Charlie Angus
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
promised to ban the AR-15. That's the weapon that was used to murder 26-year-old children at Sandy Hook. And yet on Thursday, the Conservative leader was tweeting that the government wasn't going after the AR-15, but hunting rifles. So little wonder he gets endorsed by Alex Jones, who's notorious for taunting families of children murdered by the AR-15.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
So will the minister confirm, is the government going after hunting rifles, or the AR-15, or is this the Conservative leader being the, quote, real deal of disinformation for the likes of Alex Jones?
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
We have a couple of bulwarks to protect democracy in place that are really important. And it's one of the reasons we haven't gone so far down the mega rabbit hole. Number one is our Supreme Court is nonpartisan, scrupulously nonpartisan. allowed our judicial system to be overtaken in the way the Supreme Court in the United States has been completely turned over to the far right.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
You need an independent judicial system, because the independent judicial system has called out our prime ministers in the past. In fact, the last Conservative government had numerous battles with the Supreme Court on laws that just weren't constitutional. So that's a really important bulwark that we still have. I would imagine it'll be attacked soon enough. The other is electoral financing.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
I represent a region that's bigger than the United Kingdom. I run my entire campaign for about $100,000 because there are campaign limits. Corporations cannot donate upfront. So that allows a level playing field and allows people like me, a kid from a mining town, to actually run and represent people that I couldn't probably be able to do in the United States.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
What's concerning me, there is a lot of dark money appearing, and it's certainly on the platforms. We saw that with X. And we see it with Meta, Facebook, the amount on my political page, the amount of toxic memes, hate memes against trans people, against climate change, attacking our prime minister. Who's paying for that? And how is that money being spread? It's an enormous online campaign.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
That's what worries me. the inability, the unwillingness to call out that. Certainly, you probably saw the crazy convoy of the great White Lives Matter protests that occupied our capital for weeks and weeks and weeks with disinformation and crazy.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
How much of that was driven by offshore bot farms and Russian disinformation is a huge question, but people are tiptoeing around it because they don't wanna take on the rage mob. But these are things that are threatening our democracy added to the kind of language that Trump is bringing in on everything from vaccinations to migrants. It will put a lot of stress on our nation.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
And we need to stand up and say, no, you're not gonna go down that road, but we have to protect the institutions that we have.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
But I think the issue of defending democracy is no longer within our individual borders. That's what we've learned from the Steve Bannon playbook. They have no intention on the far right of focusing on an election here or there. They're using strategies globally to undermine democratic rights. We're in a time of crisis. We're in a time when we need to learn from each other and work together.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
So having a platform like yours, getting information out to people and information that's not disinformation, but conversation is a really, really important thing at this time.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
I think we need to remember who we are at this time. At a time of such great uncertainty, people don't seem to know what's up and what's down. It's like, wait a minute. Remember what our grandparents went through. I think of my late father-in-law, 17 years old, went on the Navy convoys to get supplies to Murmansk and then ended up in the battle at Japan.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
My uncles, who left at 17, 16, they worked in the mines. My aunt. and sisters in that who worked on the polio wards when they were dealing before vaccines. These were tough people. They gave us our values. We have to be tough now. And we have to be tough, especially when you've got hair the colour of mine, for the young generation. They're suffering a lot of stress right now.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
They should be looking to us to stand up to them. So when a convicted predator like Donald Trump thinks he's going to slap us around, I don't think so. We've got to have backbone. Nobody else is going to come and save us. This is my message for my friends in the United States. We've got to start rebuilding at the grassroots. We've got to start rebuilding our communities.
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Canadian MP TORCHES Trump Plans in RESURFACED SPEECH
We've got to start rebuilding our networks. We've got to make ourselves resilient to hate and resilient to grifters.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
So yes, they are neighbors, but we have stood up to them. We're in a different situation with Donald Trump. a convicted predator who's seriously undermining the democratic process in the United States, and he thinks he can just push us around. He insults us.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
The Conservatives seem to like it because he's insulting our prime minister, but he's not really insulting the prime minister, he's insulting Canadians calling us the 51st state.
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Trump Instantly BETRAYS His Voters…Mocked by WORLD!!!
You know, once there was a Canada that had a flag that didn't need to be waived. The flag that represented who we are, we didn't boast about.