Truth, lies and the CBC： The full story on the United We Roll Convoy to Ottawa (Guest： Keean Bexte)
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A convoy of angry Albertans and other Westerners rolls into Ottawa today for a mass protest against federal energy and environmental policies that has also become a magnet for extremist and anti-immigrant elements. Only one reporter has been with these folks the entire time, from morning prayers to late-night dinners in the hotels, and it s been our very own Kian Bextie. He joins me now in an interview we recorded late last night from his hotel room in Ottawa.
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Hello Rebels, you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my show, The Gun Show.
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Today my guest is my friend and Rebel colleague, Kian Bextie. He's been embedded on the United
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We Roll convoy to Ottawa for a whole week. He's been bringing you the truth about the convoy
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while the mainstream media continues to spread lies and tries their best to discredit both the
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Truth, lies, and the CBC. I'm getting the full story of the United We Roll convoy to Ottawa
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from the only reporter that was embedded with it from the very beginning, our very own
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Kian Bexty. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gun Show.
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A convoy of angry Albertans and other Westerners rolls into Ottawa today for a mass protest
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against federal energy and environmental policies that has also become a magnet for extremist and
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anti-immigrant elements. That's the headline from the publicly funded state broadcaster,
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the CBC, about the United We Roll convoy that left Red Deer a week ago headed towards our nation's
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capital. In one tweet, CBC managed to make the case for their defunding. They managed to prove just how
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anti-Western they really are. Then they managed to prove that they just really don't care what the truth
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is. They're motivated by an agenda to protect the Liberals and thus their funding at all costs,
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even if it costs the truth. CBC can't possibly know what the concerns are of the people on the
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United We Roll convoy because the CBC haven't been on the convoy. They haven't spoken to the people on
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the convoy. CBC only had one reporter on it, an avowed Marxist who joined the convoy for a couple of
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hundred kilometers in the beginning in the comfort of the media bus before he had had enough and just
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packed it in. Only one reporter has been with these folks the entire time, from morning prayer to late
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night dinners in the hotels. It's been our reporter, Kian Bexty, and he joins me now in an interview we
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recorded late last night from his hotel room in Ottawa.
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Hey Kian, thanks for joining me. Looks like you're in a hotel room somewhere in Ottawa, is that about
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right? Yeah, just off Parliament Hill. We're recording this on Tuesday night at my time, 718, so
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shortly after 9 for you, it looks like you put in a heck of a long day. Actually, I think you put in
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a long four or five days, hey? It has been a whirlwind week. I think we left last Wednesday,
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if I'm not mistaken, and it's been 12, 13, 14 hour days some days, but it's been fun.
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As you know, I've been on the convoy from Calgary to Ottawa, well, Red Deer to Ottawa, but I was picked
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up in Calgary. I have met some pretty cool people along the way, been called some interesting things
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by the left, but I've had fun along the way. Yeah, I mean, I've been following your Twitter account
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pretty closely. Like, I just, I tune into your Twitter account first thing in the morning and
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before I go to bed, and it is constant. You're constantly working, you're constantly moving,
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you're constantly taking photos, and you're trying to document everything. So, I know what it's like
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to go on these work trips, and they're a lot of fun, and it's very energizing, but it is really
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exhausting. It's not a vacation by any stretch of the imagination. Yeah, I'm hoping to get maybe a day or
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two off after I get home, because I'm, I'm pretty beat. I'm ready to go to bed for a couple days.
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I'll pull some strings of the boss man for you. He sort of likes me. Now, I wanted to ask you
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about the convoy. So, you left on, was it Valentine's Day that you guys left?
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It was, in fact, Valentine's Day. I got my fair share of berating for that, but.
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And you guys left pretty early in the morning, and you guys are putting in a lot of,
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like, you are driving, like, 12, 13 hours a day. I wanted to ask you, what was that first stop like,
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where you made your first stop, and people were already gathered for you? What was that like,
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I guess, for you, and I guess for the truckers? Well, thank God I wasn't driving, because I can only
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imagine how exhausted they were. But what I found so interesting throughout this trip was that
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I figured that as we got farther east, the momentum would die down. Or we, I thought that
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the people lining across the side of the road, they would sort of dwindle, especially as we got
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closer to Ottawa. But that was absolutely not the case. As we left Alberta, there was quite a few
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people, hundreds of people in Alberta. We went through Saskatchewan, there was a little less.
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We went through Manitoba, there was a lot less. There was some Antifa, though, that was interesting
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when they tried to blockade the road. And then we got to Ontario, and it started picking up again.
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The mainstream media realized that this wasn't something that they could ignore. And once they
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started reporting on it, everyone and their dog came out to watch this several thousand kilometer
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long parade across Canada. Because that's what it was. It was a convoy on the stretch of the highway.
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And then once we got into these small towns, it was a parade. We'd slow down to about 20 kilometers
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an hour, 30 kilometers an hour. And, you know, kids were along the side of the highway. And families
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were along the side of the highway. And we've, honestly, we saw thousands of people, several thousand
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people throughout the whole trip. And you could hear on the radio crackle, too. The truckers were
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really excited when there was kids on the side of the road. And you would always hear
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them. Some of them would break into tears a little bit, too. It was quite sweet. And
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they would say, it's the kids that we're doing this for. It's the future generation that we're
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standing up for to make sure that they have a future. Because they know that if Justin Trudeau
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and Gerald Butts get their way, well, I guess Gerald Butts is out of the picture now. It was
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a nice family day present. But if they got their way, there wouldn't be a future in Alberta.
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You know, and it's got to be emotional, too, for these guys. I mean, a lot of these guys
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and ladies, too, have left their kids at home to make this trip. If you're working in the oil
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patch, you don't get a lot of time off in the winter. For a lot of guys, winter is the only
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time you work. And we're headed into spring breakup in the oil patch. So it really is the push time.
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And these guys are not at work, which is sad as it is. And they've left their kids behind to make
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this journey. It was emotional. Yeah, I know. I saw that. I thought that was really great. And
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there have been a lot of emotions on this. And actually, you found somebody who was pretty
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emotional a little while ago with Justin Trudeau in one of the sort of rally stops with the convoy.
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Yeah, that was at the final rally prior to getting to Ottawa. It was at Arnprior, actually. And
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it was weird. I was in the Rover vehicle, which is the vehicle that they were calling it Rover. It was
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four kilometers ahead of the convoy, just sort of scouting everything out, making sure that there
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was a place for all the trucks to park and that kind of thing, getting logistics figured out.
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So I was with them. I got out early so that I could catch the convoy pulling into its last stop.
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And I started asking people some questions. And the first person I approached was Kathy Kachula.
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And something in the back of my mind was making a connection. I recognized her. I wasn't sure where,
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but then she went through this story about how Trudeau awkwardly hugged her. And then it clicked.
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She was the woman that stood up at that Trudeau town hall and told Trudeau how he failed her and
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continued to like her across Canada. And then he cringely hugged her. But I guess this is the
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kokanee groper, right? So he's always looking for physical contact. But it was a touching story with
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him. Oh, with a touching story with him. It was a touching story with her.
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It's always a touching story with him. Yeah, it's true. You know, it's funny. I was thinking
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the other day, I see these, these photographs of Trudeau and he hugs everybody so close and so
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weird. And it's like the kind of thing that cult leaders do. And sometimes it works on people and
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sometimes it doesn't. And apparently it didn't work on Kathy. So that's good to hear. Now,
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I wanted to ask you, um, what was your favorite stop along the way?
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My favorite stop, you know what it was? It was Salt St. uh, Sault Ste. Marie, uh, it, which is a town
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in Ottawa and town or city, don't want to offend them. And it was the largest stop, the largest stop
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of the whole trip besides obviously Ottawa, which you'd think it would have been Regina or some town in
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Saskatchewan. Uh, no, it was, it was Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario. Hundreds of people showed up,
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uh, construction, local construction company through, uh, paid money to throw up an impromptu
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barbecue. There was hot dogs, there was hamburgers, and it was all put together within a, uh, couple
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hours, uh, because we're never exactly sure where they were going to stop and what hotel they were
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going to stop at. It was a very fluid situation. Uh, but it was definitely Sault Ste. Marie. I,
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that was after the McLean's editor published a tweet that said that this was a movement of white
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supremacists. So I went around asking people and they can check out my video at rebelconvoy.com.
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But I went around asking people if they were a Nazi or if they were a white supremacist. And I was
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trying desperately to find these white supremacists that the mainstream media was talking about, but there
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was just, there wasn't any, any there, but it was really fun. There was hot dogs, there was hamburgers,
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there's trucks everywhere. And there was little kids sliding down, uh, these huge snow banks because
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Ontario gets an absurd amount of snow. Uh, and the kids were chanting, uh, Trudeau was dumb. It was
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kind of cute, but I mean, you know, it was fun. It was, it was a really good place to stop.
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You know, and that's the thing too, like to even ask these people, um, where are the white
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supremacists? It's so, it, it really is absurd because they're being called these things by
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people who've never taken the time to speak to them. Glenn Carrot. He's been on my show before.
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I run into him when I'm covering the convoys. I mean, that guy drives across the province with
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his own money, takes time away from his own business. He's an Innisfail, Alberta town councillor.
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Um, he's a legitimate upstanding member of the community and the people who are saying things
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about him and the movement that he's created. They've never even taken the time to talk to him.
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They're, they're finding like one of weirdos out there, um, in obscure Facebook groups. And
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they're trying to say that this represents Glenn. And they're trying to say that these people are
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organizers. As far as I'm concerned, there's one main organizer. That's Glenn. Um, Hayley,
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while also same thing, she's been instrumental in organizing it, but no, no, none of their critics
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are actually talking to them. Um, because I suppose if their critics talk to them, it sort of debunks
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their narrative, doesn't it? Yeah. Uh, I didn't know Glenn before I met Glenn the second day into
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the trip. I'd never met him before. I never really heard about him. Um, and I have gotten to know him
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throughout this trip and I cannot say enough about how much he's done for this movement, him and Hayley.
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Um, I've watched him. He, he's a grandfather and he's gotten emotional at a couple of these
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stops watching the kids get passionate about the movement. Um, and I've watched Glenn Carrad. I,
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I don't want to guess his age, but a grandfather grow a lot throughout this trip at the very,
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at the first rallies, uh, in Alberta and Saskatchewan, there were a couple of people
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showing up and it was kind of a ragtag group. The, the convoy would pull in, uh, and they would
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honk their horns and then they'd pull out. And I think that the people who are waiting for the
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convoy were a little bit disappointed, but as each rally progressed, he became acutely aware of what
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these people wanted from this convoy. They wanted, they wanted inspiration. They wanted to learn what the
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convoy was about. And he took it, he took it all in stride and he, he learned and grow, grew as,
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as it went. And these rallies became these logistically complex events that were very fluid.
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Um, as I said before, he's, he's planning, he's planning them on the phone as he's coming across
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the country. Someone else is driving for him and he's always on the phone, uh, planning these out at
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various stops. Uh, and it turns into these rallies, uh, especially in armed prior and Sault Ste. Marie.
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There are these rallies that politicians like Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau would be jealous
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of. Uh, he gets on top of the trucks, someone donated a speaker and a mic, um, and there's music
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and, and there's food and, you know, politicians in this country can't pull off rallies like Glenn
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Carrot now can. Uh, and he, I, I asked him why, why, why this became so much easier. And he told me
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that, and I asked him why he thinks he can pull off these, these rallies, whereas politicians struggled
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to, and he told me, Kian, it's easier when you're speaking from the heart and it's easier when what
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you're saying actually means something to you personally. And I thought that, I thought that
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held a lot of weight. Um, I, I'm, I'm really inspired by him and, and how well he's handled
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these rallies. Um, yeah. Um, I think everybody probably knows by now, my husband works in the
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oil patch and he actually moves drilling rigs for a living. He's the guy in charge of logistics
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and organizing the trucks. And I mean, just to do that, to move a drilling rig, take it apart,
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move it down the road, just, you know, a couple of kilometers. It is a logistics nightmare. It requires
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planning and for like, there's so many moving pieces. So when I see Glenn able to get all these
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trucks and people down the road, organize food and lodging and rallies in advance while he's going
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down the road, I mean, I, I, I really don't know how he's doing it. I have no idea, but somehow he
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pulled it off. Um, I wanted to ask you, I'm sure the convoyers, I mean, they're like you and I, they
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have access to the internet. Um, how did they feel or how did they feel when they first saw, um, some of
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the tweets sort of trying to discredit the convoy, calling them white supremacists, calling them
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xenophobes, calling them racist? How did they feel when that's how they were being painted?
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Uh, I characterize it as disappointed. Um, there was a large response to that, uh, across the
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convoyers. Some people were angry. Some people were upset. One person was crying. It was an emotional
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ride altogether, but, um, pretty much unanimously they were thanking me, uh, which I found humbling
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because I mean, I'm just a small part of the rebel. Uh, but they thanked me personally for
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what the rebel does to contribute to public discourse because, uh, nobody was giving this
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convoy a fair shake at the beginning, except for the rebel. And as, as we got to Ontario, that's when
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the mainstream media started picking it up. That's when Jason Kenney grudgingly accepted the convoy
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as this huge political movement across the country. And, uh, they really just wanted to thank us for
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what we did in the first couple days to give this movement some credibility. Um, but in, in terms of
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how the mainstream media has characterized them, uh, it's been anywhere from incredulous to angry to
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frustrated and sad. So yeah, uh, it's, it's been a wide range of emotions.
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Yeah. I mean, it, I, I suppose it's even tough. Like I've got a pretty thick skin now after three
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and a half years, you're kind of new to this, but I think you're pretty tough. Um, but it's still,
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it's sort of, I was going to swear, but it's sort of ugly when people lie about you. People who don't
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know you say these things about you, like they'll call me a homophobe and a racist. Um, anybody who
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knows me know that knows that's not true. And I, I suppose that's the point. These people don't know,
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um, they don't know anybody. They don't know anything. So the best they can do is lie about
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completely innocent people, drag their names and reputations through the mud because that's
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all they really have. And I just, I think it's a real shame. And I don't, let me just go back for
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a minute though. I don't like how you said that you're a small part of the rebel because you're
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really not what you did for those, for these people. And you continue to do on this convoy,
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I think is a true Testament to your character because you're getting a lot of the same backlash
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that the people on the convoy are. Um, but you sort of have to put that all aside because it's
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our job to tell the other side of the story. CBC is not going to treat these people fairly.
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Mainstream media is not going to treat them fairly. McLean's isn't going to treat them fairly.
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You know what? The politicians aren't even going to treat them fairly because the politicians jumped
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on the bandwagon about a month too late. Um, and, uh, I think it's, it's so important what you're
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doing out there. Um, because these people, I mean, I don't know all that much about your family,
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but they're doing it for my family. They're out there literally taking time away from their family
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to make sure that my husband has a job to go to. No, uh, same with my family. I mean, my, I was born
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when my dad was working in Norman Wells for slumber grade. Yeah. That's great. My husband,
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my littlest one was like, my husband had to fly home from Norman Wells when she was born.
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Oh yeah. Barely made it. Yeah. It's weird. Anyways, sorry. I was born on, I was born on the road
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on the way back from Norman, Alberta. I've never lived in Red Deer, Alberta my entire life, but, uh,
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I was born there. So, um, what was your question? I forgot. I don't know. I was on. It was some,
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well, you know what, I, I will go back to the name calling. I mean, I, I've never gotten this much,
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like if people go to my Twitter, uh, you can see, I've never gotten this kind of traction on Twitter
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before. People are really excited about this movement, but in conjunction with this, this
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huge positivity and groundswell support this convoy has seen. And I've seen personally, uh,
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in a personal and professional capacity, uh, there's been an equal amount of hate and name
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calling and mudslinging. I've been called a white supremacist more times than I can count. And it's
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something that I haven't gotten used to yet. It's really, uh, uh, personally painful thing to be
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called. Uh, and my heart goes out to everyone in this convoy has been called a similar thing,
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but it's totally different story when it happens personally. And it is beyond upsetting to be called
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something that you're not. Uh, but that's what this movement, that that's what the opposition to
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this movement resort resorts to, uh, they have nothing to say other than to detract from this
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positivity. So it's beyond upsetting. That's for sure. Um, now you just touched on some of, uh,
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the negativity, but you really, uh, it crossed the line from just verbal negativity and angry tweets
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and trolling to actual violence against you today. Um, why don't you tell us a little bit about that?
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Uh, sure. I, I just finished recording some speeches. There's, there's two groups of protests
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here on Parliament Hill. If you haven't ever been to Parliament Hill, there's Wellington Street, which
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runs, uh, basically in front of Parliament buildings. And then about half a kilometer
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north, you, you have Centre Block, which is the picture of, of Parliament that everyone knows and
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sees. Right at the base of Centre Block is where the main rally was held, where Andrew Scheer,
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Maxime Bernier were speaking. And then about half of the rally was there. And the other half of the
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rally was on Wellington Street, right in front of the parliamentary lawn. So I was jumping back and
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forth between the two. And after some speakers were recorded, I went back down to, uh, Wellington
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Street to watch and record the rest of the protest. And that's when Antifa showed up. They showed up
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marching with banners taken off the walls from a Carleton University, uh, art exhibit as it's not
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really art, but it, it was a faculty or student union paid for art exhibit that was calling for the
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dismantlement of the oil and gas industry. Anyways, I show up there. I want to know what's up. I want to
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know why student unions are paying. I want to know why students are paying for these, this, these political
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messages. I met some of the students there, uh, that, that paid for them themselves out of their own
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pocket, out of their own tuition money. Uh, and they were very upset about it. So I, I went to inquire
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with Antifa, which in retrospect might not have been a good idea, but I wanted to know what brought them
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there. I wanted to know what their message was, what they wanted to tell Canadians and the viewers
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at the rebel and not, not a word of a lie within two minutes of me talking to them. Uh, they had
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already punched my hand and knocked my phone to the ground and destroyed some equipment that is hundreds
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of dollars to replace what they had destroyed. And my ego is bruised to a little bit, but, uh, I was a
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little bit frustrated with the police response. And I've, I've been in this hotel room for a couple
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hours now going through the live feeds of everything that happened, reading the responses
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on Twitter. And something that I noticed is it's not something that just happened to me. Uh, there's,
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there's, uh, the exact same thing happened to this kind old man who was just standing there recording
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Antifa watching them, holding his phone and Antifa pushed up their barricade. This was before the
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police decided it might be a good idea to stand between the two protesting groups. Antifa moved
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forward a little bit quickly, very quickly. And with their gloved hands flicked, flicked the cell
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phone out of his hand, just flicked it up like that. And the phone went flying. Police officers saw the
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whole thing, saw the face of the individual who did it, uh, walked, the phone fell to the ground,
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fell into the Antifa group. The police officer pushed Antifa backwards, picked up the phone,
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handed it back to the guy and then turned around and left. And that phone, I guarantee if it's like
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mine, it's a $1,200 phone screen is shattered to hell. And he, and to replace it, it's three,
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$400 to replace the screen and to replace the phone. It's even more if there's internal damage
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and the police officer just couldn't care less. You know, I, I, I know we're working hard to identify
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the person who, uh, assaulted you. Um, but this is ridiculous. This is three assaults against rebel
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employees in three weeks. David and our, um, wonderful videographer, little Efron, um, they were
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assaulted by that deranged, um, hotel manager a couple of weeks ago. And now you at the refugee
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hotel that, you know, a high strung maniac came out there and started shoving them around. Now they
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weren't hurt. And luckily you weren't hurt, but I'm not hearing a lot of outcry from the, um,
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journalists hurt feelings or violence crowd at all. I see a lot of trutherism, in fact,
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directed at you. Like maybe you had done something to ask for it. Like maybe your dress was too short.
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Maybe you were dressed a little too sexy to be out at the bar that night. Like, and I'm here,
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I'm seeing it from feminists and left-wing agitators who are just looking for any reason
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to justify an assault against someone with different ideas.
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It, it frustrates me that this is the level of political discourse in this, in this country,
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uh, where Antifa just decides that we're the left in general. And it's, it's not just Antifa's fault.
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I mean, it's the mainstream media's fault. It's left-wing politicians who are propagating this false
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narrative that, that this group of people is Nazis. I mean, there's something to be said about
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fighting Nazis. I mean, they're terrible people. And that's what our grandfathers and our forefathers
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did in World War II. They fought Nazis and it was a commendable thing to do. And when the mainstream
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media and, uh, and left-wing politicians are saying that these people are Nazis, I mean, it inspires
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people to some degree to fight back because being a Nazi is a reprehensible thing to be. And so,
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so what I'm trying to say is that the left has an equal share to blame across all facets of their
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movement, uh, from the mainstream media to politicians, all the way up to the actual,
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um, people who are committing these acts of violence in Antifa.
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Yeah. I mean, when you are calling everybody who disagrees with you, a Nazi, the punch Nazis crowd
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registers that as permission to go around punching people. That's what it does. It, and it does a second,
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uh, more reprehensible thing, I suppose. And that's actually run cover for actual Nazis because
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they, then they just sort of be, end up being, um, just like regular conservatives instead of
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being the worst creatures to walk the face of the earth. Um, uh, I mean, it's really disgusting when I
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was in, uh, Auschwitz, that really hit home for me that we really shouldn't be throwing around that
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word as casually as the left often does. Kian, I know that it is late where you are, um, and you've
00:28:46.660
been working hard and you're still working hard. You're going through footage. Um, so I don't want
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to take up too much of your time. I want to thank you for the incredible coverage that you've given
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all of us. Um, you've made me feel really, really jealous that you were on the convoy and I wasn't,
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but parenting duties and life gets in the way. Um, and I, you know what, uh, you did such a
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phenomenal job that I felt like I was there the whole time anyway. So I just want to thank you
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for how hard you've been working and the time you've really put in to tell the other side of
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this story. I appreciate that, Sheila. It's my job and I love doing it. Uh, oh, Kian, where can
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everybody find your coverage before you go and where can they pitch in to help cover the cost?
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Because you don't work for free. I do not work for free. Um, if you go to rebelconvoy.com,
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you can help pitch in to pay my salary, to help pay for some hotel rooms, to help replace my phone.
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Uh, I mean, there's, there's costs everywhere and I appreciate everything that people pitch in to help.
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And they can see all of your coverage, um, on that same page at rebelconvoy.com. Great.
00:29:58.020
Thanks, Kian. Try to get some sleep tonight, buddy.
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Over the next couple of days, we are going to see how the mainstream media works their hardest
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to discredit what these truckers and their supporters have done this past week. These folks
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have driven thousands of miles with the help of crowdfunding from everyday Canadians and their own
00:30:34.440
personal bank accounts to take the message that Alberta and the whole West is hurting. They've taken
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the message all the way to Justin Trudeau's doorstep. And you know what? Justin Trudeau, he didn't even have
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the decency or the courage to meet with these people. Now he's not alone in his cowardice because
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natural resources minister and Alberta MP Amarjeet Sohi didn't meet with them either. And neither did
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Alberta's newest so-called independent Senator, former journalist Paula Simons. Those truckers on the
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hill and their supporters, they don't vote for hair and socks and sunny ways. So the only time they
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count to this liberal government is when they're paying their tax bill. Well, everybody, that's the
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show for tonight. Thanks again for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same
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place next week. And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.