Trudeau's clever, yet slimy address to the Toronto Muslim event that kicked us out
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Only one media outlet was kept out of an e-dinner with Justin Trudeau. Can you possibly guess which one? It's June 25th, I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show: Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?
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Tonight, only one media outlet was kept out of an e-dinner with Justin Trudeau.
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It's June 25th, I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent 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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Well, that was quite the euphoric Eid Mubarak dinner Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended last Friday in Toronto.
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Justin and several high-profile Liberal Caucus members were the guests of something called the Canadian Muslim Vote.
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And Justin wasted no time after dinner to do that which he does so well, virtue signal.
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He touched upon many issues that night, especially those with an Islamic bent to them,
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the anti-Islamophobia motion, M103, and the upcoming so-called anti-racism policies soon to be announced,
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and of course, just about anything else that had anything to do with courting Muslim votes.
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Hey, as Bob Hope used to say, when you're in New York, give them the Big Apple stuff.
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When you're in Chicago, you give them the Windy City stuff.
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And when you're a Liberal, just a tad north of the heavily Muslim Flemington Park area of Toronto,
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well, you give them the Mohammed, peace be upon them stuff.
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Indeed, by all the media accounts I came across, Justin trotted out his A-list game to a very friendly venue last Friday night.
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Oh, there'd be no talk about SNC-Lavalin and Jody Wilson-Raybould and groping on this night.
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This would be a celebration of all things Islamic.
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And, of course, a not-so-subtle denunciation of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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I was really hoping to file a first-hand report regarding Justin's jolly jihad of joy.
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But alas and alack, even though this event was open to the media,
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someone behind the scenes deemed that rebel media wasn't fit to be there.
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And so it was that my cameraman, Efren, and I were frog-marched out of that building of peace and tolerance.
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Oh, sure, the official state stenographers with the media party, they were welcome to stay.
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The Trudeau liberals can always count on those propaganda producers not to rock the casbah,
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especially these days when all those press payola paychecks will soon be in the mail.
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Hey, as Telly Savalas used to say in the role of Detective Kojak,
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Anyway, here's some video evidence of us at least trying to get in to report on that euphoric Eid event.
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We had been instructed to go into the media lock-up area to await the RCMP sniffer dog
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Check out this press release from the Muslim Link.
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And apparently there was some extra special non-accommodation for certain media outlets,
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given our chutzpah in trying to tell the other side of the story.
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So, as we patiently waited, along with all the other media types for screening as per standard protocol,
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we were confronted by a gentleman with the Canadian Muslim Vote Organization.
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He wasn't there to wish us a happy Eid, though.
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So, how can you support freedom of the press and yet kick out a media organization?
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I don't think that's manhandling, but I wish that you wouldn't put it in my place.
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we had another organizer say to come in here to be screened by the RCMP,
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Can you bring him back and see if he got it wrong?
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what's the difference between us and the CBC and City TV and CTV and all the other media that is here,
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one of these media outlets is not like the others.
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in what is becoming an increasingly frequent occurrence,
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the rebels showing up to cover an event where liberals are in attendance,
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is welcomed about as much as the proverbial skunk to the Garden Party.
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who was the keynote speaker at a media event celebrating World Press Freedom Day last month in Toronto.
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She's a true crusader for freedom of the press,
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The United Nations told our reporters they were banned from covering their conferences
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due to a directive from the Canadian government.
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I hope you support what we're doing here today,
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which is ensuring freedom of expression and an independent free press for your colleagues around the world.
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and we were shut out of UN conferences because of an edict from your government.
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Does that sound like world press freedom to you, Minister?
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What we're doing today is supporting an independent and free press in some of the most troubled regions of the world,
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and I have no doubt that you rejoice in this investment and this initiative.
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Well, you know, but how do you square the fact that you won't even let Canadian journalists
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that might have a dissenting opinion about things like immigration and climate change to attend UN conferences?
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And here you are advocating for World Press Freedom Day.
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This doesn't look like a lot of freedom, ladies.
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And then, in what is becoming par for the course, we were given the bum's rush from the headquarters of Chorus Entertainment,
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the rebel being deemed media non grata yet again.
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Yes, even on World Press Freedom Day, we were booted from a media event taking place inside the head office of a media company
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But enough with my whining, because after Justin finished wolfing down his lamb chops,
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here are some of the talking points he served up, according to an article in the Huffington Post.
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For starters, Trudeau urged Canadian Muslims to make themselves important to the Conservative Party.
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Now, why would he advocate for that, the Conservatives being the opposition and whatnot?
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Well, Justin said, this is the only way to ensure mainstream parties don't sow fear and division,
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because presumably the Tories dine out in sowing fear and division.
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Quote, I want you to make Muslim volunteers important to the Conservative.
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With the Huffington Post noting how many in attendance started cheering and clapping,
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so that never again would any mainstream party in Canada think it's a good idea
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to stoke fears and divisions against Muslims or any other group of Canadians.
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And by this point, the HuffPost adroitly pointed out that the adoring attendees
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were now standing on their feet in thunderous applause.
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Yes, Justin scored a standing O. Take that, JWR.
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Yet, you see what Trudeau did there, don't you?
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It was actually quite clever, albeit quite slimy, too,
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because his rhetoric may have looked nonpartisan,
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and it may have seemed at first blush to appear like a feel-good sentiment.
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But what Trudeau really did was conduct a drive-by smear on the Conservative Party.
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Indeed, by saying that Muslims need to make themselves important to the Conservatives
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Canadian Muslims are not important to the Conservative Party.
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Hey, I think that's actually Justin's bailiwick, you know.
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Remember back in 2017 when Trudeau actually made the outrageous insinuation
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that Conservative leader Andrew Scheer was an Islamophobe
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for having the temerity to ask a perfectly valid question in the House of Commons
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what was the government's plan regarding all of those Canadian ISIS fighters
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Mr. Speaker, it's this Prime Minister that's de-emphasizing Canadian security,
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It was Conservatives who amended the Criminal Code
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to make it an offence to leave Canada to fight for ISIS.
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It was Conservatives who were focused on giving our law enforcement
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and all kinds of counselling and group hug sessions, Mr. Speaker.
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When will the Prime Minister take the security of Canadians seriously
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and look for ways to put these ISIS fighters in jail?
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party learnt nothing
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from the last election and the lessons Canadians taught them.
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They ran an election on snitch lines against Muslims.
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They ran an election on Islamophobia and division.
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And still, they play the same games trying to scare Canadians.
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The fact is, we always focus on the security of Canadians,
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And they play politics of fear, and Canadians reject that.
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Yeah, so if you all have a problem with ISIS fighters,
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who are coming back to Canada in order to take part in poetry classes
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then you're obviously a bigot and a racist and, of course, an Islamophobe.
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Hmm, you know, folks, I think I need an ISIS-themed rhyming couplet
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Please leave your suggestions in the comment section.
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can only shake their heads with a mixture of wonder and pity.
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the Conservatives actually dismissed Salim Mansour
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and someone who has bravely and fairly called out
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But Shir was evidently terrified that the opposition parties
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would crucify the Conservatives as being Islamophobic
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So even though Salim Mansour is a Muslim himself,
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because Salim Mansour is critical of radical Islam,
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not the right kind of Muslim in the eyes of Mr. Charisma.
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As well, since Shir was in Nineveh last Friday,
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you know, in order to drum up all those dozens of votes,
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because the madder Raitt gets the weaker she gets.
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And true to form, after Justin took the Conservatives
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to the woodshed for that fear and division tongue-lashing
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we welcome you, meaning Muslims, with open arms, end quote.
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You know, they say never bring a knife to a gunfight,
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but the knife Raitt had in her purse that night
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thanks to conservative ineptitude and wimpiness,
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Moving on, the HuffPost reported that Omar Al-Ghabra,
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of voter participation than the general population.
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But in 2015, participation increased by more than 20%,
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and they spread the message in a non-partisan way,
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the Canadian Muslim vote is not a liberal front.
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does Mr. Bass have such warmth in his heart for Unifor
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helping the hardworking rank-and-file better themselves,
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the Muslim community accounts for 2.1% of the electorate.
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Translation, it is estimated that the Muslim vote
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is most certainly the Toronto riding of Don Valley West,
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I have a significant population of Muslims in my riding,
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parts of Ajax, Pickering, Scarborough, Markham,
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Just like Canada doesn't endorse a lot of things.
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Okay, so would you like to see Sharia law in Canada