EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ontario's school boards are run by woke tyrants
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Summary
School boards in Ontario are more out of control than ever under the Ford administration, doubling down on everything from critical race theory to radical transgenderism, to radical transphobia and homophobia, to pornography in elementary schools, to anti-transphobic protests by concerned parents and grandparents.
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tonight sadly most people don't give a rodent's rectum when it comes to voting for a school board
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trustee i'm going to tell you why you should care it's monday july 8th 2024 i'm david menzies and this
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regular viewers of this news channel know that yours truly has done numerous stories on school
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boards in ontario that are a behaving badly b do not treat parents with respect and c are hopelessly
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woke oh there's plenty of blame to go around all right and most of that blame i would argue
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goes to the former minister of education stephen lecce this ineffectual wimp simply turned a blind
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eye to school board shenanigans during his term even when he had the power to dissolve such boards
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it's baffling most parents are repulsed when it comes to school boards embracing ideology over
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education little johnny or janey can't spell cat if you spotted them the c and the t oh but they can
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name all 128 gender identities all right even more remarkable is that one of the key policy issues that
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doug ford pcs ran on back in 2018 was that they were going to rein in the school board nonsense that
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festered during the reign of liberal premiers dalton mcginty and kathleen wynn but talk about bait and
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switch i would argue that the school boards are more out of control than ever under the ford
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administration doubling down on everything from critical race theory to radical transgenderism
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please correct me if i'm wrong here but doesn't the c in pc stand for conservative
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let's start right out hey what happened by the way not only do these school boards not answer
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questions that they deem to be too impolite but these woke educrats actually ban journalists under threat
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of trespass for having the temerity to ask prickly queries i'm personally banned from the durham district
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school board presumably for life because they won't provide a date when that ban ends the reason
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well i asked a trustee in the parking lot no less why this school board is allowing pornography to be
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accessed by elementary age students at their school libraries oh and i do not exaggerate here is one
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demonstration that we covered in durham region a while back by concerned parents and grandparents
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who were met with a counter demonstration by unhinged members of the rainbow mafia and antifa types
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who are oh i don't know pro pornography for minors unbelievable check it out i'm not sure
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but that's okay i mean freedom of speech right i'm a transgender man and i feel that people are
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trying to take away my right to have my representation in a classroom the statistics don't lie we know that
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the majority of people who detransition do so because of a lack of access because of a lack of support
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this time it got out that we're transphobic and we're anti-lgbtq um that is not why we're here some of
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our members are gay my daughter is gay and to that i would say um i'm not sure what they're consuming
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but that is propaganda crazy and yet for bringing this issue up to a sensitive school board trustee
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snowflake i'm now banned from ddsb properties really who do these people think they are and then there was
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our reporting last year regarding the waterloo catholic district school board who employed a
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trustee by the name of wendy ashby who took to twitter to proclaim the following quote the most
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dangerous creature on the planet is the white christian male they're a threat to anyone who is not
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them end quote that's right she's racist sexist and despite being employed by a catholic school board
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she's also a christian a phobe by the way whether you're a devout catholic or a staunch atheist you know
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the woke rot is out of control when it seeps into a catholic school board anyway we figured this was a
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job for our super truck here check it out we're back at the waterloo catholic district school board
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i gotta tell you folks as soon as i pulled in a couple of security guards came up to me and they
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said um sorry your persona non grata you're not allowed to be in the boardroom or even on the parking
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lot can you tell me why that is um it's the board who actually asked us oh okay so when i was escorted
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out last week uh that wasn't just for uh that day can you tell me sir how long i'm banned from the
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premises i have no information about that so i had to move my car and i'm on another property right
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now our jumbotron equipped truck it is sending the message to the school board hopefully they're
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looking out the window and reading that message namely get wendy ashby to tender her resignation
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now i'm delighted to report that ashby soon resigned due to public pressure and that was a good thing
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too because despite her hateful rhetoric the chair of this school board and several trustees were not
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demanding her resignation but they were actually defending this hater but again just because
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i asked questions about a trustee who soon became a former trustee i was banned also from the wcdsb
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and its properties like other boards the solution to independent journalists asking insensitive queries is
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censorship now perhaps the worst example is the halton district school board last year the busty lemieux
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fiasco made headlines the world over kerry lemieux is that crackpot shop teacher who presumably pursues a
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sexual fetish by showing up to class dressed as a grotesque caricature of a female complete with zed cup
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sized breasts it was gross but in the name of the unholy trinity of diversity equity and inclusion
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the halton district school board thought this was an example of gender expression and it was a good thing
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for the kids oh but alas when i donned lemieux's identical costume and showed up to a school board meeting
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suddenly these woke joke educrats weren't down with diversity when a drag queen show was happening in their
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inner sanctum as opposed to inside an oakville high school so they ended the meeting prematurely and
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even called the police check it out can you believe the transphobia here folks can you believe it i'm
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trying to deliver a petition which one of you is going to take it which one of you is going to take it
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what's that for you to leave the room why fire awards to give out to some people who've been waiting
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why did you throw your head under the bus no normal person in the right mind would dress up like that
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and go teach kids come on yeah are you guys okay in your head what is becoming the mockery of the world
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what's wrong with you guys come on stop this get this teacher out of here get him out of that school by
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monday for sure what are you going to do who's going to take this who's going to take this
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wow clearly not a matter of what's good for the goose is sauce for the gander ray and yes i am now
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presumably for life banned from all halton district school board properties nice so why am i rehashing
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school boards acting badly especially now that school is out for summer well i happen to live in
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an area of richmond hill ontario that is having a by-election for a school board trustee next monday
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that would be july 15th and given the shenanigans i have witnessed firsthand with so many other school
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boards i decided to take a very deep dive vis-a-vis researching the candidates who are vying for a
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trustee position for the york region district school board for starters there are nine candidates
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running and i wanted to personally contact each candidate to see where they stand on some specific
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issues that are well concerning to my family now before i recite the email i sent to most of them
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three candidates were immediately disqualified namely peter adams luchowski dennis bailey and by yang lamb
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now these three gentlemen might be superb candidates indeed except for one thing on the official candidates
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list none of these individuals offer an email address or a phone number that's crazy if i can't even
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contact them when they are campaigning for my vote what would it be like getting in touch with them
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if one of them were to become the actual trustee unbelievable so it was that i reached out via email
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to the remaining six candidates here is my email verbatim quote good afternoon hope all is well
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my name is david menzies and i live in ward 2 as such i shall be voting in the upcoming school trustee
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by election a big issue that concerns my family right now is the radical transgender ideology that
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is being pushed by many schools and school boards thus i am reaching out to all the candidates who have
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contact information to find out where they stand on this issue your answers will determine whether or not
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my family my family will vote for you here are my questions thanks for your time true or false
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trans women are real women secondly do you believe it is acceptable for biological males
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to play on the same sports teams and use the same change rooms as biological females and three do you think
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it is acceptable for teachers to keep secrets from parents i look forward to your response end quote
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now i can tell you folks that within five minutes of pressing the send button i received a phone call
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from robert kolowowski and robert answered all the questions with clarity no he does not believe trans
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woman a real woman no he does not think it is acceptable for males to invade female safe spaces
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and no he does not think it is okay for teachers to keep secrets from parents that's a hat trick for robert
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a close second was sarah mian she was simpatico with robert regarding questions one and two and agreed
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in her words 98 with query number three but she loses points because i had to get in touch with her
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with a follow-up phone call as she never planned to return my email which strikes me as really weird
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given that i am not a psychic how would i ever know her stance on those issues now i did get an email
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from candidate susan joseph here it is verbatim quote thanks for reaching out i know that this is
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a complex issue and there are many different viewpoints i support equal rights and freedom
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of expression parental rights as well as full disclosure of all information pertaining to one's children
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and i also feel that schools should be inclusive supportive and free from discrimination the trustee role
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is to advocate for students parents and educators at the board level after reviewing areas of concern
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my own opinion is irrelevant if a situation arises that involves gender expression i would learn as
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much as i could about the situation as with any other and try to be as fair and balanced as possible
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i would consider all viewpoints and be as kind as possible to all parties involved end quote now as
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much as i appreciate miss joseph getting back to me with all due respect her answer is what we call
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in the journalism business a heaping helping of word salad i mean it's a bunch of several feel-good sentences
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linked together meaning absolutely nothing tangible oh except for one statement namely quote
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my own opinion is irrelevant end quote sorry susan but your opinion as a school board trustee
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is entirely relevant and if you think otherwise i don't think you should be running for trustee
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so it was there were three candidates i did not hear from sadra nasseri ali nikju and danny yoon and
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just in case my emails to these individuals went to the junk file i phoned all three and left voicemails
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surprisingly weeks later i've yet to hear any responses now again if you are not going to be
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accessible to a constituent when courting my vote how accessible will you be once you're in office
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i also started doing my own research and i discovered some red flags when it came to mr nasseri
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from a york.com article a few years back i discovered the following quote previous political experience
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both a volunteer and an advisor to various federal provincial and municipal campaigns across the
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greater toronto area since 2019 end quote oh that's interesting but which politicians which campaigns well
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i discovered from one source that mr nasseri is connected to none other than richmond hill
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liberal mp majid johari now given the popularity of the liberals right now and given the disdain for johari
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who is a supporter of the iranian regime this is not a good thing to have on one's resume these days if
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you're running for public office i was also tipped off that nasseri has allegedly scrubbed the web of
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all incriminating evidence but not quite because as the saying goes the internet is forever so check out
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these three images of nasseri getting chummy with well none other than majid johari oops now i did reach
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out to nasseri for the purposes of getting his side of the story for this monologue and alas the radio silence
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continues i wonder why here's the point though folks i am going to make a prediction that when this school
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board trustee by election takes place next monday the turnout will be absolutely abysmal
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that's a shame the reason why so many school boards have gone hopelessly woke is that these boards
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have been effectively colonized by the far left the only way to counterbalance this and bring about
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effective change is to elect trustees who are non-woke who put education above ideology
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we need a big reset here that is why it is incumbent on all of us on all parents to not only come out and
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vote but to do our due diligence in researching exactly who these candidates are and what they stand for
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if not no matter where you live in our great dominion expect more of the same which is to say expect the
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marxists to continue setting the educational agenda and you know our children deserve better much better
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on sunday in france a coalition of french left parties banded together and the result was marine
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le pen's national rally party fell far short of winning an absolute majority and now in an attempt to make
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sense of it all is rebel news reporter alexa lavoix who is in paris right now well alexa i've been watching
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your reports uh from france with great interest first of all what did you make of the election there was
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so much hoopla that this is it there's going to be regime change uh marine marine le pen is going to
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form the next government didn't work out that way did it so what i make of all this first of all uh they
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don't have the majority so of course it would be difficult to do any change in the system or to
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vote any law or regulations so a lot of people on the ground they believe that you know france would
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just be our friends is uh for the next year because it would take a year before um the government in
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place would be allowed to dissolve the the the parliament again so right now we have a left
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um government a lot of people think that it was uh vote on democratically because uh of course marine
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le pen won way more votes than anybody else uh it's just the fact that the vote was not as much
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concentrated in some area so it was spread all over friends and uh and the thing is they have a two
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round system so for them it was easier to plan like a kind of strategy to make sure
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that they would counter the right wing party of marine le pen and alexa this election was the
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result of mr macron saying you know calling a snap election uh which is always very risky uh i imagine
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he must have some buyer's remorse too but in the same time yes probably because you know it called for
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a snap election a lot of people on the ground say he did the worst mistake for himself uh because uh
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last election he had a hard time to get um to get vote like it he didn't have as much a stronger um
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support from french people on the last one so of course with the fact that marine le pen was polling
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so high and the fact that she she she had like so many seats at the european parliament uh i think
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he did a great mistake but i think he was playing his card as if i don't do it now i'm going to lose
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and stronger uh if if i'm not doing it now so now i think he's trying to do a coalition with other
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the left party i would say because right now as i say he decided to keep the prime minister in place
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at all for making sure that the country is still stable over this crazy chaotic election so we'll see
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if they will keep him like in place or they will change it after a while but a lot of people on the
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ground what they express is like they think that next year or in two years from now they will have
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another election that that's almost for sure you know that's interesting alexa that you say that there
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are people uh saying that there's some stability right now but i see a lot of reports of observers
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saying uh for the next several months maybe even for two years when the next election takes place
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um that there was a lot of political and even economic uncertainty uh france is the second biggest
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economy in europe uh what are you hearing from your sources there of course there is some concern
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uh especially about immigration i would say a lot of people are kind of uh scared that they will have
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more immigration so of course a financial cost that would come with it um they will have like uh probably
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you know probably spending for climate change or other policy that the um nouveau fonds popular uh stand for
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so days i would say paris is really from the left so on the street doing streeter i it's almost one side
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of the story so trying to dig and to dig and to find some people who are in the other side it's really
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difficult um what i saw so far like you know like on the night of the election when i arrived on the scene
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uh because they were supposed to have a gathering at the national assembly afterwards they didn't have
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like the permission to do it so they moved to that place de la republic and my first impression when i
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arrived there first of all the crowd was was really really young and there were a lot a lot of antifa
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flag and palestinian flag but i didn't see that much france flag that surprised me because we know how
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france is like france used to be so patriotic so like proud to be french you know and and and it's
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not what i felt i it's not what i felt at all on that crowd of young people so um i was able to
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interact with some of the people on the ground to ask them a couple of questions but it seems that
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first of all because you know marine le pen have expressed that with the government of the um
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nouveau franc populaire the right of the property the property rights might be
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reviewed under the nouveau franc populaire so um i asked them like if they are they they have any
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concern about it because they are young people you know and what i receive as their answer they say
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i don't care if you don't own anything like i don't care if you don't own like a property or a home
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anyway right now i cannot afford a home so i was like i i find that pretty shocking because you know
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as young person you want to work hard you want to own like your own home you want to be independent
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you don't want to just keep like renting all the time so um i don't know what you make of it but i was
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kind of surprised because you know um quebec is kind of like a small detail of like france but we we
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we have like the same kind of um patriotic feeling and um i know that a lot of french canadian wants to
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have a home they want to have a property and and to hear that from really young people like i would say
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they were like 18 to 21 22 years old to hear that from them i i find that kind of shocking
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yeah you know that is incredibly interesting i mean of course alexa the globalists they say
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you'll own nothing and be happy looks like mission accomplished in france at least for the young people
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they're on board but you did mention immigration this is a very hot button issue as it is in so many other
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western nations and i really thought this was going to be the policy platform that would say you know
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swing the pendulum uh for miss le pen uh i i've been watching your reports i i saw one i'm paraphrasing
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here but i remember you interviewing a a gentleman originally from africa and i i'm you know the gist of
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it was the french you know centuries ago came into africa and and stole from us exploited us and now
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we're coming here i guess legally or not i was uncertain and we're you know trying to get a bit
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of the pie back and you know i just found that disturbing that you know it was um you're almost
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a citizen based on a confrontational revenge kind of basis as opposed to being you know a proud new
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frenchman est-ce que vous comprenez le pourquoi qu'elle veut arrêter l'immigration massive ils
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eux-mêmes eux-mêmes là si tu les demandais pourquoi eux-mêmes je peux pas te dire pourquoi parce que eux-mêmes
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qui veulent arrêter l'immigration c'est les immigrés aussi vous pensez pas que ça a rapport avec le fait que
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justement les immigrants qui rentrent ont accès à tous les services qui fait un fardeau fiscal à la population
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voilà voilà maintenant on rentre dans la politique du fin fonds je vous explique le fin fonds c'est quoi
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qui a ramené la guerre en afrique c'est les français pourquoi pour aller voler nos biens nous maintenant
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on est venu ici pour venir récupérer nos biens voilà donc tu peux pas nous chasser comme ça
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donc vous pensez vous avez un droit acquis bien sûr on a un droit acquis parce que ici on est dans le pays
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de droit droit de l'homme can you uh weigh in on um why i guess immigration uh well according to the
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numbers uh it it it isn't as much of a concern that so many observers thought it was in terms of giving
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uh le pen uh the government but i would say that it it is a concern for everybody because so far they
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say yes we want like a legal way of immigration of course we should like be more uh have a structure
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for immigration and we should be like more focused on like you know growing economy with our immigration
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but the thing is they say that but what they say also we say that marine le pen she's a a nazi
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and she she's a racist and um that she don't she don't want any any immigration and and they say
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that she's the kind of person that wants to deport everybody when she never never ever say that
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she never mentioned anything to deport massively everybody she didn't mention to completely stop
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immigration she just say that we need to be more careful we need to have like a stricter uh
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immigration policy uh she said that we they will remove the right of the the ground or the right of
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the sword that we say um and she say also that some of um sensitive work will not be permitted to
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people who have double nationality so it's what she say so far but she never say we will stop
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completely the immigration and she also say that people who wants to apply for having like
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french citizenship at 18 they will be allowed to do it and they cannot receive it if they didn't
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have any criminal record so if they have criminal record they cannot have their french citizenship
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well you know alexa i'm always baffled by this um you know moral equivalence on the left that if you
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want strong secure borders therefore you are a racist i would argue if you don't have strong secure
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borders that's the very first litmus test of being a nation and if it's a porous uh boundary uh or
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border uh then you really aren't much of a real nation to begin with but moving on i think we
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discussed in the morning meeting uh you were going to ask um uh i thought a very interesting question
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in your next round of streeters i don't know if you've done it already but it was the idea of
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if napoleon were alive today what would he say about the situation in france what say you my friend
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oh yeah so some people have said that it would be probably terrified or some people i say probably
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disappointed and some probably have bring the fact that he was a dictator and that he was not really a
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good man of course like that's come from you know the leftist people uh some people i've said that they
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have no clue about it um it was a really a diverse like kind of opinion but i once had something today
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i went to uh homeless encampment and what i want want to bring into uh the viewer is like since it's like
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the olympic games i don't know if you can see like there's the olympic games coming up uh first of all
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they have moved all the encampment of uh homeless people but what i saw so far is like in the homeless
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encampment here it's mostly migrant that is different of what we see in canada most of the people in canada
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we i saw a lot a lot of like just you know canadian but here it's mostly migrant and today i spoke
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uh a long time with uh someone from nigeria and he's here since four years but since two years
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is refugee claim was was reject and so he's he's living in france illegally since two years
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and only now that encampment's uh removed because in less than three weeks the olympic games takes place
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in pairs and i gotta tell you um alexa with all the problems france is struggling with
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the idea of hosting the olympics i mean what were they thinking you know talk about bread and circuses
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as opposed to using uh this money because like all host cities or nations it's going to be a multi-million
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or perhaps even multi-billion dollar debt um what is the mood of the people uh in france in terms of
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as i said before given all the problems affecting you know everybody who lives almost i would say in
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france that there's enough money for this extravagant sporting event um i would say at the some people
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have expressed that it's not the good time because the nation is not really uh stable there is a lot
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of polarization a lot of uh splitting people into kind of party um this someone today um answered to me
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like not only record but he was explaining that now the center when you are from the center it's
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that the right wing hates you the left wing hates you because you're not you're not taking like any
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side and so this is the opinion of one man in the street but probably i know that a lot of people
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today are censored themselves they don't want to um show their color they don't want to show their
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political uh color they they don't want to speak that much about everything that is regarding politics
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i think a lot of people are struggling like to pay rent and to pay like you know daily life uh
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bills um it's really sad because when i ask them like if they are ready to pay more tax to receive
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more immigrants and most of them were leftist some say yes and some say no we cannot afford it because
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right now i i have a hard time to to pay my bill at the end of the day so hosting an event like
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olympic and by the way i don't know if you you you know about it but in at night apparently uh coming
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from uh some of the people i know in paris the eiffel tower is not safe at night apparently there is a
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lot of uh theft there is a lot of like you know criminal activity and so um and and some of the people
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are concerned about maybe like the fact that a big concentration of tourists will be in paris and
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in france some of the people will come into paris that live like in the suburb or in the neighborhood
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and there will be a lot of increase of maybe theft or other like kind of um you know like incident and
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i don't think the friends that french people wants to see more and more you know media attention on
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the bad side of paris friends well alexa we're running out of time uh one quick question uh especially
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pertaining to paris in the nighttime and uh criminal activity um the antifa types amassed and they were
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ready to riot if le pen uh got that majority um that coalition of leftist parties as we mentioned
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right off the hop they were successful but these guys still went out and did some rioting i understand
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i can you explain to me what the mentality of these people are maybe it's a little mom-pa business they
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can't afford the plywood to put up in front of their shop window and these hooligans and thugs
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kick in the window steal the inventory i just think that's an absolute disgrace and i've heard of
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sore losers but sore winners alexa last word goes to you yeah so i spoke with one of the shop manager
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and they say that 4 000 euro was spent for plywood for their window um some like every shop mostly in
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champs elysees um they prepared themselves because it's not their first rodeo i would say um but
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where where they actually did the riot was at the republic place so i saw a lot of city bikes you know
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the city bike that you you pay and you take and you just like bring it back afterwards a lot of them
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where just i don't know if they were ripped off because i'm pretty sure they didn't put i'm pretty
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sure they didn't put like the credit card for it but some of the city uh bike where where start they
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started in fire in the middle of the street or they were found everywhere just like throwing away and like
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really uh just for damaging them and i saw like window being smashed they were throwing a glass bottle of
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of uh beer to the police officer um there is there i saw trash everywhere so my point is like i thought
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that the the left people were caring about you know climate change or you know being environmentally friendly
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but it's not what i saw yesterday was like you know like just putting trash everywhere graffiti
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vandalism and they were just like you know this the the street is is at it's for us you know and and
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i was kind of shocked because it's completely the opposite of what they used to virtually stand for
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unbelievable alexa well listen i want you to stay safe you're sending in some fantastic
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reports you're doing great journalism on the streets of paris so again alexa be safe and we'll look
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forward to more of your reports in the days ahead thank you so much thank you