00:00:00.000With what has been done in the United States, I reached out to you last night and wanted you to
00:00:04.200talk about this because you started standing at booths talking to young people, like handing out
00:00:11.760the pamphlets and pounding the pavement. When? 1986, I think, was the first booth I stood at
00:00:21.000at East Kootenai Community College in Cranbrook and then going on to UVic and standing at booths
00:00:28.640a young person and i've been almost 40 years doing um political advocacy work big time and
00:00:36.880one of the mottos of the canadian taxpayers federation of course which is where troy
00:00:41.280and i worked together um is stand up be heard exactly and i often try to end my interviews
00:00:49.280or my podcast shows or any of my speeches um that i do mic and hand on stage with get out there
00:00:56.560get active speak to your neighbors tell 10 friends this is a form of fellowship and so
00:01:03.980when i saw what was done yesterday it hit pretty hard i wanted to pull up this tweet again one
00:01:10.700more time because it hits so close to home this is from 2011 and it's from a 17 year old charlie
00:01:18.180kirk reaching out to who was then a huge media star and still is in the alternative media glenn
00:01:23.740Beck. And he says, I'm concerned about debt and deficit. And he wanted to know how he got out
00:01:31.200there and would fight. So that really speaks to our people. And I wanted to know just your
00:01:36.860response from yesterday. Well, it's shocking. It's shocking to see someone assassinated in
00:01:43.640front of a group of students. It's shocking to see someone assassinated for their political views.
00:01:49.260I mean, and I think it hit home, you know, personally to me and to you and to many others we know, Chris, because sometimes we think if something terrible like that happens, it's a politician.
00:02:03.520But this is someone who was in civil society.
00:02:06.760It was someone who was out there doing political advocacy who chose not to be a partisan.
00:02:13.040So it just made you think that much deeper.
00:02:15.980And, you know, I was talking about thinking about all of the years out on college campuses, university campuses, you take it for granted, you would never think or comprehend that something like this would happen.
00:02:33.100You know, free expression, exchanging ideas in the arena of ideas is at the heart of liberal democracy.
00:02:42.080And so no matter what side of the fence you are, this event pierces at that.
00:02:47.340It pierces at the very essence of what we take for granted, I think it's fair to say.