00:02:56.260Now, seeing how that played out, Trudeau quickly adjusted course and he strongly and firmly said that he would not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government in Afghanistan.
00:03:06.720Canada has no plans to recognize the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan.
00:03:14.040When they were in government 20 years ago, Canada did not recognize them as a government.
00:03:18.480They have taken over and replaced a duly elected democratic government by force.
00:03:25.980And as you point out, they are a recognized terrorist organization under Canadian law.
00:03:32.480So he finally got to the right place and said the right thing.
00:03:51.620We will not in any way, shape or form acknowledge or support a repressive Islamist terrorist entity that just forcefully removed a government by raping and killing anyone who stood in its way.
00:04:10.340Calling these terrorists our brothers doesn't just recognize them as a legitimate government.
00:04:15.200It implies that they are our allies, that they are our friends, that they're one of us, that we're all on the same side here.
00:04:22.160This is perhaps the most appalling thing that I have ever heard come out of the mouth of a Canadian politician.
00:04:27.920Probably the most appalling thing I have ever heard come out of anyone's mouth ever.
00:04:31.520Now, fortunately, someone in the media did ask Monsef what the heck she was talking about and why a Canadian cabinet minister would call a despicable, repressive, barbaric terrorist group our brothers.
00:04:44.720And now, I'll note that this is a member of the legacy media asking this question, so you can tell how there's a sense of deference, how it's very polite, and in some ways it's helpful to Monsef.
00:05:13.740The Taliban are a terrorist group, and yet they claim to be Muslims.
00:05:19.040We're calling on them to immediately allow for the safe passage of any individual who is in Afghanistan out of the country.
00:05:28.300We are calling on them to immediately cease the violence, the femicide, the genocide, the rapes, the lootings, and to return immediately to the peace negotiation table in an inclusive and meaningful way.
00:05:43.480If they will ever be recognized as a legitimate party, this is the starting point.
00:05:49.820The reference to brothers is a cultural reference, of course, but let me be very clear.
00:05:56.320We are horrified that the hard-won gains of the past 20 years are at stake like this and being eroded like this.
00:06:05.560We are horrified that our women and men in uniform had to move forward with a difficult operation that was only made more difficult by their actions,
00:06:17.600and deeply disappointed that their threats of ongoing violence have led to the international community, particularly the Americans, saying we're going to leave on the 31st due to these threats of violence.
00:06:32.140And you can see that Monsef is in total damage control.
00:06:36.620First of all, she emphasizes how horrible the Taliban are and how they are, yes, a terrorist group,
00:06:41.560which sort of makes it so much worse that she would have referred to them as our brothers.
00:06:46.860Next, she plays Trudeau's favorite card in inventing creepy politically correct language to virtue signal about being a feminist.
00:06:53.860She calls the Taliban's crusade a femicide, which, what, I guess it means a genocide against women.
00:07:01.460I honestly don't understand what these liberals are saying half the time, and I don't think they do either.
00:07:06.500Now, finally, Monsef just sort of brushes off her insanely idiotic comment, calling the Taliban our brothers by saying it is cultural.
00:07:14.680So if I read between the lines here, I suppose she is saying that in that moment, she was not speaking as a cabinet minister.
00:07:22.240She wasn't even speaking as a Canadian.
00:07:24.600She was speaking as a Muslim and perhaps as an Afghan.
00:07:28.800So is that supposed to make any of this better?
00:07:31.480That as a cabinet minister, she sometimes doesn't speak as a Canadian, but instead speaks as an Afghan?
00:07:37.460That she speaks to the Taliban as her brothers because they share some cultural and religious bonds from the country of her origin?
00:07:45.340But doesn't that just sort of undermine the entire idea of Canada, the entire experiment of a Western liberal democracy?
00:07:54.940Here, she was given incredible opportunities to succeed, excel, and rise to the highest status in the country.
00:08:01.980She is a federal cabinet minister, and yet she still looks back longingly at Afghanistan as her country, and she sees the Taliban as her family.
00:08:11.860She again had the opportunity to clarify, and she clarified that this is exactly what she means.
00:08:17.700Here is another question, this time from an independent journalist from Blacklock's Reporter.
00:08:22.500This journalist is not on Trudeau's payroll.
00:09:28.000We'll continue to protect women, Hazaras, Shias, Hindus, Sikhs.
00:09:32.560We'll continue to do everything we can to get as many people out of their grasp in Afghanistan.
00:09:39.320And we'll continue to do everything we can with our global partners to make sure that the hard-won gains of the past two decades are not lost to these individuals whose mandate is not to govern.
00:09:53.220Their mandate is to oppress and to kill, and we condemn that entirely.
00:09:58.880And again, she doubles down, refuses to walk it back, and defends, calling the terrorists in the Taliban her brothers.
00:12:52.020My husband, just like Mary Monsef, was born in Iran.
00:12:55.020And just like Mary Monsef, my husband and his family came to Canada when he was a child.
00:13:01.060But unlike Mary Monsef, my husband's family didn't try to sneak in the back door by claiming asylum and pretending to be something that they're not.
00:13:09.220And unlike Mary Monsef, my husband would never, not in a million years, describe the despicable terrorists in the Taliban as our brothers.