REBEL ROUNDUP | Convoy organizers face 8 years, Teen killer in custody, US wants full market access
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It's National Junk Food Day, and we're celebrating it with a big menu of items dedicated to the foods we usually don't include in our daily diet. Plus, we celebrate our 10th birthday with a live show at The Carriage House in Calgary on September 18th.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Rebel News live stream on this
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a Monday, July 21st, 2025. I'm David Menzies and my co-host. Well, let me tell you a bit
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about my co-host, shall I? Do you know, folks, that today is National Junk Food Day? And my co-host
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does not indulge in that. I mean, look at her. Just look at her. Does that look like a junk food
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junkie to you? She is the she-devil of the Northern Alberta Khaleesi. I've screwed everything up,
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but you know what I'm talking about. She is the sensational gun read. Sheila, how are you doing
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today? I am doing great. Sounds like you could have used a junk food snack before you jumped on
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air. Seems like your blood sugar took a jump off the deep end there. I was a very good boy today.
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I only ate guacamole. I'm being a little... That's a good choice, actually. Good for you.
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It's delicious and it's good for you. And I'm sorry if I'm a little discombobulated here. I'm
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getting some feedback on my earpiece, so I apologize. But Sheila, I got to tell you,
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National Junk Food Day, this is what it says. July 21 dedicates a giant menu of items to National
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Junk Food Day. This day permits us to chow down on the foods we usually do not include in our daily
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diet. Sheila, who's writing the copy for these cockamamie National Days? The food we don't include
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in our usual diet? We have a fat epidemic. We have an entire genre of reality TV dedicated to obese
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people. I would argue we very much include junk food in our daily diet, too many of us. And yes,
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guilty as charged, even though I'm trying my best to avoid the junk.
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Yeah. You know, it's funny, though, what they classify as junk food is probably like red meat,
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stuff like that, when they really should be classifying the things that we, that, you know,
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the big thinkers in charge of the food pyramid have been pushing on young people for the better
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part of 40 years, like cereals, breads, granola bars. Like, imagine thinking a granola bar is a
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health food. If you've ever read the back, sometimes you'd be better off eating a Snickers.
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But we don't teach young people how to read food labels in school. We just tell them how to
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follow the food pyramid. And then we wonder why they need to be on Ozempic and insulin later on in
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life. Anyways, we have a really busy show today. Yes. And we should get right into it. I'll tell
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also. And we rely on you because of course, we'll never rely on the government to do the work that
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we do. I mean, we're not the mainstream media. Why would we do that? And before we get into a very
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packed show, I want to tell you about how you can help us celebrate a milestone that was only possible
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thanks to you. So it was our 10th birthday back in February. We didn't celebrate it at the time.
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There was a lot of things happening in the world. It was we're in the throes of tariff mania. We
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remain in the throes of tariff mania. There was a leadership race in the liberals and then
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quickly pivoted to electioneering. And so we put off our birthday party, but we can't put it off
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forever. And this is as much a celebration of everything we accomplished as it is a celebration
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of your support of us over the years. So please join us in Calgary if you're there, if you can be
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there September 18th, 6pm at the Carriage House, where you will hang out with your favorite rebels.
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I hope I'm one of them. It'll be live music and entertainment. And we just added a headliner
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to our live music. And that is our friend Tamara Leach. And boy, there's a lot of news
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coming out about her today. So Tamara Leach will be performing. There'll be cocktails,
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hors d'oeuvres, meet and greet with your favorite rebel personalities, photo ops, and keepsakes to
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remember the night. I know Lisa and I have decided that we are going to overdress because I know most of
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you see me like looking like a lumberjill most of the time, I'm going to lean into the glamour of
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the evening. I think Lisa's going to drag me along on that adventure. So we'll be there. General
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admission tickets include free parking, live music, hors d'oeuvres, team photos, VIP tickets include all
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those things, plus a special dinner with rebels and the team before the party. So that starts at
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five. If you want tickets, and please do not hesitate. Don't sleep on this. As the young
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people say, go to happybirthdayrebel.com and join us as we celebrate everything that we were able to
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do. Thanks to all of you at home. And I'll just say, Sheila, what more do people want? Tamara Leach
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as the musical guest, you and the lovely Leach dressed to the nines.
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Yeah, you got if I wasn't part of this, I'd be buying a ticket right now.
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Yeah, I'm gonna look like a disco ball. All right, let's get into if that's all the housekeeping
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Efron. If I've missed something, please let me know. But let's get into the news of Tamara Leach,
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because this sort of broke over the last day or two. She is headed to sentencing after being convicted
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of mischief. She's headed to sentencing in just two days. So Wednesday on the 23rd.
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And this is what she posted. And it's funny, because I brought this up to Ezra the other day.
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And I'm like, should we get Tamara to come to our birthday party? And he's like, and I said,
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you know, like, are we worried about her going to jail? And he said, Oh, God, she'll never see
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inside of a jail cell. Oh, well, not if the prosecutors have their way. Late yesterday
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afternoon, I received a copy of the Crown's materials for upcoming sentencing hearing and
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can confirm they are seeking a seven year prison sentence for her. This is not like, hey, we're
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looking. This is the sentencing range from like, no time served to 10 years. They want seven years for
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Tamara, eight for Chris Barber, and the destruction of Chris's livelihood. They want to destroy Big Red.
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That's his iconic symbol of the convoy, his truck, which he uses every day. It's part of his business.
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He's a truck. He is quite literally a trucker. If you destroy the truck, you destroy his business. So
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not only is it enough that they want to imprison him for eight years, but they also want to leave him
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indigent, uh, at the end of it all. And, uh, I think this is outrageous. As I said, sentencing is
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Wednesday. Ezra's going to be there to cover it, uh, live from the courtroom for Rebel News.
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Well, Sheila, uh, if Tamara does spend a single day in jail, it will make a mockery.
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She almost spent 50 days already. So yeah, yeah, no, I'm not. And of course, uh, if I'm the judge,
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uh, the penalty is, uh, time served, uh, uh, have a good day, uh, Ms. Leach and Mr. Barber. And that is
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just a vendetta if they go ahead and try to, uh, repossess or destroy Big Red, uh, take away his
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livelihood. What have we seen in almost two years in the streets? We've seen the Hamas holes chanting for
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genocide, shooting up Jewish girls' schools, carrying out vandalism against Jewish businesses,
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um, vandalism, violence, and what happens? Uh, the police arrest peaceful counter-demonstrators.
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And yes, I'm speaking from experience members of the independent, uh, press. Uh, what did we see
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just last week, some 14 year old punk? And of course we can't name precious or show you his photo
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anymore. Now that he's been captured, um, who took to social media and incriminated himself bragging
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essentially about killing a 71 year old beloved grandmother because she wouldn't surrender her car
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keys. Gee, Sheila, maybe, um, uh, maybe the Toronto police were right. Uh, just, just bend the knee.
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Just, just give the criminals whatever you want. And here we have these leaders of a peaceful
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demonstration. As you know, Sheila, uh, crime went down in Ottawa during the freedom convoy being there,
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despite all the despicable smear attempts of, you know, uh, freedom convoy participants involved in
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arson and, uh, going after a homeless shelter. I mean, it was just absolute embarrassing garbage,
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but here's my worry, Sheila. I would like to believe Ezra is right. I would like to believe that,
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you know, even though they're seeking seven, eight year jail sentence terms, the real justice would be,
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uh, please be on your way. You've suffered enough and they have suffered enough clearly,
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but you never know what a judge is thinking. Do you, Sheila? You can never guess what's in that
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judge's head and my fear, especially that this trial is being held in Ottawa. And I'm just speculating
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if this is a judge who has aspirations of in the future being named to say the Supreme court of Canada
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wants to wear one of those nice red robes, you know, that that means the book will be thrown.
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I, I would have more confidence, Sheila, if this was a jury trial, not, you know, yeah, go ahead.
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No, I was just going to say this picture itself speaks to, uh, why she shouldn't see the inside of
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a jail cell. She is standing there with her lawyer, Keith Wilson. Yeah. Talking to the police liaison
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team, working with the police liaison team, doing her best to mitigate the inconvenience of the
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residents of downtown Ottawa, the well-kept work from home bureaucrats of downtown Ottawa, who, uh,
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found honk, the honkening, the worst thing that ever happened to them. The phantom honking. Do you
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remember that? That was a real story. They suffered from phantom honking. Um, but this, this shows,
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this shows that she's not some hardened, seasoned criminal who should spend seven years in jail.
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She's somebody who did her best to make sure that her protest adhered to the laws by working with
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police every single day. It's atrocious that the crown wants this, but let's not let somebody in the
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middle of this get away from it. These are Doug Ford's crown prosecutors. Yep. These are not Mark
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Carney's crown prosecutors. These are Doug Ford's crown prosecutors. This is insane.
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A hundred percent. But really, uh, Doug Ford, Mark Carney, really Sheila, is there any difference?
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I mean, let's be realistic here. Um, yes, there was horn honking, but I can tell you over the last few
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years, Sheila, whether it's Antifa or the Hamas holes or sometimes, uh, public sector union members,
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I get a mega horn, uh, at point blank in my ear. Um, it is deafening. It is a form of assault.
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A hundred percent. It is. I would rather be punched than have one of those horns, uh, you know,
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blast, uh, a sonic assault into my eardrums. This happens in front of police and they do nothing.
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And I, and I made this point before Sheila, and I, I remember your answer and it made me chuckle.
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I was there for most of the freedom convoy and I was out there on the coldest days and I was
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practicing journalism, covering it as where of course, Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln J. And I'll tell
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you, I stayed in hotels right downtown, right at ground zero. And when my head hit the pillow,
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I was out like a light. And I think you said when I first told you that story, well, of course,
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because you were working. Yeah, it was exactly what I was thinking. That's because you put in
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an honest day's work and a lot of those bureaucrats work from home bureaucrat losers, uh, one and two
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could be fired and I wouldn't care. Um, they, they don't work hard for a living. And that's what the
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people in the freedom convoy wanted for themselves was to be able to go back to work, to just be able
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to earn for their family. Um, but thanks to vaccine mandates and travel restrictions, they just could
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it. They did. They didn't want to, uh, have their union go to bat for them so that they could sit in
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their condo in downtown Ottawa and clock away on their keyboard. They wanted to put in an honest day's
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work with their back and their hands or their truck or their equipment to earn for their families.
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And they were never allowed to, that's what they were there fighting for. And imagine it's the laptop
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class versus the productive class. That's what this was all about. And, uh, you know, the, the fancy
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people in this country, they have to make sure that this never happens again.
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And you know, Sheila, as you were speaking, uh, look at the despicable footage of violence and
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vandalism and hatred, um, bouncy castles and street performers and people picking up litter. Um,
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you know, and I'll tell you one of the sidebars, Sheila, in terms of the propaganda narrative
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that the legacy media was perpetuating was, um, all the restaurants, I would say more than 90%
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of the restaurants in downtown Ottawa during this period were closed, even had plywood, um, uh,
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you know, shielding on their windows because you know what, uh, it's not a safe space,
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you know, and I can tell you the ones and twos of restaurants that stayed open,
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there was a Sharama place and there was a, um, a tie place. There was a lineup of grateful customers
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waiting to get in to patronize. Uh, what I'm saying is all those scaredy cat Ottawa businesses that bought
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in to the mainstream media propaganda, they lost out on a bonanza because when you have, um, over 150,000
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people converging in downtown Ottawa, guess what? They're going to buy things, especially food and
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beverage. And you really missed out. And there was none of the garbage that we see in the streets of
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our great dominion, uh, post October 7th. So Sheila, try to connect the dots for me in terms of this
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hypocrisy and this double standard. You know, I did something that a lot of people didn't do,
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and that was actually read the sentencing, uh, submissions from the crown. And in that, uh,
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and I, I wrote this up for our website today, uh, despite the protest peaceful nature, the crown
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argues that the symbolism of occupying Wellington street near parliament hill justifies treating the
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event as a serious criminal matter. So just the presence of these blue collar people down there should
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be a serious criminal matter. Wait, it gets worse because this goes to what you were talking about.
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Victim impact statements from residents, hotels, and businesses allege noise disturbance and revenue
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loss. All they had to do was open the doors. Thank you. They're, they're using the revenue loss
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as a reason why these two should be punished as serious terrorist criminals. Um, by the way,
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they weren't convicted of sedition. So why are they being sentenced for sedition? But the, the revenue
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loss was on the restaurant owners who locked the doors. These people were protesting for the rest,
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for the restaurants to be able to be open. You know, Sheila, it's kind of like an ice cream truck driver,
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um, during a scorching heat wave going on vacation. Um, you are lacking the vision of what it takes,
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uh, to be successful in that business. And the same with this, as they say, tell me, I believe the
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farmers say this out where you live, Sheila, when the sun is shining, you make hay. And the idea that you
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closed up voluntarily and granted you were kind of coerced in terms of the media garbage that you
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were consuming. Well, you know what, maybe you should have rolled the dice because, uh, you would
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have been ahead. Yep. Yeah. The, this, the saying is make hay when the sun shines and, uh, these guys
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didn't, uh, let's move ahead because the conservatives are remembering why Pierre Poliev is the leader.
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And Pierre Poliev is the leader because Erin O'Toole was, uh, well, like this with the liberals
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on the freedom convoy. Uh, he wouldn't meet with them. He basically sided with the nonsensical liberals
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that, uh, these people shouldn't be protesting their government in the city that houses the
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government. Like where, where else are you supposed to protest them? Um, but they're remembering once
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again, why they have Pierre Poliev as a leader. And so conservative MP, Dean Allison reacts to, uh,
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to Mara's. So before let, we won't go into Poliev yet, but Dean Allison was the first one.
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So he is the MP for Niagara West. And he was the first one to come out and say how crazy this was.
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This is insanity. The liberal government treats actual criminals better than this. Steal a car,
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no problem. Home invasions, no problem. Murder a grandmother, no problemo. Exploit children,
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no problem. This country is run by useful idiots. And, uh, that is true. And he wasn't the only one.
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He sort of opened the floodgates. So former conservative MP, Michelle Ferrari,
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then reacted to Dean's post, who is reacting to Tamara. And she said, you can murder someone,
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walk free. But if you organize a protest, you go to jail. Oh, not any protest. You can order,
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organize protests all over the place. You just can't organize a protest in favor of human rights
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and dignity and charter rights in this country. She said, this is liberal Canada. It's not about
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justice. It's about control. And then U.S. trial lawyer, Robert, Robert Barnes said,
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we should sanction Canada for this on the same grounds that we have sanctioned other foreign nations
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for their wrongful lawfare against basic human freedoms that the trucker convoy protected.
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You know what? One would wonder what Mark Carney would have to say if Russia treated peaceful
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protesters like this. You know what? Let's say, let's say the Israelis did this.
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Yes. The liberals would be lighting their hair on fire, tripping over themselves to denounce it.
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They do it here. And look, this is a win for justice in Canada.
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And you know what, Sheila? Let us not forget, since you mentioned the name of Mark Carney,
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a banker supreme once upon a time in both Canada and England. Mr. Carney, and is there anyone in
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the mainstream media that would have the guts to ask him this question? As a banker, what did you think
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about Canadian banks freezing the bank accounts of those financial support? So these are people that
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never took to the streets. These are just people that wanted to help feed and fuel the freedom convoy.
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What would Mr. Carney have to say? I really wonder, Sheila. Do you wonder? Because he told us exactly what he
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would say, because he's the guy who said we need to follow the money and choke it off. And he called this
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sedition. And lo and behold, these two are being sentenced as though they committed sedition instead
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of just peaceful mischief, the crime of being annoying in public, and the cops don't know what
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to do with you. He's the guy who wrote this as an op-ed to the Globe and Mail. It's time to end the
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sedition in Ottawa by enforcing the law and following the money. He's the guy who whispered to Freeland,
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let's use FinTrack to shut these down as though this is a terrorist act, and then we'll trace the money
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as though it is the proceeds or the funding for terrorism. And yet, same government does nothing
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about the Hamas protests when the Americans are like, yeah, this money's coming from Iran.
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Well, Sheila, then I take it back. We don't need to ask the Prime Minister where he stands. That
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opinion column in the Global Mail adroitly speaks volumes, I should think. The second thing is, Sheila,
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if anyone is going to bat for Canada's big banks, well, you know, they're federally regulated. The
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government told them to do that. No, they didn't have to follow through on this. And that's not
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conjecture. You mentioned Keith Wilson, Tamara Leach's lawyer. He has said on our Rebel News Cruises,
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when he's given presentations, the insurance companies were likewise mandated by the federal
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government. Yes. They wanted the auto insurance, the home insurance, and even the life insurance
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policies cancelled. Yeah. Their business liability insurance. We know that Farm Credit Canada
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denied financing to farmers who had shown support for the Freedom Convoy, not even that they
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participated in it, but they were denied financing, and they never were told why. So if they were trying
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to buy equipment, finance cattle, whatever, they couldn't do it, and they were never told why,
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and it was because their politics were wrong, because Farm Credit Canada is a federal agency,
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it's the Farmers Finance Bank, which is supposed to work specifically for farmers. And they were
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punished for having the wrong politics. It's such a scandal. If this had happened in another country,
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one that seems a little less progressive, the carny liberals would be losing their marbles.
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If they did this in the United States, oh my goodness, we would not be able to shut up Melanie
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Jolie over it. But because they did it to our conservatives, small-c conservatives, nobody seems
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to care. Yeah. It would be, oh, look again, Donald Trump and his war on democracy. Right. That would be
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the narrative. But Sheila, FCC was the exception to the rule. The other insurers said, no, we're not
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going to do that. We are not going to cancel insurance policies of good customers who pay their
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premiums in full. Why would we do that? Right. They're not an insurance risk. They only care about
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risk, financial risk, insurance risk. But the liberals wanted them to care about political risk
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to the liberals, which was fine for Farm Credit Canada. If the conservatives ever get in power,
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that whole organization should be gutted. I totally agree. So, and my end point,
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if the insurance companies, aside from FCC, didn't go along like trained seals, taking orders from
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Fraulein, Freeland and Blackface, then the big banks could have also said, take a long walk off a
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short period. Sure they could. But they didn't. They were too eager to comply. And you know,
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Sheila, to this day, I will never forget the look on Fraulein Freeland's face. She couldn't contain
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her smile. She was like jumping up and down like she was going to her sweet 16 party. She was relishing
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in economically penalizing law abiding tax paying Canadians. What a disgrace.
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She cackled as she did it. I'll never forget that. Yeah. We've got a video from Eric St. Pierre.
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He posted a two minute montage of the convoy footage along with his personal anecdote of how the
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movement helped him during those times. We had a lot of people say,
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I saw the freedom convoy and I didn't feel crazy. I didn't feel alone. Because a lot of I mean,
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that was the whole point is to keep people apart, keep them from talking to each other. Let's show this.
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And then we'll show what the conservative leader has to say.
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Your country's in revolt. Do you know about this? Show this video.
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Those who refused will have a huge contribution of Another
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who don't believe in science, who are often misogynist, often racist.
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They give us back all of our freedoms and rights.
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and every single one of the Canadians that are supporting this group.
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I was at a point where I was giving up on Canada
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And we are not coming home until you are all free.
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You know, as I watched that, I realized why they want seven years for Tamera Nate for Chris.
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Up until that very moment, the Liberals had faced basically zero opposition.
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Tamara and Chris and what they built together became the single greatest opposition movement to the Liberals that they had faced in at that point, I think eight years, seven years, whatever.
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They were more effective than anything the conservative official conservatives had ever done.
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Canadians who had felt alone, segregated and gas lit realized what was happening to them, how they had been lied to.
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And and it was that moment where the vaccinated and the unvaccinated realized actually that we're all in this together, that we should not be held apart from each other.
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And whatever medical choices we've made, our own our own business and not the government or our bartender or hockey coach that watching that, you know, that is why they want seven years and eight years is because the Liberals can never have that happen to them again.
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And by the way, I just want to comment on that three minute montage that we saw.
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You know, it brings in mind the the tagline on the poster for the the horror movie Phantasm circa 1979.
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Namely, if this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead.
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If that three minutes of footage doesn't give you goosebumps, well, check your pulse.
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That was unbelievable what happened in that point in history in Canada in late January and through February.
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And, you know, Sheila, to those who say, yeah, but what did it accomplish?
00:31:07.480
You occupied Ottawa for three and a half weeks.
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Well, I'll tell you one tangible thing to your original point off the hopper, Sheila, it got rid of O'Toole.
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That was his death knell, his weak-kneed indecision.
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I would love to know those MPs that did vote for him, but I understand it's a secret vote.
00:31:37.480
So, yeah, getting rid of O'Toole and bringing in Pierre Poliev, thank you very much, Freedom Convoy 2022.
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It brought in a different, bolder brand of conservatism.
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I think it led to the end, besides all of our hard work holding them to account,
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Now we have Daniel Smith, who is really leading the way on major cultural and economic issues in this country.
00:32:12.480
It liberated Albertans from Jason Kenney's vaccine passport that definitely, most definitely wasn't a vaccine passport, according to him.
00:32:21.480
The vaccine passport dropped before the freedom, like, as the Freedom Convoy crossed 50th Street in Lloydminster,
00:32:30.480
Scott Moe in Saskatchewan is like, you know what?
00:32:43.480
We don't have that scaredy cat, mushy middle, Aaron O'Toole style conservatism in this country anymore.
00:32:51.480
And that is directly related to the Freedom Convoy.
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Of course, as always, Sheila, there are statistical anomalies such as Doug Ford, the so-called conservative Premier of Ontario.
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That's the shadow of Aaron O'Toole, I would argue.
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By the way, since it is National Junk Food Day, do you think Premier Ford is having an extra slice of cherry cheesecake today, Sheila?
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I'm sure he's probably splitting his cherry cheesecake from a can with Mark Carney.
00:33:24.480
One of the laziest cheesecake I've ever seen in my life.
00:33:29.480
It was just dumping canned stuff into a pie plate.
00:33:37.480
Um, Pierre Polyev, now speaking of a different brand of conservatism, imagine Aaron O'Toole saying these things, right?
00:33:50.480
While rampant violent offenders are released hours after getting their most recent charges and anti-Semitic rioters vandalize businesses, terrorize daycares and block traffic without consequences.
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The Crown won seven years prison time for the charge of mischief for Leach and Barber.
00:34:09.480
Actually, it's eight for Barber and the destruction of his livelihood.
00:34:25.480
Um, and you know, he, the reason he's the leader is because of those two.
00:34:31.480
And to your point, can you imagine Aaron O'Toole saying this?
00:34:35.480
Let's see what Aaron O'Toole is talking about today.
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And you know, cause I'll never forget, uh, once he was shown the door, it was like New Year's Day, 2023.
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Aaron O'Toole published that essay of, um, the lack of decorum in politics.
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This is from the, the freshly departed conservative leader.
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He's, uh, he has basically tweeted nothing about crime in this country.
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It was so nice to see O'Toole get scorched for that position.
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These like recently shown the door, conservative leaders, leaders, failed conservative leaders.
00:36:00.480
Uh, cause you know, you could run a sack of potatoes in a blue jersey and we'll vote for them.
00:36:07.480
And yet he was run out of town on a rail, um, for not being conservative enough.
00:36:24.480
It's the thing to talk about stuff and talk about the big ideas of conservatism, religious freedom, all that stuff.
00:36:43.480
That's why I, and not just for myself as a Catholic, but I spent a lot of time in Protestant churches who are fighting against the lockdown.
00:36:53.480
You know, you just can't fight for your own tribe.
00:36:56.480
You have to fight for the idea for everybody's tribe.
00:36:59.480
And he just couldn't do it, which means that he was completely insincere in his belief.
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He believed in it as a theory, but he, when he was the guy that had to practice it, couldn't do it.
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I think that's the best analysis I've heard of what happened.
00:37:15.480
Cause I always used to believe what, um, uh, Mr. Kenny was selling.
00:37:20.480
Uh, but when push came to shove, uh, I think you're right.
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Um, he didn't have the stomach to do the right thing.
00:37:29.480
Um, and those people are best left to academics and not politics.
00:37:39.480
We'll touch briefly on the Toronto teen killer, which we can't talk a lot about now because, uh, he's been captured.
00:37:56.480
Oh, uh, Efron tells me that Andrew Lawton, sorry, just staying on the Tamera Leach thing, even though we're 43 minutes into the Tamera Leach thing.
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He stars in our documentary about medical assistance and dying.
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Um, and Andrew is now the conservative MP for London.
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Worked his butt off for that spot too, by the way.
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He says the prosecution of Tamera Leach and Chris Barber has been excessive and vindictive.
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The crown is seeking a seven year sentence aid for Chris for a three week peaceful protest almost three and a half years ago.
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All while violent offenders are given slaps on the wrist.
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He goes on to say this prosecution has taken over three years of judicial resources.
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While some offenders have walked because their cases weren't heard in time.
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The crown is seeking to seize Chris Barber's truck.
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And by the way, Sheila, I urge our viewers to seek out Andrew Lawton's book about the Freedom Convoy.
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And, um, he's just hitting it out of the ballpark so far, isn't he?
00:39:29.480
Oh, the public safety minister being questioned by Andrew Lawton.
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Andrew Lawton, who is a licensed firearm owner.
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Um, was just given it to Gary and Anna Sangri, who doesn't even know the classifications of firearms in this country.
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It seems like it's an important file if you're the public safety minister.
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Considering that they're in the midst of a gun grab, you might want to know what the classifications are.
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Um, but he didn't and, uh, Andrew just made him look like an absolute buffoon in the House of Commons.
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Um, Efron, do you, do we want to hit an ad break or do we want to just keep going?
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So we have to be careful about what we're going to talk about now because up until a day ago, this young person's name was in the public domain.
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And the reason it was in the public domain is because there was judicial authorization to identify the young person.
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Why? Because he was on the lam for allegedly killing a 71 year old lady.
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Um, so now his photograph and name can no longer be published or broadcast.
00:40:41.480
We have to be very careful about the circumstances of the things we're talking about.
00:40:45.480
But, um, he was, uh, this, uh, it was male youth of Toronto, age 14, has been charged with second degree murder.
00:41:00.480
Um, and, uh, he had released an Instagram live video, which we're not going to show on why he allegedly murdered the lady in the parking lot as she was putting away her groceries.
00:41:12.480
And according to him, it's because she wouldn't let him steal her car.
00:41:18.480
And, and Sheila on that note of this little thug, uh, posting this on social media, do we really need to use the a word allegedly the guy implicated himself?
00:41:35.480
Uh, he basically admitted, uh, to the murder of the 71 year old grandmother.
00:41:41.480
Uh, he offered a motive, wouldn't give him the car keys.
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I know until he's being proven guilty, you know, typically you got to use allegedly, but wow.
00:41:54.480
Um, talk about a slam dunk case, but you know what?
00:41:58.480
This is a case where this creature should be, uh, tried as an adult, but he won't be.
00:42:07.480
And again, the Supreme court of Canada showing again, how on the wrong side of the people, they are, they have made it.
00:42:17.480
It's essentially impossible for the prosecutor to charge a young offender as a, um, uh, uh, as an adult.
00:42:29.480
And I can't remember, Sheila, is he being charged with first or second degree murder?
00:42:40.480
In the United States, this was actually felony murder in many states.
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If he dies in the commission of a felony, that's felony murder.
00:42:50.480
Um, but in Canada, this is just second degree murder.
00:42:56.480
Well, maybe they'll do the right thing and bump it up.
00:42:58.480
But the fact is I will be shocked if even this meets the benchmark of, uh, him being tried as an adult.
00:43:16.480
Uh, although I would say this, Sheila, um, now that we have social media, I think if you're really were a bit of an internet sleuth, you could find his picture and his name.
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But, you know, certainly if we were to say anything, uh, if we were to show you his image, if you were to say his name, uh, oh, they would throw the book at us, Sheila.
00:43:45.480
Because, and again, this is, you know, we talked about this on Friday when it comes to the young offenders act, then replaced by an even worse act, the criminal youth justice act.
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Um, I believe in second chances, you know, a kid goes on a joy ride.
00:44:03.480
Somebody shoplifts, you know, a necktie at a store.
00:44:14.480
Uh, we have the transcript of the, uh, video that he posted to Instagram live about what he was doing when he killed this lady.
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And I'm sorry, my computer does not quite understand the weird Toronto dialect that has developed over the last 10 years.
00:44:33.480
And anybody from outside of Toronto, I think you know what I'm talking about.
00:44:38.480
You can sort of hear there's a little bit of a thug, something happening there.
00:44:43.480
And I don't, there's, I don't know, but there's a strange Toronto dialect and I've actually read some linguistic articles about it that is developing very recently.
00:44:52.480
And I say, this is somebody with a strong Alberta accent.
00:44:55.480
So this is no, like a, not a condemnation of Toronto.
00:45:01.480
Um, he said, and I, I can't quote it verbatim because I said, my computer doesn't understand this, um, random throwing in the word fam into places that this young man does.
00:45:14.480
But he said he was trying to get her car, uh, but she didn't give me the keys.
00:45:23.480
Uh, so he admits that he just, just killed her.
00:45:29.480
He said, I basically goes on to say, um, it was, I didn't mean to kill her, but you did kill her and then take her keys in the commission of a crime.
00:45:40.480
You killed a woman who, uh, somebody's grandma who was trying to bring her groceries into the house.
00:45:58.480
So, um, apparently poor people don't know, uh, right from wrong, which is just internalistic nonsense.
00:46:10.480
Uh, is he being raised, uh, by two parents or is it, uh, a single mother perhaps?
00:46:23.480
In fact, I grew up before the beneath the poverty line.
00:46:33.480
Uh, there's no excuse for not knowing right from wrong.
00:46:37.480
This elitist nonsense that poor people don't know what is right and what is wrong is absolute garbage.
00:46:44.480
And I'm tired of being used in the criminal justice system to make poor people less safe.
00:46:49.480
Because when these lunatics get released from prison, guess where they go?
00:46:54.480
Right back to the underprivileged neighborhoods they came from.
00:46:57.480
And the people there trying to crawl their way up out of whatever systemic nonsense they're dealing with.
00:47:03.480
They are the ones who have to deal with these people.
00:47:06.480
Not the people in the fancy houses in the fancy neighborhoods with the fancy streets in the well-groomed yards.
00:47:11.480
It's the people on the cusp who have to keep dealing with this nonsense.
00:47:14.480
Sheila, I, I hear what you're saying loud and clear.
00:47:17.480
I know you don't give a damn and neither do I of the extenuating circumstances.
00:47:31.480
Um, and again, once again, just because you're poor doesn't mean you get to be a garbage parent.
00:47:41.480
I, I just, I don't appreciate the excuses, uh, about, uh, socioeconomic class warfare that will be made on behalf of this young man to justify his butchery of somebody's grandma.
00:47:56.480
Now we know what I think about, uh, the totem pole of grievances.
00:48:00.480
Let's, uh, move ahead because, uh, what is this from Leviathan?
00:48:10.480
If you don't follow Leviathan, you definitely should.
00:48:13.480
Uh, they cover a lot of these, well, not a lot of them.
00:48:17.480
Primarily that's what they cover is anti-Semitic, uh, protests, nonsense activists within the anti-Semitic pro-Hamas movement post October 7th.
00:48:25.480
Um, aerial footage of the 11 arrests that occurred in Toronto show a clear view of how Toronto police conducted their finally, long overdue, crackdown on terrorist sympathizers in a contained zone.
00:48:44.460
Oh, the horses are coming out for something other than barbecues.
00:49:11.460
I haven't seen the cops in Toronto move that fast
00:49:37.460
since they were arresting anti-mandate progesters.
00:49:47.440
When you say 11 arrests, we're talking about the Hamas holes getting arrested,
00:49:51.780
not peaceful counter-demonstrators or citizens passing by and giving the finger
00:49:57.540
because they're tired of being gridlocked in traffic or independent journalists.
00:50:01.980
They're actually arresting the shite disturbers for a change.
00:50:10.760
So this is from the, and I'm going to struggle with some names, everybody.
00:50:25.180
It is alleged a large group of individuals took part in a demonstration in the downtown core.
00:50:28.920
Police issued lawful direction for participants to clear intersections
00:50:32.160
and keep the demonstration moving to reduce traffic congestion.
00:50:35.220
So they weren't even actually trying to break up the protest.
00:50:38.080
They just said you can't occupy an intersection so that you have obstructed traffic four ways.
00:50:45.600
The police directed the group to disperse and move to the sidewalk.
00:50:52.360
They became aggressive, assaulted officers while resisting police efforts to restore order.
00:50:57.180
The following individuals were arrested and charged at the scene.
00:50:59.780
Ghassan Abulawi, 30, of Toronto, was charged with obstruction of a peace officer failure to comply.
00:51:06.680
Deidre Cahill, it's a very Anglo-sounding name, 43 of Oakville.
00:51:18.860
A normal 43-year-old on the weekend, 43-year-old woman should be doing stuff with her kids,
00:51:24.460
not protesting on a street corner with the Hamas jerks.
00:51:28.020
Um, but her cat's probably able to take care of himself on a Sunday and a Saturday.
00:51:34.200
Um, she's charged with mischief and interference with property.
00:51:38.580
Um, Anna Ellergott, 28 of Toronto, is charged with obstruction of a peace officer, assault of a peace officer.
00:51:45.960
How much do you want to bet she's going to get far less than Tamara Leach?
00:51:49.660
Um, we've got Yusuf Al-Izada, 32, of Toronto, obstruction of a peace officer, possession of a prohibited weapon.
00:52:05.320
Uh, Noor Abu Ali, 28, of Mississauga, was charged with obstruction.
00:52:09.440
Thomas Butko, 38, of Georgina, was charged with two counts of assaulting a peace officer.
00:52:14.340
Salim Alaoua, 28, of Burlington, was charged with assaulting a peace officer, causing a disturbance,
00:52:21.860
Adam Diabas, 26, of Brampton, was charged with obstruction of a peace officer.
00:52:31.360
Um, then Leslie Solomonian, 47, of Toronto, obstruction of peace officer.
00:52:38.580
Jameel Nasser, of Windsor, charged with obstruction of a peace officer, assault of peace officer.
00:52:42.620
Those ones are appearing the, on the 12th, um, in court.
00:52:55.900
Lots of assaulting a peace officer, obstructing a peace officer, carrying a concealed weapon,
00:53:02.660
carrying a prohibited weapon, probably the same weapon, they just, two charges, two different
00:53:07.760
Um, uh, than your general mischief and assault, or, uh, yeah, your general mischief and interference
00:53:16.260
So this seems far more violent than anything the convoy did.
00:53:20.360
And yet, these guys were probably out on bail that afternoon, and they will never see the
00:53:25.580
Well, uh, Sheila, I guess I know what my assignments are on September 8th and September 12th.
00:53:31.660
Yeah, there's another, I think there's another one too, uh, uh, that might, yeah, sorry, those are the
00:53:42.640
You are, um, Ontario Court of Justice both days, please.
00:53:47.000
You know, uh, that's a little disturbing, uh, carrying the weapons, isn't it?
00:53:52.200
And, you know, I say that in the context of, in May, we had the, uh, Walk with Israel march.
00:54:03.640
And it was an individual, Sheila, with a grenade.
00:54:12.880
But do you think that when you have somebody where all messed up and he's part of team
00:54:19.040
Hamas hole, and there are literally, um, almost 60,000 Jews marching by, uh, within an arms
00:54:28.220
throw of, um, you know, this, uh, you know, potential, uh, explosive device.
00:54:34.660
Do you think maybe the police, uh, would, um, talk to that fellow, uh, have them surrender?
00:54:45.980
How dare they just assume that that is just a replica that's not real.
00:54:53.780
And you can't assume, I would argue, Sheila, post 9-11, you have to, uh, prepare for the
00:55:12.260
So now that they have arrested, uh, members of this ilk and they have found them to be
00:55:19.000
weaponized, uh, maybe we have to be, you know, take a harder look at this.
00:55:23.780
So I guess the question is, Sheila, come this weekend, are they going to be up to their regular
00:55:36.080
We have to get the, uh, paddy wagons out and do mass arrests, you know, because I'm telling
00:55:42.780
you, I think I speak for all of Toronto when I say, get the hell off the street.
00:55:47.240
You know, front and Spadina, that's around the Skydome area.
00:55:51.460
And when there was a baseball game and there was that day, traffic is already gridlock enough,
00:56:00.540
So when you have these jerks doing their demonstration and, oh, I forgot they have a right to prayer,
00:56:07.160
you see, uh, even though there's a mosque within walking distance.
00:56:13.200
We can pray wherever we want, but you don't get to block the street.
00:56:16.920
Like if I was out in the middle of the street, saying the rosary, the police would whack me
00:56:28.680
Go on the sidewalk, pray till your heart's content on the sidewalk.
00:56:32.560
I will actually fight for your right to pray on the sidewalk.
00:56:40.940
And I think we will need a few more weekends of arrests for this to, uh, maybe dissipate
00:56:48.780
And I'm curious, and I suppose you'll find out when you're in attendance at court, what
00:57:04.840
Um, and I'm sure it could be, heck, it could be a grenade.
00:57:09.320
And I think you're going to find out the details as you, uh, tune in for these court appearances.
00:57:14.260
No, but Sheila, on this business of the right to the constitutional right to prayer, which
00:57:19.820
the city of Toronto and the police have both released media statements about, I went back
00:57:28.740
Canadians have a constitutional right to pray, but you do not have a constitutional right.
00:57:38.300
And the response I got back from the city of Toronto, Sheila was we stand by our statement.
00:57:51.820
I think that's what most Torontonians want to see too.
00:57:55.000
Now, uh, before we hit an ad break, we're already at the end of the show, but we have
00:57:58.560
a few more things we need to touch on because they ended up in the YouTube headline and we
00:58:14.500
RCMP had zero briefings on anti-Semitism in 2024, even as the tax on Jew byrocketed.
00:58:22.420
Um, can you like, and so now I've done some investigating and I'll let you know how this
00:58:29.880
compares to other religious groups that everybody seems to be pretty concerned about all the
00:58:36.220
Uh, I'm going to see how many RCMP briefings were on Islamophobia versus how they treated
00:58:44.320
And what is important is, uh, that there is, uh, a skyrocketing amount of attacks on Jews.
00:58:53.520
Um, Benai Brith recorded 5,791 anti-Semitic incidents in 2023, 109% increase from the year
00:59:02.620
However, physical violence against Jews more than tripled while incidents of harassment
00:59:09.180
Toronto police, 203 hate crimes between October, 2023 and just early 2024.
00:59:14.860
So in just a few months, 56 of them were at 56%.
00:59:18.420
So over half of all hate crimes were targeted at Jews in Toronto.
00:59:27.100
Um, it is all the more appalling when you consider
00:59:32.260
the percentage of Jews in Canada, basically Canada wide, you're talking about 1%.
00:59:40.060
So that makes those numbers even more amplified than they already are.
00:59:47.900
And then I went on to point out that the RCMP commissioner received brief things in 2024
00:59:52.300
on topics like diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, internal communications about climate
01:00:07.240
Well, we know they do them before they give briefings on missing kids of all things.
01:00:16.280
And now I'm going to compare it to, uh, the Islamophobia briefings, and then I'm going
01:00:26.900
I just want to see how things compare, um, where the focus is on.
01:00:35.360
Well, in an ad break, we'll be right back for the last little bit of the show.
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And then the Daily Cringe, Efron, if that works.
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Speaks with CBS on the ongoing trade dispute with Canada.
01:04:14.060
But the mainstream media doesn't like to point out the other side of this.
01:04:18.940
Because they just are so anti-American in this country.
01:04:23.900
Their prime minister said this past week there's not a lot of evidence they can get a trade deal with the U.S. that avoids tariffs.
01:04:35.280
Is your message to Canada, Mr. Secretary, that no matter what they offer at the negotiating table, free trade's gone, there will be a tariff in place?
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We have a plan called USMCA, U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Virtually 75% of all goods coming from Mexico and Canada already come in tariff-free.
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The president said, look, unless you stop this fentanyl and close the border, we're just going to keep tariffs on the other 25%.
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The president understands that we need to open the markets.
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Unless they're willing to open their market, they're going to pay a tariff.
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Why should we have our country be wide open while theirs is closed?
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This is an 80-year wrong that President Trump is trying to fix.
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And our businesses are going to really, really enjoy it.
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I think the president's going to open between $300 billion and $400 billion of opportunity for Americans.
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That's 1.5%, up to 1.5% GDP growth because the president's going to open all these markets up.
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You're going to watch all these other countries decide if they want to do business with America.
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That's opportunity that President Trump is bringing.
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David, I think we all know what he's talking about there, right?
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And by the way, before we get into that, Sheila, can we come up with a new name for USMCA?
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Every time I hear that, I almost expect to see a video depicting a cowboy, an Indian, a biker, and a construction worker doing a disco dance.
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I think it's easier to say than the Canadian version of it.
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I think the US version just rolls off the tongue a little better.
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And we know that supply management in Canada is a political third rail.
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Well, no political party except the PPC will talk about tampering with supply management.
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If supply management is not going to be eliminated, and of course, this is the policy that affects dairy, eggs, turkey, and chicken, we're going to have to acquiesce, Sheila.
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You can call Donald Trump a master negotiator, all about the art of the deal.
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He is the president of a country that is more than 10 times the size of Canada.
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The carny liberals can fantasize about opening up new markets in Europe and Asia and abroad.
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We're going to have to get to the table, and they're going to have to make concessions.
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Maybe there's some way of the carny liberals saving face, that not eliminating supply management, but pretty much gouging it to the president's whims.
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At the end of the day, Sheila, as a Canadian who looks at the prices of those four commodities compared to, I mean, you've made the comparison of the Costco in Washington State.
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They call the Canadian shoppers the red plague, I think, because they flock down there to buy those commodities.
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Well, then, isn't that getting rid of a tariff on Canadian consumers when you think about it?
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And to be clear, this Soviet-style price-fixing scheme in supply management, and don't come at me.
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But the beef producers are figuring out how to get the other part of the cow to market just fine without government intervention.
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But the U.K. has walked away from the CETA trade deal with Canada because of supply management.
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The U.K., when they went to the G7, signed their trade deal that they had previously negotiated with the Americans.
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So it's not like the U.K. is averse to getting trade deals done with unfriendly types like the Americans.
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Supply management is the problem with all these trade deals.
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And it is the reason we're getting our butts kicked with tariffs from the Americans.
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We need to start because other industries are being crushed by it.
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Oh, and Sheila, when it comes to those tariffs, forget about 10%, 25%, 35%, 50% tariffs.
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With certain dairy commodities, for a U.S. producer to bring their product to market here in Canada, how about 292% tariff?
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So I think they have a strong hand when it comes to the fairness case, Sheila.
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Let's move ahead to Daniel Smith, my premier, premier of Alberta, appearing on the Steve Pakin podcast.
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I mean, and that tells you how often I watch TVO.
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You know, I've met Steve and, you know, maybe a liberal.
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But I think what you're getting at is, was this where the premier, oh, there it is, to end after 19 seasons.
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You know, it's bad enough we have a CBC, but why is our chief cherry cheesecake enthusiast still funding TVO?
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So, isn't that, that goes completely against conservative ideals, but nevertheless.
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Like, in modern times, the premiers just do a podcast, or they just, like, sit down and talk to their media guy on YouTube.
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But that's what we do in Alberta, and it doesn't actually cost the Alberta taxpayer anything.
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But, yeah, we've got Smith on Steve Pakin's podcast.
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Isn't it funny how Steve Pakin's talking to Albertans, even though he made his career at TVO?
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And she says, for some reason, and they're talking about the CBC and the mainstream media,
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they didn't want conservative voices, and they didn't want conservative viewers.
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Do you believe the institutions of this country, the courts, the media, the public service,
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do they lean liberal and against conservatives, generally speaking?
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They just had a major broadcaster quit with exactly that same, that same, Travis Danrage, I think.
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And he argued that he wasn't allowed to have the full range of perspective being represented.
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In fact, I talked to my housing minister about it.
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One of the reporters was asking him about some of our stats,
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and we know that she contacted 12 people about our change in policy, didn't quote any of them,
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because they agreed with us, and she went out of province to quote somebody who would criticize us.
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So, I think part of the reason why the decline in the mainstream media and the rise of alternative media
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is because, for some reason, they decided they didn't want conservative voices and didn't want conservative viewers.
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You know, Sheila, we don't deserve Daniel Smith.
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She left Chorus because she wanted to talk a little bit more about lockdowns and the harm that it was having,
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and she left Chorus and went her own way so that she could have those discussions.
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And just last week, this nonsense about mainstream media specifically ignoring
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what conservatives are saying to fix their own agenda,
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that happened with our library services announcement.
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And I did a video on this because I could pull back the curtain and show you
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how the mainstream media had to have purposefully got the library standards announcement wrong.
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We were getting the smut and homosexual erotica out of our elementary school libraries.
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And all the media got embargoed documents three hours in advance.
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And the embargoed documents specifically said this wouldn't affect, like, hand-holding,
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breastfeeding, medical stuff, none of that, like, normal relationship, teen romance novel stuff.
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And then it went, the lie went around the world before the truth was able to put its pants on.
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It was so bad that the press secretary for the education minister had to issue, like,
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a statement by four o'clock in the afternoon that,
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So she knows that absolutely the media will go in search of someone who will agree with their agenda
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And, you know, and good for Daniel Smith getting out of the Chorus Corporation.
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You know, they run radio stations across the nation, the global TV affiliates.
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Last time I looked, Sheila, just to show you how Chorus thinks it knows what it's doing,
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I think their stock was trading at six cents a share,
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which is why they need taxpayer welfare to turn the lights on.
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Okay, we've got another clip from the Paken podcast.
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Paken asked Premier Smith about Yves-Francois Blanchet
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when he said that Alberta oil and gas isn't a culture.
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The oil and gas sector does have its own sort of lingo,
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its own colloquialisms, its own work ethic, its own sense of values.
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But those are grown from the broader Alberta culture.
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So even when he said that to try to make fun of us, he was actually wrong.
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I do want to get your view on Yves-Francois Blanchet's comments,
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Asked if he had any tips for you in Alberta about asserting your sovereignty or separating.
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Well, maybe he should come out here during Stampede.
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There is no one who has the 10-day celebration that we do.
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And I mention it because it is so definitive of the Alberta culture.
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we don't have the same founding story as Quebec does.
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Our founding story began in 1905 when early settlers came and fur traded with the First Nations.
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there was a call out to the world to come here and get free land.
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And it was hard to develop it, whether it was for ranching or for farming.
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But that culture that we celebrate every single year is important.
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Because what I would say with the character of the Alberta people
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is that they don't look to government to solve their problems.
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And they overcome some of the worst conditions,
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And we keep on winning over and over and over again.
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And so I think that what you see with the celebration of our Western heritage,
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because every single year there's a new frontier.
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And when people do come here and they see what a merit-based society we have built,
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a welcoming place where people from around the world can celebrate their own culture and heritage,
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but they embrace the Alberta heritage and culture, yeah, we already have that.
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You know, Sheila, the audacity of Blanchet to say those comments, it's off the charts.
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And I'll tell you what really is going on here.
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In the early 80s and the mid-90s, Quebec had a referendum for separation.
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Now, because of demographic changes in Quebec, separation is a pipe dream.
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If there's a third referendum, it will be a resounding defeat.
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Separation, I would argue, is more of a real thing in Alberta than it is in Quebec.
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Now, Quebec could never do it because of their strong reliance on handouts from everybody else.
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They won't develop their own gas resources, but they're happy to take transfer payments from our gas resources
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The people who settled this place and who continue to settle this place tamed an unforgiving land
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and turned it into something that feeds the world.
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And there's a lot of envy from people like Blanchet because we are able to do that
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without relying on government to help us do it.
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Albertans are more separatist than Quebecers are right now.
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And we have more will to unchain ourselves from confederation.
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Oh, and Sheila, I can tell you, even the Quebec separatists subscribe to your point of view.
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That's why the biggest attempted scam of the century in Canada was when the separatists started using the words sovereignty association.
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But we still have our hands in the till in Ottawa.
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We're still going to be part of supply management.
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It was literally having your cake and eating it too.
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Yeah, they wanted to be sovereign while still associating themselves with our money.
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Let's do this last clip from the Pagan podcast about could this be Alberta's Brexit movement.
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I suspect David Cameron thought he was doing the same thing when he offered the public the opportunity to consider Brexit.
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And then the thing took on a momentum of its own and he clearly lost control of it.
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Is there a part of you that worries that could happen here?
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I mean, you have to remember when I first got into politics, there were about five separatist parties already.
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And that was my message to them is let's not split the vote.
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And I did do that under the former prime minister.
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And so I'm making the same request again is this is a new leader.
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We've already seen some indication that he's different.
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I mean, the ending of the carbon tax as one of his first actions shows that he is not as tied to all of these terrible policies as his predecessor was.
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But I think we just need to see a little bit more proof in his actions.
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So I think that my view is that, yeah, I worry about it.
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I hope the prime minister worries about it because he should be worried about unity.
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And he should be worried that it's his actions or his government actions or the prior government's actions that has created this situation.
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And it's in his power to be able to cause it to be alleviated.
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And I hope he answers with some actions that will do that.
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Sheila, before we get into the nitty gritty, I got to ask you, is that the case that there is or there was five separatist parties in the province of Alberta?
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Sometimes you go to the poll and it's one of these crazy ballots with like 28 people running and you get to near the end.
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And there's somebody with the Communist Party of Canada and somebody else with the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.
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You can't, you know, unite the far left extremists, you know.
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So but that many separatist parties, what differentiates them?
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Like there are parties for everybody in that in that way.
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And the Alberta Prosperity Project is not a party.
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And they're sort of working from outside that they're saying, OK, let's figure out how to leave.
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And then we'll figure out what that looks like, what we do after that.
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And then, you know, we're smart, we're hardworking, we'll figure it out from there.
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But that is the problem with a deeply conservative place, right, is that it's hard to get us all marching in the same direction.
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When you are a culture of fierce individualists, it's hard to get everybody working together for the same goal when you might even have the same goal.
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But you don't want to chant the same slogan and hold the same sign that it's one of the good things about the conservative movement.
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There's a lot of that with the separatist movement.
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And I think that's what the Alberta Prosperity Project is trying to do, is trying to say, like, hey, we don't need a party system for this.
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We need a movement of the people outside of the party system because party system invites tribalism.
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And what we're just trying to do right now is to deal with the issue at hand that's not a party thing.
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That's that's how desperately people want to leave here.
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It's like just keep starting political parties just to get out of the out the door.
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OK, and then we'll do the Daily Cringe brought to us by a Daily Cringe recidivist.
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Talk about loan sharks, the only game in town for financing a business purchase.
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She is a frequent chatter donator and we sure appreciate her.
01:25:08.520
Jay Peterson gives us 20 bucks and says this is just for support of Rebel News.
01:25:19.320
What is accomplished is that the world put an end to the lockdown.
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So we're talking about what the convoy accomplished.
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Had the convoy never happened, we'd be required to have a 20th booster to leave our homes today.
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Oh, and we would be even more morbidly obese than we already are.
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And then Efron apologizes because he can't get the whole last name to show.
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Mantage, D-H-I-L, and I bet you it's L-O-N, because that's 50 bucks.
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And I don't see a chat there, but I'm just real grateful.
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It comes by way of the former NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh.
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And I'm just already hovered in the heebie-jeebies.
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And I'm going to wrap up my head and also share with you some ideas.
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Ever since the last election, something's been happening.
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People have been coming up to me and saying, thank you for your service.
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People have been coming right up to me and saying that.
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But it also got me thinking about service and leadership and how I feel about that.
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When I was a kid, if I ever went to an organization or group that was sick-led and you asked who
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the leader was, they point out a brother or sister.
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And if you went up to them and chatted with them and said, oh, I hear you're the leader.
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They never wanted to be referred to as a leader.
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And so they were reluctant to be referred to as a leader because they didn't want to be thought of
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as a person that was bossing folks around or at the top or calling the shots.
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But instead, they wanted to know that what they were doing was just service.
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They were just serving their community, serving people.
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And that's what I grew up believing leadership was.
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And so when folks say to me, thank you for your service, it's probably the nicest thing you could say
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because that's exactly what I believed and I continue to believe that leadership is.
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And it also means that I couldn't have served in the first place.
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I wouldn't have had the honor of serving but for people who supported me.
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Thanks to everybody who donated, voted, who believed in our vision.
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We couldn't have done the work we did without you.
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And I guess this is a good time to chat a little bit about.
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I've been spending a lot of time with the family.
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I want you to know, no matter what I do, I will always continue to push for better ways for us to take care of each other.
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I want you to know that I believe in my core and I always will believe that we are all one.
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And that we are better off when we take care of each other.
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All of us are better off when we lift each other up.
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So I'm going to continue to find ways to talk about that and to continue to promote that.
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That if we want to build a fairer world, a better world, it's going to be a world where we imagine that we're all one.
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And a world where we find better ways and more ways to take care of each other.
01:29:17.280
Sheila, it was like watching a perverse reverse striptease in an alternate universe.
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If I was a Sikh, I don't think I'd make a very good one.
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Here's the only good thing I can say about that video.
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He's very coordinated in terms of putting that turban on.
01:29:39.100
But I'll tell you, everything else, the only truthful thing he said, and wow, what a quote, is when he said,
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Yeah, that's right, because you lost your own seat.
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And not only that, you threw your party under the bus for your pension.
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You threw your country under the bus for your pension.
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And by the way, Mr. Singh, those people passing by on the car, putting their hands out the window,
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are you sure you're looking at the right digit, that it's a thumb up and not the middle finger up?
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Because I suspect that is what you're getting, not the reverse.
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Yeah, what we just saw was fake performative humility from somebody who doesn't have any.
01:30:26.440
I'm just so pleased he took his Rolex off before he did that video.
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The most interesting part for me was watching him tie his turban.
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But listening to his words, I'm like, thank you for your service.
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You're a self-serving politician who sold out this country for his pension.
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Ten more years of liberal leadership, probably.
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Well, you know, Sheila, to be fair, in terms of accomplishments, we know Jagmeet Singh is all about, you know, green energy and the climate crisis and whatnot.
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And after the last election, the NDP at the federal level can now have a caucus meeting in a minivan.
01:31:38.120
Yeah, I just, the way he's treating himself, like he just has gone through, like, the Afghanistan war by being one of the most comfortable, well-kept people in all of Canada.
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Mr. Rolex Maserati, thank you for your service.
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As if people are saying that to him, by the way.
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Congratulations on you guys being so smart that you chose me.
01:32:16.060
It's kind of like seeing that the captain of the Titanic at some kind of nautical conference talking about iceberg evasion, right?
01:32:25.280
Go, get in your Maserati, pick up Aaron O'Toole, come out here, get Jason Kenney, and then you guys just drive into the sunset and we never see you ever again.
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Then, then I'll be out on the highway holding a thank you sign.
01:32:43.820
But let's get some of our trained broadcast professionals to wire up that car because I want to see what the conversation is.
01:32:58.140
Sheila, is it a Maserati or is it a BMW M3 or does he own both?
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And when I, when I saw him show up at a Toronto event, he was in a Dodge Durango RT, of course, not the base model.
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So he's quite the connoisseur of cars for somebody that keeps preaching.
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Well, you know, Sheila, as they say, socialism ain't for the socialists.
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I know they need the studio in about 15 minutes.
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I believe tomorrow it is Sheila along with the lovely Lise.
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And I think, are we doing a panel discussion again on Friday, Sheila?
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So, as they say in the marketing universe, folks, that's value add.
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You're going to get more people yammering away.