Angela Merkel’s controversial claim that free speech must exclude opinions harming others’ dignity sparks debate, while a Quebec court fined comedian Mike Ward $35K for jokes about drowning a disabled man, raising concerns over government-enforced humor limits. Guest Tarek Fatah exposes Canada’s hypocrisy—condemning anti-Semitism while hosting radical Imams—and links York University’s "back to the ovens" chants to Islamic theological indoctrination. Alberta’s separatist push gains traction amid pipeline cancellations and carbon taxes, with Torontonians baffled by its capital (Edmonton) and economic struggles, underscoring a fractured national identity. [Automatically generated summary]
I take you through a video from Angela Merkel, which I found a little bit scary.
Probably made a little bit scarier by the fact that she was saying it in German while pounding a desk with her hand.
She was talking about removing our, not our civil liberties, but German civil liberties, saying that freedom requires you to be less free.
I didn't quite understand it, so instead of trying to describe it, I'll show it to you.
I'll play the video for you.
Now, the thing is, you're listening on a podcast, and that's fine.
Actually, it won't work now that I realize it because we have an on-screen translation.
We translate her German into English.
I think you'll get the gist of it, so please listen to the show.
You'll get it because I explain it.
But this is one of those instances where I really think having a video version of the podcast is better.
And you can get that for eight bucks a month by going to premium.rebelnews.com.
So please listen to the podcast.
You will understand it because I explain it.
But I think you got to see her pound in the desk and you got to see the translation simultaneously.
And you can get that at premium.rebelnews.com.
Okay, here's the podcast.
Tonight, Angela Merkel says that for society to remain free, it must oppose freedom.
What does that mean?
It's November 29th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Why should others go to jail when you're the biggest carbon consumer I know?
There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
The only thing I have is a government about why I publish them is because it's my bloody right to do so.
I saw this video clip of a speech by Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany.
It's almost two minutes long, but I want to show it to you.
Can I give you a few thoughts before you watch it, though?
It involves some rhetorical trickery, deliberately muddy wording.
Listen to what she says, and as she says it, imagine what you would think if this were said by, say, I don't know, Vladimir Putin of Russia or Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela or maybe some Chinese foreign affairs spokesman.
The word tricks to hide what she's really doing.
Second, and I'm sorry, I just couldn't help thinking of this myself.
Look at the arm pounding a bit.
I mean, this is Adolf Hitler, and I'm obviously not comparing Merkel to Hitler.
That's not fair.
She's not a Nazi, obviously.
I'm not saying that.
Shouting and banging a podium, like this, like that.
Watch her do that.
I'm sorry.
There was something in how she delivered these remarks that made me think of that.
Maybe that's mean, but that's what my mind did.
Someone pounding a podium, shouting in German while saying that for the good of society, we have to restrict freedom.
I'm sorry, that's where my mind went.
Without further preliminaries, here's her remarks.
Now, she starts by saying that people who express an opinion must live with being contradicted.
Yeah, that's called a debate, a free society.
That's what a conversation is.
Except that she seems to believe her opinions, at least about controversial subjects like her open borders mass migration policy, should not be contradicted.
She says that free speech will end in if in Germany if feelings are involved, if she feels that you have the wrong feelings, if she feels that you are spreading an emotion of hate, and if she feels that someone else has their feelings or dignity hurt.
So it's all about feelings.
You might not speak your speech with those feelings of hate, but if someone else feels them when they hear you, you're in trouble.
That's how feelings laws work.
And of course, how someone feels isn't within your control.
Different things offend each of us, but part of being a grown-up is to control our emotional reaction to things, not to lash out at people who make a political point we disagree with, and then insist on silencing them.
I mean, didn't Merkel just say we have to live with our ideas being contradicted unless someone's feelings are hurt, and she's going to decide whose feelings are hurt legally and whose feelings will be protected legally?
There's no such thing as a human right not to be offended.
There's actually a human right to offend.
It's called freedom of speech.
It's a counterfeit human right not to be offended.
What that really is, is the power to silence someone else.
But her last line in that speech, she will oppose free speech in order to protect a free society.
What?
Those words are jumbled together.
They don't make sense.
In order to protect freedom, we have to destroy freedom.
Watch the whole thing again.
Watch it again.
Meinungsfreiheit in unserem Land ist gegeben.
Und all die, die dauernd behaupten, sie durften nicht mehr ihre Meinung sagen, denen muss sie einfach sagen, wer seine Meinung sagt, und wenn sie prononciert ist, der muss damit leben, dass es Widerspruch gibt.
Es gibt keine Meinungsfreiheit zum Nulltarif, das alle zustimmen.
Aber die Meinungsfreiheit kennt Grenzen.
Und die beginnen da, wo gehetzt wird, da wo Hass verbreitet wird.
Die beginnen da, wo die Bürger anderer Menschen verletzt wird, und dagegen werden und müssen wir uns ständig im Hause, und das werden wir auch hinbekommen, meine Damen und Herren.
Denn sonst ist diese Gesellschaft nicht mehr das, was sie wollen.
Look, Merkel's policies are not just undermining Germany.
They're undermining all of Europe because Europe has no internal borders.
So by bringing in millions of Muslim migrants to Germany, she's also doing so to every other European country in what's called the Schengen zone.
That's a European zone of more than a dozen countries.
I note that Merkel has no children of her own.
And I mentioned that.
I think it's relevant.
She's in the twilight of her life.
She looks tired.
She looks like a candle that's sputtering out.
She's done.
Her line is done.
Her nickname is Mutter Merkel, Mother Merkel, because this is so obviously a psychological projection on her part.
She will be the mother to millions, even if she is actually the mother to none.
It's so strange.
She hates Germany in a way.
She wants to undo it in a way.
In that way, she's definitely the opposite of Hitler.
And my comparison earlier, my comparison was about the speaking style, the rhetorical trickery.
But listen to this again.
This is a clip from four years ago.
I did a video about Merkel back then where she says Germany is in no position to criticize ISIS.
She said this because Germany itself has done bad things in the past, as in her opening borders to anyone, including to ISIS terrorists.
Opening the borders even to those who hate Germany and the West and freedom.
It's actually her own self-hatred, her personal way of making Germany pay a price for past deeds.
Look at this.
It's haughty arrogance to criticize Isis.
I think— I think she might hate Germany.
And of course, Merkel has already brought in the most punitive restrictions on free speech and the internet in all of Europe other than Belarus and Putin's Russia.
She's already a heavy censor.
But let us not think that such government censorship exists only in faraway lands.
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I see in the news today that Quebec's Court of Appeal has ordered a comedian to pay a huge fine for telling mean jokes about someone.
Now, it's true.
The jokes were absolutely mean.
They were making fun of someone who was handicapped.
That is very mean.
He's a disabled boy who became a bit of a celebrity.
I'd say he became a public figure.
And I mention that because if you're a private person, you're a private person, and maybe you have some right not to be picked on by some public person, maybe.
But if you enter the public arena as a bit of a celebrity, I think you do open yourself up to public commentary, including unfair commentary, including from comedians.
Let me read.
A judge on Thursday rejected part of the appeal of a comedian who joked about drowning a disabled boy.
Comedian Mike Ward must pay $35,000 to Jeremy Gabriel because of a joke he told at shows between 2010 and 2013, the court confirmed.
A panel of appellate court judges upheld part of a ruling against Ward handed down in January 2019.
Ward has been ordered to pay $42,000, $35,000 to Gabriel, $7,000 to his mother.
So this has been going on for nine, almost 10 years.
He told a joke 10 years ago, and he's still in court over it.
I can assure you, the 42 grand in fines he's paying is a sliver of his legal fees.
Now, was he mean to this boy who's now a man?
Yeah.
And it would be understandable if people didn't want to patronize Mike Ward, if comedy clubs didn't want to let him perform anymore because 10 years ago he told a mean joke.
Can you imagine running a comedy club if that was how you vetted your talent?
I get it.
If a radio or TV station didn't want to invite him on anymore, could you imagine if that was the test?
You made a joke back in 2010.
Okay, whatever.
the government adjudicating jokes?
As we said yesterday about Sasha Barron Cohen, is a racist joke still allowed if it's funny?
Or is the rule only a person of that race gets to make a joke even if it's not funny?
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Because there are disabled comedians who make fun of their own disabilities all the time.
Is that okay?
Or is the rule that no disability jokes are allowed at all?
How about we each get to make up our own minds about that?
Of course, here in Canada, we here, the rappel, are often in the crosshairs of censors ourselves.
As you know, we spent six months fighting against an illegal investigation of Sheila Gunnreid and her book, Stop Notley, by this guy, Lauren Gibson, Rachel Notley's hand-picked elections commissioner.
There are so many media party stories about how outrageous it is that Jason Kenney just fired Gibson.
What an assault on the rule of law that was.
I haven't seen a single such story refer to him hiring private investigators to hunt Sheila Gunnread for six months over her book.
Just a reminder on that, they demanded to see Sheila's editorial notes for her book.
Here, here's proof.
The area that I can't stick off yet is just the part about the planning of when it was to be made available.
And I'm going to see that through things like, you know, either a contract or some type of briefing note or, you know, a schedule or, you know, emails or something like that saying, yeah, this is, you know, this is what I'm starting before, even a statement from you.
This is when I started writing the book.
You know, this is when it was planned to be, you know, the season or whatever when we were thinking of releasing the book, whatever.
That's an audio recording of one of the ex-cops hired as a private investigator to go after Sheila.
And this same ex-cop, Brander's his name, warned Sheila that if she did not give up her emails and editorial notes, she would face, quote, severe consequences.
Yeah, I mean, we have that, Sheila, where people don't cooperate and then they get, you know, they get obstruction, you know, the offense for obstruction and it can be pretty severe.
You know, there's, you know, I hope we'd rather it not come to that.
I think it's something that we can be cleared up pretty easily.
As you may know, we spent tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers fighting these thugs.
And when they finally dropped their case last month, Gibson had the temerity to say that Sheila was lucky.
Fortunately for Sheila Gunn Reed, my office is only able to enforce the legislation as it is currently written.
He wanted the power to abuse her even further.
Now, yesterday, Notley had the chutzpah to ask Jason Kenney about Gibson being fired.
And here's the question and the answer in question period.
Mr. Speaker, the Premier doesn't appear to understand what it is I am talking about.
Yesterday, justice lawyers told the court that the government Is going to rewrite these laws likely to the satisfaction of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as well as other corporate foreign-funded third parties supporting them.
You know, this government claims to be fighting against foreign-funded interests, just apparently not the ones who support this premier.
Premier, why do you support foreign-funded interests that support only you?
Mr. Speaker, not only will have they not read the platform, they refuse to listen to the answer, which is that we will act for the first time in Alberta political history to make it illegal for foreign interests to interfere in our politics by contributing to the so-called political action committees that the NDP created in their legislation.
There are other issues before the court dealing with the constitutionally protected freedom of expression.
For example, we don't believe people should be prosecuted for publishing books, Mr. Speaker, and we'll stand with charter rights for freedom of expression.
So yeah, that's a reference to Sheila's book.
And I'm glad Lauren Gibson is gone.
And I'm glad Jason Kenney knows about that book investigation.
And I'm glad that Jason Kenney implied, at least, that the law under which Sheila was investigated was unconstitutional.
Okay, good.
But hang on.
Jason Kenney's own justice minister, a red Tory named Doug Schweitzer, he's actually still fighting us in court, insisting that that law is, in fact, constitutional.
Lorne Gibson is gone, but Doug Schweitzer is still fighting Gibson's old battles for him, including fighting against us on this law.
We say it's unconstitutional.
Doug Schweitzer's taking us to court saying, no, it is constitutional.
Yeah.
So that angela miracle, eh?
What a threat she is, eh?
Hmm, it's true.
But maybe we can strengthen our own freedom of speech here in Canada, too?
Stay with us for more was footage from
Toronto's YORK University.
A Jewish students group had brought speakers from Israel.
They were part of the Israel Defense Forces, but it's mandatory conscription there, and some people do their service by traveling around the world, making a good impression for Israel.
They were visiting the Jewish students, but that was deemed unacceptable by radical groups at York, which are very numerous.
And so what started as a protest turned into almost a mini riot.
Fisticuffs broke out, but perhaps more shockingly than just a tussle, chants of back to the ovens and other clearly anti-Semitic, I don't know if I would say the phrase threats of violence, but certainly calls for hatred and even death to Jews in general.
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Joining us now in studio to talk about this is our friend Tarek Fatah, who has written about this mini riot in the Toronto Sun.
Tarek, it's great to see you here.
Thanks for watching.
Good to see you.
It's been a while since we've seen you.
You're always fighting the good fight.
I enjoyed your article in the Toronto Sun.
What do you think we should make of this tussle?
Like student politics, I like rambunctious politics, but did this go too far?
I think what the West is missing in its approach to anti-Semitism is the language.
Anti-Semitism has its roots in Europe.
the centuries of Christian teaching about Jews, which does not apply in the case of anti-Semitism, if you use the word, that gets generated by, say, with backgrounds in Pakistan, Iran, or Turkey.
Yeah, obviously there's not a Christian.
It is religious.
I would say that Christianity, at least that I know in the 21st century, is overwhelmingly pro-Semitic, pro-Jewish.
Well, that's a result of the Second World War.
That's the outcome, the positive outcome of a sacrifice made by close to 50, 60 million people.
Now, in Pakistan, obviously that's a country that's more than 90% Muslim.
So obviously they're not being guided by any Christian interpretation.
Is that a Muslim hatred?
Is it a political hatred?
What's the source of it in Pakistan?
Its source is a term called Yehud Wu Hanud, the Jew and the Hindu.
And the essence of Pakistan's formation was its destiny as guided by Sharia law to wipe out Hinduism from the face of this earth.
And of course, we can't do that without eliminating the Jews.
And so the whole theory about the resurrection of Jesus Christ coming to Jerusalem sending an army to destroy all the Christians of Europe and sending one detachment to India.
So this is not a joke.
Really?
So how long or how old is the Islamic war against India?
Does that go back centuries?
Of course.
Seventh century.
It's that old?
We have been invading India since the year 711 when the Berbers entered Spain at the same time of which Gibraltar is the name Jabal al-Tariq, Tariq bin Ziyad, the Berber general who entered Spain and then didn't, in fact, the final liberation, if I would say, of Spain took place in the 14th century.
1492?
Yeah, 1492.
But India's first attack on India was by an Arab general, a 17-year-old guy, who came to get hold of the descendants of the Prophet's family who found refuge in India.
Wow.
So India as itself also tries to hide this fact because that is now Pakistan.
So let's bring that back to Toronto in 2019.
You know, I learned so much about Islam from you, but also you're big in India.
We've shown our folks before that you have television shows in India that have many, many millions of views.
We can't even imagine.
I mean, India is a country of more than a billion people, and you speak bluntly about these things.
I simply state that there are two Islams.
One is Allah's Islam, and the other is Mullah's Islam.
We as Muslims have to make a choice.
And Allah, of course, is the Muslim God, and Mullah is like that.
Mullah is the people who generated Sharia law.
For example, the Quran doesn't state anywhere that Muhammad slaughtered 700 Jews.
There is no Jewish source to that story.
But 150 years after Muhammad's death, to generate attack and hatred against Jews, a story was developed that Muhammad himself killed Jews, therefore it is our duty to kill Jews.
I'm not a master of the Quran.
I assume that that story was in the original word.
No, no, no, it's not there.
For example, 17 times a day, Muslims go to pray and a prayer includes Surah Fathiyah, which is the first page of the Quran as it is collated today.
It wasn't as such in the early days.
And it says that God show me the straight path, not the path of those you have rejected or cursed, nor those who have been led astray.
This could be pedophiles, this could be murderers, this could be smugglers or wife beaters, you could attach anything to it.
But a hundred years after the Quran was revealed, some guy said, aha.
So who are these guys that God has cursed?
And of course you had a mullah who said, oh, who else but the Jews?
So every Quran today, every sermon in Canada, 17 times a day, addresses and says, show me the right path, not the path on which God you have cursed or you have showered your wrath on them who are the Jews.
Now if you cannot combat that, you can't combat Jew hatred as against anti-Semitism.
Well here's the thing.
I mean it was quite shocking to see this scuffle and to have it overlaid with these anti-Semitic phrases.
But I looked at political leaders who, if the shoe were on the other foot, if, I mean, I don't even think it's ever happened that there's been an anti-Muslim riot in Canada.
I don't think that's ever happened.
But if, God forbid it were to happen, Justin Trudeau, John Torrey, Doug Ford, every media would, all they would talk about, here they quickly, I mean, they said, oh, we don't like this, but they wouldn't name the problem.
They wouldn't name it.
Of the three, two of them explicitly condemned anti-Semitism, the mayor.
However, between Trudeau and Tory is hypocrisy, because Mr. Trudeau, Prime Minister Trudeau himself, has participated in the prayers in which the Imam has said, oh God, show us the right path, not the path in which Jews have been cursed.
And Mayor Tory is guided by the same mullahs who do this.
So he has visited mosques, has associated with radical Imams.
I mean, you know, I hosted a show with him, and he would never believe me when I would say, this is disaster.
Because a religious scholar who's saying that, no, no, no, no, he has nothing to do anything wrong with Jews, he's lying because here's the text.
And the call to prayer in City Hall, the prayers in which Jews are cursed, was done in City Hall under the mayorship of his worship, John Torrey.
So that's why I say both of them are being hypocritical.
You cannot be against anti-Semitism while tolerating it if it came from a non-traditional source.
They always focus on anti-Semitism as if it comes from white supremacists or KKK or white nationalists or whatever is the current term for that.
They will never, ever, for even dare to say for a minute that called the Imams and said, well, obviously it's not the Quran.
Why don't you say explicitly that this doesn't refer to Jews?
You know, when I grew up west of Calgary and, you know, in the 70s and 80s, and I went to a country school.
I remember there were 400 kids in the school.
My sister and I were the only two Jews.
There were two black kids who were adopted and two Chinese kids.
And that's it, in a school of 400 country folks.
And you would think, oh my God, that must have been terrible.
The opposite, Derek.
It was friendly all the time.
At most, it was, can you explain your holidays?
In fact, it made me have to be on my toes because everyone was always saying, well, what's the Jewish version of this or that?
Like, I had to know my answers because I was the only Jew they met.
My point is, I never experienced anti-Semitism growing up outside of Calgary, southern Alberta, rednecks.
I never saw that.
I went to university in the 80s and early 90s, and it really wasn't that way.
This harsh, physical, brutal anti-Semitism at York City.
This is new.
It is new.
It's not old-stock Canadian.
No, no, no.
Let me tell you one thing.
Even the Jewish community is not equipped to understand what's happening.
Or they refuse to.
I think I would give them benefit of doubt because there are no courses in Islamic theology in Israel or any Jewish school or at any Jewish university.
So what's happening is that Western society evolved after the Second World War as understanding that human civilization can never, ever, ever use race to eliminate a people.
It's never again.
However, a large segment of the population that was under colonial rule, whether they were Egypt, or whether, well, to a certain degree, Turkey at that time was not that bad.
Turkey, in fact, during the Caliphate, opened its doors to Jews that were expelled from Spain.
This is primarily, and I wouldn't even say Arab.
It is coming from the Indian subcontinent, which is the only Muslims who refuse to acknowledge their own heritage.
In Iran, everybody celebrates Naroz, which is a Zoroastrian festival of the New Year.
In Turkey, you have Turkish names.
You know, as much as I hate Erdogan, he's at least using a Turkish word for his name.
In Indonesia, the grandson of the president is called Narendra, which is Indian prime minister's name.
Everybody's comfortable except Muslims of the Indian Pakistani subcontinent who refuse to ever name their children after Indian names.
They take Tamurlin's name, the worst killer of all time.
Of all history.
The world population dropped by 3% as a result of that.
You have Tamur as a name.
Yeah, he was one of the Tsarnia brothers, was the Tamerlin Sarni.
Number two, why did my father name me Tariq?
And my brother is Mahmoud.
Tariq is actually a Sanskrit word, Tarak, which is root word to star, Sitara.
All these words are Sanskrit words.
However, in his mind, Tariq was the man who invaded Spain.
So I am Tariq.
My brother's name is Mahmoud.
That's the guy who butchered India.
So we have a situation where we created a country of now about 200 million people who have no identity of their own.
They've outled their own mother tongue and adopted in a hierarchy of languages Urdu considered Islamic, butchered their own people in Bengal and Balochistan, and now are the main suppliers of international terror.
And the West can only see Iran in it.
The Iranian people will overthrow the Imams.
In Pakistan, it's going to be the other way around because the people are indoctrinated into believing that it is a religious duty to eliminate Hindus and obliterate Jews.
Wow.
That's very depressing, because I know Pakistan remains a large source of migrants to Canada, and especially to universities.
And I, I mean, I think it's- Most of the Islamic groups, the NCCM, Pakistani, ICNA, Pakistani, MSA, Pakistani- These are all- all the different Muslim lobby groups here in Canada.
In Canada, you think have you ever run into a Turk or a Kurdish fellow or an Iranian against any?
No, I was with the Iranian demonstration outside the anti-mullah rallies that took place at North York at the Mill Asman Center.
100% of them are sick and tired of the ayatunas.
And there was no Muslim organization to support them.
Well, I tell you, you've made me a little bit more depressed.
Don't be depressed.
I am depressed.
No, you cannot be because the future is ours.
That's being a Marxist for me.
Demographically speaking, they're growing.
Politically speaking, they're growing.
How can the future be ours when it looks like it's theirs?
It's critical mass, reaching critical mass.
I've been working on trying to open eyes for the last 50 years.
I don't look for results.
I believe in the Hindu book, Gita, that says, never have expectations.
I guess you won't be disappointed.
No, no, I don't have the right to expect any result of what I do.
And there are countless people like me doing it.
These people in Iran, 400 shot dead.
Today in South Iraq, 40 killed in one day.
They're giving their lives for this.
What are we doing?
We are taking our mayors and prime ministers into mosques and positioning them as holy men.
Why would holy men wear long frocks?
Why do you have to wear something to look holy?
If you're holy, you're holy.
You do nice things.
You clear the neighbor's snow.
I'd like the mayor's mullahs to clear my snow.
Then I'd believe that he's a Muslim.
Because my definition of Muslim is someone who clears the neighbor's snow.
That's very simple.
The rest is all, you know, too medieval for me to follow because I know that horses don't fly, fires don't speak, and monkeys don't have heads cut off from somebody else.
Let people be religious if they want to.
They rely to.
But we can't bring religion into politics.
Well, you're one of my favorite people, and I love how you fight.
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I love you fighting hard.
You told me as you came in, you just had a big milestone birthday.
I couldn't believe when you said you.
70.
You were 70 because you got the energy of a 50-year-old, that's for sure.
You got a fighting spirit, and you got a great, you're a happy warrior.
I am.
That's one of the reasons why we love you.
Thank you, my friend.
Thanks a lot.
All right, there you have one of our favorite people, Tarek Fatah, whose column runs in the Toronto Sun, and we're very glad that it does.
He's also pretty big in India.
His TV show, Fatah Kafatwa, if I'm saying that right, has absolutely millions of views.
In some ways, he's probably the most popular Canadian outside of our own shores.
Stay with us.
More Hat on the Rebel.
Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Sasha Baron Cohen.
Sam writes, so Borad is telling us how to think now.
Well, listen, it's like what I said about that Quebec comedian, Mike Ward, I think is his name.
I happen to think Sasha and Baron Cohen is pretty funny most of the time.
And I laugh at some of his jokes that are the most cringy, including the anti-Semitic jokes.
And maybe I can laugh about it because I know he's Jewish and I think they're actually really rip-snortingly funny.
It's just a bit of chutzpah for him to now be the joke police when he broke more joke laws than anyone else I know.
Brendan writes, this guy literally made millions defaming people, including the entire country of Kazakhstan.
He played a character who sang a song about throwing Jews down the well, which encouraged millions of people around the world to joke about anti-Semitism.
Why is the left always this hypocritical?
Yeah, and it's not just him, Sarah Silverman.
It's very rare a comedian who gets big and rich, who stays edgy.
Mostly they just, it's all about the Benjamins.
It's all about the money.
It's all about the endorsements, and they would never be that way.
I will give credit to Bill Maher on that HBO show because he actually is a free speech absolutist, even though he's very wealthy and successful.
But you can seriously count people like that on one finger's hands, one hand's fingers.
On my interview with Andrew Lawton about increasing the carbon tax, Dave writes, what climate crisis?
Yeah, exactly.
As I said the other day, even if you accept the UN's numbers, which I don't, and even if you accept that a warming earth is bad, and I don't, the UN says even if we do all the things that the countries have promised to do under the Paris Accords, and even if we do more, it won't stop global warming from happening.
Over the course of the next 80 years, instead of raising by 3.2 degrees Celsius, it'll raise by 3.0 degrees Celsius.
That's really no difference at all.
It's not even measurable on a thermometer, but it'll cost several trillion dollars a year.
That's a lie.
On the topic of Alberta separation, Steve writes, no one in Ontario takes Alberta separation seriously, even my own relatives.
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What if we could get Donald Trump to publicly state a province of Canada was asking if they could join America?
It surely would spark immediate action rather than the slow, painful path we are on.
What do you think?
I absolutely think that.
And we had two Wexit town hall meetings in Alberta a week or two ago.
And in both places, I said, look, Quebec had Charles de Gaulle.
Remember, he came to Quebec and said, Vive Quebec, Vive Quebec Libre, and that sort of lit a flame in Quebec because there was endorsement of Quebec as a French place and a foreign leader who was well regarded.
If Trump were even just to tweet about it, just in the manner that he tweeted about Greenland, remember?
Oh, that would get things moving in Canada too, that's for sure.
Well, folks, that's a show for today.
I'm actually headed to Calgary for the UCP Convention.
That's the United Conserved Party.
Jason Kenny no longer has a fatwa against rebel reporters.
We are now loud in.
So we're going to have a bunch of us there.
Sheila Gonreed will be there tomorrow.
Kim Bexti will be there today.
And so is our new reporter, Abigail Hammond, who's doing just such a great job.
And normally I would sign off here.
But let me end with a little video that Abigail did on the streets of Toronto.
It's about, I don't know, it's more than five minutes long, so you can say goodbye to me now.
But I encourage you to stick around.
If you haven't seen Abigail's work yet, can I show you?
She went downtown Toronto with a map of Canada without the names of the provinces on it, a blank map, and said to random Torontonians, can you point to where Alberta is?
And it's just too good not to share.
Here, let me say goodbye to you now, but enjoy Abigail Hammond's video from Toronto.
I went to downtown Toronto to Young and Dundas Square to ask Torontonians what they know about Alberta in light of Western separatism gaining ground.
After all, is it any wonder that some Albertans want to leave Canada when their own countrymen can't even find them on the map?
Can you point out where Alberta is on this map?
That's Saskatchewan.
This one.
No, I'm not sure, but it's somewhere right here.
Can you point out to me where Alberta is on this map?
Do you know, you're asking somebody who's not really from here, but I believe it's that one.
But yeah, I should know.
I was in Edmonton during the week.
And can you locate Alberta for me?
I know that St. John, slow.
Okay.
Yes, you're correct.
Alberta.
Somewhere around here.
Oh my gosh.
Around here.
Okay.
Oh, right there.
Alberta.
Right there.
Right there.
I think it's towards the middle.
Okay.
Or it's that one.
I'm going to guess.
I'm fairly new here.
I'm trying to learn.
Can you show me where Alberta is on this map?
It's there.
That is Alberta right now.
Do you know what the capital of Alberta is?
No, not on the top of that.
No cookie?
Okay.
Calgary?
Is that wrong?
Can you tell me what the capital of Alberta is?
Oh, it's Vancouver.
Isn't Alberta the capital of Edmonton?
Or am I wrong?
No, I can't.
Can you give me choices?
White Horse, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg.
Can you tell me what the capital is of Alberta?
Edmonton.
Edmonton?
Awesome.
Saskatchewan.
Oh.
I couldn't tell you, no.
Oh, shoot.
That's a chick question.
Is it Edmonton or Calgary?
It would be Calgary.
Oh, goodness.
Calgary.
Or Edmonton.
I'm not sure which one.
Edmonton.
Calgary?
I don't mean to send anywhere about Alberta.
I was in Edmonton once.
Very nice.
People are awesome.
Do you know anything about the Albertan people?
No.
Not much, no.
It's your first visit to Canada?
Yeah.
And everybody speaks very positively about Alberta.
Yeah.
Nothing, nothing.
I'm sorry.
They were angry this past election with Trudeau.
The problem right now is there's a lot of lost jobs because of the killed pipeline projects and because of the carbon tax.
So a lot of Albertans are feeling hurt by this and you know they want solutions.
Do you think they can come to solutions with the Canadian government?
If Trudeau is willing to work with them, I know after seeing the results of the past election, he said that he was willing to invest in the people of Alberta.
So hopefully he follows through.
I've heard a lot of stories like that, like my father, his co-workers moving to Alberta believing like there is a future there and once they get there they they find themselves like unemployed you know high expenses.
Do you know anything about the Albertan people?
Not too much, no.
Weggs it's booming.
What do you think they should do in light of the current problems, the loss of jobs due to things like the carbon tax and killed pipeline projects?
We should have got sheer.
If Albertans wanted to secede from Canada, would you support them?
Probably not a great idea to be honest.
Unified country is probably the best way to go.
I know they have quite a lot in terms of natural resources but yeah probably not a great idea.
You know judging by how Quebec tried and quitted Alberta would not be able to.
I don't think so.
Why would they want to secede from Canada?
Right now I don't think Trudeau is really willing to work with them.
I'm not the biggest fan of Trudeau though so I don't know.
The government should come compromise with them.
And I don't think the threat of seceding is going to move the Canadian government to do anything.
Would I support them?
It's up to them to make their own decisions I guess since I'm a Torontonian.
That being said I wouldn't advise it because why would you isolate yourself like that in the middle of the country?
I would not support that, no.
We'll leave them economically more vulnerable than they might be right now.
No.
I don't see it.
Would it be possible?
You know, I mean, we've had that question with Quebec, and I almost think that Quebec has a more valid reason.
No, thanks.
No.
That would never happen.
No.
No.
Do you think they could become the 51st state of the US?
I think that would be awful if that was the case.
That would be virtually impossible considering who is in power in the US right now.
Like Whoopi Goldberg, I don't say his name.
Probably not.
You don't think it could become like the 51st state or something like that?