Canadian media blames Trump for U.S. gun crime — So why don’t they blame Trudeau for Canada’s gun crime？
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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.
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Hey, I make an observation today, and I show you some charts.
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We've got some serious gun crime in Canada, not as bad as in the States, I'll grant you
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that, but Toronto has exceeded New York City for murder rates.
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Why is it that the media never blame Justin Trudeau for shootings up here, but they blame
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Tonight, the Canadian media blames Trump for U.S. gun crime.
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Why don't they blame Trudeau for Canada's gun crime?
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It's August 7th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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Look at this headline from last year in the fancy-schmancy Toronto lifestyle mag called
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Toronto's homicide rate is now higher than New York's.
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You know, Toronto always compares itself to New York City, which will always result
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in disappointment, but this time Toronto's inferiority complex was finally overcome.
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You've got a better chance of being murdered in Toronto than in New York.
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That sentence would have been inconceivable back before New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned
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up the crime in New York in the 90s by respecting and empowering the police.
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So New York is getting safer, and at the same time, Toronto's Mayor John Tory has presided
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over a police force that is becoming demoralized, that is being told to turn a blind eye towards
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Beggars and squatters and drug dealers, for starters.
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Now, the last full year for which we have statistics was 2018, the year Toronto finally beat New
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York, but over the weekend in Toronto, whoa, did Toronto ever take a great leap forward,
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For Toronto, I mean, for Iraq or Afghanistan, that's just sort of normal.
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Now, I chose that story in Global News pretty much at random.
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Now, that's a lot of reporting firepower, especially these days.
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Yet they managed to report the story without once criticizing Justin Trudeau.
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Maybe the chief of police has some answering to do.
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But what would you even blame Justin Trudeau for?
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Perhaps if he let in the criminals through his open borders immigration plan?
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Or if his weakening of our criminal justice laws had let a repeat offender back on the
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Other than, I suppose, in the most general sense, Trudeau was in charge of public safety.
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He even has a department named that, run by the least incompetent cabinet minister,
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There is someone to blame because Toronto is breaking records for shootings again.
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Here's historical records of Toronto shootings, courtesy of the Toronto police.
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They have very detailed stats, very meticulous.
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But if I were, I'd point out that while shootings in Toronto declined every year in Stephen Harper's
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last four years as prime minister, they've increased every year under Trudeau.
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But I mention that because the Canadian media, which never, not once, blames Trudeau for massive
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guns sprees in our own country, immediately blames Donald Trump for guns sprees in the United
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Every single media outlet in Canada has gone nuts linking gun crime in the United States
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So the exact same Canadian reporters that specifically do not blame gun crime in Canada on Trudeau do
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Even when the killer is anti-Trump, hates Trump, such as the mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio, who
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was an Elizabeth Warren Democrat, who proudly retweeted Democrats, who was an Antifa left-wing
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You could probably call him the first Antifa murderer, but it's all on Trump.
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Have you even seen a reporter ask Elizabeth Warren about him?
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Again, I don't blame Elizabeth Warren for the Dayton, Ohio murders.
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But if you can blame Trump, why can't you blame a Democrat who was a hero to the political
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As you may know, the CBC state broadcaster has set up an election time war room, and they
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have been using that to attack Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier.
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Well, they deployed their war room in the wake of the Toronto shootings to defend Ralph
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Not to criticize him, and to gently nudge him towards more gun control, as if gang-style
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shootings, who are already using illegal guns and using them illegally, as if more laws
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Goodale and Trudeau have no idea of what to do, any more than most U.S. Democrats have
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But the CBC's there to make sure that the Democrats and the liberals are comfy, and to
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tuck them into bed nicely, they save their rage for Donald Trump.
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If I had to assign blame, I'd blame the shooters.
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But perhaps the politician with the closest nexus to the problem is the mayor of Toronto, who
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also shapes police policy, here's the hapless John Tory.
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The mayor also emphasized his call for a handgun ban in the city, a message he's been touting
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Really, at the root of this is people carrying guns in their pockets and feeling that they're
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at liberty to use them, even when they're in the most trivial disputes that you have every
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But it's already happened, shooting people, it's extremely difficult to get legal handguns
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There are, I think there's probably fewer than 10 concealed carry permits in all of Toronto,
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All of this misconduct in Toronto on the weekend, it's already, I don't know, illegal in half
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Adding another paperwork crime layer isn't going to stop a gang member from shooting.
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Let me quote John Tory one more time on the state broadcaster who love him.
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And therefore, he can have no plan to do what he doesn't know what to do.
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He's helpless and pitiful, as he is on most things.
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He has no knowledge or experience actually solving problems about crime like Rudy Giuliani
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Giuliani was a prosecutor who went after the mob.
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I've certainly come to realize, and I think most people do as well, there is no magic answer
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And so when this kind of thing happens in a concentrated way, it's very frustrating, very
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angering, and very sad, and bottom line, unacceptable.
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Hey guys, sorry, but it's really unacceptable what happened, and yeah, that's all I got.
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Oh my God, that would be a ferocious feeding frenzy.
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But Ralph Goodale and John Tory say those things, and the CB says, come here, you big lug.
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And the Globe and Mail is pretty much the same way too.
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Yes, Canada already has a solid regime of gun control, including prohibitions on certain
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high-powered and high-rate-of-fire weapons, and the screening all purchasers must pass.
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The current gun control rules work and contribute to lower violence, but they could work better
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It's pretty clear that the guys at the Globe and Mail know about as much about guns as they
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They've seen it on TV somewhere, and then there was this great article in the New York
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In other words, making handguns legally unavailable, I'm quoting them again, will not cause the crime
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rate to plummet overnight, nor will it lead to an abrupt collapse in the murder rate, they
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Because they've already done, we've already done in Canada everything they say that we should
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do, and it's not working, and they have to say something.
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In the United States, the left hates guns, and the right, I don't know if they love guns,
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they love gun ownership, the right to have guns, and it's a culture war between left
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In Canada, we do have plenty of farmers and ranchers with guns, and some aficionados in
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the city who like target practice, for example.
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Some folks do have a gun for home defense, for feeling confident, but not that many.
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We don't have concealed carry permits in Canada, many, and it's just not that big a part of
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So railing against gun crimes, especially gun crimes clearly committed by street gangs
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in Toronto, it's really not going to demonize the Conservative Party.
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Canadians know that what happened in Toronto, it's not a gun problem, it's a gang problem,
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And I've shown you, none of the liberals in charge have a clue of what to do.
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I mean, there's not gang shooting problems on the farm where everyone has a gun.
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But they do know one thing, if they blame Trump enough, talk about Trump enough, focus on Trump
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enough, people might forget that Canada is running aground.
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And the people we count on to fix our problems in Canada, well, they have no bloody clue.
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Well, Justin Trudeau was at a pride parade where he often is during the summer, and he
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was asked about the mass shootings in the United States, and he actually gave a very pleasant
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and thoughtful answer showing his solidarity with the Americans who had been shot.
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But then in a bizarre pivot, he moved to blame, I think, his conservative counterparts.
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He was asked about a mass shooting in the United States, and he ends up by denouncing Canadian
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conservative politicians as being in league with haters, implying perhaps even in league
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Here, judge for yourself, take a look at this incredible clip.
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Obviously, today, I need to start with a reflection on the terrible attacks in the United States.
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We are grieving for the families, and of course, we stand with our American neighbors as they
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Well, I think we know that, unfortunately, there's a greater and greater polarization in
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politics, not just around the world, but in Canada as well.
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That's why it's so important that we all stand together in moments like this.
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We're standing up for human rights, standing up for communities who are marginalized, who
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continue to suffer a greater degree of hate crimes and intolerance than other communities.
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That's particularly why I'm glad to be here, walking alongside a number of party leaders,
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This is important that it shows that we are standing unequivocally in favor of human rights,
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It's just unfortunate that there are still some party leaders who want to be prime minister,
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who choose to stand with people who are intolerant instead of standing with the LGBT community.
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He talked about, oh, there's some awful people bringing greater polarization.
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We need to stand together against intolerance, all of us together,
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except that bastard conservative party who loves hatred.
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Joining us now via Skype is our friend, Andrew Lawton from TNC.news.
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He was asked about a mass shooting in America, and he ends by,
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I think he was blaming Andrew Scheer or Maxime Bernier, I think.
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Well, I think Justin Trudeau has been watching too much of that old Friends episode
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where Ross is trying to get a couch into his apartment and has to yell out,
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I think he has had programmed into his mind, pivot to calling everyone a racist,
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pivot to calling everyone a bigot, pivot to talking about diversity being our strength.
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And he does it, even when he's giving a response that ostensibly is,
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or at least should be, about offering sympathy, thoughts, and prayers to our greatest ally,
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And I think the juxtaposition of this response from him coming in an answer
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that was supposed to be about sympathy for the United States is one thing.
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But it also comes a week after Justin Trudeau proudly proclaimed that his campaign,
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his re-election campaign, would not be about wedge politics or division,
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that it would just be on, we're going to put our positive liberal vision forward
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And it took a matter of days for him to then switch that to,
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And by virtue of Andrew Scheer not marching in the parade,
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he is, in our view as liberals, standing with intolerance.
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Yeah, and that's the best interpretation of what Trudeau said.
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I think there's also a case to be made, maybe it's not the right case,
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that he was linking Andrew Scheer to what happened in the United States as well.
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You recently wrote an article about this on TNC.news.
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Your headline was, Trudeau says no to wedge politics.
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All he does is wedge politics, whether it's feminism, calling other people misogynist,
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homophobia, which he was implying that Andrew Scheer was homophobic,
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He calls anyone who criticizes immigration Islamophobic.
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I mean, he's got the marijuana legalization card he can play.
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But other than that, I really don't know what Justin Trudeau stands for in 2019,
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One of the big problems we have in politics now is that
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the age of the Big Ten Party is going by the wayside.
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The liberals want everyone in the Liberal Party to think and feel the same way,
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because it means that there's no room for a pro-life liberal anymore.
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It's always just Justin Trudeau's liberal brand.
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Whereas the Conservative Party of Canada has always tried to be,
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which means you've got your blue Tories, your red Tories,
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That's the theoretical approach that the party goes for anyway.
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But what it really is saying here is that Justin Trudeau is trying to drive wedges
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So when he tries to make abortion the discussion,
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he's trying to drive a wedge between the conservatives and the electorate,
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and also between various sides of the conservatives.
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When he talks about Islamophobia, he's doing the same thing.
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So when you look back at the last almost four years now
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the entire agenda of his government has been about these wedge issues
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and really trying to do the whole deplorables routine,
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which is just call certain people in Canada different names,
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he is actually embracing the very form of politics that he claims to abhor.
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Ahmed Hassan, who has called critics of illegal immigration un-Canadian,
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has now been caught on tape making a couple of bold claims about the conservatives.
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Number one is saying that they want to restore a nation in which Islamophobia is okay.
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But also he says that the conservatives dance with white supremacists.
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Now, I don't know what Andrew Scheer means in Cherokee,
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but I don't think it translates to dances with white supremacists.
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And I also think that Justin Trudeau's India trip shows us
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I don't like that, but the idea that Ahmed Hassan can so brazenly say
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that Andrew Scheer dances with white supremacists
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and that the conservatives are a party that wants to impose national Islamophobia,
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how can they say they're running this on a positive vision?
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Yeah, here, let's take a quick look at Ahmed Hassan making that insult.
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Just about having rights, but also exercising your responsibility.
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And in an election year, one of the main responsibilities is what?
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All right, vote and vote for the right leaders,
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not divide you, not dance with white supremacists,
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Ahmed Hassan is someone whose life, if we were to believe him,
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was saved by Canada because he came to Canada applying as a refugee,
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We saved his life, and not only did we do that,
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but we opened every door to him, including to be an MP
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And he says that he, I mean, he says this repeatedly in tweets,
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He, I can't help but think that he hates something about Canada
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because he sure calls Canada and Canadians names.
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And I'm sorry, Andrew Scheer's a lot of things,
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And to say that, I don't know who would possibly believe that
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other than other new immigrants, other Somalis, other Muslims
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who would say, oh, my, the most successful Somali in Canada,
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the most powerful Somali in Canada is telling me
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I should hate conservatives, so I guess I should
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because I should trust the leader of my clan here in Canada.
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I mean, I don't think any white, old stock Canadian
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would believe that Andrew Scheer is a white supremacist.
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But maybe if you're a new immigrant, maybe if you don't know who to believe,
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maybe you say, oh, geez, I'd better stick with the liberals
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They're trying to scare their own grievance groups
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One of the longstanding realities is that liberals think they have a monopoly
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And this is not to say that the immigrants are a homogenous group,
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They tried to do it through Harper, and it tended to backfire
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actually resonated with the conservatives on more things.
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So I have to think that this will in some way backfire on the liberals
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and that Canadians, new or lifelong Canadians, will see through this.
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I mean, as for the claim that Minister Hassan is a racist,
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I don't know if I'd go that far, but I would say that he's ignorant.
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I mean, how can someone who literally is the embodiment of a Canadian dream,
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a Somali refugee who is now a cabinet minister and the immigration minister,
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how can someone like that claim that there is a deep-seated Islamophobia
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or systemic racism in Canada when he has had an opportunity afforded to him
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that many Canadians born in Canada would never have?
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So it's certainly ignorant and reeks of ingratitude.
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But beyond that, it's just bad politics, and it's insulting to Canadians
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that you have this unity among the liberal elites in Canada
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to just denigrate and demean Canadians that disagree with them on key issues.
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There were many... I mean, Ahmed Hassan, I studied him fairly closely
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when he first was elected, and I found a very interesting presentation
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he made when he was a private citizen to Canada's parliament.
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And he actually said, Andrew, and I should dig this up again,
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I saw that testimony before... I'll send you the link to it.
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He basically... It was a love letter to Canada.
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I thought, boy, this guy, what a model citizen he is.
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So he was praising Canada as one of the best places in the world to be a Muslim.
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So a couple years later, what's changed other than he's with the liberals now
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Yeah, and I haven't seen that speech, but assuming it is, as you're relaying there,
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that Canada is a better place to be a Muslim than most of the Muslim world,
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it is completely contradictory to the narrative he's putting forward now
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that Islamophobia is a clear and present danger
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and a threat that the Conservatives are putting forward.
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And I mean, I don't know the timeline on this, but it stands to reason
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that the Conservatives were probably in office at the time
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because they were there from 2006 to 2015 when he was elected.
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So he was saying that a Conservative Canada, conceivably,
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or at least a Canada that would elect a Conservative government,
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But now, a few years later, Canada is this bastion of Conservative-driven Islamophobia.
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Yeah, and that's what irritates me, is that you can, it's like calling America racist.
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Because, of course, America, only 12% of Americans are black.
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Obviously, a lot of non-black Americans voted for Obama, including in the South.
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So it's a bit much for the most successful Somali you can point to in the country
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to say that the country's racist against him when his own existence belies that.
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And he himself professed a love for Canada until I think he was assigned his role.
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His role is to scare black and Somali and Muslim Canadians away from Conservatives.
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Every different grievance group in Cabinet, their job is to terrify and scare people away from Conservatives
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I think Justin Trudeau is a divider in a way that the media have covered up.
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The biggest unifying thing he did, for example, was utterly take away any energy
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from the Quebec and Western separatist movements.
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Justin Trudeau inflaming Western separatism, inflaming ethnic separatism.
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My last question for you, Andrew, is why is the mainstream media letting him get away?
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Like that pivot at the end there where he said, oh, yeah, we're all here being tolerant together,
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except for that bastard Andrew Scheer, who's a white supremacist.
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I mean, paraphrasing, obviously, and exaggerating, but the media just said,
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yeah, okay, yeah, we absolutely are listening to you, Justin Trudeau, with any pushback whatsoever.
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You're even seeing articles in the CBC and McLean's and places like that
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that are credulously repeating Trudeau's pledge to be a positive campaigner,
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Well, the media was still writing its story about how Andrew Scheer was a big old homophobe
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for not going to the pride parade in the first place.
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They had already determined their story was about how Andrew Scheer's absence is evidence of homophobia.
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Well, I find this infuriating, especially since I know in the case of Amin Hassan,
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and I'll have the link below, that I know he used to say, and I assumed he meant,
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And now that angry, angry tone, calling anyone who disagrees with him a hater or un-Canadian,
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Trudeau did that to him, or maybe he did that to himself, but I don't accept it.
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Andrew Lawton, he is with TNC.news, True North, our friends over there,
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many great rebel contributors, including Candace Malcolm and Anthony Fury.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about crazy Kim Campbell.
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Betty writes, Trudeau has no new talent to choose from.
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Yeah, I really don't understand that appointment.
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I mean, Jean-Claude Chen was already far too kind to her giving her that plum position in L.A.
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as Consul General, which was basically a four-year party with Hollywood stars.
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It's why, why is Trudeau doing, is it so that he can say, oh, I'm non-partisan.
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Look, I appointed a conservative who's hardly conservative.
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That's my theory, is that he didn't appoint her for her competence.
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He appointed her because she's as crazy and left-wing as he is, but he can say, oh, no,
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I appointed the conservative former prime minister.
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Paul writes, this crazy woman has set herself up as Canada's number one social justice warrior.
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She sounds just like one of Trudeau's acolytes.
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Yeah, but even like some of the kookiest Trudeau zombies out there, Catherine McKenna comes to mind.
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Even they have someone around them saying, calm down.
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Like, remember when Catherine McKenna did that crazy drunk sorority girl video from a pub in Newfoundland?
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I don't know how that got up, but some grown-up took that down.
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Remember, there's no grown-up around Kim Campbell saying, easy, easy, sober up, here's some coffee.
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There's no one doing that, and so there's no governor on it.
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Kim Campbell is the pure id of the Trudeau zombie, but there's no brake pedal.
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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.
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Yeah, I called her a grifter, and that's exactly what I mean.
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How about just go and practice some law and have some dignity?
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No, it's more fun to party in Hollywood on taxpayers' expense.
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On my interview with Joel Pollack, John writes,
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With more freedom, you accept a certain amount of risk.
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The challenge, then, is to reduce that risk as much as possible.
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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.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at the Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.