Speaker 1: Hello. Nope, that's not it. That's it, Garrison. The episode
Speaker 1: has begun. It cannot be unbegun. A let's let's roll
Speaker 1: right into it. Let's talk about so well welcome says
Speaker 1: it could happen here. Um today, the today. The here
Speaker 1: is is Canada, that is the that is where it
Speaker 1: could happen. Um. This is gonna be part two of
Speaker 1: my little deep dive into Canadian fascism and the far
Speaker 1: right rumblings in general in the Great White North. And
Speaker 1: oh god, that is a bad, bad nickname for Canada,
Speaker 1: the Great White NORTHCCATE did not really think that went through,
Speaker 1: oopsie doodle. Maybe the yeah, there's a good chance anyway. Um.
Speaker 1: The last episode we left off with the Canadian yellow vests, um,
Speaker 1: and you know, frightening increase in Islamophobia and anti human
Speaker 1: grace and rhetoric around late after Trump selection. And we
Speaker 1: started the last episode by talking about one of Canada's
Speaker 1: first fascist political parties. And we're gonna start part two
Speaker 1: but talking about Canada's new neo fascist political party that
Speaker 1: also got started inside the province of Quebec just like
Speaker 1: the National Unity Party did. Uh. This one is called
Speaker 1: the People's Party of Canada. Um, before we get into
Speaker 1: the People's Party, and first to give some background on
Speaker 1: the founder of the party, Maxine Bernier. Um. And that's
Speaker 1: how that's that's how I'm gonna say his name. Um,
Speaker 1: no one at me, it's good enough. Um. Brenair was
Speaker 1: born in Quebec in nineteen sixty three. On is the
Speaker 1: son of a conservative talk radio host turned politician. Isn't
Speaker 1: that funny? Isn't that funny? How that keeps happening? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Brenair entered politics into US in six um he
Speaker 1: ran as the Conservative Party candidate for the House of
Speaker 1: Commons in the same writing district that his father had
Speaker 1: represented in the eighties and nineties. Stephen Harper, leader of
Speaker 1: the new United Conservative Party, initially wanted Maxine's father to
Speaker 1: re enter politics, but Bernair Senior was less keen on
Speaker 1: that idea, and instead told Harper that he that perhaps
Speaker 1: his son should run in his place. Radio and nepotism,
Speaker 1: radio and nepotism, yep, and politicians, and yeah it is
Speaker 1: it is starting great. Um. So at this point Bernair
Speaker 1: was more like a free market libertarian, libertarian type guy,
Speaker 1: you know, still with some of the same like conservative
Speaker 1: immigration stuff that's that's common in Quebec, but he was
Speaker 1: more of just like a libertarian dude. Bernair easily won
Speaker 1: the writing writings of what we call districts here in
Speaker 1: the States, ranking at sixty seven percent of the popular vote,
Speaker 1: which was the largest majority for a Conservative politician outside
Speaker 1: of the province of Alberta. So he he did, he
Speaker 1: did very well. Bernair, who had a background in business,
Speaker 1: quickly rose through the ranks of the Conservative Party. Within
Speaker 1: the same year he was appointed to be a cabinet
Speaker 1: minister in the Harper government. Um and he worked as
Speaker 1: a as an industry minister from to us in six
Speaker 1: to us and seven before being promoted to a foreign
Speaker 1: affairs minister. Then in two thousand eleven he was appointed
Speaker 1: of He was appointed as Minister of the State. So
Speaker 1: in in spring of sixteen, after the fifth after the
Speaker 1: federal election, uh Bernaer put in his bid to be
Speaker 1: the new elected Conservative Party leader. UM So, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: briefly explain how Canadian elections work. You you don't vote
Speaker 1: for a prime minister. You vote for a party within
Speaker 1: your specific district if you if if your party wins,
Speaker 1: they get a seat in Parliament. Whoever has the most
Speaker 1: seats in parliament, that's whose prime minister gets elected. So
Speaker 1: whoever is whoever is the leader of the party, they
Speaker 1: will be prime minister if that party gets the most seats.
Speaker 1: So two us. In sixteen, Burner put in his bid
Speaker 1: to be the new Conservative Party leader. Uh. He got
Speaker 1: remarkably close to securing the spot as leader of the Conservatives.
Speaker 1: In the final round of voting, he received forty nine
Speaker 1: point zero five percent of the vote, losing to Saskatchewan
Speaker 1: Conservative politician Andrew Shear, who got fifty point nine percent,
Speaker 1: so less less than two percent difference. He was so
Speaker 1: close to the comic leader of the Conservative Party, like ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So yeah, after his extremely slight loss, he continued to
Speaker 1: work in Shear's Conservative Party for a few years. Um.
Speaker 1: If you remember from the last episode, Around this time
Speaker 1: was when these homophobia and anti immigration talking points were
Speaker 1: starting to gain a new popularity, and Bernaer followed along
Speaker 1: with this trend. He would tweet out about the dangers
Speaker 1: of extreme multiculturalism and he had like an increasingly racist
Speaker 1: and divisive rhetoric and that kind of caused some drama
Speaker 1: within the Conservative establishment. So in August of eighteen, around
Speaker 1: the same time the yellow vest movement in Canada was
Speaker 1: starting up, Berner resigned from the Conservative Party with the
Speaker 1: stated intention of forming a new federal populist far right
Speaker 1: political party. Um here here, here's a segment from his
Speaker 1: resignation speech and he he does talk in a very
Speaker 1: thick French accent. I'm not going to do that. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're channel the energy. Um that was that was
Speaker 1: just direct audio instead of leading as a principal Conservative
Speaker 1: and defending the interests of Canada and Canadians. Andrew Sheer
Speaker 1: is following the Trudeau Liberals. I was told that internal
Speaker 1: polling is showing that the Liberals response to Trump is popular,
Speaker 1: and that in six months, if the polls change, the
Speaker 1: party's stand may change to the same thing happened in
Speaker 1: reaction to my tweets on diversity and multiculturalism. This is
Speaker 1: another crucial debate for the future of our country. Do
Speaker 1: you want to emphasize the ethnic and religious differences or
Speaker 1: exploit them to buy votes as the Liberals are doing,
Speaker 1: or emphasize what unites us and the values that can
Speaker 1: guarantee social cohesion. Just like other Western societies grappling with
Speaker 1: this issue. A large number of Canadians, and certainly the
Speaker 1: vast majority of Conservatives, are worried that we are heading
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. But it's not correct to raise
Speaker 1: such questions. So yeah, and I think that I honestly
Speaker 1: one of the main reasons why Brenaire hasn't been super successful,
Speaker 1: UM is because of his accent, like he is. It's
Speaker 1: harder for Protestant white Canadians to support him because he
Speaker 1: talks with a French Canadian accent. Um. If if if
Speaker 1: he talked in like good English, I think he would
Speaker 1: have he would have won Conservative leadership UM and his
Speaker 1: populist party would be way more popular than than than
Speaker 1: it is now. So critical support to other French racism
Speaker 1: is preventing the racist from being racist enough. Yes, you
Speaker 1: love to see you certainly see it. We do, we
Speaker 1: do see it. So Brenner faced some pushback from his
Speaker 1: conservative colleagues, including Stephen Harper, of trying to divide the
Speaker 1: right and split the right of center vote. UM and
Speaker 1: some of the less socially conservative members of the main
Speaker 1: Conservative Party decried Berner's departure and subsequent New People's Party
Speaker 1: as just a plain attempt to pander to xenophobia and
Speaker 1: racist right wingers. But Brenner went right to work and
Speaker 1: ran enough candidates under his new party to secure a
Speaker 1: spot in the federal election debates that were like that,
Speaker 1: you know that how we watch presidential debates, same thing,
Speaker 1: but these have you know, multiple candidates because there are
Speaker 1: multiple parties, the same thing. But basically he was able
Speaker 1: to get in the televised debates. Um, the PPC, which
Speaker 1: is the People's Party of canad I'm just gonna say
Speaker 1: the PPC now because it sounds funny. Um. They started
Speaker 1: going viral on the internet after pictures of massive billboards
Speaker 1: with Berner's face and big text that said saying no
Speaker 1: to mass immigration. This this this guy very is this
Speaker 1: guy very Mimi around like these big, these big PPC billboards. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna read a bit from a write
Speaker 1: up and it's going down by some local um Montreal
Speaker 1: anti fascists. There have been suggestions that the PPC spokesperson
Speaker 1: and architect of its public relations strategy, Martin Mass, has
Speaker 1: been key to its embrace of the far right. Mass
Speaker 1: was owner of the publisher of the Capucua Libre, which
Speaker 1: is an online libertarian news outlet that shut down in
Speaker 1: and that pp but that PPC's cozy relationship with racist
Speaker 1: is primarily due to the influence of this one person
Speaker 1: is highly doubtful, however, that the PPC is positioning itself
Speaker 1: as the option of choice for those who find the
Speaker 1: Conservative Party insufficiently right wing. Racism is clearly just one
Speaker 1: of the most effective tools for such a strategy. Witnessing
Speaker 1: PPC billboards and tweets against mass immigration, also tweets about
Speaker 1: being against Antifa and Bernara's diet tribe about radical Islam
Speaker 1: being the biggest threat to freedom and peace and security
Speaker 1: in the world today, and how he complains about other
Speaker 1: parties are are complacent and pandering to Islamists and promising
Speaker 1: that the PPC will make no compromise with the tolitarian ideology.
Speaker 1: A number of media articles have revealed the far right
Speaker 1: connections to people active in the PPC as organizers and
Speaker 1: members whose signatures were used for the PPC to gain
Speaker 1: official party status. Um for instance, a Derek Horne, the
Speaker 1: PPC volunteer and a security agent who accompanied Bernair at
Speaker 1: a variety offense and media interviews. He has been revealed
Speaker 1: to be a founding member of the neo fascist Canadian
Speaker 1: Nationalist Party, which we we briefly mentioned in the last episode. UM.
Speaker 1: Sean Walker is an American immigrant and organizer with the
Speaker 1: PPC in St. Catharine's UM, as well as one of
Speaker 1: the people who signed on for PPC to be an
Speaker 1: official party. He was revealed to be the president of
Speaker 1: the National Alliance US, based in the Nazi organization seven.
Speaker 1: He was also he was also convicted of hate crimes
Speaker 1: at the time for violence Stands People of Color UM.
Speaker 1: Following these revelations, Walker was expelled from the PPC and
Speaker 1: Bernard claimed that he'd slipped through the party's betting process. However,
Speaker 1: was also revealed that Bernar follows him on Twitter UM.
Speaker 1: Others who signed up for the for the PPC two
Speaker 1: beneficial party include Janice Bulch, a founding member of the
Speaker 1: Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamification of Accent, and also Justin L. Smith,
Speaker 1: leader of this of the Sudbury chapter of the Soldiers
Speaker 1: of Odin. So a whole bunch of whole bunch of
Speaker 1: fascist people are working work working for the party UM
Speaker 1: and unsurprisingly a number of a number of candidates have
Speaker 1: made headlines, but there as there. You know, social media
Speaker 1: posts from the past and present have surfaced featuring like racism, islamophobia,
Speaker 1: and a lot of spreading of far right conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1: You know that was just kind of common. There's too many,
Speaker 1: honestly to mention. Um. And it's it's not just that
Speaker 1: the PPC has a few bad apples in it. It's
Speaker 1: like the whole the whole party is rife with these
Speaker 1: kind of one of these kind of sentiments. Um. One
Speaker 1: gauge of this and the sign and a sign that
Speaker 1: like this is intentional is that as looking at the
Speaker 1: candidates who have left the party or have been kicked
Speaker 1: out when it became clear that there would be no
Speaker 1: condemnation of the far right from the upper ranks, there
Speaker 1: was like and and justin like twenty nineteen alone, there
Speaker 1: was like three candidates who were who left or were
Speaker 1: either kicked out um because they you know, had objections
Speaker 1: to the racism rampant within the party. They were like
Speaker 1: complaining about, hey, these guys seem kind of racist, and
Speaker 1: then they were kicked out of the party or or
Speaker 1: or or they left. So yeah, that's that's a not
Speaker 1: a good problem to have. UM. So in in uh
Speaker 1: finishing up this this little quote here UM. Indeed, a cursory,
Speaker 1: accursory look at the Facebook pages of PPC candidates reveals
Speaker 1: what's been really noteworthy is how selective the news stories
Speaker 1: about racist tweets or Facebook posts have been. Almost every
Speaker 1: PPC candidate in Quebec has recently in repeated lye shared
Speaker 1: articles from climate denialist sources, including many with a conspiratorial bent.
Speaker 1: A Canada eight for pap and You even produced his
Speaker 1: own YouTube expose revealing how George Sorrows it's behind an
Speaker 1: international global conspiracy theory to crash economies and make money
Speaker 1: spending a panic about climate change. Secondary to climate denial,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fears around free speech and mass immigration,
Speaker 1: which are both recurring themes in the PPC candidates, and
Speaker 1: roughly one in five have recently shared news articles from
Speaker 1: what we would deem a national populist or full right sources,
Speaker 1: including less manchetz dot com, which is the website of
Speaker 1: the French language of the French language translator of the
Speaker 1: Christ Church Um Manifesto UM, and that that the guy
Speaker 1: who reads the website is also involved with organizing in
Speaker 1: the Montreal In the Montreal chapter of the vests. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he he both translated the manifesto and he's also
Speaker 1: running the Montreal Yellow Best movement. So that's fun. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not fun, it's bad, um, Andre Pytree pipe poo wow.
Speaker 1: And it's so you remember, so I didn't learned French
Speaker 1: in Canada because I was in a weird Christian private school.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I could be a lot better at this job.
Speaker 1: But anyway, there's there's a there's a there's a there's
Speaker 1: just like a far right YouTube channel. But this guy
Speaker 1: called Studio who a lot of his stuff was shared. Um.
Speaker 1: And there's a more like eccentric and sporadic mix of
Speaker 1: of of other news sources including Unite the Right attendee
Speaker 1: Faith Goldie who also ran from Mayor of Toronto and
Speaker 1: got third place, UM, Quebec based q and on figure
Speaker 1: Alexus trudell Um, and the al right YouTuber Black Pigeon Speaks.
Speaker 1: Of course, the main Yellow Vest page was shared a lot,
Speaker 1: and also sources from the highly racist The Voice of Europe.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a lot of a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of not not great news sources being being shared by
Speaker 1: the PBC. UM. So that is the gist of the
Speaker 1: People's Party as of twenty nineteen UM. Overall, their performance
Speaker 1: in the twenty nineteen election was it is kind of
Speaker 1: a flop. Bernair lost his own seat in Quebec. No
Speaker 1: PTC candidates got into office, and the party only managed
Speaker 1: to get one uh in the party only managed to
Speaker 1: get one point six percent of the total national popular vote,
Speaker 1: so that's good. It only got one point six percent
Speaker 1: of all of the votes in Canada. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break from the People's Party for now and
Speaker 1: we will circle back towards it um at the end.
Speaker 1: But after after an ad break, we will we will
Speaker 1: talk about the with the main Conservative party was up
Speaker 1: to during this time and uh a little bit after
Speaker 1: the nineteen election. So yep, and now the cats just
Speaker 1: blocking the whole thing. All right, we're back. The cat
Speaker 1: is in the bathroom. I moved from my cat blocked
Speaker 1: from the camera. Hello, um, People's Party not doing great
Speaker 1: in the first election. That's fun. Let's see what the
Speaker 1: regular Conservatives are up to. I'm sure it was things
Speaker 1: that are just good and cool. If I know anything
Speaker 1: about Conservatives, it's that they're not not hashtag problematic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just let's just got okay, so I'll just be sad
Speaker 1: over here, and the audience can know that I'm sad
Speaker 1: the whole time you're talking. I would rather as episode
Speaker 1: not such a not such a downer, but it's it's
Speaker 1: hard to make it these kind of an upper I'll
Speaker 1: make a bargain with the audience that if they listen,
Speaker 1: I will I will do my French accent at least
Speaker 1: one more time. We'll see doing the French accent. This
Speaker 1: is the happiest I have seen Robert all day. Like
Speaker 1: he does look very tired. You did say earlier, Garrison,
Speaker 1: and this was very funny that you'd be better at
Speaker 1: your job if you could speak French. But given what
Speaker 1: we are here, it cools owed media. You would actually
Speaker 1: be much worse at your job. Um And in act,
Speaker 1: if you if you were to speak French, I would
Speaker 1: I would fire you immediate. It's actually requirement that you
Speaker 1: can't pronounce things to certainly not French. There's other languages
Speaker 1: you're allowed to know how to pronounce, but not French.
Speaker 1: No ob lo francaie. So let's pick up right after
Speaker 1: Maxine Bernair lost the Conservative leadership to Andrew Sheer in
Speaker 1: um Sheer won the leadership on a on on like
Speaker 1: a platform of classical financial conservatism and a slightly more
Speaker 1: socially moderate platform um. When Sheer got into office, though,
Speaker 1: one of the things he faced criticism for, even among
Speaker 1: the Conservative caucus was his association with a little media
Speaker 1: with was his association with a little media outlet called
Speaker 1: Rebel Media. Yeah so, most most listeners may not know
Speaker 1: what rebel media is, but you've certainly seen their stuff
Speaker 1: or felt their effect. Yeah, it's like the rough draft
Speaker 1: of bright Bart. And also Canadian and Canadian, yes so Canadian.
Speaker 1: Uh so. Rebel Media is a Canadian far right neo
Speaker 1: fascist propaganda outlet's start that has a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of bright Bardi vibes. Umbel Media, Yeah, bright bartesque.
Speaker 1: Rebel Media hosts and contributors have included a white nationalist
Speaker 1: and white genocide proponent, Laurence Southern UM and Proud Boy
Speaker 1: founder Gavin McGinnis UM. McGinnis produced a quote satirical video
Speaker 1: for Rebel called ten Things I Hate about the Jews. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah so, and and it's and it is worth noting
Speaker 1: that both Southern and McGinnis are Canadian. Um. They're actually
Speaker 1: a lot of alt right figures that are Canadian. Of
Speaker 1: course we have we have Lauren Southern, Gavin McGinnis, Um,
Speaker 1: we have Stephen Crowder, uh Stefan malin you and of
Speaker 1: course Jordan Peterson. All of those people are are Canadian
Speaker 1: and most of them, most of them still live in Canada. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's still alive. Made it. He made insane tweet the
Speaker 1: other day. God, he made the most tweet. That tweet
Speaker 1: made it all worthwhile. Baby, he got everyone to go
Speaker 1: check his Twitter feed. It is amazing. You can you
Speaker 1: can hear his brain shorting out when you read that tweet,
Speaker 1: like you need to find the tweet it is. It
Speaker 1: is just it is the most beautiful piece of poetry
Speaker 1: I ever. It's like somebody taught a stroke out of type.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. God, it's so good. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: going to quote an article by a Global News dot
Speaker 1: c a on Andrew Sheer and Rebel media. Quote. Despite
Speaker 1: a string of controversies faced by Canadian right wing media
Speaker 1: outlet to the Rebel, including allegations of downplaying the Holocaust
Speaker 1: movie minted, Conservative Party leader Andrew Shear has so far
Speaker 1: continued to make himself available to the company that other
Speaker 1: prominent conservative politicians have criticized for its controversial reporting and activism.
Speaker 1: She Hear's campaign organization also has a direct connection to
Speaker 1: The Rebel. His campaign manager, Hamish Marshall, is listed as
Speaker 1: a director of the company's federal incorporation records, which show
Speaker 1: its most recent annual gathering meeting was in February this year.
Speaker 1: Following the leadership election in Toronto on Saturday, Sheer granted
Speaker 1: one on one interviews with a handful of major media organizations,
Speaker 1: including a face to face interview with The Rebels Ottawa
Speaker 1: correspondent Brian Lily. Prior to his convention interview, Sheer appeared
Speaker 1: on The Rebel in February in a studio interview with
Speaker 1: host Faith Goldie on her show on the Hunt. At
Speaker 1: the end of the discussion, Goldie asked Sheer if if
Speaker 1: he would agree to go on a duck hunting trip
Speaker 1: with her after after he wins the leadership on Canada Day,
Speaker 1: which he agreed to. UM We briefly mentioned Faith Goldie
Speaker 1: earlier in her connection to the People's Party UM and
Speaker 1: her brief campaign for the Toronto mayor, but here's some
Speaker 1: more background on her UM and her coverage and her
Speaker 1: coverage of the Unite the Right rally for Rebel Media.
Speaker 1: Quoting from Winnipeg Free Press. In the course of her dispatches,
Speaker 1: Goldie argued the events in the Charlottesville were evidence of
Speaker 1: a rising white racial consciousness that was going to change
Speaker 1: the political landscape in America. She also wanted to she's
Speaker 1: actually not wrong there. That was, Yeah, she's not wrong,
Speaker 1: but I think she's she's on the other side of
Speaker 1: the island. And whether this is a good or bad thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She went to great lengths to laud the twenty point
Speaker 1: Meta political Manifesto composed by White National's leader Richard Spencer,
Speaker 1: a document that includes calls to organize U states along
Speaker 1: ethnic and racial divides and celebrates the superiority of white
Speaker 1: America faith. Goldie described Spencer's manifesto as robust and well
Speaker 1: thought out. Goldie was fired by Rebel in mid August
Speaker 1: and seventeen, but not due to her participation in Unite
Speaker 1: the Right. She was fired for appearing on a Daily
Speaker 1: Stormer podcast to discuss Unite the Right. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's fine, So yeah, fine, nice to have her.
Speaker 1: Interviewing Conservative leader Andrew Sheer asked for his reaction to
Speaker 1: Unite the Right and Rebel Media UM. After what happened
Speaker 1: in Charlotte'sville in seventeen, Sheer, who had previously been interviewed
Speaker 1: by Rebel multiple times, h finally disavowed the outlets, saying, look,
Speaker 1: I believe there's a fine line between covering events and
Speaker 1: giving a platform to groups who are promoting a violent,
Speaker 1: disgusting point of view. I won't be granting interviews going forward.
Speaker 1: So that's nice that it took someone dying in Charlotte's
Speaker 1: Bill to realize that you probably shouldn't talk to the
Speaker 1: fascist media source. UM. So in the aftermath of Unite
Speaker 1: the Right, the mainstream conservatives kind of had to tread
Speaker 1: carefully around social issues because it's like, oh, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: they're still not sias. We probably shouldn't be pandering to them. Um.
Speaker 1: But as more time and distance let the air cool,
Speaker 1: some conservatives went back to the same old rhetoric around
Speaker 1: the twenty nine election. UM. For instance, in his twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen election campaign, uh Tom Chemick, of the parliamentary representative
Speaker 1: of one of the parliamentary representatives for Calgary, Alberta, wrote
Speaker 1: out and spread flyers with the all claps with the
Speaker 1: all caps header of crisis at the Border UH with
Speaker 1: text treating deer constituent. The Independent Autor General of Canada
Speaker 1: has published a scathing report confirming that the Ottawa Liberals
Speaker 1: have failed to safely and responsibly manage Canada's borders. Since
Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau you responsibly tweeted out that Canada would open
Speaker 1: sports to anyone seeking entry, the number of people illegally
Speaker 1: crossing the board into Canada from the United States has
Speaker 1: surged past one thousand a month, with almost twenty thou
Speaker 1: people illegally enteringen alone, and while speaking to voters of
Speaker 1: COMAC repeatedly insisted that all the problems of people illegally
Speaker 1: crossing the Canadian border isn't a symptom of a failure
Speaker 1: of systems to respond to a growing crisis, but merely
Speaker 1: a failure for border patrol to with to assert control
Speaker 1: over people. Um quotes and flyer courtesy of about This
Speaker 1: Tom chemic Guy a courtesy of a. Dan Olson of
Speaker 1: Folding Ideas. He's a great Canadian documentarian who released a
Speaker 1: magnificent piece on Q and on and conspiracy theories last
Speaker 1: year on his YouTube channel of Folding Ideas. Overall, I really,
Speaker 1: really like Dan, he makes very good stuff. Um, so
Speaker 1: thank thank you to him for sending me those those
Speaker 1: those flyers. Um. Anyway, during the election, Sheer led the
Speaker 1: Conservatives to gain a total of twenty six seats in
Speaker 1: the inside Parliament, going from ninety five up to one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one. But they did finish thirty six
Speaker 1: seats behind the Liberals despite beating the Liberals in the
Speaker 1: popular vote by one point three percent. So that was
Speaker 1: a thirty four point four percent for Conservatives and thirty
Speaker 1: three point one percent of the popular vote for Liberals.
Speaker 1: The margin was just over like two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: thousand votes. Um. The Liberals lost twenty seats in the
Speaker 1: election and the NDP lost fifteen seats. And this was
Speaker 1: the first time since to UH since nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 1: at a party won the most seats without also winning
Speaker 1: the popular vote. Um. What what pushed the Conservatives over
Speaker 1: on the popular vote was due to you know, extremely
Speaker 1: high conservative turnout in UH in in in various in
Speaker 1: various writings. So basically more conservatives voted in certain running
Speaker 1: than they usually do. So even if the Liberals still
Speaker 1: win the district, there was still more conservative votes to
Speaker 1: be counted UM. And also they basically swept the Prairie
Speaker 1: provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, where they won seventy percent
Speaker 1: of the vote in sixties five percent of the vote, respectively.
Speaker 1: But their victories in those states and their higher turnout
Speaker 1: did not convert into many seats because the less population
Speaker 1: dense areas have fewer federal writings and fewer available seats UM,
Speaker 1: and the Liberals had to rely heavily for seats in
Speaker 1: Ontario though, you know, the most populous province that include
Speaker 1: cities like Toronto, UM and you know other a few
Speaker 1: other big cities. So you know, Canada doesn't have the
Speaker 1: most democratic system like so the same way you know
Speaker 1: in the States were familiar with, you know, p losing
Speaker 1: popular votes um but still getting elected president and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, in Canadas it's it's it's a little bit
Speaker 1: different because of how you vote for parties in your
Speaker 1: own little district. UM. But you know, it's still not perfect,
Speaker 1: right because like it is. It it does feel weird
Speaker 1: for the leader of the leader of the country to
Speaker 1: not have his party to not have also won the
Speaker 1: popular vote because of how you know, districts work out
Speaker 1: and how higher turn out in some areas doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that it's going to have more seats, um you know.
Speaker 1: But the other side of things here is that like
Speaker 1: Canada also doesn't have ranked choice, so like, still the
Speaker 1: majority of people voted for left of center candidates if
Speaker 1: you include you know, the Green Party, the n DP,
Speaker 1: and the Liberals. So even the Liberals lost the popular vote,
Speaker 1: there's still like a majority left of center voting. So
Speaker 1: if they if they had ranked choice, maybe the results
Speaker 1: would have been different. So Canada's system it definitely isn't
Speaker 1: perfect for how they do elections. UM. I would I
Speaker 1: would prefer ranks choice, as you know, basically basically I
Speaker 1: would prefer that for like every country if they're gonna
Speaker 1: have elections. Um So yeah, just kind of explaining why
Speaker 1: they can lose the popular boat but still you know,
Speaker 1: still win a majority controlling government. Um So. After the election,
Speaker 1: Sheer announced he was resigning as head of the Conservatives
Speaker 1: in December of twenty nineteen. Uh. This was after it
Speaker 1: was revealed that he had used party funds for his
Speaker 1: children's own private schooling. So good for him. Um A
Speaker 1: new bid for Conservative leadership went into effect. We're gonna
Speaker 1: mainly focus on two candidates here Uh there was an
Speaker 1: erin O'Toole and Derek solan Um. O'Toole fancies himself as
Speaker 1: another kind of like classic financial conservative and the social moderate.
Speaker 1: He feels more like the old progressive conservative candidates from
Speaker 1: back before the two of US and three Unite the
Speaker 1: Right merger. Um we got some like John McCain vibes
Speaker 1: here um, but Derek solan is more similar to the
Speaker 1: farther right parts of the U s IS current Republican Party,
Speaker 1: like anti abortion, anti LGBT, racist tweets, etcetera. UM, but
Speaker 1: as a whole, Solon's extremism was rejected by the Canadian Conservatives.
Speaker 1: Um he got only he got like on the fourth
Speaker 1: He got fourth placed with fifteen of the vote during
Speaker 1: the first round of voting, UM and ultimately o'tool one
Speaker 1: leadership after three rounds of votes. UM and o'tool now
Speaker 1: has the has the new challenge of trying to appeal
Speaker 1: to the Canadian conservatives more moderate wing, as well as
Speaker 1: the more Trumpian wing that's developed the past few years.
Speaker 1: He's been relatively successful in crafting like a boring, polite
Speaker 1: Canadian version of Trump's nationalism. With slogans like Canada First
Speaker 1: and take Canada Back, um, you know, despite supporting trade
Speaker 1: deals outsourcing Canadian jobs to cheaper overseas markets because they
Speaker 1: never actually mean what they say, um and the and.
Speaker 1: As the Liberals have grown more aware of Canada's bloody
Speaker 1: history and have like toned down the red and white
Speaker 1: maple leaf patriotism, the Conservative Party under o'tool has seized
Speaker 1: on this opportunity to make Canadian patriotism more of a
Speaker 1: right leaning staple, just like patriotism is, you know, it's
Speaker 1: more of like a right wing thing in the States.
Speaker 1: So basically, after we were like, oh yeah, central schools
Speaker 1: were bad, Canada's kind of sucked up, Liberals are like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we maybe shouldn't be so we shouldn't be waving our
Speaker 1: maple leaf legs everywhere. Maybe we're not a perfect country.
Speaker 1: The Conservatives like, no, you have to be proud to
Speaker 1: be Canadian. So they've kind of taken patriotism to be
Speaker 1: their new thing. Well, previously it was much more of
Speaker 1: like a liberal thing. The Islamophobia and overt religious bigotry
Speaker 1: under a tool has been slightly trimmed down. Um and
Speaker 1: climate change has at least been mentioned as existing UM,
Speaker 1: but there has also been increased discussion on trying to
Speaker 1: hack down Canada's healthcare and privatize more aspects of it, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: good job, guys, take away the only good part of Canada. UM.
Speaker 1: Like the province of Alberta under Jason Kenny has done
Speaker 1: this to a disastrous effect UM, raising the cost of
Speaker 1: medical care for lower class people, many of whom voted
Speaker 1: Conservative UM. I have family in Alberta and just the
Speaker 1: past five years the changes to the healthcare system there
Speaker 1: has been horrible. UM, it's not it's not great. So
Speaker 1: basically what what what o'tool wants is he wants he
Speaker 1: wants to base just privatize more elements of it. He
Speaker 1: has a specific term he uses like he wants like a.
Speaker 1: He wants to like split the FED like the like,
Speaker 1: the taxpayer healthcare and privatized health care into two sections
Speaker 1: and you can choose which one to join in anyway,
Speaker 1: it's silly. UM. O'tewal did take a wee little stance
Speaker 1: to distance himself from the more extreme wings of his
Speaker 1: party when he decided to remove MP Derek Solan from
Speaker 1: the caucus. Oh Too announced that Solan will not be
Speaker 1: allowed to run as a candidate for the for the
Speaker 1: Conservative Party in the next election either, saying racism is
Speaker 1: a disease of the soul, repugnant to our core values.
Speaker 1: It has no place in our country and has no
Speaker 1: place in the Conservative Party of Canada. I won't tolerate it. Um.
Speaker 1: Also last year, O'Toole refused to say whether he thinks
Speaker 1: systemic racism exists um. But the decision to remove Soland
Speaker 1: was made after it was revealed that he accepted a
Speaker 1: donation from the Canadian Nazi Paul from during uh during
Speaker 1: Soland's bid for a Conservative leadership back in the nineties
Speaker 1: of From was a figurehead of the Canadian far right movement,
Speaker 1: appearing at Heritage Front rallies and also caught on video
Speaker 1: at a party celebrating Hitler's birthday, which he lost his
Speaker 1: high school teaching job over. Well, look, it's just polite
Speaker 1: to celebrate a guy's birthday, you know, whether or not
Speaker 1: he's Hitler, under no circumstances to you got us this,
Speaker 1: This is a hot tike. Um. So there has been
Speaker 1: a bit of the There has been a bit of
Speaker 1: a rift in the Conservative Party over how much Trumpian
Speaker 1: rhetoric should be allowed in the Canadian Conservative Party UM
Speaker 1: and this kind of rift has definitely increased after January six. UM.
Speaker 1: The problem for Conservative politicians is that to win elections
Speaker 1: they need to appeal to the largest swath of voters
Speaker 1: UM and that includes more socially conservative and increasingly far
Speaker 1: right rule folks. But if they go too far, they'll
Speaker 1: lose the moderates to the Liberal Party. So you have
Speaker 1: it's like this delicate balance. But to kind of give
Speaker 1: you like an over you of what the current state
Speaker 1: of the Conservative of Like votership is UM for intent
Speaker 1: of the Conservative Party of Canada members. So you know,
Speaker 1: people signed up to vote in the party. You know,
Speaker 1: regular people UM, four in ten would say that they
Speaker 1: would have voted for Trump for intents say that they
Speaker 1: think Democrats told the presential election. And for intents say
Speaker 1: that the Conservative and four intent believe that the January
Speaker 1: six riot was staged or was done by the Democrats,
Speaker 1: were done by Antiva. So that's kind of the state
Speaker 1: of the Conservative Party in Canada for like the for
Speaker 1: the voters. So you know, politicians have to kind of
Speaker 1: in order to win, they need they need still they
Speaker 1: still still need to appeal to those people, but they
Speaker 1: don't want to do that thing usually like they usually
Speaker 1: don't like usually there the like a big talking point
Speaker 1: is like rejecting the divisive politics of the of of
Speaker 1: the of the United States. Like that's a big thing
Speaker 1: people say in Canada. Is that Like they don't want
Speaker 1: it to become like, you know, like a fighting match,
Speaker 1: because like the other main difference between Canada's elections in
Speaker 1: America's elections is like America is like always an election season,
Speaker 1: right like every you know, even after each election, it's
Speaker 1: like you feel like campaigns start right up again. Um,
Speaker 1: Canada's campaigns only run like a few months before the election,
Speaker 1: like like it is not like those things you guys
Speaker 1: do objectively better than us, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: world does. It's not just Canada the idea that like, oh,
Speaker 1: elections are terrible, we should spend a little time. It's
Speaker 1: like to like two or three months of campaigning. That's it, Like,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not like a two year, four year thing. No,
Speaker 1: that is a thing that we should Absolutely the election
Speaker 1: should be about eleven minutes from from the start of
Speaker 1: the campaign to the vote. Everybody gets a minute to
Speaker 1: explain their their politics and then we vote and then
Speaker 1: we throw them into the sea. Yeah, so trying to
Speaker 1: trying to craft marketing to the divided right wing. It's
Speaker 1: been interesting to watch. You know. There's like videos about
Speaker 1: Tool walking through you know, downtowns with Pride flags in
Speaker 1: the background and you know, featuring visible like minority Canadians intermingling.
Speaker 1: But then you also have a tool like Ralely against
Speaker 1: cancel culture feeling suggestions that that the liberal government's pandemic
Speaker 1: response is part of a socialist great reset and pulling
Speaker 1: out the dog whistle on like China and the coronavirus,
Speaker 1: you know, as often as you can. UM Tools in
Speaker 1: the past also downplayed Canadians residential schools program UM and
Speaker 1: described the efforts of activists pushing to removal of statues
Speaker 1: of the of the residential of school architects as stupid. UM. So,
Speaker 1: I I do think O'tool prefers a conservative party resistant
Speaker 1: too far right branding, but he knows he needs to
Speaker 1: appeal to thiss voters in order to win elections. So
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's just it's the thing that's not great,
Speaker 1: But it's interesting to watch. UM in August one, Justin
Speaker 1: Trudeau noted black face appreciator uh called a snap election
Speaker 1: in an effort to gain more parliamentary seats in hopes
Speaker 1: of getting a majority Liberal government, something a prime minister
Speaker 1: should not be allowed to do, by the way, like
Speaker 1: a priva minister should not be able to decide when
Speaker 1: to do elections. That is, like should totally not be
Speaker 1: a thing. Like what, no, you shouldn't do that, but anyway. Um.
Speaker 1: As snap election ramped up, the Conservative Party under a tool,
Speaker 1: made some extremely questionable choices for their marketings and their slogans. Um,
Speaker 1: what does the phrase secure the future bring to mind? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So that became the new tagline for the entire Conservative
Speaker 1: Party under a tool. Right, sure, we got, we got,
Speaker 1: we got, we got Secure the Future, billboards, we got,
Speaker 1: we got, we got websites Conservative dot c a slash
Speaker 1: secure the future. We got mailer's magazine covers all emblazoned
Speaker 1: with secure the future or secure our future. Um, and
Speaker 1: you know what will secure our future? Garrison the chevron
Speaker 1: ads that keep popping up. We keep out. Yeah, great,
Speaker 1: you're welcome. It's a great time Chevron appreciators for everyone. Ah,
Speaker 1: we're back. It's just appreciating Chevron just like Justin Trudeau
Speaker 1: appreciate just like Yeah, so secure the future great slogan,
Speaker 1: not a good slogan. Bad. Um. I'm going to read
Speaker 1: a bit from a mailer that went out to Conservative
Speaker 1: Party members after a Tool one leadership quote. I firmly
Speaker 1: believe Canada has everything. It has everything it takes to
Speaker 1: recover from COVID nineteen and enjoy a prosperous future if
Speaker 1: we have a government that knows how to secure the future.
Speaker 1: If the truth, if the Trudeau Liberals stay in power,
Speaker 1: they'll continue spending taxpayer money at pandemic era levels long before,
Speaker 1: long after the virus is behind us. The result, all
Speaker 1: the things we love about Canada will be in serious jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Our debt will become out of control, and they'll never
Speaker 1: be able to get back the Canada you and I
Speaker 1: grew up in the kind of Canada our children and
Speaker 1: grandchildren deserve. So either on in the page, oh, Tool
Speaker 1: says we need to stand up to the Chinese Communist
Speaker 1: Party and hold Beijing accountable for sabotaging our economy and
Speaker 1: taking jobs from Canadian workers. Um. And On August sixteen,
Speaker 1: the Canadian Conservative Party Twitter account tweeted out and I
Speaker 1: quote Canada's recovery program will secure the future for you,
Speaker 1: your children, and your grand and your grandchildren. So that's fun. Also, also,
Speaker 1: guess how many guess guess how many words is in
Speaker 1: that last sentence. It's fourteen of them. Yeah. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: going back to calling Canada Clanada again. It's like a
Speaker 1: dog whistle, but except for you know, a dog whistle
Speaker 1: only dogs can hear. It's except everyone. It's just a whistle.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a regular whistle. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: that he just tweeted it tweet. Yeah. So as anyway,
Speaker 1: um as O'Toole was getting all secure the future piled um.
Speaker 1: Canada's actual far right populist party, the People's Party, was
Speaker 1: gaining much more popularity um amid the pandemic and the
Speaker 1: anti mask, anti lockdown, anti vax protests. The COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: pandemic was a gift to the far right in general,
Speaker 1: as it allowed the injection and proliferation of conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: to accelerate at levels almost never before seen and provided
Speaker 1: fair recruiting ground to gain new followers. The PPC latched
Speaker 1: onto this and was extremely successful. They were. You know,
Speaker 1: they sponsored protests, They did a whole bunch of campaigns
Speaker 1: that are around like anti mask stuff, anti vaccine, you know,
Speaker 1: all all of it. Um. So the PPC was able
Speaker 1: to be not just a safe harbor for anti immigration,
Speaker 1: white nationalists and neo Nazis and other far right groups,
Speaker 1: but also now more mainstream anti lockdown, anti vacs and
Speaker 1: anti government protesters as well as you know, gun rights
Speaker 1: activists and some general rule workers feeling left behind from
Speaker 1: even the Conservative Party. So the PPC has changed from
Speaker 1: a niche white nationalist party to a full blown far
Speaker 1: right populist force. What bern Air in the and the
Speaker 1: PPC have done so effectively since the pandemic is to
Speaker 1: use the broad concerns around COVID and freedom and the
Speaker 1: more you know, mainstream concerns about economic anxieties, job loss,
Speaker 1: lots of businesses, immigration and changing culture and manage and
Speaker 1: managed to rule all of these things up into one
Speaker 1: tight package, which is really appealing to a lot of
Speaker 1: Canadians who are very anxious about the state of their country,
Speaker 1: especially amid the COVID nineteen pandemic. So the results of
Speaker 1: the September snap election, which was you know last month, Uh,
Speaker 1: we're basically the same as the election, UM, except the
Speaker 1: PPC went from one point six percent of the vote
Speaker 1: to five percent of the vote, a big, big change, uh.
Speaker 1: They that means they were ranking above the Green Party
Speaker 1: and nearly tying the block kebu Qua. So they made like,
Speaker 1: I know, like one percent of five percent doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like tons, but like this is a really big jump
Speaker 1: for a brand new party, UM, especially especially if they're
Speaker 1: ahead of the Green Party and tying the Block Party.
Speaker 1: That is like a notable shift. UM. The University of
Speaker 1: Ghulaf Professor of of Political Science Tamra Small said that
Speaker 1: said this after the results of the last snap election. Quote,
Speaker 1: I think the only leader who's the static about last
Speaker 1: night's results is or Air. I don't think they're going anywhere.
Speaker 1: I think it seems that he's taken the populism and
Speaker 1: attached to far right politics. The idea that Canada was
Speaker 1: immune to this sort of far right populism, the idea
Speaker 1: that Canada was going to be free from the populism
Speaker 1: that we saw in Europe, like what Nigel Farage is
Speaker 1: in the UK. But I think lots of people are
Speaker 1: wondering if Bernard is just gonna say I'm not here
Speaker 1: to form an actual government. I'm just here to challenge
Speaker 1: the system and use that as a way of gaining
Speaker 1: massive support. Um. After us CTV News emailed the PPC
Speaker 1: for comment for their post election story, uh, the party
Speaker 1: spokesperson sent back a one line email response, I don't
Speaker 1: respond to requests from leftists. Activists masquerading as journalists get lost,
Speaker 1: so that's fun. Also, in late September, Bernard's Twitter account
Speaker 1: was temporarily suspended for encouraging his supporters to attack journalists. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just not like I'm okay with criticizing journalist and stuff,
Speaker 1: because most journalists are like not great. But when you're
Speaker 1: using your political Twitter account to just like tell people
Speaker 1: to just go attack the US, usually it's a bad
Speaker 1: sign of of like a political party. Usually it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: political parties when they do that usually leads to bad things. Um,
Speaker 1: we are gonna talk about one kind of wrapping up here.
Speaker 1: We wanna talk about one Ontario People's Party candidate named
Speaker 1: Mario Greco, who was a another another high school teacher
Speaker 1: UM and self proclaimed game developer UM of a few
Speaker 1: years ago. I I see Chriss Vincent, because like you know,
Speaker 1: this can't lead to good things the gamers, it can't
Speaker 1: be good. So a few years ago, Greco made a
Speaker 1: video game called Happy Culture Shootout UM. Quoting an article
Speaker 1: from Press Progress dot c A Happy Culture Shootout is
Speaker 1: a Space Invaders style game that allows players to control
Speaker 1: spaceship that shoots laser beams at caricatures of various identity groups.
Speaker 1: Quote this game, it's about an alien order to invade
Speaker 1: Earth and transport all humans to happy Land, Greco says
Speaker 1: on his personal website, which includes other games that he authored,
Speaker 1: like Die Mare, which is about a young, misunderstood heuro
Speaker 1: who sees to liberate post war Germany. Um in as
Speaker 1: in a since telated video of obtained by Press Progress,
Speaker 1: the People's Party candidate delivered a presentation to university students
Speaker 1: several years ago, offering his post mortem on the game UM.
Speaker 1: Reco expressed surprise that his students and faculty reacted negatively
Speaker 1: to the game, with one calling it the most racist
Speaker 1: game I've ever played. Greco says his game is not
Speaker 1: racist in the slightest, noting that he made fun of
Speaker 1: his own Italian heritage. He also claimed that some students
Speaker 1: thought his Gay Pride parade level was hilarious. My friends
Speaker 1: and I love people of all cultures, and we also
Speaker 1: love humor of all types that includes harmless racist jokes.
Speaker 1: Greco said in the video. The game was intended to
Speaker 1: make a joke about how ridiculous cultural stereotypes are, so
Speaker 1: we can laugh about it together and move on with
Speaker 1: our lives. Um. During the presentation, the People's Party candidate
Speaker 1: offered a interesting side note about the games Israel level.
Speaker 1: According according to Greco, a faculty member at the University Stroug,
Speaker 1: they recommended that he removed Jewish stereotypes from the game.
Speaker 1: He was like, no, get rid of it immediately. Don't
Speaker 1: have any religious content whatsoever. I know that subject is
Speaker 1: very very touchy. So yeah, this is just a game
Speaker 1: where you race shoe to minority people. Um. Anyway. In
Speaker 1: twenty six Greco posted a photo on Facebook of an
Speaker 1: illustration of Peppe the Frog, which he said was drawn
Speaker 1: by one of his students in in the white board
Speaker 1: of his York Region high school. Um Pepe had a
Speaker 1: little speech bubble that said free Kakistan. Great yea. So
Speaker 1: now the gamers or Nazis. So currently Greco is spending
Speaker 1: his time tweeting about critical race theory and trying to
Speaker 1: get into office under the People's Party banner UM. In
Speaker 1: his Twitter bio, he calls himself an egalitarian, libertarian nationalist
Speaker 1: and he still also teaches computer science at Ontario. Call
Speaker 1: themselves fascists. I know it's it's not fun. These people
Speaker 1: are all all for the worst most scum. UM. And
Speaker 1: one one more thing before we sign off. UM. Last month,
Speaker 1: right before the September election, I was forwarded some pictures
Speaker 1: of some People's Party of Canada posters and flyers put
Speaker 1: up linking to their campaign website that someone came across
Speaker 1: UM around town, not not Portland's, like somewhere in Canada.
Speaker 1: UM under the PPC logo there was you know, pictures
Speaker 1: of people's faces and big black text that said it's
Speaker 1: okay to be white. Right, So that's the liberal utopia
Speaker 1: of Canada. Everybody UM. And basically like the reason why
Speaker 1: I wanted to put these episodes together because like, we
Speaker 1: we have lots of like, you know, we make a
Speaker 1: lot of jokes about you know, escaping to Canada as
Speaker 1: the States gets too fascist, and I just want to
Speaker 1: like say, like I'm not saying Canada's getting at the
Speaker 1: same rate, but Canada is not immune to the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's it's, it's it's you can't escape, can't
Speaker 1: run away from the authoritarianism by moving, yeah to a
Speaker 1: country with no history of authoritarianism, like I don't know Germany,
Speaker 1: uh huh yeah. And I think everything's important with with
Speaker 1: Canada particularly is that like Canada is like affected by
Speaker 1: American political trends. And you see this absolutely like like
Speaker 1: one of one of the things that I remember looking
Speaker 1: at when I was when I was looking into sort
Speaker 1: of uh if you look at the history of like
Speaker 1: anti Asian riots for example, So there's a huge wave
Speaker 1: and nine no seven that goes like it goes all
Speaker 1: the way up the West coast because a lot of them,
Speaker 1: and it ends in Toronto, Yeah, a lot of you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you see you see that like and you see
Speaker 1: that like today to where it's like, yeah, the Toronto
Speaker 1: I think has the highest rate of anti Asian attacks
Speaker 1: like in North America. That's not pretty impressive considering like
Speaker 1: the absolute ship show going on in like New York,
Speaker 1: in la and Seattle, and it's like, no, Toronto's worse, No,
Speaker 1: it's real bad. I talk a lot about how the
Speaker 1: far right's getting a lot, a lot, a lot stronger
Speaker 1: of an luce in Alberta, and it is spreading into
Speaker 1: other eastern eastern provinces, not just inside Quebec. You know,
Speaker 1: there was the inside attack in Toronto a few years
Speaker 1: ago that killed like I think like a dozen people.
Speaker 1: Of course, there was the Quebec mosque shooting. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of these kind of things popping off, and
Speaker 1: you know there's there's even more starting in like, uh,
Speaker 1: British Columbia as well, which is which has a decent
Speaker 1: far right kind of influence at least on the eastern
Speaker 1: side of BC, um away from like Victoria and from Vancouver. UM.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just wanted to place together and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's worth looking at these countries that
Speaker 1: we usually view as you know, generally doing better and
Speaker 1: be like no, like, it's the same thing is happening there,
Speaker 1: and it's all it's all part of the same overarching
Speaker 1: slide right word that we've seen in both in the
Speaker 1: UK we were even seeing it now in Germany we're
Speaker 1: seeing it, you know in this obviously the States under
Speaker 1: Trump and in Canada, even though the Liberals have won
Speaker 1: the past few elections, it's still scooting right word. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to put this thing together. If you
Speaker 1: want to keep up to date on Canadian stuff, you
Speaker 1: can check out the Canadian Antihit network, which does work
Speaker 1: tracking extremism in Canada. And yeah, that is ah, that
Speaker 1: is what I put together exparison. Yeah, you're welcoming, You're welcome. Well,
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