EZRA LEVANT ｜ Remembrance Day, when a country has clearly forgotten what it believes in
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On this day every year, we remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, and those who also were wounded and survived, who did so for our liberties. But then we go back to enjoying those liberties. We have to make two minutes a year to remember that the lovely life we have was paid for in a moment to think about freedom.
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Hello my Rebels. Today I take you through our Remembrance Day show. You know every year I read
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a poem by Rudyard Kipling called Tommy Atkins. That last line makes me choke up every single
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time. I just can't avoid it. What can I do? We'll also talk to our friend David Menzies who was at
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the National War Memorial today. He's got some interesting reports. Before I go, let me invite
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there, not just my work, but Sheila Gunn-Reed, Andrew Chapados, David Menzies himself, so I
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think there's a lot there. All right, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, it's Remembrance Day, but I'm afraid our country has forgotten not only the sacrifice
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of the soldiers, but what they were even fighting for. Welcome to the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Well, as you know, every November 11th, every Remembrance Day, I read the same poem
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by Rudyard Kipling. It's called Tommy Atkins. I think so many of Kipling's works are applicable.
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If you attended or watched our Zoom Civil Rights Town Hall with Glenn Beck, you'll see
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he quoted one of Kipling's wonderful poems called The Gods of the Copybook Headings. The poems were
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over 100 years ago, most of them in the late 19th century. Many of them set in India. They were about
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military matters and empire matters, but you could see within them some of the same germs of the crisis
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that we face today. A crisis of national self-doubt, of national self-hatred, of forgetting what's right
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and what's wrong. Little did he know the horrors that would be to come in the 20th century.
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I'll read that poem, Tommy Atkins, later because it always makes me choke up. There's that one line
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in there about Tommy Atkins that he sees the way he's treated, and he knows you'll know the one.
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But what's different this year, and even more than last year, I mean, the pandemic was upon us a year ago,
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and masks were everywhere, and lockdowns were here, but the viciousness had yet to come.
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The brutal prosecution of the Christian churches, the imprisonment of pastors had yet to come.
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Even though the cases spiked in Canada, the deaths spiked in April of 2020, you would think things
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would have been over by the fall, but no, they were just pausing before the brutal state truly exercised
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itself. And that was followed shortly thereafter in early 2021 with the vaccines and the forced
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vaccines. And I say forced vaccines because it's no choice to say you can have this vaccine,
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you can choose to have it, or you'll lose your job, be demonized, marginalized from public life.
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That's not any more of a real choice than the choice that your stereotypical mugger says,
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your money or your life. Hey, that's a choice. You just chose your life.
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No. So I think that what we face today is truly the gravest violation of our civil liberties
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in Canada's history. And I say that because normally on Remembrance Day, we stop to
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remember and to praise those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and those who also were wounded and those
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who served and survived, who did so for our liberties. But then we go back to enjoying those
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liberties. We have to make two minutes a year to remember that the lovely life we have was paid for
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in blood. We have to stop enjoying freedom for a moment to think about freedom. That's normally what
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Remembrance Day is like. This year that applies, but it also applies in a different way. We have to
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remember what those freedoms were that they fought for because those are going away. Maybe it's because
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we forgot the price we paid for the freedom, because we forgot about the veterans and those who perished,
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that we have forgotten who they were. We've forgotten the sacrifice and we've forgotten
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what they gave us because we are giving it all away. Could you have imagined two years ago telling
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people that Canadians would be locked in their own home, that they would be fired from jobs despite
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exemplary service, that they would be denied the right to fly on a plane or go on a train, to meet in public,
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to meet in private. In Alberta, if you're unvaxxed, you are not allowed to meet with other unvaxxed people
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for Christmas, for example. That truly is what our veterans and those who fell paid the price to fight
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against. We're not just here to remember the veterans. We're here to remember what the veterans
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fought for. I'm afraid we've forgotten that part too. These are the worst of times. We'll do our best
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to chronicle it, to shine a light of public scrutiny on it, to tell the other side of the story and
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through the Democracy Fund to fight for these people. That's my monologue for today, but now let me end as I
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always do by reading Tommy Atkins by Rudyard Kipling. I went into a public house to get a pint of beer.
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The public any up and says, we serve no redcoats here. The girls behind the bar, they laughed and
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giggled, fit to die. I outs into the street again and to myself says I, oh, it's Tommy this and Tommy
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that and Tommy go away. But it's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play, the band begins
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to play, my boys, the band begins to play. Oh, it's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.
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I went into a theater as sober as could be. They gave a drunk civilian room, but hadn't none for me.
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They sent me to the gallery or around the music halls, but when it comes to fighting, Lord,
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they'll shove me in the stalls. For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy wait outside, but it's
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special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide. The troop ship's on the tide, my boys, the
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troop ship's on the tide. Oh, it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.
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Yes, making market uniforms that guard you while you sleep is cheaper than those uniforms, and they're
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starvation cheap. And hustling drunken soldiers when they're going large a bit is five times better
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business than parading in full kit. Then it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy, how's your soul?
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But it's thin red line of Eros when the drums begin to roll. The drums begin to roll, my boys,
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the drums begin to roll. Oh, it's thin red line of Eros when the drums begin to roll.
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We aren't no thin red Eros, nor we aren't no blaggards too, but single men in barracks,
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most remarkable like you. And if sometimes our conduct isn't all your fancy paints, well,
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single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints. Well, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and
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Tommy fall behind, but it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the line.
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There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind. Oh, it's pleased to walk in front,
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sir, when there's trouble in the wind. You talk a better food for us and schools and fires and all.
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We'll wait for extra rations if you treat us rational. Don't mess about the cook room slops,
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but prove it to our face. The widow's uniform is not the soldier man's disgrace. For it's Tommy this
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and Tommy that and chuck him out the brute, but it's savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot.
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It's Tommy this and Tommy that and anything you please. And Tommy ain't a blooming fool,
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you bet that Tommy sees. That's Tommy Atkins by Rudyard Kipling. That last line just gets me
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every time. We do forget our veterans in the fall and we absolutely do. Don't deny it.
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But worse, we forgot what they fell for, what they died for, what they fought for. And I think that
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is something that they would never forgive us for. Stay with us. We'll talk with David Menzies next.
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Well, our own David Menzies was in Ottawa today at the National Memorial, the National War Memorial
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for the Remembrance Day ceremony there. He then went to Kingston, Ontario, which has a proud military
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tradition. And we've caught up with him actually at the side of the road in Ontario as he's making
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his way back to Toronto. David, thanks very much for pulling over to give us an update. Tell me how
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your day began in Ottawa. Well, Ezra Mauricio, our cameraman, and myself, we went to the glorious
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National War Memorial in Ottawa to take in the Remembrance Day ceremonies. I want to say,
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unfortunately, we were not allowed to be part of the press riser. In other words, to get a good
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viewpoint of the ceremonies. You'd think if there's anything that should be apolitical, non-partisan,
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it is commemorating the war dead and honouring our war veterans. But apparently, that's not how they
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roll in Ottawa. So they kept us out for political reasons, the same way they tried to keep us out of
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the leaders' debate. You got it. We were told you have to be part of the parliamentary press gallery.
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Unbelievable. Unbelievable. As if, by the way, any of them give a hoot about soldiers or veterans.
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You know, twice we've gone to the federal court of Canada to be allowed into the federal leaders'
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debate. And those same smarmy, that little cartel, keeping you, you who is such a booster of soldiers
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and vets and the poppy. I'm sorry to be distracted. You're right. That is not the, we are not the
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centre of the story. The veterans and the fallen are the centre of the story. But the fact that
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official Ottawa is so petty, I'm sorry I can't let that pass without comment. Today is not about us,
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but neither is it about the partisanship that the press gallery showed. Keep going, David. Tell me about
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the event itself. Well, I want to commend Prime Minister Trudeau for making the ultimate sacrifice.
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By that, Ezra, I don't mean that he's actually signed up for military service. I mean that he
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actually showed up to lay a wreath as opposed to, oh, you know, buggering off to Tofino and going on
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a surfing safari like he did on the first National Truth and Reconciliation Day. So at least he showed
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up. Although I understand from my colleague, Sheila, he was late. Given our poor vantage point,
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we couldn't tell who was who in the zoo at the cenotaph. And Ezra, the Prime Minister's office,
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if anyone's ever been to Ottawa, it is literally, literally across the street from the National
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War Memorial. I don't know how you can be late. Likewise, the Governor General intruded upon the
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two-minute moment of silence. Now, there was some security issue, we understood, that was resolved.
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It was a red herring. But here's the thing, Ezra, what dignitaries, including the Governor
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General, including the Prime Minister, must understand is that Remembrance Day is not
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about them. It's not for them. It's for the war dead. It is for the veterans that we're honoring.
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They should never, in this case, I should say the Governor General should not have intruded upon
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that two-minute moment of silence. I thought that was a disgraceful display of etiquette.
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You know what? We have that on video. Here is a clip. So the two minutes of silence,
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you know, I know from that Broadway song, there's 525,600 minutes in a year. And two of them,
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out of 525,600, were supposed to just have a moment. Just have a moment. And it was during that
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moment that the government of Canada broke in to making the announcement that the late
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Governor General was arriving. Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. Here, take a look. Here's the
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Mesdames et Messieurs, Son Excellence, La Très Honorable Mary May Simon, Gouverneur Général du Canada.
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You know, David, I got to say, you and I are talking about the veterans. We're talking about
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the fallen. But between Rebel News being banned from Remembrance Day, by the way, as I don't know
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if our viewers know this, every Rebel is a Legion member. And those that aren't already Legion members,
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we buy Legion memberships. Now, I know that's not the same as serving, obviously, but it's just our
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way of saying whose side we're on. So we show up there and you're told you're not allowed there
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because you're Rebel. Prime Minister comes in fashionably late, Governor General fashionably
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late, and they interrupt the moment of silence to let everyone know the critically important news
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that she's there. I'm sort of mad listening to this. Tell me something good. Tell me something
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heartwarming or tell me something solemn about today other than the joke of our Prime Minister.
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Well, you know, I think, Ezra, even if everything went off without a hitch, this is a day that we
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honour the war dead and the veterans, you know, the 11th day of the 11th hour, the 11th month.
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Here's my thing. What do we do when it comes to our veterans for the other 364 days that are in a
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calendar year? Right now, we have a number, I believe it's between 3,000 and 5,000 veterans who are
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homeless. As you know, Ezra, soldiers and their families on military bases in Canada can't make
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ends meet without sometimes being the recipient of food baskets. We also know from the Prime
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Minister several years ago in Edmonton, dealing with a veteran with PTSD, that you, the veterans,
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are asking for too much, but plenty in the kitty, Ezra, for our own homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist,
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Omar Khadr, $10.5 million to let him live high off the hog. I think this is atrocious. I mean,
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today's ceremony, full of pomp and circumstances, it was equal parts majestic and somber, but we,
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it has to be more about one day a year for these men that put their lives on the line. And just think
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about that, Ezra. Our veterans have done that. They have put their lives on the line. Some of them
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made the ultimate sacrifice. They're asking for too much. An ISIS sympathizer, a terrorist wannabe,
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he gets $10.5 million for taking the life of an ally and partially blinding another. Sometimes I think
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we're on the bizarro Superman planet, Ezra. I'm trying to look for that silver lining,
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but my heart breaks for the veterans. You know, all of our World War I veterans, they have all died off.
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Of the million Canadian veterans that, sorry, the million servicemen who served in World War II,
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there's only about 39,000 left. The average age is 94. And I wonder, Ezra, if we brought the war dead
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back of that greatest generation, if they could see what I call the kinder, gentle tyranny of 2021,
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in which we have vaccine passports, medical apartheid, a kinder, gentle tyranny, but tyranny
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nonetheless, would they even recognize the country that they went to war for and made that ultimate
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sacrifice for? Yeah. That's a very powerful point, David. And we're so glad you're on our team.
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And we know you love the vets. Thank you. And I'm really glad you were there at the National War
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Memorial. And it's a disgrace that the media party kept you out. But I think that just shows that they
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do not take today seriously. Great to see you. We try to support veterans and serving armed forces
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members 365 days a year, 525,600 minutes a year, not just two minutes a year. Great to see you,
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my friend. Thanks for being there. Thanks for your time, Ezra. Thank you so much.
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All right. There you have it. David Menzies in Ontario on his way back from Ottawa. Stay with us. More ahead.
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Welcome back. Your viewer mail. When we talked about Prince Harry, Kerry Lewis says,
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Harry has been canceled out of my life. I wish him well. Yeah. You know, I've never seen anyone who
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talks so much about being private, give so many press conferences, take so many million dollar gigs to
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complain about his lack of privacy. I just don't think it works. Someone with numbers, I don't
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think that's a real name, says, when the government says they're here to help, run, run as fast as you
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can to get away from the government. Yeah. I mean, Ronald Reagan joked the most terrifying words are,
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I'm from the government. I'm here to help. I really think the government has been the biggest problem
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during the pandemic. The virus, as I mentioned earlier, that peaked, the deaths peaked in April
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2020. And I'm not happy that anyone died, but the average person who died was an 80-year-old person
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who was very fat and had three underlying health conditions in the early months. The majority,
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almost 90 percent of those who died were in seniors' homes, many with Alzheimer's, liver disease,
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heart disease, kidney disease. It was not ordinary people on the street who were the ones who were
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locked down. It was not school children. It was not people going to theaters and restaurants and bars.
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And I'm afraid that the tyranny was opportunistic and that the crisis of public health was turned
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into a chance to seize power. And I see no end in sight to that. That's our Remembrance Day show.
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I'm glad David went to the National War Memorial. Can you believe that they actually kept him out
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because he was a rebel? What a disgrace. I'll bid you goodnight now and keep fighting for freedom.
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And I'll leave you with David's video from Remembrance Day. Goodnight.
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How is it possible we have a Prime Minister in the 21st century in a democratic Commonwealth country
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That's a big question, David. But general apathy in Canada to participate in the civics process and
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to actually understand what our country is and our history and heritage is. It's a shame our education
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system doesn't highlight that. So it leads to the state we have where in 2015 we get a Prime Minister
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Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister, I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the
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military. Nobody forced me to join the military. I was prepared to be killed in action. What I wasn't
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prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.
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So which veteran was it that you were talking about?
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Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now.
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Chris, we're going to go to the Prime Minister's office. I think you're going to accompany us. We are
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going to deliver our petition. I want to thank our viewers. More than 10,000 of you signed this
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signature. And the call to action was simply this. It is time to raise the Canadian flags across this
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country permanently. Our veterans paid the ultimate price for our freedom. And they deserve to be honoured
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every day, but especially on Remembrance Day. And even though the flags are up, we still want
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the Prime Minister to get the message that thousands of Canadians were upset and disgusted
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with this virtue signaling, especially given that he didn't even show up for Truth and Reconciliation
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Day on September 30th. He was too busy surfing. So let's go across the street and deliver this petition
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right now. David Menzies for Rebel News here in Ottawa. Well, folks, I'm at the glorious National
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War Memorial. And take a look around. It's the day before Remembrance Day. And lo and behold,
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the flags mercifully have been raised to full staff. And that is indeed the reason for my visit here.
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Perhaps the Justin General Liberals knew we were on our way. We've been advertising it.
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It was to deliver our petition, raise our flag. You know, back in the spring, that's when the flags
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were originally lowered to have staff. And there was perverse irony to it, wasn't there? As my colleague
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Adam Seuss has pointed out, these flags were lowered by the same politicians who are basically doing
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nothing to advance Indigenous affairs. We still have dirty drinking water on so many reserves.
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So was this all virtue signaling? Well, it was outrageous. It's been half a year that these
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flags have been down. Do you know, they've been down for a longer period of time than all the
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dignitaries honored in the past century. Can you imagine? And you may have noticed I'm standing next
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to Chris Samchuk. He is a veteran. And I think Chris has a word or two to say about these flags
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being lowered for so long. Chris, what did you make of it? Was this truly meaningful? Because when I look
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at it, it just seems like so much virtue signaling to me, given that nothing really tangibly is happening
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on the reserves as far as I can tell. It's virtue signaling. And our humble Prime Minister, at least
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he did submit and bring them up before. And thanks for the petition, which I signed as well.
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It's all for naught. This government's smoke and mirrors to me.
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And you know, and speaking of our Prime Minister, I mean, I thought that was just insult to injury that
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on the first Truth and Reconciliation Day holiday, September 30th, which he brought to fruition.
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And we now have a Inuit Governor General. Instead of doing anything meaningful to mark that occasion,
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he buggered off to Tofino to go surfing. What do you make of that?
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I guess he was honoring the Haida Gwaii while he was there on his surfboard, at least.
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Yeah. The hypocrisy, I call it the Librano three H's doctrine of hype, hubris and hypocrisy. And
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it seems like our current Prime Minister has that in spades.
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Well, my boss, Ezra Levent, will love that. He, I think, coined the Librano's nickname. And I wonder
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if Trudeau will make the ultimate sacrifice tomorrow. That is actually showing up to our Remembrance Day
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ceremony, as opposed to going surfing on some beach somewhere. We'll find out. But Chris,
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So my story is, I was a veteran of the Air Force for 20 years I served. I joined in 1997. And then
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I got medically released formally at the end of the process, completely finished. It started because
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I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2015. And through the release process, I got my final date of military
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service was January 6, 2016. So since then, I, you know, as a veteran, you're as any service member,
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you don't want to give up service. It's in it's in our blood. You're a veteran forever. So I fell into
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starting. I started a YouTube channel on September 11th, 2019, when Trudeau dropped the writ on September
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11th, which was a slap in the face to raise awareness about veterans issues and in support of
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the People's Party veterans platform or policy plank, because it's exactly what veterans need to
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have happen. We've been marginalized for far too long.
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And Chris, what is the name of that YouTube channel?
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If you look up Veterans Voice, Chris Samchuk, it'll come up.
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Now, you were an Afghanistan veteran. You are an Afghanistan veteran. What do you make going back to
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September when the election was called? That was when we and the United States abandoned our allies,
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our interpreters and their families, in some cases, even citizens. It makes you wonder now that
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the Taliban is back in charge in Afghanistan and literally, you know, hanging people in the streets
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of Kabul. Do you ever wonder why we even went there in the first place, Chris?
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Every day. Never stopped wondering about it. That's part of the PTSD. It was a real slap in the face to
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our allies, to the Afghans that we helped, the Afghans that helped us to pull out in the manner
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that we did. Disgraceful, in my humble opinion.
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And so unavoidable. This was a preventable tragedy. We could have done, you know, we could have been
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airlifting people out of there months before we announced we were leaving. What do you think
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is the reason for that? Why did we abandon our allies? At least, why did the Justin Trudeau Liberals
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Well, it's the New World Order from Trudeau since 15. We're a post-nation state, as he called us.
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And so why stand up for anything other than their ideology?
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You know, I think you're onto something. Several years ago in Toronto, Prime Minister Trudeau
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said that he has a admiration for the basic type of dictatorship China is in terms of getting
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things done. There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic
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dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.
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And now, years later, we have seen China emerge as the most dangerous bully on the world stage.
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How is it possible, Chris, to you, and you've served this country, standing up for our democracy,
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for our rights and freedoms, how is it possible we have a Prime Minister in the 21st century
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country in a democratic commonwealth country applauding China?
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That's a big question, David. But general apathy in Canada to participate in the civics process
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and to actually understand what our country is and our history and heritage is, it's a shame.
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Our education system doesn't highlight that. So it leads to the state we have, where in 2015,
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we get a Prime Minister elected because he was somebody's son.
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Yeah, the lucky DNA club. And when it comes to the armed forces, when it comes to veterans,
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we have veterans such as yourself suffering from PTSD. We have homeless veterans, if you can imagine,
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in our nation. And yet, remember folks back in Edmonton a few years when he got a question
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from a veteran at a town hall meeting and what Prime Minister Trudeau's answer was? Check it out.
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Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister, I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the
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military. Nobody forced me to join the military. I was prepared to be killed in action.
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What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.
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So which veteran was it that you were talking about?
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Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more
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Veterans are asking too much to Brock Blachick. As he also said to him, thanks for your
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courage for speaking to me here today, which I thought was a real slap in the face to say to a
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soldier as well. That was another nail in that statement.
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It is astonishing to me, Chris, because on one hand, he's saying you are asking as a veteran for too much.
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This is somebody that put their life on the line. And yet, a year earlier, he had cut a check for 10 and a half
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million dollars to our homegrown Al-Qaeda terrorist, Omar Khadar, who took the life of one of our allies.
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We sure are. And in my humble opinion, I mean, I'm no expert, that payout to Omar was because why would
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you want things to go through court? Because court will actually bring out some lessons learned and
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some truth of what actually went down vis-a-vis our government's interaction with it. So let's just
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Yeah, it was astonishing. The official reason was that to fight this in court was going to cost us
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far more than 10 and a half million. Isn't it funny, Chris, suddenly the Justin Trudeau liberals
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Yeah, it's rather fortuitous for them to find that reason, isn't it?
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Well, Chris, we're going to go to the Prime Minister's office. I think you're going to accompany us.
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We are going to deliver our petition. I want to thank our viewers. More than 10,000 of you
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signed this signature. And the call to action was simply this.
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It is time to raise the Canadian flags across this country permanently. Our veterans paid the
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ultimate price for our freedom, and they deserve to be honored every day, but especially on
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Remembrance Day. And even though the flags are up, we still want the Prime Minister to get the message
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that thousands of Canadians were upset and disgusted with this virtue signaling, especially given that
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he didn't even show up for Truth and Reconciliation Day on September 30th. He was too busy surfing.
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So let's go across the street and deliver this petition right now. Hi, sir. My name is David Menzies,
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Rebel News. I'm just here to deliver a petition to the Prime Minister. And your colleague at the front
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door told me to come to number 11. Is this the correct place? Yes, it is, yeah. Oh, okay then. So I can't get in,
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I guess, but I put it in a box. Is that how it works? Well, you can put it in an envelope. Oh, okay then.
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Um, that's the thing. I don't have an envelope for it. I've got a, I can put it in a box. Okay, then.
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There's another petition in here, but it's not for you guys. Okay. We'd be very busy.
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Thank you, Chris. Do I need a postal code or anything or? No, it should be good. Okay. All right,
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then. Thank you, sir. You have a good day. All right.
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Well, there you go, folks. The package has been delivered. More than 10,000 of your signatures
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are on that petition. And, uh, hopefully Prime Minister Trudeau gets the message. Hopefully he
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actually receives it. We know he doesn't care for dissenting voices, but I want to thank all our
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viewers. I want to thank veteran Chris Semchuk, uh, for coming, for answering the call to raise these
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flags. It is so nice, isn't it, Chris, to see the flags at full staff at last. It sure is. It sure is,
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as it should be. For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies.