Ezra Levant Show May 7 2018
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The Ezra Levant Show with Ezra Levant. Ezra Levant is a conservative commentator, writer, and podcaster based in Toronto, Canada. He's a regular contributor to the Toronto Sun and the Globe and Mail, and host of the radio show "The Levant Show" on CBC Radio One.
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Tonight, it was a bad weekend for conservatives as Doug Ford and Jason Kenney
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It's May 7th, 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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On Saturday, the Ontario Liberals published comments by Doug Ford's star candidate, Tanya
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They weren't comments made in private or secretly recorded that would surprise or shock anyone.
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They're her public comments, in the same vein that she's been talking for years.
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Everyone who saw her high-energy performance during the Ontario PC leadership debates would
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know that's what she says, that's what she sounds like.
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I mean, the lady is the opposite of politically correct, and it's one of the reasons why Doug
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I pledge that if I'm leader, I'm going to take those wind turbines and I'm going to rip
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I think she knew she wouldn't win the leadership, but she'd bring in socially conservative party
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members, including Christians, who felt betrayed by Patrick Brown, the previous leader, who
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showed respect to truly conservative people, just until he abandoned them in a heartbeat when
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Granik-Allen brought in thousands of Christian voters, homeschooling voters, socially conservative
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voters, and they backed Doug Ford after she fell off the ballot.
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It was a close enough race that Ford almost surely would have lost to Christine Elliott without
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It wasn't just a smart strategy in terms of votes.
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It was smart in terms of making sure Ford wasn't the most right-wing person in the public
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debates to social conservatives and Christians.
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He could point to her and say, she's part of my coalition, and while she won't always
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And to the red Tories and the left-wing media, he could say, she's part of my coalition, and
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while she won't always carry the day, she's part of his coalition.
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To the media, it actually allowed Ford to position himself as a thoughtful moderate, someone who
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listens to all sides, the alternative being that Doug Ford himself would be the most right-wing
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It's always good to have someone to your right as well as to your left, but conservatives too
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Patrick Brown, again, being the best example, he was awful on conservative ideas such as fighting
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back against the insane child sex curriculum that Kathleen Wynne forced at Ontario schools.
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It was a curriculum overseen by Ben Levin, who was later convicted of child pornography and
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Ben Levin's curriculum is still being pushed on parents.
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Fighting against that has been one of Granite Allen's key issues, and for her supporters too,
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Well, Doug Ford took her support when he needed it to win.
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He made her fight and win her own nomination in Mississauga, and she did amazingly well,
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beating all of her opponents combined on the first ballot.
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No special favors of a direct appointment for her as a candidate, as Doug Ford gave to others.
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But on the weekend, like I say, when some of her old video clips were published, again,
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by the liberals, Ford panicked and sacked her within hours.
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And appointed the second place candidate in her local writing.
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She said she didn't like to see niqabs in Canada, the full face obscuring Muslim veil.
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It's un-Canadian for anyone to cover their face in public.
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And it's sexist to have a subculture that demands only women do so.
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Well, is that sufficient reason to sack a candidate who overwhelmingly won her riding?
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She referred to abortion as a kind of holocaust.
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If Doug Ford doesn't like people talking bluntly about abortion, though,
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Other than to invite them in for their momentary use in his leadership campaign.
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By the way, that quote about abortions was apparently said by Granik Allen 18 years ago.
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If that's the worst they've got on her, that's pretty thin gruel.
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She did talk about radical sex ed targeting very young kids in kindergarten.
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Now, I think she's Croatian and she talked about Croatia that used to be communist
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and now they have social engineering of a different sort teaching children of tender years
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about sexual ideas that are not appropriate for kindergartners.
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Perhaps those aren't the most polished or nuanced comments.
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It's a little bit ambiguous what she's saying was appalling to her,
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what was taught or that it was taught in kindergartens.
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But seriously, you're sacking a star candidate over that?
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Let's put that aside for a second because over the weekend,
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Jason Kenney in Alberta had a huge convention for the UCP.
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That's the United Conservative Party in Alberta.
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The largest party convention in Alberta history, reports say.
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And lots of what you'd expect, anti-carbon tax votes, pro-pipeline speeches, lots of debates
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And as Jason Kenney has been saying for months, he wasn't going to let the people, sorry,
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rather, he was going to let the people make the policy.
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Here's a video he recorded on the subject last August, nine months ago, saying it's up
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to the party members to make key policy decisions.
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Hey everybody, I'm here at my favourite diner, the Blackfoot truck stop in Calgary.
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And I just signed our grassroots policy guarantee.
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You see, I think that our new United Conservative Party should ensure that you, the grassroots
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That you develop the policies of this new party and give the leadership its marching orders.
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You know, one of the reasons we had this division in the Alberta Conservative Movement in
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recent years was because of an arrogant style of top-down leadership, where leaders were
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telling people what to think rather than listening to them.
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I think we've got to turn that on its head and have a more like a servant leadership approach
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where we empower grassroots members to decide the basic policies of the new party.
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I don't think it's my role as a leader to tell the membership what to think.
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I don't think we should be running a presidential-style leadership campaign.
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It's time, as I say, for humility, for listening, for servant leadership.
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It's time for less I and me and more us and we as we build this party together.
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And here's the page from Jason Kenney's own website, jasonkenney.ca, when he was running
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Today I signed a new grassroots guarantee that the policies of the UCP must be developed
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democratically by its grassroots members, not imposed by the leader.
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And he also said, our conservative coalition fractured in recent years, partly because leaders
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began telling people what to think rather than listening to them.
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We've had enough arrogant, top-down leadership.
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We need servant leadership that empowers grassroots Albertans.
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Instead of dictating our new party's policies to them.
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But here's what happened at Kenney's policy convention in Red Deer.
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Well, UCP founding convention hit socially conservative pothole.
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And then I don't know if you can read underneath.
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It says United Conservative Party delegates had one job at their founding convention this
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And you know the Edmonton Journal is the arbiter of extreme.
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Well, 57% of the delegates, there were thousands of them there, they voted for this proposal.
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The United Conservative Party believes that the government of Alberta should reinstate
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parental opt-in consent for any subjects of a religious or sexual nature, including
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enrollment in extracurricular activities, clubs, or distribution of any instructional materials,
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Respects and affirms parental primacy and authority regarding the educational material presented
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I think that's pretty much how it's always been in school.
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The only reason that it's a proposal at a policy convention is that the NDP has recently
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changed that and has now forbidden, by law, parents from being allowed to know.
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They literally have changed the presumption, the NDP.
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And now they presume that by default, the parents, I don't know, hate their own children instead
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And the bureaucracies and teachers union activists know better and care more about a child than
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And the presumption, a bigotry really, that if a parent is conservative or religious, that
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they'll somehow be harmful or hurtful to their own beloved child.
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And that to give any information about this to parents is akin to outing them to strangers.
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It's all looked through the lens of a gay-straight alliance that's a student club.
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And for that, the NDP would ban, would ban it, the information going to parents about
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The NDP, like all socialists, truly thinks that a child is the property of the state.
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I mean, I read you every word, don't you think?
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Wouldn't even raise an eyebrow at any parent-teacher association in North America.
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It's how it is or should be, but it's necessary because governments are changing things.
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Sex ed is extreme now, and it's not just being taught in sex ed classes, but in student clubs
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that are explicitly set up to talk about sex with teachers without parents in informal chit-chats.
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Yeah, so parents just want to stay in the loop.
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I mean, it is bad enough when far-left teachers politicize regular classrooms and brainwash kids
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Remember the story about the Edmonton School that was teaching its students that oil companies
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There's not a school in Canada that doesn't promote global warming hysteria.
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But what about when those same politicized teachers unions start pushing their political
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theories about extremely personal matters that have nothing to do with reading, writing,
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and arithmetic, but rather about Islam or about transgenderism, religious and sexual issues.
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Something that a few years ago, transgenderism was literally classified as a psychiatric illness
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It's now being force-fed to students as young as kindergarten.
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Tanya Granik-Allen was right, but more right than she knew.
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In Ontario, they teach kids about the six genders.
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Being gay, by the way, is not a gender, just to be clear.
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In Ontario, they're teaching children of tender years that there are six genders.
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They're teaching kindergarten kids this kind of stuff.
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Why are you even talking to five-year-old kids about sex at all?
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Why are you talking about sexuality with children of tender years?
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Why are you taking away their innocence, their childhood?
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I think it's important to learn Soji language to better support the youth.
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At the beginning of class, I say to all my students, I say,
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okay, when we do names today, I'm still getting to know you.
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Can you tell the rest of the class what pronouns you use?
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Intersecting identities means that people don't move around the world with one singular identity.
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The concept of intersecting identities is really beautiful.
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Me being gay, an immigrant, and a person of color.
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And I can't choose one being more important than the other part of my identity.
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A lot of these things intersect and really layer
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in terms of the discrimination that a youth may be facing.
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It wasn't in that clip there, but they have classroom posters about RuPaul and drag.
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When you think about it, really, bringing drag performers together with little kids
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And it's kind of like drag performers are clowns, right?
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Like, they really sort of, they play things up.
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Listen, let me be clear, and I've said this before whenever we talk about the issue.
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I do not want to bother people who are trans.
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I do not want to pick on them or be mean to them in any way.
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I don't want the law or private citizens to discriminate against them.
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I know the facts about transgenderism, for example,
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that people who undergo a transition from male to female have a suicide rate of about 50%.
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And by the way, that suicide rate rises to 60% attempted suicides
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for those who actually undergo the surgery or go on hormones.
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My point is, this was considered a mental illness until a few years ago for a reason.
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But do you see why some parents might be upset about transgenderism and gender identity issues
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And 57% of Alberta parents at the UCP meeting said they would just like to know what's going on.
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And be told if their child is being signed up for a club that does this.
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Because that is how loving parents are about their kids.
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Well, to the media, such parents are extreme and controversial.
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That's professional reporting from our state broadcaster, people.
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UCP passes controversial motion to reinstate parental choice in education.
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Well, Jason Kenney, like Doug Ford, is terrified of the liberal media.
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It's why he threw the rebel under the bus a year and a half ago
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when a handful of unemployed oil men at our anti-carbon tax rally at the legislature
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he demonized unemployed Alberta oil men for not protesting their unemployment politely enough.
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He who said he deeply believes in the grassroots policy process,
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he says he refuses to be bound by this resolution.
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Here's some of his quote to the mainstream media from this weekend.
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I do say we don't believe and we will not ever take the position
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They don't have to when joining the press club,
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Well, because a press club is not controversial or personal.
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It does not go to a child's faith or a family's customs or values or beliefs.
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And I'm quoting from Don Braid's article in the Herald here.
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And that's okay, Kenney argued, because, quote,
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guess what, I'm the leader and I get to interpret the resolution
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And he added, I hold the pen when it comes to the party platform.
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I thought that's specifically how Jason Kenney campaigned for leader.
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I thought that's what that video we watched of him saying was about.
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Well, by the way, when you Google Jason Kenney's grassroots guarantee now,
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Number one result on Google when you type in Jason Kenney grassroots guarantee.
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The page I quoted to you before when I was reading from it is a Google cache of the version
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that he forgot to delete the Google cache version or didn't know how.
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Kathleen Wynne and Rachel Notley are disasters for their provinces.
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But I don't want Ford and Kenney to win for personal reasons, because I may like them or not.
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I want them to win to stop awful things being done in the government to our people.
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And by the way, marginalizing parents who are concerned about their kids,
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who are concerned about the proliferation of Muslim extremism in the form of niqabs,
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or who are concerned that radical sex ed is being taught to their littlest kids,
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Or who are concerned that activist teachers are talking to them about crazy things.
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Doug Ford and Jason Kenney are more afraid of the CBC than they are of real parents.
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I would never hold Jason Kenney's status as a non-parent against him ever.
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It's irrelevant in 99.999% of cases, but actually not in this one.
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Unless and until you are a parent, you just don't know in your bones how terrifying and infuriating
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and frustrating and powerless it feels to have smug teachers' union activists treat your child
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And now, to be able to keep that a secret from you.
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Jason Kenney is dead wrong on this, and 57% of his own party told him so,
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despite clear instructions from him not to vote that way.
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Doug Ford is dead wrong to fire Tanya Granik-Allen for comments that perhaps could have been phrased better,
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but surely Doug Ford knew exactly what she stood for on these core issues when he made his bargain with her.
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Both men are listening to their leftist critics, not their own consciences or their own parties.
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It's our job at the Rebel to push back against this, because no other media will.
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But we want them to win as conservatives, and we want them to grow a backbone
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and to treat the media party with the disrespect they deserve
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rather than treating party members with the disrespect they don't deserve.
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Stay with us for more on this with David Menzies.
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Well, look, Jason Kenney and Doug Ford are so close to becoming premier.
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Both of them have double-digit leads over their far-left opponents
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who have tired out their respective electorates.
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Joining me now to talk about this is our friend David Menzies.
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So, I mean, you're Doug Ford, and you're Doug Ford's campaign team.
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Some polls showing that Kathleen Wynne is actually in third place,
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But I think that you could be so hypersensitive, you could be too panicky,
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and you can start making some strategic errors.
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And we'll talk about Albert in a second, but you're the boss of Ford Nation.
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First, making an appointment of 11 candidates trumping any local democracy,
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including people who have been campaigning for years.
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That was one of the reasons people didn't like Patrick Brown.
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So that was a strange flip-flop from Doug Ford that seemed anti-democratic.
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I should note, he didn't give that favor to Tanya Granik-Allen.
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Number two, a flip-flop by saying we're going to develop the Green Belt,
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ease housing prices, ease environmental extremism.
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because in an 18-year review of all the words she's ever said,
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a few of her comments weren't as gentle as they could have been.
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there's nobody in Ford Nation that's behind this campaign, as far as I can tell.
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Doug is getting advice and marching orders from people that are not Ford Nation types.
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let's not forget that without Tanya Granik-Allen supporters,
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Tanya lost on the first ballot of the convention.
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About, I think the figure was 83% of her supporters went and supported Doug Ford.
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And you know, the margin was razor thin between Doug and Christine Elliott.
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If those supporters didn't go there, or if Tanya Granik-Allen hadn't been part of that convention, Ezra,
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But, you know, some heat from the liberal media, from certain Muslim organizations,
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and suddenly he collapses, you know, like a cheap lawn chair.
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And I'm telling you, you know, Ezra, our friend Joe Warmington,
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he once said to me a while back, and it's becoming true with every passing week,
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he once said to me that Doug Ford is not Rob Ford.
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And I'm bringing this up, Ezra, because Rob Ford would not be doing this.
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Rob Ford would not be flip-flopping all over the place
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and throwing a loyal supporter and her supporters overboard.
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I think one of the great strengths of Rob Ford's character,
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Loyalty to others, including those who made mistakes and were in tough times,
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because if you're not loyal to the people who got you elected,
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and it's not just based on the people, it's based on the promises.
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And nothing that Tanya Granik-Allen was shown to have said,
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I mean, maybe she could have used more nuanced language, more poetic language,
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but being skeptical of the full face obscuring niqab,
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Being against the promotion of sex ed in kindergarten,
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that is something that would make a parent's gag,
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It's, what are you talking to my children of tender years about sex about?
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She knew, Doug Ford knew that Tanya Granik-Allen stood for all these things.
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He just jumped because the liberals and the media told him to jump,
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and in so doing, encouraged his enemies, discouraged his allies,
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oh, just throw another thing at Doug and he'll panic again.
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And we can dominate Doug by telling him what he's going to talk about for a day
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You know, Kathleen Wynne, a couple of weeks ago,
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because Donald Trump wouldn't get some heat from a left-wing media and fold.
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Donald Trump would double down and go to Twitter and say,
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here's what I say, you know, here's what I believe in plain language.
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And also, you know, I have to bring this up, Ezra,
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because on this whole topic of morality and inappropriate remarks,
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we have a candidate who seems to be completely protected.
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She has written, right, Christianity is gay.
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Stephen Harper was a national embarrassment to Canada.
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And she has tweeted out images that seem to convey an aura of pro-terrorism.
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When Tanya Granik-Allen ran in Mississauga Center,
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whose campaign manager, according to the Quiggin report,
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We should have put on the record that he denies that.
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Well, you know, it was the shortest interview ever.
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Well, actually, the campaign manager, if you look at the interview,
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I just want to put it out there that there is some dispute,
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You mentioned that there's no one from Ford Nation around Doug Ford.
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Now, Michael Diamond, who was director of operations for Rob Ford,
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And one of the things, and this is what worries me,
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and I don't want to put too much credence into it.
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When Doug Ford trounced all the establishment candidates
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in the interest of healing and unifying the party,
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He hired the communications director from Caroline Mulrooney.
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He hired other staff who were loyal to the Doug Ford haters,
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I remember Ian from years ago when I worked with him
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He helped lead the rebellion against Stockwell Day.
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or are they making a Caroline Mulrooney-style decision?
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And frankly, do they really want Doug Ford to succeed?
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Well, Ezra, once again, you're looking at the big picture,
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I think this might, you know, critics of mine might say,
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oh, you're venturing into conspiracy-ville with this.
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But with all those people, and clearly Ford Nation they reject,
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We've already seen one palace coup going back to late January
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And in fact, if I might double down on the conspiracy,
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why not use Doug Ford as a convenient pawn right now?
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Have Ford Nation propel him into the premiership,
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then come up with some kind of cockamamie reason
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You know, this is Ontario politics in 2018, Ezra.
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You're speculating, I'm speculating, we don't know.
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It is a conspiracy fact that people who two months ago,
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and were paid large sums of money to defeat Doug Ford
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And the person who actually helped Doug Ford become leader
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was just thrown out the window on a pretty meager excuse.
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And Ezra, can I just interject one other thing?
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And as you know, that's when the NDP formed the government.
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If Doug Ford goes down the path of Patrick Brown
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to the point that I'm either going to do a protest vote
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Christine Elliott, I don't know if she would run again,
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oh, well, for sure we're going to vote for the conservatives after that.
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It reminds me a little bit of Australian politics
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and there's this habit of throwing leaders overboard
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The way that, I mean, I was no fan of Patrick Brown
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his senior staff show up working for Caroline Marooney.
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there's no way you're going to govern this province.
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they understand the value of loyalty in politics.
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is because the Doug Ford that we thought we knew,
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was someone who didn't care what the media said,
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Whoever got him to throw Tanya Granik-Allen out,
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I think he needs to be careful in the next 30 days
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And Ezra, just to put an asterisk on those appointments,
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we talked about this on a previous show of yours, of course.
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he's putting in the elites he's always fought against.
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He might be a fantastic government like his father.
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But still, he lost the nomination meeting in other writing,
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Meredith Cartwright, candidate in Toronto Centre,
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You ran for the Liberal nomination to the left of Bob Ray.
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but there's going to be a lot for us to cover in the month ahead.
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Let me close with something that I think I ought to put on the record.
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I want Doug Ford to be the next Premier, if that's in any doubt.
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I want Jason Kenney to be the next Premier of Alberta.
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But I don't want half a Doug Ford or a watered-down Doug Ford.
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I don't want a politically correct Jason Kenney.
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You can have a Conservative Kenney and a Conservative Doug Ford.
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Bizarrely, these guys are being so hyper-cautious
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that they might actually blow their double-digit lead
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He's a bit of a celebrity when he shows up at a Ford Nation event.
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He truly understands the pulse of that place, I dare say,
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better than the Caroline Mulroney staff that now surround Doug Ford.
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People who say they support government intervention in the environment,
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global warming, carbon taxes, regulations, shutting down coal or cars,
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They're the least environmentally sensitive, according to a new study.
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Joining us now via Skype with a man who has read the study and published it on his website,
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I mean, I just know this in my bones, but it's good to have an academic confirmation of it.
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Yeah, this was from the University of Michigan.
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And these were done by your typical, you know, modern researchers who accept all the
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classic environmental premises, the climate change premises.
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And I think they were actually surprised by their own research, which showed that the climate
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activists, the environmental activists most committed and the most vocal were the least
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likely to walk that talk in their private lives.
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So University of Michigan, typical academics are actually surprised by their own study.
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And of course, they're putting all kinds of spin on it now.
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Well, I'm slightly amazed that a study that has those results, contrary to the official
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I mean, I watched the movie An Inconvenient Truth, and Al Gore is flying first class jetting
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around the world, and he doesn't even see the irony of it.
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There's never been an environmental protest I've ever seen in person or in the media that
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hasn't left a mountain of trash behind it, as opposed to the odd time conservatives ever
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What is it about environmentalists that lets them mouth off how righteous they are, but
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Well, you know, a lot of the, I would say, the warmest sympathizing researchers, they've
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come up with the, well, it's a valid concept, the concept of moral licensing.
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And this would be the equivalent if you were trying to lose weight and exercise, you go
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out for a long run or you do the bike, and then you come in and you think you're entitled
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to eat an entire cream pie or have a dozen donuts because you put in the time and you
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Well, they've extended that now in order to explain these studies results from the University
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They're saying that these researchers, because they give to environmental groups, because
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they're vocal on the climate issue, because they use bumper stickers, because they have
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signs, because they go to pro-science marches, in quotes, that they're doing more than the
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Therefore, they're entitled to use that plastic bag.
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They're entitled to keep their air conditioner core because they've already done more than
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their neighbor who doesn't express the same concern.
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Yeah, and the SUV of Michigan study actually shows that people who are skeptical of government
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and environmentalism live more environmentally sustainable lives.
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You know, this reminds me a little bit of, I mean, you tell me if this is a stretch, but
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this is what just popped into my mind, how so many of the male feminists throughout the
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years, from Bill Clinton to Teddy Kennedy to Harvey Weinstein in our country, Gian Gomeschi,
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so many of the male feminists who talk about feminism and respecting women, they were the
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ones who the Me Too movement shows were the biggest sexual predators and had the most sexual
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misconduct, and I think it's because they said, well, on TV, I'm so feminist, I'm allowed
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to, to the world in the abstract, so in my real life, I'm allowed to engage in sexual misconduct
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because I've done, I've done more than most, so grant me this indulgence.
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It's like a reverse indulgence from the medieval Catholic Church.
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They've, they've done a bad thing so they can, they're so good in, in public so they can
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I mean, because they feel, it's kind of the old expression, I've given at the office, you
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know, leave me, go away from my door, I don't need to give any more.
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People feel they've already done their part, so therefore, they're entitled, and in the
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case of Harvey Weinstein, they may have joined all those groups because they wanted better
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access to women, which may or may not be related, but what's happened with this climate, but
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you mentioned the other thing, other part of the study is that the people who were most
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skeptical were the most, most environmentally friendly, and what that tells you is climate
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skeptics don't fall behind the curtain of, oh, you know what, I already gave money, so
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therefore, no, they actually care about the earth, they're just not buying the idea that
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a trace of central gas in the atmosphere is driving a climate catastrophe or is the control
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So this is one of those things where you can see it in all their leadership.
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You mentioned Al Gore, but even the head of the UN panel, Regina Pachari, admitted he lived
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The UN has conferences in developing world countries in exotic locations from Cancun to
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Bali to beaches in South America, all over the world annually, not just annually, but sometimes
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They feel that they don't have to follow their own rules, and I've heard this with Leonardo
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DiCaprio, people say it doesn't matter because he's doing so much good, it doesn't matter what
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It's that license to do, it's a free pass, get out of jail free.
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You know, I want to give one more analogy, and I know I'm just throwing analogies in the
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You know, when I think of people who take their own time to do voluntary charity in the community,
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to actually work at a soup kitchen, to actually help people get their hands dirty at a food
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bank or whatever, often they're conservative, often they're Christian conservative, and they
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reject big government, and they may reject big government welfare, but they're doing
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a lot in their personal life with their own personal funds.
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And again, the mirror image of that is the guy who doesn't do anything of himself, because
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It's almost like when you outsource your civic duty to the government, it takes away your own
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And frankly, the less government we would have in the social safety net, the more each of us
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would feel incumbent to do something real life.
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If the government is doing it, and you pay the government, you've already given your
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So I think there's a lot of analogies here, and every single environmentalist protest I've
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ever seen leaves behind overflowing garbage cans.
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When people who are actors vote for politicians who say they're going to take care of whether
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it's the environment, whether it's poor people, and you expand all these programs, then the
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people themselves think, well, I've already voted for someone, and the taxes are taking
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But if you don't have that mindset, and you actually say, well, I don't trust government
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I'm going to call it the skeptics of climate change.
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The conservationists, they're the ones who actually care about the earth and care about
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our environment, whereas the climate activists actually believe that they're working on passing
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legislation, so therefore the government is going to solve this through treaties, regulations,
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So therefore, they can do what they need to, because they've already done their part.
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So this is one of those things where it cuts all the way across, but the more you appeal
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to government, the less you're going to do in your own life.
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And I think we're seeing that exact dynamic that you mentioned there.
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Great to talk to you about this very interesting study.
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Mark Morano, he's the boss of climatedepot.com.
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We've been talking about a study from the University of Michigan.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about Trudeau's summer jobs grant, denying over
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1,400 applications for Christian groups, but not to controversial Islamic groups.
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Joel writes, the attestation was added so the Trudeau government could drive another wedge
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It's true, but I think it's to drive a wedge between a person and themself.
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You know, if you read enough about the Soviet Union, about the secret police, about communism,
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about Stalin, even if you read George Orwell's 1984, the great tactic of the state to destroy
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a dissident is to manage to get the dissident to betray himself.
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Because once a dissident betrays himself and betrays his own values, he never has that fire
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burning inside himself anymore because he knows he's a fraud, an imposter.
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If he sells out a friend for a moment of comfort, if he signs a jailhouse confession or something,
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he'll never burn with the same brightness again because he'll have the guilt of knowing
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that he put something ahead of his so-called values.
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That is the ultimate tactic of the authoritarian left.
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Take it from every scholar, every novelist, every philosopher about Soviet totalitarianism.
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That is what the attestation is, to make people break their own conscience in return for a few
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Bruce writes, thanks for exposing the wastefulness of the Trudeau family.
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I'll have to remember this in the event that CPP cuts me off of my disability pension.
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I'll have to remind my senior friends that while they're struggling to heat their homes,
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the Trudeaus are squandering more than half a million dollars just on their chef and food
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I'll also remind veterans how this family lives so lavishly while they can't be given more
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help because they're asking for more than the government can afford.
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Next year, let's remind all of our friends how this family scolded us while living the high
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Yeah, you know, an example I use, I mean, I've done some events around Canada and sometimes
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Cheap eats and drinks and a pretty friendly crowd.
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And it's always good to be reminded of our military history.
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And just take a moment and look at the plaques and the photos and the stories.
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Every single legion hall I've been to in Canada is a little bit, I don't know if dilapidated
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All of them could use a little bit of a refresh, you know?
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And I remember the one I went to in, I think it was Port Credit, near Mississauga.
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And I thought, Justin Trudeau gave $10.5 million to Omar Khadr.
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I bet that legion hall has not had $10.5 million put into it in 40 years combined.
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And so, yeah, you can come up with your own example of what we could or should do with
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money rather than the way the Trudeaus burn it.
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On my interview with John Carpe and the Andersons, Tammy writes,
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Thank you for interviewing the Andersons when the government pushed this unlawful attestation.
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It was evident to me it would not stand a court challenge.
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Very happy to hear John Carpe is representing the Andersons.
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I say again he is Canada's leading civil libertarian.
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What is frustrating to me, and I think I mentioned this in the interview,
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It grinds very slowly through the wheels of justice.
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And it is most likely that the 2019 Summer Jobs application will also have this attestation
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because it probably, this probably won't see a court before that.
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But it's also frustrating to me all the damage that's being done in the meantime.
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The 1,400 Christian groups that were denied, the stress on the Anderson family and others,
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And I suppose the most frustrating thing of all is the silence of the lambs in the media party.
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By the way, at least for last week and this week while we're figuring it out,
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every day I do a chit-chat talk show at 12 noon Eastern Time.
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So we flip on the camera and instead, I pre-record this show, the interview show, the main show.
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But from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Eastern Time, it's 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Mountain Time.
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I have a few video clips, but I don't script a whole monologue or anything.
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And I take questions that people type in in the comments section.
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And we've been doing it all last week and today we did it again.
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We're trying to figure out, I think that the time zone might be a bit of a problem
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And even 12 noon Toronto Time, well, that's still the middle of the work morning in Calgary time.
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And by the way, even after it's done live, that video is saved.
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You just won't be able to do the interactive stuff, which was live.
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Anyways, until tomorrow at noon, for those of you who can make it,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
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All the time with that, we're ready to take a look.
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Thank you so much, thank you so much for watching.