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We fought against de-platforming and we won. Here's how. Ezra Levant's new book, The Libranos, hits No. 1 on Amazon Bestseller's list and has more than 1,000 reviews.
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Hello, my rebels. I've got some really good news for you today. At least it feels good news to me.
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And I just put me in a good spirit. I don't know if you remember, but a year and a half ago,
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I had a couple of book signings scheduled for Alberta. I rented out some theaters. It was for
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my new book, The Libranos. But then a canceled culture mob came along and stampeded the owner
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in a canceling, ripping up the contract at the last minute. Well, I've got a beautiful letter
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from that theater owner today that I want to read to you. And I want to give you an update on
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the lawsuit in that case, because I actually think we've cracked the code on how to fight
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canceled culture. At least that's how it feels. Why don't you listen to the podcast and tell me
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what you think. And, you know, I'm going to show you some things. I'm going to show you some video
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footage and a letter and a lawsuit. I know you're listening on the podcast, but if you can go to
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rebelnews.com and click subscribe, because I want you to see the video version of this podcast,
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because it's partly a visual story. Anyway, you can do that at rebelnews.com. It's just eight bucks
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a month, and it would sure mean a lot to us in terms of financial support. Okay, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, we fought against de-platforming, and we won. I've got some great news for you.
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It's March 25th, and this is the Ezra Levant 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'm publishing it is because it's my
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bloody right to do so. I've got some good news for a change. We have a major victory in our lawsuit
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against the cancel culture mob. I think we found a way, at least in Canada and probably in the United
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Kingdom and Australia, to use the law to stop de-platforming. It took 18 months, but I think
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it's really working. We've proven the concept. Let me show you the results, and let me tell you how we
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did it and how you might be able to. Also, I have in my hand a signed apology from the owner of two
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theaters in Alberta that canceled two book signings I had scheduled back in October of 2019 for my book
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about Justin Trudeau called The Libranos, What the Media Won't Tell You About Justin Trudeau's
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Corruption. As you can imagine, the book was very well received. It hit number one on the Amazon.ca
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bestseller list. It has more than a thousand positive reviews. So I was scheduled to do a book
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launch in Edmonton and then in Calgary at these great independent movie theaters that I knew when
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I was a student in Alberta, one in Calgary where I grew up called the Plaza Theater, and its sister
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theater in Edmonton called The Princess. I got to know that theater when I went to law school up in
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Edmonton. So I knew these two theaters personally. I love them. I actually had rented them out before
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to host a movie premiere a few years ago with Rebel News. Totally sold out events, by the way. Very
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well received. The staff and the owner of the theaters liked it. It sold a lot of popcorn for them. So I
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signed a contract with these two theaters to do my book signings there for The Libranos. And I paid the
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whole rental fee in advance. And I was pretty excited about it. We sold a lot of tickets.
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But then about a week before my book launch, a left-wing Twitter mob started threatening the
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theater owner. The mob wanted to cancel my book signing. So I called up the theater owner to
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reassure him. I told him I'd even hire some private security at my own expense just to make sure there
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was no problem and to put him at ease. But really, it's Alberta. A book criticizing Justin Trudeau really
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isn't a radical idea. This was just a woke Twitter mob. The owner, Mike Brar, told me in 30 years he had
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never canceled a movie and he didn't expect to start now. The thing is, there wasn't Twitter or Facebook
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in the 80s or 90s. So this theater owner, Mike Brar, really didn't know how, you know, how a mob would
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feel, what it would look like. And as the online mob got wilder and wilder, Mike Brar felt like he was
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in a tornado. I talked to him on the phone and he told me he couldn't even sleep at night. He said he
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felt he had to cancel. I implored him not to. But finally, when the day of the book signing came and we
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all showed up at the theater in Edmonton, well, the doors were locked on us and we were kept out.
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So I did my book launch on the street outside. Here's a moment of what that mayhem looked like.
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My name's Ezra Levant. I'm the Rebel Commander at RebelNews.com.
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And welcome to my book launch of the Libranos. Now, the thing is, we were supposed to have the book
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launch inside the theater. But as you can say, we are outside the theater. Now, this isn't supposed
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to be that way because I have in my hand here a contract with the theater owner, and I also have
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proof of payment on my credit card. So why am I outside instead of inside?
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Same thing happened in both Edmonton and Calgary. By the way, there was just a single protester at
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each event. One guy. I'm not kidding. And we had hundreds of eager book buyers. Well, fast forward
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to today. Let me read this letter to you, which you can find on the website StopDeplatforming.com.
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You can read it for yourself. But let me just read it to you now. I feel great about getting this.
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It's called, Apology. I, Macken Brar, of Edmonton, Alberta, am the owner and operator of Historic
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Princess Theaters, Inc. Rebel News Network Limited had scheduled two book launch events for October
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10, 2019 at the Princess Theater in Edmonton, and October 15, 2019 at the Plaza Theater in Calgary.
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I made the decision to cancel those events at the last minute due to pressure from my staff
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and because of the specter of large community protests. In particular, two employees, Michael
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Corliss and Jordan Thompson, told me that Rebel News was not welcome on White Avenue in Edmonton
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and that they had faced problems at other events. In fact, Rebel News had held events at my theaters
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in the past without incident, and I should not have canceled these events. Doing so caused
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financial damage to Rebel News and damage to Rebel News' reputation. I apologize to Rebel News
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and its owner, Ezra Levant, for canceling the events and for any damage suffered. Mike Brar.
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Mike? Apology accepted. I really think he means it. I just don't think he had ever been.
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Gene threatened that way by the mob. You know how cruel people can be on the internet. Leftists know
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that that kind of threats wouldn't work on me, so they picked on an immigrant entrepreneur and
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scared him to death. What a bunch of bullies they were. But back to October of 2019, the mob won.
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I was canceled. Seriously, who does that? Who bans a book talk? If you don't like my book, ignore it or
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rebut it, or if you're in town, come and ask me a tough question about it. Remember, the book banners
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hadn't even read my book yet. We had just published it. This was the launch. What was so gross is that
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some of the mob were professors and staff at the University of Alberta. How awful is that? Professors
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banning book launches. That's disgraceful, frankly. But like I said, what could I do?
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The doors were actually locked. My contract with the theaters were not honored. Now, as you can sort
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of tell, I sued Mike Brar and the two theaters for breach of contract. I had paid him in advance.
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He took my money, and then he scuppered the whole evening. I don't like it, but I can understand it,
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and I really do accept his apology and the other parts of the settlement that I'm not at liberty to
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discuss. But what about the real bad guys here, the mob itself? You heard Mike's apology. Even his own
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staff, Michael Corliss and Jordan Thompson, they pressured him to rip up his contract with me.
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Did they really get to walk away from this? Does the Twitter mob do those woke professors?
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No. And this is the lesson I want to share with you today. This is how I fought back. See,
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it's sort of an obvious move to sue for breach of contract when someone breaches their contract with
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you. So that's Mike Brar and the Princess Theaters. But even though he was the one who actually canceled
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the event, it was the mob who forced him to do it, who abused him, who threatened him, who pressured him,
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who scared him. Metaphorically, they had a gun to his head, and nothing I could say or do could make him
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feel safe. Even the private security I hired, they did this to him. And this is the new legal strategy
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that we used. And I don't know if it's been used anywhere before to fight cancel culture. We sued
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individual members of the Twitter mob and the email mob and the Facebook mob and everyone else who
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threatened Mike Brar where we could find their real name. We sued them for inducing a breach of
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contract. That's what's called a tort in law. That comes from the French word for wrong.
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Well, let me tell you a little bit about this tort called inducing a breach of contract.
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Back in the year 1853, this gorgeous theater hired an opera singer named Joanna Wagner to sing for them
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exclusively for a three-month run. Apparently, she was very popular. Well, the guy who ran this rival
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theater in London in 1853 induced her to breach her contract to the first guy and sing at his theater
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instead. So he paid her to rip up her first contract and then come to sing for him. So the first theater
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owner sued the second guy who induced the opera singer to break her contract. And here's what that old-time
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court had to say about 170 years ago. It's a little bit archaic English. It must now be considered clear
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law that a person who wrongfully and maliciously, or which is the same thing with notice, interrupts the
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relations subsisting between master and servant, commits a wrongful act for which he is responsible
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at law. Now, that's slightly archaic wording, but it means that if two people have a contract
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and you induce one of those people to break the contract and run away, you're on the hook too, buddy.
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So Mike Brar did the right thing in the end, apologizing, settling, appreciate it.
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My lingering regret truly is that the theaters look like they've been crushed by the COVID lockdown.
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That's too bad. You know, I'd still like to do that book signing. I'd still like to see movies at
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those theaters. I'm glad to have settled with Mike Brar. He was a victim in a way too.
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But now we proceed against the mob. They induced him to breach the contract. You heard his apology
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and explanation. Now we continue. As you can see, Mike even told us the name of his staff who pressured
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him. We're going to add their names to the lawsuit too. And we're going to continue until justice is
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done. We are proceeding to court. Inducing a breach of contract is a tort in the United Kingdom. It's a
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tort in Canada and it's probably a tort in other jurisdictions too. And I think it is the right way
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to fight back against the cancel culture mob. Let those University of Alberta professors and staff
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come to the court and explain to the judge why they pressured a theater into canceling a book signing.
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Let them come to court and explain themselves. If their own conscience wasn't enough for them to
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respect freedom of speech and freedom of the press and freedom of association and assembly and the
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sanctity of a contract, well, then maybe they need to hear it from a judge. If you want to see our
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lawsuit for yourself, it's on that same website, stopdeplatforming.com, that I put Mike's apology.
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I put Mike's apology there. You can read it. And if you are deplatformed somewhere,
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feel free to use my lawyer's lawsuit as a template. The mob carried the day back in October of 2019.
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But I don't think they're going to carry the day in a court of law. Go to stopdeplatforming.com to
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learn more. And if you can help me cover the costs of pursuing this litigation, please do.
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You can do it right there on the same website too. Stay with us for more.
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So, of course, the federal government appealed that decision to the Supreme Court of Canada,
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which released its judgment today. We are obviously disappointed with that decision.
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The Supreme Court ignored the Alberta Court of Appeals warning and discovered a new federal power
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that erodes provincial jurisdiction and undermines our constitutional federal system.
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We'll take time to study that decision in detail. I do appreciate the three thoughtful dissenting
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opinions, including that of Mr. Justice Russell Brown, which warns that, quote,
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the true danger in the majority's reasons lies in its abandonment of any meaningful constraint
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on federal power. That's Jason Kenney, Alberta's premier, reacting to a six to three ruling from the
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Supreme Court of Canada upholding the constitutionality of the Liberal Party's carbon tax. It was six to three,
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which, frankly, was more dissent than I thought there would be. And it wasn't so much ideological dissent as
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saying, you know, that's not the federal government's jurisdiction. A constitution gives some powers to
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the feds, some to the provinces. This just ain't it. But the Chief Justice Wagner said it is a matter
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for the feds because global warming, he said, was an existential threat. So, you know, this tax had to
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go into law. Joining us now via Skype from Edmonton is our friend Lauren Gunter, senior columnist with
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the Edmonton Sun. You know, I find that Judge Wagner, by saying it's an existential threat, climate
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change is real. He's showing he's deeply obedient to the establishment religion. You know, the UK has
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their Church of England. We have our Church of Global Warming. And it shows that he's implying
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that this carbon tax will somehow change the temperature of the world. Because he thinks
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global warming is such a threat. And maybe he's right. I don't think he is. That this tax,
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therefore, must go through as if it's going to save the world. I think it shows that he's a bit of a
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zealot. But that's just me. What do you think, Warren? There's no doubt there's some of that in it.
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The reasoning in his argument is that if you accept the federal government premise that this
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is an existential threat, then you can't have individual provinces making decisions that may
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or may not trip up the national strategy for dealing with this existential threat. He's fairly
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careful not to pass too much judgment on whether or not global warming is real. That's giving him too
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much credit. There's just an assumption now in almost all elite opinion, of course, that climate
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change is catastrophic. It's happening very quickly. We have to deal with it right away.
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So he is driven by some of that. But most of the legal reasoning in this is that, you know,
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if you accept the federal position that this is an existential threat, then you can't afford to have
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individual provinces abiding or not abiding by federal rules. And so they've evoked what's called
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the National Concern Doctrine that the courts have over the last six decades, sort of read into the
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Constitution. It's not in the initial Constitution, but it comes out of Section 91 of the Constitution,
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which says any residual powers not articulated in the Constitution go to the federal government.
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It's very different from the U.S. Constitution, where any powers not articulated by the authors of the initial
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Constitution go to the states. Here, any leftover powers that they didn't actually talk about go to the federal
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government. And out of that, probably since the early 50s, the court has been gradually growing this thing
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called the National Concern Doctrine. You know, it's yet another setback and frustration for Alberta
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and Saskatchewan, too. I'm in exile out here in Toronto, but I still in my heart feel like an Albertan
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in my sensibilities. And that province has had so many setbacks, some from Mother Nature, some from global
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forces like the price of oil. Some were inflicted on it by its own government under the NDP, I put it to you.
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But this feels like insult to injury for the fifth time. And I've got to wonder how much that province can
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take. I see in the polls that conservatives are running behind federally and provincially. They're not
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behind federally, but they're far back from where they were federally. And provincially, the last two polls
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have put them behind. I have a question for you, because you're there every day and I only just visit.
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Is the province of Alberta now thinking, what are we even doing? What are we even doing in a
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confederation that doesn't work? At least under Stephen Harper, we had a conservative party that
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represented us. Erin O'Toole is telling us we've got to shut up about global warming. The Supreme Court
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is telling us we've got to shut up about global warming. I look at the glee with which the liberals
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are disparaging Alberta and Saskatchewan. I see the environment minister called them
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recalcitrant, like they're children that need to be disciplined. Maybe the three Supreme Court
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judges are recalcitrant true. And I'm thinking, is Alberta ready to go?
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Not yet. And I'm not sure how long it's going to take for this decision to sink in. But the thing
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I was talking about before, this national concern doctrine, they just expanded in a mushroom cloud
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in this decision. For the length of time that the Supreme Court has been developing this doctrine
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very slowly, it's been very, very, very careful to not carry the national concern wedge further into
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an issue than it had to. I mean, for instance, it once decided that nuclear power needed to be
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nationally regulated because of the danger and because of the international aspect of it.
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But that nothing in a nuclear plant that was regulated by the provinces should be infringed upon.
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For instance, if you had a labor dispute between the plant owner and workers, well,
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that was a provincial jurisdiction. The feds couldn't invoke the national concern doctrine.
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In this decision, they basically say, we have at it. Everything could be a national concern.
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Ottawa wants it to be a national concern. It's a national concern. We'll just let them ride
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roughshod over the province. And I think in the long run, this decision could do as much
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to spark a separatist sentiment in Alberta and Saskatchewan as anything else that the feds,
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I mean, the tanker ban off the Northern British Columbia coast, the cancellation of two pipelines,
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the acquiescence to the Biden administration on the cancellation of Keystone. I have no trouble,
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I have no idea at all if this happened, but I have no trouble believing at all that the Biden
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administration said, hey, we'll give you a couple million vials of vaccine that we're not using
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anyway. AstraZeneca, we haven't even approved yet. We'll give you a couple million vials of that
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if you'll just nudge, nudge, wink, wink on Keystone. So the federal government has done
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all it can to batter down Alberta and to a lesser extent Saskatchewan. And that has caused an awful
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lot of friction in those two provinces. But I think in the long run, this expansion of the national
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concern doctrine will be as damaging to national unity as any of the things that the Trudeau
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government has done. And by the way, now that the precedent is set, it might be used against Quebec.
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And it might, although what politician would do that, but it has set the, it has made it possible.
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You know, it's funny, you mentioned how Trudeau didn't lift a finger for the Keystone XL.
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That wasn't a national concern. Energy East wasn't a national concern. It's so frustrating to me.
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You know, I was just doodling here some, some numbers. Canada is about 1% of worldwide emissions.
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Officially it's almost 2%, but China is like so big. So if Canada is about 1% of the world
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and Saskatchewan, the population of Saskatchewan is 1 30th of the country, I know their emissions are a
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So that's 1 3,000th of the world. And I know that my numbers aren't exactly right here. And if this
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carbon tax will cause a reduction in emissions by, I don't even think it's going to cause a reduction,
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but let's say by 1%. So we're at 1 300,000th. And I know my numbers aren't spot on, but I'm just trying
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to make the point that you're roughing up Saskatchewan, you're roughing up Alberta for a negligible change
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in a negligible province, in a negligible country that will be offset in like two days worth of coal
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fired power plant construction in China. China is building hundreds of coal fired power plants.
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All of this abuse of Alberta and Saskatchewan is undone in days by China.
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In hours, maybe. You know, in Alberta, we decided we were going to shutter under the NDP. We decided
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we were going to spend billions of dollars paying utility companies to shutter their coal fired power
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plant. And that was there's 16 of them were going to shutter. China is building or paying to be built
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in other countries, hundreds of coal fired power plants. And so whatever we were going to save by emission
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will be unseen by the atmosphere. And the other thing to remember, so you said, you know, Canada is 1%
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officially 2%. Say it's 2%. That's 2% of the 6% of total carbon dioxide
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that's man-made. 94% of the oxygen goes into the atmosphere.
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Natural sources. So the whole idea that you can marginally change the 6%. So let's say the whole
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world jumps in on Justin Trudeau's green enthusiasm. And we switch from, squeeze that down from 6%
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to 5.2%. I have no idea what difference that's going to make. But then you take 2% of the 6%. So
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you're talking about here, I can't even move my fingers close to that. Yeah. I remember one time I
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gave a speech you had invited me to give, where I said, take carbon dioxide and say it's 2,400 cases
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of 24 one-liter water bottles. Canada's contribution to that in terms of CO2 would be a few capfuls in
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one bottle. And how in heaven's name we think that's going to make any difference. So we should
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beggar our economy. We should spend billions and billions and billions of dollars on wind power,
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solar power, bug burps, whatever it is that we think is going to be the alternative. And put up
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with years, decades of intermittent power. Yeah. Rolling brown out, rolling black out, because
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these alternative green energies aren't good enough to meet our demand. It just baffles me that we're
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doing. And now we have a Supreme Court that has said that's within the federal constitutional power
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to do that. Yeah. Very frustrating. You know, I'm reminded of the Alberta coal shutdown. And there
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was this phrase that was in vogue five years ago, social license. If we stab ourselves, it'll make
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others less likely to stab us. If we punch ourselves very hard in the face, the bullies won't do it.
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So we shut down our coal. Alberta brought in all sorts of taxes and punishments. And the carbon tax
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was still foisted on the province. I mean, social license was a lie. It's just the new front line
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for the leftists. You know, there's a phrase that the liberals use. They no longer say stop climate
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change or reverse climate change. It's an action word, combating climate change. It's just the
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performance because even they know what you just said, that if everyone in the world agreed to shut
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off all of our carbon emitting activities, it still wouldn't change anything. So you're not actually
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stopping climate change, let alone reversing it. They just want to see you combating it. Let's see
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you. Let's see combat it for a bit. It's like, you know, King Canute ordering the waves to stop.
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You're not going to stop the waves. But I want to see you try. Start bailing. Get out your little
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cup and bail out the ocean. Yeah. You know, this is the virtue signaling government. Yeah.
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They achieved nothing. Like, what did they achieve with the $380 billion that they spent
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They increased personal savings rate in Canada and sent hundreds of billions of dollars to people
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who weren't out of work. So basically what they did was they achieved the largest
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intergenerational transfer of wealth in Canadian history, probably in Western history,
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in the history of the Western world. And, you know, they talk about feminism. Well, what have
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they really done to advance women? And they talk a lot about gun control. But what have
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they done to advance? They don't achieve much of anything. Yeah. But they virtue signal on
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everything. And that is what this is all about. That's all the carbon taxes. It's virtual signaling.
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It will have no impact. BC has had one now since 2008. It has had virtually no impact on emissions
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in BC. It had a little impact from 2008 to 2010. But since that time, emissions have grown as much
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as they've grown in other provinces. It hasn't pushed people to give up their cars and get on the bus,
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give up their cars and ride their bikes to work. It has achieved nothing of significance.
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Yeah. But it's virtuously. It shows, oh, we're woke. We know that this is a problem. And we want to show
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how concerned we are. Not by actually achieving it, but by simply inflicting, self-inflicting pain.
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You remember in old Catholic churches, there were people who flogged themselves to get rid of sin.
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Um, uh, and that's what they, that's what they're doing. They're put on a hair shirt. They make
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themselves uncomfortable to prove that morally they're superior. My one objection to your analogy
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is people who hit themselves are hurting themselves. Trudeau himself hasn't stopped flying private jets
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or his motorcades or his various homes. So that's my one objection to your analogy.
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Well, and in the last election, they had two airplanes. Yeah. Two airplanes. Right.
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Remember that? Yeah. And the second one, which was just for props to put up behind the
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prime minister and some staffers, uh, was one of the oldest models of the 737 out there, which was one
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of the biggest emitters going, but of course he's out there making these speeches, talking about how
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greedy. Yeah. Very, very frustrating. Well, it's great to catch up with you. I'm going to study this
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ruling more closely in the days ahead, but I think, I think you've got the main takeaway there for sure.
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Nice to see you, my friend. Thanks for joining us. All right. There you have a Lauren Gunter,
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senior columnist at the Edmonton Sun. Stay with us more. Hey, welcome back on my show last night. John
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writes, I'm cutting up my conservative membership card. Well, I just don't even get it. You know,
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I saw a new poll out last night on iPolitics. It wasn't a private poll for the Privy Council office.
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It was, um, I think it was Main Street or a public pollster. And it showed that everyone in Canada
00:31:41.560
has pretty much made up their mind on carbon taxes and global warming. And no one's going to move.
00:31:47.700
No one's going to move from conservative to liberal on that issue. No one's going to move from liberal to
00:31:53.120
conservative. So Aaron O'Toole attacking his own party, upsetting the whole party, stepping on his
00:31:59.700
own messaging. It's not going to work according to this poll that was published in iPolitics.
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I just don't understand why he's burning himself up on Trudeau's favorite issue.
00:32:09.060
Bruce writes, I'm ready to vote for any other real conservative. Shannon Stubbs is a great MP,
00:32:15.260
but Aaron O'Shear is destroying the party. Look, there are good MPs. I know many of them. I know
00:32:20.400
Shannon Stubbs is your MP. I think a lot of them are biting their tongue, uh, and maybe hoping that
00:32:27.480
Aaron O'Toole, uh, will be gone after the next election. I mean, what's going to happen if the
00:32:33.580
party loses, let's say 20 seats, if it's rolled back, is Aaron O'Toole going to get another shot?
00:32:39.320
Normally, I don't think he would, but who's going to run? I'm for Pierre Paulyev. I'm for bringing
00:32:44.180
back Harper. We got that whole petition, bring back Harper.com. But I don't know. I just,
00:32:49.580
I feel terrible about what's going on. It's not going to work. How's that? Even if you're willing
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to put water in your wine on that issue, the polls say it's not working. Paul writes,
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people wouldn't vote for Sloan because their TVs told them he was unelectable. Yeah. Every time I
00:33:05.780
talk to Derek Sloan, I think he's a good communicator. He, he, he sounds smart. Uh, he's
00:33:12.280
moderate and rational. Anyone the CBC or the Toronto Star tells you to hate? I mean, maybe I'm supposed to
00:33:19.320
stop clock as right twice a day, but check them out because if the CBC and the Toronto Star hate
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them so bad, maybe they are a bad person or maybe they're just a very effective at promoting
00:33:30.040
conservative ideas, which is why the Star and the CBC hate them. I think Derek Sloan is sort of an
00:33:36.440
MVP. I think he's an excellent MP. Those are my thoughts. Maybe you disagree. Let me know. Send me a
00:33:41.540
letter. That's our show for today. What do you think? What do you think about this apology from Mike
00:33:46.240
Barrar? I have to say it made me feel good. I mean, I, I still really wish that I had my book
00:33:51.620
signing, but it, it felt really authentic and genuine. And, um, he knows I've had events in this
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theater before with no problem. They were big successes. I think he just, I'm not going to say
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he got caught up in the moment. I think he, he felt surrounded. He had never been the victim of a mob.
00:34:09.120
And I got to tell you, I'm the victim of a mob every day on Twitter. So it's, I don't even notice
00:34:15.560
it anymore. But for severely normal people, like some guy who runs an artsy theater, it's never
00:34:22.120
happened to him before. And you might think you're tough, but you've never been through that. So I
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have some, I don't like what he did. I disagree with what he did, but I understand what he did.
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That's why we're suing the guys who induced him to breach the contract. But I was just really glad to
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settle with him and get this apology. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all
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of us here at Rubble World Headquarters, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.