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610 CKTB | Al Quds Day · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Well. Over this past weekend there were anti Jewish hate
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  Speaker 1: rallies held right across Canada. There was one in downtown Toronto. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you were listening on Friday, you know that ever
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  Speaker 1: since I was a little kid, one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: things to do is to go to the Saint Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: Market in Toronto. You know, became a tradition. I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in Toronto. I don't live there anymore. I could
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  Speaker 1: never live in Toronto. But you know what, I was
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  Speaker 1: too frightened to go into downtown Toronto because of this
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  Speaker 1: hate protest over the weekend. Now, normally one of our
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  Speaker 1: storytellers on the show, John Letkey, is with us on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: but he advocates for Jewish groups and I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to wait around until Tuesday to talk about this. So
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  Speaker 1: he has some thoughts, as he always does on this
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  Speaker 1: and other events. Good morning John, Good morning Jana. You
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  Speaker 1: know I was talking to our pal Joe Wormington from
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  Speaker 1: the Sun on Friday and he was saying, well, Doug
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  Speaker 1: Ford may get an injunction to stop this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: are you kidding me? He waited until like Friday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: at four o'clock. You know, I don't buy into what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Or saying, yeah, we got to look at the timing
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  Speaker 2: of all of this, Right, he waved the four o'clock
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  Speaker 2: on a Friday for a Saturday afternoon event. That's not
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  Speaker 2: a legal strategy, that's a pr stunt. He didn't go
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  Speaker 2: to court to win. He went to court so he
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  Speaker 2: could tell his base that he tried. He knew full
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  Speaker 2: well that the judge would have no choice but to
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  Speaker 2: dismiss it for lack of evidence and for lack of time.
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  Speaker 2: He moved at the eleventh hour purposefully to ensure that
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  Speaker 2: the event would happen so he wouldn't get blamed for
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  Speaker 2: it not happening. But now he gets to spend Monday
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  Speaker 2: morning blaming activist judges instead of explaining his own inaction.
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  Speaker 2: This is a guy playing Monday morning quarterback who intentionally
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  Speaker 2: threw the game on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you call this the optics of outrage. What do
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  Speaker 1: you mean it is.
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  Speaker 2: The optics of outrage? I mean it's sort of also
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  Speaker 2: all hat and no cattle. It's easy for Doug Ford
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  Speaker 2: to have sat down on Friday, recorded a video and
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  Speaker 2: condemned and castigated and said these type of events have
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  Speaker 2: no place on our streets because we know that in
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  Speaker 2: the past there have been calls for violence, there have
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  Speaker 2: been documented instances of anti Semitism, but he doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to do anything about it. So it's just all outrage politics.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just optical outrage politics. He wants it both ways.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to upset either base that he has,
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  Speaker 2: the people who support the event and the people who
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  Speaker 2: oppose the event. So he's trying to straddle this like
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  Speaker 2: he's riding some kind of a bull here. But again,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, at the end of the day, this
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  Speaker 2: has just all had no cattle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like, here's the performance, but here's
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  Speaker 1: the reality exactly.
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  Speaker 2: This is a premier who is very good at his
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  Speaker 2: fire in brimstone rhetoric, but fundamentally he doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: follow through. He promised to ban this event back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, eight years ago, and he has two massive
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  Speaker 2: majorities later, but he's still just releasing social media videos.
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  Speaker 2: This is a premier who hasn't hesitated in the past
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  Speaker 2: to use not the standing clause to stop school board
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  Speaker 2: stretch or cap election spending when it suits his bottom
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  Speaker 2: political line. But if he actually wanted to stop what
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  Speaker 2: he calls a breeding ground for hate. Why does he
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  Speaker 2: choose to opt for a week injunction and a week
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  Speaker 2: toolkit when he actually has things that he can use,
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  Speaker 2: i e. Passing legislation using a majority government, and if
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  Speaker 2: that's found to be unconstitutional, saying to hell with the courts.
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  Speaker 2: I'm using the notwithstanding clause because I have values that
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  Speaker 2: I stand for. Or maybe he doesn't actually have these values,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: I pointed out last week that after not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: but three synagogues were shot at in the Toronto area
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  Speaker 1: and also a gym owned by an Iranian gentleman, they
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  Speaker 1: had this big news or news conference for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of US, and the police held it and the mayor
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  Speaker 1: of the largest city in Canada, Olivia Chow, did not
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  Speaker 1: show up because she was at the Metro Zoo doing
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  Speaker 1: a polar bear plunge. Now fast forward to Saturday, there
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  Speaker 1: was a man arrested in downtown after he burned an
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  Speaker 1: Iranian flag. John I've been watching these protests for the
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  Speaker 1: last two and a half years and I have lost
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  Speaker 1: count of the number of flags of Israel that have
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  Speaker 1: been burnt and zero has been done.
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  Speaker 2: It does seem like a selective policing of descent. Here
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  Speaker 2: there's a glaring inconsistency in how this government police is descent.
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  Speaker 2: We see a premier who picks and chooses which rights
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  Speaker 2: to defend based on which way the political wins are blowing.
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  Speaker 2: And of course he doesn't direct the police. I understand that,
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  Speaker 2: but leadership comes from the top, tone flows downward, and
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  Speaker 2: we all know Geniu, especially someone who follows this closely
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  Speaker 2: and who speaks with legal and criminal experts. Police take
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  Speaker 2: their direction from the political wins. So yeah, it's very
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  Speaker 2: unfortunate that what we see here is a at least
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  Speaker 2: a double standard or what some I think could probably
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  Speaker 2: make a very fair argument of a two tiered system
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  Speaker 2: of policing, if not two different sets of laws that
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  Speaker 2: we have in this problems.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the Solicitor General of Ontario about a
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  Speaker 1: month and a half ago said that he wrote to
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  Speaker 1: the Toronto Police Department telling them to start enforcing laws
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  Speaker 1: and getting tough with pro Hamas demonstrators in predominantly Jewish
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  Speaker 1: neighborhoods where the police are still escorting them through, just
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  Speaker 1: like it was, you know, fun with Dick and Jay
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  Speaker 1: and on Saturday. I still can't believe they're still doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand it. I have a hard time wrapping
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  Speaker 2: my head around it. I followed Joe Warmington's coverage on
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  Speaker 2: Twitter on Saturday. The photograph that I use actually for
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  Speaker 2: my piece was a screen grab that I grabbed from
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  Speaker 2: one of his videos, giving him credit of course. And
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  Speaker 2: of course there's the Toronto Police dutifully walking alongside the
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  Speaker 2: protesters at the Alcuz Day event. They didn't have a permit,
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  Speaker 2: but we know that Toronto Police were speaking with them
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  Speaker 2: daily leading up to the event and weeks leading up
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  Speaker 2: to it. This is a group that didn't have a permit.
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  Speaker 2: Why is Toronto Police acting with them whatsoever other than
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  Speaker 2: to say this is going to be an illegal march,
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to allow for it. I mean, to
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  Speaker 2: be planning logistics. This is hearkening back towards that infamous
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  Speaker 2: video where the police officer handed the protester the coffee
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  Speaker 2: and the tim Hortons that was delivered to them. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand why. It seems like we have police
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  Speaker 2: services that are not only you know, being delivery services,
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  Speaker 2: running logistics services, in some cases being pr services. It's frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: I would like that kind of service.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. You know, I hate to see what's next.
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  Speaker 1: The situation is so out of control and there doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to be anybody in control.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at the end of the day, what's the point
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  Speaker 2: of having a majority government if we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: take control and use the powers that you have. So Premiere,
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  Speaker 2: I question it. We see the spike and anti Semitism
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  Speaker 2: shots fired at synagogues. There's genuine fear in our streets.
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  Speaker 2: But instead of leadership, we get performance art. We don't
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  Speaker 2: need a Monday morning quarterback who complains about the result
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  Speaker 2: volts of the game that he intentionally threw. We need
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  Speaker 2: a premier who wants to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know down here where this should not
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  Speaker 1: be happening in Saint Catharines. Some of the crap is
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  Speaker 1: coming down the highway. We had a home invasion robbery
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  Speaker 1: early Friday morning here in Saint Catherines. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: That's not supposed to happen in Saint Catherines. They can
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  Speaker 1: keep that in Toronto. So I'm alarmed about that, and
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  Speaker 1: I want the Premier to bring in a standard ground
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  Speaker 1: blog because you know, we have to start protecting our families,
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  Speaker 1: our wives, our kids, our property, keep.
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  Speaker 1: You heard it here first you right listen. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: popping in on a Monday. We're going to have you
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  Speaker 1: back on with another story tomorrow morning, right after Dave Trafford.
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  Speaker 1: So have a good day and we'll talk again around
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  Speaker 1: the same time tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you all right, there he goes John Lidkey always
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  Speaker 1: has a great story.