kinsellacast - KINSELLACAST 329： Kaboom! with Kheiriddin (twice), Lilley, Belanger, Mraz - plus Bad Nerves, Grandmas House, Snake Eyes and more!

00:00:00.000 It's the Kinsella Cast, starring Warren Kinsella.

00:00:17.800 Hey, it's Warren.

00:00:19.520 The Kinsella Cast is in a good mood this morning.

00:00:22.220 I'm heading to the train station soon to pick up pee.

00:00:25.200 She did not run off with some Italian chef who's many years my junior.

00:00:34.940 I mean, as far as I know, she didn't.

00:00:36.780 So I'm going to go pick her up at the train station so the dogs and the cat will be pretty happy.

00:00:41.400 Almost lost the cat this week.

00:00:44.120 I was taking the dogs and the cat up to the cabin so I could get the boat out of the water and do a bunch of other stuff in anticipation of winter.

00:00:52.040 And I was like, she's not coming out of the Jeep.

00:00:57.500 I looked around and I started to get frantic.

00:00:59.560 She was not in the Jeep.

00:01:01.100 Anyway, thankfully, I had placed on each of the animals one of those Apple AirTags.

00:01:09.180 And it showed her back in the county.

00:01:12.200 So I hightailed it back to the county.

00:01:15.400 And there she was, terrified, I think, but under the barbecue.

00:01:20.740 And so I brought her inside and all as well.

00:01:24.020 So I would have been dead meat if the cat had disappeared.

00:01:30.140 He would have killed me.

00:01:31.920 Anyway, great show this week.

00:01:33.320 We've got Tasha Carradine twice. 0.95

00:01:35.080 She and I were on with Arlene Bynon.

00:01:37.960 We were on with Andrew Pinson, but also with Carl Belanger.

00:01:41.640 Got John Mraz talking about international affairs.

00:01:45.900 Brian Lilly spitting numbers like a rapper about the U.S. presidential, about the situation in Canada,

00:01:55.740 which is very, very grim for the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:01:59.120 Well, it's not the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:02:00.320 It's the Trudeau Party.

00:02:01.220 I worked for the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:02:03.760 I worked for a real liberal, not this guy.

00:02:07.020 Anyway, the country's fed up with them.

00:02:09.060 The Liberal Party of Canada, outside the province of Quebec, is running behind the NDP.

00:02:14.640 So they're in fourth place nationally.

00:02:17.000 Great music this week.

00:02:18.380 Bad Nerves, Milk Teeth, Snake Eyes, Grandma's House.

00:02:23.240 Lots of bands with two words in their name.

00:02:25.700 I'm not sure why that is.

00:02:26.820 But anyway, a real kind of diverse musical banquet for you.

00:02:31.220 And so I hope you enjoy the show.

00:02:33.160 Lots of Tasha Carradine, which is always a good thing. 1.00

00:02:36.020 CBC.

00:02:37.340 I've been writing a lot about them lately for Post Media, mainly because I've been hearing from Post Media employees every time I write.

00:02:46.360 And this week was a little bit different.

00:02:48.960 I heard from B'nai B'rith.

00:02:50.900 Because, you know, CBC is unfair to the Jewish state.

00:02:54.460 And now we've got proof.

00:02:57.880 And like their antipathy towards Israel is not front page news.

00:03:02.320 As I've documented, they refuse to call Hamas terrorists when they are.

00:03:06.100 They have accepted Hamas war casualty counts.

00:03:09.940 They've established a secretive internal group, Middle East 2023, to oversee their coverage of Israel.

00:03:18.400 They've had facilitation sessions led by people who call Israel an oppressive, destructed country.

00:03:25.940 And say if you...

00:03:26.900 Oh, no, sorry.

00:03:27.460 That's an employee who said you're a vile human being if you still defend or excuse Israel.

00:03:33.720 The facilitators say they want to challenge Zionism. 0.86

00:03:38.520 They see Israel as an immoral and oppressive occupational force.

00:03:43.700 And so on.

00:03:44.640 Anyway, so B'nai B'rith decided, I guess like I did, enough is enough.

00:03:50.180 And they basically analyzed hundreds of CBC stories from CBC official websites starting on October 7th.

00:03:59.460 When Hamas terrorists swept into Israel and slaughtered hundreds.

00:04:04.160 And I'm going to be doing lots of speaking this week.

00:04:07.160 I'm speaking in Brock.

00:04:08.840 I'm speaking at a synagogue.

00:04:11.580 Because we're coming up to a year of a terrible day.

00:04:15.640 Anyway, so B'nai B'rith went from the 7th to the 31st.

00:04:19.960 And they used this media framing model, which is well known, by a professor named Robert Entman.

00:04:25.440 He's an American and is considered one of the gold standards for media bias analysis.

00:04:31.720 Anyway, bottom line, CBC is wildly biased against Israel.

00:04:35.100 150 stories, about half, were openly pro-Palestinian.

00:04:40.340 And only a fraction of that, maybe about 32 stories, were possibly pro-Israel.

00:04:46.280 The rest were considered balanced.

00:04:48.400 So they did, I'm not going to bore you with the details, they did manual coding.

00:04:51.560 They did software-assisted content analysis, so AI basically.

00:04:55.440 It's considered accurate 95% of the time.

00:04:59.220 And they looked at bias vis-a-vis how an issue was framed, what was included, what wasn't in the story,

00:05:06.860 how information was presented.

00:05:08.400 And Hamas, you know, being a source, is more of a source than Israel. 0.92

00:05:14.580 And every effort was made by B'nai B'rith's analysts to maintain objectivity and fairness throughout.

00:05:19.940 Because they knew what CBC would say.

00:05:22.040 Well, CBC didn't say anything because they refused to meet with B'nai B'rith.

00:05:28.920 B'nai B'rith sent them a very polite, very professional letter saying,

00:05:32.760 we've got this research, we're going to share it with you.

00:05:36.460 And CBC said, no, no thanks.

00:05:39.320 So Chuck Thompson said to me, given the ongoing scrutiny and intense pressure around our coverage

00:05:44.620 of the Middle East, requests for a conversation with the CBC News leadership make it difficult

00:05:49.080 to ensure they are equally accessible to any person.

00:05:52.380 That's Chuck Thompson, head spokesperson for CBC.

00:05:55.600 His suggestion, they can go talk to the ombudsman.

00:05:58.920 Anyway, that's discourteous, that's dismissive, and it's wrong.

00:06:02.740 When any journalist is making mistakes, as CTV did this week,

00:06:06.440 when it actually manipulated a quote, a conservative leader, Pierre Polyev,

00:06:11.120 which had the effect of deceiving their viewers,

00:06:14.720 there has to be accountability.

00:06:16.320 In that case, CTV fired the two people who did it.

00:06:19.040 You can't just refuse to meet.

00:06:20.880 And like when I taught journalism at Carleton School of Journalism, right,

00:06:26.460 our students, not just by me, by everybody,

00:06:29.620 two solemn obligations you have as a journalist,

00:06:32.780 accuracy and fairness.

00:06:35.160 And at CBC, when the subject is Israel,

00:06:38.440 accuracy and fairness no longer seem to be part of the job description.

00:06:43.380 Oh, baby, help me, I'm a snack.

00:07:09.240 I love you, baby, I know I'm sour.

00:07:16.320 No, I don't even know that man.

00:07:22.160 Outside me, I know I'm sour.

00:07:27.040 Can you turn it around?

00:07:29.460 I'm sorry, baby, I was horrible

00:07:41.940 I'm sorry, baby, I'm sorry

00:07:59.460 Oh, girl, you're lost in wonderland 0.93

00:08:07.940 You're asleep in a garbage hotel 0.57

00:08:14.360 Oh, well, I guess I see you now 0.99

00:08:18.700 Somewhere around there, you're a stranger

00:08:24.860 And I'm turning around

00:08:28.760 Oh, I'm sorry, baby, I was horrible

00:08:40.660 Oh, I'm sorry, baby, I was horrible

00:08:40.860 Oh, I'm sorry, baby, I am

00:08:51.860 Can I turn it around?

00:09:03.160 Can I turn it around?

00:09:05.940 Can I turn it around?

00:09:07.760 Oh, I'm sorry, baby, I was horrible

00:09:17.760 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry

00:09:30.780 And we're back, and this is one of those mornings where I can just sit back and put my feet up and put a log on the fire

00:09:44.940 Because the broadcaster of broadcasters, Brian Lilley, is with us

00:09:48.760 And I'm just going to say a subject and let Brian go

00:09:53.520 And Brian, the first subject is the abacus that was released this weekend about federal vote intention

00:10:02.800 Go

00:10:03.420 Let me back up to my column so I can promote my column here in the Toronto Sun

00:10:08.720 I wrote about the fact that, of course, yesterday

00:10:14.060 We've got things happening like Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, being killed

00:10:21.360 And Justin Trudeau saying nothing

00:10:23.000 And he's very quiet on his social media

00:10:25.180 And then he starts posting all about abortion

00:10:27.020 And how he's going to keep abortion safe for women in Canada

00:10:29.940 Even though there's no imminent threat to abortion in Canada

00:10:33.540 And why is he doing that, I said?

00:10:35.420 Because it's been a week of bad polls

00:10:37.180 You've got Leger, they've got a poll for Postmedia conducted

00:10:40.800 It has Conservatives holding their 20-point lead

00:10:44.840 44% of the popular vote to 24% for the Liberals and 17% for the NDP

00:10:51.580 64% say they disapprove of Trudeau's performance

00:10:55.560 62% of the country believe Trudeau should quit

00:10:58.740 Including a third of Liberals

00:11:00.720 Just 23% of Canadians say he should stay on

00:11:04.480 Then you get to Angus Reid's poll

00:11:07.360 Which was really proving that those by-elections in Toronto St. Paul's

00:11:12.720 And La Salle and Mardford Dunn were not one-offs

00:11:15.000 He's got similar numbers nationally

00:11:18.100 43% for the Conservatives

00:11:20.280 21% for the Liberals

00:11:21.420 20% for the NDP

00:11:22.360 You'll notice each pollster is a little bit different

00:11:25.220 But it's all margin of error stuff

00:11:27.080 But here's what's interesting

00:11:28.740 Over the last two years

00:11:30.900 Angus Reid Institute has been looking at how the Liberals

00:11:35.740 How all the parties are doing

00:11:37.560 In the major urban centres

00:11:39.720 And over the last two years

00:11:41.980 In Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal

00:11:44.620 The Liberals have taken a double-digit decline

00:11:47.760 Wow

00:11:48.900 We're at the point where in Toronto

00:11:50.860 Toronto Corps

00:11:52.100 Not the 905 suburbs

00:11:53.720 Not going into Mississauga

00:11:55.280 And Vaughan and Whitby and all of that

00:11:57.280 Just Toronto

00:11:58.240 Where I live

00:11:59.520 In deepest, darkest, liberal fortress

00:12:02.700 The Conservatives are ahead

00:12:05.020 34% to 33%

00:12:07.340 Now that's, again, margin of error stuff

00:12:09.640 But Conservatives leading in Toronto proper?

00:12:13.280 Wow

00:12:13.960 And then you go out to the Toronto suburbs

00:12:16.880 And it becomes like 45-31

00:12:20.160 In Winnipeg

00:12:21.640 The Conservatives are leading 37-36

00:12:24.860 Over the NDP

00:12:25.820 And the Liberals are well back in third

00:12:28.280 And then you get to Canada's so-called left coast

00:12:32.000 Right?

00:12:33.300 And it goes 40% for the Conservatives

00:12:36.440 In the metro Vancouver area

00:12:37.900 30% to the NDP

00:12:39.780 And then just 21% for the Liberals

00:12:43.120 Now, I've heard this week

00:12:45.160 That Conrad Black owns Leje

00:12:46.900 This is a Liberal talking point now

00:12:49.140 He does not

00:12:51.360 He does not now

00:12:55.840 And never has owned Leje

00:12:57.720 And for people that think that

00:12:59.540 Because Leje partners with Post Media

00:13:01.640 Well, they also partner with Canadian Press

00:13:03.700 Which is owned by

00:13:05.220 I believe still owned by

00:13:06.380 The Globe and The Star

00:13:07.380 And La Presse and a consortium

00:13:08.920 And he publishes

00:13:11.000 Jean-Marc Leje publishes similar numbers there

00:13:13.660 Conrad Black does not own Post Media

00:13:16.340 Or the National Post

00:13:17.560 So, you know, forget trying to discount

00:13:19.880 The Leje poll

00:13:20.680 By saying

00:13:22.060 Well, Conservatives

00:13:23.360 And, you know, forget saying that

00:13:25.520 Angus Reid is a Conservative

00:13:27.800 He started out

00:13:29.380 Very much with connections

00:13:32.120 To Liberals

00:13:33.160 And his institute has been putting out

00:13:35.000 Non-partisan polling

00:13:36.300 That's very accurate for years

00:13:38.440 Now let's go to Abacus

00:13:40.260 The one that you mentioned off the top

00:13:42.000 Because these have jaw-dropping numbers

00:13:45.000 And, you know, Abacus

00:13:47.560 David Coleto

00:13:49.000 I worked with him years ago

00:13:50.200 He's worked with everybody in the business

00:13:52.000 Well-respected

00:13:53.020 And

00:13:54.340 Here's what he found

00:13:56.620 Similar numbers nationally

00:13:58.420 I believe it's 43

00:13:59.660 Conservative

00:14:00.600 21

00:14:01.120 Liberal

00:14:02.040 But

00:14:03.080 He did something interesting

00:14:04.520 He broke out Quebec 1.00

00:14:06.380 Versus the rest of Canada

00:14:07.720 And in Quebec

00:14:09.900 The bloc's way out in front

00:14:11.580 37%

00:14:12.900 Most polling firms have that

00:14:14.800 Then they have

00:14:16.260 Polling firms have a disagreement

00:14:17.780 Of whether the

00:14:18.800 You know, how tight the Liberals

00:14:20.240 And the Conservatives are

00:14:21.460 The Liberals are only at 28%

00:14:23.920 In Quebec

00:14:24.680 And the Conservatives are

00:14:26.100 At quite a high for them

00:14:27.580 22

00:14:28.060 But check out these rest of Canada numbers

00:14:31.380 You take Quebec out 0.99

00:14:32.440 And the Conservatives have

00:14:34.480 50% voter support

00:14:36.820 Across the country

00:14:38.360 The NDP's in second at 22

00:14:41.300 And the Liberals are in third at 19

00:14:44.900 That's Iggy territory 1.00

00:14:47.500 And then

00:14:48.820 They did another thing

00:14:50.120 They said, okay

00:14:50.780 Because normally

00:14:52.060 You ask people

00:14:53.340 And then they say

00:14:55.020 Are you likely to vote?

00:14:56.500 And that's

00:14:57.380 Those are the numbers

00:14:58.060 We all pay attention to

00:14:59.160 Right?

00:14:59.580 Likely voters

00:15:00.240 We all have people in our lives

00:15:02.060 Who just don't vote

00:15:03.580 No matter what

00:15:04.560 So, you know

00:15:06.120 What's the point of asking them?

00:15:07.620 So, likely voters

00:15:09.840 Is the one we most often look at

00:15:11.520 Abacus said

00:15:13.260 Are you committed

00:15:15.460 To voting?

00:15:17.440 And among those

00:15:18.420 Who are absolutely committed

00:15:19.800 To voting

00:15:20.340 It's 46%

00:15:22.760 For the Conservatives

00:15:23.800 20% for the Liberals

00:15:26.000 20% for the NDP

00:15:27.900 Holy

00:15:28.940 Holy jumping 0.76

00:15:31.060 I was looking for one of those

00:15:34.160 They had them a few years ago

00:15:36.500 Those online toys

00:15:37.500 Where you can punch in

00:15:38.620 Polling numbers

00:15:40.080 And get a seat projection

00:15:41.360 Nobody has those anymore

00:15:43.940 For Canada

00:15:45.500 You know, we have them in the States

00:15:47.060 And you and I have fun with them

00:15:48.080 Every week

00:15:48.620 But the

00:15:49.580 When I looked at

00:15:51.060 338 Canada

00:15:52.060 He

00:15:53.740 Fornia over there

00:15:56.680 Has

00:15:57.120 The Conservatives

00:15:59.180 Winning up to 220 seats

00:16:00.900 With 43% support

00:16:02.800 For the Conservatives

00:16:03.960 And 24% for the Liberals

00:16:05.580 You add three more

00:16:06.520 For the

00:16:06.960 The Conservatives

00:16:08.340 And take four more away

00:16:09.720 For the Liberals

00:16:10.460 And you're over 220 seats

00:16:13.560 Wow

00:16:14.300 Okay, next

00:16:16.160 Justin Trudeau

00:16:18.440 Taking a position

00:16:20.460 I've got some gossip

00:16:21.580 On

00:16:21.980 Should he stay or should he go

00:16:23.580 So you can ask me that now

00:16:24.740 Or after we talk about this

00:16:25.920 Okay, let's

00:16:26.220 Okay, no, let's quickly do that

00:16:27.620 And then we'll talk about

00:16:28.380 Nasrallah, Trudeau

00:16:29.740 Polly Evangeli

00:16:30.920 Go ahead

00:16:31.560 Okay, so

00:16:32.480 You and I had this debate

00:16:33.940 Again this week

00:16:34.760 Did very well on the

00:16:35.820 Toronto Suns YouTube channel

00:16:37.060 Of should he stay or should he go

00:16:39.120 And everyone knows

00:16:40.160 You think you'll go

00:16:41.020 I think you'll stay

00:16:42.060 Bit of gossip I'm hearing

00:16:44.120 And I don't put a ton of stock in it

00:16:47.640 Because I've heard things

00:16:48.540 Similar to this before

00:16:50.120 Of course

00:16:52.060 Trudeau's facing that

00:16:53.240 October 29th

00:16:54.400 Deadline

00:16:55.580 From the Bloc Quebecois

00:16:56.580 Right

00:16:56.860 You've got to give us

00:16:58.620 What we want

00:16:59.240 Or

00:16:59.640 You know

00:17:00.580 Pity

00:17:01.480 Something bad might happen

00:17:02.660 To your government

00:17:03.300 So

00:17:04.320 The idea is

00:17:05.740 He'd prorogue

00:17:06.400 By October 29th

00:17:08.400 To avoid being defeated

00:17:09.960 By

00:17:10.360 The Bloc 0.97

00:17:11.260 Although the NDP

00:17:12.400 Could support him

00:17:13.220 So

00:17:13.580 This is part of why

00:17:14.420 I don't put stock in this

00:17:15.600 Jagmeet is still

00:17:16.740 Desperate to

00:17:17.660 Be loved by Justin

00:17:19.020 But

00:17:20.400 The rumor is

00:17:21.600 He'll

00:17:21.860 Progue before the

00:17:24.120 End of October

00:17:24.940 Avoid defeat by the Bloc 0.94

00:17:27.260 And then

00:17:28.280 Arrange

00:17:29.200 For a

00:17:30.520 Rigged

00:17:31.240 Leadership contest

00:17:32.440 Contest

00:17:33.480 So that

00:17:34.080 Mark Carney

00:17:34.600 Takes over

00:17:35.200 And

00:17:35.440 Can

00:17:35.800 Try and

00:17:36.300 Save the

00:17:36.760 Day

00:17:37.040 Bingo

00:17:38.060 Told ya

00:17:38.720 Okay

00:17:41.420 You and I

00:17:42.160 Next subject

00:17:42.680 Mark Carney

00:17:43.260 You know

00:17:44.100 Icky with the

00:17:44.660 Pocket calculator

00:17:45.540 So I

00:17:47.040 You know

00:17:47.400 I don't see that

00:17:48.020 Being

00:17:48.460 It ain't gonna work

00:17:49.540 Yeah

00:17:50.120 No

00:17:50.420 It ain't gonna work

00:17:51.180 That's jumping on the

00:17:51.980 Deck of the Titanic

00:17:52.820 Or whatever other

00:17:53.900 Metaphor you want to use

00:17:54.940 Now

00:17:55.680 Mr. Nasrella

00:17:57.900 Is no longer with us

00:17:59.060 Yay

00:17:59.440 Everybody's happy

00:18:01.000 Including lots of

00:18:01.880 Muslims and Arabs

00:18:02.800 The one

00:18:03.900 The two people I noticed

00:18:05.060 Who did not seem to

00:18:06.120 Look very happy

00:18:07.120 Were Justin Trudeau

00:18:08.520 And Melanie Jolie

00:18:09.420 His foreign affairs

00:18:10.300 Minister

00:18:10.780 Pierre Polyev was

00:18:12.140 Everybody else was

00:18:12.960 But not those two

00:18:13.760 How come

00:18:14.320 Joe Biden was

00:18:16.060 Joe Biden put out

00:18:16.800 A great statement

00:18:17.540 On Nasrella

00:18:18.780 Being

00:18:19.100 Killed

00:18:20.280 Emmanuel Macron 0.65

00:18:22.220 Emmanuel Macron

00:18:23.680 Who was just

00:18:24.620 In Canada

00:18:25.440 You know

00:18:26.140 He's a very close

00:18:27.120 Ally

00:18:27.440 And very much

00:18:28.540 On the progressive side

00:18:29.620 With Trudeau

00:18:30.720 And so is Biden

00:18:31.920 And all these other

00:18:32.900 Leaders said

00:18:33.440 Here's Trudeau's

00:18:34.420 Statement

00:18:34.740 Hezbollah's leader

00:18:36.380 Hassan Nasrella

00:18:37.840 Has been killed

00:18:38.820 He was the leader

00:18:40.160 Of a terrorist

00:18:40.820 Organization

00:18:41.620 That attacked

00:18:42.260 And killed

00:18:42.700 Innocent civilians

00:18:43.660 Causing immense

00:18:44.780 Suffering across the 0.98

00:18:45.680 Region

00:18:45.980 On the first day

00:18:47.260 Of my summer vacation

00:18:48.400 I went to the

00:18:49.680 Like that's what

00:18:50.520 It sounds like

00:18:51.260 That essay

00:18:52.380 That your teacher

00:18:53.060 Make you do

00:18:53.580 On your first day

00:18:54.400 Back in school

00:18:55.300 Yeah

00:18:56.040 You know

00:18:56.660 So he ends there

00:18:57.460 Like

00:18:57.800 A plain statement

00:18:59.460 Of facts

00:19:00.180 And then goes

00:19:00.940 Into

00:19:01.360 More must be done

00:19:03.000 To protect

00:19:03.800 Civilians

00:19:04.440 Now

00:19:05.180 Nasrella's dead

00:19:06.120 That protects

00:19:07.000 Civilians

00:19:07.500 It's why they're

00:19:08.080 Dancing in the streets

00:19:09.120 In Syria

00:19:09.780 In Lebanon

00:19:10.760 In Iran 0.76

00:19:11.680 In Iraq

00:19:12.640 It's not just

00:19:14.180 Israel that's happy

00:19:15.160 Robin Urbach

00:19:16.380 At The Globe

00:19:16.780 Put it well

00:19:17.420 Trudeau's statement

00:19:18.480 Sounds like

00:19:19.080 What you would get

00:19:19.740 If you told

00:19:20.280 Put prompts

00:19:21.360 Into chat

00:19:21.920 GPT

00:19:22.500 For a statement

00:19:23.160 It's designed

00:19:26.260 Not to piss off

00:19:27.140 The Hezbollah 0.94

00:19:28.880 Supporters

00:19:29.360 In Trudeau's

00:19:30.060 Voting base

00:19:30.880 And caucus 0.75

00:19:31.360 It's disgusting

00:19:32.460 And it's not

00:19:33.480 Going to work

00:19:33.880 Because they're

00:19:34.340 All voting

00:19:34.760 NDP

00:19:35.260 As the polls

00:19:36.080 You just

00:19:36.460 Talked about

00:19:37.040 Showed

00:19:37.460 Final subject

00:19:38.760 Final subject

00:19:39.760 Is more polls

00:19:40.680 Because you are

00:19:41.440 The numbers guy

00:19:42.280 You love this stuff

00:19:43.560 You eat it up

00:19:44.340 And you're great at it

00:19:45.440 Tell us

00:19:46.220 What are the

00:19:46.860 What are the numbers

00:19:47.900 Now

00:19:48.360 This morning

00:19:49.440 In the United States

00:19:50.400 Of America 0.61

00:19:50.960 In the presidential race

00:19:52.380 Well yeah

00:19:53.480 I think we have to

00:19:54.160 Wait for the

00:19:54.940 The changes

00:19:55.660 To come in

00:19:56.320 After Trump's

00:19:57.520 Victorious appearance

00:19:59.900 At what was

00:20:00.780 The biggest

00:20:01.420 Cultural event

00:20:03.360 In the southeastern

00:20:04.300 United States

00:20:05.060 Yesterday

00:20:05.480 I don't know

00:20:06.420 If you saw it

00:20:06.940 I did not

00:20:07.760 Georgia versus

00:20:08.840 Alabama

00:20:09.320 In college football

00:20:10.120 I'm not

00:20:12.000 I'm not joking

00:20:12.780 When I say that

00:20:13.740 You know

00:20:14.300 If you know

00:20:14.920 College football

00:20:16.100 And how big it is

00:20:17.160 Down in the states

00:20:17.840 It's massive

00:20:18.360 And Trump shows up

00:20:19.440 And at first

00:20:21.280 I was just seeing

00:20:22.080 Videos pop up

00:20:23.280 From people

00:20:24.800 Who were there

00:20:25.560 With the

00:20:27.020 With him

00:20:29.360 In the concourse

00:20:30.520 Being cheered on

00:20:31.460 With Chance of USA

00:20:32.500 USA

00:20:32.860 They put him on

00:20:33.640 The jumbotron

00:20:34.440 At some time

00:20:35.080 At one point

00:20:35.920 And the crowd

00:20:38.100 Went wild for him

00:20:39.180 Now that

00:20:39.980 That's in Alabama

00:20:40.780 That's in Tuscaloosa

00:20:41.860 But who was he playing

00:20:44.020 Georgia

00:20:44.800 State he's got a win

00:20:46.220 And

00:20:47.520 You know

00:20:48.740 Georgia sadly

00:20:49.460 Lost that game

00:20:50.260 I was cheering

00:20:50.720 For them

00:20:51.060 Because they

00:20:51.380 Hit Alabama

00:20:51.980 Real clear politics

00:20:53.780 Has the

00:20:54.420 Average of

00:20:55.820 Battleground states

00:20:56.700 As 48.1

00:20:58.080 For Trump

00:20:58.660 40.0

00:21:01.080 For Harris

00:21:02.160 This is the problem

00:21:04.440 And we've talked

00:21:05.520 About it before

00:21:06.220 Harris is only

00:21:07.380 Ahead

00:21:07.900 By

00:21:08.620 0.4%

00:21:10.380 In

00:21:11.240 Average

00:21:12.060 In

00:21:13.160 Pennsylvania

00:21:15.380 That's the

00:21:16.520 Big one

00:21:16.860 That everyone's

00:21:17.440 Got to win

00:21:17.940 So

00:21:18.860 The last

00:21:20.500 Few polls

00:21:21.540 Rasmussen

00:21:22.620 Has them

00:21:23.060 Tied at

00:21:23.480 48 each

00:21:24.260 Susquehanna

00:21:26.640 Never heard of it

00:21:27.400 Tied at

00:21:27.920 46 each

00:21:28.740 Fox News

00:21:29.960 Has them

00:21:30.360 Tied at

00:21:30.700 49 each

00:21:31.480 And I know

00:21:31.860 Some people

00:21:32.320 Might dismiss

00:21:32.880 Them as

00:21:33.200 Fox

00:21:33.580 But one

00:21:34.620 Of the

00:21:34.820 Things I

00:21:35.160 Find

00:21:35.380 Interesting

00:21:35.900 About

00:21:36.180 Fox

00:21:36.580 Is because

00:21:36.980 They know

00:21:37.420 Their

00:21:37.620 Reputation

00:21:38.220 They hire 0.99

00:21:39.280 Two competing

00:21:40.100 Firms

00:21:40.620 A Democrat 0.68

00:21:41.640 Polling

00:21:42.080 Firm

00:21:42.340 And a

00:21:42.640 Republican

00:21:43.100 Polling

00:21:43.580 Firm

00:21:43.800 And they

00:21:44.140 Make them

00:21:44.540 Work on

00:21:44.920 Their

00:21:45.060 Polls

00:21:45.380 Together

00:21:45.700 So

00:21:46.040 Don't

00:21:46.840 Dismiss

00:21:47.240 Fox

00:21:47.720 Polls

00:21:48.660 The

00:21:49.480 Pollsters

00:21:50.340 Are all

00:21:50.700 A lot

00:21:51.320 Of them

00:21:51.580 Are much

00:21:52.000 More

00:21:52.200 Partisan

00:21:52.940 Down

00:21:53.200 There

00:21:53.480 Than

00:21:54.000 They

00:21:54.120 Are

00:21:54.240 They're

00:21:54.460 Aligned

00:21:54.860 With

00:21:55.040 Parties

00:21:55.520 In

00:21:55.900 Ways

00:21:56.160 That

00:21:56.300 We're

00:21:56.420 Not

00:21:56.600 Here

00:21:56.900 But

00:21:57.460 That's

00:21:57.860 Their

00:21:58.160 Usual

00:21:58.700 Mode

00:21:59.420 Of

00:21:59.540 Operation

00:22:00.100 That's

00:22:01.340 The

00:22:01.460 Most

00:22:01.640 Recent

00:22:02.020 Poll

00:22:02.320 In

00:22:02.520 Pennsylvania

00:22:03.060 And

00:22:03.420 They've

00:22:03.600 Got

00:22:03.800 Them

00:22:03.960 Tied

00:22:04.380 Bloomberg

00:22:05.560 Has

00:22:06.020 Them

00:22:06.340 Harris

00:22:07.420 Plus

00:22:07.720 Five

00:22:08.060 That's

00:22:08.380 Her

00:22:08.540 Best

00:22:08.800 Poll

00:22:09.060 There

00:22:09.260 In

00:22:09.380 A

00:22:09.440 While

00:22:09.680 On

00:22:11.020 This

00:22:11.220 Date

00:22:11.460 In

00:22:11.680 2016

00:22:12.640 Clinton

00:22:13.220 Was

00:22:13.480 Ahead

00:22:13.700 By

00:22:13.860 2.4

00:22:14.660 Points

00:22:15.160 And

00:22:15.880 Right

00:22:16.100 Now

00:22:16.340 It's

00:22:16.560 0.4

00:22:17.620 So

00:22:18.260 At

00:22:18.660 That

00:22:18.820 Point

00:22:19.080 You'd

00:22:19.320 Say

00:22:19.480 Tie

00:22:19.880 Goes

00:22:20.200 To

00:22:20.340 The

00:22:20.480 Runner

00:22:20.680 And

00:22:20.880 You

00:22:20.980 Can

00:22:21.100 Do

00:22:21.240 That

00:22:21.500 Across

00:22:22.560 The

00:22:23.260 Battleground

00:22:23.780 States

00:22:24.280 And

00:22:24.640 That's

00:22:24.960 Why

00:22:25.200 The

00:22:25.520 Democrats

00:22:26.180 Are

00:22:26.840 Really

00:22:27.540 Quite

00:22:27.860 Worried

00:22:28.120 Georgia

00:22:28.620 That

00:22:28.860 I Just

00:22:29.160 Mentioned

00:22:29.840 Trump

00:22:30.100 Is 0.88

00:22:30.220 Ahead

00:22:30.380 By

00:22:30.560 1.5

00:22:31.540 Arizona

00:22:32.600 He's

00:22:32.980 Ahead

00:22:33.160 By

00:22:33.360 Two

00:22:33.780 She's

00:22:35.020 Only

00:22:35.260 Ahead

00:22:35.640 By

00:22:35.920 One

00:22:36.480 In

00:22:37.360 Wisconsin

00:22:37.980 And

00:22:38.860 1.7

00:22:39.820 In

00:22:41.020 Michigan

00:22:42.300 In

00:22:43.120 Those

00:22:43.640 States

00:22:43.960 At

00:22:44.100 This

00:22:44.280 Point

00:22:44.500 In

00:22:44.640 The

00:22:44.820 Campaign

00:22:45.440 In

00:22:45.960 2016

00:22:46.540 Hillary 0.96

00:22:47.780 Clinton

00:22:48.100 Was

00:22:48.300 Ahead

00:22:48.560 By

00:22:48.780 Almost

00:22:49.080 Five

00:22:49.400 Points

00:22:49.840 At

00:22:51.120 This

00:22:51.340 Point

00:22:51.560 I

00:22:51.720 Know

00:22:52.520 That

00:22:52.780 Nate

00:22:53.080 Silvers 0.94

00:22:53.560 Has

00:22:54.180 Changed

00:22:54.660 He

00:22:54.940 Was

00:22:55.400 More

00:22:56.980 In

00:22:57.140 The

00:22:57.340 View

00:22:57.780 That

00:22:58.280 Trump

00:23:01.100 Was

00:23:01.380 Going

00:23:01.620 To

00:23:01.760 Win

00:23:01.900 The

00:23:02.040 Electoral

00:23:02.360 College

00:23:02.820 Now

00:23:03.080 He's

00:23:03.260 Saying

00:23:03.460 Harris

00:23:03.980 I

00:23:05.880 Would

00:23:06.260 Just

00:23:08.580 Point

00:23:08.840 Out

00:23:09.020 That

00:23:09.220 I

00:23:09.380 Believe

00:23:09.660 Nate

00:23:10.080 Silvery

00:23:10.400 Was

00:23:10.580 The

00:23:10.700 One

00:23:10.860 That

00:23:11.000 Everyone

00:23:11.320 Quotes

00:23:12.560 To

00:23:12.840 Claim

00:23:13.260 That

00:23:13.980 The

00:23:14.140 Polls

00:23:14.420 Got

00:23:14.600 It

00:23:14.720 All

00:23:14.880 Wrong

00:23:15.080 I

00:23:15.220 Think

00:23:15.360 He

00:23:15.480 Had

00:23:15.620 A

00:23:15.920 90%

00:23:16.660 Chance

00:23:17.360 That

00:23:17.640 Clinton

00:23:18.560 Would

00:23:18.780 Win

00:23:19.020 In

00:23:19.200 2016

00:23:19.920 I

00:23:20.200 Think

00:23:20.380 He's

00:23:20.940 The

00:23:21.060 Origin

00:23:21.360 Of

00:23:21.540 That

00:23:21.760 Quote

00:23:22.240 So

00:23:23.620 I

00:23:24.260 Would

00:23:24.440 Say

00:23:24.660 This

00:23:25.360 Is 0.88

00:23:25.540 Still

00:23:25.900 Leaning

00:23:26.240 Towards

00:23:26.700 Trump

00:23:27.080 But

00:23:27.580 It

00:23:27.820 Is 0.88

00:23:28.200 Tighter

00:23:29.640 Than

00:23:29.960 Pick

00:23:30.480 Your

00:23:30.600 Metaphor

00:23:31.000 All

00:23:31.800 Right

00:23:31.980 Well

00:23:32.460 You've

00:23:32.880 Given

00:23:33.060 Us

00:23:33.240 A lot

00:23:33.480 Of

00:23:33.600 Numbers

00:23:33.940 There

00:23:34.200 And

00:23:35.180 A lot

00:23:35.960 To

00:23:36.140 Chew

00:23:36.400 On

00:23:36.660 So

00:23:37.020 We

00:23:37.420 Know

00:23:37.560 You

00:23:37.720 Love

00:23:37.920 This

00:23:38.180 Time

00:23:38.580 Of

00:23:38.980 Year

00:23:39.260 And

00:23:39.640 You

00:23:39.840 Love

00:23:40.020 Elections

00:23:40.640 And

00:23:41.200 We

00:23:41.280 We

00:23:41.300 Got

00:23:41.440 Plenty

00:23:41.740 Of

00:23:41.840 Happening

00:23:42.360 So

00:23:42.580 Brian

00:23:42.860 Lilly

00:23:43.120 Thank

00:23:43.520 You

00:23:43.660 Sir

00:23:43.840 Have

00:23:44.020 A

00:23:44.140 Great

00:23:44.320 Day

00:23:44.500 And

00:23:44.580 A

00:23:44.680 Great

00:23:44.860 Week

00:23:45.120 Talk

00:23:45.740 To

00:23:45.840 You

00:23:45.960 Soon

00:23:46.160 I

00:23:46.780 I'm

00:23:47.080 So

00:23:47.440 Tired

00:23:48.240 All

00:23:49.040 The

00:23:49.320 Time

00:23:49.900 And

00:23:50.120 I

00:23:50.500 Think

00:23:50.940 About

00:23:51.460 Dying

00:23:52.220 By 0.92

00:23:52.960 Myself

00:23:53.740 But

00:23:54.040 I'm

00:23:54.620 Not

00:23:55.040 Suicidal

00:23:56.100 Just

00:23:57.300 A

00:23:57.600 Little

00:23:57.960 Underwhelm

00:23:59.580 And

00:24:02.020 You

00:24:02.340 Left

00:24:02.780 Around

00:24:03.340 Three

00:24:03.880 And

00:24:04.380 Didn't

00:24:04.960 Come

00:24:05.280 Back

00:24:05.640 But

00:24:05.940 When

00:24:06.240 You

00:24:06.440 Finally

00:24:07.000 Called

00:24:07.960 I

00:24:08.380 Couldn't

00:24:08.980 Hold

00:24:09.220 Back

00:24:09.700 But

00:24:13.180 You

00:24:13.420 Knew

00:24:13.660 That

00:24:14.180 And

00:24:17.900 I

00:24:18.260 Bleached

00:24:18.840 My

00:24:19.260 Hair

00:24:19.800 And

00:24:20.100 Still

00:24:20.520 Look

00:24:20.860 Like 1.00

00:24:21.240 Shit 1.00

00:24:21.760 I 1.00

00:24:22.300 Guess

00:24:22.600 I

00:24:22.840 Haven't

00:24:23.360 Got

00:24:23.760 The

00:24:24.040 Face

00:24:24.700 For

00:24:25.120 It

00:24:25.560 But

00:24:29.060 He

00:24:29.340 New

00:24:29.560 God

00:24:30.140 So

00:24:33.760 Let's

00:24:34.280 Leave

00:24:34.780 Let's

00:24:35.260 Run

00:24:35.680 Let's

00:24:36.260 Drive

00:24:36.840 Let's

00:24:37.260 Fly

00:24:37.760 Away

00:24:38.680 Because

00:24:41.960 This

00:24:42.320 World

00:24:42.840 Is 0.88

00:24:43.060 Too

00:24:43.280 Small

00:24:43.940 Too

00:24:45.120 Small

00:24:45.900 For

00:24:46.380 Me

00:24:59.060 So

00:25:06.220 I

00:25:06.640 Didn't

00:25:07.240 Go

00:25:07.560 Into

00:25:08.100 Road

00:25:08.680 Today

00:25:09.280 And

00:25:09.700 I

00:25:10.040 Cut

00:25:10.600 My

00:25:11.080 Losses

00:25:11.780 And

00:25:12.140 Ran

00:25:12.680 Away

00:25:13.360 And

00:25:13.680 I 0.97

00:25:14.040 Killed 0.99

00:25:14.600 My 0.99

00:25:15.040 Bosses

00:25:15.900 Look at

00:25:17.280 Me

00:25:17.760 Now

00:25:18.400 And

00:25:22.000 When

00:25:22.300 I

00:25:22.540 Was

00:25:22.940 Running

00:25:23.440 I

00:25:23.940 Saw

00:25:24.240 Your

00:25:24.580 Face

00:25:25.200 Because

00:25:25.640 You're

00:25:26.300 The

00:25:26.500 One

00:25:26.760 That

00:25:26.980 Scares

00:25:27.280 Me

00:25:27.540 The

00:25:27.980 Marrower

00:25:28.440 Stuff

00:25:28.780 Think

00:25:29.220 But

00:25:32.700 You

00:25:32.940 Knew

00:25:33.180 That

00:25:33.780 So

00:25:37.420 Let's

00:25:37.920 Leave

00:25:38.400 Let's

00:25:38.880 Run

00:25:39.300 Let's

00:25:39.880 Drive

00:25:40.440 Let's

00:25:40.880 Fly

00:25:41.380 Away

00:25:42.280 Because

00:25:45.520 This

00:25:45.880 World

00:25:46.580 Is 0.88

00:25:46.720 Too

00:25:46.900 Small

00:25:47.680 Too

00:25:48.700 Small

00:25:49.440 For

00:25:49.920 Me

00:25:50.380 So

00:25:53.520 Let's

00:25:54.020 Leave

00:25:54.520 Let's

00:25:55.020 Run

00:25:55.440 Let's

00:25:55.980 Drive

00:25:56.480 Let's

00:25:56.960 Fly

00:25:57.460 Away

00:25:58.280 Because

00:26:01.520 This

00:26:01.900 World

00:26:02.400 Is 0.88

00:26:02.660 Too

00:26:02.860 Small

00:26:03.580 Too

00:26:04.640 Small

00:26:05.380 For

00:26:05.840 Me

00:26:06.340 So

00:26:09.340 Let's

00:26:09.840 Drive

00:26:10.340 Let's

00:26:11.760 Drive

00:26:12.260 To

00:26:12.600 All

00:26:12.800 We

00:26:39.620 Let's

00:26:40.240 Let's

00:26:40.860 And

00:26:41.820 And we're back. We're back with John Mraz.

00:26:43.560 And John, I trust you're feeling better than Mr. Nasrallah is feeling.

00:26:47.840 Oh, wait. 0.90

00:26:48.360 No, he's got the responsibility of deflowering 72 virgins. 0.91

00:26:53.160 That's a lot of responsibility. 0.68

00:26:55.680 Yeah, well, he's going to have lots of time to do it.

00:26:57.700 So what do you think?

00:26:59.280 In Syria, in Lebanon, UAE, around Israel, not just in Israel, 0.99

00:27:07.120 people are celebrating, Muslims are celebrating the departure of this bastard. 1.00

00:27:11.820 The leader of the most murderous terrorist organization in the past 30 years. 1.00

00:27:16.580 What does it mean?

00:27:17.820 Was it, here, let's just challenge the status quo.

00:27:22.780 Is Justin Trudeau right to be unenthusiastic and Melanie Jolie?

00:27:27.720 Should this have happened?

00:27:29.540 Should they have let this guy continue to live?

00:27:32.600 When you bring their names in that conversation,

00:27:36.400 I realized all of a sudden that they're wholly irrelevant.

00:27:40.660 Nasrallah, like Yasser Arafat, because I'm old.

00:27:43.860 Remember Yasser Arafat?

00:27:45.000 The Israelis knew where Yasser Arafat was for 20 years.

00:27:48.100 But you have to negotiate, quoting Golda Meir, with somebody.

00:27:52.340 Nasrallah was identifiable, and he could have been located for 20 years.

00:27:56.660 When you kill Nalbrilla, two things happen.

00:28:00.400 You all of a sudden end up with a bunch of cells, unmonitored, ungoverned, and uncommanded by a structure.

00:28:09.140 And so you end up in a little bit of anarchy.

00:28:11.940 And they're using carrier pigeons to communicate, too.

00:28:15.520 And then the question is, who replaces Nasrallah? 1.00

00:28:19.340 Because there's another misogynist, racist, Jew-hating, savage fascist, indoctrinated from birth. 1.00

00:28:28.480 And maybe he's even worse. 1.00

00:28:32.660 Happy Sunday.

00:28:34.000 But, but, so he's gone.

00:28:37.660 So far, at this point, people are feeling pretty good about that.

00:28:41.920 Everybody keeps, you know, to me, Netanyahu's speech at the UN was typical Netanyahu, and I didn't put much stock in it. 0.67

00:28:49.660 Then I realized what they were doing.

00:28:51.420 It was kind of like that scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone is at the baptism of his kid.

00:28:57.320 And meanwhile, all of his soldiers are taking out his enemies across New York City.

00:29:03.380 It had a feel like that.

00:29:05.340 It was, like, brilliantly done.

00:29:07.620 I think what you're saying, I think they did it.

00:29:10.360 Just wait, just wait, just wait, just wait.

00:29:13.620 Let me ask a question.

00:29:15.020 So do the Israelis press their advantage and move into Lebanon? 0.94

00:29:21.080 Do they press their advantage and take out more targets or even do something about Iran? 0.55

00:29:27.320 BD has been very clear about his agenda.

00:29:30.200 He wants to reshape the Middle East. 0.99

00:29:32.020 And I think what he means by that is take out all the command and control structures, take out as much hardware as possible,

00:29:40.440 take out the manufacturing, Basia of Iran, Syria, Lebanon, et cetera, and leave them scattered. 0.92

00:29:49.100 What you really have to do to solve the problem is open public schools and teach them not to hate Jews.

00:29:54.220 And religion is a big problem here.

00:29:58.580 So you have to change the culture to win the war.

00:30:02.480 But right now, Israel is changing the entire framework of the Middle East. 0.93

00:30:08.540 And what are they going to do next?

00:30:10.780 Answer my question.

00:30:11.660 What are they going to do next?

00:30:12.620 I don't know.

00:30:16.240 But I assume, I'm going to guess, I'm going to guess that they're going to go out to nuclear facilities in Iran and they are going to blow up the Republican Guard. 0.60

00:30:27.160 Now, how do the Americans react to that?

00:30:29.160 You know, Biden issued this triumphant statement on Nasrallah being dispatched.

00:30:36.340 So did Harris and then Trudeau and Jolie, who we just made fun of, made statement.

00:30:44.100 Well, actually, Jolie, I don't think Jolie said anything. 0.59

00:30:47.100 She just posted how she was meeting with the head of the Palestinian Authority, the corrupt organization that's almost as bad as Havas. 0.91

00:30:54.960 Like, what is going on in this country with issues like this?

00:31:00.700 To me, it seems like it's pretty one clear moral dimension.

00:31:04.500 It's like baseball.

00:31:05.840 Like, it shouldn't be hard to come out and celebrate the departure of the worst terrorists the world has seen in the past three decades.

00:31:13.200 But apparently it is for Trudeau and Jolie, isn't it?

00:31:16.600 Trudeau appears to me to be some sort of guilt-ridden, woke settler case.

00:31:22.400 And Melanie Jolie is, like, hot. 0.91

00:31:25.700 You know, like, I mean, I'm really diminishing it.

00:31:27.720 Like, I have yet to see her say anything that is informed by an education about the Middle East, etc.

00:31:35.760 She seems to attach herself to the notion of victimhood.

00:31:38.820 She doesn't seem to understand that Hezbollah popped 8,000 rockets in Israel and displaced 10% of their population.

00:31:46.480 The poor Lebanese. 1.00

00:31:48.120 She seems out of touch with reality.

00:31:49.700 I have no idea where she is.

00:31:51.320 She's our Minister of Foreign Affairs, and I very much hope she has no decision-making authority.

00:31:56.680 But she's hot, Warren.

00:31:58.180 And that seems to be why she has the job.

00:32:00.060 And I know I'm going to get in a lot of trouble for saying that, but it's an honest, wild thing.

00:32:03.800 Beauty is genius, except it's not.

00:32:05.780 Well, she's got power, unfortunately, but I don't think she's going to have power much longer.

00:32:11.260 The Liberal Party of Canada is running behind the NDP everywhere in this country, outside of the province of Quebec.

00:32:18.220 So I think that's all she wrote.

00:32:20.180 I do believe there is going to be a prorogation.

00:32:23.320 You do.

00:32:23.660 And I still believe that Mr. Trudeau is going to depart.

00:32:26.880 But leave that aside.

00:32:28.320 One, the leader of the free world, in my opinion, is Mr. Zelensky.

00:32:32.720 And he was running the circuit this week, talking to people.

00:32:37.460 He even met with Donald Trump, I believe, at the Trump Tower or Mar-a-Lago or one of those citadels of evil.

00:32:43.640 And they kind of sort of made nice.

00:32:48.440 But then Trump came out subsequently and attacked Zelensky.

00:32:51.360 So what does that all mean?

00:32:54.200 Zelensky has to meet with Trump, so he appears to not be partisan in the election in America right now.

00:33:00.200 But he's patently aware that Donald Trump apparently does not recognize Ukraine as a distinct culture.

00:33:07.460 He recognizes it as a colony that should be owned by, you know, Russia and its assets.

00:33:13.980 He's a friend of Vladimir Putin's.

00:33:15.480 He's a would-be tyrant. 1.00

00:33:17.220 I mean, I think Donald Trump masturbates the idea of being a fascist tyrant. 0.99

00:33:21.340 I mean, he's not going to quite get there, but I think that's what he's after. 0.99

00:33:26.020 And he could not give a shit about the independence or the identity of Ukrainians on, you know, the hobnailed boots of the Russian Empire. 0.96

00:33:36.780 I think he, like, I think that he actually sort of, what's the right word? 0.98

00:33:43.720 He romanticizes the notion of empires undemocratic, imperious, colonial, and easily authoritative. 0.99

00:33:55.100 And Zelensky to him is a salesman, and he couldn't give a fuck. 0.99

00:33:58.100 He has to meet with him, too. 0.99

00:33:59.420 But Zelensky has no time for him.

00:34:02.060 Zelensky is an extraordinary ambassador for Ukraine.

00:34:04.720 I'm not at all convinced he's in charge of what's going on over there, but he is a terrific ambassador.

00:34:11.500 And he did the right thing in meeting Trump.

00:34:13.220 I can't imagine how bright that conversation was.

00:34:16.100 Trump just thinks Zelensky should give a quarter of his country away and do business with Vladimir Putin.

00:34:23.060 But, you know, it's in his nature to simplify and attach himself to people of power because he fetishizes that.

00:34:33.160 He'd love to be Vladimir Putin.

00:34:35.680 But the thing that, I mean, you know, Trump is Trump, and I've just given up on people who keep predicting that he's going to be presidential and restrained and moderate.

00:34:45.440 He never is.

00:34:46.200 He's always going to keep doing what he's been his whole life, which is Donald Trump.

00:34:49.900 What I find mystifying, and I say this as somebody who's worked for the Democrats, including for Harris, is the 70 million Americans who buy into this stuff about Ukraine.

00:35:01.820 And, you know, the crazy stuff he said about Iran this week basically said to the Jewish community, you know, nice little Jewish community you've got here.

00:35:09.600 You better vote the right way.

00:35:10.680 And, by the way, I don't care really what happens with Iran. 0.64

00:35:13.560 Like, Pete, you get the 70 million voters who stick with him.

00:35:17.520 It's a very tight race right now.

00:35:19.860 Like, what is the state of the American polity?

00:35:22.780 Like, how is it that he gets away with this stuff and it owns the Republican Party?

00:35:29.360 How has that happened?

00:35:30.340 I think the only data point that impressed me this year was the Department of Education, which Trump, by the way, wants to eliminate, the Federal Department of Education, came out, and you can find it online, with a great report in March of this year that proved or suggested, depending on how you read it, that 120 million Americans are operating at a grade six level.

00:35:52.060 So, Trump is relatable to them because he speaks their language, ignores facts, and empowers them to believe that they should have a say. 0.99

00:36:01.980 And I feel like I'm going like to Plato's Republic where he says, democracy is great until stupid people get to vote. 0.99

00:36:08.960 I don't like drifting in that direction. 0.97

00:36:10.760 But if you've got 120 million people operating at a grade six level, it's identity politics as it's first. 0.58

00:36:19.360 America needs to fix that system so that people like Trump are not relatable.

00:36:25.540 That's the tragedy.

00:36:27.560 Well said.

00:36:28.160 Well said.

00:36:29.020 Well, we'll make that the final word this week.

00:36:31.100 But just extraordinary events this week.

00:36:34.200 Thank you, John Mraz, for your insight into international affairs.

00:36:39.140 And have a great day and a great week.

00:36:42.620 Thank you so much.

00:36:43.700 I'd like him.

00:36:48.280 My head's all spun to every set and I'm fine.

00:36:55.400 Who knows if I am yours, oh, you are mine.

00:37:01.100 The circuits in my brain are burned and fried.

00:37:08.180 It's too late for me.

00:37:10.840 I've lost my mind.

00:37:16.460 You went out in the sunset.

00:37:18.200 You were looking for trouble.

00:37:19.760 My God, it found you.

00:37:22.620 In all these dusty halls and haunted corridors.

00:37:26.800 What are you searching for?

00:37:28.940 You're looking on bookshelves, trying to find yourself.

00:37:35.100 In words wrote by someone greater than yourself.

00:37:39.960 I need time to ease my mind.

00:37:51.160 My head's all spun to every set and I'm fine.

00:37:57.580 Who knows if I am yours or you are mine.

00:38:04.040 The circuits in my brain are burned and fried.

00:38:10.200 It's too late for me.

00:38:11.200 It's too late for me.

00:38:13.280 I've lost my mind.

00:38:18.160 You can just step into something a little more deceiving.

00:38:25.240 Now you're achieving the feeling you wish you were receiving.

00:38:31.760 Pain your face, color your hair.

00:38:35.440 Look like you actually care.

00:38:42.440 I need time to ease my mind.

00:38:53.440 My head's all spun to every set and I'm fine.

00:39:00.520 Who knows if I am yours or you are mine.

00:39:06.660 The circuits in my brain are burned and fried.

00:39:13.060 It's too late for me.

00:39:14.060 It's too late for me.

00:39:16.060 I've lost my mind.

00:39:20.060 I need time to ease my mind.

00:39:39.060 To bring home the promise of Canada of a powerful paycheck that earns affordable food, gas, and homes in safe neighborhoods where anyone,

00:39:49.220 from anywhere, can do anything, the biggest and most open land of opportunity the world has ever seen.

00:39:57.680 That is our vision.

00:39:59.320 That is our purpose.

00:40:00.580 Now, let's bring it home.

00:40:04.220 Welcome back.

00:40:05.320 The beginning of the big show.

00:40:07.760 We knew what the ending was.

00:40:10.260 We knew the block and the NDP were not going to say yes,

00:40:15.300 but that was the opening scene, shall we say, from conservative leader Pierre Polyam.

00:40:23.180 We're going to talk about what happened right now with that non-confidence vote

00:40:27.340 and the signals it is sending and the challenges of all the parties here

00:40:32.280 as we wonder when will we go to the polls.

00:40:36.860 Joining us, Tasha Kearden, political commentator, columnist for the National Post, author of The Right Path.

00:40:42.860 Good morning, Tasha.

00:40:43.800 Good morning, Arlene.

00:40:46.180 And Warren Kinsella, host of KinsellaCast, a podcast, and columnist for the Toronto Sun, of course,

00:40:52.920 lawyer, author, all those things.

00:40:54.880 Hi, Warren.

00:40:55.320 How are you doing?

00:40:56.720 Good morning, guys.

00:40:58.480 All right.

00:40:58.900 Tasha, I'm going to begin with you.

00:41:00.180 We knew it was coming.

00:41:01.380 You know, you go to a movie, you know what it's about, and you kind of know the ending.

00:41:04.960 But what's kind of struck me is what the message Pierre Polyam was trying to get out there.

00:41:12.500 It was a pure election pitch in a lot of ways.

00:41:16.020 Tasha, what hits you?

00:41:17.980 Well, sure.

00:41:18.600 It's the warm-up for the election.

00:41:20.260 He'd love an election, and if the non-confident motion were to pass, he'd get one, but it's not going to.

00:41:26.040 So he's going to make his pitch and then blame the other opposition parties for denying Canadians access to that beautiful Canada on the Hill that he's describing.

00:41:35.420 It is a political theater.

00:41:38.860 It's also, you know, he's played his first card.

00:41:41.060 There's only so many times you can introduce a non-confidence motion before people get tired of the tactic.

00:41:45.920 So this is salvo number one, and I think that it's sort of a lot of people think that the government may fall on a natural non-confidence motion, such as the budget, which will come up next year, probably around March or April.

00:41:58.420 So watch for maybe another one of these coming down the pipe, but I'd be surprised if he exhausted the tactic too many times.

00:42:05.760 It is.

00:42:06.500 He's only got so many runs at this.

00:42:08.640 Warren, what do you say, as Tasha says, you know, this is kind of maybe the beginning of the election.

00:42:15.200 It is the introductory program.

00:42:20.080 This is actually providing content for the election.

00:42:23.540 Like you say, like you both say, you know, the outcome is kind of predetermined.

00:42:28.600 Jagmeet Singh is folded like a cheap suit, and he's now saying he's not going to defeat the government after leading us all to believe he would.

00:42:36.260 And, you know, the Bloc Québécois is getting something out of Trudeau, who is desperate.

00:42:40.440 But what the Tories are getting, Polyev's motion is really smart.

00:42:45.480 He doesn't link it to the carbon tax or any particular issue.

00:42:49.720 All it says is just one sentence.

00:42:51.460 People can check it out.

00:42:53.040 This House has no confidence in the Prime Minister or his government.

00:42:56.340 And what's going to happen now today is the Tories are going to get really useful footage of Jagmeet Singh standing up and having confidence in the government and the Bloc Québécois standing up and having confidence in the government.

00:43:10.240 And they're going to use that against them in the next election campaign to say, if you oppose Trudeau and you oppose the Liberals, and many, many, many, many polls say that many, many Canadians do, well, there's only one party that's going to represent your interests, and it's Pierre Polyev's Conservatives.

00:43:26.480 So today is a very good day for the Tories, even though, paradoxically, they're going to lose the vote.

00:43:31.640 Yeah, you know, all the plotting and the planning here, one of the things that it's in our mind, and I want to get into the Prime Minister's New York trip.

00:43:40.060 Before we do, though, you know, Tasha, as Warren has just said, they're laying out a strategic plan here.

00:43:48.060 Have the other parties underestimated these kind of plans from the Conservatives, and why aren't they doing them themselves?

00:43:56.140 We've kind of seen Jagmeet Singh say, okay, my time is up.

00:43:59.160 I've got to differentiate myself.

00:44:01.640 But it seems that they are just walking into puddles here.

00:44:06.140 Well, I think they're playing a short game, and the Conservatives are sort of playing a long game.

00:44:11.200 The NDP did their, you know, their mea culpa, ripping up the motion performance, because they had a by-election they were terrified of losing.

00:44:20.640 It was the Winnipeg one, the Elmwood Transcona, and the Conservatives were eating their lunch with the Labour vote.

00:44:27.140 They were concerned about this, at least they thought they were.

00:44:29.320 And so they did this to look strong and split off from the Liberals so that the voters there could say, oh, yeah, the NDP is, I can vote NDP.

00:44:38.200 I'm not voting to prop up this government.

00:44:41.040 So that was their thinking there.

00:44:42.360 But they didn't think long-term what this would do, because what it did was immediately the block of a quest.

00:44:47.240 And, oh, great.

00:44:48.280 So now we're the dance partner.

00:44:50.260 Ah, okay.

00:44:50.940 Let's see.

00:44:51.240 What's our grocery list of things we want?

00:44:53.460 And, you know, Blanchet has, again, it's kind of a short-term thing, too.

00:44:58.540 He wants to get sort of essentially a money bill.

00:45:03.020 It's actually a confidence vote itself to give more money to seniors, to top up OAS for seniors who are 65.

00:45:08.400 An expensive one.

00:45:09.860 Very expensive.

00:45:10.820 Very expensive.

00:45:11.240 Billions of dollars a year.

00:45:12.340 So he wants to get that.

00:45:14.060 So he's now saying, oh, I'll prop up the government until I get that.

00:45:16.840 Well, I'll see.

00:45:17.920 Right?

00:45:18.180 And he has a few other things, too.

00:45:19.240 But that's the big one.

00:45:20.440 So he's also short-term in a way and thinking, okay, then I'm going to look strong in the short term.

00:45:25.240 But in the long term, if there are multiple confidence votes, like maybe three, I think max you would see three, it will look like Warren said.

00:45:33.840 These guys are just there, hanging on by their fingernails, propping up the guy.

00:45:38.020 Like, you could spin it both ways.

00:45:39.980 So in the end, it could be spun against them.

00:45:42.140 And I think conservatives are just like they're looking at the polls and saying, you know, even if we lost five points, we'd still be government.

00:45:47.040 So we have nothing to lose.

00:45:48.240 We're just going to hammer that nail until the election.

00:45:51.080 Is there any challenge here for the conservatives, Warren?

00:45:54.080 I mean, they are ahead.

00:45:55.660 Things happen.

00:45:56.700 Newness happens.

00:45:57.840 Joy happens.

00:45:58.740 We've got such a turnaround in America.

00:46:01.280 And we were wondering, I mean, what area is kind of haunting them in their brain, do you think, if any?

00:46:08.600 Well, they've got one big vulnerability, and everybody knows it.

00:46:12.700 What's the plan if Justin Trudeau leaves?

00:46:15.960 What's plan B?

00:46:17.280 You know, have they done any preparations for that very different world?

00:46:23.620 And every indication that I've gotten, the people I've talked to, they haven't.

00:46:28.440 They don't have a plan B.

00:46:30.380 You know, if Dominic LeBlanc takes over or Mark Carney, you know, or somebody.

00:46:34.700 Because the thing that happens when you have a leadership change, and Tasha knows this as well, you get a bump, right?

00:46:41.160 You get a honeymoon.

00:46:42.040 Like, even Stéphane Dionne got a honeymoon.

00:46:44.460 You know, Michael Ignatieff got a honeymoon.

00:46:46.280 Yeah, sure.

00:46:46.740 It does happen.

00:46:48.320 It was annulled.

00:46:50.140 Yeah.

00:46:50.520 In the case of my former boss, Jean Gretz, it lasted 10 years.

00:46:53.660 But, like, you know, you do get something.

00:46:56.840 And so that's the problem the Tories have got, I think, is that they've put all their eggs in the Justin Trudeau basket.

00:47:04.760 And, like, what if he goes?

00:47:06.580 Because that's what's going to happen.

00:47:08.220 One morning we're all going to wake up, and, Arlene, you're going to phone us and say, hey, you've got to come on the show,

00:47:12.920 because we're hearing the Prime Minister taking a walk down Wellington Street to the press theater,

00:47:16.940 and he's about to make a big announcement.

00:47:18.820 That's what's going to happen.

00:47:20.760 And I'm not sure that Pierre Palliev and the Tories are ready for that.

00:47:23.820 It's true.

00:47:24.480 Let's focus on him.

00:47:26.440 Tasha, it was the big makeover.

00:47:28.380 So many interesting things to take away from that late night with Colbert.

00:47:33.420 And you could see it was a good strategy, because we sit here and say, I don't know what they're going to do,

00:47:37.940 because they've tried.

00:47:38.880 They've got policy.

00:47:40.020 Some of this is good.

00:47:41.480 They're not getting any needles to move at all.

00:47:45.200 But go outside the country.

00:47:48.540 Remind Canadians of his popularity at one time.

00:47:53.060 Let him talk about things from outer space a little bit.

00:47:57.420 Tasha, it wasn't a bad idea.

00:47:58.720 He also went to the U.N. meeting.

00:48:00.900 We're going to have a report on that from New York in just a moment.

00:48:04.080 Was it successful for him, in your opinion?

00:48:08.460 I don't know.

00:48:09.500 I think there's, yeah, this is not 2015.

00:48:13.840 He's playing it like it's 2015.

00:48:15.460 People are, like, ready to be proud of him.

00:48:18.720 And this is the thing.

00:48:19.420 Before, when he was on the world stage, he was on the cover of Vogue.

00:48:21.740 And some people mocked that, sure.

00:48:23.080 But, hey, I mean, how many of us have been on the cover of Vogue?

00:48:25.200 You know, like, it's still an aspirational thing for some people.

00:48:28.240 And it's like, oh, look, our prime minister is cool.

00:48:30.680 And people were happy about that.

00:48:32.560 I thought this was nice.

00:48:33.420 It was like his father sort of put Canada on the world stage at a time when we were really boring in the late 60s and early 70s.

00:48:39.960 And there he was with his sandals.

00:48:42.620 And, you know, but the shine is worn off.

00:48:45.900 This is the problem is that now I think it actually plays the opposite way.

00:48:49.600 People are like, oh, you're swanning around, there you are, looking like everything is okay.

00:48:53.860 And you say, oh, Canadians are having a tough time.

00:48:55.860 Oh, yeah.

00:48:56.540 Like, you know, the housing crisis is – what did he say about the housing was – we've fallen a bit behind or something.

00:49:02.960 It was like a very soft way of saying – I mean, it's insulting.

00:49:06.580 So I think anyone who watches this who, you know, I mean, non-conservative voters will be throwing popcorn at the TV.

00:49:14.560 And the rest of the people, I think, are just going to tune out.

00:49:17.340 So I don't think that it was a great strategy.

00:49:20.780 I do have to say, Warren, I had a couple of people who surprised me who said, you know, I thought he did an okay job.

00:49:28.280 On the panel yesterday, even our liberal panelist said, you know, it was a draw almost.

00:49:33.940 He didn't go far enough, according to the liberal strategist.

00:49:38.100 Would you agree?

00:49:38.900 Was there something he could have said?

00:49:40.720 Or, you know, just listening to Tasha there, is there a time where when you've lost the love and feeling, it's gone, gone, gone?

00:49:49.960 Here, let me say what Stephen Colbert should have said to him.

00:49:56.880 You know, hey, Justin, this morning a seat projection came out saying that you're heading to fourth place.

00:50:06.160 What are you doing in New York?

00:50:07.780 There's no votes here for you here, Justin.

00:50:12.460 Shouldn't you be back in Canada trying to save your hive?

00:50:15.780 Because that morning, a seat projection did come out based on Angus Reid's numbers showing a 22-point gap that Justin Trudeau is about to lead the Liberal Party of Canada, formerly the most successful political machine in Western democracy, to fourth place.

00:50:34.240 And that's being in the wilderness, not for a decade.

00:50:37.220 That's being in the wilderness for possibly a generation.

00:50:40.800 That's going to be Justin Trudeau's legacy.

00:50:43.480 But he decides, because he is completely absorbed in himself and completely self-unaware, I'm going to go to New York City and go on late-night TV, and that's going to help me out.

00:50:54.360 It's like, Justin, it helps you out in your scrapbook and your clippings, but it's not helping you out in the bottom line.

00:51:00.140 You're heading to fourth place, according to the pollsters.

00:51:02.620 That was breathtaking.

00:51:04.540 You know, NDP, who's measuring curtains there, and what color will they be?

00:51:09.820 Tasha, let me ask you, you know, again, you know, there's a lot of political people out here, and I talked to him.

00:51:15.240 One said to me, a diehard liberal, Atlantic liberal, one said, here's what we really think is going to happen.

00:51:22.740 True liberals, when they get in that polling booth, are not going to vote for Pierre Paglia.

00:51:30.460 Tasha.

00:51:30.980 Well, a lot of them, I think, did, actually.

00:51:35.040 I know.

00:51:35.840 That was my answer.

00:51:36.900 I looked at the polling numbers there, and in fact, the NDP vote there did not crater at all.

00:51:41.720 It dropped like one and a half percent.

00:51:43.420 The liberal vote cratered, and it went to the conservatives.

00:51:45.920 It dropped like 10 percent, and the conservatives bumped by 15.

00:51:48.340 They took that, and they took the People's Party vote that completely collapsed.

00:51:51.100 No one's talking about this.

00:51:52.900 It's actually very important, because in some writings, it will make a difference.

00:51:55.260 So, no, I think, actually, they will hold their nose.

00:51:59.680 They will vote for Pierre Paglia, because there are liberals who are just so fed up with Trudeau, and I think, to Warren's point, unless there's a leadership change, there's nothing in the window for them.

00:52:09.420 They're just not happy.

00:52:10.160 All right.

00:52:11.820 Warren, you know true liberals.

00:52:14.160 Will they do it?

00:52:15.020 And to Tasha's point, that was exactly my rebuttal, who said St. Paul's, Montreal, they did it.

00:52:21.840 By-elections are different, though, they said.

00:52:23.640 Warren.

00:52:25.140 No, they're not.

00:52:26.620 Those are two important by-elections.

00:52:29.140 It's not like it's Red Deer or something, where they had no chance.

00:52:33.320 It was Paul Martin's writing, right?

00:52:35.380 And St. Paul's was a liberal fortress for a generation.

00:52:40.800 So, like, no, it's quite different.

00:52:44.960 And under any previous liberal leader, the liberal caucus, including my guy, amazingly, they would have been heading down Bank Street with torches and pitchforks by now, saying, I'm for you to go.

00:52:58.720 Why are they not doing that with this guy?

00:53:01.140 And I think a big part of it is the Liberal Party of Canada, as every Canadian voter has observed, has devolved into a cult of personality.

00:53:10.140 And, like, I give Justin credit.

00:53:11.940 He took, in 2015, he took the Liberal Party of Canada from third place to first.

00:53:16.220 That has never happened before.

00:53:18.160 That is a huge political achievement.

00:53:19.980 And so, a lot of the people in that Liberal caucus are first-time MPs, and, you know, they owe everything, their pension included, to him.

00:53:30.040 So, they're unlikely to get up on their hind legs and oppose him, and they're going to rue the day.

00:53:35.160 Because when the election comes, because it is coming, they are going to lose their seats, a lot of them, most of them.

00:53:43.500 And they're going to go, why didn't I speak up when I had a chance?

00:53:47.720 You got it.

00:53:48.180 A lot of doom today.

00:53:49.100 We heard doom from the U.N. in New York.

00:53:51.180 We're hearing continued doom prediction here, but I thank you both for it.

00:53:55.840 Warren Kinsella, who is the host of KinsellaCast, a podcast, lawyer, author, consultant, columnist for the Toronto Sun.

00:54:02.500 Tasha Kirtan, political commentator, columnist for the National Post.

00:54:05.980 You can read her there, and author of The Right Path.

00:54:08.200 Tasha, Warren, thank you.

00:54:10.180 Well, watch carefully.

00:54:11.040 Thanks, guys.

00:54:12.080 Have a good day.

00:54:12.780 Bye.

00:54:13.500 Bye.

00:54:14.500 Bye.

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00:54:53.720 Run around in a cage, run around me, it could feel like

00:55:11.720 Feel as if you're free, take a breath for a second

00:55:15.780 You know it's when you've been trapped, this day of me

00:55:20.040 It's hard to spy you, I really like you

00:55:27.820 Can't face a secret, nice to see you

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00:56:36.820 This is CFRA Live Sunday Political Panel

00:57:06.820 And welcome to it. Joining us on our panel this morning, we say good morning to Tasha Carradine, political columnist for the National Post, a writer for GZERO Media and an author. Good morning, Tasha.

00:57:16.420 Good morning.

00:57:17.300 And happy Sunday to everybody. Warren Kinsella, strategist and post-media columnist, is also here. Warren, good morning.

00:57:23.240 Bonjour.

00:57:23.600 Hello.

00:57:24.260 Carl Belanger, president of Attraction Strategies, also here this morning to chat. Carl, good morning.

00:57:29.060 Morning, folks.

00:57:29.620 Hey, I wanted to start the House of Commons this week like a gaggle of geese, everybody, this week for a few different days or a couple of days straight this week.

00:57:37.000 The non-confidence motion that Pierpaulio put forward, it ultimately failed. Everybody kind of knew it would.

00:57:42.000 It's the same thing with this second kind of go-around.

00:57:44.060 I want to kind of talk a little bit about what's being demanded by the bloc here, but just first this week, has this helped kind of the conservatives keep up their messaging?

00:57:52.820 And in case anybody was wondering, that messaging was taxes up, crimes up, times up, because I heard it a million times in the House of Commons this week.

00:58:00.040 But Warren, has this been a win for the conservatives politically?

00:58:02.960 I think it's a wash. And yes, Polyev is a master of the pithy bumper sticker statement.

00:58:10.660 And it drives a lot of journalists crazy, because they're paid to write, you know, 700 words at a time.

00:58:16.840 But it obviously is working. And I don't know if you guys saw it yesterday, but this is one of those fall-off-my-chair moments.

00:58:24.780 Abacus came out with federal vote intentions. So this is yesterday.

00:58:29.380 These are people certain to vote. Okay? Certain to vote.

00:58:35.060 Conservative 46, Liberal 20, NDP 20.

00:58:41.300 That's lights-out time. That's the Liberal Party of Canada heading to fourth place.

00:58:47.860 So if the question is, is anything that Pierre Polyev is doing working?

00:58:53.380 I would say the answer is, everything that Pierre Polyev is doing is working,

00:58:57.580 because he's about to preside over the biggest defeat of the Liberal Party in its history.

00:59:03.500 Yeah, it seems everything that he touches is political gold right now.

00:59:07.300 Tasha, to Hannah Warren's point here, is this proof that his message is resonating in some way?

00:59:13.160 Well, I think it's a combination. I think his messaging is resonating, and the Liberals are not.

00:59:17.140 And the issue lies with the leader.

00:59:20.640 And until that's recognized, they're not going to go anywhere, because the last two by-elections,

00:59:26.700 well, three, actually, that was held, but two of them specifically, where Liberals had safe seats,

00:59:32.640 really were both, I think, a referendum on the Prime Minister, and in both cases, he lost.

00:59:36.980 And that's not changing, because he's digging in his heels.

00:59:42.120 And the more he digs in his heels, the more he says he's going to dig in his heels,

00:59:45.320 the more that cements in people, the idea, the people who want change, that he's not leaving.

00:59:49.840 So the only change on offer, the realistic change, is Polyev.

00:59:53.400 And the conservatives are saying the right things.

00:59:56.180 The bumper stickers are not.

00:59:57.860 Those are the issues that are on people's minds.

00:59:59.960 So they're articulating them.

01:00:01.820 They're the option on the table, and people are going for it.

01:00:04.300 They're not going to go for Jagmeet Singh.

01:00:06.640 His gambit failed on the, you know, we're going to not support the government,

01:00:10.040 because then he supported the government.

01:00:11.600 So off we go.

01:00:14.080 You know, I think it's the writing's on the wall.

01:00:17.120 I guess, Carl, from your perspective, are you seeing anything that the Liberals can really do

01:00:21.960 to change the channel here?

01:00:23.980 It seems like the conservatives are continuing to hit through with the Canadians on their messaging.

01:00:29.640 Yeah, it's difficult to see how they can get out of this mess.

01:00:34.300 But on the short term, they're going to have to deal with the bloc's demand,

01:00:39.040 because they need to survive.

01:00:41.240 Because clearly, if they do not survive, they're doomed.

01:00:44.940 And they are so doomed that Main Street,

01:00:48.800 Kuitu Omagi, who's the CEO of Main Street,

01:00:50.840 has announced that for the first time in a decade,

01:00:53.560 the NDP is leading the Liberal Party in their national numbers.

01:00:56.900 And the details will be released on Tuesday, I believe.

01:00:59.800 So Warren is right.

01:01:02.300 They are heading for fourth place.

01:01:03.640 So they don't want that.

01:01:04.740 They can't afford that,

01:01:05.980 which means that those bloc demands that the timeline the bloc has put forward

01:01:10.420 will have to be met, or else they will fail.

01:01:15.640 And just on those bloc demands, Carl, do you think,

01:01:18.140 I know we're dealing with a lot of political showmanship this week,

01:01:20.540 but it appears that the Liberals at least have the blocs.

01:01:22.540 Is that the real kind of danger right now?

01:01:24.580 Is that deadline that the blocs have set for them?

01:01:26.440 Yeah, because the bloc doesn't want to negotiate.

01:01:30.200 The bloc doesn't want to talk.

01:01:32.080 They say, these are the two bills we want to see through.

01:01:35.100 We want to see all the way to where it was set before October 29.

01:01:38.940 If you don't deliver, we will bring you down.

01:01:42.200 Now, of course, the NDP can always prop them up,

01:01:44.960 and the Liberals can go and try to negotiate with the NDP.

01:01:49.900 But the bloc doesn't want to play that game.

01:01:51.520 So that's why you have a clear ultimatum with clear demands.

01:01:54.360 They're not numerous.

01:01:55.100 There's only two bills they're asking for.

01:01:58.080 And so we'll see what the government does.

01:02:00.360 But for the bloc, it's a good strategy

01:02:02.020 because it doesn't prolong the discussion.

01:02:07.380 It's just, here it is.

01:02:08.460 That's what it is.

01:02:09.820 And if it's met, it's a big win for the bloc.

01:02:12.620 And then they can ask for more things and have another deadline.

01:02:16.060 If it's not met, then they're done propping them up.

01:02:18.820 And so it's one month.

01:02:21.300 And I think it was a brilliant move by François Blanchet.

01:02:24.520 And it appears the Liberals and NDP both don't want to go to the polls right now.

01:02:27.980 And the bloc appears to also know that as well.

01:02:30.640 I guess, Warren, is that kind of the real deadline here, this October 29 deadline?

01:02:34.920 Is that going to be the first real test of the government here?

01:02:37.000 Well, I agree with Carl.

01:02:40.060 I think Blanchet is being transactional and completely cynical, but brilliant.

01:02:46.660 You know, his $16 billion demand, that's what it's going to cost,

01:02:51.060 is going to be popular in the province of Quebec.

01:02:53.980 And that's what matters to him more than anything else.

01:02:56.540 So he's acting in his self-interest.

01:03:00.180 And I don't think it's going to hurt him.

01:03:02.260 But again, you know, the NDP is being hurt by, you know, talking tough about opposing the government

01:03:09.540 and then not doing it when the chips are down.

01:03:12.480 So, you know, is the Liberal Party going to fold like a cheap suit and give Blanchet what he wants?

01:03:17.500 I suspect they will if they want to survive.

01:03:20.440 And I just, all I can do is picture poor old Mark Carney sitting there going,

01:03:26.220 I sure picked the wrong time to jump onto the deck of the Titanic.

01:03:30.780 Mr. Fiscal Probity joining the Liberal Party, you know, financial wheelhouse.

01:03:36.580 At the moment, it's about to hit the iceberg.

01:03:38.700 It's crazy.

01:03:39.700 I was just an advisor.

01:03:40.900 But anyway, just on the block demands quickly, Tasha,

01:03:44.300 just the idea, do you think that's going to be the first real test of government

01:03:47.360 is making sure that, or the block's kind of demands here,

01:03:50.880 putting the government on notice by the 29th of October?

01:03:54.580 The block is really smart to do this because it's raised Blanchet's stock.

01:03:58.560 He looks like a leader.

01:03:59.660 He's not like Singh.

01:04:00.820 He said, I'll bring them down and then crickets.

01:04:03.740 It's, you know, I won't bring them down right now, but here's my demand.

01:04:06.640 Here's my deadline.

01:04:07.620 I've set the agenda.

01:04:09.140 You know, it's very smart.

01:04:11.800 What it does see, though, too, interestingly, it paints the government into a corner.

01:04:15.300 So there is another option on the table.

01:04:18.660 And, you know, it's the one that people are saying Trudeau should take,

01:04:23.340 but he doesn't want to take, which is leave.

01:04:25.700 But not just leave.

01:04:27.180 Progue the House and call an election.

01:04:29.820 Not call an election.

01:04:30.540 Sorry, call leadership.

01:04:32.020 And that was actually floated this week by Tom Mulcair.

01:04:35.380 I'll give him the credit on that.

01:04:37.280 I floated it also in a column saying I think, you know, he could do that.

01:04:40.600 But the deadline, I hadn't thought of it, the deadline actually makes it more likely,

01:04:46.160 if Trudeau does want to save the furniture and save his party, that he would do that.

01:04:51.100 Because it's the only out at that point.

01:04:52.960 Because, yes, to Carl's point, then, you know, the axe can fall.

01:04:57.840 You know the axe is going to fall.

01:04:59.560 So if you know the axe is going to fall, get out of the way of the axe.

01:05:03.240 I guess we'll see how they'll kind of machinate around that.

01:05:06.120 One thing I wanted to ask just about the whole conference motion this week, just kind of quickly here,

01:05:09.900 is, you know, Pierre Polyev, as we've talked about, and the conservatives have been rising in the polls,

01:05:14.460 but kind of wondering if you guys see this, too, as how quickly things can change in many senses.

01:05:18.300 This whole issue surrounding the comments debate this week,

01:05:21.840 the prime minister saying, you know, there was some casual homophobia going on.

01:05:26.540 Look, I think this was more house silliness than anything. 0.99

01:05:29.180 I was watching for several hours, so things were already stupid at many points. 0.95

01:05:32.460 But, you know, Pierre Polyev was making some very good points on the purchase of this luxury apartment 0.94

01:05:37.860 for the Consul General in New York.

01:05:39.660 Some very valid points about the misspending of government funds here. 0.99

01:05:42.680 And then it gets derailed by this comment that was just kind of more stupid than anything else. 0.98

01:05:46.300 I guess, Warren, is that kind of a warning here of, you know, 0.99

01:05:49.260 how quickly the messaging can change if you're not disciplined?

01:05:52.560 Well, I think it's symptomatic of a government, a political party,

01:05:56.360 that's desperately looking for something to grab onto to save themselves from drowning.

01:06:01.300 I don't think the MP, I forget his name, and so does everybody else who made the comment,

01:06:07.280 I don't think he was being homophobic. 0.98

01:06:10.780 Like, that would be kind of a dumb thing to do when your leader's dad is gay. 1.00

01:06:15.800 So, like, no, I just don't believe it. 0.99

01:06:19.180 But, yeah, we've got to get ready for more of this stuff.

01:06:22.300 We're now in election season, big time.

01:06:25.260 And until there's some resolution,

01:06:27.000 and the only resolution I see for the Liberals is what Tasha just described,

01:06:31.440 which is Justin Trudeau leaving for the lecture circuit, 1.00

01:06:34.980 until that happens, we're going to have more of this stupidity 1.00

01:06:37.960 and then behaving like children instead of adults. 1.00

01:06:41.260 And, Tasha, just to the point,

01:06:42.840 because we've seen this happen with the Conservatives in the past in terms of just,

01:06:46.100 you know, Liberals or those on the left kind of highlighting some more socially

01:06:49.900 Conservative members as well in some of their positions,

01:06:52.700 is that, you know, is that also a danger here in terms of a distraction for pure polio moving forward?

01:06:58.540 You know, I heard the comment, it was by Garner Genovese,

01:07:01.420 I remember his name, there you go, the MP,

01:07:03.460 and he said it as in, like, you know,

01:07:05.620 do you do your work there in the bathtub or something like that?

01:07:08.880 Okay, I think it's because the bathtub cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

01:07:12.680 It was a crazy expensive bathtub.

01:07:14.600 I don't think he was referring to any said,

01:07:16.980 I was just thinking, I wasn't thinking of sex,

01:07:19.140 I was thinking of the cost of the bathtub.

01:07:21.600 I believe him, honestly.

01:07:24.100 I don't think in the heat of the moment he was trying to make a homophobic comment.

01:07:27.400 Yeah, the Conservatives, their Achilles heel is generally things like those moments that have happened

01:07:33.800 on issues of civil rights, on issues of minority rights, LGBT rights, women's rights.

01:07:39.800 Like, their members have slipped up in various elections across the country in the past.

01:07:44.120 But I don't see that as this year, and I think that Trudeau was really, like Warren said,

01:07:49.980 it's like a giant straw floating by, I'm just going to grab this one.

01:07:53.640 A handcrafted copper soaking tub is what he's referred to.

01:07:56.640 They were listing off the features of this condo,

01:07:58.820 but kind of, Carl, to the point of, you know, the Conservatives are riding high right now,

01:08:02.840 but, you know, it is a long time, I guess, before we could see a next election.

01:08:06.040 There is, I guess there's a focus on staying on message

01:08:10.300 that's going to be very important for the Conservative leader.

01:08:13.140 Absolutely. You know, it can go off the rail very quickly.

01:08:16.940 But, you know, parliamentary silly season is one thing.

01:08:20.380 What will be more dangerous is candidates on a campaign trail saying things.

01:08:25.460 MPs going to, you know, anti-abortion churches in the states to spread the message.

01:08:33.060 You know, that kind of thing, the Bozo eruption, the Lake of Fire kind of comments,

01:08:41.020 that's what can sink the Conservatives' ship, 0.81

01:08:44.280 because right now they're in a really good place.

01:08:46.720 They are the only party that represents change in the House of Commons.

01:08:51.300 The other three are for the status quo.

01:08:53.260 Right now that's what's happening.

01:08:55.060 That's why you're seeing the Conservatives' table with another confidence vote.

01:08:58.200 You know, that's why we have another vote, because they want to underline that message.

01:09:01.260 Now, of course, there's danger in that too, which is if you keep just doing it and doing it

01:09:06.280 and keep losing, you show that you're ineffective.

01:09:08.920 But right now, as we stand now, they're in a good place,

01:09:12.420 and they cannot afford any kind of candidates or MP doing things that are highlighting

01:09:19.980 what sunk Errol Toole, what sunk Andrew Scheer,

01:09:24.000 which is the social Conservatives' anti-abortion type of Conservatives

01:09:31.660 that Canadians don't want to see elected.

01:09:34.440 And we'll see how that kind of issue squares out.

01:09:36.480 But that second non-confidence motion, I believe, expected to be voted on on Tuesday.

01:09:40.580 So we'll see how that goes.

01:09:42.100 Just wanted to change gears a little bit here.

01:09:43.520 We did hear some, I don't know, a little bit of a bombshell here from CeCe on Friday,

01:09:47.660 saying that a member of Parliament, a former parliamentary member,

01:09:51.380 may have been working on behalf of a foreign government

01:09:53.920 or working to influence our government on behalf of a foreign government.

01:09:59.020 This is just kind of one thing that's been trickling out over the course of the past couple of weeks

01:10:02.600 during this federal inquiry into election interference here.

01:10:06.580 But, Tasha, this is obviously very serious.

01:10:09.140 We come back to this issue of, you know, should we be naming names?

01:10:12.480 Are we following up on this?

01:10:14.000 I guess, is this concerning for you that we just don't know anything right now?

01:10:17.660 It is very concerning.

01:10:19.400 It's concerning that we don't know things.

01:10:20.940 And it's concerning that people aren't paying enough attention to it

01:10:23.340 when all the silliness, as we just talked about, is going on.

01:10:27.240 It's really, you know, the spies among us thing.

01:10:30.600 And the NDP wanted to bring this attention.

01:10:33.280 They wanted to bring this to a vote in the House of Commons, a priority motion.

01:10:37.060 The Speaker said no.

01:10:38.260 It's not a priority.

01:10:39.360 It's not, you know.

01:10:40.660 Honestly, if national security isn't a priority, what is, right?

01:10:44.140 I think that there would have been, there was an argument, and I made this argument, too,

01:10:50.160 initially, that those names didn't have to be made public immediately,

01:10:53.560 but they had to be communicated to the leaders of the parties to make sure these individuals didn't run again.

01:10:58.360 Those were the 11 names or the people that were suggested in the original Hogue report.

01:11:03.400 No indication that was done.

01:11:05.060 But now we have more.

01:11:06.240 So, at this point, I think the public is going to demand a right to know,

01:11:11.000 and people will want to know, because we cannot have an election,

01:11:13.780 which is just around the corner, potentially, with these people running again.

01:11:18.220 And there is a, you know, that public need and that public want to know, Warren.

01:11:21.440 But what I keep hearing from, you know, intelligence security experts is that, you know,

01:11:25.160 intelligence is in evidence.

01:11:26.640 We're risking a lot by releasing some of these people's names here.

01:11:29.320 How do we get to the bottom of this if we can have CeCe's know that a parliamentarian is perhaps working for a foreign government,

01:11:37.180 and it appears that nobody can really do anything about it?

01:11:40.260 You know, call me crazy, and lots of people do, 0.92

01:11:43.880 but I would like to know whether I'm voting for somebody who is a traitor and a spy. 0.92

01:11:49.400 I would like to know that.

01:11:51.120 I would like to know who that person is.

01:11:53.100 Like, it's a study in contrast, actually, this week.

01:11:55.960 We have people in Ottawa dismissively telling the rest of the country,

01:12:00.040 no, you're not entitled to this information.

01:12:02.340 And then you look a little bit south,

01:12:04.100 and the mayor of one of the biggest cities in the world,

01:12:06.740 who's got more power than any premier in Canada,

01:12:10.340 other than Doug Ford,

01:12:12.160 was indicted this week,

01:12:13.660 because he was acting, allegedly,

01:12:16.400 at the behest of a foreign power.

01:12:19.180 So we know Eric Adams, you know,

01:12:21.340 is alleged to have done that,

01:12:22.960 and he's entitled to the presumption of innocence,

01:12:25.120 and, you know, he's going to get a trial and all the rest of it.

01:12:28.060 But up here, we're told,

01:12:29.200 well, just, you know, keep quiet, you know, Canadian voters,

01:12:32.600 and, you know, it'll be fine.

01:12:34.600 We'll take care of it.

01:12:35.460 We're Ottawa.

01:12:36.140 We know best.

01:12:36.940 It is absolute BS and unacceptable.

01:12:40.680 And, Carl, it seems like a sticky situation

01:12:42.320 in terms of, you know, the legal process here in Canada.

01:12:45.260 But, you know, should we be entitled to more information

01:12:48.060 than what we currently have right now?

01:12:49.560 Well, yes, we are absolutely entitled to more information,

01:12:55.520 which leads me to ask,

01:12:57.880 what does CSIS do?

01:13:00.800 You know, they are suspected, this guy,

01:13:03.880 and then what do they do about it?

01:13:05.620 Oh, they just,

01:13:06.660 he may be,

01:13:08.540 we won't tell you what country,

01:13:11.300 we won't tell you who he is,

01:13:13.040 which party he is a member of.

01:13:18.020 But, you know,

01:13:18.960 we're keeping an eye on it.

01:13:21.060 Well, I'm reassured.

01:13:22.600 I feel better.

01:13:24.220 And this is the problem, right?

01:13:25.500 Like, so CSIS,

01:13:26.240 and they've made these allegations in the past,

01:13:29.760 that there's reports that have leaked,

01:13:31.260 and, you know,

01:13:31.620 we never know the full extent of it.

01:13:33.880 And so we need to figure this out,

01:13:35.980 because I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, guys.

01:13:39.540 And I've said this before,

01:13:40.980 and our focus has been on China and Russia,

01:13:44.220 but there are a lot of countries

01:13:45.940 with a lot of interest in Canada

01:13:47.640 and what's happening here.

01:13:49.420 And I believe that this inquiry

01:13:52.520 does not go far enough

01:13:54.540 to shed light on the issue.

01:13:57.080 And just further to your point, Carl,

01:13:58.220 just a follow-up,

01:13:59.080 you're wondering what the RCMP is also up to in this?

01:14:01.640 Because one would suspect

01:14:02.900 that they have the same information that we do,

01:14:04.860 that CSIS has access to,

01:14:06.420 but we haven't heard a peep from them on this front.

01:14:08.240 Well, exactly.

01:14:08.820 And so, you know, where are the evidence?

01:14:12.460 And, you know,

01:14:12.920 all the evidence,

01:14:13.780 if we show the evidence,

01:14:14.760 would people go lose their life?

01:14:16.080 I mean, I don't know.

01:14:17.820 It depends how you got it.

01:14:19.240 But if you suspect a parliamentarian to be a spy,

01:14:22.880 you know,

01:14:23.660 there are processes

01:14:24.760 in which you can get them indicted

01:14:28.000 and then go to trial.

01:14:30.500 But if you're not following up on that,

01:14:32.480 if you're just keeping an eye to what end,

01:14:36.100 like, justify your existence, you know?

01:14:38.820 Yeah, absolutely.

01:14:40.100 And just if this isn't kind of the red flag,

01:14:43.280 I don't know what would be at many points.

01:14:45.360 But I wanted to squeeze in just one more here

01:14:47.260 while I've got some time here.

01:14:48.740 Just generally,

01:14:49.440 we are seeing what's going on in Lebanon right now.

01:14:51.980 Warren, I'll let you respond first.

01:14:53.140 Just, you know,

01:14:53.880 Canadian government trying to get,

01:14:55.500 well, as many Canadians as possible out right now.

01:14:58.380 I don't think there's any really controversy around that,

01:15:00.820 but just your concern on watching

01:15:02.100 what we're watching right now in Lebanon,

01:15:03.760 in Israel,

01:15:04.260 with Hezbollah and this conflict heating up right now.

01:15:07.300 Well, you know,

01:15:09.520 I don't have a concern about Nasrallah

01:15:12.060 being dispatched from this mortal coil.

01:15:16.140 I joined Syrians...

01:15:16.860 Not a lot of tears this morning, eh?

01:15:18.340 You know,

01:15:19.120 I joined Syrians and Lebanese

01:15:21.520 and other people in the region

01:15:24.580 who are predominantly Muslim and Arab

01:15:27.520 in celebrating the departure

01:15:29.400 of the leader of the terrorist organization

01:15:32.120 that has murdered more people

01:15:33.960 than any other

01:15:34.880 over a period of 30 years.

01:15:36.880 So the world is a better place this morning

01:15:39.900 because Nasrallah has been dispatched by Israel.

01:15:44.400 What they're going to do next?

01:15:45.480 Who knows?

01:15:46.040 All I would know...

01:15:46.840 All I saw was a study in contrast.

01:15:49.960 Polly Ev being...

01:15:51.220 And Biden and Harris

01:15:52.760 being explicitly clear

01:15:54.820 about how pleased they were

01:15:56.960 that he was gone.

01:15:58.160 And Justin Trudeau's statement on Twitter

01:16:00.780 looking like it was, you know,

01:16:02.420 he was heading to the dentist office

01:16:04.220 and he could barely find anything to say.

01:16:06.860 And his Minister of Foreign Affairs

01:16:08.600 meeting with the head 0.96

01:16:09.760 of the corrupt Palestinian Authority 1.00

01:16:11.480 on the same day

01:16:12.480 and not making any mention

01:16:14.240 as far as I'm aware about Nasrallah.

01:16:16.220 It's just...

01:16:17.180 Again,

01:16:17.880 it's a study in contrast

01:16:19.200 and it's a sign of a government

01:16:20.600 that is completely out of touch

01:16:22.020 with the world.

01:16:23.560 And Tasha, 0.98

01:16:24.240 Nasrallah dead here. 1.00

01:16:25.640 Obviously,

01:16:25.940 that's the huge news out of this.

01:16:27.400 I know there's concern

01:16:28.200 about kind of a wider regional conflict

01:16:29.820 within Lebanon

01:16:30.420 and also, you know,

01:16:31.320 it's kind of already happening

01:16:32.680 in Gaza right now.

01:16:33.700 So a lot of instability

01:16:35.280 in the Middle East.

01:16:36.240 Is that concerning right now?

01:16:38.580 Well, I mean,

01:16:39.420 yes, of course,

01:16:40.020 it's concerning,

01:16:40.700 but I share Warren's point.

01:16:42.480 I think that, yes,

01:16:43.940 Nasrallah being gone 1.00

01:16:45.040 is a great piece of news

01:16:46.440 and it's being celebrated

01:16:47.640 by people in the region as well,

01:16:49.740 which tells you a lot.

01:16:51.360 I also think, though,

01:16:52.700 that the opposite is true here

01:16:54.320 in the sense that the government,

01:16:55.300 it's not that they're just

01:16:56.560 out of touch with the world.

01:16:58.320 They're very much in touch

01:16:59.380 with voter bases

01:17:00.420 that they're concerned of losing

01:17:01.460 because you've seen

01:17:02.240 in the last little while,

01:17:03.320 not connected directly

01:17:04.200 to Nasrallah,

01:17:05.020 but anti-Israel protests

01:17:07.180 engulfing an Ottawa community,

01:17:09.920 anti-Israel protests

01:17:10.780 happening in front of

01:17:11.740 an indigo store in Toronto.

01:17:13.800 And this isn't, you know,

01:17:15.220 protests of people

01:17:16.260 just walking around

01:17:17.180 and chanting for a cause.

01:17:18.440 They're demonizing

01:17:19.580 other members

01:17:20.340 of their community.

01:17:21.680 It's spewing hatred

01:17:22.740 and nothing's being done

01:17:23.980 and nothing's being said.

01:17:25.640 Where's Trudeau on that?

01:17:27.260 What he's worried about

01:17:28.340 losing ridings,

01:17:29.440 he's very blunt,

01:17:30.460 where there are

01:17:31.200 Palestinian supporters,

01:17:33.160 Muslim communities

01:17:33.920 that would be sympathetic

01:17:34.940 and would be lost as voters

01:17:37.240 and are angry at him

01:17:38.060 and are going to the NDP

01:17:38.900 and we've seen this,

01:17:39.940 you know, in polls

01:17:41.160 that say that they're now

01:17:42.260 considering voting NDP

01:17:43.120 because the liberals

01:17:43.660 are not supporting

01:17:44.440 their side of the story here.

01:17:46.160 This isn't about Palestine.

01:17:47.280 You know, love him or hate him,

01:17:49.660 Netanyahu articulated it

01:17:50.900 very well at the UN this week

01:17:52.540 when he said

01:17:53.000 this is between Iran and Israel.

01:17:55.280 This is a larger conflict,

01:17:56.680 Iran and the Western world, 0.98

01:17:57.840 frankly.

01:17:59.020 And if you don't see that, 0.87

01:18:00.460 the Palestinians are pawns 1.00

01:18:01.540 in this just as much

01:18:02.260 as anyone else.

01:18:04.360 So I think it's,

01:18:06.200 he's playing a very cynical game here

01:18:08.020 and that's extremely disturbing.

01:18:09.900 And to your point,

01:18:10.660 you know, the Iran 0.98

01:18:11.220 Revolutionary Guard

01:18:12.300 announcing one of their

01:18:13.000 major members

01:18:13.520 also killed yesterday

01:18:14.480 in these airstrikes as well.

01:18:15.840 So it is a proxy war

01:18:18.060 for lack of a better word.

01:18:19.060 Hezbollah and Hamas 0.96

01:18:19.880 obviously very on side

01:18:21.300 with Iran.

01:18:21.980 And Carl, I think that's why

01:18:23.100 there's concern about,

01:18:24.100 you know, a wider conflict

01:18:25.140 in Lebanon.

01:18:25.540 Not that it's not justified

01:18:27.020 in any way you can have

01:18:27.900 that argument,

01:18:28.360 but the idea of also

01:18:29.300 civilians being involved here,

01:18:30.680 there's just kind of

01:18:31.580 more concern about

01:18:32.260 a wider conflict.

01:18:33.040 Yeah, and the Canadian government

01:18:35.220 has been warning,

01:18:37.000 you know,

01:18:37.260 certainly raised concerns

01:18:38.200 about the risk of escalation

01:18:39.420 for months now.

01:18:41.000 And for months

01:18:41.560 they've been telling Canadians

01:18:42.580 to leave the area.

01:18:44.640 And now it looks like

01:18:46.820 Canada will have to

01:18:47.740 do it for them

01:18:48.640 because, you know,

01:18:50.200 they've stayed back

01:18:51.660 for whatever reasons.

01:18:53.320 And some of them

01:18:54.240 are very legitimate,

01:18:55.140 I'm sure.

01:18:55.560 But, you know,

01:18:58.040 for Canadians

01:18:58.860 it raised some questions

01:19:00.920 about why should

01:19:03.220 they pay

01:19:04.360 to evacuate people

01:19:05.900 who have refused

01:19:06.700 to do so

01:19:07.380 when there was not,

01:19:09.300 you know,

01:19:10.560 they were not in danger

01:19:11.800 yet.

01:19:12.680 The explosions

01:19:13.440 and the bombing

01:19:14.540 were not happening yet.

01:19:16.280 So the Canadian government

01:19:17.280 will do it.

01:19:17.900 It's done it in the past.

01:19:18.980 We know we'll have

01:19:20.280 some rescue operations.

01:19:22.760 But, frankly,

01:19:24.200 it's quite sad

01:19:25.140 that we have to

01:19:26.100 get to that

01:19:27.660 because, of course,

01:19:29.240 you know,

01:19:29.500 Netanyahu

01:19:29.940 is not going to stop.

01:19:31.720 He was very clear

01:19:32.760 at the United Nations.

01:19:34.300 He is not going

01:19:35.240 to stop this time.

01:19:36.920 And some of that

01:19:38.080 is because of,

01:19:39.260 you know,

01:19:39.500 the reasons

01:19:39.960 he articulated

01:19:40.580 about Iran.

01:19:42.420 But there's also

01:19:43.420 some domestic politics

01:19:44.640 at play, too.

01:19:45.860 He is trying to

01:19:47.280 be and stay

01:19:48.780 in power

01:19:49.760 and playing

01:19:50.820 those cards

01:19:51.420 in a way

01:19:52.060 that helps him

01:19:53.160 with his electorate.

01:19:54.460 It's a technical

01:19:55.380 glitch there at the end.

01:19:56.220 But thanks so much,

01:19:57.300 you guys,

01:19:57.820 for joining us this morning.

01:19:59.000 We'll be watching

01:19:59.480 what's going on in Lebanon

01:20:00.260 and bringing you up-to-date

01:20:01.060 listeners as well.

01:20:01.880 But Carl Belanger,

01:20:02.840 president at Traction Strategies,

01:20:04.160 Warren Kinsella,

01:20:04.720 his strategist

01:20:05.260 and post-media columnist.

01:20:06.260 You can read his latest

01:20:07.080 in the Toronto Senate.

01:20:08.220 And Tasha Carrot

01:20:08.740 is a columnist

01:20:09.460 for the National Post

01:20:10.200 and a writer

01:20:10.660 for GZero Media.

01:20:12.140 Thanks, guys,

01:20:12.680 for your Sunday.

01:20:13.100 I hope you have a great day.

01:20:14.400 Thank you.

01:20:14.980 Thank you.

01:20:15.800 Bye.

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01:20:16.340 Bye.

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kinsellacast - September 29, 2024

KINSELLACAST 329： Kaboom! with Kheiriddin (twice), Lilley, Belanger, Mraz - plus Bad Nerves, Grandmas House, Snake Eyes and more!

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