Stand on Guard with David Krayden - May 11, 2023


SOG6： Liberal Party Top 5 Stupid Things at the Convention (Stand on Guard Ep6)


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The Liberal Party passed a censoring resolution that could have serious consequences for free speech in Canada. David talks about it and why it's a big deal. He also talks about how the party is out of touch with its own voters and what they should do about it.

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00:00:00.980 Hi, welcome back to Stand on Guard with David Creighton.
00:00:05.000 I've got a great show for you today, but I want you to stay tuned and I want you to watch
00:00:10.200 the whole thing because this is going to be exciting.
00:00:13.420 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:00:17.640 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:30.000 I can't emphasize enough, please.
00:00:34.300 We need those watch hours.
00:00:36.680 We need this show to be monetized as soon as possible because, believe me, we are in
00:00:41.920 a crisis of free speech in this country right now.
00:00:44.120 We're in a crisis of our ability not to be censored on the Internet.
00:00:50.640 I need your support right now.
00:00:51.740 Watch this whole show to the very end.
00:00:53.620 Encourage your friends to do so.
00:00:55.640 And we've got some exciting things to talk about today because, you know, the
00:00:59.760 Liberal Convention, I'm not going to disappoint you, the Liberal Convention had
00:01:05.000 some of the most ridiculous moments in history on there.
00:01:09.980 And I want you guys to have a look at what exactly was going on with that.
00:01:18.200 And it's, there's no, probably no better place to start than this.
00:01:29.760 Okay, what was that?
00:01:38.600 What is this?
00:01:40.420 Yeah.
00:01:42.180 Yeah, there's all kinds of great comments here, you know, and I really would like to
00:01:50.040 know what the Liberal Party was thinking here.
00:01:53.040 See, these are all comments about how this really didn't work.
00:01:55.760 He loves the last one there.
00:01:59.020 It was probably, it was probably a reference to Melanie Jolie being on stage there and looked
00:02:05.000 like she was part of a strip show. 0.97
00:02:08.060 And the whole, and they had the Liberal Party president and Seamus O'Regan was there too.
00:02:12.900 And I don't know what they were trying to prove here.
00:02:16.600 But this was clearly a very, well, shall we say, embarrassing moment for the Liberal Party.
00:02:28.840 And I think it shows how out of touch they are.
00:02:31.940 And certainly the reaction on Twitter, when I was just showing it, was all uniformly bad,
00:02:38.840 uniformly negative.
00:02:39.920 And it really does make you wonder what this party is up to.
00:02:45.460 And, you know, I'm not entirely sure at times what they're up to, what they're trying to prove.
00:02:52.260 But, you know, it's, it's exactly, exactly goes to show you that, you know, this was a convention 1.00
00:03:03.700 of stupid things. 0.99
00:03:04.680 We've already highlighted the fact that the keynote speech that kicked off this, like kicked 1.00
00:03:11.900 off this convention from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a disaster where he bragged about
00:03:18.820 how woke he was and suggested conservative leader, Pierre Polyev, should wake up because
00:03:24.640 he's not woken up.
00:03:25.500 And we've already gone through that.
00:03:27.320 But that set the tone for the whole, the whole weekend.
00:03:30.400 And, you know, that is what this convention was about.
00:03:36.380 More, most importantly, what this convention was about was enunciating, articulating, and
00:03:42.680 underlining how this is a party that is now opposed to free speech.
00:03:46.860 And a Liberal Party censorship resolution easily passed on the floor.
00:03:53.120 And people say, well, it's just a resolution, you know, uh-huh.
00:03:57.640 Except the problem here, the problem here is that as we're being warned, this is a resolution
00:04:07.060 that's going to have massive consequences, ramifications for free speech in this country.
00:04:12.360 You know, and Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa, who has been a severe
00:04:18.200 critic of the Liberals on free speech, pointed this out recently.
00:04:22.140 And, of course, the Globe and Mail also pointed this out because what do you think they're
00:04:27.840 concerned about?
00:04:29.700 They're the ones who ran a story based on an unnamed source, also known as a whistleblower.
00:04:36.560 And that is precisely what is going on here.
00:04:44.340 The government, this Liberal government, wants newspapers, radio stations, television stations,
00:04:53.320 media outlets to reveal their source or else they can't publish.
00:04:58.380 That's a violation of basic tenets of journalism and is a huge threat to free speech.
00:05:04.380 And, of course, the Liberals know this.
00:05:06.160 I want you to listen to a response from Rachel Thomas, who is the Conservative Party heritage
00:05:13.000 critic on this.
00:05:15.020 Very interesting point here.
00:05:16.540 Okay.
00:05:16.840 The motion is adopted.
00:05:17.660 It's disheartening to see a resolution like this come forward and to be passed by the
00:05:31.260 Liberal Party of Canada.
00:05:32.660 It's a resolution that would, I think, thwart good journalism in Canada.
00:05:36.740 It would force journalists to make their sources know in or not be able to publish their story
00:05:43.740 without a state stamp of approval.
00:05:45.040 In other words, the Liberal government would have to sign off on a story before it could
00:05:48.600 go live online.
00:05:50.800 We've seen this, though.
00:05:52.400 I mean, Bill C-11 just recently passed through the Senate.
00:05:55.180 Bill C-11 is all about censoring freedom of speech.
00:05:57.840 It will control what Canadians can see, post, hear, online.
00:06:01.520 So this just takes that one step further, where the government wants to make sure that it
00:06:05.500 has complete control over what Canadians can access.
00:06:11.060 Exactly.
00:06:11.540 And this is where this resolution is putting the Liberal Party.
00:06:16.700 And if you think this is just the resolution, the government is already planning similar legislation.
00:06:23.460 They're already developing something called online safety.
00:06:28.160 And the online safety bill is going to target hate speech and disinformation.
00:06:32.580 And that's going to make these subjects anathema, essentially illegal on the Internet.
00:06:41.280 And so what's that going to do?
00:06:43.080 And that's going to mean anything the government doesn't agree with.
00:06:46.740 And that's how disinformation, that's how hate speech is going to be defined by this Liberal government.
00:06:52.240 Anything they disagree with.
00:06:53.920 Because they have said in the development of this bill, if you look at the testimony they've received
00:07:01.780 and their recommendations they've received, they don't want to define these terms
00:07:05.720 because they understand it's going to be highly problematic for them.
00:07:10.820 And, you know, this is precisely the problem.
00:07:15.780 If you can't define these terms, the government will do it for you.
00:07:23.060 And interestingly enough, we've got the Injustice Minister, as I call him,
00:07:29.020 the Attorney General of Canada, David Lamedi, who is a disaster, a catastrophe, an embarrassment, 0.51
00:07:36.580 not only to his party, but to his country.
00:07:39.660 But he makes a very interesting comment here.
00:07:44.460 And I want you to listen to this.
00:07:46.020 I remember as a young Liberal way back when I was young, legalizing cannabis.
00:07:50.800 This was in the 80s, was part of the Liberal Party's platform.
00:07:55.400 It didn't make it to be part of the convention, thing that conventions voted for as part of Liberal Party policy.
00:08:04.780 It didn't make it into the platform until 2015.
00:08:06.800 So it didn't make it into the government policy immediately, but eventually did.
00:08:14.120 Well, let me tell you, things go at a much quicker pace in the age of 24-7 news and digital news that is constant.
00:08:25.580 In the age of the Internet, events proceed at a much faster pace.
00:08:30.900 Issues go from a policy resolution on the floor of a convention, to a bill, to a law, much quicker.
00:08:41.700 And you can bet the Liberal Party is planning to do this.
00:08:45.060 So do not be deceived.
00:08:48.680 That's all I can say about this.
00:08:51.120 Because you know what the Liberal Party is up to.
00:08:53.340 And you know what the Liberal government is up to.
00:08:55.560 And they are going to be introduced in the online safety bill very shortly.
00:09:00.180 They've been working on this now for two years.
00:09:02.880 And it's the third part of their assault on digital news.
00:09:06.480 And this is nothing short of an assault on free speech in this country.
00:09:10.100 It's the introduction of systematic censorship.
00:09:13.980 And that's what they're all about.
00:09:17.720 I want to move to another embarrassing moment at this convention.
00:09:21.860 And it's...
00:09:23.220 I wish to show it. 0.99
00:09:24.980 What's the old adage about, you know, you should keep your mouth shut so people can assume you're ignorant, 0.99
00:09:37.220 rather than opening your mouth and prove that you are? 0.93
00:09:40.620 And this is exactly what former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien,
00:09:44.700 who was hibernating quite nicely in retirement, you know, for the last number of years,
00:09:50.500 hasn't made too many public appearances, made too many public comments. 0.72
00:09:55.200 But he decided to make a big fool of himself at the convention and say that 0.74
00:09:59.340 there is no problem with this Chinese interference, this election interference. 0.95
00:10:04.440 And, of course, he makes this comment, not only at the height of a huge scandal,
00:10:10.180 where we know China has been interfering in federal elections and other elections across Canada,
00:10:16.320 has been intimidating Chinese Canadians, has been trying to buy elections by supporting candidates 1.00
00:10:25.820 that they want elected, and opposing candidates that they don't want elected.
00:10:32.140 Gretchen says no problem.
00:10:33.220 And, of course, we've just gone through this huge mess of an issue with Member of Parliament Michael Chong,
00:10:42.500 the Toronto area MP, whose family in Hong Kong was being targeted and intimidated by China.
00:10:50.000 No problem, Gretchen says.
00:10:52.560 You know, I really think Gretchen should stay in retirement and keep his mouth shut, 0.98
00:10:57.900 because he was beginning to look a little better historically.
00:11:02.860 But now we know it's, no, no, he's not.
00:11:07.100 And this really is, you know, the lesson here.
00:11:16.240 Another embarrassing moment.
00:11:17.700 I want to move on to the next one.
00:11:19.000 When's the last time you heard the Liberal Party talk about the Conservative Party being too U.S. style?
00:11:27.860 Or that it embraces American style or U.S. style policies, politics, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:34.900 That is a constant mantra from the Liberal Party, is that they are still Canadian,
00:11:42.040 and the Conservative Party is dangerously aligned to American parties, ideas, former presidents, on and on and on.
00:11:51.780 So who do they drag out?
00:11:54.500 I mean, yeah, who do they drag out at this convention?
00:12:02.380 But none other than Hillary Clinton.
00:12:06.000 And it's, you know, it's embarrassing for me that they would do this.
00:12:10.720 But it got a very interesting comment from a lot of folks on social media.
00:12:19.940 But it was, did not go unnoticed.
00:12:22.860 And Andrew Coyne here made the comment about when's, you know,
00:12:25.240 when's the last time the Liberal Party complained about American style politics coming from the Conservative Party?
00:12:31.760 And of course, that's exactly what they are all about here.
00:12:36.840 Precisely what they are all about.
00:12:39.400 And it's, but it's hard to watch.
00:12:42.640 It really is hard to watch.
00:12:45.720 But at the same time, you know, it's entirely necessary.
00:12:49.940 Because this is a, this is a party that just doesn't like to admit how embarrassing it can be.
00:12:58.760 Here she is, Hillary, coming all the way up to Canada to tell us all how lucky we are to have the Liberal Party governing.
00:13:09.860 My name is Dawn Upshaw.
00:13:11.240 I'm from Nova Scotia.
00:13:13.900 I'm African-Canadian.
00:13:16.280 The Black Loyalists. 0.80
00:13:17.660 I'm also Miss Disney Cree from Bay James.
00:13:21.240 I'm, I'm, I attended a reception last night.
00:13:25.300 We're here from different time zones.
00:13:27.100 People are tired.
00:13:28.160 People are hungry.
00:13:29.320 And there was liquor served at the event.
00:13:30.960 So people were getting drunk and tired.
00:13:33.280 I personally am just delighted to be here because in many ways, the Liberal Party of Canada is a trail breaker.
00:13:43.020 And the things that over the history of this party you have achieved for Canada have not only improved the lives and opportunities of your fellow Canadians,
00:13:55.100 but have also, you know, sort of set a trail for others to try to follow.
00:14:00.700 So I'm thrilled to be with all of you today.
00:14:04.040 And I want to start by reading something that Secretary Clinton said on November 9th, 2016.
00:14:11.900 Oh, my God, I'm starting to cry now.
00:14:13.660 I think all of us heard you say this.
00:14:17.160 And I think all of us cried.
00:14:20.900 So this is what you said.
00:14:22.980 Yeah, well, I'm about to cry myself, but not because I can remember with any sort of emotion what Hillary Clinton said.
00:14:34.040 She's, of course, referring to the speech Hillary Clinton meant when she lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump.
00:14:40.220 And it took her hours and hours to admit that she had lost that, to say that she had been defeated.
00:14:48.620 And when she finally did, it was a very bitter speech about how she hadn't broken this glass window for women. 0.99
00:14:56.040 And she just hated to admit that she was a completely unpopular leader and that this was not her election year.
00:15:10.160 But what was she doing at this convention?
00:15:14.780 It really does make you wonder what was going on in the minds of the Liberal Party, because Hillary Clinton is at best a polarizing figure, at best.
00:15:25.460 At worst, she's a completely reprehensible figure who had the gall to proclaim anybody who didn't want to vote for her in 2016 was a deplorable. 0.98
00:15:38.340 And she'll be best remembered for making a comment like that. 0.98
00:15:45.460 And it's always been about everything for Hillary.
00:15:48.680 It's always been about Hillary winning, Hillary becoming president, Hillary becoming senator, Hillary being secretary of state,
00:15:56.460 and not about ever doing anything of meaningful importance while in the job.
00:16:04.460 And she certainly hasn't done that.
00:16:06.460 And she certainly has not done that.
00:16:10.760 But I want to move to something here that really, really fascinated me,
00:16:16.200 because there is a moment of honesty at this convention.
00:16:19.140 You don't get a lot of honesty at conventions anymore if they're so choreographed.
00:16:24.980 And people are basically told what to say and when to say it.
00:16:28.440 But sometimes if you hang around long enough, you'll catch people actually being honest about things.
00:16:35.100 And I found this particularly fascinating, because we had a woman talk about something that was very close to her heart,
00:16:42.600 which was being subject to racism.
00:16:45.100 And I want you to listen.
00:16:45.720 My name is Dawn Upshaw.
00:16:47.120 I'm from Nova Scotia.
00:16:49.140 I'm African-Canadian, the Black Loyalist. 0.51
00:16:53.560 I'm also Miss Disney Cree from Bay James.
00:16:57.140 I attended a reception last night.
00:17:01.220 We're here from different time zones.
00:17:03.020 People are tired.
00:17:04.060 People are hungry.
00:17:05.220 And there was liquor served at the event.
00:17:07.180 So people were getting drunk and tired rather quickly.
00:17:11.000 And that's when the racism come out.
00:17:12.860 So I was here last night listening and reacting to racism from liberals.
00:17:20.320 So when you respond to racism, do not respond with food, fun, and fashion shows as you've done in the past.
00:17:29.380 Do something.
00:17:30.320 And let us do something.
00:17:32.260 And let us be the people who guide you.
00:17:34.860 Now, why did I find that fascinating?
00:17:41.240 I'll tell you why.
00:17:43.180 Because it's further evidence the Liberal Party really doesn't care about racism, whether it's systemic, whether it's systematic, whether it's inherent, or whether it's just something that happens.
00:17:59.960 You have to remember, this is a party that's being led by a man who spent a lot of his adult life doing blackface for his friends and, in some cases, at professional events.
00:18:19.360 And this is a man who loves to blame everybody else for being racist. 0.95
00:18:25.220 And that's indicative of the hypocrisy that dominates this Liberal Party. 0.98
00:18:36.800 Justin Trudeau is not just our narcissistic individual. 1.00
00:18:40.420 He's a completely hypocritical individual who is only concerned about advancing his own ego. 0.99
00:18:49.600 And if he can suggest that everybody who opposes him, they are the racist, not him, even though he's the one that did blackface. 0.99
00:19:04.420 Yes, he's a gifted blackface performer.
00:19:06.700 Unfortunately, he's not a gifted politician or a gifted leader or certainly not a gifted prime minister.
00:19:13.280 But he sure was pretty good at doing blackface, which really is nothing to be proud of. 1.00
00:19:22.280 But Trudeau, of course, even when he was cornered on this issue, he said, hey, it wasn't my fault.
00:19:32.280 I grew up in this racist city of Montreal, and it's the city's fault that I did the things that I did, not me.
00:19:41.180 And he kept continuing to point his finger at other people.
00:19:44.960 So that is what Justin Trudeau is all about here.
00:19:49.920 And it's to me, it's absolutely outrageous that he continues to get away with this. 0.70
00:19:59.000 But once again, you can see that that kind of hypocritical behavior is mirrored by his acolytes, his followers, his disciples, the ones who show up at liberal conventions. 0.96
00:20:10.960 Get a few drinks into them, and they start talking like racists too. 0.95
00:20:16.160 And shame on them, and thank God this woman stood up and was honest about this.
00:20:21.380 I think this was an extremely important moment, this convention.
00:20:26.220 I want to get to the last point here, another embarrassment.
00:20:32.540 And there were so many.
00:20:34.880 There were so many at this convention, and it's difficult sometimes to know which ones to choose.
00:20:44.160 But, you know, Trudeau decided that we don't need balanced budgets.
00:20:50.800 The Liberal Party doesn't.
00:20:52.080 When's the last time we had a balanced budget?
00:20:53.520 And Trudeau, of course, is the Smiths' balanced budgets is not being that important.
00:20:59.700 And it's part of his political psyche to suggest that why would we need balanced budgets?
00:21:09.480 Because they're not going to happen in my lifetime.
00:21:14.480 And, of course, yes, the balanced budget resolution was rejected.
00:21:17.900 They embraced a lot of craziness at this convention, and they thought it was crazy to have a balanced budget.
00:21:26.080 But I think that is really, it shows how crazy this party has become.
00:21:32.900 And it really is a party that has lost touch with reality.
00:21:38.720 And, you know, I want to go back to that and say that this convention put the Liberal Party and its prominent members on the stage for the world
00:21:56.280 and for Canadians, of course, to see and to observe and to assess.
00:22:03.820 And clearly, this is a party and a leader that have been found wanting.
00:22:09.860 Now, Trudeau made a lot of outrageous statements at this convention.
00:22:12.820 But he also said there will be an election in two years.
00:22:16.500 He's not before, in two years.
00:22:18.460 And that he will be leading the Liberal Party into the election.
00:22:21.300 I find that highly implausible.
00:22:24.920 And I really don't know how Trudeau is justified in making a prediction like that.
00:22:29.540 He's rapidly losing his grasp on this party as numerous scandals engulf him and his government.
00:22:40.120 But this was an opportunity for Canadians to see how out of touch this party is with ordinary Canadians, with ordinary people,
00:22:51.080 and perhaps even with ordinary Liberals who don't understand where this party has gone.
00:22:58.020 Can't understand what path it's walking down anymore because things have just gotten so out of control.
00:23:06.760 And I think that's really the lesson that we have to learn here.
00:23:16.000 But before I leave, I want to say again and to emphasize how dangerously close we are in this country to losing our freedom of speech.
00:23:32.580 And this government is targeting the Internet, is targeting social media for censorship.
00:23:40.980 And we are on the verge of losing our freedom of speech and becoming more of an authoritarian country.
00:23:51.380 We saw how Trudeau reacted to the Freedom Convoy when he's confronted by people who disagree with them.
00:23:58.440 He wants to put them in jail.
00:24:00.700 He wants to crush them with the judicial system and with the police.
00:24:07.100 And that's what he did to the Freedom Convoy with the Emergencies Act.
00:24:13.100 He wants to go after our free speech and he's going after the media in the same way.
00:24:20.160 He's already tried to buy off the media through subsidization.
00:24:23.860 He owns CBC outright, but he's subsidizing most of the mainstream media.
00:24:29.440 And he wants to continue to buy their loyalty.
00:24:33.720 New media will be crushed by Bill C-11 and C-18.
00:24:38.460 The online safety bill that is soon to be introduced is going to make disinformation and hate speech illegal.
00:24:47.460 And that is going to be up to the government to define and to decide.
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00:25:17.500 It's a very ominous time.
00:25:19.760 And Canadians have got to band together.
00:25:22.880 Canadians who still love freedom.
00:25:26.000 Who are still prepared to fight for freedom.
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00:25:34.060 That's what is required right now.
00:25:37.020 We need a backbone.
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00:26:17.280 I tell you this to be truthful.
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