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Canadian media blames Trump for U.S. gun crime — So why don’t they blame Trudeau for Canada’s gun crime？


Summary

Why do the Canadian media always blame Donald Trump for U.S. gun crime? And why don't they blame Justin Trudeau for Canada's own gun crime problems? Ezra takes a look at the stats and tries to figure out why.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels.
00:00:00.920 Hey, I make an observation today, and I show you some charts.
00:00:04.720 We've got some serious gun crime in Canada, not as bad as in the States, I'll grant you
00:00:08.420 that, but Toronto has exceeded New York City for murder rates.
00:00:12.760 What do you think of that?
00:00:14.240 But here's my observation.
00:00:15.880 Why is it that the media never blame Justin Trudeau for shootings up here, but they blame
00:00:22.800 Donald Trump for shootings down there?
00:00:24.820 I go into it a bit and show you some stats.
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00:01:00.540 Okay, here's today's show.
00:01:02.700 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.
00:01:05.880 Tonight, the Canadian media blames Trump for U.S. gun crime.
00:01:09.520 Why don't they blame Trudeau for Canada's gun crime?
00:01:12.760 It's August 7th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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00:01:20.760 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:24.820 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
00:01:29.700 right to do so.
00:01:35.960 Look at this headline from last year in the fancy-schmancy Toronto lifestyle mag called
00:01:41.480 Toronto Life.
00:01:43.260 Toronto's homicide rate is now higher than New York's.
00:01:46.980 You know, Toronto always compares itself to New York City, which will always result
00:01:50.820 in disappointment, but this time Toronto's inferiority complex was finally overcome.
00:01:55.380 You've got a better chance of being murdered in Toronto than in New York.
00:01:59.700 That sentence would have been inconceivable back before New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned
00:02:05.860 up the crime in New York in the 90s by respecting and empowering the police.
00:02:10.900 and siding with citizens against gangs.
00:02:13.620 So New York is getting safer, and at the same time, Toronto's Mayor John Tory has presided
00:02:19.140 over a police force that is becoming demoralized, that is being told to turn a blind eye towards
00:02:25.160 low-level street crime and higher-level crime.
00:02:27.780 Beggars and squatters and drug dealers, for starters.
00:02:30.540 So yeah, congratulations, Toronto.
00:02:34.260 Now, the last full year for which we have statistics was 2018, the year Toronto finally beat New
00:02:40.720 York, but over the weekend in Toronto, whoa, did Toronto ever take a great leap forward,
00:02:46.060 if by forward you mean more gun crimes.
00:02:49.760 17 shootings in Toronto over the long weekend.
00:02:53.780 17, that's incredible.
00:02:55.340 For Toronto, I mean, for Iraq or Afghanistan, that's just sort of normal.
00:02:58.960 Now, I chose that story in Global News pretty much at random.
00:03:02.860 It had four reporters working together.
00:03:06.200 Now, that's a lot of reporting firepower, especially these days.
00:03:09.000 Yet they managed to report the story without once criticizing Justin Trudeau.
00:03:13.920 And that's probably the right thing.
00:03:15.680 I mean, you know who you can blame for crime?
00:03:19.860 The criminals.
00:03:21.300 Is there a policing problem?
00:03:22.860 Maybe.
00:03:23.500 Maybe the chief of police has some answering to do.
00:03:25.540 Maybe the mayor.
00:03:26.220 But what would you even blame Justin Trudeau for?
00:03:29.660 Perhaps if he let in the criminals through his open borders immigration plan?
00:03:33.620 Maybe.
00:03:34.240 Or if his weakening of our criminal justice laws had let a repeat offender back on the
00:03:38.900 streets?
00:03:39.240 Maybe.
00:03:39.680 But we don't have those facts yet.
00:03:41.760 But in general, why would you blame Trudeau?
00:03:44.700 Other than, I suppose, in the most general sense, Trudeau was in charge of public safety.
00:03:48.660 He even has a department named that, run by the least incompetent cabinet minister,
00:03:53.360 Ralph Goodale.
00:03:53.900 But something is wrong.
00:03:57.100 I suppose it is wrong.
00:03:58.680 There is someone to blame because Toronto is breaking records for shootings again.
00:04:02.500 244 shootings so far this year.
00:04:05.020 Here's historical records of Toronto shootings, courtesy of the Toronto police.
00:04:09.420 They have very detailed stats, very meticulous.
00:04:11.960 I'm not blaming Trudeau.
00:04:13.300 Really, I'm not.
00:04:14.080 But if I were, I'd point out that while shootings in Toronto declined every year in Stephen Harper's
00:04:21.700 last four years as prime minister, they've increased every year under Trudeau.
00:04:26.800 In fact, they've doubled.
00:04:29.100 Now, I'm actually not blaming Trudeau.
00:04:31.060 The blame is wider spread than that.
00:04:32.920 But I mention that because the Canadian media, which never, not once, blames Trudeau for massive
00:04:37.540 guns sprees in our own country, immediately blames Donald Trump for guns sprees in the United
00:04:41.880 States.
00:04:42.320 Isn't that odd?
00:04:43.840 Every single media outlet in Canada has gone nuts linking gun crime in the United States
00:04:51.200 to Donald Trump.
00:04:51.900 I'm talking about Canadian media now.
00:04:53.640 I'm not even talking about U.S. media.
00:04:55.880 So the exact same Canadian reporters that specifically do not blame gun crime in Canada on Trudeau do
00:05:04.200 blame gun crime in the U.S. on Trump.
00:05:07.020 How do you do that acrobatic trick?
00:05:08.940 Even when the killer is anti-Trump, hates Trump, such as the mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio, who
00:05:18.140 was an Elizabeth Warren Democrat, who proudly retweeted Democrats, who was an Antifa left-wing
00:05:25.400 activist.
00:05:26.740 You could probably call him the first Antifa murderer, but it's all on Trump.
00:05:31.640 Have you even seen a reporter ask Elizabeth Warren about him?
00:05:35.100 Again, I don't blame Elizabeth Warren for the Dayton, Ohio murders.
00:05:38.940 I blame the murderer.
00:05:40.340 But if you can blame Trump, why can't you blame a Democrat who was a hero to the political
00:05:45.180 murderer?
00:05:45.720 Well, the question answers itself, doesn't it?
00:05:47.560 As you may know, the CBC state broadcaster has set up an election time war room, and they
00:05:53.500 have been using that to attack Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier.
00:05:56.600 Well, they deployed their war room in the wake of the Toronto shootings to defend Ralph
00:06:02.960 Goodale, to defend him.
00:06:04.160 Not to criticize him, and to gently nudge him towards more gun control, as if gang-style
00:06:10.100 shootings, who are already using illegal guns and using them illegally, as if more laws
00:06:17.320 on paper would stop them, more red tape.
00:06:19.440 It's a joke.
00:06:19.880 Goodale and Trudeau have no idea of what to do, any more than most U.S. Democrats have
00:06:25.120 no idea what to do.
00:06:26.600 But the CBC's there to make sure that the Democrats and the liberals are comfy, and to
00:06:31.520 tuck them into bed nicely, they save their rage for Donald Trump.
00:06:35.820 If I had to assign blame, I'd blame the shooters.
00:06:38.420 But perhaps the politician with the closest nexus to the problem is the mayor of Toronto, who
00:06:44.820 also shapes police policy, here's the hapless John Tory.
00:06:49.380 The mayor also emphasized his call for a handgun ban in the city, a message he's been touting
00:06:57.460 since last year.
00:06:58.820 Really, at the root of this is people carrying guns in their pockets and feeling that they're
00:07:04.000 at liberty to use them, even when they're in the most trivial disputes that you have every
00:07:08.440 day in your life, he said.
00:07:10.580 That's really, that's a weird thing to say.
00:07:14.100 But it's already happened, shooting people, it's extremely difficult to get legal handguns
00:07:19.620 in Canada.
00:07:20.180 Almost no one can.
00:07:21.840 There are, I think there's probably fewer than 10 concealed carry permits in all of Toronto,
00:07:27.860 if even that many.
00:07:28.580 All of this misconduct in Toronto on the weekend, it's already, I don't know, illegal in half
00:07:35.780 a dozen ways, let alone the actual shooting.
00:07:38.660 Adding another paperwork crime layer isn't going to stop a gang member from shooting.
00:07:44.200 Let me quote John Tory one more time on the state broadcaster who love him.
00:07:48.260 He has no idea what to do, clearly.
00:07:51.100 And therefore, he can have no plan to do what he doesn't know what to do.
00:07:54.580 He's helpless and pitiful, as he is on most things.
00:07:57.040 He has no knowledge or experience actually solving problems about crime like Rudy Giuliani
00:08:02.340 did.
00:08:03.220 Giuliani was a prosecutor who went after the mob.
00:08:06.340 John Tory has weakened the police.
00:08:07.740 He doesn't know what to do.
00:08:10.620 I've certainly come to realize, and I think most people do as well, there is no magic answer
00:08:14.140 to this.
00:08:14.640 And so when this kind of thing happens in a concentrated way, it's very frustrating, very
00:08:18.640 angering, and very sad, and bottom line, unacceptable.
00:08:22.720 Now imagine if that's all Trump had said.
00:08:24.640 Hey guys, sorry, but it's really unacceptable what happened, and yeah, that's all I got.
00:08:33.180 Oh my God, that would be a ferocious feeding frenzy.
00:08:35.620 But Ralph Goodale and John Tory say those things, and the CB says, come here, you big lug.
00:08:40.180 Let me give you a kiss, you guys.
00:08:43.200 And the Globe and Mail is pretty much the same way too.
00:08:45.020 Here's their editorial.
00:08:45.680 Yes, Canada already has a solid regime of gun control, including prohibitions on certain
00:08:50.740 high-powered and high-rate-of-fire weapons, and the screening all purchasers must pass.
00:08:56.060 The current gun control rules work and contribute to lower violence, but they could work better
00:09:00.760 and do more.
00:09:01.780 That's the best they got.
00:09:03.200 It's pretty clear that the guys at the Globe and Mail know about as much about guns as they
00:09:07.460 do about oil or wheat.
00:09:09.060 They've seen it on TV somewhere, and then there was this great article in the New York
00:09:12.840 Times, I remember.
00:09:13.660 Let me just copy that.
00:09:14.980 In other words, making handguns legally unavailable, I'm quoting them again, will not cause the crime
00:09:21.060 rate to plummet overnight, nor will it lead to an abrupt collapse in the murder rate, they
00:09:25.600 admit.
00:09:28.060 They admit they have no clue.
00:09:30.540 Because they've already done, we've already done in Canada everything they say that we should
00:09:34.480 do, and it's not working, and they have to say something.
00:09:36.660 I think I know what's happening here.
00:09:40.060 What do you think of this theory?
00:09:41.460 In the United States, the left hates guns, and the right, I don't know if they love guns,
00:09:46.160 they love gun ownership, the right to have guns, and it's a culture war between left
00:09:49.160 and right.
00:09:49.420 In Canada, we do have plenty of farmers and ranchers with guns, and some aficionados in
00:09:54.100 the city who like target practice, for example.
00:09:56.380 Some folks do have a gun for home defense, for feeling confident, but not that many.
00:10:01.840 We don't have concealed carry permits in Canada, many, and it's just not that big a part of
00:10:06.780 our political conversation.
00:10:07.980 It's just not in Canada.
00:10:09.060 I'm just making an observation.
00:10:10.100 So railing against gun crimes, especially gun crimes clearly committed by street gangs
00:10:16.420 in Toronto, it's really not going to demonize the Conservative Party.
00:10:21.480 Canadians know that what happened in Toronto, it's not a gun problem, it's a gang problem,
00:10:29.800 it's a policing problem.
00:10:31.360 And I've shown you, none of the liberals in charge have a clue of what to do.
00:10:35.500 No one in the liberal media elite does either.
00:10:37.760 I mean, there's not gang shooting problems on the farm where everyone has a gun.
00:10:42.540 But they do know one thing, if they blame Trump enough, talk about Trump enough, focus on Trump
00:10:50.480 enough, people might forget that Canada is running aground.
00:10:55.640 And the people we count on to fix our problems in Canada, well, they have no bloody clue.
00:11:01.460 Well, stay with us for more.
00:11:04.260 Welcome back.
00:11:19.000 Well, Justin Trudeau was at a pride parade where he often is during the summer, and he
00:11:23.940 was asked about the mass shootings in the United States, and he actually gave a very pleasant
00:11:27.280 and thoughtful answer showing his solidarity with the Americans who had been shot.
00:11:31.840 But then in a bizarre pivot, he moved to blame, I think, his conservative counterparts.
00:11:41.000 He was asked about a mass shooting in the United States, and he ends up by denouncing Canadian
00:11:46.540 conservative politicians as being in league with haters, implying perhaps even in league
00:11:52.100 with mass murderers.
00:11:53.440 Here, judge for yourself, take a look at this incredible clip.
00:11:55.600 Obviously, today, I need to start with a reflection on the terrible attacks in the United States.
00:12:04.780 We are grieving for the families, and of course, we stand with our American neighbors as they
00:12:10.240 work through this difficult time.
00:12:11.460 Well, I think we know that, unfortunately, there's a greater and greater polarization in
00:12:15.820 politics, not just around the world, but in Canada as well.
00:12:19.720 That's why it's so important that we all stand together in moments like this.
00:12:23.040 We're standing up for human rights, standing up for communities who are marginalized, who
00:12:26.760 continue to suffer a greater degree of hate crimes and intolerance than other communities.
00:12:32.820 That's particularly why I'm glad to be here, walking alongside a number of party leaders,
00:12:38.940 including Jip Meek Singh and Elizabeth May.
00:12:41.880 This is important that it shows that we are standing unequivocally in favor of human rights,
00:12:47.000 in defense of Canadians.
00:12:48.460 It's just unfortunate that there are still some party leaders who want to be prime minister,
00:12:53.340 who choose to stand with people who are intolerant instead of standing with the LGBT community.
00:12:57.520 Just incredible there.
00:12:59.440 He talked about, oh, there's some awful people bringing greater polarization.
00:13:03.760 We need to stand together against intolerance, all of us together,
00:13:08.460 except that bastard conservative party who loves hatred.
00:13:13.180 Oh, my God.
00:13:14.420 And I think he got away with it.
00:13:16.440 Joining us now via Skype is our friend, Andrew Lawton from TNC.news.
00:13:21.480 Andrew, good to see you.
00:13:23.280 Did I overstate or misunderstand that?
00:13:26.600 He was asked about a mass shooting in America, and he ends by,
00:13:31.560 I think he was blaming Andrew Scheer or Maxime Bernier, I think.
00:13:35.240 What happened there?
00:13:36.260 Well, I think Justin Trudeau has been watching too much of that old Friends episode
00:13:41.140 where Ross is trying to get a couch into his apartment and has to yell out,
00:13:45.180 pivot, pivot, pivot, every three seconds.
00:13:47.220 I think he has had programmed into his mind, pivot to calling everyone a racist,
00:13:51.520 pivot to calling everyone a bigot, pivot to talking about diversity being our strength.
00:13:55.680 And he does it, even when he's giving a response that ostensibly is,
00:13:59.360 or at least should be, about offering sympathy, thoughts, and prayers to our greatest ally,
00:14:04.780 our neighbor to the South.
00:14:05.800 But this is not new.
00:14:07.800 And I think the juxtaposition of this response from him coming in an answer
00:14:12.500 that was supposed to be about sympathy for the United States is one thing.
00:14:16.820 But it also comes a week after Justin Trudeau proudly proclaimed that his campaign,
00:14:22.420 his re-election campaign, would not be about wedge politics or division,
00:14:26.560 that it would just be on, we're going to put our positive liberal vision forward
00:14:30.160 and Canadians are going to vote for it.
00:14:31.760 And it took a matter of days for him to then switch that to,
00:14:36.220 we're just going to name call the other side.
00:14:38.800 And by virtue of Andrew Scheer not marching in the parade,
00:14:41.840 he is, in our view as liberals, standing with intolerance.
00:14:45.760 Yeah, and that's the best interpretation of what Trudeau said.
00:14:50.960 I think there's also a case to be made, maybe it's not the right case,
00:14:54.420 that he was linking Andrew Scheer to what happened in the United States as well.
00:14:59.260 I mean, I don't know.
00:15:00.420 Either way, it showed the polarization.
00:15:02.320 You recently wrote an article about this on TNC.news.
00:15:05.780 Your headline was, Trudeau says no to wedge politics.
00:15:09.060 Really.
00:15:09.900 All he does is wedge politics, whether it's feminism, calling other people misogynist,
00:15:18.200 homophobia, which he was implying that Andrew Scheer was homophobic,
00:15:22.980 Islamophobia.
00:15:23.820 He calls anyone who criticizes immigration Islamophobic.
00:15:28.880 I think that's his only card.
00:15:30.500 I mean, he's got the marijuana legalization card he can play.
00:15:33.680 But other than that, I really don't know what Justin Trudeau stands for in 2019,
00:15:38.040 other than calling his enemies names.
00:15:40.840 One of the big problems we have in politics now is that
00:15:44.300 the age of the Big Ten Party is going by the wayside.
00:15:47.800 The liberals want everyone in the Liberal Party to think and feel the same way,
00:15:51.460 which has been great for the conservatives,
00:15:53.240 because it means that there's no room for a pro-life liberal anymore.
00:15:56.480 There's no room for a Catholic liberal.
00:15:58.980 There's no room for a moderate liberal.
00:16:00.740 It's always just Justin Trudeau's liberal brand.
00:16:03.620 Whereas the Conservative Party of Canada has always tried to be,
00:16:07.080 as we often hear at the Big Blue Tent,
00:16:09.100 which means you've got your blue Tories, your red Tories,
00:16:11.420 your libertarians, your social conservatives.
00:16:13.540 That's the theoretical approach that the party goes for anyway.
00:16:17.720 But what it really is saying here is that Justin Trudeau is trying to drive wedges
00:16:22.620 between the conservative factions, basically.
00:16:26.060 So when he tries to make abortion the discussion,
00:16:29.000 he's trying to drive a wedge between the conservatives and the electorate,
00:16:33.060 and also between various sides of the conservatives.
00:16:35.240 When he talks about Islamophobia, he's doing the same thing.
00:16:38.740 So when you look back at the last almost four years now
00:16:42.240 that Justin Trudeau has been prime minister,
00:16:44.660 the entire agenda of his government has been about these wedge issues
00:16:48.940 that he now says he's avoiding.
00:16:50.860 And when he wants to run on name-calling
00:16:53.700 and really trying to do the whole deplorables routine,
00:16:58.000 which is just call certain people in Canada different names,
00:17:01.280 lump them into different groups, and so on,
00:17:04.020 he is actually embracing the very form of politics that he claims to abhor.
00:17:08.880 And it's not just him, by the way.
00:17:10.600 It's his whole government.
00:17:11.540 Ahmed Hassan, who has called critics of illegal immigration un-Canadian,
00:17:15.780 has now been caught on tape making a couple of bold claims about the conservatives.
00:17:21.360 Number one is saying that they want to restore a nation in which Islamophobia is okay.
00:17:26.600 That's his word.
00:17:27.580 But also he says that the conservatives dance with white supremacists.
00:17:32.080 Now, I don't know what Andrew Scheer means in Cherokee,
00:17:34.260 but I don't think it translates to dances with white supremacists.
00:17:37.660 And I also think that Justin Trudeau's India trip shows us
00:17:40.480 we shouldn't have our leaders dancing at all.
00:17:42.900 I don't like that, but the idea that Ahmed Hassan can so brazenly say
00:17:46.940 that Andrew Scheer dances with white supremacists
00:17:49.340 and that the conservatives are a party that wants to impose national Islamophobia,
00:17:54.420 how can they say they're running this on a positive vision?
00:17:57.920 They can't.
00:17:58.540 Yeah, here, let's take a quick look at Ahmed Hassan making that insult.
00:18:01.860 Take a look.
00:18:02.720 Just about having rights, but also exercising your responsibility.
00:18:07.240 And in an election year, one of the main responsibilities is what?
00:18:11.920 To vote.
00:18:13.360 All right, vote and vote for the right leaders,
00:18:16.300 the real leaders that will bring you together,
00:18:18.280 not divide you, not dance with white supremacists,
00:18:22.660 but actually bring people together.
00:18:24.240 You know, I find it incredible.
00:18:27.680 Ahmed Hassan is someone whose life, if we were to believe him,
00:18:31.160 was saved by Canada because he came to Canada applying as a refugee,
00:18:36.260 claiming he was in grave danger back home.
00:18:39.020 We saved his life, and not only did we do that,
00:18:41.760 but we opened every door to him, including to be an MP
00:18:44.820 and now a senior cabinet minister.
00:18:47.280 And he says that he, I mean, he says this repeatedly in tweets,
00:18:52.700 in press releases, in statements.
00:18:55.420 I think he's a bit of a racist himself.
00:18:58.100 He calls old stock Canadians racist.
00:19:01.720 He, I can't help but think that he hates something about Canada
00:19:06.840 because he sure calls Canada and Canadians names.
00:19:10.480 And I'm sorry, Andrew Scheer's a lot of things,
00:19:12.340 and I criticize Andrew Scheer a lot myself,
00:19:14.520 but he's not a white supremacist.
00:19:16.280 And to say that, I don't know who would possibly believe that
00:19:21.000 other than other new immigrants, other Somalis, other Muslims
00:19:25.460 who would say, oh, my, the most successful Somali in Canada,
00:19:31.000 the most powerful Somali in Canada is telling me
00:19:33.240 I should hate conservatives, so I guess I should
00:19:37.520 because I should trust the leader of my clan here in Canada.
00:19:41.880 I mean, I don't think any white, old stock Canadian
00:19:44.780 would believe that Andrew Scheer is a white supremacist.
00:19:47.200 I just don't believe it.
00:19:48.480 But maybe if you're a new immigrant, maybe if you don't know who to believe,
00:19:51.280 maybe you say, oh, geez, I'd better stick with the liberals
00:19:53.960 because the other guys hate me.
00:19:56.360 I think that's what's going on here.
00:19:57.940 They're trying to scare their own grievance groups
00:20:00.880 into sticking with the liberals.
00:20:02.240 One of the longstanding realities is that liberals think they have a monopoly
00:20:07.780 on the so-called immigrant vote.
00:20:10.420 And this is not to say that the immigrants are a homogenous group,
00:20:12.780 but the liberals try to do this all the time.
00:20:15.560 They tried to do it through Harper, and it tended to backfire
00:20:18.360 because most law-abiding immigrants in Canada
00:20:22.080 actually resonated with the conservatives on more things.
00:20:24.860 So I have to think that this will in some way backfire on the liberals
00:20:29.320 and that Canadians, new or lifelong Canadians, will see through this.
00:20:34.340 I mean, as for the claim that Minister Hassan is a racist,
00:20:36.960 I don't know if I'd go that far, but I would say that he's ignorant.
00:20:40.300 I mean, how can someone who literally is the embodiment of a Canadian dream,
00:20:44.660 a Somali refugee who is now a cabinet minister and the immigration minister,
00:20:49.180 how can someone like that claim that there is a deep-seated Islamophobia
00:20:53.800 or systemic racism in Canada when he has had an opportunity afforded to him
00:20:58.360 that many Canadians born in Canada would never have?
00:21:02.360 So it's certainly ignorant and reeks of ingratitude.
00:21:05.820 But beyond that, it's just bad politics, and it's insulting to Canadians
00:21:10.220 that you have this unity among the liberal elites in Canada
00:21:14.800 to just denigrate and demean Canadians that disagree with them on key issues.
00:21:19.820 Yeah. You know, I agree with you.
00:21:22.760 There were many... I mean, Ahmed Hassan, I studied him fairly closely
00:21:26.120 when he first was elected, and I found a very interesting presentation
00:21:32.020 he made when he was a private citizen to Canada's parliament.
00:21:36.040 And he actually said, Andrew, and I should dig this up again,
00:21:39.040 he said it's better to be a Muslim in Canada
00:21:41.260 than in most parts of the Muslim world.
00:21:43.740 He said, you're freer here, you're safer here.
00:21:47.560 I saw that testimony before... I'll send you the link to it.
00:21:51.060 I'll post it below this video.
00:21:53.880 He basically... It was a love letter to Canada.
00:21:56.580 I thought, boy, this guy, what a model citizen he is.
00:21:59.920 So he was praising Canada as one of the best places in the world to be a Muslim.
00:22:04.900 So a couple years later, what's changed other than he's with the liberals now
00:22:08.940 and his job is to smear Canada as haters?
00:22:11.360 Yeah, and I haven't seen that speech, but assuming it is, as you're relaying there,
00:22:16.360 that Canada is a better place to be a Muslim than most of the Muslim world,
00:22:20.100 it is completely contradictory to the narrative he's putting forward now
00:22:24.100 that Islamophobia is a clear and present danger
00:22:27.760 and a threat that the Conservatives are putting forward.
00:22:31.280 And I mean, I don't know the timeline on this, but it stands to reason
00:22:34.300 that the Conservatives were probably in office at the time
00:22:38.100 because they were there from 2006 to 2015 when he was elected.
00:22:42.800 So he was saying that a Conservative Canada, conceivably,
00:22:46.000 or at least a Canada that would elect a Conservative government,
00:22:49.200 is somehow safe for Muslims.
00:22:52.060 But now, a few years later, Canada is this bastion of Conservative-driven Islamophobia.
00:22:57.140 Yeah, and that's what irritates me, is that you can, it's like calling America racist.
00:23:03.920 Well, America elected a black president twice.
00:23:07.260 So how racist is it?
00:23:09.380 Because, of course, America, only 12% of Americans are black.
00:23:13.620 Obviously, a lot of non-black Americans voted for Obama, including in the South.
00:23:19.520 So it's a bit much for the most successful Somali you can point to in the country
00:23:27.480 to say that the country's racist against him when his own existence belies that.
00:23:33.560 And he himself professed a love for Canada until I think he was assigned his role.
00:23:41.180 His role is to scare black and Somali and Muslim Canadians away from Conservatives.
00:23:47.560 Every different grievance group in Cabinet, their job is to terrify and scare people away from Conservatives
00:23:57.600 by demonizing Canada as a hateful place.
00:24:00.480 I think Justin Trudeau is a divider in a way that the media have covered up.
00:24:06.900 Stephen Harper, ironically, was a uniter.
00:24:09.580 The biggest unifying thing he did, for example, was utterly take away any energy
00:24:14.180 from the Quebec and Western separatist movements.
00:24:17.940 Justin Trudeau inflaming Western separatism, inflaming ethnic separatism.
00:24:22.860 My last question for you, Andrew, is why is the mainstream media letting him get away?
00:24:26.980 Is it because he's so calm about it?
00:24:28.600 Like that pivot at the end there where he said, oh, yeah, we're all here being tolerant together,
00:24:32.820 except for that bastard Andrew Scheer, who's a white supremacist.
00:24:36.020 I mean, paraphrasing, obviously, and exaggerating, but the media just said,
00:24:40.080 yeah, okay, yeah, we absolutely are listening to you, Justin Trudeau, with any pushback whatsoever.
00:24:45.060 You're even seeing articles in the CBC and McLean's and places like that
00:24:49.080 that are credulously repeating Trudeau's pledge to be a positive campaigner,
00:24:54.640 even as he smears his opponents.
00:24:57.180 Where's the media on this?
00:24:58.500 Well, the media was still writing its story about how Andrew Scheer was a big old homophobe
00:25:03.900 for not going to the pride parade in the first place.
00:25:06.600 I mean, the media's narrative was pre-written.
00:25:09.320 It didn't matter what Trudeau said.
00:25:10.960 They had already determined their story was about how Andrew Scheer's absence is evidence of homophobia.
00:25:17.520 Well, I find this infuriating, especially since I know in the case of Amin Hassan,
00:25:21.960 and I'll have the link below, that I know he used to say, and I assumed he meant,
00:25:29.440 that Canada was a pretty great place.
00:25:31.760 Of course it was.
00:25:32.400 We saved his life.
00:25:33.720 And now that angry, angry tone, calling anyone who disagrees with him a hater or un-Canadian,
00:25:42.080 Trudeau did that to him, or maybe he did that to himself, but I don't accept it.
00:25:45.360 Andrew, it's great to have you on the show.
00:25:46.460 Thank you.
00:25:47.420 As always.
00:25:48.160 All right.
00:25:48.540 There you have it.
00:25:48.960 Andrew Lawton, he is with TNC.news, True North, our friends over there,
00:25:54.620 many great rebel contributors, including Candace Malcolm and Anthony Fury.
00:26:00.040 Stay with us.
00:26:01.000 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:26:12.660 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about crazy Kim Campbell.
00:26:16.380 Betty writes, Trudeau has no new talent to choose from.
00:26:20.020 He has to fall back on Kim Campbell.
00:26:22.460 Yeah, I really don't understand that appointment.
00:26:24.500 I mean, Jean-Claude Chen was already far too kind to her giving her that plum position in L.A.
00:26:28.860 as Consul General, which was basically a four-year party with Hollywood stars.
00:26:32.860 Not the A-list, but the C-list at least.
00:26:35.220 It's why, why is Trudeau doing, is it so that he can say, oh, I'm non-partisan.
00:26:40.320 Look, I appointed a conservative who's hardly conservative.
00:26:43.180 That's my theory, is that he didn't appoint her for her competence.
00:26:47.120 He appointed her because she's as crazy and left-wing as he is, but he can say, oh, no,
00:26:51.500 no, no, no, no.
00:26:52.060 I appointed the conservative former prime minister.
00:26:54.600 I'm very non-partisan.
00:26:56.660 Paul writes, this crazy woman has set herself up as Canada's number one social justice warrior.
00:27:00.960 This is insane.
00:27:02.500 She sounds just like one of Trudeau's acolytes.
00:27:05.260 Yeah, but even like some of the kookiest Trudeau zombies out there, Catherine McKenna comes to mind.
00:27:11.040 Even they have someone around them saying, calm down.
00:27:14.260 Like, remember when Catherine McKenna did that crazy drunk sorority girl video from a pub in Newfoundland?
00:27:21.740 Oh, my God.
00:27:23.080 I don't know how that got up, but some grown-up took that down.
00:27:26.680 Remember?
00:27:26.980 Remember, there's no grown-up around Kim Campbell saying, easy, easy, sober up, here's some coffee.
00:27:32.920 There's no one doing that, and so there's no governor on it.
00:27:36.680 There's no limits.
00:27:37.440 That's the difference.
00:27:38.620 Kim Campbell is the pure id of the Trudeau zombie, but there's no brake pedal.
00:27:44.140 It's only gas.
00:27:46.180 Karen writes, Campbell couldn't make it as an elected official, so she found some other way to pull strings, stay public, and get paid for it.
00:27:52.760 Yeah, I called her a grifter, and that's exactly what I mean.
00:27:55.760 I mean, she is a lawyer by profession.
00:27:57.980 How about just go and practice some law and have some dignity?
00:28:01.020 No, it's more fun to party in Hollywood on taxpayers' expense.
00:28:05.620 On my interview with Joel Pollack, John writes,
00:28:08.260 Joel had a good point.
00:28:09.060 With more freedom, you accept a certain amount of risk.
00:28:11.360 The challenge, then, is to reduce that risk as much as possible.
00:28:14.800 That's right.
00:28:15.320 That's the trouble with choice and freedom is the risk that comes with it, as opposed to the certainty of the misery of authoritarian regimes.
00:28:24.300 Well, folks, that's our show for today.
00:28:26.440 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at the Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
00:28:30.180 Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:28:31.980 We'll be right back.
00:28:50.240 We'll be right back.