Best Moments from the First Conservative Leadership Debate 2022
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Summary
In this episode of the Conservative Leadership Debate, Andrew Yang speaks about the anti-abortion and pro-choice platforms, and challenges the media to be fair and balanced on the issue of abortion and abortion rights.
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i think that in 2020 canadians were not concerned about the barbaric snitch line what they were
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concerned about is the snitch line on your neighbor if they had a friend over or a snitch
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line about a church if they wanted to congregate that is uncanadian i come from a former soviet
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union i know what democracy what i know what democracy is all about and i know how precious
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our democracy is and the fact that the conservative movement failed to stand up for democracy
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is something that is going to remain with us for a generation among the loudest voices that you were
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not one of the loudest voices mr polly you were not one of the loudest voices in fact you did not speak
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up until it was actually that is not true madam you did not even go to the trucker protest you
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actually went and you took a picture in your neighborhood at a local stop you did not speak
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up for the um for the truckers and you did not speak up the loudest mr polly now mr sharae learned
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about the trucker convoy on cbc like other liberals and he misrepresented them
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he believes that i should be censored he believes i should be cancelled from this
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leadership race and disqualified in his words because i don't share his liberal viewpoint that
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is the kind of cancel culture and censorship you would expect from justin trudeau but instead we're
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getting it from this liberal on this stage you know this whole situation with the vaccine mandates
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the truckers convoy never should have happened in the first place leadership would have engaged people
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it should never have happened in the first place and the fact of the matter is this justin trudeau
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used vaccines and vaccine status to divide canadians in a corrosive disgusting political
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display to win votes and what we cannot do what we cannot do as a party is continue with the divisive
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polarizing rhetoric that justin trudeau has been using for seven years it's disgusting it's ripping our
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country apart it's why i'm running mr sharae how much money did you get from huawei when you were
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working for them either directly or indirectly just the number please how much just the number i agree
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with scott this mess that we witnessed is the fault of mr trudeau but mr poliev during that period
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supported an illegal blockade you cannot make laws and break laws and then say i will make laws for
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other people i'm sorry but that is a question of basic foundation in my life what do you say to the
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large number of conservatives and canadians who simply don't want to have a debate about abortion
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i think it's it's very important that in a free and democratic society we are free to debate any issue
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and i tell people i am pro-life many of my friends are pro-choice and we have healthy discussions
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about the future and there are there is so much that we agree on and we need to come together as a
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society to determine that we can work out things even controversial things like abortion i still don't know
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where these gentlemen stand on this issue i don't know whether they're pro-life or pro-choice and and
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the media will hound them for example mr pierre poliev has ran from the media the last few days
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because he doesn't want to declare whether he's pro-life or pro-choice so i'm wondering if you can
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set the record straight are you a conservative thank you very much and and roman thank you for your
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comments and and leslin i have a deep respect for the position that you hold on the issue of abortion and
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i want to say a word about social conservatives tonight because we may not agree on all issues
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but who are the people who call themselves social conservatives and i'm not a hyphenated conservative
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but who are they if not people who have a faith based life believe in their families and their
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communities sounds like pretty good people to me and they are part of our family and they will always
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be part of our family and they need to be respected cbc news is no longer news it's a communications arm
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for justin trudeau how can media objectively cover the government when the government signs their paycheck
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it's utterly impossible you know i was born in the soviet union there was a newspaper called pravda and
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pravda means truth and i see no difference between what we're seeing in state-run funding so here's what i'm
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gonna do i'm gonna do i'm going to defund the cbc i'm going to end all subsidies and bailouts but i'm
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gonna go a step further i'm going to add i'm going to end the advertising relationship that government