00:36:33.360Although Adler has maintained he will approach this role without partisanship, past social
00:36:38.760media discourse nine times that he has shown his partisanship called Trudeau
00:36:46.840a self can what else have we named conservatives are a key and free
00:36:53.700show let me say not we've got did I miss credited
00:37:08.760What has he been smoking? He knows better than that. He knows. Accused of being dishonest. Well. Repeatedly described a liberal minister as a star. John. The House is a star.
00:37:26.140frequently expressed pride the other thing is that charles adler up until what last week
00:37:41.980works for crier media in toronto which is owned by what's his name um oh that that freak show
00:37:52.300radio guy who's been fired he's about as popular as venereal disease in toronto uh
00:37:59.500can't remember his name anyway adler's been working for this guy on his website independent
00:38:08.160website and all this guy does all this guy does prior media i can't remember the guy's name though
00:38:13.820the guy who owns it all this guy does is try to stoke up ill feelings or insult people he's been
00:38:21.680hauled what's his name blundell blundell dean blundell he's been hauled in front of the crtc
00:38:26.640and the canadian broadcast standards council something like half a dozen times fired over
00:38:31.320and over and over again i know two of his old program directors and they've all told me some
00:38:35.240things that are like whoa this guy and i'm not going to say it here publicly because this guy
00:38:41.160does like to indulge in suing people so i'm not going to say anything else about him but what i
00:38:48.340will say is that i wouldn't want to work for him i wouldn't want to work for him unless i was
00:38:53.860extremely extremely desperate and even then i would say no but charles adder thinks it's okay
00:38:59.380here is charles doing three minutes that matter peer polyev did not have a good week
00:39:07.480he ordered his caucus to vote against the update of a free trade deal with ukraine
00:39:11.980claimed that had something to do with his favorite political football that he
00:39:15.920just can't stop kicking the carbon tax every single conservative must swear allegiance
00:39:22.380repeatedly to being in opposition to the dreaded carbon tax even when a bill like helping ukraine
00:39:30.780has about as much to do with the carbon tax as uh as the israel hamas conflict is connected to
00:39:39.140okay charles hold on just a second did you not read that free trade agreement with canada and
00:39:45.120ukraine required them to put in a carbon tax if trudeau was going to do the deal with ukraine
00:40:43.300Adler has gained attention in recent years for his public split from the conservatives
00:40:48.760because, well, I'll get to that. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is asking Prime Minister
00:40:54.500Justin Trudeau and the Governor General Mary Simon to reconsider the appointment of Charles
00:40:58.460Adler to the Senate in light of comments he made about First Nations leaders in 1999.
00:41:04.040Adler was announced as an incoming independent senator, independent, for Manitoba over the
00:41:09.000weekend. I'm not even sure if he lives here. And Trudeau's office lauded his accomplishments
00:41:12.960is a broadcaster, almost 20 years of which were spent delivering conservative commentary
00:41:17.200on CJOB radio in Winnipeg. Today, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, which represents the province's
00:41:24.78063 First Nations, pointed to commentary Adler gave in 99 that the Assembly had complained about
00:41:30.600at the time, calling his words vulgar and racist. Adler declined to comment when reached by phone
00:41:36.300today i don't want to talk about that that's 25 years ago the chiefs group complained about
00:41:43.580comments adler had made and he's got a point i mean it it's 25 years ago now we're talking about
00:41:49.820a senate appointment here which i believe is based upon your body of work as a canadian that gets you
00:41:56.140in or maybe it's just who you know how much money you got anyway the chiefs group complained about
00:42:03.580comments adler made uh about first nations protests taking place at the manitoba legislature
00:42:08.700where he directed specific criticism at the leaders involved and the decision to live
00:42:13.340on a reserve called them boneheads uh the chiefs he called them boneheads and according to the
00:42:19.500decisions transcript from the cbsc who said they found nothing wrong with what adler said
00:42:25.820adler used the term while outlining how he did not believe in living on reserves because he
00:42:30.540felt they lacked both free enterprise and responsible government if the chiefs who are
00:42:35.100running dictatorships on these reserves haven't figured out how to do free enterprise what else
00:42:39.740is new so the chiefs don't like it they say no no that's oppressive talk that's oppressive you
00:42:45.500can't say that nobody can can say that on a microphone over the airwaves and remember
00:42:51.260he said those things well he was still making sense back in 1999 but notice today he doesn't
00:42:57.180want to talk about them but the chiefs sure do all right guys this is what charles adler told me
00:43:06.460in 1987 i was between jobs at the time i'd been bouncing back and forth between the two top 40
00:43:18.980radio stations in winnipeg at the time i was like 21 or 22 years old whatever
00:43:23.860And I got this phone call from Adler, who I had met two years previous,
00:43:28.080because he was the morning newsreader on the Ron Abel morning show on CKY.
00:43:35.040And so Adler called me up and he said, hey, we're looking for a promotions person slash on-air person.
00:43:40.540Would you be interested? And I said, yeah, sure.
00:43:42.640Can you come in for an interview tomorrow? I said, yeah.
00:43:45.100So I came in, and he said to me, you know, here I am doing morning news on 58 CKY Winnipeg.
00:43:58.600Tomorrow morning, I could be juggling in a three-ring circus, and on the weekend, I might be sitting down at a boardroom filled with oil executives.
00:44:09.060Because you see, it's not about knowledge, it's not about personal conviction, it's not about how you feel inside that's important.
00:48:34.700So if we show up in this parade, they're going to think that we're supporting Palestine, when all we want to do is support pride.
00:48:43.720But the interesting thing about this is the fact that pride and Palestine should never, ever be lumped into the same category, and yet they are.
00:48:54.260In other cities, these pride parades have become massive, massive, huge problems, creating confrontation in the streets that police have had to get in the way of,
00:49:02.840because Palestinian protesters stopped pride parades from progressing.
00:49:07.480They actually formed a line, a human chain,
00:49:09.380and said, you go this far, no farther.
00:49:13.220No violence or blood was spilled, at least so far.
01:05:18.160All new this morning, House Republicans finding President Biden and his family received more than $27 million from foreign individuals and entities since 2014.
01:05:29.800Lawmakers call it an impeachable conduct.
01:05:33.140Brooke Singman is in Chicago with this story.