EZRA LEVANT ｜ Who won last night's Conservative Party leadership debate？
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We all know that sneaky mayor Patrick Brown is a lying liar, but maybe he is dangerous as well. For example, check out how we caught him red-handed at a Brampton, Ontario hockey rink in 2020.
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Tonight, we all know that sneaky Patrick Brown is a lying liar, but maybe he is dangerous
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as well. It's Friday, May 6, 2022, and this is the Ezra LeVent Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my
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Hey folks, did you catch the conservative leadership debate last night?
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Well, if you didn't, here's the post-game summary. Judging by applause, the clear-cut winner was
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surely Pierre Pollyevre. Judging by the boos, the jeers, and even downright derisive laughter,
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the definite loser was Jean Charest. No surprise there, really.
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But there was also a candidate who lost the debate due to default, given that he was
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a no-show, and that would be sneaky Patrick Brown, Brampton's full-time mayor and part-time
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Zamboni inspector. One must wonder what Patrick Brown was thinking. Why wouldn't he want to
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be on a national stage making a case for what he believes in? Gee, could it be because the
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majority of Canadians aren't buying what he's selling? Or maybe because so many grassroots
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conservatives know that Patrick Brown is a compulsive liar? You know, the kind of guy who
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would spit in your face and tell you that it's raining? Or maybe because we all know, or we should
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know, that Patrick Brown will say anything to anyone if he thinks it will garner him a vote or three?
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All of my points are provable, folks, by the way. For example, check out how we caught Patrick red-handed
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at a Brampton hockey rink in 2020. This tale never gets old. Here's the backstory. Brown had closed all
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the playgrounds and baseball diamonds and soccer pitches to the children of Brampton. He hired Paladin
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security to spy on these facilities. And if they saw violators, the security guards would call Brampton
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bylaw. And like firefighters to a four alarm blaze, the bylaw buzzards would whip over to the scene of
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the crime and issue hefty tickets. It was all about keeping people safe at the height of COVID, you see.
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But Patrick Brown is one of those political parasites who subscribes to the mantra of
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do as I say, not as I do. We were tipped off that Brown was playing shinny at the Ernst Cliff
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Recreation Centre with his Barry Buddies. At first blush, we found this tip hard to believe.
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Surely even Patrick Brown isn't that entitled. But we paid a visit to the rink and well, here's what
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transpired. Well, folks, we're getting the bums rush. But holy mackerel, I think I see Patrick
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Brown himself. Oh, hey, how you doing? Good. Mr. Brown, right? Yeah. David Menzies with
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Rebel News. You're in a city facility? What's that? You're in a city facility? Yeah, so are you.
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Yeah. So are you playing hockey here? No, I'm just coming to check in our facility. So I'm
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going to, we're going to check. You're not supposed to be here, actually. We were told that you play
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a pickup here. Mr. Brown, how come the kids in Brampton can only practice sports, but your
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buddies can play hockey? Yeah. So I don't know why you are harassing people in the city of
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Brampton, but you shouldn't be. Oh, who's harassing who? Your guys handed out 122 bylaw violations
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in one week. Mr. Brown, why is there a hockey game going on in this arena? I thought you're
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only allowed to practice sports, not play them. And who is paying the $1,000 a day, Mr. Brown,
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for this rink? Mr. Brown, are these taxpayer dollars being used for your buddies to play
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hockey on this rink? Or are you paying it? Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon? So Mr. Brown,
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why is there one law for me and one law for thee in this city?
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Oh yeah, he was there all right. He was there to inspect the facility. You know, if I had a job
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that entailed checking Freon levels and tinkering with the engine of a Zamboni, I would also wear
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a finely tailored suit from Harry Rosen as opposed to, you know, haberdashery obtained from Mark's
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work warehouse. But Brown blatantly lied about his shinny shenanigans. He would also later lie with
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his pals in the mainstream media that I had misrepresented myself as a correspondent with
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Maple Leafs TV, an outlet that doesn't exist, by the way. And he wrapped it all up in a bow by stating
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that Rebel News is an Islamophobic organization. Gee, I'm sure that last allegation must come as a
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shock and a surprise to Raheel Raza, the chair of Rebel News. I mean, I don't think a Muslim would
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want to be part of an Islamic news organization after all. But here's the deal. If Patrick Brown
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is caught on tape lying about a little thing like sneaking off to a hockey arena to play a sport
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that was verboten to all the other citizens of his city, well then chances are he is going to lie
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about the big things too. That's really why the Progressive Conservative Party made Patrick walk the
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plank back in January 2018. It really had little to do with an alleged sex scandal and a whole lot more to
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do with the fact that Patrick Brown was destroying the party's brand thanks to his incessant lying.
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For example, he told Social Conservatives that if made leader of the PC party and elected premier,
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he would terminate the Liberals' radicalized sex education curriculum. And then, after becoming
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party leader, he tossed Social Conservatives under the bus by telling them, nope, the sex ed curriculum,
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it's just fine and dandy, thank you very much. Inexplicably, he then tossed fiscal Conservatives
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under the bus when one of his first major policy announcements was his vow to bring in a provincial
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carbon tax for Ontario. That was baffling. Despite declines in recent years, Ontario is still a
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manufacturing province. A carbon tax would have been cancerous. So when allegations of a sex scandal
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emerged, the PC party had a very convenient excuse to stage a palace coup and rid themselves of someone
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who was less leader and more compulsive liar. But like Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees,
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Patrick Brown is back from the grave. This shameless shyster has set his sights on becoming the leader
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of the Conservative Party of Canada, ultimately hoping to emerge as our next Prime Minister.
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Holy horror movie indeed. Yet, what does Patrick Brown stand for? Since tossing his hat in the ring back in
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March, for the most part, he's been missing in action. Unlike the other five candidates who have
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been crisscrossing our Great Dominion and holding rallies, Patrick Brown has had about as much of a
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public presence as the Invisible Man. Well, not quite. You see, Patrick Brown is less about public rallies
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and far more about backroom deals. And one of those deals that he cooked up recently is downright
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disturbing. As reported in the Globe and Mail, in private appeals to Tamil Canadians, Brown has promised
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to deliver an apology as Prime Minister for Canada's behaviour during the Sri Lankan civil war that ended in
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2009. You know, I don't know what Canada was supposed to have done in a civil war half a world away,
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maybe send in the snowbirds for a flyby. But Patrick has nevertheless offered to serve up a mea culpa
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on the behalf of all Canadians because he thinks that some Tamil Canadians will support him for this?
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Wow. But wait, there's more folks. Brown has also promised to remove the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
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Elam, aka the Tamil Tigers, from Public Safety Canada's list of designated terrorist organisations.
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This group was first put on the terrorist list by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government
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in 2006. Yeah, when Patrick Brown was an MP in that very government. Funny how he didn't raise a
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ruckus about the Sri Lankan conflict back then. Oh, but then again, what am I saying? He didn't stand
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to personally benefit from taking such a stance some 16 years ago. Yikes. By the way, the blacklist
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pertaining to the Tamil Tigers is not just a conservative thing. The Justin Trudeau Liberals
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reaffirmed the Tamil Tiger terrorist designation after a review in 2018. Here's what Public Safety Canada
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stated then, quote, although the LTTE was militarily defeated in May 2009, subversion,
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destabilisation and fundraising continue particularly in the diaspora, end quote. Should be noted that this
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is not just a Canadian thing either. 32 other nations around the world also consider the Tamil Tigers to be a
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terrorist group. And rightly so, the Tamil Tigers were actually successful in assassinating a former
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head of state, namely India's Rajiv Gandhi. That's quite the achievement for a terror group. Yet even though
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the Tamil Tigers have blood on their hands, Patrick Brown, he could care less. That's because Canada is
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home to one of the largest Tamil populations outside Sri Lanka. Approximately 140,000 Canadians claim
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Tamil as their mother tongue. The overall population of the Tamil Canadian community is estimated at about
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twice that number. In numerous Greater Toronto Area ridings, Tamil voters count for more than 10% of the
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electorate. Brown is obviously wagering that most Tamil Canadians are supporters of the Tigers and that
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they would respond favourably to the Tigers being removed from the terrorist list. The quid pro quo, of
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course, is that these Tamil Canadians would support Patrick Brown by buying party memberships and voting
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for him. That's what's so appalling about Patrick Brown's pledge to declassify the Tamil Tigers. He aims to do
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so not because it is the right thing to do, not the right thing to do for Canada, that is, but because
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it's potentially the right thing to do for Patrick Brown's leadership ambitions. That, in a nutshell,
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is Patrick Brown for you. The party he represents is not the Ontario progressive Conservatives nor the
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federal Conservatives, but rather he's leader of the me, myself and I party. Yet by exploiting
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diaspora politics for purely personal gain, Brown is playing a very dangerous game here indeed.
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And by the way, how low will he go? What about, I don't know, declassifying Al-Qaeda as a terrorist
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group in order to entice pro-Al-Qaeda Muslim Canadians to the Brown camp? Hey, I'm sure our homegrown Al-Qaeda
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terrorist little Omar Cotter would approve. Heck, Omar could even make a substantial donation to the
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Brown campaign, given that this murderer is a multimillionaire due to your tax dollars hard at
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work yet again. By the way, we can all thank Prime Minister Trudeau for that benevolence,
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given that Justin has apparently never met a jihadi he didn't admire. But in the big picture,
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think of what's consuming the thoughts of most Canadians these days. Like how about gasoline at
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almost two bucks a litre? How about inflation spiralling out of control? Just how many citizens
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go to bed at night thinking that hopefully, maybe one day, there will be a Prime Minister who will
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finally remove the Tamil Tigers from the terrorist list? But this is inconsequential to Mr. Brown,
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the leader of the Me, Myself and I party. Clearly, his goal is to sell hundreds if not
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thousands of party memberships to certain targeted ethnic groups. Brown promises to pay attention to
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their old mother world concerns. In return, they need only buy a party membership and vote for Patrick
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Brown. The thing is, such a hoorish strategy might just swing the vote in certain key writings. The
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fact that the vast majority of Canadians likely don't want our nation to get soft on terrorism and
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terrorists is of no concern to Brown. This pathetic weasel seeks power for the sake of power. In his
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playbook, the ends always justify the means. And maybe that is the reason Patrick Brown was a no-show at
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the debate last night. He's just way too busy cooking up backroom deals. And some of those backroom deals
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are being done with people who, quite frankly, do not subscribe to the values of a Western democracy.
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In his insatiable quest for power, this lying liar will say or do anything, including exploiting
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diaspora politics and embracing those who support terrorism. Mr. Brown is not simply a fake conservative
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who finds it almost impossible to tell the truth. Rather, Patrick Brown is downright dangerous.
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Well folks, earlier this week, in a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that, quote,
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no one can be forced to be vaccinated, end quote. The court also ruled that bodily integrity and
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personal integrity are protected under the law as a constitutional right. Wow. For those who
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subscribe to freedom of choice and medical privacy, this is indeed an incredible decision
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by the Supremes. Ah, but alas and alack, I forgot one very important detail, folks.
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It was the Supreme Court of India, not Canada, that made this landmark decision on May the 2nd.
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And joining me now to discuss how India's High Court got it right on vaccine mandates,
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while this country refuses to budge on such COVID-19-inspired regulations,
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is Rupa Subramanya, a columnist for the National Post. Well, thanks so much for joining me,
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Rupa, and I hope I didn't massacre the pronunciation of your surname. No, it was perfect. It was perfect.
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Thank you so much for having me. Well, Rupa, you wrote a superb column in the Post yesterday,
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contrasting India and Canada when it comes to the vaccine mandates. The question arises,
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why do Indians finally have freedom from these oppressive rules, whereas Canadians are still
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essentially stuck in lockdown mode? That's an excellent question. And it's not just India
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that seems to be in the end of the pandemic. It's a whole bunch of different countries. Canada is
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increasingly an outlier in the world when it comes to vaccine mandates, especially as they apply to,
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for example, the civil service. I can't think of any other country which insists that federal government workers
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should be vaccinated, especially when they've been working from home. The judicial system of the two countries,
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India and Canada are very similar. They have the same parent, essentially. And there's also a culture
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of deference in Canada, in the Canadian judicial system, and the Indian judicial system. So that's
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what makes this Supreme Court ruling extraordinary, because it begs the question, why aren't the courts,
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why isn't this happening here, given how important the issue of vaccine mandates has been for the last
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few months? And the judgment was remarkable in the sense that they tried to strike a delicate balance
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between the government's responsibility towards maintaining public health and safety and bodily
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autonomy of the average Indian citizen. And that in the context of this current situation where
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infection rates are actually low, and also they refer to emerging scientific evidence that shows that
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the transmission rates between the unvaccinated and vaccinated are almost on par. So what is the
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rationale behind vaccine mandates? And that was the original rationale for vaccine mandates. If you
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remember last fall, this was before Omicron, the rationale was to curb transmission. But post-Omicron
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and post-Omicron subvariants, which are highly transmissible, even people with three or four doses
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are getting COVID. I got COVID after my third booster. So what purpose do mandates serve at this point?
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You know, you're quite right, Rupa. It's not just India. I know very recently, Switzerland and Greece,
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as you noted in your column, they've gotten rid of the mandates. Even, my golly, New Zealand arguably
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had the strictest mandate laws on the books. They're now freeing things up. I believe on May 1st,
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it no longer applies to international travelers. That's the vax mandates. So what is the unspoken
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strategy here, Rupa? I mean, is this really all about politics? Is this about the Justin Trudeau
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Liberals demonizing the unvaxxed for political gain somehow? Well, I've been desperately searching
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for the science. What is the scientific rationale behind these mandates? And as I mentioned to you
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earlier, the original rationale was the curb transmission. Now that everybody is getting
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infected, that becomes, you know, that basically falls apart. So then the question is, so why are
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these mandates in place? And I can't help but think that this is all about politics at this point.
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And then the more you demoralize the unvaccinated, the more you denigrate them. And all of that has
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been happening. You know, we know that's been happening. The Freedom Convoy protesters,
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for example, have been demonized like, you know, to such a great extent that I think, you know,
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many of them are actually feeling a little demoralized at this point. And I think it's all about
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politics. I think the Trudeau government probably wants to see where this is going to go.
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You know, they probably just want to also attack their opponents in the Conservative Party,
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especially now that the leadership campaign is in full force. And I suppose, you know,
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that if you were a Conservative leader in support of the convoy, you know, this is, you know,
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they're hoping to play this as a wedge issue as long as it takes.
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You know, you mentioned the Freedom Convoy. We saw how they were demonized, Rupa. Last weekend,
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I was in Ottawa to cover Rolling Thunder. These were a group of peaceful bikers. All they wanted to do
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was take a lap around the National War Memorial and lay a wreath. They were denied doing that. They
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were demonized to. Again, another peaceful protest. I'm beginning to think, Rupa, for those on the left,
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Freedom seems to be, seems to become really a toxic word, which is quite bizarre to me because it's so
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fundamental to our existence. It's fundamental to democratic societies. Freedom may not mean much to
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the average North Korean, but it does mean a lot. I think it means a lot to the average Canadian. So,
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so I just find that, you know, every time one talks about freedom and individual liberty,
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it seems to trigger folks on the left and which is, which is, you know, a really bizarre reaction.
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But I do think that maybe at a basic level, people, people are actually afraid of being free.
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And, you know, those of us who've come to Canada from countries that didn't protect individual
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liberty, that gave short shrift to freedom and individual liberties, we really value
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freedom. And that's something that, you know, you start valuing it when it's taken away from you.
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And going back to the issue at hand, Rupa, I mean, we don't have a Supreme Court decision one way or
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the other, but you did mention in your column, it was a very interesting anecdote. It was how
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arbitrators ruled against the Canadian Union of Postal Workers when that, you know, union filed a
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grievance against Canada post-mandatory vaccination requirement. This doesn't seem hopeful what's
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happening here as so many other nations around the globe are opening up. It seems that, be it
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corporations, crown corporations, the federal government, they're still hell-bent on keeping
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these VAX mandates. But given the lack of effectiveness, what's the point?
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It is politics. It's not about the science anymore, as I mentioned earlier. And there have been a series
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of these cases that have come up before arbitrators, the most recent one being the Canadian Union of
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Postal Workers. And, you know, and it's not just that. I mean, it's the unions as well, which is
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extraordinary. I mean, the UK, for example, the unions were very, you know, came up strongly against
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vaccine mandates when they were being proposed. So, but our unions here, for some reason,
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seem to side with the government on this issue. And it truly is perplexing. I mean,
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the left has essentially sided with the government on this and focused on other issues when they should be
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fighting for workers' rights. Where are they? You know, they're nowhere to be found.
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You know, and it's almost perversely embarrassing because we see government, corporations, unions,
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walking in lockstep. I mean, we have come across unionized employees who are suspended without pay
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and they get no benefits. And it's one thing for the company and the government to wage war on them in
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this regard, Rupa. But their union, too? I mean, I'm asking, why am I paying union dues? Why do I need
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a union when you're simpatico with the company and the government?
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Yeah, it is extraordinary. I mean, it is, you know, large sections of the media, the commentariat,
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the unions, of course, and, you know, they're all basically speaking, you know, they're all using
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the same talking points. As you say, they seem to be in lockstep with the government. And again,
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I would point that, I'd like to point that Canada, again, is uniquely, you know, it's an outlier in
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this, you know, as far as mandates are concerned and as far as opposition to the mandates is
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concerned from unions and, you know, other organizations that should be fighting for
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workers' rights. And so it is extraordinary. I think at this point it is really about politics.
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Like I mentioned in my column, and I mentioned to you earlier, that it makes sense for them to play
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this as a wedge issue, continue to polarize Canadians, continue to divide Canadians,
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continue to demoralize the unvaccinated in the hopes, perhaps, you know, that,
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you know, let's say a protest turns violent. I wasn't here this past weekend, but I know
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friends who were at the protests and, you know, and they, many of these folks, you know, mentioned
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to me that, you know, there was a dark element to the protest this time. You know,
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it didn't have the spirit of, it wasn't like the Freedom Convoy protest. It was something
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definitely a dark underlining, a dark line to the protests. And perhaps it speaks to the fact that
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many of the protesters are now really tired. Their patience is wearing thin.
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They've not been told why these mandates are in place. I mean, they asked some very
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good questions. The conservatives have been asking excellent questions in the House of Commons,
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you know, asking the government, you know, show us the evidence, point us to a study that justifies
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these mandates. You know, who are the experts that you're consulting? And these are questions that
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a lot of people have been asking. But, you know, there are no answers. The answers that we get,
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the responses that we've been getting from the government is that, I think at one point,
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Prime Minister Trudeau said, in response to Melissa Lansman's very, very specific questions on
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the rationale for travel mandates, he said, most Canadians are vaccinated. I mean,
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that's a complete non-response. So it's frustrating. It's adding to the frustration of
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people who are not able to board a plane. They're not able to go back to work because
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they're on leave without pay. And so it is getting, you know, their patience is wearing thin. And I
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worry, the more this goes on, the more angry people are going to get. And then, you know,
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that corrosive narrative that was in place during the freedom convoy may end up becoming a self-fulfilling
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prophecy. Well, Rupa, I'm going to throw now to a clip from a Justin Trudeau Liberal MP who is
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indeed justifying that we have to keep these mandates in place when it comes to Canadians
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who are unvaccinated and want to travel. Let's check out what he has to say.
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If the NDP Liberals won't follow the province's lead and give unvaccinated Canadians their rights back,
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maybe they will follow our international partners. We know that the Prime Minister values his plane
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away image on the world stage more than anything else, as his travels and selfies prove. But our
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international partners are bewildered as to why the Canadian government is so reluctant to let life
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return to normal for all Canadians. Switzerland and Greece are removing all travel-related
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restrictions next week, and virtually no other country requires it for domestic travel for their
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citizens. So why won't this government follow the science?
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The Honourable Prime Minister to the Minister of Health and the Minister of Sport.
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Thank you, Madam Speaker. And I thank my Honourable colleague for giving me the opportunity to
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highlight a recent study indicating that, unfortunately, the unvaccinated continue to
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disproportionately risk the safety of those vaccinated against COVID-19 and highlight the fact
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that in the last week, almost 12,000 Canadians have received their first dose, 30,000 Canadians have
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received their second, 89,000 received their third, and over 220,000 have received their fourth dose,
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Madam Speaker. This pandemic is not over. We all want it to be, but we must continue to follow the
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science. We must continue to support our neighbours. We must continue to fight for kids to ensure that
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young people under six do not get COVID-19 as they have been the biggest numbers in the last couple of
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days. Thank you. Well, par for the course, yet another Justin Trudeau liberal that doesn't answer
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the question. We've got to wrap it up, Rupa. I want to ask you to gaze into a proverbial crystal ball.
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What do you think, when do you think these mandates, whether it's by the government dropping them or by
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our Supreme Court ruling on this issue, when is someone, well, like me, who's unvaccinated, where I can
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get on a plane, fly down to the Dominican Republic, I'd love to do that like the good old days,
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when or when do you think that's going to happen, if it's going to happen?
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I think it will happen. I don't, I think it's a question of, you know, when, and, you know,
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I don't have a specific date in mind, but I do think that the pressure, that they're certainly
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feeling the pressure. I know almost every day, there's a question in the House of Commons,
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trying to hold the government to account, asking them to explain to us why these mandates
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continue to be in place when other countries, including New Zealand, which followed a very
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aggressive COVID zero policy, has rolled back many of these mandates, including the fact that you can
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get Bored Air New Zealand unvaccinated. And that's quite extraordinary. So, you know,
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the government can continue to justify these mandates, they can refer to studies that show that
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the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated, and they can, they can, they can do all of that.
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But, you know, the rest of the world is moving on, and we're still, you know, in pandemic mode.
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And, and that's, that's clear for everybody to see that the world is watching us. I know people who,
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you know, visited Canada and left Canada, and they say Canada feels like a prison,
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because our restrictions here are, you know, harsher than anywhere else.
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I couldn't agree with you more, Rupa. Thank you so much for your time. It was a pleasure. And,
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folks, please check out Rupa's column in the National Post. The headline, India's courts get it
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right on vaccine mandates, and Canada doesn't. What a disgrace. Keep it here. More of the Ezra
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Well, folks, you know, we here at Rebel News, we get your correspondence electronically, that is,
00:32:45.000
every minute of every day. And why don't we just check out some of our fan mail, or is it perhaps
00:32:52.280
hate mail? That's okay. We're an equal opportunity employer here. Grace Friesen writes,
00:32:59.000
Isn't it about time to call MSM welfare media? Oh, and while we're at it, why not call all politicians
00:33:07.400
welfare bums too? Well, certainly, the career politicians who basically don't do anything,
00:33:14.200
I think bum is an apt descriptor. But you're right, in terms of the mainstream media receiving
00:33:20.440
government money, not only are they receiving a form of welfare, but they are inherently in a conflict
00:33:27.400
of interest. How can you possibly, fairly, and impartially cover the government, when the
00:33:33.960
government is, in essence, your sugar daddy? Unbelievable. Sarah Kandent's blog writes,
00:33:41.320
Canada is doomed. That's why my family and I left this year, only coming back after Fidel's son
00:33:48.520
leaves the government, and it might be after 2025. Well, you know, first of all, I'd love to know
00:33:55.640
where you flew off to. I, of course, being one of the filthy unvaxxed Canadians, I can't get out of
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our country under the present vax mandates. And yeah, 2025, it seems so long away. I mean,
00:34:11.720
as the saying goes, today can't possibly dream of what tomorrow brings. Let's hope Jagmeet Singh grows a
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set and stops propping up this hideous liberal government. Let's hope we have regime change sooner
00:34:27.240
than three years away. Photo 606 writes, love listening to Sheila Gunn-Reed. As a Winnipegger,
00:34:36.120
I don't listen to local radio unless it's music. And I loathe the Winnipeg Free Press, which seems to have
00:34:43.320
been deteriorating in quality and integrity for years. Well, my friend, I can tell you the same
00:34:49.480
deal with terrestrial radio in Toronto. If some of these cats don't get off the air, I'm going to
00:34:56.120
stop breathing it, to use the old Dick Beto's quote. And what do you think about the fact that
00:35:02.120
the Winnipeg Free Press that you have disdain for, you are indirectly paying for that. That would be part
00:35:09.080
of the newspaper cabal getting that $600 million plus a year to keep them afloat. Otherwise, it's a
00:35:18.200
bankrupt entity. Funny that, if something's going to fail, why do we have to come to its rescue?
00:35:25.880
I never understood that kind of perverse capitalism. Maybe because it's not capitalism at all. It's more
00:35:33.480
like Marxism. Well, folks, that wraps up another edition of the Ezreal event show. The big boss
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man, he'll be back on Monday. In the meantime, have a great weekend. And as always, stay sane.
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I know you said that. I understand why. We're going to ask you to leave now.
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Why? Zach? Why is that? Because we're not giving
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your accreditation to this event. So we're going to ask you to leave this evening.
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Under the Trespassing Property Act, we will remove you. Okay. Who are you?
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I work for the party and I'm... Okay. Can I see some ID then? It's right here, sir.
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It just says Tour 2022. Yeah. We're going to have to ask you to leave.
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Okay. What is your name then? So we have uniformed police on site
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that will come and remove you. I don't even know. Can I ask you why? That's a fair question.
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I see other media here. You're not invited to the event and you're not checked in. You're not coming
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into the event. But do you have to be invited? I see all sorts of people coming in here.
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Everybody here is invited and they're all here for the right reasons. So...
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So you're asking us to leave, but you won't give us a reason why?
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I'm asking you to please leave. Okay. But what is the reason?
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Can you please... Let's go. Come on. What is the reason?
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Sir, we're going to leave. Can I just ask... I'm not answering any questions.
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We're going to leave right now. I'm just asking online.
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I'm only telling you, you have to leave. We know who you are and we're not causing any...
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What does that mean, you know who we are? I don't understand what that means.
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It's on your mic right there. That's right. Rebel News.
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But the state-funded media, CBC, City TV, Global, CTV, they can.
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That was Ford's spokeswoman, the person I was talking to.
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You see, there'll be no problem of Brian Lilly getting entry because that is Brian Lilly's mistress.
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It is a grotesque conflict of interest. It's a conflict of interest that, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't been declared.
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So is that the new rule that you got to get really up close and personal with the PC communications team or else you're asked to leave?
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Well, I'm sorry. I'm a married man. And besides, Ivana is not my type.
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In any event, as always, we will try to make lemonade out of lemons and do our streeters outside.
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But what does it say that a man, Doug Ford, in September 2017, I remember it well, I was interviewing him at Rebel News headquarters, proposed a weekly Rebel News show.
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And only to change his mind, not based on what he wanted to do, but you see, Dave, the team, the team has different ideas.
00:38:18.420
That's what he told me in November after he was ignoring my phone calls, emails, texts, etc.
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So in any event, it's baffling. Perhaps his cozy relationship with Justin Trudeau is what has made his media non grata.
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We have come to the Toronto Congress Centre several times, several times in the last four years.
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We've been warmly received, but now we're media non grata.
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And I don't think it's an unfair question to ask why.
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And but you saw it, even his communications head honcho, a.k.a. Brian Lilly's mistress, says we are not wanted.
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I used to work with her at Sun News. Boy, do relationships change quickly.
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Well, enough about that. Let's see what some of the folks have to say in terms of Doug Ford's greatest achievement and greatest failure.
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Oh, I think I can weigh in chapter and verse on failures, folks, believe me.
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For me, I think it's bringing peace back to the province, you understand.
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Moving away from the politics of identity politics that was dividing the province so much before.
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And when you have peace, you can get many things done.
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And that's a slogan, this campaign. Get it done.
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Restoring the school to standard that the children can be able to study and get good grades, right?
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And making Toronto and Ontario more and a better place for everybody to live and feel equal.
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So I don't know if it's appropriate for me to comment, but I think he did a great job.
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Especially his leadership through COVID, making sure that everybody was safe.
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We had to make sure that all the province was safe and we put the people first.
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He said one month he was against vaccine passports and then he flip-flopped on that.
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That this protection was extra work to care about the Ontarians.
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You know, we're just asking people today what Doug Ford's biggest achievement has been
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I'm happy with that interaction because unlike the last time I had an encounter with Randy
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Ford via a voice box at Deco Labels, a story I don't think, I mean, a business I don't think
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In fact, I think business has never been better.
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Well, he or one of his henchmen called the police.
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I want you to leave the property or I'll have the police here.
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Because, you know, the saying goes, show me a great man, I'll show you a flawed man,
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You have to be clear in your mind when you select a leader.
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You have to be very clear what you are saying about him.
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We want to be looking forward next four years for him.
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But sir, when it comes to clarity, I mean, he received a lot of flack when he said there
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was no way there was going to be a two-tier citizenship status in Ontario in terms of a
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I follow the medical advice of the chief medical officer in the science, and we haven't wavered
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We either do this or we risk shutting down the economy, which would even be worse.
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Having our hospital capacity maxed out and at the brink.
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That kind of flip-flop, is that truly leadership?
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There are certain types of U-turn that you have to do at the time when looking at the ground
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So I would ignore that, you know, if that happens.
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He's putting the province in the right direction.
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To quote his mantra, get it done, and Doug's doing it, OK?
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He's made commitments, and he's followed through in his commitments.
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In front of the building there, just where I was telling you before.