EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's censorship regime denies Rebel a news license
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Rebel News loses in federal court today, but we're going to appeal. You don't want to miss it! Ezra Levant's full reaction to the ruling, and why you should join us in our appeal.
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Hello, my friends. A very heavy show today. We had a setback in federal court today. We lost
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a censorship challenge. The government won, but we're not going to take it lying down. We're
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going to stand up again and keep on fighting. I'll tell you all the details. You don't want
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to miss it. And I want to show you some of the documents. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. It's eight
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bucks a month to become a subscriber. You get the visual part of this podcast. You know, we record
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it on video. So if you're just listening to it, I mean, it's good, but I want you to see
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the visual elements that we use. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. And by the way, the eight bucks a month, we need
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that because we don't take any money from Trudeau and it shows. All right, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, a dark day for Rebel News as the federal court rules against us in a censorship battle.
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But we've got reason for hope and we're going to file an appeal. It's September 19th and this
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is the Ezra Levant Show. I've got grave news for freedom of the press. The federal court of Canada
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just upheld an atrocious ruling by Justin Trudeau's handpicked censorship committee denying rebel news a
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QCJO news license. But a minor miracle also happened that I want to tell you about too.
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By the way, QCJO stands for Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization. In free countries,
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of course, readers get to decide which journalists to trust. But in Trudeau's Canada,
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that's now a government decision. And Trudeau handpicks the censorship panel making the decision.
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I want you to see today's ruling for yourself and also to see our memorandum of fact and law
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that our lawyers submitted to the court. Please go to a special website we've set up called
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wearesuingtrudeau.com. I'd really like to encourage you to read that memorandum of fact and law.
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It's 31 pages long, but it's easy to understand. And I think it's one of the best defenses of freedom
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of the press I've ever read in Canada. In a way, that makes today's loss even worse. Our lawyers
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made the best case possible. And the judge just threw it out. But I've got some hope also. I've
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read the ruling carefully and consulted with our lawyers today. And I believe that we can have it
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overturned by the federal court of appeal. There are some strong grounds for appeal that I hope
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more senior judges will recognize. Unfortunately, we're up against the unlimited resources of the
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Trudeau government. And we have to cover our own costs ourselves, of course. Trudeau has spent millions
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of dollars censoring us, including creating this well-paid censorship panel clearly built with Rebel
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News in mind. Obviously, we don't have his kind of money. And so far, this case has already cost us
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a staggering $177,000, which really stretched us thin. And an appeal will be tens of thousands of
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dollars more. And we might have to go all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. But here's the little
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miracle I mentioned earlier. I just got off the phone with a passionate Canadian who loves Rebel News
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and loves free speech even more. He asked me to keep his name private. There's no telling what Trudeau
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would do to him. But he said he will match any crowdfunded donations for this legal appeal dollar
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for dollar up to $50,000. That's amazing. I was feeling pretty down in the dumps about this court
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ruling. But that incredible offer made me feel like maybe we'll be okay. Go to wearesuingtrudeau.com
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to join in and to activate this donor's promise to match your gift. But none of this should even be
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happening. We shouldn't have had to go to court at all. Because there should not be a Trudeau
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censorship committee in the first place that has any power over journalists. And the terrifying part
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of it is that censorship committee, it's part of the Canada Revenue Agency. What's extra gross
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is the silence from mainstream media journalists? Most Canadian journalists have simply been bought
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off by Trudeau. If they work for the CBC, and more than 50% of Canadian journalists do,
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they already get all their pay from Trudeau. And even if they work for a private news company,
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they get on average a $30,000 a year subsidy from Trudeau. That's why they're silent today.
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And that's another reason why they hate Rebel News. Because we don't take any cash from Trudeau.
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And they're ashamed that they do. I don't want to spend too much time on the court ruling. But
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there's just this one part that shows you how unreasonable it is. Rebel News, as you know,
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publishes literally thousands of news stories every year. And the busiest time in our entire history was
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during the trucker convoy back in February 2022. We were publishing up to 20 stories a day,
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almost all of them from the ground in Ottawa, in Windsor, in Coutts, Alberta, and any other place
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where there were trucker protests. We were the window on the trucker convoy for the whole world.
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I don't know if you know this, but in that month of February 2022, we actually had more viewers,
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400 million views and impressions than the CBC state broadcaster gets on an average month.
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But here's how Trudeau's censorship committee described that three-week period of time.
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What? Only 2% of our stories were original news content? What does that even mean?
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What else do they think we were doing over here? It was all news. That's madness. But the judge
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actually accepted that bizarre claim and used it as a reason to deny us a QCJO news license.
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We've got to fight back. We've got to appeal. And thankfully, we've got a donor willing to match
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any donations dollar for dollar up to $50,000. There are a lot of reasons why we just have to win.
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Under Bill C-11, which is now law, Trudeau has the power to order companies like YouTube
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and Facebook to either boost or throttle any Canadian content. Now, it would be too conspicuous
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for Trudeau to order them to ban Rebel News. But all he has to do is to order them to ban
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journalism that doesn't have the QCJO news license. That way he can say, Oh, no, he wasn't targeting
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Rebel News and the tech companies did it, not him. That's what I'm afraid of. Because 99% of Canadian
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journalists have QCJO status. There really isn't any point to the certification other than to ban
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those very few media outlets that criticize Trudeau. I've actually heard this law called the Get Rebel
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News law, but it's in some ways a Get Rebel News supporters law as well. When people subscribe to the
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Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star, they're able to deduct that subscription price off their taxes.
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Our subscribers, due to this ruling, cannot. That's discrimination.
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Trudeau really does mean to stamp us out, and today's court ruling gets him closer to that goal.
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We have to fight back. We lost in the federal court, but we can go to the federal court of appeal.
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We've beat Trudeau before. Remember in 2019 and 2021, when he banned us from attending the leaders'
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debates, and Rebel News went to court and got them to overturn his ban, we can beat Trudeau again.
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We have to. Please go to wearesuingtrudeau.com. Read the ruling today. Read our memorandum of fact
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and law, and read the original censorship committee report, too. It will just blow you away that that's
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actually happening in a free country. And if you can, at that same website, help us cover our legal costs
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for the appeal. Please do. You can do that right there on the same web page. Thanks for your support.
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You know, we're fighting for our rights here, but we're also fighting for all Canadians who care about
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freedom in the press and stopping Trudeau's censorship plans. You know, Trudeau already controls 99% of
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Canadians' media, but he's obsessed with destroying the last few independent voices out there that are
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holdouts. He thinks that if he eliminates us, that might save his election chances. Look, I admit I
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was demoralized when I first saw the court ruling, but then I talked to that passionate donor who said
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he'd match any crowdfunding, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 to help us with the appeal, and that gave
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me a bit of hope. Go to wearesuingtrudeau.com to activate that amazing double donation gift. All right,
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last word. If you want to be inspired, go to that website and read our Memorandum of Fact and Law.
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Go to wearesuingtrudeau.com. I know it's a legal document. I think it's great lawyering,
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but I think it's actually a beautiful read in defense of our freedom. Thanks for your support.
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I can't think of many things more glamorous than showbiz. I mean, sort of by definition,
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the glamour, the fun, the beautiful people, the jet set. It's tough to make it in showbiz though,
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because everybody wants to be with the beautiful people. Half of Los Angeles, the bartenders and
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the waitresses are just working those jobs by day, getting auditions at night, hoping to break
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through a lot of broken dreams. But there is one surefire way to hobnob with the fancy people,
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to rub shoulders with the elite, the jet setters. And that's just a plain buy your way in, not to earn
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your way in by being a theatrical genius or being a great actor or financier. No, if you are a Canadian
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government bureaucrat, you can get Justin Trudeau to pay millions of dollars for you to fly to the
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fanciest film festivals in the world. This is the grossest news story I have seen in a week.
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Joining me now to talk about it is our friend Franco Teresano. Let me read the headline and I'll throw it
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to Franco. Feds blow $2.7 million on global film festivals. Franco Teresano, it is such BS that this
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is work, let alone taxpayer funded work, paying people to jet around the world, going to red carpet
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events. It feels like it's so stupid and vain and narcissistic. Justin Trudeau probably came up with
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it himself. Well, this is gross, isn't it? I mean, the Fed's blowing our tax dollars, spending $2.7
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million on international film and movie festivals. And folks, listen to some of the festivals that
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our money was spent on, our tax dollars, the Oscars. All right, the Oscars. There was another film
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festival in France, a film festival in Germany. There was South by Southwest music and film festivals
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in Texas and Australia. And the federal government spent $2.7 million sending bureaucrats there
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to hold receptions, parties, and other types of events. And you know what's actually astonishing
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about all of this? Well, all of these events happen in a 16-month period. Okay, so the average
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spending per month on these international film and music festivals was like $175,000. Now, Ezra,
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I can't believe I have to say this out loud, but like, come on, what is the government doing blowing
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millions of other people's tax dollars going to these international festivals while the government
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is more than a trillion dollars in debt? And Canadians back home are lining up at food banks
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in record numbers. You know, I want to read to you some of the insane details from your own press
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release. The Fed spent $10,000 on umbrella stand coordinator services. I don't even know what that
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means. Expenses includes a professional photographer and hundreds of thousands spent on decoration services.
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I mean, how on earth did this be called government work to send people to parties? I'm so grossed out.
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But it's not even jealousy. It's not that I want to go to these parties. It's what on earth are they
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wringing out ordinary taxpayers so some bureaucrat can go? And while I report, I went to the Cannes Film Festival
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and I can, I mean, what, who even, what department of the government is this under? Like what,
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who calls this work? Well, this is three departments spending this money, right? Global Affairs Canada,
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Canadian, Canadian Heritage, surprise, surprise, and the National Film Board. And, you know, let me even
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read some more of these expenses when you break down through the records, right? So at South by Southwest,
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the federal government spent $35,000 on plant and furniture rentals for the Canada House event.
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They spent five grand on DJ services and animation services. Ezra, you know, maybe this government
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should figure out how to do basic tasks, like returning a taxpayer's phone call before it tries
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to become an international DJ. Then there was $15,000 on a social media champion, whatever that
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is, food and drinks at receptions and opening parties at this South by Southwest came in just
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under $12,000. At South by Southwest in Australia, the government had another Canada House event and
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the costs were around $97,000. Look, at the Berlin Festival, there was a rental for a Canada pavilion
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costing 74 grand. So, I mean, like you look at these crazy expenses, whether it's the $2.7 million
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on these global film and music festivals over a course of 16 months or the individual, right? Like
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five grand on DJ and animation services. And like, it proves to me that the government either doesn't
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know or just doesn't care about how hard people actually work for the money they earn and the taxes
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they pay. Who are the people going? Because I got to tell you, this sounds like something Justin Trudeau
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himself might try to go to. I mean, he has visited New York City more as a prime minister than he has
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visited Calgary or Edmonton combined because he loves to go to New York. He loves to party. His buddy
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Tom Clark is there in a $10 million condo. He loves going to the theater. He loves getting away from
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Canadians who heckle him. Trudeau loves to party. We saw when he went to the Queen's funeral.
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You know, he had a singing party in the fancy lobby of a hotel there. He loves to travel. Do we have
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any evidence of who the big shots were? Because this screams out Trudeau and his entourage. This
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screams out the kind of thing that his wedding party cabinet ministers, Seamus O'Regan, Dominique
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LeBunk, Mark Miller would go to. Do we know if any MPs or cabinet ministers went to these things?
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We don't, Ezra. But I'm glad you're bringing in the bigger context here, which is that the federal
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government is blowing so much of our tax dollars living high on the hog, right? You mentioned some
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of Trudeau's taxpayer-funded excursions. Well, you mentioned the Queen's funeral in London, England,
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when Trudeau billed taxpayers for a $6,000 per night luxury hotel suite. And then he had the audacity
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to not admit that it was him staying in the room, right? The whole reason that taxpayers know for
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sure that it was Trudeau who stayed in that $6,000 per night hotel room is because the CTF filed a legal
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challenge with the government to force Trudeau and his government to fess up about it. And he
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mentioned New York. Well, you might remember that there was this two-day anti-poverty summit in New York,
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right? Trudeau and the government billed taxpayers for $61,000 worth of Manhattan hotel rooms,
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right? Nothing screams fighting poverty like billing struggling taxpayers for $61,000 so that you can
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stay in a Manhattan hotel rooms and take photos with celebrities. And then it's not just Trudeau. It's
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really the entire government, right? You have Governor General Mary Simon, as you'll remember,
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dropping what? $71,000 on like a four-day trip to Iceland on limos when her hotel was like a 10-minute
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walk away from the main conference center. So I'm glad you bring up kind of the bigger point here,
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right? This $2.7 million on spending on international film and music festivals, that's bad. But even worse
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is the fact that this is happening all the time with other people's money. You know what, Ezra, let me just
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end with this thought here. There is a huge party. It's paid for by you, but you're not invited.
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Isn't that the truth? Well, Franco Teresano, you and the Taxpayers Federation do great work. This just,
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you know, Canada is in a recession on a per capita basis. And we have been for some time. It's just
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hidden by the mass immigration. Cost of living is so high, everyone's poor, even if they are getting a
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modest raise. Cost of housing, cost of food, cost of energy because of the carbon tax.
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And amidst this stressful and anxious time for the government to have a traveling 2.7 million
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festival party circuit, it's just, it feels like the final days of Rome in decay. The barbarians are
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at the gates while the senators are partying it up. We're so grateful for the taxpayers. Franco,
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thanks for keeping in touch with us. Keep up the fight. Hey, thank you for having me on today.
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Right on. Our pleasure. There you have it. Franco Teresano of the Taxpayers Federation. Stay with us. More ahead.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Rory Kennedy said,
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student visas should not allow them to work. That's a different issue. Yeah, this whole thing
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really is fraud. It's terrible. We've allowed these schemers and scammers who have created
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these fake diploma mills. Like seriously, they're little colleges in like a strip mall. They're not
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real colleges. We've allowed them to really sell entry to Canada for the price of tuition, 10 or 20
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grand. It's outrageous. Critical Thinking says, Alberta wouldn't be able to support the present
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population without the ancestors building irrigation and the dams we have. They talk of 10 million in
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Alberta. Good luck. With the environmental regulations to get anything done, the dams and
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water supply will need to be tripled or quadrupled. Water for people, industry, and on and on. It's never
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a straight transition in numbers. It's a great point. And I think that Lorne Gunter mentioned that the
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other day. All these folks talk about sustainability and carbon emissions. This crazy idea to double or triple
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our national population. These people don't really mean it. I mean, you can't mean you want a reduction
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in CO2 emissions, but you want to double or triple the population. They're incoherent. But I think any way
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you look at it, the only way it makes sense is if they hate Canada. They hate our industrial success.
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They hate the culture and the nation and the economy we built. And they want to open the doors to people
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who don't value it. Rope King Rope them all says, I'm from the Netherlands. Close the gate, Canada.
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Well, that's the thing. I mean, two million people were brought into Canada in the last year. That is
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not sustainable infrastructure, doctor's offices, schools, roads, crime, housing. Nothing can sustain
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that. It doesn't make any sense. And the thing that bugs me the most are the fake refugees.
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Frankly, those folks buying their way in with their BS student visas, at least they're following
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the rules. But these fakers from India and Mexico, there are no real refugees from India or Mexico.
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They're obviously lying. We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying. We know they know we
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know they're lying. And we let them in. And it's just they're treating us like suckers. And I'm tired of
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being suckers. Well, hopefully, we see the pendulum starting to swing back on that.
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Hey, before I go, let me leave you with an incredible video from Alexa Lavoie of our Montreal
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office. She went to talk to homeless people in encampments on the street. And she asked the
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question, how much of this is because of mass immigration? Take a look at the answer. All right,
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I want to put my children to their parents to be able to have a better life than my life.
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A few days before who knew about their sweetheart was, at that moment, it was the
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subjective fit, the roof began reaching more than ever.
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We can't expose the hypocrisy and incompetence of our leaders.
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Despite millions of dollars being poured into shelter programs, homelessness is growing, not shrinking.
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Tensities are currently spreading at a fast rate, now three times worse than at the start of the summer.
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Shockingly, city workers have told me that they regularly clean up human feces from parks, not to mention used needles in areas where children come to play.
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Manque de ressources, manque de logements, la maladie mentale, c'est des endroits qui sont propices, ils s'installent, puis c'est des endroits qu'ils recherchent.
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C'est dangereux de faire des bonbonnes de propane en même temps.
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Je suis curieuse, pourquoi la ville a plutôt quelque chose par rapport juste au moins au feu, au risque de feu?
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Pourtant, ils n'ont pas attendu pour les terrasses.
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Les terrasses qui ont fermé pendant l'arrêtement.
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Il y en a en masse, bien oui. Il y en a, c'est partout aussi.
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Vous êtes bonnes de tolérer de ramasser des excrements dans les mains?
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Il faut le faire, il faut le laver, il faut le choix, on lave, on nettoie, c'est comme ça, c'est notre travail.
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Inuit, tout le gouvernement dure Ramadan investing en programmes pour aider les vulnérables,
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Le gouvernement fédéral a va t belly à shelters.
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Plus, en 2022, le gouvernement fédéral a a innové un programme Feuerran chez soi.
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Pour bien tous les definingtons les investissements de nasze à six ans,
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il y a un investissement fours billion ici depuis le dos d'années.
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� retouchés de $82m en或者 la prochaine Mine plus les cheques.
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Yet, despite this substantial commitment, the program seems to worsen every year.
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Just in September of last year, Quebec spent $15.5 million on shelters.
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Only two months later, Quebec invested another $9.7 million into Montreal Emergency Shelter Services.
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More recently, Ottawa and Quebec announced a combined $115 million for emergency housing in Montreal.
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These are just few examples of the funds invested in affordable housing and support for the homeless.
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Since 2022, the investments have increased exponentially and the situation is clearly worsening.
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Imagine the number being invested across Canada.
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Why are we seeing an increase in homeless encampments, not just in Quebec but across Canada?
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And are we ensuring full transparency from the organizations receiving these subsidies?
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Let's not forget the scandal a decade ago in British Columbia, a non-profit supposedly dedicated to helping the most vulnerable,
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was found indulging in extravagant spending and high salaries, all at the expense of those they were meant to serve.
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If it's happened once and was caught, I imagine there are others getting wealthy at the expense of the poor.
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Have spoken with shelter workers who revealed that while the number of beds remain stable seasonally,
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during the summer, they remove their relaxation chairs used as extra beds during the winter.
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I think that like all the advertisements in Montréal, in this moment.
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And honestly, of course, it is not as busy as it is.
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And it is like we can see it really needs to be refuge, actually.
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The person who enters in our resources, they come directly in urgent.
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And then, during 30 days, we will really follow.
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We will really do a plan of intervention with the person.
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It is true that at the level of immigrants, maybe a little bit more.
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So, regardless of the nationality of the person, we will still take it.
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Are you seeing the women who are saying that they call because they have less place for women?
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Since the COVID-19, the increase of the employees, these things, yes, we have an increase.
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Mais généralement, on a tout le temps, dans le nombre qu'on a, on a tout le temps une personne ou deux qui peuvent être des immigrants.
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Votre refuge, durant l'été, diminuait le nombre de lits disponibles?
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Non, en fait, la seule chose qui diminue, c'est qu'on n'a pas la sèche à l'heure, donc on n'a pas les 36, mais on a le même nombre de lits permanents durant l'été.
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They all said they are extremely overloaded, struggling more than ever, especially with an increased number of women and immigrants in their care.
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Many people refuse to use shelter due to strict rules regarding drug use.
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Since Trudeau came to power, drug policies have changed and drug use is now more facilitated in some areas.
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I found it astonishing to see what is happening in women's shelter in the name of inclusivity.
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Some are allowing biological men who identify as women, regardless of their transition status, into spaces shared with biological women.
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Women who are, most of the time, fleeing domestic violence.
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Either they adapt to inclusivity to secure government funding or risk losing financial support.
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Tout ça fait que c'est un des critères de ne pas consommer à l'intérieur, s'identifier en tant que femme.
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Peu importe que ce soit une femme qui est rendue à tel ou tel stade de transition ou pas du tout, s'identifier en tant que femme, nous on est au seuil d'inclusion.
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Ici, il y a vraiment de tout. Il y a des demandeurs d'asile, il y a de violences progégales, il y a de toxico-être détenu.
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Je veux dire, c'est vraiment, on essaie d'être le plus inclusif possible.
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Mais est-ce que vous avisez, mais est-ce que vous mettez les femmes biologiques avec les hommes qui s'identifient comme femmes ensemble?
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Oui, on avise, s'il n'y a pas d'autre place, oui. On avise la personne, par contre, qu'il y a une personne trans, alors si ça ne la dérange pas.
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Habituellement, nous, jusqu'à date, on n'a jamais eu de problème.
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Donc vous avez une augmentation depuis quelques années de personnes trans?
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In a discussion with someone closely involved in the system, whose, I will remain the name under confidentiality,
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the person mentioned that there appears to be a troubling lack of transparency regarding the allocation of government investments.
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This person also expressed concerns about new immigrants who are already receiving financial assistance at various levels, but are requesting even more.
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On est débordé, débordé, je ne sais pas où on va l'argent, oui, comme ça, moi, je ne sais pas où on va l'argent.
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Vous avez une augmentation, ça fait depuis combien de temps, mettons, que vous voyez que là, c'est...
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Oui, moi, je vous dirais, je vous dirais depuis trois ans, à peu près, depuis trois ans,
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mais, savez-vous ce qui arrive, ben, moi, je pense que souvent, là, ce qui arrive, on a des familles,
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il y a d'autres types de familles qui sont plus prédominantes que les autres.
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Les premières, ce sont les familles, ben, des nouveaux arrivants, des nouveaux arrivants, des réfugiés,
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qui vont arriver dans le système, dès lors, et en pensant que c'est bien, ils peuvent être comme avance,
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que ça va aller bien, j'ai un petit raccroché, encore, avec une maman, là.
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Elle est réfugiée, elle est benoyée, elle est donné cinq ans, mais je me disais, ben, là, il va y avoir ça, là.
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Ben, on n'est pas assez, tu sais, tu sais, tu sais, on entend tout le coup, là,
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quand je veux dire, les deux gros, là, c'est vraiment les nouveaux arrivants,
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et c'est la même bête, elle ne sait plus quoi faire avec.
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Vous n'avez qu'une croix de vie de toutes sortes de sources concernées
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où les gens arrivent juste, même si ils travaillent des fois.
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C'est quand même une guerre, en France, si on veut,
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mais une guerre économique, là, envers les familles.
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Last May, it was revealed that Ottawa had budgeted $224 per day
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for the housing and food of each foreigner seeking asylum after entering the country illegally.
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The rising cost of living, inflation, the housing crisis, the drug market,
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and mass immigration are all root causes of homelessness.
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Have spoken with individuals living in homeless encampments.
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with their own stories of how they ended up on the streets.
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Moi, j'étais étudiante en administration spécialisée,
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Ça fait que c'est... c'est... c'est un changement de plan, là.
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Vivre un deuil pendant le COVID, t'as pas le droit d'inviter.
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Ça fait que j'ai comme pété aux frettes, puis j'ai explosé,
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Bien, j'étais dans un logement, puis il était insalubre,
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Ça fait que je les ai amenés à régie du logement,
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puis en fin de compte, le propriétaire n'a rien fait.
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Ça fait que j'ai décidé de quitter, puis j'ai resté un bout de temps
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dans mon véhicule, puis bien là, mon boss m'a proposé
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de me planter ici avec mon Wanné Bago, ça fait que je suis ici.
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J'ai rencontré des gars, j'ai rencontré des gens autour de moi,
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J'avais 15 ans, ma première preuve de Cristalmet.
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J'ai commencé à danser à 16 ans dans un barguer,
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Le Cristalmet me donnait l'estime de moi que je n'avais pas,
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mais quand tu rentres à quelque part, puis tout le monde te veut,
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bien, ça te donne du power, de l'empowerment, tu sais.
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Ça fait que je me suis dit que c'était une bonne idée,
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En fait, tu sais, ça a commencé, après cinq ans passés,
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six ans passés, presque, j'ai perdu la garde à mon fils,
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puis j'ai fait des refus, j'ai été chez les amis,
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j'ai fait plein d'endroits, puis à un moment donné,
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C'était trop strict, tu sais, il faut toujours cadrer,
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c'est tout ça, fait que je me suis ramassée dans le refuge,
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fait que c'est pas avec un chèque entre ce jour,
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C'est par choix, parce que j'ai ma chambre quand même,
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là, mais c'est parce que je suis pas bien au sujet de lui,
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je n'ai rien contre ce que ça m'a, je le souviens.
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qu'elles ont une bonne vie meilleure que la mienne,