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Andrew Lawton and Harrison Faulkner join host Candice Malan to talk about their new voices, Easter, and the joys of being a transgender person during the holiday season. Plus, a special bonus episode of Off The Record.
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It's just, I think like the baby is somehow like sitting on my, I don't even know what
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And my voice sounded like this for like a month now.
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Is your baby just like grabbing your vocal cord somehow from down there?
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Seriously, this hasn't happened with any of my other pregnancies.
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So I don't have any explanation, but I just have like a raspy sounding voice now.
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I sound like one of those, like, I don't know, like I'm like a smoker or like one of
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those like soothing, like yoga, you know, like yoga podcasts or like meditation podcasts.
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I must say, I'm not actually very familiar with the Dulls and Tones of the yoga meditation
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No, I was going to say this is new to me as well.
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Never heard, well, never heard of that happening.
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And also, no, I haven't listened to any of the yoga, yoga instructors, soothing voices.
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They're always, they're always so calm and so like subdued and maybe a little raspy.
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It's amazing how like there is a type of voice in different media, like NPR voice.
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There's like a very distinctive public broadcaster voice that's different than other broadcaster
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Well, Andrew, you have like the best talk radio voice, like your voice was like, I don't
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know if you like made your voice to sound that way or if you were like 15 years old and you
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just like sounded like a radio announcer in the playground.
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But like, it gives me like sports announcer, sports announcer vibes.
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That's funny because you, you know, very little about sports, Andrew.
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There was a guy I worked with when I was in radio who had like a just a perfect one.
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And it was not fake, but it was just that really deep baritone.
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Everything he said sounded like he was calling a sports game.
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No, I think, I think you have the perfect radio voice.
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I always introduce my guests, which is Andrew Lawton, host of The Andrew Lawton Show, and
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And I don't know that I always introduce myself.
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I'm the founder of True North, and I'm the host of The Candice Malcolm Show as well.
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And we were just talking about how my voice is raspy and I'm kind of losing it.
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So forgive me if I have to take breaks to drink water or just try to sit upright.
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You can't see, obviously, from this angle, but I'm pretty heavily pregnant over here.
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And I think it must somehow be related because my voice has just changed.
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So I guess before we get into it all, I just want to wish you both a happy March break season.
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That's what we heard over and over again over the weekend, last weekend.
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And also, apparently, happy Transgender Day of Visibility because it wasn't just Easter.
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And Andrew, I know we've talked about before about how there's like a warm Christmas and
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I was kind of surprised by how many times I heard people say happy holidays to me over Easter or happy.
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Happy March break or happy March holiday season.
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Is this a new thing or has this always been the case?
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So maybe just when Easter falls in March, it just gets consumed by this so-called March holiday season.
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I did notice a lot more of the genericization of the...
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Well, first off, I've never heard of an Easter season before.
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There's Good Friday, there's Easter Sunday, and then there's kind of Easter Monday, which
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And that's sort of why that becomes consumed by the broader holidays.
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But yeah, the Easter season, I've never heard of until this year.
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It's almost like they're trying to make the holiday less religious, but they make it more
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It starts, well, it starts with Lent and it starts with Ash Wednesday.
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It's Palm Sunday, and then it goes on throughout the week.
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So it made it feel more religious to me when people kept saying happy Easter season.
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But obviously, Easter is a very important day for Christians, and it's a very solemn sort
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And so it just felt like a real slap in the face when we had Joe Biden, the president of
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the U.S., coming out and declaring Easter to be Trans Day of Visibility.
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I think this is one of those examples where the left is just so incredibly out of touch.
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They don't recognize how bad of an issue this is and how much just regular people disagree
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Like, you know, again, like bumping into parents at my kid's school or you dads like on the
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playground and everyone was making fun of this.
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Everyone was joking about it, but how tone deaf it was and ridiculous it was for the president
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It's like combining the two worst aspects, which is like canceling the foundations of
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our civilization and Christianity and pushing this trans agenda down our throats.
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Well, I found it to be intentionally provocative.
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I mean, I think that the reality is like we can pretend as though it was just a coincidence
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and they didn't really think about how this would impact Christians and how this would
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Or we can really just kind of cut to the chase and be honest here.
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These are not idiots who are running the White House.
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He also made a Transgender Day of Visibility post on Easter, both supposedly Catholics who made
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And again, I don't think that this is just a coincidence.
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When it falls on Easter, you can maybe forget about Transgender Day of Visibility, but instead
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They have to trigger this response out of Christians.
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And of course, it is an attack on Christianity to do this.
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You are conflating Easter, the most important day in the Christian calendar, with something
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that goes completely contrary to Christian values and Christian beliefs.
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Again, Canada in particular is a Christian country.
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The head of our country is also the head of the Church of England.
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And for the prime minister to do this, and for the president to do this in the United
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States, I think it's intentionally provocative and designed to get a response out of people.
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Yeah, it's interesting just even how things have changed.
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Because I remember a few years ago, Trudeau put out a pretty religious statement on Easter,
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talking about what Christians believe, not necessarily his faith, but just putting it forward, because
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the reality is Canada is a very diverse country.
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And the politicians sort of recognize and acknowledge religious holidays for all religions.
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So we see, you know, we hear the prime minister talk about, you know, the importance of Eid or Ramadan.
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You talk about Jewish holidays, Indian holidays, like Hindu holidays.
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And at one point, he would acknowledge Christians in that mix.
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I didn't see anything about Easter from our prime minister.
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But we did we did see a lot of sort of woke, wokeism taking over here in Canada.
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So a church in Calgary, I mean, I don't know if you can really consider Unitarian churches to be churches.
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They decided to just, you know, combine Easter church service with a creepy, cringy groomer drag show.
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So that's that's interesting that that happened.
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And we also had Calgary Mayor Jody Gonduk tweet about, I don't know, something about Transgender Day of Visibility
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and how horrible Daniel Smith is implied in that in the body of the tweet there.
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But really, you know, just, again, kind of rubbing it in our face and trying to make Easter.
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Like, look, you can talk about trans other days, right?
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It's like Christians have this like one weekend where it is a very important, very solemn holiday.
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And it seems like they're really going out of their way to ram this down our throat.
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Well, so I actually I disagree with some of this because like with what you guys have said,
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just because May, March 31st is the day of International Transgender Day of Visibility.
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If they fall on the same day, then you're not really if you're going to observe both
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in a position where you can pick and choose when to do it.
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I think the bigger question is, why is this day itself attracting so much of this proclamationing,
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Because, look, if you've decided that you're going to do this, then, yeah, if it's March 31st,
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I think the bigger issue is that we've seen like we talked about this last summer at True
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North Pride Day used to be a day and then it was Pride Week and then it was Pride Month.
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And then the Canadian government last year was observing Pride season, which started
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in June and went all the way or so I think it started in May, actually, and went all the
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So we had basically three, four months of Pride festivities.
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And then you also have outside of that individual days like Transgender Day of Visibility.
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And there are other days there was like there was some asexual awareness day that I learned
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of recently that are also scattered throughout the year.
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And I think in general, there is just this oversaturation of observance days in the same
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way that there is an oversaturation of colored ribbons and of all of these different campaigns.
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And I think that it ends up becoming this battle of performative recognition and declarations,
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which are inevitably going to lead to these sorts of things.
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So I don't really care about the day so much because that is just an unfortunate accident of
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timing. But I do have an issue with this need to perform and virtue signal on every single one
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of these days that's been declared by someone on Twitter at some point.
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Well, so someone was passing this around at one point.
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But someone had taken all of the holidays that they had created in British Columbia and put
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it in a calendar. And it was like the most insane thing. It was like every single day was like
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lesbian day of like remembrance or I mean, it was nonstop. It was just like every single day was
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something. Half of them were to do with hating Canada. Half of them were to do with celebrating
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other countries that weren't Canada. And then, of course, recently there was a vote
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to name, I think it was November, Christian Heritage Month in Canada. And I got defeated.
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So we don't we don't we're not willing to celebrate the actual heritage and history of
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our own country. But we're willing to celebrate absolutely every other thing, which I think
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I think you make a really good point. Andrew Harrison, any any more thoughts on this?
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Well, yes, I would just say that if, for example, Transgender Day of Visibility fell on the same day as
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Eid or or any other, for example, Muslim holiday or it does. We're in the middle of Ramadan, Ramadan.
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Right. So, again, if this if this were if this were on the most important day, if it was one day
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thing and it happened on the exact same day as a Muslim holiday, I don't think that you would see
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all of these proclamations. I just I genuinely don't. I think that this is an idea that is taking
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place in all of these Western countries, that Christian holidays, the most important holiday
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can be watered down. It can be described as March, March holiday season. It can be described as
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whatever you want it to be described as. But to give Christians a day that is that, you know,
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can just be unobstructed by all of this woke virtue signaling is just not going to happen in this
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country. I don't think that it would happen. And I think that we've allowed it to happen.
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And that's a big problem. Andrew, maybe you'll remember this. Didn't Justin Trudeau have a pair of
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socks that were like both like Muslim moons and also rainbows, like gay pride rainbow socks. And
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it was like the biggest case of like cognitive dissonance. It's like, does he understand that
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these two symbols just don't really go hand in hand? But he was like showing them off at one point.
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I think I remember something. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was like they were I'm trying to remember if it
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was too sad if it was that he wore Ramadan socks during Pride, Pride socks during Ramadan or if they
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were like Pride Ramadan socks. But I remember that story. Yeah, there was it was one of the many
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socks in the Trudeau sock collection. Yeah. Yeah. Those those were back in the early days of the
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Trudeau government. But to me, it was really. They were halal socks. Sean, just share the link in our
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channel here. Muslim hipster socks that McLean wrote about. This was the beginning of the end of
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McLean's hard hitting political coverage. There it is. Yeah. He wore during Pride socks that said
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Eid Mubarak on them. So I don't know if Pride overlapped with Ramadan that year or if he just,
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you know, had was washing his Pride socks. So he put on the Eid Mubarak socks. I'm not sure.
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Yeah. I just remember the comments were full of Muslims who very, very wholeheartedly disagreed
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with this merging of the two trends happening at once. So. Yeah. To your point, I mean, Harrison,
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so the Ramadan is underway right now. And Trudeau had said nothing on Good Friday,
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but had on the Thursday prior posted something about Ramadan. So like, this is the problem. I
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mean, I'm kind of at the beginning of anything and then you can't be criticized for missing stuff.
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Yeah. And no video. He didn't make a video for Easter on Sunday. And I found that to be very
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strange as well because Trudeau makes videos for every, every single, you know, Pride month,
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every single holiday, but not for Easter, which I found to be very surprising.
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Yeah. Which why I think it was pretty refreshing when I went on to Twitter over the weekend and I saw
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there was a post from Pierre Polyev saying he is risen happy Easter, which is, is, is just a sort of
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very basic part of Easter celebrations, but it seems bold and, and almost provocative for a politician
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to actually acknowledge a Christian holiday these days. I think we have a video of what Pierre Polyev
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He is risen. Today, Christians celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Through his sacrifice, he paid the ultimate price for our sins and overcame the power of
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death itself so that we could rejoice in his promise of everlasting life. The joy of Easter
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unites all Canadians. It reminds us that although we face hardship, we have the promise of a new
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beginning of redemption and of the hope of eternal life. As families come together to attend church
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services, paint Easter eggs and enjoy some much needed rest. May you be refreshed and restored
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What a nice message. And I personally really appreciated that. It wasn't just Pierre Polyev.
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We had Saskatchewan Premier Scott Mo putting out a message just saying he is risen. Happy Easter, Saskatchewan.
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We had New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs saying, May the miracle of Easter renew your faith,
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strengthen your spirit, fill your heart with gratitude and praise.
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Martian, I wish you a joyous and blessed Easter.
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And Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, she wrote on Good Friday,
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Good Friday reminds Christians of the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the boundless love
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that he demonstrated for humanity. To all Albertans observing the Easter holiday,
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I hope you may connect with your faith. Families and communities have a blessed Good Friday.
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So like we were saying, you know, politicians do this for every faith and every religion and every
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group. I don't know if it's pandering, but to me, it seemed like something that I hadn't quite seen
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before in recent times, which is conservatives in Canada sort of just being like unafraid to post
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a message that that would have been seen as just very normal and very important like 50 years ago.
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But, you know, in our in our sort of postmodern, postnational civilization and culture right now,
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it just seems like it's almost like taboo. So I see this as almost like countercultural. And I was
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I was proud that the conservatives were putting out these messages of faith. What's your take on all
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I think you're right. I mean, there certainly is something about how there is a new counterculture.
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And I do wonder if certainly in numbers we see that religion overall is in decline. Christianity
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is in decline. But when you break down those numbers and you look at where it is growing,
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it's actually quite noteworthy that this is actually the really traditional denominations
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and traditional churches that are seeing growth. And I actually think that's incredibly valuable to
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note. So there does seem to be even among younger people, a bit of a generational shift where
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things that even five years ago were seen as, oh, that's antiquated. No one does that anymore,
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Yeah. I mean, I went to a church service on Sunday. It was a sunlight one. So it was a 6 a.m.
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service. And then the sun came up just before seven. It was amazing. There were hundreds of
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people. And, you know, I'm an Anglican and we usually have a hard time getting more than like 30 or
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40 people out to a church. But there was hundreds, hundreds of people. Everyone was out.
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And it was just it was it was beautiful and amazing to see. So I feel like there is some
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kind of a resurgence around faith happening in this moment. Harrison, do you see it and do you
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see it among sort of younger people in your generation, Gen Zers? Yeah, I think that more
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young Canadians, young Christians are looking for churches that aren't going to accept non-Christian
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values, woke preaching, all this stuff. And a lot of that is a lot of that I'm seeing from the
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Catholic Church right now. I'm an Anglican myself. I went to two services. I went to a
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Good Friday service and an Easter Sunday service. And both were very well attended. It was nice to
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see. But this is really this is really like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
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You know, the fact that we're now celebrating conservative politicians and politicians in general
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who make Easter posts on social media. This should be a given.
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No bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This this this should be this should be almost mandatory in Canada,
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except it's not. And that is something that I think, you know, the idea that we're celebrating
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this is the problem. It's the fact that for whatever reason, politicians are afraid to proclaim
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their faith in a Christian country. They're afraid to say what they know to be true. They're afraid to
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push back against things that run contrary to their faith. Right. Like this transgender day of
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visibility stuff. I mean, this is what the fact that this is standing out is the problem in my opinion.
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You know, yeah, that's that's a good way of picking it. I remember back in the early days
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of the Ben Shapiro podcast, you said do like good Trump and bad Trump. I feel like we just did good
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conservative. It's like good conservative when you can muster up the courage to put out a Christian
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message on Easter. Now let's move to bad conservative. Andrew, I'll let you take it from
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here. Well, speaking of Trump, I should point out Trump in response to the Biden proclamation said he
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would, if he's elected, declare Christian Visibility Day. So that's basically the way things are going
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there. Wait, you're setting me up for something. What do you? Oh, is this the Aaron O'Toole story?
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No, actually. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. He's so distant in my memory. It takes a little while to recall
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that Aaron O'Toole something or other. So yeah, Aaron O'Toole, he was one of the witnesses before the
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inquiry into foreign interference, which is a big issue. And I think that there is certainly a lot of
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evidence that the conservatives were targeted in 2021 and to some extent in 2019 over or by agents
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associated with the Chinese regime. And I think there's evidence that in several ridings, this
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campaign that we saw the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party behind probably cost the
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conservatives the seats, didn't cost them the overall election. It would be convenient if that
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were the case. The election, according to Aaron O'Toole, was lost because of something else.
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So what was your understanding then based on the modeling on election day of where the conservatives
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Yeah. Reliving those last few days of the campaign. We went from winning the seat count a week before the
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election with a small, modest minority to on election day, losing the seat count and still winning the
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popular vote. We, we saw the vote changing largely on the vaccine and the vaccine mandate issue. Um, but on
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election night, when we, we knew we were going to lose, um, my campaign manager had said, um, our models
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and how the vote goes, you should end up with about 127, 128 seats, which will be a historic level for
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opposition. And when you consider it was a pandemic election, we, we were largely on the wrong side of
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public opinion on, on the vaccine mandate issue, which is in my view, why the prime minister called
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the election, um, that was being briefed to me to say, calm down, you did okay.
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So Aaron O'Toole basically says that the vaccine issue was what cost the conservatives the election,
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uh, which, uh, I believe it was actually COVID that caused the conservative election, specifically the
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O'Toole strain, which, uh, came about in, uh, 2021, uh, Aaron O'Toole in that, uh, last week of the
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campaign reversed core policies that were in his platform. I think there was a bit of external
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influence in the sense that when Jason Kenney implemented a lockdown in Alberta and a vaccine
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passport in Alberta, I think that really hurt the conservative argument on COVID. But in general,
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Aaron O'Toole is revising history in two ways. Number one, he's saying that the conservatives were
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opposed to all of this vaccine mandate nonsense, which was only superficially true. And also that
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that was the thing that cost them the election, which is absolutely in no uncertain terms, untrue.
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And it was just made up, uh, probably so Aaron O'Toole can sleep at night for, uh, leading such a
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disastrous campaign. I, so when I first saw your tweet, Andrew, I thought that maybe he had come,
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like had it come to Jesus moment. He recognized that his terrible COVID state,
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and policies are what led him to lose the election. And then I watched a video and I realized
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that it was the opposite. It was like, he was digging in his heels as if like, that was somehow
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the reason that they lost. Aaron O'Toole says he was too critical of vaccine mandates. Just
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take that in for a second. I mean, this is one of the infuriating things that happens,
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like even now talking to like a liberal friend and they, they try to tell you like, oh no,
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everything was fine. Like we, we just didn't know that like school closures were going to be so
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detrimental to education and, oh, the vaccine did work. I mean, it got rid of like the Delta strain
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or whatever. And it's like, it's so frustrating because you're like, well, sure. But like, look
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at all this other stuff. And yeah, to, to hear him say that makes me think he's just sort of learned
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nothing. Harrison, what's your thoughts over there?
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So I'm just confused here because I pulled up an article from global news during the election
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in 2021. And it says here, O'Toole promises to implement a national proof of COVID-19 vaccination
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system, a national vaccine passport, something that Trudeau didn't even do. He left that up to
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the provinces. O'Toole wanted to make it a federal program. And he wanted to, as it says here,
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make sure that 90% of eligible residents were vaccinated against COVID-19 and is pledging to
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cover the cost of time off for employees to get a shot, free transportation to vaccine clinics,
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and a national booster shot strategy that would initially target seniors in the immunocompromised.
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So I'm just confused here. What exactly he means by being offside? Because he wanted a national
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vaccine passport, which was not even something that Trudeau was trying to implement. He wanted
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to make it a national program. I don't know what he's trying to do here, what he's trying to say,
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but he definitely was not offside on the vaccine issue when it comes to being on the side of Justin
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Trudeau. He was offside with Canadians. However, we do know that that's why he got, ended up getting
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ousted from the leadership position. But during the election, if he was trying to compare himself
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to Trudeau, he was right there, if not even ahead of him on the issue.
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Well, that's how I saw it. I think that, like, that's why when I first saw Andrew Street,
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I thought maybe he realized that if the Conservatives had taken a strong principal position,
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like they did at the very beginning, saying we're not going to implement a vaccine passport ever,
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period, and we don't agree with this, maybe they would have won the election. Maybe Canadians
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would have had a bit more respect for a party that was willing to stand on its principles.
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But the fact that we had this mushy, unclear policy, I mean, I'm going to play this clip.
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This is one of the worst moments in Canadian politics for me. This is like peak uniparty
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cringe. Basically, they did a PSA, a public service announcement before the debate, where
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they all agreed. They all agreed. The science is settled. Everybody go get your booster,
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go get your shots. So this was one of the worst, the lows of the lows of this election. Let's
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play that clip. We're all in this together. We've come so far in the fight against COVID.
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It's time to finish this pandemic for good. So get vaccinated. If you know someone who hasn't,
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talk to them. For our kids, for our communities, for our economy. It's how we get forward together.
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Vaccines are safe and effective for use. Vaccines are the best way for you to protect yourself,
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your family, and your community. So get vaccinated. Let's fight COVID-19 together.
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Pour vous protéger vous-même, pour protéger les plus fragiles d'entre nous, pour protéger
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l'ensemble de la population, le meilleur moyen connu demeure le vaccin. S'il vous plaît,
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soyez responsable. Soyez solidaires. Faites-vous vacciner. Merci.
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We all agree getting vaccinated is the way forward. We're all in agreement. This is not a partisan
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issue. So please get vaccinated. We're united. And it's time to get the shot. Vaccines save lives.
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They're how we're going to beat COVID. And it's time for everyone to do it. Get the shot.
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No. All right. On three, Candace and Harrison, we're all in this together. One.
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I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I had a moment there where I totally forgot who the woman at the
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end was. And I had like, who is that again? That's the Green Party leader, I believe. But
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oh my God. No, I had that because I sat next to her on a flight once and I was like,
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I know her. Who is she? And then I was like, oh, right. And I couldn't even remember her name.
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So it's like anime. So I interestingly, because she was she's Jewish and she was subjected to some
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just horrendous anti-Semitism from within the Green Party. And I had actually looked her up a
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couple of days ago, unrelated to this story, because I was curious what she had said about
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Israel since October 7th. And unfortunately, she has been silenced as she was ousted as Green
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leader. So I hadn't she hasn't tweeted in three years. So the mystery continues. But anyway,
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carry on. When I bumped into her at the airport, it seemed like she was pretty, pretty private,
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not not really interested in in talking about politics at all. But I mean, come on, that was
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just that was the worst. But watching Aaron O'Toole stand like it's often the case that all the other
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parties agree that all the left wing parties agree on a policy. And then the conservatives are like
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the ones out there speaking for common sense and saying something different and being brave and
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having a backbone and saying like, no, we don't we don't want to have like whatever the policy is.
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And this was like, to me, that's why Aaron O'Toole lost is because he caved and because he was
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saying the exact same stuff as the other parties, which then you might as well just vote for the
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liberals if you want that. Vote for the liberals. And I think that's why he lost. I want to I want
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to cover this story. Harrison, you might take an interest in it as well. We're learning a little
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bit about the Liberal Party and how they allow international students and non-residents and
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foreigners to participate in their party's nominations. So Steve Chase, who's a great,
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fantastic award-winning journalist over at the Globe and Mail, one of the good ones,
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he posted this. I asked Liberal Party whether they would change their policy to disallow
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international students from voting and nomination races. Response from Liberal spokesperson,
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the Liberal Party of Canada is a grassroots movement. Our party's constitution bylaws are
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the result of thousands of registered liberals debating and voting at national conventions
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to amend and update these documents over the years. That's how we build the most open
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and inclusive movement in Canada. Any future amendment would follow that process. Steve Chase
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also mentioned that in tabled documents, they showed that the Liberal Party national director
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is an Ishmael for an interference inquiry that signing up international students with the Liberal
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Party and bussing them to voting sites for nomination races is compliant with Liberal Party rules.
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So, you know, here we, anyone can join the Liberal Party. You don't have to pay anything.
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You don't even have to be a Canadian. You don't even have to be a permanent residence. Heck,
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you don't even have to live in Canada. And again, this was all in the context of that
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foreign interference inquiry that Andrew mentioned that Aaron O'Toole was talking at as well.
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It just seems pretty shocking to me. This is a state of our democracy where we have a party
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defending a practice where people that aren't Canadian in any way, shape or form are allowed to
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participate in our democracy. Doesn't that just feel like it feels like we don't really have a
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democracy anymore? Andrew, what are your thoughts on this? Well, yeah. And also, it's important to
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know that, you know, the Conservative Party, I don't know how it is for the NDP, probably similar
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because they none of them work, but the Conservatives have paid membership. So if you want to be a member
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of the Conservative Party of Canada, you have to pay your $15. You can't pay with cash. So it means that
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there is a bit of a fraud prevention mechanism built in there. The Liberals at some point changed
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it to free membership. So not only can you sign up international students, but you could sign them
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up without ever having them pay for it, which means it would be very easy for a bad actor to go in,
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take a list of names, put them on the list and do whatever is necessary to get these people out to
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vote in a nomination. And nominations are already very, very susceptible to fraud and wrongdoing.
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They're not really overseen by Elections Canada. It's kind of the Wild West for political parties.
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We've heard stories, especially in Ontario politics, of, you know, people that, you know,
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have been registered 10, 12, 14 names to an apartment and voting in nominations and leaderships.
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The Liberals don't seem to care about that. I mean, they see it as a feature and not a bug.
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Well, they call it a grassroots movement. So I guess that includes everybody in the world.
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Harrison, what are your thoughts on this? Well, it's very post-national state of the
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Liberal Party to allow this, of course, to allow non-citizens to engage in our democracy.
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And of course, as Andrew said, the nomination process is oftentimes in our country. Well,
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I don't think you mentioned this part, but oftentimes the nomination process is more difficult
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than the election itself because we have so many ridings that are guaranteed to go one way or the
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other. So for conservatives, conservative ridings, the nomination race is the hardest part.
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And for the Liberals, the same is true. And we have evidence that many of the individuals who
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are named by some of that original global news reporting about Chinese infiltration into our
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democracy, a lot of those individuals were caught up in these nomination races that were, you know,
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significantly helped by non-citizens, by international students, by Chinese students who are being
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bussed in, as they say, to, in my opinion, interfere with this process. This is supposed to be
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a Canadian system for Canadians where Canadians choose their leaders and their representatives
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in Parliament, not for temporary foreign workers, not for international students, not for non-citizens
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to engage in, to direct change into how our country is going to go into the future.
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You know, it is also convenient that this is the same government who has skyrocketed international
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student visas into this country and basically taken the system and driven it out of control.
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Now, all of a sudden, those people can engage the Liberal Party and they can dictate who they want
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to represent them and actual Canadians into Parliament. It's absurd. But it's very post-national
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Well, and even to defend it like that, saying it's compliant with our policies. I mean, we
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have a graph here from a report that I did that shows the incredible growth in international students
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who have been coming to Canada. We're at the point where 900,000, they had to cap it at 900,000 last
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year. So, you know, this is contributing to all sorts of social problems as well. And even our own
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prime minister is admitting that this massive spike in immigration that has happened under his watch,
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under his guidelines, under his policy, is far beyond what Canada has been able to absorb.
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It's funny, he's starting to sound like a True North host, because that's what we say. It's like,
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you know, don't necessarily have a problem with immigration, but you have to make sure that you
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can absorb the population and you can integrate them. And when you're letting in 2.2 million people
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a year, it's just not working. And it's pretty, pretty obvious. So, Justin Trudeau is acknowledging
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that. Andrew, I don't know if that is going to lead to a policy change or just like a shrug your
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shoulders and don't take any accountability, the Trudeau special. Yeah, I think it's more likely to
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be the latter. And we already heard a little bit of this from, well, I forget his name now,
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the housing minister who used to be the immigration minister. Frazier. Yeah, I was going to say,
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I don't actually don't know what I was going to say, Sean something. But anyway, they're all
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interchangeable. He had said something where he basically said the government has no say
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in temporary foreign workers and temporary residents like international students that
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he said, oh, no, no, no, we only cap, you know, and have a number for permanent residents. The rest
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of these, it's all just, you know, basically, it's the private sector that figures out how many TFWs we
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get. And it's universities that figure like he had this entirely just ridiculous rationalization for
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why this is somehow not the government's fault. Wow, it really makes you wonder who's running,
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who's running this place. The liberals don't seem to have any sense of accountability. I'm going to,
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I'm going to turn this over to you now, Harrison, you want to talk about this Ontario teacher's story.
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Yeah, this is a very, very strange story. And I'm wondering where it all came from. But
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in short, Ontario school boards have now have now taken to the courts to sue Meta and TikTok for four
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and a half billion dollars for, quote, distracting students. All right, so here's the breakdown.
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Several Ontario school boards have filed lawsuits against social media giants, TikTok and Meta,
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accusing them of inflicting damage on students' mental health. The suit alleges that the social
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media apps are interfering with students' ability to learn and that teachers are left dealing with
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the fallout of those effects. So there are now the claimants here, the school boards are alleging
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that social media platforms in question were designed for compulsive use and have rewired the
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way children think, behave and learn. And they're seeking four and a half billion dollars. All right,
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so I'm just very confused here why the school boards are suing TikTok and Meta, the social media
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platforms, these big tech companies, with our money, of course, because they're making the lives of
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teachers more difficult, right? That doesn't make much sense to me. But it seems to me, in fact, that
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maybe a lawyer is behind this and is managing to make a ton of money off of school boards, again, off of
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our money for a lawsuit that isn't going to go anywhere. How exactly the social media companies are making
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life more difficult for teachers is beside me. It's beyond me. And so apparently with Doug Ford,
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he calls it nonsense. He said that school board lawsuits launched against Facebook, Instagram,
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Snapchat, and TikTok are nonsense and urge them to instead focus on the kids. So Candace, what do you
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think about this? You've got young kids who are going to be going to school, in some cases, probably in
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school. Do you think that school boards have any grounds here to sue big tech companies?
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Well, I just don't understand. If the schools don't want kids on social media at schools,
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it's pretty easy. Just ban phones. That's up to the schools. I'm often just absolutely blown away
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that schools allow teenagers to bring their phones to school. And you walk around a hallway and you see
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kids with their face down on phones. It's so different than when I was in high school. There's
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a growing movement, especially in the UK, of schools just saying, enough, you cannot have a phone with
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you at school. Leave it at home. And if we see it at school, we'll confiscate it and you will not get
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it back. It's not like there are ways to deal with this. I think that there's some truth to the idea
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that these apps and these phones are addictive and it's not good for kids. It's not good for their
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mental health. It's not good for socialization. I think that the solution is tougher rules and
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better parenting and better authority from the schools as opposed to just what you're saying,
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trying to go shake down social media companies. It seems to be a theme in Canadian politics these
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days. But yeah, this one's just, I'm at a loss. This is very strange.
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Yeah, I'm kind of, it's strange is the best way of putting it. It's really difficult to discern what
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Yeah, I don't understand this. As you said, Candace, they could easily just ban phones. I
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know the Ontario government even floated that idea not too long ago to try to get phones out of
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schools and out of classrooms. But again, this is an opportunity for school boards to use our money
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to go after big tech companies. Are they going to win? I doubt it. But someone is going to make a lot
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of money out of this. And someone had the idea to do this. And I think that might be a real
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motivation here. Someone wants to make a bunch of money off these school boards by going after
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Baystreet lawyers. Baystreet lawyers are the real winners in this.
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The real villains. It also sort of shows the mindset of the school board that rather than
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looking inward and trying to reflect on your own policies and how you can encourage kids to just
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get off their phones, talk to parents about it, do your own kind of education campaign about the
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harms of social media. They just try to get a headline and go for a huge number, $4.5 billion.
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Like, is that going to go to the individual children? I doubt it. It's going to go to the
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school boards. So this just seems like, yeah, a very misguided attempt to fix a problem that's
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real. And I do encourage parents to limit their children's screen time, not allow them to go onto
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social media, not allow them to enter into that world. We've seen so much about how the sort of
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slippery slope behind, you know, a young 12, 13-year-old girl going on TikTok and all of a
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sudden she believes she's transgender or she hates Canada and she believes that Canada is like a
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genocidal state. Like, there's so much nastiness out there. You have to protect your children from
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it. And there is no way, there is no way, Mike. Actually, I was talking to some of the parents in
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my kid's school about this because you can buy these things that are called dumb phones and they
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look like smartphones, but they're dumb phones. And all they can do is just call mom and dad,
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right? So like the kid doesn't feel embarrassed or left out when like all their friends have like
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these cool Android and iPhones. They can pull out a phone that kind of looks like that and they can
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play around on it, but it doesn't actually allow them to like access the internet or any of like
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the horrible, horrible things that you can find on there. And also one more thing. How many of
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these, how many teachers use TikTok themselves? Don't we see all these videos of these teachers
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making all these very strange LGBT transgender TikToks going around? We see them on Twitter all
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the time. So surely there's got to be quite a few teachers themselves who are using these social media
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apps. Maybe that's making their teaching job a little more difficult as well. I find that to be
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very strange. Someone, someone, someone should address that. Yeah. I forgot to make this joke
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during our last segment, but you know, the, the, the person doing the most to promote transgender
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visibility and awareness is the account libs of TikTok, which literally just takes, you know,
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deranged sort of teachers or people who are transgender talking about crazy things and, and promoting
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them so that everyone can see the kinds of things they're saying. And so often Harrison, to your point,
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they're, they're teachers. Sometimes they're even Ontario teachers that are, that are on there
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talking about their indoctrination programs and, and all the plans that they have to turn everybody
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into, uh, you know, an ally or, or being transgender themselves. So I think you're right. They could,
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they could show some better leadership there. Okay. Uh, Andrew, I'll pass it over to you. Uh, you,
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you, you are going to wrap up this episode with, uh, an interesting story that you came across.
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Yeah, this is a weird one. So I, I kind of love when politicians and political leaders decide to
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bluff call. It's like in the U S when all of those red state governors just started shipping migrants
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up to like sanctuary cities in Massachusetts saying, okay, here you go. You deal with it. So
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Germany has, for whatever reason, decided to crack down on trophy hunting. Now, uh, there isn't this
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wide proliferation of trophy hunting in Dresden or something. They're talking about Germans that go
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abroad, trophy hunt, and then import their trophies. And in Canada, there are actually, uh, quite a few
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restrictions on this as well. You can't just bring back your rhinoceros horn or something like that.
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So Germany has done this. Now there are some countries where trophy hunting, there, there are some
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places where trophy hunting is very predatory. Um, it's a very icky to a lot of people. There are other
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places where trophy hunting is a part of the economy and it's a way that wealthy tourists come
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in, spend a lot of money and kill animals that there are too many of. And, uh, elephants, African
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elephants, which are an endangered species are actually not endangered in Botswana, which has had
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so much success in its conservation efforts that Botswana is kind of overrun by elephants. So they can
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sustain this trophy hunting industry there. So Botswana has said to Germany, all right, well, uh,
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why don't we just send you 20,000 elephants? Now I don't know the logistics of shipping 20,000
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elephants. I mean, when I want to send like a letter to someone, I'm amazed at, oh, well,
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you actually have to pay for a priority airmail and it's going to cost you $50. So, uh, 20,000
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elements, elephants from Botswana to Germany, probably a little costly there, but, uh, Botswana
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is saying to Germany, well, if you don't want to take in our trophies, how about you just
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deal with the elephants yourselves? I love it. Harrison, I know you had some thoughts.
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As everyone just says, all right, well, there's nothing more to say on this.
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I'm in agreement. I'm in agreement. They should, they should, you know, enrich the German and the
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German landscape with some, with some, uh, Botswana imported elephants that would really
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shake things up in, uh, in the forest over there. But again, no, I think that again, we,
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we had this conversation at the beginning of the show. I think it didn't make it into the,
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I don't think it made it into the video, but it was basically about how a lot of these African
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countries and these rural villages in Africa want Westerners to come in and trophy on them to clear
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out animals that are causing problems to not only their community, but also to the rest of the
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wildlife in that area. They see it as a win-win they're getting rid of animals that are, that are,
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you know, causing significant problems. And of course, oftentimes with these communities,
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when you take, when you kill these trophy animals, the food goes to the village. So the villagers eat
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the food that you've come in and spent tens of thousands of dollars to, to shoot and to hunt.
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And then you're, you're kind of, it's a win-win, right? The economy benefits, they're clearing out
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animals that need to be called. And of course the community gets to eat a lot of these, a lot of the
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meat that ends up coming here. So this is also just seems like another woke policy. I don't understand
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where it's coming from, but I do think that, you know, it might enrich the German landscape.
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I'm just, I'm just picturing, you know, some elephants like stomping through Berlin or something
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Would it be a good way to take down the Berlin wall if you had 20,000 elephants roaming the streets?
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Someone get on the AI image generator. Let's see, let's see how they've come up with that.
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I mean, not to turn it out too much, but when I was in grad school, I actually wrote a paper on this topic.
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On shipping elephants to Germany from Botswana?
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No, it was on the devolution of land rights in Namibia, which is another country in South Africa,
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Southern Africa. And basically what they did was they took like government land and they gave it to
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a private company who ran one of these big game farms in, in the hopes of conservation. So the idea
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was that when you have tourists coming in to hunt, there's an incentive for local people to
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make sure that the population sustain themselves. So since they brought in this program,
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the number of elephants and wildlife, endangered wildlife has actually increased by like five or
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10%. Because when, when, when it's, when it's completely wild, there's no, it's a tragedy of the
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commons argument, a basic one. But, but, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's kind of counterintuitive
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because usually when you see, you know, people hunting, you think, oh, this is why these animals
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are endangered. But it's, it's actually the way it works in practice is the opposite, that when you
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have the market involved where there's incentives to keep these things alive, the populations grow
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because they do a better job doing that. And I think that's, that's what's happening in Botswana.
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I think this is a case for argument for a lot of hunting. I mean, Andrew, you're much more
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involved in the hunting world than I am, but I believe that's why we are allowed to hunt
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animals like deer because there's, there's just too many of them and, and they become a nuisance
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and hunters are actually doing a service to, to, to, to farmers and to the, to the broader
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country. And that's, that's part of the argument that I don't think people who want to have these
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like knee-jerk reaction bans is that they just don't really understand it.
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Yeah, no, exactly. And, and oftentimes if we didn't have people that were doing this for
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recreational reasons, it would be some massive boondoggle government program that would have to be
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responsible for it. Well, wasn't there a story of the feds paying a bunch of foreigners to go
00:46:29.280
and chew deer in British Columbia, not too long ago, but you're not hear about that story where
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the locals, the set up to a movie. No, I know, no, no, it's, it's, it's real. And, and I'm going to,
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I'm going to have Sean put this in the post roll. So people know that I'm not just making it up.
00:46:43.600
I'm not a conspiracy theorist over there. That, that, that, that, that locals in Canada were,
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were asked about the federal government because they paid tens of thousands of dollars
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to a group of foreigners to call deer when the locals would have done it for free and they would
1.00
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have had the food for themselves. But again, the federal government does get in on this
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and they just, they botch it every single time. Well, that's not surprising. That's, I think,
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I guess that's a good way to end the show. The federal government botches everything they ever
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try to do. So we'll leave it at that. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks to the
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audience for tuning in. This has been off the record and remember everything you just heard is in fact
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off the record. Yeah, we should do your idea, Harrison. Just do the, the true North Christmas
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party in Botswana. Yeah, I think it will be good. No, be an interesting story. At least I'm sure
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our, our haters would, would, would dine off that for quite a while though. Yeah, we were just driving
00:47:45.860
around in a UTV with an, with an LMG just saying, yeah, yeah, come and get me. Maybe we'd get an
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updated, uh, in our Wikipedia page. I want to get one of those safari helmets and a safari suit and,
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uh, Oh, you're doing like full like 1920s, uh, colonialist, uh, chic. Yeah. Yeah. I really
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embraced the whole, the whole trip. That'll be great for your reputation, Harrison. Yes, I think so.
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You'll never get called a white supremacist again. Yep. It'll put it all, it'll put it all to rest.