Juno News - October 11, 2024
Trudeau appeased Hamas supporters
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In this week's Off The Record, True North's senior journalist and editor, Chasmin Georgia, and senior editor and host of the Alberta roundup, Harrison Faulkner, join us to discuss a crazy week in Canadian politics.
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it's remarkable how times change you know just a few years ago the desecration of the terry fox
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monument in ottawa was like the worst possible thing imaginable and now that seems mostly left
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wingers are burning the canadian flag and chanting death to canada we're being told guys well it's
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not that bad because it's actually not against the law why are people upset about this well
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this was actually in vancouver there was a bunch of clips coming out of this protest where all these
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pro-hamas pro-hezbollah people got together to chant death to canada death to the united states
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death to israel and they were trying to burn this flag but i found it so funny because they were
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trying to burn a polyester nylon flag that wouldn't catch fire so it's it's kind of a symbol of the
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resilience of canada in the face of all these people who hate it or the or the mental capacity
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of the people who do hate it isaac what did you make of what we saw in vancouver yeah uh you know
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i saw a thought a lot of things online contrasting these protests let's call them by these terrorist
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sympathizers uh as you mentioned chanting death to canada and burning the canadian flag versus of
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course what we saw at the freedom convoy a generally peaceful celebration of canada so a lot of clips
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contrasting those two and and obviously the emergency measures act was called in on one of those uh
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gatherings you you might if you knew nothing about the situation guess the wrong one yeah it's funny
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you know the ndp were you know having mental breakdowns over terry fox's statue with a canadian
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flag on it they said nothing at all when palestinian protesters put the palestinian flag and keffiyeh on
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the terry fox statue and i'm quite certain that we didn't hear a single thing out of the bc ndp
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or the federal ndp over the ridiculous protest scenes in vancouver i guess that's just uh
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i guess that's just the way things are going these days but with that let's get into the show
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welcome everyone to off the record my name is harrison faulkner i'm joined today by true north's
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senior journalist and editor cosmin georgia as well as the host of the alberta roundup isaac
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lamoureux gents thank you so much for joining us thanks harrison yeah thanks harrison yeah we've got
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we've got quite a lot to get into this was obviously an insane week in canadian politics they they kind
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of just stack up with each other each week they just kind of get crazier but of course with this
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past week seeing the first anniversary of the october 7th attacks we knew that it was going to
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dominate the political dialogue in this country but maybe not to this same degree the big news
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this week of course was kicked off when pierre pauliev said outside at a first at an october 7th
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event and then the following day in ottawa that he would support preemptive strikes on iranian nuclear
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bases and their oil reserves which is uh well depending on what you think about it the reality is this it is
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not a it's not a sentiment shared by the united states and not one that is shared by the canadian
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government so pauliev kind of taking a different perspective there but in kind of line with his
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hawkish stance on iran it then followed when pierre pauliev said in the house of commons that canada's
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foreign minister melanie joly was pandering to hamas supporters the reality is it doesn't really seem to be
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too out of step with the truth because according to tom mulcair in ctv mulcair said that jolie told
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him privately that he she has to pander to these causes because of the demographics of her writing
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remarkably we're now in a situation where canada's foreign policy is being dictated by the demographics
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of individual riding so there you go uh we then get melanie joly responding to pierre pauliev with
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this hissy fit take a listen he don't freaking gaslight people not on a day that is so important
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for the country and clearly that's what kathalia was doing today and clearly what he was saying it
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was trying to play petty politics on the backs of victims and so that's why not only should he
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apologize for what he did but clearly the guy's unfit to become prime minister because canadians
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deserve way better so there you go it was uh you know because of what pauliev said he was basically
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removed from the house of commons and uh censored by the speaker greg fergus for those for those comments
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which frankly aren't that bad if you ask me i don't know i mean i mean he's not like he's not
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saying something that's obviously out of step with the truth uh it's just might might have struck too
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close for melanie joly and greg fergus who we know is not exactly bipartisan i want to get through
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everything we have here so in response to all of this and of course the legacy media was melting down
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right alongside melanie melanie joly and saying pauliev was was wrong to was wrong to make these claims
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true north and you cosmon in particular you fact-checked what was going on with a listicle
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that explained every opportunity the five times that the trudeau government has appeased hamas and
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i want to give you the chance to explain that in more detail cosmos so what exactly has the trudeau
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government done to appease hamas sure first i just want to point out the double standard of this ruling
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because i would make i would take pierre poliev's comments to be fair comment and here we have the
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liberal government constantly accusing the conservatives of pandering to far-right extremists
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domestic terrorists etc but those comments are not taken out of line nobody's censored for that
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so we did put together this list it was five times when the liberal government clearly pandered to hamas
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and its supporters here in canada i think the cream of the crop was when a senior hamas leader
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actually thanked the trudeau government alongside other other governments but canada was uh chief among
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that list for his support and calls for a ceasefire that extends also to votes in the un by bob ray
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additionally they've supported ndp motions uh they've also accused israel of targeting civilians
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ignoring the fact that hamas often stores ammunition all sorts of equipment fighters
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in civilians homes uses civilians as human shields and all of these things put together just go to
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substantiate pierre polievra's claims that the liberal government has in fact pandered to hamas
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isaac what do you make of what we've seen yeah a few things one one thing that stood out to me with
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jolie's little hissy fit there was she and i'm guessing did this consciously did not use the
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word hamas which i found very interesting given the subject she was speaking about you would think
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it would come out naturally especially on october 7th and then just touching briefly on what um pierre
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said about iran there uh i i i don't know that i disagree with him per se but really i'm looking at
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these things through the lens of you're either pro-war or against it so i really don't want to
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advocate for war in any way i think that's something trump did so well and we'll see with the upcoming
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american election here was he he kept the world essentially out of wars he didn't start any new
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wars he resolved a few you'll remember korea so really i want these wars to come to an end and
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the best way to do that of course is to stop funding these foreign entities well one thing i think
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is going to be you know people should pay attention to is pierre polyev's changing statements when he
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eventually does become prime minister because it's looking very much very certain that he will be and
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i'm pretty certain that when he does become prime minister he won't be saying that israel should strike
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iran's nuclear uh bases you can say that when you're the opposition leader but you know there are
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you know falling out of line with the united states foreign policy on on the middle east is is not
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something that canadian governments typically do and i think that polyev is taking a chance
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when he's opposition leader to make that point you know i think the other thing that i see which
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really bugs me is this this fact that we have now let our politics be dictated by the ethnic fights
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and and foreign issues that immigrants mostly care about most so melanie jolie admitting to tom
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mulcaire there that she has to take certain stances as the minister of foreign affairs because of the
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demographics of her riding as if that should have any bearing whatsoever on canada's best interest it
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doesn't but this is not just the only issue that we've seen this right we've seen for example
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diff different ethnic groups in brampton dictating canada's foreign policy when it comes to india
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right this is this is a major issue and the same goes likely for uh china in certain cases right
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certain members of parliament don't want to make such a strong stance against china because
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they're riding maybe in in richmond is heavily chinese so we've now let ourselves into this
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situation uh cosmon where canada's foreign policy is being dictated by small individual riding uh
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ethnicities what what a what a terrible situation for canada yeah and i just want to add it's not just
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foreign policy this actually spills out into inter-ethnic conflict that we see played out on the streets
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in calgary we saw eritrean gangs fighting each other way back recently we saw a journalist a south
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asian journalist being attacked on the streets by somebody part of a different ethnic group in that
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region essentially disagreeing with what he had to say on his exposure of extortion schemes within his
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community and this is happening all over the place you mentioned china we see the chinese
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government have agents in this country illegally operating police stations that the government
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claims have been shut down but we know that there is still a lot of activity being pushed by the ccp in
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canada to pressure threaten and intimidate chinese expats who live in this country who speak out both
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privately and publicly against the chinese communist government so it is impacting our foreign policy but
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it is also playing out in the everyday lives of canadians and don't you think isaac that members
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of parliament who are elevated into positions of extreme importance like being in the cabinet
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don't you think that when you're in that position standing up for the interests of the canadian people
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is more important than winning your seat in the next election wouldn't you think that that's a
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reasonable price to pay for standing up for the interests of canadians yeah we've seen these mps that have
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such a national influence uh acting selfishly if you if you want to call it that really just catering to
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as you mentioned a very small demographic but i i guess it comes as little surprise given so many
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liberal mps in their own ridings are seeing that based on the polls they will lose their seats so these
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people are thinking how am i going to keep my job my salary my life because if i lose my seat i'm out on the
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street essentially right yeah it it is it is unbelievable uh the last last question i have
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for both of you and isaac you already touched on this but cosmon what do you make of pauliev's
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decision to come out so forcefully for israel to preemptively strike iran uh like i i was saying my
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my perspective is i think that pauliev is taking the opportunity as an opposition leader um but in general
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i don't think many canadians want to be dragged into a major war yeah look i think he wants to
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distinguish himself from the liberal government's lukewarm response and we know that the foreign
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policy file has never been the strong suit of the liberals so whether you agree with his decision or not
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he's taking a stance that is very you know single focused obviously uh intentional and and has
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actionable items to it whereas the liberal government just kind of just lingers in this die
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like this false promise of dialogue of of just essentially going to the un uh and they're not
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really doing anything they're not actually pressuring uh different interest groups involved in this
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conflict and they've abandoned canada's role as this middle power that mediates global conflicts
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and and achieves reasonable solutions that avoid the death toll and the carnage that we see playing
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out right now i couldn't agree more and we're going to stick with you cosmon because we're going to
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transition now from foreign policy to provincial politics i want to go over to uh british columbia your
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neck of the woods talking to talk about the state of the race as we're entering uh as we get closer
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to election day in british columbia there was just a debate so what's going on in bc because it's uh it's
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starting to get a lot of national play yeah so the election is less than two weeks out we just saw
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a major debate happen i think it's going to be it was the only televised debate actually between the
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three major party leaders the bc conservatives bc ndp who are in government and the bc greens but uh
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this whole conflict of of the hamas protests and etc happening throughout canada particularly touched
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bc because we saw in vancouver uh on october 7th a major pro-palestine pro-hamas rally happening and
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these clips went viral all over the place including in the united states where these protesters as we
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mentioned earlier literally said were hezbo hezbollah were hamas death to canada death the united
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states etc and this sparked a condemnation from bc conservative leader john rustad who came out and
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said that his official party policy will be to pressure ottawa if he gets elected to deport any
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non-citizens found to openly and publicly support terrorist groups and terrorist entities
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and we know that both hamas and hezbollah are listed terrorist organizations here in canada and
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that actually made it into the debate he was the only leader in that debate to bring this up and he
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mentions in a clip that we're just about to play how the bc ndp have continuously pandered to this radical
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wing of their own party including by sacking one of their own ministers i care about the fact that our
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youth want to be able to have safety here you know we have a government that kicks out a jewish
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cabinet minister selena robinson to appease a mob who last night was burning flags in front of the art
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gallery i find that incredibly offensive so just for a little bit of context uh selena robinson was a
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minister in the bc ndp government she's jewish and she made some comments uh soon after the october 7th
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conflict broke out in the middle east essentially saying that i think she called the area of where
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palestine is a crappy piece of land in an interview and this caused a huge flood of far left radical pro
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hamas pushback from within the bc ndp and david eby essentially the premier essentially caved to that
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pressure and it's outstanding because nobody is calling out the bc ndp's consistent
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push to appease these individuals within their own party and we see these protests playing out all the
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time they're happening in victoria where i live every saturday there's pro-palestine people being
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escorted by police constantly blocking traffic uh saying all sorts of slogans etc so i want to ask you
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harrison how much because i i'm here in bc this is the story of the you know the year essentially how
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much of this has spilled out to the rest of canada are you seeing conversations about the bc election
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and particularly the response from the bc government which is i think a solid one to call for the
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deportation of people who support terrorists is that really reaching the rest of canada
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you know the problem i think living in ontario and specifically living in toronto is that whatever
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happens in this area is like the most important news story in the world and anything else is not
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thought about it's not talked about it's not discussed and i think that's almost exclusive
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to southern ontario that kind of mindset uh but i think anyone paying attention to politics in canada
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is watching this closely they might not have been watching it several months ago but as the
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conservatives get closer and closer to potentially even winning this election um or sig or just
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putting a major dent into the bc ndp people are starting to look at this and think to themselves
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wow this is major this is a major political shift this is really bad news for justin trudeau's liberals
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it's obviously terrible for the ndp um but the one thing that everybody does at least in toronto look
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at vancouver and british columbia the one thing they they look at that for is just the the the state
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of the city itself the the problems because people care more about the problems they do about what's
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nice about a certain place uh you know if it bleeds it leaves that sort of thing and everybody just
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understands that vancouver especially is drug infested it's full of homeless people and the policies
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that have led to that situation have been put in place you know for decades really but consistently
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by this by the ndp they're the ones that are legalizing cocaine in certain instances giving
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out uh giving out the the uh these hydromorphone pills to children uh talking about safe what is it uh
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you know like basically giving out drugs to kids in bc it is it is absurd so we're not seeing a lot of the
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dialogue about the election but everybody understands that the situation in bc is bad and it needs to
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change isaac what is the uh situation out in alberta are people paying attention to bc a bit more
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yeah obviously i'm a lot closer to bc than you harrison being their neighbor uh their eastern
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neighbor but uh though no one would call alberta an eastern province uh yeah obviously i've been
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paying quite close attention to the bc election not just because i work for true north but because
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i i found this find this provincial election really interesting especially with the polls
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because it's it's really going to be a nail biter i think uh based on the polls because really we see
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the ndp and the conservatives kind of flipping in in each subsequent poll where they're within a a few
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points so that's really interesting and i just wanted to talk about uh the bc provincial election you
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know is not the only provincial election coming up in canada we have a few others and i i just really want
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to see what dominoes will begin to fall if the conservatives just start cleaning up the
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provinces what kind of message that's going to send to the federal government cosmon i will say this i i
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not many people are talking about uh bc election in ontario but they are talking about chip wilson the
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lululemon founder this guy seems pretty based i didn't know about this yeah so essentially chip wilson uh
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he's a big business figure here in british columbia and he owns a home in vancouver i think that's his
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base of operations that's actually where he founded lululemon the athletic clothing line and he put out
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this huge sign on his property uh that i guess he had made himself he got commissioned to to be made and it
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it essentially argued that you know the left keeps calling the conservatives the bc ndp keeps accusing the
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conservatives of being extremists far-right etc but they ignore the fact that the bc ndp are communists
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and we know i the bc ndp is a socialist party they have their roots in progressive canadian socialism
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and some would argue some of the policies they're introducing including you know mass government
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subsidized housing in british columbia is a form of you know communist housing i i come from romania i was
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born there i i immigrated to canada when i was seven or eight we had huge they were called blocks
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but they were essentially giant gray brick buildings where people got to live for free but
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you didn't actually get to own the place and it was essentially a government subsidized place that
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was offered to you by the the soviet dictatorship at the time so i think there's some legitimacy but
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people were so angry with the sign that they went up there graffitied it uh wrote all kinds of messages
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on the the sign and it's funny because it just proves that who would get angry at being called
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a communist other than people who are communists man homemade political signs that's like a new concept
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that could really take off you know it's pretty boring like a sign in some color how about how about
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how about tell us how you really feel that would really uh spice some things up in some neighborhoods
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eh isaac yeah uh yeah when i was talking with lindsey uh on the daily brief on thursday about this she
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said wilson had the most expensive home uh in vancouver or in bc there which is 81 million dollars so
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yeah i just found that interesting i mean his his sign getting defaced i don't know uh how he feels
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about that but he he then put up a subsequent sign and even a third sign i heard i i can't remember
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what they said but so he's just gonna keep putting up new signs every day they'll deface them and
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he'll put a new one up the next day well i just want to add that like the fact that they're defacing
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private property just goes to prove his point these people don't care about private property they
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feel entitled to other people's private property i wish there was a better segue for these stories
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that's the other problem you know like i feel like back in when whenever whenever andrew lawton
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would host the show he would always have these classic segues i'm not there yet but we're gonna
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we're gonna just you know abruptly segue to another story here and we're gonna ship it over to you isaac
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to talk about the the revelations we are learning about the handling of the jasper wildfire story
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i talked about this on my show yesterday and it is what we are learning is just disgraceful the neglect
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the negligence and the handling of this wildfire um which it appears could have been almost entirely
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prevented isaac what are we learning yeah tough to segue into this one harrison obviously i spent
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much of my day yesterday for hours watching the testimonies coming out of the house of commons
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about the jasper wildfires and with every testimony i watched the the feeling of sickness
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in my stomach grew knowing now for certain that something is amiss with the way the jasper wildfire
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was handled not only during the fire but leading up to the fire so the conservatives uh they're setting
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forward a motion calling for additional testimony from forest management groups stakeholders indigenous
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communities and impacted individuals for four additional meetings because they're saying look
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we've uncovered so much already we need more time to go through this uh it was dan masier the
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conservative mp who said quote over the last two weeks an alarming amount of evidence has been released
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at the environment committee that shows minister guibo was negligent in protecting jasper uh yeah so
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obviously we saw guibo was found uh discussing cancelling prescribed burns for quote political
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purposes this was months before the fire and again the fire caused almost a billion dollars in damage
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destroying a third of jasper resulting in over 360 square kilometers of burned or partially burned area and 358
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destroyed structures masier said a few other things he said uh that parks canada officials which we saw
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in their testimony they can't even tell us how many hectares of dead pine remain in jasper but uh fans of
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true north may remember our exclusive where uh peter schultz said he estimated that last summer uh about 40
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of the forest was standing dead pine which he said essentially made it a powder keg yeah but then something
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even worse came out harrison which was that we saw in these testimonies firefighters speaking who said
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look we showed up and they they sent us away yeah 50 firefighters and 20 fire trucks were turned away
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by parks canada when they arrived in jasper to help fight the fire this was during the fire and they said
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no no thanks guys so yeah we saw the president of arctic fire safety services christopher liveham or leave
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them i don't know how you pronounce that but he testified that they were deemed non-essential and yes
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parks canada ordered them to leave he said he also revealed uh i mean the more i go into this the
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worse it gets guys he also revealed that the the hydrants in jasper are different than every other
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municipality in alberta and british columbia and they only had seven available adapters so these fire
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trucks were showing up they can't even connect to the hydrants because for some reason parks canada
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ordered some weird hydrant that no other municipalities use so of course the threading is not compatible with
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the fire trucks and yeah that live him he said at one point they were just forced to stand there
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and watch things burn down because they couldn't connect to the hydrant so he said something
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interesting which was quote that this should warrant a deeper investigation into this agency's fire
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mismanagement and overall role as guardians of canada's most important and cultural assets i mean
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the list is never-ending the things that that i uncovered yesterday guys uh going through these
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testimonies i mean it literally does get worse and worse the last thing i'll i'll add i guess was
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you let me know the level of corruption you think this is but at one point uh the committee chair
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stopped livern from testifying said said they couldn't interpret his french but then literally
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five seconds later someone's testifying and they're interpreting his french so i'm like hmm found
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that kind of odd but they said we got to stop you right there our interpreters can't interpret you
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but then literally five seconds later they're interpreting another guy so i really don't know what's
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happening and we know gibo and smith the alberta premier have a long history of animosity so there's
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really a lot that goes into the story uh who who who wants to speak about it first well i find it i
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find it shocking of course cosmon you know every time there's a wildfire in this country especially
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over the past three or four years it's always climate change to blame it's always climate change despite
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the mounting evidence of people who formerly worked in jasper from wildfire firefighters and from
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forestry experts saying it has nothing to do with that it's negligence poor forest management but
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obviously it is so conveniently blamed on climate change yeah i think canadians need to start asking
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themselves at what point at what point does the negligence mismanagement incompetence result in real
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consequences because this fire is devastating for the people of jasper and the surrounding communities
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they've lost their homes businesses literally everything they based their lives on and you could argue
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that the results are a direct consequence of the liberal government's failure to prevent this from
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happening failure to shield this town and protect the people there who were under their care they had
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a duty to do that but they didn't because they focused on these pie in the sky targets that don't actually
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manifest these environmental targets don't actually manifest any real results things keep getting
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burnt up and they've ignored the the real actions that prevent forest fires like you said forest management
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equipping firefighters with the right equipment it's simple it's just logical things that you have to think
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of when you're dealing with emergency preparedness and they've also tanked the forestry industry here in bc and
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the forest tree industry has a role to play in actually managing forests they cut down older trees they remove
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debris from forests they plant new fresh trees it's it's ridiculous and they've taken all these steps
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for what just so that they can get some global clout at the un and at the cop summits meanwhile the consequences
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our people's lives are ruined and worse when people potentially die yeah so and not only that i mean
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we're we're resulting in potential deaths we're resulting in billions of dollars of damages we're
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resulting in one of the crown jewels one of the natural crown jewels of the world likely one of the
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most beautiful natural places in the world uh being destroyed and here's the thing they always talk about
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lowering carbon emissions that's what trudeau and guibo always talk about that's why there's a carbon tax
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that's why they constantly that's why they refuse to fund and support canada's natural resources
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industry because we need to lower our carbon emissions isaac but here's the thing that they
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don't tell you that the wildfire season in 2023 just the wildfires alone not the oil industry not cars
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not any of else what they say the wildfires alone emitted more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
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than all but three nations in the world the 2023 wildfire emitted more carbon than every other
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country except for china india and the united states so if you wanted to lower carbon emissions in canada
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they could actually do that by preventing forest fires isaac yeah and also don't forests absorb carbon
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so when they burn down pretty much you're you're losing a a net net negative as well so it's a double
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whammy if you want to call it that it's it's it's unbelievable it's unbelievable and then and then to
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basically use these policies use these climate policies which is what peter schultz um a former
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jasper park senior planner alleged as far back as 2008 so this is a long issue long long time problem
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where certain political groups in and around jasper right he blames them and parks canada for
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basically believing that any cutting down of any tree is a crime that it you know that it is like
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taking a life that so they have allowed these groups and parks canada have been infiltrated by
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political activists it appears and these aren't not my comments these are comments from someone who
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worked at the park to dictate forest management policies stopping lumber companies as you pointed out
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cosmon from clearing out areas of the forest from actually building what they call fire blocks in the
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middle of the forest and from stopping from stopping the clearing out of dead wood the pine
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beetle that is killing this killing these trees from stopping that from building up on the on the forest
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floor like it's so common sense but yet we've basically allowed for us to be sacrificed for climate
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change policies i can't think of anything worse just to stick on the negligence aspect of this
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the vast majority of the negative consequences of the destruction etc comes from a lack of preparedness
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and a lack of of actually doing anything to prevent this from happening on the part of government here
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in bc not too long ago there was flooding in the fraser valley in abbotsford particularly mission uh
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chilliwack that area there and it was revealed that the government there both municipal and provincial
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government were warned way way way back years ago like i think even a decade earlier that the dikes
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were not prepared for another major flooding incident because one happened about half a century prior
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so they were aware of this they didn't do anything to prevent it their flood system was not uh upgraded
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it wasn't managed to the degree where it could have prevented much of the damage that happened to farms and
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that's the main people who were actually affected by this climate event but what it actually was it was
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a mismanagement event the government failed people failed to act and invested their time in priorities
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making like climate change uh emergency declarations instead of actually getting people on the ground
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putting up sandbags reinforcing dikes creating those floodgates we try to end the show with some uh
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less serious topics some more light-hearted topics but it won't be very light-hearted for uh isaac or i
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because both of our teams our hockey teams had a rough start to the season on on wednesday night
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but the news of the nhl season has been completely trumped by the hiring of a fee the first female nhl
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assistant coach jessica campbell by the seattle kraken everybody is going crazy over this because it's so
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impactful the first female coach has been hired now we have some disagreement here amongst the
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true north staff some of us believe this is a clear example of dei getting its way into hockey a place
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where it does not belong and others don't believe so isaac you don't believe the hiring of jessica
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campbell is dei i will yeah uh i don't know i looked into her history a bit obviously she had various medals
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some gold ones from international play and even more so she began coaching in 2017 so how long is
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that seven years now uh so as the owner of jc power skating her clientele included nhl player tyson
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joe's tyson joe's stanley cup champion joel edmondson and olympic gold medalist natalie spooner so pretty
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good list there and then in july 2022 she was hired as the assistant coach of the coachella valley firebirds
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which was the top minor league affiliate of the nhl's seattle kraken for whom she now coaches
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or assistant coaches sorry she obviously became the first woman to be employed on a full-time
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basis in the ahl as well and then as you mentioned this week she became the first female coach to be
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behind the bench in engine in nhl history so well i i will admit with you and harrison that um
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dei may have played a part because seattle's like oh we're gonna hire this woman you know it might
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look good for us but at the same time she does have an impressive resume they didn't just pick
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some random woman off the street and we were talking earlier about how kyle dubas of the
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toronto maple leafs may have had an even less impressive resume than her you know i don't know
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much hockey is not my number one sport i do love watching hockey now in canada i have to say
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i don't follow it very closely not as close to some others at true north but i looked into this story
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and i see that she has had a rapid rise through the ranks of hockey very rapid likely faster than
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most uh most male coaches it says here that uh in 2021 2022 she got her job as the assistant coach
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for the nirnberg ice tigers and then i guess it would have been within a year and a half later she's
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in the ahl and then the very next season she's at the nhl uh it seems very quick hiring and another
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thing i will say cosmon is you know what gives it away for me about this being dei is that
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everybody's going absolutely absurd over this saying this is so historic so historic is the
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first woman they're doing you know special segments and videos for it but if she was
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completely deserving of it why bother just let it go under the radar and let her just stand on her
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own two feet and let her work show for itself well look i i'm not a huge hockey expert but the other
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thing that's overlooked is this is seattle washington state this is like one of the most liberal progressive
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states on the west coast i've been to seattle uh it's actually a dump now the local government has
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ruined that city it's almost as bad if not more widespread uh in than vancouver in terms of their
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drug addiction issues and crime i saw a person there uh there was an ambulance trying to come through
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we were just driving through downtown and he was pointing like a finger gun at the ambulance in
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the middle of the crosswalk and it couldn't pass by him it is one of the quintessential left-wing
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radical antifa places in this in the entire united states so i'm not surprised i'm really not surprised
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it's coming from seattle isaac what do you make of just the general direction of the nhl we've seen some
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shocking examples of this dei woke nonsense i believe that they they helped they held some
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sort of uh there was a transgender event that they held a hockey game about two years ago we've seen
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all their you know their the the black lives matter messaging on the hockey ice i mean surely like all the
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other sports this sort of thing should be left off the ice yeah i i remember last year obviously we saw that
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big pushback against pride events in the nhl because so many players were saying look we are
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not participating in this uh which led to a bunch of controversy but that that's really what what it
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came down to harrison it's like we're here to watch hockey we're here to get away from the politics of of
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everyday life we just want to watch a sport we love and and wind down you know let's focus on the sport
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the game we don't need to bring all of these woke initiatives into it you know it's like a lot of
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hockey players we from what we can see are actually conservatives they don't believe any of this
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crazy nonsense and we we kind of know part of that because we have seen through the true north channel
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some retired nhlers that follow our accounts and follow our work so we appreciate all those guys for
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liking what we produce at true north with that let's wrap it up and i guess the slogan goes
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everything you've just heard was off the record
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so did the oilers really lose six nothing isaac or was that uh slightly we have improved because
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last year we got smoked eight one so uh based on that logic we got to game seven of the stanley cup
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finals i mean we may never lose again there you go that's some optimist that's some optimism as uh as
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our as our managing uh editor or managing uh producer said that kind of optimism is maple leafs level