Ottawa Exposed： Ego-driven Trudeau talks to Canadians from an alternate universe
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Summary
In this episode of Ottawa exposed, Senior Parliamentary Councillor David Cote talks about the life and work of George Orwell and why he is so relevant to people today. He also talks about how we are living in Orwellian times and why we should be worried about what the government is trying to do to our freedom of speech.
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well welcome to another edition of ottawa exposed with david creighton i'm david creighton i'm the
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senior parliamentary correspondent for the western standard and i'm here today to tell you what's
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really happening in Ottawa. There's always something going on. I hope you guys all had a
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safe and happy New Year's Eve. It was so boring at our house that my cat called the SPCA.
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But seriously, we're into a very interesting year politically, and I want you all to be here
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every week to understand what's going on here in Ottawa. I'll do my best because my job is
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to tell you the truth and that's what you're going to get from this correspondent and there's
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a lot of things to discuss today but I want to start off by saying this is my fourth broadcast
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and the first three have just gone through the roof and I want to thank you for your support
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I don't think we've seen numbers like this at the Western Standard so far
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and it's wonderful to be part of this experience and I'm thanking you all for tuning in again today
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for listening to what I have to say because I've been doing this for quite a few years
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and I've never had so much fun as I'm having right now writing daily and broadcasting every
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week about what's going on and I want to thank the Western Standard for the opportunity and
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the audience to talk to because we are dealing with some very exciting times I want to lead off
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with my last column of actually 2022 was part of the end of the year review and i want to compliment
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our opinion pages editor nigel hannaford for rolling out all of the end of the year columns
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from all of our columnists in such a fantastic way there is never a dull moment there is never
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a day without something really interesting to read about and what did i choose to do my end
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to do your column about well guess what george orwell and why george orwell continues to be
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so relevant to people today he is so relevant because he wasn't necessarily aligned with any
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political party he he voted for the labor party in his lifetime he wasn't particularly
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pledged to any particular philosophy, although he called himself a socialist.
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What he really was dedicated to was the truth. And if that truth got in the way of his preconceived
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notions of the ideology of the moment, of what was popular at the moment, it didn't matter to
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George Orwell. He spoke the truth. He wrote the truth. He went to Spain to fight in the Spanish
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civil war he certainly wasn't there to fight for the fascists but he wasn't going to fight for
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stalin stalinist russia either so he chose a third team to fight for and he really stood up
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for the truth throughout throughout his lifetime and i thought it was it was a very apropos to
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finish off 2022 by talking about orwell because we are living in orwellian times i say it all
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all the time in my columns i probably say it too much and i and i probably should
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say it less but but george orwell of course was not just the author of 1984 and that's probably
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how most people remember orwell that's probably how they're first introduced to orwell that was
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his best-selling book his most popular book and unfortunately the last book he ever wrote
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uh he was only 46 years and he died and or in 1984 he called it that because he started writing
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in 1948 he just reversed the numbers but it describes of course a very dystopic society
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in the future where the state controls not only how we speak and how we write but how we think
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it's not good enough for the for the state that control your speech they want to control your
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thought and that's where we're going in trudeau's canada that's where we're going because he wants
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to censor the internet to the point where we can't say what we want to say and everything
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that he deems to be inappropriate he's going to call hate speech or he's going to call
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misinformation these are deadly terms these are toxic terms because they can mean literally
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anything the state the trudeau government deems them to mean so if he thinks my my speech my
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writing is hateful because i'm critical of his policies he can say it's hate speech if he doesn't
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agree with my opinion on something he can say that's misinformation we're going to banish it
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from the internet that's not acceptable folks and the liberal government is going through with with
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bills to do this suppress this and i thought it was time to remember that orwell was already there
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before us he was he was already there before us and orwell said in 1984 very interesting line
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because doesn't this remind you of where we are today who controls the past controls the future
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who controls the present controls the past and have you noticed how the trudeau government's
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constantly trying to reinvent the past always apologizing for things that happened in the past
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because they can control the past and the present they will control the future and they control it
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through speech they control it through the way we communicate and right now the way most canadians
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are getting their news and are communicating with others unofficially and officially
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is through the internet and we've learned lately how twitter was controlled by officials in the
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u.s government by the by the fbi by the justice department we know social media is tainted with
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control and we know trudeau wants to control that internet in canada and this is a very very
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dangerous thing so we need to remember that orwell told us how some in animal farm how
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some animals are more equal than others that's the society that justin trudeau envisions where
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some animals some people are more equal than others the elites are more equal than the masses
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that's why he hates populism so much because it empowers people to stand up and say i will
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not be suppressed that's why he hated the freedom convoy so much because people stood up and say
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we will not be forced to do something against our will and to lose our job because we made
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that decision that's why trudeau hated that so much i want to move on to one of my favorite
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columns of the week and i think it was apropos because it was about justin trudeau's new year's
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day statement to canadians now if you go through justin trudeau's statements over the over the
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years he's been prime minister they're often innocuous anodyne sometimes incomprehensible
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he wrote at once about christmas and it was difficult to decide whether he was talking
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about christmas or a non-christian holiday he has that tendency but his new year's message
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this year was quite interesting because i thought it sounded like a man living inhabiting another
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planet or living or inhabiting an alternate universe that doesn't correspond with the one
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most canadians are living on this is how he wrote quite quite interesting he says for instance we
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have a lot to be thankful for in this past year we got back to doing the things we love like gathering
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with friends and family as our economy reopened we experienced one of the strongest economic
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recoveries in the g7 creating more jobs than we lost to the pandemic i find that very hard to
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believe you wander down your main street how many of those restaurants are still closed or haven't
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reopened we're just losing one of my favorite pubs in town the heart and crown is closing i just read
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yesterday couldn't make it through rolling lockdowns and trudeau's still threatening lockdown
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so my goodness what a hypocrite as we welcome the world back to canada over the summer to share the
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natural beauty that we are all so proud of trudeau gushes forgetting that of course he was the one
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who shut down the economy he was the one responsible for now trudeau always has challenges
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there's challenges in trudeau's life he doesn't like to describe anything in his life as is
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anything but a challenge but he says this year also had challenges but when things got hard we
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were there for each other i don't think trudeau was there for each of us let's see we rolled up
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our sleeves looked out for our neighbors and supported each other well the only thing trudeau
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rolled up his sleeve for was to get another jab of the covet 19 shot and he insisted we keep getting
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these vaccinations two wasn't enough three wasn't enough now we should be getting we should be
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getting them for the rest of our lives according to trudeau and his health minister trudeau did
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not roll up his arms for canadians this year when the freedom convoy rolled into town he ignored
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them he disappeared and as we learned what he likes to do on his spare time is binge watch
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television he loves a series called the boys which is about a group of vigilantes looking out
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for corrupt superheroes and if that sounds ridiculous to you it does to me too i haven't
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seen the show but when you learn that justin trudeau's favorite material is science fiction
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and horror his favorite author is stephen king for instance uh his favorite movie is a science
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fiction movie he seems to really live in another place than the rest of us and i i believe he
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he he does this in his personal life and he he also imposes this on his professional life and
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this is why he doesn't seem to be living in the same space as the rest of us and i love how he
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concludes his statement to Canadians. And remember, this is his New Year's Eve statement here.
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As we look ahead to the new year, the government of Canada will continue to build an economy that
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works for all Canadians. Really? We will keep attracting historic investments, and here's the
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kicker here, in our electric vehicle supply chain, from critical minerals to manufacturing, which
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are already securing tens of thousands of jobs across the country, and we will continue to be
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there for people by making life more affordable well justin trudeau you have not made life more
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affordable for canadians and i'd like to know exactly what you're talking about when you say
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electrical vehicle supply chain are you talking about batteries for electric cars because guess
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what batteries are we're running out of batteries because we can't get enough of the materials
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and minerals to make them and we're using child labor around the world to obtain those those
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minerals in those materials so i thought that was something justin trudeau wouldn't support
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so we don't have enough batteries for these electric cars and the very
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idea of an electric car is founded on fossil fuels did you ever think of that
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justin trudeau i probably hasn't he thinks when you plug this this electric vehicle in
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it's a magic source of power what is it actually well it's electricity which is produced by
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coal-fired plants in many cases not magic fossil fuels create the power to generate electric cars
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so there's a huge contradiction here but what trudeau if you know trudeau thinks he's going
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to make money off green energy he missed one of the biggest opportunities in canadian history last
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year when he turned down germany's offer to buy canadian liquid natural gas lng he said there was
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no business case for it now he lost billions of dollars in sales real sales not these kind of
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ephemeral sales that are part of the green energy plan which by the way china has already
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cornered the market on they have already they're already producing the windmills
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and the solar panels that are part of the green energy deal so does truder really think he's going
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to make commensurate money from batteries for electric cars where is his mind in all of this
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of course it's fantasy because he's writing to us he's speaking to us from an alternate universe
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and that's something we always have to remember about justin trudeau he's not living in the same
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place we are he is living with elites he's has his entire life he grew up as an elite in elite
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family his father was prime minister he continues to live in the world of elites and this is
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something we cannot ever forget and this is why he hates populism so much because it empowers people
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real people who he doesn't really ever get to meet and has no desire to meet
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i wanted to cover my third column now which is a very dangerous phenomena and we learned recently
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that during the negotiations that were going on during the Freedom Convoy
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and before Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act,
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Trudeau's parliamentary secretary said that the government,
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that the cabinet had pissed away its credibility, his own words, his own words.
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Now, surely Justin Trudeau realized that he had pissed away his own credibility as well
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by lying by stretching the truth by not telling canadians what's really happening so the solution
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instead of putting cabinet ministers and the prime minister in front of the microphone to explain
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the situation to canadians use the military use police officers use people in uniform to do it
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to justify it to to parrot those talking points and to give substance and credibility
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to words that have no truth or validity and i remember this happening when i was still in
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uniform and the chief of defense staff general maurice barry was forced to conduct the news
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conference to explain why then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien could not go to a funeral for the late
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King Hussein in Jordan. Now, Chrétien had his own personal reasons for not going. He made a choice
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not to go, but he was embarrassed politically by it. So he forced the military to concoct a fiction,
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a tale that the military could not have flown him there in time.
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And they had the CDS at the time appear before the cameras and tell this grand lie.
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And, of course, it was just Jean Chrétien's way of evading responsibility.
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Now, Justin Trudeau apparently is all for this.
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You'll see fewer cabinet ministers up there telling stories.
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and you'll see more generals and you'll see more police officers and more public servants that
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people are supposed to trust issuing those government talking points now this is very
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dangerous you know and we've we have seen this already and it's not healthy for a democracy
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but very little of what Justin Trudeau is doing right now is healthy for a democracy he is clearly
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And believe me, this is something to be very concerned about.
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because Justin Trudeau is there for Justin Trudeau.
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And the question is, can an ego-driven politician,
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a narcissistic politician like Justin Trudeau, actually accept the rejection of the electorate.
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Now, I believe there will be an election in 2023. I could be wrong. Justin Trudeau can change his
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mind. He has already indicated to his caucus that there's going to be an election in 2023.
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Get ready for it, he said. Be prepared. Now, it's true, any caucus of any cabinet should always be ready for an election.
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But when the prime minister indicates that they had better be ready, it's a good indication that he has got something planned.
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Now, why would Justin Trudeau want an election in 2023?
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Because he knows the latter half of that year, of this year, is probably going to be worse.
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we could be into a heavy recession by that time we could be into stagflation in a very serious
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ways interest rates are going to continue to climb and if you remember what happened with
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interest rates under his father when they exceeded 20 percent people lost homes they lost livelihoods
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they lost lives in some cases interest rates can decimate and destroy a society and trudeau knows
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those interest rates are going to continue to climb in 2023 trudeau also suspects that the
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ndp vote has collapsed now you might recall he's in an informal coalition with the ndp right now
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he and jagmut singh the leader of ndp have a an agreement of sorts ndp is supporting the
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liberal government trudeau thinks that's worked out on his behalf and that he has virtually
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captured the ndp vote he probably looked at this recent by-election in mississauga
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where by the way only 25 of the electorate showed up but he looked at that where the
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liberal exceeded 50 just exceeded 51 of the vote and the ndp did not even get five percent of the
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vote in that by-election conservatives got over 35 so there's really a two-way race even though
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there are five parties participating now trudeau's looking at that and saying ah
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the ndp vote has collapsed and it's gone to the liberals certainly this informal coalition has
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hurt the ndp politically there's no question about that but is all the ndp vote going to the liberals
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i don't believe so i think there's an old-style blue-collar vote in the ndp that is sick and tired
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of socialism that doesn't work and is sick and tired of the social re-engineering that the ndp
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is so fond of so fond of pronouns so so fond of of the transgender politics where biological males
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are allowed to compete against females because they just say they feel like a woman
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this is obviously nonsense and it should not govern how sports are conducted in this country
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and it's a slap in the face of women everywhere women have to adjust to this new reality no they
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don't because it's not reality it's fantasy and the ndp voter is sick and tired of this nonsense
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being thrown in their face and i believe a lot of that ndp vote that populist ndp vote is going
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to the opposition leader, Pierre Polyev in the Conservative Party of Canada,
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and Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada,
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because they're sick of these slogans, and they're sick of social re-engineering.
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And believe me, the times are changing that way.
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And you're going to see that evidence in the next election.
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A lot of those NDP voters, I think, showed up for the Freedom Convoy.
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They were populist types who were sick of the audible elites controlling how Canada is run.
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I think it's very important that we recognize this.
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Trudeau has no good reason to assume he's going to win that next election.
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He survived the blackface scandal in the middle of an election.
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He couldn't even remember how many videos were produced.
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he surprised he somehow survived the SNC-Lavalin scandal he lost an attorney general over that
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but Trudeau marched on but the Teflon is wearing very thin the Teflon is wearing very thin my
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friends and he's not going to survive this next election I tell you that because people
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don't forget everything and these hijinks these shenanigans of his when he's overseas in India
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printing before the cameras in traditional Indian garb.
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Hey, I thought that was cultural appropriation, Mr. Trudeau.
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I don't think, and the family looked very uncomfortable, by the way,
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And what about Trudeau overseas on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral?
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Well, what Queen meant to him was a 1970s band,
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Then he decided to relax in a piano bar and serenade whomever was there with Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Somebody was there with a smartphone, recorded it all, and shot it around the world.
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But these things are going to come back to haunt Trudeau in the next election.
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as is his acquiescence his surrender to china his refusal to say that the
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the extermination of the uyghurs in china is not a genocide he hasn't got the courage or the guts
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to call it what it is and it's a genocide his chinese masters would object to that
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but justin trudeau thinks he's going to win this next election but he's going to be very sadly
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mistaken and one of the reasons trudeau thinks he's going to win this next election is because
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he has the media in his pocket the cbc is subsidized to the tune of 1.6 billion dollars
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it is a government state agency trudeau went one step further as prime minister he's doled out 600
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million dollars to subsidize the mainstream media the legacy media those media outlets that are
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willing to accept taxpayer funded subsidies handouts in the operation of the news i'm proud
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to say that the western standard is not one of those media outlets we do not accept a cent
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not a red nickel of taxpayer funding as we conduct our business of collecting gathering
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and distributing the news we are committed to telling you the truth we're not like those
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mealy-mouthed reporters at those news conferences where trudeau and the pmo selects the journalists
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who are allowed to ask ask the questions and they ask those softball questions about how did you
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decide to wear those socks today mr trudeau no we're not part of that group we are part of the
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group that george orwell was fighting for in his books and in his writings dedication devotion to
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the truth and that's why i'm here every week as part of this broadcast ottawa exposed will continue
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to expose what's going on in ottawa in 2023 if there's an election i'm going to be there
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on the ground every day telling you what's happening with the lead players what is trudeau
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