EZRA LEVANT ｜ Media fact checkers remain silent after Liberal cabinet minister makes egregious claim
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A crazy statement in parliament by a liberal MP, and a crazier tweet by another liberal MP. I want to show you all about it, so I want you to get the video version of this podcast so you can see it.
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Hello, my friends. A crazy statement in parliament by a liberal MP and a crazier tweet
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by a liberal cabinet minister. I want to show you all about it. I want you to see the statement,
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from Trudeau, and it shows. All right, here's today's podcast. Tonight, such a revealing lie
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from a Trudeau cabinet minister. It's May 9th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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Hey, take a look at this tweet from Marcy Ian, a former TV news reader, now a Trudeau cabinet
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minister for Toronto. You can see it there. There's a picture of the House of Commons,
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and she says, denounce neo-Nazism or leave the room. Conservatives leave the room.
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Hmm. 690,000 views of that tweet. And look at that. Who can reply? Accounts Marcy Ian mentioned
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can reply. In other words, she turned off the ability for Canadians to talk back, to answer back,
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to ask questions. But look at what Elon Musk has on Twitter. It's wonderful. It's something called
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Community Notes, where ordinary readers can fact-check politicians. It really is one of my favorite
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functions on Twitter. And look what viewers say. As per official House of Commons question period
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transcript and video, the speaker ordered Polyev to exit the chamber after Pierre called the prime
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minister and his policies. And his policies, wacko. Pierre eventually withdrew the word, but replaced it
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with extreme, at which the speaker ordered him out for the day. So that's a sort of a homemade
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crowdsourced reply. People voted on it. And the community note, I don't know if you can see that,
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it links to a video that proves that's the case. There's so much in here. It's an 11-word tweet.
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I think there's a thousand words to say about it. I mean, the first is the most obvious. It was a lie.
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I mean, just a lie from a former, I'm not going to call Marcy Ian a former journalist. She was just
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sort of a newsreader. I don't think she actually did any journalism. But I would call that fake news.
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It's sort of gross that a newsreader would say something. She tried to trick the public. She
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implied that there was a call to challenge neo-Nazism. Pierre Polyev wouldn't, so the speaker
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kicked him out. That is completely made up. And it's still on the internet to this day.
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It's literally not true. It lied about Nazis. It used Nazis as, I don't know, a joke, as a political
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tool to poke Pierre Polyev. This from a cabinet minister, Marcy Ian, who gave a standing ovation
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to Yaroslav Hanka, the actual Nazi SS officer invited by the prime minister to parliament when
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Vladimir Zelensky from Ukraine was in town. So Nazism, neo-Nazism, or the original Nazis, is not a joke.
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But it is to the liberals, even though they themselves brought a Nazi to parliament.
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And it's even worse because there actually are new Nazis stalking our country right now. You can see
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them, bizarrely, not in the country with hicks, as is the stereotype of Nazis, but no, in the downtown
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college campuses across this country, from UBC to U of T to McGill and everywhere. Hey, where are the
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fact checkers here? We saw the community notes fact check, but where's a CBC fact check? Where's
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a Reuters fact check? Where's an Associated Press fact check? I know about all those things
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because they fact check conservatives all the time. I've never seen them fact check a liberal. Have you?
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And yet you have a pure lie here. Using Nazis as a partisan weapon, completely false.
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Not only is there no fact check, but that remains online, 690,000 people.
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Well, look at this from a liberal MP, Tlaib Nur-Mohamed. He's a guy who got famous flipping houses in
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Vancouver, and now he's got advice for housing. Just watch this statement he made just for a moment. Take a look.
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Speaker, May 3rd commemorated World Press Freedom Day, a day when we celebrate journalists for the
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work they do, the risks they take to keep us informed. They pay a high price, Mr. Speaker,
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from attacks by authoritarian regimes to criminal enterprises, journalists risk life and limb pursuing
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truth. This year, the price was high. The deadliest year on record, 115 journalists dead in conflict
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zones. The word press emblazoned on their flak jackets, sharing stories that we need to hear.
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Hundreds more languishing in jail. While the leader of the opposition and others, as we've just heard,
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boast about putting for sale signs on the CBC, many around the world are putting up gravestones
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instead. It's a short trip from rhetorical attacks to the press to actual violence. As journalists
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perish in jails and newsrooms dim their lights, truth and fiction become harder and harder to
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distinguish. I am proud to be part of a government that stands with journalists, champions facts over
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misinformation, and reinforces democratic values, which we hold dear.
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Yeah, it's quite something when a liberal stands up with a straight face to talk about World Press
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Freedom Day. We know all about that. They love to talk about journalists being harassed in other
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countries. And of course, I don't want journalists harassed anywhere. But they have no comments about
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journalists being harassed here in Canada, including journalists being jailed here in Canada, including
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journalists being harassed and beat up and assaulted and falsely arrested by the Liberal Party's bodyguards.
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For example, this just a few months ago, when Chrystia Freeland's bodyguards arrested David Menzies.
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Ms. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group? Why is your government supporting Islamo-National?
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What are you doing? You're under arrest for assault. Why are you pushing me? You're under arrest for assault.
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They arrested him, and they humiliated him, and they handcuffed him, and they put him in a police car.
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But at least they didn't beat him up, like they did a couple years ago when it was Trudeau's bodyguards.
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This is a horrible video I'm going to show you. But funny how this didn't make it into Tlaib Nur-Mohammed's
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little statement about press freedom. Remember this atrocious moment?
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Hey, I'm on a sidewalk. What is this? You cannot touch me. You're not rushing and working.
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Are you kidding? Are you kidding? Let's go of me.
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You can't... Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest?
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As you know, we're suing the government on both of those matters.
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But that line that Nur-Mohammed said, it's a short trip from rhetorical attacks on the press
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to actual violence. Well, I guess that's true, because Justin Trudeau has made rhetorical
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attacks on Rebel News, and then his bodyguards did resort to actual violence. So I suppose
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there's some truth there. But again, this was not the liberals scrutinizing their own conduct,
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but rather demonizing and denouncing Pierre Polyev as if he has ever caused or called for violence
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against journalists. Absolutely outrageous. Stay with us for more.
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You've heard of the Oscars. You've heard of the Junos. But have you heard of the Teddies? It is an award
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given out by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, but it's probably not the kind of award you want to win.
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And here to explain what the Teddies are and who the winners or losers are this year is our friend
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Franco Teresano, the boss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. So Franco, great to see you again.
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Well, you know, it's great to see you. I think sometimes there's a prize for a loser. Like in golf,
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they always have one prize for the highest score. Just to make the losers feel better about
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themselves. Tell me about the Teddies. That's not an award you want to win. Am I right?
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. So this was our 26th annual Teddy Waste Awards where we give
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golden pig trophies to, you know, the politician and bureaucrats who go above and beyond in wasting
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taxpayers money with the funnest or the funniest and worse examples of government waste uncovered
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over the past year. Now, the Teddies are actually named after a former federal appointee, Ted
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Wetherall, who back in the 90s had a raft of dubious expenses, including a $700 meal expense to the
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taxpayer for two. And remember, back in the 90s, 700 bucks nowadays, that'd be like, what, over a grand.
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So we just had a live event in Calgary handing out these pig-shaped trophies to those politicians
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and bureaucrats who really deserve it. Wow. Imagine having that named after you. I mean,
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you know, sometimes in science, they name a comet after someone and they're forever remembered for
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discovery. But having a waste award named after you, that's got to be a heavy burden. You know,
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a $700 meal is shocking. It reminds me of that phrase, I think it was in the Canadian Parliament years
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ago, a million here, a million there. Pretty soon you're talking real money. I mean, these people just
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throw around taxpayers' money like it's monopoly money. But I guess you got to laugh about it,
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because what's the alternative? I suppose it's to cry. Tell us who this year's winners are. I guess
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we're the losers as taxpayers, but who are the winners this year? Well, let's start with the
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federal government waste winner, CBC president, Catherine Tate, right, handing out $15 million in
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bonuses at the CBC in 2023. You know, remember in 2023, just before Christmas, Tate announced
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hundreds of layoffs, all while begging for more taxpayer cash. You know, Tate is claiming the
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cupboards are bare. The cupboards are bare. We need more taxpayers' money. Well, apparently they're not
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so bare that the CBC isn't handing out, you know, millions of dollars in bonuses. So Tate is a very
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worthy recipient of the Federal Waste Award this year for all the bonuses they're paying out at
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that state broadcaster. You're so right. And she was just in parliament, I think it was yesterday,
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and she was pressed on it because she claimed no, no, no bonuses, and she wouldn't answer the
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question. Let me show you a clip from yesterday. There's a weird, I mean, there's this notion of
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unparliamentary language. You don't want to be too rude. And the Speaker of the House will say,
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tut tut, it's weird that MPs can't accuse each other of lying. That's against the rules. But lying
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itself is not against the rules. I don't know if that applies to committee witnesses. I don't think
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it does. But I think we got ourselves a bit of a liar here. Take a look at this clip from yesterday.
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Have you been assigned a bonus for 2023? I realize the board hasn't signed off on it,
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but have you been assigned a bonus for 2023? No, I have not. You have not been assigned a bonus for
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2023? I have not. So for 2023, there is no bonus coming your way? I do not know that I have a bonus
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because the process, as we have described, for governor and council positions is separate from
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performance pay. My process is that I will be evaluated by the board of directors, a letter of
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recommendation will go to the government, and the government will reflect upon whether or not
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I or other appointees would receive any performance pay. Has the board package for that June meeting
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gone out? No. No. Okay, because you are a member of that board. I am. So you not only have a say with
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regard to bonuses for the top executives, yourself included, you have a say not only in March when
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you're a member of the management team, the most senior member of the management team, but then you
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get a second say at the board level. So with all due respect, you do have a fair bit of power in terms of
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bonuses. So I'll ask again, will you be up for a bonus in the consideration at the board meeting in
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June? As I've said previously, this is part of an internal deliberation. It's an HR function,
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and we have to be respectful of the governance that rules the CBC Radio-Canada. But you do know the
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answer. I absolutely do not know the answer until I've had those deliberations with the board of
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directors. I cannot preemptively say what the results of a future conversation will be.
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Sure. You know what the recommendation is. You know what the recommendation is going forward to
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the board. I think I've repeated myself enough to say these are matters that concern the organization
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that operates at arm's length like all crown corporations. And I have to be respectful.
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You are the senior member of the management team, which makes the decisions. And then those
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decisions get recommended to the board, which you are a member of the board. Therefore, you have
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access to information. Point of order, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this question has been asked,
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I think, six times now. Well, Franco, I mean, she is in a terrible position because either she admits
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she gave herself a bonus and she says what it is and she has the wrath of taxpayers for that,
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or she just brazens it out. I don't know. I think she is atrocious. I don't know if she's still
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flying back and forth from her house in Brooklyn to New York. She did that for the longest time. She
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lived in New York and commuted back and forth to the office for the CBC. And I can only imagine that
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we paid for those flights. Okay. That's Catherine Tate. I think you're right. I think she's atrocious.
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I even think some CBC staff really, really hate her because she's such a bad look for them.
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Anyways, let's move on to the next one. Tell me about the provincial teddy winner. So you've got
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10 provinces and three territories to choose from there. Well, this year's winner went to the
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Alberta Foundation of the Arts. Okay. They spent $30,000 flying a Lethbridge artist to places like
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South Korea and New York. Now in New York, you see one of her paintings and I think it could be best
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described as ants on a Pop-Tart. Okay. Then she went to South Korea and the performance, if we can call
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it that, essentially just looked like her whopping around on a futon for like eight minutes. And what do
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taxpayers get into this? Well, we get a $30,000 bill, uh, courtesy of the Alberta Foundation of
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the Arts. So honestly, like you got to see this video. We'll be sharing it online at taxpayer.com
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on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, all that kind of stuff. But once you see it, you will be shocked
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that taxpayers were forced to pay for this artist to go to fancy places like South Korea and New York.
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I got two questions for you. The first is it's called the Alberta Foundation for the Arts,
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which implies it's a charity. Um, but does it get government money? I presume it does since
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you're the Taxpayers Federation. Yeah, this was, go ahead. This was $30,000 of taxpayers' money to
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fly this artist. See, that's crazy. I mean, if some rich person wanted to give 30,000 out of their own
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money to pay for this weird junket, you know what, fill your boots. As the French say, everyone has
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their taste. But for taxpayers to be pressed to do that. Now, I got to say the obvious. Alberta
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has, at least in name, a conservative government, Danielle Smith, and before her, Jason Kenney. So
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this is going on. You can't pawn this off on the liberals or the NDP. This is allegedly in the most
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conservative government in the country. Well, Ezra, and this is just like the bigger problem when it
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comes to government waste more broadly, is that a lot of times you have the unelected bureaucrats
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that are running the show, right? Like you have these politicians, even sometimes, um, the best
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politicians, if we're being generous here, they may want to cut spending, but then you have so many
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unelected bureaucrats that are really running the show in government that are making these types of
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decisions. So what you got to do is you have to have the unelected politicians really go in there
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and clean house and totally rearrange who's making the decisions, right? So this is one of the problems
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we see all the time is that you have these unelected bureaucrats spending buckets of taxpayer
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cash, essentially just looking for things to spend other people's money on. Yeah. You know what? When
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I see something called the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, I actually get a good feeling about it
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because I like all three words. I like Alberta. I like the arts and foundation. In my mind, I think,
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oh, this is a charity. People are being asked to do something selfless, donate a few bucks. Like I,
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but it's actually a deceptive name because it's a, the bureaucrats taxpayers fund for, I mean,
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and art, I guess is in the eye of the beholder. I think that if we wrapped up so many of these
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government charities and reduced taxes, people would, I think people would give generously. I mean,
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historically, the arts always had private benefactors, the Renaissance itself. They didn't tax
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people in Florence. It was the patrons. It was the Medicis, a very wealthy family who said,
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we want to be known forever. So we're going to make this eternal art. I don't think it was extracted
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from working people in Florence. I think if we encouraged a spirit of charity and reduced taxes
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to let people have a few extra bucks in their pocket, we would see charity naturally occurring.
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And by the way, people would be more insistent that their charity money was spent wisely. Don't
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you think? Absolutely. I think you're, uh, I think you're absolutely on the money with that one
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there, Ezra. Now I got to go into one more example, at least. Okay. The lifetime achievement
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award. Okay. This is the big one. It's our most prestigious award folks. You know,
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Bev Oda has won the award, uh, Bombardier, governor's general. This year's award is a little known
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slush fund that you may not have heard of. And that is now axed in large part because of the
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Canadian taxpayers federation work on this, but it's the mission cultural fund. Okay. Now it's
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these, it's these names, Franco, because who could be against a mission cultural fund? Tell me what it
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really does though. What's it really about? Well, listen to this. Okay. Listen to this. It was a federal
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slush fund in global affairs, Canada. And they, they spent money like a $10,000 birthday party for
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Margaret Atwood in New York. Oh, come on. She surely has her own friends. She can have her own birthday
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party. Yeah. She's got her own money too. Yeah. Uh, and then how about this one? A $52,000 photo
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exhibit for rock star Brian Adams. So he could show off his totally awesome photos, including one of
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Trudeau. And folks, that's why he got started. You know, I like Brian Adams. I grew up listening
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to him. I think he's a good egg from what I can tell. And he is a good photographer. He's also a
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gazillionaire who has all sorts of corporate support, his music label. He, why taxpayers would
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have to pay for Brian Adams, a literal rock star to have an exhibit. I think you gave away the answer
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though, because he took a picture of Justin Trudeau. I think that's why.
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Well, okay, folks. And here's a warning. If you got children in the room, it's might get a little
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crazy, but this was from the government. Okay. They spent $8,800 on a sex toy show in Germany,
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8,800 bucks on a sex toy show in Germany. It gets worse. Uh, we found this description from the
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government of another musical, a lesbian pirate musical featuring physically disabled performers,
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uh, who met in love while cross-dressing as male pirates. Your money paid for that performance.
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And you know what though, after all of this, uh, the mission cultural fund, they stuck with it
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until there was one thing that finally put it over the top. And what was the one thing that finally
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killed the mission cultural fund? I don't want to even guess. I have, I'm too scared to guess,
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Franco. Sex stories from senior citizens in other countries. Okay. So the federal government
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dropped 12 grand paying senior citizens in other countries to talk about their sex lives
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in front of live audiences. And folks, these weren't even Canadian seniors. Ezra,
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You know what? I've got a million questions about that that pop into mind,
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but I'll stick with the safe one, which is why on earth were we paying for that? You know,
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they just, I suppose every government when, I mean, Trudeau's been in office for nine years now,
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I suppose every government gets really, really comfortable spending other people's money.
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I bet a lot of this is the deep state, the, the permanent bureaucrats who never changed with the
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election. But, um, I think there's a lot of room to cut the fat before we raise taxes on people.
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That's for sure. Franco, you guys are doing important work. And as we indicated a moment
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ago, it's nonpartisan work. What I like about you guys is you're willing to call out the overspending
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and waste of taxpayers' money, even, and especially by conservative parties. And that's why people trust
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you, Franco, because they know you're not in anyone's pocket. They know you're a hundred percent,
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uh, membership supporters, like ordinary people, crowdfunding. And, and so you can call out,
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quote, our team speaking as a conservative, and that's extremely valuable. So keep up the great
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work. What's the website people can go to check it out? Taxpayer.com. That's a great website.
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Taxpayer.com. There is Franco Teresano, one of the good guys. Keep in touch, my friend.
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Thanks, Ezra. Appreciate it. Okay. See you later. Stay with us. More ahead.
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Hey, welcome back. Some letters about my trip to Ireland. Aid says, letting an aggressive young
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man into a country or city or town or village, what can go wrong? It's almost like someone wants
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trouble. Yeah, I don't get it. I mean, by the way, uh, a lot of the migrants in Ireland are Ukrainian
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and putting aside, uh, the issues of the war, shouldn't a young military age Ukrainian be
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fighting in Ukraine? Certainly Vladimir Zelensky says so. I don't know why, uh, and when you saw me
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going through that migrant camp along the canal in Ireland, I only saw men. Why are single men
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coming in as refugees? I don't get it. Vinstar says, the Irish didn't fight for their land for
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centuries to be extinguished from their own country. Leave the EU. Start there. I did meet
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a couple of candidates for an Irish Brexit when I was there. That was interesting. But I got to say
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this. Who made the decision to bring so many migrants to Ireland? Well, the influence came from
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NGOs and George Soros and the UN and the EU, the World Economic Forum. Sure, the influence did.
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But the final decision, it seems to me, was made by the Irish government itself. That's what's so
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astonishing. And Sinn Féin, which is one of the left-wing parties there, uh, I only knew it as the
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political face of the, um, IRA, you would think that they would be the most adamant about Irish
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sovereignty. Again, I shouldn't wander around historical issues about which I know very little.
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But it was astonishing to me to learn that Sinn Féin is for open borders. Brother, I thought you
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were for Ireland for the Irish. Very unusual, but I'm very glad I went there. I hope to go back again.
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Well, that's the show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters to you at home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
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David Menzies for Rebel News here at so-called Little Gaza. That would be the lawns of the
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University of Toronto. We have several members of the Jewish community and their allies, uh,
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marching, doing a counter-demonstration against the, well, the Hitler Youth Movement that has occupied
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the lawns for a week now. And I am with, uh, a supporter here. Sir, what is your name again?
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Aaron Hadita. I'm the National Director of He Root Canada.
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Okay. Sir, who do you have more contempt for? The thugs that are occupying the lawns or the
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administration that is allowing them and enabling them to do so?
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That's a great question, David. Absolutely the administration. This should never be allowed.
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This is Canada. This is not some Middle Eastern country. This isn't a third world country.
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This is Canada. We're here to uphold Canadian values and show everybody that we are allowed
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freedom here. We're not afraid to express our freedoms. We're not afraid of these people.
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We came to show them they can set up a thousand camps and we will walk into every one of them
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because this is a free country. I would challenge you on that, sir. Can you actually walk onto the
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lawns? My cameraman, Lincoln Jay, and I were here on Monday and we saw many despicable scenes,
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but the worst was two elderly Jewish U of T professors who were physically barred from walking
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onto the lawns. And the special constables, they said nothing and shrugged their shoulders.
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Well, okay. So, so absolutely not. You can't walk onto them. They've got it fenced off.
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They've got their little security guys watching the perimeter of the fences and the administration,
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again, is responsible for that. A Jewish student who goes to school here, whose parents are funding
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it, are not allowed to go to class. That is the biggest travesty of it all. And we are here to
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show people that this is Canada. This isn't a communist country yet, but this is Canada. And at the end
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of the day, we're here to support Canada, Canadian values, our beloved country of Israel, and all of
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the Jewish community and the beautiful Jewish students that go here and that need to see that
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they have massive support. At the end of the day, it's the administration appeasing the crowd and,
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and, and it's Riot Control 101. Appease the bigger crowd because it's a lot easier than appeasing the
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smaller crowd. They are calling people in Israel occupiers while occupying universities around
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the world. This is a game to these students. They think they're reliving Woodstock or the 60s and
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rebelling at Berkeley. This is not what's happening. They don't know what their cause is. They don't
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know anything about the cause. If you ask them which river and which sea, they scratch their heads.
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The bottom line is they're doing this for fun. It's the new TikTok trend to them. That's all it is.
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It's the two eyes, isn't it? Ignorance and indoctrination on campus.
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Absolutely. And who better to indoctrinate than the ignorant? I think you're right. I don't think
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they can name the river and the sea. I don't think they could pinpoint Gaz on a map if you'd ask them
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to. No, they're taking up a cause for something they have no historical knowledge about. They have
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no idea. They don't know where the region is. They don't know who the people are. They don't know who's
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indigenous to the land. They don't know who isn't. The bottom line is they don't care. All they care about
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is that they're rebelling against the system. That's all it is. The keffiyeh that they're wearing
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is a form of rebellion. They're emulating terrorists and it's being allowed to happen
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in North America. We do not allow that type of behaviour in a democratic society yet here we are.
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You can have an encampment over here on private property espousing genocide from the river to the
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sea, intifada, and that's okay. Can you explain that to me? I have no words. I can't explain it
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myself. I think we have to ask our government what's going on. I, for the life of me, cannot
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understand why the university allows this terror encampment to continue. And I worry that the
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university is actually aiding and abetting because it's university fencing, it's university property.
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I don't know how porta potties got brought in there and I don't understand why there is a gatekeeping
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happening to who gets admitted and who doesn't get admitted where Jews are actually excluded from
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entering the encampment, even university professors who happen to be Jewish. They have no idea the
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history of Israel or that land when they have and they are calling and chanting from the river
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to the sea. What you say, they have no idea which river and which sea. They have no idea what's mean
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that. And it's very concerning. I, I comment, I escaped from a dictatorship who put you in jail
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for your belief, for you speak in, in public for public demonstration and now see that kind of a
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behavior here in Canada. They, they hate the speech that they are and it's, it's insane.
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