āProtest voteāļ¼ What the Green Party win in BC's federal by-election really means
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Summary
The Green Party has won a federal byelection in Nanaimo, B.C., and it s a weird place, but I don t think it was so much an environmentalist vote as a smash-the-system vote, a form of leftist Trumpism.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I tell you about the not-so-surprising Green Party victory in Nanaimo.
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It's not that surprising if you know Nanaimo, and I think I know it a little bit.
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And as you know, Elizabeth May is from a few hours south on Vancouver Island.
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And it's just a little bit of a weird place, but I don't think it was so much an environmentalist vote
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as a smash-the-system vote, a form of leftist Trumpism. I make the case!
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Anyways, that's ahead, but hey, can you do me a quick favor first?
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And oh, I got this video today from the UK Deputy Leader of the Green Party.
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You get David Menzies' show. And you can watch that really creepy video
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of the UK Deputy Green Party leader, which will haunt your dreams.
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Tonight, the Green Party wins a federal by-election in British Columbia.
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What does it mean? It's May 7th, 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, the why I'm publishing,
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The Green Party of Canada won a by-election yesterday
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we covered the strange politics of that unusual town.
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You'll remember their dysfunctional city council
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the publicly-owned convention center for a conference.
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and then we helped campaign against the city council
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And wouldn't you know it, the city threw out the bums.
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It really was a template for the kind of action campaigns
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And of course, we had a big barbecue at the end to celebrate.
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You got retired people, including from Alberta,
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Now, I tell you all that because it's an unusual place.
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It's on an island, which means it's going to be
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even though the Capitol, Victoria, is on the same island.
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as that whole city hall fight in Nanaimo taught me.
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that they voted for the Green Party last night.
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But he was deemed too radical for even the NDP.
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He seemed to share his dad's radicalism against Israel.
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His dad actually tried to run an Israeli naval blockade,
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screening out terrorists from the port of Gaza.
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So he found his natural home in the Green Party.
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so radical that he was booted even from the NDP,
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and he would be right at home around the world.
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The Green Party has become the party for people.
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and I could give you a hundred examples like this,
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does not mean that you have not killed our children.