Rebel Roundup： Guests Ezra Levant, Keean Bexte, & Ben Davies!
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Summary
Rebel Commander Ezra Levent has the latest on the ongoing SNC-Lavalin dumpster fire, Ben Davies explains why leftist critics are really a bunch of jokers, and we get your letters! And our Tinseltown Rebel recently attended a showing of the entire Dark Knight trilogy, hosted by Christopher Nolan himself. While many on the left loathe the right-of-centre narrative these events embody, Ben explains why these leftists are really jokers.
Transcript
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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
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by your favourite Rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.
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Just how bad is lav scam getting for Justin Trudeau?
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Well, would you believe that dozens of young women who would have given him
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a standing ovation in the House of Commons just a few months ago
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are now literally turning their backs on the PM?
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Rebel Commander Ezra Levent has the latest on the ongoing SNC-Lavalin dumpster fire.
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So, Kenan Bextie was in the riding of Calgary Varsity the other day
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But current NDP candidate, former communist Anne McGrath,
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she didn't care for his questions, so guess what?
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She called the cops. Just while you hear the details.
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And our Tinseltown Rebel recently attended a showing of the entire Dark Knight trilogy,
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an event hosted by director Christopher Nolan himself.
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While many on the left loathe the right-of-centre narrative these films embody,
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Ben Davies is going to explain why these leftists are really a bunch of jokers.
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And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding the removal of a high-risk transgendered pedophile
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who had been placed in a female halfway house in Brampton, Ontario.
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Yeah, apparently he violated his parole conditions in less than a week.
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Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
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Let me show you a bizarre TV clip of Trudeau speaking to a group of young women
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Remember, almost 50 of these young women, when Trudeau spoke,
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as you can see here, they stood up and turned their backs on him.
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He was speaking. They stood up with their backs to him.
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And it's sort of incredible, given how much he's sold himself as a male feminist.
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I think he's destroyed that reputation these past two months.
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They all think he's just like a Gian Gomeschi character now, a groper,
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Anyways, to the young women who didn't turn their backs on him,
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here's what he said. Now listen to this. It's so weird. Listen.
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I know nobody in here wants to have to pick who to believe
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between Jody Wilson-Raybould and Chrystia Freeland.
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Nobody wants to know that one person has to be right
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There are always going to be a range of perspectives
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First of all, he actually forgot Jane Philpott's name, which is weird.
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Look what he did. He reframed this whole crisis
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So this whole problem these past two months hasn't been about him.
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The problem is between a couple of quarrelsome women,
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I don't know anyone else who would get that close to some of these women
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Why are you coming nose to nose with these women?
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Trudeau is playing a weird sociopathic political game here.
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He's changing the historical facts with a straight face, daring you, telling you not
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This wasn't about him trying to bully Jody Wilson-Raybould.
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This is about Jody Wilson-Raybould fighting with Chrystia Freeland.
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This isn't about him doing something that Jane Philpott disapproved of.
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It's because she was fighting with Catherine McKenna.
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McKenna and Freeland had nothing to do with this.
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But it served to exonerate himself psychologically, so he doesn't have to take any responsibility
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Well, the SNC-Lavalin affair is kind of like a Yoko Ono concert, isn't it?
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It started out badly and then proceeds to get horrid.
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And tragically, if you're a card-carrying liberal, that is, it didn't have to be this
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If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau simply manned up when the Globe and Mail article originally
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broke this story and told the truth and apologized to Jody Wilson-Raybould, well, it would have
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pledged that there would be no deferred prosecution agreement for SNC-Lavalin, well, this story would
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But instead, the scandal continues to fester like some ghastly soap opera script.
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And far from manning up, now Trudeau is metaphorically hiding behind the skirts of Freeland and
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Joining me now to weigh in on a scandal that will surely dog Trudeau all the way to Election
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Day is our very own Rebel Commander Ezra Levant.
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Welcome to Ezra, welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.
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You know, I think back, I was listening to you there, and I might have told you this anecdote
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before, Ralph Klein in Alberta had a pretty good sense of the province, pretty good feeling
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But he, no, it's perfect, especially when you're making decisions every day.
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So, but once a year, he would get something really, really wrong.
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And every politician's instinct is to dig your heels in, which is probably the right instinct
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because you get it pushed around so much, if you caved in at the first breeze, you would
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But when it was clear that he just got something really wrong, Ralph would just, in his own
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Ralph-y way, just go and say, you know what, folks?
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And look, and it was like a 30-second press conference because when you say, I screwed
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There's really not much more you need to say because you've said it all.
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Yeah, well, that was the miracle, is that his popularity would always grow up because
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people would say, holy moly, he's normal and he's not a liar.
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The news is that a politician admitted it and fixed it and no one ever expected anyone
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to be 100% perfect, especially not Ralph Klein.
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Now, here's the thing, Justin Trudeau makes apologies every month, but they're not genuine.
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He's an expert at apologizing for things other people did, often decades or even a century
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And the reason that's a fake apology is because when you apologize for what someone else did,
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especially if it was long ago, you're not actually saying sorry because you have nothing
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What you're actually doing is a psychological trick.
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You're saying, because I'm the only one who would apologize for him, I'm better than him.
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And I'm going to get the kudos for apologizing for him.
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So his fake apologies are less than meaningful.
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They're actually proof that he's a bit of a scammer, because you don't apologize for
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Get rid of the people trying to corrupt the system.
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Why would you want the prime minister to admit his office was wrong?
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Because if he won't admit it's wrong, that means he doesn't think it's wrong.
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He doesn't get it that he was doing something wrong.
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By the way, none of those things, as you'll see,
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make Jody Wilson-Raybould more rich, more powerful, more influential,
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None of those things are what you would traditionally negotiate for in some...
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Like, normally, if you're lobbying or negotiating,
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These weren't even conditions for her own benefit.
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Look, he said goodbye to Butts and Wernick anyways.
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So say goodbye to this last guy who was trying to corrupt the system.
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Imagine if he would have done that two months ago.
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This thing would have been a blip and it would have been done with.
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And Jody Wilson-Raybould would be able to say in honesty,
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No, he is clearly an author of his own misfortune, Ezra,
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in the fact that he cannot apologize for something that he has screwed up.
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But I think that was a watershed moment on Wednesday when you had the daughters of the vote in the House of Commons,
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almost 50 of them turned their backs on Justin Trudeau.
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And yet, you know, talk about not being accountable for your actions and for what you've done.
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Trudeau had that speech where he was talking about, you know, you can't be a team player, you know,
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trying to ensure diversity if it's Freeland versus you, if it's McKenna versus you.
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It wasn't me, the guy, you know, Trudeau was saying.
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He turned it into a she said, she said event instead of he said, she said.
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I'm wondering if Trudeau even went to Freeland and McKenna said,
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by the way, I'm going to be using your names in this speech I'm giving to the daughters of the vote.
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But of course he knew in advance they would be fine with it because they have agreed to do anything for him.
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Which is exactly the opposite of Jodie Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott.
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Two professional women of accomplishment who had accomplished careers outside of politics before they got in.
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Chrystia Freeland was a pop journalist who wrote some sort of tabloid style books
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and wrecked a little new media initiative in New York for Thomson Reuters.
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And Catherine McKenna is some social justice warrior activist.
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Compare those extremely lean, or in the case of Chrystia Freeland, negative resumes with Jodie Wilson-Raybould,
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an aboriginal woman who became a top prosecutor, or Jane Philpott, who was a doctor who led, you know, aid missions abroad.
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So Chrystia Freeland and Catherine McKenna are absolutely grateful to the great white giver, Justin Trudeau.
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You think Chrystia Freeland, on her own merits, should be the foreign minister?
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Now, Trudeau gets a lot of blame for that, too.
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I mean, the fact that they put her in charge of the NAFTA renegotiations, she's never negotiated anything before other than a failed deal with, like, the Belgians or something.
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So it's such a contrast between these two women of character.
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And by the way, I disagree ideologically with Jodie Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott.
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But this is about the integrity of the system, right?
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And that's why I'm so impressed with Jodie Wilson-Raybould that I don't even think for a moment about our ideological differences.
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It's because when was the last time anyone left or right showed the kind of moral care and conscientiousness that they would actually quit cabinet on a point of principle?
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And then Jane Philpott to quit cabinet also, even though she wasn't directly in the file, those are astonishing acts of self-sacrifice that...
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I mean, when I started by mentioning how Ralph Klein would occasionally just say, guys, I screwed up.
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That's just embarrassing yourself for 30 seconds and saying what everyone already knew.
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So everyone was wowed when Ralph Klein would say, I got it wrong.
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Here are two women who actually ended their political careers, at least temporarily, maybe forever, over a point of morality.
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Trudeau screws up quite a bit, also because he's led a life of luxury and unseriousness.
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And it was only in the last 5, 10 years that he's decided to be a grownup.
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You can imagine the lifetime of experience that Jody Wilson-Raybould had, especially as a prosecutor.
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Dealing with right and wrong, making tough ethical calls.
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Well, being a prosecutor, I wouldn't want that job.
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But if you succeeded that, you'd probably care about the law, I'm guessing.
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But it's so funny when he talks about it, he has this psychological trick.
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And watch for it, because once you know it, you can't unsee it.
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If he does something really bad, like let's say when he groped Rose Knight, the young reporter
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in Creston, B.C., and when he's dead to rights, when everyone knows he's, he comes out and he
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repositions himself out of the fray as an observer above it.
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So he says, ah, this was a good learning experience for us, for the country, and I'm happy to
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And she had her point of view, and there's another point of view, and I'm the great giver
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He takes himself out, and he posits that, oh, I'm the observer.
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I'm hovering above everything like some cosmic priest, and I say, you, this is not about me
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This is about Jody Wilson-Raybould versus Chrystia Freeland.
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But Ezra, isn't there some perverse irony, and you addressed this in a superb commentary
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earlier this week, that here is a prime minister who professes to be a feminist, and yet when
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he perceives his female cabinet ministers screwing up, you're demoted, you're out of caucus,
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but as you mentioned, the likes of that dinosaur, John McCallum, Ranar Sarkar, when there's
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a screw-up there, they get plum diplomatic posts.
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So, you know, not really true to the street cred of being a feminist, it would seem.
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I mean, why was he, you know, I mean, probably the worst cabinet, I mean, I think Mary Amonsef
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is the worst cabinet minister, so I'm not going to say Seamus O'Regan's worse than her,
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but he's so bad, and of course he had to take a leave of absence because of his alcoholism,
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and I'm not going to be particularly mean to him about that, but he gets promoted?
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And what did the aboriginal people of this country ever do to deserve being punished with
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So there's an example, Seamus O'Regan is a clown, is a drunk, I'm sorry, he is.
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His former colleague, Bob Fyfe, calls him Seamus O'Regan.
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John McCallum fails upward, and he goes to China as our ambassador and screws that up.
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All these men fail upward in the Liberal Party.
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I guess that's Trudeau's own trajectory, but these women get offside.
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And I say, I mean, Selina Cesar Chavannes, I have my disagreements with her, I think she's
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But, oh my God, does Trudeau not know how to handle women who disagree with him?
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott, Selina Cesar Chavannes, of course, Leona Alislev,
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the MP who defected to the Conservatives a few months ago.
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It is so unusual to defect from a governing party to an opposition party, especially in
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So you have four women in a row, all in their own way.
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Again, I really disagree with Selina Cesar Chavannes on issues of ideology, and I think
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And Leona Alislev, I think she's a military vet.
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I'm not talking about the weird Miriam Monsefs and Christy Duncans and even Catherine
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McKinnis and, like, the women who actually built something with their life, Trudeau can't
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He only likes the pure window dressing, say-anything doormats.
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He takes liberties with them that normally you don't do with any woman who's not your
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And those women in that, here's the trick that both Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau have
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And that's, it works, unfortunately, more on women than on men.
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Is when Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden see a powerful woman who's achieved things, that's a bit
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They go up to them and they physically dominate them by invading their personal space in a manner
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that no other man ought to do other than a man who, frankly, they're married to.
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And I'm not talking about having sex with them.
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I'm talking about full body hugs, getting really right in their face.
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And to do so, and why do both Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau do that in a public moment?
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Because then they force that woman to make an instant choice.
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And of course, if she has a problem with it, that's her truth.
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Well, but the thing is, in that moment, if it was in private, I bet you most of those
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women would push away Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau and say, what are you doing?
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But because both men force it into an extremely public place, they make the woman choose.
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Do you want to continue with your swearing-in ceremony as cabinet minister?
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Do you want to continue with this greatest moment in your life, you're being sworn in
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If so, just know that you have to be dominated by me.
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Push me away and cause a scene or submit to my dominance physically, morally, emotionally,
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Most of them fail because they're so shocked by it.
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But it is an absolute psychosexual emotional dominance move.
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As we're almost out of time, one quick question.
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What can Justin Trudeau possibly do at this stage to fix this mess?
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Well, I think, as Shakespeare said, he's waded into blood so deep, I'm not quoting verbatim,
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that it's quicker to go all the way through than to turn back.
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Basically, you're in so deep, it's faster to go through than to turn back.
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So I believe that he will not only increasingly badmouth Jody Wilson-Raybould
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and Jane Philpott, but I believe he will actually grant a deferred prosecution agreement
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to SNC-Lavalin because he's all the way in, so far in, why not go all the way through?
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And I, as I posited in my monologue yesterday, there's two possibilities.
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The other is, look, SNC-Lavalin is a corrupt company in its DNA.
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Bombardier has corruption and bribery scandals in countries all over the world.
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And I don't just mean dramatic corruption in Africa, in Libya, but in Montreal.
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Corruption with the hospital, corruption with the bridge, corruption, corruption, corruption.
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If they're granted a deferred prosecution agreement and don't have to go through trial,
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If they go to trial, what will we learn about corruption?
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Is there some donation they've made to a liberal?
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We saw how they lavished Muammar Gaddafi's son with gifts and prostitutes and sports events
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Well, we know for a fact that Justin Trudeau loves to take illegal gifts, like he took those
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vacations on Billionaire Island from the Aga Khan.
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Did SNC-Lavalin, just even something as small as let Justin Trudeau fly on their private jet?
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Because that's a hell of a perk to give someone.
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I would say it would be utterly unsurprising for Justin Trudeau to have taken a flight
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His wife, the grasping, gold-digging Sophie Grigoir Trudeau, did you know that she phoned
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up the daughter of the Aga Khan and said, we sure had a good time at your island.
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And the princess, the Aga Khan's daughter, said, well, we're not going to be there.
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And Sophie Grigoir Trudeau said, oh, no, no, that's, yeah, I know that.
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And I know you're thinking, I'm making this up, but if you, this is in the Ethics
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So you don't think the grasping, gold-digging, social-climbing Sophie Grigoir Trudeau would
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And if there's a deal struck with SNC-Lavalin, none of us will have any evidence of this.
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I think that Justin Trudeau is going to blaze all the way through.
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Well, Ezra, we're going to have to wrap it here.
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I don't think this is a fixable problem anymore.
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And it's going to be very interesting when the election campaign does kick off.
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How do you run on the Trudeau brand, given what we've seen in the last two months in 2019?
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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You're calling the police because I'm asking you why you're a communist.
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Are you guys comfortable volunteering for a communist?
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Is Rachel Notley happy that you are a communist?
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Do you know how many people communism has killed?
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He's got a baseball cap, dark sunglasses, brown leather coat, jeans.
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You're a public figure and you can leave if you like.
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I think that it's reasonable for the media to ask you since...
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Well, since the CBC has refused to actually publish the fact that you are a communist
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I just want to know if you regret being a communist.
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And if Rachel Notley has forgiven you for that.
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Meet Anne McGrath currently running in the riding of Calgary Varsity for the NDP.
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But McGrath has a somewhat checkered history, formerly running as a Communist Party candidate.
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And she also once stated that she'd like to see capitalists burn.
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But as you just saw, she doesn't like discussing the nitty-gritty details pertaining to her sordid past these days.
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And if you happen to be a reporter who has the utter temerity to ask impolite questions,
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well, she'll call the police to have you taken away.
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Gee, maybe she thinks Alberta is already a communist regime.
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And with more on this remarkable interview is our Calgary-based rebel, Kian Bextie.
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Kian, that might be a law enforcement first that we all just witnessed.
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The alleged victim, Ms. McGrath, is being assisted with pertinent information about the alleged aggressor,
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I was howling when you were passing along info to her, such as your height, your race, the fact that you weren't weaponized, etc.
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But, Kian, does this woman not understand that as a public figure in a public space, she's fair game for questions?
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And I don't know how to report on this because it's so unbelievable that she thought it was appropriate to call the cops on a journalist.
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I just pulled over for this interview because I'm on the campaign trail right now trying to find a few NDP MLAs.
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But the fact that Rachel Notley's star candidate, someone who has been running the McDougal Center,
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which is the government operations center in Calgary for southern Alberta, she's the executive director of the McDougal Center.
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She's a well-read, she's an educated individual, but she doesn't understand that public sidewalks are by definition public.
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And in public spaces, anyone can record anything, anyone can ask whatever questions they want of people,
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especially when they're an influential, powerful public figure.
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Anne McGrath is running a swing riding in Calgary Varsity.
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There's a lot of university students and there's a lot of uncertainty whether or not she's going to win or the United Conservative Party candidate is going to win.
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If she does win, she will be one of the few NDP MLAs who win in Calgary,
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which means that she has a high chance of being in the NDP leadership following the orange crush that we're going to see on April 16th.
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So the fact that such an incompetent public figure has a high likelihood of running the NDP in the next, within a few weeks, honestly, is surprising to me.
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That is amazing. And, you know, what I'm curious about, Kian, I find it personally fascinating that anyone growing up in the West
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could develop a liking for communism, an ideology that I think on the low side of estimates has killed 100 million people.
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I'm curious, Kian, why do you think the media is giving her a pass on this?
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As you mentioned in your commentary, she's rarely, if ever, questioned about her past.
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And it's not just that. That statement, too, about wanting to see capitalists burn.
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I mean, whatever happened to the loving, inclusive left?
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Well, she's certainly not loving and inclusive by any means.
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And you're right about journalists not wanting to highlight her communist past, her red record.
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She was a communist candidate during the Cold War.
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During the Cold War at a time when any hour of the day of the entire decade, the entire world could have been enveloped in a nuclear holocaust.
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She was on the Russian team at a time when everyone was terrified.
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There was drills sending students under their desks in case there was a nuclear holocaust.
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And she thought that the Russians, they were the model ideology to follow, the USSR.
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And the CBC, they even went as far to outline her entire electoral history because she's ran a few times in Calgary for less radical parties like the NDP.
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But they neglect to mention that she ran for the communists in 1984.
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But, you know, Kian, the way she handled herself on camera, she did an entire disservice to herself.
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And so there's two things I got out of that interview.
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First of all, how she could have turned that into a PR win is that if she actually granted you a brief interview and said,
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you know what, I was younger then, I didn't have a worldview that I have now, I renounce communism,
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she could have come clean and, you know, maybe a lot of people would give her a pass for that.
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And that suggests to me that maybe, I don't know, I can't read minds,
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but maybe she still has a soft spot in her heart for communism.
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But, you know, running as a communist party candidate in Canada, that's a no-hoper.
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So she'll go, I don't know, commie light and run as an NDP candidate.
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Well, we've seen, Rachel Notley has talked about Anne McGrath.
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She sent Anne McGrath to Calgary as sort of a message of hope to Calgarians back about two years ago,
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Because remember, and for the viewers who don't know this,
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the McDougal Centre was left empty for the first couple of years of the NDP mandate,
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Calgarians saw that the government was operating out of Edmonton.
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They didn't care about Calgary as much as Edmonton.
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And this was just an NDP government that would put the Edmonton agenda above the rest of the province.
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And finally, two years into their mandate, they send commie McGrath to run the McDougal Centre.
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And that's what they thought was hope for Calgarians?
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And I don't think Calgarians would buy it if they knew that she was a communist.
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But the mainstream media isn't telling Calgarians.
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I could talk to any of these folks here at this coffee shop with me and say,
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We're in Anne McGrath's riding right now, actually.
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And they might say, yeah, she's the NDP candidate.
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But right when you ask them, did you know she's a commie,
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as I did with a cyclist who was riding by as I was talking to Anne McGrath,
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once you tell them that she was a communist, she's unelectable.
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And that's why the NDP has done such a good job at whipping the media
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to make sure that they don't talk about this horrendous record of Anne McGrath's.
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Sorry if I'm carrying on here, but Anne McGrath has censored the rebel,
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not just by calling the police on me a few days ago.
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She has gone as far to make sure that nobody can post anything about her
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She's gone as far, allegedly, to take signs off of people's lawns,
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UCP signs off of people's lawns, and replace them with NDP signs.
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I just interviewed a lady here in Calgary Varsity saying the exact same thing happened this morning.
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She woke up, her son went out to her car, and saw an NDP sign on their lawn,
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and they didn't know where their UCP sign went.
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The Anne McGrath is only going to win this if her censorship wins.
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Something has to change her. I don't know what it is.
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I don't know what we can do to make sure that we get our message out.
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But, Kian, that's fascinating what you just said.
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I mean, I know in politics of all stripes, when it comes to vacant lots,
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there's always one candidate ripping out somebody else's sign and putting their sign in.
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But, like I said, it's a vacant lot or public property.
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Are you telling me this candidate or her minions are running around this Calgary riding
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and actually removing somebody's sign on private property and replacing it with one of her own?
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I mean, I don't have any video evidence to prove it.
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She showed me the NDP sign as evidence that it was on her lawn, and her UCP sign was gone.
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She called the local UCP campaign asking for a new sign as a replacement.
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She called the NDP campaign to complain, and the NDP said nothing.
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And the UCP said that this is a reoccurring theme, that they had done this before.
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I just got to say that for the lawyers that are probably listening from the NDP.
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But it's unverified for now, other than the resident who has said it to me.
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But there's a video that will show up here on the Rebel website,
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I think probably tonight or tomorrow morning, of my interview with her.
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There you can see every video that I've done about Anne McGrath and with Anne McGrath.
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We have to do something to expose her past because the mainstream media is not doing it.
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And she's trying at every turn to censor us from doing our job.
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And that is, what did she hope to accomplish by calling the police?
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To me, what it speaks of is a feeling of entitlement.
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She's used to the media not reporting on her sordid past.
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To me, it suggests she's still beholden to the idea of communism,
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which tends to go hand in hand with authoritarianism,
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that she can get the secret police, if you will, out,
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I think that Anne McGrath thought that dialing 9-0,
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that if she dialed 9-1-1, that the Stasi would pick up.
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I think that she thinks that the secret police are on speed dial.
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And I really think that she thought that when she flashed her,
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I'm going to call the cops on you line, that I was just going to leave,
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that I didn't have the commitment to follow through and make sure that she answered those questions.
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Of course, she still failed to answer the majority of my questions,
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but I think that she thought it was going to intimidate me away from asking questions.
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if a United Conservative Party candidate called the cops on a CBC,
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It's disgusting what Anne McGrath has done here to this writing,
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and is going to do to this province if she gets elected.
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Well, Kian, I guess in the final analysis, KGB does rhyme with NDP.
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I know, that was a cheap shot, but we're going to have to wrap it there.
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And Kian, thank you again for another excellent report, my friend.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Basically, what this means is when stories are told truthfully with no agenda,
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Think of any classic, I mean real classic movies.
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How many of those movies are politically correct fad stories
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in an attempt to score brownie points with the Academy?
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Now, this isn't exclusive to Christopher Nolan.
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There are other directors in movies that are criticized for being conservative,
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But recently in Los Angeles, I attended the Dark Knight Trilogy event.
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All three of the Dark Knight movies shown back to back to back
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And the nearly 11-hour event was freaking awesome.
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But the best part of the event was Christopher Nolan actually attended
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I recorded the interview and in response to the moderator,
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specifically asking if his Batman movies were influenced after 9-11.
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Now, I can only assume the moderator was asking such a bizarre question
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to try to explain why conservatives always praise and beloved Nolan films.
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From not casting diverse enough in the historical film Dunkirk,
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to Salon even saying that The Dark Knight Rises was a fascist evil film.
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Gee, I thought The Dark Knight Rises was anti-fascist
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given that the titular hero was going up against a villain
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Then again, given the antics of the leftist loons
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it is Batman, rather than Bane, who is the bad guy.
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And joining me now is our Tinseltown rebel, Ben Davies,
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who recently took in a marathon screening of Christopher Nolan's superb Dark Knight trilogy.
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because I would have loved them being where you were last week.
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we must talk about that double standard in Hollywood,
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which is to say, if one is to inject a political narrative into a film,
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then the likes of Salon are going to label the film as being evil.
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Right. I mean, it's basically like you're getting bonus points
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and they'll forego or ignore problems with the film to say,
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it's okay, this film wasn't what we thought it was,
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It's like it's what they tried to do that was important.
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and they get doxed and hit in every possible category,
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and it's something that every moviegoer should go look out for,
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which is why you've got to critique kind of your own movies,
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Why is it, I mean, I find it downright perverse
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that a movie that has a right-of-center narrative,
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something perceived by the audience to be right-of-center is labeled as evil.
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I mean, that's an incredibly strong, powerful, demeaning word
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How can they even make that case to begin with?
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When I read that Salon review of The Dark Knight Rises,
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If you believe that this is the way the world is,
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this is that oppressive, heteronormative stuff going on,
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And that's the thing with Christopher Nolan and his films,
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specifically him, there's other directors that do this,
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but I think when you try to make an honest film,
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and the people behave the way normal people would,
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in real situations, and their dialogue is not forced,
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Then it's going to be more in line with conservative values
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because it's not so much based on the ideology,
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it's based on the way that you perceive the world.
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he was definitely not making a political statement,
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my opinion, and I did a commentary on this a few years ago,
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The Dark Knight Rises is the most right-of-center film
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he takes that grief and becomes a superhero out of it.
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he becomes a villain and he wants to make others suffer
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In a way, that's a lot of conservative ideology there.
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if anyone hasn't seen this movie through that lens,
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And the first movie is literally about somebody
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and living for something greater than themselves,
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And it's mirrored perfectly with these two characters.
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and we'll give everything back to the people, you.
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And it ends up in chaos, tyranny, and genocide.
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of the way Nolan told this whole little trilogy.
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and the Occupy movement around North America sprung up.
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And then copious quantities of CGI special effects
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to the point where I feel like I'm in a video game.
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That's why Josh Whedon stepped away from the Avengers
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and the shackles of having to put a joke on this page
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you need an explosion here, that kind of thing.
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Like, the Batman story is such a hero's journey tale,
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and then becoming something great of themselves.
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Like, the way that we interact in the world itself.
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he talked about this during that seminar I went to,
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trying to make these archetypal characters work
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And it's the hottest ticket to get in Los Angeles.
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Please don't give me any transphobia lecture here.
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Not only does this woman have a functioning penis,
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which is part of the typical process in transitioning.
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and he undoubtedly still lusts after little girls.
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And yet we're all supposed to pretend he is a she
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all to save some trans snowflake from getting offended.
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And we're all supposed to buy into the fact that
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perhaps think Hark's was pretending to be a female?
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Barely a week after being inexplicably relocated
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apparently violated the terms of his parole conditions.
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Thankfully, he's now back in the Crowbar Motel.
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And in the event, here's what some of you had to say
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about the folks at Correctional Services Canada
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First off, if the crimes were committed as a male,
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Secondly, now he can be declared a dangerous offender
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Well, you know, you raise many good points, Jedgar.
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Well, thanks to political correctness run amok,
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about 10 minutes away from where he was placed.