Hong Kong is tense and may turn violent, so here's how we plan to act
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Why should others go to jail when you re a biggest carbon consumer? The answer to this question comes from the streets of Hong Kong, where democracy protesters took to the streets in protest against the Chinese government's crackdown on democracy protests.
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tonight justin trudeau's refugee policy has been a failure should we try bringing some
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hong kong democracy activists instead it's november 20th 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 there's 8 500 customers
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here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to the government
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hello i'm on the road again doing this show from well near a bunch of bushes really i'm traveling
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in alberta tonight is the second of our two wexit debates last night's was great uh tonight's is
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sold out it's literally sold out uh which means there's a lot of interest in it you can watch it
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on youtube we're streaming it live at just after 6 p.m mountain time which is just after 8 p.m
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eastern time and of course if you miss it live it'll be on our youtube page after that we've got
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lauren gunter the senior columnist for the edmonton sun as well as myself kian bexty and
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sheila gun reed it's going to be great lots of q a from the audience last night was a great event
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um i'd like to talk about something else though because i see out of the corner of my eye things
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in hong kong getting worse by the day now you might remember that a few months ago we sent our friend
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avi yamini from australia to hong kong to report on the start of these democracy protests as you may
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recall uh it came about from a proposed law that would allow communist china to extradite free hong
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kong people to mainland china where obviously there would never be seen from again this was seen as a
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great incursion on the rule of law and the separation of the communist party system in
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mainland china from the rule of law independent courts system in hong kong uh it sounds rather
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obscure an extradition law but everyone in hong kong knew that was the camel's nose in the tent and so
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literally two million people took to the streets in a city of barely eight million imagine a quarter of
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all people which is about a third of all adults protesting it was massive but china especially
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under xi jinping dug in its heels um but for the first weeks maybe even months the protests in hong
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kong had a celebratory feel to them almost a festival feel at least out that's how it looked like to me
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here in north america let me show you some of the clips that avi yamini showed us that i think um
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proved that it never nothing seemed particularly violent or dangerous it was polite hong kong
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people protesting and polite hong kong police responding um there wasn't a whiff of danger rather
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it felt wonderful take a look this is our duty to fight against something like something like nazi
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yeah if we don't fight here now we'll lose forever it's no more hong kong there were some interesting
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things that avi learned and we learned from him for example the five demands that the democracy
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protesters had here they are do you know the five demands on shite so the first thing is we want the
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extradition law to be completely withdrawn so kerry lam has not been promising to withdraw it so we really
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want that like the government to reply to that secondly we want to set up an independent inquiry
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to the police because they have been very brutal to the protester so we want an independent investigation
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and then have the corresponding outcome that that is suitable in response to the police brutality
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and the third thing is we want the release of all the protesters that have been arrested
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fourthly we want um the uh we want uh universal suffrage should be implemented which is promised by the
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basic law so our hong kong people want to choose our own chief executive the fifth one is that
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we want the classification of riot to be withdrawn as well because we are not rioters and a lot of
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the protests are peaceful but then they got wrongly classified as riot so we want that to be
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withdrawn as well so we want at the moment what is rioters um what's it defined as um basically even
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for the 12th of june protests um the government has defined as a riot but then we haven't killed
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anyone we didn't do any in this indiscriminate damage or attack to civilians like the police or
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the gangs did so we are simply being very peaceful sitting in or like rallying for our five demands to be
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answered remember of course that hong kong was governed by the british for more than a century
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and there are some hong kong people who long for those days remember this guy he wants the british
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government to come back and rule us again we don't want the chinese government to rule us anymore
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you you want the british to come back yes of course the chinese government is terrible what's your
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message to people who who call the old british government a colonial power that used to abuse
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the entire world no simply we just want the british government to come back and rule us again
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is that simple okay so you think the british did well the british government did very well
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of course there was a lot of talk about donald trump the only person in the world these hong kong
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protesters felt could give them the hand obviously europe's not going to obviously
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justin trudeau is not going to he loves communist china but there were american flags there was a little
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statue of liberty there were people calling for donald trump why have we got an american flag here
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today because we appreciate the american spirit we fight for freedom and democracy till death
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okay um and so if if uh if you could send a message to donald trump what would it be
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uh mr trump uh we are very humble and powerless people in hong kong and we know that when the
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americans fight for their independence they need to pay a lot like for blood and life and we are
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prepared for that and in any moment if you can help us like the american people people and president
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trump please help us i would like to have this chance to thank president trump that speak uh things
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in hong kong for us especially a few a few days ago he speak with a lot of uh powerful people in
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different country about hong kong situation and we appreciate that and thank you for thank you for
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him to help us uh speak out the the situation in hong kong my favorite moment in all of avi's
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travels was when he encountered this guy and he had some advice for donald trump don't trust him remember
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this china is a evil party hong kong no more to stand with china we need independence yep and what's
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it what's your message to have you seen donald trump do you think he should step in donald trump don't
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trust china china is asshole well that's what it was like back then there's a bit of a cat and mouse
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game a lot of the protesters wore face masks and they used laser pointers to aim at police security
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cameras because of course with facial recognition the chinese secret police would just harvest lists
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of everyone who went there and they started cracking down on those lists i don't know if you recall but
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cafe pacific which is this mighty airline based in hong kong wonderful airline always has been
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its ceo was summoned by the communists and they demanded that he give them a list of every cafe pacific
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employee who had ever attended a protest basically he was told to turn over his people to the communist
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party and in an amazing amazing moment reminiscent of someone who saved the jews from the holocaust i
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might say he gave his communist tormentors precisely one name his own what a hero obviously he resigned
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but what an amazing man i see news that the hong kong and shanghai bank hsbc
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is now shutting down bank accounts of democracy protesters so obviously they lack the stuff of
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the cafe pacific ceo but they're starting to tighten the noose and it's not just that way the police are
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getting more brutal and they're obviously mainland communist style police and even military coming across
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the boundary into hong kong remember it's not a border it's just a boundary and they're doing in slow motion
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what they did in the run-up to chanaman square i remind you that chanaman square started out in a
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festival feeling too almost a little bit of a woodstock for freedom they too had a lady liberty statue
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that is until the tanks came i fear that we're almost at that moment again well things are heating up the
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hong kong's top court recently ruled in favor of the protesters and their right to cover their faces
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beijing's communist party issued a directive to the court saying you can't do that anymore there's
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a real standoff who gets to decide hong kong's courts or beijing and in the united states yesterday
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a bill was passed with strong support from both democrats and republicans it's called the hong kong
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human rights and democracy act and it's it prepares the way for sanctions against people in china and
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hong kong who cracked down on freedom in hong kong and it could even take away the special trading
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status hong kong has with the united states things are starting to get real and beijing seems to be
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running out of patience i fear that things are going to move from tense to violence i really do and it's
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a terrible feeling i've had the pleasure of visiting hong kong a couple of times and it's a wonderful
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city truly in the league of london paris new york in many ways obviously it's very chinese but you have
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a great history and legacy of british and you have hundreds of thousands of expats from around the world
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it's an amazing cosmopolitan city a very exciting place very vibrant it's and i fear that all of those
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special things are about to be taken away from him we will be doing more reporting from hong kong
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itself i'll give you more details on that once our people are in place but i had an idea because
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really under ahmed hassan who's now thankfully been replaced as immigration minister by another
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toronto mp marco mendocino uh justin trudeau has jacked up immigration numbers to 350 000 a year
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of whom less than half are economically valid migrants most of them are either refugees or
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you know grandparents who are just coming here for the free pensions and health care
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and i thought to myself you know we take every scruffy illiterate in the world in the name of
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diversity people who for example in the case of trudeau syrians five years later still don't speak the
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language they still haven't integrated they still don't have a job we take everyone like that but
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what about these real refugees from hong kong i'm talking about the political refugees the dissidents
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standing up to the people's liberation army i'm not talking about taking eight million people from hong
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kong canada can't do that but what about taking a few hundred a few thousand some of the student leaders
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who god forbid may be facing death isn't that the test and here's the thing unlike trudeau's favored
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style of refugee well here's a few characteristics about these chinese democracy activists in hong kong
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first of all they obviously have a deep commitment to western values the rule of law separation
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of political parties from the justice system the independent courts free speech they bring those
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things that trudeau's refugees from syria and somalia simply don't they speak english in fact they speak
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very good english with a trace of a british accent they're well educated in fact the students who have
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been leading the protests are usually university students in many cases they're wealthy or entrepreneurial
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and of course hong kong has virtually no welfare state these are not people who if they came to canada
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would simply go right on the dole we know they don't have the welfare mindset we know they're not
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jihadists in fact it's been remarkable how peaceful and orderly these protests in hong kong
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have been and finally and i don't think this is insignificant they would be a counterweight to the
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communist mainland chinese immigrants in canada as we've shown you in recent weeks a great many
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communist party types from the mainland china have come to canada and are you know they're having
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chinese legions they're they're having communist party events in canada and i think it would be very
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important and useful to have freedom loving hong kong chinese here in canada to help cauterize the
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chinese community here against the excesses of beijing and to this effect i've started a petition and it's a
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little bit unusual for us because of course we've been the people who've said put a pause on refugees stop
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the number of refugees but i think for the reasons i've listed if we're going to be taking 340 000
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migrants a year to canada and if we're setting aside some of those spaces for refugees why don't we take
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these refugees vet them of course but there's no jihadists coming from hong kong make sure they speak
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english of course but they all do unlike folks from syria somalia or afghanistan make sure they have
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skills but they all do bring the political dissidents bring them here let them help make
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canada great let them help strengthen our own resolve for freedom and democracy i don't have an
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answer on the exact number that it should be if it's 10 000 or trudeau's favorite number of 50 000
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that he used with the syrians i'm not saying millions but if we have to choose if justin trudeau
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is saying we're going to have a third of a million a year why don't we choose some people for once who
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absolutely love the canadian way of life love freedom and are actually willing to risk their own
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lives for it yeah i could picture a few more of them in canada couldn't you stay with us for more
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well folks thanks for your patience with me as i'm on the road here's a video that kian bexty did
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yesterday he accosted ron mcclain don cherry's long time buddy on tv and handed him a petition of
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almost a hundred thousand people supporting don cherry ron mcclain took uh the petition uh this was
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right after ron mcclain received an honorary degree at the university of alberta which sort of boggles my
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mind what did ron mcclain do to deserve an honorary degree i know don cherry did a lot of charity work
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and he went to afghanistan for our troops don't know what ron did but ron mcclain was getting all
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the kudos so kian waited till that event was over and as he walked off the stage after the ceremony was
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done kian had actually waited two hours he presented him with the list and ron mcclain took it without
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comment but kerry mcclain ron's wife oh boy did she have a comment here take a look at this kian bexty for rebel
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news here at the university of alberta this is the university that gave david suzuki an honorary
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degree and today it's giving trader ron mcclain an honorary law degree now ron mcclain you know who
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he is he's a host with hockey night in canada and used to host alongside don cherry renowned canadian
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hero don cherry is no more at least in hockey night in canada at coaches corners but ron mcclain is
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still raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year this is after he failed to stand up for his
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long time alleged pal don cherry now we put out a call for signatures for a petition at support don
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cherry.com and we got nearly a hundred thousand signatures and we're still getting more and you
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can still sign it at support don cherry.com but right now is a pretty great opportunity ron mcclain
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is going to be at the u of a which is just happens to be where i am today for convocation and we're
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going to be trying to give him this binder full of signatures full of supporters of don cherry the
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friend that ron mcclain stabbed in the back let's see what we can get today in terms of footage and
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hopefully we can find ron mcclain at least and see if he'll accept the binder mr mcclain how are you
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i'm great kian how are you kian nice to meet you how was the ceremony it was lovely yeah thanks guys
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thank you so awesome oh hi i uh yeah i was hoping to be able to present you with this petition okay uh
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it's 90 000 folks who signed it who support don cherry great who uh they watch your show and they're
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disappointed that he was fired of course for standing up they want uh they want your show they
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want you yourself and don uh to be standing up for veterans and they're really disappointed that
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that you didn't stand up before him right so we're kind of curious uh with this this binder we're kind
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of wondering if you think don is actually racist sorry i don't know who you are do you think don is
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actually racist why would you excuse me excuse me this is absolutely an educational institution okay
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you're grabbing everything today has been respectful sorry what's your name
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it doesn't matter what his name is no yeah it doesn't matter are you that's his wife here
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right would i be able to give this to you no okay this is a well you know what i actually i don't
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mind the support okay i don't want the support what we don't mind no these are supporters these are
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supporters we are also a supporter of don so i don't mind that i i we appreciate that support you
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really what you're taking you are crucifying my husband as a result of that there's sides i'm sorry
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i'm not very aggressive to him and in a moment where that was unacceptable do you think did you see
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my husband was almost in tears do you think he wanted this to happen why didn't he stand up for
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him why didn't he stand up for him wait why wouldn't he quit his job why would he quit his job well that
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really makes sense because a canadian saint was fired for no reason a saint was do you think he was
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sorry do you think do you think don is racist write a letter sorry what stuff do you think don is
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racist i wouldn't say the word racist do i think he's a bigot possibly you think don't share is a
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bigot possibly it's been widely accepted let's go let's go straight
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you're done you are not shotty you are ruining her day no i'm not trust me you are 90 90 000 canadians
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day days was ruined when don't share was fired this was not the point of
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time for questions well 90 000 canadians would disagree now there is a ceremony going on no it's
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over i waited for two hours actually i'm going to continue to ask questions unless that's illegal
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now it isn't illegal it's inappropriate right now i don't think so you don't have to think so i'm
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telling you your opinion doesn't really matter thank you very much we did we gave it to rogers yeah
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we gave it to sportsnet uh we gave one to dawn and um and we're we're hoping that your husband would
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accept it if you would take it yeah we're just hoping you'll take it because i appreciate that
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are you recording i don't know yes i appreciate the support excuse me are you recording get out of
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the middle of our conversation are you recording yes he's got me on all right okay mr reclean
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would you take it if you give it to somebody i'll take it thank you yeah you bet
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so i just waited two hours for ron mclean and his wife to come out of the ceremony where he was
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receiving a degree just like david suzuki did uh he ended up accepting it which i was grateful for and i
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think the 90 000 folks who signed our petition will be grateful for but what struck me as surprising
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was even after don has effectively been redeemed after everyone has he he's come clear with what
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he meant to say and even what he did say was not uh targeting immigrants in any any way in particular
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that was malicious uh ron mclean's wife called don cherry a bigot a bigot do you think don cherry is
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a bigot i don't i'm exceedingly disappointed in ron mclean's wife but we're not here for ron mclean's
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wife we're here for ron mclean he took our petition and i'm grateful for that but he really didn't come
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clean with why he didn't stand up for his longtime friend for rebel news i'm team bexty
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well folks that's our show for today i will be back in the studio tomorrow we'll have a proper show
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for you then thanks for your patience with me as i've been on the road i think these wexit uh panels
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are important and obviously there's a huge demand for them based on the sold-out crowds i encourage you
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to tune into those until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters well i guess
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i'm not in the headquarters i'm in the forest good night and keep fighting for freedom