EZRA LEVANT ｜ America's billionaires became freedom advocates under Trump—are they genuine or opportunistic？
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Jeffrey Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, the owner of Amazon, and the founder of the Washington Post newspaper, has written a beautiful, even poetic letter in defense of freedom. And the reaction to it is quite something as well.
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Hello my friends, we've got an incredible story for you today. I really can't believe it.
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Jeffrey Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, the owner of Amazon, and the owner of
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the Washington Post newspaper has written a beautiful, even poetic letter in defense of
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freedom. And the reaction to it is quite something as well. I'm going to take you through it today,
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Tonight, billionaire Jeffrey Bezos orders his Washington Post to fight for freedom every day.
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And they hate it. It's February 26th. This is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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I have strong opinions about Google and YouTube because they are the worst censors in Canada
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and the United States. In the world of big tech, they're the worst. Facebook, which also owns
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Instagram and WhatsApp, they are awful also. But their opportunistic owner, Mark Zuckerberg,
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had a meeting with Donald Trump, and that seemed to change his trajectory. You might recall shortly
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after that meeting, he announced that he was going to fire 40,000 censors and stand for free speech,
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both in America and around the world. Remember that? We're going to work with President Trump
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to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to
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censor more. The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.
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Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it
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difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries have secret courts that
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can order companies to quietly take things down. China has censored our apps from even working in
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the country. The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the U.S.
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government. And that's why it's been so difficult over the past four years when even the U.S.
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government has pushed for censorship. By going after us and other American companies,
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it has emboldened other governments to go even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore
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free expression, and I am excited to take it. Now, I'll believe it when I see it, but it's
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certainly promising that he's at least saying those things. And of course, nothing comes close
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to Elon Musk, the free speech champion who saved Twitter and made it a force for freedom. But
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Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon, I don't know, I never thought of him as much of a censor given the nature
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of his main platform. Amazon, it's a store, really. Now, I did have a censorship problem with Amazon
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when I published my book, China Virus, a few years ago, the beginning of the pandemic. Amazon banned it,
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then they unbanned it, then they banned it again, and then they unbanned it again. I'm not making that
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up. Four flip-flops. It was madness. They later said in a very cryptic letter that officials didn't
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approve of the book, but they didn't say which officials. Were they Canadian officials? Were they
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Chinese officials? Were they officials from the World Health Organization? It was very mysterious.
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Anyways, I really just sort of thought of Bezos as an e-commerce guy more than anything. He's had
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some midlife crisis things like getting himself a pneumatic second wife who makes the news for
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underdressing, shall we say. And he's got his own spaceship company, a little bit like Elon Musk does,
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I guess. But Bezos does own the Washington Post, perhaps the most influential political newspaper
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in America, and thus the world. Now, the New York Times, of course, is very important and larger, but
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for covering Washington, I think the Washington Post is the insider newspaper. And obviously, Jeffrey Bezos
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owns it not to make money. It loses money, but because he wants a seat at the political table, as all these
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billionaires seem to do once they've conquered everything they set out to conquer. And I don't
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know if it's a reaction to some of the crazy Trump derangement syndrome stuff in the media these days,
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or I don't know if Bezos is trying to cozy up to Trump in some way, like Zuckerberg clearly is, or
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I don't know, maybe Bezos is just actually getting around to reading his own newspaper for once,
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years. And he can't believe what he sees. But today, for whatever reason, he wrote an extremely
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important and bold memo that was actually beautiful in parts. And I want to read it to you in full. Here
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it is posted to Twitter. It's a letter to his staff. He said, I shared this note with the Washington Post
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team this morning. I'm writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. And that's key,
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opinion pages, not news reporting. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two
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pillars, personal liberties and free markets. We'll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints
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opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. Let me just pause for a second. He means
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other newspapers. The Washington Post will not. Let me pick up on his letter. There was a time on a
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newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader's
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doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does
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that job. I am of America and for America and proud to be so. Isn't that a beautiful line? Our country did not get
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here by being typical. And a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm
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and everywhere else. And then here's maybe my favorite line that I think shows how deeply thoughtful
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he is. Freedom is ethical. It minimizes coercion and practical. It drives creativity, invention,
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and prosperity. I offer David Shipley, he's the existing op-ed editor, whom I greatly admire,
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the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't
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hell yes, then it had to be no. After careful consideration, David decided to step away.
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This is a significant shift. It won't be easy, and it will require 100% commitment. I respect his
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decision. We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction. I'm confident that free
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markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved
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in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I'm excited for us together to fill that void.
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Jeff, boy, he says a lot there. First of all, I am of America and for America. I'm choked up just
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thinking of him saying that. Because a lot of these multi-billionaires, they regard themselves as larger
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than being citizens of a nation. They be stride continents. He's saying, no, I'm American. I'm of
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America and for America. And then he says that freedom is a moral thing. We're going to fight for
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every day. I think there's some deep thinking in there. But the nature of America, how it's special,
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the nature of owning a prestige newspaper, and that the owner of it can make a decision
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to control its moral viewpoint, of course. He says he won't meddle in the reporting. And I'm sure
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that's true. But when it comes to exhorting viewers to see things in a freedom way, an American
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way, that's what Bezos says he's going to do. And I love that question he put to the editors. Say
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hell yes or retire. What an amazing opportunity that would be, that job. And it says a lot about the man
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who declined that opportunity. And by the way, you can see the gnashing of teeth throughout the media,
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including at the Washington Post. Look at this. This is a reporter. This is an incredible response
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by a Washington Post reporter who says, massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into the Washington
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Post opinion section today makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there.
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I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage. But if Bezos tries
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interfering with the news side, I will be quitting immediately and letting you know. Encroachment,
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he owns the newspaper. He's not stopping news from being reported. He's taking ownership of the
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exhortations of the moral beliefs of the editorial pages, which is exactly where you would want a media
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owner to do so. That's where he should speak, if anywhere. Imagine the sense of entitlement that some
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reporter, a dime a dozen reporter, objects to the owner having a point of view. And, and, but the half
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courage of it. Oh, I'm really mad. I'm really mad. I'm going to stick around for now because I like my
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job for now. But I tell you people, I'm so mad. If he goes further, I'll let you know. What a weirdo.
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What an un-teamed player. Here's another Washington Post writer who seems to have quickly deleted his
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comment. I can't find the original, but I see it screenshot so many places. Yeah. That person didn't
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like it very much. And he had courage for about 10 minutes, then he deleted. And then there's this
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from Keith Olbermann, who is not with the Washington Post, but he's a leftist TV journalist who used to
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have a show way back when he said, F you Nazi. And tell your plastic girlfriend, she's actually
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shamed herself, which none of us who ever met her thought was possible. What? First of all, I don't
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think the Nazis stood for personal freedom, which is the distillation of Bezos's message. And while I
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have my aesthetic differences with Bezos's new missus, how on earth is a weird personal attack
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against her relevant or even appropriate? Oh, right, right, right. The left is only feminist.
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Whenever it suits them, just ask the male feminist we call Justin Trudeau. I am very excited about
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this, but I'm also very jealous. Why does only the United States have this awakening? Why does one of
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the richest men in America get to do this, but the owner of the Globe and Mail, the richest man in Canada
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not do so? I'm talking about David Thompson. First it was Mark Zuckerberg, now Bezos, Elon Musk, and the
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Doge rooting around waste thing. Why don't we get that? Will we ever see freedom on the
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march in Canada too? Yeah, one can only hope. Stay with us. More ahead.
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Well, the specter of Donald Trump bringing in tariffs against Canadian exports to the US
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has caused a discussion about another kind of tariff, which is interprovincial trade. If you can
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believe it, we do not have trade, free trade that is, within Canada itself. Not only does that deter
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our industries, but it adds cost to the very stuff of life. Now, there's other problems too. As you
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know, on April Fool's Day, the carbon tax goes up, which will give a beating to many Canadian industries
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just as badly as an export tariff. But the idea of internal trade barriers has been kicked around
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for decades. But today, it seemed like maybe the frozen river was starting to break in the spring.
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Let me read to you a tweet from Tim Houston, the Premier of Nova Scotia, who said,
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Today I introduced legislation to end trade barriers in Canada, improving the flow of goods
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between our provinces. I'm calling on all premiers to join me in passing reciprocal legislation to help
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Canadians better sell goods to Canadians. And then he has a bit of a graphic there, as you can see,
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streamlining the sale of goods across Canada, recognizing professional accreditation from other
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provinces. That seems like a no-brainer too. And inviting all provinces to join in reciprocal
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legislation. And I thought it was sort of fun. Not long after that, Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario,
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obviously the economic older senior partner in Canada, said, count me in. To which Dan Kelly,
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the boss of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said, this is a major commitment on the
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part of Ontario Premier Ford towards eliminating inter-prevential trade barriers. Nova Scotia and Ontario
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will lead the way. Congratulations to both premiers. And joining us now via Skype is Dan Kelly of the CFIB.
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Dan. It feels like these guys had maybe been talking about it beforehand, because that's quite a
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quite a commitment for the Premier of Ontario to make in response to a tweet. I'm guessing these guys
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have been talking about this ever since the specter of Trump's tariffs came along.
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Yeah. In fact, I believe the Premier of Nova Scotia was in Ontario during the election campaign.
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And they did talk a bit about internal trade. This announcement from Tim Houston was significant.
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And then the follow-up from Ford, certainly a reason for optimism. Obviously, he has to get re-elected
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for that to happen. But this is pretty major. I've been dancing around this file for 30 years,
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my journey at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. We've had lots of good talk,
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but very, very little action on the part of provincial governments to getting rid of some of these
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stupid minor differences in rules, regulations, permits, licenses, that cause all sorts of costs
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to Canadian businesses and to workers as well. But don't add up to much of anything in terms of
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You know, I think people have been talking about internal free trade for decades. And the reason
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it hasn't happened is because the interests that are protected by this over-permitting or this
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exclusion is like, for example, I'll just give the example of excluding professionals from other
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provinces where you can immediately guess who's for that. You're protecting a guild. They don't want
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competitors. They want barriers to entry. So it's easy when you speak in generalities.
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We want free trade amongst provinces. Yes. Okay. Well, now try doing it when you have all these
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interests saying, hey, hey, not us, because we have our special ways. So let me ask you,
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I think sort of the obvious question is, these politicians sound pretty enthusiastic,
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but they haven't done it so far, presumably because it's tough. Do they actually have the courage to
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steamroller over the lobbyists who are protecting their turf?
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I think they do. And look, even among some of those protected interests, I think that is starting
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to thaw too. I think many of them recognize that for the next generation of entrants into whatever
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profession, they need people from other provinces to be able to supplement that. And we saw some of
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this during the pandemic. One of the very few helpful outcomes of that was that we started to,
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you know, in healthcare, we started to free up a little bit of the licensing and other
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bureaucratic systems that people had to go through. I actually think the problem is deeper than that,
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though, Ezra. It's not just that you're right that sometimes there are people protecting their turf in
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these fields, but premiers have not really figured out until recently how to do this. There's been good
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intentions on their parts, but I think many of them just get overwhelmed. So the typical answer is,
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and I'm asked this question all the time by premiers, by others, sure, we're interested,
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Dan, in helping to lower or end interprovincial trade barriers. How do we do it? And or give me
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some examples. So one I raised, in fact, with a former Saskatchewan premier was something as stupid
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as safety kits. Every province required different items to be in their safety kits that were mandated to
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be carried by businesses across the country. So that meant that a company to create these kits had
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to make 10 different versions, one for every single province to serve with different numbers of band-aids
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or slings in the kit. It made no sense. It led to zero additional safety for anyone. And so what did
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premiers do? Well, let's convene a panel. And so they both brought bureaucrats from 10 provinces. They spent
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months and months and months. And finally, they actually did make some headway. But for that one
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regulation on safety kits, some provinces maintain up to 400,000 regulations. So if you try to harmonize
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400,000 rules and regulations, and we should certainly talk about whether that number is appropriate,
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but if you tried to harmonize even a fraction of that, it would be our grandchildren that would still
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be talking about this. And that's why what the premier of Nova Scotia proposed was aligned with what we
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had recommended, and that is mutual recognition. So if something's okay to do, that process is
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approved, that good is approved, the licensing is approved in Saskatchewan or in Alberta, it's good
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enough in Manitoba or Ontario, and vice versa. This mutual recognition is the way to get cut through
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all of that. It's one simple piece of legislation. And the fact that the premier of Nova Scotia proposed
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it, and now the premier of Ontario, the largest province, has said that he's in, that to me is the first
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significant movement on this in decades. You know, I think a lot of Canadians are watching
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in the United States what Elon Musk calls DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency,
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and they're moving so quickly, and they're breaking stuff, and they're shutting stuff down. Like there
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was this entire $40 billion program called USAID. They just shut it down. They started looking through
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and said it's unsalvageable. Now, that's more about a spending savings. That's not so much about
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regulations and trade barriers. But, you know, what you were talking about there about these 10
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different kits in every province, it's almost like the mythical Gordian knot. How do you untie this knot?
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Of course, the way that in mythology was cut through with a sword. And I think that's the thing. You could
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try and out bureaucrat the other bureaucrats, or you could just take a sword and cut through it.
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I don't know if our Canadian system has the ability to muster a DOGE. But I sense that you got to move
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so quickly that the bureaucrats and those with the inertia can't react. One of the things that Elon Musk
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is good at doing is working fast, working around the clock, and working in dramatic ways that the
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incumbents are not used to handling. And I don't know if we have that spirit in Canada. I would like
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to think we do. Or is that necessary? I'm sort of jealous of them, Dan.
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Well, look, one of the few potential positives out of the threat of US tariffs is that it has sharpened
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Canadian minds to cut through some of the BS in our systems. I mean, gosh, look, even the liberal
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leadership candidates have started to pivot on many of their major policies in response. Provinces are
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looking at getting serious about this and saying, okay, we just need to do this. And yes, we're going to
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break a few things. And I have no doubt that there will be some, ultimately some exemptions,
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and perhaps some with value. But if we did this on the negative option side, that we said everything
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is permitted, and provinces only where they had compelling reasons to do this could put in place
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the odd exception here or there, this will be way, way better than the current scenario where,
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unless you go through the six-year process in Saskatchewan, you can't get approved. Gosh,
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we have municipalities getting in on the action too. I mean, I remember in Alberta,
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you had to have a separate business, like if you were a Calgary business, you had to have a separate
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business license in Canmore and in Banff in order to go and do a job there. And how is that adding
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any value? It's just adding costs and frustrations and limiting competition among businesses in local
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areas, which of course is the salvation towards cost reductions and efficiency gains.
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Yeah. Hey, you know, I mentioned the tweets by Tim Houston and Doug Ford. And one of the reasons I
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like Twitter is that politicians sometimes sort of make policy and make announcements in real time
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to the world. It's sort of fun. And sometimes they speak their mind. I really admire the platform.
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But let me read to you one more tweet. And this is from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. And he was
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responding to the surprising announcement, I think it was yesterday, by US President Donald Trump,
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who said he wants to revive the Keystone XL pipeline, even though it's been dead. It was
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actually a first day executive order by the previous president. Joe Biden killed it. Since then,
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I mean, a plan doesn't stick around for four years. That metal pipe is sent elsewhere. The workers,
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they're not waiting around for four years. So to exhume and revive that is quite a big thing,
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although I think it's so valuable might happen. But let me read what Scott Moe said. It's in reaction to
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that. He said, effective immediately, all pipeline permits going east, west or south received in
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Saskatchewan will be considered pre-approved. We encourage all provinces and the federal government
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to do the same. And then he tags Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. Well, now, now this is the test,
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isn't it, Dan? Because it's one thing for Tim Houston and Doug Ford to say, I'm for trading
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goods and services. You too? Yeah, we're all in. Okay. Now here's Scott Moe doing the test.
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Will you allow a pipeline? Will you allow a pipeline? And I am terrified of the answer behind
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that, Dan, because I don't think you're going to have the me too, me too retweeting like you had on
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this other stuff. No, no, you're quite right. Look, these major development projects are viewed as a
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separate kettle of fish. But the Premier, Premier Boe has put out a good challenge and certainly one
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that we're hoping more Canadian premiers take him up on. I got to say, though,
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I do sense a new spirit around some of these major projects. It seems like people are getting
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the message that we just can't say no or keep people in perpetual loops of uncertainty.
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It does feel like the ground has shifted. And that is one of the, as I said, a helpful outcome
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of the challenge to the South. I don't know why we have this gear in Canada that we cannot change
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anything unless there is an existential threat. But literally, something has to be burning
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for Canadian governments to take action to try to address. But burning things are right now.
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And it does feel like that is switching Canadian governments into gear. And it's not a moment too
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Well, I hope you're right. I mean, I haven't seen any other, I haven't seen the Premier of Quebec
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Yeah, that one would be a tall order, for sure.
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Yeah. I mean, I don't think, I wonder how they think the oil gets to Montreal. Do they think it
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just sort of, I don't know, appears by, you know, Santa Claus down the chimney?
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Well, it comes from the Middle East. That's the reason.
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Well, yeah, by pipeline, by the way. We won't get into all that right now. But listen,
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thank you for updating us. And I hope that the stress of the possible tariff debt from the United
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States is enough to concentrate some of the minds in Canada. However, I remain a pessimist. Dan,
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great to see you. Thanks for keeping up the fight.
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There you have it. Dan Kelly, the boss of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Stay with us.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me on Canada being possibly removed from the five eyes intelligence
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group. RF7 says, so instead of having five blind mice, there will only be four. I disagree with your
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metaphor. The five eyes. I mean, that's MI6. That's the CIA. I don't know what the secret
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agencies in Australia and New Zealand are called. But let's be candid. Canada is the main beneficiary
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of this. I mean, the CIA and MI6 do the heavy lifting. How many times have you seen news in Canada
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where we were tipped off to a looming terror attack by Americans all the time? We're the beneficiaries
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of it. It's insane and terrifying that they're talking about kicking us out. And why would they do
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it? Well, probably because we're tweaking their nose. How about bringing thousands of unvetted
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migrants in from Gaza? Can you imagine wanting to be in the five eyes super friends club, but doing
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something as reckless as that? Brian Rapson says, as a 32 year veteran, I left communist China
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10 years ago. Thank God. Well, listen, first of all, thank you for your service. And second of all,
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hopefully you went somewhere free and prosperous. I remember during the lockdowns during the pandemic,
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a number of my friends left Canada for the United States. They had a job that they could
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do anywhere. They had a job that really was on the phone and on their laptop. So some of them even
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moved to Florida and no one even knew. And a lot of people said, get out of Canada. It's not
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free. It's not prosperous. It's going in a dark direction. And it's a compelling thing to think of.
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But if you're in the ideas business, which I believe I am, and if you call on people to commit
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to freedom every day, which I do, I mean, it's how I sign off my show every day, right? I certainly
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felt an obligation and I feel it still to stick around and fight. I mean, I suppose if police were
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busting down the doors to arrest me, I might seek asylum. But I mean, I actually was arrested last
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month, if you recall, and I didn't run and we're going to stand and fight. So I'm not saying you
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were wrong to leave. And in fact, you may be very wise to have left. But in my own case,
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I feel an obligation to stick around and fight. And let me give you an example of how that pays off.
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Would you agree with me that just six months ago, things looked quite dark?
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Maybe not six months ago. I forget when Kamala Harris took over from Joe Biden and the Democrats
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were surging in the polls and the media found their love for the Democrats again. And Donald
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Trump was maybe wobbling a little bit. Did you not feel like things were quite dark? I certainly did
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when it came to censorship and when it came to foreign policy mistakes. And look at how the sun has risen
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from the dark midnight of despair. And I feel amazing about what's happening in the US. Obviously,
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I'm not thrilled with their tariffs on Canada. But so many freedom expanding things are happening there.
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And that happened in the course of six months. And so I would like to think that there is a good chance
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that in six months, maybe sooner, maybe a little later, Canada may turn the chapter from the Trudeau
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years as well. I have to think that and I do think that and I hope you're in a happy place. But for us,
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it's Canada. Greggs says, open up our country to investment from China and Japan is one solution.
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The other solution is easy and cost effective interprovincial trade. Well, as we just talked
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about with Dan Kelly, what if Quebec doesn't want our oil? What if they refuse our pipelines?
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I'm happy selling our stuff anywhere. It is a moral improvement to the world to sell Canadian oil to a
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customer rather than have them buy conflict oil from Russia or OPEC. But I would be worried about
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strengthening China too much because it is the world's largest authoritarian regime. That's our
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show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
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Do you have any regrets about forcing Canadians to live under a government they don't want so you can
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get richer? Because congratulations, today you are eligible for your pension. Like I said,
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And that's the leader of the NDP. Will he put the country ahead of his pension and vote for a carbon
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tax election now? Mr. Singh, for the good of the country, are you going to walk away from your
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multi-million dollar pension? No media is allowed. No media is allowed. No? Is that right? Pierre Polyev is
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accusing you of keeping the government in power to keep your pension. What's your reaction to that?
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It's another tired old lie that Pierre Polyev likes to say. And it's a lie that he uses to distract from the
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facts. Mr. Singh, what's more important, your pension or the lives of Canadians?
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So the whole 41 million Canadians are being held hostage by the pension of one man.
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Alex Alavoie for Rebel News and I'm currently in Montreal and today it is the day that the pension of
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Jagmeet Singh kicks in. Yes, he qualified for his pension. So I was kind of surprised because,
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you know, who was here today? Of course, Jagmeet Singh. So me and my colleague Guillaume Roy,
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we drove all the way here to have the opportunity to ask him a question since there were media availability.
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For years, Jagmeet Singh has propped up the Liberals while Canadians called for an election. Now,
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let's ask him if he has any regrets about doing so just to secure his pensions. Also, with the
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imminent appointment of our next unelected Prime Minister, who by all indications seems to be Mark
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Carney, we want to know if Singh will keep his promise to vote against the Liberals as soon as
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he can to launch an election as Canadians were asking. So I'll let you on the full interaction
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with Jagmeet. You will not believe what happened.
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Mr. Jagmeet Singh, I know you don't want to answer my question, but I think you have to listen
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to it. You have to listen to all journalists. I won't answer the question, sorry, but I'll take the other
00:33:01.460
questions. I have to ask my question and if you don't want to answer it, it's up to you, but you don't have to
00:33:08.260
discriminate the journalists. Do you have any regrets about forcing Canadians to live under a
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government they don't want so you can get richer? Because congratulations, today you are eligible for
00:33:19.780
your pension. Like I said, I'm not going to be answering your questions. Is there any other questions?
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Are you going to vote against the government at the earliest opportunity, as you say before Christmas?
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Any other questions? So no other journalists want to take my question and ask it back?
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Hamas. We all agree on Hamas on a two-state solution. No, we don't agree with Hamas.
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No, we're against Hamas, absolutely. Yes, we're against Hamas, we are.
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And we're in favour of a two-state solution. But it must be a Palestinian state.
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Mr. Karné s'est exprimé à propos du Moyen-Orient et du Hamas. There are no people in the
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social media who have reacted correctly. What do you think of this comment?
00:34:09.460
Yes, I hope it was a mistake because he said he agree with Hamas. We reject that proposal.
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Hamas, on a condamné Hamas comme un groupe terroriste. Pour ceux qui ont brisé les droits,
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les droits de la personne, les droits de guerre, les personnes qui ont fait tout ça ont le droit d'avoir la justice.
00:34:32.900
Mais M. Craig Sauvé, en arrière de vous, M. Jagmeet Singh a utilisé justement un pamphlet avec la Palestine dessus,
00:34:40.180
qui a fait beaucoup de backlash. Vous voulez pouvoir répondre à ça?
00:34:45.300
I agree, man. As part of your negotiation with Trump, would you cancel that contract,
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not give a bunch of money, pay money to a U.S.?
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So Jagmeet, you are ready to answer a question from someone who just get out of jail for allegedly
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harassing two women. And you just answer his question and you refuse to answer my question
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about if you have any regrets about forcing Canadians to live under a government that they
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don't want just to get richer with your pension. Why do you keep refusing? Because you answered me in
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the past. You answered me multiple times, Mr. Jagmeet Singh. You don't remember and nothing happened.
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And you answered my question. We need accountability. You understand?
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You saw at one point Jagmeet Singh took a question from a really well-known anti-Israel activist,
00:35:47.300
You condemn the genocide, Mr. Gilbaud. You condemn the genocide in Gaza. Mr. Gilbaud.
00:35:54.340
Kerrigan, Ms. Kerrigan. Is the Canadian military an extension of the U.S. Empire? Ms. Kerrigan.
00:35:59.620
How do you feel about the Holocaust in Gaza? Do you know what they're saying that 96% of children
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in Gaza? 96% of children in Gaza feel like they're about to die. 49% want to die.
00:36:12.340
You've been supporting it. Your government's been supporting that, Mr. Gilbaud.
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Mr. Champagne, do you have any comment on Israel's Holocaust in Gaza?
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Do you have a comment on Israel's Holocaust in Gaza?
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Mr. Champagne, when you were a foreign minister,
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you called on the International Criminal Court to not investigate Israel's crimes.
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Why can't you answer that? Is Israel's Holocaust in Gaza?
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Are you willing to condemn Israel's Holocaust in Gaza?
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Madame Plante, were you condemned? You condemned October 7th, Madame Plante?
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I was kind of shocked because he just got out of jail for allegedly harassing two women.
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So I took the opportunity to speak a little bit about that with also the freedom of the press,
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and I let you on my interaction with Eve Engler.
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You see, so Eve Engler just showed up and he just went out of the jail for allegedly harassing two
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women. But he took his question, but he refused my question. Actually, I'm going to ask.
00:37:19.700
I just saw you in the news that you just get out of the jail. Can you explain what happened?
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They went along with his claims that there was a potentially some form of harassment, which is
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totally absurd. And they tried to bring in conditions that said I couldn't write about the case,
00:37:38.500
about the fact that I was being charged. The Crown, the police tried to bring a condition that said
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I could not write about the fact that I was being charged for having an author charged for writing
00:37:50.500
criticism of Israel. And then I wrote about this and the police responded by presenting themselves
00:37:57.940
as a victim and then bringing in four new charges of harassment of the police for, again, writing an
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author, writing about charges that had been brought against him for writing on X, criticism of Israel.
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And I had to spend five days in jail to defeat this condition. And we did, we won. The judge,
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I didn't have to actually, my lawyer ultimately didn't have to present his defense because it was so
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obviously an infringement of my freedom of speech to have a condition that said I couldn't write
00:38:32.500
about the charges and specifically this arch anti-Palestinian influencer that that brought the case
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against me. So we won. We won a victory for free speech and obviously Rebel News, which says it
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No, without any evidence, I give you the benefit of the doubt.
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Oh yeah, Jagmeet Singh got it. He got qualified for his pension today. But we have a petition at
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jagmeetpayday.com. On this website, we have a petition to request him to vote for a non-confident vote
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at the parliament. So we will see if Jagmeet Singh is keeping the liberal into power or he will actually
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vote against the government to hear the Canadian who won an election. So I repeat, jagmeetpayday.com.