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TUCKER CARLSON ROASTS TRUDEAU AND FREELAND
IN EDMONTON SPEECH
By Kerry Diotte - Troy Media | Jan 25, 2024
A wildly popular pundit vilified by the political left got a right-royal welcome Wednesday at Roger’s Place in Edmonton.
A capacity crowd filled the downtown arena’s lower bowl and floor to cheer and hear former Fox News host Tucker Carlson roast Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland, lambast Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) law and tee off on topics ranging from mass immigration, to woke ideology, to the importance of Christian values in a turbulent world.
The man who reportedly earned $45 million annually hosting the highest-rated U.S. cable news show in history on Fox derided Trudeau as “your completely bizarre, cross-dressing prime minister black face.” Calling Trudeau “ridiculous and transparently phoney,” Carlson confessed he never met him, “although I know his cousin (California Governor) Gavin Newsom.”
Carlson was preceded on the stage by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who, in a short speech, urged Carlson to tell Americans to choose Canadian energy over importing oil and gas from dictatorships.
The broadcaster, who was fired by Fox in April 2023, made a keynote-style speech at the Edmonton event before joining a panel discussion featuring Conrad Black and Dr. Jordan Peterson.
Carlson told the crowd – estimated at 10,000 by organizers – that he knew Freeland when they were both journalists in Washington, D.C. and she was unimpressive.
“No amount of evidence of her stupidity and wrong decisions and idiotic views could dissuade her that she was awesome and you were not,” Carlson quipped.
Because of politicians like Trudeau and Freeland, Carlson said Canada and other Western civilizations are facing a creeping type of fascism that erodes freedoms – as was evidenced under COVID-19 mandates.
“Yet, Chrystia Freeland is wise enough, clever enough in her serpent-like way to make it all about your protection and safety,” he said.
Government “attacks on your rights – which is an attack on your children – is cloaked in the language of therapy, self-help and compassion.”
The man who now makes his living hosting shows on X (formerly Twitter) said Canada is failing its own citizens by bringing in more immigrants and refugees per capita than any other country in the world at a time when the nation is already in crisis.
That, he said, has strained the housing market and severely wounded Canada’s sacred health care system.
“It’s so overburdened that it’s easier to get into the MAID than it is to schedule a surgery. It’s easier to be killed by the government than healed by the government.”
He admitted he’s been roundly criticized by some as “a racist” for his views on immigration, but he insists he is not. He said he’s not seen an economic case for mass immigration in Canada or elsewhere. Yet, even asking questions about immigration numbers can cause vicious attacks from the left, he admitted.
“They just shout slogans in your face if you ask the question and they call you a racist.”
Carlson appeared earlier in the day at a smaller event in Calgary sharing the stage with Premier Smith.
Before appearing in both cities, he posted a video on social media saying he was coming to “liberate Canada” from the tyranny he feels Trudeau and the Liberal-NDP coalition have inflicted on the country.
He posted a video of himself calling a government phone number and leaving a voice message he wanted to pass along to Trudeau by saying: “We are coming to liberate Canada, and we’ll be there soon. Mercí.”
His appearance in Edmonton sparked a petition on change.org that was said to have been signed by more than 17,000 people asking that Roger’s Place ban him from appearing, alleging it jeopardized people’s safety.
It read, in part: “Tucker Carlson is an American, right-wing ex-Fox News anchor who has been widely criticized for his racist, homophobic and sexist remarks. Hosting this show is a direct violation of safety for queer people, BIPOC and women within the walls of Rogers Place.”
Kerry Diotte is a veteran Canadian journalist, conservative activist, twice-elected member of Parliament and former city councillor.
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On January 11, 2022 I posted an article by Jordan Peterson entitled Open the damn country back up, before Canadians wreck something we can’t fix. I posted the Jordan Peterson article/transcript because I thought he articulated what many people are thinking. What I didn't know until yesterday was that the article was the transcript of the video message below that Jordan Peterson recorded and posted online.
I mention this because the comparison between the textual article/transcript and the video illustrate just how effective and powerful video is. The article/transcript contains the same content as was shared on the video below but the textual version lacks the personality, emotion, emphasis, force, oomph that is evident in Jordan Peterson's video.
After watching the video I'm even more convinced that Jordan Peterson voiced what countless Canadians Are silently thinking.
Watching Jordan Peterson's video reminded me of another powerful video snippet from the 1976 movie NETWORK.
There are number of excellent sites where you can get a video link to post a video on WOWagora. Post the video, add some comments or a poll pertaining to the video and you've enhanced the content.
Jordan Peterson has become known and recognized as one of the foremost thinkers not only in Canada, but around the globe. I didn't realize it but his recent article in the National Post indicates that he has Alberta roots which may account for his manner of level headed, clear and practical thinking.?
What follows if the first paragraph of the article I mentioned. "I spent more than three hours on the phone this weekend trying to get through to the online security department of one of Canada’s major banks. One of my accounts was shut down (because I had the effrontery to sign in from Alberta — an event too unexpected for the bank’s security systems). I was placed on hold interminably, subjected all the while to the corporate world’s idea of music (to soothe me). I was then offered a call-back, which I duly received, 45 minutes later. Then I was placed on hold again, and again, and again. This all occurred after my patience had already been exhausted in the aftermath of trying to fly in Canada. "
Click here to read the rest of Peterson's article then come back answer the question below.
If you'd like to hear more of what made Jordan Peterson such a renowned thinker there are a number of videos on his YouTube channel.