Without smears and insults, Trudeau's Liberals have nothing
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Summary
Justin Trudeau says he doesn t remember wearing blackface, but he can't stop reminiscing about it. Ezra takes a look at the history of minstrel shows, and argues that they re racist. Plus, Andrew Lawton talks about how the Liberals are treating him on the campaign trail.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through Justin Trudeau's policy proposal to cut cell
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phone rates. Well, who wouldn't want cell phone rates cut? Well, actually, Trudeau, he didn't
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support opening up the free market to American cell phone companies in the NAFTA deal, but
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apparently he's got religion. He's desperate for something after his blackface scandal. I take you
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through his proposal and have a few laughs with you. I also talked to Andrew Lawton today and
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how the liberals are treating him on the campaign trail. I think you'll find that interesting.
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Tonight, now that it's tough for Trudeau to call anyone else racist, he doesn't have
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a lot to say, but what he does say is hilarious. It's September 23rd, and this is the Ezra Levant
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show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the
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government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I'm 47 and a half years old. I've met a lot of people. I've traveled too much. And I have never
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in my life seen anyone do blackface. I just haven't. And I'm from supposedly redneck Alberta.
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It's just not something you see. And if it's not some grassroots redneck thing, it's not an elite
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thing either. Not that the University of Alberta Law School was particularly elite, but I've been
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to plenty of universities. I don't know. Maybe you'd find some kind of spoiled trust fund kids at
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Queens or Western who might be bad boys like that. No, I've never seen that. Not at any university.
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And I've been here and there. No one does it. But Trudeau does it. So often, he can't even
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remember all the times he does it. He just can't say. You said just a few minutes ago that you told
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us last night on the plane that of all of the different instances that you recalled,
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have you since been made aware or remembered of other instances? And if so, how many?
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I think it is obvious that this is something that was deeply regrettable. I am wary of
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of being definitive about this because the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered.
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It just happened so often you couldn't put a number on it? Oh, my God. Is it dozens of times he did it?
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By the way, here's Archie Bunker in the 70s. Remember that amazing old show? So this was 30 years
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before Trudeau claimed he just didn't know what he was doing. Remember this?
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I don't believe you guys. You're actually going to put on a minstrel show in this day and age? You ought
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to get great reviews from the Ku Klux Klan. This is the worst kind of bigotry.
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What are you talking about? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on.
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Yes, he is. He is absolutely right. Now, this is a bad thing we're doing. That ain't
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nice there, dressing up like that and making fun of the colored people. No, Archie Bunker
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ain't going to do that. He ain't going to get up on the stage and make fun of people that
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he liked and admired all his life. Are you on something? We ain't trying to make fun
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of anybody. We just want to dress up like coloreds. Yeah. This is ridiculous. Yes. You guys
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are a pack of racists. Yeah. That's what you are, Barney. That's what you look like. Why
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are you talking about? Arch, how can you be in a lodge like this? He's practically out of
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it now. Hold on. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Now, you were talking good there
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for a minute, but you went too far. These are my lodge brothers who I love here. And
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there ain't nothing wrong with minstrel showings. No. Hey, that's right. There ain't. You
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know, that goes way back to minstrel showings. The U.S. history, that comes back to your carefree
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days of slavery. Yeah. Yeah. Don't look like that. That's part of your whole American heresy.
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Arch, doesn't it bother you that black people are offended at a show like this?
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They ain't going to see this show. They ain't allowed in.
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That was the 70s. Even Archie Bunker got it. Trudeau does it all the time so much he forgets
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how much. That cocktail party at that fancy private school, it wasn't a costume party.
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All the other men were dressed up formally, said the Daily Telegraph. Trudeau was the only
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one dressing up that way. The Daily Telegraph of London, UK. They interviewed people who were
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there at that party who said Trudeau stunned everyone in the room with his weirdness and
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grossness. Hey, remember Trevor Noah? He's an unfunny comedian from South Africa who's now
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on late night TV in the U.S. Well, remember that time Trudeau just tweeted to him that,
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hey, here's $50 million. Work for you? Super gross. Remember that tweet?
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Well, 50 mil wasn't enough to buy Trevor Noah. Look at this observation he made.
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There are so many problems with this photo. First of all, it's obviously never okay to do blackface.
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And secondly, if you are going to darken your skin, at least get the color right. Okay? Yeah.
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Trudeau isn't dressed as Aladdin. He's dressed as Aladdin doing blackface. That's not the color
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of Aladdin. What are you doing? That's actually a big point. That's not just funny. That's a big
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point. Trudeau just loved doing blackface again and again and again and again. He would do it when it
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didn't fit just to do it. He did it so often. He forgets how often. He did it so often. It was a
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thing. In this video here, he actually brought his blackface kit on a white rotter rafting trip.
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That apparently is where this video is from. Hey, what do we need to pack? Well, water and a sleeping
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bag and my blackface kit. What a disaster. Here's a poll done by a pollster, a company run by Bruce
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Anderson. Hardcore liberal. He's the father of Trudeau's communications director. So it's as pro-Trudeau
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as it gets. But look at these numbers. The story broke through. Only 12% of Canadians said they hadn't
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heard about the story. 54% of Canadians said they were paying very close attention to it. This is higher
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than a lot of other political stories. Wars, whatever. 54% of Canadians following the story
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closely. 34% somewhat. That's huge. It's been devastating to Trudeau. Not particularly because
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it proves Trudeau is a racist. I don't think Trudeau is a deep racist. I think he has racist
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undertones. I think it's no surprise that his inner circle is all old-school Laurentian elites,
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just like him. I don't think he considers himself racist. For sure he doesn't. But the whole schtick
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about diversity is our strength, that's proven now just to be a false facade, just a line he
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uses like he's picking up women in a bar. He'll say what he has to say. That's the thing. I've been
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thinking about my conversation with Manny Montaigrino last week. I agree that Trudeau
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is casually racist in ways that can be shocking. Like remember when he boasted that he cut Patrick
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Brazzo's hair after the boxing match to humiliate him as an aboriginal man. Or remember that time he
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said aboriginal reconciliation requires patience like you would need to have with a child? Because
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that's what aboriginal people are like. He said those things, but I wouldn't say he's a hot racist,
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you know. He's racist enough that if he were conservative they'd go to town on him. He's
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about as racist as Archie Bunker. But my real beef with Justin Trudeau is that he has been a false
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ally, a fake multiculturalist, just like he's a fake feminist, just like he's been fake on the
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whole Sunnyways thing. He's an imposter, as Paul Wells confessed. So how does Trudeau campaign now?
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Because his entire campaign was calling his enemies racist or sexist or Islamophobic or whatever.
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And he's just been outed as the racist. So what does he do? What's he going to
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talk about? Well, here's a clue from the CBC state broadcaster.
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FYI, Justin Trudeau mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford some 15 times at his news conference
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to promise steps towards national pharmacare and better access to family doctors. Got it.
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Got it. So he's running against Doug Ford and Jason Kenney and Scott Moe. That's a pretty empty
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gas tank for a federal campaign. But then yesterday, the liberals rolled out this.
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Look at this announcement. Liberals move forward to make life more affordable for Canadian families.
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And let me read that one line from it that I have to say. Came as a surprise to me. I'm quoting,
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middle class families are feeling stretched. Taxes, fees, and bills pile up while wages are not keeping
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up. Hang on, hang on, hang on. The liberals are campaigning on the fact that wages aren't keeping
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up? That the middle class is falling behind? We're getting squeezed? Isn't that what the opposition
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is supposed to say? The people are worse off now than they were four years ago? Isn't the time to
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campaign for a change? Isn't that when you're in the opposition trying to throw up the bums?
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When you've actually been making the decisions for four years, aren't you the people that citizens
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are complaining about? So weird. But I guess they really had nothing left other than calling people
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names, and that's out for now. But their big proposal yesterday just made me laugh. I don't know if you
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saw this. More affordable cell phone bills. Well, I'm all for that. Let me read some more.
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Canadians pay too much for their cell phone bills. While unique factors like the size of our country
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has an impact, the current way a few large corporate players drive up prices is unfair to
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Canadians, and there's lots of room for improvement. For instance, Canadian telecom companies generate the
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highest revenue per gigabyte in the developed world. A re-elected liberal government will take
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strong action to see cell phone bills come down by 25%. This will save a family of four almost $1,000 a year.
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Wow, $1,000 per family per year. There's what, almost 10 million families in Canada? So that's almost
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$10 billion a year. Every year the Canadians will save. That's great. So how's that going to work?
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Because of course, unlike the CBC state broadcaster, we don't have state-owned cell phone companies.
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How's it going to do? Well, here's the plan. A re-elected liberal government will reduce costs by 25%
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and bring Canada in line with prices across the G7 in Australia. To achieve this, we will work with telecom
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companies to offer plans comparable to global prices plus an unlimited family plan.
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So the big campaign plan is that Justin Trudeau has a plan to make a plan and try to get telecom
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companies to work with him. That's your big plan? Your plan is to get a plan to change the cell phone
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plans by working with them? Yeah, I don't think that's a plan. And if you ever worry, who's going to pay for
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that plan? I mean, if we're all going to get $1,000 a year per family, that's a huge amount of
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money. That's almost $10 billion. Where's it going to come from? Are we just going to order the cell
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phone companies to hand it over? Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure about that. Costing. Further details regarding
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costing will be released over the course of the campaign. Well, if the cell phone companies were to do
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this on their own, if they just said, hey guys, we're just going to absorb $10 billion a year,
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I guess it wouldn't cost the taxpayer anything, right? Other than those companies would probably
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go bankrupt. So there'd be a lot of poverty. But the line item in that case would be zero because
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Trudeau would work with them and they would just do it. But that's not real life. That's
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not how it's going to be. I mean, they either have to be ordered to simply hand over $10 billion a year.
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And I'm not sure if that would even be legal, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't happen. They'd find a
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way around it. Or even just shut down, frankly. I mean, it's really expropriation. Or more likely,
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Trudeau would just give them the money, like he does with all his favorite companies, Bombardier,
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SNC, LaValin. So you would pay taxes and that tax money would be given to the cell phone companies
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who would reduce your cell phone rates, which you'd then pay in taxes or something. Sounds about as
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stupid as Trudeau. But nothing is stupider than the CBC parroting Trudeau and making it even better.
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Look at this headline. Trudeau promises to cut cell phone bills by 25% of elected.
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Yeah, but that's not even what he said, was it? He said he'd work with cell phone companies to cut
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bills. He didn't even say he would do it. How could he say he would do it? Here's an interesting line
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from the CBC. To lower the cost, liberals say they would open up the market to more competition and
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work with cell phone companies to offer plans that more closely mirror global prices. But hang on,
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hang on, hang on, hang on. Trudeau just refused to do that opening up the market thing. In the recent
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NAFTA renegotiations, Trudeau said no to this. Not even a few months ago, because the NAFTA
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renegotiation is technically still alive. The treaty has not been ratified by all three countries yet.
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Literally at this moment, Trudeau is against this. You have to be as stupid as the CBC to support this.
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Folks, they really have nothing. All they had was smears and insults. And without that,
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after the blackface explosion, well, I think Trudeau himself might be writing these campaign
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platforms. What do you think? Stay with us for more about a terrible story from the campaign trail
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with Andrew Lawton, who joins us next. Welcome back. Well, as the blackface scandal echoes around
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the entire world, I want to remind you that when that story broke, it was literally the number one
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news story around the world, bigger than any war, any sports event, any pop song, any presidential
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news, North Korea, whatever. It was the number one story in the world. It has so knocked the liberals
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off their feet. They don't know what to do except for lash out. And normally they lash out at us here
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at the Rebel, but we're not the only ones. Do you remember? When we were at the Media Freedom
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Conference in London, they targeted our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed and our ally Andrew Lawton from
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TNC.news. Remember that? Well, it gets worse, my friend. Over the last couple of days, the Liberal
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Party has banned Andrew Lawton from events. And I just heard from him a moment ago, it has gotten
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significantly worse and a lot more troubling. Joining us now via Skype from the side of the road
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is our friend Andrew Lawton. Andrew, nice to see you again. Let's get straight down to it. First of
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all, where are you geographically right now? I'm in the Niagara Falls area. The Prime Minister,
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the Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, has an event nearby in just a few moments that I'll be heading
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to. I appreciate you pulling over. Safety first, we wouldn't want you to have an accident.
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You are in your car because you were kicked off the campaign bus or barred from entry. I think it
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might be more accurate. Tell me how that happened. What did they say? Yeah, not kicked off. I was
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never allowed on in the first place. And I got this song and dance from the Liberals about how I'm
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not accredited, but they offer no definition of what accredited means. I can speak to my own
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credentials as a reporter, as a journalist. I can talk about myriad times that I have been covered for
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events, court coverage, a conference co-hosted by the Canadian government that you just mentioned
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moments ago. And I've even interviewed Justin Trudeau. But True North, according to the Liberal
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press team, is not an accredited outlet because it's not recognized as one. Recognized by whom,
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your guess, is as good as mine. So I've now had to basically find my own way to get from point A to
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point B, rented a car, which is what I'm sitting in right now. And I'm trying to get the story from
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outside looking in because the Liberals do not apparently want me covering their campaign.
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Now, when they've done the same thing to us, in particular, David Menzies and Kian Bextie,
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by the way, they've kicked out us not only out of party events, but out of government events. They
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kicked Kian out of the embassy. They kicked David out of parliament. Outrageous. They said,
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they didn't use the phrase, you're not accredited. They said, your values don't accord with ours.
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Did they talk about your values or your ideology at all, Andrew?
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No. In fact, Trudeau's press secretary went out of his way to say, it's not about ideology. It's
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just about accreditation. And this is, I think, very interesting because there's no real path to
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accreditation that has been laid out. And I asked him, what would I have to do? And he couldn't
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give an answer. The parliamentary press gallery accredits Parliament Hill journalists, but I've
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spoken with the press gallery. They do not have any jurisdiction over campaign events. They will not
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even if you apply and are worthy of accreditation, they will not offer any credentials to cover
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campaign events. So the challenge right now is that I've been given this reason that doesn't align
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with any remedy. Huh? Well, it's, it's very similar to when you and Sheila Gunn-Reed were kicked out,
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or they attempted to kick you out of the press conference in London. Now, it was a very remarkable
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moment. And I'd like to show a quick clip from that. I've shown this to our viewers before.
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There, there was a moment of solidarity where other media, the Globe and Mail amongst them,
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and even Al Jazeera, if you can believe it, CTV, CBC actually said, well, if Andrew Lawton
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and Sheila Gunn-Reed can't come in, we won't either. It was a bit of a revolt. Here,
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So, um, Globe and Mail, um, World War, um, CTV, Al Jazeera, CBC, and the National Economic Economic
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and the United States. And the other? What about the rest? The rest of us?
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The rest will have to stay back. No, I don't think we all go. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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That's, let's take us to the room and we can see if we can. No, we're not going, Brittany, we're just not.
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We're all going. This is a media freedom conference. Yeah, this is ridiculous.
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Andrew, that was a beautiful moment, but alas, it did not last. Have you heard anything
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at all, even privately, from other media that supports you? Of course, the only kind of support
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that counts is in public, but have you had any even private emails or phone calls from the media
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party, from Unifor journalists, from The Star, The Post, The Globe, CBC, CTV, even Xinhua,
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which is accredited with the Parliamentary Press Gallery?
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None whatsoever. And I will say that when my initial ban was happening in Brampton on Sunday,
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the approved media had already been brought in. So they didn't even know there was this
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conversation taking place on the sidewalk. It's not like in London when this happened in front of
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the gaggle and there was no way to really avoid it. So at the time, the media had no idea. But since
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then, my story circulated on Twitter. I've run into some of these people and I've heard absolutely
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nothing in the way of support whatsoever. So I am very much alone in this fight, it feels like. And
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look, I'm happy to be scrappy. I'm happy to be fighting. But the reason I'm here is not because
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I want to fight. The reason I'm here is because I want to cover what the Prime Minister is pledging
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to do if his government is reelected. And the more that I am forced to the outside of this,
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the more I'm forced to cover my exclusion because I'm not actually able to access any of these
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substantive announcements that are taking place. Well, listen, it's like you're reading my life
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story there. They're trying to denormalize and marginalize you. And I mean, I think they hate
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the rebel a little bit more than they hate you. And that's just an observation. They don't like you,
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but it's us on day one. It's you on day two. Then they're going to go for the Toronto Sun. They're
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going to go for Sue Ann Levy, Joe Warmington. They're going to go for Terry Corcoran in the National
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Post. Anyone who's right of center, anyone who doesn't bend the knee to Justin Trudeau,
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they're just going to say, oh, you can't cover us. And I just say, Andrew, if this were Stephen
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Harper, who were kicking out left of center journalists for no reason, like if they had
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some explication, if they said, well, you threatened someone, you pushed someone, I mean, obviously
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that would never happen. I'm just trying to come up with some possible reason that might be
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credible, but they're not even giving a reason. They're just saying, oh, you haven't been
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accredited. Well, they are the accredited. There's no such thing as accreditation in Canada. There's
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no license to be a journalism. It's not like we're doctors or engineers.
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No. And to that point, there has been no question ever raised by anyone about my professionalism
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as a journalist. I've interviewed Justin Trudeau. I interviewed Kathleen Wynne. I've interviewed
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a number of high profile cabinet members, liberals federally and provincially as a broadcaster and
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in other capacities as well. So no one, including the liberal press team, has taken issue with my
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ability to discharge my duties as an accredited journalist to say nothing of whether I would
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be a disruption or not. No, I'd wait my turn like everyone else. I'd listen. When the time came to ask
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my question, I'd ask my question. But this has become about this vague criterion that has,
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as I mentioned earlier, no real remedy. And that's the worst part. In fact, if they said,
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listen, we don't like you, I'd fight them on it. But it would at least be a position that
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they would have drawn a line in the sand on. Whereas now, they really aren't prepared to own
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up to why it is they are not accrediting True North for me personally for True North.
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Yeah. You know, I think it was exactly a week ago that I had an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about how
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rebel journalists were excluded. And I mentioned you in that one, because I mentioned that London
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example. And I was shocked by the reaction. Andrew, I'm not sure if you followed it. There
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were over 100 people who squawked back at me and at the editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail,
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including the local Unifor union. And they didn't have any disagreement with the substance of my op-ed
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talking about how the liberals are censorious. I, in fact, to this day, I have had no criticism
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at all. Even bad faith criticism. There's just been no criticism of what I wrote. The only criticism
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was, hey, Globe and Mail, how dare you even let him speak? And this is from the media, I mean,
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Andrew. So I know without even asking you, but please confirm it, that Canadian journalists for free
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expression, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Association of Journalists,
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Penn Canada. I know without even asking you that not one of them has said a peep,
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because they believe in deplatforming now too. I guess I should ask you, have any of them stood up
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for you? No, so far, no one at all has. And if there is going to be a moment, I would hope it's now.
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You know, I guess less than an hour before you and I started chatting, Ezra, I was trying to
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track the liberal campaign bus to figure out where the next campaign stop was, because like I noted,
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I'm not on the media bus. I'm not given a detailed itinerary. And I was pulled over by a Hamilton
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police sergeant who asked me why I was, in his words, following everybody around. And I told him
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quite candidly, here's why I'm in media. Here's my name, my driver's license. I was very cooperative.
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I said, I don't have an itinerary and I need to literally follow the campaign bus to know where
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the campaign is going. And despite this explanation, I was detained for about 15 minutes
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at roadside, long enough for the entire bus to get away. And, you know, I had to do a little bit
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of a manual looking around to figure out where to go next, which is fine. And I don't take issue with
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the officer himself. He was professional. He was courteous. He was following orders. But I want to
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know which orders, because this does not sound like what we imagine in a freedom loving country when
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journalists on assignment are literally detained at roadside.
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That is so shocking to me. You know, you and I have traveled to the United Kingdom
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to study the case of Tommy Robinson. And we've talked about how far things have gone there.
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And I always enjoy coming back to Canada because it's not as bad here. But when you say that you were
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pulled over by a policeman with a gun and detained for 15 minutes, no charges, no suspicion of anything
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other than driving where the liberals don't want you to. That is outrageous. Now, you weren't thrown in
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prison. Thank God we're not. No, no. But I wasn't. And I specifically asked, have I done anything illegal?
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And he said, I don't think so. You don't think so. And I still had to I still had to wait for several minutes
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longer to get cleared. And the thing is here, I understand, by the way, if you see a car that's following
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where the prime minister is, I understand that issue. And I put this back on the liberals as to why they've
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allowed it to get this to this point and really forced me into a corner where I have no other way
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to cover the campaign but by literally following it. Let me ask you one more thing. Our mutual friend,
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Candice Malcolm, who runs TNC.news, we love her. She's just great. And she's a new mom. So we don't
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see her quite as much as we used to before. But when she heard about your situation, she dropped
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everything and got in her car and ran out there. Can you give us or you would liberty to tell us
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if she had any luck with the liberal press secretary? Was she at that meeting with you?
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Did she what was she able to do, if anything? So Candice and I actually did sit down with two
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members of the liberal press team last night, and we didn't have any resolution, although we were
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passed to a very specific person at headquarters in Ottawa and said, contact this person. They're
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expecting it and they will respond. Now, we haven't yet reached anything in the way of a resolution
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from this process. But again, we were specifically passed off to another person in Ottawa, which
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means the local campaign team, the one that I'm actually trying to engage with, has completely
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You know, I think of all the online only media these days, Huffington Post, Vice, BuzzFeed. Those
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are regarded as Daily Beast. Now, all of those happen to be American, but all of them are weighing
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in on the Canadian election, including, for example, Althea Raj of Huffington Post, who's actually
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going to be one of the debate moderators. So there you have an American online only reporter, and the
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Huffington Post is ultra left wing. It's named after Arianna Huffington, who's a radical leftist
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activist. So I raise that because obviously the objection can't be that you're online. So is Huffington
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Post, Vice, BuzzFeed, Daily Beast, etc. It can't be that you have a political flavor. So is Huffington Post,
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Toronto Star, their Atkinson principles. It's clear that they're punishing you because you dare
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criticize the government. I find this very troubling. But you're right. The fact that a
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cop pulled you over. Did you get the cop's name? Are you going to do an access to information? Are
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you going to try and find out where the complaint went? I don't know if they'll give it to you.
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They'll try and hide it. But I, if I may be so bold, I think you should try and track down where
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Well, I'll say stay tuned on that point. But to your point about the accreditation
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principles at stake, if there are any, it's a valid point. And look, I'm a commentator,
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but that hasn't stopped them from accrediting Chris Selle of the National Post, who's a columnist
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that's on. Christy Blashford has also been on the campaign buses. So it can't be any of these
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things you've just mentioned, which means it's very much targeted towards either True North or
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Rye. And I'm still trying to cover the campaign. I'm still doing the work. It's just become a lot
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harder because of the liberals. Yeah. You know what? One of the reasons that populism
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is bubbling up around the world, including here in Canada, is because the elites are so abusive and
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dismissive of anyone who would dare challenge them. And I mean, anywhere from Brexit to Donald
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Trump's deplorables to Canada and this high handed conduct. And I got to tell you, that police move is
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the worst of them all. It will not save the elites. If anything, it will deepen the anger
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at the fact that these folks simply don't think they have to answer to anyone. And Andrew, I just
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wish you good luck. I called you yesterday and I said, if there's anything we can do, we're at your
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service. I don't know what that could possibly be. We're just as marginalized as you are. But I guess
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even just by interviewing you and telling the world about this, maybe that's one small thing we can do.
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If you can think of anything else, please say it because I believe that this is eroding
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the accountability of the few remaining independent journalists who aren't on the
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government dole. And you guys are one of the good guys. And thanks very much for that.
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All right, my friend. Well, we'll let you go because I've detained you here and I know you got to
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keep following that bus. I look forward to your reports and we can see them all at tnc.news, right?
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That's indeed the case. And also on my Twitter, which is at Andrew Lawton. That's where I'm updating in
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real time of what's happening. Right on. And I follow you there. And I and I'm so glad you're
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keeping us posted because this is a story that concerns all of us. Thanks, my friend. And good
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luck to you. Thank you, Ezra. All right. There you have it. Andrew Lawton, friend of ours, fellow who's
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come with me to the UK to study their censorship and political correctness. And a man who is now
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being marginalized and even harassed. I'll say it harassed by police simply because he doesn't agree
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with Justin Trudeau. Stay with us. More ahead on the market.
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Hey, folks. On my special interview Friday with my friend Manny Montenegrino, Ron writes,
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appreciated Manny's case against Trudeau, but would have appreciated less of his
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coming victimhood and repeating the left's mantra that racism is prevalent in Canada.
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Yeah. You know, I had a similar feeling. And I think Manny was going for effect. I think that
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if we were to scrutinize the liberals the same way they scrutinize us, that would be what they would
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say. My beef isn't so much that Trudeau is a hot racist. It's that he's a fake anti-racist.
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Just like I don't think Trudeau is a rapist. I think he sexually gropes women and has affairs all
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the time. Like when he groped Rose Knight in a sexual manner in Creston, BC. I wouldn't say he's
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a rapist. I would just say he's handsy. And he takes liberties. Like when he took Faith Goldie
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out for late night drinks. He was a married man in his 40s. Faith was 22. This is creepy. I wouldn't
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call him a rapist. I call him a creep. It's not that he's super duper creepy. It's that he lies
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about being a male ally. Liz writes, a vote for the liberals party is a vote for a self-described
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racist. Well, that's the real thing. Trudeau himself said Trudeau was a racist. He said that
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on the airplane scrum. Jonathan writes, I don't care about the blackface crap. It's the hypocrisy
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that bothers me. I do care about the blackface crap because it's just so bizarre and shocking.
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And I've never seen it in my life. If someone were that way, I would say, what are you doing?
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What's this all about? Is there something going on here? Help me understand. And sorry, Arabian
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Nights and Aladdin is not that. And being the only guy at a party of 500 doing that, that's a guy who's
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a little bit cuckoo. And I think just the same way he's handsy with every single woman he meets,
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I think the blackface is a way of him saying, the rules don't apply to me. I can do whatever
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I want. And it's a pleasure to see him taken down a peg, but the media is already doing their best
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to rehabilitate him. You know, he's got a month to go before the election. I think they just might do
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it. Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel
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World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night. Keep fighting for free.