Trudeau to Face Consequences if He Doesn't Resign ｜ Stand on Guard
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Summary
24 Liberal MPs rebel in the House of Commons during Question Period, but Justin Trudeau stays on the job. What does that mean for the rest of the government? And what does it mean for Canada? And why does it matter?
Transcript
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The leader of the NDP apparently likes to shop at Metro, for which his brother's company
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24 Liberal MPs have lost confidence in the Prime Minister.
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Will the leader of the NDP finally vote for a carbon tax election?
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Indeed, will the leader of the NDP finally vote for a carbon tax election?
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That's just a little bit of the high jinx and the comedy and the high drama that occurred
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in the House of Commons yesterday during Question Period after the Liberal Caucus Revolt.
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And when I come back, what's really happening behind the scenes with that caucus revolt?
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There's a lot more than you saw on CBC, on CTV, Global, or even CPAC.
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So, we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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I have to say that faithfully every day, because I do have to say that faithfully every day.
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By the way, before I forget, guess what happened amidst all of the furor yesterday
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over the Liberal Caucus Revolt and the outrage in the House of Commons during Question Period,
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Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, had its second reading yesterday, very quietly, almost surreptitiously.
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You have to look at the order paper, the House of Commons, to find out that's happening.
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And CPAC had a very brief announcement about it yesterday, saying what's coming up today in the House of Commons.
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C-63, the censorship bill, the Online Harms Bill, the Thought Crimes Bill, is at second reading.
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Will the Conservatives fight this bill with the energy that's required?
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It's going to be just like this, except it won't be as bad.
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Better not, because they're going to disappoint a lot of us, including me.
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But we're not talking about that today, even though we have to mention it as many times as possible.
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I mean, what was going on here in the House of Commons?
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Yeah, all you saw on CBC and the mainstream media was, oh, Trudeau survived.
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Trudeau said that three or four times in question period.
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How many wanted to sign it, but were afraid to?
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These MPs, these dissident MPs, are giving Trudeau a deadline of October 25th, 28th, excuse me.
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Where dissenting liberals give a PM until October 28th to make decision on future.
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This is big time drama at the House of Commons.
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We don't get a lot of big time drama at the House of Commons.
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This means by Monday, if Trudeau says, I'm staying on, these Liberal MPs promise consequences.
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And you say, well, what kind of consequences can they offer?
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Now, all it's going to take, really, is just enough of those dissident MPs.
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But if those dissidents are peeled away, they won't need the NDP.
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And the Bloc has already basically said they're finished with the government.
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They want to go to an election because they think it's going to be good for them in Quebec.
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And why are these Liberal MPs still facing down Trudeau?
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Even though the mainstream media said, hey, Trudeau won.
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57% of Canadians living in a Liberal-held writing want their MP to call on Justin Trudeau to resign and not run again.
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That means I'm going to lose my writing if Justin Trudeau stays on.
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So that is the dynamics of what's going on here.
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Now, let's watch a little bit of Question Period here because it was just classic.
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Marcus Soraya Farada-Martinez, who is the Liberal National Coach...
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This was the lead up to Question Period or to the caucus meeting yesterday.
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Trudeau looking nice and casual in his open neck shirt.
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And of course, if you listen to Rosemary Barton, she kept saying, I think we have to understand that the Prime Minister doesn't...
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Thank you, Rosemary, for being such a great apologist for the Liberal Party and Justin Trudeau.
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You do your job very well, if that is your job.
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I think that is the Prime Minister walking down the hallway there.
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Yeah, three hours and 16 minutes inside the caucus meeting.
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That's him coming out, getting ready for question period.
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To caucus, the Prime Minister says the Liberal Party is strong and united.
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This is the guy who really is leading the revolt in many ways, along with Ken McDonald.
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But, remember, Sean Casey was the guy who proudly stood behind...
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Beside Justin Trudeau in his riding in Prince Edward Island and said,
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The days of the internal combustion engine are numbered.
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By 2030, we're going to get rid of all the gas-powered engines and we're going to go to EVs entirely.
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I've heard from MPs that I've been speaking with over the last little while,
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and I'm sure you have read the reports and maybe even seen evidence of it yourself,
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of the efforts to try to force a leadership change at the top of your party.
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How widespread is the sentiment you've just expressed inside the Liberal caucus?
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I would say it's wider than what meets the eye, honestly.
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There are many who have a myriad of reasons not to express them.
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But those who have come to the same conclusion as me seem to be becoming more emboldened with the passage of time.
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And I think that to a person, it's for the same reason as me,
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is because everywhere they go in their riding, that's what they're getting.
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So you think a change in leadership potentially lowers the floor,
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but also potentially dramatically raises the ceiling for Liberals.
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Have you expressed this to the Prime Minister, to the Prime Minister's office?
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I had a direct conversation with the Prime Minister on July the 5th
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and said to him many of the things that I'm saying to you now,
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including that in my view, history will be very kind to Justin Trudeau.
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I don't think that a turnaround in the economy is all of a sudden going to cause people to flock
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to the Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau again.
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I think there is significant downside and limited upside, so I'm worried.
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If not Justin Trudeau, who should lead the Liberal Party?
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Are you advocating for a particular candidate or just a leadership change?
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I'm advocating for a leadership change, not for a particular candidate.
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I think that there are several very qualified people.
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And Trudeau at times appears to be completely unhinged.
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He appears to be detached from reality and just going on like he is grasping at straws.
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Yes, he does that routinely in question period.
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But there were some very bizarre moments in question period yesterday.
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And I've captured, tried to capture some of them for you here.
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And I'll comment briefly when required or when it's useful.
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After nine years of this NDP Liberal Prime Minister, costs up, taxes up, crimes up.
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This Prime Minister has doubled housing costs, doubled the national debt,
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He's paralyzed Parliament with a cover-up of corruption.
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And two million people are lined up at food banks.
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But he cannot fix what he broke because his caucus is revolting.
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Partly, not just, but partly because Trudeau has nothing to offer that's new.
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So what does he go to question period yesterday and talk about?
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The same three things that the Liberal MPs are saying.
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They say free lunch for kids, dental care that nobody can access.
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The people who are too old to need dental care can access it.
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Or the very young that don't need it yet, they can access it.
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Or your pharmacare that is basically giving away free birth control and insulin.
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And, of course, he's pulling out, you know, challenges, pulling up his sleeves, doing the work.
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And this is why he is going to go into an election.
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So he is convinced he's going to win this next election.
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Not because there's any evidence for it, except in his own mind.
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Seniors and more and more Canadians of all ages, as we move forward to deliver things that are easing pressures on the pocketbooks and building a strong economy for everyone.
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This is the work that we're doing that we will continue to do.
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While the leader of the opposition tosses around empty slogans and plays politics, we'll stay focused on the things that matter to Canadians.
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Twenty-four Liberal MPs went to his caucus today to tell him that he's not worth the crime, cost or corruption.
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They wanted to tell him that he's doubled housing costs, doubled the national debt, sent two million people to the food banks.
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In fact, some were intimidated so much so that even Rosemary Barton, the Prime Minister's favourite journalist, said,
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People don't have phones in the room, and some people are going to the bathroom, texting us.
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I said this was going to happen before the caucus meeting, and it always happens in these caucus meetings.
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These MPs leave the room, surreptitiously send text messages to the journalists to complain about what's actually happening in the room.
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Speaker, will the Prime Minister text those dissident Liberal MPs, tell them to come out of the bathroom,
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and tell the whole world that he's not worth the cost?
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Mr. Speaker, in our caucus, people have always been free to speak their mind and have different perspectives.
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What is interesting, Mr. Speaker, is nobody in the Conservative caucus seems to have spoken out
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when one of their members got an all-expenses-paid trip to an extreme anti-abortion church in Florida.
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Nobody spoke out when one of the members on their front bench went and dined with white nationalists,
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And nobody spoke up, and he's continuing to speak up when their leader refuses to get a security clearance
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It gets even worse, as Trudeau says, some member of the front bench dined with a neo-Nazi.
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Of course, and I'll get to this as soon as we have a chance.
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But he's talking, of course, he's talking, of course, about Christine Anderson.
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Has the Prime Minister actually ever been to a grocery store?
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I've actually been to a grocery store with you, Mr. Speaker, in your riding a few years ago in Val Elmer.
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We have created a program to invest in housing, affordable housing across our country.
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So, yes, Trudeau's gone to a grocery store with the speaker.
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The leader of the NDP apparently likes to shop at Metro, for which his brother's company is the chief lobbyist.
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24 Liberal MPs have lost confidence in the Prime Minister.
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Will the leader of the NDP finally vote for a carbon tax election?
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Mr. Speaker, there wasn't a question for the government in that, but let me reiterate that multiple analysts, economists, and the Parliamentary Budget Officer have indicated that lowering inflation has made it easier on Canadians.
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And the price on pollution that delivers the Canada carbon rebate to Canadians right across the country and puts more money in their pockets is actually helping Canadians with affordability.
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But if the leader of the Opposition really wanted to help with affordability, he wouldn't have voted against dental care.
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He wouldn't have voted against a national school food program that's saving hundreds of dollars a year to parents right across the country.
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Mr. Speaker, even Liberal MPs know now, because their constituents keep telling them, that the carbon tax is driving up the cost of food.
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They wanted to go to caucus today and tell the Prime Minister that Canadians are literally starving, some eating out of dumpsters, because of the carbon tax.
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But he sent out his Immigration Minister to attack them, saying that they are, quote, garbage.
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What's garbage? What's garbage is the Prime Minister's record doubling housing costs, driving up food prices, and forcing people to eat out of dumpsters.
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Will he stop treating his own MPs and Canadians like garbage?
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Now, of course, Immigration Minister Mark Miller on Sunday says, this is garbage.
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He's saying, oh, he's saying, oh, he really admires the courage of these backbench MPs.
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Somebody got to him and say, you know, Mark, maybe it's not helpful if you call your own caucus colleagues garbage and say it's garbage to question the edicts of Justin Trudeau.
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Maybe that's not helpful. And apparently it got through to Mark Miller.
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But how does Mark Miller really feel? This is the man, of course, who loathes and despises Pierre Polyev on a very personal level.
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He just hates the man and he never misses a chance to get personal with Pierre Polyev.
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So I think Polyev is getting a little back here.
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If Mark Miller is a very angry, vindictive man who has made a mess of Canada's immigration system, as every liberal immigration minister has in the past 50 years.
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I think the leader of the Conservative Party shouldn't be bragging that none of his MPs have asked him to get a security clearance so that he can actually protect his party from foreign interference.
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That none of his MPs have spoken out that having one of their members go down to Florida on an all expenses paid trip by an extreme anti-abortion church is just fine for all of their MPs.
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And that, quite frankly, none of them have any issue with a member on their front bench dining with a neo-Nazi.
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And he could be sued if he wasn't standing in the House of Commons right there.
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Christine Anderson could sue him if he said that outside.
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She says nothing in support of Nazism or Adolf Hitler.
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This is a really, really below the belt, beyond the pale remark from a very small man.
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A very small, diminutive man who won't be remembered well by history.
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I hope some of his members in his caucus would speak up about some of the...
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Now that's the honourable member from Wellington, Halton Hills, to please not speak out of turn.
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You know, and I mentioned yesterday on my redacted segment that Trudeau often talks like Joe McCarthy, Senator Joe McCarthy, who was always rooting out communists.
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And somebody called me out for that on redacted saying McCarthy was right.
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Yeah, he might have been right about communist influence.
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And he often didn't have the names he claimed to.
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And that's the comparison I'm making, the methods.
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And Justin Trudeau, of course, who would call anything critical of communism as McCarthyite, acts exactly in the same way in smearing conservative MPs without any evidence.
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He claims that conservative MPs are vulnerable to blackmail, that they're in the pay of foreign governments without any evidence at all.
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So he talks like the Joe McCarthy that Trudeau would have hated because McCarthy was against communism.
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And Trudeau, of course, arguably, has been a neo-Marxist for much of his life and his real mentality.
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So that's the point I was trying to make yesterday when I said that.
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And that's why a lot of people say McCarthy was the best friend communists ever had, because he didn't do things in the right way.
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And Trudeau is aping his techniques and exacted by calling somebody a neo-Nazi without any evidence or any sort of proof or any reason at all.
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Repeatedly, during this question, he's an honorable and very well-respected member.
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Mr. Speaker, the prime minister who has a lifelong record of racist outbursts is now coming unglued on the floor of the House of Commons.
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Yes, a lifelong record of racist outbursts as a blackface performer.
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He can put that in his resume, his acting entertainment resume.
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He hasn't been an able leader, but he's done a great bit of blackface, if that's the sort of thing you like.
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The question was about the 24 liberal MPs in his caucus that are trying to speak out against his quadrupling of the carbon tax,
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not because they care about the cost of living of their constituents,
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but because they're worried they're going to lose the election.
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So the prime minister is so confident in quadrupling the carbon tax,
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You think Trudeau had his wits about him yesterday, or was he just treading water?
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You can see Trudeau can't even get his own talking points right.
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So on that subject, the prime minister created a four billion dollar so-called housing accelerator
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that gave hundreds of millions of dollars to big city politicians across the country.
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Toronto got the money and construction went down 20%.
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Mr. Speaker, when I was the housing minister, we built 194,000 homes.
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They would rather pick fights rather than invest in the kinds of changes that are improving density
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and zoning, using public lands, accelerating red tape so that people can get more affordable
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housing built quicker right across the country.
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It takes actions and investments to build up this country.
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That's exactly what we're doing in responsible ways.
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All he's offering is fights with the provinces and municipalities and cuts to services Canadians
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Mr. Speaker, he just accidentally told the truth.
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He sure is doing that, but he's not accelerating his math lessons.
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He's accelerating red tape so that people can get accelerating red tape so that people can
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Yeah, that's a classic moment from question period, not related to the caucus revolt, but
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clearly shows Trudeau is not thinking straight.
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People don't think this has been brushed under the carpet.
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Don't think this has been hidden in the closet.
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But there's more to come from this because I'll say it again.
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And if you watch my segment on Redacted yesterday with Clayton, I think I made it quite clear.
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Why do liberal MPs decide it's time for a leader to go?
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Not because they think it's necessarily in the best interest of Canada.
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Not even because they think it's in the best interest of the party, but because they think
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It is in the best interest of their political future.
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If they want to win re-election, if they want to stay as a member of parliament, and let's
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It's an automatic annual raise in the House of Commons.
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And they don't even have to defend it because it's just, well, what could we say?
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So they're getting very well paid for arguably, at times, doing next to nothing.
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And they can get away with that in safe ridings.
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But Liberal MPs are saying, hey, you know, maybe my riding isn't safe anymore now that
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Justin Trudeau is so unpopular, the Canadians are just so fed up with him, that I could lose
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And that's why they're saying enough of Justin Trudeau.
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That could become a huge block of dissidents who want Trudeau to go because they realize
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And, of course, they're also worried about the Liberal Party becoming not just the official
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opposition, but maybe even the third party, maybe finishing behind the NDP, maybe even
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This next election could be the elimination of the Liberal Party as a political force in
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And that would be Justin Trudeau's political legacy.
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Now, Sean Casey, notwithstanding, history will not remember him well as a leader who is
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only responsible for two things people remember.
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Legalizing weed and invoking the Emergencies Act and coming down like a dictator on a peaceful
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protest, freezing people's bank accounts and looking like a thug.
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That's what Justin Trudeau will be remembered for.
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Not free lunch, not dental care, not pharma care, not free birth control.
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He will be remembered as an authoritarian hypocrite who wandered around the world making an ass
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of himself saying completely ridiculous things about other people being the problem and how
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Well, of course, he's made it anything but in his nine years here.
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But I would like to see the Liberal Party boot him out.
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I would love to see that happen because that's what Trudeau deserves for what his behavior has
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If he doesn't go and if the Liberals don't vote with the Conservatives in a non-confidence
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motion to defeat the government, Trudeau will stay on as leader.
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And he will fight the next election because he is the personification of unalloyed narcissism.
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And please keep supporting this station in whatever way you can.
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I'll be back again tomorrow with all the news you need to know.
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Because we need to continue to resolve to resist.
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And as I mentioned at the beginning of this broadcast, the online harms bill just went
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That is the most odious piece of legislation in front of any legislature in the world right
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It's worse than anything that the UK has passed, anything Australia has passed, anything Ireland
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has passed, anything Scotland has passed, anything the US is contemplating on passing.