Trudeau “is turning Canada into a clown country” — and his plastics ban proves it
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Justin Trudeau talks about his love for water bottle boxes, which sounds like a tongue twister by Dr. Seuss. What exactly is a water bottle box? It's a paper-like drink box water bottle sort of thing.
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Hello, my friends. We've got a fun podcast for you today.
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It's Justin Trudeau talking about his love for water bottle box, water paper bottle.
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I don't know. It sounds like a tongue twister by Dr. Seuss.
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Trudeau apparently has, and I think I actually found it on Google what he's talking about.
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Either that or he's still coming down from just a really big marijuana bender.
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I mean, remember the guy just, is it called a bender?
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Remember the guy said he still smokes pot since becoming an MP?
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Anyways, I go through his explanation about water bottle boxes, and I give you my thoughts on that.
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All right, without further ado, here is a probably stoned Justin Trudeau talking about water bottle boxes.
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Tonight, hey, would you like a nice, cool box of water to drink?
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It's June 12th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Did you see Justin Trudeau the other day answering a very simple question with the most spectacular answer?
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What do you and your family do to cut back on plastics?
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We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of water, out of when we have water bottles, out of plastic, sorry, away from plastic towards paper, like drink box water bottles sort of thing.
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A paper-like drink box water bottle sort of thing?
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I just got to show you that again, because I know that if you've been watching Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster or most mainstream media, you didn't actually see it.
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And like me, you're probably saying, what did he say?
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What do you and your family do to cut back on plastics?
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We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of water, out of when we have water bottles, out of plastic, sorry, away from plastic towards paper, like drink box water bottles sort of thing.
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Can we get like a breathalyzer test on that guy or something?
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What exactly is a paper-like drink box water bottle sort of thing?
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I have been in my past a very rare user of marijuana.
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I'm very pleased to announce that as early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful single-use plastics from coast to coast to coast.
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Anyway, when he mentioned the paper-like drink box water bottle sort of thing, I don't know.
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I think it was genuinely surprised by the question.
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There's a pretty softball question put to him by the journalist about what he's done personally to reduce his plastic use as if plastic use is bad.
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I think he had never thought about the question because, of course, when he's talking about taxing things or banning things or regulating things, those rules are only for the little people.
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I mean, come on, this is the guy telling us all to make smarter choices about energy use and burning gasoline in our cars while he flies around in a private jet.
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I think the question was actually a surprise to him because I don't think he ever, ever in his life has ever thought about, maybe I'll live a smaller life.
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And I think he stammered in his water bottle, water, whatever answer because he couldn't think of anything he's actually done ever other than a paper-like drink box water bottle sort of thing.
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I mean, of course, like the rest of us, he drinks water however he bloody well pleases at the moment.
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And frankly, he never thinks about water bottle, straw, whatever, because it's weird to think about that.
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If you spend a few minutes on Google, you can find dozens, probably hundreds of pictures of Trudeau drinking bottled water because he's always going to meetings and conferences.
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And sure, sometimes there's a pitcher of water in glasses, but often there isn't.
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And bottles are better in many cases because they're individual and they're sanitary and they're convenient and you don't need like a whole kitchen.
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It is abnormal to renounce bottled water, especially in the grand scheme of our industrial lifestyle.
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It's a lie, actually, for this jet-setting, trust-fund, pot-smoking nobody to pretend he lives a small life on anything.
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In fact, our own Sheila Gunn-Reed fairly recently received an Access to Information document that shows, surprise,
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Trudeau is a huge purchaser of bottled water on our dime, of course.
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I guess we don't pay him enough money to buy his own bloody water.
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Here, take a listen for a couple of minutes to this.
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Now, in that exclusive Access to Information package, there were expensive trips to the Nespresso boutique and multiple purchases at different expensive health food stores totaling thousands of dollars.
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And one expense stuck out for me back then, especially considering Trudeau once co-authored an op-ed in the Toronto Star back in 2008 titled The Case Against Bottled Water.
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You see here, the Trudeau family, in just one month, according to their own expense claims, spent over $300 on bottled water.
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You can see the bureaucrats have blocked out what brand they were purchasing for the Trudeaus in the submitted grocery store receipts.
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But they have identified these expense claims in the summary sheet as water.
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That's water bottles, friends, not, as Trudeau says, paper-like, drink box, water bottles sort of things.
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Because that's just something Trudeau made up on the spot because he's a complete and total BS artist.
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The Trudeaus spent $300 a month on bottled water.
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And then Trudeau just announced today that you and I can't use plastic forks anymore when we picnic.
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You know, we buy bottled water here at the office for our staff.
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And there's almost 20 of us here at our office.
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How does Trudeau spend $300 a month for his own household?
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To buy 400 half-liter bottles of water from Costco is $6.39 delivered.
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If we spend $300 a month on water, it's my math right, that's 1,800 bottles of water per month.
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That would mean we'd go through almost 100 bottles of water a day.
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We'd all have to be drinking five half-liter bottles of water a day.
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Well, that whole paper-like drink box water bottle sort of thing, I think it actually might
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It's actually, as you can see, called boxed water is better.
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And they sell boxes of water, and they have all these glamour shots of people drinking water
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So you can not only virtue signal to anyone around you what a thoughtful snob you are,
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but it's obviously targeting people like Trudeau who constantly need affirmation.
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They constantly need flattery, even from an inanimate object.
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It's perfect for a trust fund ne'er-do-well pot smoker like Trudeau who needs his narcissism
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Imagine actually needing to be told, buy a carton of water that you are better than others
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I showed you that 40 half liters, or so 20 liters of water from Costco, is $6.39 delivered.
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They will sell you a 12-pack of one-liter bottles.
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Now, normal people get water from a tap, or like from a Costco bottle of water, whatever.
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But this is supposed to be environmental or something?
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You're shipping water, a little personal shipment of water?
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This is $46 worth of water and $40 shipping, $100 a bottle.
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But let's get back to the reason we're all talking about this joke.
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Because Trudeau says we have to ban what he calls single-use plastics,
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So he was asked what he's doing personally, and he stammered a bit.
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They're all made by a packaging company called Tetra Pak.
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The great thing about Tetra Pak, you don't have to refrigerate them.
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You can refrigerate them, but it's a wonderful packaging invention.
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Have you ever ripped open a Tetra Pak, like a drinking box like that?
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Or even just looked at the little hole in it when you pierce it with a plastic straw?
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You'll notice there's a little bit of aluminum foil in there.
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And you know there's plastic in the Tetra Paks, right?
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I mean, if you were just to pour water in a box made of paper, you know it would leak, right?
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Here, let's let the friendly people from the brilliant company Tetra Pak explain the miracle of their boxes.
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Each layer helps protect the food or drink inside the package in its own way.
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The outermost layer of polymer protects the package from moisture.
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In our aseptic packages, a second layer of polymer glues the paper to the foil,
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which in turn acts as a barrier against light and oxygen and enables induction sealing.
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Finally, the inner layers of polymer protect the package from the product inside.
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Yeah, now you know that the word polymer and polyethylene, you know, just like polyester,
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you know that's just a very precise way of saying the word plastic, right?
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Well, here's how the snobs at the Box Water Company handle this little teeny tiny wrinkle.
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They say, this is in their frequently asked questions, they say,
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why do our boxes need thin aluminum and polyethylene layers?
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And their answer is, the aluminum foil serves as a barrier to light, flavor, and oxygen,
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which enables the contents to last for months without preservatives or refrigeration.
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The polyethylene acts as a watertight barrier and helps keep our boxes shape.
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Hey, guys, did you know that you need foil and plastic to keep your water for months?
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But they say right there, in case you didn't know,
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that you need the plastic to make it waterproof.
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So Trudeau's answer that he reduced his use of plastic bottles
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by replacing it with his use of plastic and paper and aluminum
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Now, gasoline is $1.60, and we're all shocked by that.
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Imagine paying triple $1.60 for a liter of water plus shipping.
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Why are we doing all this? Why are we talking about this?
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Well, it is true that in some parts of the world, there is a problem with plastic garbage.
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It's industrial-scale plastic from China, where we are not.
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But let me read the tweet by which Trudeau launched this whole comedy.
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Canadians throw away 3 million tons of plastic waste every year,
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They end up in our oceans, beaches, parks, and streets.
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And he's looking so thoughtful there, or stoned.
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You know there's only like 36 million Canadian people, right?
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So he's saying that we're using about two straws a day for every man, woman, and child.
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Have you used two straws today and yesterday, and will you tomorrow and every single day?
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Well, it turns out he's actually citing a homemade-style activist report put together,
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You'll recall they declared a climate emergency, blah, blah, blah.
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And if you look at this homemade report, they cite 57 million plastic straws a day.
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And you see at the bottom, it says, assuming the same usage rate in Canada as estimated for the U.S.
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So the number 57 million is extrapolated from a U.S. number.
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And do you see it says, the link there, ecocycle.org, be straw free.
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If you click on that, you'll come here to a website run by a kid.
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Now, he's a teenager now, but he's not a scientist now.
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And this kid, who was nine when he started this, guessed that Americans use 500 million.
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Call on line one from the prime minister's office.
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No, put down your toy truck and the prime minister's on the line.
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I have the intellectual curiosity of a nine-year-old.
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Now, the city of Vancouver took that number and said, well, that means Canada's proportion
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It is a child's guess, uncorroborated by anything.
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And Justin Trudeau has announced his plan to ban plastics because of what a child said
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I swear on a Bible, that's where the number came from.
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Hey, watch this just one more time because it's so funny.
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What do you and your family do to cut back on plastics?
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We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of water, out of when we have water
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bottles, out of a plastic, sorry, away from plastic towards paper, like drink box water
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I think maybe Milo Kress is his new speech writer.
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Just going, I mean, Gerald Butts has left a void in the organization.
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And who is the deep thinking guru who is guiding Justin Trudeau so astutely through life?
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I got my money on a nine-year-old boy named Milo Kress.
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I'm sorry, that quote there about the drink water fiddle faddle bottle metal is not only
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the stupidest thing I've seen, it's also the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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The official government comedians on the state broadcaster, they've done their level best
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But just like CBC News won't show you the gaffe, neither will the CBC's government comedians.
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If this level of stupidity came from anyone on the right, it would be front page in the
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newspapers, top of the broadcast on the nightly news.
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If Doug Ford was quoting a nine-year-old boy for science policy, if it were Donald Trump,
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it would be in both the New York Times and Saturday Night Live.
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And so all the journalists and comedians who work for him nod along piously and say how
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What a clown country Trudeau is turning us into.
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Well, when we were kids, we used to dress up sometimes as cowboys and Indians.
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But if you were to go to a costume party dressed as an aboriginal person wearing a fringed leather
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garment and a headdress, that would be intolerable these days.
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You would be accused of cultural appropriation.
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I don't think people who call their sports team the Red Men, as my high school team was
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called, I don't think they called them that in a disparaging way.
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No one names a sports team after something they don't admire.
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But what about when the missing and murdered Indigenous Women's Commission did some cultural
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When they took the word genocide that historically is only applied to massive systematic extinguishment
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and ethnic cleansing like the Jewish Holocaust in the Second World War, like the Armenian Holocaust
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What happens when a slow motion crime wave of aboriginal murders that the police say are overwhelmingly
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committed by men in their lives, spouses, even family members?
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That was a question put by our friend Barbara Kaye in a recent column of the National Post.
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I want to say right off the bat that here at The Rebel, we're very sympathetic to aboriginal
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And I think of all the different identity groups in Canada, it's actually the one that I think
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I mean, I generally renounce and reject all identity politics, grievance politics.
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But I do carve out, and I think I have an intellectual basis for doing so, a special care, even a duty
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of care, to use a legal phrase, for aboriginal folks who were here first.
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I don't know if that's the inner liberal in me, but it's just how I feel.
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That said, this slow motion crime wave against aboriginal women, usually committed by, frankly,
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aboriginal men committing crimes, that ain't a genocide.
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Well, I think genocide is a very important word and a very heavily freighted word, and
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we should be very careful about when we apply that, because there's nothing worse.
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Literally, there's no worse crime against humanity.
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And I'm willing to stipulate that many aboriginal peoples have been victims of genocide.
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The Spaniards and the Belgians wiped out entire populations, and they did it purposefully
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and intentionally, and I'd argue perhaps what happened to Canadian aboriginal people is not
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But even if it were, you could argue that, you know, in the past, that there was a systematic
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attempt to or to allow them to disappear or to, you know, get rid of them in one way or
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But we're talking, I was appalled because the missing and murdered indigenous women and
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girls inquiry had a narrow set of parameters to work within, and that was to inquire into
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They were killed as individuals, not as members of an ethnic group.
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And it was a subject for law enforcement to discover and to investigate under the criminal
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You know, genocide is something that happens way outside of criminal codes.
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It's also not something that happens to one sex or the other.
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You can say that the massacre, for example, Sprenica is often referred to as a genocide, but
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I would call it a massacre because it was only men.
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And there's never been a genocide that was strictly for women.
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As I mentioned on the show the other day, RCMP and other police forces have cleared 88%
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By the way, the clearance rate for non-Aboriginal murder victims, women murder victims, is 89%.
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And I don't know, what I thought was going on there was, I thought it was political, obviously.
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I thought it was cementing a grievance industry rooted in grievances.
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I believe that Aboriginal people in this country have a real problem.
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The problem is economic lack of opportunity, health problems, substance abuse problems,
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But by saying, no, no, no, this is a genocide issue.
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I think that arrests any possible progress because it shifts the locus of the problem
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from, okay, how can we fix alcoholism on this reserve?
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How can we fix a crime problem on that reserve?
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It switches the blame to, I don't even know to whom, because I don't even know who theoretically
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I think it's extremely unhelpful to actually solving the real problems that Aboriginal people
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And that was the point of my column was to say that if you keep deflecting, I mean, I think
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You know, there were several chairs of the report who quit.
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And I think one of the reasons they probably quit is because they were being told, this is
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I think the result was known before the inquiry was done, that that was how it was going to
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be framed, was that this is an example of an ongoing, that was the word they used, that
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That's like saying that what's happening in Germany today, the rise of anti-Semitism in
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A higher crime rate from the general population does not mean a genocide.
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But the word is being used to, as you say, to really pour on the blame, to deflect any
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And as you say, most of these crimes were committed by members of their own communities, male members
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So how can a genocide, it makes no sense whatsoever.
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And I think it was an overreach because many people reacted the same way I did.
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And they went, hey, come on, you know, you want reconciliation.
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You know, I really am interested in the fact that right at the top, you mentioned some of
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I mean, I read the diary of Bernal Diaz and how he conquered so many Mesoamerican aboriginals.
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Perhaps that could have been called a genocide.
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Maybe the extinction of the Beotok, if I have my history right there.
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But it would be one thing to say a particular discrete event that resulted in the ethnic
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I would be open to a conversation about that, though I would say, how does that help us move
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But what I think you're right when you say, what makes this unique is that Trudeau said
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Trudeau is a specialist at apologizing for things in the past, especially the far past,
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It's his way of saying, hey, guys, I want to show you how much better I am than other
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So it's not an ironic apology, but it's saying, by apologizing for someone else, I show you
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I think this marks a strategic departure for Trudeau because it's the first time I can ever
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recall that, at least rhetorically, he includes himself as one of the blameworthy parties.
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That's what happens when he says it's an ongoing genocide.
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To me, these are such empty words because what did he do?
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You know, other genocides, you can point to the people in power and say, hey, look, Kristallnacht,
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that was endorsed by the government, that was carried out by the police.
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So when he says it's an ongoing genocide, who's he talking about?
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Are the RCMP laying waste wholesale to communities?
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And by the way, the real stupidity in saying that is that it's going to have international
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Now everybody in the world is like, well, Canada, how can you talk about human rights anywhere
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Aren't you guilty of an ongoing genocide of your own indigenous communities?
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This is going to have repercussions, not to mention the word reparations will soon be
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very much in the news because when you have a genocide, then you have reparations, right?
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You know, that is a great point that I had not even contemplated.
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I mean, there was talk about reparations in the United States for slavery.
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And again, you could theoretically say, all right, if someone was deprived of their freedom
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as a slave, maybe there is some compensation of reparations for their heirs.
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I mean, I could see the legal case, even if it's practically or politically inappropriate.
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That was not a genocide, by the way, in the United States.
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And by the way, Germany, Germany paid out huge reparations, but they paid them to the
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You will absolutely see the call for reparations.
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And again, I think that's hobbling the Aboriginal community because it's much easier and lazier
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to say, give me reparations rather than to say, all right, how do we build a sustainable
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I want to touch on something, though, the international fact, because right now, Canada is in a quarrel
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We're in a quarrel with everybody under Trudeau and Freeland.
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But how can we ever again raise our finger and wag it at China over Tibet, over the Xinjiang
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That's the Muslim province, East Turkestan or West Turkestan.
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Who are actually in concentration camps, like real concentration camps, millions of them.
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And nobody over here, I think, is making as big a deal about that as we should, perhaps.
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You know, I remember during the Soviet Union, before the Berlin Wall fell, there were standard
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Whenever the West would criticize the Soviet Union, Soviet propagandists would say, well,
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look at your treatment of American blacks and look at your treatment.
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And, you know, it would sting a little bit because it would, it would, there was a grain
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But of course, it was propaganda to divert from the Soviet Union's own malice.
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I see that happening for a generation now, because when you confess to a genocide, there's no doubt
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Let me ask you, there was, I saw there was some, I think it was the Organization of American
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States, POOBA, who actually said he was now going to investigate Canada.
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And Trudeau and Carolyn Bennett implied they're fine with that and they'll cooperate.
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That's a whole other level when you've got foreign troublemakers coming here to poke around.
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But now they're going to come poke around here and basically try and prosecute us.
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Didn't the UN come just a few years ago and they were touring somebody, some, or was
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it an NGO touring around the North and, and saying, oh, you know, this is, people are starving.
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And that was a made up thing that everybody laughed at and it was so stupid, Canada, such
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But, but when we confess to genocide, we, our prime minister, how can we not allow foreign
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Well, I, I, I just wonder if he was aware of all the implications.
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He must have been because surely he had some advice on, on the, on the legal implications
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And he took that gamble for what, what's the real reason behind it?
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Something, one of my readers wrote to me and says, oh, this is, he did this to discredit
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Jody Wilson-Raybould with, with the indigenous communities.
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And I'm like, gee, what kind of a trade-off is that?
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I see the argument, I wouldn't say to discredit, but take the energy away to say, no, no, no.
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So you can still love me, even though I fired the first Aboriginal attorney general in Canadian
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history and humiliated her and she was right and I was wrong.
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It's not going to make the grassy-narrows protesters any happier.
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By the way, I think Jody Wilson-Raybould has a real chance of winning as an independent
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Well, listen, Barbara, it's always a pleasure to talk with you.
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You are one of the bravest columnists in the, I'm going to call the National Post the
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mainstream media because it is a large newspaper with a mainstream audience.
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You continue to write things that I'm just so glad you do.
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And I hope you continue to have the ability to publish them widely because you're, you
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are one of the few people to say things that are politically incorrect and speak when the
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And I am just so grateful that you have that power.
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I'm grateful that they keep letting me publish this stuff.
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And let me just give them a shout out for those who want to read Barbara's article.
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The headline is Genocide Appropriation Makes Reconciliation Harder.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Trudeau bringing back the hate speech
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Don writes, Andrew should be fighting tooth and nail to protect free speech.
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And I got to say, I mean, as you know, I was part of this battle in 2013.
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I actually met with Stephen Harper privately about this matter to try and convince him.
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And maybe I convinced him because he did proceed to repeal Section 13.
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I mean, I, one of the things I recall telling Harper back then is how unanimous, not just
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conservatives, but I think the broader Canadian community is for free speech.
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I think that 99% of conservatives in Canada support free speech.
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Like there's no, it's not like even the carbon tax where you have a few weirdos like Michael
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Chong and Patrick Brown and Preston Manning who support the carbon tax.
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Like I can't even name three conservatives in Canada who support censorship.
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Yeah, they've got a bunch of grievance huckster lobbyists coming to Parliament saying censor,
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But even still, most normal Canadians and even liberals of good faith and even not hyper
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partisan journalists, everyone knows free speech is the way.
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It's Section 1 of our Bill of Rights, Section 2 of our Charter of Rights.
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This is a way that Andrew Scheer could unite the Conservative Party, throw some red meat to
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And show he's not going to get pushed around by the censors.
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I can't believe that he's scared away from this because what some liberal losers are saying.
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I'm disappointed so far in Andrew Scheer, like Mr. Rogers.
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He tries to be nice to everyone and it will not succeed.
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Listen, I know there's a difference between elected politics and punditry.
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I'm not worried if I don't persuade 50% of the people because I'm not going to lose an election.
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So I don't have the same mission as a politician, which is to get elected.
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And I believe that there are some, sometimes you have to choose your battles.
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As I just said a moment ago, this is unifying not only for the Conservative base,
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It takes on a real concern amongst Conservatives these days that our side is being censored.
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And do you really think that outside the echo chamber of Parliament's Justice Committee,
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do you really think that Canadians, even new Canadians who are allegedly represented by these censor lobbies,
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do you really think most people who came to Canada from the third world where they have censorship are saying,
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yeah, I'm totally for eroding the freedoms that make Canada great.
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Woo, I love the government making decisions for me.
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No, and you know, I should tell you that in fact there are some immigrant communities to Canada
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for whom the pain of censorship is especially acute because the memory is especially fresh.
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I know this from any people I know from the former Soviet bloc.
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That's why to this day Eastern Europe is much more vigorous about defending its freedom than the lazy Western Europe
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because we're complacent in North America and Western Europe.
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I put it to you that anyone who came to this country from, say, Cambodia, Vietnam, Venezuela,
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do you think they like the idea of government censorship?
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So I think Andrew Scheer thinks, oh, it's all the cool kids are for censorship.
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Yeah, no, just some journalistic and lobbyist losers.
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He makes it actually a leading point in the campaign.
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And more than that, put Trudeau on the back foot.
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If the petition is big enough, Andrew Scheer might start doing his job.
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Well, that is part of our role here federally with Andrew Scheer,
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Every single force in Canada is pulling Jason Kenney, Rob Ford,
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and every other conservative politician to the left.
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That is not appropriate, therefore, that our role is to pull them back to the right,
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and to hold them to account where they are happy to go to the left.
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Part of our role is to stand up for conservative values.
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And just as Andrew Scheer used to whip his party to support the Paris Global Warming Scheme,
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It is our job to say uncomfortable things to Andrew Scheer
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If he were smart, he'd grab onto Section 13 and fight for it,
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,