Trudeau wants to shut down charities he dislikes (ft. Cameron Côté)
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Justin Trudeau wants to strip away the funding for Canadian crisis pregnancy centres that provide abortions to pregnant women in order to force them to say they don't provide abortions. Conservative commentator Cameron Cotterill joins The Wyatt Claypool Show to talk about it.
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Welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show, everyone.
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The issue we're going to discuss today was something that was brought up a few weeks ago,
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and although the news cycle has moved on, I think this is one of the worst things
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that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have done in targeting free speech that they do not like.
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But because it seems like a niche issue, I found that it didn't get enough coverage,
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But that's why I have on the show today Cameron Cote from the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform
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to talk about Justin Trudeau targeting charities he doesn't like, which are crisis pregnancy centres.
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Trudeau does not like pro-lifers, and so he wants to go after people who simply are providing services for pregnant women.
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But thank you for coming on to the show, Cameron, and maybe you can do a better job than I did breaking down the issue.
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And this is something that should obviously frustrate us, be it whether we're pro-life, whether we're Christian,
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It's something that should frustrate us, but I don't think it's something that should surprise us, right?
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That Justin Trudeau has made no mystery about his radical support of abortion,
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dating back to long before he was even a politician kind of thing,
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that this was something that he set out in 2015 as,
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you are not welcome in the Liberal Party of Canada unless you fully support abortion.
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This was one of his, this specific thing, wanting to not only call out,
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but ultimately defund and strip charity tax status away from pregnancy support centres
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was something that was a campaign item for him in 2021.
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So it shouldn't strike us as surprising, but that does mean that it shouldn't be frustrating
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and mind-boggling that somebody who argues in defence of the quote-unquote middle and lower class
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is somehow suggesting that we should strip away the support of the pregnancy support centres
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that are helping literally thousands of people every year navigate some of the most challenging moments in their life.
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My colleague Jonathan puts it very well, that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals will acknowledge
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that there are unwanted pregnancies, but will never admit that there's an unwanted abortion,
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that every abortion should be wanted and desired and provided for,
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even at the expense of wanted children who their parents simply aren't able to provide for.
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And the crazy thing about this is it goes even one step further than legislation like Bill C-16 did
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It is saying that you cannot even properly basically describe your services to people
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if you don't also go out of your way as a crisis pregnancy centre to say that you do not provide abortions,
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I think one of our colleagues between us, Alyssia Globe, had one of the best,
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or Alyssa Globe had one of the best ways of describing this.
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It'd be like having the David Suzuki Foundation having to say that it does not drill for oil and gas products.
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It's like, it's kind of part of their whole MO that they don't,
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So the whole thing that Justin Trudeau is going after here,
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is that he thinks that the fact that these private organisations who raise their own money
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are somehow bound to serve the government's pro-abortion agenda.
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well then they basically have to ruin their entire, not business model,
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and stop, I guess, advertising themselves as a place to help pregnant women,
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as long as they don't also say that they won't do abortions.
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Today we're moving forward on important legislation focused on pregnancy crisis standards
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to make sure that women get the right information about the services of support
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that they need when they're making important life choices.
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We're always going to be there as a government, as a party,
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to stand up for women's rights, for women's reproductive rights,
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and push back against everyone who's trying to take those rights away.
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I don't even know, and of course thank you for Rebel News for clipping this stuff,
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I don't exactly have the biggest team in the world,
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but how is it even taking anyone's quote-unquote right away
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to be running a charity that provides people with resources, with materials,
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it provides new mothers with a lot of new materials for their child,
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and that is considered bad because they don't have a neon sign
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saying that we don't provide abortions on the front door.
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And I mean, if there is a world in which Canadian pregnancy care centres
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were projecting that they did perform abortions
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and scheduling people in for a Thursday afternoon abortion appointment
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and then marching them into a back room and strapping them down in the back room
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for the next eight months to make sure that they didn't have an abortion
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and misleading people by masquerading as though they were an abortion clinic,
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If pro-life pregnancy care centres were tricking mothers into coming into their facilities,
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but as you laid it out, there's no deception that goes into this, right?
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That if you want to have an abortion and you have the technology to find out
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where a pregnancy care centre is, you have the technology to find out
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And these are centres, like you mentioned, that are not only providing
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whether they're baby formula or prenatal vitamins or cribs and bassinets
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and that kind of thing, but they're also offering the kind of intangibles,
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the parenting classes, the support networks and encouragement
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I'm sure that Justin Trudeau is not going to be campaigning to suggest
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that abortion facilities that are receiving, whether it's charitable
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or other kind of government propping up, need to put on their front door,
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hey, we're not going to help you if you want to keep your baby.
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And so it's mind-boggling to think that you would have to advertise
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I think that an even more apt example would be, as we so often do at CCBR,
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If you've got an adoption agency who has to advertise,
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hey, we're not going to directly and intentionally kill your two-year-old
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and that plants in somebody's mind, hey, I'm desperate right now.
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And the fact that these people are saying that they're not going to kill
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my two-year-old suggests that there is somebody who might kill my two-year-old.
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I am so at a loss for how to navigate my situation that I'm going to seek
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out those entities who would be willing to kill my two-year-old.
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And there's so many layers to this that they are very strategic, I would argue,
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in trying to not only chop the legs out from underneath a vital service in our country,
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but also trying to push more and more people towards,
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How can we encourage you more to consider abortion by forcing our opponents,
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who aren't even really opponents, they're lovely men and women who are trying to help
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people in the hardest times of their life, forcing them to plant in your mind the fact
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that you don't have to go through this hardship.
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You don't have to make sacrifice for your child and receive the help and support that's available.
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You can hit the, as the liberals would like to consider, the great reset button
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and have an abortion in your life goes back to how it was before.
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And so I guess because you said it was in their 2021 platform,
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sometimes platforms have a lot of pie-in-the-sky policy that never get pursued.
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Why do you think this moved from just being an idea in the platform
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to being something that they suddenly proposed now?
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Like, what do you think is the motivation here?
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So I will admit that I'm not the most politically savvy.
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I think that Justin Trudeau is so desperate to cling to whatever power and acceptance
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that even his supporters are recognizing that he is driving this nation into the ground.
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And one of the few cards that he has left in his hand that always whips up a bit of fervor
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amongst his supporters is bringing up abortion and trying to demonize pro-lifers.
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But I honestly wonder if this is a challenge call to Poliev and the conservatives,
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that he knows that he's losing his liberal supporters,
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but he wonders if Poliev is going to try to stay so far away from this issue
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that he's not going to allow or himself support an opposition to this
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and that conservative pro-life voters are just going to be so disenchanted
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that they're not going to come out to the ballot boxes whenever the next election may be.
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And he's hoping that this will rally either enough support for him
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to keep people supporting the liberals or drive enough people away from his opponents
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because they're so fed up with conservatives not having enough backbone
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to oppose these kind of suggestions in legislation.
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I think that it's very strategic timing knowing that he's skating on very thin ice
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and he wants to really anchor abortion rights as he has throughout his entire political career.
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Well, and I think a big reason also the kind of, like, I guess, pro-choice, pro-abortion type side
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doesn't like pregnancy crisis centers or crisis pregnancy centers especially
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is because it's kind of one of those narrative-destroying entities
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where you always have that idea of people who are pro-life
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don't actually care about the kid after it's born.
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Sorry, but places like Planned Parenthood never actually handed out resources to people.
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You can't exactly have an organization that does both
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or we're largely the only people who care for people
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who don't want to pursue with killing their pre-born child.
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And there's very limited support that you're going to get there.
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Having spoken to thousands of people who have chosen abortion,
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there's very few abortion centers or abortion providers
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that are going to provide any form of trauma recovery and support.
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That's all coming from pregnancy support centers as well.
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And so, I mean, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada
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has acknowledged that many people choosing abortion in Canada
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don't want to do so and feel as though it's their only option.
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And so the irony that goes into this cannot be overstated.
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So the main thrust of what the liberals are doing,
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I don't want to have missed parts of the legislation,
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the charity tax status of crisis pregnancy centers,
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if people aren't able to get those tax credits.
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So, and that's something that I think is worth clarifying,
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regarding the services that they offer and don't offer,
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And then my understanding is that the second step
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And so it's something of a litmus test right now,
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a litmus test for who aligns ideologically with them
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who are not familiar with running a pro-life entity
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if your supporters believe in your cause enough,
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but I don't think that people appreciate the...
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There's that crossover point between somebody...
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because now if they don't get the large tax credit back
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well, then it makes it very unworth it for them
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that there's often going to be two things that happen.
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Either their donation is simply going to decrease
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okay, well, there's as much as I wholeheartedly
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this ministry that pregnancy care centers are doing,