Western Standard - CMS： Record breaking gathering of hypocrites in Dubai

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am the aforementioned Corey Morgan.

00:00:43.240 This is my weekly opportunity to cover a few news stories, do a bit of ranting interview

00:00:49.020 guests or two, and just kind of catch up on what's been going on across Canada around

00:00:54.940 the world through the week. So for those of you watching this live, guys, be sure to make

00:00:59.860 use of that comment scroll. I like seeing the comments coming in there, send questions

00:01:03.220 my way, comments, discuss things with each other. I see them all. I won't necessarily

00:01:07.620 pass them all on to the guests or read them out, but I do see them and I appreciate it.

00:01:10.900 It lets me know you're out there and participating. Just keep things civil, of course. I got a

00:01:15.960 good one on today. There's so much to talk about. Boy, the news is just bouncing all over

00:01:19.680 the place. Going to be real, starting with a focus on environmental things, which I'll

00:01:23.340 get into in a moment. In a little while, at quarter after 12 or so, I'm going to have

00:01:29.240 former Senator Linda Frum on, and she's with the UJA Federation. It's a Jewish group in Toronto

00:01:36.700 and on the Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism because, yeah, we've got some crazy stuff going

00:01:42.320 on across Canada. It's really the facade has dropped off of a lot of people and we're seeing

00:01:50.340 who they really are. And unfortunately, a lot of who and what they are about is a lot

00:01:54.680 of just terrible anti-Semitism. So what the heck can we do about it? And we'll discuss

00:01:58.580 that with Linda Frum. But so let me get started, though, with what's got me wound up on some

00:02:07.600 things environmentally. So yes, nothing exposes the nature of world environmentalists better

00:02:14.220 than their annual pilgrimage, you know, of supposed defenders of the earth to the United

00:02:19.380 Nations climate conferences. This year's conference, which they call COP28, is kicking

00:02:24.620 off in the United Arab Emirates in Dubai. And a record-breaking 70,000 delegates are flying

00:02:31.420 there to live in opulence for two weeks to discuss better ways of telling the rest of

00:02:36.060 us how we should be tightening our belts. No, I didn't make an error in the numbers, though

00:02:41.160 it might even look that way. No fewer than 70,000 people are going to be getting on emission

00:02:45.940 belching jets. Can't ride the bus to Dubai, guys. To cross the world and stay for days

00:02:51.960 in five-star resorts where gas-powered air conditioning will ensure they remain in perfect

00:02:57.140 comfort as they navel-gaze and attend seminars. Two weeks. The UAE, it's an oil-rich desert

00:03:02.920 nation where, so while high-emission energy is readily available, fresh food goods, on the

00:03:08.240 other hand, they've got to be imported. So there's going to be hundreds more flights to the UAE

00:03:12.200 to ensure the delegates are greeted with only the freshest of fruit for breakfast and only

00:03:16.120 the highest quality of salad greens are delivered for their evening room service. To ensure those

00:03:21.560 greens remain fresh, of course, along with the assortment of high-end meat products, thousands

00:03:25.640 of coolers are going to be burning millions of liters of fossil fuels to preserve these fine

00:03:30.460 foods from the local desert heat. Thousands of servants, of course, they're going to be required

00:03:35.520 to ensure this gathering of environmental royalty is properly cared for while they ponder on how

00:03:40.540 to save the world. They're going to need chauffeurs and maids and chefs and dishwashers and security.

00:03:45.920 It's labor-intensive, but have no fear. The UAE has actually developed a fantastic, effective

00:03:51.420 system of importing cheap labor from developing nations and then deporting them again when they're

00:03:55.820 finished with their services. And sure, the UAE has been criticized for this use of borderline

00:04:00.480 slavery by most of the human rights groups on the planet, but hey, what's a little labor abuse

00:04:04.580 if it's for something as important as pampering international environmentalists? Speaking of human

00:04:09.560 rights, the UAE is outstanding. They stand out in the world. They hold no elections, so they don't

00:04:13.220 have to worry about that. And their government, you know, they're indiscriminate. I mean, they're

00:04:16.720 just as happy to detain and torture their own citizens as they are with foreign nationals.

00:04:21.680 Flogging and stoning, those are legal punishments in the UAE, and the courts are guided by a nice

00:04:26.360 medieval form of Sharia law. And again, have no fear, the environmental crusaders descending on the UAE

00:04:32.560 for their conference, though, they'll be shielded from having to see some of those things going on.

00:04:35.840 I mean, if their chambermaid is flogged for having committed the crime of showing her hair

00:04:40.520 in public, she'll be transferred to the basement to work in laundry services so guests don't have

00:04:44.920 to see her twitching in agony as she labors. The usual suspects, of course, are flying out to

00:04:49.660 attend this luxury conference at COP28. Notable, scold, and intellectual luminary Saint Greta Thunberg

00:04:57.200 will be in attendance, of course, while Canada's green Jesus Stephen Gilboa will doubtless be blowing

00:05:01.900 kisses in her direction throughout the conference. Thunberg's latest anti-Israel rantings will

00:05:06.480 probably help her rise in the UAE food chain, and I'm sure her every need will be attended to while

00:05:11.940 she makes the rounds at the conference. Then thousands of unknown bureaucrats, activists,

00:05:16.240 politicians, and other self-important souls will pack the halls, bars, pool sides, and hotels of the

00:05:21.460 UAE for the conference, too. This is their annual reward for toiling so hard for saving the world from

00:05:27.560 itself. This is how your tax is paid and your donations to these environmental groups get spent.

00:05:33.160 These conferences, you notice, they're never held in cold, undeveloped nations, of course.

00:05:36.760 They ensure to hold them in places with nice climates where there's an abundance of five-star

00:05:40.200 hotels available. What's being achieved at these conferences, though, that can't be achieved for

00:05:44.820 streaming meetings? Well, nothing. Why is it so critical to have 70,000 people gathered in one spot

00:05:50.140 for two weeks? Well, let's get to the point. These conferences have nothing to do with the

00:05:54.020 environment. They're just excuses for thousands of hypocrites to burn millions of liters of fossil

00:05:58.540 fuels on a paid vacation. It's one big party modeled for shoulder rubbing and fine dining.

00:06:04.160 Actual environmental policy development never happens at these things. I mean, how could you

00:06:07.480 do that with tens of thousands of delegates? These hypocrites will then fly home from their

00:06:12.440 luxurious weeks of conspicuous consumption and dedicate their time to telling the rest of us that

00:06:16.680 we're being selfish for wanting to live affordably in comfort using fossil fuels. You know,

00:06:21.640 you're evil for driving that four-cylinder used car, which is the only one you can afford. You

00:06:25.660 should be driving a $90,000 Tesla. They'll lobby for increasing carbon taxes while shutting down

00:06:30.680 profitable, efficient, conventional energy industries. They'll put you out of work while

00:06:34.460 they demand and receive increases in their already large incomes. The delegates at COP28 will consume

00:06:39.720 more resources in a week than the combined citizens of some small countries. And until we start calling

00:06:45.120 these hypocrites out and start firing the governments that employ them, they're going to keep getting away

00:06:49.380 with it, guys. If we keep swallowing the lies from the environmental left and ignoring the double

00:06:53.380 standards they flaunt right in our faces, maybe we deserve the energy and financial poverty that

00:06:58.000 comes with it then. Yeah, that's what's got me going this week, guys. It's just disgusting. It really

00:07:02.500 is. I mean, how can you not look at that and just see the hypocrisy, the grossness? What's her

00:07:09.580 name? Sepora Berman. She was the green saint that Rachel Notley hired on. She's a crazed environmental

00:07:16.600 activist, made her name opposing logging in BC because she prefers forest fires to take the

00:07:20.780 forest down instead. She flew to Dubai, of course. And she opened the curtains of her

00:07:25.340 window. She tweeted it out. Her disgust in having a view of the gas plant that is burning

00:07:30.300 gas to make the electricity to keep the climate control in her room so she doesn't sweat her

00:07:33.940 little ass while she's in there. They don't get it. They're not self-aware whatsoever.

00:07:38.260 You tweeted that out. You showed how stupid and hypocritical you are. But, well, maybe again,

00:07:42.560 if we keep paying their bills, maybe we are the idiots, right? I don't know. But, yeah, you know,

00:07:48.100 Gerald, one of the commenters, isn't Dubai built because of fossil fuels? Yes, it is. And these are

00:07:52.920 leftists who say they care about human rights. Well, it's one of the worst human rights offenders

00:07:57.220 on the planet, but they don't care. As long as they have their six-figure incomes, their nice

00:08:02.000 vacations, their pampered rooms, they don't care. It's a racket, people. And we're the ones getting

00:08:08.480 hooped out of it. So better start paying attention. 70,000 of them flying over there.

00:08:13.340 It's disgusting. It's disgusting. And then they tell us to tighten our belts. Tell us,

00:08:17.180 you've got a vacation at home. You've got to have a 100-mile diet. You've got to put on a sweater

00:08:21.360 to keep warm in winter rather than, you know, trying to turn up the gas, right? Man. So, speaking of that

00:08:28.040 sort of idiocy, now, I'm afraid, by the way, yes, our news editor, Dave Naylor, is indisposed today. He

00:08:33.300 usually pops in to give us an update of what's going on. So I'll cover some more new stuff and things that are

00:08:37.700 happening out there anyways. I'm sure Dave will be back to chat with us next week and cover some

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00:09:10.360 it's important to all of us here. So some of the stuff that's really been breaking,

00:09:14.420 a big news conference today on the carbon and the environment subject was a big press conference

00:09:19.940 and an announcement of an $8.8 billion investment in a carbon capture project, I guess, with Dow is

00:09:28.300 going to invest that in Alberta. Now, I know people can debate whether we even need to capture carbon or

00:09:33.260 whatever, but the bottom line is, this is Alberta's efforts that have been made to be compliant.

00:09:38.200 They're trying, and they're saying, well, we can continue to produce oil and gas, and we will

00:09:42.300 sequester the carbon emissions deep underground so they don't, you know, threaten all the fluffy

00:09:48.360 bunnies and ruin the world as we're accused of. But it's never enough. It's never enough. One of the

00:09:54.040 first responses out of the CBC, the state broadcaster, after that conference, they have a video and a news

00:10:00.080 story talking about how some residents are concerned about this carbon capture project. You see,

00:10:04.860 if it comes from Alberta, it's wrong. It doesn't matter what we do. Maybe we got to stop caring what

00:10:12.240 they think, because they're not going to support us or give us credit for anything we do ever, ever.

00:10:19.060 If Notley had announced this carbon capture project, they would probably be canonizing her.

00:10:24.880 It's brilliant. She's saving the world. But because it was Daniel Smith, because it's in Alberta,

00:10:30.940 and because it facilitates ongoing production of oil and gas, which, by the way, generates royalties,

00:10:36.160 taxes, revenue, economic stimulus to pay for all those social programs, transfer payments,

00:10:40.620 the welfare that Quebec relies upon.

00:10:42.660 We're bad. We're bad. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. But that's typical. But we have our own

00:10:49.120 homegrown morons as well. Deborah Yedlin is a prime example of it. She's the head of the Chamber of Commerce

00:10:55.320 in Calgary. I've taken a run at her before. She used to write in the Calgary Herald as the business writer.

00:11:01.880 She's never, to my knowledge, actually run or owned a business, but she can sure talk about it. And she's talking

00:11:07.220 about how, well, this is getting more into the other part, but Daniel Smith has announced that

00:11:11.860 she's going to invoke the Sovereignty Act, you know, pushing back. Because again, we are getting

00:11:16.720 pressure. We're getting told we have to shut down our oil and gas ability. We have to close it in.

00:11:21.520 And that's the only thing Gilboa will settle for. So the Sovereignty Act's coming. And what does Yedlin

00:11:27.520 say? This is going to drive away investment. Well, I don't know. It seems like 8.8 billion was just

00:11:32.980 announced this morning, Yedlin, you clueless woman. But I mean, it's nothing new out of her.

00:11:37.260 She also came out when Jason Kenney finally, finally lifted the vaccine passports from restaurants

00:11:46.800 and businesses and said people could go in and grab a meal without having to show their phone

00:11:52.780 that they've been, you know, medicated. And she said, she said, this is the head of the Chamber of

00:11:58.040 Commerce said, this is going to hurt businesses in Alberta because people will be afraid to go to

00:12:02.620 restaurants and bars because the vax passport will be gone. What a load of crap. Now, either

00:12:08.180 she was outright lying, or she's outright clueless on how businesses actually work. I owned a pub for

00:12:12.840 five years. Don't tell me for a second, even if you agree with the vaccine passports, don't try to

00:12:19.400 tell me that it actually helped businesses. It did not. It cost to have people up front who had to scan

00:12:25.780 and check for all of that. It cost with lost traffic for people who chose not to be vaccinated.

00:12:30.160 It cost with just general mayhem and a pain in the butt. No, it helped business when the passport

00:12:36.520 was gone. So how clueless can a supposed head of a business organization be when saying, and of

00:12:42.520 course, it was proven wrong pretty quickly afterwards, that these things would actually

00:12:46.460 harm business. She had no clue what the hell she's talking about. And now she's saying that Smith's

00:12:51.200 efforts, and she's been saying that sort of thing for months and months since Smith got in,

00:12:55.980 and so is the left in general, are going to drive away investment. Well, actually, investment in

00:12:59.200 Alberta just keeps growing and growing, as well as our population. Our GDP has been growing the

00:13:05.000 fastest in Canada for over a year now. Even though we're nasty, and we elected UCP, and we've developed

00:13:12.860 oil and gas, well, guess what? Our GDP is still going up. The investment isn't running away.

00:13:17.400 Likewise, either our people, our population is going up faster than any other province. People are

00:13:23.520 moving here. They're voting with their feet. So if indeed our terrible policies are so insufferable

00:13:33.120 and unbearable for people, why are people moving here? Why are people investing here? The reality is

00:13:37.860 pragmatists, people do realistically understand that the world is going to need petrochemical

00:13:43.860 products for decades. In fact, if you listen to any reasonable economist or energy specialist or

00:13:49.780 business person, they will say that. We may be working to wean ourselves from petrochemical

00:13:54.320 products, but it's going to be decades. So if we've got it in the ground, let's use them now. Let's do

00:13:59.380 it as cleanly as possible. So we do do things out here. As I said, we bring in an almost $9 billion

00:14:05.420 carbon capture project, though. And what reward does Premier Smith get for having done so? Well,

00:14:11.440 she gets, as I said, the head of the Chamber of Commerce saying Smith's driving away investment.

00:14:15.280 It's a strange way to drive away investment. And at the same time, also the CBC pops out and talks

00:14:22.740 suddenly carbon capture is now an environmentally bad thing. Leave it to the state broadcaster to

00:14:27.580 suddenly determine carbon capture is bad the moment Alberta invests in carbon capture. I don't know,

00:14:34.760 we can't seem to win out here, guys. But we are in some crazy times. Let's turn the page

00:14:39.120 and talk about something that's been ongoing. My guest is going to be in shortly. I mean,

00:14:44.100 here's something interesting. And maybe Ms. Frum can expand a bit on that was coming out of the

00:14:49.040 Blockebeck Wah, of all people, a private members bill to amend the criminal code to cover

00:14:54.320 anti-Semitism and some of the speech issues going on with that, because there seems to be exceptions

00:14:59.980 being made. And a quote from that story shows this is some of the stuff that's been said

00:15:03.440 out there that if you apply this sort of speech to any other identifiable group, you would be charged

00:15:09.740 by the human rights courts and things such as that. This was said, a quote from a mullah or

00:15:15.760 something. Oh Allah, destroy the Zionist aggressors, destroy the enemies of the people of Gaza,

00:15:21.360 count their numbers, slay them one by one, and spare not a one of them. That's from a sermon in

00:15:27.400 Canada, guys. This wasn't some crazed man on a rock somewhere in a Middle Eastern country. This is

00:15:33.120 the speech that's going around. Is it little surprise that unfortunately, we've got people taking it up

00:15:38.600 and becoming terribly aggressive and hateful with Jewish people in the country. We really thought

00:15:43.080 we were beyond that. So let's bring in former Senator Linda Frum and chair of the UJA Federation

00:15:48.580 of Toronto and expand a little more on this. So thank you very much for joining us today, Linda.

00:15:53.420 Oh, thank you, Corey. It's nice to see you and thanks for having me.

00:15:56.680 Oh, it's appreciated. So I mean, as you kind of heard me in opening, and I've been watching you

00:16:01.660 covering it on X, and I know you wrote a whole lot of that on your Committee to Combat

00:16:06.280 anti-Semitism. I think, you know, people always realized it was still always there. It's just

00:16:12.100 something that doesn't seem to go away. But it just really shocked everybody how it's blossomed. I

00:16:16.780 mean, it was obviously an underlying feeling that's been sitting for a lot of people and the events in

00:16:21.780 Israel and Gaza just opened up this wave of hate. And it's just staggering.

00:16:29.560 It truly is. And yes, I have been chairing the UJA of Toronto's Combating Anti-Semitism and Hate

00:16:37.340 Committee. And when we started this initiative two years ago, we thought things were difficult. But

00:16:45.220 in the last few weeks, just as you say, the level of vitriol, the manifestations of violence have

00:16:52.240 really taken the Canadian Jewish community by shock. And we're all very distressed about it. And I really

00:17:01.360 appreciate you having me on the show, because I don't think this is just a Jewish problem. This is

00:17:06.880 this is a Canadian problem. This is about what kind of society we want to have. And the way that Jewish

00:17:13.440 people are treated in a society is a reflection of the health of that society. And for my entire lifetime,

00:17:21.360 I'm not ashamed to say I'm 60 years old, I always thought that I lived in, I still think I live in

00:17:27.760 the greatest country in the world. But I thought I lived in a very safe country, a place where it was

00:17:31.520 safe to be Jewish. And I know that it's not just me, it's all my members of my community who are

00:17:39.680 feeling much more nervous and frightened today. Well, there's a number of areas where it's been

00:17:45.600 really rising up. But one of the biggest ones has been in post-secondary institutions. It's hard to

00:17:51.200 see which one's been the worst. Lately, York, though, has been one that's been standing out.

00:17:55.280 And just to give people some background, some people vandalized Indigo outlet and painted windows

00:18:01.360 and, and intimidated staff there and customers for the sole reason that it was owned by a Jewish

00:18:06.480 person. That's really the only reason they keep cloaking it saying, oh, Zionism. No,

00:18:09.680 you targeted a Jewish owned business and attacked it. And it turned out these were faculty and staff at

00:18:15.200 York who did this, not run of the mill kids or idiots. These were established people at a university.

00:18:20.800 And when they got suspended, as they should, students were walking out in support of these

00:18:26.240 faculty members. Now, how must that feel if you're a Jewish student in that university,

00:18:30.240 when your co-students and faculty feel that it's all right to attack Jewish people?

00:18:35.360 Yeah, right on. That's exactly it. I think just there's a culture now of fear and intimidation

00:18:41.040 that's being experienced. But I will say that the good news on that horrible story is that the

00:18:48.320 the faculty members and the staff were suspended. And I hope they will eventually be terminated

00:18:53.360 because they, they committed. I mean, it's, I think, hate charges are part of what's being

00:18:58.480 contemplated here, rightly so, because they were inciting hatred and violence towards Heather Reisman,

00:19:06.320 the owner of the store. I mean, I think that the message of the posters and the blood on the door

00:19:11.920 was, was very clear. So, as I say, what is satisfying is that we still have norms in place,

00:19:20.960 where if you commit a crime, and a hate crime, you will be suspended. And as I say, I think, I hope,

00:19:28.160 eventually terminated. So we are enforcing those standards. And I think that the challenge right now

00:19:33.280 for Canadians is that we really need to stand up in defense of our values, our standards,

00:19:39.760 and our laws. And so long as we do that, I mean, then we have a way to protect ourselves from this

00:19:46.560 wave of hatred that is crossing our country. Yeah, so I mean, I guess to try and look at a

00:19:53.440 silver lining, I mean, this has been something that's been festering, it's been there a while,

00:19:57.200 we just didn't realize the scope of it, and the problems. And now that it's been exposed, though,

00:20:02.800 maybe we can look at solutions. I mean, we should have legal sanction against people committing hate

00:20:06.960 crimes, and, you know, vandalizing businesses, intimidating people, but still, just criminal

00:20:11.920 sanctions aren't what gets rid of the hate. In fact, it'll often entrench it further with some of the

00:20:16.480 people. How do you work to whittle away at that underlying hate that's there that causes this in the

00:20:22.080 first place? Yeah. Yeah, you're right. It actually, the laws are important and essential to have,

00:20:29.360 but you have to try and get at the root of it. And I mean, you mentioned just the chilling atmosphere

00:20:36.240 right now on campus for Jewish students, but it's also true in our high schools, and it's true in our

00:20:44.000 primary schools. I mean, there's just been also this bubbling up of events, there was a

00:20:51.200 a letter signed by 2000 Jewish parents last week sent to the Ontario Minister of Education,

00:20:58.640 because the 2000 parents are saying that their children are experiencing in junior and middle school,

00:21:05.040 routine acts of anti Jewish expression. So you have to start at the beginning, you have to start there.

00:21:13.040 And, you know, if what's happening, I think is that for a lot of teachers in the classroom, they are

00:21:18.960 looking at this through the lens of an Israel Palestinian conflict, and they don't want to get

00:21:23.280 in the middle of it. And they don't want to take sides. And they don't know anything about it. And

00:21:26.880 they don't want to get involved. But if you have a student who's being bullied or harassed, because of

00:21:34.400 their religious or cultural identity, like that's, you don't need to know anything about their religious

00:21:40.000 or cultural identity, you have to know that that's unacceptable, inappropriate, and has to be stopped.

00:21:44.960 And the perpetrator, even if they're 10 or 11 years old, has to be sanctioned.

00:21:49.280 And we do seem to understand that when it comes to anything else. I mean, if students were

00:21:55.840 purposely picking on a black student or a First Nations student, or whatever, I mean, that the

00:21:59.920 school is gonna, or at least should I am, who knows, I'm sure there might be some terrible schools

00:22:04.160 otherwise out there. But typically, they're going to jump right in there and intervene and start to

00:22:08.080 correct this behavior, because that's not what we're all about. But we see a different standard when it

00:22:12.640 comes to this. And, and I understand there's complexities with the conflict and people have

00:22:16.720 some very, you know, I have my biases in watching that and taking sides in a sense, but to have

00:22:23.840 people cloak it and say, it's all about the conflict. But when you're actually targeting Jewish

00:22:27.920 businesses, Jewish individuals, when you have no idea where their stance is on that issue,

00:22:32.160 that's problematic. And that's not anything to do with the conflict itself.

00:22:36.560 Yeah, exactly. And then even, you know, within, so at that, at the junior school level, the high

00:22:43.280 school level, you know, it's, it tends to be very personal. I mean, there's been a lot of reported

00:22:47.680 cases of Jewish students getting a Heil Hitler sign or being told they're not allowed to look at

00:22:53.680 certain students in the eye because they're dogs or whatever it is. So those kinds of anecdotes. But

00:22:59.520 then when it does come to the conflict, there is right and wrong. You know, Hamas is a terrorist

00:23:04.160 organization. It's a listed terrorist organization in Canada. The atrocities that they committed,

00:23:11.760 you know, were some of the most brutal, you know, outrageous acts of violence that we have seen in

00:23:18.880 our lifetime and since the Holocaust, as is often said. And it's okay, I think, to take a position on

00:23:26.400 that, to be against that. And so that, you know, that gets us into these campus situations. And,

00:23:33.680 you know, it's all speech equal. And no, a speech that is promoting and glorifying, you know, terrorist

00:23:40.720 acts by Hamas is not, is in a category of speech that I think is, it should be condemned. And it's okay to

00:23:49.120 condemn certain types of speech. Well, that's it. I mean, inciting violence, whether it's racially

00:23:54.560 based or anything else is, is against the law in Canada. There's just no justifying doing that.

00:23:59.600 That's not what we're about. But I mean, getting up to the higher level and where the examples are

00:24:03.920 being set, we have a prime minister who is reticent. He always has to coach it when he will condemn.

00:24:09.440 You know, we've had Jewish schools, multiply shot, bullets fired into the doors. There's been fire

00:24:15.520 bombings. I mean, this is stuff we never imagined before. And the prime minister will condemn it.

00:24:19.920 Good. I appreciate that. But he will always coach it with, as well, we have to combat Islamophobia. Well,

00:24:26.720 fair enough, but I'm not seeing any Islamophobia. Why do you have to put that ad on every time? If

00:24:31.360 we'd been seeing mosques attacked, then absolutely. But they're not like what, why can't you just

00:24:36.400 unconditionally condemn this? And I think it sets an example all the way down that this is exceptional

00:24:42.000 and perhaps a little more understandable than prejudices that are shown against other groups.

00:24:46.800 Yes, precisely. I mean, we all understood during the Black Lives Matter protests, that why, why

00:24:55.280 Black people found it obnoxious when people countered that with, well, all lives matter, because you

00:25:00.000 weren't, when you said that, you weren't acknowledging the very specific type of, you know, struggles that the

00:25:08.160 Black, particularly the American Black community has faced. So you were minimizing it when you said

00:25:14.160 all lives matter. But to your point, the same is true. There aren't any other schools in Canada that

00:25:20.640 are being firebombed. There's only one cultural group who's having their schools firebombed, and

00:25:26.720 that's the Jewish community. And if you can't just say that and admit it, then you can't fix the problem

00:25:32.640 if you're, if you are hiding the problem. And yes, our prime minister is unwilling to, as you say,

00:25:40.000 he's always prepared to say the right thing in the moment or acknowledge that the firebombing happened,

00:25:44.000 but you know, it could have happened to other people too. So we're against all firebombing to

00:25:48.080 all people. He always does that. But, you know, he is the prime minister, he is the leader of our

00:25:53.680 country. And just him tweeting out how upsetting it is that there's firebombings going on in his country.

00:26:01.440 But that's just, it's not very satisfying as a response. We need to see much more action. We need

00:26:06.560 to see, you know, the laws beefed up, we need to see him expressing a desire to see the perpetrators

00:26:12.320 of those acts, you know, caught and prosecuted. He doesn't talk like that or say that. He could be

00:26:17.840 offering to provide more security to Jewish institutions that clearly need it. He could be

00:26:23.520 doing all kinds of things that he's not prepared to do. Yeah. And so to look at other issues that have

00:26:30.080 come up to I mean, I was just again, I'm a cynical guy, I expect the least out of a whole lot of

00:26:35.200 political activists and politicians and people. But I was still floored when I saw that letter that

00:26:41.360 came out that was basically denying that sexual assault had happened to hostages and people taken

00:26:47.680 in this terrorist act by Hamas. But not just that some lunatic would write something like that,

00:26:52.480 that doesn't surprise me. But the amount of people that signed on and still to this point,

00:26:56.720 will not back off and are denying this happened supposed people who were opposed to sexual

00:27:02.880 assault and and the abuse of women. Where does this come from? Yeah, I have to say I find that

00:27:08.960 especially painful. Because it comes from I hate to even have to articulate it, it comes from the fact

00:27:16.160 that the people who will sign a letter like that denying them, you know, the use of rape as a weapon

00:27:24.000 in this attack on Jews, they hate Jews so much that that emotion is privileged and prioritized over any

00:27:33.600 other rationality or even, you know, even if they're people who are generally against violence towards

00:27:38.800 women, or claim to be, you know, you know, feminists or members of, you know, other groups,

00:27:45.760 marginalized groups. But, you know, when it comes to hating Jews, that's their number one priority. And so

00:27:51.680 denying the atrocities committed against Jews, because what, what that's about is an unwillingness

00:27:56.800 to ever acknowledge that Jews can be victims, because that is that undermines the whole narrative

00:28:01.520 of hating Jews, because Jews are only oppressors, and they can't be victims. So they have to lie,

00:28:06.800 when in fact, you know, 1200 people were savagely murdered. You still have people right now, being held in

00:28:14.720 cages in Gaza, children and women, and men, you know, it's not like it's okay to put a man in a cage,

00:28:22.320 an innocent person. So the Jew hatred trumps every other reasonable emotion.

00:28:29.520 Well, that's it with the worst atrocities that humans have committed. And unfortunately, we're very

00:28:34.240 good at committing atrocities. But it seems one of the things the extreme have to do is you have to

00:28:38.400 dehumanize your victims in your own mind, you have to say they're less than human, whether again,

00:28:45.360 that was in World War Two, or in Rwanda, or wherever else, I mean, with the acts that the members of

00:28:52.640 Hamas did when they crossed the border in Israel, these were people who have convinced themselves

00:28:57.840 that these aren't people that they're attacking. And again, that's a thing that has to be corrected

00:29:03.600 very early with somebody when you see this. You're talking about Hamas himself, and I agree. But how

00:29:08.160 does that explain all the intellectuals populating our universities, our campuses, our parliaments,

00:29:14.560 who are also, you know, that view of I must dehumanize my enemy. And that's where I'm seeing

00:29:21.600 the seeds of it that are getting sown that would promote and expand to more and more of this sort of

00:29:27.040 hatred more and more of the the acts against people and the justification of such things like this

00:29:32.400 is where we have to try and nip it in the bud. Like a paradox, one of the commenters has said

00:29:36.480 repeatedly, we don't need more more hate speech laws, I kind of agree, we've got enough laws on

00:29:40.640 the book, if we utilize it, we don't need more. But there's a lot of areas where we aren't intervening

00:29:45.520 when some of this hate is being spread. And that's where we have to find this and nip it off in the

00:29:50.320 buds. Yes, totally. And I would say I do want to say so it's not to this not to be a total downer

00:29:56.400 for anyone listening is that I do continue to believe in, in, you know, the tolerance and

00:30:03.040 goodness of the vast majority of Canadians. I do believe that Canadians dislike it when they see

00:30:10.240 hatred and discrimination and bullying and intimidation and certainly in violence. Canadians

00:30:15.120 don't like that. And that is outside of our, you know, national values. So you're right, I agree. I mean,

00:30:22.480 I think we there, I think there are could be more laws, better, you know, improvements in our laws,

00:30:27.360 but I think our laws as they exist, are sufficient to capture all the things that are going on. But

00:30:33.200 what we do need is for people who are not in either in law enforcement or legislators, you know, employers

00:30:39.600 or colleagues at work or fellow parents at schools to speak up when they see something wrong, to confront

00:30:46.240 it and to challenge it on just on a person to person basis, that will make the world better,

00:30:50.560 that will make Canada better. No, absolutely. I mean, it is just levels and levels. I mean,

00:30:56.000 we can talk much longer, but our segment has gone so fast. I guess just to close off, where can we

00:31:02.800 find more information on your work and what's going on out there so that we can help, you know, at least

00:31:08.800 try to counter these things and give resources to people to try and, you know, battle this hatred

00:31:13.600 that's going around? Yes. So people can go on the website of CJA, which is the Canada Israel Jewish

00:31:22.720 Affairs or UJA Federation of Toronto, or you and I are both still on X for hold us. People are welcome

00:31:32.480 to follow me there, you know, at Linda Frum. And, you know, Benet Brith is another great resource.

00:31:41.600 Simon Wiesenthal is another great resource. There are groups, lots of groups in Canada who are working

00:31:47.040 to stand up to Jew hatred. And, you know, we are all doing what we can.

00:31:51.920 Well, I appreciate the work you're doing and you're coming on. I think the way that we're going to get to

00:31:56.800 it too, is more reasoned discussions, more reasoned intervention in the institutions where this is

00:32:01.680 being spread rather than the screaming and then the conflict that just sort of adds to it. Though

00:32:08.400 we've got to crack down on those people who are crossing the line and quit soft selling it. So

00:32:12.960 I appreciate the work you're doing and we'll keep at it until we get this sorted out.

00:32:17.680 Thank you. Thank you.

00:32:19.760 All right. Well, thanks again. And I hope we get to talk again soon.

00:32:22.480 Indeed. Nice to see you. Thank you.

00:32:24.160 Thank you. So, yes, that was former Senator Linda Frum. And she has been, yeah, if you look on

00:32:30.240 X, if you follow on there, very outspoken and covering a lot of the issues. And again,

00:32:35.200 I mean, we get pretty angry on there at times, but mostly still responding or trying to respond

00:32:40.000 with reason. There's one of the, I'm a person who's in your face. I fight back. I push back. I do.

00:32:46.240 But I do, I have to temper myself. I have to try and look. We want to deal with the immediate people.

00:32:52.400 As paradoxically saying, we've got the laws, let's intervene. And to a degree we are. I mean,

00:32:55.840 these, these idiots from York University have been charged and they've been suspended. And I would

00:33:01.440 hope if it leads to a conviction because they have committed a crime, they will be permanently

00:33:06.640 fired from there. Give the consequences to the immediate ones. But I also want to look deeper.

00:33:11.040 I want us to somehow learn from this because as I said, this hate was, was bubbling under the surface

00:33:16.320 of Canadians so much. And we didn't even know it, didn't realize it. We always knew it was there

00:33:20.160 to a degree. You would see the odd things you'd hear about it. A Jewish cemetery would be vandalized

00:33:25.600 or some idiot would spray paint a swastika on the door of a synagogue. But to have it just explode

00:33:30.960 like this, we've got to get to the root. This is a problem we want to look at in the longer term.

00:33:36.800 We want to find out where it's coming from and cut that off. And as, as was mentioned by Linda,

00:33:42.160 you know, what about the kids who are learning it? Are they learning it at home? Or if they're learning

00:33:45.520 it at school or parents saying, you know what, there's something as parents we shouldn't be afraid

00:33:49.200 to say, you know what, your teacher is wrong. Sometimes they're wrong. You don't want your

00:33:53.760 kid always in the face of the teacher. But if they come home and say, yeah, I heard this from there,

00:33:57.360 well then follow up and find out what's going on. What is that instructor telling your child?

00:34:02.640 And tell the child that this is not the way to go. And that child could be getting up to the point

00:34:07.360 of post-secondary as well. They're still looking to us as parents to learn what's appropriate and what's

00:34:12.560 really happening out there. But I've just been, as I said, shocked. I mean, it's anti-Semitism is

00:34:17.920 nothing new, but we thought Canada was the country that really had the least of it. Right. And, and

00:34:22.400 clearly we, we don't, uh, you know, some of the simple rules there we are, you know, somebody puts

00:34:27.520 a little more lightly, uh, angry Canadian, a commenter saying, George Carlin's had two laws we should have,

00:34:31.600 don't kill anyone. And then the brackets, unless they deserve it and don't be a dick. Well,

00:34:35.760 okay. Those are simple ones to follow. They're good ones in life, but that's kind of, yeah,

00:34:39.920 what I'm talking about when you're crossing the lines of getting violent,

00:34:41.920 intimidating people, uh, you're going beyond the pale and try not to be the dick. Try to

00:34:49.520 find solutions. It's so easy to get mad right now. Cause boy, I tell you, they're giving us a whole

00:34:53.440 lot of stuff to be mad about, but, uh, we, we, we just, we're not going to get anywhere by getting

00:34:59.440 in each other's faces. I I've been, I've been watching, I've been tempted to go out here in

00:35:04.800 Calgary. For example, they've had some of the protests where they're lining each side of the street.

00:35:08.240 I'm not sure. I might go out one of these Sundays, but I've been busy, but does it help? Does it help

00:35:14.560 when you have, I mean, when, when they're left unopposed out there screaming and blocking our

00:35:19.120 roads and spreading hate and they are, uh, then perhaps it's showing that we're giving up.

00:35:24.160 But at the same time, if we have a large group of people go in and it turns into a big conflict on

00:35:28.080 the street, does that help either? The majority of the country wants no part of this whole mess.

00:35:33.360 I think it's, it's vocal hateful minorities and, and it's causing us a lot of problems.

00:35:42.240 So, well, we'll keep working on things guys. Uh, see what we can do. All right. Let's see some

00:35:48.480 of the other stuff. Here's something that's interesting, actually, speaking of using some

00:35:51.360 of the laws and, uh, you know, we've got them on the books. I'm with Paradoxa. We don't need more.

00:35:57.360 We've got enough. We've got enough. Use them though. We've got too much cowardice in actually

00:36:02.400 applying these laws. It seems when they are used. So, uh, a bunch of idiots in, uh, Winnipeg on

00:36:07.840 November 20th went and blocked, uh, a Winnipeg rail line for five hours. And you gotta remember,

00:36:13.280 Winnipeg is a hub. I mean, it's kind of the center of North America for the shipment of a lot of

00:36:18.000 goods and everything by rail. And so when you block a main line for hours and hours,

00:36:22.240 it's a very serious thing. It comes at very serious costs. It disrupts things all the way

00:36:26.560 down the supply chain line. And this again was only a handful of idiots, a handful of extremists and,

00:36:32.400 and our wimp, wimp like system didn't charge these pecker heads. They intervened, I guess,

00:36:39.920 eventually and moved them, but they, they didn't do anything more. So there it's done. We'll leave it

00:36:43.920 at B. Well, CN said, you know what? No, we're suing them. We're taking them to court. We're

00:36:48.720 going to use the courts then fine. We're going to bankrupt these little craps because we can't just

00:36:54.560 let people come out and do this whenever they're upset about something politically.

00:36:59.520 And, uh, you know, paradoxically saying, yeah, when will their bank accounts be frozen? Well,

00:37:03.360 paradoxically, they'll be frozen as soon as they annoy Trudeau or embarrass him. And, uh, so far,

00:37:08.160 apparently that hasn't happened. Yeah. There are definitely two standards for when they intervene

00:37:12.480 on, uh, illegal protests and things like that. So the, the Winnipeg case though,

00:37:16.000 Canadian national railway is suing them. And, uh, you know what the name of this group was

00:37:20.880 that blocked the rail line. They're the queers for Palestine branch of Winnipeg.

00:37:27.680 Yes, this is not a joke. The queers for valid, uh, for Palestine, Winnipeg, as others put it,

00:37:35.920 it's similar to saying chickens for KFC or black people for the KKK queers for Palestine.

00:37:44.880 I I'm sick of this extreme left thing, this cognitive dissonance, this, this setting aside

00:37:50.560 the reality of what they're supporting over there. This is what I'm talking about. When

00:37:54.720 we had a sexual assault center in the university of Alberta, actually sign a letter saying nobody

00:38:00.320 was raped by Hamas. And then we have these, these queers for Palestine forgetting that every one of

00:38:07.440 those Arab nations will kill them, not might kill them. They will kill them. They say that it's illegal

00:38:14.800 to be gay. They throw them off buildings over there and you support that. The hell's the matter

00:38:21.840 with you guys? So yes, in other words, you're nuts and you're stupid and now you're being sued.

00:38:27.920 And I hope that CN wins the lawsuit. And I also hope that, uh, they, they sue further

00:38:35.360 cases where people do this sort of idiocy. Maybe, you know, again, if we can't get our criminal

00:38:40.000 uh, system to go after the, these people when they're, they're disrupting us, uh, for their

00:38:44.800 weird pet causes, maybe the civil courts will be able to do it. You know, Hey, have your protests

00:38:50.080 support the, uh, anti LGBTQ Arab nations, all you like, but don't be blocking our infrastructure

00:38:57.440 while you do it. You morons and, uh, angry Canadians saying, yeah, cows for McDonald's.

00:39:01.680 Yeah. And speaking of the idiotic woke, yeah, there's always lots to speak about with the idiotic

00:39:07.280 woke isn't there. Well, we had an Alberta MLA and NDP one. So this was a big issue in Alberta.

00:39:12.320 This is, this is the, the, the thing Notley lobbed out wants to try and make some sort of

00:39:17.280 social wedge issue that really didn't make much ground. So they put a private member's bill out.

00:39:21.440 They want to make birth control pills free for women. They, they, well, that's not free.

00:39:26.080 Remember taxpayers pay for it. So they want to make taxpayers pay for the birth control pills for women.

00:39:30.880 No. And, and the legislature said, no, uh, come on guys. It's elective. I, I'm sorry. We're, we can't

00:39:39.680 afford to pay for anything and everything. The, the, the pill can cost some people some money,

00:39:44.960 certainly, but Hey, it'll save you a lot more money if you use it. Uh, it's not my responsibility

00:39:52.080 to pay for your birth control. People say, Oh, well then you got to pay for my crotch goblins when

00:39:56.000 they come out later. Well, again, if you're that irresponsible, chances are you were probably going

00:39:59.680 to breed like a fly anyway. So, uh, don't try and say it was the lack of, uh, free birth control pills

00:40:06.560 that, that got you pregnant. Um, I understand how people get pregnant. I, I managed it a few

00:40:12.080 times in the nineties. That's why I took responsibility and got a vasectomy in the later

00:40:16.320 part of it. So I, uh, uh, you know, have spread my fruit as far as need be. See, it's my responsibility.

00:40:21.920 And for other people, it's their responsibility to take care of it. Don't, don't put it on me,

00:40:26.320 but either way, this NDP MLA, and you can see the video on the Western standard online.com

00:40:30.720 got up and talked about how folks with uteruses need universal contraception,

00:40:37.200 not women. No, no, no. We can't see that folks with uteruses. That's the term. Now, this is how

00:40:45.040 loony the woke are. This is how beyond the pale are they are. This is why they aren't getting

00:40:53.280 broad support. This is why the NDP, thankfully we'll not get in why they won't win the women's

00:40:58.320 vote, even left-leaning women, because when you're stealing their gender and that's what you're doing,

00:41:03.280 you're pulling the identity away from them. You're saying you can't identify as a woman anymore.

00:41:09.120 You're a person with a uterus. I'm a man with a penis. No, I'm not a man, right? I'm just a guy with a

00:41:15.760 person with a penis. Where's that go? Anyways, it's not terribly large even to that, but all the same,

00:41:20.640 it's apparently that's how I have to be categorized. I can't say I'm a man. Come on,

00:41:24.640 you guys, you're nuts. Cut it out. The only people who need birth control pills are women.

00:41:29.920 And yes, women have uteruses. I mean, the other term they use often for that when they're trying

00:41:34.960 to get away with from it is menstruators. Really? Really? Because of course, you know, only,

00:41:42.320 well, of course there's been some trans ones pretending to menstruate as well. It's just

00:41:46.160 bizarre. And again, we're indulging the fringe people, guys. And they have the right to go and

00:41:52.800 do whatever you like to yourself when you're an adult. But I don't have to indulge you with it.

00:41:58.400 You are, we have these discussions. We're gone so far over from reality. And yeah, you're not,

00:42:07.440 you're insulting women at this point. And you don't seem to realize that. And you're only catering

00:42:12.160 to a tiny minority now. So, and it's funny, I believe the NDP member who was speaking was

00:42:18.720 a person without a uterus. How dare he? And maybe I'm misgendering. I don't care.

00:42:26.320 How dare he speak on behalf of women? What would he know about it? Right? Or maybe he's trans. I

00:42:33.040 don't know. I don't care. I'm just sick as hell of it. We got better things to do in the legislature.

00:42:37.680 And it failed. It didn't get through. So sorry, you guys are going to have to continue to buy your own

00:42:42.400 birth control pills. Just bear that in mind before you, when you practice to conceive, right?

00:42:49.920 Ah, what else we got going on here? Yes, the economy's still holding up in the Sovereignty

00:42:56.160 Act. I kind of want to wrap up with that. There's been a lot of discussion on that whole thing. So

00:43:00.400 Premier Smith has invoked it. She's pushing back. The bottom line of the conflict is Gilbo

00:43:06.560 wants this net zero thing to happen by 2035. It has to happen by 2035, no matter what.

00:43:14.960 And he will not ban. He will not back down. He won't even say 2036, 2037. Smith is saying it could

00:43:20.560 happen by 2050. And as I said, I know there's debates on whether we should even be sequestering

00:43:24.720 carbon or whatever, but there's efforts being made in Alberta, but we won't get credit for it because

00:43:28.800 again, they do not like us and they want to shut down oil and gas altogether, no matter what.

00:43:33.120 But so Gilbo, you know, is pushing back. So Smith's saying, fine, we're going to invoke the

00:43:40.320 Sovereignty Act. But what is it? What is it? You know, speaking of virtue signaling to a degree,

00:43:45.440 and I'm supportive of Smith, I'm supportive of refighting Gilbo as much as possible on this.

00:43:49.920 But as a reporter sort of got on Smith's case the other day for it at a conference saying, well,

00:43:55.440 what is it that you're doing that can't be done, you know, without the Sovereignty Act,

00:44:00.720 the actions taking things to court, opposing the federal government on this, you know,

00:44:08.320 these are things you can do without this Sovereignty Act. And I have to agree, I guess

00:44:12.640 some of the framework of the Sovereignty Act gives her a tool to be able to put it together into one

00:44:17.520 package where you can kind of push a larger opposition to a particular thing together when

00:44:22.560 you feel for sure you haven't had the Constitution infringed upon in Alberta, things like that,

00:44:27.680 something to take to court. But most of it we could do without the other thing that made me a

00:44:31.760 little nervous. And I know some people got upset with me on X about that when I talked about it,

00:44:34.960 but I'll see, we'll see it unfold. And I understand why she's going there. But Smith's talked about

00:44:41.440 possibly forming a Crown Corporation, you know, a government owned natural gas electricity,

00:44:48.160 electricity generating company. This is a step back. Okay. I mean, I know she envies almost

00:44:55.520 Scott Moe in Saskatchewan, who has at least told Gilboe, go to hell, we won't collect your carbon tax.

00:45:00.000 The government owns all the utility companies. So we'll just tell them not to collect. You can't do

00:45:05.040 that with private companies. You can't tell a private CEO, hey, go out there, break the law,

00:45:09.440 put your neck on the line and refuse to commit, you know, collect that tax. It won't work that way.

00:45:14.000 I understand that. And I also understand some of the fear is that Gilboe and Trudeau will drive

00:45:19.840 out investment confidence so badly. They'll do what of course, you know, Yedlin and the other

00:45:24.560 fools are accusing Smith of, but that they'll drive it down so much that there won't be enough

00:45:28.640 electrical capacity built by private interests. Thus, the government must do so. But I still get

00:45:34.720 nervous with that guys. When the government gets into business, it rarely ends well. Alberta spent a

00:45:39.680 lot of time and work getting out of private business. I don't miss government owned liquor

00:45:44.560 stores. I don't miss government owned registries. And I sure don't miss AGT, you know, the government

00:45:51.520 telephone company. And you look at other companies the government formed, whether Petro-Canada

00:45:56.080 federally or in Alberta, we did a terrible job. We suck when the government runs businesses. Our

00:46:01.920 private citizens can do it, but not the government. Look up Novotel. Look up MagCan. Look up the

00:46:06.720 Swan Hills Waste Disposal Plant. Oh, all of these things in the late eighties, early nineties,

00:46:11.120 the government got into. They flushed away billions of tax dollars and all of those businesses

00:46:14.960 went broke. So pardon me, but I do not feel comfortable when Premier Smith starts talking

00:46:20.240 that route. As Karen Mitchell, the commenter says, she did say it's a last resort. I sure hope so.

00:46:25.520 I don't even want to consider to look at it as a consideration. Hopefully we can do it without even

00:46:29.760 going there one way or another. All right. That's all the time I've got today, guys. Thank you

00:46:36.240 very much for joining me. I appreciate it. The pipeline will be on a little later with more stuff

00:46:41.840 and news and items to cover with the panel. And of course, I will be back again at this time next

00:46:47.840 week. So make sure to tune in, share it with other people. Let's build this audience, guys. Let's get

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