Juno News - April 23, 2019


Hey CBC, are you kidding me？


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4 minutes

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Word count

708

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1

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3

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CBC Radio Canada treated Omar Khadr to a standing ovation on one of their shows on Easter Sunday, in which he was given a glowing and fawning treatment by the in-studio audience. Are you kidding me?

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00:00:00.000 are you kidding me that's well the only thing I can think of to ask the powers
00:00:15.000 that be at CBC radio Canada after they decided to give Omar Khadr the
00:00:21.360 convicted terrorist and murderer a red carpet welcome in a standing ovation on
00:00:26.940 one of their shows on Sunday night Omar Khadr you may have heard at first at true
00:00:30.900 north first appeared on to Le Monde en Parle Sunday night an Easter Sunday
00:00:36.420 special in which he was given a glowing and fawning and adoring treatment by the
00:00:42.600 in-studio audience by the hosts and basically by a lot of viewers of the show
00:00:47.560 it sounds like but certainly not the majority of them because most Canadians
00:00:52.200 are very clear on the fact that Omar Khadr is not someone who should be
00:00:56.640 celebrated in Canada and I've said in the past it's one thing to treat Omar Khadr
00:01:01.620 as a victim of circumstance and say the whole situation is tragic all around
00:01:06.000 that's not my position but I understand people that have that celebration
00:01:11.940 exaltation is quite another story what has he done that deserves to be celebrated
00:01:18.920 was it perhaps this video of him making IEDs was it perhaps his confession to
00:01:26.420 killing sergeant Christopher Speer was it perhaps his refusal to renounce the
00:01:32.980 father who got the family involved in Al Qaeda or the sister who has continued to
00:01:38.780 pledge her support for Al Qaeda I'm not sure which it is that's worthy of 0.99
00:01:43.520 celebration but apparently none of them are disqualifying for it and this
00:01:48.920 legitimately angers me I'm normally a very convivial person I'm not actually
00:01:52.700 supposed to be doing this right now I'm in the United States and as you can see
00:01:56.400 I'm literally in my car in a parking lot in the middle of nowhere and this is
00:02:01.080 what I'm talking about because I've actually had Americans ask me about this I
00:02:05.660 have had Americans that I know that have said what the heck is going on in your
00:02:09.700 country and when CBC is doing this type of nonsense not long after Justin
00:02:15.460 Trudeau handed over that big fat Ed McMahon sized check that makes it
00:02:20.420 incredibly difficult for any Canadian to answer with a straight face that 0.88
00:02:24.640 question of what's up with your country with any sort of a positive outlook on
00:02:28.960 these sorts of issues we as a country should be focusing on returning ISIS 0.95
00:02:34.880 fighters national security strengthening our borders none of this is
00:02:38.620 is something that anyone would argue Canada has the legitimacy to do when
00:02:42.700 this is how we treat one of the most high-profile returning convicted
00:02:46.360 terrorists Omar Cotter is that this is a matter of record and look there is an
00:02:50.800 appeal ongoing yes he has the right to pursue that in the United States but we
00:02:54.820 as Canadians should not be expected to erase that inconvenient part of the record
00:03:01.960 which is what CBC Radio Canada wants you to do which is what the Toronto Star wants
00:03:06.060 you to do and quite frankly I think which is what Justin Trudeau wants you to do
00:03:10.700 this was an absolute shame and Canada is put negatively in the spotlight as a
00:03:17.740 result of it Canadians know better and I think that the general population in
00:03:23.340 Canada legitimately does know better about this and significantly push back
00:03:27.600 against this decision to give Omar Cotter such a platform and such an audience but I
00:03:32.580 want to say a message to any Americans that are tuning in please know Omar Cotter does not
00:03:38.660 speak for Canada please know the people that are giving him such a royal treatment do not
00:03:43.240 speak for Canada either we are with you we mourn with you and to the Spear family we support you
00:03:49.180 we're standing up for this because the mainstream media is not we can't do it alone we need your
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00:04:01.440 me and supporting the work we're doing at True North because now we truly know we need to fight
00:04:07.120 for things that a few years ago we thought were givens like for example condemning terrorism for True
00:04:13.080 North I'm Andrew Lawton