Liberal MPs say voting on the carbon tax at the end of Ramadan is an insult to Muslims
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Justin Trudeau wants to keep the cost of his carbon tax a secret from the public. Ezra Levant explains why that's a bad idea. Plus, why Parliament should be allowed to sit on the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, and why it should not.
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Tonight, Liberal MPs argue that Parliament shouldn't sit on the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.
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It's June 15th and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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So Justin Trudeau doesn't want to tell Canadians how much his carbon tax is going to cost us.
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He knows because they study that sort of thing in Ottawa.
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They do research into it. They run models. They have experts.
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You'd want your government to have someone estimating the impacts of such a tax.
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How could politicians who aren't experts know if they're making the right decisions without weighing all the facts?
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But Trudeau refuses to disclose that information.
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It's not a state secret. It's not a military secret. It's not a commercial secret.
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There's no legal or constitutional or moral reason to keep the cost of the carbon tax hidden.
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I'm just giving examples of reasons that are sometimes used to keep government information secret.
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It's something much more obvious. Trudeau is politically embarrassed
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because he knows Canadians love to say they're concerned about global warming,
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but no one actually means it. Enough at least to pay an extra, what, I don't know, 30 cents a liter for gas, just as an example.
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You really, really deeply care about global warming
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because just say it and then you hang up the phone.
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That makes you sound very woke and very sensitive.
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On a phone call, you know what the right answer is that the pollster is expecting.
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But come on, have you ever seen an environmentalist who does not drive a car, who does not fly on planes,
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who does not use plastic or artificial fibers in their life?
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So my point is no one actually means it when they say they'd want to pay more to fix global warming.
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Although if a carbon tax would actually fix global warming, maybe some people might pay more.
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But no one actually believes a carbon tax will change the weather.
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They don't actually say it will change the climate.
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They always just say it is symbolic to show that we're doing our part, as they say, doing our part at nothing.
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So Trudeau doesn't want to show the true cost that would come with that virtue signaling.
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Here's what access to information documents about the subject looked like.
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Anyways, the federal conservatives know this is a winning issue.
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Doug Ford ran for the premier of Ontario and won with the most blazingly anti-carbon tax platform possible.
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Just today having a big press conference on the subject.
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So much for that consensus that existed in Ontario just six months ago when all the parties were unanimously saying they believed in the carbon tax.
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And Trudeau wants to keep the degree of pain of a carbon tax is secret.
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So the conservatives have used what little power they have in parliament to force a series of votes on the matter to embarrass the liberals into having to cover up for the PM and revealing the facts.
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Now, they've done this before, the conservatives, when Trudeau lied about that India fiasco.
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Remember when he sent out a staffer to lie about rogue India agents planting a terrorist in his Canadian delegation?
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The conservatives had a bunch of votes in parliament to try to smoke up the truth, but the liberals dug in to protect the shiny pony.
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So the votes were held on the carbon tax matter.
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They were scheduled, as votes always are, in a majority government by the governing party's house leader.
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They were scheduled for last night, which makes sense because if you know about MPs, especially the far-flung ones, a lot of them go home to their ridings on Friday.
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So Thursday night is actually the best time for a vote.
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Well, all of a sudden, last night, all sorts of liberal MPs began tweeting, just before the votes, that to proceed with this embarrassing vote about the carbon tax, why, that's an insult to Islam.
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Because, you see, it was during the end of Ramadan feast of Eid.
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So the conservatives shouldn't have scheduled the votes then, the bigots.
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Of course, conservatives don't have the power to schedule votes.
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That's something that the liberal majority house leader does.
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Wanting a vote to reveal the cost of the carbon tax, that's, um, that's Islamophobic.
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I'm sure some other liberal hack can visit the mosques and you're riding to schmooze.
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You're just saying in a really weird way that you think Muslim holidays should be de facto government of Canada holidays.
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I want Andrew Scheer conservatives to explain to my riding that I'm missing Ede El-Futter because they want to vote all night just to waste time.
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In fact, it's an interesting story, Gagin Sikand.
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He actually didn't vote with the liberals for M103.
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Because his riding was so split on the subject.
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And believe me, that probably took some effort to be permitted to not vote for M103 as a liberal.
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But suddenly he's found religion, someone else's religion.
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And he used it as an excuse to claim that if the conservatives were meanies for making him do his job.
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On a night scheduled by his party's officer, where if he really, really cared, he could probably just go get his free meal.
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Well, because the liberal government has a majority.
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They could spare a few of these deeply religious MPs going away.
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I was looking forward to celebrating Eid in Ajax after 30 days of fasting.
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Sadly, Andrew Scheer is forcing 30 hours of unnecessary votes all through this most holy of Muslim holidays.
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I will miss being with you in Ajax this year and wish everyone observing Eid Mubarak.
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He is following a Muslim religious ritual, fasting for 30 days.
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I mean, fasting during the day is what Muslims do during Ramadan.
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I have never seen such pandering in my life, to be honest.
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Do you actually believe that Mark Holland doesn't eat a bite or drink a drop of water all day and only eats at night,
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Or do you think it's just more likely that he's lying and just making the biggest pander you've ever seen in your life?
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But seriously, the most kooky part of that whole kooky kookiness was when he said these are unnecessary votes.
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Hey, guys, we have a liberal majority government and we're here to say you opposition MPs, you don't need to vote.
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If you think that's unnecessary, question period.
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Just accept the fact that we're keeping the carbon taxes cost secret.
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Here's Omar al-Jabra, the ringleader, shrieking in a tweet to conservative Aaron O'Toole, the MP for the Tories,
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who pointed out how kooky this sort of form letter tweet was that they were all tweeting at the same time.
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You will be voting all night against funding to veterans, RCMP, and CAF members!
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Just take it down just a little bit, you kooky, kooky, crazy nutjob.
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Omar al-Jabra, of course, was the former president of the Canadian Arab Federation,
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a group that lobbied to legalize terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah.
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Omar al-Jabra is the most extreme Islamist in all of Parliament.
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And, of course, he calls everyone who wants to, you know, work during their work.
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And if you don't respect the holiness of Eid, well, then you're a bigot.
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Well, of course, we have a liberal government that is hiding the truth about the carbon tax,
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that is willing to go to the wall to protect the lies of Justin Trudeau.
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And, of course, we also have a liberal government that's lazy.
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They want to take days off and nights off like their lazy leader, Justin, and his 56 vacations.
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It was their own party that scheduled the vote on the night that they did.
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But none of that is as important as what we have learned that's new.
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And that's the definition of Islamophobia that the liberals want to enshrine into law.
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If you do anything whatsoever that hurts the feelings of Muslims or of liberal suck-ups to Islam like freaky Mark Holland, the fake faster,
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if you do anything, you'll be called an Islamophobe.
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If you ask the wrong questions, if you want unnecessary votes, you're an Islamophobe.
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The word literally means nothing now, except that the liberals want to label you a hater.
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Want to be a real opposition party and oppose a vote?
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It was the most important newspaper in that election because they were the ones doing the real due diligence on the various parties and their candidates.
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And one of the reporters who brought spectacular stories to the front page, in addition to our friend Joe Warmington, is our friend Sue Ann Levy.
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Well, you know, last time we had you on, I think, it was to talk about your book, Underdog, Confession of a Right-Wing Gay Jewish Muckraker.
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That's a heck of a lot of great adjectives together.
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You broke a lot of stories about some NDP candidates that if they had not been vetted by you, God forbid, they might even be cabinet ministers today.
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Give me an example of some of the crazy, crazy that you detected.
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Well, the one woman who got in, in my own riding, St. Paul's, is a fat, black activist, queer activist.
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And she made her living off of getting people or speaking up about fat shaming and actually giving talks on fat shaming.
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That's sort of a weird, you know, skill set that's probably not applicable to running a province.
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Well, the worst thing was that, you know, what we found out and I did a story on was that right after the gay pride parade two years ago, she called the police chief a coon on her Facebook feed.
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And the police, and just for those who don't know, who aren't in Toronto, the police chief in Toronto is a black man.
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And I don't think it makes it any better that the insulter herself was black.
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In fact, I don't think that makes it any better at all.
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And she was propped up, by the way, by Desmond Cole, that radical black activist.
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I think he's a very hateful man, very angry man.
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And they said that it was quite fine because it was just talk between black people.
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The other woman who got in, in University of Rosedale, which is a new riding, her name is Jessica Bell, formerly known as Jessica Markham, was arrested twice in Seattle for civil disobedience.
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And she changed her name to sort of leave that criminal passport.
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So, you know, it started as just a couple of stories about the anti-Israel.
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The other person who got in was Joel Harden in Ottawa Centre.
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Thank goodness these people are not going to hold cabinet positions.
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He is also a rabid promoter of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement and has been pushing the NDP to support that movement.
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You know, I accept that I'm right-wing and that there's left-wingers and that we can have a hearty debate.
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But we're not even talking about right-wing, left-wing.
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When you're anti-cop, like Gurutan Singh, that's one more candidate.
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When you're holding a sign that says F-U-C-K, the police, standing next to a cop, there's a theme here.
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I mean, I can abide an honest leftist who makes the case, and there are some.
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But these are pure identity politics smashers who are one inch over from Antifa rioters.
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Well, and the big problem is that, you know, there are a roster of obviously not well-vetted, or the fact was that they were vetted because their Facebook and Twitter feeds were scrubbed completely.
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If they were vetted, then, you know, this is what they...
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And the other problem was that Andrea Horvath is a weak, I think she's still a weak leader, and she didn't speak out against all these hateful people.
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Well, I have to say congratulations, and I enjoyed reading your stuff.
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And I have to say, not only did I enjoy reading it, I enjoyed the reaction of the media party to your columns.
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Well, the last week I went out on the campaign trail with her.
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I asked to go out because I felt that they were lobbing her softball questions, the media party.
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And you should have seen the looks that they gave me.
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Yeah, because they were sort of at the auxiliary of the NDP.
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I mean, boy, that was a very exciting campaign.
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I'm from out west, and I have to say Doug Ford has the spirit of the west in him.
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Let's shift gears to the biggest city in the country, Toronto, that used to be run by Mayor Rob Ford.
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I found his flaws to be touching because, I mean, I wasn't thrilled about his troubles, but I thought he was, I don't know, the hatred and the viciousness.
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And underneath all the flaws, and we don't need to list them all.
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I know it sounds weird to say there was an honest man underneath the trouble, but there was, I think.
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And I think people saw that, and he had a connection with people.
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I hate the fact that was, anyway, we don't need to talk about, but he was replaced by John Tory.
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Well, he's been a huge disappointment, I think, to many who voted for him.
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In fact, endorsed Doug Ford when they ran against each other in 2014.
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Doug, of course, jumped in to replace his brother, who was ill, and did very well.
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I knew that he would put his finger up and detect whichever way the wind blew.
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And, you know, not surprisingly, he has been totally co-opted by the left on council and
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And, you know, he is, I guess, in a way, a champagne.
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He's not a socialist, but he has, you know, been brought up with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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But he has a sense of guilt that he has to do whatever he can to help the downtrodden.
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The only thing is, is that the natives now are running the asylum in this city.
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And it's very concerning to me the way he's pandered, in particular, to two leftists on
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council, well, three, Kristen Wong Tam, Joe Cressy, and Joe Mahevic, all with radical agendas,
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pro-safe injection site agendas, pro-shelter, throw everything wherever.
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Who gives a, you know, a gosh damn about anybody who is a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen?
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In a way, a guy like John Tory is the worst, because he doesn't have the grassroots connections
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He comes from the fancy end of things, so he's, like you say, he's always got this guilt,
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he's always apologizing, and so he's so susceptible, because he doesn't have a strong
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Let me ask you, when's the next Toronto Civic election?
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Actually, the nominations close at the end of July.
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I want to ask you, with Doug Ford in the provincial government, that says two things to me.
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First of all, the big dog everyone was sort of counting on a run, well, he's got other
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But his success, including in the Toronto boundaries, suggests that there might be an appetite for
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Are there any people on your radar screen who might fit the bill?
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Well, you know, the unfortunate thing is that John Tory has shifted so far to the left that
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nobody on the left wants to run, because he's given them everything they want and more.
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You really need somebody with some common sense who, you know, is more akin to fiscal
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conservatism and understands a law and order agenda.
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You know, I wish we could just throw somebody in there to ask him hard questions.
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Because if you said ask him hard questions, well, you were the one who had to go out and
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You were the one who had to do the digging to vet candidates that the mighty Toronto Star
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and the mighty CBC with their enormous budgets didn't.
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Well, you know, I have toyed with it, but it's a very expensive proposition to run.
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So it would have to be a real grassroots campaign.
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Have you let people know that you would be open to it?
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I've just been thinking about it in the last little while.
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Well, the only thing with John Tory is that he has the big power players behind him.
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But by platform, I mean like a list of top three ideas or something.
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Like when I think Rob Ford, I think garbage strike and the gravy trains.
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I think there's a real problem with enabling drug dealers, drug addicted.
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I don't even know if it's right wing or left wing.
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Well, transit, I think, you know, the problem is that there's just not enough money for transit
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and you've got a council that's shifted every which way and, you know, backwards.
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Some reason nothing is getting built is because they keep changing their mind.
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I don't agree with John Tory's 3 billion to now one subway stop to Scarborough.
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Anyone who writes for the newspaper, people know them.
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So unlike some other candidates, you've already got name and face recognition.
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You said you're sort of floating some trial balloons.
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So let's say there's someone who's watching right now who says, well, I'd chip in some bucks.
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I'd chip in some time and I got some friends and I'm ready to roll.
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I think you should get a website just to test the waters or maybe get a friend, like a draft.
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Well, you see, I mean, here's what I know about you.
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And you have that spirit and you don't bend the knee when the other side says, submit.
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And to me, that's the most important characteristic of a public leader is you're not going to be
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intimidated or shouted down or, you know, that tusks by the media party.
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Rob Ford, actually, for the first year and a half, unfortunately, he had his addictions.
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But he did some really good work and he had some really good people around him.
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Well, we'll put up on the screen the contact information again if you want to give your feedback
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Some might say you're having more influence where you are.
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There's a difference between power and influence.
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You don't have any power as a calmness, but you have influence.
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You have a lot of influence in the first election.
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And I know I drive John Tory crazy whenever I write about all this stuff.
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I was just so pleased with what I think that you and Joe, and I like you guys, I think
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that you, more than any other two people, helped save this province from a near disaster.
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And let me just say thanks as a new entrepreneur.
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Well, you know, it's funny because the NDP just came out of nowhere, and it was...
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Well, let's put those contacts in, the email address and the website up on the screen.
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And I'd invite you, my viewers, to let Sue Ann know, what do you think?
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Are you just saying that, or would you, you know, help out, whether it's a few bucks or
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Well, we spoke with him yesterday about a case involving freedom of speech at the Ottawa Public
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While he's in town, John Carpe is here to talk to us about a disaster at the Supreme Court
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of Canada, a disaster for religious liberty, for freedom of association, and for the idea
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of precedent that law can be relied on and not just changed with every political fashion.
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And we're talking about the case of Trinity Western University, which is a small Christian
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university in B.C. that wanted to have a law school.
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And I'll just give our viewers a little bit of background, and then I'll throw to you for
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No one, none of its critics said this law school would be deficient academically in
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But because it's a Christian school, they ask their students to sign a Christian code of
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conduct, no drinking, no swearing, no gambling, no sex except for inside a Christian marriage,
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a traditional marriage of a man and woman, so no premarital or extramarital sex.
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Well, if you don't like that, don't go to that Christian school.
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But law societies in three provinces said we are not going to even accept graduates from
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this university because it's a bigoted place, and we simply will not, even if the students
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are brilliant and excellent lawyers, we ban them.
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And today, John, the Supreme Court of Canada, I've held that blackballing seven to two.
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I thought that freedom of religion, freedom of association would allow a Christian school
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I thought that was actually in our constitution, Christian schooling.
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Well, there's so many things appalling about this decision, and one of them is just the
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utter, it's not even a lack of respect, it's almost a contempt for religious freedom, that
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the majority says this is just trivial for Trinity Western University to repudiate its own code
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of conduct, which, by the way, every university has a code of conduct, but just repudiate it.
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Get over it already, and drop your opposition to sex outside of marriage, and you can still
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I mean, that would be like telling an Orthodox Jewish school, you know, drop your prohibition
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on pork, and allow non-Jewish kids to come to your school and bring their pork sandwich
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for lunch, and just get over it, you can still be a good Jewish school and allow pork sandwiches
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Just complete contempt for what is a pillar of human dignity.
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It's your right, my right, to not just believe, but also live out and practice your faith.
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Well, you know, what's so crazy about this is the school itself is not being forced to
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It's graduates from this school are being blackballed, am I right?
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So this school can proceed, and it can graduate students.
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Those students just will never be allowed to practice law in Canada, and that's what the
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Yeah, if Trinity Western goes ahead with their law school, which I don't know if they will
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or not, but if they do go ahead with it and spend the money and hire the law profs and
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so on and so forth, then the graduates from that law school will not be eligible to practice
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It's not even, the school itself is not touched by these law societies, in a way.
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In a way, it's, you can have a gay student, you can have a liberal, conservative, you can
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have, I mean, there are gay graduates of Trinity Western.
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Who, by the way, have filed affidavits in court stating that it's a warm and welcoming
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and accepting environment where it was safe to come out.
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So you can have an out-of-the-closet gay student at Trinity.
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You don't even have to be Christian to go to Trinity Western.
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You can be a warm, open-minded, you can be left-wing.
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Not only a graduate, it's the graduate that is being prejudged as being not a legitimate lawyer.
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To me, that's actually far worse, John, is that they're saying in advance, we haven't
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But we know in advance that they must be blackballed from the profession.
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It's actually not the law school itself that is the big loser.
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It's any student that would dare say, I believe in that code of conduct.
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Even the gay kids who went there and said, I believe in that code of conduct.
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I would love to disagree with you on this and say, you know, no, Ezra, you're wrong.
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But this is basically an attack on a Christian institution.
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They're not doing this to Brigham Young University, Mormon University, Latter-day Saints, similar
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All kinds of Christian universities, Catholic universities in the U.S. that have a code
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of conduct that says, no sex outside of marriage.
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And there's Muslim universities around the world.
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And their grads are allowed to practice in Canada.
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Their grads can come into Canada and all they have to do is take, say, 12 months of equivalency
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And that equivalency has got nothing to do with the religious nature.
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Do you know your Canadian contract and constitutional criminal?
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So you can go to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which is-
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And as long as you prove you can understand Canadian contracts, you're good to go.
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You can move to Canada and take 12 months or maybe in some cases a little bit more than
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12 months, but you take your Canadian equivalency courses and away you go.
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There was a case more than a dozen years ago in BC involving the BC Teachers College.
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The Teachers College says, we don't like your Christian nature, so we're blackballing any
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So from 15 years, we went from same school, same code of conduct, BC Teachers College,
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to same school, same code of conduct, law colleges.
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And all of a sudden, that freedom of association, freedom of religion is gone.
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Well, the law societies would say, oh, these cases are fundamentally different, but that's
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I'm furious, but who are the two judges who voted on the side of Trinity Western?
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You know, I ask that because you mentioned the Jewish thing.
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I know there's two or three Jews on the Supreme Court.
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I've just forgotten the names of the other ones.
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You know, if this was a Jewish school, I wonder what they would have said.
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Well, and I wonder what they would have said to a Muslim school.
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Because some of the language in the decision, it is so political.
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They talk about diversity and equality without defining equality.
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You could be for or against equality, depending on what do you mean exactly by that.
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Well, we know for a fact that dozens and dozens and dozens of Sharia-compliant Muslim
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groups in Canada got their summer jobs grant from Justin Trudeau, when more than 1,500 Christian
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groups didn't get their summer grant from Justin Trudeau.
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And what do you do when your Supreme Court of Canada, the last Court of Appeal, says,
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And you know what's sad is the whole model of the charter, the way it's supposed to be,
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the concept is you've got these politicians which might pander to the mob and they might
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be populist and they might trample on rights and freedoms.
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And frankly, there are times, you can point to many examples in history, where crushing
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rights and freedoms is wildly popular amongst the people.
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So the idea is, oh, we've got this charter and we've got these judges to protect us from
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Now you've got the judges are cheering on the social justice warriors.
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What this means is that people have to be more engaged in the democratic process to elect
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Because we can't count on the judges to defend our free society.
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I think out of the nine judges, six are Harper appointees.
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I think Trudeau just made an appointment, didn't he?
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You know, Donald Trump, people say he's not a real conservative.
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Really, he's made the most outstanding judicial appointments.
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Stephen Harper dropped the ball on two things, in my view.
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And he abandoned the courts to the social justice activists.
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Because if you can't get your justice formally, properly, through the courts, what is left?
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It's, you know, it's scary for the future, because when the courts are not upholding the rule of law, and if the politicians don't get it, consequences can be scary.
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You know, it sounds crazy, but I wish this had been a Muslim school.
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Because this social justice activist court would have said, oh, well, in the name of diversity, we will allow a Muslim law school.
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Because I'm so frustrated, John, but I know you fought the good fight with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
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We've had you on to talk about this a dozen times before.
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You fought the good fight as an intervener at the first and second occasions here.
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I know you're undaunted in your larger mission, and I wish you good luck.
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It's a bad day for justice, but we're going to keep on fighting, because the worst thing you can do is to throw up your hands in despair and say, oh, we're going home.
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No, we will just keep on fighting these fights, and you win some, you lose some.
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What gets me is, this is so transparent, this is existing incumbent establishment lawyers keeping out Christian lawyers.
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It's bad enough how clubby the law is, but they're saying, we don't want Christian lawyers.
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I think Christians ought to deploy themselves into the legal sphere, because they're so clearly being blackballed.
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And I'm Jewish myself, but if I were a Christian of any salt, if I had any saltiness to me, making a very poor allusion to the phrase, salt that is not lost, it's saltiness.
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I would understand that the law and the courts is where this country is being ruled from, and I would try and get on the inside like you're doing, John.
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I'm angry, but I'm going to stop there, because I'll just rant.
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And you were a freedom fighter that all of us Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or atheists can get behind.
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On my monologue yesterday about Chrystia Freeland winning an award for being the world's best diplomat, James writes, isn't that like winning used car salesman?
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I mean, you know, there's that old saying, a diplomat is someone who goes to lie abroad for their country, and that's actually a triple entendre.
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Lie abroad is what they call the battleship, sort of facing all its guns in one direction.
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The other is to lie, as in to tell a lie, abroad.
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And, of course, the third is that's not really, anyway, it's a hundred-year-old joke.
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He's going to do an important deal with North Korea.
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That's about getting a trade deal that works for both parties.
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So, no, I think there is such a thing as a good diplomat.
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Ted writes, Christy Freeland thinks the threat to democracy comes from the right.
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And it was so tone-deaf, given the recent fracas between Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau.
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It's just so, maybe they're trying to wreck things on purpose.
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Deborah writes, liberals love to hand out awards to themselves so they can keep pushing their agenda down our throats.
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Christy doesn't hold a candle to a real Canadian diplomat, Ken Taylor.
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I know you're referring to the great Canadian diplomat in Iran, if I recall,
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who sort of smuggled the Canadian diplomat who smuggled American hostages out.
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Sort of unrelated to the actual job he had, but it was amazing.
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On my interview with Howard Levitt, Temi writes, very interesting development concerning Lindsay Shepard.
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Yeah, you know, I've got to say, I mean, I enjoy all our guests we talk to.
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I think that was my favorite interview this week.
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So lawyers have a facility with words, I think.
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But he's also a journalist, so he knows how to talk.
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It's just, I think that was my favorite interview of the week.
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I'm excited, and I'm glad he agreed to keep us posted.
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As we said in our discussion yesterday, it could be a month or months before the next milestone comes.
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But I promise you, we will keep in touch on that story.
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I mean, if the university, if Wilfrid Laurier University said to Lindsay Shepard, here's a million bucks, go away.
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It would be extremely difficult for even the most principled person in the world to say, million bucks, five years of costly fighting in court.
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I hope she goes the distance because we need the teachable moment.
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