New poll shows Erin O’Toole falls further behind: Here's some advice!
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A new poll shows Aaron O'Toole falling further behind. Instead of being negative, I'll give him the best advice I can. It's April 2nd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show, where I m trying my very best to give him constructive advice.
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Hello, my rebels. Boy, we have a different kind of show today. Instead of grumbling about Aaron
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O'Toole, the conservative party leader, I thought, you know what? If I was trying my very, very best
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to give him constructive advice, good advice, helpful advice, practical advice, specific advice,
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what would it be? If I had like five suggestions or even four or three, what would they be?
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Well, that's today's show. What do you think? Do you think the ideas I'm about to share with you
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would help or hurt? Would they get him closer to 24 Sussex Drive or be a disaster? Well,
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listen, and you tell me later. Let me invite you to become a video subscriber, though,
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to what we call Rebel News Plus. It's the video version of the podcast. I think it's useful
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because we always show video clips and charts and graphs. I showed some new polling charts today,
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which should run a chill down your spine if you're a conservative. Anyways, I'd love it if
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you subscribe. Go to rebelnews.com, click subscribe, eight bucks a month, because we live on that money.
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We pay our payroll on that money, and I'd rather do it that way than take the media bailout.
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Tonight, a new poll shows Aaron O'Toole falls further behind. Instead of being negative,
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I'll give him the best advice I can. It's April 2nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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I'm disappointed in Aaron O'Toole, but really, being disappointed in politicians is the norm,
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isn't it? It's rare not to be disappointed in a politician. It just usually takes a bit longer.
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Canceling Derek Sloan on trumped-up charges of racism.
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Laughable, given that Sloan's entire family is a visible minority.
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Banning Pierre from speaking at the party's recent conference.
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And of course, just a couple of weeks ago, drawing a line in the sand for his own party members,
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telling them they have to shut up and buy into the left-wing idea of global warming or else.
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As we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world.
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There's been a lot of speculation about what I'm going to say about climate change in this speech.
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To those who are expecting a dramatic moment, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed.
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From the first days of my campaign to lead our party, I've said two things consistently.
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One, we all want a green future for our children.
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We cannot ignore the reality of climate change.
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Yeah, pretty weird, pretty obscure, niche, left-wing issue.
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Even Trudeau doesn't bang on about global warming these days.
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People who care about it are in the single digits, according to Trudeau's own polls.
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Everyone's talking about the pandemic and the lockdowns and jobs and debt, except Aaron O'Toole.
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I grant that it's from Abacus, which has too many connections to the Liberal Party for my liking.
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But it's the same thing we've seen recently in a Nanos poll and a Leger poll.
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Instead of getting a bump from O'Toole's recent conservative convention, O'Toole sort of tanked things.
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Liberals open up an eight-point lead over the conservatives as O'Toole's negatives keep rising.
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Two weeks ago, the Liberals were ahead 33 to 29.
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38 percent, that's pretty close to majority territory for Trudeau.
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Here it is by region, which I think is interesting.
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In Ontario, the Liberals have a 16-point lead, 44 to 28.
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I mean, B.C. looks pretty tied up, 31, 31, 29 to the NDP.
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Probably some regional differences between the B.C. interior, Vancouver, Vancouver Island.
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The Atlantic's going to be a wipeout when the Liberals have 51 percent, almost double the Tories.
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Obviously, the Tories are still strong in the prairies.
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But seriously, 25 percent support for the Liberals in Alberta under Trudeau?
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That's a sign that people aren't exactly enthused with O'Toole.
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You might even see a few Liberals pop up in Edmonton, I hate to say it.
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But my point is, the man's going to lose the whole strategy behind shifting to the left
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and distancing himself from Sloan and Polyev and Kenny and even from us here at Rebel News.
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The whole point was to ingratiate himself with former Liberal voters in Ontario
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and, to a lesser extent, B.C. and the Atlantic.
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Those former Liberal voters look like they will continue to be Liberal voters.
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In fact, sort of the opposite is happening under O'Toole.
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I should say, it looks like O'Toole is less popular in Canada than the Conservative Party itself.
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If I'm understanding these different polls right,
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this chart shows that 33 percent of Canadians don't like him, whereas 19 percent do like him.
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So the earlier chart showed us that 30 percent of people say they would vote Conservative,
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but if only 19 percent said they like the leader,
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I think it suggests the problems may be with the leader, not the party or its policies.
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He doesn't stand for things, except, bizarrely, global warming.
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He's wasted more than half a year as leader, longer, actually.
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And the leadership campaign for Tory leader was an extremely long affair.
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He announced he was quitting in December of 2019.
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If you don't know him by now, I mean, maybe it's too late.
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Scolding Conservatives at your own party who are skeptical of global warming
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It'll make Liberals feel good, but it won't make Liberals vote for Aaron O'Toole.
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It'll make them feel better about voting Liberal or Green or whatever.
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I worked for Preston Manning in the Reform Party,
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then briefly for Stockwell Day in the Canadian Alliance,
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and then in 2008, I campaigned in Stephen Harper's election headquarters.
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Social media really wasn't even a thing back then.
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Twitter, YouTube, Facebook were all very, very new.
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but it wasn't literally on the government payroll.
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But I think I'm pretty attentive to conservatives in Canada and to others
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this would be my, I don't know, five-point plan.
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Ezra, can you stop criticizing Aaron O'Toole just for a moment?
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And can you actually give him some useful, constructive, friendly advice?
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Point one, first, make the decision not to talk
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Isn't it bad enough that the media party ignores him?
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See, Aaron O'Toole is obviously addicted to their approval.
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If he were to cut them off like an alcoholic stopping to drink cold turkey,
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it would force him not to care about what they thought
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and force him to use other, less pejorative media.
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I'm not saying don't talk to voters in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal.
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Talk to the voters, but don't talk to CBC and the Toronto Star
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This isn't just about getting his own stories out to the people.
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It's about breaking his addiction to the media party's approval.
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Second, choose controversies of his own choosing.
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The liberals will drop controversies on Aaron O'Toole during the election.
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They've got them stored up, ready to go, waiting to go.
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Candidates who have said things on social media
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that they're going to ask O'Toole, will you fire, whatever.
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Putting O'Toole forward as Mr. Bland, that's not going to do it.
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Just an ordinary Canadian who served his country.
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Just a husband and father who stood up for workers.
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Who works hard with years of experience in business.
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Just someone who's in it for Canada, not for headlines.
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Yeah, that's very nice, but that will not survive a personal attack on him.
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The only way to fight and win the liberals and the liberal-paid media party
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is to choose carefully, proactively, what you want the controversies to be about.
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So ideally, you want a controversy that the media party will really, really hate.
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Ten years ago, that would have been Omar Khadr.
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Only the liberal party and the media party and lawyers love him.
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What are three or four or five issues like that?
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Put another way, if you don't have a front-page story in mind for yourself,
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Today, we recommit to making Canada an equitable place for all people to live.
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I stand with the trans community in Canada and around the world
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And I read it, but I was thinking, what does that mean?
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Does it mean, hey, everybody, let's be nice to everyone, no matter what they're like,
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and let's not be mean to anyone, and let's be kind, and let's not bully anyone?
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But does it mean letting people who were born male, but who transition,
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letting them play against girls in girls' sports leagues?
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Because that's not about an equitable place for all people to live.
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That's about as unfeminist as possible, erasing actual women and girls, destroying their dreams.
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Imagine if O'Toole said he really does want everyone to be nice to each other.
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But then said he was going to introduce a rule protecting girls' sports, too,
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from advantage-takers, from transgender male-to-female trans athletes.
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And maybe he also mentioned transgender criminals getting to stay at women's prisons.
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What do you think the public reaction would be if he said,
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I like trans people, and I don't want them to be harmed,
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but no more trans in girls' sports, no more trans in women's prisons?
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Including from a lot of trans and gay people, by the way,
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and a lot of feminists, by the way, and a lot of women, by the way,
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And what do you think the reaction from the media party would be?
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Front-page coverage, which would be a good thing,
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In fact, maybe he should say that he wants Omar Khadr charged for treason,
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and to see if he can claw back the $10.5 million that Trudeau gave him.
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but what would happen, you'd immediately get a bunch of liberal lawyers and law professors
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Now, transgender sports and Omar Khadr are not the biggest issues on the radar of our country.
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I'm just giving you examples of something that are real conservative policies
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the vast majority of ordinary people would agree with,
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and they would push any fake controversies from the liberals off the front pages,
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and it would reveal the media itself as partisan,
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but the harder the media would rage against O'Toole, the better, right?
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I think there are other huge winners like that.
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Roxham Road, the Liberal Party's obsession with bringing in record numbers of migrants,
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even during a pandemic, even during a deep recession where we have 9.5% unemployment.
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Did you see what Trudeau did just the other day?
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He removed the ancient rule that screens out extremely ill people from immigrating here,
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people with extremely expensive and dangerous medical conditions
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who would immediately just go straight into our hospital system and be a burden.
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Every country in the world screens for deep health problems.
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It's just, why would you say we're going to be the entire world's hospital
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He wants all the world's sick people to apply to move here.
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Now, the media loves that, except for themselves.
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But what do you think ordinary people would think of that,
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including new immigrants, by the way, who had to come here the proper way?
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You know, pulling back on immigration during a recession,
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during 9.5% unemployment, when housing prices are absolutely insane in the big cities?
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Sorry, that's going to resonate with, I don't know, 90% of people,
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Just literally don't engage with the media party.
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And their hatred for these ideas will give them free publicity.
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One thing I almost liked from O'Toole's speech the other day
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was when he said he wanted to reach out to organized labor.
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I'm not going to sit around and wait for them to get serious.
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The NDP no longer stand up for working Canadians and their families.
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Private sector union workers share so many of our values of hard work,
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Like us, they are proud of what we build here in Canada.
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And if we have the courage to change our approach with organized labor,
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to open our tent to them, we will win their trust.
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You don't need to reach out to the organizations themselves.
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That would be like Jerry Diaz and his pro-liberal uniform super PAC.
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How about reaching out actually to union workers, not their liberal bosses?
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How about reaching out to truck drivers, oil and gas workers, steel workers, pipeline workers?
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People who are ignored or attacked by the left these days.
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And sure, there will be some squawking from that global warming hard left,
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Go to British Columbia and the far north of Canada to show how important
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industries like mining and logging and trucking and oil sands are to Aboriginal communities.
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Why are you against jobs for Aboriginal people?
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is to talk about the number one thing on Canadians' minds.
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As I showed you yesterday, 96% of pandemic victims are over age 60.
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So for the vast majority of working families in Canada,
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the problem with the pandemic is not a health problem.
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But how about say a word about economic freedom?
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How about letting people choose their own fear level?
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How about pointing out that American states are moving on with real life?
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You know, like Pierre Polyev did in the House the other day.
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Well, Madam Speaker, I want to share some good news with the House.
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A very progressive and woke state south of the border
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whose ideological inclinations are very similar to this government.
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And they have signed off on a safe plan, according to that state,
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to allow 9,000 fans to participate in a major sporting event in Seattle, no less.
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We got simultaneously the news that our Toronto Blue Jays
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are not going to be able to do anything similar.
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In fact, they put out a statement in which they said that
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though we had hoped for improvements in the public health outlook
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we have made the difficult decision to play the first two homestands
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of the 2021 regular season at TD Ballpark in Florida.
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That's my favorite conservative leader right there.
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And yeah, the media party is going to freak out
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They are not going to vote for O'Toole no matter what.
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Call for a division, as they say in Parliament.
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instead of what the liberal war room has planned.
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which would make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory.