Canadian media “fact check” Trump — but not Trudeau
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Canadians have regular fact checks about Donald Trump, but why don t they do the same about Justin Trudeau? Is there any reason why Canadian media should be as skeptical and critical of their own government leaders as they are about a foreign leader?
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Tonight, Canadian media now have regular fact checks about Donald Trump.
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Why don't they do fact checks about Justin Trudeau?
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It's June 21st and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Donald Trump overstates scope of order on border policy that keeps families together.
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Can I read just a few sentences, the first few sentences from that article?
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U.S. President Donald Trump is misrepresenting the scope of his executive order
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that would halt his administration's policy of separating children from their parents
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when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border.
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Now, that might be your opinion, and it might be a reasonable opinion,
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but that's being reported as a fact in a news story.
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Can you recall a single instance over the past two years where a report about Justin Trudeau starts off?
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is misrepresenting, I don't know, his budget,
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Let me read one more sentence from this Global News story.
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but the president is contradicted by his own Justice Department,
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which describes the effort as stopgap and limited by a 21-year-old court settlement
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under which the federal government essentially agreed not to detain immigrant minors longer than 20 days.
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Again, the analogy there would be Trudeau says he's balancing the budget,
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but the Parliamentary Budget Office contradicts him,
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saying he's actually never balanced the budget and his deficit is skyrocketing, blah, blah, blah.
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I mean, again, it's a reasonable point of view, but it's a point of view.
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And my bigger point is when I saw this, I wasn't thinking, well, are they right or wrong?
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But what would it take to get even 10% of that skepticism and criticism
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that Canadian journalists have for a foreign president
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to point even 10% of that skepticism and criticism and accountability at our own government leaders?
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Here's the tweet that pointed me to this story.
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Donald Trump says the executive order he signed is a permanent solution
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You guys are doing great, holding a foreign leader to account for his foreign voters.
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But can we please get the odd fact check about Justin Trudeau or Rachel Notley
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I mean, whether it's about pipelines for Trudeau or Trudeau and NAFTA
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or global warming or carbon taxes or the dairy cartel or terrorism or whatever.
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I mean, have you ever, ever even seen just once such a thing?
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Well, global news is awful, CTV is awful, but nothing matches the Toronto Star.
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Washington Post employees want to go on strike because Bezos isn't paying them enough.
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I think a really long strike would be a great idea.
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That Trump thinks a strike would be a good idea?
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This is literally the first item in the list of lies, lies, lies.
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Now, here's a page from the Washington Post's own union website showing they're angry and
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there's a picket and they're in contract talks and it doesn't seem to be going well.
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Democrats can fix, this is again, this is a Trump statement that they're calling a lie.
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Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with Republicans
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So this is a Trump statement they're saying is a lie.
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I mean, it happens to be a fact that families are separated, adults from kids.
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If someone's detained for a crime, it happens not just to migrants, but to Canadians too.
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If you go to jail, your kids don't go to jail with you.
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And here's Hillary Clinton making the case for this longstanding law four years ago.
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Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn't mean the child gets to stay.
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Well, first of all, we have to provide the best emergency care we can provide.
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We have children five and six years old who have come up from Central America.
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We need to do more to provide border security in southern Mexico.
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Well, they should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults and their families are,
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because there are concerns about whether all of them can be sent back.
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But I think all of them who can be should be reunited with their families.
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I'm just showing you this is an issue that administrations of both political stripes have grappled with.
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So how is Trump's comment about Democrats and Republicans should work together?
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Well, the star puts that in their fact check as false.
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Actually, some of the haters actually say this.
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So now it's 510 days than any 500-day president first term by far.
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Tons of judges' appointment, if you care about that.
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Moving the Israeli, the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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And now, unfortunately, fighting with Canada over tariffs.
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But how can you deny he's doing a lot of things?
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But look at the lame explanation the star gives for calling this a lie.
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So underneath his statement there, this is the proof it's a lie.
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But, okay, both Trump and the star aren't even talking about actual people.
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I'm sure there is a critic of Trump somewhere who has said Trump's done a lot of things.
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And you're really proud of this investigative journalism.
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It's a Trump statement, and the star says it's a lie.
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When I was talking to President Obama, he essentially was ready to go to war with North Korea.
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Now, he said that's what he was talking to Obama about.
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I don't think anyone else would know if that's true or false, other than the two people in that conversation.
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But we actually know that's not false, because Obama would say those things publicly, too.
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This is from the Daily Telegraph, a very prestigious newspaper.
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We could destroy you, Obama warns, erratic North Korean leader.
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President Barack Obama delivered a stern warning to North Korea on Tuesday, reminding its erratic and irresponsible leader that America's nuclear arsenal could destroy his country.
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Yeah, so Obama said destroy, and Trump used the word go to war.
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But seriously, this is what you call a slam dunk.
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This is one of the reasons why no one trusts the media anymore.
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I mean, we need a good, strong oppositional media.
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I'm just saying that being so breathless about such trivia.
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It's like the boy who cried wolf in Aesop's fable.
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The mainstream media has been crying wolf about Trump every day for two years, even before he was president.
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The media hates Trump and will say anything hostile about him.
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But independents, people who aren't with one party, I think they just tuned out the media and they discount it all now.
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I mean, this whole Russia collusion narrative, the inquiry has spent tens of millions of dollars.
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It's been going on for a year and a half and they still have no evidence of collusion.
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They've got a few minor players on tax evasion and whatnot.
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Oh, and then this porn star, Stormy Daniels, that's going to take Trump down any minute now or whatever it is this week.
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And maybe it's a reason why CNN's ratings have plummeted.
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And the CBC's ratings are so low, they won't even release them publicly.
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I'm guessing less than 400,000 people watch the CBC's flagship show, The National, at night.
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So about the same as us on our rebel YouTube page, really.
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But it's not just the lameness of these critiques, how they're either nitpicking or just challenging matters of opinion.
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Trump said he's awesome, but no, he's not, man.
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What would it take for our Canadian media to have a similar fact check of our own leaders?
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He's the most important politician in the world and the most powerful and the most entertaining.
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But, you know, shouldn't Canadian media also, you know, occasionally, once in a while, fact check our own guy?
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I mean, just for example, yesterday, Trudeau said this.
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I can't imagine what the families living through this are enduring.
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Obviously, this is not the way we do things in Canada.
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He's talking about that detention of kids thing.
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Okay, but what about the fact check of what he said there, that that's not the Canadian way, that the fact is actually, you know, in Canada, we detain children.
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I'm not going to even source a journalist here.
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This is, you see, this is the website of the Canada Border Services Agency.
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This is the official government of Canada report.
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We detain them by the dozen, by the hundred, over the course of the year.
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We detain them on their own, without their parents.
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In the second quarter of last year, so January, February, March, 34.
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I'm just going with the children of tender years.
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That's longer than some convicted rapist spend in actual custody in Canada.
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I've seen rapists get out of jail in three months.
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Now, maybe there's a good reason for keeping these kids in jail for six months.
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But don't you think our preening, self-righteous prime minister could use a little fact check?
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I can't imagine what the families living through this are enduring.
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Obviously, this is not the way we do things in Canada.
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Well, tough guy, it actually is the way we do things in Canada.
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Not 71 lies that are about trivia, but how about just one fact check about the five-year-old who spent six months in a Canadian prison for whatever reason.
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You know, the other week, an old news story came to light about Justin Trudeau.
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This is an editorial from the Creston Valley Advance.
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Trudeau groped a young female journalist in Creston, B.C. in 2000.
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And he later told her he wouldn't have groped her had he known she was a national journalist.
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But really, it was more, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were important and could embarrass me later.
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Not a peep about this story on the CBC or CTV or any major Canadian media.
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It was everywhere in foreign countries, by the way, even BuzzFeed.
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It was such big news because, you know, Trudeau is such a preening male feminist.
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Let's just not be insane like the Toronto Star is.
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But do you think it might be nice if, you know, maybe once a year, like on a special holiday,
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like Halloween or Valentine's Day or something, just one magical day a year,
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we could have the odd fact check of Trudeau by CBC or Global or even the Toronto Star.
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I guess you'll just have to keep watching us here at The Rebel.
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We'll keep doing it with the few resources we have.
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There's more fact checking you'll get elsewhere.
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Well, long-time viewers of The Rebel will know that we are constantly under attack for censorship,
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not just by private plaintiffs suing us for, I don't know, a human rights commission or defamation,
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And what I mean by that is Facebook banning us from posting Tommy Robinson, for example,
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Well, sometimes conservatives try to fight back.
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For example, PragerU, which has a very popular YouTube channel, has sued YouTube Google.
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But it's hard to be successful when the terms of service or contract with a tech company
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basically say, take it or leave it if you don't want to be censored by us.
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Trouble with that, of course, is the whole attraction of a Facebook or YouTube is that
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You could have the freest platform in the world if you like, but if you're there alone,
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Which brings us to a very interesting lawsuit brought against Twitter.
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In this case, it's by a white supremacist who claims he was banned because of his political
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But he's suing, saying Twitter claims they're a free speech platform and he wants to hold
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Joining us now to talk about the case and its ramifications is our friend Alan Bokhari.
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He's the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.
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So, yeah, like you said, it's a very interesting case.
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And you don't have to agree with Jared Taylor's views.
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I mean, like you said, he's a white supremacist, and that's pretty bad.
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But the case will still have ramifications for Twitter and whether, you know, other people
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say, you know, ordinary conservatives or right-wingers can also suit the company.
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I mean, in a way, the fact that he's a white supremacist, the fact that I think most right-thinking
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people would find his views either odious or beyond the pale.
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You know, there's a saying in law, you know, hard cases make bad law.
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But I think when it comes to free speech, you've got to dig in on the hard cases.
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That's why the ACLU in the United States would defend neo-Nazis, and they would send a Jewish
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lawyer or a black lawyer to make the point, we don't agree with this guy.
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But if we don't fight in the first ditch, it's a lot easier to fight in the first ditch
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I think we've got to fight for the Jared Taylors, even if we disagree with them, if we're going
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to have the Ezra Levance and the Alan Bakaris, and even people further to the center than
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And this was just a preliminary legal skirmish, wasn't it?
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He hasn't won yet, and he could still lose his case.
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Twitter could still say they banned him legitimately.
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What this case was, was Twitter brought a motion to dismiss the case entirely, and they
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So the judge said that it's possible to sue Twitter on the basis that they falsely advertise
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So they claim they can ban people for whatever reason, whenever they like, at any time.
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And the judge said, you know, that's a fair basis that people can sue Twitter on, and they
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can also sue Twitter on the basis that they claim to be a free speech platform, whereas
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So there's a false advertising element there as well.
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And that's interesting, because it now means that Twitter can't just dismiss these cases,
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and other people can now potentially sue Twitter on the same basis as Jared Taylor.
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Yeah, I mean, we've talked about this before, and you've really helped clarify things for
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Is Twitter, is Facebook, is YouTube a platform onto which anyone can say what they like, sort
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of like a telephone company, or a theater that could be rented?
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I mean, you could have a play by Shakespeare one day, you could have an opera the next day,
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Are you taking responsibility, and are you exercising judgment over the contents of what
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We would find that bizarre in a telephone if AT&T or Verizon or whatever they're called
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in the UK, Vodafone, would say, no, no, you're not allowed to talk about that on our telephone
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We would find that bizarre for a phone company.
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But that's sort of what Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google, Amazon are saying, aren't they?
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Well, they're really actually trying to have it both ways.
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If you read the transcript of this exchange between Twitter's lawyer and the judge, Twitter's
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lawyer is essentially arguing that, like a newspaper, he actually explicitly compares
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Twitter to a newspaper and says, you know, if they don't want to publish someone based
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on, you know, completely arbitrary factors, then they have that right.
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But also, at the same time, Twitter's lawyer is claiming that they have Section 230 protection,
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And platforms aren't held legally liable for the content posted by their users, whereas
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a newspaper is held liable for the content they publish.
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So Twitter and all the social media companies are trying to have it both ways.
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They want to have the legal exemptions that come with being a platform, whereas also having
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the privileges that come with being a publisher, which is to say they can ban anyone whenever
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And it's actually Twitter's lawyer made some bizarre statements during the trial.
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It's quite amusing when you read the transcript.
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The judge pressed them on the point and said, you know, does that mean, you know, Twitter could
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potentially ban people on the basis that, you know, they're gay or they're black or they're
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And Twitter's lawyer essentially argued, yes, they could.
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But Twitter's making these bizarre, bizarre claims about what they have a right to do
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And they're essentially saying, well, we have the rights for a publisher, but we also have
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In the United States, there have been some high profile cases of a pizza parlor and a bakery,
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a fancy bakery where the baker does artistic inscriptions.
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And it's been a cause celebrity, so it's gone very high up in the courts.
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Can a Christian baker be compelled to write an artistic message celebrating gay marriage,
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That's sort of as in you are compelled to, it's discrimination for you not to.
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And yet Twitter is making the argument that says it's private property.
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You cannot compel us to do business with someone.
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And there are two very different point of views.
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As you so correctly point out, Twitter's having it both ways.
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And, you know, the fact that they're allowing Peter Fonda to publish such obscene things
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Sorry, I'm thinking of so many thoughts at the same time.
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Just yesterday, Twitter took over 20 hours to delete a tweet from Occupy Wall Street NYC,
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which was essentially advocating the murder of immigration agents, ICE agents.
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I said, you've got to, you should stab the ICE agents and pull out.
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They're still beating hearts as a warning to other ICE agents.
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And they only deleted it after we pointed it out to them.
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And they deleted the tweet, but they didn't shut down that whole account, did they?
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So, yeah, apparently, if you defend the murder of government officials in America,
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you can keep your Twitter account in some cases.
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I played a great excerpt from a parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom.
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They were grilling Google's head of counterterrorism.
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And viewers might be saying, why would Google have a head of counterterrorism?
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Well, jihadis use Google and YouTube to promote their messages.
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Every question, and I watched, we played about 15 minutes of interactions.
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They weren't grilling him on stopping Islamic terrorism that besets the UK.
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They were grilling him about Tommy Robinson and demanding again and again that he censored Tommy Robinson.
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Now, I don't even think he knew who Tommy Robinson was.
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Probably five different Labour MPs, and there might have been a Conservative too, frankly.
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And he just said, I'm sorry, I don't know that.
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The extreme pressure on him, I mean, I don't know how he withstood it.
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So, on the other hand, you got to acknowledge that these companies are under public pressure
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and probably private pressure to do government dirty work for them.
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And in Canada, there was a story in the Toronto Star, Alam, I don't know if you saw it, where Justin Trudeau, our Prime Minister,
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privately threatened Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, that if she didn't crack down on fake news, as he called it,
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before the next federal election, so he was very explicit, this was political censorship,
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he would do it to Facebook if Facebook didn't do it itself.
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I'm just pointing out that a lot of their nasty work is basically contracted out censorship from governments, isn't it?
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And, you know, I will actually defend Silicon Valley on this.
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You know, some of the reforms they've been making have been fairly moderate compared to what some politicians
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And when Justin Trudeau says fake news, he probably means you guys, right?
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And what American leftists think of as fake news is, you know, Breitbart and Infowars and conservative media in general.
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And as he said, in the UK, they want to send to Tommy Robinson because, you know, he's a huge problem for them.
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Even the conservative government probably wants to send to him.
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It's under their leadership that he's being locked up.
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So, absolutely, they're facing pressure from governments.
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And I think there's – well, they're facing pressure from governments on the one hand and from their advertisers on whom they rely for revenue on the other.
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So, the only real way to fight back against these guys is to apply pressure from the grassroots and pressure conservative politicians and right-wing politicians to counter this narrative from the left-wing establishment
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that these platforms have to become these censored spaces.
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That's the only way I can think of fighting back.
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Well, I hope that's not the only way because just the same way as your conservative leaders in the United Kingdom are quite timorous,
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In fact, they've decided the path of least resistance is to throw right-wingers under the bus.
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I mean, even in the United Kingdom, I very much admire Nigel Farage, but I know that he is worried that if he would dare to defend Tommy Robinson,
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I think in Canada, our conservative politicians are so afraid that they would absolutely throw the rebel under the bus rather than be associated with us.
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But if we have to rely on politicians, Alan, I think we're doomed.
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I want to ask you, what's the next step in this Twitter lawsuit by Jared Taylor?
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Is the court a good court that will give him a fair hearing?
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And I've met Noah personally, and he's a fantastic lawyer.
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And I think he makes the same point I made earlier, that, you know, it's not about Jared Taylor's views, whether you agree with him or not.
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It's about does Twitter have the right to ban anyone for whatever reason.
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And I think they have a fairly strong case because they did essentially kick Taylor off for his political views.
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There was no allegation of harassment or abuse or anything like that.
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Some of the excuses they've used to kick off other right-wingers.
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Alan Bocari, he is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.
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And I think he's one of the most important journalists covering one of the most important beats there is right now.
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I think that is the front lines of censorship against conservatives.
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So it's something definitely to keep an eye on.
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The Conservative Party of Canada won a by-election in Quebec in the riding with the interesting name of Chicoutimi Le Fjord.
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The Conservative candidate, Michard Martel, won an outright majority.
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And very interesting to me, the NDP in the single digits, 8.6%.
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And what was the issue that put the Conservatives over the top?
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Well, I have no clue because I'm not plugged into the Quebec scene.
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His name is Eric Duem, and he joins us now via Skype.
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Because it's coming as a surprise to English Canada.
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But those who have been following this by-election closely were not surprised for several reasons.
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First off, we have to say that the Conservative candidate, Mr. Martel,
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is somebody very, very well known in the region, very well appreciated.
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So the importance of having a local star candidate was certainly one factor.
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The other factors are also, Ezra, that for six months, he's been campaigning almost alone
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because the Liberals took a lot of time to choose their candidate.
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And the third thing also we have to look is that the NDP and the Bloc Québécois, who had that seat not that far away,
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like not the last election, but the one before, the NDP won during the orange wave here in Quebec.
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And before that, it was a Bloc Québécois constituency for a few elections.
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Those two parties were in the single digit, the NDP at 8% and the Bloc at 5%.
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So the fact that both parties are practically disappearing outside of Montreal right now
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means that it's the two-way race between the Liberals and the Conservatives.
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And in English Canada, you have to understand, a lot of people don't like Justin Trudeau and the Federal Liberals.
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It's like in Alberta, I think we're the only place where we're so skeptical of the Federal Liberals
00:32:27.960
And when it's a one-on-one fight, the Conservatives in rural Quebec and in different regions of Quebec will always win.
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And English Canadians need to understand this is not an accident.
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It could be, it doesn't mean it's going to happen everywhere next year for the federal election.
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But if the campaign is going well, and if it's a one-on-one between the Liberals and the Conservatives
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outside of Montreal, Conservatives could win easily 30 to 40 seats with such a strategy.
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I would have, I thought that Jagmeet Singh, the new NDP leader, you know, it was interesting
00:33:13.200
He's obviously not resonating in Quebec the same way that Thomas Mulcair or Jack Layton did.
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And the religious signs in Quebec, you know that there's been a huge debate with the Charter
00:33:24.200
of values and everything we had over the last few years and the Commission, Bouchard-Taylor
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and the reasonable accommodation debate that we had in Quebec on identity.
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The fact that somebody arrives here and is so, you know, for him it's so important to show
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I don't think the NDP could be a factor anymore in Quebec.
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The other thing also, the Bloc Québécois is disappearing, Israel.
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You and I have known the Bloc Québécois in the good old days when the Bloc was the official
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opposition in Ottawa and was winning 40, 50, 52, 54 seats easily in Quebec.
00:34:05.400
The Bloc Québécois now wouldn't win a single seat if there was a general election currently
00:34:12.080
And it's hard for English Canadians to understand how come people who usually vote NDP and Bloc
00:34:17.980
Québécois over the last decade or two, how could they switch to the Conservatives and
00:34:23.840
You have to understand that the political spectrum is not split the same way it is in
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For many of us, the first thing that is the most important is constitutional.
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We want to make sure that provincial rights are respected.
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When we talk about the federal Liberals, we're talking about the centralists in Ottawa.
00:34:39.800
We think that Ottawa knows best, and that's not really appreciated in our region.
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So it's not necessarily a left and right split.
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It's more a centralist versus decentralist approach that we have.
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And that explains why people who usually are Bloc Québécois supporters or NDP supporters
00:34:56.220
switch from those parties directly to the Conservatives, and they don't even consider for a second
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I have one last thing I'd like to run by you, Eric.
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And you've really illuminated things for me here.
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I observed that Justin Trudeau, who's really thrown open the border between New York State
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and Quebec at a little stretch of road called Roxham Road, and there's thousands and thousands
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There's no such thing as a refugee from the United States.
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And it's so often that the RCMP and the border guards have set up a little semi-permanent
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When Justin Trudeau decided to put those migrants on a bus and send them to Toronto, I thought,
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Maybe Quebecers are fed up with it so much that Trudeau wants to push the political pressure
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Maybe you can tell me that one of the quiet issues under the radar is that Quebecers don't
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like this open borders, don't like this sanctuary province idea that has been foisted on them
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It's part of the religious accommodation issue.
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That's my theory, is that maybe that was part of the vote against Trudeau.
00:36:33.440
And actually, the Conservatives, during that by-election, had Andrew Scheer and their member
00:36:37.900
of Parliament responsible for public safety, Pierre Paulus, who's an MP here in the Quebec
00:36:43.300
They went to the Roxham Road in St. Bernard de la Colle, and they've campaigned out there.
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They were far away from the constituency where the guy got elected.
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But it's an issue that is so important and that resonates so badly that the Conservatives
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went to that border to show the problem of what the Liberals are doing, the lack of political
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leadership to support and to respect our borders.
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And that was very, very clear that the Conservatives have been using that.
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You also have to understand, Ezra, that even the provincial Liberals, they're going in an
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election, a general election in Quebec on October 1st.
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The provincial Liberals, they know that this issue is not good for them.
00:37:27.820
They're doing it even publicly now, putting limits to say, look, we have way too many refugees,
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illegal refugees, we don't know what to do with them.
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You know, we're not going to take them anymore, find a solution in Ottawa.
00:37:40.200
So even the provincial Liberals are now fighting against the federal Liberals because they know
00:37:43.740
they could be hurt during a provincial campaign that is coming in a few weeks.
00:37:50.840
And we know that during the summertime, Ezra, the number of illegal immigrants that cross the
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Obviously, it's easier to cross when it's plus 30 than when it's minus 30.
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So we're going to see a lot of those illegal immigrants all over the summer.
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And that could really, really hurt the Liberals, you know, in October 1st for the general election.
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And that's why Trudeau felt the pressure of his own allies in Quebec.
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And he took those buses and sent them in Ontario.
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But what I saw in Ontario with the last provincial election, I'm not sure that all Ontarians wish
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to have a sanctuary of illegal refugees neither.
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I tell you, I've learned more from you in the last nine minutes than I have learned in
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nine months on the subjects of Quebec and open borders from the mainstream media in English
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Another thing also that is important, and it went almost silent in English Canada, and
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I think it's very important to share it with your viewers, Ezra, is that the former leader
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of the Bloc Québécois, Michel Gaultier, came out in favor of the Conservatives a few weeks
00:39:01.420
ago, and he went campaigning in that constituency for that by-election.
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It's very unusual in Canadian politics, think about it, that you will see a political leader
00:39:11.780
of a party supporting another party, leaving his party, and campaigning against his former
00:39:21.020
And it helps a lot of former Bloc Québécois supporters and voters to now cross from the
00:39:26.120
Bloc Québécois to the Conservatives, because one of the former leaders did it.
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So that's also something that you have to keep in mind in English Canada.
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And Andrew Scheer and the MPs from English Canada need to understand that there is a
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lot of constituencies that could lead to their victory if they want to be back in power.
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And the road to victory for them is probably in those constituencies in Quebec.
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So we're grateful to steal a few moments of your time.
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It fills me with a little bit of hope, with a little bit of hope.
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And if Justin Trudeau loses a riding in his home province of Quebec, well, maybe we just
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On my monologue yesterday about the revealed costs of Justin Trudeau's trip to India, Ryan
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If Mr. Harper had spent this amount of coin on a trip, plus had bad negotiations with
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India, there would be so much outrage by the Canadian media and liberal politicians
00:40:57.600
The left-leaning media would hold this story in the public eye just as long or longer than
00:41:02.580
They'd be crying for him to resign immediately, but not with little potato.
00:41:11.080
Like, India is the biggest democracy in the world.
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We don't have a ton of trade with them, but we could.
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Especially agriculture, they got over a billion mouths to feed.
00:41:20.780
Energy, they're buying so much oil from Iran, wouldn't it be great if they bought some of
00:41:26.800
Imagine burning bridges with the largest democracy in the world.
00:41:30.600
Part of the British Empire, they speak English, they have a democracy that's analogous to us
00:41:36.520
Imagine just burning that because you just couldn't control yourself.
00:41:45.480
If someone were to pitch a script to a fictional movie and said, and the prime minister invited
00:41:51.520
an assassin who was convicted of trying to murder an Indian cabinet minister in India,
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Anthony writes, wow, Canadians paid $1.5 million to be embarrassed.
00:42:06.600
Yeah, I just keep thinking of some of those line items.
00:42:11.560
But to me, I've bought tickets to India before.
00:42:16.140
I personally, here at the Rebel, I personally bought the four plane tickets for our staff
00:42:24.180
I was really scared about buying those tickets because I can't, like, that's so far away,
00:42:35.060
We just bought, you know, more than two weeks in advance and economy.
00:42:48.620
And some of those people were spending $20,000.
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There's no private sector company, not even a big law firm, not even a bank.
00:42:57.840
You think an assistant, a junior assistant at a bank would be allowed to bill $20,000
00:43:15.060
Did he hire a plane to haul Alberta beef, a few sheep, maybe a couple of hogs, a flock
00:43:25.080
I listed all the fruits and vegetables and groceries.
00:43:32.540
I mean, okay, let's say you know a chef and he loves India so much he wants to come along
00:43:42.480
It's like bringing an Indian cuisine chef from Canada to India without that coming across
00:43:49.540
But if he's your buddy and maybe he's told you a lot about India and he's your like personal
00:44:02.400
Like if he's so important, if he's like this, like let's say, I know this, I'm just trying
00:44:09.660
Let's say you went to an Indian restaurant so much and you got to know the chef and he
00:44:13.080
became a good friend and he said, you got to go to India, man.
00:44:16.640
And every time you talk to the chef, he was promoting India.
00:44:22.980
Like you'd be like my personal private tour guide.
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Then I could maybe understand him coming with the prime minister to help, like be a helpful
00:44:31.380
But why are you paying him $17,000 and why is he not either chipping in $1,200 for his
00:44:47.300
Well, because it's Justin Trudeau and nothing's good enough for the young prince.
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But hey, you military veterans, you're just asking for more than we can give.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and