00:00:00.000Hello, my friends. The dust has settled in Alberta's referendum, and two of the most interesting comments about it came not from Alberta, but from Quebec, from the Quebec Premier, who's a Parti Quebecois member, and from the leader of the Quebec Conservatives.
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00:00:37.240Tonight, Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon was sworn in as a premier of Quebec,
00:00:51.480and his first message to Ottawa was about Alberta.
00:00:55.160It's October 21st, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
00:03:19.000Canada, as it is, does not work, and the status quo is no longer acceptable.
00:03:23.980He called the Federation a car can, a straitjacket.
00:03:27.980He said Albertans, quote, like Quebecers before them, are challenging the Canadian constitutional order and the federal regime's abuses of power in provincial jurisdiction.
00:03:38.980And then he said, quote, the new government of Quebec will make sure the message is understood in Ottawa.
00:06:49.640Je pense à la société civile au Québec, c'est bien celui d'avoir un plus grand contrôle en tant que Québécois, en tant que nation, sur notre immigration.
00:06:58.220Et maintenant qu'on voit qu'il y a une province qui vient de voter massivement en faveur d'un pouvoir accru également dans ce domaine-là, je pense que c'est une occasion qui est unique.
00:07:06.320it's true there was one question on independence but there were five questions in alberta
00:07:11.900about immigration duem says carney is talking about raising the numbers again back to the bad
00:07:17.220old trudeau years and he says provinces should be able to say no now duem and pspp can't actually
00:07:23.980stand each other they're rivals of course uh pspp is a separatist uh duem i think it's fair to say
00:07:29.680he's a federalist pspp has accused duem of contempt for quebec's interest it's quite
00:07:34.820dramatique but on this on immigration on alberta i think they're in the same place and they're in
00:07:41.300the same place on something else too here's the thing the toronto media won't tell you about
00:07:45.240quebec and i say that even as i sit in toronto quebec says out loud what alberta only hinted at
00:07:51.660on a ballot in april pspp was at a town hall meeting the host was the jewish mainstream
00:07:59.040lobby, someone asked him about mass Muslim immigration, and he started talking about the
00:08:05.140Muslim Brotherhood. He said the Brotherhood ideology, what the French call frerism, is a
00:08:11.640documented reality across Europe, and quote, the only reason it isn't documented in Canada is that
00:08:17.280it's the agenda of the government in place. Now, the liberals went cuckoo over that. Jean-Yves Duclos
00:08:22.920said it sounded like a conspiracy theory. Mark Miller called it ridiculous, but he didn't back0.57
00:08:28.960down which is sort of amazing he said quote the agenda is multiculturalism and willful blindness0.97
00:08:33.960to foreign interference now he was careful he said he wouldn't call it muslim immigration because
00:08:40.280he'd met too many people who fled iran saudi arabia afghanistan and chose quebec precisely
00:08:45.400to get away from religious totalitarianism he said quote i'm aiming for social peace
00:08:50.720but he said it the premier of quebec said it immigration is the thing then the campaign
00:08:58.200He stood in front of a high school in Quebec City with 24 portable classrooms and said
00:09:02.320it was overflowing because of immigration.
00:09:09.420He said, saying there's overcrowding in the schools and it causes a big wave of immigration,
00:09:15.040that's not racist, that's non-intolerance.
00:09:17.220And then he said, quote, Quebecers have had it up to here with accusations of racism.
00:09:21.260And he pointed to Laval, where 82% of the kids in some school boards are from immigrant families, 82%. And he asked, so how is integration supposed to happen? Yeah, I mean, if you care about the distinct society, if you think you are special, because you're French and Catholic, an island of Quebec surrounded by a sea of America, why would you replace yourselves with mass immigration, as is obviously happening in Laval?
00:09:47.940Now, his plan is to cap permanent immigration at $35,000, cut temporary immigration in half,
00:09:55.100a moratorium on new permanent immigrants from abroad until that's done,0.96
00:09:58.540and a citizenship-style ceremony for newcomers to Quebec, all of which sounds good.
00:10:03.220I think it could go even farther, but what a great start.
00:10:06.880And in April, his party voted for Bill 9.
00:10:10.440No more street prayers, no religious symbols on daycare workers, no face fails in daycares.
00:10:15.140That's Bill 9 in the Quebec legislature, mind you.
00:10:17.940no veils in colleges or universities, no prayer rooms on campus.
00:10:22.580The PQ says many of those ideas were theirs in the first place,
00:10:25.440but they want to rip them out because they see how it's promoting
00:10:28.160that very same Muslim Brotherhoodism.0.96
00:10:31.620Now, we told all this to our own Alexa Lavoie, by the way.
00:10:35.060I don't know if you remember an hour-long interview in April.
00:15:40.260On peut, ensemble, apporter les changements que nous souhaitons pour le futur du Québec,
00:15:46.440parce que c'est encore et toujours possible.
00:15:49.780The anger of the young must alert us in Québec.
00:15:53.540Le Devoir says reporters asked her over and over to condemn the violence
00:15:56.960she would not. Finally, after being pressed, she allowed that, of course we don't want things
00:16:03.500burning everywhere. Is that a condemnation? I didn't see the condemnation part in that
00:16:09.920condemnation. But her message to PSPP was, quote, it must alert us to prevent violence
00:16:16.540in our society. We must invest. What? Think about what that is. That's not a warning. That's a
00:16:22.520That's a threat. That's a shakedown. Nice province you've got here. Shame if it caught fire. Pay up.
00:16:29.280More money for the unions. More money for the public sector. More money for, I don't know,
00:16:33.300Palestinian activists. More money for migrants. Immigration up to $70,000 a year. Double what PSPP0.95
00:16:38.820wants. Or else you might get a limogne. And she said it on day one. She said she'll, quote,
00:16:45.980hound the new government. No blank check. She said she'll oppose, quote, any measure that breaks
00:16:52.080with the tradition of welcome, as in reducing immigration. She'll oppose it. She gave him
00:16:57.520until Wednesday to cough up emergency money for homelessness. That's today. Here's the math. PSPP
00:17:03.320has 59 seats in their legislature. A majority is 63. He's short, so he has to do a deal with
00:17:11.020someone who has at least four seats. The liberals have 40, and Charles Millard has already said no
00:17:16.820cooperation on a referendum duem has 19 seats and gazelle has nine so the premier of quebec has
00:17:24.780actually three ways he can get his majority i guess he could just do it vote by vote um
00:17:29.820i think he's got a choice to make duem is 19 or the cafe is nine by the way here's what gazelle
00:17:38.520thinks of alberta last year when pspp was praising danielle smith she was asked the same question
00:17:43.660and she said, quote, I hadn't thought of Albertans as a people. And then I want a free Palestine. I
00:17:49.480want a free Quebec. A free Palestine, a free Quebec. Alberta didn't make the list. So that's0.90
00:17:56.040Quebec this week. Two Quebecks really in one room. The good guys won, but the bad guys were right1.00
00:18:01.020there. You know, one of the Quebecers was talking about a straitjacket and a Muslim brotherhood and
00:18:09.340schools that are overflowing. And he reaches out to Alberta. I like that, Quebecker. The other one
00:18:13.340dances with the keffia and tells the premier that if he doesn't spend money, the cities are going to
00:18:17.880burn. Albertans, you just got the most important ally you had in 50 years. He doesn't speak your
00:18:23.200language. He wants to leave the country. He'll probably never campaign for you, but take the
00:18:27.640meeting anyways. He's an ally because the alternative is already in the building and
00:18:32.200she's wearing and waving a scarf. Stay with us for more.0.61
00:18:43.340Hey, welcome back. You know, we've got a team in Australia. I like to call it a one-man army,
00:18:51.100Abiyamini, but there's actually three of them down there. Benji, his videographer and editor,
00:18:54.840and Rakshan, who's just doing amazing things. Now, they really are so effective down there.
00:18:59.660I mean, it's a small team, but we do support them here from Canada. And boy, they're on a roll.
00:19:06.120Things are moving in Australia, by the way. And just like Nigel Farage is leading the polls in
00:19:12.340the UK. And Marine Le Pen is leading the polls in France. Down under Pauline Hanson with One Nation
00:19:19.060who's been marginalized by the regime media for decades. She is in many polls in the lead. So
00:19:24.840very exciting stuff. Anyways, I want to share with you the latest from Avi Down Under. Here,
00:19:29.960take a look. Just six weeks before the Victorian state election, the Liberal Party suddenly
00:19:36.940disendorsed one of its last remaining outspoken conservatives despite endorsing him almost a year
00:19:43.640ago. Now a party insider is breaking his silence for the first time about what really happened
00:19:49.320behind the scenes. So something quite unprecedented just occurred. The Liberal Party's candidate for
00:19:54.840Croydon, Grant Hutchinson, was just disendorsed. Now I can tell you confidently that he had no
00:20:01.580idea that this was going to happen. Just got a phone call and told, you're no longer the candidate,
00:20:06.940you've been disendorsed and you have no right of reply. In the 20 plus years that I've been a member
00:20:12.460of the Liberal Party I've never seen this happen just to get a phone call and not have natural
00:20:17.760justice occur not have any right of reply it's just you know the Liberal Party what this says
00:20:23.680the Liberal Party is just no longer a home for Conservatives let alone Conservative candidates.
00:20:29.500But why are you saying that when they're telling us that the reason that they've
00:20:33.040disendorsed him is because of this pending legal matter. So what does that have to do with the
00:20:38.320fact that he's a conservative? So when it comes to the legal matter, that was something that was
00:20:43.220known well in advance to the pre-selection convention. So the Liberal Party has a vetting
00:20:49.580process. And because of all the issues they've had with, you know, federal MPs having dual
00:20:53.940citizenship, etc, etc, they're now very, very strict about vetting people. So when it came to
00:20:59.960Grant. They had him disclose anything that was possibly going to be embarrassing to the party.
00:21:06.740And of course, that included the legal case, which was in the public domain to some extent.
00:21:11.860So he was very upfront about what was going on with that. They went through that process. They
00:21:16.480said it didn't prevent him from standing for pre-selection and being pre-selected as a candidate.
00:21:21.700And by the way, the court case is nothing sinister. He's a lawyer. Actually, he's a senior
00:21:26.320lawyer that has his own law firm Hutchinson Legal the court case is a partnership dispute
00:21:31.340between Grant and some of his partners which is the I think the first dispute he's had in 30 years
00:21:38.440very common in law firms so nothing sinister again the court action is action he has brought
00:21:43.340not that's been brought against him he's actually initiated the court action to help protect his
00:21:49.400reputation because obviously the law firm is in his name Hutchinson Legal and the reputation of
00:21:53.660wife who was part of the law firm so when they actually had the convention they then decided oh
00:21:59.740we're going to say this to the convention and this comes to my other point which is the party is now
00:22:04.780being run by the like moderate faction um they control the liberal party so they didn't want
00:22:12.700grant to be the candidate to begin with um actually he was their worst nightmare as a candidate being
00:22:19.740pre-selected so they wanted to do everything possible to stop him from being pre-selected
00:22:24.140so they brought that up at the convention even though they brought it up he was still elected
00:22:29.260in the first round at the convention um so that usually there was there was two other candidates
00:22:33.900and usually there's a bit of back and forth and then you know the final two and then the person
00:22:37.760with most votes gets elected grant was elected with the majority so there wasn't any back and
00:22:41.560forth at all um and he was then the candidate for quoting now we're almost at the election
00:22:46.920and then he gets a call and told basically the same reason that you know which is this legal
00:22:54.500issue that we knew about at the beginning and which was raised at your convention to the
00:22:59.740membership that voted for you is the reason why you're going to be disendorsed and also you have
00:23:05.520no right of reply this is just the decision we've made like it's completely absurd and it's not a
00:23:11.900real reason what happened was a literally a factional hit it was the moderate grouping
00:23:17.340getting rid of a conservative candidate and putting in toby woolridge is everyone knows
00:23:24.260like a heavy hitter in that factional grouping you keep saying moderate i think yeah sorry because
00:23:28.900i've been in that bubble for so long i use terminology that others in that say bubble
00:23:32.920would understand but typically parties are left and right and typically the liberal party builds
00:23:38.640itself as a broad church, which means it has people that have more left-leaning views and
00:23:43.600some people that are more right-leaning. This time round, though, in the pre-selections that
00:23:48.420have occurred, there hasn't been any crumbs left to the people on the right. There have all been
00:23:54.000left-leaning candidates that have been pre-selected, especially when it's come down to an
00:23:59.480admin pre-selection, which means the executive group of the Liberal Party just decides who's
00:24:03.820going to be the candidate, not the membership. But it's now become a little bit more complicated
00:24:08.640than that. With Grant's disendorsement, it actually requires a two-thirds vote from the
00:24:12.860executive. That means some people who were elected as the so-called conservative faction
00:24:19.000or the right faction's representatives would have had to have voted to disendorse Grant.
00:24:24.620Actually, I can tell you only one person in that executive didn't vote to disendorse.
00:24:29.280And the reason for that is that the right and left in Victoria, I can't speak for other states, but in Victoria, isn't actually a right and left on the basis of where you stand on social issues.
00:24:42.320So the leader of the right faction in Victoria is supposedly Bev McArthur, who herself is pro-abortion, not pro-life.
00:24:52.180And her husband, Stuart McArthur, actually was in the left faction in federal parliament.
00:24:56.700So in the federal parliament, they have a dinner called the Night on the Right and the Black Hand Dinner.
00:25:02.000I know, it sounds quite sinister. I mean, it's pretty crazy. They're not hiding it at all.
00:25:07.340But yeah, and yeah, I used to go to the Black Hand Dinner before she was, she became a state MP.
00:25:14.640And now all of a sudden, the leader of the Conservatives. It's actually quite wild.
00:25:19.280So the people that did support the candidate, are the members that voted for him and even donors that have backed his campaign already, are they believing the Liberal Party's official line?
00:25:32.880And if they're unhappy with the fact that he's been swapped for a left, essentially a left-wing candidate, is there a recourse?
00:25:43.340Can they get, if they've put money into it, can they get refunds and do any of them want it?
00:25:47.740yeah it's um yeah it's pretty pretty crazy situation so um people from what i am hearing
00:25:56.120and what i'm reading they really don't understand what's happened um they can't believe what's
00:26:01.760happened um which is why this message is important uh the money that people have put in grants been
00:26:08.740the candidate since last year like it's been a while plenty of people have put money in not just
00:26:14.640money. They've put time in volunteering. You know, they've gone and campaigned on the basis that
00:26:21.060this is the man that they're standing behind. That is something that you'll never get back.
00:26:27.340And I know people personally who have now reached out to the party and asked for their money back
00:26:33.900on the basis that they weren't supporting, you know, Toby Woolridge, who's the current candidate,
00:26:38.580but they were supporting Grant because he was a conservative. And the party has just simply
00:26:42.900come back and said, sorry, no refunds. I mean, it's tens of thousands of dollars that have been
00:26:47.820donated to his campaign that the Liberal Party is essentially stealing. I mean, how desperate are
00:26:54.580they for, you know, this money? If they really want Toby there, surely he can raise his own funds
00:26:59.360and rather than stealing the funds that were raised for another candidate.
00:27:03.240Is that even legal? Has anyone sought advice as to if you donated for one candidate?
00:27:09.460So it's an interesting legal argument because, yeah, some people have raised the most, I guess, the one that's been raised that I found the most compelling is that you as a candidate don't have a donation cap.
00:27:22.760So Grant has definitely given of himself personally to the party.
00:27:26.720And with the Victorian donation laws, you're only able to donate a certain amount of money.
00:27:31.580Grant has donated more than that amount.
00:27:33.900And that's only possible because he's the candidate.
00:27:35.980Now, he's not the candidate anymore, but the Liberal Party still has his money. Go figure.
00:27:41.880I guess, why is it important for people now in the lead up to the election to know any of this?
00:27:47.540So I, like I said, been a member of the Liberal Party for a long time. I used to think it was a numbers game.
00:27:54.280And then there was, you know, two major parties that formed government and the Liberal Party aligned more with the conservative values that I hold.
00:28:04.160It's now the case where that's not what it is.
00:28:08.360You know, I can say that I've been through the times when, you know,0.78
00:28:12.000OzCon's where a thing, Family First, Australian Christians,
00:28:15.860and I looked at those parties and, you know, yes, they all aligned better with where I was,
00:28:21.280but they weren't really a realistic option.
00:28:25.480I still thought there was hope for the Liberal Party,
00:28:28.500and maybe that was because I'd been in it for so long and I was holding on.
00:28:33.160But with something like this, just something, like I said, I have never seen in the 20 years
00:28:37.620that I've been a member occurring, where essentially there have been no conservative
00:28:43.220candidates pre-selected, like not even in like seats where they're not going to win.
00:29:30.700in the Labour Party? Not many. Maybe you can count them on one hand, but there are still a few good
00:29:35.900people there. Maybe because they've had a long history there, their whole positions that they
00:29:41.680wouldn't otherwise hold. I knew there were good people in certain political offices even that I
00:29:47.540was friends with that were conservative on the down low, and they could use those positions to
00:29:52.380influence. I guess the balancing act is when do you compromise on your values to stay in that
00:29:56.540position. And when you say, okay, now it's time to leave. The reason I am still in the Liberal
00:30:03.800Party is because, probably because of those connections that I have, that insight that I have,
00:30:11.120that if I was to leave, I would no longer have access to or as much influence in. And I feel
00:30:20.260light, I can still work and support parties like One Nation behind the scenes while still
00:30:28.460being there for the few remaining good people in the grassroots of the Liberal Party.
00:30:35.460From all of that, I'm taking it like you're in the party to still work and try to fix
00:30:42.460or support those that want to do the right thing or that are conservative, but you're
00:30:47.540not voting for the Liberals this election.
00:30:50.260Yeah, no chance. No chance. I don't see how I could vote for the Liberals in any seat in this state, to be completely frank. There's, yeah, there's not a single one where I would put the Liberals number one on the ballot.
00:31:05.660But, like I said, you know, there are still some good people in the party and we need people that are going to provide, I guess, the conservative movement in general in Victoria, intel about what's happening in all of the political parties.
00:31:19.000And that's where I see myself in this.
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00:31:35.160So it's up to you guys to spread it far and wide so every voter is fully informed.