Rebel Roundup： Guests Ezra Levant, Keean Bexte, & Sheila Gunn Reid
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Summary
Rebel Commander Ezra Levitt joins host David Menzies to discuss Gerald Butts' attempt to cover his butt on the SNC-Lavalin land scam, Jason Kenney's plan to bring Somalis to Alberta, and more.
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 by your favourite rebels.
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Well, Gerald Butts tried valiantly to, well, cover his butt the other day regarding land scam.
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Did he succeed? Ezra Levent will offer his analysis.
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And some high-profile UK and Canadian politicians recently proclaimed their love for a free press.
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Just one caveat, apparently the media has to follow an appropriate narrative in order to earn their love.
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And Jason Kenney thinks that the importation of Somalis to Brooks, Alberta,
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has been a resounding success story that needs to be duplicated in other Alberta jurisdictions.
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Well, Kian Bexte recently travelled to Brooks to interview residents.
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And just wait till you hear what some of them had to say.
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And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get them every minute of every day.
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And I'll share some of your responses to my commentary regarding the federal government's refusal
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to say how much they are spending on accommodating refugees at two Toronto hotels.
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Whatever happened to the Trudeau Liberals' promise about being transparent?
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Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
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I don't think we can take Gerald Butts at face value.
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What he's trying to do, though, is saying, sure, we broke a few eggs to make this omelette,
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But that's the thing. See, the Canadian Criminal Code specifically says
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that economic matters are not relevant to whether or not you can prosecute a criminal.
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Otherwise, we would literally favor any rich person, any big company, and let them off,
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but just go after the poor people. Think about it. Put that up just for a second.
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Again, I'm going to read. This is from the Criminal Code.
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This is on deferred prosecutions. This is what SNC-Lavalin asked for.
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Despite paragraph 2i, if the organization is alleged to have committed an offense
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under Section 3 or 4 of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act,
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the prosecutor must not consider the national economic interest,
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the potential effect on relations with the state other than Canada,
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or the identity of the organization or individual involved.
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that's specifically not allowed in a consideration to drop charges.
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Otherwise, every big company could simply break the law all the time and say,
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But you see, we've got a lot of people working here.
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Well, if there's one narrative that has remained consistent regarding the Trudeau Liberals' response
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it is the innuendo that the ends justify the means.
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In other words, if a major corporation employing thousands of Canadians is doing something illicit,
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well, perhaps there's some, you know, wiggle room within the law
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to allow for a wee bit of chicanery, wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
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But as you just saw, regardless of the spin cycle at play here,
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and not even the economic interests of a major corporation
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or even the entire nation can trump the rule of law.
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And with more on Lavscam is our very own Rebel Commander, Ezra Levitt.
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Well, first of all, Ezra, I want to go back two days ago to Gerald Butt's testimony.
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Well, it was definitely not the real Gerald Butt's.
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I know the real Gerald Butt's from his Twitter feed.
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He's vile, he's crude, he calls people he doesn't like,
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which is weird because I'm Jewish and I don't think Jews can be Nazis.
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I don't know what got into her because I don't know.
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I mean, it was just a, it was fake, but it was to absorb the energy.
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Until that moment, it was just Jody Wilson-Raybould,
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And then yesterday, Justin Trudeau weighed in and said,
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okay, so you're taking one position and you're taking the opposite position.
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Let me now come in as a passive observer, outsider, a referee.
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I'm going to come in now and tell you how we're going to resolve this
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as if I'm some judge rather than the party in question.
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So it was a move designed to make the antagonist,
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And also, Ezra, on that point in terms of Justin Trudeau's response
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and this whole business of, well, that's her truth.
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It seems to me a little odd that a prime minister
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whether it's the ex-attorney general or that reporter in Kokanee from a while back.
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Listen, any time someone identifies as a male feminist,
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if they say male feminist, you should hear someone who is not a male feminist
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but who says that to preempt any criticism of how he treats women.
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Every single person I've ever heard of who describes himself as a male feminist,
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from Harvey Weinstein, for whom it was a big deal to be a feminist,
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Gian Gomeschi of the CBC, who literally got a women's studies degree,
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and then he would literally smash women in the face.
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So I have, and all the people taken down in the Me Too movement,
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They, and there were, anytime a man says, I mean, a normal man doesn't go around and say,
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If you're talking about it all the time, if you're running hot on it, that's your clue.
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And I believe that Justin Trudeau, his whole feminist thing is a front, is a sham,
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designed to preempt and inoculate him from sexual indiscretions in the past.
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We know about his sexual assault on Rose Knight in British Columbia,
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and it's not me who's calling it sexual assault, it's she who called it that,
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and it's the New York Times that called it that.
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He says, hey, everybody, hey, did I tag on 50% women?
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Hey, everybody, hey, everybody, I want you to meet these women,
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not because they have qualities, not because they're qualified,
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I mean, Mariam Monsa, Bardis Jagger, Catherine McKenna, Kirstie Duncan,
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Kirstie Duncan lied about her resume, said she was a Nobel Prize winner.
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Don't ever lie about being a Nobel Prize winner
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because they have a website with a list, a list.
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And so he treats women as one purpose only, as a shield.
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look, I'm surrounded by women, so I can't be that bad, right?
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He accidentally, accidentally appointed two women of substance.
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Jodie Wilson-Raybould, an accomplished lawyer and prosecutor.
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Mariam Monsa, Ikra Khalid, and all the rest of the quota girls said,
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Jodie Wilson-Raybould said, yeah, no, I'm not willing to roll over for your friends at SNC-Lavalin.
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And Jane Philpott, watching the whole thing from cabinet, said, I can't be a part of this.
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So the irony is, the only women who work well with Justin Trudeau, they're not actually women of substance.
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The only women that do well with Justin Trudeau are the ones that let him walk all over them.
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Someone as unqualified as Catherine McKenna, who had never really held down a job in her life,
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She was actually packing to go back to Afghanistan.
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And then she just decided, well, maybe I'll run for office.
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So women of no accomplishment do really well with Trudeau because they have one use for them.
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Women of high accomplishment are a direct threat to Trudeau
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because they actually want to be taken seriously.
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And speaking of Catherine McKenna, as you know, Ezra, on Monday I went down to the Danforth Music Hall
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and Justin Trudeau and a bunch of Liberal MPs were there to do a climate change rally.
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Of course, that's first and foremost on the front burner of the national agenda right now.
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And the place was packed with Liberal loyalists.
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I was interviewing them on the sidewalk and it kept coming down to the other narrative the Liberals are saying.
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The figure bandied about so often is 9,000 jobs.
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And secondly, on the bigger question of jobs, Ezra,
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how many jobs in the Alberta oil patch have been vanquished because of the pipeline paralysis?
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Why aren't jobs a priority in Alberta, but they are in Quebec?
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Because the Keystone XL pipeline, because that was Obama that killed that one.
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But the Northern Gateway pipeline, that was approved.
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Energy East pipeline was moving through smooth sailing.
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Trudeau rigged the rules that made them abandon it.
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But it's not 9,000 jobs at SNC Lab that are at stake.
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The entire company will not stop existing if they pay a fine.
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I checked the market capitalization of SNC-Lavalin today.
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That means how much are all the shares worth on the stock exchange?
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So if they pay a fine of $50 million, that's less than 1% of their value.
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So you're basically saying for every dollar you have invested in SNC-Lavalin, you're going
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to pay one cent in fines because you're a crooked company.
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And that's not going to cause 9,000 people to be unemployed.
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There should be nine people unemployed, the nine corrupt leaders of this company.
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The rest are just engineers who are doing work that will be done.
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If you're doing an engineering project in Montreal, you could work for SNC-Lavalin.
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If a company goes out of business, you can still find work.
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But it's not going to go out of business for paying a fine worth 1% of their market cap.
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That's a lie that hasn't properly been challenged in the public by the media.
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But more than that, even if it were true, and it's not, the public prosecutions portion
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of the criminal code specifically says you can't take job losses or money into account.
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Because if all it took for a company to say you can't sue me was I'm very rich and I employ
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a lot of people, you would effectively be encouraging the richer the company, the more corrupt they would be.
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If the only people you could ever sue for being corrupt criminals were poor people, mom
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and pop shops, low income people, I think you should prosecute any mom and pop shops that
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But if you literally rigged the rules to let someone say, well, I employ 9,000 people,
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You would literally be tilting the playing field towards corruption by big companies.
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It would be an abomination of justice, to be sure.
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As we're almost out of time, very quick exit question, hypothetical one.
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Say you didn't have your role as a leader of Rebel.media and you were an advisor to Justin
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Trudeau because clearly what Mr. Butts and Mr. Trudeau said in the last two days did not
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What would be your advice to him in terms of trying to make things right?
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Justin Trudeau is known for his apologies, but they're ironic apologies, as in he apologizes
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for other people and he presents himself as the only one moral enough to say what my
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predecessor did was wrong and I'm here to apologize for him.
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So Trudeau apologized for what past people did and he does it in that backhanded, self-complimentary
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way of saying, I'm here to deeply apologize for the wrong that someone else did so you
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So he loves making apologies for things he hasn't done.
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In his entire public career, I have yet to see him make a single apology, let alone an
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acknowledgement that he's done something wrong.
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And were he to look into the camera and say, folks, I screwed up.
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Ralph Klein would sometimes get so far out on something and then he would say, what am
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And you know, everyone said, holy cow, politician who actually says he's wrong and says sorry.
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Every time Ralph Klein did that, I remember one case, he appointed a partisan guy to head
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the Alberta Energy Regulator, which is a very important nonpartisan, it basically runs oil
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And Klein had appointed an old crony to head it up.
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And the whole industry said, no, no, you can't.
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The reason we're so successful is unlike Nigeria and Mexico, there's zero corruption.
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You can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't.
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And the whole problem said, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
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And he dug in his heel and then he finally said, all right, I was wrong.
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And he just, he just went to the place and said, folks, I screwed up.
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And everyone said, oh my God, when was the last time we saw that?
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And if Justin Trudeau ever looked in the camera and said, you know what, guys, I'm not going
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I may have had positive motivations, but that doesn't cut it.
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And we're going to fire that hyper-partisan click of the Privy Council.
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And I've already lost my right-hand man, Gerald Butts.
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All of a sudden, it would be tough to pile on him because he just piled on himself.
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And the more arrogant a guy is blaming others, and he's basically called Jody Wilson-Raybould
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If he were to say, you know what, Jody, I know you're mad at me right now, but I want
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Would the whole country say, that took courage?
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And that would be my advice, but he would never take it.
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Well, Ezra, thank you so much for this analysis.
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I guess Elton John was right with one of his song lyrics.
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When it comes to Justin Trudeau, sorry seems to be the hardest word, doesn't it?
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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The Foreign Secretary of the UK, he sent a tweet that said,
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So pleased to announce, the UK and our good friends in Canada will be co-hosting the first
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ever ministerial level media freedom conference on July 10th and 11th in London.
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That is one heck of an interesting tweet sent by a representative of the country that locked
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To which Jeremy Hunt's Canadian counterpart, our moral preening embarrassment of a foreign
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In any democracy, journalists must have the ability to report facts freely, to defend, expose, and
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advance the truth without fear of retaliation, reprisal, violence, or imprisonment.
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Except the Canadian government was directly responsible for me being banned.
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I couldn't tell you the truth as I saw it from inside the United Nations Climate Change
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I couldn't expose the wastefulness and the opulence of the elites telling us to live with less
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I was explicitly banned because I was going to tell you all those things.
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It's also fascinating to see the political elites in Canada and the UK go to bat for freedom
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Except for one thing, their love of press freedom apparently extends only to those media outlets
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that deliver a narrative that the government approves of.
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Um, does that sound like unconditional press freedom to you?
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And with more on this story of yet more government hypocrisy running amok, is the host of the
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So Sheila, both you and I have skin in this game, so to speak, because we were both banned
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And the thing is, as you point out in your commentary, it was our own federal government,
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you know, the one that allegedly champions press freedom, that got the UN to ban us.
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And this was supposedly due to your inappropriate behavior at a previous UN conference.
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So, first of all, Sheila, please tell our viewers what evil and egregious thing you did
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I asked a press secretary, uh, who paid her way to the conference.
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I asked her if she had been sent there by the Canadian taxpayers.
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I think she locked herself in a bathroom, to be honest with you.
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Um, and then, and then the, uh, guy in charge of media, Nick Nettle, Google that name.
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Um, for the UN, uh, he came and he sat us down and he talked to us and said, you know, um,
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we heard that you were harassing people, we actually said, you know what, that's interesting
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you say that because we have the whole exchange caught on film.
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And it's not the way that, uh, this horrified press secretary said it unfolded, but that
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And then the very next year, um, it's clear when we got our rejection letters, when you
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and I got our rejection letters, when we applied to cover those UN conferences, um, it said that
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we were banned at the behest of the Canadian delegation, which means our own government,
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this government that says that they, uh, appreciate diverse viewpoints, uh, intervened with the
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United Nations to have us banned so that we couldn't tell the other side of the story.
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You were probably one of the only, um, not, I wouldn't even say you're anti-immigration,
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but anti-mass unvetted migration journalists at that UN migration conference.
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I was probably one of two, uh, skeptical journalists at the UN climate change conference this year.
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Um, when these people preach about diversity, that's not what they mean.
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And it's funny that that's more of an explanation that, um, as you know, Justin and I went to
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Marrakech, Morocco, uh, to cover the, uh, uh, migrant compact conference.
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And when we applied for press credentials there, well, we knew they didn't exist, but the answer
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we got was, uh, you're being denied due to the, due to the bad behavior of one of your
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So now at least you put a little more, um, meat on those bones in terms of an explanation.
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But, you know, you mentioned diversity and that's the thing, isn't it, Sheila?
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As much as, uh, the Trudeau liberals and other governments in the West love to use the D word,
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uh, whenever, uh, and, you know, whenever possible, diversity doesn't apply to a diversity
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of thought and a diversity of opinions, does it?
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Because if you're not in ideological lockstep, well, there's a problem with you, isn't there?
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Well, yeah, and the liberals are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money to make sure
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that the alternative viewpoints to, um, the mainstream media, um, have a very tough time
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We've seen that they're willing to give $1.5 billion to the liberal friendly CDC, just to
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make sure that there isn't a diversity of viewpoints over there.
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And they're giving another $600 million to the rest of the failing and struggling mainstream
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Um, and that will be divvied out, um, by a liberal appointed panel of former journalists.
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I don't think you and I are going to make it on that panel.
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And they're going to dish it out according to, uh, content quality.
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Um, and we know that's not going to include anybody, um, from the right side of the spectrum.
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So, you know, they talk a lot about diversity, but there's a lot of homogeneity in the mainstream
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media and a lot of money to make sure it stays that way.
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Oh, and you know something, Sheila, you're bang on.
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And what I thought was one of the, uh, most underreported, uh, angles of the SNC-Lavalin
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scam, and certainly there's more legs on that story than a centipede.
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But it was that statement where, um, uh, Jody Wilson-Raybould was told that to sell this DPA
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for SNC-Lavalin, uh, we're going to get people to put op-eds into newspapers explaining why
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Those media checks, to my knowledge, haven't even been cashed yet.
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And the liberals are so sure that the media party is just going to accept material from
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their stenographers, uh, to carry the party line.
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Those checks haven't been cashed yet, but every story seems to be a grant application,
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Um, the, it, it, the way that that was said, it was just so, um, self-assured, um, and like
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it was normal, that we can line up friendly op-eds, no big, we'll just spin this in the
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media, we have a lot of friends and a lot of people on our side, um, which is something
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I think we all knew, like we all knew in our, to, you know, you read this stuff and you think
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this came literally right out of Katie Telford's email, but to see it said and to see somebody
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from the inside who's heard it, like Jody Wilson-Raybould, repeat it verbatim, uh, to
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I think that's what was most shocking, um, that someone would break ranks and admit to
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the amount of sycophancy that exists in the mainstream media for the liberals.
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You know, and here's another question too, Sheila, completely hypothetical, but assuming,
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uh, come October, uh, the Andrew Scheer conservatives get in, do you think they'll go to bat for us
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for these future UN conferences because they've already banned us from their own conventions?
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So I don't know, um, if, um, you know, what's behind door number two, in other words, the
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devil you don't know is better than the devil you do know in this case.
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Yeah, you know, I think the, uh, Scheer conservatives, they're really, like painfully playing it safe.
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Um, the one thing I will say about the Scheer conservatives is that they are, um,
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at least responsive to pressure from normal conservative voters, um, they have finally
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capitulated and allowed us into some of their events to report, um, which is, I mean, great,
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but that was through a lot of badgering from their own voters.
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Um, I think when and if we see a, a Scheer government, they are still going to be, uh,
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afflicted with that desire to be liked by the CBC, um, even though the CBC will never
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And, um, I think until there is a real sea change with the Conservative Party of Canada,
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And Sheila, one last point, you know, the part of your commentary that made my neck hair
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stand up was when you talked about that, uh, British politician tweeting out that conference,
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uh, where the UK and Canada are going to be hosting on press freedom.
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And you made the very adroit point that this is the same UK government that imprisoned Tommy
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And these guys are going to do a conference on press freedom.
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I wonder what that conference is going to look like, Sheila.
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Oh, it's going to be a bunch of people from the BBC and the CBC patting themselves on
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the back while, while people like you and me get punched out at work, um, for the crime
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of journalism, get banned from the United Nations.
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I have been banned by, uh, the Alberta government also.
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You had to fight to get into the PC conference.
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We were banned by the CPC from their conference.
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It's going to be a lot of mainstream media people talking about mean tweets while people
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like you and me and Tommy, we're sort of grinding it out in the streets and trying to bring people
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And you know, uh, Tommy and you and I, we should all wear those bands as a badge of honor
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because it simply means we're telling the truth.
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Uh, we're calling them as we see them, like the umpire behind home plate, and we're not
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And if they can't handle that and they have to resort to shutting us down and shutting
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Listen, thank you so much and another great commentary.
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What would you tell Medicine Hat, what would you tell Lloyd Minster as they wait for Jason
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All you're doing is diluting and adding to the pool of people that are looking for work.
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And it's now become a situation where these people are getting preferential, um, job placement.
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They're getting preferential treatment on the job market and can actually, in some cases,
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work for even less because some of them are supported by partial programs.
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And this makes them a better candidate to an employer than, let's say, you know, my children
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It's clear that these folks don't recognize the city that their small town has turned into
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Canadian Mortgages has Brooks, Alberta, listed as one of the 10 worst places to live in Canada.
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McLean's magazine has Brooks, Alberta, listed in their collection of Canada's most dangerous
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It's gotten so bad that there's an easy to use crime map app for this small Albertan
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Look at this list of people who were arrested and charged with drug related offenses back
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I wonder how many of these folks Jason Kenney directly had a hand in, in bringing to Canada
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This all begs the question as to why Jason Kenney, why on earth, he would want to recreate
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the legacy of Brooks in every small town across Alberta.
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Indeed, what is Jason Kenney thinking when he points to Brooks, Alberta as being a success
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True enough, the importation of Somalis makes for a cheap source of labor for the meatpacking
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But the cost to society would suggest this experiment has been a failure.
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And yet, Kenney wants to duplicate this flawed initiative in other Alberta municipalities?
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Joining me now is Kian Bexte, who recently traveled to Brooks and interviewed several residents
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there who are less than pleased that Kenney's vision of immigration has led to a dramatic
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Now, Kian, those interviews you conducted in Brooks, they were very powerful.
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And it's clear that Brooks is no longer the town it once was.
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So, Kian, why in blue hell is Jason Kenney holding up Brooks as some sort of success story
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that needs to be repeated in other Albertan jurisdictions?
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It quite literally is not the small town it used to be.
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Now it's a city as a direct result of how many immigrants they brought in.
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And, you know, the folks there were telling me it's not the fact that there's immigrants
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It's fine to, you know, sprinkle immigrants throughout rural Alberta, whatever.
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But the problem is this forced ghettoization where you just bring a huge community into
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this small town where they're not able to integrate like they would be able to in Calgary
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and Edmonton, even in those places, to be fair, they don't integrate that well.
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Sometimes northeast Calgary is a ghetto by definition.
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So I don't know what Jason Kenney's plan is here.
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I wish that he, and I think lots of conservatives in Alberta wish that he framed this more through
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a lens of let's choose the people that we want to bring to Alberta.
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Let's bring in the best and brightest from around the world so that we can enrich our communities
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rather than how he did, which just said he wants to start replacing rural Alberta labor.
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And Ken, I just wanted to go back to the time in which this experiment was kicked off.
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I mean, it's no secret that right now the Alberta economy is ailing.
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But I'm thinking that years ago, when these immigrants were first brought in, was there
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some sort of a labor shortage issue that they couldn't find enough, you know, homegrown
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So by way of necessity, they had to import labor.
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In Brooks, Alberta, what it is for people who don't know is there's a large portion of the
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They butcher the animal, package it up and send it on its way.
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All of Alberta has a huge beef production industry and meat production industry.
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And this is where a lot of that meat goes to get packaged and sent to retail.
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And it's labor that lots of people didn't want to do necessarily, because at the time,
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this was almost a decade ago, the oil sector was booming.
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And in the meat packaging plant, it's kind of rough work.
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So there was a reason why they wanted to bring in this labor.
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It's because lots of people didn't want to do it.
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Ten years down the road, we've seen that crime has increased hugely.
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It's listed by McLean's as one of the worst places to live in Canada.
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And for this small town, or now city, I guess, but just barely a city, there's an app online
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You can see there's, oh, there was a break and enter on Main Street.
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Oh, on Railway Avenue, there was just an assault, just so that residents can know what's going
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on in their town, because there's so much crime that that's what they've resorted to.
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And, Kean, I'm still struggling with what the unspoken reason is for Kenny saying what
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I mean, this is the sort of stuff I would expect to come out of the mouth of Rachel Notley.
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Um, and I think it's, you know, I mean, I would, I'd bet the house that, you know, Kenny
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is the next premier of Alberta, uh, when the election is called.
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So that further suggests he doesn't have to do this kind of virtue signaling if that's
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I don't think it's people that are part of his base.
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There was, uh, after this video came out, uh, a star Edmonton star reporter, her name
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Uh, she was absolutely triggered by this report.
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She couldn't believe that I went to Brooks to talk to people to hear what they had to
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So she sat at her keyboard in Edmonton and started typing up an essay on Twitter, eight
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different individual tweets in this thread, uh, talking about how it's not fair that I,
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And it's not fair to talk about the crime app that details, uh, assaults and break and
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Um, but if you look at her tweets and, and who's favorited this and I'll send it to you
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Uh, all of the people that have liked her tweet are reporters themselves with the Edmonton
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It's, it's a cesspool at this press gallery here in, in Edmonton, Alberta.
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And that's who Jason Kenney is trying to please because he's terrified of the media.
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So he wants to make sure that he, uh, appears as politically correct as possible to them
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so that they don't assassinate him in the newspaper.
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So shades of Andrew Scheer here, you know, going back to the conservative convention in
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Halifax, where for some reason we're persona non-grata, despite the fact that we have 1.2
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million YouTube subscribers, most of whom, uh, are red meat conservatives.
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And yet Globe and Mail, Toronto star, CBC, as Ezra calls them, the mean girls.
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But you know, it's funny that reporter, when she heaps that blame on you, uh, Kian, first
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And secondly, it wasn't you characterizing Brooks that way.
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It was the people you interviewed that actually lived there.
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I would invite Nadine Youssef to go to Brooks on vacation, bring her niece, bring her daughter,
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you know, you know, she's not going to like it.
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But to be fair, I don't think she's ever stepped foot in that town.
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Uh, the, but it's just typical of these reporters in the mainstream media.
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They, uh, reads, they, they Google something quickly and then write a story on it with a
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huge ideological lens overlaid on it, rather than just going into the community and chatting
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And that's one of my favorite things about my job with the rebel is that, uh, uh, Ezra,
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you know, he, he thinks it's a great idea for me to go out and do things like this,
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where I'm chatting with real Albertans to get their side of the story, the side of the
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story that the mainstream media just doesn't want, uh, everyone to hear.
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I guess, you know, to paraphrase the Tina Turner song, what's love got to do with it?
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I guess with the mainstream media and certain politicians, what do the facts have to do
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And if the facts aren't nice or play into their narrative, uh, they'd rather it not be reported.
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And when it is reported, you are a racist, a bigot, a xenophobe, et cetera, et cetera.
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But, you know, you keep reporting how you are, Kian.
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And any of our audience out there that hasn't seen it, please tune in and, uh, check it
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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In any event, since it is you, the taxpayer, that's paying for all of this hotel accommodation,
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we thought it would be interesting to find out just how much it's costing.
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Well, the Justin Trudeau Liberals, despite their 2015 promises of openness and transparency,
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well, incredibly, they wouldn't tell us what that dollar amount is.
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So we put in a formal access to information request.
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It reads, provide copies of any contracts or agreements with the Plaza Hotel in North York
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and the Radisson, Toronto East for the provision of accommodation for asylum and refugee claimants
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Following a thorough search of our information holdings, I regret to inform you that no records
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The Radisson and the Plaza are just two hotels that are now closed to the public.
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The refugees staying at these properties are most certainly not paying for their rooms.
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Rather, the federal government is being invoiced.
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There is literally no room at the inn when it comes to the Radisson, Toronto East and the
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And yet, even with a 100% occupancy rate being paid for by you, the Canadian taxpayer, no records
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In any event, here's what some of you had to say about the Trudeau Liberals who are yet
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again proving that they are about as transparent as concrete.
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Say, does anyone want to phone the Canadian Revenue Agency snitch line and register a complaint?
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And maybe a complaint against the federal government, too.
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I mean, untold millions are being spent on refugee accommodation, yet no records pertaining to
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Trudeau wants to hide the millions he stole from us to give to illegals who are living the
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Meanwhile, real Canadians are freezing under overpasses and nearly starving, feeding on
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Well, it is indeed a shame what's happening in our country right now, Canadian men.
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But is it too much to ask that the Liberals at the very least provide full financial disclosure
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Well, apparently the answer is yes, it is too much to ask.
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Well, Rodney, first of all, thank you for your service.
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And it pains me to hear about the financial straits you are in.
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But as our PM once remarked, you guys are simply asking for too much, even though there
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are millions of dollars in the federal kitty to spend on people who aren't even Canadian
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Well, Midnight Golfer, you are indeed, we are indeed appealing this decision.
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As for the cover-up, well, as we continue to discover in terms of how the Liberals are
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tiptoeing around full disclosure regarding the SNC-Lavalin affair, it would appear that
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cover-ups are a house specialty when it comes to Team Trudeau.
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Since there are no records, it must mean Mr. Trudeau has been paying the bill himself
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Well, I think it would take 10 episodes of Seinfeld to make me laugh harder, Timothy.
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The thing is, when it comes to the folks in Ottawa, they are world-class when it comes
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But when it comes to spending their own dough, these politicians and bureaucrats throw around
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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.