How Rebel News will cover the Canadian election PLUS New book： The Libranos!
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The Canadian election is finally upon us, and we ve been planning for it here at The Rebel for months. I ll tell you what we re going to do, and how you can help, to make a difference in this election.
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Hey there, I got a humdinger of a podcast for you today.
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I am telling you my not-so-secret campaign plan for the rebel in this election.
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It is a journalistic campaign plan, and I hope you'll like it.
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Hey, before I let you get to that, can I invite you to go to the rebel.media slash shows
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and become a subscriber to our premium content.
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Of course, you get the satisfaction of helping pay our bills, which means something.
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Tonight, finally, the Canadian federal election is upon us,
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and we've been planning for it here at the Rebel for months.
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I'll tell you what we're going to do and how you can help.
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It's September 9th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Any day now, the liberals will formally call the election, but who's kidding whom?
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In recent weeks, liberal MPs have been making dozens of spending announcements,
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They're doing what liberals do, diverting taxpayer dollars to their friends,
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So the electoral districts they're worried about losing and the few they think they can pick up.
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And, of course, the most important Liberal Party handout is to the media party,
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that one newspaper receives $115,000 a week from Trudeau a week.
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That helps to understand why there's these insanely pro-Trudeau reports,
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A more ethical newspaper would have a disclaimer underneath any story
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disclosing that they receive money from Trudeau while they report about Trudeau.
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Of course, it's not just the newspaper publishers who are partisan.
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Unifor, the giant union that represents thousands of journalists,
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and they're going to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars
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of their own journalist money into anti-conservative campaigns.
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In one way, I guess it's better than using taxpayers' dollars.
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Every journalist you see on TV reporting on the campaign
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given it in Union News, to campaign against the conservatives.
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That's not disclosed after their reports either, is it?
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But come on, by far the biggest contribution any journalist makes to Trudeau
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It's their embarrassingly fawning questions of him,
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Here's my favorite example from the last campaign.
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What a disappointing answer this is going to be.
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Whatever happens to be hanging around at the time.
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Last book you've read or the book you're reading?
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which was Chris Turner's history of The Oil Patch.
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But I'm also about to start the new Ken Fowler,
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the third book that is the sequel to Pillars of the Earth.
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It's just a sweeping historical epic, I'm sure,
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What kind of music are you listening to right now?
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That's Rosemary Barton of the CBC State Broadcaster.
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I swear, the way she looks at Trudeau is embarrassing.
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I mention this because not only is Barton a CBC government journalist,
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in the only English language debate that Trudeau has agreed to do.
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You know how bad Trudeau is at public speaking, right?
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I mean, when he's off script, he's awful, like this monstrosity.
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What do you and your family do to cut back on plastics?
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We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of,
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out of plastic, sorry, away from plastic towards paper,
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We need to ensure that we are working together with our allies
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that has shown a level of irresponsibility and...
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fundamental irresponsibility to not use a word like crazy,
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Yeah, no, Rosemary Barton thinks Justin Trudeau,
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Mr. Um, and uh, is the reincarnation of Winston Churchill.
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Some pretty good numbers in Ontario and Quebec showing up.
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the faster we can get this thing over with, the better.
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Why not leave him the time to demonstrate that?
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Yeah, so that's one of the media party moderators
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And I think there's a contest on who they hate more.
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Do they hate Andrew Scheer more than Maxime Bernier?
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about the issues they don't want anyone to talk about.
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Immigration, global warming, political correctness.
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But they hate Andrew Scheer because he's the one
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whose party could actually beat Trudeau in the election.
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Here's an aggregation of all the publicly available
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opinion polls in the election done by Eric Grenier
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As you can see, Andrew Scheer is just slightly ahead of Trudeau,
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But if you scroll down a bit, you'll see how Grenier
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because the liberal vote is more efficient, as they say.
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Liberals, by contrast, will likely sneak through
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Obviously, these poll numbers are about to change
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But right now, it's looking like a Trudeau minority.
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for the liberals and 140 for the conservatives.
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of percentage points, it could make the difference
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between a Trudeau majority and a Trudeau minority,
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or between a Trudeau minority and a Scheer minority,
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or between a Scheer minority and a Scheer majority.
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find some courage on at least a few key conservative issues
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and that's Trudeau's liberals or Scheer's conservatives.
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or more likely, from their third-party surrogates,
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And the 100-plus left-wing third-party campaign groups,
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like the 100 that campaigned for Trudeau last time,
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Like the three worst media in Canada are American,
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Each of them has been disgraced in their own way.
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of that U.S.-based gutter site, Huffington Post,
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will be on the one English-language debate panel
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that Trudeau does, but Bob Fyfe of The Globe and Mail
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he dared to break the news about Trudeau firing Jody Wilson-Raybould
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and so Fyfe and The Globe are banned from participating in the debates.
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Can you name a single scandal or piece of accountability journalism
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from the Huffington Post or the CBC that they've ever done about Justin Trudeau?
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There are literally hundreds, I don't mean dozens,
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I mean hundreds of stories in the Huffington Post
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Just one quick mention, and never again, though,
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of Trudeau sexually assaulting Rose Knight in Creston, B.C.
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Just one story quickly buried about his sexual assault.
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So yeah, get ready for seven weeks of shampoo questions,
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There are a few registered third-party campaign groups out there on the right.
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They'll be outspent 100 to 1 by the pro-Trudeau super PACs.
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We criticize any and every party when we think they're wrong,
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and we praise any party when we think they're right.
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He stopped coming on my show after I grilled him a little bit too hard
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Our role is not to campaign as a party or like a lobby group like Unifor.
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Our role is to report the news and give you our opinion on the news.
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And like most Canadian media, we champion causes we like.
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I mean, the CBC, for example, their main causes are transgender,
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including for kids, and marijuana use, just going by what they publish.
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The Toronto Star has socialist views hardwired right into their newspaper.
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They even believe in the state control of the means of production
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that's right in their corporate bylaws in their manifesto
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So we're a little bit like the Star and the CBC,
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but we're less extremist than the Star or the CBC,
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partly because we have to earn our support from Canadians every day.
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would mean they don't have real public support.
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They would go out of business without Trudeau bailing them out.
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We're not going to be a third-party campaign group.
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We're going to take on something far, far worse,
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We here at Rebel News are going to take on the media party,
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the CBC, the Toronto Star, all the bailout media,
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who wish they were Justin Trudeau's girlfriends,
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And we're going to do it by living up to our motto,
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Well, it means we're going to do actual journalism,
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We're going to cover up to 100 different writings
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or more to the point the media party's getting pretty bad at
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This is an example from the Alberta election campaign
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Would you mind if I asked you a quick question?
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Do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity
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I think that you should be registered as a third party
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So you don't want to tell the residents of Calgary Varsity
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Well, I think that communism isn't a reasonable ideology
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Do you think the capitalists should all burn still?
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Do you think that the media has given you reasonable scrutiny
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Not on a sidewalk when I've told you I'm not talking to you.
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You're a public figure and a communist who wants to represent Albertans.
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You're calling the police because I'm asking you why you're a communist.
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She freaked out after he asked her one question.
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And I don't know if you were timing that, but it took her only about 90 seconds to go
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He just asked some accountability questions of a public person on a matter of public interest
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You know, I think she went a bit crazy, actually.
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It is a little bit crazy to call the police on someone for doing journalism.
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Some might say that's actually a little bit communist.
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By the way, the police actually did come and they agreed.
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I mean, obviously, if you are following her, right, it could potentially be construed as
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I'm not charging her or arresting her like that today.
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Obviously, if somebody asks you to leave their property and stuff like that, you have to
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You were obviously down here when we drove over and they were down there.
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Yeah, that video blew up in the election so much.
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It was the number one most watched video in the entire Alberta election of any media outlet.
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So much so that Anne McGrath felt compelled to renounce her communist past at the next
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all candidates debated had become such an issue.
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I want to acknowledge also something that's come up about my youth.
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And I want to assure you that I am not a communist.
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Four decades ago, when I was a young student, I was a member, and I deeply regret that.
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Of course, we had a little bit of fun with it, too.
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So I'm in the billboard truck. I'm very excited still. And we just left the University of Calgary. Campus Security came and kicked us off. Not much of a surprise. I guess they told us that we needed to book the space. I didn't know that you needed to book roads. But whatever. It was kind of expected. We're on our way to Rachel Notley's campaign stop now. It's just outside of Calgary Varsity but it's being co-hosted with the Communists and McGrath. So we're going to go park outside of the event and see if we can catch some Notley or some Notley supporters looking at the board.
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So I'm standing right outside of the bread line at Rachel Notley's campaign stop here with Anne McGrath.
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Oh my God that was so much fun. Anne McGrath in the end lost by just a few hundred votes on election day. Did we do that to her? No. She did that to herself by being a Communist, by calling the police on a journalist. She did that.
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We just did, what's that old word again? It's so rare these days. That's right. We just did some journalism. We just asked some questions. We told the other side of the story. Not one single media party reporter had ever asked her about her Communist past. Not one. Voters really, really wanted to know about that.
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I mean, don't you think if someone is a Communist or a Nazi or some cult member, something like that, it's in the public interest to know. It's journalism to ask about it. No other media did. We did. We told the other side of the story.
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I think that's why Anne McGrath freaked out. She had literally never been asked a tough question before by a journalist ever. So two things happened. She was personally insulted by it and got emotional.
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She was outraged and entitled that a mere journalist dared to ask her, the princess, a question. So she didn't control her emotions. And second of all, she simply had no practice answering tough questions because she had never been asked a tough question before.
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Now, if you're thinking that's not journalism, oh, yes, it is, my friends. It's standard form journalism for any political figure on the right. Think about it. The late Rob Ford, his brother Doug Ford, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, heck, Donald Trump, anyone on the right. That's how the media is towards them.
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I remember during the fake Mike Duffy scandal, when an enterprising CTV reporter got up in the dead of night to go downtown in Ottawa to catch Nigel Wright, who always went jogging at like 4 a.m. That was great journalism.
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But it never happens to journalists on the left, does it? We never have tough questions put in tough situations to them. And the jumbotron truck that we use there, that's just having some fun. It's like an editorial, but it's on a truck, not a newspaper. It's fun.
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The CBC does this all the time to candidates on the right. They had a whole campaign against Stockwell Day, calling him Doris Day, remember? The CBC even set up a fake website using Jason Kenney's own name. It's fun when the left does it. It's cute. It's journalistic humor.
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It'll be fun when we do it to tell the other side of the story in this upcoming campaign, won't it? That's journalism.
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As in, we're going to provide in this election the most useful thing you can imagine. Balanced coverage. We won't be asking Trudeau to go out on any dates with us. That's already being well covered by Rosemary Barton and Althea Raj.
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You know, another one of those debate moderators, Susan Delacorte, her brother was actually a Liberal Party campaign worker.
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Yeah, so we'll let those Liberal gals cover the Liberal angle, and we'll tell the other side of the story.
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Through accountability journalism, on the street, not just giving our opinions from the studio, not just by analyzing the events of the day that someone else covers, but by going out and putting a microphone to politicians who've never been asked a tough question before in their lives.
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Remember when our Kian Bexty asked Selena Cesar-Servan a basic, friendly question?
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It took her 90 seconds to go from hello to dropping F-bombs at him. Take a look.
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Are you serious, the rebel? You're going to come talk to me?
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I mean, the report said that there was genocide happening. Should we prosecute world leaders who oversee genocide?
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I'm going to leave you and the rebel to come up with your own dissertation about what you did.
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I'm sure you'll take it and you'll twist it in any way possible, but the absolute truth.
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Whatever you say, I'll publish the whole thing.
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Should we prosecute world leaders if they oversee a genocide?
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I think you should be looking in your own house before looking in other houses. How about that?
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I'm not committing genocide. Do you think I'm committing genocide?
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I think you do a lot of other stuff of perpetrating lies, doing whatever you want, inciting hate, inciting misinformation.
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How did Justin Trudeau bring you back on board after he yelled at you?
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You seem quite happy with him. Are you expecting some sort of an appointment?
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You just speak with a prime minister and let him touch you after he verbally assaults you?
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And do you forgive Justin Trudeau for yelling at you?
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I decide what I decide to do when I decide to do it.
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I decide what I decide to do and when I decide to do it.
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I really have nothing good to say to the rebel.
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So I'm not sure why you're entertaining this line of questioning, but you could go ahead.
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Just wondering if you forgive someone who verbally assaulted you.
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But imagine if in the middle of the campaign, some other liberal candidate, someone just totally
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People in Rassi Naira are suffering from mercury poisoning.
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And I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada.
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And he's not the only one on our team who does.
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What brings you out to the Walk with Israel, Mr. Levitt?
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Not interested in doing media at this point, but thank you.
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How do you feel about the fact that Justin Trudeau made two commemorations about the Holocaust
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We're here today celebrating Canada-Canada-Israel relationship,
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and that's what we're going to do proudly and strongly.
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Our five journalists, we're all going to hit the road and the airways.
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We're going to cover candidates across the country, even in the far north.
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We're going to show up for Trudeau events and for his cabinet ministers
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and we're going to ask accountability questions that they have never been asked before.
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But no one's ever done that kind of journalism before.
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Some will run away, and some will lose their cool.
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Of course, we're not just grilling the liberals.
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There's a lot unusual about your speech, Liz, but we're going to take off.
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Omer Khadr, you've got more class than the whole f***ing cabinet.
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Elizabeth May herself, but also her insane candidates.
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Other than a pretty face, there's not a lot of there, there.
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Other than that one interview that Terry Malevsky once did with him asking about his support for Sikh extremists,
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I've never seen him asked a tough question ever.
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But look, asking Scheer and Bernier tough questions is pretty well covered by the media party right now, don't you think?
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I mean, they scrum Bernier and Scheer all the time with gotcha questions, with personal attacks, with smears, with digging up things they said 20 years ago.
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I mean, look, we'll put real questions to those guys, too.
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But the real void in this election isn't going to be a lack of questions for the candidates on the right.
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It's going to be a lack of accountability questions for candidates on the left.
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We, at The Rebel, tell the other side of the story.
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And we will fill in those gaps in this election.
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I expect in the next seven weeks, our journalists will collectively cover up to 100 ridings across the country.
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I expect we will make up to 100 flights amongst all of us.
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From Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, from Whitehorse to Montreal, everywhere in between.
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Minister, could I grab you for a quick question, please?
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Sir, can I just grab you for a quick question on a clarification point?
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Just trying to find out, does it mean that the legal rights of migrants that are being given in the compact are already in...
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I think Ahmed Hassan is generally, genuinely terrified of David Menzies.
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Kent Hare, the sexual predator, the liberal in Calgary, Trudeau's sexual predator, liberal.
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He was kicked out of the cabinet for sexual misconduct.
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Look at him trying to speed away from Key in his wheelchair.
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Or here's my friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who followed Chrystia Freeland all the way to London, England, to ask this question.
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Minister Freeland, all of our reporters have been blocked by the United Nations,
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preventing us from reporting at any of their conferences,
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both the climate change conferences and at the Migration Pact conference.
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We know, through writing, the UN confirmed to us that that was done at the request of the Canadian government.
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We also know that your government has met with our competitors in the Parliamentary Press Gallery
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to block our organization from reporting on events organized and managed by the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
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Your government has also been admonished by the Information Commissioner, the Privy Council Office in particular,
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for blocking our access to information requests into the Prime Minister's office.
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What are you going to do, tangibly, to change that when you get home?
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Have you ever seen Chrystia Freeland ask the tough question before?
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I want our reporters to travel nonstop, a seven-week sprint.
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I want us to be the most interesting journalists in the campaign.
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I don't want our people riding the official campaign bus for any party.
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So we can be spoon-fed, talking points in a controlled situation by Gerald Butts
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or whoever the equivalent of Gerald Butts is on the Conservatives and the NDP.
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I want the authenticity of asking real questions when we want to ask them, not when Gerald Butts approves.
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And I want to hear the raw answers, whether it's calling the police or calling us names.
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And I mean real questions, not the kind of, what kind of shampoo questions that we've been getting lately.
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I want to talk to real Canadians to hear from them, to do streeters, as we call them, asking the man on the street what they really think.
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I don't care what the left-wing pollsters and pundits on the CBC and CTV lobbyists panel think.
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A carbon tax is a good idea, at least for the little people.
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If you oppose open borders immigration, you're probably a racist, et cetera, et cetera.
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I also want to talk to real Canadians, severely normal people.
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So I want to roll out more of those Jumbotron trucks to get the conversation going.
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And I want to do something that should have been done four years ago but wasn't.
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I've vetted him and his whole team through the lens of corruption.
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And so I'm pleased to announce to you, my friends, a new book called The Libranos, What the Media Won't Tell You About Justin Trudeau's Corruption.
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It has the collected facts about Trudeau and his corrupt team, from corrupt Bill Morneau to corrupt Gerald Butts to corrupt Dominique LeBlanc.
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All the crooks, all the Libranos, as we call them, all the facts the CBC doesn't want to tell you because they're worried if they tell you they'll have their subsidy cut off.
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And, you know, I want to spread the word about the book through these lawn signs.
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Just like we did for Sheila Gunn-Reed's book about the Alberta election called Stop Notley.
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Look, when I used to write books like Ethical Oil, every media outlet in the country interviewed me about the book.
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If any media party journalist were to review my book, even negatively, even to mention my book, they would risk losing their bailout subsidy.
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So we need a 100% grassroots, citizen-based marketing strategy to spread the word about Trudeau and his Libranos.
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But they're perfect for anyone who wants to show their opinions about the first prime minister in Canadian history to be convicted of breaking the law not once but on five counts.
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And our advantage is we are not bought off by any of the political parties like they are.
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And so we are going to swarm the campaign trail.
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We're going to scrum politicians on the streets, at the doors.
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We're not going to be managed and scripted like the government journalists at the CBC.
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And I promise you, I will not go on any dates with Justin Trudeau like Rosemary Barton did.
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I think we'll make a big difference, don't you?
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Jumbotron billboard trucks to build buzz about our coverage and to stimulate a national conversation like Jessica Svintonevsky did.
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She parked it right outside a liberal party fundraiser.
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We've published, I don't know, about five books so far here at The Rebel.
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Every single one of them has been a bestseller despite none of them being reviewed by the fancy media.
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There are other books out there about Justin Trudeau right now.
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Did you know that the CBC's government journalist named Aaron Wary has just pumped out a book about Trudeau?
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I thought it would actually be called Fifty Shades of Grey or something, giving Wary's affection.
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He was the actual CBC journalist who flew to Davos on the taxpayer's dime with the CBC to write stories about Justin Trudeau's socks.
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So there's a bunch of Trudeau books out there by the bailout media.
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My book, The Libranos, is the only one not subsidized by the subject of the book, Trudeau himself.
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I predict we will sell more copies of The Libranos without any government subsidies than those love letters published by the media party.
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Flying and driving journalists around the country nonstop for seven weeks, but not telling the political parties where we'll be on any given day.
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They get the conversation going on main streets across the country.
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A 138-page book with everything you need to know about Trudeau that the CBC won't tell you.
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And thousands and thousands of fun lawn signs that you can put right on your own front step.
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And we're quietly raising that throughout the summer from Canadians who want to help us.
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We still need to raise close to six figures for the lawn signs, for the Jumbotron trucks, mainly, though, to help cover the cost of crisscrossing Canada.
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I mean, besides the airfare, our journalists on the road need car rentals, motels, things like that.
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Five journalists, seven weeks, 20 Jumbotron trucks, one best-selling book, 20,000 lawn signs, if we need that many.
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And 37 million Canadians sick not only of Canada's political establishment, but the suck-ups in the media party, too.
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We'll publish our final budget after the campaign is over for full disclosure.
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Look, if you donate your money to a political party, you're limited in what you can give.
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We'll be asking accountability questions of all the parties.
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We can't give you a political party tax receipt, but we can promise you we'll make more of a difference dollar for dollar than any other group out there.
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The reason I'm not being precise is because if we don't raise at all, we'll do less.
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I'd like to raise $100,000 for our full Tilt campaign.
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We'll publish the full budget afterwards so you can inspect it.
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Look, you already pay for the CBC and the Toronto store unwillingly.
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If you want to voluntarily help us out, I'd be grateful.
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And in return, I promise you the best journalism in Canada.
00:39:58.960
Well, speaking of elections, there's something that I think every one of the parties,
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except perhaps Maxime Bernier's People's Party, wants to tamp down.
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People who reject the entire system, the entire game, not just a player in the game.
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And joining us now to talk about it is the author of a column in the Edmonton Sun called
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Political Correctness is More Fuel for Populism, our friend Lauren Gunter, who joins us now via Skype.
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Why don't you take us through your column a little bit?
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You start off by referring to Sean Spear, who used to be an advisor to Stephen Harper.
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Why don't you tell us what that warning is and how it might apply to Canada?
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Well, first of all, Spear said that, you know, if you leave a whole class of people behind
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economically when you expand your economy or you move your economy in a new direction,
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that class of people are going to perhaps rebel.
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And that's the source of an awful lot of thinking now on populism is that people who are left
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behind by globalization, lots of times assembly line workers, sometimes people who work in
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farming and other manual labor, they got left behind because we moved jobs overseas, we moved
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production overseas to where labor was cheaper.
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And part of Donald Trump's victory in the United States, part of the Brexit victory in
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the UK, both come from people who are marginalized or dislocated by globalization.
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But I think another thing goes back to something that goes back to even something you wrote almost
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It's all of this petty nagging and preaching and hectoring from elites that you don't eat
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properly, you don't use the right pronouns, you aren't sensitive enough to this group or
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And on, our straws are choking turtles in the ocean, on and on and on.
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Nothing that ordinary people do is good enough or right for people in the enlightened elites,
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the people who see themselves as benighted and above the rest of us.
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And I think after a while, those drip, drip, drip messages that you don't commute properly,
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you should be on transit, not in your own car, you should be on a bicycle rather than your
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After a while, that fuels populism too, because people just get tired of being nagged and they
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I just can't help notice that the latest thing from the establishment, and I'm using that
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word generically, is don't eat meat, let's all become vegetarians, or even, and I know
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it's insane, but I'm seeing it everywhere, this crazy call to eat bugs, to eat bugs.
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And I can assure you, I mean, I have visited the United Nations in New York before.
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I have never seen such a lavish, like it is exquisite.
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They wouldn't eat any cut of meat other than the filet.
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I mean, these are, they have five-star meals, the finest wines.
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And that, I think it's that we know they don't mean it for themselves, but they mean it for
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It was the same thing about don't fly, don't commute.
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We got Meghan Markle, who took four private jet flights in 11 days, telling us that we got
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It's not just the insanity, it's that they're not even pretending they're doing it too.
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Google had a conference on Sicily, by private invitation only, to discuss the environment.
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If you don't worry about your job being cut, if you don't worry about where your next paycheck's
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going to come from, you're happy with your house, you're happy with your vacation every
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Maybe some of those other things, the political correctness things don't bother you.
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But as soon as you're also being pressured on the economic side, then boy, it's extra hard
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to take that self-smugness from elites that, you know, oh my goodness, well, French fries
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You know, you have a bag of fries every once in a while because it's a nice relief from the
00:44:56.320
You don't need some skinny dietician who thinks a rice cake is a sufficient meal to nag
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at you with a little pinched face and say, oh my goodness, you're not doing the right
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And after a while, being told again and again, you know, being told that your concern about
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the levels of illegal immigration into the country are nothing but racism.
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Like, there's a legitimate reason to debate this, to talk about whether or not this is
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Maybe you can convince me it's a good idea, but it's not wrong to ask the question.
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I mean, another thing that came up last week, and I've written about it, it'll appear in
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papers either today in some place or tomorrow in other places, is the missing and murdered
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They said repeatedly in their report that 25 percent of murder victims in Canada were
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And while that's still disproportionate because they're four percent of the population, it's
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a one and a half percent disparity or one and a half times disparity as opposed to a seven
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So again and again and again, these sorts of things.
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And then when they're informed that there's this error, a huge error in their report, which
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is the basis of their claim that the rest of us commit genocide against indigenous women
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and girls, they say, oh, it doesn't matter because it's really an important problem.
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So it doesn't matter whether the numbers are right or not.
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What matters is that we've identified the problem.
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That's the kind of elitist, smug thinking that I think is fueling populism.
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You know, you covered a lot of ground there, but you made me for a second think about when
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our young reporter, Kian Bexte, went to the opening of Chick-fil-A in Toronto late last week.
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There was a vegan, like a vegetarian extremist group.
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And then there was a gay, an extremist gay group because there were a lot of gay folks
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It was every color, every race, every religion.
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He bumped into a gay engaged couple who said, we're just here for the chicken.
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And what a contrast between the severely normal people in line around the block.
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And this small group of shouting, hectoring activists, by the way, at odds with each other,
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the gay rights activists and the vegetarian activists, and everyone in line was sort of
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saying, shut up, I'm sick of you, including people of every minority that are supposed to
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I thought it was a hilarious video, but I think it sort of made your point.
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There's an American stand-up comedian, and I'm sorry, I don't, the name doesn't come
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to me off the top of my head, but he has this thing about, well, you know, Chick-fil-A came
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to my town and I decided, given their political and religious views, that I just could not put
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I vowed that I would boycott their chicken sandwich.
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You know, it does come down to economics, I think, because a lot of these things, they'll
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enforce through a regulation or a tax or a ban, or if you get too far off, they'll try and
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hound you out of your job or boycott your company.
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So even though social things have an economic angle to them, let me tell you an example from
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You mentioned the UK, and I think you're so right.
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Brexit was a lot of people who were what I call the forgotten people.
00:49:00.480
There's a progressive Muslim who used to be quite radical, but now is a real liberal.
00:49:07.220
I think he's very thoughtful, and he's sort of a frenemy of our buddy Tommy Robinson, and
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he said, look, because the rest of us were so politically correct, we didn't allow anyone
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to talk about these rape gangs, and so Tommy filled the void, and it's us who should have
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When we shut the conversation down, why are you surprised that Tommy took it over?
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And I think that's what's happening in Canada on immigration, on global warming, on carbon
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taxes, on paying Omar Khadr, on a whole barrel of issues.
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Maxime Bernier, whatever else you think of him, he's been banned from the debates, but
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You do that for a while, and people say, fine, then I'm going to go embrace someone who
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You're actually driving people out of the establishment towards radicalism.
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And unfortunately, you can do that for so long that you drive people right over to a kind
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of populism or nationalism or racism that you don't want.
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But because you've shut everybody else up, that's what frustrated people have left.
00:50:24.540
You know, it's interesting in this whole globalization debate that globalization has worked in a lot
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Back in the early 90s, the G7 countries controlled about 70% of the GDP in the world and the developing
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And so that doesn't mean that people in developing countries are as rich as people in G7.
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But it really has shown that globalization has helped lift a lot of boats.
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But what we forget is, in a rush to say it's a good thing, is that there are an awful lot
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of really good people whose lives are not as good as they were 25 years ago as a result
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And then to even discuss that becomes forbidden.
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And it really has become an important political issue.
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We started by talking about Stephen Harper and his staff, and I've seen Harper make this
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I like how you link both the economics and the social issues.
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I'm going to close with a clip I've shown our viewers before.
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And of all people, it's from Michael Moore, the schleppy, far-left Democrat filmmaker activist.
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But here he is, before anyone thought Trump would win, outlining why he thought Trump would
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Not necessarily why he liked Trump, but why Trump was talking to America's forgotten
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And when I saw this video three and a half years ago, I thought, oh my God, this is how
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Donald Trump will win by talking to the forgotten men.
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So, Lona, I want to thank you here, and I want to leave our viewers with this extended
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clip from Michael Moore that really opened my eyes.
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And here's Michael Moore, which is a strange way to end, but you'll see my point.
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Because I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump, and they're
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not, they don't necessarily like him that much, and they don't necessarily agree with
00:52:40.840
They're not racist and rednecks, or they're actually pretty decent people.
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And so I wanted to sort of, after talking to a number of them, I wanted to sort of, I
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wanted to write this, and Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there
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in front of the Ford Motor executives and said, if you close these factories, as you're planning
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to do in Detroit, and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars
00:53:15.680
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
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You live here in Ohio, you know what I'm talking about.
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Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who
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And it's why every beaten down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was
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He is the human Molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for.
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The human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives
00:54:13.060
And on November 8th, Election Day, although they've lost their jobs, although they've been
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foreclosed on by the bank, next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone.
00:54:28.760
They're stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan where you can't even get a f***ing Percocet.
00:54:35.280
They've essentially lost everything they had except one thing.
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The one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution,
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It doesn't matter because it's equalized on that day.
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A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job.
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And there's more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class.
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So on November 8th, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot,
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close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touch screen and put a big f***ing
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X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system
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They see that the elites who ruined their lives hate Trump.
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The media hates Trump after they loved him and created him and now hate him.
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The enemy of my enemy is who I'm voting for on November 8th.
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Yes, on November 8th, you, Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, Billy Bob Blow, all
00:56:22.800
the Blows, get to go and blow up the whole system because it's your right.
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Trump's election is going to be the biggest f*** you ever recorded in human history.
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We're not going to be handing out leaflets for one candidate or the other.
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And what I mean by that is asking accountability questions where none have been asked so far.
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Instead of doing it by car, I want to do it by plane.
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Instead of doing one or two roddings, I want to do dozens, maybe a hundred.
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You can find out more by going to campaign2019.com.
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From all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night.