“What is it with Ontario teachers’ unions and their obsession with gender？” (Guest host： David Menzies)
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Ontario's teachers unions seemingly are obsessed with gender. And we also find out what Omar Khadr did with some of his $10.5 million in Canadian election money. On tonight's show, we look at why teachers unions are so obsessed with pronouns, and why they should go back to school.
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Hello Rebels, I'm David Menzies filling in for Ezreal Event. You're listening to a free audio
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seemingly are obsessed with gender. And we also found out what Omar Khadr did with some of his
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Tonight, when it comes to gender pronouns, it looks like teachers unions are losing
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their minds. It's March 12th. I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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So the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, aka the OSSTF, conducted its annual meeting of
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the Provincial Assembly on the weekend. Now, according to the OSSTF, the Provincial Assembly
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is the supreme legislative body of the OSSTF and is responsible for establishing or amending
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Federation policies, bylaws, constitutions, budgets, etc., etc. Gee, that sounds serious.
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Now, I'm sure they speak about really, really important things regarding how kids should be
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taught in Ontario. Well, maybe. Because a friend sent along this picture about one of the seminars
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the Tall Foreheads at the OSSTF took part in. Namely, quote, preferred gender pronouns,
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how to take important steps in becoming a trans ally, end quote. Oh, man, oh, man.
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Excuse me, sir. There's a young man in here. Excuse me, it's ma'am. It is ma'am. I can call the
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police if you'd like me to. You need to settle down. You need to settle down and mind your business,
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okay? Ma'am. Once again, ma'am. Now, the seminar begins with what is a pronoun? Now, call me an elitist
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if you must, folks, but I think if you are a secondary school teacher and you don't know what a pronoun is,
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then maybe you need to go back to school. In any event, we then move into what's called preferred
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gender pronouns or PGPs, or what I call terms taken from the living land of make-belief,
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which is to say it is recommended that if someone doesn't know if they're a boy or a girl,
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you should replace he and her with Z. And if there is a bunch of such people in your class,
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instead of using they, it is recommended that you say here. That's right. The OSSTF is being
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complicit in rewriting the English language. All the while, students in Ontario graduate high school
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without knowing how to spell cat if you were to spot them the C and the T because thanks to a no-fail
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policy. Well, God forbid, we don't want some snowflake self-esteem to get damaged, do we?
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By the way, if the confused gender person doesn't like he, her, they, or even the new whiz-bang
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Z here, teachers are recommended simply to use their name. For example, Zina ate Zina's food
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because Zina was hungry. Besides, Zina probably speaks in the third person when she is speaking
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to, kind of like, oh, I don't know, the Incredible Hulk. You know, folks, Hulk will smash. Hulk is
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strongest there is. Puny human teachers talk and talk, make Hulk's head hurt. Yeah, so let's all use
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Hulk speak so that the percent of a percent of a percent of transgenders who don't know what their
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gender is won't feel slighted. Hey, thanks, teach. But what is it with Ontario teachers unions and
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their obsession with gender? Remember back in December 2017 how the Elementary Teachers Federation
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released their gender guidelines released their gender guidelines, which is to say LGBT, well, that's
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so 2013. So it is that this particular Teachers Federation came up with a new initialism, namely
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L-G-G-B-D-T-T-T-I-Q-Q-A-A-P-P. And this 15-letter spoonful of Alphagetti stands for, wait for it,
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lesbian, gay, genderqueer, bisexual, demisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersex,
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queer, questioning, asexual, allies, pansexual, and polyamorous. Oh, as an aside, did you notice
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that one letter is conspicuously absent, namely H, as in H for heterosexual? You know that silly
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sexual orientation that comprises about 98% of the people on the planet. But I digress. This led to
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one of the most unintentionally funny interviews on Tucker Carlson's show. That's when Tucker
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interviewed former Liberal Party President Stephen LeDrew about this particular mandate. Anyway, here's a
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clip of the painfully politically correct LeDrew going to bat for this bizarre 15-letter descriptor.
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What? I'll bet you, Tucker, all those categories that are in that long litany that you laid out
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there, I'll bet you that no one, well, maybe five people in all of Canada could lay out what exactly
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those are. But if someone feels that they are a better person, that they are more included in
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society, if there's someone else in society, some teachers who understand them or who want to
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understand them, you know, that's what Canada is about. Yeah, that's what Canada is all about,
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isn't it? Inclusion, diversity is our strength, and all that other groovy stuff. Now, later on,
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the conversation dovetailed into freedom of speech issues, with Carlson noting that freedom of speech
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is being increasingly stifled in Canada. But oh, the proud Liberal LeDrew, he told Carlson that he's
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dead wrong, that our dominion is still a bastion of free speech. Check it out. Look, this is taking
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place in Canada, so it doesn't affect me or most of our viewers directly. But I just sort of wonder,
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because free speech is not guaranteed, as you know, in your country, and people are in prison for saying
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unpopular things there. I wonder what would happen to someone... I don't think so. Well, you're wrong.
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They are. But I wonder what would happen... But give me an example, Tucker. What would happen to somebody
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who said, you know, I don't want... I'm not interested in playing along with this. I don't know what it is.
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You don't know what it is. Leave me alone. Teach my kids to read and do math. That person would be
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dismissed as insensitive or bigoted or worse, wouldn't he? No, they wouldn't. I mean, because
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we're not judgmental like that. So you're saying, from an American point of view, that person would
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be dismissed as bigoted. But in Canada, they wouldn't be. They say, okay, fine. That's your
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opinion. Others have a different opinion. Oh, if only that were true. And you know what? I wish that were
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true. I mean, that's the country I want to live in. I want to live in a country where we can disagree,
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we don't call each other names, and we just sort of agree to disagree. But that's not the country
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you live in, and increasingly, that's not the country I live in. Oh, it is. It is the country
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that we live in, Canada. There's a big difference between the United States and Canada, and that's
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one of the differences. Okay. Now, here's the crux of the matter. After the segment aired,
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LeDrew was suspended and then later on fired outright by his employer, Bell Media. Why was he
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suspended, you ask? Well, according to my sources, LeDrew's termination was all about appeasing
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the squeaky wheels of the LGBT, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, community, who took issue
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with a single, albeit seemingly innocuous, line uttered by LeDrew. Here it is.
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This is meaningful because teachers are being taught this, kids will be taught it, and I think
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I have a right to non-judgmentally ask what they're talking about. So, for example, what's
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two-spirit? Well, two-spirit sounds like there's someone they don't know whether they're, you
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know, fish or fowl. They don't know whether they're frick or frack. So, they're clearly
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confused. And, you know, again, if you're confused, what better place to go than to be at school?
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Ooh, did you catch that? LeDrew said, fish or fowl? Frick or frack? And apparently, the
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various non-binary, gender-fluid, asexual spirit unicorns allegedly went frothing mad over this
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remark, after all, that almost sounded like they were being mocked. And we can't have that
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now, can we? Because mocking or even saying something that seems to be mocking, well, that's
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hate speech, and that must be banned. So much for free speech. As for the Elementary Teachers
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Federation of Ontario, don't you think, folks, this federation should be less concerned with
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gender-bender nonsense and more concerned with, oh, I don't know, the fact that less than half
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of Ontario grade 6 students meet the provincial standard in math. At least, that was the numbers
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for the 2017-2018 school year. But that's how the teachers' unions roll in Ontario. Who cares if a
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grade 6 student flunks when coming up with the answer for 6 times 6? As long as they know that
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there are 15 different genders, and as long as they are very careful to replace he, her, and they
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with Z and here, or talk in the third person like Dr. Banner's green-skinned alter ego, well, that's
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apparently the really important stuff taking place in the province's classrooms these days. Gee, why do I
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get this funny feeling that we're about to witness a huge uptick in homeschooling in the months and years
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Well, I suppose the best thing that can be said about Omar Khadr's taxpayer-funded jackpot is that
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at least he's invested about a third of it in Canada. And even better, now that it's been revealed
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that Khadr is the co-owner of an Edmonton strip plaza, perhaps this opens the door for the Speer and
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Moore's families to get their hands on this asset as part of that $134 million settlement they were
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awarded against Khadr in U.S. civil court. And with more on this fascinating tale is none other than the
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person who broke this story, Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to the Ezra Levent Show, Sheila.
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Yeah, great to have you, and fantastic story. And, you know, that was indeed a great expose you did
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revealing where Khadr has hidden at least a portion of his fortune, Sheila. But I imagine the question
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on everybody's mind right now is simply this. Will the lawyers for the Speer and Moore's families be
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successful in somehow seizing this Edmonton asset? Well, that remains to be seen. They have a battle
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ahead of them getting a Canadian court to enforce that $134 million wrongful death judgment that they
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have. I believe it's in a Utah court here in Canada. So the best they can do and the best that I can do
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right now in the interim is to track where some of that money went. And now we know where at least
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a third of it has gone. Yeah, and that's kind of the X factor in these kind of cases, isn't it,
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Sheila, that once it's cross-jurisdictional, especially when it's another nation involved,
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that's where things get a little messy and a little tricky sometimes, right?
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Yeah. I mean, they've had some serious hurdles put up against them as they've tried to enforce
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the judgment here. Like I said, so the best we can do right now is make sure that if we have
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information like this about where some of the hidden assets are, whether it's his home that he
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co-owns with his wife or this piece of property that he co-owns with another business partner,
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if we can flag it back to the lawyers for the families, at least we're doing something to keep
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our eye on the prize for them. A hundred percent, Sheila. And you use the word hurdle and, you know,
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it can't go without saying, and you did mention this in your commentary, of course, Sheila,
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that it was one thing for the Trudeau liberals to give Cotter that Lotto Max prize on, that the
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taxpayers unfortunately are paying for, but it was quite another thing, wasn't it, when they put up
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they structured the award in such a way that it was going to be very difficult for anybody to get
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their hands on this money? Yeah. I mean, just think about that. We had Justin Trudeau who didn't allow
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this human rights abuse to actually proceed to a legitimate trial where real evidence would be
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presented about what exactly the human rights abuses that sweet little Omar experienced when he was in
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Gitmo for murder. He didn't allow that to happen. So there was no transparency there. We were just
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supposed to take Omar Cotter's word for it, this convicted murderer. And then secondarily,
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he structured it in such a way that it would be protected from these families. They were being
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denied justice by a prime minister who was cooperating with an enemy combatant's lawyers.
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I mean, it is just, I mean, it's crooked. It's crooked. It's disgusting. And it's against Canadian values.
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Oh, and Sheila, I couldn't agree with you more. And the cherry on that Sunday, if you recall,
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when this story first broke, what Trudeau and his liberal cronies were saying is,
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well, you know what? If we let this go through the courts, this could cost several million more
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than this 10.5 million. So Sheila, suddenly on this file, the Trudeau liberals are fiscal
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conservatives. Give me a break. Well, and worse still, they set the precedent for every other
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questionable actor to make that application for another $10.5 million for themselves. And we're
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seeing that play out right now where other people are coming forward and claiming human rights abuses.
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I ended up on a no-fly list or whatever the problem is. And now $10.5 million seems to be the standard
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payout that we are supposed to give to these folks without ever proceeding to trial.
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And, you know, on that note, Sheila, if you were to poll Canadians on this, what, I'm editorializing
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here, but what minute percentage would possibly agree to this murderers, terrorists, you know,
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who have self-confessed to their odious deeds, treason, traitorous behavior, and yet we're cutting
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them eight-figure checks? I mean, this does not compute.
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Self-confessed, non-repentant terrorists. That's who we're paying out. And I think it is a very,
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very tiny portion of the Canadian population. I've noticed a lot of the online chatter, the people
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who say, Sheila, you're stalking this poor man. No, really. When you go to look to see the other
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things these sorts of people are saying, there's an overwhelming anti-American sentiment. People who
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say that the Americans were invaders in Omar's land. Omar's land is Canada, or Omar's land is
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Afghanistan, but Omar can't have it both ways. If Omar's land is Afghanistan, then go back to
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Afghanistan and give me my $10.5 million back. If Omar's land is Canada, then he was an enemy
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combatant against our allies and even possibly building bombs to hurt and maim soldiers who
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incidentally may have been stationed here at CFB Edmonton, where Omar Cotter now lives.
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So, I mean, the people defending this, they are really just fringe kooks.
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And of course, it should be noted, Sheila, that post-confession, Omar Cotter has recanted his
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guilty confession. But as I also understand it, the American plaintiffs argue that Cotter
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cannot avoid civil judgment by recanting his confession and his guilty plea. So at least
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Yeah, this may be the only justice that ever comes out of any of this. The fact that this murderer
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got 40 years seems a little low to me. The fact that he was able to spend it in Gitmo,
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which actually seems like a pretty nice place when you look at some of the pictures and videos
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of Gitmo. And then the fact that he was repatriated to Canada. Canada did it begrudgingly after pressure
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from the Obama administration. And then he used our legal system against us. And now he's basically
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on bail. He has very few restrictions, except for the fact that he can't travel to Saudi Arabia
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or go visit his al-Qaeda sister. I mean, really, the fact that he walks free is just, I mean,
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it's flaunting the injustice of it all, both to Canadians and to the American surviving victims
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of Omar Cotter. But executing this judgment, it may be the best we can ever get to bringing some
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You know, as you're talking, I'm just looking at a clip of Omar Cotter having a press conference
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and he's wearing a boss jacket. So I guess he's a real fashionista with all those millions in his
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bank account. But, you know, Sheila, what I found really somewhat of an affront was Cotter's main
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defense against being, you know, obligated to pay that judgment that the American families have
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brought against him is that it would be, quote, contrary to Canadian public policy and an affront
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to the concept of justice. Can you imagine, here we have a convicted Islamist terrorist murderer
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suddenly going to bat for Canadian public policy and the concept of justice? What do you make of this?
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You know what else is an affront to Canadian public policy? Killing an allied soldier on a foreign
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battlefield as an enemy combatant. That is against Canadian public policy. But his logic is exactly
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the same as those ISIS brides now who want to come home now that the caliphate has fallen.
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They repeat Justin Trudeau's mantra of a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And now they want
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Canadians to set aside common sense and take these evildoers back because all is forgiven because we
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just forgive and forget with our fellow Canadians. Well, I don't think Canadians are forgetting any
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time soon. And I don't think we have a lot of forgiveness in our heart for the likes of Omar
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Cotter. And, you know, speaking of the Justin Trudeau liberals, Sheila, I'm going to give you a
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hypothetical question. Since your story broke on Sunday about where Omar's hidden about a third of
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his ill-gotten gains, I'm just wondering what I mean, if we were a fly on the wall of Justin Trudeau's
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office, what he's thinking about this. And for that matter, what Omar Cotter is thinking about
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this, because remember, this payment was made very early in the Trudeau mandate. It was like to get
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it out of the way years before an election. But this is an election year. And suddenly this story
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that I think rubs the vast majority of Canadians the wrong way, suddenly it's on the front burner right
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now. What do you think they're saying to each other regarding this?
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Well, a story like this really puts Justin Trudeau's sympathy for the devil in the forefront.
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And while it was a little while ago that Justin Trudeau did this, Canadians haven't forgotten at the
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time, you know, we raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars for the spear kids right when they
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needed it the most. I say we, but I mean all the rebels and all of our supporters did that for them
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as a gesture to the world and to the spear family that we are not our prime minister and we don't
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share his opinions on Omar Cotter. And I think that's got to be weighing pretty heavily on Justin Trudeau
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when we have problems with, like I just mentioned, returning ISIS brides and returning ISIS fighters
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and problems at the border. I mean, we actually know what Omar Cotter has done and he's within our
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country. So it sort of shines the light on Justin Trudeau's border problems because we don't know
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what those people have done before they're in our country and they're here because of a stupid tweet
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by the prime minister. So I think this just opens up a big can of worms and puts it in the top of the
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mind of Canadians once again, as we go into election season. Indeed. And one last question
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to you, Sheila, in terms of doing a little crystal ball gazing here, where do you see this story going
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now? Do you see maybe Omar Cotter quickly divesting himself of this asset, if that's doable, or what?
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You know, I think we might have to wait and see. Omar Cotter does have a business partner.
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Is he going to sign this property over to his business partner and just liquidate the asset?
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That leaves him another problem of what to do with this money to keep it away from my prying eyes and
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the prying eyes of the family. I think now that we know where some of this money is, it makes it a lot
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easier for us to track. And I think that becomes a very big problem for Omar Cotter and his enablers.
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Yeah. And I know you're going to keep on this story, Sheila, and keep doing this great work
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and due diligence. And maybe we can find out where the rest of this money is done. And at least by way
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of media exposure, get some small measure of justice in what I think is a complete miscarriage of
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justice. So, Sheila, thank you once again. Great piece.
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And keep it here, folks. More of the Ezra Levin show to come right after this.
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Well, folks, thanks for tuning in and putting up with me. I'm filling in for Ezra tonight and
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tomorrow because Ezra is over in the UK covering the latest Tommy trial. And indeed, here's what
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Ezra Levin for the Rebel.media. We have just finished the first day in the trial of Tommy
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Robinson versus the Cambridgeshire police. Tommy gave his testimony and then a couple of different
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police officers, an inspector and then a PC, which I think stands for police constable.
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The constable was a tactical advisor to the football policing strategy. Here in the UK,
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football gangs or hooligans are such a big phenomenon that there are special laws governing
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them and special police tactics. For example, police from a local team's community actually
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travel with the team as they play football around the country so they can keep an eye for
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the known hooligans. It was a very interesting education for those of us not from the United
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Kingdom about how football law works. They have something called a risk offender, a risk fan.
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If you're a, it's called a risk fan. If you are at risk, if you are known to be a hooligan,
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a troublemaker, a fighter. And what we heard again and again today is that Tommy was by definition
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not a risk supporter. That's the phrase, a risk supporter because he was with his kids all day
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and he was not drinking and he was not consorting or conferring with any hooligans. He was there
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obviously for a family day. They went to the festival, the carnival. They got cotton candy. Tommy was watching
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the game in the pub, but the kids were playing. It was a day out for the family. And every police,
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both policemen on the stand today admitted that Tommy's conduct was unimpeachable, that he absolutely
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was not a risk supporter. We heard interesting testimony by the cops about what exactly did
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Tommy do? What did you see or say he did? There was no record of the name Tommy Robinson or Stephen
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Yaxley-Lennon as he's also known in any of the logs. I wonder if that's because he never came up
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or because police purged his name from him. Interestingly, there was a policeman who had
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a camera on Tommy for the entire altercation and whoopsies, the police department lost that footage.
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Very, very sketchy in my mind. But look, the cops held the line. They watched each other give
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testimony and they made sure their testimonies were in sync. Tommy has the footage from his own cell phone,
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proof that that's a very smart tactic of his point. Because unethical police might delete
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certain things and say, well, what can you do? So this trial continues tomorrow and perhaps a third
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day. I'll be here in Peterborough, the UK, covering the trial. Thanks to the generous support of our
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crowdfunding viewers. If you want to see all of my videos from this place, go to TommyTrial.com.
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I will be live tweeting from the trial itself at my Twitter feed, which is Twitter.com slash
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Ezra Levant. And if you feel so moved to chip in to help cover the costs of me being here,
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please do. You can also do that at TommyTrial.com. Until tomorrow, good night and keep fighting for