Patrick Brown goes nuclear
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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.
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This is The Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
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Coming up, as the Conservative leadership race wages on,
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are candidates talking about issues that matter to Conservative Canadians?
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Certainly not at last week's debate in Edmonton.
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This is Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show here on True North,
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a rare Monday edition of the program on Monday, May 16, 2022.
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Last week was a little wonky, as I mentioned, and as you may have heard,
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I was in Edmonton covering the Conservative Party of Canada's leadership debate,
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the first official debate, official debate, because the party itself put it on
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and they didn't put on the one at the Canada Strong and Free Conference
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that Candace Milcom and Jameel Javani moderated.
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But I must say, if that was official, I far prefer unofficial,
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because the unofficial debate didn't have questions about what books you're reading,
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what historical figure you'd like to have dinner with,
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what Netflix show you liked, or what other streaming program you're binge-watching.
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I'm wondering if that's just going to be what electoral platforms are now.
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You open the page, you open the book, there's like a one-page thing on balance, budgets, taxes,
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and then the rest of it is just your reviews of all the movies, books, and podcasts,
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Now, to be fair, I don't know if Tom Clark came up with the format,
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hey Tom, we'd like you to moderate the debate, here's the format,
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and for whatever reason, he didn't just throw it out and walk out the room right there.
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I don't know what happened, but I do know that it was a profound humiliation.
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Questions on complex policies reduced to 15 seconds,
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a waste of time questions to get to know your candidates
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that don't actually tell you anything of substance about them.
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And by the end of it, you have these paddles that you have to put up.
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but the candidates have to put up their paddles if they want to respond to something.
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then even if a candidate directly attacks them,
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So I was looking forward to the scrums afterwards,
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because at the scrums, at least there was an opportunity
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for candidates to give a direct response to a direct question
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care about when they're deciding who to vote for
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what's been happening in the Conservative leadership race
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You may remember I was at the Canada Strong and Free Conference
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a couple of weeks back and did some interviews there,
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including one with Conservative leadership candidate Scott Aitchison
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But I first want to talk about some of the themes
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because I think on paper she does what a lot of people
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that she feels Canada is giving up its sovereignty to.
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She's been very poised and polished in a lot of things she's done.
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I didn't feel the debate performance was her strongest.
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Maybe the campaign's just not going as well for her.
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So it's just a bit of a different space that she has to occupy.
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But I was looking and I just wasn't getting the clarity and fire
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And even afterwards, I asked a couple of questions of her
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that I thought certainly the first one would be a slam dunk.
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I thought this was an easy one that she could come out.
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but I thought it was one that was in her wheelhouse
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so she'd be able to give a really clear, concise, and direct answer.
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Earlier today, the Correctional Service of Canada
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confirmed its policy that biologically male inmates
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can be reassigned to women's prisons based on preference alone.
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I was wondering what you think about that policy
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and if you would reverse that as Prime Minister.
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has a certain level of comfort in certain situations.
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where biological females may feel a sense of vulnerability
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because of the situations that they may have been in,
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for example, if they were sexually assaulted by a male, etc.
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And so we have to make sure that we find compassionate ways
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whether it is a shelter or whether it is a correctional facility.
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there are some areas where women are going to be,
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because of their own experiences and identity, more vulnerable.
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to the question in the sense of what I think other people,
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that's going to be coming out in the interim next month
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in which I said, you know, the reality of this issue
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this is more controversial and more contentious
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than it actually is, same as trans athletes in sports.
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But in this case, we're talking about something
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that's directly under the government's control,
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oh, you know, I'd actually like to be in a women's prison today.
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there's no saying they couldn't just switch back and forth
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Say, oh, you know, I hear they're serving lasagna
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And then, oh, you know, I don't actually know women.
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But again, it's possible to talk about these things
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And we should be embracing debates that have these things.
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We should be embracing debates that talk about the issues
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And Candace and Jameel did a great job of this.
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Now, how much control he had over the questions,
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wanting to know which leadership candidate to vote for,
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I would be coming out of this saying, like, okay,
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and Pierre Pauliev is reading Jordan Peterson's book
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Um, okay, so my taxes are going to go up, down.
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My firearms license is like, you get nothing from that.
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the mainstream media will give them no such opportunity.
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to talk about things that matter to Conservatives now,
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you're never going to hear them talk about these things.
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And I will say Roman Babber did a tremendous job.
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And when I asked him a question in the scrum after,
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He was couching what he was saying in a little bit.
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because he didn't want to commit to something on the fly
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that he wasn't sure if he would be able to follow through on.
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You've been unequivocally against vaccine mandates.
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That obviously includes mandates for public sector workers.
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We have to think about how we're going to go about that.
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in the position that they would have otherwise been.
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I'm not sure if we're going to do that through EI.
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I'm also not sure how we're going to go about that
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Those that are unionized should be a lot easier.
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But I think that it's inhumane to make someone choose
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which is why I, I mean, I'm being a bit gratuitous here,
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but why I asked it, okay, you're against mandates.
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for what they lost solely because of the mandates?
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And if they're prepared to really try to rectify
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who still can't take up jobs in a lot of sectors,
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who can't board planes, trains, and so on and so forth.
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I know they have another French debate coming up
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The people in our audience are messaging me saying,
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so that we can hold the eventual leader accountable.
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these red meat, true blue Conservative policies
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And again, when I talk about clarity of answer,
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And whatever you think of Jean Charest's position,
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I don't care what any of you in the room believe,
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You've said that the convoy is an illegal blockade.
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Obviously, you've been very open about your position
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and you've distanced yourself from other candidates.
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Could you in good conscience vote for a candidate
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in your local riding that supported the convoy,
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about how Mr. Polyev's support for the Freedom Convoy
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There should be no doubt in anyone's mind about that.
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because I've been on the other side of it in my lifetime,
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you know, the whole mess was very much on Mr. Trudeau.
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How could the situation degenerate the way it did?
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that is not an excuse for those who go out there
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questioned whether they should be investing in Canada.
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to ask him whether he needed an American intervention
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there'll be plenty of time to debate these things.