MENZIES ｜ Transitioning to a radical agenda is in nobody's best interest
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Summary
Transgenderism is a perverse form of genderbending, shock and awe, and the radical elements in society, ranging from librarians to school principals, want to convince even elementary-aged children that the solution to their woes is to transition into the opposite sex, be they real or imagined.
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Tonight, are you not down with the radical transgender revolution?
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Well, watch what you say, otherwise the police might come a-calling.
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I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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Say, folks, have you heard the new whiz-bang saying for 2022 and likely beyond?
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If it's trans, it's good, and if it's good, it's trans.
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I speak not of trans fats nor transcontinental railways, but rather transgenderism.
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Make that radical transgenderism, actually.
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Now, full disclosure, I'm a huge proponent of freedom, a concept that is continually
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under attack these days, or in the words of wannabe conservative leader Jean Charest, something
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So, in the name of freedom, I take no issue with those who want to go through life pretending
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Thus, if an adult wants to take hormone shots and slice and dice their genitalia and wear
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the clothes of the opposite gender, hey, happy Halloween, 365 days a year, I suppose.
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But I think the vast majority of the population draws the line where I do when it comes to
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the transgender community, which is to say, tolerance and acceptance is one thing, but
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Indeed, why should it be incumbent upon all members of society to collectively don a cheerleader's
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uniform, complete with pom-poms, and cheer on those who decide to transition, giving them
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a big standing O for their gender-bending ways?
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Look, if that 300-pound bearded dude wants to go through life wearing a miniskirt and demands
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that he be addressed as Tinkerbell, she, her, this is not an achievement.
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On the contrary, it might be an indicator of mental illness.
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However, if that person invents a cure for cancer or develops an engine that will deliver
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200 miles to the gallon, then I'll applaud, regardless of that person is a daily cosplay
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enthusiast who identifies as an asexual gender-fluid spirit unicorn.
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And yeah, I'm looking at you here, Busty Lemieux.
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See, in my book, it's all about merit rather than gender identification.
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Oh, and there's another caveat I subscribe to when it comes to transgender acceptance.
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As I go through life minding my own business, can you folks in the radical transgender community
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Which is to say, can you kindly keep your trans hands off our children?
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Because given that the current motto of the progressive left these days is,
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if it's good, it's trans, and if it's trans, it's good.
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This has really emboldened the radical elements in the trans community to press their agenda
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in the most despicable fashion imaginable, namely, trying to convince even elementary-aged children
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that the solution to their woes, be they real or imagined, is to transition into the opposite sex.
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Now, in yesterdecade, if little Laura liked to climb trees and play with toy cars as opposed to Barbie dolls,
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she was what was known as a tomboy, and she'd most likely grow out of this phase.
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Today, little Laura is not a tomboy, but a candidate for gender reassignment surgery,
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This is truly beyond the pale, but the indoctrination continues because, well, once again,
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if it's trans, it's good, and if it's good, it's trans, and if you all have a problem with that,
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then obviously you are a transphobe, and that's even worse than being a racist or a sexist
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And so it is that the progressives now espouse the marketing mantra of those advertising companies
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on Madison Avenue, namely, get them young and get them forever,
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a slogan that applies as much to pitching a brand of beer as it does to embracing woke ideology.
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For example, a few years ago, somebody thought it was a jolly good idea to stage something called
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No, not at a gay bar with an adult clientele, but rather at an elementary school or a library
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How did anyone think that it was a good idea for children to be exposed
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to a man pretending to be a grotesque caricature of a woman?
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And really, what's the purpose other than a perverse form of gender-bending shock and awe?
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Indeed, those in the radical transgender movement and their enablers in general society,
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don't seem to subscribe to age appropriateness when it comes to gender-bending.
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We have age benchmarks when it comes to the purchase of liquor and lottery tickets and fireworks.
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But it's never too early to undergo butchery to identify as the opposite gender.
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What rational-thinking person subscribes to this mindset?
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And if drag queens are allowed into schools and libraries to entertain kids,
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well, why not invite 100% biological female strippers in too?
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Look, I'm just trying to figure out the rules here, folks.
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I'm trying to figure out who's who in the sexual zoo because, quite frankly, I'm completely baffled.
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And then there is the contentious issue of mental illness.
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I think back to a column in the National Post some five years ago by Susan Bradley,
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who was a consultant child psychiatrist, formerly chief of psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children
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and head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
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Now, Bradley referenced a column in Crisis Magazine written by Elsie Earnhardt entitled,
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Ernhardt notes how the transgender movement began as activism for the rights of a tiny number of people
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who were uncomfortable with their biological gender.
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But these days, she says trans activism has evolved into an ideological movement to normalize the practice of changing genders.
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But in the process, she says the trans movement has crossed ethical lines with a very vulnerable segment of young people struggling with issues of gender identity.
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In particular, Earnhardt addresses the aggressive approach by adult trans activists in recruiting adolescents with Asperger's syndrome or other types of autism.
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And typically among Asperger's girls in their adolescence, she preferred the company of boys due to the bullying she experienced from other girls.
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Citing a social media campaign featuring the hashtag autistic trans pride, she understands why Asperger's and other autistic adolescents believe they are transgender when, in fact, they are not.
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In short, these adolescents are told that they are a girl trapped in a boy's body or vice versa.
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And many parents buy into this completely unscientific hypothesis.
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One, do you find this trend downright terrifying?
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And secondly, could such a column even be published today in the National Post without the usual suspects who comprise the cancel culture woke left?
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Indeed, because these days, even members of law enforcement are being used to crack down on transgender wrong thought.
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Which is to say, if you don't subscribe to If It's Good, It's Trans, and If It's Trans, It's Good, then shut the hell up or face arrest?
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Check out this recent story in the National Telegraph penned by Wyatt Claypool.
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Quote, yesterday, a woman was unjustly arrested by police in Gravenhurst, Ontario, for protesting on the sidewalk outside of a Halloween-themed drag queen event taking place in a church.
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The family event was billed as the Hallow Queen and Pump King Spooktacular and was hosted at the Gravenhurst Trinity United Church by Muskoka Pride,
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which involved both drag performances and drag story time.
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Crystal Peters, the woman who was arrested outside of the building, was standing with a couple of other protesters when she was confronted by two police officers who accused her of trespassing
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and told her that she cannot prove the event was inappropriate for children because she had not been inside.
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At the same time, the officers denied the ability for Peters or any of the other protesters to enter the church's premises.
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In the face of the officers attempting to shut down the small protests, Peters declared that,
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I am protesting grown adults who want to dress in lingerie and dance around children.
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We have a whole country, a whole nation filled with children who do not know whether they are boys or girls because of activities like this,
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and it is up to us adults to stand up and to protect these children.
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To stand on Muskoka Pride's side is wrong, and for them to hold it in a church is wrong.
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After Peters stands for basic human decency, one officer accuses her and the other protesters of blocking the entrance to the church,
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which the woman proves to be nonsense by turning her camera towards the church's entrance, showing a completely clear path into the building.
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The officer then counters with the ridiculous claim that the protesters do not know what is going on in the church,
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despite public Facebook posts advertising the drag event.
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Then, after more back and forth between the protesters and the police officers,
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the officers then walk into the church briefly before walking back and arresting the woman filming for swearing,
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which supposedly constitutes a public disturbance, end quote.
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Oh, and if you think this is a matter of he said, she said, folks,
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well, let's check out the video evidence, shall we?
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To protect the public and to keep things peaceful.
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And thus, no, no, sir, thus far, thus far, this or this protest is the only thing that's unpeaceful.
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However, you're trespassing on the property, and you're not able to do that.
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If you would like to peacefully protest, you can't impede individuals from going in,
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So, the adults that are in there provocatively dressed around minors, that's not an offense?
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Ma'am, I don't believe that you've been in there, so I don't think you can attest to what they are.
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Well, apparently, according to you, I'm not allowed in there, which is a public church.
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In this manner, you're protesting on an office.
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I'm protesting growing adults who want to dress in lingerie and dance around children.
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We have a whole country, a whole nation filled with children who do not know whether they are boys or girls because of activities like this.
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And it is up to us adults to stand up and to protect these children.
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To stand on their side, to stand on their side, to stand on their side in front of them is morally wrong.
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You guys should be outraged for what's going on right now.
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You just stated that you don't know what's going on in there.
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You have seven drag queens in there that are around children.
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Seven drag queens that are around children carving pumpkins, having drag story time.
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You're sending the people in there that are sitting there with children.
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Gee, what sort of a church would temporarily pretend to be a gay bar, albeit one that turns
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Well, that would be the United Church, of course.
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Membership in the United Church of Canada, which was created nearly a century ago by the
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merger of four mainline Protestant churches, peaked at 1.1 million in the 1960s, according
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Official reports in 2018 show the United Church has 388,000 members, with about 121,000 regularly
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So, in other words, United Church membership has plummeted by more than 60%, and of those
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remaining members, less than one-third of that sum actually go to church on Sunday.
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This is a dying church, most likely because it has drifted so far away from, you know,
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And it would seem that the solution for its membership crisis is to double down on wokeness.
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The end result, alas, is that the United Church is really just a church in name only.
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But there's plenty of blame to go around when it comes to a church reimagining itself as
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For instance, what sort of a parent would be okay with bringing an elementary school-age
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I mean, where's the Children's Aid Society when you really need them?
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But the really disturbing thing for me is the Ontario Provincial Police acting as the
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Gestapo for the United Church, arresting someone for, what, swearing in public?
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And if they are now classified as quasi-crimes, well, listen up, all you freedom fighters toting
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Alas, being harassed by stupid cops who clearly do not know the law, they are sworn to uphold
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Back in May 2021, Sid Fizard and I went to Elmer, Ontario to do a story regarding the Church
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Now, the Church of God and its pastor, Henry Hildebrandt, were being continually harassed
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by everyone from bylaw and police officers to Antifa types.
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And when we arrived at our destination, lo and behold, the Elmer trans community, population
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two, by the way, was staging a protest across the street from the Church on public land.
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I decided to interview the various he-hims and she-hers, and apparently I must have asked
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an impolite question or two along the way, because the trans folk, they called the Elmer
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They don't want you talking to them, so can you just move on?
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Yeah, they're in a public place, officer, so I will talk to them.
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I don't want to get hit by a car, so please move.
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I'm in a lawful order to leave these people alone.
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You're telling me you're not going to, so if you don't follow my directions, get your microphone
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As far as I know, the practice of journalism is not illegal yet, so unless I'm mistaken,
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This is going to happen, okay, Mr. Menzies.
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If you come back and you speak with them, you will be arrested for-
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You have no right whatsoever to make me leave this area.
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I ask you to not speak with them and not to bother them.
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In the course of my duty is to inform you that you are not to harass people.
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Okay, then you're going to write me a ticket for harassment.
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I didn't say that I'm going to write you a ticket.
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Leave these people alone or you're going to get arrested for criminal harassment.
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And I know you don't believe in freedom of the press.
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Then you will be arrested if you approach-
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Can I see the criminal code violation that spells that out?
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Please get the microphone out of my face, okay?
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Anybody that doesn't want to be harassed, okay?
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How sad that officers dumb and dumber have, A, no appreciation for the independent free press,
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Being on a public place asking queries of demonstrators is not criminal harassment.
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But it would appear that members of law enforcement have been told by their superiors that,
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And that hurt feelings meet the benchmark these days for criminal charges.
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I would argue that radical transgenderism is a strategy being used by those who embrace a Marxist agenda.
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Marxism is all about breaking down the status quo and building up what remains into a communist utopia.
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As the deaths of some 100 million people under communism over the decades has proven,
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Marxism, much like the 1970 Ford Pinto, might look good on paper.
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But in reality, this tyranny is an utter disaster.
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Indeed, let's rewind the clock back a decade, say.
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No, actually, let's just turn it back five years ago.
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What if I told you then that in the near future that I was going to create a movement
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that would cast doubt on the validity of a proven proof,
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in this case, that there are two sexes, male and female?
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What if I said to you back then my plan was to make people doubtful what a woman is,
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that even a female U.S. Supreme Court justice would not be able to define the word woman?
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Thanks to woke politicians and activists and their useful idiots in the mainstream media,
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The vast majority are being dictated to by mad Marxists and mentally ill people
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Individuals who think it is perfectly reasonable to recruit minors into their fold.
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Do you think it's time to stand up to this insanity?
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Or in the name of political correctness and wokeism and cancel culture,
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will we continue to bend the knee and lose this battle,
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a battle that will claim far too many children as casualties?
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Well, folks, this just in regarding the ongoing Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.
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We now have further confirmation that the Justin Trudeau Liberals were never acting in good faith
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when it came to negotiating with the rank-and-file members of the Freedom Convoy.
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Indeed, it turns out that the federal government was keen to promote the narrative
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that the trucker convoy was Canada's version of January 6th,
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But just consider the text conversation in which Mary Liz Power, of the Prime Minister's office,
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said there might be an opportunity for Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to,
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quote, get in on this growing narrative, end quote,
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of the convoy truckers being, quote, extreme, end quote.
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Is that what you call peaceful protesters who erected bouncy castles and a hot tub on Wellington Street?
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Oh, all those kids bouncing around, all that bubbling, steamy water.
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And joining me now with more on this story is Spencer Fernando,
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You know, Spencer, so many angles to unpack here,
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but what stands out for me is that the federal liberals seemed hell-bent
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to not let a good crisis go to waste, as the old saying goes.
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So what's your takeaway regarding the Trudeau government's plans
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to demonize the Freedom Convoy even before it arrived in Ottawa?
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Yeah, well, I think, you know, the narrative they've tried to push is that,
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oh, we had no choice but to use the emergencies act.
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And the fact that they were already calling, you know,
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the Freedom Convoy extremists before it got there, as you say,
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getting in, in their words on the narrative that the media was pushing,
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it just shows that they had their endgame kind of thought out ahead of time.
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They were always going to try to make it look like, you know, January 6th.
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They were always going to try to make it look extreme,
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and they were always going to try to use it to justify expanding government power.
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So, you know, the idea that they were ever acting in good faith
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and that they were ever really willing to listen to other people is,
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And what's so unfortunate about it is, you know, the,
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at one point, Justin Trudeau, before the 2021 election, said, you know,
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Canada's not a country that mandates vaccinations.
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You know, he didn't seem to want to divide Canadians down those lines.
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And then the second they got worried about an election, you know,
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their poll numbers weren't looking good, he decided to divide the country.
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And even after the election, he decided to keep pushing with that division
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and obviously drove so many people to the point where they felt they had no choice
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And so at each step of the way, he chose to escalate and, you know,
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push people to be angrier and divide people more and more.
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And then he goes out there and talks about, oh, divisions are real threat in this country
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No, indeed, as the saying goes, physician, heal thyself.
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But, you know, Spencer, you brought up the inquiry.
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And, of course, the reason for the inquiry is the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
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And it's an automatic that an inquiry does follow when it comes to the Emergencies Act.
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Here's the thing, of all the people that are going to testify,
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I just can't wait to see Public Safety Minister Marco Mandicino take the stand
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because he has said repeatedly and over and over again
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that law enforcement asked the government to invoke the act.
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We have everyone from the Ottawa Police Service to the RCMP saying, not us.
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So, either Marco Mandicino is, shockers, lying, or there is some, I don't know,
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remote police force somewhere that advised the government to invoke the act.
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Well, today you have Brenda Luckey saying that, oh, she doesn't know why she sent a message
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talking about, you know, showing retroactive, you know, police and authority support
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So, obviously, they're trying to get their story all lined up,
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I mean, he also has talked about meeting the Emergencies Act because of the threat of arson,
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you know, the supposed story of someone from the Freedom Convoy
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trying to set an apartment on fire, which, of course, the police repeatedly have said
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And he repeated it after the police said that wasn't the case.
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And so, what I think it shows you is the, just the fact that they're,
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they still don't really have their story together.
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And they're just flailing around, they're trying to, you know,
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notice how they're shifting away from saying, oh, this is a real national emergency
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to saying, oh, well, a lot of the protesters, you know, said things that we disagree with.
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And they said some things that, you know, a lot of Canadians may not like.
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And, of course, that's not the standard for invoking the Emergencies Act.
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It's not just that some protesters have opinions that some people don't like.
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I mean, then the standard, that could be used, you know, by anybody.
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And, you know, the one thing that a lot of liberals, you know, I see supporting what the,
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what the Trudeau government did, the one thing they're not thinking of is what are the long-term
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consequences to the country of, you know, lowering the bar for the use of emergency government
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I mean, you have in BC right now, people setting RCMP vehicles on fire, you know,
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messing around with pipelines and, you know, acts that you can certainly, you can certainly
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say, oh, well, this is a threat to Canada's national energy infrastructure.
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You know, the Emergencies Act should be invoked and we should go arrest those people.
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So I think as a country, you need to be very careful about lowering the threshold for invoking
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And a lot of liberals seem to just assume they're going to be in power forever, which in a democracy,
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And I mean, I think back to just, well, 10 minutes before COVID hit, you had those rail
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It was doing hundreds of millions of dollars in economic damage.
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It was, you know, really hurting people's daily lives.
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And that went on for weeks and weeks and weeks.
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And there was no consideration of the Emergencies Act for something that you could argue was
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more of a genuine emergency than what happened on Wellington Street.
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But I got to ask you, Spencer, the perverse sidebar that's going on right now with the inquiry
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I'm wondering if you have any insight into what might be making the premier so timid to
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I mean, after all, he said he stands shoulder to shoulder with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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If you can think back to February, do you think that the federal government was justified
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and using the Emergencies Act to lift the occupation of downtown Ottawa?
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Well, we have some of the top officials with the OPP testifying.
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And, yes, I stood shoulder to shoulder with the Prime Minister.
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These folks were, you know, camping out everything from whirlpools, disrupting downtown, disrupting
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We've worked collaboratively with the Mayor and the Prime Minister over at the borders.
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They were holding up a billion dollars of trade every single day getting across our borders.
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Myself and I know the Prime Minister believe in free speech.
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If you want to come down to Queen's Park and do cartwheels.
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But if you disrupt the lives of the people of Ottawa every single day, disrupt the lives
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of economic flow across our borders, I have zero tolerance for it.
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Who, by the way, earlier today threw Doug Ford under the bus by saying he stands with the
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But using the notwithstanding clause to suspend workers' rights is wrong.
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Well, I know that collective bargaining negotiations are sometimes difficult, but it has to happen.
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It has to be done in a respectful, thoughtful way at the bargaining table.
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The suspension of people's rights is something that you should only do in the most exceptional
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And I really hope that all politicians call out the overuse of the notwithstanding clause
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Nevertheless, Spencer, what is your take on why Ford seems so downright terrified to go
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I think he's kind of trying to have it both ways.
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He's trying to, you know, not talk about the convoy too much.
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When he does, he tries to, you know, say he supported the federal government.
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But he doesn't really want to say that too often.
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He doesn't want too many clips of him saying that because he knows a lot of his base supported
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So I think the last thing he wants is to have, you know, hours and hours of clips of him.
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Either were they taking a position either way, either if he's talking about, you know,
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A lot of people in his own party won't like it.
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And if he talks about if the evidence comes out that he was actually opposed to it, then
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people question, OK, well, if you were opposed to it, why are you saying something different
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I'm not sure that's the case, but obviously they're very concerned.
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So I think he just kind of wants it to go away.
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But yeah, it's it's there's obviously something they're very concerned about.
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And I think, you know, I think it's really a political issue for him.
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I think he's he's tried to kind of walk the line and and, you know, keep both, you know,
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some in his, you know, voter coalition liked the use of the act.
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And he's trying to, you know, keep those people together.
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And I don't think he wants hours and hours of clips of him, you know, talking about it
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because some some stuff is going to come out that's going to anger either side.
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I think maybe, too, that back in the day to day dealings with the Freedom Convoy, maybe
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Premier Ford had some conversations, wrote some memos, engaged in text messaging with all
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the material he was assuming at the time would always be private.
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And maybe some of that is really sensitive or and or embarrassing material.
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Let me ask you, Spencer, we've had almost two weeks of testimony so far at the Emergencies
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What to you was the most shocking, the most surprising, the most revealing moment in all
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Yeah, I think it would have to be the what we're talking about today, a member of the
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And I think the reason it's the most shocking is just because it shows how just the complete
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absence of good faith from the liberal government and how much it goes against the narrative.
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You could also include the fact that every every police official has said that they didn't
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And most of them have said that there's no there was no need for it.
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And, you know, they had plans to get tow trucks without the Emergencies Act.
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And, you know, but, you know, before it even began, I talked about how I think both sides
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are going to find enough from the inquiry to basically stick to their original positions.
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You know, we've seen, you know, Trudeau get away with so many scandals.
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And Jagmeet Singh, of course, as we know, is completely sold out.
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So he said, even if the liberals are found to use it improperly, he's not going to remove
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them from power or get out of their coalition or pact or whatever he's calling it.
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But I think the question will be, does it just erode, you know, the average kind of voter
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in the middle who can maybe will vote liberal and maybe vote conservative?
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Not just that Trudeau is often naive and, you know, too far to the left for a lot of
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But the fact that he acted in such an authoritarian way, the fact that the government has been
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quite dishonest about it, he's already about 30, 32, 33 percent of the polls, doesn't really
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And so if he loses two, three, four percent more people who say, you know what, this guy,
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And he can't even be honest about it afterwards.
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Then I think you could see some long term damage to them.
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But the idea that they're going to lose a massive amount of support over it, I don't
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Politics in this country right now is too polarized for any any huge shift.
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So it's going to be the long term effect of a long term erosion that I'll be looking for.
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I think, Spencer, when push comes to shove, whenever the election is, I think the downfall
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of the liberals is just going to be the economy.
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What we're seeing at the gas pump, at the grocery store, grocery stores, the interest
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Typically, any government of any political stripe, when it's the economy going off the rails,
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And I'm glad you brought up Jagmeet Singh with his words and actions.
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It almost seems to be he's got a sinister agenda to make the NDP completely irrelevant.
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I mean, you know, it is incredible that he would say such a thing even before those statements
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But one last question for you, Spencer, before we leave.
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What is your, I guess, analysis of the media's behavior?
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And when I say that, the mainstream media, they seemed so gung ho in following that federal
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government narrative that this is our January 6th.
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And there's a lot of hardworking reporters, even in the outlets.
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There are a lot of hardworking reporters, but the overall attitude of setting the narrative
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It's not, hmm, maybe the fact that this protest in Canada began due to vaccine mandates and
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the mandate on truckers and not an election, as it was in the States.
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Maybe that makes it a completely different story.
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But no, no, they'll just say, oh, well, there's a big protest of people who don't like a government
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and they're outside of a, outside of the capital.
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You know, we're outside of the main government building in the capital city.
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And the other part is it fits into a pattern that we often see too much in Canada, where everything
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that happens here, we just filter through the lens of the United States.
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We say, how does this match up with what's happening in the U.S.?
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And that's understandable because we're very heavily influenced by them.
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But we need to realize that, you know, events in Canada are Canadian events.
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And there has to be, I think, a little bit of understanding of the nuance of what's taking
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place in this country, not just looking for the easiest narrative all the time.
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And there's also there, they have subtle ways of putting down the freedom convoy.
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Whenever I'm commuting, I'm listening to mainstream media talk radio.
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And when they're doing the news reports, they don't refer to the freedom convoy as the
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They never say so-called Black Lives Matter, mind you.
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But it just shows you the prevailing double standard.
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And thankfully, we have other sources, your website included, to get the other side of
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So, Spencer, thank you so much for weighing in on this.
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And that was Spencer Fernando of spencerfernando.com.
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More of the Ezra Levent show to come right after this.
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Well, folks, lots of feedback regarding my interview with Jim Carajalios and his theories as to
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why Ontario Premier Doug Ford is so terrified to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry in
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Contra writes, it was obvious to anyone with a functioning frontal lobe that Ford was a soy-ass
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You know, I'll tell you, talk about the ultimate example of bait-and-switch when it comes to Ontario politics.
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I think the rank and filed of Ford nation thought that Doug Ford was just the same as his dearly departed brother, Rob Ford.
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And what we've discovered these past four and a half years is that nothing could be further from the truth.
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BigDaddyJ69 writes, wondering just how much of a kickback Ford is getting.
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I have no evidence to suggest there's any shenanigans going on there.
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But remember, this was the same premier who kept saying, we're all in this together as places like Adamson's Barbecue was shut down and eventually put into bankruptcy.
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Meanwhile, crown corporations like the LCBO and big companies that had lobbyists working for them, that would be Walmart.
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They got to stay open and lo and behold, the Ford family's deco labels, they stayed open and apparently business was never better.
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You know, producing all that signage and those arrows of how to walk in stores.
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Frogman2 writes, testifying under oath means Ford can't lie.
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Well, it's either that, that he's afraid of lying on the stand, or maybe it's a matter of there is just simply no good cherry cheesecake in our nation's capital.
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The big boss man, Ezra Levant, he'll be back from his travels tomorrow.
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In the meantime, stay safe, and as always, stay sane.
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And there was York Regional Police and Mark Cruiser's here, and that person was so brazen to seem to try to attempt something with his vehicle.
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Well, I'm not able to comment on an ongoing investigation.
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I can tell you that there have been charges laid.
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If you'd like to make a formal inquest in relation to a media inquiry, you can do that through our media office.
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Is our government here in Canada doing enough to support the Iranian people?
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We are fighting on your behalf, on Canadians' behalf.
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Canadians have no idea how many terrorists organized sent to Canada by Iranian regime.
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We are fighting your fight, and I hope Canadians, we are going to be here every Sunday.
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David Menzies for Rebel News here in Thornhill, Ontario.
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And, folks, I'm back at the scene of the crime, quite literally.
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Now, you can see some demonstrators protesting against this mosque, which allegedly has ties to the Iranian regime and has been accused of money laundering.
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And they were here last Sunday, we were covering that demonstration as well, but just 15 minutes after we left, well, check this out.
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Yes, so apparently this individual, people suspect, was trying to position his SUV to hop the curb
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It's absolutely stunning because there was already York Regional Police on site, but the driver did not care.
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And speaking of the driver, that would be Faraz Al-Najim, 38, of Toronto.
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And Mr. Al-Najim has a very checkered history when it comes to hatred.
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He has dressed up as an Orthodox Jew, gone into Jewish areas, and harassed Holocaust survivors, if you can believe it.
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And he is now pro-Iranian regime, for reasons that escape me.
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And he was charged last Sunday with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, flight from police, and weapons dangerous,
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which is to say he had bear spray in his vehicle.
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Now, if you can believe it, he only did it one night in the cooler.
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Funny that, how Tamara Leach had to do 48 days in jail, but that's another story.
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In any event, I don't think this guy's learned his lesson on Saturday, yesterday.
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There was a large anti-regime demonstration on Yonge Street.
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And Al-Najim drove by, and he posted this video on TikTok.
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And as you can see, these people are all lost cases, munafiqeen, as we call them, is that, hypocrites.
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Or they're part of the munafiqeen al-Khalq, terrorist organization, well-known.
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As you can see, these guys are wasting their life, wasting their time.
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And the government of Canada, unfortunately, is empowering them.
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And that's possibly why they got me arrested the other day,
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and the police twisted it around and turned it all around,
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that Mr. Frost on the gym was driving to hurt the protesters or something like that,
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We will reform the system by winning this case and fighting it to the end.
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Yeah, so you can't teach an old dog new tricks, it would appear.
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In any event, I'm back here to see if this man will dare show his face.
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He is a freedom fighter, a patriot, an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime.
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He witnessed firsthand last Sunday what happened.
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First of all, I want to talk about his background just a little bit.
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He had threatened me five years ago that he's going to kill and everything else.
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Prior to the demonstration, he had threatened again the others.
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At the beginning, he had threatened myself first.
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Anyway, when we had the demonstration, I was not sure he's going to show up or not,
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But I was, my eyes always was on the streets, what's happening.
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I was standing right by the, by the police station, police officers there over there,
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by the car standing in the south, south of the line, just like this in the south part of it.
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As soon as I looked at him, he's driving strangely.
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I looked, I, when I saw his face, right from the driver, driver's side.
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I start yelling at the police, that's him, that's him, that's him.
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Only thing that came in my mind, what can I do?
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All I would see at that point, maybe it took a few seconds, but that few seconds for me was years.
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All I pictured was in my mind, I'm going to see the dead people shot on the streets, blood coming down.
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And even on the other videos, you can see, I'm yelling at him, I'm yelling, running to the streets,
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shouting at him, I'm here, I'm here, if you want to shoot me.
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I didn't know if they have a gun or not, what they have.
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The way he attracted me, I was expecting the machine gun.
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And I am shouting at him, I'm here, I'm here, I'm running after them to the street.
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And he came from there, turned over here, fast turned, and people by that time realized something going on.
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And he came, there was nobody in front of him there.
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And then cars were coming, he couldn't do that.
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At that point, police guys start running towards him.
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And Nasser, can I ask you, do you think his intention was to hop the curb here and to harm these demonstrators?
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He wanted to come to the crowd to kill a lot of people.
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What I find amazing is that there were several police here, some in uniform, some in mark cruisers.
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And even with the police presence, this guy was so brazen to potentially stage an attack.
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Absolutely, we have, he's not the only one, David.
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What we are fighting for here right now in this mosque that you see in here, we are fighting on your behalf.
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Canadians have no idea how many terrorists organized, sent to Canada by Iranian regime.
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And I hope Canadians, we are going to be here every Sunday.
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And are you worried that he might come back today because he only spent a night in jail?
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I am very worried for all others that they are here.
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They want to, that fascist done, regime done, dictatorship done.
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I am worried that something is going to happen.
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And they charge him with the hate crime and attempted murder in public.
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And Nasser, what I'm shocked at, well, kind of,
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is the fact that the mainstream media is completely disinterested in this story.
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There was barely any coverage in Canadian media to find out about this individual.
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I had to read about him in the Jerusalem Post, for goodness sakes.
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These people are coming with the money, for the money.
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Terrorist supporters, the terrorists themselves.
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I remember a Toronto police officer warning me not to use the T word, terrorist,
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Because that's going to incite a breach of the peace.
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If I was to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist, that would be against...
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They did a very sympathetic piece on this mosque calling the graffiti on the walls Islamophobic
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when, for all we know, the person that did the graffiti might be a Muslim himself.
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The graffiti was in Farsi, and it wasn't anti-Muslim.
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Why is it that people in the mainstream media are so stupid?
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They are, if they cover that, but they don't cover when they're making a terrorist act towards the people standing in here.
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But I'm asking from all Canadians, please, email Mr. Trudeau.
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IRGC, they must be going on the terrorist list.
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Because if they go, they go to terrorist list, all their members are in Canada.
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Right now, in our country, we have a lot of, lot of them in Vancouver, Toronto, there, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, a lot of them.
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In the time that this regime needs, they're going to do a lot of different terrorist acts.
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Before it's too late, before somebody loses their life, please act now.
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And we know hundreds of people have been killed.
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So it's a very dangerous thing in Tehran to come out and do a demonstration like you're doing here in Thornhill, isn't it?
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Yes, it was a lot of people that came from here.
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And there's Iranian people, Iranian women, they stand up everywhere in U.S., in America, in Canada, Europe, everywhere in the world.
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And ma'am, the Iranian government yesterday said that Saturday was the last day they would tolerate demonstrations in Iran.
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If people dare to come out another day in Iran to demonstrate, what do you think is going to happen?
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Very soon as the Iranian government is going to come down, we're going to bring it down for sure.
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Because look at this, we don't have this, it's a revelation now.
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So these intimidation tactics are against the people are not going to work.
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The people are still going to come out and demonstrate.
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They're going to stand up all the time, for sure.
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And then until the government is going to come down.
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Is our government here in Canada doing enough to support the Iranian people?
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I was just wondering, I was here last week too, officer.
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And there was York Regional Police and Mark Cruiser's here.
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And that person was so brazen to seem to try to attempt something with his vehicle.
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Well, I'm not able to comment on an ongoing investigation.
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If you'd like to make a formal inquest in relation to a media inquiry, you can do that through
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I thought you really acted bravely and efficiently.
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So, Nasser, you just pointed out this sign on the other side of the fence at the mosque.
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And it says, this is a place of worship under supervision of the Canadian government.
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This is just a praying place under supervision of the Canadian government.
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Because really, as we've seen so many churches locked down and pastors arrested during the
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COVID lockups, who wants the government at a place of worship in the first place?
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Even Canadian government should come there, say, what kind of a sign?
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If the Canadian government is supporting this, we'd like to know.
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It's trying to portray itself as we're a member of Canadian society.
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Everybody's got it wrong about the ties of the regime, the accusations of money laundering,
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This mosque, member of the IRGC members, they have issued a lot of statements saying that
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if you go to the front of the mosque to the administration, there's a three to ten years jail time.
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This is what they have said to Iranian Canadians, that they don't know the laws.
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And in here, when you see that, obviously, they're going to say, oh, they're right.
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And I'm asking from Canadian authorities immediately to come to remove this sign.
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Well, I guess that's part of the war, the propaganda front, right?
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Well, folks, here we are at Pearson International Airport, home to the newest merry band of censorious slugs.
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You see, Pearson wants media people to give them 24 hours notice when they show up to cover a story.
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Oh, and they're going to send an escort along with you, you know, to monitor the questions you're asking.
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In any event, you know we'd love to give you the other side of the story, the side of the story the mainstream media isn't reporting.
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So if you can go to rebelinvestigates.com, that's rebelinvestigates.com.
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And if you can chip in a buck or three, we would greatly appreciate it.