Results of two federal by-elections and a provincial election aren't encouraging for Trudeau
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Three elections last night, three interesting votes, and some lessons to be learned from all of them. Ezra Levenant talks about it all on today's show, including: Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?
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Hello, my friends. Three elections last night. Some lessons to be learned from all of them.
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Tonight, three interesting votes last night. I'll give you the news from two federal by-elections
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and a provincial election. It's October 27th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
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Saskatchewan voted last night. No big surprise. The Sask party dominated the race, which is quite
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something. It's their fourth win in a row. I remember when that province was called Red Square.
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It was just rock-solid NDP forever, it seemed like. Not anymore. The culture of the whole place
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is being changed. It's like a change in the DNA. There are 61 seats in the legislature,
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and the Sask party, last I checked, they're still counting some ridings,
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won 50 of them to just 11 for the NDP. That's pretty mini-NDP. What's interesting to me is that
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the third-place party, it's not the Liberals, who, when I checked last night, I should look at it now,
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but it only had 309 votes, so maybe it's up to 310 votes. Votes in the whole province. That's 0.08%.
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To be fair, most Liberals actually folded into the Sask party years ago. Same with the Rump
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Conservative Party, they only got 2%. The Greens got just over 2% also. I think Saskatchewan is sort of
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sick of environmentalists these days. So who came in third after the Sask party and the NDP? Well,
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the newly formed Buffalo party. It's still very tiny, just under 3%, but they were only just created,
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and they only ran in a few seats. And despite that, they got the third most votes in the whole
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province. In Estevan, last I checked, they got about 25% of the vote, 20% in Cypress Hills for a
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party that was just invented, running against the popular conservative incumbent, the Sask party.
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It's very interesting to me. But the news out of Saskatchewan is the province is staying the course,
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as perhaps the most conservative province in the country. It was sort of pitiful to watch
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Alberta's destroyer, Rachel Notley, try to convince Saskatchewan to do to itself what she had done
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to Alberta. They gave her a hard pass. She said, no thanks, no thanks to your carbon tax
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and your crazy job killing. I love this zinger by Brad Wall, the former leader of the Sask party who
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retired after the last election. He says, I see Ryan Miley is endorsed by a former Alberta premier
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who brought in a carbon tax. For what it's worth, Scott Moe is endorsed by the former Saskatchewan
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premier who fought the carbon tax. That being Brad Wall, that's a nice tweet. But let's turn for
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a moment to Toronto. In Toronto Centre, the most liberal of all the riotings, the rioting Bill
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Morneau scuttled away from in disgrace as he took the blame for the WE charity fiasco. The Liberals won
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again. In the last two elections, Bill Morneau got almost exactly 57% both times. I mean,
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it's literally called Toronto Centre. It's like what the wild rose rioting is to the Conservative
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Party. But they were chopped down a bit by 15%. They still won it with around 42%. A win is a win.
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A win by a single vote is a win. But Liberal candidate and 9-11 truther, Marcy Ian, came within striking
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distance of losing, I think. Annemie Paul, the newly minted Green Party leader, roared ahead of everyone
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else to clock in at just under 33% chance. Again, there may be some straggler votes.
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So that's up 25% from what the Green Party got last time. That's got to be the best the Green Party
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has ever done in Ontario, probably ever. If you look at the results, Annemie, the Green Party leader,
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took about 5% each from the NDP and the Tory campaigns. But she took, it looks like, 15% from
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the Liberals. That is very interesting. By the way, if I were that empty suit Jagmeet Singh,
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I'd be worried about the Greens. And if I were Trudeau, I'd be a bit worried about them too,
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especially in places where 5% or 10% shaved off of them could tip it to the Conservatives.
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But look a bit north to York Centre, which is part of the greater Toronto area, where another Liberal
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MP resigned to cause a by-election. The Liberal won this riding last night too, but it was much closer.
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The Tory and the Liberal were trading places for much of the night, and in the end, the Liberal won
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by only the margin of voter fraud. You know, less than 1,000 votes different or so.
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Not bad for the Tories. Again, the NDP seems to be the loser. Wins are wins, but so far this year,
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the elections have strongly favoured the incumbents. The Sask Party in Saskatchewan,
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B.C.'s NDP turning a minority coalition government into a strong majority. New Brunswick's
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Tories doing the same. The pandemic has strengthened incumbents, at least in Canada,
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except Trudeau maybe. I don't know. Maybe it's because these are just by-elections,
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so voters can take risks knowing that the shape of the entire national government is not at stake. But
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still, it's not as encouraging for Trudeau as the Daily Media Party, Love In, would suggest. And it
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makes me all the more curious and excited about what may come in seven days in the United States election.
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I can't even believe it's upon us. Last night was the night where Amy Coney Barrett,
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Trump's third Supreme Court pick, was sworn in by Clarence Thomas. What a sight. The left was
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spitting bullets. They were so furious. They were so mad, even though it's, you know, that's how the
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Constitution does it. As the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself said, the president doesn't stop being
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president a year before the end of his term, just because he's campaigning. He is still the president
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for four years. He still gets to nominate judges. Listen to RBG herself. The president is elected for
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four years, not three years. So the power that he has in year three continues into year four, and maybe
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some members of the Senate will wake up and appreciate that that's how it should be.
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But boy, were the sore losers out in force, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was one
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of a growing number of Democrats who stated that if the Democrats win the election, they'll want to
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rig the court by expanding its size so greatly so they can pack it with a bunch of liberals to turn
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it into a partisan court. That's also something Ruth Bader Ginsburg specifically opposed.
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Well, what was the other thing? You mentioned...
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Adding the number, changing the number of justices.
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Oh, yes, yes. There is no fixed number in the Constitution. So this court has had as few as five,
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as many as ten. Nine seems to be a good number, and it's been that way for a long time.
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I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges.
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I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court.
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His plan was for every justice who stays on the court past the age of 70.
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The president would have authority to nominate another justice. If that plan had been effective,
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the court's number would have swelled immediately from 9 to 15, and the president would have six
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appointments to make. You mentioned before the court appearing partisan. Well, if anything would make
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the court appear partisan, it would be that. One side saying, when we're in power, we're going to
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enlarge the number of judges. So we will have more people who will vote the way we want them to.
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What is it, this fury on the left? I mean, there's a fury on the right too, but the threats to rip up
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the Constitution, threats to burn down cities, literally burn them. That's all on the left.
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Show me a conservative protest that's been violent. Show me a Republican loser so sore he wants to rip
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up the Constitution just because he loses an election. Whether it's about the courts or the electoral
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college or whatever, I've never seen such sore losers of the Democrats. And if Trump wins again next
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week, which is a possibility, you will see riots and probably even, I don't know, suicides on the left.
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Some of them really believe what they're saying. I get it. Look, everything's at stake. But at the end
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of the day, there should be some life outside of politics. Alas, to the left, the personal is
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political. Every single thing in life must be political and must be fought over. And since many
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choices are on, off, yes, no, since many things are a zero-sum game, like there's only one person who was
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added to the Supreme Court last night, and it was Trump's pick. The daily ebb and flow of politics,
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the small losses feel unbearable to the left, which I believe has grown to hate America itself.
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Hate it because they want to change it, but hate it because it does not seem to want to be changed
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as they want it to be. I believe it is more than just a talking point when Donald Trump Jr. points out,
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if you see an American flag on a house, you pretty much know it's Republican, not Democrat.
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I'm afraid that's largely right these days, and it was not always that way. Here's an interesting
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animated graph from the liberal Pew Research showing that over the last 20 years, Americans have become
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more divided. They're not just on a spectrum. They don't just disagree with each other in incremental
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ways. They are totally apart. They just don't see things the same. There's little overlap anymore.
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That's why next week's U.S. election will feel so calamitous, especially to the left if Trump wins.
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And the male with camo is throwing rocks at us. They haven't hit yet.
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The male party with camo, and we've been lacrosse tickets hitting our cruiser.
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Incredibly, that video is not some citizen journalist showing how Ontario's provincial
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police are absolute doormats in the face of thugs, masked thugs on the street.
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That video was actually deliberately and proudly published by the OPP commissioner who boasted
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about him, who said it was exemplary, who said it was proud of the law enforcement.
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And I wonder if he would have demanded that his police sit still and not defend themselves
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if the windows had been smashed through and if it was their faces being hit with lacrosse
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That was a crime you saw, an assault on property, destruction of property.
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And they sat and smiled and the top cop was proud and the message was sent, Caledonia
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The criminals who now know they can do just about anything and law-abiding citizens who
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And joining us now is our own David Menzies who was at that Caledonia showdown.
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So, David, the fact that the OPP commissioner was proud of that inaction is actually much
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more disturbing to me than the fact that a couple of young thugs smashed a car.
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It is disturbing, but we have to go back to the history of Caledonia, Ezra.
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And you've got to look at the players at the time.
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Now, Dalton McGinty, as the opposition leader, the liberal opposition leader, was constantly,
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throughout his career, badgering the Mike Harris PCs about the handling of the Iprawash
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protests in which the native Dudley George was shot and killed by a member of law enforcement.
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A few years go by, Dalton McGinty is now the premier, and suddenly Caledonia breaks out.
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The premier is now in the position where, oh my gosh, I can't be seen as being heavy-handed
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This is how I built my street cred in the Ontario legislature, being a champion for native justice.
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The OPP commissioner of the day, Ezra, was Julian Fantino.
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So, previously, a really big law and order kind of top cop, that went out the window.
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It was to treat the natives as the victims and the townspeople as the aggressors, when
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And so, that's why you had kidnappings, physical assaults, arson, car theft, houses being burned
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The police turning a blind eye, the police telling residents, phoning 911, sorry, we can't
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Meanwhile, I think the ultimate tragic point of how identity politics was ruling the day
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in Caledonia was when there were citizens marching to have a peaceful protest, came to
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the roadblock, where there was all kinds of anarchy behind the roadblock, and they planted
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Canadian flags in a vacant lot, and they were arrested and handcuffed, and they were charged
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That was in that period for, I'm going to guess, probably 2007 onward.
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The late, great journalist, Christy Blatchford, wrote a masterpiece about these dark days of
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If you were a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen, you were helpless because of the premier of the
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Yeah, well, we were attracted to this area, Ezra, as well as other mainstream media elements.
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And I knew the mainstream media wasn't going to cover this fair and square.
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The Toronto Star, they have a fellow writing this.
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His title, I'm not making this up, he's the social justice reporter.
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In fact, one of the angles of his story is that the occupation of Mackenzie Meadows, the
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housing development that has been stillborn for years now.
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But he went off on this tangent of the mayor of Caledonia having a conflict of interest
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because his daughter has a deposit down on one of the houses.
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She's waiting for a house that might never be built, right?
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But that's the scandal, not the fact that Skylar Williams, you know, the leader, right,
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the chief agitator, I would call it, the fellow who says, I have time to break bread with anybody.
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Because when we went there in August, Ezra, Skylar was supposed to arrange a meeting with us.
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We went out to Mackenzie Meadows, where you cannot go now because they got an excavator
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You know, thousands and thousands of dollars of damage.
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Even a four by four, I don't think, could get over that hump.
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And basically, when we went there to speak, a mob approached us.
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So we were, what got our interest up was the fact that there was lots of social media chatter
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that BLM and Antifa people, Black Lives Matter, thank you,
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These are the paid professional protesters who don't want a peaceful resolution.
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And it's not all natives that are, you know, gung-ho with this movement, I should point out.
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And the idea, the threat was, we are marching past the OPP barricade,
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right down Argyle Street to the bridge, and we are going to do whatever we want.
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We are going to steal what we want, burn what we want, destroy what we want.
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So we heard this, and we said, we got to go there.
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They marched up to the police barricade, and they were met by townspeople,
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who, I should point out, Ezra, off camera, said, we are sick and tired of this.
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Not one, except for one individual, Mr. Bradbury, would come on camera
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because they are scared to death of being doxxed
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and potentially having their house burned down,
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Well, let me ask you, is there any political entity,
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a mayor, a premier, a police chief, a prime minister, a party leader,
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Do you know if the federal conservatives have said anything?
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I mean, I presume the head of the OPP speaks for Doug Ford.
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Is there anyone in the entire Canadian political ecosystem
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This is the time for Doug Ford, instead of having a press conference,
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which he did the other day, where he goes before a podium
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and does the John Tory line, like when parks are being taken over by anarchists,
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this is unacceptable and does nothing, this is the time for Doug Ford...
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This is the time for Doug Ford to say, this is unacceptable
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and we are for law and order and we have to restore law.
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If you want to talk about these land claims, come to the government.
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If you don't like how the negotiations go or you lose, you know what you do?
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natives going to the Supreme Court and winning significant decisions.
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The courts aren't necessarily stacked against them.
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Show us your evidence and you'll have a fair hearing.
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Premier Ford just can't say it's unacceptable and tell the OPP commissioner
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that if it's native violence, stand down, stand down, stand down.
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Well, maybe if Doug Ford pretends that those masked, rock-wielding, stick-wielding thugs
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were corner restauranteurs or yoga shop owners without a mask on,
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maybe then he'd deploy the police and start swinging some batons.
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Or maybe on the other foot, the restaurants, gyms and yoga studios of Toronto that are shut down,
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And I can tell you, Ezra, Caledonia is a beautiful little town.
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It's on the river and, you know, but you can tell there was a different vibe on both sides.
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First of all, I was told by the locals, including Mr. Bradbury,
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these new anarchists, these native protesters, this is a different breed.
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Unlike 2006 and the years ahead, they're not willing to talk.
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And it is dangerous to go into their encampments.
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Secondly, on the other hand, the townspeople, especially with the Wuhan virus lockdown,
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Can you imagine, Ezra, the tension that you have endured months of this garbage
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what little you have left, what little that you've got mortgaged,
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we're going to cross a line and we're going to burn it down because we can burn it down
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that we don't have tangible evidence to present to government or court.
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It is an outrageous situation and it can only be dealt with by the rule of law.
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If the OPP can't do it, then you've got to bring in the army.
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I tell you, one day a vigilante will fill this void.
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But someone will be pushed to the limit if they can't rely on the rule of law,
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if the police won't even protect themselves, let alone private citizens.
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Someone pushed to the brink by this perfect storm you've described
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It applies here in Canada as well as over the United Kingdom
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and it will be on the head of Doug Ford and the OPP
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and every provincial government and federal government.
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Harper didn't fix it either going back 14 years.
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Well, David, I'm glad you were there and I'm glad you were safe.
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And you took a couple of security guards with you too.
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Well, in a way we didn't because it didn't break into the kind of horrible,
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And we certainly didn't get to McKenzie Meadows.
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And you were there before when your security guy says,
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you've got to take security and I know you are.
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And we're the only media who has to hire security
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because if you're with the Toronto Star or the CBC
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They'll help you because you're actually a media propagandist for them.
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I have a feeling the NDP in BC will be heinous and harsh
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despite being moderate when they had a minority government.
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You really don't know who you can trust, if anyone right now.
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I mean, look at Boris Johnson and he's terrible.
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Maybe the Welsh First Minister, who's a Labourite, is worse.
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the Labour leader in the Victoria State in Australia.
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And bizarrely, enough of the population loves being bossed around
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that they're supporting these authoritarian leaders.
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He enjoys the praise of pro-big government media.
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And he's saying, well, it's not hurting me in the polls.
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I think left or right, politicians are all our enemy these days.
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I hope and pray that the hypocrisy of the ruling class ticks off as many normal citizens as possible.
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The fact that the maskless photo went viral proves people see the double standard of our rulers.
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Trudeau broke four different lockdown rules in Easter.
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The health ministers or public health officers of places as far apart as Scotland and New Zealand broke their lockdowns.
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It's like Al Gore flying around on his private jet talking about global warming.
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It's how you act that matters more than what you say.
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On my interview with Joel Pollack, Paul writes,
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As for various groups for Trump, notice that the left have to manufacture what free people do voluntarily.
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Nobody needs to pay ethnic groups to show their love for President Trump because it's from the heart.
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And, you know, we have a bit of a divide in Canada because Quebec, which is a quarter of the country,
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But the largest anti-lockdown protests in Canada have been in their province.
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And I just saw a news headline that 200 gym owners plan to defy the law and stay open.
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That kind of solidarity in dissident opposition to the government, we don't see that in Anglo-Canada.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.