Juno News - November 09, 2019The Candice Malcolm Show： Foreign aid gets STOLEN by terrorists!
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Canadian foreign aid gets stolen by an Islamic terrorist group in Syria. Edmonton police protect the identity of a man who took a child hostage in a CBSA center in Edmonton. The mainstream media shows its open contempt and bigotry towards Canadians of religious convictions.
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Canadian foreign aid gets stolen by an Islamist terrorist group in Syria.
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Edmonton police protect the identity of a man who took a child hostage in a CBSA center
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in Edmonton, but then they don't have a problem naming that child.
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And finally, the mainstream media shows its open contempt and bigotry towards Canadians
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I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Hi everyone, and welcome back to the program, welcome to the podcast.
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As I mentioned earlier this week, we're going to be coming to you twice a week now, so we're
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going to have a midweek podcast, as well as the Friday podcast, and we're going to expand
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to talk about issues beyond just media bias and media spin.
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We're still going to talk about that, but we're also going to talk about some of the issues
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of the day, some of the things that I'm interested in, which are, you know, stories related to
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And then we're also going to talk about some of the broader issues facing Canadians and talking
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about what it's like to be a conservative in Canada.
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Over at Global News, Stuart Bell, who's a terrific investigative reporter over there, has this
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exclusive Canadian aid to Syria was stolen by Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group document show.
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So it looks like they filed some access to information reports.
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And finally, the government declassified this report showing that in August 2018, an organization
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that is a recipient of foreign aid, so Canadian government, Canadian taxpayers sends foreign
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aid to an organization that was settled, that was posted in Syria.
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And basically their warehouse was ransacked by gunned militants from this terrorist organization
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So this group wants to once again impose and enforce a Islamic state in Syria.
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And you know, they carry out all kinds of terrorist attacks or a listed terrorist attack.
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They're a listed terrorist entity, according to the Department of Public Safety in Canada.
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And so these individuals basically just stole a bunch of electronics.
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They stole computers, laptops, iPods, iPads, two-way radios, projectors, you know, all kinds
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of stuff that obviously enable them to carry out terrorist attacks, to do logistics, to organize,
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And so here we have a pretty blatant example of Canadian foreign aid going from Canada to
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an organization and then ending up in the hands of our enemies, in the hands of Islamist
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And I just, I can't help but connect this back to the election campaign and Conservative leader
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Andrew Scheer, who proposed that Canada cut its foreign aid spending by 25 percent.
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Canada currently spends about six billion dollars a year sending money to foreign governments
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Foreign aid is a whole big industry, there's tons and tons of schemes.
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Most developed countries put lots and lots of money towards basically just, you know, redistributing
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wealth from the developed world to the developing world, hoping that that will lead to rising
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Sadly, a lot of times the money doesn't go where it's supposed to.
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So Andrew Scheer's position was that a lot of money goes to sort of middle income countries,
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close to some of our rivals, you know, we're paying countries like China, you know, who
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basically have developed economies by now and then sometimes the money ends up going
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to adversarial governments, places like Iran and Russia.
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And so Scheer's position was that foreign aid isn't very well spent.
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And at a time where, you know, Canada's running massive deficits, we have mounting debt, our
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own industries at home are struggling, hundreds of thousands of people in the oil and gas industry
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You know, we have our own problems on First Nations reserves with homeless people.
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And yet, the mainstream media treated it like it was just this horrible idea.
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And you know, you saw piece after piece from mainstream media outlets condemning this idea,
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talking to people who work within the foreign aid industry, condemning it, you know, the partisan
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liberals over at CBC fact-checked Andrew Scheer's claim and deemed that it was false.
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You know, it's just interesting as an aside, I have a background in this topic.
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When I was in graduate school, I wrote my master's dissertation on foreign aid, on the
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And I looked at free market solutions and ideas that could actually help lift people out
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of poverty and help develop, you know, places in the least developed parts of the world.
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And you know, there's actually a pretty significant body of literature from people who take that
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same position, that foreign aid is not helpful, that it's often futile, it's often counterproductive,
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and often it creates more harm than good, it creates dependency, and all kinds of unintended
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So, you know, if the mainstream media actually wanted to be fair, they could have gone to people
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Dambisa Moyo, who is a Zambian-born economist, has a book called Dead Aid, and it's all about
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how harmful foreign aid initiatives have been to her, you know, home country and to places
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And how, you know, 30, 40 years after foreign aid was first introduced, some of those countries
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Another person is Bill Easterly over at New York University.
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He's written several books about some of the sort of most unintended consequences and foreign
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And so, you know, again, if the mainstream media wanted to be fair, they could talk about
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the flaws in foreign aid, as well as maybe providing a critique from someone who works
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within one of these UN agencies or a professor who's connected to one of these organizations.
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But instead, because they're the mainstream media and they hate conservatives, you just
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saw overwhelming criticism of Scheer's proposal.
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And I think this story about Canadian foreign aid ending up in the hands of terrorists is
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just another data point to show that, you know, Andrew Scheer wasn't entirely wrong and
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that there's definitely room for improvement, let's just say, when it comes to Canada's foreign
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This one is just absolutely mind-boggling to me.
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This happened last Friday at a CBSA centre in Edmonton, a Canadian border services agency
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centre, there was an individual who was getting into an altercation with officials and things
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escalated to the point where it became a hostage situation.
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The man who was sort of, you know, shouting and saying, talking about how he wants to speak
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to a UN lawyer, all of a sudden he grabs a child who happens to be in the waiting room.
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He's just a child who happens to be in the same waiting room with his parents.
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He grabs a three-year-old, holds a knife to his throat, making his incoherent demands
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to the officers and, you know, the reason that we know all of this is because it was
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No, I said you want to see the blood and it's going to be actually because you caused it.
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Because of the child and died, the kids like this, listen.
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You can see the child is incredibly distraught, crying, screaming as a three-year-old child
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would be if they were snatched from their parents' arms by a stranger who all of a sudden,
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Luckily, you know, things were calmed down and the child is safe now, although probably
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a little traumatized from what he went through.
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And yet, when the media reported about it and the Edmonton police put out their statement
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about this incident, they protected the name of the perpetrator, the man who carried out
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And yet, they decided to name the three-year-old child in the incident.
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So, in the minds of the Edmonton police, you can name a child who was caught up in a horrifying
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incident, but you should protect the name of the perpetrator who is still in custody,
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So, again, you know, this is a problem that you see in Canada over and over and over again.
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When there is a crime, a public incident, a terrorist attack, an attack of some sort,
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there's a kind of hush-hush mentality among the police.
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They keep the identity of the perpetrators hidden.
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They don't want Canadians to know key information.
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And, you know, I think it shows just basically a distrust of the Canadian public.
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The police think that we are incapable of handling the truth, that we shouldn't be given facts
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because of the conclusions that we might come to.
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But really, what they do is they just leave a black hole for conspiracy theorists online
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And, you know, I can give you dozens of examples of this happening where the police just don't
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I mean, I think the most, the biggest example that comes to mind was after the Danforth shooting
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The police just kind of refused to provide any information.
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They didn't provide, you know, details about the individual.
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Even as things started to come up and people started putting two and two together, you know,
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There was still a very hush-hush mentality among the Toronto Police Services.
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Again, you know, why don't they trust the public?
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If they put the information out there, you know, they should trust Canadians to draw their own
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But when they don't, you start to wonder, like, what is it that they're doing?
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And another one, just last month in Calgary, there was a military parade.
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It happened to fall on the anniversary of an ISIS terrorist attack.
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There was two that happened in two days in Quebec and in Ottawa on Parliament Hill back in 2014.
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All of a sudden, a car speeds past the barrier, starts darting all over the place, you know, onto the sidewalk.
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Finally, the driver was shot by, sorry, by Calgary police.
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And again, the police didn't release any information.
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We didn't know, you know, whether there was any connection to the anniversary of the ISIS terrorist attack
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They just didn't provide any information whatsoever.
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I think it shows a really sad state in Canada where the police just don't trust the public.
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And I think increasingly it will lead to a situation where people in the public in turn don't trust the police
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or at least the higher-ups and the sort of gatekeepers within those kinds of institutions.
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So again, why would you name the three-year-old child who's a victim in all this
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but not name the individual that actually holds the child hostage?
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Okay, finally, let's talk about this last issue here that I want to get to,
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So on Wednesday, the mainstream media put this question to Andrew Scheer.
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Again, they really just won't give up on this question.
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They smell blood when it comes to Scheer and they really think that him being a Catholic
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and a social conservative in his personal life is unacceptable.
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And so they're just going to continue to go at it, go at it, go at it.
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They did this throughout the entire campaign and here they are again.
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Let's just play this clip of this question that was put to Andrew Scheer
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This is, we made it very clear during the election in the last few months and years,
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We believe in the equality of rights, the rights of all Canadians.
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We are, my personal opinion is that I respect the rights of every single Canadian.
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Okay, I'll just say it's so distasteful to hear a journalist pushing a politician about their personal view
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So asking whether or not she thinks that something is a sin is just beyond the realm of public policy
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The Charter of Rights and Freedoms lays out that we believe in religious freedom.
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So people should be free to believe whatever they want is a sin, right?
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Like, presumably Andrew Scheer thinks that adultery is a sin.
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Presumably he thinks that it is a sin to engage in sexual relationships outside of marriage.
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Now, does anyone believe that Andrew Scheer would ever legislate on that?
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No, because you are allowed to have a personal opinion that guides your personal life
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And that is ultimately what a free society is and what religious freedom means.
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And so this idea that conservatives are like these autocratic fascists that are going to legislate
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on all the aspects of their religion is just totally unfounded and it's totally unfair
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and it shows the bigotry from the media themselves.
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Of course they're not asking these questions of Singh.
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Of course they're not asking these questions of Trudeau.
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And, you know, they'll say, oh, it's because, you know, there's no ambiguity when it comes
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to the other politicians' positions on these issues.
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No, it's the mainstream media's fixation that you cannot be pro-life personally
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because they don't trust that you won't legislate into that or that they don't trust that Andrew Scheer
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could be believing, you know, the Catholic doctrine, the acts of homosexuality is a sin
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A man is allowed to have his own religious convictions.
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And the fact that the mainstream media can't accept that, I think it just shows their own
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It is religious bigotry no matter which way you put it.
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Again, you know, imagine the mainstream media asking Jagmeet Singh personal questions about
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You know, Jagmeet Singh is clearly an observant Sikh.
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So would a journalist ask Jagmeet Singh, do you believe it's a sin to cut your hair?
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And then would they imagine that maybe Singh is going to legislate on that and create laws demanding that no Canadian can cut their hair?
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I mean, it just doesn't make any sense if you try to apply the same standard to other politicians.
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But journalists just don't really think that way.
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They say, you know, everyone in Canada must hold the same view.
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They must have the same view when it comes to abortion.
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They must hold the same view when it comes to same-sex marriage or same-sex relationship.
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And anything outside that is simply not acceptable.
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It's so, to me, so despicable, so cringeworthy to see journalists just continuing to push this way.
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And then seeing many others on the left, especially I see it on social media defending this and saying that
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that Scheer deserves it and that the journalists are right to ask these kind of very personal, cringeworthy questions.
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I just, I think it's not a good place to be in a free society where all of a sudden there are all these litmus tests about what you can
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and cannot believe in your personal life where you've already said that you have no intention on bringing forth any kind of legislation.
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And, you know, I will say I thought Scheer kind of had some spark here.
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If I were Scheer, I would have been much, much, much more aggressive in just pointing out the bigotry of this question
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and the absurdity of asking someone something like this, reinforcing the idea that Conservatives don't want to live in a top-down society
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They want to have smaller government, more limited government, and more freedom, including religious freedoms, in our individual lives and in our homes.
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So I like that Scheer pushed back a little bit, but I think he has a long way to go and he should be much firmer.
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If he wants to maintain his position as leader of the Conservative Party, if he wants to have any shot at becoming Prime Minister,
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you have to recognize that the press are not your friends.
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They're not your allies, especially questions like this.
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And I think that the best shot that you have is showing your backbone and fighting back and calling them out when they show this kind of just, you know,
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clear bigotry towards religious people and especially towards Catholics, towards Conservatives.
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All right, guys, I'm going to leave it at that, wrap it up.
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