Rebel Roundup： Guests Ben Davies, Sheila Gunn Reid, & Ezra Levant!
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Rebel Roundup is a weekly show produced by David Menzies and featuring your favourite Rebel Commanders. This week: Procter and Gamble's new "Me Too" ad campaign, the anti-burka law in Quebec, Justin Trudeau's $1,600-a-plate fundraiser in Toronto, and much, much more!
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.
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Attention Loblaws shoppers, there's an appliance special on right now
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in which $12 million of your tax money is going to enable this multi-billion dollar conglomerate
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Oh my, Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the stone-cold details.
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Quebec's anti-Burka law, Bill 21, is being deemed as racist and Islamophobic by the usual suspects.
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Even though it's all about separating mosque from state,
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So after that disastrous Me Too-themed Gillette ad campaign earlier this year,
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you'd think maybe that parent company, Procter & Gamble, might have learned some advertising lessons?
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Well, judging by a tweet for its Venus brand of female razors,
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Ben Davies has the skinny on P&G's latest virtue signalling marketing flop.
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding Justin Trudeau's $1,600-a-plate fundraiser in Toronto last week.
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Apparently, there are still Liberal supporters who adore this guy.
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Oh, and judging by his motorcade of SUVs that kept their V8 engines running for hours on end,
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it would seem that when it comes to carbon footprint reduction,
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Loblaw gives money to an organization with direct ties to Notley's campaign team through Bryantop
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that in turn smears and character assassinates normal Canadians who don't have billions of dollars
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squirreled away after years of ripping off poor people and tax evasion.
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Loblaw, through these generous sponsorships to the Broadbent Institute,
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funds a tax on Albertans who just want a job and maybe want to be able to afford to buy some groceries in a Loblaw store.
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There is great irony in this NDP candidate here,
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accusing UCP leader Jason Kenney of taking bread from the mouths of the poor
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when the NDP research and media arm Press Progress is largely funded by a company that did just that,
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That's some ethical advocates for the poor, those NDP are.
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While Rachel Notley rails about Jason Kenney's tax cuts to spur business reinvestment back to Alberta,
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the NDP research and media arm Press Progress takes a lot of money from a company that hid money in a Barbadian bank.
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because this company that was part of a cartel that price-fixed bread for 15 years
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is receiving a $12 million federal grant to buy energy-efficient refrigerators to reduce its energy consumption.
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With more on this latest example of corporate welfare run amok
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So, Sheila, let's check out the tale of the tape when it comes to Loblaws.
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This company had revenues of more than $46 billion last year.
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It is controlled by a family that is worth several billion dollars.
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If they want energy-efficient appliances, why the hell can't they buy their own fridges?
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Like, Gaila and Weston and the Weston family, they are $10 billion richer than Donald Trump.
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They get government handouts because, as I discovered in my story,
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they're washing money over to some of the conservatives' loudest critics at Press Progress and the Broadbent Institute.
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So, they get these handouts from the Liberal government and then for refrigeration.
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But then they go and fund this massive machinery that, right now in Alberta, is really the research arm of the NDP party.
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So, I mean, you want to talk about sinister billionaires?
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Both the federal liberals under Trudeau and Loblaw companies have really outsmarted themselves.
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Because $12 million to Loblaw Companies Limited is like you and I finding a couple of quarters in the couch.
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And yet, look at the negative publicity this company is receiving.
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And here, just as SNC-Lavalin is just dying down for a 24-hour news cycle period,
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bang, another scandal all over, in the big picture, a paltry $12 million for a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.
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I think if they could, you know, redo the chronology here, they never would have gone through with this.
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Yeah, you know, and the way we all found out about it is just so perfectly liberal.
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I mean, the news broke on climate Barbie Catherine McKenna's Twitter feed.
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She did, like, a live stream video of her handing this money over to Loblaws.
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And she was standing there, proud as a peacock, thinking this is something that Canadians are really going to embrace.
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For all the people who manage her social media, it's over 20 most days.
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Not a single one of them thought, you know what, we sort of kind of did tell veterans that they were asking for more than we could give them.
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And we basically told Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve that they can kind of go screw themselves even though they're poisoned by mercury.
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And here we are handing out money to billionaires.
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It was so much from the inside the bubble of Ottawa, but it is perfectly liberal.
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It shows just how out of touch they are with the concerns of normal people.
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People who were shafted by Loblaws, by the way, with their price-fixing scam.
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Oh, yeah, no, that is the cherry on the sundae for sure.
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I mean, Climate Barbie, she is an intellectual lightweight.
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I mean, there's not any substance there for sure.
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However, you would think that the people behind the scenes, the puppet masters, you know, the PR spinners,
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they would be saying things to the elected MPs.
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Hey, listen, we've looked over this photo op, and you know what?
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The optics could come back to bite us in the ass.
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But no, they are so blinded, I think, Sheila, by their virtue signaling,
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they can't even think of, you know, plan B if this goes awry.
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These are the same people whose only concern about Catherine McKenna's tweets congratulating Syria
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when they joined the airport was, let's make sure we get the French translation right.
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I mean, they don't see things through the lens of normal people.
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They thought Canadians would embrace this photo op.
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Look, it's our local grocery store greening, so we should green too.
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They don't think like, hey, that's the company that screwed over poor people for 15 years
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and then offered them a pittance of a $25 gift card for their troubles.
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And then, late last year, was caught using a Barbadian bank to skirt Canadian tax laws.
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All the while, Bill Morneau, Canada's finance minister, is cracking down on small businesses and farmers
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And, you know, the funny thing, too, about the price-fixing scandal, Sheila, as you pointed out,
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Loblaws went from a co-conspirator to use the parlance of organized crime to a rat
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and offered up the goods first so they would get immunity.
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Usually, in the world of the mafiosa, that's a death sentence.
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But here we have corporate bad behavior not being penalized,
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but by being rewarded by this $12 million check for refrigeration.
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Yeah, and I mean, the thing about Loblaws, and, you know, I'm not one to attack wealthy businesses.
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I think good for them, if you come by it honestly, and that's in question, I would say.
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But we can't really escape them, especially in places where there's not a lot of other grocery stores.
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They're as close to a grocer monopoly, I think, as you can probably get in today's modern age.
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Which, they have, you know, they're independent stores, which are the no-frills superstore.
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If you need to go to a drugstore, Shoppers Drug Mart, they own whole Renfrew.
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Like, they own such a market share that you really can't, on a lot of days, say,
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you know what, I'm not going to shop at superstore.
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Because for a lot of places in this country, they are the only game in town.
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I mean, for someone like myself in the Toronto area, I can seek out competition.
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And I know Lady Menzoid, thanks to your commentary, she's now crossing the street from Loblaws to Longos.
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But if you're in a small town, a Loblaw company grocer might be the only game in town.
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What I, you know, what I really find staggering, again, because Loblaw is a multi-billion dollar conglomerate,
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is that there is already an incentive to buy those, that $12 million worth of refrigeration.
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Because if these are energy efficient fridges, as what's being told to us,
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well, they're going to make back that $12 million and more based on the electricity consumption rates that are going to go down.
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So there was already an incentive to make money by buying this more efficient refrigeration units.
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But no, they needed that welfare check from the taxpayer.
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She goes, why don't they just take all the money they charge me every time I walk in there for a grocery bag for five cents
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in the name of greening the environment and just put that into refrigeration?
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I mean, if they're doing it in the interest of greening the environment, then, yeah, pay for your own refrigeration.
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I have to, if I want to, you know, take the old clunker in the garage offline that I put beer in and save a few bucks,
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Well, because you don't have liberal ties and they do, Sheila.
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If I were Loblaw or if I were their PR guy advising them, I'd say give the money back
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and make some huge donation to some green charity and try to get on the positive side of the ledger.
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But I think they might be just too arrogant, both the Liberal Party of Canada and Loblaw, to do the right thing.
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So thank you again, Sheila, for a wonderful commentary as always.
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Maybe they could donate some of that money to the food bank after they screwed over poor people for all those years.
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But anyway, thanks for having me on the show, David.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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The persons listed in Schedule 2 are prohibited from wearing religious symbols in the exercise of their functions.
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You don't see police officers pulling you over for speeding, wearing a huge honking crucifix on a necklace, do you?
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Personnel members of a body, a government money, must exercise their functions with their face uncovered.
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Similarly, persons who present themselves to receive a service from a personnel member of the body must have their face uncovered where doing so is necessary to allow their identity to be verified for security reasons.
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Persons who fail to comply without obligation may not receive the service requested where applicable.
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For the purposes of the second paragraph, persons are deemed to be presenting themselves to receive a service when they are interacting or communicating with a personnel member of a body in the exercise of the personal member's functions.
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Okay, I'm getting a bit technically here, but I can sum it up.
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You don't have to be worried about the religious police beating you anymore.
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Well, unless you're worried about that here in Canada too, about being beaten or attacked by some religious police if you take off your mask.
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And if that's the case, then we have a big problem now, don't we?
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So let's be honest about Quebec's anti-burka law, Bill 21.
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It's being deemed racist and Islamophobic by the usual suspects, including members of the media party.
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But when one actually takes the time to read the contents of the bill, one finds that it applies to all religions and only those employees who are being paid by the taxpayer.
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So it's really all about the separation of church and state, or more appropriately, mosque and state.
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And somehow this is being preposterously spun as an example of ethnic cleansing.
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And joining me now with more on this subject is our very own Rebel Commander, Ezra Lovett.
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And so Quebec, even though it's a predominantly French province, they do publish their bills and laws in both languages, which is good.
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Because, of course, there's a lot of Anglophones in that province.
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Because I was told by the media party it was racist, it was Islamophobic, it was all those things you just said.
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So I just said, okay, let me just slowly read every word.
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But the title of the bill, it's not even called the burqa ban.
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It doesn't even mention burqas or it doesn't mention any religion.
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That's sort of a, that's not really an English word.
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So it's a law to confirm the secular nature of the government of Quebec.
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If you work for the government of Quebec, almost anywhere, you can't cover your face.
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So that doesn't stop the hijab, which is like a babushka.
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It doesn't stop people from wearing a cross or a star David.
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But if you're a bus driver, if you're a daycare worker, if you're a doctor,
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and you get money from the government of Quebec, you can't cover your face.
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And also when you get services from someone from the government of Quebec, you can't cover your face.
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But there's another stricter part of the law that applies to some other people.
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And that says you just can't have any religious symbols at all.
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They don't even say separation of church and state or mosque and state.
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They say everyone has their freedom to be whatever religion they want.
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But we're just going to separate it from the government.
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You will see burqas on the street in Montreal the day after this becomes law.
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You know, and here's the other funny angle I find about this, Ezra,
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is that for so many years, going back to Meech Lake, if you will,
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we've been told that Quebec is a distinct society.
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And then on this file of the separation of church and state, if you will,
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when they go out and do something that shows their distinctiveness, they get condemned.
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The government said if there's a constitutional challenge,
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they're going to invoke the notwithstanding clause.
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And secondly, there is massive public support for this.
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Now, the government in Quebec is a new party that's not even 10 years old.
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It's called the CAQ or CAC Party, Coalition Avenir Quebec,
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But the government that they beat at the last election was the Liberal Party of Quebec.
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And you, of course, remember the Parti Québécois.
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So the three main parties in Quebec, or at least the three that have governed it
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for the last 50 years or whatever, they all agree on this.
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Now, there's a small Marxist Islamic party called, I just forgot what it's called.
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Amir Qadir is one of the, like, it's a really Marxist Islamist party.
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But them and all the multi-culti Toronto fancy pants media at McLean's and the National Post
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and the Toronto Star, they're apoplectic about this.
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But in Quebec, it's as close to unanimous as just about anything gets in Quebec.
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And so you'll notice that Justin Trudeau, is he calling this bill alt-right, neo-Nazi,
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You, if anyone in English Canada would read a word of this, that's what they would be
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I mean, he still goes to all his mosque rallies.
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And when you think about it, Quebec, old stock Quebec, I don't want to say indigenous Quebecers
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because there were Aboriginal Indians there before the French came to Quebec 400 years
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I mean, people say Canada is such a new country.
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So you still have to say that the Indians, Aboriginal people were the indigenous Canadians, of course.
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But when you're in a place homesteading, logging, trapping, building, setting up cities and towns,
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settling, colonizing, New France, you can call yourself indigenous in your own way.
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So you have 400 years of indigenous French Quebecois culture.
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And I would say that the most politicized license plate slogan in the country.
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So by any dictionary definition, they are an ethnic nationalism.
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I mean, Justin Trudeau and his cronies throw around alt-right, racist, white nationalist.
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Quebecois, and I'm not saying this in a pejorative way, I'm saying it in a descriptive way,
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they are a nationalist, indigenous, white culture that has sovereignty over some areas.
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And I'm not criticizing it, I'm not condemning it, I'm not even calling it racist.
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I'm just saying if there is anything in North America that resembles a white nation,
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that talks about itself as its ethnicity and nationalism, it's the Quebecois.
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And I'm not condemning it, I'm not saying they're racist.
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I'm just saying that they want to keep their Frenchness, and for most liberal politicians,
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One very quick question, and hopefully a quick answer.
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We must, you know, be honest and say that when you're pro-Burqa, pro-Niqab, this is a third rail in Quebec.
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And I've always loved your theory of what really happened in the federal election of 2015.
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And that was Tom Mulcair going to bat for that woman in Mississauga, Ontario,
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who wanted to take the citizenship oath while in the burqa or the niqab,
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and supported her right to do that religious freedom thing.
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And that was the balance swung from the conservatives to the liberals.
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So maybe this is really why Justin Trudeau isn't doing the alt-right, the white supremacist card,
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because he will alienate those voters in Quebec for the next federal election.
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The lying Anglo media party will tell you that Stephen Harper lost the last election
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because of the burqa ban and his barbaric cultural practices tip line.
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That's what they want you to believe, because that's their narrative.
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The liberals and the NDP were perfectly tied for about a month in the campaign,
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and that was almost perfectly splitting the ABC.
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And Stephen Harper was on track to win a minority government
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until Thomas Mulcair, who, by the way, is probably identical to Justin Trudeau on the issue,
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I think it was a 14-point immediately collapse of his vote in Quebec
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because the Francophones, the indigenous French nation, just said, no thanks.
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So you have a 14-point drop in Quebec basically overnight.
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That's going to show up as a three- or four-point drop nationwide.
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So the ABC voter was saying, well, do we vote liberal or NDP?
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And then like about a week or so before the vote, it goes...
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And then all of these New Democrats say, oh, yikes, we're all coalescing around Trudeau.
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So the burqa, Thomas Mulcair's embrace of the burqa is what handed not just so many Quebec seats to the liberals,
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but it was the cue to New Democrats in Ontario and B.C. to all get behind Trudeau.
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Justin Trudeau owes his prime ministership to the burqa ban, and Thomas Mulcair's embrace of it,
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but ironically, it was Trudeau who campaigned the hardest in the mosques,
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including the hate mosques in Canada that are so, you know,
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like the Asuna Wahhabi Mosque in Montreal that the Pentagon says was where terrorists were recruited.
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Trudeau got the radical Muslim vote, but he didn't get the backlash for supporting the burqa.
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You're going to see hypocrisy galore by the liberal elites and the media party when it comes to this particular bill.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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There have been no shortage of cringe-level 1,000 woke marketing campaigns thrown together for the sole purpose of enticing your dollar.
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With the only goal being making people think these companies actually care.
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The paper towel company, Brawny, took the iconic lumberjack dude wearing plaid off
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and replaced him with a woman wearing the same thing.
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So they had to stamp on the hashtag strengthhasnogender campaign.
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You know, because nothing empowers women like paper towels.
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Was this move to empower women to pursue the dangerous career of lumberjacking?
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Another classic, Nike giving Colin Kaepernick an entire line with the slogan
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Stand for something, even if it means sacrificing everything.
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I know what people tell you, but here's the truth here.
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Colin Kaepernick was a losing QB for two years and lost his starting job.
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And even still, that same season with all the controversy, he still was allowed to play and was awful.
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But Nike wants to fight bigotry and stand up to injustice.
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And don't get me started on the Gillette toxic masculinity commercial.
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But just when you think Gillette couldn't get any more woke and ridiculous, they say,
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And of course, any critics of this ad have been labeled fatphobic.
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Remember the good old days when advertising was all about moving the merchandise?
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Now it seems that certain companies have been infiltrated by social justice warriors.
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Indeed, an increasing number of marketing campaigns seem to be far more keen on making some kind of virtue signaling social statement,
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as opposed to enticing consumers to go out and actually buy the product being advertised.
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Joining me now with more on this wacky SJW trend in the ad business is our Tinseltown rebel, Ben Davies.
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Now, Ben, it looks like Procter & Gamble, which of course is the parent company of Gillette,
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learned nothing from that Me Too themed fiasco for male razors.
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But now P&G seems hell-bent on destroying the female side of the razor business, too,
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as they trumpet an image of a woman who is obviously morbidly obese.
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Now, Ben, I am no fan of the anorexic supermodel look.
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So, Ben, what in blue hell is behind this latest ludicrous Gillette marketing campaign?
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Well, I think the basis of it is once you go low, you can't go back.
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Once you do the male toxic masculinity Gillette commercial,
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then all of a sudden you lose that marketplace.
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including body shame activists or fat-phobic fighters or something,
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kind of like section off this niche as well for your company.
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And that's what they're doing with this new Gillette campaign,
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which is opportunistic and dangerous and extremely shallow, what they're doing.
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Like you said, it's not a lifestyle that's conducive for anyone that has way more health complications
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And right now, I didn't even know this, Canada's obesity right now is at 30%,
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This is an epidemic and encouraging people to go down this path
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that leads to so many harmful diseases and problems with your body.
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And I know, Ben, I'm going to get all kinds of comments,
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and they're going to be saying about yours truly,
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oh, look at that fat menzoid talking about a fat woman.
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But if I didn't, you know, cut sugar out of my diet,
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if I didn't exercise every second day, I would be circus fat.
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You know, we have this whole body image thing going now, Ben,
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where people are saying, yeah, you go gal or you go guy.
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You know, if you need quintuple XL, you know, clothes to get into, that's fine.
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And Gillette, which is, let's face it, in the image,
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they shouldn't be adding fuel to this social justice warrior fire to begin with.
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It's like you see someone that's just drinking paint thinner.
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It's like for you, it's like, yeah, you know, I lean towards more of the sweets.
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What kind of friends would people be if they're like, yo, Dave,
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It's dangerous, and the double standard is ridiculous.
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Because, yes, models and agencies and ad companies have been slammed.
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ads have been pulled because they just think this girl looks too skinny for their taste.
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Not that she's suffering from an eating disorder.
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And saying this, you can't even be on screen for people to admire
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if anyone has suffered from an eating disorder,
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that's something that also should not be encouraged.
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You can't say hashtag BU when someone is suffering on the opposite end.
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You don't encourage any of those because it's detrimental to the person.
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But that side of the equation, that's at less than,
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that's about 7% people that suffer from an eating disorder,
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which is still a problem we should address and talk about.
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But we're talking 30% of people in the United States and in Canada
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that are suffering from an eating disorder where they're overeating,
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Just using real women with real curves and, you know,
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as opposed to being on the extreme of ultra skinny or ultra fat.
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Now, Ben, here's the thing, though, I don't get.
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Like, you said earlier that basically Gillette has no choice but to double down.
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I would dispute that with you, my friend, you know,
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based on, you know, the male razors campaign that they came out with.
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that campaign is registering a staggering 10 to 1 ratio
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But instead, you're right, they are doubling down.
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But I think it's like shooting themselves in the foot.
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Yeah, I mean, you would think any rational person would think that.
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You know, it's like I the only thing I can think of is like, look,
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we had better get everyone on the opposite end.
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Because that's the only reason something this is going to be flying with the marketing team.
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These companies actually care about empowering people
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that are suffering from an eating disorder of overeating
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They're thinking, how can I get people to buy these cheap razors?
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And playing on someone who's already dealing with an issue like this, that's evil.
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And you know, Ben, when the next quarter statements comes out for Gillette,
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I'm not sure P&G separates that or not, if that's public.
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But I would like to see if this is selling more razors or their sales are further going down.
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And don't forget, this is a company in the last 10 years
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that went from 70% market share to 50% market share.
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But, you know, because of new competitors like Dollar Shave and Harry's and so forth.
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the other tricky thing, I think, for Gillette is people like me saying,
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how dare you make yourself the moral authority?
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How dare you go out and tell men, in the case of, you know, the male razors,
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you know what, it's not the best you can be anymore.
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even though it's going to take maybe 25 years off your life.
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I mean, it really makes no sense to be willing to do this.
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And as a consumer, I'm not going to take this for a second.
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I work hard for my dollar, and I'm going to take it somewhere else
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to get a product that I think mirrors my view of the world
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and cares about me in the same way that I would want my razor to care for me.
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And I really hope, like you said, the dislike ratio on YouTube,
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I hope that is perfectly representative of the way that their stock will tank
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It's kind of like, you know, in the Hollywood reference,
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And I'm thinking of somebody like Roman Polanski here.
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But in my case, until January, I was a huge fan of the Fusion 5 Gillette Razor.
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I think it's the best, you know, razor on the market.
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And I'm at the point right now, I'm down to my last two Fusion 5s.
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I've got to determine who's sponge-worthy or not.
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Gillette has put me in a position where I'm going to boycott them 100%,
00:35:25.960
unless one of our viewers can inform me of a fantastic razor out there.
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But that's, I guess, the price I'm going to pay,
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because I just find it so distasteful to accept that marketing message,
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Yeah, I address the same thing when I talk about Chris Evans,
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because he has political views that I think are absolutely absurd.
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Brie Larson, on the other hand, she's the Gillette,
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no, no, this movie's not for you, you 40-year-old white dudes.
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When they mark it like this, that's what they're going to get.
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Well, Ben, we're going to have to wrap it there.
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I think, ultimately, I'm, and maybe you should do this,
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let's just grow beards and not have to worry about razors anymore.
00:36:20.580
But thanks so much for another great commentary, my friend.
00:36:28.720
More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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So, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped by Toronto last Friday
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to host a $1,600-a-plate dinner for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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And two things quickly became evident to us that evening.
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First, there are still plenty of Liberal Party supporters
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who, for whatever reason, are turning a blind eye
00:37:00.120
And secondly, even though the federal carbon tax
00:37:02.880
took effect earlier this month to ostensibly save the environment,
00:37:07.480
it appears that when it comes to engine idling,
00:37:15.260
In any event, here's what some of you had to say.
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They're paying more for a dinner than I make in a month.
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Bunch of rich snobs looking for a handout like Loblaws and SNC.
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And to think one attendee at this soiree called Justin Trudeau
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There is actually an idling engine law in Ontario.
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Well, actually, Phil, there is a City of Toronto bylaw for sure
00:38:16.340
But talk about a catch-22 if bylaw enforcement did issue fines.
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In other words, those fines wouldn't be coming out of Justin Trudeau's pocket,
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who will support the Trudeau Liberal Party come October
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and give this government a second majority mandate?
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You know, three months ago, I would have said yes.
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I highly doubt there is still a critical mass of voters out there
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who will still be drinking Justin's Kool-Aid come October.
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So you, meaning fundraiser attendees, support Trudeau,
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These are the people who get kickbacks from Trudeau
00:39:21.880
Corruption and ignorance is alive and well in the East.
00:39:27.120
Loblaw Companies Limited admitted to price-fixing bread for 15 years.
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And aside from doling out a few $25 gift cards to ripped-off consumers,
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what does this Liberal Party supporter receive by way of punishment?
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Well, immunity from prosecution and, more lately,
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$12 million worth of free refrigerators paid for by you,
00:39:58.740
David Menzies says Trudeau left all his SUVs running.
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Trudeau says, retract that statement or I'll sue you.
00:40:06.440
You know, if only that were the case, Less Than Perfect.
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A lawsuit means Trudeau finally answering questions under oath.
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Believe me, if the Trudeau Liberals actually go ahead and sue Andrew Scheer,
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they would be doing a great service to the opposition parties
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.