Solar panel boondoggle, Canadian Trump fans & more
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A city council votes to put up solar panels in its beautiful river valley in order to expensively generate a piddling amount of power that isn t even required. Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the disturbing details. And we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup ladies and gentlemen and the rest of you in which we look back
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at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host
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David Menzies. Well talk about coming up with a crackpot solution for a problem that doesn't
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even exist. Yes I speak of the city of Edmonton going ahead with putting up pricey solar panels
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in its gorgeous river valley in order to expensively generate a piddling amount of power that isn't
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even required. Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the disturbing details. Andrea Humphrey went to a Vancouver rally the
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other day and stumbled upon numerous Canadian Trump supporters. Fancy that! If one were to believe the
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mainstream media narrative one would think everyone in our great dominion loathes the U.S. president but
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Drea has the video evidence to show that clearly is not the case. And violence and vandalism,
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arson and assault or in other words just another due rigour day in Caledonia Ontario. I'll share
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your letters regarding my most recent video about this beleaguered little town that is continually
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having to deal with protesters who are anything but peaceful. Those are your Rebels now let's round them up.
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Look I don't like solar energy so let's just get that out of the way right off the top here. Why?
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Because everything the environmental movement tells us about solar energy is a ridiculous lie.
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They say solar is free because don't you know? Sunlight is free. Except the panels are enormously
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expensive and require fossil fuel backup for when the sun doesn't shine which is you know half the time
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in the summer. And then basically all of the time except for a few short hours of each day in the winter.
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That is when the panels aren't completely covered in snow. They like to say solar is clean and green except
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the panels contain toxic elements mined in atrocious and dirty ways in far-flung places like China by
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people paid a mere pittance for the extreme health risks they face. Now this is from the Yale School of
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Environment. Rare earth mining done near uranium deposits has also led to radioactive material clinging
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to the elements in some areas according to Zhang Huang a post-doctoral fellow at the University of
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Waterloo in Canada who studied the environmental and health impacts from rare earth mining while earning
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his PhD at Beijing University. The end impact Huang said could be on the central nervous system
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cancers like bone cancer, skin cancer and cardiovascular and respiratory issues. And the footprint of solar is
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enormous given the tiny amount of unreliable energy solar farms actually produce when they're producing it. Case in point
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that new solar farm in Edmonton that will be built. In the Edmonton River Valley owned by the city owned power and water
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utility EPCOR. The EL Smith solar farm was approved in a seven to six vote by the city council about two weeks ago and
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it's meant to power the EPCOR owned EL Smith water treatment facility. But even that's not entirely true and we'll get to that in a
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second but first look at this. It was a narrow vote by city councilors Tuesday to give the go-ahead to a
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$30 million dollar solar farm in Edmonton's River Valley. When finished the farm will consist of 45,000
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solar panels on 54 acres of land south of the EL Smith water treatment plant which provides 65 percent of the
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water used in the greater Edmonton region but is EPCOR's second largest source of greenhouse gas
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emissions like anybody cares. 70 percent of the power generated by the future solar farm will power
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the plant directly while the rest is exported to the electrical grid. 54 acres in Edmonton's beautiful
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river valley will be covered by these ugly solar panels and it's not like we need them anyway. We aren't
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short of energy in these parts we have hundreds of years of clean burning coal and natural gas
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under our feet. The city just self-imposed a goal to not use some conventional electricity because they
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set their own arbitrary and really crazy climate goals. Well as Kermit the Frog used to croon it's not
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easy being green and increasingly it would appear that it is often downright illogical being green as well.
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Like how in the world does it make sense to commandeer so much area of Edmonton's gorgeous river valley
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and plunking down acres of solar panels that a don't really deliver nearly enough solar energy and b
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not they're not needed in the first place given that oil rich Alberta is hardly energy deficient to begin
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with again does not compute. And joining me now with more on this controversial solar panel experiment
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is Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel Roundup my friend. David thanks for having me on the show.
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It's always a pleasure. Sheila let's just cut to the chase here. As far as I can tell this is all really
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about virtue signaling by the usual leftist suspects on Edmonton City Council. Am I right? Yeah 100%. We have
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basically a green slash NDP mayor in Edmonton Don Iveson and the city owned utility EPCOR has this
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mandate given to it by the lefty dominated city council that they have to seek out these sources of
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expensive unreliable green energy in the process of water treatment or delivering energy to the citizens.
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You know Sheila I've made this uh remark before especially in regard to uh how the Rachel Notley
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NDP government got elected but I spent two years in Alberta and of all the jurisdictions in Canada I
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mean let's put it this way I could see some kind of crackpot scheme like this being embraced in British
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Columbia uh in you know uh Victoria or Vancouver but uh Albertans aren't like that Albertans I mean
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your hockey team it's named the Oilers that's your prime source of energy the idea that there could
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be a majority on council that actually think this way that get elected on these kind of crackpot ideas
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in the hub of Canada's energy province it's baffling to me. Well it's the uh marriage of two problems here we've
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got um the fact that Edmonton is the government city so a lot of government workers live there so
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government workers with government workers comes public sector unions with public sector unions comes
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left-wing politics so we have a lot of that concentrated in Edmonton which I guess is kind
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of good because then they're all in one place um from the outside looking in but also there's a it's
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a problem with the conservative movement that we aren't as a movement getting involved in local
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municipal councils and this pandemic should really be a wake-up call to everybody because a lot of the
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more draconian and authoritarian rules coming about the pandemic are coming from local municipalities
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because there aren't enough conservatives getting involved in local politics and that seems to be the
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case here was a close vote yeah uh six to seven um to go ahead with this solar facility and in the end
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it has me siding with environmentalists who say not in my backyard I'm saying not in my river valley
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Edmonton has the largest river valley green space in North America and they are putting 54 acres of solar
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panels in it unbelievable and Sheila you've touched upon a very significant point with this particular
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debate uh when it comes to environmentalism this issue is kind of like there's one set of greens
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that are the pro-solar panel uh greens and then there's the nature keep the river valley natural
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green so within the green movement this was in itself an issue of controversy too wasn't it
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yeah it definitely wasn't just to give some context to our viewers who are not from the Edmonton area
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literally just west of Edmonton city limits you're in coal country parkland county is coal country um
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i think best estimates say there are roughly about 800 years of some of the cleanest burning coal in the
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world under our feet here in Alberta um we have so much natural gas in particular in medicine hat that
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at at certain times in our history deep out of the ground that's why Rudyard Kipling said that
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medicine hat has to misquote him all hell for a basement um we are so energy rich and in such close
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proximity to Edmonton there is no need for this and at the end of the day it is pure virtue signaling
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because it will only produce at the very best of times about 20 percent of the power that the
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water treatment facility that this thing is meant to power will need on the clearest of days in the
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most optimal conditions don't even get me started about Edmonton's winter sunlight i think we get maybe
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six hours a day of it in the winter so that's even fewer um hours that this thing would produce energy
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for uh the water treatment facility it's ridiculous and the worst part of all i could go on about this
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forever but the worst part of it all is that the money for this thing came from overcharging Edmonton
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electricity rate payers for the past few years so people who are already paying a carbon tax had to
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pay the virtue signaling tax to build a solar plant we don't need in Edmonton river valley to produce
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almost no energy you know Sheila let me get this straight they are going to sacrifice 54 acres of
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green space for the solar panels and at the optimum i guess charging or energy generation level it's only
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20 percent of the needs for the water treatment plant meaning i guess the water treatment plant for
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the other 80 percent has to rely on uh traditional fossil fuels this is just staggering i mean let alone
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the cost of putting these in how how was this sold by those who supported these solar panels that this is
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a good idea because clearly if you and i were in business um this isn't a dead dog this is a dead dog with
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fleas this is a horrible deal how did they make a case that this is a good idea well i mean really
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it comes down to just the city council is infested with lefties that's really what it comes down to
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it and lefties aren't going to make the business case they're going to make the feel good case
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because if they wanted to make the business case for this they couldn't have because medicine hat that
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city i mentioned before from southern alberta with that has so much gas at some points it
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leaked out of the ground they put in a solar panel facility there to virtue signal again i think it
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cost about 12 million dollars and it only lasted five years before they took it out even the mayor
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admitted that it made absolutely no financial sense at the time and the worst thing about these solar
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panels is they are so extremely toxic they have to be treated as hazardous waste when you take them out
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and so to put them in the river valley where they can leach these uh sometimes radioactive sometimes
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cancer causing highly lethal chemicals into the river valley if you were a green like i'm looking at
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this saying okay this is pretty risky but these greenies this is the anti-pipeline crowd and yet they're
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perfectly fine with these highly toxic hazardous waste carrying solar panels in the river valley
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so their green conscience evaporates when it comes to all those detrimental issues you just said you know
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sheila we're gonna have to wrap it here i think this is just yet another example and politicians love to
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do this i won't call this a mega project but you know it's something very visible and you know whether it's
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building a new stadium or arena or a library or a community center they just love that photo op
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getting in front of that big ribbon you know with the big oversized giant scissors and saying to everybody
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look look what i the mayor of edmonton have given you and yet it's a a money losing non-functional uh
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power source for just one plant the water treatment plant it's as they say about the pontiac fiero all show
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no go right well i mean and could you imagine think of the things you can that could happen to you
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if the water treatment facility went down like think of all the pathogens that would that you're entrusting
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to solar energy to eliminate from the water system thank god there's fossil fuel backup because
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solar energy and wind energy those are the last things that i want to trust with the water security
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uh in and around the edmonton area but yeah you are right politicians love a good legacy project
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where they can you know get the credit for spending other people's money and often not wisely
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unbelievable once again another example of uh feelings triumphing over facts sheila great commentary
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thank you so much for weighing in on this thanks have a great weekend david you got it and that was
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sheila gun reid somewhere in northern alberta where i don't think there are any government-funded
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solar panels taking over the acreage keep it here folks more of rebel roundup to come right after this
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dre humphrey here with rebel news it is almost time to see if trump or biden is going to win the
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election but my question is how many canadians want to see trump in office for four more years now
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some people might think there is no such thing as a canadian trump supporter certainly not
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one that is a person of color i'm here to tell you otherwise uh take a look at this clip where
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where somewhere of close to a thousand canadians were trump trumping or chanting trump's name at the
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vancouver art gallery trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump
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that clip was from laura lynn tyler thompson's channel and i think a lot of people don't know that many
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people would chat for trump so i'm going to ask some passerbys as their opinion on trump and then
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i'm also going to show you some clips that i've collected over time from canadian trump supporters
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so let's take a look god bless president trump we love you yes okay i'm mexican canadian and i love trump
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why because he's pro-life pro-life this is the number one and he and we wish as canadian to have
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somebody just like him he goes for americans he fights for americans is exactly he's not a politician
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he's a businessman he is not getting any any salary for already four years so he's a billionaire who left
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everything for the people he loves his country he loves his country he wants his country to grow
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the people to grow have businesses he loves his people he's not selling out to foreign
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agents like the chinese communist party i get emotional when i talk when i speak about president
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trump he is such a great man he is suffering like all these uh nonsense in the media and everything
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i i just love him very much i just love him very much and
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you know just keep it up don't don't let those bad people to uh take you down keep it up we are all
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behind you the whole world is behind you well hard to believe that after four years of the left
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collectively losing its mind and doing everything in its power to undermine president donald trump
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that the u.s election is just a mere four days away now if you were to exclusively follow the
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mainstream media you'd be led to believe that virtually all canadians loathe president trump but
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as drea humphrey discovered even in the bosom of leftist vancouver trump has plenty of vocal fans
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so drea welcome to rebel roundup and that was so refreshing to see the incumbent president
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receiving lauding as opposed to loathing in lotus land but i'll tell you why i'm personally rooting for
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trump to win other than the obvious reasons of course and it's this drea canadian property values
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they're going to soar i mean how many times have we heard stories about american celebrities vowing
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to move to canada should trump get re-elected and if i can you know make a few more bucks off casa
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menzoid thanks to the supply and demand dynamics changing overnight so be it what do you think about
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that well i think you're right i think that people maybe don't understand how much this is really
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going to influence canada and you know trump is saying if biden wins china wins and i feel like
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that's a concern for me too because i feel like the influence um china's influence over canada is
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going to grow too so yeah you know i i mean when it comes to the celebrities uh two things one i don't
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believe them when they say they're going to leave their um malibu mansions and secondly i think there is
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a bit of chutzpah on their part i think these people are so shallow that they think by making
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a statement of where they're going to live their multi-millionaire lives that means the people of
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medical middle america and elsewhere people actually have to get up at the crack of dawn and earn a living
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they're going to follow in lockstep but i don't think that's the case drea i think we're in for another
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repeat of what happened in the 2016 election when if you read the media and you looked at the polls
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this was a slam dunk hillary clinton victory and also didn't celebrities say the same thing back
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then i'm pretty sure they were saying they were going to move here if uh hillary oh we'll see but
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yeah i think the silent majority is going to hit the polls and uh you know just like with hillary taking
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too long to give her speech after she lost we'll see that happen with biden as well at least i hope
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that's what happens uh i i share your hope and and you know drea i mean like i have never in my life
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seen a media establishment so against a president as what we've seen these last four years i mean
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ronald reagan uh got tough uh questioning but it was never like this this is uncharted waters
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that we sailed in and i don't understand it i mean when you look at this president's accomplishments
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uh pre-wuhan virus of course because that's the only metric you really should be going by
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given that was a worldwide pandemic but you have a roaring economy you have manufacturing coming back
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to america you have america actually energy independent for the first time like something
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like 70 years um unemployment at historical lows and historical lows for black americans hispanics
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asian americans females this should be the the narrative that's dominating and yet if you look
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at the mainstream media coverage this is a scandal plagued president with ties to russia um have you ever
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seen such biased reporting uh yourself drea no i haven't and i mean i can remember when i kind of
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woke up to the whole oh wow they're really really just spreading propaganda about trump like it was
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i was kind of like okay yeah he says dumb things and sometimes he tweets dumb things but um when i had
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that wake-up moment of actually going and and looking at exactly what he said in context and just seeing how
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mainstream media blows it out of proportion it really was an eye-opener and unfortunately a lot of people
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don't even do that they they don't even think that it's possible for mainstream media to be pitching a
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narrative that isn't reality yeah and i think the um tipping point just to show how much the mainstream
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media and social media giants are in the tank when it comes to the democrats the hunter biden story
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for goodness sake that should be page one of every american paper instead you have the likes of
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twitter banning the new york post from from being tweeted out i i mean this is astonishing um last week
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national public radio released a statement as to why they're not uh covering the hunter biden scandal
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and uh to paraphrase the statement it was well we don't want to give you know coverage to this uh it'll
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be a distraction for the american people during this important election can you actually believe what
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you're hearing some days when it comes to the the narrative around this election draa no i can't and
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with twitter as well saying you know because it's hacked even though it's straight from his laptop i mean
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it's it's actually frightening because you know when media not just the media in the u.s we're seeing
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it in canada too they're not covering the story too so you know it's out of country and you know they're
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limiting they're suppressing the knowledge that's available to the masses and i find that terrifying
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i do too dra and i think you know this is why i mean people might say okay you found some trump
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supporters in vancouver giving the president thumbs up big deal uh the election's an american story
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actually i think it's a global story i think people around the world especially the free world
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are watching this election with such renewed interest i think this is the most important
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election in america's history since 1864 when lincoln was running to get re-elected and believe it
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believe it or not folks that was not a slam dunk and he was facing the same kind of garbage
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that trump is facing um the media against him for the way the civil war was going uh there were so
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many other parallels and i i think um if you live in the free world and you see what trump is up against
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i think this makes you want to support uh president trump getting re-elected yeah i think that in a lot of
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ways people have come around to wanting to support trump through all this because um even with the whole
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pandemic i mean when you look at yes you know he might have said it was a hoax and all of that but
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he actually acted way faster than let's say justin trudeau i mean i think he closed the borders uh maybe 42
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days over 40 days uh sooner than our prime minister but they keep coming at him with the same things you
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know oh 200 000 people died and if you don't vote for biden 200 000 more people will die so i do think
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people are are catching on i hope they're catching on to that and yeah trump uh 2020 four more years
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oh yeah and i feel he has been harshly uh treated so unfairly treated about the pandemic
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um if you look at such democrat states as new york michigan california they were transferring
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covid positive patients into old folks homes into long long-term care facilities the absolute
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worst place they could be transferred to and you know it comes down to this real you know donald trump
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has looked at some of the democrat-run states the democrat-run cities where minorities uh traditionally
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uh and overwhelmingly uh and overwhelmingly vote democrat but you look about you look around
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you know say the the city of baltimore and what a hellhole that has descended into and his message is
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listen vote republican really what have you got to lose yeah exactly and it's i saw photos of you know
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a lot of black people lined up and then they were all saying oh look how many are voting for biden but
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i suspect it's one of those things where it's like you're not going to be telling everybody if
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you're voting for trump you're standing in the line but people don't know who people are voting for
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until it goes down for real so yeah and you know what since you mentioned uh black americans dray i
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have to ask you this because one of the most astonishing statements during this campaign was joe
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biden and i mean i can only imagine what the media outroar would have been if it was donald trump saying
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this for word for word but basically you're not really black if you if you don't vote democrat
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as a black woman how did you feel when you heard that i laughed pretty hard when i heard that
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the fact that people like you know that are supposedly concerned about black rights and things
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like that if they can actually see past that and still vote it's it's just totally nonsensical and i
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don't know if you know that chelsea handler recently called out 50 cent in the same sort of fashion she
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literally said i had to remind him he was black because he said that he's voting for trump because
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he doesn't want to go from 50 cent to 20 cent and so you have these white people coming out putting black
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people in their place you know what i mean and because they're free thinkers i mean it's the most racist
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thing i've i've ever heard of you know thank you for reminding me about that drea one of the other
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storylines is that those black conservatives that have been vocal about who they're voting for i.e not
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the democrats the way they have been treated the racist insults they have been slurred with uh because
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of their stance it is absolutely egregious and shameful i think absolutely well drea we gotta wrap it
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here uh before we go uh quick prediction for tuesday what do you think is going to happen
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i think we're going to see well i don't think we're going to get the results but i think we're
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going to see trump is winning yeah i i'm experiencing deja vu myself if you believe the media if you
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believe the polling firms it looks like a slam dunk for biden but that's the way it was for hillary
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clinton in 2016 i think it could very well be a trump landslide the only uh caveat is that if this is not a
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rigged game right if there is if if the fraudulent monkey business is uh you know is taken care of
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i think i really think that's the only way uh trump uh can lose as a matter of fact so thank you for
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weighing in and uh you know good for you for finding um uh what some people might think is a needle in a
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haystack trump supporters in vancouver i thought actually okay then thanks so much you have a good
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weekend drea bye and that was drea humphrey in vancouver keep it here folks tomorrow bravo roundup to come
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make us a part of the narrative yeah we're not going nowhere well folks i'm with andrew bradbury he
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lives just outside of caledonia you might recall the name of james bradbury that's uh actually the son
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of uh andrew and andrew what has been happening in the last few days it seems that there's been some
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really terrible violent incidents and uh i don't want to say it's caledonia classic of uh 2006 but
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it has that vibe to it doesn't it it certainly does things have changed and they are different from 2006
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now it's uh i think they're different protesters younger people more angry and i think when instead of
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exercising their rights to protest as we all have and we all should they come they protest but they
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uh they take uh equipment and they basically steal it they use it to dig up roads uh roads that you
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know townspeople need just to get to a hospital or to get to get food or whatever and in the one case
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where they were taking down the power grid there with the hydro pole they're setting fire to that
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they're using diggers to dig up basically the road but as the hydro saying goes call before you dig
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they didn't call they just kept digging they hit one of the main um gas lines uh they pull up the rail
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lines they're this town it's a small town and they've we've i've asked a number of professionals in the
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the construction business and that and they said it's cost it's going to cost millions of dollars
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to repair the damage they've done this small a special group of people what they've done here
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and this is under the who's going to pay for that we're paying for it and this is under the guise of
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being land defenders i mean i'm sorry that's that's just not right there is a way to to protest and
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this is not the right way the violence has come solely from the opp firing rubber bullets
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and tasering our people peaceful people wait a second ma'am this was an opp cruiser that had
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bricks thrown at it wasn't isn't that true you're speaking of what happened a couple of days ago
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uh well i mean it's been ongoing but the thing is is that why are they here they're not wanted here
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they don't need to be here we're peaceful amongst ourselves we have no problems
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the history of caledonia the recent history going back to 2006 has been anything but peaceful
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yeah but we're not the instigators of this violence and vandalism arson and assault or in
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other words just another day in caledonia ontario last sunday we were tipped off that a potentially
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ugly showdown was emerging native protesters along with their antifa and black lives matter allies
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bust in from toronto of course had threatened to march past the police blockade and right into the
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town the narrative was they were going to steal or destroy anything that caught their fancy but a large
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police presence and several townspeople met the protesters at the barricade and the mob thankfully
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changed its mind but sadly since this is caledonia don't expect peace to last here without further ado
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here's what you had to say about the latest round of tensions plume tube writes i am first nations i do
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not stand behind what these people are doing no one owns any of this earth all they are doing is holding
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back progress for our people well plume tube you're not the only native who feels this way i would
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be wrong to characterize that all of the natives on the six nations reserve are prone to violence they
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want to live their lives peacefully too it would be nice if law enforcement could lay down the rule of law
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to make that so mitch miller writes if trudeau can't move them off railroad tracks highly doubt he's going
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to move them off the streets sadly you are right mitch miller if the ontario provincial police can't
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enact the rule of law then perhaps the army would glean a better result just one hitch justin trudeau
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would never sign off on that initiative scratch1234 writes these aren't even local natives these are native
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antifa yes many of them are and do you think these people really want a peaceful solution no they thrive
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on violence and anarchy and we should not be accommodating them michael bobcow writes return
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the land to the dinosaurs now i think the toronto raptors are rich enough to buy their own land
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and sid kumar writes one law for the natives and another law for us yes sadly such a two-tier way of
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policing was due rigueur going back 14 years ago when dalton mcginty was premier and julian fantino was the
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opp commissioner but there's been regime change since then of course and the buck stops with
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premier doug ford he can't simply hold a press conference and say that what is happening in
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caledonia is unacceptable of course it's unacceptable we all know that but what's really and truly
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unacceptable is for the premier to not back up his words with actions and for law enforcement to
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simply look the other way if this doesn't change nothing will ever improve in caledonia that's not
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just unacceptable that's disgraceful well that wraps up another edition of rebel roundup thanks so much
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for joining us see you next week and hey folks never forget without risk there can be no glory good night