00:07:23.020So that means they will have to defend this carbon tax through the increase point on April 1st.
00:07:28.220They're going to defend it through the next election.
00:07:30.860And Canadians have just had enough of it.
00:07:33.160But I wanted to talk about for a moment that carbon tax election question, that idea of a carbon tax election.
00:07:39.880Because one may remember that in 2021, when Justin Trudeau was facing accusations that the 2021 election was unnecessary because it did come two years earlier than anticipated, he gave a rather impassioned plea for why Canadians should be comfortable with the election.
00:07:58.340And I wanted to go back into memory lane and play a clip of that.
00:08:01.640I think Canadians know that we are coming through this pandemic, that it's not over yet and people need to continue to step up and get vaccinated to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.
00:08:14.800And that's certainly something I'm going to keep reminding people about every single day over the coming weeks, that people need to continue to do their part, protect their communities, protect each other, protect our kids who can't yet get vaccinated because they're under 12.
00:08:31.640I think this is a moment where Canadians can and should be able to weigh in on what we're going through and on how we're going to build a society that is stronger and better and learns from the challenges we've all experienced and the sacrifices we've all made through the worst of this pandemic.
00:08:52.160the pandemic is not over and we're going to be taking consequential decisions on
00:08:57.820how we finish with this pandemic and I think it's Canadians right to weigh in on that
00:09:03.900an election is an opportunity for Canadians to have a right to weigh in on the government's
00:09:11.580conduct now I'm not going to compare COVID to the carbon tax one was far more disruptive and
00:09:16.980destructive certainly in terms of the government's response to it than the other but the carbon tax
00:09:21.660is destructive in its own way the carbon tax is putting businesses into untenable positions
00:09:27.820especially businesses that only barely got through if they got through at all the pandemic and justin
00:09:33.500trudeau when it came to covid and the polls were more favorable to him said okay well everyone has
00:09:38.700a right to weigh in on this but now it's uh well now it's a bit of a different story now it's not
00:09:43.740about canadians having a right to weigh in now it's about demagoguery and disruption and political
00:09:48.940tricks and partisanship this is what the liberals say now when Pierre Polyev is coming out and
00:09:54.960saying actually I believe that Canadians do have a right to weigh in I believe Canadians do have a
00:10:00.620right to have a say so what has happened is Polyev has put the liberal government on notice he has
00:10:06.940said to Justin Trudeau you've got one day and one day only to scrap the impending increase in the
00:10:13.300carbon tax and then that is of course not going to do anything and then tomorrow the conservatives
00:10:18.540will put forward their motion of non-confidence now i'll read the motion for you just because
00:10:23.900it's probably not going to get a lot of coverage in the legacy media that the house declare
00:10:30.300non-confidence in the prime minister and his costly government for increasing the carbon tax 23
00:10:36.140on april 1st as part of his plan to quadruple the tax while canadians cannot afford to eat heat and
00:10:42.460house themselves and call for the house to be dissolved so canadians can vote in a carbon tax
00:10:47.900election. Now, if this motion does somehow pass, if the NDP are, they suddenly find a spine or
00:34:12.920And I'm not embarrassed or ashamed of being a Zionist.
00:34:20.340And Canadian Jews should not have to live
00:34:23.140through what we're living through right now.
00:34:25.160my community is terrified that went on for about seven and a half more minutes i would encourage
00:34:34.180you if you're interested to watch the whole thing he posted it on his uh social media page he posted
00:34:39.920it i think i saw it on x but he posted it elsewhere and uh then he sat down and eventually
00:34:46.340when that vote took place there were just two of his liberal colleagues who joined him one was
00:34:52.720Marco Mendicino, who was sitting, I think, right beside him. The other was Ben Carr from Winnipeg.
00:34:57.740Even Yara Sachs, who is the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, a Jewish woman from a
00:35:03.680Jewish, well, very heavily Jewish riding in Toronto, was last week holding hands with Mahmoud Abbas
00:35:10.220in the West Bank, and this week voted against the Jewish community of Canada by supporting
00:35:17.740that resolution. Now, imagine you saw the emotion, you heard the emotion in Anthony
00:35:23.400Howe's father as he gave those remarks. He sat down and then everyone around him pretty much
00:35:29.300voted against him. Voted against him. And I mean that. They voted against him as a Jew. They voted
00:35:34.620against him as a member of the Liberal Party with a conscience on the question of Israel and what
00:35:40.680the Jewish community in this nation is facing. And I wanted to share another clip of him in the House
00:35:47.060of Commons foyer in which he seems to be very well aware of what happened after he sat down
00:35:53.840and MPs voted. Is this the first time you're actually kind of reflecting on your role within
00:35:59.900this party? I mean, this has been going on for a number of months now. There's been tensions in
00:36:03.580Canada rising in 1970s and you've seen your government struggle to sometimes or, you know,
00:36:08.040come up with a position that satisfies everybody. And you've kind of been at the forefront of this,
00:36:12.960but is this the first time you're actually kind of reflecting on your future here?
00:36:17.060I think it's the first time in my parliamentary career that I've had a reflection like this where I truly felt last night that a line had been crossed.
00:36:29.040When my party members got up and cheered and gave a standing ovation to Heather McPherson and the NDP, I started reflecting as to whether or not I belonged.
00:36:41.960And I will let you know further how I feel over the coming days. For the moment, I'm still there.
00:36:47.060that was a very strong language from someone who's typically been a team player with his party
00:36:54.600joining me on the line now is robert walker who's the assistant director for honest reporting canada
00:37:00.540robert good to have you on the show here i mean we heard that speech from anthony house father in
00:37:05.380which he takes aim at what is one of the most i'd say dishonest portrayals we see that that you
00:37:14.240could separate zionism from judaism and this is what we see in a lot of the media coverage what
00:37:19.000we see in a lot of the protests i wanted to get your thoughts on this well um thank you andrew
00:37:24.140for the uh for the question and for covering this because i think this is an angle that
00:37:27.420this term this concept has been completely abused and and and bastardized uh by uh by the far left
00:37:35.440and those who seek to demonize uh israel and the jewish people writ large which is we talk about
00:37:40.100this indigenous movement is that Zionism is the indigenous movement of the Jewish people,
00:37:45.400that the, you know, this return to their ancestral homeland where they have lived for three
00:37:49.820millennia, practicing the same faith, speaking the same language, walking in the same steps.
00:37:55.340But if you listen, of course, to, you know, ideological extremists today in Canada and
00:38:00.780indeed around the world, you know, they are this colonialist people who have invaded and
00:38:06.580kicked out the locals um and it's it's not just an inversion of reality uh it is a moral outrage
00:38:12.560and i mean one of the things that i i think is so difficult here is that you have this language
00:38:19.640of colonial resistance that's being appropriated and applied to what's happened in the middle east
00:38:26.280and parties like the ndp will wear their kafias in the house of commons as they are are voting
00:38:31.920on this and they pretend this is benign. Well, it certainly isn't because I think what we've seen
00:38:38.400is not just the legitimization, if you will, of Hamas terrorism. And then that was pointed out
00:38:46.740by a number of parliamentarians who said that although the initial extreme motion as proposed
00:38:54.220by the NDP was a unilateral calling for the government to unilaterally recognize the Palestinian
00:38:59.000a state, which of course, anybody with a pair of eyes can look and say, listen, if October 7th
00:39:03.120hadn't happened, if Hamas's October 7th attacks hadn't happened, then very clearly that wouldn't
00:39:07.880have happened. So it's very clearly a reward for terrorism. And if you're sitting there
00:39:11.900and you're a Hamas leader, whether sitting on top of billions of dollars in Qatar,
00:39:17.700whether you're sitting underneath the tunnels of Gaza, you're sitting there thinking,
00:39:21.860my goodness, you know, the more terrorism that we perpetrate, the more legitimacy we get,
00:39:26.620the more legitimacy we get and the more credibility we get from certain individuals in Canada,
00:39:32.260and perhaps worst yet, was that this wasn't just, you know, voted on by the NDP, but of course by
00:39:38.860the governing party of this country, the Liberal Party. And I think that sends a very, very powerful
00:39:44.620message, not just to Hamas, but indeed to Jewish Canadians and indeed to the majority of moral
00:39:49.300Canadians who look and say, you know, you're allowed to have, this is a free country and we
00:39:53.880have a diversity of opinion and you're allowed to believe one thing or another, but this legitimizes
00:39:59.040not just Hamas terrorism, but indeed the scourge and rise of anti-Jewish hate here, which is of
00:40:05.060course not just a threat to Jewish Canadians, but to any Canadians who values the peace and security
00:40:11.540and order that we've come to value in this country. And when we have a government, when we
00:40:17.280have parliamentarians who vote in favor of a motion which glorifies and which excuses Hamas
00:40:23.540terrorism uh that's that's an extraordinarily dangerous precedent well and then for people that
00:40:29.460are not as people that don't spend their lives immersed in in this issue and pour over all the
00:40:35.140coverage like certainly you do with your work and me to to some extent although i'd probably say not
00:40:39.620as much as you do they they are easily duped by no fault of their own by certain language and
00:40:45.620ceasefire i think is a great example of this because a ceasefire if you're just someone that
00:40:49.940doesn't like that war is taking place this sounds like a very uh virtuous thing why is that not the
00:40:55.780case well everybody wants in theory a ceasefire at one point the question is under what conditions
00:41:00.980hamas wants a ceasefire once the jews are dead uh israel wants a ceasefire of courts once hamas
00:41:06.260is defeated and the hostages are returned so everybody's talking about a ceasefire but the
00:41:09.780major issue that we see among those the extremists who talk about a ceasefire is very rarely uh that
00:41:16.580really there's a lot of context here, which is of course we want a ceasefire, but a ceasefire that
00:41:21.300keeps Hamas in power is ultimately nothing less than a capitulation. I really, I shudder to think
00:41:27.780of what this dialogue would look like 80 years ago during World War II. You know, people were
00:41:33.660talking about facing this scourge of, you know, the Nazi Germany and saying, well, ceasefire,
00:41:38.840ceasefire. Ultimately, I think of anybody who looks at, you know, the Hamas casualty numbers,
00:41:43.780And this was pointed out last week by a statistician of the Wharton School who said that Hamas's numbers are essentially statistically impossible, that Hamas's numbers are fake, that Israel takes steps unprecedented in modern history to minimize civilian casualties.
00:41:59.320And ultimately, most importantly, this war could be over in five minutes if Hamas surrenders the hostages and surrenders its leaders.
00:42:07.520And until we have parliamentarians and protesters who refuse to call for that, I think it's very clear that anything short of that is ultimately a capitulation, not just of Israel, but every value that we as Canadians hold dear.
00:42:21.880And I think that what we've seen from the demonstrations, whether they're blocking hospitals, attacking synagogues, blocking roads, preventing G7 leaders from speaking, is that we can have a small minority of people.
00:42:34.580And as long as they're loud, they can have a bigger impact than 10 million people who are quiet.
00:42:39.960And I think this is perhaps the most chilling thing is that 100 loud people can have a greater voice than 10 million quiet people.
00:42:46.100And this should be really the the message for all of us is to say, you know, we I read on Twitter and acts and the comments and people are angry and they're upset.
00:42:54.660And they're saying, listen, even if we don't all have the same view here, how dare you try to, you know, you see the polls showing the liberals 15, 20 points ahead.
00:43:02.640People are upset. People are angry. But rather than identifying and addressing the issues that are of concern to Canadians, we have this kind of politics of division and people can be upset.
00:43:14.420But ultimately, unless we speak out and we demand better from elected officials, from the news media, who then give unflattering, pardon me, flattering coverage to this kind of content, ultimately, we're going to see more of the same.
00:43:26.580The silent majority at some point needs to become the vocal majority.
00:43:29.920Otherwise, it really doesn't matter what the majority think.
00:43:33.560I'd be remiss to not ask you as well, Robert, about this La Presse cartoon this morning that was published.
00:43:40.560I don't even want to put the image up, but it depicted, you know, look, editorial cartoons are never flattering.
00:43:46.840We know that. But this depicted Netanyahu as a bloodsucking vampire, which is itself an old anti-Semitic trope here.
00:43:55.960And I believe they've pulled the cartoon, but only sort of in the face of backlash here.
00:44:01.280But my goodness, I mean, you'd never see this level of stereotype in a cartoon on any other group in Canadian media.
00:44:08.960No, and nor should you. I mean, this cartoon, of course, borrowed from the 1922 silent German film, which extremely anti-Semitic, certainly in commentators today, depicted Jews as, first of all, as a stereotypical, you know, hook-nosed Jew, depicted Jews as being carriers of disease, as bloodsuckers of virtuous young Christian children.
00:44:33.240And, of course, this is imagery that was gladly and enthusiastically then mimicked and taken by the Nazis.
00:44:39.700So it's not only that we had this columnist decide to use this imagery, A,
00:44:45.500then he uses it to depict perhaps the most famous or the most prominent Jew in the world,
00:44:51.160the prime minister of the world's only Jewish state.
00:45:02.560So at best case scenario, we have here profound ignorance, which honestly beggars belief is how these people were in journalism at all.
00:45:10.920That's one. And that's best case scenario. Worst case scenario was the embrace of vocal Nazi like right caricature of Jews.
00:45:19.680I mean, it's just it's obscene here and it's akin to sort of describing, you know, any other group with the kind of cartoons that we would expect, you know, would remain in the dustbin of history.
00:45:31.360And so it's great that they've removed it. But honestly, it's like whack-a-mole here. And I think the more that we see the legitimization of anti-Semitism or really the excusal of it, when politicians stay quiet, news media organizations stay quiet, it becomes normalized, it becomes excused.
00:45:47.020And it becomes really normalized because those who seek to propagate this kind of stuff become emboldened, whether it's putting out anti-Semitic cartoons, whether it's blocking roads, synagogues, highway overpasses, or whether it's passing legislation or motions in the House of Commons, which are a one-sided defamation of a democratic country, all while downplaying really a genocidal Islamic terrorist organization.
00:46:12.320So I think that we as a society, you know, we hear from our prime minister that this isn't who Canadians are, but ultimately we're seeing that that's exactly what Canadians are and what Canada is.
00:46:21.620And I think that it's high time. Five months ago was high time.
00:46:24.500But now that the silent majority speak out and really say absolutely no more.
00:46:28.920This absolutely cannot continue a day longer.
00:46:31.820Very well said. Robert Walker, Associate Director of Honest Reporting Canada.