Western Standard - March 31, 2023


Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said wokiesm has one purpose with plenty of pretexts...


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1 minute

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201.75438

Word count

230

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18


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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comments on the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) have been challenged by the opposition, who argue that they portray the CRTC as a group of privileged insiders close to the Prime Minister.

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00:00:00.000 And I wonder if he would like to kind of backtrack or apologize on characterizing the CRTC as a small group of privileged insiders closest to the Prime Minister.
00:00:09.380 And I would also ask him if he would like to define the word woke.
00:00:11.660 I asked one of his colleagues as well for that definition and I'd like to see what he has to say.
00:00:14.860 Thank you.
00:00:15.720 The opposition.
00:00:17.660 Actually, I will backtrack.
00:00:19.780 It is a big group of insiders, Madam Speaker.
00:00:23.420 It is a big, sprawling bureaucracy with far too many people working for it.
00:00:28.020 There will be less people working for the CRTC when I'm Prime Minister because they'll have less power and they'll have a hell of a lot less to do when I restore freedom of speech and freedom of expression online and on the Internet.
00:00:38.720 And as for the definition of woke, woke has one purpose.
00:00:42.620 Only one purpose.
00:00:43.560 Plenty of pretexts, but only one purpose.
00:00:46.140 Control.
00:00:46.980 It is designed to divide people by race, by gender, by ethnicity, by religion, by vaccine status, and any other way that they can divide people into groups.
00:00:56.780 Because why?
00:00:57.380 Then you can justify having a government to control all those groups.
00:01:01.620 No more woke.
00:01:02.300 We need freedom.
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