MUST SEE： New poll reveals how citizens see journalists — and how journalists see themselves
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A new poll measures the difference between how citizens see journalists and how journalists see themselves, and it's pretty good. It's based on a meticulous, meticulous methodology, with a huge sample size, and a meticulous methodology that will surprise most journalists.
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Tonight, an amazing opinion poll measures the difference between how citizens see journalists
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and how journalists see themselves. You're going to want to see this.
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It's November 30th, and this is 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 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I've got this great poll about journalists I want to show you.
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Huge sample size, meticulous methodology. Just gorgeous.
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It won't come as news to you, I bet, but it will come as news to most journalists themselves.
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Bad news, news they will bury, which is probably why you haven't heard of this study,
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even though it is meticulous and authoritative and very, very interesting.
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Because journalists are narcissists. It's part of the job, I think.
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You have to have a certain arrogance if you're going to tell people what to think of the world.
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I mean, I suppose there's some pure, 100%, just-the-facts reporters out there
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who don't self-aggrandize, who don't spin their own personal opinion, having a tough time naming one.
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And even if they cover something with minimal commentary and don't make themselves the center of the story,
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even the choice of what journalists cover and what they ignore, that's political too, isn't it?
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And that's my point. If you're in the business of telling people what to think and how to think and what to do,
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And by the way, I'm not excluding myself from this criticism, but I think we wear it on our sleeve here,
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a little more explicitly. Part of the mission of the rebel is to change the world.
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But I think that aside from Hollywood celebrities, would you agree with me?
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The journalists have the highest self-regard of any profession, if you could call journalism a profession.
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I mean, maybe fighter pilots or astronauts have more arrogance.
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Maybe the top brain surgeon in the country has a sense of importance that is unmoored from reality, maybe.
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But those people really do have objectively quantifiable skills,
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and they've got to be the best of the best, right?
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And I also note that those professions, astronaut, fighter pilot, brain surgeon,
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Especially the junk journalism of the left these days.
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The rivers of leftist groupthink, sexed up occasionally by clickbait,
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but always just droning on and on, scolding readers for being racist, sexist, transphobic, Islamophobic, whatever.
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Here's just one of a hundred examples I could show you.
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The holiday TV classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, is seriously problematic, people.
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Sleeping Beauty is a form of rape culture, you see.
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Because when the prince kissed her to wake her up, he didn't have her consent.
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These are just crazy examples, but I put it to you that at least 50% of the news these days,
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not even from the kooks like BuzzFeed or, you know, Vice,
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I put it to you, 50% of the news these days, even on global news or the CBC,
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it's just some item designed to change your views about, I don't know, Syrian migrants
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or transgenderism or global warming or whatever.
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So here's what's so great about this new study I mentioned, this new poll.
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It doesn't just ask the general public what they think of journalists.
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It asks the same question of journalists themselves and then compares the two sets of answers.
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It would be like asking those jet pilots I mentioned before,
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or maybe let's say a commercial jet pilot, how do you think the flight went?
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And then asking the passengers too and then comparing.
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Or, I don't know, asking someone who just did have brain surgery or heart surgery,
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And then comparing that answer to what the surgeon himself thought.
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Useful, I mean, pretty important to have those two answers in sync.
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If a doctor thought the surgery went great, but the patient thinks it was botched,
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if the plane had a terrible landing, but the pilots thought it was smooth,
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So how do journalists do in the eyes of their customers
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Well, two major U.S. universities tested that question.
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Arizona State and University of Texas at Austin,
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which, if you don't know, Austin is considered the San Francisco of Texas
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So this was a study done by the Center for Media Engagement,
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Together, they're talking about the two universities,
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We designed and tested an online survey that three news organizations used
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to examine transparency, engagement, and mutual understanding
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In total, 4,854 people participated in the survey from three communities.
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I think that's pronounced Macon, Georgia, Fresno, California,
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who also surveyed 88 journalists and 51 news sources.
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This report provides insight into what we learned across those surveys.
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And this was done in cooperation with their newspapers, right?
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And by that, they mean someone who's quoted in a news story.
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That's what they call a news source, like the person they interviewed for a story.
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So they had California in the west, Missouri in the heartland,
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It's not the whole country, but it is a mix, isn't it?
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And I'm going to spend the rest of my monologue looking at just two graphs.
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Now, hold this up on the screen for a bit because I'm going to go through it.
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The three colors, as you can see, represents the three different groups of people.
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That is a person who witnessed a car crash and then was interviewed by a journalist,
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a spokesman for a union or a company, or maybe a politician.
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As in the source of information given to the journalist.
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And of course, red is the journalist themselves, or orange, I guess, dark orange.
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And they were rating the journalist on a scale of one to five.
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And this, as you can see, image has three questions on it.
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And this is about fact-based reporting, as you can see in the title.
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Those little three bars on the left there underneath it.
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Do journalists care about getting the facts right?
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As you can see, journalists, that's the dark orange bar.
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You know, that works out to, what, what's that, like 96%?
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That's the brain surgeon saying, I did that surgery perfectly.
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You won't even know he had a stroke or something.
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That's the pilot saying, perfect three-point landing in the jet.
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The people who actually had to deal with the reporters, the news sources, as you can see,
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that's the yellow bar there on the left, they gave the reporters just 3.5 out of five
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It's not quite a failing grade, but it's pretty iffy.
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So one-third of the time, I'm just interpreting here, one-third of the time, there'd be a
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But look at the bar graph on the very, very, very left.
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They say journalists care about getting the facts right only 2.9 stars out of five.
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Would you stay at a hotel that got 2.9 stars out of five in terms of cleanliness or service?
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I guess if you were really looking to save money or were desperate or something.
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Now, I don't know who's right here, but there's a rule of thumb.
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And the customer says the media don't care about facts.
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But what's really interesting here, and that's the main point, is that the journalists themselves
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are obviously in their own planet, on their own world, in their own galaxy.
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And to them, they're as close to saints as can be without a beatification, 96%.
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Now, let's look at that chart in the middle there.
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And you can see the question at the bottom, are the journalists fair in their reporting?
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But look, you can still see they give themselves 4.6 out of five.
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We're right in the middle here, that orange bar.
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News sources, that is people who talk to journalists, they know the media isn't fair.
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And in this case, they really are the judge of fairness, aren't they?
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Now, the last group of charts is on the right-hand side, those three bars.
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That provides all the information you really need to understand.
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That's asking, do journalists provide the information you need to fully understand the news?
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Sorry, that was they were asked, do journalists provide all the information needed to fully
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Now, I don't necessarily think it's a fair question.
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I don't know if it's possible for someone to fully understand the news in a two-minute
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soundbite, or even a half-hour show, or even a 500-word newspaper article.
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But for however hard journalists say they are trying, 3.9 out of five, they fail in the eyes
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Now, there are so many numbers here, I don't want to blizzard you under them, but there
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is one more comparison chart I want to show you.
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This just uses one-word tests to describe the media and ask people what they think.
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So you basically, you see those words at the bottom, biased, engaging, credible, accurate,
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They just put these to people and say, do you strongly disagree, or do you strongly agree?
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The public, that's that blue line there, says journalists are biased.
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In fact, as you can see, that is actually the highest rating the public gives journalists
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It's the single most fitting word in this whole poll, the one word the public is most likely
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Again, by source, I mean people who are actually quoted by journalists so they would know.
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Now, journalists themselves only rate themselves a two out of five on bias, but think about it
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still, that's an incredible number of journalists who admit they're biased.
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That's 40% of journalists just admit they're biased.
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Now, the next group of bars is testing the word engaging.
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I think engaging means interesting, captivating.
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So as you can see there, the media thinks they're fabulous.
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It's like someone who thinks they're a great joke teller or a great singer or a great dancer.
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And everyone else says, yeah, man, you're okay, but don't quit your day job.
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You're maybe not quite as great as you think you are.
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Well, these folks whose day job is journalism think they are riveting.
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And the fact that newspaper subscriptions decline every month hasn't rung the alarm for them
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And the one after that, accurate, very, very similar results.
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Fair and transparent are the last two questions.
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In which case they give themselves a solid B for fairness and transparency.
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I read a little bit about the methodology to you.
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But it looks methodical and accurate as far as it goes.
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What do you think the results would be in Canada?
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I think we're worse up here than they are down there in the states.
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The CBC, for example, is bigger than all other private news media combined.
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And they're explicitly political on everything from global warming to gun control to Donald
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I mean, how do you think David Suzuki, who has had a perch at the CBC for 40 years, how
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Now, if you were honest, he'd admit he's as biased as any other anti-oil extremist in
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But the CBC pretends, or maybe they actually think, he's just the bee's knees.
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I bet Canadians know they're being lied to every day.
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I think that's why Canadians watch so much U.S. news.
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Why Canadians, when polled, disagree with the elites most recently on the carbon tax and
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I mean, I remember when Justin Trudeau gave $10.5 million to Omar Khadr.
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And Trudeau obviously did it for their applause.
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But Trudeau, I think he was genuinely surprised when ordinary Canadians hated it.
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He made the mistake, easy to do when you're in an elitist bubble, of thinking that what
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Another huge difference between the elites and the mainstream Canadians.
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And that's all before Justin Trudeau's new $595 million slush fund kicks in.
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How do you think that would affect all of these numbers, from bias to transparency to factual
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If Canadians come to know that their newspapers and TV stations are getting payoffs from Trudeau
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in an election year, do you think that would increase or decrease trust and belief in the
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Obviously, it would make all those numbers worse.
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But at least narcissists, if you know your Greek mythology, actually was beautiful.
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Journalists love themselves as wise and honest and accurate and fair.
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And more to the point, their own customers don't think so.
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Look, we're not perfect here at The Rebel either.
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But we do our best to side with the people and to listen to our customers.
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Because if we don't, we're not going to be in business long.
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Because we live 100% on the contributions of our viewers.
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The way we know we're respecting our customers.
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Because if we don't, our crowdfunding would dry up overnight.
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We have to be attentive and respectful of our viewers.
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But with the rest of the media, especially with this slush fund now,
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there is only one viewer they have to please now.
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it's only journalists that he can trust that gets it.
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So, yeah, I'd like to see a survey like this done in Canada, wouldn't you?
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But then again, no university or media company would dare to do it.
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about something called the UN Global Compact for Migration,
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talking about how it normalizes and legalizes mass migration and grants new rights.
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As I mentioned to you, I typed in the word rights into a search engine for that one document,
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Well, of course, when there is a right to something,
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And the parliamentary budget officer has calculated the cost of the tens of thousands of migrants so far
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who have simply walked across the border from New York State to Quebec
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since Justin Trudeau tweeted an invitation a couple years ago.
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Let me quote from an article in today's Toronto Sun by our friend Anthony Fury.
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Illegal border processing costs alone to exceed $1 billion.
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And joining us now is the author of this article,
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Anthony, that's a staggering amount of money, and that's just for the feds, isn't it?
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And what the PBO does, Ezra, is when any parliamentarian makes an official request,
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they go about and do it as much as they can with their resources.
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So one MP said, I'd like to know the cost of all of this.
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And they compiled data from all these different federal agencies,
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RCMP, CSIS, CBSA, which is the Border Services Agency,
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the Interim Federal Health Program, and so forth,
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and tried to tabulate all of this money to find just how much was this costing.
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Now, when you really delve into the report, one of the things that's really interesting, Ezra,
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is it's really hard to get a handle on actually the costs year over year that we're putting into this,
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because it is just such a mess, the whole program.
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You've got migrants coming across the border, and they're accessing federal services,
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which is the RCMP when they see them, the processing at the Immigration and Refugee Board.
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But then they're getting on various buses and what have you to places like Toronto and Cornwall,
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and they're accessing services there that are provincial, that are municipal as well.
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So the PBO wanted to do as best of a capture as possible.
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So really, all this $1.1 billion is, Ezra, is the number to process the requests,
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This is not at all including any sort of social services.
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And I should point out, and I know this is obvious to everyone,
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the vast, vast majority of these folks have not finished their refugee or asylum claim.
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So they've gone through the intake, but just a few percent of them have had their hearing.
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They're scheduling hearings for some of these folks as far in the future as 10 years.
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I saw a story out of Quebec that someone got an appointment 10 years into the future.
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And I see in your story that just these processing costs federally are working out.
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By next year, it'll be over $16,000 per person.
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And that's really just a paperwork cost, isn't it?
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That's just really to stamp and file and just to intake them, isn't it?
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I mean, that is the combined fee of the man hours of the RCMP guy being your bellhop when you first enter,
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to the other person submitting your claim, to the Immigration Refugee Board judge hearing you.
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And that $16,000 is what they've compiled to be the average.
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So the reasonable amount of time that they expect this will take.
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It goes up to about $35,000, which would be the cost for a claimant to keep appealing after they get rejected
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So the costs that come with all of that and the deportation.
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The other thing that's very interesting that they note, Ezra, is that the more people who come across the border,
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of course, the more people who they're going to be making claims, and the less efficient the system becomes.
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So the less economy of scale you have, so the more per person it costs.
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It's a very interesting idea, but a very sensible one, that the more the system gets bogged down,
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the more expensive it becomes every single month.
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And, of course, I see in your article that the city of Toronto, so, again, you've got your federal costs.
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And the city, which runs homeless shelters, food banks, things of that sort,
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I see that 40% of the folks in these Toronto shelters are Trudeau's migrants.
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So, I mean, obviously, Aboriginal people, urban Aboriginals, have had a challenge on homelessness and need shelters.
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And, of course, there's just Canadian citizens down on their luck.
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Like, but approximately 40% of people in our homeless shelters, they're foreigners who've come in as migrants.
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And, I don't know, there's no formal housing for them.
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You know, it's a very underreported element, Ezra.
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As you know, I'm also a host on SiriusXM Canada.
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And right across the street from our studio is a parking lot.
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And they've closed down the parking lot for an area where there's not much parking,
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but there are a lot of people going for work and to frequent the shops and the restaurants and so forth.
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They've shut down something like 150, 200 parking spaces to put up a temporary facility to deal with the influx of a lot of more people coming to the shelters,
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And they've paid something like a million dollars for it.
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And if you read it based on what just the reporting is, you'd think it's just some little shacks they're putting up,
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like you make a tent when you go camping with your family, and then they tear it down later.
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I've been watching this thing every day as I'm in the studio hosting my radio show.
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And these guys are bringing in plumbing, bringing in new sort of cement blocks that they drill into the foundation.
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And this is pretty much, you know, the old saying is there's nothing more permanent than a pilot project.
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So this has, I think, permanently changed a lot of the Toronto social service delivery.
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There's one more thing that you bring to light, which I find very interesting.
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Of course, the global compact for migration, which we've been going through on our show yesterday with Giddy Mammon,
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today on my show Battleground, we went through 10 days.
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And then I end up getting hate mail from people saying, why aren't you writing about it?
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In fact, I was just about to say, you're the only guy.
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The number, sorry, I wasn't, I wasn't, in fact, I was just.
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But I'm getting, I'm getting the hate mail saying they think I've been bought off by
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Listen, you keep tweeting those and I'll retweet it to our people.
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No, you're, you're one of the few guys who's actually read the thing.
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And there's a, what's interesting to me is that document, part of me doesn't make a lot
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of distinctions between refugees, asylum seekers, or just any old migrant.
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And here's what, the reason I mentioned that is I'm looking at your, your story in the,
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And let me just quote a paragraph of what you wrote.
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While it was originally reported that Haitians made up the majority, they have now been overtaken
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Those two countries comprise the vast majority of arrivals with people from Turkey, Colombia,
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I mean, I'm not an expert in those countries, but I don't think there's a genocide in those
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Colombia is, there's some narco terrorists, but I think most of these people are not
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I think they're just here to get, to get free stuff, to have a better life and to get
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And maybe those aren't even bad things, but I don't think these are refugees.
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Not only is that not a controversial thing to say, Ezra, but that is a thing being said
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by every single nonpartisan bureaucrat who ends up actually speaking about this issue,
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everyone really other than Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts.
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Appearing before the Cornwall City Council, I think it was late last year, was a gentleman
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who's director general for a refugee resettlement program for the federal government in the
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And he explained to Cornwall City councillors there, and he wasn't saying this as if he was
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applauding it, but he was saying, guys, you've got to realize the new normal in Canada
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is the European migration issues that they have there have come here, and that is what
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And I thought, wow, that is wild to see a senior level bureaucrat actually sort of publicly
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And the big challenge with all of this, Ezra, and a lot of people who want to engage in the
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fact wars and say, oh, you've got to say irregular, it's mean to say illegal, et cetera, et
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The main challenge here, these are self-selected migrants.
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A certain percentage of them probably would be qualifying to come in legally to Canada.
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I think it's a small percentage, but there is a percentage, but it's not up to them to
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It's that simple, very basic fact that a lot of people are missing here.
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I mean, I don't think I would personally like to live in Turkey, but it's not, you know,
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I mean, I wouldn't want to be a Kurd in Turkey.
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But just for someone in Turkey to say, you know what, I'm going to Canada, someone in
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Colombia, I'm going to Canada, that's not enough, but that seems to be enough.
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You are one of the only Canadian journalists writing about this global migration pact.
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And what's interesting to me is it's a done deal.
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Like the actual title of the document is Agreed Upon Outcome.
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I think it's just sort of a convention and a signing ceremony or anything.
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Will this UN Global Compact for Migration, in your opinion, will it be a starter pistol
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for more migration, for more programs, for more open borders?
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Do you think it'll actually cause a change in policy on the ground in Canada?
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Or is it just some symbolic thing that you'll see lots of press releases about, but no action
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like the global warming conventions, like the Paris convention?
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I mean, Catherine McKenna and Justin Trudeau talk a lot about it, but they don't actually
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Do you think this is going to cause our immigration in this country to go up to $450,000 a year?
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Ezra, my favorite line in politics used to be that line I just said, which is there's
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My new favorite line is there's nothing less voluntary than non-binding agreements.
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What this UN Migration Compact is, is a non-binding agreement.
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So we're just all kind of voluntarily saying, sounds good, we're signing ourselves up.
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You know that US-Paris climate deal scam thing, Ezra?
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You know how that basically means we have a gun to our head for these, and we're facing
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carbon taxes, and the little guys being hoes, and anytime you try and oppose it, everyone
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That is voluntary, even though it seems like people are going to be sent to the stockades
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And I think we're in a very similar situation with this alleged non-binding deal.
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And I think we've got to ask a lot of questions about it, because this is national federal
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policy that may end up being dictated by the bureaucrats in the UN, who managed to be the
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Well, very interesting, and thanks so much for coming on the show.
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Folks, if you want to read the article, you can find it on the Toronto Sun.
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The headline is, Illegal Border Processing Costs Alone to Exceed $1 Billion, PBO Report.
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We've been talking with our friend Anthony Fury.
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But I'm glad Anthony's fighting the good fight.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Trudeau controlling news in the next
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Henry writes, the coming election is very much about Canada staying a free and democratic
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state versus Trudeau's favorite form of government, Chinese communism.
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There's some truth to it, though, because, look, in the United States, their system is
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You've got the executive, you've got the legislative, you've got the judiciary.
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Individual senators or congressmen have a lot more latitude.
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So even with a Barack Obama, who's an ideologue, or the left would say Trump is on the war path,
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I mean, just this month, Donald Trump lost control of the House of Representatives.
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That's a check on his power for his entire term in office.
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He has an absolute majority in the House of Commons.
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A prime minister with a zealous mission can do a lot more damage in Canada than a good
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or bad zealot in the United States because we don't have the same checks and balances.
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I'm not going to say we're going to go full China or full Cuba, but in four years, a prime
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minister can do much more damage to Canada than a president can do to America.
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On my interview with Giddy Mammon about the UN's global compact on migration, Ron writes,
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I've watched Giddy for a couple of years, and no one can argue that he is not an expert
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This UN migration pact is a serious problem that could severely change the world's democracies.
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I couldn't help but notice Giddy shaking his head when reading and interpreting many of
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Yeah, you know, I was looking at Giddy's credentials.
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He's been an immigration and refugee lawyer for 30 years.
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And he's actually certified by the law side of Africa Canada as an expert specialist in
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There's only about a dozen or two guys like that.
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So, I mean, he's practically a professor of it, if I may interpret that.
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And like I always say, he loves immigration and refugees.
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It's all he does is he brings people into Canada.
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He's, I think he's Jewish from North African extraction.
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I would say 95% of his clients are probably minorities.
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He spent his whole life bringing people into Canada.
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So no one could ever say, Giddy, you're a racist, bigot, anti-migrant.
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He's brought more people to Canada than probably anyone else.
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So when he says this system is insane, when he says this is broken, when he says this will
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Billy writes, I think tonight's show is the most frightening yet for our freedoms and
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Billy, I'm not sure which part of the show you're referring to.
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I presume you're talking about the Global Compact for Migration.
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And, uh, if you haven't read the document yet, you can find it, um, on our website.
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You can, you can Google it in a second yourself.
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But if you go to rebelun.com, I think you'll find it there.
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Uh, and that Global Compact for Migration, I talked about it today.
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If you go to YouTube every, I don't know if you know this, every Friday at 12 noon, I
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sit down for an hour and I just riff and I take live chat.
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Every, uh, Friday at 12 noon Eastern time, 10 a.m.
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And I took questions and, um, it, it hit me that this is not a technical legal document.
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Yeah, there's some baffle gab and, and vague buzzwords in it, but anyone can figure out
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This means there is a new human right to migrate.
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This means governments have to positively lobby for migration and positively stamp out
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They specifically talk about school curriculums.
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So you don't have to be a lawyer or a diplomat or a bureaucrat expert to understand this.
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So I encourage you to actually read the document.
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You can find it on our website or somewhere else.
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And the scariest part, and if you want to go to my YouTube show today, you can, uh, really
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I mean, there might be some signing ceremony in America, but it's already in the bag done.
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So we're sending David Menzies and a videographer.
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I mean, they keep Sheila Gunn-Reed out of the global warming conferences.
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We send her anyways, because we think she can do even better reporting, uh, from the outside
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So we're going to send David and, uh, we'll, that's actually coming up in just what, nine
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Go to rebelun.com if you want to see more on this.
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Um, and we'll have a lot more to say, especially as David goes over there.
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On that stressful note, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at
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Have a great weekend and keep fighting for freedom.