EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau Liberals burn through more money to fight 'disinformation'
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The Liberals are burning through more money to fight so-called disinformation. Today, I ll show you how if the Liberals just be quiet for a little bit, the disinformation problem in this country might start to fix itself. In 2024, Canada will invest $8.4 million in research across the global south to better understand how climate change interacts with democratic decline. These initiatives will also help protect the human rights of environmental defenders.
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the liberals are burning through more money to fight so-called disinformation today i'll show
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you how if the liberals just be quiet for a little bit the disinformation problem in this country
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might start to fix itself it's large 28th in 2024 i'm sheila gun reed and you're watching the ezra
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we're all facing a series of challenges new and old we're still reeling from a pandemic
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that put immense pressure on our democracies we're seeing growing distrust of government and media
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and increased polarization exacerbated by misinformation and disinformation we're
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dealing with insecurity caused by armed conflicts and climate change so today i'm announcing that
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canada is investing 8.4 million dollars on research across the global south to better understand how
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climate change interacts with democratic decline these initiatives will also help protect the
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human rights of environmental defenders on top of the uncertainty caused by different crises
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we're also seeing direct threats to individuals globally through transnational repression this is
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why canada is increasing and expanding its funding for access now to ensure human right defenders and
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others facing digital threats have the resources they need to protect themselves prime minister justin
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trudeau accuses his political enemies which at this point includes the majority of everyday canadians
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in this country of being guilty of spreading disinformation and misinformation now like so many scary movies
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including the one canadians are living through right now with justin trudeau's government in the final death
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rattles before us i think the phone call might be coming from inside the house so let's go through
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some examples of liberal or liberal enabled disinformation over just the past couple of years because
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there's a lot and who really has the time who could forget the state broadcaster the cbc and of course
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ostensibly an arm of the liberals claiming that vladimir putin was somehow behind the freedom convoy remember
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this given canada's support of ukraine in this current crisis with russia i don't know if it's
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far-fetched to ask but but there is concern that russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as
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this as this protest grows but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset of course the cbc had to
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retract that claim on two separate occasions who can also forget the liberals blaming israel for bombing a
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hospital in gaza now despite the liberals anti-semitic reflex to blame israel the bombing was actually
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caused by a misfired terrorist rocket how could we forget when the liberals claimed the freedom convoy
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truckers had set fire to an apartment building in an effort to incinerate everybody inside alive
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and an attempted arson all of which madam speaker was caught on video it has been an illegal occupation
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that has uh been harassing people in residential areas of ottawa people don't feel safe in their own
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homes there have been reports of attempted arson canadians are also concerned hearing reports of an
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attempted arson in the lobby of a residential apartment building because we see um hate speech we see
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uh illegal acts such as arson the incessant honking the arson attempts the incessant honking the arson
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attempts we've seen the active sabotage of 9-1-1 emergency call lines and even an attempted arson
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other alleged crimes have even been more egregious ottawa police are investigating the attempted
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arsenal of a downtown apartment building the situation persists fueled in part by foreign funding
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we saw reports of attempted arson in some of the buildings and it certainly does not include
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arson or pushing into a residential apartment building and barricading the exits with handcuffs
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they have been living in fear fear that their apartment buildings may be torched by arson there's
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been attempted arson with the attempt of handcuffing doors shut so that if a fire started people would
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be burned alive and death threats an attempted arson a building had an attempted arson where the doors
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were taped shut another building had occupiers attempting to handcuff the doors there are reports of
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attempted arson bomb threats hate crimes misogyny arson horns honked all night long we saw thefts and
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attempted arson the liberals even had a motion in the house of commons to denounce the arson however the
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arson was not the doing of the truckers remember when the liberals claimed the freedom convoy truckers
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in ottawa had firearms inside their trucks which they absolutely did not throughout the protest we did
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receive information and intelligence around weapons and the possession of weapons by people that either
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had attended or intended on attending uh the occupation as a result of the clearing at no point did we
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lay any firearms related charges yet there are investigations that continue in relation to
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weapons possessions at the occupation i guess yes or no interim chief were loaded firearms found in the
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trucks during the protest clearing operation yes so as i as i indicated mr chair there there has been
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no charges laid to date in relation to weapons at the occupation site it's it's just a clear it's a clear
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question interim chief like were weapons found like were fire loaded firearms found yes or no
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so in relation to no not not to relating to any charges to this point the liberals also claimed the
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freedom convoy truckers were violent however they knew they weren't violent and they looked for ways to
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to support the allegations or rather i should say lies look at this from black locks cabinet and
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political aides schemed on ways to perpetuate media coverage depicting freedom convoy members as crazies
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the public order emergency commission was told yesterday a lawyer for the truckers read out text
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messages in which liberal aides contemplated a media campaign to depict protesters as violent adding quote we need
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something to back this up the liberals also claimed the police wanted the emergencies act to be invoked
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however police testified at the public order emergency commission that they did not want or need the
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emergencies act the liberals also claimed the freedom convoy cost canadians millions of dollars again from
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black locks look at this the department of public works says the freedom convoy costs millions in a work
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slowdown on parliament hill but acknowledged an unrelated carpenter's strike was more significant
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cabinet to date has not detailed economic losses it attributed to the truckers protest
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remember when trudeau and the liberals blamed their own speaker of the house for inviting an actual
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geriatric nazi named yaroslav hanka to receive a standing ovation in the house of commons as i said yesterday
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this was deeply embarrassing for the house and for canada it is a good thing that speaker rota
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apologized personally and i'm sure he's reflecting now on how to ensure the dignity of the house going
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forward i know that house leaders are going to be meeting uh later this morning and i'm sure they'll
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have very important well as it turned out hanka was also invited by the prime minister's office
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two other events and of course screened beforehand nobody was caught flat-footed they knew who he was
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then there was the time trudeau said he wasn't targeting hunters with his escalating gun bans
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and it was a lie misinformation to say that he was until trudeau banned hunting rifles trudeau says that he
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lowered middle class taxes except he didn't and then when one of trudeau's cabinet ministers lied about
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where she was born and how she came to be in canada trudeau called it misinformation until it was
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a provable fact that she had lied trudeau also claimed canada was bringing peace to cameroon which
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was of course news to cameroon trudeau also said there were no vaccine mandates except he imposed
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them on all federally regulated industries and workplaces and then there's this when national
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concern broke out over canadian heritage funding an anti-semite as part of its anti-hate campaign in
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august 2022 then heritage minister pablo rodriguez was nowhere to be found while specific responsibility
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for the program lay with the cabinet colleague ahmed hussein internal documents obtained under
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the access to information act revealed that rodriguez's office was well aware of the issue
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but when rodriguez appeared before the canadian heritage committee last fall and was asked about
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the issue he said he knew nothing about it until august 22nd 2022 and who could forget the carbon tax
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ponzi scheme nonsense where the liberals repeatedly claim over and over again that people get back
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more money in carbon tax rebates than they pay in the carbon tax mr prime minister you keep telling
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canadians the carbon tax program is revenue neutral but you have the opposition and a lot of premiers
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saying it's costing them money do you think you're losing the communications battle here the facts matter
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the premiers the premiers conservative premiers specifically are misleading canadians the conservative
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opposition in ottawa and pierre poliev are not telling the truth to canadians the parliamentary budget
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officer himself says very clearly that eight out of ten families across the country do better
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with the canada carbon rebate because we have put a price on pollution it is more money in the pockets
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of families right across the country at a time where more money is needed and it's concrete action to
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fight climate change at a time where we're seeing the impacts of extreme weather events floods fires droughts
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conservatives are ideologically opposed to fighting climate change to making polluters even big polluters
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pay and we put a price on pollution that makes sure people are looking for ways to reduce their emissions
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and families particularly low income and middle income families do better with more money in their
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pockets to continue to raise their families and build a future that's what our price on pollution is all
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about and uh that's what the conservatives uh politicians across this country are trying to mislead canadians
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about however the non-partisan parliamentary budget office says that is not true and that canadians will
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pay more except the liberal schemes and spin jobs can't cover up the cruel fact that the cost of everything
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is up and so are emissions because the carbon tax is a cash grab and not an environmental plan but the
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parliamentary budget officer he tells the truth unlike them like most canadians albertans will pay almost
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one thousand dollars more this year than they get back in fake rebates so today conservatives will
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vote non-confidence in the costly coalition to axe the tax build the homes fix the budget and stop the
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crime but will this prime minister finally listen to the majority of canadians and premiers spike the
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hike today or call carbon tax elections so canadians can decide and access themselves
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the honorable minister mr speaker once again page six of the pbo report indicates that at the end of
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the year albertans are seven hundred dollars better off thanks to a very real canada carbon rebate mr
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speaker in my riding of edmonton center well over 69 percent of residents want this government to fight
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climate change we couldn't breathe the smoke in the air on september long weekend or may long weekend
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these guys want to let the planet burn we're going to defend the planet put more money in the pockets
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of albertans they can do what they want to do we're going to defend canadians and make sure there's a
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planet for our kids and our grandkids like i said the misinformation phone call is coming from inside
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the house now speaking of the carbon tax set to go up april 1st on the same day mps give themselves a
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raise april fools the jokes on us franco terrazzano from the canadian taxpayers federation joins us
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april 1st the carbon tax is going up which means canadians are just getting poorer but you know
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who's getting richer mps in a couple of different ways now joining me now is franco terrazzano
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from the canadian taxpayers federation to discuss just that the couple of different ways that mps
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are going to get richer and outgoing mps are going to get richer too franco thanks for joining me first
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of all let's talk about the carbon tax because i have to you guys are the canadian taxpayers federation
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tell us how much poorer we're all going to be come april 1st yeah the government courtesy of prime
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minister justin trudeau is about to make your life more expensive uh you're going to be paying
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after the hike 17 cents a liter of gas and carbon tax 21 cents per liter of diesel and 15 cents per cubic
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meter of natural gas so not only is it making things more expensive it's making the necessities of living
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in canada more expensive it'll make it more expensive for you to fuel up your car to get to work
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it'll make it more expensive for you to heat your home during the winter months and of course it'll make it more
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expensive for you to put food on your family's table and folks don't buy the government spin
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about the rebates the rebates the rebates the rebates nay nay uh the parliamentary budget officer
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shows that the carbon tax will cost the average family up to nine hundred dollars more a year
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than what they get back in rebates yeah that's the big line that the liberals really hammer home on this is
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they want us to believe which i think if you said this in the private sector you might
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get arrested for trying to sell people on a ponzi scheme but if you give them money and they somehow
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cycle it through the very expensive hands of a hundred bureaucrats somehow along the way without
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creating or doing anything they will give you more money back in return sounds illegal sounds like a
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pyramid scheme well sheila let's just think about it for i don't know longer than two seconds uh first of
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all it it costs about 200 million dollars just to administer to have those bureaucrats administering
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the carbon tax but not only that the government charges its sales tax on top of the carbon tax okay so that
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tax on tax is costing taxpayers like 500 million dollars okay so let's think about it there is no way for a
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government to impose a carbon tax charge its sales tax on top of its carbon tax skim hundreds of millions of
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dollars off the top to pay for bureaucrats to administer the carbon tax and then somehow make
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people better off with rebates i mean it's complete magic math but the good news here is that canadians
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aren't buying the spin right like look around the vast majority of canadians in every province and
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every demographic are against the upcoming carbon tax hike and folks like seven of ten provincial
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premiers are also publicly calling on the trudeau government to cancel its carbon tax hike including the
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lone liberal provincial premier in newfoundland and labrador andrew fury yeah and i've seen abacus
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data polling that even for young people like that like the millennials and even uh gen z's their
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number one priority at the ballot box is affordability they don't think they're ever going to be able to
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afford the middle class things that their parents have it's not climate change anymore and i think the
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liberals are going to be mugged by reality at the polls in 2025 well sheila let's talk about that
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because even if like you really really care about the environment i think every canadian really does
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care about the environment but more and more canadians are saying wait hold on a second this carbon tax
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doesn't help the environment okay let me give you two reasons why well number one fueling up your car
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with gasoline fueling up the big rig with diesel using natural gas and propane on a farm making
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sure you can heat your home those are necessities for countless canadians right so instead of taking
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your unicorn to work the carbon tax just means that people have less money in their budgets for other
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necessities of life like funding your kids university or college education but number two
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is canada only makes up 1.5 of global emissions and about three quarters of countries don't even
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have a national carbon tax you know sheila i know canadians love watching the circus that is u.s
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politics well you know what canadians won't see in the presidential election they won't see either
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democrat nominee joe biden or republican nominee donald trump they won't see either supporting a carbon
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tax so a carbon tax in canada just makes life here more expensive and it doesn't reduce emissions in
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places like china india russia or the united states right and if the liberals truly cared about carbon
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emissions they wouldn't be exempting one of the more carbon intensive forms of home heating as in
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home heating oil they've exempted that from the carbon tax while punishing people who use the cleaner
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burning natural gas particularly out here on the prairies well the issue with the carbon tax carve
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out is is twofold i mean number one i'm happy that some canadians are getting sure me some relief
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right like i like i uh my big problem is that all canadians should be getting relief right like that's
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the big that's like the one issue is that uh trudeau took the carbon tax off a furnace hole for three
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years and then left 97 percent of canadians out in the cold but the second issue is that trudeau
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just admitted that the carbon tax does make life more expensive otherwise why would he have done the
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carve out in the first place right right exactly now moving on to the other bad thing i think that is
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happening on april 1st uh that's the mps getting a raise uh i don't think they're doing a very good job
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i think if they worked in the private sector most of them would be fired for their ineptitude
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but they are all getting a raise while canadians are getting poorer thanks to their policies tell us
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about that and sheila you're in the majority other canadians the vast majority of canadians also
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don't think that politicians should be getting a raise we just released some polling
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from leger that shows that 80 80 of canadians are against the upcoming pay raise okay so in a
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democracy who is the boss canadian taxpayers that's how it's supposed to work right well if the boss
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doesn't think you deserve a raise in the real world you ain't getting a raise right but mps are going to
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rubber stamp another raise anyways even though the vast majority of canadians don't think they deserve
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one and like here are the numbers okay so the raise this year will range between an extra 8 100 bucks
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for a backbencher to an extra 16 200 for the right honorable prime minister justin trudeau so after the
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raise here's the salaries okay after the raise a backbench member of parliament along with collecting
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dust in the house of commons will be collecting a salary of about 202 000 bucks a minister like freeland
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or guibo their annual salary will be just shy of 300 000 now sheila i don't understand why a finance
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minister would get a raise when they could even balance the budget of a lemonade stand but maybe
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that's a conversation later down the road and the prime minister's salary after the raise will be about
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405 000 well and it doesn't just end with their salaries like a lot of that is uh it goes a lot
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further in the hands of an mp because they have these incredibly padded expense budgets they have these
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expense accounts we pay for their cars their mileage things that regular canadians who are paying their
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salaries don't have access to well i'm glad you brought that up and i know we'll get into the
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pensions but even on the salaries this is just the tip of the iceberg because every single year
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they rubber stamp another raise for themselves okay so after this april this will be their fifth
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their fifth pay raise since the beginning of 2020 now what has happened to the rest of canadians
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since then pandemic government lockdowns thousands of canadians sent to the ranks of the unemployed
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businesses lost some for good skyrocketing inflation a housing crisis lines at food banks
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reaching record levels but none of that stopped these members of parliament from taking pay raises
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every single year so sheila when we hear them say we're all in this together they're not talking
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about me or you they're talking about the gang of 338 of them up here in ottawa now i'm glad you
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mentioned their pensions because that really irks me it is so shameless what the liberals are about to do
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it's a new piece of legislation they say it will protect our democracy i think if you dig down it does
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exactly the opposite um but what's shameless about it is that and you can tell me the exact details i
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think it's approximately 80 mps need to work one extra day before the election is called so that they can
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qualify for their pensions which i think will run between 32 to 45 000 per year give us the details on
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this and you're using that term work very loosely there um but here's the details folks so um for
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a member of parliament to get a pension courtesy of you and me they have to work six years okay so
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a mp who was elected in the 2019 election they are not eligible for their pension until october the 21st
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2025 well the current scheduled date of the election is october 20th 2025 so what is the federal government
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doing they're proposing to change the election date to october 27 2025 which means that now 80 new mps
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will be eligible for that sweet sweet sweet taxpayer funded pension okay now the total cost of those 80
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mps lifetime pensions is up to 120 million dollars now i'm not naive i understand that not all 80 of
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those mps will lose in the next election but if even half of those mps lose in the next election
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moving this election back a week would cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars yeah it's it's just so
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shameless and the reasons the liberals are using is one of them is because that the election day
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falls on diwali even though i i think indo canadians can probably just vote early
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well sheila everybody else who has something to do on that day well sheila look even before that
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right like let's set aside that for for a second but look i think if you were to ask canadians the
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government is going to change the election day uh for a religious holiday uh but they're going to move
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about a week back so 80 mps can get a pension i think most canadians maybe every canadian outside
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of ottawa would say uh well then why don't you just move it a week early right so like right like this is
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just it it just looks so obvious that the government is moving the election uh back a week so many more
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mps can get that lucrative taxpayer funded pension and sheila pro tip for politicians if you don't want to
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look shady then stop doing shady stuff like this right this looks exactly like the desperate death
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rattles of a dying government trying to enrich itself on the way out the door which has been really the
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story of the justin trudeau liberals since 2015 franco thanks so much for the work that you do on behalf
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of taxpayers you're such a good advocate for us and for responsible smaller government how do people
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support the work that the ctf does well go to taxpayer.com but before i go i just want to show
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you how lucrative these pensions are okay so an mp who would work for six years could get a lifetime
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annual pen or sorry an mp who works for six years could get a lifetime pension of more than two million
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dollars it's absolutely crazy yes and i mean two million dollars if you were an mp that's enough
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for you to vote in favor of these changes in the net now uh franco please as i said tell us how people can
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support the very important accountability work that you do at the ctf well thanks thanks sheila so
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everyone head over to taxpayer.com check out our newsroom uh great articles there at least i'm biased
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but also we got some petitions so sign them a real hot one right now is scrap the carbon tax but thank
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you so much sheila and our website is taxpayer.com thanks franco and we'll have you back on again very
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very very soon stay with us your letters to ezra unceremoniously answered by me up after the break
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now if you'd like to sign our petition against the liberals changes to canadian elections please go to
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protectourdemocracy.ca in there you can sign a petition against the liberals enriching the losers
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of the next election by shifting the election date as franco explained seven days out so they can qualify
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for their pension but my video also explains all the other insidious ways the liberals are making our
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elections vulnerable to meddling again that's protectourdemocracy.ca now we get your letters
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showing you a side that you won't see anywhere else now the letters today come to us by way of ezra's
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incredible long-form feature interview with my premier danielle smith of alberta arthur bogdenov
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arthur i'm sorry if i butchered that writes ezra good interview the premier was spot on but needed
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to go a step further we don't need to discover new uses for carbon dioxide and god already created it
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plant food the more carbon dioxide the better for farmers and people this is indeed true in in fact
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real scientists like geologists will tell you that the fossil record shows that when the earth had a
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greater saturation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the life on earth was more diverse there
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was more of it and it was bigger roberta carr writes good afternoon that was a very interesting
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interview with ms smith refreshing to hear how entrepreneurs may use co2 also a good point she
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made was how much plastic was used in the pandemic with masks and tests etc good to hear common sense
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for a change totally agree about the hideous paper straws thanks for sharing roberta roberta i'm not one
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who goes to movie theaters often i sort of get dragged there with my children but they give you
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paper straws at the movie theater and so you're supposed to be drinking this drink and again i don't
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drink a lot of pop but whatever drink that you're drinking you're supposed to have a paper straw last
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the two hours that you're in the theater there's no possible way and i know premier smith loves a good
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plastic straw she uh released a photo of her drinking from one after calgary struck down its
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single-use plastics fan eric sova writes good morning ezra regarding your interview with danielle smith
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why not question her support for co2 sequestration thank you for a very nice interview danielle smith's
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heart is obviously in the right place but she seems misinformed and is supporting co2 capture and
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sequestration why not give her a couple of facts with the lunacy of this initiative next time
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in case of a complete success and elimination of co2 while no impact on climate what are plants going
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to grow with thanks eric sova well eric um i don't know but some of you may know that in i don't want
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to give away my exact location of my litter little uh cabin in the woods but i do live near a carbon
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capture and sequestration facility i guess i would call it and there's a reason why saskatchewan is
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pursuing this and alberta is pursuing it this and it's because there are enormous credits and grants
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that come from the federal government for carbon capture and sequestration so i know for saskatchewan
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this is how they are not idling down their coal plants right so while the feds may give them
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trouble um because their coal plants release emissions and the liberals have an emissions cap
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they can claim on the other side oh well look over here we're sequestering all this carbon on the other
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side so give us a break and also give us some federal money which i mean it's just our money anyway
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so give us back our own money so i think that might be one of the reasons why alberta is pursuing
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carbon capture and sequestration it's a way to get around that emissions cap for now while we await
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a change in government in 2025 regardless of how the liberals try to meddle in the next election to their
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own benefit again if you want to sign that petition it's at protect our democracy dot ca well everybody
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that's the show for tonight thanks as always for tuning in and as ezra always says keep fighting for