Ezra Levant Show： April 26 2018
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Summary
On April 26th, a man drove a truck into pedestrians on a sidewalk in Toronto, Canada, killing 10 people and injuring many more. The police arrested a suspect named Alek Kristian Manassian, who has been charged with first-degree murder, terrorism, and attempted murder. But what does this have to do with the internet?
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Tonight, no surprise, Trudeau's liberals see the Toronto attack as an opportunity
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to censor the internet. It's April 26th and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my
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What did the Toronto attack this week have to do with the internet?
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Well, nothing. Or to be more accurate, we don't know yet. We know that a suspect named Alec
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Manassian was arrested after ramming pedestrians on a North Toronto sidewalk. He killed 10 and
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wounded many more. Horrific. Many people thought it was a terrorist attack since that's the preferred
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methodology of ISIS these days. Many truck attacks, van attacks in the UK, Germany, France.
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One of the worst was in the city of Nice, France, when the streets were closed for a national holiday
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and thousands of people were lining the streets and a Muslim terrorist commandeered a massive truck,
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huge, like the size of a semi, and just kept barreling down the road on and on and on. It
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was such a big truck, nothing could stop it. He literally murdered 85 people and injured more
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than 400. Imagine that, killing or injuring 500 people just with a truck. That's like hijacking
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an airline. That's a sizable fraction of the death toll of 9-11 itself. It happened again,
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smaller scale on Westminster Bridge. So it's an ISIS move. But the suspect in Toronto has a name that
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sounds Armenian, which suggests he's not Muslim. And from what scraps of information have been
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gleaned from secondhand sources, he sounds like he was socially very awkward, that he may have in fact
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had mental issues. We know he was briefly a recruit to the Canadian Armed Forces, but he flunked out
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after a few weeks, which suggests a mental misfit. And we have this Facebook page, which is allegedly
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his, but it has not been officially and publicly confirmed by Facebook yet, or by the police. It's
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alleged. It's easy to fake a Facebook page, and given that this image first appeared on a website
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called Reddit, that's notorious for making hoaxes and tricks and jokes, especially gallows humor in the
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time of crisis, I still treat this artifact with some skepticism. I'm open to it being confirmed as
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illegitimate by Facebook, but so far it's only unofficial. So we take it with a little grain of
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salt. But let me read it to you, what is alleged that Manassian wrote right before he rammed all
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those people on the street. According to this Facebook post, he said,
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Private Recruit Manassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sergeant 4chan, please, C23249161.
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The incel rebellion has already begun. We will all overthrow all the Chads and Stacys. All hail the
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supreme gentleman, Elliot Rodger. Now that's gobbledygook, of course. But let me translate.
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Elliot Rodger was an American who four years ago went on a killing spree, shooting and stabbing people.
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But before he did, he taped a vanity video on YouTube, giving his explanation as having trouble
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getting attention from women. He had various mental illnesses as well, enough to be prescribed
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medication, which he refused to take. He had personal issues, too, a broken family.
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And he took it out on strangers, stabbing and shooting them before killing himself.
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So that's the Elliot Rodger here. Incel is internet slang for someone who is involuntarily celibate.
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That is, someone who can't meet and relate to women, can't get a date.
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When he refers to overthrowing Chads and Stacys, those are internet nicknames for socially successful
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men and women. A Chad is a guy who can get a date with a Stacey.
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This is pretty obscure. This is pretty weird. It's sort of fantasy weirdness, too, that has
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become the official explanation for the attack. There's a glee out there, of course, amongst
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the left, that Manassian doesn't seem to be Muslim and doesn't seem to be motivated by terrorism
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of the usual variety. If indeed he was motivated by some sort of anger at women, or women and men,
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as the Chad's part suggests. And Elliot Rodger killed both men and women. He hated women who
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wouldn't sleep with him. And he hated men who were successful with women. Well, the left prefers that
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narrative. Angry men are killers. Angry because they're men, not because they're Muslims or whatever.
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My view is, lock them up. Whatever their motivation is, they're murderers. Like I say,
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it's not a lot to go on because we have no official confirmation of the authenticity that Facebook
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posts. I'm prepared to accept it as authentic, of course, but not based on an uncorroborated internet
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rumor. But let's accept it for the purpose of debate because the political media establishment
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has accepted it. I have no information that they don't. And look at what they plan to do with that,
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the political media establishment. Look at Melanie Jolie, the heritage minister.
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So obviously the question of gender equality is extremely important. And the question also of
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criminal behavior is not obviously tolerated in reality and can't be tolerated online. People's
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behavior must be the same online and offline. And therefore, we call upon the web giants to make
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sure that they counter any form of hate speech and any form of discrimination.
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Now, of course, it's important that no one should commit a crime online any more than they should
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commit a crime in real life. You can commit a crime on a telephone. You can commit a crime by post office.
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The internet is not a place for outlaws. But Alec Manassian's crime, if he is convicted,
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and I suspect he will be, was not an internet crime. It was killing people with a van on a sidewalk.
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And let me read again what he wrote on Facebook, if indeed it was authentic. He wrote,
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Private Recruit Manassian Infantry, triple zero one zero, wishing to speak to Sergeant 4chan,
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please. And then a number. The incel rebellion has already begun. We will overthrow all the
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Chads and Stacys. All hail the Supreme Gentleman, Elliot Roger. I'm sorry, writing that is not a crime.
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That's weird. That's crazy, maybe. And it calls for a military style uprising and salutes a murderer.
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But it is neither a crime in itself, nor would it possibly even reach the level of uttering a threat.
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You couldn't even call it discrimination. It was against both men and women, Chads and Stacys.
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I can't even believe I'm parsing such a nutty, weird thing that was written. And if indeed he wrote it,
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and if it was, in fact, his motivation, then that's the fact. And it may well show his motivation,
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so it would explain his later crime. But how on earth the statement itself could be seen as crime,
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or even as discrimination, or even as hate speech? I don't see it. It makes no sense. You couldn't
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possibly vet every weird comment like that, so vague, so fantastical on Facebook. I mean,
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there's two billion users in dozens of languages. How could you? You couldn't.
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So what exactly is Melanie Jolie asking the web giants to do? And it's not just her, of course.
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Jolie calls on web giants to fight hate speech from incels after van attack. It's a headline in
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iPolitics. So I guess Jolie has tried and convicted Manassian already. She might be prescient. There's
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a lot of that trying and convicting by Trudeau. Cabinet ministers these days isn't there,
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including that farmer in Saskatchewan who was acquitted by a jury,
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but convicted by Trudeau and his justice minister politically. Here's Patty Hajdu,
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the employment minister quoted in that iPolitics story. She said,
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from my perspective, we have to have a conversation about misogyny,
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about the rise in hate and the connection to what some call the alt-right, she said.
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Now, there used to be a tradition of cabinet ministers not weighing into criminal court cases
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before they're done, especially before the facts are heard. I think that's wise, not just in terms of
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the separation of powers, the legislators, the executive, the judiciary, but it could actually
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prejudice the trial. If a federal cabinet pronounces someone guilty and they're found guilty,
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could that conviction be overturned because of bias or lack of fairness? It wouldn't be the first time.
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Now, that's a side point, but the main point is, look what's really going on here. This was a horrific
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mass murderer. Looks to me like they caught the guy pretty clearly. I won't prejudge it myself.
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He's still not convicted. But we all saw the video of his takedown. And let's say for a moment that the
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Facebook post is not only authentic, but it really shows his motivation. He couldn't have sex, and
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women who spurned him, and he hated them, and he hated the men who were successful. So do you see
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what the liberals have done? They've tied that crime somehow to the alt-right. That's what Patty
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Haidu said. Now, what's the alt-right? Now, I understand the term, if I do. It's white nationalism.
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It's racism. Now, Alex Manassian himself isn't typically considered white. He's Armenian. You
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can see he's a slightly different skin color to get into racial taxonomy. I don't think
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the alt-right would call him white. I don't know his religion. I don't know if it's even possible
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for him to be alt-right. But his ideology, again, with all the caveats, if that was him who did the
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murders, if that was him on the Facebook page, if that was his motivation, what does being mad about
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not having a relationship have to do with white nationalism and being alt-right? Elliot
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Roger wasn't white either, by the way. His mom was Malaysian. His stepmom was Moroccan.
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This isn't a race thing. This isn't a conservative thing. This is a sexual frustration thing, maybe.
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In Roger's case, it was a mental illness thing. Looks like that could be the case with Manassian, too.
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But so what, right? I mean, never let a crisis go to waste. That's the left-wing rule. The liberal
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cabinet has all agreed this was a right-wing terrorist attack. Alt-right, to use their catch-all
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phrase. And so they're demanding the web giants, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, they all have to
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stop it. But you can't stop people who feel snubbed in a relationship. That's all of us,
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surely, at one point or another in our lives. You can't stop people from moaning or complaining about
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their relationships. That's half the chatter on social media for young people. You can't ban that.
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Even if you would have seen Manassian's alleged post a week ago, you'd say, okay, it's a bit kooky,
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a bit obscure, a little bit emotional, but that's it. There's literally no way you could censor
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every emotional woe or every lamentation about a date gone wrong. You couldn't. And of course,
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that is not what Melanie Jolie wants to do or Patty Hyde do. Their goal is to use this mass murder
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as proof that they need the power to censor their opposition, but their normal, natural,
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mainstream, mentally healthy of political opponents. It's exactly what Justin Trudeau
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himself told Facebook a few months ago. You censor political news we don't like before the next
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election or we'll punish you. It's got nothing to do with what happened in the North Toronto Street.
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It's got nothing to do with stopping actual crimes. It's got nothing to do with emotionally
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bent men. It's got everything to do with censoring their political opponents and labeling any political
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dissident, any political dissent as alt-right and hate speech, and then banning it as if it's a
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criminal act. That's what's going on here, by the way, with the total unanimous support of the liberal
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We invested significantly in ensuring that we have a robust immigration system that is able to handle
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asylum seekers and irregular arrivals. We will continue to make sure that Canada is a strong
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and open country that applies the rules of its immigration system.
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Well, that last part is certainly debatable, applies the rules of the immigration system. One
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of the rules is called the Safe Third Party Agreement with the United States, which says,
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as a matter of fact and law, you cannot be a refugee if you come from each other's country. I mean,
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Canada, the United States, we have no refugees from our countries. In fact, the flood of asylum
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seekers just walking across the border from the United States has caused a bit of a crisis.
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There was a Quebec Parti Quebecois MNA, member of their National Assembly, who actually called for
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the building of a border fence between Quebec and New York, if you can believe it, echoing Donald
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Trump himself. And just today, John Tory, the mayor of Toronto, has put out a desperate press release
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saying Toronto itself cannot handle any more of Trudeau's asylum seekers. According to this press
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release, the number of refugees in Toronto's shelter system has increased from 459 in 2016 to 2,351
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today. And Trudeau said he's going to jack that number up quite surely by bussing in asylum seekers
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from Quebec to Toronto because Quebec says it's at its breaking point. One last thing before I
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introduce our guest, this all came from a tweet. Justin Trudeau tweeting a sub-tweet, as they call
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it, a countering, counter-messaging Donald Trump. Last January, when Trump brought in his executive
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order about open borders, Justin Trudeau responded by saying, to those fleeing persecution, terror,
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and war, Canadians will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. A quarter
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of a million people liked that. 165,000 retweeted that. And since that time, we've had more than 50,000
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people simply walk across the border. Joining us now to talk about how to square these circles and
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rectangles is our friend Giddy Mammon, a longtime refugee and immigration lawyer. Giddy, great to see you
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again. It's quite something when John Tory literally counts the number of asylum seekers in homeless
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shelters in Toronto. It's quadrupled in the last two years. It's going to go up some more. Does anyone
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in the immigration department care about John Tory's homeless shelters, or is that just his problem?
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Well, they're going to have to care because there is a big hole in the fence in Canada at our border,
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border. And the government simply refuses to close that hole in the fence, because it would
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contradict the persona that our prime minister is trying to project. And you did a good job by
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explaining how that persona came to be. With that infamous tweet, he basically rolled out the red
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carpet for anyone who wants to come to Canada. So it's now very difficult for him to backtrack and to
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close the hole in the fence. But that's exactly what needs to be done. So I don't think we need
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to be concerned with just John Tory. This is inevitable. If you're going to allow people to
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come in every single day, those numbers are going to grow. And that's what we're seeing. I don't think
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anyone should be surprised by that. You know, I saw other news recently this week in Ontario,
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a major regional hospital was coming up with policies for how to treat patients in hallways.
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So they no longer regard stashing patients in the hallway as an anomaly to be, you know, remedied.
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But that's a new permanent solution in overcrowded Ontario hospitals is, here's the rules for treating
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patients in the hallway. I got to imagine that situations like that are going to increase. If we
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basically say to the world, come one, come all, you've got a great chance of beating the law.
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Even if you lose your application for refugee status, it'll be many years before that happens.
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Come here. And now we have Ahmed Hassan, the immigration minister, saying that catastrophic
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illness is now no longer a barrier to immigration. These are all PR statements that he and Trudeau are
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saying, but it's the cities and the provinces that have to cover the cost, whether it's homeless
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shelters or hospitals. I don't know how this can continue, Giddy.
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Well, I don't know either. I mean, the real question here is when the government is going to decide that
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enough is enough. You're absolutely right. The federal government is entitled to set immigration policy,
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but social services under our constitution, health and social services is a provincial matter.
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So the provinces are picking up a significant portion of the tab here. Quebec looks like they've
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had enough. And at the beginning, they seem to be very open minded, let's say, of new potential
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immigrants coming to their province. But I think they're at their breaking point right now. And the idea to just
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simply spread the damage around the country, i.e. to Ontario, is insane. The Safe Third Country Agreement
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has been talked about a lot and has been described as some sort of a barrier to solving this problem.
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It is not a barrier whatsoever. The Safe Third Country Agreement was simply designed to make sure that a person
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cannot make a claim both in Canada and the United States. They have to make their claim at the first stop.
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So what is happening here is we're just simply seeing a government that refuses to do what every
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government is supposed to do, which is to enforce the border. If people want to make a refugee claim,
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they can just go to a regular port of entry. And if they qualify, they'll be processed. And if they
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don't qualify, they will not be processed. But the idea that we have some sort of international
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obligation to leave a big hole in the fence is crazy and has absolutely no foundation in law.
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Yeah. It's interesting to me that Justin Trudeau, whose own riding is in Quebec, and I think a lot of
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his re-election strategy is counting on Quebec because he sees both Jagmeet Singh and Andrew Scheer as
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non-Quebeckers who with poor French language skills who are culturally non-Quebecois.
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So I think to put a partisan layer on it, Trudeau's counting on Quebec to get him re-elected.
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And you mentioned Quebec's at the breaking point. I think you're right.
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It's amazing to me that Trudeau is saying, well, just shove him over to Toronto. They'll take it.
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We won't give them any money along with it. But we are clearly playing favorites. We will respect
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the reluctance or the budgetary restraint in Quebec, and Toronto can just handle it. And soon that's
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going to be Doug Ford's problem anyway. Like, it's just so transparent to me that Justin Trudeau is
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favoring Quebec questions and skepticism and say, ah, Toronto, whatever, dump him there. I mean,
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it's really quite something that he's just so brazenly bussing Quebec's problem into Ontario. I find
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that odd. Well, there's a couple of layers to this, Ezra. First of all, the fact that somebody enters
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Canada through a hole in the fence in Quebec does not mean that he's stuck in Quebec. The very next
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minute, he can go to Vancouver, he can go to Winnipeg, he can go to anywhere he wants, Halifax. The fact
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is, before this arrangement that is being proposed by our Prime Minister, that they come to Ontario,
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before he invites them here, you should know that they were already coming here. People who are making
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refugee claims in Quebec were not necessarily interested or intending to remain in Quebec.
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Like much of the Canadian immigrants, the immigrants to Canada, many of them who are destined to a
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particular province eventually end up in Ontario. Typically, about 40-45% of all immigration to
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Canada ends up in Ontario, one way or the other. So it's not a Quebec problem, and we don't need
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Justin Trudeau's invitation for them to come here. They were coming already. Right. So, you know,
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this idea that he can control where people end up when they're coming in uncontrolled is ridiculous,
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and it's just not the way it actually works. You know, that's a good reminder. And of course,
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the folks who would want to stay in Quebec are likely those who would be French-speaking
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naturally, and that may be the Haitian wave that was departing the United States. Remember,
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these are people who are coming from the U.S. Some have just come immediately to the U.S.,
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but some have been there for years and are just self-deporting before Trump boots them out,
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thinking they have better bets up here. I detect in Justin Trudeau and his immigration,
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Ahmed Hassan, not a scintilla, not a jot, not an iota of sober second thought or hesitation that
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the track they're on is incorrect. I see in immigration polling, Canadians are fed up or
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skeptical. We hear that from the Parti Québécois. We're even hearing it from John Tory, but not even
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a flicker in the federal livers. Is there any sense that they're on the wrong track, or are they just,
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stand the torpedoes here? I know as a fact they understand they're on the wrong track. The problem
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is they don't know how to reverse what is going to become one of the most expensive tweets in Canadian
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history. They just don't know how to reverse that. Remember, he came in, the context was the United
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States, was on a track of very negative attitudes towards immigration and refugees. It's clear that
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he wanted to contrast his campaign from that. He also did that to distinguish his immigration plan
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for Syrian refugees against the Conservative and the NDP plan when he was seeking election, and he then
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reinforced it with this tweet. It was one of the most remarkable tweets, but the problem is he can't
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seem to find a way to backtrack. And the question is, how much pain is Justin Trudeau prepared to expose
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this country to before he says, you know what, maybe that wasn't a wise move. Let's do what is the
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obvious solution and just enforce that border. And that's the end of it.
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Yeah, you're right. That is about saving face. And in fact, I think back the last two and a half
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years, I don't recall Justin Trudeau swallowing his pride. I think to him, not blinking is a
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political imperative. We'll have to see. I like your phrase, the most expensive tweet in Canadian
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history. Giddy, it's always good to catch up with you. Thanks for your straight talk.
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All right. What a pleasure. That's Giddy Mammon. As you know, he's one of Canada's leading experts in
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immigration and refugee law and has practiced both for many years. Stay with us. More ahead on The
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Welcome back. Well, there is a terrible case of child abuse going on in the United Kingdom. I'm not
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talking about the industrial scale rape gangs of young girls at the hands of Pakistani Muslim
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migrants. I'm talking about child abuse of a young boy named Alfie Evans, who has a neurological
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disorder. The child abuse is not at the hands of his parents or at the hands of any strangers.
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Rather, it's at the hands of the UK government itself and their government health care system
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called the NHS. They will not give Alfie the treatment he needs or he wants. They have
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basically sentenced him to die. But worse than that, they refuse to discharge him from the hospital
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to allow his parents to take him to medical treatment in another jurisdiction, such as in Italy,
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where a hospital has been waiting for him. The Pope himself has called for him to be freed.
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The hospital in the UK has actually ordered that life support be turned off of Alfie and
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told his parents he would die within hours. It's been several days. His father has stayed at the
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hospital, literally giving the child mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to keep him alive. The government
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hospital will not let him go. Joining us now to talk about this via Skype is Brandon Morse, a writer
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with Red State. Brandon, did I accurately summarize the facts of this horrific case? I'll admit,
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I have tried not to read about it because it makes me so emotional. I actually well up when I think
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about it. This is being done by the government and we all see it happening in real time. And the child
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is a prisoner and they won't let him out. I've tried not to over-indulge in this story, to over-read it
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because I find it so heart-wrenching. Did I get it accurately? Yeah. You did get it accurately,
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actually. It's hard to actually use hyperbole when it comes to this story because he is actually a
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prisoner. And the doctors, and this is not hyperbole either, despite the fact that it sounds
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so horrendous, but this is just how horrendous the story is, the doctors were literally going to
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torture him to death. He was going to die of his own pain. They figured that that was going to be the
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more humane thing to do. And so instead of allowing his parents to take him somewhere where
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he would receive palliative care or an experimental treatment that might help him, they decided that
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his life was worth ending because A, he's disabled and B, they figured he was on his way out the door
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anyway. Why prolong the inevitable, they said. First off, I'd like to know where their crystal ball
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is kept and how they're going to figure out that this kid's going to die anyway at some point in time.
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There have been kids that were born that doctors said are absolutely going to die and survived
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anyway. But even so, let's say that he is destined to die. The fact alone that the parents were not
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allowed to take him away in order to receive help that would have at least been less painful for him
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on his way out to at least give his parents some time to come to terms with it, to help them get
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through the process while he, in great care, passed away peacefully without pain.
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It is disgusting to me that the British government, in their attempt to make the NHS look infallible,
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kept this kid there alive, kept this kid off of any kind of help in order to let him starve
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and suffocate to death, just so they can be proven right. It's disgusting to me. I hardly have the words.
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And I'm having trouble even speaking clearly because I don't want to get too emotional, but this is so
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appalling to me. Let me show you a tweet from the Pope himself, if we can put that on the screen.
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Moved by the prayers and immense solidarity shown little Alfie Evans, I renew my appeal that the
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suffering of his parents may be heard and that their desire to seek new forms of treatment may
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be granted. I understand that Alfie Evans was given an honorary citizenship or something in Italy so
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that he could travel there directly. I understand a private airplane was ready for him. The Pope
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himself is seated and yet the NHS will not release him and yet has taken them off. I mean, they basically
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said he's going to die in three hours. He's been alive for a couple of days. He's a 23-month-old.
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He's just under two years old, this boy. So they're wrong. We know they're wrong. Their
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diagnosis is obviously wrong. Their predictions are obviously wrong. They thought he would die by now.
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He hasn't. And yet they will not let him out. I can't believe this is even happening.
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Well, let's look at why it's happening, though. Kira Davis wrote a very good article on Red State about
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this, and I couldn't have put it better. Essentially, what's going on right now is that the NHS, and
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this is what I'm referring back to what I said just earlier, the NHS needs to be infallible.
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The NHS needs to prove that they are the best when it comes to health care, that the socialized
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medicine system actually works. It's proving right now that it does not work, but they need it to work
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so badly. If Alfie was able to go to Rome to receive that care and for any reason he got better,
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then the British people would then know that there are massive flaws in their supposedly perfect
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system, and they would go elsewhere to seek treatment. Now, the problem with socialized
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health care is that you need people within the system to make it work. There has to be a socialized
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medicine is a vampire. There needs to be people there for it to feed off of. If more and more people are
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leaving that system, trying to go find somewhere else to get their care, then the system collapses.
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The NHS is afraid of Alfie right now. He is their worst nightmare at this moment in time. They're
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doing everything that they possibly can, not to end his suffering because they're caring. They're
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trying to end his suffering as fast as possible because the moment that Alfie dies, they can take
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a breather. It's sick and it's sad, but that's the truth about socialized medicine.
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We have socialized medicine in Canada as well. I've never heard of a case quite as horrific as this,
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literally keeping the child a prisoner. I should say that if this were happening in a private home,
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if it were the parents who were denying their child treatment, denying him even remedial pain
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relief, they would be arrested for child abuse. They would be prosecuted for dereliction.
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I find it horrific. I saw a commentator on Twitter. I can't remember who, but I remember the message.
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He, it seems like a stretch, but actually it clicked with me immediately. It was an American
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who said, the reason I don't give up my firearms is because if I had a two-year-old boy,
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I would put him on that plane and if I needed to use my firearm to do it, I would do it.
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He said it more elegantly than that, but I understood in that moment what he meant.
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Oh, is that who it was? I guess I saw someone else say something similar. The point being,
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Americans who love the Second Amendment often say it's to protect against tyranny. And, you know,
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the first American Revolution was fought because of the, was won because of the right to bear arms.
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And I think in 2018, many of us think, well, if tyranny would come back, it would look like Stalin
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or it would look like a foreign invasion or look like something out of Red Dawn, that old movie.
00:32:07.520
It would be dressed in a military uniform. It would say fascism, as opposed to the soft creep of
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tyranny through bureaucracies, through rules, and in this case, even through doctors and nurses.
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That's what the Second Amendment is about. When some bureaucrat says, you will not take your
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dying son out of this place just because rule 17 sub three. And that is, that is tyranny.
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I'm sorry. I'm not even speaking clearly. I'm so mad and sad. Last word to you, Brent.
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Yeah, I don't blame you. I don't blame you. No, you are 100% correct. And that was something
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that George Carlin himself had said at one point in time that tyranny nowadays wears a
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smiley face. You know, it is it's the peace and love movement. It's but what C.S. Lewis
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described him best as the moral busybodies who do everything that they do, who oppress the
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people at the behest of their own conscience. These people are unlike criminals who might
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be sated eventually do so because their morality drives them to do it. This is why you see people
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like people who support socialized medicine take the actions that they do against Alfie.
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They truly believe that what they're doing is for the good of the people. Obviously, this
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is not the case at all. This is torturing a baby to death to save face.
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Yeah. I think when tyranny comes, it won't come from a soldier. It'll come from teachers
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and nurses and social workers. I think that's what's happening in the United Kingdom now that
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I think about it. Brandon, thanks so much for your time today. My pleasure. All right. There
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you have it. Brandon Morris from Red State. What a horrific case. I'm sorry I can barely speak clearly
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because of it. Stay with us more ahead on The Rebel.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about David Suzuki. Bruce writes,
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I'm glad there's pushback against Suzuki getting an honorary degree from the U of A. Let's hope
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money talks. The degree is recalled from that hypocritical activist. Maybe people will also
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switch to other institutes of higher learning for their courses. Well, yeah, but you know,
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I mean, U of A serves Edmonton and other parts of Alberta and there's some foreign students, but
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people are not going to switch away from studying at U of A to a different university over this.
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That's not going to happen. And I have to say, I like the fact that finally some donors are showing
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some self-respect and pulling their money out. But the problem is obviously not just David Suzuki.
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That's the symptom of the problem. As I mentioned before, I looked at the entire list of people
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getting honorary degrees. Most of them are just as bad. It's just that Suzuki is particularly
00:35:00.520
inappropriate given the Trans Mountain issue and his anti-oil sands effect. Suzuki is a symptom. The
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problem is the deep, deep rot. And it's not just at U of A. I should say that a few decades ago,
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now it's a while back, Dave Suzuki got an honorary degree from the University of Calgary too.
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Robert writes, Suzuki jets around the world yapping about how we have these great big carbon
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footprints. Yet he says nothing of his own great big carbon footprint. He's a hypocrite of the highest
00:35:28.760
order. You're right. You know, I remember a couple of years ago at the Sun News Network. I don't
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know if you ever saw my video. We did some research. He has four homes. Now I've since discovered he has
00:35:37.560
a fifth one in Australia. I got nothing against the guy being super rich. I mean, he's got to be
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the 0.1% of 0.1%. Like he's like, like his Vancouver, his main point gray property alone is
00:35:50.760
worth 15 million bucks. I'd say David Suzuki is worth 50 million, 75 million dollars. Like he's a
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serious player. Got nothing against that. Boy, I wish that were me. I'm just saying, number one,
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he made that money off the backs of taxpayers. The CBC, the National Film Board, huge speeches to
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public institutions. And number two, he's the one who's condemning capitalism while he's mastered it.
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On my interview with Phelan McAleer, Ted writes, thanks for the interview with Phelan. I'm a big
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fan of his. And this new play of his he is doing is right up his usual alley, namely exposing what the
00:36:27.400
leftist majority in the MSM don't want us to know the ugly truth. In this case, how an oil company
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was railroaded for 18 billion dollars. I look forward to your report from Frisco. Thank you.
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I would love to go down there. I mean, I haven't booked that ticket. I mean, it's a bit luxurious
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to fly to San Francisco just to see a play. Now, I should tell you that this environmentalist
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lawyer of fortune has not yet collected that verdict of 18 billion or whatever the amount is.
00:36:58.040
He's appealing, appealing, suing. In fact, the case, weirdly, is being heard in Canada. An appeal
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is being heard here. He's trying to enforce that order. So he hasn't got the money. But boy,
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he's trying. And it was amazing, the chutzpah that he was filming himself, making a documentary of
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himself as he was going for the money. And that was a large part of his undoing. Because of course,
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we saw the outtakes when he, the parts he was going to leave at the cutting room for this lawyer,
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Donziger. The court commandeered that video and saw the shakedown. Incredible. Yeah, but Felham,
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Felham does things in movies and in plays that, that almost no one else in the industry would do.
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And as he told us, he's in isolation because of it. But I guess that helps him think. Well,
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that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,