Trudeau prioritizes his vanity election over the crisis in Afghanistan
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A humanitarian crisis has unfolded in Afghanistan, and it s horrible. And, rather than providing aid and assistance to the people of Afghanistan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is too busy holding a vanity election to help them.
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A humanitarian crisis has unfolded in Afghanistan. It's horrible. And rather than providing aid and
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assistance to the people of Afghanistan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is too busy holding
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a vanity election. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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The Taliban, perhaps the most oppressive, backwards, and barbaric of all the Islamic
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groups in the entire world, has seized control of Afghanistan. Kabul fell on Sunday morning,
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making their takeover complete. It's been 20 years since 9-11 and nearly 20 years since Western
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forces removed the terrorist Taliban government in Afghanistan. And now just like that, the Taliban
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is back. So in April of this year, Joe Biden, US President, announced a full US withdrawal from
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Afghanistan and that it would be complete by September 11th. On May 1st, US troops began that
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withdrawal. On July 6th, the US Bagram Air Force Base was evacuated. On August 8th, the Taliban
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seized control of provincial capitals. And then it happened very quickly. On Friday, August 13th,
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Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban. And just two days later,
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on Sunday, August 15th, Kabul, the largest city in the capital city, fell to the Taliban,
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and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Just like that, the terrorists were back in control.
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And I'm sure you've seen the footage on the ground in Kabul in Afghanistan. It is truly terrifying.
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Just look at the chaotic scene at the Kabul airport yesterday. I've never seen anything like
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this in my entire life. So amidst all the chaos yesterday, thousands of Afghans rushed to bank
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machines to try to pull out their money. Thousands rushed to the airport to try to flee the Taliban,
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including former government officials who will almost certainly be arrested or killed by the
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Taliban. Young children can be seen trying to jump the barricade to enter the airport.
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Thousands of people were on the tarmac, desperate, trying to cling to the wheels of an aircraft
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taking off because they were so desperate to get out of the country. According to reports on the
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ground, three people died after falling off a wing of an airplane that they were holding onto
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after it had taken off. The US troops and Taliban forces exchanged live fire close to the
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airport. And in total, nine people were killed in the airport on Monday. It's hard to overstate
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what has happened in Afghanistan. Overnight, the country has gone back to the dark age.
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Just look at this photo. It says a thousand words. This is CNN reporter Clarissa Ward.
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Just look at the pictures. One is taken before the fall of Kabul. One is taken after. I'll read
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from Ronna Ambrose, a former conservative leader who described it perfectly. This is what she wrote.
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This is what happens when the Taliban take over. Same reporter, Clarissa Ward. Same TV channel,
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CNN. Same city. Before and after the capture of Kabul. They won, we lost. Decades of fighting and
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working towards women's rights and a civil society with freedoms all gone. What are we as a Western
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society if we stand by and let this happen? Self-absorbed, insular, and entitled. That's what
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we are. And then she writes, shameful. Now, speaking of self-absorbed, insular, and entitled,
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take a look at this report about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Toronto Sun. It says PMO
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Global Affairs, the Department of Global Affairs, holding off deploying Canadian Armed Forces Kabul
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evacuation team, according to sources. So Sunday's writ drop and the ongoing federal election campaign
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is consuming most of the bandwidth among Ontario politicians, sources say. Yes, that's right,
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folks. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is too busy engineering a vanity election in pursuit of a
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majority government to lend a hand and to help the poor people of Afghanistan. I call it a vanity
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election because it's one that Trudeau himself has forced. The government did not fall. He did not lose
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the confidence of the House of Commons. The opposition parties still had confidence in the government.
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In fact, both opposition parties, the Conservative and the NDP, they both opposed this election and
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they both pleaded with Justin Trudeau to wait. But instead, Trudeau thought that he was riding high
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in the polls and his popularity was strong enough to give him that majority government and so he himself
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triggered this election and right now we're seeing the impact of it in Afghanistan. The Trudeau
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government is too preoccupied with this election to be able to focus on saving lives and rescuing people
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from a war zone. And not just any old war zone. A region that Canada has invested two decades. We've invested
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18 billion dollars. We sent 40,000 troops to Afghanistan and we left 158 souls behind. That's what's at stake here.
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That's what Trudeau is walking away from so that he can focus on this election. And it gets even worse. We knew this
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retreat was happening. We've known for the past five months that the U.S. was planning to remove their troops.
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And for those five months, the Conservative opposition has been pushing Trudeau to follow through on a pledge
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to bring Afghan interpreters, the individuals who helped Canadian troops on the ground, to help them
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come to Canada and resettle them into our country. Trudeau dragged his feet on that promise and now for too many
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of them, it is too late. As an afterthought and in an incredibly callous and cynical fashion, the Trudeau
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liberals then announced that they would welcome 20,000 Afghan refugees. Their hope is that you're
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too stupid to realize that this will not help the people of Afghanistan in any way, shape or form.
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I say that because when you read the fine print about the 20,000 refugee promise, you see that the 20,000
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refugees will come from camps, people who have already left Afghanistan, people who have already
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fled the country. So Trudeau's pledge will not help any of those people that you saw at the airport,
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any of those people from those clips. They will not be helped at all, at all, by Justin Trudeau and his
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pledge. And it's not just those poor people at the airport who are desperate to get out. Trudeau's
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hollow pledge will not help girls or women in Afghanistan who have instantly lost their right
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to an education, along with many other basic rights. They will be soon forced to cover up,
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shut up and submit. And then here, this is the very worst part. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's
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feminist government says that it is too early to tell whether or not they will recognize the Taliban
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as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Check out this incredible interview with the CBC's
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Katie Simpson and Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, Mark Garneau. Now credit where credit is due,
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I'm no fan of the CBC, but Simpson did an incredible job in this interview. And it's very telling that
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the Liberal government is considering recognizing the Taliban as legitimate.
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The U.S. had warned the Taliban if Afghanistan was taken by force, it would not be recognized
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internationally. Will Canada refuse to recognize a Taliban government?
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Well, thank you, Katie, for the question. I would say to you, it's early days. Right now,
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we want to see what happens. The country has essentially surrendered to the Taliban. The Taliban
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is saying that it wants to run as a government, but we're going to wait and see. It's too early
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Do you, you're waiting to see. Do you, do you, are you going to treat the Taliban with credibility?
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Well, we have to see how they behave since they have taken over the country. Certainly,
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their, their behavior was totally unacceptable for the short time that they were in charge after the
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Russians left about 20 years ago. So we'll wait and see. Wow, just wow. It's too early to say
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whether the Canadian government will recognize the Taliban in Afghanistan. We'll just have to wait
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and see what happens. We don't need to wait and see what will happen. We know who the Taliban are.
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We've seen them in action for decades, oppressing girls and women, killing civilians, executing
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prisoners, harboring the world's most evil terrorists. The Taliban is the group that shot
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human rights activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai in the face for the crime of being a
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girl and wanting an education. We don't need to wait and see. It isn't too early to tell. We know
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exactly who the Taliban are. They have been showing us for decades. And the fact that Trudeau,
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doesn't recognize that he's either too confused, too focused on himself, too focused on his vanity
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campaign to care is incredibly telling. It shows just how much of a failed prime minister he is.
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And besides, he's already recognizing the Taliban. Watch this clip of Justin Trudeau pleading with
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the Taliban to let people leave the country. And my follow up, will you recognize the Taliban
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government or will like the US, will you refuse to recognize them? And will military and development
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be cut off because of what's happening in the country? Right now, our expectation and demand
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of the Taliban is that they permit, first of all, an end of violence and hostilities and restore
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order to those who want to for those who want to leave Afghanistan. We need to see the Taliban step up
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and permit an evacuation of those who want to leave. And that is what we are expecting of them.
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And that, quite frankly, is part of the statement that Canada and many other countries released last
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night. Our feminist prime minister telling the Taliban to step up. Why don't you step up,
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prime minister? What a joke. What a narcissist. What a failed prime minister.
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I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.