00:00:08.060I mean, you know, the biggest news story in the world was just the unspeakable, horrible tragedy that happened in Uvalde, Texas.
00:00:14.240We're still trying to put together the details of that.
00:00:17.260Harrison, you and I were talking before air about this new timeline that came out that's just really unconscionable.
00:00:21.440The idea that the police waited over an hour before going in to stop this gunman and waiting for backup.
00:00:27.700While parents were frantically urging them to go inside.
00:00:31.860For me, when I look at the story, I see, you know, a picture of a very isolated and disgruntled and mentally ill young man with no father in the picture.
00:01:36.960They take the most simplistic perspective and use it as a political weapon against the public instead of really trying to understand what happened.
00:01:45.000It seems like Uvalde was a pretty horrific case of police inaction.
00:01:49.460And I'm saying this is someone who is generally very pro-police.
00:01:52.260But when I read the details there, it's really just very difficult to understand what was going on in that chaotic scene.
00:01:59.420All this is just to say that whenever there's a big tragedy that's easily exploitable by Democrats in the U.S., it just seems to quickly make its way up to Canada.
00:02:08.080So we saw this a few weeks ago with the Roe versus Wade case where all of a sudden Justin Trudeau used that as an example to say that he was going to provide more abortions in Canada and that they were going to allow Americans to come up to Canada to have abortions.
00:02:22.260You know, when it came to the Buffalo shooter, instantly they were trying to tie the trucker convoy and this guy, Pat King, and then Pierre Polyev to the murderer.
00:02:31.780And then now with Uvalde, almost instinct, like knee-jerk reaction and the media around with it, of course, we saw the Ontario liberal leader here in Ontario, Stephen Del Duca, putting out this tweet saying what happened at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
00:02:45.040My heart breaks for his children and teachers who've lost their lives.
00:02:48.320The need for gun control has never been clearer.
00:02:51.260And, you know, calling for more gun control in Canada.
00:02:55.100Likewise, there's this CTV City News story saying new gun control measures coming in Canada, Trudeau says.
00:03:01.200So he's already, he doesn't have a specific policy in mind, but he's ready to pounce, ready to capitalize on the horrible tragedies that are happening in the United States by somehow pretending that the gun rules in Texas are anything remotely similar to the gun laws in Ontario.
00:03:18.780Or that the underlying social problems that are occurring in the United States, look, some of them do occur in Canada.
00:03:26.120Some of them, you know, the problem with societal breakdown, with family breakdown, the problem with isolation, especially during COVID, these young isolated men, you know, being told whatever they're told that makes them go so deranged.
00:03:39.520And then spending a bunch of time on social media, you know, that was a problem before it's been exasperated by the lockdowns.
00:03:45.520But to sort of import these culture wars into Canada, pretend it's the exact same thing.
00:04:23.620And I think it's really, I think it's a really bad practice.
00:04:27.240I don't think it does anyone in Canada any good when politicians jump on horrible tragedies to push their narratives, when things are so fresh.
00:04:36.340We knew this was going to come because it always does, right, Candice?
00:04:40.020It always comes when there's something that is dominating the news cycle.
00:04:44.600There's almost this need for figures in Canada to do something about it and to ride that wave.
00:04:50.300I mean, the horrible takes on the shooting in Texas, obviously, don't just stop with Stephen Del Duca's comment about the need for more gun control.
00:05:03.500The idea that there can be any comparison to the issues we're seeing in the United States, these ongoing, horrible shootings at schools, that is a United States thing.
00:05:15.720The idea that we can even compare any of that to what happens in Canada is just not accurate.
00:05:22.580We have other problems, significant problems.
00:05:24.720But the idea that we can ride this and say, well, because of that, because of what happened in Texas, we need to push for Canadian, stricter Canadian gun laws.
00:05:34.460I think it's frankly disgusting because these parents and these students who had classmates and family and children taken from them and teachers who had lost their lives, these people should be left alone.
00:05:52.740Their tragedies should not be used to push political narratives.