00:17:45.060You know, what's really concerning about it is, you know, of course, what's happening right now in Gaza that we're seeing is, you know, it's awful.
00:18:33.620I mean, this long ago, we've passed the point where the authorities need to do more.
00:18:37.880Like, you know, for people who aren't Jewish who are listening to us right now, just, you know, imagine your grandmother being a church,
00:18:44.160you know, a Catholic church or a Protestant church or whatever, and coming out, and there's a mob outside on the sidewalk screaming at her that she's a murderer
00:18:53.200and that she, you know, is involved in genocide and that her religion isn't a real religion.
00:19:00.320Just imagine if that happened to a member of your family.
00:19:36.340We're just here trying to exist as well.
00:19:39.280You know, I spoke with the prime minister last week or the week before, last week when he was in town in Windsor.
00:19:46.000And I asked him what the government, what he thinks the government's role is in combating anti-Semitism.
00:19:51.580And I got to say, I was pretty dismayed by the response that I got because he didn't really say anything other than listing what it is that's already been done.
00:19:59.740And, you know, the premise of the question here is setting up that, like, you know, things are bad right now.
00:20:02.980I don't want to hear about what you've done.
00:20:04.320I want to hear about what you're going to be doing.
00:20:06.520I've spoken with other Jews in the country who have said, I can't vote for the liberals.
00:20:14.300I don't want to vote for the conservatives.
00:20:16.160But that seems to be the only place that I can go right now.
00:20:19.520This is reverberating through our politics.
00:20:21.580It is, and there's good people, though, in all the parties, and there's a lot of people in all of the parties, you know, who have a 10 year on this thing.
00:20:30.300But all three levels of government, whether they're liberal, Tory, or New Democrat, have a role to play here.
00:20:36.800The federal government is the level of government that creates the criminal law.
00:20:40.540We need to create a criminal law so that we can lay hate charges against somebody who's targeting a synagogue, for example, without getting the permission of the provincial attorney general, which is the case right now.
00:20:52.340We need, at the provincial level, we need special prosecutors and special courts in the way that they do in the United States who are experts in dealing with this type of criminal activity to stamp it out.
00:21:04.300That's what other jurisdictions around the world are doing, but we are not.
00:21:07.520And at the municipal level, we need to make sure that the municipal leaders, whether it's in Toronto, Olivia Chow, or Valerie Plante from Montreal, they have the two biggest problems, are saying to the police, we've got your back.
00:21:19.500You know, we're not going to tell you what to do, but if you go ahead and lay charges against the people who are doing these things, we're not going to complain.
00:21:26.100We're not going to say, defund the police.
00:21:29.280All three levels of government can and should be doing more because we've got the laws, you know, and in some cases, we've got the resources.
00:21:38.560What we too often lack these days since October 7th is the leadership to deal with it.
00:21:44.040Yeah, political conviction seems to be lacking.
00:21:46.440And again, with this Liberal Party right now, they seem that they want to try to be everything everywhere all at once, and they're really just upsetting everyone everywhere all at once.
00:21:54.980It's a tough situation, but it's especially tough to be living through this time.
00:21:59.000Hey, Warren, I want to thank you again for your time and for all the work that you do in writing about this subject just personally.
00:25:07.220They want, well, they're not calling it a rain tax.
00:25:09.940They're calling it a stormwater charge and water service charge consultation,
00:25:14.880which sounds benign and safe and not too offensive.
00:25:19.260But really what they're talking about is, you know, if rain falls and it lands on a hard surface on your driveway or your roof or whatever,