Justin Trudeau melts down during press conference
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Summary
Justin Trudeau is having a complete meltdown over a ridiculous question from a journalist in Edmonton, Canada, about gender identity and access to women's sports facilities. I break down why this is such a big deal, and why we should all be mad at Justin Trudeau for it.
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I saw this absolutely golden clip today of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau having a complete meltdown
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during a press conference in Edmonton in the aftermath of Pierre Polyev saying that women's
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spaces should be for biological women. I didn't include it in that video where I talked about
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Pierre Polyev's announcement because this should be broken down by itself. I'm not going to belabor
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it too much. I'll commentate throughout it, but I want to get to the clip right away. But quickly
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first, notice how when the journalist asking Trudeau this question, when he asks it, he asks
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it in such a way to basically imply that Pierre Polyev is a bad person by saying that Polyev is
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going after transgender children. When Polyev's answer literally had nothing to do with kids at
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all, he was just talking about women's spaces should be for biological women. But because so
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many of our legacy media journalists are super left wing, they end up reframing every single
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position conservatives take into a conservatives going after vulnerable group kind of a narrative.
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Pierre Polyev specifically said that children born biologically male should be banned from
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female washrooms, changing rooms, sports. Do you think your government has done enough to
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I think the question was literally, have you done enough to protect the ability for transgender
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women, biological men to go into women's spaces? That's a ridiculous question. He has framed the
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question in such a way that it is effectively just assumed that whatever Pierre Polyev did was nasty.
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And Trudeau, have you been a progressive enough champion to stop bigots like Polyev from saying the
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sorts of things that he has said? Ridiculous. But here, let's get to Justin Trudeau, who is thinking very
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deeply about the sort of persona he wants to put on for this question, this answer, because Justin Trudeau is always acting.
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are choosing to attack some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
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As a way of deflecting from the fact that they're very good at creating division and anger and creating
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political toxicity and driving wedge issues. But so far they have been terrible at putting forward any
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concrete solutions for the big problems that people that all Canadians are facing in their daily lives.
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Justin Trudeau just doesn't think that Conservatives put forward concrete solutions,
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because Justin Trudeau only acknowledges something as a solution if it is a big government solution.
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If it increases government size and spending, then it is a good solution. Polyev and the Conservatives
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want to reduce government spending. They want to reduce regulations, taxation,
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all this stuff. They want to get rid of censorship policies. That is their solutions to making
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Canadian society better. But a big government hyper progressive like Trudeau doesn't acknowledge
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any of that. And again, he's saying they're attacking the most vulnerable in society to deflect
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from the fact that they are good at dividing people, but they're not good at coming up with real
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solutions. Aren't you the man who keeps saying that I don't want to have to sit next to someone on a
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train if they're unvaccinated, that these people are racist and sexist, that they disagree with me?
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He literally has just been implying already during his answer that Pierre Polyev is like
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a transphobic homophobic bigot with no evidence. Polyev wants to protect women's sports and Trudeau
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thinks that that is bigotry, which in and of itself is just bigotry against women to think that
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protecting women's sports for biological women only is somehow bigotry. It's insane.
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They're quick with slogans and buzzwords and culture wars.
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All liberals don't do that. But they're not doing the work of actually rolling up their sleeves
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and delivering. 330 housing units here is not that many houses delivered next year
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in this summer, including over 60% of them deeply for 50% of them afforded that that a little tongue
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tie their prime minister. But a hundred 380 houses is not that much in the city of Calgary. I know he did
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this in Edmonton, but in the city of Calgary, they also just did the stupid announcement with our
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terrible mayor, Jody Goddick. We're building a hundred new units for whatever group. It doesn't
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really matter. We need about 20,000 units to be built in order to actually make up for the shortage
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of housing that we have. The big government, the solutions Justin Trudeau has is throwing billions of
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dollars at these municipalities to get them to build slightly more homes when we need hundreds of
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thousands of homes, if not a million homes built across the country to make up for the shortfall
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that we have. Anyways, I'll let them keep going and make a fool of themselves.
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Billions of dollars in investment in childcare that provinces like Alberta are not delivering
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You're $10 a day childcare plan sucks so bad that we literally had daycares in Calgary saying we're
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just not going to open because the compensation is horrible for it, that we cannot actually get
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properly compensated through this strategy. And now he's blaming the province of Alberta for not
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kicking in even more money to save his bloated, terrible childcare plan.
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We're stepping up on the fight against climate change to draw in global investment.
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Here in Alberta for years, I've been pointing out that Alberta is the number one place in the country
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for green investments, for investments into renewables, for innovation in the future.
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He says it's the number one place because he sees it as the place that needs to lose all of the oil and gas
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jobs. He sees it as a place that he could burn to the ground and create a new utopia
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on top of. He's making the sound like he's a compliment towards Alberta. He thinks Alberta
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is a horrible, nasty place that he has to fix. That's why he sees it as the number one place
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for green job growth. And again, where's the green job investment, man? I thought we were going to be
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popping off in the terms of the solar and wind industry or not, because it's not a real industry.
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Of how we're going to power our country and our world in a net zero economy.
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Well, what does the Alberta government do? Oh, it puts a pause on renewables.
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Yes, because on our grid, we buy natural gas for about six or seven cents a kilowatt hour.
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The Alberta government, because of stupid agreements the NDP had made, was buying solar
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and wind for like 45 cents a kilowatt hour or a little bit less than or so. But it was crazy
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expensive. That's why our power bills shot up, because we got rid of coal and we replaced it with
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something that the Alberta government was paying out way too much money for. So now they put a pause
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on it so we can actually lower the cost of our energy.
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Talking to the Alberta Business Council just last fall, who were up in arms about it, rightly,
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because what kind of signal does that send to investors?
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What kind of signal does that send to Albertans who know that providing energy in a net zero world
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Yeah, jobs have never manifested, but don't worry, they'll be incredible. Also, I like natural gas and
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oil because it kept us from like freezing to death here in Calgary when it was negative 35 out.
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The solar and wind farms were generating approximately a goose egg of energy during that time.
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If we had more heavily transitioned to it, we'd probably have deaths from the grid failing.
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If you work in construction, if you work in the oil sector, you can also work in the hydrogen sector,
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you can work in the nuclear sector, you can work in the carbon capture utilization and storage.
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These are good skilled jobs that Albertans are already doing that they will be able to do as long
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as we make sure the capital is flowing in those areas.
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Remember when this whole answer started off about the whole biological women thing? Even Trudeau
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moved on from that as fast as possible because it is a losing issue to say that
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women's spaces should not actually be for women.
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But these are all real issues with real solutions that we're working on.
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And people like Pierre Polyev would rather pick a fight with trans kids.
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Oh, he's he's crapping all over our plans that haven't worked for nine years. He's crapping all
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over them. I wish he would just pitch in, roll up his sleeves like I do. And I wish he would just
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come in and help me out. Just grab a cup of coffee, slap me on the shoulder and say, Justin Trudeau,
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you're doing a great job. Doesn't matter if people are going bankrupt. Doesn't matter if you keep
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censoring people. Doesn't matter if people can't afford groceries. You're doing a great job. But I'm here to
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pitch in like the I hate this type of propaganda politicians do. And let's be clear, every party
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does it when they're in office. Why doesn't the opposition pitch in and help? Because it's their
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job to oppose. I don't know how I have to explain this to so many people. Like, why do I have to
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explain this to Justin Trudeau? I guess it's because he's stupid. But still, you've been in politics for
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like, however many years when you were in opposition, were you making suggestions to Stephen Harper back
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in 13 and 14 on what he could do to help drive the economy for it? Nah, you just criticized him,
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because that's literally your job. And it's not your fault for doing that. It's not leadership.
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And that's not a game I'm going to play with them. Yes, we're going to make sure we're doing
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everything we can to protect vulnerable people in this country, because that's what Canadians expect.
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Yes, we are protecting them by banning speech I don't like online. Not going to get dragged into
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culture wars about this. When the fact is Canadians expect their governments to roll up their sleeves
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and deliver for them. And that's what we're doing. I'll ask it again, sir. What can or what is your
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government doing to protect the rights of trans kids now and in the future? I was sitting down with
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a number of doctors from the Canadian Medical Association. I think one of the things we should all
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do in difficult issues is rely on experts. Rely on science, on researchers, on people.
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Well, the experts in Scandinavian countries and in Europe and Britain and in the US are going away
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from all of the sort of hormone blockers being given to children. They are going away from the gender
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theory stuff because it was toxic to kids and it wasn't working and it was bad for parental rights.
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People who actually work with vulnerable kids. People who sit down with families to talk through
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extremely difficult decisions and rely on them to depoliticize issues and look at what is in the
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best interest of Canadians, of communities, of individuals. Imagine how disgusting that is.
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Justin Trudeau's actual, you know, recommendation for what you should do if you have a difficult
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situation in your family. Bring in an expert. Don't be a parent. Don't parent your kids. Bring
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in an expert. Have them tell you what you should be doing because they have the expertise and they
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can depoliticize the issue. No, no, do not do that. That's a stupid person thing to do. Actually,
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maybe parent your kids and don't let the government tell you what to do. Raise your kid to be a happy,
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healthy and responsible adult on your own. And if you need to bring in an expert, that's probably a good
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sign that you probably shouldn't be parenting your kids. Obviously, bring in an expert in terms of
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surgical decisions you have to make if your kid's sick. Obviously, that's a good time. But when it
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comes to decisions that you should be able to make as a parent, just basic decisions on how your kids
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should grow up, if you need to bring in an expert, you're in trouble.
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Relying on our service and health professionals to make decisions about how to best protect people
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is, I think, something that this government will always stand for and highlight that more
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governments should be doing rather than picking fights with vulnerable people.
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I just want to back it up. Imagine being those three people in the background there who had to
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stand there the entire time while Justin Trudeau was talking. Even they're like glancing around,
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looking at their shoes, like kind of trying to talk to each other when they were probably meant
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to stand there. Like they're here with Justin Trudeau. They stand with him. Imagine you probably get
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paid like triple overtime if you have to stand behind Justin Trudeau at a press conference. That's
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bad for your health and bad for your mental health. Okay, woof. Crazy times, crazy stuff.
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Anyways, that should be it for me today. I will quickly plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool,
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am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination. This is what the riding looks
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like. It's on the west side of Calgary. If you generally live in these riding boundaries,
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go to my website, WyattClaypool.com, buy a Conservative Party membership and vote for me in
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the nomination so we can have a real conservative who lives in the riding actually representing it.
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And then also, I have my give, send, go link for myself and the National Telegraph's
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legal fund. Any money you can contribute to it really helps us out. We're being sued by a Chinese
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billionaire developer. He's basically suing us for defamation. He's never been able to actually
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provide any evidence that we defamed him. Our guest writer's article that mentioned him,
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everything that she said about him that was mentioned was all based on a Globe and Mail article
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that had been written a year and a half before by Robert Feift and Stephen Chase, some very good
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investigative journalists. That article is still up because it is accurate. And all we did was mention
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the article. And so he's suing us because he thought that we couldn't fight back the same
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way the Globe and Mail could. But we're $25,000 deep in defending ourselves. So anything you contribute
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really helps take the burden off of us. A lot of people have given money and we're extremely thankful
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for everything that people have contributed so far. But this thing will keep dragging on and we're not
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going to give out fake apologies to bullies. We are going to fight back against bullies because if you
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don't, they come back and keep bullying you. And this guy would do this to someone else. And it's good to
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set the precedent that Canadian conservative people do not roll over when attacked. Anyways,
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that should be it for me today. I'll see you guys next time. Hopefully you like these kind of
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reaction style videos, even if they drag on a little bit. But that was a really fun clip of
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Justin Trudeau. I like whenever Justin Trudeau has these like freak out moments where he just suddenly
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gets exasperated because he's down in the polls and doesn't know why people aren't voting for him.
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And he's just like, we're investing in green energy. Why don't people vote for us? They're
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they're trying to divide people. They're attacking vulnerable kids. And it's like, guys,
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dude, this is a terrible look. Your, your comms team should have used the, like the long cane and
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pulled you off stage during that. It was horrifying. Anyways, that should be it for me today. Finally,