KINSELLACAST 328： Paging Kheiriddin, Belanger, Lilley and Mraz! Plus Blink and their apostles, along with TV On The Radio
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This week on The Kinsella's Cast, Warren talks about Hezbollah and the Pagers, and how the Western media reacted to them. Plus, a new phase of war between Canada and Israel, and a new kind of music.
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It's the Kinsella Cast, starring Warren Kinsella.
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Hey, it's Warren. Welcome to the Kinsella Cast.
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I do not have scurvy yet, but that is imminent.
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And so I'm with dogs and cat, and I'm going to get scurvy.
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She's influenced my dietary habits, so I may survive the week, but just barely.
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We will have John Mraz and I talking about international affairs.
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He is going to make his maiden speech in the Senate, and then promises to speak to us after that.
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So we'll have lots of questions for him, and then Tasha Carradine, Carl Belanger, maybe some other stuff, and some good music.
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I've got, like, Blink-182 from Hardcore Punks gets a lot of grief, but I like those guys.
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They were really good to me in my book, Fury's Hour, which is still available for purchase, about the punk rock movement.
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So I've got one of their tunes, and then, you know, a couple bands that they influenced.
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I've got one band they probably didn't influence, TV on the radio, with one really great song to kick things off.
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But, yeah, I've got some good stuff for you this week, and what I wanted to talk to you about to start is Hezbollah, okay?
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So Hezbollah's been in the news a lot because of the pagers thing.
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Like, Hezbollah has been designated as a terrorist entity by Canada, the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, United Arab Emirates, many other countries.
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They're called terrorists because they meet the literal definition of the word.
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They use violence against civilians to achieve their political goal, which, according to their 1985 charter, and this is a quote,
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is a struggle that will end only when this entity, which is Israel, is obliterated.
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We recognize no treaty with it, no ceasefire, no peace agreements.
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So Hezbollah has declared war on Israel for about four decades.
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And most recently, they've fired thousands of rockets into Israel since October 7th.
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Their near daily barrages have forced 60,000 civilians from their homes in Israel's north.
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And in July, one of their rockets slammed into a soccer field near the Golan Heights and killed 12 kids.
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Well, most of the past year, their rocket attacks on Israel have been routinely ignored or downplayed by the Western media.
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And this week, Hezbollah was back in the news because of this exploding pagers story.
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So mid-afternoon on Tuesday, thousands of handheld pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously.
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And the next day, some walkie-talkies blew up too.
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Anyway, Israel almost certainly concocted the pager and walkie-talkie operations, but they're not saying so publicly.
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Notwithstanding that, the explosions have captivated the world this week because they read like something out of a James Bond movie.
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The Western media and some Western nations, however, have reacted to the pagers operation like it was Nazi Germany invading Poland.
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They've regarded it as a declaration of war, even though Hezbollah has been in a perpetual state of war with Israel, as I mentioned, since 1985.
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Canada's witless, clueless Hezbollah at Hamas coddling Minister of Global Affairs, Melanie Jolie, this week said she would block any arms shipments going to Israel,
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even ones that originated in the United States.
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Meanwhile, she instructed Canada's ambassador to the United Nations to abstain, abstain, not oppose,
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a General Assembly vote by the dictators there calling Israel's war against Hamas unlawful.
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The United Nations human rights chief, who condemns Israel for a living, like his employer, is vocal Turk.
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And he said that the pager thing struck fear and terror and an unleashed fear and terror that was profound.
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CTV had a headline, Israel declares a new phase of war.
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CBC found an expert to say Israel had violated international law.
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The Star thought it was important to quote Hamas and so on and so on.
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The media, Western media reacted to the pager story in the way that they always do, unfairly and inaccurately.
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And I can give you dozens of examples about just the word terrorist, how they refuse, adamantly refuse to call terrorists, terrorists.
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March 2001, CNN reports on two different bomb attacks.
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One was by an Irish Republican group and another by a Palestinian.
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The Palestinian was called a militant when he set off a bomb in a taxi.
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The Irish Republicans were called a terror group for setting off a bomb outside the BBC.
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Two bombs, two attempts to kill people, yet different words get used.
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And that, as in the pager story, as in just about every other story that emanates from the Middle East going back decades, is the problem.
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Israel always, always gets held to a different standard.
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Meanwhile, the terrorists get away with murder.
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And you know what the sun is going to bring us.
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this is cfra live sunday political panel and welcome to it joining us on this beautiful
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sunday morning there's only 45 minutes left in summer right now just so you know carl
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belanger is the president at traction strategies he is here this morning uh good morning carl
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it ain't so andrew yeah i know it's a boundless optimism this morning for sure uh warren
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can sell as a strategist and post media columnist he is here as well good morning warren
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buzzkill yeah i prefer debbie downer but tasha caridan is also here uh she's a columnist for
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the national post a writer for g0 media and an author tasha good morning good fall morning to
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everybody all around now that i've got everybody in a in a great mood this morning uh very interesting
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stuff happening this week i'm kind of trying to combine a bunch of these things together but
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we've got some changes for a minority government right the liberals losing that montreal area
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by election they were hoping to win we got pablo roguerite stepping aside to run for the quebec
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liberals so we'll talk about a potential non-confidence vote coming up uh for better or for worse on
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tuesday but but regardless of that vote i guess warren i'll start with you are the liberals kind
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of slowly losing their control over this minority government or are they just basically in the same
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spot they were a couple of months ago well i would amend what you said from the liberals wanted
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to win that by election so the liberals had to win that by election this was as we've talked about
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on the panel previously but this was no average seat this is no average riding this was mostly the
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riding held by paul martin former prime minister former leader liberal party for many years and so it
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had huge symbolic value and they had to win it and you know they threw everything they could at it
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and they still couldn't pull it out so it's obviously good news for the bloc terrible news
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to liberals i also thought it was bad news for the tories because you know they were a distant contender
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in the by-election result on tuesday morning but i think that at the end of the day it all points
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in one direction which is that the prime minister is the main problem he needs to head to the exit doors
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and so far he's giving no indication he's going to do so and just a quick follow warm because we did
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see the liberal campaign co-chair in this you know say that this was a dry run for the next general
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election and you know if this is the dry run it would appear to me that it's not looking good for
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the liberals right now no it's a trip to the funeral parlor if it's a dry run i mean that's what the dry
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run is it's just you know they're in big big trouble across the board saint paul's another liberal
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fortress this one you know lots of column that said the morning after and they're right there's
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no safe liberal seat left in the country like you know there i've seen a seat projection showing the
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liberal party of canada potentially heading to fourth place not third place like in 2011 when carl
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was working for for jack layton and they eviscerated the liberal party fourth place you know in that
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point some of the prophecy about the liberal party never coming back and being wiped out as a factor
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in canadian politics i doubt that i'm skeptical about that but if you're getting into fourth place
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it's possible well the ndp certainly watching uh potential safe liberal seats and watching those
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closely no doubt i attached just on this um as i mentioned the by-election campaign and we saw you
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know another member of caucus leave again like i was saying this was a need to win election but are
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they in a different spot the liberals are than they were two months ago or is this just further
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compounding what everybody has been saying um i think it's just revealing the weaknesses they have
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and particularly the weaknesses in quebec which is disconcerting for the liberals because that's
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traditionally been a safe place due to the separatist federalist split right the liberals were always
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seen as sort of that default canada position for a lot of voters in quebec um who would not choose
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the block of the co-option which has been around for for so long now i mean they're not going to
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separate they're not going to separate quebec from anyone but it was always you know that that
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dividing that fault line in quebec politics and that fault line is actually back now provincially
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which is what makes this even worse uh for the liberals because it should be actually weirdly
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benefiting them it should have benefited them this election that you know the block the pq is strong
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the block of their allies they would be strong so the federalist vote would coalesce around the
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liberals it didn't it went off to the ndp the liberals some of it to the tories um but the
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bloc ended up winning in this split so this is what's going to make the next election um you know
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a bit less predictable i think i think we know that there will be probably a conservative majority
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but the splits of votes in different ridings that take you know votes away that benefit other parties
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when you split out the federalist vote and come back for example we don't know how that's going to play
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out exactly so it just showed i mean to the liberals they have they're they're floundering
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and it is yeah it's another nail in in the cotton in the feet the coffin that's going to the funeral
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that warren was talking about well i want to return to the to the quebec question in just a moment but
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just carl on the the change for the uh for the liberal government here is is there anything like
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i guess if you're the ndp right now are you looking at this and saying hey it looks like we should
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just stay the course right now considering it looks like you know the liberals aren't doing anything
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really well i mean really the question is about the liberals and are they afraid of an election and
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i would say that they are and therefore it puts the nep but but more importantly the bloc quebec
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were in a very strong position uh and this is why the bloc announced very quickly that they were going
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to support uh the government and not vote uh them down like the tories wanted and partly because they
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want to buy themselves some time to to to to get some gains to get some potential uh wins to showcase
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the voters and and so that's what's at play right now now of course i mean the liberals could have
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a debt wish and decide that they're not going to negotiate but my my hunch is that they'd rather
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not go in election therefore they'll be willing to give more than they should or they would have
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uh a little while ago yeah i think mr blanchett i think sees that right now and that's why he's uh
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you know very quick to support but just from our own quebec lieutenant carl just kind of wondering
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uh what's in terms of we we did see some reaction this week right we saw the premier there franco
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alago put some pressure on the bloc to say hey no quebecers want an election or they need an election
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right now that would be uh best for quebecers do you find that um at all i guess surprising that the
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premier is weighing in to put his thumb on the scale so so fervently it was surprising and it was not a
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very compelling argument he wanted to make the ballot box issue immigration uh which you know uh would be
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uh terrible uh uh if you were to go down that road uh it's also uh for franco lego and uh you know
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it was it was trying he was trying to make a uh to drive a cheap shot at the party quebecois by
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making the bloc quebecois look bad but the bloc quebecois leader if franco blanchett uh you know
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if anyone's met him uh everybody knows he's stubborn he's not gonna flinch because the premier says one
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thing or another i think it was a tactical mistake on the part of lego uh because uh you know
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you could use as a quebec government you could use the bloc and their new federal leverage
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to to to make some gains to get some concessions from the federal government but you have to work
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end in end with them uh not not try to put them and push them in a corner uh and and try to get
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them to change their mind and have an election based on immigration uh i don't think that's what
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people makers want frankly and i suppose just in terms of um uh mr blanchett getting involved as
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well just and tasha your your thoughts you're kind of referring to the quebec situation uh earlier as
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well obviously this is still a big question mark for the liberals moving forward yeah it is and uh
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lego's intervention it's i mean he went so far as to repost um uh post on x by a former staffer of
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his but he's now a conservative um and so of course the accusation is he's getting in bed with
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a conservative well he's looking down the pipeline he's like who's going to be the next government it's
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the conservatives how will that play for him though provincially is an interesting question because
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the conservatives didn't do well in this in this by-election that came forth um it's it's not clear
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that they are doing going to do well in the province of quebec it's very their support is
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traditionally they've had pockets of support for example around quebec city um they haven't ever
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won a seat on the island uh oh my god in in i i can't even remember the last time i think i was a
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teenager um so they um the challenge for the confer for lego is like in the next election he faces in
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2026 the pq is is really like they're they're on the ascendancy so who are his allies going to be in
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that election in quebec right the liberal party there is having a is having a leadership they want
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to revitalize themselves but he's looking around going who's going to be carrying my signs what team
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is going to help me what federal team can cross-pollinate me and he's picking the conservatives
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and i think that is um an interesting interesting development and warren i don't think there's any
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love lost between mr blanchett and mr legault here particularly with uh mr blanchett's response
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in some of these but you know in the bigger picture are the liberals in some serious trouble in
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in quebec uh not yet no i don't think so but i think that i i was bewildered by what legault did
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like why does he think he's the legault of two years ago when he could probably command some public
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opinion um you know he looked it kind of looked farcical and and the other question i had is why
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does he think that pierre pauliev is going to become his buddy because of this it was just
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there were a whole lot of questions and i think that's when he was scrimmed about it
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by reporters in quebec he he just walked away because he was unable to answer those questions
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why did he think that this was a sensible strategy um it just made no sense to me he made him look weak
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in fact and blanchett there uh to to to definitely repudiate what he had said just kind of in the in the
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larger picture of all this we're talking about all of this happening and obviously in a minority
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government it's incumbent to have the confidence of the house and the parties involved here we are
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going to see one coming up on tuesday a non-confidence vote from uh the opposition leader from pierre
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pauliev here uh tasha i guess i'll go back to you here it looks like from what we know right this is
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going to pass or this is not going to pass they've got the ndp and the the bloc support here but is
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there still a political message to be made here by mr pauliev by attempting to bring down the
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government well he said he would so he's got it right um the conservative base is expecting him
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to do it he knows it's a no no risk situation because he's doing what he said he would do
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the opposition parties will keep the government in power and then he can send out a fundraising
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letter asking for more money so there's no there's no downside here um eventually i think the
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government will fall i think the natural fault line is the budget of next year that is a natural
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non-confidence vote i don't think that could the other parties have any advantage in bringing in a
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conservative majority because they know once they do they'll have to put up and shut up for four
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years so until he's gone they have some leverage but until you know if it probably has prime minister
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they don't i uh carl just obviously i mentioned i think we already know how this is going to go i
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asked last week you know is is there any kind of danger involved with kind of overusing this card
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uh very often but it appears you know pierre pauliev is in this position he will have to
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kind of move forward with it is there a sense of you know does he still get something politically out of
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this even if it does uh go down in defeat on tuesday well i i think that canadians uh are in
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the mood for change and the conservative party by making this move by pushing for change uh are the
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only one doing it and therefore i think it's a very strong position and pushing the bloc and the np
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with the liberals um i think is helpful to the conservative narrative that if you want change
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you got to vote conservatives because the other guys you know they're happy with status quo and so
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uh you know it was smart for for pierre pauliev also to move a motion that was not attached to any
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policy to not you know talk about the carbon tax as the way they've been doing because that way
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uh it's it's it's straightforward and voters can see it for what it is so um you know we'll see i mean
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the problem with pauliev is that then he goes on and on and on and calls the bloc socialist and this
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and that and he goes on the offensive with uh you know overeated language but if canadians want change
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right now there's only one party offering it and it's a conservative it's it's a very good point and
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i guess warren when we're talking about all of this stuff like how do you get out of this if you're
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the liberals right now because yeah we're we're all talking about stuff that the liberals don't want
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to talk about is there is there a way for the liberals to get out of this i guess and change the
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conversation or they're just going to have to live with it well i think what we all saw this week
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over the machinations over this vote we saw a different story again just looking at each leader
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blanchette looked strong he's like yeah i'm gonna support these guys and i'm gonna get things out of
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it completely transactional and open about it and he looked like he had won sing looked pathetic
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absolutely pathetic this is the guy you say i'm tearing up the agreement
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and that's it and i've got no confidence in the government the first opportunity he gets
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to express that in a vote he folds like a cheap suit polyev as carl says looks smart because that
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that motion doesn't refer to any particular policy it's just we don't have confidence in the prime
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minister of the government so that's a smart move and then trudeau just looks as he has previously
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self-interested you know just clinging to power so you know at the end of the day it was pretty
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clear to tell who had won and who had lost in the past week very true and just another because it
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kind of reminded me as well we did see uh the ndp leader involved a little bit of a heckling incident
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this week but i was noting even some even uh conservative uh pundits were kind of um applauding
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him for for how he handled this i don't really know what to make of this but what did you guys handle
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of that whole situation of him getting involved with this heckler basically you know saying them
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to tell it again they eventually left it wasn't a big deal but just what did you guys feel about
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this tasha i'll start with you well i think that um you know sing sing has uh gotten mad about this
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twice now once inside the house of commons and once outside and the outside incident happened first
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and i think that um it might be because he is frustrated uh that as as warren pointed out his gambit
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failed right he did this big tra-la-la about ripping up the agreement here i am mr tough guy
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and now oops all of a sudden he sees he's being upstaged by all the other politicians in the house
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who've figured out how to game this situation so when he's being insulted by you know joe nobody on
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the street i think he's he lot he legitimately you know he just literally feels frustrated and angry
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and he went up to this guy and i i also i didn't see anything wrong with it quite frankly because i
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would have probably been feeling the same way if i had and he didn't he didn't do any commit any
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violence he just stood there like yeah you want to piece me like here like like say it again say
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it to my face like he's sick and tired of things but you know um we expect our politicians to to turn
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the other cheek and be better i mean unless there's john cretier who grabs the protester by the neck
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those days are gone though like i don't think you could get away with that now i brought that up earlier
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this week saying yeah i don't think anybody could actually pull that off and now nowadays but
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but i can make it i can kind of make an argument for both and over to carl and warren on this but
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i can kind of make an argument for both you know what i mean i can understand you know the willingness
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to want to stand up for your position but i could also see how um kind of buying into the bait like
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that can also look bad just warren what did you make of the whole situation this week well i'm the
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wrong guy to ask because i'm supposedly an irish walking irish bar fight so you'd be on me as well yeah
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i i thought it was it was great and i disagree i think when politicians occasionally get up
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on their hind legs and take a shot at somebody maybe not physically um people like it you know
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when when cretier did that many years ago uh which has now become part of canadian history all of us
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who were liberal staffers all of us who worked for him were nervous and then the phone started ringing
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out the hook and people loved it so i don't think that's over yet but definitely sing was in a bad
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move this week because this confrontation he had outside the house he had a confrontation like
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that inside the house it didn't get a lot of media but he looked like he wanted to go toe-to-toe with
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pierre polyev you know he got out from him behind his desk at one point and was crossing over the floor
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which is a big no-no and parliamentary procedure you're not supposed to do that and it was like you
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know let's go bro i think he was calling him bro it looked like there was gonna be a bar fight on
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the floor of the house of commons and i think there's something to be said as well because
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remember we talked about marco menducino a little while ago right like somebody spit in his face and
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he shook his hand so i i think there's like something to be said about like kind of contrasting those two
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as well i think just in terms of kind of standing up for yourself in some way but carl how did you
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kind of read this whole situation well the first incident uh i think i think most canadians that that
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watched it was like finally a politician was fighting back yeah these these yahoos who are you know
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going after people and harassing people and uh you know if i had been a staffer i think i would have
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intervened and step in between uh but uh but you know it turned out okay because there was actually
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these these guys backed out they even knew he called them cowards and they backed out they were
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cowards calling names behind his back and pretending it was not them uh but the problem as warren pointed
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out is that it was the first of two events and when the second event happened when he stood up and
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you know i'm right here bro and and by the way pauliev was egging him on right thing like do it do it
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come on down uh it was not a great spectacle but made people think hold on a second is is is sing
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losing his temper here is the pressure getting to him and and and if the first event that happened on
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its own and the second event not happened i think it would have been a good turning point for sing to
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maybe uh kind of reset his personal line go go off the script that he's been on uh because he's
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certainly the most scripted of all of all party leaders right now uh and and that was a moment
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where things seemed genuine and he was just pushing back but the moment where he does it with
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pauliev in the house then suddenly uh it becomes a pattern and i don't think uh i don't think that's
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a good a good look for him yeah and we'll see that that pattern and i guess that that messaging or
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energy or whatever you want to call it we'll see if that continues into this week we'll have to
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leave it there just because of time but i thanks so much to our panelists this morning carl
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belanger warren kinsella and tasha keratin uh thank you for your time have a great sunday happy fall
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thank you thanks carl belanger is the president at traction strategies warren kinsella is his
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strategist and post media columnist you can read his latest in the toronto sun tasha keratin is
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uh tasha keratin sorry is a political columnist for the national post an author and a writer for g0
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the steward's trying to kill me i wake up ready to fight i shouldn't talk about it i got a sickening
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feeling we do this night after night but now i start to doubt it
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i'm going to be a good night and i don't know what i'm gonna do
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i'm going to be a good night and i'm going to be a good night and i'm going to be a good night
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i'm moving on but i still like getting up i'm better now but i'm still not getting up
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i sleep alone and it still hurts getting up i'm freaking out is it all in my head have you been here before
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a ship far from the shore did you burn me in my bed or is this all inside my head
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never sleeping the night through it was the end of the tour i couldn't talk about it i've been drinking a lot too
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that's when i think that we're good and when i start to vomit change the ending scene
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i'm moving on but i still like getting up i'm better now but i still like getting up i sleep alone and it still hurts getting up i'm freaking out is it all in my head have you been here before a ship far from the shore did you burn me in my bed or is this all inside my head
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and we're back and brian lilly and i were just talking about skiing and saskatchewan
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which is not possible in some places but it actually kind of is sort of in some places isn't
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it it's not totally flat no down around where a friend of ours uh yours and mine matt comes from
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there there's some rolling hills uh there's a man-made hill in a place called blackstrap you
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can go skiing well you used to be able to and it's the most beautiful skies well alberta has
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the most beautiful skies saskatchewan's a close second let's just say the prairies uh have the
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most beautiful skies and until you've seen them if you haven't seen them you don't know what warren
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and i are talking about because i only saw them the first time maybe a decade ago and went oh this
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is what y'all meant yeah okay so i've got no segue about prairie skies to the first subject so i'll
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just like you know turn to the next subject which has no relation to prairie skies which is a bunch of
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kids being taken on a field trip being told their parents being told that they would observe a
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protest about grassy narrows i guess and it turned into something else why don't you tell people
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who haven't read in our paper the stories that you and brian passifume have been writing
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tell people what happened next this is uh all brian passifume talking to parents and getting the inside
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scoop on this protest that happened i can't remember if it was wednesday or thursday of last
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week um a protest that happened at a park in toronto called the grange middle of the city park
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beautiful place right next to the ontario college of art design uh just up a short walk from the the
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big bell building what we used to call much music when we were young and hip uh and and when much music
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was was was there so it's just that's kind of range of it um and there was going to be a protest
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for uh clean drinking water at the grassy narrows reserve in northern ontario
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yeah i am correct on that right grassy narrows is northern ontario not manitoba yep you are correct
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okay it's uh so they're they're having the uh rally about that and a bunch of schools decided their kids
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would participate and several schools had their students walk to the protest depending on which
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school you heard from uh one school says students were not to participate it was to observe as a
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learning experience other schools said we will be standing in solidarity and look you might be
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thinking oh there's nothing wrong with protesting for green clean drinking water i'd probably agree with
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that uh it quickly turned into well several problems one the kids were all participating we've seen the
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photos sent to us by uh these are photos taken by teachers uploaded to the kids uh portal and then
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shared with parents who said what this is not what i agreed to this is not what the school portrayed this
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as they were all handmade signs of course we've seen the videos where anti-israel slogans are being
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chanted because every protest on the left these days quickly turns into let's hate israel and and
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zionism and by extension jews um one of them warren i mean tell me if i'm off on this but they were
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chanting from turtle island to palestine occupation is a crime that's linking the view that israel's
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existence is an occupation across all of palestine remember from the river to the sea that that's a
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crime that's genocide it's linking that to anybody that isn't 100 indigenous living in canada
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is an occupier and that that land has to be given back that we should not be here should i be driven
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into lake ontario this is what you're teaching children and turns out it was kids as young as
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grade three eight years old so let me ask as in in restrained professional fashion like what the fuck
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like what is is something going to happen about this probably not uh toronto district school board
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acting chair has and it's an acting chair because the the current chair is running to become a city
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councillor in a by-election and is the preferred candidate of kathleen wynn and i suspect some others that
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that you and i know the toronto star has tried to claim john torrey's backing this person but that
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person is is a radical and shouldn't be elected to anything never mind uh toronto district school
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board chair the school board is is horrible uh so the acting chair put out a statement that
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was a statement not an apology that the closest they came to apologize and be saying they're you know
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sorry that some people were upset not for what happened uh you know different reporting
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comes to different conclusions children told you were supposed to wear uh blue to identify yourself
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as a colonizer uh oh my god stickers being handed out that say zionism kills including to jewish students
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uh these are things you should be apologizing for not saying sorry if you were offended
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you zionism loving colonizing uh you know child
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it's just awful this is indoctrination and i've been saying it's indoctrination in too much of our
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school system for years no one can dispute this that it's indoctrination although one of the
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uh the teachers who's active on twitter and marie lompre is let me read you one of her her quotes
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not about this but that was put up last week it's a picture of nina simone it says we never talked
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about men or clothes so was mark's lennon and revolution real girls talk you know that's something
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she's posting that's where her head is at and she's locked down her account well i think well i still
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have access to it for now and she retweets people like david uh uh matrachi who writes for a publication
00:38:21.420
that uh think socialists are far right winners and uh you know who backs the um uh the screening of
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that russian propaganda film and ab you know never seen them write anything other than hatred towards
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israel and jews well this story i think has got legs and i think uh our paper will be following it
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you'll be following it brian passive fumes so i don't think this one's over yet one story that is
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up ahead of us uh on the road is a confidence vote in ottawa at the house of commons pierre polyev
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i think has brought forth a brilliant motion not linking it to the carbon tax or to taxation or anything
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like that he just said we do not have confidence in the prime minister or this government vote of
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confidence and like so judge me it's saying is going to vote for this isn't he isn't that what
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he said okay dumber than that judge me it's saying it's going to vote for this after yves francois
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blanchet and the bloc said yeah we're not going to support this motion let's get some thing that was
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what blanchet said i i wrote a column about that his whole view and you can hate it or appreciate how
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brazen he is he was asked about it no i'm not i'm not going to vote for this so we government and
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while we're at this point let's grab it wasn't let get let's get something it was let's grab something
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yeah it was cynical but transactional unlike singh who's now doing something which is the exact opposite
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of what he suggested he was going to do they they could have abstained they could have had a meeting at
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that time sorry we've all got to run we've got we've got hair appointments uh you know instead
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you know it sounds like pierre pauliev's going to get video of jack meet saying in the ndp
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voting to keep the government in power they already have video of him saying
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they will keep the government in power uh a government that the day before he had said
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these guys don't deserve a second chance a government that he's called weak uh selfish
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beholding the corporate interests failing and disappointing canadians over and over again
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all right yeah yeah wanted to ask you jumping across the border because you keep a closer eye
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on you know the what the polar polling says and what the aggregators say in the united states
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closer eye on it than i do and i i've worked for the democrats what's the latest how's it looking
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for harrison trump at this at this morning at this moment uh at this moment so she's up about two and a
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half to three points nationally uh still very tight in places like pennsylvania where it's less than two
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points that she's ahead by so you know at that edge um trump can still easily win pennsylvania well
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nobody can easily win pennsylvania both of them have to fight hard for it but it is quite possible
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i believe nate silver still has trump favored to win the electoral college and in his assessment uh
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he's taking arizona still uh my basic assumption when i look at the uh the average of the polls is
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if she's only up by one one and a half then i assume that he's going to win it if he's up by the
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same i assume he's going to win it just based on how the polls have been the last several cycles um
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so he's going to take georgia he's going to take arizona uh all he has to do is take one northern
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state and he's president so if he takes pennsylvania michigan wisconsin he's president um she's got to take
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all of them and uh i think we were talking before and i said you know if the election was
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three weeks to a month ago she was winning as of last week um i figure he's probably still likely
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uh she's doing better but not there yet so it's uh still a toss-up it is and you know as you pointed
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out to people on this podcast many times it's they shouldn't be looking at the national numbers
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it's it's a regional race you need to look at the seven swing states and in those places she's actually
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not doing as well as biden did four years ago biden was doing better in those swing states
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than she is presently so this or as well as clinton did in 2016 when she lost yeah so it it's still it's
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i think we're going to be up really late actually three days we're going to be sitting around waiting
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for a result but the one thing she has outperformed him on fundraising like the money i mean from a
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canadian perspective it's obscene like four times as much money she has raised how are the democrats
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if you know how are they spending that and is it an effective use of the money that they're collecting
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um so i was reading about this yesterday uh there you know we heard talk about earlier in the campaign
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about things like field offices and oh the republicans close to field offices and this is
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hurting them neither one is spending a lot of money on field offices or people getting out the vote
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at this point at this point they are spending 30 to 40 percent of what they take in on ads uh public
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facing ads she is out spending on that which you know that was the case back in june when biden was
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still the uh the nominee he was out spending them by far and trump was spending nothing and of course we
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know and that was right up in into july when biden was starting to fall way behind in the polls
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trump didn't have to spend money and then he started in the swing states in july after she became the
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nominee because it was becoming you know tighter i was reading it between her own campaign and the
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super PACs the democrats are spending over 300 million they've booked 300 million in the next few weeks
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uh with a big target on the swing states and trump's booked something like 200 million so you know
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anybody down in the states over the next few weeks if you haven't been at election time you turn on your
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radio or tv you open a social media app that is all you see 500 million dollars u.s real money
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americans spend some of that on brian milley's podcast and mine just a little bit but i i love the
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way their ads are down in the states you don't know which you know if you don't know the local
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candidate you don't know which one it is until you get to the end but you know that they killed
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children in ritualistic sacrifices and and they voted the wrong way on on proposition 85 while killing
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children in their sleep and they all have the same tone and the same type of you're going to die if you
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vote for this person and then at the end you get i'm so-and-so of this party and i approve this
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message joey part joey's looking at me strangely here i wonder chloe joey i'm going to take you to
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springfield ohio you're going to be sorry my friend thank you so much have a wonderful day i'm just
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joking chloe i don't mean it i don't mean it have a great day in a great way much appreciate it talk
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later i just got three things to say god bless our troops god bless america and gentlemen start
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when your skin is sun kissed and your smile isn't forced
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well it's been a rough year and it's only gonna get worse
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i'm broke guys a joke now i spent all of my money on this record
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i hope that it plays out so i don't have to work at checkers
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I've got my own problems and I'm sick of that run
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I know I sound like a dick boy for what it's worth
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And John, I was just telling, my dog is looking at me, kind of worried
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that I'm gonna take him to Springfield, Ohio and eat him.
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So, John, Israel, who we all presume did this
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Sort of like the difference between AM and FM radio