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00:12:43.880Well, tomorrow, the University of Alberta, of which I am an alumnus, I might add.
00:12:49.420Well, tomorrow, they murder their own reputation by honoring a dishonorable man, David Suzuki.
00:12:55.660I say he's dishonorable, not as an insult, but rather as an observation for his life's work slandering the oil patch, industry, capitalism,
00:13:05.300and in particular, Alberta and its central industry, oil and gas, especially the oil sands.
00:13:12.060What an outrage that the U of A has decided to give him that honor mere weeks after Suzuki joined in the anti-pipeline protests that were being held to block the Kinder Morgan expansion.
00:13:27.300Imagine thinking that such a man is honorable.
00:13:30.940Imagine thinking that you would bestow the reputation of U of A on top of him.
00:13:35.820Well, the president of the University of Alberta has dug in his heels.
00:13:40.880It's cost the university millions of dollars in lost donations.
00:13:45.680But there's one piece of the puzzle missing, and that is a comprehensive one-stop shop for the facts about David Suzuki.
00:13:54.240Because, plainly put, for the last 50 years, he's been protected, protected by the CBC, with whom he's been their star.
00:14:04.400And so there's been no scrutiny of Suzuki and his misconduct for years.
00:28:55.900Well, and that's the thing, you know, there's a whole bunch of these kind of comments, like, saying that gun nuts should be droned and bombed.
00:29:05.380Another one compared Canada's troops and our soldiers in Afghanistan to war criminals.
00:29:11.160That same candidate posted a meme of Adolf Hitler on her Facebook page, although she claims that her Facebook page was hacked and that it wasn't her.
00:29:18.700I mean, this is just a couple of examples of how...
00:30:02.120But he held up a sign saying F. He actually said the F word, the police, and he was holding it up at a rally, you know, very openly with his face, you know, very recognizable guy, the brother of the federal leader, the NDP.
00:30:17.820You know, so this is the kind of people that the NDP has recruited.
00:30:23.120They're completely unvetted from a professional standpoint.
00:30:25.800The kind of people that you probably wouldn't even hire for a job, because you wouldn't want that kind of toxic environment around you.
00:30:32.840You know, these are just examples, Ezra.
00:30:34.660But really, it does show the mindset, not only of the individual people who get attracted to the sort of radical left and the far left, which the NDP Ontario really is,
00:30:46.320but the mindset of the party that, you know, these kind of things are okay, that these candidates didn't get fired.
00:30:52.680Andrew Horvath, the leader, actually defended them, saying that, you know, people do radical things when they want change and that a lot of people are critical of war.
00:31:01.720And so, therefore, comparing Canadian soldiers to war criminals is somehow, you know, just fair game for being critical of war.
00:31:10.640There's also a 9-11 truther among the pack.
00:31:13.400There's a woman who wrote a handbook for radicals about how to sort of break the law and do these economic protests where they destroy private property and all this kind of stuff.
00:31:25.700You know, when you think about Antifa and the far left and the crazy things that they do, these are actually, this is the base,
00:31:31.600and these are the people who will be representing Ontario if they go ahead and vote for the NDP tomorrow.
00:31:37.200You know, it reminds me of some of the kooks in Alberta who were swept ashore by the high tide.
00:31:44.520When they signed up, they had no chance, and they were just putting their name there.
00:31:48.880And, you know, the things that were washed up on the beach were shocking.
00:31:53.320But I think that the Ontario NDP was never as fringe as Alberta's was.
00:31:58.600And some of these candidates are fairly well-known.
00:32:01.600I mean, some of the kooks who were elected in Alberta literally just were students who, at a student club, put their name down,
00:32:10.140had, you know, didn't even campaign, thought it was a joke.
00:32:13.520In Ontario, I think they were always contenders, which I think makes it more serious.
00:32:16.980I want to go back to Jagmeet Singh's brother.
00:32:20.180Jagmeet Singh is the leader of the federal NDP.
00:32:23.140His brother, Gurutan, is a candidate for the provincial NDP.
00:32:25.940So he's not a nobody. He's not a, like, he's fairly well-known.
00:32:30.460We're going to show the picture now of that sign.
00:32:34.040If someone is standing right next to a cop with a big sign in public that says F-U-C-K the police,
00:33:10.460You know, one of the other fundamental things that the far left believes in is that Canada itself is somehow a racist, sexist, bigoted country based on genocide and imperialism and all those other things that they say.
00:33:25.820And it really does show a fundamental hatred for Canada and our way of life and our values.
00:33:30.860And to see a person really just kind of embodying that, holding up that sign, saying all that, you know, that the police don't even have, you know, possibly the authority to do what they're doing and a complete disregard, as you say, for the rule of law.
00:33:46.100Yeah, I remember your journalist, Sheila Gunn-Reed, did a great job digging up all that information about those crazy NDP candidates in Alberta.
00:33:54.860The same thing happened, Ezra, in 2011, federally, when the NDP had this sort of orange wave and a bunch of people got elected, especially in Quebec.
00:34:03.820You know, some of them weren't even, didn't even speak French or weren't even from the riding or the area or Quebec.
00:34:09.680And they were all of a sudden federal lawmakers.
00:34:12.560I think it's part of the concern in Canada when we have kind of a protest vote.
00:34:16.960In Ontario, people are angry at Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals, who have completely destroyed the province through their reckless policies.
00:34:23.340I don't blame people for being frustrated, but, you know, to go to a protest vote and vote for a party that really has no business being in those kinds of positions,
00:34:33.460people who haven't been, you know, screened, they haven't been scrutinized the way that other mainstream politicians have been.
00:34:40.620And we could wake up to some pretty scary, frightening new leaders and new lawmakers in the province of Ontario on Friday
00:34:48.860if people go ahead and vote with this impulse to do a, you know, a protest vote against the Liberals.
00:35:20.020If Ontario votes in Doug Ford for whatever his flaws are, I think we'll have a bulwark against Justin Trudeau, especially on the carbon tax.
00:35:27.660If Ontario, God forbid, votes in Andrew Horvath in the NDP, that will accelerate Trudeau's lurch to the left.
00:36:02.200I mean, I'm Jewish, so I'm sensitive to people who love Hitler.
00:36:05.520I mean, Hitler wanted to kill the Jews, and he tried.
00:36:09.260And I hear all the time about the neo-Nazi movement and alt-right movement, which I think is very small and very obscure and actually quite powerless.
00:36:17.620But, boy, the media sure loves to fearmonger about the threat from the right.
00:36:22.520All right, so here we have an actual case of someone posting Adolf Hitler content on their Facebook.
00:36:29.740And this isn't some basement-dwelling nobody, you know, Internet loser.
00:36:34.800This is a candidate for the provincial parliament of Ontario, and her excuse, I was hacked, is so laughable that her party forgives her, though, and the media forgives her.
00:36:49.000If this was an alt-right conservative who had a Hitler meme, he would have been gone in one minute, and we would have had lectures for the rest of the campaign about the neo-Nazi threat.
00:37:00.420By the way, I'm against neo-Nazis. I just think they're extremely rare in nature. They certainly live in the minds of the media.
00:37:07.600Here you have an actual neo-Nazi meme, and the media shrugs because it's a leftist.
00:37:14.420Help me out with that one, Candice. Help me square that circle.
00:37:18.740Well, yeah, you know, it's interesting because we talk a lot about how identity politics is coming and how it's coming from the university campuses and spreading throughout society.
00:37:28.680I think this Ontario election has shown us how it's already here, that people who are themselves minorities kind of get a pass from the media and from the mainstream.
00:37:38.180They don't get the same kind of scrutiny.
00:37:40.180So, you know, because this woman, you know, if this woman was white, she probably would have gotten a lot more scrutiny.
00:37:46.680If she was on the right, certainly she would have gotten that kind of scrutiny.
00:37:49.720But we kind of have this weird lower expectations and cultural relativism when it comes to newcomers, unfortunately.
00:37:58.700There was a PC candidate named Tanya Granik-Allen who ran for leader and lost.
00:38:04.340And as soon as she became a candidate for Doug Ford, the media dug up a bunch of comments that she had made that were sort of anti-gay or anti-Muslim.
00:38:14.320And she was, you know, the scrutiny was so harsh that she was fired, that the PCs fired her and pushed her out.
00:38:21.600You know, I don't agree with what Tanya was saying, but, you know, you could see the double standard, that she got pushed out for comments that were politically incorrect,
00:38:30.700but they weren't anywhere near the extent to which these left-wing comments were.
00:38:36.180And so definitely a double standard, definitely identity politics already here in the double standard of the media and its scrutiny.
00:38:48.200I would say we shouldn't have tolerance on the right.
00:38:50.200But we also shouldn't have tolerance for someone who praises Adolf Hitler and someone who calls Canadians war criminals.
00:38:57.020We shouldn't have tolerance for that, either Ezra, sorry.
00:39:00.580And I think that it shows unfortunate state of our media and of our civil society right now that we somehow allow people like this to run for public office.