Here's what would happen if Trump put a tariff on Canada's auto industry
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What would happen if Donald Trump slapped a 35% tax on all Canadian-made cars imported to the U.S. if he threatened to slap a similar tax on American cars made in Mexico? What would Canada do in the event of such a scenario?
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Tonight, what would happen in the hours and days after Trump puts a tariff on our auto industry?
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It's September 13th and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Yesterday, I asked Manny Montenegrino, our in-house NAFTA negotiations commentator,
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what he thought would happen if the NAFTA negotiations fail.
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It's the realm of hypothetical situations and guesswork scenarios,
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but when major companies enter into major complex negotiations,
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they surely map out different scenarios, right?
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Worst case scenario, best case scenario, most likely scenario.
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When military plans are drawn up, different scenarios are war-gamed.
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Same thing for banks, especially national banks.
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I suppose in a way that's what all of us are trying to do in our own ways.
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Figure out the future and then figure out what to do to make the future as good as we can.
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Maybe that's even a kind of description of life itself.
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So will you permit me if I engage in some guessing, some brainstorming?
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I'm not an expert in any particular discipline,
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but I want to think it through at least a little bit politically.
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Let's start with what experts have already said in public.
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They are testing Donald Trump's main threat of putting a 20% tariff
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on all Canadian-made cars imported to the United States.
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I mean, think about it. If a new vehicle in Canada was going to cost $50,000
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and you slap on a 20% tariff, now it's going to cost $60,000 for the same thing.
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Well, obviously an American would buy the same or similar car made in the USA instead and save 10 grand.
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Or put it another way, since there are only a few different car companies in the world,
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they maybe would just move their factories to America.
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So the cars from them would not be subject to the tax.
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They might choose to leave enough factory capacity behind in Canada to service the Canadian market.
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It's a respectably sized market, one-tenth that of the United States.
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But they pull any excess capacity that right now is being used to export almost a million cars to the U.S. duty-free.
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They just move that all down to Michigan or Ohio, which is exactly what Trump wants.
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It's exactly what he's been talking about for years, decades, in fact, by American, hire American.
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I mean, for a lot of pundits, the 2016 election was about gossipy things, fun things, ideological things, emotional things,
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aesthetic and stylistic things, Trump's vulgarity, Hillary Clinton's dishonesty.
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And for millions of Americans in the Rust Belt, though, it was only about jobs.
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Michael Moore, of all people, said it the best.
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Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said,
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if you close these factories, as you're planning to do in Detroit, and build them in Mexico,
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I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back, and nobody's going to buy them.
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No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives.
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And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the Brexit states.
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And I'm starting to agree with Manny that Trudeau, well, that Trudeau actually wants the tariffs, too.
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Chrystia Freeland came back from NAFTA negotiations in Washington to appear on a panel discussion about how to deal with international tyrants.
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This video we're showing on the screen again right now, this was the video that started her talk.
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It demonizes Donald Trump as a tyrant, and it compares him to Vladimir Putin and China's dictator Xi.
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And when the video ended, Chrystia Freeland, our foreign minister, basked in applause and smiled with approval.
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So you don't do that if you're negotiating in good faith with Donald Trump to get a deal.
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Trump wants to do what Michael Moore hoped he would, bring the factories back.
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Trump wants to bring the jobs to the American heartland.
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He believes in it economically and strategically, and it would certainly lock up the 2020 election for him.
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So he can portray himself as the great defender of Canadian honor against the evil Donald Trump.
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That's what he wants domestically, because the Canadian media party will love him even harder if he fights Trump so openly.
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And Trudeau has always preferred foreign countries to his own, so he wants the love of every disgruntled leftist in Europe and every tinpot dictatorship in the third world.
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What's ironic about that is that most of the world has actually already readjusted themselves to Donald Trump.
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Whether it's North Korea or Israel or Saudi Arabia or Italy or Japan, they're over any aesthetic qualms they have with him.
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They've decided it's in their interest to work with America, no matter who America's president is.
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And, in fact, if they can crack the code for how to work with Donald Trump, maybe things can even be better for them.
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I think the most amazing result is Mexico, of all the countries.
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Mexico that Trump used to bash, they just got to deal with Trump.
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But Trudeau still wants to be the world's anti-Trump personality.
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And Trudeau's circle of friends, his staff, his cabinet, his media party chums, they all agree with him.
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And I'd like your thoughts about whether or not you agree with me, you think I've forgotten certain things.
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I've shown you this document a few months ago from Scotiabank that looks at several scenarios, including this one.
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Canada, the 20% tariff on trade with the U.S. causes an economic recession in Canada.
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Canada output shrinks by 1.8% in 2020, which would mark the first annual GDP contraction in Canada since 2009.
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Given the concentration of the auto sector, Ontario bears the brunt of the impact.
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With growth reduced by as much as two percentage points, significant job losses also occur.
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Up to one in five Ontario manufacturing jobs could be at risk.
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Supply chain and income shocks could magnify the economic impacts.
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By the way, it's not going that great right now.
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Anyways, I don't know if you saw this the other day.
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Here are the latest figures from just last week.
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You know, every month the jobs report comes out for the previous month.
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Canada's volatile employment report shows major job losses in August.
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The economy lost 51,600 net jobs last month in a decrease that helped drive the national unemployment rate to 6% up from 5.8% in July.
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Statistics Canada reported Friday in its monthly job force survey, labor force survey.
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Ontario lost 80,100 jobs last month after gaining 60,600 in July.
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So back to the TD Bank prediction, significant job losses also result with roughly 160K net positions shed relative to status quo.
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Almost all of these losses would occur in Ontario.
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Here's how I think it'll go down if it happens.
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I think that's what Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau are on track to do also.
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Now, if getting a deal where urgent and important, Freeland would have stayed down in Washington instead of coming up to Toronto and attend that weird anti-Trump rally.
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As you know, Donald Trump tried to telephone Justin Trudeau last month.
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So the U.S. Congress has been notified of Trump's deal with Mexico.
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Under the U.S. system, the president needs Congress's approval to sign a trade deal.
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They've already been sent the U.S.-Mexico deal.
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And it says right in it that Canada can join if Canada wants to.
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Now, some people think that Congress will say no to this Mexican deal.
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It's a deal that every blue-collar American can love because it limits cheap Chinese parts from being used in Mexican-made cars.
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And it requires a certain proportion of Mexican autoworkers to be paid almost U.S.-style wages.
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And it brings in other U.S.-style regulations that will naturally boost the cost of Mexican imports to the U.S.
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It will make American workers so much more competitive.
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It levels the playing field between American workers and Mexican workers.
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Imagine being a Democrat and campaigning against a deal that protects American workers from cheap foreign imports.
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The Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrats is just as opposed to the old trade deals with Mexico and Canada as Donald Trump is.
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This Mexican deal may have been struck by a billionaire Republican president, but it's actually what labor unions and working-class Americans had hoped for for a generation.
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Especially don't count on Democrats blocking it.
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Trump already pushed the button, giving notice for that.
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And the U.S.-Mexico deal will come into fruition.
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So what happens without a NAFTA deal with Canada and the U.S., but a Mexico deal coming into place?
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Anything can happen if there's no treaty, no contract.
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I don't think Trump would attack Canada with a tariff on our cars out of the blue.
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I think Trump would say something like this tweet earlier this year where he said, Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on dairy products.
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Maybe he's campaigning in Wisconsin in a few months, a dairy state.
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And he thinks that's a good time to give Canada a little jab.
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Maybe he'll wait till later, a moment where he wants something from Canada.
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And he'll say, please give it to me, and Trudeau won't take the call, or Trudeau will insult him, and Trump will slap back as promised.
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I love Canada, but they've taken advantage of our country for many years.
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He has the executive power to put a tariff on a country.
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And anyone who thinks he's bluffing, and I think there's a lot of Canadians, oh, Trump's just bluffing.
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Trump doesn't seem to even be close to blinking on his tariffs against China.
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Why would he blink with us when our economy is a fraction of China?
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Anyway, so however it happens, at whatever time, the real point is what happens next, the next minute.
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First thing, especially if it's a tweet, shockwaves on social media, right?
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I mean, the U.S. business press will be concerned.
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They'll point out the fact that many cars are made literally on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
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Whether an unfinished car part is taken across north or across south, there will be hiccups.
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Of course, there will be a pain for the auto industry.
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But Trump will, here's my guess, Trump will throw them a bone at the same time.
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He's been talking about what's called CAFE standards.
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It stands for corporate average fuel efficiency standards, economy standards.
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It's an awful rule brought in during the bad 1970s.
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They kept making American automakers have to become more and more and more environmentally extreme,
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effectively banning cars with big engines or the car companies would be punished.
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They're so, it's hard for companies to make SUVs or pickup trucks that are popular, for example.
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It was based on the paranoia in the 70s that the world was running out of everything, especially oil,
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We've discovered so much more oil through fracking in the oil sands.
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Now the U.S. itself is the world's biggest oil producer.
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So I bet, here's my theory how it's going to go down, is simultaneously as Trump hits the auto industry with these tariffs.
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And listen, the auto industry is not going to like it.
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Yeah, I'm sure they would rather patriotically have a factory in America, all things being equal,
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but it'll be a hassle for them to operate and move it, right?
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So Trump will throw that bone to the auto industry to smooth over any pain involved with repatriating those factories to the U.S.
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He'll give them their cafe fuel standards removed.
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I mean, Trump's good at positive distractions, isn't he?
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I'm sure he'll refer to some slight against him and against America by Canada.
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Perhaps he will, I don't know, he'll refer to Trudeau's decision to withdraw Canada's CF-18 jets from the war against ISIS.
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Maybe he'll talk about how Canada isn't lifting its load in NATO.
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Something to put Trudeau on the back foot, but something that is true enough to resonate with American pride.
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Of course, the immediate reaction in Canada will be rage and fury at the evil Trump.
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Every left-wing activist and pundit will go full Trump derangement, including half of Trudeau's own MPs and cabinet and staff.
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They'll be unable to control themselves, and I don't think Trudeau will try to control them either.
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And I think a lot of bad things will be said and written in those first few hours that those people will regret,
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but the Internet never forgets, I think a lot of damage will be done to the Canada-U.S. relationship by these tariffs, obviously.
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But I think the insanity of the Canadian establishment's reaction will be just as bad.
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You'll see violence from Toronto's alt-left, the anti-foot types.
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I mean, they smash things up now with no cause.
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They'll have a violent protest outside the U.S. consulate.
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You know, the Trump Tower in Toronto has been renamed.
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It's not called Trump Tower anymore, so maybe they won't smash its windows.
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I'm absolutely sure it'll be attacked either in a riot style or some vandalism stunt style.
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You'll see weird protests, but they won't be in support of the auto industry.
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We didn't really have any pro-jobs protests for the pipelines that were killed, for the
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If the left actually cared about jobs, they would have said so by now.
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They would be lobbying Trudeau to get NAFTA done.
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Weirdly, Jerry Diaz, the head of Canada's Unifor Union that claims to represent auto workers
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So no, you're not going to see anyone suddenly caring about auto workers.
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I'm sure you'll see the craziest stuff from Elizabeth May.
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She'll be the most anti-American, even though she was born in America herself.
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But don't think for a moment that you won't have Andrew Scheer and the weak wing of the
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They will probably portray themselves as sticking up for Canadian jobs.
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But I know they won't be able to help themselves.
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They'll poke at Trump personally just so the CBC isn't mean to them.
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The CBC will put a camera and a microphone in Andrew Scheer's face and basically say, denounce
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Trump on our command, or we will say you are anti-patriotic and you're a Trump lover.
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Well, we know what he does when he's put on the spot by the media like that.
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I mean, he threw the rebel under the bus just so they weren't mean to him.
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They will turn him into a Trump hater or they'll call him a Trumpist.
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For some reason, Jason Kenney of Alberta routinely pokes at Donald Trump in a weird way also.
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I don't think he's going to be able to keep quiet, even though Donald Trump is the only
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political leader right now building a pipeline to Alberta these days, the Keystone Excel pipeline.
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I just don't think Jason Kenney is going to be able to let a shot pass by.
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You'll see the left-wing globalists from around the world send their love and affection
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That will include every European leftist loser, of course, but it will mainly include American
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And don't forget how connected Justin Trudeau is and the liberals are with Hillary Clinton
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And remember, Democrat staffers came up to Ottawa to help run Justin Trudeau's campaign
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So you'll have all the U.S. Trump haters who will have a new hero.
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It'll be interesting to see where Michael Moore stands, but not really that interesting.
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But I think Michael Moore and most of the left hate Trump more than they love Trump's jobs.
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I think the Canadian stock market obviously will be slaughtered.
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I mean, do you know one way the Canadian cars with a 20% tariff on them could still be
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Well, what if the Canadian dollar fell by 20 cents in a week?
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I know that sounds devastating, but think about it.
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If you just discounted everything in Canada by 20%, 20% off sale, then that car would cost
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Americans could still afford it because they would be using American dollars.
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They would be buying with their real greenbacks are mini bucks.
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It's a tiny version of Venezuela where currency is worthless.
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If you make money worthless enough, if you make your currency worthless enough, you can
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It just makes you poor because you're really not getting a lot for it because anything we
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import, well, now we've got to pay 20% more with our cheap currency, whether it's fruit
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I don't think that can happen to wealthy countries.
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Remember, Detroit, Michigan used to be the highest paid city in terms of the industrial
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Venezuela, as we learned the other day with Daniel Pripes, used to have a higher GDP per
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I'm not saying Canada will go that way or go the way of Argentina, but it is not impossible
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It's not just the auto sector that the banks all talked about in their studies because this
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Remember, it's happening at the same time that Justin Trudeau was destroying the oil and gas
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and pipeline industries and we can't get anything built and the courts and he's bringing
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Look, Justin Trudeau really doesn't want any industry in this country.
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So you layer this new auto tariff on top of what he's doing.
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And really, would you invest in Canada's economy if you were an international company?
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Not in manufacturing, for any kind of manufacturing.
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And if a trade war is on, then maybe it's really on, the war.
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Maybe Trump, while he's at it, wants to add, oh, access to our banking industry.
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Wants to add access to our cell phone industry.
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What I mean by that is that you could go and open up an account with Wells Fargo downtown
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If Trump wants access to our cell phone industry, I think Canadians would love, I think Canadians
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should hope we get American competitors for both.
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Wouldn't you like to be able to get better interest rates, lower fees at your bank, even
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Does any real Canadian actually love our cable or bank companies or cell phone companies?
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Again, if a trade war is on, just like it is in dairy prices, maybe Canadians could wind
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up the winners after all if Canada finally agrees to do a deal.
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But in the meantime, expect every single thing to become more expensive.
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So to recap, if that tariff comes on, you got a plunging dollar, you got a plunging stock
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market, you got auto factories getting ready to relocate to America, same thing for the
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support industries for the auto industry, thinking of relocating to America.
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Now that they have a deal and we don't, investment free, total investment free.
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Who would put money into any part of the Canadian economy to build a factory if those factory
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I suppose if the whole country became cheap enough because of a low dollar and an investment
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drought, maybe someone could come in and buy things that had salvaged value.
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Maybe it would be Americans, I don't know, Warren Buffett, or maybe some of Justin Trudeau's
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They still have a lot of foreign currency just sloshing around and Canada will be on sale,
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Imagine how real estate prices will fall, especially in Toronto.
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I'm not just talking about individual Chinese people buying up cheap real estate personally.
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I'm talking about massive investments by Chinese companies, buying Canadian companies that are
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Now, the media party will be unanimous about all this.
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Trudeau's the hero who bravely fought for Canada and Canadian pride.
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He protected us, or at least he protected Quebec's few thousand dairy farmers and he
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Those are the last two deal breakers for Trudeau in this fake negotiation, the dairy industry
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For that, he'll kill the auto industry and so much more.
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The media party knows it will be the right thing to do because Trump.
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But for 160,000 autoworkers, that means 160,000 families.
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Yeah, I don't think they'll be able to get over the fact that they're now unemployed and
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anyone whose retirement savings are now worthless because of our dollar or our stock market,
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Anyone who's socked away their life savings in their house that's now worth 30% less, that
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And the recession and the reduction in tax revenues to the government, so the government
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cutbacks to social services and the higher interest rates.
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That's what a trade war with Trump will look like.
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I don't want any of this to happen, by the way.
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I wanted the deal Trump offered Trudeau on live TV.
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Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between Canada and the United
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A quicker-witted prime minister would have said, you've got a deal, Donald.
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Well, I have told you that in my view, scanning the world for all the issues out there, whether
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it's globalism, open borders, mass migration, terrorism, taxes, trade deals, whatever the
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issue is, I still believe that censorship and political bias in high-tech companies is
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the number one issue of our age because it stops us from having a conversation about any of
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the other issues because you're banned or unpersoned on the internet.
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And anyone who's thrown under the bus, well, they're radical like Alex Jones.
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Well, now shocking proof of the most persuasive variety comes in the form of a videotape obtained
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This video is of a major staff meeting at Google headquarters days after Donald Trump's 2016
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It's an all-hands-on-deck staff meeting led by the CEO and the senior C-suite leaders of
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the company, the chief financial officer, for example.
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And it can only be described as a collective corporate funeral for the Democrats.
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And you can watch the entire video, which was obtained.
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It's a confidential internal video of this staff meeting.
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But without further ado, let me introduce to you, again, my favorite reporter at Breitbart
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who got this tape, and then we're going to go through four highlights from the video together.
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Did I properly explain the nature of this video, more or less?
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And as you said, they're essentially a funeral atmosphere.
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Hannity on Fox News yesterday described it as a funeral for America.
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And this is the company that claimed they're not biased, that claimed they're welcoming to
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all opinions, and at the same time, they've got top executives going on stage and comparing
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Trump voters to xenophobes filled with hatred, motivated by fear.
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Sergey Brin says Trump voters share the same motivations as fascists and communists and extremists.
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There's so much material in this one-hour video.
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I strongly recommend that all your viewers go and watch it in its entirety on Breitbart.com.
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And this videotape, it's marked private for internal use only.
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It's amazing and so important that it was revealed.
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You'll see not only the entire leadership of Google there.
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Sergey Brin, the name you mentioned, he was the mathematical genius behind the Google algorithm
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And you can see there's a point where the camera pans to the crowd.
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It's basically their staff gathered in their large theater to get an indoctrination.
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Without further ado, we have four clips, and I'm going to try and get through as many of them as we can.
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It is like they're at a funeral for a loved one.
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The loved one, in this case, being Hillary Clinton.
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Most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad because of the election.
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I'm glad we're getting together at a moment like this.
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It's been an extraordinarily stressful time, I'm sure, for many of you.
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They're full of fear about what the uncertainty means for them and their families.
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It's uncertain for many of us here, you know, especially immigrants or minorities, women.
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Women, blacks, you know, people who are afraid based on religion.
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You know, there's a G-Calm place that you can go to and just take a breath.
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As an immigrant and a refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive.
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It did feel like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest.
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Trump specifically, who I know many of us find very offensive.
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And I've had a chance to talk to a lot of fellow Googlers, and people have said different words, similar concept.
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The fellow with the beard is Sergey Brin, who I refer to as the mathematical genius.
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But the other staff there, they're all very, very senior executives.
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You know, it's one thing, Ellum, for people at a company to go out to a bar after work and shoot the breeze about the election.
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Every American, everyone around the world has an opinion on Donald Trump.
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But this was an official staff meeting on company time at a company office with a company imprimatur.
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This wasn't just some people bantering over beer and chicken wings.
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And you have to remember that this company claims to be welcoming to diverse viewpoints.
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They're currently fighting a lawsuit against former employees who were discriminated against on the basis of political viewpoint.
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And you can see why when Google executives are going up on stage, breaking down in tears because, you know, because of the Democratic election,
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promising to use the company's resources to prevent future outcomes, brainstorming ways to make that happen,
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talking about history being on their side, comparing Trump voters to xenophobes.
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Well, we'll get to clips that show those very things you say.
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You know, calling Trump offensive, saying these things are devastating and hurtful and a ton of bricks.
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If there was a Trump supporter in that room, and out of the hundreds of people in that room, there probably was one or two.
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I mean, you saw the executives, if you're an immigrant, a minority, LGBT, all of those minorities are safe at Google.
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They even have a Google Calm place, like a yoga Zen place.
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But imagine someone standing up in that meeting and saying, well, actually, I love Google.
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I'm a very hardworking person at Google and loyal employee.
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But I exercise my Democratic right to vote for Trump.
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The screams, they would have been fired that second.
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You saw one guy at the end of the video ask the executives, do you see any positive outcome from the election?
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It would be like standing up and saying, I'm a Nazi.
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They were talking about Donald Trump and more than 60 million Trump voters as if they were Nazis.
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This is from when I think the chief financial officer is very interesting here.
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She talks about a conversation she had with someone in the Hillary Clinton victory night party that turned, of course, into a defeat.
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She doesn't say the Democrats or Hillary Clinton or they.
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And she's a Google executive at a Google meeting talking to Googlers and says we lost.
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So it couldn't be clearer that it was just assumed that Google was part of the Democrat machine, which they were.
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8.30 p.m. on Tuesday night, I was at home with friends and family watching the election returns.
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And as we started to see the direction of the voting, I reached out to someone close to me who was at the Javits Center where the big celebration was supposed to occur in New York City.
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And I just sent him a note and said, you know, are you OK?
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And I got back a very sad, short text that read, people are leaving.
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That was the first moment I really felt like we were going to lose.
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And it was this massive, like, kick in the gut that we were going to lose.
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It did feel like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest.
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And I've had a chance to talk to a lot of fellow Googlers and people have said different words, similar concept.
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And, you know, actually, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Alphabet, Google's, formerly the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, who was CEO during the 2016 election.
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And he was offering to help the Clinton campaign win as early as 2014.
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They really, I mean, the tears, the crying, the maudlin, over-the-top emoting.
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There's funny memes on the Internet about people crying and shrieking at Trump's result.
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And those are taken as radical examples of social justice warriors.
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That is company practice at the highest levels of the executive suites in Silicon Valley.
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What we laugh at as over-the-top social justice warriors, that's normal in Silicon Valley.
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And, yeah, at one point, the same executive, Ruth Porat, advises everyone in the audience to do a group hug.
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You'd consider this to be like a weird, over-the-top reaction just if it was like a regular adult.
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You know, just breaking down at an election result.
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But, you know, these are the executives and the co-founders of the most powerful technology company in the world.
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So we should all be very worried that, you know, you've got this mass hysteria at the top of this company.
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You know, if there had been a death of Sergey Brin or the other Larry Page or some of the inspiring founders of the company,
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I would imagine, you know, there would be tears like that and hit, like, in a gut and hug each other.
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If it was actually a funeral for someone they knew personally and had an emotional, lifelong investment in,
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that's how you talk at a funeral for a loved one.
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That's their emotional reaction to an election defeat of a party candidate.
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I want to show, I want to get through two more clips because you and I, it's fun to talk about it,
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but people have to see the clips for themselves.
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And I reiterate your invitation to our viewers to go to Breitbart.com, watch the whole vid in its entirety.
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Check out this one when another senior executive says that Google, in the wake of this loss,
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has to get into the arena, has to become a player even more than it was.
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One of the main messages I've gotten from all of you today is that this election and others like it around the world
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are a hiccup in history's arc towards progress.
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I mean, is this a relatively new arc, or is this the same arc that has included two world wars?
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And there are, hiccup is a kind word, history is not a linear pattern.
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We do everything we can to keep it moving in a good direction.
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If you look over the broad reach of any 20, 50, 100-year period, there's less death, life expectancy goes up,
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people are doing better, more prosperous, the arc goes like this exponentially in terms of standards
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of living around the world, yes, it's not completely smooth, it goes up and down.
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And I think history teaches us that there are periods of populism, of nationalism, that rise up,
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and that's all the reason we need to be in the arena.
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That's why we have to work so hard to make sure it doesn't turn into a world war or something catastrophic,
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They're actually comparing Trump's victory to the causes of the First and Second World War.
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And put aside their crazy analysis, it's their prescription that I'm truly worried about.
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They are determined as a company to stop what they say as an improper choice from America
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That executive, Kent Walker, he talks about populists rising up around the world,
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nationalism rising up around the world, and that's what he wants to stop.
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He wants Google to use its global influence, its global reach.
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So it's not just about suppressing populist movements in America.
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You know, that's a great point because, of course, shortly after the American election,
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there was the French election, there was elections throughout Europe
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that have similar nationalist or populist or conservative points of view.
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And we saw the tech companies take a very heavy hand there.
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I want to play another one, and this is what's interesting.
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We saw Sergey Brin, that's the mathematical genius,
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who claimed that he was an immigrant and a refugee.
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And indeed, when he was a very little boy, I think he was six or seven,
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And we all know the former Soviet Union was a terrible place.
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I just want to say, Alan, because I think it's sort of funny,
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I would never want to have lived in the Soviet Union.
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And I think it was very farsighted of Sergey Brin's parents to apply to leave the Soviet Union in the 70s,
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which when there was a brief period of time detente between Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev,
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where mainly Jews said, we want to get out of Russia.
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They were almost always fired from their jobs right away.
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And thank God that happened for Sergey Brin's parents.
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I mean, that's someone, I mean, if simply being born in the Soviet Union or a dictatorship like China is being a refugee,
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I think he's hamming, I mean, I'm not saying that living in the Soviet Union was good.
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But he was not in imminent danger, as the term refugee under the UN definition implies.
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I think he was trying to say that he was a victim, too,
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instead of actually being the world's 10th richest man with a bit of a messiah complex about changing how people think.
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I think there was just the cult of victimology and other people in that room had it.
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Sergey Brin, who's a billionaire white guy, was sort of saying, no, no, no, no, I'm with you.
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There was something weird there about him calling himself a refugee.
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Yeah, I mean, the left overuses the term refugee in general.
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They've used it to describe economic migrants in the European migrant crisis.
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I think Sergey Brin probably has more right to claim that title than, say, the economic migrants who are flooding into Europe at the moment.
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They're the most powerful company in the world.
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And, you know, we should be asking questions about whether this company requires oversight, given the amount of influence they have.
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Well, perhaps I've overstated that refugee point, but I just thought you're worth $50 billion, mate.
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And if you're feeling scared and terrified, that's because you're an emotional, you lack emotional self-control.
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And I got nothing against straight white males being one myself, who stands up at this Maoist meeting in Google and engages in some self-denunciation and calls on all others in the room to denounce themselves.
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And Sergey Brin and the other leaders cheer him.
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Speaking to white men, there is an opportunity for you right now to understand your privilege in the society.
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Take the opportunity to go through the bias-busting training, read about privilege, read about the real history of oppression in our country, and tomorrow night, watch 13th, the movie that is here.
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If you can't watch it here, watch it on Netflix.
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Discuss the issues you are passionate about during Thanksgiving dinner, and don't back down and laugh it off when you hear the voice of oppression speak through metaphors.
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He's calling for discriminatory measures against white men.
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He says white men have to take the special bias-busting force.
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And instead of calling him out on, you know, clearly radical Maoist race-baiting rhetoric, all the Google executives give him a standing ovation.
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And remember, Google is facing a lawsuit that says they discriminate not just on the basis of political view, but also on the basis of gender and race against white and Asian males.
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You've got Google executives applauding a radical race-baiting speech about white privilege.
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Now, I've got to say that if there was some company, like there are little coffee shops here and there that are really political coffee shops.
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I'm sure that's the same in your neighborhood, too.
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They probably have a, you know, a Marxist theme, and everyone there is a vegan activist, and it's a real left-wing hangout.
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But I think that's part of the coffee shop culture has been for centuries, even, probably.
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And if you don't like it, you don't go to the coffee shop.
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Google is not some corner coffee shop where you expect everyone to be a brooding, emo, left-wing, goth socialist.
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It's the most important company that can control our perception of the world because they can delete you, and you're never found again.
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Google owns YouTube, for example, and we've suffered their demonetizations.
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One of the outcomes of this meeting was they decided to demonetize any conservative social media sites, including The Rebel.
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And it happened in January, two months after this meeting.
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They refused to give us advertising access on our millions of views.
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That's what happens when it's not just some corner coffee shop that's gone full social justice warrior, but the largest tech company in the world.
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It's not just that these are laughable freaks, harmless in a coffee shop, sort of harmless in a university.
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This is the company that controls everything we see and hear and even think.
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Yeah, and it's time for Republicans to wake up and get moving on this issue because midterms are less than two months away.
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This might be their last chance to fix the problem.
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And we did see Brad Parscale tweeting about it, saying there needs to be an investigation.
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Ronald McDaniel, the RNC chairwoman, tweeted about it.
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But, you know, they've got to go beyond tweets and start taking action now if they want to avert disaster because this is a crisis for democracy.
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These companies have vast, unaccountable power over the flow of information on the Internet and the decisions we make.
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When you mentioned Brad Parscale, that's Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign manager.
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You have world-famous tech tycoons engaging in extremist behavior that you would expect from pink-haired wackos, you know, in first-year university.
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Like, it's so weird to me to see billionaires acting like spoiled brat leftist trust fund kids at, you know, some Ivy League school.
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But just from a sheer gotcha point of view, you got a secret internal video of a private meeting stamped confidential.
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If this were an internal, imagine if you got the ExxonMobil internal staff video after Obama's election in 2008.
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If you had a politically charged mega company that was engaging in hysterics so totally partisan, I mean, imagine if you got the Smith & Wetson or the AR-15 company video about Hillary.
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Have you seen this video, your scoop here, picked up on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, our Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, your British Broadcasting Corporation?
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You know, they'd rather talk about Stormy Daniels and, you know, fake Russian conspiracy theories, obviously.
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But, you know, there's actually been a surprising number of mainstream reporters who, you know, admitted.
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I've seen, like, more than one mainstream reporter on Twitter saying, well, I'd never link to Breitbart, but this is a good story.
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You know, the New York Times did write a piece about it.
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They tried to make Google look good a little bit, but it was a fairly good write-up.
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Financial Times reporter admitted it was a good scoop.
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Yeah, it's not leading their coverage, but even they can't ignore it completely.
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It's one thing for someone on Twitter to say, attaboy, as opposed to if they put it on TV, because I think our viewers would agree.
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It's one thing for you and I to banter about this, but seeing the video yourself, you can't unsee it.
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You won't unremember it, and you know how bad it is.
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And I think until this video becomes as famous on TV as Donald Trump's pussy grab video, let's say,
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it won't have its proper place in media coverage.
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Thanks for spending so much time with us, and congratulations again on this international scoop.
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That's Alan Bocari, one of our favorite guests.
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He's a senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about one of Trudeau's Syrian migrants getting
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charged with murdering a 13-year-old Vancouver girl, Liza, writes, Christian refugees just
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I just don't feel comfy criticizing Christians because so many leftists do so.
00:50:38.640
I don't want to pile on, and I'm Jewish myself, so I don't have the inner knowledge of things.
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But I just wish the Pope would fight for Christians who were being targeted.
00:50:47.980
I mean, I saw with my own eyes what was going on in Iraq, and I know that's just Iraq.
00:50:53.000
That's how Christians all over the Muslim world are treated.
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In Egypt, the president of Egypt is sympathetic to the Coptic Christian minority, but they're
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Obviously, Saudi Arabia is horrific for Christians.
00:51:07.000
I don't even think there really is a Christian population there anymore.
00:51:12.080
They have an official state church that really puts communism above God.
00:51:18.300
Nigeria, where the terrorist groups kidnap en masse Christians and force them to convert
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I don't think I've ever heard the Pope talk about that.
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Maybe it's too much to think Justin Trudeau would stand up for Christian minorities in
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peril, but I just wish more Christian leaders would.
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And when I saw that that left-wing church in Vancouver had sponsored this single male migrant
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Muslim of military age, I was thinking, of all the seven billion people in the world, this
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guy was the most deserving of your Christian charity?
00:52:11.180
Ted writes, Trudeau's actions as prime minister are putting Canadian lives at risk and, in this
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Well, of course, we must wait for the court to weigh the evidence and convict or acquit.
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But if the police, after their massive investigation—I've never heard of an investigation that big.
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If the police have charged this guy with first-degree murder, it sounds to me like they believe they
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Otherwise, I don't think they would have laid the charge.
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I'm not saying he's guilty, but I'm saying I bet he's going to be convicted just based
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on the amount of investigation done and the level of the charge, the first-degree murder
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You don't put a charge like that if you're not confident.
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On my interview with Manny Montenegreno about Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland sabotaging
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Picking a fight with Trump as a means to get re-elected is a very stupid strategy.
00:53:05.020
I don't know why we're supposed to believe that the disaster will be limited to the auto
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I wouldn't assume anything would be off the table.
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I did not read this letter before I said my monologue, and I brainstormed about those very
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Now, again, it was Manny who pointed those things out.
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I mean, think about the size of the cell phone cable business.
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I mean, maybe cultural industries just means the CBC, but communications, I think, I don't
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have the stats at my fingertips, but I think Canadians pay amongst the highest cell phone
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bills in the developed world per minute for data, things like that.
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Wouldn't it be something if Verizon and other U.S. companies came in?
00:53:58.100
And you don't have to switch if it's really important to you to give your money to the
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billionaire named Rogers as opposed to the billionaire named Shah or whatever.
00:54:08.140
You know, I mean, if you really feel emotional about your cell phone company, I've never met
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anyone who doesn't hate their cell phone company.
00:54:16.120
But wouldn't you love it if some foreign cell phone companies came in and said, we'll give
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Imagine if they said no service fees on our ATMs or any other ATMs and, you know, we're
00:54:32.800
But wouldn't you, even if you stayed with your current bank, the introduction of foreign
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competitors would make your bank get its act together.
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By the way, banks and cell phone companies are very profitable in Canada.
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I think competition wouldn't put them out of business.
00:54:47.820
My point is exactly how ironic it would be that Donald Trump, in fact, is the one that
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He's the one building the Keystone XL pipeline to Alberta.
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He could be the one to bust up the dairy cartel and make food cheaper for all Canadians.
00:55:07.240
And he could be the one to give us cheap cell phone and cheap banking.
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I just don't want to pay the price of losing our auto industry.
00:55:16.100
And for the life of me, when the president of the United States says we're willing to
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say goodbye to all tariffs, how could any person in the world not say, please, me now?
00:55:28.700
Is there any country out of the 200 or so countries in the world that wouldn't swap positions with
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us to be geographically neighboring, culturally, linguistically, historically so tied with
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America, and then to have America's president say, all right, we can just do away with all
00:55:49.360
You get full access to the American economy, but you still have a border, so you don't have
00:55:55.440
In Europe, the EU, they have no economic barriers, but they have what they call the Schengen
00:56:01.820
zone, where Europeans can move from Germany to France and all around, and that's what's
00:56:08.580
Imagine if you have full access to the American economy, no tariffs, but you still have a border,
00:56:19.400
But Trudeau loves his dairy farmers, or more likely just wants to fight.
00:56:26.760
I tried sort of an artistic performance art experiment of brainstorming what would happen.
00:56:31.820
If the tariffs were brought in, who knows, maybe after a few days they would be so devastating
00:56:37.100
that some grown-up would tap Trudeau on the shoulder and say, buddy, don't go forward
00:56:43.820
We've had a week of pain just from the shock of it, but there will actually be factories
00:56:49.400
shutting down in a matter of weeks if you don't pull back.
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But I have yet to see that grown-up figure in the liberal circles after three years.
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On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and