EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau responds to China corruption claims with China-style censorship
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Tonight, more damning proof of China corrupting Justin Trudeau, and he responds with China-style censorship. It's March 9th, and this is The Ezra Levenant Show, where you're ready for freedom.
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Hello, my friends. Great to be back in the chair today. Today's monologue and show
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is about Justin Trudeau and China. And instead of investigating himself, he wants to investigate
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you for misinformation, disinformation. He's got a new word, malinformation. I'll tell you
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Tonight, more damning proof of China corrupting Justin Trudeau. And he responds with China-style
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censorship. It's March 9th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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You know what? I have to say it feels unnatural for me to praise the mainstream media. Mainstream
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media that gets a lot of its funding from Justin Trudeau. But I got to call it like I see it. Take
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a look at this latest video report from Global News. Located in the same building as Justin
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Trudeau's office, the Privy Council is tasked with providing advice to the government. And in
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January 2022, they issued a bombshell special report alleging the Chinese consulate in Toronto
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facilitated a large clandestine transfer of funds earmarked for the 2019 federal election.
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Global News reviewed the Privy Council documents, which says the cash from the Chinese consulate
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allegedly went to an elected provincial government official via a staff member of a 2019 federal
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candidate. Intelligence sources say the provincial official is a current member of the Ontario
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legislature. The memo was labelled finalised, suggesting it was meant for senior officials.
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But when asked, the Prime Minister's office would not say if Trudeau read it or even knew about the
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In question period, the Prime Minister was under fire from the opposition.
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He's not interested in protecting the safety of the people serving this country. He's interested
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in protecting the Liberal Party of Canada. In response, Trudeau turned to an old talking
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point. As both myself and the NSIA stated last fall, we have no information on any federal
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candidates receiving money from China, and that continues to remain the case.
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But Global News did not report the Prime Minister knew who received money from Beijing,
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or even that money made it to the candidates themselves. In November 2022, Global News first
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reported the Prime Minister was warned China had allegedly targeted 11 candidates in the 2019 election.
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through a clandestine network to fund their campaigns. Trudeau's former National Security
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Advisor believes the Prime Minister should have read or been briefed on the contents of the Privy
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Given the subject matter, and the seriousness of the allegations, and the fact that we were either
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just before or in an election, he should have been made aware.
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But one document the Prime Minister is aware of, a report published just two months before the 2019
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election, from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians,
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which warned foreign states would target preferred candidates during the nomination process.
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The NSIA COP report doesn't give examples of interference in the 2019 vote,
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but it did for the 2015 and 2018 elections, alleging a group associated with the Chinese embassy
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attempted to handpick candidates. And certain Chinese businesses were urged to make political
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You know, I think that maybe, just maybe, after eight years, the media party's getting a little
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bit tired of Justin Trudeau. Maybe, I think this is a long shot, but maybe there's even a drop of
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morality, of right and wrong, of national patriotism and pride. Maybe they think there's something wrong
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about China corrupting Canada's democracy. I don't know what it is, but it's a pleasure to see
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journalists acting like journalists, not just stenographers. I tell you, they keep this up
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for long, there won't be any need for rebel news, although there is some need. I have right on my
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desk here a copy of a book I wrote called China Virus, How Justin Trudeau's Pro-Communist Ideology
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is Putting Canadians in Danger. If you have this book, you know I start off by talking about
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the coronavirus. I wrote this very quickly after the pandemic, but most of this book is about what I
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call the real virus, which is Chinese political influence. And if I wrote this book three years ago,
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you can't overpraise the media party for finally talking about the same things today.
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Anyways, there are real questions that need to be asked, and Trudeau is good at duck speaking,
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as Orwell would say, saying very little, very loudly, and in a pleasing, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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murmur patter kind of way. I think, though, there's a chance that Pierre Polyev is breaking through
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that. Look at this back and forth in question period. I like when he just drops to yes or no.
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I want to play a few minutes of this because it's the cumulative effect here that's so powerful. Take
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a look. This is a few days ago, Pierre Polyev asking all the questions of Justin Trudeau on this
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He refuses to answer about whether his party or any other received money directed by the communist
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dictatorship in Beijing. We can assume that the answer, therefore, is yes. How much did his party
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and other parts of his party get from the communist dictatorship?
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Mr. Speaker, on matters of national security, it's extremely important that we continue to give
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Canadians confidence that our experts and our officials are doing their job. But it's also important to
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protect the women and men who serve in our security agencies doing extremely dangerous work to keep
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Canadians safe. That's why we've created a committee where all parliamentarians from different parties
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can get top-secret clearance and look into these matters deeply without compromising the safety of
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Mr. He's not interested in protecting the safety of the people serving this country. He's interested in
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protecting the Liberal Party of Canada. The question was how much his party got in illegal donations
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funneled from Beijing. I've asked the question twice now. He refuses to answer it. He distracts and now claims
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that he can't tell it because it would harm national security. Give me a break. It would harm his political career.
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Why doesn't he tell us how much the Liberal Party or its various arms received in money from Beijing? How much?
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Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate and despicable that any member in this House would question the loyalty to
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Canada of any other member in this House. I understand the very real concerns that Canadians feel about
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foreign interference and that's why we've created mechanisms to keep Canadians safe. But to suggest that
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anyone in this House isn't devoted to serving Canadians and keeping those who serve Canada in dangerous
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Mr. Speaker, no drama lesson will distract from the question that I asked.
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The question was very clear. How much did the Liberal Party get in donations directed from Beijing?
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I've asked it multiple times. I find it incredible that he can't stand up and answer with a zero.
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I mean, if he knows for sure it didn't happen, he's not been briefed to the contrary, he would say so
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right now. But he's dodging the question. He's trying to engage in a dramatic distraction. So I will give
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him one more chance. Answer the question. How much money did his party get from the dictatorship in Beijing?
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The Honourable Prime Minister. Speaker, I see the Leader of the Opposition trying to backtrack from his
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heinous and disgusting accusations of disloyalty to Canada of anyone in this House. And I'm pleased to
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see him back off from what was an absolutely despicable partisan approach. I find it quite
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interesting. There's, you know, the question period itself. There's pressure from Global News,
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the Globe and Mail, obviously the Sun chain of newspapers. So Trudeau has resisted so far. I got
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an interesting message from a senior journalist who said, well, how is this going to end? And
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I was pessimistic. I said, how would it end other than how it always ends? No liberal backbencher or
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cabinet minister is going to break ranks and tell Trudeau to step down. That would never happen. The one
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thing the liberals have is discipline. No one is going to call a police inquiry. Trudeau is lucky
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that way, a pun based on Brenda Luckey, the RCMP commissioner, who would never call for an
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investigation of her boss. There will be no parliamentary inquiry because Jagmeet Singh is a
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paper tiger. So as long as Justin Trudeau can keep coming up with blather, which is his expertise,
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I think the media will just tire themselves out. It's Muhammad Ali's rope-a-dope tactic.
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In fact, Trudeau will use the opportunity to blame his enemies, call them racist,
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and call for Chinese-style censorship of them. Trudeau has been pressed to have a formal police
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inquiry or judicial inquiry into his corruption at the hands of communist China. But instead,
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he's announced money to go after his critics, including $5.5 million to smoke out social media.
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That's mean to him. Take a look at this. And finally today, I can announce that we're investing
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$5.5 million to build capacity of civil society organizations to combat disinformation. Because
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we know disinformation, often generated abroad, can be a real threat to our elections, and it's a threat
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that the federal government cannot combat alone. Foreign interference is a complex landscape that
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should not be boiled down to sound bites and binary choices. And it should certainly not be about
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partisan politics. You know, in the past, the liberal movies call people racist, sexist, anti-gay,
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transphobic. And they still do play all those cards all the time. But I think some of it doesn't work,
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especially when many of the critics of Justin Trudeau these days are Chinese-Canadian. They're just
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freedom-oriented Chinese-Canadians. Maybe they are against the communist regime in Beijing. Maybe they're
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from Hong Kong originally. Or maybe they're just proud Canadians who love liberty and don't want
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communist China to have its fingers in our country. So calling people like that racist doesn't quite work.
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You know, I think what works for the liberals, or at least they think it works, is calling people
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misinformation or agents. Like when the CBC said that the truckers weren't just racist and hateful,
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but they were actually agents of Vladimir Putin. Remember that? I do ask that because, you know,
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given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to
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ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows,
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but perhaps even instigating it from the outset. So they talk about misinformation and disinformation.
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And I saw a new one today. Mal-information. That's the new thing. Have you ever heard that word before?
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I love words, but I had never heard of mal-information before. Misinformation is when you're wrong.
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You're misinformed. Oh, you've been misinformed. Disinformation is when someone tells you something
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wrong on purpose. I first heard that word in the Cold War when the military would leak disinformation
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to the Soviets so it would confuse them. It would put them on the wrong track. Mal-information, which
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I have only now heard of, is information that is completely correct, but it's just inconvenient
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for the powerful people. I saw that word today. Matt Taibbi, who's going through Twitter's files,
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found this. Let me quote. In one remarkable email, the Virality Project recommends that multiple
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platforms take action even against stories of true vaccine side effects and true posts which could fuel
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hesitancy. None of the leaders of this effort to police COVID speech had health expertise. So he's
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talking about the internal censorship at Twitter and how Pfizer and the FBI and others managed to just
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censor not just misinformation and disinformation, but true information that was inconvenient. Let me
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quote from his tweet. True content which might promote vaccine hesitancy. Stories of true vaccine side
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effects. True posts could fuel hesitancy, such as individual countries banning certain vaccines. So the
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call was to censor, to throttle true news about vaccines because people, listen, that second Pfizer yacht is
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not going to pay for itself. It's not just inside Twitter. There's these external groups, an entire fake
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fact-checking industry like NewsGuard. Who are these fact-checking reporters? Aren't all reporters fact-checkers?
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Well, as Matt Taibbi pointed out today, a lot of these fact-checkers are actually on the payroll
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of the Department of Defense. Here, let me read from Matt Taibbi again today.
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Some NGOs like the GEC, Global Engagement Center of the State Department, the Global Disinformation Index,
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or the Department of Defense-funded NewsGuard, not only seek content moderation, but apply subjective
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risk or reliability scores to media outlets, which can result in reduction in revenue.
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Do we want government in this role? So these fact-checkers, they get grants from the government to
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check the facts, which generally means to criticize the opinions of anyone who disagrees with their
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regime. And as you've just learned, they don't just criticize false facts. They criticize true
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facts that are malinformation. It's happening in America, of course, and it's happening in Canada,
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too. And it's going to happen even more as the government continues to regulate the media through
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C-11, C-18, and other laws. I'm scared of this. I read this to you the other day. I don't think I've
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seen this reported anywhere else in the Trucker Commission of Inquiry. It wasn't just the oral testimony,
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but senior officials, including cabinet ministers, were interviewed by commission lawyers who
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summarized them. I read this to you the other day. Here's David Lemendi, the justice minister,
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saying it should be easier to declare an emergency. I'll read the notes of the commission.
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Minister Lemendi identified two areas in which the legislative and policy reform was required.
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The first was legislative amendments to the Emergencies Act itself to make it more responsive
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to pandemics and health emergencies, that is to make it easier to declare. There is also a need
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to modernize the language of the act to address online harm, such as violent online rhetoric and
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financing. I'm not sure how rhetoric can be violent. If it's just words, it's not violent. So I read that
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to you before, but here's another excerpt from the same enormous 2,000-page commission report. This is
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Janice Charette, who is the Privy Council clerk and deputy clerk, and the two of them were having an
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interview, if I understand this correctly. Let me quote from the commission. So this is the senior,
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senior bureaucrat in charge of the entire civil service. The job of the Privy Council clerk is to
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take the Prime Minister's political goals and get the civil servants, get the bureaucrats of the country
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to make it happen. What she really says is that foreign interference in elections isn't really a
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problem. What she wants to tackle is domestic social media. That's what needs to be monitored
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and regulated. Here, let me quote. I'll put this in her own words. It's on page 12 of the document here.
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Ms. Charette, that's the head of the Privy Council, recalled that social media played a significant role
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in mobilizing protesters. Misinformation and disinformation were feeding the phenomenon and
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being amplified, not just on the domestic side, but also internationally, including by high-profile
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US politicians. Ms. Charette tasked the NSIA, that's the National Security and Intelligence Advisor,
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and her staff to develop informal tools for social media monitoring. She recalled that the
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Intelligence Assessment Secretariat developed OSINT briefs for this purpose, even though it was not
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the type of product normally prepared by IS. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence, refers to
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data gathered from publicly available sources. OSINT is the term in intelligence circles.
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Ms. Charette noted that Privy Council previously recognized the need to address this issue during the
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2021 federal election, during which the PM and candidates from all parties received a heightened amount of
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violent threats, including online. Ms. Drouanne remarked that although Canada is well-equipped to
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respond to online foreign interference in the electoral context, this is not the case for monitoring of
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domestic media. She noted this was an especially difficult area for policy and regulation, and then on page 14
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called for more regulation. The panel identified two areas that, in their view, could be considered for
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legislative reform. The first is policing jurisdiction over the parliamentary precinct and the national
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capital region generally, as well as jurisdiction and ports of entry. There must be consideration of
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the definition and adequacy of the ability to protect critical infrastructure from threats. So they want to
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surveil people around the country, but here's the part that scares me.
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The second is the adequacy of social media monitoring and the regulation of misinformation,
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disinformation, and online violent rhetoric, as well as strengthening Canada's toolkit around foreign
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interference. So their big takeaway from the trucker convoy, the peaceful trucker convoy, was
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it's not the foreigners we've got to watch out for, it's those pesky Canadians and their free speech. We need to
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regulate that more. That's what they're saying. And that's not a nobody. That's the head of the civil
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service saying that. I think we live in dangerous times, my friend, and I think they're going to get
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You know, some of my favorite books and movies, when they come out there, they predict the future so
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uncannily that years or decades later, when their prophecy comes true, you read the book and you say,
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what was all the fuss about it? Because when it was published, it was radical, but it
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came true. I think about that book, Thank You for Smoking, which was a comedy about everything being
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banned. Well, it sort of came true. And even, for example, in the science fiction, sci-fi dystopian
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future movie called Ex Machina, which was about artificial intelligence and robotics and things like
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that. Well, my gosh, it's come true. And I tell you that because I want to show you
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a two minute clip from South Park, the absurd comedy cartoon, adult comedy, adult cartoons.
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I'm going to play you a clip. I think there's some swearing in it. So be forewarned. When this aired in
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2019, it was absurd, it was crazy. After all, it's a it's a humorous cartoon. But it's not funny anymore.
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I tell you, it's come true. Watching this video in 2023 is very different than watching it in 2019
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when it was a hysterical, absurd joke. Take a look at this excerpt from the South Park strong woman
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competition. Take a look. Now, this is the first year that a trans woman is in the competition.
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How do you feel about that? Amazing. I feel honored to be a part of history. I have a lot of incredible
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trans friends who are athletes. And so we're all inspired. This woman's competing. Uh huh. And
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uh, have you actually ever met Heather Swanson? Uh, no, I've never competed against her before. No.
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She's not exactly your average trans athlete. Well, what is an average trans athlete? Honestly,
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I find that kind of bigoted, David. Okay. Heather Swanson is actually joining us now.
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Ms. Swanson, how does it feel to be competing today? I can't tell you how free I feel now that
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I've started identifying as a woman. Now that I can compete as female, I'm ready to smash the other
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girls. And is it correct you just started identifying as female two weeks ago? I'm not here to talk about
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my transition. I'm here to kick some fucking ass. Let me tell you something, Dingleberry. David Perry.
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I'm going to rule up the other women here and I'm going to smoke them. I am the strongest woman
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this state has ever seen. Any words for the challenger and Miss Woman? Uh, good luck, Heather.
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Luck is for dudes. Well, with that, let's get right to the action.
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We'll catch you to the edge. Give it all you got. Barely break a sweat. Strong woman! Strong woman!
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Whoa-ho! Yeah, she's got speed. She's got the move. She's got the muscle and a whole lot to prove.
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Strong woman! Strong woman! Strong woman! Strong!
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Whoa-ho! Hey, yo! Go strong woman, yo! Hey, you!
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Your time is now! What you gonna do? Go head to the middle, find another gear,
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she takes what she wants, nothing left to be a strong woman! Strong woman!
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Now, hey, girl! You're the best in the world! And hey, hon! Don't look out, but you just won!
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I'm a strong woman! That's a character, Randy the Macho Man Savage, for people of my vintage and older
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who might remember him from professional wrestling. He was, I mean, the Macho Man. That's his nickname.
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That's sort of the giveaway. How long has it been since you've been transitioning? Oh, two weeks ago,
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but let's not talk about that. It was just, you know, when that aired almost four years ago,
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people thought, well, that's absurd. That's a joke. There's South Park again. I ask you,
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what single word or image there has not come to pass? And joining us now via Skype to talk about it
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is our friend Coach Linda Blade, co-author of Unsporting, a book about transgenderism in sports.
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Linda, great to see you again. Thank you, Ezra. Nice to be here.
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You know, don't mind me. I mean, the South Park's a little crude. There was a swear in there,
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but I'm sure we've all heard that word before. That's part of Randy Macho Man Savage style,
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just extremely, extreme toxic masculinity. I'm here to crush the girls. That's the problem. I mean,
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it's, I think in almost any sport that involves physicality, there's an unfairness and essential
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unfairness. I don't think it's unfair for male and female chess players or male and female
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competitors in on TV's Jeopardy. But when it's physical smashing and crushing and punching and
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lifting, it's not sport anymore. It's not sport. It's not even fun. It's, it's some sick thing. And,
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and smashing women is actually what a lot of this transgender sports is about.
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Yeah. I mean, it seems like that they just want to come in and identify for some sort of weird kind
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of power play. And I can read their minds, but you know, the biggest issue is that our sports
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governing bodies are just stepping aside, opening the door and inviting them in and allowing them
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to compete as women. Um, this has been my concern from the beginning. You know,
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we should have rules and regulations about this. Yeah. It's not even fun. I mean, uh,
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there's this, uh, commentator musician and bodybuilder in the UK named Zuby,
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who just as a lark said, I identify as woman for the next few minutes. And then he did all sorts of
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weightlifting, uh, you know, uh, bench pressing this leg pressing that. And he said, I just smashed
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every single women's record in history. Now I'm going to stop identifying as a woman. I'm a man
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again. And it was, I mean, obviously it was a joke. It was absurd, but, uh, it's not fun anymore. It's,
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it's a way, frankly, for losers who can't compete against other men to go and have an easy win.
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It's like Kramer in Seinfeld doing Taekwondo in a children's class. It's the only way he could win,
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but that's a comedy in South Park is a comedy, but these people are really doing it in real life.
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And it's one thing to do weightlifting. You're not going to hurt anyone, but in, in rugby, in
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mixed martial arts, they literally hurt, seriously injured the women competitors, don't they?
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Yeah. In fact, uh, world rugby had to do a study on this in 2020 and they determined that it,
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if you even have one male born person, male body on the pitch with the women, uh, the chances of
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head, neck and back injury for all the women there who are playing rugby will go up at least 30%.
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So we're talking about safe sport. We're talking about the concussion protocol.
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I mean, it's everything that we've been preaching against and in sport governing bodies for the last
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20 years. And all of a sudden, somehow this is supposed to be okay now.
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You know, there's no common sense here, but, um, there's some crazy woke ideology,
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even in the courts. I want to read you a story, uh, from CBS news and the headline just a couple of days
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ago. Trans women can compete in USA powerlifting ruling says, I'll read a little bit of the article.
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Transgender women can now compete in USA powerlifting after a court ruled in favor of athlete
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JC Cooper, who filed a discrimination case against the Federation after she was banned from competing
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in women's events. It's very confusing how journalists put she there. And, and in your mind's
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eye, you're thinking, Oh, she, what does she look like? But, uh, the, the less clever, uh,
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news actually show photos of these, of these fellas. Let me read an excerpt in CBS from the judge,
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and this will just get you going. The judge wrote that while the USA powerlifting focused on the notion
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of fairness in its decision to bar trans women from competition, citing an unfair advantage, quote,
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the USA powerlifting's evidence of competitive advantage does not take into account any competitive
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disadvantage a transgender athlete might face from, for example, increased risk of depression
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and suicide, lack of access to coaching and practice facilities or other, uh, performance.
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Those have got nothing to do with strength and powerlifting. That's a judge trying to daydream.
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Well, sure. This guy is two, three times stronger than these women, but he might be depressed.
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Did you think of that? He might be suicidal. Did you think like that's not science? That's not law.
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That's extremist politics. And the judges who's looking to make a headline for himself,
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it's not going to be fun anymore. It's not sport anymore.
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Well, it's just outright insulting as if women's sports are supposed to be the somehow the template or
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mechanism for social therapy, somebody who is so suicidal. What in the world are we using women's
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sports really as a therapy session now for some male born person who just decides that,
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you know, they're going to claim that somehow if they're not allowed to unfairly win against female
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athletes, that somehow we're, we're all responsible for what they might do to themselves. It seems like a
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very childish demand. Yeah. Well, I mean, all of this is some sort of therapy. I mean,
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I think a convincing theory about the Kayla Lemieux teacher who goes into shop class with these absurd
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prosthetic breasts is that doing that, being that is some sort of a sexual,
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sexual, uh, sexually soothing or exciting for him to do to, to parade around and have people look at
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him like that. Like it's all a form of narcissistic therapy, all of this. And in the past, it would
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be unacceptable. Now it's unacceptable if you speak out against it. In Calgary last week,
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a Christian pastor was jailed for objecting to a drag queen story hour. But our, our prime minister had
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something to say about this and I think it was on international women's day. Let me quote, uh,
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Justin Trudeau's tweet. With the disturbing rise in anti-transgender hate here in Canada and around
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the world recently, I want to be very clear about one more thing. Trans women are women. We will always
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stand up to this hate whenever and wherever it occurs. Um, so if you, if you think that someone
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born a man is not a woman, if you, if you think two plus two is four and not five, you are full of
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hate. You heard it from the prime minister himself. You either support this radical relabeling of words,
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just destruction in the meaning, or you're a hater. Which one are you? Are you, are you, uh,
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for this or are you transphobe? Trudeau wants to know, what do you make of that?
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Well, I can tell you this, Ezra, for the prime minister to say that on international women's day
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is absolutely disrespectful and hateful towards female born persons in Canada. There is
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a sex based distinction between males and females. And for the prime minister to pretend like that
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doesn't exist is a denial of things that would entice people in his government and other organizations
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across the country to establish laws and policies that literally discriminate against biological women
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on the basis of sex. So shame on the prime minister. This should never have been said, especially
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on international women's day. Yeah. You know, and I've talked to Barbara Kay about this before.
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At the end of that South Park episode, you saw Randy, the Macho Man Savage standing in first place
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and natural women in second and third. And, and you, in fact, even the cover of your book on sporting,
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there's a trans athlete in first place and then dejected women in second and third. But how long will it
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be really before first, second and third are all trans athletes? Like, why not? And how long will it be
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before all the competitors in powerlifting are men? And the reason I say that is no matter how hard a
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female athlete trains, just in terms of genetics and testosterone and muscle mass and things like that,
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you have to go through a lot of male athletes before you get to the strongest female athlete. And that's
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not a knock. That's just an observation. And why would there just be one Leah Thomas swimmer? Why would
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there just be one JC powerlifter? And, and I think what you're going to see very shortly is the total
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extinction of women in sports, at least those sports, which is many of them where strength
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and muscle mass and power and force are determinative. Um, if you allow trans athletes
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into a sport, it is only a matter of time before there are no women left. We're just in the very
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early days of this. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, absolutely. And, uh, the thing is that I wanted to say something
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about that. If you allow male born athletes, people to self identify into women's sports here,
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it's actually anti-trans. And I'll tell you why there are a lot of young women these days who
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identify as non-binary and basically men. So they're female born and they're identifying as trans and they
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seek to stay in women's sports because they know that's the only place that they're really going to
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have a chance of winning and they, and we don't mind though because they're female athletes. We
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don't care how they identify. So if you're going to put a male born person into the female category,
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it's actually one type of trans discriminating against another type of trans. So it's not even
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about transphobia or anything. It's about delineating categories based on the binary sex
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type of person that you are. You're either born male or you're born female. And, and we know this,
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we've known this from the beginning of time. So, you know, to go along and pretend like that doesn't
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exist, then why are you having a separate women category in the first place? Yeah, it really is sad.
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I mean, I, it, it, it is within our living memory that women only entered certain sports. I mean,
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we've all probably seen the image of a woman sneaking into the Boston marathon and, and, uh,
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officials trying to stop her. That's a male only event. There's a lot of sports clubs where women
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were not allowed. The Olympics itself was originally all male. So, and, and of course in the United
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States, especially, um, funding of women's sports and treating women's sports equally, giving girls a
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chance to be athletic is, is very new. And I'm talking only in the last generation. So the golden age of
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young women and women in sports is coming to an end. And it just is, is so bizarre. It's a reminder
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that progress is not permanent. And I find this is a new form of barbarism. You know, you could say that
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barbarism versus civilization, part of it is, do you protect the weak? And I'm not saying women are weak,
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but I'm saying that physically speaking, women are not as strong as men. And if you just simply say,
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so what macho man, savage here, I'm the strong one. Like if you just simply allow bullies to
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physically smash their way in, that's a form of barbarism. It really is. And here we are.
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Yep. And you know what? It doesn't stop on the playing field. They're allowed to come into the
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locker rooms with the female athletes and everything. So, uh, you know, the, as a women's
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swimmers found out with Leah Thomas, they all go, had to go hide and change in the cubicle,
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like in the toilet, little cubicle, because there was a male person standing out, exposing himself
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out in the main, in the main locker room. So it's, it's just, it's, it's terrible.
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And that's the crazy thing is a lot of these trans athletes, they still have their twig and berries.
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They're still dating women. Um, and they just get a real kick out of being able to stand in a women's
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locker room naked and amongst other naked people. It's super gross. Well, listen, I'm,
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I'm glad to talk to you about it and I'm excited to learn that you are teaming up with the McDonnell
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Laurier Institute to start a gender policy program there. In fact, you've got a crowd fund
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and we'll put the website on the screen here and I'll read a little bit from it. Help Coach Blade
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and the McDonnell Laurier Institute stand up to gender policy that erodes sex based rights.
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And your crowd funding, you say for every $5 raised in this campaign,
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Coach Blade and a private donor will each donate an additional $1 to a maximum of $5,000 each.
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Um, help us turn 25 grand into 35 grand and support a fair, thoughtful gender policy
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that protects the interests of all vulnerable groups. So congratulations. Give us a word on the
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kind of work you'll be doing with that. Well, the truth is that very few media organizations,
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as you well know, Ezra would, you know, care to talk about this transit gender issue.
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And whenever McDonnell Laurier Institute publishes and they have to their credit published things like
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on the issue of men and males and female, uh, prisons in Canada, uh, men and identifying into women's
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sports, um, they don't get a penny. And we have really appreciated as a group of women across the
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country, the work that the MLI has done in publishing material and telling people the story,
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the honest truth about what's going on. And so I thought, I felt like I take some of the proceeds
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from our book from unsporting and put it up and to amplify the message and, and help the, you know,
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media organization get the message out. And that's really what this is about.
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Well, that's incredible. Congratulations to you and the McDonnell Laurier Institute.
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Very courageous these days to take that stand. Great to catch up with you. The book again,
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is called Unsporting. You can get it at unsporting.com. Keep up the fight, Coach Blade.
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We're trying. Right on. There you have it. Well, good to catch up there. That's Coach Linda Blade.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Gordon McMichael says, I respect and appreciate the
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work of your frequent guest hosts, Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies, and hope that we will continue
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to see them in this role in the days ahead. At the same time, I just wanted to say that Tamera
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Ugolini made a very positive impression as a guest host tonight, March 7th. Soft-spoken,
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but very pointed in her remarks. She's a welcome addition to your stable, a very able guest host.
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Still like seeing the boss man in the chair though, whenever your no doubt busy schedule
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permits. Well, thanks for your kind words. I'll pass them on to Tamera. And I did watch part of
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that show and I think she did great. So thanks for your kudos. I try my best to be here as much as
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possible. And if I know I'm going to be away, I try and pre-tape a long form interview with someone,
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but there are some days I simply must travel. And some days the travel takes up the most of the
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day anyways. For example, I think I'm going to be going back to Lethbridge, Alberta for the verdict
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in Pastor Arthur Pawlowski's case. As you know, he was prosecuted for two days for giving a sermon
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to the truckers. So I'll be out there for that. But I do try and be here as much as I can.
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On David Menzies' monologue about the trans takeover of International Women's Day,
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Walkie Talkin' says, I identify as 70 years. I want my pension, please. Yeah, that's right.
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And on Menzies and Randy Hillier, Don Mann says, it's nice to finally see Randy Hillier again.
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The poor guy kind of fell off the map for the last while. Why can't Trudeau be forced to cooperate
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like they made Randy? Well, that's sort of the thing. The word cooperate and force don't really go
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together. I mean, cooperation is something done voluntarily. That's our show for today.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
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to you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom.