DAILY | Trudeau's New Hate Speech Bill, Dr. Tam's Honourary Degree
Summary
Ezra Levant talks about a jumbotron truck in Calgary, the firing of Justin Trudeau's finance minister, a Florida governor who's running for re-election, and a new bill that could criminalize offensive speech.
Transcript
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Oh, hi everybody, Ezra Levant here. How you doing? It's 12 noon on a weekday, which means
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we have a live stream. I do it Monday, Wednesday, Friday. My friends Sheila Gunn-Reed and David
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Menzies do Tuesdays and Thursdays. We do it on four platforms. YouTube, which is censoring
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us lately, so they don't tell our subscribers, or many of them at least, that we have a live
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stream on. They throttle us, but we have three other outlets, Rumble, Odyssey, and SuperU.net.
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So hello to you on all those platforms. We got a lot that's going on. Every day there's
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a lot going on. We are in a time of news, aren't we? And besides story that have caught
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my eye over the last few days, we actually have something cooking on the ground out in
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Calgary. One of the things we like to do from time to time is to buy billboards or even a
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billboard truck, or I sometimes call them a jumbotron truck. If they have that big digital
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TV screen with sound and moving pictures. I mean, a billboard, as you know, is just a static
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two-dimensional image like a regular billboard, but some of these billboard trucks have just
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basically giant TVs on the back. And we have a project today
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in Calgary with just such a jumbotron truck. So later in the show, I think we're going to try and
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connect live with Adam Souse, our reporter in Calgary who is launching this jumbotron truck
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campaign. Here's an example of one of them from the past. Fire Morneau and David Menzies had that
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and he jumped out of the truck and he interviewed people. That was pretty fun. And in the end,
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I guess Morneau did in fact get fired. I wouldn't claim credit for that, but we were certainly part
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of the chorus of voices that said, what are we doing with such a crook as our treasurer,
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as our finance minister. A few other things I want to talk about today besides the billboard truck
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is, I mean, Teresa Thames in the news, very embarrassing. On the other end of the spectrum,
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my favorite guy, Ron DeSantis, just keeps crushing it as governor of Florida. I'll tell you the latest
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about him. From Parliament Hill, a couple of stories about censorship. Derek Sloan, the independent
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MP, formerly conservative MP, facing censorship by social media companies when he raised it in the
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House of Commons. It was quite telling the way basically everyone responded. And the liberals
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say they are set to introduce a new bill criminalizing offensive speech. Speech that
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offends them will be banned. I don't think the legislation is out yet. Have they tabled the
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bill? I'm not sure if they have, but we have a news story on the premonitions of it. They say
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they're going to. And when it comes to promises liberals, like if it was a promise to give clean
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drinking water to a Northern Indian band, I'd say, well, you can't trust that promise. But if it's a,
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there's two promises that I believe the liberals when they say them. One is they're going to raise
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taxes. That I believe they'll keep that promise. The other is they're going to censor their opponents.
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That I, that's a promise I believe they'll keep. Um, but I think the most pressing issue of our time,
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the worst civil liberties battle that anyone is facing is, um, not the lockdowns, not the forced
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vaccines, not the diminution of our speech at the hands of big government, big tech. It's rather Uber
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eats calling a driver by the name his mama gave him as opposed to his new trans name. Take a look
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at this from the America's civil liberties union. They used to care about free speech. I remember
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when I was a kid admiring the ACLU, um, here's some breaking news, breaking, breaking news, everybody.
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Hey, can I have your attention? Ring, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,
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Our client, Lane Repich, who is a Kansas-based driver, has faced harassment and discrimination
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because the Uber Eats app shows his former name to customers.
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Uber Eats, in spite of being contacted by Lane repeatedly, has not made updates to their
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We're asking the Biden administration to lead and issue an executive order so that
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trans, non-binary, and intersex people can have IDs that reflect who we are.
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They're not worried about, oh, I don't know, the leading democracy newspaper in Hong Kong
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Are they worried about big tech silencing voices on the right and even some on the left?
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In fact, they probably are leading the charge on that.
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They are worried about, if I'm understanding this correctly, have you ever used Uber Eats?
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But Uber Eats, it's one of these food, like there's probably 10 of these companies in North
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They're just food delivery companies that have taken off a bit during the lockdown.
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You basically order a restaurant meal and you pay a little bit of a delivery fee and a tip
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So they're not just sitting around waiting for passengers to drive.
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It's basically outsourcing delivery service to Uber.
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I mean, in the past, every pizza parlor and every Chinese food restaurant used to have a delivery
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Because those are places that do a lot of takeout and delivery.
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Now every restaurant can just contract out their food delivery to Uber Eats or DoorDash or whatever.
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So they don't have to have their own dedicated delivery boy or girl or man or woman or non-binary.
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If you've ever used one of these apps, you can sort of see where the car is on its way to you.
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And if you're interested, they have the name of the driver.
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I mean, I guess I'd glance at the name of the driver because it's just all there on that one little screen.
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But I don't think I particularly interact with these drivers.
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I just say, hey, thanks or cheers or have a great day or whatever.
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They just gave me dinner and they know I probably want to go in and eat it.
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You know, a lot of these apps said we do touchless delivery.
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So are you really going to have an in-depth conversation with your food delivery person?
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And you don't need to because you don't need to say, wait, let me go get some change.
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Wait, let me go get some small bills for a tip.
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You don't do that because you just type it on the phone.
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It really is a no contact, a low contact way of dealing with someone.
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That's all my way of saying, does it really matter what name is on the app?
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Does it really, is someone really getting harassed because they have a name on the app?
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Does, I mean, I'm not saying I refuse to look at the name, but I glance at the name, but I'm not, I'm not engaging with these people.
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They did the, you know, and in the age of COVID, do they want to stick around and chat?
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They're not getting paid any extra to stick around and chat.
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Who stops and chats with their food delivery person?
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I mean, I, in the moment of interaction, I might say, hey, how you doing?
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Like I, those are all things I've probably said over the last year.
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I, I think you'd be sort of weird if you did that.
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But the, the layer of crazy here, the fact of the ACLU, breaking, I love that word breaking
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That just lets you know it's the most important thing.
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What gets me about that is, do they think this is the breaking news, the most important
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But how would Uber Eats, which Uber is a very large company, it's a multi-billion dollar
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And, and the way it, these very successful companies work is, they use a phrase in Silicon
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Let's say you work at a job for, for 20 bucks an hour.
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But there's a limit to the number of hours you can work any day, any week, any year.
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That's an example of something that you can't scale.
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But if you get an app, and let's say it costs you a million dollars to develop the app, if
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you get one customer and you make a buck a day from it, you have to scale up to really
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They figure something out, and then they figure out a way to do it times a million, and they
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make money, because they would never make money if they were small scale.
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I have never registered to be a driver at Uber Eats or Uber, but I'm guessing that it's pretty
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They may have a human glance at a driver's license or glance at something you upload.
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But it's like when you sign up for a cryptocurrency exchange.
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And they'll text you, and they do two-factor verification.
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They may have a human being glancing at a document you upload, but it's pretty automated.
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They don't have like a, you know, an office where they come and have you come down to.
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So if they're calling you by your dead name, if they're misgendering you, where did they
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You must have put it in to their system at scale.
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You probably got 50,000 in New York City alone.
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And the ACLU says dead naming a trans driver is the worst thing happening in America.
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If they got this guy's dead name, if they're misgendering him, it's because he uploaded
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But it just goes to show you what America is focused on, what Canada is focused on, the
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Did you see that tweet I tweeted the other day?
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It's from the South China Morning Post, but you can get it anywhere.
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Go to Twitter and type in Chinese Space Station.
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While the ACLU is saying, breaking, what's China doing?
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Did you know they have their own space station?
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I knew they had done things on the far side of the moon.
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Now, you always have to know China's about disinformation and lying and propaganda and
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If there was someone in America who said, I don't believe America actually landed on
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the moon, I think it was shot in Hollywood, you'd say, oh, you're a crazy conspiracy theorist.
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If someone said, I don't believe China has a space station, this is propaganda, I would
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say that's probably a conspiracy theory, but I'd say I know why people would say that,
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because China is a propaganda nation that lies to its own people and lies to the world.
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But I actually believe that China has a space station.
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I think if you've got a space station that says a few things.
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It says, number one, you have a level of technological expertise that is on par with America.
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You have a resource commitment that's on par with America.
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And you have a commitment, you have a strategic commitment that is greater than America's,
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because I don't think America has its own space station.
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I think there's some international space station that America is part of.
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And for the longest time, American astronauts got up there by hitching a ride with the Russians,
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That the only way to get up to the international space station was we had to hitch a ride with
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And, of course, it's all stolen technology, stolen from NASA, stolen from the West.
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And, by the way, the fact that there have been no consequences that I know of ever for China
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is stealing technology, whether it's from NASA.
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Yeah, the U.S. hitches its final ride to space from Russia for now.
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Yeah, so we're busy focusing on misgendering Uber drivers.
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One man who knows the evils of communism and is smart enough to jointly compare it with
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another authoritarian ideology called Nazism is the man I like to call America's 46th
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president, Ron DeSantis, who is currently the governor of Florida.
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I think he's by far the best governor in America.
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He's the governor who led the charge out of the lockdown insanity.
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He's the governor who's presiding over a growing economy.
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He won by like one-tenth of one percent in the 2000 and, was it 20?
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Was he only elected last time or was he elected the time before that?
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Has he only been governor for like, for less than a year?
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I mean, I feel like he's been governor for at least a couple of years, but I guess not.
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But I think he, 2019, okay, that, yeah, that makes a little more.
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He's great on pushing back against big tech censorship.
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And, you know, Florida happens to have a little town we call Miami.
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There's a lot of refugees there from communist regimes in Latin America, like Cuba and Venezuela.
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And here's Ron DeSantis on teaching the evils of communism.
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Curriculum can really provide a guide to how that should be done.
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The bill also expands our previous efforts in civics to add a requirement for the high school government class that students receive instruction on the evils of communism and totalitarian ideologies.
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We have a number of people in Florida, particularly southern Florida, who've escaped totalitarian regimes, who've escaped communist dictatorships to be able to come to America.
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We want all students to understand the difference.
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Why would somebody flee across shark-infested waters, say, leaving from Cuba to come to southern Florida?
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Why would people leave these countries and risk their life to be able to come here?
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Now, as part of this bill, Florida will create a portraits and patriotism library so students can learn about real patriots who came to this country
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after seeing the horrors of these communist regimes.
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She came to the United States when she was a teenager, fleeing from Nicaragua when the Sandinistas brought socialism to that country.
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You know, I love the fact that he's just doing this stuff all the time.
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The left is pushing their ideology through the curriculum.
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They have this critical race theory, which is another way of saying, applying Marxist principles, applying communism to race.
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You know, in communism, you have the capitalists and you have the proletariat.
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What critical gender theory does is it replaces the evil ruling class with men and the oppressed class with women.
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Whites, evil oppressors, black are the new proletarian victims.
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So it's communism transposed out of a purely economic or commercial setting into a race setting, a gender setting, a gender identity setting, trans setting.
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You could even see it being done on a species basis or on a food basis, you know, to apply that critical theory, that Marxist mindset to any issue in life.
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You would do that if you're a communist that wants to promote communism into every aspect of society, which has been pretty successfully done by the left.
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And Ron DeSantis, in a small but meaningful way, says, no, actually, we're going to teach that communism is bad and we're going to talk about the places where it came from.
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So I just admire the fact that he's doing that.
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You don't have the power, of course, you have the power.
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So Ron DeSantis is showing that he's alert and awake and he's going to use all the levers at his disposal because the other side sure does.
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We have a few super chats and I understand we also have a photo of the Shame on Shandro truck.
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Let's take a look at that truck first if you have that handy.
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By the way, that church there is for Pastor Tim Stevens, who happens to be in jail right now at the hands of the government of Alberta and in specific, Tyler Shandro,
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the health minister out there, who is partying at that Sky Palace patio with a bottle of Jameson.
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So he's partying in the lockdown while he's sending Christian pastors to jail.
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Maybe we can get it from Mike just to show folks what's on that billboard.
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Obviously, it's better to have it on the truck itself, but we actually do have access to the video that was on that truck as we made it here.
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On Rumble, MVP 9337 says civil liberties groups are just fronts for Marxist movements.
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If you go to the CCLA.org website, that's the Canadiancivilliberties.org website.
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I don't think that's during the lockdown because I don't see any masks there.
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So maybe that's the website or maybe it's our browser.
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Maybe try it on a different browser because I was on that site the other day.
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And I can tell you from my visit to that site a couple of days ago, and I just wanted to show it to you.
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The number one issue for civil liberties in Canada, according to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, is abortion access in the province of New Brunswick.
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Some people would say that's not even a civil liberties issue at all.
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But when I look across this country and I see that tens of millions of people were locked down, millions of people are still banned from their work, people can't even walk outside without being harassed, there's still rules against meeting people, it's the worst civil liberties violation in Canadian history.
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And the Canadian Civil Liberties Association does not want to talk about it.
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They have a few links there, but they're not suing.
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And freedom of expression, religion, right to protest, voting rights.
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I think that when I was on their website, now they're saying what they believe.
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Or maybe they believe these things, but they don't do anything about it.
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I'm just saying they say they do, but they're not acting on any of those things.
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I've never seen them come to bat for a freedom of expression case.
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They weren't in court with any of the recent freedom of expression battles.
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What we're working on right now, New Brunswick abortion rights.
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That's the number one issue in Canada for them.
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So that's the bill in Quebec that says if you work for a government, you can't wear a religious symbol.
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So their number one issue is abortion in New Brunswick.
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I haven't seen them do any important litigation in the last year and a half on COVID.
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So they say they've written a few reports, but they've actually done nothing.
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We talked about a couple of civil liberties unions.
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That's the kind of thing you'd think a civil liberties group would care about.
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The third pastor jailed in Alberta in six months.
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C10 hate speech is not to prevent hateful speech.
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That's the name of the internet censorship bill,
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There will be another hate speech bill introduced,
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The West is too concerned with trivial matters like the trans issue.
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They're going to teach why Canadians flee to Florida.
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Well, we criticize them every day on this channel.
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His jab bill absolutely allows forced jabination
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But I think that there is just absolutely no denying
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that he is the best governor in the United States
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that the public health officer for British Columbia,
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to authorize the use of experimental drugs for vaccines.
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you've done all the tests and you've passed them.
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None of these vaccines have been approved by the FDA.
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They've only been given emergency authorization.
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And what's the most interesting thing in the world?
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when we're supposed to not take unnecessary trips