Maple Leaf Foods CEO's strange rant on “narcissist” Trump and the 63 Canadian killed by Iranian missile
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In a late night rant, Maple Leaf Foods CEO sides with Iran over Donald Trump. Is he trying to distract attention from something? It's January 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show. Why would you hijack your meat company to go on a weird rant against Iran? It s got nothing to do with politics.
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Hello, my friends. Today, I talk about Michael McCain's Sunday night Twitter rant against
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Donald Trump and in support of Iran, or not really in support of Iran, but not criticizing them
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either. It's very strange. I think the Sunday night part is the weirdest. I think it's a sign
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that he was trying to sneak this through when no other executives could say, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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whoa there, big guy. Go back to, you know, playing solitaire on your computer, whatever you
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inheritors of the McCain family do in your third or fourth generation. Anyhow, I'll go through it.
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I'll go through the tweets. I'll give you my point of view. I'm not impressed. Let me put it that way.
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Tonight, in a late night rant, Maple Leaf Foods CEO sides with Iran over Donald Trump. Is he trying
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to distract attention from something? It's January 13th, 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. The only thing I have to say to
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the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Last night at around 8 p.m., the Twitter account of Maple Leaf Foods, you know, the meat company
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that make sausages and chicken and cold cuts. Well, it served up a bit of baloney. It went on a
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political rant against Donald Trump. I swear my first thought was, 8 p.m. on a Sunday night?
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This has got to be some young social media intern gone rogue. You know, a kid who was maybe upset and
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was going to quit anyways and went out with a bang. But I guess it's real because it's been
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almost 24 hours and there hasn't been a sheepish statement from Maple Leaf Foods saying that they've
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been hacked or anything. It's real. Let me read it for you.
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I'm Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and these are my personal reflections. I am very angry,
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and time isn't making me less angry. A Maple Leaf Foods colleague of mine lost his wife and family
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this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran. He goes on, and I'll get to what
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he said. Okay, so they're personal reflections. We're all entitled to personal reflections,
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especially if the family of a friend of yours died. That's, I get it. But why are you making
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personal reflections on a corporate account? Why are you using company resources, the company brand,
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to go on a weird political rant, just because you're angry? Why don't, if you're really angry,
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and I get it, why don't you write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in your own name?
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Or call up a radio talk show? Or I don't know, if you're really serious, write a book or run for
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public office. I mean, do something in your own name. Why are you using company resources,
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Maple Leaf Foods, to send your political propaganda out there? You're a retail company.
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You have customers who run the entire political spectrum. You sell a third of a billion dollars
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worth of meat into the United States every year, too. So I'm going to guess that about half of that
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is bought by Trump voters, and half is bought by non-Trump voters. How about you stay politically
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neutral? Why would you hijack your meat company to go on a weird rant about Iran, no less? It's got
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nothing to do with the company. I get it. His friend's family died. He says he lost a colleague,
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or family of a colleague. That's upsetting, but how is that a matter for a meat company to discuss
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on its corporate media? Let me read some more, because that was just the first of several tweets
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in his late night rant. So the rant was long enough to span four tweets. So let me repeat the
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last sentence of the previous one, and then read the rest. A Maple Leaf Foods colleague of mine lost his
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wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran.
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U.S. government leaders, unconstrained by checks and balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan
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to divert focus from political woes. The world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found
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a path to contain it. Not perfect, but by most accounts, it was the right direction.
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A narcissist in Washington tears world accomplishments apart, destabilizes region.
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U.S. now unwelcomed everywhere in the area, including Iraq. Tensions escalated to feverish pitch,
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taking out despicable military leader terrorists. There are a hundred like him standing next in line.
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The collateral damage of this irresponsible, dangerous, ill-conceived behavior.
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Sure. Sixty-three Canadians needlessly lost their lives in the crossfire, including the family of
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one of my Maple Leaf Foods colleagues, his wife and 11-year-old son. We are mourning and I am livid!
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So not a word against Iran or its dictatorship. No criticism for them. Not a word against the
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Iranian military, which admits that it sent a missile and shot down their own civilian flight.
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But he's ranting and raging against the United States. U.S. government leaders unconstrained
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by checks and balances. What does that mean? The U.S. Congress is in hands of the Democratic Party.
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Other institutions like the courts routinely strike down Trump's initiative. The media is almost
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universally hostile to Trump. What does he mean by no checks and balances? And how could he criticize
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America's democracy, the most robust in the world, arguably, without in the same breath commenting at
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all on Iran's lack of democracy, on their tyranny? Or even throwing a mention to the thousands of
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Iranians who have been marching against their terrorists and dictators at great personal risk.
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But America, the great democracy, our great friend and neighbor, an ally, and Michael McCain's great
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customer, they're the ones out of control. By the way, it wasn't a series of events that shot down
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that plane. It was one event. A missile strike. Not this missile strike. This is the attack on Qasem
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Soleimani. McCain claims the surgical strike that killed two people, two terrorists, the terrorist
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general and his aide. He claims this attack was ill-conceived. But he doesn't say the Iranian
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shooting missile of their own plane was ill-conceived. The attack on Qasem Soleimani actually seems
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pretty well-conceived to me and pretty well-executed. Minimal loss of life. There was no collateral
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casualties. They didn't blow up a house or an apartment block. It was so effective it stunned
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the Ayatollahs. It sure stopped Iran and its militias from attacking American embassies anymore.
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That's what precipitated this latest back and forth in the region. Iran's proxies in Iraq attacked
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the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. That's what you're looking at here on the screen now.
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They tried to smash their way in. They even spray-painted that terrorist name Qasem Soleimani.
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They spray-painted it on the embassy. And Iran also killed a U.S. citizen shortly before that,
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by the way, a U.S. contractor. So that's why Trump struck back at Qasem Soleimani. Don't you wish
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Canada showed just a tiny bit of backbone, any backbone, when foreign powers kill or take our
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citizens hostage, as China has done for 13 months now? I thought this line was weird.
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U.S. now unwelcomed everywhere in the area, including Iraq. I mean, real question, how would
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Michael McCain, son of privilege, lucky inheritor of a company that his father and grandfather built,
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how would some spoiled silver spoon trust fund kid know who's welcome or not in Iraq or elsewhere?
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How would he know? What he reads in some left-wing magazine once a month or what he watches on CNN?
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Look, I'm not on the ground over there either. So I'm about as much an expert on Iran as Michael McCain is.
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Actually, I might be a little bit more, frankly, because at least I follow the news for a living.
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That's what I do. I'm not making sliced cold cuts for a living and just watching the news at night for half an hour.
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But let me point out two anecdotes. Look at this here. Trump has been tweeting in the Persian language Farsi
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directly to Iranians. Look at all these likes and retweets. He says he stands with the democracy protesters
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and he warns the dictators not to attack those protesters. These tweets, I'm told, have become the most retweeted,
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the most liked, the most shared tweets ever written in Farsi in the history of Twitter.
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People over there in Iran are jubilant that for once the U.S. president isn't throwing them under the bus
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like Barack Obama did. They're pretty pleased. They're pretty welcoming of Trump. But look at this.
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This is very powerful in my mind. This, I don't know if you can understand what this is.
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There's this weird thing they do in Iran and other Muslim countries sometimes. They paint American flags.
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And you can see an Israeli flag here on the street so that you have to walk on them as a sign of
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disrespect. Obviously, that's what it's meant. But we want to normalize hating Israel, hating America
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and Iran. But as you can see here, and keep this running on a loop here. I want to show it one more
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time. This is footage from a university in Iran where the authorities painted this on the ground.
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But look at this. They're all walking around it. People are actually going to some effort to walk
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around those flags, not to step on them. They're treating them as sort of, sort of sacred almost.
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It's like they're all, like 95% of the people there are not stepping on the flags of Israel or
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American. It's not like 10% or 20% of Iranians who seem to be pro-American or at least not anti-American.
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In that university, I think that's from a university, it was like 90% of students were so respectful
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of America and Israel, they weren't stepping on their flags. Have you ever heard of that
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before? And there were chants in, in Tehran, not against America, but against Soleimani, the
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dead terrorist general, and against the Ayatollahs. By the way, you could be arrested for chanting
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against the Ayatollahs. These people were doing this at some risk. Now, there's a chance that this
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Michael McCain character is exactly what he looks like, a spoiled rich kid who was given daddy's
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company as an unearned inheritance. And his whole life, he was used to people sucking up to him and
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just saying yes to him, no matter what he said. You know, it's, no one ever properly said no to him.
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No one had the courage to say no to him. Maybe he'd fire you if you said no to him. And now he's treating
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Maple Leaf Foods, the company, like, I don't know, something else on there. Like maybe his
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dad gave him a sports car when he was 16 and he was going to speed and crash it and wrap it around
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a tree because he didn't have to earn the money to pay for that car himself. He doesn't have to
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take care of things. He's a narcissist, as many sons of billionaires can be. It's tough, I'm sure,
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being the son of a billionaire. So maybe no one's ever told him no.
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But blaming Trump for the shooting down of an airliner is bizarre. It wasn't a series of events.
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It was one rocket fired by Iran's military. Iran admitted they did it. Tehran is very far away.
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Look at Tehran on the right-hand side there. And look at those red dots where the rockets attack
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were. Tehran is extremely far from any possible battle with the Americans. Remember what happened
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in revenge for Soleimani's killing? Iran lobbed a bunch of rockets at those Iraqi air bases where
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Americans are stationed very far from Tehran where they shot down the plane that was taking off. I'm
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sorry. I do not believe that it was an accident. Michael McCain not only believes it was an accident,
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he's actually blaming Trump for it. Now maybe he's just passionate because a friend's family died.
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I get it. I wish McCain had been as passionate about everyone who's killed by accident.
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And I don't know if you know what I mean, but a few years ago, 23 Canadians died from listeria,
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a bacterial infection in maple leaf foods cold cuts a few years ago under Michael McCain's watch.
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Maybe if you spent a bit less time watching CNN and a bit more time, you know, working,
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I don't know, maybe those 23 people would be alive now. Maybe not.
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You know, McCain fought those victims, the ones who survived and the families of those who died. He
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fought them in court for years. And according to this Toronto Star article,
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after fighting them in court for years, he finally paid out, well, in the case of Walter
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Mueller who survived, $697.34. That's how much Michael McCain paid his victims.
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Yeah, you can't blame that one on Trump or the Iranians. That's on Michael McCain. Imagine
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poisoning your customers, God forbid, and then fighting them in court for years and then settling
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for less than 700 bucks each, which is probably what one hour's worth of what he pays his lawyer.
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He spent more on lawyers, I'm sure, than he did on the people he poisoned.
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Listen, I'm not quite sure I'm ready for moral lectures from Michael McCain.
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When I checked the stock price of Maple Leaf Foods today, it was down about 2%. It was hopping up and
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down a bit during the day. Maybe it'll come back up. Maybe it'll fall further. Who knows?
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I don't know if this is because of McCain's rant. I don't know.
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I don't think the stock would fall because of what he said. The fact that he hates Trump
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probably has very little effect on his company. I think most Americans won't hear about it and
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they won't link it to the various Maple Leaf brands like Swift and Schneider's and Shopsies and
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you know, all these other menus you see here. I don't think people even know what's Maple Leaf
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meat. So I don't think there's going to be a consumer boycott or anything. I just don't think so.
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Maybe I'm wrong. But I think a lot of serious investors, forget about people who eat meat,
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but investors like banks, like people who buy shares by the million, they might say, hang on,
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hang on. Is this bad judgment guy, this guy who can't control his emotions, this guy who does this
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on a Sunday night so there's no one around to stop him, this guy who uses corporate resources to
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scratch his personal itches? Is this the guy who's really in charge of our multi-billion dollar
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company? We're investing in his judgment? You know, out of curiosity, I went through Maple Leaf Foods'
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last annual report. They made money last year. They sure did. Absolutely they did. I went through the
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financials and like I say, they're in the black to make a profit. But if Michael McCain had a different
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last name, I'm pretty sure he'd be fired immediately. Let me quote from his own letter
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to shareholders. Adjusted operating earnings of $215.6 million were $48.2 million or 18.3%
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below the prior year. Which is disappointing, guys. I'm a little disappointed. I lost your $48
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million. Sorry. Oh, you think, eh? An 18% drop in profit is disappointing? Well, not for him. I mean,
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hell, he's going to inherit, what, half a billion dollars? This is just him playing around, his dad
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keeping him busy. He's angry about Iran. He says he can't control his emotions. And maybe he can be
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forgiven if the ayatollahs killed one of his colleague's family. I get it. Let's not be so hard
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on him for his feelings. But what about his actions? What about what he's doing with his
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company? That's my point today. I went through the company Twitter feed. Just look. Scroll faster.
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Dozens and dozens and dozens of tweets about global warming? You're talking about carbon neutrality?
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Really? He just won't shut up about it. I'm serious. Look at him. There he is. He's posing.
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So handsome. Just ask him. He won't shut up about global warming. Sorry, bud. You are in the pig
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and cow business. They emit emissions. They burp and fart, to be plain about it. Sorry to use those words.
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But food, agriculture, animals, livestock is a major source of carbon emissions.
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Because animals and food, that's the stuff of life. And we live in a carbon-based world.
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And we're carbon-based life forms. And we eat carbon-based food like
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pigs and beef. So that's going to be that way if you're in the meat business.
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Maybe if Michael McCain spent more time running the company
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and less time running his mouth, he wouldn't be failing at his job.
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Here's a little disclaimer hidden away in the fine print in his annual report.
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To maintain its reputation with consumers and to support its sustainability strategy.
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The company may consider it necessary to voluntarily adopt more aggressive greenhouse gas
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and carbon emission reduction initiatives, the cost of which may not be recovered in the selling price
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In other words, Michael McCain is out there spouting off about global warming and Iran
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But the company's accountants are warning shareholders,
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and expected Maple Leaf Foods to actually walk the walk,
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That's what that language means on page 17 of his annual report.
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Sounds like Michael McCain understands global warming almost as much as he understands Iran
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You can't export it there like you do to America.
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So just speaking as a friend of Maple Leaf Foods and quite a consumer,
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maybe McCain should spend less time disparaging his American customers
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And in Stockholm, Sweden, the thermometer is hovering around the freezing mark.
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No surprise, Sweden is a northern country, not unlike Canada.
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Nonetheless, climate kid Greta Thunberg has tweeted that it's time that the world
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We don't want these things done by 2050, 2030, or even 2021.
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It's almost like a caricature of a teenage tantrum,
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Joining us now via Skype from the Washington area is our friend Mark Morano,
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the boss of ClimateDepot.com and a real Greta skeptic just like us.
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Well, you know, there are some places in the world where I suppose you wouldn't freeze to death
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Stockholm, Sweden, one of the most northerly capitals in the world, ain't one of them.
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Does anyone take the climate kid seriously, or is that the whole point?
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And her target are kids anyways who maybe don't think these things through.
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Well, I think too many people take her seriously.
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I don't know if you saw the other corresponding story with Greta right now
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is there was a glitch in Facebook coding where people were able to find out
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that not only her father was making posts in her name on Facebook,
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and Greta's saying he was just simply reposting stuff from her Twitter account,
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But a UN activist from the UN had access to her Facebook account
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So a lot of people take a lot of stock in what she says,
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and there's a lot of powerful people behind what she says.
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And what she's saying is utter and complete nonsense,
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talking about, you know, we need to get rid of fossil fuels now
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we've had radical increases in global consumption of fossil fuels,
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40% in oil, up more than 100% in both natural gas.
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It's just incredible how someone could say something so ignorant
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Being there with Peter Sellers, that film comes to mind,
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I remember that movie with Peter Sellers, the gardener,
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where he would just say literally the dumbest things,
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And everyone would say, oh, he means this, he means this,
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I remember the one that was a great Peter Sellers.
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because, as you pointed out, she's like a ventriloquist's dummy,
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and it's the handlers that we need to focus at.
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Focusing on her is, in fact, a form of misdirection.
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They want you to look at Greta so you don't look behind Greta.
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Every time I even do a post that's mildly critical all over Twitter,
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She's being constantly thrown in everyone's face
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But that's what her role is, is to be a human shield.
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Now, we've seen Greta and her parents wear Antifa T-shirts.
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And Antifa is a little bit different in different countries in the world.
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In continental Europe, it can be extremely violent.
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And we've seen increasing Antifa violence in the United States too.
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We've even seen some Antifa crimes in Canada recently.
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was charged with crimes at a Maxime Bernier event
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I think there's a blur between Antifa and climate kid Greta Thunberg.
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But her shock troops, her street gangs, if I can use that phrase,
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Extinction Rebellion, which blocks bridges, blocks roads.
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I understand they were briefly listed in the United Kingdom as an extremist group.
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Yeah, the government in the UK, actually, you know, here's the thing.
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Now, the media and a lot of the activists are spinning it.
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All they did is they listed them as a political, you know, a disruptive force in UK
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that the police should have on their watch list for the potential of violence.
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But, as you can imagine, Ezra, reasonable things in today's political climate are not met well.
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The UK Guardian, others came up with all kinds of defenses.
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You know, politically left-wing MPs got involved, and the police suddenly had to remove their name from the list,
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Extinction Rebellion, despite the fact that what they do is complete disruption in the U.S. here.
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We've had complete traffic jam chaos done here.
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You're going to get people angry, upset, cause traffic jams, accidents, and there's going to be inevitable violence.
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Police should be alerted that this is an extreme group, not a terror group.
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Now, obviously, there's differences here, but you can't have those kind of subtleties.
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In the UK, it looks like, and I'm not an expert on UK politics at the moment,
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but it looks like the police have backed down and are removing their name.
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You know, you made me remember a scene from a few months ago.
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I did a show on it, but I want to remind our viewers, a lot of people in London take the tube, take the subway.
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It really is one of the better ways to get around, because that's such a traffic jammed city.
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So you'll see working class people and upper class people on a train.
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Um, so in the morning rush hour, some Extinction Rebellion leftists got on the roof of a train.
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And they had some protest while other Extinction Rebellion types filmed it.
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They were shutting down this line, and it was jammed.
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And some of them could maybe afford to be late, but others would have been fired.
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I mean, if you were late for your work, they don't care.
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So the crowd, and it looked like a very working class crowd, was so angry,
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they started physically grabbing at the Extinction Rebellion types,
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who started saying, oh, sorry, this isn't targeting you.
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I think that it's one thing to live out your role-playing exercise of a hero
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in the pages of The Guardian and The New York Times.
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But these real-life people were being stopped from taking transit,
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I think that shows the divide between real-life, ordinary people
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and these climate elites who would never have their air flights delayed.
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They'd be outraged if they're delayed in a flight.
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But they're happy to tell the little people how to live.
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Now, keep in mind, George Monbiot, the U.K. environmentalist, he's a guru to Greta Thunberg.
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He's called for the overthrow of capitalism, big in Extinction Rebellion.
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They've sprayed on government buildings in Europe, vandalism.
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So they're willing to go, and they seem to be pushing the envelope.
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So this is something, as you mentioned, it's like shouting fire in a crowded theater.
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Therefore, U.K. police, it should be on their list of groups to watch for when they're holding a protest.
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It's a perfectly reasonable public safety issue.
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But that is out the window now because of our sensitivity to the climate crisis.
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Well, I've got one thing to say to the Climate Extinction Rebellion folks.
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In America, where they're a little bit better armed and a little bit more jealous of their freedoms,
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I don't think that that power move would work out too well in Dallas, for example.
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I think it was the Extinction Rebellion or the Sunrise Movement.
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But people were saying, hey, why don't you go to a Philadelphia Eagles game or a Green Bay Packers game
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and delay the game and go to a playoff game and do that and see how civil and cordial the crowd will be
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as you're out there with your inane slogans screaming about fossil fuel use and the alleged climate crisis.
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Yeah, the Harvard-Yale game, I mean, I'm sure they didn't like it much, but probably less rowdy.
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It reminds me of in Alberta, my home province, where some animal rights extremists,
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they targeted a turkey farm run by a pacifist Christian denomination called Hatterites
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because they knew if they went to any other farm, they'd leave full of shotgun pellets.
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Well, I hope they do get the appropriate label.
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And it seems a bit odd to me that political pressure is enough to make police label or unlabel someone extremist.
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And some Twitter reaction isn't the determinant of that.
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Mark, we'll have to keep our eyes on these things.
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That's our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
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Meghan Markle ruined her own family and now she's ruining the royal family.
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I saw a statement by the Queen today that refers to Harry and Meghan, not Prince.
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I thought that, the Queen said, we're still working this through, give us a few days.
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Not their royal highnesses or whatever, not Prince this, Princess that, just Harry and Meghan.
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Rhea writes, the entitlement is out of control.
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You know, I told you the story about Wallace Simpson who got her claws into King Edward.
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Went to the Bahamas, which of course is close to Florida.
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So being the wife of the governor of Bahamas, that's not a bad way to live your life.
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If you've ever been there, it's pretty gorgeous.
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But I think the royal family is like target number one in the world for grifters.
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You know, any royal family member who serves in the military for an extended period of time,
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I think he did two tours of duty in Afghanistan.
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I think he was just targeted by this serial grifter gold digger.
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And if she will truly pry him away from her family, I think the Queen's got to cut him off.
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On David Menzies' videos on Majid Johari, Kurush writes,
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And that's interesting that our video is seen that far away.
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For those of you who didn't see it, maybe I should put it on the show.
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David went to a vigil for the killed terrorists, Qasem Soleimani.
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David also went to try and track down Majid Johari, liberal MP for Richmond Hill.
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I want to put this on the record because there's an allegation from Iran
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that Majid Johari, the liberal MP from Richmond Hill, is on the payroll of the government of Iran.
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And we've seen other media reports that he is an asset of Iran.
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But I tell you, he's certainly giving great service to Iran.
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And he's hiding right now from every journalist, including from our own David Menzies.
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Well, we're not going to stop reporting on this subject.
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And of all the countries in the Middle East that are under the yoke of radical Islam,
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I think Iran is the one with the most potential to recover and be a modern, secular, educated, progressive, peaceful, prosperous country.
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What do you think of that video of the students refusing to walk on the American and Israeli flags?
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You wouldn't get that deference at an American university.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.