Terry Glavin
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167 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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You can't call Donald Trump a conservative. He's anything but. And I don't think you can call... Justin Trudeau liberal, really, in any conventional sense. No, I don't. Very authoritarian, very much a sort of state capitalist thought control kind of way of looking at politics.
Be very, very careful when you use the term we. 20%, only 20% of Canadians voted for Trudeau in the last election. He hasn't gained anything. He's lost a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of people are scared of the unknown. I think they're willing to step out into the cool and the dark. But there are still people who will not vote conservative. Fair play. It doesn't really matter.
We're going to see an absolute rout of the Liberals in the next election. One of the things we haven't even discussed is the rise of the indépendantistes in Quebec, the Bloc.
That's a very real possibility. Although one of the things that's interesting about Quebec is that all of these things that bedevil us, and are increasingly bourgeois sensitivities about race and gender. Quebecers aren't phased. Meh. They don't care. They do not care. In Quebec, in the French, poor land Quebecers, they're not woke. The left in Quebec is not woke. And that I find fascinating.
I think they have a real sense of themselves. A lot of it doesn't really, you know, laïcité, their idea of, you know, extreme secularism, doesn't sit well with me. But what the hell? They seem to know what they're about.
There's also an argument that I've heard that a lot of young Quebecers, they don't remember back in the day. They don't remember the old days. They're not interested in separatism. So who knows? Who knows? But it does add a layer of complexity to this that...
Because the Jews are terrified. Because the Jews are persecuted in this country.
Yeah, you could put it that way. I think it would be of concern to me even if they were not the canary in the coal mine. Yeah, that's... I mean, if it's a personal question, you know, it's an odd thing. I mean, it's a family thing. My association with the Jewish community goes back a long way. I'm a Tague. I'm Irish Catholic. Yeah. But it's complicated.
And it is a concern of mine and the company that I keep. But it's such a terrible state on Canada's reputation, too. The thing is when you talk to old Jews, right, like really sophisticated guys who've been in and out of office or university professors, and they will tell you, you know, with their voice cracking— I have never seen anything like this in my life. Yeah, right.
I feel exactly the same way. All the communities I talk to, the Hillel on campus, you know, synagogues across the country, people are afraid, and they feel abandoned, and they feel as though their government has abandoned them. Yeah, well, they made a calculated decision. This is worth noticing. And what am I? I'm just a guy. I'm a reporter. I'm a writer. So I've done my best to...
to document this and to bear witness to it. And I don't know what's going to come of it. I'm here talking to you about it. There you go.
But- Yeah, that was funny the way that happened. I said, you know, Jordan Peterson, he's like one of these big forehead guys. Everybody likes him. You know, Barry, Barry, you talk to him, Barry. And, you know, he's great, but, you know, you meet up with him in New York or wherever. And then Barry said, well, actually, he's on Vancouver Island.
Okay, that's only like three hours from where I am, so that's how it happened.
You know, here's the former director. I forgot his name. He's a lovely guy. The former chief commissioner of the Human Rights Commission. federal said, this is all, you know, it's horrible, it's ridiculous. And I think they know damn well that there's absolutely no way that any of this will withstand a charter challenge.
And the point of this is, well, the point of this, and this is the case that he makes that I think is persuasive, is they're just trying to scare you. They're just trying to shut you out. They're just trying to put you on notice.
Here's how what we've been discussing, particularly anti-Semitism, directly relates to this concern of yours in the matter of Bill C-63. And it also directly relates to how I've been attacked for merely noticing that a lot of what we've heard about mass graves, this archipelago of mass graves across the country at residential schools is a fiction.
There is a proposal, and it's supported by the Justice Minister, Arif Farhani. Yeah, he's fun. He's a lot of fun. He's everything you'd hope he'd be. Insert a concept called residential schools denial, which is an absurd abstraction. To insert it into the same section of the criminal code, that outlaws incitement against the Jews by Holocaust law.
It's all terrifying. Well, that's... And the other one, and I think we didn't even talk about this, the most pernicious, is this recent construction of anti-Palestinian racism.
As hate speech. Well, yeah, but if you look at the definition of it, and again, Trudeau says he's willing to adopt this in some form, as has the Justice Minister said the same.
The standard definition of anti-Palestinian racism, devised by the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, which I've never heard of before, and I think this is all they've ever done, is any utterance of a conventional Zionist standpoint. cannot but be understood as anti-Palestinian racism. Right, right.
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