EZRA LEVANT ｜ An explosion at the Canada-U.S. border — was it terrorism？ Meanwhile, Geert Wilders wins Dutch election
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Explosion at the Canada-U.S. border near Niagara Falls. Was it a car accident? Or was it an act of terrorism? And who's getting more votes than anyone else in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, the anti-immigration party leader? We'll take you through all that and much more on today's Ezra Levant Show.
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Hello, my friends. Very interesting news. We start with the news about the big explosion
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at the Canada-U.S. border near Niagara Falls. Then we talk about the new president of Argentina.
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What a character he is. And holy mackerel, Geert Wilders in Holland,
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getting more votes than anyone else. He's the anti-immigration party leader.
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We'll take you through all of those things, but I want to make sure you see the video version of
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this, because I actually interviewed Geert Wilders at some length a few years ago. I'll play you a
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clip of that, and I'll also play you clips of this new Argentinian president. I want you to see that
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with your own eyes. He is a character. Both of them have interesting hair. I'll say that's the
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commonality between these two men. Cool hair. You got to see it. Sign up at rebelnewsplus.com.
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Tonight, an explosion at the Canada-U.S. border. Was it terrorism? And Geert Wilders wins the
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Dutch election. It's November 22nd, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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There was some breaking news this afternoon. An explosion at a Canada-U.S. border crossing.
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You can see it filmed from a variety of angles. It looks shocking, explosive. It looks astonishing.
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My first reaction, I think most people, was this is obviously terrorism. That wasn't just a car
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accident. It was high explosives. You can see another version of this incident, the car going
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at extremely high rates of speed. The FBI quickly put out a statement, and then Canadian authorities put
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out a statement retweeting the Americans. It was clear that the Americans were way ahead of us in terms
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of figuring out what was going on and investigating him. Soon, the Ontario police put out this video
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announcing that a variety of border closings and highways were completely shut down. Take a look
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at this. We have major issues happening right now at the U.S. borders in Niagara region. Right now,
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we currently have the Rainbow Bridge closed in both directions in Niagara Falls. Niagara Regional
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Police, Barks Police, as well as Canada Border Services, are working on an incident in that area. As a result,
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we also currently have the Fort Erie Peace Bridge closed at the end of the QW, closed to all crossings
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coming to or leaving Canada. We're also in the process right now of closing Highway 405. We are in
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the process as well of shutting the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, and you can expect heavy delays in the
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Niagara area. If you are planning on crossing the border, please delay travel until we know those
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highways and closures have reopened. I will update you as I get information, but for now, all border
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crossings in Niagara region, Fort Erie, Rainbow, and the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge are all closed to
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traffic, coming and going to and from the United States into Canada. We very quickly sent our own
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Efron Monsanto, our head of video, to the scene to see what was going on. There wasn't a lot to see
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when he finally got there. The place was locked down. There were plenty of police cars, but of course,
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the drama was over. Now, early reports said, I think what was plainly obvious at first impressions,
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it was terrorism. It sure seemed that way, but as of around 5 p.m. today, that explanation has been
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walked back, and another theory has been proposed that this was joyriders that were going at a high
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rate of speed and fishtailing, and the car simply went out of control and exploded. I mean, could be.
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It certainly seemed like a high explosive event, but that was based on just observations from
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surveillance cameras. We'll see what the investigations find. But still, we should not
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ignore the warnings that various intelligence agencies have given. Here's the United Kingdom
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official advice to travelers going to Canada. Let me quote their advice to their own citizens.
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Quote, terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Canada, and then they give details.
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Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners. You should remain
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aware of your surroundings, keep up to date with local media reports, and follow the advice of local
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authorities. That's not particularly helpful advice, is it? Now, Trudeau scoffed. He said,
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oh, there's nothing much to pay attention to here. It's just those Brits. It's funny, though, because I
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remember when Justin Trudeau was trying in some ham-fisted way to lash out at Ron DeSantis in Florida,
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and Trudeau issued his own travel warning. Remember that? Saying that people in Canada
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should be very careful going to the United States because it was so anti-gay. That's what Trudeau
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thinks of security advisories. In the meantime, the Brits are saying, be careful of Canada. You'll get
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blown up. All right, well, if that infrastructure explosion was not a terror attack, well, there have
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been other attacks on infrastructure. These that happened the other day blocking the railway,
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invading companies that have anything to do with Israel. The Saskatchewan legislature was shut down for
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the first time in over a hundred years by pro-Hamas activists shouting. Here in Toronto, the city's
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busiest railway station, union station, was shut down. Roads are continuously shut down.
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Events involving the prime minister and cabinet ministers are invaded. Again, it's hard to credit
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that these are, that happened to succeed, that a hundred people can storm an event with the prime
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minister or senior cabinet ministers. It's hard to imagine that that actually happened without someone
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in some way facilitating that. I should tell you that whether or not these grassroots pro-Hamas protests
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that are paralyzing our economy and our infrastructure, none of which have been denounced,
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arrested, or had ride horses dispatched against them like the peaceful trucker convoy, I should mention.
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Whether or not these pro-Hamas protests are formally directed by Hamas is unknown.
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But we know it is a crime under the criminal code to participate, facilitate, instruct,
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or harbor terrorism. Who is behind these acts I've just described? Today, I see that hundreds of
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school children in Ontario were let out of school to go on a Hitler Youth-style parade,
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an anti-Semitic-style parade. This obviously was permitted by Doug Ford's education minister,
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permitted by school principals, but was it also instructed, participated, aided by foreign agents
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from Iran? And I'm not saying that speculatively. As you saw last week, Global News, hardly a right-wing
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outlet, did a major expose on the close to 1,000 agents in Canada operating on behalf of the
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dictatorship of Iran, whipping up anti-Semitic marches. Here's a question for you. Were those
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school children exited from class, and were they marched through the street at the behest of foreign
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agents? Which of these infrastructure attacks were at the behest of foreign agents? Here's a clip from
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that Global News story. This B.C. immigration lawyer has spent a lot of time documenting what he says
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is the huge number of Iranian regime officials and their associates who are in Canada. We have about
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700 names right now that either have temporary residence, permanent residence, or citizenship
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that are in Canada and that are somehow regime affiliates. We're still counting, so it's going to
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be closer to 1,000. So we don't know if the explosions today were terrorism, but we know that a soft burn
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style of political persuasion is going on. If it rises to the level of terrorism, I'm not sure. I do know
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that Pastor Arthur Pawlowski in Alberta was convicted and sentenced to a prison term, although it was time
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served already, for giving a peaceful sermon to the truckers at the Coutts trucker blockade in February
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2022. My point is, a peaceful pastor giving a sermon, not at the actual border itself, but in a
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saloon nearby, he was convicted of a crime and given a jail sentence, time already served, and yet you
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have pro-Hamas extremists doing actual blocking of critical infrastructure and no charges for that.
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So that's the Canadian way. But I don't know if you saw this. Argentina has a new president,
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and I can't think of anyone more opposite Trudeau than this guy. His name is Javier
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Millet, if I'm pronouncing that right. And I frankly hadn't heard of him until recently when Tucker Carlson
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had an interview with him. Here, I want you to watch this clip. It's only a few minutes long,
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where he calmly, clearly, but with great precision and great intelligence, outlines the perpetual
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risk to our free society by the woke left progressive movement. It was just, this is some of the most
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interesting three minutes of TV I've seen in a long time. Take a look at Javier Millet talking to
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Tucker Carlson a few weeks before his election went. Socialism has become ascendant, really, in the
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United States, as you may have noticed, with the attendant symptoms you described. Massive
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public debt levels, increasing poverty, disorder, crime, filth, and ugliness. Argentina's at the end
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stage of that. Argentina's now a poor country because of those policies. What advice would you give
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to Americans having lived it? Que nunca abracen las ideas del socialismo. Que nunca se dejen seducir
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por el canto de las sirenas de la justicia social. Que no se dejen atrapar por esa frase nefasta
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que donde hay una ansiedad nace un derecho. Pero que eso no se hace solo. Para eso hay que estar
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preparado y hay que dar la batalla cultural día a día. Y que hay que tener cuidado porque ellos no tienen
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problemas en meterse adentro del Estado y aplicar las técnicas de Gramsci seduciendo a artistas, seduciendo
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o sea la cultura, seduciendo a los medios de comunicación o metiéndose en los contenidos de la
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educación. Hay que tener mucho cuidado, hay que cortarles el financiamiento y hay que hacerlos
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competir a la par. Y al mismo tiempo hay que concientizar a los empresarios de que es necesario
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que más allá. Milton Friedman decía que la función social del empresario era ganar dinero. Bueno, con eso
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solo no alcanza. Parte de la inversión tiene que ser invertir en los defensores de las ideas de la
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libertad para que los socialistas no puedan avanzar. Porque si no lo hacen ellos se van a meter en el
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Estado y desde el Estado van a imponer una agenda que de largo plazo va a terminar destruyendo todo lo que
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toca. Entonces ahí digamos es necesario un fuerte compromiso de todos los creadores de riqueza para
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luchar contra el socialismo, contra el estatismo y entender que si eso no se hace
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los socialistas siempre van a seguir intentando. Porque, ¿cuál es el punto? Como ellos intentan vivir
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de los demás sin trabajar, ellos son incansables en buscar esto. Porque su leitmotiv en la vida es vivir
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de los otros. Entonces ellos no ceden nunca en este mecanismo de apropiación de la riqueza y del dinero
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o de la generación de ingresos de otro. Entonces esa batalla tiene que ser dada de manera permanente.
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No se puede descansar porque cuando uno descansa el socialismo avanza.
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Don't be distracted by the big mutton chops and that astonishing head of hair. This guy
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has strong beliefs and he's willing to say them no matter what. By the way, just a few days before
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his election, he was waving the Israeli flag. Now, I'm a fan of the Canadian flag because I'm a
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Canadian. I would wave an Italian flag. I've been to the Columbus Day parade in New York City. I'm
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delighted to hold an Italian flag for that event. I went to the St. Patrick's Day parade. I was
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delighted to hold an Irish flag. So I don't think it's necessarily a sign of disloyalty to hold a
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foreign country's flag. You just want to make it very clear that your heart is with your own
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nationality. I'm a Canadian through and through. I'm sure that Millet is an Argentinian through and
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through. But for him to make the statement of holding the Israeli flag was such a bold statement
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against the woke left pro-Hamas blob and mob. And for him to do that in the final days of his campaign
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is very bold. But this guy is bold. He reminds me a little bit of Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected
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president in Brazil before he was run out of there by the deep state. Here's Millet ripping off stickers
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and denouncing different government agencies. Take a look at this.
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Tipo y Deporte. Afuera. Ministerio de Cultura. Afuera. Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo
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Sostenible. Afuera. Ministerio de las Mujeres y Género y Diversidad. Afuera. Ministerio de
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Obras Públicas. Afuera. Aunque te resistas. Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación.
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Afuera. Ministerio de Trabajo, Emplea y Seguridad Social. Afuera. Ministerio de Educación.
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Adopinamiento. Afuera. Ministerio de Transporte. Afuera. Ministerio de Salud. Afuera. Ministerio
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de Desarrollo Social. Afuera. Se acabó el curro de la política. Viva la libertad, carajo.
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I get a kick out of that. And you know, some reform-oriented politicians, they use a broom
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as their symbol. I'm going to sweep out change. This Argentine, he used the chainsaw as a symbol.
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What a character. And by the way, he is as audacious as Trump is. He tweets like Trump
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used to tweet. I mean, you just can't stop this guy from tweeting. He's tweeting Trump 2024.
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He's tweeting pictures of him in a constellation with other populist conservative leaders.
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He really is a phenomenon. And I find it fascinating. I think, in a way, he's the pendulum swinging
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back. For the last three-plus years, we have had Joe Biden. Rishi Sunak is the latest Brit.
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Justin Trudeau. Until recently, Jacinda Ardern. Until recently, Angela Merkel. All these sludgy
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left, socialist, globalists, maybe you're starting to see the pendulum swing back in the form of Javier
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Millet. By the way, Joe Biden, who surely disagrees with every single word that Millet says,
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because he's a grown-up, or at least he works with grown-ups, he made a courtesy call to congratulate
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the new Argentine president. Here, this is from the White House website, readout of the call with
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President-elect Javier Millet of Argentina. So a readout is basically a summary, not a transcript,
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but a summary of a phone call. I'll read it to you. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke today with
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President-elect Javier Millet of Argentina to congratulate him on his election. The president
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applauded the conduct of the election as a testament to the strength of Argentina's democratic
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institutions. The two leaders discussed the importance of continuing to build on the strong
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relationship between the United States and Argentina, on economic issues, on regional and
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multilateral cooperation, and on shared priorities, including advocating for the protection of human
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rights, addressing food insecurity, and investing in clean energy. You know, I'm not sure how much Javier
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Millet cares about solar panels, but that's not the point. The point is that Joe Biden was acting
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like a grown-up, and even though he probably loathes every cell in the body of this Trump lookalike,
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he knows he's got to be the bigger man, and he's got to call, because it's not just about a personal
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relationship. It's a country-to-country relationship. Argentina is a serious country, 45 million people,
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half a trillion dollar a year GDP. It's strategically important, and he's clearly a fan of the Western
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alliance. He's not a socialist anti-American, as unfortunately there are many in South America.
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So that's Joe Biden. Now, I spent some time digging around Canadian websites, the Prime Minister's
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website, the Prime Minister's Twitter feed, Melanie Jolie, the Foreign Minister's Twitter feed,
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no communication from Trudeau or Melanie Jolie about Javier Millet, just like when Javier
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Javier Bolsonaro, the conservative one in Brazil, Trudeau was so petty that he refused to even
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congratulate Bolsonaro. He just wouldn't say the words, because his personal vendetta was stronger
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than his desire to have a mutually beneficial relationship. Can you imagine that? Trudeau
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putting his own pettiness ahead of Canada-Brazil relations, and now ahead of Canada-Argentine
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relations, is there a country in the world that Trudeau has not ticked off? And I'm not saying
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that Trudeau has to be submissive to other countries. The opposite. Trudeau should carry
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Canada's national interests with him. We're starting to see a pattern here, whether it's China or India
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or the United Kingdom or Australia or Joe Biden. Frankly, I ask this question all the time, other than
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Cuba, is there a country in the world with whom Canada doesn't have a weaker relationship now
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than when Trudeau took over? So that's very exciting news out of Argentina. But as I am talking,
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right now they are finalizing the vote count in another country, in the Netherlands. And incredibly,
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Geert Wilders, it's spelled Geert Wilders, but it's pronounced Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for
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Freedom, a party absolutely focused like a laser on stopping mass immigration, and particularly Muslim
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immigration. He has by far won the Dutch elections tonight. Absolutely incredible. Exceed the polls in
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recent days gave him a boost, but he exceeded even those polls, winning 35 seats. And you can see the other
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party seats count. Here's a quick video of, here's a tweet in the video Geert Wilders celebrating when
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he was astonished, winning 35 seats. Now, I actually know Geert Wilders, if you can believe it. I spoke
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with him. I went on a bit of a speaking tour with him about 10 years ago or so, maybe a little longer,
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across Canada. And this was when I had published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. And I was talking
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about freedom of speech. And Geert Wilders was in a similar vein. He was very critical of radical
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Islam and mass immigration. And we toured the country and gave speeches together. And I'm not
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going to say we became close friends, but we were friendly, that's for sure. And I tell you, he incurred
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the wrath of the woke globalist Islamist left. Here's a headline from The Guardian in the United Kingdom
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in 2009, that they literally banned him from entering the country. Imagine that. He was a
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member of parliament. And today he's prime minister, or I don't know, he's not prime minister yet. He has
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to do some negotiating with the other parties. In the end, he might actually not become the prime
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minister. He might do a deal with another party that is harsh on immigration. Perhaps the other party
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can be the PM and he might be the immigration minister. I'm just brainstorming. I don't know enough
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about Dutch politics to know how it's going to go. But can you believe that? The United Kingdom
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banned him from entering because they didn't like what he had to say about mass immigration. Now,
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I should tell you, later they relaxed that ban. But the man who was disparaged for decades
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is now in the fast track to become, if not the prime minister, well, he's certainly the largest
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political party in the Dutch parliament. I should tell you that the predecessor prime minister,
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Mark Rutte, is out. He was really a Trudeau mini-me. He was a World Economic Forum globalist.
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He was for all the global warming stuff. And he was also against the Dutch farmers. He hated carbon,
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but he also hated nitrogen. Wilders, as I mentioned earlier, is very pro-Israel, just like Miele. And
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here's a clip of our reporter at the time, Callum Smiles, interviewing here at Wilders about
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the war on farming. Here, take a look. Mr. Wilders, what do you make of the nitrogen
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emission reducing policies? What do you think the real story is? Well, I think it's leftish rubbish.
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The real aim here is to get rid of our farmers for some leftish nitrogen kind of agenda and to make
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room for even more non-Western immigrants, asylum seekers, and build houses and centers for them.
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Something that is totally different than the current elite is telling the people.
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And when speaking to people back in the United Kingdom about this issue, they ask, why is this important to them?
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Why is the Dutch farmer issue such an important issue worldwide?
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Well, you know, there would be no Netherlands without our farmers, without our fishermen.
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Don't forget also our fishermen who have the same tough deal as the farmers get today.
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And they are who we are. They are in our genes. They are in our history.
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And Holland is built on farmers and fishermen. And everybody has a lot of sympathy for them.
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And now we get some leftish liberal coalition, probably also supported by the more extreme left after the elections,
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that say, well, we really don't care about our identity, about our culture or about our farmers.
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We don't care. We find this nitrogen problem more important.
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Besides the fact that nitrogen is not a real problem, it's an invented kind of problem,
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it's totally unfair to all those families, to all those farmers that have had farms through generations.
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So it's not only the sympathy for the farmers and the fishermen,
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but the Dutch people sense that they are getting to the core of the genes of our identity.
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And those parties that hate identity, that only want us to go into some kind of European metro identity,
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but despise the patriotism, the national identity and the nation state, you know,
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the democracy in the nation state, and they don't care.
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And you see today here, those are a lot of people for demonstration in the Netherlands,
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And I hope that they not only will come today to protest here democratically,
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but also even more important next Wednesday when they can vote for the provinces that in our country select the Senate
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to make sure that the government will have to step down and we have new elections.
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So do you think actually that there isn't an issue that the farmers need to compromise on?
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You actually think that there is no problem which the farmers have to address?
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Well, I don't believe so, no. I don't think nitrogen is a problem.
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I don't think the environmental issue is also the real issue.
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But as long as the majority and the politics that believe it, they probably would have to compromise.
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But the compromise means that most of them will have to finish their business.
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That's signing off for having to leave your business and to do something else,
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But the government already said, if it's not working voluntarily, we will make sure that you have to make it compulsory
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that we sell you out your whole business and we buy your ground.
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You know, we see it with the farmers, but we see it also today with the asylum-seeking problem.
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We see that the government is asking because they are not willing to close our borders for more non-indigenous people.
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95% of them coming from safe countries or neighboring countries that are not unsafe.
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So they are not asylum-seekers, but they are migrants.
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So they're telling now to the municipalities, please, give more room, give us houses to provide for them.
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But then they also say that if you don't do that, later this year, we will come with a law
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to put aside the local democracy and force you to give housing to those people.
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So you see on different issues, asylum-seekers, farmers, that they are compulsory, going, setting aside the democracy,
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the voice of the people, and getting through what they will not have support on in the government.
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And that is something that I believe is totalitarian, has nothing to do with democracy.
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You normally see in totalitarian countries that local democracy are being set aside
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and governments make laws to force upon the people what they really do not want to do.
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And finally, do you think these policies come from Mark Rutte or Klaus Schwab?
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I believe that our government is the wrong responsible.
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I cannot, in Holland, I cannot have a debate with Klaus Schwab.
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And I want to get rid of him and his coalition parties.
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And if that means that Mr. Schwab would have less influence, that's very good.
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But I have to deal, as a leader of position, with the leader of the government.
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And that is, fortunately, not Mr. Schwab, but someone who is not that much better than Mr. Rutte, our prime minister.
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So now that man is on track to become PM or at least a senior cabinet minister, senior power broker in the new coalition.
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Now, I actually traveled to The Hague, which is the Dutch capital, about six years ago for a half-hour sit-down with Heard Builders.
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I'm not going to play all half an hour of that for you now because we have other things we want to talk about on the show.
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But I will embed the full 32-minute video elsewhere on the website if you want to watch it all.
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But let me show you about 10 minutes of excerpts from my heart-to-heart with Heard Builders when I visited Holland.
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Do you think that Dutch people are inspired by the Brexit referendum and the Donald Trump election?
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Well, you know, it's what I call the patriotic spring.
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People, as I said, feel misrepresented by the current political parties, by the current elite,
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who feel that multiculturalism, mass immigration, Islamization,
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or the fact that we transferred our national sovereignty to this institution called the European Union in Brussels,
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and we don't even have the key of our own front door and cannot decide who we let enter into our country
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People are fed up with that arrogance of the political elite.
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And indeed, people see that in the United Kingdom,
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despite all the fear-mongering from the elite from both Brussels and London,
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that the economy would go down, that the lights would go out,
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that there probably would be a war in Europe, that it's not happening.
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The country is happening, a strong economy, a free trade deal with the United States,
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probably even before the European Union will have it.
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It's not about Mr. Trump personally or the United Kingdom personally,
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but people seeing that despite the fear-mongering from the current political leaders,
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they can take charge and they are stronger and they can put the faith of their own country in their own hands again.
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And that, indeed, all over the European Union is very inspiring.
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But the forces against us are very strong and growing as well.
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Well, I think that the greatest challenge to both Brexit and Donald Trump were not politicians,
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was not Hillary Clinton, but rather the media establishment, the political establishment,
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Are there any establishment forces, any media that are supportive of you,
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or are they all critical or overwhelmingly critical?
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Well, of course, there are a few exceptions, but 98% is very strong against.
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And the elite, as I call them, is not, indeed, only the politicians.
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It's also the top, the representatives of the Catholic churches or other churches.
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It's all the people who are really lost any touch with the common people
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and fear for their own position are based and driven only by multiculturalism
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and don't see that if we continue by, for instance, the Islamisation of our society,
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It's not like we are facing an economical crisis that you can beat
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if you have a good policy like small government or lower taxes.
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When I go to America or Canada, I always tell my friends there,
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listen, you are bordering, at least the United States is bordering Mexico.
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We are bordering, our continent that is bordering Europe is Africa.
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And the African inhabitants, the African people will explode in this century.
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You know, they have one billion people living in Africa today.
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According to the United Nations, at the end of the century,
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where at the same time the European amount of people will diminish.
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So four billion people, one third of them even today is planning to emigrate to Europe,
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which means that what we saw happening with the asylum crisis,
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with people from Syria and Libya coming to Europe,
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One billion people, mostly from Islamic background,
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which means that Islam, once again, is not there to assimilate or to integrate.
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Open borders and no demands on new immigrants to assimilate and to integrate.
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because they invented the concept of multiculturalism and open border policy.
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So they are fighting it, but they are fighting against our mere existence.
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both with the European Union and with the asylum crisis,
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Just coming in today, we landed at the Amsterdam airport.
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You can see visually there are so many Muslim people,
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Even if you were to win and you were to stop new immigration,
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how deep are the roots of Islam and the Islamification?
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Is it even possible to win if there's a voter bloc out there that's against you?
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Well, in Holland, we have now approximately out of a population of 1717 million people,
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never give in, never give out, never, never, never, ever do that.
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If we should, not only for what is happening today,
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what was happening with the explosion of the demographics in Africa,
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because we transferred our sovereign right of immigration
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as the United Kingdom did, to control our own borders again.
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If you adapt and assimilate to our values, our constitution,
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But if you start acting according to Sharia law
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and try to use violence or terroristic threats or whatever,
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the European Union is not only incapable to close this border,
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And I'm not personally blaming all those Muslims coming to Europe.
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to ask for a better life for myself and my family.
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But I blame the political leaders who allow them to come.
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This was the toxic combination of Europe in the last few decades,
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with not one single demand of assimilation and integration.
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Our culture cease to exist at the end of the century
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there are some people who are a little bit tough,
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he's tweeting so boldly against Hamas for Israel.
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He has said before that Israel is the canary in the coal mine,
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They're actually already in Europe in many ways.
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in that Javier Mille tweet of Georgia Maloney of Italy
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and other conservative-oriented populist leaders?
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So I'm hopeful for Javier Mille and Geert Wilders
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It's an incredible story that will continue to follow.
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because we are a full-service news organization.
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Justin Trudeau himself never had to earn a living.
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is when they do their economic or budget update.
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but you're the most sober one in the drunk tank.
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You know, there's just some astonishing things there.
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that aren't particularly with the economic update.
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What do you have for us on Trudeau's latest gift
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Yeah, actually, this was part of the budget update.
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it looks like they're doubling the amount of money
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that journalists who get the bailout are getting.
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of their paycheck covered by the Trudeau government.
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in how much the government covers of their paycheck.
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this probably doesn't need to be said to your audience,
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when you're counting on them for your paycheck.
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and also our friends over at Black Locks Reporter.
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wants to cancel, suspend, shape, ban social media
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It's a plan to build electric vehicle batteries
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that these factories will not be built by Canadians.
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who is just one of the worst cabinet ministers.