Francesca Albanese is the United Nation's Special Rapporteur for Anti-Semitism in Palestine and she's coming to Canada in the next few days on a campus tour. She's an attractive Italian woman, a telegenic international lawyer, an academic, holds a PhD in law, and holds many academic awards of distinctions, but she's also a bigot. Her title is the UN's special rapporteur for anti-Semitism, but in reality she's not just an advocate for Palestine, she's an advocate against Jews in the Jewish state, and she devotes herself energetically to that unwritten part of her job description, "anti-Semitism."
00:09:40.400And we're back. And Brian, I wish to resign from this podcast, but I'm not going to give you the letter. I'm not going to sign it. I'm not going to tell you what I'm thinking, but I'm just going to resign. That works, doesn't it?
00:10:05.100Sure. Yeah. The people behind this revolt that Justin Trudeau faced
00:10:14.780It appears they couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.
00:10:20.580Although some of them are saying, now coming out, like Wayne Long saying
00:10:24.040He flipped as the bird and others are starting to chirp. We'll see if the fact that Trudeau, you know, they apparently gave until Monday. And the next day he said, I'm staying. I'm not going anywhere.
00:10:37.420So we'll see if it may embolden some of them.
00:10:41.340Because, I mean, so far, the thing that I heard from MPs who have been frustrated but weren't joining the rebellion is that they're annoyed that there's no plan there.
00:10:57.960They're annoyed that they've been promised things like an ad campaign to promote themselves and to attack Paliyev, and that's not there.
00:11:06.880That they've been told there's going to be fresh faces or a new agenda or a new direction. That's not there.
00:11:13.880So far, all they've come up with is this decision to reverse course on immigration, which probably doesn't do enough to repair their reputations, and puts them in the odd position of doing what they were calling everyone who proposed it racist before, and now they're proposing it.
00:11:39.480Well, let's break those down into two digestible parts.
00:11:43.880Right. As two guys, two really smart, good-looking guys, Brian Lillian, Warren Kinsella, were saying for the days leading up to this so-called revolt, it's Shakespearean.
00:11:54.580If you take a swing at the king, you better make sure you kill him. And number two, if you fail, you're going to strengthen his position.
00:12:00.640Have they not strengthened his position? Doesn't that make it harder for him to leave now?
00:12:06.940Yeah, because they missed. They completely missed.
00:12:09.880And now it will just be, oh, the guys that couldn't win are still upset and still chirping at Trudeau.
00:12:20.280You know, is that a good narrative for them?
00:12:54.200In fact, we are, it was two days ago, I think, is the date that we're supposed to go to an election.
00:13:00.300Did they change it to the 25th or is it still the 19th?
00:13:03.560I think they changed it to accommodate the pension stuff.
00:13:06.380Yeah, well, I think we'll both have to confirm that.
00:13:09.720But I do want to note that it was October 25th, 10 years ago, that our former colleague and friend, Mark Dunn, CP and the Ottawa Citizen and the Sun News Network passed away.
00:14:12.520But that's part of his strategy now, too.
00:14:14.980Well, Justin Trudeau, if you're listening to Brian and I, I will, if you come on this podcast and debate us, I will come and work for you for free and devise a strategy to destroy Parapallia.
00:15:02.780There's the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star front page next day, you know, dutifully reporting on this immigration change that Trudeau and Miller announced.
00:16:35.940One, Justin Trudeau has known about foreign interference issues since 2019 and done sweet fuck all about them.
00:16:43.840And two, Polyev keeps saying, release all the names of any MP involved.
00:16:51.720Trudeau's response since 2019 has been to do everything possible to keep this secret, including when he was on the stand, he said, oh, no, Polyev could read this report.
00:17:04.740Because part of Polyev's argument is if I read the report, I'm handcuffed, I can't talk about it properly, and I can't act either if I find out there are problems.
00:17:14.360And Trudeau says, oh, no, he can't act.
00:18:14.480And, you know, yet more evidence of their lack of seriousness.
00:18:17.220And if they cared about national security, they wouldn't be sending out two of their most senior people to brief a Washington Post reporter.
00:18:27.780He said during his testimony, he called the people who leaked to the globe and global news criminals for putting the information about Chinese foreign interference out there.
00:18:37.540And yet he had his national security advisor and David Morrison, a man who has failed upwards, it seems.
00:18:48.420He was the foreign national security advisor who missed everything and then was promoted to deputy minister of global affairs.
00:18:55.680Those were the two that ended up briefing the Washington Post and they got info that was never released by the RCMP or the government to the public.
00:19:10.600Final thing, you know, Abacus has developed this excellent news management technique of dropping big polls on Sundays.
00:19:19.860So we all talk about it going into the new week.
00:19:22.560They've done it again with a new poll showing federal liberals still 22 points behind, which means they're only being kept alive by the province of Quebec.
00:19:32.300They're running behind the NDP and the rest of the country.
00:19:34.940All that's protecting them is endangered species laws at this point.
00:19:39.720What do you think could change this at this point?
00:19:42.200You and I were talking about Christy Clark earlier in the week.
00:19:44.720I think she'd be a good pick for the liberals, you know, female, Western, experience with power, center, center right, liberal.
00:19:52.800Can anything change the outcome at this point when it's 22 points?
00:19:58.400I think it'd be a poison chalice for anyone taking over.
00:20:01.400You know, as much as I say anything can happen, it would be a tough haul for anyone to go in and turn it around.
00:20:11.020But I see someone like Christy Clark or someone who is a centrist, you know, in the tradition of a Gretchen is much more of a threat than, say, going to Melanie Jolie or Christy Freeland or Mark Carney.
00:20:28.400Although the new episode of the Full Comment podcast coming out tomorrow with John Iveson, and he does make an argument that Carney is much more centrist than Trudeau.
00:20:39.660I'm not sure, but Carney did work well with Jim Flaherty and the late Jim Flaherty and Stephen Harper when they were in office.
00:20:46.140So perhaps there's some merit to that.
00:20:48.320But, you know, Trudeau did his interview with Village Media.