New Angus Reid poll shows Canadians don't just dislike Justin Trudeau — they hate him!
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A new poll by Angus Reid says Canadians don't like Justin Trudeau. They hate him. Ezra takes you through the numbers and explains why he thinks it's a good idea to jail the Prime Minister. He also explains why the Liberals are going to lose the election.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through the latest Angus Reid poll. Very interesting.
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There's lots of interesting numbers. I'll just share with you very quickly my
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favorite one. Did you know that 63% of Canadians dislike Justin Trudeau?
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I bet you probably did know that. Hey, before I move on and get to the show,
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Tonight, a new poll by Angus Reid says Canadians don't dislike Justin Trudeau.
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They hate him. It's August 30th, 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
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A new poll out by Angus Reid. Here's his headline.
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Ahead of September, writ drop liberals claw back into close race with conservatives.
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That's true enough, and I suppose that's the main thing anyone wants to know in a poll.
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The conservatives are at 36%. The liberals are at 32%. The NDP are pretty far back at 14%.
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And the Greens are on track to do their best ever in Canada, 9%. I mean, it sounds like losing,
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but actually it's really concentrated in a few places. So I hate to say they'll probably punch
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through in the first place in a few ridings if they keep this up. Remember,
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they recently won a by-election in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island with an extremely radical
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candidate. So that's real. It bothers me a bit, to be honest, that this poll doesn't mention
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Maxime Bernier's People's Party by name. They have the Bloc Québécois there at 4%. It's actually
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17% in Quebec is what they mean. And then they have other. Well, that's Bernier, right? Why not just
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say it? Here's the second part of the news, I guess. The trend.
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In fact, that trend shows that it hasn't been this close since the SNC-Lavalin fiasco dropped
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in February. Just last month, the lead was 8%. And April, if you can see it, the liberals
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were behind by, they were down at 25%, which is shocking. The conservatives were at 38%. So that's
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a 13-point gap. The NDP back then were fairly strong at 18%. Well, the NDP back down to 14.
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liberals are recovering. The gap is narrowing. It's a trend. They think they can just get away
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with this SNC-Lavalin thing, just brazen it out. Do you think they're right?
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Here's another chart. This one asks an interesting question. Who did you vote for in 2015? And would
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you vote for them again? So 85% of conservatives who voted for Harper say they will vote for Scheer.
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I'm not surprised. But look at the liberals. Only 64% who voted for Trudeau last time are going
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to vote for him this time, they say. They're disaffected. The NDP number is just shocking,
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of course. But that's just Jagmeet Singh's awful political instincts and the fact that Trudeau
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himself has moved to the left and the Greens. The left is a crowded place in Canadian politics.
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Look at this. The 36% who are leaving the liberals, they're split pretty evenly between going to the
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conservatives and going to the NDP. And a big chunk go to the Greens. I'd like to see where that 15%
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who left the conservatives are going to. I bet they're mainly going to Bernier, but we don't have
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that data on the Angus Street website. The regional breakdown is what you'd expect. Westerners hate
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Trudeau. And I mean hate. Look at the prairies in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. You'd have to ask five
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people. Would you vote for Trudeau? Would you vote for Trudeau? How about you? Or you? That's just four
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people. You'd have to ask another person, a fifth person. Would you vote for Trudeau? Because his
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support in the prairies is only 19%, 20% in Alberta. BC shows they've fallen out of love with Trudeau
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hard. I think it's Jody Wilson-Raybould's revenge. Naturally, the older you are, the more likely you
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are to vote for conservatives. That's life. You have property. You have family, kids and grandkids.
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You're worried about the future. You're worried about crime. You have something to lose now. You pay taxes.
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You're probably not a socialist anymore. You're probably not impressed by how sexy Trudeau's hair
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and his socks are. And you're probably worried about marijuana and your kids getting running with
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the wrong crowd. You're not a kid trying to score some marijuana anymore. I noticed that baby boomer
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women are the most pro-Trudeau people. Maybe that's just reminiscences about how sexy Pierre Trudeau
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was. I don't know. Maybe it's just a trip down memory lane, Trudeau, like watching old Woodstock
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reels. I have no idea. Young women are the big Green Party backers. No surprise. I bet there's a
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lot of vegetarians in that category, too. You know, white girls with dreadlocks kind of thing.
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But look at one more thing there. Look at young men aged 18 to 34. They're voting for other. 12% of
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them are. No, they're not voting for other. That's absolutely Maxime Bernier's base. And again,
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I complain that Angus Reid doesn't break his party out. Those are young men sick of being
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told about male privilege and white privilege and heterosexual privilege. Sick of being told
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to shut up about insanity like trans extremism or insanity like open borders. Sick of being told not
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to use plastic straws by people who are flying private jets. Sick of being hectored and lectured
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and banned. That's young populist men. They should be conservatives, but Andrew Scheer is too afraid
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to stand up for their issues like freedom of speech. So they're for Bernier. But let me show
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you the stat I find most interesting. And I'll talk with Lauren Gunter about this in a moment.
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Look at the favorable, unfavorable split for each leader personally. And as you can see,
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this is the only category where Maxime Bernier is mentioned by name, maybe because he's doing so
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poorly in this stat. Now, the first thing to see is that none of the leaders has a net positive rating,
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is in the number of people who like them minus the number of people who dislike them. Elizabeth May
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is, in a doubt, she breaks even at zero. But all the other leaders are actively disliked. Andrew Scheer
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and Jagmeet Singh, just over half the people dislike them. Scheer has 38% favorable ratings,
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which is not surprising since 36% of people say they'll actually vote for him. And look at that,
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though. 63% of people don't like Justin Trudeau. 63%. That is stunning. You wouldn't know it if
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your only source of news with the CBC, they love him. I mean, they love him as in go on a date with
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him, love him. Most Canadians don't want to go on a date with Justin Trudeau. So look at Trudeau,
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31% favorable, 63% unfavorable. People mock Trump for being at around 8 and 50% in the polls,
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despite massive media hate. Trudeau is at 31% in the polls, despite massive media love. Imagine if
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either leader just had straight normal media coverage. Trump would be at 60%. Trudeau would
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be at 20%. I don't know. So what does this all mean? It means it's a close election in October,
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and we haven't even seen the left-wing super PAC campaigns yet. But it also means there is a lot
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of dissatisfaction with all the choices of the status quo, with the entire establishment. People don't
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trust politicians, and they don't trust the media. Now, I knew that, and you knew that,
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because we're outsiders, and we talk about this all the time. But those same extreme disapproval
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numbers, well, you could apply them to everything in this country. Cell phone companies, cable
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companies, banks, hospital waiting lines, crummy schools, the media, of course, leftist pop stars,
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professors of gender studies, global warming activists who fly by jet. I look at those disapproval
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numbers, and I say, our entire country is not being well-served by any of its leaders. Do you agree?
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Hey, welcome back, everybody. And joining us now to talk more about these poll numbers is my friend,
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Lauren Gunter. Lauren, just before we turn the camera on, you told me that Angus Reid actually
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used to be a liberal. I didn't even know that. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I was,
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I used to be too. And back in 1983 and 84, when I worked in Ottawa as chief of staff to a cabinet
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minister, Angus Reid was the Liberal Party's pollster, and he was Pierre Trudeau's favorite
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pollster. He was ahead of his time. He used techniques that were only just being developed
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in polling. He wasn't, you know, just phone and ask basic questions. He did counter questions.
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He tried to find out whether or not people were aware of what they thought, as opposed to just
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saying what they think. Because lots of times people will tell pollsters what they think pollsters
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want to hear. And Angus Reid was trying to develop techniques for weeding that out and getting at what
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people really thought. And so he was a very, very popular pollster. He was the Liberal Party's
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pollstered during campaigns and in between campaigns. And so it's interesting, too, now that
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he is, as you say, he's based outside Ottawa. And he doesn't seem to get caught up in the partisan
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games. I think a lot of pollsters like the idea that they'll be kind of soft towards one party that
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might get in power, hoping that they get a whole bunch of government contracts to do polling for the
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ministry of infrastructure and the foreign affairs department, you know, so that they get to do
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attitudes about new programs and things that pay a lot of money. Whereas political, a lot of times,
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voter intention polling doesn't get as much money. They do those as loss leaders in some ways,
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hoping they're going to get a big government contract.
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That's a good point. You know, and when you say Angus Reid was Pierre Trudeau's favorite pollster,
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that does not necessarily mean at all that he was the most partisan. In fact,
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it probably means the opposite. It probably means he was the most accurate. I mean, I suppose some
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politicians like to be lied to. But I would imagine that if you're as successful as Pierre Trudeau was,
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it's because you wanted to occasionally hear the bad news, the real news. And a valuable pollster
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would seem to me as someone who could get you the truth and not just tell you what you hope the truth
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was. Yeah, I guess. But Angus, you know, he's been through a couple of iterations since he was
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Angus Reid pollster back in the 80s. And then there was Ipsus Reid and then Ipsus and Reid had a falling
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out. And eventually, after the non-competition agreements and things were done, Angus started up
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again. And I think Angus is still a very solid pollster.
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Yeah. OK, well, we're talking about him and and you would think that the numbers would speak for
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themselves. But of course, in this age, everything is a little bit partisan. Everything everyone has
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their angle. Let's go into the polling numbers. Something I mentioned earlier, which is just
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striking to me, is the poll is broken down by region. And obviously, the sample size in Saskatchewan
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and Manitoba is not huge. It's only 190 people. But still, if you ask 190 randomly chosen
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prairie folks, you're going to get a, you know, as well, that's how accurate it is.
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He says the Liberal Party is at 19 percent in the prairies. That's even lower than in Alberta.
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19 percent. I remember a recent Angus Reid poll. It was in the low 20s. And I was shocked by that.
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And I saw that the male voters, like men in Saskatchewan, it was like only 20 percent. I was
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shocked by that. This isn't broken out by gender. But if it's 19 percent for both men
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and women, I bet the number of men in Saskatchewan who vote for Trudeau is like 15 percent.
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This doesn't surprise me in the least. Even ECOS came out with a poll last week that showed
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the the conservatives ahead in Alberta by 50 points. That doesn't mean they had 50 percent
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support. They had closer to 70 percent support. They were 50 points ahead of the next party and
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the number two party was the Liberal. So on the prairies, the Liberals and Trudeau have been written
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off. I saw numbers like this back in in the early 80s after the National Energy Program. You saw Pierre
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Trudeau's numbers fall to below 20 percent in the prairie provinces, also in BC in many cases,
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in the interior in particular. Certainly, I can't speak to the interior BC right now. I know Trudeau is
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not popular there, but he is as unpopular as his father was after the National Energy Program in the
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three prairie provinces. And they're now polling below 20 percent, which is considered below their
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natural floor. So even Liberals aren't happy with the Liberals on the prairies. And that's great.
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That's wonderful. That means that probably, as happened with the Liberals after Pierre Trudeau,
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there will not be another Liberal elected in Alberta for two generations. But unfortunately,
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the numbers are not that bad for the Liberals in the lower mainland of BC, in the greater Toronto area,
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in the Golden Horseshoe around Toronto, and in Quebec. And so, you know, we could end up with
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the heavily populated areas of the country foisting another Trudeau government on the rest of us.
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Yeah. I want to talk about one more region, and that is British Columbia. According to this poll,
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the Liberals are at 29 percent, which I'm surprised a little bit to see that the Conservatives are at 35
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percent because the Conservatives lost a lot of seats to the Liberals in the last election.
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Part of that was because of the focus of those US-funded environmental lobby groups who zeroed in
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on swing ridings and said, all right, let's get everyone voting strategically. And in most cases,
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it was the Liberals. So to see the Liberals down under 30 percent, the Conservatives at 35.
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But it's so obvious what's going on is you can see the Green Party is at 19 percent. And by the way,
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I was just in Nanaimo about two weeks ago. The Green Party poked through there in a by-election. A lot
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of people say, oh, it's a by-election. It's a fluke. Yeah. Well, when you've got 19 percent support for
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the Green Party, and that's probably double that on Vancouver Island, you're going to see some MPs
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poke through. Yeah. And I think the interesting thing about the BC numbers is that the Greens,
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everywhere else in the country, all other provinces and territories, where the Greens come up,
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it's at the expense of the NDP. In BC, though, when the Greens go up, it seems to be at the expense
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of the Liberals. So the Liberals were supposed to be the Green Party that was also pro-development.
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And somehow they have blown that image with many BC voters, particularly on the island and to some
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extent in what you'd call the outer lower mainland, the Chilliwack, Abbotsford, East Surrey areas.
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And those are populated areas that have lots of seats. So that's an interesting feature of that
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Angus Reid poll is that everywhere else in the country, the Greens succeed at the NDP's expense.
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But in the lower mainland of BC, which is really going to be tight in this election, it may very
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well decide who wins and who loses. The Greens seem to come up at the expense of the Liberals, not the NDP.
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Well, one of my theories, and I don't think this is a unique observation by me, is that it is the
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Jody Wilson-Raybould effect. There is someone who was supposed to be the absolute epitome, the
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personification of the liberal brand, a woman, Aboriginal, smart, lawyer, environmentalist,
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solid. I mean, just, I mean, in my mind, she was far left, but let's put that aside for a moment,
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just the persona. And really the political story of the year is Bob Fyfe and Steve Chase of the
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Globe and Mail and the SNC-Lavalin and her dignity throughout that, by the way. And again, whenever
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I praise Jody Wilson-Raybould, some people say, oh, she was far left. I know that. But I'm just saying
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she was a terrible justice minister until the SNC-Lavalin thing came along.
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And in an irony, or maybe irony is the wrong word, the most important part about being a
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justice minister is that you actually support justice and that you support the rule of law,
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and then you stop the meddling. And on the one thing that really mattered,
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I think she showed more principle than any politician in 50 years.
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And I think the dignity with which she carried herself, and she didn't look like she was a
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grasping opportunist. In fact, she was too silent for too long in my mind. And I think the respect for
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her in BC is so high. And everyone who likes her, it's, you know, it's a net sum, a zero sum business,
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that respect has come at the expense of their disrespect for Trudeau.
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Because they know she was a woman wronged. And wronged by whom? By Trudeau.
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I think that shows in the Angus Reid numbers too, in which Trudeau is the most disliked of all of
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the five major party leaders, followed closely by Maxime Bernier. But Trudeau, 63% of people polled by
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Angus Reid disliked Trudeau. That is a far cry from 2015.
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When his approval rating kept going up and up and up and up through the campaign.
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And so when you get a, lots of times, it's not necessary to look at how popular a party or a
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politician is, but how unpopular, because that will tell you what kind of a ceiling they have
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for taking votes during a campaign. And it would look as though Justin Trudeau doesn't have a lot
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of room to grow during the campaign. People are starting to write him off. And once you're written
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off by voters, it's very unusual for a politician to have a renaissance to come back and win again.
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So I still am predicting the liberals will sneak this election out, probably in a minority. But boy,
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there are sure a lot of encouraging signs that maybe enough voters will have had enough of this guy,
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You know, that's a good point you make. You're negative. The people who dislike you,
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that's the part of the lake you can't fish in, so to speak, for votes. And if Trudeau's
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disapproval number is 63 percent, and I'm looking at it right here on my computer,
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the number who favor him is 31 percent. It's no surprise that the number who say they would vote
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Liberal is almost identical, 32 percent. You know, I don't see it broken out in this particular press
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release that I'm looking at here, but in an earlier Angus Reid poll, he split up disapproval into
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slightly disapprove and greatly disapprove. So, and what was interesting about those stats,
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and I'll see if we can dig up an image of that, if you dislike Justin Trudeau, you dislike him a lot.
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So you like him, you like him, you like him, and then when that ends, it's a disillusionment.
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And I think the perfect manifestation of that is his old platonic boyfriend, I'm joking around,
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obviously they weren't boyfriend, Paul Wells, who for years felt like a Justin Trudeau
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cheerleader and Trudeau whisperer. He was his press agent at McLean. Yeah. And here's my favorite
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picture of him posing for a selfie with Trudeau. They were on a first name basis. And then Paul Wells,
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when you fall out of love, it hurts so bad. You don't just fall out of love a little bit. You,
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you hit the ground hard and look at this cover in McLean's, the imposter. And that's, go ahead.
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And it's because, I think it's because Wells, like a lot of Trudeau acolytes from 2015,
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realized that they had allowed themselves to be duped, that they had wanted so much to like this
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guy, that they overestimated how wonderful he was. And then rather than say, oh, I was dumb. Yeah.
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They're saying, oh yeah, this guy's a phony. He's an imposter. It's his fault that, that we now
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are no longer able to like him. And, uh, and I think that's, that's happened with a lot of
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voters. I mean, I think it started with, uh, maybe with a few things in the early years,
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but particularly with the February, 2018 trip to India. I mean, he looks so farcical at that.
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The people started to, to, to wonder what in heaven's name they'd gotten themselves into.
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And, and I think I've used this analogy with you before. I mean, in 2015, a lot of voters were
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prepared to give up the bland, solid accountant that they had been with for 10 years in favor of
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the, the sharp looking pool boy who offered a little bit of zing. And now they, and now they've
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awakened to the fact that the pool boys rutting routing through their purse, looking for money for
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weed. Yeah. You know, that's a perfect analogy. Oh my God. I, you know what I, please forgive me.
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I'm going to steal that analogy, Lauren. I'll give you credit, but I did too good.
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I got to use that. It's exactly what he is. Let me say one more thing about the imposter.
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It, it's not just a general imposter that he was a sweet talking hustler, like the pool boy you
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described, but he was a huckster. He said he was a feminist and we've learned so much about how he
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actually treats women. He said he was for Aboriginal reconciliation, but holy moly.
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Look at him treat the grassy narrowest protesters. He said he was for democratic reform and cleaner
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government, but whoa, this SNC. So he actually, it's not just that he's a pickup artist. Whenever
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I hear, he slips into a voice and he talks like this and Canadians can do better. Like he puts on this
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voice and I just can't stop thinking about him as one of those, you know, using your pool boy in
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a metaphor, a pickup artist who teaches other guys how to manipulate women to go out with them.
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I get this pickup artist vibe from him. It's not just a style. It's a substance too. The guy who said
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he would have the most clean and transparent and accountable government did none of that.
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The guy who railed against Harper's partisanship, look at how he stacked the Senate. So it's amazing.
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But let me ask you the big question. That disapproval number is staggeringly large, 63%.
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You would almost think that would disqualify a guy from winning mathematically. But I thought
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I heard you say you think he's going to squeak it out. I do. I do because I think in the areas of
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the country that have the largest number of votes, at the very last, too many voters are going to say
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that Andrew Scheer just doesn't impress me. I think the conservatives have a great new slogan.
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You know, paraphrasing it, it's time you got your share, basically. I think that's great. I think that
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the message in the ads is clearly laid out and it's smart. I love the ad that he had where
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he walked through his old neighborhood in Regina. And he said, I know what it's like
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for people who live in a neighborhood like this, because this is the house I grew up in.
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And it's a row house in a low income area of Regina. That's great. But when you look at him,
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I don't know, would you hire him to do the landscaping at your house or would you like
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him to be the prime minister? You know, he just he just lacks something that I think an awful lot of
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people. Increasingly, voters don't pay attention to elections until the last 72 hours. And I think
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when they tune in 72 hours before October 21st, they're going to just say, yeah, I don't like the
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Trudeau guy, but that cheer guy is not my alternative. So they'll cast a grudging vote for Trudeau.
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Yeah. Oh, and we have not even begun to see not only the liberal war machine, but the 100
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third party super PAC groups. We saw a little bit of Maxime Bernier's super PAC action
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the other day that got a little bit of media buzz. Good for him for stealing some headlines
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in August. But whoa, in October, you are going to have such deep, sheer bashing. It'll be well,
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I think it'll be the dirtiest election in Canadian history.
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I think you're absolutely right. And I saw the Unifor ads yesterday during U.S. Open tennis,
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I was watching. And it's a guy, a working class guy who goes to a vending machine and gets ripped
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off. And, you know, the message is what if we elect sheer, that's what's going to happen to working
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class Canadians. It's just that the level of vitriol towards sheer is staggering. I could kind of
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understand it towards Harper because Harper was a tough guy. He was an intellectual and he was
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ruthless with opponents. Sheer's not a ruthless guy. He's a nice enough guy. And yet the animus
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towards him is unbelievable. It's worse than it was towards Harper.
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Well, I think just people you hear in our business, people from the interest groups that
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that are liberal leaning. I remember, and then sometimes just like our kids have
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fairly liberal friends. And you hear them say things about Andrew Sheer, you know, are preposterous.
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Yeah. But they're picking that up, obviously, from social media. I remember after the last election,
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talking to one of our son's friends in Vancouver and the kid said, oh, thank God we were able to get
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rid of that dictator Harper. He said, dictator? If he's a dictator, how do you hold a free election?
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And he said, oh, that's not what I mean. I told him, yeah, exactly what you mean.
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But you hear things worse than that about Sheer will chain all women back in the kitchen and
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and he will put all LGBTQ people back in the closet. When has he ever said anything? Even if you look
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back to 2005, which is what the liberals have been doing with their little apparatchiks in the media
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the last two weeks. You look back to 2005 and the debate on same-sex marriage. Sheer said things that
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would indicate he was against same-sex marriage. So did a lot of liberals. If you look at Ralph
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Goodale, who holds the neighboring riding in Regina, he said very much the same thing
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that Andrew Sheer did. It wasn't outrageous at the time, what he said. It's not outrageous now.
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It may be wrong. We can argue whether it's right or wrong, but they're talking about it now like,
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you know, he said, well, I think that all LGBTQ people should be sent off to an island and we
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should never have to see them again. Nobody's ever said anything like that.
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Yeah. And yet the animus towards Sheer is, it's tangible.
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Yeah. Well, that's interesting. If I had to guess, if the election were held today,
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I would say a conservative minority, but it's not held today. It's going to be held after 50 days
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of absolute media pounding. And I don't know if Sheer's got it in them to fight back. I predict,
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and I'm sorry to say it, I predicted Trudeau minority if I had to make a prediction today
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about what will happen October 21st. Lauren, great to see you again. Thanks for spending time
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with us. All right. There you have it, our friend Lauren Gunter, senior columnist with the Edmonton Sun.
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Well, that's the show for today. What do you think about the upcoming election? It's going to be here
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so fast. I mean, you can feel that sort of gurgling away right now, but after Labor Day,
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holy moly, expect absolute saturation media. The Rebel will be playing and be playing a very
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important role in that election, I believe. All right. Well, that's the show for today. I hope
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you have a great weekend, great long weekend. We'll have a special show for you on Monday,
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I believe it's scheduled for. So we'll be on on Monday, even though most folks will be off.
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Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.