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00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. I've got some really good news for you today. At least it feels good news to me.

00:00:04.460 And I just put me in a good spirit. I don't know if you remember, but a year and a half ago,

00:00:09.300 I had a couple of book signings scheduled for Alberta. I rented out some theaters. It was for

00:00:15.000 my new book, The Libranos. But then a canceled culture mob came along and stampeded the owner 0.90

00:00:21.160 in a canceling, ripping up the contract at the last minute. Well, I've got a beautiful letter

00:00:26.360 from that theater owner today that I want to read to you. And I want to give you an update on

00:00:31.420 the lawsuit in that case, because I actually think we've cracked the code on how to fight

00:00:36.340 canceled culture. At least that's how it feels. Why don't you listen to the podcast and tell me

00:00:40.300 what you think. And, you know, I'm going to show you some things. I'm going to show you some video

00:00:45.260 footage and a letter and a lawsuit. I know you're listening on the podcast, but if you can go to

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00:00:58.540 because it's partly a visual story. Anyway, you can do that at rebelnews.com. It's just eight bucks

00:01:04.200 a month, and it would sure mean a lot to us in terms of financial support. Okay, here's today's podcast.

00:01:14.200 You're listening to a Rebel News podcast.

00:01:22.860 Tonight, we fought against de-platforming, and we won. I've got some great news for you.

00:01:31.080 It's March 25th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:36.040 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:39.760 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:43.820 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:48.440 bloody right to do so. I've got some good news for a change. We have a major victory in our lawsuit

00:01:59.780 against the cancel culture mob. I think we found a way, at least in Canada and probably in the United 0.58

00:02:06.280 Kingdom and Australia, to use the law to stop de-platforming. It took 18 months, but I think

00:02:12.880 it's really working. We've proven the concept. Let me show you the results, and let me tell you how we

00:02:18.080 did it and how you might be able to. Also, I have in my hand a signed apology from the owner of two

00:02:27.640 theaters in Alberta that canceled two book signings I had scheduled back in October of 2019 for my book

00:02:35.180 about Justin Trudeau called The Libranos, What the Media Won't Tell You About Justin Trudeau's

00:02:41.280 Corruption. As you can imagine, the book was very well received. It hit number one on the Amazon.ca

00:02:47.420 bestseller list. It has more than a thousand positive reviews. So I was scheduled to do a book

00:02:53.860 launch in Edmonton and then in Calgary at these great independent movie theaters that I knew when

00:03:00.380 I was a student in Alberta, one in Calgary where I grew up called the Plaza Theater, and its sister

00:03:06.340 theater in Edmonton called The Princess. I got to know that theater when I went to law school up in

00:03:11.300 Edmonton. So I knew these two theaters personally. I love them. I actually had rented them out before

00:03:18.000 to host a movie premiere a few years ago with Rebel News. Totally sold out events, by the way. Very

00:03:23.840 well received. The staff and the owner of the theaters liked it. It sold a lot of popcorn for them. So I

00:03:29.280 signed a contract with these two theaters to do my book signings there for The Libranos. And I paid the

00:03:36.260 whole rental fee in advance. And I was pretty excited about it. We sold a lot of tickets.

00:03:41.780 But then about a week before my book launch, a left-wing Twitter mob started threatening the

00:03:47.920 theater owner. The mob wanted to cancel my book signing. So I called up the theater owner to

00:03:54.040 reassure him. I told him I'd even hire some private security at my own expense just to make sure there

00:04:00.140 was no problem and to put him at ease. But really, it's Alberta. A book criticizing Justin Trudeau really

00:04:06.420 isn't a radical idea. This was just a woke Twitter mob. The owner, Mike Brar, told me in 30 years he had

00:04:13.680 never canceled a movie and he didn't expect to start now. The thing is, there wasn't Twitter or Facebook

00:04:20.880 in the 80s or 90s. So this theater owner, Mike Brar, really didn't know how, you know, how a mob would

00:04:28.120 feel, what it would look like. And as the online mob got wilder and wilder, Mike Brar felt like he was

00:04:36.540 in a tornado. I talked to him on the phone and he told me he couldn't even sleep at night. He said he

00:04:41.780 felt he had to cancel. I implored him not to. But finally, when the day of the book signing came and we

00:04:49.640 all showed up at the theater in Edmonton, well, the doors were locked on us and we were kept out.

00:04:54.960 So I did my book launch on the street outside. Here's a moment of what that mayhem looked like.

00:05:01.960 My name's Ezra Levant. I'm the Rebel Commander at RebelNews.com.

00:05:06.620 Yay! 0.99

00:05:07.260 And welcome to my book launch of the Libranos. Now, the thing is, we were supposed to have the book

00:05:15.500 launch inside the theater. But as you can say, we are outside the theater. Now, this isn't supposed

00:05:24.080 to be that way because I have in my hand here a contract with the theater owner, and I also have

00:05:31.260 proof of payment on my credit card. So why am I outside instead of inside?

00:05:38.800 Same thing happened in both Edmonton and Calgary. By the way, there was just a single protester at

00:05:45.440 each event. One guy. I'm not kidding. And we had hundreds of eager book buyers. Well, fast forward

00:05:52.380 to today. Let me read this letter to you, which you can find on the website StopDeplatforming.com.

00:05:59.080 You can read it for yourself. But let me just read it to you now. I feel great about getting this.

00:06:04.140 It's called, Apology. I, Macken Brar, of Edmonton, Alberta, am the owner and operator of Historic

00:06:13.480 Princess Theaters, Inc. Rebel News Network Limited had scheduled two book launch events for October

00:06:19.700 10, 2019 at the Princess Theater in Edmonton, and October 15, 2019 at the Plaza Theater in Calgary.

00:06:27.500 I made the decision to cancel those events at the last minute due to pressure from my staff

00:06:34.320 and because of the specter of large community protests. In particular, two employees, Michael

00:06:41.600 Corliss and Jordan Thompson, told me that Rebel News was not welcome on White Avenue in Edmonton

00:06:46.920 and that they had faced problems at other events. In fact, Rebel News had held events at my theaters

00:06:55.200 in the past without incident, and I should not have canceled these events. Doing so caused

00:07:02.380 financial damage to Rebel News and damage to Rebel News' reputation. I apologize to Rebel News

00:07:09.120 and its owner, Ezra Levant, for canceling the events and for any damage suffered. Mike Brar.

00:07:17.500 Mike? Apology accepted. I really think he means it. I just don't think he had ever been.

00:07:25.180 Gene threatened that way by the mob. You know how cruel people can be on the internet. Leftists know

00:07:31.680 that that kind of threats wouldn't work on me, so they picked on an immigrant entrepreneur and

00:07:37.080 scared him to death. What a bunch of bullies they were. But back to October of 2019, the mob won. 0.99

00:07:44.000 I was canceled. Seriously, who does that? Who bans a book talk? If you don't like my book, ignore it or

00:07:50.800 rebut it, or if you're in town, come and ask me a tough question about it. Remember, the book banners

00:07:55.560 hadn't even read my book yet. We had just published it. This was the launch. What was so gross is that

00:08:01.960 some of the mob were professors and staff at the University of Alberta. How awful is that? Professors

00:08:08.900 banning book launches. That's disgraceful, frankly. But like I said, what could I do?

00:08:14.540 The doors were actually locked. My contract with the theaters were not honored. Now, as you can sort

00:08:21.520 of tell, I sued Mike Brar and the two theaters for breach of contract. I had paid him in advance.

00:08:29.720 He took my money, and then he scuppered the whole evening. I don't like it, but I can understand it,

00:08:36.000 and I really do accept his apology and the other parts of the settlement that I'm not at liberty to

00:08:41.300 discuss. But what about the real bad guys here, the mob itself? You heard Mike's apology. Even his own

00:08:49.020 staff, Michael Corliss and Jordan Thompson, they pressured him to rip up his contract with me.

00:08:56.080 Did they really get to walk away from this? Does the Twitter mob do those woke professors? 0.86

00:09:02.600 No. And this is the lesson I want to share with you today. This is how I fought back. See,

00:09:09.080 it's sort of an obvious move to sue for breach of contract when someone breaches their contract with

00:09:14.360 you. So that's Mike Brar and the Princess Theaters. But even though he was the one who actually canceled

00:09:19.540 the event, it was the mob who forced him to do it, who abused him, who threatened him, who pressured him,

00:09:26.620 who scared him. Metaphorically, they had a gun to his head, and nothing I could say or do could make him

00:09:32.160 feel safe. Even the private security I hired, they did this to him. And this is the new legal strategy

00:09:40.300 that we used. And I don't know if it's been used anywhere before to fight cancel culture. We sued

00:09:47.840 individual members of the Twitter mob and the email mob and the Facebook mob and everyone else who

00:09:54.320 threatened Mike Brar where we could find their real name. We sued them for inducing a breach of

00:10:01.120 contract. That's what's called a tort in law. That comes from the French word for wrong.

00:10:07.340 Well, let me tell you a little bit about this tort called inducing a breach of contract.

00:10:14.340 Back in the year 1853, this gorgeous theater hired an opera singer named Joanna Wagner to sing for them

00:10:25.500 exclusively for a three-month run. Apparently, she was very popular. Well, the guy who ran this rival

00:10:33.260 theater in London in 1853 induced her to breach her contract to the first guy and sing at his theater

00:10:42.780 instead. So he paid her to rip up her first contract and then come to sing for him. So the first theater

00:10:50.200 owner sued the second guy who induced the opera singer to break her contract. And here's what that old-time

00:10:59.120 court had to say about 170 years ago. It's a little bit archaic English. It must now be considered clear

00:11:08.040 law that a person who wrongfully and maliciously, or which is the same thing with notice, interrupts the

00:11:16.300 relations subsisting between master and servant, commits a wrongful act for which he is responsible

00:11:22.340 at law. Now, that's slightly archaic wording, but it means that if two people have a contract

00:11:27.520 and you induce one of those people to break the contract and run away, you're on the hook too, buddy.

00:11:34.940 So Mike Brar did the right thing in the end, apologizing, settling, appreciate it.

00:11:42.000 My lingering regret truly is that the theaters look like they've been crushed by the COVID lockdown.

00:11:48.100 That's too bad. You know, I'd still like to do that book signing. I'd still like to see movies at

00:11:51.980 those theaters. I'm glad to have settled with Mike Brar. He was a victim in a way too.

00:11:58.680 But now we proceed against the mob. They induced him to breach the contract. You heard his apology

00:12:05.620 and explanation. Now we continue. As you can see, Mike even told us the name of his staff who pressured

00:12:12.800 him. We're going to add their names to the lawsuit too. And we're going to continue until justice is

00:12:19.100 done. We are proceeding to court. Inducing a breach of contract is a tort in the United Kingdom. It's a

00:12:27.960 tort in Canada and it's probably a tort in other jurisdictions too. And I think it is the right way

00:12:34.760 to fight back against the cancel culture mob. Let those University of Alberta professors and staff

00:12:41.200 come to the court and explain to the judge why they pressured a theater into canceling a book signing.

00:12:48.480 Let them come to court and explain themselves. If their own conscience wasn't enough for them to

00:12:54.100 respect freedom of speech and freedom of the press and freedom of association and assembly and the

00:12:59.620 sanctity of a contract, well, then maybe they need to hear it from a judge. If you want to see our

00:13:04.940 lawsuit for yourself, it's on that same website, stopdeplatforming.com, that I put Mike's apology.

00:13:11.780 I put Mike's apology there. You can read it. And if you are deplatformed somewhere,

00:13:17.440 feel free to use my lawyer's lawsuit as a template. The mob carried the day back in October of 2019.

00:13:28.500 But I don't think they're going to carry the day in a court of law. Go to stopdeplatforming.com to

00:13:34.640 learn more. And if you can help me cover the costs of pursuing this litigation, please do.

00:13:40.600 You can do it right there on the same website too. Stay with us for more.

00:13:47.440 So, of course, the federal government appealed that decision to the Supreme Court of Canada,

00:14:02.580 which released its judgment today. We are obviously disappointed with that decision.

00:14:09.020 The Supreme Court ignored the Alberta Court of Appeals warning and discovered a new federal power

00:14:15.340 that erodes provincial jurisdiction and undermines our constitutional federal system.

00:14:21.700 We'll take time to study that decision in detail. I do appreciate the three thoughtful dissenting

00:14:27.640 opinions, including that of Mr. Justice Russell Brown, which warns that, quote,

00:14:32.640 the true danger in the majority's reasons lies in its abandonment of any meaningful constraint

00:14:40.160 on federal power. That's Jason Kenney, Alberta's premier, reacting to a six to three ruling from the

00:14:47.120 Supreme Court of Canada upholding the constitutionality of the Liberal Party's carbon tax. It was six to three,

00:14:55.780 which, frankly, was more dissent than I thought there would be. And it wasn't so much ideological dissent as

00:15:01.880 saying, you know, that's not the federal government's jurisdiction. A constitution gives some powers to

00:15:08.400 the feds, some to the provinces. This just ain't it. But the Chief Justice Wagner said it is a matter

00:15:16.420 for the feds because global warming, he said, was an existential threat. So, you know, this tax had to

00:15:23.260 go into law. Joining us now via Skype from Edmonton is our friend Lauren Gunter, senior columnist with

00:15:28.680 the Edmonton Sun. You know, I find that Judge Wagner, by saying it's an existential threat, climate

00:15:36.560 change is real. He's showing he's deeply obedient to the establishment religion. You know, the UK has

00:15:42.600 their Church of England. We have our Church of Global Warming. And it shows that he's implying

00:15:48.300 that this carbon tax will somehow change the temperature of the world. Because he thinks

00:15:55.720 global warming is such a threat. And maybe he's right. I don't think he is. That this tax,

00:16:00.780 therefore, must go through as if it's going to save the world. I think it shows that he's a bit of a

00:16:07.140 zealot. But that's just me. What do you think, Warren? There's no doubt there's some of that in it.

00:16:13.200 The reasoning in his argument is that if you accept the federal government premise that this

00:16:21.380 is an existential threat, then you can't have individual provinces making decisions that may

00:16:30.060 or may not trip up the national strategy for dealing with this existential threat. He's fairly

00:16:37.520 careful not to pass too much judgment on whether or not global warming is real. That's giving him too

00:16:47.680 much credit. There's just an assumption now in almost all elite opinion, of course, that climate

00:16:54.120 change is catastrophic. It's happening very quickly. We have to deal with it right away.

00:16:59.540 So he is driven by some of that. But most of the legal reasoning in this is that, you know,

00:17:05.480 if you accept the federal position that this is an existential threat, then you can't afford to have

00:17:11.880 individual provinces abiding or not abiding by federal rules. And so they've evoked what's called

00:17:20.880 the National Concern Doctrine that the courts have over the last six decades, sort of read into the

00:17:30.020 Constitution. It's not in the initial Constitution, but it comes out of Section 91 of the Constitution,

00:17:36.680 which says any residual powers not articulated in the Constitution go to the federal government.

00:17:44.360 It's very different from the U.S. Constitution, where any powers not articulated by the authors of the initial

00:17:51.880 Constitution go to the states. Here, any leftover powers that they didn't actually talk about go to the federal

00:17:58.940 government. And out of that, probably since the early 50s, the court has been gradually growing this thing

00:18:08.740 called the National Concern Doctrine. You know, it's yet another setback and frustration for Alberta

00:18:16.280 and Saskatchewan, too. I'm in exile out here in Toronto, but I still in my heart feel like an Albertan

00:18:24.780 in my sensibilities. And that province has had so many setbacks, some from Mother Nature, some from global

00:18:31.480 forces like the price of oil. Some were inflicted on it by its own government under the NDP, I put it to you.

00:18:38.740 But this feels like insult to injury for the fifth time. And I've got to wonder how much that province can

00:18:44.960 take. I see in the polls that conservatives are running behind federally and provincially. They're not

00:18:52.200 behind federally, but they're far back from where they were federally. And provincially, the last two polls

00:18:56.820 have put them behind. I have a question for you, because you're there every day and I only just visit.

00:19:02.620 Is the province of Alberta now thinking, what are we even doing? What are we even doing in a

00:19:09.580 confederation that doesn't work? At least under Stephen Harper, we had a conservative party that 0.91

00:19:14.480 represented us. Erin O'Toole is telling us we've got to shut up about global warming. The Supreme Court 0.96

00:19:19.360 is telling us we've got to shut up about global warming. I look at the glee with which the liberals

00:19:25.480 are disparaging Alberta and Saskatchewan. I see the environment minister called them

00:19:30.060 recalcitrant, like they're children that need to be disciplined. Maybe the three Supreme Court

00:19:35.360 judges are recalcitrant true. And I'm thinking, is Alberta ready to go?

00:19:40.980 Not yet. And I'm not sure how long it's going to take for this decision to sink in. But the thing

00:19:51.580 I was talking about before, this national concern doctrine, they just expanded in a mushroom cloud

00:19:59.800 in this decision. For the length of time that the Supreme Court has been developing this doctrine

00:20:09.820 very slowly, it's been very, very, very careful to not carry the national concern wedge further into

00:20:20.140 an issue than it had to. I mean, for instance, it once decided that nuclear power needed to be

00:20:26.060 nationally regulated because of the danger and because of the international aspect of it.

00:20:31.820 But that nothing in a nuclear plant that was regulated by the provinces should be infringed upon.

00:20:39.340 For instance, if you had a labor dispute between the plant owner and workers, well,

00:20:44.960 that was a provincial jurisdiction. The feds couldn't invoke the national concern doctrine.

00:20:51.480 In this decision, they basically say, we have at it. Everything could be a national concern.

00:20:57.000 Ottawa wants it to be a national concern. It's a national concern. We'll just let them ride

00:21:01.260 roughshod over the province. And I think in the long run, this decision could do as much

00:21:08.060 to spark a separatist sentiment in Alberta and Saskatchewan as anything else that the feds,

00:21:17.500 I mean, the tanker ban off the Northern British Columbia coast, the cancellation of two pipelines,

00:21:24.460 the acquiescence to the Biden administration on the cancellation of Keystone. I have no trouble,

00:21:31.920 I have no idea at all if this happened, but I have no trouble believing at all that the Biden

00:21:39.200 administration said, hey, we'll give you a couple million vials of vaccine that we're not using

00:21:45.080 anyway. AstraZeneca, we haven't even approved yet. We'll give you a couple million vials of that

00:21:49.460 if you'll just nudge, nudge, wink, wink on Keystone. So the federal government has done

00:21:56.860 all it can to batter down Alberta and to a lesser extent Saskatchewan. And that has caused an awful

00:22:06.680 lot of friction in those two provinces. But I think in the long run, this expansion of the national

00:22:13.420 concern doctrine will be as damaging to national unity as any of the things that the Trudeau

00:22:21.100 government has done. And by the way, now that the precedent is set, it might be used against Quebec.

00:22:27.540 And it might, although what politician would do that, but it has set the, it has made it possible.

00:22:34.000 You know, it's funny, you mentioned how Trudeau didn't lift a finger for the Keystone XL.

00:22:38.420 That wasn't a national concern. Energy East wasn't a national concern. It's so frustrating to me.

00:22:45.500 You know, I was just doodling here some, some numbers. Canada is about 1% of worldwide emissions.

00:22:52.140 Officially it's almost 2%, but China is like so big. So if Canada is about 1% of the world

00:22:58.380 and Saskatchewan, the population of Saskatchewan is 1 30th of the country, I know their emissions are a

00:23:08.920 So that's 1 3,000th of the world. And I know that my numbers aren't exactly right here. And if this

00:23:16.820 carbon tax will cause a reduction in emissions by, I don't even think it's going to cause a reduction,

00:23:22.780 but let's say by 1%. So we're at 1 300,000th. And I know my numbers aren't spot on, but I'm just trying

00:23:32.260 to make the point that you're roughing up Saskatchewan, you're roughing up Alberta for a negligible change

00:23:40.720 in a negligible province, in a negligible country that will be offset in like two days worth of coal

00:23:47.300 fired power plant construction in China. China is building hundreds of coal fired power plants.

00:23:54.440 All of this abuse of Alberta and Saskatchewan is undone in days by China. 1.00

00:24:00.540 In hours, maybe. You know, in Alberta, we decided we were going to shutter under the NDP. We decided

00:24:07.240 we were going to spend billions of dollars paying utility companies to shutter their coal fired power

00:24:13.860 plant. And that was there's 16 of them were going to shutter. China is building or paying to be built 0.61

00:24:22.360 in other countries, hundreds of coal fired power plants. And so whatever we were going to save by emission

00:24:31.780 will be unseen by the atmosphere. And the other thing to remember, so you said, you know, Canada is 1%

00:24:40.860 officially 2%. Say it's 2%. That's 2% of the 6% of total carbon dioxide

00:24:51.340 that's man-made. 94% of the oxygen goes into the atmosphere.

00:24:57.540 It's natural.

00:24:58.160 Natural sources. So the whole idea that you can marginally change the 6%. So let's say the whole

00:25:08.260 world jumps in on Justin Trudeau's green enthusiasm. And we switch from, squeeze that down from 6%

00:25:18.300 to 5.2%. I have no idea what difference that's going to make. But then you take 2% of the 6%. So

00:25:26.680 you're talking about here, I can't even move my fingers close to that. Yeah. I remember one time I

00:25:34.640 gave a speech you had invited me to give, where I said, take carbon dioxide and say it's 2,400 cases

00:25:41.300 of 24 one-liter water bottles. Canada's contribution to that in terms of CO2 would be a few capfuls in

00:25:53.620 one bottle. And how in heaven's name we think that's going to make any difference. So we should

00:26:00.760 beggar our economy. We should spend billions and billions and billions of dollars on wind power,

00:26:08.540 solar power, bug burps, whatever it is that we think is going to be the alternative. And put up

00:26:17.220 with years, decades of intermittent power. Yeah. Rolling brown out, rolling black out, because

00:26:25.160 these alternative green energies aren't good enough to meet our demand. It just baffles me that we're

00:26:33.880 doing. And now we have a Supreme Court that has said that's within the federal constitutional power

00:26:41.060 to do that. Yeah. Very frustrating. You know, I'm reminded of the Alberta coal shutdown. And there

00:26:48.280 was this phrase that was in vogue five years ago, social license. If we stab ourselves, it'll make

00:26:56.480 others less likely to stab us. If we punch ourselves very hard in the face, the bullies won't do it. 0.89

00:27:01.740 So we shut down our coal. Alberta brought in all sorts of taxes and punishments. And the carbon tax

00:27:09.100 was still foisted on the province. I mean, social license was a lie. It's just the new front line

00:27:14.680 for the leftists. You know, there's a phrase that the liberals use. They no longer say stop climate

00:27:21.380 change or reverse climate change. It's an action word, combating climate change. It's just the

00:27:28.000 performance because even they know what you just said, that if everyone in the world agreed to shut

00:27:34.200 off all of our carbon emitting activities, it still wouldn't change anything. So you're not actually

00:27:40.140 stopping climate change, let alone reversing it. They just want to see you combating it. Let's see

00:27:45.380 you. Let's see combat it for a bit. It's like, you know, King Canute ordering the waves to stop.

00:27:53.880 You're not going to stop the waves. But I want to see you try. Start bailing. Get out your little

00:27:57.640 cup and bail out the ocean. Yeah. You know, this is the virtue signaling government. Yeah.

00:28:04.940 They achieved nothing. Like, what did they achieve with the $380 billion that they spent

00:28:11.720 that they didn't have last year? Yeah.

00:28:14.680 They increased personal savings rate in Canada and sent hundreds of billions of dollars to people

00:28:25.000 who weren't out of work. So basically what they did was they achieved the largest

00:28:32.940 intergenerational transfer of wealth in Canadian history, probably in Western history,

00:28:39.740 in the history of the Western world. And, you know, they talk about feminism. Well, what have 0.92

00:28:44.920 they really done to advance women? And they talk a lot about gun control. But what have

00:28:51.000 they done to advance? They don't achieve much of anything. Yeah. But they virtue signal on

00:28:57.760 everything. And that is what this is all about. That's all the carbon taxes. It's virtual signaling.

00:29:03.060 It will have no impact. BC has had one now since 2008. It has had virtually no impact on emissions

00:29:10.820 in BC. It had a little impact from 2008 to 2010. But since that time, emissions have grown as much

00:29:17.320 as they've grown in other provinces. It hasn't pushed people to give up their cars and get on the bus,

00:29:23.780 give up their cars and ride their bikes to work. It has achieved nothing of significance.

00:29:29.580 Yeah. But it's virtuously. It shows, oh, we're woke. We know that this is a problem. And we want to show

00:29:36.920 how concerned we are. Not by actually achieving it, but by simply inflicting, self-inflicting pain.

00:29:45.340 You remember in old Catholic churches, there were people who flogged themselves to get rid of sin.

00:29:57.080 Um, uh, and that's what they, that's what they're doing. They're put on a hair shirt. They make

00:30:03.660 themselves uncomfortable to prove that morally they're superior. My one objection to your analogy

00:30:10.140 is people who hit themselves are hurting themselves. Trudeau himself hasn't stopped flying private jets

00:30:18.920 or his motorcades or his various homes. So that's my one objection to your analogy.

00:30:25.580 Well, and in the last election, they had two airplanes. Yeah. Two airplanes. Right.

00:30:30.420 Remember that? Yeah. And the second one, which was just for props to put up behind the 0.53

00:30:35.280 prime minister and some staffers, uh, was one of the oldest models of the 737 out there, which was one

00:30:42.360 of the biggest emitters going, but of course he's out there making these speeches, talking about how

00:30:48.440 greedy. Yeah. Very, very frustrating. Well, it's great to catch up with you. I'm going to study this

00:30:54.520 ruling more closely in the days ahead, but I think, I think you've got the main takeaway there for sure.

00:30:59.880 Nice to see you, my friend. Thanks for joining us. All right. There you have a Lauren Gunter, 1.00

00:31:04.040 senior columnist at the Edmonton Sun. Stay with us more. Hey, welcome back on my show last night. John

00:31:20.460 writes, I'm cutting up my conservative membership card. Well, I just don't even get it. You know,

00:31:27.800 I saw a new poll out last night on iPolitics. It wasn't a private poll for the Privy Council office.

00:31:36.680 It was, um, I think it was Main Street or a public pollster. And it showed that everyone in Canada

00:31:41.560 has pretty much made up their mind on carbon taxes and global warming. And no one's going to move.

00:31:47.700 No one's going to move from conservative to liberal on that issue. No one's going to move from liberal to

00:31:53.120 conservative. So Aaron O'Toole attacking his own party, upsetting the whole party, stepping on his

00:31:59.700 own messaging. It's not going to work according to this poll that was published in iPolitics.

00:32:03.900 I just don't understand why he's burning himself up on Trudeau's favorite issue.

00:32:09.060 Bruce writes, I'm ready to vote for any other real conservative. Shannon Stubbs is a great MP,

00:32:15.260 but Aaron O'Shear is destroying the party. Look, there are good MPs. I know many of them. I know

00:32:20.400 Shannon Stubbs is your MP. I think a lot of them are biting their tongue, uh, and maybe hoping that

00:32:27.480 Aaron O'Toole, uh, will be gone after the next election. I mean, what's going to happen if the

00:32:33.580 party loses, let's say 20 seats, if it's rolled back, is Aaron O'Toole going to get another shot?

00:32:39.320 Normally, I don't think he would, but who's going to run? I'm for Pierre Paulyev. I'm for bringing

00:32:44.180 back Harper. We got that whole petition, bring back Harper.com. But I don't know. I just,

00:32:49.580 I feel terrible about what's going on. It's not going to work. How's that? Even if you're willing

00:32:53.740 to put water in your wine on that issue, the polls say it's not working. Paul writes,

00:33:00.100 people wouldn't vote for Sloan because their TVs told them he was unelectable. Yeah. Every time I

00:33:05.780 talk to Derek Sloan, I think he's a good communicator. He, he, he sounds smart. Uh, he's

00:33:12.280 moderate and rational. Anyone the CBC or the Toronto Star tells you to hate? I mean, maybe I'm supposed to

00:33:19.320 stop clock as right twice a day, but check them out because if the CBC and the Toronto Star hate

00:33:24.560 them so bad, maybe they are a bad person or maybe they're just a very effective at promoting

00:33:30.040 conservative ideas, which is why the Star and the CBC hate them. I think Derek Sloan is sort of an

00:33:36.440 MVP. I think he's an excellent MP. Those are my thoughts. Maybe you disagree. Let me know. Send me a

00:33:41.540 letter. That's our show for today. What do you think? What do you think about this apology from Mike

00:33:46.240 Barrar? I have to say it made me feel good. I mean, I, I still really wish that I had my book

00:33:51.620 signing, but it, it felt really authentic and genuine. And, um, he knows I've had events in this

00:33:59.060 theater before with no problem. They were big successes. I think he just, I'm not going to say

00:34:03.960 he got caught up in the moment. I think he, he felt surrounded. He had never been the victim of a mob.

00:34:09.120 And I got to tell you, I'm the victim of a mob every day on Twitter. So it's, I don't even notice

00:34:15.560 it anymore. But for severely normal people, like some guy who runs an artsy theater, it's never

00:34:22.120 happened to him before. And you might think you're tough, but you've never been through that. So I

00:34:26.620 have some, I don't like what he did. I disagree with what he did, but I understand what he did.

00:34:31.280 That's why we're suing the guys who induced him to breach the contract. But I was just really glad to

00:34:37.180 settle with him and get this apology. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all

00:34:42.600 of us here at Rubble World Headquarters, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.

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