EZRA LEVANT ｜ Is Trump really serious about Canada becoming the 51st state？
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Donald Trump keeps poking Canada in unusual ways. Why is he doing it? And what should Canada do about it? Ezra takes a deep dive into it, and offers some ideas on how to respond. Plus, a look at how to deal with the border crisis.
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Hello, my friends. What do you make of this whole 51st state thing that Trump keeps tweeting at
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Canada? Why is he saying it so often? And what's the best way to reply to it? I'm going to do a
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deep dive in it. I think I've got some ideas that you might like and maybe you haven't heard before.
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Tonight, Donald Trump keeps poking Canada in unusual ways. He's really pushing the 51st state idea.
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Why is he doing that, and what should Canadians say in replying? It's December 18th, and this is the
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Ezra LeVant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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It started out with a tweet, as many things do when it comes to Donald Trump. He said he wanted both
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Canada and Mexico to tighten up their borders with the United States to stop two things, illegal drugs
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and illegal immigrants. Now, if he had just ended things there, I'm not sure anything would have
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happened. I mean, do you? I mean, Trump has been saying that for years. During his whole campaign,
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during the four years he was out of office, and during the four years he was president the first time.
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So I think politicians and diplomats and bureaucrats in the permanent state would say, sure, yeah, blah,
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blah, blah. That's just Trump being Trump. What's new, right? So he added a bit of jet fuel to it. He
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demanded that these countries fix the borders by January 20th, the day he takes office. That's quite
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some demand to make. It gave both Canada and Mexico enough time, though, if they were truly interested in
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cooperating to at least agree in principle and to come up with a bit of a plan. I mean, aren't we supposed
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to be enforcing the laws now anyways? We already have police and border police. Why not, you know, just
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enforce the laws of our own country? You'd think we'd enforce our own laws for our own sake or else what's the
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point of us having a law. But it was that final flourish, the or else part of his tweet, do this
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or be slapped with a 25% tariff on anything you export to the United States. Of course, that really
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has nothing to do with fixing the border, other than I suppose the irony of taxing legal imports
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with a tariff while illegal imports of drugs continue. I don't think you have to be a master
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negotiator though to know that that's just Trump's way of adding an exclamation point. He's got our
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attention. Just do the right thing and the threat goes away. I don't think he wants to do the threat
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part. He wants you to look at that and be motivated to do the real thing he wants, seal the border, which
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we should want to do anyways, especially if Trump is about to engage in a mass deportation. We don't want
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those folks just traipsing across into Canada. It's in our interest too. Now, Mexico complied
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pretty much immediately. Trudeau did not. Now, he flew down to Mar-a-Lago for dinner and he was
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welcomed. That's quite a powerful table that had gathered there, including the incoming commerce
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secretary. But obviously things didn't go as well as Trump wanted because the next day Trump's side
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leaked to the media that Trump had been joking about the 51st state thing. Obviously a joke,
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but a joke that would resonate. It touches on Canadian insecurities, I think. It touches on the
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historical battles that we've had with America going back centuries, War of 1812. And more recently,
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what happens when Canadian prime ministers get offside with U.S. presidents? Here's an old film I
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found. The White House lawn is fast becoming an international heliport. President Johnson comes
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out to greet a welcome visitor, Canada's Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who with his wife arrives
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for a two-day visit, a visit Mr. Pearson had promised upon his election last fall. Mr. Pearson has recently
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returned from conferences with French President Charles de Gaulle. And though he thinks U.S. French
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differences are not unbridgeable, he is not here as a go-between. He is here to promote U.S.-Canadian
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cooperation. As his Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Paul Martin, then U.S. Secretary of State
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Dean Russ, signed the treaty for a multi-million dollar power and flood control development for
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the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest. Later, the two presidents sign a treaty of a more
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sentimental nature. This agreement makes an international park of the summer home of President
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Franklin D. Roosevelt at Campobello Island. Thus, in the realms of the future and the past,
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the United States and the Dominion of Canada draw closer together.
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That was the happy propaganda version. Everything's fine. It wasn't really between those leaders in
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particular. Here's a snippet that wasn't in the news until much later. Things even got physical in 1965
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when Pearson made a speech at Temple University proposing a pause for peace. Later, at Camp David,
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an infuriated Johnson grabbed the Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister by the lapels and screamed,
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don't you come into my house and piss on my rug. You can certainly get it. I mean, imagine a foreign
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leader coming into your country and denouncing your war. So things aren't always friendly between U.S.
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presidents and Canadian prime ministers. It's a real art being the smaller party in that partnership,
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and Trudeau doesn't have it. Anyways, you know all of this, but my point is Trump has not stopped
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poking at Canada and Trudeau. In fact, he's done it again and again. He put out social media posts
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pretty much taunting Trudeau, or Canada as a whole even, like this one implying a U.S. invasion,
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maybe, I don't know, or this one just deliberately calling Canada a state, and Trudeau a governor.
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He's done that again and again, actually, and when Chrystia Freeland detonated Trudeau the other day,
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Trump tweeted his sympathy to Trudeau and said Freeland herself was toxic, and the latest one was this one.
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He said, no one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100 million a year. Makes no sense.
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Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st state. They would save massively on taxes and military
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protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st state! Now, I'm not exactly sure how Trump believes
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they subsidize Canada each year, unless that's a typo. He's saying $100 million, and you may know
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two-way trade between our countries is about a trillion dollars, or 10,000 times that. I think
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he probably meant to say $100 billion, and I'm guessing he means a trade surplus. It's not a
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subsidy. It just means they're buying $100 billion a year more than we buy from them,
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and I'll give you an explanation of how that happens a little bit later, but my main point is
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to show you that tweet, that Trump is still poking at Canada, still pushing the 51st state thing,
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and he's now adding a commercial grievance to his border grievance. He's saying, we subsidize you.
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You know, I just reordered the book, Art of the Deal. That was Trump's best-selling book from way back
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about how to negotiate. I read it when he was elected in 2016, and I did a little monologue about it.
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I can't find my old copy, so I want to read it again. I'm 100% certain, going from memory, that
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this kind of badgering and these dramatic statements are part of his negotiating style.
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I know they are. I mean, have you ever seen this weird thing he did to put Larry King,
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Because your breath is very bad. It really is. Has this ever been told to you before?
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No. Actually, Larry King. That's how you get the age.
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Trump later said Larry King didn't have bad breath at all, but Trump said he did
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to put King on the defensive. Trump does that sort of thing, doesn't he? At least
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to people he's in a tussle with. It's like his really grippy handshake, you know, the one?
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There's perhaps no better way to express a sense of control
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in business and in politics than a firm handshake. For Trump, it's a full contact sport and he's got
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a few power moves. Anyway, so we're in a pickle. That first tweet by Trump started a chain reaction
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and now Chrystia Freeland is out of cabinet and it looks like that scuppered Mark Carney's planned
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accession to cabinet and Trudeau couldn't be weaker at home or abroad. So Trump keeps pumping this 51st
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state thing. Why not? I mean, here's Jean Charest, the former conservative MP and liberal premier of
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Quebec. Let me read it carefully because he has some advice for all of us. Every Canadian, regardless
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of their opinion of the prime minister or political affiliation, should feel deeply offended by President
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Trump's remarks. We might one day be grateful for this wake-up call. For too long, we have been
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complacent in our relationship with the United States and the rest of the world. We need to unite
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and rise to this historic occasion to shape the future of Canada. So Charest is really revved up.
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He used capital letters and all. He says it's a wake-up call. We need to unite and rise to the occasion,
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yada, yada, yada. But he doesn't actually tell us what to do. What does rising to the occasion mean?
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I don't think he knows what to do. His only one piece of advice is that we should all feel,
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quote, deeply offended, which is just an emotional feeling. It's not really a plan or an activity.
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Be offended isn't really practical advice, I don't think. It's certainly not constructive advice or
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how to solve a problem. I'll come back to that again in a moment, what constructive advice might look
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like. But why is this so heavily heard by Canadians? Is it insulting? Sure, a little bit, I think.
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Although it implies that Canadians would want to do this. It wouldn't be a hostile move.
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But why do people, why does this prick people, like Charest? I mean, why does this work on Canadians,
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but I don't think it would really work, say, on the Brits or Australians. I don't think it would. I mean,
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maybe geography is part of it. I suppose Trump did something like this once before. I don't know if you
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remember a few years back he joked about buying Greenland, which is owned by Denmark. Rebel News
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actually sent a reporter over there to talk to locals about it. Greenland is almost completely
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empty. The reason Trump was interested in it, besides him being a real estate guy who always
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thinks about land, is that I think it was China was looking to establish some sort of military presence
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there. And Trump wanted to scare them away. Would Denmark really sell the land to America? It's hard
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to imagine they would. Maybe. But America has indeed grown by buying land before. Alaska was bought from
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Russia. The Secretary of State was called Seward. They called the deal Seward's Folly, because it was
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thought to be a crazy expenditure of money at the time for useless land. That's what they said. Before that,
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there was the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the USA by buying land from France. So
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I suppose it's not that crazy? But mainly the idea shakes things up. It made Denmark, in the case of
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Greenland, say, well, do we want Greenland or not? And if we do, why would we lease some of it to China?
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And it's fun, of course, and it shows Denmark that Trump was thinking about them fondly. And everyone
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is flattered when people talk about them, especially in an admiring way. So how does talking about making
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Canada the 51st state work? Well, it's a possibility. Quebec set the legal precedent. You can separate from
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Canada. The Supreme Court had a hearing about it. It's legal. The Supreme Court, in fact, outlined the
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process. And remember, the United States has been eyeing Canada for a long time. That's what spurred
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our country to make the Canadian Pacific Railway. That's why it's called the Canadian Pacific Railway,
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to fasten the west of Canada to Ontario and Quebec before the Americans could grab it.
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But who would and who wouldn't want to be an American? I bet a lot of people prefer Trump to
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Trudeau. Not everyone. But I bet a lot of people do, especially in the west. But it's not just about
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an ephemeral politician who could be gone in a moment. Just in general, the richest Canadian
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province, though, is poorer than the poorest U.S. state. Chew on that for a while. Or how about their
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freedom of speech down there that we don't have? Or how about their entrepreneurial spirit? Or how about
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their relative ease of doing business? Or how about their better weather, even? I mean, those are all good
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reasons for, I don't know, 100,000 Canadians a year to take matters into their own hands right now and
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just head on down. I don't know if you saw this story. I think it was back in May. Emigration from
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Canada to the U.S. hits a 10-year high as tens of thousands head south. Census says 126,340 people left
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Canada for the U.S. in 2022 as 70% increase over a decade ago. Tens of thousands of Canadians are
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emigrating from Canada to the United States. And the number of people packing up and moving south
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is at a level not seen in 10 years or more, according to the data compiled by CBC News.
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There's nothing new about Canadians moving south of the 49th parallel for love, work, or warmer weather.
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But the latest figures from the American Community Survey, ACS, suggest it's now happening at a much
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higher rate than the historical average. We all probably know people who left during the COVID
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lockdowns, typically wealthy professionals, who could afford to move, get a green card, work from
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remote. People who were sick of living in Teresa Tam's little prison. Now, COVID is long over,
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but I think the exodus is actually speeding up, not slowing down. It's actually a surprising story
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for the CBC to publish. They talk about how many people just hate Trudeau. When do they do that?
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They talk about how cheap housing is compared to up here in Canada. I mean, look at some of these
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little headlines in the story. I hate the politics here, talking about Trudeau. Canada is not what it
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used to be. And look at this, in the Toronto Star. So first the CBC and now the Red Star says,
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from O Canada to No Canada, national pride has taken a steep decline in recent years,
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new polls suggest. Canadians' pride and attachment in their country have taken a dive. A new poll from
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the Angus Reid Institute suggests, what's going on? I'll tell you what's going on. Canada, you know,
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Trudeau changed the anthem. He changed even what our money looks like. He took Sir John MacDonald
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off the $10 bill. He changed the passports, taking out anything historic. He really hates
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the symbols of the country because he hates the country. He calls us genociders. He says we're
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racist. We're transphobic. We're sexist. He always apologizes for what we did, not for what he does.
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He thinks we're not living up to him. So between Trudeau destroying the country financially,
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destroying its livability through mass immigration, and telling us we have no value as a society,
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why wouldn't someone want to move to the U.S. of A? Of course not everyone can just pick up and move.
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So how many people who can't move, like a local factory worker, a local waitress,
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would like their city or province of the whole of Canada to become American?
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It's probably a minority, even though right now it's just a speculative question, but I think it's
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a real enough idea that it's a hot button in Canada. Trump knows it, and he knows how to push
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buttons. Will you grant me that? And he knows that Canadian politicians know it. Best health care
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system in the world? No, not really. No one believes that. Best nature in the world? Yeah, sure,
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if you don't mind homeless encampments in your city parks and national parks crowded with foreigners,
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many of whom lack basic cultural compatibility. Let's just use that euphemism. That's another thing,
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though. Last Jew out of Montreal, please turn off the lights. America will take you and protect you.
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I don't think it's going to happen that Canada is going to join the states. I just don't think that's
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the likely outcome, but it's real enough to start a million conversations and to take Canadian political
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leaders down a peg. Trudeau has presided over the demoralization and decline of Canada.
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Our regime media, the CBC and others, have covered it up. They've promoted tiny homes and small living
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and degrowth and you'll own nothing and you'll be happy and the carbon tax is good for you and
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eat the bugs. But no one really bought into it. And faced with the daydream opportunity of being an
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American, who amongst us wouldn't at least take a moment to take stock of how things are going up
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here right now? And most of us say it's not really going well in Canada right now. So yeah,
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it's a button to push. But here's the right way to push back if you like America and love Canada
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and want this spat to be over and want to improve life up here. Here's a response from Danielle Smith,
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the Premier of Alberta. She quotes Trump's social media post. Fair question on the trade deficit with
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Canada, Mr. President. The reason for this is because Canada, especially Alberta, sends billions of raw
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materials, oil, gas, minerals, grain, livestock, timber, etc. to your U.S. refineries and factories,
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which your great American companies and workers upgrade and sell around the world, including back
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to Canada. We are your biggest customer by a mile. Literally millions of good-paying American jobs and
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companies rely on these affordable raw materials from Canada to make trillions of dollars of wealth in
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your country. As a Conservative Premier in Canada, I believe we have two of the greatest countries on
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earth. We have fought and bled together in many wars and built an incredible alliance and partnership.
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I really hope we can strengthen that partnership throughout your presidency by securing our shared
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border as you've requested and partnering to protect our North American workers from unfair Chinese
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trade practices. Americans and Canadians will both benefit immensely from this. We in the province of
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Alberta, which sends 4.3 million barrels of oil and gas to your country each day, stand ready to work with
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you, looking so forward to attending your inauguration in Washington this January. That is how you deal with
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Donald Trump. Not pouting like Trudeau. Not making empty threats like Ontario's Doug Ford. Not indulging in
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Trump derangement syndrome like the CBC, but making our case and solving the problems. I love the fact that
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she's going to his inauguration. I love the fact that she calls American companies great and Canadian
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companies too. And by the way, don't you know that telling Trump that she's going to his inauguration and
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saying American companies are great? That's pushing his buttons in a good way. I mean, how can he attack
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someone who is so friendly, so deal-making oriented, and frankly, so flattering to him? Who is Canada's
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foreign minister right now? I mean, de facto, in real life, not just on paper. It is not Jihad Joe Lee in
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Montreal. It's not Tiny Trudeau or Little Justin, as he's called on Fox News. It's Daniel Smith.
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The premier of Alberta. That's how you do it. You don't listen to the former premier of Quebec
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telling you to pout and be offended. Stay with us for more.
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There's only so many times I want to read a statement by Melanie Jolie or Justin Trudeau
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responding to some terrorist incident against a Jewish school or Jewish synagogue where they say,
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this isn't Canada. Well, yeah, actually it is. After 14 months of the largest anti-Semitic crime wave in
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Canadian history, I think it's safe to say this is Canada. I refer, of course, to the firebombing,
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the arson attack on a Montreal area synagogue called Beth Tikva early this morning. An attack on the
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synagogue happened the second time this particular synagogue has been targeted. Joining us now live on location
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is our friend Alexa Lavoie, who has been at this synagogue before for the same reason. Alexa, thank you for
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making the journey there. It looks frightfully cold. You're standing outside the Beth Tikva. Tell me what you see.
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Tell me who's there. Tell me the kind of damage that's visible. And tell me if anything is known yet.
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So for now, we don't really know who committed the crime. I know there is an ongoing investigation by this
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BBM behind me. I don't know if you can see they are currently replacing the window of the facade of the
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synagogue. It's not only Beth Tikva who was targeted, but also the Sijia building, the other side of the street
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where a window was smashed also. What we know is the incident happened a little bit before 3 a.m.
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The SPVM. The SPVM say that it was an incendiary device that they found with broken glasses.
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And some witnesses say that they saw someone fleeing the scene early after the incident.
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So we don't know much yet. I didn't speak with nobody. I know that the SPVM is on the scene,
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but later on I'm going to speak with the president of Beth Tikva, Karen Ritter. She's coming to meet me
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and we will have a full interview coming up on RebenNews.com. Well, thank you very much for doing
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that. And I'm glad they're speaking with you. This has happened across the country. It happens so much
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that it doesn't even make the news on many occasions. Let me give you an example. Here in Toronto,
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a large Jewish day school had a massive arson attack and police refused to call it arson. They
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said it was an accidental fire in a shed. There was an arson attack on Jewish school buses and police
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again refused to say it was arson as if the school buses suddenly spontaneously combusted. I'm guessing
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this is just too big to sweep under the carpet. I think I saw the Montreal Gazette and CTV cover it.
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Has this been covered widely in the Quebec media besides the Gazette and CTV?
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I know that CBC is currently on the scene, Radio Canada, for the French viewer. But also you need to
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understand that Beth Tikva is not only a synagogue, it's also annexed to a Jewish school. So it's probably
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why there is way more coverage for this. And also because it's the second attack. In November 2023,
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Beth Tikva was also the victim of a Molotov cocktail. And so the fact that this place had been victim
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twice make it like a vulnerable area for the Jewish community.
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You know, it's tragic. This is the new normal. And I see Melanie Jolie putting out a perfunctory
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statement. She's not even trying anymore. I want to tell you, I went to Paris almost 10 years ago,
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Alexa, after the terrorist attack on the Bata clan, which was a concert venue that terrorists attacked and
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killed an enormous number of people. And there had been anti-Semitic attacks around the city.
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I went to a Jewish grocery store. And outside the grocery store was a French paramilitary
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police officer with a very serious semi-automatic weapon. Like it was more than an ordinary policeman
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might have. It was almost something you'd expect a soldier to have. And at various Jewish locations in
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Paris, you had permanently stationed heavily armed police, not only as a visual deterrent,
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but for safety. I get the feeling we're almost at that point. I mean, how many times can the same
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synagogue be attacked before we stationed a police officer outside them? I don't know what else to do.
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I think I see behind you. I'm not sure if that's a security camera. I'm sure there's security cameras
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at this place, but those aren't really a deterrent if someone is wearing a mask. And at most, they
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record what happened after the fact. They don't stop it in real time. What do you think can be done?
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Do you have any ideas? Or maybe we have to wait to know a little bit more. But I think this is to the
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point of being ridiculous now. I mean, there's got to have been 50 of these attacks over the last year.
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Well, first of all, they have already their private security over here to survey the area.
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They have already also some SPVM doing some surveillance. So what's next? I think the next step
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is to enforce the law, to enforce the law to everybody who are spreading hate speech and hate rhetoric in our
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street. Make sure that the lies apply. Make sure that those people, when they got caught, they have a
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harsh repercussion, harsh condemnation. And they go to jail, not just like going to jail and watch Netflix
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or having like a really weak sentence. Law needs to be applied. And for now, they know they will get away
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with it. It's why we are seeing those kinds of crimes being perpetrated against Jewish schools, Jewish
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businesses. We have a recently death trap being made towards a Jewish business downtown. So it doesn't
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stop. It's because the inaction of the SPVM by arresting those individuals, by condemning,
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by charging them, prosecuting them properly, make them emboldened to commit more crimes.
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I think you're right. And just for our viewers who don't know, SPVM is the acronym for the Montreal
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Police Service. It's the Service Police Ville-Marie, if I'm not mistaken, or Ville-Montreal. You correct
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me if I'm wrong on there. Not Ville-Marie, Ville-Montreal. Ville-Montreal. Ville-Montreal, thank you.
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So SPVM is Montreal Police. I think you're so right. Let me expand on what you said. A few weeks ago,
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there were actual riots, a full-out riot in Montreal. And I think only three arrests were made the entire
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night. So what message does that send to the rioters? And you have huge mobs in Montreal blocking
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the streets, committing all sorts of smaller crimes from mischief, to vandalism, to trespass,
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to more serious things like uttering threats. And if there's no consequences to that,
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well, how is it surprising that a few of those people then become emboldened to actually attack
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a Jewish synagogue at 3 a.m.? So I think you're right. I think it's not just how do we protect this
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synagogue from being attacked again. It's we have to change the culture of permissibility
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that Trudeau and Jolie and Valerie Plante, the mayor, and others have allowed to grow.
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I think they could crack down on this anti-Semitic crime wave in a week if they wanted to. They don't
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want to. As Jolie said, it's because of the domestic demographic situation in her writing. Did you hear
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about that, what Melanie Jolie said? I think she said it to Thomas Mulcair.
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She explained that her foreign policy is in part because there are so many Muslim immigrants in
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her district. I mean, I think that she's just admitting the whole thing.
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She's admitting that they are opening our door to some people who carry with them an anti-Jewish
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sentiment. It's all they are. They need to integrate, but they don't want to integrate. And now we see
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our Jewish community being victim of those hate crimes. And what would be next? Do they are waiting
00:31:34.720
Yeah. Well, that's the thing. It's like a child testing the boundaries. We see that in Toronto also.
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You know, the pro-Hamas side literally has terrorist reenactments on the street in a Jewish
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neighborhood, and they haven't found the limits yet. Like a child testing, testing, seeing what
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they can get away with. The answer in Canada so far is you can get away with anything. Well,
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Alexa, thank you for making the journey there. I know you have the interview with the synagogue
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president lined up. I'll be very interested to see that. And I would be, I mean, I am depressed
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about the state of affairs in Canada. To me, this will only get worse until we end mass immigration,
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and until we start to vet immigration for cultural fit. Without knowing who the suspects are,
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I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's some of the millions of people we have brought to
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Canada in recent years from countries that are endemically anti-Semitic. And don't be surprised
00:32:31.520
if you bring over millions of people from countries like Syria or Afghanistan or Somalia, that you're
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going to have some people who hate Jews. And then they look to Trudeau and Jolie for moral guidance,
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and they say, oh, it's safe to take a shot at the Jews. I'm depressed, but I'm glad you're covering
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it. Thank you for being there, Alexa. Thank you.
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All right. There you have it. Alexa Lavois on location at the Beth Tikva Synagogue.
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She'll have her report with the president of the synagogue later.
00:33:10.640
Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. It's what it is says, if any of these liberals truly
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wanted Trudeau gone, they can vote no confidence. They won't. Well, if they vote no confidence,
00:33:22.160
they're going to bring an election very quickly, and they're going to get slaughtered.
00:33:25.840
So as much as they don't like Trudeau, they like themselves more than they dislike him.
00:33:31.920
Amir Amaze, he says, all options are on the table, including my pension. You're talking about
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that clip from Jagmeet Singh where he kept saying Trudeau must resign. And when they say, well, you vote
00:33:41.520
against him, all options are on the table. He repeated that so, that was like watching a child.
00:33:47.200
It was very embarrassing. Aquila says, carnage carbon tax Carney should be arrested too. Well,
00:33:57.040
I don't know if he's committed a crime. And I think the whole shenanigans of this past week
00:34:01.680
have spooked him. According to two different news reports that I've seen, Carney was supposed to swoop in
00:34:08.720
and become the next appointed finance minister that was supposed to happen really right after the
00:34:14.160
mini budget was released. I think he's decided to walk away slowly from this train wreck. He might
00:34:19.760
take a crack at it later, but he doesn't want to be in it right now. Well, that's our show for the day.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, so you at home,