Juno News - May 17, 2022


Patrick Brown goes nuclear


Episode Stats


Length

31 minutes

Words per minute

200.62425

Word count

6,342

Sentence count

227

Harmful content

Misogyny

9

sentences flagged

Toxicity

18

sentences flagged

Hate speech

7

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Coming up, as the Conservative leadership race wages on, are candidates talking about issues that matter to Conservative Canadians? Certainly not at last week's debate in Edmonton, where the party itself held its first official debate. And after the debate, there was a profound humiliation.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.
00:00:05.340 This is The Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
00:00:10.700 Coming up, as the Conservative leadership race wages on,
00:00:14.000 are candidates talking about issues that matter to Conservative Canadians?
00:00:18.000 Certainly not at last week's debate in Edmonton.
00:00:21.140 The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now.
00:00:25.600 Hello and welcome to The Andrew Lawton Show.
00:00:28.600 This is Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show here on True North,
00:00:32.420 a rare Monday edition of the program on Monday, May 16, 2022.
00:00:37.680 Last week was a little wonky, as I mentioned, and as you may have heard,
00:00:41.260 I was in Edmonton covering the Conservative Party of Canada's leadership debate,
00:00:46.080 the first official debate, official debate, because the party itself put it on
00:00:52.180 and they didn't put on the one at the Canada Strong and Free Conference
00:00:55.300 that Candace Milcom and Jameel Javani moderated.
00:00:59.000 But I must say, if that was official, I far prefer unofficial,
00:01:03.580 because the unofficial debate didn't have questions about what books you're reading,
00:01:07.380 what historical figure you'd like to have dinner with,
00:01:09.880 what Netflix show you liked, or what other streaming program you're binge-watching.
00:01:15.120 And so much so that I'm like,
00:01:16.220 I'm wondering if that's just going to be what electoral platforms are now.
00:01:19.120 You open the page, you open the book, there's like a one-page thing on balance, budgets, taxes,
00:01:24.380 and then the rest of it is just your reviews of all the movies, books, and podcasts,
00:01:29.020 and all of that that you're encountering.
00:01:31.660 Now, to be fair, I don't know if Tom Clark came up with the format,
00:01:36.100 or if the party said,
00:01:37.260 hey Tom, we'd like you to moderate the debate, here's the format,
00:01:40.380 and for whatever reason, he didn't just throw it out and walk out the room right there.
00:01:43.960 I don't know what happened, but I do know that it was a profound humiliation.
00:01:47.580 Questions on complex policies reduced to 15 seconds,
00:01:51.820 a waste of time questions to get to know your candidates
00:01:55.120 that don't actually tell you anything of substance about them.
00:01:58.740 And by the end of it, you have these paddles that you have to put up.
00:02:02.100 I don't know if you saw this,
00:02:03.100 but the candidates have to put up their paddles if they want to respond to something.
00:02:07.020 And if they run out of paddling,
00:02:08.920 then even if a candidate directly attacks them,
00:02:11.580 they don't get to respond because,
00:02:12.920 oh, well, you've used up your four paddles.
00:02:14.660 Watching it was just absolutely absurd.
00:02:19.060 So I was looking forward to the scrums afterwards,
00:02:21.660 because at the scrums, at least there was an opportunity
00:02:23.800 for candidates to give a direct response to a direct question
00:02:27.140 that wasn't about what they're watching on TV.
00:02:30.800 I know I keep going back to that,
00:02:32.380 but let's be real here.
00:02:33.520 This is not a debate.
00:02:34.960 And this is, as I've always said,
00:02:36.360 not what Conservative Party of Canada members
00:02:38.660 care about when they're deciding who to vote for
00:02:41.460 to be their leader and eventually to become,
00:02:44.200 they hope, the next Prime Minister.
00:02:46.100 So I am going to be talking a lot about
00:02:48.940 what's been happening in the Conservative leadership race
00:02:51.680 the last couple of weeks.
00:02:53.160 You may remember I was at the Canada Strong and Free Conference
00:02:56.100 a couple of weeks back and did some interviews there,
00:02:58.600 including one with Conservative leadership candidate Scott Aitchison
00:03:01.520 that I'll share later on in the program.
00:03:04.120 But I first want to talk about some of the themes
00:03:06.240 that emerged from the debate in Edmonton
00:03:08.460 that I thought were quite interesting.
00:03:11.420 And one of them was Leslyn Lewis.
00:03:13.940 Now, Leslyn Lewis is quite an interesting one
00:03:16.640 because I think on paper she does what a lot of people
00:03:18.820 in our audience want her to do.
00:03:20.320 She takes aim at global institutions
00:03:22.440 that she feels Canada is giving up its sovereignty to.
00:03:25.760 She is unafraid to talk about social issues.
00:03:29.100 She's been very poised and polished in a lot of things she's done.
00:03:32.340 I didn't feel the debate performance was her strongest.
00:03:35.740 And I don't know what it was.
00:03:37.740 Maybe she was nervous.
00:03:38.920 Maybe she just felt underprepared.
00:03:40.560 Maybe the campaign's just not going as well for her. 0.89
00:03:43.280 So it's just a bit of a different space that she has to occupy.
00:03:46.020 But I was looking and I just wasn't getting the clarity and fire
00:03:49.500 that you get from her tweets
00:03:51.300 and you get from some interviews with her.
00:03:53.580 And even afterwards, I asked a couple of questions of her
00:03:56.480 that I thought certainly the first one would be a slam dunk.
00:04:00.880 I thought this was an easy one that she could come out. 0.78
00:04:03.100 I wasn't trying to give her a softball,
00:04:04.720 but I thought it was one that was in her wheelhouse
00:04:06.640 so she'd be able to give a really clear, concise, and direct answer.
00:04:10.700 And I'm not sure she did.
00:04:12.540 Good evening, Andrew Lawton, True North.
00:04:14.380 Earlier today, the Correctional Service of Canada
00:04:16.740 confirmed its policy that biologically male inmates
00:04:21.420 can be reassigned to women's prisons based on preference alone. 1.00
00:04:26.100 I was wondering what you think about that policy
00:04:27.480 and if you would reverse that as Prime Minister.
00:04:30.780 Well, I think it's very important that people,
00:04:33.980 whatever their gender,
00:04:36.040 has a certain level of comfort in certain situations.
00:04:42.100 I also think that there are situations
00:04:43.900 where biological females may feel a sense of vulnerability 0.99
00:04:51.300 because of the situations that they may have been in,
00:04:56.680 for example, if they were sexually assaulted by a male, etc.
00:05:01.220 And so we have to make sure that we find compassionate ways
00:05:05.320 to accommodate the diversity of individuals
00:05:11.280 that will find themselves in a facility,
00:05:16.440 whether it is a shelter or whether it is a correctional facility.
00:05:21.300 So in fairness to Leslyn Lewis,
00:05:23.500 she is saying there that, yeah,
00:05:24.780 there are some areas where women are going to be, 1.00
00:05:27.220 because of their own experiences and identity, more vulnerable.
00:05:29.940 We need to be respectful and that.
00:05:31.720 But ultimately, it wasn't just a direct answer
00:05:34.900 to the question in the sense of what I think other people,
00:05:38.940 what I think ordinary people care about.
00:05:40.800 I mean, I just wrote a column about this
00:05:42.180 that's going to be coming out in the interim next month
00:05:44.400 in which I said, you know, the reality of this issue
00:05:47.400 is that it's like the Emperor's New Clothes
00:05:49.620 in that most people view it the same way
00:05:53.140 but are just so afraid of saying it.
00:05:55.400 And in the end, it sort of makes it look like
00:05:57.460 this is more controversial and more contentious
00:06:00.080 than it actually is, same as trans athletes in sports.
00:06:02.620 But in this case, we're talking about something
00:06:04.280 that's directly under the government's control,
00:06:06.080 which is transgender identification in prisons
00:06:09.740 and being able to just on a whim say,
00:06:11.720 oh, you know, I'd actually like to be in a women's prison today. 1.00
00:06:14.440 And I mean, again, if you read the policy,
00:06:16.700 there's no saying they couldn't just switch back and forth
00:06:19.580 on a day-by-day basis.
00:06:20.760 Say, oh, you know, I hear they're serving lasagna
00:06:23.040 in the men's prison.
00:06:23.900 I'm a man today.
00:06:25.120 And then, oh, you know, I don't actually know women. 0.92
00:06:28.460 I want to be in the women's side today. 1.00
00:06:30.020 Who knows what's going on there?
00:06:31.640 So that's going to be something here.
00:06:33.880 But again, it's possible to talk about these things
00:06:36.820 that matter and should matter.
00:06:39.220 And we should be embracing debates that have these things.
00:06:42.620 We should be embracing debates that talk about the issues
00:06:45.180 that matter to Conservatives.
00:06:46.520 And Candace and Jameel did a great job of this.
00:06:48.680 I don't think Tom Clark did.
00:06:50.420 Now, how much control he had over the questions,
00:06:52.220 I don't know.
00:06:53.320 But if I were looking at that as a member
00:06:55.020 of the Conservative Party of Canada,
00:06:56.560 wanting to know which leadership candidate to vote for,
00:06:59.840 I would be coming out of this saying, like, okay,
00:07:03.800 well, Patrick Brown likes the show Ozark
00:07:06.120 and Pierre Pauliev is reading Jordan Peterson's book
00:07:09.320 and Leslie Lewis wants to have dinner
00:07:11.140 with William Wilberforce.
00:07:12.620 Um, okay, so my taxes are going to go up, down.
00:07:18.280 CBC is getting funded, defunded.
00:07:20.500 My firearms license is like, you get nothing from that.
00:07:24.680 And then you take the opportunity,
00:07:27.100 the opportunity that these candidates have
00:07:29.200 to talk about Conservative issues
00:07:30.600 when once they are the leader,
00:07:33.180 the mainstream media will give them no such opportunity.
00:07:35.600 So if you don't allow them and force them
00:07:37.620 to talk about things that matter to Conservatives now,
00:07:39.720 you're never going to hear them talk about these things.
00:07:42.500 And I will say Roman Babber did a tremendous job.
00:07:45.460 He was very polished.
00:07:46.740 He had answers.
00:07:47.760 And when I asked him a question in the scrum after,
00:07:50.280 he seemed to genuinely approach it
00:07:52.260 with a level of thoughtfulness.
00:07:53.960 Now, he was couching.
00:07:55.080 He was couching what he was saying in a little bit.
00:07:57.120 But I don't know if that was genuinely
00:07:58.760 because he didn't want to commit to something on the fly
00:08:01.400 that he wasn't sure if he would be able to follow through on.
00:08:04.460 Take a look at that exchange.
00:08:06.460 Good evening, Andrew Lawton, True North.
00:08:08.180 You've been unequivocally against vaccine mandates.
00:08:10.960 That obviously includes mandates for public sector workers.
00:08:13.820 If you were Prime Minister,
00:08:14.980 would you rehire anyone who was fired
00:08:17.880 because of vaccine mandates?
00:08:19.300 And if so, would you give them retroactive pay
00:08:21.420 for a time they missed?
00:08:23.280 So 100% I would mandate.
00:08:25.360 I try to pass similar legislation in Ontario,
00:08:27.400 the Jobs and Jobs Act,
00:08:28.840 that would retroactively protect workers.
00:08:31.420 We have to think about how we're going to go about that.
00:08:33.760 We certainly want to try and put them
00:08:35.220 in the position that they would have otherwise been.
00:08:37.680 I'm not sure if we're going to do that through EI.
00:08:39.460 I'm also not sure how we're going to go about that
00:08:41.420 when it comes to those that are not unionized.
00:08:43.920 Those that are unionized should be a lot easier.
00:08:46.120 Those that are not unionized,
00:08:47.580 going to have to give that some thought.
00:08:48.920 But I think that it's inhumane to make someone choose
00:08:51.460 between their ability to put food on the table
00:08:53.200 and their personal health care choice.
00:08:55.060 We've got to do right by all Canadians.
00:08:57.400 Now that's an important issue
00:08:58.420 and one that I haven't heard
00:08:59.680 a lot of candidates talking about,
00:09:01.620 which is why I, I mean, I'm being a bit gratuitous here,
00:09:03.820 but why I asked it, okay, you're against mandates.
00:09:05.960 You think these people should be back to work.
00:09:07.580 Do you think they should be made whole
00:09:09.100 for what they lost solely because of the mandates?
00:09:12.420 And there's no right answer or wrong answer.
00:09:14.560 It would just be nice to know
00:09:15.600 what candidates are prepared to do.
00:09:17.580 And if they're prepared to really try to rectify
00:09:20.760 this profound injustice
00:09:21.960 that has been the vaccine mandates
00:09:24.200 on the public sector workforce
00:09:25.600 and on Canadians as a whole, again,
00:09:27.560 who still can't take up jobs in a lot of sectors,
00:09:30.280 who can't board planes, trains, and so on and so forth.
00:09:33.880 So these are, again, some of the issues.
00:09:35.820 And I'm not claiming to have the monopoly
00:09:37.640 on what matters to conservatives.
00:09:39.220 I'm just talking about the fact that
00:09:40.760 these are the substantive policy issues
00:09:42.880 that desperately need to be injected
00:09:44.560 into a leadership race
00:09:46.400 and aren't under the debate
00:09:48.520 that the party officially put forward.
00:09:50.040 I know they have another French debate coming up
00:09:51.820 on the 25th, but this is one of the reasons
00:09:54.300 the Independent Press Gallery
00:09:55.520 has put together its debate for May 30th,
00:09:58.520 which I have the privilege of moderating
00:10:00.080 because we need to start showcasing
00:10:02.000 some of these concerns
00:10:03.040 that people are actually talking about.
00:10:05.000 The people in our audience are messaging me saying,
00:10:06.980 hey, what do you think about this?
00:10:08.280 What do you think about that?
00:10:09.920 And that's the goal here,
00:10:10.960 to start talking about these things
00:10:12.300 so that we can hold the eventual leader accountable.
00:10:16.140 One of the big things,
00:10:17.200 if I go back in time a bit,
00:10:18.700 one of the big things that I think
00:10:19.940 worked against Aaron O'Toole
00:10:21.100 in his leadership of the Conservative Party,
00:10:24.100 especially during and after the election,
00:10:26.160 was that he had put on the record
00:10:27.900 some very decisive policies
00:10:29.700 during the leadership race,
00:10:31.360 these red meat, true blue Conservative policies
00:10:33.620 that he was not prepared to live up on
00:10:36.140 in the general,
00:10:37.260 like defunding CBC,
00:10:38.780 like firearms rights,
00:10:40.040 like conscience rights.
00:10:41.440 So because he was forced to be on record
00:10:44.520 in the leadership race,
00:10:45.940 there was a record to hold him to account to
00:10:48.820 when he was the leader.
00:10:51.280 I don't even know if we got that
00:10:52.920 out of the debate last week.
00:10:54.960 And again, when I talk about clarity of answer,
00:10:57.300 I have to give credit to Jean Charest here
00:10:59.060 because this is a guy who clearly
00:11:00.460 is not the favourite in the room.
00:11:03.060 And I've never seen a room of Conservatives
00:11:05.080 in which he was the favourite
00:11:06.160 in the race so far.
00:11:07.780 If I look at in Ottawa
00:11:09.060 and I look at in Edmonton,
00:11:11.020 where he was the only candidate,
00:11:12.400 so far as I saw,
00:11:13.280 who got booed for something he said.
00:11:15.000 And it was the same issue both times.
00:11:17.620 Opposition to the Freedom Convoy
00:11:19.360 and specifically trying to criticise
00:11:22.080 Pierre Pollyevre for supporting the convoy.
00:11:25.300 And whatever you think of Jean Charest's position,
00:11:28.100 I have to say here,
00:11:29.100 for him to own that,
00:11:30.760 for him to come out and say,
00:11:32.520 this is what I think,
00:11:33.520 this is what I believe,
00:11:34.560 I don't care what any of you in the room believe,
00:11:36.340 I'm sticking to my guns here,
00:11:37.980 I have to give him respect for that.
00:11:40.500 And it was interesting
00:11:41.640 because one thing that I thought of in that,
00:11:43.160 well, if you think it's so bad
00:11:46.420 for someone to support the convoy,
00:11:48.320 if you think it's such a disqualifying thing,
00:11:51.600 could you even vote for a candidate?
00:11:53.600 Could you vote for this Conservative Party
00:11:55.700 that you say is your home party?
00:11:57.020 Could you vote for the Conservatives
00:11:58.260 if it meant casting a ballot
00:12:00.060 for someone who was supportive of the convoy?
00:12:02.640 This was the question I asked.
00:12:04.300 Good evening, Andrew Lawton, True North.
00:12:06.200 You've said that the convoy is an illegal blockade.
00:12:09.300 Obviously, you've been very open about your position
00:12:12.420 and you've distanced yourself from other candidates.
00:12:15.620 Could you in good conscience vote for a candidate
00:12:18.100 in your local riding that supported the convoy,
00:12:20.540 given the comments you've made
00:12:21.580 about how Mr. Polyev's support for the Freedom Convoy
00:12:24.400 is, in your words, disqualifying?
00:12:26.640 And Andrew, I'm glad you asked the question
00:12:28.880 because this whole story has parts to it.
00:12:32.800 First part is,
00:12:33.940 people do have a right to protest.
00:12:35.460 There should be no doubt in anyone's mind about that.
00:12:39.360 Peaceful protest is part of democracy.
00:12:42.080 And if someone knows about that
00:12:43.660 because I've been on the other side of it in my lifetime,
00:12:46.180 it's me.
00:12:47.060 And I've never, ever questioned that.
00:12:49.060 So that's the first part.
00:12:50.440 Second part,
00:12:51.500 you know, the whole mess was very much on Mr. Trudeau.
00:12:55.720 I mean, how come this happened?
00:12:57.500 I mean, and by the way,
00:12:58.360 when you return to that whole story,
00:13:00.260 it's just, I mean, it was incredible.
00:13:01.820 How could the situation degenerate the way it did?
00:13:06.600 Now, that being said,
00:13:08.180 that is not an excuse for those who go out there
00:13:10.500 and support an illegal blockade.
00:13:14.300 And when I'm saying that,
00:13:15.460 I'm not trying to,
00:13:16.600 I am not at all criticizing truckers
00:13:19.660 and people who have their legitimate jobs
00:13:21.500 to who we owe a lot
00:13:22.500 because during this whole COVID period,
00:13:24.840 they stepped up and they did their job.
00:13:27.200 And they deserve nothing less
00:13:28.760 than our very deep respect and gratitude.
00:13:32.100 But illegal blockades at borders
00:13:34.560 or anywhere else,
00:13:36.360 especially borders,
00:13:37.380 we lost hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:13:39.840 Folks in the automotive industry
00:13:41.220 questioned whether they should be investing in Canada.
00:13:43.780 The American president
00:13:44.740 would have to call up Mr. Trudeau
00:13:46.100 to ask him whether he needed an American intervention
00:13:48.120 to clean up a blockade in Canada.
00:13:50.080 That's embarrassing for us.
00:13:52.660 My point is simple.
00:13:53.940 If you have the privilege
00:13:55.660 of being a member of parliament,
00:13:57.880 you make laws, you change laws,
00:13:59.400 you can't treat the laws of the land
00:14:01.400 like a buffet table
00:14:02.420 from which you choose what's popular.
00:14:04.880 What's popular or non-popular.
00:14:06.780 And sometimes you have to resist
00:14:08.800 that's leadership,
00:14:09.740 what may be popular in the instant
00:14:11.340 for what is a more fundamental principle.
00:14:14.060 So I'm sorry if I went on longer
00:14:15.440 than I usually do,
00:14:16.360 and I certainly did in this debate,
00:14:17.700 but I was allowed time to do that.
00:14:20.420 Thank you, Andrew.
00:14:21.340 Could you yes or no vote for someone?
00:14:23.820 What, the blockade?
00:14:25.360 Well, it's a hypothetical question.
00:14:27.160 I mean, we'll get to,
00:14:29.080 after I become leader,
00:14:30.200 there'll be plenty of time to debate these things.
00:14:32.420 Thank you, Andrew.
00:14:33.440 It was kind of faint there
00:14:34.640 because I didn't have,
00:14:35.400 they took away my microphone,
00:14:36.600 but the point of the ask
00:14:37.380 is I was saying yes or no,
00:14:38.360 could you vote for someone?
00:14:39.280 And then that was when he said
00:14:40.560 he wouldn't engage in a hypothetical.
00:14:42.240 But again, answers it very clearly,
00:14:44.300 very directly,
00:14:44.860 says what he believes.
00:14:46.760 And it's up to the members
00:14:47.820 to then decide whether they agree
00:14:49.600 with those beliefs
00:14:50.300 or want to reward these beliefs.
00:14:52.460 But that's the importance of this process.
00:14:55.400 And I know I talked about it last week,
00:14:56.880 but it is interesting
00:14:57.740 how convoy support,
00:14:59.560 who supported the convoy first,
00:15:01.100 who supported it better,
00:15:02.040 has become such a litmus test in this race.
00:15:04.860 Oftentimes, Roman and Leslin and Pierre
00:15:07.080 are all talking about their support
00:15:08.900 and opposition of mandates,
00:15:10.320 the truckers and all of that.
00:15:11.700 And this has become so critical.
00:15:13.440 Now, Patrick Brown's campaign
00:15:14.940 sent out an email this morning,
00:15:18.080 which I have to share.
00:15:19.220 I won't read the whole thing.
00:15:20.460 And incidentally, I should say,
00:15:22.300 it's not even clear when you're reading it
00:15:24.260 that it is from Patrick Brown's campaign.
00:15:26.720 It doesn't mention anywhere in it
00:15:28.420 Patrick Brown's name.
00:15:29.900 It's from a woman who identifies herself
00:15:31.800 as Dionne Duncan,
00:15:34.020 who identifies as a Conservative Party member
00:15:37.040 and a minority woman
00:15:38.100 in the greater Toronto area.
00:15:40.080 And she says,
00:15:40.760 over the weekend,
00:15:41.660 10 people were murdered
00:15:42.740 in a hate-motivated terrorist attack
00:15:44.500 in Buffalo, New York.
00:15:45.800 The murderer was motivated
00:15:47.200 by white replacement theory, 0.71
00:15:49.800 a racist white nationalist conspiracy theory.
00:15:52.580 You might want to think 0.60
00:15:53.520 that type of thinking
00:15:54.260 doesn't exist here in Canada,
00:15:55.440 but if you think that,
00:15:56.340 you are wrong. 0.79
00:15:57.600 Yesterday,
00:15:58.620 after the Buffalo Shooters manifesto
00:16:00.800 was reported,
00:16:01.540 a video of convoy leader,
00:16:03.100 Pat King,
00:16:03.820 spreading and justifying
00:16:04.940 this vile,
00:16:06.020 hateful conspiracy theory
00:16:07.100 went viral.
00:16:07.700 I need you to feel
00:16:08.980 what I felt when I saw this,
00:16:10.820 fear.
00:16:12.140 She goes on about hate in Canada
00:16:13.920 and how it has no place
00:16:15.060 and then says this,
00:16:17.240 Pierre Polyev was asked
00:16:18.800 to condemn
00:16:19.680 so-called white replacement theory
00:16:21.960 and anyone who believes it.
00:16:23.660 It should have been easy for Pierre.
00:16:25.140 A simple tweet would have worked,
00:16:26.560 but he hasn't done it.
00:16:28.280 A candidate who claims
00:16:29.320 he wants to be Prime Minister of Canada
00:16:30.880 will not condemn hate.
00:16:33.020 She says we need to refuse
00:16:34.300 those who play footsie with hate.
00:16:35.960 She says that Pierre's silence
00:16:37.820 is deafening.
00:16:39.040 She says he won't vote
00:16:40.040 to recognize Islamophobia.
00:16:41.900 He won't condemn Pat King.
00:16:43.860 And she says,
00:16:44.640 what does it say about Pierre
00:16:46.020 that he wants to win your vote
00:16:48.260 by making life less safe
00:16:50.060 and less equal
00:16:50.960 for minority women?
00:16:52.980 She says for me.
00:16:54.820 And they're basically saying,
00:16:57.180 the campaign,
00:16:57.900 the Patrick Brown campaign,
00:16:58.900 saying in this email,
00:16:59.680 and you can read the whole thing,
00:17:00.920 that they are putting
00:17:03.020 at Pierre Polyev's feet,
00:17:05.540 Pat King,
00:17:06.300 racism,
00:17:06.980 hatred, 0.98
00:17:07.480 white supremacy, 0.99
00:17:08.280 the Buffalo shooting. 0.65
00:17:09.640 They're saying that he's 0.99
00:17:10.620 a white supremacist hate figure 0.99
00:17:12.200 or he's playing footsie 1.00
00:17:14.200 with white supremacists
00:17:15.660 because he didn't tweet
00:17:16.880 in response to Patrick Brown
00:17:18.820 a condemnation of this attack.
00:17:21.200 Now,
00:17:21.420 I haven't followed this.
00:17:22.760 I don't believe for a second
00:17:24.240 that Pierre Polyev is pro-attack,
00:17:27.860 that he's in support
00:17:29.060 of what happened in Buffalo.
00:17:30.260 What I believe is that
00:17:31.700 when he's asked to condemn
00:17:33.640 by Patrick Brown,
00:17:35.220 it's because Patrick Brown 1.00
00:17:36.320 is trying to suck him 1.00
00:17:37.040 into this whatever, 0.97
00:17:38.640 this pissing match on Twitter,
00:17:40.060 which obviously he's not
00:17:41.260 going to get in on
00:17:41.880 with Patrick Brown.
00:17:42.920 But the whole thing 0.96
00:17:43.760 is ridiculous. 0.91
00:17:45.080 And for all that Jean Charest 0.99
00:17:46.320 and that side
00:17:47.700 that tends to be
00:17:48.340 against Pierre Polyev
00:17:49.320 is saying that,
00:17:50.600 oh, well,
00:17:51.580 Pierre's tone is unbecoming
00:17:52.860 of the Conservative Party.
00:17:54.420 Well,
00:17:54.540 now you have literally
00:17:55.840 Pierre being dragged
00:17:57.660 into this
00:17:58.300 and being maligned
00:17:59.300 as a white supremacist sympathizer
00:18:01.460 or as someone
00:18:02.700 who's at least adjacent
00:18:04.180 to white supremacy.
00:18:05.300 And no one's concerned
00:18:06.380 about that tone,
00:18:07.480 about how the Conservative Party,
00:18:09.020 whatever happens
00:18:09.960 in this leadership race,
00:18:11.100 moves beyond that.
00:18:12.800 Seriously.
00:18:14.300 She says he's silent on hate
00:18:16.080 and the election
00:18:16.720 will already be lost
00:18:17.820 and it probably should be.
00:18:19.080 So they're saying
00:18:19.980 if Pierre wins,
00:18:20.920 the Conservative Party 1.00
00:18:21.820 is a hateful white supremacist racket 1.00
00:18:24.480 that doesn't deserve to exist. 1.00
00:18:26.340 Doesn't deserve to win.
00:18:28.100 Okay.
00:18:29.080 That is what we call
00:18:30.000 going nuclear.
00:18:31.120 That is going scorched earth on it.
00:18:33.060 And again,
00:18:33.560 Patrick Brown,
00:18:34.200 not the front runner
00:18:34.960 in the race.
00:18:35.800 Pierre Polyev is among them.
00:18:37.900 Pierre and Jean Charest as well.
00:18:40.000 So if this is what he thinks
00:18:41.740 is going to be the strategy
00:18:42.660 to get him across the finish line,
00:18:44.060 then go for it.
00:18:45.300 But this is absolutely not
00:18:47.220 an issue
00:18:48.780 that is going to resonate
00:18:50.760 with people,
00:18:51.320 I don't think.
00:18:53.020 And it's playing the left's game.
00:18:55.820 And I don't have a dog
00:18:57.020 in this fight, by the way.
00:18:57.800 I'm not supporting
00:18:58.440 any leadership candidate.
00:18:59.980 I've extended invitations
00:19:01.020 to them all.
00:19:02.000 I will criticize them
00:19:02.940 and support them
00:19:03.520 as I've been doing
00:19:04.220 even in this show
00:19:05.000 based on the merits
00:19:06.300 of what they say
00:19:07.100 and how they say it.
00:19:09.540 I've been critical
00:19:10.320 to Patrick Brown
00:19:11.020 for not coming on this show,
00:19:12.280 for not attending
00:19:12.900 the Canada Strong
00:19:14.040 and Free debate.
00:19:15.080 I've had a lot of
00:19:16.020 kind things to say
00:19:16.880 about Jean Charest
00:19:17.560 who I disagree with on a lot
00:19:18.900 and Scott Aitchison
00:19:19.920 because of how forthright
00:19:21.060 they are.
00:19:21.540 So when Patrick Brown
00:19:24.080 comes out with this
00:19:24.820 and I look at this
00:19:25.440 and I'm saying
00:19:25.800 you're just playing
00:19:26.460 the left's game.
00:19:27.120 You're doing the left's work
00:19:28.020 for them.
00:19:29.080 Because now
00:19:29.740 when the election
00:19:30.700 comes around
00:19:31.240 if Pierre Polyev
00:19:32.060 is the leader
00:19:32.540 CBC will say
00:19:33.380 even Patrick Brown
00:19:35.100 said no one
00:19:35.920 should vote conservative
00:19:36.760 because well
00:19:37.740 if Pierre wins
00:19:38.400 they're just a racist 1.00
00:19:39.480 white supremacist party. 1.00
00:19:41.280 They're doing
00:19:42.160 the left's work
00:19:43.420 for them
00:19:44.040 and they don't even
00:19:44.840 seem to care.
00:19:45.980 Just before we go here
00:19:47.160 I had the chance
00:19:47.900 to at the Canada
00:19:48.940 Strong and Free
00:19:49.560 Networking Conference
00:19:50.460 sit down with
00:19:51.580 Scott Aitchison.
00:19:52.620 This was the day
00:19:53.540 after the debate.
00:19:54.880 It was great.
00:19:55.340 I got to see
00:19:56.060 Lesley Lewis
00:19:56.920 and Roman Babber
00:19:57.640 as I shared my chats
00:19:58.580 with them in the
00:19:59.000 previous show
00:19:59.520 and also Scott.
00:20:01.000 Now Scott I should say
00:20:01.960 not a front runner
00:20:03.340 in terms of name
00:20:04.140 recognition
00:20:04.600 but has run a really
00:20:06.160 policy heavy campaign
00:20:07.880 that's touching on
00:20:09.200 a lot of things
00:20:09.820 like ending supply
00:20:10.900 management
00:20:11.320 which I just so
00:20:12.220 desperately wish
00:20:13.040 other people would
00:20:13.740 take up.
00:20:14.560 I know it's like
00:20:14.940 a strange hill to die on
00:20:16.040 but believe me
00:20:16.600 it's important.
00:20:17.540 All of these free market
00:20:18.520 people that were just
00:20:19.460 twisting themselves
00:20:20.280 into pretzels
00:20:21.000 in Edmonton
00:20:21.980 to say well
00:20:22.820 maybe we don't need
00:20:23.820 a free market
00:20:24.300 when we're talking
00:20:24.780 about dairy and poultry
00:20:25.720 but everything else
00:20:26.620 free market
00:20:27.200 but also on foreign
00:20:28.860 policy which we touched
00:20:29.860 on a little bit
00:20:30.480 in this chat.
00:20:31.260 So this is my interview
00:20:32.380 recorded in Ottawa
00:20:33.740 with Scott Aitchison.
00:20:35.540 Joining me now is
00:20:36.480 Conservative leadership
00:20:37.400 candidate Scott Aitchison.
00:20:38.800 Scott good to talk
00:20:39.460 to you again
00:20:39.760 in person this time.
00:20:41.080 Great to be here
00:20:41.640 yeah thank you.
00:20:42.620 So let's start
00:20:43.440 with the debate
00:20:43.820 last night.
00:20:44.400 This was the first
00:20:45.100 official opportunity
00:20:46.260 that all of the
00:20:46.980 well almost all
00:20:47.740 of the candidates
00:20:48.360 were on stage
00:20:50.020 together in this
00:20:50.800 leadership race.
00:20:51.720 I know there's a lot
00:20:52.240 of prep that goes
00:20:52.860 into it but looking
00:20:54.060 back now with a day's
00:20:55.400 hindsight what was
00:20:56.100 your feeling about it?
00:20:57.880 Well I spoke about
00:20:59.200 last night actually
00:21:00.000 that there's a lot
00:21:00.480 of division and a lot
00:21:01.280 of rancor and sort
00:21:02.440 of you know visceral
00:21:04.320 partisan rhetoric
00:21:05.300 back and forth
00:21:06.040 and the tax and I
00:21:07.120 think that that's
00:21:07.800 actually bad for our
00:21:08.760 party.
00:21:09.180 It's bad for our
00:21:09.960 politics and I tried
00:21:11.700 to lead by example
00:21:12.920 by being respectful
00:21:13.940 and I think we need
00:21:15.500 to talk about ideas
00:21:16.220 and not each other.
00:21:17.480 Now I mean your
00:21:18.120 approach and we heard
00:21:19.440 this in your opening
00:21:20.040 statement was and I'm
00:21:21.500 crudely paraphrasing it
00:21:22.780 but it was can't we
00:21:23.420 all get along.
00:21:24.120 I mean you were really
00:21:24.640 pitching unity and is
00:21:26.480 that enough of a
00:21:27.280 message?
00:21:28.960 Well not certainly
00:21:30.020 not for the whole race
00:21:30.880 I mean I'm obviously
00:21:32.020 talking about policy
00:21:33.220 ideas as well.
00:21:34.480 Last night of course
00:21:35.260 we were responding to
00:21:36.180 questions but the
00:21:36.860 questions you know
00:21:38.360 seem to lead to every
00:21:39.760 other candidate talking
00:21:40.880 about each other which
00:21:42.420 was my point that you
00:21:43.580 know we got to stop
00:21:44.540 attacking each other
00:21:45.340 start talking about
00:21:46.180 ideas and you know
00:21:47.780 present those to
00:21:48.560 Canadians in a way
00:21:49.300 that they can trust us
00:21:50.760 to lead and govern.
00:21:51.940 I know historically in
00:21:52.860 leadership races or at
00:21:53.900 the local level
00:21:54.460 nomination races you
00:21:55.680 you get these sometimes
00:21:57.060 bare knuckle brawls but
00:21:58.240 they're always done
00:21:58.820 respectfully and at the
00:21:59.640 end of it everyone
00:22:00.220 shakes hands and work
00:22:01.360 together.
00:22:02.480 Is your concern that
00:22:03.820 that can't happen or
00:22:05.000 won't happen after this
00:22:06.020 race?
00:22:06.460 No it can happen but we
00:22:08.500 have to choose to make
00:22:09.260 it happen.
00:22:10.200 I used to say this all
00:22:10.900 the time when I was
00:22:11.560 mayor of Huntsville.
00:22:12.260 I led a council that
00:22:13.500 was engaged and you
00:22:14.600 know we would have
00:22:15.220 some knock down drag
00:22:16.660 them out battles over
00:22:17.560 issues and in the
00:22:18.640 council chamber but we
00:22:19.600 always would leave and
00:22:21.680 and we'd be friends.
00:22:23.020 I would argue you know
00:22:23.600 you can disagree without
00:22:24.580 being disagreeable but
00:22:25.960 often go for a pint
00:22:26.780 after the council
00:22:27.500 meeting just to say you
00:22:28.460 know what we can be on
00:22:29.920 different sides of an
00:22:30.540 issue but at the end of
00:22:31.260 the day we're all here
00:22:32.060 to move Huntsville
00:22:33.020 forward and that's the
00:22:34.320 same thing here we are
00:22:35.920 all here every single
00:22:37.300 candidate up there last
00:22:38.320 night you know they're
00:22:39.860 not taking time away from
00:22:41.060 their families and their
00:22:41.980 lives to do this for the
00:22:43.840 you know just the good
00:22:44.720 of their health or for
00:22:45.500 their entertainment value
00:22:46.260 they're here because they
00:22:47.060 really truly believe what
00:22:48.020 they're doing they want to
00:22:48.680 make our party better they
00:22:49.520 want to make our country
00:22:50.220 better so we need to stop
00:22:52.440 attacking each other and
00:22:54.060 focus on ideas and that
00:22:56.300 moves our party forward
00:22:57.200 it actually helps us expand
00:22:59.040 the tent and it helps us
00:23:00.480 build trust with you know
00:23:01.780 Canadians in those places
00:23:02.840 where we haven't been
00:23:03.920 winning and we need to
00:23:04.980 win.
00:23:05.660 What are the ideas that you
00:23:06.940 feel need to be front and
00:23:08.400 center in the race that
00:23:09.180 aren't?
00:23:10.300 Well I think we need to be
00:23:11.220 talking a little bit more
00:23:11.900 about our foreign policy
00:23:13.000 under the last seven years
00:23:15.120 of the Trudeau government I
00:23:16.300 think Canada we're a bit of
00:23:17.840 an embarrassment on the
00:23:18.520 world stage we're not a
00:23:20.120 reliable partner and we
00:23:21.560 need to be spending two
00:23:22.280 percent of our GDP on on our
00:23:24.620 defense system I mean NATO
00:23:26.100 we haven't lived up to our
00:23:27.460 commitments in NATO almost
00:23:29.460 since the inception of the
00:23:30.260 organization and our allies
00:23:32.300 are forming new
00:23:32.960 partnerships and new
00:23:34.020 alliances without us because
00:23:35.400 we're just not showing up
00:23:36.840 and so we obviously need to
00:23:39.060 spend more on defense and
00:23:40.500 we need to have a more
00:23:41.080 principled stand on you
00:23:43.060 know issues like Huawei for
00:23:44.800 example we need to ban
00:23:46.260 Huawei we've got to stop
00:23:47.560 dithering on these things
00:23:48.540 we need you know we've got
00:23:49.440 to stand up to you know
00:23:51.400 countries like China and
00:23:53.360 their communist regime and
00:23:54.720 their bullying and it's a
00:23:56.360 security threat we've got to
00:23:57.200 stop dithering on these
00:23:58.020 issues we've got to and so
00:23:59.300 these are issues that I
00:24:00.260 think conservatives can lead
00:24:02.940 on and should be leading
00:24:03.820 on we should be talking
00:24:04.960 about them Canadians want to
00:24:06.080 hear about these issues but
00:24:07.280 when we're just busy
00:24:08.220 attacking each other we're 0.63
00:24:09.580 not talking about those
00:24:10.140 ideas and those are the
00:24:10.800 things we need to be
00:24:11.220 discussing so just on the
00:24:12.400 on the defense funding
00:24:13.940 there and NATO spending do
00:24:15.900 I take from that that an
00:24:16.760 NHSN budget brings defense
00:24:18.020 up to two percent of
00:24:18.860 Canada's GDP absolutely
00:24:20.220 and when you talk about
00:24:21.500 Canadian leadership I mean
00:24:22.740 Canada failed to secure a
00:24:24.480 seat on the United Nations
00:24:25.300 Security Council after
00:24:26.980 relentless lobbying and
00:24:28.620 campaigning by the Prime
00:24:29.960 Minister on that I know
00:24:31.400 there was a story in
00:24:32.380 Bloomberg some time ago
00:24:33.380 about how the Prime Minister
00:24:34.400 was trying to be the one
00:24:35.900 to broker the EU Northern
00:24:37.700 Ireland deal and again no
00:24:39.520 one was taking the call no
00:24:40.660 one wanted Canada to play a
00:24:41.720 role the Foreign Minister
00:24:43.220 Melanie Jolie has talked
00:24:44.260 about how our place is
00:24:45.140 convening but no one seems
00:24:46.540 to want to sit at the table
00:24:47.440 so how do you restore
00:24:49.420 Canada's legitimacy on the
00:24:50.700 foreign stage when people
00:24:52.320 have tried it I mean that
00:24:53.020 was Justin Trudeau's big
00:24:53.960 pitch Canada's back how do
00:24:55.280 you do that though yeah but
00:24:56.720 Justin didn't really try it
00:24:59.260 at all he thought he could
00:25:00.360 just charm the world with his
00:25:01.640 name and what you know and
00:25:03.320 that would somehow do
00:25:04.160 something we have to be a
00:25:05.720 reliable partner I mean we
00:25:07.660 need to live up to our
00:25:08.660 commitments in NATO we need
00:25:09.680 to live up to our
00:25:10.240 commitments in on foreign
00:25:11.540 aid these are these are you
00:25:13.300 know countries that are
00:25:14.420 going to rely on Canada and 0.90
00:25:15.420 if they can't rely on
00:25:16.280 Canada no matter how much
00:25:18.980 charm offensive Justin
00:25:20.300 Trudeau does around the
00:25:21.060 world they're not going to
00:25:21.600 care and so principled
00:25:23.880 leadership and building the
00:25:25.420 relationships that we need
00:25:26.520 to build around the world
00:25:27.500 Prime Minister Mulroney was a
00:25:29.040 master at it he he built
00:25:30.760 relationships with world
00:25:31.920 leaders all over the globe
00:25:33.720 and Canada had a really
00:25:35.100 valuable presence and a voice
00:25:36.920 in the world when he was
00:25:37.680 Prime Minister because of the
00:25:38.700 power of his personal
00:25:39.420 relationships you know I we
00:25:42.720 gotta we gotta we gotta back
00:25:43.980 up what we say with real
00:25:45.560 dollars real investment we
00:25:46.620 gotta stop playing games with
00:25:47.700 procurement for our military
00:25:48.960 the whole procurement for
00:25:51.300 fighter jets has been a joke
00:25:53.400 it's been an embarrassment you
00:25:55.320 know the process to try to get
00:25:56.920 the shipbuilding strategy up
00:25:57.940 and going thankfully Prime
00:25:59.380 Minister Harper started that
00:26:00.580 program and now it's going we
00:26:01.780 need to maintain that now I
00:26:05.200 I tell people you know it's
00:26:06.820 not rocket science actually
00:26:07.960 well in some cases maybe it is
00:26:08.980 rocket science but this is
00:26:10.600 really no different than a
00:26:11.680 municipal mayor putting
00:26:13.660 together a procurement plan for
00:26:16.000 a fire truck you know I don't
00:26:17.140 argue with the fire chief on how
00:26:18.100 many pumps that truck needs he
00:26:19.320 tells me what we need to serve
00:26:20.560 the needs of our community tells
00:26:21.920 me it's gonna cost us much money
00:26:23.000 and I need it by this day so we
00:26:24.480 put money away prepare for it get
00:26:27.100 ready and have a we have a whole
00:26:28.440 plan to replace that vehicle when
00:26:29.820 the time comes it's a capital
00:26:31.800 asset management plan let's take
00:26:33.600 the politics out of it and just get
00:26:34.620 it done you mentioned China
00:26:36.060 earlier what would you take as your
00:26:38.100 position on Taiwan which has been a
00:26:40.320 lot of cases a very sticking point
00:26:41.700 where no one in the world I should say
00:26:43.740 few people in the world are prepared
00:26:44.940 to really deal with this head-on well
00:26:47.760 I think it's time for us to be honest I
00:26:49.080 mean the one China policy is it's not
00:26:52.760 really true it's not it's not
00:26:54.560 happening Taiwan is a vibrant
00:26:57.320 democratic country it's a you know
00:27:00.080 it's a market country capitalist
00:27:01.940 country and we need to we need to
00:27:04.940 recognize Taiwan for the for the the
00:27:07.400 beacon of freedom that it is and and I
00:27:10.200 think it's time for us to recognize
00:27:11.420 them I you know Taiwan has said they
00:27:13.680 would like to be members of the World
00:27:15.640 Health Organization I think we need to
00:27:18.140 recognize that it's time for us to
00:27:19.380 stop sort of dancing around at that's
00:27:22.860 another way that we Canada can have a
00:27:24.120 principled stance in the world we if
00:27:25.620 we're going to be champions of
00:27:27.000 freedom then let's stand up for those
00:27:28.560 countries that are crying out for their
00:27:30.180 own freedom now would that basically be
00:27:32.520 recognizing Taiwan as an independent
00:27:34.260 sovereign state yes absolutely is that a
00:27:38.100 position that would be disqualifying to
00:27:41.140 a large section of voters I mean we saw in
00:27:42.960 the last election how there were concerns
00:27:46.260 by some of your former colleagues that
00:27:48.180 Chinese influence campaigns were being
00:27:50.100 run against people for their positions
00:27:51.540 I don't think that leaders take
00:27:54.260 positions based on the politics of it
00:27:56.880 leaders do what's right even when it's
00:27:58.740 hard another foreign policy question
00:28:01.020 would you relocate Canada's embassy in
00:28:03.060 Israel to Jerusalem absolutely Israel is 0.96
00:28:05.880 a most vibrant democracy it's that it's
00:28:08.520 the only democracy in the Middle East it's
00:28:10.860 a vibrant multicultural nation they are
00:28:13.360 an important ally of Canada's Jerusalem is
00:28:15.820 the capital and absolutely our our
00:28:18.040 embassy should be there I know the
00:28:19.720 interim leader Candace Bergen in her
00:28:21.280 video remarks this morning mentioned
00:28:22.840 that a flat tax is a policy that would
00:28:26.440 be a legitimate viable conservative
00:28:28.420 policy and I don't want to write your
00:28:29.860 platform for you but have you given any
00:28:32.020 thought to some of these larger
00:28:33.760 structural issues that deal in in the
00:28:36.400 tax system yeah we'll have a lot more
00:28:38.740 to say about tax in the coming days
00:28:40.300 obviously what I have talked about so
00:28:42.200 far is eliminating the carbon tax
00:28:44.320 fundamentally this comes down to
00:28:46.120 affordability for Canadians that's that's
00:28:47.740 I think the most important issue we
00:28:49.180 need to address and if there are
00:28:50.860 changes we can make to our tax system to
00:28:52.420 help make life more affordable for
00:28:53.920 Canadians we need to seriously look at 1.00
00:28:55.420 that I find that I mean in the past this
00:28:57.500 was something that the conservative
00:28:59.500 government under Stephen Harper did with a
00:29:00.820 lot of the boutique tax credits which
00:29:02.260 certainly make for good politics but at
00:29:04.240 the end I don't feel they simplify the tax
00:29:06.700 system for large sections of Canadians is
00:29:08.920 that something that you'd like to see a tax
00:29:11.300 system that's a lot simpler yeah simpler
00:29:13.580 but what we really do need to do a
00:29:15.560 proper review of it right this is you
00:29:18.440 don't make tax policy I think on the fly I
00:29:20.840 think some thorough analysis and some
00:29:22.760 you know some real work going into it and
00:29:25.100 some thoughtful discussion about it is
00:29:26.520 important so I guess one thing I'd ask
00:29:28.520 you just while you're here looking
00:29:29.960 around at this conference we haven't had
00:29:31.460 one in the last two years because of
00:29:33.560 COVID what's your assessment of the
00:29:35.120 state of the conservative movement right
00:29:36.440 now well I think there's there's some
00:29:38.480 fault lines but I think that's one of the
00:29:40.240 reasons why it's important for us to
00:29:41.560 talk about coming together I said over
00:29:43.600 and over again that unity isn't
00:29:44.920 uniformity we don't all have to agree
00:29:46.300 not to all believe the same thing we
00:29:48.880 have to listen to each other respect
00:29:50.320 each other I think conservatives the
00:29:53.200 movement is other they're craving that
00:29:55.000 conversation I was chatting with the
00:29:57.880 organizers yesterday and and that they
00:29:59.860 they didn't just sell out they
00:30:01.120 oversold it's great it's great to see as
00:30:03.680 many people here as there are they
00:30:06.100 they want to have that conversation I
00:30:07.660 think that those of us running in the
00:30:09.700 leadership race should respect that and
00:30:11.360 have a conversation instead of attacking
00:30:12.700 each other Scott Acheson thank you my
00:30:14.440 pleasure thanks Scott Acheson at the
00:30:17.080 Canada strong and free networking
00:30:18.680 conference and I should put in another
00:30:20.640 plug on May 30th the Independent Press
00:30:22.780 Gallery of Canada is hosting a
00:30:24.960 conservative leadership debate I'll be
00:30:26.440 moderating and we'll also have a panel
00:30:28.460 of journalists including Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:30:30.220 Derek Fildebrandt and Rupa Subramanya
00:30:32.740 asking questions of the candidate that we
00:30:35.160 hope will be of interest to those of you
00:30:37.460 tuning in and in general supporters of
00:30:39.560 independent media and we're doing it on
00:30:41.800 May 30th because it's before the
00:30:43.700 membership cutoff so people that aren't
00:30:45.340 Conservative Party of Canada members can
00:30:47.300 hear what they candidates have to say and
00:30:49.540 decide if they want to join and
00:30:51.200 participate in the process a bit further
00:30:53.460 or just again just watch for the sake of
00:30:55.320 watching which I think is also important
00:30:57.140 to do even if you don't plan on voting
00:30:58.880 for the people so that's coming up May 30th
00:31:00.980 if you want to you can go get tickets to see
00:31:02.920 it in person it's going to be in the
00:31:04.920 Toronto area and you'll be able to watch
00:31:07.100 it online if not but that's at
00:31:08.860 independentpressgallery.ca and with that
00:31:11.980 I have to bid you adieu but we have some
00:31:13.960 big announcements coming up for something
00:31:15.280 I'm working on for later this week so
00:31:17.420 we'll talk about that on the next show
00:31:18.840 and I hope you have a wonderful wonderful
00:31:21.260 rest of the week otherwise this is
00:31:23.020 Canada's most irreverent talk show
00:31:24.880 the Andrew Lawton show on True North
00:31:26.760 thank you God bless and good day to you
00:31:28.640 all thanks for listening to the Andrew
00:31:30.180 Lawton show support the program by
00:31:32.240 donating to True North at www.tnc.news