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610 CKTB | Bankruptcy of the Social Contract: Canada's Ongoing Problem with Jew Hate · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Canada is in the throes of a national crisis of
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  Speaker 1: anti Semitism. It's all according to bene Briths Canada's Human
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  Speaker 1: Rights Report. It's the annual Audit of anti Semitic incidences. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is off the Richter scale. During twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: Bena Brith Canada documented six thousand, eight hundred incidents of
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  Speaker 1: anti Semitism. That is the equivalent to eighteen point six
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  Speaker 1: on average every single day, and it's the highest volume
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  Speaker 1: recorded in the annual audit since it began back in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. John Litkey is a writer with the
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  Speaker 1: Catch and Release podcast and advocates for Jewish groups across Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Six eight hundred incidents, John, eighteen a day. Now, why
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  Speaker 1: do you say this is a failure of will rather
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  Speaker 1: than just a lack of resources.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Gene, we got to be clear about it. Sixty
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred is not a resource gap. We are drowning
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  Speaker 2: in this country. And anti hate task forces and workshops
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  Speaker 2: and diversity consultants and land acknowledgments and how much money
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  Speaker 2: is paid to people making six figures to file reports
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  Speaker 2: and fix things. This is a failure of will, pure
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  Speaker 2: and simple. We have the criminal code. We have the charter,
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  Speaker 2: we have bills. What is missing is spines of politicians
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  Speaker 2: to use them. When you're hitting eighteen incidents a day.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a glitch and software, it's a feature of
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  Speaker 2: the operating system. This government looked at the math and
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  Speaker 2: has decided that enforcing the law against racialized minority community
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  Speaker 2: elements is just too politically expensive for their brand. Full stop.
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  Speaker 2: They've got the tools, they don't have the guts. It's
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  Speaker 2: like they performed at Supuku on themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you've been pretty vocal about the Prime Minister's move
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  Speaker 1: this past February to scrap these standalone special Envoy post
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  Speaker 1: in favor of this new advisory council. Now you call
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  Speaker 1: it a boardroom right off, So explain to people here
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  Speaker 1: in the Niagara region why merging these two offices feels
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  Speaker 1: like a liquidation of Jewish safety.
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  Speaker 2: This is a classic Canada corp logic being laid out
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  Speaker 2: by the Banker CEO in February. He did exactly what
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  Speaker 2: needed to be done when a division of a corp
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  Speaker 2: is underperforming. He liquidated the assets to move on by
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  Speaker 2: folding the Special Envoy of Anti Semitism and Islamophobia. There
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  Speaker 2: were two of them into one generic advisory council. That's
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  Speaker 2: what's supposed to enforce the law that's called government. He's
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  Speaker 2: effectively just burying the specific crisis that we all know
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  Speaker 2: exists in a merger. This is a liquidation of safety.
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  Speaker 2: When everyone is responsible for general equality, nobody is responsible
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  Speaker 2: for the Jewish kid being harassed in a Niagara classroom
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  Speaker 2: or a Jewish family walking down the streets in Saint Catharine's.
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  Speaker 2: He's diversified the political risk so the Jewish problem doesn't
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  Speaker 2: show up as red ink loss on the balance sheet.
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  Speaker 2: This is a shell game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, your neck of the woods, Windsor has
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  Speaker 1: a deep history of leaders like David Kroll and Herb Gray.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Herb Gray, men who defined the social contract
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  Speaker 1: by walking with the vulnerable. So, with the Liberals losing
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  Speaker 1: Windsor West to the Conservatives for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: sixty years, has that party officially walked away from that legacy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this was the liberals opportunity to reclaim
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  Speaker 2: Windsor West. The NDP took it after Herb passed away,
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  Speaker 2: But it was when Ryan Massey lost this seat down
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  Speaker 2: here by a very few votes to a completely unknown.
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  Speaker 2: It showed how upset the people were with the status quo.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, this is personal for me. Herb Gray. One
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  Speaker 2: of the longest, if not the longest serving member of Parliament,
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  Speaker 2: David Kroll, mayor of Windsor at the time in World
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  Speaker 2: War two, and he found out that Jewish Men were
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  Speaker 2: being told that they couldn't enlist because they weren't wanted
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  Speaker 2: in the army. The throw in the Canadian forces. He
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  Speaker 2: went and gave up his mayoralship and the listed personally
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  Speaker 2: ensured that he served, went off to war and then
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  Speaker 2: came back and resumed his role as mayor. These were
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  Speaker 2: leaders of not only just the Jewish community in Canada,
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  Speaker 2: the Canadian community, but the Liberal Party has decided that
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  Speaker 2: legacy asset is not worth the maintenance cost. They have
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  Speaker 2: not lost a seat, they have not lost their region.
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  Speaker 2: They have walked away from their souls. The Herb Gray
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  Speaker 2: shield has been officially boarded up and put behind some
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  Speaker 2: kind of a placard, the way that we do with
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  Speaker 2: statues in this country.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're seeing new laws like Bill one oh
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  Speaker 1: one in Ontario that is centralizing boards under CEOs and
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  Speaker 1: Bill one sixty six auditing university hate policies. Now you
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  Speaker 1: call this an administrative siege. So are these laws actually
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  Speaker 1: protecting students or is the state just trying to manage
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  Speaker 1: its own liabilities.
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  Speaker 2: These aren't safety measures. This is just like when you
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  Speaker 2: download an app and you've got to read the terms
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  Speaker 2: of service. I mean the bills are one thing, liability management,
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  Speaker 2: centralizing boards under CEOs, auditing policies. It won't stop any hate.
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  Speaker 2: It just gives the state a paper trail to say, look,
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  Speaker 2: we did something, we followed some procedure to paper shield
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  Speaker 2: to They have an iministrative siege that's actually going on
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  Speaker 2: though against the Jewish community in this country. We have
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  Speaker 2: a government that is spending more time managing the optics
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  Speaker 2: of the crisis than caring about actually trying to fix it,
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  Speaker 2: let alone fixing it. They've traded the social contract for
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  Speaker 2: a legal disclaimer.
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  Speaker 1: So what does this mean for the next election, which
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  Speaker 1: probably won't be for three or four years. Is there
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  Speaker 1: any coming back for the Liberals or have they permanently
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  Speaker 1: lost the I guess we could say the will to
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  Speaker 1: be at home for this community.
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  Speaker 2: In the boardroom gene, once you delist an asset, you
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  Speaker 2: don't just bring it back the next quarter. The Liberal
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  Speaker 2: Party has run the numbers and they have decided. They
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  Speaker 2: looked at them and said, the Jewish community is not
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  Speaker 2: necessary to hit their electoral targets. The Conservatives can pick
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  Speaker 2: up all the scraps. They swapped moral clarity for opportunity cost.
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  Speaker 2: And what does that mean for the next election. I
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  Speaker 2: think it means, I'll pardon myself here, it means that
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  Speaker 2: we have entered the find out era of things. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that you know that that's usually seated by
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  Speaker 2: the f around era. This is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: roost that comes home for them. Conservatives haven't just won
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  Speaker 2: the community, They've moved into the Liberal house HQ. In
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  Speaker 2: this sense, once a community realizes they're being treated as
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  Speaker 2: a variable cost that can be cut as an asset underperforming,
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  Speaker 2: they don't just switch their vote, they change their political DNA.
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  Speaker 1: This is a.
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  Speaker 2: Bankruptcy that can't be recovered from and it's really truly
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  Speaker 2: shameful and it is concerning, to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: You know a couple of my regulars, for example, the
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  Speaker 1: most opinionated woman in Canada, who n Levy, is han
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  Speaker 1: with me every Monday, and Peter Sherman. He's on sick
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  Speaker 1: leave right now. He's usually with me on Thursdays. Both
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  Speaker 1: she and her wife and Sherman and his wife have
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  Speaker 1: documented stories of so many Jewish people in Canada who
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  Speaker 1: are seriously thinking or who have seriously thought of just
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  Speaker 1: leaving Canada period and either moving back to Israel or
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  Speaker 1: moving somewhere else where they feel safer. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: and when Sue n Levy was in Israel, the people
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  Speaker 1: there who live permanently in Israel are very aware of
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  Speaker 1: anti Semitism in Canada, and frankly, they can't believe what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here. Have you ever thought of that yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a thought process that I've been having over
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  Speaker 2: since October the seventh, quite frankly, as to whether or
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  Speaker 2: not this is the country that I thought would be
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  Speaker 2: a place that would always provide refuge and safety and security,
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  Speaker 2: and with the neighbors across the street be the ones
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  Speaker 2: to go and squander me in my family away in
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  Speaker 2: an attic if things actually came to the absolute worst.
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  Speaker 2: And I you know, I've been having misgivings about how
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  Speaker 2: solid and safe I thought that things were in the past.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, there's an organization called LEC Tulsa in Tulsa,
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma right now, that is trying to brand itself as
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  Speaker 2: a refuge for Jewish Canadians to seek, you know, safety
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  Speaker 2: and that promised land in the southern United States. It's
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  Speaker 2: a really bad date that Canada is leading the world
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  Speaker 2: in anti Semitism. We have such a small population comparatively,
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish population is one percent of the country, yet
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  Speaker 2: we're dealing with this at the highest levels. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand how a country with a charter and the
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  Speaker 2: Liberal the natural governing party of the country, for gosh
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  Speaker 2: sakes right, that likes to profess to be all the
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  Speaker 2: things for everyone, to protect everyone, has just decided to
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  Speaker 2: turn their backs on this community. And it's scary. Gene.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad it is and I hear the same comment
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. You know, we were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: never forget right now? Is never forget right now?
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  Speaker 2: Is yeah, it's never forget as it never again is
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  Speaker 2: right now? We're living through this in response to the
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  Speaker 2: highest lotter of Jews since the Holocaust. We in Canada
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  Speaker 2: and Jews across the world, quite frankly, have seen the
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  Speaker 2: highest incidents of jew ete but what people need to
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  Speaker 2: remember is that just well, today it is the Jews,
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow it can be you. Do you think that your
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  Speaker 2: community is safe? Do you think that your community might
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  Speaker 2: one day be told by the government that, nah, you
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  Speaker 2: don't matter in a special way anymore in terms of
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  Speaker 2: your protection or your safety, and we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: look the other way. Good luck, fend for yourselves. And
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  Speaker 2: you know what, if you decide that this country isn't
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  Speaker 2: for you, well then you know you can pack your
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  Speaker 2: bags and get out.
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  Speaker 1: Nice job this morning, John, appreciate the analysis.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. It's John Lickey.