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610 CKTB | Zero Impact Abroad, Maximum Harm at Home: Global Affairs Belongs on Parliament Hill, Not City Hall · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: All right, this is a segment four the first hour
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. That means it's time for Litkey's got to
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  Speaker 1: take John Litkey. It joins me once again, Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Buddy, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk to municipal politics in Ontario. The
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  Speaker 1: next municipal election is coming up on the twenty sixth
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  Speaker 1: of October. We have to be very careful here at
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  Speaker 1: the radio station now that if we have somebody on
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  Speaker 1: who's running, we have to give other people equal time.
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  Speaker 1: So we're being very careful about some of the guests
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  Speaker 1: that we're having on. Like there was a Saint Catherine's
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  Speaker 1: city council meeting the other day, but we couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: the mayor on because he's running for reelection, so we
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  Speaker 1: had to have a councilor on and he was with
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  Speaker 1: a step this morning. But I'm just looking at what
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  Speaker 1: all of these crazy city councilors are doing. It's as
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  Speaker 1: if they're not paying any attention to local problems. For example,
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  Speaker 1: the mayor of Montreal, very nice woman, a post city
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  Speaker 1: council debating a motion to cut ties with Israel and
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  Speaker 1: labeling it and its actions after they were attacked at genocide.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's not the city's job.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not the city's job. And fortunately that motion
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  Speaker 2: last night was rewritten so as just to condemn the
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  Speaker 2: actions of Israel, not to explicitly cut ties, and not
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  Speaker 2: to label it as such. And you know, the mayor
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  Speaker 2: is right one hundred percent. This is a complete waste
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  Speaker 2: of finite municipal time and tax dollars. It only serves
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  Speaker 2: to divide the city operationally, you know, cutting procurement at
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  Speaker 2: the municipal level, that's laughable. If a city actually enforced
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  Speaker 2: a full boycott, you'd be seeing them lose access to software, hardware,
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  Speaker 2: potentially even first responder training that municipalities rely on. It
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  Speaker 2: would disrupt local infrastructure for zero impact overseas and only
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  Speaker 2: problems at home. Legally, cutting diplomatic ties would face immediate
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  Speaker 2: court challenges for discriminating based on national origin. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is the Mayor of Montreal was correct in opposing this.
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  Speaker 1: Now over the weekend, in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Toronto,
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  Speaker 1: we saw an explicit blood lyle life tropes shouted on
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  Speaker 1: a megaphone in Toronto over the weekend, with a protest
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  Speaker 1: speaker using his megaphone to allege Zionus, eat children and
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  Speaker 1: use black magic. Now, how does that rhetoric on a
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  Speaker 1: Toronto City street council connect to what's happening inside other
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  Speaker 1: city councils and places like Montreal, Ottawa and Windsor.
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  Speaker 2: We know it all feeds off of each other. When
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  Speaker 2: leaders across cities, or the provinces or the FEDS push
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  Speaker 2: blood libels or allow blood libels in their streets, extreme
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  Speaker 2: views get reinforced and then that eventually will trickle into
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  Speaker 2: the council chambers like we're seeing in Montreal yesterday, or
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  Speaker 2: as we'll talk about with certain candidates that are running
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  Speaker 2: in other cities. So when the public is constantly exposed
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  Speaker 2: to the demonization of a specific group, people act on
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  Speaker 2: those beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, in Ottawa, a candidate running for mayor has
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  Speaker 1: labeled the conflict of genocide as part of his campaign.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't know what he's talking about. But if candidates
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  Speaker 1: say their local voters care deeply about an issue, why
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't a guy running from or take a stand.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I guess, you know, take a stand. That's fine,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be to the detriment I think though of a campaign.
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  Speaker 2: If you care for locally If you care about foreign policy,
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  Speaker 2: go talk to your MP, Go volunteer for the federal party,
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  Speaker 2: go run for that office. There's lots of legitimate avenues
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  Speaker 2: to affect foreign policy in Canada. City hall ain't one
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  Speaker 2: of them. Anyone doing this at city hall is far
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  Speaker 2: more interested in discrimination and political theater than an actually
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  Speaker 2: affecting meaningful change, because that's not the place to do so.
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  Speaker 2: So candidates take the stands that you want, But if
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  Speaker 2: you want to weaponize your campaign to push false claims,
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  Speaker 2: you're just going to alienate massive swaths of the community,
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  Speaker 2: deepen local polarization.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening in your city council down windsor Way, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a candidate that's running here who is
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  Speaker 2: pushing a you know, boycott, divest sanctioned program. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with having ethical spending, But what are
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  Speaker 2: they actually alleging is happening at Windsor city hall. Cities
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  Speaker 2: purchase items at the cost for taxpayer dollars. There's no
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  Speaker 2: foreign policy ideology associated with buying gravel or asphalt or
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  Speaker 2: transit parts. There's false narratives that are created about what
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  Speaker 2: these candidates are actually advocating for and when you look
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  Speaker 2: at these policies, it's clearly designed to be impacting Israel
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  Speaker 2: and Israel alone, though they won't say that outright and explicitly.
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  Speaker 2: I would much rather than be very clear about their bigotry.
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  Speaker 1: Now, these city councils are doing this Montreal, windsor Autawa,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Are they violating federal anti racism guidelines?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that any city that actually does move
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  Speaker 2: forward with it with something like this. Unfortunately we haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen any actually adopt a policy like this would be
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  Speaker 2: virtually all governments in Canada from the FEDS have, the
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  Speaker 2: province has, and multiple cities have adopted the Internation International
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  Speaker 2: Holocaust Rememberance Alliance definition of anti Semitism, which says to
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  Speaker 2: hold Israel to a double standard is considered anti semitism,
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  Speaker 2: and when we adopted the IHRA in Canada, we put
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  Speaker 2: that in with our national anti racism definition. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we would be violating federal anti racism guidelines by trying
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  Speaker 2: to discriminate, ostracize, or boycott Israel, for example, and not
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  Speaker 2: other countries that are doing actual genocides for example, like
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  Speaker 2: you know China for example. So you know it just
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  Speaker 2: it seems like it's always only Jews who don't get
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  Speaker 2: to define the bigotry espoused against them though when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to things like this, and that's the that's what's
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  Speaker 2: really a problem here.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, with all these
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  Speaker 1: motions and does that actually help anybody overseas?
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  Speaker 2: No, this is all political theater, and that's the point.
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  Speaker 2: We're in a propaganda war, and unfortunately there's so many
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  Speaker 2: people in our politics willingly signing up to play lead
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  Speaker 2: roles or as even their understudies. This achieves zero impact abroad.
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  Speaker 2: It causes maximum harm at home. It makes lives for
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  Speaker 2: Canadians just tougher, generally getting along with their neighbors, with
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  Speaker 2: their family, with their friends. Hateful online vitriol turns to
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  Speaker 2: targeted harassment of individuals in your communities, turns into your
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  Speaker 2: daily life into walking through minefields. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a problem. It doesn't do anything overseas.
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  Speaker 2: It actively tears our communities apart.
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  Speaker 1: All right, great, take today, talk to that later. All right,
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  Speaker 1: there it goes John Lecky, letg's gotta take will take
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  Speaker 1: a break when