Trudeau and the media are building a SURVEILLANCE STATE
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Summary
Justin Trudeau's new online harms bill is the biggest threat to freedom of speech in this country. It introduces nothing short of a surveillance state, replete with snitch lines, kangaroo courts, and mass censorship. But rather than sounding the alarm bell, the legacy media in Canada is doing the Prime Minister s dirty work and smearing the opposition.
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Justin Trudeau's new online harms bill is the biggest threat to freedom of speech in this country.
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It introduces nothing short of a surveillance state replete with snitch lines, kangaroo courts, and mass censorship.
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But rather than sounding the alarm bell, the legacy media in Canada is doing the Prime Minister's dirty work and smearing the opposition.
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It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Okay, so we covered this on the show on Tuesday, but earlier this week, on Monday,
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the Liberal government, led by Justice Minister Arif Varani, introduced their new censorship bill, Bill C-63,
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which they call the Online Harms Act. It was tabled in the House of Commons.
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I walked through the entire bill on my show on Tuesday, so I encourage you to go check that out if you haven't already.
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Basically, the gist of this document, of this bill, is two things.
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It really tries to do two things. One is the whole protecting children from what they call sexual exploitation, porn,
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all that kind of thing, the predation of predators, protecting children.
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But they also included this entire other component, which is cracking down on so-called hate speech, harmful content,
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content, including introducing all kinds of new punishments, and really dangerous territory,
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things that you can get convicted of for simply writing your opinion online.
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And if that opinion goes against sort of the ruling mob, you could find yourself in a great deal of trouble.
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So according to the government's own communication on this bill,
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they write that the government of Canada is introducing legislation to combat harmful content online,
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So again, the emphasis is entirely on protecting children.
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And then they kind of just like sneak the other components in.
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And that is the greatest concern, because these other components are what we should all be worried about.
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Our article writes that the Liberals Online hate bill contains $70,000 fines for speech and potential life imprisonment,
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all for speech, all for speech, not for being convicted of any crime,
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but just for things that you write potentially online.
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The bill increases the maximum sentence for what they call advocating genocide,
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They don't say what they mean by advocating genocide.
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But for the crime of advocating genocide, the punishment went from five years up to life in prison.
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You could go to life, you go to prison for life for simply writing things online.
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So as you would expect in a free society, a lot of people oppose this bill.
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All of the leading civil liberties and civil rights organizations came out against it.
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So this is the left-wing Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
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They put out a press release urging substantial amendments to the online harms bill.
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They write that one troubling aspect of Bill C-63 is the vast authority bestowed upon a newly established body
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comprising government appointees to interpret the law, make up new rules, enforce them,
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and then serve as judge, jury, and executioner.
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Granting such sweeping powers to one body undermines the fundamental principle of democratic accountability.
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Furthermore, the bill's provisions, which include sweeping new search powers of electronic data with no warrant requirement,
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The bill provides for unacceptable intrusions into individuals' digital lives.
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We're talking about government commissioners empowered by themselves, operating on their own.
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I think this says it perfectly when it says that this government body will act as judge, jury, and executioner.
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One of the things that the Civil Liberties Association also mentioned was that Bill C-63 risks censoring a range of expression,
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So, even the left-wing Civil Liberties Association is ringing the alarm bell, saying journalists should oppose this bill.
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Journalists should be worried because it will censor journalistic reporting.
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Similarly, the more libertarian-associated or oriented Canadian Constitution Fund also came out opposed to this bill.
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It says here, the Canadian Constitution Foundation is deeply concerned by the Online Harms Act,
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introduced in the House of Commons on February 26th, will significantly hamper constitutionally protected expression.
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And here is a quote from Executive Director Joanna Barron, saying,
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The Justice Minister, Verrani, has tied these speech restrictions to defensible measures like removing images of child sexual exploitation material and revenge porn.
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Most of the bill is aimed at restricting freedom of expression.
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This heavy-handed bill needs to be severely pared down to comply with the Constitution.
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So, I think this is a really important point, a really interesting point.
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The whole point of this bill, most of the bill, is about restricting freedom of expression.
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They lead with the idea about protecting children, but that's really not what this is about.
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And likewise, Michael Geist, who is the former head of the CRTC, he is a law professor,
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and he wrote on his website why the Criminal Code and Human Rights Act provision should be removed from the Online Harms Act.
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And, yeah, he was the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa as well.
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He says that Bill C-63 is effectively four bills in one.
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Second, it's the expansion of mandatory pornography reporting.
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Third, it's the criminal code provisions, which opens up the door to life in prison for committing offenses that are motivated by hatred.
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And fourth, it's changes to the Canadian Human Rights Act, which restores the hated Section 13.
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And so, basically, what he says is that there's a huge difference between the first two and the latter two.
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The first two are focused on the obligations of Internet platforms and addressing online harms.
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Well, the latter two have nothing to do with Internet platforms at all.
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So, he's basically urging them to split this into two so that we can have a proper debate on this.
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And that's what you would come to expect, right?
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You're going to put out a piece of legislation.
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It's a huge, ominous bill essentially covering four different things.
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And rather than criticizing the bill, as these civil liberties organizations and as these law professors have done,
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Well, that's a silly question because we know exactly how the legacy media is going to cover this.
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They did exactly what the Justice Minister did when he introduced the bill,
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which is that they focused entirely on the keeping kids safe part, on the popular part,
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on the thing that almost every Canadian can agree with.
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And they didn't really bother to address the second half.
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So, this is how Global News Toronto covered the news.
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This is how they introduced it to the Canadian public.
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The federal government has tabled a long-awaited bill designed to protect children from online harm.
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Bill C-63 promises to tackle child endangerment online
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and put a stop to the non-consensual sharing of intimate images.
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Changes to the criminal code and the Canadian Human Rights Act will also be made.
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And it will be mandatory to report online child pornography.
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The bill also includes stiffer punishments for hate propaganda
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and a pledge to hold social media platforms accountable for the material they host.
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So, again, you can just see by the way that this is covered
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is it covered exactly the way the Liberals want it to be covered.
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This is all about safety, all about protecting kids.
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It's all about making the Internet a safer place against predators,
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which, again, is probably something that we can all get behind.
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It's something that Canadians all generally agree with.
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But the media isn't telling you the truth about this bill.
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They want you to think that it's just about saving kids.
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The CBC Toronto or the Global News Toronto thing is pretty innocuous.
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But then you get into, like, the really malicious stuff.
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So here is how the CBC decided to cover this story.
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Remember, Amanda Todd is the 15-year-old girl that committed suicide back in 2012.
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She posted a YouTube video explaining how she was being bullied online,
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And she ended up sadly, tragically, killing herself.
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and it led to a lot of sort of public awareness about how to engage online
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and the dangers of having children acting sexually online.
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You know, the reason that Amanda Todd was so tormented
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and basically get naked in front of the boys in her grade.
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And then they used those images to bully her and kind of blackmail her.
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this poor mother that had to live through that horrible tragedy
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And here they have her coming up to defend us and Trudeau
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to explain why Trudeau is right to introduce this sweeping new legislation.
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So we have that clip from CBC aired on February 27th.
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Joining me now for reaction to the bill is Carol Todd.
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was a victim of cyberbullying and online sextortion at just 15 years old.
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Carol joins us now from Coquitlam, British Columbia.
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who are facing some of the same struggles that Amanda did?
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will put another layer of protection and safeguarding
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And so we need to have the social media platforms
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which I'm guessing she probably hasn't read the bill,
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probably could have saved her daughter's life.
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and somehow that would have saved my daughter's life.
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as if she's some kind of an expert on the topic.
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is how dangerous the internet can be for children.
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that's sort of what we can expect from the CBC.
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the part that this is just all about saving kids,
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Amanda Todd wouldn't have killed herself, apparently.
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does receive funding from the Trudeau government.
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is promising that his government's upcoming bill
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will focus on making the internet safer for minors
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what all these other opposition people are saying.
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I think, again, it's probably the role of parents
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This is getting into surveillance state territory.
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Well, here is Breakfast Television's Sid Saxero.
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I'm going to point out a couple of my critiques
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about this way that the media go after Pierre Polyev.
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have been sitting pretty easy here for a while.
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the Conservatives are anywhere from 15 to 20 points up
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But just the way he's prefacing this whole thing,
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For Pierre Polyev and the Federal Conservatives.
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And Pierre Polyev has the audacity to go against it,
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This thing had been leaked all throughout the press.
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I mean, it was introduced first thing Monday morning.
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And just the way that he presented that bill there
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is designed to make you want to support Justin Trudeau.
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And like, how dare Pierre Polyev have the audacity
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to come out against a bill that censors the internet?
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because he wore blackface and racist costumes in the past.
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Polyev went on to say he is against transgender women
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in female bathrooms, changing rooms, and in sports.
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that would no longer protect 2SLGBTQ plus students in school.
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So there are a lot of very important issues here.
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And then what was happening in New Brunswick schools?
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is that somehow the government was cracking down on gay kids.
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it's just saying that the parents need to be informed
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if a child wants to sexually transition, right?
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But the way he framed it was it was about protecting kids,
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which I've talked about in the past on this program,
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that the media, they don't tell you the gory details
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They just use these kind of broad, sweeping euphemisms,
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protecting kids, protecting gay rights, or whatever,
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that a guy who, again, we know Justin Trudeau's past.
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We know that he was sort of a reckless ne'er-do-well
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before he decided to get into federal politics.
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and kind of used his celebrity power to weasel his way
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and we've been stuck with him for the past nine years.
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But I think it's perfectly fine and perfectly correct
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Like, the way the journalist is talking about it is like,
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that our prime minister used to just be like a total jerk
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and like totally insensitive and kind of racist.
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and there were also just pot shots towards Justin Trudeau.
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Now, for those who've known Pierre Polyev a long time,
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that is not electable in certain parts of the country.
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as to whether Pierre Polyev is allowed to be mean in politics,
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whether he's allowed to take pot shots at the liberals.
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and you will just see pot shot after pot shot back and forth.
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We want them to vehemently disagree and oppose each other.
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when Aaron O'Toole was leader of the Conservative Party
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was that he agreed with the liberals on too many things.
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where there was unanimous consent in the House of Commons,
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where they passed these sweeping bills or these motions
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and there was no opposition, no opposition at all.
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as if that was like a sign of progress in Canada.
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No, no, no, we don't all agree in this country.
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And the point of an opposition is to oppose the government.
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And that is why Canadians are so supportive of him.
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We saw that poll, 40%, 42% to the liberals, 20%.
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and we have different views being represented in our parliament.
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And yet, we have these journalists sort of hand-wringing
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And like, how dare Pierre Polyev say mean things
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using the euphemisms and using government talking points
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to talk about the important issues in our country.
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with Trudeau's new introduction of a surveillance state?
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that I wanted to quickly mention and tie together
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what we have all known for a very, very long time,
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that these were people working with the communist regime.
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A huge story, incredibly important for Canadians
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to know that this was happening on our grounds.
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There's so many examples of sort of Chinese interference,
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being deeply sort of involved in our institutions,
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when the conservatives were asking these questions,
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Well, he basically accused anybody asking him questions
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This is Justin Trudeau's favorite play from his playbook.
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If you ask him a question he doesn't want to answer,
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that not only doesn't have our interest in mind,
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I would recommend that the members of the Conservative Party,
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while participating in the global research community
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and they're being tricked by conspiracy theorists.
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So that's Justin Trudeau's second favorite play.
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about how the carbon tax is actually good for you
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And now he is weaponizing his ideology into legislation.
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He wants to make it illegal for you to disagree with him,
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and face life in prison for saying or thinking the wrong thing.
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This puts a chill on freedom of expression in our country
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because even if you are thinking about posting something,
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you might have a second thought because of this.
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because we don't have definitions for any of these things.
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We know those words have been taken out of context
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Like what does the word genocide even mean anymore?
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for all kinds of reasons, for all kinds of things.
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or there was a First Nations genocide at residential schools.
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and potentially go to jail just for saying the wrong thing.
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If Canada were a free country with a free press,
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and paid for by the Trudeau government, by the liberals.