Trudeau is in panic mode and resorting to manipulating the truth
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Summary
Candace Malan explains why the polls are tilting toward the Conservatives, and why Justin Trudeau is desperate to keep the Liberals in the race. She also explains why O'Toole is doing so well in the polls and why the Liberals are losing ground.
Transcript
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Polls show that the Liberals are trending down, the Conservatives are trending up,
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and that means that Justin Trudeau and company are resorting to flat-out lies and desperation.
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I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
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Now, I may not agree with many of the policies being put forth by Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole.
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I wish he would differentiate himself more from the Liberals in terms of policy,
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and I wish that he would take on more of the cultural battles.
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He may not be my brand of Conservative, but there is one thing that I cannot deny.
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Aaron O'Toole is running one hell of a campaign.
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He isn't falling into any of the traps the Liberals have set up,
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be it on COVID vaccines, reconciliation, climate, healthcare, or social policy.
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All of the typical things that the Liberals and their friends of the media
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use to attack and demonize Conservatives, well, O'Toole has avoided.
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And he's being rewarded in the polls, big time.
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It takes all of the credible polls that have been done over a certain period of time
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So on August 13th, 338 Canada had the odds of Justin Trudeau winning a majority government
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its projections show the odds of Trudeau winning majority down to 22%.
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Likewise, on August 13th, they had the odds of the Conservative Party winning a minority
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No wonder Justin Trudeau triggered the election.
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But now, that same polling aggregator, 338, has the odds of a conservative minority at 20.8%.
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Now, let's look at the specific polls that True North is tracking.
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This is the one that's making a lot of headlines right now, an ECOS poll.
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So ECOS asks, how do you plan to vote in the upcoming federal election?
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When they asked that question on August 15th, 31% said Conservative and 35% said Liberal.
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Well, when they asked again over the weekend on August 21st, 33% said Conservative and only
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Yes, the Conservatives are winning according to that poll.
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Nanos Research asks, for those parties you would consider voting for, please rank your top
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So on July 30th, the Liberals were up by six points.
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The Liberals had about 32% and the Conservatives only had about 25.5%.
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On August 22nd, the Liberals are basically only up by the margin of error, Conservatives
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Now, this of course is all because Justin Trudeau had a very, very, very bad first week
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First, he triggered the election mere hours after Kabul in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.
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This intensified the impression that Justin Trudeau is selfish, unserious, arrogant, and
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His decision to host this vanity election juxtaposed with all of those chaotic images out of Kabul
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and the mere fact that there were Canadians as well as those who risked their lives and
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their families who helped Canada left behind was unconscionable.
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Not to mention the fact that Trudeau flip-flopped over whether or not he would recognize the
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Taliban as the official government of Afghanistan.
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Next, Trudeau's entire campaign gamble was predicated on the wedge issue of mandatory
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The Liberal Brain Trust wagered Trudeau's minority government on the assumption that the
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Conservatives would oppose forced vaccinations for civil servants and federally regulated industries.
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But O'Toole called him on his bluff and adopted more or less the exact same position as the
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O'Toole said he supported mandatory vaccines, but also said that Canadians have the right
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He instead suggested making alternative measures for those who fail to get vaccinated, including
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Now, Trudeau dishonestly tried to push the idea that O'Toole's position was meaningfully
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Robin Urbach over at the Globe and Mail called out the CBC on Twitter that CBC was the only
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media outlet that was trying to push the Liberal spin, that the positions were different.
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Robin called CBC out on Twitter twice for misleading Canadians by saying that their position was different.
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And Chris Selle over at the National Post explained it perfectly, so I'm going to read from his
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It was a classic Liberal wedge issue, albeit even more cynical than usual considering the
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But the wedge had lost considerable structural integrity on Monday.
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Whenever governments talk about mandatory vaccination, even for healthcare workers and nurses, the
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After the mandatory vaccine policy became official on Friday, the Public Service Alliance of Canada,
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also known as PSAC, wasted no time demanding the government provide accommodation for workers
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who cannot be vaccinated for reasons protected under human rights legislation, including health
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concerns and presumably religious ones as well.
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Canada's Chief Human Resources Officer, Christine Donohue, answered that in a memo to Deputy Ministers
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published on the Treasury Board Secretariat's website.
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For those who refuse vaccination, we will need to consider alternative measures such as testing
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This is all still from Chris Selle's piece, which is really good.
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In theory, Justin Trudeau could have accepted that mandatory didn't mean literally everyone,
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but that it was nonetheless a worthwhile policy.
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Instead, he insists still that a vast gulf lies between his virtuous position and that
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That boat might have floated had Donohue's memo not vanished from the web as quickly as
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The Treasury Board Secretariat and the Liberals insist that's because the information was inaccurate.
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Reporters smell political interference and a potential violation of the caretaker convention
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that binds government-civil servant relations during campaigns.
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And that is when the media caught on and intensified its questions against Justin Trudeau.
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Are you just playing with words to score points?
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One reporter asked Trudeau and Mark Montari on Tuesday.
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Do you think it's responsible to turn vaccines into a wedge issue?
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So in other words, the media, that is aside from the CBC, most members of the media have
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not bought into this wedge issue, have not bought into the idea that Trudeau and O'Toole's
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And look, if Trudeau has lost the media after giving billions and billions and billions of
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dollars to the media, then he is in serious trouble.
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And that's why we've seen the Liberals crank up the spin, the deception, and the misinformation
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So over the weekend, the Liberals turned to its old, tried-and-true, favorite methods
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First, they said that the Conservatives have a hidden agenda to ban abortions.
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And second, they said that the Conservatives have a hidden agenda to privatize healthcare.
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We've seen it so often that it has lost all meaning.
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And unfortunately for the Liberals, the Conservatives are running a candidate in this election campaign
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that simply does not live up to the Liberal boogeyman status.
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Aaron O'Toole is just as pro-abortion as Justin Trudeau.
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Again, there isn't a meaningful distinction in their policy.
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Here is what Aaron O'Toole said on August 19th.
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As a pro-choice leader of this party, I will make sure that we defend the rights of women
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to make the choice for themselves with respect to their own health.
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And on the exact same day, this is what Justin Trudeau said.
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I think it's clear that there's something fundamental that Aaron O'Toole doesn't understand.
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Pro-choice doesn't mean the freedom of doctors to choose.
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And he's saying certain things to some people and it's opposite to others.
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You're attacking the Conservatives today over their position on conscience rights.
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However, in your legislation on assisted dying, you protected doctors' freedom of conscience.
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If the concern now is doctor referrals, why haven't you and would a Liberal government
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move legislation to further enshrine abortion rights?
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I think it's very clear that the Conservatives, Conservative Party, once again, doesn't understand
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Pro-choice isn't the power for doctors to choose.
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And that is what we are going to continue to defend unequivocally.
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And quite frankly, the Conservatives have demonstrated time and time again that they will not.
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Again, there is no meaningful difference in their policy and yet Trudeau is out there saying
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the exact opposite and he had his minister for the status of women, an Afghan refugee no
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less, unleash this deranged and untrue tirade on Twitter alleging that O'Toole is secretly
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Now, I won't read through this entire thread because really it's just the same and you know
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None of it is true and she was called out on Twitter over and over again, accused of
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lying, fear-mongering, pushing hate and division and perhaps most damning, neglecting to talk
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about the civil war and terrorism takeover in her country, in Afghanistan, and instead being
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pushed out to push this trite and tired storyline.
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But that wasn't it for the Liberals or for Trudeau making the ladies in his cabinet do his
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Next, he had Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister, the deputy prime minister, the former
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foreign affairs minister, a Harvard grad and a once respected person, a respected journalist.
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He had her stoop even lower by pushing out a manipulated video to twist O'Toole's position
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Freeland tweeted out this video, which as you can see is just very clearly deceptively edited.
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It's full of choppy jump cuts, making it painfully obvious how fake it is.
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Would you be prepared to allow provinces to experiment with real healthcare reform, including
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the provision of private, for-profit, and non-profit healthcare options inside of universal
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We can't have just one old model that is increasingly becoming inefficient, and we have
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to find public-private synergies, and that capital will come in to drive efficiencies.
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And, rightly, Twitter put a warning label on this tweet and on this video to warn viewers
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The Liberal Party has, for months, been pushing and defending Orwellian legislation that will
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censor what you can say and what you can see online.
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They want the power to determine what you can say and what you can see.
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They want to take that power away from Silicon Valley tech firms like Twitter and give it to
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Liberal staffers in the Prime Minister's office.
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The same Liberal staffers who have just been caught pushing fake information and spreading
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And they had the Finance Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, no less, be the one to push it out.
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This is irony at its best, and it's also peak Liberal hypocrisy.
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All of which, of course, is lost on the Liberals, who gleefully continue to push their fake wedge
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Freeland was so pumped about her deceptive tweet that she doubled down on it during a
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Had we not won the 2019 election, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about that.
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Do you think the Conservatives would have provided the support to individuals and to businesses
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Do you think they would have bought the vaccines that we did?
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If not, you guys are going to get the scoop on the rest of the country.
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But we tweeted out some video of Aaron O'Toole during the Conservative Leadership campaign,
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So let's go back to Freeland's deceptive editing, and I will show you the full clip of what Aaron
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I refer to my previous leadership quite regularly.
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Our team now calls that the warm-up, because we're going to win this one.
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But I also ran on this principle, Kate, because if we're expecting innovation and more choice
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and better performance, we can't have just one old model that is increasingly becoming
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inefficient because of the amazing new drugs that are dragging some of the funds into other
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areas in our healthcare system, especially biologics, which the Trudeau government also
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If we want to see that innovation, we have to find public-private synergies and make sure
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And I actually praised what Brad Wall did with respect to diagnostic imaging, because he's
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actually making sure that wait times for everyone go down as a result of the investment by the
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private sector to make sure there are more diagnostic imaging machines.
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I thought that was a brilliant move to show the public at large there's going to be an
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overall benefit because everyone's wait times will go down, but people will be able to access
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services and that capital will come in to drive efficiencies, drive innovation.
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In fact, there was a decision in Quebec, the Charouli decision, that says it's a right for Canadians.
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Now, because it was a civil code, not everyone applies it across the country.
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It is certainly. If the same issue came to the Supreme Court, there's no way they could say
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the state can prevent people, as you said, the communist China example.
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So let's try and do it in a way that's fair, measured, and keep the public with us.
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And I do think in the 905 My Region, people are open to it, provided we don't let the liberals
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define us. We have to have someone that can defend these principles and these ideas. And I
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Now, as you can see, he's not talking about privatizing health care. He's talking about
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improving health care through competition, through more choice within the universal framework.
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Isn't it funny, by the way, how the liberals claim to be pro-choice when it comes to abortion,
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but all of a sudden they hate choice when it comes to the broader health care system.
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It's my body, my choice when it comes to one narrow example for women, but no choice whatsoever
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when it comes to vaccines and no choice whatsoever when it comes to getting a second opinion when
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it comes to health care. Now, look, even the tech overlords in the Silicon Valley slapping a warning
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label on Freeland's tweet and video, warning the viewer that it isn't true. Well, that didn't stop
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Justin Trudeau from again doubling down, tripling down at this point onto this liberal spin.
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Here's Justin Trudeau. Watch how worked up he is. He knows he's losing badly and he is obviously
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In the pandemic, came out clearly in favor of a private for-profit health care system for Canada.
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Shame on you. In a pandemic, no less. He was talking about this. When the stories of this pandemic
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were how vulnerable people are made more vulnerable in a health crisis like this that we have to
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continue to step up for, and he's saying, no, no, no, I've always believed in a for-profit health care
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system. We need to ensure better access for wealthy people who can skip the queue and move
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Trudeau is not telling the truth. The reality is that increasing public funding to our government-run
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public health care is the biggest ticket item in Aaron O'Toole's election platform.
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He has pledged to add an additional $60 million to increase health care funding within the government
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system. That's literally the opposite of what Trudeau and the liberals are saying. But the liberals are
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desperate. They're losing any hope they may have at a majority government, and they may just lose this
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entire election. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.