00:06:17.680You know, not everybody is satisfied with Pierre Pauliev so far.
00:06:20.840But I think it'd be tough for many Conservatives in this country to say that they don't enjoy seeing the Canadian press and CBC get treated this way
00:06:29.440when they ask ridiculous questions like that.
00:06:31.620So I think, you know what, I'm all for it.
00:06:33.300I think it's well past time that some of the legacy media press in this country got a taste of their own medicine
00:06:39.120and were treated with the kind of respect that they themselves deserve, which is not a lot.
00:06:43.980Yeah, Sue Ann, you've been a political candidate in the past.
00:06:46.660You've also been, for much more of your life, a journalist.
00:06:50.060How do you look at those sorts of exchanges?
00:09:14.100Well, it's a lot easier to answer questions from the media when you pay them off to write soft articles about you.
00:09:19.860It's a whole different story when you're the opposition to the government that's stuffing the pockets of the media.
00:09:25.540You know, I should also say that journalists and the politicians are supposed to have a combative relationship.
00:09:31.460They're not supposed to be patting each other on the back.
00:09:34.040They're not supposed to be, you know, treating each other with kid gloves.
00:09:37.520A sign of a good democracy is when the journalists fight back against the politicians,
00:09:41.380and the politicians have a right to dish it back as good as they receive it.
00:09:46.000So, again, this is just completely ridiculous.
00:09:48.240And one more thing, giving the money, giving media the taxpayer dollars is a lot different than lifting taxes on broadcasters.
00:09:58.300And anyone who pretends as though that's the same is obviously just trying to confuse the public and push political talking points.
00:10:06.520Yeah, what's your read on that, Sue Ann?
00:10:09.260Well, I think, you know, she is a giant hypocrite.
00:10:13.340I mean, all we have to do is look at some of the tape.
00:10:16.560I mean, the proof is in the pudding, in the tape of Krista Freeland, for example, calling security and roughing up one of our colleagues from Rebel Media, Dave Menzies.
00:10:30.760I mean, Dave is a character, and sometimes he asks for it, but in this case, he didn't.
00:11:22.760They cherry pick, and most politicians do that.
00:11:25.820They cherry pick the ones that are from the friendly media.
00:11:29.500The amount of softballs that I, during my career, heard other media lob at various and sundry politicians was appalling.
00:11:38.280I mean, nobody ever really got, you know, many, many sides of the story or the hard side of the story.
00:11:44.120So, I mean, listening to her, the big difference, Harrison and Andrew, is that now we've got somebody who's actually fighting back, and it's about time.
00:11:53.940Yeah, and it flips the script, like the next election, because we're used to seeing the whole, like, deferential thing that Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer did.
00:12:05.200This is a story that really was quite shocking, and I want to get both of you to weigh in on this.
00:12:10.840But let's play the video, and just to set the stage for it here, this is a very heated demonstration that was taking place outside a Richmond City Council meeting in British Columbia.
00:12:23.340The discussion was about a proposed supervised injection site, a so-called safe, by my quote, sorry, I need to, like, bring in more, a so-called safe injection site in Richmond, which people in the suburban community clearly didn't like, hence them coming out to be heard and be heard before City Council.
00:14:02.500Apparently, she thinks Canada is supposed to be a country where every city is infested with drug addicts and with the destruction that comes with it.
00:14:10.480I guess that's what she wants for Canada.
00:14:12.740And anyone who disagrees with that must go back to where they come from.
00:14:16.680Well, I come from Canada, and I don't want to see my city, although it already has been in Toronto, turned into a drug-infested wasteland.
00:14:26.020But again, what you're seeing is sort of the crumbling of the left here, falling into the traps that they set for their opponents.
00:14:33.420Yeah, I mean, look, I don't know this man who was in that, and I feel bad he was subjected to that.
00:14:39.920But oftentimes, I've always said, immigrants have a much more idealized version of what Canada is and should be than many people who were born here, because they chose to be here.
00:15:09.500All they have to do, these people, is walk to East in Vancouver, the east side of town, downtown Vancouver, and see what a safe injection site has produced.
00:15:24.960And I was there last year, and it actually made me physically ill to see the way these people are living and allowed to live on the street, you know, in their fentanyl poses, in, you know, in their urines, on their urine-soaked sidewalks.
00:15:42.240I mean, I've said this repeatedly, and then it came to Toronto, and people are seeing how these sites destroy communities.
00:15:50.980And frankly, I've been against them for over 10 years, maybe 15, when Vancouver first started.
00:15:56.720But frankly, they don't help drug addicts.
00:16:00.020They just enable their drug addictions.
00:16:03.100And all the arguments that were used initially to bring them in, I don't think hold muster anymore, because there's still opioid deaths.
00:16:13.920And they can't argue that these things are helping at all.
00:16:17.400All they're doing is destroying the fabrics of communities.
00:16:20.320Go to downtown Toronto, and you'll see drug addicts lying on the street.
00:16:24.120Well, yeah, and that's the thing here.
00:16:26.540I mean, when was Insight in Vancouver, which was sort of the first one?
00:16:29.900That has to be, what, 15 years ago now that that came up?
00:16:33.620And anyone can look at British Columbia and Vancouver specifically and see clearly none of this has helped.
00:16:40.740I mean, the situation has gotten exponentially worse.
00:16:43.300So at best, it's made no difference at all, and at worst, it's inflamed this.
00:16:48.400But that's the part that's missing, is that more of the same is not going to yield a different result.
00:16:54.120So the fact that there was such anger in that video is so insane, Harrison.
00:16:59.720Yeah, and the reality is it hasn't worked at all.
00:17:05.320These are political talking points, political dogma running up against a brick wall, which happens to be the truth.
00:17:10.900You know, British Columbia set the highest annual death toll for opioid overdoses just last year.
00:17:17.980And this, as you said, has been going on for years now.
00:17:20.120It's the leading cause of death in British Columbia for youth aged 10 to 18, opioid overdose.
00:17:26.640And now the B.C. government is considering providing safe fentanyl to children?
00:17:30.600I mean, anyone who thinks that this is saving lives, as the addiction to mental health minister at the federal level will constantly repeat, or as British Columbia officials themselves will repeat, is running at extreme odds with the truth.
00:17:45.540And they're just, they have their eyes shut.
00:17:47.540They don't want to address the fact that this is making life worse.
00:17:56.020Yeah, and let's not forget the shooting last summer of that poor innocent woman right near a safe injection site in Riverdale in Toronto.
00:18:05.760And people, the community was in an uproar.
00:18:08.240And the people who run the site and the health minister, deputy minister, they were down like cavalier about the crime that is occurring around these sites.
00:18:17.760Drug dealers know that they're a target.
00:18:20.360I actually saw drug dealing in action because I've spent a lot of time outside some of these sites.
00:18:39.580If you happen to live in Toronto, you will know that the works, the public health city of Toronto department, is on Ryerson University campus.
00:18:48.360So students who pay to go to university have to walk past a safe injection site, a site where they give out all of these safe supply drugs, as they're called.
00:18:59.720It's just constant destruction and havoc on campus.
00:19:03.700So the city thinks that that's appropriate.
00:19:06.960Sue Ann, you brought up the Parkdale shooting.
00:19:09.240There was a woman who worked at that facility who has now been charged because she helped to try and get the killer, the alleged killer, away from the police.
00:19:21.500These are, as you said, Andrew, crime magnets.
00:19:24.140And for somebody, some activist to be so racist and awful in front of that person who just wants to live in a community that is not infested with drugs, says a lot.
00:19:34.220Yeah, and I should say, of course, the activists won out in this case.
00:19:37.580The motion to consider implementing this site passed with a vote of 7 to 2.
00:19:43.400It was just two councillors who stood against it.
00:19:46.520Now, it's not a fait accompli just yet, but the way things are going, it certainly seems like that is likely to be the eventual outcome here.
00:19:54.780But speaking of unhinged protesters, let's talk about what happened at Mount Sinai Hospital.
00:20:00.940Again, this one is, I shouldn't even be surprised anymore.
00:20:06.220Like, you think there are some sacred cows that remain in the context of political debate, but not when we are talking about the anti-Israel left.
00:20:30.940I mean, 10 out of 10 on the climb, 8 out of 10 on the rhythm of the chant, 0 out of 10 on everything else.
00:20:47.540Sue-Ann, I'll just, you know, give you the floor on this one as our Torontonian and also a Jewish woman who's been on the front lines of this anti-Semitism stuff for years.
00:20:57.220Yeah, you know, Andrew and Harrison, this goes back to the fact that the police and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow didn't handle this well right out of the gate.
00:21:08.060And they enabled these people and empowered them to continue their protests.
00:21:11.800The last I spoke with the police, there were, I guess this makes it about 495 protests in Toronto by mostly the anti-Israel left radicals.
00:21:26.380They are, their tactics are intimidating, you know, to strike a Jewish hospital.
00:21:34.360Somehow they thought that related to Gaza and what's going on in the hospitals there, although that is all propaganda because the IDF never struck any hospitals as that has been proven.
00:21:45.620But they just, many of them are people who are just totally indoctrinated, ignorant of the reality of what's going on, and they just get caught up in the craziness.
00:22:01.620I mean, they just, they found a purpose.
00:22:04.160I follow all of them on social media, and I follow the leaders, and somehow they think that these protests are going to help in some way.
00:22:13.900I think they're all mentally unstable, frankly.
00:22:18.500And I think that the police, and they're now handling it much better, but, you know, there were weeks and weeks, like almost eight weeks of them not handling it well.
00:22:30.620And this has just encouraged this craziness.
00:22:35.740I mean, the person, when politicians give their platitudes and make their statements, like Olivia Chow did, and the others, like, you let this happen.
00:23:16.360But the way that the left responds to this.
00:23:19.060So Olivia Chow, who's been, like, a darling of the far left and the even farther left for years, Olivia Chow puts out her condemnation on Twitter.
00:23:38.100She says, Chow betrays everything it means to be progressive.
00:23:42.120Now, leave that up, though, for a second, because Olivia Chow says a hospital is a sanctuary, yesterday's actions were unacceptable, targeting Jewish institutions is anti-Semitic, and hate has no place in our city.
00:23:54.380So when Nora says this betrays everything it means to be progressive, she's saying the quiet part out loud, which is that what we saw in that video is what it means to be progressive.
00:24:06.040Well, certainly, it's a mask-off moment for Nora Loretto and for, I think, a lot of people who agree with her.
00:24:12.600To speak to the protesters' mental instability, as Sue Ann noted, I can't think of a worse way to try and alienate Canadians from your cause than to protest like this in front of a hospital that has nothing to do with what these people are protesting about.
00:24:28.840Now, I think that there are some people who protest Israel who don't protest out of racism, and they have things that they disagree with Israel on.
00:24:42.840But when you're protesting Mount Sinai Hospital to make the claim that that is purely anti-Israel, pro-Palestine, and not anti-Semitic, I have a hard time believing that.
00:24:53.560And you really can't, good luck trying to sell that to the Canadian public as well, because I've seen these protests, I've been inside of these protests, I've interviewed these people.
00:25:02.860When you speak to them, they, of course, understand that they're trying to, you know, get their cause out to the public and they want people to join their cause.
00:25:09.820But in that group mentality, it seems that they lose all sense of reality, and they're willing to push the boundaries all the way to blatant anti-Semitism.
00:25:19.000And, of course, the consequence of that is alienating Canadians from their cause, whatever kind of Canadians were still perhaps, you know, willing to support these people,
00:25:29.620because they're just showing themselves to not actually care that much about what's going on.
00:25:34.660They care more about trying to make a statement about Israel, which, of course, is a statement about Jews.
00:25:58.900Well, that's, you know, you could make a sort of stretch that that is related to Israel more so.
00:26:06.060But to target Jewish businesses, Indigo, the people who were charged with Indigo, didn't think they did anything wrong, even though they engaged in civil disobedience.
00:26:14.940All these actions were not targeting Israel.
00:26:38.040And also, yeah, and I think on that point, I believe that anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiments can be distinct.
00:26:45.880I believe they can be, but the Venn diagram is a lot more like a circle than these people tend to admit.
00:26:52.960And I think that when push comes to shove, the nuanced, reasoned, moderate, non-anti-Semitic critique of Israel is basically as elusive as, you know, the Yeti in the wilderness of the Himalayas or something.
00:27:07.800Because nine times out of ten, it's just trying to put lipstick on a very anti-Semitic pig.
00:27:14.140Yeah, and they talk about, you know, you're a genocidal.
00:28:12.780I, when I was in Israel for the first time in 2011, I met an AP reporter there who said, you know, when, and he spoke Hebrew as he was Jewish.
00:28:21.780And that was how he got the job being posted there when he was quite young.
00:28:24.780And he said, like, people at AP bureaus around the world are lucky if their stories ever get picked up.
00:28:29.220Where he said for him, it was like if someone sneezes in Jerusalem, he could write a story and it's going to get picked up everywhere.
00:28:35.780So I think there's some empirical evidence behind what you just said there, Sue Ann.
00:28:40.120Just to end things, I mean, I know it's a bit of a sour note as we head into the weekend here.
00:28:43.980But Harrison, why don't you tell us what happened in Regina last weekend and more importantly, what happened in Ottawa in the days following?
00:28:51.620Well, as Canadians who have been following this story will know, Canada was rapidly approaching the grim 100 number of churches that have been targeted by arsonists and vandals since 2021.
00:29:06.760We are now at 100 churches that have been targeted in this country.
00:29:11.580And on Saturday or on Friday midnight, rather, the Blessed Sacrament Parish in Regina was targeted by an arsonist who was caught on camera dumping the contents of a jerry can onto the rear entrance of this 118-year-old Catholic church,
00:29:26.880the oldest Catholic church in Regina, lighting it on fire and running away.
00:29:31.080Thank God the church was saved by firefighters.
00:29:33.580But this is, we're now at 100 churches, which is an awful thing to have happened in this country.
00:29:41.380It's a blight on the government and the state of our country itself.
00:29:48.980You might think that condemning an attempted arson of a church might be the easiest thing to do.
00:29:54.640It might be the easiest, no-brainer thing to say, yes, I condemn the burning of a church.
00:29:59.940But, according to the NDP and the Liberals, well, that was just not going to fly.
00:30:06.340Take a look at what happened when a Saskatchewan MP, Corey Tuchore, I think I said his name right,
00:30:11.780he got up in the House of Commons on Monday and sought a unanimous consent motion to condemn the attempted arson at the Blessed Sacrament Parish.
00:32:08.000You can condemn attacks against Christians.
00:32:10.420But, again, Sue Ann, it's one group that tends to get a pass here.
00:32:14.840You know, it just to me speaks to the breakdown of the moral fabric in our country that they can't even condemn something like this in a church.
00:32:25.760You know, perhaps these lefty progressives, they don't like the police, they don't like religion, you know, and here we have drug addicts running wild and running rampant on our streets in major cities.
00:32:42.460I mean, it's sad to say that Trudeau's Canada, I mean, in the last eight years, I mean, the decline in this country is real.
00:32:55.800There's a lot of symbolism going on, right, with these motions.
00:32:59.380And I think Christians who are watching this will have to struggle with the idea that if these MPs can't condemn the burning of a church, what does it say about how they think about Christians in this country?
00:33:13.620I think a lot of people are going to be left with that question in their heads.
00:33:16.900Now, it's also important to remember, this same parliament voted unanimously to condemn Canada of committing genocide against First Nations people.
00:34:26.980And to be honest, I still don't think Trudeau has said anything about it.
00:34:29.640I know a couple of Liberal MPs have, one of them, Anthony Housefather, who's been quite strong on these sorts of issues.
00:34:34.980But nowhere near the condemnation, like you said, Harrison, if this had been at another type of institution, which would also have been wrong.
00:34:59.880I mean, it's, I actually enjoy the interplay between the people running for president down here, because at least they seem to be passionate about what's going on, the border issues and all that kind of stuff.
00:35:16.020And I don't, I don't get that feeling from any of the people in the Liberal Party, and particularly Trudeau.
00:35:22.540If that's the case, and Trudeau is really phoning it in, and he's basically done, what a way to bookend his time as prime minister in this country.
00:35:31.020One hundred churches attacked under his watch.
00:35:34.560I can't think of better symbolism, quite frankly, to encapsulate Trudeau's time as prime minister in this country.