Rebel Roundup： Guests Jack Buckby, Sheila Gunn Reid & Ezra Levant
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On today's show, Ezra Levenstine will talk about that bizarre story in which terrorist Omar Khadr was somehow being identified by Google as a Canadian soldier. And Sheila Gunn-Reed will tell you about an egregious double standard that exists in the oil patch, courtesy of the Trudeau Liberals. And Jack Buckby will have the very latest on that never-ending story, otherwise known as Brexit.
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.
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On today's show, Ezra Levent will talk about that bizarre story in which terrorist Omar Khadr
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was somehow being identified by Google as a Canadian soldier.
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And Sheila Gunn-Reed will tell you about an egregious double standard that exists in the oil patch,
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And Jack Buckby will have the very latest on that never-ending story, otherwise known as Brexit.
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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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He's a terrorist, a murderer, and even a multi-millionaire, thanks to the Trudeau Liberals.
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But how in the world did Google somehow hail Khadar as a Canadian soldier?
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And why was Gerald Butts yet again going to bat for Omar?
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There's an odious double standard in Canada when it comes to oil.
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Namely, the stuff coming out of the ground in Alberta must be subjected to a gender-based analysis.
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Meanwhile, crude from that enlightened realm called Saudi Arabia, well, that receives a pass.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed will attempt to piece things together.
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And Jack Buckby will drop by to give us the very latest on Brexit, a.k.a. the never-ending story.
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And I'll share some of the letters we received regarding my commentary
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about the City of Toronto banning tobogganing on one of the city's best hills
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because the hill in question is, um, too hilly?
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Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau's principal secretary.
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He took time away from everything else he's doing these days.
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Pushed aside everything less important to weigh in on this matter.
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Not once, not twice, not three times, but four times.
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I mean, look, we've got the Chinese dictatorship taking our citizens hostage.
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We have a thousand real things this government needs to do, and it's failing at so many of them.
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But Gerald Butts makes this the biggest issue of his day, and he clears aside hours for it.
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He said, Google searches are personally optimized, not news.
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When I search for Canadian soldiers, I get Canadian soldiers and Prime Minister Pearson.
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This IT problem is between the chair and the keyboard.
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But, um, first of all, even if Butts was right, so what?
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Here's that same public boss of Google search, and he says,
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personalization of results is, of our results is minimal as covered below.
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though exact position may have changed as our results can be very dynamic.
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Meta Canada is the heart of the Canadian alt-right movement on Reddit.
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This post was done four hours before Andrew Scheer's tweet.
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There's no beating around the bush on this one.
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claims that an anonymous post earlier than on the day in some online billboard.
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One of thousands of Canadians who were upset by this Khadr story.
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It's not bad that Omar Khadr is listed as a soldier.
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He thought it was bad that Andrew Scheer was mentioning it.
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I mean, this isn't even guilt by association here.
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You see, Andrew Scheer read an anonymous thing,
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why is Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau's principal secretary,
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if you were to Google the words Canadian and soldier,
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one of the war heroes that would have popped up
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Yeah, someone who killed and maimed soldiers allied to Canada
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Thankfully, Google corrected this nauseating error,
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that Justin Trudeau's Fengali secretary, Gerald Butts,
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tried to make the case that Google proclaiming Omar Khadr
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even though Google itself said it was a complete screw-up.
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Joining me now with more on this baffling story
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You know, Ezra, let's cut to the chase, first and foremost.
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What is the obsession with this federal liberal government
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Well, it's part of his father's tradition of third worldism, alienism,
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the great challenger to Western civilization was the Soviet Union.
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So, Pierre Trudeau loved Castro, loved China, loved the Soviet Union,
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took his family to Russia, took them to Siberia and said,
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So, Pierre Trudeau was always enamored with the third world.
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and now the great challenge to Western culture and civilization is Islamism.
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Islamism represents the polar opposite of liberal values.
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I mean, Trudeau actually said the country he most admires other than Canada is China.
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And then he specifically said for its basic dictatorship.
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But the one thing you can't like about China is its basic dictatorship.
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He supports everyone against himself, everyone against Canada.
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And so, he sees in Omar Khadr not only an Islamic terrorist, an Al-Qaeda war criminal,
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but an opportunity for him to say, oh, what have we done wrong to him?
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We're the Islamophobes for putting him in Guantanamo Bay.
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He is a symbol for us to repent the war on terror and not only to bring Canada down morally, but to pull Al-Qaeda up morally.
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And he's also surrounded by people who feel that same way.
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The media elites, political elites, the legal elites, the judicial elites, diplomatic elites.
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All the fancy people thought that Omar Khadr was the bee's knees and that when Trudeau gave him $10.5 million, it would be a huge hit.
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They were shocked to see that the vast majority of Canadians oppose it.
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I remember an Angus Reid poll showed every single group of Canadians, including liberals, were appalled by it.
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I think Trudeau is in such an insulated little box that he actually thinks Khadr is some sort of a hero.
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I think, I mean, Gerald Butts didn't have the courage to say it this week, but I think what he was motivated by,
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Gerald Butts would say, and it's factually not true and legally not true,
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he would say, and I'm mind reading here, that Omar Khadr deserved to be on the list of Canadian soldiers because he was a child soldier.
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That's the connection in, I think, of course, he wasn't a child soldier.
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child say a child soldier is 13 or less.
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He had the choice to leave the compound with the women and children before the final battle where he was captured.
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The Geneva Conventions define a soldier, someone who bears their arms openly,
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someone who wears their uniform and their insignia,
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someone who generally follows the laws and customs of war.
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Khadr is not a soldier, is not a child, is not a child soldier.
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The category in law for him is hostess humani, an enemy of all humanity.
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He could literally be killed in the field and you can kill a terrorist.
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It would be like killing someone attacking you in your home.
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In the mind of Gerald Butz, and therefore the mind of Justin Trudeau,
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not only was Omar Khadr a child soldier, but he was the victim.
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I did a little search in Gerald Butz's Twitter history.
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He has tweeted about Omar Khadr favorably at least 10 times.
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He has never once tweeted the word spear, S-P-E-E-R,
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which is the name of the U.S. Army medic murdered by Omar Khadr.
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The reason why Gerald Butz never utters the word spear,
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the two fatherless children, Taryn and Tanner Spear,
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the other special forces soldier who lost his eye, Lane Morris.
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I know these names because I've talked to several of them.
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But I care about them because I know they're the victims.
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The reason why Gerald Butz never mentions the Spears,
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because if you remind people that there was a real victim,
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And that is why Gerald Butz and the rest of the media
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refuse to name Khadr's victims because they call him the victim.
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Now, Ezra, if we can just look at how this Googling incident occurred in the first place.
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I mean, I find the Internet and computerization, to me, with my knowledge base,
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And when I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke.
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And sure enough, every time I Googled it, Omar Khadr's name and image was coming up.
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And the more I Googled it, the closer to the front of the list he was coming up.
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What I'm trying to find out, Ezra, is that when it comes to the proverbial ghost in the machine,
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how did this atrocity happen in the first place?
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Well, a Google search executive, I think his name is Danny Sullivan,
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And all he does is answer questions for the public about search.
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because unlike a government agency, there's no disclosure,
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So he works for Google, which means I'm sure on occasion he lies for Google
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because that's sort of his job is to defend Google.
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But he said that this was a computer-generated algorithmic decision.
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I tend to think that this wasn't their political hill to die on.
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I originally was quite convinced that this was a political choice made by Google.
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But when I read the explanation and I saw how quickly Google changed it,
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and that it was an American who basically said,
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oh, yeah, our mistake will fix it, that he didn't seem fussed by it,
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But to me, so, I mean, I don't believe Google, Facebook, Twitter,
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on most political things because they're all hard left-wing.
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I actually think, though, that this probably was some machine decision that was wrong.
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It doesn't matter because, okay, this isn't about Google.
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We know their senior vice president, Eric Schmidt,
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He was there on election night at her victory party that turned into a defeat party.
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We know they had a staff-wide sort of crying staff meeting on the Friday after the election.
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where senior executives were all in a room basically crying for Hillary Clinton.
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The story is about the fact that Justin Trudeau's principal secretary, Gerald Butts,
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not once, not twice, not three times, but four times,
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cleared everything less important from his desk
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and weighed in in a manner that suggested he wanted Omar Khadr to remain on that list.
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His four interventions suggested he wanted Omar Khadr.
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He was furious that Andrew Scheer wanted Omar Khadr off that list.
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He accused, he implied, that anyone who wanted Omar Khadr off that list was alt-right.
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First of all, what is the prime minister's principal secretary even doing,
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Second of all, why is he throwing in with Omar Khadr?
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Third of all, why is he perpetuating the fake news that Omar Khadr was a soldier?
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It shows, to get back to your first question, what's going on here?
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Trudeau himself, I think, is a bit of an empty vessel.
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Whenever he has an idea, it's just a child's memory of what his father said.
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But Gerald Butts, the true ideologue, who really is the de facto prime minister,
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caucus say, you know, Justin Trudeau told caucus in one of their first meetings in 2015,
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if you get a letter from Gerald Butts, treat it as if it comes from me.
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So Justin Trudeau told all his MPs, if Gerald Butts says something, take it as if it's from me.
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So we have a de facto prime minister named Gerald Butts, who's obsessed with Omar Khadr,
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obsessed with Muslim migration, obsessed with hijabs, obsessed with Islamification.
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But Gerald Butts is the actual decider, and he's crazy on this stuff.
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When you look at the time frame in which the Trudeau liberals cut that $10.5 million check to Omar Khadr,
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This is something they wanted to do, but probably realized deep down,
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it's going to rub a lot of Canadians the wrong way, which they were right about,
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or maybe they were naive and they didn't think it was going to happen.
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But nevertheless, you do the unpopular stuff early on in the mandate so that by the time
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October 2019 comes along, Canadians have forgotten, you know, this kind of a thing.
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The idea that Gerald Butts would, I mean, surely, you can say what you will about the man,
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The idea that he would resurrect this person's name, who I would argue is deeply,
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most Canadians resent Omar Khadr and resent how this government has treated him,
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so close to the next federal election, to me, that seems almost self-defeating, Ezra.
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Trudeau, I think, is more of an empty suit, but Gerald Butts is.
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The husband of Katie Telford, the chief of staff to Trudeau, his name is Rob Silver.
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I mean, they've seen the polling, just as I have.
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They know that, but they just love him too much.
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They love Omar Khadr too much, and they love the narrative.
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They love that narrative more than they love the truth that Omar Khadr is an unrepentant,
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confessed, convicted, war criminal, convicted of five counts, including murder and terrorism.
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He has never disavowed his sister, who is an Islamic extremist.
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In fact, he wanted to go to Saudi Arabia to meet up with her.
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To my surprise, a court in Alberta said, yeah, no, we're not letting you go to Saudi Arabia for now.
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So I hope that Omar Khadr becomes an election issue in 2019.
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I think amongst grassroots Canadians it will be.
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But I can assure you, in the media party, it won't.
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We have a new reporter in Calgary, as you know, Kian Bexte.
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And he went up to Edmonton for this bail hearing as to whether or not Khadr could go to Saudi Arabia.
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Imagine letting a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist go to Saudi Arabia.
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But so Kian went to this press conference with Omar Khadr right there and Khadr's lawyer.
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And Kian asked a question, and I don't remember the exact wording in it,
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And the look of shock and surprise on the face of the lawyer,
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and you can see the clip, we have it on our website,
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and Khadr was standing right behind and he smirked.
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The lawyer was shocked because in all the years that Khadr's lawyers have been doing press conferences
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with Canadian media about Omar Khadr, no one has ever called Omar Khadr a terrorist.
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And this lawyer, Nate, I forget his last name, said to Khadr, who are you with?
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Because they, we are, and I took that as an enormous compliment.
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We are the only media in Canada who will call Omar Khadr a terrorist to his face.
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And after that, by the way, Khadr followed Omar Khadr and said, where's the money?
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Because he's hiding the money from the family who have sued and won a judgment against Khadr.
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Justin Trudeau worked with Omar Khadr's lawyers to hide the money in a way that the grieving widow could not get access to it.
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Is it in, I don't know, with his old friends back in Al-Qaeda?
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And who is he going to meet with in Saudi Arabia?
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Is he going to spread some of the wealth around to all his friends that he made in Guantanamo Bay?
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These are real questions that only the rebel would ever ask.
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Well, Ezra, I hope in the months and years ahead, the Speer family is indeed successful in separating Omar Khadr from our money.
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Googling soldier in Canada, you get Omar Khadr.
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I think I'm going to Google peace-loving feminist and see if, oh, I don't know, Paul Bernardo's image pops up.
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So, Conservative MP Rachel Harder used her order paper question to ask the government this.
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With regard to the government's policy to allow oil imports from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia,
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has a gender-based analysis been conducted on the importation of oil from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia?
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And if so, what were the findings of the analysis?
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Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi replied,
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Gender-based analysis plus plays an important role in government domestic regulatory program
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Decisions on where to import crude oil from are private sector commercial decisions.
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And as such, federal gender-based analysis plus analyses are not conducted on crude oil imports.
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However, many companies do conduct their own gender-based analysis.
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No, companies aren't doing their own gender-based analysis when the government fails to do one,
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especially not Canada's largest oil refinery, the Irving Oil Refinery in New Brunswick.
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New Brunswick has the most, quote-unquote, diverse crude slate.
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In 2017, Saudi Arabia accounted for almost 40% of New Brunswick's crude oil imports,
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followed by Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, the US, and Nigeria.
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Now, I've been told by the government and the media that this liberal government is a feminist one
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because of, I don't know, something to do with the current calendar year.
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But here, you can see, there's a hell of a lot of oil coming into this country
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denying women the franchise or the ability to leave their house without a male chaperone.
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You know, the current year, Saudi Arabia sort of stuff.
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Alberta oil is put through some nonsensical gender-based analysis to,
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oh, I don't know, make sure there's gender equality happening in Wild Rose Country.
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Meanwhile, oil imported from such enlightened regimes such as Saudi Arabia,
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well, they're exempt from gender-based analysis because, look, they just are, okay?
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And with more on this story of grotesque double standards is the host of The Gun Show,
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So, Sheila, this gender-based analysis has now gone beyond parody.
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In fact, it's yet another slap in the face, I think, to Albertans,
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So, Sheila, why is there such a double standard to begin with in the first place?
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Well, I think it's because the Liberals have really weaponized feminism to their own gain.
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The MP who brought this order paper question forward is Rachel Harder.
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She's been a victim of the Liberals' brand of feminism herself.
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You'll recall she was denied her seat on the Status of Women Committee because the Liberals
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were outraged because she happens to may or may not be pro-life.
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But the Liberals suspected her of being a pro-life woman, so she couldn't even sit on the Status
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of Women Committee when being pro-life reflects about 50% of women out there.
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But the Liberals used their feminism to deny her a seat at the table.
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And it seems to me that the Liberals are also weaponizing feminism against Alberta to block
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Because I really do believe, based on the people that Justin Trudeau has surrounded himself
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with, that he really doesn't want these pipelines to go forward.
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He wants the appearance that he's fighting for Alberta oil and gas.
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But when you surround yourself with people like Gerald Butt and Zoe Caron, that cannot be
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And so they're using this gender-based analysis stuff to deter investment and just add that
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extra layer of ridiculous hoops that these companies have to jump through to do business
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You know, it's just shocking, Sheila, in the fact that gender-based analysis aside, business
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And by that precept, they are going to hire the best people for the jobs that they're providing
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So, you know, this whole idea that there's some government means test to make sure that,
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you know, and I mean, I don't even understand it, that there's enough women working in the
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It's ludicrous, especially since, let's face it, Sheila, I mean, that is a male-dominated
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It's because so many women I've talked to just don't want to do that job.
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It's really not pleasant sometimes doing that work, isn't it?
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Well, yeah, I mean, that's really the thing here.
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This gender-based analysis baloney really negates the fact that there are jobs that men gravitate
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There's nobody in the oil patch saying, we're not going to hire you because you're a woman.
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There are people in the oil patch that will say, we're not going to hire you because you
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might not have the experience or the skill set.
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In fact, I would suggest that if you cared about a woman's right to choose how she determines
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her life, the oil patch is a great help in that.
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Because for women like me, whose husbands work in the oil patch, the income that the oil
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patch provides gives us the ability to choose whether we go off to work or whether we stay
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And when the liberals, you know, throw up these roadblocks to the oil patch, it really robs
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women like me of the ability to structure our family life however we feel like.
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And, you know, it was so funny because Amarjeet Sohi, the natural resources minister, concluded
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his reply to Rachel Harder's order paper question by saying something like, yeah, we're not doing
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But rest assured, the companies out there, the private sector companies are, give me
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And I can't foresee any company adding this extra layer of regulation to themselves if it
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And we know that the Irving Oil Refinery, Canada's largest refinery, they aren't doing
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They're still importing 40% of their oil from Saudi Arabia, a place where you, as a woman,
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can't vote, can't drive, can't go outside without a male escort.
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That is a ludicrous lie that companies would be, you know, internalizing this kind of gender-based
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And then, and to your point, Sheila, of Saudi Arabia, a company that the Trudeau liberals
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say, well, we're exempting from this means test.
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This is a country where you have state-sanctioned discrimination against women.
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If I were a woman, I would say that Saudi Arabia is in the top five or top 10 countries where
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I would hate to live because of the infringements on my liberties.
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So how can this feminist prime minister, this feminist liberal party, give a regime like
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Well, Justin Trudeau's brand of feminism is really first world female grievance mongering
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When you look at the sort of things that he supports, you know, he'll support reproductive
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It doesn't mean access to proper sanitation in hospitals to keep moms and babies alive.
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It means funding abortions in the developing world, which, as we know, oftentimes ends up
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So this is just, you know, feel-goodery, really, on behalf of the liberals, reaching out to get
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support from women who really don't care about the oil patch.
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Largely, you know, SJW do-gooders who see everything through a gendered lens.
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But really, it abandons the true meaning of women's equality.
00:31:10.440
You know, and Sheila, I was just thinking about something, and I don't know if this has ever
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been done, but what a great little social experiment this would be, which would be to have gas stations
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across Canada do a test where one pump, it's labeled as Canadian gas, and the next pump to
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And I bet you the vast majority of people that needed to fill their tank that day would be
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avoiding the Saudi product and going with the Alberta product.
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I would love to see that done, because I truly believe even Canadians who, like us Albertans,
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we see as sort of not allies in our fight to get our oil to market like those in Quebec.
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I even think that they, if they knew, if they truly had, if we truly had an education program
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saying, this is what you're putting in your pump, this is fair trade Canadian oil, and
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this is Saudi tyrant oil, I think people would always choose the Canadian oil.
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It reminds me of the stickers that we put on packs of cigarettes.
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If we put those stickers of what the Saudis do to women and gays and foreign indentures,
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servants, we'd never put a drop of that in our tanks.
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We'll have to wrap it here, Sheila, but it's just so perversely ironic that Canada, which
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produces ethical oil, is the country that is subjected to these ludicrous virtue signaling
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means testing that means nothing, whereas the worst of the worst get a pass.
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Boy, the Trudeau Liberals at their finest, I would say.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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So what do you make of this idea that martial law might be implemented as a result of no-deal
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Well, it's nice that the government are taking the leave campaign seriously.
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But unless this lot over here in the Palace of Westminster take the vote seriously, take
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what the people said on June the 23rd, 2016 seriously, anything can happen.
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I think if they don't do Brexit, then they ought to maybe have to have martial law then.
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I think there'll be a bigger reaction then, actually, rather than the no-deal.
00:33:55.980
I don't see the point of that because unless martial law, unless you've got a whole violent
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revolution that needs to be repressed, then no problem.
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English people generally are fairly quiet, fairly, you know, they may protest, they may
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But I can't see English people generally taking, picking up a sword or a shotgun or something
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like that and advancing on Westminster to protest in that way.
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I think it's a lot of sophistry and drama and theatre on the part of Mrs. Theresa May.
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But I think that the moves in France now have made some traitorous politicians rather nervous
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Do you think maybe it's a last-ditch attempt by the government to try and scare people into
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I think, well, I don't know if it's the last one.
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Yeah, I think they'll rev it up right until the last minute, actually.
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And we'll do lots of things with Europe, I hope, and do a deal once we've left.
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And we'll be in a better negotiating position then as well.
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Well, talk about a production that's been years in the making.
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Brexit is apparently turning into the never-ending story.
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And one of the newest twists is the possibility of martial law being implemented in the UK
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Who knew Brits were about to riot in the streets?
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And joining me now is our London-based rebel, Jack Buckby.
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Now, tell me, those people you interviewed in your segment, Jack,
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they didn't seem to me to be the sort that would, oh, I don't know, overturn cars and smash windows.
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So what's the deal with this idea of martial law potentially being implemented?
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So this idea of martial law being implemented, it came about as a result of Whitehall officials,
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that's government officials, the background workers who aren't political.
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It came out that Whitehall officials were talking about it as a possibility.
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Of course, the government wanted this information to get out,
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that they were planning the possibility of implementing martial law.
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Theresa May was desperately trying to get her potential withdrawal agreement passed in Parliament.
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So over the last few days, she's had to go back to Parliament,
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pass a few amendments that give her the ability to go back to the EU and renegotiate.
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And her idea was, I am sure, is if people hear that martial law is a possibility in the event of no deal,
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then maybe the politicians might work with me on a deal.
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I'm just wondering what would have triggered this whole concept in the first place, Jack.
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Is it looking across the channel, perhaps, at France and seeing what's happening there with,
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you know, almost every weekend, yellow vest protesters?
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And some of those protests have become quite violent.
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As I say, I think the whole thing was completely disingenuous.
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And there's a flaw in it, which I mentioned in my report.
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And that is, if we leave without a deal, the people on the Brexit side of things certainly won't be rioting.
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We want to leave without a deal, leave on World Trade Organization rules, become a free trading nation once again.
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So the only people that might actually end up rioting in the event of no deal are, you guessed it, Remainers, which is not good for the government.
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It's effectively, if this wasn't disingenuous, if this suggestion of martial law was really what they thought was going to happen,
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the government are effectively telling us that they expect the Remain side to go out, break the law, commit atrocities,
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and do all sorts of terrible things if we leave without a deal, which is what leads me to think it's disingenuous.
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Because I don't think the government believed that people would do that.
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And Jack, tell me, I mean, when the rubber meets the road, when there is a Brexit,
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and I mean, certainly we're at the 11th hour, given that we're talking March for this to happen.
00:38:22.420
What I'm just trying to understand, and I think what our audience wants to understand,
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is that for Joe and Jane, everyday Britain, you know, a person like you living in London,
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You know, how does Brexit affect you financially or any other way once it becomes a reality, Jack?
00:38:45.340
Well, that's an interesting question, because there's a few variables there.
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We're told that we need to stockpile food, that we won't get medicine, that there's all sorts of crazy things.
00:38:55.900
They told us that people who need insulin will die, because insulin isn't made in the UK,
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when in fact, actually, there's two major manufacturers of insulin in the UK.
00:39:04.340
If we leave on World Trade Organization rules, that means we can drop tariffs with other countries,
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That means cheaper goods for the UK, but it also means cheaper materials for UK manufacturers.
00:39:17.640
So leaving on these WTO terms means that British manufacturing can do better.
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It's a real gold mine for economic growth, leaving on WTO rules.
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The other possibility is leaving whilst remaining in a customs union with the EU,
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which means things will largely stay the same, which is, I guess, fine for some.
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So that far from the, you know, the sky falling, things are going to be the same.
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Or as you said, in certain examples, things are going to improve as more of a free trading nation,
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Tell me, Jack, in terms of those who voted for Brexit going back a couple of years ago,
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I'm just wondering with all the analysis that's gone into this,
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and as you know, according to the elites of the day back then, this was never supposed to happen.
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This was the longest long shot you could possibly bet on.
00:40:17.400
Any of those people suffering from buyer's remorse given, you know,
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two years' worth of analysis of what Brexit might end up doing?
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Or are they more entrenched than ever that this is the way to go for Britain to sever ties with the EU?
00:40:34.360
I think there definitely is some buyer's remorse, but I don't think it's based in reality.
00:40:39.700
It's based on fear-mongering, real, genuine fear-mongering.
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That's what we called it during the referendum campaign.
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We've seen – I'm sure you've seen – I think I've talked about it with you before.
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We've seen that we're told that sandwiches would run out.
00:40:55.720
The most recent one is that we'd have no lettuce, which personally I can live with.
00:40:59.220
No more lettuce, no more tomatoes, no more drugs for cancer patients, all these terrible things.
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And people – I think a lot of people have believed it.
00:41:08.520
And some people are so sick and tired about hearing about Brexit,
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And some people feel like that, but those who don't buy it are more emboldened than ever.
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The polls show that quite a large amount of people have buyer's remorse.
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I don't think it's anywhere near as much as what the polls say.
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But, yeah, I think this Project Fear has definitely worked on some people, which is disturbing.
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Shows you just the lens that politicians will go to to really create distrust in the political system.
00:41:46.760
Given the propaganda campaigns on both sides about Brexit – and this is a hypothetical question, I grant you that –
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but if a Brexit redo, in other words, if another vote was to happen today in 2019 in Britain for a Brexit,
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It would depend on the campaign and how it was run.
00:42:12.040
We recently passed a day where mathematicians say that enough Brexiteer voters have died
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and enough young people have become legally aged voters
00:42:22.440
that achieving Brexit in another vote is now mathematically, statistically impossible.
00:42:31.480
So I think it's possible that we would lose on those terms.
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But if the campaign was positive enough, maybe we'd win.
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Well, Jack, in the meantime, this weekend, stock up on tomatoes and lettuce and, I guess, ham sandwiches
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in case the worst of the worst does happen and London goes to hell because of the Brexit debate.
00:42:51.800
Anyways, thank you so much for weighing in on this important topic, Jack.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Well, it's the proverbial winter wonderland, isn't it?
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And I'm at one of the best hills in Toronto for tobogganing.
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Terrain has developed severe ridges and drops that create high risk of injury.
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Designated toboggan hills are available in Riverdale West, Withrow Park, and over 20 other parks.
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The city is concerned that the hill is too hilly and it is now forbidden to toboggan here.
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And what if we do toboggan here, like those brave kids down there?
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Are the sled police going to come and issue us a ticket or arrest us?
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Again, folks, this is the nanny state supreme taking away the fun of a pastime in Canada like tobogganing for no other reason than probably reducing liability at the city in case someone does sprain an ankle or something.
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Well, we're going to put this hill to the test.
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And please, folks, whatever you do, don't call the toboggan police on me, will you?
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I went all the way down the hill and ended up with no bruises, no cuts, no broken bones.
00:45:11.480
Actually, it was fun, which is exactly what tobogganing is meant to be.
00:45:15.800
Oh, but leave it to the no fun police to get involved and ruin things for everybody.
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In any event, here's what some of you had to say about this latest episode of the nanny state running amok.
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And maybe with all this buzz about so-called toxic masculinity, which, by the way, is just code speak for masculinity,
00:45:45.040
it is probably seen as a good thing by some that boys are made weaker and weaker.
00:45:49.740
How sad, during the two world wars, 15-year-old boys would actually lie about their age in order to enlist and fight for their country.
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Today, these same boys are being told that sledding down a hill is far too dangerous for them.
00:46:09.900
If the libs had their way, we would be living in a Demolition Man-like world,
00:46:14.020
and it would probably be mandatory to cover everyone in bubble wrap and safety pads.
00:46:20.040
Hmm, you know, I seem to recall that sex was also outlawed in the future world of Demolition Man,
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replaced by some sort of virtual reality thingy.
00:46:35.200
The only thing the city should be able to do is put up a sign that says,
00:46:44.740
What I can't live with is this futile reaction by the progressives to ban fun activities,
00:46:51.320
closing down tobogganing hills and eradicating playground equipment like swings and monkey bars.
00:47:01.020
but whether it's a bruised shin or a chipped tooth or even a broken bone,
00:47:18.420
Oh, those hilly hills covered in snow are almost as scary as driving,
00:47:29.460
the snow just kept falling and falling that day,
00:47:32.580
so much so that there were a reported 300 car accidents in a 24-hour period.
00:47:39.440
But I didn't hear about any reported tobogganing accidents, by the way,
00:47:43.580
so I guess the obvious solution is for the safety bureaucrats down at City Hall
00:47:49.140
is to ban cars during the wintertime because, obviously, it's just too dangerous.
00:48:08.040
I'll give you my toboggan when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
00:48:13.900
Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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we are making a big announcement at the Rebel this week.
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Member of the European Parliament, Janice Atkinson, has just joined our team.
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She'll be keeping you up to date on all the historic changes going on in England
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As you'll see, she's not afraid to speak her mind.
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The populace are winning elections, kicking out the old guard.