accreditation to a diplomat here who is using his diplomatic immunity to target
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not just me and my family, but other members of Parliament. So why do you, Minister, continue to
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allow this diplomat to be accredited in this country on Canadian soil? That is the question.
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Well, let me be able to answer the question. And of course, Michael, I understand your frustration
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and I understand your anger. We haven't expelled a single PRC diplomat. We are one of the only
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democratic allies in the NATO alliance that has not expelled a single PRC diplomat. And Canadians are
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being targeted by the over 100 diplomats accredited here.
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Mr. Chong, would you allow the Minister to respond?
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Yes. Okay. Thank you. So first and foremost, what we're doing right now as a government is we're
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assessing the consequences that we'll be facing in case of diplomatic expulsion, because there will
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be consequences. I think it's important that Canadians know what we've learned from the
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two Michael experience is that, of course, China and the PRC will take action. These interests,
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including economic interests, consular interests, and also diplomatic interests, will be affected.
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And therefore, no, Michael, I just want to finish my answer because this is very important. It's
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about you, but it's about also the interest of the country. So as we are assessing the interest,
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and I know that we are under pressure to go fast, we need to make sure as well that we protect our
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democracy. And that is why we will take action in light of the facts that are being presented
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regarding your case and, you know, any MP that could be targeted. So that's why my deputy minister
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right now is meeting with the Chinese ambassador and summoning him. And that's why also we're
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assessing different options, including the expulsion of diplomats, because it is important that we take
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Yeah. Who needs a spy in our foreign ministry when our foreign minister is herself doing the bidding of
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China. But it's not just how the Chinese Communist Party is throughout Canada and governments and
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schools and industries. It's how our deep state has circled the wagons now that there is some
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Trudeau appointing his longtime family friend, David Johnson, to look into it. David Johnson,
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who was at the Trudeau Foundation, which took a Chinese grant. I mean, it's all in the family.
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It's a club and you are not invited to that club. David Johnson, as we showed you the other day,
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he didn't want to recuse himself. He said he didn't have to because he's so trustworthy. And to prove it,
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he had a former Supreme Court judge write him a secret letter to prove it. I'm serious. The letter
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was secret, but take his word for it. Oh yeah, that Supreme Court judge is his old friend too. And he
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just happens to have been with the Trudeau Foundation too. It's a club. It's all in the family.
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Now, some reporters who normally shill for Trudeau just can't control their gag reflex here. I mean,
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even the Toronto Star says a public inquiry is needed when the red star thinks Trudeau is wrong
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and is willing to say it, you know there's a problem. Hey, here's David Johnson the other day
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trying to downplay his relationship with Trudeau. I mean, sure, they went skiing all the time. They're
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two families. They were longtime friends, lifelong friends. But I mean, really, who amongst us hasn't
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just bumped into the Trudeaus on the ski hill from time to time? It was nothing unusual.
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Part of the issue around having to believe what you are saying today is around your credibility.
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I'm not sure if you expected this to happen. Obviously, the allegations, particularly from
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the conservative leader that you are a friend of Justin Trudeau's family, you are a member of
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the Trudeau Foundation. Should you have anticipated that, Mr. Johnston, that you would be attacked in
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that way, and that this might undermine the credibility of what you've offered today?
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No, I did not anticipate that my credibility or my impartiality or integrity would be attacked.
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The facts are, with respect to a friend of the Prime Minister, when his family returned to Montreal,
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we knew his father. And we had a condo at the slopes of Mont-Tremblant, about 100 meters from the ski
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trail. Mr. Trudeau Sr. and his three boys had a country home about 50 kilometers away at Valmoran.
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On five different occasions over two or three years, his three boys and our five daughters skied
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together in the mountain because he could park his car at our condo, and we'd ski out to the mountain.
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On one of those five occasions, he had to go back to Montreal, and I dropped the boys off at
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their mother's home and their husband about 10 kilometers away. So we were not neighbors.
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That was the contact with the current Prime Minister.
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Yeah, I don't think that actually disproved the allegation, David. He literally mocked a reporter
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for suggesting they were friends. He said that Trudeau was his so-called friend. Really?
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Well, let me respond by stating basic facts. First of all, my friendship with the current
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Prime Minister. When our children, five, were ages seven to 12, we had a condo at the foot
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of Mont-Tremblant. I knew Mr. Trudeau's father. He had a country home about 50 kilometers away
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in Val Moran. On, I think, five occasions over several years, he and his three sons came
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and parked their car at our parking lot outside our condo, and we skied. On one of those five
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occasions or so, he had to leave early to get back to Montreal, and on that occasion,
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I drove the three sons over to their mother's home, country home, which was about 10 kilometers
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present. Those are the so-called neighborhoods. My friendship with the current Prime Minister
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was based only on a few skiing expeditions with my children. He was a student at McGill,
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where I was principal, and amongst about 20,000 students, I would see him from time to time.
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In that period of time, until he became a Liberal member of Parliament, and I was Governor General,
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I had no meetings with Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Justin Trudeau. I had no letters that I can recall,
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no telephone calls. The only occasion I recall meeting him in that period of 40 years was at
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the funeral of his father, which my wife and I attended. So there was no interaction with respect
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to the current Prime Minister of a friendly kind, other than the respect I have for a graduate of
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McGill University. And my only real contact occurred when he became an elected Member of Parliament,
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and I held the office of Governor General. Those are the facts with the so-called friendship
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and the scheme. Is that true? Here's a great video that Pierre Polyev put out about the so-called
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Friends Park. And the family have become good friends, and our friendship with Mr. Trudeau
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goes back to children's days when our five daughters and he and his two brothers skied together at Mont
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Trambouin. Tell us a little more of that, because a lot of Canadians don't realize that you, in fact,
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were a very good friend of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and that your family, you knew all the Trudeau
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kids when they were growing up. I guess it shows what a small country Canada is, but when Mr. Trudeau
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left politics, came back to Montreal, his host was just on the edge of the McGill campus. And I and the
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rector of the University of Montreal were working very hard for him to return to the University of
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Montreal Faculty of Law, where he'd been a constitutional law professor, and have a joint appointment to
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McGill. His three boys were the same age as of our five daughters, so we were kind of a ski party from
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time to time at Mont Trambouin, where we have a place and would ski on weekends. So we got to know
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the children, and our friendship, our relationship was really built out of childhood exchanges. And
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our children had enormous respect for Mr. Trudeau Sr. He was a lovely, a wonderful father, and very good
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with children. He would lead them into discussions that would be, let's come, let's talk about how many
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functioning democracies there are in the world, for example. This was with teenagers, it was just great.
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Yeah, I think they're more than just so-called friends. That's from David Johnson's own mouth.
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And he looked at reporters straight in the eyes, and he lied the other day. He lied
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like a Trudeau family member lies. Isn't that something? The old governor general, the old
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reliable guy trusted by both sides, he has sullied himself, dirtied himself. He's in his 80s now. I
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think he's 81. He should be spending his time with his grandchildren. He should be enjoying the golden
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years of his life after a life of service, but he's torching his life's reputation and his family name
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for what? To protect Trudeau because he took dirty money?
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Well, maybe Johnston's in on it too. I mean, Johnston continued to do business with communist China
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even after he was governor general. Why would he keep in touch with them? What kind of business did he have
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with them? Which side was he working for, Canada or China? Why wasn't that in his report? Well, it's like
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putting OJ in charge of finding the real killers. That's David Johnson. He looks good, which is his
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main use to Trudeau, because he lies like a rug. Which makes me think of another shill for the Chinese
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Communist Party, Beverly McLaughlin, the former chief justice of the Canadian Supreme Court. She's a
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great liberal. I don't know if you recall, she's the one who really got the ball rolling denouncing
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Canada as being a genocidal state. She's the one who started that. Trudeau loved it and embraced it.
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He calls us genocidal all the time. Well, she retired, and like Johnston and Frank Iacobici, the
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former justice who wrote the secret letter to Johnson, Beverly McLaughlin thought she would cash in,
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which is pretty gross. And she went to China. Beverly McLaughlin actually went to China to
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sit on the final court of appeal in Hong Kong as a judge. Now, she went there when Hong Kong was free.
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When China took over Hong Kong and brutally shut down its democracy and political dissent and shut
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down independent media and arrested peaceful protesters, most of the other foreign judges,
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the Brits on that court, resigned in protest. They resigned because they refused to work for a
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dictatorship. They resigned to make a stand, to make a point, to show that China is not fair or free.
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Not our Beverly. She positively said that that was her time to shine. She didn't have to
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share the spotlight with those Brits anymore. She was delighted to stay on to enforce
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Xi Jinping's brutality in Hong Kong. Funny, though, it's really odd. She was quick to denounce Canada
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as being a genocidal state, but she has yet to say the same thing about her new adopted country,
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which actually has perpetrated a genocide against Uyghurs and other minorities.
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You know, for years we were told to look up to these elites. I remember in law school
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being told to look up to her. Look up to the chief judge for sure. Look up to the governor general for
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sure. Oh, and they wear fancy robes sometimes, don't they? And their regalia and their pomp and
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circumstance. They're better than you, really. They're better people than you. They're higher on the
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hierarchy. Know your place, okay? They look better than you. They sound better than you.
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They dress better than you. They earn better than you, even though it's all from the public trough.
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So are they really earning it? So understand they are morally better than you. Obey them when they
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make laws from the courts, not the parliaments. Accept it when they want to censor Trudeau's enemies,
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like Johnston-censored Rebel News. Stop asking questions about corruption when it embarrasses Trudeau
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and his cronies and family friends. You know what? They are not better than you and me. In fact,
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Well, Roxham Road, which Justin Trudeau declared open in a tweet shortly after his election,
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it's been closed. And thousands of migrants who had planned to come from New York City as the
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staging ground across the Canadian border, well, they're backed up in the United States, including
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in New York itself. Now, New York is an enormous city, the largest city in the United States, and it
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has its own problems, including its own homeless problem. New York City, being a Democrat city,
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proudly declares itself a sanctuary city. By that they mean they will not deport, they will not assist
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in the deportation of illegal migrants. They say things like, no one is illegal. Well, that's easy to
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say when the illegals are at border crossings in places like Texas. But what happens when thousands
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of foreign migrants start to bottleneck in New York because Trudeau is no longer taking them
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through Roxham Road? What happens to them? What are their plans? Well, we sent two reporters to New
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York City to find out. I'm talking about Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jay, both of whom have reported on the
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Roxham Road crossing. They're in New York, and they found some very interesting things. Joining us now
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from the streets of the Big Apple is our friend Alexa Lavoie. Alexa, great to see you. I'm sort of
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jealous. It looks like a lovely spring day in New York City, but it's actually a squalid time
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for those migrants. Tell us what you've discovered about where they're being housed,
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how they're being housed, and what's happened to them.
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So, thanks for inviting me on your show. So, right now, what we saw so far, we went to the
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Roosevelt. It's a hotel where migrants have been housed and still been housed at this hotel.
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We saw multiple migrants getting in and out of this hotel. Afterwards, we went to that school where
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some migrant was being housed inside of the gymnast during that school where children was going into
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school. And so, because of the backlash of the parents knowing about what is going on in that
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gymnasium, they actually cleaned the school. So, no migrant is housing at that school anymore. That was in
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Colony Island. So, now we're in Manhattan, and we are walking through the city to see where the migrant
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are being housed. So, we saw multiple shelters where, unfortunately, homeless told us that if they are not
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there at 11, buses full of migrants arrive at night, and they take their bed if they didn't sign up for their bed
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before the bus arrive. This is really sad because what they were explaining is, like, the resources have
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diminished. And now, they need to find, like, as a help as possible. And they are citizens of New York,
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or they are citizens of the U.S., and now they see their rights and what they should have as a services
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being taken away by the migrant who arrive in New York. We also follow to another hotel where there is
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security, and you are not allowed to enter, but it's riding no vacancy, and they say that it's only
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immigration. 38 rooms in that small hotel, full booked by migrants. And they say that it started
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beginning of May, and now they don't know until when the old hotel will be rent out by the government
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to house migrants. And now, we are going to see some places where they receive free food. So,
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these organizations don't receive any help from the government to feed them. So, I was talking
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with some of the organizers and some volunteers, and they say that they never saw that before.
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They say that they have so many people arriving from all around the world. They don't have any job
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yet. They don't have a place to save, and they have no food also. So, they need to provide them
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services. But fun fact, you know that the mayor, Eric Adam, was so proud to call himself and his city,
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a sanctuary city. But recently, he's been to court to ask the judge to revisit the sanctuary statue of
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New York City, since now it's getting costly and very chaotic in this city.
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You know, Democrats are good at virtue signaling, at telling us how noble they are.
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They talked a good game about sanctuary cities when all the illegal migrants were in Texas. It's
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incredible to me that, I think I heard you say, they were housing them in schools, school gyms,
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during the time when kids were using the schools. That's got to be dangerous. I mean, a lot of schools,
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if you're an adult, you must check in at the front office. You're not allowed to roam around. I mean,
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you protect the kids from strangers. Imagine having dozens or hundreds of strangers, not even
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citizens, just homeless strangers from foreign lands in your school gym. That's crazy. I'm sure
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the hotel operators won't quarrel, because they're obviously getting paid by the government. And,
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you know, although the homeless themselves can't pay, the government's good for it,
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so they probably don't mind. We saw that in Canada, too. The thousands and thousands of migrants that
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came through Rocks and Road, they were put up in hotels all around Canada. Even, you know,
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the provinces. Now, you and Lincoln have done some interviews, just interesting people on the
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street, people you found. Why don't you set up a couple of the clips that you've taken and tell
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us what they are and then show them to us? A man who explained his in-language in Spanish
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how it was to cross not only the Darien Gap, where is the really dangerous jungle, saying that
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they saw, like, dead body and mercenary, like, raping people. And he actually explained also how it was
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hard to cross into the U.S. And now he's placed in the shelter. Doesn't know how long he can be
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staying there. Doesn't know, like, nothing about his work permit or anything. And he's just waiting,
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chasing food as much as he can go. And he have just the identification paper with him to travel around.
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And we had, like, also a homeless person who actually shared his story.
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So, can you describe how the influx of migrants is impacting your life as a homeless person in a shelter?
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Yeah. Um, it's impacted me in different ways, emotionally, mentally, even physically in some
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ways, because now the food has changed, you know, I'm not getting nutritious meals, even though I'm
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receiving public assistance, even that is not enough because of where I'm located. The prices,
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the cost of living is high. So, the money that I do receive each month, I have to really, really,
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really stretch it out. You know what I mean? So many different testimonies of people saying that
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they spent all their money to come to U.S. And some of them did pay coyote to cross. Some of them
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didn't pay coyote to cross. But it's sad to hear their story. I'm saying that some people maybe are
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there for a different reason. But what we saw so far is there's desperate people who doesn't have a job
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at their, where they live. It's kind of dangerous city. A lot of Venezuelan people are here right now.
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What happened with the migrant, with the school that is just behind us?
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Well, one night we just saw them bringing in a bunch of buses. Um, it was a bunch of police and then
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they waited till people went to sleep. They snuck them in about maybe five o'clock in the morning, maybe
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three in the morning. Um, once we found out about it, because my son goes to the school,
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you know, I was just concerned for the safety of my son.
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So they shouldn't have, they shouldn't have never allowed to be there. Second of all,
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they put this in place. They should have had a meeting with the neighborhood. The people live
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here and let us know what's going on. Like she said, we don't know who they bring in there. We
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don't know who these people is here. You understand?
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They are just searching for a better life. But what they get when they arrive in New York is
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actually almost worse than what they had in their country. Living in the street and chasing food when
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they have like minor children and like with them, it's just incredible. Like, I don't know if they
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should like proceed to keep them. They were using, um, one bathroom. There's only one bathroom in our
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gym and there was thousands of them in there. It was, they said it was maybe only 600. It had to be
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more than 600 people in there because the cots, they had cots. They were, they were set up like cots.
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They were not beds. They were cots. Like jail cots. Set up in a gym. And there was one bathroom.
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And they can't even bathe in there. There's no, it's not even a shower in there. It was a bathroom,
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just a bathroom. They have already a problem of homeless and now they're getting like more people
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in the street. And so I'm just thinking what will happen with the big apple when all these
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migrants will begin homeless forever. And of course, these are the people that Justin Trudeau said,
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hey, if you're having problems being, um, homeless or being stateless in New York,
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come on all up to Canada. So it's interesting that, uh, these are the, Justin Trudeau essentially
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for seven years has volunteered to be America's homeless shelter.
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I just want to, maybe you heard a quote of a man who actually crossed the Darien jungle and all
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dangerous it is for them to cross and to have a better life here in us.
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So they are ready to cross everything to get here.
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Well, it's very interesting. There's different layers here. I mean,
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the fact that the American border is absolutely obliterated there,
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there really is no border for any intents and purposes is newsworthy. Um,
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Donald Trump would say, I'll build a wall. He, he of course had four years and did not build a wall.
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Um, the fact that the sanctuary city Democrats are suddenly now talking back and saying, well,
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we didn't really meet it is an incredibly incredible story. And I think the sleeper story
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here is that for seven years, Canada was the safety valve. We took the, uh, the migrants from
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the United States that they were going to deport. It's quite an astonishing thing. Well, listen,
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keep up the reporting down there. It's a very interesting story. And, um, it's exciting that
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our team can travel again because it was only May 11th that unvaccinated Canadians could enter
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the United States, uh, without having to show vaccination status. So, so many of our team
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couldn't travel. It's great to be able to travel the world again. Rebel news journalists have covered
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stories in a dozen countries. And, uh, this is an interesting story in New York. It's great to
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see you down there. Look forward to your safe return. Thank you. And remember that on May 11th,
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not only the list, the last L restriction, but they also lift the title 42 to replace it by title
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eight at the border. And it's why we see probably like a backlash back because Joe Biden said out loud
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that it would be chaotic for a while because of the changing of the title at the border.
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By the way, folks, if you want to see all of our reports on this issue, go to migrant
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reports.com. See you soon, Alexa. Thank you. All right. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.
00:34:16.100
Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Amazon 62 writes about the BBC verify.
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She's obviously qualified enough to say what misinformation is working, working for the BBC.
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She must be well up to speed with what misinformation is. Yeah. You know, um,
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this whole new phrase, fact checkers, misinformation, disinformation. Um, this is
00:34:47.700
since the beginning of time. Um, he said, she said, uh, Cain and Abel, um, who do you believe?
00:34:55.540
Uh, that's the job of journalists is to try and seek the truth. But, um, the truth is difficult to
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find sometimes and people can disagree. And that's why we have freedom of speech. That's why we have
00:35:08.340
elections because you have two different people who, presumably in good faith, come to completely
00:35:13.060
different conclusions about the world and what should be done about it. The hubris of anyone
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saying, I will tell you what is true. You can tell me what you think is true and you can do your best
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to prove it and I'll give you the, I'll listen to you. But for you to tell me that you will resolve the
00:35:29.380
debate you who is, uh, her degree is in French and Russian and as a journalist for about five
00:35:41.220
years, mainly in the TikTok field. The idea that she would be the arbiter of anything is a laugh.
00:35:48.820
Al talks about the church burning, says if it were a mosque being burned down, you'd never hear the end
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of it. Well, listen, I don't want any place of worship to be burned down. But I also note
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that it was only churches that were shut down by police during the lockdowns too,
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only Christian pastors who were jailed. Cindy Hadyuk says, wasn't Pastor Derek also arrested
00:36:10.580
for the crime of kneeling and praying in front of a city hall? Yes, you're right. And I, and I didn't
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give a full description of what he was arrested for. You're talking about Derek Reimer, who, um,
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the democracy fund is defending. I'm very pleased to say that's a civil liberties case.
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And where are the liberal civil libertarians? Well, there are not really any more of them
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around anymore, are there? That's our show for today. Boy, I got to tell you, I'm aching to show you
00:36:36.660
the studio, which is under construction. It's, uh, it's going to be ready soon. And you're going to say,
00:36:43.300
wow, I, at least that's how I feel. And we're in the boardroom until then. So thanks for your patience
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with us. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
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see you at home. Good night. And keep fighting for freedom.