Rebel reporter ARRESTED at... Scheer Conservative event
Summary
For the first time ever, a Canadian journalist has been arrested at a political campaign. Oh, and it s our own David Menzies. We have a sit down with him after he was let go of handcuffs and came back to our office.
Transcript
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Hello, my rebels. We have a very important, long, interesting, colorful podcast for you today.
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Shocking, really. Our reporter David Menzies was arrested and handcuffed at a conservative event.
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Just unbelievable. I'll explain it the best I can, and then I have a sit-down with David
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for an hour. Once he was let go of handcuffs and came back to our office, I think you'll find it
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fascinating. Folks, before you go, can you do me a favor and go to premium.rebelnews.com,
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Tonight, for the first time ever, a Canadian journalist has been arrested
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at a political campaign. Oh, and it's our own David Menzies. It's September 30th,
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and this is The Astro Levant Show. 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. The only thing I have to say to the government
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about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Well, I had plans to talk to you about so many things today, about how the PPC party had a big event
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that Antifa crashed, and they caused a scene. Did you see this video online? Just shocking.
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Antifa, including masked thugs, screaming at an old lady physically blocking her walker.
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I thought that was shocking, and it said a lot about who the real extremists are in Canada.
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It said a lot about deplatforming. I was going to talk about that. I was going to talk about the former
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Supreme Court of Canada, Chief Justice, and her insane revelation that she, I just can't even
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believe she says this. She says she wanted to name her dog Stephen Harper so she could say,
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sit, Harper, sit. This is a joke from someone who for 40 years was a judge, only now that she's done
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showing how vicious and partisan she was. Did you see that clip? Take a look.
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You got a dog, eh? You almost named him Harper?
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Oh, it was a bit of a joke, but actually I was, I was, I thought it would be great because I like
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the name Harper. And I thought, it just seemed, I thought I could say, I joked to my husband that
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we could say, Harper sit, Harper lie down, bad boy Harper. And it was a little bit of a household joke,
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not intended maliciously at all. But in the end, I realized I'd have to go down to the dog park and
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say all those things in front of all the other people walking their dogs.
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And they'd read something. So I called him Mr. Darcy out of pride and prejudice.
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Oh, I was going to talk about these things and more, had started my work today. And then
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I got a phone call. David Menzies was kicked out of a conservative party campaign event.
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Now that bothered me, but frankly, it's not the first time that's happened to us.
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But then I got another phone call. David Menzies had been arrested and handcuffed. I had never heard
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of that before in Canada. I have heard about that in the United Kingdom with Tommy Robinson,
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but you heard me say it a dozen times. That's a dystopian future that we are nowhere near.
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David Menzies, handcuffed by police at a campaign event. And if you know David Menzies like I do,
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you know he's very polite. He's not rough. He doesn't swear. He doesn't shout. He doesn't push.
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How could they have arrested him? Well, I spent much of the day on that, talking to him.
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And then when police came and took away his phone, talking to a lawyer, trying to find him,
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seeing if we needed to bail him out. By the time we were legally ready, the police had actually
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let him go. Well, the day went by. And so I'm afraid my original plans for a monologue
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went to the wayside. I would like to show you two videos that I produced during the course of the day
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today. And I'll ask your forgiveness for putting them as my show tonight, simply because I've been
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working all day on the case of David Menzies and Andrew Scheer. It was Andrew Scheer that did this
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to David. I want to show you two parts. The first is a video I did earlier in the day, describing what
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I knew when it broke. Here, watch this video. It outlines my understanding as of around 1 p.m.
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Then come right back after that video, because after we aired that video, David himself came back
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to the office and he sat down with me and we had a live hour-long debrief. And we styled it
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as a YouTube super chat. You know what that is? That's a live chat with our viewers. And we did that
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about 3.45 p.m. if memory serves. And we took questions and calls from viewers through that.
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About an hour. So it's very long. But I think you'll find it riveting. David said a lot of
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things I did not know, including he was personally escorted into the conservative event by a conservative
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staffer. And yet he was thrown out, physically pushed. That's on tape. That he was arrested and
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handcuffed even after Andrew Scheer and all the campaign had left. And that it was the Durham police
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that set him free. The RCMP, for some weird reason, were trying to throw him in jail. Crazy,
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crazy. Let me explain. Here is the video that had the state of the art of my knowledge of this case
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at about 1 p.m. Take a look. Listen, I know I'm not part of Jerry Diaz's uniform union, but it'd be nice
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if you gentlemen and lady would be, give some solidarity. Can I not talk to these members of
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the press? Do we have freedom of press here? Do we or not? Pardon me? So this is, I don't know,
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I don't know why I'm being arrested. I can't believe it. We sent David the menzoid menzies
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to report from an Andrew Scheer campaign event like we normally do. CBC journalists were welcome
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today, but David was kicked out. They actually sent police to throw him out. He hadn't even done
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anything. He hadn't even been let in yet. Take a look.
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Sir, sir, sir. Let's just cooperate. I thought you were calling the police.
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We are calling the police. We'll meet them on site.
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Okay. Yeah, all right then. You were asked nicely to leave.
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So this is free speech in Canada right now. But you're not welcome to describe it.
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How about my brothers in the media? Are you going to stand up for this? Or is there going to be some
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He doesn't want him or not. Is this, I didn't know this was a Trudeau precedent. I thought it was a
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conservative president. Okay. Is there anyone going to be in solidarity with me? Any of you?
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They're going to have their own police to come in. No? Just wait for their own police to come in.
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All right. The Conservative Party said David Menzies wasn't accredited? Really? David's been
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an accredited journalist for 30 years. He's covered hundreds of political events from parties of
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every stripe, especially the Conservatives. Why would Andrew Scheer kick out David Menzies
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but welcome in the CBC, who despised the Conservatives? Is Scheer trying to suck up
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the CBC because they're controlling the leaders' debates? Just recently, Andrew Scheer was asked by
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a young student in Halifax if he'd let Rebel News reporters attend Conservative events. And
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Scheer told that student he would. Here, see for yourself.
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Would you please reconsider your approach on this topic and not ban or shun the Rebel or other
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small media stations who are working to report to the Canadian people the stories none of the other
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Thank you very much for the question. And I certainly congratulate you on being so engaged
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at 14 and having that kind of interest in not only political parties but also the dynamic
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between how events are reported and how different media outlets cover things and the accountability
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that goes on between media holding the government to account and also sometimes different outlets
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holding each other and fact-checking different stories in a wide variety of ways. So we always
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have an open policy towards the events we hold. You know, we're having this event tonight.
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Anybody is free to come. There's no barrier to entry. There's no barrier to come and report
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to video, to broadcast, to live stream. And that's something that we're going to continue to do.
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None of this makes any sense. Anyways, David left. He left the private property. He went to stand
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on the public sidewalk. He started filming a video from the public sidewalk. And then he
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was swarmed by police who arrested him and handcuffed him. Why did they do that? Who ordered them to do that?
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Am I under arrest, sir? Or the gentleman wanted to know? I think he said so. I don't know what
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far. I was on a public sidewalk. And the bus hit me. And then these guys are. Well, I'm
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just, the gentleman wanted me to answer the question. I'm just trying to answer the question. Am I
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under arrest? You're the one holding me. I assume you're law enforcement. What exactly happened?
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Why are you handcuffed? Well, I was, I was trying to get Andrew Scheer to answer a question, some
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questions, such as, if he's elected, will he end this media bailout? Will he privatize the CBC? What
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are his, you know, why, why are we not allowed into a press conference? And other members are. These
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are not gotcha questions. You know, these are, I think, we're owed an answer to this, especially when
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we were escorted out. And now look at this guy's, uh, handcuffed. So you were escorted out and handcuffed?
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Uh, no, uh, sorry. I was originally just, uh, brought out by the Durham Regional Police and told
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not to go on private property, even the parking lot, which I abided by. So I was on this side
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one. Okay. Thank you. Okay. You're so concerned you got my, my wrist in a, you know, handcuffed.
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You know, so you'll be safe. Okay. Listen, I know I'm not part of Jerry Diaz as a uniform union,
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but it'd be nice if, uh, you gentlemen and lady would be, uh, give some, uh, solidarity.
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Come on. Can I not talk to these, uh, members of the press? Do we have freedom of press here? Do we or not?
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Right? Pardon me? So, this is, I don't know, I don't know why I'm being arrested. I was, yeah, thank you.
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Get a picture of that, sir. My own safety, the bus is gone. I was on a public sidewalk. I was not on
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private property. Things are under control. I'm, I'm in perfect control. You know, you guys,
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I, well, it's a question. David had left the property. He was on the sidewalk. He's a man in
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his fifties with two artificial hips. He's not a screaming Antifa thug. He's not a trespasser.
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He's not violent. They handcuffed him. Why? To humiliate him? They finally took off his cuffs and he
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called me. But then more police came and took his phone away. I immediately called a lawyer. Within an
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hour, the police let him go without any charges. But, but the point was made, wasn't it? Don't you
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dare try to ask questions of our political elites or the police will arrest you and detain you for over
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an hour. Well, point not taken. I can tell you one thing. Today's outrageous treatment of David Menzies
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will not stop us from doing our jobs. I'll be candid. We were more used to Justin Trudeau
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banning us and Rachel Notley before she was fired by voters. It says more about them than it does about
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us. It actually does say something about us. We ask questions that the political elite would rather
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not be asked. Can you help us? Can you help us fight back? I think we have to fight back and we need
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your help. There's three things I want to do. First, tell your local conservative candidate that
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this is nuts. This is a Trudeau move, not a conservative move. Ask them if they think it's
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wise to ban the only conservative-leaning video company in Canada to ban us, but then to sick the
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police on us and arrest us? They literally handcuffed David Menzies. You wouldn't do that to any reporter.
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Forget about a conservative reporter. This is Canada. Why are you arresting and handcuffing
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any reporters? Who asked the police to do that half an hour after Menzies left?
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Talk to your local conservative candidate. Second thing I want you to do.
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Sign our petition to Andrew Scheer at letusreport.com. Letusreport.com. It's just what it sounds like.
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Just like Andrew Scheer lets the CBC report, we'll go to a conservative event and hand him the
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petition. Unless they handcuff us again. Andrew Scheer and I are old friends. Surely he'll treat us
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as well as he treats Jean Gomeschi's old network, the CBC. The third thing I'd like you to do is
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please help us keep on reporting. No matter who kicks us out, no matter how many lawyers we have
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to hire. I just got off the phone with David and I've told him to keep asking Andrew Scheer questions.
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Not gotcha questions. That's what the CBC does. But asking real questions. The kind the CBC would
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never ask him questions like these. Justin Trudeau's campaign platform calls for a new
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political censorship of the internet. Do you support or oppose this? That's a good question.
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Hey Andrew, if elected, would you end the $600 million newspaper bailout? Good question.
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Hey Andrew, if elected, would you privatize the CBC? Hey Andrew, what do you think the optimum number
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of immigrants is each year for Canada? And so many more. Those aren't trick questions.
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They're questions any conservative should answer, but they're questions that only Rebel News would
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ask. I mean, can you really see a CBC journalist pressing Scheer about ending the media bailout?
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My goal as the publisher of Rebel News is to do journalism. To tell the other side of the story.
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Now most of the time, that means asking accountability questions of the liberals,
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NDP, and Greens, because the mainstream media never does that. We lean conservative here at Rebel News,
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and we wear our heart on our sleeves. We want Trudeau gone. I just wrote a best-selling book
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called The Libranos, What the Media Won't Tell You About Justin Trudeau's Corruption.
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I think it's pretty clear what I stand for and have for 30 years. But that doesn't mean we're going
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to let Andrew Scheer become like Justin Trudeau. Having police arrest David Menzies and handcuff him
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was a Trudeau move. Not a move any conservative should be proud of. Actually, it's worse. I've never
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actually seen Trudeau have someone arrested of you. You can help us out at LetUsReport.com.
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Sign our petition to Andrew Scheer to Let Us Report. Then you can click on the link on that page to see
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all of our campaign plans and our campaign budget there, too. We're spending thousands of dollars
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flying David and our other journalists around the country covering political events. Andrew Scheer
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might think he's at war with us at The Rebel. We're actually not at war with him. We just want to be
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able to do our job, which is reporting. And we will do our job, whether he likes it or not.
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So go to LetUsReport.com to sign the petition to Andrew Scheer. And if you want us to keep going,
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and if you want Andrew Scheer to stop acting like Justin Trudeau, you can chip in a few bucks, too.
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I want David and Sheila and Kian and Jessica and the rest of our team to keep covering the news. If you do,
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too, call your conservative candidates, sign our petition at LetUsReport.com, and please chip in a few
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dollars to help keep us on the campaign trail. You can see our whole campaign plan, including our
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signature Jumbotron truck billboards and our Libranos lawn signs. Thanks. And Andrew, give your head
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a shake. You're trying to replace Trudeau, not become him. Go to LetUsReport.com.
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Well, that was my call to action before David came back to the office. He came to the office,
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sat down right here, and we talked for an hour, and he showed some video footage that he had taken.
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All right, I want to show you the full hour. You can skip through it, but I recommend you watch it.
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Hello and welcome. I'm Ezra Levant with an emergency broadcast coming to you live from
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Rebel World Headquarters here in a bunker in the greater Toronto area, and joining me now
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in studio is David Menzies, who has been released from police custody. David, great to see you.
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Hey, great to see you, Ezra. That sounds serious, that introduction there.
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Well, I was joking about the bunker, of course, but just in an office, but I was not joking
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about you being in police custody. It was a shocking day for me. I can only imagine what it was like
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for you. Maybe we can start by showing two sets of videos. The first, when you were responding
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to an invitation that the Conservative Party published to journalists to cover an event.
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Let's show that. We'll talk about that. Then let's show the police arrest of you later.
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David, I'm 47 and a half years old, and I have never heard of a journalist
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No. This is something that you think happens in Banana Republic dictatorships, when General
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Micio doesn't like the tone of the questioning. The fact that it's happening in a democracy
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in Canada in 2019. And remember, this is not even the Prime Minister, who I guess you could
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accuse of being a censorious thug. This is Brand X. This is the new guy. This is the guy that said
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he's committed to freedom of speech and freedom of expression on campus. And Ezra, the actions
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David, I've got to tell you, I have long predicted that the rebel would be subject to this kind of
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abuse. I travel to the United Kingdom, and I see how Tommy Robinson has been abused by the police
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and the courts there. And I was bracing for it for four and a half years, really. I always thought
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For it to happen at an Andrew Scheer conservative event is so surprising and disappointing to me,
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I can't even, I'm still trying to fathom it. In the meantime, why don't we go straight to the
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video. Justin, could you put the first video of the event? Why don't you set the table for us?
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This was just a run-of-the-mill Andrew Scheer campaign event. He emailed the whole press
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gallery, including us, inviting journalists. It's a press event. This wasn't like some private
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function at someone's house. This was an announcement. You've covered a hundred of
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these, a thousand of these. Yeah. In your 30-year, I mean, you've been a journalist longer than me.
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You're older than me. You've been a reporter for many papers. You've been at this business 30 years.
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1985. So 34 years for you being a journalist. You actually have a journalism degree, don't you?
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Not that I put too much stock in it, but if you want to check boxes, I think you're probably the
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only one here in our company that does. You've worked for Sun News Network. You've worked for
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various post-media newspapers, magazines. Absolutely.
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I think you probably, frankly, have written for more mainstream publications than anyone else at
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our company. It could be, yeah. I think so. Not just political stuff. You do cars. You did
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So there was nothing out of the ordinary about you attending this event at all.
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No. No. And indeed, I don't even, still right now, with all the stuff that's happened,
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I don't even know what was announced. And I think that, to me, is the shocking thing,
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is that, you know, let's put it this way, Ezra. If the sheer conservatives, and by the way,
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I was invited in. There was somebody with the party that brought me right up to the media room.
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Because there's some liars online saying, oh, you weren't invited. You tried to barge your way
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in. Not only were you invited, you said you were escorted.
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Absolutely. It was a very nice gentleman. He brought me right up because I didn't know where
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to go. We talked. And the fact that this was, and I mean, look who we are. We're Rebel Media. We
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have almost 1.3 million YouTube subscribers. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume most of those
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are red meat conservatives. This is the audience that Andrew Scheer ostensibly wants to address.
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I mean, why give a press conference anyways, other than to convey this latest plank in the party
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platform? But I think, you know, for his own selfish self-interest, Ezra, what he should have done
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is, oh, okay, somebody from the Rebels there. I don't like the Rebel for whatever reason, but
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who cares? He's one of, you know, a dozen journalists here. I won't even bother answering
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his questions. But no, it was leave or we're going to call the police. And I got roughed up in,
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you know, the hallway by an RCMP officer. He threw me into a wall. Later on, you know,
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I get hit by a bus and I get handcuffed. And, you know, I have the RCMP calling the Durham
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Regional Police. And they held the hammer whether they were going to charge me. But they heard
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both sides of the story and they let me go. And I want to thank the Durham Region cops for doing
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that. I was mortified that, you know, that five cruisers are just…
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Their big black Suburbans. And, you know, it was… I'm mortified because the cops should
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be rounding up criminals, not people practicing journalism.
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Or maybe show some courage and talk to Justin Trudeau about his corruption scandal.
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We got more cops on your case. You know, I talked to you on the phone and then you said,
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I got to go. There's more police. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. And I thought,
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oh my God. And I didn't know a lot about things. I got on the phone to a law firm and we didn't.
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And I said, well, just start calling around. I said, I don't know where he is. What's up?
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Well, by the time I reconnected with you, the Durham police did the obvious thing. I mean,
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You were not, obviously, violent or threatening violence.
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It was so absurd. You were on a public pedestrian sidewalk.
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I mean, I don't practice law. I haven't practiced law in almost 20 years. But no cop,
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no cop would lay charges on that because even if they were really mad at you,
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the prosecutor would throw this out and say, what are you doing? There's no chance of
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conviction. There's no public interest here. What are you doing? We're in Canada. We don't
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arrest journalists. Anyhow, I'm so mad. But the fact that you were personally escorted in
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by the Conservative Party, first of all, put the lie to some of the BS I see on social media that you
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somehow barged in. And second of all, that shows what a normal human being does. Oh, reporter,
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come on in. Anyhow, enough talk between you and me. Let's show the clip. Justin, play the first clip.
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This is inside the event. This is after David was personally escorted in by a Conservative Party
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media staffer doing what a normal Conservative Party media staffer would do. And then you said
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he got chucked against the wall. Let's take a look at this.
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So this is free speech in Canada right now. I'm all my brothers in the media. Are you going to stand up for this?
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Are you going to stand up for this? Are you going to stand up for this? Are you going to stand up for this?
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I didn't know this was a Trudeau precedent. I thought it was a conservative precedent.
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Is there anyone going to be in solidarity with me? Any of you?
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We don't have their own police to come in. Just wait for their own police to come in.
00:25:21.220
Now, I had some trouble hearing what the bald guy said. He looked like a cop to me.
00:25:24.920
He was. Looked like he had a bulletproof vest under that shirt. What was he saying to you? Do you recall?
00:25:29.420
It must have been a blur. So if you don't remember, that's okay.
00:25:32.420
I don't. It was probably get out of here because I don't know. I've already left where the press conference is.
00:25:39.420
Now I'm in the hallway of, I would assume, is a taxpayer-funded community center in Whitby.
00:25:45.620
And I was saying, I'm going to be here because when Mr. Shearer comes into the room, I have but one question to ask, which is, why aren't we here?
00:26:02.120
Now, this baloney about, oh, well, you're not an accredited journalist. I mean, give me a break.
00:26:08.920
You know what accredited means? It just means signing a piece of paper.
00:26:11.920
Yeah, we don't believe in journalists' licenses in Canada.
00:26:14.420
By the way, I see a super chat. Now, David, you know what I'm talking about.
00:26:16.920
A super chat is when folks chip in $5, $10, whatever, and their comment is put in a highlighted color.
00:26:23.920
So, Justin, I see just the one from Proud Boys Calgary. Is there other?
00:26:29.920
Nicest guy ever. Shame on the morons who ejected him.
00:26:32.920
And even greater shame on the journalists who raised zero objections.
00:26:40.920
That's a very good point there, is it's one thing for the cops to do that.
00:26:49.920
It's another thing for the conservatives to order the cops to do that.
00:26:54.920
But where the hell are the journalists in the first time?
00:27:00.920
I can't think of a journalist left-wing or right-wing, radical or mainstream, dissidents, citizens.
00:27:09.920
I can't think of a single journalist who's been arrested and handcuffed by police.
00:27:17.920
I mean, maybe it happened in the Second World War if someone broke an Official Secrets Act.
00:27:28.920
And did a single journalist object on your behalf?
00:27:35.920
I mean, we were playing clips there that Glenn McGregor posted to Twitter.
00:27:39.920
So at least, at least, Glenn McGregor filmed it.
00:27:44.920
I guess give the guy points for that, although newsworthy is newsworthy.
00:27:51.920
I saw a tweet from the Globe and Mail just saying, this happened.
00:28:02.920
David Akin worked with you and me at the Sun News Network.
00:28:10.920
I guess that's what happens when you're on the payroll of Unifor because Glenn McGregor,
00:28:22.920
I forget the name of the lady from the Globe and Mail, Unifor journalist.
00:28:27.920
So three Unifor journalists, each of whom is personally contributing from their own pocket
00:28:32.920
to an anti-Trudeau, sorry, pro-Trudeau, anti-Sheer campaign, not one of them said a word about
00:28:42.920
I said, what about, you know, some solidarity here, brothers and sisters?
00:28:46.920
And what was very frustrating, the most frustrating thing of all, was that they wouldn't even give
00:28:51.920
Now, after I got kicked to the sidewalk before the arrest happened, Ezra, Mitch Potter from
00:29:05.920
And I said, you know, Mitch, you know what gets me is that if this was happening to you,
00:29:16.920
And his rebuttal was, well, you know, Dave, you have to understand, and I'm paraphrasing
00:29:19.920
now, but it's on the tape, that, you know, any like crank could come into a press conference
00:29:26.920
And I said, Mitch, our Rebel News is four years old.
00:29:33.920
Before Rebel News, we're castaways from Sun News Network, right?
00:29:41.920
We've got here, let me show you David Akin's tweet.
00:29:44.920
The CPC, Conservative Leaders Tour, just removed an individual from the room where Andrew Scheer,
00:29:51.920
because that individual was non-accredited media.
00:29:53.920
That individual was David Menzies of Reverend Menzies.
00:29:57.920
I thought I was looking at another tweet, so he did name you there.
00:30:01.920
So again, Unifor journalist, taking his own union dues to pay for a pro-Trudeau campaign.
00:30:08.920
A bailout journalist, as the Unifor journalists are.
00:30:23.920
But the weird thing is, why would he not say one word about free speech?
00:30:37.920
I think you are, in some ways, the nicest reporter here at The Rebel.
00:30:55.920
But you, I mean, I remember when you were being hit with a pink cane by Jonathan Yaniv out there in Vancouver.
00:31:01.920
You were being hit by the, and even then, you didn't swear.
00:31:07.920
Here's a guy being hit with a cane, you won't even swear.
00:31:09.920
Friend to all, when you're interviewing people who are antagonistic to you, you even say,
00:31:15.920
Like, I think you are the most polite person at The Rebel.
00:31:18.920
I don't even think I've heard you swear, David.
00:31:25.920
So, anyone who's saying, oh, David was making a fuss, that's just a lie.
00:31:31.920
And Ezra, if I can interject, you know, I don't know what is the unspoken motivation of Andrew Scheer's camp driving this.
00:31:40.920
And I say this because about two weeks ago, we, I, representing The Rebel, we were the only media, the only media at the Toronto Old City Courthouse covering that woman who did, remember, that fraud?
00:31:57.920
Yeah, that fake vote for Scheer and then spitting on a minority.
00:32:01.920
You're the only person who debunked that and showed who the hoaxer were.
00:32:05.920
But when the hoax occurred, did you see the coverage you got?
00:32:08.920
Oh, look at this Andrew Scheer conservative deplorable.
00:32:11.920
You're making the case for why they should be friendly to you.
00:32:13.920
But they should be friendly to you even if you're hostile to them, even if you're rude.
00:32:18.920
Because we have freedom of speech in this country, freedom of press section to be the Charter of Rights.
00:32:31.920
Andrew Scheer was asked by a young woman in Halifax.
00:32:39.920
If he would allow rebel news reporters into conservative campaign events.
00:32:46.920
And she was a young girl, just asked the question, and he said absolutely.
00:33:01.920
Take a listen to her question and listen to the answer.
00:33:06.920
Would you please reconsider your approach on this topic and not ban or shun the rebel or other small media stations
00:33:12.920
who are working to report to the Canadian people the stories none of the other media want to cover?
00:33:25.920
And I certainly congratulate you on being so engaged at 14 and having that kind of interest in not only political parties,
00:33:32.920
but also the dynamic between how events are reported and how different media outlets cover things
00:33:37.920
and the accountability that goes on between media holding the government to account
00:33:41.920
and also sometimes different outlets holding each other and fact-checking different stories in a wide variety of ways.
00:33:47.920
So we always have an open policy towards the events we hold.
00:33:55.920
There's no barrier to come and report to video, to broadcast, to live stream.
00:34:00.920
And that's something that we're going to continue to do.
00:34:08.920
So the first thing is she said, please reconsider your ban of the rebel and other small media.
00:34:18.920
They were in Allegiant, so it's a good conservative place.
00:34:20.920
She's a 14-year-old girl, and he's a little bit paternalistic and patronizing.
00:34:26.920
He says, oh, good girl, you're so interested in things.
00:34:29.920
But then he says, we always have an open policy, no barrier, everyone's free to video and live stream.
00:34:39.920
He just said that to that girl, and not just to the girl, but to that room that obviously was a free speech room.
00:34:48.920
He said that because he didn't want to lose the room.
00:34:59.920
It was six months ago that he made that statement.
00:35:02.920
Did we do or say or state something in the last six months that we're deserving to be media non-granted of the Conservative Party?
00:35:13.920
Or I'm just thinking how the Andrew Scheer war room can spin this.
00:35:24.920
Now, David, I see some more Super Chats coming in, and I want to respect those Super Chatters.
00:35:32.920
So, Wiley saw chips in, I think that's two Swedish Franks, much love for the manzoid menzies.
00:36:12.920
And Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau's sort of Rasputin figure.
00:36:19.920
Now, I don't know for 100% sure when that photo was taken.
00:36:26.920
So, you see Althea Raj on the left and Gerald Butts on the right.
00:36:30.920
And I presume that Nick is accurate when he says this was taken just in the last day.
00:36:39.920
And he is terrified, probably, that she's going to ask about blackface or groping.
00:36:47.920
Whatever it is, they're having a little secret confab.
00:36:51.920
And that's how journalists on the government payroll are treated.
00:36:56.920
You're not on the government payroll, so you get arrested.
00:36:59.920
I think that was very important that you added in that she's going to be a moderator in an upcoming debate.
00:37:03.920
Because, in fairness, I can see journalists going to a restaurant, a cafe, talking with politicians, policymakers.
00:37:12.920
And nothing beats being there live in person as opposed to being over the phone or a computer or what have you, Ezra.
00:37:19.920
She should recuse herself if she's going to be in the role of moderator for this upcoming debate.
00:37:24.920
This is a little too, you know, comfortable for me.
00:37:28.920
I mean, once a trial is on, if you're a lawyer and want to talk to the judge, the other lawyer gets to be there.
00:37:39.920
And what was said in that conversation is secret from the other candidates.
00:37:42.920
Okay, there's a lot of super chats, so let me catch up.
00:37:46.920
Menzies is one of the only Canadian journalists with the interests of Canadians.
00:37:49.920
First, shameful and frustrating to see our country treat them this way.
00:37:54.920
Has David considered coming over to Britain next month to cover the no-deal Brexit that is supposed to happen on the 31st of October?
00:37:59.920
Well, that's an interesting question because our election will be done by then.
00:38:06.920
Now, David, what I showed you, or sorry, what we showed our audience is how you were treated when you were invited by email, met, greeted by a Conservative Party media staffer, brought to the room in a public facility.
00:38:29.920
And this severely normal press attache had no idea there was some weirdness going on.
00:38:35.920
And then it looked like the cop pushed you against the wall there.
00:38:41.920
It's like he's a bouncer at a nightclub who's got too many roids or something.
00:38:46.920
But there's no bloody reason for him to do that.
00:38:54.920
Is he trying to get you to, I think maybe he's trying to get you to drop your phone.
00:38:59.920
Anyway, so you left because we've got a rule around here.
00:39:03.920
If you're on private property and you're told to leave, leave.
00:39:10.920
You know, maybe stick around an extra five seconds, but leave.
00:39:14.920
And I don't even know if that public community center would count as private property if you're
00:39:19.920
no longer in the room rental, but I think he did the right thing.
00:39:23.920
So, and then that's when we talked on the phone the first time.
00:39:30.920
Film, hold your selfie stick out so we can film what's behind you.
00:39:36.920
But be on the sidewalk, not even on the parking lot.
00:39:49.920
I think it was one of the RCMP guys because I saw it thrown on top of the hood of the Suburban.
00:39:54.920
It was a moot point anyways, Ezra, because they were putting me in handcuffs.
00:40:01.920
Now, I just heard in my ear that Justin has that clip from your phone.
00:40:28.920
So you were standing on the public pedestrian sidewalk.
00:40:30.920
I want to confirm that because I think that's an important point.
00:40:33.920
So the sidewalk ends for the driveway of the community center and there is...
00:40:41.920
The bus has to stop whether there's a person there or not.
00:40:43.920
There's a stop sign even though it's in a private parking lot.
00:40:46.920
And that was going to be the backdrop and that was eight seconds long.
00:40:53.920
And what did they say to you when they grabbed that from you?
00:41:11.920
Well, I know at one point the female RCMP officer said, I'm trying to prevent you from
00:41:17.920
getting hit by the bus and the very next second you hear, I'm getting hit by the bus.
00:41:23.920
For whatever reason, if I'm the bus driver, Ezra, you know, even if I'm, you know, being
00:41:28.920
somewhat obnoxious by delaying them a few seconds, if there's anybody in front of my
00:41:35.920
I mean, first of all, you know, eight seconds isn't going to kill you.
00:41:41.920
Pedestrians have the right of way on a sidewalk.
00:41:49.920
He was trying to, you know, veer around the commotion.
00:41:56.920
I would give the bus driver the ban for the doubt.
00:42:04.920
So I just want, I'm going to ask you a fourth time.
00:42:15.920
It's a good question, Ezra, because my back was to the bus.
00:42:27.920
He was trying to get around the commotion and get on the road.
00:42:31.920
And I don't think that was a prudent idea because, you know…
00:42:34.920
God forbid he has to wait five seconds on the pedestrian stop sign.
00:42:39.920
And maybe he's being egged on in the bus, like, come on, move it, get out of here.
00:42:49.920
But you know, Ezra, like, what I'm trying to get in my mind, I'm trying to understand
00:42:52.920
Andrew Scheer shutting us down, especially with the demographics of our viewership.
00:42:57.920
I'm going to bet there's going to be a whole lot of our audience really pissed off
00:43:02.920
Well, you know, half our audience is Andrew Scheer people, half our audience is Maxime Bernier
00:43:13.920
I like the fact that he calls out the BS in the media party, and the fact that he talks
00:43:17.920
about real issues like open borders, immigration, political correctness, and global warming.
00:43:25.920
He's the only person who can beat Justin Trudeau, if anyone can.
00:43:30.920
So that's why I like the two candidates, and our audience is down the middle.
00:43:32.920
But I think our audience will be appalled by this.
00:43:35.920
And as you said earlier, there's absolutely no reason for this.
00:43:39.920
If he was smart, and I'm starting to doubt that he is, he would have let you in, and what
00:43:45.920
You'd have a selfie stick, and maybe you'd blurt out a question, but he could do what
00:43:49.920
all the politicians do, just take the questions he wants.
00:43:52.920
Maybe he'd even answer your question, if it was a good question, if he had a good answer
00:44:03.920
Sounds like you were bumped gently by a bus, but there's no difference between either you're
00:44:12.920
And then they grab you in your phone, and they arrested you.
00:44:16.920
Well, I don't know what you call it when you put somebody's hands behind their back,
00:44:21.920
throw handcuffs on them, and say the Durham Regional Police are coming.
00:44:28.920
But the point I was leading up to is, so you inalienate your fan base.
00:44:33.920
The whole idea is to get elected, so does the Andrew Scheer War Room think that, hey,
00:44:38.920
if we do this, that'll get Liberal supporters to vote Conservative?
00:44:42.920
I mean, I know it sounds outrageous, but what is their thought process in doing this?
00:44:48.920
Yeah, you're assuming there is a thought process.
00:44:52.920
Justin, can you send me all the Super Chats in an email?
00:44:56.920
I tell every canvasser from the Conservative Party that calls, usually two times a week,
00:45:01.920
that until the Scheer or his MPs speak with a rebel, any donation I might have made to
00:45:20.920
Well, Calgary Menzoid deserves another bonus for risk in the workplace.
00:45:29.920
We'll give him, we'll give him, we'll buy him a beer and we'll give him all the snacks
00:45:40.920
I contacted my CPC writing office a while back and advised, no access to rebel, no support
00:45:47.920
Long conversation, but boiled down to if CPC cooperates with rebel anyway, MSM will make
00:45:55.920
I mean, Hamish Marshall helped found the rebel.
00:45:58.920
And he and other staffers in Scheer's office, there's a very cowardly explanation.
00:46:03.920
It's, if we have anything to do with you, the mean girls will be mean to us.
00:46:09.920
So we can't, you know, we can be your girlfriend in private, but when the other kids are there,
00:46:16.920
Like, look, either be your own man or just, I mean, like, if you are going to let snippy
00:46:25.920
comments from, first of all, our competitors, and second of all, left-wing agenda journalists
00:46:31.920
to shape what you do and say now, that is not only wrong politically, but it's, you're
00:46:42.920
I understand the logic of it, but I absolutely disagree with it.
00:46:49.920
I mean, today, Robert Fyfe's latest piece is about Andrew Scheer falsifying his credentials
00:46:57.920
The last couple of days, we've seen from both the Globe and the CBC about the blackface
00:47:02.920
scandal not holding Justin Trudeau to account, but what was the agenda, the secret agenda of
00:47:08.920
the whistleblower that he released that yearbook photo?
00:47:12.920
All this sucking up and shunning us, they're still going after him, Hammer and Tom.
00:47:17.920
And I bet there's more to come in the next three weeks.
00:47:24.920
Another super chap, Observer Dude, five pounds, was that pervert with the cane ever arrested
00:47:29.920
Now, I mean, I'll speak to that, which is that we've had discussions with the police there.
00:47:35.920
But I have not seen an arrest yet, and I don't want to give away any behind-the-scenes communications,
00:47:40.920
but it is an outrage that he has not yet been charged with assault.
00:47:43.920
I have never in my life seen a more clearly documented case of assault and battery as that.
00:47:50.920
And I think the RCMP are increasingly politicized, and they're very scared of the trans issue.
00:47:58.920
The only thing they're more scared of than Justin Trudeau and SNC-Lavalin is trans extremists
00:48:06.920
Folks, just a reminder of what we're talking about here today.
00:48:10.920
David Menzies, the Menzoid, as he's been known for 30 years, 34 years of journalism,
00:48:15.920
journalism grad, covered hundreds of events in his career.
00:48:18.920
I don't want to say thousands, but over 34 years, could be thousands.
00:48:25.920
Not just slammed against the wall by RCMP, driven out of a public building, and then
00:48:34.920
And then when they came to take away your phone, I thought, well, what do I do?
00:48:38.920
I thought, well, what did I do when Tommy Robinson was arrested?
00:48:45.920
And he said, all right, so we've got to try and find him.
00:48:49.920
I said, well, as far as I know, he's still there, because I saw a tweet about you.
00:48:54.920
And I just said, look, just start making phone calls.
00:49:01.920
Let the cops know that, you know, the main thing is to let them know that there's a lawyer
00:49:10.920
And by the time we, I mean, I got, I was back and forth, but they didn't even need that
00:49:17.920
nudge, sounds like, from a lawyer to know there was no case.
00:49:26.920
Did any of the Durham cops say anything to you that was interesting?
00:49:29.920
Well, I gave, the RCMP lady gave her a side of the story.
00:49:34.920
Well, she was the one that was part of the arrest team that was cuffing me.
00:49:37.920
So, like, the fact that the police have a side of the story, that the police are telling
00:49:45.920
So, the lady cop, did you hear what she said at all?
00:49:50.920
And I got bits and pieces and I heard, you know, he was obstructing the bus and, you
00:49:56.920
If only they'd go after obstruction of justice.
00:50:03.920
And I said to the constable, and again, I want to give props to the Durham Regional Police.
00:50:08.920
And I said, sir, can I give my side of the story?
00:50:16.920
I was told, I was kicked out of the building, kicked off the parking lot.
00:50:20.920
I said, your own colleague was part of the original visit to this venue.
00:50:25.920
And then when, you know, the bus came, I wanted to ask questions.
00:50:30.920
And he was, he came across from the point of view, Ezra, he says, you know that a moving
00:50:35.920
bus is kind of a dangerous thing you shouldn't get in front of.
00:50:38.920
So, he was just speaking common sense, practical safety.
00:50:41.920
But that saying, hey, be careful of traffic, is not, hey, you broke the law.
00:50:46.920
It sounds like this Durham cop, and you say there were four or five squad cars?
00:50:50.920
Sounds like they're thinking, why were you calling us off?
00:50:55.920
Real crimes to come here because someone did the crime of journalism?
00:50:59.920
It sounds like, if they're saying, hey, you know what, be careful of big cars and trucks.
00:51:03.920
Yeah, that's what, that's not someone looking to make an arrest.
00:51:06.920
That's someone saying, hey guys, can I please go back to my real job finding bank robbers?
00:51:15.920
You apologize to Durham cops for wasting their time.
00:51:18.920
Much like, if you recall, the awesome Kian Bextie video with the Ann McGrath getting the cops.
00:51:27.920
Kian was saying, I'm sorry to take you away from the real law enforcement matters.
00:51:31.920
But I got the, if I could read minds like the amazing Kreskin, I would say these cops are
00:51:42.920
You know, police, you know, I, when I was very young, I article that a law firm and one
00:51:59.920
It's up to the cops own judgment, taking in what he sees to arrest, not to arrest, to
00:52:07.920
And I bet those four or five Durham police were thinking, where's your, discretion is another
00:52:17.920
I bet they were saying, where's your bloody common sense?
00:52:29.920
I mean, let's think about this in practical terms.
00:52:32.920
Once I was cuffed and detained and they let the bus go by and it's got a head, even if
00:52:37.920
I were to run to my car, I would never catch it.
00:52:44.920
He doesn't have to deal with these impolite questions from this pesky journalist.
00:52:47.920
Why at that point say, ah, but wait a second, we're calling the Durham regional cops.
00:52:57.920
We saw when you were kicked out of the inner sanctum after having been escorted in there
00:53:04.920
Then we saw when you tried to film on the sidewalk and eight seconds into that you were hustled
00:53:17.920
And the RCMP waited around for the four or five Durham cops to come.
00:53:30.920
So for those 15 or 20 minutes, Scheer was gone, the bus was gone, the party had gone.
00:53:37.920
It was just the RCMP waiting for the Durham cops and they didn't let you go.
00:53:43.920
And they said, no, we've got the Durham Regional Police coming in and we're going to see if
00:53:55.920
I forget the name of the iconic Northwest Mounted Policeman who set the standard for honor
00:54:01.920
and integrity from that to this clown of a commissioner we have who lets Justin Trudeau off the hook
00:54:08.920
and hugs him in public after the SNC-Lavalin matter.
00:54:16.920
And I mean, last week we saw another embarrassing event.
00:54:18.920
Friend of the show, Andrew Lawton, pulled over, you know, for following the Trudeau campaign bus.
00:54:25.920
Okay, so we've got that last interaction, right, Justin?
00:54:36.920
This was filmed by Glenn McGregor, and I give him some tip of the hat for actually documenting it,
00:54:44.920
which I guess shows more interest than the other journalists who said,
00:55:00.920
I was on a public sidewalk, and the bus hit me, and then these guys are...
00:55:05.920
Well, well, I'm just, I'm just, the gentleman wanted me to answer the question.
00:55:12.920
If you're the one holding it, I assume you're law enforcement.
00:55:18.920
Well, I was trying to get Andrew Scheer to answer a question, some questions, such as,
00:55:25.920
if he's elected, will he end this media bailout?
00:55:30.920
What are his, you know, why are we not allowed into a press conference, and other members are?
00:55:37.920
These are not gotcha questions, you know, these are, I think, we're owed an answer to this,
00:55:50.920
Uh, no, uh, sorry, I was originally just, uh, brought out by the Durham Regional Police,
00:55:55.920
and told not to go on private property, even the parking lot, which I abided by.
00:56:17.920
I, I really cannot think of another journalist in Canada who has been handcuffed.
00:56:24.920
Now, I don't know what happened in the deep past.
00:56:29.920
I think, and I saw that the lady cop chat, was on the phone, and then chatted with the bald cop.
00:56:38.920
Maybe someone was calling her and saying, are you serious?
00:56:50.920
Are you, so maybe someone with sense said, what the hell are you doing?
00:56:58.920
And I thought, again, I remember when you were getting caned by Jonathan Yaniv, I thought,
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You were very calm and articulate despite being handcuffed in an act of humiliation.
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I think, like anyone who said, we've got to handcuff Menzies because he's a threat.
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Second of all, I mean, I've known you on and off for 20 years.
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Like I said, I don't think I've even heard you swear.
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Handcuffing you served no purpose other than a tweak, other than a humiliation, other than
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a, we can do this and we're going to do this, and what are you going to do about it?
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I mean, listen, if I was a violent offender, Ezra, of course handcuff me and take me down.
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Either they got a call saying, are you guys out of your mind?
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Or maybe their own, you know, self-awareness kicked in and they realized-
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Well, look like the lady cop was on the phone with someone.
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That could have been her phoning Durham Regional Police, I think, you know.
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And, you know, the bald RCMP officer with that scrum of cameras, you can't see most of
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the media filming this, he was probably very frustrated because this looks horrible,
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I can't do anything, this idiot I've cuffed won't stop talking.
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Yeah, and I better get out of this mess because there's no way out of this.
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And folks, just to remind you, what's a Super Chat?
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You chip in a few bucks, your comment gets put in a bright color.
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And the good news is that YouTube shares 70% of that with us so it helps us pay the bills.
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So Pepper52435 says, a vote for PPC is not a vote for Trudeau.
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The Liberal Party would go the way of Wynne's party, judging by how outraged Canadians are
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Controversial thought, but what if Trump encouraged the Dems to speed up impeachment process to
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I don't think Trump needs to encourage the Dems to impeach.
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Basil, two bucks, says PPC will not get more than 4%.
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Well, I'm curious to see what bump, if any, Maxime Bernier gets out of the debate.
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Fred Schneider, 20 bucks, freedom of the press.
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If you were to believe the YouTube crowd, Faith had it in the bag.
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Well, listen, I think that Maxime Bernier probably has some pockets where he'll do very
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I regard it as a similar phenomenon to the growth of the Green Party, which is a reaction
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Well, you've tuned into the right live chat for the answer to that, and it's the subject
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Now, I understand we have one more video from the actual arrest moment, so just to recap
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for that last super chatter and those who missed it, and you correct me if I'm wrong.
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Like, by the way, I get invitations from the liberal.
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I don't think I get any block invitations, but we, if you doubt it, I'm just telling you,
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we get official invitations every day for all the parties.
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Oh, and as you pointed out earlier, a videotape of Andrew Scheer answering a 14-year-old girl
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Andrew Scheer specifically said we're welcome when specifically asked, and that was just
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When you arrived, you were personally escorted in by a conservative attache.
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A bunch of cops stop you, throw you against the wall twice, if I recall, tell you to leave.
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A bunch of cops grab you, grab your phone after eight seconds, and the bus nudges you,
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Everyone's gone except for a handful of media, I guess, who are curious about you.
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Including Glenn McGregor, whose footage we're relying on here.
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And instead of saying, all right, David, fly straight or whatever.
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Like, at least they didn't bring the SWAT team and the tasers.
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And then cops calling other cops to say, can you arrest this guy?
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You know, you're so concerned you got my wrists and, you know, handcuffs.
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Listen, I know I'm not part of Jerry Diaz's Unifor Union,
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but it'd be nice if you gentlemen and lady would give some solidarity.
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Will any other Unifor Union, Justin Journos, Bailout Media stand up for me?
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They opened the door because they thought, this looks really, really, really bad.
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He's talking and he's not talking like a wild, crazy man.
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He's actually saying politically powerful things.
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And you, in your Columbo way that I always talk about, how you just sort of...
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And they were the ones who blinked and uncuffed you.
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And I think they said something like, are you out of control?
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I think we know who the out of control side was there.
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Basil, 10 bucks says, I'm not a sheer apologist.
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And that, and I, you know, I'll take your point.
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That has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Andrew Scheer should have a reporter
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Now, I happen to know David and he happens to work for the rebel.
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And I spent a little bit of time today on this matter, talking to you, talking to the lawyer.
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In the end, we didn't need a lawyer, thank goodness.
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I honestly didn't know because when they took the phone away from you, I lost contact.
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The only experience I have had with police has been in the UK.
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I didn't know if they were going to take you to the jail.
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And I know one thing, a missus don't like it if their husband don't come home at the
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And I remember when Tommy was arrested in Canterbury, he was arrested at 4.30 in the morning.
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We called every jail in the UK, every police station in the UK.
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We got him home 13 hours after he was arrested.
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We're going to have to find David, send lawyers there and get him out.
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Now, luckily, the Durham Regional Police had more sense than the Canterbury Police.
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The RCMP was literally arguing to Durham Police why they should arrest you.
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That's what the female RCMP officer said, Ezra.
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And I don't know the nuances of law enforcement and the powers and what have you.
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But it begs the question, if she and her colleagues thought I had done something arrestable, if
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that's a word, then why didn't they just arrest me?
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Or do they just want the local police force to do their dirty work?
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Hey, Justin, can I bug you for another bottle of water?
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I got a bit of a cold and I don't want to just start coughing.
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Justin, I apologize for this request, but I just really need it.
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Everyone who knows me knows that I have been right of center since I was a teenager.
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I used to be conservative, then Reform Party, then Canadian Alliance.
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Now, I have not been a card-carrying member because I've been a journalist at the Sun News
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and here, but I just wrote a best-selling book called The Libranos, What the Media Won't
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There's no secret where I'm coming from, but that doesn't mean I'm so stupid or biased that I'm going to support any political leader regardless.
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I mean, and I would say to all the Andrew Scheer-supporting conservatives right now, call your MP and tell them to, call your candidate and tell them to get their heads screwed on straight.
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And if you feel better making that call in private than saying so in public, well, do it.
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Because I've got to tell you, if you're worried about splittism, if you're worried about people hiving off from the conservatives and voting for Maxime Bernier, well, just keep arresting David Menzies.
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I think that arrest is good for a 1% bump in anybody but Andrew Scheer.
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I mean, seriously, you think you're going to be pulling votes over from the liberals?
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Coppa Dissau, 22 Norwegian Kroners, says, Scheer in Canada was the one who was humiliated.
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Yeah, well, when I say humiliated, I'm not saying that you were humiliated.
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In fact, I'm sort of making the opposite point.
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You had a dignity and a presence of mind that is rare.
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And I said this about when you were hit with the cane also.
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And by the way, you're dressed in a suit with a tie.
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So you were looking good and they were looking bad.
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Minute by minute by minute, they were looking worse.
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I want to say, Ezra, you're giving your resume of how you've been linked to conservative causes in the past decades.
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I can't think of anyone else who, you know, if I was part of any conservative party, who I'd want as an ally on my side than Ezra Levent.
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The second thing is, let's be honest, we all know since day one, Andrew Scheer, love him or hate him, he is weak.
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And I know you've said in the office that you feel our job is to nudge Mr. Scheer to get his backbone, get his spine, get his mojo going.
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You know, be the leader because, let's face it, job one is removing this buffoon in the Liberal Party out of office after the four years of damage.
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As I say in sports telecasts, the clock is becoming a factor.
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We are exactly three weeks away from the election.
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Maybe your master plan of, you know, trying to get Andrew Scheer to find his spine, that was like an impossible task.
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Our only master plan today was to have you cover a campaign event and ask some questions that you actually asked outside the police fan there.
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And by the way, thank you for your praise about my conservative bona fides.
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Anyone who's ever been to a Ford Nation barbecue knows David Menzies.
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I was on another YouTube channel that had global news.
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Everyone in the comments said they are now going to vote PPC and they are disgusted.
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Well, see, I just find it a very frustrating thing.
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We've been talking about the political fallout of it, but it's not even a partisan thing.
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Max has bumbled every chance he's had to actually build a good platform.
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I'm trying, perhaps unsuccessfully, to make a different point, which is even if David were
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a New Democrat, it would be wrong to cuff a New Democrat who's just asking questions.
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Tammy Lynn of PPC swept the floor with CPC and LPC debates in Burnaby.
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Do we have any more footage, either from David or from the internet, that's interesting?
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And I do think these are all from Glenn McGregor.
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And Glenn McGregor is no fan of the conservatives.
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But it's interesting to me that he, as far as I can see, is the only one who has posted
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And Glenn McGregor is a Unifor journalist with CTV.
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Maybe he's enough of a dissident himself that he's, maybe in the back of his mind,
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he's thinking, you know, I don't like the rebel and I don't like Menzies and I'm more a lefty,
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but there's something that a journalist here of any stripe should be concerned about.
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Maybe that's, maybe he's got a little bit of that underneath him, deep, deep, deep in his heart.
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There is a point that even, and I'm not saying Ms. McGregor has drunk the Kool-Aid of Unifor and the government bailout and all that other stuff, Ezra,
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but maybe there's a point that you have to at some point be true to your profession.
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Maybe it has happened that a journalist has been handcuffed and roughed up.
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And if you had, and this is so far from the truth, if you had made a threat, physically blocked, physically attacked, shouted, swore, disrupted, I can see you being pulled out.
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You know, the Grassy Narrows, they came right into an event, so that was a private event.
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It was a fundraiser, wasn't even a news conference.
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You and the Grassy Narrows are suffering from mercury poisoning.
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I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada.
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I guess you could say she was invited because she paid the $1,500 or whatever.
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No arrest there, and no arrest would be appropriate.
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You weren't antagonistic to the purpose of the event.
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That's someone who had a collateral purpose and was opportunistic.
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And you were escorted out, bumped twice into the wall from what I saw, which is inappropriate.
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You left both the parking lot and the property.
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You were then arrested after eight seconds of trying to film something, bumped by the bus.
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And you're telling me it didn't hurt, and that's fine, but that's irrelevant in law.
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If someone bumps you with the bus, it doesn't matter if they hurt you or not.
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Arrested, handcuffed, deliberately attempted to humiliate you.
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It actually backfired on the cops, which is why they tried to put you in the SUV.
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And Durham said, hey, guy, you know, be careful of big buses, okay?
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Like, actually, they were the only grown-ups in this whole thing, weren't they?
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You know, and here's the big question for me, Ezra.
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With the Grassy Narrows protester, the optics were brutal for Trudeau.
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I think that was one of the first times he came close to actually offering a sincere apology for something he did by making a joke about, ha-ha, contaminated water, deal with it.
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I think the optics for Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party are brutal on this, and my question is this, my friend.
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You know, they can beat me up and handcuff me and threaten me with the rest.
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I'm still going to cover Andrew Scheer as I'm covering the other leaders.
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If I go to the next press conference, whenever that is, Ezra, are they going to say, you know what, given what happened in Whitby, let's not lose our stuff?
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Or are they going to double down and, again, get the goon squad out and phone the police?
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How are they going to handle it the next time the rebel, and if it's not me, maybe one of my colleagues, you know, Kian, Jessica, Sheila, show up to a leadership event.
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I wonder if they've learned anything from this.
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Yeah, I don't know the answer to that, but we will find out because our response is not to bend the knee.
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We just revved up this website, and I'll just scroll through it here to show our folks what is going on in the website.
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While we do, I'll just say thank you to Sandra Vaughn for 22 bucks.
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Why did Andrew Scheer send police to arrest reporter David Menzies?
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Tell your local conservative candidate this is nuts.
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And finally, please help us keep on reporting no matter who kicks us out.
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So, if you click down, you can sign the petition.
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And I think there's a link there somewhere if you want to chip in to actually donate.
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Looks like we have 297 comments already, which is great.
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And there should be a link there and a way to chip in to help keep covering the various candidates.
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We'll have to make sure to tell our web team to make it more visible than that.
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No, I'm not kidding because we got a, you know, we're not just covering candidates in the Toronto area.
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You even flew down to South Carolina to chase down the story the other day.
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Oh, I see another super chat from Anthony Ludmillon.
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Whatever you say you want me to cover, I'm going to do it.
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Be polite with the cops, but don't bend the knee.
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And thankfully, as you mentioned with the Canterbury police, it looks like we're not
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there, or we're not there yet, where you actually get locked up for practicing journalism.
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But to me, this is astonishing that, you know, we know how much Justin Trudeau loves censorship.
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We know how his Liberal Party want to bring back Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act that Stephen Harper got rid of in 2013.
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We know about this idea of the internet being vetted by government for wrong political speech.
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I thought, until today, Andrew Scheer was about the opposite of all that.
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And now I found out, you know, as The Who once sang, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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It's so disappointing, Ezra, because I am with those millions of Canadians, and that's not an exaggeration, millions that are praying and dreaming of regime change.
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And when I see something like this, it's like a self-inflicted wound by the guy who's got the best chance.
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I'm going to keep doing what we have done since the rebel was born, to tell the other side of the story,
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to do so with a conservative freedom orientation, to fight for free speech, to support citizen journalists,
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to generally be on the right-hand side of the ledger, but to ask honest accountability questions to conservative politicians, too.
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Never to take a government dime, always to do our best to be candid, follow the facts wherever they lead.
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There should be a donation link on that page, because we do need some dough to travel around.
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We're flying around, I don't know if you noticed that.
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If you've got a conservative candidate, you're helping, you're door-knocking, whatever,
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and if you don't want to publicly shame them, and they have shamed themselves,
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phone them or email them and say, what on earth are you thinking?
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And it's not even that it's David or the rebel.
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All right, before we go, David, there's a few Super Chats that I see just come in.
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I'd say right now it's either a Trudeau minority or a Shear minority.
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If you guys actually want to make a change, you need to join the CPC and get involved politically
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I assume you're speaking to our viewers because we don't join parties here.
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We're sympathetic to ideas, but we're not members of parties.
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It's so sad to see Canada becoming a corrupt clownocracy.
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I just don't think that's statistically possible.
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What I hope is two things, that the PPC does elect some MPs because I like their style.
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But more importantly, I hope that Andrew Scheer says, holy moly, if I don't start being for
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free speech, being against political correctness, speaking up on issues of controversy against
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the grain, like let's stop open borders migration and let's stop this global warming craziness,
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So my hope is that Maxine Bernie is a sort of stalking horse that makes Andrew Scheer
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The political math, the political strategy, that's not us.
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And I think, I mean, you're asking me as a pundit what I think.
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But our job is to be journalists no matter who's there.
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Thank you to our viewers, especially all those who chipped into the Super Chats.
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I'm going to invite everyone one more time to go to letusreport.com.
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Looks like hundreds of people have already done so in the last hour.
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That's it for this special broadcast, YouTube Super Chat.
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Normally we do these Fridays at noon, but I'm glad you could join us on short notice today.
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David, I'm glad you're free and going home today.
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God forbid one of the people in our company is arrested.
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And I never thought it would be at the hands of the conservatives.
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I frankly thought it would be me at the hands of Justin Trudeau.
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We don't want the queen bee taken out of the hive.
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You kept your composure in a challenging situation in a manner that 99 out of 100 people would
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And I hesitate to say, I myself would have been one of the 99 who would have lost their
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You stayed calm and cool, which is why they unhandcuffed you.
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Because they, your calmness, showed how wrong they were.
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Well, if you've made it this far, you've watched probably my longest show of the year,
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it's because I really wanted to have a proper post-mortem with David.
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And I promise you this, we're going to keep reporting.
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There are questions Andrew Scheer should answer.
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Would you support the $600 million media bailout?
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It's a question I always thought I'd put to Justin Trudeau.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,