EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ezra Levant visits Nova Scotia searching for 'coward' MP Chris d'Entremont
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In this episode, we go to Nova Scotia to find the politician who flipped from a conservative to a liberal, and now is hiding. And what do his voters have to say about it? That's what we asked a man on the street in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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Oh, hi everybody. I went to Nova Scotia. Oh, what a lovely place. You know, if you haven't
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been, you've got to go. We flew to Halifax, then we drove to Yarmouth. Why? Because the
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local MP there who was elected a conservative just a few weeks ago, in fact, he was pounding
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away at Mark Carney and the liberals just a few weeks ago. Well, he flip-flopped. He
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changed sides. He defected to the liberals. So we wanted to go see if we could track him
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down and see what his voters had to say about it. That's today's show. I really want you
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to get the video version, not just the audio version, because I want to show you how lovely
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Nova Scotia is. I want to show you what happened when we went to his constituency office. And
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Tonight, we're in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, looking for the member of parliament that flipped from
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a conservative to a liberal and now is hiding. It's November 20th, and this is the Ezra LeVant
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You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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Hi, everybody. Ezra LeVant here in beautiful Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Oh, just the drive from
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Halifax, where we landed at the airport, to here, just about three hours. It's so lovely.
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It's a reminder how big Canada is and how once you get out of the ugly big cities, it's so
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picturesque. And Yarmouth itself is such easy living. It's near the water. I'm sort of jealous
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because, you know, I'm in Toronto these days, but I'm not jealous of their politics. You
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know, their local member of parliament here, Chris Dantremont, ran, as he has for several
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elections now, as a conservative. And he ran loyally as a Pierre Polyev conservative. And
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just a few weeks ago, he was letting a rip in parliament about why he did not trust Mark
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Carney's liberals and why he stood with Pierre Polyev's conservatives. Here's a clip of that.
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I want to speak in support of the conservative motion because Canadians are hurting. Families
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are being forced to cut deeply into their grocery budgets just to get by. And frankly, that makes
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Canada is a wealthy country, but under this liberal government, it's being mismanaged. Taxpayers
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are being squeezed and their hard-earned money is being wasted.
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In southwest Nova Scotia, where I have lived my entire life, people work hard. They want
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to own a home, feed their children, provide a good education to them, and maybe take a vacation
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every once in a while. But you know what? Since 2015, everything changed. Since I was first elected
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here in 2019, the cost of living has skyrocketed. Even then, families in West Nova, it was called
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at the time, but in Nakedi Annapolis, were struggling. We warned that liberals that are out of control
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spending and massive deficits were irresponsible. But of course, they didn't listen. And now,
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after six months under a new prime minister who promised financial discipline, Canadians are
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still waiting. He said he'd be judged by the cost at the grocery store. Well, Mr. Speaker,
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Canadians are judging him, and they are not impressed. Instead of delivering relief, this
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government delayed its budget. So we're still waiting for a budget. We haven't seen a budget
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in a year and a half. Why? Because it's projecting an over $92 billion deficit. That's a monstrous,
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irresponsible burden on future generations. We'll hear it. We'll hear it, I'm sure, maybe
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the questions, that they're talking about a generational investment. But Mr. Speaker,
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what it really is, is a generational debt. That my kids, their kids, and their kids' kids
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are going to have to try to pay in one way or another. That causes inflation and extra costs
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to future generations. That was literally a couple of weeks ago. But then two things changed. The first
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is, well, Chris Dantremont wanted to be the deputy speaker of the house, which is a pretty plum perk.
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It means you get more pay, more staff, and you get to go to more ceremonial functions. It's also
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often a precursor to one day being the speaker himself, which is a very highly paid position,
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comes with a special house, even an apartment in on the center block of parliament itself.
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It's an incredible perk. And it looked like Chris Dantremont wasn't going to get it. So he wasn't going
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to make as much money as he thought he would. And don't think for a second that wasn't on his mind,
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because as I showed you a moment ago, he said he hates Mark Carney and Carney's spending in debt.
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Well, all it took was a friendly phone call from the Liberals. And Chris Dantremont, who short
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months ago ran in this neighborhood as a conservative, well, he followed his pocketbook. He followed the
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money and he became a Liberal. Look at him being embraced. Have you ever seen Mark Carney so joyous
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this before? Look at Chris Dantremont go and join the Liberals.
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Now, I don't have anything inherently against people switching parties if there's an important reason
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to do so. Many of us have switched parties in our lives, especially where I'm from in Western Canada.
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The Conservative Party, remember, used to be the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party,
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which broke off from the Conservatives years before. I'm not against party switching. Winston
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Churchill himself switched parties on at least one occasion. But there's ideological reasons or
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practical reasons or political reasons for that, not just personal ambition and frustration and greed.
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And that's what Chris Dantremont did. We're here in Yarmouth trying to find the guy. And right over
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there in Lovett Plaza is his office. Let's go in and see if he's there. I have a hunch he's not going
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to talk to us. But we may as well try. Let's go take a look. Chris Dantremont, Member of Parliament for West Nova.
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And here's the sign taped to the door. Office hours, Monday to Thursday, 10 to 4. Please note,
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in-person service is available by appointment only. And it's completely locked. He's hiding from his own
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Hi, I'm Andrew LeVant. How are you? I'm great. I was just looking at the sign that says it's closed with no
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appointment. Is, is Mr. Dantremont not doing any, any, is he in Ottawa? How's it been these last couple
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of weeks? Yeah. What do people say? Is it tough? Is it a, it's tough? I'm sorry to hear that. How would
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Oh, I think, I think she ran away and the, and she closed the door. I think I scared her off.
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That's that Nova Scotia way. Well, as you can see, I went in to see Chris Dantremont.
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The office was locked and there was a sign saying by appointment only. I had a brief but friendly
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chat with the lady in there who says it's been a hassle. Look, obviously I don't blame the staff
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for the decision obviously done by the boss. I'm sure that Chris Dantremont did not consult
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anybody other than maybe his close family and his investment manager. There's no way he would
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have talked to the local people here. They voted for him several times as a conservative. And as I
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said before, there was no compelling reason for him to switch parties. There was no great betrayal
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by Pierre Paldier. There was no important change by the liberals. Like I say, just a few weeks ago,
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Chris Dantremont was smashing the liberals in parliament. All that changed was his own greed.
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It doesn't surprise me. His lovely staff don't want to take the flack for it on TV. And I'm going
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to leave them alone. It's not them I'm looking for. It's Chris Dantremont who's in hiding.
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Have you heard that the local MP for these parts, Chris Dantremont, switched from
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liberals to conservative, conservative liberal? Yeah, he did. And what do you make of that?
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What a coward. I don't know. How do you switch sides that easily and that quickly? I don't know.
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It doesn't make sense to me, especially when the vote was so close here. But now the entire
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province is pretty much liberal. So I don't know. I think it was a coward, weak move. It just doesn't
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seem sensible to me. I think that he already had that in mind. So for the people that were supporting
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him, then I don't think that was right. No. As a young person who's kind of starting to pay a
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little bit closer attention just due to certain living circumstances, I think that him switching
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over to red just kind of paint something in the same color, if you know what I mean.
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Is it frustrating in the democracy like it was so quick after the election?
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It was kind of funny. You kind of think, well, how long have you been thinking about doing that?
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So how many terms with Trudeau were you thinking, oh, I think I want to switch over there,
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but you're still fighting the blue fight? It doesn't make sense.
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You know what? I love that you said that. It makes me feel so welcome. I mean,
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Nova Scotia is one of the friendliest places anyways, but I've had so many friendly people
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Well, I'm back in Toronto now. It was a whistle stop one day adventure. We got up at 4am to catch
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a 6am flight out to Nova Scotia. Then we rented a car. It was three and a half hours out to Yarmouth.
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We only had about an hour or so on the ground before we had to turn around and come home.
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We did stop super quickly in Digby for a quick bite, but I had so much fun meeting the people of
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Yarmouth. Oh my gosh, they were friendly. And there were a number of rebel fans there too.
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But most of the people we talked to did not support the... In fact, we didn't find anyone
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who supported... I don't think we saw anyone who supported Chris Dantremont switching sides. Now,
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a number of people were wearing some sort of uniform that day, some sort of a corporate lanyard or hat,
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and they said they didn't want to talk to us on the record because they didn't want to
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appear partisan when they were dressed in their corporate gear. So we only spoke to,
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you know, about three or four people on the record before we had to skedaddle. But look,
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it is clear. Everyone knows exactly what happened here. A conservative MP who didn't get the,
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you know, boost in pay that he wanted, realized he could be treated like a star and he'll get some
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reward by crossing the floor. He put himself above his constituents. I thought it was pretty gross.
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By the way, we've set up a little website called firechris.ca. And if you think that Chris Dantremont
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has done the wrong thing and that he should quit, and if he wants to run again in a by-election, do it,
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where he's crossing the floor is the issue. You can't run for public office and then weeks later,
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switch sides. I think that's a betrayal of democracy. Anyways, it's great to be back, but I sure
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loved the visit and talk about friendly people. One last anecdote before I go. You know, we do
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streeters or man on the street bids. Sometimes they're called Vox Pop or Vox Populi. And in
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places like Toronto, they're tough to do. You know, you go to Young Dundas Square, which is like the
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Times Square of Toronto, and you try and get people to stop and talk to you. And maybe one in five people
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will stop. Most other people actually brush you off or even swear at you. They say F off when you try and
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talk to them. I mean, sure, they're busy, and Toronto's a busy place. But in Yarmouth,
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not a single person did that. Every one of them was happy to talk. And if they couldn't stop to
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talk, they'd say, oh, I don't want to talk about that, or I don't know about that. But none of them
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said F off. It was sort of a fun step back in time to a politer, I don't know, more old-fashioned
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Canada. I know that's a lot to say based on just one day's visit, but I really liked it. Anyway,
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that was our show. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks to the friendly people of Nova Scotia. Thanks to my
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colleague, Lincoln Jay, who got up early with me and did the long journey. I really think that that
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Chris D'Entremont has to go. I see a lot of gross things in politics, but this felt pretty bad. You can
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Are they safe in Jackson sites or drug houses? The mayor of Kamloops, Reed Hammerjack, says the latter,
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and he's got some compelling reasons for doing so. My name's Drea Humphrey with Rebel News, and I'm
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standing on Victoria Drive West in Kamloops, where I've travelled here and spoken to the mayor about
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how businesses are being negatively impacted by these so-called safe houses for people who are
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struggling. Businesses, including his own, which has been completely ransacked. Let's go take a look.
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So we've got a shelter and a supportive housing right across the street, and we've got people all
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over the lot right over here. I could probably go wake them up because they should probably move them
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along anyways. Well, it's okay. We won't disturb them, but tell me what's going on here.
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We're going to talk about what happened to your actual business here,
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but tell us what's changed and what's caused the change.
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What's caused the change is BC Housing, CMHA, Ask Wellness. They came into town. Well, this was
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probably 12 years ago now. They said it was going to be a shelter for women and children. So we all
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supported that. And then in 2018, they stepped it up and Selene Robinson came into town and she was the
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housing minister at the time and said they're going to have wraparound services. And they don't. They
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haven't. They've put 40 people in a building and they get two people to look after them. They're all
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struggling with mental health and addictions. And then they add one down the road there with
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another 40 or 50 people. And then they, you know, we've got another one down here. So
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they just continue to add these facilities and they're not getting the people service.
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We need an audit. And I believe for, for the residents and clients, for the staff,
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I mean, you don't mean to staff and you got people all struggling with mental health and addictions and
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and nobody's looking after them, you know, and they're just, I mean, we just had four deaths
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here just in the last little while. And, and, and it's, we got to get a handle on it, you know?
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Well, and you said BC housing said this was going to be primarily for women and children. You guys
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were behind that, but it's been nothing of the sorts. So what exactly is it?
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Well, it's a, to me, it's a drug house. It's, it's got nothing but crime.
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95. Well, I've got a lot more now, a lot more now. Yeah. But they, and then they opened another
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building and they say, there's going to be wraparound service. These are people. And I
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supported that also people are trying to move on with their lives. They at that time paid 375 a month,
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two free meals a day. And it's been a, it's been a nightmare. I don't know. Probably most of the
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people in there to start in there, which is January of 2020. I know ones that have been hit by trains,
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overdosed and died. They're on the streets today. Matter of fact, one guy that originated there,
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I think he just died here the other day, gentleman in a wheelchair. So we just keep
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building them and we do the same thing over. And I think we really got to start on a recovery focused
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facilities. So you said over this way that, tell us what happened over here.
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Well, I wasn't here, but it was, I came down, I had two files within 24 hours. They have my gas meters
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on the other side of the building and somebody was vandalizing it and then it got broke loose.
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And I guess there was a serious gas leak. So they had to shut the gas off here
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and then they lit a fire down here. If you look, I got steel doors, so it didn't go
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and get into the building, but it, uh, it burnt the steel doors and, uh, it's just ongoing. This,
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uh, not that long ago, there's a fire here. I burnt my fence all the way. You can see where
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the fire started there. Burnt my fence all the way there. Um, yeah, it's just gotta happen.
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So this whole area over here used to be fenced up. Yes. Yeah. Wow. And they stole the, and the power,
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see the power there. They cut the power from this building to this building. Right here.
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So this big, yeah, that there ran from here to that building there. And they've cut that power
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off there too. This is crazy. Uh, but you told us your specific business here. Um, we're gonna walk over
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to that. Tell us what your business was or is how long it's been here before we go look and see
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what's happened to it. Well, my business was a good business. We could stock anywhere from 30 to 50 late
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model vehicles. Um, I've been here, uh, for almost 30 years. Um, and, uh, now I can't even keep burnt
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cars on my lot. I've been the last two vehicles that they left a lot. Uh, one was burnt twice. They
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towed it away. He said it was a fire hazard. I still don't know how a vehicle is twice burned
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as a fire hazard was tarped up and everything. And then I had a bucket truck that was parked here
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that was a fire in it too. And they vandalized it also. Really? It gets in the right position.
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Okay. That, that, um, that's, uh, that's barricaded now, but they kicked that door in
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and then they went through the drywall and through into the, into the office area. And then you'll see
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what they did on the inside. All right. This is horrible. Imagine trying to operate
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any business in an area where this can happen. Not once, not twice, but three times. We're going
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to have a look in the back room. I'm a little scared. Let's take a look. Oh my gosh. Take a
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look in this first room here. This and look at the amount of Starbucks. Where is the money for the
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Starbucks cups coming from? Like that much? Look at that. Disgusting. Oh, that's Tim Hortons.
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Oh, is it Tim Hortons? Oh my gosh. That's you. Okay. But they're, but they weren't where they
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are. Okay. This is horrendous. There's no lights because there's no gas, right? And look at this.
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Look at all of the broken glass. Yeah. Like just, they just smashed everything.
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Yeah. And they took your couches. Okay. Here's where the blood is. Yeah.
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But safety first, of course, there's a nice mass there. You said this used to be a thriving
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business. Yes. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Like I said, until they, they said it was going to be a shelter
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for women, children fleeing violence. And then they just kept adding to it and, and they don't
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seem to care, you know, and it's not just here. I'm this, I'm talking as a citizen here,
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as a businessman. Right. But this is happening all over our city now. I was going to ask you,
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what on earth is that smell? It's horrible in here. Yeah. It's a sewer. They ripped the toilet
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out of the, out of the floor. Yeah. Okay. So this happened a couple of weeks ago or?
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No, this, well, there was, there was, there was, there was a three different break-ins, but
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this happened a couple of months ago originally. And they, like you said, they smashed every picture.
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They've smashed a photo of your family here. It looks like they've been eating, drinking. There's a
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credit card. Are the police looking into the name on that? Or you think that's stolen?
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Well, it's probably stolen, but the police, police have been in. They, the, um, the IDENT team was in,
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they've got some blood, uh, from one of the door switches there. Um, they also got a hammer that they,
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I think they got some stuff off of it. And yeah, they just smashed everything. And they didn't
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hardly take anything. I just found out, uh, not that long ago that they stole checks because somebody was
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trying to cash a check out of an account that wasn't, uh, used, but yeah, they smashed everything.
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They smashed the doors. They smashed everything. The offices tipped all the computers and all the
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screens. And, and, uh, like you see all the memorabilia pictures, I've got pictures of the
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Stanley cup there with Mark Recki and Shane Doan and Jerome McGinley. And, and, um, you know, uh,
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for their pictures of what we did, uh, uh, raise the money for the hospital on golf tournaments and
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things like that. So. Well, we've seen this issue pop up. I, I must admit, never have I seen it like,
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so in your face, smelt it. So in my face, but I have done coverage on, you know, what we're being
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promised with these safe injection sites. They don't seem so safe when they're this close to
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businesses and things like that. You said the provincial government needs to do more.
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What more do you think they need to do? Well, they need to do an audit on them. They need to,
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again, these safe injection sites, they don't use them. There's one across the street. It's probably
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hardly ever used. They're all they use. They're right there. You can see right there. Um, they
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said they all, all I, all I'm asking for is them to do what they said they were going to do. I have
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wraparound services. I supported all these. And what has the response been, uh, from your efforts?
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Um, well, before I was the mayor in 2020, uh, I've been working on it for a long time. Like I said,
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in 2020, I had about 95 police files that we actually reached out. Our whole block here reached out
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to Todd Stone and Peter Milibar or two MLAs at the time. And they went down to the legislature and
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they argued in the legislature in June of 2020, uh, with Selena Robinson, who was the housing minister.
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Uh, she said she was going to do a review, uh, six months later, nothing happened. Uh, they, um,
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moved her into finance and moved David Eby into housing and, uh, still nothing's happened. They did
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one little, one little review called the BC housing research center review. And that was for this
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Rose Thorn building and this beer house on the North shore. And it was, uh, the residents and clients
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doing a survey on themselves with the staff. So it's, it's, it's, we need, we need some help
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here in council. We've got probably 15 and I'm going to be blunt. I'm going to call them drug
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houses. That's what they call them. That's what the people that I knew that passed away
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and overdosed. And that's what they called them. And that's what the ones that hang out here
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now call them. So tax paid for drug houses tax paid for that's exactly. Yeah.
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If you agree with the mayor of Kamloops, that something has to be changed. You can take
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action demanding more safe measures and recovery options for people in need at our special website
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called fixourcities.com. David Menzies for rebel news here in West end Toronto, literally at the scene
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of the crime. And now you might recall back on September 8th, I was at this LCBO store,
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just minding my own business off the clock and who should come in, but a small gang of thieves who
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cleared out some shelves and well, they made their way to their getaway card. And I decided I better
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film this here. Check out the video. Are you guys paying for that?
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Hey, are you punks paying for that? Hey, what is that?
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So why am I back here some two and a half months later, folks? Well, here's the reason. Actually,
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there's three reasons. First of all, last week, it was reported that the LCBO will be returning less
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than $2 billion to the Ontario government. That is the first time in 10 years that the LCBO has not
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returned at least $2 billion. Now, why would that be? Well, certainly, new competition is a factor.
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Convenience stores and grocery stores can now sell beer and wine. Not the hard stuff,
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mind you, and tarians aren't mature enough for that yet. So that probably took a kick out of the LCBO
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store network. But what about the issue of theft? Now, we know going back to 2018, the union that
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represents the workers here said then that $77 million was going out the door unpaid for.
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I will bet you a bottle of fine scotch that that number has increased dramatically,
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given the economic conditions of Canada in 2025. And this is part of the reason why we're here.
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As you saw in the video, the employees just stood around gawking. They didn't do anything. I think that's
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what they've been told to do by head office. But this is not private sector money being stolen. It is
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the money coming out of the pockets of Ontarians. The LCBO is a crown corporation. It's not their money.
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It's not their stock. It's ours. But they don't care. Because literally, they have no skin in the game.
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That's shameful. The second reason why we're here is the crime reporting angle. If you can believe it,
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we're here in mid November. The crime took place on September 8. And I still have yet to get through
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to a law enforcement agency to report it. If you phone the non emergency number, you are put on hold
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for hours. And then your call is simply not answered. That's not just my experience. I've spoken to other
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people who have experienced the exact same thing as well. So it is that we went to a Peel region
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police office last month because through a little detective work, we discovered the house where the
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getaway car, which was a van, was registered to. It was in beautiful Brampton, Ontario. But when we went to
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Peel, the police there weren't interested because the crime did not, was not committed in Peel. Rather,
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it was committed in the city of Toronto. So they just shrugged their shoulders and said, move on.
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So it was, I went to 22 division, which is very close to this LCBO. And I tried to report the crime there,
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folks. And the person behind the desk said, nobody was able to take my report. Yeah, that's right.
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I was at an entire police department. And there was not a single cop that could come out and take
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a simple report. And it wasn't just me they were saying that to the fellow in front of me tried to
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report theft over $10,000. He was told that nobody was available for him as well to take his report.
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Now, one of the cops told me there is an online portal that you can report the crime. So I took
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that information down. I reported it online and miraculously, the police got back to me very, very
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quickly. But get a load of this. Because there was a weapon brandish in the crime. You cannot report
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that crime to an online portal. So what would I what was I told? Either go on that phone, the non
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emergency line that nobody ever seems to pick up or go back to 22 division. We will be doing that
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a little later today. But talk about a vicious circle. It's insane. And it makes me wonder,
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when the Liberals say, Oh, look at the recent stats, crime is down. Do you believe that folks? Do you
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think crime is down? Or do you think there is a big proportion of crime not being reported? Because
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it's impossible to report the crime. And that brings me to the third and final point of our mission today,
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which is this, I did get information from the police, that the September 8 crime that occurred
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at this LCBO store, there is no record of it being reported. So just imagine that.
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I followed the thieves out. I filmed the thieves taking away hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars
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of alcohol. I got the license plate number. I had a vial of pepper spray trained upon me. He didn't fire
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it. Thank goodness. And all they have to do after I give them this information, the video, the license
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plate number, the eyewitness account is phone it in to 911. They didn't even do that. They could not even
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be bothered to make a phone call to law enforcement. So I'm going to go in, I'm going to try to get the
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manager, Joe, to answer that. Last time I phoned him, he hung up on me. But again, it speaks volumes. I think
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if this was a private liquor store, and by the way, there's no role in government running liquor stores,
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government's role is to regulate and tax liquor, not retail and warehouse it. But do you think somebody who had to pay the
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mortgage would be so laissez faire, so uncaring, that millions and millions of dollars worth of liquor
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is flying out the stores for free because they can't stop the thievery? And really, there are some
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methods, isn't there, folks? Why not hire off duty police officers? Why not go back to the way the LCBO
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used to sell liquor, which is to say, you had to pay for the product in full before you got your
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hands on the bottle. But like I said, they don't care. Because at the end of the day, it's not their
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money. Let's see if we can get some answers as to why they didn't even bother to report this thievery.
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I found out from police, it was never reported.
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I wasn't here. I remember you came in a couple of weeks ago, we talked. I have received no updates
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and stuff, unfortunately. Is that standard procedure, just not to report a theft?
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I have received no information about airplane points. I have no information about that.
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Okay. You can see the concern because this is the money of the Ontario taxpayer going out the door.
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Yeah. We'll check your seats. I can get you a card for our media relations department. I can get you
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a card for our store. I appreciate that. I have reached out to them. They do not even acknowledge
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our emails. So this is the problem I'm in. I wanted to ask Joe, the manager, why I never-
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Joe is not in today. Yes, I understand that. Yeah. So again, my only question is when you're given
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information about a theft, is it reported to the police? I was not given that information. I can't
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tell you. No, but in general, I'm saying, sir. I would believe they would. I cannot tell you what
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the information you provided. I don't know who you spoke to. No, but if say a theft happened right now
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and I ran out and I filmed it and I got the license plate number of the getaway card,
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would you or one of your colleagues report that theft? You would do an incident report. You would do an in-store
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report. Incident report. Incident. But that doesn't necessarily mean contacting the police. If that's
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what our procedure is involved, then yes. Okay. Because you can contact the media relations if you
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want the actual direct step. I can't give you any information. I would love to entertain an interview
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with the media relations department. I don't even know who the names are. They don't respond to us.
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But an incident report internally is not the same as phoning 911 and making a police report.
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Okay. And you don't have a problem with that. I, like I said, I wasn't here when the incident
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happened. I can't tell you anything about it. I have no updated info about that. Okay. I just,
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you know, I'm not talking about you personally, but it's a bit of, um, ungratefulness here. I mean,
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I put my life at risk potentially to get that information and your manager, Joe, can't even be
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bothered to phone in a police report. I don't know what Joe did with that information, unfortunately. If you
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provided it, I'm sure he submitted it to the relevant departments, but I don't know.
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Not according to the police. They had no report of a theft. I haven't had any contact with the police.
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I don't know what information. Okay. No, I'm telling you what the police told me though, right?
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Well, I haven't heard that unfortunately from them. So I don't know what they have or don't have.
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And again, we all have skin in the game. This is a crown corporation. We're all shareholders.
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Yep. Shouldn't we be concerned? Yeah, sure. Okay. Well, folks,
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my cameraman Maurizio and I, we returned to 22 division. I decided I'd roll the dice. Maybe
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there would be an officer available to take my report. And lo and behold, there was,
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but I wasn't able to make that report. You are not going to believe this. Even though I was an
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eyewitness, even though I have video footage for evidence, even though I have a license plate,
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and even though I tracked the getaway car to a house in Brampton, the police at 22 division will
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not take that report. They will only take the report from the victim air quotes. That would be the LCBO.
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And when I told them that the LCBO has not phoned in this report and have no intention on doing so,
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the officer told me then there is absolutely nothing they can do. So a few phrases spring to mind. I
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think one is, as they say in Alabama, this dog don't hunt. What's that other one? If a tree falls in the
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forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound? In other words, if an LCBO was robbed, but the robbery
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was never reported, was it indeed robbed in the first place? And again, I can't emphasize the real
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outrage to this folks. If you are a resident of Ontario, you are a shareholder in the LCBO. This
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is your money flying out the door. And the booze bureaucrats who are in charge of this outrageous
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liquor bureaucracy, they don't give a rodent's rectum. Welcome to Doug Ford's Ontario. How you
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enjoying it? For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies. Well, folks, as if we needed yet another
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reason to privatize the bloated bureaucracy that is the LCBO, well, we get another reason, don't we?
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They don't care about tens of millions of dollars of bottles going out the door because they have
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no skin in the game. It's not their personal assets being robbed. It is those of the people of Ontario.
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Can you do me a favor? Can you go to sellthelcbo.com? That's sellthelcbo.com. Please put your name to our
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petition to get rid of this ridiculous organization. Government has a role in liquor. It's to tax it and
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regulate it. It's not to retail it and warehouse it. Please sellthelcbo.com. Put your name on that
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petition. And if you're able to, kindly make a donation.
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That's our show for the day. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.