EZRA LEVANT ｜ The racism of low expectations heralds a new era of woke justice
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A judge grants leniency for a Toronto crack dealer because of his nine children, and his race, and because of the colour of his skin. This is the story of Lady Justice, and this is why race is irrelevant in a court of law.
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say folks if you have the misfortune of being in criminal court but you're seeking to get a reduced
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sentence well simply claim that you are racialized and indigenous and well bob's your uncle
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it's wednesday february the 4th 2026 i'm david menzies and this is the ezra lavent show
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consider the iconic image of lady justice to begin with she is holding a set of scales the
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scales symbolize the careful balancing of evidence arguments and opposing sides in a dispute to
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determine truth lady justice is also brandishing a sword this represents the authority power and
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finality of the law as well as the ability to punish and finally there is the blindfold the
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blindfold represents impartiality and objectivity indicating that justice is administered without
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fear favor or bias regarding wealth power or status allow me to repeat that last sentence
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justice is administered without fear favor or bias regarding wealth power or status i make mention
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of the iconic lady justice and all that she represents or is supposed to represent regarding
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a staggering court decision that was rendered in toronto recently it is a decision that goes against
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everything the justice system should embrace when it comes to fairness and impartiality here's the skinny
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according to a story published in the national post headlined quote judge grants leniency for toronto crack
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dealer because of his nine children and his race and quote here's the lead paragraph quote a toronto crack
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cocaine dealer caught back in business three times over the course of 10 months managed to convince a judge
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that he deserves some leniency because putting him behind bars would mean hardship for his nine children but
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not because he's addicted to the drugs he was caught peddling lloyd williams pleaded guilty in ontario's court of
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justice to three counts of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking in what justice andre chamberlain
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described as the deeply troubled neighborhood surrounding the intersection at dundas and sherburne streets
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for arrests on march 3rd 2024 october 25 2024 and january 4th 2025 williams who was released after each arrest
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twice on bail and a third time on the promise he wear a gps tracking device also pleaded guilty to one
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count of possession of proceeds of crime over five thousand dollars and two counts for under that amount
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and failing to comply with a release order on february 15th 2025 the crown recommended a six and a half
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year prison sentence williams lawyer argued for two years less a day in jail end quote so folks to recap
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here's what we know about the illustrious mr williams he has been nabbed numerous times peddling crack
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cocaine he has breached his bail conditions he has nine kids from multiple mothers the youngest child is just
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10 months old one is 22 months old and another is three williams also has nine-year-old twins
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two 10 year olds and a 16 year old it should be noted that one of his nine-year-olds is on the autism
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spectrum you know that's a lot of dependence that's a lot of responsibility so thank god williams has a
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stable and high-paying career as well drug dealing scumbag anyway as the saying goes what's the use
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of having kids if you can't exploit them because here's what judge andre chamberlain stated in his
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decision quote williams states that he provides support as a father to his children and that any
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lengthy absence would have a significant impact on their health and well-being end quote yep that's
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right the genetic jackhammer that is lloyd williams is truly father of the year material but seriously
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how are these poor children benefiting from being raised by a drug dealer and come on nine kids
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multiple mothers seriously this is the height of irresponsibility and it's downright selfish
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oh but wait there's more williams identifies as being both black and micmac so what does that have
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to do with the price of tea in china you ask race and skin color should be irrelevant in a court of law
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right well not in 2026 not in canada apparently not when a woke judge is on the bench at this point
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the story gets a tad surreal you see williams was unable to actually prove that he is a micmac native
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oh but never mind he gave it the good old college try and indeed judge chamberlain said he was quote
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satisfied williams has established a connection to indigenous ancestry end quote forgive me folks
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because i remain in a state of profound confusion right now williams could not i repeat he could not
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prove he was indigenous yet the judge seems to be saying that since williams identifies as being
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indigenous well then who are we to say otherwise holy elizabeth warren batman then again society is
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infested with men their penises still attached claiming to be chicks and to call bs on that scam is
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tantamount to committing a hate crime in canada these days predictably judge chamberlain delivered
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a sanctimonious sermon for everyone in the courtroom to hear here goes quote it is not unusual for
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indigenous people who have struggled under the yoke of colonialism in this country and its intergenerational
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impact to have lost connections to their roots and community further markers of the effects of
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intergenerational trauma including poverty familial addiction struggles with education and mental health
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and over representation within the criminal justice and child welfare system are often present when
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indigenous identity is confirmed ah again with the colonialism and sorry to be such a nitpicker here
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folks but i want to remind everyone including judge chamberlain himself that williams could not confirm
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that he was indigenous but again never mind still when did courtrooms turn into classrooms teaching revisionist
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history i thought a court of law was all about evidence and facts apparently not these days it's about how you
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feel i guess indeed based on the lloyd williams case if you're a black crack dealer with nine kids all you have to
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say is i'm a mic mac pinky swear and that's good enough well at least it's good enough for judge chamberlain
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because chamberlain also had this to say quote williams deserves consideration for the reduced moral
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blameworthiness associated with these challenges end quote again i'm somewhat unclear what the judge is
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saying here regarding those challenges is williams challenged because he is black is he challenged because
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he is indigenous well maybe is he challenged because he has a fast pace and high stress career as a crack
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cocaine dealer or maybe his challenge results in juggling the schedules of all those nine kids he has
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you know getting getting them all to soccer and hockey practice and whatnot forget about a minivan i hope williams
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have access to a minibus assuming that the guy has a driver's license that is the lawyer for williams argued
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quote there are two legal considerations that should mitigate his sentence bringing it down to an upper
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reformatory range namely the impact and harm a lengthy prison sentence will have on his family and secondly
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that mr williams is addicted to the very drugs he sells and as an addict trafficker he is entitled to
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significant mitigation end quote folks i'm not making this up are we living in the bizarro superman world
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in which irresponsibility and criminality are rewarded not condemned and by all accounts the attorney for mr
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williams delivered this statement with a straight face consider that williams is not only a drug dealer
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but a drug addict too yet that's exactly the sort of father i want to see heading up a household
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with nine young children in any event chamberlain sentenced williams who shockers already has a long
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criminal history from criminal history to just four and a half years in prison which means by my
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calculation he'll be out of the joint in about two years oh i would be negligent if i did not report
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that in 2021 and in 2024 part of that long criminal record entailed williams being convicted of serious
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domestic assault charges including assault by choking forgive me for being a tad insensitive here but
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can we cut to the chase which is to say why wasn't this reprobate not occupying a prison cell going back
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to the odious crime he committed in 2021 or in 2024 yet the judge recognized quote that his further
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incarceration will have a negative impact on williams family end quote um i have a headache right now or
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is my brain melting given that williams has this nasty little habit of committing physical domestic
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assault including you know choking i would argue that williams being separated from his several spouses
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and several children would be a very positive thing indeed but no in any event what have we learned
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here regarding the odious case of lloyd williams well i think it is this should one ever end up in a
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criminal court you might just want to play the race card especially since these days you apparently do not
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have to actually prove that you are racialized also claim that you're addicted to illegal substances
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and make sure you have multiple dependents or at least you know say you do and presto if you have
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someone like chamberlain on the bench you will most likely get a reduced sentence by the way the williams case
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is by no means a one-off the unholy trinity of diversity equity and inclusion has been embraced
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in other court decisions of late here's a headline from december 9th 2025 quote inuit man gets reduced
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sentence for attempted murder due to his indigenous status and mental illness end quote and here's another
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whopper headline from january 3rd 2025 quote prison sentence cut in half for men who identifies as metis
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end quote and again folks the devil is in the details isn't it the sentence reduction was due to a man
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identifying as metis which means he might not actually be metis by the way i'm currently identifying as
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miss america where's my bouquet but seriously folks in the final analysis isn't giving racialized
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offenders i.e non-white people i get out of jail free card inherently racist which is to say the
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underlining mindset seems to be because you are black or brown or indigenous or etc etc etc then society
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can't possibly hold you to the same standard as caucasians i believe this is what's called the
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racism of low expectations and when you think about it that's really just another form of bigotry
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bottom line this idea of race and indigenous status being used as a means of gaming the system to get a
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reduced prison sentence even when caught committing a very serious crime is both despicable and disturbing
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wokeness and political correctness and dei has no place in a court of law but in canada this appears to
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be increasingly par for the course this nonsense has to end judges should not be biased due to identity
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politics finally allow me to harken back to that iconic rendering of lady justice as previously noted
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she dons a blindfold to guarantee that justice is administered without fear favor or bias regarding wealth
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power or status alas as the saying goes that was then and this is now because in 2026 canada
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lady justice isn't wearing a blindfold anymore rather she's sporting a pair of x-ray glasses
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hi everyone i'm alexa lavoix with rebel news and today we are tackling a topic that's steering
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debate once more in quebec the real prospect of another sovereignty referendum the party quebecois is
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leading in the polls heading to the next provincial election keeping the independence question alive in
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many minds yet support for actually voting yes to sovereignty remains low recent surveys show it
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dipping as low as 30 percent with clear majorities still firmly opposed what makes this conversation
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especially compelling we are examining the growing alberta independence movement through a pure quebec lens
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and doing it with a guest who is a committed quebec sovereignist but one who rejects the current path
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being pushed by the party quebecois joining me is joe aubay podcaster and sharp voice on the yanni frank
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podcast delivering straight shooting takes on politics and economics now let's listen what he have to say
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so joe you are outspoken conservative and you defend your ideas notably through the podcast yanni frank
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how do you see the upcoming election especially with two new party leaders who seems to turn into a center
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right yeah center right is pretty much the new like virtue signaling buzzword politically speaking in quebec
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these last few months uh which doesn't mean anything anymore it's no longer like a political uh
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specification so to speak uh it's like racism or um phobia of any kind or racist the it's it's become
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part of this category pretty much now the only qualification for being center-right is being
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anything but quebec solidaire which is the really like really left-leaning political party here in quebec
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for the next election uh provincial election in quebec i'll say everything is possible at this
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point and and that's what's actually uh both funny and at at the same time exciting about it
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because we always say like politics is a two-edged two-edged blade you have the negative and the
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positive but right now everything is possible we know that charles milliard is going to be crown uh
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leader of the plq uh because mario roi the other candidate doesn't seem to uh finish his death from the
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last campaign so he probably won't be able to run even if he really really really wants to
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he's almost begging to do it actually it's kind of depressing on the party quebecois we have paul
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which is well implemented is technically the oldest leader so far in terms of uh of mandate
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inside his own party so that's going to be him uh eric duham with the power of the quebec conservative
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party is going to be there obviously he's going to change we're not going to change leadership before
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the election as part for the cac the coalition of quebec the the living government uh it all depends
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we have christine freshet and uh bernard rainville and i say from both perspectives we have two
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different visions i think even is monsieur drainville has pretty much copy paste the entire program from
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the pcq uh the last weekend even though he's always been like an out outspoken uh social social
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democrat left-leaning uh quebec politician now he's supposedly center-right and he does a huge
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critic of the model quebecois of the provident states in the nanny states of quebec he wants to
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challenge the the high instances of the unions he wants to get more private in health care uh he wants
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we also make get maybe like more private sector and more private color uh collaboration uh uh within
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public school public school system and stuff like stuff like that i hope not a lot of people believe
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him since i prefer someone who's always had those ideas from the beginning it's always been like part
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of their true conviction instead of someone who just changed the ideas because you understand which way
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the wind turn and the wind is blowing so yeah we'll see and from christian from christine freshet
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perspective she's definitely from the outspoken conservative commentators she's most certainly the
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establishment candidate uh martin koskinen the former uh chef de cabinet cabinet secretary of
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francois premier francois legault uh she he has his full support and more for and so far
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she has more nps to her side than for than bernard rainville uh of course the the the members will
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have to vote so we'll see she seems like to be a more corporatist beige you know like gray like
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establishment candidate like i'm not against i'm not in favor i'm in between you know what i'm saying
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and bernard rainville seems to have a more approach of a center-right approach with maybe
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like a touch of that of quebec like nationalism from his uh pq pass so we'll see but one of my
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questions is how do you explain the fact that the pq is mainly leading in the polls um their first promise
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is to lead a referendum on quebec sovereignty but when we look at the poll for a potential referendum
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and the appetite of the people is as low as what 30 percent how do you explain that i i mean for
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almost three almost three years now the pq has been like kind of a vote refuge for many quebec uh quebec
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electors uh mainly mainly like a parking spot because of the the really down in the polls and the
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cac like the appreciate the appreciation of the legal government has been uh down spirals since the
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end of the pandemic you went from the most like uh premier provincial premier in the country to
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almost the lowest ones uh right now and it seems to be more of a grudge like anti-logo vote so they
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looked at the other parties and since the the the quebec liberal party has been mostly reduced to
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montreal centric english community party with almost no vote and almost no count and no
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circumscription uh from the francophone vote the the electorate was who went from the cac in 2018 and
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in 2022 now goes back to their whole habits which is the blue against the red so it's the
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that's quebecois which has a very charismatic leader in a talented in a talented one i won't uh i
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won't say the otherwise for paul saint-pierre plamondon but at the same time i think the quebec the
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the quebec people i mean quebec electorate a part of it at least doesn't truly understand what a vote
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for the pq is their main logic is yeah we'll vote for him to get rid of logo and govern quebec but if
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he pulls up his referendum on sovereignty we'll just vote against it yes but you you could do that but at
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the same time there's consequences by saying no a third time like in 1980 we uh we got the the
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constitution in canada brought back from england and we and they signed and pierre trudeau justin's
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father uh signed it without quebec's signature in 1995 uh after the last almost almost the win of
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quebec in 1995 we got the the the law for referendum clarity and quebec lost a lot of power on the in
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these following years and it's been like even culturally like inside the people there's been
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like a scar that never truly healed for us after that after that time and now it's like opening the
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scars all over again open opening the wound and let it fester for another time just for old time's sake
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and to be fair i'm not against the the idea of independence as principle i'm consider myself some
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one of the right-wing person economically i think the ultimate expression of freedom of liberty my which
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is my principal value is the emancipation of one's people to independence pretty much but right now
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especially since the cac government government came along we have a deficit of almost like 14 billion
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in debt uh the the cost of life is especially not only in quebec but also across canada the housing
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market has been a total nightmare for new for young people from my age and from the younger generation
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to actually afford a home and there's like a a generational clash between two generations the baby
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boomers mostly 60 years plus and i'm not saying every one of the baby boomers like mostly if you
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watch it if you see the statistics but most of them seem to have a great time they don't think like
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contrary to what for example pierre probably have said that currently that canada is broken
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because of course their house value has increased like four five six to seven times in the last couple
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of years but the down effect from this is of course the young people can't only afford a home
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so now there's young people who want a more conservative uh leaning government more fiscally
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responsible and the baby boomers more want more security want more laws want more restrictions they
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are afraid of trump fear has engulfed them from in many cases that's why they re-elected mark
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they elected mark carney and gave the liberals in ottawa a fifth mandate consecutive consecutively
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so yeah we'll see and pretty much for the next election i'll say everything is possible including
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referendum but at the same time yeah they need to think twice before even thinking voting for the
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pq because you say it yourself you are the kind of person that you will want quebec to be a country
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but you're not adhering to the vision of the pq at this moment yeah because i mean i'm not the only one
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uh there's other or sovereignists or independentists at art at heart that the approach of the referendum
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has never been uh has always been the the only uh possibility some of them will just make a
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uh a unification like an independence declaration and wait for the uh the backing up from france and
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other countries something like that some will mean a total vote some wants other methods and also because
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the quote-unquote coalition that the party québécois says he wants to create doesn't seem to be quite a coalition
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pretty much of course there's been a lot more uh i don't know what's the word in english
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there's been like some kind of trend to be of course the independence seems to be more i mean
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from the media's perspective it seems to be more on the rise but from the statistic it doesn't move
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like there's not like a huge amount maybe like a slight increase in young people's vote in favor of
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sovereignty but at the same time we don't see it quite enough in the perspective and from the party
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quebecois perspective uh in terms of coalition they say like they want to unite people from the
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right people from the left people at the center to unite to get to for the only one goal which is
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independence but so far even them they were the first to start this center i'm center right kind
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of mentality with alex bossono which was their candidate in the by-election of artabasco l'érable
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which was a former uh far left activist who uh went to the summit is america in almost 20 years ago
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and got arrested he didn't kill anybody uh but he passed some time in prison at least in detention
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and was uh complotting to pretty much like bridge the the the perimeter in that conference and maybe
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like a protest and attack some people of course that didn't happen and we're pretty glad for that
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but at the same time he said he's changed he said he's now center right but every time you heard him
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speak he's always have this kind of left-leaning tangent about him he's quoting like from the iris
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which is like a a left-wing economic think tank from montreal he's been like there's like several
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like media posts for many years from like seven to ten years ago which was apparently making his
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change from left from far left to center which was like defending the hugo chavez government in
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venezuela he was praising fidel castro when he died so there's a lot of questions to understand
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to understand if someone is central central left or center right or whatever there's a political
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encompass for it but for now we just need to take their words at face value and don't ask any questions
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and that's a real problem and for now and every so far every because for those who don't know there's
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been several by-election like a record number in the last couple of years in quebec there's been in
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in terbonne there's now right now in chicoutimi there's there's been one i said in artabasca there's
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been one in jantalon in quebec city and almost all uh the the candidate that the partis québécois
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put it there for their election and they won all of them so far has been mostly social democrat
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left-wing people mostly maybe they're more right it's like in france with the with the
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for with the the rassemblement national maybe they're more uh right right leaning in terms of
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social policies more on the national nationalistic side perhaps and i will not be i will not think
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otherwise but globally speaking there's classic pq social democrat left-eating like quebec
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interventionism to interventionist people so in terms of coalition of truly right-wing or economically
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right-wing people i'm still waiting to see and it's not because you are critics about immigration
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that make you automatically a right-wing or center right yeah for some media it is for some media
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whatever you can be left-wing for all the other subjects socially economically and everything but
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if you criticize immigration numbers or if you say for example systemic racism doesn't exist then
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you're automatically right-wing which is preposterous to me so quebec when quebec wants to push
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for independence generally it's accepted and normalized but what we are seeing with alberta
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now we are seeing people um labeling them as extremists and far rights and some of them are
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saying that there is some foreign money being involved or foreign help um why we are seeing such a
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double standard there i mean that river you know better than me alex said that that's that's the freedom
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convoy method right there like when when they came in they called them extremists they called them
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conspiracy theorists they they talk about like aid from the united states aid from russia and foreign
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sources and everything and they thought they had they brought weapons and stuff like that and that's the
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same method that's being happening all over again and i think they they along they're launching all the
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the they're pointing all the their arteries to the separatist movement in alberta because contrary to quebec even though
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it would be a great loss the money is in alberta alberta is the money machine of the country
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if alberta leaves canada is pretty much done from alberta's perspective first of all you seem to be
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more uh it seems to be more easy from your part because you have money in your pockets and you have like
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a huge uh leverage uh in in that term and also you want to do it mostly for economic reason and
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freedom of freedom of enterprise freedom of expression protect your laws and your way of life
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life and quebec is the same thing but it's more of a cultural reason because of course because of
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the periculation and the the the payments received from the other provinces we've always been
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kind of a lower we have resources we have the potential i think my my people have a great potential
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to become one of the richest countries in north america but at the same time right now we being beggars
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for many many years from the other provinces to give us extra money from the federal government
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from the other provinces as well so for us it's more of a cultural issue in terms of our own
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language our own unique culture that we want to protect we want to protect and we want to
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pretty much keep safe and that's totally fine you know i totally agree with that but at the same time
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people people don't most people because like since the the earlier uh debates around sovereignty
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it always been like two camps the yes and the no's like the blues versus the reds but at the same time
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now it's more it's more nuanced and uh we're pretty much i don't want to make a joke but more like in
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the 50 shades of gray kind of thing you know like uh there's people who would want to say yes but at the
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same time they don't trust people anymore not just the party quebecois but the entire political class
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entirely and they saw what's happening in quebec economically and they don't trust the government
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even though independence will give us more freedom in many aspects but at the same time more
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responsibilities and since the government of quebec no even otherwise it has its own problems
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they have uh have too many more uh bureaucrats they have taxes too much the multiculturalism the
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wokeness and stuff i'm all against it and most most quebecers but at the same time the quebec
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government that got his own problem in terms of ultra centralizations the state have an answer for
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everything and needs to put their hand on almost everything from uh electricity production to the
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selling of alcohol and selling of marijuana and the the the day the daycare of our of our youth and
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our elderly people and many times it's monopolies it's something like a liberalized market so for many
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of them it's like okay if we separate even though we'll be free but at the same time we will be will
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it be the freedom for the for the quebec government to do now everything they want because uh grandpa
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federal is no longer there to stop them or it will be a real freedom from the quebec people itself
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and that's the real question i think and that's the there's a huge huge question mark for many
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people that are not really sure because they think pretty much we'll be jailed with our own jailers
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in many cases in terms of government in terms of governments if we became independent of course at the
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the same time if i take um an argument from my great friend economist vincent geloso which is a
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senior economist at the montreal economic institute and is also economy professor at george mason
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university in virginia uh said that he's also a a sovereignist but i said at the same time one of
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his great argument is that because of independence because of the new weight of responsibilities that the
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government of quebec will have to do in terms of the budget because of the part of this debt that will
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inherit from the from canada because of its independence the new programs the new uh the
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frontier the army and all the foreign relation and everything uh even the most centralized or left
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leaning centralized government in place will have no choice but to cut deeply um heavier melee style
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chainsaw afwera kind of style uh cuts to maintain the government's in of itself for not
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for not for nothing to collapse pretty much so it could the independence could force massive cut
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and uh grow going back to uh a more uh center in terms of governance layer more less centralized
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more decentralization more private sector and more liberalized economy so that's the that's the bet
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some people trust it some don't some are in between so yeah that's pretty complicated
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i want to hear your thoughts on alberta separatism and as well like the possible impact that this
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movement can have on quebec well as i'm going to repeat a little bit what i said in french but the
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you know we see that the separatist movement in quebec and in alberta goes up when we have a
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centralist party in ottawa and that's the problem right now with the federal liberals every time you
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have a liberal government in ottawa and especially when they're you know very close to the ndp they're
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both centralist parties that are feeding the separatist movement in quebec and in alberta the
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best way to make sure we have a united canada is to decentralize is to listen to people like danielle
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smith the alberta's premier and to and the quebec conservatives and it's to have you know a very
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decentralized agenda for our provinces and our regions do you think that quebec should prepare for
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potential impacts seeming from alberta separation because we have a lot of social program and we
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need the equalization money in order to pay those program uh even though alberta is not separating
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there will be an impact because they will have a leverage to deal with the the equalization payment
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do you think quebec should prepare this themselves yes but at the same time i mean everything could
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happen pretty much it could be the the referendum could go major majorly yes or majorly no at both
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times i think it could give some leverage daniel smith to get some concession from ottawa depending on
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what's happening with the pipeline maybe like more sovereignty laws and no pushback from certain
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federal programs perhaps but uh yeah i think it's the best thing to do for quebec but at the same time
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i don't think we have our eyes on the uh on what's in front of us right now we are too occupied with
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what's happening with our own elections we we have what many call us the dome around our own province
00:37:12.800
sometimes uh except when ottawa is speaking to us or to trump mostly news the rest seems to be
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probably much irrelevant to our own mainstream media so even the quebec people uh except those who
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who inform themselves inside uh out of like alternative media or podcasts like mine or media
00:37:30.640
like yours they don't get the full picture and that's such a shame uh the best the best idea should
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probably prepare but at the same time there's like a huge amount of of pretty much unknown that's in
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front of us so we can prepare for the worst or the best but at the same time you know
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well folks on groundhog day cameraman lincoln jay and i ventured up to wingham ontario we were
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there to attend a council meeting put on by the township of north huron and uh well the reason is
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talk about censorious thuggery this council will not allow its proceedings to be videotaped or even
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allow for audio taping and the question arises why this is a public council meeting taking place
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in the dominion of canada not the democratic people's republic of korea so what gives well uh
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as expected tons of feedback as a result of that video which saw two constituents buck and brad
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actually frog marched out of the council meeting by the ontario provincial police it was crazy
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some of the letters include dustbagger writes one of the most corrupt areas of ontario i was there for
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a couple of years and it's atrocious well i gotta be honest we were only there for a couple of hours
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but what we saw we did not like at the end of the day what this council is doing is unconstitutional
00:39:24.720
i suggest they drop the no recording bylaw but they probably won't so i guess they're going to have
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to learn the hard way in a court of law evelyn gott 2056 writes these town councillors seem to forget
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who they are working for and who is paying their salaries and perks oh i totally agree and really
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if there's nothing to hide in these council meetings why ban recording it makes no sense unless of course
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there is something to hide and finally richard b 1280 writes the marxist land acknowledgement speak
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volumes over the past few years several of the wingham councillors seem to have been involved in
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some highly questionable business dealings and they should be investigated for that also why do so many
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people in this country continually vote for trashy politicians well i can't speak to your first point
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but as for why people continually vote for the worst of the worst i would say um a lack of engagement
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in the political process maybe they're spending too much time watching netflix and not enough time
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uh investigating the news and by investigating the news i don't mean taking your news from the
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mainstream media the bought and paid for trained seals at cbc ctv global etc i mean independent media
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that's the only answer i have because it makes no sense for uh to me to continually reward
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bad behavior well folks that wraps up tonight's show of the ezreal event show thank you so much for
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tuning in ezreal will be back tomorrow in the meantime as always stay safe and stay sane