Iran shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing 63 Canadians： What will Trudeau do about it？
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Today I go through a startling day in military affairs, diplomacy, and self-respect. I show how Justin Trudeau reacts to the news that Iran shot down an airliner, killing 63 Canadian citizens. And who he blames will knock your socks off.
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Hello, my rebels. Today I go through a startling day in military affairs, diplomacy, and I guess
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self-respect. I show how Justin Trudeau reacts to the news that Iran shot down an airliner
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killing 63 Canadian citizens. Just unbelievable. And who he blames will knock your socks off.
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So that's the show today. Lots of video clips, which you can see in the video format of this
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You get the video version of the podcast. You get all that good stuff that our producers put together,
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the clips, the charts. I show a chart of foreign aid from Canada to Iran. Did you know that we
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send foreign aid to Iran? I'm not kidding. I'll show you the chart. Can't see that in a podcast.
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Tonight, Iran shot down the Ukrainian airline that crashed, killing 63 Canadians.
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So what's Trudeau going to do about it? It's January 9th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
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Iran-backed terrorists physically attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on December 31st.
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They didn't get in, but it looked terrifying, a reminder of how al-Qaeda terrorists smashed
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through the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 with impunity under Barack Obama and Hillary
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Clinton. Now, Donald Trump is very different. Instead of turning the other cheek, he literally
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sent in the Marines, flying in 100 or so from nearby Kuwait. Just in case you couldn't tell,
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he was different from the appeasement stance of the past, Trump tweeted that this would
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be his anti-Benghazi, as in don't mess with him. You know, pay attention to Trump's tweets.
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I think you'll learn more from them by watching the nightly news. He issued what he called a
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threat, not a warning. See that there? To Iran for staging the attack. And sure enough,
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he had a precision airstrike against the number two man in Iran, Qasem Soleimani, the terrorist
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general. Oh, did Iran gnash their teeth at that one. Look at this. Generals crying on TV about their
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lost terrorist hero. They threatened America so badly, but Trump threatened them back, saying if they
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touched an American, Trump would flatten not one but 52 Iranian targets. The whole world was worried
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was at the start of World War III. And then Iran blinked. They fired about 15 rockets, not at
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Americans, but at Iraqi air bases. There were some Americans on those bases, but not one was hurt.
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Of the 15 rockets we know about, by the way, four didn't even go properly. The missiles failed.
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Iran essentially set off some fireworks. They also published really tough-looking photos and videos
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of their supposed massive counterattack, but they were quickly shown to be fakes. More accurately,
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photos from earlier battles elsewhere. As in, Iran was just trying to look tough to its own people.
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But it backed down. It blinked. And so Trump had a triumphant press conference. Take a look.
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Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good
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thing for the world. Not only was World War III averted, but America and Iran and the world,
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well, they all look a little bit different, don't they? America no longer looks like a helpless giant
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as it was under Obama and Hillary Clinton. If you touch a single American, if you shoot an American
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base or embassy, get ready to be flattened. Everyone in the world knows that now, beyond a shadow of
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doubt. The whole world knows also that Iran has a bit of BS and bluster. I mean, of course,
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it should be feared. They're terrorists. They'll kill you. But not to the point of being so afraid
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that you appease them. Not to the point of cowardice, as the West, particularly Europe,
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has done recently. In fact, at that same press conference, Trump asked NATO to take a bigger role
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at containing Iran. Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East
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process. So a huge win for all the good guys. And Trump keeps his promise of being America first in
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terms of self-respect, but not someone looking for new foreign wars of adventure. Except one huge
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thing. See, there was a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed in Tehran right around the time of
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Iran's impotent attack on the Iraqi airbase. Like I say, not a single American was wounded, let alone
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killed. Four of the Iranian missiles misfired even. But hundreds of miles away, over 170 people died in
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a plane crash. A new plane, just four years old, modern and safe. And according to the Ukrainian
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airline, it had a very experienced crew. So did it really just crash? If so, why did Iran say they
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would refuse to give the black box up to Boeing? You know what I mean by the black box, that crash
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proof device that records all the instruments in the plane, what happened to any plane right up to
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the last moment so investigators might learn the cause of a crash? Why did Iran immediately come up
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with an obviously fake excuse, engine trouble? How would they know? But hide the real proof,
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the black box? You know, I took a poll on Twitter and asked my followers, I said, which do you think
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is more likely, an accident or a shoot down? 12,000 people voted. Look at that, I guess 80% of my
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followers are pretty skeptical. Look, we knew what was up. And that was last night that I did that poll.
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All right. Last night also, Canada's new foreign minister, François-Philippe Champagne, well, he made a
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friendly phone call to Iran. Friendly. Here, let me read from his official readout, as it's called.
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That's a partial point form summary of the call as released by his office. You can see it here.
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You see where it says, the two exchanged condolences for the victims of the crash. See that in the second
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line there? You can see that Champagne said Canada had many questions that need to be answered, but he
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didn't say what the questions were or who had to do the answering. And as you can see, there were no
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notes about what Iran said in reply. I won't even call that a self-serving press release by Champagne
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because it actually doesn't serve Champagne to be so subordinate, to be so surrender-ish.
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Now, I note that Iran didn't bother to issue a recap of the conversation. They're probably still
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laughing at us. You know, Champagne, this foreign minister of Canada, Trudeau's guy, he sent out a
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press release after Trump took out that terrorist general. But Champagne was even-handed as between
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good and evil, as between terrorists and our friendliest democracy. Trudeau himself was still
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in vacation mode. But his foreign minister said that both sides need to restrain themselves. Really?
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Both sides need to exercise restraint and pursue de-escalation. Not just the terrorists,
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but Trump reacting to the terrorists. Both sides are bad. How's that both-side-ism working out for
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you now? 63 Canadians dead on that plane. Now, U.S. President Donald Trump said the obvious
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early today. The crash was suspicious. Well, I have my suspicions. Yeah. He could see the obvious,
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as could 80% of my followers on Twitter. Trudeau, he's still pretty much on vacation mode. And the
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mainstream media loves his new lazy vacation mode beard. Look at that. Oh, they just can't get enough
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the beard. That's the big story in Canada now, guys. It's the beard. Trudeau's still taking personal
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days, by the way. He didn't bother to make a public statement. I mean, he didn't bother to
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call up Donald Trump. He hasn't talked to Trump since he mocked Trump at that NATO conference last year.
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It was the joke of the season. Yeah. Can I state the obvious answer? It's the joke of the season.
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Yeah. Can I state the obvious? Trudeau is completely mentally checked out of Canadian
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affairs, totally checked out from foreign affairs to touch on Canada. By contrast, Trump never takes
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a day off. So finally, NBC News said what we all pretty much knew. Iran shot down the plane with a
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missile. Now, the CBC didn't break that news. They weren't that interested. I mean, they were more
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interested in that cool beard and everything. I mean, they were interested, but they knew what we
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all knew. And they're pro-Iran, just like they're pro-China, just like they're anti-American. So they
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showed a remarkable lack of curiosity in chasing down the facts. So they let a foreign network break
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the obvious news. Good day, everyone from New York. We're coming on the air with breaking news regarding
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that Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran early Wednesday morning, killing at least 176 people.
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A U.S. official tells NBC News that intelligence evidence suggests the plane was mistakenly shot down
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by Iranian anti-aircraft missiles. Yeah, for an hour after that, the CBC News website had no stories about
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the shoot down because they didn't have their marching orders yet from the prime minister's office.
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Well, that changed. The official line was, don't say a single bad word about Iran. In fact, defend them,
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but blame Donald Trump. I'm serious. Here's the CBC's Katie Simpson. 63 Canadians dead because of the
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unintended consequences of a decision made by the U.S. president. Oh, is that what happened? Here's another
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CBC reporter with the identical line. Who's to blame, right? I mean, in terms of, is it the United States? Is it
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Iran? Is it both? Who's to blame here for what happened? Oh my God, they are serious. And then when Trudeau
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finally put on a suit and had a coffee and tried to dry out a bit, went to a press conference,
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he took three questions from the media and said the same thing. Three identical questions
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with the absurd blame Trump line. I'm sorry, that's not a coincidence. That's media scripting. Here,
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take a look at these three. Hi, Prime Minister. I just want to circle back to an earlier question. If
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the intelligence is accurate, then it seems this is the end result of a sequence of events that was
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sparked by the drone strike ordered by the U.S. president. So given the information you have,
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how much responsibility does the United States bear for this tragedy? The evidence suggests that
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this is the likely cause, but we need to have a full and complete and credible investigation to
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establish exactly what happened. That is what we are calling for and that is what we are expecting
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will happen. Given the tensions in the area that were the cause of a drone strike by the United
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States, do you think that the United States is at least partially responsible for this tragedy?
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I think it is too soon to be drawing conclusions or assigning blame or responsibility in whatever
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proportions. Right now, our focus is on supporting the families that are grieving right across the
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country and providing what answers we can in a preliminary way, but recognizing that there is
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going to need to be a full and credible investigation into what exactly happened before we draw any
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conclusions. Earlier today, President Trump characterized or said he had concerns that a missile might have
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brought down the plane and he said it was a very rough neighborhood. I was wondering what you
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thought of that characterization. I'll let Mr. Trump's words stand for themselves.
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Do you feel that the U.S. is partly responsible for this, given that they created the situation in which the
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missiles were launched? I think that's one of the many questions that people will be thinking about and trying to find answers to.
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For the moment, I just want to underline the importance of having a full and credible investigation
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so that we can get those facts and then we can continue to analyze based on those facts.
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Not a word condemning Iran in the whole press conference. I watched the whole thing.
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No threats against Iran, no accusations, not one consequence, but three speculations that Donald Trump was
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to blame? Iran shoots down a civilian airliner in an attack on an Iraqi air base. The airliner's hundreds
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of miles away, by the way. And the media party in Canada and Trudeau blame Trump? I'm serious.
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Oh, and the CBC is literally arguing that Iran has no obligation to even turn over the black boxes.
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I'm not kidding. Look at this. A whole series of pro-Iran tweets by this guy, a CBC journalist. I bet they
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were first drafted in Tehran and the CBC just translated them from Farsi to English. So here we are.
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And we started with the obvious news. No one in the world will dare touch America or Americans now
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out of fear of massive retaliation from Trump. America's standing tall. The world's tyrants are cowering
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before him, before Trump in America. But Iran is chastened in regards to America. No World War III.
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But Canada? Canada just got slaughtered. 63 people. Triple our losses on 9-11.
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Worst attack since the Air India bombing. And Trudeau? Well, nothing. You know, worse than nothing. He's
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blaming Trump. For some reason, Trudeau still gives foreign aid to Iran, close to $20 million to Iran
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since becoming Prime Minister. Not a chance of a complaint about that. No call for a
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UN investigation. No call for anything. Everything's fine under Trudeau. Trudeau spoke on the phone with
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the Prime Minister of Ukraine. That's a good idea. And for some reason, he called up the Prime Minister
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of Holland. But no call to Trump. Oh, why would he? He wants to blame and insult Trump. And he knows Trump
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doesn't have a lot of time for him anymore. I actually think Trump is a big enough man that
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he would take a phone call from Trudeau if Trudeau phoned. But I bet Trudeau didn't even think of
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calling him. I think he's scared to call Trump. So what should we do? I mean, Canada is not strong
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enough to really hurt Iran like America could. Iran laughs at us like China does. But we can do a few
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things. I can think of half a dozen. I've listed them on a petition at baniran.ca. Baniran.ca. You
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can sign our petition there if you like. Here's some of the suggestions I have. Number one, list the
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a banned terrorist group. Number two, expel Iranian nationals who
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organized the annual Iran-directed Al-Quds Day hate march in Canadian cities. Number three, revoke the
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student visas of Iranian nationals who are studying in Canadian universities. Number four, freeze Iranian
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assets in Canada sufficient to compensate the Canadian victims of this terrorism. Number five, call for an
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emergency UN meeting to pass a resolution condemning Iran. And number six, immediately cancel the millions of
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dollars a year. Canada sends to Iran in foreign aid. You can sign our petition at baniran.ca. Look,
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none of that's going to bring back 63 murdered people. And unlike Trump's military, it won't actually deter
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Iran from its aggression. But we should do it just for the self-respect. Ban the terrorists. Kick out their
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foreign nationals. Stop giving them free money. Seize their assets. At least argue against them with the UN.
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But what's the likelihood of any of that happening? Well, let me put it this way. Justin Trudeau's
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brother, Alexandre, who was his leadership campaign foreign policy advisor, he's so pro-Iran he literally
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made a movie with Iran called The New Great Game, a pro-Iran propaganda film. Yeah, Trudeau is fine
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with all this. Just like he's fine with China taking two Canadian hostages, holding them for more than a
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year now. The world has learned not to touch Trump. Don't touch any American. And the world has learned
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that they can do pretty much anything to Canada that they want. Stay with us for more.
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Welcome back. Well, we've been telling you about the battle for the gas pipeline that would go from
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the frack natural gas oil wells of the BC interior to the west coast, Kitimat, where it would then be
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liquefied, put on those interesting LNG, liquefied natural gas ships, and sent to Asia. The whole
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project from drilling to piping to LNG port is $40 billion. It's literally the largest project
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in all of Canada. And the pipeline part is worth $6 billion. All 20 aboriginal bands along the route
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have signed agreements with the pipeline. They love it. They get jobs. They get set asides. It's
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it's great. The courts have ordered protesters out of the way repeatedly. They refuse to leave.
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It's almost a question of whether or not the police will uphold the law. I'm not holding my breath.
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Well, that is not the only project that hangs in the balance. There's another massive oil sands project,
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this one in Alberta. And even though it's smaller in scale than the massive gas link project,
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I would put it to you it's even more important given how battered the Alberta economy is.
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Now the thing is, it hasn't yet been given the green light by Justin Trudeau. Joining us now to talk
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about this is our friend Lauren Gunter, senior columnist for the Edmonton Sun. Lauren, great to see you
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again. Tell us a little bit about the Tech Resources Frontier Oil Sands Project. Has it
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already passed all its regulatory hurdles? It's passed every hurdle except the federal
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liberal cabinet. So back in the summertime, both federal regulators and Alberta provincial
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regulators signed off on it. There are 14 First Nations and Métis communities in the area.
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They, like the communities along the coastal gas link pipeline, have all signed off too. All 14 have
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economic sharing agreements with Tech Resources out of Vancouver, who are the lead on this project.
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And Tech has even arranged so that as part of the mine is exhausted, it will reclaim that area so that the
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native buffalo populations in this area have enough area to graze on. They have tons of space to graze on.
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So every T has been crossed, every I has been dotted, except signing off by the federal cabinet. And the
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federal cabinet has sent out, not even really mixed signals, but signals that make me worry. Jonathan Wilkinson,
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who is the new environment minister, isn't as extreme in his rhetoric as Catherine McKenna, who he replaced.
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But I think he's equally extreme as an environmentalist. I think that, you know, he's probably ideologically
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just as far out as McKenna was. And he has said that he can't see a way to go ahead with Frontier if
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Canada is still deeply committed to meeting its Paris climate goals. Wow. So that's very worrisome.
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Yeah. Well, you've written a column about this just recently. I have it in my hand here. It's called
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Tech Minds Fate, a test of liberal support for the West. Now, I said this was smaller than that
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coastal gas link, but it's not much smaller. Let me just read a little bit from your article.
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Frontier is three times the size of Trans Mountain in terms of cost, $21 billion versus $7 billion.
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And it would employ as many as five times more workers following construction as TMX. So I didn't
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realize, I mean, $21 billion, a billion here, a billion there. I mean, that's huge. And there's no pipeline.
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That's what they call a shovel and truck. It's a shovel and truck mine, which means that they have to dig
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out the land and put it in the back of big trucks to take the bitumen to be processed. So there'd be
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2,500 people employed there permanently, probably about 4,000 employed in Alberta during construction,
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another 800 to 1,000 in the rest of the country. And then about 2,500 permanently employed at the mine
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for 40 years. So, you know, a couple of working lifetimes for a lot of people, really good,
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high-paying jobs in the oil sands. And yet somehow this is not a slam dunk.
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If all the Indian bands are on side, there's no pipeline issue. I haven't heard of protesters.
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Like this gas link thing we were talking about, there's a handful of,
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I call them actors because they're not elected Indian chiefs or council members. They're just,
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oh, I'm an Indian paid by Tides Foundation in San Francisco. Listen to me.
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Maybe that's why the prime minister likes them so much. They're actors like he is.
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Yeah, that's right. So like this is in Alberta. You're not foisting industry on BC. It's in Alberta.
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They love it. All the Indian bands are ready to roll. Everyone's hurting there.
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How, when, how long, like at a certain point, I got to imagine tech says, okay, we get the message.
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We will go do business in the United States, in Australia, in, like at a certain point,
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the $21 billion gets impatient. I wouldn't know. I've never had 21 billion,
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but I'm guessing it won't wait forever. Well, tech has been incredibly patient till now.
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They have been working on this proposal for eight years. So, you know, they, they started working
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on this. I guess this will be the ninth year. 2020 will be the ninth year. They started working on
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this in 2011. And, and they have been very patient, very solid about putting this all together in
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exactly the right way. And, uh, you know, the, the, the liberal cabinet, I'm guessing the liberal
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cabinet will approve it. I, I, I'm a little leery about saying that with certainty, but look at what
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they did with Trans Mountain. I mean, so, so they buy Trans Mountain so that they can say, well, you know,
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we're doing what we can. Uh, you can't, you can't blame us for the fact it's not built. And then
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in every other way, they do nothing. Uh, very important to know that when the last group back
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in the summer, the last group of environmentalists and the last group of first nations raised
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objections at the federal court in Ottawa, the federal court said, look, we'd have knocked down
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all 12 of these complaints, but the six from first nations, the federal lawyers didn't bother to oppose.
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They didn't say yes. They didn't say no. They didn't do anything. They did what, what is called
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laying down tools. They just put their tools down and they sat there. So that's what the liberals have
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been doing with Trans Mountain. I think they can do something similar with Frontier. They'll approve it.
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And then as all of the heavily funded, foreign funded environmentalist and, and first nations
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groups, uh, raise objections and hold this up in court, the federal just go, I don't know what we
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can do. We have to let the courts do their thing. I mean, we, we can't intervene and that would delay
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it and delay it and delay it until like, say the energy East pipeline, there were enough delays that
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finally the contractor just walked away. They said, we, we can invest our money. As you correctly
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pointed out, we can invest our money in, in places that are much more interested in it than Canada.
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And so that's my concern is that Frontier will probably get approved, but then it will be
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choked and strangled bit by bit until tech, uh, eventually two or three years from now,
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throws up at hands and walks away. You know, during the, uh, public comment period, which went from
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late October to late November on the tech resources frontier project, there were first nations
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groups that came forward and complained, but they weren't any of the duly elected representatives
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of first nations in those areas. Yeah. They're central casting from Hollywood. They were,
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you know, they were absolutely California bought and directed. I'm sure of it without even knowing
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their names. Yeah. You know, I see, I see news almost every week now, Lauren, uh, now that the
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election is over statistics, Canada and other sources of information, other bank economists are
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saying, Oh boy, our economy is weak. It's starting to shrink. Uh, it may be a recession. Confidence is
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falling investment, like all this bad news. We didn't hear about it until the election was safely over.
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And to me, that calls into the question, the, uh, non-partisanship of stats can,
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but let's set that aside. If I were a bank economist, a cabinet minister, someone with
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huge responsibilities for the economy. And I saw things slowing. I can't imagine anything would
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be better than green lighting a 21 billion dollar project. Not only would the 21 billion make a big
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dent. And I read in your column that, uh, of course this would send billions of dollars in tax money to
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Ottawa, which is, is needed, but it would be a symbol. Okay. There's some optimism. People are investing
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things are going, Oh, we need to, you know, probably buy another thousand pickup trucks. We need to
00:28:11.020
get some hotels and restaurants, surveying engineering, like it, like things would you,
00:28:15.180
you unlock 21 billion dollars. A lot of things start to happen. Maybe you could even
00:28:21.420
affect the curve of the entire economy by a half a percent. I don't know,
00:28:25.900
but that's pretty big about probably where you're at. The, the, the amount that would go to Ottawa
00:28:31.500
every year from just this one mind would be around 400 million a year every year for 40 years. Like
00:28:41.580
this is a government that has choked off all sorts of revenue sources by closing, basically closing
00:28:47.340
down, uh, new developments in, in energy. Uh, and it could go ahead with this and get an extra 400
00:28:54.380
million a year. Uh, okay. That's kind of a drop in the bucket given the size of the deficits they have,
00:29:00.940
but at least it shows that they are adding one column and the other column together and figuring
00:29:06.700
out that the two are related. But I, the, the big problem is you say, you know, if you're a bank
00:29:11.820
economist or Academy minister, you couldn't see saying no to this. That's because you have a realistic
00:29:19.260
idea of the future economy that, you know, you, you can't simply stop producing resources and hope that
00:29:28.220
there will be other things that pop up of equal worth and value to take their place. But if you're
00:29:34.140
Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal, the federal environment minister, or Justin Trudeau, the,
00:29:39.180
the, uh, uh, prancer in chief or whatever it is he's become now, uh, you think you don't believe that
00:29:46.860
you believe in your, your, like your old buddy, Gerald Butz believes that we simply have to stop
00:29:53.020
producing fossil fuel. Yeah. And in their place will suddenly spring up as if by magic,
00:30:00.860
wind, solar, biofuels, all sorts of alternatives that are green. Uh, we'll suddenly find the
00:30:08.620
philosopher's stone that allows us to turn water into fuel and everything will be magically the same.
00:30:15.900
Well, we'll have the same standard of living. The same number of people will be employed. They'll all
00:30:19.980
have the same kind of income. You, you are hard pressed to find jobs that produce the kind of
00:30:27.660
income for tradespeople that they find in the energy sector. It's very, very lucrative work.
00:30:35.420
It's tough work. It's miserable work. You're out in the middle of a bog in January in the dark doing
00:30:42.300
tough work, but it's compensated to make you properly compensate. That doesn't happen if you're
00:30:49.100
suddenly doing windmill, you know, wind turbine maintenance. And, and the thing is that in Ontario,
00:30:56.780
for instance, the same, very much the same people who are devising the federal policy on energy
00:31:01.180
devised Ontario's policy for 10 years under the McGinty government and the wind government.
00:31:05.980
And they said, Oh, these plans will produce 500,000 jobs in green energy. The auditor general in
00:31:15.820
Ontario said at most, she was kind of skeptical about this, but at most it produced 12,000. And
00:31:22.540
most of those jobs disappeared as soon as the subsidies ended. It's not economically real. It's fantasy.
00:31:29.500
You know, one of the interesting, but probably doomed to be unsuccessful candidates in the democratic
00:31:39.180
presidential primaries in the States, colorful character named Yang, Andrew Yang. He has some
00:31:48.060
quirky ideas, but he's, he's, he's interesting. He was asked about fossil fuels and shutting them down.
00:31:57.340
He's a Democrat. And he said, anyone who says coal miners can simply learn how to do coding
00:32:07.100
obviously doesn't know much about coal mining or coding. And I thought, you know what, that is bloody
00:32:13.820
true. Yeah. That was because Joe Biden, the former vice president had said, look, if you can go 3000
00:32:20.780
feet down into a coal mine, you can learn how to code. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think so.
00:32:25.740
Yeah. I mean, I'm not, I'm not saying coal miners are dumb. I'm just saying it's a completely different
00:32:29.660
thing. And by the way, you got a 50 year old guy who's been working tools and equipment his whole
00:32:34.780
life. And he's saying, now go sit down with some, uh, uh, internet, uh, extremely internet digital
00:32:42.220
native 21 year old kids. And Hey, you can do some Tik TOK vids that doesn't understand people or real
00:32:49.500
life, but that's Trudeau's world. I want, I want that 50 year old guy who's been working 30 years
00:32:55.020
in the mine with tools living next door to me. Cause I guarantee you, I have no mechanical aptitudes
00:33:01.100
at all. And when something breaks, I want that guy. I'm not disparaging anybody who works.
00:33:06.540
Oh, I know. I mean, either. Yeah. But you know, we, we used to have a guy lived across the alley from
00:33:12.060
me when I was growing up named Vern and, and Vern was the best guy. He worked at a tire plant in,
00:33:17.180
in, in Madison hat. And he was one of the best guys to have around because anytime something broke,
00:33:22.540
Vern loved to come over and fix it. And, and, you know, I have tremendous respect for the Vern's of
00:33:27.500
the world, but, uh, but I, I don't expect I could learn how to code or Vern could learn how to just,
00:33:35.260
it's just preposterous. And that's the whole point of progressives. And they're thinking about green
00:33:42.060
energy and green economies. It's preposterous. Yeah. Very frustrating. Well, I have to say,
00:33:47.740
and let me close on this. I know you've been generous with your time. Last time I saw you,
00:33:51.980
if I recall, it was when we had some of our Wexit town hall meetings in Calgary and then Edmonton.
00:33:57.500
And one of the questions was, well, will Jason Kenney as premier of Alberta be able to push back on
00:34:03.900
this? And my view then is even stronger now, unless Jason Kenney has an, or else after his demands,
00:34:12.620
why on earth would the liberals listen to him? And if this tech mine, it's $21 billion in job in,
00:34:19.980
in investment, it's thousands of jobs. And it's symbol of hope is rejected.
00:34:25.260
Well, I think Jason Kenney will have to rethink his opposition to having an, or else, because
00:34:32.380
I think exhaustion and, and hopelessness will skyrocket if this thing fails.
00:34:37.980
Yeah. But as I said, my guess is that we're going to get something in between. We're going
00:34:43.020
to get an approval that means nothing. And it's going to drag out for two or three years.
00:34:48.380
Oh my God. Well, we'll keep watching on this. I know this is something you've been following closely.
00:34:52.780
Thanks very much for coming on the show. The article is called Tech Minds Fate,
00:34:56.780
a test of liberal support for the West. And we've been talking to our friend,
00:34:59.740
Lauren Gunder. Great to see you, my friend. Thank you.
00:35:02.460
All right. There you are. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
00:35:05.900
Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Jean Charest working for Huawei. Nate writes,
00:35:20.060
the fact that Jean Charest is even being touted as a possible leader shows how morally corrupt the
00:35:24.220
Tories are. Well, look, the Tories aren't voting for him. It's just some Tory insiders in the media who
00:35:32.220
think he'd be great. I think he would get crushed. I don't think he'd get 20% of the vote of the
00:35:42.140
current membership. But we'll see if he runs. Phil writes, Charest's claim to fame was running a
00:35:49.580
corrupt government in Quebec, and there's no reason to think that wouldn't happen nationally.
00:35:54.060
Yeah. I just think he's so not a fit. It just sort of made me chuckle that all these party insiders
00:35:59.340
thought he was great. But the fact that he would even consider running after working for China
00:36:03.980
against Canada, it just blows my mind. On my interview with Joel Pollack, Gordon writes,
00:36:10.140
President Trump is America's Winston Churchill. He's fighting to protect us from evil in the world.
00:36:14.380
So glad I live in the era of Trump. Oh, I tell you, on every single thing from Iran to judges to
00:36:23.260
NATO to North Korea, to everything. Imagine if Hillary Clinton were president now instead of
00:36:30.220
Trump. Oh, I can only imagine. It would be an American airliner, God forbid, that would have
00:36:35.820
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