00:06:17.720You know, not everybody is satisfied with Pierre Paulyov so far.
00:06:21.080But I think it'd be tough for many Conservatives in this country to say that they don't enjoy seeing the Canadian press and CBC get treated this way
00:06:29.480when they ask ridiculous questions like that.
00:06:31.740So I think, you know what, I'm all for it.
00:06:33.340I think it's well past time that some of the legacy media press in this country got a taste of their own medicine
00:06:39.160and were treated with the kind of respect that they themselves deserve, which is not a lot.
00:06:44.020Yeah, Sue Ann, you've been a political candidate in the past.
00:06:46.700You've also been, for much more of your life, a journalist.
00:06:50.100How do you look at those sorts of exchanges?
00:09:13.380Well, it's a lot easier to answer questions from the media when you pay them off to write soft articles about you.
00:09:20.020It's a whole different story when you're the opposition to the government that's stuffing the pockets of the media.
00:09:25.500You know, I should also say that journalists and the politicians are supposed to have a combative relationship.
00:09:31.500They're not supposed to be patting each other on the back.
00:09:34.080They're not supposed to be, you know, treating each other with kid gloves.
00:09:37.140A sign of a good democracy is when the journalists fight back against the politicians and the politicians have a right to dish it back as good as they receive it.
00:09:46.060So, again, this is just completely ridiculous.
00:09:49.000And one more thing, giving the money, giving media the taxpayer dollars is a lot different than lifting taxes on broadcasters.
00:09:58.160And anyone who pretends as though that's the same is obviously just trying to confuse the public and push political talking points.
00:10:04.980Yeah, what's what's your read on that, Sue Ann?
00:10:08.700Well, I think, you know, she is a giant hypocrite.
00:10:13.060I mean, all we have to do is look at some of the tape.
00:10:17.120I mean, the proof is in the pudding, in the tape of Krista Freeland, for example, calling security and roughing up one of our colleagues from Rebel Media, Dave Menzies.
00:10:30.800I mean, Dave is a character and sometimes he asks for it, but in this case he didn't.
00:10:35.380And, you know, it's it's it's really, really quite hypocritical to hear her talk that way, because I don't know about you guys, but I was muted, banned on Twitter, blocked, you name it, by politicians who didn't want to answer my hard questions.
00:10:56.020So it's kind of rich to hear her talk that way.
00:10:58.740Yeah. And also, let's not forget, Justin Trudeau is the guy who will, you know, say, oh, the Globe and Mail story is false.
00:11:06.320The guy who bans media he doesn't like from being there.
00:11:09.480So it's not even like they're living up to this lofty, aspirational goal that they're setting out for others of, oh, we'll take all questions whether we like him or not.
00:11:21.420They never do. They cherry pick and most politicians do that.
00:11:25.880They cherry pick the ones that are from the friendly media.
00:11:29.480The amount of softballs that I, during my career, heard other media lob at various and sundry politicians was appalling.
00:11:38.320I mean, nobody ever really got, you know, many, many sides of the story or the hard side of the story.
00:11:44.180So, I mean, listening to her, the big difference, Harrison and Andrew, is that now we've got somebody who's actually fighting back and it's about time.
00:11:53.980Yeah. And it flips the script like the next election, because we're used to seeing the whole like deferential thing that Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer did.
00:12:05.240This is a story that really was quite shocking.
00:12:08.820And I want to get both of you to weigh in on this, but let's play the video.
00:12:12.400And just to set the stage for it here, this is a very heated demonstration that was taking place outside a Richmond City Council meeting in British Columbia.
00:12:22.820The discussion was about a proposed supervised injection site, a so-called safe drive by my quote.
00:12:30.900So I need to, like, bring in more a so-called safe injection site in Richmond, which people in the suburban community clearly didn't like and them coming out to be heard and be heard before City Council.
00:14:02.380Apparently, she thinks Canada is supposed to be a country where every city is infested with drug addicts and with the destruction that comes with it.
00:14:10.520I guess that's what she wants for Canada.
00:14:12.820And anyone who disagrees with that must go back to where they come from.
00:14:17.220Well, I come from Canada and I don't want to see my city, although it already has been in Toronto, turned into a drug-infested wasteland.
00:14:26.060But again, what you're seeing is sort of the crumbling of the left here, falling into the traps that they set for their opponents.
00:14:34.740Yeah, I mean, look, I don't know this man who was in that, and I feel bad he was subjected to that.
00:14:39.960But oftentimes, I've always said, immigrants have a much more idealized version of what Canada is and should be than many people who were born here.
00:14:47.500Because they chose to be here, they chose to come here, and this guy then sees people overrunning his community with these policies, which are magnets for crime.
00:14:59.220So who is more Canadian, the Asian man that says, I don't want this in my neighborhood, or the progressive woman screaming at him?
00:15:06.840Well, obviously, the Asian man, you know, all they have to do, these people, is walk to East in Vancouver, the east side of town, downtown Vancouver, and see what a safe injection site has produced.
00:15:25.000I was there last year, and it actually made me physically ill to see the way these people are living and allowed to live on the street, you know, in their fentanyl poses, in, you know, in their urines, on their urine-soaked sidewalks.
00:15:42.520I mean, I've said this repeatedly, and then it came to Toronto, and people are seeing what, how these sites destroy communities.
00:15:50.700And frankly, I've been against them for over 10 years, maybe 15, when Vancouver first started, but frankly, they don't help drug addicts.
00:16:00.060They just enable their drug addictions, and all the arguments that were used initially to bring them in, I don't think hold muster anymore, because there's still opioid deaths, and they can't argue that these things are helping at all.
00:16:17.340All they're doing is destroying the fabrics of communities.
00:16:20.460Go to downtown Toronto, and you'll see drug addicts lying on the street.
00:16:25.020Well, yeah, and that's the thing here.
00:16:26.580I mean, when was InSight in Vancouver, which was sort of the first one?
00:16:29.920That has to be, what, 15 years ago now that that came up?
00:16:33.660And anyone can look at British Columbia, and Vancouver specifically, and see clearly none of this has helped.
00:16:40.640I mean, the situation has gotten exponentially worse, so at best, it's made no difference at all, and at worst, it's inflamed this.
00:16:48.560But that's the part that's missing, is that more of the same is not going to yield a different result.
00:16:54.140So the fact that there was such anger in that video is so insane, Harrison.
00:16:59.040Yeah, and the reality is it hasn't worked at all.
00:17:05.360These are political talking points, political dogma running up against a brick wall, which happens to be the truth.
00:17:11.620You know, British Columbia set the highest annual death toll for opioid overdoses just last year.
00:17:18.000And this, as you said, has been going on for years now.
00:17:20.080It's the leading cause of death in British Columbia for youth aged 10 to 18, opioid overdose.
00:17:26.160And now the B.C. government is considering providing safe fentanyl to children.
00:17:31.320I mean, anyone who thinks that this is saving lives, as the addictions and mental health minister at the federal level will constantly repeat,
00:17:39.560or as British Columbia officials themselves will repeat, is running at extreme odds with the truth.
00:17:45.580And they're just, they have their eyes shut.
00:17:47.580They don't want to address the fact that this is making life worse.
00:17:57.240And let's not forget the shooting last summer of that poor, innocent woman right near a safe injection site in Riverdale in Toronto.
00:18:05.500And people, the community was in an uproar.
00:18:07.980And the people who run the site and the health minister, deputy minister, they were down like cavalier about the crime that is occurring around these sites.
00:18:17.800Drug dealers know that they are a target.
00:18:20.400I actually saw drug dealing in action because I spent a lot of time outside some of these sites or around these sites.
00:18:27.980I mean, it's absurd that the progressives think that this is helping in any way.
00:18:32.360It's the best definition of insanity, frankly.
00:18:35.580And I just want to add one more thing as well.
00:18:39.760If you happen to live in Toronto, you will know that the works, the public health city of Toronto department is on Ryerson University campus.
00:18:48.400So students who pay to go to university have to walk past a safe injection site, a site where they give out all of these safe supply drugs, as they're called.
00:18:59.400It's just constant destruction and havoc on campus.
00:19:03.920So the city thinks that that's appropriate.
00:19:07.000Sue Ann, you brought up the Parkdale shooting.
00:19:09.260There was a woman who worked at that facility who has now been charged because she helped to try and get the killer, the alleged killer, away from the police.
00:19:21.300These are, as you said, Andrew, crime magnets.
00:19:24.180And for somebody, some activists to be so racist and awful in front of that person who just wants to live in a community that is not infested with drugs says a lot.
00:19:34.820Yeah, and I should say, of course, the activists won out in this case.
00:19:37.600The motion to consider implementing this site passed with a vote of 7 to 2.
00:19:43.440It was just two councillors who stood against it.
00:19:46.480Now, it's not a fait accompli just yet, but the way things are going, it certainly seems like that is likely to be the eventual outcome here.
00:19:54.820But speaking of unhinged protesters, let's talk about what happened at Mount Sinai Hospital.
00:20:01.420Again, this one is, I shouldn't even be surprised anymore.
00:20:06.240Like, you think there are some sacred cows that remain in the context of political debate, but not when we are talking about the anti-Israel left.
00:20:47.580Sue Ann, I'll just, you know, give you the floor on this one as our Torontonian and also a Jewish woman who's been on the front lines of this anti-Semitism stuff for years.
00:20:57.260Yeah, you know, Andrew and Harrison, this goes back to the fact that the police and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow didn't handle this well right out of the gate.
00:21:08.100And they enabled these people and empowered them to continue their protests.
00:21:11.840The last I spoke with the police, there were, I guess this makes it about 495 protests in Toronto by mostly the anti-Israel left radicals.
00:21:26.420They are, their tactics are intimidating, you know, to strike a Jewish hospital.
00:21:34.400Somehow they thought that related to Gaza and what's going on in the hospitals there, although that is all propaganda because the IDF never struck any hospitals as that has been proven.
00:21:45.660But they just, many of them are people who are just totally indoctrinated, ignorant of the reality of what's going on, and they just get caught up in the craziness.
00:22:01.660I mean, they just, they found a purpose.
00:22:04.200I follow all of them on social media, and I follow the leaders, and somehow they think that these protests are going to help in some way.
00:22:13.940I think they're all mentally unstable, frankly.
00:22:18.540And I think that the police, and they're now handling it much better, but, you know, there were weeks and weeks, like almost eight weeks of them not handling it well.
00:22:30.660And this has just encouraged this craziness.
00:22:35.780I mean, the person, when politicians give their platitudes and make their statements like Olivia Chow did and the others, like, you let this happen.
00:23:16.400But the way that the left responds to this.
00:23:19.100So Olivia Chow, who's been like a darling of the far left and the even farther left for years, Olivia Chow puts out her condemnation on Twitter.
00:23:54.440So when Nora says this betrays everything it means to be progressive, she's saying the quiet part out loud, which is that what we saw in that video is what it means to be progressive.
00:24:06.080Well, certainly it's a mask off moment for Nora Loretto and for, I think, a lot of people who agree with her.
00:24:12.640To speak to the protesters' mental instability, as Sue Ann noted, I can't think of a worse way to try and alienate Canadians from your cause than to protest like this in front of a hospital that has nothing to do with what these people are protesting about.
00:24:28.880Now, I think that there are some people who protest Israel who don't protest out of racism and they have things that they disagree with Israel on.
00:24:42.880But when you're protesting Mount Sinai Hospital to make the claim that that is purely anti-Israel, pro-Palestine and not anti-Semitic, I have a hard time believing that.
00:24:53.600And you really can't, good luck trying to sell that to the Canadian public as well.
00:24:57.780Because I've seen these protests, I've been inside of these protests, I've interviewed these people.
00:25:02.900When you speak to them, they, of course, understand that they're trying to, you know, get their cause out to the public and they want people to join their cause.
00:25:09.860But in that group mentality, it seems that they lose all sense of reality and they're willing to push the boundaries all the way to blatant anti-Semitism.
00:25:19.060And, of course, the consequence of that is alienating Canadians from their cause, whatever kind of Canadians were still perhaps, you know, willing to support these people.
00:25:29.580Because they're just showing themselves to not actually care that much about what's going on.
00:25:34.700They care more about trying to make a statement about Israel, which, of course, is a statement about Jews.
00:25:55.800And going in front of the Israeli consulate, well, that's, you know, you could make a sort of stretch it that that is related to Israel more so.
00:26:06.100But to target Jewish businesses, Indigo, the people who were charged with Indigo, didn't think they did anything wrong, even though they engaged in civil disobedience.
00:26:14.980All these actions were not targeting Israel.
00:26:38.800And I think on that point, I believe that anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiments can be distinct.
00:26:45.920I believe they can be, but the Venn diagram is a lot more like a circle than these people tend to admit.
00:26:53.000And I think that when push comes to shove, the nuanced, reasoned, moderate, non-anti-Semitic critique of Israel is basically as elusive as, you know, the Yeti in the wilderness of the Himalayas or something.
00:27:07.840Because nine times out of ten, it's just trying to put lipstick on a very anti-Semitic pig.
00:28:12.820I, when I was in Israel for the first time in 2011, I met an AP reporter there who said, you know, when, and he spoke Hebrew as he was Jewish.
00:28:21.820And that was how he got the job being posted there when he was quite young.
00:28:24.820And he said, like, people at AP bureaus around the world are lucky if their stories ever get picked up.
00:28:29.300Where he said for him, it was like, if someone sneezes in Jerusalem, he could write a story and it's going to get picked up everywhere.
00:28:35.820So I think there's some empirical evidence behind what you just said there, Sue Ann.
00:28:40.160Just to end things, I mean, I know it's a bit of a sour note as we head into the weekend here.
00:28:44.020But Harrison, why don't you tell us what happened in Regina last weekend and, more importantly, what happened in Ottawa in the days following?
00:28:51.620Well, as Canadians who have been following this story will know, Canada was rapidly approaching the grim 100 number of churches that have been targeted by arsonists and vandals since 2021.
00:29:06.800We are now at 100 churches that have been targeted in this country.
00:29:11.620And on Saturday, or on Friday midnight, rather, the Blessed Sacrament Parish in Regina was targeted by an arsonist who was caught on camera dumping the contents of a jerry can onto the rear entrance of this 118-year-old Catholic church, the oldest Catholic church in Regina, lighting it on fire and running away.
00:29:31.120Thank God the church was saved by firefighters.
00:29:34.480But this is, we're now at 100 churches, which is an awful thing to have happened in this country.
00:29:41.400It's a blight on the government and the state of our country itself.
00:29:48.960You might think that condemning an attempted arson of a church might be the easiest thing to do.
00:29:54.680It might be the easiest, no-brainer thing to say, yes, I condemn the burning of a church.
00:29:59.980But, according to the NDP and the Liberals, well, that was just not going to fly.
00:30:06.400Take a look at what happened when a Saskatchewan MP, Corey Tuchore, I think I said his name right, he got up in the House of Commons on Monday and sought a unanimous consent motion to condemn the attempted arson at the Blessed Sacrament Parish.
00:31:07.420I recognize the Honourable Member, a former chair, a current House officer, a member from Regina Capel who is rising on his feet for a point of order.
00:31:18.020Mr. Speaker, Blessed Sacrament Church in Regina was subject to arson and vandalism.
00:31:22.540And I believe you'll find support that the House recognized the right of Canadians to gather to worship or celebrate their faith.
00:31:28.160So, I regret to interrupt the Honourable Member from Regina Capel, but I could clearly see that there is no unanimous consent for this.
00:32:08.060You can condemn attacks against Christians.
00:32:10.460But again, Suen, it's one group that tends to get a pass here.
00:32:14.080You know, it just to me speaks to the breakdown of the moral fabric in our country, that they can't even condemn something like this in a church.
00:32:26.800You know, perhaps these lefty progressives, they don't like the police.
00:32:54.780There's a lot of symbolism going on, right, with these motions.
00:32:59.340And I think Christians who are watching this will have to struggle with the idea that if they can't, if these MPs can't condemn the burning of a church, what does it say about how they think about Christians in this country?
00:33:13.640I think a lot of people are going to be left with that question in their heads.
00:33:16.940Now, it's also important to remember, this same parliament voted unanimously to condemn Canada of committing genocide against First Nations people.
00:34:31.640One of them, Anthony Housefather, who's been quite strong on these sorts of issues.
00:34:34.880But nowhere near the condemnation, like you said, Harrison, if this had been at another type of institution, which would also have been wrong.
00:34:59.900I mean, it's I actually enjoy the interplay between the people running for president down here because at least they seem to be passionate about what's going on, the border issues and all that kind of stuff.
00:35:16.060And I don't I don't get that feeling from any of the people in the Liberal Party and particularly Trudeau.
00:35:22.580If that's the case and Trudeau is really phoning it in and he's basically done, what a way to bookend his time as prime minister in this country.
00:35:31.060One hundred churches attacked under his watch.
00:35:34.620I can't think of better symbolism, quite frankly, to to encapsulate Trudeau's time as prime minister in this country.
00:37:09.980The groceries are still pretty expensive here.
00:37:12.400I mean, I think it's part of a giant trend.
00:37:14.120And let's not forget the fuel gas as well.
00:37:17.800Oh, when I was in Davos with Sean Thompson and Cosman Georgia from our team a few weeks ago reporting we were not like Klaus Schwab's, you know, invited elites.
00:37:28.800We had a rental car and we were driving around.
00:37:31.100And I never thought I could have a gas bill that would make me long for the gas prices in Canada.