EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC deplores 'unfair' media coverage of lavish exec bonuses
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Shame on you, you censorious bug. Newly revealed emails obtained by a Blacklock reporter show executives at the CBC whining about what they call unfair coverage from other media outlets regarding the company s executive bonus program. According to these emails, the bonuses are actually more than $14 million a year.
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new year new you same old justin trudeau and the cbc neither one of them care for any more
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scrutiny it's january 2nd 2025 i'm sheila gunner-reed but you are watching the ezra
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newly revealed emails obtained by black locks reporter show executives at the cbc whining
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about what they call unfair coverage from other media outlets regarding the cbc's executive bonus
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program imagine that canada's entitled billion dollar plus taxpayer funded bloated behemoth of
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a state broadcaster is upset that their buddies in the media dared to report the truth about their
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14.9 million dollars in bonuses and let me just stop you right here that 14.9 million dollars
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that they spent in executive bonuses performance bonuses if you can imagine that it's actually more
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money than the cbc spends on indigenous language programming so next time the cbc tells you that
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there would be no indigenous language programming if not for them well i mean even they don't think that
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and when did these bonuses get handed out well right when the cbc was slashing 346 jobs crying poor at
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parliamentary hearings and watching their ad revenue plummet yet somehow they found millions of dollars
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for executive payouts you make about half a million dollars and uh plus you haven't ruled out bonuses so maybe more than that
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um would market rates mean that executive vice presidents may be on salary for over a million bucks a year
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if you are competing in the ecosystem as you described it are you having to pay potentially
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executive vice presidents a million dollars a year i think um um uh the deputy shampoo raised this question
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with me last appearance when we talked about the compensation at belt and at um other um divya and
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other media companies we are not paying anywhere near as i said we stay to about 50 percent of market rates
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gotcha so could you confirm how many cbc employees may be earning in the range of your salary or higher
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i don't believe anybody at cbc radio canada has a base salary higher than mine what about if you
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factored in bonuses would there be salaries that would be comparable to yours uh yes there would be at
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the executive vice president level okay so um would there be any indicators in your business performance
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that would cause you to consider that you might be overpaying some of your employees based on the
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performance of the organization are there any indicators that would cause concern uh in your mind
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to overpayment for what the cbc is producing and what the outcomes absolutely not as i've said before we
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do an annual review with the board of directors with outside experts to check on that very question
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we're constantly mapping salaries right through the unaffiliated groups to look at um that they're
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that they are as i said at a 50 percentile again performance bonuses what is the level
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of performance that you'd have to hit to not qualify for a performance bonus now according to these emails
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chuck thompson the cbc's chief of staff had the audacity to complain that outlets like the canadian
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press didn't give them quote enough time to explain the bonuses i think those bonuses explain themselves
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don't you and leon marr the cbc's director of media relations griped that cp had the nerve to report
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the facts based on publicly available records before waiting for cbc's spin doctors this isn't just
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entitlement it's a refusal to take accountability for what they're doing with your money but let's
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take a step back for a second this isn't the cbc's first scandal and we know it won't be their last
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until they are mercifully defunded post october 2025 just two months ago in november of 2024 the ethics
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commissioner fined katherine tate the cbc's ceo for conflict of interest violations what a liberal
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thing to do it's true the head of our taxpayer funded state broadcaster violated ethics rules
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just like her bosses in the liberal party tate had undisclosed dealings that created conflicts of
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interest all while sitting at the top of an organization that constantly cries about being
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underfunded and let's not forget tate isn't exactly scraping by the woman's not hard pressed
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out there she's raking in nearly five hundred thousand dollars a year best guess she won't
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divulge her salary and we know she gets a performance bonus for being the ceo of a failing state broadcaster
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on top of that and yet she has the gall now to go to parliament and ask for an additional 500 million
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annually because in her words the cbc is quote not out of the woods uh minister when the uh ceo of cbc
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miss tate and the board appeared before this committee the board made it clear that they approved
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of her performance as the ceo of the public broadcaster but it was also made clear that it
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is your call whether or not she gets a bonus my question when the board made clear that they approve
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of her performance do you and will you be planning on awarding ms tate a bonus
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for now i can tell you that the decision has not been made yet i'd remind you also that the
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privacy act means that we can't disclose the details of people's pays and contracts
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so the decision has not been taken and we'll continue to look at the uh issue in light of
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ms tate's performance but here's where it gets even better or worse depending on how much patience
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you have for this kind of waste and i am completely out of it catherine tate racked up thousands of
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dollars in expenses for a trip to paris to attend the olympics while already on a holiday in france
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ms tate i just want to clarify a couple of things that i heard today uh so first did you say that you
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were on a personal trip to france decided to extend your vacation go to the olympics and then bill the
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taxpayer for it is that correct i was on a personal trip to france and i did not bill the taxpayer for
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my flight or travel from canada what did you bill the taxpayer for the hotel and the train to get to
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paris where does your personal trip and and your the day i taxpayer billing begin when i as part of my
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job being at the at the opening of the olympics was absolutely expected of me so i interrupted my
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holiday and took the four days to go to the olympics could you understand why that sounds concerning to
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somebody just because you know bit of a weird situation where you get to go on a trip you're
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having your personal time and then you just unilaterally get to decide what becomes work and what
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doesn't well not if i'm not charging the company for the trip but you did charge the taxpayer six
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thousand dollars correct when i was working in paris i did yes and but could you understand why it'd be
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concerning i would think that it would be concerning that i would be decision it would be concerning if
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the ceo of cbc radio canada did not attend the opening of the olympics given him it was one of the
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most important events of our calendar year yes while canadians are struggling to make ends meet
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tate was whining and dining and flying at the taxpayer's expense to the city of light and what
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was the purpose of this trip cbc isn't even the lead broadcaster for the olympics anymore by the way
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what woods are the cbc in catherine canadians are the ones not out of the woods quite yet canadians are
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struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living families are tightening their belts businesses
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are laying off employees and our economy is on shaky ground at best and those are all due to the
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trudeau policies that cbc acts as apologists for and while canadians are forced to make sacrifices the
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cbc is padding executive salaries cruising around first class and demanding more money your money with
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zero accountability let's not forget that cbc topped the canadian taxpayers federation's naughty list
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this year why because of their blatant disregard for transparency and their insatiable appetite for
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taxpayer dollars it's not enough that they already receive 1.4 billion dollars a year from us they
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want more these hungry hungry hippos and let's talk about declining viewership fewer and fewer canadians are
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tuning into the cbc and honestly can you blame them with programming that feels more like propaganda than
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journalism canadians are tuning into other sources for news and entertainment but instead of addressing
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the root of their problems cbc insists it's the fault of quote financial challenges in the media
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industry no cbc the phone call is coming from inside the house the problem is you and here's another
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kicker catherine tate and her executive team expect ordinary canadians to believe they're running a tight
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ship over at the cbc but of course while ordinary canadians are facing layoffs and rising costs cbc
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executives are handing out millions and bonuses charging taxpayers for luxurious trips and then
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whining about media outlets exposing it now here's a thought what if the cbc embraced accountability for
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once what if they acknowledged the trust canadians have placed in them is broken what if they actually
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delivered on their mandate as a public broadcaster what if instead of funneling millions of dollars
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into executive pockets they invested in programming that reflected the values and voices of everyday
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canadians and not the values and voices of everyday canadians that vote for justin trudeau but no
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instead of reforming the cbc doubles down just look at their push for more funding under the trudeau
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government this is not about serving canadians this is about serving themselves
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canadians are fed up and rightly so cbc has become a bloated unaccountable organization that
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serves its executives more than the public you guys know how i feel canada should have
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no public broadcaster at all and the most successful campaign to defund the cbc is led by catherine tate
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herself every time she opens her mouth sink or swim on your own cbc uh independent third party
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organizations that analyze this indicate that trust in the cbc fell 17 percent in just four years
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viewership is down less than three percent in prime time markets that means during prime time when when
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when canadians are getting into the living rooms to watch what is on tv 97 percent of canadians
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say no to the cbc tune it out and move on to other things based on all of that miss tate i just want
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to say on behalf of the conservative party i want to thank you for your efforts in helping us promote
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the campaign to defund the cbc because i think outside of the conservative caucus you have been the
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most successful person in creating the demand to defund the cbc 1.4 billion dollars of taxpayers money
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doesn't go for an online streaming service it goes to a whole host of products in which canadians are
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choosing other sources of information and entertainment so again i don't really have a question there i just
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wanted to say thank you for your efforts to help us defund the cbc
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did you have a comment i must say that it really does shock me the extent to which certain members of
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this committee and and subs in or whatever you call it seem to make me the target and throw insults to
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my tenure at cbc radio canada in order to discredit the organization the organization has stood for 90
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years and we know 79 percent of cf canadians say they believe that cbc radio canada should continue and
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so to to have this be uh somehow uh um uh you know a proof that uh that deep that we should be defunding
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the cbc is ridiculous you know what else i think cbc will get that extra half a billion from trudeau
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he needs the help from his biggest cheerleaders who will polish his
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lies and failures like their jobs depend on it because with a conservative promise to defund the
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cbc their jobs do depend on trudeau getting re-elected canadians should read and watch the cbc
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with that awareness with that warning label on it post media columnist lauren gunter joins the show
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next to discuss trudeau's fortunes in 2025 stay with us
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joining me now is good friend of the show lauren gunter columnist for post media and he's got a
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really great article detailing just the absolute desperation of the trudeau liberals his biggest
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apologists up until about 30 seconds ago are turning on him real quick last time i had lauren
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on the show we discussed how i i didn't think at the time i don't think lauren thought at the time
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either that the liberals were going to call an election because they could lose now or lose later
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lauren has your prediction changed no and and despite the fact now that trudeau's ontario caucus his
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atlantic caucus and his quebec caucus have all suggested that he uh formally suggested that he resign
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uh i i still think he thinks he can hold on and he alone has the moral authority the moral oomph uh and
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the charisma to turn their fortunes around and and prevent that dastardly pierre polyev from becoming uh from
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uh from becoming prime minister i mean their their whole modus operandi right now seems to be that
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well at least we're not polyev and so if we can convince the canadian public that polyev is as bad
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as we know he is then there is still hope that we can pull this election out of the fire but that's pure
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delusion i mean that that that that goes against what we all witnessed in november in the united states
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right which was where you know all of the mainstream media in the united states and and we can say how
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bad our media is in canada and how biased it is and lots of times that's true i have never seen the kind
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of cheerleading and bias that we saw for kamala harris among abc nbc cbs i've never seen that kind of bias
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it was it was unapologetic i mean they they they would basically say yes well we're really in the bag
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for harris and the democrats uh and so we're going to just lie through our teeth about how wonderful she is
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because they actually believed it they actually believed that they had found someone who could
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stop donald trump from becoming president for a second time and i think we're going to see the
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same kind of reaction in canada where people in a lot of the media outlets are going to say well
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okay true is awful he's terrible but you know at the beginning he was fabulous and he could be
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fabulous again and at least he's not polyev uh expect the cbc to do that from beginning to end
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from morning to night because polyev has said if he gets elected their funding is gone period there
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won't be a cbc unless it can be individually or privately funded so yes i think it's the same thing but
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even though he's been abandoned by most of his caucus trudeau i think is going to come back from
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this ski trip snowboarding trip that he's been on over the the holidays and decide he's going to stay
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yeah i think so too i think the problem might be that there's no real successor that isn't already
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tainted by trudeau's nonsense i mean you you could say oh they're lining up mark carney um but he sort
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of left trudeau holding the bag after freeland was uh quit fired and freeland herself i mean she
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thinks she's going to survive this firestorm unscathed that's why she's staying on as an mp
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but again up until about 30 seconds ago she was trudeau's biggest enabler she was the doer that was
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inflicting all the bad policies on us and she's not a great candidate no people who are in the press
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gallery in ottawa don't like asking her questions they don't like going to her press conferences
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because she doesn't seem not only does she not answer questions all politicians don't answer questions
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she said they claim she doesn't seem to understand the questions so it's very frustrating to interview
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her it's very frustrating to ask her questions in the scrum and it's and it's it's fascinating that she
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thinks she's going to have the uh appeal to become leader herself i i think that's what's the problem
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with the liberals from top to bottom is that they overestimate their own appeal they overestimate their
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appeal as individuals they overestimate their appeal as a party because they've never had to work hard
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to become the government in canada they have been periodically voted out of office
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uh so that they would go out and renew and come back uh a little more in touch with ordinary people
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this time they are so completely out of touch one of the examples i gave in the column that you
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referenced at the beginning about how desperate they are uh is from a guy named adam vaughn who was a
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liberal mp for two terms uh from central toronto and he said well you can use crime stats to try and
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scare people into voting you the way conservatives do but we know that they crime always went up under
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conservatives and even though they complain about bail and and criminal justice it's up to the people
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who believe in social justice to solve the crime no we've had nine years where we emphasize social
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justice to try and reduce the crime rate in canada and the result has been in nine years under the
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liberals violent crime has gone up 44 44 and there's an average of about 200 people a year
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killed in canada by someone who is out on bail or some other form of early release because they
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changed the bail laws in 2019 so that judges cannot keep people in jail you can be up for the your second
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or third or fourth violent crime and judges have real trouble finding any way of keeping you behind
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bars until your trial so you go out and you kill somebody else or you or you assault someone or you
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you you rape somebody it the the crime rate in this country now according to a study that's coming
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in in the new year from the fraser institute the violent crime rate now is 14 percent higher
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on a per capita basis than it is in the united states oh wow and people say to me well that can't
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be possible we see about all the crime against what you see in the united states are 20 or 30 communities
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and usually parts of 20 or 30 cities that have very violent very high violent crime rates that's fine
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but most of the united states is actually quite peaceful uh it's funny of course the the two most
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heavily armed states in the united states are georgia and north dakota and they have among the
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lowest crime rates when you get outside atlanta georgia is actually quite peaceful but i don't know
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there's a coincidence there between i think there is i think there is too but but i'm you know we have
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this idea that oh everyone has a gun so it's always violent everywhere in the united states is bad and
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it's mean it's terrible so it's not and the thing is now that among our large cities and the neighborhoods
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within them that have crime problems violent crime is now higher than it was when the higher than it is in
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the united states and much higher than it was when the liberals took over and yet the liberals will not
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believe that their emphasis on social justice over criminal justice has led to more crime and and
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you're going to see more and more and more of that i think between now and voting day in october because
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they really are delusional and that's why i think trudeau will come back from his holiday
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yep i think they will say to him look justin the time has come for you to go let's find
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an honorable exit for you let's not not make this look like we've pushed you out uh you'll go in
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march maybe sometime we will appoint an interim leader and that interim leader will go into the uh
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election this is actually a plot that was being hatched just before new year's among the liberals in
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ottawa trudeau would come back he would resign in march they would appoint an interim leader and
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the interim leader would go into the election and say yeah i'm not the real leader but you know vote
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for us and after the election we'll have a leadership race and we'll elect a leader and and and you know
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you're going to like that person like who in heaven's name even comes up with a scenario like that
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that's not going to happen they're not going to do that i do think they're going to eventually push
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trudeau i don't think trudeau will be their leader in the in the election although i think he could
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hang around for another two or three months i hope he does i hope he takes them into the election
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they'll be down to where kim campbell and the conservatives were after mo rooney resigned and
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they and she led them into election and got two seats i you know i i don't see downtown toronto
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downtown ottawa downtown montreal might still vote uh big time for the liberals or or solidly for the
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liberals it's not like the by-elections it's not like toronto saint paul back in the summertime which
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the liberals lost and even though it was very safe city because you cannot concentrate the opposition
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cannot concentrate all of its resources on every riding they can concentrate them in one riding so for
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a by-election they can embarrass you but i do think you know the liberals might slip out with 15 17 21
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seats uh if trudeau were leading them but if it's the pig and the poke party vote for us even though
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you don't know who our leader is uh they could be down in single digits like it's just insane and
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that's how desperate they are it's a measure of that the fact that they would think through a scenario like
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that as though it were plausible right is it is a sign of just how desperate they really are
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well and the absolute delusion that they think canadians would vote for a party without
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actually knowing who the prime minister would be at the end of it all yep well you know i i saw that
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something the other day from uh one of the mainstream media uh types there was they had a commentator
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on so the commentator is not necessarily indicative of the whole the whole network's thinking but they
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had somebody on and said well you know a green ndp coalition is possible after the what in heaven's
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name are you smoking um you know good lord that that is not a that's not a you come up with an idea if
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i type that into a column i would hope somebody at post media would say phone gunter up and tell
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him that he's got a great future as a barista because he is not writing any more columns for
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us like that that's positively ridiculous the conservatives are going to win there would have
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to be some huge scandal and even after that like i don't think so look at all the scandals that trump
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survived sure to win he didn't win a landslide this is his was not one of the greatest landslides in the
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history of presidential elections but it was a decisive victory and it was a decisive victory
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against all of the headwinds that the establishment could blow at him uh and i think the same thing
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similar is going to happen here we are not as conservative and freedom oriented uh an electorate
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as the americans are but i still think that people are just so fed up with the emergencies act being
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invoked on truck drivers who are in the freedom convoy in it people saying oh you're a bigot if you
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don't want uh trans women to compete in female sports uh it's you know we understand that all parents
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are knuckle-dragging uh neanderthals and so we can't tell them that their children are changing pronouns
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and names that's i mean all of this elite overthinking of every issue i think has finally caught up with
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them and i think you know that i i hope that pauliev and and his team bring up things like
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catherine tate at the cbc asking for another 500 million dollars for the cbc already gets 1.4 billion
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dollars from taxpayers and people are fed up with that stuff they cannot go to the grocery store
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right and by the kind of you know the nice slice of meat that they would like they have to settle for
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b grade um tougher they're not getting the pasta they would like they're not buying all of the
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fruits and vegetables they would want they're they're compromising on everything in their daily
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lives you know they're thinking about can we afford to go on a vacation this year and still drive our
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son or daughter who's on the rep team in their sport around during the winter season you know they
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have to make choices like that and they're fed up to hear with the kind of attitude that uh that the
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liberals have have been showing and their and the liberals friends in the media and so i i think the
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liberals are going to get desperate as their poll numbers continue to decline and everything they
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try the gst holiday whatever it is everything they try blows up in their faces well and i'm glad you
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brought up the american election because that kamala harris really had to campaign against herself
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being the solution for the problems that her administration has caused and i think trudeau
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finds himself in the exact same place you know he's got to admit yes crime is out of control yes we've
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been in charge for the last 10 years um yes maybe there is systemic racism but guess what we're also the
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system um he you know like how does he become the affordability solution when he's the guy who made
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life uh less affordable than ever how does he become the guy who deals with the housing crisis when he's
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the guy with the out of control immigration targets driving up the cost of housing so i i don't know how
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he gets around that kamala harris couldn't get around it either no and and um granted he is i think
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a more attractive individual than kamala harris was who is kamala harris i think one of the sourest
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candidates to run uh since 2016. since 2016. thank you. so hillary clinton you know i i to me i i'm not a
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big trump fan and people who've read and seen me talk about this know that to be a fact i would have voted for
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him in a heartbeat over clinton and over kamala harris and i had been really torn uh not to vote for for
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anybody in the in the 2020 election when biden was the option um so you know i but you get a sense for
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how sour those two candidates were and yet there was trudeau two weeks ago defending both of them and
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saying it was the inherent misogyny of american voters that kept them from being no it wasn't
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it was the inherent it was the inherent sense that american voters had that both of them were sour
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and they didn't want to have to put up with that for four years that's what turned people off and you
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know and and on top of that now this time i think in in 2024 there was the added revulsion for everything
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elite uh and she was an elitist candidate i mean she she did herself in when she was on 60 minutes
00:30:38.760
and she was asked was there anything during the biden years when you were vice president that you
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would have changed and she gave that thought she said no no i don't think there was it's the easiest
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thing in the world you maybe really believe that but it's the easiest thing in the world to say oh
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you know uh yeah there's a few things i think we did wrong and i'd like to do this differently on
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cost of living and i'd like to do that differently on um no no i think i work too hard and i care too
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much exactly you know and then and then and that the whole joy thing oh this is the campaign about
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joy yeah when you're the sourest candidate in the field it ain't about joy honey you know it's that's
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just the way it is and i think that the liberals have the same misguided sense of themselves of
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the electorate of the issues as the democrats did i think they're worse actually but canada is a more
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liberal electorate than the united states and they maybe have some hope of holding on to three cities
00:31:43.720
toronto ottawa montreal that's it i think you get more than 10 kilometers away from the cn tower
00:31:52.680
and people are not voting liberal in the greater toronto area that golden horseshoe i don't think
00:31:57.880
that's happening northern ontario is not going to vote southwestern ontario eastern ontario those are
00:32:03.720
all going to go conservative sometimes in the past they have gone ndp but that's another factor in this
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election is that the ndp have done themselves absolutely no good by propping up the liberals
00:32:17.160
for two years that it their current seat projections based on an agglomeration of all the polls would be
00:32:25.000
at just about the same level they were at last time probably a little bit lower there's 25 seats now i
00:32:30.680
think most of the polls show them at 18 to 20 seats they've done themselves no good they if if you're
00:32:36.680
going to get the liberal party even if you vote ndp what's the point of voting ndp and so all of the
00:32:44.280
people who are sick and tired of elitism and and the progressive agenda are now no longer voting either
00:32:52.520
ndp or liberal they have shifted over to the conservatives and that's going to have problems
00:32:57.880
for right you know you end up with a caucus of 250 mps you can't keep them all happy you know there's
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there's going to be bozo eruptions there's going to be bimbo eruptions there's like it's going to be
00:33:12.120
a massive problem for poliev to keep the lid on that group and keep them all happy but they're going
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to win a staggering majority if everything goes the way it's going now i for one cannot wait to have
00:33:35.000
his indigenous own ppe right right right he can go uh examine his cultural heritage he'll have all
00:33:41.000
the time in the world for that um lauren predictions for 2025 with the liberals i know we went through a
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little bit of them what do you think what's the timeline here um will we see uh trudeau jettisoned as
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the leader um will we see an early election are we going to go all the way to 2025 october i think
00:33:59.320
the liberals hope they can go all the way to october because they're they're going to ease trudeau out
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and that could take as long as i think march but it could take as long as may if it takes that long
00:34:12.920
then they're going to have to appoint an interim that interim is going to have to have at least three
00:34:16.840
or four months in order to campaign uh and and that takes us to october i i don't think we're going to
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see an early election because jagmit singh will not vote for a non-confidence motion that he does not
00:34:32.360
introduce himself i mean i think that's become obvious right he said oh i'll vote to get the uh
00:34:38.040
liberals out and then and then the conservatives very cleverly found this loophole where they can
00:34:44.920
introduce a non-confidence motion through one of the committees that's meeting during the
00:34:50.120
parliamentary recess this month and then by as early as january 30th there could be a non-confidence
00:34:56.360
motion in the commons well that's clever singh never expected that so he said oh no no i only meant
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i would vote for a non-confidence motion that we the nvp had introduced they don't have an opposition
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day because they're the third party they get very few they don't have an opposition day until
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sometime in march i think so we won't see them bring in a non-confidence motion until march my
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guess is they will by that time see the writing on the wall for trudeau they'll let the liberals go
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as long as trudeau is gone and we'll be limping all the way to october i like i hope i'm wrong i i hope
00:35:36.040
trudeau comes back you know we're recording this on january 2nd i hope trudeau comes back on january the
00:35:41.880
6th and says hey folks i've really enjoyed what i've done and i think i've accomplished a lot i'm
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out of here bye bye but that would be a that's my birthday that would be a perfect birthday present for
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me but i don't think i'm getting the birthday present i want from justin trudeau all i wanted
00:35:58.920
for christmas was a new prime minister but here we are lauren thanks so much for coming on the show
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and taking the time uh please before you go tell people where they can find your great work well
00:36:10.520
the best place to start looking is edmontonsun.com everything i write is there great stay with us
00:36:17.720
your letters to ezra read by me up after the break
00:36:31.720
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00:36:37.480
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00:36:42.760
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letters come to me by way of ezra's interview with lieutenant colonel david redmond on the purposeful
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destruction of the canadian military under prime minister justin trudeau we've all heard the stories
00:37:22.840
you know the canadian soldiers having to share 40 year old sleeping bags soldiers deployed to latvia without
00:37:31.080
proper body armor or helmets our servicemen and women forced to go to the food bank because they're not
00:37:45.240
being paid enough to survive and justin trudeau's inflationary canada and i'm not a conspiracy theorist but
00:37:56.120
i am a conspiracy realist and if you think canada is a post national state and that borders shouldn't
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exist so why would you need a military to defend your borders and if you believe that there are no
00:38:13.480
such thing as shared canadian ideals to defend at home and abroad well of course why would you why
00:38:20.040
would you think you needed a military a fully functioning military at all on ezra's interview
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with lieutenant colonel redmond a little bo peep 240 writes my family fought in world war one world
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war ii and in korea and afghanistan i'm proud of their sacrifice i spoke with american soldiers and they
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stood by and said they were glad to stand with canadian soldiers now it seems what they fought for was wiped
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out in nine years sir thank you for your service we canadians stand with you it seems as though
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every time there's a liberal in power the canadian military is subject to a decade of darkness and
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uh i think we're there again and it i i'm not sure if the canadian military will ever be able to
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crawl its way out of the hole the the hole that justin trudeau dug and then shoved it in and
00:39:16.040
then tried to throw dirt on the body what's in your head right as a caf vet the canadian military has
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been broken for a very long time uh i would agree with that um i have many veteran friends who tell
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me if you know a young person who is interested in going into the military do not allow them to go into
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this military because uh it's broken unsafe and does not respect the young men and women who would
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sign up to wear a canadian military uniform and then ultimately be willing to die in defense of canadian
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ideals jocelyn como 6572 writes my father died for this country and i'm so sad to see what happened to
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our military and our country there are a lot of families i think who feel the exact same way that
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the sacrifices of the men and women before uh just being washed away disrespected stuff in a hole
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by justin trudeau and his woke crazy dei policies i know a young man who despite my best efforts to
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convince him away from it uh is joining the military he will leave for basic training
00:40:41.720
in just a few short days and if he had been gay they would have taken him sooner and this is a young
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man who works out religiously runs in a weighted vest just for fun takes his health and fitness very
00:41:01.720
seriously he is an elite specimen of the young canadian male and he was bumped down down down because
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apparently he didn't check the right identity box and what does that have to do with being able to
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defend canadian ideals what does your sexuality have to do with that i think when you bring people into the
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military uh in a preferential way based on dei policies uh that makes everybody less safe
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but especially the people serving gordon smith 9369 writes as a proud canadian and supporter of our armed
00:41:53.720
forces that was tough to hear we can't get rid of this poisonous liberal government fast enough gordon
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from your lips to god's ears the clock is ticking on the liberals uh the latest we'd have to wait of
00:42:09.560
course as i said several times in the show today is october 2025 i don't know if justin trudeau can hang
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on that long i mean he's gonna try he's got this stranglehold on power he feels entitled he thinks it's
00:42:25.880
his hereditary right it's his inheritance to be the prime minister of canada it's not something he does
00:42:32.920
because he loves this country and wants to serve it um he he thinks we are here to serve him so it
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couldn't end quick enough for all of us well everybody that's the show for today thanks for tuning in
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to the first uh not pre-recorded uh ezra levant show of 2025 here's to many more happy new year
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and as my boss ezra always says keep fighting for freedom