Poilievre Exposes Weak Punishment for Criminals ｜ Stand on Guard
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Summary
A 20-year-old man has been charged with lighting fires in Newfoundland and Labrador, but no charges have been laid against him. This raises the question of why no one has been brought to justice for the arson that s going on across our country.
Transcript
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Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard.
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I'm your host, broadcasting to you from Ottawa, your nation's capital.
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When we come back, it's by-election day tomorrow in Battle River, Crowfoot.
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Historic day for the Conservative Party of Canada, perhaps for Canada itself.
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We'll have all the news and a very dramatic announcement last night from Pierre Paulyov.
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The Prime Minister lied and his minions continue to lie.
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We're slowly moving upwards, thanks to your support, patronage.
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And it's, like I said, overcast Sunday here in Ottawa.
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And I would have missed this because I was not looking for anything from Pierre Paulyov this morning.
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But I think this is, I'm not going to say this is courageous.
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But I'm going to say this shows that Paulyov is still a common sense politician who is assessing the current fear over walking in the woods.
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He doesn't address walking in the woods, but he does address what's really behind the vast majority of wildfires, which is arson.
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News out of Newfoundland and Labrador, a 20-year-old has been charged with three counts of lighting fires around midnight.
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But the individual is accused of lighting three fires.
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There's a fourth fire in St. John's as well for which no one has yet been charged or arrested.
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The fires are raging across our country, and it takes a special kind of dirtbag to light those fires.
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And while we don't know if this accused is actually guilty, what we do know that is if he is, right now he'd get a slap on the wrist.
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The liberal justice system does not have mandatory prison sentences for these types of offenses.
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We've seen 100 churches burned across Canada in a spate of hate-filled terrorist attacks targeting Christians for which they're going to do.
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And I'm so glad Pierre Paulyev mentioned the church burnings, because that's, again, something that appeals directly to much of the conservative party base.
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This has not been addressed properly in the past.
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Justin Trudeau had the gall to suggest the churches were responsible for their own church burnings,
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because they weren't sufficiently dedicated to reconciliation, and the churches deserved it.
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I'm glad Paulyev brought this up, because this is very pertinent.
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There have been little to no consequences or even condemnation from our government, and that's why conservatives are fighting back.
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We propose mandatory prison sentences for anyone caught committing arson.
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In the last election, my platform proposed that there would be mandatory prison sentences for anyone using arson in extortion or who lights a blaze with malicious intent.
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We also have the bill, it's called the Anti-Arson Bill, proposed by the great conservative MP Mark Dalton.
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I suspect one of our MPs will be reintroducing the same bill.
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It specifically goes after the hate-filled terrorists that have been burning down churches,
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and it proposes a mandatory prison sentence of five years for the first count of arson and seven years for the second.
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Now, how many years is the Ontario Crown asking that Chris Barber of the Freedom Convoy go to prison for?
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This is where our justice system is today, and no years for arson.
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Now, this shocks me, because I would have thought, until I talked to a lawyer from the Justice Center for Canadian Freedom the other day,
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That you're not only endangering, well, you're not destroying property, you're potentially killing people.
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No, and that's Marty Moore of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
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We'll have a clip from that in a minute, where he talks about the same thing that Pierre Polly has done.
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That would create a real deterrent against anybody who's seeking to attack a place of worship.
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It would also make it an aggravating offense if a place of worship is the main target of that fire.
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So, listen, we've got to start to crack down on arsonists,
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anyone who lights fires, particularly in dry, hot summers when they're destined to destroy property and send people fleeing from the homes that they spent their lives building and saving for,
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deserve to go into the slammer, and they don't deserve to get the slap on the wrist the Liberals have been giving them.
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Canadians deserve to live in freedom and safety, and that means locking up arsonists,
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means protecting our places of worship, and it means restoring law and order.
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Now, that's Pierre Polly, I'm sounding like the leader of the opposition,
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which, of course, if he wins this by-election seat, he will shortly be the leader of the opposition as soon as he's sworn in
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as the Member of Parliament for Battle River Crowfoot, and I think it's inevitable he win tomorrow.
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We're going to be doing some coverage of that tomorrow night.
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But I think it's a very historic thing, but we'll get to that in a minute.
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But he's talking, again, like a common-sense conservative here,
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because I don't think many Canadians are aware that you can basically walk away from an arson conviction.
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And here's Marty Moore of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms,
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whom I interviewed earlier this week, or midweek, last week,
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talking about how lax the justice system is on people who commit arson.
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Well, I mean, it's an obvious rhetorical question.
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Is there a political reason we don't hear governments talking much about arson,
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even though the police continue to arrest arson suspects every time we have wildfires?
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Well, yeah, I mean, to your point, David, you know, 2023 numbers for Nova Scotia,
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the number one cause of fires in that what was a bad fire year in Nova Scotia,
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Yeah, spontaneous combustion is what had apparently won.
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But, you know, campfires caused 13, but 53 from arson.
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That's giving you an indication of what the cause was.
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But do you know what they did to amend their forest fire act in
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that's such a mélange and what would this kind of thing?
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So I want to know exactly what that means that we...
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the we are not for anything that we're talking about here.
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And I wanted to know exactly what we did to do here.
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53 fires caused by arson in 2024, Nova Scotia amended their Forest Act to address the leading
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cause of concern. And do you know what they did? They imposed a deep penalty for arson, didn't
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they, David? Oh, no, they didn't, David. They amended their Forest Act to say that the purpose of this
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act is to fight forest fires in a, quote, changing climate. So in light of their data, which was 53
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fires set by arson in Nova Scotia, their response was climate change. And so if you can follow that
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logic, you're doing exactly what they want you to do. And of course, we can see the criminal justice
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system in this country, which is severely broken. We've been, and even tomorrow, we have another
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Freedom Convoy trial going on again, because of course, that's where we need to dedicate the
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prosecution resources of this country. But in Saskatchewan, a gentleman who started intentionally
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30 fires. And he was a member of the volunteer fire department there in Saskatchewan. He was
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convicted. And guess what he got for a penalty, David? Was it the eight years in jail they want
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to put Chris Barber away for? Or was it, oh, no, no jail time, 100 or 200 hours of community service
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and 18 months of probation? And it's all good. That is how we treat 30 intentionally set fires.
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And we're saying, and a CBC story yesterday had myself speaking on this issue. And the response
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was from a fire chief who said, well, desperate times call for desperate measures, David. Oh,
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desperate. What are you so desperate about? Are you desperate to stop forest fires? Or is there
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a desperation to justify a climate change power grab? And you mentioned the United Kingdom, David,
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they've lost other liberties as well. You know, you drive a car in the United Kingdom,
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you drive it in the wrong way in the wrong spot, well, those cameras will catch you and they'll,
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they'll make sure that you get that that extra fee and fine in the mail. Well, if the logic of
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banning people in the woods applies, oh, that's going to apply a lot more to you driving your car
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David. That'll apply to, well, there's not enough first responders to help David. We are in a time
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of emergency. You can't go in the forest because there's not enough first responders. Oh, well,
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we can't allow you to drive your car, David. There's not enough first responders to make sure
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that you can be safe if you happen to have a car accident. Oh, well, there's a risk if you drive
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your car. Well, guess what? There's a lot more risk from driving your car than walking through the
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forest. This is a safetyism culture leaning towards totalitarian control. And
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yes, it is potentially totalitarian control. And I like to say that Canada is in a race with the
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United Kingdom in terms of who can go off the edge, the totalitarian edge faster. Who can move
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into hell faster? Because the United Kingdom has gone absolutely crazy. It's not Great Britain anymore.
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It's not even the Britain I remember. Britain has become a horrible society that locks up people.
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Literally thousands of people have been locked up because they put posts on social media,
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opposed to mass migration, supporting protests that the government didn't support, and simply
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acknowledging that they don't agree with the official government narrative.
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And Kirsh Dharmer, the prime minister of the UK, had the nerve to sit with Donald Trump in an
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interview and suggest there's no censorship in the UK. This is a free country. He didn't specifically say
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this is the home of the Magna Carta. But he said, we have a tradition of free speech going back
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centuries. Yes, they do. And it took them what? A matter of five years to destroy that legacy,
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that history, that heritage. Didn't take them very long to destroy it. Let's get back to arson here,
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because remember how we saw in this chart here. Zero percent were attributed to lightning. Zero percent.
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But, ah, same report. 46 cases were a result of lightning. Once again, go through this list. You will not see
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any reference to climate change because it's bogus. It's government propaganda. It's liberal party
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nonsense. People are starting these fires. And look at this. It's not 53 cases. It's 53 percent.
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1,144 cases of arson. Number one cause of fires.
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Now, maybe that's because there's no punishment. There's no penalty for committing arson.
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And I wouldn't doubt for a minute if a lot of these arsonists are also climate change activists
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that are trying to prove that wildfires are a direct result of climate change. And so they're
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going to take that into their own hands and prove it and make, and make sure we all start to believe
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that because there's just so many wildfires. Well, there's a lot of arsonists out there, aren't there?
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Now, why hasn't the provincial government here, why hasn't the federal government initiated a round
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table discussion of some kind to ask why are there so many arson cases? And this is why Pierre
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Pollioff's announcement last night makes such perfect sense.
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Because there's no punishment for arson. Obviously, it's going to get worse if people walk free.
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Now, this Marty Moore discussed an individual in Saskatchewan, convicted, not a day in jail.
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And the fire chief offered his understanding, his empathy. Well, these are tough times.
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You know, and as Marty pointed out, they were tougher times during the pandemic.
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And the Freedom Convoy peacefully protested. They were accused. Remember that? The Ottawa media.
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They accused the Freedom Convoy of starting a fire in an apartment. Yeah. And it was taken seriously
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for a few days by the mainstream media, the national media. Freedom Convoy started a fire in an
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apartment block. Of course, it was total lie. Complete lie. Just like all of the other reports of actual
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negligence or criminal activity on behalf of Freedom Convoy people. There was nothing
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destroyed. There was no windows broken. There was no houses occupied. There was no public property
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occupied or desecrated. This was a peaceful protest and nobody set any fires. But yet the
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Crown is still looking for seven or eight years in prison for peaceful protest. Do you say to yourself
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there's something wrong with this country? There's a disconnect here? Yeah, you bet there is.
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It is. This is why the Conservative Party needs to be a real opposition and not ever be co-opted by the
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Kearney government. Because that's what Kearney wants. And that's what Kearney was getting in that
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brief three-week spell we had when Parliament briefly resumed.
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But I want to show you some... This is quite entertaining, actually. But, you know, here's
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the village of Tsar. And there it is. Basically on the very close to the Saskatchewan-Alberta border.
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This is in the riding of Battle River Crowfoot. And there's about 200 people in town. And, you know,
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about two percent of them are represented in this video. This is Pierre Pauly visiting,
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it appears to be people he's known for quite some time, on the porch. And they discuss,
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you know, what he's been doing over the last two decades.
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The village of Tsar is a village in central Alberta. It is located 70 kilometers, 43 miles
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west of the Saskatchewan border, at the intersection of Highway 13, Buffalo Trail Highway 4. The population
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of the village of Tsar, according to the 2016 census, is 202. Well, maybe it's doubled since 2016. I don't
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know. The village is a vibrant little community nestled in the heart of cattle country. The motto
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is where the cowboys reign is no mistake, as the village is surrounded by ranch land and
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feedlot operations. 2017 was the centennial year for the village, and it was celebrated
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Now, here's the longest ballot. And this, of course, is what's going on tomorrow, except you're not going
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to see the longest ballot, because remember, it's a write-in campaign. So I'm still waiting to see.
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This is why I'm going to be monitoring things closely tomorrow, because I'm still not convinced
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Elections Canada can do this in a fair and above-board way, because there was too many
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anomalies in the last federal election. So I don't know how people are going to judge whether
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Polyev is close enough. As somebody suggested in the comments section quite some time ago,
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write his name down with you. I'm not sure you're allowed to bring anything into the ballot box with
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you, though. And that's the problem. And you can't just say Conservative Party of Canada. That will
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render your ballot null and void. So we need to keep our eye on it. I'm not for a minute suggesting
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there's systemic corruption in Elections Canada. I'm suggesting there were problems in the last
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federal election at various sites across Canada, and they lost a lot of credibility. So my trust factor
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with Elections Canada has gone from very high to very low. So I am going to be watching this by-election
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Let's watch some of this video here, because I think this is... I have to say,
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Peter Polyev could take this by-election for granted. His predecessor won with 83% of the vote.
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That writing has been going Conservative for decades with a huge percentage of the vote.
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But he didn't take it for granted. I have to give him that. He did go out and campaign. He did go door to door.
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I thought his answer at one town hall about why Alberta should stay in Canada was completely
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inadequate. And I said that. And a lot of people objected to me saying that, but I'm sorry. I
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thought it was completely... No, I'm not sorry. I don't apologize. I thought it was an inadequate answer,
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and he could have done a lot better, because I'm sure he's been facing questions like that throughout the
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campaign. However, he campaigns with style right here. I think it's worth watching.
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There's been a noise complaint. Too much late night partying at this place.
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I wanted to go to Wainwright to see you yesterday, but we got involved with...
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Well, when you didn't come, I decided to come and see you.
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I would love to give you a big hug, you sweetheart.
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This is my neighbor. She lives two over. This is Trish.
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I would, but I know you're working, but would you like a beer?
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And I'm going to call you sir, because you're one level higher than me.
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I'm already getting greater, so I don't need to be called sir.
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I was in the army for 25 years, so I'm trained.
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Do you think he's doing any better than Trudeau?
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A three-legged dog that did better than Trudeau did.
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A three-legged dog would do better than Trudeau did.
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It's interesting that just plain folk like this cannot see carny for what he really is,
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as another Justin Trudeau, but a lot bit smarter, a lot more intelligent, and a lot more cunning
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They can see right through and realize the emperor wears no clothes.
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I got done by his father, and then I got done again.
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When he got elected the first time, I looked at her and said,
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When Trudeau 1 got elected, I was in the military.
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I really haven't heard that description prior to this, but I guess a lot of people are
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My father was in the military when Pierre Trudeau was prime minister.
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And I tell you, at the dinner table, Pierre Trudeau was always like the antichrist.
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...in Alberta and destroyed our economy with NEP.
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And he created so much money that we ended up with 12% inflation and 20% interest rates.
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She's a teacher, but she knew how to save money and scratch a penny.
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She's the kind of lady who would drive across town to use a coupon.
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Anyway, she was able to save up enough money, not only to get us, well, my dad as well,
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but her especially, for a house for us and two little rental condos.
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My first transfer was Air Force Base Frickin' Nemeo.
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Which you folks have been patronizing to a very high degree.
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I think it's some of the best merchandise we have.
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I'm going to listen to a little more of this, and then I have some concluding remarks.
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I was born right on York Street, a block and a half from the market, the main market, a block and a half from the market.
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Now half of New York Street is an excess ramp from the Queensway.
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My parents are, my parents emigrated from Spain.
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In 36, when everything was happening overseas, they didn't like the, they were quite well educated.
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So now we know the connection between this family and Pierpaglia.
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And Pierpaglia has spent the last 21 years in Ottawa.
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And I remember when he, when he, he landed the nomination in Nepean and a lot of people said, who is this guy?
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Because he literally just came in from Calgary and he kept that seat for 21 years.
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And aside from, from doing some communications work on a conservative campaign and, of course, other things he had done as a young man, all Pierpaglia has ever really known has been a member of the House of Commons, a member of Parliament.
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And so I, I, I know it was so disappointing for him when he lost his seat in the Ottawa area.
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And he must have been absolutely crushed over that, but he put a brave face on it.
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So, whether or not Pierpaglia has really been auto-washed, as we say, you know, that's the term we use for people going to Ottawa and being completely transformed by the political system there.
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I hope and pray in my heart and soul that Pierpaglia is still a principled conservative and that he's going to prove to be a principled conservative.
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And that he's going to continue to move away from positions that are approving of equalization, that are approving of the World Health Organization pandemic treaty, that are more in keeping with what the grassroots of the Conservative Party of Canada believe in.
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Yes, I have been critical of Pierpaglia when it's, you need to be critical of Pierpaglia.
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But I'm not going to try to take away his day tomorrow and say he's, you know, he's going to win this race probably by 70%.
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And this is going to be a very happy day for him because if he didn't win tomorrow, he would not be staying on as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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If he can't win in the safest riding in the country, then it would be all over.
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And I would suggest on this Sunday, pray for Pierpaglia because I know he's very, very disappointing at times.
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I'm very disappointed he didn't talk about the hiking in that same message.
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He didn't talk about how government overreach is telling people they can't even hike.
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But he needs also to talk about government overreach.
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I'm very disappointed we didn't hear from Pierpaglia during Sean Foyt's recent visit to Canada.
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In fact, he's here on the 20th, which is what, 1890?
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So I'm hoping Pierpaglia has some words of support for Sean Foyt.
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Because these are the issues that matter to Conservatives.
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Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly.
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The basic freedoms that make Canada, or that used to make Canada, one of the greatest democracies on the face of the earth.
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And we need a strong opposition to fight Mark Carney, to fight the liberal agenda.
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Not to just occupy a seat in Ottawa and get back into Stornaway.
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He needs, actually I think he has, I don't think he ever moved out of Stornaway.
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But he needs, he needs to fight hard for conservative principles.
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And he needs to be a real leader of the opposition.
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And express your right to worship God as you please.
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Because we still have it to some extent in this country, but we're losing it rapidly.