Jagmeet Singh wants government to fix âfake newsâ â and he's not alone
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Jagmeet Singh sees something untrue on the internet, and he thinks the government is the way to fix it. It's February 8th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show: Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer, and you won't give them an answer?
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Hello, my rebels. Hello, my rebellious ones. You're listening to a free audio only recording
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of my show. It's called The Ezra LeVant Show. Today, I just look at a really weird campaign,
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really. The Taiyi, Jagmeet Singh, the CBC. They're super mad that Jagmeet Singh was part of like
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some celebrity clickbait online. And it's just such a joke. But they want to use that joke as
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a pretext to have Elections Canada monitor the internet for defamation. Yeah, no, you just want
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to censor things. I get into that pretty deep. I hope you enjoy this show. If you like listening
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This monologue. Take a listen. Tonight, Jagdeep Singh sees something untrue on the internet,
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and he thinks the government is the way to fix it. It's February 8th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Take a look at this cartoon. It's really old, but I think it actually gets funnier every year.
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Are you coming to bed? I can't. This is important. What? Someone is wrong on the internet.
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Yeah, he's going to be a while, I guess. I mean, I don't think it's possible to know with any precision,
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but the best estimates I can find is there are more than 5 billion pages on the internet.
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And by the way, when I say page, as you know, on the internet, you can scroll down for a while.
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They're so much bigger than an 8 1â2 by 11 page paper, so you're probably looking at 100 billion pages worth.
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And of course, it doesn't even touch all the images, the videos, the audio.
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It's changing constantly, expanding. It's like the universe. It's like the universe.
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This is all obvious and getting more obvious every day, which is why that cartoon gets funnier every day.
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If you're trying to correct people who are wrong on the internet, you will never be done.
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Especially now that it's so easy for each of us to be a publisher and a commenter on our own Facebook page,
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our own Twitter account, our own cell phone video.
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So what's my point? Well, look at this story on the CBC State Broadcaster, of course.
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My first thought was, when I saw that, I mean, as a publisher, I know a bit about slander.
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It's a very technical area of the law. I'm a former lawyer myself, as you know.
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I actually used to practice a little bit of defamation law.
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There are a lot of defenses in defamation law, you know.
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And if the slanderer was malicious or not matters.
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And of course it matters if there were any actual damages, were you actually hurt by it.
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There's a lot of detailed questions. It's technical.
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And defamation lawsuits, and I've been through a few, they can take years to proceed through the courts.
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Both sides get to review the other side's records, for example.
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You can even have a jury trial. Did you know that?
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So my first thought when I saw that headline was, how on earth could an elections watchdog handle a technical, specialist, legal matter, like a defamation lawsuit, that is really only handled in the proper courts?
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And what does any of that have to do with running an election?
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An election watchdog, that's sort of a funny phrase.
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I mean, in Canada, you don't even need to show ID to vote anymore.
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Their job is to make sure the ballots are counted on time and accurately.
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Their job is to make sure only citizens can vote.
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There could be some finance-related matters, too.
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That's all fair game for a government regulator, I suppose.
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But whether or not an ad lowered someone's reputation unfairly, that's the definition of defamation.
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How on earth is that election Canada's business?
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And really, isn't that the business of every individual voter?
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I mean, technically, defamation means something that would lower your reputation in the eyes of the public, which is about 85% of all political messaging.
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I mean, sure, candidates sometimes talk about how great they are, and they release a policy platform, but mainly they talk about how their opponent is not great.
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By definition, political candidates try to lower their opponent's reputation, and we generally don't sue each other for that.
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And the law, like I say, it allows you to defame someone.
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It allows you to lower their reputation if you're telling the truth, if you're making a fair comment, an honestly held opinion about someone based on true facts, for example.
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You could say that an election campaign is a massive 35-day defamation trial where every single voter is on the jury and all the politicians defame each other and we get to judge.
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At the end of the trial, at the end of the campaign, we get to decide who we think is telling the truth.
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We get to decide if someone was too rough and too defamatory, if we didn't like how they campaigned, if it was too mean.
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Frankly, I think citizens sometimes don't mind rough-and-tumble campaigning because people generally dislike politicians, and it's sort of nice to see them bashed around a bit.
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And if you can't take the heat, we'll stay out of the kitchen.
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And if you can't handle a mean brochure from your opponent or a mean TV ad, even if it's not completely true, well, you're probably not up for the job of, say, negotiating a trade deal with Donald Trump or getting our hostages back from communist China.
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I mean, don't enter the arena if you don't want to take a punch.
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If you can't handle a bit of defamation in a campaign, then you're not ready to handle Vladimir Putin.
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So I thought it was weird right from the first headline, this story, don't you think?
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What exactly was the defamation that they were talking about here?
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Why was Jagmeet Singh running to some government bureaucrat here?
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Ads claim NDP leader owns a multimillion-dollar mansion.
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Is that really defamation, that he lives in a multimillion-dollar mansion?
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Well, first of all, how is that even defamatory?
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Oh, you've ruined my reputation, mate, by saying I'm a success in life.
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Jagmeet Singh is running in a by-election right now in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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You know what the average price for detached houses in the greater Vancouver area is?
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Here's a headline a couple months ago, Vancouver housing sales fall to six-year low.
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So it's actually a little bit better now than before.
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The market for detached houses declined to an average price last month of $1,630,323.
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For every house cheaper, there's one more expense.
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So I'm sorry, how's it defamatory to say that Jagmeet Singh, he's running in the greater
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Now, I should tell you, and you probably know this already, it's probably the only thing
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you know about Jagmeet Singh, that he cultivates an image of wealth and luxury.
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He does glamour-style photo shoots featuring his handsome self around Canada and around the
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world, wearing bespoke luxury suits, traveling like a jet setter.
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He's a hell of a socialist, this guy, isn't he?
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Hey guys, someone on the internet says I live in a million-dollar house.
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I totally need the internet police to police the internet.
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Oh, hey, by the way, did I show you this picture of me shopping at Hoke Couture stores
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in Italy, and I'm just showing off my purchases?
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Yeah, this whole thing is weird before we even get into it.
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The NDP is asking Canada's election watchdog to immediately launch an investigation after
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a series of ads claiming leader Jagmeet Singh lives in a multi-million dollar mansion popped
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up online in the lead-up to Burnaby South by-election later this month.
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Okay, that seems like a bit of a weird attack ad.
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I mean, I can understand why a socialist candidate doesn't want to look like a millionaire, I guess.
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But that ship has sailed a long time ago, especially in Vancouver.
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Everyone's a millionaire on paper, I guess, if they just own a home out there.
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But more to the point, the NDP has not been the party of the working class in at least a generation.
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It's the party of David Suzuki, who has five homes.
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It's the party of Bernie Sanders in America, the socialist in America, who challenged Hillary
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Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the U.S.
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All your big anti-Oil Sands, anti-pipeline activists are millionaires, or billionaires even,
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like Tom Steyer out of San Francisco, or Al Gore is almost a billionaire.
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It's a bad look in my mind, but it's being normalized.
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The left doesn't seem to have a problem reconciling the contradiction of being millionaire socialists.
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But let me keep reading more from this fake story.
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As the Taiyi first reported, an ad claiming Singh owns a $5.5 million mansion ran below a story
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13 Super Luxurious Celebrity Houses They Surely Know How to Spend Their Fortune,
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This wasn't an ad by the liberals or the Tories.
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It's some celebrity ad that was probably made by a machine.
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They probably saw that Jagmeet Singh's name is maybe ticking up in internet searches
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and that he is an interesting and photogenic face.
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So they probably just put his name and face on his sexy mansion
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The website Attorney Cocktail, that's not a real thing.
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It pretends to be, I don't know, just really a bunch of clickable, goofy photo montages
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It's just there to make ads at a tenth of a cent a click.
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it's a left-wing website in Vancouver funded by the Tides Foundation, if you can believe it.
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But I don't think they actually succeeded in making it look like political interference.
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You see this picture at the bottom here, Blake Shelton?
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They're showing that the same house that was allegedly Jagmeet Singh's house
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has also been matched up with other Hollywood celebrities for similar clickbait stories.
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They're just trying to get people to look at cool people next to cool houses.
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And by the way, I don't think it damages Jagmeet Singh.
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I think what damages him is he really is a jet-setter multimillionaire.
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And yeah, you're arguing with someone who's wrong on the Internet.
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Hey, I found this obscure website called Attorney Cocktail,
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You're right, and that one in a billion websites you found,
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And you want the government to put aside everything less important
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It's not the first recent attempt at spreading false claims about Singh.
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Late last year, another story, which has been shared more than 5,700 times on Facebook,
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accused Singh of having links to Sikh militants.
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Here is a Globe and Mail article from last year saying just that.
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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh took part in a separatist Sikh homelad rally in San Francisco in June of 2015
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that venerated a violent Sikh religious leader who was killed in the Indian army assault on the Golden Temple in 1984.
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Mr. Singh, then an NDP member of the Ontario legislature,
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was invited to speak at a sovereignty rally where speakers denounced India
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and called for an independent Sikh state known as Kalistan.
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Do you think that some Canadian Sikhs go too far
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when they honor Talvinder Singh Parma as a martyr of the Sikh nation,
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when they put up posters of him as a Shaheed, a martyr,
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when he was the architect of the Air India bombing?
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Well, I think it's so important that we really clarify a misconception that exists.
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There has been a lot of work and seems to be creating a conflict that's between Hindus and Sikhs.
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And for me, that's something that really offended me.
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I grew up with a lot of close friends and dear family friends that were from the Hindu faith
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that told me stories of how they actually put themselves at risk to save their Sikh neighbors.
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And so for me, one of my goals was to erase this false narrative of a Hindu-Sikh conflict.
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Forgive me, but you could do that right now by saying,
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no, it isn't appropriate to put up posters of Canada's worst ever mass murderer as a martyr.
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It's so important that we rid this notion that there's ever been a conflict between Hindus and Sikhs.
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So the community has lived together, coexisted in peace and harmony, and we need to celebrate that.
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I'm not going to inflict any more of that on you.
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But like I say, I'm not sure if it's fake news that Jagmeet Singh is chummy with Sikh extremists.
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I think he himself might even be a Sikh extremist.
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No, Justin Trudeau literally brought that man on the right there.
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He's a convicted Sikh terrorist named Jaspal Atwal.
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Trudeau invited him on his scandal-ridden trip to India last year.
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So I'm not picking on Jagmeet Singh because he's Sikh.
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But why on earth should a bureaucrat at Elections Canada be the judge of whether or not that's defamatory or fake or whatever?
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And if Jagmeet Singh really thinks he's being defamed legally, let him sue in court.
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I'll just read a little bit more from the CBC story.
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The NDP sent CBC News screen capture images that show the ad that appeared in The Courier
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also appeared on the History Channel website and the UK-based site for the Independent newspaper.
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Clicking on the link brings the reader to a photo gallery of more than 145 celebrities with mansions,
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including Alex Rodriguez, the Obamas, and Rihanna.
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Yeah, it's like you're complaining, you know, about the National Enquirer saying that Bill Clinton lives on Mars
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We had them before the era of the Internet at the grocery store.
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You don't sue the tabs unless you have more money than brains.
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So the picture of the mansion wasn't his mansion.
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They're using a really dumb complaint to ask for a really powerful remedy.
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Government regulation of the Internet in the name of election fairness.
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Obviously, it's the TIE, that's the TIDES-backed propaganda website.
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And the CBC, the Trudeau-backed propaganda website.
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In fact, Trudeau's candidate in Burnaby at a candidate's debate for the by-election,
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Trudeau's candidate, just this week, called for the United Nations?
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He wants the United Nations to regulate the Internet.
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But right now, Internet is into everybody's home.
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And with something like this, it's the power of a computer.
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So I think the power of Internet and storage, we are into a new era.
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And I think the United Nations should have a body to regulate those activities.
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It was sponsored by a left-wing lobby group in a left-wing city.
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But even there, people were grossed up by his idea that he had a UN censor the Internet.
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The fancy people want to regulate the Internet.
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Soon, those boos you heard, they'll be eliminated by the algorithm, however.
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Now, everyone knows this is stupid, but it's all a pretext, an excuse, like the Reichstag fire.
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A false alarm, but an alarm, nonetheless, that will be used by the CBC, by the Tides Foundation's TIE,
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by the Liberals, to regulate what you and I can say and can hear in the upcoming election.
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Over the past month, I've told you about how the government of Alberta under Rachel Notley
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is trying to regulate what we can and can't say in Alberta during the upcoming election.
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They try to claim that we're not journalists, but rather we have to be like a political party
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But that's the provincial government of Alberta, which does not have the same power to regulate
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Justin Trudeau does have a constitutional authority over telecommunications.
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Trudeau's CRTC has already said it wants the authority to review online news videos in Canada.
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And the other day, Harjeet Sajan, the defense minister, was part of an announcement of $7 million
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The defense minister himself was part of this announcement monitoring Canadian media.
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They actually said they're going to have national awareness session.
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To teach Canadians what we should or shouldn't believe.
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So I guess we were smart enough as citizens to be able to vote in the last election when Trudeau
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We were smart enough to separate the defamation from the truth then when we voted for Trudeau.
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But we can't be trusted to think for ourselves this year when we might throw the bum out.
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And it's pretty much unanimous that we need to be censored and regulated.
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We have to stop people from saying mean things on the internet.
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Or even not even mean things but weird things like Jagmeet Singh lives in a mansion in LA or whatever.
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The only thing they haven't decided on is whether it'll be run, this censorship, out of Ottawa.
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Or as Trudeau's candidate suggested, run out of the United Nations.
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The allegations in the Globe story this morning are false.
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Neither the current nor the previous Attorney General was ever directed by me or by anyone in my office
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The allegations reported in the story are false.
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At no time did I or my office direct the current or previous Attorney General
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to make any particular decision in this matter.
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As I've said, at no time did we direct the Attorney General, current or previous,
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to take any decision whatsoever in this matter.
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Yeah, you don't need to be a trial lawyer to know he's lying.
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And by lying, I mean he's speaking the technical truth by saying no one, quote,
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directed Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former Justice Minister, to take a particular decision.
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But as we discussed at some length yesterday, saying, oh, make this go away, Jody.
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You don't have to actually direct someone to take a particular decision to put pressure on them.
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And as you know, more than 50 meetings that were declared to the lobbyist commissioner.
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I can't imagine any cabinet minister being able to resist 50 lobbyist meetings.
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This would be the end of anyone else, Stephen Harper.
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They almost did Stephen Harper in for, I don't know, Bev owed a $16 orange juice
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or for having his chief of staff pay back money to the government under Mike Duffy.
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But this, joining us now via Skype from London, Ontario, is our friend Andrew Lawton,
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who is a fellow with True North and the boss of AndrewLawton.ca.
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I think this would doom any conservative, obviously.
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There's a lot of journalists, including traditional liberals, who are being good journalists here,
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But I'm pretty sure, and I'd like your thoughts on this,
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I'm pretty sure Trudeau's just going to bluff his way through, brazen his way through,
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and the media will get sick of this in about a week.
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I remember at the height of the Rob Ford scandal,
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where we saw probably the most overzealous media we've ever seen in Canada,
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they had a helicopter following him on his drive home.
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I mean, this is the extent to which the media will go when a conservative is involved in something.
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And we're talking about something monumentally worse than anything Stephen Harper did,
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We're talking about something that, at the very least, is political corruption.
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And I'm glad you pointed out that use of the word directed, Ezra,
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because this is a very specific and narrow term.
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And when he repeats, or any politician repeats the same thing over and over,
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you have to wonder what it is that they're avoiding saying.
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And the thing that I find interesting here is that such clarity, or lack thereof,
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may impact how things are viewed in a technical sense in a court of law.
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When Trudeau says, no, my office didn't direct this, Canadians here know nothing happened.
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And if anything comes out that proves opposite, Trudeau is done.
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But in order for that to happen, we need people that are going to be on this,
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and we need people that are going to blow the whistle.
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Whether that's Jody Wilson-Raybould, whether it's someone in her office, someone in the PMO,
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we need someone to ultimately reveal specifically what was said.
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Let me give you an example in how journalists cover things on the left versus things on the right.
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If there is a conservative politician in any jurisdiction, the United States or Canada,
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if there's a conservative who does something embarrassing,
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the media immediately shops it around to every other conservative and say,
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do you reject him? Will you renounce him and disavow him, for example?
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Like they just immediately flood the zone on the story.
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Let me give you an example of how that is not happening here.
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As you know, SNC-Lavalin had dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of high-level lobbying meetings in Ottawa
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specifically to get dropped from this criminal prosecution.
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And some of them were, as you can see here, senior advisor to the PM, chief of staff to Bill Morneau,
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director of policy, and so much, even the ambassador, McNaughton, weirdly was lobbied again and again.
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So if this shoe were on the other foot, Andrew, and I'm almost done my preamble, thank you for your patience.
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The media would be calling each and every one of these people who were lobbied and would say,
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And did you just ignore him or did you press Jody Wilson-Raybould?
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Well, that's obviously suggesting a follow-up, right?
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If you meet with someone and then you meet with them again, you're checking on their progress.
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I have not seen any journalists follow up with these 50, now maybe the staff won't return calls,
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but don't tell me that a cabinet minister, Bill Morneau, or Chrystia Freeland, whose office was called here,
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did Chrystia Freeland twist the arm of Jody Wilson-Raybould?
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Otherwise, why would they have bothered lobbying her office?
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Did Bill Morneau twist the arm of Jody Wilson-Raybould?
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Otherwise, why would they bother meeting with Bill Morneau so many times?
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So what do you take of that angle and the fact that it's not being covered by our mainstream media?
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Well, frankly, as far as definitive proof goes that something's happened,
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the lobbying registry is really the smoking gun here.
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If this company, which does massive construction contracts in Canada and abroad,
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were lobbying the public works minister, the environment minister, the minister of infrastructure,
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I'd say these are fairly standard things for a company of this business to be doing.
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For this organization to be lobbying on justice and law enforcement,
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when I've looked through the SNC-Lavalin website, there is no justice or law enforcement mandate.
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This can only be one thing, and that is due to the company's legal trials.
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And what I find fascinating here, Ezra, this is not one of these conjectured examples of a company
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that might have some murky ties if you really dig deep.
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We're talking about a company that has been demonstrally proven to be corrupt and to be complicit
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We know they've bribed Libyan officials, including $160 million to Muammar Gaddafi's son,
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We know that a former vice president was convicted.
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He pleaded guilty to illegally funneling $110,000 of donations to the liberals over a period of several years.
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We know that the former CEO was just convicted for the super hospital scam in Montreal,
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It was about five and a half years ago that the World Bank, a nonpartisan group,
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found that Canada led the world when it came to corporate corruption
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because we had 117 companies on the list of 250 that were supposed to be corrupt.
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But of those 117, 115 of them, so almost all, were affiliates of SNC-Lavalin or SNC-Lavalin corporate itself.
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Well, so the reason I say that, Ezra, is because this company should not have had an audience
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with anyone in the government for optics reasons alone.
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You had NDP Member of Parliament Charlie Angus before the story of the PMO broke
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saying that this company should be barred from having any federal government contracts
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Charlie Angus and I disagree with each other on a lot of things, but I happen to agree.
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A company that is demonstrably corrupt should not be allowed to bid on federal government contracts.
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And by extension, the Prime Minister should not be giving these organizations an audience in general.
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When you add into it the fact that there is an ongoing prosecution that involves the government,
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if for optics reasons alone, this should not have happened,
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let alone the potential for what we're hearing about in the Globe this week happening.
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You know, the excuses this company is offering up, well, it would hurt our reputation,
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I mean, yeah, that's what happens to you when you break the law.
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I mean, the World Bank, they do some business in the nastiest places.
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I mean, theoretically, the World Bank is the kind of place that will help finance a project
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in the third world, like build a power plant in the Congo or something.
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So they are dealing in some of the most corrupt places in the world.
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If SNC-Lavalin is too corrupt for the World Bank, Andrew,
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and yet the government of Canada still refuses to write them off, that's super gross.
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I mean, the World Bank is in the nastiest reaches.
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And if they say, oh, we're not going to deal with SNC-Lavalin.
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We'll work in the worst places, but not with SNC-Lavalin.
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Yeah, you know, he prides himself that Canada's back.
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I mean, this isn't the ranking we want to be on the top of here, but you are very much correct.
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And when you look at the number of executives, and I'm not talking about some low-level janitor
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at SNC's offshoot company, but CEOs, vice presidents, former CEOs and former vice presidents
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that have been convicted of corruption, there is a huge question mark as to why there was
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And this is something that, when we go back to Trudeau's use of the word directed, whether
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it was directed, implied, requested, doesn't matter.
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If we're talking about interference and we are seeing a proven track record of private meetings,
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look, I've been trying to get an interview with Justin Trudeau since he became prime minister,
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Yet somehow, this company that has a great many convicts among its former ranks is able
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Well, yeah, I mean, Trudeau seems to meet with the strangest people.
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He's had at least two meetings with Joshua Boyle, Cotter's former brother-in-law, who
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So I guess you just have the wrong ideology, Andrew.
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Here's a question that hit me immediately when I saw this headline yesterday.
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, who I didn't really have much time for, I'll be honest, I have a new
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respect for her because to stand up to the man who appointed you and to lose your high
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position as justice minister over a point of principle and to bear that quietly, that's
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And I salute her now and I have a respect for her I did not have before.
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By the way, her dad, I mean, she's not saying anything.
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She says she's bound by solicitor-client privilege.
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Her father made a Facebook post yesterday, which basically said, now we know why my daughter
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And I think it's a good proxy for what she herself would say.
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But my first thought, Andrew, was if Gerald Butts and Katie Telford and Justin Trudeau and
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half the cabinet and all their advisors were part of this big swarm.
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Swarm, like 50 people were swarming Jody Wilson-Raybould here.
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Was this really the first time they went to bat for a corporate friend of Trudeau?
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I mean, do they do the same thing with Bombardier, another company that has criminal prosecutions
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Do they do the thing for Huawei, which, as we know, was a huge donor to the Trudeau think
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So it immediately got me thinking, Andrew, we found out about this because of some luck
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What else is there six-sevenths of the iceberg that remains underwater and unseen?
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And as is true of this case, we don't know until we know.
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But I do think that it's relevant to look at what happened with John McCallum in China
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and Huawei just a few short weeks ago as an illustration that a lot of the times these
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And we know that John McCallum was ultimately fired.
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The big question mark still is whether he was fired for what he said or because there
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And I know that case has been covered in a fair bit of detail now.
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But it stands to reason that you don't expect a senior cabinet minister or a senior ambassador
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who's been in cabinet to go rogue and to speak in such specifics without having direction.
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And again, I don't want to implicate someone in a conspiracy that might not exist because
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I am not the conspiratorial type, contrary to popular belief.
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And in the last month, we have now two big examples of a high-ranking figure being linked
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to a company that has a lot questionable going on in it.
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Yeah, I tell you, it's the Libranos, as we used to call them during the ad scam days.
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I look forward to watching this in the days ahead.
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But the fact that some of the follow-up journalism I just talked about 10 minutes ago,
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about asking those other ministers, asking those other people,
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The fact that that journalism, from what I can tell, hasn't happened yet,
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tells me the mainstream media is just about done here.
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And they did their annual prove we're independent business.
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And tomorrow, they're going to get right back to applying for their $595 million bailout fund.
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Look, I think that we are right to be skeptical of the mainstream media.
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But ultimately, there are a lot of journalists that I know
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would absolutely love to have a piece of this story.
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So I want to hope that if it's there, they'll follow it.
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And we have to hope that there is someone that has, either within the government or within
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SNC-Lavalin, a willingness to play ball and bring some transparency here.
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And I think Justin Trudeau's absence from question period yesterday,
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where he would have been caught very handily just giving that same scripted answer over again,
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Yeah, he's probably off to that billionaire's island in the Bahamas right now.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Trudeau pressuring the Justice Minister
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I am not surprised that Justin Trudeau and his liberals are more corrupt than
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I won't be surprised when liberals vote for him in Quebec, regardless or because of the corruption.
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Well, look, obviously there are great people in Quebec, and we want to treat each other as individuals
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and judge us based on our own character and merits.
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But I think it is safe to say the political culture in Quebec is more in tune with the continental European culture
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You know, the Squaresville accountants, the Scots.
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Of course, that's how we work, way of operating, as they do in, I'm sorry to say, in Latin America, in Europe, in Quebec.
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When you vote for a political mafia, not a mafia mafia.
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When you vote for a political mafia from Montreal, don't be surprised.
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Didn't Pierre Trudeau have one of his son's criminal records for drug possession removed?
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I'll have to do a little bit more research on that.
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I know that I think he intervened to even stop a charge.
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Let me look into that, because I don't want to go from memory.
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Eight more months to go, and Trudeau is hammering a nail in his own coffin every month.
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I'll believe it when I see it, because not only do you have the Liberal Party campaigning,
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you're going to have a hundred of these so-called third-party campaign groups.
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You're going to have the entire media, both the state broadcaster and the $595 million bailout media,
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and all the institutional power of the liberals.
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And up against that is Andrew Scheer, who looks always to me like a little lamb in the headlights.
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On my interview with Joel Pollack, Liza writes,
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I wish Americans would get updated on Canada's immigration policies.
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We do not have an orderly or skills-based immigration system anymore.
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Yeah, and I didn't want to spend too much time on the show sort of correcting Joel on that,
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because there are some things about Canada's immigration policy on paper that aren't bad,
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and that's probably the result of almost 10 years of Stephen Harper in government,
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but that's being undone, and I should probably send Joel a private note
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just for his own info, just for his own work at Breitbart.com,
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so he doesn't praise Canada as a great system to be emulated.
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Well, that is our show for the week, and I hope you enjoyed watching it.
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We've got so much going on here at The Rebel all the time,
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I think I've mentioned some of those new people to you.
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You know, in seven days, did you know it's our fourth anniversary?
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If memory serves, we were born on February 15, 2015.
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I don't even think you'd call a four-year-old a toddler anymore.
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Four years old is a young person almost in kindergarten.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,