SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Alberta uses the nuclear option against the Feds' 'clean' electricity regulations
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Today, Alberta s Premier Danielle Smith uses the nuclear button on the feds. Then, wouldn't you know it, Justin Trudeau's trip to the King s Coronation came with a half-million dollar price tag, and the total bill s not in yet.
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Tonight, Alberta's Premier Daniel Smith uses the nuclear button on the Feds then, wouldn't
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you know it, Justin Trudeau's trip to the King's coronation came with a half a million
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dollar price tag, and the total bill's not in yet. It's November 28th, 2023. I'm Sheila
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Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Well, I bet you're all kinds of surprised to see me hosting the show here and
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also see the old digital studio, but I don't live or work near Toronto, and Ezra's on a
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very special mission today, so here I am filling in from my studio in the basement in the wilds
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of Alberta. So thank you in advance for bearing with me. Now, speaking of very special missions,
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Alberta's Premier Daniel Smith is on one of her own on behalf of all of us. That mission
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is to exert Alberta's rights and authority within the Confederation of Canada and strike
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fear in the hearts of the stupidest man in all of politics. Yes, I'm talking about
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These measures are not something that we want to do. They are a plan to counteract the absurd,
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illogical, unscientific, and unconstitutional interference in Alberta's electrical grid by
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a federal government that simply doesn't care what happens to our province, so long as they have a good
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virtue-signaling story to tell their leftist friends and special interests. We would much rather
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work with Ottawa on meaningful ways to reduce emissions while continuing to generate reliable,
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affordable electricity. That's better for all Albertans and Canadians. But we refuse to meekly
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accept actions which are so plainly destructive to Alberta's economy and to the very safety and
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security of Alberta's citizens. We will do whatever we must to stand up and protect the people of this
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province. In doing so, Daniel Smith is also forcing the NDP to oppose NDP ideology in a bit of a
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strange way. The NDP socialist concept of the government being big and doing everything better
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than the private sector has been a cornerstone of the party since its inception. But right now,
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they are crying the blues about the potential for a new crown corporation here in Alberta,
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and I love, I love, I love watching them twist themselves in knots, but we'll get to that in a second.
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First, let's talk about what my premier has done, this time to the feds.
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Alberta's premier, Daniel Smith, invoked her Sovereignty Act, something that we were told
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just couldn't be done, and it was a big theatrical threat, conservative showboating,
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if you will. We were all told by our moral and intellectual superiors in the mainstream media
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that Daniel Smith would never use her flagship piece of legislation, which mandates her to fight
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with the feds every time the feds overstep into provincial jurisdiction. We were told the Sovereignty Act
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was just right-wing virtue signaling and that things wouldn't change and Albertans would be happy,
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just so happy, to be the doormat under the feds' feet the way we've always been, because why do
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anything different in politics ever? However, however, bright and early Monday morning,
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Daniel Smith used the Sovereignty Act to make life more affordable for Albertans.
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Ottawa persists in trying to regulate and remake Alberta's electrical system from generation to
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transmission to distribution, which will make life more expensive for families and put the
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reliability of our grid at risk. And they're pushing ahead with their plan, even though Section 92A
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of the Constitution of Canada is clear that legislating and regulating the development of electricity
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falls within the jurisdiction of the provinces. Alberta's government is committed to protecting
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Albertans from federal overreach. That is why, this afternoon, I intend to table a resolution
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in the chamber under the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act. We developed this legislation
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to shield the province from federal intrusions, and we're using it now because the consequences of
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this particular overreach would be so severe. And the feds, of course, they're scared, so scared,
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and they don't like it. But isn't that truly the point?
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So let's talk about the Alberta Sovereignty Act, and we'll go back to questions about
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official languages after. Like, this is a massive distraction from the real preoccupations of
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Albertans, which are housing, growing an economy that works for everybody, getting the renewables
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moratorium reduced, and actually building up an economy that works for everybody. I said this when
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the Act came out. It's a dubious piece of legislation. This is theatre to distract people
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from what's really going on, which is the fact that Danielle Smith has made some bad calls.
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She's scared away at least $12 billion on renewables already. That could go as high as $30 billion.
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When I met with her a couple of weeks ago, I said, can this end soon? And she didn't have a clear
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answer on that. She's actually put in a piece of legislation that would stop regulations that
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don't plan to go in place until 2035. And there's a working table in place to actually talk about
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if 2035 is even the right date. So this is political theatre. It's a political spat. It's another
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opportunity for the province to try to pick a fight with the feds that, quite frankly,
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Albertans don't need. And if the premier or her ministers want to reach out to the federal
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government, they can just pick up the phone. They don't have to impose the Sovereignty Act.
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Contrary to many of the claims that, well, all of the claims that the premier is making
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on this, we have, in fact, signed agreements with provinces like Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
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who are still very dependent on fossil fuel to produce their electricity, and who've agreed
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to work with us to have a carbon neutral grid by 2035. So it is possible to do so in Canada.
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It is possible to do so in jurisdictions that are still very dependent on fossil fuel. But
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it means that we have to work together, not against each other. And that's what I find
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unacceptable with the position that Premier Smith is taking, because it's bad for Albertans.
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It's bad for workers in Albertans. It's bad for the economy of Alberta. And obviously,
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we know that as far as Pierre Polyev is concerned, nothing would happen on this, because he doesn't
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even, the official position of his party is that they don't believe in climate change,
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let alone measures that we should put in place to fight climate change. So we will continue moving
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ahead with this. There is no legal basis for what Alberta is doing. And we feel that we're on
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very solid ground. And the fact that we already have some provinces who are on board with us,
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as well as a number of private companies and investors who say that this is the way to the
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But here's the thing. Premier Smith told the feds she was going to do this. She warned them
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How are the talks going between Alberta and the feds with regards to the clean
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electricity regulations? Because of course, the clock is ticking on this whole file.
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Well, we're getting pretty frustrated because they've had a Supreme Court loss now that says that they
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cannot use their federal power as a pretext to invade provincial jurisdiction. And they're acting
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like that Supreme Court case didn't happen. They had another loss on the issue of plastics,
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which was also an unconstitutional overreach and unreasonable. And instead of accepting the
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court's judgment, they're going to drag it out again. So we've got a lawless federal government.
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And when you have a lawless federal government, then you've got to assert that the Constitution
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matters. We've got the Supreme Court behind us. We're continuing to press that matter. They
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haven't dropped it yet. But I can tell you, we are just like Premier Mo getting increasingly
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frustrated at the way they're behaving on this. We think that there is a resolution. So align to get
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to 2050 on emissions reductions targets. That's the position that we continue to put forward. And
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that's what we're going to do in Alberta, quite frankly. We know that that's achievable. We know we
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have the constitutional jurisdiction. And we know that they're acting in a way that's outside of their
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boundaries. I guess Justin Trudeau is just not used to dealing with a woman he can't grope,
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bully, fire, or otherwise put in her place. Danielle Smith is smarter than Justin Trudeau,
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and Justin Trudeau knows it. But back here in Alberta, it is fascinating to watch the NDP try,
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try to understand business after being anti-business since forever and ultimately get it all wrong.
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The NDP leader and former Premier Rachel Notley, who previously acted as some sort of
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scarecrow for oil patch investment, scaring it off to North Dakota and Texas for four years through
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her anti-oil policies, has suddenly become an expert in attracting business, you know, after she
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oversaw some of the most catastrophic job losses in Alberta's existence.
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This Premier is determined to hold us back. Invoking the so-called Sovereignty Act is either
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illegal or a dishonest stunt to claim it is. Either way, the Premier's actions will jeopardize
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investment certainty. Weaken the nation, ignore the rule of law, breach treaty rights across the
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country and here in Alberta, and declare that we're on the wrong side of fighting climate change.
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To the Premier, why is she putting her own extremist politics ahead of economic common sense?
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Now, here's where the NDP turned into absolute hypocrites. Part of yesterday's announcement by
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Smith was that the groundwork would be laid for the creation of a Crown Corporation energy generator,
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which would be a last resort stopgap against the feds. You see, Saskatchewan right now,
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they're not collecting the carbon tax on the electricity that it sells through a provincial
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Crown Corporation, SaskPower. In Alberta, that's not a thing that we can do in our fight with the feds.
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Our provincial government cannot ask our privately owned energy retailers to not collect the carbon tax
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or to breach Justin Trudeau's clean energy standards. This new Crown Corporation would be an end
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run around all of that. This new energy generator would adhere to Alberta's electricity generation
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standards and not those of the feds. And yet, the NDP, who are so pro-putting everything under the
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jurisdiction of government, including businesses, are suddenly against the creation of this government-run
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business. Because the NDP aren't really for Albertans, are they? My Premier has them
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pegged. We know where they get their marching orders from.
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Well, I see the leader of the opposition is true to form, opposing something she hasn't even read and
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still has apparently not read the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act. It will do none of those
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things. In fact, what it is going to do is it's going to push back against a lawless federal government
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that incidentally is supported by her federal leader. She should actually stand with us in making sure
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that we have affordable, reliable electricity for Albertans, because that's what this motion is all about.
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And I would invite the leader of the opposition to read the constitution, section 92a, which gives the
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province exclusive jurisdiction to develop policy and law around electricity generation transmission and
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conservation. In fact, is the federal government acting in a lawless way? We are standing up for the law.
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If she had any influence on her federal leader, then she should ask them to abide by what the constitution says
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and support us in a target of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.
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Stay with us. Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins us after the break to discuss the
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ballooning costs of Justin Trudeau's coronation vacation.
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The saga of the federal government's trip, entourage, junket to the King's coronation really is the gift
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that keeps on giving to the conservatives. The only problem is that it is the taxpayers who keep giving
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the gift to the liberals in their government in the form of these incredibly large, expensive junkets.
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And joining me now is Franco Teresano with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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The King's coronation junket, we're close to getting a final number pegged on just how enormous this thing was.
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Tell us about this. Well, look, taxpayers are on the hook for what $534,000 for the federal government's trip to England
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for the King's coronation. Now, look, I understand the King's coronation is a big event, but that does not give
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the government of Canada a blank check to spend more than half a million dollars so 102 delegates can go to England
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for three days. Folks, you hear that? $534,000 is the bill to taxpayers. That doesn't even include airfare
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for 102 delegates. So let's break down the math even more. That is a cost per traveler of about $5,200
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for three days. That's outrageous. And that doesn't even include the airfare yet. You know, the CTF first broke
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the story of the $6,000 hotel room that they wouldn't tell us who stayed in it, even though we
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definitely all knew. It took a very long time for you to just wring that little bit of information out
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of them. Well, so we're the ones in that story. If I'm not mistaken, the Toronto Sun, I think Brian
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Lilly might have broke the original one. Good digging for him. But what the Canadian Taxpayers
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Federation did is we launched a legal challenge. Why do we launch a legal challenge? Because we filed an
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access to information request to see who stayed in the room. Now, look, you don't have to be
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Sherlock Holmes to know that it was always Mr. Justin Trudeau who stayed in that room. But we
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wanted to set a precedent. You waste taxpayers' money. You got to be honest about it. You got to
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face the crowd. So what did the government do? They wrote down Justin Trudeau's name and then they
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blacked it out. They sent us a redacted ATIP. So we launched a legal challenge. We forced them to
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fess up. And Trudeau, he knew he was going to lose that legal challenge. So he finally admitted
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that it was him who stayed in the $6,000 per night hotel room. But when did he admit it? The day that
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President Joe Biden was coming to town, folks. That's called a cover up. Yeah, that's burying the
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lead a little bit. Now, you guys broke down some of the numbers here and it's outrageous. It makes you
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wonder if there was anybody actually left in Ottawa. So as you said, Canada's delegation was
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102 people, 87 people traveling with Justin Trudeau and 15 more traveling with Governor
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General Mary Simon. And you know, she's got a taste for luxury, don't you?
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Oh, she sure does. Now, folks, that joke is in reference to another access to information
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request this Canadian Taxpayers Federation dug up. When we found that the Governor General and her
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entourage in a separate trip to the Middle East spent almost $100,000 on fancy airplane food,
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right? They were dining on Beef Wellington, Beef Carpaccio, Stuffed Pork Tenderloin.
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I get hungry just thinking about the fancy feast that they had. Now, folks, if you've traveled on
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Air Canada or WestJet, you can't even get Beef Wellington flavored chips. But I guess if you're
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the Governor General and you're spending other people's money, you can afford to dine on Beef
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Wellington at the taxpayer expense. Now, I want to kind of come back to the real key issue here,
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right? Because number one, $530,000 of taxpayers' money to go to a three-day trip with over 100
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people, that's ludicrous, right? That's ludicrous. But also just factor in what was going on in Canada
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when that happened. How many people worried about losing their mortgage? How many people just worried
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about the ground turkey that they want to pick up for taco night to feed their families? Or how many
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people just are worried that they can't afford to fuel up their car on the way to work, okay? But
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there's one other important issue here. And it's the fact that this is not the exception. It's become
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the rule in Ottawa to make taxpayers pay for your fancy trips, right? It almost seems like this
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government is going out of its way to bring as many people as possible to stay in the fanciest of
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And that is chilling for somebody like me because we're coming up to the annual climate change
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conference. This year it's in Dubai, in the UAE. So you know that the federal government is going to
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take a massive entourage as they tend to do. They tend to be some of the largest, like the feds,
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the liberals, their entourage is usually much larger than, let's say, the Americans, a country 10 times
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our size. And it's Dubai. I just went there for work. We were exploring the Abraham Accords.
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If you're looking for luxury, you can find it there. And I'm worried that the feds are really,
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Oh, I am too. And we're going to keep an eye on it. I'm sure, Sheila, you and your team are going to
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as well. We certainly are. Because let's not forget, folks, what was it? I don't know. Can't
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remember the number, maybe COP26, the one in Glasgow, Scotland, when the Canadian delegation,
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we sent the largest delegation out of any G7 country, including the host country, the United
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Kingdom. So we sent more people to their conference than they did. Not only that, our dear finance
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minister, Chrystia Freeland, what did she do? Well, she booked a hotel in the wrong city, Edinburgh,
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86 kilometers away from Glasgow. Okay. Then what did she do in her infinite wisdom? Well,
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she decided to book taxpayers or bill taxpayers for thousands of dollars on a chauffeur service.
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So look, first of all, why are we sending the biggest delegation out of any G7 country? But second
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of all, do you not have Google Maps on your phone? Couldn't Google the fact that Edinburgh is not in the
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same place as Glasgow? I mean, this is crazy. Yeah. And also very frightening that that is the woman
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in charge of the entire Canadian economy. And one of the reasons I wanted to have you on the show today
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is because of the fiscal update from the federal government. And it brutal. And you had a great op-ed
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about a week ago about how the budget proves that Trudeau is not serious about federal finances. I don't
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think you could be if you put Chrystia Freeland in charge of them. But just the escalating debt and
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what that really means for Canadians. I mean, it's causing an inflationary crisis. You tack on the carb,
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the escalating carbon tax on top of that. And Canadians are in for a lot of trouble. And I don't
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think the feds have a plan to get us out of this. Oh, they couldn't balance the budget of a lemonade
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stand. Right. But look, the debt, the debt is directly related to your high cost of living.
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Here's what happened during the pandemic. Right. They ran these massive deficits, sometimes into
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the hundreds of billions of dollars. And then they had their Bank of Canada print up hundreds of
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billions of new dollars, largely purchasing the government debt. That is literally, ladies and
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gentlemen, the inflation tax. Okay. But let's even move past that. Another huge concern are the
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interest charges on the government credit card. This year alone, the interest charges on the
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government debt will cost taxpayers about $4 billion every single month. Billions of dollars every month
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that isn't improving services, isn't lowering taxes because it's going to the bond fund managers on
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Bay Street just to service the government's debt. But listen to this, folks. Next year, interest charges
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on the federal debt will surpass the amount of money the federal government sends to the provinces for
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health transfers. Okay. In a couple of years, a handful of years, interest charges on the government debt
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will equal the entire revenue of the GST, the government sales tax. So every penny the government
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brings in through the GST in 2028 will be going to interest charges on the government debt. Let that
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sink in, folks. And then, you know, when you throw the carbon tax right on top of that, we saw Tiff
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Macklem, head of the Bank of Canada. Usually these people are not, you know, political types, but even he
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is coming out and saying one of the single largest drivers of inflation on top of out-of-control
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government spending is the carbon tax. And I'm reliably informed by liberals who don't know how to
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balance a budget that we would get more back in government bursaries and payments than we would
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pay for the carbon tax, which if you said something like that in the private sector, you would be
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investigated for running a Ponzi scheme. But since the federal government said it, it's perfectly
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reasonable. And that's just how money works. Well, Sheila, if you think that the government can raise
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taxes, skim some off the top and still make everyone better off with rebates, then I've got some
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Oceanview property in Lethbridge, Alberta to sell you. I mean, of course, nobody believes it. Of
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course, nobody believes it. And the parliamentary budget officer, right, the non-partisan independent
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budget watchdog here in Ottawa has called out the federal government for using magic math, because
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guess what, folks? The carbon tax is costing the average family this year up to $710 more than what
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they get back in rebates. And that's just this year alone. And the carbon tax, according to Trudeau,
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will continue to go up and up and up and up. But here's the thing. The whole point of the carbon tax
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is to make the necessities of life more expensive. That's the whole point for the Trudeau government's
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carbon tax. All right. So they can pretend they can host these press conferences saying,
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um, we're making life more affordable for you. But in reality, I think every time Mr. Trudeau
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passes a gas station and sees those high pump prices, I think he's patting himself on the back.
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Right. And then it's interesting because when the carbon tax does what it is intended to do,
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and that is drive up the costs of everyday necessities so that you don't use everyday
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necessities as though you have a choice. Like the root word is necessary. Right. Um, but when that
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happens, the liberals freak out only when it drives up the cost of living in places that might be
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politically precarious for the liberals, like Atlantic Canada, when they are, um, risking a revolt
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from their own MPs out there, then they have a carve out for carbon taxes, which I mean, if,
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if they're supposed to change the weather and save the world, why are we carving out the,
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uh, like the least clean version of home heating oil? Are you suggesting, are you suggesting that
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that carbon tax was purely political? No way, no way. Was it purely political? I mean, of course,
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everyone knows that it indeed was purely political, uh, rank regional favoritism. Um, but here's the
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thing, right? Let's get back to the main issue here. And it's the fact it's, it's just a simple fact
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making it more expensive for someone in Canada to fuel up their minivan or to fill up their grocery
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cart does absolutely nothing to reduce emissions in places like China or India or Russia or the
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United States. And Canadians by in large numbers are waking up to that obvious fact, right? That the
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carbon tax is a ripoff, that the carbon tax is making your life more expensive, that the carbon tax
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does not help the environment. So it's good to see that Canadians are, are, are starting to wake up
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to that fact. And I really do think that the Trudeau government is, is on their back foot now.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a government can only punish you for being alive for so long before you end up
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having enough of the punishment. And I think that's showing up at the polls. Now, Franco, you guys do some
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great work at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and you don't even allow yourself to take advantage of
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any sort of specialty tax treatment. How do people support the very important work you do to hold all
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levels of government to account, and to force them to hopefully be a little smaller and a little less
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Well, thank you for saying that. And we never have never will take a penny from the government. Absolutely
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not. I appreciate you having me on today. But please, folks, if you want to see our work, you
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can check us out on social media, just type in Canadian Taxpayers Federation, or head over to our
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Great, Franco. Thanks so much for being on the show. We'll have you back on again very, very soon.
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Stay with us. Your letters to Ezra, unceremoniously read by me, up after the break.
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Letters, letters, letters. We get your letters every hour of every single day. Letters, questions,
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comments, story ideas, emails. And you know why? Because we don't close our comment section. Because
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unlike the mainstream media, we actually want to hear from you. They just want your money in the form
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of bailouts from Justin Trudeau without any of your icky little opinions. Well, we welcome your
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opinions. Now, today's comments come by way of Ezra's interviews the other day on the streets of London
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in the UK. He was at a protest against anti-Semitism, wherein controversial activist Tommy Robinson was
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arrested for, I think, pre-crimes. I guess they were worried that he might rile up the crowd.
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And then instead of arresting the rambunctious people in the crowd, they arrested him instead.
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Anyway, make UK policing make sense to anybody, because I cannot make sense of it. Anyway,
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Buckeye1Patriot writes, so many of the people Ezra interviewed are deluding themselves on
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immigration, and it will be the downfall of their country. Yeah. The Western world doesn't do a very
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good job of vetting new immigrants for extremist ideologies. And then you couple that with
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hyper-immigration, just bringing people to the country more and more and more all the time,
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despite the ability to house the people or to properly integrate them into Western culture.
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And you've got a recipe for ghettoization and disaster. Soaring Eagle writes,
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can't believe the so-called police were doxing Tommy Robinson's personal information in front of the
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world. If you're going to arrest the guy with your unjust and woke rules, just get over it and handle
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the personal details away from the crowd and news crews. You know, what a great point. I'm so glad you
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caught that. The police were basically showing the world, hey, this is where Tommy lives. And in a world
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where people are told that Tommy Robinson is a dangerous radical akin to a Nazi, and they've
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also been told, hey, you should punch a Nazi, but the supply of Nazis never quite meets the demand.
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Guess what these people are going to do with the information the police just gave them? Might they
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turn up at Tommy Robinson's house and punch him out or do something far worse? I mean,
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I'm sure Tommy can't go home now that he's been released by the police. And I bet he's probably
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going to have to move again for his own safety. Billy Zed Zed writes, government hate speech laws
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only allows the terrorist cancer to grow. It's like blaming prison guards for the criminals. You know,
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there's a real problem that comes from hate speech laws. And it's just not on the policing of speech,
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which I'm generally opposed to, unless it's, you know, calls for genocide, glorification of terror and
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calls for violence. But when laws, any laws are applied unfairly, then it causes division,
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an angst in society. It creates a second class of citizens who will ultimately rise up.
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Now, hopefully they do it peacefully, the way the Freedom Convoy did. But it doesn't always
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happen that way. And I hate, I hate the idea of seeing violence on the streets. But when,
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you know, for example, let's talk about the UK. When Tommy Robinson is arrested for things he didn't say,
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because the police are convicting him of a pre-crime, you've got a real problem. Because
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simultaneously, the police in the UK are also turning a blind eye to chants of genocide and
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glorification of terror on the streets from these anti-Israel rallies. You know, if you can say from
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the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which is, I don't care how you try to justify it,
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or how many years it's been chanted at these protests, it is indeed a call for genocide. It is
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from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, Palestine will be free of Jews. That's what they mean,
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that Israel won't exist. If that can go on, on the streets of London, but if you misgender somebody,
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someone will show up at your door and arrest you, um, you've got a real problem in that country.
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And I just hope for the sake of the Western world, it doesn't turn into any more violence than we've
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already seen. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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Um, thanks to the big boss for trusting with the show and everybody, including Olivia,
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who works behind the scenes to put together the random pile of files. I send them into a proper
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show for you all to watch. Uh, I believe Ezra will be doing the show tomorrow. If not, I guarantee
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there will be some sort of show for you, but, uh, he's completing a very special mission today.
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And as Ezra Levant always says, keep fighting for freedom.