Latest / Kvetch & Release / 610 CKTB| From Mein Kampf to GTA Synagogue Shootings
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- 0:01Speaker 1: If it's nine to noon, it must be Jeane Belitis
- 0:04Speaker 1: on six' TEN, Cktv Niagras news and.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Tong well here we are On thursday morning and the big. Shocker,
- 0:12Speaker 2: yeah either got it last night or this. Morning and
- 0:15Speaker 2: that is a regional. Chair after eighty four, Days Bob
- 0:18Speaker 2: gail has resigned after it was revealed that he purchased
- 0:22Speaker 2: a copy Of mind comp which was written By hitler
- 0:26Speaker 2: back in nineteen twenty four when he was in. Jail
- 0:28Speaker 2: and it is a autographed copy Of Mind. Comp many
- 0:33Speaker 2: texts coming in from the nine oh five good written
- 0:35Speaker 2: S Bob. Gail, well that says it all for that.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Person also from the Peace lady In Saint catharine's. GENE
- 0:43Speaker 2: i can understand wanting to read the, book but to
- 0:45Speaker 2: purchase it that is giving money to. Ugly, well you know,
- 0:49Speaker 2: WHAT i have to reiterate my position on. This at
- 0:52Speaker 2: least you may agree or. DISAGREE i respect your. Opinion
- 0:55Speaker 2: this is not a. Book it's not a. Book it
- 0:59Speaker 2: is a man festo of hate which laid the groundwork
- 1:03Speaker 2: for The holocaust where millions Of jews were put into
- 1:07Speaker 2: ovens and. Incinerated my dad is A holocaust, SURVIVOR i
- 1:13Speaker 2: think the only reason he, survived and he went to
- 1:15Speaker 2: his grave thinking this as, well was because he was
- 1:18Speaker 2: a doctor and he could Treat german troops in the concentration.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Camp when The americans liberated his, camp he was basically
- 1:27Speaker 2: a skeleton with skin and he just about. Died so
- 1:32Speaker 2: maybe if he hadn't been a, DOCTOR i wouldn't even
- 1:34Speaker 2: be here talking to, you and my sister wouldn't be alive.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Either so WHEN i heard this, NEWS i just said to,
- 1:38Speaker 2: myself you really have no other choice but to. Resign.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Now you, know if you take a look at his resignation,
- 1:43Speaker 2: letter he hasn't, apologized nor has he admitted that he
- 1:46Speaker 2: actually owns the book and a lot of the resignation.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Letter if you read in between the, lines he's saying,
- 1:52Speaker 2: that you, know somebody did this because counselors want to
- 1:55Speaker 2: keep their jobs and they were Against amalgamation's at least
- 2:00Speaker 2: WHAT i read in between the. Lines so you, know
- 2:03Speaker 2: it's interesting that we have our good Friend John letke
- 2:06Speaker 2: back on this. Morning Hey, johnny you.
- 2:07Speaker 1: There good, Morning. Jim.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Listen we were going to talk about this government ten
- 2:12Speaker 2: million dollar. Announcement it's called The Canada Community security, program
- 2:18Speaker 2: and it will give The jewish community about ten million
- 2:21Speaker 2: dollars to help out with Anti. Semitism, now you, know
- 2:26Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, four BUT I, brith which you are
- 2:29Speaker 2: a member and you do advocacy work for, them reported
- 2:32Speaker 2: a one hundred and twenty four percent spike from twenty
- 2:35Speaker 2: twenty two and anti. Semitism and we were going to
- 2:39Speaker 2: talk about this, program which you call too, little too,
- 2:42Speaker 2: late but then all of a, Sudden gale resigns amid
- 2:45Speaker 2: this controversy about having this manifesto signed By. Hitler so
- 2:51Speaker 2: first your reaction to the, Resignation, well you, know.
- 2:54Speaker 1: We've got regional leaders playing antiqu roadshow With Jenni's bridle
- 2:58Speaker 1: manifesto as well our, community The, jewish and he's literally under.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Fire bullets are flying at. Synagogue this is a dumpster.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Fire you, Know i'm glad that he's. RESIGNING i find
- 3:06Speaker 1: it very interesting that he would not even note what
- 3:10Speaker 1: the book's name was in his resignation, letter as if it,
- 3:12Speaker 1: was you, know just just some obscure thing that no
- 3:15Speaker 1: one might know. About this guy knew it was. Wrong
- 3:17Speaker 1: that's why he's not even talking about it publicly right
- 3:20Speaker 1: now and naming. It SO i find it very positive
- 3:23Speaker 1: that he decided to resign as quickly as. Possible M. M.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Yeah so you, know if you go to cktv dot
- 3:29Speaker 2: com and Read bonnie hessl up our news directors really
- 3:34Speaker 2: great reporting on this. Story we have all the documents right,
- 3:37Speaker 2: there AND i suggest to our, listeners As john just pointed,
- 3:41Speaker 2: out read the resignation, letter because there's more in between
- 3:45Speaker 2: the lines than there is about the resignation. Itself So,
- 3:49Speaker 2: john let's get through This Canada Community security. Program your,
- 3:53Speaker 2: IMPRESSION i, mean you advocate For jewish group story Across.
- 3:56Speaker 2: Canada you say too, little too. Late, Explain, well.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Million dollars, great but we've been two and a half
- 4:02Speaker 1: years into regular hate marches throughout. Cities we have seen,
- 4:07Speaker 1: synagogues community, centers day schools and day camps, targeted some
- 4:10Speaker 1: of them with just a violent rhetoric or online. Postings
- 4:14Speaker 1: others to acts of physical, violence to fire, bombings to.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Shootings it's been absolutely. Terrible so, yeah ten million, dollars
- 4:22Speaker 1: thanks for, it but are you going to actually do
- 4:24Speaker 1: something about? It still have The mayor Of toronto refusing
- 4:26Speaker 1: to show up at events or to really talk publicly
- 4:29Speaker 1: about what is affecting The jewish. Community so we do,
- 4:32Speaker 1: know as you, mentioned that one hundred and twenty four
- 4:33Speaker 1: percent increase in Anti semitism Or jew hate between twenty
- 4:37Speaker 1: two and twenty, four and right now we know that
- 4:39Speaker 1: at last, Year jews became twenty five times more likely
- 4:43Speaker 1: to be targeted by hate crimes In canada than any
- 4:46Speaker 1: other group religiously motivated hate. Crimes despite being only one
- 4:49Speaker 1: percent of the population In, Canada jews are the targets
- 4:52Speaker 1: of roughly seventy percent of religiously motivated hate crimes across the.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Country we have that happening right now From ottawa handing
- 5:00Speaker 1: money down recognizing that this issue is one that they
- 5:02Speaker 1: do want to talk, about although. Tepidly it seems for
- 5:04Speaker 1: some reason to now shifting focus to your region In
- 5:07Speaker 1: niagara with this. Resignation and the question is what is
- 5:11Speaker 1: going on In canada right?
- 5:12Speaker 2: Now, Geane, well it's, shocking it.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Is it's truly shocking because one would think that after one,
- 5:18Speaker 1: firebombing one, shooting one instance of actual you, know just
- 5:22Speaker 1: throwing rocks through a synagogue or, something it would be
- 5:25Speaker 1: dealt with with a unified party by party. Basis but
- 5:28Speaker 1: we're actually dealing with situations here where we have political party,
- 5:30Speaker 1: leaders we have elected, officials we have leader community leaders
- 5:35Speaker 1: who are refusing to stand in, solidarity stand with, support
- 5:38Speaker 1: and instead in some cases actually coming out and, saying,
- 5:41Speaker 1: hey maybe this is your.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Fault, well you, KNOW i found it shocking that the
- 5:45Speaker 2: mayor of the largest city In, Canada Olivia, chow did
- 5:48Speaker 2: not attend that news conference to speak to the three
- 5:51Speaker 2: synagogues that were shot up in The Greater toronto area last,
- 5:54Speaker 2: week but instead chose to go to a polar bear
- 5:58Speaker 2: plunge at The Metal True.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Zoo show me your budget And i'll show you your.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Priorities show me where you want to go for, optics
- 6:06Speaker 1: And i'll show you what you actually care. About Olivia
- 6:08Speaker 1: child made a. Choice she made a very clear, choice
- 6:10Speaker 1: and she decided to tell THE Gta jewish community you
- 6:14Speaker 1: don't matter a polar plunge. Does that's what my priority.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Is when your buildings get shot, Up i'm going to
- 6:20Speaker 1: go do some pr optics that make me look. Good
- 6:23Speaker 1: because IF i Think i'm gonna come stand next to,
- 6:25Speaker 1: You i'm probably gonna look. Bad SO i don't want
- 6:27Speaker 1: to take that hit BECAUSE i want to win. Reelection
- 6:30Speaker 1: this is cynical politics and it's absolute. WORST i thought
- 6:33Speaker 1: we were better than this In, canada but that was
- 6:35Speaker 1: a couple of years. Ago when people say to, me you,
- 6:38Speaker 1: know this Isn't. Canada we can't stand for. THIS. Bs
- 6:42Speaker 1: this Is. Canada this is exactly who we are. Now
- 6:45Speaker 1: we have allowed this to. Happen it's been two and
- 6:46Speaker 1: a half years plus of this in our. Streets we
- 6:49Speaker 1: have allowed for this to, create to, grow to diverge
- 6:53Speaker 1: into sectors THAT i think people weren't even. Expecting so
- 6:56Speaker 1: you know, this it's. Offensive i'm, Angry i'm hurt by
- 6:59Speaker 1: all of. This but this is the new. Normal so
- 7:02Speaker 1: we can fix it or it can get.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Worse john always appreciate your point of view on the,
- 7:07Speaker 2: show and especially on a morning like.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Today thank, You.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Jim there he Goes John. Litke you hear him regularly
- 7:13Speaker 2: on my. Show he's a great. Storyteller and you know
- 7:16Speaker 2: the story we wanted to talk, about which he got
- 7:17Speaker 2: in a little bit of you, know that was going
- 7:20Speaker 2: to be our main chuxt this, morning but after the
- 7:23Speaker 2: resignation of a Chair, gaale that changed everything and we
- 7:26Speaker 2: tried to tried to tie the two together