Rebel Roundup： Guests Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn-Reed explains why the taxpayer is now on the hook for nursing a $200,000 advertising bill. Ezra Levent offers his take on a heated verbal exchange between a burka-clad woman and a homosexual at a UK pride parade. And finally, we get your letters.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back
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at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.
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It looks like that stupid virtue-signalling tweet Justin Trudeau sent out in 2017, you
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know the one in which he welcomed the entire world to come to Canada?
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Well, that ended up being costly in more ways than one.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed will explain why the taxpayer is now on the hook for nursing a $200,000 advertising
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Apparently, Islamists don't get along all that well with members of the LGBTQ community.
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Ezra Levent will offer his take on a heated verbal exchange that took place between a burka-clad
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woman and a homosexual at a UK pride parade, a discussion that was anything but gay.
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding the out-of-control theft problem at Liquor Control
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Thieves are free to take advantage of the five-finger discount without fear of impediment.
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But if you go to an LCBO store to practice journalism, as we did recently, you can expect security
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Now let's examine the spending because this spending shows some real liberal fear.
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The timing of Justin Trudeau's Welcome to Canada tweet is very important here.
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He sent that tweet out January 28th, 2017, the beginning of the year.
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During all of 2017, the Liberals spent less than $10,000 to advertise information campaigns
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The irregular migration campaign sought to reach individuals in the United States with
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temporary protected status to provide factual information about Canada's asylum system
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and to dispel misinformation, suggesting that Canada will accept, without question, anyone
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claiming asylum between ports of entry or anyone with temporary protected status in the United States.
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The same year our canoe spokesmodel of a Prime Minister sent his irresponsible tweet to the
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world, which then caused an influx of illegal immigration and asylum claims from potential
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deportees and overstayers from the United States.
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But despite all of that confusion and utter chaos, the Liberals weren't all that concerned
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with clamping down on the lawlessness at the border caused by Trudeau's tweet in 2017, until
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something else happened in late 2017, at the end of the year.
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Polls started to suggest that Canadians didn't agree with Justin Trudeau's open door, take
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all comers and carry their luggage immigration policy.
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And perhaps because it's 2019, that adage should be modified to state, think before you tweet.
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Case in point, thanks to that Justin Trudeau grotesquely irresponsible tweet in 2017, welcoming
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the entire world to come on down to Canada, it turns out the government ended up spending
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almost $200,000 in damage control ads, given that polls would later reveal that the majority
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of Canadians aren't on board when it comes to Justin's open borders virtue signalling.
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But then again, it's only $200,000, and in the grand scheme of things, that's not a lot
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Besides, it's only tax dollars, plenty of those in the kitty.
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And joining me now with more on this sordid story is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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So Sheila, there's a perverse irony at play here, isn't there?
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Essentially, the makers, that would be the Canadian taxpayers, are paying a price in order
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to further accommodate the takers, all thanks to an idiotic tweet by the Prime Minister that
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should never have been conveyed in the first place.
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Yeah, I mean, as the story goes, in the year that Justin Trudeau sent that tweet, the famous
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welcome to Canada tweet that was just, you know, shameless, transparent trolling of President
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Donald Trump for his so-called Muslim ban, which wasn't a Muslim ban at all, but rather
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a ban on travel from, you know, several failed states across the world, that tweet, as we
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know, caused an onslaught of illegal immigration at Canada's southern border.
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What changed is when the federal government actually started caring about the damage that
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they were doing at the border, because in the year that Justin Trudeau sent that tweet,
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the government had only spent $9,100 on making sure that people clicked on these Google ads
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and search engine ads to give them the appropriate information about how to immigrate to Canada
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and strutting across the border ain't it. But as soon as polling came back at the end of that year
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that Justin Trudeau sent that tweet, I think it was 2017, polling came in in November saying
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Canadians are overwhelmingly opposed to the catastrophic destruction of our immigration
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system at the hands of the Liberals. So all of a sudden, it went from $9,100 in a year to
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nearly $200,000 in the subsequent year and a half for the government to just throw money
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at search engine advertising, trying to get people who are doing things like Googling
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how to immigrate illegally into Canada to click on ads that say, no, no, no, this is probably the
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way you do it. And you shouldn't be just showing up at the border with your baggage in hand,
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You know, and Sheila, I want to pursue that angle because it speaks to a bigger picture,
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and that bigger picture being the character of Justin Trudeau. You would think that once
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he saw the polling results and that the people, the vast majority of people are against this
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kind of open borders policy, he might have said something like, you know, okay, I got it
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wrong, mea culpa, we're going down the wrong direction, the people have spoken. But no, again,
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here's a man who dines out on public apologies for the sins of other people committed a long
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time ago. In fact, even before Canada was a nation, for goodness sakes, he can never take
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personal responsibility for anything he has done or said, even when he's clearly in the wrong.
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I think that's despicable that not only did he not reverse course on this policy, but that
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he doubled down with our own money to go out and tell us, no, you dumb people, here's why
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That's exactly true, David. It was Justin Trudeau's public pronouncement that really set
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the prairie fire that just blazed out of control and caused all these problems at the border.
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It was his one tweet, retweeted tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of times, that
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one tweet seen around the world. And he's never come out and corrected himself on that. He's
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never come out and said, that's not the way to do things. We have a system in place. This
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is how you should be doing things. And he's never had to. And I think a lot of that plays
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into the mainstream media narrative about illegal immigration. They don't call it illegal immigration,
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do they? They call it irregular migration, as though it's completely lawful. It's just not
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happening the usual way. That's completely untrue. I watched a mainstream media journalist last week
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try to correct Maxime Bernier when he called it illegal immigration. She said, well, I believe we're
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calling it legal or irregular migration. It's dumbfounding. But as long as that continues
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to happen, as long as we're playing these word games, as long as the mainstream media refuses
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to hold Justin Trudeau accountable, I mean, he's just not going to answer for what he's done.
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Yeah. And you know what, Sheila, maybe you and I have it right. I'm all about getting education
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on the issue, which is why I went to Morocco last December to the UN migration compact, only to have
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my own government ban me from attending and covering that compact. So hey, I guess they want us to remain
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ignorant by their own policies. But you know, Sheila, it is outrageous that I can't think, you know,
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I stand to be corrected here, but I can't think of any nation in the world whose leader is tweeting
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out, you know, basically advocating for more illegal immigration into that nation. And I think what
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the unspoken story here is, Sheila, is that Justin Trudeau puts his fortunes and the fortunes of the
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federal liberal party ahead of Canada. Namely, when we have all these illegal immigrants coming into
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Canada and they get the voting franchise, there's going to be that innuendo, you know, hey, never forget
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who let you in, never forget who opened the gates, you know, you have an uncle in the furniture
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business, make sure you vote for him. I think that's what's at play here, Sheila. And that is
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despicable in my book. We see this playing out right now also in the United States. They want amnesty
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for illegal aliens in the United States, which would then give them the ability to vote, which would
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then, you know, I think the Democrats would then feel entitled to those votes. And it's so important
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for that to happen in states like Texas. Texas is getting a little more purple when it used to be
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deep red. And if you flip Texas with the amount of power that has in the electoral college, you can flip
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the whole country. And I think Justin Trudeau is counting on some of that bleeding over here into
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Canada, some of that attitude like, hey, we'd let you in. So vote for us. The problem with that is
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that there are already a lot of legal immigrants in this country. You know, you see it in BC's lower
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mainland where you have people, especially in the Chinese community, who have come here the right
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way. They've worked hard. They've adopted Canadian values. They just want to, you know,
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pay their taxes and get ahead like everybody else. And they see a lot of people who are jumping the
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queue and they're really blowing the whistle. You see the Chinese community in the lower mainland of
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British Columbia leading the charge against birthright citizenship because they know that people from
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China are coming to hospitals in Burnaby just to have their baby to then have the baby sponsor the
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parents to become legal immigrants to Canada. So, you know, while Justin Trudeau is counting on,
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you know, a lot of illegal immigrants suddenly becoming Canadians and voting for him, he's really
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forgetting about the vast majority of legal immigrants to this country who really resent the
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queue jumping that Justin Trudeau is allowing to happen.
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No, I absolutely agree, Sheila. I think what we're seeing with the liberals in Canada and the
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Democrats in the U.S. is actually to change the fabric of the populace. Like you said, that's a
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great example of Texas. I mean, it's hard to believe that, you know, back in 1980, California was a red
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state that voted for Reagan. Those days are long gone. And if Texas goes that way, you're looking at
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probably a Democrat dynasty. And similarly in Canada, if we have basically a federal government
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and its prime minister espousing the mantra of no one is illegal just so that they can embolden their
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own power base, I think it's almost borderline treason, Sheila. I know that's a harsh word, but
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I think that's what we're seeing. That's what the ultimate agenda here is in terms of allowing and
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Well, it's the mantra of power at all costs. The liberals really don't seem to care what happens
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in the rest of the country, what the social costs are, what the financial costs are, the damage to the
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Canadian economy, the damage to our social support network, i.e. food banks and homeless shelters,
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we know the ones in Toronto, are just brimming full of illegal migrants. They don't really care
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about those sorts of things. Those implications that the rest of us, outside of the Ottawa and
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Laurentian bubble, the stuff that we have to live with every day, that's not really on their radar as
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long as they retain the power and as long as they retain their entitlement to be the natural
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Yeah. And I guess we're going to have to wrap it here, Sheila. And of course, the insult to injury
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is almost $200,000 of our money saying how we've got it wrong. And we didn't even get into that other
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information you uncovered, Sheila, of Climate Barbie also spending almost $200,000
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to promote her climate change agenda in advertising as well. But hey, they're very
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generous with our money, aren't they, Sheila? That's what it boils down to.
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Isn't that the truth? And this is just the stuff they spent on getting people to click on Google
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ads. This isn't, you know, all the other stuff that they waste our money on to fix the problems
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they created. I mean, just look at the crisis at the border and just the infrastructure they've had
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to build the border. It's in the millions and millions of dollars, all because of Justin Trudeau's
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one tweet. Indeed. What a farce. Sheila, another superb report from you. Thank you so much. And thank
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you for joining me today here. Thanks, David. Have a great weekend. You too now, my friend. And that
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was Sheila Gunn-Reed from Alberta. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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What was the crime? And by the way, does anyone think what she said is not being preached and
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taught at a thousand British mosques and schools every day? She just made the mistake of saying it
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on a high street in English. Here's the cops. Waltham Forest Police. We are aware of footage
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circulating on social media of abuse directed at those taking part in the Waltham Forest Pride
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event. We are Waltham Forest at STP Pride. And inquiries are underway. Abusing someone because of
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their sexual orientation or gender identity is a hate crime. If you have been verbally or physically
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abused, harassed or attacked in any way by someone because you are or they think you are LGBT plus,
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they drop the Q. Please report these crimes to police or through a third-party agency. Now, I obviously
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don't like the Sharia approach to women, sexuality, homosexuality, free expression, etc. Obviously,
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I mean, just a guess if you're wearing a medieval body bag and it actually got up to 38 degrees
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Celsius last week in London. Think about that. If you're dressed like that and shrieking at gay
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pride marches, I'm guessing you've got strong views about everything from Jews to Western democracy to
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terrorism. Yeah, our new country is going to be amazing. But of all the things to criminalize,
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not sure that shouting shame at someone is the thing I'd start with. Pretty sure the problem
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actually predates that. If you're worried about what you saw there, perhaps the problem is inviting
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in millions of people who hate gays and believe they have to be stoned to death. And you suddenly,
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you thought they'd suddenly change their deep-seated hatred on a short plane ride over. Maybe that's
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the problem. Here's Pew Research with their international surveys on gay rights. They pulled
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gay rights all around the world. Should society accept homosexuality? In Canada, 80% say yes.
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In most Muslim countries, it's over 90% who say no. Are you still surprised that they say no in the UK
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shortly after taking the plane over from Pakistan? Now, here's a question for you. How are you going to
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find that suspect? She's wearing a mask in public. She's dressed in black. How are you going to pick
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her out of a lineup? That's one reason we don't let people wear masks in public.
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Well, so much for that whiz-bang slogan of diversity is our strength, because when it comes
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to those who pine for Islamic Sharia law, well, apparently they aren't all that accommodating
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when it comes to those who comprise the LGBT and sometimes Q community. Surely this must give
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the progressives fits, yet what did they expect was going to happen? When one is weaned on an
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ideological diet of hatred towards certain types of infidels, old habits are hard to drop. And so
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it is that we end up with a burka-clad woman cussing out an openly gay person at a UK pride march.
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Gracious, how is the PC brigade ever going to handle this hot potato when it comes to the so-called
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hierarchy of human rights? And with more on this story of Islam versus the LGBTQ community is our
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very own rebel commander, Ezra Levent. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
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Thanks. My one objection to your introduction is I don't think she was cussing. She said,
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And she used two adjectives, shameless and despicable. But she didn't swear. She just kept on shouting,
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shame, shame, shame. It was like something from The Handmaid's Tale. I don't think in my view she broke
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any laws. She was not violent. She didn't call for violence. She was irritating. And I think she was
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over the top and offensive. But it was a gay pride parade, which is inherently a political statement.
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And I think in the UK it ought to be free enough to say shame to any manifestation or demonstration
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on the street. What's fascinating to me is that had that been an indigenous working class white
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Brit soccer hooligan or whatever, he would have been arrested immediately. In Islam, in the UK,
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that's just sort of normal. So I was actually really surprised when they arrested this woman.
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The police, first of all, how do you identify her? She's wearing a burqa. You know, if you put seven
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women in burqas in a police lineup, how do you even identify her unless she's confessing? But I don't
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believe someone who has that deep-seated a view would confess to any crime or even submit to the
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authority of a secular law. Someone like that is full-on Sharia law. The Koran is her only law. I find
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this a confusing case. I'm looking forward to seeing if she's actually prosecuted. Not only do I think that
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she won't be, but I think if she would be, which I doubt, there would be such a public reaction from
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Muslim extremists in the UK of whom there are a great number. And listen, if it's an indigenous white
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working class soccer hooligan, the police don't care. And if anyone shows up, they'll hit them with
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the Billy Club. But there are 23,000 actual jihadists walking the streets of London. That's in addition
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to millions of Muslims who may be sympathetic to one degree or another. I've seen surveys that show
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the plurality of British Muslims think it should be illegal, for example, for someone who's gay to be a
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teacher. So that's sort of where the needle is there. Of these 23,000 jihadists, 3,000 are so
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dangerous, the police monitor them 24 hours a day. You've got 3,000 people so dangerous. I mean,
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I don't know how many people it takes to monitor someone 24 hours a day to track them. That could
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be 50. You know, it's fascinating, Ezra, because I also looked at the media coverage of this and even
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the way the writers in columnists are walking on eggshells, avoiding the use of the descriptor
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burqa, you know, a woman in black clothing, right? You know, the way they're pussyfooting around
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the elephant in the room. But I'm wondering, you know, are we really that much different here
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in Toronto? I go back to June at the Al-Quds Day Parade, and you know that interview where I
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talked to somebody who said things far worse, that, yeah, basically under Sharia law, where
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nothing personal, but we're going to have to execute all the gays in Canada. I remember that
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guy, and that same guy was very candid, and he said, ha ha, sucker, I didn't swear allegiance
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to Canadian law one night on my immigration ceremony. I kept my mouth shut. It's your fault
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for not watching me. Yes. That was an incredible interview that was widely circulated. Yeah, absolutely.
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And there was one line in that protest in London, in a neighborhood beautifully called Waltham Forest.
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Right. And you can just imagine how pretty it once was. And now it's as crappy as can be. And it's
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going full Islamification. There are halal stores everywhere, hijab stores, niqab. Like it's not long
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that that gay pride parade will even still be there. Soon it'll be too dangerous to have. There was this
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one last, she was shouting, shame on you, shame on you. And she just kept repeating it. It was sort
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of in like a trance or a chant or a mania. And someone in the great pride parade shouted back
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and said, that's what the racists and fascists say about you. And I thought, you know what? You
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finally noticed that, eh, buddy? But you noticed that probably 20 years too late for Waltham Forest
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and for Bradford and for Luton and for Birmingham and frankly, Rotherham and Rochford and most
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of the UK, it's too late for you liberals to finally notice that, yeah, these newcomers who
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you allied with in a temporary alliance of convenience because they too despised the Western state.
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You thought they were your ally, but how are uncovered women or gay men or trans men treated
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back in Pakistan, back in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, in Gaza. And only now, only now did that one fellow
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notice that, yeah, maybe, maybe the threat to his sexual freedom is not coming from the timid Church
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of England or the Pope in Rome. It's coming from somewhere else that he just, just noticed.
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But I wonder, Ezra, I would challenge you on that point. Did he notice that? Because I know that part
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you're talking about, it's at the tail end of the video and it's, you're right, that's how the
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racists and fascists speak about you. But is he still obsessed with the racists and fascists
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as being the elephant in the room as opposed to the Islamists who come from a culture who are
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embedded in the UK where their Islamic private schools and mosques teach, you know, hatred of
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certain groups where there's 85 or so Sharia courts. I'm just wondering if that guy does realize
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who the real enemy is in terms of his sexual orientation.
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Yeah. I don't know. I mean, we'll never know because we'll never know who it was who hollered out.
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But, you know, there was a Dutch politician named Pim Fortown who wasn't just gay, he was super gay.
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Like, he went around with a little puppy in his lap and he was so flamboyant, he was like
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Liberace gay. And he was a canary in the coal mine. He said, I like being gay and I like being in Amsterdam,
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the gay capital of Europe. And I see the threat to that is Islam. And he was an anti-Islam campaigner.
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He was assassinated. Theo van Gogh, another Dutchman, gay, assassinated because they saw the threat.
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And even after their assassination, Holland still kept the doors open. In fact, their assassination
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shut up the biggest critics. There's assassination plots against a Dutch politician named Geert Wilders
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who still rings the bell. So yeah, these people will not, I think that those are anomalies. I think
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I've just listed, you know, most of the gay activists in the world who realize where their peril is coming
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from and several of them have been murdered. I think that what we saw there in Walden Forest
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is a premonition of our future. And HBO or Showtime or whoever is producing The Handmaid's Tale,
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what a farce that is to pretend that it's a Christian threat. And there's some Christian
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theocracy in the world. I've never seen it. There is a theocracy in the world that is sexually
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reactionary. And it's called Islam. And you don't have to call it fiction. You can just go out with
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a news camera and cover it every day. But I guess that's a little bit too difficult for Hollywood to
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talk about. It's shocking, Ezra. Thank you so much for this. And I think that future is closer than most
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people would like to think. And you know, folks, I did mention that Al-Quds protests are actually
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advocating death to gay people. And in that same month, what did we see in Toronto? A couple of
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street preachers in the gay village preaching Christianity. Nothing hateful at all. And boy,
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did the police descend upon them with the force of a papal bull. I wonder where the priorities are.
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Keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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David Menzies for the Rebel.media here at the Queen's Quay LCBO store in downtown Toronto.
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Now, it's been in the media lately that the LCBO stores are suffering from an uptick in shoplifting.
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And little wonder why employees are told that even if they witness somebody stealing anything,
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not to interfere whatsoever. In fact, one anonymous LCBO employee tipped off the media a while back
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that there has been a steady increase in such theft, not just of people who are destitute,
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but entrepreneurs who are simply stealing bottles of booze and then reselling them. So
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what an incredible business model. Anyways, the question arises, how much money in terms of dollars
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is the LCBO losing on an annual basis? We reached out to the LCBO. They refused to give us these figures.
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So we made an FOI request. And incredibly, our demand for a dollar figure was denied. Now,
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what makes this concerning is that we're supposed to have a new government in place where there is
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transparency, especially when it comes to crown corporations. Now, we reached out to the Ministry
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of Finance, and they basically told us that this is an LCBO internal matter. My personal theory is that
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the dollar amount must be so massive. Actually, well, that would defeat the purpose of our, of our business.
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Everyone has privacy issues. They don't want to be on a camera. They don't have to be on a camera.
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Sir, we are on camera right now. I understand that, but this is your own personal camera. We do not want
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to be on your own personal camera. Sir, your autofocus is not going to help you here. Okay. Turn off
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the switch there. That's the autofocus. I'm not a fool. Get out the store, guys. You have to get out.
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If she hasn't given you the go ahead, you have to get out. Again, why don't you come down so hard
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on the thieves stealing bottles of booze? I don't answer these questions, okay? No, but it's a fair
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question. Can you tell us how much you lose, say, on a daily basis, sir? I'm not the person to answer
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that question. Okay. But the people that do answer these questions aren't answering those questions.
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Amazing. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario has an out-of-control theft problem when it comes to
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people waltzing out of its stores without actually paying for their beer, wine, and spirits. Yet,
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when the rebel goes down to an LCBO store to shed some light on this issue, well, the booze
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bureaucrats decide to shoot or at least shut down the messenger. Yeah, these guys running the
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provincial liquor monopoly sure have their priorities straight, don't they? In any event, here's what
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you had to say about the LCBO running its business in a fiscal fashion that would make a drunken sailor
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blush. Pitsky P writes, filming is a problem. Shoplifting, no problem. Wow, clown world. Indeed,
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Pitsky P, and keep in mind that this state-sanctioned monopoly justifies its very existence on the premise
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of social responsibility. So the LCBO will age-check customers they think might be minors, but on the
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other hand, minors can walk out of the store without even paying for their illicit booze, no questions
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And there's cotton candy and rides and all sorts of surprises down here.
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Bubbling Blue Crabb writes, go to Premier Ford, get an answer. Oh, I have reached out to Premier Ford's
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office, Mr. Crabb, but it's been radio silence thus far, which is downright inexplicable and
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disappointing. After all, Doug Ford ran an election campaign promising openness and transparency.
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His government would be for the people. Remember that tagline? And when he ran municipally,
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his political slogan was respect for taxpayers. Really, Doug? I'm not feeling much respect when
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it comes to the liquor file. I don't get no respect from anyone. Well, last week my house was on fire.
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My wife told the kids be quiet. You wake up daddy. SB writes, gotta love the government. Lose our money
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and tell us we don't have the right to know. Well, bingo SB, and that's exactly the thing. If a private
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company like Walmart or Costco was having a serious shoplifting problem, well, that's really none of our
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business. But the taxpayers of Ontario own the LCBO. We at least have the right to know how many millions
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of dollars are going out the door. Ontarians are shareholders. And we'd like some transparency, please.
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And Landon Roy writes, this is why government should not have a monopoly over anything. Agreed, Landon.
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Monopolies by their very nature tend to be abusive. But a monopoly that has the power of the state behind it?
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Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Did you see that?
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.