Juno News - February 25, 2020
Canada is Closed for Business
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Summary
Coming up, hope on the horizon to get rid of the carbon tax, why Canada is closed for business, and the mainstream media s curious double standard on press freedom. The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now, and we'll be talking later on in the show about the Tech Frontier decision to withdraw, the so-called resolution to the blockades that are popping up around the country, and why Justin Trudeau should have dealt with this much sooner. And also, a few moments about Alberta s carbon tax decision, which is hopeful but at the same time, not definitive just yet.
Transcript
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This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
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Coming up, hope on the horizon to get rid of the carbon tax,
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and the mainstream media's curious double standard on press freedom.
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Hey everyone, welcome to another edition of Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show,
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The first episode of the week, it is great to have you tuned into the program
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as we talk about a number of things that are happening in Canada,
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all seemingly coming to a head, but with a common thread between them.
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And we'll be talking later on in the show about the Tech Frontier decision to withdraw,
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the so-called resolution to the blockades that are still popping up around the country,
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and why Justin Trudeau should have dealt with this much sooner,
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and also in a few moments about Alberta's carbon tax decision,
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which is hopeful, but at the same time, not definitive champagne cork popping just yet,
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has decided that they are going to give students class credit for joining a blockade.
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indigenous solidarity protests shutting down Hamilton,
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their attendance to check in with me at the blockade.
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I don't think she means just like show up with a box of Timbits,
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She's actually making it part of class credit to break the law.
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And what do you want to bet that no one is going to say anything about it?
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I would certainly bet that no one is going to criticize this from McMaster University.
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I mean, after all, Jonathan Kaye had a great tweet the other day
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where he was talking about a school that was doing a smudging ceremony,
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but you burn herbs and you smudge, you wave it around.
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And I'm not, as a Christian, going to besmirch anyone's spiritual practices,
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but I will say that there is a double standard that exists
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people were allowed to do this when you would never be allowed
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to walk through and burn incense in traditional Catholic form.
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And in particular, it was about how Queen's University
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and it's been approved by the fire safety coordinator
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in a way that you wouldn't with other spiritual rituals.
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So you've got this double standard that's existing
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between the way that an indigenous ritual or practice is viewed,
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whether it's a spiritual practice or whether it's a protest,
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versus the way that anyone else would be treated
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In any case, I want to talk about this 4-1 decision
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to find the federal carbon tax unconstitutional.
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Firstly, of the three court decisions on the carbon tax,
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this is the first one to say we are against it.
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but both ultimately sided with the federal government.
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because it was basically finding that it's a backdoor
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on virtually anything under the auspices of environmentalism.
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Because I was covering the Ontario carbon tax case
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in April of last year, so coming up on a year ago,
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and the arguments that I was seeing and hearing
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They were basically saying that if you allow the government
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but as a journalist who's covered constitutional cases,
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I have somewhat of a solid grasp on the issues at hand here.
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And not even in the sense of a new head of power,
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as anachronistic or a barrier to uniform action
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the division of powers remains key to our federal state.
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The federal and provincial governments are co-equals,
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each level of government being supreme within its sphere.
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and the provincial governments are not its children.
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was talking about how much of a threat climate change is.
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caused by people are a course of climate change,
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wanted the government to have license to do this
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because of emergency provisions in the Constitution.
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the federal government actually opened the door
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Thankfully, the court didn't find it to have merit.
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But the court did find that sections one and two
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that you get on really large industrial emitters.
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So you can't say that it was a wholesale rejection
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between a carbon tax and climate change solving.
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But they're the ones who are actually emitters.
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he's not one of these just keyboard warrior types,