EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau enters his 'mad king' phase
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A clip from Justin Trudeau's speech to the Liberal Party's convention. A policy proposal that was voted by the Liberals to be among their top 20 ideas. And then I read to you from a proposed policy change that involves censoring the media.
Transcript
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you into the bosom of the Liberal Party's convention.
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I'll show you a clip from Justin Trudeau's speech. I want to show it to you because he
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bears his teeth in that angry manner that he does from time to time. I want you to see it.
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And then I'll read to you from a policy proposal that was voted by the liberals to be amongst
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their top 20 ideas. It won't surprise you to hear that it involves censoring the media.
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I'll show you that and more. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News
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knee to him. 99% of the media in Canada bend the knee to Trudeau. We will not. All right,
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here's today's podcast. Tonight, Trudeau enters his Mad King phase. It's May 5th and this is
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the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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Yesterday was an astonishing day on Parliament Hill. Michael Chong, a Chinese-Canadian MP for the
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Conservative Party, who has criticized communist China. It was revealed this week that the Chinese
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government was targeting him and his family, both overseas in Hong Kong and here in Canada.
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And in fact, one of the people targeting him was known and he was actually given diplomatic
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credentials to be here in Canada working for the Chinese embassy. There's over 180 Chinese diplomats
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with those credentials. Trudeau had lied about it, saying he didn't know and no one knew and he blamed
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CISUS. But CISUS met with Michael Chong and told him the truth that Trudeau had lied. It was shocking.
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Now, watch this. Watch Michael Chong go head to head with Melanie Jolie, the foreign minister,
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probably the least serious, least qualified foreign minister Canada has ever had in office. Listen to
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her stammer a bit and then basically say, well, we can't do anything because China's watching us and we
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don't want to displease the Communist Party. Have you ever seen such weakness before?
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Minister, the Article 9 of the Vienna Convention is clear.
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Why is this diplomat still here? Article 9 of the Vienna Convention is clear.
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Article 9 says that the government can declare a diplomat persona non grata for no reason.
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The article is clear. So why is this diplomat still here, a diplomat who has more rights and
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immunities than the Canadians around this table, to go around and conduct his foreign interference
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threat activities? He has diplomatic immunity. He cannot be criminally prosecuted. We all remember
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the case of the Russian diplomat who mowed down a Canadian citizen in a drunk driving case and killed
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her. And Minister Manley was unable to do anything about it. You are, you have given accreditation
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to a diplomat here who is using his diplomatic immunity to target not just me and my family,
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but other members of Parliament. So why do you, Minister, continue to allow this diplomat to be
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accredited in this country on Canadian soil? That is the question. And you haven't answered the
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Well, let me be able to answer the question. And of course, Michael, I understand your frustration
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We are one of the only democratic allies in the NATO alliance that has not expelled a single PRC
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diplomat. And Canadians are being targeted by the over 100 diplomats accredited here.
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Yes. Okay. Thank you. So first and foremost, what we're doing right now as a government is
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we're assessing the consequences that we'll be facing in case of diplomatic expulsion because
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there will be consequences. I think it's important the Canadians know what we've learned from the
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two Michael experience is that, of course, China and the PRC will take action. These interests,
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interests, including economic interests, consular interests, and also diplomatic interests, will be
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will be affected. And therefore, no, Michael, I just want to finish my answer because this is
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very important. It's about you, but it's about also the interests of the country. So as we are
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assessing the interests, and I know that we are under pressure to go fast, we need to make sure as well
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that we protect our democracy. And that is why we will take action in light of the facts that are being
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presented regarding your case, and, you know, any MP that could be targeted. So that's why my deputy
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minister right now is meeting with the Chinese ambassador and summoning him. And that's why also we're
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assessing different options, including the expulsion of diplomats, because it is important that we take
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a decision. A disgraceful show of weakness, lack of national confidence, total submission to China,
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so gross. I don't even know why the Chinese need spies here. They're right in the heart of the
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government. But where was Trudeau yesterday? He was in Ottawa. He just didn't bother going to
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question period or anything like that. He was very busy, though, doing other important things. It was May 4th
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yesterday. Now, you might know that the children's movie called Star Wars, it had a catchphrase,
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may the force be with you. And it's become a meme. May the 4th be with you is a joke for when the
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it's the 4th of May. So on May 4th, Star Wars fans say that it was a children's, may the 4th be with
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you. It's a funny joke if you're a kid. So here's what Trudeau was doing yesterday, not dealing with
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the Chinese spy scandal, not dealing with an MP being attacked by a foreign diplomat, not answering
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Michael Chong in Parliament. He was busy and he tweeted about it. He said, I have an important message for
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you. Oh, you have something to say about Michael Chong? No. Yeah, he's a child. He has the moral
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seriousness of a child. But he had time to go to his party's political convention. He gave a partisan
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speech, which is fine. And listen to one of his attacks on his opponent, Pierre Polyev. Look at
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Trudeau's face. Look at the moment he bares his teeth that way. He does that when he can't control
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his rage. Take a look. But this, this is what the Conservative Party of Canada has become
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under Pierre Polyev. Even Aaron O'Toole knew that. Before he left, he admitted that members of the
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Conservative Party went deep down into the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories during the pandemic,
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It's quite telling that when Pierre Polyev sat down with President Joseph R. Biden a month
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ago, he used his precious time to complain about vaccine mandates. Not borders, not jobs for the
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middle class, certainly not Ukraine, but vaccine mandates.
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So Pierre Polyev mentioned forced vaccines to Joe Biden, that Joe Biden still has in place today.
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You know, they're still in place for another week. You can't go into America if you're not jabbed.
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It's one of the, I don't even know if there's another country in the world that has that rule.
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It makes no scientific sense. It makes no health sense. It makes no economic sense. It makes no sense
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between our two countries, supposedly allies. But put aside making sense, it's just downright
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immoral. And look at the rage with which Trudeau spits out his words. Yeah, he's full of hatred.
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I think he always has been, at least towards anyone who crosses him, like the truckers.
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For a brief moment a few days ago, Trudeau pretended, oh, I never forced anyone to get the vaccine.
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I guess he's done pretending. Here's our little video mashup of that gaslighting.
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If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice. But don't think you can get on a plane
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And now is the time for people who are still resistant to getting vaccinated to realize
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that that choice, which has consequences on putting our kids at risk, which has consequences
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at having us risk more lockdowns because they haven't chosen to get vaccinated yet,
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that there will be consequences for those people in not being able to go to a gym or a restaurant,
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not being able to go to a movie theater, not being able to get on a train or a plane.
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I want to stand up for the choice of those who are there for their neighbors,
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not those who are risking us all going into further lockdowns, of slowing our economic recovery.
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Trying to bring people together is not always compatible with science, with respect for human rights,
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I mean, when Aaron O'Toole talks about, oh yes, we need to unite people,
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we need to bring people together, he's talking about defending the rights of people who are anti-vax.
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If you want to get on a plane or a train in the coming months,
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So families with their kids don't have to worry that someone is going to put them in danger
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Unfortunate that people who chose not to get vaccinated are now the ones clogging up our ICU systems
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and our hospital beds that should be available for people who did their work and did get vaccinated,
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making sure that businesses that choose to move forward with vaccination requirements
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aren't subject to unnecessary or unjustified lawsuits.
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If you make a choice, a personal choice, to not get vaccinated,
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then I will have no sympathy for you when you come to me and said,
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oh, but I can't go out to a restaurant with my friends,
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or my employer is telling me I have to continue to work from home.
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So what do they do at these liberal conventions?
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Well, they get drunk and then do the blackface thing or anti-indigenous thing,
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Take it from this liberal delegate who was there.
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So people were getting drunk and tired rather quickly.
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So I was here last night listening and reacting to racism from liberals.
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So when you respond to racism, do not respond with food, fun, and fashion shows as you've done in the past.
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And I think we all want to make sure that we condemn any type of racism of any type.
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And we need to understand that actions matter more than words.
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Yeah, never let a Trudeau liberal get away with calling you racist or sexist or anything.
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But seriously, when they're not drunk and racist, they're planning new ways to rule you like this.
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So this document here is the proposed 2023 policy resolutions.
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This is where liberals daydream about what they want Trudeau to do.
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There are a ton of ideas, many of them kooky ideas, that come up from the grassroots of the party.
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And they winnow down the ideas to get rid of the more extreme ones.
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I think there's 338 riding associations in the country.
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So the liberals whittled down all their ideas to the 20 best ideas.
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Note, the following policy resolutions are presented and submitted by provincial territorial boards,
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liberal policy commissions, and the liberal caucus.
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Registered liberals from across the countries have prioritized the following 20 resolutions
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through a national online voting and discussion process.
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And the resolutions below will be presented at the national convention.
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The resolution is not considered a policy of the party unless it has earned majority support
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So these have been voted on by liberals across the country.
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What you are about to read is what they consider one of the most important issues in the country.
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Now, I'll read it to you, and I'll intersperse my thoughts in between each sentence, okay?
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It's called Combating Disinformation in Canada, and it's sponsored by the Liberal Party of Canada
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Now, there's a bunch of preambles, whereas the United Nations Secretary General recognizes disinformation
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Yeah, it's an existential risk to humanity, just like climate change, just like COVID,
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just like we need gender reassignment surgery, just like your tax increase.
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Whatever they want to do, it's essential, you see.
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Whereas online information sources are the source of most disinformation aimed at and
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What does that sentence even mean, other than trying to sound very deep?
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Whereas those who produce misinformation seek to undermine trust in people and institutions,
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First of all, you can disagree with and distrust government for good reasons.
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And I think the establishment has done an impressive job of undermining their own credibility
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Whereas one recent poll found 44% of Canadians believe much of the information from news organizations
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And 71% believe official government accounts of events are untrustworthy.
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So you mean to say that 29% of people still trust politicians?
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That is a shockingly high number of people who still trust.
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Whereas the demand for information 24-7 has increased the need for programming contemporaneously with
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the loss of advertising revenue to online platforms.
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Whereas to reduce costs, mainstream media no longer employs as many reporters with extensive
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knowledge of particular subject areas and fills content with opinion programming rather than news.
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And whereas the result has devalued mainstream media as a source of news and
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information, be it resolved that the Liberal Party of Canada, and I'll read the next part
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next, but you notice they're talking about the mainstream media.
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They're worried about the mainstream media losing trust.
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What's the definition other than just media Trudeau controls?
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I think that's why they like the mainstream media.
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It's just that what they mean is the Trudeau media.
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And yeah, that's all their throat-clearing preamble.
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The first is, request the government provide additional public funds to support advertisement-free
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news and information reporting by Canadian media through an arm's-length nonpartisan mechanism.
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So naturally, liberals want more money for their friends, more taxpayers' money.
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But why should it be advertising-free or subscription-free?
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If you can't sell ads or sell subscriptions or crowdfund like we do, why should your hobby
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be called a job and bailed out by taxpayers just because the liberals like you?
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They're already handing out hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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They're just not doing it in an arm's-length, nonpartisan way.
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Request the government explore options to hold online information services accountable
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for the veracity of material published on their platforms and to limit publication only
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Now, it used to be that reporters would hold politicians to account.
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Politicians here will hold journalists to account.
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Politicians will tell reporters what is true or not about the politicians.
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Politicians will tell you what to believe or not.
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They'll demand to trace your information sources.
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Especially given that the very next policy idea in this booklet is to protect whistleblowers,
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except if the government will want to trace your whistleblowers, I guess, if he blows the
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You remember my story a couple of days ago about the CBC threatening Twitter?
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That if Twitter didn't delete certain tweets, the CBC didn't like, the Trudeau government
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Well, Matt Tybee is an American reporter who released the first wave of the Twitter files,
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which showed internal censorship at Twitter before Elon Musk.
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It's an internal email from Twitter Canada where the Twitter executive says they had reviewed
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the censorship demands by the CBC and found they didn't amount to anything.
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So the CBC threatened to sue them, to sue them.
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During the call with Cam Gordon and myself, the CBC threatened legal action, so Cam and
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Why would the CBC, which is a news organization, call up Twitter and threaten to sue them, a
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private company, because they didn't censor people the CBC wanted them to censor?
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He's seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party.
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Look at this amazing tweet from him just yesterday.
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The financial censorship of political enemies is something we're used to seeing under authoritarian
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No one was surprised when Russia froze more than 100 bank accounts tied to opposition leader
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But Canada did it, too, locking more than 200 accounts of people protesting vaccine mandates.
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That got three and a half million views, that tweet.
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He's the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, who was the attorney general.
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RFK Jr. is a progressive American political legend.
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And he's against forced vaccines, just like Pierre Pauli had.
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You know, there are some neighborhoods that are known around the world, Skid Row in Los
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There were some places even in Canada, East Hastings Street, that for years were known
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as the dangerous drug place where people who perhaps should be institutionalized either
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for medical care or psychological care, they were just dumped on the streets.
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But the thing about Skid Row and East Hastings Street is they are in every big city in North
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America now, maybe not so much in Florida, but in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto,
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But I've never seen anything as shocking as this, well, it's almost a billboard in Vancouver.
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It's just the craziest thing, but actually it's completely unsurprising.
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How different is that from what politicians and activists call safe injection sites?
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This was just a man trying to make some money off it.
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Well, police shut it down after a few hours, but not before our friend Aaron Gunn went there
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He's joining us now via Skype to tell us the story of the latest dystopian development from
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To pretend that there's been no hard drugs and other things for sale on the streets of
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Maybe it's just that this guy was more brazen than anyone else.
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But actually, what he's doing isn't new, is it?
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And in fact, you almost have to thank him for being the perfect example of how ridiculous
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Yes, not everybody's got a big sign out front when they're selling crack or cocaine or crystal
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It's never been easier to get drugs or to get high in B.C.
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And I know you mentioned that, you know, these kind of skid rows are popping up all over
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Well, here in B.C., which is obviously the flashpoint of Justin Trudeau's decriminalization,
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It's in cities, you know, as small as Duncan and Campbell River and Penticton, where they
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Drug use is open and rampant and the crime that's associated with it, of course, because
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if you're going to be spending $100 or $200 a day on your drug habit, you got to find a
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way to get that money and you probably don't have a nine to five job.
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So there's all sorts of deep societal consequences from this.
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But of course, this particular instance in Vancouver, which we stumbled upon, it wasn't
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even my plan to be in the city that day, was just kind of, you know, Vancouver's reached
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Hey, let me read from the Vancouver police press release.
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And even in the press release, there's some irony.
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VPD, Vancouver Police Department, arrests illegal drugstore operator.
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Vancouver police have arrested a man for drug trafficking in connection with an illicit drug
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dispensary that began operating yesterday in the downtown east side.
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It's just that this guy wasn't part of the club, you see.
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VPD's organized crime section launched an investigation, began gathering evidence after
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the suspect started selling cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, and heroin out of a mobile
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And then I just got to read this part, Aaron, and I'd love your reaction.
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We support measures aimed at improving public safety for people who use drugs, including
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harm reduction services and decriminalization, says Constable Tanya Vizintin.
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However, we remain committed in our position that drug trafficking will continue to be the
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Are you arresting this guy just because he's not part of your approved drug dealing NGOs?
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That's a 180 degree turn in the course of one paragraph.
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But we support dispensaries to give people good drugs.
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And here's the other little hidden truth that the government probably doesn't want you to
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know and I think is going to explode over the next six months.
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The biggest drug dealer in Canada right now, when you're talking about powerful, addictive
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drugs, is the federal government, is Justin Trudeau.
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With the so-called safe supply program, a so-called safe supply that they've rolled out across
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I've chatted with pharmacists off the record that are dispensing over a thousand pills
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every single day of powerful, addictive opioids.
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So maybe the feds and maybe the police are just worried about this entrepreneurial individual
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taking some market share away from the government.
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You know, we're talking in an absurd way because it's an absurd situation, but it's deeply troubling.
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I have trouble wrapping my head around the ideology for this, but there was a video I saw by a
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Aaron, I don't know if you've ever come across him.
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He's sort of the muse at the World Economic Forum.
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And he talks about a future where most people are, quote, useless because of high tech and
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And he says the thing to do with useless people is drugs and video games.
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You take a listen to Yuval Noah Harari talk about a terrifying dystopian future where people
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Again, I think that the biggest question in maybe in economics and politics of the coming
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decades will be what to do with all these useless people.
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I don't think we have an economic model for that.
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My best guess, which is just a guess, is that food will not be a problem.
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With that kind of technology, you will be able to produce food to feed everybody.
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The problem is more boredom and what to do with them and how will they find some sense
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of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless.
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My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games.
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I think that is a terrible future that we want to fight against.
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But Justin Trudeau goes to Davos almost every year.
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Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister, is actually a trustee of the
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I don't know how you can be a trustee of that while also in the Canadian cabinet.
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I think there's an ideology that some people want as many people drugged, helpless, in
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They don't want them to be independent, free, and healthy.
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I can think of no other reason for the government doing what you've just described, Aaron.
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Well, at the very least, I think the point that you're making, Ezra, is an important
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one, which is that this push for decriminalization, this push to just hand out free drugs, this
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You are basically telling these people, this is the best you can do.
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And we're going to almost treat what's happening in places like the downtown east side as a
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You know, when I was standing outside this truck, and to be clear, the police knew it
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The guy publicized it beforehand and allowed him to operate for the entire day.
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They didn't actually arrest him until the following day.
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So there's huge lines there of people buying meth and heroin and cocaine.
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So it was completely operating in broad daylight for 24 hours.
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We even got a picture of a police car driving by while this was happening.
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But while I was standing there interviewing people, a group of three or four individuals
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actually walked past the truck and were quite animated and frustrated and angry.
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There was a recovery house for people that were formerly addicted to opioids who are now
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The one individual told me he'd been clean for a year and was just insulted that the government
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would be allowing this to happen right in front of his face.
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I think it's an important part of the story because even those right in the worst throes
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of addiction, it's amazing with health, with recovery, with treatment.
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They can return to being taxpaying and productive members of society once again.
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And when you just start handing out free drugs like this, when you allow other people to
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be openly dealing drugs or using drugs right in the open, which is commonplace here in British
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Columbia, you are enabling this kind of behavior and you are normalizing this kind of behavior.
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And the deep societal consequences that are going to stem, that are going to echo, I think,
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for years and decades to come from the policies of this government are, I think, actually quite
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sad because these are people's lives at the end of the day, as you pointed out.
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You know, I think one way to think about it is alcoholism.
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I mean, there's drug addictions and there's alcohol addictions, and in fact, alcohol is
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And if someone's an alcoholic, they need attention.
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They need a buddy in those 12-step programs, someone to call if they're feeling vulnerable.
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And of course, the old Alcoholics Anonymous, you know, there was a spiritual element.
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You had to give yourself over to a higher power.
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And the idea that instead of the AA program, Alcoholics Anonymous, obviously, I've never
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But they've been enormously successful for a number of people, not for everybody.
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Imagine throwing out the Alcoholics Anonymous model and saying, no, we're going to do the
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Free drinks, but I promise you they're safe and it's in a friendly environment.
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And if you want help after you've taken all your drinks, we'll give you like, like we
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just know instinctively, viscerally, that would be absolute madness and insanity if it
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And I'm doing that to them because you're tempting them.
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You're entrapping them and and I just can't fathom a mind that says this is good.
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And you're so right how this will echo for decades and for generations, by the way.
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And the other thing is I saw Trudeau making a statement on this as well.
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Well, if you're in British Columbia, the evidence is in the data's in.
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I mean, 2000, 2000 young British Columbians as right dead last year who could, you know,
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mothers, fathers, sons and daughters who died unnecessarily from overdoses from dangerous
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I don't think it's surprising that when it's never been easier to get drugs, it's never
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So I think we've been heading in the exact wrong direction.
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What we've done around harm reduction and safe consumption, the project that we have that
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working with BC to decriminalize possession of harder drugs now.
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Um, as we, I mean, there was a lot of shouting about that and it's a very politically polarizing
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And you can see the conservative leader doing videos about how, how bad that is, but grounding
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ourselves in facts and data and public treatment and evidence, um, of a public health problem
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So we're going to continue, uh, to invest in supporting people.
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More young people in BC die from drugs, even at the height of the pandemic, more young
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people were dying from drug overdoses than from the coronavirus.
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You know, it's funny that Trudeau said that because as you may know, Justin Trudeau's own
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mother, Margaret Trudeau has had a lifelong battle with both drugs and mental health.
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And she has publicly said on many occasions that when she used drugs, her mental health
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deteriorated and I'm not picking on her, I'm just saying what she said and she's right
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And that's a good thing that Margaret Trudeau talks about that that way.
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How can Justin Trudeau be the son of that mother, witness her, what she, what she went
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through and then call for more drugs and heavy drugs?
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I've, I'm really concerned about the direction of all this.
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I think this arrest was just for show because it was too much.
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It was too over the top, but I think things are going to continue to get worse.
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You tell me, what's that new mayor of Vancouver doing?
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I mean, you know, he's not, uh, he's better than the last mayor, which is maybe the only
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Um, I'm sure I have a funny feeling that this van would probably still be up and operating
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Uh, if we had the old mayor Kennedy Stewart still in, but look, I think that, uh, whether
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it's Ken Sim, the mayor or, uh, conservative leaders, especially across the country, it's
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And that line I think has to be, uh, the government perpetuating and enabling the problem by handing
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out free drugs and turning a blind eye to, to open destructive behavior in our city streets.
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That's what other countries in Europe have done, um, that don't have the same kind of
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problems as Canada or on the, uh, these on the West coast of the United States.
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Um, and we just have to say, you know, this is someone told me I'm filming a documentary
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And, um, somebody told me is, uh, you, you get what you tolerate.
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Um, so if you tolerate rampant drug use, if you tolerate, um, kind of this chaos disorder,
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disarray in our city streets, obviously the, the random violent attacks that stem from the
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psychosis that stems from the rampant addiction problem that we've allowed to spiral out of
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And unfortunately in the short term, I don't see the situation getting better, at least until
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we have a change of leadership at the provincial and federal level, um, provincial and BC, because
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that's who's really driving and pushing these policies forward.
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What, is there someplace we should go if we want to, I mean, for example, your, your film,
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your short film on Vancouver was such a viral hit.
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Is there anything new you'd like to tell our viewers about before you say goodbye?
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Working on a sequel to the Vancouver film, which is going to be out later this month.
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Actually, it's going to be called Canada's Dying.
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Taking a look at, at how these issues, the addiction crisis, homelessness, and this revolving
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door justice system is affecting, as you pointed out at the start of this interview, not just
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And to watch that and all my content, it's best just to follow me on social media, and
00:37:25.460
you can just type in Aaron Gunn to Twitter or YouTube or Facebook or Instagram, and I'm
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Well, I'm very much looking forward to Canada dying.
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Your video, Vancouver is Dying, went super viral, and I think it helped shape the outcome
00:38:03.940
Your Letters to Me, Wilfred Blakey says, you mentioned that Trudeau is trying to overcome
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It's just that I can't come up with a name for it.
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If it is free and Trudeau wants to own it, and if it is worldwide, then I don't see how
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one jerk in one country can overcome the world from his rooster's nest and expect everyone
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I don't know if there is a name that accurately suits him.
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As you can tell, I have no use for him, and the sooner he is out of office, then the better
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Well, obviously, Trudeau can't stop companies, usually headquartered in California, you know,
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They're all in Silicon Valley, which is really near San Francisco, YouTube, Facebook.
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Obviously, they're not going to be changed by a Canadian tyrant, but their operations in
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These global tech companies have to operate in a country under the laws of that country,
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and if those laws are intolerable, then at a certain point, they exit the country.
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My understanding is that Rumble, the YouTube competitor, refused to ban Russia Today, RT.
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So France barred rumble.com from being in France, and that's too bad for France, but Rumble said
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You could probably still find a way to get it in France, but that's an example of how a
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little pipsqueak country can tell the biggest companies what to do.
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They sort of can, just with regards to their little fiefdom.
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So Trudeau could try and ban Facebook, YouTube.
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I don't know if he would succeed at banning them, but he would probably just prosecute them
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They don't want to be lawbreakers, but they might just shut down certain things.
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Facebook and Google have both been talking about cutting off news because one of Trudeau's
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censorship bills, C-18, wants to tax them for linking to news.
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Mike Boland says, if the CRTC bans Fox News, then I'd like to see Elon Musk ban the PM Twitter
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The CRTC regulator is actually having hearings on banning Fox.
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Like, could they be more out of sync with the times?
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The day after C-11 passes, the CRTC now talks about going into newsrooms to inspect their
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If you don't think that they're coming to censor you, what will it take?
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Look at, they're just, they can't even wait for the law to be proclaimed to start censoring.
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Gary Shoutsen says, the West doesn't have to separate from Canada.
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All they have to do is exert their constitutional rights under the BNA.
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It's time the rest of the provinces do the same and more.
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By the way, federal income tax is unconstitutional.
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I believe the rights are outlined in section 1551 of the BNA and a ruling by the Supreme
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I don't know about those sections or the Supreme Court reference you're referring to.
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It is correct that the provinces have yielded, have given up a lot of their jurisdiction to
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And Quebec has tried to reverse that trend by taking over their constitutional rights and
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getting the cash too, which is the best of both worlds.
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That's what Danielle Smith is talking about with her Sovereignty Act.
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For example, there is no constitutional reason why the RCMP is the police force for rural
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They just sort of bought their way in by subsidizing it and saying to the province, hey, we'll police
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But a lot of the things that the provinces give up to the feds are not the feds under the
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BNA Act, which is now called the Constitution Act of 1867.
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Anyways, I appreciate the email and all the emails.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,