EZRA LEVANT ｜ Can Donald Trump restore the American Dream？
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Is it possible that Kamala Harris could become the next president of the United States? And if so, what would that mean for the future of the Democratic Party and the country? Ezra lays out the case for why it's unlikely.
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Tonight, is it possible that Kamala Harris could become the next U.S. President?
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And if so, is it possible that the 1979 being there actually predicted the future?
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I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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The U.S. presidential election is but 10 days away.
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There's a plethora of pundits who are stating this is the most important American election
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I also don't think the stakes could be any higher.
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Former President Donald Trump wants to restore America to what it was just four years ago.
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That would be prosperity on the home front via energy independence, record low unemployment,
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As for the southern border under President Trump, this particular zip code did not resemble
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Meanwhile, in terms of foreign policy, well, peace was breaking out all over the place.
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As for Vice President Kamala Harris, she says she's campaigning for change.
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When she stages a press conference, which is rare, and when she agrees to an interview
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with a journalist who isn't moonlighting as a cheerleader for the Democratic Party, which
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is even more rare, she can't open her mouth without a denouncing Donald Trump and b positioning herself
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Well that's one hell of a sales pitch, wouldn't you say?
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I mean, how does one campaign for change against oneself?
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For those who are calendar challenged, Harris has been the Vice President these past four
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She's been the number two person in the Biden administration.
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How do you possibly claim that you're an agent for change, when really you represent more
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I highly doubt this laughing leopard has changed her spots.
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Oh sure, out on the hustings, she now says things like, she's going to toughen up border
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But she was the self-proclaimed border czar these past four years.
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It is estimated that at least 8 million illegal aliens have made their way onto U.S. soil in
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This invasion has economic implications, security implications, crime implications.
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It's also a grotesque dereliction of duty by Tsarina Kamala Harris.
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Unless of course the goal was to flood the United States with illegals in order to alter
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the demographics in an attempt to transform red states into blue states.
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In this regard, the Biden-Harris administration gets a five-star rating.
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Is anyone buying that, given that U.S. fracking licenses have remained frozen these past four
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Or just maybe it is strategically prudent for Harris to be pro-fracking during an election
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campaign, given that fracking makes for a huge economic shot in the arm for, say, Pennsylvania,
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which of course is a crucially important swing state.
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My advice to Pennsylvanians, should Kamala Harris actually become president, don't expect what
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she's promising on the campaign trail will translate into actual policy once she's ensconced in the
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In the retail world, this is what's known as bait and switch.
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Indeed, a vote for Kamala is a vote for the status quo, i.e., runaway inflation, yet more
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millions of illegal aliens, no energy independence, turning a blind eye to Iranian-funded terrorism,
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embracing the radical transgender agenda, weaponizing the FBI and the Department of Justice against
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That's a wide range of targets, ranging from concerned parents attending school board meetings,
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to even the former, and perhaps future, President Donald Trump.
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Meanwhile, in the Department of Foreign Affairs, I could care less if you're a Republican, Democrat,
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independent, or simply don't give a rodent's rectum when it comes to politics.
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The fact of the matter is the world is a hellaciously more dangerous place today than when Donald Trump
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Wars are ranging from the Middle East to Ukraine, while China and North Korea continue to rattle
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And the Democrats believe that the answer for peace in our time is a nuclearized Iran?
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Talk about a death wish, given that the crazed mullahs in Tehran see Israel as the little
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Satan, whereas the U.S., which is currently Iran's enabler, is the big Satan.
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And should Iran get nuclear weapons, expect this regime to use those weapons of mass destruction?
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As well, a key Democratic Party plank in this election is all about protecting and preserving democracy.
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Especially given the Biden administration has proven itself to be the biggest threat to democracy.
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Expect the U.S. Supreme Court to get stacked with Democratic-friendly judges?
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And yet, if the polls are accurate, it would appear that this election might end up being
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a proverbial photo finish, especially when it comes to the crucial swing states of Ohio,
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Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and, of course, the aforementioned Pennsylvania.
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For what it's worth, my gut feeling is that if there are no shenanigans when it comes to
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counting the ballots on Election Day, and that's a big if when it comes to certain electoral
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districts, then the 2024 election might very well be a replay of what happened in 1980.
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Just prior to Election Day in 1980, major polls suggested that the Democrats, under President
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Jimmy Carter, had a slight edge over Republican challenger Ronald Reagan.
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Alas, 1980 turned out to be a landslide for Reagan.
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Reagan captured 489 electoral votes to Carter's 49 electoral votes.
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Could we see the same outcome come November 5th?
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Have the pollsters got it completely wrong again?
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In hindsight, Jimmy Carter was both ineffectual and woefully weak as president.
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But even the former peanut farmer stands as a presidential colossus in comparison to Kamala
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Seriously, is Kamala Harris really the best the Democrats have to offer?
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When she ran to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2020, her campaign was an unmitigated
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And yet today, Kamala, with the passage of time, has somehow emerged as the gold standard.
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So much so that the primary process was replaced by a coronation.
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Hey, who needs all that messy voting stuff, eh?
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It's really overrated and yeah, so much for that protecting and preserving democracy shtick.
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But in late June, it had become abundantly clear after the debate debacle that Joe Biden
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Even for him to run a presidential campaign from his basement, just as he did in 2020, well,
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And yet the more Ms. Harris speaks, the more it becomes clear why she was a 2020 write-off.
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This is someone so vacuous and so vapid that it is impossible for her to make coherent points
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And unlike Biden, dementia is not a factor when it comes to Kamala's incoherence.
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And yet, to borrow a Hollywood term, Kamala Harris has been reimagined as presidential material.
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By the way, don't take my word for it when it comes to the VP's incoherence and cluelessness.
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I don't know if some people, you know, I love Gen Z.
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So, okay, for the older adult, this is going to be a humbling thing I'm about to share with
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If someone is 18 years old today, they were born in 2005.
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The governor and I, and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about
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the significance of the passage of time, right?
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So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms
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of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs.
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And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in
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I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?
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What we can see, what we believe can be unburdened by what has been?
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unburdened by who we have been what can be unburdened by what has been where we can be
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unburdened by where we have been and unburdened by where we are right now i grew up understanding
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the children of the community are the children of the community sadly in real unsettled times
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it is the caribbean nations island nations in the western hemisphere that is where the caribbean is
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we are also in the western hemisphere they are our neighbors i love venn diagrams
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i really do i love venn diagrams it's just something about those three circles and i like
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to think about a lot of things in the context of a venn diagram i love venn diagrams always ask is
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there a venn diagram for this i'm telling you it's fascinating when you do so venn diagram those three
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circles right i asked my team to do a venn diagram of where these attacks are happening
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so voting rights women's reproductive rights lgbtq rights and of course there was a huge
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intersection yikes is she hoping to fool us with this baffle gab are we supposed to be bamboozled
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into thinking that these pronouncements are supposedly profound apparently camilla harris
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has deluded herself into thinking so and don't expect her useful idiots in the mainstream media to
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call her out on this nonsense they're actually protecting her but for anyone with a single
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functioning brain cell regardless of one's political posture these statements and so many
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others uttered by harris make for a heaping helping of word salad that remain at the end of the day
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undecipherable nonsense alas when camilla isn't talking camilla is laughing and what a laugh but
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really what the hell's so funny not the price of the pump that's for sure nor a visit to the supermarket
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these days so is this some sort of psychological defensive mechanism is this so much nervous laughter
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as opposed to genuine lol laughter hey who knows maybe given the proximity to halloween camilla
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is channel is channeling the cackling of a certain wicked witch regardless it's downright embarrassing
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you think you think you just fell out of a coconut tree
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I'll try to say something kind here she has beautiful teeth but dental fortitude
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aside that sonic assault there's such a degree of familiarity to that laughter no
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oh wait a second I remember I'm thinking about these characters make those
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messages clear holy funny bone Batman speaking of pop culture I now come finally to the point of this
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monologue which is this when I reflect upon Kamala's inexplicable ascension to vice presidential power
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and perhaps even presidential power I can't help but think of the 1979 Peter Sellers movie being
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there I think I've seen being there more than 100 times no I'm not obsessed with this flick rather
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I worked as a part-time usher at Toronto's dearly departed Hollywood theater when the film was
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originally released part of being an usher is to simply stand around in the dark watching the same
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movie over and over again you pray the movie will be a good one and being there certainly makes the
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grade based on Jersey Kosinski's satirical novel of the same name being there is about an illiterate
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gardener who lives his entire life behind the walls of a Washington DC house the man's only knowledge
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of the world comes from the TV shows he watches from cartoons to handyman programs when his employer
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dies Chauncey Gardner is inexplicably catapulted into the fast lane of political power this is not by
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design mind you rather thanks to a series of bizarre coincidences and misunderstandings and cosmic
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flukes Chauncey is suddenly deemed to be leadership material soon Chauncey's childlike utterances are
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misinterpreted as words of profound wisdom pertaining to everything from social to economic policy check
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out this excerpt from the trailer on television mr. president you look much smaller dumb as a jackass as
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long as the roots are not severed all is well and all will be well in the garden
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often a lease of information on mr. Chauncey Gardner's background
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what do you mean he's got no background that's impossible
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mr. Gardner the new york times spoke of your peculiar brand of optimism what was your reaction to that
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ho ho ho he was very clever keeping it at a third grade level that's what they understand
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he's very very sexy but i think he's brilliant i raise that boy it's always uh somewhat surprising
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to find men like yourself working so intimately with the president and yet somehow managing to remain
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relatively unknown yes it is surprising and look at him now i can't write i heard he speaks eight
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i like to watch dv of course there are profound differences between the real life camilla harris
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and the fictional chauncey gardner chauncey had a good heart he was completely unambitious
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he was good-natured he wouldn't hurt a fly heck his only desire was to be left alone so that he could
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watch tv as for camilla harris she has always been a creature of profound ambition
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it is an open secret that she got her start in california politics thanks to an affair
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with then san francisco mayor willie brown brown supported camilla in her successful quest to become
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san francisco district attorney then again maybe that was just a coincidence i'm sure camilla ascended
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to that position purely on merit as opposed to horizontal jogging with influential men and if you
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believe that whopper folks i hear the golden gate bridge is for sale by all means make an offer oh
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should i apologize for making mention of this inconvenient truth the mainstream media calls
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allegations of sleeping to the top as nothing short of misogyny after all misogyny is a hatred of woman
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and you see america could make history with the election of its very first woman president um i hate
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to be a nitpicker here but just when exactly did the term woman suddenly come back in vogue with the
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progressives i thought womanhood was some sort of really hard to define concept it was just two years
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ago that u.s supreme court justice katanji brown who i think is a woman struggled mightily with the
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definition of the word woman here check it out can you provide a definition for the word woman
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can i provide a definition no yeah i can't you can't
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not in this context i'm not a biologist of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can't
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give me a definition senator in my work as a judge what i do is i address disputes if there's a dispute
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about a definition people make arguments and i look at the law and i decide whoa whoa whoa stop the clock
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senator blackburn that was then and this is now you see when it appeared that the presidential race was
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going to be a rematch between two dudes well woman was rendered obsolete we have so many mentally ill
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biological men pretending to be woman demanding trans rights now and invading female safe spaces in the
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process but diversity is our strength etc etc etc but now that a real bonafide female is indeed running to
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be the commander in chief well the word woman much like elevated sneakers well it's suddenly retro cool
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these days absolutely nobody on the left is unclear what the word woman means funny how quickly
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the world changes when viewed through the lens of a progressive just like how camilla mere months ago
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was all for open borders but now talks about building walls just as she supported a fracking
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ban as being part and parcel of the green new deal but is now allegedly all in when it comes to the
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fracking miracle what a fracking reprobate and despite all of camilla's laughter is that guffawing really
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just a facade is there some dark soul that lurks behind that mask of merriment here's an astonishing fact
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camilla harris has had an astounding 92 percent turnover rate in her staff these past few years as vp
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that's simply unheard of check out this article from july 29th published in the washington free beacon
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headlined don't look her in the eye father of office intern recounts office horror stories quote as california
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attorney general camilla harris consistently berated staff members instructed them to stand and call her
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general when she entered the general when she entered the office and banned many of them from
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looking her in the eye according to the father of one of harris's former interns the father terry
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mcateer penned a 2019 op-ed recounting the horror stories from his son gregory's short time as a public
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policy intern in harris's attorney general's office senator harris vocally throws around f-bombs and other
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profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others mcateer wrote the staff is in complete fear of
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her and she uses her profanity throughout the day he continued as attorney general senator harris
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instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say good morning
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general never once during the month-long internship did harris introduce herself to our son and staff
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was too intimidated by her to introduce him end quote wow talk about privilege donald trump
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is not the problem he is the solution i would compare trump's record as president versus what
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biden and harris have accomplished these past few years pick a file any file in fact if i had the
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former president's ear i would advise him to revise one of the most popular american election ads of all
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time namely morning again in america the republicans ran this ad in 1984 when ronald reagan was seeking
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a second term in office here check it out it's morning again in america today more men and women
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will go to work than ever before in our country's history with interest rates at about half the record
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highs of 1980 nearly 2 000 families today will buy new homes more than at any time in the past four
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years this afternoon 6 500 young men and women will be married and with inflation of less than half of
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what it was just four years ago they can look forward with confidence to the future
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it's morning again in america and under the leadership of president reagan our country is
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prouder and stronger and better why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short
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years ago isn't this ad from 40 years ago the very embodiment of today's make america great again
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slogan and it sure worked wonders for reagan in 1984 reagan captured a staggering 525 electoral votes
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versus walter mondale's 13 electoral votes yeah that's right 525 to 13. reagan won every single
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state in the union except minnesota what is it about minnesota here's a little bit more from snl uh with
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quote tim waltz and quote president biden you claimed you were in hong kong during the 1989 tiananmen
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square massacre when you were home in minnesota can you explain that so i think what happened is i
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went to epcot you can go around the whole world and i had a couple in the germany section and i thought
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i went to china anyway i'm a knucklehead you know how do you ever come back from the nickname tampon tim
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oh and by the way the vikings suck now being a canadian citizen some may wonder why i care so much
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about what might occur south of the border on november 5th well i care because i love america
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and i love the american spirit and i love the american people america is our greatest ally we share the
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world's longest undefended border with the us a strong us typically means canada will be stronger too
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all boats rise with the tide after all and this election in my eyes boils down to giving donald trump
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another mandate in his quest yes to make america great again or four more years of misery as always
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isn't the question simply this are you better off today than you were four years ago okay maybe if
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you invested in certain pharmaceutical companies during the covet 19 pandemic maybe then you're on
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easy street the rest of us not so much but if i were a betting man and i am i'm feeling more confident
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about a trump victory for one particular reason that whiff of desperation in the democratic camp has
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increasingly become an unbearable stench how desperate are the democrats well this desperate
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two days ago kamala harris actually played the hitler card when referencing donald trump check it out
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donald trump's former chief of staff john kelly a retired four-star general confirmed that while
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donald trump was president he said he wanted generals like adolf hitler had
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donald trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the united states constitution
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he wants a military that is loyal to him he wants a military who will be loyal to him personally first
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of all trump did not say that but never mind but more to the point you have lost the room when you
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compare someone to adolf hitler it's not that such a comparison can never be made if for example someone
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is hell-bent on world conquest and carrying out a genocide then a hitler comparison well that's fair
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game but does that sound like donald trump to you really in fact the precise opposite is true i can think
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of no other president since the establishment of the state of israel in 1948 who has been
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a greater champion for the jewish state and for jews the world over trump moved the u.s embassy from
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tel aviv to jerusalem he was the driving force behind the abraham accords more recently he has repeatedly
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encouraged israel to wipe out the islamist terrorist group that is hamas whereas kamala ceasefire harris
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would prefer that you know you don't use the descriptor islamist terrorists as if such a
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creature does not exist and let's not forget that when benjamin natanahu addressed a joint session of
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congress back in july harris snubbed israel's prime minister by being a no-show unbelievable but then
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again not really given that kamala is a supporter of the river to the sea crowd and despite the backlash
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she received regarding the hitler comparison well kamala doubled down on the vilification of trump
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during a cnn town hall meeting on wednesday night here check it out you yourself have not used that
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word to describe him let me ask you tonight do you think donald trump is a fascist yes i do yes i do
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you know folks when you call a political rival hitler when you call a political rival a fascist when you are
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hell-bent on demonization rather than debate is it any wonder that there are crackpots out there
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who have tried to assassinate trump at least twice in recent months kamala harris and her ilk are evil
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it is they who are the hate mongers in the final analysis the movie being there ends with the
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intellectually infantile chauncey gardner seemingly headed to the oval office as the screen fades to black
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it appears that in all likelihood an imbecile is going to become the next president of the united
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states of america it's preposterous it's baffling yet being there is a work of fiction it's a social satire
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but the question arises if kamala harris is actually successful somehow in winning the election
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some 10 days from now could it be that being there was 45 years ahead of its time was author jersey
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kosinski prescient did he actually foresee something that could actually occur in america
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in america in the movie the possibility of chauncey gardner becoming president plays out as comedy
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given the stakes does this qualify as horror or tragedy maybe both
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well folks things are really heating up for stefan gibault the minister of the environment and
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climate change for starters gibault faces heightened scrutiny amid accusations of negligence
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surrounding the devastating wildfire earlier this year in jasper alberta parliamentary hearings have
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revealed troubling details including that 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters were turned away during the blaze
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allegations have also surfaced regarding improper fire hydrants in the town which were found to lack the
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correct adapters hindering firefighting efforts as a result an estimated 358 of jasper's
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1 113 structures were destroyed representing nearly one-third of the town's buildings and about one
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billion dollars worth of property damage compounding the controversy is a scandal involving circle capital
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a company where gibault worked for 10 years as an advisor and in which he still holds shares the company
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reportedly received 200 million dollars in subsidies from the government's green slush fund raising
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significant concerns about conflicts of interest and potential misuse of taxpayer money well a few days ago my
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colleague alexa lavoie she confronted gibault at a fundraising event to try and get some answers
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and shockers and shockers gibault deferred to the silent treatment mostly refusing to answer questions about
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his involvement regarding the circle capital subsidies nor his handling of the jasper wildfire how odd
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didn't the justin trudeau liberals promise almost a decade ago that this government was going to be the
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most transparent government in canadian history oh well yet another broken promise it would seem and
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joining me now is our quebec-based colleague alexa laval how are you doing there alexa i'm pretty good and you
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david menzay oh i'm always good i'm that much better whenever you uh hop on uh the show and uh speak to me alexa great job
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uh the other day in trying to scrum uh mr gibault and so many things unpack here but first things first
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alexa the town of jasper is facing a catastrophic wildfire and yet 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters
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the ironic part is when steven gilbo is actually um pleasing himself saying how much they did a good
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job over there while 30 percent of the town burned down uh in jasper um there were a huge lack of
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negligence uh regarding if it's not the fire hydrants why they turned away a crucial support crucial help
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to extinguish the fire we talk about 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters also the liberal government
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knew for multiple years about the risk of fire regarding the dead tree that they should have removed
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through the year and they had people warning them that if there is a fire they would not be able to
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handle it so i think seven gilbo had to answer a couple of questions it's why i came all the way to
00:37:29.520
quebec to try to catch him at the cosmos lorier in saint-foy and uh obviously he pretended to be on the
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phone when i arrived while i didn't really hear him speaking once really to someone else in the phone so
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i think it was just a tactic to try to because i'm a nice person i'm a nice girl so usually i would
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not interrupt someone in the phone so but this time i was like it's sure that he's pretending to be on
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the phone so i need to continue to ask my question and why i choose english is because the people who
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want answer about the fire live in the west coast and those people are english canadian and they have
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to have answer and accountability from those politicians but in the video you will see if
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you watch it already or not um mr gilbo answered me the only thing that he answered me at the beginning
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was uh we are in quebec so you can speak in french but while i changed in french he didn't answer
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anyway and you know alexa i'm gonna throw to the clip of you scrumming mr gilbo in a second but i just
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want to get back to what might have been the unspoken reason why 20 water trucks and 50 firefighters
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were turned away when they were crucially needed and as you mentioned in your report um there was
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adaptability issues with the fire hydrants there and the way i look into it and please tell me if
00:39:10.640
i'm going down the wrong path here alexa i think they didn't want those firefighters to find out that
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there were compatibility issues that they couldn't hook up to the hydrants but what an incredibly flawed
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strategy because all of this came out in the inquiry anyways what what say you but it tell me the
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same thing uh they wanted to hide something that was improper but in the same time uh they knew they
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will have an investigation afterwards on the fire since it was just a big 30 of the town being destroyed
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so of course people will want to have some answer of how all this was endowed and if it was in a proper way
00:40:01.040
and obviously what we hear so far in parliamentary hearing was just exposing negligence and also the fact
00:40:12.480
that the government were aware of the problem the issue that was pending on the head of the population over
00:40:21.360
jasper and really that's my point alexa if that was a cover-up they even failed in the cover um but
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you know what before we go on folks i'm going to throw to a clip it's alexa love law in all her glory
00:40:35.520
scrumming the minister uh spoiler alert didn't go well check it out mr gilbeau have a question for you
00:40:42.640
i was just wondering are you in the caucus revolt yeah but are you in the in the caucus revolt or do
00:40:51.840
you still believe that justin chudeau is doing a great job yeah but you have the right to answer
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like some question mr gilbeau mr gilbeau knowing that there is 20 water truck and 50 firefighters
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being turned away in jasper mr gilbeau you have to answer we know now that 20 water water truck and 50
00:41:15.440
firefighters were turned away in jasper was that to hide the improper fire hydrant in the town site
00:41:23.920
if not can you explain why they were turned away mr mr gilbeau mr gilbeau you worked for a company
00:41:31.840
for 10 years as an advisor and you still have share on it and they received 200 millions of dollars in
00:41:40.800
subsidies mr gilbeau can you explain to canadian the abuse can you explain to canadian the abuse of tax
00:41:48.000
payer money okay pouvez-vous expliquer aux canadiens monsieur gilbeau l'abus de l'utilisation de l'argent
00:41:55.520
des contribuables pour le donner à vos compagnies comme circle capital qui vous avez
00:42:01.680
donné 200 millions de dollars en subventions pouvez-vous leur expliquer l'abus de l'utilisation
00:42:08.080
de cet argent-là pouvez-vous l'expliquer pour bénéficier non seulement vous mais
00:42:18.160
20 20 water truck and 50 firefighters were turned away in jasper during the fire was that to hide the
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improper fire hydrants on the town side mr gilbeau and if not why they were turned away mr gilbeau
00:42:39.120
why you don't want to answer that question mr gilbeau you work for circle capital as
00:42:46.960
an advisor for 10 years mr gilbeau no another white right wing i'm asking it's a good guy
00:42:56.640
i'm not uh i'm not uh wait uh what you said i don't know why
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i just i just want you to answer a quick question
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alors s'il vous plaît monsieur gilbeau a à répondre à une petite question ça va prendre
00:43:14.560
une seconde monsieur gilbeau monsieur il y a 200 millions de dollars qui a été donné à une compagnie
00:43:20.160
pour laquelle vous avez travaillé dix ans comme advisor pouvez-vous juste répondre à cette question-là
00:43:24.960
pourquoi et je vais quitter après que monsieur gilbeau a répondu oui mais c'est une petite question monsieur
00:43:30.560
vous êtes capable de dire il y a plusieurs questions vous avez posé question qu'est ce que vous avez
00:43:35.040
pourquoi vous donner 200 millions je suis ministre de l'environnement mais c'est c'est moi je suis
00:43:40.040
ministre de l'environnement oui alors regardez dans toutes les subventions qui ont été données par
00:43:44.240
le ministre de l'environnement il n'y en a eu aucune qui sont allées à cette organisation là
00:43:47.680
un cerco capital aucune ministère de l'environnement 200 millions aucune subvention vous avez eu votre
00:43:54.320
réponse donc pourquoi il y a une investigation en ce moment sur l'investissement qui a été donné de 200
00:43:59.440
millions sur le capital j'ai répondu à votre question merci beaucoup mais je pense que vous
00:44:06.160
auriez davantage à répondre à nos questions quand on est avec vous au lieu de dans un événement privé
00:44:11.320
vous n'avez pas demandé d'entrevue jamais que vous acceptez monsieur gilbeau j'ai répondu à votre
00:44:16.960
question est-ce que vous acceptez habituellement nos invitations la prochaine fois je vous invite à
00:44:22.840
répondre à nos demandes d'entrevue merci bonne soirée monsieur gilbeau so there you go alex and you
00:44:32.680
alluded to this earlier i mean again so many things unpacked from that uh scrum but what was this
00:44:39.640
business where he said you know you're in quebec and you can't speak french what did he mean by that
00:44:46.920
because as you explained earlier um most of the people in jasper in alberta for that matter uh
00:44:53.560
they're anglophones uh that's why you were uh speaking english you're completely conversant
00:44:59.640
in french it is your mother tongue but why did he say that well first of all why politicians
00:45:07.320
are using french most of the time they know that uh the biggest part of canada doesn't speak french
00:45:14.840
and so everything that what they would say would not spread as as far as if it's in french because
00:45:23.480
you need someone to translate in english so the impact is not the same so choosing to speak in french
00:45:30.760
with me he knew already that uh my report or my coverage would not have been seen as much if it
00:45:39.640
was answering to me in english um also it's not really a good thing for him because most of their
00:45:47.080
supporters are still in the quebec so for my part is like you asked me to speak in french but right now
00:45:54.840
uh the only people who are still supporting you speak french so um maybe it's not that great for
00:46:01.880
you but when i arrived among their supporters um first of all there were not many i would say that
00:46:10.520
if there were 20 of them but i think it was way oh that that was empty by the way when i entered the
00:46:18.200
first couple of table was not part of the event it was really on the back of the restaurant okay
00:46:25.000
you mean they didn't even rent the whole facility no just the back of the restaurant where like you
00:46:31.640
used to have like private events but i arrived there i was like oh my god most of the place is empty
00:46:38.680
there is almost no people here and i was like keeping asking my question among all those supporters
00:46:46.840
and at the end i saw stephen gable was looking at me with like killing highs saying like i should
00:46:55.800
probably go and it was like keep keeping repeating it's a private event it's a private event i say i'm
00:47:02.840
going to live when you will answer this question and i was pretty surprised because they threatening me with
00:47:09.960
police at the end but at the beginning nobody tried to stop me or make me go away or try to to ask me
00:47:20.520
to live until really at the end where i was really facing uh stephen gilbo and at that moment i was
00:47:28.680
pressuring him regarding the 200 million dollars subsidies at circle capital a company who worked
00:47:36.520
for 10 years as a lobbyist and still have share in and i just asked him where the taxpayer money goes
00:47:46.600
why are you misusing abusing of taxpayer money to give to you and your liberal friends
00:47:53.080
and benefiting from it yeah and and you know what i and he did answer that question he said there was no
00:47:59.640
uh conflict one i'm not sure i believe that i think we might have to do a deep dive to make sure
00:48:06.360
he's telling the truth because you know don't tell me how i know this folks but some liberals well they
00:48:12.360
get a little liberal when it comes to telling the truth secondly alexa when it comes to a conflict of
00:48:19.560
interest there's the conflict of interest part but there is also the appearance of a conflict of
00:48:26.360
interest um which can be just as damning and you know so i don't understand uh unless it's strictly
00:48:35.000
financial why he's still hanging on to these shares your thoughts well first of all it's not a surprise
00:48:42.520
that the liberals are just getting their liberal friends having more benefit since they are in power
00:48:51.160
we saw them handling money to those companies those friends and it's why right now trudeau is falling
00:48:58.920
in the pole nobody wants him anymore and same his own caucus doesn't want him anymore so that prove
00:49:05.320
you right there that they are doing a wrong job they are doing everything in with the lack of
00:49:13.160
transparency we have a foreign interference um that is happening in canada we have multiple other issue
00:49:22.040
that we saw over the last nine years i think now it's time that the liberals step down
00:49:27.480
and they call for an election oh yeah uh well don't hold your breath on that although i think it might
00:49:34.040
be sooner rather than later i think there's more indicators it'll be a spring election uh the moment uh
00:49:41.640
jagmeet singh the co-prime minister gets enough time in to get his full two million dollar plus uh pension
00:49:49.080
which i believe is february of this of next year rather and uh by the way i should mention alexa
00:49:54.760
uh uh lincoln jay and i we were able to scrum um mr guibo several months ago he was in peterboro
00:50:02.440
uh for some sort of uh oppressor surprisingly he did talk to me but what i'm always fascinated when it
00:50:09.480
comes to these politicians who preach climate change is um how did they get to the event and why don't we
00:50:19.480
throw to a a clip of that right now mr guibo as you walk to your vehicle can i just
00:50:24.360
uh grab a year your government wants canadians to buy pricey evs to ride bicycles to use public
00:50:31.880
transit yet you get chauffeured around in fossil fuel vehicles why the double standard sir oh i
00:50:39.160
i took the train monday morning from montreal to quebec city and then i took the train back
00:50:44.760
from quebec city to montreal and this morning i took the train from montreal to oshawa and tomorrow
00:50:50.280
i'll be taking the train from oshawa back to montreal how did you get here today sir to this
00:50:55.800
residential neighborhood so what i'm saying is that i try to modulate my transportation as possible to
00:51:02.120
use active transportation when it's possible use public transit when possible and and to use a car
00:51:08.040
and as you probably know my service vehicle as environment and climate change minister is a fully
00:51:13.240
electric vehicle that's one of the few actually it's not for cabinet i mean it's not all vehicles
00:51:19.560
now all cabinet vehicles new purchases are either fully electric or are plug-in hybrids and mr guibo
00:51:27.240
what were you thinking last week when you said that the government would no longer invest in major road
00:51:32.520
projects how will canadians get around how will truckers get goods to market without roads i clarified
00:51:38.360
that i was speaking specifically about the project called the troisième in in quebec city just in
00:51:43.800
here in peterborough since 2015 we funded 18 road projects representing more than 20 million dollars
00:51:51.320
now is this a vehicle you're leaving in now the rav4 comes as a plug-in hybrid i know that why is this a
00:51:57.160
full fossil fuel gas burner thank you very much it's a hybrid this not a plug-in hybrid it's written here
00:52:03.640
hybrid but it doesn't have a green plate sir yeah so there you go uh stephen guibo tried to bamboozle
00:52:10.520
me by pointing out that that the toyota was a hybrid but it's not a plug-in hybrid it doesn't qualify
00:52:19.160
for the green plate because remember uh these are the type of politicians they're all about us taking out
00:52:26.120
a second mortgage on our homes to buy a tesla or something a full ev so um i guess he thought he could
00:52:33.640
you know pull the wool over my eyes but i i know a thing or two about cars just like last week when
00:52:38.600
we saw jagmeet singh show up at an event and he was in a 360 horsepower dodge durango rt full-size
00:52:49.800
suv eight cylinders fossil fuel burning what i'm getting at alexa in addition to the issues you brought
00:52:56.200
up that when it comes to climate change when it comes to this government spending tens and tens of
00:53:02.280
billions with a b billions of our money on ev battery plants that might turn out to be white
00:53:09.080
elephants they don't practice what they preach they are outrageous hypocrites your thoughts
00:53:15.160
just because they know it's not really effective do you see them running out of electricity in their
00:53:21.720
their their battery car in the middle of going somewhere or being chased by example you so um
00:53:29.800
they don't want that of course they don't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere where their car
00:53:35.160
cannot go further but you have david manzi knocking at the door unbelievable do as i say not as i do
00:53:42.200
one law for the one law for me and by the way alexa your video is doing really well i was strolling
00:53:47.720
through the uh the comments and i think the most prevalent comment was he meaning stephen gibault
00:53:55.160
he belongs in prison well that would be like a homecoming to him wouldn't it i mean he is a
00:54:00.120
convicted criminal is he not he is he is and this is the most surprising things how come this man who was
00:54:10.280
previously convicted was able to enter politics and be now a minister of something and especially
00:54:17.480
he is a former greenpeace how come we are giving activists who are not following the science
00:54:25.400
activists to take over a ministry well i would say this alexa it's because justin trudeau is the biggest
00:54:34.120
activist of them all you know he is far left that he is any you know he is not your classical liberal i
00:54:41.720
mean i even see former members of the liberal party mps like dan mctaig he was a liberal for 18 years
00:54:48.760
he denounces uh this government and justin trudeau uh stephen le drew the former president of the liberal
00:54:55.640
party of canada he denounces this government and justin trudeau um this isn't your father's liberal
00:55:03.400
party to uh steal a uh a general motors advertising tagline from the old oldsmobile brand here's the
00:55:11.240
big question uh alexa um that does this amount to a proverbial hill of beans at least within the next
00:55:18.840
year we're going to have an election is stephen gibault safe or not oh absolutely not i don't think we
00:55:28.440
will see against stephen gibault uh in power i think he needs to go back to greenpeace and do
00:55:34.600
something else well hopefully it won't be climbing the cn tower you know i wouldn't want him to fall
00:55:41.480
off that's a that's a pretty high structure uh but uh alexa what a wonderful report um can't wait to see
00:55:49.160
what happens in his writing and don't you worry i'll never lecture you i'll never mansplain you what
00:55:55.720
language to speak whenever we're together how outrageous was that you have a great weekend my
00:56:02.200
friend and uh keep the hits coming well folks tons of feedback has come in regarding our latest caper
00:56:16.920
with our jumbotron equipped truck namely we went down to cbc headquarters in toronto and basically
00:56:24.600
demanded via our video presentation on our truck that cbc president and ceo catherine tate give back
00:56:35.000
the money and the money we speak of is that when she went to paris in the summertime she stayed at a
00:56:42.520
one thousand dollar a night hotel room and even though she makes a half million in salary
00:56:49.560
and bonuses well she billed that hotel stay to you unbelievable dunn writes we love the cbc
00:56:59.240
but can't name a show on cbc what a joke tate was on a personal trip and she needs to reimburse
00:57:07.720
canadians indeed you know folks that was one of my questions for those few cbc supporters we found out
00:57:14.600
there what's your favorite cbc show the only one that was named was hockey night in canada hardly
00:57:22.520
original hammy wood writes i'm sick of listening to these people who think they are deserved of
00:57:30.120
spending any amount of taxpayers money as they truly believe they are privileged sickening and trudeau
00:57:37.480
needs to be financially investigated as well and you know i can tell you my friends when rebel news when
00:57:43.800
we reach out for funding a campaign uh for funding our journalism our haters always mock us they go
00:57:53.000
oh look at that rebel news begging again but let me tell you something i think this is the most honest
00:57:59.560
way to raise funds there is if you want to give to us fine if you don't well more than 95 percent of
00:58:07.320
our content is online and is free but what the cbc does as well as mainstream media outlets now under
00:58:15.880
trudeau they just take a direct deduction out of your bank account every two weeks where is the ethics
00:58:24.120
where is the accountability in that can man writes 230 cab ride from young street to willowdale avenue
00:58:35.880
is one hell of a ripoff oh my goodness that is incredible for those who know toronto that's not
00:58:44.600
a very bad distance i don't know if that is entitlement in terms of i don't know getting a cab that is
00:58:52.040
actually a stretch limousine or given that toronto is the third has the third worst traffic in the
00:58:58.920
world and the worst traffic in north america that is a scathing indictment of how much it costs
00:59:06.760
to just travel a few kilometers thanks to gridlock unbelievable well folks thank you so much for tuning
00:59:15.000
in to this edition of the ezreal event show the big boss man ezra he will be back on monday i hope you
00:59:22.440
all have a wonderful and festive weekend and as always stay safe and stay sane