A Globe and Mail journalist asks the dumbest question to Conservative Party Leader, Pierre Polioff, and gives him the perfect opportunity to dunk on him for wanting to shut down safe injection sites across the country. Eric Andergy tries to argue that they are not safe.
00:00:00.000Well, it happened again. Another legacy media journalist has blessed us by asking the dumbest possible question to Federal Conservative Party leader, Pierre Polyev, and giving him the perfect opportunity to dunk on them. Without further ado, here is the clip now.
00:00:17.620Eric Andergy, Globe and Mail. Your party hasn't actually said what your policy towards safe injection sites will be. So you want to close this one, but will you close others? What will you do around safe injection sites across the country?
00:00:33.740Eric I will be closing them. We will close safe injection sites next to schools, playgrounds, anywhere else that they endanger the public and take lives. We will defund. By the way, they're not safe injection sites. I'm sorry. I used your dishonest language. You just repeat the language that is fed to you by the government. Are you a CP? Are you a CP? Who are you with?
00:01:03.000Eric He's asking about whether or not this journalist is from CP, which is Canada Press, because even though many people identify themselves as being from the Globe and Mail or CTV or whatever publication, many of them are contractors for the Canadian Press, which is a deeply heavily subsidized sort of wire service that is very beholden to the Liberal government.
00:01:25.200Eric Andergy, if you ever find a journalist asking stupid questions to Polioff and implying that he is a bad person because he wants to shut down sites where free drugs are being given out, there's a good chance that the man is from CP. But here's him now trying to argue back with Polioff.
00:01:40.100Eric Who are you with Globe and Mail. You're with the Globe and Mail. You guys repeat the same language you get from the liberal, the radical liberal NDP activists and bureaucracies. You call them safe. How can they be safe? You think it's safe when a bullet comes flying out of one of these sites to kill a mother in Toronto? Do you think that's safe?
00:02:02.100Eric Who are you think that's safe? You think it's safe to have people using crack and heroin and cocaine next to a playground like this? You think that's safe? It's not safe.
00:02:15.100Eric The guy tries to come back and say, well, no, they're not safe injection sites, but they're supervised injection sites. All of these are just soft, silly liberal language. We're supposed to pretend that it's safe or it's supervised or other words that make it sound very nice and bureaucratic or even you totally
00:02:32.100And it's great that he's cutting through this nonsensical language. They shouldn't be called safe injection sites. I do agree with the language of drug den.
00:02:41.100Eric Other terms could also be used, but yeah, like safe injection sites, supervised injection sites, any other safe supply programs, needle exchanges. We shouldn't be using soft liberal language because it hides the reality of what's going on. This is exactly the thing that everyone knows from the George Carlin bit about soft language, hiding the realities of bad things.
00:03:04.100Eric And they're drug dens. And they've made everything worse. Everywhere they've been done, they've made everything worse. And I know what you'll do now. You'll now go and call the same bureaucrats who caused the chaos and you'll call them experts.
00:03:19.100Eric And the people who caused the 400% increase in drug overdose deaths in Vancouver, you're going to call them experts. They are experts at destroying communities and ending lives but at perpetuating their own industries, because that's what they are. They are industries that want to expand. And the only way they can continue to exist is by keeping the misery going.
00:03:42.100Eric This is an absolutely great point. It drives me up a wall every single time this happens. And it's even happened to me when press progress came after me and said I'm like homophobic and transphobic or whatever, based on some random expert saying that I'm a bad guy.
00:04:00.100Eric This happens all the time where the government will literally fund people who do research, which they're just left wing activists, and then their media mouthpieces will then quote these people, even though they are literally it's all government funding all the way down as government funding, the government is funding researchers who then act as experts and are quoted by government funded media to say the government's plan is good.
00:04:23.100Eric This is what happens constantly throughout the blanket rezoning hearings in the city of Calgary, you would have people stand up and say, I'm from affordable living Calgary and I'm here to say that blanket rezoning is good.
00:04:36.100Eric And it's a government funded organization. And you can't even find a website for them or you can't even find social media pages or anything because it's a fake front group that only acts to pay three idiots to show up to public hearings like this and say that whatever the government's doing is very good and they have some very scum.
00:04:53.100Eric So they're not safe. They are unsafe injection sites. They are drug dens, and we oppose them. The Supreme Court has been very clear that you there's not these radical bureaucrats don't have the right to open these drug dens anywhere they want.
00:05:18.100Eric The court made it clear that there are reasonable restrictions that can be placed on them. And that includes playgrounds. So I'll be I've told you my policy I'm again.
00:05:28.100Eric Even the journalist here he's jumping and saying but what what's your policy on it? What's your policy because they're trying to create this narrative that poly doesn't have a plan. He's dishonest. He's withholding information.
00:05:38.100Eric There's nothing withholding going on here. Polyev is saying have less of these safe injection sites, quote unquote, drug dens, and especially don't have any of them near schools, playgrounds or any other public areas where there's a lot of people who don't want to be around drug use. And this guy's trying to still weasel his way in and say, Well, what's your program? Why are why aren't you telling us your program? He doesn't need to have a program. He wants to stop the madness.
00:06:04.100Eric Even the drug dens next to children's playgrounds, schools, other places where people who are vulnerable in the community live, we will defund them, we will not there will not be a single taxpayer dollar from the poly of government going to drug dens every single penny will go to treatment and recovery services to bring our loved ones home drug free. Thank you.
00:06:28.100Eric Nice try. Nice try. Nice try. The Supreme Court didn't say that. See, I know what you're trying to do. The Supreme Court didn't. No, I'm giving you my answer.
00:06:37.960Eric He's trying to then jump in and basically say, Well, the Supreme Court said that these were these were these were important harm reduction, like, like institutions and that we need them in that they never they never ruled against safe injection sites is something that's legal. Sure. But that doesn't mean that they can then go up anywhere. And now poly of somehow against the court for wanting to shut down a safe injection site next to a school. This guy's just out of his mind. He's here to ask vague, vaguely worded questions that imply poly of as
00:07:07.940Eric He's doing something wrong. And if poly of doesn't answer it exactly. Right. This guy can basically say that he implied something nasty. And this is the thing that ever annoys everybody.
00:07:17.940Eric So the Supreme Court did not say that that there can be okay. The Supreme Court didn't say that you can have a drug den wherever you want. It said that there are reasonable restrictions that can be placed to stop them from opening up in place in local
00:07:37.940locations that endanger the community or where there is community opposition. That's what the Supreme Court actually said.
00:07:43.940Eric Yeah. And as always, actual journalists don't know anything about policy. They are simply here to try and naysay a conservative. And they have like very breezily read a Supreme Court decision and they just thought it said safe injection sites good or drug dens good. It didn't.
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