EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's in deep denial amid flailing Liberal support
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Summary
A list of telltale signs that Justin Trudeau is way past his best before date. 1. Justin Trudeau has a thick skin that would make a rhino jealous 2. He would prefer to go down in flames as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in the next federal election, as opposed to simply being a spectator on the sidelines 3. He s far too important for that 4. There s no indication from Trudeau that he s willing to be put out to political pasture, a la his American counterpart, sleepy Joe Biden 5. He seems to think that in the words of Colonel Troutman from the movie Rambo: It s over, it s over. 6. He wants to qualify for a lifetime pension 7. Jagmeet Singh is delaying the election until next year when he qualifies for a pension
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Tonight, are there telltale signs that Justin Trudeau is way past his best before date?
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Oh, you better believe it. I've made a list and there's no need to check it twice.
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It's Monday, August 12th, 2024. I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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Maybe Justin Trudeau has the sort of thick skin that would make a rhinoceros envious or maybe he's deep in denial or maybe he subscribes to a scorched earth policy.
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You know that he would prefer to go down in flames as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in the next federal election as opposed to simply being a spectator on the sidelines.
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And besides, rumor has it that he's just taken shipment of some new whiz-bang rainbow-colored socks.
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Would you believe cloudy with a chance of rancid meatballs?
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Anyway, clearly there's no indication from Trudeau that he's willing to be put out to political pasture, a la his American counterpart, sleepy Joe Biden.
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And yet, deep down, Trudeau must realize that in the words of Colonel Troutman from the movie Rambo...
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Indeed, the Liberal Party may as well rebrand itself as the Titanic because October 2025 is kind of looking like one whopper of an iceberg on the horizon.
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Just yesterday, a new Abacus poll shows the Conservatives now have a daunting 20-point lead over the Liberals.
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Which is to say, if an election were held today, 43% of committed voters would vote for the Pierre-Paulievre Conservatives, while only 23% would vote for the Liberals.
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Wasn't the strategy of propping up the Liberals supposed to result in the NDP forming the next federal government?
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When I'm Prime Minister, I will keep my promises.
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Um, maybe he meant to say when he becomes leader of the official opposition?
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You know, I've seen MPs heckled into silence in the House of Commons, but I can't remember a parliamentarian being reduced to stunned silence thanks to hundreds of MPs LOLing their asses off due to a statement that was so unintentionally funny.
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But let's get real, the unspoken reason for the NDP-liberal unholy alliance was to ensure NDP leader Jagmeet Singh gets one more year in office under his Gucci-branded belt.
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He wants to qualify for that lifetime pension, after all.
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Hey, they don't call Jagmeet sellout Singh for nothing.
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And you would think that the NDP would be outraged by this.
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They used to stand up for the working men and women.
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Jagmeet Singh is delaying the election until next year when he qualifies for a pension.
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$2.2 million paid for by these hardworking people.
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He gets his pension, Trudeau gets power, these workers get the bill.
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Why do you continue to support Justin Trudeau when you know Canadians want him out?
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But I digress, because aside from horrific polling numbers, I think there's another surefire indicator that the jig is up for Justin.
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And that indicator is the reception the Prime Minister is receiving all across our Great Dominion when it comes to Trudeau trying to prop up fellow Liberal MPs on the fundraising dinner circuit.
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Because the due rigueur occurrence at these fundraisers is demonstrators showing up to viciously heckle the Prime Minister.
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The most recent occasion was in Brampton, Ontario on Saturday.
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The Prime Minister is apparently done with his latest surfing safari in Tofino, B.C.
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So he swung by this lovely fiefdom lorded over by sneaky Patrick Brown.
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As per usual, Trudeau arrived in a motorcade consisting of several eight-cylinder fossil fuel burning extra-large SUVs.
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Oh, I know, the PM says EVs are the way of the future, and he's backing that bet with billions of dollars in taxpayer handouts.
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But pricey EVs, they're not for Justin or his security detail.
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You see, Justin Trudeau wants you to save the planet by taking out a second mortgage in order to buy an electric vehicle.
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You see, Justin Trudeau is just way too important to get stressed out over things like, oh, I don't know, range anxiety.
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Anyway, the PM was in the People's Democratic Republic of Brampton to prop up the electoral fortunes of Brampton North MP Rudy Sahota.
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Hard to imagine there were still some rubes out there who are willing to fork over $1,725 for a lunch with the PM,
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given that many observers would argue that tab is overpriced by $1,724.99.
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Because check out this footage of the merry members of the Welcome Wagon who greeted Trudeau on Saturday.
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You know, I wonder what Trudeau was thinking while, ensconced in his armor-plated Chevy Suburban along
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Oh, by the way, that's another surefire sign of hypocrisy, isn't it?
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isn't it? Trudeau has declared war on gun owners, not gangbangers, mind you, but law-abiding
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sport shooters and hunters. Yet Trudeau doesn't even cross the street these days without being
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accompanied by his Royal Canadian Mounted Pistol Packers. But I'm sure one of his thoughts last
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Saturday afternoon, as he was called all sorts of nasty names, was this. What the hell do these
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people want? I mean, Trudeau can't even make an order at the drive-thru without uttering,
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diversity is our strength. And when it comes to the dozens of pro-Hamas demonstrators last Saturday,
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it doesn't get more diverse than that, does it? We saw the flags of Palestine being waved. We even
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spotted a toddler waving the flag of Pakistan. Hey, whether you're a Madison Avenue marketer or a
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card-carrying Marxist, as the saying goes, get them young, get them forever. What you did not see
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on display that day was a Canadian flag. Actually, that's not quite true. There was one lonely maple
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leaf being waved, albeit it was mounted upside down, which is to indicate that the country is in distress.
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You know, I can't argue that point with the members of the New Age Hitler Youth Movement,
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but I will say that the country is not in distress due to what's going on in the Middle East, but rather
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for factors that are way too numerous to list here. Speaking of foreign policy, the question arises
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when it comes to the hobos for Hamas contingent, what exactly is their beef when it comes to the Justin Trudeau
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liberals? No reasonable person would ever call this government pro-Israel. Case in point, Israeli-Canadian
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Jewish MP Yara Hong Kong Sachs recently traveled to the Middle East earlier this year to shake hands with
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pay-for-sleigh terrorist Mahmoud Abbas. Can you imagine? So what more do the pro-Hamas folk in Canada
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want, pray tell? I mean, when you have a Jew in cabinet that is of the self-hating variety and who
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lusts after photo ops with anti-Israel terrorists, what's not to love? Alas, attempts to seek answers
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from this frothing mob prove to be an exercise in futility. Free, free Palestine!
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Sir, can I ask you about the message on your mask? He's fire. Would that be on condition of Hamas
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freeing the hostages? He's a racist. Don't talk to him. Yeah, don't talk to him. I'm racist? How am I racist? Sir, how am I racist?
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What a sight. So the thing is, if Canada and the U.S. and Germany, if you guys stop going into the
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people's country and invade them. They're going to take it out of context. They're a racist organization.
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Ma'am, who are these people censoring you? If you guys stop sending weapons, people wouldn't come here.
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This is a genocide! This is a genocide! October 7th, you mean?
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Journalists. Don't talk to racist journalists. Why don't you talk before October 7th? It didn't
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start on October 7th. Oh, when did it start? Go educate yourself! Educate yourself! Oh, please educate me!
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Free Palestine. Oh, is that right? Free from what? Free from Israel. Okay, man. What do you think
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about the idea of having a ceasefire in exchange for freeing the remaining hostages?
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IDF is a terrorist state. Terrorist state. The IDF are terrorists? Yeah, absolutely.
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What's your opinion of Hamas? 16,000. Pardon me? Sorry? They murdered 15,000 kids.
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What? You mean the IDF was responsible for October 7th? No, I'm saying IDF is a terrorist state.
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Okay, then. But wasn't it Hamas that attacked Israel on October 7th?
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Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you asshole.
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Good to pancho. Get out of my place. Get out of my place. Get out of my place.
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Hey, wash your hands. Don't come near me. Don't come tendencies.
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In a public place, ma'am. Please respect Canadian law.
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Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you.
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Shame on you. What do they have to be ashamed for, ma'am?
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hey sir oh what's this about sir oh okay then um do you have anything in support of israel
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uh i just have one that says this fck israel it doesn't say israel
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well it's a now sir are you indeed a jew for a free palestine here's a peace uh muslim peace
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pride for you you know what sir this is an interesting illustration it's the rainbow
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colors how well are the lgbt people treated in gaza
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you know that that's quite fascinating um i guess i shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth
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um i don't think i'll be wearing this pin anytime soon as you can see it's the flag of palestine
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and the pride colors of the peace symbol how much peace does the lgbt community receive
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in a place like gaza do you recall several years ago i encountered a demonstrator at an al-quds rally
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and i got him to weigh in on the issue of islam and being gay and wow it didn't live up to this
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narrative check it out what would happen to a gay couple in gaza executed according to islamic law
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islam doesn't endorse gayism islam doesn't endorse homosexuality okay so would you like to see sharia
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law in canada replace canadian law at some point it will you know because we are we have families we
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are making babies you're not your your your population is going down the slump right by
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2016 muslims will be the biggest religious group the world over what are you going to do then
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actually go post sharia is even then what's problematic as many of these people aren't
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if you're going to report report correctly the governments are turning a blind eye to
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genocide oh do you mean what happened on october 7th i'm talking about before october 7th for 76
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years and what's happening now in gaza over a hundred people were massacred over a hundred
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civilians were massacred yesterday this morning they woke up they sleep to massacres and they wake
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up to massacres report the news correctly report the news correctly trudeau you're a coward blood is
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on your hands he is not worth it do not talk to him what's your opinion of zionist ma'am
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i don't talk to zionist you are brainwashed how much money does sorry i can't hear you with your
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face diaper on ma'am oh with my face diaper on who funds you by the way why are you wearing a
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disguise what would that be who funds you i work for rebel news ma'am who funds you who funds you
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who funds you or do you actually work or are you on welfare who funds you you'll take money wherever
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you can get we're crowdfunded who funds rebel crowdfunded who internationally in israel funds
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rebel oh i wouldn't know that but i can tell you our average donation is 58 dollars who funds you
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unengaged we do crowdfunding what do you think about hamas i think it's a terrorist organization
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what's your opinion so if hamas called six kids idf called 16 000 kids if hamas took 250 hostages
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idf took the 25 000 hostages so which one is more terrorist sir where are you getting these numbers
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i can't see every day hundreds tens of and hundreds of photos and videos and we see
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how it's going on right sir but what is the source of these numbers that you're quoting isn't it
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hamas themselves can you tell me why you're demonstrating you know exactly why no i don't
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please educate me how about you ma'am can you uh explain why you're demonstrating
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you you you are ladies right i didn't misgender you or anything like that did i
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how many more palestinian children have to be massacred you're a liar you're fake news oh is that
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right uh can you articulate sir why you're here today none of your damn business well it is a public
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demonstration isn't it you don't need to know well you have the microphone you can put your own
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words on camera talk to you well you approach me sir no you're a liar i know that i'm a liar
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you didn't approach me i was just doing my stand up and you came to me stand somewhere else are you
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the pharmacist sir that's not your damn business what makes me a racist ma'am walk away we don't
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engage with race no please don't what can you give me an example of anything racist i've said
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free the people free the land it's funny how you want it free the people free the land go back in
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the rat hole that you came from go back in your rat hole i was born here ma'am but what does it
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matter if i what i believe in i'm just trying to understand what point you're getting are you jews
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i am not jewish no sir okay thank you so much okay i hope i answered would you talk to me if i said i
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was jewish no i'm just asking you you ask me i ask you okay is that fair or not fair can i ask you or
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not or you just you have to ask me sir no one cares about my opinion but here you are at a
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pro-hammas rally with a palestinian flag i find you very must rally oh okay i support resistance
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resistance is justified when the people are occupied right or not
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you know if you can't articulate your position i don't think you really have much of a position
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once again folks as what often happens when we come to the pro-hammas people i end up interviewing
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a sign sir why are you guys wearing disguises don't talk to him it looks like i've stumbled
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across a mexican wrestling show or something don't talk to him don't talk to him don't talk to him
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sir can you articulate why you're demonstrating against prime minister justin trudeau
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turn around turn around stop looking at him and don't talk to him don't talk to him sir what do you
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interestingly the rank and file members of the fake stinians had vowed on social media they were
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going to shut down the event and hey one never knows after all these hooligans successfully
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forced the cancellation of a dinner trudeau wanted to host with his italian counterpart
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giorgia malani at toronto's art gallery of ontario back in march but on saturday likely due to the huge
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police presence it was all bark no bite as the assorted scholars confined their disruption of the event
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to well calling for genocide against the jewish people that's despicable of course but after 10
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months of this rubbish it's getting a little boring now wouldn't you say as for ruby sahoda the mp
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trudeau was propping up it should be noted that she is all about accelerating the process of
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international students receiving permanent residency and stopping any more deportations
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indeed she is the liberal who last march introduced petition e 4454 in the house of commons
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seeking to support this agenda on behalf of 24 349 signatories this petition addresses requests
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an extension of the postgraduate work permit the rationale given is that public policies recently
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have given 18 month extensions and based off of that this petitioner requests that the three-year
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postgraduate work permit time be turned into five years and the one-year postgraduate work permit
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time be extended to two years the reasoning for that is that many students find themselves uh that
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it takes some time to find a job in their sector and making sure that they get the skills they need
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we have shortages of workers little wonder that immigration lawyers and agents are big fans of
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rudy sahoda check out this x posting by kanwar sierra directed to the liberal party of canada and prime
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minister trudeau quote consider appointing ruby sahoda as the next minister of immigration refugees
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and citizenship canada this would mark a historic moment as the first time someone from the indian
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community holds this esteemed position additionally this move could rejuvenate the ontario liberal party
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and strengthen ties with a growing and influential community in canada end quote staggering isn't it we are
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already dealing with a record number of immigrants coming to canada there is already considerable strain
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on housing and the health care system is completely overwhelmed and yet the likes of sahoda and
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sierra want to further amp up the number of newcomers what madness is this why are they doing this oh i'm
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sorry i almost forgot diversity is our strength i should note that i have no idea how well attended the
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fundraiser was you see only state funded and state approved media such as the cbc were actually allowed
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into the venue but judging from the parking lot it seemed that this event was far from a sellout
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sad really oh and this hostile reception this isn't a one-off folks check out this footage from last month again
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at a brampton event well folks uh given the gta is the gta in this day and age of post october 7th
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it didn't take long for the pro hamas uh people to show up how do i know that they're pro hamas well
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they are wearing the kafifa and four out of six of the uh gaggle are wearing masks so i wonder why that is
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too i thought covid was in the rearview mirror i know the masking mandates uh were toast almost two and a half
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years ago so uh maybe they are anticipating virus x so sir what brings you out to demonstrate in front
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of the dreams convention center well what brings me out is that there's over 500 000 canadians living
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with autism uh one in 36 are born every day um we have a we have a prime minister who just clearly
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doesn't understand or want to help the families with autism that's what mr trudeau is about you
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know he's just uh he's very cold he's very uh cold-hearted he doesn't care about uh canadians
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and their actual needs uh you know like i said i mean you know to see on how families are struggling
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with autism you know we have families that are remortgaging their houses they're getting second and
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third jobs to pay for treatment uh dealing with all kinds of mental health issues but uh yeah he
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just does not uh get what we've been wanting to ask for him we've been asking for help since uh 2000
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when our own courts had said that autism treatment is medically necessary so folks it's kind of amusing
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in a perverse way uh the dueling uh demonstrations here you've got the pro hamas hooligans chanting free
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free palestine and you've got the freedom patriots here uh chanting free free canada i guess the
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implication being that under the trudeau liberals canada isn't as free a dominion as it once was
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hey ladies what brings you out to this just how come you don't have a canadian flag none of your
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colleagues have a canadian flag either so as you can see folks there's no sense trying to get
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comment uh from the pro hamas uh people but you know what it's very interesting um dueling demonstrations
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i guess they're both united in their contempt for prime minister trudeau and the liberal party of canada
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but there's very noticeable differences aren't there first and foremost you do not see a single
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canadian flag uh with this group meanwhile it's a sea of maple leafs uh with the patriots the other
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thing you'll notice is that when you see the when you look at the patriots here on this side of the
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ledger um nobody is wearing a mask nobody is wearing a disguise and i would say maybe over 50 percent of the
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people here are where are masked up so i don't know well folks i'm with derek noonan he is a fixture
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whenever there's a trudeau event in fact if you see derek on a street corner you know the prime minister
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isn't that far away and derek i'll tell you what's different about this little demonstration i see you've
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got your uh usual uh patriots out here with their signage and their flags but a little further yonder
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there's a gaggle of pro-hamas demonstrators yeah and my take on this derek is that from what i hear
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from the jewish community they are just incensed with how the trudeau liberals have handled what's going
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on in the middle east and clearly we have people on the pro-hamas side that are very angry too
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i think it takes a special kind of dubious skill to well piss off both far ends of the political
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spectrum what's your take well absolutely uh you used the world uh the word handled uh very loosely
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in fact he didn't do anything with it the fact is he's gutless and he's not a leader and this is why we
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have the chaos that we're having on the streets right now yes yeah absolutely now that was really
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interesting wouldn't you say not only were the pro-hamas people in attendance but so too were the
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patriots who comprised the freedom movement and what's really fascinating is that these two groups
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have precious little in common except of course for their mutual contempt for justin trudeau
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but as they say in the middle east the enemy of my enemy is my friend and you know come october 2025
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it will be most fascinating indeed to find out at the ballot box how many canadians from coast to coast
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to coast also subscribe to this idiom can't wait
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you know folks i can recall a time when toronto's nickname was toronto the good the city was clean
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it was safe traffic moved but today hogtown is in the midst of its worst crime wave ever homeless
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encampments are everywhere the city has the worst traffic congestion in all of north america third worst
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in the world it's unbelievable pro-hamas protesters shut down streets on a continual basis while
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chanting for the genocide of the jewish people and the mayor's response well olivia chow likes to
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bury her head in the sand while that is when she's not dressing up in costumes and shaking her booty
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unbelievable and joining me now to discuss the rapid downward descent of people city
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is sue ann levy of true north how you doing there sue ann i'm great thank you well thank you so much
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for joining me you know sue ann i think we're both old enough to remember when peter ustinov way back in
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1987 described toronto as new york as run by the swiss i would say sue ann those days are long gone
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your thoughts it's a third world city now it's not run by this twist at all
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it's you know the massive influx of immigrants mostly jew haters many jew haters i should say
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um the i could see its downward descent way way back in 2017 and you can't blame olivia chow entirely
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for this because it was really started under her predecessor john tory uh when they started allowing
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safe ejection sites in the city and encampments illegal encampments and just didn't take care of the
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infrastructure and i remember doing a story back in 2017 about seattle and that toronto wasn't far from
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the demise of seattle which i think maybe is in a turnaround situation now but toronto has definitely
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become another seattle you know you raise a good point uh sue ann we know where olivia chow's politics are
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but she's only been the mayor for about one year uh meanwhile john tory he claims he's a conservative
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you think he would bring common sense values to toronto but i don't know maybe he was too busy
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chasing his mistress around the cottage uh when he was in office uh but you're right he supported
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things like toronto being a sanctuary city toronto having safe injection sites and we know just last
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summer uh a beautiful mother of two out in leslieville paid for her life simply walking by
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the leslieville uh or the south riverdale community center uh when two gangbangers got into a gunfight in
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broad daylight um why did john tory go down these horrible policy routes that we've seen uh take root
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in places traditionally like seattle portland and san francisco well he governed from the left and he
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let the left wing of council decide what policy should be put in place and he didn't have the intestinal
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fortitude to stand up for many things that were right and i guess in his mind he thought that's how
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he's going to win on certain policies but he didn't really win on anything he just uh sort of cascaded
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toronto into this huge descent uh by going along with all these crazy policies and the i mean when he
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was mayor i can't even remember everything that i wrote about that was just crazy like the drug and
00:31:58.200
safe injection sites which they brought into play during his time uh illegal encampments which were
00:32:05.560
uh cleared out post pandemic but then came back and i mean i think he was he felt he was very much
00:32:13.880
beholden to special interests and you cannot be beholden to special interests in this city because
00:32:20.760
they just take over and they just want more more and more now olivia chow came in and i knew she was
00:32:28.280
going to be a train wreck i absolutely knew it um but i i guess she had enough of progressives and i hate
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that word because they're not really progressive uh but she had enough progressives uh backing her along
00:32:43.800
with progress toronto and you know i predicted that she would just continue the descent into this
00:32:52.920
absolute um i can't say it on air i guess s-h-i-t hole um that toronto has become i mean at layer on top
00:33:01.480
of that uh the 10 months going on 11 month conflict uh israeli uh palestini uh israeli hamas conflict
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and you've got all these would-be hamas nicks uh would-be terrorists uh taking over the streets
00:33:18.440
of toronto and as i've learned many many years ago covering anti-semitism if you give them an inch
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they will take a mile and it just gets worse and worse and it has gotten worse and you know i want
00:33:29.160
to do uh delve into that what's happening on the streets of my beloved hometown uh suen and uh it's
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heartbreaking and sometimes i look at the the mobs and what they're saying and what they're doing
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and i can't even believe sometimes i'm in the dominion of canada but you know you touched upon
00:33:49.560
special interest groups calling the shots and you know with all the problems facing toronto that i went
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through in the preamble you would think that the most pressing issue according to olivia chow and the
00:34:05.960
lefties on council is renaming young dundas square sankofa square you know suen nobody wants
00:34:15.000
this the vast majority of torontonians do not want this we're supposed to be broke that's the city that
00:34:21.480
is yet this rebranding exercise just for the square alone it's going to be in the millions of dollars
00:34:26.520
and the streets and whatnot and yet um if you have an issue with that you're a racist but let make no
00:34:36.040
mistake the dundas part which is problematic for the people pushing the rebranding uh that refers to
00:34:42.920
henry dundas he was an abolitionist it seems that his uh his sin suen was that he wasn't fast enough in
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being an abolitionist what do you make of this fiasco going on right now well in sankova square
00:34:58.120
the it was named after this tribe that are a group of people who were slave traders so it makes
00:35:05.320
no sense absolutely no sense i mean between sankova square and the deluge of bike lanes across the city
00:35:12.920
and of course if you elect a bike biking mayor although i would venture to say she doesn't do much
00:35:18.600
biking these days because he he's discovered the luxury of travel by you know probably electric
00:35:25.080
vehicle or you know hybrid vehicle with a driver uh so why bike anywhere with your flowered bike
00:35:32.680
but uh you know the deluge of bike lanes and i can talk about my own community they're putting bike lanes
00:35:38.760
on eglinton um and nobody's going to use them except food delivery people i've used the ones on young
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street all i see when i use the ones on young street are food delivery uh carriers various food
00:35:54.120
delivery services they come by me and i don't see the average commuter using them you know suen it is
00:36:03.400
insane i think and by the way i think there was more than 120 kilometers of new bike lanes put in
00:36:10.680
under the leadership so-called of john tory and i want to tell you i mean i'm not anti-bike biking is
00:36:18.280
my number one form of exercise i like to say right now i'm fat without my cycling i'm circus fat but i've
00:36:26.360
always cycled in traffic and uh with very few exceptions never had a problem but we have a city that is
00:36:34.920
growing and growing and growing every year in population and the infrastructure is not stagnant
00:36:41.000
it is shrinking we're taking lanes of traffic out that would accommodate motor vehicles for bikes and
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i think used to do stories back in your toronto sundays they would do the uh the city would do a
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census of how many people are using the bike lanes and i recall correct me if i'm wrong suen the census
00:36:58.600
would take part between april and october so in other words they would avoid half the year that is
00:37:04.600
bad weather when nobody virtually nobody is using these lanes if i had my way uh suen if i was mayor
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i'd rip out every one of these bike lanes tomorrow what say you well you know in fact you i mean i i
00:37:20.120
pleaded and cajoled and did get numbers for the winter um from bloor and danforth area and i think it
00:37:26.840
was some ludicrous figure like 660 people over the entire winter but it was crazy and you know they're
00:37:35.320
always the first to get the snow shoveling i don't know who the heck uses them if they're not being used
00:37:41.240
in the summer who's using them in the winter but this is the ideology of these special interests they
00:37:47.720
have a very loud voice at city hall they always have and yes i see i use some of these bike lanes
00:37:55.320
but i would be very judicious about where i put them and i certainly wouldn't be putting them on
00:37:59.880
university avenue and i wouldn't be putting them on eglinton when we have a very nice um
00:38:06.760
bike lane trail uh just south of eglinton called the belt line and you can get from point a to point b
00:38:15.320
very easily but like i said it's like the protesters uh you give an inch and they want more and they want
00:38:23.320
more and they want more and they keep talking about people uh getting hurt and cyclists getting hurt
00:38:29.880
well i'll tell you some of those cyclists who ride in the lanes like i'm moseying along and my electric
00:38:36.440
bike and they'll come up from behind me won't even give me any warning they breeze by me they think
00:38:42.600
they're on the you know they're on the tour de france i don't know what but and also the food
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delivery people often have uh motorized bikes which shouldn't be allowed and then scooters i mean it's
00:38:59.640
like a nightmare out there it's a nightmare for drivers because i also drive i try not to drive
00:39:04.760
downtown but what a mess uh between tori and chow what a mess they've made of this city and you know
00:39:12.040
swan i'm so happy you you mentioned university avenue i think that's the most egregious place
00:39:16.840
in the city they place these bike lanes for those who aren't familiar with chowano university avenue
00:39:21.640
is hospital row there's so many major hospitals and it was always argued we can't put the bike lanes
00:39:27.880
there because we need to have university moving for emergency vehicles fire trucks ambulances and so
00:39:35.320
on and suddenly during covid uh those bike lanes were snuck in and they're not going anywhere and as
00:39:41.400
a result university is to use your words uh suen a shite show uh in terms of uh traffic moving when
00:39:49.320
once upon time it was a major artery but you know the other thing we alluded to earlier what we see on
00:39:55.240
the streets of toronto virtually every weekend suen we have mobs of people who are chanting genocide
00:40:02.760
against the jewish people they are vandalizing jewish owned businesses arson attacks they're shooting
00:40:10.840
up jewish schools um people have been violently assaulted and what do i observe well i can tell
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you i have some skin in the game i've seen peaceful counter demonstrators being arrested i have been
00:40:24.920
arrested twice by the toronto police once for obstructing police once for trespass literally covering a
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demonstration on nathan phillips square in effect the town square um what is what are your thoughts
00:40:38.680
here suen what is going on i don't think the individual cops are making this call i think there is some
00:40:45.320
politicization of the police i don't know if it's olivia chow we know several months ago prime minister
00:40:51.720
trudeau met with toronto police chief myron demkew why the the the prime minister demkew does not take his
00:40:59.560
orders from the prime minister so what is going on that they're turning a blind eye to both hate crime
00:41:06.600
and real crime by the pro-hamas people and meanwhile throwing the book at law-abiding citizens well that
00:41:14.200
is out of control dave and i i have to admire you you're like you know one of those bobbleheads that go
00:41:20.040
up and down and you know you fall over and you you know you're right back up i i'm very very i respect
00:41:27.240
you tremendously for i mean you've been through a lot uh i think there's been tremendous political
00:41:33.720
pressure i mean i was at city hall long enough to know that mayors are not supposed to be involved
00:41:39.880
with the police force but they very much are and they take their cues from whatever mayor is in office
00:41:45.960
i mean john torrey even sat on the police services board you couldn't get any closer than that
00:41:50.280
uh olivia chow has been known not to like police not to be a fan of police you know way back going to
00:41:58.040
2000 when she interrupted the police when they were trying to police a protest a very violent one at
00:42:04.280
at queen's park by ocap um so i think they've gotten the message that they're to stand down
00:42:10.440
uh to just keep the peace but you know they haven't kept the peace i know i know that uh
00:42:20.680
they probably many of them are very frustrated by what's going on but i mean we've seen scenes over
00:42:27.400
the course of the winter where they delivered coffee to the protesters on avenue road we've and then the
00:42:33.800
latest which makes me absolutely insane is i guess the pro-palestinian people bending down on a major
00:42:41.480
artery and praying and blocking traffic now i'm about to do a story on the fact that the police
00:42:47.480
spokesperson said they have a right to do that no they don't so obviously these police spokespersons
00:42:53.880
don't even know a municipal law because no they're not it's illegal to bend down and block a roadway a
00:43:01.640
major roadway without a permit and they certainly didn't have a permit to do what they did these
00:43:07.720
are what i call pop-up prayer sessions and pop-up protests i'm so disillusioned with uh the alleged
00:43:17.960
leadership i'm disillusioned with mayor chow of course uh she parties every weekend in various costumes has
00:43:25.400
no control over the city and the police chief he's a wimp myron demkow is a wimp okay i've said it yeah
00:43:34.280
you know what i'll go further i i think myron demkow might be the worst police chief in the history of
00:43:40.200
toronto and given that bill blair was once the chief that's saying something but you know that's not saying
00:43:46.200
much but you know to that point you made about um the pro-hamas people on the streets of young and
00:43:53.400
dundas shutting down traffic cops are going they've got every right to do so and i remember less than
00:43:58.440
10 years ago there was a christian group that was fighting to be allowed to sing hymns on young
00:44:05.560
dundas square do you remember that uh suen and that was blocking nobody no pedestrians no traffic and
00:44:12.520
they were going through some incredible uh battle for ideological reasons but we could go on so when we've
00:44:19.160
outlined all the problems i think the big question is how do we fix this how do we make toronto great
00:44:29.160
again well unless there's recall legislation to get rid of uh fluteless america olivia chow and her
00:44:37.320
costumes i think we're stuck with her i think part of the problem is the media like we're sitting here
00:44:43.720
we're talking about it every other legacy media as they do with many liberal and socialist politicians
00:44:51.880
give her a free pass they don't question her they don't ask hard questions how many of them criticize
00:44:57.800
sankova square how many of them talk about what's happening to the streets of toronto like are they
00:45:03.720
blind they not see what's going on how many of them ignore the fact that uh homeless have taken over
00:45:11.160
many of our parks and i've been to a couple of them um and shelters are being rammed into
00:45:18.360
neighborhoods without people even being advised beforehand i mean it it's it's mayhem it's
00:45:25.640
absolute mayhem and and it's not being reported uh so these politicians think they can get away with
00:45:32.760
it they think uh and the police think they can get away with it and what do we do well the average person
00:45:39.560
has to keep applying pressure i think that's all we can do because we can't rely on the media doesn't
00:45:45.640
that sound like a story south of the border now it sure does i'm having deja vu soon and you know i
00:45:53.320
guess well we have to look i guess the big date in terms of toronto municipal politics would be 2026
00:45:59.480
that's the next election and you know i thought it was a bit of a tragedy what happened in the last
00:46:04.280
election uh the snap election in which we had over a hundred candidates run but when it came to the
00:46:10.040
serious candidates um your former colleague at the toronto sun anthony fury i thought he was saying
00:46:16.440
all the right things it was such great common sense and i personally think for those on the right or the
00:46:23.160
center uh anthony fury and uh mark saunders pretty much split the vote if one of them had uh bowed out
00:46:31.160
uh my preference would be for mark to have bowed out uh i think we would have had a uh a different
00:46:38.040
kettle of fish um but you know what sue ann uh if i'm to ask you to crystal ball gaze who do you think
00:46:44.680
has the best shot at becoming the mayor of toronto uh in the years to come and even with strong mayor
00:46:52.680
powers is that enough to right this sinking ship in the first place well i i know i've covered
00:47:00.680
election after election after election so you've got to get a council in there at least half of the
00:47:05.320
council who's got some common sense who uh you know votes with their heads not even i mean i don't even
00:47:13.640
think i was going to say heart but it's not even heart with you know the nonsense with their ideology
00:47:19.800
um so uh power i guess constituent groups have to be a little stronger look what happened in saint paul's
00:47:28.600
my own writing how john stewart uh beat out the liberal and i think it can be done but um people
00:47:38.520
have to be more aware of the issues they have to be angry enough to uh vote out uh the socialists
00:47:45.880
in council and not vote based on name recognition so there's so many things that happen repeatedly and
00:47:53.480
it's really disillusioning to see i um i think that if some strong constituent groups hold coalesced
00:48:03.480
and put forward a real good slate of candidates there might be a hope for this city you know what
00:48:09.720
swan we're gonna have to leave it there but i think you're right hope abounds doesn't it uh you know
00:48:15.800
toronto saint paul's uh liberal since 1993 considered a stronghold and uh wow what an upset that was a
00:48:24.680
couple of months ago uh when uh the uh liberal uh candidate uh lost so if she can lose in toronto
00:48:32.200
saint paul's maybe uh there can be regime change and maybe swan it's just a matter of as the misery
00:48:38.840
continues the crime the congestion the tent cities even the city itself you know swan it looks filthy
00:48:48.120
to me it looks like the whole city needs to be sandblasted dave i'm going to give you a very quick
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anecdote my street is just near where they're putting in the bike lanes on eglinton so uh two uh
00:49:02.840
uh front end loaders are sitting parked at the top of the street blocking entry egress and entry to
00:49:10.520
the street and there's a big pile of of pebbles on the street and no one can park in those spots or
00:49:19.000
i mean it's hard to even access the street no one is working no one has been seen all of today
00:49:27.160
i called city hall i called 311 i was passed from department department they just don't give a crap
00:49:34.280
at city hall someone really needs to go and shake it up you know suanne i don't have to fact check
00:49:39.400
that anecdote just last week i was on on uh o'connor in the east end of the city uh that street is being
00:49:46.200
dug up completely and i i wish i wasn't driving i wish i could get a picture of this there was about
00:49:51.800
12 workers and every single one hand up to god they were on their phones text messaging nobody was
00:50:01.000
working and it wasn't even five o'clock yet so suanne these guys didn't even show today
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unbelievable listen suanne you are doing fantastic work at true north i was always a big fan
00:50:17.480
of your tenacious reporting uh out of city hall when you were with the toronto sun thank you so
00:50:22.600
much uh for joining me and uh please enjoy what's left of summer if you're able to in this city thank
00:50:29.240
thank you well folks tons and i mean tons of response to my report last week about a toronto senior
00:50:48.920
citizen who was debanked by scotia bank her crime she merely suggested that seniors should be
00:50:58.920
added to the diversity equity and inclusion policy and that didn't go over with the he him manager
00:51:06.760
at the west end toronto bank and she was fired as a customer at least we think that's the reason
00:51:13.160
the bank or even the bank's uh public relations staff won't give the real reason just that she violated
00:51:22.040
terms of an agreement you know that multi-page document that nobody reads but in any event
00:51:28.760
a lot of you had plenty to say on this disturbing issue rotty x writes i was a scotia bank employee for
00:51:37.640
42 years this is absolutely disgraceful to treat any customer in this manner whoever made this boneheaded
00:51:46.440
decision should be de-employed you know i couldn't agree with you more and it's not a one-off my friend
00:51:54.360
i reported a while back that a fellow in grand prairie alberta he was also debanked by scotia bank
00:52:03.160
what was his sin he was merely inquiring when the rainbow icon scotia bank logo will be removed from
00:52:11.560
his phone and replaced with the normal one well evidently that was anti-woke rhetoric and
00:52:19.400
off with his head in a banking sense as well unbelievable yankee jade writes this lady isn't
00:52:27.720
racist against the gay community she just asked if they could add the senior citizens to the same list
00:52:34.440
how is that a verbal crime indeed how is that a crime it's diversity equity and inclusion and scotia
00:52:44.520
bank is fulfilling inclusion by excluding somebody who had a harmless suggestion give me a break
00:52:54.920
captain of the heart writes she has two strikes against her she's female and a senior that demographic
00:53:03.640
is being erased thank you david we know something i would argue this undeniably there are a lot of
00:53:09.880
seniors in our country unfortunately that are on hard times but by the same token there are a lot of
00:53:16.440
seniors who are very well off indeed and you know what when you have excess money as a financial institution
00:53:27.160
aren't those the type of people you want as oh i don't know customers absolutely baffling anyways that
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wraps up tonight's edition of the ezreal event show the big boss man himself ezra he'll be back again
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tomorrow in the meantime folks as always stay safe and stay sane