Ezra Levant Show May 25 2018
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Summary
Tommy Robinson was arrested outside a courthouse in Leeds, England. He was doing a live stream on the outside of Leeds Crown Court when he was stopped and questioned by police. He claims he did nothing wrong, and is now serving a 12 month sentence.
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Tonight, Tommy Robinson was sentenced to a year in prison today.
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The story is subject to a publication ban in the UK,
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but I'm in Canada, and I'll tell you the shocking facts.
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It's May 25th, 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
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Tommy Robinson was arrested today in Leeds in the UK outside the courthouse.
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A few hours later, he was sentenced to 13 months in prison.
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Normally, there's an alleged offense, then an arrest, then the charges,
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then lawyers get involved, then a first court appearance,
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then maybe bail, and then disclosure of documents, and then a trial.
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And then a conviction, and then a sentence, and then an appeal.
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from Tommy standing on the street laughing, talking,
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And while Tommy Robinson is the man who was condemned,
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I think the UK courts, well, they committed murder
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Here is the arrest, filmed by Tommy's own cameraman.
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The content of what I'm streaming, I'm being arrested for breaches of peace.
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More people are going to watch this now than ever.
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I haven't said a word. In fact, someone laid their hand
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Other people have shwored me and threatened me about my mother
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and here I am being arrested for saying nothing.
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But he was standing by himself on the public street.
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He had a cameraman with him and another supporter.
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There was no crowd either on his side or against him.
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In fact, Tommy had been just talking into his cell phone.
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and he had been doing it for literally one hour.
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And Tommy did talk with him and they were all polite.
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He was practically alone by himself for an hour.
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Here's just a sample of one hour of Tommy just talking.
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People need to know these court cases are happening.
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Obviously, the problem is you have people like that
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I'm an English man and they're English girls.
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Residents now feel they can no longer rely on police
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and just talking for an hour holding his own phone.
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He was pacing and slowly wandering around a bit.
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to hear the verdict on their trial for raping white girls
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There was no rule against hollering at an accused rapist.
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Tommy was very careful throughout his whole broadcast
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to always call them accused or alleged criminals.
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with these accused criminals that was very brief
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would alter the course of the trial or tamper with a jury.
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now was that a disturbance i suppose in the dictionary definition of the word it was a
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was a disturbance. It was a bit of an interruption, a bit of noise, but it lasted just, what was that?
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Less than 30 seconds. And it was neither violent nor threatening, other than that one man who
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threatened Tommy's mom. You'll notice Tommy didn't even go up the steps on the courthouse. He was
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very careful not to be on court property. Was Tommy accusatory or insulting? Sure, but it's a
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free country. Sort of. Anyways, that was literally an hour before he was arrested. He was standing
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there for an hour thereafter. There was no disturbance when police descended on him an
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hour later. Seven of them, they were arresting him for something that was clearly not happening.
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And we could all see it. I should say, because when Tommy worked with us at the Rebel, we had this
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issue with Tommy before. Tommy was very careful about where he stood. He did not stand on court
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property because a year ago, when he did stand on court property, he was arrested for contempt of
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court, for having a video camera running on the steps of the court. Now, that's absurd. That's unfair.
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Every single journalist in the UK and in Canada sets up their cameras on the steps of the courthouse to
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do court reports. It's normal. It's positively where press conferences are scheduled. But Tommy
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was held in contempt of court a year ago for doing what every other journalist does. So he was very
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careful this time, I could tell. He didn't stand where he was not supposed to stand. And in part of
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the video, you can hear him confirm this, both to his viewers and with some court official.
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Officer, are they, are these stairs the, so if, you're not allowed to go on those stairs, am I?
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This isn't the property of the court though, is it? No, it's this. Okay, so I'll stay off then. Cool.
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It's obviously not on the court steps. By the way, last time Tommy was arrested for this trumped up
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charge. It was a 4am raid on his home. 4am, just for maximum political harassment to his family.
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They could have popped in in the daytime. They could have phoned or emailed him and asked him to
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come in. But they raided his house in the dead of night like he was a terrorist, just to demoralize
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0-4-32 and the police are at my house. And I'm being arrested for going to a court case
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in Canterbury and trying to video the Muslim PFRs.
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Well, they didn't do that this time. They didn't wait till the dead of night
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to get him from his bed. They arrested him in the day. Now, last time, when he worked with the rebel,
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we hired the best lawyers in the UK for him. But he was still convicted. And it was the same judge
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who sent for Tommy, who was mad at Tommy, who sat in judgment of Tommy. And Tommy was
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sentenced to three months in prison a year ago, in prison, for taking a 45-second selfie video.
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Now, that three-month sentence last year was suspended for an 18-month period, which means
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he didn't have to go to jail for three months, but it was hanging over him like a dagger on a thread,
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that three-month sentence. And still, since we're in that 18-month period, so if he's convicted of
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contempt of court or whatever, that three months, it becomes alive. And that's what happened
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today. Here, let me show you some more. Tommy isn't working for the rebel now. He's independent,
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but we still keep in touch from time to time. And I've privately reached out to his team
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to see if we can help, but I don't want to interfere with his strategy or do anything
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without his permission. Tommy was briefly released, but then was ordered back to court today.
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Here's the court docket. You can see Tommy's on there for contempt of court. Not the breach of the
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peace that the cops said when they arrested him. And we've blurred them out here, but those were
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all names of the Muslim rape accused. That's the gang members. Now, I'm blurring the names,
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because as I write this, I don't know if they were convicted or not. And apparently,
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the names were subject to a publication ban. But it is a fact that other media had published
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these names in public. And we happened to be in Canada, so the ban probably wouldn't apply to us,
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too. But other than abundance of caution, I'm blacking the names out. But that's what they used
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to arrest Tommy today for. For saying those names, for contempt of court, for naming the accused rapists,
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even though that information had already been published in the mainstream media, and the trial
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was over, and there was no jury that could have seen Tommy's comments and been affected in any way.
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Tommy's longstanding lawyers were not notified of his arrest today. Instead, Tommy was rushed into
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court that moment, given a court-appointed lawyer who was neither an expert in contempt of court law,
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nor familiar with Tommy and his legal history. And the hearing was done in a matter of minutes. In
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minutes! That used to be called a drumhead trial, from arrest to conviction to sentencing,
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in a couple of hours. And Tommy was sentenced to a shocking 13-month prison term. Tommy got a longer
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sentence for reporting on rape gangs than many rape gangs themselves receive for rape.
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Even crazier, the judge today issued a publication ban about Tommy, making it illegal to report the
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details of Tommy's case. And that publication ban only applies to the United Kingdom and the rebel
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media. We're based here in North America, which is why I'm free to talk about it. So what? 13-month
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prison sentence and a publication ban. No one in Britain can even talk about this. Look at this
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Google News search. Lots of coverage of Tommy's case. Look at all these news stories. But if you
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click on any of the British media, they've taken down the stories. It was secret. Tommy was convicted,
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and the judge ordered that it be kept secret. Look at that. All deleted. Sorry, is that the
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freest country in the world? Or is that the place that Orwell warned us about? Now why? Did Tommy cause
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a disturbance? No, he did not. Did Tommy wreck a trial? No, he did not. It's because Tommy speaks
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boldly about the Islamification of society, especially the systematic rape of young British
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girls at the hands of Muslim migrants. We don't understand what rape gangs are here in Canada or
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the US. And thank God, it's not like a man jumps out of the bushes, grabs a woman and rapes her and runs
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off. That's not what rape gangs do in the UK. It's much more systematic than that. It's organized,
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it's planned. It's like in Rotherham, where 1,400 young girls were raped. They were tricked and
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trapped and extorted, and not just raped once. They were raped dozens, hundreds of times. A young
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girl, say just 12 years old, might be approached by a man who offers them candy or cigarettes or even
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a drink of alcohol or drugs, but that usually comes later. It could even just start by telling a
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young, impressionable girl, I love you. Do you want a grown-up boyfriend? Something that might be
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appealing and tempting to a young girl. And I'm giving an actual example here. And then the man
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would say, ah, you've had a free meal or a free drink. Now let me take a topless picture of you
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as thanks. And then he says, aha, I'm going to show this picture to your mother, and I'm going to
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tell her what you've done, unless you sleep with me. And then sleep with my friends, or I'll tell
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your mother that you slept with me, and we're going to pass you around. And if you tell anyone, well,
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we know where you live, and we know where your mother lives, and we're going to burn down your house.
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That is an actual example I'm giving you that actually happened. I'm not making that scenario
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up. That happened. That's what rape gangs, grooming gangs are in the UK. It's not a brute force
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attack, grab a woman in a dark alley. It's extortion and exploitation targeting young girls.
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As young as 11, the girls feel trapped and ashamed. And the Muslim men, and they're almost always
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Muslim men, and the victims are almost always white girls. There are some Sikh girls targeted too.
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The Muslim men don't report each other to the police. They don't stop each other. They join in together.
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That's why they're called gangs. They pass these girls around as young as 11 years old for years.
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Of course, there's other criminality too. Violence, threats of violence, even murder. So the first
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problem is the individual criminals. The second problem is that other men collude with each other
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to support them and help in the con and help in the rape. And the third problem is that every single
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authority turns a blind eye to this police, the press, politicians, prosecutors, professors,
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because it's politically incorrect to criticize Muslims. And the perpetrators are almost all
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Muslims. And the victims are almost all white girls. It's racist to mention it, you see.
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And even if they had the courage to speak the truth, what do you do? There are so many millions
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of Muslims in the UK now, and a large percent support Sharia law. And there are literally 23,000
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jihadis on the loose in the UK that they know about. Holy warriors suspected of being terrorist sleepers.
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Those are known to the UK authorities. So the authorities are paralyzed by fear. Fear of being
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called Islamophobic, and even more fear of violence from the 23,000 terrorists within.
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Not Tommy Robinson. He speaks truth to power. He's motivated by a big heart,
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but he's inconvenient to the powerful people. So he was thrown away today. And you know what?
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It's almost just as well that the mainstream media were censored, because all they would have done
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would be to celebrate and to cheer. Like on Twitter, the jubilation of Tommy's opponents was
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unrestrained. And they were thrilled that he will surely be killed in prison. So yeah, where are your
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press freedom liberals, your civil liberties liberals now, eh? They don't think Tommy Robinson should have
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civil liberties. They're happy to have him silenced. Not me. Tommy Robinson doesn't work for us anymore.
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He hasn't for several months. But I reached out to his family today, and I spoke to his lawyer, and I
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offered to help them crowdfund their legal defense fund, even though we don't have a formal connection
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with them. I'll let you know what they say when I last spoke with them. They hadn't actually even had
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a chance to talk with Tommy. That's how fast it happened. They hadn't even had a chance to talk to
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Tommy on the phone yet. Even his own lawyer hasn't. I won't give away any confidences. I'm just saying,
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if they want our help, we'll help them, even though he's not with us anymore. But we're not going to impose
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ourselves on them. I'll wait for them to ask. Because Tommy, even though he's not with the
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rebel anymore, he's actually still with us in spirit, because he is still the biggest rebel
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in the whole of the UK. And he's not just fighting for his own freedom now. He is fighting
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for all of our freedom, too. I'll wait for Tommy or his family to accept our offer for help,
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and if they do, I promise I will let you know, because I will ask you for your help, too. But we're
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keeping our powder dry until then. But whether he takes our financial help or not, we will be doing our
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best journalistically to support him. I just wish, I wish the mainstream media would, too.
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And even mainstream conservatives. It's Tommy today. And it's you tomorrow. Stay with us for more.
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Welcome back. Well, who knew that student dorms and community centers, well, they're not for students
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anymore, and they're not for at least the Ontario community. They are being commandeered for the
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purposes of housing illegal migrants who are simply traipsing across the border from the United States
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and claiming to be refugees, because there is such need to find refuge from the horrific states of
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America. I'm making jokes, but it's not really funny. The flood of illegal migrants continues,
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despite the existence of the so-called safe third-party agreement between our two countries,
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that it is a matter of fact and a matter of law that no one coming from the states to Canada or vice
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versa is a refugee. We'll tell that to Justin Trudeau and the tens of thousands of migrants he has
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welcomed in. Joining us now to talk about this is the author of an outstanding column in the Toronto
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Sun. Let me read the headline to you. It's called, Toronto to turn college dorms, community centers
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into refugee shelters. And the author is our friend, Anthony Fury. Anthony, it's very frustrating to me.
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I'm sure it's frustrating to a lot of Torontonians, and even people who aren't directly affected. I'm
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sure they find it frustrating that this crazy idea of having refugee camps in Canada has come true.
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Frustrated? Well, if they even know about it. Because, Ezra, this story is very much hidden
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in plain sight. It comes from a City of Toronto press release. They are clearly trying to get
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the attention of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to say, hey, you've got to do something about
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this. You've got to help us out. Both fund these initiatives here because we need space,
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we need to deal with these people, and perhaps also stop the flow. But what's interesting,
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Ezra, is this hasn't been really discussed all that much, even though it's a hidden in plain
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side story. And I think people would be surprised to hear that over 500 kilometers away, this is where
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Roxton Road is, somehow there are people crossing there in a completely different province, and yet
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many of them are winding up in Toronto. And in just the past four-week period, they've already had about
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400 people enter the shelter system in Toronto. They're estimating that by about November, the shelter
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system is going to be made up of about 55% of asylum seekers, of illegal border crossers.
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And that's not including perhaps previous government-sponsored refugees may be in the
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shelter system a little bit. And of course, dealing with the homeless population in Toronto. And last
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winter, there's a bit of a crisis where they said they don't have the space to house people who are
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already there. So the city said, what are we going to do? Well, we've got all these students who have just
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left their dorms. We're going to take 800 beds, and we're going to commandeer them, turn them into
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refugee centers. What happens when school starts again in September? Well, they've said, then we're
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probably going to have to commandeer community centers. Now, Ezra, I asked the city, I said,
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can you tell me how that will affect programming? Because I know all the community centers in my
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area where my children play, and there's not just massive rooms that aren't being used. There's
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usually the gym, and then there's a place for older people to do Tai Chi and play cards and so
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forth. And then that's kind of it. So are you shutting down the gym so little Johnny doesn't
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get to play basketball? It looks like that's what will happen in September.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, all of those solutions are terrible. I mean, homeless shelters,
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that's not for migrants. That's not for immigrants. Those are for people who
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have a destitute situation. Frankly, I think we all know that a lot of the people who go to
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homeless shelters are people who have been deinstitutionalized from either
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prison or a psychiatric care. There's not enough to hold them. So they are truly the most marginal
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people. It's not meant to be like a hotel. It's not meant to be a permanent place to stay. It's
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actually high needs. And let's be very candid, people with alcohol, drug problems, a lot of
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aboriginal people downtown, these are people who have chronic problems. They're being pushed aside
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by this plan just to give it to the folks Donald Trump was going to kick out. It's not even the
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purpose of a homeless shelter, is it? A homeless shelter is not to be a long-term lodging for some
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would-be Canadian. I find this infuriating. Have the people who advocate for these marginalized
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citizens? Have they spoken out or are they too worried about political correctness to stand up
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for the true homeless? Well, as I said, nobody is really speaking about this issue. This is one of
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those, you know, see no evil, hear no evil sort of stories. So I think it's largely been ignored,
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although I have been vilified by some individuals for simply reporting what is in a city of Toronto
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press release. I guess they're really upset that this basic news of what is actually happening
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is getting out there. And, you know, you make a good point. What do we do with this whole situation?
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When the Syrian refugee intake came in, they hired spaces in many, many motels and sort of outlier
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areas of Toronto. And whatever one thought about the Syrian refugee intake, it was controlled. It was
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planned. The UN, I guess, did their best to vet these people as genuine refugees. And they said they
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did security and health screening and so forth. And while social services agencies did tell Justin Trudeau,
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please slow down. We can't handle this. It was still a form of controlled, confirmed refugees.
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What we have here is uncontrolled migration where we have no clue actually how many people are going
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to come across. I know the estimates say 400 people a day once it really gets going in the summer. But
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when will it stop? We just don't know. And this could present a long-term problem here. Well,
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it already has because it's been going on for over a year. Now, you point out that Roxham Road,
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which has become quite an entry point, that is in the border between New York and Quebec. And
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we're talking about Toronto here. So that tells us something that I think we, at least I've observed,
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which is that Quebecers are a lot more blunt on this issue. And Quebec has political parties
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that are not shy about saying politically incorrect things. I think the last wave or two waves of
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migrants ago were a lot of Haitians. So they spoke French. They were Haitians who were in the United
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States because they were given a reprieve after an earthquake there about five years ago. And that
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five-year amnesty has come to an end. So all these French-speaking Haitians couldn't stick around
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America anymore. They either had to go back to Haiti or, well, you speak French, you're going to go to
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Quebec. I think that's so taxed the public patience of Quebecers that all of a sudden you had thousands
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and thousands and thousands of Haitians who are not refugees. They just didn't want to go home.
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Here's my theory, Anthony. Quebecers have been so burnt by this open borders thing that they've lost
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all patience. Justin Trudeau sees that in the polls. He sees the provincial legislature in Quebec
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taking a harder and harder line on these migrants. And he's saying, you know what?
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I don't want to mess with my political base. I need Quebec in the 2019 election.
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That's how I'm going to be reelected. So to hell with Toronto. They can take these migrants because
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they're so worried about being called politically incorrect. They're not going to squawk. Quebecers
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can squawk. So we'll ship these people down the highway to Toronto. That's my long theory.
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I think it's interesting, but I think you're giving Justin Trudeau a lot of credit that he
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actually has has long theories that he actually has long game plans. I think it's perhaps just
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simpler than that, that he is bizarrely something of a quasi open borders advocate. Now that that
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hashtag welcome to Canada tweet and here at Post Media, we got documents that showed that it did
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actually cause trouble in the government embassies, various government departments writing in and saying,
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you know, what do we do? People are calling saying, we heard you had open borders. Is it true?
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How do we handle that? That tweet, Ezra, go look at it right now. It's still up. People are still
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retweeting it and they're still interacting with it, responding, saying, you know, thank you very much
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for being so welcoming to us and so forth. Even though we've all agreed that that his tweet was
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a bunch of malarkey and is not true, but he's never ever once walked that back. There's one Quebec
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politician, Ezra, who has said, maybe we should build some sort of a wall, a sort of fence. One politician.
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Now in my column in the weekend papers, I actually say maybe we should look at building some sort of
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a structure between the two legal crossings on either side of Roxham Road. You got the Lacol
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crossing and the Hemingford. They're about 10 kilometers apart. Build some sort of structure,
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a chain-link fence. We can take it down in a couple years to send the visual cue to people.
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Hey, you're not actually welcome. It's not open borders. Because when we investigate a lot of these
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WhatsApp, social media channels, they, a lot of these people, Ezra, they do genuinely believe that
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Trudeau has said, come on in and that they are going to be accepted. And then some of them get
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sent back later. So I almost think what Trudeau is doing is unfair to taxpayers, to Quebecers,
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to the homeless in Toronto. It's also unfair to these people because he's misleading them
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about their prospects. I think we should put up those visual cues to say, in fact, no, you can't
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come in at this part of entry. Instead, the visual cue they have now are semi-permanent structures
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where people who look like cops are actually, well, that's actually the uniform of our Royal
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Canadian mounted bellboys. I mean, we literally have police schlepping the luggage of these illegals.
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So, I mean, you see a cop, you're doing something illegal. I think most people would say, yikes,
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don't do that. No, no. They've learned that the police will actually carry their bags. I got one
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last question for you, Anthony. I'm a conservative and I feel like Canada's immigration numbers are too high.
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A poll suggests that 92% of Canadians think the numbers are either fine or too high. Only eight
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percent want that. And that's a poll that the Liberal government itself commissioned.
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I want less immigration, but let's say you want more immigration. I'm not for that.
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But it would seem to me that you would want to protect the reputation of the immigration system
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so that people don't start to feel suckered. Because immigration to Canada is dependent on
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the goodwill of Canadians towards newcomers. And by favoring illegals over legals, by favoring scammers
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instead of law-abiding, hardworking applicants, this is the paradox, is that Trudeau and Ahmed Hassan
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are actually poisoning the well of goodwill. And if they actually were open borders activists,
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they would want to stamp out in a very showy way this illegality to maintain public support.
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I'm worried that they're going to poison Canadians against all immigrants. What do you think of that?
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Well, you know, I think you're hitting upon a phenomenon that's really happening with
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Justin Trudeau, where the people who are most frustrated by refugee intakes and this intake process
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are people who are refugees and legal immigrants. The people who are most upset about his appeasement
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of Iran are Iranian dissidents who have come to Canada because they believe in Canadian values,
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this sort of admiring China's basic dictatorship thing, even though he just got the ACON deal,
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right? I mean, these are all things that upset a lot of the Chinese dissidents. So a lot of people
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come to Canada because they hear about Canadian values and they want to be a part of them and celebrate
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them. And our top immigration countries, India, China, the Chinese people, not the Chinese government,
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North South Korea and so forth. I mean, these are people who are coming for Canadian values.
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And then the prime minister saying there's no such thing as Canadian values. So I think we certainly
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have a major disconnect here. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting playing hockey and just asking the
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migrants to get off the ice rink for a little bit or so, I don't know, community centers. It's going to be
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a mess. And I think that grassroots Ontarians will come to be as angry as grassroots Quebecers.
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Anthony, it's great to talk to you again. Thanks very much for being here today.
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Have a good one, Ezra. All right, you too. That's our friend, Anthony Fury. Just again,
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if you haven't seen it, his column in the stun is called Toronto to turn college dorms,
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community centers into refugee shelters. And you thought that was only for our friends
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in Germany. Stay with us. More ahead on the rebel.
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Welcome back. Well, yesterday, I said to David Menzies that I still thought Doug Ford had a good
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chance of forming majority. But David was much more skeptical. He pointed out the obvious that
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the conservative, the progressive conservatives, Doug Ford, who had a 20 point lead just a few
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weeks ago, is now basically in a dead heat. And all the momentum is with the NDP. And that is
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terrifying to any Ontarian who lived through Bob Ray's accidental government or any Albertan who is
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watching with horror at Alberta's accidental government. Well, will Andrea Horrath and Ontario's
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hard left wing NDP win the day in Ontario in 2018? Well, some big labor unions seem to think so.
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Joining us now to talk about the latest endorsements of the NDP is our friend Catherine Swift. She's with
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Working Canadians, a pro-free enterprise group. Great to see you again, Catherine.
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Good to see you, Ezra. Look, I want to be optimistic. I'm so desperate for good news these days.
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I was excited for a month when Doug Ford seemed to have a clear lead. He was so fresh and brash and
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not afraid of the media. But now, do you think these polls accurately reflect the sentiment in
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the province? Do you think anybody but Ford is coalescing around Andrea Horrath?
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Well, there's no question there's momentum that the NDP has. I don't think that can't be denied.
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That being said, however, the extent of it is is still questionable. I think it's so recent.
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And as you know, there's a huge chunk of undecided to left in in all of the polls,
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like anywhere 30 to 40 percent in some of the polls. So that's again, that that's a, you know,
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a very, a very open question, I guess. But there's there's no doubt they have momentum.
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And the same dirty tricks that have been done to conservatives in a number of elections in the
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last 15 years or so are being done now by a lot of these third party, so-called third party groups,
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labor unions, notably public sector labor unions, who basically want naturally they want a friendly
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government who is who will permit them to continue to fleece the rest of us. Unfortunately, the rest of
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us, and when you look at public sector unions, the rest of us are the strong majority. So from my
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standpoint, anyone in the private sector, which is most of us, who would vote for an NDP government
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is shooting themselves in the brain. Yeah, shooting themselves in the brain. You're right. Now,
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recently, the liberals have moved far left, both provincially, Kathleen Wynne and federally.
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In many ways, Justin Trudeau has outflanked the NDP. And in return, labor unions and groups that
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traditionally would always be NDP have switched their affections and their political donations
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and their political volunteering to the liberals. I mean, Jerry Diaz is practically buddies with
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Justin Trudeau. And Kathleen Wynne is to the left of, I would say she's the left of what Bob Ray governed
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like. But I see that in Ontario, the unions are coalescing again around the NDP. Let me show you,
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for example, here's the Teachers Federation, the Elementary Teachers Federation. I suppose it's no
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surprise, but Elementary Teachers Union endorses NDP ahead of Ontario election. I mean, that that is not
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a surprising headline. But they're not going with Kathleen Wynne, who actually is sort of has her
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roots in teaching. Let me show you one more ad from a big labor union. This is a private sector
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labor union. The steelworkers get involved and steelworkers vote for the Ontario 2018 election.
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And it is, as you can see, a little bit higher up, help the NDP and our political allies. So both
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public sector and private sector join the NDP there, are really throwing their weight behind them.
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Um, by the way, do you think if the steelworkers tell their work, their people to vote for the NDP,
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they will? Or do you think, do you think that they're as autonomous as anyone else?
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Well, I don't think they're as, as autonomous as any, as anyone else, but, um, I think some will vote
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the way the union says, but many, many won't. Well, we've seen that before, uh, back in the Ray days,
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for example, um, an awful lot of auto workers voted for Mike Harris because they found their
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level of taxation was so unbearable, they would have welcomed any change. So I don't think everyone
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will follow the union, but I think some will probably let less informed voters will, will
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pay attention to the union because they haven't maybe formed their own, uh, opinions yet. Um, but,
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but, but again, I think the bottom line here is that unions, for one thing, I think it's probably
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illegal, uh, the monies they spend. I, I think a lot of these third parties should, should be way
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more limited than they are now, all of them, no matter where they sit on the political spectrum,
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uh, during elections. But a lot of them, as you probably know, Ezra, there's an awful lot of, uh,
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public sector workers, for example, private sector is one thing, but public sector workers on our
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taxpayer dime going out and being paid to go and canvas, uh, you know, in certain ridings in
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favor of whatever the union's flavor of the election happens to be. Now it tends to be NDP and in a lot
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of cases, uh, that's outrageous. And that doesn't tend to get counted into the overall spending when
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it well should. So there's not enough scrutiny, uh, on these groups, uh, the various elections
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officials. I think, I think they're, I don't know what they do. Frankly, they're supposed to oversee,
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uh, spending in elections and yet all manner of shenanigans go on. Um, that should be,
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they should be counted into the total, you know, limit of spending during elections, but they're not.
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Um, you know what? I, I'm, I've only been in Ontario a few years, so I don't have a deep history here,
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but I think that Kathleen Wynne has, has, is so toxic. I mean, she's not mentioned in any liberal
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party ads. There was the case of that one liberal candidate whose signs were sort of orange and who
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she was trying to sort of sneakily pretend she was a new Democrat. Um, Kathleen Wynne's not appearing in
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her own ads. Uh, and the one she is appearing in, she says, I can do better. So she's really damaged.
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But Doug Ford has a real built-in base of enemies who hated his brother just as much as him.
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Um, here's my fear. Andrea Horvath has been around for a while. People feel sort of comfy with her.
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She's attractive, but not too attractive. She's not off-putting to women or men. She's
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friendly. She seems nice. Um, like she just seems like a low risk personality.
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In some ways, it reminds me of Rachel Notley. She was around for a while. People really weren't
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paying attention to her, but she, they knew she was there. They hated the other alternatives,
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so they said, oh, the heck with it. I'm sensing that's the same with Andrea Horvath. She's not
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odious as a person. She hasn't become toxic. And I'm worried she's going to be the anybody but
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win and anybody but Ford vote. I think she'd be the second choice for either liberal or PC voters.
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What do you think? Well, for one thing, she hasn't been under scrutiny either. You're right. She's been
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around. This is her third election. Uh, normally party parties get rid of their leaders after they've lost
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two. Uh, and maybe they don't have it. They didn't have anybody take her place or whatever,
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but they they've left her in for, you know, strike three, I guess, as it were. Um, but I don't think
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she's come under scrutiny yet because she might seem nice enough, but when you listen to her ideas,
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they're anything but nice. Uh, and, and the more unions, it's very intriguing. It just in the past
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couple of weeks, uh, more unions who have shifted their support toward her because of course they see
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that Kathleen Wynne is dead, you know, dead premier walking kind of thing. They realize
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that's a lost cause. Where can we park ourselves now? Well, it's going to be to another government
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that's going to be very friendly to unions. And I wonder if they'll be even more friendly. For
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example, uh, Horvath came out lately and said she would revisit the notion of having wine and, and
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liquor and beer in grocery stores, uh, uh, ludicrous stuff. I mean, that's, you know,
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we finally sort of entered the 19th century with that in Ontario because most parts of the world
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have had much more, uh, you know, sane, uh, alcoholic, uh, uh, retailish than we have here
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in Ontario. But, you know, stuff like that was clearly a response to support from unions because
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naturally the unions love having their little monopoly in the LCBO. And there's other examples
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as well that, um, you know, talking about some, some of these issues. So I think, um,
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I would really hope that Ontarians give her a hard, hard look at her policies, a hard look,
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because even though she might seem innocuous and nice, her policies are anything but,
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and what kills me is people hate the liberals seemingly because they spent like mad, dug our,
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you know, dug a massive debt hole that our kids and grandkids and their kids and so on are going to be
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paying off for generations, et cetera, et cetera. And yet now they're going to shift their vote
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to a party that is promising not only more of the same, but an even more extreme version of what
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we've got now. It just seems insane to me. Yeah. Well, um, insane things happen at the polls
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sometimes. And, uh, you've just scared me a little bit. Catherine Swift, it's great to catch up with you.
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Thanks for your time today. My pleasure. All right. There you have a Catherine Swift.
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She's with Working Canadians, a pro-free enterprise advocacy group. Stay with us.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters. On my monologue about CBC's fake news story about
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global warming triggering volcanoes in Canada, Hansen writes,
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I know it's the CBC, but how the heck does anyone interviewing such craziness actually
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hold a straight face? Yeah. I mean, the headline, waking, sleeping volcanoes in Canada.
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Uh, when you get to the actual part of the interview, it's yeah, well, there might be a rock slide and
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gravity is to blame. It's just, you know, um, they're not journalists anymore. They're propagandists.
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Jonathan writes, next, they will tell us that Vulcan is hammering away so hard because Jupiter
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needs his lightning bolts to bring on the crazy weather. So those dumb mortals will give their
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government more cash and get poor. So they will worship the gods more. Well, that's very thoughtful.
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Of course, that's where volcanoes come from the word Vulcan. And you're right. Jupiter is also named
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after a god from mythology. Um, and that's what I alluded to, uh, yesterday is that there are a lot
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of superstitions related to massive powers in nature, whether it's, uh, the Aztecs and the eclipses,
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uh, or volcanoes and the archetype of throwing a virgin in the volcano to appease the gods.
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It's not that far removed from that to global warming and pay the carbon tax. It's a tithe to
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mother nature. Someone named Jay Smart writes, we could give all our income for a century and
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wouldn't have no effect on volcanoes or climate change. You're right. Um, and you'll notice that
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no politicians proposing carbon tax actually say it will change the weather. Some of them say it will
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change the amount of emissions by some trivial amount, an amount that China will make up for in
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days. But no one actually says it will change the weather because it won't. It is 100% virtue
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signaling in service of 100% cash grabs. Well, folks, that's our show for today. I was quite upset
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by what happened to our friend, Tommy. I'm deeply worried for him in prison. It's terrible in prison
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for anyone. But for Tommy, it's, it really is akin to a death sentence. I am very worried about him.
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I don't think I'm breaking confidences to say that in recent months, I mean, I haven't seen Tommy in
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about two months, but, um, he would sometimes, uh, muse that he, he might not, uh, he might not make it.
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I think he in some ways was fatalistically resigned to an untimely end. I think he thought
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that he might be assassinated or killed. And that's not, that's not just fantasy. We know he was
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attacked from behind and put in a coma last year. Um, I'm, I'm deeply worried about him.
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I regard him as a friend. I mean, I worked with him for a year and even if I wasn't a friend,
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even if he was a complete stranger to me, I regard him as a leading light of freedom
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and dissent and free journalism in the United Kingdom. And I'm quite sad.
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And immediately to me, Great Great Britain feels less great. It feels smaller.
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And I feel like things are darker and blurrier and foggier and more pessimistic now. And the
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cheering of his enemies, uh, is a, is a deep sound of warning to me. Before I get any emotional,
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I wish you good night. Have a great weekend. Keep enjoying our YouTube videos and I'll be back on
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Monday. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting