SCANDAL： Trudeau gives radical groups like Greenpeace charity status — and retroactive pardons for breaking tax laws
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Justin Trudeau wants radical environmental groups like Greenpeace to have tax-free charity status. Should the oil and gas companies become a charity too? Ezra Levenrant explains why this is a bad idea, and why you should be worried.
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Tonight, Trudeau decides that radical groups like Greenpeace should be allowed to have
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tax-free charity status. Should the rebel become a charity too?
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It's August 16th and you're watching 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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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my
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Justin Trudeau has announced that he intends to give his anti-oil sands allies full charity
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status and more than that to remove long-standing restrictions on their political campaigns.
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You'll recall that in the 2015 election, more than 100 so-called third-party campaign groups
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registered with Elections Canada and all but one of them were pro-Trudeau.
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They conducted opinion polls, they had lawn signs and other ads, they had sophisticated
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They were particularly active in British Columbia and helped Trudeau win so many seats there,
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which is why he, in return, blocked the Northern Gateway Pipeline and bought the Trans Mountain
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Pipeline so he could slow down and stop its expansion.
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So yesterday, Trudeau's Minister of National Revenue announced that Trudeau is going to
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permit political activity, political lobbying, public pressure, and propaganda campaigns and
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Understand, charities were only allowed to spend up to 10% of their money on politics.
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Now, it's no coincidence that Trudeau's right-hand man, Gerald Butts, was the former president
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of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, one of these hyper-political lobby groups that somehow
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You should know that the World Wildlife Fund continued to pay Gerald Butts for more than
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a year after he left their company and went on to work for Justin Trudeau.
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They literally subsidized Trudeau's principal secretary massively, huge, almost half a million
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What an obvious quid pro quo for Gerald Butts to now return the favor.
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A more ethical government would not have permitted that.
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But then again, Justin Trudeau himself is the first prime minister ever to be convicted
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of breaking a federal law, four times, namely the conflict of interest laws.
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I mean, seriously, a prime minister who takes a free $100,000 holiday on a billionaire's
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private island and keeps that secret, he's not really going to complain about his principal
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secretary pocketing, I don't know, almost half a million Canadian dollars from a lobby
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The chief of staff to the global warming minister, Catherine McKenna, his name's Marlo
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He used to be the boss of the Pembina Institute, another anti-oil sands lobby group in trouble
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The chief of staff to Jim Carr, Zoe Caron, was the president of the Sierra Club of Canada,
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The senior environmental advisor to Trudeau himself.
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This lady, Sarah Goodman, was the senior vice president of the Tides Foundation, repeatedly
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All of these anti-oil sands extremist groups, all of these lobbyist groups, each of which
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is foreign funded, each of which campaigns against our oil and gas industry, they all
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have their charitable status under review at the Canada Revenue Agency, them and others,
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and frankly, I helped lead the charge against them when I ran that little group I had called
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So they were all in jeopardy because you simply can't engage in politics while claiming charitable
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It has to be less than 10% of what a charity does.
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Now, I'll come back to Trudeau's announcement in a moment, but let me just remind you about
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It is a political advocacy group, at best, a criminal organization at worst.
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It's the signature tactic of theirs to commit crimes, trespass, vandalism, mischief.
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They're not spontaneous events, random accidents.
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And every single one of them is accompanied by a fundraising campaign.
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On two separate occasions, the Canadian government, the CRA, or as it used to be called, Revenue
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It's once under a conservative prime minister named Brian Mulroney and once under a liberal
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And I mentioned those two partisan prime ministers to imply unanimity on the subject.
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But of course, the decision is not made by the prime minister.
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It's made by nonpartisan bureaucrats and auditors at the Canada Revenue Agency.
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See, it's not a political partisan decision as to whether or not Greenpeace is a charity.
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You simply don't get the benefits and privilege of being a charity if you don't meet the tests.
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And decades, even centuries of law and policy tell us what a charity is and what a charity
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Traditionally, charities are hospitals, schools, religious institutions, and then there's sort
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of a catch-all, things indisputably for the public good, like a food bank.
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It has to be indisputable, otherwise it wouldn't be a charity.
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If there was another side to the story, then it's just politics, not charity, right?
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There's no counterpoint to an orphanage or to a food bank, right?
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But there is, to what Greenpeace does, they're against capitalism, they're against oil and
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gas, for example, but that is far from a universal position.
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And of course, there's Greenpeace's tactics, which themselves are inherently illegal.
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David Suzuki doesn't commit crimes like Greenpeace.
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He appears to be breaking a court injunction here in front of Kinder Morgan.
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And of course, he went to the Burnaby Riots a few years ago to give support to the lawbreakers
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But still, here's Suzuki, after whom the David Suzuki Foundation is named, filming a
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Liberal Party campaign ad with Dalton McGinty a few years back, clearly partisan.
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All the 100 groups that promoted Trudeau in the last election, why is any of that charitable?
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All these foreign-funded lobbyists, why is that a charity?
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As in, why do you and I have to work hard at our businesses and we pay taxes so these
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And so they can issue tax receipts for their causes?
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I know the answer when it comes to hospitals and orphanages, because we all agree, whether
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we're left-wing or right-wing, Liberal or Tory, that anyone who runs an orphanage is doing
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But why do you and I have to pay our taxes so that Greenpeace wouldn't have to?
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And that's what this announcement yesterday from Trudeau says.
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Not only is he going to let charities be political now, so Greenpeace can come back in as a charity
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now, but he's going to retroactively give a de facto pardon to all of his crooked friends
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Our government intends to present legislation to this effect in the fall.
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The Canada Revenue Agency will develop supporting guidance in collaboration with the charitable
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That is, he's going to ask his buddies, should we legalize it?
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The legislation will be drafted to apply retroactively, including to the audits and objections that
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This suspension will be lifted when the legislation is passed by Parliament, unquote.
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Trudeau is saying everyone who cheated under the existing Income Tax Act, everyone who thought
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they were above the law, thought they could get away with it, everyone who thought that
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paying taxes was just for the little people, everyone who thought because they were Trudeau's
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cronies they'd get away with it, they are all going to get away with it.
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They're all getting their problems with Revenue Canada just wiped out.
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If you were audited by Revenue Canada, like the Tides Foundation and the other pro-Trudeau
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lobby group charities were, if you were audited for tax evasion for your business, if you
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broke the law and were in trouble, would you be able to call up the Prime Minister and have
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him call off the auditors and make all of your tax cheat problems go away?
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I've already shown you how the senior staff in Justin Trudeau's key ministries are affiliated
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with these very charities that are being audited.
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Can you imagine if Stephen Harper had appointed senior oil and gas executives to run all the
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key ministries in his government energy environment, the PMO, and then passed laws retroactively
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pardoning any oil companies for their law-breaking, and then it turned out that Harper's senior
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aide had actually been on an oil company's payroll for two years, collecting almost half
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It is a scandal of the first order with Trudeau, but you won't read about it on the CBC or
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If political advocates can now get charity status so they don't have to pay tax and they
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can give charity receipts to anyone who gives their money.
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If that's now on, should we hear the rebel create a rebel charitable foundation too so
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I mean, if that's the law now, should we do it too?
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Well, weeks after the eviction order from the city of Burnaby, months after other court orders
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and restraining orders were applied years after the infamous Burnaby Mountain riots that
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David Suzuki himself attended, I am pleased to report that the anti-pipeline protesters,
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the professional hobos who were blocking it, while they're being extracted, finally, slow,
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but finally, the rule of law has returned to the pipeline.
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And joining us now to talk about this is our pipeline expert who was out there just a couple
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I'm so excited these hobos are being shoved into the garbage can.
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And we invited you to go out there when the eviction order was served on them, but we foolishly
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thought that the rule of law would mean you get an eviction order.
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But as your own report had showed, the city was slow walking everything and these protesters
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knew they could get away with anything because really the city of Burnaby is politically opposed
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to this pipeline and they didn't even mean it when they demanded them to be cleared.
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I think, though, they had to do something and they had to do something now.
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The city of Burnaby is under a state of emergency with the wildfires and these hobos are up there
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drunk and high burning a fire 24 hours a day in front of highly flammable diesel tanks.
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And I don't know about you, but I don't trust a bunch of drunk hobos to maintain a fire and
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make sure that it doesn't get away and burn down the mountain.
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And I think the state of the emergency was the last straw.
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And just monitoring the persistent low-level crime, just the resources that had to be deployed
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We don't use the word hobo often enough these days.
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And we know constant assaults on police, constant, as you mentioned, drug use.
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The fact that they have this illegal shanty town, obviously a fire hazard, a hazard to
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pedestrians, a hazard to drivers, a hazard to themselves.
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And it's super gross because there's families living not far away.
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And when you're in the middle of a fire crisis, you don't have luxuries like that.
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And I was reading some of the reporting this morning that was coming out from the local
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reporters who were in attendance at Camp Cloud.
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And I felt very vindicated in my reporting because when the police swept in there at just
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So everybody who spends the night at the camp amounts to about four people.
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The camp's leadership had already long left the camp to avoid arrest.
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And, you know, it's funny because you always call the people, these hobos, these homeless
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And really, that's what they turned out to be today.
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Sipporah Berman, she swept in, you know, after the police showed up so that she wouldn't be
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arrested with the initial batch of homeless people.
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And the camp's leader, Patricia Kelly, she was safe in her own comfortable kitchen doing
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a Facebook Live this morning as all of her cannon fodder were being arrested.
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You know, you say that and it's a good reminder.
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I've seen this with my own eyes in Ontario against Line 9.
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I spent a fair bit of time with the protesters against that pipeline in Ontario.
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But then my third emotion was sorrow because they truly, I mean, we're joking about the
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word hobos, but many of them really are drug addicts.
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Many of them are emotionally disturbed in some way.
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They're given an artificial income if they are really the shock troops of the paid professional
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So, you know, take Sipporah Berman, who's a six-figure international lobbyist.
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She's the one who, Rachel Notley, incredibly appointed to be co-chair of her Oil Sands Advisory
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Council, she lets the little people get the arrest, maybe even get physically roughed up
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I remember meeting someone in Ontario named Trish Mills, who was obviously arrested, development,
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She, in fact, had a blog about her own mental illness, not physically well.
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She, her way of having a community, Sheila, was to do the craziest things so that she would
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earn some respect from the rest of the protesters.
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She earned respect from the other protesters by giving them sex.
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So we're talking about mentally ill people trying to impress environmental organizers.
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We're talking about a woman who obviously is so damaged that she's the, I don't even want
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to say prostitute, but she gives sex to the men there.
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That's her, like, these are people who are deeply damaged, and they are being used and
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abused as the pawns in this larger game, and all the fancy people are not there.
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So I actually have some pity for the four losers who had nowhere to go, and now are going
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to jail while all the organizers are back in Vancouver sucking on $8 cappuccinos.
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Yeah, and I mean, you bring up the fact that these are not-well people.
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Imagine being a taxpayer around the corner from this encampment when all these not-well, violent,
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drug-abusing people are just infesting your neighborhood, and you're looking at the city
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I was also reading some other articles about how the protesters spent the week, and instead
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of, you know, cleaning up or trying to comply with some of the bylaws that they're in violation
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of, they spent the week practicing, tying themselves to their shanties in an attempt to make it more—an
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attempt to resist arrest, basically, is what it comes down to.
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That's what they're doing with their time, figuring out ways to break the law.
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You mentioned that only four people were actually there.
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I remember way back, almost 10 years ago, when Occupy, Toronto was a big thing, and there's
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And I went there at 3 a.m. with someone from the Sun News Network, and we had an infrared
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And we proved that every single tent was empty, except for the one tent, where you had a couple
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And you could see that tent was lit up on the infrared camera.
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So we went there, and I proved it was a Potemkin village, is what they would say in Russia.
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The fact that only four people, and they were paid hobos, is what's stopping this national
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pipeline, is such a shame and disgrace to our nation, but the shame rests with them, but
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I've always said, Sheila, Greenpeace, in my mind, meets the legal test for a criminal organization
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It's an organized group of people that collude to commit a crime for profit in the name of
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This whole thing is an organized criminal activity.
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And these four people who were arrested today, they're actually, they're like the drug mules.
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You know, the, I'm just very sad to hear what you said today, actually.
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It makes me sad because even though I don't know those four people, and I know they're
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probably awful, and I know they were awful to you when you were out there, I know that
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they too are actually victims of professional environmentalists.
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Well, I think too that we're all sort of a victim of the bad reporting at Camp Cloud.
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I was the only skeptical journalist who bothered to go back there after dark, after all the cameras
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went home to tell the truth about what that place was like.
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That it was literally only four homeless people, I said four to six homeless people, holding
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I don't think the mainstream media has been truthful and skeptical enough with the motives
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You know, you say Camp Cloud because that's what they've nicknamed it.
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But I actually sort of hate saying that word because that makes a cloud, a cloud is clean
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This is like Camp, you know, Septic Tank or something.
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I mean, and by the way, I'd like to encourage all our viewers to want to know the reality of
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Camp Septic Tank to go to our special website we made up.
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And the most interesting point was when a rival journalist tried to get you run out of
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there because that rival journalist was actually in league with the protesters.
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Do you think that they'll stay away or do you think there'll just be more lawbreakers hopped
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Well, I think that there will be more lawbreakers hopped up on drugs and foreign money.
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I don't think that they will be in Burnaby in that specific site anymore.
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I think the proof is going to be in the pudding when that pipeline, if it ever starts construction.
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I think that the initial construction sites are going to be plagued by these people.
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Sheila, we see in regulatory filings that Kinder Morgan now says construction will be
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I interpret that as Justin Trudeau is waiting until his 2019 election, after which he's going
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So he'll be able to say to BC, nothing's happening.
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And then the second after the election, he'll drop any pretense of building that pipeline.
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I believe it will never get built as long as you have an NDP government in BC and a Trudeau
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Thankfully, Donald Trump is resurrecting the Keystone XL.
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Sheila, thanks for following this file and doing real journalism on it when no one else would.
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May I recommend her videos at rebelburnaby.com?
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And if you want to chip in, you know, we flew Sheila out there and a cameraman, and so we
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spent a few thousand bucks getting her out there.
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Obviously, we don't have the resources of a CBC, so if you want to help chip in for our
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airfare, and I think we put them up in hotels for a couple nights too, please do.
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I want to show you a trailer for a powerful new movie.
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We are looking for anything that looks like drugs or paraphernalia.
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Philadelphia Police Department, we have a search warrant.
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You are not going to believe what I saw last night.
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A healthy woman goes into a clinic, comes out dead, and there's no police report?
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You'll be the prosecutor who went after reproductive rights, and you'll be a racist to boot.
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You've got a lot of folk who'd like to see abortion outlawed, and this is not going to be the case that gives them an excuse.
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Prosecution has offered you a plea bargain, Dr. Gosnell.
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When you get to the courthouse, you are going to be swarmed by reporters.
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When was the last time your division inspected Dr. Gosnell's clinic?
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We had instructions directly from Governor Ridge's office not to inspect.
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I wouldn't testify in that case about anything.
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And you look at the facts, you will see what I see.
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There's nothing that man did that protects women or children, and you don't have to be a pro-life activist to see that.
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Kermit Gosnell is perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history.
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And as you know, it's a film rooted in the facts.
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Joining us now is Phelan McAleer, the filmmaker behind the project.
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I know you and I have talked about this before.
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It's very exciting to see it come to fruition and to have an actual release date.
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The mainstream media and the mainstream culture in Hollywood, they didn't want this out there.
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They didn't want it told in the newspapers, online.
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And they certainly didn't want a movie made out of it.
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So it was very nice that we were able to do it.
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And, you know, we crowdfunded and many of your viewers, many of your viewers gave small donations to make this happen.
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And, you know, we can see that we saw donations coming in.
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Well, Phelan, you're very generous to remember that.
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In fact, we learned so much from you about crowdfunding.
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It's really the lessons we learned watching you have helped build the rebels.
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Now, the movie itself, some very famous names in there.
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I'm sure a lot of our viewers will recognize Dean Cain.
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I remember him from the old Superman show that he was in.
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And some other names there, less familiar, the star or the anti-star of the movie, Dr. Gosnell himself, is played by Earl Billings.
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Very, very compelling, at least in this trailer.
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Then you start off with a great director who convinces the actors that this is going to be a great movie.
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You know, and I think there's a sense that we were doing something unique here, doing something that wasn't done before, doing something exciting.
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They love taking real characters and working with them.
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You know, you couldn't get much more dramatic than this.
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This is a story that was covered up by politicians for 20 years.
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It was a social media firestorm that brought the Kermit Gosnell story to force the mainstream media, shame the mainstream media into covering it.
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So, we need people to come out on October 12th when it comes out.
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One thing I want to say to people is, you know, it's about a very tough subject, but we have deliberately not made it tough.
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It's PG-13, which in America means a 13-year-old can go and see it.
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And, you know, your viewers were so good at the beginning.
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Well, I'm very glad you said that because, of course, there is that scene where Dean Cain says, what's that smell?
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It sounds terrifying, but it sounds like it's a film that people could take teenagers to without worried about them being too disturbed by at least the graphic.
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And, in fact, we have shown it to groups of people, and they said, I have to take my teenage children to see this.
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You know, there were some interesting things in the trailer there about all the pressure on the police and the prosecution not to proceed.
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There's political pressure because to put abortion in a bad light is incorrect.
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Kermit Gosnell, I shouldn't even call him doctor.
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He was black, and the majority of the women who came to his abortion clinic were black.
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So I can imagine, ideologically, racially, there's a religious aspect.
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All those pressures against the prosecution, I can imagine you had all those same pressures against you as a filmmaker.
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Remember, we wanted to raise the money through Kickstarter, and Kickstarter threw us off because we couldn't say murdered babies, even though he was convicted of murdering babies.
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Because in Kickstarter's wonderful phrase, it would offend their community values.
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And I wrote back because I don't want to be part of any community that likes to lie, you know.
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So from the very beginning, the establishment was against this.
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And, you know, people now need to turn out on October 12th and show the establishment that they can't get away with this.
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Obviously, this movie is American in nature, although the lessons are global.
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A lot of our viewers, Phelan, are Canadian, and they'll want to see this, too.
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I know it's coming out in America on October 12th.
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I know that you're focused on the big, important market.
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But let me just say that if there's any way we can help by hosting a film or anything, we're interested in it.
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Can you keep us posted as you get Canadian release news?
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It's one of our priorities is to get Canadians to see it because it's a big, it's a story there.
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And, you know, a disproportionate amount of the fundraising came from Canada.
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Those may well have been our people because I know you and I talked about this before.
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Now, before we turn the cameras on, you suggested that there's a chance that this film might find an online distributor like maybe a Netflix.
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Well, you never know what the way it is now, but we have a path to Netflix.
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It was very important to us that the distribution deal included that path so that everyone could then see it.
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And the funny thing is, it's going to be in the serial killer category of Netflix or the crime category.
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And people are going to just watch it casually and they're going to learn a lot and they're going to be entertained.
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And it's going to provoke some very interesting reactions because the truth always does.
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You know, that's so important because if this were to go in, like, this is a factual story that's actually happened.
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And, in fact, Hannah, can we put up an image here?
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You showed them in the film, but this is an actual photograph here.
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We're showing on the screen right now, Phelan, taken in the actual court back in 2013.
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Reserved media seats Thursday morning in courtroom 304 in Philadelphia where Gosnell is on trial.
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So that scene in your dramatization is exactly the way it was.
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But your movie, if it came across as, you know, eat your spinach, this is a documentary, I don't think people would watch it.
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You put it in the serial killer category, I think people will watch it.
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This is a crime, very interesting, that was covered up by the political establishment, covered up by the media.
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Maybe Mark Ruffalo would like to come to the premiere, you know, and all those other Hollywood types that love to do movies about media cover-ups and big cover-ups, you know.
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But they don't seem to be that interested in this one.
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As you can see from the trailer, it's a real Hollywood movie.
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That was very important, that this didn't come across as preachy or didactic or boring or worthy.
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Are you going to have a premiere-style event in Hollywood?
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My God, you think I'd waste an opportunity to rub Hollywood's noses in this?
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Well, we've got some talent down in Hollywood these days.
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Maybe we could send a camera crew to your red carpet.
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Okay, so October the 9th is the premiere in Hollywood.
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And you can let us know if there's a Canadian option.
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And if there is, we'll sure let our people know.
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But I think it would be fun to have a Canadian event.
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We're going to put the list of the cities up very shortly.
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And that should be, you know, that'll help people plan their outing.
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And we need people to go, bring 10 people, really pack out the opening weekend.
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The opening weekend is the one that ensures this movie will expand and keep growing.
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You know, if it's not a big weekend at the opening, then Hollywood closes it down and says,
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oh, we need that for the latest Marvel superhero movie or whatever, leave that theater.
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So we need to show there's an appetite for this.
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So the way you do that is you have the big first weekend.
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I mean, that's the big push for every movie, that opening weekend, because then that determines
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Well, not Hollywood, at least the movie theater.
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It's so satisfying to see this project come to a successful conclusion.
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I think I was back at Sun News Network, if I recall, when I first got the phone call from you.
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So it's really nice to see this come to fruition.
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And you're very nice to mention our Canadian supporters, because our people like to crowdfund projects they believe in.
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We'll support you every step of the way, Felham, on this project and all your others.
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So, yeah, it was a long time ago, but your people came on board.
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Congratulations again and all the best to the team and the crew who worked so hard.
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October 12th is when the movie rolls out in the United States.
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Felham will keep us posted on Canadian Opportunities.
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And even if it's not in theaters, you'll be able to watch it on Netflix.
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On my monologue yesterday about Trudeau creating a new holiday that focuses on the history of residential schools
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Celebrating Aboriginal achievements would be a more honest holiday.
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I will not accept the narrative that it is up to me to jump into self-loathing and repentance.
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Since I recognize the harms residential schools created for a large swath of Aboriginal families,
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and if the government is serious about addressing the wrongs of the past, then repeal the Indian Act.
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We actually do have racism against Aboriginal people in Canada.
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I've gone through the Indian Act in great detail.
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Maybe I should do that again, a refresher of all the ways it is racially discriminatory.
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I'll just give you my one most shocking example.
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If you're an Indian on an Indian reserve, you cannot do a last will and testament the same way regular Canadians are that aren't under a racist law.
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No Indian living on a reserve has the right to make their own will.
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It must be approved by the band or they get to decide.
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And the condescension in that law is, oh, an Indian can't be trusted to make his own will.
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That's the underlying racist purpose of the law.
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Don't create a new holiday about grievance and hucksterism.
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How about deal with the racism on the books today?
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The last federally operated residential school closed in 1996.
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Pierre Trudeau was prime minister from 1968 to 1979.
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Who paid for that park in Winnipeg dedicated to the founder of Pakistan?
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And, you know, I should say that Pierre Trudeau himself, Justin Trudeau's father, said it wasn't the role of government to repent for or apologize for the past.
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I don't have the exact quote memorized, but Pierre Trudeau was more sensible in some ways than his son.
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I went to a residential school of a different type.
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The government experts figured blind kids could only be educated by specialists.
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We were sent to distant residential schools to be with our own kind.
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I don't feel that the entire nation should be shamed for that.
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I had not heard of that before, but I take your word for it.
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Listen, there are things that have been done in Alberta.
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Sterilization, forced sterilization of people who were deemed to be defective.
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And then there was later some, there was in the 30s and 40s.
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Tommy Douglas, by the way, his master's thesis was on how we need to sterilize poor people, dumb people and other defectives.
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So, yeah, there was a lot of things that, at the time, were supposedly very progressive.
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But now, with the passage of time we see weren't, should we have a national day about that?
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Or should we just fix the problem where we can, learn from it, and try and focus on being our best?
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I really like what Andrew Klavan said yesterday.
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We celebrate the best things in life because we want that to be who we are.
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We don't obsess over the worst things in life because we don't want to emphasize that.
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On my interview with Sue Ann Levy about the Antifa assault on a Toronto Sun photographer, Jerry writes,
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Why are you not calling this a robbery, theft with violence, if police won't lay the charge and have the photographer lay a private charge?
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The police charge all sorts of people who steal hats.
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The fact that it, you know, is a $20 hat and not a $20,000 car is irrelevant.
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And the fact that it was done in violence is shocking.
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Hey, do you remember in Toronto a few years back there was a cop?
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He got the nickname Officer Bubbles because someone was blowing bubbles at him.
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And he sort of growled and said, if one of those bubbles touches me, I'm going to sue you for assault.
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So police can be very, very active when they want to be.
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But they thought it was just fine to let a Sun photographer get hammered and his hat stolen because, you know, it's just the Toronto Sun.
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The irony is, as Sue Ann said, the Toronto Sun is the most pro-police newspaper in Toronto.
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What do you think about the idea of setting up a rebel charity?
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But I would never put us on par with feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, teaching people, you know, hospitals.
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I would never pretend that we are of that moral caliber.
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And we do some things that I think would meet the test of charitable work.
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Remember when we raised more than $200,000 for those kids whose dad, Christopher Speer, was murdered by Omar Khadr.
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I mean, that felt charitable, you know what I mean?
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I guess we raised money for Jordan Peterson's scholarship and his grad students.
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That, I guess, meets the test of charity when you donate money to, like, a university.
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But generally, you know, when I rant about politics, that's not charity.
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Justin Trudeau says it's charity because he's trying to bail out his friends.
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And so if they can be charities, I mean, why would we be the only idiots not getting charitable status?
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And why don't we get charitable status so we can issue charitable tax receipts?
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If that's the new law, would we be foolish not to avail ourselves of it?
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.