DAILY Roundup | Canada's awful new passport, Trump dominates CNN, Poilievre calls to cut carbon tax
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It's National Twilight Zone Day, and we're celebrating it by talking about our favorite episode of The Twilight Zone: "Walking Distance" by Rod Serling. Plus, the latest on the NHL Stanley Cup Final Four and more!
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, you have tuned into the Daily Roundup on this
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a Thursday, May 11th, 2023. I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little
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bit about my co-host. Do you know what, folks? Today is National Twilight Zone Day and my friend,
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she does not celebrate it because living in Canada, it's the Twilight Zone every day. She is
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the she-devil with a spatula. She is the Khaleesi of the greater Coburg area. She is Tamara Ugolini.
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I had a pregnant pause there, Tamara, because you have a different hairstyle. You look very
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corporate today. It's a very flattering look. It basically solidifies my theory that females make
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the best spies. You can change your look like that. What can a guy do, put one of those phony
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baloney mustaches on or shave our head? But I digress. How are you doing? And what's your
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favorite episode of the Twilight Zone, Tamara? You're always putting me on the spot with these
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culture. I don't watch the Twilight Zone. Like you said, we're living in it. We just have to try
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to persevere through each day here in Canada. And of course, on the live stream, it's kind of like an
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impromptu Twilight Zone because you're never sure what you're going to get with David Menzies.
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Well, you know what? I'm going to tell you my favorite episode and I'm going to tell you why
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I have the right answer. The name of the episode is Walking Distance. And about 15 years ago at the
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unveiling of the Twilight Zone attraction at Disneyland in California, I actually got to bump
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into Rod Serling's widow. And we had a great discussion. She was a lovely lady. And I said he
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created so much work. And I know he had a great assessment of his work on the Twilight Zone. He said
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one-third were great, one-third were passable, one-third were dogs. And I said to her,
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what was Rod Serling's favorite episode? And she said, Walking Distance. You could have knocked me
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over with a feather. A beautiful episode. It makes me cry every time I see it. Yeah, that's right,
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folks. I cry. There is a softer side of Sears in my body. It's such a beautiful episode. If you can
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find it, watch it. Walking Distance, I strongly urge you to do the same. Tamara Ugolini.
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There you go. Well, I think that we need photos or it didn't happen. We need some pictures or some
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video footage of David Menzies crying. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, no. I'm only crying because,
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hey, I'm only human. You know, crucify me if you must. But the idea of video evidence going up with
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me crying. I'd run away to a closet. I don't even want my kids to see me cry. Okay. I don't know if
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we want to hear you coming out of the closet, David. Yes. Well, the day you'll see me publicly
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cry is when the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. In other words, I'll be six feet under.
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So I have no worry of that footage getting out. But we digress. Tamara Ugolini, what is the
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ostensible policy reason of what we're trying to do here? Oh, I don't know if there's a policy reason
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per se, but it's our way of dissecting and providing commentary on the news of the day. So if you're
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joining us at home, this is our daily live stream where, like I mentioned, we will dissect and comment
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on the news of the day and share current happenings with our viewers at home. So we're streaming
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on a few different platforms. There's YouTube, Rumble, Odyssey, Getter, and Twitter. And I think
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I'm remembering all of them correctly because they've changed. And also on locals.com. So if
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you, depending on which platform you're on, you should see a description box. If you scroll down
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to it and it will, in there, you should be able to find a link to the locals platform. We're trying
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out this new platform. Um, and it's kind of like a one-stop shop where you can find all
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of our content. So let us know. We're happy to, we're open to your feedback. We want to
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know what our viewers think of that platform. Um, so scroll on over there and click and check
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it out. And then of course, on some of those platforms, unfortunately, no longer YouTube
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because they have demonetized us completely due to our wrong think and our questioning of,
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uh, primarily the COVID narrative and some of the things that were hailed as safe and
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effective. So on Rumble and, uh, Getter, you can engage in with us by giving us a Rumble
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rant or a hyper chat. And so that's a fun way to support our independent journalism and
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also, um, get some feedback from us or tip, give us a tip, uh, something that you think
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that we should dive into, look further into. So I encourage anyone who's not on one of those
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platforms, just head on over there and shoot us some chats because we love to hear from
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our viewers and it helps keep the lights on. So, um, as David mentioned, I don't know if
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you said what day it was, David, but if I missed that it's Thursday, May the 11th, and apparently
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it's national twilight zone day. Um, so that's, that's always a good time. I'm always interested
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to know like just what, what day is it today? What's David going to come up with? Um, it's
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always a fun way to, to kick off the stream, but we also have a couple of days ago on national
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sleepover day. I think your pajamas were still at the dry cleaners, but by the way, I thought
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the deal was whenever we do the daily roundup together, Tamara Ugolini, you were going to drive
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in from the COVID area and do it in person. You said you did, you said, why aren't you here? By the
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way, am I reminding you of one of your young children? You know, we committed to Tamara Tuesdays,
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anything more than that. I have commitment issues with, but the thing is, is that by the
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time you sift through the insane traffic on the 401, like it's a four hour round trip
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there and back for me to, to try to make it home. And then the last few Tuesdays and for
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any of our viewers at home who, who might not know, I have young children at home. And so
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I actually didn't even see them. Like I saw them in the morning to get them off to their
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various spots. And then I didn't see them at all before they went to bed because by the time
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you navigate traffic and you try to get everything done in the office. Um, so it's a really
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long day, which I love, I love being in the office. I love joining you in person. I think
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that it, it is definitely a better, better commentary sitting side by side. Um, so it's
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great, but I have to limit it because at home sacrifices, you know, they, um, they suffer
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here at home when the mom's not there. So that's the reason why, um, I, I limit it to one or
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two days a week. So sorry to our viewers at home, but that's my roundabout reasoning for
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why I'm hosting to at home today. Um, because let us reiterate, it is a four hour round trip
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on the 401. Not exactly the Shackleton expedition to Antarctica a hundred years ago, but you know
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what? I get it. The community can be. Well, and now that we have such great access to the
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technologies of the internet, we, you know, we have, I have this new webcam, so might as
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I'll put it to good use, I suppose. Um, all right. So we, we have our first news item of
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the day to share with our viewers in case they aren't already aware, which many of you I'm sure
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are. We have, the federal government has unveiled a new passport design. Um, so I guess out of
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necessity, we needed to take historical context and pictures and imagery out of our passport and
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instead replace them with more nature. How fitting for the climate alarmism agenda that the feds moved
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forward with this. So here, yeah, we have, I think this is the CBC's article, which I had pulled
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up and now of course it's gone. Um, so it says Canada's passport is getting a makeover. So it already
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did with a new design that will feature more natural landscapes and wildlife and fewer Canadian
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historical moments and monuments. And, uh, they tried to take the feedback of what Canada
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represents. Frazier said that's the, uh, refugees and citizenship minister, Sean Frazier. And there's
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one part of this article that I wanted to point out on that exact note. It's that the, um, the Royal
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Canadian Legion criticized, this is about halfway down the page, criticized the redesign for removing an
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image of the Vimy Ridge Memorial. And they quote, we are disappointed by the decision to remove an
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image that signifies the sacrifices made for the very sort of freedom that passport provides. The
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Legion said in a media statement. And, uh, so it's funny that at the same time that the government is
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trying to improve their imagery, um, they're taking away imagery that symbolizes the exact reason why we
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are able to have the freedom of movement that the passport sort of encompasses.
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What an atrocity. Um, Tamara, um, I'm going to call it like the umpire. I applaud the government
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for enhancing the security features of the passport. That's fine. Technology advances and we need to make
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sure that the right people are getting into the country. But here's the question I have for you,
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my friend, why, why remove the Vimy Ridge Memorial? Why remove the great Canadian hero, Terry Fox?
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This is yet again, the blackface liberals eradicating Canada's history. I mean, come on animals and
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seascapes and what have you. That is atrocious. It's means nothing. Those landscapes could be basically
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any country in the same hemisphere that we're in, but there's only one Vimy Ridge Memorial. There's
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only one Terry Fox, uh, God bless his soul. And I don't, it's never been explained why you had to
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remove that. Uh, you know, in addition to putting in the enhanced security elements, you know, it's
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amazing. I'm looking at the cover. Here's my passport. It's incredible that the coat of arms,
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uh, existed and like, look at these drawings. I mean, these aren't exactly, uh, and then Tamara,
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to me, they, they look like just one step removed from stick men, you know, I like I'm a crap artist.
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I could draw that if you gave me enough. Yeah. The rainbows. There's a lot of, uh, weird sort of
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modern new age imagery happening. But I think that the, the whole basis of the redesign, as you mentioned,
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David was this new security feature. And if you go back to this CBC article, um, I guess about
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three quarters of the way down. So they detail what the new security features are. And it says
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that the new passport includes state-of-the-art security features designed to keep Canadians
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identities safe, such as a polycarbonate data page, a technology similar to Canada's driver's
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licenses. And, uh, the passport holders, personal information, it will now be laser engraved
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instead of being printed with ink, making the data page more durable and resistant to tampering
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and counterfeiting. And then you can see there that they have that visible chip and antenna. So it's,
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it's, it's literally a digitized passport. But you know, Tamara, that aside and whether,
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you know, I, and, and whether what, whatever side you're on in terms of the digitized passport,
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digitized currency, what have you, I'm just saying that if this was their directive to go ahead with
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this, fine. But why did it mean to erase Canadian history, to get rid of the Vimy Ridge Memorial and
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Terry Fox that I don't understand and have these, there's a moose, uh, and there, oh yeah, there's,
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what, what is that? A duck, I guess. A goose? No, it's the Canadian goose. You can barely tell. I
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understand there's an illustration of a squirrel gathering nuts. And you know, it reminded me.
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Very Canadian. Yeah. Last month, Lady Menzoid gave me this. It's a birthday card. It's your birthday.
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And as Scotty, the squirrel would say, look what happened. See it. He's, he's moving his nuts up and
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down. It's like, why isn't this part of our Canadian passport, by the way, it says you're
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not old enough. As long as you can remember where your nuts are. Happy birthday. I know where the
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nuts are. The cashews are on the top shelf next to the peanut butter. Anyway, what I'm saying is that
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this is insidious. I don't know if she consented to you sharing your birthday card. That's a,
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that's some personal information there, David. Well, the first thing I checked was the price,
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$8.99. That gets a thumbs up. Wow. How's that for inflation?
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I think that the whole, the whole idea that this redesign needed to happen was of course,
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to implement this chip, this security chip and further fuel the digitization of everything.
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We're all going to be interconnected into the internet of things. And if you aren't familiar with
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that technology or what I'm referring to, you can literally, you can just quite literally take to
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any search engine and type in the internet of things. But I think that the imagery and the,
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the removal of the historical context and features is kind of a distraction to that bigger issue,
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which is the moving forward with this digitization of everything, our whole society, the restructuring.
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of our society to be digitally centric. And, um, it's just further, like, this is what Marxists do
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really though, is remove that kind of historical context, those figures, that imagery and replace
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it with benign things like, like nature. And it really is all just related to the agendas that the
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liberals are pushing forward, this surveillance system, the surveillance state, but also under the guise
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of being, you know, for the climate. And look at us, we're Canada now, we have all this climate imagery in
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our passport. So we care and we want to be green. And we want to respect the environment and the earth and
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the animals. And I'm not saying that don't do any of those things. But it's all being used to usher in this
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surveillance state, tax people out of their yahoos. And for what so that the the the oligarchs and the leaders
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can still jet set across the the country and the world and eat their filet mignon and have their steak and we're
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supposed to sit at home with our chip and eat the bugs. And if we don't, then our social credit score is
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plummeting because we had too much beef this week. Yeah, you know what, maybe we'll all have one
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social credit identity card. It's your everything and how better to keep control of us. By the way,
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the last illustrations that we're going by, is it just me, Tamara? But does that remind you of those
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cheesy black velvet paintings? You know, the all the bulldogs sitting around playing poker,
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smoking cigars. You know, look, look at that. I mean, that's what you you go to the variety store.
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If you forgot to buy mom a birthday present and all the malls are closed and this is what you buy
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for 20 bucks and you hope she's going to forgive you under the auspices of, well, it's the thought
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that counts. But that is the legion is well within its rights to be offended. I understand they weren't
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consulted about the dropping of the Vimy Ridge Memorial because of course, why would they?
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Oh, yeah. Blackfoot Blackface knows what's best for all of us, even those in the military and those
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who served and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Blackface knows better. What a disgrace.
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I wonder if there's anything. I mean, they're getting public backlash on this, Tamara. And I
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will say it's apolitical. I see it on the left and the right that this is described. I mean,
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who has a problem with the Vimy Ridge Memorial? Who has a problem with Terry Fox? This transcends
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political boundaries. And maybe since they haven't started printing these, this can be addressed.
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Yeah, I mean, we'll see what the media does. Usually the media is just the cheerleaders for
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whatever the government, especially the federal government, Justin Trudeau, liberals, they just
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cheerlead whatever he does and fall in line and ask for more of whatever the flavor of the day is. So
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maybe with some media pushback, we'll see. But what I'm also really interested in finding out here is
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just how much this redesign costs Canadians. So we had to implement this chip somehow,
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right? We had to develop this microchip into the passports. And so that would probably came with
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a hefty price tag. But just the graphic design on this alone, I think that we have actually filed
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an access to information request. And for anyone who doesn't know, we do extensive access to
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information requests all the time to government entities and institutions. And so you can check out
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those reports at rebelinvestigates.com. And so usually it's about 30 days unless they try to
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filibuster it. I've had an access to information request take up to two years to get back, which was
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to do with some deaths in long-term care throughout the COVID hysteria. So this one, I would imagine,
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would be back within the month or so. But we have filed an access to information request,
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to my knowledge, to find out just how much this costs Canadian taxpayers. And I think that this has
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been an ongoing thing since the Conservative government was in. I think this has been in
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the works for about 10 years. So I don't remember where I read that, but it's not a new thing. Like
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this wasn't just unveiled, you know, in the last week or two. Oh, then Tamara, scratch my idea of a
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redo. If it took 10 years, I don't think we have the appetite to wait till 2033. And one last thing on
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this before we move on, this whole idea of all these nature scenes, you know, with geese and
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squirrels. Do any Canadians need to be reminded of the nature of Canada? I live in a very urban
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environment. Let me tell you, I see nature 24-7 at Casamanzoid. Chipmunks, squirrels, skunks. You know,
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I'm so underground with nature. There's a raccoon that has this habit of climbing up my shed in the
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middle of the night. I'm going to catch him one day, I swear. And he basically does his business
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on the roof of the shed, leaving his calling card. So I reach out to our viewers. Does anyone know one
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of those raccoon removal services? That's my affinity with nature, okay? I don't want these
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critters on my passport. I'm already overwhelmed by them at my house, but we digress. We have one
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super chat here that I'll just get to you before we change topics. It comes from Mike Freedom Honey.
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He gives $5. Thank you. He says, myself and other vets are quite pissed at the removal of the Vimy
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Ridge Memorial. We understand the need for a new passport, but trying to erase history is garbage.
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Again, it's literally what Marxists do. Hey, and I echo that, Mike. And by the way, Mike,
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I just received two days ago, a beautiful package from you and Pedro, I believe, from Freedom Honey.
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I'm going to give you a proper shout out next week with Sheila. I'm going to bring in what you sent,
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t-shirts, calendars, all themed via the Freedom Movement and the F. Trudeau Movement. Oh,
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I'm so sorry, Erin O'Toole. I didn't mean to offend your suburban sensibilities there. But thank you so
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much. And I'll tell you, Tamara, that merchandise that Mike sent along, those t-shirts, the fabric is so
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soft. Wow. Oh, well, maybe we can get a connection. Thank you to Mike and thank you for the donation too.
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Okay. CSIS Canada. CSIS is committed to building a more inclusive future for all. Oh, here comes the
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word salad, folks. When gender-based analysis plus, gender-based analysis plus, it sounds like,
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I don't know, some prostate vitamin you'd buy at the health food store, informs what we do and how we do
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it. It strengthens our efforts to protect Canada from a wide range of threats and better safeguard
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our rights and freedoms. Oh, you mean like Chinese interference in the elections, like Chinese police
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stations operating in our dominion? Oh yeah. Blackface is really hardcore on that file right
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now. I wonder what, oh, that's right. A whistleblower from CSIS came forward and by golly,
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Tamara, blackface is going to get to the bottom of this. Oh, not the Chinese interference in the
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police stations, but who's the snitch? Who ratted me out? This is, this is incredible, but gender-based
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analysis plus. I don't even know what that means. No. If there's anyone that ceases watching.
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What does that mean? GBA plus. You know, by the way, when they were showing images of the passport,
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don't mean to go back to it, but I don't know if that's a real person or not, but I noticed it said
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sex and the initial F, presumably for female. I wonder if that's changed too, Tamara. Can I choose O for
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other? You know, I don't know. We want to be inclusive and diverse after all, don't we?
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But at what point does F mean fluid instead of female? Oh, bingo. You're, well, this is why we
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pay you the big bucks, Tamara Ugolini. Gender, F for fluid. Yeah. That is not a female. Oh,
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there's so many more ways you could go with that. That's something in between apparently.
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So, um, yeah, uh, Tamara and I are stymied by gender-based analysis plus, um, protocols.
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Please educate us, uh, especially if you know anyone at CSIS. Well, why don't we go to a video
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of blackface himself? Oh, go ahead. Yeah. We have, we have, so we do have a video of blackface,
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but we also have a former senior intelligence officer and manager at CSIS, um, who just,
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just, I think earlier today, this was just cut. Um, he proposed jail time for foreign interference,
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um, allegations because he's equating it to treason essentially. So here, let's have a look
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at what he had to say. And, and this person again is former. Um, so maybe he, he was no longer
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involved in CSIS because he doesn't agree with this gender-based analysis plus.
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That's why I'm suggesting that we should cut the numbers of diplomats in place here in Canada.
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There's no reason to have so many, uh, diplomats with a country that doesn't want to do business
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with us. We have a trade deficit. Uh, we, we, we sold a company, uh, uh, uh, uh, Nexen in Alberta
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for $15 billion. We're not even capable to buy a corner store in China. So this discrepancy
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between the relationship doesn't sort of, uh, uh, generate or justified, I should say,
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to have so many diplomats other than some people are favoring China for the wrong reason.
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Now you'd mentioned in, in your opening comments, a series of points kind of, uh, to beef up our,
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our legal framework. The first one, you talked about a mandatory process for candidates, for,
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for staff, um, with, with a signed declaration, with the threat of, of criminal, um, criminal
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proceedings. Um, what, you know, what sanctions would you propose in terms of the criminal,
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uh, proceedings? What, uh, what, you know, how, how strong of, uh, of a same jail time?
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Because we're close to treason here, literally. So I say jail time. Now the, the, the, the size
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of the jail time, uh, would be, uh, uh, judged by, uh, jurisprudence and by, by our system,
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but definitely jail time. No, no fine, no suspended sentences or anything of that nature.
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Just telling it like it really is. Oh, absolutely. Tamara. What do you think about blackface? Do
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you think he's a simpatico on jail time with all the interference? And let's face it. He knew about
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this. I think years ago, he's only being proactive now because it's a matter of public record. We got
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Chinese police stations, uh, in Canada, including not far from where I live at the, um, I'm not making
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this up folks. The Toronto, Canada Fooking business association. I swear you can Google it. Yeah.
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They're operating a cop shop out of there. Um, I wonder if the RCMP get that courtesy in Beijing.
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Uh, what do you want to bet? The answer rhymes with hero on the, uh, percentage of that happening.
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Um, but Tamara, this is an outrage and yeah, I think it does meet the benchmark of treason
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because when you are having our democracy interfered with that way, and here's the big question. We
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want to know what blackface knew and when did he know about it? Because then I know treason,
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the big T word, it's a, it's a high benchmark to prove, but if he was complicit with this,
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I think that falls into the bailiwick of treason too, Tamara.
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The absolute absurd thing here is that treason is a very strong, real threat to our national security.
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And instead of focusing on that very real valid threat, we are honoring gender-based analysis plus.
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And so I wonder here if we made a complaint, not about treason, but about a gender-based,
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I don't know, I guess it would be a gender-based discrimination or some equal right, unequal
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rights for someone. Um, maybe if we complained that the Chinese police stations weren't doing
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diversity hires, then we could really launch a real investigation here.
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Yeah. You know, I wonder what the gender-based analysis plus software, um, what it recommended
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regarding, oh, I don't know, firefighters out in Alberta trying to put out wildfires. The idea that
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for virtue signaling purposes, let's have an all female crew and watch the problem get exasperated.
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But, um, yeah, I, I want to get my hands on this gender-based analysis plus.
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You know, the amount of wokeism and political correctness and virtue signaling, Tamara,
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even for something regarding our spy agency, which is ostensibly there to keep Canada safe and secure.
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I mean, it's egregious. Leave this crap for the gender study students on campus, okay? I don't care
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about gender analysis plus data. I want our, you know, cops, our spies to be well-equipped to stand up
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to any bad actors in terms of foreign interference. But we know where blackface stands when it comes to
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the, uh, dictatorship of China. He admires that dictatorship. He said so himself, uh, by the
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way, he was ahead of the curve, I guess, with gender-based analysis plus, because he said that
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10 years ago, uh, Tamara was at Sun News at the time. And he said it in Toronto to a female only
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audience. Like, why are you doing this? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess it worked out for him the first,
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the last three times he, uh, won the election. Thank you, Canadians. Um, we have a super chat
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here. And Andrew Scheer. Um, yeah, thank you. No opposition. Yeah. Talk about snatching, uh,
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defeat from the jaws of victory. Um, anyhow, what let's move on to more black. Well, we have one,
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uh, we have one super chat here from ableist SL gives $5. Thank you. It sounds like CSIS is
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undergoing woke subversion, like other federal agencies. Also, what are your thoughts on parents
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fleeing the country with their children to stop them from wrongfully transitioning?
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Oh, I, I, I can't think of a better reason, Tamara. Uh, save the children.
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Well, no, sorry. Did I understand that remark to get them transitioned or to avoid getting
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transition? No, to stop. Yeah. To stop them from wrongfully transitioning. Yeah. Well, you are a
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mother. Uh, if you had a child who's a minor, uh, and somehow he's being indoctrinated at school
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that she is a, he or vice versa, uh, what steps would you take? Yeah. Well, I mean, and this is
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obviously just my personal opinion. First and foremost, you would pull them from whatever
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institution is promoting this madness. Um, there was, there is a former Canadian, I can't remember
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her name, but she, um, she, she does a lot of work on this file in the United States and, um,
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her child was going through what was, you know, this gender confusion, because this is confusing
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for children. When you start promoting these ideologies, which were traditionally reserved
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for academics and adults with fully functioning frontal lobes and their rational brain was
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developed. Um, now they are pushing these ideologies onto children. They're not really
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debating them anymore. It's kind of just being accepted as though it's truth. In fact, whereas
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previously it had been reserved for, you know, robust debate and is this ethical and the gender,
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um, well, the critical race theory stuff was largely within the legal system, but the gender
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ideology came about kind of in a similar fashion. And this particular mom who I I'll have to see if I
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can pull it up quickly on, on Twitter, but she pulled her child completely out of the system.
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Stop. They stopped going to this counselor, the school counselor who isn't trained to handle actual
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psychological issues. By the way, they're just these, like, they're supposed to teach children
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how to, um, get scholarships or what kind of school to apply to. But now they're kind of meddling in
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this idea of gender ideology and identity, which are very complex psychological subjects. And anyway,
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this mom pulled her child completely from the school system. The child was also suffering with
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depression and eating disorders. And there was all these, these disabilities and comorbidities
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starting to happen and mental health issues. And all of that completely resolved within, like,
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I think it was about a month. It wasn't even very long that it took this child to kind of
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recalibrate. And, uh, this mom has now become a fierce advocate against these ideologies and
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creating the school system. Um, I think she's on one of the boards there and her child has not
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returned to the system. I think that her other child continues in, but is not being affected by
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any of this sort of radical, these radical ideals ideologues. Um, so yeah, I think that's obviously
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a really harsh step that needs to be taken to really save a child from the destruction of
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gender transitioning, whether it be social transition, medical, um, full-on body mutilation.
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This is really scary concerning stuff that is unprecedented. We have never seen this before.
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And I think that you have to make those, those harsh changes and choices to save your children from
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a future that they will likely regret. As we see now, it's just coming out, uh, in this
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de-transitioning phenomenon. You know what, uh, you said something, I think very profound, um, Tamara,
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which is you talked about the child having eating disorders, suffering from depression.
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And I think some of these young people, as well as in some cases, their parents think that
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having a sex change is going to be a utopia for the person. And guess what? You do the transition
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and you still have eating disorders. You still have depression. And that falls into your point about
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the, I guess the de-transitioning, uh, movement. Uh, the point being, um, you know, with us being
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champions of freedom, you can really live your life in whatever identity you want, but it always comes
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down to age appropriateness for me, Tamara. And that is when you are too young to buy liquor
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and cigarettes and marijuana and even lottery tickets. I don't think you're in the right frame
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of mind, uh, to say, I'm going to change my sex because that's going to make all my problems go
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away. So you know what I see we're past the halfway mark. So we got to go to an ad break and then we'll
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pick it up with, um, Justin Trudeau wading into the abortion debate. Oh, golly. I wonder what
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position blackface is going to take on this topic.
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Somebody who's the salt of the earth, your teacher, your friend.
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Mothers look after their children and they fight for their rights. Even if it doesn't affect them,
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you're, we're fighting for our kids' rights. Lioness. Don't mess with them.
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My mother means almost everything to me. She's 91. She's been there for me all my life. She's
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implanted Christian values. She's never changed and she's a rock in our life.
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My favorite person in the world. Everything she did for us was because she loved us so dearly,
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never gave up on us. She's my mother so much. My mother has passed away, but she has, uh, been a guiding
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light in my life still. I talk with her. I, I feel that she's impacted a lot of truth and faith and, um,
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she always taught me to, um, remember that I'm a child of the king. Anything that she could do to help or
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support, she did it. And she's gone now, but I will love her forever. Despite whatever we get in her way,
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Uh, yes. Mother's Day or as the Toronto district school board would say that special time of year
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in May about somebody, uh, you know what, Tamara, we're going to move on from, uh, what we teased
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before the break, uh, blackface, uh, putting out his, uh, pro choice tweet because super producer
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Olivia just informed me that this is actually from two weeks ago. He tweeted it yesterday.
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Gee, why would he tweet it on Wednesday, May 10th? You don't think it had anything to do with the,
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um, uh, March for life on Parliament Hill, do you? Uh, yeah. Blackface has to get the last word in
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there. He has to be like the proverbial skunk to the garden party. So, um, it's old news folks.
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Let's move on. I can't stomach any more blackface right now anyways, but you know who I've always
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got time for. It's Donald Trump. And wow, Tamara, did you watch that town hall yesterday? It was
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fascinating. Um, sure didn't go, uh, the CNN narrative way, but they don't care right now.
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Their ratings are so far into the dumpster. Uh, I guarantee you without even checking the numbers,
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this is their highest rated show of the year. I would argue maybe even in three or four years.
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And did Trump ever take, uh, that woman, uh, Collins, uh, to school? It was, I was feeling
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embarrassed for her. It was like when, um, Elon Musk, uh, went up against that, uh, jabroni journalist
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from the BBC and he took him behind the woodshed for making accusations for which he had no proof or facts
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to support. So why don't we call out, uh, well, um, one of the lines, it pertains to Canada in a way
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because we are, uh, an energy, a resource rich country. If only blackface would unlock the shackles,
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but, um, Trump calling out the stupid fools. That's a direct quote who are destroying America's
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energy sector. Check it out. Go back to the audience. We've got Danielle Rieger. She works
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as an oral surgery assistant. She's a Republican activist from dairy. She was a New Hampshire
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delegate for you in 2020. What's your question? Hi, thank you so much for coming to New Hampshire
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to answer our questions. My question is regarding the economy over the past two years, we have seen
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the prices for everything skyrocket from food to gas, to utilities and insurance costs. Many people's
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bills are up several hundred dollars a month, including mine. If elected president again,
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what is the first thing you would do to help bring down the cost to make things more affordable?
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Something voters actually care about. Drill, baby, drill.
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Good answer. We were energy independent. We were soon going to be energy dominant and nobody had ever
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done what I did. We got oil down to $1.87. Actually, it fell lower than that in some cases.
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We had to save the oil companies that the price was getting. So we were doing incredibly. We had
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the greatest economy in the history of our country, probably the greatest economy in the history of
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the world. We're energy independent, soon to be energy dominant. We were going to be bigger than
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Russia and Saudi Arabia put together times two. We have more liquid gold under our feet than any other
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nation, any other nation. And these stupid fools ended it. And energy went from $1.87 and even lower
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for gasoline, for car. They went from $1.87 to five, six, seven, eight and even nine dollars.
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And your electricity bills went through the roof. Your heating bills went through the roof.
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And that's what started inflation. And it hasn't stopped because people are paying now for bacon and
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for eggs and for two and three times what it was just a little while ago. We created the greatest
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economy in history. A big part of that economy was I got you the biggest tax cuts in the history
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of our country, bigger than the Reagan cuts, bigger than anything. And also, you know, Tamara, he's so
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right. If only his haters would listen to what Donald Trump has to say and objectively look at his record.
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During the Donald Trump presidency, we saw inflation and interest rates at generational lows. Energy
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independence for the first time in more than 70 years, thanks to the miracle that is fracking.
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We saw unemployment levels at record lows, including unemployment levels for such categories as women
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and visible minorities such as blacks, Asians and Hispanics. And the exclamation mark, I think,
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on the Trump administration is this, Tamara. The world was a lot safer place. We had peace erupting in
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the Middle East with the Abraham Accords. We didn't have any talk about Putin invading Ukraine. We didn't
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see China flexing its military muscles. And now look at the world we're in. And Donald Trump was the
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opposite of a hawkish president. He was not getting involved in wars. He took out some vile, evil terrorists,
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which, of course, the left criticized them for calling terrorists like Soleimani scholars, if you can
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imagine. But all those reasons I gave you, these are irrefutable facts. And I thought that was a brilliant
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performance. I bet CNN is happy because finally, for one day this year, they were relevant. What are your
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thoughts? Yeah, I think you really covered all of the topics and the key points here that are to say
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about Donald Trump. And I think that the general public has really started to see the tangible ripple
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effect and the ways that someone like that, their presidency changed their life versus now at the
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way people like the dementia fatigued President Joe Biden is instituting and treating the economy of the
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United States, which is basically just putting it into the negative. And that has a direct effect on us
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here in Canada. And so while we have seen the reign of terror of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the
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last eight years and counting, the policies instituted in the United States directly reflected
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and affected also how we approached energy in the sector and our costs. So I would love to see
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nothing more than someone more fiscally responsible, just like Donald Trump had been and will commit to
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being should he be elected again, because the way things are going is, you know, the government always
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talks about sustainability, and they mean, I guess, in terms of protecting the earth and the environment. But I
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want to see some sustainability in terms of the economy, and people's individual ability to be gainful in the
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economy, and to simply make ends meet. I mean, I don't think that that is asking a lot to just be able to
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survive, and keep your head above water, because the way things are going now, it is absolutely
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decimating the middle class that anyone who makes minimum wage, I honestly don't know how anyone that
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makes minimum wage survives, especially if you have children, something has to give soon. And I hope it
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would be a change up in the leadership of either nation. But Donald Trump certainly has, you know, that
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business minded. He has that business mind that to go back to and to base his policies off of,
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which seems to work really well for the past few years until Biden ruined it all.
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A hundred percent. And I would argue, Tamara, that next year's election in the US might be one of the
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most important elections in US history. You would think that so often it boils down to it's the economy
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stupid. Americans are hurting from coast to coast to coast. And I think that should be
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Biden's downfall. Well, to tell you the truth, I can't see him running for reelection.
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You know, the next election is an eternity away in political terms. But I just don't see it happening,
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given his current performance and his abysmal popularity ratings.
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They're about as low as CNN's ratings. And getting back to CNN, let's catch Donald Trump
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schooling Caitlin Collins, who was the moderator, who was it was just appalling. It was one loaded
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question after another. And when she wasn't satisfied with the answer, she would pester Trump. But
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Trump didn't bend the knee. Check out this clip, folks.
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Speaking of New York, I want to ask about a significant verdict that was reached yesterday.
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I know this is something you want to weigh in on as well. Manhattan jury found that you sexually
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abused the writer E. Jean Carroll and defamed her. You've denied this. But what do you say to voters
00:45:28.320
who say it disqualifies you from being president? Well, there aren't too many of them because my poll
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numbers just came out. They went up. I think I'm the only person in history who had a charge like
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that. And usually you leave office. You say, I'm sorry, but I'm going to back home. I'm back home to
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my family and everything. I'm going to be resigned. My poll numbers went up. And they went up with the
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other fake charge, too. Because what's happening is they're doing this for election interference.
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This woman, I don't know her. I never met her. I have no idea who she is. I had a picture taken
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years ago with her and her husband, nice guy, John Johnson. He was a newscaster, a very nice man.
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She called him an ape, happens to be African-American, called him an ape. The judge wouldn't allow us to
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put that in. Her dog or her cat was named Vagina. The judge wouldn't allow it to put that in. All of
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these things. But with her, they can put in anything. Access Hollywood. This is a jury of
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nine people who found you liable of sexual abuse. Do you think that that will deter women from voting
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for you? No, I don't think so. You know, Tamara, it's so funny, I think, in a perverse way,
00:46:38.160
how the Me Too movement narrative goes on and off depending on what political stripe you bear.
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She's on about these allegations with President Trump. You can't take his explanation as a valid
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answer. And yet, who mourns for Tara Reade? Why did she never get her day in court regarding her
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sexual assault allegations regarding Joe Biden? Oh, I get it. Yeah, one's a Republican and one's a
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Democrat. So Me Too, like I said, it seems to have an on-off switch in America when it comes
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to the mainstream media, don't you think? Well, the Me Too movement and also the My Body,
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My Choice movement, this is more hypocrisy of the left and these individuals who just kind of
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fall in line to support the current thing instead of actually being based on, you know,
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principled moral stances. They're just going with whatever the flavor of the day is. But I love that
00:47:42.480
that Trump always makes it known that there's more to the story here, that everything that you're,
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you know, the whole story hasn't been put out in the public and there are things that the judges
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wouldn't accept and there are anomalies, there are nuance. And you don't hear about that in
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these news reports and the mainstream media chooses to ignore some of those nuance, which are very,
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they very much contextualize the entire situation. And so by leaving out those little bits of nuance,
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then you miss the bigger picture of what's really going on. And so whenever you hear him speak,
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you can see that he points that out. And then if you're a critically thinking citizen, you can say,
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hey, wait a minute, what does he mean by that? I'm going to look further or maybe not. But that's
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something that I always kind of pick out from the way he responds to things is that there's a lot of
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nuance that doesn't make its way into the mainstream. And that's really concerning when you're trusting
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at least maybe hopefully less of the population at this point. But when you used to trust that the
00:48:46.560
media would give you the full picture and the full story and kind of put the information out there and
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let you form your own opinions instead of just being a parrot for the opinion that you're supposed to have.
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And Collins was a parrot for all the mainstream media talking points. And I think we don't have a clip of
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this, but I urge our viewers to source it. It was regarding the Russia Ukraine war. And it was
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Collins incessantly trying to get Donald Trump to pick a side. Whose side are you on Russia or Ukraine?
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And the president answered it beautifully. He said, had I been in office at this time, this war would not
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have happened. I have a good relationship with Zelensky and Putin, and this would never have occurred.
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There are thousands dead on each side. And this war wouldn't happen. Oh, no, no. But even so,
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whose side are you on? Is it Ukraine? Is it Russia? I mean, I don't know. Is she auditioning for
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the next time there's a spot opening on The View, or as I call it, Wada View? Is that what's going on
00:49:53.200
here, Tamara? Yeah, it could very well be. I see that we still have one topic to get to, and there's a
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super chat. But before we do that, we're going to move on to leader of the opposition in Canada,
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Pierre Polyev next. But we want to share with you a fun initiative that has been launched by
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the Democracy Funds. We have a quick ad to share, and then we'll come back for our last segment before
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we tune out until tomorrow. Today, many journalists are really just advocates for woke ideology.
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They don't report the facts, and they simply don't care about our fundamental freedoms.
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Well, we're doing something about that. What happens when the journalists themselves are really well
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made for by the government? Can we toxicly criticize the government freely? The law, the rule
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We help push back the government all the time. I think that that is the key, is to push back and
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hold them up in the box. Everyone kind of wants to be a YouTuber or a media star these days or whatever,
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and people always ask me, you know, well, how do you do it? What do you do? What's the secret? All that
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stuff. No matter what type of journalism you're doing, whether you're doing the advocacy journalism
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that Robby does, whether you're doing the investigative reporting that Sheila does,
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some of the guanso journalism that David Menzies does, or whether you're working in fiction like CBC,
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It's very informative. I learned a lot of stuff. I took so many notes, but it's definitely,
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it's definitely good to be here. I'm really appreciating the diversity of the speakers. They all
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contribute really specific details on what to do as an aspiring journalist. It's been absolutely
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mind-blowing from start to finish. Firstly, beautiful hall. We've been stuffed. It's like
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Thanksgiving dinner every night, so that's amazing. But the only thing that beats that are the people,
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the people around us, the company, some amazing and unique individuals. The journalism conference has been
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great. I met many prominent figures in this field and I got great advice. It was a really good conference,
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very good to meet all the lovely people here to get some inspiration and some experience. Our speakers,
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oh my gosh, they've been absolutely stupendous. I've been learning so much.
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Thank you so much. I'm so grateful to have been invited to come. Thank you.
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Well, you know, Tamara, let me tell you, I was at that conference last summer and I want to say that,
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you know, we often poke fun at the kids on campus, you know, with their safe spaces and their gender
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pronoun protocols and what have you. But let me tell you something. Those kids I met last summer,
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they were fantastic. They restored my faith in the youth of Canada. And on the flip side,
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let me tell you something. When I was going to Ryerson Journalism School or whatever they call
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Ryerson now, if there was a conference like this, when I was going through the journalism program,
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I would have given my right arm to be part of that. And also the potential of getting on as a job,
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getting a job out of this conference. So to me, that was the absolute epitome of win-win.
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Yeah. And we have posted a link in the chat. So if you're looking for more information on the
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conference itself, you can go there, but it is running from August 11th to 13th this year.
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It's being hosted in Toronto at the Novotel Hotel. And for applicants and people who,
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what's the word I'm looking for here, but the people who would be chosen to attend the conference,
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it's at no cost to you. So for this weekend, all expenses paid, you get to hear from, you know,
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key names in the realm of independent media, including Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn-Reed, Andrew
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Lawton. You can check out the whole lineup for yourself there, and I'm sure more to come.
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But the theme this year is fighting censorship. And so as we see the Trudeau Liberals push through and
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ram through these sweeping censorship, like pieces of legislation, the regulation of internet and content
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generation, I think that this is a key area that's going to be of the utmost importance moving forward
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for independent media. And I mean, you even have the CBC saying, expressing concerns over this
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legislation and these ambiguously awarded powers to the Canadian Radio and Television Broadcasting
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Corporation. So I think the theme is spot on. And I would urge people who are interested,
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so you have to be between the ages of 18 to 30. Otherwise, you have to speak English and otherwise
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be interested in journalism and have a knack for some critical thinking and an ability to
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conduct research. So if you're wondering and you think that you might be a good fit here,
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then head on over to that link and apply. And who knows, maybe you'll see David again and maybe even
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myself. Yeah. And by the way, Tamara, one housekeeping note, given what you just said,
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you mentioned the Novotel Hotel. Make sure all you out of towners, you pick the right Novotel Hotel.
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One of the Novotel Hotels in Hogtown, well, that's housing the city's homeless. We're not at that one.
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It's the other one, okay? Just in case any kind of mix up occurs.
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I think if you apply and you're approved that you will have all the details, the correct details forwarded
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your way. You don't want to end up at the safe injection site.
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Yeah. All I'm saying, Tamara, is just make sure your cab driver or your Uber driver knows exactly
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where to bring you once you get off that plane. Now, you mentioned Pierre Polyev once again rocking
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it in the House of Commons. And I think this is on carbon taxes, if I remember correctly.
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Another one, which is due, I think, in July. Yeah. Happy birthday, Canada, from Blackface.
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Another jump at the pumps and at other places. So let's hear what Mr. Polyev had to say.
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Doesn't he park his plane, cancel the hypocrisy, and axe the tax?
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The Right Honourable Prime Minister. Mr. Trudeau. Mr. Speaker.
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I don't think I have to remind the members not to use proper names.
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Wow, that was embarrassing. It was almost as embarrassing once upon a time, Tamara, when
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Justin called Pierre Fidel for some reason. I can't imagine why. What's your take on that?
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I mean, first and foremost, like, what an idiot, honestly. Do you forget who you are in the House
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of Commons and what you're doing? I mean, this just epitomizes the leadership we have in Canada,
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when our own leader doesn't even know that he's the person speaking, he's not addressing himself.
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But although I guess that's an odd piece of, oh, again, what's the word that I'm looking for?
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Irony, perhaps, maybe not quite irony, but where he's addressing the speaker as himself.
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And so maybe you could read between the lines on that one. But I would have loved to hear an actual
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answer, although I doubt that that would actually happen in the House of Commons with the liberals.
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They just politispeak and talk around any sort of issue. There's never a direct yes or no,
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or a direct answer or any way to garner any sort of accountability in the House of Commons. It's
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really a sad laughingstock of Canadian political theater.
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But you know, Tamara, as speaker, you're supposed to be as nonpartisan as you possibly can.
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This current speaker is a disgrace. He should step down. Last week, I'm sure you recall,
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he cut Mr. Polyev's mic when he was asking too many insensitive questions. I don't ever remember
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that. The leader of the official opposition being cut off like that. And I even heard Dan McTague,
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himself a liberal MP of 18 years, Tamara, condemning this speaker and demanding that he step down from
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that role. And that's a liberal saying that. So I can see why Blackface got confused that he is the
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speaker because the speaker seems to be his little lapdog these days.
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Mm hmm. Exactly. And that's exactly what I was alluding to. But, you know,
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Polyev is resounding really what Trump said in that previous clip where, you know, park the tax,
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park your private jet, get the Canadian economy, the oil and gas sector, which we have a breadth
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of natural resources at our disposal, get us energy independent, bring those costs down.
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What are you doing? And he's just so confused in the House that he doesn't even know who he is or
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who he's addressing. So that's really sad and really highlights the state, again, of our political
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theatre here in Canada. And Tamara, as I've always said, there is a way out with dignity
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regarding the carbon taxes for the Trudeau Liberals. And it's simply this. Look, we strongly believe
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that manmade climate change is a thing. We strongly believe it's up to us to try to do whatever we can
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to save the planet. However, at this time, when Canadians are out of work, dealing with inflation,
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inflation can't handle the mortgage payments. This is not the time for a carbon tax. This is not
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the time for an increase in the carbon tax. This is not the time for an additional carbon tax to kick
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in in July. But when things return to a resemblance of normal, then we can talk about the Greta Thunberg
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agenda. Why can't they say that, Tamara? I think that's a win-win for them.
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A hundred percent. And also, where is that tax money going that it's actually
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cooling the earth? If that's the issue, right? If the earth is overheating and we need to
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cool it. I'm not sure how a tax brings any of that down. And these liberals can't seem to attest to
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how effective a tax is at cooling the earth. So does the carbon tax even make sense? Where's
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that money going? And what is the tangible evidence that throwing money at the earth's
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warming is going to cool it? It just doesn't make any sense.
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Well, Tamara, I can tell you exactly where it's going. Because it was ever thus for decades and
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decades, with all the taxes on a liter of gasoline, and once upon a day, a time, rather, a gallon of
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gasoline, I think we're up to a point where more than one-third of the cost is various taxes.
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And those taxes were always earmarked for maintaining roads and the creation of new roads and highways.
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But guess what happened en route to the Treasury, Tamara Ugolini, regarding all those gasoline taxes?
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Yeah, they went into that great abyss known as general revenues. So all the money you and I and
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all our viewers as motorists pay in gasoline taxes, it never went to where it was supposed to go.
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And I would bet you it's the same deal with these carbon taxes. It's just going into general revenues,
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in which case they're just going to spend it on some new wackadoodle project like, I don't know,
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foreign or global affairs conducting sex with senior seminars. I'm not making that up. Check
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out Franco Teresano's recent piece on that one. So yeah, I'm very skeptical that even these blackface
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liberals believe their own narrative that this money is needed to save the planet. I bet you that money
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is just going into that bottomless pit called general revenues.
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Yeah, well, it goes into also ensuring that they have their yearly salary increases and further
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bloating of the bureaucracy that's grown. I don't even know what percent under Justin Trudeau,
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but it is astronomical. And Franco Teresano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has work on that file.
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So we're five minutes over here. We have one super chat that I can see left. I'm not sure if there are
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any more. It's from our capital locks loving Fraser McBurney. He gives $5. Thank you, Fraser. There
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was a time that Canadians... Oh, so this is related back to the passports. There was a time that Canadians
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crossed the US border by saying, I'm Canadian. As a Canadian, I crossed back into Canada. I have
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nothing to declare. Gone are the days of freedom. Yeah, but I can tell you on that note, Fraser,
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as of midnight tonight, the vax restrictions are officially gone. So you can indeed drive across
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the peace bridge into New York state and the border guards are not going to ask you for your private
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medical information. And if you don't fit the bill, they're not going to turn you back. So we'll take our
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little victories wherever we can get them. Eh, Tamara? Well, I think that Fraser was saying that
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back in his time, when he was younger, that you didn't have to show anything, not even a passport.
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You could just say, I'm Canadian and I want to come over to the United States. And no one asked any
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other questions. A hundred percent. I remember those days. I remember first going over that peace bridge
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to see the Toronto Maple Leafs play in the arena of pain, which I call whatever they call the Buffalo
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Sabres arena. The Leafs always lose and lose badly there. But yeah, we were high school students when
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we first went over. I don't even think I showed my driver's license, but we do live in a post 9-11 era,
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Tamara. So those days are gone. And believe me, they're not coming back. In fact, as you
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referred to at the beginning of the show, maybe enhanced digital monitoring of our whereabouts
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with the kind of governments that we have in power right now. So yeah, those were the good old days.
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Anyhow, well, Tamara, thank you so much once again for co-hosting. I'm so glad you were able to
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not endure the horror of the 401 in mid-day. I hate the traffic. My goodness, it's terrible.
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I actually applauded the lockdowns in a sense. I mean, they were awful and decimating and never again
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would I ever, I mean, comply, let alone cheerlead that on. I think it was terrible. But the lack of
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traffic, just the complete ghost town that the roads were at that time, it made traveling anywhere a
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breeze if you could stop, if you could get in to a place, if anywhere was even open. So I always kind of
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channel back what it was like two years ago when the highways were just a breeze and there was no
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traffic, no congestion. That was, I think, probably the only upside of the lockdown.
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Oh, I'll never forget those days, Tamara. And to dial it back to our original discussion,
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this being National Twilight Zone Day, those days reminded me of the Twilight Zone episode,
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where have all the people gone? I mean, I couldn't believe it. The Don Valley Parkway at rush hour was
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moving at over the limit, like the identification process crossing the border. Those days are gone
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too, and they're not coming back. But given the misery so many people endured over the pandemic,
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the fact that the highways were moving, it wasn't a worthwhile trade off, I would argue so. But yeah,
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thank you for reminding me of that. So, and thank again for jumping in. Thank you, of course,
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to super producers, Olivia and Ephraim behind the boards. Thank you to all our viewers, especially
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those of you who made a financial donation. We really appreciate that. Tomorrow, it'll be,
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no, I'm not here. It's Sheila and Mr. Seuss, I believe. He's back on duty. It's an all Alberta
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report. Yeah, Efren kind of put me out to pasture on Fridays for some reason. That's okay. I don't
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hold a grudge. But anyways, Sheila and company always bring it. In the meantime, folks, as always,