00:09:16.280Because they brought in this capital gains tax change that they're trying to make you believe will only affect the monopoly man and his friends in a back room somewhere.
00:09:26.560You know, they've gone full on Occupy Wall Street, if you remember that with me.
00:09:31.680But they're not going after the 1% war, and they're going after the 0.13%.
00:09:39.400And those are the only people that will be affected by this change.
00:09:42.540And if you're against this change, you're against fairness.
00:09:45.700You're against fairness for Canadians.
00:09:47.580And what they're doing is they're increasing the threshold for what you pay capital gains tax on from 50% to 66%.
00:09:57.960The guy who put it down to 50%, what would his name be?
00:10:39.800They don't want the financialization of property, real estate.
00:10:45.600And yet, what they're going to do isn't going to hit the big corporation as much as it's going to hit the small corporation.
00:10:52.800Because a lot of people incorporate their small business.
00:10:56.080It will hurt the mom and pop that bought that small apartment block down the road to fund their retirement.
00:11:03.300It's going to discourage doctors from setting up a family practice in Canada.
00:11:08.960Because the way doctors who don't have a pension traditionally save their money is by investing in their corporation, using that as the vehicle or selling their practice.
00:11:19.200And now you're going to say that you're going to take a big chunk more of that windfall that they get.
00:11:26.980Meanwhile, civil servants in Ottawa, they get 70% of their salary for their best five years indexed to inflation for the rest of their life.
00:11:46.980Well, what's interesting is the conservatives aren't going to fight the money.
00:11:50.800The conservatives aren't even talking about the capital gains tax in any serious way.
00:11:54.920And talking to some senior Tories, they're like, well, we see it as a trap.
00:11:59.740They want to campaign against us on the capital gains tax and make this an Occupy Wall Street election rather than making it a carbon tax election.
00:12:10.420And I think, you know, the liberals might be able to pick up some votes that way by people who are financially illiterate or absolute communists like the Occupy Wall Street people.
00:12:22.320But anybody that's, you know, think of your friends or family who are small business owners.
00:12:30.320You don't have to be the super wealthy to be hit by this.
00:12:33.760Apparently, 60% of doctors will be hit by this.
00:12:38.040You want to, we've got a doctor shortage.
00:13:34.980So everybody should check out the podcast.
00:13:36.580One other thing that happened this week that had more to do with politics and policy is Justin Trudeau's best friend, Dominic LeBlanc, the pride of New Brunswick, basically, he confirmed he is organizing a leadership bit.
00:13:55.600It's full on reported as facts, not just opinion column stuff.
00:14:57.060And I don't know if you saw the Globe and Mail story where somebody was foolishly talking about Fight Club.
00:15:03.880But Marika Walsh has a story in the Globe saying that they want to close the polling gap with the conservatives to five points by June or July.
00:15:13.100Well, the only way you can do that is to take Trudeau out and put Dominic LeBlanc in, because I think he's the only one that could give the conservatives serious trouble at this point.
00:17:18.960Another argument arose in a different legislature this week.
00:17:24.000And you had some very courageous columns on it.
00:17:26.500And I think you affected the outcome, in fact, about the Speaker of the Ontario Legislature saying that a kafia would not be permitted to be worn in the legislature, unlike what Greg Fergus has allowed to happen in Ottawa.
00:17:41.400And so tell us what happened there and why it's significant, why you feel the Speaker made the right ruling.
00:17:47.040I feel he made the right ruling, but I will not call it a ban.
00:17:51.300People are saying he's banning the kafia.
00:17:53.380No, he's upholding longstanding existing rules that say you cannot wear anything that is a political statement.
00:18:00.080And to let people know how far this goes, that includes wearing a poppy on your lapel.
00:18:06.760That only happens because of unanimous consent of the legislature.
00:18:11.520That includes wearing the daffodil pin in April for Cancer Awareness Month.
00:18:16.760You can't show up with anything on your lapel.
00:18:20.040They have to ask permission to support cancer research because it is a political statement.
00:18:27.000Or, you know, in the Ontario legislature, this time of year, OHL playoffs are going on.
00:18:32.900You'll have an MP from London or Guelph or Kingston or Ottawa say, well, you know, my team's having a good playoff run.
00:18:40.500Do I have permission to wear the jersey for a photo op in the legislature to show support?
00:18:45.400And because everyone's got an OHL team or a junior team or something and they're riding, they all say yes.
00:18:52.520So hockey and cancer, two things that are very innocuous, you have to ask permission.
00:18:57.200But to give you an idea of why these rules are in place goes back to a time before when our politics was way more divisive.
00:19:05.300And, you know, the example I used in one of my columns was if you had somebody show up in a Freemason's apron or an Orangeman bowler hat and sash, that could have caused not only a lot of consternation to the Irish and French Catholics in the legislature, but could have resulted in violence.
00:19:21.760You've got to remember that most legislatures, Ontario's, it's a bit wider, but most legislatures, the distance between the opposition bench and the government bench is just more than two sword lengths.
00:19:33.380And for a reason, because people used to try and kill each other over these things.
00:19:38.620And so the ruling that you can't wear anything that is an overt political statement was meant not to encourage division, but to paper over them so that you could have a civil discussion.
00:19:52.920It was to make sure that you weren't inflaming passions.
00:20:25.260Heather McPherson, to the NDP in Ottawa, no connection to Arabs, to Muslims, to Palestinians.
00:20:31.960You're wearing, and you only started wearing it after October 7th.
00:20:35.480And you only wear it when you're voting on issues related to, you know, for the guys in Ottawa, they're wearing it when they're voting on anything related to Israel or Gaza.
00:21:14.340The reason they're saying the speakers are wrong is they're all pandering for votes in the Milton by-election, which is riding with a large Muslim population.
00:21:24.500And they've imported Middle Eastern politics right into the middle of their legislature, and I think they'll rue the day.
00:21:29.720So concluding on Middle Eastern politics, Israel responded to the brazen and massive attack directly by Iran.
00:21:59.920And based on what they did, did you think that they emerged in a better position?
00:22:04.360Well, one of the stories that I read said that your guy in Washington, Joe Biden, said to them, look, if you do not indiscriminately bomb Iran, we'll give you the go-ahead to go into Rafa.
00:22:17.160And so they did surgical strikes on Iran, but they hit very important spots where Iran's nuclear program is.
00:22:25.360And one commentator said the way they hit Iran and the importance of the positions that they struck is a bit like waking up to the burglar having left you a photo of you sleeping in your bed.
00:22:48.300And they basically said, strike us again, and we'll strike you back harder, which I think is the message that you should send.
00:22:56.680I remember saying that with some of the wars the Americans have been in.
00:23:02.680Sometimes you just got to go Andrew Jackson, not everyone's favorite president these days, but he didn't like getting into protracted wars,
00:23:08.920but didn't mind going and beating the snot out of you and say, don't make me come back.
00:23:13.260And that's kind of what Israel did to Iran.
00:25:00.440But, yeah, it's a piece about an underground manual of Palestinian action and talking about using violence and mayhem and terrorist tactics to not just hurt Israel, but to hurt democracy in the West.
00:25:16.700Brian Lilly, I understand you're heading to the Hammer to see your mom.