DAVID MENZIES ｜ Ontario teachers' union votes to tackle 'anti-Palestinian racism' while Jewish students face skyrocketing harassment
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It's official. The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario now officially supports anti-Semitism. What does that even mean, exactly? And why is this a good thing? And who is Stephen LeDrew, the former president of the Liberal Party of Canada?
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The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario now officially supports anti-Semitism.
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I'm David Menzies, and this is The Ezra Levent Show.
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Anti-Semitism is moving from the streets and back alleys and is now being embraced in the classroom.
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The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario is currently having its annual general meeting in Toronto.
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Now, noting that teachers' unions in Canada are leftist, uber-woke cabals is about as newsworthy as remarking that there's saltwater in the Pacific Ocean.
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However, there is no teachers' union in our great dominion that is so ridiculously woke as the E-T-F-O.
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By way of example, do you remember when these nutbars garnered international attention in 2018 for all the wrong reasons?
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That's when the union decided that the four-letter initialism, LGBT, was not nearly inclusive enough.
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So they cooked up a new and not-so-improved 15-letter initialism.
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This lunacy caught the attention of Tucker Carlson, who was with Fox News at the time.
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And Tucker invited onto his show Stephen LeDrew, the former president of the Liberal Party of Canada, to discuss this claptrap.
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Spoiler alert, didn't go all that well for LeDrew.
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Teachers in Durham, Ontario, had to attend an inclusiveness training course for the deep breath here.
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L-G-G-B-D-T-T-T-I-Q-Q-A-A-P-P community, which is apparently a community.
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That 15-letter acronym intended to encompass all sexual minorities.
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Stephen LeDrew is the former president of Canada's Liberal Party, and he joins us tonight.
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Well, I mean, it's generally shortened to LGBTQ, which is the communities, and there's a few extra ones they've added in there.
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Maybe that's to teach kids the alphabet or not.
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But generally, it's referred to, the prime minister referred to it yesterday in the House of Commons during his apology, as LGBTQ.
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But they just know that it means inclusiveness.
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Yeah, so nobody knows what it means, even though I thought kids go to school to get an education
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so that they can, you know, get to know the meaning of things.
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But because this initialism is inclusive, that means it's good.
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By the way, in an unbelievable twist of irony, there was very, very little inclusion for Stephen LeDrew's opinions.
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You see, LeDrew was fired by Bell Media after this interview aired.
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Here is the question and the answer that made Bell hang up on LeDrew, as in permanently.
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Well, two-spirit sounds like there's someone they don't know whether they're, you know, fish or fowl.
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They don't know whether they're frick or frack.
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And, you know, again, if you're confused, what better place to go than to be at school?
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And so it was that a 20-year career with Bell Media was terminated
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when the unhinged members of the Rainbow Mafia reacted with predictable outrage.
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Oh, P.S. LeDrew's focus on the show that night was making the case
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So what does the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario do for an encore in 2025?
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Well, they've gone from ignoring anti-Semitism to, well, actually embracing anti-Semitism,
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something that is very fashionable in certain circles these days,
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In any event, check out this motion that was tabled the other day at the Union's conference.
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It's quote that ETFO create a resource on best practices to support Palestinian students
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The resources scope should include anti-Palestinian racism, affirming Palestinian identity,
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and teaching about Palestinian history, end quote.
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It is unsafe to be openly Jewish in certain neighborhoods in Ontario, and for that matter, in Canada.
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And the response by the ETFO is to focus on so-called anti-Palestinian racism.
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It makes you wonder who were the terrorists and who were the victims on October 7, 2023,
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you know, when almost 1,200 people were massacred in Israel and some 250 were kidnapped by Hamas.
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In the meantime, anti-Semitism, including violent anti-Semitism, has emerged as a very ugly stain on Canada.
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On a weekly basis, the Hamasos gather in Jewish neighborhoods to chant genocide,
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display swastikas, and even cosplay as the terrorist mastermind, Sinwar.
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As well, Jews are being physically assaulted in broad daylight.
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One private Jewish girl's school in Toronto has been shot up three times so far.
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Well, they deliver the hooligans coffee and donuts while arresting peaceful counter-demonstrators
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and members of the independent media who might, you know, further incite the violent mob.
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And then they'll roll out the red carpet to hatred by doing nothing to stop the haters.
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Indeed, it used to be that the massive walk with Israel event would attract a who's who
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But this year, the prime minister, the premier of Ontario, the mayor of Toronto, they were
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Hey, then again, maybe in the case of Mark Carney, there was no appetite to attend as people at
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this solidarity march tend to keep their clothes on, thereby depriving Carney the opportunity
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of hugging men in thongs like he did at the Vancouver Pride Parade.
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The point is, with all this repugnant anti-Semitism raging, Ontario's Elementary Teachers Union is
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Hate to be a nitpicker here, but when it comes to anti-Palestinian racism, I defer to Romulan
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Just consider the Toronto District School Board, which, much like the Elementary Teachers
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Federation of Ontario, is absolutely obsessed with anti-Palestinian racism, while turning
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a blind eye and a deaf ear to anti-Semitism in its classrooms.
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This, despite a huge outcry from Jewish students, parents, and their allies, hundreds of whom
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gathered at TDSB headquarters last June to stage a demonstration.
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We've seen firsthand what's been happening at these schools, and it's not acceptable.
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I'm an employee of this board, and I'm a little sick of the nonsense.
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The TDSB needs to gain control of the situation, and understand the widespread suffering that
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Students miss school because they're afraid of being targeted for being Jewish, and even
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teachers have missed school because they're afraid that their students will target them.
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I think we will, because Jewish students, parents, staff, everybody needs to feel safe and supported
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in the place of education, and it's time that we stepped up and made those changes.
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And let's examine the facts of the matter, shall we?
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I point to a recent study, anti-Semitism, in Ontario's K-12 schools by University of Toronto
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Brime was commissioned to study this issue by Deborah Lyons, Canada's special envoy, on combating
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Brime surveyed 599 Jewish parents who had reported 781 anti-Semitic incidents in Ontario's education
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system from October 2023 until January of this year.
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Overall, Brime reported nearly one in six anti-medic incidents were initiated or approved by a teacher
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In six out of ten reported cases of anti-Semitism, the school involved either didn't investigate,
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denied it was anti-Semitism, or punished the victims by recommending they take remote classes
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or switch schools rather than the perpetrators.
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Some of the stories Brime uncovered are truly disturbing, such as a six-year-old girl being told
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by her teacher that she was only half human because one of her parents is Jewish.
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Another teacher told a different six-year-old girl, who was wearing a necklace with a pendant
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in the shape of a map of Israel, that this was actually a map of Palestine and that her Hebrew
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Remember, these are the teachers acting in such a gross and egregious way, not the anti-Jew
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bullies in the classroom who routinely get a free pass when it comes to anti-Jew hatred.
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Keep in mind that Statistics Canada notes that while Jews make up 1% of Canada's population,
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70% of all religiously motivated hate crimes today are aimed at Jews.
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And what's being done to address off-the-charts anti-Semitism in this province?
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The educrats are pushing anti-Palestinian racism that doesn't exist.
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You know, isn't this akin to the city of New York post-9-11 commissioning a report on
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Well, I can tell you that many in the Jewish community are saying enough is enough.
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On Monday, Mir Weinstein of Israel Now went down to the Sheridan Hotel in downtown Toronto
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that was hosting the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario conference.
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He was there with others to take a stand against that ludicrous motion.
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Well, the educators first called security and then the police.
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Mayor, I kind of felt like I was walking into the movie at the halfway point.
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Nothing, absolutely nothing hateful on those signs.
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But it looked like the people here at the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
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Um, Mayor, first of all, their annual general meeting is taking place here.
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For you and your friends here, what is the point of contention with the elementary school teachers?
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The problem is that there is an element, a significant element, within the teachers' associations
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They want to present a motion that's vile, it's anti-Semitic, it's discriminatory against
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Jewish teachers and Jewish students from the elementary schools.
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The motion is calling for the introduction of anti, they call it anti-Palestinian racism
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to be adopted across the board in all Ontario elementary schools.
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And in that mode, in that definition of anti-Palestinian racism, it says any, any element of support
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for Israel, be it if you're wearing a Star of David, if you have a Israeli flag, anything
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for Israel that a Jewish teacher has or a non-Jewish teacher has with them or a student has with
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them, they have to be discriminated against because under that definition of anti-Palestinian
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racism, they are the most racist people in all of Ontario.
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You're telling me that a Jewish teacher or perhaps even a Jewish student displaying a symbol
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proclaiming their Jewishness, this would be verboten?
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You'd have to say, in your example, you gave me, remove the Star of David?
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So what they're trying to introduce here is Hamas talking points.
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And unfortunately, in the majority of Islamic countries, there's widespread discrimination
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There's hardly any presence of Jewish communities in those Islamic or Arab countries because of
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They want to bring it here into our Ontario schools.
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Well, I'm ashamed to say that the motion passed 480 to 193.
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Yep, anti-Semitism is nothing, but anti-Palestinian racism, well, that's everything.
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And as Meyer mentioned, how will anti-Palestinian racism measures be enacted?
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Perhaps ordering a Jewish student to remove a Star of David pendant?
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Telling a student to remove a shirt that has Israel written on it?
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Oh, and here is the really, really inconvenient truth regarding anti-Palestinian racism.
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The Jewish Educators and Families Association recently filed an FOI request with the Toronto
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JEFA was most curious about how many anti-Palestinian racism incidents occurred at TDSB schools.
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And here is the answer they finally received in writing from Canada's biggest school board, quote,
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There are no responsive records pertaining to reported incidents of anti-Palestinian racism
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You know, I wonder what other anti-racism vanity projects, school boards, and teachers
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And you know, I hear we have a big problem on our hands these days regarding discrimination
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But get this, the teachers at the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario general meeting
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Check out this surreal discussion with a teacher that I had.
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Don't know her name, but she had the pronouns she, her embroidered on her shirt.
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So, yeah, I think that tells you all you need to know about her.
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Why are there anti-Semitic motions on the table here at the...
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What is the motion that you're feeling concerned about?
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Well, why do you think these people are here with the Jewish community?
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What is the motion that you are feeling concerned about?
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We've heard that there are sanctions that want to be put in place regarding Jewish teachers
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So, I think you should get some informed about what you're protesting.
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Ma'am, how many incidents of anti-Palestinian racism have been recorded?
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Why are you obsessed with anti-Palestinian racism?
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We are educators who are protecting all students in the system.
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There's education that protects queer and trans students.
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Education and curriculum it supports and protects black and racialized families.
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By the way, how do queer and trans people do in Gaza?
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So, it's important to protect students who are coming from these places.
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I mean, any places where harm and violence is happening, right?
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But you're concerned about so-called anti-Palestinian racism.
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So, do you really believe that people who are Palestinian aren't experiencing racism?
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I see every Sunday morning, ma'am, chants for genocide, the display of swastikas, people
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You should go to Shepherd and Bathurst at 11 a.m. every Sunday.
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Do you believe that Palestinian folks are not experiencing racism?
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You could argue that this demonstration is an example.
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Oh, so this is an anti-Palestinian demonstration?
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You know, aren't these teachers and educrats utterly amazing?
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On the other hand, they come up with solutions to problems that don't exist.
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And by the way, it's not just the teachers unions and the school boards.
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Recently, Blacklock's reporter acquired a 2023 letter from George Ackie, the CBC's director
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In the memo, George explains why it is verboten for the state broadcaster to call Hamas terrorists.
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Well, the T word is too highly politicized and reflects a certain narrative.
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You know, isn't that akin to not calling Paul Bernardo a serial killer?
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We wouldn't want to reflect a certain narrative about that guy, would we?
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Certainly, the public broadcaster is in line with their sugar daddy, Prime Minister Mark Carney,
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who announced two weeks ago that Canada would indeed recognize Palestinian statehood, thereby
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The Toronto International Film Festival just announced this week that it had cancelled its
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invitation to screen a documentary about the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attacks.
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The filmmaker did not receive permission from the Hamas terrorists whose clips are featured
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If we had a World War II documentary and it showed Auschwitz, would we need to reach out
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to the Nazis to get their permission to show concentration camp victims?
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What a coward that runs the Toronto International Film Festival.
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And it's even more shameful for the fact, folks, that it is propped up by taxpayer dollars.
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Bottom line, slowly, ever so slowly, the line moves.
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Canada is no longer a completely safe haven for Jews anymore, as various institutions, from
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schools, to teachers' unions, to the federal government, to film festivals, bend the knee
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You know, I wasn't around in Germany in the 1930s.
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But was this how it all began in the early days of what would become the Holocaust?
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Is this what German Jews experienced in Frankfurt and Berlin and Cologne, as one by one, their
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rights were curtailed until they were eventually deemed subhuman and then loaded upon cattle
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And that means a lot of you don't get the opportunity to tune into the live stream that
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happens every day at one o'clock Eastern Standard Time.
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And today, well, we had a real humdinger of a panel discussion co-hosted by my beloved
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And they had on their show as guests, convoy lawyer Keith Wilson and political commentator
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So it was announced that China, on top of their 100% tariffs on Canadian canola, are now
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You can call it whatever you want, but it's just another tariff on top of a tariff.
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And all of this is in response to the insane protectionist policies of the Trudeau government,
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now the Carney government, continuing it on by tariffing inbound electric vehicles from
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China to protect the highly subsidized electric vehicle manufacturing industry in Ontario and
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And here it is, Canadian farmers in the West paying the price for these policies.
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But we saw Scott Moe yesterday come out and make a statement.
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You know, he pins the blame on the protectionist policies on these electric vehicles that absolutely
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So let's listen to Scott Moe and then we'll get some reaction from the gentleman and Lise.
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I'm extremely disappointed with respect to the decision that the country of China has
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made in further increasing their temporary tariffs on our canola seeds, which will add
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This is a response to the government's tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, largely.
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And China's decision to impose preliminary anti-dumping duties or what we would call temporary tariffs
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That's on Canadian canola seed as of August the 14th, this Thursday.
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And that will have a devastating impact on the price points for Saskatchewan's canola industry
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and I would say ultimately Saskatchewan's egg producers.
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So let me be clear that this hit will stop a significant amount of trade that is flowing
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This comes on top of the decision that China made in March this year to impose 100% tariffs
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on Canadian canola oil, canola meal, as well as the imports and add to that some pork and
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Beijing has also announced an anti-dumping probe for Canadian imports of pea starch, of which
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they will be working on in the weeks and months into the future.
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That is another potential impact for Western Canadian egg producers that we just simply
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This announcement, and I would say that the timing of this announcement, is in particularly
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hard on our egg producers in this province and across Canada, as they are hard at work
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starting their harvest procedures and getting their harvest underway.
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We've estimated about 12 million acres of canola seeded in Saskatchewan just this year.
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And the Canadian canola industry is about $43 to $45 billion each and every year.
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That is responsible, that industry, for over 200,000 jobs, Canadian jobs.
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And with China accounting for about a third of our exports, the United States of America
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China's exports total about $5 billion annually.
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Much of that coming from our province of Saskatchewan.
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To put this in context, this $43 to $45 billion canola industry, Canadian canola industry that
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we have employing just over 200,000 people, that is significantly larger than the steel
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industry, the aluminum industry, and the car manufacturing industry combined.
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It's about the same size as the Canadian forestry industry, of which we saw significant supports
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Each of those industries, the steel, the aluminum, and the EV industry, have also been hit hard
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by U.S. tariffs, as has our forestry industry been hit hard by U.S. tariffs.
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But canola producers hit with these, Chinese tariffs, I would say that they deserve the same attention
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by our federal government and our prime minister, as we're seeing in other industries.
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And we are asking that this be dealt with immediately.
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And I've reached out to the prime minister this morning, and I expect I'll be speaking
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As has our agriculture minister reached out to his common part, and our trade minister
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talking to his common part, we've been asking our federal government, and Prime Minister
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Carney, to engage at the highest level since the federal election.
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And for over a year now, we've been asking, or about a year, we've been asking the federal
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government to engage with China and start the advancement of those conversations to find
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our way to a solid and secure trade environment moving forward.
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The prime minister, in fairness, has started those conversations, meeting with the prime minister
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of China, and I would say, most certainly now, that the next step is for the prime minister
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to meet with the president of China, and I'll be expressing the urgency and the need for
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that meeting to happen when we talk at the next opportunity.
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This is a significant Canadian industry, as I say, about comparable in size to the Canadian
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forestry industry, and much larger than the steel, aluminum, and EV industry combined.
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We are engaging with every opportunity that we have.
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We are engaging at all levels, with ministers engaging with their counterparts, not only in
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the federal government, but in provinces across Canada.
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We have meetings planned with Chinese representatives for later this week, and we've been actively
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engaged on this issue since before even these tariffs were announced, and even prior to the
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tariffs on canola oil and oil, which were announced this spring.
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We are faced not only in Saskatchewan, but in Canada and many countries around the world
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Our trade relationships around the world are very, very fluid, and they're changing by the
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And so collectively, I would say that we as Canadians, we need to very much focus on taking care
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We as Canadians also, and I would say that our federal government cannot sacrifice a $43 billion
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cannola industry, 200,000 jobs in that industry, that is largely based in France and Western
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Canada, to protect a pledging electric vehicle industry, largely based in Eastern Canada.
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Michael, I'm very grateful that Scott Mo pointed out the treatment of the steel industry and the
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automakers and even the forestry industry in comparison to the federal government's reaction
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to 200,000 jobs and a $43 to $45 billion made-in-Canada industry.
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It's really clear that they just don't care about the West as much as they do the East.
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Well, here's where I would take issue with that, because yesterday, the Emergency Management
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Minister, Eleanor Alczewski, came to Saskatoon and announced $4.2 million in funding directed
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to the Prairie Economic Development of Canada, and that'll create 30 jobs.
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Now, mind you, the canola is $43 billion, but it's a good start.
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They actually came into Saskatchewan and announced this yesterday, $4.2 million to our agricultural
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Unfortunately, here's what I think about the liberals that are in charge of this.
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Besides the fact that basically, if they were smart at all, not smart at all, but I can see
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an announcement coming from them that basically they would actually get Chinese-operated combines
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that would be electric, and then basically the Chinese would take the canola tariffs off
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But the reality is, my fear is either the feds don't know what they're doing, or they know
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And at this point, I don't know which one it is.
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Now, Keith, this is the sort of thing that just fuels Western separation sentiments.
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And let me be clear, as a farmer and someone who has been a canola farmer in the past, you
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know, with tariffs and Justin Trudeau prancing through India that sort of put a damper on
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But even people who are, you know, identify themselves as Canadians, they see this and they
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Um, they just don't care about the West and they're willing to punish the West so that
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they can help out, uh, Eastern industries that are failing.
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Well, first of all, you know, giving, uh, $4.2 million from government doesn't create jobs.
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Um, I'm sure the folks in Ontario and the Liberal government don't understand that a new
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This doesn't even begin to shadow the operating costs for one farm in Alberta or Saskatchewan
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But more importantly, it just reminds us of what, um, the Liberals in Ottawa and in particularly
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Central and Eastern Canada that keep the voters that keep putting them in power, they're absolutely
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clear on what the role is of Albertans and Saskatchewan.
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And that is we are to work hard and provide them with the fruits of our labor through equalization
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payments and sending all kinds of money to Ottawa so they can sprinkle it in other places
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And, um, if an industry has to take a hit, uh, because of, uh, global affairs and world
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It's not the industries, the cherished automotive industry in Central Canada that's going to
00:36:14.480
It's not the steel and aluminum industries, not even the forestry industry.
00:36:18.200
It's going to be those pesky farmers out on the prairies that will just, there are mop,
00:36:26.360
So this is just yet another, imagine on the positive side, the trade deal that an independent
00:36:32.860
country of Alberta or an independent country of Saskatchewan could be negotiating with China
00:36:36.940
right now, instead of us being victimized and economically harmed by the ideological extremists
00:36:44.880
And when we look at, you know, I'm glad you brought up trade deals because the liberals
00:36:50.020
seem hell bent on destroying the relationship with the Americans over supply management to
00:36:57.300
protect Quebec farmers and Ontario farmers, but Western farmers, we are just sacrifices on
00:37:03.620
the altar of whatever green reset they have planned with these unusable electric cars.
00:37:11.240
No, I'm so happy we're talking about this, this topic today.
00:37:16.160
Mike might remember that the only time I ever cried, actually cried on the radio was over
00:37:26.160
We were talking about this exact same issue, Chinese tariffs being imposed on our canola producers
00:37:34.700
And then my phone blew up with 75 people asking me if I was okay.
00:37:39.000
And I said, I'm fine, but it's just so overwhelming.
00:37:41.660
But all of this to say that we've been at this for 10 solid years.
00:37:47.080
The farmers of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and in some places, BC, have been under the
00:37:52.820
thumb of an unreliable, we'll say trade partner.
00:37:57.440
A relationship that has been absolutely fumbled by the federal government.
00:38:02.620
In 10 years, the federal government couldn't solve this problem.
00:38:07.720
Could you imagine where Saskatchewan and Alberta would be if we were negotiating our own trade
00:38:17.060
Carla Beck, the leader of the NDP, just yesterday said, Scott Moe, why aren't you on a plane
00:38:25.000
And I say, yes, Carla, this is the energy that we want.
00:38:29.480
Yes, we should be negotiating our own trade agreements with countries that the federal government
00:38:43.220
Let's go to, uh, Manitoba's NDP Premier, Wabkanu, who, while I disagree with him on a
00:38:49.800
great many things, like a great many things, he seems to be the least crazy of all the NDP.
00:38:58.620
Um, but he does put a number on what vaporized from the canola industry, uh, in just one day.
00:39:06.260
And let's continue to point out that these are retaliatory tariffs from China to Justin Trudeau
00:39:14.700
and now Mark Carney's tariffs on their electric vehicles.
00:39:20.320
Chinese tariffs on canola cost Western Canada a billion dollars today, and it could cost us more
00:39:28.940
These 75% tariffs on our canola from China are causing damage at this important time of year.
00:39:38.860
Now we need to see the federal government offer that same sort of support that they've shown
00:39:49.180
Okay, my concern is, though, that that came out of the mouth of an NDP-er, Michael, which
00:39:55.220
means when they say support, they don't mean going to China, sorting this out and stopping
00:40:08.380
The reality is this support, support to left-wing politicians is new ways of finding welfare.
00:40:14.760
Well, basically, some of the most independent people in the world are basically Saskatchewan,
00:40:22.400
They want somebody to go and fix the problem so they can do the work.
00:40:27.860
And that's sort of the ethos of basically the East.
00:40:33.540
We'll throw some more government money at you, and that'll make you happy.
00:40:38.320
And by the way, Mark Carney is basically, he's got a kind of a week schedule this week.
00:40:44.340
Um, there's one world leader he's speaking to, and that's Zelensky.
00:40:49.940
He's not even talking to anybody, basically, in China.
00:40:53.620
He's talking to Zelensky because Trump and Putin are actually trying to get this Ukrainian,
00:41:02.040
And Carney's got to be in there because that's what the big, that's what will give him some
00:41:11.200
He has nothing to offer, nothing at all to offer.
00:41:14.600
So basically, why isn't he working with President Xi in China to make sure that this thing happens?
00:41:19.960
He doesn't, he's pointed in the wrong direction.
00:41:24.720
Keith, you know, my concern is they're just going to say, oh, Western Canadian farmers,
00:41:30.520
here's a bunch of money to change the headers on your combines.
00:41:34.480
And, you know, you know, this is, and we pointed out yesterday on the show, there's no more,
00:41:40.060
uh, Western Canadian or a Canadian produce than canola.
00:41:45.440
It was developed here to grow here in our climate.
00:41:48.600
Um, it is so much so that it has to be swathed to ripen because of our short growing seasons.
00:41:56.220
And yet all the elbows up by Canadian people, they're missing an action on this.
00:42:05.220
Well, what, what a lot of people may not understand outside of agriculture is that
00:42:09.600
for most farms that produce grains, um, canola is their most profitable crop.
00:42:16.480
And like an order of magnitude, it's way more profitable than wheat and barley, um, and other
00:42:22.560
commonly produced crops so much so that farmers produce it in a crop rotation as tight as possible
00:42:31.540
But, you know, I think what we're seeing here is a domino effect, you know, and, and it comes
00:42:37.100
right back to the ideological extremist of the Trudeau liberals.
00:42:42.140
And now we see the Kearney liberals, which is there is no sacrifice too great, particularly
00:42:49.220
for Saskatchewan and Alberta to endure, to promote their obsession with climate alarmism.
00:42:57.780
And what they see is their opportunity to reshape us away from a free market economy, you know,
00:43:04.640
based on individualism, rights, markets, and so on to one of state control because we have
00:43:11.220
an emergency, um, the reason this canola situation is now upon us is directly related as we've
00:43:19.560
been talking about to the EV mandate, which is a direct result of their obsession over,
00:43:30.500
So, um, you know, we're not, things aren't getting better.
00:43:34.920
I wasn't sure when Kearney was campaigning as to, he was trying to portray himself as a
00:43:41.560
Maybe he's not the Kearney of the book of values because it's pretty clear what that's
00:43:46.780
It's an environmental socialism, but, uh, we're now it's becoming increasingly clear and
00:43:52.460
you know, I'm not convinced, uh, I'm increasingly suspicious that his antagonism of the United
00:44:01.700
States, our closest and largest trading partner.
00:44:05.300
People don't understand I've done work with the agricultural industry, trying to create
00:44:11.320
And one of the huge liabilities we have is distance shipping costs.
00:44:14.640
The margins are so small that you can't compete once you get land, your product.
00:44:19.300
So to have this massive market right beside us is so valuable.
00:44:24.580
I'm wondering if he's doing the Venezuelan trick, Kearney is, of using antagonizing the relationship
00:44:32.840
with the United States and to some extent others so that it can mask and he can camouflage
00:44:38.600
his economic failures say, you know, Oh, we would be doing great if it wasn't for orange
00:44:45.940
We saw that during the campaign, the liberals couldn't campaign on their own record.
00:44:50.460
Mark Carney couldn't campaign on his own record because the liberals record was his.
00:44:54.200
Um, and so they relied on privy council research that they only had access to, by the way, to
00:45:04.300
The whole elbows up thing was based on privy council research that only the liberals had
00:45:10.140
Um, and I think we're just seeing a continuation of that because, um, we're in a housing crisis,
00:45:16.940
we're in a healthcare crisis, we're in an inflation crisis, we're in a debt crisis, we're in a crime
00:45:22.040
crisis, and the only thing the liberals can point to is the Americans because, you know,
00:45:28.960
I, I hope the liberals find who's been in charge for the last 10 years that created all
00:45:34.860
No, um, going back to, going back to Wob Canoe standing in a canola field, wasn't it Coulter
00:45:43.980
I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure that that's, uh, Wob Canoe was who he was referring to in
00:45:49.320
that moment because in terms of trustworthiness, would you trust a man in a suit and tie in
00:45:59.160
But, um, further, further to how this is impacting some of these green or sustainable or net zero
00:46:06.960
initiatives are going to, are going to impact our, uh, ag industry in Canada is that even
00:46:13.380
though the, the consumer carbon tax has been sort of suspended for the moment, that doesn't
00:46:20.340
And in Western Canada, this means the ag industry.
00:46:25.920
And, and we must not underestimate the naked contempt that Ottawa or Eastern elites have
00:46:38.060
They've shown us over and over again that they don't care.
00:46:42.040
And, um, and there is no, there is no price too big to pay for them.
00:46:49.700
So unless the feds immediately, uh, stand up for our Western ag producers, like they are
00:46:57.440
for, um, for potential uranium development, like, let me see that same energy that's going
00:47:03.240
into excitement by the feds on uranium development in Saskatchewan for our ag producers.
00:47:09.180
And then, and then I'll start taking them seriously, but no, it looks like we're on our
00:47:16.460
And further to, um, you know, Wab Canu pointing out that it's a billion dollars in one day,
00:47:23.040
And nobody seems to have any sort of sense of urgency on it.
00:47:27.200
Uh, Daniel Smith points out that China is Canada's second largest agricultural export
00:47:36.040
And they take in nearly 70% of Alberta's canola.
00:47:39.540
So this is particularly devastating for Alberta's farmers, just as they're about to swath.
00:47:46.620
Um, she, and she points out where the, where, who's responsible for this mess.
00:47:51.580
Uh, these tariffs are in response to the federal government's imposition of a hundred percent
00:47:55.960
tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and 25% on steel and aluminum.
00:48:00.240
So again, Alberta farmers are paying the price for protectionist policies, uh, to save Ontario
00:48:10.340
So Sheila, so Sheila, I'll have a comment on that.
00:48:13.560
The responsibility is, is basically the provincial governments here as well.
00:48:18.500
I make it a rule in my client files, never to have a client that exceeds a certain percentage
00:48:27.540
If we've got 70% of our canola going to China, we have not done a great job.
00:48:36.640
Because we're dealing with people that are potentially very dangerous and crazy.
00:48:42.080
Now, same could be said about the U S but the thing is, the U S is a capitalist economy
00:48:50.100
But if we're actually doing 70% of our trade with China, the problem is that we haven't
00:48:55.020
diversified enough to other countries or other jurisdictions to get our product so that when
00:48:59.200
they do something inevitably crazy and they will, we say, yep, that's going to hurt.
00:49:03.800
But our product are going to other places as well.
00:49:10.940
It lies also in the feds and everything that you've said about the feds.
00:49:14.160
And then Keith, I think you're absolutely right on this idea that Carney does not know how
00:49:22.480
And as long as he can make Trump orange man bad, that basically that's his, that's his
00:49:33.000
Unfortunately, things are going pretty well for the people in the States right now.
00:49:35.860
And when will it be that Canadians actually catch on to the fact that they're doing okay
00:49:42.520
So unless you're, unless you're there illegally, if you're there illegally, it's not that bad
00:49:48.680
So I think that part of, part of the blame lines that there hasn't been foresight in
00:49:53.540
governments that diversify economy enough with enough players.
00:49:57.080
And of course, the biggest, the majority of the blame lies with Carney, who doesn't seem
00:50:11.000
But for example, in the European union, they've put restrictions on what you're allowed to
00:50:18.900
import in terms of canola and other grain products that are really not restrictions based
00:50:25.280
on any substantive ground, but ones to prevent the method of production here in Alberta or
00:50:32.520
So it's, it's very difficult to get access to markets.
00:50:38.700
Uh, that's why when Carney talks about, we're just going to create new trading partners,
00:50:42.540
like what is the, is the, if we're going to, if we're going to sell more soap to, to Belgium
00:50:49.060
or all the companies going to say, Oh, geez, you guys want in?
00:50:51.980
We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll take some product off the shelves for you.
00:50:59.860
And everything this guy keeps doing, I've said to a few people recently that I think
00:51:08.600
And there's going to be a really clear explanation as to why Alberta and Saskatchewan will become
00:51:20.560
And I understand, I understand what you're saying about this taking decades, decades.
00:51:24.380
The Saskatchewan party has been in power in Saskatchewan for 17 years.
00:51:33.060
Or the basically whatever the conservatives are in the, in Alberta right now, I've been
00:51:38.200
in power for the majority of the last 70 years.
00:51:51.120
These trade partnerships are very complex, but not nearly as complex as a trade partner
00:51:56.980
You know, we're not buying anything more or putting a big trade.
00:51:59.740
So no matter what you do, it's going to be hard.
00:52:01.980
But the lack of foresight of these governments not doing this 10, 20 years ago is why we're
00:52:10.120
And I guess, I guess the same could be said about failing to get a pipeline to Tidewater,
00:52:19.500
One last topic on our Western panel before we hit an ad break.
00:52:24.020
I know we're up against the middle of the hour already, but I want to get to this one.
00:52:29.220
I think doing his best to lean into the separatist sentiment, but I think he is, he's already
00:52:40.380
I think that parade is marching and he's not in front of it, but he's introducing the Canadian
00:52:51.320
The Sovereignty Act will legalize pipeline and other major projects by repealing the
00:53:08.280
It will legalize shipping Canadian energy off the northwest coast of BC by repealing C-48.
00:53:14.440
It will axe the industrial carbon tax, something the Europeans are doing, and given that our
00:53:20.640
competitors in America have no industrial carbon tax, it is untenable to force our people and
00:53:28.780
We will get rid of the oil and gas cap that kills jobs.
00:53:32.000
We will get rid of the ban on plastics, the petrochemical industry that produces our plastics.
00:53:37.820
The plastics themselves are essential, and so are the jobs that go along with it.
00:53:42.380
This, by the way, this plastics ban is not about, you know, it's just saving your straw.
00:53:47.340
It's about saving you about $400 or $500 a year in food that would otherwise go bad because
00:53:55.960
And we have a wonderful Alberta-based petrochemical sector that contributes to plastics that we need
00:54:01.840
We'll get rid of liberal censorship laws that prevent our energy companies from talking about
00:54:06.140
their incredible achievements and their environmental stewardship.
00:54:10.360
We will legalize into the future your right to drive a gas or diesel-powered truck or car
00:54:24.360
We'll get rid of the capital gains tax when you reinvest your proceeds here in Canada.
00:54:32.560
Here in Canada, we get about half the investment per worker, as they do in the United States
00:54:38.640
We get about $14,000, $15,000 of investment per worker in Canada.
00:54:42.460
In the States, it's $28,000, both measured in U.S. dollars.
00:54:46.460
No wonder that the American economy is leaving us behind.
00:54:49.240
We need to reward investment by letting people who sell one asset and reinvest the money in
00:54:57.320
We will give free trade bonuses to the provinces, paying them the economic benefit that results
00:55:03.040
from them opening their markets to fellow Canadians.
00:55:05.520
We'll protect innovation by requiring in this law that the minister do a review and present
00:55:10.840
a plan to stop the mass sell-off of Canadian inventions, discoveries, and innovations.
00:55:17.620
We pay for all these incredible technological breakthroughs in Canada, often with tax dollars that subsidize
00:55:23.280
it at university research and elsewhere, and then it's sold off to the Americans.
00:55:29.500
And we become dependent on them for the technology that we ourselves invented.
00:55:34.820
Finally, outside of the bill, we are making a call to action.
00:55:39.020
Today, Conservatives are calling on Prime Minister Carty to have pipeline construction underway
00:55:44.540
for at least two projects and to have at least one new natural gas liquefaction project and
00:55:52.960
a road to the ring of fire in Ontario under construction by the first anniversary of him taking office.
00:56:01.140
The Prime Minister can and must do this, and he can do it by consulting First Nations as required
00:56:13.940
It sounds to me like the Canadian Sovereignty Act is just the Conservative Party platform
00:56:17.920
put into law, and it was rejected by the people who decided the election outcome in Ontario once already.
00:56:27.880
But then he ends with, you know, we need to have pipeline projects underway.
00:56:36.180
There are no proposed pipeline projects, West East pipeline projects right now, because
00:56:41.300
the Liberals are in power and these pipeline companies are not going to invest millions
00:56:47.040
and billions of dollars into something that will die on the vine like Energy East, like
00:56:53.000
Northern Gateway, and in no small part, just the saga of Keystone XL.
00:57:00.120
Well, I think they want to build them, but they don't want to go on a fool's errand.
00:57:07.180
And they know that, and I know that you meant, Sheila, I'm not trying to be unfair.
00:57:11.600
Is that, you know, I feel sorry for Pierre Polyev.
00:57:21.340
And the reason I say that, and I am so resolved to it, is it's not just structural, the imbalance in how electoral power functions.
00:57:37.500
And if he says things to be responsive to conservatives by small c conservatives, so somebody who is politically conservative, as opposed to a political party in Alberta and Saskatchewan or Western Canada, he's going to lose votes in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia.
00:58:01.980
And if he says things to be responsive to their perspectives and needs and ethos of the world around them, he's going to lose votes on the prairies.
00:58:12.580
And it's because we're fundamentally different people.
00:58:15.260
And it's become increasingly clear that we see the world through a different lens, that Albertans and people from Saskatchewan want less government in their lives.
00:58:33.540
So to live a good life, you've got to have some risk.
00:58:36.720
And they don't, frankly, think government's capable of keeping them safe anyway.
00:58:40.720
And, you know, then we got, don't go for a walk in the woods in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, because you might break your leg or start a fire.
00:58:50.560
I think it's a reflection that Canada's doomed, that it's become increasingly clear that we have different goals and we have different prospects.
00:58:59.420
You know, one of the scariest things, tables I have come across.
00:59:07.800
And it doesn't show the raw, it shows the raw numbers, but it shows the percentage of the revenue to the province that comes from equalization payments.
00:59:16.700
And Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and a few others, it's 20% or more.
00:59:22.960
So 20% of their provincial revenue to deliver education, healthcare, infrastructure, social programs, etc.
00:59:30.020
to run their jails and their court system come from Alberta and Saskatchewan, but primarily Alberta.
00:59:41.240
I just, what Pierre's announced, and just on the C5 stuff, you know.
00:59:47.440
So the reason Carney said, we're going to designate national projects, we're going to shovel ready, we're going to build, we're going to, all these slogans together is a sentence.
01:00:02.040
It's because he has acknowledged that the Bill C-69, which is the Environmental Assessment Act, the tanker ban, the EV mandate, the net zero mandate, the emissions cap, all of these things combined, are creating a disincentive to investment.
01:00:20.120
Investment dollars have choices that are going to other countries, creating wealth and jobs in those other countries instead of Canada.
01:00:25.160
So he says, okay, I'm going to create a bypass.
01:00:27.320
And the cabinet's going to approve certain projects.
01:00:29.380
And then he says, well, yeah, but only those projects that every premier consents to.
01:00:36.020
So now a pipeline to tidewater on the West Coast can be vetoed by the premier of Nova Scotia?
01:00:43.500
That's not even the current condition of the dysfunctional system.
01:00:46.280
And then he added last week that First Nations effectively get a veto.
01:00:50.180
So now the bypass is actually more problematic and more clogged and more uncertain than the problematic legislative policy framework that it was designed to overcome.
01:01:14.060
Michael, I saw you nodding along with Keith when he said that the West is culturally different.
01:01:22.060
I would dare say culturally incompatible with the rest of the country.
01:01:26.000
And so when I hear Pierre Polyev saying these things, I think, yeah, it hits my ear nicely.
01:01:31.340
But people in Toronto, they may be clutching their chests in disagreement.
01:01:37.620
There are different types of conservatives in this country.
01:01:39.820
You have the conservatives, the Western conservatives, which we're all familiar with.
01:01:43.460
But then you have Eastern conservatives that will ban you for $25,000 for walking in the woods.
01:01:55.620
The thing is, quite frankly, you know, I mean, people call them anti-Canada because of saying this.
01:01:59.100
But the reality is, our kindred spirits are not East to West, they're North-South.
01:02:07.480
We have more in common with people in Texas, Idaho, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin.
01:02:13.280
The East, they have more in common with people in New York and Maine and that sort of thing, New Hampshire.
01:02:21.980
And the thing is, the reason why we'll lose is because there's just more of them there.
01:02:30.620
Here it's speaking to basically people that understand it.
01:02:34.960
That was the platform of the conservatives, and we lost in that.
01:02:38.460
So, you know, as much as I'd like this, I don't know why I want Canada to sort of remain an independent country other than basically this is what I've grown up with for the last 60 years.
01:02:51.800
But the reality is I have relatives who live in the U.S.
01:02:54.820
And they're enjoying their time down there way, way better than we're enjoying our time here in Canada.
01:03:07.620
And the only response I get from them is, yes, I wish I would have done it sooner.
01:03:11.520
And because Canada is an exceptionally hard and complex place to live aside from the natural, you know, the cold and the harshness of the climate.
01:03:29.180
Taxation, multiculturalism, which nobody sees eye to eye on anything.
01:03:35.380
Immigration, the depth of social structures in this country.
01:03:41.820
It's just harder to live here than it is in the U.S.
01:03:45.080
Now, that's not in all cases, because I think some places in the U.S. are hard to live with, particularly in poor areas and crime and that sort of thing.
01:03:54.940
But if you are a person that wants to make something themselves, wants to work, make money, live in a nice area, I think they've got a pretty much better life than we do out here, or up here, rather.
01:04:07.200
Yeah, Lise, last word goes to you before we wrap up the panel.
01:04:11.860
Yeah, just going back to Pierre Polyev's piece there.
01:04:17.160
Anybody that saw him in the federal election campaign heard all of those things before.
01:04:23.080
But what I thought when I was watching him is that Pierre Polyev right now is experiencing Alberta immersion.
01:04:32.480
Because for years and years and years, Pierre Polyev had his safe seat in Carleton, okay?
01:04:41.360
He was surrounded by kind of woke Eastern conservatives that were in his sphere of influence and actively influencing him.
01:04:50.580
And now that he's got a little bit of distance between himself and the woke Eastern conservatives,
01:04:56.600
he is going to be hearing a lot of very Alberta opinions.
01:05:02.040
And we can only hope, we can only hope that that influence wears off on him real fast.