What comes first： Modern planes for Canadian fighter pilots, or Trudeau’s luxury jet？
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Justin Trudeau wants a new luxury jet to compete with Air Force 1. Will it be a Boeing 737-MAX or a Boeing 767-200? Ezra explains why this is a good idea, and why we should get one too.
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Tonight, who will get their new aircraft first?
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Modern planes for our brave Canadian fighter pilots,
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It's June 18th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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I saw this story today on the Trudeau-loving CTV.
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You remember Justin Trudeau's luxury vacation to India?
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but seven of those days were vacationing on the taxpayer's dime?
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You know, the one where he literally brought a new dress-up costume
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Even when his hosts dressed, you know, normally.
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You know, the trip where he dressed, danced, like a fool,
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even after the disastrous fiasco of him inviting
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Trudeau blamed the Indian government for that fiasco,
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that Trudeau actually brought his own Indian cuisine chef
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Well, apparently on the flight over, one of the gauges on the airplane flickered a bit.
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I'm guessing something that trivial happens on every single flight
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I'm kidding, of course, but CTV was in full panic mode.
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show that a gauge designed to monitor engine temperature
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began fluctuating randomly during the February 16th flight to New Delhi
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and that a ground crew at a scheduled refueling stop in Rome
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There was a loose wire and then there was a gauge that fluctuated a bit?
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I mean, we need to buy the Prime Minister a brand new VIP-style jet
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to compete with Donald Trump, who's getting a new 747, you know.
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The CTV article doesn't even pretend it's not lobbying for this.
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Saying we absolutely should buy his pal Trudeau a new jet.
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to visit his pal the Aga Khan on that private billionaire island,
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Look, I know why the United States needs Air Force One.
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It's a mobile White House designed to be a command center
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for the entire U.S. Armed Forces in case of a nuclear attack.
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It's nice inside the jet, I'm sure, but it's not built for nice.
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It's built to withstand an electromagnetic pulse
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to command the whole military in World War III.
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It's to fly Trudeau on his, what, 56 vacations so far since becoming PM?
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If you've got an engine gauge that's flickering a bit, that's okay, buddy.
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Giving lectures on male feminism at 30,000 feet or whatever he does up there
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Now, little pipsqueaks in the third world, little tyrants, dictators,
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You've got a lot of OPEC money and you want to show it off.
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Trudeau, like his father, loves that third world aesthetic.
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His power, this is more of Al-Walid's plane, pretty fancy, eh?
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so he can't possibly be embarrassed by flying around in a version
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of our mini Air Force One that we have in Canada.
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So many liberals and even red Tories have chimed in.
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With liberal journalists, it's obvious why they want this.
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They want to be able to fly with the prime minister in luxury, too.
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It's why they never criticize Trudeau's 56 trips.
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I mean, wouldn't you love to have gone to India with Trudeau to work?
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And, of course, you only work as hard as Trudeau does,
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And in that trip, he only worked one day out of eight.
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But it's newer than the CF-18 jets that our Canadian fighter pilots use.
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And because of Trudeau's spitting match with Donald Trump,
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Trudeau has said he's ruling out the F-35 replacement,
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just because Donald Trump doesn't like Trudeau's subsidies to bombard you.
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So we're going to buy some used jets from Australia,
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some hand-me-downs to cover the gap while we look at some other choice,
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Say, do you think the odd CF-18 jet has a loose wire or a flickering gauge?
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But do you see CCTV going to the wall to get new jets for them?
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I predict that Justin Trudeau will get himself a new super-luxury jet
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before he gives our Air Force new jets to the knee just to stay safe and do their duties.
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He will send our people to Mali in Africa in rusty old gear
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And CCTV and the rest of the media, they don't care.
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Because they'll be able to fly with Trudeau in style
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as they type up their latest glowing press releases for him.
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Stay with us for more on this subject with Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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I think a lot of Canadian families have a little playground in their backyard.
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By playground, I mean like some sort of play structure, a swing set, a slide.
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Maybe it has other, like a little climb-y thing.
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You know, I've seen really good ones for like $1,500.
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It takes about a day, if you're all thumbs like me, two days to assemble them.
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Well, how did Justin Trudeau manage to bill taxpayers for a $7,500 play structure
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for his part-time summer residence at Harrington Lake?
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And why are taxpayers putting the bill for his kids at all?
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Joining us now to talk about this and even more serious subjects is our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed,
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You know, those kids, and I'm certainly not going to blame the kids.
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They dress up in fancy Bollywood clothes and do namaste when mom and dad tell them to.
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So absolutely not cracking down on the kids like kids be kids.
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This is Justin Trudeau and his enabler, Gerald Butz, just wringing everything they can out
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Ezra, I'm so enthralled by the fact that he spent $7,500 on a play set.
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I actually emailed the PMO because I want details.
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Maybe a lot of the cost is inflated labor costs because we have to hire a union worker and do
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a gender-based analysis assessment on everything.
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I want to know how you get a play set for $7,500.
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But more over to your point, Justin Trudeau is a millionaire.
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He came into the office of prime minister as a millionaire.
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So now that he makes $345,000 per year, surely to God, he can buy his own kids a play set.
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I'm fine with maintaining the upkeep on Harrington Lake.
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I mean, and this weirdness is just absolutely abided by the media party.
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And I think they started very brazenly right after Trudeau became PM.
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He hired, through the federal bureaucracy, not one, but two nannies.
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So why shouldn't our celebrity wannabe fake, you know, celebrity PM get his nannies?
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But since when, in all of Canadian history, do we pay for the nannies for any public official?
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No MP, no cabinet minister, no one else in government has nannies on the government.
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Have your mom come in and the kid's grandma come in and do it.
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But the media just said, oh yeah, no, that's totally fine.
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And if they got away with that, they'll get away with it.
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I long for the days when a $16 orange juice was enough to get someone sacked from cabinet.
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This is stuff the royal family doesn't even get away with.
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You know, they, you know, primarily they only have one nanny.
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And I think Harrington Lake, all these renos at Harrington Lake are really revealing just how much they're trying to rake out of the taxpayer.
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I mean, the amount that we're paying just for Trudeau's recreation time.
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I mean, the snow removal budget at Harrington Lake is $45,000 a year.
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It jumped up $17,000 because Trudeau doesn't know how to use a snow shovel and shovel off the little part around his fire pit.
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And then he's demanding that the taxpayer pay to groom his cross-country ski trails so that for the, you know, one or two days a month that he's out there, the trails are always ready for him.
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I mean, how did, I mean, snow, how did snow, I think it was $17,000 and now it's $45,000.
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But how do you triple the amount of money it costs to clear snow?
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That's like a full-time job for something that's seasonal.
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You could have someone working full-time for 10 months, for all year to do that.
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And, you know, I've gone cross-country skiing a bit in my life.
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Does he think he's like a professional ski hill or something?
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I mean, he used to be a snowboarding instructor.
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And all of it approved by Gerald Butts, of course.
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He was the guy who paid himself, what, more than half a million bucks
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just to move down the street from Toronto to Ottawa.
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And it was only when it was discovered that he said,
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I mean, Justin Trudeau tried to bill the taxpayer.
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I think it was close to $65,000 to build him a sauna
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Somebody at the PMO or at the National Capital Commission
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put the brakes on that, and Trudeau actually bought his own sauna,
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But, I mean, it still cost $4,500 to run electricity
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You can wire a modest-sized house, the entire house, for less than that.
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So, you know, I wonder what the contracts are like for some of the labor being done
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and who's doing the labor because all of this just seems so inflated.
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I mean, there were three patio umbrellas to the tune of $1,000 each.
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I don't want the prime minister sitting underneath, you know, a Coors Light garage sale umbrella,
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You can pay me $1,000 for the summer, and every time Trudeau's there, I'll stand with an umbrella
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It's funny you mention that because, of course, I mean, there's long been rumors that Margaret Trudeau
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has actually been living full-time at Harrington Lake.
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I haven't seen corroboration of that, but here's what I do know.
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The prime minister has his official residence at 24 Sussex Drive.
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It was fine for the Harpers for nine years, but it's not fancy enough for him.
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So he lives across the street in Rideau Hall, but his chef still uses 24 Sussex Drive.
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Trudeau and his family live at Rideau Hall, and here's Harrington Lake, the third residence.
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Whether or not his mom Margaret lives there, I don't know.
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You know, we have to do a gender analysis, as you jokingly said.
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Well, he certainly didn't bother waiting before wiring a sauna.
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Those are three houses, and that's nothing compared to the story we see leaked to CTV.
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Mercedes Stevenson said she did an access to information request.
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I'm going to guess she was tipped off to do one about the plane.
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Trudeau's plane going to India, some gauge was fluctuating.
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In the entire media party, we must buy an entirely new luxury Air Force One-style jet for Trudeau,
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But our fighter pilots, they can keep using 36-year-old CF-18s that we're replacing with used Australian jets.
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He's, no one in his life has ever said no to him.
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And you'd think that the opposition would, or the media would, and I don't know if the opposition, but the media is loving it.
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And it's so funny that you mentioned that our military is going to be, you know,
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they're buying something akin to sort of Australian hand-me-downs.
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While, you know, Trudeau will spare no expense for himself and his family at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer.
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But he also said to a wounded veteran in Edmonton that they were asking for more than he was willing to give.
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But Trudeau is certainly willing to give himself any perk that he can get his hands on.
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No one in his whole life has ever said you're asking more than we can give to Trudeau.
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And if they did, they were probably promptly fired by Gerald Butts.
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And it comes hard on the heels of a study that does not surprise me at all,
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that if this trade war with the United States comes to pass,
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It won't make a dent on the U.S. economy that's growing at an enormous rate.
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The oil patch has not come back, unlike the oil patch in the States.
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I think Justin Trudeau really doesn't care as long as he and his gold-digging wife
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get their billionaire island vacations in the Bahamas.
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And, you know, he's had, what, 56 vacations since becoming PM?
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My last question to you, Sheila, is at what point in time does the let-them-eat-cake routine
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start to trickle down to severely normal people and you have a Doug Ford moment?
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Because I don't think the media will ever criticize him.
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I think the media will love him to the end because they think they can get a bauble or two from His Majesty.
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But at what point do severely normal Canadians say,
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you know what, you air-headed prince, you showboat, you clothes horse, you shallow-minded inheritor,
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We want a Doug Ford style in the gravy train PM.
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I think that fruit is right on the tree if someone will come along and pick it.
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But I don't think that there's a conservative politician out there willing to sort of get in front of that parade
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And that's the real sad thing for people like me and you and I guess the rest of the conservative movement,
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who are sick of this sense of entitlement and elitism that we see from Justin Trudeau.
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There is no Doug Ford at the federal level who can come along and save us.
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When Jason Kenney briefly said something like what I did,
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We won't hear any more of that uppity talk from a conservative politician.
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Sheila, I'm mad I could talk about this for a great length,
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It's been number one on Amazon.ca for pretty much a week,
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even though we're giving away for free on SuzukiBook.com.
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And I guess thanks to everybody out there who's supporting the work we do here
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at The Rebel by buying that book and making sure that everybody in the whole world knows
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but if you ever find out what the 7500 playground looks like,
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I'll tell my kids if they get straight A's in school,
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this tweet was making the rounds by all the fancy people.
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It purported to show cages in which the evil Donald Trump was holding children detained
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and they didn't check that image was taken in 2014 when St. Barack Obama was the president.
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that story was quickly thrown down the memory hole,
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if Barack Obama was indeed treating children that way,
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maybe Donald Trump was doing the same or worse.
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there have been a slew of stories implying that Donald Trump puts kids into cages,
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including this image that literally shows a kid in a cage.
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That was an activist's own child being used as a prop.
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we know a reporter who actually went to one of these facilities for minor children who illegally sneak
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accompanied by an adult who's also incarcerated.
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You actually went into one of these facilities,
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I went into a facility that's a shelter for the children once they are taken from their families,
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Many of the kids in that shelter actually come to the border on their own,
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because most of the children that we're dealing with at the border are unaccompanied minors.
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But I went to the shelter that houses these unaccompanied minors and those who've been separated from their parents,
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because one of the reasons they may have been separated is we don't know if their parents really are their parents.
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And that's a separate system from the intake at the Border Patrol facility.
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Once Border Patrol finds these people and arrests them,
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which may also involve rescuing them, by the way,
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because sometimes these illegal aliens are stuffed into the back of a sweltering truck,
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or they're stuffed into a gangland safe house somewhere,
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or they're wandering around in the wilderness without water.
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And that's where you've seen these chain link fences that the left alleges are cages.
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And the reality is they have those there to separate men and women,
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separate children from adults for safety reasons,
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with underage girls when they may be sleeping on the floor in an overnight holding cell en route to somewhere else.
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Those are facilities that are temporary at the Border Patrol.
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And then when they sort out where everyone's supposed to go,
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The children are placed in shelters like the one I visited,
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So it's basically like a dormitory environment that's heavily supervised with medical personnel,
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It's a full service facility for these children.
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The misleading idea that children are being kept in cages was deliberately circulated by critics of the president.
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but there are Republicans who agree with Democrats on opening the borders wide.
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They include the Bush family and many of the people around the Bush family who did not enforce our border laws when George W. Bush was president.
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complaining about the enforcement of border laws.
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But the reason that we have this phenomenon of kids getting separated from parents
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or from the adults they came with is that Trump has decided to incarcerate the adults,
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whether charging them with misdemeanors for a first crossing illegally or felonies for a re-entry illegally.
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Trump is deciding he's going to enforce the law.
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which have been on the books for more than 20 years,
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you cannot incarcerate the children with the parents for safety reasons.
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the state has to figure out what to do with the children.
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They can be reunited either by returning to their countries of origin.
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So if the parents accept a misdemeanor conviction,
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they're usually just released right away and they can reunite with their kids then
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and go back to whichever Central American country or other country they come from.
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Or if the parents decide to apply for asylum and spend longer in jail or in the country somewhere,
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then the children may spend longer in the shelter.
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Nobody wants to see the parents separated from their kids,
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but it is a matter of law that's been on the books for a long time for safety reasons.
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if you don't want to be separated from your kids,
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One is you can decide not to immigrate illegally at all.
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And the other is if you're going to try something like this,
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not just by hopping a fence or crossing a river.
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Try it through a legal point of entry and make an application for asylum at the border.
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And then they usually do not separate people unless there's evidence that parents have committed
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And it was the first day he had seen his own kids in nearly a month.
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And it's just a fact that when someone goes to jail in Canada,
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I find it amazing that this guy used to be the head of central intelligence for the United States.
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other governments have separated mothers and children.
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the most notorious concentration camp and death camp,
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How can someone who had such a senior post compare this bipartisan law enforcement
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They're so deranged that they will even compare Americans to Nazis.
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Remember when he's comparing the border enforcement to the Holocaust,
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he's implying that the border patrol agents are like SS guards,
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the CIA does a lot of shady stuff that is a lot shadier than putting kids in shelters.
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if you want to start making comparisons to totalitarian regimes,
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but you can do it much more easily with the CIA than you can do it with the border patrol,
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the black interrogation sites or whatever they called them.
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the stuff the CIA was doing was very controversial,
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So for that guy to compare anything to the Holocaust is really,
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it's also poisonous because it means you can't solve the problem,
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if the people who are enacting policy with whom you disagree are Nazis,
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So we're just going to have to fight each other.
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I've seen a lot of statistics and not just from conservative sites,
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but from progressive sites that say that 40 to 60% of the miners who are trafficked across
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40 to 6% of the women and a large percentage of the boys are sexually assaulted.
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You'd better pay to get sneaked across the border.
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you're probably going to be raped by your human trafficking smuggler.
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They had so many ships coming with people because it just paid until they had a new policy.
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I think to save these girls from being raped on the way up,
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and it was a thought I had when I was walking around there,
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that if people saw how comfortable these facilities were,
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all these Democrats and media types who are falsely claiming that this is the Holocaust,
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what you need is much tougher border enforcement because as one border patrol agent said,
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that's when more people start showing up because they believe they can get through.
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people were scared enough that he was going to be absolutely draconian on the border,
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that the number of crossings dwindled dramatically.
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Then when Congress started talking about passing an amnesty bill,
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then you saw more people coming and more young people taking that very dangerous trip.
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we're getting all those self-deportees up here to Canada.
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Thanks very much for your real shoe leather journalism,
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the kind of stuff that I wish the mainstream media would do.
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Congratulations on going in and investigating with your own eyes.
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On my monologue Friday about liberal MPs crying Islamophobia for having to do their jobs,
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Thanks for the story about those fake Muslim politicians claiming Eid as their reason to
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blame conservatives who wanted to do their jobs as the opposition.
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It shows the hypocrisy of the Libranos and their condescending attitude to us voters who
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if they're calling having to vote late at night Islamophobia,
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but liberals have sort of invented that word as it means someone I don't like.
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So we have it from Omar al-Jabra himself that the word Islamophobia just means someone liberals
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Sue Ann did a great job during the Ontario election.
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I haven't liked John Tory since he lost the provincial election.
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What I like about Sue Ann is she doesn't take any guff.
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And that's one of the things I like the most about Donald Trump and Doug Ford.
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We sure could use that at Toronto City Hall for that mayor,
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On my interview with John Carpe about Trinity Western University,
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but is there any way to appeal a Supreme Court decision?
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This has gone all the way up from basic courts to the courts of appeal in three different provinces.
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And that is now that Doug Ford is the premier of Ontario,
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he can simply rewrite the Law Societies Act or the Legal Profession Act,
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and take away that power that these law societies have in this regard.
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and I don't know if that would be on his priorities list,
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but that would be a great way to slap back at these law society bigots.
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It was probably just like $1,500 for the playground
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,