Juno News - October 31, 2018Why is the NDP so afraid of Steve Bannon？
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Summary
Steve Bannon and David Frum will be debating whether the future of Western politics is populist, not liberal, at a Munk Debate event Friday in Toronto at Roy Thompson Hall. What's the problem with the debate format? Is it censorship, or is it open, honest, and respectful debate?
Transcript
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We're way too late for Canada Day, but that doesn't mean we won't get a fireworks show.
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Steve Bannon versus David Frum, one of the most interesting political matchups we've seen as of late,
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certainly when the question of populism is at stake.
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Steve Bannon and David Frum will be debating whether the future of Western politics is populist, not liberal,
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at a Munk Debate event Friday in Toronto at Roy Thompson Hall.
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If you've never been to a Munk Debate, they're truly spectacular.
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You get some real heavyweights on both sides of key issues, whether it's political correctness or refugees,
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or in general, U.S. politics, whether Donald Trump is the guy.
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They've done all of this, and the Munk Debates really prove how much you can accomplish with open, honest, and respectful debate.
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But debate itself is the enemy to the modern left.
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Charlie Angus, a new Democratic Party member of Parliament, came out saying that Steve Bannon should be uninvited from this
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out of respect, he said, for the victims of the tragic shooting at the synagogue in Pittsburgh over the weekend.
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Now, as far as I know, Bannon was not even in Pennsylvania at the time,
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but somehow it's disrespectful to the families of slain Jewish worshippers to have Steve Bannon debating populism in Toronto.
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The fact is, the NDP, like so many people on the far left, do not believe in free speech.
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And the party itself actually takes the position that Charlie Angus put forward,
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which means that we have a political party starting to tell private groups
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which people are or are not deserving of a right to speak their mind and public forums.
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The whole point of free speech is that you get to actually see and test different positions,
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different belief systems, different ideological viewpoints.
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And what better way to do that than in what is literally a debate format?
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But for people in Antifa and all of these other radical groups,
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they've been wanting this event to be cancelled ever since the get-go.
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Which brings the question up, what are they so afraid of?
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You see, a lot of the people that actually try to no-platform others
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are scared that the person might actually make a good point or two.
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They're scared that the person might actually win people over.
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It shows that they're being so close-minded in not actually allowing a debate to go forward
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because to them, debate is not something that should be afforded to reprehensible people.
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That if you allow two positions to be given equal footing on a stage,
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The person that they believe is whoever the latest incarnation of Hitler is.
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Now, there are lots of things that we as a society may say shouldn't be debated,
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But it's individuals that get to make those determinations,
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not political parties, and certainly not the government.
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For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.
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