EZRA LEVANT ｜ Where's the integrity in Brampton under Mayor (Sneaky) Patrick Brown？
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Could it be that the City of Brampton is a municipality devoid of ethics, thanks to Mayor Patrick Brown? Is it possible that the city, under his horrorship, sneaky Patrick Brown, is quite literally a municipality without integrity?
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Tonight, could it be that the city of Brampton is a municipality devoid of ethics, thanks
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to sneaky Patrick Brown? It's Thursday, July 29th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is
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Is it possible that the city of Brampton, under his horrorship, sneaky Patrick Brown, is
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quite literally a municipality without integrity? Here's the skinny. We are still trying to
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find a modicum of justice when it comes to at least seven City of Brampton staffers
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who were working on the now thankfully aborted Patrick Brown campaign for leadership of the
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Conservative Party of Canada. Not only were the staffers doing Brown business as opposed
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to Brampton business, some of them were actually jet-setting around Canada with the sneaky one.
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None have proven that they took leaves of absence, so their actions violate everything from the
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Canada Elections Act to the City of Brampton Code of Conduct. We have the photographic and video
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evidence of their shenanigans, but it's been more than a month since we outed them and nothing
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tangible has occurred in terms of penalties or even criminal charges. Oh sure, the CPC has ousted Brown,
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but that was due to a separate violation of the rules. Uncanny. Patrick Brown and Scandal. They kind
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of go together like peanut butter and jam, don't they folks? Now, we've contacted the City of Brampton
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media relations team regarding these staffers, but no callbacks. And we've been reaching out to the
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City's Chief Administrative Officer, Paul Morrison. He hasn't returned our emails, and when you call
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his phone number, you get a busy signal. No, I swear. When was the last time you heard a busy signal?
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1982? So last week, we ventured out to Brampton City Hall and we hand-delivered a dossier outlining
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all of Brown's shenanigans in terms of apparently using City staff to help him with his ill-fated
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campaign. And to date, the CAO, Morrison, hasn't even had the decency to acknowledge receipt of that
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package. As I understand things, when presented with the dossier, he allegedly took sick leaves.
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And when his sick leave was over, he then went on vacation just to avoid addressing the myriad issues
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that we raised apparently. Again, how unprofessional can you get? Or is this a matter of everybody in the
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City of Brampton is beholden to the vindictive lying liar that is Patrick Brown, and that no City staffer
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dares to make waves? Now, folks, it was suggested by some viewers of previous reports that we should
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reach out to the City's integrity commissioner, Manisa Sheik. The reason I didn't bother contacting
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Ms. Sheik in the first place is that she is, well, a Patrick Brown stooge. You see, when Brown first got
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elected in Brampton in 2018, one of the first orders of business was to appoint a brand new integrity
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commissioner. And Manisa is a personal friend of Patrick Brown.
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Holy conflict of interest. And Brown's gal pal, well, she sure came through for the mayor when we
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caught the sneaky one secretly playing hockey in Brampton with his very friends some two years ago.
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Now, I don't have any issue with the best game you can name, except for this. Back in the summer of 2020,
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Brampton was perhaps the most locked down city in our entire dominion. Baseball diamonds and soccer
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pitches and kiddie playgrounds, they were all no-go zones. And Brown even hired Paladin security guards
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to serve as the City's snitches. They would spy on the rec facilities, and if anyone was, oh, you know,
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kicking a ball around or going down a slide or whatnot, well, these Paladin punks would call City of
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Brampton bylaw enforcement officers who would rush to the rescue ticket books in hand. And yet,
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while the children of Brampton were forbidden from playing games, not so Patrick Brown,
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he was playing shinny on a weekly basis. Check out our infamous video footage when we caught
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Mayor Brown crimson-handed. Well, folks, we're getting the bums rush, but holy mackerel,
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I think I see Patrick Brown himself. Oh, hey, how you doing? Good. Mr. Brown, right? Yeah. David
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Menzies with Rebel News. You're in a City facility? What's that? You're in a City facility? Yeah,
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so are you. Yeah. So are you playing hockey here? No, I'm just coming to check in on our facility.
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So I'm going to check you. You're not supposed to be here, actually. We were told that you play pickup
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here. Mr. Brown, how come the kids in Brampton can only practice sports, but your buddies can play hockey?
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Yeah. So I don't know why you are harassing people in the City of Brampton, but you shouldn't be.
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Oh, who's asking who? Your guy handed out 122 bylaw violations in one week.
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Mr. Brown, why is there a hockey game going on in this arena? I thought you're only allowed to
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practice sports, not play them. And who is paying the thousand dollars a day, Mr. Brown, for this rink?
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Mr. Brown, are these taxpayer dollars being used for your buddies to play hockey on this rink?
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Or are you paying it? Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon?
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Mr. Brown, why is there one law for me and one law for thee in this city?
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Now, in the aftermath in our quest for fairness and justice, our superb lawyer, Aaron Rosenberg,
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officially filed a complaint with Muniza, the so-called integrity commissioner.
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As you may know, the City of Brampton entered Stage 2 reopening effective June 24, 2020.
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Ontario's Stage 2 reopening limited indoor sports and recreational fitness activities
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to use by a business or organization to train amateur or professional athletes or to run
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amateur or professional athletic competitions. Team sports could not be practiced or played within
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the facility with the exception of training sessions for members of a sports team that did not include
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games or scrimmage games. Informal team practices, scrimmages or competitions were not permitted.
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So at the end of the day, Rosenberg stated that it seems as though Brown broke at least
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four code of conduct rules and we outlined those rules. And oh, there was that little matter of
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video evidence. I thought we had a rock solid case, quite frankly. Still, we had our suspicions
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that the fix was in from the get-go. Indeed, Rosenberg noted the following, quote,
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Our clients are also troubled by your reported ties to Mayor Brown, as reported by the Globe and Mail last year,
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including your reported public expressions of support for Mayor Brown and reported payments
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to your husband's company by the Progressive Conservative Party in 2017. Accordingly,
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our clients are calling for your recusal and a corresponding independent investigation
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into Mayor Brown's alleged violations of the code of conduct. End quote.
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So did Ms. Sheik recuse herself? It's Brampton. Of course not. She did not.
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Indeed, when the investigation into Brown's shinny shenanigans were completed,
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Meneza, the city's so-called ethics watchdog, found no evidence, yeah, no evidence,
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that the mayor violated the city's code of conduct. Well, knock me down with a feather.
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But wait a second. If it was indeed kosher that day for Brown to be playing hockey,
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then why did Brown say he was at the arena to inspect the facility? And why didn't he actually,
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you know, inspect the facility as opposed to running away to his getaway car? And if he did mean to
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simply inspect the facility, why was it his hockey bag was there full of equipment? It makes no sense.
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Unless maybe that Brown was lying through his teeth and once again lost track of his lies,
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as compulsive liars tend to do so often. So you can see why we didn't reach out to the integrity
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commissioner regarding this latest scandal. Once bitten, twice shy, as the saying goes.
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But since I was getting absolutely nowhere with everyone else at City Hall, I figured that
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just maybe like that proverbial broken clock, Meneza chic is correct at least twice a day.
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But lo and behold, the city of Brampton is such a shite show these days, folks. You sometimes lose sight of
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who's who's who in the zoo. Which is to say, it turns out that a few months ago, Meneza chic herself
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was fired by the city. As chronicled in The Poynter, an online publication that is doing superb work
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covering the ongoing nonsense in Brampton, chic was given the boot after a two-hour closed session
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discussion back in March. One of the reasons seems to be purely financial. In the course of two years,
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Meneza had billed the city of Brampton more than $660,000 for what was essentially part-time work.
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But it wasn't just the money. It was also her unethical relationship with Brown. The Poynter quoted
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Duff Conacher, a legal scholar and director with Democracy Watch, who noted that Meneza's ties to
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Brown tainted her credibility as Brampton's integrity commissioner. And one of the examples cited was,
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you guessed it, Brown's hockey hijinks during the lockdown. As the Poynter noted, quote,
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despite clear evidence and witnesses that said Brown, who was caught on video at the rink by media outlet
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Rebel News was there to play hockey, chic accepted his claim that he was not there to play hockey.
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Chic accepted his claim that he was not there to play, even though the video footage shows a hockey
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bag next to him with his name on it, filled with equipment and players who said on camera that Brown was
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a regular at the game, which was not allowed under pandemic rules at the time, end quote.
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Oh, the karma. But on sober second thought, does it really make sense trying to get a modicum of
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justice when it comes to Bumbling Brown's rule breaking and ethical violations by reaching out to any city of
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Brampton staffer? Enough is enough. This has to be taken to the next level, which is to say,
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it is high time for law enforcement to get involved. So how about it, RCMP? We've already done all the
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heavy lifting for you. You have all the evidence on a silver platter. What the HE double hockey sticks
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are you waiting for? In the meantime, the city of Brampton continues to exist as a biosphere of the
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bizarre, a cauldron of corruption, Brown's own personal fraudulent fiefdom. And this shyster
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wanted to be Premier of Ontario? And this compulsive liar wanted to be Prime Minister of Canada? Again,
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enough is enough. Indeed, folks, to quote the Joker from the 1989 Batman movie.
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To help with the process of reconciliation, Pope Francis traveled to Canada earlier this week,
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to essentially apologize to any who were affected adversely by the residential school system of
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yesteryear. He touched down in Edmonton, Yukon, and of course, traveled to Quebec City where my guest,
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Alexa Lavois, was there to report on the Pontiff's visit. And joining me now is indeed Alexa Lavois. How are
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you doing there, Alexa? I'm really good, thank you. And you, David? Oh, doing great. Thanks for asking.
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So, Alexa, the Pope spoke to, I think, 60,000-plus people at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium. Then he
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flew out to Quebec. You went to cover the event. How did things go? So, first of all, he arrived really late on the
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Thursday. His flight was postponed, and afterwards, he postponed all the events. So, he was supposed to
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arrive on the Abraham field and at the Citadel around, I think at the beginning, it was supposedly
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to be three in the afternoon and being on the field about four in the afternoon. But at the end, he arrived at
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around seven at night. So, it was really a long day to wait, but the crowd was there. A lot of people were
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really excited to see him. And everything went well, both of the day, because this morning, I went to the
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Basilica de Beaupré, and it's where he did give another apologize ceremony there. And so, a lot of
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people were there. The big screen was outside for people that was not allowed to be inside, was able to
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see the ceremony outside as well. The Pope had his pap mobile, that we called, and it just like passed
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into the crowd, kissed a lot of baby. And yeah, that was something that a lot of people was waiting.
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I would say that most of the people who were there were mostly South America or Central America,
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and a lot of people were Aboriginal as well. So, not much French-Canadian was there,
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Interesting. Now, Alexei, you said that the Pope was able to kiss a lot of babies.
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I would think that Premier Legault must be blowing his stack over that. I mean,
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Quebec was certainly one of the most locked down provinces during the pandemic. It was the only
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one that had a curfew. And now, all of a sudden, kissing strangers is okay. I mean, I'm saying that
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sort of in jest, but in a way not, because look at how many people had their lives made miserable
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because we were supposed to mask up, stay two meters away from one another. And I guess
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that's all gone out the window, at least depending on who you are.
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Yeah. So, at the beginning, they took like the Festival of Quebec as, I would say, as a cause of
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rising case in the hospital. And now, the Pope came and now all vulnerable people are in the field,
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but this is not a problem anymore. But Legault is really promoting, if you are in presence of a
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vulnerable person, you should wear a mask. But what we saw so far, Legault and Trudeau was in presence of
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the Pope that is 86 years old and not really in good shape. But none of them was wearing a mask.
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You know, I still can't figure out the motive of this COVID-19 virus and who it decides to attack and
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what not. But getting back to the meat of the story, Alexa, certainly the Pope is making more,
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very genuine, it would seem, apologies to me. But there are those that say, hey, words are not enough
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and that the Vatican has vast resources of wealth. And how about compensation? How about
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getting programs in place to those dozens and dozens of native reserves that still don't have
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clean drinking water in this year of 2022? How do you feel about that?
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So, first of all, what I heard this morning at the radio, the whole trip of the Pope in Canada,
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the cost was what they say this morning at 98.1. It was about $100 million. On that, a part was paid by
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the Vatican and the church, of course, but a part was being paid from us. And they say that for
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Quebec, it's about $3 million that we did pay for having the Pope over. But I was asking people,
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what do you think? Should we invest that money into the community to have good drinking water and
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better facilities and better place to live for them? Or should we have the Pope over?
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Some people were, yeah, it's a good thing to have the Pope, but some of them were like, yeah, but we have
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like on our reserve still problem with the running water. So I would prefer to have like drinkable water
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than to have a Pope over because it's all my life that is affected by it. And as for the speech, a lot of
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people, not all, but some people have told me that the first speech in Edmonton was touching and more
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emotional. Then in Quebec, it was more, it was more look like it was mixing stuff like Ukraine war with
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climate change with Aboriginal problems. So a lot of people was kind of not angry, but yeah, they were
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angry because they say that it seems not really authentic and sincere, especially because he never
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talked on the name of the church. He did talk on his name, on, on, on, on all this process of
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apologize. And some of the people were not, not happy of the result of it.
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Interesting. But you know, Alexa, I can't help but notice. I mean, it seems to me that during the
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pontiff's trip to Canada, Justin Trudeau was giving this vibe of him being holier than now. And let us
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not forget that it was Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He was prime minister of this
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country when those residential schools were still in existence. Jean Chrétien as Indian affairs minister
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and later prime minister under his bailiwick, they were still in existence. Do you find that
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these individuals are getting off easy and maybe because they're liberals and of course the liberal
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funded mainstream media? Well, they just don't want to bite the hand that feeds, I suppose.
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But I will say, first of all, it's what I asked to some of the people present at the event,
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that the government have a big part of what happened during this camp and this color place
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where we took away the children. But I say, should they apologize? All the people who were in charge
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at that moment, do they should apologize more than the church? Or do you think that the church have
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more to apologize to? And a lot of people say, yeah, the government have like a big, big role on this.
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And the under subvention, like they give so low money to these native
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schools where we know that tuberculosis was really high at that time. Some children die from it. And that
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is not the fault of the church at this. It's because they didn't have the money to treat correctly
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the children who were sick. Of course, that doesn't erase the fact that, yes, they were mistreated.
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They were probably a lot of sexual abuse. I don't know what happened because nobody wants to tell us
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the truth of what happened there because we don't have any record. Or maybe they are there, but we don't
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have access to it. But the fact is that the people who were in charge as the... But Trudeau should
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apologize for what his father did when he was the prime minister at that time. And Jean Chrétien have
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a part in this responsibility too. So why is only the Pope who needs to do a trip all over Canada to three
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different cities when he's actually really not well in shape and apologize many times when he was not
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Well said, Alexa. One last parting question very quickly. Now that we review how the trip went with
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the Pontiff, was it a success? Was it a failure? Was it maybe a mix of both? How do you score it, my friend?
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I would say this is my personal opinion. I think it's a big fail. First of all, there was not many,
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many people and the cost of it was really high. And at the end of the day,
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if we really, really care for climate change, why spending how many carbon footprint for this trip,
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for the private jet and all this moving and the car of the Pope needed to be transported as well,
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and all the security, all the cars involved. And at the end of the day,
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like everything was closed around, like shop was closed. And for my part, I don't think,
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I think in the week, everybody would forget about it.
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Interesting. Alexa, thank you so much for being on the ground in Quebec City. I really appreciate
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your work there. And you have yourself a wonderful weekend, my friend.
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Thank you, you too. And that was Alexa Lavoie from Montreal. Keep it here,
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folks. More of the Ezreal event show to continue right after this.
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Well, folks, lots of response regarding my monologue yesterday regarding the C40 gathering of mayors.
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It's almost 100 mayors of major cities, including Mayor John Tory, who are enacting all kinds of
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crackpot policies, all in the name of climate change. Yeah. Thanks, John Tory. I don't need your
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advice in life to get by. In any event, Fat Ninja writes,
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have fun riding your vegan bicycle down to the local Starbucks for a cricket frappe. Yeah, really,
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that's one of the deals when it comes to the climate change argument. We got to give up meat and pork and
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lamb and lamb and all those other delectable animals because they're burping and they're flatulence.
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Well, it's going to destroy the planet. So we should settle on insects instead. Well, as soon as I see
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Mayor Tory and company chomping down on mealworms, maybe then I'll consider it.
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Cryptos en Español writes, government needs to manufacture crisis to make themselves relevant.
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You know, you're absolutely right. When I go to freedom rallies, folks, I can tell you this,
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the most passionate demonstrators tend to be those from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
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nations. They've gone through this horror show before. They see it for what it is. The government
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uses a crisis or manufactures a crisis to, you know, take back some of your civil liberties,
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temporarily, of course. Right. But the truth of the matter is those civil liberties never come back
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to you. And before you know it, you're under a dictatorship. In other words, they've seen this
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movie play out. They've seen the ending. It's not happy and they don't want it to happen here.
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Jimmy Zhao writes, OK, this made me spit out my coffee. Quote, I'm sorry, ma'am. I'm just reading your
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breasts. End quote. David can give tutorials on being a pickup artist. LOL. No justice, no nips.
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Well, folks, if you didn't see the monologue, that refers to the fact when Dufferin Grove Park
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was being cleared out of hobos. There was this plump woman that came running up to me,
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topless. And she had all kinds of messages written on her breasts. Hey, I'm all for freedom of
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expression. But I just couldn't read the words properly. And the words were no justice, no peace.
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But in the bigger picture, here's the deal. Mayor Tory is telling us how to live our lives
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in the name of greater cities the world over. And yet he can't keep his backyard in Toronto
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clean. If you look at the number of tent cities, the number of hobos taking over,
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that ludicrous Afro-Indigenous rising encampment that lasted three weeks right on the doorstep
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of Toronto City Hall. Give me a break, Mayor Tory. Clean up your own mess first and then worry about
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our alleged messes later. And by the way, you are a municipal mayor. You're not a premier.
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You're not a prime minister. Shouldn't your role be, you know, picking up the garbage,
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making sure the water is clean, fixing potholes? Yeah, I know it's very mundane for you, Mr. Mayor,
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but it kind of affects our lives in a profound way. Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition
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of the Ezreal Event Show. Thanks so much for tuning in. The big boss man, Ezra, he'll be back tomorrow,
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Friday. In the meantime, as always, stay sane. Juan Mendoza with Rebel News. We're back here
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in Tampa, Florida at the Student Action Summit, and I have with me right now Julio Rosas from
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Town Hall Media. Thank you very much for talking with us at Rebel News. Yeah, thanks for having me.
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So you recently published a book talking about your experience with the 2020 riots,
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and you were one of the big reporters that were reporting at the scene all across the U.S. when
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all that was happening. So tell us more about that. How's that been? Yeah, I mean, the book's called
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Fiery but Mostly Peaceful, the 2020 riots and the gaslighting of America. You know, I didn't set out
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when everything was happening to have the end goal of writing a book. It just sort of just
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kind of happened in the sense that they just kept happening in 2020. Like I thought they would stop
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at some point, but you know, they didn't. And so I was at a lot of places, Minneapolis, Kenosha,
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Chaz, and Seattle. I was at the Portland Federal Courthouse siege. So I saw a whole bunch of things
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that were happening and that were obviously, you know, making a lot of impacts on the 2020
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election and politics in general. And so, you know, I decided to write things down,
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but I also wanted to include people who were victims of the riots because, you know,
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unfortunately, a lot of people who were on the pro-rioting side, they were trying to minimize
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their plight because they say, well, you know, if they were a business owner, for example,
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they would say, well, we have insurance. You know, it's just a building. Who cares?
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But these are people's livelihoods that were, in some cases, completely destroyed. And
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not to go too in the weeds, but insurance doesn't necessarily cover riot damage. And so
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it was set out to have a definitive account, a firsthand account about all these very destructive
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events while also just, you know, cementing things in writing because this is history. I mean,
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we're going to be talking about 2020 and the riots, similar to the way that we talk about Los Angeles
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in 1992 or, you know, the hot summer of 68 and 69. So it took a while. You know, it was a good
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endeavor. Daily Wire published it. I'm thankful for that. And so, yeah, I mean, I never thought
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I'd be an author, but, you know, here I am. Yeah. And it's good that good reporters like you were on
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the ground there showing the reality of what was going on. Meanwhile, the legacy media was trying to
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frame it as the summer of love, you know? So, Julio, so another thing that you've been reporting on
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as well. I've been at the border with you doing reports there many times. So have you seen
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anything new down there since the last time you went down to the border? I mean, the thing that's
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kind of crazy is, you know, I've been covering the border since 2019. It was under President Trump.
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So obviously things were very, very different back then. And so when I started covering the border,
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when things started to unravel back in, I mean, it really started to kick up in March of last year
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under, you know, when, after Biden came into office, it was just, it was just startling to see,
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uh, you know, over 200 people illegally crossed the border in one area within the span of two,
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three, four hours. Today we're getting groups of like 500. I mean, like it, like it's insane how
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it's gotten worse. I mean, it's, and it's not slowing down. I mean, you know, we're here in Tampa,
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right? That we got similar to the, you know, the, the humidity and heat that they're getting in McAllen,
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Texas right now, or, you know, Del Rio or Eagle Pass. And yeah, can you imagine, I mean, like we're
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complaining about, oh, it's so hot in our suits and all this other stuff. But I mean, can you imagine
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trying to, you know, in the hands of smugglers, trying to illegally cross the border in this heap
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with, you know, oftentimes no water, no food or anything like that. I mean, it's, it's insane just how
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uh, uh, inhumane the border has become. I mean, don't get me wrong. The board has been
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a problem for a very long time. It's just that like with everything else under this administration,
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the, you know, Biden has seemed to make an effort to make things 10 times worse on purpose.
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So, you know, today I'm just shocked at how bigger the groups have gotten, how more consistent
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they've gotten all the different areas that, you know, normally they've never seen activity like this
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before. Um, and so, and it's all just to speak that this is a problem, number one, but also too,
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it's a very fixable problem. You know, they, they just needed, you know, the white house just needs
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to go back to what was happening two, three years ago. Uh, but obviously they're not going to do that
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because, you know, Trump is racist or, you know, whatever you want to say.